FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Catara(tm) Software Releases sLog 2.1b1, "Your personal system manager." Contact: Steven Marcotte catara@idir.net Lawrence, KS Dec 15, 1998 Catara(tm) Software today announced the first public beta release of sLog 2.1, a system management utility for the Macintosh and PowerPC. What is sLog 2.1? sLog 2.1 is a handy system management utility that allows you to keep track of your system's stability by recording the time your computer restarted or crashed. sLog, intended to be used by both users and administrators alike, has many potential uses, including: * Logging how much a computer is used (for tax or record keeping purposes) * Finding out how stable a particular computer is * Determining if a new piece of software or hardware is causing subtle problems * Letting you know if a computer is being improperly shutdown * Finding out if someone has been using a computer when they weren't supposed to be * Loads of other things...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EQUILIBRIUM ADDS MAC OS 8.5 COMPATIBILITY TO DEBABELIZER 3 FOR MACINTOSH Sausalito, CA - December 9, 1998 -- Equilibrium today announced the availability of a free Mac OS 8.5 updater for DeBabelizer 3 for Macintosh, the professional software standard for automatically preparing digital graphics and video for delivery in any medium on any platform. The updater revises DeBabelizer's interface to comply with Mac OS 8.5 standards, extends DeBabelizer's support for pre-press files and enables the use of Photoshop 5 filters and plug-ins. "Apple has set a new standard for speed and ease of use with OS 8.5." said Tim Bigoness, Equilibrium's Director of Product Management. "We've updated DeBabelizer to harness the power of Apple's new OS and enable our users to prepare and optimize digital media even faster and more efficiently than before." Equilibrium DeBabelizer 3 for Macintosh users work in all areas of the digital convergence: Web development, imaging and publishing...

For Immediate Release Don't Lose Another Visitor to Your Site Because of Slow Load Times NetMechanic's New FREE Service "Load Time Check" Helps Web Pages Load Fast Huntsville, AL -- NetMechanic (www.netmechanic.com), a leading web site maintenance service, has just announced the launch of a new FREE service that will prevent web sites from losing visitors due to slow loading web pages. NetMechanic Load Time Check will search the pages of a web site to find html, images, multimedia plug-ins, and other objects with extremely long load times and alert the webmaster with a full report including advice on how to remedy problem areas. Unlike other fee based services, NetMechanic Load Time Check also offers free advice on how to improve the rendering time, that is, the time it takes for the browser to display the finished web page. "This is an exceptional service that were offering at no charge," said Tom Dahm, Manager of NetMechanic. "Thousands of dollars are spent on cutting-edge graphic...

SUN DELIVERS NEXT VERSION OF THE JAVA(TM) PLATFORM Java 2 Brand Unveiled NEW YORK, NY -- December 8, 1998 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of the Java(TM) 2 platform, the next release of the core Java technology (formerly code-named "JDK(TM) 1.2"). The Java 2 platform is the definitive environment for enterprises aiming to build and install web-centric software applications that can run on a variety of computers, servers and other computing devices. The new release provides significant performance improvements, a new, flexible security model and a complete set of Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs). The Java 2 platform provides software programmers with the speed, security and functionality that make it easier than ever to create interoperable, mission-critical enterprise applications. The Java 2 platform is widely supported by the industry and is being endorsed by hundreds of industry-leading companies worldwide (see quote addendum). "Java 2 is the...

MacHack '99: Call for Papers MacHack: The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers c/o Expotech 1264 Bedford Road Grosse Point Park, MI 48230 Contact: Carol Lynn mailto:info@machack.com Tel: (313) 882-1824 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Do you have a great new idea in Macintosh software development? Or a great new way to put together some old ideas and make everyone say, "WOW"? Wouldn't you like to talk about it with a group of people who Really Understand what you're saying? This is your chance. Write it up and submit it as a paper for MacHack '99! MacHack solicits and accepts papers on a wide variety of topics related to software development. For example, the subjects of last year's papers ranged from cross-platform development techniques, to anonymity in internet communications, to exception-handling strategies on the Macintosh, to macroscopic object architectures. Each paper accepted is published in the MacHack Conference proceedings and included on the MacHack CD. Each author gives a...

