Around Me

By Around Me

Price - Free
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Category - Travel

Greg's Review
When I am on the road the Around Me app is one of the first  apps I use. It is great for finding local restaurants, retail shop[s, and other points of interest. It makes you a local expert with a click of the button. You can't beat the price! Give it a try!

From Developer
AroundMe has been around since the dawn of time. Ok, well, we’ve been around since before local search applications were a thing. And that’s why millions of people trust us. 

They’ve been using the AroundMe app since 2008. And today, with over 25 million searches completed every month in over 200 countries - we’re the most widely used app of our kind.

We’ve integrated cutting edge technologies like Augmented Reality and support for external GPS such as Navigon MobileNavigator, TomTom and MotionX-GPS Drive.

And we work with the likes of Booking.com, Opentable.com, FourSquare, and loads of other top notch localized data providers. AroundMe is leading the way in local search, so that our users can find what they want, when they need it.


Because we know you’re going places!

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AroundMe allows you to quickly find out information about your surroundings.

How many times have you found yourself in need of finding the closest Gas Station?

AroundMe quickly identifies your position and allows you to choose the nearest Bank, Bar, Gas Station, Hospital, Hotel, Movie Theatre, Restaurant, Supermarket, Theatre and Taxi.
AroundMe shows you a complete list of all the businesses in the category you have tapped on along with the distance from where you are.

For every listing you can choose to see its location on a Map, view the route from where you are, add the information to your contact list or even email the information to a friend.
The Nearby listing allows you to find information using Wikipedia about what is around you.


Fast, easy and accurate. AroundMe is your ideal day to day companion.

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Cyber Self Defense For Non-Geeks

"The direction of a strike depends on where your opponent stands, what he is doing at the moment, and what target on his body you want to hit. There are five sections of the body that you can attack: head, hands and arms, trunk, thighs, and lower legs. There are three components to consider before launching a strike: distance to the available targets, angle of the surface of the target, and timing of the opponent’s movement."

- Sang H. Kim, Vital Point Strikes (Turtle Press, 2008)

The best way to think about cyber security and self defense is to compare it to boxing or any martial art. Your body, like a computer network, has numerous vulnerabilities. When you find yourself being attacked, you need to position your arms and your torso in such a way that you shrink the number of vulnerabilities exposed to the attacker. This is known as “shrinking the attack surface”. Trained fighters will angle their body to present a reduced attack surface to their opponent. They’ll keep their arms up to cover everything from the bottom of their ribcage to the top of their skull because most of the lethal points of the body are in those regions. They’ll still get hit, but it probably won’t be on a vital point. Similarly, there’s no way to stop an attack against your network, but you can make sure that the attack hits only non-vital data rather than your company’s most valuable information.

The following are some basic principles for you to follow both at home and abroad to help keep your valuable data safe. They won’t be sufficient for when you’re in high-risk locales and they won’t stop a targeted attack, but they will make it much less likely that you’ll suffer a serious breach because of poor cyber security habits or an over-reliance on your antivirus or firewall application. A 64-year-old friend of mine who’s been a lifelong bodybuilder and a fighter is fond of saying “I may not be able to feed a guy his lunch any more, but I’ll definitely feed ‘em a sandwich.” That’s all we want to do with this strategy. If someone wants to attack you, we want that person to know that it’s going to cost them something—and that may be enough to get them to leave you alone and pursue weaker, less prepared prey.

Develop a healthy paranoia about everything in your Inbox or your Browser
If you receive an email from an unknown person with an attachment, don’t open it. If you recognize the name of the sender but the text in the email doesn’t sound like her, pick up the phone and call her to verify that the email is legitimate. If the email asks that you click on a link, read the link first. A lot of malicious links are designed to look like the real thing but won’t stand up to close scrutiny. Is the word spelled correctly? Does it end with a “dot com” or a “dot co”? Take a minute and check before you click.

If you’re on Twitter and receive a tweet with nothing but a shortened URL, ignore it. If you receive a Direct Message from someone you know with a shortened URL, but the message doesn’t sound like it would have come from that person, pick up the phone and make a call to verify that your friend Jody actually sent you the message “You should see what this guy is saying about you at fakeURL.com!”

