Filemaker, Inc. has released Filemaker 12, a new version for their popular database.

The desktop version hasn't gotten much attention. "Eye-catching layout themes" and "Re-designed Starter Solutions" aren't very exiting. "Execute SQL calculation function" is much more interesting because it was previously only possible in plugins.

More attention has been given to Filemaker Go, the mobile version of Filemaker. The Go version of Filemaker is now free. According to Tidbits:

In line with one of Steve McCabe’s criticisms, FileMaker Go 11 users, especially on the smaller iPhone screen, often found themselves pinching and swiping quite a bit to zoom and pan around layouts designed for use on a laptop or larger desktop screen. For version 12, FileMaker has done that extra work for us; the provided themes, which can be applied even to existing databases with a couple of clicks, not only turn jumbled rows of fields into tidy layouts for the bigger screens, they also seamlessly deliver handheld-sized and tablet-optimized screens — complete with the bigger spaces and controls that come in handy when you’re interacting with a form using your finger, and not a mouse or trackpad.

This seems like a very sensible addition. I can understand the concentration on mobile, but without a good scripting language and better layout options any work with Filemaker still consists mostly of workarounds and cursing.

As usual Moth Software will test, if the new version of Filemaker is compatible with Mail Archiver X. But I don't expect any surprises here. And it looks like Filemaker Go should be rather easy to support now.

From the beginning Gmail has had a very good spam filter. Now Google added a nice new feature explaining why a mail lands in the Spam filter.

So starting today, we’ll be showing a brief explanation at the top of each of your spam messages. Simply look at any message in your spam folder and now you can find out why it was put there and learn about any potentially harmful content within the message.

But does anyone except me still look into the Spam filter to check the messages that the mail client thinks are spam but aren't?

Mac Appstorm has had a poll about their reader's favorite email app.

AppleMail is the clear winner with 46%. Next are suprisingly Sparrow with 32% and Postbox with 6%. Webclients are used by 10%. The rest has 2% or less (Thunderbird, Outlook etc.). The total number of votes is over 3000.

2.7.4 fixes a small number of bugs. Except for the crash bug with Outlook the bugs were non-serious ones.

• Filemaker shows no longer a temp mailbox name.
• The Header field is now exported to Filemaker.
• Archiving from Exchange no longer crashes when the account name has // in it's name.
• Fixed a problem when archiving from Entourage.
• Fixed a problem with corrupt attachments.

As usual you can download the new version from the Download page of Moth Software.