For immediate release For more information contact Lisa Mann 707-829-0515 ext. 230 lisam@oreilly.com O'Reilly Releases Frontier: The Definitive Guide "Frontier is a really cool program," says author Matt Neuburg. "The more familiar I have become with it the more I have been astonished at its cleverness, its power, its elegance, its architectural beauty; every chapter in this book has been an eye-opening experience to write." Neuburg's just-released book, "Frontier: The Definitive Guide", is the first book devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting Userland Frontier, a powerful scripting environment for web site management and system level scripting. Packed with examples, advice, tricks, and tips, "Frontier: The Definitive Guide" teaches Frontier from the ground up, enabling the reader to join the ranks of thousands of Macintosh power users who make Frontier their "home base." It covers Frontier 4.2.3 for the Macintosh. "Frontier isn't just a scripting language or a database or an...

Media Contact: Brad Hutchings General Partner, Hutchings Software brad@hutchings-software.com (714) 470-1520 HUTCHINGS SOFTWARE RELEASES RAPID-I(TM) BOOKMARKS -- New Internet component from leading component software developer -- DANVILLE, Calif., March 14, 1998 -- Hutchings Software, developer and publisher of innovative user component software, today announced the release of Rapid-I Bookmarks, a product that redefines the concept of the browser bookmark menu. One year to the day after the demise of OpenDoc and Cyberdog, Hutchings Software dedicates the release of Rapid-I Bookmarks to the engineers who created OpenDoc and Cyberdog, other developers who wrote excellent OpenDoc and Cyberdog products, and the growing legion of users who recognize the power of component software and document centered computing. Hutchings Software is truly honored to be able to write products incorporating the most elegant software technologies for the most discerning customers in the industry. By...

Alphen a/d Rijn, The Netherlands, March 11, 1998 -- Troi Automatisering announces the beta release of Troi Text Plug-in 1.0, for FileMaker Pro 4.0 both on Macintosh and Windows. This Cross-platform FileMaker Pro 4.0 plug-in adds the SumText function to FileMaker Pro 4.0. With this you can create a dynamic field, that concatenates all the text from a field in a related file. Everytime records get added or deleted to the related file the SumText is automatically updated. It is the text equivalent of the Sum() function for numbers. Peter Baanen, company president, states "After the release of Troi FM Plug-in we were asked to find a solution to this problem. Luckily we could do it. The SumText function is very handy for building a list of contact persons of a company, or multikeys. Why limit yourself to the sum of a number. Just try it out". A fully functional version of Troi Text Plug-in 1.0b1 is available for downloading at Troi's Web site at: (http://www.troi.com/). On the site there...

MacHack 1998 call for Speakers MacHack 1998 is just a few months away and YOU might be just the person we are looking for. We have many interesting sessions already lined up, but we have room for a few more. Have you been off in a garage somewhere developing some cool Macintosh technology in secret? Present that technology at MacHack and not only might you gain the adulation of your peers, but you will undoubtedly receive valuable feedback to help you do it even better. If you are planning to attend MacHack 1998, starting at Midnight on June 18th and running near-continuously until Sunday June 21st, consider presenting a session to share your expertise. We are currently seeking speakers on all areas of Macintosh software development including OpenStep, Java, QTML, networking, game development, software design, software entrepreneurship, and more. Session speakers receive a $100 off the conference registration fee. Register before April 15th and receive an additional $100 discount....

Release is posted at http://www.netprolive.com/ if you would like your news site to point to it.al like books and magazines. * According to a WebWeek survey, 47.3% of web developers use a Mac to create the majority of their Web content -- the #1 platform by far. The Mac has been the leading platform for web sites for a long time. With Apple's new G3 servers, there's now that much more strength behind Mac solutions. Web developers and network administrators have cried out for a strong publication -- and there's a lot of information to cover in this area. "There have been a number of publications out there dedicated to the web developer or Java," said Neil Ticktin, the new publisher of NetProfessional, and CEO of Xplain Corporation, "but most companies have a hybrid of web development, intranet, and general network administration issues that are all interrelated. NetProfessional will focus on the needs of this type of net administrator/net developer with hard hitting...

Apple Turns Up Heat in New TV Spot CUPERTINO, California--March 11, 1998--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it is launching a new 30-second television commercial tonight during ABC's prime time line-up beginning at 8 p.m. PST. The new commercial, called "Bunnies," is part of Apple's worldwide "Think different" campaign. Apple Computer, Inc. ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is now recommitted to its original mission to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world. Press Contacts: Rhona Hamilton Tami Begasse Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. (408) 974-6439 (408) 974-3156 email: hamilton@apple.com email: begasse@apple.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MACHACK RELEASES CD AND POSTS HACKS TO FTP March 11, 1998 -- Grosse Pointe Park, MI -- MacHack, The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers with support from Apple Computer Inc. and MacTech Magazine, today announced that the MacHack 1997 CD is now available. In addition, these hacks are now available FREE via ftp. Included on the CD are over 50 of the hacks and source submitted for the 1997 Hack contest, including source for the winning hack "BillBoot" which relaces the standard Macintosh boot sequence with a Win95-looking sequence. Other hacks on the CD include KittenOnTheKeyboard, which can lock a keyboard to prevent unwanted keystrokes, VerticalHold, which reproduced a hack effect described by Steve Wozniak during his keynote at the conference, and WebAdder, which adds banner adds to web pages which would otherwise lack them. Also included on the CD are many of the presentation slides from sessions in 1997 and a list of attendees to the conference. In...

