SUPERCARD PERSONAL EDITION DEBUTS WITH MACNN PROMOTION July 17, 2000 - Tempe, AZ. In association with MacNN, IncWell DMG, Ltd. and Solutions Etcetera bring you an exceptional introductory offer on SuperCard's new 'Personal Edition', a new offering aimed at all Macintosh users, and the HyperCard community at large, offering all of the power and ease of SuperCard, at a dramatically lower price. "With the introduction of IncWell's SuperCard Personal Edition, any Mac user can now afford to acquire one of the most powerful tools out there for the creation of multimedia based presentations, as well as their own rapid application development. And with the demise of HyperCard now all but official, our timing could not be any better in providing those users with a low cost, more powerful, and supported tool, in which their creations can not only continue, but expand in the richer environment that is SuperCard.", said Scott Simon, Director of Product Development for IncWell. "We're proud to...

For Immediate Release Power On Puts Schedules and Contacts in the Palms of Users' Hands Macworld Expo Release of Now Up-to-Date & Contact Enhances Scheduling Options and Support for Handheld Devices Columbus, Ohio - July 17, 2000 - Power On Software announced today that it would introduce an upgrade to Now Up-to-Date & Contact at Macworld Expo this week. Version 3.9.2 of the all-time best-selling contact manager and calendaring software for the Macintosh will provide increased connectivity capabilities. It adds a number of enhancements in its support for handheld computers based upon the Palm Computing Operating System. In furthering its leadership position as the most elegant and seamless solution for portability of schedules and contacts, Power On has satisfied user requests for better organizational capabilities. Features of New Version The new version of Now Up-to-Date & Contact provides the following new functionality: * Users now have the option to synchronize, to...

VOODOO SERVER VERSION CONTROL FOR CODEWARRIOR - v 1.2 AVAILABLE HAGENBERG, AUSTRIA, July-17-2000 -- UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GmbH is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new version 1.2 of their flagship version control tool VOODOO Server. "The new version of VOODOO Server introduces a feature that was often requested by our customers. Files are now compressed and encrypted before they are transferred between the client and the server. The results are considerable performance improvements especially over slow communication lines together with higher security when using VOODOO Server over the Internet," said Christoph Reichenberger, VODOOO product manager. "The other good news is that VOODOO Server now comes in form of an installer application. This makes it not only easy for existing users to upgrade to the new version, but also further significantly reduces the startup efforts to implementing version control." New features at a glance: + VOODOO Server now transfers files in...

Essence Software is proud to announce the availability of MADPlug 2.0 for REALbasic 2.1! MADPlug 2.0 provides a higher level control over the MADLibrary engine, and also incorporates all the file format translator plugins into the final app (rather than automatically having the translators installed into the System folder by the plugin.) MADPlug 2.0 is also ready for Carbon, so once the IDE for Carbon begins to work a bit better, MADPlug should too. What's more, it's still free! For more information and a download: (http://www.essencesw.com/Plugins/madplug.html) -- James Milne Essence Software http://www.essencesw.com/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE X Window Server for Mac OS X Aqua X Window Desktop in Development Santa Barbara, CA, July 17, 2000. Tenon Intersystems announced today that they will offer a fully integrated X Desktop for Mac OS X. Tenon's high-performance X Window Server will provide seamless integration between an X Window display environment and Macintosh applications. Tenon's new X Window Server will be an easy-to-use, flexible Mac OS X application that will integrate the best elements of Apple's Aqua desktop with state-of-the-art X Window tools to provide a powerful extension to Apple's new OS. The new X (pronounced X) for OS X (pronounced 'ten') will not only allow remote X applications to be displayed on the Mac OS X desktop, but will also include complete set of X tools and libraries to support local execution of X applications and X games on OS X. Extending Mac OS X with an X Window porting environment will enable high-resolution 3D-modeling & animation, graphical visualization and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vancouver, WA -- July 14, 2000 -- AustinSoft is happy to introduce HappyGear. HappyGear is a utility to allow gamers to use newer, InputSprocket compatible gaming devices, such as USB joysticks and steering wheels, with games not compatible with InputSprocket. "HappyGear provides a JoyManager-compatible device using your InputSprocket gaming gear," lead developer, Glenn Austin, said. "This allows users to take advantage of the new generation of joysticks and steering wheels with games that haven't yet been updated to work with InputSprockets, but do work with keyboards and older gaming devices that are difficult or impossible to find. HappyGear allows gaming device manufacturers to focus on providing great devices and support for InputSprockets rather than on trying to get their devices to work with other games as well." HappyGear will be available by August, and will cost $30 + shipping. More details will be available at (http://homepage.mac.com/austinsoft/)....

