Keyspan offers Mac OS X drivers for Developers September 13, 2000- Paris, France- Keyspan today announced the availability of beta Mac OS X drivers for its USB Twin Serial Adapter. Intended for developers of Macintosh applications which make use of serial ports, the drivers are available free of charge to developers who contact Keyspan via email at macosx@keyspan.com. Keyspan's USB Twin Serial Adapter is the world's most popular way to connect serial devices to USB ports on the current generation of Macintosh computers. Introduced in October of 1998, the adapter is compatible with a wide range of modems, printers, cameras, PDAs, graphics tablets, and other serial devices. "We are excited about Mac OS X and are committed to its success," stated Mike Ridenhour president at Keyspan. "Many Macintosh applications now depend upon our PCI serial cards and USB serial adapters to communicate with serial devices. We intend to make the migration to Mac OS X as easy as possible for our developer...

Apple Unveils New iBook Line All New Colors Plus iMovie 2 for Portable Video Editing APPLE EXPO PARIS-September 13, 2000-Apple today introduced a new iBook line featuring FireWire ports and iMovie 2, the world's most popular and easy-to-use digital video editing software, and all new colors. The iBook now comes in Indigo and the iBook Special Edition, which now includes a DVD-ROM drive for watching DVD movies on the go, comes in Graphite. Both models also come in the season's hottest new color, Key Lime, available exclusively from Apple's Online Store (www.apple.com). "iBook has been a big hit with consumers, students and educators, and the addition of portable digital video editing with FireWire and iMovie 2 makes it even better," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Anyone can now own a portable movie studio for just $1,499." The new iBook models include: - a 366 MHz or 466 MHz PowerPC G3 processor; - a 10GB IDE hard drive, configurable to 20GB; - a 400 Mbps FireWire port for connecting...

Apple Delivers Advanced Radeon Graphics Card For Power Mac G4 and Power Mac G4 Cube APPLE EXPO PARIS-September 13, 2000-Apple today announced it is offering the Radeon graphics accelerator card as a build-to-order option on The Apple Store (www.apple.com) for all Power Mac G4 and Power Mac G4 Cube systems. Priced at an additional $100, the Radeon graphics card provides the most advanced 3D graphics processing available for the Macintosh. "Apple's new line of dual-processor Power Mac G4s and the all-new Power Mac G4 Cube provide creative professionals supercomputing performance and stunning design on the desktop," said Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "The combination of the PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine and the Radeon graphics card make both the G4 and G4 Cube incredible solutions for graphics applications and 3D games." Apple in July introduced the new dual-processor Power Mac G4 and all-new Power Mac G4 Cube, both of which feature the PowerPC...

Apple Releases Mac OS X Public Beta and Unveils New iBook Line Over 250 Exhibitors Showcasing Solutions and Services for the Macintosh at Apple Expo APPLE EXPO PARIS-September 13, 2000-During today's kickoff keynote at Apple Expo Paris, where over 250 exhibitors are showcasing solutions and services for the Macintosh platform, Apple released Mac OS X Public Beta and introduced a new iBook line in all new colors. Apple also announced that it will offer the Radeon graphics accelerator card as a build-to-order option on The Apple Store (www.apple.com) for all Power Mac G4 and Power Mac G4 Cube systems. Immediately available in English, French and German through The Apple Store for $29.95, Mac OS X features state-of-the-art technology throughout, including advanced Internet and graphics technologies, a new user interface named "Aqua," and an open-source UNIX-based foundation named Darwin. Mac OS X features true memory protection, pre-emptive multi-tasking, and symmetric multiprocessing...

