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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 ...

Panorama Sheets for Mac: A first look

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2011)

Back in the first days of the Mac (in the days when I still had a full head of hair) a developer by the name of Jim Rea created one of the first database apps for the platform, Overvue. That application became Panorama (US$299), which is still around and has evolved through the years to remain a ...

Cobra iRadar on the CES 2011 show floor

by Mike Schramm (Jan 6th, 2011)

We liked the idea of the iRadar when we first heard about it, and Cobra put the device front and center at its CES 2011 booth (well, right next to the girls in skimpy police uniforms). The iRadar is a radar detector that hooks right up to Cobra's official iPhone app, and it will not only alert ...

Dropbox updates iOS apps, announces App Directory

by Mike Schramm (Sep 23rd, 2010)

The Dropbox app for iPhone and iPad has been updated recently. There's a UI redesign in there now that takes full advantage of the Retina Display, so your shared files will look better than ever. The iPad version has gained a landscape view, and the app will now finish uploads and downloads in the ...

TUAW's Daily App: Phases

by Mike Schramm (Sep 21st, 2010)

Phases is one of those apps that has a lot of information you wouldn't really think of or need -- until you actually have an app available to give it to you. Basically, Phases tells you everything you need to know about the moon, from when it wanes and waxes, rises and sets, and when and where it ...

Rapid iOS app development with FormEntry

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 19th, 2010)

FormEntry Touch, a recent release from WidgetPress (makers of ModelBaker), makes setting up form-based systems on iPads and iPhones easier than ever. The universal app is static, in that it requires no coding; it reads forms from the application you build with FormEntry for Mac and runs on the ...

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 ...

Wolfram Alpha lowers iPhone app price, will give refunds

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2010)

Well here's an interesting twist on the Wolfram Alpha saga -- after initially releasing their "knowledge system" on the iPhone and then pulling it and trying to go premium with a $50 iPhone app, they've now reversed their position once again. The iPhone app will drop back down to $1.99 on Sunday, ...

iPhone hacked at Pwn2Own contest

by Mike Schramm (Mar 24th, 2010)

An iPhone got hacked in just 20 seconds at this week's Pwn2Own hacking contest at CanSecWest 2010, reports Ryan Naraine for ZDnet. Hackers Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann demoed an exploit that allowed them to send a target iPhone to a web site that they'd set up online, and then copied ...

FileMaker 11 now available with charting, reporting improvements

by Dave Caolo (Mar 9th, 2010)

Apple subsidiary FileMaker has been busy; the flagship database app grows by another leap today with the release of version 11. We were lucky enough to get a pre-release demo at Macworld Expo in February and were duly impressed. As someone who's been using FileMaker since version 6, I'm thrilled ...

Macworld Expo: Jim Rea talks about the early days of Mac development

by Michael Rose (Feb 18th, 2010)

When Apple first introduced the Macintosh, there weren't many authorized third-party developers around... even fewer unauthorized ones, when you think about it. One guy did manage to sneak in the back door and ship his app for the original Mac on an accelerated schedule: Jim Rea, the founder of ...

iPhone app helps Tasmanian cops nab crooks

by Mike Schramm (Dec 22nd, 2009)

Tasmanian cops are using some pretty sophisticated technology to catch criminals down there -- they have hardware in their cars now that will not only catch pictures of criminals, but upload them to a database, track down any outstanding warrants or other red flags, and update GPS information and ...

Bento for iPhone / iPod touch reaches sales milestone

by Steven Sande (Dec 8th, 2009)

While it's no big deal for a free game or social networking app to reach a million downloads from the App Store, it is definitely news when a brand-name productivity app sells 100,000 copies. Bento for iPhone / iPod touch [US$4.99, iTunes Link] reached that milestone today, according to a press ...

Two apps to help you find a parking spot

by Mike Schramm (Dec 4th, 2009)

A while back in Chicago, a friend and I tried working on a Google maps API site that was sort of a crowd-sourced parking guide -- we'd set up a Google map that could be marked up with where the best free parking was, and then we'd turn it loose on the Internet to get filled in with information. ...

FileMaker's Bento 3 announced, available immediately

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 29th, 2009)

FileMaker has announced the release of Bento 3, the next version of its database program for the Mac, available for purchase immediately. The upgrade comes just a couple weeks shy of a year from the debut of Bento 2. Changes in Bento 3 include: iPhoto integration, allowing you to use your ...