Team ASA, Inc. Press Release Seybold San Francisco 1999 August 25, 1999 For Immediate Release Team ASA ships the first Macintosh OS X driver for its Stallion-GE-II family of Gigabit Ethernet Adapters at Seybold 1999. San Diego, CA -- Team ASA Inc., manufacturer of high-performance networking products for PrePress and Digital Media professionals, today begins shipping the Macintosh OS X driver for its Stallion-GE-II family of gigabit ethernet adapters. The driver implements a kernel loadable module under recent releases of Macintosh OS X operating system. Team ASA continues its tradition of being the first in the marketplace to update its drivers to the latest Macintosh Operating System. "We are already obtaining 14 Megabytes a second transfer rate out of our initial Macintosh OS X driver" stated Mark Murray, President of Team ASA. "We expect substantial improvement with the implementation of fat packets (9 K-Byte Jumbo Frames), which is expected in Q-4, 1999", continued Murray. About...

Tabs On The Web is an ACGI that allows you to import a tab delimited file and quickly turn that into a searchable database available on the web. If you have something like an Excel spreadsheet with all your companies extensions in it that you printout whenever there are changes, then TOTW is a perfect solution. TOTW has built in web based administration functions that allow you to maintain and update the information remotely. TOTW is $30 Shareware, fully multi-threaded and compatible with all major Mac web servers from Personal Web Sharing to WebStar. The output is created from HTML template files that are fully customizable for your application. To create a site using TOTW requires a familiarity with HTML and forms, but no programming or database experience. To see some screen shots and try out the online demo, please visit the homepage at: http://www.sentman.com/tabs/index.html

OLYMPUS ANNOUNCES WORLD FIRST 2.5 MEGAPIXEL FILMLESS DIGITAL CAMERA THE C-2500L SLR Exclusive Olympus TruePic Technology Produces More Realistic Photo Quality Images With Color, Contrast and Tonal Gradation August 24, 1999, Melville, NY-- Olympus America Inc., the World Leader in Film and Filmless Photography announced today the C-2500L, the worlds first 2.5 megapixel (1712 X 1368) filmless digital camera in the consumer marketplace (sub $1500 retail price) featuring revolutionary TruePic technology for professional photographic quality. The C-2500L is Olympus most significant filmless digital camera developed for professional digital photographers and computer power users. Significant new features of the C-2500L include an exclusive 2.5 megapixel CCD in an all-in-one SLR camera design with a 3X 9.2 to 28mm aspheric glass zoom lens (36-110mm equivalency in 35mm photography), built-in flash, hot-shoe, full exposure control, and other professional features. As part of the C-2500L...

Escape Information Services is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its DICOM Import Component for QuickTime. The new QuickTime component works on both Mac and Windows, and enhances QuickTime-savvy applications with the ability to import medical images that conform to the DICOM standard. DICOM files are being produced by all major radiology systems, such as CT and NMR imagers. The product currently supports a wide subset of the DICOM standard, such as: * compressed (lossy & lossless JPEG; RLE) and uncompressed * indexed and direct, monochrome and RGB, 8 & 16 bit pixel depth * single and multiple image files, including: - arbitrary addressing of images in multi-image files, in compliance with QuickTime 4.0 (if the aplication supports it) - conversion of multiple-image files to QuickTime movies. A future version will provide API access to DICOM metadata. We are confident that our DICOM/QuickTime integration will catalyze synergies between the two standards,...

NEW! EtherPeekTM for Macintosh Release to Debut at Macworld! AG Group, Inc. will be showcasing EtherPeek for Macintosh 4.0 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco (booth #4220). This new, completely rewritten release, due to ship late Q3 of 1999, adds many new enhancements to an already robust feature set. EtherPeek is an award-winning Ethernet network traffic and protocol analyzer that sets the industry standard for ease-of-use, making the complex tasks of troubleshooting and debugging mixed-platform, multi-protocol networks easy. Key features of the software include real-time and post-capture packet filtering, Plug-ins for expert packet analysis, powerful decoding with support for all major protocol suites (including IP, AppleTalk, Netware IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, NetBIOS, DECnet, SMB, OSI TARP and more), ProtoSpecs(TM) technology for fine delineation of packet type, simple "Make Filter" command for address, protocol and offset filtering creation/modification, real-time utilization statistics...

