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FileMaker offers demo solutions for FileMaker Go 12 on iOS

by Randy Nelson (Feb 21st, 2013)

If you're a user of FileMaker Go 12 on the iPhone or iPad, its creators want to give you a better idea of the sorts of things the mobile database software can do. To that end, FileMaker has launched a lineup of demo solutions that you can download and try out right from within FileMaker Go ...

CES 2013: FileMaker celebrates half a million iOS downloads

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2013)

FileMaker was here in attendance at the Digital Experience event last night at CES in Las Vegas, and they had some big news to announce: The company has reached a full half million iOS downloads for its database-driven software solutions. That's a big milestone for the company, and while iOS ...

FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone tops 500K downloads

by Mike Wehner (Dec 11th, 2012)

Database management suite FileMaker Go for iOS has passed the lofty sales milestone of 500,000 downloads, TechCrunch reports. FileMaker Inc., the company behind both Filemaker Go 11 and FileMaker Go 12, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, and was formed in the '80s under its former name ...

With Bento update, lack of App Store upgrades is front-and-center again

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 20th, 2012)

FileMaker released a meaty update to the iPad version of Bento on June 19, pushing it from version 1.15 to 4.0. But with this comes a move previously seen with Tweetie 2 before it became the official Twitter app: the original Bento was pulled from the App Store after a few hours of overlap, ...

New Bento 4 for iPad adds design tools for customizing database solutions

by Michael Rose (Jun 19th, 2012)

It's a bit hard to believe that Apple software subsidiary FileMaker has been marketing Bento for more than four years now. The Mac version of the personal database debuted in early 2008, and separate iPhone and iPad versions can be had on the iOS App Store. Today the company is jumping the iPad ...

FileMaker's new iOS apps hit 100K downloads in one week

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 13th, 2012)

FileMaker announced that its mobile database solution, FileMaker Go 12 for the iPad and FileMaker Go 12 for the iPhone, surpassed 100,000 downloads in their first week of availability. This is an impressive milestone for an enterprise tool that lets customers run iOS database apps created with ...

FileMaker Pro 12 offers new design features, improved iOS compatibility

by Dave Caolo (Apr 4th, 2012)

I started using FileMaker Pro way back with version 6, when I was developing solutions for a residential school. I grew to love the pro database software, and since then it's gotten better and better. The new version 12 of FileMaker Pro, announced today, continues the trend of improvement ...

Filemaker offers free holiday kits for Bento users

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 1st, 2011)

Filemaker has released free holiday-themed goodies for Bento users. The Bento Holiday Kit has templates for cards and labels, a party planner and a gift list. To take advantage of this, you need to have Bento 4 for Mac installed. A free trial is available for those who want to see the program ...

FileMaker Go for iOS updated with charts, signatures and AirPrint

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 20th, 2011)

Just a few weeks after FileMaker released new Starter Solutions for its FileMaker Go app, the mobile app itself has been updated to version 1.2. The update includes the following: Support for FileMaker Charts, including bar, area, line and pie charts Digital signatures on iPhone and ...

FileMaker Starter Solutions released for mobile apps

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 23rd, 2011)

FileMaker announced the availability of three new Starter Solutions for its FileMaker Go mobile application. FileMaker Go lets you access and edit your FileMaker databases on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch while away from your desktop. The three Starter Solutions are optimized for Apple's ...

Bento for Mac 4.0 arrives with label printing and location features

by Michael Rose (Mar 16th, 2011)

The "database for the rest of us," FileMaker's Bento for Mac, has hit version 4 today along with revised builds of the iPhone and iPad editions. It's a little bit surprising to realize that Bento has actually been on the market for three years now; in this edition, the product team has added ...

FileMaker Go update adds PDF creation, photo import

by Michael Rose (Sep 22nd, 2010)

The latest revision to FileMaker's two mobile database apps, FileMaker Go 1.1 for iPhone and for iPad (two separate products), gives the Go team a few vital new features for users on the move. First up: PDF creation in-app, which allows you to take a database report page or form and instantly create ...

TUAW Review: Filemaker Go for iPad

by Dave Caolo (Aug 6th, 2010)

Filemaker has brought its flagship product to a whole new level of portability with Filemaker Go for iPad (US$39.99) and iPhone/iPod touch ($19.99). Years ago I used Filemaker Mobile with a Palm, and this is a far cry from those early days. Here's what I found while testing Filemaker Go on the iPad. ...

FileMaker Go launches today for iPad and iPhone

by Michael Rose (Jul 20th, 2010)

Mobile databases: they're a good thing, as Martha might say. Back when Palm ruled the handheld space and HanDBase was the king of the data portability castle, it might have been hard to imagine the iPhone/iPad world of today -- but the challenge of taking your data with you on the road is still just ...

FileMaker releases free business productivity kit, 30-day trial

by Dave Caolo (May 4th, 2010)

Filemaker Pro 11 was released earlier this year with a slew of new features, including native charting, recurring imports and "snapshot link," which lets you share and edit a found set of records with a remote colleague. Today, Filemaker has upped the ante by releasing a free Business Productivity ...