August 7, 2000 We are proud to announce the availability of the REALbasic 3.0a5. Using this alpha release gives you the chance to learn about new features in REALbasic early, work with Carbon, and participate in setting the direction for the next release. It runs on and compiles for both Classic (7.61 to Mac OS 9) and Mac OS X DP 4. It uses Carbon and the Aqua User Interface for both the IDE and the compiled applications when running in Mac OS X, and Platinum in Classic. This release sports enhancements to the Window class -- making it easier to use full-screen windows, hide menu bars, plus enhancements to the Code editor and more. (http://www.realbasic.com/new) Lorin Rivers 512.263.1233 x712 v Product Manager 512.263.1441 f REAL Software, Inc. mailto:lrivers@realsoftware.com PMB 220 http://www.realsoftware.com 3300 Bee Caves Road, Suite 650 Austin, Texas 78746

From: Brian S Hall (moseshll@umich.edu) Subject: 'Blugs' (List Manager replacement) public beta All Mac OS developers are invited to participate in beta testing a new Mac OS List Manager replacement called 'Blugs'. Blugs goes far beyond List Manager functionality, as should be apparent from this partial feature list: * The amount of data that can be stored in a Blugs list is limited only by available memory. The Mac OS List Manager is limited to 32KB of data. * Many library variants: PowerPC Carbon and pre-Carbon, 68k A5 and A4, Pascal and debug. All libraries do extensive parameter checking; the debug libraries additionally report errors and warnings. * Blugs only requires 32-bit GWorld support (System 7 and later). It uses advanced OS features like the Appearance Manager and the Allegro (OS 8.5) Control Manager only when available. * Built-in support for vertical and horizontal title bars. * You can load lists entirely from resources. This includes cell and title data. * Up to 65535...

August 3rd 2000 PineHill Products Rochester, NY Mac Coder 2.4 is available today, with many new features for C or C++ coders, and text editors. Mac Coder has features for two people; text editors, since it has over 15+ text options; and C or C++ programmers, since it has over 12+ coding options. With all of the usual features of a text editor such as font, size, style, color, export, print, text statistics, go to line, and much more, and all of the features of a C/C++ source code editor such as toolbox init, show window, 11 code inserts of commonly used code, export to CodeWarrior, project templates, and much more, this is an application that makes everyone happy, and it won't hurt your wallet either! Grab your copy today for only $14.95! Download Mac Coder and get registering info at: http://www.pinehillproducts.com/maccoder Justin Christie PineHill Products www.pinehillproducts.com

From: Aaron Bratcher (aaronbratcher@mac.com) Subject: [ANN] vServe 1.1 now Available Changes from version 1.0: * SQL CREATE TABLE - Fixed Bug, so it now actually works - Valentina type vObjectPtr now supported (Only Valentina field type ssupported) - PRIMARY KEY and KEY supported * SQL INSERT - INSERT ... SELECT now supported - INSERT VALUES... (no dest columns) now supported * New Commands available to client - Drop Cursor - Get LastRecID (get RecID of last INSERTed record) vServe is FREE with the purchase of db Reports until August 31, 2000. After that it is $99. Full Description: Program for REALbasic developers that allows them to share Valentina databases among multiple clients. Allows use of standard SQL commands not normally available with Valentina. Tested on Macintosh. Demo includes a sample client application and database. Server will quit after 2 hours of use. Full source given with purchase. Download demo here: http://abDataTools.com -- Aaron

August 1, 2000 -- Maxum Development announced today the release of Phantom 2.2.1, a maintenance upgrade to its popular web site search software for Macintosh and Windows. The 2.2.1 upgrade begins with better indexing of PDF files, including support for author, summary and other meta information, to dramatically improve search results for site visitors. For the administrator, enhanced reporting of specific errors during indexing aids troubleshooting of both local and remote crawls. Phantom 2.2.1 is Mac OS 9 compatible and offers a number of important improvements, including better support for indexing user directories on Unix-based Web servers and easier upgrades from a previous version of Phantom. Several problems were also corrected, including displaying an incorrect number of search results under certain conditions. The upgrade is free for current users of version 2.2. For more information, including download links and a complete list of changes and updates, visit Maxum's Web site:...

Essence Software is proud to announce the release of the MySQL Plugin for REALbasic 2.1.2. The MySQL Plugin provides a REALbasic Database API driver which allows developers to exchange information with MySQL Database servers. For more information, see the MySQL Plugin website: (http://www.essencesw.com/) James Milne Essence Software (http://www.essencesw.com/) (http://www.xs3d.com/) (mailto:james@essencesw.com)

Subject: [ANN] Escape Information Services releases DICOM Import 1.2 Escape Information Services (http://www.escape.gr/) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.2 of the DICOM Import component for QuickTime and its associated Software Development Kits (SDKs), both available for the Mac and Windows platforms. New in version 1.2 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Changes in DICOM Import ----------------------- 1. Added support for 12 and 16 bit grey-scale and 24 bit RGB images compressed with jpeg lossless compression. 2. Older files with no information about compression used (if any) can now be opened. 3. Added support for DICOM frame time vector and other DICOM frameDuration related elements. 4. General improvements in speed and robustness: Certain corrupted files would crash the component. Fixed. Changes in the SDK ------------------ 1. Added API level support (using QuickTime's Image Description Extensions) for controlling the following: a. For DICOM files...

