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On October 17th, Applelinks' Charles Moore gave a great review of Bento 2. What I'd like to do here is provide a more detailed exploration of FileMaker and Bento, and explain why both are excellent database programs which serve two completely different customers. The fact is, Bento is an amazingly simple, easy to use database that requires no knowledge on how to create a database. FileMaker is an amazingly powerful database that is very simple (when compared to other databases), but requires creating every field, every relation, and every structure of a database. Admittedly, this is much more complicated and more work than many people need. Thus, there is Bento (and to borrow a phrase from the early days of Apple), a database "for the rest of us."
Cool Mac Gear
• iPhone
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• iPod Touch
• iPod Classic
• iPod Repairs
• FM Transmitters
• MacBook
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• iPod nano
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• iPod Repairs
• FM Transmitters
• MacBook
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DriveSlim should prove especially popular with MacBook Air Users and those who go with the 128 GB Solid State Drive option on other model MacBooks Mini-Review - New Minimus Minimalist Willow PowerBook and iBook Sleeve304
Once again, Willow Design has managed to come up with a clever and functional product whose overall impression is one of elegant and tasteful simplicity.
OS X Odyssey 469 - Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.3.2 Update and Portable Battery Update 1.1190
Two major OS X updates for Christmas
Moore’s News Roundup Digest - Thursday, December 18, 2003213
• 55 Operating Systems on a PowerBook 17"
• Canada Legalizes P2P Downloading
• G5 Laptop Next Year?
• PC Users Still Clueless When It Comes To Apple
• The Mac @ 20 - Apple's Key Moments
• Mac OS X 10.3: Chart of Available Mac OS Software Updates Posted
• Apple Hits Back
• Willow Design 2003 Year End Overstock Inventory Sale
• Unsanity and OWC Theme Contest
• SiteLink Network Offers Low-Cost Web Hosting Top-Quality Web Hosting With Personal Service
• Mac Night Owl: Apple's Christmas Present: A Slew of Software Updates
• Runtime Revolution Wins Macworld Eddy Award
• eWeek: Zander's Succession at Motorola Greeted Cautiously by Analysts
• eWeek: Linux Developers Spar Over Enterprise Desktop
• eWeek: Feds Unite on Security Benchmarks
• eWeek: Oracle 10g: It's the Automation, Stupid
• Canada Legalizes P2P Downloading
• G5 Laptop Next Year?
• PC Users Still Clueless When It Comes To Apple
• The Mac @ 20 - Apple's Key Moments
• Mac OS X 10.3: Chart of Available Mac OS Software Updates Posted
• Apple Hits Back
• Willow Design 2003 Year End Overstock Inventory Sale
• Unsanity and OWC Theme Contest
• SiteLink Network Offers Low-Cost Web Hosting Top-Quality Web Hosting With Personal Service
• Mac Night Owl: Apple's Christmas Present: A Slew of Software Updates
• Runtime Revolution Wins Macworld Eddy Award
• eWeek: Zander's Succession at Motorola Greeted Cautiously by Analysts
• eWeek: Linux Developers Spar Over Enterprise Desktop
• eWeek: Feds Unite on Security Benchmarks
• eWeek: Oracle 10g: It's the Automation, Stupid
Shareware Beat - Thursday, December 18, 2003298
• Burnz v1.0.7 CD/DVD Burning Softeware Released [OS 10.2.8 up]
• Cocktail 3.3 General Purpose System Modify / Repair Utility [OS 10.2 up]
• Ultimate Pen 1.1.1 Draws On Top Of Any App, Including The Finder [OS 10.2 up]
• SpamSlam 2.0.1 Kills Junk Email With Statistical Filter & Challenge/Response [OS 10.2 up]
• SimpleKeys 2.0 Sets Hotkeys To Trigger Macros And Type Text [OS X 10.1 up]
• MarketAnalyst X 3.0 Real-time Stock Charting/Analysis, Trading System [OS 10.2 up]
• KeystrokeRecorder 3.2.1 Records Each Keystroke To A Text File Or Email [OS X]
• Xpublish 1.1.8 1-click html Publishing Supports Unlimited Sites & Entries [OS X 10.3 up]
• iKeeper 2.0.1 Update Available
• Cocktail 3.3 General Purpose System Modify / Repair Utility [OS 10.2 up]
• Ultimate Pen 1.1.1 Draws On Top Of Any App, Including The Finder [OS 10.2 up]
• SpamSlam 2.0.1 Kills Junk Email With Statistical Filter & Challenge/Response [OS 10.2 up]
• SimpleKeys 2.0 Sets Hotkeys To Trigger Macros And Type Text [OS X 10.1 up]
• MarketAnalyst X 3.0 Real-time Stock Charting/Analysis, Trading System [OS 10.2 up]
• KeystrokeRecorder 3.2.1 Records Each Keystroke To A Text File Or Email [OS X]
• Xpublish 1.1.8 1-click html Publishing Supports Unlimited Sites & Entries [OS X 10.3 up]
• iKeeper 2.0.1 Update Available
Notable New Product News - Thursday, December 18, 2003 206
• Two New Wireless Antennas for Apple Power Mac and PowerBook Users
• ACME MADE PowerBook and iBook iCovers
• Aladdin StuffIt InstallerMaker 8.0.11 Creates Software Installers
• CodeTek VirtualDesktop Pro 3.0B2 Multitasking Environment
• Wacom tablet X 4.7.8-3 Driver For USB tablets
• Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.4.1 Released Seasonal Special Offer: 20% Off
• ChronoSync Updated to Version 2.0.3
• Agfa Monotype Adds Over 600 Products to Fonts.com From Three Foundries
• Xclean 1.4.7 Disk Cleaning Tool, Info Shredder [OS X 10.3 up]
• ACME MADE PowerBook and iBook iCovers
• Aladdin StuffIt InstallerMaker 8.0.11 Creates Software Installers
• CodeTek VirtualDesktop Pro 3.0B2 Multitasking Environment
• Wacom tablet X 4.7.8-3 Driver For USB tablets
• Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.4.1 Released Seasonal Special Offer: 20% Off
• ChronoSync Updated to Version 2.0.3
• Agfa Monotype Adds Over 600 Products to Fonts.com From Three Foundries
• Xclean 1.4.7 Disk Cleaning Tool, Info Shredder [OS X 10.3 up]
Play the Game: Daily Mac Gaming Highlights575
The really weird thing about Aspyr is that they keep announcing games for the Mac, and then publishing games for the Mac, without skipping the "going out of business" part in the middle, like we used to have in the good ol' days. Rebels.
