Vertigo Software Corp. Announces Vertigo Advertizer Simple image compositor performs as a host for plug-ins, creates web banners Vancouver, B.C. - (March 9, 1999) - Vertigo Software Corp.(CDN:VSWR), a leading developer of high performance 3D and animation software, today announced Vertigo Advertizer, a web graphics utility that quickly and easily creates web banners by behaving as a host to the industry's leading Adobe Photoshop compliant plug-ins. As the web becomes the prominent vehicle for visual communication, this Quicktime-based utility provides the interactive tools and action buttons required for creating simple advertising. Easily import an image, make a rectangular selection and apply a number of effects from plug-ins such as Vertigo 3D HotText and Vertigo 3D Dizzy . Manipulate your designs with the provided scaling, color, wand and lasso tools, then export your final image to the web. "This opens up a whole new market possibility since traditionally the plug-in industry...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 1999 CONTACT: Karl Bunker Iron Software admin@ironsoftware.com http://www.IronSoftware.com MultiTimer Pro 3.5 Released; Update To Powerful, Easy To Use Time-Tracking and Billing Utility for Macintosh-Using Professionals Macintosh software developer Karl Bunker of Iron Software announces the release of MultiTimer Pro 3.5. MultiTimer Pro is a utility for tracking the time spent on projects and jobs performed on a Mac. MultiTimer Pro will be a valuable resource for graphic designers, Web designers, content creators of all types, consultants, lawyers, technical writers, and anyone who uses a Mac and either bills for their time or needs to keep track of time for any other purpose. The defining characteristic of MultiTimer Pro is ease of use coupled with powerful features. Its clear, clean design makes it "instantly usable", yet it also delivers a range of sophisticated capabilities not found in any competing product. Here are just a few of the features of...

NetBeans Announces End-to-End Java Development Solution through Integrations with Leading Java UML and Debugging Vendors JavaOne, San Francisco, June 17th, 1999 - NetBeans announced integrations of its Java IDE (integrated development environment) NetBeans Developer 3.0 with Together/J 3.0 UML (Unified Modeling Language) tool from Object International and with Metamata Debug, the leading Java debugging environment from Metamata, Inc. Developer 3.0 is written in Java 2 and enables rapid construction of Java applications on any Java 2 platform. Publicly available this summer, its modular, open architecture gives developers the power to extend their development environment with plug-in modules from NetBeans and a wide variety of third parties. "Developer 3.0 is the first cross-platform Java development environment that is able to evolve along with the Java 2 platform," said Ian Formanek, Vice President of Development at NetBeans, Inc. "Our open, modular architecture and close...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - VR Toolbox, Inc. Contact: Walter Neals, Vice President of Marketing e-mail: walter@vrtoolbox.com toll-free 1-877-878-6657 direct 407-673-0357 VR TOOLBOX, INC. OFFERS TECH SUPPORT AND SPECIAL UPGRADE FOR FORMER CUSTOMERS OF ROUNDABOUT LOGIC, INC. Pittsburgh, PA, June 17, 1999 -- VR Toolbox has announced a program to offer technical support and an upgrade special, both for a limited time only, for former customers of Roundabout Logic, Inc. As a result of the settlement between VR Toolbox, Inc. and Roundabout Logic, Inc. with regard to the copyright infringement case, Roundabout Logic, Inc. will no longer be selling or supporting their line of QuickTime VR Products. Roundabout Logic, Inc. has issued an announcement proclaiming VR Toolbox as the sole and exclusive owner of the source code used in those products. As a gesture of good will and good faith, VR Toolbox is offering free technical support for sixty days, beginning June 17, 1999, to all former Roundabout...

StarNine Technologies is proud to announce the release of WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 (aka WebSTAR 4.0) Final Candidate 1, now available for download at: (http://www.starnine.com/webstarbeta/) WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 includes literally hundreds of new features and improvements including a dramatically faster Web server and caching architecture, a new WebSTAR Mail server supporting SMTP/POP/IMAP with LDAP and Web-based email access capabilities, integrated SSLv2 and SSLv3 with support for multiple IP addresses, certificates and encryption options, and Lasso-based publishing of FileMaker and ODBC databases.

For Immediate Release Mac search engine submitter now improved and bundled (Koblenz, Germany, 16 June 1999). German Macintosh shareware developer Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) has released VSE Be Found 1.2 and two new expansion kits for the program. VSE Be Found is the first Macintosh application that automatically submits a web page to the most popular search engines. It is also a META tag manager that allows control of all META tags of a web site with an easy-to-use interface. The new version makes it much easier to submit web sites and it now supports web proxy servers. The update also fixes several bugs and offers many minor improvements. The new US-Plus expansion kit adds 10 new US search engines to VSE Be Found and the new FR-Basic expansion kit adds 10 new French search engines. Further information about the application can be found at "http://ProfessionalSubmit.com". EXPANSION KITS VSE Be Found expansion kits extend the number of search engines to which VSE Be Found submits...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EDITORIAL CONTACT: Ter Hui Peng / Seamus Phan McGallen & Bolden (News/Media) tel: +65-3246588 email: news@newsroom.nu Check Point Software Announces Industry's First IP Address Management Solution for Linux New Linux Product Furthers Integration with Complete, Scalable, Enterprise-wide VPN SINGAPORE - Wednesday, June 16, 1999 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in secure enterprise networking, today announced Check Point Meta IP Services for Linux, the industry's first IP address management solution available for the popular Linux operating system. With Meta IP Services for Linux, network administrators now can run Meta IP's powerful DNS and DHCP services natively on Linux servers. Meta IP integrates with FireWall-1 and VPN-1 Gateway from Check Point Software, seamlessly providing them with user information. Meta IP enables administrators to easily manage the IP address and name space for complex, global networks and...

