Do you think you know alot about Macintosh? Are you the type that tears apart their system looking for that one corrupt preferences or bad block of Ram? Do you have a pleasant manner and can communicate what you know well to other people? Do you enjoy chatting on IRC and giving of yourself in the furtherance of Mac advocacy? If you answered yes to these questions then I have an exciting opportunity for you! My name is Robin Morgan and I am room manager for #MacTalk on TalkCity. We are a room for serious tech assistance and indepth Macintosh discussion. We are looking for qualified, mature, dedicated macusers to join our volunteer staff. The CG's (Computer Group) for #MacTalk go through a short training session and then choose a minimum of 5 hours they wish to cover in #MacTalk. Currently we are accepting applications to work between the hours of midnight at 5am pacific time. If you would like to apply to become a volunteer CG, please go to http://w3.one.net/~robin and fill out the...

MacDoc 1.2, Shareware by macnetic software Download at: http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/app/mac-doc-12.hqx For your personal evaluation copy please write to: register@macnetic.de. New in 1.2 MacDoc Writer - You're now able to choose the language for the embedded viewer (see MacDoc Viewer). - MacDocuments can now optionally be printed in Black & White (color is default). - Added option to save a page setup as default (e.g. A4 in Germany). - Fixed bug when printing a page range. - Fixed bug in custom page setup. MacDoc Viewer - Now available in English and German. - Creating an index (automatically ) is now Font/Size/Style AND Color dependend. - Better document handling (changed creator of srd's) - New enhanced information dialog (page sizes). - Fixed bug when dragging/copying text from some pictures. _The stand alone document creator for the Apple Macintosh_ MacDoc is a powerful tool for creating standard or stand-alone documents (also called: self-reading,...

METROWERKS FOURTH QUARTER REVENUES UP TO RECORD US$6.2 MILLION Company Records Profit of US$155,000 for Quarter AUSTIN, Texas-August 28, 1997- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/ME:MWK), one of the world's leading providers of software development tools, today announced its results of operations for the fourth quarter of fiscal year ending July 31, 1997 (Q4FYJuly97). Revenues for Q4FYJuly97 totaled US$6.2 million, an increase of 78% over revenues of US$3.5 million for the corresponding Q4FYJuly96, and an increase of 72% over revenues of US$3.6 million for the previous quarter, Q3FYJuly97. The Company reported a net profit of US$155,000 (US$0.01 per share on a fully diluted basis), compared to a net loss of US$178,000 (US$0.02 per share) for the corresponding Q4FYJuly96, and compared to a net loss of US$5.9 million for the previous quarter, Q3FYJuly97. "We are very happy with the results for the fourth quarter," said Jean Belanger, Metrowerks CEO and Chairman of the Board. "We have...

Over the next two months, the AG Group will be offering 3 network management training seminars in Walnut Creek (AG Group's home), 25 miles east of San Francisco and accessible by Bay Area Rapid Transit. I have included upcoming seminar course titles, dates, locations and registration costs in this e-mail. Additional information about AG Group Training & Services can be found at our website, (http://www.aggroup.com/training). I look forward to hearing from you about you or your staff joining us for our new and updated network management training classes. COURSES AND DATES: 1) EtherPeek Fundamentals & Techniques (3 days) Sept. 24 - 26 Learn how to optimize your use of EtherPeek for network monitoring and troubleshooting in this newly expanded three-day hands-on course. Learn how to baseline your network, identify trouble spots and analyze performance problems. This 3-day class is designed to provide EtherPeek owners with: * A thorough overview of the features of our protocol...

Walnut Creek, California - August 26, 1997 The AG Group, Inc. releases AGNetTools(tm), a free IP utility suite available for Macintosh, Windows 95 and Windows NT. AGNetTools includes the following IP tools under a single graphical user interface: PING Pings internet devices with a specified number of packets, timeout & time interval. Minimum, maximum & average response times are reported back. TRACEROUTE Traces the route packets take from your computer to any device with an IP address on the internet. NAMELOOKUP Uses DNS to resolve names to addresses & addresses to names. FINGER Uses the finger protocol to get information about a user on a given server. WHOIS Uses the whois protocol to get whois information about the owner of a domain name. THROUGHPUT Tests for availability of resources (via FTP or HTTP) on the internet & calculates the time, size, & speed of download. NAMESCAN Resolves names for a range of IP addresses. PORTSCAN Scans ports on a machine to find...

