FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PDF StartUp: PDF documents opened automatically J2S, a software company specialized in multimedia and asset-management developments, announces the release of PDF StartUp. PDF StartUp is an "autorun" application designed to automatically open a PDF document located on a CD-ROM when it is inserted into a computer. PDF StartUp first checks the presence of Acrobat and installs Acrobat Reader when necessary. The selected PDF document is then automatically displayed on screen. This programme is intended to invite the recipients of multimedia operations to actually read the content of the documents that are addressed to them. PDF StartUp consists of two versions so that it can work indifferently on computers running MacOS or Windows. For example, PDF StartUp is used on the digital catalogues produced by Luc Douche, a senior consultant in digital information systems for the Etablissements Lafarge, one of France's major company in the building sector. The complete user...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 5th, 2000 AMP Radio 1.6.7 -- Speak To The World! Subband Software, Inc., Renton, Washington -- June 5th -- Subband Software today announced AMP Radio 1.6.7, the latest version(free upgrade) of their popular Internet Radio/MP3 Player. The most important new feature is the ability to BROADCAST LIVE STREAMS! Other features include: -Bookmarking! -SDII Audio support -Information Scroller Speed Control -Station Stop Timer -Minor Playlist and Preferences Bugs Fixed AMP Radio is the only player(and the only application) on the Mac that will allow users to create their own LIVE audio streams. Setup is fast, and after the initial setup, turning the station on takes less than 30 seconds! For more information, read the "Broadcast READ ME", which has been attached to the end of this press release. AMP Radio plays the following file formats: MP3, MP2, SDII, HTTP MPEG Streams, SHOUTCast Streams, Icecast Streams, AIFF/WAVE, Live Input, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, PlaySID,...

X-Sender: jstrout@strout.net Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:11:43 -0700 To: Quesa List (quesa_list@designcommunity.com) From: "Joseph J. Strout" (joe@strout.net) Subject: [ANN] Quesa 1.6d12 The Quesa Development Team is pleased to announce release 1.6d12 of Quesa, the Open Source implementation of Apple's QuickDraw 3D (QD3D) high-level 3D API. This release takes further steps towards full compatibility with QD3D 1.6, with the addition of NURB curves and patches, more camera types, and better 3DMF support. It also adds fully Carbon-compatible code, allowing QD3D apps to run under Mac OS X for the first time ever. Using Quesa, QD3D applications can now run on both Mac OS 8-9 and Mac OS X, leveraging any card that supports OpenGL. Major changes for 1.6d12 include: - Fully Carbonised, with support for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X - NURB curves and NURB patches are now supported - Orthographic cameras, and camera view ports, are now supported - Textures now supported on little-endian architectures -...

June 2, 2000 - Sand Hill (shed.com) has just released version 3.0.2 of their home automation software "XTension" . This version rounds out a suite of verbs which control the graphic views used to display dynamic pictures of your home or office. The icons in the Views are 'hot', and can be used to control as well as monitor your system. Now, the background pictures in Views can be changed, as with the time of day, and icons can be changed according to their current status. Your graphic views can now reflect a more personal and 'real' appearance. Pipe the video out of your Mac to a channel on all of your TV's... XTension is simply the most powerful home automation software available on any platform. With the power of the MacOS, and AppleScript, there are no limits. A Lite version is free, and is fully functional except that the database is limited to 5 units. (www.shed.com) Come to the XTension website for "an infectiously giddy warehouse of information and ideas regarding X10...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2000 BLUE WORLD ANNOUNCES LASSO XML VS. FILEMAKER XML WHITE PAPER Report highlights differences in flexibility, performance, ease-of-use, security and support for XML standards Bellevue, WA--June 1, 2000--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine(tm)--today announced a new white paper report comparing XML implementations in Blue World Lasso and FileMaker, Inc. FileMaker Pro 5 product lines. The 22 page report includes detailed coverage of key topics of interest to Web application developers looking to incorporate XML into their solutions. "In an era of rapidly evolving Internet standards, flexibility is of paramount importance," said Bill Doerrfeld, founder and CEO of Blue World Communications. "The Lasso XML vs. FileMaker XML report demonstrates how Lasso provides the most flexible implementation of XML for FileMaker Pro databases and beyond." Flexible, Scalable and Secure The Lasso XML approach is far more flexible than the...

