MacHack 1998 call for Speakers MacHack 1998 is just a few months away and YOU might be just the person we are looking for. We have many interesting sessions already lined up, but we have room for a few more. Have you been off in a garage somewhere developing some cool Macintosh technology in secret? Present that technology at MacHack and not only might you gain the adulation of your peers, but you will undoubtedly receive valuable feedback to help you do it even better. If you are planning to attend MacHack 1998, starting at Midnight on June 18th and running near-continuously until Sunday June 21st, consider presenting a session to share your expertise. We are currently seeking speakers on all areas of Macintosh software development including OpenStep, Java, QTML, networking, game development, software design, software entrepreneurship, and more. Session speakers receive a $100 off the conference registration fee. Register before April 15th and receive an additional $100 discount....

Release is posted at http://www.netprolive.com/ if you would like your news site to point to it.al like books and magazines. * According to a WebWeek survey, 47.3% of web developers use a Mac to create the majority of their Web content -- the #1 platform by far. The Mac has been the leading platform for web sites for a long time. With Apple's new G3 servers, there's now that much more strength behind Mac solutions. Web developers and network administrators have cried out for a strong publication -- and there's a lot of information to cover in this area. "There have been a number of publications out there dedicated to the web developer or Java," said Neil Ticktin, the new publisher of NetProfessional, and CEO of Xplain Corporation, "but most companies have a hybrid of web development, intranet, and general network administration issues that are all interrelated. NetProfessional will focus on the needs of this type of net administrator/net developer with hard hitting...

Apple Turns Up Heat in New TV Spot CUPERTINO, California--March 11, 1998--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it is launching a new 30-second television commercial tonight during ABC's prime time line-up beginning at 8 p.m. PST. The new commercial, called "Bunnies," is part of Apple's worldwide "Think different" campaign. Apple Computer, Inc. ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is now recommitted to its original mission to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world. Press Contacts: Rhona Hamilton Tami Begasse Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. (408) 974-6439 (408) 974-3156 email: hamilton@apple.com email: begasse@apple.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MACHACK RELEASES CD AND POSTS HACKS TO FTP March 11, 1998 -- Grosse Pointe Park, MI -- MacHack, The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers with support from Apple Computer Inc. and MacTech Magazine, today announced that the MacHack 1997 CD is now available. In addition, these hacks are now available FREE via ftp. Included on the CD are over 50 of the hacks and source submitted for the 1997 Hack contest, including source for the winning hack "BillBoot" which relaces the standard Macintosh boot sequence with a Win95-looking sequence. Other hacks on the CD include KittenOnTheKeyboard, which can lock a keyboard to prevent unwanted keystrokes, VerticalHold, which reproduced a hack effect described by Steve Wozniak during his keynote at the conference, and WebAdder, which adds banner adds to web pages which would otherwise lack them. Also included on the CD are many of the presentation slides from sessions in 1997 and a list of attendees to the conference. In...

This is a public beta of the Metrowerks 1.2b7 Java compiler. For both Macintosh and Windows. The final version of the 1.2 compiler will appear on CodeWarrior Pro 3. We are releasing this version now to allow users to test the new compiler and report any problems they find before Pro 3 ships. This compiler is a beta release with the problems and bugs that implies. Use at your own risk. This compiler is not recommended for building final, shipping products. Note:: Although the compiler is based on the 1.2 JDK sources, toolset is JDK 1.1.5 You can download it at these URLs: http://www.metrowerks.com/db/updates.qry?function=form ftp.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/CWPRO2/ ftp2.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/CWPRO2/ ftp4 - 206.204.30.115/pub/updates/CWPRO2/ This compiler has a different object format than the compiler that shipped on Pro2. You *must* remove binaries from any projects before compiling with this compiler, and you'll have to do the same if you want to switch back and forth between the...

Version 2.1 of Terry Morse Myrmidon has just been released. This new version contains several enhancements our customers have requested: - point-and-click editing of Myrmidon files for users of GoLive CyberStudio - output of pixel-accurate text in any point size - optional output of spacer tags to maintain document spacing - optional maintenance of page margins (top, left, bottom, or right) - improved Table of Contents creation - optional output of "home" button on every web page - enhanced control over layout text box size and quantity Users of the commercial Myrmidon version 1.0.3 or later may download a free updater to version 2.1 from: (http://www.terrymorse.com/updates.html) For those who have not yet purchased their own copy, we hope to convert you to owners one day soon. In the mean time, a fully functional demo version (good for 25 conversions) is available from: (http://www.terrymorse.com/survey.html) We are particularly excited about our partnership with GoLive to make...

