FOR RELEASE ON MAY 21, 1999 Contact: Anita Holmgren Phone: 805-963-6983 FAX: 805-962-8202 eMail: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com XTen 6.1: A Powerful, High-Performance X Window Server for Mac OS Supports encrypted passwords for LAN security, multiple password-protected desktops, centralized administration, and OpenGL Santa Barbara, CA, May 21, 1999. Tenon Intersystems today announced an upgrade to its unique X Window server for Power Macintosh. The new X server is the fastest X server on the Macintosh market and the only X server that supports local X Window managers and local X clients. Tenon's X is running in their highly-acclaimed Mach/BSD execution environment, providing the same multi-threaded architecture that is now being touted by Apple in their newly released Mac OS X Server. This foundation allows true X server operation and yields true X server performance, all in an easy-to-use Macintosh application package. The X server runs alongside Macintosh applications, giving...

Press Release: For Immediate Release Contour Introduces the UniTrap(TM) Salem, New Hampshire, May 20,1999- Contour Design, makers of the popular UniMouse, today announced a revolutionary add-on enhancement to the iMac and G3 round mouse. The UniTrap transforms your iMac or G3 mouse to a sleek, comfortable, full-sized mouse. It is a three piece snap-on design consisting of one top shell, one bottom shell, and five tasty flavored interchangeable buttons all in one pack-age. It completely encloses the round mouse to give the user maximum com-fort and control. In addition, the larger contoured button provides easier clicking. "One Advantage of the UniTrap is that it does not add additional width to the already wide 3" diameter of the round mouse," said Timothy Donaghy, Director of Marketing for Contour Design, Inc. "The UniTrap design allows the user to remove the sides of the round mouse to minimize the width, prior to placing it into the bottom shell. One piece slip-on shells currently...

Subject: Analog Helper 1.1 Release From: Gideon Greenspan (gdg@sigsoftware.com) Sig Software is proud to announce the release of Analog Helper 1.1. Analog Helper is a graphical configuration tool for Analog 3, which is a free program to analyse the logfiles from your web server. Analog Helper lets you control and preview the results of hundreds of settings. Version 1.1 adds toggles to all settings lists, support for Navigation Services, more control over Analog's warnings reporting, and more. The Analog Helper page is at : http://www.sigsoftware.com/analoghelper/ Thank you, Gideon Greenspan Sig Software gdg@sigsoftware.com http://www.sigsoftware.com/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NETSCAPE GECKO BROWSING ENGINE AND MOZILLA.ORG WINNING INDUSTRY RECOGNITION WITH GROWING DEVELOPER SUPPORT Mozilla Open Source Development Initiative Receives CNET Builder.com 'Web Innovator Of The Year' Award MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (May 19, 1999) - Netscape, a subsidiary of America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL), today announced growing momentum for Gecko, its next-generation small, fast, and standards-based browsing engine. More than 10,000 open source developers have downloaded the software from mozilla.org and leading companies including Bradbury Software, CiTEC, Cyberworld, NeoPlanet, Sausage Software and Telescan Imagicast are working to integrate it into their products. Netscape Gecko is the first software product from Netscape based on contributions from mozilla.org, the organization chartered with managing Netscape's open source initiative. Earlier this month, CNET Builder.com awarded the second annual "Web Innovator of the Year" award to mozilla.org. ((http://...

Apple Announces Winners of Fourth Annual Software Design Awards CUPERTINO, California-May 19, 1999-Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the winners and runners-up of the fourth annual Apple Design Awards for Mac OS developers. The Apple Design Awards recognize outstanding applications developed for the Macintosh platform over the last year and highlight the creativity and innovation of Apple's developer community. The awards were presented during Apple's recent Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, which this year attracted over 2,500 developers, setting an all-time record for paid attendance. "Developers have rediscovered that Macintosh is where they can create a great business," said Clent Richardson, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Over 3,100 new or updated Mac software titles have been announced in the last year, and these awards honor the best of them." Apple Design Award winners and runners-up in each category include: Best New...

