InterMapper 3.7 Enters Beta-Test Hanover, NH - October 24, 2002 - Dartware LLC announces that the first public beta-test version of its InterMapper 3.7 software is now available. InterMapper is a network monitoring application that continually checks the networked servers and routers, switches, and other network equipment and alerts the network manager when there are problems using audible alerts, e-mail messages, pages, and running scripts. InterMapper 3.7 has the following new features: * Notification Dependencies. InterMapper will automatically suppress notifications of outages that are caused by intervening device failures. When a device fails, all the devices that become unreachable due to that failure are dimmed on the map, and will not flash. * Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) support. InterMapper has a built-in notification method that uses SNPP to send pages. * Built-in Paging via Modem for MacOS X. InterMapper supports the ability to send pages using the Mac's built-in...

Hello! The following announcement is for immediate release: After six beta releases iPod2iTunes 1.7 has been finalised. iPod2iTunes is the only iPod utility which provides real synchronization of tracks and even playlists from any iPod to any Mac. Version 1.7 has the following changes compared to v1.5.1: + iPod2iTunes is now 2-16(!) times faster in determining of iPod tracks which are not on the Mac. Especially subsequent synchronizations are a lot faster. + Interface: + The status playlist shows now info during determining tracks, playlist synchronization and track copying. + Improved user guiding. + Lots of other small changes in the interface. + Playlist synchronization does now consider smart playlists on the iPod. Since it is not possible for iPod2iTunes to create smart playlists in iTunes, common playlists are created instead. + In addition to let iPod2iTunes create the folder structure "genre/artist/album" or "artist/album", it is now possible to create a flat "album"-...

ALADDIN SYSTEMS RELEASES STUFFIT 7.0.1 FREE UPDATE Update Improves Compression Speed Watsonville, CA - October 23, 2002 -Aladdin Systems, Inc., an Aladdin Systems Holdings, Inc. company (OTC BB: ALHI), today released StuffIt Deluxe(tm) 7.0.1 and StuffIt Standard Edition(tm) 7.0.1, the latest Macintosh versions of the industry-standard access and compression utility. This release fixes bugs and compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and improves "Fast" compression speed option. The new StuffIt X(tm) file format, incorporated in versions 7.0.x, integrates compression with security and safety options to meet the requirements of today's business and digital lifestyle. StuffIt X provides stronger encryption (512 bit), improved compression (up to 30% over previous formats), error-correction, larger archive size, and support for long file names. StuffIt Deluxe includes Microsoft Word integration for fast access to the popular Stuff and Mail feature and an array of features that...

DropDMG 2.0 is now available. DropDMG is the easiest way to create ".dmg" and ".img" disk images on Mac OS X. It can encrypt images and post-process them with GZip, BZip2, or MacBinary. It can create images with rich-text license agreements. It also supports segmented images and images that auto-open when you mount them. All the options are available from AppleScript. New in this Version: * Converts dropped images to the format specified in the preferences when you hold down Control-Shift. * Hold down Option when dropping a folder or image to specify settings to be used for that item (temporarily overriding the preferences). * Makes self-mounting NDIF images (SMIs). This is the only kind of image that supports license agreements on both 9 and X. * Creates smaller zlib-compressed images when running on 10.2 and later. (The images are still compatible with 10.1's Disk Copy.) * You can now choose to post-compress with BZip2 instead of GZip. BZip2 is...

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WiebeTech improves FireWireTM DriveDockTM and Bus-Powered Super DriveDockTM: Both Now Support ATA-6 Drives WICHITA, KS =96 October 22, 2002 =96WiebeTech LLC is now shipping an improve= d version of the FireWire DriveDockTM and the bus-powered Super DriveDockTM, which are complete FireWire bridge interfaces attachable to any 3.5-inch IDE drive. Both DriveDocks now support ATA-6 drives. The PowerBridgeTM bus powering circuitry of the Super DriveDock has also been improved, for better compatibility with Macs and PCs, especially iMacs with 17 inch flat screens. Super DriveDock retails for $159.95. =93The upgraded Super DriveDock is significant because it is capable of powering full size 3.5-inch drives directly from the FireWire bus,=94 said James Wiebe, CEO of WiebeTech. =93It accomplishes this feat using our PowerBridgeTM technology, which is now in its second technology generation.= =94 FireWire DriveDock is similar to the Super DriveDock, but uses an...

