Wine with Bento

Hi Charles,

Thank you for mentioning DVDpedia in your wine collector programs
review. I was wondering why you would use Bento for books when you can
use Bookpedia? :)

Regards,
Conor

Hello Dirk,

You should look at FMTouch, which runs on the iPhone.

Buy FMTouch from the Apple Store at - http://www.fmtouch.com/buy

Online Movies
See FMTouch in Action -
http://www.fmtouch.com/fmtouchdemourl/fmtouchdemourl.html

See Online Users Guide Video -
http://www.fmtouch.com/fmtouchvideo/fmtouchvideo.html

Official FMTouch Website - http://www.fmtouch.com

I am a FileMaker Pro User and am looking at buying this product, so I can
look on my iPhone and see if have a book in my Library that I see in a
Bookshop.

I had blithely assumed that older books would be as infrequently found on Amazon as older recordings but I just looked up a few and was surprised to find every book that I sought, including some arcane ones published a century ago. Knowing this, I will indeed suggest trying Bookpedia for books. However, I have no idea how accurately Bookpedia fills in its fields. Since bibliographical information is reasonably standard, I assume that it can do so sensibly, but I'm afraid that I do not see this as a forgone conclusion. CDpedia does not fill in fields sensibly for classical CDs, even when it can find them.

On Aug 22, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Geoff WALLACE <gwallacemac.com> wrote:

> You should look at FMTouch, which runs on the iPhone.

Costs $69.99, several reviewers think it's still Beta.

On 22-Aug-2008, at 07:20, Charles Maurer wrote:
> I had blithely assumed that older books would be as infrequently
> found on Amazon as older recordings but I just looked up a few and
> was surprised to find every book that I sought,

Hmm.. might be time to try it again. last time I did, about a year or
so ago, I tried 1 shelf containing about 60 books, mostly published
between 1930 and 1970. Not only did I not find very many
(considerably less than half) those that I did find either had several
mistakes, or didn't have the editions I had. These are not rare
books, by any means. Many were penguin paperbacks.

A number of years back, I tried the Intelliscanner solution and, like you, found it woefully inadequate (and a complete waste of money). I have FM, and looked into creating my own database, when I stumbled across http://www.cellartracker.com/. It is an online database that is, for the money, simply the best solution out there. I don't have the time to list all the features, but they include tasting notes by a large and vibrant user community (nearly 60,000), 9 million of bottles listed (it is rare that I find a wine that has not been put into the database by another user), valuation, links to a variety of useful outside sites, drinking windows (when you need store and when to drink up). The cost is reasonable (flexible depending on how many bottles you have), and the creator of the site, Eric LeVine, is very responsive to suggestions.

The advantage of having this information on the web is obvious. Using an iPhone or any mobile device, you can look up what others think of wine you're considering either for purchase or to have with dinner, you can maintain of "wish list" of wines that you can check while browsing at a wine store,etc. etc.

Thanks very much for the bento article. I am always interested in seeing different ways that people are using it. If only we could trade database templates!

Maybe in bento v.2...

> You should look at FMTouch, which runs on the iPhone.

Costs $69.99, several reviewers think it's still Beta.

If you are interested in a more reasonably priced list manager, take a look at EagleData <http://www.eaglesoft.de/eagle/eagledata.html>

It is not as polished as bento or FM but it is free and really easy to setup and use.

(Disclaimer: I am the author :-)