Shana releases Informed Filler(r) for Java(t) NEW YORK, NY, August 25, 1997: At the first Java Internet Business Expo, Shana Corporation today announced that Informed Filler for Java, the latest addition to their line of cross-platform electronic forms products, is now shipping. Informed Filler for Java brings the benefits of e-forms to the Web platform. The Informed Java applet is used to fill out visually appealing, intelligent forms in any Java capable Web browser, such as the Netscape Communicator client software or Microsoft Explorer. Forms are created using Informed Designer(r) on Windows (3.1x, 95, NT) or Mac OS and then saved for use with Informed Filler for Java. When a form and the Java applet are placed on your Web server, anyone with a Java capable browser can fill it out. No additional client software is needed. No installation or configuration process is required. The explosive trend toward thin clients and network computers in Internet/intranet/extranet environments has...

WebSTAR users, StarNine is happy to announce the availability of a W*API based WebObjects Adapter. With a WebObjects Adapter, it is now possible to integrate your Mac OS-based WebSTAR server with WebObject applications running on Solaris, OpenStep, NextStep, Windows NT and soon Rhapsody. WebSTAR users interested in testing the WebObjects Adapter with their current WebObjects applications are invited to download a development version of the Adapter at (ftp://ftp.starnine.com/pub/betas/webobjects_adapter.sea.hqx). We also request that you subscribe to the -Beta mailing list by sending a message to (webobjects-beta@starnine.com) with a Subject of "subscribe". For testing purposes, additional evaluation copies of WebSTAR can be downloaded at (http://www.starnine.com/evals/). Eric Zelenka mailto:eric@starnine.com WebSTAR Product Manager http://www.starnine.com/ StarNine Technologies, Inc. http://eric.starnine.com/

GENE CODES CORPORATION, a premier developer of software for sequencing DNA, is seeking software engineers for advanced software product development in bioinformatics. Gene Codes Corp. develops and markets scientist-centered software for molecular biologists. Our lead product SEQUENCHER has become the software standard at major sequencing facilities around the world. We seek self-motivated, highly skilled team players who will have the opportunity to contribute to strategic engineering projects with state-of-the-art development technologies. Macintosh Software Engineer: Candidates will have proven experience implementing commercial software using C and C++ with CodeWarrior on the Macintosh. College degree required. Preference will be given for degrees in computer science or computer engineering. Cross-platform development experience, networking experience or laboratory science experience are a definite plus. Software Engineer: Candidates will have proven experience implementing...

Pictorius Incorporated Closes $3.5 Million Financing Deal Secured Financing Allows Pictorius to Expand Markets and Continue to Grow Friday August 20, 1997 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Pictorius Incorporated, has announced the initial closing of $3.5 million dollars of a $6 million dollar offering by way of a confidential offering memorandum. In connection with the Offering, the Company has signed a financing agreement with McLean Watson SOFTECH Fund. This Fund invests exclusively in leading private software companies. In addition to strong financial backing, McLean Watson brings valuable software industry experience and affiliations. McLean Watson was instrumental in the sale of Montreal-based Softimage to Microsoft Corporation. The completion of the initial closing of the offering and SOFTECH's participation consolidates Pictorius financial base and puts it in a strong position for future growth. Pictorius plans to use this investment to broaden their current marketing and sales...

Stairways releases StreamWatcher 1.0 Perth, Western Australia -- 15 August 1997 -- Stairways Software, Pty Ltd, today announced the release of version 1.0 of StreamWatcher, an Open Transport TCP Stream debugging utility. What is StreamWatcher? StreamWatcher allows you to examine the data transmitted through Open Transport TCP streams. This is useful for debugging network applications and network problems, learning about networking protocols, or watching for strange or unwanted TCP traffic. If you have ever wondered what your computer was saying when it was talking to other machines on the network, this program is the answer. StreamWatcher requires a PowerPC (Power Macintosh or clone) and Open Transport. StreamWatcher is shareware, single user licenses cost US$35, site and company-wide licenses are available. Features * StreamWatcher can examine all Open Transport TCP streams (using "OT AutoPush Support" from Quinn), allowing you to examine networking traffic for any application on...

