Due a power failure that prevented several news sources from getting this release, StarNine is re-releasing this announcement. ------ For Immediate Release Media Contact: Naomi Pearce Pearce Communications 510/528-0824 Email: naomi@well.com STARNINE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC BETA OF WEBSTAR 3.0 -- Major Upgrade To Popular Web Server Includes New Interface, FTP and Proxy Servers, Multi-homing Support, WebObjects Adapter, and More -- BERKELEY, Calif., December 6, 1998 -- StarNine Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Quarterdeck Corporation, today announced the immediate public availability of the beta version of WebSTAR 3.0, scheduled for final release in January. This major upgrade to the award-winning Web server software for the Mac OS(tm) includes new FTP and Proxy servers, multi-homing, a revamped WebSTAR Admin interface and support for the latest Internet standards including HTTP 1.1, Javasoft's Java(tm) Servlet API and WebObjects. A beta version of WebSTAR 3.0 can now be freely downloaded...

PR Announcing "The MacDirectory" Are your tired of hearing "There is no software for the Mac?" I have decided to do something about it, hence "The MacDirectory". The goal is to publish a monthly directory of software available for the Mac. The directory will be in ezine format, indexed searchable and printable. It will be open to commercial software, shareware and freeware listings. The directory may be freely uploaded to any BBS or distributed on any CDROM distribution. To find out more about having your product listed, email me at mailto:lnjordan@sprynet.com In the subject put "Info MacDirectory" Thanks Lem Jordan

Installer VISE Delivers Active Web Install Capabilities To Internet Explorer 4.0 For Macintosh LINCOLN, NEBRASKA -- January 5, 1998: MindVision Software, the leading provider of installer creation tools for the Macintosh platform, today announces that Microsoft has chosen MindVision's new Active Web Installer technology for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 for Macintosh. Internet Explorer 4.0 users will greatly benefit from technical breakthroughs that seamlessly address data transfer rate, interrupted connections, and various hardware configurations for a convenient, trouble-free download and installation over the Web. End users frequently do not need all the files contained in an installer. Previously, online users faced an often-daunting task of either downloading complete installers or choosing just the right installer for their system. MindVision's Active Web Installer technology simplifies the user experience by first downloading a small installer which can retrieve just the...

BE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF FRANK BOOSMAN AS VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPER RELATIONS MENLO PARK, Calif. (January 6, 1998) -- Be., Inc. today announced the appointment of software industry veteran Frank Boosman as Vice President, Developer Relations, effective immediately. Mr. Boosman brings with him ten years' experience in product development and product marketing roles at a variety of software businesses, ranging from small start-ups to established corporations. In his role at Be, Mr. Boosman will be responsible for all aspects of the company's relationship with companies and people developing software for the Be Operating System (BeOS). "Of course, we're delighted to have Frank join the Be team," said Alex Osadzinski, Be's Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "We're obsessed with developing and maintaining excellent, productive relationships with our developers, and Frank clearly shares this mindset and has the experience necessary to be successful." "I consider it to be a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Whitney MacTech Magazine 805-494-9797 x105 marketing@mactech.com Get A Free T-shirt With A MacTech(r) CD-ROM Demonstration at Macworld San Francisco, January 6 - January 9, 1998. WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA -- January 5, 1998 -- Xplain Corporation, the publisher of MacTech Magazine, today announced that it will be giving away a free T-shirt with a demonstration of the MacTech CD-ROM (while supplies last). As one of the first CD-ROM publishers, MacTech Magazine has continually updated its historical CD with an extensive library of reference material, hundreds of megabytes of source code, special offers with developer demos, and much more. The MacTech CD, includes every article from MacTech magazine from 1984 through 1997. It has the entire history of develop. The CD also has the original Inside Macintosh, and the most complete set of FrameWorks archives known (the publication of the late Software FrameWorks Association). Starting with the May, 1997...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stalker Software Announces CommuniGate Pro Server Key features: Rhapsody-based, industry-strength, administration via the Web, extensive multi-domain support, unique IMAP multi-mailbox features. MILL VALLEY, CA - January 5th, 1998 - After the successful launch of the Stalker Internet Mail Server, Stalker Software announces the CommuniGate Pro messaging server for the Rhapsody family of operating environments. The new reincarnation of the CommuniGate integrated messaging system unifies the performance and standard-compliance of the SIMS with flexibility and powerful features of the modular MacOS CommuniGate System. The CommuniGate Pro is based on the Rhapsody Foundation framework and can run under all operating systems supported with the Rhapsody "Yellow-box": Rhapsody for Power Macintosh, Rhapsody for Intel, and the Yellow Box for Windows NT. The ability to run on all these platforms is extremely important for the today...

