Posted on November 9th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Data.BSA.org has a free report from the Business Software Alliance all about big data. We learned that in the United Arab Emirates, new data tools are designing a building that produces more energy than it consumes. In Stockholm, data has been collected from taxis and analyzed to reduce travel time by 50 percent.
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Posted on September 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Filemaker 14” is a popular database created by Apple as an alternative to Microsoft’s Access. The company is offering free training to help people create Filemaker databases that run on iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web. Get it at filemaker.com/learning/training/fts.html.
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Posted on July 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Dan Bricklin is perhaps the most famous programmer alive. Because he, with partner Bob Frankston, created VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet to run on a personal computer. It was 1979 and it ran only on an Apple II. Arguably it made Apple, because this was the first business program, and that created a reason to buy Apple, instead of the half dozen other desktops at that time. Before VisiCalc, most people in the business said the personal computer was a really a game machine, and would never be anything else. Visicalc changed that forever. The fact that it was written for the Apple and not some other computer was an accident. The two men were students at Harvard and initially started […]
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Posted on August 8th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“Addappt” is a free app for iPhones. It keeps your iPhone contact information updated, as long as your friends sign on. Download the app and request an invitation during the trial stage.
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Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Joy wishes she’d had something like Bento 4 years ago when she was creating a database for a women’s club with hundreds of members.
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Posted on May 2nd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
A free iPhone/iPad app called “FileMaker Go 12” runs iPhone/iPad apps you can create with the Filemaker popular database. It’s been downloaded over 100,000 times in the first week.
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Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Cardbrowser.com collects business cards at trade shows and makes them searchable online. They have 210,000 of them currently and thousands more each month. You can search by market, industry, tradeshow, title, location, etc.
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Posted on December 7th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
There’s a new gold rush. But it’s not for gold, it’s for data. Get your hands on the right data and you can build an important new website. Recently- available U.S. government data has resulted in these sites and apps…
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Posted on April 5th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Tips for reading, watching video and getting organized.
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Posted on February 6th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Organize your beer collection, keep track of your scuba dives, and do any kind of database with these templates for the Mac.
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