Japanware.com E-Business Service to Protect International Brands in Japan NEW SERVICE GIVES NON-JAPANESE COMPANIES STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE TO GAINING JAPAN DOMAIN NAMES AND FIRST JAPANESE WEB PRESENCE January 8, 2001. Beaverton, OR. Japanware.com, a new brand of internet business and marketing services targeting penetration and expansion into the Japanese B2B and B2C marketplaces became available today. Japanware.com provides non-Japanese corporations with cost effective, time saving solutions to registering difficult to acquire Japanese domains, as well as launching e-commerce sites targeting Japanese customers. The Japanware.com line of services are a response to the deregulation in Japan of domain name management. Only Japanese companies and foreign subsidiaries may acquire Japanese domain names ending in ".co.jp", the designation for Japanese corporate domains. Through the end of year 2000, Japanese corporations have been limited to having only a single domain per corporation. In 2001...

Tenon Announces Enhanced WEBmail for Mac OS X Santa Barbara, CA, January 8, 2001. Tenon Intersystems announced today that iTools 6.0, its web server package for Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X, will include a new version of WEBmail. iTools anytime, anywhere WEBmail enables users to access email from any device running a browser. iTools WEBmail is compatible with SMTP mail servers: thus the WEBmail client can POP or IMAP mail from any SMTP mail server and any mail client can POP or IMAP mail from the WEBmail mail server. The WEBmail client can be hand-tailored with unique logos and banner advertising on a virtual host-by-virtual host basis. Tenon's iTools WEBmail was developed by EMUmail, Inc. (http://www.emumail.com), a widely respected vendor of web-based mail systems. The new WEBmail supports multiple attachments, address books, user definable folders, outbox for sent messages, real-time SPAM filtering using the "Real-Time Blackhole" list of known SPAMmers, customizable tag...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ADC DIRECT DEBUTS IN JANUARY 2001 MACTECH MAGAZINE RELEASED AT MACWORLD EXPO January 8, 2001 -- Westlake Village, CA, USA -- MacTech Magazine today announced a new magazine section, Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Direct. This new series of articles is designed to help facilitate Mac OS X development. ADC Direct debuts in the January 2001 issue of MacTech Magazine, copies of which will be available in limited quantity at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Each month, Apple's Technology Managers will present articles covering topics such as Cocoa and Carbon APIs, Apple's development tools, I/O Kit, Quartz, Aqua, and more. These articles will present an overview of key Mac OS X technologies with pointers to online resources from Apple that provide more in-depth information. In addition, ADC Direct will provide shortcuts and tips aimed at improving code and accelerating development time. "We are pleased to offer these up-to-the-minute articles to...

January 3nd, 2001: Startup Doubler 2.6 is now available for downloading from www.marcmoini.com Startup Doubler makes for quicker startups: Its software acceleration compensates for sub-optimal disk performance to make extensions, control panel, the Finder and startup applications load faster. Save time each time you startup your Mac! Those seconds spent waiting really add up: Startup Doubler is the fastest and easiest way to cut down the wait. Expect older Macs to startup 20% to 50% faster! The latest G3 and G4 Macs get less dramatic improvements as they're already pretty fast, but if you have lots of Extensions, Control Panels and Startup Items you can usually save 10 to 20 seconds at each startup! Version 2.6, released today, adds support for Mac OS 9.1 and fixes a bug in the Installer that would sometimes prevent installation, in addition to a few other changes. Startup Doubler runs on Mac OS 9.1 and previous versions (going back to System 7.0), and supports multiple extension sets...

NetCloak 3.1.1 Update Addresses Potential Security Hole Crystal Lake, IL, January 2, 2001 -- Maxum Development Corporation today announced that a potential security hole has been discovered in the recently released NetCloak 3.1. The problem, while serious, was discovered by Maxum and has not resulted in any known real world break-ins. Still, the company is strongly urging all NetCloak 3.1 users to install the free update immediately. Specific details about the problem are not public and will not be released to protect sites that have not yet performed the upgrade. However, the error may allow unauthorized users access to protected content when NetCloak's new user registration feature is used. The problem is strictly limited to pages protected using this new feature in NetCloak 3.1, and so does not effect users of NetCloak 3.0 or earlier. The update, which is free for all users of NetCloak 3.1, is available by clicking "Download" on the NetCloak home page: http://www.maxum.com/...

Sig Software is pleased to announce updates to its unique text editing utilities, Email Effects and TableText, both of which are available as Classic or Carbon applications for running natively on OS 7, 8, 9 and X. Email Effects is a program which allows plain text to be used for pictures and drawings. The ASCII art it creates can be used for email messages, source code comments and cross-platform documentation. TableText is a sister program which allows tabular information to be represented, manipulated and scanned as plain text. With it, spreadsheets and tables can be converted to ASCII text and optimized with ease. Both Email Effects 1.6.6 and TableText 1.0.2 add support for direct creation of messages in Microsoft's Entourage email client. They also continue to work with Eudora, Emailer, Outlook Express, Mailsmith or PowerMail. The Email Effects web page with downloads is at: http://www.sigsoftware.com/emaileffects/ The TableText web page with downloads is at: http://www....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Troi Automatisering releases Troi Text Plug-in 2.0b1 for FileMaker 5 New Plug-in lets you parse out incoming XML data in FileMaker Pro. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, December 27th, 2000--For all people still reading email just before new year, Troi Automatisering today announced the availability of its Troi Text Plug-in 2.0b1, for FileMaker Pro 5 (and 4) both on Mac OS and Windows. What is the Troi Text Plug-in? The Troi Text Plug-in is a very powerful tool for dealing efficiently with text in your FileMaker Pro database. It adds the following functions to FileMaker Pro: - Combine sets from 2 text fields: * get all lines that are the same * get all lines that differ * and other combinations - Get (unique) lines and sort words and lines - Make a text sum from a related file that even updates without a script. - Parse XML Text into fields - and more... Peter Baanen, company president, states: "XML is becoming an increasingly popular tool for...

