Esther, Thanks for this very informative and useful post. I will take a look at it.
Harry On Sep 26, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Harry, > > A number of VO users reported being quite happy with Bento and rated > this app very highly prior to updating to Mountain Lion, but > apparently after updating they are getting "Bento > busy, Bento ready" messages. I've only read detailed discussions > about Bento on the mac-access list, so you could try doing a Mail > Archive search for that list's archived content if you want to read > more about this, or else joint that list. A lot of these issues seem > to be specific to running this software under Mountain Lion, and this > may be true of the recent App Store reviews (by non-VoiceOver users), > too. Some users only reported encountering problems after updating -- > they had no problems running the very same version of the software > before updating to Mountain Lion, and were also pleased by the ability > to sync information using the Bento iOS apps. > > Just something to keep in mind when you perform your evaluations. > Since you're running Mountain Lion you'll want to know abut the > specific performance under this OS. Also, improvements in behavior > may only come with more ML specific experience on the part of > developers. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Sep 25, 6:17 pm, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Tim and all, >> >> I saw Bento, but it only got a 2.5 star rating, which seemed to be common >> for database applications, actually. >> >> Thanks for the information, and I will let you know what I find out. >> >> Harry >> >> On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:59 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> hi, >> >>> You could take a look at Bento as well. It's made by the FileMaker folks. >>> I'm fairly sure it's mostly accessible. >> >>> Later... >> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >>> On 2012-09-25, at 9:00 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> I know the iDatabase iOS app is very accessible, at least it was last year >>>> when I tried it out. I would therefore expect the mac app to be just as >>>> good, and it's only $10. Best of all, it syncs over wifi (though not >>>> iCloud) with your devices, so anything you do on your iOS device should >>>> appear on your mac and vice versa. You can also back up to, and restore >>>> from, dropbox if you want to. Again, I can't promise accessibility on the >>>> mac, but I can make a pretty safe guess that it will be there. >>>> On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>> Hi Everyone, >> >>>>> Does anyone know of an accessible database application I could use on the >>>>> MacBook Pro running OSX Mountain Lion. I would like to keep things like >>>>> misc. confirmation number, details of appoints (doctors, dental, etc), >>>>> and just lists of people's names, numbers, addresses, etc. that I would >>>>> not otherwise need to have in my contact list. >> >>>>> I hope this makes sense. I thing Microsoft Access is supposed to do >>>>> something like this, but I wasn't sure if an equivalent existed for the >>>>> mac. >> >>>>> Thanks for your help, >> >>>>> Harry >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