Startup Doubler 1.2.1 was just released: Startup Doubler compensates for sub-optimal disk performance to make extensions, control panels and the Finder load faster. Version 1.2.1 is a maintenance release to add support for Mac OS 8.5.1. It is available for downloading from www.marcmoini.com.

For Immediate Release DNS Expert 1.3 from Men & Mice Released: Crucial DNS Security Analysis for ISPs and DNS Administrators: Tests for DNS Spoofing and Mail Relay Reykjavik, Iceland, December 8/-- Men & Mice today released version 1.3 of DNS Expert and DNS Expert Lite, providing security tests such as checking name servers' vulnerability to DNS spoofing attacks and whether mail servers can be used to relay spam mail. A new crucial security test checks whether name servers can be spoofed i.e. whether it is possible to place forged data in the cache of the name servers. DNS spoofing can cause serious security problems for companies vulnerable to such attacks, for example causing users to be directed to wrong Internet sites or e-mail going through non-authorized mail servers. Says Cricket Liu, DNS consultant, and co-author of the books "DNS & BIND" and "DNS on Windows NT": "DNS spoofing is a very real threat to the integrity of activity on the Internet, whether commercial or...

Title: Web Finder 4 Author: Theo Howell Link: http://www.tmlc.com.au/wf/WebFinder.html Description: Web Finder V4, the latest version of the original plugin based web searching utility, is out. It boasts many new features taking it beyond other search utilities such as Sherlock e.g. the ability to access almost any search engine available, automated multi-topic searching and support for System 7.5+ Web Finder is a web searching utility for the Macintosh. Quickly and easily Web Finder allows you to access a vast amount of search engines, returning your results in the browser of your choice, or downloading them to a file.

NETBEANS ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR THE JAVA(TM) DEVELOPMENT KIT 1.2 NetBeans DeveloperX2 2.1 runs on JDK 1.2 and is now Available to NetBeans' Early Access Program Participants New York, Java Business Expo, December 8, 1998 - NetBeans today announced that its Java(tm) IDE, NetBeans DeveloperX2, supports and runs on Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Java(tm) Development Kit (JDK(tm) version 1.2). This latest release of the JDK provides a rich feature set of new class libraries and tools, making it easier than ever for developers to create portable, distributed, enterprise-class applications. Sun's announcement of the availability of the next version of the JDK was made today during the Java(sm) Business Expo(sm) in New York. NetBeans Developer X2 2.1 (beta) supports JDK 1.2 and uses it internally. It is available to NetBeans' Early Access Program participants. "Our users rely on NetBeans to be at the forefront of Java technology so that they, in turn, can bring this technology to their...