Paradigma Software Releases VXCMD, Technology Release 1.8.6 ADDS SPEED IMPROVEMENTS AND CROSS PLATFORM FUNCTIONALITY FOR METACARD December 19, 2000. Beaverton, Oregon. Paradigma Software announces the release of Valentina XCMD and Valentina Technology Release 1.8.6. Valentina XCMD works with any Macintosh "card" scripting tool, including Apple's HyperCard, IncWell SuperCard, and MetaCard. Third party developers have also created special wrappers for using Valentina XCMD with Userland's Frontier, MacPerl and Futurebasic. VXCMD also includes a Windows component to support MetaCard Corporation's cross-platform tool, MetaCard. Valentina XCMD is based on the Valentina database kernel, an ultra-fast database solution for software developers. Valentina solutions are available for REAL Software's REALbasic, Macromedia Director, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Microsoft C++ , Purity Software's WebSiphon, Visual Basic and Java. Paradigma Software also makes available Valentina Technology Release 1.8.6...

DupliDisk II (Macintosh Edition) Debuts at MacWorld Expo SFO HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA - Arco Computer Products is proud to introduce DupliDisk II (Macintosh Edition), the first hardware based IDE RAID solution for the Macintosh from Arco. This exciting new product offers the benefits of DupliDisk II technology to Macintosh users. Features include a true hardware based IDE RAID controller, Background Rebuilding capabilities, Hot-Pluggable drive solutions, a native PowerPC utility for option control, and OS-X native support. This is the first IDE RAID controller for the Macintosh that does not require a PCI BUS connection. As with all DupliDisk products, the DupliDisk II (Macintosh Edition) connects directly to the onboard IDE connector on the motherboard. With all of the various form factors available, the DupliDisk II will fit virtually anywhere within the Macintosh. In the event of a hard drive failure, the DupliDisk II (Macintosh Edition) will switch operations automatically to the known...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CDFINDER 3.0 RELEASED December 18, 2000, Moerfelden, Germany The author today announced the immediate availability of version 3.0 of CDFinder, the popular shareware disk catalog tool for the Macintosh. Together with CDWinder 1.0 for Windows, also to be released today, this is the first cross platform, networkable solution to catalog disks and CD-ROMs on a Macintosh and a PC. The new version can be obtained from the CDFinder Homepage (http://www.cdfinder.de/). A single user license of CDFinder is $20, 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 9. A special feature is the multi-lingual user interface (German/French/English/Italian/...

December 14, 2000 - MCF Software today announced the release of ListSTAR 2.1, an update to the powerful and customizable list server and e-mail manager software that was acquired from 4D in October, 2000. ListSTAR 2.1 features and changes *ListSTAR/POP has been resurrected and updated to be in sync with ListSTAR/SMTP. *ListSTAR/POP now generates correctly formatted message id's. *ListSTAR/SMTP can be used with another SMTP server on the same machine. *List creation is now smoother and requires less user intervention. *AppleScript stack overflow issues that were present in ListSTAR 2.0 have been resolved. ListSTAR 2.1 is a free upgrade from earlier versions and is available immediately from our web site. For more details, see the release information web page at http://www.liststar.com/release.html. Farokh Irani, MCF Software's Vice President of Software Development says, "We are pleased to ship our first update to ListSTAR since acquiring it, one that many people have been waiting for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DACONS INTERNATIONAL INC .mail.it for Mac 1.0 full version released! The ULTIMATE e-mail plug-in! FULL e-mail functionality for FileMaker Pro now available cross-platform! Available for download here: http://www.dacons.net/mailitmac.html .mail.it lets you send/receive/manage e-mail with any FileMaker Pro database. Smart programming and a highly user friendly interface allow you to customize your new or existing FileMaker Pro database with ease. Bogdan Boon, chief programmer for Dacons: "The tremendous input from FileMaker developers around the world has enabled us to bring you 'The ULTIMATE' e-mail plug-in for FileMaker Pro. The need for ease-of-use and speed was what users wanted most. And we delivered. I invite you to give it a try." "I would like to commend you for a beautifully done set of demo files and an incredibly easy to use and useful plug-in. I intend to recommend it to all my Filemaker developer friends, clients, and other...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- 12/13/00 Hess Macworld Events Page Goes Live With a New Domain 1. Mac/Internet Consultant and Writer, Ilene Hoffman, is pleased to announce that the Hess Memorial Macworld Events/ Party list is live! The new url is: http://www.ilenesmachine.com/partylist.html Please bookmark the link, and pass it around to your user groups, and potential Macworld Expo show goers. The web site will contain every party and press function scheduled during Macworld Expo week in San Francisco, Jan. 8th through January 13th. (Some events occur before and after the actual show.) The page will be updated until January 9th. 2. Anyone who hosts an event or knows of an event is requested to please let me know, so that it can make the list. Events can be sent to ileneh@aol.com or Press@ilenesmachine.com. Also, please send any special booth information, such as contests, cool free toys, or book signings for inclusion on the Fun Stuff to See at the Show page. Send an event and get a "prize...

