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Family Tree Maker for Mac – Before End of November, 2010

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I’ve gotten questions from some of you about when Family Tree Maker for Mac would be available, now that Family Tree Maker 2011 for Windows/PCs has launched. Back in May, official word from Ancestry.com was that it be released before the end of 2010. Now it looks like it will … Read more

Apple iWork 09 9.0.4 Update – Adds ePub Support

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While I’ve recommended Apple’s productivity suite, iWork to to plenty of people doing family newsletters or related documents, I normally don’t mention it here except in passing, but iWork 09 9.0.4 fixes some issues in all three apps – Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, including with tables. More importantly the word … Read more

Software Deals at Amazon

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Got an email pointing to some software deals at Amazon.com that maybe of interesting to some Mac genealogists. Note that these prices are subject to change, since some of them are through third parties. * Mac Box Set (with Snow Leopard) $95 (normally $169.00) Comes with Mac OS X 10.6 … Read more

FAQ Added, Note-Taking Software Updated

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Over the past few days, I’ve done a large update/revision of the Mac note-taking and journal software page. There was very little there before and now there is hopefully an up-to-date guide of sorts that can point you in the right direction if you are looking for information on applications … Read more

MacFamilyTree 6.0 Public Beta 6

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MacFamilyTree 6.0 has been updated by Synium Software to Public Beta 6. Still no official sign of a Release Candidate. Public Beta 6 consists of some fixes with chart generation (and improvements in the Descendant Chart layout) as well as localization. Changes/Updates: * Chart generation fixes * Descendant Chart top … Read more

MacFamilyTree 6.0 – Public Beta

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Genealogy Software for Mac OS X MacFamilyTree 6.0 has recently entered public beta with beta 3. This is major overhaul and upgrade of the MacFamilyTree 5.7 series of genealogy software for Mac OS X.

The FamilyTree Editor is much improved and enhanced – it’s replacing the Family Assistant. Details are easy to see just by hovering/clicking, rather than going to a list view in the past.

The User Interface is based on four categories/views – Edit, Views, Reports, Export. Place management is much improved and is managed in a new way. Media management has also been improved, including a CoverFlow-style view as well as fullscreen slide show. There is a feature to overlay biographical information on top of media.

A major addition and improvment is the ToDo Management, which allows you to make to-do lists, as well as prioritize and catalog everything and anything you can think of when doing research.

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