HALCYON SOFTWARE INTRODUCES INSTANT ASP, THE ULTIMATE IN CROSS-PLATFORM PORTABILITY FOR ASP DEVELOPERS The Capacity for Build Once, Deploy Anywhere Web Applications on Linux, IBM, HP, Sun, Novell and more at Only $495 SAN JOSE, CA, May 18, 1999 - Halcyon Software announces the introduction of Instant ASP (iASP) which lets developers deploy Active Server Pages (ASP) or JavaServer Pages (JSP) on all leading Java-enabled operating system platforms, Web servers, and application servers. A FREE developer version of iASP is available at http://www.halcyonsoft.com which offers five concurrent sessions; the standard edition is $495 SRLP. As an open deployment framework, iASP gives developers true cross-platform deployment capabilities on leading server and operating system platforms. These include Apache, Linux, Sun WebServer, Java WebServer, Netscape Fast Track, Enterprise Server, IBM WebSphere, Lotus Domino, Zeus, WebStar, WebTen, Microsoft IIS, Oracle Application Server, Microsoft Windows...

Subject: Startup Doubler 2.0b5 released today From: Marc Moini (marc@kagi.com) Startup Doubler 2.0b5 is now available for downloading from http://marcmoini.com. Startup Doubler 2.0's new startup acceleration technology improves startup times by 10% to 30% over previous versions, and adds the following main features: Fastest startup acceleration available today. Speeds loading startup applications in addition to extensions, control panels and Finder. Actively supports multiple Extension Sets. Supports Mac OS 8.6. Startup Doubler 2.0 has a free trial period of 15 days. The shareware fee is $20, registered users of previous versions may upgrade for free. www.marcmoini.com Cheers, Marc

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VSE Be Found 1.1 with 30 new search engines (Germany, 18 May 1999). German shareware developer Voget Selbach Enterprises has released VSE Be Found 1.1, an update to the first Macintosh search engine submit application. In addition, 3 new expansion kits have been released which add 30 new search engines to VSE Be Found. VSE Be Found is a combination of a search engine submitter, a keyword finder, an FTP client and a META tag manager. If a web site is not getting as many visitors as it should, it is likely that it is not ranked high in the major Internet search engines. To obtain a high ranking, VSE Be Found analyzes the web page, automatically finds keywords and adds all necessary META tags. Then, VSE Be Found uploads the web page and submits it to the most popular search engines, including AltaVista, AOL NetFind, Excite, HotBot and Lycos. The update fixes a bug with Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1, fixes the problem with Microsoft Network WebSearch and improves the diagnosis...

Press Release - BugLink Solo v1.1.2 Upgrade Released For Immediate Release Glendale, California, May 17, 1999 -- The PandaWave is pleased to announce the latest release of BugLink Solo, a free upgrade of our single-user bug tracking environment for existing customers. What is BugLink Solo? BugLink Solo is a bug tracking system for both the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows 95/NT. BugLink Solo is a single-user version of our BugLink bug tracking system, and provides developers an easy mechanism for software developers to track problem reports. What's New In This Release This update, which is free for all existing customers, fixes a number of problems, includinng a problem with getting e-mail from some POP3 servers. Other changes include improved integration with the Macintosh Appearance Manager. This upgrade is highly recommended for all users and can be downloaded from http://www.pandawave.com/bl/download.html About The PandaWave The PandaWave provides commercial and shareware software...

MacHack PR: Student Package Just Keeps Getting Better MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers c/o Expotech 1264 Bedford Road Grosse Point Park, MI 48230 Contact: Carol Lynn mailto:expotech@machack.com Tel: (313) 882-1824 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dearborn, MI -- May 17, 1999 -- Student attendance at MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers has always been a bargain. For a meager $50, students have had a chance to code alongside programming legends. First meals were added to the student package, now even more value. MacHack (http://www.machack.com/) and Aladdin Systems (http://www.aladdinsys.com/) are pleased to announce that all 50 student attendees will receive copies of StuffIt Deluxe and FlashBack as part of their attendance package, a value of over $120 all by themselves. "I know that students don't have a lot of money to spend, I didn't." said Jonathan Kahn, president of Aladdin. "So, anything we can do to help and encourage these student...

