Filemaker Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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 ...

Twitter and Skype and FileMaker, oh my! FMWebSchool integrates them

by Steven Sande (Apr 26th, 2009)

FileMaker Pro fans can now tweet and make Skype calls directly from databases, thanks to a pair of free files from FMWebSchool. There are a couple of movies that demonstrate how these files work, which you can view by clicking the links below. The FMSkype file allows you to import your Skype ...

FileMaker announces version 10 of flagship database app

by Robert Palmer (Jan 5th, 2009)

FileMaker, Inc. has released FileMaker Pro 10, the latest in its long line of database applications for Mac OS X, featuring a new interface and design. FileMaker Pro 10 introduces the Status Toolbar, which it says is similar to most browser toolbars, that takes commonly used options out of the menus ...

Filemaker's Bento goes 2.0

by Michael Rose (Oct 14th, 2008)

When Filemaker introduced Bento, the 'relational database for the rest of us,' at Macworld Expo this year, the response from the marketplace was pretty solid; as of August, the $49 multipurpose data organizer had been downloaded over 400,000 times. Still, the product was a clear 1.0 with a lot of ...

Functions and Operators Card for FileMaker Pro

by Steven Sande (Jul 7th, 2008)

Remember those days in high school when you'd frantically write all of the facts and figures you were supposed to memorize onto your arm with a Bic pen? If you've grown up and are now a FileMaker Pro developer, Steve Wilmes Consulting has just the thing to help you remember all of the functions and ...

Filemaker releases Bento 1.0v2

by Dave Caolo (Mar 9th, 2008)

Bento is the end user database software from Filemaker that was released as a beta a couple of months ago. We took a look at Bento in November. If you're coming from Filemaker Pro development, you'll find Bento a bit limiting, but the number of users who could potentially find it useful, like ...

FileMaker Bento is shipping

by Michael Rose (Jan 8th, 2008)

Having run through a couple of beta releases, it's now prime time for FileMaker's consumer-level organizer DB: Bento is shipping today in advance of Macworld Expo. The "database for soccer moms" product is $49 for a single user license, $99 for a family pack. We've got screen shots from Bento in our ...

Filemaker releases Bento preview update

by Dave Caolo (Dec 8th, 2007)

Filemaker have released a new beta version of Bento, their easy to use database application (we took an early look at Bento last month). I've been playing with it for a while, and I'm enjoying it. I use Filemaker Pro at work, so I miss some things like defining my own relationships, scripting, ...

TUAW first look: FileMaker announces Bento organizer app

by Michael Rose (Nov 13th, 2007)

When you've been creating and selling the same application for 20 years -- the most successful database on the Mac platform, and a contender on Windows -- and you're a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, Inc. with plenty of customers in business, education and SOHO markets... well, what do you do for ...