Digital Origin's Content Creation/Streaming Media Authoring Tool EditDV Now Fully Optimized for Apple's New Dual-Processor Power Mac MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Sept. 6, 2000--Digital Origin, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Media 100, (NASDAQ:MDEA) announced today a free upgrade to its content creation and streaming media authoring tool EditDV which is now fully optimized for Apple's new dual-processor Power Macintosh. EditDV uses Digital Origin's unique scalable software codec designed specifically for the DV format. This enables EditDV, already compatible with the new Power Macintosh systems, to achieve maximum performance on the new dual-processor systems. According to Mike Micheletti, Product Manager for Digital Origin, the combination of Digital Origin EditDV and the dual-processor Power Macintosh offers the fastest Mac OS desktop environment for DV-format content creation and streaming media workflow in the industry. "Because our video codec is entirely software-based, our tools - which...

For Immediate Release September 13, 2000 Web Confidential 2.1 for Mac and associated Palm Conduit Released Macintosh developer Alco Blom announced today the release of Web Confidential 2.1 for Mac with the Confidential Conduit 1.1. Although widely imitated, Web Confidential is still the most powerful password manager on the Mac today and is currently the only password manager which is able to HotSync with a Palm device using a HotSync Manager Conduit. Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for managing user IDs, passwords, PINs, registration numbers, and the like. While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data, from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the...

SONNET ANNOUNCES POWER MAC 7200 G3 UPGRADE APPLE EXPO, PARIS, FRANCE September 13, 2000. Sonnet Technologies, the worldwide market share leader in processor upgrade cards for Apple Macintosh computers, announces the first G3 upgrade for the Power Mac 7200. Once considered impossible to upgrade, this best-selling system has a new future due to the unprecedented achievement of Sonnet's engineering team. The first product in this new Crescendo line will be G3 400 MHz/1M model, and will boost performance up to eight times as fast as the original system. "There were numerous challenges in designing an upgrade for the 7200 which we have been able to overcome using the knowledge and breakthroughs weve accumulated from our years of previous upgrade designs," states Sonnet's Chief Engineer, Henry Kanapell. The first challenge was to determine where the upgrade would be installed. The only option was to place the 7200 upgrade card in an available PCI slot, which had not previously been...

FLAMETHROWER DEBUTS VERSION 1.1 AS PUBLIC BETA September 12, 2000 - Chandler, AZ. IncWell DMG, Ltd. and Solutions Etcetera announced today version 1.1b7 of Flamethrower, their SuperCard based CGI authoring environment for web servers. Version 1.1 is an update release available to all registered Flamethrower users free of charge. Highlights of the new version include "BlastShield" (Flamethrower's new multi-project targeting technology), new capabilities for increased thread management, and full support of the multipart/form-data encoding type for HTML forms. "We're hoping the public release of this beta will give the majority of SuperCard users the opportunity to take a closer look at Flamethrower. We know that many of them are aware of its existence, but don't realize its incredible power and ease of use in building Web-based applications," said Scott Simon, Director of Product Development for IncWell. "Flamethrower allows you to run several project-based Web applications...

9/12/2000: Clean-Install Assistant 1.5 is now available for downloading from www.marcmoini.com Version 1.5, released today, allows moving files from Mac OS 9.0.4 to a newer Mac OS version, or to/from 9.0.4 and previous versions. It is now able to identify the version number of the System Folder it is working on, to recognize Apple files from other versions as additions. Clean-Install Assistant makes it easier to migrate third-party and personal items to a new Clean-Installed System Folder, and it may also be used to: Save space and backup your valuable additions and preference files only, instead of the whole System Folder. Install the same set of additions on multiple Macs. Remove extra files and folders from your System Folder to restore it to a previous state: you can take a 'snapshot' of the System Folder and have Clean-Install Assistant extract any items added since. It is free for personal and educational use, download from www.marcmoini.com Cheers, Marc

September 11, 2000. San Jose, CA. 4D,Inc. releases WebSTAR Server Suite 4.3 ----------------------------------------- 4D Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and the WebSTAR Server Suite, announced today the release of WebSTAR Server Suite 4.3. WebSTAR 4.3 has improved functionality, extreme stability and many refined features including numerous enhancements to the core set of features. The integrated web, mail, FTP, and proxy sever design were all carefully studied and retooled for this release to offer customers the most solid release ever. "WebSTAR Server Suite 4.3 is a significant release for us which builds upon a long-standing tradition of security and ease-of-use to provide improved administration, search, and mail functions for server administrators," said Brendan Coveney, President 4D, Inc. "The engineering team focus for the WebSTAR 4.3 release has been on improving the existing server suite and adding a few key features that benefit both web...