Jasik Designs posted the latest versions of it's product: 'The Debugger & MacNosy' on it's ftp site. It also e-mailed out notices to all registered users. If you did NOT recieve an update notice from Jasik, then you should e-mail Jasik at mailto:macnosy@jasik.com with you name, address and current e-mail address. The update consists of the release notes, The Debugger, NosyII and a newer xDbgr_Startup (better error messages). This version of The Debugger is compatable with MacOS 8, and the recently released 'Speedbump' Macintoshes and upcoming CHRP boxes. As an important issue in the release notes, I comment on the unsuitablility of Apple's latest hardware, the Speedbump 8600 and 9600's for use with my Debugger in particular, and most any Debugger in general. The flaw is rather serious, and even a logic analyzer ($30,000) won't help you when one of these machines freezes. Steve Jasik Author of 'The Debugger & MacNosy' 343 Trenton Way (http://www.jasik.com)...

From: MWRon@metrowerks.com (MW Ron) Subject: [ANN] List of CodeWarrior Pro 1 Patches Here is a list of current updates and patches for CW Pro 1 both Mac and Windows http://www.metrowerks.com/db/updates.qry?function=list&sw=cwpro1 CodeWarrior Windows IDE 2.0.2 Released on 08/15/1997 Includes numerous bug fixes for crashes during builds, problems saving source files, etc. Download Update (758k) CodeWarrior MacOS IDE 2.0.1 Patch Released on 07/16/1997 A maintenance patch for the Mac-hosted 2.0 IDE originally shipped with CodeWarrior Pro 1. Fixes a serious dependency tracking problem when running on 68k based Macintoshes. Download Update (701k) Targeting Mac OS manual pp. 88-89 Released on 07/09/1997 This file updates Table 5.1 and Table 5.2 with the correct information. Download Update (46k) http://www.metrowerks.com/tools/documentation/updates.html (7/9/97) Guides and examples for adapting the various template container classes, where CodeWarrior MSL 2.1.2 deviates from the standard...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: John Willsey phone 214-692-8335 jw@uswk.com http://www.uswk.com Free Developers Kit for Protecting Internet Distributed Software and Files DALLAS, TX -- August 12, 1997 (INB) -- Today, USWK (Universal Software Key) Co. announces a free developers kit for protecting programs and music/video files distributed over the Internet. Based on a patent pending process, this developers kit allows programmers to give the maximum protection possible to their copyrighted programs and files while making it easy and unobtrusive for the general public to use. Now available for immediate download at: http://www.uswk.com With software piracy on the rise through ever-increasing bandwidths of the Internet, and the conversion of music and video files to digital formats, software developers and media artists are crying out for protection. USWK Co. answers them with their free developers kit. Instead of fearing the strength of the Internet, software developers and media...

Objective Software announces the new release of OneStep 1.1. OneStep is an extension that transforms your Mac's user interface. Features include custom windows, menus, pop-ups, scroll bars, buttons, folder and trash icons, and more. OneStep comes with a number of ready to use interfaces, such as "True NeXT" (a genuine NeXT-like interface), "Jump to Eight" (guess what it is?), Back To Seven, Grand Prix, etc. Just try them out! Each interface is contained in an Appearance file. Advanced users will be able to design and distribute their own customized Appearance files. OneStep requires a Macintosh or MacOS-compatible computer running System 7.0 or later. OneStep was written by Harry Alloul, Bernard Frangoulis and Alessandro Levi Montalcini. It is distributed as shareware. The registration fee is $15; registrations are handled by the Kagi Shareware service. A screen shot is available on our WEB site at (http://www.netinfo.fr/objectivesw/) What's new in version 1.1? - The "OneStep...