FREE UPDATE TO MACTECH's THINK REFERENCE TOOLS! JULY 14 2000, WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA -- MacTech Magazine announces free updates to each of it's THINK Reference Tools and the availability of a new release of Hz Systems THINK Reference Collector, Inside Macintosh Edition! These updates can be downloaded today from the THINK Reference web site (http://www.thinkreference.com/updates.html). THINK Reference is a personal database system, optimized for use by programmers and developers. The THINK Reference Compiler allows you to create compact, hyperlinked personal databases from HTML source code that can be searched and browsed with the THINK Reference Viewer. The THINK Reference Viewer offers a blazingly fast search engine and is supported by all major Macintosh code editors, allowing you to search databases from within your editor by simply selecting the function name or search text and hitting a single command key combination. The THINK Reference Collector, Inside Macintosh Edition, is...

Salinas, CA, July 13, 2000: Casady & Greene, Inc. is pleased to announce today the release of Conflict Catcher 8 (TM) v8.0.7, a free update to their award-winning utility. This new version is updated for Mac OS 9.0.2, 9.0.3 and 9.0.4, sets, links, and Clean-Install Merge information. Conflict Catcher 8 v8.07 is available as a free download. The following excellent changes, exemplary of our efforts to give our customers the highest level of quality and the greatest pleasure in day-by-day usage, make this update a terrific bargain---and it's free to all Conflict Catcher 8 owners: *We've added Mac OS 9.0.2-9.0.4 All and Base sets. *We have updated the Clean-Install System Merge for Mac OS 9.0.2-9.0.4. *We offer you a new Reference Library with descriptions for over 5000 files (including descriptions for Sherlock internet search sites). *We have added an Apple DVD Player Group group link for DVD enthusiasts. *The engineers have updated the QuickTime group link. *We've added a Multi-...

Salinas, CA, July 13, 2000: Casady & Greene, Inc. is pleased to announce today the release of Conflict Catcher 8 (TM) v8.0.7, a free update to their award-winning utility. This new version is updated for Mac OS 9.0.2, 9.0.3 and 9.0.4, sets, links, and Clean-Install Merge information. Conflict Catcher 8 v8.07 is available as a free download. The following excellent changes, exemplary of our efforts to give our customers the highest level of quality and the greatest pleasure in day-by-day usage, make this update a terrific bargain---and it's free to all Conflict Catcher 8 owners: *We've added Mac OS 9.0.2-9.0.4 All and Base sets. *We have updated the Clean-Install System Merge for Mac OS 9.0.2-9.0.4. *We offer you a new Reference Library with descriptions for over 5000 files (including descriptions for Sherlock internet search sites). *We have added an Apple DVD Player Group group link for DVD enthusiasts. *The engineers have updated the QuickTime group link. *We've added a Multi-...

Power On Allows Users to Rewind(tm) to Happier Time Rewind Protects Against Catastrophes, Disasters, and Mistakes In a Bind? Just Rewind! (sm) Columbus, Ohio - July 12, 2000 - Power On Software announced today the development of Rewind, an amazing and innovative software technology breakthrough. Rewind protects against catastrophes, disasters, and user error that can spell the difference between success or failure, and adulation or humiliation. Rewind, based on several new patent-pending technologies, gets users out of a bind by permitting them to merely click the program's Rewind button. The software then magically transports the user back to the instant before the problem occurred. Rewind is scheduled to make its world debut at Macworld Expo in New York City on July 19th. Power On Software, will be providing hands-on demonstrations of the new software, in Booth #749 at the Jacob Javits Center. Visitors can stop by and see how Rewind can reverse even the bleakest-looking situations...

