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A Calendar That Doesn’t Need Times

Follow the link to learn about this new app available in the iPhone App Store.

Our thanks to

THE INFO MANAGER
A weekly column from the mice of Lynn Wegley and Fred Showker.

Lynn is a UGN veteran (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group Network.
He’s been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member, he’s been a volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and beyond.

Currently working primarily the with the Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth but also works with the Apple Corp of Dallas and is a lifetime member of TUMS the Tulsa Users of Macintosh
Society).

Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum days, then out onto the web.

for the links and heads up.

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Adding Accent Marks on Apple Devices

Do your Apple devices have a foreign accent?

Have you wondered how to type character marks over the vowels of foreign words? Well, thanks to the Small Dog Electronics newsletter, Kibbles & Bytes, you can learn how to add those sexy little accent marks over vowels, if your Mac uses Lion OSX 10.7, and your handheld devices use their new iOS.

For those of you using Lion, the same steps you take on your iPhone (or the like) are now applicable.

To produce an accent on your Mac using 10.7, press and (briefly) hold the letter that needs the accent mark.

Your accent character choices will then appear, and you can navigate to the one you need

Thanks to David Watersun for this tip.

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Free Audiobook of Steve Jobs Biography

Written By Walter Isaacson, and published just this week, Audible is offering a free audiobook when you sign up for a free 14-day trial of the service. Among thousands of available picks: “Steve Jobs,” by Walter Isaacson.

To put that in some perspective, the audio CD version of “Steve Jobs” has a list price of $49.95, and sells for around $34.95 at Audible. For fans of spoken books, Audible is an unbeatable deal.

You can cancel within 14 days from starting a trial subscription, and you may keep the free Jobs audiobook on your Apple devices without a subscription …

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E-Cycling Old Computers

E-Cycling accepts old, broken computers and broken cell phones. They will attempt to refurbish them, or they will be turned into scrap for recycling and kept out of the landfill.

Open Tues and Sat for drop off 9am-1pm.

You can find them at 901 Lower Main St,Wailuku

And / or call them at 573-4018.
[If you have a large load pick up, call: 280-6460]

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A ‘Steve’ Collection

E N J O Y

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Thank You

1955-2011

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The Towson Hack: The mystery of vanishing iTunes

MY thanks to John Hardin for flagging this one. I hadn’t heard of this hack before I read the article. It SEEMS to center round starting with a gift card – and then exploiting a loop hole that connects your iTunes account back to your iTunes account.

IN other words – if like me you don’t have a credit in iTunes – you are fine (I THINK) …. but would love confirmation of that from someone that knows !!

Flagging it now for your information and if you have any additional info / experience of it = let us know.

The latest story can be read here : The Towson Hack: The Mystery of vanishing iTunes credit.

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More Highlights from AUGD

As I have said before, our friends at ‘User Group Central’ – Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker send out a very detailed summary of info and links that are sometimes INCREDIBLY relevant, and ALWAYS good stuff.

With their permission – restated here ::

Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Affiliate User Groups are granted permission to reprint the InfoManager column or excerpts thereof so long as proper credit is given, and a clearly stated web URL link to: http://www.UGNN.com

What I consider the relevant highlights to our group

02 Phishing & Malware Update: 1109-04
Couple of surprises this week …
David Pogue looks at unsubscribing from spam, and those nasty
‘pump-n-dump’ schemes are back! But that’s not all…
* David Pogue: the *Never Unsubscribe* Rule for Spam
* Protect Yourself From the Threat of Mobile Malware
* Comeback of Malicious Pump-and-Dump Campaigns
* New Analysis: Who Do You Trust? (2 Parts)
* Morto worm surprises again
* Serious gaps in security
* BBB warns of email scam
* Antivirus on a Mac . . . and more

