FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Sandra Schneible, 781-687-0784, sandra@barebones.com New BBEdit 5.0.2 Update Now Available Bedford, MA--January 26, 1999--Bare Bones Software, today announced the release of BBEdit 5.0.2, the most recent update to the company's flagship product, BBEdit--the leading Macintosh text and HTML editing tool. BBEdit 5.0.2 brings several enhancements, including multiple selection capability in results browser windows, and fully-nestable persistent includes. This version also incorporates a number of fixes for both the core application and the HTML Tools, and is a recommended update for all users of BBEdit 5.0 and 5.0.1. A detailed list of additions and fixes included in this update, can be found online: (http://web.barebones.com/products/bbedit/rnotes.html). The BBEdit 5.0.2 update is available free of charge to all registered customers who own BBEdit 5.0. The BBEdit 5.0.2 update package may be downloaded direct from the Bare Bones Software web site at: (http...

Press Release - UUIDLib Version 1.0 Released For Immediate Release Glendale, California, January 25, 1998 -- The PandaWave is pleased to announce the release of UUIDLib, a shared library for generating Universal Unique Identifiers. What is UUIDLib? UUIDLib addresses the problem of generating Universally Unique Identifiers, identifiers which are guaranteed to be unique across all platforms throughout the world. UUIDLib uses the algorithm used in the OSF DCE package for generating unique identifiers, 128-bit identifiers which are guaranteed to be unique. Unique identifiers are generated by combining the Ethernet 'MAC' address of a system with the current time measured in 100 nano- second intervals. These identifies may be used as unique identifiers for component-based software, as transaction identifiers or as identifiers for E-mail messages or news postings. These unique identifiers may also be used anywhere else where a unique 'message stamp' needs to be generated. Complete source kit...

Extensis Announces Availability of PhotoGraphics 1.0: Extensis Corporation Offers Advanced Text and Drawing Capabilities Directly in Photoshop with PhotoGraphics 1.0 Portland, OR - January 25, 1999 - Bringing the power of illustration to Adobe Photoshop, Extensis Corporation today announced the availability of PhotoGraphics 1.0. The most advanced tool for creating re-editable basic vector shapes and text on a path within Photoshop, PhotoGraphics streamlines the creative workflow by allowing users to create and design all within one environment. "Photoshop users have been requesting better illustration tools for years. Jumping between Photoshop and their favorite illustration software to create basic vector shapes and text on a path has become a necessary evil," said Myke Ninness, senior product marketing manager, Extensis. "PhotoGraphics puts their favorite illustration and advanced text tools directly inside Photoshop." Powerful Drawing Tools With PhotoGraphics, users can now create...

CodeWarriors, The Mac OS PPC Linker 2.2.2 update corrects problems generating SYM files with full paths on machines where the path is longer than 127 characters. This problem typically manifests as problems debugging PPC code where the debugger reports it cannot find source files. This update is recommended for all CW MacOS users. This archive was submitted on 01/18/1999 (CWPRO4 Release) and occupies 218k of disk space. You can download it at URL: http://www.metrowerks.com/tools/software/updates/ ftp://ftp.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/CWPRO4/MacOS_PPC_Linker_2.2.2Updat.sit - or - ftp://ftp2.metrowerks.com/updates/CWPRO4/MacOS_PPC_Linker_2.2.2Updat.sit - or - ftp://ftp4 - 206.204.30.115/pub/updates/CWPRO4/MacOS_PPC_Linker_2.2.2Updat.sit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 1999 BLUE WORLD ANNOUNCES LASSO SERVER-SIDE JAVASCRIPT MODULE Blue World first to Web-enable FileMaker Pro and ODBC data sources using industry standard JavaScript. Lasso Web Data Engine first language-independent Web application server tool. BELLEVUE, WA - January 21, 1999 - Blue World Communications, Inc. today announced the Lasso Server-Side JavaScript Module allowing Lasso 3 Web Data Engine customers the ability to Web-enable and dynamically control FileMaker Pro and ODBC data sources using industry standard JavaScript across platforms. "The Lasso Server-Side JavaScript Module positions Lasso technology firmly within current and evolving industry standards," said Blue World president and CEO Bill Doerrfeld. "The Lasso Server-Side JavaScript Module allows the huge installed base of JavaScript programmers to build sophisticated database-driven Web applications without acquiring new programming skills." First Language-Independent Middleware Engine...

iTOOL announces first turnkey e-commerce hosting solution for ISPs, Telcos, and Portals iTOOL Enterprise Suite enables Internet businesses to offer complete hosting and web development tools. (January 21, 1999) - Scottsdale, AZ - iTOOL Technologies released today iTOOL Enterprise Suite, an on-site installation version of their iTOOL software. iTOOL is a comprehensive set of web site hosting and development tools. Now any ISP, telco, portal site, or other Internet business can offer powerful online web development and hosting tools. Customers will benefit from instant setup, simple site and store creation wizards, online graphics tools, iEDIT visual page layout tool, and advanced application development tools including browser based database management, Cold Fusion, and Active Server Pages. The iTOOL Enterprise Suite automates the business and administration of web hosting: iTOOL's extensive back-office includes tools for managing the iTOOL system, user accounts, customer service,...