This is a public beta of the Metrowerks 1.2b7 Java compiler. For both Macintosh and Windows. The final version of the 1.2 compiler will appear on CodeWarrior Pro 3. We are releasing this version now to allow users to test the new compiler and report any problems they find before Pro 3 ships. This compiler is a beta release with the problems and bugs that implies. Use at your own risk. This compiler is not recommended for building final, shipping products. Note:: Although the compiler is based on the 1.2 JDK sources, toolset is JDK 1.1.5 You can download it at these URLs: http://www.metrowerks.com/db/updates.qry?function=form ftp.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/CWPRO2/ ftp2.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/CWPRO2/ ftp4 - 206.204.30.115/pub/updates/CWPRO2/ This compiler has a different object format than the compiler that shipped on Pro2. You *must* remove binaries from any projects before compiling with this compiler, and you'll have to do the same if you want to switch back and forth between the...

Version 2.1 of Terry Morse Myrmidon has just been released. This new version contains several enhancements our customers have requested: - point-and-click editing of Myrmidon files for users of GoLive CyberStudio - output of pixel-accurate text in any point size - optional output of spacer tags to maintain document spacing - optional maintenance of page margins (top, left, bottom, or right) - improved Table of Contents creation - optional output of "home" button on every web page - enhanced control over layout text box size and quantity Users of the commercial Myrmidon version 1.0.3 or later may download a free updater to version 2.1 from: (http://www.terrymorse.com/updates.html) For those who have not yet purchased their own copy, we hope to convert you to owners one day soon. In the mean time, a fully functional demo version (good for 25 conversions) is available from: (http://www.terrymorse.com/survey.html) We are particularly excited about our partnership with GoLive to make...

DIT ANNOUNCES NEW TRANSFERPRO FOR UNIX RELEASE File Transfer Software Supports Latest UNIX Implementations Compatible with All Popular Removable Media LOS ALAMOS, NM (February 12, 1998) Digital Instrumentation Technology, Inc. (DIT) announces availability of TransferPro for UNIX Release 4. The latest version of its award-winning high-speed file transfer software enables users to read and write all popular removable Macintosh and DOS formatted media directly from their UNIX workstation at SCSI speeds, and to easily interchange data between different types of UNIX computers. Ideal for pre-press, desktop publishing and other digital imaging applications, the latest version of TransferPro for UNIX Release 4 is compatible with all the latest UNIX implementations including Solaris 2.6, and the latest removable media including 4.6 GB magneto-optical drives, 1.5 GB Syjet, and Iomega Jaz. With the new release, TransferPro for UNIX also supports multiple Macintosh partitions of up to 4 GB per...

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MACTECH/MACWORLD EDDY AWARD FOR VOODOO VERSION CONTROL TOOL SAVES YOUR DOLLARS! Hagenberg, AUSTRIA, Mar-05-1998. This year's MacWorld/MacTech Eddy award in the "Best Developer Tool" category went to the popular version control tool VOODOO by UNI SOFTWARE PLUS. To celebrate the award, UNI SOFTWARE PLUS now offers the award-winning product at a very special price for a limited time. Macworld Magazine's "Eddy" award is the Macintosh industry's most respected honor, recognizing the best Macintosh hardware and software products released during the year, as well as the individuals who have had a significant impact on the industry. "We are very happy about winning this year's award" said Christoph Reichenberger, VOODOO product manager, UNI SOFTWARE PLUS. "And we want to celebrate the award with our customers by offering VOODOO at a price that everyone can afford." Don't miss the chance to get the award-winning version control tool at an award-winning...

For Immediate Release Press Inquiries: Michelle Knoop +1 415 904 7070 Access Communications mknoop@accesspr.com Investor Inquiries: Don Markley +1 415 986 1591 The Financial Relations Board, Inc. dxm@sf.frbd.com http://www.genmagic.com Microsoft Invests in General Magic General Magic Licenses Technology to Microsoft REDMOND, Wash., and SUNNYVALE, Calif. - (March 4, 1998) - Microsoft Corp. and General Magic Inc. (Nasdaq "GMGC") today announced that Microsoft has made a minority investment in General Magic. Agreements between the two companies include an equity investment as well as the licensing of certain General Magic technologies. Terms of the agreements include a payment to General Magic of $6 million. General Magic is developing integrated voice and data applications, a key to bringing the next generation of information technologies into the mainstream. The company's upcoming network service, code-named "Serengeti," is a second generation virtual assistant for mobile professionals...

