As you might have already heard, Apple is going to release its 14th major version of macOS called Sonoma on September 26, 2023. Here’s an overview of the new features. Claris FileMaker and Sonoma … Read more about Claris FileMaker and macOS Sonoma iOS 17 Upgrade Recommendations
The newly-released macOS Catalina (10.15) has many great new enhancements, however two of the main changes introduced in Catalina require some extra consideration before upgrading and may slow its … Read more about Upgrading to macOS Catalina
If your iPhone isn’t ringing, perhaps you have no friends. Unfortunately, this is an issue beyond the scope of our tech support. But…we did get this recently… Question: I’m having a problem with my … Read more about My iPhone Isn’t Ringing!
Recently, LuminFire showed new versions of our powerful products both at our booth and during our two live DevCon sessions titled “FileMaker Integration — Roadmap for the Future”. We demonstrated the … Read more about FileMaker Integration – Roadmap for the Future
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota is fortunate to have a vibrant and active tech community. One such group is the Mini'app'les User Group. It's a group of of Apple users interested … Read more about Mac Laptop and iPhone Travel and Photo Accessories – Mini’app’les User Group
We recently found BatchGeo.com. It's the fastest way to create Google maps from your data. It accepts addresses, intersections, cities, states, and postal codes and then does the hard work of figuring … Read more about fmBatchGeo – Multiple Location Google Maps from FileMaker
We were recently asked the following questions that actually comes up quite frequently: I'd like to create a database of names, addresses, and information regarding our members as well as be able … Read more about Starting Out With FileMaker
FileMaker's default Paste behavior is to paste formatted text in a FileMaker text field. Additional steps, either by the user or the developer, must be taken to paste unformatted text. Text stored … Read more about Enhancing the FileMaker Paste Command
Claris recently hosted a business leader roundtable with several successful growth-minded leaders that represent mid-sized companies around the world. The focus was on making technology decisions that … Read more about Claris Business Leader Roundtable – A Look at Successful Technology Implementations
A few months ago I discovered a simple technique that significantly reduced the size of a database that included many container field images. I used a couple of FileMaker script steps to copy the … Read more about Reducing Database Size With Stored Images
Early in 2017, LuminFire made the switch to the Google Cloud collaboration and productivity apps for business called GSuite. We haven’t regretted the decision one bit. In fact, we’ve often expressed … Read more about How Google’s G Suite Changed our Lives at LuminFire
FileMaker is a workplace innovation platform that allows developers to rapidly build custom software solutions that run on macOS, Windows, web, iOS, etc. FileMaker development consists of building … Read more about Six Great Resources for Getting Started with Claris FileMaker