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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bug-bashing Bento 2.0v5 is now available for download

by Steven Sande (Aug 19th, 2009)

FileMaker issued an update to their Mac database application Bento this morning. Bento 2.0v5 is a bug-fix release, with no new features added to the application. According to the download notes, Bento 2.0v5: Resolves an issue related to duplication of Address Book and iCal information when ...

Real World Bento: the formidable, personal database

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 14th, 2009)

It suddenly occurred to me that my needs for software have changed. It was while I was browsing for a native Mac application for monitoring weight loss that I realized that little out there would suffice if it couldn't sync with my iPhone. While there are several popular online sites for tracking ...

TUAW Review: Bento for iPhone

by Steven Sande (May 12th, 2009)

FileMaker, Inc. provided one of the surprise announcements of the last couple of weeks with the introduction of Bento for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed a both a standalone database management application and companion app to the Mac version, Bento for iPhone is an inexpensive, well-designed, and ...

First Look: Bento for iPhone and iPod touch

by Steven Sande (May 5th, 2009)

iPhone owners who are searching for an easy-to-use database management app for their iPhones can stop looking. Today, FileMaker Inc. announced the immediate availability of Bento for iPhone and iPod touch (click opens iTunes), a US$4.99 portable edition of Bento for Mac. The app comes with 25 ...