MINDVISION RELEASES MINDCONTROL 1.1 Even more ways to control your Mac MindVision Software has released MindControl(tm) 1.1, an update to the highly versatile Macintosh control system. The new MindControl provides even more ways to control your Mac using simple keyboard commands. This update is free to registered users, and it's available for download at http://www.mindvision.com/mindcontrol. WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.1? MindControl 1.1 features more ways to manage commands, a built-in quick reference guide and support for items in the Favorites folder. This version of MindControl includes: Support for keeping file paths up to date - MindControl can check your commands list and help you locate any files whose paths are no longer valid. Quick access to enclosing folders - Now you can select a command for a file or folder and open the item's enclosing folder at the Finder. Fast help when you need it - To help you use MindControl's built-in system commands, a quick...

bDistributed.com Contributes Macintosh Support to Ogg Vorbis Project High-quality Open Source audio compression technology now available to Macintosh developers HOFFMAN ESTATES, Illinois - September 11, 2000 - bDistributed.com has contributed Macintosh support for Ogg Vorbis to Xiphophorous. Macintosh developers can now use this high-quality audio compression and decompression library in their software. Ogg Vorbis is "a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source" developed by Christopher Montgomery of Xiphophorous. It provides quality and compression similar to the popular MP3 audio compression format. Unlike MP3, however, Ogg Vorbis is not subject to restrictive patent licenses and royalty agreements. The Xiphophorous reference implementation of Ogg Vorbis is available under an Open Source license, and the Ogg Vorbis specification has been placed in the public domain. Macintosh support for Ogg Vorbis was...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New application Germany, 11 September 2000 - Internet Consult announced today a new software called iCafe Gateway iCafe Gateway is a Client-server system for Internet cafes. NEW TO VERSION 1.51: One Mac is the server and does all the accounting. You cash in money and while the client is surfing it counts down the time/money. If a client ( the computer people do surfing ) runs out of money it gets a stop dialog box. You can select a default browser ( maybe one with kiosk mode ) and an accounting server. This means a maximum fexibility. A coin rejector will follow by the end of 2000 automating the complete process. The server does a detailed logging of most activities. This logfile could be imported into a database to find out how much your income of each surf station was. ( you can disable the logging if you dont need it ) The system is reduced to the ease of use and any person is able to administrate the accounting of your Internet cafe. PRICING iCafe Gateway is...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VISIO TO CONCEPTDRAW FILE CONVERTER RELEASED Free utility allows to convert Visio documents to ConceptDraw file format. Odessa, Ukraine - September 10th, 2000 - Computer Systems Odessa Corp., today released the final version of Visio to ConceptDraw file converter, a free utility for conversion of documents created in MS Visio to ConceptDraw file format. The converter allows to convert MS Visio documents into the ConceptDraw format providing seamless data exchange with the world of Visio users. The file converter relies on the OLE technology, and can work either on a local machine which has Visio installed, or as an Internet service - which means that anyone can e-mail a Visio file to the server and receive the converted file by e-mail in a short time. To convert locally, the user can download a free utility from the ConceptDraw site. The Internet service is also free of charge. This service is intented to give additional benefits to ConceptDraw users and make for...

