Thursby Software Introduces New NFS Software for the Macintosh January 31, 2000 -- Arlington, Texas -- Thursby Software announced today that MacNFS, its new Macintosh-based version of Sun's Network File System (NFS) is available for immediate purchase. Designed exclusively for the Macintosh, MacNFS offers several advantages: Users can share files with other Macintosh users and multiple-vendored UNIX machines from their desktop, Data can be shared with DOS and Windows users, increasing productivity in a multi-platform environment, MacNFS allows access to corporate intranets, the Internet and remote access via PPP for enhanced communication and greater flexibility. Thursby Software provides a fully functional free evaluation of MacNFS on their web site at www.thursby.com. MacNFS is available for $149 retail. For corporate and educational multi-pack and site license information and pricing, contact Thursby Software at sales@thursby.com. As part of this new product introduction,...

For more information contact Adrienne L. Coerper Director of Marketing and Administration adrienne@asgsoft.com Automated Solutions Group (714) 375-4252 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Automated Solutions Group Announces StructNamesPack Obtain arrays of method names, list names and form names for a given table. Huntington Beach, CA - January 26, 2000: Automated Solutions Group today announced the release of StructNamesPack, a suite of routines for obtaining arrays of method names, list names, and form names for a given table. About StructNamesPack StructNamesPack includes a variety of functions, designed to enhance any 4th Dimension application, providing a suite of plug-in routines. Included in StructNamesPack are the following features: * Build an array of 4th Dimension lists * Build an array of Project Methods * Build an array of Forms for a given Table "We (OSMOSE Editeur) are very proud that ASG accepted to distribute our products in North America, and hope that the series 'Les plug-ins...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VSE WEB SITE TURBO 3.0.2 Update of the web page and image optimizer Germany, 26 January 2000. Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) announced today the release of VSE Web Site Turbo 3.0.2. VSE Web Site Turbo is a tool that tries to prevent web surfers from leaving a web site before it has been loaded. It does that by making web pages load as fast as possible. VSE Web Site Turbo strips unneeded data from web pages, resulting in size reductions averaging from 20 to 50 percent based on content. It also optimizes JPEG and GIF images. The appearance of the web page is not changed. The faster a web site loads, the better is the visitor's impression of the company, the web site and the product. NEW IN VSE WEB SITE TURBO 3.0.2 The new version fixes several minor bugs and a conflict with the Palm Desktop Extension that could lead to a crash. It also offers a new preferences option that allows the user to filter special files. Further information about VSE Web Site Turbo 3.0.2:...

AppMaker Generates Scriptable Applications Grantham, NH - January 25, 2000 - Bowers Development has posted an update for AppMaker #12 to generate scriptable applications. With this update, AppMaker generates the 'aete' resource, and code to resolve object references, to handle GetData and SetData events, and to create elements. This update supports PowerPlant. In the coming weeks we will post updates for our other languages. Another new feature in this update is the ability to "override" generated code with your own code. You can specify an override name for the App, Doc, windows, dialogs, or DataDefs. AppMaker's generated code will instantiate your class instead of the standard class. Your override class is assumed to be a subclass of the standard class. I.e. your code overrides the standard code. The update is available for download from http://members.aol.com/bowersdev/LateNews.html. About AppMaker - AppMaker is a programming tool that makes it faster and easier to make a Macintosh...

From: Gideon Greenspan (gdg@sigsoftware.com) To: (press_releases@netprolive.com) Sig Software is proud to announce the release of Analog Helper 1.2. Analog Helper is a graphical configuration tool for Analog, which is a free program to analyze the logfiles from your web server. Analog Helper lets you control and preview the results of hundreds of settings. Version 1.2 adds full support for Analog 4 and full integration of the Report Magic add-on for Advanced HTML reporting. The Analog Helper page is at : http://www.sigsoftware.com/analoghelper/ Thank you, Gideon Greenspan Sig Software gdg@sigsoftware.com http://www.sigsoftware.com/

Escape Information Services is pleased to announce the launch of its beta campaign for DICOM Import v1.1 which provides programmatic access to all DICOM non-image data. A developer toolkit (SDK) is available for MacOS developers. DICOM Import provides access to the non-image data of DICOM files by exploiting the QuickTime Atom architecture. Thus developers only need to use existing QuickTime API calls to gain access to such data. How to join the beta team ------------------------- Developers interested in participating in the beta campaign, please fill out the special registration form that is available on our home page at (http://www.escape.gr/dicom/). There, one will also find: - detailed instructions on the structure of the QuickTime Atoms used by DICOM Import - sample code in C of a complete DICOM file parser - a section on the QuickTime Atom architecture for those who are unfamiliar with this excellent technology About DICOM Import ------------------ DICOM Import is a new...

DESTINY ANNOUNCES UNIQUE JAVA BASED STREAMING AUDIO TOOL THAT PLAYS SOUND INSTANTLY FROM ANY WEB PAGE - Company showcases clipstream product and .dny streaming audio format at Streaming Media West '99, San Jose, CA, booth #418 Dec. 7, 1999 -- SAN JOSE, CA. - Today at Streaming Media West '99, Destiny Media Technologies Ltd. unveiled clipstream, a new web development tool that requires no programming knowledge to use and enables any Web viewer with a java-enabled browser to hear streaming audio with no player, plugin or special server required. Destiny's clipstream allows more than 90 per cent of Web surfers to hear high quality streaming audio without relying on external applications. Internet marketers, advertisers and Web masters will appreciate how simple it is to use clipstream to incorporate product jingles, current singles, or a CEO's annual report in any Web site. "clipstream is the easiest streaming audio tool that automatically generates any code needed and reads the user's...