MonkeyBread Software REALbasic plug-in updated to version 2.7 Hi, Monkeybread Software Germany releases version 2.7 of their REALbasic Plugin Collection. This plugin adds around 2835 functions, methods and classes to REALbasic. Grown over the last two years this plugin covers this main features: * Quicktime Video and Audio recording. * CoreGraphics support to create PDF files on Mac OS X. * Support for a Console Window on Windows. * Internet Config support. * Mac OS X Spell Checking. * Functions to manage Mac OS X login items list. * Support for transparent document windows on Mac OS X. * Detailed information about volumes on Windows. * Classes to deal with icons on Mac OS. * A class for multi string search. * Keychain classes. * WakeNotifier to see when your Mac sleeps. * Packetsocket for easier socket sending/receiving. * Window System Tray class. * URLaccess class for easy down- and uploading. * IO Registry of Mac OS X for hardware details. * Addressbook classes for Mac OS X 10.2...

OPENLINK SOFTWARE AND SYBASE DELIVER ODBC FOR MAC OS X New Single-Tier Sybase Driver for ODBC provides transparent access to Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise from Mac OS X applications Burlington, Mass. - October 23, 2002 - OpenLink Software, Inc., industry and technology leader in the development and deployment of secure, high-performance database connectivity drivers for ODBC=81 and JDBC=81, announced today the incorporation of OpenLink's industry-acclaimed, high-performance Single-Tier Driver for ODBC, for Sybase=AE into its Adaptiv= e Server=AE Enterprise (ASE) for Mac OS X. "The combined efforts of these two technology leaders have resulted in the delivery of a critical and powerful piece of enterprise application development infrastructure for the Mac OS X platform," said Andrew Hill, director of technology evangelism at OpenLink Software. "ODBC connectivity for Sybase ASE ensures that Mac OS X developers have a standards-compliant mechanism for connecting to any Sybase...

Kualo Software release a new freeware utility for Macos X: Kunvert. Kunvert is an application to convert PDF files to JPG, so you can easily use the screenshots made by Macos X 10.1.2 (Jaguar). In adition it can convert more formats like gif, pict, bmp, and png, to jpg or pict. And even make an scale to it during conversion. Is available in English and Spanish. Just drop the files to convert onto the application icon, or to the program window. More information about Kualo Software and links for software download at http://www.kualosw.com/ Un saludo, Dar=EDo Guerrero. mailto:dariogf@kualosw.com Kualo Software - www.kualosw.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: James Wiebe, President jameswiebe@wiebetech.com 4153 N. Parkwood Wichita, KS 67220 316 744 8722 phone 316 744 1398 fax WiebeTech posts White Paper on FireWire ATA-6 support WICHITA, KS =96 October 21, 2002 =96WiebeTech LLC has posted a brief White Paper on its website which explains the evolution of FireWire bridges to ATA-6 support. The White Paper, entitled: "Utilizing High Capacity ATA-6 ()137GB) Drives in FireWire Enclosures" may be found at the following URL: http://www.wiebetech.com/ATA6firewire.htm. The paper explains the technical evolution of the Oxford FireWire OXFW911 bridge that allows it to provide support for high capacity ATA6 drives, such as IBM or Western Digital's recent shipment of 180GB drive mechanisms. ABOUT WIEBETECH WiebeTech LLC was founded in July, 2000 by James Wiebe and has focused on marketing high performance, highly portable storage solutions.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SilverNetworks releases SilverCreator v1.0.2 Houston, TX -- October 19th, 2002 -- SilverNetworks today released a notable update to its free game development system, SilverCreator, now at version 1.0.2. SilverCreator v1.0.2 fixes another 20 bugs - including a few important bugs that caused SilverCreator to crash or repeat scripting multiple times. We've also added a rewritten eraser tool, improved documentation, an INPUT command, improved game examples, and more. SilverCreator v1.0.2 enables anyone with Mac OS 7.5.5 to Mac OS X to create and develop your very own games for the Macintosh at a price that can't be beat. Creating a game is as simple as drawing some graphics, typing some text, clicking some buttons, and compiling your masterpiece to a standalone Macintosh application. Advanced developers can take advantage of the powerful event-based scripting language to create advanced and engaging games. Full QuickTime support is included (including Flash and...

