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THE PULP JUNE 2021 The P U L P Newsletter of the Hartford User Group Exchange http://www.huge.org Volume 40 Issue -- 06 JUNE 15th General Meeting: (Belated) Gift Suggestions Rev. Fleming Hall 2533 Main Street, Glastonbury, CT Q&A Session: 7 PM–7:15PM Meeting starts at: 7:15PM Contents Page From the Editor 2 Stu’s Quiz Page 3 Standard Ebooks Makes 4 Classic Texts Beautiful Solve Wi-Fi Coverage Prob- 6 lems Calendar 10 Page 1 THE PULP JUNE 2021 The PULP is published monthly by and for members of the Hartford User Group MEETING LOCATIONS Exchange, Inc. (HUGE). HUGE is a nonprofit organization whose aim is to provide an exchange of information between users of personal computers. The PULP is Rev. Fleming Hall not in any way affiliated with any computer manufacturer or software company. Original, uncopyrighted articles appearing in the PULP may be reproduced without 2533 Main Street, prior permission by other nonprofit groups. Please give credit to the author and the Glastonbury, CT PULP, and send a copy to HUGE. The opinions and views herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of HUGE. Damages caused by use or abuse of information appearing in the PULP are the sole responsibility of the user of the information. We reserve the right to edit or reject any articles submitted for publication in the PULP. Trademarks used in this publication belong to the respective own- ers of those trademarks. From The Editor by Stuart Rabinowitz This month is a set of gift suggestions. Hope to see Apple's Mac security warning shows that closed you there. BTW: if you have some wants for the beats open list — send me an email. ‘FragAttack’ flaws threaten wifi routers. It is time In the news: Verizon sold AOL, Yahoo for $5 billion to patch against FragAttacks but good luck with to a hedge fund as it offloads media assets. So be home routers and IoT devices.A set of vulnerabili- aware if you have an email account with the or ties in Wi-Fi’s basic design offers a long-standing ATT. and widespread threat vector, but the probability There is a phishing attack that uses a call center to of compromise remains low. trick people into installing malware on their Win- Aukey, Tomtop and Mpow have been kicked off dows PC. Amazon following fake reviews allegations. There is a global chip shortage, the logjam is hold- A fix is coming for iPhone battery and performance ing up more than laptops and cars and could spoil issues the holiday. Almost everything with a plug or a bat- There is a Dell security flaw from 2009 affects tery is affected. 'hundreds of millions' of PCs. Check their website Bluetooth bugs open the door for attackers to im- for possible fixes. personate devices. If you move around outside, you may want to turn it off unless you need it. Microsoft warns watch out for this new malware (dubbed RevengeRAT) that steals passwords, web- Send your comments to [email protected] cam and browser data. It looks like a PDF, but is Until next month…Happy computing!! really a VB (Visual Basic) script. Apple just fixed a security flaw that allowed mal- Here is the appropriate copyright citation for the “Tidbits” ware to take screenshots on Macs, Smile. articles. Each article has a link to the full text. Google is imposing a data cap on June 1, and auto- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ matically enrolling users in two-factor authentica- tion. An Apple exec testifies, as part of the ‘Fortnite’ suit, that the amount of malware on macOS is ‘un- acceptable’ as compared to the amount on iOS. Page 2 THE PULP JUNE 2021 A Little Computer Quiz May Quiz Answers 1 NASA has landed Perseverance on Mars, 1 What was the first non-Apple Desktop Bus the COMEX-IE38 module on the probe stores (ADB) mouse? & sends images. What is the CPU that runs A The ever popular hockey puck the module? 2 How many of you remember ‘eWorld’? 2 What else has that CPU been used for? When did it first appear? A 1994 3 What is the main CPU used by the rover? 