Designed For Leopard - Bento has direct links to the Mac OS X Address Book and iCal, and takes advantage of many new features of Leopard, including core animation, advanced find, Time Machine, backups, and multimedia features System Requirements - Mac OS X 10.5, 867MHz PowerPC G4 processor or higher. Printable Mac Keyboard Shortcut Page For macOS Mojave; Printable Mac How-To Cheat Sheet For Mojave; Printable iPhone Gestures Cheat Sheet for iPhone X, XR, XS and XS Max; Book: The Practical Guide to Mac Security; Book: 101 Mac Tips: OS X & Safari. Migrating from Bento to Tap Forms Mac After FileMaker stopped developing and supporting Bento, Tap Forms 5 offers Bento users the only place they can easily call home. Tap Forms 5 is the only database application for Mac with a built-in native Bento template importer. When FileMaker relegated Bento to the dustbin, users of the occasionally maligned but rather excellent and exceedingly simple personal database for the Mac and iOS were left wondering what’s.
Clearly, Bento is aimed at the non-database user who also uses iCal and Address Book and runs Mac OS X 10.5. Whether that is a large enough group to maintain such a product remains to be seen.
Bento is the easy-to-use database application from FilerMaker. It's not a part of iWork, though the interface is strikingly similar to the applications in Apple's office suite. It's not a subset of FileMaker either, having been written from the ground up as an easy-to-use database application for Mac users. Having used the beta for months, I still find it hard to describe, but I like it, mostly. I got to speak with the Bento folks at a lunch they provided, along with a free copy of the application and a few tidbits of information.
Bento pressed for space in the Press Room
It turns out that Bento has been in development for years, a process that included focus group testing and actually listening to users before releasing a new product. During that development process, it was also debated whether Bento would be a part of iWork. The decision was to offer Bento separately at $49, the logic being that not everyone who wanted Bento would want the other applications. If only someone at Apple would have applied that standard to Keynote and iPhoto with iWork and iLife.
At the core of Bento is Core Data and SQLite, the former being the reason system requirements mandate Leopard as the operating system. Without Core Data, you can't hook into Address Book and iCal. With Core Data (like in Tiger), you can make changes instantly to calendars in iCal and contacts in Address Book from either Bento or the applications. Keep in mind that Bento is not storing that information redundantly, either. It turns out that something like 80 percent of Mac users use Address Book and/or iCal. For Mac Office users, they are looking into possibilities with the Entourage database. As for SQLite, you might think scripting would be part of a database program, but it's not. It's not the point of Bento.
According to the developers, Bento is first and foremost supposed to be easy to use, and it is. Flexibility is a secondary consideration. That will be driving the development process in the future, so you can expect new collections (recipe library, please) and custom-themes before scripting (if you ever see it at all.)
Expect a review in a week or two.
Bento is a project that encapsulates Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes. A subset of templates are built and published to the bento org on Vagrant Cloud. The boxes also serve as default boxes for kitchen-vagrant.
Using Public Boxes
Bento Mac Menu
Adding a bento box to Vagrant
Using a bento box in a Vagrantfile
Building Templates
Requirements
- At least one virtualization provider:
Using packer
To build a template for all providers simultaneously
To build a template only for a list of specific providers
To build a template for all providers except a list of specific providers
To use an alternate mirror
Congratulations! Ready to import box files should be in the ../builds directory.
Notes:
- The box_basename can be overridden like other Packer vars with
-var 'box_basename=ubuntu-16.04'
Proprietary Templates
Bento For Mac Os 10.10
Templates for operating systems only available via license or subscription are also available in the repository, these include but are not limited to: Mac OS X, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise. As the ISOs are not publicly available the URL values will need to be overridden as appropriate. We rely on the efforts of those with access to licensed versions of the operating systems to keep these up-to-date.
macOS / OSX
See our wiki page
Windows
Bento For Mac Os 10.13
The project does not include many definitions for building Windows boxes. For other approaches to building Windows boxes, please see the following community projects:
Bugs and Issues
Please use GitHub issues to report bugs, features, or other problems.
License & Authors
Bento Database Mac
These basebox templates were converted from veewee definitions originally based on work done by Tim Dysinger to make “Don’t Repeat Yourself” (DRY) modular baseboxes. Thanks Tim!
Mac OS X templates were adopted wholesale from Fletcher Nichol’s packer templates.
Bento For Mac Os High Sierra
- Author: Seth Chisamore (schisamo@chef.io)
- Author: Stephen Delano (stephen@chef.io)
- Author: Joshua Timberman (joshua@chef.io)
- Author: Tim Dysinger (tim@dysinger.net)
- Author: Chris McClimans (chris@hippiehacker.org)
- Author: Julian Dunn (jdunn@chef.io)
- Author: Tom Duffield (tom@chef.io)
- Author: Ross Timson (ross@rosstimson.com)
- Author: Fletcher Nichol (fnichol@nichol.ca)