Be Shifts Resources to Focus on Internet Appliance Market Company to Distribute Desktop Operating System for Free Via the Internet and Partnerships MENLO PARK, Calif.--January 18, 2000--Be Incorporated (Nasdaq: BEOS) today announced that it is shifting its resources to focus primarily on the growing Internet appliance market. In order to maximize the visibility and acceptance of Be technology, the upcoming version 5 of the BeOS desktop operating system will be available for personal use at no charge beginning later in the first quarter of 2000. At that time, individuals who register with Be at http://free.be.com will be able to download BeOS 5 for free. Be also intends to work with publishers and other partners to make commercial versions of BeOS 5 available through retail channels. "The post-PC revolution of Internet appliances has started," said Jean-Louis Gasse, chairman and chief executive officer of Be. "Our customers and partners, such as Compaq, National Semiconductor,...

ksoft is pleased to announce the latest version of CPLAT, a low-cost cross-platform framework for MacOS and Windows development. This latest version adds support for the latest updates to MW CodeWarrior Pro 5 and Apple Universal Headers 3.3. In addition CPLAT has been carbonized and supports Carbon 1.0 development. CPLAT is an easy-to-use modern C++ (STL, exception handling) framework for MacOS development including support for the lastest MacOS technologies including AppearanceManager, proxy icons and window path popups and icon services (32 bit icons), and Windows applications for Windows 95/98/NT. CPLAT also includes a RADTool / Resource Editor for importing / creating / editing the resources your application uses including, menus, icons, pictures, cursors, patterns, windows, alerts, dialogs, strings. You can create a single resource and generate the appropriate resource definition for MacOS and Windows. CPLAT is available for $50 and includes complete source code, headers and...

Press Release - For Immediate Distribution contact: Chris Stasny @ 800-348-2623 mailto:staz@stazsoftware.com http://www.stazsoftware.com STAZ Software, Inc. releases FutureBASIC^3 January 10, 2000, Diamondhead, MS - STAZ Software, Inc. today announced the release of FutureBASIC^3. FutureBASIC^3 (FB^3) is a completely new development environment. It creates clean, fast, double-clickable Macintosh applications from BASIC source code. Applications can be compiled as PPC, 68K or FAT and may be as small as 30K. The generated applications also benchmark at speeds more than four times as fast as its nearest BASIC competitor. FB^3's new editor supports bookmarks, graphics in the editor, graphic lines as source code dividers, and can place dated, customized remarks on every line of code that is selected. There is a sliding tab to adjust the remark column. Function names, subroutines, methods, and toolboxes are placed in a pop-up menu which automatically converts to a hierarchical menu when...

For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: ric Forget eXcentrix Product Manager email: eforget@semantix.com web site: http://www.semantix.com tel: (514) 848-9621 ext. 18 Semantix Unveils Unique Cross-Platform Service Architecture [MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA - JANUARY 10, 2000] - Semantix is proud to announce the first preview version of its eXcentrix SDK for the Mac developer community. eXcentrix is the first multi-platform client-server architecture that allows text-based applications to use services provided by a local or remote server. eXcentrix also serves as a middleware-the layer that permits transparent communication between the client and the server in the eXcentrix architecture. "Before eXcentrix, language tool developers had to use a myriad of APIs to integrate their software into multiple text-based applications", explains Francis Malka, CEO of Semantix. "Now, there is one API that covers every aspect of application software integration, whether for use on...

From: "the PowerMail folks" (info@ctmdev.com) Subject: [ANN] PowerMail 3.0b1 for Mac now available Hello, A quick note to inform the readers of MacTech and NetProfessional that a public beta release of our new Macintosh e-mail application, PowerMail 3.0b1, is now available. It is based on the PowerMail Engine, a robust, cross-platform foundation encapsulating over eight years of e-mail and directory experience at CTM Development. What are the long-term objectives of PowerMail ? - Offer a lean, mean and efficient alternative e-mail client for people who care about e-mail - Focus on offering a state-of-the-art Macintosh user-experience - Contribute to the on-going diversity of mail clients on the Mac - Evolve our new code foundation on a regular basis to meet user needs more quickly - Recognize the value in our user's data and offer reliable storage, high-speed indexing and the ability to export to a variety of standard formats - Excel in supporting multi-lingual, word-wide mail...

January 14th, 2000 Subband Software, Inc. Presents AMPradio 1.5 The Most Sophisticated Internet Streaming Audio Receiver for the Power Macintosh Platform. Subband Software, whose lead developer, Dmitry Boldyrev created the world-renouned MacAMP MP3 player has now developed AMP Radio 1.5. AMPRadio is the most fully-featured and easy to use Internet Audio Receiver and MP3 player available on any computer platform existing today. In addition to decoding and rendering the robust SHOUTCast and IceCast streaming protocols, AMPradio features a comprehensive "station" tracker. This tracker is a true hierarchical playlist manager with drag-and-drop capabilities and an intuitive, elegant interface. It's high-tech visage, similar to that of a sleek car stereo, provides true power without compromising precious screen real estate. The latest AMPradio version 1.5 update now includes standard MP3 local playback in addition to it's acclaimed streaming functions. Targeting all Power Macintosh...

