£2.99 iPhone App makes on-the-go organisation easy and fun;

also syncs with Bento 2 for Mac desktop software

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 5, 2009 – FileMaker, Inc. today unveiled Bento for iPhone and iPod touch, the portable version of the popular personal database that’s as easy to use as the iPhone or iPod touch. With Bento for iPhone and iPod touch, it’s never been easier to organise all the details of a busy life – in one exciting new iPhone application. The new software is now available for download for just £2.99 from the Apple App Store.

Start tackling any area of your busy business or personal life right away by adding information to any of the 25 built-in templates within Bento for iPhone and iPod touch:

 For Business: Issue Tracking, Time Billing, Customers, Expenses, Products for Sale, Inventory, Projects, Event Planning, Items Sold and Equipment.

 Personal Uses: Contacts, To Dos, Diet Log, Expenses, Classes, Recipes, Digital Media, Vehicle Maintenance, Projects, Home Inventory, Event Planning, Membership Lists, Notes and Donations.

 The new iPhone App also includes a blank template for creating an unlimited number of customised templates.

 More than a bare-bones database or super to-do list organiser or even a replacement for your built-in iPhone Contacts, Bento for iPhone and iPod touch links together your contacts and keeps track of anything from business-related sales to digital media and recipes. You can keep client information with you, organise an event or party and make changes right on your iPhone or iPod touch that can also be synchronised* wirelessly with Bento 2.0v4 for Mac desktop software.

 You can stay organised by creating “collections” (like playlists in iTunes) of records in any library. If you have a library of digital photos in Bento 2 for Mac, for example, you can create organised collections that store landscapes, animals or architecture favorites. If you have a library of tasks, you can create collections that store your work, personal and volunteer tasks.

Bento to Go

With Bento for iPhone and iPod touch, you can:

·         Start adding information into any of 25 pre-designed, ready-to-use templates that can be quickly customised with a few taps. You can also create your own forms to organise virtually any data on an iPhone or iPod touch.

·         Tap to call a contact, view a Web site, send an email or display a map all while in a Bento library or collection.

·         Manage anything from contacts and club members to projects, parties, medical bills and vehicle maintenance.

·         View libraries and collections, create new records, edit details, sort data, modify forms – even use the iTunes-style search to find information quickly on the go.

·         Select from 15 field types including text, numbers, choice, checkbox, media, time, date, durations, currency, rating, address, phone number, email, URL and IM Account.

 Wireless Synchronisation between Bento for iPhone and iPod touch and Bento 2 for Mac

Bento for iPhone and iPod touch can be used as a standalone application and it also synchronises** wirelessly with Bento 2.0v4 for Mac. The update allows users to automatically keep desktop and mobile devices up-to-date whether information is edited on the Mac or the mobile device.

 Works with Existing Information and Applications

Bento for iPhone and iPod touch works with existing information and iPhone applications such as Contacts, Safari, Phone Dialing, Mail and Google Maps for a truly integrated iPhone experience.

 Update for Bento 2 Desktop Software Now Available

Today, FileMaker is also releasing Bento 2.0v4, a free update to its desktop software that can be downloaded by all existing Bento 2 for Mac users. The new Bento 2.0v4 for Mac provides synchronisation compatibility with Bento for iPhone and iPod and addresses other issues.

 Key Part of the FileMaker iPhone Strategy

FileMaker now offers iPhone users a choice of databases. In addition to the new Bento for iPhone and iPod touch for individual users, corporate workgroups can access and update critical business information live using their iPhones thanks to the FileMaker PHP iPhone Site Assistant offered with FileMaker Server 10 or FileMaker Server 10 Advanced.  FileMaker Server PHP Site Assistant for iPhone can be used to distribute a wide variety of business data via the iPhone including schedules, service tickets, field data collection, images, sales leads, order histories, asset management, inventory status and more.

Macworld 2009 Best of Show award-winner for iPhone and iPod touch available now from Apple’s App Store

TORONTO, ON – 31 March 2009 – You’re on the road with your iPhone and concerned about a large project or month-end sales objective, but checking in by email with everyone is proving too slow. It doesn’t provide the big picture, much less allow you to dive into the real process. That scenario dramatically changes with the launch of Daylite Touch, Marketcircle Inc.’s award-winning iPhone / iPod touch business productivity application available today from Apple Inc.’s App Store.

Available as a free trial on Apple’s App Store, Daylite Touch puts your business in your pocket, delivering Daylite’s powerful business productivity features to Mac-based small businesses. Daylite Touch relies on Daylite 3.9, and Daylite Server, also released today, which enables licensing and synchronization for Daylite Touch, sold for $49.99/device/year.