MACROMEDIA SHIPS FLASH 4 Now with MP3 Streaming Audio, the Web Standard for Creating High-Impact, Vector-Based Sites Delivers Wealth of New Enhancements San Francisco, Calif - June 15, 1999 - Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced the worldwide availability of Flash 4, the new version of its popular Flash(TM) authoring software. Flash 4 includes integrated support for high-fidelity MP3 streaming audio and commands for easily creating sites with sophisticated interactivity. In addition, Flash 4 dramatically streamlines the development process with a revamped authoring environment optimized to help developers create bandwidth-efficient Web sites that combine the production values of television with the immediacy of the Internet. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become the standard for creating high-impact vector-based Web sites that deliver sound, interactivity, graphics and animations and perform flawlessly across multiple browsers and platforms. Macromedia last month...

TEAC SHIPS ITS FIRST MACINTOSH-COMPATIBLE FLOPPY DRIVE Hot-Swappable USB Floppy Drive Delivers Compatibility for iMac and G3 Users (MONTEBELLO, CA)TEAC, a world leader and pioneer in the manufacture of floppy disk drives and other removable storage technology, today announces the shipping of its new USB Floppy Drive for the iMac and the Power Macintosh G3. The USB drive is TEAC's first offering for iMac and G3 users, providing a hot-swappable, external floppy drive for backup, transfer and installation of data. TEAC's iMac floppy drive utilizes the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface of the iMac and G3 systems, allowing plug-and-play convenience by eliminating the need to turn-off or restart the computer when attaching the new floppy drive. Being a one-cable device, the iMac floppy drive does not require a second power supply as may be needed by other peripheral storage devices and requires only one simple installation. "TEAC is proud to offer the addition of Macintosh-compatible...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 1999 BLUE WORLD ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH MACROMEDIA TO DELIVER INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR DYNAMIC WEB PUBLISHING Custom Lasso Objects for Dreamweaver to be available from both Blue World and Macromedia Bellevue, WA--June 15, 1999--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine(tm)--today announced a new agreement with Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) to integrate Blue World Lasso and Macromedia Dreamweaver through a set of custom Lasso objects for Dreamweaver. The combined solution will enable the efficient creation of dynamic, database-driven Web sites. Macromedia and Blue World will also participate in co-marketing activities to promote the Lasso objects for Dreamweaver and will distribute the Lasso objects free of charge on their Web sites. "We're pleased to collaborate with Blue World to provide a powerful yet easy to use solution for building database-driven Web sites," said David Mendels, senior vice president of Macromedia's Web...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: John Rowe QDesign Corporation (604) 688-1525 ext. 34 jrowe@qdesign.com MP3 Encoding and Decoding is NOW Available from QDesign QDesign ships MP3 software development kit for Mac and Windows OS June 15, 1999 -- Vancouver, B.C., Canada -- QDesign Corporation, a leading provider of digital audio compression technologies, announced today the release of its MP3 encoding and decoding software. Fully compliant with the ISO MPEG standard for MP3 (ISO/IEC 11172-3 and 13818-3), QDesign's MP3 is highly optimized to provide encode speed and quality that rivals the MP3 implementations by industry stalwarts, such as Fraunhofer and Xing Technology. The QDesign MP3 technology is available as a cross-platform software development kit ("SDK"). Developers on both the Macintosh and Windows OS are now able to license the SDK for easy integration of MP3 for digital audio encoding and playback capability in custom applications. "MP3 has become a widely-used format for on...

From: Sig Software (sig@sigsoftware.com) Subject: Email Effects 1.6 Released We are proud to announce the release of Email Effects 1.6, simultaneously for Macintosh and Windows 95/98/NT. Your current registration code will continue to work with this release. New features include : * Support for the standard Figlet font system. * Live animation for button settings. * Compound character mode available in rectangle and circle tools. * Proportional scrollbars and live scrolling. * Improved 3D interface. * Numerous other minor interface improvements. * Support for Navigation Services (Mac). If you are having trouble re-registering your copy of Email Effects, that is because the registration mechanism has changed - please contact us for assistance. You can download the update from the Email Effects page at : (http://www.sigsoftware.com/emaileffects/) As always, we are open to suggestions on features for future releases. Thank you, Sig Software http://www.sigsoftware.com/

NEWS RELEASE Compuware UNIFACE WebApplication Server to Feature Macromedia Dreamweaver 2 Web Authoring Environment Integration Enables Efficient Creation and Deployment of New and Existing Enterprise Business Applications for the Web FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich--June 14, 1999--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) and Macromedia Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced that Compuware's UNIFACE WebApplication Server now features Macromedia Dreamweaver 2 as its exclusive visual web authoring environment. The combination enables UNIFACE users building Internet, e-commerce and media-rich enterprise applications to efficiently create and publish sites that leverage new and existing information with extended reliability, availability and data management. UNIFACE WebApplication Server is a highly scalable, open enterprise application server for deploying strategic e-business applications. Macromedia Dreamweaver 2 is the current release of Macromedia's industry-leading visual web authoring environment...

