VSE ANIMATION MAKER 3.0 - WE WANT YOU TO BE PRODUCTIVE (Bonn, Germany, December 17th, 1997). Today, Voget Selbach Entertainment announced the highly awaited major revision of their animation software "VSE Animation Maker" for Apple Macintosh computers. With this new version, you can create impressive animations even more effectively. VSE Animation Maker 3.0 is still very easy to use and quick to learn. It offers many new useful features, so it is ideal for web designers, online-agencies, multimedia authors, computer game designers, teachers, pupils and anyone who likes to have fun with animated pictures. "VSE Animation Maker 3.0 is easily the biggest leap forward in functionality since we released Multimedia Animation Maker 2.0 almost one year ago", said Andre Voget, President of Voget Selbach Entertainment. "The focus of VSE Animation Maker is still on ease-of-use, and with Animation Maker 3.0, we are bringing new powerful and useful features into the hands of virtually any animation...

Symantec Ships Visual Cafe for Java 2.0 Macintosh Professional and Database Development Tools CUPERTINO, CA -- Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the leading provider of Internet development tools, announced today that Visual Cafe for Java Macintosh, the fourth generation of its popular Cafe product family is now shipping. Visual Cafe for Java Macintosh is the only comprehensive Java development tool available that fits the diverse needs of today's Macintosh developers, allowing Macintosh developers to take their Java applications and applets to a higher level of interactivity with corporate databases, HTML Web page development and deployment. This release contains the latest Java technology and the most powerful development features available for Macintosh developers today. Visual Cafe for Java Macintosh is an open standard, multi-platform, visual Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for quickly and easily developing Java applets and applications. And through RAD on /off...

WWW SURVEY ASSISTANT REINFORCES ITS POSITION AS THE LEADING WEB SURVEY/TEST SOFTWARE HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 11, 1997: S-Ware introduces an exciting new Java-based tool to complement its web survey package, World Wide Web Survey Assistant. The new Java editor and updated website at http://www.surveyassistant.com make WWW Survey Assistant easier to use than ever. The new editor runs as an applet through any Java-enabled web browser. As no download or installation is required, users will be able to immediately take advantage of software enhancements as they are added. The Java editor can also be downloaded and run as an application independent of the user's web browser. S-Ware will continue to support its CGI-based editors for users who are not yet using a Java-enabled browser. WWW Survey Assistant is the most versatile, full-featured and economical software for creating web surveys and tests. The survey/test administrator needs only to supply the questions. WWW Survey...

Allegiant Technologies is pleased to announce an unbelievable holiday season offer on SuperCard 3.0, the "Best Multimedia Authoring Tool of 1997." For a limited time, you can buy SuperCard 3.0 for just $69.95 + shipping & handling. How's that for holiday spirit -- an incredible $260 off the normal street price! In picking it as the "Best Multimedia Authoring Tool of 1997," Macuser UK said SuperCard 3.0 was "a multimedia authoring package for ordinary people, but with an extraordinary feature set" and called it "...a serious authoring application" while giving it top honors over Macromedia Director 6.0. While we don't think any of our customers are "ordinary," SuperCard 3.0 is unquestionably a breakthrough for ease of learning and ease of use. But that's only our most recent award. In the past two years SuperCard has swept just about every major honor from the Mac press. SuperCard has been used around the world to develop stunning multimedia CD-ROMs, compelling computer-based...

Natural Intelligence Announces QuickCode Pro, V3, for 4th Dimension, V6. December 15, 1997. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Natural Intelligence today announced the release of QuickCode Pro(r) 3.0 for the Macintosh, their popular assistant editor for 4th Dimension (4D). This new release is compatible with 4D Version 6.0.3, the current ACI US version of the 4D development environment. Natural Intelligence, one of the pre-eminent 4th Dimension consulting and development houses in the country, will continue to develop and support QuickCode Pro, a product which is an integral part of their 4D consulting services. Joshua Wachs, President and CEO noted that the product's evolution "was guided in large part by Natural Intelligence consultants who use the product for creating small business as well as enterprise solutions. Wachs added, "We are very happy to make this product available to loyal customers who have literally besieged us with encouragement, to put it mildly." "This tool adds...

