MacFamilyTree, MacPractice

• TechTool Pro 4.5.3 ($100) maintenance tool that helps recover, repair, and optimize your Mac. Includes options to check critical computer hardware, repair hard drive problems and monitor computers in the background for impending problems. The new release has updated Volume Structures and Optimization routines, updated Volume Journaling feature for Intel-based Macs, integration of the TechTool Pro 4 Security Patch, added compatibility for new Macintosh models up through June, 2007 and other minor changes and feature enhancements. [Download - 25.6MB]


• MacGizmo 1.0.8 ($45) allows you to see the content and other useful information of any selected items in the Finder and of other participating software programs. Currently fully supports most of the common kinds of items that populate a disk, like: images, sounds, music, video, text, pdfs, web files, fonts, folders, applications and many more. The new release adds a button in the main window that allows the application to be put to sleep and fixes a bug that caused crashes when certain types of files were selected. [Download - 2.7MB]


• MacFamilyTree 4.5.0 ($50) genealogy application. This release adds a new report "Birthdays", showing all persons with birthdays within the next 12 months and optional display limited to only living persons. HTML export has been improved by adding a time stamp, allowing a better identification of exported data. This release also fixes an issue regarding the search functionality, which could lead to a potential crash of the application. Finally, some errors in the "Events" report have been fixed. [Download - 12MB]


• MacPractice voice, text messaging All of the MacPractice products, MacPractice MD for physicians, MacPractice DDS for dentists, MacPractice DC for chiropractors, and MacPractice 20/20 for optometrists , now include communications ability enabling text, email, and voice messaging. For each patient for each appointment, offices may choose to communicate using a combination of text message, email (with or without voice recording), and/or phone, according to the patient’s preference, at a cost of less than $.15 per reminder.


• iSale 4.2 ($290) eBay auctioning solution for the Mac. Includes tools for creating, tracking and managing your auctions. The new release adds 30 new templates, supports the ever-popular Picasa Web Albums - Google's free online picture service, and can group, print, export and delete multiple auctions all at the same time rather than doing so one-by-one. [Download - form]

by MacNN Staff