Somebody asked me about whether I encrypt any of my external drives. The answer is yes – Mac OS X 10.7 Lion added the ability with FileVault 2 to encrypt an entire hard drive with XTS-AES 128 encryption (which is about as good as you can get while still making … Read more
MacFamilyTree has been updated to version 6.2.6 by Synium Software. MacFamilyTree is a Mac OS X genealogy application that has a companion iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch) app. Release 6.2.6 is a bug fix version – it deals with problems some were having with saving databases and a few other things. Updates … Read more
An update to MacFamilyTree, MacFamilyTree 6.2.5, has been released by Synium Software. It’s highly recommended for existing users – GEDCOM importing and exporting has been improved, syncing issues with MobileFamilyTree Pro, memory usage, and some minor user interface (UI) improvements. There is a release of MobileFamilyTree Pro, also developed by … Read more
This marks the start of a weekly series, not always on the same day, where I’m going to cover software updates that maybe of interest to Mac-using genealogists. VueScan 9.0.80 was released today. It’s scanning software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, and has been my preferred scanning software … Read more
Apple has announced Mac OS X 10.8, aka Mac OS X Mountain Lion today, or rather the developer preview of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, which is the ninth major release of Mac OS X (don’t forget Mac OS X 10.0! – I know we try to forget Mac OS … Read more
It may seem odd that I mention this first, but I want to get this out of the way. Messages Beta is the first application released to the general public from Apple’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Messages replaces iChat, but retains iChat’s services/information. More importantly, it unifies instant … Read more