Subject: Drop Drawers / X 1.5 Release From: Gideon Greenspan (gdg@sigsoftware.com) Sig Software is proud to announce the simultaneous release of version 1.5 of Drop Drawers for both Mac OS 7/8/9 and as a native Carbon application for Mac OS X. According to MacUser UK, "Drop Drawers is the most elegant solution yet to the launcher concept." Drop Drawers is a revolutionary user-interface enhancement which provides floating pull-out, snap-shut drawers on the sides of your screen to store text, URLs, aliases, scripts, pictures, sounds, movies and anything else. Version 1.5 is a major upgrade adding dozens of new features, including configurable grids with multiple styles and arranging options, support for AppleScripts with built-in compilation and parameter passing and several included drawer templates. More information and the download are available at: http://www.sigsoftware.com/dropdrawers/ The direct link for the Mac OS X version is: http://www.sigsoftware.com/dropdrawers/macosx.html...

Western Civilisation Releases Style Master 1.9 and 1.9 Pro CSS Editor Bondi Beach, Australia, 11th December 2000. Western Civilisation announces the release and immediate availability of Style Master 1.9 and Style Master Pro 1.9 for Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and the Macintosh, refining and enhancing the development of cross-browser, standards compliant cascading style sheets. (http://www.westciv.com/style_master/) Style Master 1.9 is not just a repurposed text editor. It's built from the ground up as a specialized style sheets IDE (integrated development environment), featuring everything you need to develop, test and deploy sophisticated style sheets. Style Master is as well suited to web developers with little or no exposure to style sheets, as to style sheets experts. For those starting out with style sheets, Style Master comes with * an intuitive interface for editing every aspect of a style sheet, from the most basic properties to the most complex @rules, with point and click...

ANNOUNCEMENT December 8, 2000 Announcing AutoScript.fm Pro 2.0 for FileMaker Pro v4 and v5 (www.battynotions.com/products/aspro/en/) Gregory is proud to announce the release of AutoScript.fm Pro 2.0 for FileMaker Pro v4/v5. Months of writing and testing have made this a very powerful product and a must-have utility for FileMaker Pro developers. AutoScript.fm Pro 2.0 is now available from its web site. About AutoScript.fm Pro (Note. AutoScript.fm Pro is Mac-only) FileMaker Pro scripting has always been a click-and-drag operation. For many people, this has been one of FileMaker Pro's biggest advantages; simplicity and error-control. For other people, it has been one of FileMaker Pro's biggest limitations. AutoScript.fm Pro changes all of that. Armed with AutoScript.fm Pro, you can export, create, edit, manipulate and import FileMaker Pro scripts in ScriptMaker wysiwyg plain text format. AutoScript.fm Pro empowers you to do things that FileMaker Pro alone can not. What you can do with...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PDF StartUp: PDF documents opened automatically J2S, a software company specialized in multimedia and asset-management developments, announces the release of PDF StartUp 2.0. PDF StartUp is an "autorun" application designed to automatically open a PDF document located on a CD-Rom when it is inserted into a computer, after having installed Acrobat Reader when needed. PDF StartUp first checks the presence of Acrobat and installs Acrobat Reader when necessary. The selected PDF document is then automatically displayed on screen. Among other improvements, the new version can be used to display a startup screen, make sure the "Search" plug-in is installed, and it now supports 9 languages... PDF StartUp consists of two versions so that it can work indifferently on computers running MacOS or Windows. This programme is intended to invite the recipients of multimedia operations to actually read the content of the documents that are addressed to them. The license costs 600...

Valentina for Java Developer's Preview Released JAVA SDK PREVIEW ALLOWS CREATION OF POWERFUL, MULTI-PLATFORM DATABASE APPLICATIONS December 6, 2000. Beaverton, Oregon. Paradigma Software announced the availability of its first software developer's solution for Java development. Valentina for Java (VJSDK) beta 1 is the first of Paradigma Software's line of database tools for development of client side pure Java applications. VJSDK employs the same base Valentina API, allowing developers who are already familiar with other Valentina products, such as Valentina for REALbasic, to get a jump-start to integrating Valentina into their Java applications, including support of BaseObject methods, BLOBs and the Valentina implementation of SQL. "VJSDK is our base level implementation for Java, with all the sophistication professional developers will expect who are coming from a C++ background. But users who are looking for only a JDBC driver for Valentina won't have long to wait," said Jochen...

