OT: Conversion Units Reviewer for iPad

Here's a quick reviewer you can use to memorize English to Metric, Metric to English, English to English and Time conversion units. Here's how to get it:

1. Download FileMaker Go 12 for iPad from the App Store.
2. Download the Units file here from your iPad and Open it in FileMaker Go.

Hope you find it useful!

Time Billing: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Time Billing Starter Solution lets you account for your time spent, and generates billing statements for service-related businesses. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

FileMaker Go 11 and 12 Updated for iOS 6

FileMaker Inc has released updates to FileMaker Go 11 and 12 for both iPhone and iPad, which addresses compatibility issues related to iOS 6. The updates can be downloaded for free from the Updates tab of the App Store app.

iOS 6, Apple's latest mobile operating system used in the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, is due to be released on September 19, 2012.

FileMaker Server 12.0v2 and FileMaker Server Advanced 12.0v2 Released

FileMaker Inc. released yesterday Mac OS X and Windows updaters for FileMaker Server, which addresses issues related to the following:

Tasks: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Tasks Starter Solution is a quick way to organize your activities. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

Resource Scheduling: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Resource Scheduling Starter Solution enables you to monitor every resource involved in your activities and events. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

Research Notes: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Research Notes Starter Solution makes compiling all related information for your project easier. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

Apple Software Updates for OS X Mountain Lion

As expected, Apple has released software updates for software not included in OS X Mountain Lion, such as iWork, iLife, and other pro apps. So fire up Software Update from the Apple Menu and make sure you have the disk space and bandwidth for at least 2GB of downloads if you have both iWork and iLife installed.

OS X Mountain Lion Now Available

Fire up your Mac App Store; OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is now available for download. The 4.05GB download is US$19.99. Hit up the link below to go straight to the Mac App Store:

• OS X Mountain Lion Download (Mac App Store)

Projects: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Projects Starter Solution consolidates your projects and tasks into an easy to use database. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

Recently Bought a Mac? Get Mountain Lion for Free.

If you've purchased a Mac lately, you may be eligible to get a free upgrade to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion when it's released in a couple of days, with the following conditions:

• The Mac must be purchased between June 11, 2012 and the day Mountain Lion is released.
• You'll have to make the upgrade request within 30 days after Mountain Lion is released.

To avail of the free upgrade, visit the link below when Apple makes Mountain Lion available:

• OS X Mountain Lion Up-To-Date Program

Product Catalog: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Product Catalog Starter Solution organizes your product information. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

Off Topic: What's in Steve Wozniak's Backpack?

Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak writes in Gizmodo about what's in his backpack. Interesting read:

• The Amazing Contents of Steve Wozniak's Travel Backpack

Quick Tip: Connect to FTP through OS X Finder

To quickly access an FTP site through the Mac OS X Finder (without using a third party application such as Fetch, Cyberduck, or FileZilla), just choose Connect To Server... from the Go menu (or press Command+K). You'll get the box above. Type the server address starting with ftp:// and click Connect. Type in your user name and password and the remote site will appear as a mounted drive in your desktop.

Take note though, that the remote site you mount will be read-only so this technique is only good if you want to browse or copy files from the site.

Personnel Records: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Personnel Records Starter Solution quickly gets your 201 files in order. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

Quick Tip: Decompress Files with Stuffit Expander

For most purposes, Mac OS X's built-in Archive utility is good enough to handle your regular Zipping and Unzipping needs. But if you have a compressed file that ends in something else than .ZIP (or sometimes a .ZIP file with a password), you can use the free Stuffit Expander utility from Smith Micro Software:

• Stuffit Expander from the Mac App Store
• Stuffit Expander from the Smith Micro website

Here are the file extensions that Stuffit Expander can open:

FileMaker Pro 12.0v2 Updater Out

FileMaker Inc has released the FileMaker Pro 12.0v2 updater for both FileMaker Pro 12 and FileMaker Advanced 12 for Mac OS X and Windows. The updater is recommended for all users of FileMaker Pro 12 and contains a host of bug fixes and improvements to the functionality of the software. The updater ranges from 300MB to 350MB in size and can be downloaded from the following location:

• Software Update: FileMaker Pro 12.0v2 and FileMaker Pro 12.0v2 Advanced

Here's a list of what's been updated in FileMaker Pro 12.0v2:

Zebras on the MacBook Pro

Here's an interesting tidbit for photography buffs: Digital Photography Review website features the story of how the photo used for Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina Display product shots were taken:

• Behind the photo: Apple's Retina MacBook Pro zebras (dpreview)

You can see details on the photo plus other images taken by Steve Bloom on his website.

Meetings: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Meetings Starter Solution is a great way to organize your business meetings. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

OS X Mountain Lion Now Golden Master

Apple's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion's Golden Master has been seeded to Apple Developers recently. "Golden Master" status is normally the final test version of the software, with little or no bugs, and is ready for release to the general public. Some links:

• Apple ships final OS X Mountain Lion to developers (MacWorld)
• OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Golden Master seeded to developers (AppleInsider)
• Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion Golden Master to Developers, Xcode 4.4 (9 to 5 Mac)

Inventory: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

The Inventory Starter Solution is a quick way to monitor your business' products and services details, location, and costing information. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

How To Get Ready For OS X Mountain Lion

Apple is set to launch OS X Mountain Lion any time this July, and here's some tips to prepare your Mac for the big day:

Make sure your Mac is supported.
Head over to http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ to check that your Mac can run OS X Mountain Lion. Aside from the having at least OS X 10.6.8 (or newer), 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of hard disk space, you'll have to check the model of your Mac if it's supported.

