Mac OS X 10.6.5 Released

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.5 for Snow Leopard today. For a full list of fixes, updates, and additions, see the links below. Some of the Mac OS X 10.6.5 highlights * Addresses performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture. * Addresses stability and performance of graphics … Read more

Thoughts on “Back to Mac”

Earlier today I provied some live coverage of Back to Mac and now I want to mention a few things. I was curious to see if there would be an iWork update. There was not. Not too surprising. iLife ’11 – iPhoto ’11 This was the big thing to me … Read more

Apple’s Back to the Mac Event Today

Today, at 10 a.m. Pacific/Noon Central, Apple will be holding their “Back to the Mac” event. As you can see from the invite above, there is a Lion in the background. It’s pretty much a given that we’ll find out the details of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion today. I’ve … Read more

Apple’s September 1, 2010 Event, Plus Autocad

Apple has sent out an alert stating that they will be directly streaming tomorrow’s event live: Apple.com – PR 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 * … Read more

Software Deals at Amazon

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) $95 (normally $169.00) Comes with Mac OS X 10.6 … Read more

MacFamilyTree 5.7.6

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 … Read more