STRAIGHT AHEAD SHIPS DESKTOP MAGICIAN 2.0 - ALL ENVIRONMENT MAGIC WAND Desktop Magician 2.0 makes it easy to save and restore your complete desktop environment, including content and placement of icons, open windows, running applications, open documents, mounted servers, mounted disk images, and monitor settings. Felton, CA-November 30, 2000 - Straight Ahead Software today announced Desktop Magician 2.0, a feature rich desktop utility for Macintosh, is now shipping. Desktop Magician takes a broad step forward in this release, offering a wide range of options for saving an restoring your Mac's running environment for whatever purpose you need. Desktop Magician 2.0 Features: * New toolbar (floating or non-floating as desired) for convenient access * New contextual menu plug-in * Save and restore sets of open Finder windows for particular projects, as needed * Save and restore sets of running applications and open documents * Save and restore sets of mounted servers and mounted disk...

Connectix Announces Virtual PC 4.0 Run Windows applications up to twice as fast as previous version SAN MATEO, Calif.- December 5, 2000 - Connectix Corporation today announced the Virtual PC 4.0, the newest version of its best-selling and award-winning PC emulation product for the MacintoshTM. This new version adds significantly improved performance, expandable disk images, an enhanced user interface and the ability to run multiple operating systems to Virtual PC's already impressive list of features. Virtual PC will appeal to a whole new and larger segment of Mac users due to its increased performance and new features, said Mitchell Cipriano, Connectix vice president of marketing, Current users will also benefit by being able to run more demanding Windows applications while working more efficiently. Virtual PC Product Line The Connectix Virtual PC product line bridges the compatibility gap between Mac and PC environments by allowing Mac users to run PC applications, access Windows...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 2000 BLUE WORLD RELEASES WEB DATA ENGINE 3.6.6.2 Maintenance update addresses minor issues. Bellevue, WA--December 4, 2000--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine(tm)--today released Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6.6.2, a free maintenance update to the recently released 3.6.6 version of Lasso Web Data Engine. The update includes fixes to the FM Remote and Java Adapter modules included with Lasso Web Data Engine 3.6.6. What's Fixed The following issues have been addressed: - FM_Remote_DataSource.mod: An issue where related fields could not be used as search arguments. - Java_Adapter.mod (Macintosh Only): A compatibility issue with third party LJAPI modules. About Lasso Web Data Engine Lasso Web Data Engine is leading cross-platform Web Application Server software allowing Web developers to quickly serve powerful data-driven Web sites. Lasso's innovative architecture provides an industry first multi-platform, database-independent and...

DATE: November 28, 2000 SUBJECT: Orange Micro to Develop USB 2.0 Apple Macintosh System Software for 2.0 Peripheral OEM's Anaheim, CA - OEM USB 2.0 System Software for Apple Systems Orange Micro is offering on an OEM license for its Apple Macintosh extension software which will be necessary for all USB 2.0 devices for early operation on the Apple Systems. Apple Macintosh Beta extension will be available for USB 2.0 Hi-Speed developers at the beginning of January. Orange Micro OEM 2.0 Apple extensions will allow USB 2.0 Hi-Speed peripheral manufacturers to begin early development for this new technology interim to the availability of Apple's USB 2.0 solution. This will allow peripheral manufacturers to offer Mac USB 2.0 solutions simultaneously with Windows USB 2.0 compatibility. Microsoft has already developed USB 2.0 system software which is available now for developer testing. Starting in February 2001 Orange Micro will be offering their complete line of OrangeUSB 2.0 Hi-Speed...

OPEN DOOR NETWORKS ANNOUNCES "WHO'S THERE?" FIREWALL ADVISOR ASHLAND, OR. -- November 27, 2000 -- Open Door Networks Inc. today announced its new "Who's There?" Firewall Advisor. Available immediately as a public beta release, "Who's There?" provides the next step in Internet security by helping users analyze and investigate the ever-increasing number of access attempts to their Macintosh. With "Who's There?" users can determine the level of risk of an "attack" detected by their personal firewall, find the name, email address and phone number of an administrator associated with the attacker's network, and even automatically draft an email to that administrator. With the ever-growing number of computers connected to the Internet through "always on" connections, there has been a significant increase in the number of hackers attempting to infiltrate those machines. Personal firewalls have been developed to thwart those attempts. As the number of attempts have increased, however, users...

