For more information contact In the U.S. and Pacific: Scott Paterson, scott@be.com +1 (650) 462-4112 In Europe: Jean Calmon, jcalmon@beeurope.com +33 (1) 49 06 73 75 Be Provides Free Update to BeOS Release 3.1 Free Download Available to Current BeOS Release 3 Customers MENLO PARK, Calif (June 16, 1998) -- Be, Inc. announced today the release of a free update for current Be Operating System Release 3 customers to BeOS Release 3.1 for both Intel Pentium and PowerPC systems. Effective immediately, all new shipments of the BeOS will include Release 3.1. Current BeOS Release 3 customers may download the free update to Release 3.1 from the Be, Inc. web site (http://www.be.com). BeOS Release 3.1 provides support for additional hardware and peripherals and adds the following functionality: DOS FAT File System Support -- Taking advantage of the modular architecture for supporting foreign file systems, an add-on for DOS FAT16 and FAT32 file systems is now included, and complements existing...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Glucose Releases Injection 1.0 Contact: Gabriel Cheifetz Glucose Development Corporation gchei@glu.com http://www.glu.com/ June 16, 1998-- Glucose Development Corporation today announced the immediate availability of Injection 1.0, a new web publishing tool that automatically adds high-quality META tags to existing web pages. Injection uses natural language algorithms to analyse each individual page in a web site, extracting key words and topics, and then constructs META keyword tags that reflect the content of each page. The newly created META tags are then "injected" into each page. To use Injection, a webmaster simply drops a web page-- or a folder containing an entire web site-- onto Injection. Injection then processes each page in the site, adding META tags as it goes. In addition to producing META keyword tags automatically, Injection also includes a suite of tools that allow the webmaster to specify arbitrary custom META tags for insertion into a site. For...

Raven is a C++ application framework that is, IMO, in many ways superior to both PowerPlant and MacApp. It's free and source code is included. You can find Raven at: (ftp://ftp.halcyon.com//pub/users/jesjones/Raven 1.4.sit) (ftp://ftp.halcyon.com//pub/users/jesjones/Raven 1.4 Examples.sit) The changes in Raven 1.4 are listed below. Jesse Jones jesjones@halcyon.com Known Bugs: * Stack crawl doesn't have symbol names if virtual memory is on. * DTS has confirmed a bug in the 1.0.1 Appearance Extension: if a window's procID is kWindowModalDialogProc or kWindowAlertProc the window is not actually modal (ie the user can switch out of the app). General Notes: * This release of Raven requires CodeWarrior Pro 3 (there were too many changes required to stay compatible with Pro 2). To port your old Raven code to 1.4 you'll need to do the following: * Make you code namespace savvy. The easiest way to do this is to add the following to your headers: using namespace Raven...

You've already been getting NetProLive for several days. The below press release marks NetProLive's official launch -- so we thought you'd like to see it. ___________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Susan Whitney Xplain Corporation marketing@xplain.com 805-494-9797 x105 NETPROFESSIONAL LAUNCHES NETPROLIVE -- Professional Journal for Network Administrators and Webmasters Provides News and Announcements to the Community FREE WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- June 16, 1998 -- Xplain Corporation, publishers of NetProfessional(tm) magazine, announces the launch of NetProLive(tm). NetProLive is a website and an email list aimed squarely at the Internet community. Hosted by NetProfessional magazine, NetProLive is the source of news, information, updates and special offers specifically for the web developer and network administrator. NetProLive -- The Mailing List The charter of the NetProLive list is to make Net managers, webmasters, and site producers more aware of available resources,...

For Immediate Release Glendale, California, June 15, 1998 -- The PandaWave announced the public release of the beta version of BugLink, an exiting new bug tracking system for software developers. What is BugLink? BugLink is a bug tracking system for both the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows 95/NT. BugLink consists of a central bug database and server application, and clients which allow software developers and testers download the bugs they are interested in. BugLink uses a proprietary protocol built on top of TCP/IP which minimizes the amount of network traffic between clients and servers. Users can also work offline, examining and modifying bugs in his local cache, uploading changes to the central server in a single burst. This makes BugLink the ideal solution for developers who work at home or at remote sites. Also, by using custom software technology, BugLink requires no additional support, such as a third party database engine or file sharing. BugLink is cross-platform; users on...

