by William | Oct 25, 2017 | Business Growth
Google has a great little tool which scans the web for any submitted text and sends you a daily alert if a particular word or phrase was found on the web. This is a great business tool for marketing, prospecting, and customer satisfaction. You could enter your...
by William | Oct 25, 2017 | FM Products
One of the applications which we have helped to sell as a vertical market solution is an app called “LifeLab”. It is software designed for human tissue banking. Basically, people who are suffering from cancer, and will be undergoing radiation or chemotherapy store...
by William | Oct 25, 2017 | FM Tips
FileMaker 16 has a number of functions which will improve the security of your data. Note that FileMaker has always had a number of security protocols in place. For example, Encryption At Rest (EAR) is something which has been around since about FM13. This is a really...
by William | Oct 25, 2017 | FM News
Apple released iOS 11 on Sept. 19th, 2017. FileMaker still has versions of FM Go out there for 14, 15, and 16. However, iOS11 is only compatible with FM Go 16 and Go 15. Also, please note that iOS 11 only supports 64-bit applications. Please see this knowledgebase...
by William | Oct 25, 2017 | HighPower Data News
We are happy to announce that HighPower Data has hired a new full-time developer. Carl has a computer science degree and has worked with FileMaker for several years. He has previously worked on projects with us as a sub-contractor. He has developed new solutions; he...
by William | Aug 19, 2017 | FM Products
You may not be aware of this, but we have a second website where we focus on helping people to sell their vertical market applications. We have been in the business of selling commercial FileMaker applications for decades. We sell a number of FileMaker apps to...
by William | Aug 19, 2017 | Mobile
It used to be that if you wanted to release an app for sale on the app store you had two options: either learn Swift programming language and build it by hand, or use the FileMaker Go app, and ‘bundle’ your app with it. But now in the past year FileMaker, Inc has...
by William | Aug 19, 2017 | Business Growth
I just finished reading a great book on marketing. It is called “The One-Page Marketing Plan” by Alan Dib. Despite its title, it took him 200 pages to describe the ‘one-page plan’! But when it was all done, yes, you can actually conceptualize your entire marketing...
by William | Aug 19, 2017 | FM Tips
There are a ton of available keyboard shortcuts for the FileMaker platform. If you become familiar with the more commonly used key commands, you can save yourself a lot of time while working with FileMaker. In fact, the most recent versions of FileMaker have improved...
by William | Aug 19, 2017 | FM News
Sometimes it is hard to keep track of which operating systems currently work with which versions of FileMaker. Between OSX, Windows, iOS, and FileMaker upgrades it is easy to get confused. If you ever need help, here is the page on the FileMaker site which will help...
by William | Aug 19, 2017 | HighPower Data News
Have you been thinking about getting a custom business application for your office? HighPower Data Solutions is offering three distinct packages to get you started on the road to business automation in a very inexpensive rate. 1. Starter package This package includes...
by William | Jul 27, 2017 | FM Products
So here is an interesting story about just how flexible FileMaker can be to build out great and useful applications. My brother is a FileMaker developer, having co-created with me the MagicBase Integrated Marketing System in FileMaker. He has sold hundreds of copies...
by William | Jul 27, 2017 | Mobile
With the release of FileMaker 16, please note that FM, Inc. has also released a new version of the Go app. In case you are unaware, FM Go! is the mobile version of FileMaker for on your iPhone or iPad. It is a very slick tool and is a wonderful way to take your data...
by William | Jul 27, 2017 | Business Growth
In his entertaining book, “The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in any Field”, author Mike Michalowicz shares several interesting ideas for growing a business. One of them is based on the famous Pareto Principle. Pareto was an Italian...
by William | Jul 27, 2017 | FM Tips
FM16 has a number of very cool features. One of the more visual feature additions is a new type of window called a “Card Window”. A Card Window is an overlay window that appears on top of your current window. It has the option to dim the background window so that all...
by William | Jul 27, 2017 | FM News
FileMaker, Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple, is a mature organization which has been around for some 30 years. They have a lot of licensing options; many more than are typically displayed on their website. It can be pretty confusing to find the right software...
by William | Jul 27, 2017 | HighPower Data News
We are happy to announce that we have added a couple of new people to the team who bring in some additional skills to the team. Because FileMaker can interact with so many other services, such as web services, API’s, Google, QuickBooks, WordPress, we have been seeking...
by William | Jun 17, 2017 | Mobile
The Apple will soon be releasing what people are calling “the 10th Anniversary iPhone”. It was in 2007 that Apple changed the world forever by releasing the original iPhone. At the time there was nothing like it. Every other phone had buttons. Even the most popular...
by William | Jun 17, 2017 | Business Growth
An article in Strategy + Business indicated that many of the world’s largest innovators are shifting their focus of their R&D from products to programming. There is an increasing awareness that automation and ease-of-use can do as much to boost productivity as...
by William | Jun 17, 2017 | FM Tips
There are a ton of available keyboard shortcuts for the FileMaker platform. If you become familiar with the more commonly used key commands, you can save yourself a lot of time while working with FileMaker. In fact, the most recent versions of FileMaker have improved...
