For Immediate Release Editorial Contact: Robert Leeds Director of Public Relations Power On Software (727) 944-5656 (727) 944-5757 URL: http://www.poweronsw.com Email: bobleeds@poweronsw.com Power On Cracks Windows Security Market On Guard is World's Only Multi-platform Desktop Security Software Offering a Consistent Cross-platform Interface Minneapolis -- May 10, 1999 -- Power On Software announced today that it has developed the world's first and only desktop security product that offers a consistent design and interface across both Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems. Based on the industry leading On Guard for Macintosh, the Windows version offers the same ease of use with a simple point and click setup. On Guard is the only product on the market that offers the ProTek Panel, a fast and easy control center for configuring all aspects of desktop security. On Guard for Windows is shipping today and is available from the Power On Software web site. Retail shipments are due in...

Casady & Greene has a free update from Conflict Catcher 8.0.4 to 8.0.5. just in time for the release of Mac OS 8.6. When Apple announces a New Operating System Casady & Greene is always one step ahead. So dont install Mac OS 8.6 without Conflict Catcher 8.0.5. Conflict Catchers Clean-Install System Merge allows you to cleanly install the latest Macintosh operations system and retain your previously installed system files and preferences. This will allow you to easily update to Mac OS 8.6 without the hassle of reinstalling software or regenerating your preferences saving hours and sometimes days of work. In this update you will find that we have added the Mac OS 8.6 All and Base Sets, we now have descriptions for over 4,500 files including descriptions for Sherlock internet searches well as improved support for non-US operating systems. You can find the Free Updater at http://www.casadyg.com Changes in 8.0.5 * Added Mac OS 8.6 All and Base sets. * Updated the Clean-Install...

May 7, 1999 For More Information, please contact: Joy Hsu 949-261-2800 joy.hsu@sonnettech.com SONNET DROPS PRICES ON G3 UPGRADES FOR "UPGRADE-CHALLENGED" MACS SONNET LEADS MAC UPGRADE MARKET WITH DRAMATICALLY LOWER PRICES ON SERIES OF L2 CACHE SLOT PROCESSOR UPGRADE CARDS IRVINE, CALIFORNIA. MAY 7, 1999. Sonnet Technologies sets new price/performance standards for G3 processor upgrades with lower prices on its Crescendo TM G3 product lines for the "upgrade-challenged" Macintosh models. These processor upgrade cards occupy the L2 cache slot for Macintosh computers which are built with the CPU soldered directly onto the motherboard, instead of an upgradeable daughter card. With the processor upgrade installed into the L2 cache slot, these "upgrade-challenged" machines achieve a significant performance increase. Crescendo G3 for PCI/L2 (Upgrade-challenged) Macs New prices are as follows: Crescendo G3/L2 250/512K $299.95 Crescendo G3/L2 300/512K $399.95 Crescendo G3/L2 300/1M $499.95...

Subject: H2C 1.1 Released From: "Antoine Beyeler" (globule@vtx.ch) Antoine Beyeler proudly annouces the release of the much-awaited H2C 1.1. H2C is a time saving jewel for C++ programmers. Instead of declaring each class member functions twice -- once in the header file (.h) and once in the source file (.cp) -- H2C automatically generates a source file containing all the class member functions from a given header file. H2C features: ++ rapid access with drag and drop of header files ++ plug-in architecture to create personalized output (source files written with a customized style, or, for example, code documentation template -- anything is possible!). Changes in version 1.1: ++ added support for template classes ++ added support for operators ++ better sort options for plug-in writters ++ many bugs corrected Requirements: System 7.5 or later PowerPC processor For questions and information, be sure to visit http://www.poboxes.com/abeyeler If you decide to use H2C, please register. It'...

From: Peter O'Gorman (ogorman@kagi.com) Subject: PIconServices released - free source code and libraries PIconServices is a library that gives you IconServices or its own ref-counted equivalent. Now you can call functions such as : GetPIcon('macs','help',&myIcon); PlotPIcon(&myRect,kAlignNone,kTransformNone,myIcon); ReleasePIcon(myIcon); These calls will now use IconServices if it is available and will also work on older systems. Libraries are available for CFM,PPC and classic68K. The following routines are exported: PISSInit PISSTerminate PtInPIcon RectInPIcon PIconToRgn PlotPIcon UnregisterPIcon RegisterPIconFromResource ReleasePIcon AcquirePIcon GetPIconOwners GetPIconFromFile GetPIcon GetPIconFromFolder //Generally useful stuff PIdentifyFolder ResolveAliasWithMountFlags IsAliasFile ResolveAliasFileWithMountFlags Source code and binaries are included in the distribution and the whole thing is released under the GNU library licence, which means you can do pretty much...

