Apple’s September 1, 2010 Event, Plus Autocad
August 31, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Apple has sent out an alert stating that they will be directly streaming tomorrow’s event live:
What:
Live video stream of Apple’s September 1 event
When:
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 10:00 a.m. PDT
Where:
www.apple.com
Requirements:
* Apple Mac running Safari on Mac OS X 10.6
* Also can be accessed on an iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS/iOS 3.0 or higher or an iPad.
Basically it’s going to be streamed over HTML5, showcasing the standard that Apple chose for the iPhones and iPads over Flash.
Meanwhile, this week it was confirmed by Financial Times that Autodesk would be bringing AutoCad back to Macs. It’s a big deal since it dominates its market and is the first time AutoCad has been seen on Macs since the early ’90s. This is on par with Family Tree Maker for Mac 2011 coming back to Macs.
Update: I’ve posted my thoughts about the September Event over at Mobile Genealogy.
Software Deals at Amazon
August 23, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
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)
* Apple iWork ’09
* Mobileme Individual Box
* Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [Mac]
MacFamilyTree 5.7.6
May 26, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Synium Software has released version 5.7.6 of MacFamilyTree, their Mac OS X genealogy application.
It’s mainly some printing fixes and better online MobileMe web site exporting.
Changes:
* Multiple bugfixes when printing to multiple pages in the graphics editor
* Norwegian translation updated
* Improved GEDCOM parsing for person and family events
* MobileMe Web Site Export improvements
Review of Reunion 9 at MacGasm.net
April 16, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Grant Brünner at Macgasm.net has put together a review of Reunion 9 as part of his “Genealogy on your Mac” series. He took a look at the user experience / user interface and talked a bit about it.
He also took a look at syncing up your Reunion 9 genealogy data with your iPhone (or iPod touch/iPad) using Leister Productions’ Reunion iPhone application. He brings up the point that you do need to be on the same network and do have to have both Reunion on the desktop/laptop and Reunion on the iPhone if you want to sync up your data.
Read the full review: Macgasm.net
iFamily for Tiger V2.252
August 28, 2007 by admin · Leave a Comment
iFamily for Tiger version 2.252 has been released. Version 2.251 was released a few days ago. Version 2.252 adds CSV file generation for importing genealogy data into spreadsheets.
It can be downloaded at iFamilyForTiger.com
What’s New in version 2.251:
Story Pane
Added a button to automatically generate a Story for the currently selected person. There are many 30 user defined options (so far).
Ancestors and Descendants Diagrams
Added more colour options for the Ancestors and Descendants diagrams.
Additions/Fixes in version 2.252:
People Index
Added a button called “Generate Csv File” that creates a comma separated values (csv) file which can then be loaded into a spreadsheet application. The people included are those currently displayed in the Filtered/Sorted list of people in the table in the People Index panel.
Colors- Bug
Corrected a bug that occurred when choosing CYMK or Grayscale colors in the Color Panels. This bug has only been reported by one user. If you are using V2.250 or V2.251 and you get an error message that says something like “An exception occurred in iFamily V2.251 in CdDiagram.m : drawRect_1 at line 761″ and the error message also mentions a problem with colors then you need to: (a) delete the file called com.kswa.iFamilyForTiger.plist that is in folder xxxxx /Library /Preferences, where xxxxx is your Home directory, and (b) restart iFamily for Tiger and then (c) download V2.252.