NeoLogic's Object Database Management System Adopted by Connectix to Aid in Accelerating Web Browsing - NeoAccess-enabled Surf Express(tm) Loads Pages Up to 36 Times Faster Than Stand Alone Browsers Berkeley, CA - December 15, 1997 - Reinforcing its position as the leading provider of object databases for the desktop, NeoLogic today announced that NeoAccess was chosen by Connectix Corporation as the database foundation for the recently released Surf Express(tm). Surf Express is a performance optimizing application which accelerates the web browsing experience by loading pages up to 36 times faster than stand alone web browsers. "NeoAccess gave us the back-end infrastructure we needed to meet our performance objectives," said Connectix lead engineer Jim Gochee. "Its fast access speeds, highly efficient caching mechanism and cross-platform support for multithreaded applications all contributed to the speed of Surf Express. Beyond our appreciation for the product itself, we're extremely...

December 11, 1997 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Scott S. Lawton, ssl@prefab.com 288 Littleton Rd, Suite 20, Westford, MA 01886, 978-692-1256 *** Survey on Text Utilities, Drawing for over a dozen great prizes! *** PreFab wants your feedback on two different types of text utilities: - enhanced search & replace ("or" search, wildcards, pattern matching and more) - document comparison (automatic redlining of HTML, QuarkXPress and other documents) Please consider taking a few minutes to fill out our web survey at (http://www.prefab.com/survey/survey1.html) As thanks for participating, we'll have a drawing on Thurs. Dec. 18 (at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time) and give away 1 copy each of BBEdit, Timbuktu, LightningDraw/WEB, Default Folder, MacTech subscription & CD, FileFlex, Style and every major scripting product: ACME Script Widgets, FaceSpan SRT, Player, Script Debugger, Scripter and Text Machine.

Stepwise and P & L Systems announce availability of OpenUp.app for Rhapsody Waterloo, Ontario, Dec 10 1997 -- Scott Anguish of the Stepwise Rhapsody/OpenStep Information Server today announced the immediate availability of OpenUp.app for Apple's new Rhapsody operating system. OpenUp allows a user to double-click on compressed and archived files and have them open in the Workspace without having to resort to the command-line tools gnutar and gunzip. It also supports opening the many other common and uncommon formats. "OpenUp allows normal users access to files compressed by many different Unix and non-unix commandline tools without having to know the magic incantations required," commented Scott Anguish, Stepwise creator and OpenUp author, "Further, it's expandable, so if it doesn't handle handle the compression and/or archiving formats you use now, additional scripted bridges can be written." The first release of OpenUp for Rhapsody will contain the following new features: *...

I hope you will all find the following information of use. Iceni are a UK company, specializing in PDF tools, and we have announced the "GENUS" range of Adobe Plug-In's for Exchange 3.0 that will allow you to generate HTML )from PDF documents, automatically... XMAS OFFER......IF I MANAGE TO GET THESE BLOODY REINDEER OUT OF THE OFFICE............ We would like to extend a special early Xmas offer to all the readers of MacDev. If you purchase the products before the 31st of December we would like to offer you a 20% discount. Normal purchase price of the Text tool is $100.00 - XMAS price $80.00. And the normal price for the 'Photo' tool is $125.00 - XMAS price $100. Just mention MacDev when ordering to claim your discount. Demo's can be downloaded from (www.iceni.com), and sales can be contacted at (sales@iceni.com). The following press release gives more details, but please do not hesitate to contact us directly if you require further information. Regards ICENI...