Oratrix Development BV http://www.oratrix.com/ GRiNS for SMIL WILL TRANSFORM MULTIMEDIA WEB AUTHORING Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 30, 1999) - Oratrix Development BV today announced the release of GRiNS for SMIL V1.0, a unique authoring and presentation system for local and streaming media on the Web. GRiNS/SMIL allows content providers to create adaptive multimedia productions that tailor content to the needs and resources of the user community. Working together with RealNetworks RealSystem G2, GRiNS provides access to the full capabilities of the SMIL language on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX systems. Users on all these platforms can finally design multimedia presentations with adaptive content. According to Dick Bulterman, founder and managing director of Oratrix Development, "GRiNS/SMIL will transform Web multimedia from a one-size-fits-all paradigm to one in which the needs, resources and capabilities of individual users can determine the quality and content provided inside a...

Fresh Start goes Final -- Version 1.0 launched. August 24 1999 -- Murray Yar IT today posted the final version of Fresh Start, a program designed for shared Macintoshes. Fresh Start restores a Macintosh's configuration -- preferences, PRAM and some system settings -- to a standard state at each restart. Fresh Start is aimed at workplace, school, library, stores -- wherever Macs are shared. Advanced home users may also appreciate its features. "Macintoshes are great personal computers" said Mike Hayes, speaking for Murray Yar. "But they are surprisingly difficult to share effectively. Fresh Start addresses one crucial part of the sharing problem -- maintaining a machine's configuration. Fresh Start restores a machine's configuration at every restart, giving users a uniform working environment each time they start to use a shared machine. At the same time, all the flexibility of the Macintosh is at the user's disposal." "By delivering uniformity while maintaining full flexibility,"...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Power On Software Makes the World a Safer Place DiskLock Offers File and Folder Locking and Encryption with a Single Mouse Click DiskLock Version 4.5 Now Protects Latest Mac OS Minneapolis - August 16, 1999 -- Power On Software announced today the immediate availability of a new release of "DiskLock" the world's number one Macintosh security utility. Recently acquired from Symantec Corporation, and formerly known as Norton DiskLock, the product has set the standard for Macintosh data security for the past ten years and offers users virtually unbeatable security with its one click file locking and encryption. DiskLock 4.5 provides support for the latest versions of the Mac OS, including 8.6. This update, the first under the Power On brand, also supports the iMac and the new G3 Blue and White Macintosh line. There is also support for multiple users on the same Macintosh with different security levels for each. In addition, SCSI and IDE drives, both fixed and...

For immediate release: Bitwise 2.2 is now available. August 20, 1999 - Eric Curtis announces the latest release of Bitwise. Bitwise 2.2 is a versatile, yet easy to use calculator with many unique features specifically designed for programmers of personal computers and microprocessors. Bitwise 2.2 is actually two calculators in one; with independent registers for integer and floating point math. New floating point math features include: + Engineering notation + More keyboard shortcuts + Various minor bug fixes Other features include: + Integer and floating point math + Hexadecimal, decimal, octal, and binary conversions + Integer word sizes of 8, 16, and 32 bits + Signed and unsigned integer modes + Sign-extension of registers + Complete set of logical and bitwise operators + Floating point mode supports fixed, scientific, and engineering notation + Backspace key + Pop-up stack register display with register selection + Undo last operation + Macintosh drag & drop support + Built-...