To all, With NetProLive approaching 8 months old, we wanted to get feedback from you on what you like and dislike about the list/service. If you have a moment, please reply to this message with your comments. We can't promise that we'll respond to your comments, or implement them -- but we will read each and every one of them taking them into consideration. Thanks! Neil Ticktin Publisher NetProfessional Magazine

For Immediate Release BrainForest(tm) Professional For Macintosh and Palm Computing(r) Platform Devices Released First Third-party Application to Migrate from Palm Devices to the Desktop BrainForest Mobile Edition 2.1 Also Released (Portland, OR) January 19, 1999 - Aportis Technologies Corp. today announced release of BrainForest(tm) Professional 1.0 for Macintosh(tm) and Palm Computing(r) platform devices. BrainForest is a comprehensive action item organizer, idea tracker, project planner and checklist manager. It is a hierarchical outlining tool that uses an intuitive Trees, Branches & Leaves analogy that allows complete customization of how data is viewed. BrainForest Professional files can be used on any desktop computer or Palm Computing platform device. Also included is a comprehensive User's Guide with a QuickStart tutorial. Availability is immediate as an electronic download commercial product through Aportis' web site, http://www.aportis.com, for US$39.95. Registered...

For Immediate Release Contact: Trexar Technologies, Inc., sales@trexar.com, Phone: (770) 442-8045. Use your Macintosh to enjoy 1,300+ Worldwide Radio & TV Stations on the Net MacTuner(tm), a Macintosh multimedia program from Trexar Technologies, Inc., lets you enjoy more than a thousand live and recorded radio and TV stations on your Macintosh. Using the Internet and your computer's sound card, you can watch and listen to news, talk, sports and information programming, and listen to rock, country, jazz, classical and oldies stations. MacTuner supports RealAudio and RealVideo and brings more than 1,300 stations to your Mac. Your one-time purchase of MacTuner for $22.95 entitles you to free weekly updates of MacTuner's station database, which includes radio and TV outlets from around the globe. There are three easy ways to find the stations you're interested in: MacTuner has world maps, and you can double-click the state or country of your choice to browse its stations. You can...

For Immediate Release MACROMEDIA DELIVERS SHOCKWAVE 7 Major New Version of the Webs Most Popular Player for Interactive Multimedia Available Free at www.macromedia.com San Francisco, Calif. January 19, 1999 Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced that Shockwave(TM) 7, a major new release of the companys popular Web player, is now available for download at no charge from the companys Web site. Shockwaves high performance architecture delivers the richest interactive multimedia experience available on the Internet today. Shockwave 7 boasts an impressive array of new capabilities, including an auto-update feature that ensures Web surfers will always have the latest player. The new version also downloads and starts faster than ever before, providing easy access to interactive multimedia Web experiences regardless of connection speed. Consumers are invited to download the free Shockwave 7 Web player from Macromedias Web site at www.macromedia.com. In a related announcement,...

ValiCert Introduces OCSP VA Suite for Digital Certificate Validation New Entry-level Validation Authority Solution Extends Certificate Checking to a Broad Range of Users and Applications RSA DATA SECURITY CONFERENCE, January 18, 1999 -- ValiCert, Inc., the leading provider of software and services that enable trust and interoperability of digital certificate applications, today announced the availability of its ValiCert OCSP VA Suite, a new entry-level digital certificate validation solution that brings certificate checking to a broad range of organizations and applications. ValiCert's new product is based on the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), a new industry standard for validating certificate status on the Internet. With the OCSP VA Suite, users can integrate digital certificate validation checking into their organization's security system, adding the highest level of protection to their Internet-based commerce and communications. The OCSP VA Suite includes the OCSP VA...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE StayAlive Crash Protection Software for Windows (95/98/NT) Released StayAlive Download url: http://www.tfi-technology.com/downloads.htm London, England -- January 19, 1999 (Software Wire) -- TFI Technology Ltd today announced the release of StayAlive 2.0b, the premier application crash protection software for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Losing hours of work when an application crashes is a painful experience. It is often impossible to recover the work and, of course, it always happens at midnight when the support staff are in bed and the courier is in the lobby. StayAlive 2.0 is demonstrably the best insurance against this scenario. StayAlive 2.0 is a new generation crash protector combining unparalleled performance in an incredibly small package. Tests demonstrate that it out-performs leading competitors in recovering faults that are commonly found in Windows software. Weighing in at a mere 400Kb, this version incorporates a new protection scheme making...