MACROMEDIA AND ELEMENT K LAUNCH MACROMEDIA UNIVERSITY Leaders in Web authoring software and education team to offer online instruction San Francisco, California and Rochester, New York -- August 1, 2000 -- Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) and Element K, a leading provider of corporate e-learning solutions for business and technology skills, today announced the launch of Macromedia University (http://macromedia.elementk.com/). This new site will serve as the premier online training source for mastering market-leading Macromedia products. With the launch of the new site, Macromedia now provides affordable, convenient, and effective online e-learning solutions targeted at professional developers of every skill level. "Macromedia and Element K are leveraging the power of the Web to train customers how to better use their Macromedia products," said Tom Hale, senior vice president, product marketing at Macromedia. "These self-paced online courses will add value to existing users by showing...

Murray Yar IT has revved "Multiple Users Actions", available now from http://www.murray-yar.com Improvements in the new Version: -------------------------------- The new version, 1.0.1, allows the owner's login and logout to have Apple Scripts attached (Version 1.0 ignored owner login/logout events.). In addition, the new version can execute an AppleScript when Multiple Users starts up the first time after machine start. General: -------- Multiple Users Actions allows you to execute an AppleScript handler when users log in and log out of machines running Apple's Multiple Users. Specifically, with Multiple Users Actions: 1. an Applescript handler is called at the five times defined by Apple's Multiple Users - startup, prelogin, login, logout and postlogout, 2. the Multiple Users login sequence can be aborted at prelogin if desired, 3. the global properties of the script handler's environment are preserved across handler calls, enabling the environment to store ongoing information, 4....

For release 24 July 2000: Dartware Ships InterMapper 3.0 Network Monitoring and Alerting Software HANOVER, NH - 24 July 2000 - Dartware, LLC announces the immediate availability of its InterMapper 3.0 network monitoring and alerting program. InterMapper 3.0 is the next release of the InterMapper product line, which originally shipped in July 1996. InterMapper 3.0 provides a graphical view of a network and tests the routers, servers, workstations, and other equipment attached to that network. InterMapper also monitors the utilization and traffic and error rates on WAN and LAN links within the network. When InterMapper detects a problem, it sends notifications to one or more responsible individuals. Its on-screen maps can be printed to produce formal documentation of the network configuration. Finally, InterMapper has a built-in web server that allows the network manager to view the network health from a standard web browser. A demonstration version of InterMapper 3.0 is available from...

Subject: Vicomsoft News Alert: Latest Version 6.6.3 Software Released NOW AVAILABLE - LATEST VERSION 6.6.3 SOFTWARE INTERNET CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS - SoftRouter 6.6.3 - Internet Gateway Suites 6.6.3 - SurfDoubler 6.6.3 All of our Internet Connectivity products benefit from a range of improvements. Auto set-up has been enhanced, plus the DNS server and the DHCP server have been further improved. This latest release includes superior firewall features for MacOS versions of the software, having the ability to allow or prevent access to servers running on the same Macintosh as the Vicomsoft solution. NETWORK ADMINISTRATION TOOLS - DHCP Server 6.6.3 This latest release of the DHCP Server includes minor changes and enhancements. Trial versions are available for all Vicomsoft software at: http://www.vicomsoft.com/products.html Free updaters for existing users of version 6.6.x are available - allowing upgrading to this latest release. Updaters are available at: http://www.vicomsoft.com/...

From: Gideon Greenspan (gdg@sigsoftware.com) Sig Software is proud to announce the release of version 1.2.2 of Drop Drawers, its revolutionary user-interface enhancement. As of this version, Drop Drawers is available both as a Classic Mac OS application and as a native Carbon application for running on Mac OS X (Developer Preview 4). Drop Drawers provides floating pull-out, snap-shut drawers on the sides of your screen to store text, URLs, aliases, pictures, sounds, movies, a list of running processes and anything else. According to a recent review in MacUser UK, "Drop Drawers is the most elegant solution yet to the launcher concept, and deserves a place among the most useful software additions." (April 2000) Apart from being ported to Mac OS X, Drop Drawers 1.2.2 also adds modeless movie playback and a dialog box to deal with lost alias files. More information and the download are available at: (http://www.sigsoftware.com/dropdrawers/) The direct link for the Mac OS X version is: (...

For Immediate Release 31 July 2000 Announcing the First Annual Tax Miscalculation Sale on MGI Given that MGI has done so well this past fiscal year, and given that the US corporate tax laws are draconian and completely incomprehensible, we are having our First Annual Tax Miscalculation Sale on MGI. I underestimated our federal corporate income taxes by almost $40,000 for the past fiscal year and need to pay them before the feds seize my wife and force her into slave trade. So because I messed up the calculations, you win. (And you really don't want to know what the total tax is -- it is staggering. Where is that Republican Congress when we really need them?) Before of groveling in front of an IRS collections agent, a bank loan officer, or my dear mother who is clothed in loincloth barely subsisting on bread, water, and insects, I want to sell ninety (90) copies of MGI Deluxe Multi-Domain at half price. And I will sell MGI Deluxe Multi-Domain at half price until I have sold 90 copies....