The SCRIPTOLOGY FileMaker Hands-On Training Seminars * FileMaker Pro Demystified * 2 courses for serious FileMaker Pro 3.0/4.0 users, based on the popular Scriptology book and CD ROM from ISO Productions Course Content: FileMaker Pro Scripting and Calculations Locations: - Boston - Washington D.C. - San Jose ---- DATES: Upcoming INTERMEDIATE classes (see curriculum details below) - Sep. 13-15, 1999 (San Jose at FMI headquarters) - Sep. 20-22, 1999 (Boston/Wellesley) - Nov. 15-17, 1999 (Washington, D.C./Reston) Upcoming ADVANCED classes (see curriculum details below) - Sep. 16-17, 1999 (San Jose at FMI headquarters) - Sep. 23-24, 1999 (Boston) - Nov. 18-19, 1999 (Washington, D.C.) NOTE: It is possible to take both the intermediate and advanced scripting class with one trip. In fact, we encourage it with a $240.00 discount for anyone who takes both the intermediate and advanced scripting class. The fee for each class is $995.00. Each attendee receives a copy of...

Free Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack For Macintosh Now Available for Download Ottawa, Canada August 19, 1999 Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR) is pleased to announce that the free* download for Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack for Macintosh is now available from its Web site (www.corel.com/products/macintosh/wpmac35/newdownload). Corel announced in July that it would make Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack for Macintosh available as a free* download. Despite some minor incompatibilities with the latest release of the Mac OS, Corel believes that WordPerfect 3.5 for Macintosh continues to provide great value to the Macintosh community. Corel WordPerfect 3.5 Enhancement Pack for Macintosh, released in August, 1997, is the latest version of this product by Corel. The version that is available for download is a complete product and not just a patch, update or add-on pack to a previous version. This download offers new and existing customers a complete word-...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Latest Traffic Report Beta Update Released Newest beta adds report caching for improved performance SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- August 19, 1999 -- Advanced Reality Communications today announced the latest in a series of major additions to Traffic Report, a software tool for the Macintosh that helps webmasters, marketers and designers visualize the activity that occurs at their web sites. Traffic Report b41 introduces the following new features: A Report Cache. The cache makes it possible to run daily month-to-date or year-to-date reports in the time Traffic Report takes to run a report on a single-day log. By activating the cache, TR will remember the report information it creates from your logs. In subsequent reports, TR just needs to read the portion of your logs that were added since its last report. Improved stability. Traffic Report is designed to be simple to use. Yet it produces sophisticated on-screen and HTML-based reports. Reports that answer, among other...

For Immediate Release Apple and Akamai Reveal Apple Investment to Cement Strategic Agreement CUPERTINO, California and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts-August 18, 1999-Apple and Akamai Technologies today announced further details of their strategic agreement regarding streaming media, as well as revealed an investment by Apple in Akamai. Announced in late July at Macworld Expo in New York City, the strategic agreement centers on the integration of Apple's QuickTime player and streaming server technology with Akamai's global Internet content delivery service to provide Macintosh and Windows users worldwide with one-click access to high-quality streaming video content. In addition to Akamai's integration of QuickTime servers into its network, Apple has selected Akamai as its exclusive network provider for QuickTime TV (QTV). To cement the partnership, Apple invested $12.5 million in June in Akamai, for approximately five percent of the shares of the company at the time the investment was made...