Digital Technology International Announces FaceSpan 3.0 Orem, Utah -- December 31,1997 -- Digital Technology International announced today that it will be demonstrating FaceSpan 3.0 at Macworld Expo in San Francisco next week. What is FaceSpan? FaceSpan 3.0 (expected to ship the first week of February 1998) is the latest version of Digital Technology's cutting edge, interface design and rapid application development (RAD) tool. FaceSpan affords its users the power to build and customize Macintosh applications quickly and easily. What can be done with FaceSpan? FaceSpan works in conjunction with AppleScript or any other OSA (open scripting architecture) language and makes it easy to: - Automate often-repeated tasks. - Customize existing applications. - Integrate the functionality of multiple applications. - Rapidly build applications and prototypes. - Personalize the Macintosh computing environment. New Features Features new to FaceSpan 3.0 allow users to: - Create interfaces and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Cyndi Yuchas 1.817.478.5070 e-mail: yuchas@thursby.com Thursby Ships DAVE 2 - First Complete Windows NT to Mac OS Solution ARLINGTON, TEXAS--December 29, 1997--Thursby Software Systems, Inc. (Thursby Software) will begin shipping DAVE V2.0 during the Macworld Expo in San Francisco next week. DAVE is the first complete Microsoft Windows connectivity solution for the Macintosh. The introductory price for this enhanced offering is $119.00, with a March 1 retail price of $149.00. DAVE is the only Macintosh-based TCP/IP software product for connecting a wide range of Microsoft-based computers with the Mac OS -- including NT (Server and Workstation), Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95 systems. DAVE V2.0 adds many new features to the product. The number one feature is full peer-to-peer support. This new version allows Wintel PCs full access to Macintosh files and PostScript printers for file and printer sharing. In...

For Immediate Release For more information, please contact: Katie Graunke katie@stone.com 505-345-4800 http://www.stone.com/ Andrew Stone to Speak At MacWorld Pro Conference Albuquerque, NM - December 29, 1997 - Andrew Stone, 10 year Rhapsody veteran and Chief Executive Hacquer of Stone Design Corporation, will be speaking and leading a panel at the MacWorld Pro Conference, which is running in conjunction with MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, California, January 5-9. The presentation is entitled "Readying for Rhapsody - Objects are closer than they appear" and is scheduled for Wednesday, January 7, at 4:15pm. Mr. Stone will be speaking about migration to Rhapsody, a topic with which he is very familiar as the first developer to have a product for Rhapsody and Yellow Box. Create(TM) Rhapsody was released in May, 1997, in time for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference. A panel of experts will assist in presenting real world information on adding Yellow Box/Rhapsody to your network mix...

INTERACTION 1.6: INTRODUCING DYNAMIC ACCESS RESTRICTIONS FOR MAC WEB SERVERS San Diego, CA: Media Design in*Progress has released the 1.6 version of Interaction, the powerful web server companion for dynamic social websites that adapt to the visitor. The new version introduces Dynamic Access Restrictions, a flexible means to make pages and sections of websites conditionally available. A 60 day trial copy of Interaction can be dowloaded from: http://interaction.in-progress.com Dynamic Restrictions allow or deny access to parts of a website depending on the context of the request. Using a dialog on the Mac, the webmaster can tailor an access restriction that for example only allows access outside working hours, or that requires the visitor has been on one or more other pages first. Interaction 1.6 goes beyond realm-based access restrictions by allowing the webmaster to use dynamic restrictions not only on page level, but also to restrict access to XML Entities as well as to sections...

Webmasters: Check out this sneak preview of WebTen 2.0. WebTen 2.0 is scheduled to ship in January. A public beta release is now available. Try it first and then contact sales@tenon.com. Ordering a copy of WebTen 2.0 before the final release date will save you $100. WebTen is the fastest Macintosh Web server on the market and it just got faster. WebTen 2.0 quadruples the performance of the Mac's top-performing Web server. The public beta version of WebTen 2.0 can be downloaded from: (http://www.tenon.com/products/webten/index.2.0.html) WebTen 2.0 includes: - Secure connections using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL 3.0) - SuperCache high speed caching, quadrupling WebTen 1.1 performance - Multihomed File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service - Integrated Domain Name Service (DNS) using BIND - Integrated time based script administration using Cron - Network File System (NFS) based Web content folders. WebTen 2.0 comes with a two-day timeout. For longer testing, please use the...

MRJ 2.0 is Now Available! MRJ 2.0, Apple's Mac OS implementation of Sun's JDK 1.1.3 Java virtual machine, is now available from the software downloading page (http://applejava.apple.com/text/download.html). We recommend that everyone download and install this version immediately to gain the advantages provided by all the latest Java features it incorporates. We believe MRJ 2.0 to be the first virtual machine, other than Sun's, to pass all required Sun conformancy tests for JDK 1.1.

VIVISTAR CONSULTING ANNOUNCES NEW VTEXT DISTRIBUTION POLICY 22 December 1997 -- In conjunction with the immediate availability of its CWPro 2 update for its VText library ViviStar Consulting announced an even more relaxed source distribution policy. VText is an incredibly flexible and versatile C++ add-on library for Metrowerks' PowerPlant application framework. VText provides complete Macintosh text support including: greater than 32kb text, tabs, rulersets, undo, drag and drop editing, AppleEvent scripting and recordability, full support for multibyte characters and inline input methods including Japanese and Chinese text, and full support for bidirectional script systems including Arabic and Hebrew. The new relaxed distribution policies include: immediate source downloads for evaluation purposes; shareware, freeware, and student authors not needing to pay the normal licensing fee until their gross revenue from their VText projects reaches a value ten times that of the normal...