Hello StyleGrid 5.0 is out Specialized Spreadsheet plug-in control for REALbasic. StyleGrid Offers more properties per cell than Grid, such as font style, cell borders and pictures. New in 5.0: * Cell text is now drawn with Quartz on Mac OS X, making it antialiased. * Redesigned the data engine so it can now deliver data much faster to the rendering engine. * Redesigned the API for StyleGrid plugin cross talk. * The StyleGrid now ships with another plugin called StyleGridUtilities. The StyleGridUtilities plugin defines a MutableStyleGridMatrix object which can: + Capture existing StyleGridMatrix object. + Create a new StyleGridMatrix object. + Mutate a StyleGridMatrix object. (And yes Carbon Classic is still supported) (http://www.einhugur.com/) Bj=F6rn Eir=EDksson bjorn@einhugur.com Einhugur Software einhugur@kagi.com www.einhugur.com

HEURIS ANNOUNCES XTRACTOR X (TM) A New Version of HEURIS' Popular Xtractor Software for Demultiplexing Non-encrypted DVDs Now Available for Apple's OS X(r) Operating System. St. Louis, Missouri, October 17, 2002- HEURIS, makers of the most widely used professional MPEG encoder MPEG Power Professional(tm), announced today that they are shipping Xtractor X, a Mac OS X version of their popular MPEG Xtractor software. As with previous versions, Xtractor X can be used to extract or "rip" audio and video files from unencrypted DVDs. Users can demultiplex and extract elementary streams from MPEG 1 system streams, MPEG 2 program streams, and MPEG 2 transport streams, including HDTV streams recorded with a DTV decoder card. The extractor can also be used to extract DVD VR formatted MPEG streams recorded with Hitachi's DZMV100 DVD camera or Panasonic's DMR-E20 line of DVD recorders. This gives users the ability to add new and different audio tracks to encoded video streams or simply to recover...

IDG WORLD EXPO AND THE CITY OF BOSTON BRING MACWORLD HOME After six years in New York, world's largest Mac tradeshow returns in 2004; will be inaugural event at new Boston Convention & Exhibition Center BOSTON, October 17, 2002 - IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for IT markets around the globe, today announced that the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) will be home to Macworld Conference & Expo July 12-15, 2004. The tradeshow, which drew more than 58,000 attendees in July 2002 and is the world's most comprehensive Mac OS event, will remain at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in July 2003 before becoming the first event in Boston's newest convention center the following year. Macworld Conference & Expo spent 13 of its 18 years in Boston, before outgrowing available space distributed among three convention facilities. In 1998, Macworld was moved to New York City and, over the next few years...