Inventive releases iClip 2.6 productivity software for Mac OS X188
Inventive, Inc. has announced the release of iClip version 2.6 productivity software for Apple Macintosh computers with OS X. iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook application designed to improve user efficiency and productivity for many computing tasks.
Santa Has A New Ride…and brings iStopMotion v1.2185
Yesterday, Boinx announced v1.2 of iStopMotion, a stop motion animation and time lapse capturing tool for Mac OS X. Visitors to the Boinx website can
see how Santa got captured with iStopMotion while acquiring a new ride.
Got Game Entertainment to publish Alida222
Got Game Entertainment today announced a North American publishing deal for Alida, an atmospheric graphical adventure game for Mac. The enveloping story of a missing musician unfolds on a deserted island theme park. A PC version of the game is expected later in 2004.
OS X Odyssey 468 - Panther Purrs On The G3 iBook245
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Snow
The Festive Mac 2003 - Decorating Your Mac For Christmas 4296
Four little Mac Christmas programs to make your holiday more jolly
Moore’s News Roundup Digest - Wednesday, December 17, 2003221
• Another Xpostfacto/PowerBook G3 Wallstreet/Panther Report
• MozManual: An Introduction to Mozilla Version 1.0 (Complete) Now Posted
• Windows-Style Security Hell Stalks Mac OS X? Yeah, You Wish...
• Forbes Mac @ 20 - Selling Steve's Vision
• The Mac @ 20 - Pick Your Favorite Apple Ad
• Apple Responds To The Recent Copyright Board Of Canada Ruling With iPod Price Increases
• Is Apple Deleting iBook Logic Board Failure Posts?
• CD-Burning Suit Threatens Computer Industry
• Apple Losing No Sleep Over Online Music Rivals
• Carbon Copy Cloner, eBay & Cool Japanese Stuff On Your Mac Life
• Mac Night Owl: The Ultimate Nightmare: Is Good Customer Service an Illusion?
• Student iBook Plan Angers Minn. Voters
• Finale Music Rededicates Commitment To Macintosh Customers
• President Bush OKs Spam Bill
• Is Downloading the New Prohibition?
• Toshiba To Offer Sub-1in Hard Drive
• MozManual: An Introduction to Mozilla Version 1.0 (Complete) Now Posted
• Windows-Style Security Hell Stalks Mac OS X? Yeah, You Wish...
• Forbes Mac @ 20 - Selling Steve's Vision
• The Mac @ 20 - Pick Your Favorite Apple Ad
• Apple Responds To The Recent Copyright Board Of Canada Ruling With iPod Price Increases
• Is Apple Deleting iBook Logic Board Failure Posts?
• CD-Burning Suit Threatens Computer Industry
• Apple Losing No Sleep Over Online Music Rivals
• Carbon Copy Cloner, eBay & Cool Japanese Stuff On Your Mac Life
• Mac Night Owl: The Ultimate Nightmare: Is Good Customer Service an Illusion?
• Student iBook Plan Angers Minn. Voters
• Finale Music Rededicates Commitment To Macintosh Customers
• President Bush OKs Spam Bill
• Is Downloading the New Prohibition?
• Toshiba To Offer Sub-1in Hard Drive
Odysseus Email Client version 1.0 beta 7 was released Thursday. This build continues to improve on existing features, while adding a couple of critical ones
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is best by categorized as a Digital Processor. That is, from bringing images to your computer, cataloging them for later retrieval (and, if you want, backing them up to insure protection against accidental loss), enhancing and fine tuning your images, all the way to printing and/or digital distribution—one can do it all from Lightroom. However, one of the strongest reasons to use Lightroom is the opportunity for playing with images with no concern about how many versions and variations of the image you create without screwing up your original image. Despite a complex learning curve, there is much to like in Lightroom 2.
Cruz is a new social browser project for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and up. While it looks very much like Safari, and is based on Apple's Webkit browser engine, Cruz has several interesting and unique features that set it apart from not only Safari but other browsers as well
Popular personal Mac database gets a solid update with new links to Apple Mail, enhanced compatibility with with Excel, Numbers, and AppleWorks files; and adds more spreadsheet style functions 
Apple today unveiled an all new MacBook family that redefines notebook design, and at the same time dramatically lowers the entry price for advanced notebook features including all-metal enclosures and pro-performance notebook graphics by $700 to make them far more affordable. The new MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro both have a precision unibody enclosure crafted from a single block of aluminum, resulting in thinner, more durable and incredibly beautiful designs