Troi Automatisering releases Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.0 for FileMaker Pro New plug-in adds more flexibility in creating custom dynamic dialogs in FileMaker Pro. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, December 20th, 2001--Troi Automatisering today announced the immediate availability of its Troi Dialog Plug-in 3.0 for FileMaker Pro 4.0 through 5.5. What is Troi Dialog Plug-in? Troi Dialog Plug-in is a very powerful tool for displaying all sorts of dialogs in FileMaker Pro. The text of the dialog and of the buttons can be created dynamically by using a calculation. All from within FileMaker you can: - show dialogs with variable text and up to 4 buttons - show an input dialog to let a user input data in up to 5 fields - choose these input fields to be any of the following: simple text, password field, popup list or check box - mix these input field types as you see fit - pre-enter text into all input fields - have the results of the dialog put into fields without parsing - show a list dialog...

Xnet Communications GmbH announces Captain FTP for Mac OS X Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 20th 2001 - Xnet Communication GmbH, an independent software vendor with core business in data communication high-end solutions announced the release of Captain FTP Public Beta Version 1.0. Captain FTP is an absolutely new FTP client - especially designed for Mac OS X. Captain FTP enables all users to take full advantage of all services available through using FTP along with a lot of additional functionalities, facilitating and improving everyday work. Quite simply, the most advanced, most open and yet easiest-to-use Captain FTP divides tasks between separate threads, enabling users to set up an unlimited number of simultaneous connections. Because of this, time consuming functions, such as uploading and downloading, don't block the program but leave it available for other user requests. User's action support is realized by quick buttons, an address book, prompting before deleting and renaming files,...

Deccember 20, 2001: Startup Doubler 2.6.2 is now available for downloading from www.marcmoini.com Startup Doubler can make your Mac startup faster, closer to the maximum speed allowed by the hardware. Startup Doubler's software acceleration streamlines loading of Extensions, Control Panels, Startup Items and the Finder to improve startup times. Startup Doubler is most useful for pre-G4 Macs, where startup can be made 10% to 50% faster. Fast disks in new high-end Macs can't be accelerated much, but the free trial offer lets you find out what effect Startup Doubler can have on your exact setup. Version 2.6.2 is a maintenance release adding support for Mac OS 9.2.2. Startup Doubler runs on Mac OS 7.0 through 9.2.2. You may download and try Startup Doubler for 15 days, at no charge. If you decide to keep it, please register your copy. A single license costs $20, site licenses are also available. Upgrades are free to registered users. You may download Startup Doubler or get more info from...

For Immediate Release Beaverton, OR (December 21, 2001) - Jiiva, Inc., announces Application Builder Collection is now for sale! Application Builder Collection is the first professional-grade set of reusable Cocoa frameworks for building solid Mac OS X applications. Application Builder Collection (ABC) is a set of user interface widgets, reusable objects, and development applications designed to reduce the time required to build feature-rich Cocoa applications. By reducing the time needed to put together the basic elements of software, ABC allows a software development company to focus on the features and design that set its application apart from the competition. ABC is an extension to the Cocoa development tools and kits provided by Apple Computer. The Cocoa development environment has a rich set of objects for writing powerful applications and ABC builds on this solid foundation by leveraging existing classes, naming conventions, and design patterns. ABC is designed to take full...

Subject: Opera for Mac We have just released two new versions of Opera for Mac. New Opera for Mac 5.0 Beta 5 for systems 7.5.3-9.2 and Beta 3 for Mac OS X introduces 30 day banner-free period, cookie editor and several bugfixes. Enjoy PNGs with alpha channel support for the toolbars as well as a new status bar and a new default button set. Drag and drop has been improved and now the versions support dragging urls to the transfer window to download. Read more about the changes from the last release and download here: (http://www.opera.com/mac/)