Web and multimedia developers get a business boost with application upgrade. New version of PandaWare TimeCache makes it easier for Mac-based content providers to bill for time and expenses. The PandaWare Company has released version 3.0 of its TimeCache time and expense tracking application for the Macintosh. The program is ideal for independent consultants and small companies, including web and multimedia developers who charge clients for the time they work on projects. "Creative people hate tracking their time, but it's important to do when that's how you make your living" said PandaWare's president, Dennis Birch. "TimeCache 3.0 makes it easy to do it." PandaWare TimeCache 3.0 offers a range of new features to help users track time and expenses more easily, and do more with the data they collect - in short making it easier to bill clients for time and expenses. As in earlier versions, the emphasis is on simplicity of data entry and reporting. Users can print reports directly from...

PRODUCT NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Faster than Fast - LaCie 12x4x32x CD-RW New LaCie 12X CD-RW is Fastest Burner for Macintosh Computers Amazing 12x recording speed burns a full CD in about 6 minutes 4x rewrites for fast backup/archiving, 32x read performance Shipped with Windows and Macintosh recording utilities for $459 SAN FRANCISCO (January 12, 2000) LaCie unveiled its fastest CD-RW drive yet at Macworld San Francisco last week. Previously, the best drives could only burn at 8x speeds. When in 12x CD-R mode, the LaCie CDRW-12432 writes a complete 650MB CD in about 6 minutes, the industry's highest CD recording speed. The SCSI-2 drive can also be used to write/rewrite CD-RW media at 4x speed, the industry's fastest rewrite speed. By replacing the older Constant Linear Velocity (CLV) technology with Constant Angular Velocity (CAV) technology, the LaCie CD-RW drive also provides 32x playback and fast, 150ms access. Mike Mihalik, vice president of engineering at LaCie U.S....

Pervasive Software(r) Ships Tango 2000 for Mac OS Mac Developers Can Now Develop and Deploy E-Business Applications, Leveraging Advanced Tango 2000 Capabilities That Speed Time to Market SAN FRANCISCO, CA-January 5, 2000-Pervasive Software Inc. (Nasdaq:PVSW), a leading provider of software that delivers the freedom to create applications for everyone, everywhere, today announced at the MACWORLD Expo the availability of the TangoTM 2000 Web development environment for the Mac OS operating environment. This new release of the award-winning Tango 2000 software enables Macintosh developers to build and deploy e-business applications and dynamic Web sites in the latest Mac operating environment, while leveraging Tango 2000's advanced, visually-oriented development capabilities to bring applications to market in Internet time. Today's announcement underscores Pervasive's ongoing commitment to the Ma operating system as a premier Web development and deployment environment Customer shipments...

From: Eric Bush (eric@kitchen-sink.com) Subject: ServerStat Update: Now Freeware After 5+ years as a commercial product, ServerStat is now being released as freeware. Some of you may have already seen the announcement on the WebStar list but we wanted to contact you directly since not everyone may be on the StarNine WebStar-talk listserve. WebSite - The website for ServerStat is being re-done. The shell is there now, but more will be added to this site to at least get the older support information available. For now, you can download the 2.1 version and manual as well as sign up for the new listserve. The "official" site is: http://www.kitchen-sink.com/serverstat/ The alternate site is: http://ebush.dyndns.org/serverstat/ ListServe - Because of a relatively long delay in activity or serious development I decided to purge the listserve to avoid sending a lot of e-mail to folks who may not even have remembered they were on that list. If you are interested in ServerStat discussions,...

Contact: Lorin Rivers Product Manager 512.263.1233 x712 512.657.3742 lrivers@realsoftware.com www.realbasic.com/new REAL SOFTWARE, INC. ANNOUNCES REALBASIC 2.1 AT MACWORLD EXPO IN SAN FRANCISCO. Free update offers improved Windows compilation support, faster code execution, and over 20 new features. San Francisco, CA January 5, 2000 REAL Software, Inc. today announced REALbasic 2.1, the latest version of their award-winning, visual, object-oriented BASIC development environment for Macintosh. This update will be free for registered users of REALbasic 2.0.2. REAL Software will show REALbasic 2.1 in their booth #949 at the MacWorld Expo this month in San Francisco. REALbasic is easy to use, powerful, and easy to learn. It is powerful enough for professionals and easy enough for beginners to use. Whether someone wants to learn (or return!) to programming, REALbasic is for them. Users of all skill levels can quickly and easily create stand-alone applications for the MacOS and even...

