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The Lighter Side / Re: New Genealogy tv programme - The Generation Frame
« on: Wednesday 17 July 19 01:51 BST (UK)  »
Not available in Australia on iPlayer... but it will probably make it....eventually.

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No Mac version yet then? Mac users are actually quite thick on the ground if quiet some times. :)

Jude

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England / What's in a name
« on: Friday 20 January 06 11:04 GMT (UK)  »
Following this BBC story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm
I visited http://www.spatial-literacy.org/ to look up my Goldfinch name --  it came up with mainly SE England on location maps -- around Canterbury and Ramsgate according to their database.  Servers are a bit busy -- but interesting even if you have to wait a bit.
.....Jude

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I have been using Reunion http://www.leisterpro.com/which I quite like - though I have got quite cross they don't supply an upgrade to local agents in Australia after 6 months -- so its a matter of sending money off the US -  I'm one of those not willing to put plastic on the net.
If you're in freebie mode .....PhpGedView is a freebie of course - though there is a little fiddling to get it running on your Mac HD as regular genealogy program - you have to switch web sharing on as though you were running a server
Looks like you have to buy GeditCom .....http://www.geditcom.com/

Jude

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My Mac group has been running workshops on phpGedView -- jointly using it as a genealogy program on our HDs and using it to manage files up on the web. I'm getting there. I've put a file up on rootschat.net but having difficulty turning the MySQL bit on. But I'll get there.  http://www.phpgedview.net

The question of the longevity of protection of  genealogy files has surfaced many times in discussions at my Mac User group.  Everyone seems to go the way of printing hard copy as well as saving to CD/DVD. Also the people who have been researching the longest take extra precautions like keeping a copy at their bank, parking copies for safe keeping with other relatives, one chap keeps a copy in a big  safe at his work premises.  One person had a relative minding a copy and their house burnt down. It boils down to planning I guess and trying to forsee all catastrophies.

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Technical Help / Re: saving animated pics.
« on: Thursday 29 September 05 10:22 BST (UK)  »

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Database error came up on that link --
says -
Database Error
Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator.

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Using photos on the web you need to optimize them - people get impatient with waiting for things to load.
I like these two web Photo gallery programs - I have used both successfully.
Galerie (Mac)
http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
and JAlbum  -
http://jalbum.net/

Jude

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Technical Help / Re: saving animated pics.
« on: Thursday 29 September 05 07:37 BST (UK)  »
Gif animations are associated with html pages - some email programs will handle html email - but to some people they are a nuisance and I know they get stripped out of hotmail for instance.  They may even make your emails bounce back from some firewalls as suspect.
If you have Netscape -- open Composer - pop the gif on to a page Composer and view in Netscape --  that and you can view it anytime.



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