From: "Aaron L. Bratcher" (aaronbratcher@mac.com) Subject: [ANN] db Reports 2.0b6 Now Available July 12, 2000. I am happy to announce the availability of the beta 6 release of db Reports 2.0. Recently it was known as simply "Report Writer" and before that was called "REALbasic Report Writer"... hopefully no problems with this name =) Price: $129.95. Full Description: db Reports is a general purpose report writing application for the Macintosh that supports the following data sources: 4D, ODBC, OpenBase, Oracle, postgreSQL, REALDatabase, and Valentina. The program has an automatic report generator. By default, reports are saved as XML files, but they can be encoded and optionally password protected. Protected files can be previewed and printed, but not edited. On final release, REALbasic developers will have objects available to them that will allow them to print reports from their products. Location: http://homepage.mac.com/aaronbratcher/realbasic/ As always, comments/suggestions/bug...

MACROMEDIA TIGHTENS INTEGRATION OF MACROMEDIA FLASH IN MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER Microsoft includes Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Players to enable rich media applications Microsoft Professional Developers Conference Orlando, Florida July 12, 2000 Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR), the leading provider of solutions for compelling and effective Web sites, today announced the most comprehensive integration between the Macromedia Flash Player and a Web browser with todays release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5. At a keynote this morning, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates demonstrated new functionality in Internet Explorer 5.5 that for the first time enables developers to manipulate rich media Macromedia Flash components on a Web page using custom Extensible Markup Language (XML) tags. This integration enables developers who are not familiar with the Macromedia Flash authoring environment to easily design pages and applications that have rich Macromedia Flash...

SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA, USA (11 July 2000) -- RiverSong InterActive has just released the latest update to TitleTrack Jukebox, the popular Macintosh program for controlling the Sony line of large capacity CD Changers. This latest release adds support for the new line of 400 disc capacity Sony changers. WHAT IS TITLETRACK JUKEBOX? TitleTrack Jukebox, a Macintosh program for controlling the Sony line of 5, 50, 100, 200, 300 and 400 disc capacity CD changers, creates powerful yet intuitive new ways to view, control and access one's entire music CD collection. Up to 12 changers can be controlled at one time, for immediate access to over 4,800 CDs. You'll never have to fumble with a CD jewel box again! Plus, TitleTrack Jukebox features automatic CD recognition. By utilizing an online database, called the CDDB, with information on hundreds of thousands of CD titles across all musical genres, TitleTrack Jukebox will automatically download from the internet the artist, title, songlist,...

Syslogd 2.1.8 is now available for download from (http://www.classicalguitar.net/brian/apps/download.php3?fid=1). This release updates the Help, fixes some minor problems with Syslogd, and fixes quite a few memory related bugs in Syslogd Admin. The Timbuktu conflict seems to also be resolved. See the Release Notes for more detail. Syslogd for the Mac OS is a syslog compatible Shareware program that will log messages from network devices (UNIX machines, printers, routers, etc) including Apple's AirPort Hub. Syslogd also includes support for Mac applications and AppleScript programs to log messages. Syslogd includes a graphical administration program that allows for easy configuration and setup; you do not have to edit a text file with an obscure format. For more information see (http://www.classicalguitar.net/brian/apps/syslogd/). Brian Bergstrand brian@classicalguitar.net

C&G and Adaptec team together for easy CD burning Salinas, CA, July 10, 2000: Casady & Greene, Inc. is pleased to announce that their premier, all-in-one, MP3 player and encoder, SoundJam MP Plus v2.1.1, now features a simple two-step procedure which allows you to burn audio CDs directly from SoundJam, using Adaptec's Toast (TM) software v4.1 or later. SoundJam MP Plus is the first Macintosh MP3 player/encoder to have this capability. SoundJam MP Plus v2.1.1 is a free update for previous owners of SoundJam. The update is available online. For update information and change history visit (http://soundjam.com) or go to the C&G home page at (http://www.casadyg.com). SoundJam MP Plus is available for purchase directly from Casady & Greene for $39.95 by electronic download, and is also available as a physical product. The physical product includes a CD of 100+ MP3 songs from MP3.com and a six-foot stereo cable to convert your computer into a jukebox when connected to your...

