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FileMaker, Inc. issued a press release yesterday which contained the news that over 250,000 users have downloaded Bento so far. The majority of the downloads have been done by North Americans and the company is just now beginning to distribute Bento around the world. In addition to English, Bento is now available in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese.

Apologies for the recent silence which has been due to two doing two fairly time-consuming tasks.

1. I have been developing a small application which allows you to manage and work with several bentodb files. This means that it is now fairly easy to swap between data files so you can effectively split your Libraries into different files.
2. I have been writing our first tutorial guide for Bento. This is the first in what I hope will be an on-going series of guides which take real-world examples of how Bento is used and explains the theory behind the design. The tutorials are provided as both a PDF document and an accompanying example file. If you have any ideas or requests for future tutorials then please get in touch or leave a comment below.

Hopefully both of these will become available on the site within the next day or two and once they have been completed the addition of new tips and articles should be back up to a fairly steady pace.