by William | Dec 23, 2021 | FM Tips
From the author who wrote “Easy Apps!” comes three tips to speed up FileMaker I believe that the greatest problem encountered by FileMaker users is an unnecessarily slow FileMaker system. Why is it ‘unnecessarily slow’? Because if you program...
by William Miller | Nov 26, 2021 | FM News, FM Products, FM Tips
Claris’ Newest Offering in the FileMaker family builds on a solid set of releases in the version 19 space A few years back, Claris made a commitment to provide more frequent updates. Now, rather than having to wait for sometimes a year or more, they began...
by William Miller | Jul 5, 2021 | FM News, FM Tips
Claris has released a new version of FileMaker Pro. Here is a quick highlight of the new features: Apple Silicon Support FileMaker Pro is now a Universal macOS app, which takes advantage of the advanced capabilities of Mac computers with Apple silicon and also...
by William | Feb 11, 2021 | APPS, FM Products, FM Tips, Tech News
A hilarious video came out this week of a video deposition streamed via Zoom. One of the lawyers had a filter running on their Zoom settings which made him look like a cat. Here is the crazy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOofzZOyl8 What can we learn from...
by William | Jan 28, 2021 | FM Tips
Environmental Factors which Affect FileMaker Speed In my previous blog, I explained how a great FileMaker solution can get ruined by overuse of unstored calcs. You can read that piece here. Besides the ten tips which I provide in the free white paper, almost all of...
by William | Jan 12, 2021 | FM Tips
How a wonderful piece of software can get ruined. I love FileMaker. It is one of the coolest most powerful software applications available. I discovered it more than 25 years ago when I was looking for a simple way to track my books. What was a simple database program...