A preview of the Emil XML editor for Mac is now available from: http://www.in-progress.com/emile/ The full edition of Emil is faster and more powerful than the free Emil Lite XML editor that we released last month, adding features such as: * Contextual Menus for efficient markup, listing allowed elements only. * Validator to ensure correct markup based on any document type (DTD). * Menus and Tag Catalog indicate elements valid in the cursor position. * Palettes displaying document outline and element context. * MacOS8 support for the Navigation Service and Appearance Manager. Emil can export an XML document as HTML, allowing authors to take advantage of extensible markup today while still keeping the pages available for all browsers. We offer early adapters a pre-release discount price of just $39, less than half of the suggested retail price. Emil 1.0 is scheduled for release later this month. -- Terje Norderhaug (terje@in-progress.com) President & Chief Technologist Media...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Brain wave controlled computers made affordable by Apples iMac Darien, CT -- May 13, 1999 (Xpress Press) -- IBVA Technologies, Inc. announces today full compatibility with the Apple iMac and current generation Apple G3 computers. Compatibility with the Apple iMac enables delivery of the IBVA brain/computer interface system to a greater market at a lower price point. "Even we are amazed at what you can do with our system and an iMac at this price point," said Drew DeVito, Executive Vice President of IBVA Technologies, Inc. "It used to be that you had to match our system up with a fairly expensive computer to get a great experience with brain/computer interaction. Now you can get our system and an iMac for the same price that you used to only be able to buy a computer alone. It really is amazing to see this happen." The IBVA System allows anyone to use their actual, real time brain wave activity to change movies as they are watched, create interactive brain wave...

Metrowerks Introduces CodeWarrior Tools for Carbon and Mac OS X Special Renewal Option Extended for CodeWarrior Users San Jose, California-May 12, 1999-Metrowerks Inc., (Nasdaq: MTWK, TSE/ME: MWK) a leading provider of software development tools for desktop and embedded systems, today announced CodeWarrior support for Apple Computer's Carbon Application Environment (Carbon) and Mac OS X Developer Preview Release. Metrowerks also announced the company has extended its renewal policy until June 30th for customers updating their CodeWarrior for Mac OS license. A special developer release of Mac OS-hosted CodeWarrior tools for Carbon and Mac OS X was introduced by Greg Galanos, president and chief technology officer at Metrowerks, during today's Metrowerks session at Apple's 1999 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. Attendees received a copy of CodeWarrior tools that support Mac OS X development with CodeWarrior Professional, Release 4. These tools will be released to all...

P R E S S R E P O R T from May 12, 1999 O M I K R O N B A S I C 6 - New Version 6.30 - Shared Libraries, Plugins, File Navigation Services, and many more new features - Update is free for registered users of Omikron Basic 6 - Now it is also possible to create so-called shared libraries and plugins using Omikron Basic. New commands and a new function type, which can be used to define functions callable by other programs as well, were introduced for this purpose These programs may also be written in another programming language (C, Pascal, Fortran ...). Together with the expanded MAC_OS command, the Omikron Basic programmer is now able to utilize ALL functions of the Macintosh operating system and of other shared libraries. - The command FILESELECT now employs the File Navigation Services if they are present (standard starting with System 8.5). The editor and the Omikron Basic output windows now use proportional windows scroll bars if the Appearance Manager exists (standard...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Water's Edge Software Maintains Commitment to Macintosh Developers OAKVILLE, ONTARIO--May 12, 1999--Responding to Metrowerks' recent "open letter to [its] customers" communique, Water's Edge Software is reaffirming its long-standing and on-going commitment to Macintosh developers. Just days ago, Metrowerks Inc., the leading manufacturer of Macintosh compilers, announced that they plan to focus efforts on their most popular languages, C, C++ and Java. This decision has caused an uproar amongst the less numerous, but fiercely devoted ranks of Pascal developers, many of who feel their language of choice is being abandoned by Metrowerks. Water's Edge Software, creators of the award-winning Tools Plus libraries + framework, reiterated that they remain committed to Macintosh developers, and to all three of the most popular programming languages for applications and plug-ins, those being C, C++ and Pascal. "There is a lot of excitement about Java," said Water's Edge...