IFile 2.0b from Kickstand Software released ------------------------------------------- IFile is a simple database library for software developers to use in their projects. The database files it creates use a b-tree indexing to ensure quick performance in all sorts of applications. IFile 2.0b is a beta, it adds new features and numerous bug fixes. Features -------- Multisegment noncontiguous keys B-Tree indexing for fast performance Intelligent reuse of space Static or Variable length records Sequential access, next & previous record retrieval calls Get record =, (, ), )=, or (= than a specified key Duplicate keys supported Licensing --------- For use in a freeware project, the license is nothing but giving credit where credit is due. For a shareware project, the license is $25 or a registration swap. For a commercial project, $100. Source code can also be made available to paying license holders for an additional fee. See the IFile documentation for the full details on...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACT: Terje Norderhaug terje@in-progress.com 619-437-0664 www.in-progress.com MEDIA DESIGN IN*PROGRESS SHIPS EMIL 1.0 XML EDITOR FOR MACINTOSH SAN DIEGO (CA) June 9, 1999: Media Design in*Progress today ships Emil 1.0, the first XML editor for Macintosh. Emil is the commercial edition of the free Emil Lite XML editor that was released in April. Emil is a highly customizable XML editor that supports productive markup with XML, liberating the author from detailed knowledge of the XML specification by providing context-sensitive dialogs and menus listing allowed tags and common markup constructs. The editor automatically adapts the user interface to the current document type (DTD), and comes with a validator to ensure correct markup. "Emil is a robust, yet elegantly sleek workhorse that manages a multitude of markup editing tasks with unencumbered ease. Users can learn it quickly, and it has been a success both in our Electronic Thesis and Dissertation...

Apple's QuickTime 4 Goes Primetime More Than Five Million Copies Downloaded In First 50 Days FOX News Online, FOX Sports Online and The Weather Channel Join QuickTime Content Providers CUPERTINO, Calif. - June 8, 1999 - Apple today released the final shipping version of QuickTime 4, its industry-leading multimedia software for both Macintosh and Windows platforms. QuickTime 4 features "streaming" of live and stored video and audio over the Internet and is the first Internet streaming solution to use non-proprietary industry-standard RTP and RTSP protocols. More than five million copies of QuickTime 4 public beta software have been downloaded from Apple's web site during the first 50 days since its release in April. Apple today also announced that FOX News Online and FOX Sports Online have joined the growing lineup of QuickTime content providers offering live programming, which also include BBC WORLD, Bloomberg, HBO, NPR (R) and WGBH Boston. The Weather Channel(R) joins the QuickTime...

Press Release Contacts: Tanya Prather Alisa Valudes Bryan Scanlon White Pine Software Merritt Group Schwartz Communications 603.886.9050 ext 359 703.435.6000 ext. 115 781.684.0770 tprather@wpine.com valudes@merrittgrp.com redhat@schwartz-pr.com WHITE PINE SOFTWARE FIRST IP CONFERENCING SOLUTIONS PROVIDER TO SUPPORT THE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM White Pine to Support Red Hat Linux for Carrier-Class Videoconferencing and IP Telephony Applications NASHUA, New Hampshire - June 8, 1999 - White Pine Software, Inc., (NASDAQ: WPNE), a leading provider of multimedia conferencing applications for the Internet and intranets, today announced plans to support the Linux( operating system for its MeetingPoint( conference server, the industry's leading software for multipoint IP conferencing. White Pine has joined as a Developer Partner with Red Hat(, Inc., the market leading Linux developer and service provider. MeetingPoint, which is currently available for Windows NT( and Sun Solaris( operating...

MacHack PR: Sessions Finalized, No Excuses MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers c/o Expotech 1264 Bedford Road Grosse Point Park, MI 48230 Contact: Carol Lynn mailto:expotech@machack.com Tel: (313) 882-1824 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dearborn, MI -- June 8, 1999 -- Still sitting on the fence? Want to come but can't justify the expense? Just waiting for that last minute excuse? Well, the time has come. The MacHack sessions list is being finalized. The sessions list for MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers is available today on the conference website (http://www.machack.com/). The conference takes place from 12:01 AM June 24 through the evening of June 26. Plan to arrive on the 23rd. The Meat on OS Issues Mac OS 8.6, OS X, Palm OS, they're all here. Mac OS coverage from inside Infinite Loop is of course essential and this year is no different, but the way to Mac OS X is paved with NeXTStep and we have the developers to prove it. MacHack has...

Press Release 6/6/99 iType was created by the people who made the award winning CopyPaste multiple clipboard utility. We wanted to create a new software that would help people with something they do all the time, typing! iType is a new type of performance enhancement utility designed to save you time and energy when typing. With iType you do not have to remember anything!! Start typing and the intelligence in iType will help you type more quickly and accurately. iType can be downloaded free from: http://www.scriptsoftware.com/ Who needs iType? The answer is simple, anyone who types and uses a Mac. What is iType? iType is an extension which watches as you type. As you type in any application you build up iType's vocabulary. This happens automatically and invisibly in the background. After a short time iType starts to use its expanding database to recommend words based on the first few letters you type. iType supports expansion of mnemonics, language translation, auto-correction, spell...

Wilmington, DE June 3, 1999. Highwinds Trading Company (http://www.highwinds.com) is pleased to introduce SecurePass(tm), a desktop archiving utility for encrypted passwords and other security keys. SecurePass is shareware ($15. US). It is available via FTP at ftp://ftp.highwinds.com, and as an email attachment via autoresponder at mailto://1001-SecurePass.sit@ar.highwinds.com The purpose of SecurePass is: a. To give the networked professional maximum password and passkey protection (with strong encryption), in a flexible and simple environment where he memorizes just one password for access to all of his other passwords and encrypted keys. b. To allow the user to store these secure keys on the local disk rather than remove them to a "more secure" place (which is rarely as secure as one might imagine); also to allow multiple users to store SecureKeys on a shared computer without compromising their individual privacy. c. To provide incentives for the user to use longer and more...

Wilmington DE June 3, 1999 Highwinds Trading Company (http://www.highwinds.com) is pleased to introduce EnScrypt(tm), an encryption utility for Macintosh based scripting environments. EnScrypt is one in a series of software products for both the developer and the consumer which concentrate on the functional area of security. What Is EnScrypt? It is sophisticated software to do encryption. Built as a "Scripting Addition", EnScrypt is an indispensable tool for software developers, script writers and anyone needing to provide encryption security on the Macintosh platform. Encryption is provided for EnScrypt by the "Blowfish" algorithim. "Blowfish" is one of several very secure and well-known symmetric encryption algorithims. EnScrypt (Lite): Freeware. This is a demo version of EnScrypt which is restricted in the power of its encryption, but its 24 bits of encryption power make it satisfactory for many security purposes. It is available via FTP at ftp://ftp.highwinds.com, and as an email...

Subject: WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 PB5 Released From: "Eric Zelenka" (eric@starnine.com) StarNine Technologies today announced the release of WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 (aka WebSTAR 4.0) Public Beta 5, now available for download and testing at: (http://www.starnine.com/webstarbeta/) WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 PB5 is likely the last Public Beta release version of the server before the Final Candidate so we encourage everyone to download and test this latest release. WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 includes literally hundreds of new features and improvements including a dramatically faster Web server and caching architecture, a new WebSTAR Mail server supporting SMTP/POP/IMAP with LDAP and Web-based email access capabilities, integrated SSLv2 and SSLv3 with support for multiple IP addresses, certificates and encryption options, and Lasso-based publishing of FileMaker and ODBC databases. We're confident that you'll find WebSTAR Server Suite easy to use, fast, powerful and reliable. Eric Zelenka...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - VR Toolbox, Inc. Contact: Walter Neals, Vice President of Marketing e-mail: walter@vrtoolbox.com toll-free 1-877-878-6657 direct 407-673-0357 VR TOOLBOX DEVELOPS QUICKTIME VR CURRICULUM FOR EDUCATORS Pittsburgh, PA, June 3, 1999 -- VR Toolbox, Inc. has just announced the completion of a long-awaited adjunct to multimedia education..."The VR Toolbox Curriculum"...workbook for teaching interactive imaging. "The VR Toolbox Curriculum," subtitled "building better learning with immersive media," is a powerful asset for every teacher involved with desktop multimedia. Written as a companion piece for VR Toolbox's outstanding line of QuickTime VR products, "The VR Toolbox Curriculum" is the first publication produced specifically as QTVR curriculum for today's educator. "The VR Toolbox Curriculum" addresses a definite need in the Academic market, a methodology of instruction developed specifically for the teaching of immersive imaging, one of the fastest-growing...

Subject: FAXstf Pro now scriptable with new scripting addition From: "Gregory Charles Rivers" (autoscript.fm@gnb.com.hk) FAXstf Pro 5 XCMDs are now available in a scripting addition, allowing people to automate faxing of documents from within any AppleScript scriptable application including FileMaker Pro. Beta 3 of the new scripting addition is now available. Details are at (www.gnb.com.hk/autoscript.fm/) Author Gregory Charles Rivers (autoscript.fm@gnb.com.hk)

Media Contacts: Francesca Koe, 415/243-3677 francesca_koe@macworld.com Laura Beraut, 650/261-9250 laura@beraut.com For Immediate Release Macworld Online Expands Internet Reach Via Acquisition of MacCentral Online --Acquisition Creates One of the Largest Mac Specific Sites-- SAN FRANCISCO, June 1, 1999--Mac Publishing, L.L.C. the publisher of Macworld magazine, Macworld Online, iMacworld, MacBuy.com and MacWEEK.com, announced today the acquisition of MacCentral Online. The combination of Macworld Online and MacCentral Online will create the largest independent Mac site in the world. "The combination of Macworld Online and MacCentral Online not only creates a world-class Macintosh information, news, and reviews site, but presents broad and expanded opportunities to reach a variety Macintosh users: from professionals to aficionados," said Colin Crawford, President and CEO of Mac Publishing, L.L.C. Each publication brings a different corner of the Mac community to form a comprehensive...

