Apple iWatch may cost $300, sell millions in first year: Report – CBS News.

Finding Ways to Use Big Data to Help Small Shops – NYTimes.com.

Brian Janezic, 27, was in the equipment room of one of the two Auto Wash Expressself-service locations he owns in Tucson, going through his cleaning supplies and vending machine items to determine what to reorder, when it hit him. “We have machines that automatically size and wash a car, mix chemicals, activate pumps, turn on lights — and here I am still counting inventory by hand.”

An online search introduced him toFileMaker Pro, a software product well suited to small businesses and tailored to the iPads that Mr. Janezic envisioned for himself and his three remote employees…

TidBITS: You Can’t Escape Gmail.

Do you avoid Gmail due to privacy concerns? Your resistance is futile. Benjamin Mako Hill has hosted his own email for the past 15 years, and despite that, he found that over half of his email messages either come from or go to a Gmail account, where they can be analyzed by the search giant’s automated algorithms. Of course, the same is roughly true of other large mail hosting firms, so although the mail you send isn’t likely to allow these companies to target ads at you better, it’s far from being a private communication between you and the recipient.

Getting Started with Javascript and FileMaker.

Great article from Soliant on Javascript and Filemaker and getting data from web portals into filemaker. Web and Filemaker is da bomb.

Getting Started with Javascript and FileMaker
FileMaker Inc. has released an update for FileMaker Pro 13 (see the release notes here). Among the list of improvements to FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced is the extended functionality of the FMP URL protocol to include support for calling a script to run in FileMaker from within a web viewer.
This is a big deal
Working with the web viewer is now a two way street. You set the web veiwer from FileMaker, and now you get data back from what is going on inside the web viewer.
Previously this capability was only available in FM Go or if you happened to be running FileMaker Pro with a file hosted on FileMaker Server. By removing that constraint, this opens up a lot of possibilities for developers to extend and improve the solutions we build.
In this article, we will show why being able to comminucate with a web viewer is a big deal. (cont.)

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FileMaker Pro 13.0v2 and FileMaker Go 13.0.3 now available

Apr 2, 2014 – FileMaker, Inc. has released FileMaker Pro 13.0v2 and FileMaker Pro 13.0v2 Advanced as well as FileMaker Go 13.0.3 for iPad and iPhone. The FileMaker Pro update addresses limitations related to the FileMaker Pro URL protocol. It also includes general bug fixes pertaining to calculations and scripting, layout rendering, and text editing. FileMaker Go 13.0.3 expands file transfer capabilities to include moving files between iOS apps on the same device and transferring files between apps on other devices using AirDrop. It also addresses bug fixes and various compatibility issues.

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via Hot News | FileMaker.