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Filemaker, the company behind the new application Bento, just announced that they passed 250 000 downloads. Bento is a $49 application for Leopard only, that is an organizational tool designed to manage your life and everything inside it. The app has neat and handy features like built-in links to Address Book, intergration with iCal, and ability to manage contact, events, track your projects and anything else you need to organize in your life.

What Filemaker did not tell us is if the number is the number of downloads for trying out the software, or purchases. We also don’t know if this is unique downloads, or one user downloading it several times. But still good news for Filemaker.

Via [MacWorld]

FileMaker’s Bento, a personal database application has reached the 1.0 stage. It is now available for purchase for $49 (single user license) and $99 (family pack).

Meet Bento, the new personal database from FileMaker that’s as easy to use as your Mac.
Bento brings your important information together in one place to help you get organized. So you can manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects, prioritize tasks, and more - faster and easier than ever before.

We have covered Bento in the past, and it is good to see it reach 1.0 status. Check it out at http://www.filemaker.com/bento/.

Filemaker released an update to the public beta verson of Bento, their personal database application for Mac. Bento is a Leopard only application and makes us of some Leopard only features. Check out the list of new functionality, from the Filemaker website, below:

New functionality includes:

* Quick Look support inside Bento – With the addition of the Leopard Quick Look feature to any Files List field in Bento, you can see documents, images, text files, PDF documents, movies, Keynote presentations, Mail attachments - even Microsoft Word and Excel files - from within Bento before actually opening them.
* iTunes-style search on numbers and dates – Now you have the ability to do a simple search on numbers and dates using the iTunes style simple search box.  Prior versions had the ability to search on text only via the iTunes search box with all numerical and date-based searches requiring use of the Advanced Find feature. Now it’s even easier to find what you’re looking for.
* New Summary Row stats – More intuitive statistic titles in the Summary Row now show the “Earliest” and “Latest” values for columns that include dates and times.

If you have not yet tried out Bento, you can download the public beta for free from bentotrial.com. This version of the beta will expire on February 14, 2008 (Valentine’s Day).

Product Page [Filemaker]