Publisher's Description
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Bento is designed to help Mac users organize their lives by giving them one place to put their important information, from contacts and calendars to projects and events. Bento can organize activities related to work, home, school and community. Bento automatically displays contacts and calendars kept within Address Book and iCal. There is no need to re-enter existing names, phone numbers, email addresses and upcoming events into Bento so users can start organizing and extending to their information right away. Bento users can organize contacts, calendars, photos and files so they can easily do the following and more: Manage a vast amount of contact details Coordinate events, parties and fundraisers Track projects, assignments and deadlines Connect related information together Prioritize tasks Catalog inventory, donations and items for sale Record hours worked and payments due Assign ratings to service providers and sellers Create libraries for music, movies and other media Store files and photos in relation to projects and events Bento builds on Leopards gorgeous new look and consistent design to bring simplicity and style to personal databases. Key features include: Built-in links to Address Book and iCal. Be productive instantly by integrating and adding to your contact and calendar information. Add photos to your contacts, add invitees to an iCal event, and more. And because Bento links with Address Book and iCal, you can see data on your iPhone or share it over the Web with .Mac. Stylish templates and themes. More than 20 ready-to-use templates sport elegant themes to reflect each user's unique style, personality or activity. Forms and fields are designed with coordinated colors, layouts, fonts and text styles for immediate use. Works with iPhone and .Mac. Bento links to live Address Book and iCal data. No synchronization is necessary to be in sync with Bento, since Apple's core technology takes the information to iPhone and .Mac for sharing over the Web. iTunes-like search. Searching, organizing and sorting records is simple. Create collections to store work, personal or volunteer tasks in the same way you would create smart playlists in iTunes or albums in iPhoto. Drag, drop and import with ease. Rearranging, regrouping and viewing lists or forms are drag-and-drop easy, as is importing or exporting data from Microsoft Excel, Numbers or any other program that creates CSV files. See things your way. One-click customization options for themes, columns displayed, label positions, text sizes, shading, and alignment; the Table View allows for easy sorting and quick stats in Summary Row; Add more pages to view different slices of information. Get the Leopard experience. Users will love many of the exciting new Leopard capabilities in Bento, including: Media Manager, which allows users to store and change images in Bento fields; live connection to iCal, which exchanges data between calendars and tasks; Advanced Find, which re-uses the Advanced Find module from Leopard Finder for pinpointing specific information within the database; and Time Machine, the new Leopard feature that allows for easy database back-ups. Bento by FileMaker Bento is brought to you by FileMaker, and it takes advantage of the company20 years of database software experience. FileMaker, Inc., makers of the legendary FileMaker Pro, one of the world's easiest to use full-featured databases, now brings you a personal database with virtually a zero learning curve.
What's new in this version:
- Now supports five additional languages:
- In addition to Worldwide English, Bento 2.0v2 now supports French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.
- Resolves issues related to overall stability.
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"Great Functionality & Design; but not for Inventory Mgt"
Version: Bento 4.0.6
Pros
The linking between all the tables in the library/database
The flexibility and ability to customise to your heart's desire
Customer service (even pre purchase) is fantastic via the forumsCons
It is not a relational database (which means it doesn't update records, you have to record changes manually). I have to admit that I knew this already, but thought I could work around it.
Summary
When I first downloaded the trial version of this, I loved it. I thought, if I could just wrap my head around what I need, I can build the right links and tables etc to my requirements. I hit some speed bumps, and contacted them via the forum and they answered promptly and in very helpful detail. I carried on, but in the end I realised that for my needs (managing inventory/manufacturing levels, as well as purchasing of raw materials and sales of finished goods), I might be able to get it to work, but there would be so much manual tweaking that is wasn't worth it in the end. I would still buy this if I can figure out a justification for another project.
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"Useless program"
Version: Bento 4.0.6
Pros
I had nothing positive to say about this product but this site demands that something be entered in this space, so I will say that the advertising for Bento had pretty pictures on it.
Cons
I downloaded this program to try it and found that the tutorial videos did not work, and access to its "Forum" did not work. Plus there was no accessible "help'
The problem seemed to be that although the app. went on line with no problem there was no working site for it to use. -
"Designed to be a catch-all database, nice templates"
Version: Bento 4.0.6
Pros
Inexpensive, easy to use database.
Cons
Relies on iCal to show a month's of events? Why not build a calendar into Bento? I don't want to have to open multiple programs.
Summary
I've tried Daylite, which is costly, cumbersome in some ways, and Filemaker which is great but again relies on 3rd party for a simple calendar. I've settled on SOHO Organizer 9. BYW I am in remote insurance sales (WebEx, Email etc) so everything I do is on the phone and computer with email, calendar, and a customer database. I also liked Fantastical for a calendar.
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"Simple to use"
Version: Bento 4.0.3
Pros
Easy to use
Cons
Too many restraints on formatting.
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"Not what I was looking for"
Version: Bento 4.0.3
Pros
Might be great for someone else
Cons
I was looking for a simple database, nothing fancy. Bento relates to too many programs. I deleted it
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"Replacement for Appleworks Data Base"
Version: Bento 4.0.3
Pros
Does just what I need to replace Appleworks.
Cons
None so far.
Summary
Because Appleworks will no longer work under Lion, I needed a new data base.
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"Broke compatibility with the old Bento App for iphone"
Version: Bento 4.0
Pros
none at all
Cons
Didn't want to upgrade but I was forced too because I updated my iphone app and syncing between the two was broken. Feel like I just got robbed.
Summary
Hate this company now
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"Version 4.0.2 works OK"
Version: Bento 4.0
Pros
Downloaded and upgraded with no problem
Cons
Nothing yet.
Summary
Version 4.0.2 seems to have fixed the complaints noted by earlier reviewers.
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"Bento 4.0.2 released today!"
Version: Bento 4.0
Pros
Bento 4.0.2 for Mac corrects an issue where Bento 4 appears to have crashed when displaying summary rows in databases converted from Bento 3.
This is a display issue and no data has been affected.Cons
You must download and install the update.
Summary
Download the update at http://www.filemaker.com/support/downloads/. Mac App Store will push a notification when available.
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"**Bento 4 trashes the database file as it updates it!**"
Version: Bento 4.0
Pros
None - simply doesn't work at all (with pre-existing databases.)
Cons
Trashes the database file as it updates it, rendering it unusable with any version. Then the damaged database causes Bento to hang, requiring a "Force-Quit". The only option is to revert to Bento 3, & rename the backup database.
Summary
An incompetent unusable, "upgrade" that should be avoided until they actually get it to work.
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