Son of Weather Grok 4.1.4 and Skwonk! 1.1 are now available. Son of Weather Grok 4.1.4 is a very small update that adds a dock item menu to the application icon, including the ability to change weather stations if the application icon has a window "attached". I also added a window transparency option, just for the heck of it. Thanks to Alexander Cohen for the nice plugin for that. There is no update to the PPC only version of Son of Weather Grok (still at version 4.1.3) Skwonk! 1.1 adds the ability to skwonk an Airport network (choose "Select Network" from the File menu), and has better error handling (more descriptive messages). More info for Son of Weather Grok 4.1.4: http://www.stimpsoft.com/products/sonofgrok.html Direct Download of Son of Weather Grok 4.1.4: http://homepage.mac.com/johnnycat/software/SonOfGrok.sit More info for Skwonk! 1.1: http://www.stimpsoft.com/products/skwonk.html Direct Download for Skwonk! 1.1 (Remember, Mac OS X only): http://homepage.mac.com/johnnycat/...

IOXperts Posts Final Candidate Beta of Its FireWire DCam Driver for Mac OS X CAMBRIDGE, MA, December 18, 2001 - IOXperts, Inc. has posted v. 1.0b10 of its universal FireWire DCam webcam driver for Mac OS X, and they believe this is the final candidate. This most recent beta includes substantial performance enhancements, following the developers' recent participation in one of Apple's performance tuning kitchens. The days of discount purchasing ($14.95 vs. $19.95 retail) are also numbered. As soon as v. 1.0 is released, which will be any day now, the price will revert to full retail. The driver can be downloaded from (http://www.ioxperts.com/dcam.html). ABOUT IOXperts IOXperts (www.ioxperts.com) is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was started to meet the unsatisfied and growing demand among Macintosh users for more variety and choice among peripherals. Their approach is to provide the drivers that will power more hardware on the Macintosh platform. The company has...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE St. Clair Software Updates Default Folder to Version 3.1.3 (Youngstown, OH -- December 18, 2001) St. Clair Software today released version 3.1.3 of Default Folder, their popular enhancement for Open and Save dialogs. Default Folder 3.1.3 brings back the ability to show and hide the Finder when file dialogs appear, as well as fixing a compatibility problem with Eudora and minor issues with several features. Highlights of the changes in Default Folder 3.1.3 include: - A new option to have Default Folder show the Finder's windows if they're hidden when a file dialog comes up. - After creating a new folder from within a file dialog, the folder is now correctly selected. - Corrected a bug that could cause applications to crash when they tried to display a file dialog while the option key was down. This affected Eudora, among others. - Errors are now correctly handled when importing folder sets and when using the Default Folder Substitutions...

Announcing MailBurst 2.2.2 This release addresses some multi-threading issues, improving performance and fixes some address parser errors. Free to 2.1 users, $129 to earlier purchasers. Drop a line if you want the free upgrade. David Dantowitz -- Dantowitz Consulting & Research, Inc. V 201-532-3053 W http://www.dantowitz.com/ Find an Apple Retail Store near you: (http://search.ZipServe.com/AppleStores/)

Announcing the release of the Empower Pro Internet Phone=81 for Mac OS Connecting Macintosh Users Over the Internet, One Call at a Time. Who Are You Going to Call? Campbell, CA, December 17, 2001..... Empower Pro today announced the Empower Pro Internet Phone 1.1, an innovative new application for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, to connect Macintosh users around the world with real-time voice communication over the Internet. The Empower Pro Internet Phone offers users the opportunity to talk to friends, family and co-workers over the Internet from one Macintosh computer to another. All the recipient needs to do is download the Empower Pro Phone to answer the call. "We are changing the way you call your family and friends around the world this year to wish them a Happy Holiday " said Susan Fougerousse of Empower Pro "Also, making it easier to keep in touch throughout the New Year" Empower Pro Internet Phone includes these features: =85 Speech recognition is enabled for command and control =85...

