aug 142011
 

Ja ja, det sidste halve år har siden her været fuldstændig død. Jeg har brugt den smule tid jeg har haft online til at hjælpe med at redde det der engang var verdens bedste website fra lukning. Jeg håber inderligt at h2g2 snart vil blomstre igen. 🙂

Og selvfølgelig håber jeg det samme for “Lieberkind og alle de andre rødder“. Netop hjemvendt fra sommerferie har jeg i hvert fald omsider fået opdateret siden med sammenligninger af Slægtsforskningsprogrammer til Mac OS X, og vil igen begynde at skrive om programopdateringer og gode tilbud her på bloggen.

mft6Meget passende kan jeg begynde med et fint tilbud for dem der er hurtige: Resten af dagen – indtil kl. 6 mandag morgen dansk tid – kan MacFamilyTree købes til kun $24,49 på MacUpdate. De næste 14 dage kan programmet fås samme sted for $44,25.

I Australien fejrede de min fødselsdag forleden dag med at holde folketælling. Hvorfor ikke slutte dette indlæg med en af mine h2g2-venners kommentar til det?!

Consensus
Fra http://www.liffbyrob.com, benyttet med tilladelse

jan 292011
 

TNGversion 8.1.1 (2011-01-28)

  • Ahnentafel/Register: Some strings including special characters were being displayed incorrectly under UTF-8 (fixed).
  • Albums: When adding media to an album, the image thumbnail was displayed with a fixed, smaller size (fixed).
  • Albums: If more than one page of albums existed under Admin/Albums, subsequent pages were unreachable (fixed).
  • Citations: New citations could not be added on systems running the latest version of MySQL (fixed).
  • Diagnostics: The templateconfig.php file was in the list of files when the permissions were set incorrectly (fixed).
  • Help: The Help pages did not use the custom style sheet (fixed).
  • Import: Place names with apostrophes where being imported with slashes preceding each apostrophe (fixed; requires re-import).
  • Import: The import failed for users with the latest version of MySQL when a citation was encountered (fixed).
  • Import: The import was not importing latitude & longitude information in some cases (fixed).
  • Mail: The “envelope” feature added in 8.1.0 was preventing some systems froms ending mail, so it was revoked (you can get it back by setting $envelope = true near the top of globallib.php).
  • Media: The Admin/Media/Import tab will now be hidden except for administrators (full rights, no tree).
  • Pedigree: Thumbnails on the pedigree produced an invalid link wherever the “old” method default photos were used (fixed).
  • Relationship: An extra prefix message ($text[‘ggreat’]) was added to support languages in which “great” is different for aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces (vs. grandparents). This was supposed to be in 8.1.0 but was accidentally omitted.
  • Repositories: The ID column edit link was incorrect (fixed).
  • Search: The Metaphone feature did not include surname prefixes (fixed; requires re-import or re-save of individual records).
  • Setup: The Table Creation tab was unreachable (fixed).
  • Setup: The tables could not be created on systems running the latest version of MySQL (fixed).
  • Users: The default user notification message displayed the username in the wrong place (before “Hello”) in some cases (fixed).

http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php
http://familien.lieberkind.ch/wp/macsoftware/#tng

 TNG opdateret  29. januar 2011  Software Tagget med: ,  Ingen kommentarer »
jan 272011
 

familytreemakerversion 19.2.1.241 (2011-01-22)

Family Tree Maker fortæller ikke (så vidt jeg ved) om versionshistorie på deres webside, jeg har ikke selv programmet (og modtager derfor ingen meddelelser igennem det) og udgaven i Mac App Store er stadig den gamle – men ifølge MacGenealogy.org blev programmet for få dage siden opdateret fra version 19.2.0.202 til version 19.2.1.141 (mærkelige numre!)

  • Numerous stability fixes were made
  • Child sort order is shown correctly in reports
  • Added support for GEDCOM 5.5.1
  • Numerous other fixes and enhancements

http://www.familytreemaker.com/Pages/Overview/Mac/Overview.aspx
http://familien.lieberkind.ch/wp/macsoftware/#familytreemaker

jan 222011
 

mft6version 6.0.11 (2011-01-10)

Obs: Programmet er opdateret 10. januar, og det er den dato der står i versionshistorien. Det er dog først blevet frigivet i dag, den 22. januar.
Versionen i Mac App Store er stadig 6.0.10 – opdateringen skal jo først godkendes af Apple før den bliver frigivet her.
Nu også opdateret i Mac App Store.
26. januar: Samtidig med at jeg ser den næste opdatering til version 6.0.12, bemærker jeg at datoen for version 6.0.11 nu er rettet til 22. januar i versionshistorien.

  • Problems uploading to MacFamilyTree.com fixed
  • General Web Export fixes
  • Localization updates

http://www.syniumsoftware.com/macfamilytree/
http://familien.lieberkind.ch/wp/macsoftware/#macfamilytree

jan 062011
 

appleI dag åbnede Apples Mac App Store, hvis mening med deres egne ord er at gøre det “nemmere end nogensinde at få de programmer, du vil have på din Mac. Ikke flere æsker, ikke flere diske, ikke flere tidskrævende installeringer. Klik en gang for at hente og installere et nyt program på din Mac.” – og så selvfølgelig også at give dem mere kontrol og tjene flere penge.

