http://www.randomgenealogy.com Collecting random bits of genealogy news. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:43:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-office-2007-try-it-out/ http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-office-2007-try-it-out/#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 13:35:23 +0000 George Lewis http://www.randomgenealogy.com/?p=613 www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx It's got a radical new interface, and quite a few other things have changed. It runs okay if you are using it under a Mac setup with Parallels Desktop for Mac. It expires on February 1st, 2007. Keep in mind, it's highly recommended you don't use this for "production" work, i.e., don't install over your old Office, and don't load and save documents you have created with older versions of Office without first backing all of them up. That said, it's interesting to see where they are going with this - obviously they are going after more online-collaboration and business, but still, it's interesting to look at it. Personally, it doesn't offer me anything that I absolutely need - I've been using other word processors for my normal word processing, and for publishing newsletters, etc., I've been using Apple's Pages, but I do like to check things out. If you don't want to go through with downloading it or ordering it by mail, you can read eWeek's review of it.]]> http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/24/microsoft-office-2007-try-it-out/feed/ 0 http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/18/clooz-20-is-out/ http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/18/clooz-20-is-out/#comments Thu, 18 May 2006 14:04:04 +0000 George Lewis http://www.randomgenealogy.com/?p=608 Clooz, has left it's 2.0 beta testing and has now been formally released. The author refers to it as an "electronic filing cabinet " for genealogy documents and files, and that's pretty much an apt description. The 2.0 series had a complete rewrite - in ".Net", meaning it requires Windows XP unfortunately. Among the significant updates - new templates, census substitutions (for those times you can't find somebody in the census, this is a good way to document where they were around then), and map tracking/information/storage, and most importantly, GEDCOM importing. One thing I thought was pretty cool, they've added what is basically a building history area to track buildings and land that were important to your ancestors - I've mentioned before that people are starting to get into doing research on places and structures.]]> http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/18/clooz-20-is-out/feed/ 0 http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/17/apples-macbook/ http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/17/apples-macbook/#comments Wed, 17 May 2006 14:17:56 +0000 George Lewis http://www.randomgenealogy.com/?p=607 Apple's MacBook. I have one in my hands (and am in fact typing this from it). I got one of the last half dozen in the store, I believe. This is sort of a review. I know, you are thinking what does this have to do with genealogy, but this is going to be my genealogy platform of choice for the next few (hopfeully several) years, and I'll explain why in a moment (if you are interested in Macs, but have some Windows-only applications, read on, you're in luck).]]> http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/17/apples-macbook/feed/ 1 http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/16/google-notebok-is-here/ http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/16/google-notebok-is-here/#comments Tue, 16 May 2006 16:33:10 +0000 George Lewis http://www.randomgenealogy.com/?p=606 www.google.com/notebook.]]> http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/16/google-notebok-is-here/feed/ 0 http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/15/google-notebook/ http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/15/google-notebook/#comments Mon, 15 May 2006 12:25:15 +0000 George Lewis http://www.randomgenealogy.com/?p=603 Yahoo! Notepad to store genealogy information online or when traveling, Google announced last week something similar, although with a few more features. It's called Google Notebook, and CNet explained that it can do quite a bit more - including grabbing text and pictures, as well as going full screen, with drag and drop item placement/organization, as well as emailng the information to others. It does require a Google account and will be available sometime this week through Google Labs.]]> http://www.randomgenealogy.com/2006/05/15/google-notebook/feed/ 0