ALADDIN SHIPS STUFFIT INSTALLERMAKER 6.0- POWERFUL STUFFIT 5 FORMAT SIGNIFICANTLY COMPRESSES INSTALLERS FOR SIZABLE TIME AND COST SAVINGS Version 6.0 Offers Tighter Compression, Is PowerPC Native, And Adds Time-Saving Features To Build The Industry's Smallest Installers, Quickly And Easily Worldwide Developer Conference, San Jose, CA -May 11, 1999- Aladdin Systems, Inc., today announced StuffIt InstallerMaker(tm) 6.0 is now shipping. InstallerMaker 6.0 includes the new StuffIt(R) 5 technology, which compresses installers up to 15% tighter than any other software installation utility. InstallerMaker 6.0 is now PowerPC native to allow developers to create complex installers in half the time. InstallerMaker 6.0 includes several other new time-saving features to provide developers with the most streamlined solution for building installers. "InstallerMaker 6.0 saves developers, Internet Service Providers and IS professionals time and money by providing a quick and easy solution to building...

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Coalition of Internet Organizations to Help Consumers Fight Spam, Save Money Companies and public interest groups to fight spam and promote responsible Internet marketing. CHICAGO - ChooseYourMail.com, SAFEeps, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) and the Forum for Responsible Ethical Email [F.R.E.E.] have launched a new joint consumer assistance project enabling consumers to recycle their "spam" email into money-saving offers from online retail sponsors. This unique coalition of leading anti-spam advocates and companies have joined forces behind the Spam Recycling Center [SRC] (located at http://www.spamrecycle.com) in an effort to fight spam, raise public awareness, and promote responsible e-mail marketing practices. The SRC allows Internet users to join the fight against spam by forwarding their unsolicited commercial email to the SRC where it will be cataloged and forwarded to the Federal Trade Commission and shared with...

Joint Release Sears To Sell iMacs CUPERTINO, California-May 10, 1999-Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that it will add Sears, Roebuck and Co. to its list of iMac distributors. Sears will begin offering iMac to its customers by Memorial Day weekend through approximately 825 locations nationally. Sears will also carry a wide range of iMac peripherals that plug into iMac's Universal Serial Bus (USB) port, including printers and disk drives. "One in three iMacs is being purchased by a first-time computer buyer, and we believe Sears broad geographic coverage and a loyal customer base can help us reach even more of these new customers," said Mitch Mandich, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Sales. "More than 50 percent of computer buyers at Sears are buying their first computer," said Chuck Cebuhar, Sears vice president and general manager. "iMac is a perfect choice for our customers who want an Internet-ready computer that's easy to buy, easy to set up, and easy to use." Market...

Vicomsoft Provides LAN to Internet Connectivity at WWDC Vicomsoft's popular Internet Gateway software router is again being used at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week for LAN to Internet connectivity. WWDC attendees will be able to use networked computers connected through the Internet Gateway to browse the Web and retrieve their e-mail. Vicomsoft are the first to deliver an integrated web caching server and software router for MacOS. Their Internet Gateway and SoftRouter product family offers NAT Internet connection sharing, a powerful DHCP server, a DNS caching server for speeding up Internet host location, a Remote Access Server, content filtering, access controls and firewall protection. At WWDC, Apple's annual developers' conference, over one hundred sessions will deliver the latest on everything from Mac OS X and Carbon through to the upcoming AltiVec. Prestigious "AppleMasters" Sinbad, Herbie Hancock, Paul Davis, and John Knoll will speak on Monday May 10...