BoxTop Software, Inc. http://www.boxtopsoft.com info@boxtopsoft.com BoxTop Software News 6/15/98 PhotoGIF Filter 1.1 for Macintosh now available for download: Version 1.1 is a significant enhancement, primarily in documentation and help systems, but numerous improvements have been made. All are outlined below in the update notes. Please use the URL below to download the new version. It provides direct download links to several FTP and Hotline (An alternative to FTP that is much faster. You can find information on Hotline client software at: http://www.hotlinesw.com) servers: http://www.boxtopsoft.com/Download/macbackdoor.html About PhotoGIF Filter: PhotoGIF Filter is the universal power tool from the 3rd generation PhotoGIF Series. Designed as a filter plug-in, PhotoGIF Filter extends the award winning Web-graphics production power of PhotoGIF to all image editing applications properly supporting the Photoshop 2.5 or greater filter plug-in interface. (i.e. Just about any applications...

Darwin 3.26 today announced the release of RoadMap, a complete guide to authoring commercial software solutions in FileMaker Pro. What is RoadMap? RoadMap is a Software Developer's Toolkit which demystifies the techniques, processes and assets necessary to author successful commercial software solutions in FileMaker Pro. RoadMap also includes a collection of button icons designed by the award winning designer Gedeon Maheux of The IconFactory. RoadMap provides tips, techniques and assets from the very developers who have released and sold business/consumer solutions using FileMaker Pro, the FMP Solutions Development Kit (SDK), and the recently released Developer's Edition (DE). Who is RoadMap for? RoadMap is for anyone who ever had a great idea for a software solution, authors solutions with FileMaker Pro, or wants to start making money in the booming Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) market. RoadMap is US$59 and is available from the Darwin 3.26 Web site: http://www.darwin326.com...

From: Alco Blom (alco@xs4all.nl) Today I released the first PUBLIC BETA release (b4) of version 1.0 of Web Confidential, the password organizer for the Internet. Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and passwords in one secure location. Web Confidential can automate the process of logging into a password-secured Web page by automatically passing URL, user ID, and password to your Web browser. For retrieving personal account information from commercial sites, Web Confidential provides a password menu for one-click convenience. To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using state-of-the-art encryption technology. Web Confidential's Home Page is at: (http://www.web-confidential.com/) ------------------------------------------------ Today I released a BETA release (b4) of version 2.0.5 of URL Manager Pro, the popular shareware bookmark manager. New in this beta: a) 'Live...

June 1998 -- VICOM FTP Client 2.8.1 released, with more efficient memory usage and improved features. Version 2.8.1 of the VICOM FTP Client, our high-speed file transfer program for the efficient multi-threaded transfer of files to a number of different host types, is now available. This latest release includes: * Unique new resumable uploads ability: Can resume uploads after an unexpected disconnection. Ideal for web sites. * Improved resume downloads facility: Partially completed downloads can be resumed, even if started using a different application, such as Netscape Navigator. * WebTen support. * FTP Command Line can now be switched off to allow the FTP Client to run faster. * More efficient memory usage allowing more simultaneous connections to be made. * Live scrolling now supported. * Improved filtering options. This release also includes a number of other compatibility & maintenance fixes together with a number of enhancements. Download the latest demo version from our web...

If the world will end without Windows98, we must be living in the days of the Apokalypse No more waiting for an up-to-date MkLinux CD! Apokalypse is our distribution of MkLinux for PowerPC-based Macs and Mac compatibles. For just $25, Apokalypse offers: * the latest kernel and tools in RedHat's RPM format. * archives of the MkLinux mailing-list * beginner's HTML-based set-up and install files. * source code for the kernel and the tools! We mirror Apple's MkLinux ftp site on a daily basis, and ship to you only freshly-baked CDs for a richer, more aromatic user-experience! Only US $25! Get the latest pre-DR3 release today! How to order your copy: Note to credit-cardholders: We're sorry, but we cannot accept credit-card orders. In order to handle credit-cards, a merchant (that's us) has to be underwritten by a bank that handles the credit-card processing. We had applied to American National Bank of Dekalb County, Rosemont, Illinois. They refuse to take annual plans because you would have...