StoneTablet Publishing Releases StoneTable 4.0.9 Update with MacOS X support Portland, OR--November 27, 2000--StoneTablet Publishing today announces the immediate availability of version 4.0.9 of StoneTable(tm), the feature rich List Manager replacement. Among the changes which are part of version 4.0.9 includes support for both MacOS X and CodeWarrior 6. Future releases will provide improved support for the Aqua Interface. Upgrades for all registered owners of any version of StoneTable 4.0 are free and may be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.teleport.com/pub/vendors/stack/Install_StoneTable_4.0.9.hqx New customers may purchase StoneTable for the special price of $100 until December 31, 2000. Additional information about StoneTable including ordering information, examples of the functionality, and a working "classic" demo can be found at http://www.teleport.com/~stack. StoneTable - THE replacement library for the List Manager info: http://www.teleport.com/~stack demo: ftp://ftp.teleport....

PRESS RELEASE November 26, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE" MACINTOSH ASTRONOMY SIMULATION SOFTWARE NOW SHIPPING URL: http://www.syz.com/DU/mac/ Just in time for Christmas, Syzygy Research & Technology Ltd. is pleased to announce that after more than four years of development, our revolutionary astronomy simulation software package, "The Digital Universe", is now shipping. We now have copies of the product in stock and in most cases are able to ship orders within 24 hours. Some of the key features of "The Digital Universe" include: - The user has the ability to view and retrieve extensive information on any of the approximately 20 million objects provided with the software, including stars, galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, the planets and their moons, comets, asteroids, and Earth-orbiting spacecraft and satellites. - The software can generate views of the night sky for any date from 100,000 BC to 100,000 AD for any location on Earth, with a professional level of...

Subject: Double Updates: FaxBee (tm) 1.2 and The ZipBurst (tm) 2.0 CGI beta5 From: David M. Dantowitz (david@dantowitz.com) We've just released FaxBee 1.2, which addressed a bug with MacOS 9 and released what is likely the final beta for The ZipBurst 2.0 CGI (Lite and Pro). FaxBee is used to generate faxes from text messages via it's drop box (for any application to create) or from email messages received by the EIMS or SIMS mail servers. see http://www.FaxBee.com/ Also note that the price increase for FaxBee has been extended to Nov 30th. --- The ZipBurst 2.0 CGI comes in two flavors. The Lite version lets you serve an UNLIMITED number of databases in an unlimited number of domains. It support searching on multiple fields, sorting on multiple fields, and all sorts of report tags. The latest release includes a tag that lets you change the MIME type returned by your server to match you needs (e.g. set the return type to "application/vnd.ms-excel" to have the user's browser save files...

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GmbH Softwarepark Hagenberg A-4323 Hagenberg AUSTRIA fax: +43 (7236) 3338-30 email: voodoo@unisoftwareplus.com www: http://www.unisoftwareplus.com/products/voodoopersonal.html Subject: VOODOO Personal 2.0 Public Beta - The Version Organizer that Saves the Evolution of Your Work HAGENBERG, AUSTRIA, November-23-2000 -- UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GmbH is pleased to announce a public beta version of its new version organizer VOODOO Personal 2.0. VOODOO Personal 2.0 is the much improved successor of VOODOO 1.8 which won the MacWorld/MacTech Eddy award in 1997. "We are extremely happy about the new sibling in the VOODOO family of version control products. VOODOO Personal will finally solve the problems of many people working in a broad range of different areas, from web publishers to designers, from book writers to musicians." said Christoph Reichenberger, VOODOO product manager. "With VOODOO Personal you can store all versions of your...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Automated Solutions Group Announces FileToolkit 3.0.2 Update Huntington Beach, CA - November 21, 2000: Automated Solutions Group today announced the release of FileToolkit 3.0.2, a 4th Dimension plug-in which provides a variety of enhanced and optimized document management and network operation routines. FileToolkit for 4D (FTK) adds over 100 new commands to the 4D language, providing a variety of enhanced and optimized document management and network operation commands. FileToolkit provides a complete set of routines for performing standard and enhanced Finder or Explorer operations. With its unique use of low-level Macintosh and Windows API routines to perform all internal operations, FTK provides significant performance increases in all Finder or Explorer tasks. In addition, FileToolkit includes a number of standard file management routines (such as determining if a file or folder exists, deleting and moving documents, etc.) all using same optimized methods...