PRESS RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE ROASTER TECHNOLOGIES CLOSING ITS DOORS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY December 11, 1997 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Roaster Technologies' Board of Directors this week concluded, regretfully, that the financing necessary to keep Roaster Technologies a vital concern in the competitive Java developer tools marketplace was not likely to occur within a reasonable time frame. The Board also decided to make the technological assets of the company available for purchase. All day-to-day business activities will cease immediately. Until the end of the year, John Dhabolt, President/CEO, will continue to be involved in the required business closure activities. Additionally, Dhabolt will be interviewing companies and individuals who have expressed interest in acquiring all or part of the technological assets of the company. Dhabolt expressed his regret for the inconvenience to current Roaster users. "We have an exceptional product--witness the great press and industry...

Apple On-Line Store Orders Top 12 Million Dollars in First Month Apple Store Becomes Third Largest e-commerce Site in Under 30 Days CUPERTINO, California--Dec. 10, 1997--Apple Computer, Inc. today reported that The Apple Store, its new online store (http://www.apple.com/store), received over $12 million dollars of orders in its first 30 days of operation. The Apple Store opened its e-doors on Nov. 10, 1997. "The Apple Store is now one of the top e-commerce sites on the Internet," said Steve Jobs, Apple's interim CEO. "We are thrilled by the customer acceptance of both the store and our new build-to-order program." The Apple Store is one element of Apple's new distribution strategy, which also includes a broad new relationship with CompUSA, one of the nation's largest computer resellers. CompUSA is opening an Apple "store within a store" in every one of their over 140 stores in the US. Each "store within a store" features the complete Apple computer line, a large selection of...

Frontier 5: Public release of Frontier 5.0/Mac Frontier 5 is a now a cross-platform product! On Saturday we released the first public alpha of Frontier, version 5.0a22 for Windows, and today, 12/10/97, we have released the Mac version of the same software. Why the delay? There are a core set of features gathered around website building and system management that work exactly the same on both Mac and Windows. Our first goal in getting this release out was to get that core set working properly on both operating systems. The core functionality, at this time, pretty much defines the Windows product. There are almost no features that are in the Windows software that aren't also in the Mac software. Over time this will change as we support all the scripting culture on Windows, but for right now Frontier/Win is mostly the cross-platform subset. After we do a Windows release, the Mac-specific bits have to be imported into the new root and tested. The first time we did this it took four days....

For Immediate Release:- Groupe Mirande offers free advice to developers who want to break into the French market. France - 9th December 1997 - Groupe Mirande the French based consultancy company is offering a period of free advice for developers who want to sell their products into the French market. "The French market has always been difficult to break into and to get results", says Paul Lambert of Groupe Mirande. He continues "the vast cultural and the always present language differences have proved the down fall for a number of companies who wanted to promote their products in France". "With Groupe Mirande's experience we hope to point out the main stumbling blocks for companies, so they can reap the rewards from this exciting market" In 1996 the French PC market was worth around 6,000 million US$, and is expected to reach 8,000 million US$ in 1999, with the Internet and related sectors accounting for much of that growth. The French as a nation historically have taken to new...

AutoShare 2.0, a freeware list server and auto-responder (http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/) has been released and may be downloaded from (ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/) or by e-mail from (mailto:AutoShare-software@dcl.co.uk?subject=AutoShare-2.0.sit) AutoShare is robust, speedy and requires little memory. The 68K and PowerPC native server applications, tested with Mac OS 8.0 and compatible with EIMS (Eudora Internet Mail Server, formerly AIMS and MailShare) and SIMS (Stalker Internet Mail Server), are fully scriptable and may be configured using the AutoShare Admin, an administration application with balloon help. Lists in the hundreds and subscribers in the thousands per list are supported, as are subscription, open, moderated, announcement and private list types. Version 2.0 introduces a fully revamped documentation showing just how easy it is to get going with AutoShare, a major multiple preference sets feature coming in handy with mail server multi-domains, a...