SuperCard-J 3.6 Released Chandler, Arizona - August 18, 1999. Chandler, Arizona-based IncWell DMG, Ltd, developers of the SuperCard advanced multimedia system and ModE Corporation of Japan announced the release of SuperCard-J 3.6, the first fully localized version of the SuperCard product. SuperCard is IncWell's flagship multimedia development system for multimedia designers and educators. SuperCard allows designers to create multi-windowed, frames-based, standalone presentations, allowing easy creation of presentations with a look and feel like a compiled Macintosh OS application. SuperCard Plug-in for MacOS and for Windows allows playback of SuperCard multimedia projects through the Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer web browsers. ModE Corporation, IncWell's Japan republishing partner, introduced SuperCard to Japan earlier this year at MacWorld Expo Tokyo, offering a free upgrade to early adopters to the Japanese localized version. Proactive International, the international...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NetProLive VSE Be Found 1.3 - New version of the web site promotion tool Bonn, Germany, 17 August 1999. Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) announced today the release of a new version of their web site promotion tool VSE Be Found. VSE Be Found is a tool that has been developed to help web masters to obtain a high ranking of their web pages on search engines. The application creates and manages META tags, it has a built-in FTP client and it automatically submits web pages to the most important search engines. VSE Be Found also analyzes web pages and it gives individual tips on how to improve the ranking of the analyzed pages. NEW IN VSE BE FOUND 1.3 The new version fixes a major bug with the built-in FTP client. It also offers many minor improvements and adds the new search engine www.AllTheWeb.com to the search engines it submits to. For further information about VSE Be Found 1.3 visit: -) http://vse-online.com/submit-website/index.html DOWNLOAD AND DISTRIBUTION...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NetProLive VSE Web Site Turbo 3.0 - Image and web page optimizer Bonn, Germany, 17 August 1999. Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) announced today the release of VSE Web Site Turbo 3.0, the successor of the award-winning VSE HTML Turbo 2.1. VSE Web Site Turbo is a tool that strips unneeded data from web pages, resulting in size reductions averaging from 20 to 50 percent based on content. It also optimizes JPEG and GIF images. The object of the application is to make web pages as fast as possible so that web surfers don't leave a web page before it has been loaded. The predecessor of VSE Web Site Turbo has received the Mac Now Editor's Choice Award, 4 stars from MacNN, 4 1/2 stars from ItaliaMac and 4 Stars from MacDownload. NEW IN VSE WEB SITE TURBO 3.0 The new version has a whole new user interface, it is about 3 times faster than the previous version, optimizes GIF and JPEG images by removing Macintosh specific information and comments and it creates a...

August 17, 1999. Highwinds Trading Company (http://www.highwinds.com) is pleased to release SecurePass (1.5), the archiving system for passwords and other security keys that uses modern encryption and cryptography. SecurePass is designed for the user who accesses secure network services or who deals with multiple passwords and keys that are difficult to secure, memorize, use, change, or keep track of. Download SecurePass via FTP at ftp://ftp.highwinds.com, or via "EmailFTP" at mailto:1001-securepass.sit@emailftp.com. Version 1.5 is a major upgrade, not only fixing bugs, but adding new features that make it easy to keep your passwords safe and ready at a moment's notice. The download is a 90 day full-featured shareware demo. Registration is $15. Secure payment is included with the program. The purpose of SecurePass is: a. To give the user maximum password and passkey security, in a flexible and simple environment where one memorizes just one password and has direct access to web...

For immediate release Contact: Sergey Bobrov +7-095-538-6564 DISCOVER THE ENTIRE PC SOFTWARE WORLD ON YOUR MACINTOSH. Lismore Software Systems Ltd. has released Blue Label PowerEmulator version 1.5, a program that allows Macintosh users run PC applications on their computers. Mac owners sometimes need to use PC software which is not yet available on Macs, so they can choose among three opportunities: Buying a PC, buying a PC emulation card, or buying emulation software. Buying emulation software is definitely the least expensive and quite an efficient way to use the software designed for PC. Blue Label PowerEmulator is an efficient PC emulator that allows you to run various types of PC applications on your Mac. With Blue Label PowerEmulator (BLPE) you can successfully install and use DOS, Windows, and Linux on your PowerMacintosh. BLPE is the first emulator that allows you to use Linux fully. You can also use Unix operation systems such RedHat, SuSe, Slackware, and others. Lismore...

AdKnowledge Proves Click Rates Ineffective for Web Marketing Optimization Report Shows Little Correlation Between Click Rates and Conversion Rates; Online Marketers Need to Understand Real Drivers of Brand Awareness and Purchase Behavior Palo Alto, Calif. - August 16, 1999 - AdKnowledge today released its Q2 Online Advertising Report (OAR). This report is a compilation of Web advertising statistics and trend analyses gathered from the AdKnowledge System, and analyzed by the new AdKnowledge eAnalytics division. Together, the AdKnowledge System and eAnalytics enable marketers and agencies to measure, optimize and execute Web marketing campaigns. Leading the reports findings are statistics demonstrating that click rates have little value as indicators for return on investment (ROI) optimization because their correlation to conversion rates is so low. There has been a lot of talk lately about declining click rates, said AdKnowledge Vice President Steve Findley. This new data proves that...