December 5, 2000 We are proud to announce the availability of REALbasic 3.0a14. Using this alpha release gives you the chance to learn about new features in REALbasic early, work with Carbon, and participate in setting the direction for the next release. It runs on and compiles for both Classic (7.6.1 to Mac OS 9) and Mac OS Public Beta. It uses Carbon and the Aqua User Interface for both the IDE and the compiled applications when running in Mac OS X, and Platinum in Classic. This release adds several significant improvements, including editing REALbasic database schemas! REALbasic now also allows you to export your projects in XML format. You can then reimport the XML format projects. This will allow third parties to develop powerful new enhancements to REALbasic, among other things. In addition, PostgreSQL support is much improved. Drag and drop of files, text, and pictures is now possible on Windows applications as well. Of course, there's much more, so read the complete release...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 2000 BLUE WORLD RELEASES LASSO STUDIO 1.7.1 FOR ADOBE GOLIVE 5.0 Maintenance update addresses minor issues. Boxed version to begin shipping this week. Bellevue, WA--December 4, 2000--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine(tm)--today released Lasso Studio 1.7.1 for Adobe GoLive 5.0 a free minor maintenance update to the recently released version 1.7 of Lasso Studio for Adobe GoLive. The release includes an updated version (3.6.6.2) of Lasso Studio Web Data Engine and addresses a minor issue with Lasso Studio Site Builder. Blue World also announced that boxed versions of Lasso Studio for Adobe GoLive will begin shipping this week. Complete Web Database Publishing Lasso Studio for Adobe GoLive provides Web professionals a visual development environment for building database-driven Web sites powered by Blue World Lasso Web Data Engine. Operating from within GoLive 5.0, Web developers harness the power of Lasso Studio...

Press Release - WebShocker v2.2 Ships Recosoft Corporation announces that is has started shipping WebShocker v2.2; a major upgrade to the most popular integrated Web Animation Production Tool for the Macintosh WebShocker v2.2 contains the following new features and enhancements - * Fully Compatible with Mac OS X Public Beta (when run under Classic mode) * Fully Mac OS 9 Multiple Users compatible * Incorporation of the RecoSoft Smart Color Technology. This technology allows for accurate remapping of colors when saving animations that contain thousands or millions of colors as GIF animations * Specification of "Color Tolerance" when using the Paint Bucket tool * Specification of 9 different types of Fill modes when using the Paint Bucket, Rectangle, Oval, Arc, FreeHand, Polygon, and Rounded Rect tools * Opacity Control for the Fill Color being used * A thoroughly enhanced and improved "Export Assistant" which allows Zooming the Preview area and adjusting the Color Accuracy when saving...

From: "Eric Forget" (pressrelease@cafederic.com) Subject: Cafederic enhances PowerPlant with BasePlant For Immediate Release Cafederic enhances PowerPlant with BasePlant MONTREAL, Canada - November 28, 2000. Cafederic is proud to announce the release of BasePlant, a collection of more than 200 classes to enhance PowerPlant(TM), the flagship framework from Metrowerks. "I was tired of having to reinvent the wheel for every software project I worked on, so I decided to find a generic way of designing classes", says Eric Forget, owner of Cafederic. "BasePlant is the result of six years of hard work based on the concept of code reuse." "When I first saw BasePlant, about a year and a half ago, I've was astonished by the features and the quality of the product," said Hugues-Antoine Oliver, a Mac OS developer for over ten years. "I decided to join Eric to leverage BasePlant development for making applications with a friendlier interface and standard behaviors." The list of BasePlant's...

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES ORINOCO ANNOUNCES USB RADIO DEVICE FOR WIRELESS NETWORKING New device makes it easy to set up computers for home and enterprise wireless networks FOR RELEASE: November 28, 2000 LOS ANGELES -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced the availability of a USB wireless device for the ORiNOCO Internet access and wireless networking system. By using the wireless USB Client, users can wirelessly network a computer by simply plugging the device into a spare USB connector and installing the software. Lucent made the announcement at the Western Cable Show in Los Angeles. The ORiNOCO system is Wi-Fi certified and enables users to enjoy secure, high-speed (11 Mbps) wireless Internet access and wireless networking anywhere in a building or home, indoors or outdoors. The new USB device will enable communication between any USB equipped PC and the entire range of ORiNOCO access points, including the home/SOHO Residential Gateway (RG1000) or the AP-500 and AP-1000 access...

Press Release For Immediate Release - November 27, 2000 MacSpeech Announces iListen 1.0 Available Now Bedford, New Hampshire, November 27, 2000: Macintosh speech recognition authority, MacSpeech, Inc., announces the availability of iListen 1.0, its long-awaited next generation speech recognition program. iListen was developed in partnership with Philips Speech Processing, using their FreeSpeech 2000 speech engine. Philips is a global market leader in speech recognition, natural dialogue and language understanding technologies. "iListen is designed to be the speech recognition software for the rest of us," said MacSpeech Chief Evangelist Chuck Rogers. "Its ability to stay in the background and allow the user to dictate into virtually any Macintosh application will set a new standard for the industry." iListen utilizes TalkAnywhere dictation technology, which converts spoken words into typewritten text and characters anywhere a Macintosh user would normally type. "The underlying...

