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Bento® 2 by FileMaker

Bento® 2, the new version of the wildly popular personal database from FileMaker® that's as easy to use as your Mac.

organise contacts, calendars, emails, events, files and photos

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Overview

Bento® 2, the new version of the wildly popular personal database from FileMaker® that's as easy to use as your Mac.

Now you can organise everything from contacts and calendars, to emails and events, to files and photos – all in one place. For Mac OS X Leopard only.

Highlights

Super easy to learn and use
Organises contacts, calendars, emails, events, files and photos in one place
Links directly to Mac OS X Address Book, iCal, and Apple Mail
Works with iPhone, iPod Touch and Mobile Me through Address Book and iCal
Works seamlessly with Excel and Numbers
Comes with more than 20 ready-to-use templates and themes
Designed exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard

Bring together Address Book, iCal, Apple Mail, and more!

From contacts and calendars, to emails and events, to files and photos, you can organise just about every type of information you have – all in one place.

The perfect complement to Excel and Numbers.

If you’re managing lists in Microsoft Excel or iWork Numbers, you can easily bring them into Bento to view your information in beautiful Bento forms, get easy iTunes-style searching, instant sorting, quick summary stats, and much more.

Get organised with style.

Even if you're brand new to the Mac community or to databases, it's never been easier to get organised thanks to ready-to-use templates and elegant themes designed by Mac artists.

What’s New in Bento 2

Apple Mail Integration

Get Instant Access to Related Messages

Link Apple Mail email messages, notes, and RSS articles directly to information stored in Bento with a simple drag and drop.
View messages instantly from within Bento using Quick Look.
Open selected messages in Apple Mail with a single click to easily reply or forward.

More Spreadsheet-like Behaviour

Includes familiar features you already know how to use

Use the new fill down feature or copy and paste to enter information faster and easier.
Just click, type, and tab to enter data just like you do in Microsoft Excel or iWork Numbers.
Plus, you can now add new fields and change field types right from the Table View with a few simple clicks.

Direct Numbers and Excel Support

Work with Numbers and Excel Seamlessly

Directly import Microsoft Excel or iWork Numbers spreadsheets. You no longer need to save spreadsheets as CSV files first.
Directly export Bento libraries to Microsoft Excel or iWork Numbers format. You no longer need to export libraries as CSV files first.
Copy and paste selected blocks of Microsoft Excel or iWork Numbers data into Bento to view information in beautiful Bento forms, get easy iTunes-style searching, quick sorting and instant summary stats.
Copy and paste Bento data back into your spreadsheet for further analysis and charting.

Import and Export Tab-Delimited Files

Great News for AppleWorks Users

Now you can do more with the AppleWorks information you already have on your Mac by bringing your databases and spreadsheets into Bento with a few clicks.
Simply export your AppleWorks data to a text file and then import into Bento.
You can also export data just as easily to get it back to AppleWorks or any program that supports tab-delimited files.

Template Import and Export

Exchange Bento Templates

Now you can exchange your favourite Bento library templates with other Bento users by simply exporting individual templates.
Plus you can get templates from other Bento users by importing them with a simple drag and drop.
Note: Individual Bento library templates contain the fields and forms from a library, but not the data.)

Split View

See summary and details together

The new hybrid Split View shows summaries and details together on one screen to make viewing and editing information easier than ever.
Now you can see lists of information in Table View on top and details in Form View below - all on the same screen.

Faster Form Customisation

Say “Goodbye” to Customise Mode

Now you can change a form layout instantly without having to enter Customise Mode.
Simply click near a field’s edge to select it. You can move or resize it, or change the font size, shading and more.
When you need to edit the data, just click inside the field. It’s that simple.

Built-In Links to Maps and Chat

Get Maps and Start Chats from Bento

Just click the new button near any address to automatically display maps or driving directions from the Web.
Even start a chat session with your IM buddies right from within Bento. (Requires an Internet connection and instant messaging account.)

More Printing Options

Print Forms and Lists Easier

In Form View, you can now print more than one record per page.
In Table View, you can use the new ‘Fit to Width’ option to make your columns automatically fit the width of the page.
This is great for phone lists, event registrations and more!

Ten More Themes

Make Your Forms Look Even Better

Dress your data in designer style, bring excitement to your day with new colours, or add a refreshing splash to your forms with the new swimming pool and sandy beach themes.
Plus, you can now preview themes before applying them to quickly find just the look you want.