MacHack PR: Hacking on the rise MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers c/o Expotech 1264 Bedford Road Grosse Point Park, MI 48230 Contact: Carol Lynn mailto:info@machack.com Tel: (313) 882-1824 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dearborn, MI -- May 5, 1999 -- Paralleling the rise of Apple Computer, Inc., the Macintosh platform's premiere developer conference is experiencing rapid growth. The June 23-26 conference, MacHack 14 (http://www.machack.com/), has already demonstrated strong registration and a new level of excitement. "It's amazing," said Carol Lynn, conference manager. "We've never seen this kind of student enthusiasm. Attendance is at record levels." The early registration drive that ended April 15, generated a record number of registrations. There is still room, but the conference is limited to 400 attendees and is expected to fill at the current pace of registration. Student registration is somewhat tighter as it is limited to 50 and is filling quickly. Students...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOBTRAK.COM INTRODUCES ONLINE CAREER FAIR FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS NATIONWIDE More Than 100 Leading Employers, including IBM, Unisys and Procter & Gamble, are Currently Occupying Virtual Booths at the Fair. LOS ANGELES (May 3, 1999) JOBTRAK.COM, the nations largest and most popular job listing website for college students and alumni, introduced today the JOBTRAK Online Career Fair. More than 100 top firms have already signed up for the Fair including Enterprise Rent-A-Car, IBM, Lockheed Martin, MCI, Northwestern Mutual Life, Procter & Gamble, Oracle, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Staples, Unisys and many more. Unlike traditional career fairs where job-seekers jostle for elbow room around employers' booths, the JOBTRAK.COM Online Career Fair allows students to research participating company profiles and job opportunities from the comfort of their home, 24 hours a day. The Fair's Virtual Booths link to corporate websites or company descriptions and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE First Mac OS X Server(TM) Course Available: Essential System Administration Veteran companies, BLaCKSMITH, P & L Systems, Collaborate WASHINGTON, D.C.and LONDON --- May 4, 1999 BLaCKSMITH and P & L Systems jointly announce today the availability of "Essential Mac OS X Server System Administration", the first public training course released since Apple's next generation operating system shipped in April. "Essential Mac OS X Server System Administration" is a concentrated, 3-day course designed to provide administrators with all the fundamental skills necessary to begin administering a Mac OS X network immediately. Mac OS X offers a number of powerful new technologies on the Macintosh platform and current Mac system administrators will want to get up to speed as quickly as possible to take advantage of these. Attendees of the course will have hands-on experience using Apple hardware to learn how to : * Add a Mac OS X system to an existing IP network; *...

PRESS RELEASE First NAT Software Router to Support QuickTime 4.0 Streaming Media NAT Routing Software from Vicomsoft Allows Delivery of QuickTime 4.0 Streaming Media to Multiple LAN Users MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 4, 1999 -- Vicomsoft, the Internet connectivity specialist, today announced support for QuickTime 4.0 streaming media in SoftRouter, their popular NAT software router for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. SoftRouter is the first NAT software router to offer transparent support for QuickTime 4.0's "streaming" of live video and audio over the Internet. Previously, LAN users connected to the Internet through firewalls or NAT routers often experienced difficulties receiving streaming media. Vicomsoft engineers have been working closely with the Apple QuickTime development team to implement a solution that allows multiple LAN users to access video feeds through a NAT router as they would any web site. "With QuickTime 4 Apple is embracing a non-proprietary model for...