Company: YENCO.COM Release Date: Monday, December 17, 2001 Product: Archive Version: 4.7 Size: 795K Class: Shareware Cost: $20.00 Product Description / What's New: Monday, December 17, 2001 YENCO.COM is proud to announce the release Archive 4.7. The new version features an improved startup process with auto-dismiss splash screen, improved registration code system, integrated button bar controls at top of search window, improved printing, improved launch feature, improved help system and updated help content. Archive enables you to quickly catalog your disks and then when you need to find a file, just type in what you are looking for and it will return a list of all files that match your search criteria, what disks the files can be found on, and even detailed information about the files. No more time-wasting disk shuffle. It's fast! It's simple! It's compatible with Mac OS 9 and the Mac OS X Classic Environment. For more information...

X-Sender: lrivers@mail.realsoftware.com For reasons even I am not quite certain of, I have created a new CPU cycle waster, Skwonk! 1.0. Skwonk is an application that will listen to your Ethernet interface for traffic. All traffic. Like a traffic monitor. Difference is, Skwonk plays specific sounds for the type of packets that go flying by. For example, if a TCP packet for port 80 goes flying by the network to another Mac, Skwonk can blurt out a belch, or hoot like an owl, etc. You can get more info from here: http://www.stimpsoft.com/products/skwonk.html And the Direct Download is here: (Remember, Mac OS X ONLY) http://homepage.mac.com/johnnycat/software/skwonk.sit John Schilling StimpSoft=81, Inc. www.stimpsoft.com john@stimpsoft.com

Apple Makes Combo Drives Standard on PowerBook G4 Line CUPERTINO, California-December 17, 2001-Apple=AE today announced that it has made slot-loading Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) optical drives standard across its entire award-winning Titanium PowerBook=AE G4 notebook line. "The Titanium PowerBook G4 is one of the most successful notebook computers of all time, and we are making it even better," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior director of Hardware Product Marketing. The versatile slot-loading Combo drive lets customers watch DVD movies and burn custom music or data CDs. Apple's DVD player software, iTunes=81 2 digital music software and Disc Burner software come pre-installed on all PowerBook models. The super-light, yet incredibly powerful Titanium PowerBook G4 features: * 1-inch thick Titanium metal body weighing 5.4 pounds*; * a stunning 15.2 inch (diagonal) TFT wide-screen active-matrix display with 1152 by 768 resolution; * 550 MHz or 667 MHz PowerPC G4 processors with Velocity Engine...

CTM Releases PowerMail 3.1 - First Major Upgrade to Mail Client is Built for Mac OS X, Offers New Features Geneva, Switzerland, December 15th, 2001 - CTM today released the latest version of PowerMail, its leading e-mail client for the Mac. PowerMail 3.1 for Mac OS X offers a range of new features and is available now from http://www.ctmdev.com "PowerMail is being embraced by customers as a leading e-mail application for Mac OS X. Customer's response to this robust duo is amazing." said Marie-Th=E9r=E8se Lamagat, CTM's vice president. "As we move forward with innovative products in the secure and wireless markets on various mobile devices, Mac OS X will remain the premier platform for delivering advanced ease of use and performance". "With the power of UNIX, a broad range of networking capabilities, and an intuitive Aqua interface, Mac OS X is truly a next generation operating system that offers incredible opportunities for innovation on the Mac" said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice...

Znippetizer-X 1.3.2 / 2001-12-14 Introduction. Znippetizer-X is a small tool, to help programmers, writers, scientists, lawyers and other people who need to quickly sort , organize and categorize things. How does it work? Znippetizer-X has a small global floating window (with a Z in it), where you can drag any text. Any items dragged here are stored in a database, and grouped. All new items are stored in the currently selected Snippetgroup, and can then later on be moved to any other group. By clicking on the "Z", the Znippetizer-X windows zooms, and you get full access to the groups and lists of items, and you can drag any item from the list to any other application that can recieve a text drag. You can zoom any snippet and select parts from it, copy from it. You can drag text files to the Znippetizer-X window, and also paste new snippets into it. You can also edit a snippet in the close up window. What it doesn't do. It doesn't handle graphics or any other kind of dragged items....