Professional Software Modeling Tools Priced To Fit Any Budget. Placitas, NM - June 1, 2000 - Excel Software today announced the immediate availability of professional software modeling tools priced to fit the budget constraints of any project. Thousands of developers on a limited budget struggle to write code without the assistance of professional software design tools to help guide the way. The MacA&D Standard and WinA&D Standard editions offer a great solution. Normally priced at $495 each, a promotional price of just $295 is available on the first license purchased by any customer between June 1 and September 30. These tools bring core capabilities from Excel Software's industry leading MacA&D and WinA&D products into the financial reach of all developers. The Standard edition supports the three most popular diagrams used to design software today, the process model, data model and class model. Process models have been used for many years to document, explain and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31,2000 Opus Software today officially released ShadowKeys version 1.1 for Mac OS as shareware ($5) to the Macintosh user and developer community. The extension ShadowKeys provides missing keys for the Apple USB Keyboard and iBook/PowerBook built-in keyboard. New features in version 1.1: iBook/PowerBook - The built-in keyboard has a new right-hand virtual Command key replacing the Enter key, close to Space bar. - The Forward Delete key code can be created with the key combination Shift+Delete or Option+Delete. iMac, G3, and G4 with an Apple USB Keyboard - In addition to the Num Lock key providing the Forward Delete key code, now the Forward Delete key code can be created with the key combination Shift+Delete or Option+Delete. - The missing function keys F13 to F14 can be created with the key combinations Control+Shift+Help, Control+Shift+Home and Control+Shift+PageUp respectively for F13, F14 and F15. Other PowerBook and Power Macintosh with...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Popular web page and image optimizer now faster, supports Miva script and older Macs Germany, 30 May 2000 - Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) announced today the release of VSE Web Site Turbo 3.1. VSE Web Site Turbo is a tool for Apple Macintosh computers that strips unneeded data from HTML documents, resulting in size reductions that average from 20 to 50 percent based on content. It also optimizes JPEG and GIF images so that your web pages will load as quickly as possible. According to a Web usability study by the Georgia Institute of Technology, Net users rate slow-loading pages as the biggest problem online. VSE Web Site Turbo solves that problem. NEW TO THIS VERSION The new version now supports 68k based Macintosh computers, supports Miva Script code, optimizes files a bit faster and fixes some minor bugs. PRICING VSE Web Site Turbo costs $ 49.95 US. It can be ordered online at "http://vse-online.com/order". DISTRIBUTION AND DOWNLOAD LINKS VSE Web Site Turbo...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE McWare USA Ships McSerialnumber PRO McSerialnumber Pro is the world premier of a integrated registration, design and administration Database for developers and ISV's Munich, Germany - Oldsmar, Florida US. -- May 29, 2000 -- McWare USA today announced McSerialnumber Pro, the commercial successor of McSerialnumber Shareware Edition for the use in e-business environment. McSerialnumber Pro stretches the envelope for a software registration tool from an intelligent Source and Library Generator to a powerful scriptable database application. McSerialnumber Pro offers the perfect solution to create and assign registration numbers to your registries. Choose from a combination of up to three freeform textual customer input name types as identifiers and we guarantee a great flexibility to produce unique identification keys. All Cross-platform Sources and Library's, generated by an easy-to-use wizard, prepare the appropriate functionality for seamless integration into your...

WS4D/eCommerce 3.2b19 is now available! Complete information is available at http://www.mdg.com/4dws/3.2/ Overview: * Auto creation of PDF's of Confirmation Orders * Auto Printing of approved/completed web orders * Canadian GST/PST Tax Support * New Tag (User_Platform), returns Mac, Win, Other * New Tag (User_Browser), returns NetScape, Microsoft, Other * Added Product Actions - Sending Email/Adding Realms after Order is approved via Authorizenet * Added POP support for module WS4D/eEmail-Search * Supports Unique Products on StoreFront * Ability to Show Quantity Available * Different HTML Pages for each Product * Ability to Send Emails per product after order is Approved * Ability to Add User To Realms per product after order is Approved * Expiring Users for Realms * Bug Fixes 3.2 will be a free upgrade for anyone running version 3.0 - 3.1.1. Michael Ginsberg Internet: MAILTO:mike@mdg.com MDG Computer Services, Inc. Web...