Essence Software is pleased to Primebase for REALbasic! Primebase Plugin 1.0 is a REALbasic Database API driver which allows developers to exchange data with Primebase database servers. See the Essence Software website for more details and a 30-day demonstration version. (http://www.essencesw.com/) James Milne Essence Software (http://www.essencesw.com/) (http://www.xs3d.com/) (mailto:james@essencesw.com)

I'm proud to anounce MPCP Network Classes 1.0 for REALbasic. It's a package that allows you to easily transmit arbitrary binary data over TCP/IP sockets. Features are: * supports "threaded" commands * uses extensible, highly flexible custom protocol * easy porting to other languages * commands support arbitrary number of arguments * grouping of commands into classes * supports arguments with keys (association list-style arguments) * progammer's interface similar to Apple Events but simpler * command registry ensures 100% compatibility to other applications * it's free To download the small package, point your browser to http://home.snafu.de/erich/realbasic/mpcp.html I have written the classes for my own application that will soon be pusblished, and as there's such a popular demand and so many questions regarding sockets, I've chosen to publish them. The documentation is still sparse but should get you started, the package is simple to use anyway. Please do register all command classes...

Cycore, the Leader in 3D for E-commerce, Acquires PuppetTime, a Unique 3D Entertainment Software Developer Purchase of 3D Innovator Part of Company's Web 3D Strategy to Expand Beyond e-Business into 3D Entertainment for the Web SAN MATEO, Calif., (July 27, 2000) - Cycore, the leader in interactive 3D for e-business, today announced that it is acquiring PuppetTime, a San Francisco-based developer of cutting-edge 3D storytelling technologies. The acquisition allows Cycore, the creator of Cult3D, to add powerful 3D character animation to its portfolio of technologies that bring 3D to mainstream business and entertainment. PuppetTime Producer is an easy-to-use 3D character animation program that allows Web developers to create compelling 3D movies in minutes. With an underlying "cast" of digital actors - or puppets - the user can self-direct their own movies by simply selecting a digital actor, typing dialog, recording sounds and voice-overs, and choosing actions and emotional states....

Announcing XML Engine 1.0 XML Engine is a set of classes which makes analysis, manipulation and creation of XML and HTML possible. You can find information about XML Engine and a demo from the url below. The demo shows the XML Tree Structure editor/viewer, and an "index file editor", which is a simple example of XML Engine in use. (http://www.thsmith.dircon.co.uk/programmer/forsale.html) Features: - Elegant design, fast on render, parse and entity mapping. - XML data created on parsing source is tree based and object orientated. - Many methods. Extensive manipulation / analysis abilities, including very extensive sorting. - RAM efficient. Light on properties and allows turning only certain tags into objects saving memory on large source. - Can Render and Parse both HTML and XML. HTML is actually "Bad" XML, because XML tags must be closed, but many HTML tags are not closed by definition. - Support for empty tags, comments, and entities. - Parse error logging and optional "loose"...

July 28, 2000 - James Sentman is proud to announce version 2.0 of the server monitoring and restart utility, Whistle Blower. Whistle Blower regularly connects to your servers to verify that they are online and responding properly. If a server fails to respond Whistle Blower can notify you via local alerts, email or by sending a page. If you are using a Master Switch from APC or a PowerKey from Sophisticated Circuits Whistle Blower can restart the server without any further intervention from you. Whistle Blower has powerful verification capabilities that can not only make sure that your web server is online, but can also verify the return from CGI scripts and web based databases. With the advanced shift notification features you can be sure that the person who is on duty over the weekend is the one who gets the page, while at the same time ignoring the scheduled downtime of the Sunday night reboot. The web based administration allows you to check on or restart your servers from...

RB Helper 1.21 is available from http://www.thsmith.dircon.co.uk/programmer/index.html then click on downloads RB Helper, is an Open Source project, that has many features that are incredibly useful to any RB programmer. RB Helper's design is to do anything, that can benefit use with RB. Use your imagination, if you want RB Helper to improve your use of RB in someway, then code it yourself using this download as the start! You could put toolbox calls into it to open and close windows, all sorts of drag and drop abilities, a feature to search for solutions to problems, anything you can think of. Current Features: Character Generator 2 - A wide range of ascii and number conversion and manipulation features. Conversion ability - Converts string data into RB variables, and back. Just select the text, then press a button on a floating window to convert the text. Note Keeper Class and Module Manager - Used to manage classes, modules, projects or anything at all. Features drag and drop of...

-- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Intelli Innovations, Inc. previews Server Sentinel 2 - the complete server monitoring toolkit for Macintosh. July 28th, 2000 - Intelli Innovations, Inc., developers of innovative Internet and productivity solutions for the Macintosh platform, today announced Server Sentinel 2 Preview for Macintosh. Sentinel will check your servers at specified intervals, and then run events if a server check fails like e-mailing or paging you, running AppleScripts, opening applications locally or over networks, resetting crashed computers, and much more. So don't worry - your systems will stay up without you. Sentinel 2 now features new failure and recovery events, advanced failure event scripting, ICMP ping support, automatic log export (text or HTML), support for Kickoff! and Rebound! from Sophisticated Circuits, and lots of other minor improvments. Sentinel 2 has been rewritten from the ground up to offer extended functionality in all key areas. More information, along...

Belle Nuit Draw vector draw example project 27-7-00. Belle Nuit Montage is pleased to announce Belle Nuit Draw. This is a very basic vector oriented drawing application with the following features: - You can draw lines, circles, rectangles and text objects - You can select an object and change position, size, color etc. - You can align text left, right, centered and justified - You can do multiple undos - You can save the document - It supports copy-paste and drag-and-drop between documents Released open source. (http://www.belle-nuit.com/realbasic/bellenuitdraw.html) Belle Nuit Montage is a postproduction facility based in Lausanne, Switzerland since 1995. It is mainly oriented to independent documentary production. The Belle Nuit Website (http://www.belle-nuit.com) holds valuable information about nonlinear editing, digital video production and video to film transfer. The Belle Nuit software department has already published Belle Nuit Subtitler, the TCplus timecode calculator and...

MGI 1.6d RELEASED: INCLUDES FULL SUPPORT FOR ACCESSPOINT, 8-BIT SUPPORT FOR mgiPOP Raleigh, North Carolina: PagePlanet Software, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of MGI 1.6d, its plug-in to 4D's award-winning web server for the Macintosh, WebSTAR. This release represents several major milestones in the development of MGI over the past four years. MGI 1.6d includes full and seamless support for the Accesspoint system of credit card verification and real-time credit card processing. PagePlanet Software, Inc. is proud to be associated with Accesspoint, a California-based corporation founded in 1995. Using the custom-constructed, Accesspoint-enabled tags of the MGI shopping basket suite, a web designer can now integrate a web site from product selection to credit card transaction deposit using a single piece of software designed specifically for that purpose. In addition, Accesspoint is capable of providing merchant services for on-line businesses that are otherwise unable to...

P R E S S R E P O R T from July 26, 2000 *** New EasyGem Library for Omikron Basic 6 *** The EasyGem Library for Omikron Basic 6 is now available in version 4.0. The latest library now features more than 180 new functions and procedures than version 3.0. This makes it possible to easily equip Omikron Basic programs with professional user interfaces. Almost all objects introduced since Mac OS 8 can now be utilized by the EasyGem Library. - Prices of EasyGem Library: The new EasyGem Library 4.0 is available on CD for US$59 or as an online version for only US$47. - Updates for EasyGem 3 User: The update from version 3.0 on CD costs US$20 and the online upgrade can be purchased for only US$15 . More information about how to update and/or how to purchase EasyGem Library at http://www.berkhan.com/best6_e.htm General information about EasyGem at http://www.berkhan.com/main_e.htm *** What's new? *** -- Version 4.00 from 24 July 2000 -- - The Menu Library was completely revised and...

Macworld Conference & Expo is Now the Second Most Attended IT Event in New York 60,000 Plus Mac Enthusiasts Propel Macworld Conference & Expo to New Records New York, NY -- July 26, 2000 -- Macworld Conference & Expo/New York, which is now the second most attended IT Event in New York, set a new all-time attendance record for an East Coast Macworld by attracting more than 60,000 Mac enthusiasts from around the world to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, July 18-21, 2000. The world's most comprehensive Macintosh OS Event, Macworld Conference & Expo featured nearly 400 leading companies showcasing the latest hardware, software and Internet solutions on more than 294,000 gross square feet of exhibit space, and also featured a variety of jam-packed conference sessions, special events and forums designed to educate and inform both professional and home Macintosh users. The final total of 61,250 attendees represents a dramatic increase of more than 33% over last year's...

GraphPro v1.1 - A flicker-free graphing class for REALbasic v2.1 and greater. Copyright Dr. Gerard Hammond, MacSOS 2000 The source code for the GraphPro classes is available for $75 USD. Simply purchase a licence from kagi and the complete code will be e-mailed directly to you. One year of maintenance is included in the price. Win32 and MacOS demo applications are available for download. http://www.garvan.unsw.edu.au/gerham/macsos New Features in v1.1 -Preliminary documentation. -Axes can have defined formats (eg $, %, scientific notation) -AXIS labels are now draggable. -Nodes can be added more easily. -The graph bounds are now live. Features: -Compiles for Win32 and MacOS systems. -Multiple over-laying Cartesian graphs -Unlimited data sets. -Unlimited sized data sets. -Coloured and patterned line of best fit curves -Graph Title can be re-positioned by dragging -Graph Title can be edited in-line by double clicking -Legend Title can be re-positional by dragging -Coloured X, Y, X2, Y2...