MINDVISION SHIPS INSTALLER VISE 6.5 FOR MACINTOSH Simply powerful installers for OS 9 MindVision Software announces Installer VISE 6.5, an update to the highly popular Macintosh installer solution. This version takes advantage of the latest Macintosh technologies and is available for download at http://www.mindvision.com/ivisemac. "MindVision has been committed to the Macintosh platform since day one," said MindVision CEO Steve Kiene. "Installer VISE 6.5 shows our continued commitment with support for OS 9. Developers can trust Installer VISE to deliver their software on the latest Mac OS releases." WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 6.5? Installer VISE 6.5 brings powerful new features for delivering software on Mac OS 9. Version 6.5 offers: Support for OS 9 Application Packages Application packages keep an application and all its required support files together. Because they appear in a single folder, application packages also simplify the user's experience. Installer VISE makes it easy to create...

BLUE WORLD SHIPS LASSO WEB DATA ENGINE 3.6 Free upgrade for Lasso 3.x customers includes new documentation, new functions, enhanced security, and new database support. Bellevue, WA--January 5, 2000--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine--today announced the immediate availability of Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6, a free upgrade to Lasso 3.x providing new documentation, new functions, enhanced security and error handling, support for FileMaker Pro 5.0v2* and FileMaker Pro 5 Unlimited, and more. Blue World also announced revisions to the Lasso Product Line. "Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6 represents vast improvements to documentation and functionality which will dramatically increase the productivity of developers in the thriving Lasso community," said Bill Doerrfeld, president and CEO of Blue World Communications, Inc. "The new Lasso Product Line positions Blue World for continued long-term success in the rapidly growing Web application server arena." Lasso Web Data...

For Immediate Release STARNINE WEBSTAR SERVER SUITE NOW OPTIMIZED FOR POWER MAC G4 COMPUTERS -- Free Version 4.2 Update, Accelerated for G4 with Velocity Engine, Speeds Web Server Processing and Downloads -- BERKELEY, Calif., January 5, 2000 -- StarNine Technologies, Inc. today released WebSTAR Server Suite 4.2. Now the leading suite of Internet server software for the Mac OS is optimized for the PowerPC(tm) G4, with processor-intensive web serving components accelerated for the G4 Velocity Engine(tm). Together WebSTAR Server Suite and the PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine allow WebSTAR to be respond faster to requests, especially for dynamically generated pages. Available today directly from StarNine at (http://www.starnine.com/), WebSTAR Server Suite 4.2 is available for free to current WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 and 4.1 users from (http://www.starnine.com/), with upgrades and educational discounts available. Consistent with StarNine's goal of keeping up with the latest technology...

Purity Software, Inc. PO Box 151385 Austin, TX 78715-1385 +1.512.349.7772 FAX +1.512.349.7762 http://www.purity.com/ info@purity.com PURITY SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES WEBSIPHON v2.0 UPGRADE; DEMOS WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOL AT MACWORLD EXPO 2000 (January 5, 2000; San Francisco, CA) -- Purity Software is pleased to reveal the long-awaited version 2.0 upgrade of the WebSiphon web application development environment at MacWorld Expo 2000 this week in San Francisco, CA. Purity Software is exhibiting in the Net Innovators Pavilion (#3458) in the North Hall of the Moscone Convention Center. "This new version further establishes WebSiphon as a must-have tool for web application developers and Application Service Provider environments," said Nathan Nunn, President and CEO of Purity Software. "New features like built-in support for HTTP file upload and the network libraries offer great utility and ease of implementation. With third-party products like the Valentina database engine and Pickle dynamic...

POWERLOGIX ANNOUNCES WORLD'S FIRST DUAL G4 PROCESSOR CARD FOR MACINTOSH MACWORLD EXPO, Booth #1929, San Francisco, CA -- January 5, 2000 --PowerLogix R&D, manufacturers of the hot-selling PowerForce G3 and PowerForce G4 processor upgrades, today announced the PowerForce Dual G4, the world's first dual G4 processor card for Power Macintosh and clones, once again affirming PowerLogix's position as the premier upgrade card manufacturer in the Mac industry. The PowerForce Dual G4 offers true symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) using twin PowerPC G4 microprocessors, each with embedded Altivec vector processors, for truly phenomenal performance. PowerForce Dual G4 includes all the same features and functionality as the award-winning PowerForce G3 and G4 processor cards, including independently variable bus speed and bus ratio, accelerated bus speed, and reduced form factor. Also included is software for controlling backside cache, speculative addressing, Altivec support, and MP support....

For more information, contact Deeje Cooley 415-244-0828 mailto:deeje@puppettime.com http://www.puppettime.com/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PUPPETTIME RELEASES PUPPETTIME PRODUCER 1.0 AIMED AT EDUCATION, B2B, AND PREVISUALIZATION CUSTOMERS 3D Internet Company Leads Animation Revolution With User-Friendly Storytelling Technology SAN FRANCISCO (January 5, 2000) - At Macworld Expo 2000, PuppetTime, Inc. today announced that PuppetTime Producer 1.0 is now available for download from the company's website at (http://www.puppettime.com). PuppetTime Producer is an easy-to-use 3D character animation program that implements the concept of digital actors. Users can create compelling 3D animations in minutes simply by selecting characters, typing dialog, recording sounds and voice-overs, and choosing actions. 3D modeling or animation experience is not required because the digital actors, or puppets, are predefined and know how to draw and animate themselves. Puppets can have many animations, costumes,...