ALADDIN SHIPS SPRING CLEANING 3.5 - THE #1 MAC UNINSTALLER NOW INCLUDES iCLEAN FOR FAST INTERNET FILE CLEANUP; FASTER, MORE FOCUSED SEARCHES Spring Cleaning(tm) 3.5 Now Easily Cleans Accumulated Internet Cache Files, Cookies, Histories, and More, Ensuring Net Privacy Watsonville, CA-May 25, 2000 - Aladdin Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aladdin Systems Holdings, Inc. (OTC NQB: ALHI), today announced Spring Cleaning 3.5 is now shipping. Spring Cleaning is the number one uninstaller for the Macintosh and provides 13 powerful utilities to help users clean and organize their hard drive by searching for and removing unneeded files, folders, applications, and more. Spring Cleaning 3.5 now helps users easily rid their hard drives of unwanted Internet-related clutter with its new iClean(tm) desktop tool. Spring Cleaning 3.5's searches are faster and more focused because of more powerful search filtering, enhanced search options, and an improved interface. The popularity of the...

May 25th, 2000 BEENOX STUDIOS inc. is proud to announce a new major release of its role-playing game creation software for Macintosh: the Coldstone Game Engine. This new version takes the creator to a higher step in game design with the introduction of a new feature, NEVER BEFORE SEEN in a game or scenario development tool on the Macintosh: a multi layer graphic system in the map engine allowing the creation of breath taking environments. The user can add realistic nature elements like trees, rocks, lakes and mountains as well as 3D rendered houses and furniture. The 32x32 pixels grid worlds are over! Like always, the map editor comes with all the flexibility you need to quickly understand and master this new feature: sample maps and stamp pictures, updated contextual help and user manual. A new stand-alone tutorial game is also available to download from our web site if you want to see what Coldstone can do by yourself. It includes a demonstration of the map engine and the mouse...

For Immediate Release Dr. Bott LLC ships MoniSwitch Pro 8, for sharing up to 8 computers from a single keyboard, monitor and mouse. Portland, OR - May 23, 2000 (http://www.drbott.com/prod/ms8.html) Dr. Bott is pleased to announce MoniSwitch Pro 8 which allows the sharing of monitor and USB peripherals between up to eight computers. Only Dr. Bott offers an economical and stylish way to share a single monitor and USB peripherals between diverse operating systems such as Mac OS 8/9, Mac OS X Server, Windows 98/2000 and any other OS that supports hot swappable USB. Pixar Animation Studios' Mac Systems Guru, Cory Knox said "I haven't had any trouble with MoniSwitch at all. It's been a tremendous help in allowing me to reclaim my desk space! I've used many different switches from many different companies, and this one is by far the best. Thank you so much for such a great product!" * Standard VGA (HD15) video interface. * Looks and works great with new G4s! * Supports power on through Mac...

Ekim Software releases MailCall 1.6.1 - e-mail notification software to keep you informed of the status of your mailboxes Ekim Software - 5/24/2000 - Ekim Software announces an update of their popular e-mail notification software, MailCall. MailCall is an e-mail notification application. While running, MailCall preforms periodic checks of your account(s) and notifies you when new mail has arrived or when you have mail in your box. MailCall has many options that allow you to customize its behavior so it fits your needs. MailCall can be especially useful for people who use e-mail a lot and don't want to keep a large application, such as Outlook Express, open in the background hogging your RAM and CPU time. MailCall will notify you when mail has arrived in any of your accounts and then you can launch your favorite e-mail application with the click of a button and go fetch that new mail. Both POP3 and IMAP4 protocols are supported in MailCall. Version 1.6.1 adds the ability to have...