Western Civilisation Releases Style Master 1.8 and 1.8 Pro Western Civilisation updates their CSS editor Style Master to version 1.8, refining and enhancing the development of cross-browser, standards compliant cascading style sheets. Bondi Beach, Australia, 25th July 2000. Western Civilisation announces the release and immediate availability of Style Master 1.8 and Style Master Pro 1.8 for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and the Macintosh. (http://www.westciv.com/style_master/) With this release, the ZDNet 5 Star rated style sheet editor refines and enhances its already powerful, intuitive support for editing CSS1 and CSS2 style sheets. Style Master 1.8 provides a comprehensive style sheets development solution for CSS1 and CSSP. Style Master Pro takes the solution to the next level with added support for CSS2, the complete style sheets standard. With Style Master and Style Master Pro developers can * create and edit sophisticated style sheets with point and click ease. * get up to speed fast...

From: Dr Gerard Hammond (g.hammond@garvan.unsw.edu.au) Subject: MacAT v5.3 released. Cron for Macintosh MacAT - The leading automated task scheduling application for Macintosh server administrators New MacAT v5.3 features (25th free upgrade for registered users) - FileMaker Pro 5 compatibility added. - Long standing timer bug fixed. - Price increased to $49 MacAT is a "cron" task scheduling application for Macintosh server administrators. It is a PowerPC application that allows 37 of the most common MacOS tasks to be run daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly without user intervention. These scheduled tasks include: Launching Applications, Files and AppleScripts; Quitting individual applications or alternatively quitting all currently running processes; Rename and Delete any File or Folder; Hide and Show applications, Mount remote AppleShare volumes; Copy Files or Folders to mounted AppleShare volumes; Unmount nominated AppleShare volumes; Restart or shutdown the Macintosh,...

Kingston Releases Memory Supporting New Apple Power Mac G4, iMac Systems Modules to Maximize New iMac Family and G4 Dual Processor and Cube Model Performance Now Shipping in Quantity FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. and NEW ORLEANS, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- In step with Apple(R) Computer's release of two new Power Mac(R) G4 systems and a colorful new iMac(R) family, Kingston(R) Technology Company, Inc. today announced it has memory to support these systems, available in quantity. Kingston will be featuring the blazing performance of Power Mac G4's during its exhibition of memory and working with digital media at Siggraph 2000, (booth # 2915) in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, July 25-27, 2000. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991011/KINGSTON ) "Kingston is right in line with memory to maximize the performance available from these hot new Apple systems," said Liesl Schwoebel, Product Marketing Manager, Kingston. "Whether it's a lightning quick Power Mac G4 with dual...

From: "Aaron L. Bratcher" (aaronbratcher@mac.com) Subject: [ANN] vServe 1.0 Available Price: $99.95 Full Description: Gives REALbasic developers the ability to share Valentina databases among multiple TCP/IP clients. (Valentina is single-user DB at this time) Full source code given with purchase. Get your demo copy here: http://abDataTools.com As always, comments/suggestions/bug reports are welcome here: mailto://aaronbratcher@mac.com -- Aaron

For Immediate Release Bleu Rose Ltd. Announces Black & Bleu(tm) and Black & Bleu/PRO Version 2.1 maintenance release Hacienda Heights, California (July 23, 2000) - Bleu Rose Ltd. announces the release of Black & Bleu(tm) and Black & Bleu/PRO v2.1 maintenance release Black and Bleu(tm) is an application that lists 4,384 Macintosh OS error codes with Apple's cryptic explanation of each. Black & Bleu enhances Apple's explanation of these Mac OS error codes by providing less cryptic and more useful detailed explanations and remedies for many of these errors. It takes the mystery out of error codes with explanations in plain English. This is the most comprehensive list of Mac OS errors currently available anywhere. v2.1 is a minor update with no new features. New customers or ones upgrading from version 1.n of Black & Bleu(tm) will enjoy the following features of Black & Bleu v2.1: * 4,384 error codes * Many more detailed explanations * Annotate our explanations...

[For immediate release] Switzerland--July 21, 2000--Blue Line Studios today announced the release of LogotypeMaker 1.0 for Macintosh. The public betas 0.1 through 0.5 had some speed issues, the recent version however has been vastly improved. LogotypeMaker now features printing and saving. "LogotypeMaker could serve a purpose that all graphics professionals want," Daniel C. Kueng, president of Blue Line Studios, said, "make it look to their client that they've spent a lot of time and energy on a workproduct when, in fact, they haven't." Blue Line Studios offers a fully working Demo which can be used for a dozen times. Download it at http://www.blueline-studios.com/lmDown.html Features: LogotypeMaker displays a string of text using all the user's currently installed fonts. The list contents can be edited, printed (including printing to PDF via Acrobat, which can later be opened in Illustrator), and saved as LogotypeMaker files. The product homepage including screenshot is at http://www...

