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Bento Newsletter   |   Issue 20   February 2010

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Bento Template Exchange

3.0.3 Bento Update

Story: Rum, Food & Diving!

Apple Announces iPad

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Bento Template Exchange

200,000 Downloads from Bento Template Exchange

Last month we proudly announced that more than 200,000 templates have been downloaded from the Bento Template Exchange since its launch on 16th June 2009. The Bento Template Exchange now offers more than 400 templates for Bento, the personal database for Mac.

Bento templates to suit both work and home are shared by Bento users and range from Customer Appointments to Medication Record to Lecture Materials to Power Projects to My Job Search and even to The Beer Hunter! Other top templates include a job tracking system for creative agencies; Bills, Bills, Bills, a system for managing monthly bills; Sales Funnel Management and a sales opportunity tracking system.

35 Pre-designed In-Product Bento Templates
And don't forget that Bento comes with 35 pre-designed, in-product templates ready to get you up and running quickly. They include templates for Expenses, To Do Items, Time Billing, Contacts, Recipes, My House Search, Events, Job Search and more. Check them all out listed under our In-Product Templates category.

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Bento 3.0.3 Updater

Bento 3.0.3 Updater Available Now

For those using Bento 3, you may have received an update notification about the availability of Bento 3.0.3. This update resolves an issue related to older events in the iCal Events Library and an issue related to synchronisation.

Download the Bento 3.0.3 updater now

The Bento 3 Contact & Customer Manager

FREE Download "How to use your Bento 3 Contact & Customer Manager"

Last month FileMaker announced the Bento 3 Contact and Customer Manager, a customised set of three new templates including customer and client contacts, sales receipts and sales opportunities to make it easy for Mac users to organise all their contacts and customer details in one place. We've put together a short guide to make using the Bento Contact & Customer Manager easier for you.

Download guide now (PDF 196KB)

New Customer Story

Rum, Food & Diving!

Moe Kafer and her partner bought their first yacht and are learning to sail in the Caribbean whilst filming for TV. Their programmes are on Rum, Food & Diving and they are using Bento in more ways than you could ever imagine. They've organised everything using it: how they find where they've stored their supplies around the boat, the recipes they've collected on their travels, all the different rum distilleries and the rums they produce, their filming contacts, they've logged all of our equipment, the footage they've shot, business planning and dive locations. Living and working on a 42 ft boat can be tight so being organised is key and Bento IS that key.

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£15 iTunes Gift Card Could be Yours

Tell us about how you use Bento and if your story is published in Bento eNews we'll send you £15 iTunes Gift Card.

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Apple iPad

Apple Announces iPad

FileMaker, Inc. is extremely excited by iPad. As the leader in database software for Apple platforms (with FileMaker on Mac, and Bento on Mac and iPhone and iPod touch), we are actively exploring the possibilities created by iPad. Please keep reading FileMaker eNews for further updates and watch FileMaker to be among the first to hear more.

Featured Bento Template

February Featured Template

The Bento Template Exchange contains many real world uses of Bento, and downloadable templates, contributed by Bento customers and FileMaker, Inc. February's featured template is Usernames & Passwords.

Usernames & Passwords is a simple template to organise your log-in information for your favourite websites. The passwords are password protected. Add websites for a quick link and add logos for quick referencing in grid view.

Submit your Bento template today and we may feature your solution in a future issue of the Bento eNews!

Usernames & Passwords Template

Bento Template Exchange

See Real-world Uses for Bento

The Bento Template Exchange showcases real-world uses for Bento that you can browse, download, import and use. Be sure to look for templates created in the new Bento 3 that demonstrate many of its new features including the grid view, encrypted fields, simple list fields, image boxes and more!

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If you haven't already entered the realm of social media we would love to keep in touch with you via our online community on Twitter. You'll even find all our Bento video tutorials on YouTube. Join our group to become involved in discussions surrounding hot topics with other Bento customers.

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Bento User Forum

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Have a question about Bento? Need to report an issue? The Bento Forum is designed to answer product questions, solve issues, and take your suggestions for future releases.

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Buy Now! or Try Now!

Bento brings your important information together
in one place to help you get organised.
So you can manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects, prioritise tasks and more – faster and easier than ever before.

Single: £29.95
Family (5 licenses): £59.95

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Bento for iPhone and iPod touch is the portable version of the wildly popular personal database from FileMaker.

Purchase on iTunes: £2.99

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Purchase Tip

Avoid Delivery Charges.
Exclusive Download from our Webstore.
Now you can download your Bento software and use it immediately with this convenient alternative to traditional boxed software delivery! Convenient, quick and easy to use, the Electronic Software Download (ESD) option is exclusively available on the FileMaker webstore. In addition, if you select the ESD option for Bento (single and family packs) you can avoid delivery charges.

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