Site News, Forums

I just discovered that our spam filter on our contact form worked a little too well. A lot of email was classified as spam, that shouldn’t have been. I’m working my way through the email manually and answering questions as fast as I can (I think I’m up to the beginning of June and have several months’ worth!).

I’d like to suggest that in the future, the best way to get a lot of questions answered about Mac genealogy software, and/or migrating to Macs is to register an account in the forums and post a question:

http://www.macgenealogy.org/forums/

That way it can be seen by more people, who can perhaps answer your questions better than I can, especially when it comes to Temple Ready, migrating from Windows, etc. Your email is hidden, and you are basically anonymous on there, in case you are worried about anything.

We are also finally working on two software areas that are interesting: Mapping software and notebook software. In the next few weeks we should be adding a lot of information about both.

Thanks,

- JD

MacGenealogy.org - Forums

We’ve just overhauled the MacGenealogy.org Forums, with upgraded software and better organization. It should be a lot faster, easier to search, etc. In the process, we deleted users that met certain criteria (logged on once six months ago, etc.) , so if your account does not work, simply create a new one. Some of you were having problems with your passwords - try again and if you cannot access your account through the forums after this, contact us and we’ll fix it right away. We have some work to do on the theme, but for now we wanted to get it cleaned up and get outstanding problems addressed.

We’ve added some new areas:
- Windows “Switchers” - Discussion for Windows users having problems migrating to Mac OS X, solutions, including virtualization (running Windows under Mac OS X, or Boot Camp), etc.
- Data management - there are several data management tools for Mac OS X, that don’t exactly fall into a genealogy application category, however they are useful for cataloging the documents, etc., we have.
- Hardware - discussion of hardware that genealogists use - Macs, printers, scanners, etc.
- Presentation and multimedia - photo editing, scanning, slideshows, etc.

Other features:
- Notifications - you can now easily have a notice sent to your email when a topic you created, replied to, or marked to Notify you, has responses.

Dealing with Spam
- We have active moderators and we have new safeguards in place
- If you find spam, you can click “Report to moderator” and two of us will get an email immediately with a link to the post.

Under consideration:
- seperate language discussions sub-forums (German, Spanish, etc.)
- Additional software-specific forums
- “Digest” mode where you can be sent an email summary of the week’s posts.

Thanks

Site Update - February 27, 2007

It’s taken longer than we expected to get everything into place for the new design/update, but we are on the home stretch. There will be some downtime today and tomorrow while we switch over.

MacGenealogy.Org - Massive Update/Upgrade

Over the weekend of February 16 - 18, 2007, MacGenealogy.org will receive a massive upgrade of applications, as well as design/layout.

There will be short outages as some work is done on the software that runes the site as well. Spam will be cleaned up.

Lots of cool things are coming, more on this later.

MacGenealogy.org is back

Site News - May 2006

News has been slow, I’m keeping the software information updated, but over the next few days I’ll be changing servers and looking at a slight format change to add more relevant information (not just genealogy software but software that would help in genealogy research).

As a result, it will be quiet for the next several days.

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