Are there any applications on the Mac OS X platform that were designed for compiling family tree information?

If not, any apps already on the Mac platform that are helpful to build a family tree? I’m thinking OmniGraffle on that one if nothing else already exists for family tree building.

Does anyone have recommendations on compiling this information? Applications to help compile and build this information? Sites that I must check out for info?

Any general suggestions are appreciated on this project as well…

Thanks!

Has anyone else been experiencing (more than normal) buggy behavior with QuickSilver B52 (3813) recently?

The two culprits which may be related to and/or may be causing this excessive buggy-ness may be either my recent installation of Leopard, or my recent installation of TextExpander…

By buggy behavior, let me give you a couple examples…recently the Quicksilver clipboard history has been popping up sparatically without being triggered…this happens regularly - like once every ten minutes or so, and needless to say, its been a brutal side-effect…  read more »

Enter the Octagon

Here’s an experimental new feature: The Throwdown. Take a problem that lots of people face and tell us your personal favorite way to deal with it — in as much detail and with as much persuasion as you can muster.

Today, a lot of us are living on two or more Macs — which is great, except for the challenge of keeping the contents and settings of multiple machines effortlessly in sync.

Now before you pop in, holler “dot mac,” and jump back on your Segway®, consider that many folks (including your author) are looking for a lot more than simple document syncing and perfunctory preference sharing. How about if your needs are more nuanced:  read more »

I’ve been setting up a backup regime similar to this one, involving nightly rsyncs to an external drive that is not coincidentally identical to the drive inside my iMac.

Anyway, I picked up a couple of WD2500JS drives (which System Profiler says is what is in my iMac) and a couple of super-cheap KingWin drive enclosures.

The problem I’m running into is that the external drive never goes to sleep (a really good way to wear out the backup drive before the primary one is to keep it spinning 24/7/365).  read more »

Not exactly OSX, but I thought some people here might enjoy this:

I found this Macintosh IIci at work. I read the wikipedia page on it, and it mentioned something about an Easter Egg:

"If the system date is set to September 20th, 1989 (the machine's release date) and the Command - Option - C - I buttons held during boot time, an image of the development team will be displayed."

I looked for images of this picture on the web, but couldn't find it. So, here it is!

Can anyone tell me who's who?  read more »

I am the IT administrator for a small business running on all Macs. We have grown large enough now that I require a help desk trouble ticketing system in order to stay organized. I would like to think that a 43folders forum would appreciate an all Mac environment, so I have come here for advice. Thanks to Merlin, I am also a big fan of GTD and it has helped me greatly to do my job so far. So my challenge to you is to recommend a help desk trouble ticketing system that is both Mac friendly and GTD’ish.

Thanks, Craig

For all those of you that would like their Intel Mac get fast to sleep ( as I did ) - Hibernate is for you.

Hibernate is a system preference pane that lets you decide which sleep state you prefer:

sleep
sleep&hibernate
hibernate

It’s free as I’ve written it to no longer get into the terminal to change it.

Have fun - Jolly aka Patrick

it’s on http://www.jinx.de/teclog/2007.09.17.hibernate-or-should-i-rename-my-bear.html