For Immediate Release **Electrifier, Inc. ships Electrifier Pro for industry-standard QuickTime--first professional tool for creating fast web multimedia using all content types Research Triangle, NC. December 7, 1998. Electrifier, Inc. (http://www.electrifier.com) today shipped Electrifier(R) Pro, the first professional tool for creating fast-downloading web multimedia using an amazing range of content--bitmap and vector animation, digitized audio, synthesized music (MIDI), video, 3D, VR panoramas, No-Bandwidth(TM) media like fire, clouds and ripples, and over 150 special effects such as emboss, blur, and fade. As web audiences demand increasingly exciting sites, web professionals must find ways to attract and hold their attention. Until now, the creation of rich multimedia content has been difficult, even when using multiple applications. And the results have been either too simplistic, resulting in a superficial viewing experience, or require too much bandwidth, causing unbearably...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Donna Sokolsky, (650) 937-3858 sokolsky@netscape.com NETSCAPE DELIVERS "GECKO" BROWSING ENGINE INCORPORATING ADVANCED FEATURES FOR INTERNET BROWSING ANYWHERE Small, Fast Browsing Engine For Virtually Any Application, Computing Platform, Device Or Developer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (December 7, 1998) -- Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today delivered the first version of "Netscape Gecko," its next-generation browsing engine, to thousands of Internet developers. Netscape Gecko -- formally code-named "Raptor " reaches a new milestone for browser technology in speed, smaller size and full standards support. The revolutionary technology is designed to Internet-enable virtually any application, operating system or device. 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 among thousands of Internet developers and Netscape...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UPDATEAGENT MAKES ALL APPLICATIONS MACOS 8.5-READY FOR FREE Limited-Time Promotion Delivers Software Updaters for MacOS 8.5 December 7, 1998 [Carlsbad, CA] Insider Software today announced a limited-time promotion that gives Macintosh users a fast, free way to upgrade their systems with the latest software updaters required for MacOS 8.5 compatability. Through December 11, users can download Insider UpdateAgent 3.0 via the Internet, run it on their Macintosh, and receive free updaters to make the users' applications compatible with MacOS 8.5 in addition to receiving MacOS updates. "Developers need to update their applications to have them take advantage of new OS releases such as MacOS 8.5," commented Rio Sabadicci, president of Insider Software. "We're helping Mac users everywhere make the transition smoothly and at no cost." SIMPLE TO OPERATE UpdateAgent 3.0 automatically scans a system's drives and displays a list of programs that it can update. Every program...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WAVES IN MOTION RELEASES OAZIUM CHARTS PLUG-IN FOR FILEMAKER PRO Easy-to-build graphs change the way people look at their data Contact: Vince Menanno, Waves in Motion Phone: 416-760-9959 E-mail: info@wmotion.com Web: http://www.wmotion.com Sales by WorqSmart: 602-956-7080 TORONTO, Canada. December 5, 1998. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a well designed graph is sometimes the only thing that can help you make sense of all that information in your FileMaker database. The problem, however, has always been the great difficulty in building these graphs. Until now. oAzium Charts is a new FileMaker plug-in from Waves in Motion that lets you easily transform your database into any of a number of predefined chart styles, display your graphs the way you want them to look, and even publish them on the web. iSurveys.com, for example, relies on oAzium Charts to provide online visual feedback to both administrators and the participants in the online surveys they...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW NETPROFESSIONAL COVERS SPAM, SHERLOCK, WEBOBJECTS 4, MAC OS 8.5 -- Professional Journal for Web Developers and NetAdmins covers latest Apple technologies in Nov/Dec issue WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- December 4, 1998 -- Xplain Corporation, publishers of NetProfessional(tm) magazine, revealed the contents of the November/December issue, just now arriving in subscribers' mailboxes. The print magazine, for web developers and network administrators, continues to grow as a technical journal packed with in-depth articles on a variety of current challenges users face, peer-reviewed by experts in the field. The cover of the new issue (Volume 2, Number 3) features Mac OS 8.5, Apple's latest OS upgrade. Two stories in the magazine cover aspects of 8.5 in great detail. One, by acclaimed author Maria Langer, shows what's new for network administrators in the OS update, with close-up views of interface elements that have changed since previous OS releases. A second...