FLASH -- MACHACK PAPER DEADLINE EXTENDED Call for Papers - MacHack '98 June, 1998 - Dearborn, Michigan It's true. We're extending the deadline for submitting abstracts and proposals for papers to March 15, 1998. Have you got a great new way of developing software for the Mac? Or even a great new way of dealing with the same old problems in software engineering? Tell us about it! Share your experience, share your ideas, share your philosophical insights into software development. Both major and minor arcana are acceptable. And although we're naturally Macintosh-oriented, your paper need not deal exclusively with the Mac OS -- we're also interested in Rhapsody, BeOS, MkLinux, even Windows. And we're particularly interested in ways to write code that will work on ALL of the above. If your paper is accepted, you'll get to attend the 13th annual MacHack conference free! You'll get to talk about your ideas with people who won't look at you funny! Your paper will be published in the official...

Version 1.4.7 of MoreFiles is now available. The changes from v1.4.6 to v1.4.7 are listed below. You can download it today from from : (ftp://members.aol.com/JumpLong/MoreFiles_1.4.7.sit.hqx) It will also submitted for release through the following channels (and may be available today or in the near future): Apple's Developer CD Apple Developer World web/ftp site America Online's Macintosh Developers Forum library (keyword: MDV) CompuServe's Macintosh Developers Forum library (GO MACDEV) Metrowerks (for inclusion with their next CD) - Jim Luther, Apple Computer, Inc. ________________________________________ v1.4.7 3/1/98 Bugs fixed: * Fixed DirectoryCopy.p header (FSpFilteredDirectoryCopy wasn't there; FSpDirectoryCopy was there twice). * PreflightFileCopySpace, PreflightGlobals, and PreflightDirectoryCopySpace now use unsigned long values for block counts to support Mac OS Enhanced volumes which can have more than 64K of allocation blocks, and to fix problems with large...

FOR RELEASE ON MARCH 2, 1998 Contact: Anita Holmgren, Tenon Intersystems Phone: 805-963-6983 or 888-4-NetTen E-mail: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com/products/netten ULTIMATE EMAIL SERVER NOW AVAILABLE FOR POWER MACS Leading E-Mail Server Software Now Available for Power Macintosh Santa Barbara, CA, March 2, 1998. Tenon Intersystems, provider of award-winning software, today announced an industrial-strength mail server for Power Macintosh. Tenon's new mail server, called NetTen, is based on Post.Office, a powerful email server, developed by Software.com, Inc. Software.com is the uncontested leader in email server software, having sold licenses for more than ten million email mailboxes worldwide. Post.Office was designed with strong emphasis on security, scalability, and ease-of-use, setting the standard for email server solutions. Post.Office is in use at tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, supporting millions of users. By leveraging their existing "UNIX virtual...

Contact: Anita Holmgren, Tenon Intersystem Phone: 805-963-6983 E-mail: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com/products/webten Dr. Darren Williams, Active Concepts, Pty.Ltd. Phone: +613-9344-0933 E-mail: info@activeconcepts.com THE ULTIMATE WEB SERVER AND THE ULTIMATE WEB SITE ANALYSIS TOOL Tenon and Active Concepts Partner to Join State-of-the-Art Web Analysis with State-of-the-Art Web Serving Santa Barbara, CA, March 2, 1998. In a limited time special offer, Tenon Intersystems and Active Concepts have joined together to make Funnel Web, an advanced web analysis tool, a free add-on to WebTen, the fastest and most fully-featured Macintosh web server. WebTen WebTen 2.0 is an industrial-strength, high-performance Web server for Power Macs - a point & click Apache web server, with performance and features that, for the first time, put the Macintosh squarely on the internet playing field. WebTen, based on the latest Apache 1.2.5 and sustaining over 700 hits/second, includes...

February 27, 1998 -- Cupertino, CA -- Less than a year after the release of its major product upgrade, 4th Dimension version 6.0, ACI has engineered a significantly enhanced version for the entire ACI Product Line - version 6.0.5. The benefits provided by this maintenance release include improved functionalities and an extremely stable and robust design environment. ACI Product Line version 6.0.5 is proof of ACI's commitment to providing quality development tools to its 7,000-strong developer community. Version 6.0.5 also includes some new features, such as new management of picture field compression, and a new procedure for converting 4D version 3 applications to 4D version 6. The success of 4th Dimension version 6.0, released in early 1997, can be measured by the large proportion of professional developers who have already upgraded to this new version to build powerful cross-platform applications. Among the highly acclaimed features of 4th Dimension and 4D Server v6 are a built-in...

