Dec

23

Brewing Log Template

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Description
The Brewing Log template will be useful to anyone who makes their own wine or beer. It consists of a single library and a single form but it does include a Related Records List to your iCal Events library. Read more

Dec

22

Simple Recipe Template

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Description
The Simple Recipe template is a very simple way to store your recipes. It consists of a single library and a single form and does not attempt to generate shopping lists or any of the more advanced features of a dedicated recipe application which, to be honest, probably are better if you have more advanced needs. Read more

Dec

22

Theme Creation Service

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Following on from the appearance of Patrick La Roque’s Neutral Themes, Florian Keller is offering a free service to anyone interested in having some themes altered.

The bespoke themes are based on the existing Bento 2 themes so you choose the Bento theme and request a font name and sizes and whether you want the media field frame removed. You can also request a folder name for the theme chooser.

Essentially Florian will be duplicating the original theme, rename it, change the font data and the frame graphics, test it and wrap it all in its own theme pack.

Initially Florian would prefer for people to contact him via me so if you would like to take advantage of this kind offer please contact me and I will pass your request on to Florian.

Dec

22

Bento Security Idea

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Paul Daniels (I’m assuming not this one) contact me with an idea about how to make Bento at least marginally more secure:

“I had high hopes that Apple would take care of this glaring omission in the v.2 release. Having unsecured information in a database makes me nervous and from reading the forums I can see I’m not alone. Here is the setup I used.

I followed the directions here and set up a secure drive on my Mac’s local hard drive. The password protected, secure drive can be buried in any folder you choose, which adds another layer of protection. When I installed Bento, I copied the program into the secure Disk Image Drive instead of the Applications folder as suggested by Apple. Bento’s database file is still in the normal location but the Bento program resides in the secure drive. I know this is not a foolproof encryption, but unless I’m missing something, someone would need to go through the process of reinstalling Bento to access your file. It might just be enough to keep visitors and others out of your Bento business.”

Dec

22

Template Export Gotcha

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Despite the fact that data is not exported when a template is, before you can export a library template from Bento 2 you must add at least one record to the library.

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