Salinas, CA: Casady & Greene announced today that a new and improved version of Speed Startup has been released. Speed Startup is a program that can immediately decrease the time it takes to start up your Mac. Version 1.0.2 features improved compatibility with Microsoft Excel and is Mac OS 9 friendly. With Speed Startup, the more memory and startup files you have the more time you will save. Speed Startup v1.0.2 builds on the past success of Speed Startup to offer continued and increased time savings. Speed Startup is available as an electronic download from Casady & Greene at (http://www.SpeedStartup.com). A full version of the product can be purchased direct from Casady & Greene and Online resellers for only $19.95. If seconds are important, Speed Startup is a necessity!

PRODUCT NEWS RELEASE LaCie Unveils the Ultimate in Storage Convenience with 6GB & 18GB PocketDrive World's Smallest Drives are First to Include Both FireWire and USB Support LaCie brings back popular PocketDrive Fast, plug and play storage expansion--no rebooting required Unprecedented flexibilityU&I connects to FireWire and USB-equipped personal computers SAN FRANCISCO (January 5, 2000) For content developers, illustrators, audio/video professionals or just people on the go, the new 6GB and 18GB PocketDrive hard drives unveiled by LaCie at MACWORLD/Expo San Francisco today will easily be the most exciting announcement of the show. Measuring only 3.5" x 5.75" and weighing less than a pound, LaCie's new drives are not only some of the world's smallest hard drives, they're the first peripherals to offer both Universal Serial Bus (USB) and FireWire (IEEE 1394) support, or "U&I" (LaCie's acronym and trademark for the dual-support capability). With the unique combination...

For Immediate Release Press Release Kaidan and PictureWorks Announce New Photographic VR Object Solutions for Consumers Kaidan and PictureWorks announce the PiXi Photographic VR Object Starter Kit for E-Commerce and the PiXi Manual Turntable. Consumers can now easily and affordably create their own QuickTime VR object movies for use on eBay, Amazon.com and other commercial and personal web sites. San Francisco, CA - Macworld Expo - January 5, 2000: The leading manufacturer of Photographic VR hardware; Kaidan Incorporated, announced today with PictureWorks Technology, Inc. two new products targeted at photographic VR object imaging for the Internet. The Kaidan PiXi Manual Turntable and the PiXi Photographic VR Object Starter Kit are the ideal ways for consumers to photographically capture collectibles, products, toys, sculptures and other objects in a 3-D form. With these new products consumers can quickly and easily create stunning VR objects for inclusion in documents, e-mail...

SuSE To Offer Award-Winning SuSE Linux On PowerPC Beta version announced at MacWorld SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 01/04/00 -- SuSE, one of the leading Linux specialists worldwide, is announcing the availability of a beta-quality version of SuSE Linux 6.3 for the Macintosh PowerPC at MacWorld in San Francisco. The sales release of SuSE Linux for Power PC is planned for this spring. Offering SuSE Linux on PowerPC supports SuSE's strategy of cross-platform availability. Based on the current version of SuSE Linux, the version for PowerPC "is built from the same sources as all other versions of SuSE Linux, includes all of the Open Source software found in the Intel version, and is identical to use and administer to other SuSE Linux versions," says Dirk H. Hondel, CTO of SuSE AG. A free test CD with the Linux operating system and a selection of free application programs can be obtained by contacting SuSE. A version will also be available on SuSE's ftp server (ftp.suse.com). Like...

FOR RELEASE ON JANUARY 4, 2000 Contact: Anita Holmgren Phone: 805-963-6983 888-2-WebTen FAX: 805-962-8202 Internet: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com/products/webten WebTen 3.0 - Award Winning Web Server for Mac Adds WEBmail New release includes enhanced security, compatibility, robustness, and extensibility Santa Barbara, CA, January 4, 2000. Tenon Intersystems is shipping WebTen 3.0, an upgrade to its industrial-strength, high-performance Apache-based Web server for Power Macs. The new WebTen now supports configurable web-based email, secure remote administration, enhanced SSL certificate support, dynamically loadable Apache modules, and a Sherlock-compatible high-performance search engine. The new release also includes many additional enhancements and modifications for improved robustness and ease-of-use. Apache is well known as stable, full-strength, feature-rich web server software used on over three million web sites worldwide. Tenon has taken this mature, integrated,...

OPEN DOOR NETWORKS SHIPS DOORSTOP PERSONAL FIREWALL 1.1 SAN FRANCISCO, CA. -- January 4, 2000 -- In concert with the MacWorld trade show, Open Door Networks Inc. today announced that it was shipping version 1.1 of its DoorStop Firewall, Personal Edition. DoorStop Personal is an easy to use, end-user version of Open Door's powerful server firewall software, specifically focused on protecting Mac OS 9's new Internet services. Version 1.1 adds a much-requested notification feature along with other improvements, and is on display in Open Door's booth, number 3458. DoorStop Personal Edition, which runs on Macs back to Mac OS 8.1, is an important security enhancement for any Mac that is connected to the Internet for long periods of time, for instance through a cable or DSL modem or an intranet. DoorStop was originally developed by Open Door for use on servers such as AppleShare IP and Open Door's ShareWay IP Professional. DoorStop Personal Edition is a greatly simplified version of the...

