Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter has a good article on preserving your genealogy data.
“Genealogists have long relied on paper for storing their genealogy publications. While useful, paper does not last forever. Even the best acid-free paper will deteriorate someday. Even worse, today’s printer inks and laser toners used to print on that paper will disappear many [...]

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Find yourself at a genealogy website that only accepts Windows “Internet Explorer? eFritz.net has a simple trick to enable the “debug” menu in Safari, which lets you select the user agent - i.e., you can select “Windows Internet Explorer” and any site you browse after that will think your using Windows Internet Explorer (until [...]

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BookAssembler 2.0.1 -
BookAssembler, a control center for your publishing workflow. Based on an intuitive yet powerful digital layout planning module, BookAssembler works as a central control center to seamlessly integrate the complete publishing workflow process from flat planning, real-time production monitoring, imposition printing and Web publishing.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.2+

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If your looking for large collections of high-resolution antique maps, books, documents and similiar items, check out YourMapsOnline.org.uk. and YourOldBooksAndMaps.co.uk.
They have Mac friendly versions of all of their CDs (the materials come in standard Adobe Acrobat (PDF) and graphic formats).
Although it’s mostly oriented towards the UK, they do have materials from [...]

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Two good articles/book excerpts on backups under Mac OS X are available at MacWorld: Part One and Part Two
Very relevant to genealogists, as more and more data we collect is computer-based.

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