From the monthly archives:

May 2009

How Some People are Saving $30 on Parallels Desktop

The MacUpdate website is offering its latest bundle of Macintosh software at an incredible discount. Have a look at what’s offered. If you’re ready to buy any of the programs in the bundle, now is your chance to get them all for only $49.00. The the bundled applications of particular interest to MacGenealogists are Parallels [...]

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MacFamilyTree Updated to 5.5.3

Synium released an update to their Macintosh genealogy software MacFamilyTree. According to the software update dialog, version 5.5.3 includes the following changes:

New person merge functions to search for duplicates in your database
Search duplicates for either a single person or in your whole database
Improved GEDCOM merge when adding a GEDCOM file
Full Chinese localization added (Simplified Chinese)
Many [...]

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Little Known Way to Use Group Photos in Reunion 9

You’ve got some group photos of ancestors, right? Do you use Reunion 9 for Mac as your genealogy software? If so, I’ve got a tip you’ll love! You can quickly select a parts of a group photo to use as head shots for multiple ancestors without duplicating or changing the image file. Each person in [...]

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Parallels Desktop 4.0 Build 3844 Released

Parallels released a bugfix build for their Paralells Desktop 4.0 product.

Bugfixes and improvements in Parallels Desktop 4.0 Update (build 4.0.3844)
Improvements:

Improved 3D graphics in Windows virtual machines.
Problems with Palm synchronization in Windows virtual machines — fixed.
Random disconnection of USB 1.1 devices in Linux virtual machines — fixed.
Invisibility of the text mouse pointer [...]

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Who Else Wants More Convenient Reunion Videos?

Other MacGenealogists have begun snapping up the newly released MacGenealogist.com Screencast Video CD Volume 3.
I just bought the 2 CD’s, abandoning the idea that I could save money by just sifting through this website when I needed to learn something.  There is so much information that you are throwing out there that I had two [...]

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The Secret to Being Comfortable Using Imported Data in Reunion for Mac

One of the problems with importing data into a new family file in Reunion for Macintosh is that the customizations you’ve made to your family file aren’t present. Did you notice that or did it just feel weird, but you didn’t know why? Well, there’s a simple solution.
With Reunion you can create a copy of [...]

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