Valentina for WebSiphon to Appear at MacWorld with Special Offers PARADIGMA SOFTWARE TO INTRODUCE WEB-DATABASE PRODUCT, EXTEND OFFERS ON VALENTINA FOR DIRECTOR December 31, 1999. Beaverton, Oregon. Paradigma Software and Purity Software announced the availability of Valentina for WebSiphon at MacWorld Expo 2000 in San Francisco. Paradigma Software also extends special offers through the end of MacWorld Expo. Paradigma Software's Valentina for WebSiphon is a powerful add-on for the WebSiphon web development environment. Valentina for WebSiphon will allow users of Purity Software's WebSiphon to interact with and deploy Valentina databases on WebSiphon powered web sites. "Valentina for WebSiphon uses the native WebSiphon API, providing a great speed boost over solutions that only use Apple Events. Combining this with WebSiphon's easy to use scripting language, Mac web masters can rapidly create and deploy object-relational database driven solutions, " said Ruslan Zasukhin, founder of...

PROVO, UTAH - December 28, 1999 -- Chronos will debut two new products at the upcoming Macworld Expo 2000 in San Francisco. Consultant 3.0 and Office Consultant 3.0 are both based on Consultant 2.5, the personal information manager that won an Eddy award as the "Best Data Management Software" at last year's Macworld Expo. Chronos calls the popular Consultant the "Swiss Army knife" of productivity software. It integrates a calendar, address book, word processor, memo taker, personal journal, phone dialer and alarm clock into a single easy-to-use application. To top it off, it synchronizes with both the PalmPilot and the new Handspring Visor handheld organizer. Consultant 3.0 adds a wealth of new features including keywords, more powerful filtering of activities and contacts, flexible list views and improved PalmPilot synchronization. PalmPilot and Visor users no longer have to transfer EVERYTHING to their handheld organizer -- Consultant lets them choose individual categories to...

Tonight, Apple has released a patch and tech note at: http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11559 to avoid rumored problems of a Denial of Service attack from the Middle East on New Years. This DoS attack takes advantage of a feature in Mac OS 9 (for any machine), and Mac OS 8.6 for iBooks, iMacs, and G4s. If you have a high speed net connection, we encourage you to install the patch on any machine that sits on the net. You can read more about this at: http://people.atl.mediaone.net/jacopeland/ Happy New Year, MacTech Magazine

Kickstand Software has released FoldedCat 1.1, and update to the drag & drop categorization/sorting tool for files and folders. FoldedCat has two main functions: maintaining a text file in a folder containing user defined categories (this purposefully lo-tech mechanism facilitates searching with Sherlock or other utility) and aids in creating multiple folders from a user defined set of names. Very handy for sorting and categorizing large collections of graphics, source code, etc. If you have lots of files to sort and categorize, this utility can help. Version 1.1 adds: - Scrollbars that actually work (sound of hand smacking forehead) - Better handling of category files - Options to control handling of category files FoldedCat 1.1 is free. FoldedCat is PPC only and requires system software that supports Appearance Manager. Download FoldedCat at http://www.kickstandsoft.com

REALbasic International Versions Bundled with Power Pack NEW AND UPGRADE CUSTOMERS TO RECEIVE FIVE POWERFUL, FREE ADD-ONS TO REALBASIC December 23, 1999 - REAL Software of Austin, Texas, announced the availability of the REALbasic Power Pack bundled for a limited time with new purchases of the full versions REALbasic version 2 products, and also with upgrade versions to REALbasic Professional through its international authorized distributors. The REALbasic Power Pack includes five powerful plug ins and REALbasic classes developed by third party REALbasic developer partners, including : RCX-LINK. Control LEGO MindStorms from within your REALbasic application. RCX-LINK is the only way to control LEGO Mindstorms from your Mac. TDMC Utilities Light. Adds new file management abilities to REALbasic applications. PrintIt. Adds greater control and new features for printing complex graphics and text from within REALbasic applications. SuperSocket 5-Connection. Support up to five simultaneous...

[ANN] Macintosh Documentation Update CodeWarriors, Macintosh Documentation Update is ready for downloading from (http://www.metrowerks.com/download/) A CD for this Update will be available for free at the Mac World Exhibition or you can purchase it for shipping and handling costs as well. Description Updated CodeWarrior Documentation is now available in Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf). The update includes the C Compilers Reference, IDE User Guide, MSL C Reference, QuickStart Professional, and Targeting Mac OS manuals. There is no installer for this update. Unstuff the archive and move the files to the Documentation folder. This archive was submitted on 12/17/1999 and occupies 6034k of disk space. ===== [ANN] MetroNub for Java Debugging only CodeWarriors, MetroNub for Java Debugging only is ready for downloading from (http://www.metrowerks.com/download/) A CD for this Update will be available for free at the Mac World Exhibition or you can purchase it for shipping and handling costs as...

