It’s almost hard to categorize this free Mac OS X utility, but here goes: Meander is a way to measure things on your screen, using a piece of digital string. Shiela Dixon’s (the developer) description: How long is a piece of string? As long as you can see it on your screen, you can now find out! Meander is a little application which can measure routes, or shapes, or anything which you can see on your screen.
The major change in version 0.5: Scale can now be measured at any angle, so calibration can be made from a vertical scale, or any known distance between two points.
It’s a neat little application if you have messed around with trying to gauge distance on your display.
ohmiGene 0.92 has just been released. ohmiGene is a genealogy application for Mac OS X. ohmiGene is geared towards working with importing and exporting standard GEDCOM files. It can be downloaded here. This release adds the printing of individual cards, and expands on the new 7-Generation tree introduced earlier this week, in regards to navigating up or down the tree, with the display of children or grandchildren of an individual.
Changes:
ohmiGene 0.91.9 is now available. ohmiGene is a genealogy application for Mac OS X. ohmiGene is geared towards working with importing and exporting standard GEDCOM files. The latest update can be downloaded here. This release adds two new features and improves the display of “enormous” genealogy files.
Version 2.0.3 and 2.0.4 of Genealogy Pro for Mac OS X has been released. It’s a commercial genealogy application (a free demo is available), and requires Mac OS X 10.2.8. These are basically maintenance releases (2.0.2 was released as well recently) and are recommended for all users.
Version 2.0.4 Changes Since 2.0.3
* Fixes a problem where the first middle name may not be saved when editing a persons name.
* Ensures that new files have the proper extension when created
Version 2.0.3 Changes Since 2.0.2
Sandy Knoll Software’s Metes and Bounds 1.4.1 is now available. Metes and Bounds is a Mac OS X land mapping or plotting applications that turns metes and bounds data into a plot map. Genealogists might be able to us it for plotting cemeteries, homesteads, other locations or items of geographical interest, etc. Version 1.4.0 was released in January and for some reason we missed it.
Changes in 1.4.1:
* Added the decimal angle to degree converter.
* Improved manual data entry.
* New help system.
Changes in 1.4.0:
The developers at RedleX have sent out word that Mellel word processor will soon be a Universal Binary.
As always you can check the list at guide.apple.com/universal for a full listing of Universal Binaries – as of today, the list is over 1100 applications. Of course iWork ’06 from Apple is already a Universal Binary, and Nisus Writer Express is as well.
Rumors are (and they are probably fairly accurate) that Apple will have Intel machines across their full desktop and notebook lineup by August of 2006.