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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 10:05:22 -0800
From: Conrad_Geiger
To: [e-mail]
Subject: v6.2 - NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 2, February, 1993

NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 2, February, 1993)


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NeXT ANNOUNCEMENTS (January)
 =>    1. Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO
 =>    2. Last Call for Submissions:1993 NeXTSTEP OBJECTWARE CATALOG

NeXTSTEP DEVELOPER SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS (Fall 1992/January)
 =>    3. Appsoft Ships Appsoft Image
 =>    4. Millennium Announces NoteBook



Conrad Geiger
Manager, International NeXT User Group Program

I would appreciate any feedback from you on how the Nugget News Digest
can be made better.  Please send me your comments!




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NeXT ANNOUNCEMENTS


 =>    1. Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO

The 2nd annual gathering of the world-wide NeXT community!
        An international Developers Conference!
                An educational Users Conference!
                        A NeXTSTEP product exposition!
                                A global User Group Meeting!

Call 1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call
[phone] or fax to [phone] for registration information.

When: MAY 25-27, 1993,
Where:  THE MOSCONE CENTER,
        SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA

Pass the word.  Tell your colleagues, fellow user group members,
other computer industry user group members, fellow NeXTSTEP
developers, potential developers, and friends, to schedule this date,
and stay tuned for more information!!  Please post this message to
local and community electronic bulletin boards and feel free to
publish in your user group or company newsletters.


Exhibitors please contact DCI West--

        408 280 6778 voice
        408 280 6779 fax


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 =>    2. Last Call for Submissions:1993 NeXTSTEP OBJECTWARE CATALOG

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 8, 1993.  Even if you submitted for
the 1992 catalog, please resubmit again this week.

NeXT Computer is producing a completely new version of the ObjectWare
Catalog. The Catalog will be distributed throughout the year to NeXT
customers worldwide, and NeXT would like to have all current NeXTSTEP
objects (commercial, shareware and public domain) included in the
Catalog.  The unveiling of the new catalog will be at NeXTWORLD Expo
'93 in May.

Although this does not allow you as much time to prepare your
submissions as you might have liked, NeXT is certain that the
catalog is a real opportunity to show the Object and NeXT world what
you have produced, and we urge you to participate. Enclosed below is
an entry submission form for the ObjectWare catalog.

Please note the submission deadline is FEBRUARY 8.

NeXTWORLD Expo '93 is scheduled for May 25-27, in San Francisco,
California. More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the Expo,
from commercial, government, and educational organizations worldwide.
As NeXTSTEP is the premier platform for delivering the benefits of
object-oriented technology, the exhibition floor will have a special
section devoted entirely to objects. Floorspace, including the
"ObjectWare Pavilion," which runs throughout the show floor, is
still available. If you are interested in exhibiting, contact Matthew
Schmuck or Charlie Hurth at Digital Consulting, Inc.  They may be
reached at:

        [phone] voice
        [phone] fax


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Objectware Catalog Submission Form
(Deadline for submitting entries is February 8)

Please follow these instructions carefully.

- Each product must have its own separate and complete submission
   (i.e., don't include multiple products in the same submission).

- Submissions must be in electronic form (i.e., on floppies, ODs, or
  you may send them by electronic mail).

- Type everything exactly as you would like it to appear in the
  catalog.

- Use Edit as your word processor.

- Don't use bold or italic typeface.

- Don't format your text with multiple columns.


Each submission must include the following:

1. Company, institution name

2. Company, institution phone number(s)
   - You must include a non-800 number (for international callers).

3. Company, institution fax number(s)
   - Add "fax" after the number.  For example: [phone] fax.
   - You must include a non-800 number (for international callers).

4. E-mail address for product information (optional)

5. Product name

6. List price

7. Product availability
   - Type "Shipping now" or appropriate quarter.

8. Product description in 100-150 words
   - Include a general summary of the methods implemented by the
     class.
   - Insert a blank line between paragraphs.
   - Include trademark symbols when you mention trademarked products
     or companies.


9. Trademark information
   - NeXT publishes trademark information for all products mentioned
     in the catalog.  Therefore, you must include appropriate
     trademark symbols for your products as well as for ancillary
     products mentioned in your product description.  Trademark
     symbols will appear as part of your product description; other
     trademark information will appear where appropriate.
   - You do not need to provide trademark symbols for NeXT products.

10. Is support available?

11. Is documentation available?

12. Is source code available?

13. Is the object on a palette?

14. Product icon (optional)

15. Graphic that will give the user a sense of where the product fits
    in the class hierarchy (optional)

16. Name of person preparing this catalog submission
   - This will not appear in the catalog.

17. Phone number, fax number, and e-mail address for person preparing
    this catalog submission if different from questions 2-4 (above)
   - This will not appear in the catalog.

