Coverage of Apple’s iPhone – iOS Event – September 10, 2013

Cross-posting this from MacGenealogy.org (the event starts at 12pm Central, 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific): MacRumors has a great list of websites covering today’s Apple iPhone/iOS event. AppleInsider is also live blogging it. You can follow the MacRumorsLive Twitter as well as these sites: All Things D Arstechnica CNET Engadget Loop … Read more

GoodReader for iPad 3.18.0

GoodReader for iPad 3.18.0 has been released, and the main improvements focus on handling files over a network, including shared files from PCs/Windows-based computers. The Dropbox support has received a large update – there is no size limit of files that can be uploaded through Dropbox.

GoodReader is an Adobe Acrobat/PDF reader for the iPad, but it does quite a bit more than that, as it can handle TXT and images as well as various word processing formats (possibly even audio/video, but I’ve never tested that aspect). It’s one of my top-5 non-genealogy specific apps on my iPad as I have a lot of genealogy-related PDF files that I’ve accumulated over the years, and it’s very easy to keep them organized, and it doesn’t choke, even on the larger ones.

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ohmiGene for iPad – Free

ohmiGene for iPad 1.0.1 is currently free. Normally it is $14.99 (US). It’s a genealogy application, and can be used to work with the Mac OS X version of ohmiGene Plus from within iTunes. I’m not sure whether it imports from other applications/GEDCOM files – I have it installed and … Read more

Heredis for iOS – Looking for Beta Testers

In addition to a brand-new version of Heredis for Mac (Mac Genealogy Software), Heredis is also developing a mobile/iOS version, running on iPhones and iPads. They are looking for beta testers, according to their latest newsletter (French): Heredis calls for volunteers to test versions of iPhone and iPad…. What? That’s … Read more

MobileFamilyTree Pro 1.1.5

It’s been just over a month since MobileFamilyTree Pro 1.1.4 was released, and earlier today, MobileFamilyTree 1.1.5 was made available through Apple’s App Store by Synium Software. While MobileFamilyTree Pro is made by the same makers of MacFamilyTree and does sync wirelessly (quite easily I might add) with MacFamilyTree, it … Read more