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OS X Mountain Lion – Improved Scanning and Printing

Chad — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:36:33 +0000

Last week, Apple released details of OS X Mountain Lion, notice they dropped the “Mac” from the title, that was probably deliberate. Most of us will still call it Mac OS X 10.8. Anyways, while I know I will be … Continue reading →

MacFamilyTree 6.2.5

Chad — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:45:46 +0000

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. … Continue reading →

Related Software Updates – Feb 16, 2012 Edition

Chad — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:11:39 +0000

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, … Continue reading →

Apple Announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Chad — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:17:39 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

Apple Releases Messages Beta from Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Chad — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:28:33 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

GenSmarts for Mac OS X – We Need This

Chad — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:32:27 +0000

Back in December, a call for beta testers was posted on the GenSmarts website. For those of you who have come over from the world of Windows-based genealogy, you may be familiar with GenMarts. If you’ve been a Mac genealogist … Continue reading →

Video – Content Aware features of Photoshop CS6

Chad — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:49:01 +0000

Photoshop has been releasing videos on YouTube of “sneak peeks” concerning Adobe PhotoShop CS6, Adobe’s upcoming Photoshop release. While it’s interesting that they all seem to be using Photoshop CS6 running on Mac OS X, this video in particular is … Continue reading →

Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 – Amazon UK, Plus a Tutorial for Adding Names

Chad — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:55:17 +0000

Last week, Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 showed up on the Amazon UK website. Here in the US, it’s from Nova Development and supported through Ancestry.com. In the United Kingdom, it’s from Avanquest Software and supported through Ancestry.co.uk. Link: … Continue reading →

Death Dates in Reunion 9′s Index (Genealogy Tools)

Chad — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:29:48 +0000

Yesterday, Ben Sayer over at Genealogy Tools published a tutorial on adding and working with death dates in Reunion 9 (Mac OS X genealogy software), and using that information in Reunion’s index report. Specifically it covers using the information when … Continue reading →

Another quick note about site work (Feb 9, 2012)

Chad — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:19:06 +0000

I’ve finished quite a few things over the past two days, with two major things left. Later this evening or early tomorrow morning, there will be discussion forums opened up here on MacGenealogy.org. The other thing is updating a lot … Continue reading →

Metes and Bounds 3.8.0

Chad — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:13:01 +0000

Metes and Bounds 3.8.0 has been released by Sandy Knoll Software. It’s a fairly significant release – several new additions to the software. Metes and Bounds is a cross-platform application (Mac, Windows, Linux) that allows you to take raw data … Continue reading →

GEDitCOM II 1.7

Chad — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:23:06 +0000

GEDitCOM II 1.7 has been released, and like GEDitCOM II 1.6, it is a very massive update. GEDitCOM II is a commercial Mac OS X genealogy application that allows you to customize the application itself. The trial version can be … Continue reading →

Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard Users – Beware of Update

Chad — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:07:16 +0000

If you are a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard user and applied Apple’s update last week, Security Update 2012-001, and you are running applications under Rosetta that were written for the PowerPC architecture that used to power Apple’s laptops … Continue reading →

Site Update – February 2012

Chad — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:14:31 +0000

There will be a small bit of downtime over the next week as I do some upgrades to the website, as well as some design changes and updates. I’ll be taking care of outdated information and broken links as well. … Continue reading →

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 Released

Chad — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:02:12 +0000

Apple has released Mac OS X 10.7.3. You can update through the normal Software Update function of Mac OS X, or manually through the link below. Apple’s Safari 5.1.3 is also included in the update. At this time Mac OS … Continue reading →