The (Internet) World Is a Lesser Place

Posted on August 4, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Alas and alack! Kagi, one of the earliest, and one of the best, digital commerce concerns, has been forced to close their doors. Adam Engst has an in-depth piece on TidBITS:

The news was as sad as it was unexpected. Kagi, one of the earliest digital commerce companies and long a favorite of many Mac shareware developers, has shut down as of 31 July 2016, just shy of 22 years in business.

Kagi’s home page gives a brief explanation of the situation but to find out more, I spoke with Kagi CEO Kee Nethery, who I’ve known since he was a product manager at Apple in charge of the Mac-based Apple Internet Server line. Here’s the story.

For the whole, sad story, PYBT: Kagi Shuts Down After Falling Prey to Fraud.

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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No

Posted on August 1, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Intro to the Interface class, at Di-No Computers.

Di-No Computers
2817 E. Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA  91107
(626) 795-6674

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InfoManager for Monday, August 1st, 2016

Posted on August 1, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker

What’s Here
01  Cyber Security Update: Rio Olympics, Car Hacking, Jihadi, Trump, Clinton, Putin, Obama, Microsoft, iOS Smishing, and much more!
02  Now you can dress and undress your favorite candidates Trump, Clinton, or Sanders, or all three!
03  TextWrangler 5.5
04  New MacUpdate Bundle includes Toast 15 Titanium
05  Sync Multiple iPhones Together To Create One Giant Speaker
06  8 Search Tricks That Work on DuckDuckGo
07  Three reasons to run your own Mac server
08   Mail Archiver X 4.0
09  Quotes: Reagon, Young, and Levenson

For the whole shooting match, PYBT: https://www.facebook.com/notes/ug-netnews/infomanager-for-august-1st-2016/1172222126131492

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August 15th General Meeting

Posted on August 1, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

 

iDevice Security

They need to be safe and sound, too

Regular Features

Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave Whitby.

appleSTEMs – Warren James presents interesting Apple science, technology, engineering, and math software.

Apple News & Updates

Q&A

Our rewarding Monthly Prize Drawing includes Take Control: A Practical Guide to Networking, Privacy, & Security in iOS 9 (e-book); a TYLT 3200 mAh power charger with built-in flashlight; a Misfit Flash fitness monitor; a Rocksoul Mouse for Mac; a Verbatim DVD-R 10 Pack; and a bottle of Apple Juice screen and device cleaner. Don’t forget: members receive one free ticket for the drawing. Bring a guest and get another free ticket! Support our group and increase your chances of winning some goodies – drawing tickets are $1.00 each or six for $5.00. The odds are great that you can be a winner!

The meeting will be held in the Donald Wright Auditorium, at the Pasadena Public Library Main Branch at 7:00 p.m. Following the general meeting, we have our informal Meeting after the Meeting at Coco’s Restaurant, 77 N. Lake Ave. (between Union St. and Colorado Blvd., at the southwest corner of Union and Lake).

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Wireless Hacked!

Posted on July 30, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Wonderful! Just what we needed to hear: wireless keyboards can be hacked…

Noticed this on TidBITS this afternoon, from Josh Centers:

Bastille, a cybersecurity company, has shown that hackers can easily intercept transmissions from eight non-Bluetooth wireless keyboards. Experts demonstrated how a $40 radio transponder combined with a $50 antenna could grab the signals of budget wireless keyboards from Anker, EagleTec, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Insignia, Kensington, Radio Shack, and Toshiba. Bluetooth and wired keyboards, however, are not vulnerable to the methods used in this attack, providing a reason to avoid wireless keyboards that depend on proprietary transmission systems.

Please note that Bluetooth keyboards are NOT affected by this flaw. PYBT: Your Wireless Keyboard May Be Betraying You for all the gory details.

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Search Engine Coolness

Posted on July 28, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

DuckDuckGo duck

And no, I don’t mean Google or Bing.

DuckDuckGo is the search engine I have selected on my iDevices (those whose versions of Safari are modern enough to support it, anyway), and I love it. It behaves very well, it does a great job of finding stuff, and searches there are private. Poking around the Web this afternoon, I discovered more cool stuff it does.

Akshata Shanbhag, on MakeUseOf, posted a great article today, 8 Search Tricks That Work on DuckDuckGo but Not on Google, and I *did* need to know!! There are so many cool things (mostly, but not all, geeky) DuckDuckGo does; make sure to check it out.

Graphic from the article

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Upcoming Mac and iPad Classes at Di-No

Posted on July 28, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Di-No LogoDi-No Computers, in Pasadena, hosts a rotating set of Mac classes on Tuesdays from 2:00p to 3:30p; and iPad classes on the first and third Mondays of each month, also from 2:00p to 3:30p. These classes are all no-cost; feel free to contribute to the tip jar, though, if you feel so moved! The schedule for the next couple weeks is as follows:

2 August 2016 Intro to the Interface This class is an introduction to the Mac
9 August 2016 Navigating the Interface This class focuses mainly on organizing files and dealing with the Finder
16 August 2016 Mac Work TBA

Call Jordan at Di-No for further details, including what you should bring with you, etc. To subscribe to Di-No’s class-schedule calendar, click here.

Di-No Computers
2817 E. Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA  91107
(626) 795-6674

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10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time

Posted on July 28, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Zach Epstein, over on BGR, has a bad habit of posting lists of cool iPhone/iPad(/iPod Touch)(/Apple Watch) apps that are temporarily free.

Here’s the fine print:

These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now – obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get”, it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.

Here’s the link to today’s apps:

10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time

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How Many???

Posted on July 27, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

over one billion of these things have been sold

“A million iPhones (sold) isn’t cool”, says the article’s headline. What is cool?

PYBT and Andrew Cunningham, at Ars Technica, will tell you, in no uncertain terms: Apple sells its billionth iPhone, year-over-year decline be damned

Graphic from the article

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7 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today

Posted on July 27, 2016 by SGVAUG BlogMaster

Zach Epstein, over on BGR, has a bad habit of posting lists of cool iPhone/iPad(/iPod Touch)(/Apple Watch) apps that are temporarily free.

Here’s the fine print:

These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now – obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get”, it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged.

Here’s the link to today’s apps:

7 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today

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