OpenOSX Ships Grass GIS 5.0.0 CD CROWLEY LAKE, Calif.--(OPENOSX-COM)--Oct. 16th, 2002-- OpenOSX, a leading provider of easy-to-use, world-class open-source software, today began shipping their Grass GIS 5.0.0 CD. Grass (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a complete state-of-the-art geographical operating system. Grass is one of, if not the most, complete and sophisticated open-source GIS', which has now been in development for more then twenty years. By the size of it's code base Grass is one the ten largest open-source projects in history. This is the first stable version of Grass available for Mac OS X, and it now includes a native Mac OS X Aqua interface on the Carbon port of the Tcl/Tk interface. Grass and all required and optional libraries have have been compiled using gcc 3.1 for at least a 20% performance gain over previous builds. The OpenOSX Grass GIS 5.0.0 CD will transform a Macintosh running Mac OS 10.2.x into a full-fledged GIS workstation in minutes with...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEBDESIGN 1.8 DELIVERS PHP SUPPORT Toronto, Ontario - October 16, 2002 - Rage Software today announced the immediate availability of WebDesign 1.8, a fully featured web authoring package for the Mac OS and Mac OS X. WebDesign Includes built in support for HTML 3.2, all versions of HTML 4, XHTML 1.0, PHP, ASP and JavaScript as well as provides support for CSS through the use of plugins. WebDesign allows HTML tags to be automatically generated using its built in wizards while allowing direct manipulation of source code through its powerful text editor. Edit files locally or remotely using WebDesign's built in FTP Client. Keep your web sites up to date and organized with WebDesign's Site Manager. Use WebDesign Includes to allow customization of an entire site by editing one file. WebDesign's text editor includes many unique features making web authoring a whole lot easier. Including full customizable syntax coloring with support for HTML, XHTML and PHP color coding...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DTerm 3.0 Now Available VANCOUVER, Washington - 16 October, 2002 Glenn L. Austin today announced the release of DTerm 3.0, a developer tool for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 for embedding and displaying runtime diagnostic information in real-time. The new version improves performance while reducing CPU load, and provides more abilities to customize the display of the diagnostic output. DTerm consists of a group of instrumentation libraries for Mac OS 9, CFM, and Mach-O, and a separate application to display that instrumentation information. DTerm can also create a customized, limited copy of itself that can be freely distributed to end-users to help diagnose problems. When the monitoring app is not running, the instrumentation libraries basically add no overhead to the program being instrumented. Multiple instrumented applications can send diagnostic information to DTerm without interfering with the information from other programs. Later, multiple programs' information...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MACTECH MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF "GETTING STARTED" COLUMN -- Dave Mark re-joins the magazine as columnist -- World renowned Getting Started Column returns for novices Westlake Village, CA -- October 16, 2002 -- MacTech Magazine is proud to announce that it has brought back Dave Mark's "Getting Started" column. Written by renowned book author and columnist, Dave's column will bring Mac OS X, Cocoa, Objective-C and more to those interested in getting started with programming. The first installation of the column's return is in the November 2002 issue. Readers should subscribe no later than October 22, 2002 to get this first issue. For those that don't remember, Dave Mark penned MacTech's Getting Started column for 7 years. Dave has an extensive background in Macintosh and Unix development and has written more than a dozen best-selling books, including "Learn C on the Macintosh" and the "Macintosh C Programming Primer". He was Vice President, Academic and...

Big Nerd Ranch Announces "More Knowledge, Less Money" Discount on November Training FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Emily Herman Big Nerd Ranch, Inc. (678) 595-6773 http://www.bignerdranch.com Atlanta, GA - October 15, 2002 - The Big Nerd Ranch Offers a $1000 discount to attendees of both November 2002 training classes. Cocoa I, offered November 4-8, and Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming, offered November 11-15, will both be all-inclusive five-day classes at the Big Nerd Ranch in Asheville, NC. Each class is normally priced at $3500, but students signing up for both classes will pay a total of $6000. Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming is the Big Nerd Ranch's newest class. Programmers will learn how to take advantage of Mac OS X's Unix foundation. Instructors Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass will team-teach this class, including topics such as: multi-threading, rendezvous, distributed objects, network programming, performance tuning, exception handling, and advanced debugging...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fourth World Ships WebMerge 2.0 LOS ANGELES, California - 15 October, 2002 Fourth World today released WebMerge 2.0, a tool for Mac OS and Windows that generates static Web pages from database or spreadsheet files. The new version provides many more options for specifying how pages are generated, and supports more than a dozen new tags HTML templates can use for assembling and linking Web content. WebMerge works with any database or spreadsheet that exports in tab-delimited, Merge, or other tabular format, including FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access, and AppleWorks. Using HTML template pages created by the user for nearly any layout design, WebMerge makes a new HTML page from the data in each record of the exported file. WebMerge can also create an index page with links to each of the generated pages. Generated pages can be hosted on any Web server without the need for a specialized database hosting solution. WebMerge 2.0 supports many new template tags, including...

