FileMaker News

Live and breathe the principles of good design at SmallCo's FileMaker Design Master Class, inside the famed Harum-Alvarez home, built using the very same principles* that Albert uses to design software. The Green House was laid out with the Master Class in mind, with a spacious Great Room for meeting and private spots to curl up for individual work, including sun rooms, window seats, porches, terraces, worksites by the swimming hole and even a hammock strung between towering trees on the wooded park-like site... - (Small Company)

TeamsoftTM, a worldwide leader in real-time collaborative group calendaring, scheduling, and resource management, today announces that it has released a Beta version of a FileMaker connector for TeamAgenda... - (Teamsoft Inc.)

Comm-Unity Networking Systems releases an update to SMTPit Pro which fixes a few bugs and includes updates to help prevent emails sent with the plug-in being marked as spam... - (Comm-Unity Networking Systems)

Now on its 10th release, and more than 15 years on the market, Easy Sign Maker has had a FileMaker 10 makeover.  Now it can handle all languages, and create fast signs that can save a life... - (CAE Consultants Inc.)

Sitel, a leading global business process outsourcing (BPO) provider, today announced that FileMaker, the brand leader in easy-to-use database software, has selected Sitel to provide customer care and technical support. Support will be given to FileMaker users in 14 countries across Europe from Sitel's Kingston-on-Thames centre. Sitel associates will field licence queries, installation issues, software trouble-shooting and webstore enquiries... - (Sitel)

INFORMATION WEEK's Jake Widman surveys top iPhone Apps and recommends Bento for iPhone as an "essential" one for small and medium business: "Bento is a lightweight database designed especially for the Mac, so what better choice for a database on the iPhone? Bento ($4.99) works as a standalone database on the phone, but it also syncs with Bento on the desktop so you can take your data with you. If you modify the data on your phone, including adding new records and fields, they'll be synced back to your home database. Bento comes with 25 iPhone templates (see image) for managing different types of data."

Dennis Sellers, MacsimumNews, reports that "Dentist Bia Kunze had a simple idea: If you can’t make it to the dentist, the dentist will come to you. Kunze is a mobile dentist in Brazil ... To manage her practice on the go, she uses Bento for iPhone. 'I was told that things would be easier to manage with the Mac and Bento,' she says. 'I decided to give it a try and found that it’s much easier to use than any other system I’ve encountered. In an afternoon I created a custom database that had everything I needed to keep track of.' At first, Kunze carried her MacBook wherever she went. When Bento for iPhone was released, she left her notebook at home. 'I have a lot to carry, so having everything I need in the iPhone is fantastic,' she says."

inRESONANCE (iR), a leading developer of technology solutions for schools and non-profit institutions, today unveiled GENERATIONS Web Services, a hosted web service that fits directly into organizations' websites and synchronizes data seamlessly with GENERATIONS, iR's open, customizable FileMaker Pro solution for fundraising and development... - (inResonance)

TeamsoftTM, a worldwide leader in real-time collaborative group calendaring, scheduling, and resource management, today announces that it has released a Beta version of a FileMaker connector for TeamAgenda. TeamAgenda delivers an easy-to-use and quick-to-implement, multilingual group calendar and scheduling solution to a worldwide customer base... - (Teamsoft Inc.)

Now available for download, Bento 3 Contact and Customer Manager is the fast, free, and easy way to get instant access to contact and customer details. View call history, notes from meetings and conversations, upcoming to-do items, related documents and files, important emails, sales opportunities, receipts, and more. This download includes a free trial of new Bento 3 for Mac.

The Napa Valley Register surveyed wine industry experts for advice on the best approach to storing your wines and keeping track of what is in your cellar: "Rebecca Chapa, a professional taster and wine educator (www.rebeccachapa.com) said that even though a wine lover may not have ideal cellar conditions, it is more important to avoid drastic ups and downs in temperature than it is to keep a wine storage space at a strict 55 degrees. She also reported, ‘I recently found a cool new program to help you keep track of inventory, it’s called Bento for Filemaker and it has an application for iPhone so you can be sure you aren’t buying something you already have at home.’ "