DIT ANNOUNCES NEW TRANSFERPRO FOR UNIX RELEASE File Transfer Software Supports Latest UNIX Implementations Compatible with All Popular Removable Media LOS ALAMOS, NM (February 12, 1998) Digital Instrumentation Technology, Inc. (DIT) announces availability of TransferPro for UNIX Release 4. The latest version of its award-winning high-speed file transfer software enables users to read and write all popular removable Macintosh and DOS formatted media directly from their UNIX workstation at SCSI speeds, and to easily interchange data between different types of UNIX computers. Ideal for pre-press, desktop publishing and other digital imaging applications, the latest version of TransferPro for UNIX Release 4 is compatible with all the latest UNIX implementations including Solaris 2.6, and the latest removable media including 4.6 GB magneto-optical drives, 1.5 GB Syjet, and Iomega Jaz. With the new release, TransferPro for UNIX also supports multiple Macintosh partitions of up to 4 GB per...

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MACTECH/MACWORLD EDDY AWARD FOR VOODOO VERSION CONTROL TOOL SAVES YOUR DOLLARS! Hagenberg, AUSTRIA, Mar-05-1998. This year's MacWorld/MacTech Eddy award in the "Best Developer Tool" category went to the popular version control tool VOODOO by UNI SOFTWARE PLUS. To celebrate the award, UNI SOFTWARE PLUS now offers the award-winning product at a very special price for a limited time. Macworld Magazine's "Eddy" award is the Macintosh industry's most respected honor, recognizing the best Macintosh hardware and software products released during the year, as well as the individuals who have had a significant impact on the industry. "We are very happy about winning this year's award" said Christoph Reichenberger, VOODOO product manager, UNI SOFTWARE PLUS. "And we want to celebrate the award with our customers by offering VOODOO at a price that everyone can afford." Don't miss the chance to get the award-winning version control tool at an award-winning...

For Immediate Release Press Inquiries: Michelle Knoop +1 415 904 7070 Access Communications mknoop@accesspr.com Investor Inquiries: Don Markley +1 415 986 1591 The Financial Relations Board, Inc. dxm@sf.frbd.com http://www.genmagic.com Microsoft Invests in General Magic General Magic Licenses Technology to Microsoft REDMOND, Wash., and SUNNYVALE, Calif. - (March 4, 1998) - Microsoft Corp. and General Magic Inc. (Nasdaq "GMGC") today announced that Microsoft has made a minority investment in General Magic. Agreements between the two companies include an equity investment as well as the licensing of certain General Magic technologies. Terms of the agreements include a payment to General Magic of $6 million. General Magic is developing integrated voice and data applications, a key to bringing the next generation of information technologies into the mainstream. The company's upcoming network service, code-named "Serengeti," is a second generation virtual assistant for mobile professionals...

FLASH -- MACHACK PAPER DEADLINE EXTENDED Call for Papers - MacHack '98 June, 1998 - Dearborn, Michigan It's true. We're extending the deadline for submitting abstracts and proposals for papers to March 15, 1998. Have you got a great new way of developing software for the Mac? Or even a great new way of dealing with the same old problems in software engineering? Tell us about it! Share your experience, share your ideas, share your philosophical insights into software development. Both major and minor arcana are acceptable. And although we're naturally Macintosh-oriented, your paper need not deal exclusively with the Mac OS -- we're also interested in Rhapsody, BeOS, MkLinux, even Windows. And we're particularly interested in ways to write code that will work on ALL of the above. If your paper is accepted, you'll get to attend the 13th annual MacHack conference free! You'll get to talk about your ideas with people who won't look at you funny! Your paper will be published in the official...

Version 1.4.7 of MoreFiles is now available. The changes from v1.4.6 to v1.4.7 are listed below. You can download it today from from : (ftp://members.aol.com/JumpLong/MoreFiles_1.4.7.sit.hqx) It will also submitted for release through the following channels (and may be available today or in the near future): Apple's Developer CD Apple Developer World web/ftp site America Online's Macintosh Developers Forum library (keyword: MDV) CompuServe's Macintosh Developers Forum library (GO MACDEV) Metrowerks (for inclusion with their next CD) - Jim Luther, Apple Computer, Inc. ________________________________________ v1.4.7 3/1/98 Bugs fixed: * Fixed DirectoryCopy.p header (FSpFilteredDirectoryCopy wasn't there; FSpDirectoryCopy was there twice). * PreflightFileCopySpace, PreflightGlobals, and PreflightDirectoryCopySpace now use unsigned long values for block counts to support Mac OS Enhanced volumes which can have more than 64K of allocation blocks, and to fix problems with large...