Big Science Company Introduces First Application Server that Understands Plain English "Robotic Knowledge Workers" chat with web customers and access back-office applications SAN DIEGO, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Science Company introduced the world's first application server with a natural language understanding interface today at David Coursey's Showcase '99 in San Diego. Klone(TM) Server, like other application servers, is scalable middleware that extends back-end applications to web clients. But unlike existing application servers that dynamically generate HTML forms and reports, Klone Server uses HTML and streaming media to create simulated, emotionally-intelligent, graphical characters. These characters, called Klones, converse with web users in plain English and function as knowledge workers. "Klones answer the 20% of questions that generate 80% of call volume," says Tom Rearick, president of Big Science Company. "They're available in an instant, all day, everyday. And if they...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NetMind Launches New Enterprise Minder 3.0 New Features Notify Users of Changes to Important Web-based Information Anytime, Anywhere DAVID COURSEY'S SHOWCASE 99/SAN DIEGO, CA -January 18, 1999- NetMind Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of Change Detection solutions for the enterprise and consumer markets, today announced version 3.0 of Enterprise Minder, which will be shown for the first time publicly at David Coursey's Showcase '99 in San Diego, California. Enterprise Minder is NetMind's corporate solution for intranets and extranets that provides an easy way for employees to track important business and personal Web-based information, then be notified of these changes via email or wireless devices. Version 3.0 offers powerful new personalization, customization and security features designed to make viewing, editing and notifying of changes even easier for the corporate employee, with no added effort by the IT manager. David Coursey hand-picked NetMind to...

SiteEditor.com, a revolutionary online content management system, goes live. East Sussex, UK - January 18th 1999. SiteEditor.com, the revolutionary online content management system announced at this year's MacWorld Expo San Francisco goes live today. SiteEditor.com, accessible on the Web at http://www.siteEditor.com/, enables organisations to quickly and efficiently build and maintain web sites in a zero-HTML publishing environment. "What really sets SiteEditor.com apart from other content management products is that it's a web based application. The customer does not have to install any software on their computer other than a standard web browser, available free of charge from Microsoft or Netscape. In addition, there's no hardware to buy and maintain. We host the content management server and the software. The customer accesses our site via the Web to perform all their web site management tasks and finished HTML and graphics files are transferred by FTP to the customer's own web...

The Right Information on Time Comes with Security, Storage Management, and the Most Advanced XML Java technology in the Upgraded Release of DataChannel RIO Bellevue, WA - January 18, 1999 - DataChannel, Inc., the leader in two-way corporate portal infrastructure, today announced the immediate availability of the 3.2 version of DataChannel RIO, the company's flagship product. DataChannel RIO is an XML-enabled solution designed to build a dynamic two-way corporate portal with input (i.e. publishing) and output (i.e. retrieval) capabilities that make Intranets and Extranets easier to use, integrate, manage, and support. With this release, new features and functionality have been added to ensure smoother deployment in a secure environment, help better manage documents and integrate data. This newest release also represents the first implementation of the XML Java parser co-developed by Microsoft and DataChannel in a commercial product. The 45-day trial can be downloaded at http://www....

Intro Rules for Revolutionaries is getting to bookstores, so I'd like to tell you about it. I wrote the book in order to pass along what I've learned about creating revolutions at Apple and beyond--a lot the hard way! The book provides the "hows" of revolutions backed up by extensive real-world examples. The target markets are entrepreneurs, product managers, engineers, marketers, inventors, scientists, and dreamers. Or better yet, anyone with $25. :-) _____ The Key Principles These are the ten key principles of the book: 1. Cogita differenter. (Think different) 2. Don't worry, be crappy. 3. Churn, baby, churn. 4. Break down the barriers. 5. Make evangelists, not sales. 6. Avoid death magnets. 7. Eat like a bird, poop like a elephant. 8. Think digital, act analog. 9. Don't ask people to do what you wouldn't. 10. Don't let bozosity grind you down! In about a week, more information about the book will be available at the Rules for Revolutionaries...

