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Filemaker Go 1.2 Expands iOS Feature Set

2011-05-04T04:51:00.000+08:00

The latest version of Filemaker Go--the database software provider's iOS-based mobile application for business users--adds charts and graphs, digital signature capture, enhanced PDF tools, and wireless printing while allowing users to develop custom applications for the iPhone or iPad without heavy-duty development work.

FileMaker Delivers Flexible, Cross-Platform Database

2011-05-04T04:47:00.000+08:00

FileMaker doesn't get much respect as a business-class database--especially among Windows users. However, FileMaker has the unique benefit of working across multiple OS and hardware platforms, and the latest updates make the database even more powerful and flexible.

New FileMaker Web Movies Available

2004-12-23T18:23:00.000+08:00

FileMaker Web Publishing gets even easier! FMWebschool has a new video series that covers FileMaker custom web publishing.
http://www.fxforge.net/video.php The CD covers everything you need to know about setting up FileMaker 7 to work with FX.php, building an FileMaker website, and installation and set-up of FileMaker Server 7 Advanced. This CD will teach you how to build web pages and launch them using FileMaker 6 and 7! To see a list of the movies included on the CD, please navigate to: http://www.fxforge.net/video.php

Buy this CD before Dec 29th, and receive 20% off the price!

* This CD contains 50 Movies. These are screen capture movies created on both the Macintosh and PC. Stephen Knight provides voice instruction on each movie. Watch in real time as each page is coded and created. Learn how to use Note Pad and Professional Web editors to work with your code.

* This CD contains a copy of FX.php In 8 Hours. This electronic manual is 100 pages and is covered on the CD.

* Companion Files. Each movie has a set of "work along" companion files. So you can "create" as you learn!

* FX.php and EasyPHP are also included on the CD

Want to see FileMaker and FX.php in action? Visit www.servicefinders.net

To participate in an online FX.php community, please visit:
http://fxforge.net/phpBB2/

Remember to save 20% purchase before December 29th!

In Kindness
Stephen K. Knight
www.fmwebschool.com
1-800-353-7950
Professional FileMaker Web Services

FileMaker Pro 7 Database Software Is MacWorld Magazine's Editors' Choice

2004-12-23T10:34:00.000+08:00

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 22 -- FileMaker, Inc. announced today that Macworld magazine has honored FileMaker Pro 7 with an Eddy, the publication's Editors' Choice Award (http://www.macworld.com/2004/12/features/eddy2004part4/index.php).

"FileMaker Pro 7 is no mere update to a venerable product," said MacWorld editors. "Instead, it's the most significant overhaul of the most widely used Mac database app since FileMaker went relational back in 1995." This marks the second time that MacWorld has honored FileMaker Pro 7 this year. In October 2004, MacWorld gave FileMaker Pro 7 a five-mouse rating, the highest product rating provided by the magazine's editors ( http://www.macworld.com/2004/09/reviews/filemakerpro7/index.php ).

Since its launch in March 2004, FileMaker Pro 7 has received numerous awards, including PC Magazine's "Editors' Choice" Award, "Outstanding Education Product of the Year" from Technology & Learning magazine, eWeek Labs' "Analyst Choice" award, and PC World's Editor Choice award.

About FileMaker, Inc.
FileMaker Pro is used by millions of individuals and workgroups around the world to be more productive and efficient. Business, education and government customers rely on FileMaker to manage people, projects, images, assets and other information. In addition to being the number one-selling easy-to-use database software, the award-winning FileMaker product line also includes low-cost Applications that automate basic business tasks, ready-to-use Starter Solutions, and tools to create and share solutions from the desktop to the web.
FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL).

NOTE: FileMaker is a trademark of FileMaker, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Customer contact:
800-325-2747
http://www.filemakertrial.com/

Deaf Children Learn To Read With Sign Language Database

2004-12-23T10:32:00.000+08:00

SANTA CLARA, Ca., December 21 Deaf children and adults around the world are learning to read and communicate better thanks to SignBank a FileMaker Pro database application that stores the movements, hand shapes and facial expressions in a written form of sign language known as SignWriting.

By correlating signs to written words, SignBank helps improve literacy among deaf-born adults and children, who often have difficulty learning to read a spoken language based on sounds they have never heard. SignBank also helps the deaf understand other sign languages.

Imagine how hard it is for deaf people to learn the printed words of a spoken language when they have never heard any of these sounds, said Valerie Sutton, creator and director of SignBank and inventor of SignWriting. The database lets them search on words or signs. For many, this is the first time they have looked up a word in a dictionary, and the quick connection they make to written expression is inspirational.

A Key to Literacy Among the Deaf
Illiteracy rates are high among the deaf. Teaching these students to read is an ongoing challenge for educators. At a number of schools in the United States and Europe SignBank provides a vital link between sign language and written language.