FOR RELEASE ON MARCH 2, 1998 Contact: Anita Holmgren, Tenon Intersystems Phone: 805-963-6983 or 888-4-NetTen E-mail: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com/products/netten ULTIMATE EMAIL SERVER NOW AVAILABLE FOR POWER MACS Leading E-Mail Server Software Now Available for Power Macintosh Santa Barbara, CA, March 2, 1998. Tenon Intersystems, provider of award-winning software, today announced an industrial-strength mail server for Power Macintosh. Tenon's new mail server, called NetTen, is based on Post.Office, a powerful email server, developed by Software.com, Inc. Software.com is the uncontested leader in email server software, having sold licenses for more than ten million email mailboxes worldwide. Post.Office was designed with strong emphasis on security, scalability, and ease-of-use, setting the standard for email server solutions. Post.Office is in use at tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, supporting millions of users. By leveraging their existing "UNIX virtual...

Contact: Anita Holmgren, Tenon Intersystem Phone: 805-963-6983 E-mail: anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com/products/webten Dr. Darren Williams, Active Concepts, Pty.Ltd. Phone: +613-9344-0933 E-mail: info@activeconcepts.com THE ULTIMATE WEB SERVER AND THE ULTIMATE WEB SITE ANALYSIS TOOL Tenon and Active Concepts Partner to Join State-of-the-Art Web Analysis with State-of-the-Art Web Serving Santa Barbara, CA, March 2, 1998. In a limited time special offer, Tenon Intersystems and Active Concepts have joined together to make Funnel Web, an advanced web analysis tool, a free add-on to WebTen, the fastest and most fully-featured Macintosh web server. WebTen WebTen 2.0 is an industrial-strength, high-performance Web server for Power Macs - a point & click Apache web server, with performance and features that, for the first time, put the Macintosh squarely on the internet playing field. WebTen, based on the latest Apache 1.2.5 and sustaining over 700 hits/second, includes...

February 27, 1998 -- Cupertino, CA -- Less than a year after the release of its major product upgrade, 4th Dimension version 6.0, ACI has engineered a significantly enhanced version for the entire ACI Product Line - version 6.0.5. The benefits provided by this maintenance release include improved functionalities and an extremely stable and robust design environment. ACI Product Line version 6.0.5 is proof of ACI's commitment to providing quality development tools to its 7,000-strong developer community. Version 6.0.5 also includes some new features, such as new management of picture field compression, and a new procedure for converting 4D version 3 applications to 4D version 6. The success of 4th Dimension version 6.0, released in early 1997, can be measured by the large proportion of professional developers who have already upgraded to this new version to build powerful cross-platform applications. Among the highly acclaimed features of 4th Dimension and 4D Server v6 are a built-in...

Apple Discontinues Development of Newton OS CUPERTINO, California--Feb. 27, 1998--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced it will discontinue further development of the Newton operating system and Newton OS-based products, including the MessagePad 2100 and eMate 300. "This decision is consistent with our strategy to focus all of our software development resources on extending the Macintosh operating system," said Steve Jobs, Apple's interim CEO. "To realize our ambitious plans we must focus all of our efforts in one direction." Apple is committed to affordable mobile computing, pioneered by the eMate, and will be serving this market with Mac OS-based products beginning in 1999. Apple will continue to market and sell its current inventory of MessagePad 2100 and eMate 300 computers, as well as to provide support for their installed base of users. The Company is committed to working with its customers and developers to ensure a smooth transition to Mac OS-based products. Apple Computer, Inc...

Be, Inc. invites you to attend the Be Developer Conference, on March 19-20, 1998 at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, California. The Be Developer Conference will be the first major venue for the release of the BeOS for Intel based machines. All participants will receive a free copy of the BeOS for Intel. Be developers will present applications running on BeOS on Intel based platform during sessions, and will also showcase them in our application lab. Jean-Louis Gasse, CEO of Be, Inc. will open and close the conference and will be available during the two days to answer questions and do interviews. Keynote speaker Claude Lglise, Intel's VP Content Group and Director Developer Relations, will conclude the opening session. Other Be speakers during the general sessions include Alex Osadzinski, VP of Sales and Marketing, Steve Sakoman, VP of Engineering, and Frank Boosman, VP of Developer Relations. A special time has been set, on Thursday March 19 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, for the Press to...

For all that Guy does for the community, here's one for Guy. I'm not ready to announce what garage.com does yet, but we do have T shirts! (And making T shirts is the first step in product development.) (http://www.garage.com) and click on me. Thanks! Guy Kawasaki

MRJ SDK 2.0.1ea2 BULLETIN ````````````````````````` Apple has just posted early access release 2 of its Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) SDK version 2.0.1. It contains a collection of tools, libraries, sample code, and documentation that will make it easier for developers to build better Java software for the Macintosh. The major items included are as follows: JDK Tools -- *** new version of these tools have been added since the previous early access release *** These tools include javac, javah, javadoc, javakey, rmic, and jar. JBindery -- an application that allows you to create double-clickable Macintosh applications that execute Java code. MRJToolkit -- a library that allows you to easily add Macintosh functionality to Java applications, such as the ability to respond to Open and Quit events, locate special system folders, and set document types. JDirect -- an application programming interface that allows you to access the Macintosh toolbox directly from a Java application. JManager...

