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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."
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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 iAdvent gives Advent Calendars an iPhone Makeover5
iAdvent is a Christmas Countdown calendar that helps you keep track of how many days left until Christmas. Like traditional advent calendars, each day has a box for you to click on. Inside each box is a fun Christmas fact, which you can email to your friends and family if you choose. The boxes are designed to emulate the look of iPhone app icons, giving Advent a modern look that goes with the sleek design of your favorite gadget ChangeWave Survey Shows Historic Collapse in U.S. Corporate IT Spending5
A new ChangeWave corporate IT purchasing survey shows an accelerating collapse in U.S. business spending that has now reached historic proportions – with record pullbacks occurring both in the current 4th Quarter and going forward. In one of the survey’s few upbeat findings, the corporate smart phone market continues to show growth – with Research In Motion (RIMM) maintaining its huge lead, and Apple (AAPL) continuing to make inroads into small to medium-sized businesses Applelinks Tech Web Reader - Friday, November 21, 200812
• Picking the Right Apple: A Guide to Apple's Mac Lineup
• Snow Leopard Endangers Vista
• Microsoft Was Worried About Mac Besting Vista in '05
• How Apple Gained The Upper Hand On Microsoft
• Samsung Mass-produces Fast 256GB SSD
• Virtualization Shootout: VMWare Fusion 2 vs. Parallels Desktop 4
• MacBook Buyers Bite Apple Over Copy Protection
• Mini DisplayPort to Dual-DVI Delayed Until December 23
• Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks
• MacBook Owners Up In Arms About New Copyright Software
• Apple Cripples MacBooks With Hollywood-Mandated DRM
• The Perfect Storm Of Data Loss: a Cautionary Tale
• Shootout: Sonnet Tech ExpressCard/34 CF Reader versus FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 Readers
• PC Mag: Microsoft Lowers Zune Prices, Tweaks Zune Pass
• IBM Buys Transitive
• The Mac Night Owl: Apple Always Finds a Way to Annoy Customers
• Snow Leopard Endangers Vista
• Microsoft Was Worried About Mac Besting Vista in '05
• How Apple Gained The Upper Hand On Microsoft
• Samsung Mass-produces Fast 256GB SSD
• Virtualization Shootout: VMWare Fusion 2 vs. Parallels Desktop 4
• MacBook Buyers Bite Apple Over Copy Protection
• Mini DisplayPort to Dual-DVI Delayed Until December 23
• Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks
• MacBook Owners Up In Arms About New Copyright Software
• Apple Cripples MacBooks With Hollywood-Mandated DRM
• The Perfect Storm Of Data Loss: a Cautionary Tale
• Shootout: Sonnet Tech ExpressCard/34 CF Reader versus FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 Readers
• PC Mag: Microsoft Lowers Zune Prices, Tweaks Zune Pass
• IBM Buys Transitive
• The Mac Night Owl: Apple Always Finds a Way to Annoy Customers
Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Friday, November 21, 200813
• Apple shares lose 'iPhone premium'
• The Next Generation Touch Does Almost Everything An iPhone Does
• BlackBerry Storm 9500 review
• The BlackBerry Storm Challenges the iPhone
• Nine Ways That The Storm Beats The iPhone (updated)
• PC Mag: The BlackBerry Storm: Your Top 20 Questions, Answered
• PC Mag: BlackBerry Storm Rains on My Typing Parade
• PC Mag: Bargain Hunt: Unlocked Cell Phones
• The Next Generation Touch Does Almost Everything An iPhone Does
• BlackBerry Storm 9500 review
• The BlackBerry Storm Challenges the iPhone
• Nine Ways That The Storm Beats The iPhone (updated)
• PC Mag: The BlackBerry Storm: Your Top 20 Questions, Answered
• PC Mag: BlackBerry Storm Rains on My Typing Parade
• PC Mag: Bargain Hunt: Unlocked Cell Phones
Speck SeeThru Satin Soft-Touch Hard Shell Case For MacBook Pro17
Give your MacBook Pro a smooth, semi-translucent frosted finish that easily slips in and out your bag while retaining a grippy edge for your peace of mind Speck SeeThru Satin Soft-Touch Hard Shell Case For MacBook13
Silky-soft to the touch with the same protection as the trusted SeeThru line; introducing SeeThru Satin The New Fusion Canvas/Leather Solar Messenger Bag by Eclipse Solar Gear13
Charges Cell Phones, MP3 Players, Rechargeable Batteries Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 Email Client Released1785
Mozilla.org updates its full-featured alternative to Mail, Eudora, and Entourage. Thunderbird is a modern email application with the features users have come to expect in their email software. OWC Exclusive Rebates on featured Hitachi Hard Drives15
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LaCie SilverKeeper 2.0.1 Freeware Automates External Backups21
SilverKeeper V2.0 is a new release of LaCie's free backup application. It has been designed to support Apple's OS X operating system for Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh computers
Clone X 3.2 Creates A Copy Of Your System Installation23
Creates/Restores bootable copy of your disks, Creates your own bootable DVDs Samsung Now Producing 256GB Solid State Drive15
Substantial Performance Gains Make it Best Overall Performing SSD for PCs
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
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