

(The company simultaneously released Windows versions of the cross-platform FileMaker Pro products, but I’ll leave discussing those to others.)įileMaker Pro 11 also ships with a larger variety of premade templates to get users started.

This change sounds fairly geeky, and indeed it’s one of those under-the-hood things most users will never notice, but it offers the potential for better performance, stability, and compatibility with future versions of Mac OS X. I’ll start with the welcome news that FileMaker Pro 11 for Mac is finally a purely Cocoa-based application, rather than the Carbon and Cocoa hybrid of FileMaker Pro 10 and the Carbon architecture of a few versions before that. FileMaker Inc.’s recent release of its FileMaker Pro 11 suite of products marks the addition of welcome capabilities while retaining the software’s trademark elegance. #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbkĪpple subsidiary Claris brought FileMaker Pro 1.0 on the market 20 years ago, but even that 1.0 version was years into the story of FileMaker, the quintessentially Mac-like database tool that gave ordinary computer users an easy interface for making and maintaining databases.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.