Subject: CPLAT 2.8 released From: Ken (ken@ksoft.net) ksoft is pleased to announce the latest version of CPLAT (version 2.8), a low-cost cross-platform framework for MacOS and Windows development. This latest version adds: improvements and bug fixes new classes for sockets, internet protocols, xml reading and writing. MacOSX support Ability to use either Metrowerks Codewarrior Pro6 or Apples Project Builder for MacOSX builds. CPLAT is an easy-to-use full-featured (not just a thin layer over the underlying OS) modern C++ (STL, exception handling) framework for MacOS and Windows development including support for the lastest MacOS technologies including AppearanceManager, proxy icons and window path popups and icon services (32 bit icons), MacOSX and Carbon, and Windows applications for Windows 95/98/NT. CPLAT also includes a RADTool / Resource Editor for importing / creating / editing the resources your application uses including, menus, icons, pictures,...

From: Ron Avitzur (avitzur@PacificT.com) Subject: Graphing Calculator 3.0 Hello: Graphing Calculator 3.0 for MacOS is now final. Details are at (http://www.PacificT.com/NewIn30.html) New features in 3.0: * Text * Open/Save Graphing Calculator documents * Multiple document windows * Save As HTML * Save as RTF * 3.0 acts as a helper application for GC documents posted to the web * Documents saved by 3.0 can be opened read-only by the free version 1.2. Pacific Tech will be charging for this upgrade. Upgrade pricing and instructions are at (http://www.PacificT.com/Upgrade.html). Best regards, Ron Avitzur Pacific Tech (http://www.PacificT.com)

November 22, 2000 Sand Hill Engineering has released version 3.2.3 of "XTension" their Mac-only home automation software. For anyone who wants to combine the reliability and speed of 'hardwired' sensors and alarms, with the ease and economy of the X-10 system, XTension now supports the LynX-Port. The LynX-Port offers 8 opto-isolated voltage or contact inputs, 8 output relays, and 4 analog inputs, along with standard X-10 control. For the CM11, we've added more verbs for the X-10 Extended Code suite. This makes it much easier for controlling the new 'smart' devices. XTension is available in a free Lite version which incorporates all of the features of the full version, with only a limitation on the number of database units. (The Lite version works with the popular CM11/Activehome controller.) Packages of the software and X-10 starter kits are available at different web sales sites. ($99.95 list price) Downloads and a rich website of home automation ideas can be found at www.shed.com...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Metrowerks Delivers Comprehensive Java(tm) Technology Development Tools for Wireless Devices CodeWarrior for Java(tm), Version 6.0 is the First Tool Chain to Support J2ME Application Development for the Mobile Information Device (MID) Profile AUSTIN, Texas-November 20, 2000-Metrowerks today announced a comprehensive set of Java development tools that can be used to create applications for the growing number of Java-enabled wireless computing devices entering the market. The tools, which will be available November 30, are the first to support the Mobile Information Device (MID) profile, targeted at wireless devices with limited memory and processor power. CodeWarrior(r) for Java(tm), Version 6.0 is a powerful, award-winning integrated development environment (IDE) for programming 100% Pure Java technology-based applications using Sun Microsystems' Java(tm) 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), PersonalJava(tm) and Java(tm) 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) standards....

Rewind Fast Forwards Its Way to Store Shelves Guaranteed Protection Against Catastrophes, Disasters, and Mistakes In a Bind? Just Rewind! (sm) Columbus, Ohio - November 20, 2000 - Power On Software announced today that Rewind, the most eagerly anticipated utility of the year and winner of the prestigious MacWorld Best of Show Award, is on its way to retail shelves everywhere. Rewind enables users to escape from disasters and mistakes by allowing them to rewind their iMac, iBook, Macintosh desktop computer, or PowerBook to any previous moment in time, when everything was working perfectly. Even without a backup, a single click on the Rewind button permits the user to revert back to earlier versions of files, preferences, and system states, a capability that can often spell the difference between success or failure and adulation or humiliation. Rewind even includes an Emergency Startup Mode that can get a user's machine running instantly even when all other methods have failed. Rewind...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greg Landweber, author of Kaleidoscope, Power Windows, and Greg's Browser, is pleased to announce the release of SmoothType 2.2.2, available now from: http://www.kaleidoscope.net/greg/ SmoothType is a shareware ($10) control panel that brings Mac OS X style font smoothing to Macs running System 7 through Mac OS 9. SmoothType also works in the Classic environment under Mac OS X, giving Classic applications text that looks just as good as in Carbon and Cocoa applications. SmoothType effectively doubles the resolution of text on the screen by blurring the edges of bitmap fonts with shades of gray, a technique called "anti-aliasing". Although Apple introduced a limited form of font smoothing in Mac OS 8.5, SmoothType offers greater flexibility and uses a more aggressive algorithm--similar to how Adobe Acrobat views PDF files--that produces much better results. Apple is now switching to such smoothed text in Mac OS X, but only for applications that use the Quartz...