IncWell and MediaLinks to Introduce Java Powered IncWell NetAnimator, Develop Next Generation Roadster Technology January 18, 1999. Chandler, Arizona. IncWell DMG, Ltd of Chandler, Arizona, makers of the advanced, Macintosh-based multimedia development environment SuperCard, closed a wide technology and marketing agreement with Japan-based MediaLinks Corporation, an internet multimedia developer. The agreement will include development of a next generation of Windows based extensions to the SuperCard multimedia family of products, including an upgrade of IncWell's Roadster technology, a plug-in architecture for streaming SuperCard content through the Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer web browsers on Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. "MediaLinks' Java and Windows products and underlying technologies add tremendous value to the web designer's tool box, in addition to providing the ease of use that our customers have come to expect from IncWell. Our agreement will also...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Troi Automatisering releases Troi Serial Plug-in 1.0b1 Alphen a/d Rijn, The Netherlands, January 14, 1998--Troi Automatisering today announced the release of the beta version of Troi Serial Plug-in 1.0b1, for FileMaker Pro 4.0 (or later) on both on Mac OS and Windows. This plug-in gives FileMaker Pro the ability to read from and write to the serial ports of the computer directly from FileMaker. Peter Baanen, company president, states that "This plug-in brings you easy and powerful access to all the computer's serial ports, and works completely cross platform. If you need access to any serial port this plug-in will do it". Key features of the Serial Plug-in are: - Support for high speed connections up to 230 kbps. - Unlimited number of serial ports can be opened. - Buffering of data up to 64k per port. - Dispatch Scripting TM can trigger a script for data entry into database. - Clear sample databases and a user manual to get started quickly. Suggested uses of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOCUMENT EXPRESS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF DOCUMENT EXPRESS 2.0, THE ULTIMATE COMMUNCIATION SOLUTION FOR THE MAC. Solana Beach -- Document Express, Inc. announced today the release of Document Express 2.0, an automated and easy-to-use contact management system geared at obtaining customer and contact information directly from the Internet. Document Express features include auto-reply e-mail, customized e-mail acknowledgements, customized broadcast messaging, and customized broadcast fax using FAXstf's 5.0 software. FAXstf 5.0 is bundled on all Apple iMac computers. Document Express can easily and quickly exchange data from other contact databases, and is ideal for any business looking for a marketing and service advantage. Document Express was developed to facilitate and streamline the consensual relationship between a business and its customers. A Document Express-enabled website can augment any customer service, sales & marketing and support department by...

Fog City Software has released LetterRip Pro 3.0.4. We recommend that all owners of LetterRip Pro update to LetterRip Pro 3.0.4. This is a FREE update for owners of LetterRip Pro. http://www.fogcity.com/lr_download.html Owners of LetterRip v1 or v2 can upgrade for $145 at: https://sales.fogcity.com/lr_upgrade.html To update from any previous version of LetterRip, download the entire installer and run it. The installer will update existing files. You can read about changes and enhancements on the web site: http://www.fogcity.com/lr_features.html

Apple Reports Fiscal First Quarter Profit of $152 Million 49 percent unit growth outpaces industry average CUPERTINO, California-Jan. 13, 1999--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced financial results for its fiscal 1999 first quarter which ended Dec. 26, 1998. For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $152 million, or $.95 per diluted share. These results compare to a net profit of $47 million, or $.33 per diluted share, achieved in the year-ago quarter. Revenues for the quarter were $1.7 billion, up eight percent from the year-ago quarter, and gross margins were 28.2 percent, up from 22.4 percent in the prior year. International sales accounted for 47 percent of the quarter's revenues. The current quarter's results included a $29 million after-tax gain from the sale of 2.9 million shares of ARM Holdings plc. Without this non-recurring item, the Company's net income for the quarter would have been $123 million, or $.78 per diluted share. Sales of 519,000 iMac computers in the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Innovation and Enthusiasm for Mac Platform Showcased at MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco'99 Town Meeting, Conference Programs and Jobs' Keynote Standing-Room Only; Special Interest Areas, Corporate Buyers Alliance Attract High Number of Participants SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 1999 - Nearly 70,000 people flooded MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco last week at the Moscone Convention Center to see new products from more than 460 exhibitors, participate in leading conference programs, hear Apple Computer Inc.'s interim CEO Steve Jobs' keynote and attend a first-ever Town Meeting, among other activities. The Town Meeting, held Jan. 4, kicked off MACWORLD Expo with nearly a dozen industry-related experts-including key analysts and Apple Computer executives addressing the state of the platform and new emerging technologies. Speakers included; Paul Kent, MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco conference chairperson, Bob "Dr. Mac" Levitus, best-selling author, Tim Bajarin, president of Creative...

))) Garage.com News ((( Please join me at garage.com's Bootcamp for Startups, a two-day conference designed especially for high tech and medical science entrepreneurs. This event will feature panels on topics critical to any high tech startup. I am very excited about the distinguished group of panelists who will join us to offer their invaluable wisdom and insight on the startup experience. Speakers include: * Jerry Yang, founder, Yahoo * Les Vadasz, Sr. VP and director of business development, Intel Corp * Rich Karlgaard, publisher, Forbes Magazine * Mike Moritz, general partner, Sequoia Capital * Audrey Maclean, prominent Silicon Valley angel * Mike Volpi, VP of business development, Cisco Systems * Mike Levinthal, general partner, Mayfield Fund These are industry experts who can help you predict, avoid, and manage the many obstacles facing every startup, from finding investors, protecting your intellectual property, perfecting a pitch, and creating a buzz. Join us as the high tech...