It freaks me out when apps load stuff like Openbase or Growl on my system (usually without telling me.)
It's far better for Apple to code the services and provide hooks to developers. I don't know how full-featured Core Data is for hard-core database use, but there must be a reason why no serious sales management apps (like ACT on the PC) exist on the Mac platform.
I don't think the Windows platform has a hard core database built in, applications would have to bring that in on their own.
Core Data supposedly abstracts SQLite.
But in terms of offering a means to access the same information from several different programs for ultimate data portability or program vendor independence, I don't know if that is realistic. For one, letting disparate programs access the same database can be a cause for problems. Another, It's not in the software vendor's interests to make it that easy to quit using their software. I've seen simpler software concepts go very wrong in terms of data portability, you need processing to convert from one type of code for another for very simple differences of number formatting.
I'd love to see Apple develop tools for PostgreSQL 9.x and bring back Enterprise Object Frameworks for Cocoa.
That would be cool if the calendar still reads 1999 or so. If you follow what modern databases brings to the table I don't think PostgreSQL is a great choice anymore.
.............Along with the release of Bento 4, Bento 1.1 has also been issued for the iPhone and iPad. Each.... has been updated with the ability to record voice memos and sync iCal tasks. ................
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Do the voice memos remain as audio files or are they "speech to text"?
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It freaks me out when apps load stuff like Openbase or Growl on my system (usually without telling me.)
It's far better for Apple to code the services and provide hooks to developers. I don't know how full-featured Core Data is for hard-core database use, but there must be a reason why no serious sales management apps (like ACT on the PC) exist on the Mac platform.
I don't think the Windows platform has a hard core database built in, applications would have to bring that in on their own.
Core Data supposedly abstracts SQLite.
But in terms of offering a means to access the same information from several different programs for ultimate data portability or program vendor independence, I don't know if that is realistic. For one, letting disparate programs access the same database can be a cause for problems. Another, It's not in the software vendor's interests to make it that easy to quit using their software. I've seen simpler software concepts go very wrong in terms of data portability, you need processing to convert from one type of code for another for very simple differences of number formatting.
I'd love to see Apple develop tools for PostgreSQL 9.x and bring back Enterprise Object Frameworks for Cocoa.
That would be cool if the calendar still reads 1999 or so. If you follow what modern databases brings to the table I don't think PostgreSQL is a great choice anymore.
.............Along with the release of Bento 4, Bento 1.1 has also been issued for the iPhone and iPad. Each.... has been updated with the ability to record voice memos and sync iCal tasks. ................
.
Do the voice memos remain as audio files or are they "speech to text"?