Plus loads more features that let you link to a detailed view of every related record, see your existing Address Book photos in Bento, drag music and movies from iTunes directly into any media field, change the font size of field labels, and more!

What’s in the Box

Product CD
Installation booklet
Electronic documentation
License Key
Access Code for technical support

Minimum System Requirements

A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4
867 MHz or faster processor
512MB of RAM; 1GB recommended
A CD drive is required for installation of boxed product software

Important: Bento requires Mac OS X Leopard. If you haven’t yet upgraded, please visit www.apple.com/macosx

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Basic requirement not met

Written by SM from EDINBURGH

26-Mar-2009

Bento is good at the frills bit of a Database - providing patterned and coloured backgrounds etc. However, ask Bento to do a real…Read morely useful task of printing addresses, imported from Address Book, onto a sheet of labels it fails. Not only that but "Help" has no ideas either. I have had to revert to good old Appleworks which can do a mail-merge and do the printing. Bento is very disappointing!

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Everything in one place

Written by RC from Shenley

06-Mar-2009

I love Bento. The poster who complained about it only doing stuff that Address Book, iPhoto and iTunes do completely misses the po…Read moreint. Bento lets you have all of that (and more) in ONE PLACE. Then, you can cross-reference and file things that are linked rather than going from one application to another.

I use it for many different little projects and even for keeping a record of my exercise training schedule. If you're using a spreadsheet to keep lists of things or finding it hard to keep track of files, emails, tasks, appointments, to-dos, then I thoroughly recommend Bento.

(3 of 3 people found this review useful)
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Great if you need to manage and organise projects

Written by MM from Sheffield

05-Mar-2009

Downloaded the trial version of this product to see how useful this would be for organising my university projects, and I have to …Read moresay it's brilliant!
Having looked at the rating on here I can't help noticing it's been severely reduced due to 2 bad reviews, which have been duplicated giving 4 bad reviews, one of which was by somebody who clearly could not see the use in the product, and so believed their own short-sightedness to be a problem with the product itself.
With this program I can forget searching through the finder to look for all my research articles, or emails, or drafts, I can have everything in one neatly organised box, with easy access to everything related to a particular project. I can have contact info, to-do lists, deadlines, reminders, drafts, emails, articles, research data all in one place. This is also helpful if you like to be able to visualise everything about a project in one place. And I can quickly skip to different projects without having to move through hundreds of folders.
This program is by no means limited to projects, and Bento themselves encourage people to find unique ways of using it to organise their lives. By combining information from all Apple's productivity programs into one simple interface there is no need to have a million and one windows open, creating a nightmare for organising what you are supposed to be doing.
All this for £30, and available to trial, and available as a download make this program a winner for me, it has made things very very easy to organise, and the flexibility and usefulness are unlimited, so long as you can think of a way to use it.

(12 of 15 people found this review useful)
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don't like it

Written by GL from BRISTOL

26-Nov-2008

Sorry but I bought this and thought it was useless. Don't buy it if you want to do any kind of mail merge or print labels as it fo…Read morerces you back to using less than friendly address book to do antyhing with addresses! It is a very neutered version of Filemaker, and sadly has less ability than my old copy of Apple works 6.2 (which Bento can't import).

(50 of 68 people found this review useful)
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Fantastic simple to use database

Written by SG from Loughborough

07-Nov-2008

This is a really simple to use database. Set the feilds you want to collect data for in a table or start a simple database in a sp…Read morereadsheet. Import and select where each field goes. Need to track emails related to a particular project, simple add an predesigned email field and as long as you have the email in mail just drag and drop the same for associated files on your mac. All with out having to spend hours learning database programming.

Unfortunately my company does do mac but with this program maybe they should!!!!. Unfortunately do go expecting its bigger brother (Filemaker pro) to be as easy or to import those lovely designed databases!

(33 of 46 people found this review useful)
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Do not waste your time or hard drive space.

Written by DJ from HALIFAX

26-Jan-2009

Database for your music, what is itunes? Database for your contacts, what is address book? Database for your photo media, what i…Read mores iphoto. I teach ICT and bought this cause the demos looked good. But creating databases of all the things that are already in better databases does not make sense. I know that you can create your own databases, but they are all very basic because they are flat file. If you need database software get something where you can actually create relationships otherwise you would be better of using a spreadsheet.

(29 of 40 people found this review useful)
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