In addition to MacDev-1 for developer industry relevant news, you can also take advantage of MacLine to get to the user community. -Neil ------------------- MacLine Offers Free Marketing and Press Release Distribution For Mac Developers MacTimes MacLine press release service, located on the web at http://www.mactimes.com/macline, offers Macintosh software developers a free and effective way to broadcast information about their latest products or upgrades to the Mac news community. MacLine offers developers the ability to post an unlimited number of press releases on the MacLine web site, with no cost. In addition the press releases can be broadcast to Mac news agencies across the world, once again at no cost to the developer. "We wanted to offer the small and medium sized developer the same opportunities to promote a product as those available to large corporations," says MacTimes Chief Editor Jason Pierce. Pierce goes on to add, "Large applications developers can easily afford the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Programming / C++ / Application Frameworks Tools & Toys helps developers help: Visual Balloons(tm) add Balloon Help to PowerPlant projects - without programming August 11, 1997 - Vienna, Austria - Tools & Toys today unleashed Developer Release 1 of Visual Balloons(tm) for PowerPlant, a set of libraries and editors that allow easy creation of standard Mac OS Balloon Help for PowerPlant projects. Using PowerPlant Constructor's simple drag & drop interface and only two lines of C++ code, MacOS Codewarriors can now add Help Balloons that are not limited to plain text only, but instead support pictures and styled text as well. Until today, developers who wanted to integrate BalloonHelp into their software had to use Apple's ResEdit or Mathemaesthetic's Resourcerer and were limited to the user interface elements built into the Mac OS. "Editing Balloon Help with ResEdit has always been a pain and anything but comfortable", said Andreas Pizsa, developer of...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Whitney MacTech Magazine 805-494-9797 x 105 marketing@mactech.com New MacTech Web Site To Be Previewed At Developer Central at MacWorld Expo Boston, 1997 WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA -- AUGUST 7, 1997 -- Xplain Corporation, publisher of MacTech(r) Magazine is very excited to offer preview of its new web site at MacWorld Expo Boston August 6 - August 8, 1997. This is not just any ordinary developer web site. The MacTech web site is dedicated to the Macintosh developer. With access to a world of reference material it's a great starting place for the beginner and voluminous enough for the experienced developer. Right at your finger tips you have exclusive access to the entire library of MacTech articles featured in the magazine from 1984 through May 1997. That's 1600 articles in 139 issues. In addition, the site has the entire history of develop, Apple's award winning technical journal. That's 29 issues from 1990 - 1997. Also, the site is also...

Microsoft and Apple Affirm Commitment to Build Next Generation Software for Macintosh Companies announce patent cross-license agreement. Microsoft announces Office 98 for Macintosh; Apple announces Internet Explorer to be bundled with Mac OS. Product commitment backed up with $150M Microsoft investment in Apple Computer. Boston, August 6, 1997--In a keynote address delivered today at Macworld Boston, Apple Computer Inc. director and co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. chairman and CEO Bill Gates announced a broad product and technology development agreement between Apple and Microsoft including the following: The companies agreed to a broad patent cross-licensing agreement. It paves the way for the two companies to work more closely on leading-edge technologies for the Mac platform. Microsoft will develop and ship future versions of its popular Microsoft Office productivity suite, Internet Explorer and other Microsoft tools for...

UMAX Boosts Support for Mac and BeOS Software Developers New Developer Purchase Program Provides Incentive for Developers of Powerful Multiprocessor-Aware Applications for the Mac Architecture Fremont, Calif., August 4, 1997 -- UMAX Computer Corporation (UCC) today announced a developer purchase program to increase support for Mac OS and BeOS software developers creating applications for the Macintosh platform. For a limited time, registered developers can purchase UMAX SuperMac Mac OS compatible systems at a 10% discount for use in application development, application support, compatibility testing and other internal development and support tasks. UMAX will also provide one secondary 180 MHz Multiprocessor (MP) card at no charge to qualifying MP developers purchasing a top-performing UMAX SuperMac S900 system. UMAX is offering additional discounts on secondary 200, 225, and 233 MHz processors to developers. This program is applicable for all S900 systems purchased from now until...