Use the most secure Web browser that you can find
It doesn’t matter if you’re a Microsoft geek or Apple chic. Don’t let your loyalty to a company brand determine your online safety. Find and read independent research on which browser is the most secure and make your decision from the evidence. For example, Accuvant Labs recently published “Browser Security Comparison: A Quantitative Approach” on December 14, 2011. They examined Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome for security flaws and came to the conclusion that Chrome was the most secure browser. However, take your time and read the full report so that you understand what the issues are and why Accuvant made the decision that it did. Feel free to look for contrary findings as well and make an informed decision.

The only rule you need to know about passwords
There is one simple rule to remember about constructing a password: make it as long as possible—definitely longer than 10 characters. One example is to use the latitude or longitude of your favorite city. For example, Rio de Janeiro’s latitude is “Latitude:-22.9181189”. That password has 20 characters of all 4 types and it’s almost impossible to crack using any of the password cracking tools out there today. If you like that idea, visit www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com and pick your favorite destination. If you can’t memorize it, write it down and keep it in your wallet, but be sure to obfuscate it in some way that only you know. For example, just write down the number portion and obfuscate that by adding numbers to it: e.g., 22.918118904, or turn it into something that looks like a credit card number: 2291 8118 9040 5592. You’ll remember that everything from the 0 onward is extraneous but no one else will know that. Add an expiration date 01/15 and anyone who finds your little cheat sheet will automatically assume that it’s a credit card number.

It’s important to remember that no matter how complex your password is, if your computer becomes infected with a keylogger (an application that captures your keystrokes), you’re done. That’s why the above advice about browsers and email are so important.

Do preventative maintenance on your computer
Your computer is a tool just like all of your other tools, including your automobile, and as such it requires regular maintenance. Make sure that all of the applications running on your computer are up to date. One way to do that is by using a free program called Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI). The website address is http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/. Once it’s loaded on your machine, it will search for security patches for every application that you use, notify you if any are out-of-date and point you to the download site.

Avoid free Wi-Fi
One of the most popular ways for bad guys to steal your login credentials is to hang out at coffee shops, airports, and other popular locations that offer free Wi-Fi and use an application known as a “sniffer” to intercept your username and password for whatever application you’ve logged into while drinking a cup of coffee or waiting for your flight. Instead, use the mobile hotspot that comes with your smart phone or pay for a service that protects your session. Both are secure from wireless sniffers.

Don’t use USB thumb drives or other removable media
One of the worst breaches ever to occur at the U.S. Department of Defense came about because of the popularity of transmitting data from one computer to another via thumb drives. The following article was written by Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III for the magazine Foreign Affairs in the September/October 2010 issue:

"In 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense suffered a significant compromise of its classified military computer networks. It began when an infected flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East. The flash drive's malicious computer code, placed there by a foreign intelligence agency, uploaded itself onto a network run by the U.S. Central Command. That code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control. It was a network administrator's worst fear: a rogue program operating silently, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an unknown adversary."
"This previously classified incident was the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever, and it served as an important wake-up call. The Pentagon's operation to counter the attack, known as Operation Buckshot Yankee, marked a turning point in U.S. cyberdefense strategy."

To put it simply: don’t use removable media to transfer data between computers. The only time removable media should be used is when you travel and then only to store your own critical data as an alternative to storing it on your travel laptop.

This is an excerpt from my ebook "A TRAVELER'S GUIDE TO CYBER SECURITY"

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Glympse Travel App

Best Way to read on a Tablet. Kindle app is tablet certified on all tablets.
 

By Glympse, Inc.

Price - free

Category - Travel

Link to App in iTunes

Mike's Review

Once a month, I make a four-hour drive from East to Middle Tennessee. Generally, I do this alone and because my wife loves me, she worries. I use Glympse to help ease her mind. 

Generally, I use it on my iPhone, but it works really well on the iPad. Glympse is yet another in a long line of location sharing apps, but unlike the others, Glympse isn't about checking in places to get badges or find hot deals. Glympse is more about letting your friends know where you are. 

When activated, the app sends a text message to someone that contains a link. Clicking the link displays a map with your location, direction and speed. I've set mine up with a button that allows me to send my wife a "Glympse" with two quick clicks. The link only stays active for 15 minutes (a default setting that can be reduced to five minutes or increased to up to four hours).

You can share with Facebook and Twitter if you like. You can add your own message or choose from a pull-down menu of stock messages like "almost there" "running late" or "in the neighborhood."

Glympse is a great app because it has found a niche in a very crowded field. It works well and provides a useful service.

From Developer

Download Glympse and you can share your location with anyone, in seconds.