We are proud to announce the eSuite4X - MySQL Edition. The new eSuite4X is the easiest way to start with MySQL on Mac OS X. This distribution is based on MySQL 3.23.46 and includes graphical assistants to easily install and set up MySQL on Mac OS X. Even an absolute beginner will have his MySQL database server up and running in less than 10 minutes! eSuite4X - MySQL Edition includes support for MyISAM and InnoDB tables (transaction support) to support real world applications. All important files are directly accessible through the Finder (ie. for?doing a cold backup of your databases or configuring the database server settings). Also included is the SQL4X Manager Pro to import existing data into MySQL tables, create and administer databases, tables, users and access privileges, browse through your tables, edit data and schedule backups. In short: the new eSuite4X - MySQL Edition is the ideal basis for database driven web sites. For more information visit http://www.macosguru.de/...

D-Link Launches Roq-it Jukebox With 10 GB HD on Board - 10GB Jukebox Storage Capacity - ID3 Tag Support - Large Blue Backlit LCD Display - USB Interface - M3U Playlist Support IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Link, an award winning designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, communications and digital electronic technologies, today launched its new D-Link Roq-it MP3 Jukebox (Model DMP-HD610). The D-Link Roq-it is a powerful portable hard drive-based MP3 Jukebox featuring a 10 Gigabyte (GB) hard drive that can store over 150 hours of non-stop music and a large, easy to read blue back-lit LCD screen that displays song title, album name, genre and other track information contained in each MP3 file's ID3 Tag. "This Roq-it hard drive model really delivers the payload," said Steven Joe President of D-Link. "It is an ideal gift for Christmas with room for over 2,500 MP3 files, an affordable price and both Windows and Mac compatibility. The Roq-it...

4D For Dreamweaver Plug-in Now Available -- Free Cross-platform, GUI Extension Adds 4D Tags to Pages Designed in Dreamweaver -- SAN JOSE, Calif., December 13, 2001 -- 4D, Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and 4D WebSTAR Server Suite, today announced the immediate availability of 4D for Dreamweaver v1.0, an extension plug-in for Dreamweaver(tm) which inserts 4D tags into pages designed in Dreamweaver via an easy-to-use GUI. 4D for Dreamweaver, which is for use with 4D Version 6.7.1 or higher on both Macintosh and Windows platforms, is available free-of-charge today to developers at (http://www.4D.com/dreamweaver/). "4D for Dreamweaver continues the 4D tradition of providing users with powerful, easy-to-use development tools," said Brendan Coveney, president and CEO, 4D, Inc. "Now designers using Dreamweaver can simply drag-and-drop icons, or point-and-click their way to incorporating powerful 4D tags into their creations. We're pleased to add this plug-in to...

STEVE JOBS TO DELIVER OPENING KEYNOTE AT MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO 2002 Cupertino, Calif. and Framingham, Mass. - December 12, 2001 - Apple and IDG World Expo today announced that Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, will kick off Macworld Conference & Expo/San Francisco 2002 with the opening keynote presentation on Monday, January 7, 2002 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco's Moscone Center, January 7-11, 2002. "We're working hard to make this January's Macworld the most exciting ever," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Attendance hit new records at Macworld in July, and we're hoping to break the record this January too." "Steve's keynote is a great way to start what will be a very exciting and informative week for all Macworld attendees," said Charlie Greco, president and CEO of IDG World Expo. "We're thrilled to move the keynote up to Monday, and begin the excitement a day sooner." Additional event highlights and registration information are available on the Macworld Conference...