DevDepot Announces First Quarter 1999 Results Quarterly Sales Revenue Grow 45% Quantity of Orders Increases by 52% New Shopping Basket Rivals the Fastest Ones on the Net Depot Announces New Expanded Hours for Live Customer Service WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., May 4, 1999 -- DevDepot, the leading direct marketer of over 1000 Mac OS developer, web content developing, and system development tools, today announced its first quarter results. First quarter 1999 net sales grew 45% compared to the first quarter of 1998. Quantity of orders processed for the same period was up 52% compared to the first quarter of 1998. This quarter, the Depot introduced a new shopping basket which rivals the fastest ones on the net. Neil Ticktin, CEO of DevDepot's parent company Xplain Corporation, stated, "I am very pleased with our results for the quarter. Our plan to give Mac OS developers the best selection of tools, at the best prices and with the service they deserve, is working. During this quarter, we...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Troi Automatisering releases Troi OSErrrs 1.2 database Alphen a/d Rijn, The Netherlands, May 2nd, 1999--Troi Automatisering today released Troi OSErrrs, a FileMaker Pro database which lists Operating System error codes for both Mac OS and Windows. Version 1.2 adds 643 new Mac error codes, making a total of 1882 errors codes in the database. Peter Baanen, company president, states that "Some of our FileMaker plug-ins can return error codes, which may be a bit cryptic to the user. This database is a compilation of all error codes we could find, which makes it a useful tool for (database) developers". Troi OSErrrs can be searched for a particular error code and also contains the name, category and a short description of the error. The database is provided free of charge and can be downloaded from: (http://www.troi.com/software/oserrs.html). To use this database you need FileMaker Pro 3.0 or higher installed. On this page we also have a link to an online version of...

For more information contact Adrienne L. Coerper Director of Marketing and Administration adrienne@asgsoft.com Automated Solutions Group (714) 375-4252 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Automated Solutions Group Announces SuperReport Pro 2.0.3 Update Enhanced reporting plug-in for 4th Dimension based applications. Huntington Beach, CA - May 3, 1999: Automated Solutions Group today announced the release of SuperReport Pro 2.0.3 for Macintosh and Windows. SuperReport Pro 2.0.3 is a free update for all registered users of SuperReport Pro 2.0. Introduction SuperReport Pro, a multi-platform reporting plug-in for 4th Dimension, includes a full featured report utility which can be easily integrated into custom application created with 4th Dimension. The core of SuperReport Pro is a plug-in area which can be added to any form or dialog, providing a wide variety of customized reporting options. Using the integrated Report Editor, users can create and print any type of 4th Dimension database objects,...

For Immediate Release Editorial Contact: Robert Leeds Director of Public Relations Power On Software (727) 944-5656 (727) 944-5757 www.poweronsw.com email: bobleeds@poweronsw.com Power On Software Updates ACTION GoMac Maintenance Release Offers Improved Memory Management Minneapolis - May 3, 1999 -- Power On Software announced today that it had released Version 2.0.1 of ACTION GoMac, the Macintosh Task Bar. Since its initial release, GoMac has consistently been at the very top of downloads by Mac users around the world. Reviewers have unanimously acclaimed GoMac's ease of use and outstanding aesthetics. As former Editor-in-Chief of MacUser magazine Steven Bobker sees it, "I'd be literally lost without GoMac. Windows has exactly one great feature: its Task Bar. GoMac gives the Mac an even better Task Bar." As Macworld's June, 1999 issue notes, "GoMac's convenience is hard to resist." In awarding GoMac a perfect rating, Tom Cheek of Tucows observed, "This program should be on every Mac...

Elo TouchSystems Introduces Business Wire - April 28, 1999 14:57 FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1999--Elo TouchSystems, Inc., global leader in touch technology and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raychem Corporation (NYSE:RYC), today announces that iTouch(TM), Elo's latest surface wave technology, will be used on iMac, Apple's market-leading consumer Macintosh. The iTouch-enhanced iMacs were introduced in April at KioskCom 99, San Francisco, CA. "Elo's new "touch-on-tube" iTouch surface wave technology, is the clearest, most responsive touchscreen technology for the kind of self-service and public access applications that are fueling the demand for kiosk solutions in many vertical markets," says Annemarie Feely, Elo market manager for kiosk applications. "As a proven leader and preferred supplier for kiosk applications according to Summit Research, we are uniquely positioned to bring the power of iMac to these applications." In that survey, Francine Mendelsohn, president of...

