.Mac, Apple Backup Upgraded

.Mac has been upgraded to 1GB of storage (for email/iDisk). Good news for those using MacFamilyTree who use MacFamilyTree’s .Mac/iDisk publishing feature, as well as those who use .Mac/iDisk in general for publishing their genealogy information (since iDisk makes it easy).

The .Mac website is also now available in French and German.

Apple has also upgraded Backup to Backup 3.0 with new features, including:
* Simple one-step iLife backup
* Flexible backup plans (including scheduled
* Multiple Backup Destinations
* Shared backup to iDisk (between multiple Macs)
* Incremental Backups (saves only when the files have changed – handy for genealogists).

QuickLinks – Sep 12-19

A quick rundown of software updates over the past week that maybe of interest to genealogists:

* DevonNote 1.7.2 – Notetaking Application – version 1.7.2 includes improvements in performance and stability, as well as better optimization for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
* DevonThink 1.9.5 – Information organizer/database – This update adds full-screen support, iPod support, web-site export, as well as numerous improvements/bug fixes.
* BSP – Mac OS X 10.4 Preference pane that allows you to add additional categories to Spotlight
* TheGoodBook – Fast, simple to use address book
* Tao 1.1 b7a – The Advanced Outliner – Minor updates/bugfixes
* OmniGraffle 4 and OmniGraffle 4 Professional – Major updates to these diagramming applications – interface improvements, better/additional import/export, brainstorming, and drafting features. New outline view, new diagram styles, new Bezier Curves tool.

Reunion2iCal Development

Darrell Schulte announced a few days ago, that he is going to continue developing Reunion2iCal. Reunion2iCal takes data from Reunion and allows you to import it into iCal. The goal is to import the birthdays of individuals from Reunion into Apple’s iCal to track upcoming birthdays as annual events.

If you have questions about Reunion2iCal, please post them in the Reunion2iCal support area of Darrell’s website.

MacFamilyTree 4.2 Public Beta 1

MacFamilyTree 4.2b1 has been released. This is a public beta, that can be downloaded here. This public beta of 4.2 adds some major new features – a new Family Table view, a “Map Chart” that, based on latitude and longitude you provide, can show where events took place, several news views or updated views, and better iPhoto integration.

Changes:
* The Family Table can show all families in your tree at once or only parts of your whole tree, either your descendants, ancestors or all other related families. Furthermore, you can configure this view like all other views in Mac Family Tree.
* The new Map Chart can show where events in your tree took place. You can see, where the people in your tree lived and where they moved. Mac Family Tree needs to know the latitude and longitude, where the events took place. Mac Family Tree utilizes a database specifically designed for this use with over 4 Million places to look up these coordinates
* The automatic backup creates a backup folder in the user’s document folder, and will save the backups for the 10 last days of use here.
* The list of persons on the drawer has been improved. This list can be expanded to show their partners and childrens.
* A family list has been added to show all families in your tree at once. Like the persons list, this list can be expanded to view all persons within this family
* Pictures can now be imported directly from your Apple iPhoto Library
* The function list on every pane can now be resized and collapsed to view more data on smaller screens
* The page of the source can now be added in the source selection window
* Author Informations can be found in the main window
* Tree Statistics have been added to the Author Informations
* Support for Gedcom files created in ANSEL format

Fixes:

* Printing to one page now works with the descendant chart
* Minor fixes in the Gedcom file format parser and exporter
* Many interface fixes and improvements

iData 2.1.2

iData 2.1.2 has been released. iData 2 is a “freeform database application with optional fields”. Basically, if you have a lot of misc. information to store, you might want to take a look at it. It requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, and sells for $69.95. You can download it here and use it as a demo for 30 days of use (actual use, not 30 days from the time you first use it).

Changes:

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