These children have to learn two languages American Sign Language, which is their native language, and English, which is their written language, said Dr. Cecilia Flood, SignWriting Literacy Project director for Albuquerque Public Schools Pilot Program, who has been using SignBank at the Hodgin school since 1999. SignBank is the first exposure to a written form of the native language, and the children love it. The competency they instinctively feel to seeing and understanding a written form of Sign Language transfers directly to seeing and understanding the written form of English.

Multilingual Sign Language Dictionary
In addition to improving literacy, the SignBank also translates sign languages. Contrary to popular belief, sign languages are not international. There are hundreds of sign languages in the world that differ from culture to culture and country to country. American Sign Language, for instance, is different from British Sign Language, which is different from Irish Sign Language.

As the written form of sign language, SignWriting is being used by thousands of deaf and hearing-impaired people in 27 countries to improve deaf education.

SignWriting was originally invented in 1974 by Sutton, then a professional ballet dancer, as a way to write dance movements. The SignWriting alphabet is a way to write body movement much as the Roman alphabet writes words in English, French or German. By capturing the individual visual hand shapes, movement arrows and facial expressions that make up in the SignBank FileMaker Pro database, SignWriting is now searchable and interactive for students and researchers.

The SignBank database includes a dictionary of sign symbols that can be sorted and printed, or viewed as picture dictionaries for children, as well as multi-lingual databases for researchers, complete with video clips and animation.

Originally, compiled as two standalone dictionaries in the 1980s, Sutton and her team reprogrammed the dictionaries in FileMaker Pro in order for the collection of symbols, signs, lessons, and manuals to become completely searchable and interrelated. Also, with a FileMaker Pro web access, the collection of 25,000 symbols that comprise the SignBank is readily available to help researchers around the word develop new software based on SignWriting.

SignBank is available as a free download (http://www.signbank.org/signbank.html) for individual users PC or Macintosh users worldwide. Other users, such as schools and researchers, pay a modest fee to use the software.

About FileMaker, Inc.
FileMaker Pro (www.filemaker.com) is used by millions of individuals and workgroups around the world to be more productive and efficient. Business, education and government customers rely on FileMaker to manage people, projects, images, assets and other information. In addition to being the number one-selling easy-to-use database software, the award-winning FileMaker product line also includes low-cost Applications that automate basic business tasks, ready-to-use Starter Solutions, and tools to create and share solutions from the desktop to the web. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).

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Media contact:
Kevin Mallon
408-987-7227
kevin_mallon@filemaker.com

FileMaker releases a new JDBC Update for Mac OS X

2004-12-23T10:30:00.000+08:00

FileMaker Inc has released a new JDBC Update for Mac OS X for use with FileMaker Pro 7, Developer 7 and Server 7 Advanced. This update includes the much anticipated xDBC plug-in and JDBC Client Driver for Mac OS X, previously available only on Windows operating systems. This software gives Mac customers the ability to use FileMaker products as a JDBC data source for sharing information with a wide range of Mac desktop, database or web applications. FileMaker Server 7 Advanced customers can also share information with Windows based ODBC or JDBC applications due to the remote connectivity options provided by the xDBC plug-in. Installation is easy, and customers can utilize the documentation that ships with their product (Pro 7, Developer 7 or Server 7 Advanced) to quickly set up JDBC functionality with any FileMaker application.

To obtain more information on the new JDBC functionality for Mac OS X, or to download the necessary software and installation ReadMe, please visit:

http://www.filemaker.com/downloads

Note: This release includes the xDBC plug-in and JDBC Client Driver software only. The ODBC Client Driver for Mac OS X is currently in development, and will be included in a future release targeted for the first quarter of 2005.

FileMaker Names Simon Thornhill Vice President of Engineering

2004-12-23T10:19:00.000+08:00

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 13 -- FileMaker, maker of the #1-selling easy-to-use database software, today announced the appointment of Simon Thornhill as the company's vice president of Engineering. In his new role, Thornhill, a veteran of twenty years in the software industry, will focus on setting company-wide database software technology directions.

While at Borland Software Corporation for the past 12 years, Thornhill served as vice president and general manager for the .NET group, and as vice president and general manager for the RAD group. He was also director of development for Borland's Windows product group.

Thornhill has also led software teams at Ashton-Tate as International R&D Manager in England and at Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, Mass. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Lancaster, England.

"With the recent successful introduction of the new FileMaker 7 product line, this is an exciting time for Simon to lead the FileMaker Engineering team," said Dominique Goupil, president, FileMaker. "With a strong understanding of the needs of today's knowledge worker, Simon is keenly equipped to lead the next generation of FileMaker software development," he added.

About FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker Pro is used by millions of individuals and workgroups around the world to be more productive and efficient. Business, education and government customers rely on FileMaker to manage people, projects, images, assets and other information. In addition to being the number one-selling easy-to-use database software, the award-winning FileMaker product line also includes low- cost Applications that automate basic business tasks, ready-to-use Starter Solutions, and tools to create and share solutions from the desktop to the web. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL - News).

Customer contact: 800-325-2747 http://www.filemakertrial.com/

NOTE: FileMaker is a trademark of FileMaker, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.