June 1, 1999 For More Information, please contact: Joy Hsu 949-261-2800 joy.hsu@sonnettech.com SONNET DROPS PRICES ON G3 UPGRADES FOR PCI POWER MACS IRVINE, CALIFORNIA. June 1, 1999. Sonnet Technologies, the leading manufacturer of performance upgrade products for Apple MacintoshTM computers, lowers prices on G3 processor upgrades for PCI Power Macs. This substantial price drop secures the Sonnet CrescendoTM G3 product line as the leader in price/performance standards for G3 processor upgrades. Crescendo G3 for PCI Power Macs New prices are as follows: Crescendo G3 250/512K $249.95 Crescendo G3 333/1M $549.95 These cards are compatible with the following Macintosh models: - Power Mac 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8515, 8600, 9500, 9515, 9600 - Workgroup Server 7350, 8550, 9650 - Power Computing PowerCenter, PowerCenter Pro, PowerTower, PowerTower Pro, PowerWave, PowerCurve - UMAX J700/S900 - DayStar Genesis 360, 400, 528, 600, 720, 800, 900, 932 About Sonnet Technologies, Inc....

News Release For Immediate Release For More Info Contact Jennifer Lancaster Sales Manager BMT Micro, Inc. jenni@bmtmicro.com 800-414-4268, 910-350-2937 BMT Micro Releases Version 3.0 of "V - The File Viewer": File Viewer, Directory Browser and File Finder Wilmington, NC (June 1, 1999) BMT Micro (http://www.bmtmicro.com/) is pleased to announce the version 3.0 release of "V - The File Viewer". Fast and compact text/hex file viewer V is a combination file viewer/directory browser for Windows 95/98/NT. Features include HEX and EBCDIC viewing, ruler and line number display, column copy and support for very large files (try it on a 20Gb file if you have one lying around). Frequently viewed files (and file positions) may be saved as Favorites for easy retrieval. Extensive printing support includes configurable headers and footers as well as 2UP printing. Long-time users of LIST (the popular DOS program), will find V to be a worthy 32 bit Windows replacement. V - The File Finder Version 3.0...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Curtis Edwards Cel Corporation Tel: (780) 438.8324 ext. 1001 Fax: (780) 430.1153 Email: cedwards@celcorp.com Cel Corporation Announces Release of CelView the New Mac RUMBA Version 1.5 EDMONTON, AB -- May 31, 1999 -- Cel Corporation today announced the immediate availability of CelView the new Mac RUMBA version 1.5. This latest release marks Cel Corporation's ongoing commitment to providing Macintosh users with desktop access to mainframe and AS/400 systems through SNA and TCP/IP connections. CelView the new Mac RUMBA is the industry's acknowledged leader, delivering today's widest range direct access methods to legacy applications from Macintosh G3 computers ranging from the latest iMac and G3 PowerBooks to G3 desktop computers. CelView the new Mac RUMBA version 1.5 supports Mac OS 8.6 and provides true connectivity with multi and single user CelView SNA Gateways to IBM's eNetwork Communications Server as well as Microsoft's SNA Server. Customers have...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CDFINDER 2.6.1 RELEASED May 31, 1998, Moerfelden, Germany The author today announced the immediate availability of version 2.6.1 of CDFinder, the popular shareware disk catalog tool for the Macintosh. The new version is free for all registered owners of CDFinder and can be obtained from the CDFinder-Homepage (http://people.frankfurt.netsurf.de/nmd/). A single user license is $15, multi user licenses are available. CDFinder is a very fast and powerful tool to create catalog files of your hard disks, floppies, ZIP's and anything else that spins. It has a great user interface and very useful search functions. CDFinder supports drag&drop and requires at least a 68020 or PowerPC CPU. While System 7 is required, CDFinder is also fully compatible to MacOS 8.6. A special feature is the multi-lingual user interface (German/French/English/Italian/Swedish). New features in CDFinder 2.6.1: - CDFinder can now also read the new StuffIt 5 archives! - Launching is almost as...

From: "Eric Zelenka" (eric@starnine.com) StarNine Technologies is proud to announce the release of WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 (aka WebSTAR 4.0) Public Beta 4, now available for download at: (http://www.starnine.com/webstarbeta/) WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 includes literally hundreds of new features and improvements including a dramatically faster Web server and caching architecture, a new WebSTAR Mail server supporting SMTP/POP/IMAP with LDAP and Web-based email access capabilities, integrated SSLv2 and SSLv3 with support for multiple IP addresses, certificates and encryption options, and Lasso-based publishing of FileMaker and ODBC databases. Please take a moment to try out the WebSTAR Server Suite 4.0 Public Beta release for yourself, now available for download from (http://www.starnine.com/webstarbeta/). We're confident that you'll find WebSTAR Server Suite easy to use, fast, powerful and reliable. Enjoy! Eric Zelenka mailto:eric@starnine.com WebSTAR...

