Quick 2 Minute Overview of FileMaker 10′s New Features

This is a very brief overview of FileMaker Pro 10 produced by FileMaker, Inc. We recommend the upgrade.

Photocopy Security?

Interesting read by Sacramento’s News 10:

Who Else is Looking at Your Photocopies?

I imagine this is a huge potential threat given the number of small mortgage/loan origination businesses that have either gone out of business or have closed some offices.

Just another reminder of how much of our personal information is out there in digital format.

Use the Force to Manage Your Organization-Get a Holocron (aka FileMaker Database)!

“On the wall behind Leland Chee’s desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a holocron. Think of it as a Force-powered hard drive, capable of storing an enormous quantity of information. “It’s a piece of Jedi technology,” Chee says. “It tells you … everything.”

To Star Wars fans, Chee is the Keeper of the Holocron, arguably the leading expert on everything that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. His official title is continuity database administrator for the Lucas Licensing arm of Lucasfilm—which means Chee keeps meticulous track of not just the six live-action movies but also cartoons, TV specials, scores of videogames and reference books, and hundreds of novels and comics.

Keepin’ it canonical: Leland Chee, continuity database administrator at Lucas Licensing, maintains the Holocron — a vast FileMaker database that’s consulted to make sure that any new elements added to the Star Wars franchise fit within the existing mythology.

Of course, Chee’s Holocron isn’t a Force-sensitive crystal. It’s a FileMaker database, a searchable repository of more than 30,000 entries covering almost every character, planet, and weapon mentioned, however fleetingly, in the vast array of Star Wars titles and products.”