NetCloak 3.1 Made Even Easier For Web Developers Crystal Lake, IL, November 16, 2000 -- Maxum Development Corporation today announced the release of NetCloak 3.1. This significant new version offers several important new features and upgrades, but the most notable change is in NetCloak's improved ease-of-use. For example, the User's Guide has been broken into 2 separate manuals, making getting started easier for new users while improving access to reference information for advanced developers. In addition, installation has been streamlined and new tutorials and examples have been added with detailed descriptions that bring new developers up to speed quickly with NetCloak's powerful capabilities. The centerpiece of NetCloak 3.1's improved usability is a complete set of Dreamweaver extensions which make creation of NetCloak-powered dynamic pages easier than ever before. NetCloak commands can now be added to pages using a NetCloak objects palette and interactive property inspectors, so...

From: Michael S Kluskens (CtoFB3@yahoo.com) Subject: Press Release: CtoFB3 0.4.0d Press Release Michael Kluskens announces an exciting new utility program for Mac Software Development CtoFB3 0.4.0d CtoFB3 is a program that converts most aspects of "C-Language" functions into Staz Software's FutureBASIC^3. This enables C code resources to be available to BASIC programmers (its major benefit) but also allows difficult to read C code to represented in a high level structured BASIC language which reads similar to Process Description Language (PDL) CtoFB3 is still in the developmental stage and has been released for public preview since it already provides major benefits to programmers converting C code: Most common C statements and operators are currently handled. Code fragments and entire programs can be converted, including those containing multiple nested include statements. Major Features Keywords handled: for, if, else, return, sizeof, static, strlen, while Long and short...

Newer Releases MAXpowrX - OS X Driver for MAXpowr G3 Upgrades Displays their commitment to OS X with the Introduction of G3 Drivers WICHITA, KS, USA - November 17, 2000 - Newer Technology, the technology leader in Apple [NASDAQ: AAPL] Macintosh CPU upgrades, demonstrates their support of OS X with the introduction of prototype drivers for their G3 ZIF and G3 PCI cards. The drivers are specifically for Newer's MAXpowr G3 CPU upgrades. They will not function with other third party cards. The new MAXpowrX Driver will allow tens of thousands of MAXpowr G3 Users to immediately begin examining OS X. The MAXpowrX Driver unleashes the power of the MAXpowr G3 upgrade cards. The drivers are immediately available for download. They can be accessed on Newer Technology's web site at http://www.newertech.com. These drivers enable the current version of OS X Public Beta to correctly interact with Newer's G3 cards in the following machines: PowerMac G3 Desktop - beige PowerMac G3 Mini Tower - beige (...

SuSE Linux 7.0 PowerPC Edition Now Available Oakland, California - SuSE Linux, the international technology leader and solutions provider in Open Source operating system software, announced the release of SuSE Linux 7.0 PowerPC Edition. SuSE Linux 7.0 for the PowerPC has numerous improvements over its predecessor. In addition to the renowned comprehensive manual, the 5 CDs of this edition contain more than 1,000 applications for virtually any purpose. This includes image processing software, desktop applications, emulators, and the wide range of available window managers, network tools and editors. The inclusion of MoL (Mac on Linux) allows users to access a network-capable MacOS in the window or full-screen mode. In addition to the stable and reliable KDE 1.1.2 graphical user interface, the PowerPC Edition includes the highly anticipated beta version of KDE 2.0, which constitutes the next generation of the award-winning KDE series. KDE is a powerful, modular, and Internet-focused...

