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Universal Binaries, Rosetta, Intel CPUs

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Apple has updated their pages concerning Universal Binaries, Rosetta, and Intel CPUs:

Apple’s Rosetta page
Apple’s Intel CPU page
Apple’s Universal Binary page

We also have a small page concerning Universal Binaries here. As of yet, few Mac genealogy applications are compiled as Universal Binaries (MacFamilyTree being one), as far as I know, most Mac genealogy developers are going to work on Intel-compatible/Universal Binary versions of their software, although with Rosetta, they have plenty of time. After all, even if a PowerPC-based application under OS X on Intel runs 25% slower than on a PowerPC-based Mac, considering the new iMac is twice as fast as the old, and the MacBook Pro is upto 4 times as fast…well I don’t think we need to worry about performance problems 🙂

First Look – Heredis Mac X.2 – Part I (Page 1)

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These are some thoughts I had after using Heredis Mac X.2 for an evening. One thing that has impressed me is the attention to detail that BSD Concept has put into this update. They’ve added features that many in the Mac community have asked for, and they’ve greatly improved the … Read more

November 11, 2005 Roundup

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This is a roundup of several utilities that have been updated over the past few days, that genealogists might be interested in

Mac Genealogy Software that Supports LDS Ordinances

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[wpfmb theme=2]FamilySearch.org maintains a listing of Mac genealogy applications and utilities that support downloading and uploading directly to FamilySearch.org. Apps listed on this page may only support the ordinance fields in a GEDCOM file, but may not actually interact with FamilySeach.org, although they can generate GEDCOM files that can be … Read more

Press Release for FTM II for Mac

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Another genealogist just emailed me the following press release from 1997, and I thought I’d post it since it’s kind of interesting for its historical value (and people may still be using FTM for Macintosh).