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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/.

The New Entourage 2008, scheduled for release in January 2008, is not a nice player when it comes to Time Machine. If you back up your Entourage files, your backup drive could run out of space in a matter of weeks.

Entourage stores every single file it uses in one huge database file, and whenever you make a change to anything Entourage, whether it is changing one number in the time of your coffee date with your ex, or completely erasing every message your ex ever sent you, that Entourage database is changed.

The way Time Machine makes backups is it looks at all the files on your system, and backs up only the files that have changed since your last backup. It then melds these together so that the end useer appears to be moving through entire backups of their files. The problem comes when you put this paragraph and the previous together.

Whenever you change the Entourage database, Time Machine backs it up. The whole thing. All of it’s many Gigabytes. Every hour. This can rack up.

Microsoft’s answer to this problem is to not back up your Entourage database.

Hopefully this will be addressed as Time Machine gets better and better.