Apple Discontinues Development of Newton OS CUPERTINO, California--Feb. 27, 1998--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it will discontinue further development of the Newton operating system and Newton OS-based products, including the MessagePad 2100 and eMate 300. "This decision is consistent with our strategy to focus all of our software development resources on extending the Macintosh operating system," said Steve Jobs, Apple's interim CEO. "To realize our ambitious plans we must focus all of our efforts in one direction." Apple is committed to affordable mobile computing, pioneered by the eMate, and will be serving this market with Mac OS-based products beginning in 1999. Apple will continue to market and sell its current inventory of MessagePad 2100 and eMate 300 computers, as well as to provide support for their installed base of users. The Company is committed to working with its customers and developers to ensure a smooth transition to Mac OS-based products. Apple Computer, Inc...

Be, Inc. invites you to attend the Be Developer Conference, on March 19-20, 1998 at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, California. The Be Developer Conference will be the first major venue for the release of the BeOS for Intel based machines. All participants will receive a free copy of the BeOS for Intel. Be developers will present applications running on BeOS on Intel based platform during sessions, and will also showcase them in our application lab. Jean-Louis Gasse, CEO of Be, Inc. will open and close the conference and will be available during the two days to answer questions and do interviews. Keynote speaker Claude Lglise, Intel's VP Content Group and Director Developer Relations, will conclude the opening session. Other Be speakers during the general sessions include Alex Osadzinski, VP of Sales and Marketing, Steve Sakoman, VP of Engineering, and Frank Boosman, VP of Developer Relations. A special time has been set, on Thursday March 19 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, for the Press to...

For all that Guy does for the community, here's one for Guy. I'm not ready to announce what garage.com does yet, but we do have T shirts! (And making T shirts is the first step in product development.) (http://www.garage.com) and click on me. Thanks! Guy Kawasaki

MRJ SDK 2.0.1ea2 BULLETIN ````````````````````````` Apple has just posted early access release 2 of its Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) SDK version 2.0.1. It contains a collection of tools, libraries, sample code, and documentation that will make it easier for developers to build better Java software for the Macintosh. The major items included are as follows: JDK Tools -- *** new version of these tools have been added since the previous early access release *** These tools include javac, javah, javadoc, javakey, rmic, and jar. JBindery -- an application that allows you to create double-clickable Macintosh applications that execute Java code. MRJToolkit -- a library that allows you to easily add Macintosh functionality to Java applications, such as the ability to respond to Open and Quit events, locate special system folders, and set document types. JDirect -- an application programming interface that allows you to access the Macintosh toolbox directly from a Java application. JManager...

QuickCRC 1.1 Object-Oriented Software Design Tool MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, February 27, 1998 --- Excel Software is shipping QuickCRC 1.1 for Macintosh and Windows 95/NT. QuickCRC is a design tool for discovering objects and related information for an object-oriented software development project. It automates the CRC card concept of identifying classes, responsibilities and collaborations between objects. Design scenarios involving a group of communicating objects can be identified and simulated. New features in this release include a contents view, inheritance graph and full text import and export of design information. QuickCRC uses a diagram workspace for creating card and scenario objects. A card represents the properties of a class including its name, description, superclasses, subclasses, attributes, responsibilities and collaborating objects. A scenario represents a design mechanism defined as a series of steps involving communicating objects. Scenarios can reference cards or other...

For Immediate Release VRML Consortium and Sun Microsystems to Cooperate on 3D Web Standardization Sun Microsystems joins VRML Consortium to promote compatibility between VRML and Java 3D API Monterey, CA - VRML 98 Symposium - February 18, 1998 - The VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Consortium and Sun Microsystems, Inc, (Palo Alto, CA) today announced that Sun has joined the VRML Consortium as a voting member to promote the compatibility and interoperability of Sun's Java 3D(TM) API (Java 3D) technology and the VRML 97 standard. Sun and the VRML Consortium intend to establish a Consortium working group to explore closer integration of Java 3D and VRML. Any proposed changes to the VRML specification will be subject to the VRML Consortium's proven open review, approval and voting process. Sun is also contemplating future adaptations of the Java 3D specification to enable closer integration with VRML. The Java 3D API can be used to develop programmed applications and applets that...

For immediate release. AAA+ SOFTWARE SHIPS JOY RELEASE 1.08 FOR OPENSTEP, RHAPSODY AND WINDOWS Vienna, 18 February 1998. AAA+ Software announces release 1.08 of Joy Explorer and Joy Developer, the company's developer productivity and rapid application development tools. Joy applications run on Windows 95/NT, Apple Rhapsody, and OPENSTEP/MachOS. No porting or compiling is required. Release 1.08 offers enhancements, recently presented at MacWorld San Francisco, including: - Joy graphical application inspector integrated into Joy command window - Joy Developer's "Save Nib as App" now creates stand-alone applications for use on any deployment platform - Linking Joy into non-Joy applications made easier Joy Explorer is the ideal tool for exploring the Yellow Box frameworks. Developers can create small utilities by using just Rhapsody's Joy-enhanced Interface Builder application. No other development tools are required. These utilities will run in Interface Builder's...

