Update: Booxter 1.8

Booxter 1.8 has been released. Booxter is an easy to use application to help you manage your book collection.

It gathers book information from various sources on the internet to allow you to view, edit, sort, categorize, export, and print books of interest to you. You can use input devices, such as barcode scanners, or devices such as the Apple iSight to speed up adding books to your collection.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2+

Among the changes are official support for Mac OS X 10.4, including full Spotlight indexing – your libraries are indexed. “Smart lists” can be saved as “smart folders” in OS X 10.4 as well.

Changes:

* [10.4] Official support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
* [10.4] Added Spotlight indexing. You enable this in the user preferences. Libraries are indexed when saving.
* [10.4] Smart lists (in Booxter) can be saved as smart folders (in Tiger). You can drag and drop a smart list onto the Finder to create a new Tiger smart folder. This can also be done from the List menu, and also from the contextual menu on the list table.
* [10.4] Tooltips for the list table display faster.
* Added ‘Show in Finder’ menu item (File->Show In Finder) to locate your library file on disk.
* When importing from a text file, automatically selecting appropriate ‘to’ columns based upon the titles of the ‘from’ columns, and selecting import checkboxes automatically as well.
* Added ‘Get Info’ contextual menu item for lists and smart lists.
* Added lentOut entry in export to XML.
* Added hasCoverImage entry in export to XML.
* Added fixed space and separator to toolbar options.
* Updated display of smart list panel.
* Updated display of export panels.
* Fixed issue in retrieving format from Amazon FR.
* Fixed issue in retrieving publisher from Amazon FR.
* Fixed iPod export bug where some columns could not be exported.
* Fixed bug in multiple book edit panel where Series would not be editable.

Release: Journler 0.98

Journler 0.98 was released.

Journler is a daily notebook. The program provides an elegant, effective outlet for your thoughts. At the same time, the program helps you connect those thoughts with the source of their inspiration. By combining a richness of text and media technology, Journler allows you to add writing to your digital life without losing sight of other media.

Journler aims to be the premier journaling program for the Macintosh. It is designed to make the development and organization of your thoughts as enjoyable and effective as possible.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.0+

Audio Entries: Any audio input device, ie microphone

iTunes Integration: Tested with 4.7 & 4.8, likely 4.0 or better

iPhoto Integration: 4.0.x.

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List of changes

Journler is nearing completion. The next update (0.9.9) will include two major changes. First, the blog center’s code will be cleaned up and improved. Second, help files will be completed. A general tidying of the application’s code will also take place, along with fixes for whatever small bugs I encounter along the way.

Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0 will focus on three areas. There continue to be a few stray bugs that are causing crash problems for a small number of users. I have so far been unable to locate the cause of these problems, but I will continue working on finding a solution. I will also address any bug reports I receive from users. Last, I will run first hand tests on Tiger, which I plan on receiving very soon.

followup

Mac OS X 10.4: Spotlight Information

Since Spotlight is proving to be a valuable tool for genealogists, we are going to start a page that tracks information about Spotlight, and applications that make use of Spotlight, that genealogists might find useful.

You can access the page here.

If you know of any information, or about any applications, that genealogists might be able to use in regards to Spotlight, please leave a comment here or contact us.

Release: Mellel Spotlight

A Mellel Plugin for Spotlight has been released. Mellel is the advanced word processor for Mac OS X designed especially for scholars, creative and technical writers, and anyone seeking an agile, small-footprint yet feature-rich program. This allows Mellel documents to be indexed and searchable by Spotlight.

Requires: Mac OS X 10.4

Updated 21 May 2005: With this plugin, you will be able to search through the content of all Mellel documents on your disk. As you create new documents, they will automatically be indexed.

Release: GEDitCOM 3.7

GEDitCOM 3.7 has been released.

GEDitCOM is the customizable genealogy application for the Macintosh (including MacOS X) for editing and viewing GEDCOM genealogy files. Using the GEDitCOM customization features, you can design your own genealogy user interface. Or, if you prefer, you can use the Default Format that comes with GEDitCOM and provides a powerful, user-friendly interface with 100% access to all features of the GEDCOM standard.

Requirements: MacOS 8.1+, OS X 10.0+

Changes:

* This upgrade has many new features and interface improvements.
* All new icons and many interface improvements, especially in MacOS X.
* Many new options for working with multimedia files.
* See What’s New help topic in GEDitCOM for a full listing.

Additional listed changes from 3.60 -> 3.70)

* More support for Encoded Multimedia Objects.
* New Attach->Marital Status menu command that lets you indicate if the father and mother in a family record were never married. Custom formats have been updated to look for this new option and change “Husband” and “Wife” to “Father” and “Mother” if they were not married.
* Addition of View->Go->Forward, which with the View->Go->Back, work like back and forward in browsers, to let you scroll through all recently visited records.
* The Find Links command in the View Menu lets you find all records linked to the current record.
* Additional support in creating files for LDS Temple work.
* Improved the Find Relationship option to search for more than one relationship between two individuals.
* Associations attached to individual records can now link to Individual, Family, Source, Repository, or Multimedia records. Note: There is osme debate about whether or not linking to non-individuals is really allowed in GEDCOM files, but it has some nice applications and was requested by users.
* All citation details now preserved when merging SOURCE records.
* New Marked Records Option lets you mark records associated with currently marked records (i.e. records linked by association or alias links).
* Whenever a child window closes, the parent window is refreshed if changes were made.
* When you use General Preferences and select the option to add creation dates to new records, you can now add a note to the date.
* The Tree window remembers your previous selection for scaling of the display.
* You can now use seperate fonts for printing and editing
* Children in families now can have links to multiple families (such as for a child with multiple spouses) in the Default Format.

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