Fourth World Releases Wetware Collection Volume III New XCMD Collection for SuperCard Includes Support for QuickTime 3 LOS ANGELES, 10 June, 1996 - Fourth World(TM) announced today that it began shipping The Wetware Collection Volume III, a set of plug-in code resources which add a wide range of powerful new capabilities to SuperCard, the award-winning multimedia authoring system recently acquired by IncWell DMG, Ltd. The Wetware Collection Volume III consists of 22 externals by Mark Lucas of Wetware, Inc., bundled together for one low price. WWCvIII ships in a revised version of the same easy-to-use project as Fourth World's SCX and SuperCard's own Xtend project, which provides an interactive demo of each external and flexible, easy-to-use installation options. "Mark Lucas' first two XCMD collections have been very popular with SuperCard developers," said Richard Gaskin, founder and president of Fourth World. "The Wetware Collection Volume III provides a lot of new capabilities...

Full-featured APPLE GUIDE AUTHORING TOOL Now Mac OS 8 Savvy TORONTO - June 9, 1998 - Lakewood Software today released AG Author 1.1, an update to our full-featured authoring tool for designing Apple Guide help files. The update improves AG Author's compatibility with Mac OS 8.x. Released in 1997, AG Author continues to be the only Apple Guide authoring tool that supports virtually every Apple Guide parameter. AG Author has been favorably reviewed in MacTech Magazine (June/97) and received a four-star rating in MacUser UK Magazine (August/97). AG Author includes support for all Apple Guide syntax (except Mixin parameters), the library-style management of Apple Guide media, and a fully customizable project template. AG Author can be used to create all types of guide files, including Full Access, Single List, and Presentation type guide files. Multiple projects can be open for editing simultaneously. In addition to the above features, the defaults for virtually any element of an Apple...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Vern Jensen Jensen@loop.com Karl Bunker KarlBunker@aol.com SPRITEWORLD 2.1 RELEASED A MAJOR UPDATE TO THE FREE, FAST, POWERFUL, AND EASY TO USE PROGRAMMER'S LIBRARY FOR CREATING SPRITE ANIMATION IN MACINTOSH PROGRAMS June 6, 1998 Vern Jensen today officially released SpriteWorld 2.1 as freeware to the Macintosh programming community. SpriteWorld 2.1 is the latest update to the widely respected SpriteWorld animation library originally written by Tony Myles in 1993-94, and updated to version 2.0 by Karl Bunker and Vern Jensen in 1996. SpriteWorld 2.1 is a major update to that release, and provides numerous improvements, including an impressive list of new features and some bug fixes. Several cool new demos are also included in the package. As with the earlier versions, SpriteWorld 2.1 will be of particular interest to Macintosh game programmers. Using the SpriteWorld library, programmers can easily produce highly complex sprite-based animation effects,...

FOR RELEASE June 8, 1998 Contact: Anita Holmgren, Tenon Intersystems Phone: 805-963-6983 E-mail: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com/products/webten Marc Slack, Morph Technologies Phone: +703-288-1688 E-mail: slack@morphtech.com http://www.morphtech.com TENON EXTENDS THE POWER OF WEBTEN WITH MORPH TECHNOLOGIES' WEB APPLICATION ENGINE DYNAMORPH Santa Barbara, CA, June 8, 1998. Tenon Intersystems and Morph Technologies have formed a strategic partnership to extend WebTen, the fastest and most fully-featured Macintosh web server, with advanced web server development capabilities. Morph Technologies, working with Tenon, is building a WebTen Apache-native version of their sophisticated DynaMorph web development tool suite. The enhanced version of DynaMorph will become part of WebTen, running under MacOS and later on Rhapsody and MacOS X. About WebTen WebTen is an industrial-strength, high-performance Web server for Power Macs - a point & click Apache-based web server, with...

