MemoryMiner 1.04 is out, and it’s a very interesting piece of software. The developer’s do a much better job of describing it than I could: At its core, are a simple set of tools for treating photos (particularly rare, “pre-digital” photos) as individual frames in a type of endless story board. The story elements are linked to each other by way of annotation layers identifying the people, places, dates and events captured in each frame. As links are made, it becomes easy and tremendously interesting to explore the threads which link people’s lives across time, place and shared experience.

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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

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

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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+.

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A beta version 1.0b2 of Caboodle from Dejal Systems, LLC has been released. Caboodle allows you to Collect random snippets of text or images.

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