November 16, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PREORDERS FOR "THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE" MACINTOSH ASTRONOMY SIMULATION SOFTWARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED URL: http://www.syz.com/DU/mac/ Syzygy Research & Technology Ltd. is pleased to announce that pre-orders are now being accepted for the much anticipated Macintosh release of our revolutionary astronomy simulation software package, "The Digital Universe". Shipment of the product will begin as soon as we receive the CDs and boxes from the publishing company, expected by the end of November. Some of the key features of "The Digital Universe" include: - Extensive information is available on nearly 20 million objects, including stars, planets, moons, Earth-orbiting satellites, comets, asteroids, nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters. - The software can generate views of the night sky for any date from 100,000 BC to 100,000 AD for any location on Earth, with a professional level of accuracy considering effects such as precession, proper motion, nutation...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2000 BLUE WORLD SHIPS LASSO STUDIO 1.7 FOR ADOBE GOLIVE 5.0 Lasso Studio(tm) 1.7 for Adobe(r) GoLive(tm) 5.0 Significantly Eases the Process of Building Data-Driven Web Sites Bellevue, WA--November 15, 2000--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of the Web Data Engine(tm)--today released Lasso Studio 1.7 for Adobe GoLive 5.0. Lasso Studio 1.7 for Adobe GoLive 5.0 enables efficient creation of dynamic, database-driven Web sites powered by Blue World Lasso Web Data Engine. The release introduces new features to the award-winning Lasso Studio and represents the first large-scale development effort using the new SDK (Software Development Kit) offered in Adobe GoLive 5.0. Lasso Studio for GoLive delivers on commitments made in the strategic alliance between Blue World and Adobe Systems announced August 28, 2000. "Lasso Studio is reknowned for offering ease-of-use without compromising robust features, allowing Web designers and developers to quickly...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Image and HTML optimizer now available in version 4 Germany, 15 November 2000 - Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) announced today the release of VSE Web Site Turbo 4.0. 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 web pages load as quickly as possible. According to a Web usability study by the Georgia Institute of Technology, Net users rate slow-loading web pages as the biggest problem online. VSE Web Site Turbo solves that problem. NEW TO THIS VERSION The new version has a whole new interface to make the application even easier to use. Also, optimizing web pages and images is now faster and several bugs have been fixed. VSE Web Site Turbo 4 now optimizes files now optimizes files better that have been created with Netscape Composer. PRICING VSE Web Site Turbo costs $ 49.95 US....

For Immediate Release First Complete file browser and file management tool for the Mac Toronto, Canada, November 14, 2000 - Rage Software announced today the release of Macintosh Explorer 1.7. A major upgrade to the fully featured file browser and file management tool for the Mac. Macintosh Explorer allows easy manipulation of your files and folders and helps you find your files and folders in a quick and easy environment. Macintosh Explorer helps you easily cut, copy and paste files as well as change extended info. You can also delete unused files, backup files/folders, store favorites, preview files and much more. New To This Version This version includes many new features. The biggest improvement is the speed increase. Macintosh Explorer is now up to 80% faster while listing files and supports 32 bit icons. There are new style buttons which look nicer, and require less memory. The notepad has been greatly improved and now includes the ability to change font, style, colour, and size...