3 What replaced it? 4 What else was it used in? A MobleMe 5 How much did NASA pay for those CPUs? 6 Before the HomePod, there was …? A iPod Hi-Fi bookshelf speakers 5 What were iPod Socks? A In December, 2004 iPod Socks were sold for $29 in a six pack in bold colors tp protect your device from dust & scratches. Stuart Rabinowitz Page 3 THE PULP JUNE 2021 Standard Ebooks Makes Classic Texts Beautiful Standard Ebooks titles in Apple Books on JOSH CENTERS 10 May 2021 iPad The volunteers at Project Gutenberg are some of the great unsung heroes of the Inter- net Since 1971 (!), they have digitized over 60,000 out-of-copyright books for preserva- tion and convenience. While Project Guten- berg texts are better than they used to be, they are often plagued by typos and don’t always have the nicest or most consistent typography. A new project has risen to build on Project Gutenberg’s great work: Standard Ebooks. Their mission is as follows: Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg Add Standard Ebooks Titles to Apple’s transcribe ebooks and make them available Books for the widest number of reading devices. The Standard Ebooks library is large and Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources constantly expanding. You can browse by like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets subject or search for a title. As you can see them using a carefully designed and profes- from the screenshot below, there’s a great sional-grade style manual, fully proofreads deal of diversity in the offerings, and there’s and corrects them, and then builds them to something for everyone. create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technol- ogy. In other words, the volunteers at Standard Ebooks take selected books from Project Gutenberg, carefully proofread them, and put them in a prettier package to read on your fa- vorite device. Standard Ebooks titles provide: Modern and consistent typography following a rigorous modern style manual Careful proofreading Rich metadata Upgrades to The Standard Ebooks library make them play nicely with e-readers, includ- ing hyphenation, popup footnotes, high-reso- lution and scalable graphics, and working ta- bles of contents High-quality covers Clean code and semantic markup for easymainte- nance Needless to say, every title offered by Standard Ebooks is free and libre, with no DRM. Page 4 THE PULP JUNE 2021 Here’s how to download a title in Safari and load it into Apple’s Books app on an iPhone or iPad. Once you tap a title you’re interested in, scroll down to the “Download for ereaders” heading and tap “Compatible epub.” (It is a little troubling that the Standard Ebooks site lowercases EPUB, in flagrant contradiction to the style set by the standard’s creators.) There is also an “Advanced epub” option, but I haven’t found any advan- tages to that file format, and it tends to strip away the nice cover art. Tap Download when prompted. Once the download is complete, tap the download icon vides specially formatted .azw3 files for Kin- in the upper-right corner and then tap the dle devices and apps, and .kepub files for EPUB file in the downloads popover. The Kobo devices and apps. book should open in Books Apple platform. Standard Ebooks also pro- vides specially formatted .azw3 files for Kin- dle devices and apps, and .kepub files for Kobo devices and apps. How You Can Help If you have some spare time and love books, Standard Ebooks is always looking for volunteers. You can join their mailing list to get involved, make suggestions, and submit typos. They’re also looking for proofreaders Downloading from Standard Ebooks on and those with the technical skills to compile iPhone ebooks. And, of course, they always need money to pay for their tools and keep the It’s even easier on the Mac. Click “Com- servers running. patible epub” just as above, and if Books is your default EPUB app, double-click the downloaded file to load it into your library and open the book. If you have your Books library set to sync via iCloud, it doesn’t matter which device you add the EPUB files to because they will sync between each other. Paradise Lost in Apple Books on iPad Standard Ebooks titles look beautiful on any Apple platform. Standard Ebooks also pro- Page 5 THE PULP JUNE 2021 Solve Wi-Fi Coverage Problems with WiFi Explorer and <http://tidbits.com/resources/2015-08/wifimap-netspot- NetSpot mapping-in-progress.png> ------------------------------------------------------------ by Glenn Fleishman: <[email protected]>, @glennf You can mark just a handful of sampling points, but I article link: <http://tidbits.com/e/15876> like to use many for greater insight. Once you’ve finished 4 comments sampling, you have an interactive map. One of the abso- lute neatest features of NetSpot, and one reason I was As someone who has written about Wi-Fi for many years immediately impressed with it originally, is that it can and tested hundreds of pieces of gear, I’m always looking accurately calculate where your access points are located. for affordable, useful tools that let me analyze my home network. In the past, companies have loaned me spec- <http://tidbits.com/resources/2015-08/wifimap-netspot- trum analyzers, which examine all the radio signals on fully-mapped.png> ranges of frequencies.

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