From: Brian Bergstrand (brian@classicalguitar.net) Subject: [ANNC]NWClient Auto Logout Friday December 17th - Macnn (http://www.macnn.com/) Bugnet yesterday reported on a security issue with Mac OS 9 Multiple Users, noting that when NetWare users log out from Mac OS 9, all of their NetWare NDS connections remain active and open to subsequent users. (This may be identical to an issue reported where "NDS client for Mac OS 9 fails to log the user out of the NDS tree when s/he logs out of the MacOS 9 system.) "the problem stems from Mac OS 9's use of a closed security database. When users log out from the OS, it checks for and closes all active AppleShare mounted drives, but it doesn't check for any mounted NetWare volumes, nor does it provide any sort of Application Programming Interface (API) for third-party developers like Prosoft. " NWClient Auto Logout (NWAL) addresses the problem stated above. NWAL is a background application that hooks into Mac OS 9's Multiple User support, and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Troi Automatisering releases Troi Coding Plug-in 1.5 for FileMaker 5 New Encryption Plug-in lets you transfer information securely over the Internet. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, December 21, 1999--Troi Automatisering today announced the release of Troi Coding Plug-in 1.5, for FileMaker Pro 4 and 5 on both on Mac OS and Windows. This version of our DES Encryption and coding plug-in adds powerful new features: Text Compression, ASCIISafe functions and more. Peter Baanen, company president, states that "I particularly like the new, generic "Code" function, which makes it possible to Encrypt a field with the key as a parameter. This function has a lot of power in it, as it makes Encryption and Decryption possible without the need of a script!" List of new features Troi Coding Plug-in 1.5 has the following new features: - Compression and Decompression of fields - Encode to and Decode from ASCIISafe text - New "Troi-Code" function for Encryption/Decryption...

For Immediate Release Global Communications are now Free, Live, and On-Demand Huntington Beach, CA (December 20, 1999) - Imagine clicking a button and instantly being connected live over the internet for FREE to anyone you wish through high-speed broadband, secure connections. No more telephone charges, no more dropped or slow dial up internet connections. Our vision has been to unite the world live over the internet and this is our first step. We created a communications solution that will satisfy both the individual and the corporate user, said Lazaros Bountour, CEO of Ariston Technologies, a Huntington Beach based high-tech company focused on USB and FireWire video-conferencing and multimedia solutions. An all in one solution, Aristons iSee-U2 consists of two high quality, color, digital video cameras, two microphones, Aristons Privateline communications software for Windows 98, White Pines CU-SeeMe communications software for MacOS 8.6, plus free DSL set up. Aristons video...

UserLand Releases Manila and Frontier 6.1, Turning Any Web Browser Into a Powerful Web Content Workstation BURLINGAME, CA, Dec. 17 -- UserLand Software announced the release of Manila, an Internet server application that allows groups of writers, designers and graphics people to manage full-featured, high performance web sites thru an easy-to-use browser interface. Manila is included with UserLand Frontier 6.1. "As the Macintosh made desktop computing easy, Manila makes web content management accessible to non-technical people," said David M. Winer, UserLand's CEO. "Manila turns any web browser into a powerful web content workstation. Think of Manila as Content Management 'For the Rest of Us.'" Key Manila features include: * 100-percent browser-based editing. * Quick easy setup, in most cases, five minutes from download to a working web site. * Simple publishing model, managing editor, contributing editors, members. * Integrated site membership database, with customizable...

ACI US PRESS RELEASE ACI US news for immediate release December 17, 1999. San Jose, CA. ACI US Supports Trailing Version -------------------------------- ACI US, Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension (4D) RAD/RDBMS Environment, announced today the release of 4D version 6.0.6 r8. This is a routine maintenance fix designed to address some minor issues. ACI recognizes developers need time to test and take advantage of new software and will continue to offer a minimum 90-day notice before discontinuing any version. "We want the development community to know that we are dedicated to them and their businesses," said Brendan Coveney, President, ACI US. "We want to continue to honor our commitment to developers by providing support for two versions." For more information and a copy of 4D v.6.0.6 r8 visit ACI US's web site at: http://www.acius.com/downloads/aciprod.html About ACI US ------------ ACI US, Inc. is the US publisher of 4th Dimension and the 4D product line, which has set the...

REAL Software is pleased to announce the latest development release of REALbasic: 2.1a24. These alpha releases are for testing purposes only and are not considered the current release of REALbasic. Projects saved in alpha releases of 2.1 cannot be opened in REALbasic 2.0.2. You should not use alpha releases for mission-critical development. There is a specific mailing list hosted at REAL Software for discussing the alpha testing releases: Subscribe to this list by sending an email containing "subscribe realbasic-dr" (without the quotes) to: requests@lists.realsoftware.com. Key:[Opt] = Optimization [Bug] = Bug Fix [New] = New Feature [Chg] = Changes Previous Functionality [Kis] = Known Issue [Wrk] = WorkAround 2.1a24 * [Bug] Win32 Styled text printer now works. (BugBase #524) * [Bug] Fixed SQL 'OR' Operator in REAL DB. (BugBase #551) * [Bug] Win32 plugin classes now operational - event instances not implemented yet * [Bug] Using balloon help in menu bars no longer...

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, December 16, 1999 --- Excel Software today announced the availability of MacA&D 7.1, a comprehensive tool for system analysis, requirements specification, software design and code generation. Version 7.1 adds industry-leading capabilities for generating custom HTML reports from software models. Ready-to-run reports include multiple frame project browsers, class and component navigators, code and specification browsers and partitioned reports for handling large projects. The scriptable HTML report generator gives the user full control over the content and format of generated HTML reports. The report generator processes an HTML text file with special tags that get replaced with information from the design model. These replacement tags support user interactions during the generation process, looping structures, hypertext links and variable calculations. "The major enhancements to the HTML report generator build on one of the most popular features in MacA&D, to...

