[pianotech] Piano software for Mac

[Rob McCall]

If you don't need the full power of Filemaker and aren't up to the  
task of programming,  look into a much easier solution called, "Bento".

It's actually made by Filemaker, but it's simple, has a drag and drop  
interface and plays well with your address book and iCal. It's very  
inexpensive and it has a free download period so you can try it out.  
it also integrates with Numbers or Excel.  If you're a Mac person,  
it's nearly perfect! $49 and easy to use!!

You can find it here:  http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/overview.html?nav=products-bento

Regards,

Rob McCall
Murrieta, CA


On Mar 25, 2009, at 21:21 , pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:
>
> If you have some computer knowledge, purchase one of the "Missing
> Manuals" by Geoff Coffey and Susan Prosser - published by O'Reilly
> Press.  Very step-by-step and comes with lots of examples of
> invoicing, reporting, promotion e-mails, etc.
>
> I am about 50% of the way through compiling a pretty exhaustive client
> database system in Filemaker.  It's on hiatus now, though, as I'm a
> student at the Chicago School and focusing on that.  This summer I
> hope to finish it so that it can be the mainframe for my business.
> Filemaker is 100% PC/Mac compatible, too.
>
> This is very doable.
>
> Alex
>
> Alexander Lass
> Chicago, IL
>
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Daniel Carlton wrote:
>
>> That makes two of us. :-)
>>
>> I've downloaded a 30-day trial version of Filemaker 10 to see how
>> that might help my business. But it would be more helpful if a good
>> programmer could put this all together for us techs.
>>
>> Just thinking out loud ... are there enough Mac/iPhone techs who
>> could join together to hire a programmer to design a program for us?
>> Customized to the way we want? 50 techs x $400 each = $20,000.  But
>> I don't know if that would come close to paying for a project like
>> this. I'd be happy to pay the $400 (or more) for a good program.
>>
>> Anyone with programming experience to provide an educated guess on
>> the cost of a project like this?
>>
>> John I've downloaded Filemaker, too, but from the help file, it
>> looked pretty complicated, so I haven't gone any further with it
>> yet. I've wondered too getting a developer to write something.
>> To be honest with you, I'd probably even pay more than that for a
>> good application.
>>
>>
>> Daniel Carlton