QuickCRC 1.1 Object-Oriented Software Design Tool MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, February 27, 1998 --- Excel Software is shipping QuickCRC 1.1 for Macintosh and Windows 95/NT. QuickCRC is a design tool for discovering objects and related information for an object-oriented software development project. It automates the CRC card concept of identifying classes, responsibilities and collaborations between objects. Design scenarios involving a group of communicating objects can be identified and simulated. New features in this release include a contents view, inheritance graph and full text import and export of design information. QuickCRC uses a diagram workspace for creating card and scenario objects. A card represents the properties of a class including its name, description, superclasses, subclasses, attributes, responsibilities and collaborating objects. A scenario represents a design mechanism defined as a series of steps involving communicating objects. Scenarios can reference cards or other...

For Immediate Release VRML Consortium and Sun Microsystems to Cooperate on 3D Web Standardization Sun Microsystems joins VRML Consortium to promote compatibility between VRML and Java 3D API Monterey, CA - VRML 98 Symposium - February 18, 1998 - The VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Consortium and Sun Microsystems, Inc, (Palo Alto, CA) today announced that Sun has joined the VRML Consortium as a voting member to promote the compatibility and interoperability of Sun's Java 3D(TM) API (Java 3D) technology and the VRML 97 standard. Sun and the VRML Consortium intend to establish a Consortium working group to explore closer integration of Java 3D and VRML. Any proposed changes to the VRML specification will be subject to the VRML Consortium's proven open review, approval and voting process. Sun is also contemplating future adaptations of the Java 3D specification to enable closer integration with VRML. The Java 3D API can be used to develop programmed applications and applets that...

For immediate release. AAA+ SOFTWARE SHIPS JOY RELEASE 1.08 FOR OPENSTEP, RHAPSODY AND WINDOWS Vienna, 18 February 1998. AAA+ Software announces release 1.08 of Joy Explorer and Joy Developer, the company's developer productivity and rapid application development tools. Joy applications run on Windows 95/NT, Apple Rhapsody, and OPENSTEP/MachOS. No porting or compiling is required. Release 1.08 offers enhancements, recently presented at MacWorld San Francisco, including: - Joy graphical application inspector integrated into Joy command window - Joy Developer's "Save Nib as App" now creates stand-alone applications for use on any deployment platform - Linking Joy into non-Joy applications made easier Joy Explorer is the ideal tool for exploring the Yellow Box frameworks. Developers can create small utilities by using just Rhapsody's Joy-enhanced Interface Builder application. No other development tools are required. These utilities will run in Interface Builder's...

Call for Papers - MacHack '98 June, 1998 - Dearborn, Michigan Do you have a pet project or cool new way of thinking about programming? Want to share your software-design experiences with your peers? Do you want to get technical information out to seasoned developers who can use it well and wisely? If so, consider writing a paper for MacHack '98 -- the 13th Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers with support from MacTech Magazine and Apple Computer, Inc. Some areas in which papers have been previously written for MacHack include adaptive computing, the business of Macintosh development, game design, and network programming, debugging, the programming subculture, virtual reality, and Mac OS internals and hacks. Other categories are acceptable: a paper could cover topics from Rhapsody, BeOS, MkLinux, or even Windows. Although topics need not be strictly Mac OS-bound, they should tie in with Macintosh programmers/programming. Better yet, write up a topic from cross-platform...

From: Richard Wesley (hawkfish@electricfish.com) Electric Fish, Inc. announces the public beta of CWProjector, a subscription shareware version control plugin for Metrowerks CodeWarrior, which allows you to use MPW's Projector for source control without leaving the CodeWarrior IDE. CWProjector provides an easy to use source-code control system, at minimal cost, using established technology from Apple. It is well suited for individuals and small organizations which want the benefits of source-control with a minimum of hassle and expense. Version 2.0 includes the following new features: New default options for various commands; Advanced dialogs for customizing options; Various bug fixes and improvements; Automatic database creation during Add and Connect; CodeWarrior look-and-feel for the dialogs. The CWProjector beta is available now at: http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/CWProjector/Download.html for more information, contact Richard Wesley, mailto:hawkfish@electricfish.com

From: "Lem Jordan" (lnjordan@m9.sprynet.com) The first edition of Lem's Mac(tm) Software Directory is available at http://members.aol.com/lnjordan/index.html Listings are free, so if you have product that you would like to list in the March 98 edition then please submit based on the guidelines on the web page