PRESS RELEASE New Development Tool for REALbasic Developers Enables SQL Console Database Management Application from Independent Developer Heralds First App in Macintosh Software Line Chicago, Illinois -- Independent Macintosh Developer, Donagrandi Software, publicly announces the availability of RBdbMaker v.1.0, a development environment tool for REALbasic developers using REALbasic's built-in database engine. RBdbMaker v.1.0 can be downloaded from http://home.earthlink.net/~donagrandi/Software.html. Unlike other database editor applications for REALbasic, RBdbMaker v.1.0's focus is on the developer, not the end-user. "More than the need to visually create his database, a developer needs to test SQL commands that he or she will utilize within code, have an ability to save those commands as stored procedures, and be able to call those commands again," says Mr. Donagrandi owner and developer of Donagrandi Software. "RBdbMaker v.1.0 links hands-on development with code, whereas other...

Artly There Software announces the release of Compositor v1.0 for Power Macintosh, a new $16 graphic application featuring over 120 Filter and Channel effects, save and replay of user actions, all combined with a unique paradigm for fast cropping and image pre-visualization to aid artists and photographers. http://www.artlythere.com/compositor.shtml Compositor features: Over 120 Filter and Channel operations, all recordable and replayable. Features, partial list: Replace Color with Fuzzy Factor (neat) Paste Into Color with Fuzzy Factor (Paste another image into only certain colors of the target) Crop to any proportion, fast. View any portion of image at that proportion. Fade Undo Flare 2 Type's of Find Edges 5 Types of Blur + 4 types of Average Standard Sharpen set, plus Sharpen Edges, Unsharp Mask of Zorro Various Invert's Flip's etc 53 channel colorations and dismemberments Step in Order through above Step Random through above Add Noise independantly to any channel, in monochrome...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2000 BLUE WORLD SHIPS LASSO WEB DATA ENGINE 3.6.6 Free update fixes issues and provides enhanced features and documentation. Bellevue, WA--November 15, 2000--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine(tm)--today released Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6.6, a free maintenance release update to their award-winning product to serve powerful data-driven Web sites. "We are committed to providing Web designers and developers the best tools to build and serve powerful data-driven Web sites," said Bill Doerrfeld, founder, president and CEO of Blue World Communications. "Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6.6 demonstrates our commitment to the Lasso community to provide a robust and reliable solution for serving data-driven Web sites." What's New Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6.6 addresses numerous issues to enhance overall stability and reliability and provides the following new features: - Enhanced security for Instant Web Database Publishing - Allows only...

PINEHILL PRODUCTS RELEASES FILETOPIA 1.0.0 - EXTENSIVE FILE INFO AND UNUSED FILE FINDER Rochester, NY - November 15, 2000 - PineHill Products is proud to announce FileTopia 1.0, a extensive file information and unused file finder utility. FileTopia is a multi-use file utility for the Macintosh. You can use it to get extensive information on a file, and also change that information. FileTopia also can find old files modified last on the date you tell it to search for, and will put them in a list for you to either open, get info on, or delete. Key features of FileTopia 1.0: * Search hard disk of old and unused files * Get extensive detail on files and change them * Built in file explorer * Easy to use interface and toolbar * Much, much more! Requirements and Pricing FileTopia needs a PowerPC Macintosh running Mac OS 8 or later, and at least 4MB of available RAM (memory). FileTopia is only $12.00, and a demo can be downloaded from the PineHill Products web site (http://www....

Announcement: Tcl/Tk 8.3.2 Binary Release for Macintosh November 14, 2000 This is the long overdue 8.3.2 binary release for MacOS. See the list of mac specific changes below. I'm releasing this with the blessing of the usual maintainer of the mac port, Jim Inham (jingham@apple.com). At the moment it's only available on (http://homepage.mac.com/tcltk/), Jim Inham is working on getting it onto sourceforge. Regards, Daniel A. Steffen das@users.sourceforge.net --------------------------Mac specific changes/fixes-------------------------- * Switched to "Installer VISE for Freeware", two installer formats: Small standalone runtime installer: will allow you to install the Tcl/Tk runtime files offline; it contains just the bare essentials: Wish, TclShell, Tcl/Tk shared libraries, Tclapplescript extension, runtime script libraries and html documentation files. This installer is sufficient if you are only using Tcl/Tk to run other people's programs or scripts, it may not contain...

REAL SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES FREE UPGRADE PERIOD FOR REALBASIC 3.0 Copies of REALbasic 2 purchased starting November 1, 2000 to include a free upgrade to REALbasic 3. November 13, 2000. Austin, TX - REAL Software announced today that any purchase of a REALbasic 2 occurring on or after November 1, 2000 will be eligible for a free upgrade when REALbasic 3 ships. "Because of REALbasic's Mac OS X support and great new features, thousands are downloading version 3 alphas", said Geoff Perlman, President and CEO of REAL Software. "Unfortunately, they have been limited to using it as a "demo" because they are not yet customers. We want them to know they can purchase REALbasic 2.1.2 now, and use it and the version 3 public alphas and betas and get a free upgrade when it's released." REALbasic is the award-winning, object-oriented visual BASIC development environment for the Mac. People who have never programmed before who just need to solve a problem, experienced programmers who need to enhance...