Expense Report: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

If you're looking for a way to organize your expenses, whether business or personal, the Expense Report template is a quick and easy way to store all related information in one database, and keep track of expenses for different activities of different people, if you're working in a large organization.

Expense Report is one of the built-in FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solutions. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

Once you've created the starter solution, you'll be shown the Report Details screen (shown above), where you can start entering the expense details. This includes information such as Location, Purpose, Employee, and Approvals. Each record's status can be tagged as either Pending, Submitted, Rejected, or Approved. You have a list of expenses and mileage details you can encode based on date and category. When you encode the Cash Advance received in the bottom of the screen, the total reimbursable amount will be automatically calculated.

You can attach a scanned receipt for each expense or mileage entry you make. These can be printed as well.

The buttons on the top right corner of the database area lets you print out a report of all the information for the Report. The Expense Report button sends it to your printer. The Send by Email creates an Email message with a PDF file of the expense report attached to it.

The Expense Report button lets you print a summary of all the report entries. You can also save this to a PDF for future reference with FileMaker Pro's built-in PDF output capabilities.

Clicking the Expense List button shows you a list of all expense reports you've created, with an option to sort it by Month, Summary, Employee Name, Location, or Approval. You can also import and export event records to any of the file formats supported by FileMaker Pro, and print out all the records you're viewing.

The Expense List screen.

Aside from the professionally designed templates that look great on the desktop version of FileMaker Pro 12 (for Macintosh or Windows), additional layouts for FileMaker Go 12 for iOS and built-in scripts in the Starter Solution automatically show the best layout based on your mobile device (either iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch). Here's what the iPad layout looks like:

Report List

Report Details

Expense List

Mileage List

Mileage Detail

You can work with this starter solution in your iOS device in several ways:

• You can sync it with your iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch using iTunes.
• You can email the file to your iOS device and open it with FileMaker Go 12.
• You can enable FileMaker Network Sharing in FileMaker Pro 12, and open the file remotely using FileMaker Go 12.

To access this Starter Solution, open FileMaker Pro 12 and click File > New From Starter Solution. This works even with the trial version of FileMaker Pro 12. Enjoy!

Event Management: FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solution

Event Management is one of the built-in FileMaker Pro 12 Starter Solutions. It's one of the 16 pre-made templates that's available for you to start using for your database requirements. It's fully unlocked so you can view and modify the database tables, relationships, layouts, and scripts.

This database comprises 2 main sections: Events and Contacts.

Events

The Event Details screen is where you'll be brought to when you first create the database.  Your event can be anything: a meeting, a party, a wedding, or an anniversary; this makes it useful for business as well as personal events. You can start typing information, venue, dates, and addresses about a particular event. A small map of the venue is automatically shown once you enter an address (if Google Maps can find it), provided that your PC or device has an Internet connection.

The upper right part of the screen shows tabbed controls where you can view and enter the Tasks to be done for the event, the Guests attending the event, the Agenda for the event, and detailed Notes for the event. There are buttons in the Tasks, Guests, and Agenda tabs to print out the specified list to your selected printer for reference.

Tasks Tab

Guests Tab

Agenda Tab

Notes Tab

Guest Badges can be printed out straight from the Guests Tab, a cool feature. 

The lower right part of the screen shows a list of contributors playing a role in the event. The people listed here are the ones you can assign tasks to in the Tasks tab control. You can also print out this list with a click.

The buttons on the top right corner of the database area lets you print out a multi-page report of all the information for your event. The Event Report button sends it to your printer. The PDF button creates a PDF file and opens it in your PC or iOS device, and the button with the Mail/Envelope icon creates an Email message with the PDF attached to it.

Clicking the Event List button shows you a list of all events you've created, with an option to sort it by Time Frame, Event, Type, Venue, City or State. You can also import and export event records to any of the file formats supported by FileMaker Pro, and print out all the records you're viewing.

In the upper left corner of the database window, you'll see a Navigation Menu (something that we've seen in the Invoices and Estimates Starter Solutions before). Clicking that lets you switch between the Events and Contacts section of the database.

Contacts

Selecting the Contacts option from the Navigation Menu shows you a list of Contacts that you can use for events. These contacts can either be contributors or attendees for any event that you create. This section is similar to the Contacts Starter Solution with the addition of showing a list of events the Contact is associated with. 

Aside from the professionally designed templates that look great on the desktop version of FileMaker Pro 12 (for Macintosh or Windows), additional layouts for FileMaker Go 12 for iOS and built-in scripts in the Starter Solution automatically show the best layout based on your mobile device (either iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch).


For the Event Management Starter Solution, there are actually more layouts in the iPad version than that of the desktop version. Here's some of the layouts:

 

You can work with this starter solution in your iOS device in several ways:

• You can sync it with your iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch using iTunes.
• You can email the file to your iOS device and open it with FileMaker Go 12.
• You can enable FileMaker Network Sharing in FileMaker Pro 12, and open the file remotely using FileMaker Go 12.

To access this Starter Solution, open FileMaker Pro 12 and click File > New From Starter Solution. This works even with the trial version of FileMaker Pro 12. Enjoy!