May 1, 1999 For Immediate Release From: Josh Lampl (619) 279-2316 Email: Josh@TeamASA.com Team ASA Reduces price and extends warranty on Stallion-GE-II family of Gigabit Ethernet Adapters San Diego, CA -- Team ASA Inc., manufacturer of high-performance networking products for PrePress and Digital MultiMmedia professionals, today announced price reductions of 33% on it's Macintosh and PC versions of the Stallion-GE-II high performance Gigabit Ethernet Adapters. As of May 1st the retail price for both the Macintosh version and the PC version of the card will be $995.00. Previous retail pricing for the card was $1,495.00, the new prices reflect a 33% price drop. Team ASA also is extending the Stallion-GE-II warranty from one year to three years. "Our customer response to the Stallion-GE-II is phenomenal" stated Mark Murray, President of Team ASA. "Returns for repair are almost zero, with a product of this quality it is easy to triple the previous warranty period". continued Murray....

Fairfax, Virginia, April 25, 1999-NetWhistle.com, a Virginia-based Internet network monitoring service provider, announced today its official launch of http://www.netwhistle.com, a web-based network monitoring service that alerts owners of e-commerce web sites about the uptime/downtime status of their network. While larger Internet retailers, such as amazon.com, ebay.com and cdnow.com, posses in-house hosting and monitoring capabilities, smaller companies who critically rely on their e-commerce sales have traditionally outsourced the hosting to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as UUNET, Exodus, GTE Internetworking, Sprint, Savvis, Level 3, Qwest, etc. Since most ISPs do not notify the site owner when its network is down, smaller companies often don't know whether or not their site is available to the Internet. NetWhistle.com will monitor web site performance and notify webmasters via email or pager FREE of charge when their web site is down, allowing them to identify technical...

From: Marco Bambini (marco@spiderlink.it) Subject: ANNOUNCE: OpenWorld 2.0 What is OpenWorld? OpenWorld is a plug-in for any HTTP server compatible with the W*API 1.1 (like WebSTAR, AppleShare IP, WebTen or Quid Pro Quo). It adds server side include capabilities to your server and also allows you to extend the HTML language by writing your own tags in C, in AppleScript or in Perl so you can report every kind of dynamic information in your pages. Why is so powerful? You can create many kinds of custom plug-ins. You can write plug-ins using the C language by following the simple API provided in the documentation and you can also write plug-ins using AppleScript, saving them as a compiled script if you don't need dynamic information from the server or as an uncompiled script (text) if you do need such dynamic information. In addition to this, OpenWorld provides a number of internal commands (that you can write directly into the HTML pages) which are described in the guide. Remember that...

For Immediate Release For more information, contact: Mary Leong 415-252-2118 mary@macromedia.com Macromedia Announces Worldwide Availability of Pathware 4 Web-Based, Enterprise-Wide Solution Enables Companies to Create, Manage and Track Mission-Critical Learning Systems Redwood Shores, Calif.- April 28, 1999 - The Interactive Learning Division of Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced the worldwide availability of Pathware 4, the industry's first Web-native, open, scalable enterprise learning management system. Pathware 4 allows corporations to easily create, deploy, and track online learning content via corporate intranets or the Internet. In a separate release, Macromedia announced that its Pathware software is enabling a broad range of customers - including Compaq Computer Corp., US WEST, and Remedy Intelligence Staffing - to re-engineer the way they train and educate employees and customers. Pathware 4 is the latest addition to Macromedia's Attain Enterprise Learning...

VST Technologies First to Market with FireWire(R) Drives New FireWire Drives Offer Modularity, Portability and FireWire Connectivity Across Platforms ACTON, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- VST Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has shipped its new FireWire Drive series. Apple(R) Power Macintosh(R) G3 owners are the first to benefit from FireWire's ability to instantly connect devices regardless of platforms and software. In January, Apple began shipping FireWire (IEEE 1394) as a key feature built-in to every Power Macintosh G3 series professional desktop computer. VST's new FireWire Hard Drives are the first 1394 compliant drives to take full advantage of Apple's new FireWire capable CPUs. The new products shipped this week include the VST FireWire Hard Drives in 2, 4, and 6 Gigabyte sizes, combining a variety of storage sizes with hot- plug/unplug and blazing transfer speeds, up to 8 MB/sec. This unparalleled combination provides seamless storage performance for any FireWire-...