From: Mikael Hansen (meh@dnai.com) Subject: AutoShare 4.0, a freeware list server AutoShare is a robust and speedy list server and auto-responder and may be used with EIMS or SIMS. Available for both 68K and Power Macs, requiring little memory and tested with Mac OS 8.6, AutoShare can handle hundreds of mailing lists and thousands of subscribers for each list. Full scriptability is supported, and an Admin application with balloon help makes it easy to configure the richly featured server application. The AutoShare archive comes complete with script samples and documentation covering features such as multiple preference sets, fully automated web archives, remote administration by email, subscriber and administrator web forms and advanced mail-back confirmations. AutoShare is the only Macintosh list server offering a built-in automated bounce and unsubscribe module, supporting both hard and soft bounces. It can be used to launch external applications and includes built-in Cron support....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: New Wave Software, Inc. Phone... 800-920-9283 Fax... 215-736-3370 E-mail... newwaveinc@aol.com or newwaveinc@worldnet.att.net New Wave Software releases SPI to combat Software Piracy Morrisville, PA - May 25, 1999 - To prevent software piracy and track those who attempt it, New Wave Software, Inc. has developed SPI(TM) -- Software Piracy Intervention. SPI adds a protective layer to software products that allows only those end-users who legitimately purchased the software to install it. No matter how many copies of a protected program get distributed illegally, only the valid purchaser can install the product. SPI includes unique features such as passive and active encryption protection. SPI protected products can be distributed over the Internet, on CD-ROM or on diskette. Another unique feature of SPI is that it can remotely disable stolen prepackaged software. One phone call to New Wave can disable one, two or thousands of stolen software products,...

From: Marco Bambini (marco@spiderlink.it) Subject: ANNOUNCE: OpenScript 1.7 What is OpenScript? OpenScript is a plugin for every HTTP server compatible with W*API 1.1 (like WebSTAR, Quid Pro Quo, AppleShare IP or WebTen). It allows you to include AppleScript, PERL and Frontier commands in your HTML pages; you can also write nested commands so you can use Frontier commands inside AppleScript scripts or AppleScript commands in Frontier scripts (also with PERL). How can I use it? Just write the scripts inside the (Applescript)...(/Applescript) or (Usertalk)...(/Usertalk) TAGs, OpenScript execute them and place the result in your HTML page. You can also write nested TAGs in order to use the best commands of both the scripting languages. OpenScript allows you to create powerful dynamic pages with AppleScript, MacPERL and Frontier!! This version offers the ability to encode in HTML the result of the script using the "?encode" parameter and fixed some minor bugs. For more information, or to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: - - May 25, 1999 - - NEWS RELEASE: ProFunda is happy to announce the shipping of version 1.5 of its new 3-D spreadsheet Storeys. If you work with large sets of data or need to do sequential record keeping (such as monthly sales statistics, financial plans, scientific - or patient records), you can use the new 3-D technique in Storeys to save valuable time The new intuitive 3-D approach provides you with a new world of opportunities and changes your work in the 3rd dimension into real pleasure. - and you can even create spreadsheet models that could not be made in traditional spreadsheets. What is the secret? Dont clutter up your screen with spreadsheet documents, but use Storeys instead to create the depth exactly (and only) where it is needed - securing overview. Storeys 1.5 - IN SHORT: 1. New special third dimension providing better overview when working in layers. 2. Create layers with e.g. names of the months with a single mouse-click. 3. Calculate "...

Fog City Software is pleased to announce the release of LetterRip Pro 3.0.5. http://www.fogcity.com/lr_download.html You may find that our site is inaccessible due to excessive traffic. In this case, I'd be happy to email you a copy of the installer. Just send me a note. We recommend that all owners of LetterRip Pro update to this release. This update is free to owners of LetterRip Pro. LetterRip Pro Administrator has not changed since 3.0.4 and you can download just the server. Changes in 3.0.5: - Added ability to change incoming SMTP port in tweak settings. - LetterRip Server now refuses to handle AppleEvents during initialization. The return code errAEEventFailed (-10000) is returned. Previously, an untimely AppleEvent during initialization could cause a crash. - LetterRip Pro Server now gives up some time during the initialization of the address lists. This should remove the "freeze" effect at startup. - The -on, -off, -digest accounts are now automatically created when...

Subject: The Unmounter Agent version 3.2 From: "Frdric Blondiau" (frederic.blondiau@douwere.com) The Unmounter Agent Plainevaux, May the 26th. DouWere (http://www.douwere.com/) is pleased to announce that The Unmounter Agent version 3.2 is available. The Unmounter application automatically unmounts unused shared disks and allows the user to remount them easily. This saves network resources and speeds up the Finder. What's New? This new version is Mac 8.6 compatible and now better supports any AppleShare IP server. It is distributed with a new - and smarter - installer. Pressing the option key while opening an unmounted volume will always bring a authentication dialog - so you can easily change the user name to remount the same volume with different access rights. The authentication dialog also let you specify passwords for password protected volumes (as in EtherShare, from Helios). The Unmounter is still shareware, but with a significant price reduction. The upgrade is free for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Equilibrium Introduces OneButton Productivity Solutions for Digital Imaging, Photography, and Video New technology for digital cameras, scanners, and video cameras automates digital media production SAUSALITO, CA - May 24, 1999 - Equilibrium, the world's leading provider of automated graphics processing software, today gave the premier public demonstration of OneButton Productivity Solutions for digital imaging, photography, and video hardware. This technology, when bundled with digital cameras, video cameras, photo printers, and scanners, provides users with simple "OneButton" automated methods for preparing images for immediate Web, multimedia, and print use. "With our new OneButton Productivity Solutions, the time between image capture and image publishing is reduced to almost nothing," said Steve Denebeim, CEO of Equilibrium. "We've taken our award-winning automation engine and customized it to empower digital imaging, photography, and video hardware. Our new...

