Month: January 2015

OS X Yosemite 10.10.2, New Features for Photos for iCloud Beta

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iCloud First off, AppleInsider has a few new details about the current Photos for OS X beta. Manual image zoom controls have been added to iCloud.com, as well as email sharing. Photos for OS X will launch sometime later this year, and will bring iPhoto and Aperture together, along with full iCloud integration.

Next, OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 has been released, with quite a few fixes and some updates/new features. iCloud Drive can now be browsed from within Time Machine, which could mean that you can go back and look at previous file versions stored in iCloud.

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Dropbox Dropping Support for OS X 10.4 – 10.5

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Dropbox This is kind of a Big Deal for Mac users who are using older Macs running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard), particularly those who are still using PowerPC-based Macs.

As of May 18, 2015, Dropbox will end support for both OS X 10.4 and 10.5. What this means is that users of those OS X versions will not be able to use the desktop application on those Macs.

NOTE: You will still be able to use the Dropbox website to upload/download files, and will still be able to use your iPhone/etc. clients, and other compatible devices/computers.

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Family Tree Builder 7.0 for Mac

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Family Tree Builder for MacFamily tree Builder 7.0 for Mac was made available last week. You can read the announcement here, and I’ll be doing an in-depth look at it later this week.

It’s exciting news, as many people use MyHeritage.com. It does Sync with MyHeritage, and has all of the normal features that Windows users of MyHeritage.com have in Family Tree Builder, with a few exceptions: maps, note formatting, book reports (offline), and right-to-left languages. These are most likely due to compatibility issues with the underlying Windows system files (see my notes below).

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MacGenealogy.org is Back

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I’ve said it before, but it’s happening, the site is about to undergo a major redesign over the next few days, and all information will be updated and better organized, along with quite a few new features to be added. 2015 is going to be a great year for those … Read more

Jan 21, 2015 Updates: LastPass for Mac, CrashPlan, iPhoto Library Manager

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LastPass iPhoto Library CrashPlan Three interesting updates/releases for Mac users – LastPass, the password manager, has finally been released for OS X users, and iPhoto Library Manager 4.1.11 and CrashPlan 3.7 (a cross-platform online/cloud backup service) have been released.

CrashPlan now has better support for OS X 10.10 Yosemite, but the big news is that LastPass, a popular cross-platform/cross-application password manager is now officially available for Mac users.

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MacUser Magazine Closing After 30 Years

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MacUser Magazine MacUser magazine will be shutting down as the February 2015 issue is released. It was started in the UK in 1985 by Felix Dennis (who passed away last year), and was a magazine that I enjoyed, at least the UK version, as it had quite a few articles about using Photoshop, retouching photos, etc.

If you’ve seen the mouse-style ratings used in Macworld, well those were licensed from MacUser.

If you are wondering about whether this is the same as the US version of MacUser, it’s not – that publication ceased in 1997 (after a 12-year run), and was merged with Macworld.

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