8. Synchronizing with the Bento iPhone and iPad Apps

In this chapter you learn how to use the Bento iPhone and iPad apps to synchronize your data between your iPhone or iPad and your Mac.

The first two versions of Bento were stand-alone applications, a truly personal database for one user and one computer. In this chapter and the next one you see how Bento has blossomed into a sharable database. It is still a personal database, and it still is centered on a single user, but you can now share and synchronize Bento libraries over a local area network as well as with an iPhone or iPad. Mobile synchronization, the topic of this chapter, is accomplished with the Bento app that you buy (for $4.99) from the Apple iTunes App store. Sharing, the topic ...

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