Category Archives: Mac

Hello 2010, bye bye 2009!

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One lays a bit longer in bed at Christmas, and finds the new year already in full swing when awaking. But wait. Our hibernation was not that deep, we simply granted ourselves a short break. 2009 was after all the most active year in our young history.

Directly on its begin, January 2009, we were in the Macworld and presented Merlin iPhone to the interested visitors.

In February 2009 the beta test of Merlin 2.7 started containing the new version of Merlin Web. A Merlin Twitter presence was also created, with over 750 followers meanwhile.

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Application Systems Heidelberg delivers Merlin in a box

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Shortly before Christmas, there is a little surprise for the friends of our wizard. Application Systems Heidelberg has just published the following:

Merlin 2 is the most successful project management software for Mac OS X. Over the past five years, Merlin has blossomed into a comprehensive, server-optional all-round solution for project management.

The recent Merlin version 2.7 – published by Application Systems and the German vendor ProjectWizards – can be used as standalone or optionally server-based-software and is compatible to desktops, MacBooks or Apple iPhone.
Application Systems Heidelberg and Application Systems Paris deliver Merlin 2 additionally as a boxed version at hundreds of specialized retail software stores in German– and French-speaking Europe.

More information about Merlin 2 by ASH can be found here:

http://www.application-systems.de/merlin/

This means that a boxed version of Merlin will be available at many retailers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. If your favorite dealer cannot yet provide our project management software for Mac OS X, inform him about its accessibility now also over ASH.

And of course you can always purchase Merlin online over our shop.

Merlin: Melting Clocks

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What is time? An illusion for some. What is time when planning a project? Double so…
There seams to be so much of it when entering activities or assigning resources, while deadlines come almost always earlier than expected…
But nothing to worry about. Merlin knows just exactly how to handle time.

Take the date format as displayed in columns or the inspector for example.

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Merlin: Adjusting keyboard shortcuts

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It is very easy to adjust keyboard shortcuts or add new ones on Mac OS X. There is a specific tab in the preference pane ‘Keyboard’. Shortcuts will be shown on the right side of the menu entries they are assigned to.

The shortcut Shift + Command + N for example is assigned per default to the Merlin’s menu entry ‘New Project…’ as listed under the File menu:

new project shortcut

Surely you have noticed that the command  ‘Combine Projects…’ has no shortcut. Here is how to proceed in case you want to assign one.

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Merlin: MacOS X Firewall

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As you know Merlin has very powerful publishing features that allow you to publish your project files, and share them with other users or other applications.

You can publish your saved project files to:

When allowing external access to your machine you should consider setting up a Firewall. This is usually done in your router, but some users would like to use the built-in MacOS X Firewall. Here is a small description of how to set your Firewall for Merlin 2 and Merlin Server 2 on a current MacOS X 10.6.1 (snow leopard) configuration.

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