For Immediate Release Apple Announces New PowerBook-Faster, Thinner, Lighter Battery Life Extended to Five Hours on Single Battery WWDC, SAN JOSE, California-May 10, 1999-At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple Computer, Inc. today announced its new PowerBook line. Powered by copper-based 333MHz and 400MHz PowerPC G3 processors, the new notebooks provide true desktop performance and run up to twice as fast as the processors in Pentium II-based notebooks*. Weighing just 5.9 pounds, the new PowerBook line is nearly two pounds lighter and almost 20 percent thinner than their award-winning predecessors. Powered by up to two lithium-ion batteries, the new PowerBook line runs up to five hours on a single battery -and up to 10 hours on dual batteries-setting a new industry record for notebook computers. The new PowerBook line comes standard with 14.1-inch LCD screens, and also features industry standard USB, 10/100BASE-T Ethernet, and 56K /v.90 modem ports for easy...

For Immediate Release Apple Ships OpenGL For Macintosh Industry's Leading 3D Graphics Architecture Now Available on Mac WWDC, SAN JOSE, California-May 10, 1999 -At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple Computer, Inc. today announced shipment of OpenGL for Macintosh, a new version of SGI's application programming interface (API) and software library for 3D graphics. Available today from www.apple.com/opengl, OpenGL for Macintosh brings industry-leading 3D computer graphics to the Macintosh platform, enhancing software applications such as games and professional modeling programs. "Macintosh developers want OpenGL so they can create the best games in the industry," said Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "The combination of OpenGL, fast ATI graphics accelerators, and Pentium-toasting PowerPC G3 processors make Macintosh an awesome platform for running the latest 3D software." OpenGL is a robust and mature 3D software library that...

Due to an unforeseen schedule conflict Adobe has, at Apple's request, shifted the start time of the Adobe Developer Update an hour and a half later. Adobe Developer Update During WWDC Adobe to host briefing for its developers during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference Adobe strategy update Acrobat platform overview & developer opportunities InDesign platform overview & developer opportunities Special session for Japanese developers During Apple's upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference, Adobe Systems will host a Developer Update at its corporate headquarters near the San Jose Convention Center in downtown San Jose. From 7:30 to 9:00 PM on Tuesday, May 11, developers will have the opportunity to get the latest information on Adobe's strategic directions as well as overviews of the Acrobat and InDesign platforms and the associated developer opportunities. In order to make this briefing accessible to Adobe's loyal Japanese developer community...

VST Technologies Adds Three New Higher Capacity FireWire Drives New FireWire Drives Offer Even More Capacity, Modularity, True Portability And FireWire Connectivity Across Platforms. ACTON, Mass., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- VST Technologies, Inc. today announced new 8, 10 and 14 Gigabyte (GB) FireWire(R) Drive capacities less than two weeks after initial shipments of its 2, 4 and 6 Gigabyte (GB) 1394 compliant drives. The new 8GB, 10GB and 14GB FireWire drives address users demands for larger capacities for a variety of digital video, audio and multimedia applications, while maintaining true portability and a very small form factor. VST's new FireWire Hard Drives are the first IEEE 1394 compliant drives to take full advantage of FireWire equipped CPUs. In January, Apple(R) Computer began shipping FireWire as a key feature built-in to every Power Macintosh G3 series professional desktop computer. VST also expects Microsoft Windows 98 compatibility within the next few months. The new...

Subject: Metrowerks Listens and Acts with Special Offer From: Ron Liechty (mwron@metrowerks.com) After a review Metrowerks has altered its policy in regards to bundling the Macintosh and Windows CD's for our current CodeWarrior users. This decision was made not because of any legal reason but because it was the fair and just thing to do. Metrowerks values our customers more than any other business that I know. As soon as we heard from our customers we revisited the policy. Dear Valued Customer: We are sending this WarriorGram today to inform you of our recent company announcements, also posted at http://www.metrowerks.com concerning our change in product policies and a special offer to renew your license before June 30, 1999. CodeWarrior change in delivery. CodeWarrior Professional for the Macintosh operating system and the Windows operating system will now be released as two, platform-specific products. The separation of the product becomes effective in June of 1999 with Release 5...