Call for Papers - MacHack '98 June, 1998 - Dearborn, Michigan Do you have a pet project or cool new way of thinking about programming? Want to share your software-design experiences with your peers? Do you want to get technical information out to seasoned developers who can use it well and wisely? If so, consider writing a paper for MacHack '98 -- the 13th Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers with support from MacTech Magazine and Apple Computer, Inc. Some areas in which papers have been previously written for MacHack include adaptive computing, the business of Macintosh development, game design, and network programming, debugging, the programming subculture, virtual reality, and Mac OS internals and hacks. Other categories are acceptable: a paper could cover topics from Rhapsody, BeOS, MkLinux, or even Windows. Although topics need not be strictly Mac OS-bound, they should tie in with Macintosh programmers/programming. Better yet, write up a topic from cross-platform...

From: Richard Wesley (hawkfish@electricfish.com) Electric Fish, Inc. announces the public beta of CWProjector, a subscription shareware version control plugin for Metrowerks CodeWarrior, which allows you to use MPW's Projector for source control without leaving the CodeWarrior IDE. CWProjector provides an easy to use source-code control system, at minimal cost, using established technology from Apple. It is well suited for individuals and small organizations which want the benefits of source-control with a minimum of hassle and expense. Version 2.0 includes the following new features: New default options for various commands; Advanced dialogs for customizing options; Various bug fixes and improvements; Automatic database creation during Add and Connect; CodeWarrior look-and-feel for the dialogs. The CWProjector beta is available now at: http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/CWProjector/Download.html for more information, contact Richard Wesley, mailto:hawkfish@electricfish.com

From: "Lem Jordan" (lnjordan@m9.sprynet.com) The first edition of Lem's Mac(tm) Software Directory is available at http://members.aol.com/lnjordan/index.html Listings are free, so if you have product that you would like to list in the March 98 edition then please submit based on the guidelines on the web page

Public Beta of Free File Tool for Developers Quadrivio General Edit Lite 1.0.1b2 available for download. Berkeley, CA-February 15-Quadrivio Corporation announces the public beta of General Edit Lite, a free tool for developers who need to view or edit data files in hexadecimal or other simple formats. This tool is based on the commercial version of General Edit, but it does not include features for dealing with compound data structures. PowerPC is required. General Edit Lite allows you to view files as hexadecimal, ASCII, Unicode (Roman encoding only), 16-bit decimal integers, or 32-bit decimal integers. Finder Information for each file is also displayed. Files can be larger than RAM. The beta version is being announced only on the MacDev-1 mailing list. The number of copies available for download may be limited. At the end of the beta test period, the final version of General Edit Lite will be made available for free to the general community. To download General Edit Lite, visit http...

DevDepot's Valentines' Day Sale February 13th - February 16th In honor of Valentines Day we would like to give our customer's an extra 10% off of our already low prices. To qualify for the 10% off is easy, you only need to order via e-mail, fax, or on our convenient web site. So hurry and pay us a visit at (http://www.devdepot.com) and take advantage of our Valentines' Day Sale, its a limited time offer! (Orders must be received by midnight, February 16, 1998 to qualify) So don't forget to visit us this Valentines' Day weekend! And, as always its easy to order from DevDepot when you order via any of the catalog's easy ordering channels. You can order via telephone (Toll Free at 800-MACDEV-1), email, fax, or on the online shopping basket which has 24-hour accessibility (via a continually updated website (http://www.devdepot.com)). Due to the overwhelming response expected, we cannot take phone orders at the discount price. If you need to speak to us by phone, send us an e-mail with...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stalker Software Releases a public beta of the Rhapsody-based CommuniGate Pro Server Key features: Rhapsody-based, industry-strength, administration via the Web, extensive multi-domain support, unique IMAP multi-mailbox features. MILL VALLEY, CA - February 12th, 1998 - After the successful launch of the Stalker Internet Mail Server, Stalker Software releases a public beta version the CommuniGate(tm) Pro messaging server for the Rhapsody family of operating environments. The new, completely redesigned implementation of the CommuniGate integrated messaging system unifies the performance and standard-compliance of the Stalker Internet Mail Server with flexibility and powerful features of the modular CommuniGate System of MacOS. The CommuniGate Pro is based on the Rhapsody Foundation framework and can run under all operating systems supported with the Rhapsody "Yellow-box": Rhapsody for Power Macintosh(r), Rhapsody for Intel...