“Already the US Census Bureau reports that 90% of all companies are small businesses, but with new rounds of big company layoffs, there will be even more small businesses and many of those will be Mac based,” says Alykhan Jetha, CEO of Marketcircle. “These people deserve every competitive advantage to succeed and Daylite Touch together with Daylite 3.9 dramatically increases business productivity for Mac and iPhone equipped small businesses.”

Instead of passively observing your business via remote email, Daylite Touch puts you right in the middle of the action with the ability to assess a project’s status or an open sales opportunity, then dive in and direct the work so everyone delivers on time and stays on track. Starting with a handy home screen that provides a snapshot of your business life today and tomorrow with the most advanced multi-user calendar on the iPhone, Daylite Touch does everything Daylite-driven managers expect to do on the road.

You can create multi-user meetings, send out notifications, and create appointments using multi-touch gestures on the calendar. Rotating the iPhone sideways offers you a view of appointments for the coming week. And a dedicated tasks screen gives you the ability to bulk edit tasks, create subtasks, and link tasks to projects, opportunities, and contacts. You can also delegate tasks to other users and track the status of tasks after you’ve delegated them.

An objectives screen displays both projects and opportunities. You can sort projects by due date or priority, and sort sales or other opportunities by close date, value, or probability. When you view a project or opportunity, you can see linked contacts, tasks, notes, and relevant emails. The contacts screen shows you the people and companies you do business with and lets you see the relationships they have with each other.

Daylite Touch periodically syncs back to your office using EDGE, 3G, or WiFi.

Daylite 3.9 and Daylite Server, are free upgrades for existing Daylite customers. The new Daylite Server features PostgreSQL, a more robust and scalable database engine, replacing OpenBase. Daylite Server includes the TouchSync system with remote wipe capabilities, a completely revamped offline sync system, and supports centralized licensing. Daylite 3.9 and Daylite Server are required for Daylite Touch.

For more information about Daylite Touch, Daylite 3.9, and Daylite Server, please visit www.marketcircle.com/daylitetouch.

About Marketcircle Inc.
Marketcircle Inc., the Mac business software company, develops award-winning business applications for Mac OS X, including Daylite productivity management software, Daylite Touch, Daylite Mail Integration Module (DMI), and Billings, a practical time billing and invoicing application. Incorporated in 1999, Marketcircle is located in Toronto, Canada, with partners worldwide.

Copyright 2009, Marketcircle Inc. All rights reserved. Daylite, Daylite 3, Daylite Touch, Daylite Mail Integration Module (DMI), and Billings 3 are trademarks of Marketcircle Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Have you heard of the new app called Add Contact Wizard?  It helps overcome the slowness of adding contacts with the native iPhone contact app.  I just released an updated version.  Unlike many other “quick add” apps, Add Contact Wizard has ALL the important details without slowing you down.

This is NOT a full-featured contact manager.  It’s not designed to edit contacts or groups.  There are excellent apps like Groups or ABContacts for those features.  Add Contact Wizard is designed to get contacts into your phone FAST!

Here’s the iTunes link:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305821041&mt=8

And here’s the app’s website:

http://www.icontactwizard.com

I’d love any feedback from users!

~Rob Schneider

We have just released our new version of Next Read with some really cool new features. Next Read allows users to build and manage their lists of desired books – perfect for the avid reader who is constantly trying to manage an ever-growing list of books to buy. Check out our website for more details.

Here is what’s new in this release:

• Lists – Now Next Read is not just for books suggested to you. Add lists to keep all those books you have been checking out organized.
• Shake Search – Not sure what to search for? Just go into the search screen and shake your phone. Next Read will take a look at all the books on your lists and look for something similar.
• Notes – Now you can take Notes on each book in your list.
• Import Amazon Wishlists – Have a public wishlist on Amazon you would like to pull into Next Read? No problem – enter your email address and pull down the list. You can optionally save it so that you can browse it offline later.
• Share lists with friends over WiFi – Next time your cousin Ed asks you for some good ideas on what to read next, just tell him to fire up his copy of Next Read – you can zap a list right over to him
• Email lists – Have a friend without Next Read, or perhaps you would like to print your list? Next Read now supports the ability to email a nicely formatted version of any of your lists.
• Quick Add – What happens when you hear about a book when you don’t have an internet connection or when you don’t have time to launch a search? With Quick Add, problem solved. Enter a title and author combination or just an ISBN into Next Read. The Book Detail page now has a “Refresh” button so you can pull down all the important details later.
• Listmania integration – From any book – you can now look for Listmania lists that contain that book. This makes it even easier to find new books you might be interested in. Find a list you really like? Click Save and you will always have it.
• Better Amazon page support – No more leaving Next Read to read the product details from Amazon. Next Read now launches an inline browser window so you can get the facts without going too far.

Available today on the iTunes Store for $1.99.