Black Diamond Products announces the release of version 1.5 of its Macintosh FTP client Hefty FTP. Hefty FTP is a modern queue based FTP client that: * Automatically retries connections * Automatically retries downloads and uploads * Automatically resumes transfers if possible * Can be transferring queued files to/from FOUR FTP servers simultaneously while browsing a fifth * Can download files off the Web using HTTP, with full reconnection/resumption capabilities * Gives you extensive control over your FTP sessions and transfers Changes in this version include: * Major improvements to program appearance and documentation * Greatly improved stability * Numerous improvements to client-server interaction * Option to disable sending of NOOPs * Adjustable display font * Several bug fixes * Price reduction Hefty FTP is shareware, and as a result of the substantial support for the product we are pleased to announce a reduction in price to $20. Hefty FTP is written by Peter Job and published...

From: Richard Wesley (hawkfish@electricfish.com) Subject: [Ann] NewsWatcher-X 2.2.3a5 Electric Fish, Inc. is pleased to announce a new release of NewsWatcher-X. Version 2.2.3a5 fixes a number of problems, including: - Helper already installed confusion; - Authentication preferences inaccessible; - More font problems; - Quit not disabled; - Preferences/URL panel layout; - User-Agent header missing; NewsWatcher-X is free and can be downloaded from (http://www.electricfish.com/products/NewsWatcherX/) - rmgw http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Acrux Software announces "iBuild Lite/Pro preview version 0.9.3". (Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov 9 2000)--Acrux Software, the provider of Macintosh multimedia software and courseware, today announced the update of iBuild Lite and iBuild Pro preview to version 0.9.3. Version 0.9.3 implements: * an expanded AppleScript dictionary, * AppleScript event handlers, * facility for sending stacks by email, * more example stacks and example cards (to be found in the updated Home stack), * text search facility in user mode * numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. Version 1.0 of iBuild is nearing completion and is expected to be released within a month. About iBuild iBuild is a rich, powerful and easy-to-use multimedia authoring and creativity tool for the Apple Macintosh. iBuild makes the creativity of "software design" accessible to the non-programmer. You can use it to create a vast range of "stacks" and applications: interactive presentations, photo-albums, movie-...

MacTranslator Adds SQL Reengineering Generate Data Models From SQL For Popular RDBMS Products Placitas, NM - Excel Software has extended the reengineering capabilities of MacTranslator to generate MacA&D data models from SQL code. Database designers can quickly generate logical and physical data models from an SQL schema for popular RDBMS products including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix and InterBase. Rich data models can represent tables, views, constraints, assertions, triggers, indexes, procedures and other SQL elements. MacA&D is a comprehensive tool for system analysis, requirement specifications, software design and code generation. Popular modeling notations and supported methods include object-oriented analysis and design with UML, structured analysis and design using Yourdon/DeMarco and Information Engineering (Martin) style data models for developing information systems. MacTranslator is a reengineering tool for MacA&D that generates UML class models...

November 2, 2000. San Jose, CA. 4D SDK Plug-in for 4D v6.7 free ------------------------------- 4D, Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and WebSTAR Server Suite 4.3, announced today that the new and improved 4D SDK Plug-in is now available for free from the 4D France web site. 4D SDK Plug-in the 4th Dimension software development kit is designed to make creating third-party plug-ins for the 4th Dimension environment as easy as possible for C and C++ programmers. With many new and improved features, including an expanded cookbook with more API calls, improved documentation over 4D v6.5, and several example plug-in, 4D SDK Plug-in provides developers with a powerful set of tools for custom 4D development. "The new 4D Plug-In SDK equips C/C++ programmers with an extensive library for creating custom plug-in's for 4th Dimension. As a longtime plug-in vendor, a great deal of time has been spent working with the new SDK to assure that all developers will benefit...

MACTECH CENTRAL: THE NEW AREA FOR TECHIES OF ALL TYPES AT MACWORLD EXPO! Developer Central and Net Innovators Evolve into one New Area. WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., November 3, 2000 -- Xplain Corporation is pleased to announce that Developer Central and Net Innovators are merging to create a new area: MacTech(sm) Central. The new, exclusive, Macintosh technical pavilion will be wholly owned and managed by Xplain Corporation, the publishers of MacTech(r) Magazine. MacTech Central will be the premiere place for the technical audience attending Macworld Expo -- now all types of techies -- including programmers, web developers, net admins and techs of all types -- have a place focused on their specific needs. It's the ultimate showcase for every techie in Mac computing. "The combination of these two special interest areas will give the Macintosh technical community an incredible vehicle for experiencing the latest and greatest technical products and services." said Neil Ticktin, CEO of...

From: Joerg Bullmann (jb@heilancoo.net) Subject: [ANN] MacCVSClient 1.6 MacCVSClient 1.6 is a free CVS source code revision control client running on Mac OS 7.1 and later. MacCVSClient has useful features like easy viewing of diffs and logs, a safe way to ensure you resolve conflicts before committing changes, and a convenient scrapbook window where you can compose log messages. It can store Mac OS resource files in RBL, a line based text format. Resource files stored this way can be auto- merged by CVS and diff'ed like normal text files. The AppleSingle storage format is supported as well. New in this release: * zlib data stream compression * MUCH faster check out * better auto-merge in RBL * window positions are remembered * faster module window display and filtering * improved CVS add/import pre-flight: get your files' keyword substitution and storage format right before you add them to the repository * other minor additions * bug fixes MacCVSClient's new home is: http://www...