ISO Adopts QuickTime File Format as Starting Point for Developing Key Component of MPEG-4 Specification Industry Leaders Collaborate on Next Generation Multimedia Standard CUPERTINO, California--Feb. 11, 1998--Apple Computer Inc., IBM, Netscape Corp., Oracle Corp., Silicon Graphics Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced that the International Standards Organization (ISO) has adopted the companies' joint proposal to use Apple's QuickTime File Format as the starting point for the development of a unified digital media storage format for the MPEG-4 specification. The six companies now look forward to collaborating with other companies and industry bodies to further refine the specification and QuickTime file format--ensuring that MPEG-4 quickly gains market acceptance. "MPEG's decision to utilize the QuickTime file format for the MPEG-4 specification has huge benefits for users and the industry", said Ralph Rogers, Principal Analyst for Multimedia at Dataquest, San Jose. "This...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FairCom(r) releases new version of c-tree Plus(r), V6.7A, for Macintosh with conditional index support, transaction history, variable length API CONTACT: Tamra Brown, Scott Thomas FairCom Corporation (573) 445-6833 Columbia, MO -- FairCom(r) Corporation announced the latest release of c-tree Plus(r) v6.7A file handler and the FairCom Server for the Macintosh, including support for System 7.X and Mac O/S 8.X for both Native PowerPC and 68K. This new release of FairCom's C ISAM database API offers an enhanced variable length API resulting in easier and faster variable length record operations and conditional index support, which provides a means to define complex expressions and use them to filter the entries within an index. Other major features of this release include a transaction history function, which makes it possible to access the audit logs of transaction controlled files. "The new FairCom Server improves networked throughput dramatically, with benchmarked...

Tabasoft SendGraphic: On The Fly Web Graphics Builder Tabasoft SendGraphic 1.0 is a tool that allows macintosh webmasters to build on the fly (and send on the web) dynamic graphics from data embedded in HTML. Usually graphics are static images in your web site linked as "(IMG SRC..." HTML tags. Suppose that your graphics comes from dynamic data and that this data changes every day (or more). If you have static graphics you have to manually rebuild your graphics every day. With SendGraphic you can avoid this. In fact it builds graphics in real time so that they always match your data. Also with static data SendGraphic can be very useful, when you have to build many graphics and you don't want to do it manually. SendGraphic can be used in very different situations. You may want to use SendGraphic as a WSAPI HTTP Server plug-in or as an HTTP Server ACGI. SendGraphic requires a Power Macintosh, system 7 or later with QuickTime. A full version of SendGraphic is now available for download...

Press Contact: Gordy Davies Metrowerks Inc. (512) 873-4797 gdavies@metrowerks.com http://www.metrowerks.com Metrowerks Ships New CodeWarrior Tools for 3Com(R) PalmPilot(TM) Organizer and IBM(R) WorkPad(TM) PC Companion AUSTIN, Texas - February 3, 1998 - Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/ME:MWK) announced today they have begun shipping Release 4 of CodeWarrior for Palm OS(TM), the latest version of the companys popular set of development tools for building Palm Computing(R) platform applications for the 3Com PalmPilot Organizer, IBM WorkPad PC Companion, and Franklin Day Planner(R) The Palm Computing platform is an open architecture consisting of the reference hardware design, Palm OS, HotSync(R) conduit data synchronization technology, platform component tools, and software interface capabilities to support hardware add-ons. Hosted on Windows(R) 95, Windows NT(R), and Mac(R) OS, Release 4 of CodeWarrior for Palm OS boasts many new features, including: C++ support; increased support...

Mac OS Runtime for Java Bulletin Apple has just posted the Java Foundation Classes ("Swing") Early Access 0.7 software to its "Apple & Java" web site at (http://applejava.apple.com/text/prerelease.html). This software is identical to the JFC 0.7 software posted at JavaSoft's site (java.sun.com), but is packaged and organized in a format that makes it immediately usable for Macintosh developers. It has also been tweaked slightly to fix a few minor problems that affected usability on the Macintosh. JFC 0.7 requires version 2.0 of Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ). This software is posted at http://applejava.apple.com/text/download.html and is also included with Mac OS 8.1. Apple thanks its friends at Zero G Software (www.zerog.com) for its hard work in making this posting possible.

MRJ SDK 2.0 BULLETIN Apple's Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) SDK 2.0 is now available. It contains a collection of tools, libraries, sample code, and documentation that will make it easier for you to build better Java software for the Macintosh. The major items included are as follows: JBindery -- an application that allows you to create double-clickable Macintosh applications that execute Java code. MRJToolkit -- a library that allows you to easily add Macintosh functionality to Java applications, such as the ability to respond to Open and Quit events, locate special system folders, and set document types. JDirect -- an application programming interface that allows you to access the Macintosh toolbox directly from a Java application. JManager -- an API that allows you to embed Java content in traditional Mac OS applications. The SDK is available for downloading at the Apple & Java website at: http://applejava.apple.com/text/download.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Glucose Declares War on Infoglut with Release of Data Hammer 1.5 Contact: Gabriel Cheifetz Glucose Development Corporation 36 S. Paca St. Suite 418 Baltimore, MD 21201 gchei@glu.com http://www.glu.com January 28, 1998-- Glucose Development Corporation today announced the immediate availability of Data Hammer 1.5, a major upgrade of its automatic text summarization device for the Macintosh. About Version 1.5 A powerful new text summarization engine, visual query execution, and round-trip web publishing top the list of features in this release. In addition to the newspaper-style headlines that version 1.0 generated, Data Hammer 1.5 uses a new summarization engine to extract a bulleted list of major topics from each section of a document. Users can also search for words or phrases and see a colored map of where they occur throughout a document. In addition, round-trip web publishing means that any web page can now be fetched, summarized, and saved as HTML all from...

