by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 UGNN Malware Report for September 2014
02 UGNN Facebook Update: September news, views and blues
03 Showcase of 40 Insanely Detailed iOS Icon Designs
04 User Groups on Facebook for Week Ending September 20
05 Ten Reasons To Install iOS8 Now
06 WritePad 7.5 Features Advanced Cloud Integration
07 Quotes: That’s Life Continue reading
Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Mac Work class, subject TBA, at Di-No Computers.
Di-No Computers
2817 E. Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91107
(626) 795-6674
Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the iPad class, focusing on Mail, Contacts, and Calendar, at Di-No Computers.
Di-No Computers
2817 E. Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91107
(626) 795-6674
Welcome to our club!! Moving over from Android? Has Christina Bonnington, at Wired, got the deal for you:
Now that Apple’s got its bigger, better iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, we suspect oodles of big-screen Android aficionados may defect to iOS. (Apparently Apple thinks so too). But while switching phones is one type of headache, switching phones and switching operating systems can induce migraine-level pains if you’re not properly prepared.
But you will be prepared. From your can’t-miss calendar events to your favorite apps, here’s how to make sure your most important mobile needs make the transition from Android to iOS as smoothly as possible.
Christina has some great advice; not so much for some of those commenters… PYBT: How to Ditch Android and Join the Apple Side.
So, you just downloaded iOS 8. Looks pretty familiar, right? Certainly, last year’s switch from iOS 6 to iOS 7 – which saw Apple ditch the iPhone’s tired, six-year-old interface and move to something more spare and clean – was a far bigger leap visually than this update to iOS 8.
In fact, most of the apps in iOS 8 look almost identical to what you were using just days ago. And a few of them appear entirely unchanged. But there are new functions, new tricks, and time-savers hidden in these new iOS 8 versions of your favorite apps. Some of them you’ll see right away. But the rest… well, let us show you.
Thus begins Michael Calore’s delve into lots-of-things iOS 8. If you haven’t upgraded yet, you might want to take a look and see if anything helps push you along that path, or convinces you to hold off just a bit.
PYBT: 15 Insanely Great Tricks to Master Apple’s iOS 8
Mind you, it also pertains to iDevices (which should come as no big surprise).
In How to back up your iPhone and iPad before an upgrade, Chris Gonzales gets into a lot of gory details, including security and restoring from your backups.
The best part of the article is a quote from Merlin Mann: ‘If you don’t have time to do backups, you so don’t have time to upgrade.’ Bring on the dragons!
Apple has updated its privacy policy as part of the rollout of iOS 8, announcing that devices with the latest version of the operating system installed can no longer be accessed by the company itself.
Previously, as we reported in May 2014, if law enforcement came to Apple with a seized device and a valid warrant, it was able to access a substantial portion of the data already on an iPad or iPhone. But under the latest version of iOS, even that will be impossible.
Thus begins Cyrus Farivar’s post on Ars Technica, Apple expands data encryption under iOS 8, making handover to cops moot.
Two notable quotes from the article:
“…Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data…”
– Apple’s Web site, last evening
“Apple’s old policy for extracting user data from iPhones for law enforcement: Come back with a warrant. Their new policy: Get lost.”
– Christopher Soghoian, @csoghoian, ACLU technologist
And what are these?
According to Matt Smith’s article on MakeUseOf:
HealthKit is an application programming interface (API) built to help iPhone developers access and manage the user’s health and fitness. This takes the form of data like heart rate, exercise, and level of activity. Your iPhone, when paired with an Apple Watch, will be able to monitor you with surprising detail.
and
…the Health app will be available only on iPhone. This may seem strange, but Apple has restricted apps to only its phone or tablet before. The company feels Health would be of little use on the iPad because it rarely leaves home.
Matt gets into understandable detail here: iOS 8 Turns Your iPhone Into A Personal Healthcare Monitor.
But neither should you be complacent about it, should it happen.
Businesses can’t seem to stop hackers looking to steal customer data. The list of companies preyed (ed.) on has grown long indeed and includes well known names like JP Morgan, Home Depot and Target. And that’s just what we know about. Every unexplained website outage is met with raised eyebrows. Was it a glitch? Was the site hacked? And when would they (tell) us if the latter was true?
Everyone seems to agree that companies should do more to protect the people who’ve entrusted them with valuable data, but the trend of high-profile hacks seems likely to continue in the near future. For now, consumers can do little but prepare and respond as threats occur. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
Matt Smith’ article on MakeUseOf continues with quite a few tips, hints, and pointers. PYBT and educate yourself: Store You Shop At Get Hacked? Here’s What To Do.
…surely it should have a smart doorbell, right??
Dave LeClair asks, and answers, What Is A Smart Doorbell, And Which Should You Buy? at MakeUseOf.
It does make sense, once you think about it; had it occurred to you?
