Month: November, 2007

Formulae for Book Cover Images

Two suppliers of images you may wish to consider are Curriculum Corporation SCISWeb and Syndetics. When you have an active account with either of these suppliers, you must add a URL formula for that supplier. Here are some example formulae you can use. Sorry if this looks a bit technical, all most libraries will need to do […]

Book covers not displaying on Windows

Assuming that you have the correct URL formula for the images, check your Firewall settings. You may have to restart Athenaeum after changing your FireWall settings to see the images.

Book Cover Images into Athenaeum Pro

With a number of publishers and web based services supplying images of book covers, there has been increasing interest how to get these images into Athenaeum. Manual scanning of book cover images is a slow and rather tedious process. In Athenaeum Pro 7.5 and 7.6 you could, if you knew how, store a web address for each […]

Athenaeum Express 8.5 for Mac OS X 10.5

Yesterday, we posted a version of Athenaeum Express 8.5 that is compatible with Apple’s brand new Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Click this link for a Leopard compatible version of Athenaeum Express 8.5 Compatible? Athenaeum and all versions of FileMaker before 9.0v1 pre-dated Mac OS X 10.5. When OS X 10.5 was released, a number of compatibility issues […]

Athenaeum Pro 7.6 for Mac OS X Leopard

Athenaeum Pro 7.6 update for OS X 10.5 Yesterday, we posted a version of Athenaeum Pro 7.6 that is compatible with Apple’s brand new Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Click this link for a Leopard compatible version of Athenaeum Pro 7.6 Compatible? Athenaeum and all versions of FileMaker before 9.0v1 pre-dated Mac OS X 10.5. When OS X 10.5 […]

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (and “Snow Leopard”) “Time Machine”

“Open” files and backup software When using a FileMaker file (document), such as the files in Atheneaum, FileMaker “opens” the file and copies certain information from the hard disk to memory. For this reason, you should never back-up files that are in use, either manually or with back up software, because two things can happen during […]

Leopard Compatible Athenaeum software

Mac Athenaeum users installing Leopard must update their Athenaeum Pro and/or FileMaker software. Watch our download pages for compatible versions of Athenaeum. Go to Download Page

FileMaker 9.0v2 update

2 November 2007 - FileMaker Inc have released the 9.0v2 update for FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Advanced. If you are installing or are planning to install Mac OS X 10.5 and are networking Athenaeum, you should install this update. See FileMaker’s Leopard Compatibility update page for more information. If you are not networking Athenaeum and just using it […]