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"It's called Glympse, and it's my new favorite freebie [...] This is one of those apps that's ingenious in its simplicity, insanely handy to have around, and just a little bit fun to boot.

- CNET Reviews

"Glympse: The Coolest Thing Your Smartphone Can Do" - Since smartphones first made Google maps mobile, no single application has offered so much practical functionality.

- Fast Company

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Glympse is the simple and private way to share your location.

Want to let someone know where you are? Just send a Glympse!

Install and be sharing your location in real-time with others in seconds! No sign-up, no passwords, no new social network to manage.

Glympse sends a link with your ongoing location to anyone via Email, SMS, Facebook, or Twitter. Best of all, the recipient doesn't need any special software to be able to see your location. They get a link that shows your real-time position, and optionally your speed, a message, a destination, and your ETA. And, Glympse makes it hassle free by only sharing your location for the time period you choose, and then it automatically stops.

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A few notes and tips:

* On iOS 4+ devices that support background apps (iPhone 3Gs and 4, iPod touch 3rd gen, and iPad), Glympse will share your location while running in the background. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. When sending a Glympse, you get to set how long you would like to share your location. Once sharing has begun, you can add time to your Glympse to extend its duration or "expire" the Glympse to stop sharing.

* On iOS 4+ devices that support sending SMS (all iPhones), you can send a Glympse to any SMS number you wish. For all other devices and earlier iOS versions, we still support sending SMS to domestic US numbers.

* If you receive a Glympse on your iPhone, you can click on the Glympse link in the message to see the person's current location in a web page. The web page provides an option to launch the Glympse application and automatically show the person's location, updated in real-time on a map. Pick your viewing preference!

* Glympse supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Please note that an iPhone or iPad 3G are best suited for sending Glympses as they have a GPS for pinpoint location and can share your location while you are on the move. Nonetheless, an iPod touch and iPad WiFi are still excellent for viewing Glympses and for sending shorter duration "check-in" Glympses.

* Send a Glympse to the same person often? Just add it to favorites. Then you're just two clicks away from sending it the next time.

* Have a Facebook and/or Twitter account? Sign in to your accounts under 'Settings'. Then, just add 'facebook' and/or 'twitter' when you send a Glympse to share your live location with your friends.

We're actively working on updates and features, so please send us feedback from within the application, or by sending mail to support@glympse.com

We hope you enjoy using Glympse!

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WeatherHD - Travel

By vimov, LLC

From the Developer:
Re-invention of how the weather looks on mobile devices. Weather HD is the #1 weather application in the US and 51 other countries. Recommended by The New York Times, The Guardian, Macworld, Gizmodo and more • • • Watch the trailer: http://www.vimov.com/weatherhd

Weather HD, the most beautiful way to check for weather information on the iPad and the iPhone. See the current and forecast weather in stunning high definition videos.

The New York Times: "Weather HD elevates the user, placing her at cloud level for a hushed real-time weather tableau that puts the web's goofy sunshine-rain-cloud icons to shame."

MORE REVIEWS
● "Brings you the weather in a whole new way" - ZDNet.
● "Weather HD goes all-out on the eye candy and includes gorgeous high definition videos" - Macworld.
● "Weather HD does the job in the simplest, prettiest fashion" - PC Magazine.
● "Stunning" - MacStories.
● "A very artistic approach to providing weather information" - 148Apps.
● "Shows weather conditions in a way that's prettier than any other we've seen" - AppShopper.
● "A great app to show off your new iPad to friends" - Appolicious.

USAGE
➤ Navigate between cities using the arrows at the top right. You can also swipe to the left and swipe to the right in the middle to navigate forward and backward.
➤ To see the forecast, click on the "Show Forecast" in the bottom left. You can then click on the corresponding day to see the weather condition's video.
➤ To add or delete cities, click on the "Settings" icon on the bottom right.
➤ To enable the Clock, click on the "Settings" icon on the bottom right, choose "Display Settings", and then enable the Clock. You can there also choose the size of the clock.
➤ You can also show or hide the Chance of Rain (Precipitation), Pressure and Visibility from the "Display Settings".

UPGRADE TO FULL VERSION
The Full versions offers a number of features not present in the Lite:
➤ Add an unlimited number of cities, up from only 2 in the Lite.
➤ More videos.
➤ No ads.

Devices: iPad
Category: Travel, News  Price: Free


Links:
Link to app in iTunes

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