Claris to Reorganize as FileMaker, Inc. CUPERTINO, California -- Jan. 27, 1998 -- Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that its Claris subsidiary will restructure to focus exclusively on its award-winning FileMaker Pro line of database software. This restructuring will include changing the Company name to FileMaker, Inc., divesting of products other than the FileMaker Pro line, and laying-off approximately 300 Claris employees. FileMaker Pro is the most popular database software for the Macintosh and is the second most popular standalone database software for Windows, with about 3 million units sold and 2,500 developers. Sales of the FileMaker Pro line were $73 million in FY97, and $24 million in the most recent quarter which ended Dec. 26, 1997. Sales of the Windows versions more than tripled during the past two years (from $9 million to $28 million) and grew 77 percent during the most recent quarter over the same quarter a year ago. "As FileMaker, Inc. we can now focus all our...

Contact: Sam Caughron Director of Marketing 816.765.4983 x 726 sam@proteron.com FMPRO TUNER DRAMATICALLY IMPROVES PERFORMANCE OF FILEMAKER PRO Kansas City, MO. January 26, 1998 - Proteron, L.L.C. today announced the release of FMPro Tuner, a Mac OS system extension for improving the performance of Claris Corporation's FileMaker Pro. The extension, which is free for download, can be obtained directly from Proteron (http://www.proteron.com). FMPro Tuner dramatically improves the performance of FileMaker Pro when used as a networked host. Without the tuner, users logged in to a database being hosted by FileMaker can experience very slow response times, particularly when FileMaker is not the foreground application on the host. With the tuner installed, the host response times increase by as much as a factor of 20. Both FileMaker Pro 4.0 and 3.0 are supported by FMPro Tuner. Anyone who uses FileMaker Pro as a database host will benefit from the use of FMPro Tuner. Although FMPro Tuner was...

For Immediate Release Tangent Systems Announces BuildSim 2.0 is Now Shipping and Ready for Download OCEAN BEACH, Calif.-- January 23, 1998 -- Tangent Systems announced today that it is now shipping BuildSim 2.0 for the PowerMacintosh and Macintosh Computers. It can be downloaded for free directly from the company ftp site. BuildSim 2.0 delivers: -- DirectConnect, a node to node connection interface for fast model contstruction. -- BuildBlocks, more than 50 to choose from to make model development easy and fast. There is no limit to the number of BuildBlocks in any simualtion. -- SystemBlocks, BuildBlocks can be "Grouped" into a one SystemBlock - our approach to heirarchical modelling. -- Simulation, 5 standard simulation algorithms are supported. Multiple simulation can be run at the same time. -- Plotting, built-in 2-D data plotting tool. Plots can also be copied and pasted into your favorite word processor. -- Analysis, several analysis tools and data modification tools are built-in...

January 22, 1998 Mac OS Software and Hardware Guide Now available as an extensive online database of Mac OS third-party products. Recent enhancements have increased its usefulness and popularity. Apple strongly encourages third parties to list their product information in this database. To submit a product or product update, simply click the "Submit a Product" title in the left column of the web page: http://www.macsoftware.apple.com/

Apple is quietly overhauling its websites. There's a new end user website for Java: http://www.apple.com/macos/java Apple will continue to run applejava.apple.com for the developer information until we can migrate the rest of the developer content to its new home.

MACROMEDIA CELEBRATES SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF SHOCKWAVE Company Continues to Improve Web Experience with Smart Shockwave San Francisco, CA-January 19, 1998-Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today celebrated the second anniversary of Shockwave with the release of Smart Shockwave. Through the use of JavaScript, Smart Shockwave allows users to automatically download, install and play the most current version of Shockwave without ever having to leave the intended Web site. Shockwave remains one of the top playback technologies on the Web. In 1997, over 37 million Shockwave players (Flash and Director combined) were successfully downloaded from Macromedia's Web site. Shockwave downloads continue to break records with over 1 million downloads per week in recent months. "Shockwave makes the Web come alive," states Richard Glosser, senior vice president of Columbia TriStar Interactive. "Fans of our movie and TV sites demand to be entertained and Shockwave allows us to deliver to millions of...