Sig Software is proud to announce the release of TableText 1.0.1 as a native Carbon application for Mac OS X. TableText is a program which allows tabular information to be represented, manipulated and scanned as plain text. With it, you can convert spreadsheets and tables to ASCII text with ease. It can be used for email messages, source code comments and cross-platform documentation. It also allows text to be converted back into tabular form, for importing into a spreadsheet, word processor or database. More information and the TableText download are available at: (http://www.sigsoftware.com/tabletext/) Thank you, Gideon Greenspan Sig Software gdg@sigsoftware.com http://www.sigsoftware.com/

Terran Interactive Adds Powerful DVD Production Capability to Cleaner 5 MPEG Charger and MPEG SuperCharger Add Enhanced MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Support for Cleaner 5; Enables Web Designers to Produce DVD Content Out of The Box LOS GATOS, Calif.--Sept. 11, 2000-- Terran Interactive, a subsidiary of Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ: MDEA), today announced two upgrade options for the newly-announced interactive streaming media design solution, Cleaner 5. The two new cross-platform options, Cleaner MPEG Charger and Cleaner MPEG SuperCharger, provide optimized media encoding options for DVD, Video CD, CD-ROM and digital broadcasting right out of the box. Cleaner MPEG Charger is a software-based MPEG encoding plug-in for Cleaner 5, providing comprehensive control over MPEG-2 encoding and enhanced MPEG-1 support including variable bit rate encoding. With these added features, media professionals will be able to turn all popular video, audio and animation file formats into MPEG streams for high-quality...

For Immediate Release: ActiveDeveloper -- Cocoa and WebObjects IDE Fall 2000 Offering. September 2000 -- Vestbjerg, Denmark -- Starting today, we launch our Fall 2000 offering of licenses for ActiveDeveloper - our Multi-Platform Runtime Object IDE for Developing NATIVE Cocoa Desktop Applications and WebObjects Servers for Apples Award winning WebObjects E-commerce Server platform. Adding the ActiveDeveloper IDE we cut your API learning curve and turn Development incremental. With ActiveDeveloper you get a Runtime Object IDE that allows you to develop NATIVE Cocoa apps and WebObjects servers directly at Runtime - while they run. Thereby enabling you to get a whole lot closer to the Objects you work with ... then you can with the Standard tools. ActiveDeveloper - Turns complex OO Programming into Interactive Scripting by giving you a Runtime Object IDE for the compiler. - Cuts your API learning curve - Scales to Any size...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Macintosh link checker now supports 24 user agents Germany, 11 September 2000 - Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) announced today an update to their link checker application VSE Link Tester. VSE Link Tester is a tool which allows Macintosh users to ensure that their web site is working without problems so that customers won't run into dead ends on a web site. NEW TO VERSION 3.1: If a web site has been customized for a specific browser, VSE Link Tester can now pose as a specific user agent when testing a site. VSE Link Tester supports 24 different user agents, including MS Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, iCab and WebTV. This is important if there are different versions of a web page for different web browsers. In addition, several improvements to existing features have been made and some minor bugs have been fixed. PRICING VSE Link Tester is available in two different versions. The $ 34.95 US Standard version allows to test one web site. It's for private home...

Germany, 11 September 2000 - Internet Consult announced today a new software called iCafe Gateway iCafe Gateway is a Client-server system for Internet cafes. NEW TO VERSION 1.51: One Mac is the server and does all the accounting. You cash in money and while the client is surfing it counts down the time/money. If a client ( the computer people do surfing ) runs out of money it gets a stop dialog box. You can select a default browser ( maybe one with kiosk mode ) and an accounting server. This means a maximum fexibility. A coin rejector will follow by the end of 2000 automating the complete process. The server does a detailed logging of most activities. This logfile could be imported into a database to find out how much your income of each surf station was. ( you can disable the logging if you dont need it ) The system is reduced to the ease of use and any person is able to administrate the accounting of your Internet cafe. PRICING iCafe Gateway is available in three different versions...