Version 1.5 of ConceptDraw was released on Wednesday, July 19th.. Version 1.5 features new drawing modes, enhanced working with vector formats, better EPS and HTML conversion and various bug fixes. Odessa, Ukraine - July 19th, 2000 - Computer Systems Odessa Corp., today announced ConceptDraw v1.5 for MacOS and Windows is shipping at the price of $125. The update is free to registered users of ConceptDraw v1.4 or earlier. A free demo version is available from ConceptDraw's web site: http://www.conceptdraw.com/ ConceptDraw v1.5 adds the following new features: - 2 new drawing modes: Smart Connection Mode and Direct Connection Mode let you sketch out large flowcharts and diagrams easily. - Optimized generation of clickable image map when exporting to HTML - Various enhancements of export/import for GIF, EMF, WMF and Macintosh PICT format - Correct exporting to EPS format. Also this update fixes a number of issues reported by users. You can read more about what's new in version 1.5 on our...

PRESS RELEASE: Tri-BACKUP 2.12 for MACINTOSH AVAILABLE NOW ************** This version of our backup utility add improved compression (faster, smaller), calculate backup size, new compress/uncompress features, drag and drop (exclusions), ... We are very proud to announce the new version of our Tri-BACKUP software for Macintosh. This product is a easy-to-use backup utility, with automatic and periodic Mirror and Incremental backup, and synchronization capabilities. This version add new features: - improved compression, widely faster with smaller files. - independent compression, to compress and uncompress files and folders dragged from the Desktop. - calculate backup size: gives the size and number of files matching the backup settings. - Drag-drop exclusions: now, items can be added in the exclusion list by simply drag and drop them. and - "Log File" (list of copied files). - Drag and Drop to set Origin and Destination folders, - etc... A demo version is available. The version is for...

OPEN DOOR NETWORKS AND EARTHLINK SECURE DSL CONNECTIONS Provide free DoorStop Personal Firewall to Macintosh-using EarthLink DSL customers ASHLAND, Ore. -- July 18, 2000 -- Open Door Networks Inc. today announced that it has teamed up with leading broadband ISP EarthLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ELNK) to provide all new and existing EarthLink DSL customers with a free copy of Open Door's industry-leading DoorStop Personal Firewall for Macintosh. The agreement marks the first time an ISP is making a firewall available at no charge to its Macintosh users, and addresses the enhanced security needs of "broadband" users, who are often connected to the Internet for extended periods. Both companies have established relationships and experience working with Apple. EarthLink is the exclusive ISP in Apple's Internet Setup Assistant included with all Macs sold in the U.S. Open Door Networks also maintains a longstanding relationship with Apple, most recently providing Apple with the Internet file sharing...

New York City- July 18, 2000- Active Concepts (MacWorld Expo, Jacob Javits Center, Booth #1854), a leading provider of Web Intelligence and online consumer behavior analysis tools - is working closely with Apple to ensure its web site traffic analysis product suite, Funnel Web, will support Mac OS X, Apple's next generation Macintosh operating system. To ship concurrently with release of Mac OS X, Funnel Web Enterprise and Funnel Web 4.0 will provide users with the leading features and performance that makes Funnel Web the leading e-commerce, business intelligence solution for Macintosh users. "Running Funnel Web with an Apache web server on a G4 Macintosh under MacOS X will significantly lower the cost of entry for powerful, high-performance, e-commerce corporate web sites, " explained Darren Williams, president of Active Concepts. "Active Concepts is working with Apple to make this value and performance a reality." "The world's leading software developers are taking advantage of the...

Log On and See MacWorld New York Live! NuSpectra Multimedia will be broadcasting live video from the show floor using their Mac-based SiteCam software and SiteZAP camera. The SiteCam software gives anyone with a Mac the ability to stream live video and/or audio to anyone with a Java-enabled browser. SiteZAP includes the SiteCam software in addition to a Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera that can be remotely controlled from a browser. MacWorld Show Specials will be available during the show, with SiteCam at $99 (regularly $149) and SiteZAP at $1795 (regularly $1995). For links and more information, please visit http://www.nuspectra.com NuSpectra is in the Network Innovators area of MacWorld next to Developer Depot (http://www.devdepot.com). The camera is mounted on the Developer Depot truck so you can have the ultimate vantage point at Macworld. Known for their ease-of-use, reliability and cost-effectiveness, NuSpectra products are the clear leaders in Web camera software and integrated Pan/Tilt/...

Stone Design Ships Super Seven Suite for Macintosh OS X and Server New York City, July 19, 2000 - Veteran Macintosh Cocoa developers, Stone Design, today announced availability of the Stone Super Seven Suite - seven applications for Apple Computer, Inc's powerful new Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server Operating Systems. Included are two brand new applications: Create for X and PhotoToWeb. According to Stone Design's CEO, Andrew Stone, these applications come with free licenses valid through 01/01/01. "We've made our applications freely accessible to Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X seed users. Download them today and give them a trial!" The Super Seven Suite includes applications to do graphic design with page layout and web publishing features, manage digital photos, track time and bill clients, and produce PDF. The following applictions are included: Create for X is a revolutionary multipage draw and layout application built on the notion that everything is an object - patterns, blends,...