MacPython 2.0 is officially released as of now! Python is a high-level programming language that is suitable for simple scripting tasks as well as writing large applications. MacPython offers a lot of Mac-specific extensions, including access to all major MacOS Toolbox modules (QuickDraw, QuickTime, AppleScript and many more), an Integrated Development Environment (in Python!), frameworks for windowing applications, unix-compatible cgi-scripting, image-manipulation libraries, numerical libraries, tk-based machine independent windowing and lots more. It also uniquely among Pythons allows you to create fully selfcontained (and, hence, distributable) applications without needing a C compiler or anything. MacPython is completely free, and Open Source. Go to http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html to download the installer or the full source distribution, and for more information on MacPython. Go to http://www.python.org for general information on Python on all platforms. For those familiar...

Sig Software is proud to announce the release of Classic Menu 2.1 for Mac OS X, now optimized for the Public Beta version of the OS. Classic Menu brings the Mac OS menubar back to Mac OS X. It provides both an Apple menu on the left of the menu bar and a Process menu on the right. These menus are available within all native programs while the Classic Menu application is running. Version 2.1 stops menus displaying when a Classic application is in the foreground, improves the disappearing menu shadow problem and detects screen resolution changes. The Classic Menu web site and download are at: (http://www.classicmenu.com/) Sig Software is also pleased to announce a new licensing deal - Classic Menu and Drop Drawers X (our revolutionary user-interface enhancement, optimized for Mac OS X) can now be purchased together for just $20, a 20% saving. The Drop Drawers X web site and download are at: (http://www.sigsoftware.com/dropdrawers/macosx.html) Thank you, Gideon Greenspan Lead Developer...

Thursby Announces DAVE for Mac OS X Arlington Texas, Thursby Software Systems announced today that the company will demonstrate a Mac OS X version of its popular DAVE fileshare software at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. "This reflects our commitment to the development of products for Apples Mac OS X operating system," said company president William Thursby. "Since Mac OS X is much more sophisticated than Apples current operating system, we literally started from ground zero, using the knowledge and experience weve gained from the success of DAVE to totally reengineer DAVE for Mac OS X to take full advantage of this new platform." At Macworld, Thursby plans to show just how unique DAVE for Mac OS X will be. "We have worked closely with our counterparts at Apple to make certain the user experience is the same whether they mount an Apple or a PC volume," says Vice President of Engineering for Thursby, Paul Nelson. "Our goal is to be totally integrated with Mac OS X. Apple is making...

SONNET EXPANDS OFFERINGS IN NEW POWER MAC 7200 UPGRADE SERIES IRVINE, CALIFORNIA October 30, 2000. Sonnet Technologies, the worldwide market share leader in processor upgrade cards for Apple Macintosh computers, announces two additional configurations to its recently-announced Crescendo line for the Power Mac 7200. The new Crescendo G3 400MHz offers 512K backside cache with a 3:1 cache ratio. The new Crescendo G4 400 MHz offers 1M backside cache with a 2:1 cache ratio. Now 7200 owners will have a choice among three speeds instead of one. Once considered impossible to upgrade, the best-selling Power Mac 7200 has a new future due to the unprecedented achievement of Sonnet's engineering team. The first product in this new line of Crescendo upgrades was the Crescendo G3 400 MHz/1M model announced in September. The new series of Power Mac 7200 upgrades will boost performance up to thirteen times that of the original system. Determining where the 7200 upgrade would be installed was one of...

From: Brian S Hall (moseshll@umich.edu) Subject: 'Blugs' (List Manager replacement) 1.0b2 We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Blugs 1.0b2, a replacement for the Mac OS List Manager. This new version incorporates numerous bug fixes and enhancements. For example, now Blugs can use temporary memory when allocating GWorlds. Users will appreciate better flexibility under limited-memory conditions, or if using a large monitor. There are only minor API changes. (They relate to the temp memory option.) But most importantly, in addition to the PPC and 68K libraries, we introduce the Carbon library. We believe Blugs will serve you well, from System 7 to Mac OS X. Blugs libraries, sample code, and extensive PDF documentation are available for download from: http://MosesHall.tripod.com/Blugs.html Thanks, Brian 'Moses' Hall Blugs lead programmer moseshll@umich.edu http://MosesHall.tripod.com/

We've just release beta 5 (final beta) for The CodeBurst (tm) Library for WebSiphon (a POWERFUL scripting environment from Purity Software (http://www.purity.com/) -- that just got a bit MORE powerful.) The drag and drop library supports ECB and CBC encryption. Encrypted strings are stored in a modified BASE64 format, so they are safe for inclusion in URLs, hidden arguments, cookies, and encrypting database records. The encrypted data is also highly tamper resistant, permitting Webmasters to protect CGI arguments and other data from tampering. A demo is available that is limited to 8-bit encryption keys, no CBC mode, and encrypted data expires after two hours (it just fails to decrypt). For more information, visit: (http://www.CodeBurst.com/) David Dantowitz -- Dantowitz Consulting & Research, Inc. V 201-532-3053 F 973-564-8641 W http://www.dantowitz.com/