Apple Developer News

Apple's Mac OS Software and Hardware Guide is an extensive online database of Mac OS third-party products. It's currently being redesigned and merged with another Apple product database, and both of these efforts should increase the usefulness and popularity of this solution guide. Apple strongly encourages all developers to make sure that their most recent product information is included. Here are some of the other benefits to listing your product in this guide:

• Easy accessibility from Apple's home page. This site is one of the most popular content pages on Apple's web site today.

• Free exposure to Apple customers, field representatives, and resellers through the CD-ROM version of this guide, which is also shipped in the box with new Apple Macintosh computers.

• Ties to other Apple marketing initiatives such as print ad references and mentions in Bunting's Window, a video "advertorial" run on United Airlines flights.

Language Kits are intended for customers who need to incorporate multiple languages into such materials as reports, advertisements, presentations, spreadsheets, and lessons. The Chinese Language Kit provides software that allows users to work in Traditional and Simplified Chinese on their computers. The kit enables users to enter, edit, and print text in Chinese or mix Chinese with other languages in the same document. In conjunction with an Internet browsing application, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, the Chinese Language Kit also enables customers to access thousands of Chinese language web sites.

For system requirements and ordering information, see the complete press release at this web site:

(NOTE: As of Nov. 20, 1997, the web page originally referred to is no longer available. --ADN staff)

If you're a developer, you are encouraged to create modules as a part of your software to simplify users' ability to set up and restore an entire "environment" as they move a PowerBook from place to place. Alternatively, you can integrate the ALM notification system to make your software fully "location-savvy." Also, because the ALM "switching" API is accessible, you could write specialized "location-sensing" software, or otherwise make switching available to your customers.

To find ALM 1.0, go to:

To read each of these company's Rhapsody statements, check out these web sites:

Frogdesign, a design consulting firm, won a bronze award for the Enterprise Macintosh prototype designed for Macworld's September 1996 issue. The Enterprise Macintosh was created with Macworld for the magazine's special "The Macintosh Reborn" project that set a goal for a futuristic Macintosh design that could be achieved in 1997.

Other Macintosh industry winners included the PowerPort Platinum Pro Fax/Modem Connector from Global Village Communication (in the Business and Industrial Equipment category), and the Apple Advanced Chinese Input Suite from Apple's and Singapore's ISS Research Center (in the Packaging and Graphics category). The PowerPort connector won a bronze award, while the Chinese input suite won a silver award.

For more information, see the latest issue of Macworld, or the June 2 issue of Business Week:

• Apple Power Macintosh 9500 with a 200-MHz PowerPC 604e processor
• Gateway 2000 G5-200, built around a 200-MHz Pentium processor equipped with MMX
• Gateway 2000 G6-266, built around a 266-MHz Pentium II processor

Any publicly accessible, Internet-based AppleShare IP file server can be entered into the registry, and then searched for and accessed by any Macintosh user with a web browser and Apple's new AppleShare client, version 3.7. Access to Open Door's AppleShare IP registry is posted to this web site: