Snapheal 2.0 Released, 60% Off Sale

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Snapheal 2.0 has been released, and this is a major update/upgrade over previous versions of Snapheal. It’s also on sale for 60% – $7.99 US (limited time) in the Mac App Store.

Snapheal is a Mac OS X app that helps repair damaged photos (among other things). It can fix creases, tears, other unwanted objects and damage.

I have not used Snapheal, but for $7.99, I’m tempted to pick it up and try it out. I use a combination of Akvis Retoucher and Adobe Photoshop, which is an expensive combination. For those on a budget, Snapheal + iPhoto could get you a lot of the way there, depending on your goals, and Snapheal works with both iPhoto and Aperature – images can be imported from both, and then exported to both, as well as Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
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Heredis for Mac – Family Tree Magazine Review

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Family Tree Magazine published a review of Heredis for Mac 2 (released back in June) in the October/November 2012 print edition of Family Tree Magazine.

Here is a brief snippet from Family Tree Magazine:

Anyone who’s ever done genealogy on a Mac will be able to jump right in and start using Heredis, no manual required (though there’s an 89-page PDF user guide, just in case). Fast and easy data entry is a particular point of pride for Heredis, which lets you enter and edit data not only on an ancestor’s “card,” but also in a Family Group Data view. Maps for your ancestors’ places are generated automatically—no more wondering where that village is located. Almost everything, including the toolbar, is customizable. Synchronizing with the optional iOS apps or with Heredis on other Macs, and even PCs, is a snap.

Speaking of Heredis for iOS, Heredis 1.0.1 for iOS (Mobile Genealogy) was released last week.

If you want to read the whole review, I received my copy of the October/November edition of FTM this morning, and it’s on page 70. It might already be on the racks in some of the larger stores like Barnes and Noble. If you are a Family Tree Magazine Plus Now! member, you can read it here.

Family Tree Magazine has always done a good job of covering Mac genealogy software and this follows that trend.

Reunion 10.0.4

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Leister Productions has released Reunion 10.0.4, the Mac OS X genealogy application that many use, and it’s a huge update, mostly consisting of bug fixes, with a few additions for usability and other areas.

First and foremost, if you are one of those lucky ones who bought a new MacBook Pro Retina, they have fixed some of the display issues with it. If you are still on a PowerPC Mac (PPC), there is also some fixes having to do with files created on a PPC Mac that were uploaded to Reunion for the iPhone (App Store).

There are also several user interface fixes and updates, as well as usability fixes such as web searches opening up your selected browser.

For those needing to incorporate LDS functionality, Temple Codes will display in the Place column in the People List, and tooltips were added to the bottom icons in the LDS Ordinances window.

Full list of changes below:
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Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 21.2.5

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Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 version 2 21.2.5 was recently made available, and it may have solved a very annoying bug.

A version of FTMM2 that was released earlier this year (going back to February or before) was causing some people to have issues with the media count/column in certain areass. Some of these counts were extremely high or were showing “0″ even when media was attached, according to some genealogists on the Ancestry.com forums, and based on what I saw with a test I ran.

Good news though! According to a few posts I’ve seen around the internet, this issue may finally have been released with Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 21.2.5, the latest update. It’s not specifically mentioned in the release notes below:

    Family Tree Maker Mac 2 version 21.2.5 Updates
  • Improvements to TreeSync performance and stability.
  • Numerous other bug fixes and general improvements.
  • Improved Mountain Lion compatibility.

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ohmiGeneLITE 5.31.1

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ohmiGeneLITE 5.31.1 was released last week.

This is a bug fix update for the cross platform genealogy app – it corrects 5-6 problems some people were having.

Keep in mind that while ohmiGeneLITE is the free version of ohmiGene, it is limited to 509 people and PDFs are watermarked.

It requires an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.7 or later.

You can download the update from the ohmiGene website, as well as look at the commercial version ($40) – ohmiGene Plus.

If you have ohmiGene Plus, you may want to take a look at the ohmiGene iPad application at the iTunes App Store, which allows you to easily carry your ohmiGene genealogy information with you.