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Heredis for Mac 2.0 Released (And iOS Versions)

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Back in March, I mentioned an upcoming upgrade for Heredis for Mac (what I called Heredis for Mac 2012). I included a Heredis for Mac gallery as well from screenshots posted on the Heredis site.

Well the upgrade is finally here, and really it’s a completely new version of Heredis for Mac. They’ve not only released Heredis for Mac 2.0 today, they’ve also simultaneously released Free iOS versions of Heredis for both iPhone/iPod touch, and the iPad in Apple’s iTunes store (links at the bottom of the article). A PC version that synchronizes with the Mac and iOS versions will be available July 4, 2012.

There is a trial version available for download at Heredis.com.

Those of you who received the recent July/August issue of Family Tree Magazine could not have missed the full page ad on the back of the magazine:

Their goals with this new version of Heredis are very ambitious:

Our objective is to offer to genealogists a software program which is very different to what already exists. This version is based on the principle that Heredis should always be easy to pick up and use. Our motto has been “Genealogy made easy” for many years.

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Reminder: WWDC 2012 Today, New Hardware Expected

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Apple’s 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference is today, and there are lots of exciting things for Mac and iOS users expected to be revealed today. We should hear about the following: – OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (with a nearing release date) – iOS 6 – An upgrade to most of … Read more

Heredis for iOS – Calling for Volunteer Beta Testers

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A few weeks ago I mentioned some new details and screenshots about the upcoming Heredis for Mac. Sometime this month they should be going into beta testing of the new Heredis. What I did not realize, was that they were also moving into iOS genealogy apps with new Heredis. This … Read more

Apple’s New iPad, iPhoto Updates

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By now you know that Apple’s new iPad has been officially announced. We won’t see it in stores until the 16th of March, but it’s a very nice update and in some ways better than expected. It’s being called their new iPad – not iPad 3 or iPad HD as … Read more

Reminder: Apple iPad Event Tomorrow – March 7, 2012

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Tomorrow, Apple will probably be announcing the successor to the iPad 2, the iPad 3 or iPad HD. There will also be a possible update to Apple TV, bringing it up to 1080p. For those who have used Apple TVs to give genealogy presentations on HDTV, the 1080p upgrade will … Read more

Apple Announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Apple has announced Mac OS X 10.8, aka Mac OS X Mountain Lion today, or rather the developer preview of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, which is the ninth major release of Mac OS X (don’t forget Mac OS X 10.0! – I know we try to forget Mac OS X 10.0, but that was a long time ago). It brings in several features from its mobile iOS platform, including Messages (covered here), Notes, Reminders, Game Center, Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration and AirPlay mirroring. Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, which controls/helps secure your Mac. Gatekeeper provides “complete control over what apps are installed on your Mac“.

It’s being built with a focus on making iCloud integration easy to use and easy for developers to integrate with Mac OS X applications, allowing for easy access to your data between applications, as well as an online backup.

There is a lot going on with Mountain Lion, and I’ll be talking more about it as I take a look at the developer preview.

For now, I’m interested to see how well the iCloud integration is, and whether Mac genealogy software developers are able to better use it to provide an easy way to sync and share genealogy information between Mac OS X genealogy applications and genealogy apps on iOS devices. Apple is already doing things that benefits genealogists – easy backups with Time Capsule and iCloud, and pushing the idea of making your data available anywhere, without a lot of effort on your part. A lot of us have probably experienced the issue of losing data due to a computer crash in the past or just not being able to have easy access to our data/information away from our “main” computer or Mac.

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