For at bruge butikken skal din Mac opdateres til den nye version 10.6.6 af Snow Leopard-styresystemet.

I den amerikanske version af butikken kan man nu købe Family Tree Maker som download ($99,99*). Hidtil har programmet kun kunnet købes på cd. Foreløbig(?) fås programmet ikke i den danske butik.

Det gør til gengæld MacFamilyTree (MacStamtræ) som her i den første uge indtil den 13. 16. januar kan købes med 50% introduktionsrabat, dvs. til $24,99 eller 149 kroner.

* inkl. 6 måneders adgang til Ancestry.com.

Opdatering:
Perioden med introduktionsrabat på MacFamilyTree er blevet forlænget til 16. januar.

Iøvrigt er jeg – som jeg måske svagt antydede allerede – ikke den store fan af Mac App Store-ideen. Her er nogle få af grundene til det.

jan 052011
 

TNGversion 8.1.0 (2011-01-04)

  • Albums: Users who were assigned to a tree could not edit an album even if they had appropriate rights (fixed).
  • Events: Users with Editor rights were not able to delete custom events in some cases (fixed).
  • Export: Note lines that consist only of an ID (eg, “@NI123@”) will no longer be escaped with double at signs.
  • Export: The PHON, EMAIL and WWW values were being exported with the CTRY tag by mistake (fixed).
  • Export: Exported files will now end with a line ending character (after the TRLR marker).
  • General: The inclusion of the standard style sheets has been moved out of the meta and custom meta files.
  • Import: Longitude and latitude values can now be imported from a regular PLAC instance (eg, “2 PLAC…/3 MAP/4 LONG…/4 LATI…”).
  • Media: The Random Photo utility will now be able to display other media types (besides photos) by passing in the new type as a URL variable ($rp_mediatypeID).
  • Media: The Image Map feature was broken in v8 (fixed).
  • Notes: Long notes in the “general notes” sections on the individual page will now be shown with a scrollable area in the “Personal Information” block. The General Settings can be used to change this back to the way it was previously if desired.
  • Notes & Citations: These are now sortable (using drag and drop). Unfortunately the sorting does not survive if the data is re-imported.
  • Pedigree: The text-only chart had “holes” in the lines when the individuals on the chart had no vital information listed (fixed).
  • People: The preview window for individual data was not always displaying spouses in the correct order (fixed).
  • People: The parent-child relationship indicators will now use internal values, to allow them to be translated to other languages when displayed.
  • People: Modifiers (like “Aft” or “Bef”) in the “birth-death” dates under a person’s name at the top of the page were not working in any language besides English (fixed).
  • People: When children were listed on the Edit Person page, their birth dates were not displayed (fixed).
  • People: The “exact match” search in the Admin/People area was not working (fixed).
  • Relationship: An extra prefix message ($text[‘ggreat’]) was added to support languages in which “great” is different for aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces (vs. grandparents).
  • Relationship: If no relationships are found between person 1 and person 2, the two individuals will now be swapped and the process will be run again.
  • Relationship: If the relationship between two people passed through a family with only one spouse, no relationship was returned (fixed).
  • Repositories: The Edit link on the public repository page was broken (fixed).
  • Security: The “globalization” of all GET & POST variables has been moved to a new file called “processvars.php”, and that has been moved up so it gets called before the configuration files is read.
  • Templates: Templates may now be swapped without uploading any files or losing any customizations.
  • Users: A new user’s username & password were not being removed from the “approved” message if that was selected in the General Settings (fixed).

http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php
http://familien.lieberkind.ch/wp/macsoftware/#tng

 TNG opdateret  5. januar 2011  Software Tagget med: ,  Ingen kommentarer »
dec 092010
 

mft6MacUpdate – et af de bedste steder at finde Mac-software – har (som jeg tidligere har skrevet) hver dag tilbud på et program. Bortset fra at de et par gange om året i stedet bruger ca. to uger på at sælge en hel pakke af programmer til en særdeles fordelagtig pris.

MacUpdate December 2010 Bundle” som sælges for $49,99 de næste 14 dage, består af 10 glimrende programmer* – deriblandt MacFamilyTree som normalt alene koster $49.
Udover slægtsforskningprogrammet får man blandt andet den fremragende password-manager 1Password som burde være standard på enhver Mac og DEVONthink som bl.a. kan bruges som en scrapbog hvor man kan holde styr på alle former for dokumenter – alle tiders for en slægtsforsker!

Hele listen (med normalpriser):

* og hvis du er mellem de første 10.000 der køber, får du oven i købet et par ting mere med i pakken:

Opdatering:

  • WhatSize ($12,99) er tilføjet som en ekstra bonus.

http://www.mupromo.com/deal/1379/