Send your submissions to:

                Developer Programs
                Attn:  ObjectWare Catalog
                NeXT Computer, Inc
                900 Chesapeake Drive
                Redwood City, CA  94063

                E-mail:  [e-mail]
                Entitle your e-mail "ObjectWare Catalog Submission"

NeXT will confirm receipt of your materials.  If you have not heard
from NeXT within 14 days after you mailed your materials, call
[phone].

All submissions become property of NeXT Computer, Inc.  NeXT reserves
the right to edit all submissions.




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NeXTSTEP DEVELOPER SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS (Fall 1992/January)


 =>    3. Appsoft Ships Appsoft Image

For information contact:

        Randy Adams, President, Appsoft, Inc.
        28 Laburnum Road
        Atherton, CA 94027
        Phone: [phone] (sales)
        Phone: [phone]
        Email: [e-mail]


APPSOFT SHIPS APPSOFT IMAGE
PHOTO EDITING AND IMAGE PROCESSING FOR NeXTSTEP

Brings fast, high-quality photo editing to the NeXT market.

REDWOOD CITY, CA. January 15, 1993 -- Appsoft Inc. announced today
that Appsoft Image, the image processing and photo editing package
for the NeXTSTEP operating system has begun shipping to customers
worldwide.

Appsoft Image brings fast and powerful photo editing to the NeXTSTEP
desktop.  Appsoft Image is designed to be used by newspapers,
magazines, graphic designers and users in small businesses that need
high-quality image processing for documents, ads, brochures,
presentations, newsletters and publications of all kinds.

Appsoft Image is the first image processing program to take full
advantage of the powerful Display PostScript imaging model offered in
the NeXTSTEP environment.  Appsoft Image offers a complete range of
painting and image manipulation tools including:

    IMAGE SELECTION AND MASKING TOOLS
            Rectangular
            Elliptical
            Freehand
            Bezier
            Magic Wand (edge detection)
            Add to, subtract from and refine your current selection
            Cut, copy or paste selections with the pasteboard
            Soften Edges

    PAINTING TOOLS
            Use any of the program's 24 paint tools
            Paint with textures, gradients, colors, cloned images or
              filters
            Paint with transparency to lighten, darken, paint on top
              of or behind an image
            Erase part of an image, a specific color, or revert to a
              previous version
            Blur, sharpen or smudge all or just a  portion of your
              image
            Control paint tools with independent line and fill
              properties
            Use other paint tools with Appsoft Image's plug-in
              support
            Create a library of custom brushes, textures and
              gradients

    CHANNEL EDITING CAPABILITIES
            Work in separate RGB, CMYK or HSB channels
            Add, subtract and combine multiple channels from
              different images
            Create, edit and store an unlimited number of masks

    IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS
            Scale, rotate, flip, slant, skew, distort or alter the
              perspective of any part of your image
            Resample or resize your image to any resolution
            Magnify from 32:1 to 1:32

    IMAGE PROCESSING EFFECTS
            Apply any of the program's 25 filters to a specific
              selection or all of the image
            Adjust Filters: Alter Color, Arbitrary Map,
            Brightness, Color Balance,Contrast, Convert to
            Grayscale, Equalize, Invert, Posterize
            Process Filters: Add Noise, Blur, Convolution Matrix,
            Despeckle, Sharpen, Minimum, Maximum, Find Edges, Unsharp
            Mask
            Stylize Filters: Diffuse, Emboss, Motion Blur, Offset,
            Pointillize, Swirl, Waves
            Add filters through Appsoft Image's plug-in support

    TEXT
            Create anti-aliased text
            Apply textures, gradients, cloning, filters or
              transformations directly to text

    PRINTING
            Print to any PostScript  color or black and white printer
            Output four color separations
            Calibrate your monitor to multiple output devices


For complete compatibility with other applications and platforms,
Appsoft Image comes with read and write support for TIFF, EPS,
Scitex, PICT, PhotoShop and over 10 other external formats.

Key features include the ability to work with 2 to 24-bit images in
RGB, CMYK, HSB color models; define, name, group an unlimited number
of masks; apply 25 build-in filters or plug in custom filters through
the API; view and manipulate individual color channels including
alpha transparency; clone and tile source images; construct complex
discontigous selections; create custom brushes, textures and gradient
blends of up to 100 component colors; create sophisticated 4 color
separations and calibrate monitor color.

Appsoft Image and all other Appsoft products are available through
NeXTConnection and all NeXT dealers and VAR's worldwide.



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 =>    4. Millennium Announces NoteBook

Millennium Software Labs Defines Emerging Application Category on
NeXTSTEP Computers

Contact:
        Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President
        Millennium Software Labs
        1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300
        Menlo Park, CA, 94025
        [phone] Phone
        [phone] Fax
        Email: [e-mail]

Company introduces NoteBook, an object-oriented software application
that improves information processing productivity for individuals


MENLO PARK, California, January 27, 1993 - Millennium Software Labs
announced today that NoteBook, its new breakthrough software
application for the NeXTSTEP operating system, shipped last week.
The product defines information processing, an emerging application
category for personal productivity and information management on
commercial desktop systems.

