Comments on: Bento: A Personal Database from FileMaker

By: George M

George M — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:44:49 +0000

I wanna be able to use this for web development. It seems like it would be a good place to store contacts, stock resources (images, icons, code, comps), but unfortunately it does not seem to support drag and drop.
If it had that I would be all over this app.

By: Zed

Zed — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:23:58 +0000

Lee, I wasn’t curious, but now that you mention it, that’s very interesting!

I like the idea of naming an app something interesting and original, I mean, when you’re looking for help or hints for Apple’s ‘Mail’ it’s a pain in the neck, but if they called it ‘iDoMailReallyEasily’ or ‘MailWranger’ that would be so much better.

Or how about ‘MailStrangler’. Now THAT would be different.

Wait a second, that’s already taken.
Never mind.

Kid:
The point is to take your simple life and make it even simpler by arranging it all in a complex database system. You can keep track of your potted plants in the house or the annual rainfall of your home town, so you can decide whether to move back there or not.
Stuff like that.

By: Richard D.

Richard D. — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:02:13 +0000

eMail?

Sounds great, but can it integrate iCal & Address Book with email? I am looking for an alternative to Outlook. There is no mention of mac Mail on their site.

By: kid

kid — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:05:48 +0000

what is the point of this app?

By: Bento, base de datos personal

Bento, base de datos personal — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:30:47 +0000

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By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:58:10 +0000

Btw, if you’re curious…

The word “bento” is Japanese and is a lunch box commonly composed of small servings of many different foods. Students in my high school bring bentos from home each day to eat for lunch.

By: Mike Perry

Mike Perry — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:44:39 +0000

The timing couldn’t be better. Rather than upgrade my aging copy of Filemaker 6.5, I was looking for a less pricey, less complex alternative. Looks like Filemaker itself may provide that alternative.

Now if they’d just make it import FM files, creating a simple database with my basic data intact and with all the fields named as before. That’d be a lot better than CSV export and import.

–Mike Perry, Inkling Books, Seattle

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:11:26 +0000

@Ben: FileMaker is indeed owned by Apple but they’ve almost always run themselves as a totally separate entity form Apple. The most I could see is this being some sort of “bundled” software with OS X, but I even doubt that as Apple is pretty good about not bloating their OS with apps you don’t need.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:49:26 +0000

By the way, this is Leopard only.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:46:28 +0000

Is Filemaker owned by Apple? If so, this would be nice addition to iWorks.