From: Faustino Forcen (ff@abstrakt.net) Subject: Abstrakt announces release 0.6 of Utilix Abstrakt has released another version of Utilix, the popular FileMaker Pro plugin that groups different utilities that range from text processing to image measuring. Utilix started more than a year ago as a showcase of what could be done using FileMaker Pro External Functions. After more than 3000 downloads it has become a valuable repository of useful tools for MacOS FileMaker Pro developers. New version adds two new functions to get dimensions of an image, and a general cleanup to the other 16 functions. Amongst them are useful functions as Pronom, that modifies an string to place any pronom after the name (thus allowing a better sorting by titles), or Get/NewPath that allow users to get complete paths to external files. Price and availability Utilix 0.6 is free for single licenses, with a 50$ developer license for those who want to integrate it and distribute it along with their solutions. It...

From: Faustino Forcen (ff@abstrakt.net) Subject: Abstrakt releases iMago 1.0.2 Abstrakt has released today the latest version of iMago, its image manager for the MacOS version of FileMaker Pro. iMago is a set of external functions that allows users to create thumbnails for the most popular image formats including PICT, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, EPSF, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator and QuarkXPress. The functions included on iMago not only allow developers and users to create thumbnails for any image stored on any of these graphic formats, but also to obtain information about the original image, such as format, size, width and heigth, filename and even the full path to the original file. Other utilities allow users to launch the original file or simply reveal it on the Finder. You can even change the file creator and kind directly from FileMaker Pro. This version of iMago includes, along with other sample files, a FileMaker 5 solution that shows how to use iMago to...

YELLOW DOG & BLACK LAB TO INCLUDE FSMLABS REALTIME LINUX Loveland, Colorado; Socorro, New Mexico -- 10 July 2000 -- FSMLabs Inc. and Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. announced today that RTLinux for the PowerPC will be carried on the next release of Terra Soft's Black Lab Linux and in future releases of Champion Server. RTLinux adds hard realtime capabilities to Linux, so that Linux can be used to control machine tools, robots, data acquisition devices, telecommunications switches, and other machinery where software must satisfy precise timing constraints. FSMLabs CEO Victor Yodaiken said, "RTLinux on Yellow Dog and Black Lab will put true realtime capabilities into the hands of a whole new group of creative developers and users working in multimedia and communications." Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft,said, "RTLinux opens a new spectrum of applications to Yellow Dog users and will help bring Black Lab to the cutting edge of cluster and embedded systems applications." RTLinux on the...

ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF POWERMAIL 3.0.4 A FAST AND RELIABLE MAC E-MAIL CLIENT GENEVA, Switzerland - July 9th, 2000 - CTM Development announces version 3.0.4 of PowerMail, its flagship e-mail application for Macintosh, either as a 30-day evaluation or as an update for current registered users: http://www.powermailtech.com/pm3.bin (2435k) Additional download sites and a new french version can be found under: http://www.ctmdev.com/download.shtml Featuring a dozen bug fixes, accelerated launch time and a fast new tabulated text export with a sample FileMaker Pro archive database, PowerMail 3.0.4 [based on the PowerMail Engine(tm), a robust foundation for cross-platform e-mail clients encompassing 8 years of mail and directory experience at CTM] consolidates its position as a robust and sustainable alternative to ordinary Macintosh e-mail applications. Benefits for users include: - Ultra-fast searching of e-mail archives using Sherlock(tm) technology - Migration tools...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CDFINDER 2.8.1 RELEASED July 7, 2000, Moerfelden, Germany The author today announced the immediate availability of version 2.8.1 of CDFinder, the popular shareware disk catalog tool for the Macintosh. The new version is free for all registered owners of CDFinder and can be obtained from the CDFinder-Homepage (http://www.cdfinder.de/). A single user license is $20, multi user licenses are available. CDFinder is a very fast and powerful tool to create catalog files of your hard disks, floppies, ZIP's and anything else that spins. It has a great user interface and very useful search functions. CDFinder supports drag&drop and requires at least a 68020 or PowerPC CPU. While System 7 is required, CDFinder is also fully compatible to MacOS 9. A special feature is the multi-lingual user interface (German/French/English/Italian/Swedish/Chinese). New features in CDFinder 2.8.1: - Fixed a bug that could cause CDFinder not to find the catalog folder. Instead CDFinder...

