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Database

How to filter records in a Bento Library

April 23, 2012

Bento is an interesting database for the Macintosh.  This is provided by the Filemaker people, which is an apple company.  It is a single table database.  I find that I am using it a lot for dealing with a lot of information I collect through my notes.  The problem that I encountered was that I [...]

Using Bento 3 to create an expense list

July 13, 2010

One of the more interesting things I have to do when I travel is keep track of my receipts.  I have a serious problem with all of the fiddly pieces of paper.  Expense tracking programs on the iPhone have a way of using the camera to take images of the receipts.  My solution to this [...]

Create a Home Inventory Database with Bento

July 2, 2010

Face it.  In this world you are going to have a tragedy.  Your house may go up in flames, be flooded, or have someone else’s car drive through the front door.  You are going to suffer loss.  You may have a list of your items, but if you also have a photo of the item [...]

Replacing MS Access with Filemaker Pro

June 28, 2010

a lot of my customers ask what they can use to replace MS Access.  What they want is a desktop database.  If finance is a consideration then OpenOffice Base is a desktop database solution that you might ant to consider.  If you need to purchase, or feel more comfortable with a purchased solution then the [...]

Using a Report Builder to Generate Reports

June 18, 2010

Sometimes a good idea spreads around.  The Good Idea for this post is the banded report builder.  Just about every report builder supports this kind of design, so I am going to give you the basics about Banded Report Builders after the break.

Yojimbo and Bento – Which one do you need?

May 17, 2010

I get asked questions along this line all the time, and it is really irritating. That is because I have to know why the person thinks they need either one of these two excellent programs. I think most of these questions stem from a deep seated fear of committing only to find that you choice [...]

FileMaker – Business Productivity Kit

May 4, 2010

FileMaker Taking a page from it’s popular Bento product, Filemaker is providing templates for use with its flagship FileMaker pro 11 product. It sounds like this suite of templates will create a nearly complete customer management system with invoicing and sales receipts. I have Pro 10, so I can’t preview the template, but if they [...]

Bento Family Organizer

April 27, 2010

I like and use Bento. It is a easy to use, simple, personal database. This is not meant as a replacement for something a bit more robust, but for most people this is all that is needed to help keep them somewhat organized. Well they have added Template Exchange where you can go an get [...]

Bento for iPad | iPhone | Mac|Life | Mac|Life

April 14, 2010

Bento for iPad | iPhone | Mac|Life | Mac|Life Bento for the Mac is a great lightweight personal database, it’s good to see a matching version for the iPad. The iPhone/iPod touch version worked well and allowed to me to enter data using the small device while making the displays in the full Mac product.

The data types in an OpenOffice Base Database

February 24, 2010

This is a post that is a little more detail about OpenOffice Base databases. If you were looking for a little more information about how much Base can replace MS Access you’ve come to the right place. I discussed that issue in this post. This post is a little more about the datatypes that you [...]

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