Troi Automatisering releases Troi Sesame Plug-in 1.2 for FileMaker 5 New Plug-in automatically dismisses any dialog box that can block the operation of FileMaker 5. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, September 7th, 2000--Troi Automatisering today announced the availability for download of its Troi Sesame Plug-in 1.2, for FileMaker Pro 5 (and 4) for Mac OS. What is the Troi Sesame Plug-in? This plug-in automatically dismisses any dialog that can block the standalone operation of FileMaker Pro 5 and FileMaker Unlimited 5. It will get rid of any dialog that can appear when a FileMaker database file is opened: * the System Settings Dialog * the Enter Password Dialog This plug-in is ideal for Web administrators that host FileMaker databases. You can now open files without the Web Server being blocked by a dialog. Peter Baanen, company president, states: "This plug-in finally is released!" =) Troi also showcased the Sesame Plug-in at the FileMaker Developers Conference 2000. No...

TERRA SOFT OFFERS PORTABLE, 8-NODE POWER PC LINUX CLUSTERS Loveland, CO -- 07 September 2000 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of Linux solutions for PowerPC(tm) microprocessors, has announced the offering of a portable, affordable, 8-node PowerPC cluster with Black Lab Linux installed and configured for parallel processing and development. Parallel processing refers to speeding-up code execution by dividing the program into multiple fragments that can execute simultaneously across multiple computers. "Not everyone requires a room full of nodes to benefit from high-performance computing. We recognized the need for a powerful, light weight, Black Lab Linux cluster that could literally be wheeled from room to room in a laboratory, school, or code development environment. Parallel code development can be a bit tricky and it is often comforting to have the entire cluster next to your desk. Our clusters will help developers get their feet wet with PowerPC Linux parallel...

FileMaker Mobile Is First Integrated Database for Windows, Mac OS and Palm Powered Handhelds Offers easy load-and-go and synchronization of FileMaker Pro data DEMOmobile 2000, PASADENA, CA -- Sept. 6, 2000 -- Extending its world-renowned database software into the burgeoning Palm Economy, FileMaker, Inc. today announced FileMaker Mobile for the Palm OS platform, an easy-to-use companion to FileMaker Pro 5 that will allow a user to transfer and synchronize data between FileMaker Pro databases on Windows and Mac OS systems and Palm PoweredTM handhelds. FileMaker Mobile, scheduled to ship this winter, is designed on a simple load and go mobile user model: an individual user simply selects and loads the FileMaker data they require from their desktop computer to the Palm OS handheld. Later, the data on the handheld may be re-synched via the Palm HotSync technology with the individual's single-user FileMaker Pro database on the desktop computer. "FileMaker Mobile is a first step in the...

Aladdin Systems Ships PowerTicker 2.0 Software - Portfolio Manager and Email Alerts Help Users to Manage Their Investments PowerTicker 2.0 Introduces Portfolio Management, Customizable Email Based Alerts, and Includes Automatically Updated Stock, Mutual Fund, Index, And Currency Data Delivered to a Desktop Ticker From Exchanges Around The World WATSONVILLE, Calif., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Aladdin Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aladdin Systems Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ALHI), today announced the release of PowerTicker(TM) 2.0, an Internet information utility that helps users track and manage their investments. PowerTicker is a specialized Web browser that gathers information from financial web sites around the world, parsing the data and displaying it to the user in the form of a scrolling ticker bar. PowerTicker combines two powerful tools; the fully customizable ticker bar delivers automatically updated stock quotes directly to the user's desktop, while the new...

Digital Origin's Content Creation/Streaming Media Authoring Tool EditDV Now Fully Optimized for Apple's New Dual-Processor Power Mac MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Sept. 6, 2000--Digital Origin, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Media 100, (NASDAQ:MDEA) announced today a free upgrade to its content creation and streaming media authoring tool EditDV which is now fully optimized for Apple's new dual-processor Power Macintosh. EditDV uses Digital Origin's unique scalable software codec designed specifically for the DV format. This enables EditDV, already compatible with the new Power Macintosh systems, to achieve maximum performance on the new dual-processor systems. According to Mike Micheletti, Product Manager for Digital Origin, the combination of Digital Origin EditDV and the dual-processor Power Macintosh offers the fastest Mac OS desktop environment for DV-format content creation and streaming media workflow in the industry. "Because our video codec is entirely software-based, our tools - which...