Monday Musings - What software Are You Using?

Wow!  What a week it has been.  I can't say I did alot of genealogy but I'm working on turning that around.   I spoke three times last week, which kept me busy.  On Friday, my son came home from Texas.  Since he's the computer brain, especially in the land of Mac, we decided it was the perfect day for me to jump ship from PC to Mac.

I wasn't quite sure I was ready but I had already spent two years on the iPad so it wasn't like I wasn't familiar with the iCloud, iPhone and other things "i"...   So the transition was pretty smooth.  I went to an MacBook Pro with a hard drive that has enough space for all my photo's... after all I have over 13,000 headstone photo's alone.  It took a bit to get all my photo's moved, but now they are all there and very much visible.

All the other files are moved and functioning.  Now the next question is, do I keep using Legacy in Parallels or do I find a Mac genealogy software and switch?  Playing around with Heredis and Reunion.  Was hoping one or the other would just jump out at me but neither did YET.

How about you?  Are you running a Mac with genealogy software on it?  IF so, can you share with me your choice?  Cost?  What you like and don't like about it?

Thanks! I'd love to hear from you!
Karen

Challenges & Surprises

Well here we are - the turkey is done, the table is cleared, the guests have gone home and now starts the biggest shopping holiday season of the entire year.  Everyone out at all hours of the night, shopping like crazy!  Not me, home tucked in my warm bed with dreams of genealogy dancing in my head.
While I was upstairs cooking and doing Turkey day stuff yesterday my sweet Mr. Brown Eyes... aka my husband Mark hooked up a second moniter on my desktop computer.  I know he has a multiple monitor system at his office and in his home office for tax clients.  But I'd never thought of having one for me.
Sometimes living in this house can be a great but dangerous thing.  You walk away from your desk and when you return things have changed, 99.9% of the time for the better. 
I tried photographing the desk so that you can see what he did for me but the photo was just too dark no matter what. 
The great thing is that I can keep the data base open on one monitor and then have Familysearch or GenealogyBank , or any other program or website open on the other.  No more flipping between the two.   They say it will make things much easier....   We'll see, I hope to test that idea out today ALOT! 

Do any of you use dual monitors?