WebTen Update Increases Compatibility and Enhances Robustness Free Downloadable Update for all WebTen 2.1 Customers Santa Barbara, CA, December 4, 1998. A WebTen update, released today by Tenon, adds new features and includes modifications for enhanced robustness, ease-of-use, and compatibility. The free update recommended for all WebTen 2.1 customers and is downloadable from: http://www.tenon.com/support/files/WebTen This free update improves memory utilization and enhances operation with NetCloak, and WebSiphon, and WebSentinel. The DNS interface in the WebTen Administration Server has been extended to allow the explicit creation of name server records and to include domainmaster email addresses. A PowerKey Pro and Rebound! Plug-in is included with this update. WebTen's 'sendmail' has been modified to support site customization and to give improved operation with form-based email programs, such as formail.pl and flexmail. Operation with Apple CGIs has been made more reliable and has...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wireless Messaging Software Company Releases Full Feature Network Paging Gateway for Mobile Phones and Alphanumeric Pagers HANOVER, MA - December 2, 1998 -- NotePage, Inc. announced today a new release of PageGate. PageGate is an innovative, flexible, modular paging engine that allows for text messaging to wireless messaging devices. Messages can be sent via any one or combination of four different interfaces providing users an enormous amount of versatility. The email interface allows for email notification to be sent to numeric pagers, or for email messages to be sent to alphanumeric pagers or digital phones. The web interface generates personal internet or intranet web pages and allows for paging from CGI script boxes. Network monitoring and commandline paging are possible by using NotePage's commandline/ascii interface. The final interface is a graphical user interfaces that incorporates preprogrammed messages, group paging, scheduled messages and on-call...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3Com Announces the Palm VII Connected Organizer, The First Handheld Solution for Out-of-the-box Wireless Internet Access Revolutionary new product to give customers fast access to personal, business and Internet information; 22 initial web content partners include ABCNews.com, ESPN.com, E*TRADE, Mastercard, Visa, The Wall Street Journal Interactive and Yahoo! Santa Clara, Calif., December 2, 1998 -- Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company (Nasdaq:COMS), today announced it is extending its line of Palm Computing platform products to include the Palm VII connected organizer, once again redefining the handheld computing industry. The Palm VII organizer will enable users to quickly, easily and securely obtain information from web and intranet sites via a wireless connection to the Internet and will provide a means of instant two-way personal communication. In addition to providing fast and simple access to personal and business information, the Palm VII organizer will...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ClearWay Releases New "AdScreen" Filter for Fast, Banner-Free Surfing -- New package transforms slow-loading ad graphics into instant-loading text -- December 2nd, 1998. ClearWay Technologies, Inc. today announced "ClearWay AdScreen", a new Internet filtering product that replaces slow-loading ad banners with instant-loading text. By removing sluggish ad graphics, AdScreen dramatically speeds up Web surfing and helps reduce the clutter caused by Web advertising graphics. AdScreen is the Web's first proxy extension to focus on streamlining Web ads. A public beta is available immediately from: http://www.clearway.com/AdScreen/ AdScreen is a new class of proxy-level Internet filter that focuses on improving the speed and quality of Web surfing for an entire network. Classroom users can set AdScreen to hide distracting and inappropriate Web ads entirely, to help make the most of limited class and computer time. Business users will appreciate AdScreen's ability to...

Go to the Opera, and Experience the Perfect... Browser? Opera Software Announces the Release of Opera 3.50, the Improved Browser December 1, 1998 (INB) -- Opera is a name associated with music and culture but also reflecting perfection and quality. With the release of Opera 3.50 -- Opera Software A/S (http://www.operasoftware.com) comes closer than ever to meeting these standards. It's size, speed, stability and adherence to the standards of the industry combine to make Opera 3.50 the new browser of choice. It is a simple yet distinctive brand name in a world of 'commoditized' names associated with Internet navigation or exploration. Opera Software was recently recognized with PC World's 'World Class' Award in the category 'Most Promising Web Newcomer'(see details at http://www.operasoftware.com/news.html). Opera 3.50 is an advanced Internet/Intranet/Extranet Browser; it is small, fast, user-friendly and has low minimum resource requirements. "Opera 3.50 is an important milestone for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 1, 1998 FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Ellen Maremont Silver (707)829-0515 ext. 322 silver@oreilly.com http://www.oreilly.com/ JAVA/PERL TOOL AVAILABLE AS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Programmers Can Use Strengths of Two Popular Languages in the Same Environment Sebastopol, CA--Java/Perl Lingo (JPL), software which enables programmers to use the use the strengths of both Java and Perl in the same environment, is now freely available as open source software. Until now, the tool has been available exclusively in O'Reilly & Associates' Perl Resource Kit-UNIX Edition, a commercial product. JPL was developed by Larry Wall, creator of Perl and Senior Software Developer at O'Reilly & Associates. JPL, available since November, 1997, is a unique project whose goal is to seamlessly unite the two popular languages in a way which lets them complement each other's strengths. Java excels at helping computers across a network or the Internet communicate and share data;...