From: Jesse Jones (jesjones@halcyon.com) Whisper is a free, open source, general purpose Mac/Win32 C++ application framework. It's the successor to the Mac framework Raven. Like Raven Whisper is a modern framework that takes advantage of templates, multiple inheritance, STL, and exceptions. It's also designed around the notion of Design by Contract and includes numerous debugging tools. Whisper 1.1 and a complete change history can be found at (http://www.halcyon.com/www3/jesjones/Whisper/Home.html). The major changes are: 1) CodeWarrior (or MSVC) can now be used on Windows. 2) An Install.txt file has been added. 3) Instead of broadcasting, controls use Rich Hickey's callback classes for notifications. 4) The object streaming code has been revised to support XML streaming. 5) HeapManager, BestFitHeap, Doug Lea, and malloc XAllocator subslasses have been added. 6) XMenu's can now be constructed from an XML resource. Also help messages can now be specified for dynamicly generated menus...

New Product Release Information ZCurve Software Indianapolis, IN http://www.zcurve.com http://www.MacStandardBasic.com zcurve@zcurve.com Visual MacStandardBasic 4.0 Released INDIANAPOLIS, IN, April 28th, 1999 : ZCurve Software has announced that Visual MacStandardBasic 4.0 has been released and that Macintosh users can get their own copy of the standard edition for just $29.95. Visual MacStandardBasic 4.0 uses and extends BASIC's easy to learn format to utilize the power of the Macintosh. It is easy for users to integrate sound, speech, color graphics, sprite animation, and movies into their applications. A new Developer Edition was also announced. Visual MacStandardBasic Developer Edition includes the C source that allows programmers to easily customize and extend the language. The Developer Version has a retail price of $ 99. Users can purchase and download the complete Visual MacStandardBasic 4.0 package from the ZCurve Software web site (www.zcurve.com). Macintosh users anywhere...

For More Information, Contact: For Immediate Release: Macromedia Macromedia Kirsten Armstrong Susan Nicolls kirsten@macromedia.com snicolls@macromedia.ocm (415) 252-4088 (415) 553-2751 MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER(TM) 2 SPEEDS WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT WITH SUPPORT FOR ORACLE8i(TM) AND ORACLE(R) INTERMEDIA New Custom Objects Will Enable Live Views of Database Content During the Web Authoring Process iEC '99 - New York, NY - April 27, 1999 - Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced new custom objects for Dreamweaver which will allow Web designers and developers to drag and drop multimedia data stored in Oracle8i(TM), the Internet platform for business innovation, directly into Dreamweaver 2, the solution for professional Web site design and production. This new functionality will enable users to visualize live database content within the Web authoring environment, eliminating the process of saving, posting and previewing data through their Web browser. The new Oracle8i...

StuffIt Deluxe 5.1 FREE Update Is Now Available Aladdin Systems' StuffIt Deluxe(tm) 5.1 update includes enhancements and fixes to the StuffIt Engine(tm) and Power Plug (in PowerPC machines only) currently shipping in the 5.1 versions of Aladdin DropStuff(tm) and StuffIt Expander(tm). The 5.1 update eliminates the need for StuffIt Deluxe 5.0.x users to download the new DropStuff 5.1.2 and Expander 5.1.2 separately for these added improvements. The 5.1 update includes the following StuffIt Deluxe 5.x enhancements, fixes and additions: * Faster file compression and decompression than previous StuffIt Deluxe 5.0.x versions * Fixes a bug in StuffIt Expander that would falsely report that StuffIt 5 segmented files had damaged headers when they were rejoined with Expander using any 5.0.x StuffIt Engine * Fixes the ability for the Aladdin Compression(tm) control panel to close properly through an Apple Event * StuffIt Expander can now transparently decode the MacBinary output from Zip archive...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FIRST MACINTOSH SEARCH ENGINE SUBMIT APPLICATION RELEASED (Bonn, Germany, 27 April 1999). German Macintosh shareware developer Voget Selbach Enterprises has released VSE Be Found 1.0, the first Macintosh application that automatically submits a web page to search engines. VSE Be Found is a combination of a search engine submitter, a keyword finder, an FTP client and a META tag manager. To achieve a high position in search engine listings, VSE Be Found automatically finds keywords and adds all necessary META tags to a web page. Then, VSE Be Found uploads the web page to your server with its built-in FTP client. After that, it submits the web page to the most popular search engines, including AltaVista, AOL NetFind, Excite, HotBot and Lycos. BENEFITS If a web site is not getting as many visitors as it should, it is likely that it is not ranked well on the major Internet search engines. If a web site is not located in the Top 30 listings of the most popular search...