December 16, 1999 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Proteron ships MPegger after three years of development. Omaha, Nebraska USA - Proteron today announced immediate availability of MPegger, a pioneer in the Mac MP3 encoding market which was previously unavailable due to international patent restrictions on MPEG layer III (MP3) encoding. MPegger cleanly handles encoding of AIFF, Sound Designer II and PCM audio files into both the MP3 and MP2 format, making it a strong choice for high-end digital recording artists and producers. The MP3 encoder formerly known as "MPecker" was in development and testing for three years by its creator Rafael Luebbert. Proteron acquired MPegger in November of 1999 and made possible the release of this powerful digital audio tool. Veterans will be pleased to note many and various improvements to MPegger since the last public beta release. Highlights of the MPegger feature set include: + Fast, high-quality encoding into both MP3 and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 1999 BLUE WORLD RELEASES LASSO STUDIO FOR DREAMWEAVER New solution provides amazingly powerful yet easy to use Web application development environment--entirely within Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 Bellevue, WA--December 15, 1999--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine--today announced the release of Lasso Studio for Macromedia Dreamweaver--the revolutionary new solution to quickly build powerful data-driven Web applications for deployment using the Lasso Web Data Engine. Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver offers the first comprehensive solution for developing robust, dynamic Web applications entirely within Dreamweaver, a leading website authoring solution from Macromedia, Inc. "We're pleased Blue World is providing a powerful, easy-to-use solution for building database-driven Web sites," said Kevin Lynch, senior vice president and general manager for Macromedia. "Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver allows our large community of Web...

Mainstay 591-A Constitution Ave. Camarillo, CA 93012 (805) 484-9400 www.mstay.com info@mstay.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mainstay Debuts OmniEdit(tm) - Free Webpage Editing Provides First Universal, Browser-Based Webpage Editor Service Camarillo, CA, December 15, 1999 - Mainstay today opened OmniEdit.com, a website providing a free application service to quickly edit web pages anytime, anywhere, using only a web browser. OmniEdit liberates webmasters from their desktop application-based web page editor and FTP client applications and gives them the freedom to edit a web page wherever they have web access. OmniEdit is the first remote web editing system that can be used to edit any existing website. A user simply visits the OmniEdit.com website, enters their FTP name, password, and path for any web page to which they have access. A text editor window opens displaying the HTML code, ready for editing. After making changes, the user clicks a "Save" button and their web page is...

Fantom Drives Fires-Up Hard Disk Drive Line Fantom Drives Ships FireWire(tm) Hard Disk Drives LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - December 15, 1999 - Fantom Drives rounded out its FireWire(tm) product family today by announcing the immediate availability of its FireWire(tm) Hard Disk Drive product line. Positioned as an exceptional way to add fast and affordable storage to any iMacDV, G3, or G4 computer, Fantom Drives FireWire(tm) Hard Disk Drives are available in 15GB, 25GB, and 34GB configurations. Focusing on the high-end needs of consumer and professional users, the Fantom Drives FireWire(tm) Hard Disk Drive line is ideal for users who need more performance than can be delivered by current USB offerings, but without the tedium of the installation nightmares associated with "legacy" SCSI-based devices. With 33 times greater bandwidth than USB, Fantom Drives FireWire(tm) Hard Disk Drives are ideal for users working with multimedia, digital audio and video, graphic design, or any other speed-...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Guides Address Individual Cisco Certification Objectives December 14, 1999 -- Schenectady, NY -- CertificationZone.com announces a new series of pocket guides designed to help Cisco certification candidates brush up on individual exam objectives. The first two titles, available January 7, 2000, include the OSI Reference Model by Howard C. Berkowitz and AppleTalk by Priscilla Oppenheimer. Additional titles in the series will follow. The OSI Reference Model Pocket Guide provides an easy-to-read review of the seven layer approach to modern network design. Information contained in the guide will help those studying for Cisco exams fully understand what is expected of them in order to correctly answer OSI-related questions. The guide also contains 35 sample questions related to the OSI Model to help readers measure their comprehension of the subject. Those preparing for the CCIE exam will be interested in the AppleTalk Pocket Guide. Even though AppleTalk is not...

Paradigma Software Releases Valentina for Macromedia Director MAC AND WINDOWS V4MD ADDED TO PARADIGMA SOFTWARE VALENTINA DEVELOPER PLATFORM December 14, 1999. Beaverton, Oregon. Paradigma Software announced today the Valentina Developer Platform line of products, including Valentina for Macromedia Director 1.7 , the newest addition to the product line. Valentina for Macromedia Director, available for Macintosh and Windows platforms, allows multimedia developers to add the ultra-fast Valentina database as a back-end solution to multimedia projects by Macromedia Director. Valentina for Macromedia Director bristles with features not available before now in the creation of database enabled client projects: Storage of large amounts of Director and graphics data. V4MD can get and set Macromedia Director member media in Valentina BLOBs with up to 2GB of data per file; Multi-version support for Director. Powerful picture storage options allow V4MD to work with Macromedia Director versions 5,...