Month: November 2005

November 11, 2005 Roundup

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This is a roundup of several utilities that have been updated over the past few days, that genealogists might be interested in

Wordperfect Spotlight Plugin 1.0.2 – WP Spotlight Plug-in 1.0.2 for Mac OS X from version 10.4 enables Spotlight search for files created by WordPerfect from version 2.1, including their contents. Universal binary.
* Now supports indexing footnotes and endnotes.

Bookends 8.1.3 (Current version is 12.x) – Bookends offers a powerful and flexible means of saving, retrieving, and formatting references for bibliographies or footnotes.
Version History

HyperTRANSCRIBE 1.0 – new software product for transcribing audio and video files…lets you open and play most popular audio and video formats, and provides both graphical and keyboard control to play, pause, and loop playback so your hands never have to leave the keyboard.

When you’re done transcribing HyperTRANSCRIBE can export your text to RTF or plain text for use in any other program, such as Microsoft Word or ResearchWare’s HyperRESEARCH.

Video2Pod (No longer available) – Convert movies to the Video iPod – from the creators of MacFamilyTree.

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Nov 7, 2005 – Roundup

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Some miscellaneous software updates that Mac genealogists may find interesting – iOrganize, Genetic Code Widget, JournalX, and Precision Recall.

iOrganize 6.0 Notepad, Mac OS X 10.4+, $19.95
Organize is the perfect application to store all the notes, ideas, text extracts, web links… you find while working daily, but without knowing exactly what to do with them.

Thanks to its great user interface, iOrganize lets you quickly and easily store what you want. Advanced users can take advantage of advanced features such as the services menu or the dock menu to quickly create new notes.

Its powerful search functions let you retrieve nearly instantly what you were looking for, even months after storing it.

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Bookpedia 2.2.3

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Bookpedia 2.2.3, the book cataloging software, is now available for download. It requires Mac OS X 10.2, and sells for $18.


Official Description:

Bookpedia is a book cataloging software for Mac OS X. To save you time and effort, it retrieves all book information from the Internet and lets you arrange your books in any which way you like. Using Bookpedia comes naturally thanks to its familiar iTunes style interface. Bookpedia is written exclusively for Mac OS X, making it fast and efficient.


Changes:

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WikiNotes

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WikiNotes, a new note-taking application, has been released. Wikinotes is free/open-source, and requires Mac OS X 10.4+.