Most small businesses and creative enterprises know they need a database. But the learning curve may seem steep for anything but Excel, but Filemaker has a solution that leaves that spreadsheet in the dust: Bento. The latest release of this compact and muscular tool links iPhoto libraries to the $49 database.
Bento arrived in the Filemaker [...]

Rumors of his demise got flipped off when Steve Jobs took the stage today at a media event to introduce a new $149 iPod that will challenge the video Flip cameras.
The iPod Nano could become a key business tool for creative pros and writers on the road. The device comes with a voice recording app, [...]

David Pogue is amazing. The New York Times columnist (his Circuits writing is a fun must-read) has another life as an O’Reilly “Missing Manuals” author. His new Missing Manual on Digital Photography illuminates the sometimes-murky world of taking pictures with digital cameras. Even more important, Pogue sharpens the focus on what to do with the [...]