Discreet cleaner 6 for Apple Macintosh Now Shipping cleaner 6 for Mac(r)-Essential Complement to Non-linear Editing Tools Takes Video to the Web, DVD, CD, PDAs and Cell Phones San Francisco, Calif.-October 16, 2002-Discreet, a division of Autodesk Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK), today announced it is shipping Discreet cleaner(tm) 6 for Apple(r) Macintosh(r) video encoding software. Already recognized as the industry standard for professional video encoding, cleaner 6 further develops the power of cleaner software as the indispensable complement to non-linear editing tools such as Apple Final Cut Pro(r), Adobe(r) Premiere(r) and Avid(r) Xpress(r) DV. The availability of cleaner 6 comes at a time of increasing industry adoption, illustrating Discreet's unwavering commitment to the desktop market. In fact, according to AccuStream iMedia Research, in the first six months of 2002, online audiences accessed video streams across multiple mediums at a growth of 65 percent when compared to the same...

(oXygen/) XML Editor is freely available online through java web start at http://www.oxygenxml.com/javawebstart/ The desktop version http://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html can be freely evaluated for 30 days and it costs $65 ($25 for academic use). New in (oXygen/) XML Editor 1.2.3 ============================ * Detect file changes outside the editor. * Find support for regular expressions. * Search in path support. * Codeinsight on request using CTRL+SPACE on a partial element or attribute name. * New XML wizard. * Comment and CDATA in the code-Insight list. * Add automatically the doctype declaration for learn and save. * Open documents when clicking in ResultPane on an item that refers to a document not currently opened. * Remember the dimension and the position of the editor window between runs. * Escape the selection - replace ( with < etc. * Remove from project the files that no longer exist. * Print with colors. * Other fixes and enhancements....

REALbasic 4.5.2 now available REALbasic 4.5.2 is now available. This is a free update to all current REALbasic 4.5 customers, and enhances Jaguar compatibility for REALbasic and the applications it compiles, in addition to other improvements to reliability. [Fix] (Win) App.UnhandledException: Fixed crash when using showmodal within this event. [Fix] (OSX) AppleEvent.Send: work-around has been added for a bug in OS 10.2 that caused this call to time out, even when the event was sent successfully. [Fix] (IDE) AppleScripts: now reload on each run within the IDE, which fixes an odd bug where a script would fail to receive a result when called in the Open event of a window on the second (or later) run within the IDE. [Fix] (Win) Application.OpenDocument: folderitem parameter now supports long path names for systems which support them (Win 98, 2000,ME,XP). [Fix] (Jag) Crash on Quit: The intermittent crash when built apps running on...

News and Updates from Neon Software 1. Bugbear Virus UPDATE Now Available for NetMinder Ethernet 5.0 2. LANsurveyor 7.0.1 UPDATE Now Available 3. CyberGauge, LANsurveyor, and NetMinder Ethernet "Jaguar" Compatible 4. NetMinder Ethernet 5.0 Earns 4 1/2 Mice from Macworld Magazine ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. FREE "Bugbear" Update Now Available for NetMinder Ethernet Use NetMinder Ethernet to monitor your network for the Bugbear virus! Neon Software has just released a free update to NetMinder Ethernet's Packet Inference engine for Mac OS X. For more information: http://www.neon.com/bugbear.html or http://www.neon.com/NetMinder_Ethernet.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. FREE LANsurveyor 7.0.1 Update Now Available LANsurveyor 7.0.1 ensures complete compatibility with the latest Jaguar release, 10.2.1. In addition, the software has been updated to work with Dantz Development's recently released...

An important update of VideoOut Plugin for REALbasic is available for downloading. VideoOut also supports the WIN32 platform, and moreover, when you visit (http://homepage.mac.com/vanhoek/), you also notice an addition, i.e., online help. Information VideoOut Plugin VideoOut Plugin, based on QuickTime Video Output Components enables REALbasic programmers to output DV and DVCPRO video streams via the FireWire port (also known as iLink or IEEE-1394) of your Macintosh and Windows computers. REALbasic programmers who do not have a hardware device can still provide support in their applications by using VideoOut emulators (for development), i.e., extensions that come with the plugin. There are 2 sets of extensions for each of the 3 main platforms, MacOS 9 classic and carbon: SoftVOutPPC and SoftCodecPPC MacOS X: SoftVOutCFMX and SoftCodecCFMX WIN32: SoftVOut.qtx and SoftCodec.qtx SoftVOut extensions emulate a Video Out by using the lower right corner of the screen. Because it is the...