INSIDER WEB SITE OPTIMIZER ENHANCES JAVASCRIPT, ASP, AND XML SUPPORT SpaceAgent 2.5 Makes Web Pages Load and Render Over 30% Faster November 13, 2000 [Carlsbad, California] Insider Software today announced the release of SpaceAgent 2.5, which improves the website optimizer's power to accelerate JavaScript, Active Server Page (ASP) and XML code. The new enhancements add to SpaceAgent's powerful arsenal of web site optimizing capabilities. In addition, the new version brings a free functional demo mode to the SpaceAgent website optimizer product family. NEW FULL-FEATURED DEMO VERSION Insider offers a free demo version of SpaceAgent that lets designers, web professionals, webmasters optimize a web page at a time to test how SpaceAgent speeds up their sites. After buying the full version, users can simply drop an entire folder onto the SpaceAgent icon and it optimizes every page and image contained in the folder's hierarchy. JAVASCRIPT, XML, AND ASP OPTIMIZER DELIVERS COMPILER BENEFITS...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2000 - Austin, Texas / FirewireDirect.com, Inc., a company specializing in IEEE 1394, FireWire and iLINK peripherals and accessories for Windows, Macintosh and Linux based computers today announced the newest addition to their award winning PCI FireWire upgrade card line, the UltraFIRE Plus, a FireWire and ATA Ultra-100 RAID PCI Combo Host adapter. The UltraFIRE Plus PCI combo card comes in a time of explosive growth of FireWire peripherals and electronic devices, with large numbers of users ready to add FireWire capability to their PCs. The new card from FirewireDirect is unique among FireWire upgrade solutions in that it adds a 2 Channel ATA Ultra-100 internal RAID connection. With its built-in PCI to PCI bridge the UltraFIRE Plus card integrates 400Mbps IEEE 1394-FireWire and ATA/IDE RAID levels 0, 1 and 0+1 functions on the same board. The UltraFIRE Plus includes FireWire bus power support and offers three external and one internal fully OHCI...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRONTBASE, INC. UNVEILS FRONTBASE FOR MAC OS X PUBLIC BETA Standards-compliant, scalable relational database server available now LAKE FOREST, CA., November 9, 2000 - FrontBase, Inc., today announced FRONTBASE 2.18, the first relational database server available for Mac OS X Public Beta. FRONTBASE 2.18 is designed to be the foundation for dynamic and scalable website deployments on Mac OS X and a natural choice for WebObjects developers. "We built much of FRONTBASE 2.18 in Cocoa for fast, native performance on Mac OS X and excellent interoperability with WebObjects," said Geert B. Clemmensen, founder and CTO of FrontBase, Inc. "With FRONTBASE 2.18, developers now have the tools to deliver high-availability, enterprise level systems and dynamic web sites with 100% Apple solutions." "Mac OS X is designed to be an outstanding platform for web development," said Clent Richardson, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations, "We're excited to see FrontBase...

For Immediate Release FileMaker Pro Now Capable of Financial Features Not Previously Available Livermore, CA -- Nov. 07, 2000 -- ISO Productions, Inc., a leading provider of FileMaker Pro resources, announced the immediate availability of the Ranges Plug-in for FileMaker Pro, versions 4.x/5.x, co-developed with leading Plug-in developers at TROI Automatisering. The Ranges Plug-in brings new ideas to the FileMaker Pro plug-in market and continues to extend the power of this easy-to-use database. First, the functions of the plug-in allow developers to add dynamic range-based features to their FileMaker Pro solutions. Second, the One Price License eliminates the need to purchase a seat license for each computer where the plug-in will be used! This saves people time and money when developing distributed database solutions. " I have always wanted to be able to quickly view subsets of date-based information, like those found in Quicken." said Matt Petrowsky, President of ISO Productions. "...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mac search engine tool now checks ranking on 37 search engines Germany, 8 November 2000 - Voget Selbach Enterprises (VSE) released today an extension to their web site promotion tool VSE Be Found Professional. New web based businesses appear every day and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for small and medium-size companies to achieve high rankings on search engines. VSE Be Found Professional provides such companies with a tool that allows them to see exactly how their web site ranks in the top search engines for any search request. If it shows that a web site doesn't have a good ranking, VSE Be Found Professional offers a variety of tools to improve the ranking, including a META tag manager and a search engine submitter that submits to over 180 search engines. NEW TO THIS VERSION The new version adds many new search engines to the ranking checker of VSE Be Found Professional so that it now checks the ranking on 37 popular search engines. That makes VSE...

Press Release MacSpeech, Inc. 3 Executive Park Drive Bedford, NH 03110 Phone (603) 626-5111 http://www.macspeech.com For Immediate Release - November 3, 2000 MacSpeech Announces Availability of iListen PR3 Bedford, New Hampshire, November 3, 2000: Macintosh speech recognition authority, MacSpeech, Inc., announces the availability of iListen PR3, its next generation speech recognition program. This will be the last preview release before the final version is ready for shipping. "iListen PR3 builds on our highly successful PR1 release, and our PR2 updater which was released last month," said MacSpeech Chief Evangelist Chuck Rogers. "In addition to allowing the user to dictate into virtually any Macintosh application, this release is more stable, improves accuracy, and adds the ability to spell uncommon words or names," said Rogers. iListen PR3 is being released as both a full installer and an updater. Only those with an iListen PR1 CD who have already updated to PR2 will be able to use...