R O C K E T F I R E 6 - P O R T F I R E W I R E H U B MacWorks Announces New 1394a-Compliant 6-Port FireWire Hub Lenexa, Kansas, May 25, 1999 -- MacWorks today announced the first FireWire accessory in its new RocketFire line of products. The first FireWire product the company will ship is the 1394a-compliant, cross-platform RocketFire 6-Port Hub repeater. The hub will have six 1394a-compliant ports that allow Mac & PC users to seamlessly add peripherals to their computers without the need to power down. The six-port hub supports data transfer rates of 100, 200, and 400 Mbps (mega bits per second) and automatically switches to the highest speed supported by the connected peripheral. The hub is housed in a low profile enclosure measuring 5.57" x 2.52" x 4.00" for easy placement. Power is supplied to the hub through a 30-watt wall mount transformer. Currently more than 50 FireWire peripherals are shipping in the market, with new product announcements almost daily. The...

Infowave Ships PowerPrint for Networks PowerPrint for Networks allows Macs to print to virtually any printer across an Ethernet network Burnaby, British Columbia, May 25, 1999: Infowave Software Inc. (IWM) announced today that it has started shipping PowerPrint for Networks,the affordable, Macintosh-friendly way for SOHO, education, and consumer users to print from their Macintosh to virtually any PC printer over a network. With PowerPrint for Networks almost any printer becomes a Macintosh network printer. PowerPrint for Networks combines Infowave's award-winning suite of PowerPrint printer drivers, a fast 10/100BaseT print server, and a printer cable, to provide Ethernet network printing connectivity from a Macintosh to over 1600 inkjet, laser and specialty PC-printers. Infowave's PowerPrint for Networks is an ideal solution for: * Sharing a printer - whether you have a Mac network or mixed environment with Macs and PC1s, PowerPrint for Networks makes sharing a low cost, non-...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PUPPETTIME PRODUCER NOW SUPPORTS MULTIPLE CAMERAS 3D storytelling company continues rapid development pace toward a complete virtual movie studio inside consumer PCs SAN FRANCISCO (May 24th, 1999) - PuppetTime, Inc. announced today that it has released a new version of PuppetTime Producer, 1.0d24, on its web site http://www.puppettime.com/. PuppetTime is a patent-pending 3D digital actor plug-in architecture built on top of Apple's QuickTime. PuppetTime Producer allows Macintosh users to create 3D movies by commanding digital actors around a virtual stage with point and click ease. The latest version of PuppetTime Producer now supports multiple cameras. Users can add cameras to their productions just like any other puppet or prop. All cameras are shown via tabs above the camera view. Clicking on a camera tab changes the view to that camera. Camera controls allow users to set the pan, tilt, boom, roll, and location of the current camera. Camera motions and...

For Immediate Release MACROMEDIA DEBUTS FLASH 4 FOR DISTINCTIVE, FULL SCREEN WEB EXPERIENCES MP3 Streaming Audio, Powerful Interactivity, and Workflow Enhancements Make Flash the Optimal Solution for High-Impact, Bandwidth-Efficient Sites San Francisco, Calif.-Macromedia International User Conference '99 - May 24, 1999 - Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today unveiled a new version of its popular Flash(TM) authoring software. First introduced in 1996, Flash has become the standard for creating high-impact vector based Web sites that deliver sound, interactivity, graphics and animations and perform flawlessly across multiple browsers and platforms. Many leading companies, including Citibank, PepsiCola, DaimlerChrysler, and Nestle are using Flash to create beautiful Web sites that effectively communicate their brands. Flash 4 opens new design possibilities with enhancements such as integrated support for high-fidelity MP3 streaming audio and commands for easily creating personalized...

MacHack PR: Mac to the Past, Nostalgic Theme Unveiled MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers c/o Expotech 1264 Bedford Road Grosse Point Park, MI 48230 Contact: Carol Lynn mailto:expotech@machack.com Tel: (313) 882-1824 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dearborn, MI --May 24, 1999 -- Each year the MacHack software developers' conference centers all of its commemorative, collectible materials around a theme. Each year has featured some unique conference aspect be it a running conference joke or even play on the conference name. 1998 saw the rise of 'MacHack 13: The Return,' a play on the conference year and the ASCII code for the control-M (return key). Previous years have featured the 'Where's Waldemar' classic T-shirt and the cult of System 7 sacrificing a cartoon chicken to the OS gods. So what, in this year of rebirth for both the Mac and MacHack, will arise as the theme? Much ado has been made behind the scenes as the planning committee mulled this very issue. "We toyed...

FOR RELEASE ON MAY 21, 1999 Contact: Anita Holmgren Phone: 805-963-6983 FAX: 805-962-8202 eMail: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com XTen 6.1: A Powerful, High-Performance X Window Server for Mac OS Supports encrypted passwords for LAN security, multiple password-protected desktops, centralized administration, and OpenGL Santa Barbara, CA, May 21, 1999. Tenon Intersystems today announced an upgrade to its unique X Window server for Power Macintosh. The new X server is the fastest X server on the Macintosh market and the only X server that supports local X Window managers and local X clients. Tenon's X is running in their highly-acclaimed Mach/BSD execution environment, providing the same multi-threaded architecture that is now being touted by Apple in their newly released Mac OS X Server. This foundation allows true X server operation and yields true X server performance, all in an easy-to-use Macintosh application package. The X server runs alongside Macintosh applications, giving...

