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That's better. Now making better progress. It took only a week to implement the scrolling, paging and resizing of the new virtual view into the Everything Report. What this means is that even for extremely large files, the you will be able to resize the report very quickly, without the delay that happened in ...

Disk Eastman just posted a great article in his blog: It's 2014! Do You Know Where Your Data Is? In the article, Dick talks about the ways to convert data from one program to another (primarily through GEDCOM), and then talks about what genealogy programs will in business and supported years from now. My ...

Finally, last night I successfully got the virtual rendering of the RichView window working. What that means is I now have a "viewport" into what looks like a complete Everything Report, but is really generated only as is needed. I've been working on this for over a month. It took a number of trials of ...

Ooooh. I'm so mad. I had forgotten that it was three months ago that my old computer crashed and I purchased a new one. I upgraded to Delphi 2009 which allowed me to add Unicode earlier than I thought I would, and I was really rolling. But last week I realized that the 3 month expiry of the last alpha ...

I've been working very hard the last few weeks to rewrite the internals of Behold for the sake of efficiency. I've written much about the details of this work, and the Beta release of Behold has basically been waiting until I complete this. I consider this extremely important. Behold will need to load large ...

Have you tried Bing yet? This is Microsoft's new search tool, designed to finally compete with Google. It's actually quite good. Whether it will be able to compete with Google is a matter of intellectual debate. Search engines are good for genealogists. Most often we enter our ancestors names into search ...

My talk tonight about Behold to 40 people of the EEGS (East European Genealogical Society) here in Winnipeg went better than well. The audience was really taken by my talk of what`s wrong with genealogy software, and how Behold is doing it the right way. Other genealogy software are all big black boxes where ...

Every Spring, there seems to be a host of interruptions that slow the progress of Behold somewhat. April was no exception. First there was the tragic end of my XP machine and the purchase and week-long setup of a new Vista machine, which I just love. Then there was income taxes to do. Our newspaper stock ...

Instead of using the online Word Press admin area to write this blog entry, I’m doing it from my computer using another free Windows Live feature: Windows Live Writer. It is not necessarily a tool I will continue to use, but let me say I’m very impressed with what Microsoft has done. It gives the ability ...

My transfer from Windows XP to Vista has been good. I like Vista much better than XP. It's easier to use, I like the organization of the directories, and it has many useful tools that I no longer need 3rd party packages for. As a genealogist and a guy who carries his digital camera wherever he goes, picture ...