CLEARWAY SHIPS FIRESITE WEB SITE ACCELERATOR AND WEB HOSTING SYSTEM 2.2 -- Blazing Web Site Performance Using Affordable Internet Connections. Includes Complete Web Hosting System, Now Optimized for "G3" Chips -- ClearWay Technologies today shipped version 2.2 of their FireSite(TM) Web Site Accelerator, optimized for Web servers using the lightning-fast PowerPC 750 ("G3") chip. Using a patent-pending replication and caching system, FireSite 2.2 can accelerate slower Web sites, such as those using ISDN lines, to blazing "T-1" speeds, maximizing Web site performance and slashing costs. The new version includes a complete commercial Web hosting system for running multiple high-performance Web sites on a single FireSite server, using Apple's OpenTransport network stack. Thirty-day demos are available from: (http://www.clearway.com/pages/demos.html) ClearWay provides free technical support to all demo users. FireSite version 2.2 is a FREE (and recommended) upgrade for all existing owners...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Whitney DevDepot 805-494-9797 x 105 marketing@devdepot.com DevDepot Offers the QuickTime VR Authoring Studio Bundled with Kaidan Products WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA -- January 16, 1998 -- DevDepot, announced today it will offer the QuickTime VR Authoring Studio bundled with Kaidan. The bundling of QuickTime with Kaidan comes at a great time as both received great reviews at Macworld Expo - San Francisco last week. The QuickTime VR Authoring Studio is now available for only $299 with the purchase of KiWi+, QuickPan Magnum, or Magellan QC from DevDepot between now and January 31, 1998. This is a savings of approximately $95 over the typical retail price. Currently, DevDepot does not sell QTVRAS separately (although it will if Apple decides to distribute the product through developer channels). This offer is not available with the purchase of the standard KiWi. Additionally, upgrades from the original VR Suite are not available. Order your Kaidan QTVRAS...

For Immediate Release STARNINE ANNOUNCES NEW PARENT COMPANY AND NAMES NEW PRESIDENT -- Acquisition Provides Autonomy and Opens Door to New Product Development -- BERKELEY, Calif., January 14, 1998 -- StarNine Technologies, Inc., formerly a subsidiary of Quarterdeck Corporation, today announced the immediate sale of StarNine to Platinum Equity Holdings. Scott Steward, formerly vice president sales and marketing, was also named as the new president of StarNine. Platinum Equity Holdings, StarNine's new parent company, is expected to allow StarNine to operate autonomously, deciding upon its own company strategy and product direction. StarNine develops, publishes and markets Internet server software, content creation tools, electronic commerce software and email connectivity products. Under Platinum Equity Holdings, StarNine will continue to develop Internet-related software and expand upon it's popular WebSTAR product line. "This is great news for our customers because it allows us to be...

Press Contact: John O'Fallon Phone: (630) 830-1113 Fax: (630) 830-1262 E-Mail: john@maxum.com Maxum Development Announces Release Of NetForms 2.5 Upgrade January 13, 1998 -- Maxum Development Corporation, a leading developer of Macintosh Web server tools, announces the release of NetForms 2.5, a major revision to the popular Web server forms-handling application. NetForms, along with it's sister product NetCloak, was the first commercial Web server tool ever introduced for Macintosh. The new version adds dozens of new capabilities, improved support for the wide range of servers available for the Mac OS, improved security, and more. NetForms 2.5 begins shipping today, and a demonstration version and upgrade package can be downloaded from "www.maxum.com". "We've improved virtually every aspect of NetForms with this release," said Chris Patterson, Product Manager for NetForms at Maxum Deveopment. "There are new commands, extensions to old commands, more robust e-mail handling,...

Macromedia and Oracle to Combine Efforts to Establish Open Enterprise Learning Standards and Learning Content Reuse Providing choice for customers is key objective as companies plan to join ranks to promote open learning standards. Pensacola, FL, January 12, 1998 -- Macromedia and Oracle Corp. announced today that they are planning to collaborate on the Reusable Content Objects (RCO) format for online learning and enterprise learning standards. Additionally, Oracle plans to implement the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC) interoperability standard in its Oracle* Learning Architecture (OLA). This announcement was made at a meeting of AICC, the committee that has overseen the specification since 1993. "The learning industry will benefit greatly from the adoption of these new standards and the ability of Oracle and Macromedia products to work together. We're extremely pleased that Oracle and Macromedia have joined forces to unite the industry around a core standard of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TOP WEB TOOLS EMBRACE THE SOUND OF 'BEATNIK' Easy ways for Web authors to add Headspace's interactive music technology to their pages San Mateo, CA, January 12,1998* Headspace Inc.(r), a provider of next-generation technology for Internet audio, announced today that Macromedia Dreamweaver, NetObjects Fusion, and Random Noise Coda have each added support for Headspace's Beatnik(tm) technology in their popular Web site authoring tools. Beatnik provides very high audio quality with minimal download times. It enables sound effects and high-fidelity stereo music files to be woven into a Web page, resulting in a more compelling and personalized user experience. Beatnik's inclusion in high-level HTML authoring tool packages now makes these interactive features available to hundreds of thousands of Web page designers via an approachable drag and drop interface. "Headspace has created the highest sound quality and most efficient music format for the Web," said Mike Goos,...