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iRemember 2.5 has been released.

Changes:

• Snow Leopard - Compatible with Mac OS X v10.6.
• Edit Content Mode - Double click a shape to directly rotate, scale and postion images quickly.
• Direct Rotation - Quickly rotate shapes without using the Inspector.
• Group/Ungroup - Combine multiple shapes for easier editing.
• Right Triangle - The right shape makes corners a snap.
• PDF Export - Built-in conversion to PDF saves a trip to the Print dialog.
• Shadow Color - Your shapes can cast shadows in any color.
• Resolution Quality - Insures high quality by providing the DPI readout during image scaling.
• Zoom To Fit - Quickly resize the page to fit your screen.
• Goto Page - Fast navigation of large scrapbook files.

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iScrapbook 2.1.0 has been released.

Changes:

• Now fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
• If a bezier shape is left open, it can be double-clicked in order to continue adding control points (ie. to close the shape).
• If a bezier shape is being edited and the delete key is pressed, the last segment of the line is removed.
• Individual control points in a bezier shape can now be selected and deleted or moved using the arrow keys.
• When a page is being dragged to a new position in the page table, the table scrolls much slower making it much easier to reorganize pages.
• The Smart Inspector window now dynamically repositions itself as the main window is moved.

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Geophoto 2.4 has been released.

Changes:

• Added support for copying and pasting coordinates.
• Geophoto is now more liberal when parsing typed or pasted coordinates: it will accept coordinates in DM (decimal minutes) format, and a leading +/- sign instead of a trailing cardinal direction marker (N/S or E/W).
• Faster geotagging (in particular, faster batch geotagging) of non-JPEG formats like TIFF and most TIFF-based RAW image formats, thanks to a new version of the exiv2 library.
• Fixed a long-standing issue with some TIFF-based raw image formats, like Nikon .nef, where the slide show would display a pixelated, low-resolution thumbnail, rather than the original image in its fully glory.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements.

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iScrapbook 2.0.1 has been released.

Changes:

• Added a button to the Preferences dialog for re-enabling all informational dialogs and warnings.
• Fixed issue where printed/exported pages used the IMAGE quality setting rather than the PRINT quality setting (which can be changed in the Preferences dialog).
• Fixed issue where a document couldn't be opened by double-clicking the file or choosing it from the Recent Items menu.
• Fixed issue where the Save command couldn't be used to save a new document when it hadn't been modified.
• When images are dragged from the iScrapKit browser, they now appear directly under the mouse pointer when dropped (previously, they could be offset from the mouse position).

Heritage Collector Suite 5.1 has been released.

Changes:

• Create and share PDFs. Select from several image and information options.
• Use the duplicate search tool to find and remove duplicate images to save hard drive space.
• Batch convert and enhance old negative images to positives.
• Share images and collections via e-mail.
• Enlarge or zoom in on an image using the mouse wheel.
• Drag and drop photos and images into collections.
• Use the e-mail request system to receive files from others using Heritage Collector.
• Batch assign information to a group of photos or records.
• New photo enhancement tools.
• Add frames and borders to photos.
• More image conversion options and tools.
• Crop and export to print option.
• Batch resize image size and format.
• Expanded and simplified search options.
• Enhanced advanced slide show options – music, narration, special effects.
• More options to create personalized jewel case inserts for CD/DVD cases.
• Capture image / frame from DVDs and movies.
• Capture slideshows and create TV/DVDs with included software.
• Audacity sound editing software included. Capture sound from old cassettes.
• International date format options.
• Create additional family or individual databases.
• Revised 200 page Digital Family History Guidebook in PDF.
• New “How To” tutorial movies make it easy to learn and use the software.
• Revised and expanded full color manual with screen captures. No computer jargon.
• Updated and expanded Help resources.

FotoTagger 2.11 has been released.

Changes:

• Organize images into user-defined albums.
• Adding image to album is easy: just select one or many desired images and choose Add to Current Album or Add to Album from the context menu.
• Move and publish albums almost instantly from Albums tab in Organize mode.

