Free Bento 3 Christmas Pack Lets Users Get More Organised and Have More Fun this Festive Season

LONDON, England – 17th November 2009 – FileMaker International today announced the Bento 3 Christmas Pack; a free, fun and easy way to get organised for Christmas that works with Bento 3, the popular personal database from FileMaker that is as easy to use as your Mac. Whether the task is planning Christmas parties or organising gift lists, the Bento 3 Christmas Pack makes it easy.

To transform Christmas from daunting to dazzling, download the Bento 3 Christmas Pack.

The Bento 3 Christmas Pack includes a 30-day trial of Bento 3, plus two festive themes and two additional templates (beyond the 35 that come with Bento 3) to help plan parties and organise a gift list – all in one place. The gift list tracking template tracks gifts both given and received, tracks thank-you notes and even provides a place to store comparison-shopping details. It's great for Christmas, but equally handy for other events like birthdays, anniversaries and weddings. The Christmas Party Planner stores a guest list which links directly to the Mac Address Book, a to-do list which links directly to iCal Tasks, recipe files, food and beverage list, the menu and more.

The Bento 3 Christmas Pack also works with Bento for iPhone, so customers can work on Christmas planning on an iPhone or iPod Touch, and then synchronise the information to their Mac.

"Bento enthusiasts downloaded last year's Bento 2 Christmas Pack by the thousands," said Ryan Rosenberg, vice president, marketing and services, FileMaker, Inc. "With the Bento 3 Christmas Pack, we're providing even more new and intuitive ways for you to enjoy Christmas and more beautiful templates to help you get organised with style."

The Christmas Pack is designed to work with the new Bento 3, the recipient of rave reviews from the media, including a PC Magazine Editors' Choice award. Bento 3 now talks to iPhoto, making iPhoto albums viewable from within Bento. This makes it easy to store and edit detailed information about photos, and also to link photos to entries in a Bento database, whether it's for Christmas photos or gift-giving plans. Users can also encrypt any field and assign passwords to information in Bento 3 to keep gift or donation information secure.

About FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker is the leader in easy-to-use database software. Millions of people, from individuals to some of the world's largest companies, rely on FileMaker software to manage, analyse and share important information. The company's products are the FileMaker line - versatile business software for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web - and Bento, the personal database for Mac, iPhone and iPad. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple.

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