Kodak Licenses Apple's QuickTime Kodak Digital Cameras to Integrate QuickTime for Quick & Easy Video Creation ROCHESTER, New York and CUPERTINO, California-May 23, 2000-Eastman Kodak Company today announced it has licensed Apple's QuickTime for future Kodak digital cameras currently in development. The licensing agreement allows Kodak to build and sell digital cameras that let users quickly and easily create video clips in the popular cross-platform QuickTime. "The ability to use multimedia files in the Macintosh or Windows operating environments was an important consideration," said Willy Shih, senior vice president, Eastman Kodak Company, and president, Digital & Applied Imaging. "QuickTime is established, broadly used and, most important, easy to use. These are key characteristics when you want to make technology broadly useful and fun for consumers." "QuickTime is the highest-quality and easiest to use software for sharing video, audio and digital images with friends and...

Register.com Accreditation Agreement Renewed by ICANN New York, NY - May 23, 2000 -- Register.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCOM), one of the leading domain name registrars on the Internet, today announced that its Accreditation Agreement has been renewed for a five year term ending April 26, 2005 by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN accreditation allows registrars to register Internet domain names with .com, .net and .org extensions. "We are pleased to have our Accreditation Agreement renewed," said Richard Forman, President and CEO of register.com. "We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with ICANN as our company and the industry continue to grow and change." About register.com Register.com, Inc. (www.register.com) provides domain name registration and other Internet services for individuals and businesses that wish to have a unique and branded identity on the Internet. Register.com was the first registrar to compete in the domain registration...

For Immediate Release Expanded MACWORLD Conferences Offer New Educational Opportunities for Mac Users Framingham, MAMay 22, 2000 "Digital Video Everywhere," "iMovie Magic" and "PalmPilot & MacintoshA Match Synched in Heaven" are some of the exciting new conference sessions that will be presented at MACWORLD Conference & Expo/New York 2000. Offering up-to-date educational opportunities to Users of all skill levels, dozens of new conference sessions exploring the latest advancements in the industry have been added to the leading conference program for Macintosh users. Presented by renowned industry experts, the comprehensive four-day program will feature the most complete conference program available for Mac users of all disciplines, including educators, small office/home office users, musicians, digital video creators, Internet users and those looking to improve on their operating system skills. Consisting of more than 100 conference sessions plus 16 full-day workshops, the...

Blue World is pleased to announce the creation of LiveMotion Talk, an email discussion forum for discussing Adobe's new LiveMotion product. LiveMotion Talk is a forum for users to provide user-to-user support, tips and feedback. All messages posted to LiveMotion Talk are archived in a Web searchable database. All interested parties are cordially invited to join LiveMotion Talk by sending an email message to requests@blueworld.com with the words "subscribe livemotion" (without quotes) in the body of the message. Additional information is available at http://www.blueworld.com/blueworld/lists/livemotion.html.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CDFINDER 2.8 RELEASED May 21, 2000, Moerfelden, Germany The author today announced the immediate availability of version 2.8 of CDFinder, the popular shareware disk catalog tool for the Macintosh. The new version is free for all registered owners of CDFinder and can be obtained from the CDFinder-Homepage (http://www.cdfinder.de/). A single user license is $20, multi user licenses are available. CDFinder is a very fast and powerful tool to create catalog files of your hard disks, floppies, ZIP's and anything else that spins. It has a great user interface and very useful search functions. CDFinder supports drag&drop and requires at least a 68020 or PowerPC CPU. While System 7 is required, CDFinder is also fully compatible to MacOS 9. A special feature is the multi-lingual user interface (German/French/English/Italian/Swedish/Chinese). New features in CDFinder 2.8: - CDFinder can now import existing catalog files of CatFinder and Disk Tracker 1.x. - .zip archive...