FileMaker, Inc. Ships FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition Powerful new tools for rapid solution development and deployment of FileMaker Pro databases SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- June 8, 1998 -- FileMaker, Inc., has announced that FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition, an essential database development tool kit for corporate and professional database developers that runs on Windows 95, Windows NT and the Mac OS, is now available at authorized resellers at an estimated retail price of $499 (U.S. only). FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition contains everything needed for creating, managing and distributing customized FileMaker Pro database solutions quickly. Targeted for a worldwide database developer community estimated at over 1 million, who develop in FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access 97 and other database programs, the new developer edition features an API (Application Program Interface) that allows developers to write External Functions for FileMaker Pro 4.0 databases. This new capability...

MacUser Utility of the Year 1996 and America Online's Mac Utility 1996 Shareware Award Winner and Shareware Junkies Mac Program of the Year 1997 **MacOS 8 compatible! **Full Drag & Drop compatibility! **Use up to 100 independent clipboards by menu or simple key commands! **View and access all the clipboard using the CopyPaste Palette! **Append text to 1 of 10 files on disk at any time! **Process text, picture and net data on the Clipboards in many ways! **Use a command key to switch and/or view all applications! **New pop-up palette function and more! One of the early wonders of the Mac was its revolutionary ability to do copy and paste across various applications. Unlike other areas in the Mac's system software that have changed and progressed over the years, copying and pasting has not evolved. How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time...

For Immediate Release Contact: Drew Linsalata EQUINOX Internet Services Corp. 1-800-923-2638 dlinsalata@equinox.net World Class Data Center for Macintosh Website Operators Opens June 4, 1998 - Long Island, New York. MacConnect - the first and only national Internet Service Provider exclusively for users of the Macintosh Operating System - has announced the opening of its new primary Internet network node located in Melville, New York. Designed to be the premier Macintosh Internet server co-location facility in the world today, this carrier class network node brings to the Macintosh webmaster community the kind of network infrastructure formerly reserved for UNIX and Windows NT site operators. MacConnect's new facility is located in space provided by Teleport Communications Group (http://www.tcg.com), the oldest and largest competitive telecommunications provider in the US, and includes the following world class features: * Over 50 megabits of Internet...

From: Mike Pav (mpav@morphtech.com) Hello World, DynaMorph 1.7 is now available from our site: (http://www.morphtech.com/) Features include: * DynaMorph Version 1.7 is now available. Features of this release are: * CyberCash 2 and 3 support. * File upload capability. * An LDAP plugin to communicate with Netscape's LDAP server. * Support for sharing primitives and images between multiple domains. * Support for BSDI Internet Server 3.1 * And a whole bunch more... Please give it a try and let us know what you think. Mike Pav mpav@morphtech.com http://www.morphtech.com Developers of Cross Platform Web Application Engines

APPLE BULLETIN: MRJ SDK 2.0.1 EARLY ACCESS 4 POSTED The MRJ Software Development Kit (SDK) is a set of Java development tools for use with the Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ), Apple's Java execution environment. Developers use the MRJ SDK to: * Enable standard Macintosh application written in C or Pascal to embed Java applets, run Java code, and access the Java Runtime through the JManager API. * Incorporate basic Macintosh functionality in Java applications using the MRJToolkit. * Call Java methods from C and C++. * Call native methods from Java using JDirect. * Build stand-alone Java applications using JBindery. * Run Sun JDK tools through a Macintosh application or MPW script. New in MRJ SDK 2.0.1 Early Access 4 (EA4) are updated versions of the Sun JDK Tools and of JBindery. The user interface in JBindery has been simplified, making it easier to package up stand-alone applications. Also included in this release is a set of MPW...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: DoubleClick: Amy Shapiro (212) 655-7671 ashapiro@doubleclick.net AdKnowledge: Katy Boos (650) 851-5360 katy@bigskypr.com DOUBLECLICK AND ADKNOWLEDGE FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Leading Internet Companies Drive Standard Industry Platforms for Web Ad Management PALO ALTO, Calif./NEW YORK -- June 3, 1998 -- DoubleClick, Inc., (NASDAQ: DCLK) the leading provider of comprehensive global Internet advertising solutions for marketers and web publishers, and AdKnowledge (http://www.adknowledge.com), the leading provider of web advertising management products for advertising agencies and their clients, today announced the formation of a strategic partnership. This agreement is designed to bring increased efficiency and effectiveness to web advertising through the creation of standard industry platforms for web ad management. The goal of the partnership is to facilitate the process of advertising on the Internet, thereby accelerating the acceptance and growth of...

