SM10 Week View

December 14, 2009 New Version

When you click on the thin bar at the left of a week in the monthly calendar view, you are shown a week view. Even though we’ve cropped this shot, you’ll get the full screen height for a total of 12 possible tasks due on any given day. We made Sunday and Saturday skinnier to […]

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Emailing Contacts Gets Database Power in SM10

December 14, 2009 New Version

Up till now, when you clicked the link in a contact record to send an email, you got a new empty email in your default email program. That is efficient but left any mission critical information in your email system, not in your database. Not good enough for Studio Manager 10. So, now when you […]

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Studio Manager 10 Gets a Dashboard

December 8, 2009 New Version

In Studio Manager 10, you start out on your own dashboard. From there you see your jobs and tasks deadlines. To spice things up a bit more, you also have a compact timesheet right there. You don’t have to navigate Studio Manager’s various entry screens anymore to get your job done. You get two big […]

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Studio Manager 10 Coming Soon – Calendar!

November 19, 2009 New Version

We are in the final stages of releasing Studio Manager 10. We plan to launch the week of December 7. Watch this page for more information about Studio Manager 10. Or… Email Janet if you want to be notified on launch day! Reveal #1: Monthly Calendar. We’ve created a powerful new calendar view for job […]

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The Wisdom of Whitespace, Part 2

November 8, 2009 Studio Manager

The quest for whitespace in an ever more complex technology environment is diametrically opposed to the ceaseless addition of features that preoccupies most software firms. When it comes to a database product, what you see with more features is usually more reports. I want to use this post to explain why suckering into a report […]

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QuickBooks Integration is Possible with Studio Manager

October 30, 2009 Accounting

We aren’t announcing that we’ve integrated Quickbooks with Studio Manager. But we want you to know that if you want to use Studio Manager with QuickBooks and are willing to use QuickBooks for Windows and buy Productive Computing’s QuickBooks FileMaker plug-in, we’ll help you do it. You may notice there were a number of ifs […]

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The Wisdom of Whitespace

October 26, 2009 Studio Manager

Studio Manager was designed from Day 1 to be customizable. I specifically wanted to avoid making software with scads of features – for everyone and everything. Those kinds of programs are hard to use and incredibly cluttered. The more customizable a piece of software is, the more the developer can focus on essentials and deliver […]

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FileMaker 10 may have issues with Snow Leopard

September 5, 2009 Alert

I have been trying to do some importing with fairly large interrelated files using FileMaker Pro 10.3 and Snow Leopard in single-user mode. I’ve had several crashes in about a 1/2 hour of efforts. Will now be switching to a machine with Leopard installed and re-do the work. Be forewarned that unspecified problems with FileMaker […]

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Welcome to Studio Manager on WordPress

August 5, 2009 SM Blog

Hi folks. Welcome to our new spacious WordPress site. This is our blog and website. You can learn more about Studio Manager in the tabs above and through links on our sidebars. Our free Studio Manager demo is available here. The WordPress conversion isn’t quite complete. We are taking this opportunity to retake screenshots at […]

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New Studio Manager Website Under Construction

July 24, 2009 SM Blog

Hey folks! This WordPress site will eventually take the place of our fairly large studio-manager.com site. It’s going to take a while to migrate all the static pages and we aren’t WordPress experts — yet. While under construction, the static site will be where you find us and this will be what we have to […]

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