TERRA SOFT COMPLETES FIRST FOUR WEEKS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ROAD SHOW Cupertino, California -- 19 May 2000 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of Linux solutions for PowerPC(TM) microprocessors, has completed the first four weeks of the six-week, six-city Science & Technology Road Show 2000 with Apple Computer. Kai Staats, founder and CEO of Terra Soft Solutions states, "A fantastic experience for us. We have presented our parallel, high-performance computing solution to a variety of enthusiastic audiences--well received all around. This past month has been educational for both our audience and our own development team as we have met some of the brightest minds, the most advanced researchers of our times. These are the people who made commodity parallel computing a reality." Terra Soft Solutions has demonstrated a 4 node, 500 MHz, G4 cluster running Black Lab Linux at MIT, Harvard, Argonne and Fermi National Labs outside of Chicago, the National Institute of...

WS4D/eCommerce 3.2b17 is now available! Complete information is available at http://www.mdg.com/4dws/3.2/ Overview: * Auto creation of PDF's of Confirmation Orders * Auto Printing of approved/completed web orders * Canadian GST/PST Tax Support * New Tag (User_Platform), returns Mac, Win, Other * New Tag (User_Browser), returns NetScape, Microsoft, Other * Added Product Actions - Sending Email/Adding Realms after Order is approved via Authorizenet * Added POP support for module WS4D/eEmail-Search * Supports Unique Products on StoreFront * Ability to Show Quantity Available * Different HTML Pages for each Product * Ability to Send Emails per product after order is Approved * Ability to Add User To Realms per product after order is Approved * Expiring Users for Realms * Bug Fixes 3.2 will be a free upgrade for anyone running version 3.0 - 3.1.1. Michael Ginsberg Internet: MAILTO:mike@mdg.com MDG Computer Services, Inc....

The SCRIPTOLOGY FileMaker Hands-On Training Seminars 2 courses for serious FileMaker Pro 3.0/4.0/5.0 users, based on the popular Scriptology book and CD ROM COURSE CONTENT ---------------------------- FileMaker Pro Scripting and Calculations - 3 day Intermediate class - 2 day Advanced class INSTRUCTOR -------------------- John Mark Osborne (co-author of Scriptology) LOCATIONS ----------------- Santa Monica (Los Angeles), Washington D.C., Chicago, Boston, Palm Desert (FileMaker Developer Conference) and San Francisco Bay Area. These courses can also be brought directly to your company (contact us for details). DATES ---------- See below *NEW* The courseware for these classes has been newly revised to include new FileMaker Pro 5.0 features. Exisiting exercises have been completely rewritten based on the class room experience of teaching these classes over 25 times. ---- REGISTRATION ---------------------- To register for a Scriptology course, please visit: http://www.databasepros.com/...

*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *** San Jose, CA - Michael Amorose today released Goo Library 1.5, a free programming library designed to help assist Macintosh developers in porting their software to the Carbon programming interface. Goo Library is an extensive Carbon Macintosh programming library that provides many useful functions for Macintosh software developers. Libraries are provided in PowerPC binary format compatible with CodeWarrior Beta Tools for Mac OS X. Version 1.5 of Goo Library offers these new enhancements: - Goo Library is now fully Carbonized. - Carbon wrapper API routines for replacing existing multiple Carbon Macintosh toolbox calls with a single wrapper call. - FireWire Utilities compatible with the Apple FireWire SDK 2.3.3. - USB Utilities compatible with the Apple USB SDK 1.3.5 - Full online and downloadable HTML documentation. Developers can download the free library from the web at http://www.michael-amorose.com/goolibrary/ Goo Library 1.5 is freely distributable if...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Jose, CA, 17th May 2000: AD Software announces the OOFILE Professional Server Edition which adds support for Faircom's popular Faircom Server. Faircom Server provides scalable client-server database technology from 68K Mac through to the largest Unix servers. On sale now at DevDepot at WWDC Show Special Prices. More information on this new member of the OOFILE family at http://www.oofile.com.au after WWDC. OOFILE Professional Server Edition extends the OOFILE database API. The Open Source OOFILE report writer, graphing engine and PowerPlant forms integration software can all be used with the extended database API. Changing an existing GUI application to be server based requires less than 20 lines of code be changed to gain transaction-based client-server (TCP/IP or Appletalk) access at incredible speeds. For more information on the power of the Faircom Server see http://www.faircom.com About AD Software: AD Software was founded in 1984 to provide a range of...