FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Equilibrium Introduces OneButton Productivity Solutions for Digital Imaging, Photography, and Video New technology for digital cameras, scanners, and video cameras automates digital media production SAUSALITO, CA - May 24, 1999 - Equilibrium, the world's leading provider of automated graphics processing software, today gave the premier public demonstration of OneButton Productivity Solutions for digital imaging, photography, and video hardware. This technology, when bundled with digital cameras, video cameras, photo printers, and scanners, provides users with simple "OneButton" automated methods for preparing images for immediate Web, multimedia, and print use. "With our new OneButton Productivity Solutions, the time between image capture and image publishing is reduced to almost nothing," said Steve Denebeim, CEO of Equilibrium. "We've taken our award-winning automation engine and customized it to empower digital imaging, photography, and video hardware. Our new...

R O C K E T F I R E 6 - P O R T F I R E W I R E H U B MacWorks Announces New 1394a-Compliant 6-Port FireWire Hub Lenexa, Kansas, May 25, 1999 -- MacWorks today announced the first FireWire accessory in its new RocketFire line of products. The first FireWire product the company will ship is the 1394a-compliant, cross-platform RocketFire 6-Port Hub repeater. The hub will have six 1394a-compliant ports that allow Mac & PC users to seamlessly add peripherals to their computers without the need to power down. The six-port hub supports data transfer rates of 100, 200, and 400 Mbps (mega bits per second) and automatically switches to the highest speed supported by the connected peripheral. The hub is housed in a low profile enclosure measuring 5.57" x 2.52" x 4.00" for easy placement. Power is supplied to the hub through a 30-watt wall mount transformer. Currently more than 50 FireWire peripherals are shipping in the market, with new product announcements almost daily. The...

Infowave Ships PowerPrint for Networks PowerPrint for Networks allows Macs to print to virtually any printer across an Ethernet network Burnaby, British Columbia, May 25, 1999: Infowave Software Inc. (IWM) announced today that it has started shipping PowerPrint for Networks,the affordable, Macintosh-friendly way for SOHO, education, and consumer users to print from their Macintosh to virtually any PC printer over a network. With PowerPrint for Networks almost any printer becomes a Macintosh network printer. PowerPrint for Networks combines Infowave's award-winning suite of PowerPrint printer drivers, a fast 10/100BaseT print server, and a printer cable, to provide Ethernet network printing connectivity from a Macintosh to over 1600 inkjet, laser and specialty PC-printers. Infowave's PowerPrint for Networks is an ideal solution for: * Sharing a printer - whether you have a Mac network or mixed environment with Macs and PC1s, PowerPrint for Networks makes sharing a low cost, non-...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PUPPETTIME PRODUCER NOW SUPPORTS MULTIPLE CAMERAS 3D storytelling company continues rapid development pace toward a complete virtual movie studio inside consumer PCs SAN FRANCISCO (May 24th, 1999) - PuppetTime, Inc. announced today that it has released a new version of PuppetTime Producer, 1.0d24, on its web site http://www.puppettime.com/. PuppetTime is a patent-pending 3D digital actor plug-in architecture built on top of Apple's QuickTime. PuppetTime Producer allows Macintosh users to create 3D movies by commanding digital actors around a virtual stage with point and click ease. The latest version of PuppetTime Producer now supports multiple cameras. Users can add cameras to their productions just like any other puppet or prop. All cameras are shown via tabs above the camera view. Clicking on a camera tab changes the view to that camera. Camera controls allow users to set the pan, tilt, boom, roll, and location of the current camera. Camera motions and...

For Immediate Release MACROMEDIA DEBUTS FLASH 4 FOR DISTINCTIVE, FULL SCREEN WEB EXPERIENCES MP3 Streaming Audio, Powerful Interactivity, and Workflow Enhancements Make Flash the Optimal Solution for High-Impact, Bandwidth-Efficient Sites San Francisco, Calif.-Macromedia International User Conference '99 - May 24, 1999 - Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today unveiled a new version of its popular Flash(TM) authoring software. First introduced in 1996, Flash has become the standard for creating high-impact vector based Web sites that deliver sound, interactivity, graphics and animations and perform flawlessly across multiple browsers and platforms. Many leading companies, including Citibank, PepsiCola, DaimlerChrysler, and Nestle are using Flash to create beautiful Web sites that effectively communicate their brands. Flash 4 opens new design possibilities with enhancements such as integrated support for high-fidelity MP3 streaming audio and commands for easily creating personalized...

MacHack PR: Mac to the Past, Nostalgic Theme Unveiled 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 24, 1999 -- Each year the MacHack software developers' conference centers all of its commemorative, collectible materials around a theme. Each year has featured some unique conference aspect be it a running conference joke or even play on the conference name. 1998 saw the rise of 'MacHack 13: The Return,' a play on the conference year and the ASCII code for the control-M (return key). Previous years have featured the 'Where's Waldemar' classic T-shirt and the cult of System 7 sacrificing a cartoon chicken to the OS gods. So what, in this year of rebirth for both the Mac and MacHack, will arise as the theme? Much ado has been made behind the scenes as the planning committee mulled this very issue. "We toyed...

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...