Family Search Indexing now on iOS devices
Monday, February 6, 2012 Filed in:Geneaolgy
There is a new application for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad for doing indexing for the Family Search, you can get this at Apple App Store for Free! Now you can do indexing work on the go instead being tied to your desktop. There is a Android and Window Phone Apps coming as well.
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Trouble with LG appliances?
Friday, February 3, 2012 Filed in:LG
Ok we love our new LG french door refridgerator. It now thaws the freezer section on a whim. Called LG for service since it under warranty, it takes a week for a repair person plus you have to call a third party for repair services what the heck is that about? We got service finally from 2 companies one guy shows up and asks me a question sat down and texted to his wife, and ordered a fan. The other company actually roll the referiderator out and looked at it and wants to replace one of the computer controlled sensors.. more to follow
Looking for a Genealogy App for your Mac, iPhone, iPod, iPad? I got some answers
Thursday, January 19, 2012 Filed in:Genealogy
Here are my recomendations base upon testing and usage:
iFamily is a great genealogy app for the MAC, it is easy to use and support importing of data via gedcom files up to version 5.5. iFamily for Leopard is a genealogy application for people who think differently. Whereas other genealogy software tends to emphasize the family unit, this software's focus is on each individual person. This distinction is subtle and is a feature of iFamily for Leopard. In iFamily for Leopard you can see at a glance whether an individual has more than 2 parents, more than 1 spouse or the number of siblings they had. Parent-child relationships may be natural (the default), step, adopted or foster relationships. Available for purchase since October 2006, iFamily has had more than 60 versions released, leading to a richly featured product that is stable and user friendly, utilized by a healthy community of users.
Pros: great support forum, customer focused. Cons: the original designer pasted way a couple of years back and updates are slow incoming, no iOS application.
Reunion is another really great app for the MAC, it is simple to use and has a Mac World Editor's Choice Award: Reunion is a genealogy software program — a "family tree program" — for the Macintosh. Reunion is also available as a companion product on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad. The current version of Reunion for Macintosh received the highest rating for genealogy software in MacWorld, MacAddict, and Mac Home Journal magazines. Reunion also received a MacWorld Editor's Choice award.
I bought this app becuase it was suppose to the be the best genaelogy app for the MAC, at the time it was now not so much.
Pros: Great user interface (UI) good documentation Cons: last udate was in 2010, iPad app cost 15.00 and you proably shell out 70.00 for the mac app that you must have in order to use the iOS apps.
Mac Family Tree is a very visual applcation for the MAC. I have been using this app since release 3 (now at release 6), the developers have made great strides in the user interface! The reports and charts are first class! Your family tree:
Easily enter and then visualize your family history. Be it creating reports, diagrams or browsing your data in the innovative 3D view called Virtual Tree - MacFamilyTree offers a solution for every task. Get an overview of where you hail from and maybe enthuse your relatives about exploring your family's past at your upcoming family reunion.
Pros: Great UI, activily being improved, very visual, resonable price for product and updates, iOS app 15.00, iOS app can import and export gedcom files. Cons: Issues with the current release importing and exporting gedcom files even from older releases, iOS app freezes up when using large family files (31 to 43 Mb), must have desk top version of software to sync data on the same WiFi network. Syncing of data takes forever on large files or just plain crashes both sides. Tech support is germany, slow responses at times. Web site is confusing since they have multiple products.
Just another Saturday...
Saturday, January 7, 2012 Filed in:Family
My day starts with having to pull out a seat belt buckle out of the Expedition that has exploded (broken somehow). Off to Ford of Kirkland parts department 95.00 later the part is on order. Check the air in Nikki's tires all of extermely low. Filled them all back to 37 lbs. cleaned the custom wheels for her as well. Get the mail and got mail for my neighbors, delivered it to them. Jason and Lindsey are downstairs work on her homework together... Read more
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