FotoTagger 2.10 has been released.

Changes:

• FotoTagger can now display your tags in a form of balloons.

Geophoto 2.0 has been released.

Changes:

• Map for street-level positioning of photos.
• Ability to match photos to track logs from GPS devices.
• Ability to save coordinates into Camera RAW files.
• Better integration with Flickr through the My Flickr Photos shortcut.

MemoryMiner 1.85 has been released.

New features:

• Keyword Mappings: both the People and Place editors let you specify a keyword, which, if found either embedded in the image file, or in an iPhoto data record, will cause the appropriate person or place to be associated with the newly imported photo.
• Remove People/Place Context Menu: A new context menu now appears in the Contact Sheet views of both the People and Place editors. This makes it easy to remove a person or a place from a selection of photos.

Enhancements:

• Google Maps Address Lookup: Google Maps address lookup will fail silently if the address being looked up contains “control” characters such as the return character. Such characters are now removed. This can happen with addresses imported from Address Book that have multi-line addresses.
• UTF-8 Encoded GEDCOM Files: GEDCOM files saved with UTF-8 text encoding, such as those created by Reunion, are now supported.

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Added consistent keyboard shortcuts for Select All (cmd-a) and Select None (cmd-d) for all 3 Contact Sheet views.
• Added Japanese Help System: The local HTML help system has now been translated into Japanese.
• Auto Life Period Icon Creation: When edting a selection marker on a photo, MemoryMiner looks to see if can create a icon representing the person in question, either “globally” or for the appropriate life period based on the photos’s date and the person’s birth date. When an “unspecified” marker (such as is created when dragging a person onto a seleciton of photos in the contact sheet) the attempt to create a life period icon is deferred until the marker is actually resized. The same applies when dropping a person onto a photo that’s being annotated. The reason for doing this is to help automatically create the best possible icon for a person when one does not already exist.
• Annotation Web Service: A check is now made for requests whose portfolios are deleted on the server when performing a Status Update. In such cases, the local XML record about a remote request is now automatically deleted.

Bug Fixes:

• Conversion of non-JPEG files in Flickr Upload: Image files such as TIFF which have resolution tags > 72 DPI were not being converted to JPEG at ther full “natural size” before being uploaded. This has been fixed.
• Localization Improvements: Numerous typographical and other corrections were made in the various localizations, partiuclarly the German, Japanese and Chinese.
• Refresh after loading KML files: After importing places from a Google KML file, the Places table was not being reloaded. Now it is.
• Streamlined .Mac Upload configuraiton: When selecting .Mac as the host for HTML export, a bug with the testing phase that would sometimes cause “false failures” has been fixed.
• Annotation Web Service Update: Fixed an XML date/time conversion bug affecting the date when an annotation was last made using the web annnotation service.
• Mac/Windows Library Exchange: Fixed problems with selection marker and life period icons not being properly exchanged when moving a library archive file (.mlz) between the Mac and Windows versions of MemoryMiner.

iScrapbook 1.6.0 has been released.

Changes:

• Added some Curved Text controls to the inspector window. Curved text can now be set to: Circular or Spiral. The spiral “rate” can be adjusted from “Slow” to “Fast”. Spiral text works best with larger text boxes.
• Added stepper buttons next to the font size field in the inspector window. This makes it much easier to resize text.
• iScrapbook can now read “Template Libraries” which contain multiple page/album templates. Previously, each template had to be added separately.

Fixes:

• Previously, when an album template was added to the software, the page size wasn’t read correctly which resulted in the template being placed in the wrong folder — fixed.
• Fixed a problem with the included “Suede” templates (the picture frames & text were incorrectly placed on the background layer).
• Fixed a crash that would occur when printing documents with images whose settings (hue, saturation, image effects, etc.) had been changed. This only occurred under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
• Fixed a crash that occurred when printing a document with a large background image (where the background image resolution exceeded the Print Quality preference).