Miscellaneous: GeneWeb, iWatermark, photography,
July 19, 2005 by admin · Comments Off
GeneWeb 5.0 is nearing completion and is in beta testing. GeneWeb is a genealogy software program with a Web interface. It can be used off-line or in a Web environment. It uses very efficient techniques of relationship and consanguinity computing, developed in collaboration with Didier R�my, research Director at INRIA.. It works with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
iWaterMark is in beta and nearing 3.0 – for those of you who publish family photos on the internet, you might want to look into this. There are a number of extensive changes in the first beta, you can read about them at MacUpdate.com
Tips for photographing cemetery markers – Ancestry.com
Update: Shoebox 1.1
March 23, 2005 by admin · Comments Off
If you have a lot of photos (what genealogist doesn’t) and are looking for something other than iPhoto to organize them with, Shoebox might work for you. Version 1.1 has been released.
Shoebox is a Mac OS X application for organizing digital photos by content….Shoebox uses Knowledge Base technology to learn about your world. With Shoebox, your photos are organized in a way that makes sense to you. You can find any photo instantly by content, no matter how many pictures you have.
Shoebox requires Mac OS X 10.3
Changes:
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* Shoebox can now display RAW files.
* Creating thumbnails is now twice as fast.
* Rotating/flipping photos is now much faster, and lossless too.
* Added an option in Category Info to sort categories manually.
* Browser columns are now resizable.
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Info: GraphicConverter X 5.5 adds mrSID support
February 9, 2005 by admin · Comments Off
Lemke Software has added mrSID support to it’s graphics conversion/editing software, GraphicConverter. You can now view all of those neat maps from the Library of Congress in OS X (Examples: Civl War Maps and the 1500-2004 Map Collection)
Utilities for MrSID images/files.
December 22, 2004 by admin · Comments Off
Steve Jackson has a small collection of useful genealogy utilities for working with MrSID image/raster files at his .Mac Homepage.
Unfortunately they are Classic/MacOS 8 & 9 only, but they include not only the browser plugins but a standalone MrSID viewer (that lets you export as TIFF files and that is much faster than going through the browser). Many of us run into these images, either through online maps we come across or through some sites publishing genealogy data in this format.
These are/were originally from LizardTech, however it appears they have abandoned the Mac platform. They can still be found there if you dig around.
Update: As of February 2005, mrSID support has been added to GraphicConverter.
Software/Release: Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0
October 13, 2004 by admin · Comments Off
Adobe announced that Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 has been releasted today. Amazon is carrying Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0. From the reviews and previews, this sounds like it’s well worth it. They’ve added enough that it will probably do 95% of what most of us need it for.
First Look at Photoshop Elements 3.0 by Scott Kelby at the Photoshop Elements User website.
Another Preview from Digital Outback Photo.
An extensive review from MacUser (registration maybe required).
