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Archive for January, 2006

FileMaker Solves (Some) Life-saving Katrina Problems…

By Emile • Jan 16th, 2006 • Category: General

I’m sure many fellow computer designers, users, programmers, FileMakers, DBA, etc. looked at the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and wondered how, beyond writing a check to the Red Cross (which isn’t a bad thing), could be more helpful. Habitat For Humanity is one thing that hits the target well, but quite frankly, it’s not […]



So I received iLife…

By Emile • Jan 12th, 2006 • Category: General

My thoughts on Apple’s venerable suite “…for the rest of your life” will be coming as the package arrived in the mail today. Without some decent reviews out yet, I’m looking to post my thoughts on it ASAP.
That being said, the installer initially couldn’t install because it needs 7.3GB of free space. Wha??? […]



Google Earth is officially released for Mac!!

By Emile • Jan 10th, 2006 • Category: General, Software, WWW

After a long, long wait, we Mac users can rejoice in the beauty that is Google Earth. Download it here.



FileMaker vs. Access

By Emile • Jan 10th, 2006 • Category: General, Noteworthy

The debate has been longstanding in the FileMaker community about how FM is substantially better and easier than Access. I’m not here to rehash a seemingly silly and hardly useful flame war, but with the pending (a year from now can be considered pending for Microsoft ) release of Office 12, FileMaker Inc, […]



I’m not dead

By Emile • Jan 5th, 2006 • Category: General

There is a large Michael Heileman-esque post coming I promise. Goodies galore and some useful info as well.