Comments on: Bento http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/ Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture and faith from the Antipodes. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:20:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: fernando http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2272 fernando Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:47:22 +0000 http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2272 Sorry, I meant to write iWork, not iLife. You are right about it becoming Works all over again (which is not a bad thing) and the draw application. I've been going through some old files and keep stumbling on things I did with that module years ago that still look pretty neat. Sorry, I meant to write iWork, not iLife. You are right about it becoming Works all over again (which is not a bad thing) and the draw application. I’ve been going through some old files and keep stumbling on things I did with that module years ago that still look pretty neat.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2259 Stephen Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:55:48 +0000 http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2259 One of the things that people have said about it would be for it to integrate with iWork (rather than iLife). Then you'd have the 'Big 4' apps in one place - database, wordprocessor, spreadsheet and presentation. Hey! It's ClarisWorks all over again :-) (I miss my ClarisWorks / AppleWorks. My best diagrams were created in the Draw module. Must find the AppleWorks install that came with the original Mac OS X 10.1 setup.) One of the things that people have said about it would be for it to integrate with iWork (rather than iLife). Then you’d have the ‘Big 4′ apps in one place - database, wordprocessor, spreadsheet and presentation.

Hey! It’s ClarisWorks all over again :-) (I miss my ClarisWorks / AppleWorks. My best diagrams were created in the Draw module. Must find the AppleWorks install that came with the original Mac OS X 10.1 setup.)

]]> By: fernando http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2258 fernando Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:03:08 +0000 http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2258 Thanks for the links. This pre-release has caught my eye and it sounds like something I might be interested in (though ideally as part of iLife 09!). Most academic mac users I know (and a few musicians as well) pine for better cataloging and reference options. Thanks for the links. This pre-release has caught my eye and it sounds like something I might be interested in (though ideally as part of iLife 09!). Most academic mac users I know (and a few musicians as well) pine for better cataloging and reference options.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2254 Stephen Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:18:13 +0000 http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2254 Thanks for that Matt. I think I must have misinterpreted a couple of the reviews i read. I stand corrected. (Will adjust post). I'm still way back on 10.3 so not default SQLite installed. Still I do have MySQL running on the old iBook - works just fine for testing Wordpress and Moodle stuff. Might grab a copy of SQLite and have a look. Thanks for that Matt. I think I must have misinterpreted a couple of the reviews i read. I stand corrected. (Will adjust post).

I’m still way back on 10.3 so not default SQLite installed. Still I do have MySQL running on the old iBook - works just fine for testing Wordpress and Moodle stuff. Might grab a copy of SQLite and have a look.

]]> By: Matt http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2253 Matt Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:00:10 +0000 http://www.greenflame.org/2007/11/15/bento/#comment-2253 Bento is built *by* FileMaker, but not based on it. Apparently it's using SQLite underneath, which is a flatfile sql db, not entirely unrelated to MySQL. (SQLite has shipped with Mac OS X since 10.4; you can poke around with the 'sqlite3' command line tool if you're keen.) I'm a FileMaker developer by day, so Bento's not especially exciting for me, but in the brief five minutes I spend with it it seemed a reasonably well executed idea. Bento is built *by* FileMaker, but not based on it. Apparently it’s using SQLite underneath, which is a flatfile sql db, not entirely unrelated to MySQL. (SQLite has shipped with Mac OS X since 10.4; you can poke around with the ’sqlite3′ command line tool if you’re keen.)

I’m a FileMaker developer by day, so Bento’s not especially exciting for me, but in the brief five minutes I spend with it it seemed a reasonably well executed idea.

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