Dear Developer, Apple Developer Relations has chosen to immediately shut down our FTP seeding server due to serious violations against the Apple Seeding Projects Prototype License and Confidentiality Agreement (NDA) by some developers in the Apple Technology Seeding Program. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes those of you who have respected the terms of the NDA. The server will remain closed until further notice. Seeding Program participants will continue to receive software via the monthly Apple Technology Seed CD. Sincerely, Seeding Services Apple Developer Relations

Macintosh users can get new Visual MacStandardBasic 3.1 just $29.95 INDIANAPOLIS, IN, December 4th, 1997: ZCurve Software has announced Visual MacStandardBasic 3.1 has been released and that, for a limit time, Macintosh users can get their own copy for just $29.95. Visual MacStandardBasic normally has a retail price of $99. Professional Macintosh applications can be visually created in minutes.Visual MacStandardBasic uses and extends BASIC's easy to learn format to utilize the power of the Macintosh. It is easy for users to integrate sound, speech, color graphics, sprite animation, movies into their applications. Users can purchase and download the complete Visual MacStandardBasic package from the ZCurve Software website (www.zcurve.com). Currently, Macintosh users anywhere in the world can get Visual MacStandardBasic within minutes over the Internet. Visual MacStandardBasic is also available from DevDepot. Developer Depot is a leader in providing software products to Macintosh users...

WebSTAR users, StarNine and Sophisticated Circuits are proud to announce the release of the WebSTAR PowerKey Pro Ticker Plug-In, now available for download at (ftp://ftp.starnine.com/pub/extending_webstar/powerkey_pro_tickler.sea.hqx). W ebSTAR PowerKey Pro Tickler is a WebSTAR Plug-In that periodically sends a USER TIMER AppleEvent to the PowerKey Pro powerstrip from Sophisticated Circuits. In the event of a WebSTAR crash this allows the PowerKey Pro to restart the server machine. When WebSTAR is running normally, the WebSTAR PowerKey Pro Tickler sets the User Timer to 5 minutes at one-minute intervals. Once set, the User Timer starts counting down to zero. As long as WebSTAR is running, the Tickler will continue to reset the User Timer, so it will never reach zero. If the User Timer ever actually reaches zero, it means that WebSTAR has stopped resetting it, usually due to a crash or freeze. PowerKey Pro will then execute the "When Timer Expires" Event. This will restart the system...

Apple Delivers Public QuickTime 3.0 Developer Preview Release CUPERTINO, California--Dec. 1, 1997--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it has reached a major milestone in the development of QuickTime 3.0 with the public availability of the QuickTime 3.0 Developer Preview Release. QuickTime 3.0 is the latest version of the Company's award-winning, industry-standard software architecture for creating and publishing digital media for Mac OS and Windows. The QuickTime 3.0 Developer Preview Release is available for immediate download from the web at: http://www.quicktime.apple.com/preview/. Apple has already aggressively seeded an early QuickTime 3.0 prototype to key developers including companies creating powerful digital media. These QuickTime developers include Adobe, Avid Technology, Broderbund, Cinebase, Equilibrium, Go Live, Macromedia, Media 100, Puffin Designs, Radius, Terran Interactive and TrueVision. Having gained positive feedback from seeded developers, Apple is now making...

Roaster Technologies Licenses ObjectSpace Voyager(TM) As Primary Java Interface For Distributed Computing -- mobile agents with CORBA and DCOM communication provide customers core development infrastructure for distributed Java applications-- Cambridge, MA - December 1, 1997 - Roaster Technologies today announced that it has licensed ObjectSpace Voyager(TM), the Agent ORB for Java from ObjectSpace, Inc., as the core Java interface for distributed programming using the Roaster Technologies Java development environments. Roaster Technologies will include ObjectSpace Voyager in its Roaster Enterprise(TM) and Roaster Data Edition(TM) products and extend its development environments to allow customers to build distributed applications quickly, easily, and with great power and flexibility. "We selected ObjectSpace Voyager as the primary vehicle for delivering multi-tiered, distributed Java applications with Roaster Enterprise because of its diversity and ease of use," said John Dhabolt,...

