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UGN Safe-Net catches up on the resurgence of stock scam spams and pump-and-dump schemes and answers some readers' questions about such evils. (Read More)
Microsoft is going after the iPod market with their new music player called "Zune" and this holiday season find it with some rather impressive features and goodies. See the full story...
We already know that today's high-powered Macs generate some heat. The bigger the memory, the higher the operating temperature. MaxUpgrades is now offering MaxSink, a heatsink designed to provide effective heat disspation of fully buffered DIMM memory modules. 
MaxSink unique design allows heat generated from memory chips and Advance Memory Buffer to be effectively disspated while keeping the temperature of the memory module under operating limits ... See the full story...
Yes, sports licensing has finally made it to the user group community -- The EmiratesMac Racing Team launches -- The latest EMUG meeting revealed that one of its own members, in Dubai, will be racing in the Gulf Radical Cup series, and has offered to display EmiratesMac on his car. (Thanks to EmiratesMac for sending this one!) (Read More)
Since they pulled out of Macworld, you just never know when another announcement will come. Since the news is all over the place, we couldn't justify running it again in UGN. Here's the briefest of links for those not yet tuned in ... iTunes 7, New iPod nano, New, brighter, iPod and yet another Boot Camp Beta ... (Read More)
Newer Technology has announced NuPower 1350mAh replacement batteries for Apple's fourth-generation iPod -- the 40GB model, as well as the iPod photo. It costs $29.95. The 1350mAh battery delivers up to 150 percent more run-time than the original stock battery ... www.newertech.com
Belkin then announced that its existing accessories -- such as the Tunetalk Stereo, TuneCOmmand AV, and TuneBase FM -- are compatible with Apple's new second-generation iPod nano ... www.belkin.com
You may not be in the market for such a monitor, but there are lots of kiosk applications in schools, museums and retail showrooms that have been waiting for just this product. Troll Touch has launched an internally integrated touch solution for the 24-inch iMac. Best of all, you can purchase complete touch-enabled machines or get your iMac touch-enabled as a retrofit. Troll Touch seamlessly integrates its PSR-1 touch technology on a variety of Macs including the iMac, eMac, MacBook and iBook laptops and the 20-, 23- and 30-inch Cinema displays. The company's touchscreen technology operates with any non-sharp pointing device, such as a stylus, fingertip or gloved hand. But hold on to your wallet, the cost of the touchscreen system on the new 24-inch iMac, including installation, is $1350.00 ... www.trolltouch.com
Usually your Mac can connect to different AirPort, or Wi-Fi, networks quickly and without any problems. Sometimes though it takes forever to connect to the different wireless network on your list. Jeff Gamet has posted some worthy tips and tricks for getting the quickest AirPort connect time. (Read More)
Graphicxtras.com has released an update to the plug-in set 20 'Randomtouch' ($15), a powerful collection of Adobe Illustrator plugins for sprays and particles, background, textures and abstract designs, noise, and pyramid effects. The set also contains a text plugin for version 10. A superb set of tools to create 1000s of different designs in Illustrator such as drop shadow designs, pattern designs, and more ... www.graphicxtras.com
If so, then you'll want to be in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Sugar on October 21 for the Cut & Paste 2006 Digital Design Competition. Each competitor will be provided with the following tools to create masterpieces: -Apple G5 Macs
-Wacom 21-inch Cintiq Monitors
-Digital Camera
-Design software, including Photoshop and Illustrator
-Materials, such as scissors, gluesticks, sketch paper, poster board
All you have to do is create your work on stage in front of a live audience, in which your work will be projected on a screen. All work must be completed within 15 minutes in each of the three rounds, and you have to follow that round's theme. Register to compete in the event by September 29th, or in the other locations (Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) by October. ... www.cutandpaste.cc
Seems like everyone is getting in on the PDF book bandwagon -- from Dr. Mac to Macworld -- they all want a piece of TidBIT's "Taking Control" traffic. The Macworld Mac Basics Superguide is a new 88-page book promises a team of experts in their straightforward guide to getting started with Mac OS X. Download this PDF sneak preview or go ahead and get the real thing: www.macworld.com
Elections Easy to Steal, Say Computer Scientists -- Princeton Team Shows How a Computer Virus Might Do It; Voting Machine Maker Objects... The article says:
When you walk into a voting booth and close the curtain behind you, you know which candidates you like, and you expect the people you choose will get your vote. Right? Not necessarily, says Edward W. Felten, a professor of computer sciences at Princeton University who has made a career in recent years of poking holes through computer security. See ABC NEWS
G.K. of Delray Beach, FL writes:
The internet has come a long way in creativity and content. One of my favorite sites is the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. I can browse through 55 billion (that's with a "b") web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. Want to see what Apple's site looked like? just enter their URL and see for yourself. Microsoft wasn't much better.
Coverage is sketchy for less than famous sites. I tried the UGN site and they didn't go back to 1995, and only archived certain pages -- not the front page ... www.archive.org
See: A contest for who can report the most phishing attempts * A new system to fight phishing * IRS warnings * Vishing latest threat since Phishing * SonicWALL Security 300 * Mozilla Firefox 2.0 beta 2 * Hurricane Season and Phishing Sites * Using Images to Fight Phishing ... and more Phishing and Online Crime coverage ... (Read More)
What's the worst case scenario? Are you prepared? While this article was aimed at Windows users -- it does provides a solid foundation on the steps and terms used for proper backups ... See the full story...
In a sea of digital photo software, online tutorials, books and books, an affordable pearl -- the newest Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage -- explains everything you need to know about Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 ... UGN Bookshelf
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much."
- Jim Rohn
"When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action."
- Zig Ziglar
Have a great week... (See last week)
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