Software Deals at Amazon

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 Snow Leopard, iLife 09, and iWork 09

* Apple iWork ’09 $46.72 (normally $79)

* Mobileme Individual Box $65.02 (normally $99)

* Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [Mac] $77.40 / $57.40 after Rebate (normally $99.99)

Relationship Completer v1.1.0

The Relationship Completer v1.1.0 has been released today – it’s a handy little utility for those (such as genealogists) who use their address books and want to keep track of relationships inside of the address books.

Developer’s Description:
Let’s say you have the two Address Book entries: “John Doe” and “Jane Doe”. If John and Jane are married, you may set the appropriate “Related Name” fields in Address Book to denote this fact. To completely realize the relationship you will need to add a spouse relationship to both John and Jane’s entry – each pointing to the other. This violates my first law of data entry duplication: don’t do it.

That’s where Relationship Completer comes in. It will add a new menu item for “Related Names” that allows you to automatically complete the relationship by creating the complementary related name entry. Now all you need to do is create one of the spouse entries and have the other one created automatically.

http://tlsoftware.wordpress.com/software/relationship-completer/

Requires: Max OS X 10.3.9+ There is a German translation available as well.

Meander 0.5

It’s almost hard to categorize this free Mac OS X utility, but here goes: Meander is a way to measure things on your screen, using a piece of digital string. Shiela Dixon’s (the developer) description: How long is a piece of string? As long as you can see it on your screen, you can now find out! Meander is a little application which can measure routes, or shapes, or anything which you can see on your screen.

The major change in version 0.5: Scale can now be measured at any angle, so calibration can be made from a vertical scale, or any known distance between two points.

It’s a neat little application if you have messed around with trying to gauge distance on your display.

November 11, 2005 Roundup

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 – 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 – Convert movies to the Video iPod – from the creators of MacFamilyTree.

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Mac OS X 10.4.3 – Available

You can now download Mac OS X 10.4.3 through Software Update.

You can read about the updates here (Apple.com) and the security updates here (Apple.com).

Some of the updated areas:
* AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP networkÊfile services
* AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
* Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
* disc recording when creating and burning media
* .Mac sync services
* Spotlight indexing and searchingÊ
* Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
* Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
* Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
* compatibility with third party applications and devices
* previous standalone security updates

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