RUNTIME LABS ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF MacSQL 2.1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Dan Wald, 917-661-0200 ext 14 media@rtlabs.com (mailto:media@rtlabs.com) NEW YORK - December 10, 2001 - Runtime Labs, a premiere provider of Mac developer tools, today announced the release and immediate availability of MacSQL 2.1. MacSQL is a robust solution for database management on the Macintosh. A fully AppleScriptable application, MacSQL provides web authors, publishers, and developers with a simple, graphical way to interact with SQL databases. Version 2.1 is a free update to MacSQL 2.0, released in August 2001. Included are native drivers for MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Frontbase, PostgreSQL (Mac OS X only), ODBC (with the Merant ODBC Driver Manager installed on Mac OS 9), and Oracle (on Mac OS X via JDBC, on Mac OS 9 with the native SQL*Net drivers installed). MacSQL 2.1 includes many new and upgraded features from MacSQL 2.0: * Select queries now run asynchronously on Mac OS X, make use of multiple...

Good day, Intelli Innovations is pleased to announce ProSQL 1.1, the initial revision to its database management software for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. The new update includes improved PostgreSQL and OpenBase support, Aqua interface enhancements, SQL Console improvements, and lots of bug fixes from the first release. ProSQL is advanced database management software for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. ProSQL offers users the ability to directly access the tables and data in their database, display and search that information, and generate reports without requiring any knowledge of SQL query syntax or database engines. Advanced users can utilize standard SQL syntax to perform queries from within the 'SQL Console' or automate their database using 'SQL Script Builder', ProSQL's integrated script writer and debugger. Furthermore, data can also be stored and retrieved locally using ProSQL's integrated single-user database engine. Home Page: http://www.intellisw.com/prosql/ Mac OS 9: http://www.intellisw...

Press Release For Immediate Release December 10, 2001 MCE Ships Lucid - Smallest, Lightest Portable FireWire CDRW Drive Irvine, CA - MCE Technologies, LLC today announced the Lucid 8x8x24x Portable FireWire CDRW Drive. The Lucid CDRW sports the slimmest dimensions and lightest weight of any FireWire CDRW drive on the market today, as well as a sleek industrial design intended to complement all of Apple's current system lineup, particularly the Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium. The Lucid CDRW is powered entirely by the FireWire bus and features JustLink buffer underrun protection. MCE will begin shipments of the Lucid CDRW drive immediately. "The Lucid CDRW drive represents the pinnacle in our quest to join form with function," said Arnold Ramirez, President, MCE Technologies, LLC. "Not only does the Lucid perform exceptionally in the portable arena due to its diminutive size, weight and other portable features, but it's striking design meshes seamlessly with Apple's distinct...

Intego Announces Release of NetBarrier X version 10.0 for Mac OS X Miami, FL, December 3, 2001 - Intego, the leading developer of Macintosh Internet security and privacy software, today announced the release of version 10.0 for Mac OS X of its acclaimed NetBarrier Personal Firewall, Antivandal, and Internet Filter. Fully rewritten for Apple's OS X - the most innovative operating system in the world - NetBarrier X is the all-in-one solution for complete personal Internet security. If you have made the move to the future with OS X, NetBarrier X is the protection you need. If you were waiting to use OS X because you were worried about protecting your Mac from hackers, vandals and intruders, worry no more! This full Cocoa application, native to the OS X environment, has all the essential functions of the OS 9 version of NetBarrier, and adds several network management functions. NetBarrier X also sports a new interface, fully respecting Apple's aqua guidelines, and making the user...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Version of ObjectTools Released Innovative 4th Dimension plugin is now Carbonized for Mac OS X Monday, December 10th, 2001 -- Aparajita Fishman today announced the release of 1.64 of ObjectTools. ObjectTools is a 4th Dimension plugin which provides a suite of commands for creating BLOB-like data structures called "objects". Version 1.64 of ObjectTools is fully Carbonized to run under Mac OS X and fixes a few minor bugs. An All-Purpose Tool ------------------- ObjectTools is an all-purpose tool which solves or simplifies many common problems faced by 4D developers. "ObjectTools is an incredibly versatile product that should be added to every developer's toolkit," said Doug von Roader of SE Software, Inc. "ObjectTools adds flexibility to how 4D systems are architected, it allows you to improve how your code is designed and programmed, and it can significantly reduce bugs in 4D code." "I kicked myself for not buying this plug-in sooner," remarked Mark Mitchenall...