| the iPhone may fit in your pocket, and the iPad may not be much larger than a hardcover book, but FileMaker thinks it can fit an entire database application on each device. The company has released File Maker Go-a mobile application in iPhone and iPad versionsthat gives you access to databases created with the venerable File Maker Pro desktop program. 
You won't be able to create databases on your iPhone or iPad with File Maker Go. But you will be able to work remotely with FileMaker Pro databases on your mobile device, viewing, searching, and editing information from wherever you are. | “The thing that's cool [about FileMaker Go] is not that we've done it, but how we did it," Ryan Rosenberg, vice president of marketing and services for FileMaker, told Macworld. Although the mobile app can't do everything its desktop counterpart can pull off. Rosenberg says, it's still a pretty full-featured version of FileMaker. To that end, File Maker Go for both the iPhone and the iPad can run most databases created in FileMaker Pro 7 or later, with no custornization required. layouts, | | lists, forms, and tables look the same on a mobile device as they do on a desktop computer. FileMaker Go also supports most scripts used in desktop databases. With FileMaker Go, you can access databases on a Mac or PC over either a local wireless network or a Wi-Fi or 3G connection. (Database hosting requires version 10 or II of either File Maker Server or File Maker Pro.) When you connect to databases via a network connection, changes you make remotely appear in the stored database instantly-and vice versa. | In addition, you can use File Sharing in iTunes to copy databases from your desktop onto your mobile device for use with File Maker Go. You can download databases via e-mail as well, using the Document Support feature in iOS 4 (and iPhone OS 3.2 on the iPad) to open Mail attachments directly in FileMaker Go |
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