Press Release: For Immediate Release Contour Introduces the UniTrap(TM) Salem, New Hampshire, May 20,1999- Contour Design, makers of the popular UniMouse, today announced a revolutionary add-on enhancement to the iMac and G3 round mouse. The UniTrap transforms your iMac or G3 mouse to a sleek, comfortable, full-sized mouse. It is a three piece snap-on design consisting of one top shell, one bottom shell, and five tasty flavored interchangeable buttons all in one pack-age. It completely encloses the round mouse to give the user maximum com-fort and control. In addition, the larger contoured button provides easier clicking. "One Advantage of the UniTrap is that it does not add additional width to the already wide 3" diameter of the round mouse," said Timothy Donaghy, Director of Marketing for Contour Design, Inc. "The UniTrap design allows the user to remove the sides of the round mouse to minimize the width, prior to placing it into the bottom shell. One piece slip-on shells currently...

Subject: Analog Helper 1.1 Release From: Gideon Greenspan (gdg@sigsoftware.com) Sig Software is proud to announce the release of Analog Helper 1.1. Analog Helper is a graphical configuration tool for Analog 3, which is a free program to analyse the logfiles from your web server. Analog Helper lets you control and preview the results of hundreds of settings. Version 1.1 adds toggles to all settings lists, support for Navigation Services, more control over Analog's warnings reporting, and more. The Analog Helper page is at : http://www.sigsoftware.com/analoghelper/ Thank you, Gideon Greenspan Sig Software gdg@sigsoftware.com http://www.sigsoftware.com/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NETSCAPE GECKO BROWSING ENGINE AND MOZILLA.ORG WINNING INDUSTRY RECOGNITION WITH GROWING DEVELOPER SUPPORT Mozilla Open Source Development Initiative Receives CNET Builder.com 'Web Innovator Of The Year' Award MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (May 19, 1999) - Netscape, a subsidiary of America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL), today announced growing momentum for Gecko, its next-generation small, fast, and standards-based browsing engine. More than 10,000 open source developers have downloaded the software from mozilla.org and leading companies including Bradbury Software, CiTEC, Cyberworld, NeoPlanet, Sausage Software and Telescan Imagicast are working to integrate it into their products. Netscape Gecko is the first software product from Netscape based on contributions from mozilla.org, the organization chartered with managing Netscape's open source initiative. Earlier this month, CNET Builder.com awarded the second annual "Web Innovator of the Year" award to mozilla.org. ((http://...

Apple Announces Winners of Fourth Annual Software Design Awards CUPERTINO, California-May 19, 1999-Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the winners and runners-up of the fourth annual Apple Design Awards for Mac OS developers. The Apple Design Awards recognize outstanding applications developed for the Macintosh platform over the last year and highlight the creativity and innovation of Apple's developer community. The awards were presented during Apple's recent Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, which this year attracted over 2,500 developers, setting an all-time record for paid attendance. "Developers have rediscovered that Macintosh is where they can create a great business," said Clent Richardson, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Over 3,100 new or updated Mac software titles have been announced in the last year, and these awards honor the best of them." Apple Design Award winners and runners-up in each category include: Best New...

HALCYON SOFTWARE INTRODUCES INSTANT ASP, THE ULTIMATE IN CROSS-PLATFORM PORTABILITY FOR ASP DEVELOPERS The Capacity for Build Once, Deploy Anywhere Web Applications on Linux, IBM, HP, Sun, Novell and more at Only $495 SAN JOSE, CA, May 18, 1999 - Halcyon Software announces the introduction of Instant ASP (iASP) which lets developers deploy Active Server Pages (ASP) or JavaServer Pages (JSP) on all leading Java-enabled operating system platforms, Web servers, and application servers. A FREE developer version of iASP is available at http://www.halcyonsoft.com which offers five concurrent sessions; the standard edition is $495 SRLP. As an open deployment framework, iASP gives developers true cross-platform deployment capabilities on leading server and operating system platforms. These include Apache, Linux, Sun WebServer, Java WebServer, Netscape Fast Track, Enterprise Server, IBM WebSphere, Lotus Domino, Zeus, WebStar, WebTen, Microsoft IIS, Oracle Application Server, Microsoft Windows...

Subject: Startup Doubler 2.0b5 released today From: Marc Moini (marc@kagi.com) Startup Doubler 2.0b5 is now available for downloading from http://marcmoini.com. Startup Doubler 2.0's new startup acceleration technology improves startup times by 10% to 30% over previous versions, and adds the following main features: Fastest startup acceleration available today. Speeds loading startup applications in addition to extensions, control panels and Finder. Actively supports multiple Extension Sets. Supports Mac OS 8.6. Startup Doubler 2.0 has a free trial period of 15 days. The shareware fee is $20, registered users of previous versions may upgrade for free. www.marcmoini.com Cheers, Marc