![]() ![]() Of more interest is a brand new view: Virtual Globe. It certainly looks better, but still feels gimmicky with questionable benefit. The program also overhauls its 3D Virtual Tree view, rewriting it from scratch with the promise of better performance and reliability to go with the added ability to display more complex trees. Other improvements – such as better source management and a new global search and replace tool – are less controversial and more welcome. The Edit Person section – introduced in version 6 – gets a more radical overhaul with a new notebook-like view that makes navigation between generations simpler, but which loses out in the amount of detail on show. It’s a subtle change, but welcome, as is the tweaked Interactive Tree view, with the tree split by generation and the name list on the right more logically arranged by surname. MacFamilyTree 7 opens with a slight design refresh, with the left-hand sidebar now divided into four vertical colour-coded tabs. It’s always proved in turn both rewarding and frustrating to use, and version 7 continues in that vein, introducing some new and interesting features that don’t quite hit the heights of excellence in their execution. MacFamilyTree has had its feathers ruffled of late with the emergence of Family Tree Maker for Mac in particular shaking up the Mac family history market. Old black-and-white photos can be colored in the program or hard-to-read fonts in documents can be sharpened to make them easier to decipher.As originally published in MacFormat issue 264: “We also use the latest technology for various functions,” explains Günther. The program saves the data of your own family research and can display the information in pedigree charts, reports or charts. ![]() Synium took over the software in 2007 and has continued to develop it ever since. “The inventor of the first version wrote the program in 1998 because there was no decent genealogy software for the Mac until then,” says Benjamin Günther, head of Synium, in an interview with BILD. MacFamilyTree has existed for more than 24 years, the current version 10 was released in 2022 ( 84.99 euros, currently 41.99 euros). Apple recognized the program as the best app of the year for the Mac. In the game “El Hijo” you have to let the little hero sneak past the dangers of the Wild WestĪnother award went to Synium Software from Mainz for the genealogical research software “MacFamily Tree 10”. Incidentally, the now award-winning version of the game for Apple TV synchronises saved games with the versions for iPhone or iPad, so that you can switch seamlessly from one device to the other and continue playing. “But it shouldn’t contain violence and appeal to a wide audience.” The result was a stealth game – a game in which opponents are not confronted in open combat – in which a six-year-old boy avoids the dangers of the Wild West got to. “The idea for the game came about while watching old spaghetti westerns,” Jan Pytlik from HandyGames told BILD. The software company from Giebelstadt (Bavaria) developed the title for various game platforms and received the App Store Award for best game of the year on Apple TV. The company announced this on Tuesday.Īmong the winners: the game “El Hijo” from the German developer HandyGames. They are the best apps and games of the year – and there are also two programs from Germany!Īpple has recognized more than a dozen apps for its devices – iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac computers – in various categories with the App Store Awards 2022. ![]()
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