VISUAL CONCEPT ENGINEERING (VCE, INC.) ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF "PYROMANIA! PRO" CD-ROM TITLE: Third in a Series Provides Super Charged Explosions for Multimedia, Broadcast Video and Game Developers Hollywood, CA., November 15, 1997 -- Visual Concept Engineering, Inc. (VCE), one of Hollywood's leading special effects houses, releases the third in a series of CD-ROM titles depicting super-charged explosions, entitled "Pyromania! Pro." The CD-ROM, with over 30 explosive visual effects images (including a spectacular car explosion) that can be used royalty free, has been designed for multimedia, broadcast video and game developers with a professional's requirements in mind. The announcement was made today by VCE President/Founder Peter Kuran, the producer of "Pyromania! Pro." Mr. Kuran is also the producer of "Pyromania: Playing with Fire" and Pyromania 2," each of which has recorded extraordinary sales successes from multimedia producers around the world. Each of the three CD-ROMs in the "...

BRIDGE ALLOWS MAC WEBMASTERS TO EASILY UPGRADE FROM COMMAND TAGS TO XML November 25, 1997 -- Media Design in*Progress today released a bridge from the proprietary command-tag constructs of NetCloak (TM) to markup that adheres to the syntax and semantics of XML and established open markup standards. "An increasing number of Webmasters realize that adhering to established markup standards has major advantages for long-term maintainance of websites" say Terje Norderhaug of Media Design in*Progress. "Using the Cloak Bridge, Webmasters that previously have depended on proprietary command tags for dynamic pages can move on to benefit from standard markup that covers the same purpose." The Cloak Bridge allows documents with command tags to be imported by Interaction. The bridge emulates all variations of the INSERT command tag as well as macro inclusion. Webmasters can then substitute command tags with corresponding XML constructs at their own pace, as well as use other standard markup...

From: woody@alumni.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) Subject: [ANN] Build Counter tool for tracking number of builds. Okay, this is a hack. I needed a quick way to increment a 'build count' in a Macintosh project I'm working on. So one afternoon, I hacked this together. It's a Macintosh plugin for CodeWarrior that creates a 4 byte build count resource in your Macintosh application. It's specifically a post-linker plugin, which is invoked after your application is linked. And everytime you build your application, the 4 byte count resource will be incremented by one. You can download this hack^H^H^H^H tool from: http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~woody/software/buildcount.html Of course, as this is a quick hack, I cannot guarentee that this won't wipe out your system, burn your apartment down, and cause your girlfriend to leave you for an Windows 95 user. Code released into public domain. - Bill -- William Edward Woody | In...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Objective-Everything Release 5 Bethesda, Maryland. November 24, 1997. Today, TipTop Software, Inc. proudly announced Release 5 of the Objective-Everything(tm) development system for OpenStep (Rhapsody, Windows, and Mach), including Objective-Python, Objective-Tcl, Objective-Perl, and Objective-Browser. "We are excited to make the Objective-Everything technology widely available" said Pedja Bogdanovich, TipTop President. "Objective-Everything is the preeminent scripting solution for Yellow Box. It augments the Yellow Box development with the power and flexibility of the world's most popular high-level programming languages." Objective-Everything provides true language independence for the OpenStep (Yellow Box) object model. It allows you to develop programs for OpenStep without being restricted by the lack of expressiveness, class libraries, or other limitations of a particular programming language. With Objective-Everything you can use the language best suited...

From: Mikael Arctaedius (m-arc@algonet.se) Version 1.4.4 of the Object Plant is now released. This version contains a few bug fixes and one new feature. (You can find more details at the web-site.) There are updaters (from 1.4 and 1.4.3) and a full version available at: http://www.softsys.se/ObjectPlant/ The Object Plant is a shareware Object Oriented Analysis and Design tool based on the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) notation but also supports a subset of Unified Modeling Language (UML). With the Object Plant you can create + Object Model diagrams + Event Trace diagrams + State diagrams + Use Case diagrams Diagrams can be exported in PICT or EPS format. The information in the Object Models can be used for generation of C++ or Java code. (Other languages can also be generated by modifying the code generation template files.) Requirements: System 7.1 or later 68020 or better 3 Mb free RAM More information about the Object Plant can be found at http://www.softsys.se/ObjectPlant/ If...