New High Capacity 30 Gb & 20 Gb Drives for Apple Powerbooks & ibooks ANAHEIM, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Trans Intl. today announced the online availability of two new high capacity 2.5 inch 30 Gb and 20 Gb hard disk drives for expanding internal storage of Apple Powerbooks G3's and ibooks. With the availability of these new drives Apple Powerbook G3 internal storage capacity can now be expanded up to 30 Gb and ibooks internal storage up to 20 Gb, earlier these models was restricted up to 18 Gb and 12 Gb of storage space only. These new drives has the industry's highest shock rating of 800 G/1 ms, as well as the fast Ultra-DMA interface transfer rate of 66 MB/sec. The high speeds and capacities of these drives help provide higher quality digital audio and video, superior digital content creation capabilities, and significantly faster processing for data-intensive multimedia and Internet applications. Specification and Features Capacity: 30 Gb /20 Gb [Giga-byte] Seek time...

Golden Micro Solutions Ltd Announces Digital Juke 1.0.1 beta Digital Juke is an MP3 music file player, but one with a very specific purpose -- to act as a jukebox when you're throwing a party. There are many other Macintosh MP3 players available which may be more suited as a personal MP3 player. If what you're looking for is a player for your own (background) use, then you should probably consider using one of those other applications. However, if you like to throw parties, but have been concerned about using your Macintosh as a jukebox to play MP3 files (because of the risks imposed by having numerous people using your computer to select tracks in a relaxed atmosphere), then Digital Juke will hopefully provide the answer. What Does Digital Juke Do That Other Players Dont? Digital Juke has a number of functions not available in other mp3 players: * Export available track lists to a text file, for extra processing before printing. * Can be used in 'full screen' mode, with the menu bar...

Golden Micro Solutions Ltd Announces The Big Red Button 1.5.1 The Big Red Button is a simple one-click timer/stopwatch. Whether you will find this application useful or not, will depend very much on how you work at your computer. The program itself was designed to solve one very specific requirement that we had -- we needed a very quick and easy way to start recording a block of time, while sitting in front of a computer. Other timing applications can be great and very useful (e.g.TimeSlice by Maui Software), and usually after several minutes of inactivity the timer automatically turns off. However, there are times, such as when the phone rings, or when someone walks into the office when these 'auto-pause' features are not what is needed. In these cases some form of stopwatch to record the amount of time spent in the unexpected activity is required -- thus the Big Red Button was born. Double-click the application and it will start timing. Press the start/stop button to turn it on/off...

Golden Micro Solutions Ltd Announces Argybee 1.0.1 RGB Color-Hex Calculator for developers. Golden Micro Solutions Ltd is pleased to announce the immediate release of Argybee 1.0.1 for both Macintosh and Windows. This freeware application is a simple utility program to allow software (and web) developers to calculate a hexadecimal representation of an RGB colour. In addition the value of the RGB sliders is also displayed at the left hand side of the window. This is useful when you are using development environments that require the RGB colour in the form RGB(red, green, blue) where the colours are a number from 0 to 255 (rather than hex). You can also enter a hexadecimal number and Argybee will display the correct colour. Argybee is freeware and is available for download at: http://www.golden.co.nz/GoldenMicro/gensoftware/argybee.html About Golden Micro Solutions Ltd Golden Micro develops quality software products, including database systems for the Macintosh and Windows platform, and...