MDJ POWER 25 FINDS STEVE JOBS, ADAM ENGST MOST INFLUENTIAL MACINTOSH PEOPLE Inaugural Power and Influence List Tracks Mac Industry EL RENO, OK -- MDJ, the Daily Journal for Serious Macintosh Users, relaunched on Monday, July 17, with the inaugural "MDJ Power 25." The list, compiled through extensive surveys with Macintosh industry insiders (including journalists, development executives, programmers, and Apple Computer insiders), is the Mac industry's first serious attempt to track not only who has power and influence, but also to rank individuals as they are perceived by insiders in a position to know. "The MDJ Power 25 is a first step to a more serious evaluation of how the Macintosh community operates," said MDJ publisher Matt Deatherage. "As a separate subculture within the world of technology, the Macintosh community is unique and somewhat insular. Outsiders who try to assess how the community works may not graps the dynamics, so we asked the insiders who they think wields...

Macworld Conference & Expo New York On Record-Setting Pace For 2000 Event Pre registration up 133%, exhibit space soars 25% over last year Framingham, MA. - July 17, 2000-IDG World Expo, owners and producers of the annual Macworld Conference & Expo taking place at NY's Jacob Javits Convention Center, July 18 - 21, announced record-breaking results and revealing statistics from pre-show attendee registration and exhibitors today. As Apple and the Macintosh operating system prepare to take the center stage of the IT industry, tens of thousands of top executives from Fortune 1000 companies and home users alike have registered to attend Macworld Conference & Expo. These attendees have the opportunity to try out the latest Macintosh products, software and services from leading Internet and technology suppliers and service providers. Some key points revealed by attendee pre-registration and exhibitor survey results: Pre registrations are up more than 133% over last year at this...

Ekim Software releases Socket Sifter 1.6 - Tool to communicate, listen or connect, through TCP on any port Ekim Software - 7/17/2000 - Ekim Software announces an update of their Macintosh Open Transport socket tool, Socket Sifter. Socket Sifter is a program that simply communicates through TCP on any port. SocketSifter can listen or connect on any available port that you specify.Socket Sifter can be used by developers who want to test their applications and have complete control of data flow through sockets. This can be helpful in finding bugs in the protocol or just plain testing difference application features. Socket Sifter can also act as a handy telnet application. With the knowledge of the correct protocol you can do almost anything with Socket Sifter such as reading your email or retrieving web pages. Socket Sifter now comes in a Pro version which is scriptable. You can now use AppleScript to control your connections with Socket Sifter Pro. Many more features coming soon for...

SUPERCARD PERSONAL EDITION DEBUTS WITH MACNN PROMOTION July 17, 2000 - Tempe, AZ. In association with MacNN, IncWell DMG, Ltd. and Solutions Etcetera bring you an exceptional introductory offer on SuperCard's new 'Personal Edition', a new offering aimed at all Macintosh users, and the HyperCard community at large, offering all of the power and ease of SuperCard, at a dramatically lower price. "With the introduction of IncWell's SuperCard Personal Edition, any Mac user can now afford to acquire one of the most powerful tools out there for the creation of multimedia based presentations, as well as their own rapid application development. And with the demise of HyperCard now all but official, our timing could not be any better in providing those users with a low cost, more powerful, and supported tool, in which their creations can not only continue, but expand in the richer environment that is SuperCard.", said Scott Simon, Director of Product Development for IncWell. "We're proud to...

For Immediate Release Power On Puts Schedules and Contacts in the Palms of Users' Hands Macworld Expo Release of Now Up-to-Date & Contact Enhances Scheduling Options and Support for Handheld Devices Columbus, Ohio - July 17, 2000 - Power On Software announced today that it would introduce an upgrade to Now Up-to-Date & Contact at Macworld Expo this week. Version 3.9.2 of the all-time best-selling contact manager and calendaring software for the Macintosh will provide increased connectivity capabilities. It adds a number of enhancements in its support for handheld computers based upon the Palm Computing Operating System. In furthering its leadership position as the most elegant and seamless solution for portability of schedules and contacts, Power On has satisfied user requests for better organizational capabilities. Features of New Version The new version of Now Up-to-Date & Contact provides the following new functionality: * Users now have the option to synchronize, to...

VOODOO SERVER VERSION CONTROL FOR CODEWARRIOR - v 1.2 AVAILABLE HAGENBERG, AUSTRIA, July-17-2000 -- UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GmbH is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new version 1.2 of their flagship version control tool VOODOO Server. "The new version of VOODOO Server introduces a feature that was often requested by our customers. Files are now compressed and encrypted before they are transferred between the client and the server. The results are considerable performance improvements especially over slow communication lines together with higher security when using VOODOO Server over the Internet," said Christoph Reichenberger, VODOOO product manager. "The other good news is that VOODOO Server now comes in form of an installer application. This makes it not only easy for existing users to upgrade to the new version, but also further significantly reduces the startup efforts to implementing version control." New features at a glance: + VOODOO Server now transfers files in...

