David in Spain

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Bento

Setting up a database with Bento and using the information stored in record that you have already in Address Book and getting access in the same place to iCal events and Apple Mail.Using data that is stored in one place and one place only is a nirvana for databases. That way you can’t have different versions of the same data and lose your database integrity. That’s what I want to have this work so that I can collect the data in Address book and so long as I put in a keyword in the Note fired then the information will also propagate into Bento also. So I don’t have to have Bento open all the time but when I do open the application I will have all at my finger tips.Why I think Bento is so useful is because it is easy to set up extra fields for information that you want to track and even though it isn’t a relational database like Filemaker is it so much better that keeping your data in a spreadsheet table.

Setting up a database with Bento and using the information stored in record that you have already in Address Book and getting access in the same place to iCal events and Apple Mail.

Using data that is stored in one place and one place only is a nirvana for databases. That way you can’t have different versions of the same data and lose your database integrity. That’s what I want to have this work so that I can collect the data in Address book and so long as I put in a keyword in the Note fired then the information will also propagate into Bento also.

So I don’t have to have Bento open all the time but when I do open the application I will have all at my finger tips.

Why I think Bento is so useful is because it is easy to set up extra fields for information that you want to track and even though it isn’t a relational database like Filemaker is it so much better that keeping your data in a spreadsheet table.

When I got up this morning and checked my web site at Mac20 Questions I found a message telling me that it was unable to connect to the database. The whole of WordPress works off a MySQL database, in case you didn’t know. Yesterday evening it was working fine and no problems. I have no idea what could have happened but I was really glad of having a backup. I use a Database back up tool plugin that sends me by email every day the database zipped up to my gmail account. Worth its weight in gold this morning.

I was able to open up Cyberduck , my FTP application and upload the database to the correct folder and it appeared in the Godaddy account MySQL page for restoring from. Really easy to do and a total life saver.

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