For Immediate Release Media Contact: Susan Marlett ClearWay Technologies 617-973-5024 marlett@clearway.com FIRESITE VIRTUAL DOMAIN MANAGER TO SUPPORT APPLE'S OPEN TRANSPORT 1.3 -- Will Simultaneously Operate In Single-IP and Multiple-IP Modes -- Boston, August 4, 1997, Macworld Expo -- ClearWay Technologies, Inc. today announced that their FireSite(TM) Virtual Domain Manager, the most complete virtual Web site management system for Mac OS, will support tight integration with Apple Computer's forthcoming Open Transport 1.3 network software. Under Open Transport 1.3, which adds multiple-IP-address support to Mac OS, FireSite Virtual Domain Manager (VDM) will operate simultaneously in both traditional single-IP and new multiple-IP modes for all hosted virtual Web sites. ClearWay has extended the introductory price of US$99.00, and has made free evaluation copies of the most current version available from their Web site. (http://www.clearway.com/pages/Demos.html) "Web hosting is big...

For more information contact In the U.S. and Pacific: Mark Gonzales, markg@be.com (415) 462-4117 In Europe: Jean Calmon, jcalmon@beeurope.com (33) 1 49 06 73 75 BE DEMONSTRATES BeOS FOR INTEL PCs Developer conference demonstration is prelude to the next BeOS product release and expansion of developer opportunity. BOSTON, Massachusetts (August 4, 1997) - Before an audience of software developers at the Be Developer Conference in Boston today, Be, Inc. demonstrated for the first time the Be Operating System (BeOS) running on Intel-based personal computer hardware. The company went on to announce that it will simultaneously release Intel and PowerPC versions of its widely acclaimed OS with its next release in January. "Our goal is to meet the needs of customers doing digital content design - no matter what hardware platform they may be using.", said Jean-Louis Gasse, president and CEO of Be, Inc. "BeOS for Intel opens the door for an even broader customer audience to take advantage of...

Press Contacts: For Release August 4, 1997 Gordy Davies Allen Bush Metrowerks Inc. A&R Partners (for 3Com) (512) 873-4797 (415) 363-0982 gdavies@metrowerks.com allen_bush@arpartners.com METROWERKS SHIPS CODEWARRIOR FOR PALMPILOT RELEASE 3 FOR DEVELOPING PALM OS APPLICATIONS New Features and Important Updates Highlight New Product Release AUSTIN, Texas -Aug. 4, 1997- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/ME:MWK), one of the world's leading providers of software development tools, today announced they are shipping this week CodeWarrior for PalmPilot Release 3, an integrated suite of tools for both the Mac OS and Windows 95/NT. With new features and important updates, programmers will find it easier than ever to develop applications for the PalmPilot products from 3Com Corporation. CodeWarrior for PalmPilot Release 3 comes with the highly anticipated final update to the PalmPilot SDK (Software Development Kit), Version 2. This update supports all the new enhancements to Palm OS 2...

Press Contact: For Release August 4, 1997 Gordy Davies Metrowerks Inc. (512) 873-4797 gdavies@metrowerks.com METROWERKS SHIPS MW VISUAL SOURCESAFE FOR MACINTOSH 5 Latest Release of Version Control System Highlights New Stand-alone Client AUSTIN, Texas - August 4, 1997- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/ME:MWK), one of the world's leading providers of software development tools, today announced they are shipping this week Metrowerks Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh Release 5, the latest version of its cross-platform revision control system. MW Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh replaces the CodeManager brand name and significantly extends the feature set of earlier versions of the product. With the addition of the new stand-alone client, programmers now have a choice of three interfaces when using MW Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh: the CodeWarrior IDE, the stand-alone application, or MPW. The client provides users with revision history without using MPW or an IDE. In fact,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Christopher O'Reilly Matthew Hutchison MHA Event Management Brodeur Porter Novelli 617-551-9800 202-973-1374 coreilly@mha.com mhutchison@brodeur.com Steve Jobs to Keynote at MACWORLD Expo Boston BOSTON, July 31, 1997 -- MHA Event Management and Apple Computer Inc. announced today that Apple cofounder Steve Jobs will deliver the opening keynote address at MACWORLD Expo Boston at 9 a.m. Aug. 6. The East Coast's premier showcase for software and hardware vendors supporting the Mac OS platform, MACWORLD Expo will be held at the Bayside Exposition Center and World Trade Center. Conference sessions run Aug. 5 - 8; the exhibition floor is open Aug. 6 - 8. Jobs, co-founder of Apple, is chairman and CEO of Pixar, an Academy Award-winning computer animation studio that creates next generation animated feature films and interactive CD-ROM titles. He serves as a strategic advisor to Apple's Board of Directors and executive management team....