Essence Software is proud to announce the availability of MADPlug 2.0 for REALbasic 2.1! MADPlug 2.0 provides a higher level control over the MADLibrary engine, and also incorporates all the file format translator plugins into the final app (rather than automatically having the translators installed into the System folder by the plugin.) MADPlug 2.0 is also ready for Carbon, so once the IDE for Carbon begins to work a bit better, MADPlug should too. What's more, it's still free! For more information and a download: (http://www.essencesw.com/Plugins/madplug.html) -- James Milne Essence Software http://www.essencesw.com/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE X Window Server for Mac OS X Aqua X Window Desktop in Development Santa Barbara, CA, July 17, 2000. Tenon Intersystems announced today that they will offer a fully integrated X Desktop for Mac OS X. Tenon's high-performance X Window Server will provide seamless integration between an X Window display environment and Macintosh applications. Tenon's new X Window Server will be an easy-to-use, flexible Mac OS X application that will integrate the best elements of Apple's Aqua desktop with state-of-the-art X Window tools to provide a powerful extension to Apple's new OS. The new X (pronounced X) for OS X (pronounced 'ten') will not only allow remote X applications to be displayed on the Mac OS X desktop, but will also include complete set of X tools and libraries to support local execution of X applications and X games on OS X. Extending Mac OS X with an X Window porting environment will enable high-resolution 3D-modeling & animation, graphical visualization and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vancouver, WA -- July 14, 2000 -- AustinSoft is happy to introduce HappyGear. HappyGear is a utility to allow gamers to use newer, InputSprocket compatible gaming devices, such as USB joysticks and steering wheels, with games not compatible with InputSprocket. "HappyGear provides a JoyManager-compatible device using your InputSprocket gaming gear," lead developer, Glenn Austin, said. "This allows users to take advantage of the new generation of joysticks and steering wheels with games that haven't yet been updated to work with InputSprockets, but do work with keyboards and older gaming devices that are difficult or impossible to find. HappyGear allows gaming device manufacturers to focus on providing great devices and support for InputSprockets rather than on trying to get their devices to work with other games as well." HappyGear will be available by August, and will cost $30 + shipping. More details will be available at (http://homepage.mac.com/austinsoft/)....

FREE UPDATE TO MACTECH's THINK REFERENCE TOOLS! JULY 14 2000, WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA -- MacTech Magazine announces free updates to each of it's THINK Reference Tools and the availability of a new release of Hz Systems THINK Reference Collector, Inside Macintosh Edition! These updates can be downloaded today from the THINK Reference web site (http://www.thinkreference.com/updates.html). THINK Reference is a personal database system, optimized for use by programmers and developers. The THINK Reference Compiler allows you to create compact, hyperlinked personal databases from HTML source code that can be searched and browsed with the THINK Reference Viewer. The THINK Reference Viewer offers a blazingly fast search engine and is supported by all major Macintosh code editors, allowing you to search databases from within your editor by simply selecting the function name or search text and hitting a single command key combination. The THINK Reference Collector, Inside Macintosh Edition, is...

Subject: [ANN] HTML Timer 1.0 Released! From: Matt Ronge (monkeybread@monkeybreadsoftware.com) What is HTML Timer? HTML Timer is an application for people who want to know how long their HTML files and images will take to download and/or upload onto the internet. HTML timer will scan for broken links and it will check the files and images at multiple modem speeds. HTML Timer is a must have for webmasters! Now realistically discover how long it is taking users to get to your site! HTML Timer will even check your links for you at the same time! Just give it a try! Important Features * Scans all HTML files * Scans through frames in HTML files * Recognizes images (via the (IMG SRC) tag) * Recognizes multimedia objects (via the (EMBED), (OBJECT) and (IMG DYNSRC) tags) * Recognizes Java applets (via the (APPLET) tag) * Calculates time for 6 modem speeds (28.8, 33.6, 56k, ISDN and 2x ISDN) * Calculates time for a realistic speed of 80% of normal bandwidth * Displays a list of all counted...

Subject: [ANN] HTML Timer 1.0 Released! From: Matt Ronge (monkeybread@monkeybreadsoftware.com) What is HTML Timer? HTML Timer is an application for people who want to know how long their HTML files and images will take to download and/or upload onto the internet. HTML timer will scan for broken links and it will check the files and images at multiple modem speeds. HTML Timer is a must have for webmasters! Now realistically discover how long it is taking users to get to your site! HTML Timer will even check your links for you at the same time! Just give it a try! Important Features * Scans all HTML files * Scans through frames in HTML files * Recognizes images (via the (IMG SRC) tag) * Recognizes multimedia objects (via the (EMBED), (OBJECT) and (IMG DYNSRC) tags) * Recognizes Java applets (via the (APPLET) tag) * Calculates time for 6 modem speeds (28.8, 33.6, 56k, ISDN and 2x ISDN) * Calculates time for a realistic speed of 80% of normal bandwidth * Displays a list of all counted...