Genealogy Software Tutorials for Mac & PC
This update of the Macintosh genealogy application from Synium lists the following changes:
- Bug fixes for the timeline
- Stability improvements
- Localization fixes for English and Swedish
Short, but sweet and the regular updates, especially fixes are appreciated.
There’s nothing in this one that a video walkthrough can demonstrate so I won’t be producing one.
Synium Software have released an update to their Mac genealogy software MacFamilyTree. This takes the version from 5.3.7 to 5.3.8.
According to the Software Update window the changes are:
- Date picker for date text fields
- Date format parsing improved
- Fixes for the Virtual Tree
- Search Pane can be opened with Command-F
- Database Maintenance fixes
- Other minor fixes
Here’s a video, Date Picker in Macintosh Genealogy Software MacFamilyTree, demonstrating the new date picker feature.
I have corrected the problem that was causing the Speed Names video to load slowly. As a result the link in the email won’t work anymore. The links in the previous article have been updated too, so they will work.
Thanks to everyone who notified me of the trouble. I apologize for the inconvenience.
I can hardly believe I forgot to mention one big change when I wrote about the improvements in the upcoming screencast CD volume 2:
I’m so confident that you will prefer having my videos on CD that I guarantee it! The fulfillment company offers a 30 day refund. Return it to them within the first 30 days for a refund. I’ll do even better: If at anytime after the first 30 days you decide that you don’t love the CD, send it to me with a copy of your receipt and I’ll refund your purchase price.
This guarantee is good on the first CD too! So if you haven’t got one, buy one now!
The computer virtualization software, Parallels Desktop, that many Macintosh loving genealogists use to run Windows genealogy applications has been updated. The new release includes several improvements. The information provided during the upgrade describes the following changes:
What’s new in Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac Update (build 4.0.3810)
- DirectX 9.0 with Shaders Model 2 support
- Windows 7 inside the virtual machine (experimental)
- Apple remote disk support
- Silent start in Coherence
- Possibility to drag Windows files to Mac applications in the Dock
- Possibility to remove a virtual machine from the list with a context menu option
- Possibility to specify CPU and memory options in the New Virtual Machine assistant
- Possibility to suspend Boot Camp virtual machines with the help of the “disp.allow_to_suspend_bootcamp_vm=1;” system flag
- Snow Leopard as a primary operating system (experimental)
- Snow Leopard as a guest operating system (experimental)
- Customer Experience Program
- SSE4 support (better performance for media applications)
Potentially the most interesting to MacGenealogists is the new capability to drag windows files to Mac applications in the dock.
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