Stairways releases Anarchie Pro 3.5 "Anarchie Pro 3.0 has been nominated for a Macworld 1998 Editors' Choice Award for Best Internet Client Software, the most prestigious award possible. The new version goes even further by supporting Sherlock-compatible web searches (even on older versions of Mac OS), easier browser-style address navigation and offers full support for the new Mac OS 8 Finder look. If you use a Mac web browser, download and install Anarchie Pro 3.5 now." - Andrew Tomazos. Perth, Western Australia -- 1 Dec 1998 -- Stairways Software Pty Ltd, today announced the release of Anarchie Pro - version 3.5 of the premiere Macintosh Internet companion. With new support for Sherlock, the web (HTTP), offline browsing, mirroring, resumed transfers and remote file editing - it has positioned itself as a broad and essential tool for every Internet user. What is Anarchie Pro? Anarchie Pro is the premiere Internet companion for the Macintosh. It lets you search and browse web &...

Apple Ships WebObjects 4 for Windows NT and UNIX Platforms Best Selling Application Server Includes Advanced Java Support and Fast 'Direct to Web' Code Free Development CUPERTINO, California--Nov. 30, 1998--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the availability of WebObjects 4 application server software for Windows NT and UNIX platforms. While adding extensive Java support, this major upgrade to WebObjects cuts application deployment time by offering 'Direct to Web' pre-built reusable software modules and dramatically improved performance. In addition, WebObject 4's pricing structure--based on the number of transactions or processors used in the application--allows developers to get up and running with WebObjects for as little as $1,499. "WebObjects, with thousands of blue-chip customers, is the platform of choice for developing robust and scaleable web applications," said Philip Schiller, Apple's vice president of worldwide product marketing. "WebObjects pioneered the application...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Shannon Jackson (800) 684-5197 (804) 343-3608 Microstate Corporation Offers First Open-Source Web Application Server Based On Java Technology Adds Further Momentum To Free Software Movement FAIRFAX, VA., November 30, 1998 Microstate Corporation today announced that its thin-client, cross-platform Web application server based on Java technology is now available as open-source software, freely accessible over the Internet (http://microstate.com/tech.htm). Named Hamilton, Microstates server technology is integrated software that already includes most of the infrastructure required by any thin-client application, thus reducing development time and expense, and accelerating time to market. Developers and users need nothing more than Internet connectivity and a Web browser to access applications developed on Hamilton. With Hamilton, companies can easily deploy and maintain large scale applications over networks regardless of the desktop platform. Web...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VSE ANIMATION MAKER 3.2 UPDATE (Bonn, Germany, November 26th, 1998). Voget Selbach Entertainment (VSE) announced today that an update to its popular Mac OS based GIF animation tool VSE Animation Maker is now available. The new version supports the new Mac OS 8.5 Open and Save dialogs, offers more animation frame editing tools and fixes various bugs. The award-winning shareware application VSE Animation Maker is used by thousands of users world-wide. It allows absolute precise timing of any animation frame, direct support of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer color palettes and it offers many tools for image editing. With the release of VSE Animation Maker 3.2, the whole company's web site at "http://vse-online.com" has been re-designed. PRICING US$ 19.95 (1-5 Single User Licenses) US$ 18 (6-20 Single User Licenses) US$ 15 (21- Single User Licenses) A VSE Animation Maker school license is available at US$ 159 and covers all computers in one school...