Re: AUGD: Augd Digest, Vol 14, Issue 23
Re: AUGD: Augd Digest, Vol 14, Issue 23
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Augd Digest, Vol 14, Issue 23
- From: "Randy B. Singer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 03:34:18 -0700
On May 16, 2017, at 12:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> THanks for this solution Randy and thanks to Nicholas for asking the
> question. I shall be looking carefully at this idea. WOuld never have
> found it without the help and support of this list.
There are actually a bunch of nice low-end database solutions for the Macintosh for keeping something simple like a user-group database, or recipes, etc., and not many users seem to know about them. Let me just point out some of them, especially because I know that users groups have members who never got over the loss of Bento:
TapForms ($50)
http://www.tapforms.com/
Very popular replacement for Bento. Imports Bento data.
Review:
http://www.bentousers.com/20130510-meet-tap-forms-a-worthy-bento-competitor/
Steward Database ($25)
http://stewarddatabase.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/steward-database-lists-forms/id1031794822
Simple but nice database
LibreOffice -Base (free)
http://www.libreoffice.org
Apache OpenOffice (free)
http://www.openoffice.org/
NeoOffice ($15)
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
(Office suites with included databases.)
AirTable – both cloud and native versions available
https://airtable.com/
https://airtable.com/downloads
Don McAllister (Screencastsonline.com) has done a very good screencast on it.
https://airtable.com/creators/appvL5SfGkLfQfDiS/Creators-and-Creatives/Shaman-Film-Production
inox ($35)
https://ninoxdb.de/ninox/en/mac.html
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id901110441
Sort of looks like a simplified Filemaker in that it appears to offer a fairly gentle learning curve, offers a server, iOS apps, syncing, triggers, relationships, and good printing controls.
It does not have Bento's ability to link to the SQLite databases behind Calendar, Contacts, Mail and so forth.
Also, while it has an iCloud sync feature, only one device can edit a database, because it does not have record locking. It does come with a limited scripting language sufficient to create triggers. It probably cannot be set up to link to a web server.)
Ouistee
http://www.ouistee.com/
Symphytum (free)
http://giowck.github.io/symphytum/
EagleData (free)
http://www.eaglesoft.de/eagle/eagledata.html
Panorama Sheets ($40)
http://provue.com/panoramasheets/index.html
iList Data ($70)
http://www.lakewoodstudios.com/ilistdata/
iDatabase ($20)
http://www.apimac.com/mac/idatabase/
iData ($70)
http://www.idata3.com/
http://www.idatapartners.com/
HanDBase ($10)
http://www.ddhsoftware.com/handbase_mac.html
Portabase (free)
http://portabase.sourceforge.net/index.html
Records for Mac ($35)
http://pushpopcorn.com/
Dabitat (cloud-based) (free)
https://www.dabitat.com/
Checkout the explainer video: http://youtu.be/WceOr90sHWM
Getting Started video: http://youtu.be/MiZiKNPhfxI
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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