From: bill.m.catambay@lmco.com (Bill M. Catambay) Subject: [Ann] Beta Test Central (Annex of Pascal Central) Announcing Beta Test Central, a new annex to Pascal Central. Beta Test Central is designed for Pascal programmers to submit their beta applications for testing, and for testing the beta applications of other Pascal programmers. This site maintains a database of applications available for testing, and functionality for browsing the database, adding your applications to the database, and downloading applications for testing. If you have an application which is written in Pascal (or partially written in Pascal), and you are looking for testers, feel free to register your app at Beta Test Central! Cheers, Bill Catambay Software Developer, EMR Map Maker, Pascal Central Editor (http://pascal-central.com)

This announcement is from: Eric Bickford, eric@macweb.com Web Broadcasting, http://macweb.com/ NEW PRODUCT FM@ILER 1.1 NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD OR PURCHASE FM@ILER 1.1 AUTOMATES MAILING LIST ARCHIVALS TO A SEARCHABLE WEB DATABASE Palo Alto, CA -- June 3, 1998 -- FM@iler 1.1 is a combination suite consisting of an email logging AppleScript for Emailer 2.0, a backend database application powered by the FileMaker Pro 3.0 runtime database engine, and a web server plug-in for W*API 1.1 compatible Mac web servers that provides a searchable web browser interface to archived email messages. Emailer 2.0 is configured on a web server with a schedule to periodically check a POP account for new incoming messages. Mail Actions are also configured with rules to move incoming messages from the Inbox to the appropriate Emailer 2.0 Folder. After new mail is received and stored appropriately, Emailer 2.0 runs an AppleScript that quickly logs specific Folders containing UNREAD messages to the archival...

For Immediate Release For more information, contact: Macromedia Schwartz Communications Andrea Coffey Lauren Carpenter acoffey@macromedia.com laurenc@schwartz-pr.com (415) 252-2260 (415) 512-0770 MACROMEDIA SHIPS FIREWORKS First Tool to provide a Unified Environment for Creating and Producing Web Graphics is Now Available for Windows and Macintosh San Francisco, Calif June 2, 1998Macromedia (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced that Fireworks, the first tool to provide a unified environment for creating, optimizing and producing high-quality bitmapped graphics for the Web, is now shipping for an estimated street price of $299. By combining a powerful text and graphics creation environment with sophisticated functionality for optimizing download times and adding interactivity and animation, Fireworks defines a new category of software tools geared to the graphics production needs of Web designers. The shipping version of Fireworks...

This announcement is from: Eric Bickford, eric@macweb.com Web Broadcasting, http://webfm.com/ REVISION 2 OF WEB FM 4.0 NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD OR PURCHASE ADDS SUPPORT FOR W*API 1.3 VIRTUAL HOSTS AND VARIABLE ROOT DIRECTORIES Palo Alto, CA -- June 3, 1998 -- WEB FM 4.0 is a plug-in to popular Mac OS web servers such as WebSTAR, Quid Pro Quo, WebTEN, and AppleShare IP that enables FileMaker Pro developers to quickly and easily build wicked fast, truly dynamic and interactive online database applications. WEB FM is optimized for top performance, and version 4.0 introduced support for easy-to-use, Internet standard Template files void of confusing, incompatible, and proprietary markup [/tags]. VIRTUAL DOMAIN SUPPORT Revision 2 of WEB FM 4.0 adds support for W*API 1.3 Virtual Hosting and multiple root web server directories. "With Virtual Host support in WEB FM 4.0v2, serving the right information has just become easier." said Chris Kilbourn, President digital.forest, Inc. "We can now...