Transcriva 1.0, from Bartas Technologies recently came out. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, it’s a new audio transcription program for Mac OS X 10.3 or later. More than a few genealogists do interviews with family members and the like, while making audio recordings of them, and this allows you to easily produce an accurate transcript (including RTF).

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Sandy Knoll Software’s Metes and Bounds 1.3 for Mac OS X 10.1.5+, is now available. Metes and Bounds is basically a land mapping applications that turns metes and bounds data into a plot map. Genealogists might be able to us it for plotting cemeteries, homesteads, etc.

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Mellel 2.0, the word processor from RedleX, has been released. Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing. A lot of genealogists use it because of the above advertised features -if you’re writing formal genealogy documents/books, the formatting, footnote/endnote, citation, and layout features are a big plus. Version 2.0 is a major update, and requires Mac OS X 10.2.

The Mellel Spotlight Plugin is just that - a plugin for Mac OS X 10.4’s Spotlight, that makes Mellel documents searchable.

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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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SlipBox 0.5.1 is now available. It does interface with BibDesk, an application we’ve mentioned in the past (bibliography manager).

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