by Agnes Riley - May 15, 2012, filed under: Advanced, Beginner, General
As you may know by now FileMaker 12 is out. A lot of articles have been written about the various features, so I’m not going to bore you with that. FileMaker 12 for iOS is free, so if you haven’t grabbed a copy, go get it. It comes with some demo files to play with [...]
by Agnes Riley - April 5, 2012, filed under: General
I wish I could write about FileMaker 12 (which I will, soon) but there’s a more eminent issue right now: there’s apparently a new trojan out there attacking our Macs. When I read something like this, I generally just ignore it (because I have not seen a virus, malware or trojan for Mac OS X), but I [...]
by Agnes Riley - March 29, 2012, filed under: General
Another great session at Essex Computer in Paramus. We had the pleasure of having Todd Geist from Geist Interactive remotely demoing GoDraw. Todd always blows me away. He is unbelievably smart with a keen eye to design producing highly, sought-after solutions for FileMaker, such as telephony integration or GoSign to name a couple. The brand [...]
by Agnes Riley - March 26, 2012, filed under: General
Everyone I know is familiar with Microsoft Excel to some extent. Some people are more well-versed than others and can do complex data management. Not long ago I met with a consulting company who is working with one of the largest companies in the country to install hardware nation-wide. The original process is so cumbersome [...]
by Agnes Riley - March 18, 2012, filed under: General
We can all agree on one thing: Apple knows design. The reason why Apple’s design is excellent is because it’s minimalistic and draws the users’ eyes to what needs to be seen and hides the rest. A perfect example is the aluminum keyboard: size: as small as physically possible for average fingers to type on; [...]
by Agnes Riley - February 15, 2012, filed under: General
What is a consultant and why do I care about how to hire them? Good questions! First of all, here’s the dictionary reference for the word consultant: con•sul•tant |kənˈsəltnt| noun a person who provides expert advice professionally. Now why would you want to spend time reading this article instead of just hopping on the phone [...]
by Agnes Riley - February 6, 2012
When the conditional formatting feature was announced by FileMaker some of us screamed “yeehaw”. No, really. It was a long-awaited feature and right away we knew there are no limits to its usefulness. If you do not know what conditional formatting is, here’s an excerpt from FileMaker Inc.’s website. You can set Conditional Formatting for [...]
by Agnes Riley - December 29, 2011, filed under: Advanced
Email is a hairy subject. Not just because we have POP, IMAP and SMTP servers to deal with, but also ports, authentication, port restrictions by ISPs, syncing problems, etc. I generally tell users to sick to their email programs, if that’s an option. There are certainly some times when it’s worth dealing with it and [...]
by Agnes Riley - October 3, 2011
The September meeting was interesting from several prospectives. We had our core group of people, of which I’m still the youngest, probably by age, as well as time spent in the community. I brought to the meeting a box of Dunkin’ Donuts munchkins, for no particular reason. I also learned that Ginger Bread is out [...]
by Agnes Riley - September 7, 2011, filed under: Beginner, General
One of my clients called this week and told me his logo got inverted when printing to a PDF. Also, the PDF file size doubled. Previously it did not occur to me to check the file he received from his designer, because I wrongfully assumed the designer gave him the appropriate file. But this brings [...]
