This week, March 15, 2010, in InfoManager: ALERT: Whitelist UGNN InfoManager * UGN Salutes ProMac * Apple iPad getting closer * iPhone apps mill * MagicPrefs * What Will Apple Release After The iPad? * The 3 Best Ways to Reduce your Phone Bill * Add Facebook Chat to iChat * Short Order Cook 2.0 for iPhone OS * Make yourown iPad * HDR Plug-In for Lightroom * ExactScan TWAIN Bridge scanning * Unique import into InDesign, InCopy * FREE stuff from OMNI * MailBag: Secure that USB Flash Drive * Quotes and more !
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UGN Salutes ProMac
The ProMac Users Group, of Buffalo, NY Continue reading…
Apple iPad getting closer
We’re getting closer and closer to actually getting our hands on the new iPad – and it’s looking better and better despite the dooms-sayers… this week: Lawsuit stokes Apple, HTC fans * 10 Issues Apple Needs to Address * iPad awkward to use * Microsoft’s ‘Courier’ * Convertibles to Share Spotlight * cheaper e-readers * Netflix * AP to Sell News On iPad * wood iPad cases – and several others (Read More)
iPhone apps mill
The new iPhone apps mill never sleeps, never stops! It’s almost impossible to keep up with, but we scan each week looking for the real gems. Here are our most recent picks – This week: iPhones Antitheft Alarm * iPhone Keeps Users Safe * Notebooks * iCollect Movies * Facebook Fun * Writing notes, by hand * Health-Related Apps * When you gotta go * and several others! (Read More)
MagicPrefs
Those of you who have a MagicMouse, you know some of the limitations. MagicPrefs is a free menubar and preference pane application for OSX that eliminates many of those limits. It adds functions like Middle Click , Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons , Spaces, Expose, Dashboard etc. See the full story…
What Will Apple Release After The iPad?
I am not going to say much about this one. Continue reading…
The 3 Best Ways to Reduce your Phone Bill
The original article title included the iPhone, I guess you could reduce your bill to the minimum dictated by AT&T, but I really think this applies more to other phone bills. See the full story…
Add Facebook Chat to iChat
This article on Maciverse.com gives you step by step how to add Facebook Chat to your copy of iChat. See the full story…
Short Order Cook 2.0 for iPhone OS
Zero Emission Games today proudly announces the release of Short Order Cook 2.0, a fast-paced casual game from their Food for Thought collection that challenges players’ skills of recognition, concentration and trains their memory. (Read More)
Make yourown iPad
Okay, it is just a mockup, but it will give you a good idea of the size. (Read More)
HDR Plug-In for Lightroom
Hydra 2.2 for Lightroom 2 addresses a major feature request from the HDR user community: an HDR Plug-In for Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom. All Hydra’s features are from now on available directly in the Lightroom workflow. See the full story…
ExactScan TWAIN Bridge scanning
The next version of ExactScan 2 2.10 features a new, unique TWAIN Bridge to enable third party applications to utilize ExactScan’s built-in drivers and image processing. (Read More)
Unique import into InDesign, InCopy
For some time, desktop publishers have wrestled with the chore of importing content from one source into another. Back in the ’90s, one of my seminars was ‘Repurposing Content’ which taught how to build a FileMaker Pro database to do exactly this. Now, InPorter is a server-side utility makes it all so simple (Read More)
FREE stuff from OMNI
Thanks to Gary Kampel for writing in with this reference — Keep’em coming, Gary!
> Sometimes I just want to give you something that works,
> and is FREE. I thought you might like these.
> Many of y’all are familiar with The Omni Group.
> For those that aren’t, The Omni Group is known for
> their awesome software, gold-standard customer support,
> and palpable geekery. www.omnigroup.com
MailBag: Secure that USB Flash Drive
J.B. An Infomanager reader from Germany wrote in to add this time to this edition:
> I’ve had lots of problems with USB flash drives, and
> I’m paranoid about losing it.
> our company didn’t allow use of those
> devices until we tested EncryptStick.
> The military wipe function which renders no foot print
> once a file has been deleted from the host computer. www.encrypt-stick.com
Quotes: Who is your hero?
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed,
but win out in the end because they’ve stayed
true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
–Kevin Costner
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