This new, made with a Mac, FileMaker Pro, and Eudora illustrated, interactive, Pocket edition Software & Resource Guide for the Palm Computing Platform(TM) features over 100+ innovative and new solutions from developers around the world. See http://www.palmtoppublishing.com/affinity for details or download your copy directly from: http://www.palmtoppublishing.com/distrib/guidev8.sit Many thanks, Forever Macintosh, Trina Clickner trina@palmtoppublishing.com Seattle, WA: tel: 206-923-0901 fax: 206-923-0902 Menlo Park, CA: tel: 650-321-4982 http://www.palmtoppublishing.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE METACREATIONS ANNOUNCES PAINTER 6, POWERFUL UPGRADE TO THE ULTIMATE PAINTING TOOL New Version of the World's Premier Natural-Media Software Offers Breakthrough Paint Technology, Updated Interface, Faster Performance Los Angeles, Calif., (SIGGRAPH), August 10, 1999 -MetaCreations Corporation (Nasdaq: MCRE), the Creative Web company, today announced Painter 6, the feature-packed upgrade to the world's indisputable leader for Natural-Media image creation, enhancement, retouching and compositing. Painter 6 features the next-generation of brush engine technology, as well as remarkable new capabilities to offer unprecedented realism and unlimited creative paint options. Enhanced ease-of-use via an updated user interface, significantly faster performance, superior tablet support, and better workflow integration through industry standard tools and file support make Painter 6 the must-have computer application for artists, graphic designers, and Web content creators....

Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: Kristen Moriarty Phone: 203-268-0030 x3066 e-mail: kmoriarty@dataviz.com MacLinkPlus Deluxe 11.0 YES 2000- Ready for the New Millennium August 10, 1999 Trumbull, CT- DataVi z(R) Inc. a leading maker of file compatibility products has begun shipping the next version of its award-winning MacLinkPlus(R) Deluxe product. MacLinkPlus Deluxe allows Macintosh users to translate between different applications, like Word 98 and AppleWorks(R). Version 11.0 adds new translators as well as updated decoding and decompression technology. For the last 15 years this product has been helping Mac users better communicate and exchange files with the Windows world. "Part of DataViz's success has been because we listen to our customers needs. This upgrade is a direct result of doing that. We have had countless requests for AppleWorks 5.0, as well as requests for the other translators that have been added in version 11.0. We are excited to release this...

REGISTER.COM LAUNCHES "FIRST STEP" PARTNERS PROGRAM For the First Time, E-Businesses of Any Size Can Get Customized, Co-Branded Domain Name Registration Services NEW YORK, NY -- August 9, 1999 Register.com, Inc. (www.register.com), the largest independent domain name registrar on the Internet, today launched the "First Step" Partner program, naming more than 20 Internet businesses as its initial partners. First Step Partners which include Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies, and other e-businesses will receive personalized, co-branded domain registration sites, providing their customers with the easiest and most comprehensive registration services available on the Internet. "For the first time in the history of the Internet, e-businesses have an alternative in who will register .com, .net and .org domain names for their customers," said Richard Forman, CEO and President of register.com. "Before de-regulation of this industry, small and medium on-line services...

PRESS RELEASE Instant Messaging For Sale Pleasantville, NY -- Aug 6, 1999 Abbott Systems is seeking a buyer for AbbottChat, its private, point-to-point instant messaging technology. The product consists of Mac/Windows clients, Server and Chatbot. It is written in C++. Unlike most instant message programs, AbbottChat is designed for private, point-to-point personal AND business applications. It supports chat, file transfer and alert broadcast. More details and a FREE download can be found at: AbbottChat Clients http://www.abbottsys.com/atchat.html AbbottChat Server http://www.abbottsys.com/who.html AbbottChat ChatBot http://www.abbottsys.com/robbie.html Interested parties should contact Ken Abbott at (info@abbottsys.com), or call him at 914-747-3116. Abbott Systems Inc. Web http://www.abbottsys.com Phone 1-800-552-9157, or 914-747-4201 Fax 914-747-9115