Jayson Adams, Millennium's CEO, Chief Scientist and co-founder,
remarked, "We met our original goal of first customer ship by
January, 1993 and we're very proud of this achievement.  NoteBook
marks an important milestone in the NeXTSTEP marketplace as well.
NeXTSTEP's outstanding object-oriented architecture allowed us to
develop and deliver a high-quality commercial application with just
over 9 person-months of development time, an impossible
accomplishment under any other software development environment
available today.  NoteBook for NeXTSTEP clearly demonstrates that
NeXT holds an important commercial lead over Microsoft, IBM, Apple
and the rest of the software industry in delivering on the promise of
object-oriented technology.  It's worldclass and it's available
today."

NoteBook is a new product for an emerging application category that
Millennium defines as information processing.  Scott Love,
Millennium's President and co-founder explains, "Individuals have a
great need to store, organize, and retrieve unstructured information,
and yet no real tools exist to directly assist them with this task.
For example, electronic mail inundates users with information of
varying importance, and no simple way exists to clip and store
portions of messages, and then later retrieve them.  The beauty of
NoteBook is that rather than forcing users to conform to
computer-oriented information management, such as a typical database
system, NoteBook presents users with very familiar metaphors so that
storing and organizing information is simple, and then works with a
user's associative memory processes to help them retrieve the stored
information."

NoteBook has been designed for users seeking a convenient way to
manage and organize the everyday flow of information and ideas.  It's
a revolutionary application whose power comes from two breakthroughs.
First, NoteBook uniquely combines an outline processor for creating
lists of information with a visual notebook metaphor for managing
these lists.  Together, they make storing and organizing information
simple and elegant.  Second, NoteBook employs "Dynamic Index Views
technology" (Patent Pending 1992), allowing users to instantly view
"cross-sections" of their information.  It's like having the power of
a sophisticated database query system without the complexity.

NoteBook's simplicity and flexibility make it applicable to a wide
range of information processing tasks.  Users can create intelligent
notepads for jotting notes and ideas;  clip and store important
electronic mail messages for fast retrieval;  or even organize fax
documents, news clippings, project tasks, agenda outlines, to-do
lists, meeting notes and diagrams.  Whenever users start a new
project or plan, chances are they'll use NoteBook to help manage
their information flow.  NoteBook is truly a productivity application
for individuals.

"We ran an extensive test drive program to determine what NoteBook
applications users would create and why," said Mr. Adams.  "The
results indicate that NoteBook has several key productivity
applications, and that our customers will continually discover unique
uses.  The response from key NeXTSTEP customers has been very
positive and enthusiastic.  We fully expect users and large
organizations to add NoteBook to their application suites
immediately."

In addition to helping individuals manage personal information,
NoteBook is a powerful tool for publishing and sharing information
within a group.  Groups can store and display electronic libraries of
images, charts and graphs.  They can create telephone directories,
company policy handbooks and briefing books, accessible through
network file libraries.  And individuals can easily distribute
NoteBook-stored information just by clicking and dragging.  Whether
an individual or an enterprise- wide team, NoteBook promises to
dramatically improve the way people access and utilize information.

NoteBook Release 1.1 has a suggested retail price of $495.95 and runs
on NeXTSTEP Release 2.1 and higher.  Engage! Release 1.1 is also
shipping, and has a suggested retail price of $99.00.  Millennium
products are sold direct to qualified corporate customers as well as
through authorized resellers.  Customers can order products today by
calling 800 732-9009, or by contacting Millennium at their offices in
Menlo Park, CA at [phone].

Millennium Software Labs, Inc. is a privately-held startup founded by
Jayson Adams and Scott Love, former employees of NeXT Computer, Inc.
Millennium develops and markets personal productivity software for
NeXTSTEP-based computer systems.  The company's mission is to develop
state-of-the-art applications for information management.  Product
design and architecture are based entirely on NeXTSTEP, the most
advanced object-oriented software technology available today.

For more information about this press release, contact Jayson Adams,
CEO, or Scott Love, President.  Millennium Software Labs is located
at 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.

Phone: [phone], Fax:[phone], Email: [e-mail].


Keywords:  computers, technology, software, Millennium Software Labs,
NoteBook, NeXT, NeXTSTEP

c 1993 Millennium Software Labs, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Dynamic
Index Views, Engage! and the Millennium logo are trademarks of
Millennium Software Labs, Inc.  NeXT and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of
NeXT Computer, Inc.  Any and all other brand names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.



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continued in issue 6.3