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/09/1109-04_phishing/
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03 Quick, easy photo enhancement
Photo Sense is an easy photo enhancement software for
Mac OS and iOS. It is designed to make photographs more
attractive quickly and easily, without spending a lot of
time and money on learning, purchasing, and using
professional photo manipulation software.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/09/quick-easy-photo-enhancement/
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04 Fully Automated Time Tracking
Timing is a unique new time tracking application for OS
X. In contrast to classic time tracking applications, Timing
doesn’t require users to manually operate timers. Instead,
users’ activities like editing documents, surfing the web,
and playing games are tracked automatically and can be
easily reviewed at a later time.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/09/fully-automated-time-tracking/
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06 Camera PRO + XCOLOR
Camera PRO + XCOLOR for iPhone 4 and iPad 2 1.0. aims to
create a revolution in Photography applications for iPad 2
and iPhone 4, turning your iPad 2 and iPhone 4 to real
XCOLOR photo camera. You can take photos from app camera and
attach different effects to photos. Turn on the power of
your iPad 2 and iPhone 4 to new level.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/09/camera-pro-xcolor/
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07 Fraud: It’s not a small world
An Internet fraud scam uncovered in Bozeman Montana in
2009 reached victims as far afield as Florida and Texas …
which goes to show : ‘It’s Not a Small World’ when it comes
to the internet.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/09/fbi_fraud_study/
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09 Camera FX for iPad 2 and iPhone 4
Now you can replace your existing standard iPad 2 camera
application with our Camera FX application with many new
features and functions that standard camera does not have.
Camera FX is advanced powerful photo editing application for
you iPad 2/iPhone 4 and your photos and images. You can take
photos with our application or load existing from you iPad
2/iPhone 4 and then edit its from app and attach different
effects!

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/09/camera-fx-for-ipad-2-and-iphone-4/

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HIghlights From AUGD

Every now and then – our friends at ‘User Group Central’ (specifically in this case – Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker), send out a very detailed summary of info and links that are sometimes INCREDIBLY relevant, and ALWAYS good stuff.

With their permission – restated here ::

Copyright 2011, All Rights Reserved. Affiliate User Groups are granted
permission to reprint the InfoManager column or excerpts thereof so
long as proper credit is given, and a clearly stated web URL link to:
http://www.UGNN.com

Please note – I have maintained the original numbering of the points from the original email. the content below is as sent – no edits by yours truly.

06 Prepare for Back To School

What’s on top of the school supply list this year? It is
not a lunchbox or a backpack but rather a smartphone, a
tablet or a cool fun educational app that runs on both. Kids
as young as elementary age are looking for smartphone
upgrades, while the college students are living the advent
of tablets into their classrooms. Developed universally for
the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, NxtApp 4 Kids is the
perfect back-to-school math app with which kids learn number
sequencing, thinking they are playing a game.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/08/prepare-for-back-to-school/

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07 Free ebook sites

On iPadForums, “Bremen” posted: “Free ebook sites,
already in iBook (ePub) format. I have posted a few of these
in various places, but thought I would tie it together here.
These are some sites that have FREE ebooks that are already
in ePub format. They will import and read as is in iBooks.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/08/free-ebook-sites/

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08 60 Free Mac Utilities and Tools

This MobsJar article from February lists these
Mac Utilities. (As you know, I love lists.)
Here are a few of the ones they have:

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/08/60-free-mac-utilities-and-tools/

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09 How To Save Online Videos

In this article from Read Write Web, we can
learn to save videos from the Web and
replay them later on the TV or iPad.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/08/how-to-save-online-videos/

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10 Excel 2011 Tutorial

Training solutions provider Infinite Skills Inc has
released a new video series to help Mac users work
productively with the latest edition of Excel for OS X. The
Learning Microsoft Excel 2011 Tutorial, narrated by trainer
Guy Vacarro, includes beginner-targeted lessons that show
how to use Excel in common applications such as monitoring
sales data, calculating profits versus losses, creating
expense forms, managing contact lists and more.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/08/excel-2011-tutorial/

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11 How To Capture Your Signature Using Preview

This is a quick note, because I think
it is so cool that this can be done so easily.

http://www.ugnn.com/2011/08/how-to-capture-your-signature-using-preview/

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