One of the better FileMaker habits has always been to document your code (cause there aren’t that many places to do it) and while the debate is clearly out on whether it’s better to spend the time on documentation or features, I can’t live without my documentation. Most especially, when it comes to FileMaker […]
Ever wondered on how to customize your Apple Stocks widget to use Google or Yahoo Finance? Here’s your answer.
On the note of FileMaker, the Cleveland Consulting Forums are quickly becoming one of my new favorite resources for interesting and useful techniques and formulas. For starters, there is this custom function which generates numbered lines. […]
So here’s the eighth volume of Secret Weapon Notes, and I’m reaching out to you readers as to your thoughts on such posts. Are they worthwhile for you? I love them in that they nicely consolidate a diverse and random set of links into a nice digest format and half the time I […]
Mikhail Edoshin has posted a great technique on his FileMaker blog (Bits & Pieces) on how to create “linked” fields that are directly editable and update each other to keep them in sync (using v7+ auto-enter capabilities is the trick). His idea is engineered beautifully and he’s nice enough to provide images, demonstration movies/screencasts, […]
That’s 4400+ in just a couple of months. How is it working for you?
The week started off with the interesting, strangely intuitive and logical news (in that “duh, of course Apple was working on this” way) that a partnership between Apple and Research in Motion is possible. “Such a deal would have huge merit because each company lacks what the other provides. RIM wants a firm […]
On the heels of the post about building your business with email, I found an interesting tip buried in the Apple help pages:
Adding multiple email alias addresses to an account
If you have multiple email addresses that are aliases to an email account, you can set up Mail so you can send messages from any of […]
It must have been announcement day over at the GooglePlex, but they released the Google Video player, which:
Watch videos downloaded from Google Video
Browse scenes within a video using thumbnails
Skip to anywhere in the video, even if that portion hasn’t downloaded yet
Sit back and watch videos in full screen mode
Resume video downloads automatically
The system requirements seem […]
Despite the enormous annoyance of spam, most any savvy internet user understands the enormous power and potential of the web and most any savvy email user, likewise, understands the power and potential of email.
There’s nothing new about this. Email is quick, easy, and dirt cheap and is a great way for small businesses to […]
The following link was originally in the middle of this post, but upon further review, it was SO insightful and informative that I couldn’t but help move it to the first slot.
Seth Godin presents a detailed analysis careof etre (pronounced ett in French for those with bad accents, pronounced ettre by those able to enunciate […]