From: Ron Liechty (mwron@metrowerks.com) CodeWarriors, There is a release of the PowerPlant 1.8.1 Update for CodeWarrior Professional 2 PowerPlant is available now or soon for downloading from http://www.metrowerks.com/tools/software/updates/ or ftp://ftp.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/ ftp://ftp2.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/ If you are connecting from europe, you may want to try the mirror at: (ftp://ftp.promo.de/pub/Metrowerks/mirror/updates/) PowerPlant 1.8.1 stresses improvements to the new Appearance Classes, with some additional fixes to core PowerPlant. An updated Constructor (2.4.4a1) is included as well. Some changes in v1.8.1 (since v1.8 on CW Pro 2) have been severe (notably to LEditText). Be certain to read the release notes and change log before installing and updating your projects. Previous updates API Documentation Released on 12/04/97 This package contains headers, libraries, documentation, and example code for writing CodeWarrior plugins. Download Update (1010k) Java...

DevDepot's Holiday Sale December 22, 1997 - January 1, 1998 Celebrate the holidays with DevDepot. We are definitely in the holiday spirit by knocking an extra 10% off of our already low prices. Whether you're a last minute shopper or if you want a jump on the new year. The Depot is the place to be. And you know you can always count on the Depot to have the season's hottest products at the prices you want. To qualify for the 10% off is easy. You only need to order via e-mail, fax, or on our convenient web site. That's it --any order you place via any of these ways AUTOMATICALLY qualifies you. (Due to the overwhelming response expected, we cannot take phone orders at the discount price. If you need to speak to us by phone, send us an e-mail with your phone number and we will call you -- and you will still qualify for the discount). * on the Web at http.//www.devdepot.com * via e-mail at orders@devdepot.com * via fax to 805/494-9798 Hurry and pay us a visit at (http://www....

This is a resend which corrects a slight error we made in the previous version -- a slip of the mouse which edited out one digit in one of the tables. Sorry for the confusion. MacDev-1 ------------------------ A recent analysis of the worldwide Macintosh installed base and the Macintosh user base for fiscal year 1997 (ending September 30), revealed a number of interesting highlights, including the following: * 27.6 million Macintosh computers have been shipped worldwide since 1984. * 79 percent of all Macintosh computers shipped are still in use. (That's 21.8 million active Macintosh computers.) * There are an average of 3.2 users per active installed Macintosh, which means there are 69.3 million Macintosh users worldwide. (http://devworld.apple.com/stats.html) text copied here: ------------------------ FY1997 Macintosh Installed Base and User Statistics "How many Macintosh computers have been sold? How many people use Macintosh today? Where are they, and what do they use the...

NEW EtherPeek? v.3.5 for Macintosh Preview at Macworld Expo '98 in San Francisco January 6-9 Booth #4244 Walnut Creek, California - December 18, 1997 - The AG Group will be showcasing EtherPeek version 3.5, an upgrade to its popular 3.0 version, at MacWorld Expo, Moscone Center - San Francisco, January 6-9 (booth #4244). The award-winning Ethernet network and protocol analyzer offers real-time and post-capture packet analysis, Plug-Ins for expert packet analysis, powerful decoding with support for all major protocol suites, including IP, AppleTalk, Netware IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, NetBIOS, DECnet, and more, intuitive address, protocol and offset filtering capabilities, real-time utilization, node and protocol monitoring, HTML traffic statistics output and more. EtherPeek v.3.5 for Macintosh Feature Enhancements EtherPeek software, designed to make the complex task of troubleshooting mixed-platform, multi-protocol networks easy, has all the superior diagnostic and analysis capabilities of a...

Toronto, Canada - CircleDream Software (CDS) is proud to announce the release of InternetMemory2 (IM2), a complete update to our popular URL manager for the MacOS. This release is a complete rewrite and ads a wealth of new features that are sure to make IM2 a hit on anyone's wish list. IM2 features the unique IMPalette, which offers full, OS-level integration of your Internet Addresses. What is InternetMemory? InternetMemory is a best-of-class URL manager for the MacOS. It is used to collect, organize, manage and use Internet addresses of all types. Through our unique IMPalette and IMMenu interfaces, InternetMemory provides system level integration of your Internet addresses, making them available to you no matter what you are currently using your Mac for. Address Books can be shared between users like any other file, and built-in security features stop people from snooping through your precious data. IM2 Features * A Familiar Face: IM uses a MacOS8 compatible user interface...

CREATIVE LABS, LTD. FORCES GOO SOFTWARE TO CLOSE ITS DOORS San Jose, CA - December 18th, 1997 - Goo Software, makers of the one-of-a-kind Spam Blaster anti-spamming email client software product today was forced to close its doors due to a frivolous and predatory lawsuit from Creative Labs, Ltd., makers of the Sound Blaster line of )products for the PC. Creative Labs is attempting to sue Goo Software over the use of the term "blaster" in its product name. Creative Labs claims it has sole and exclusive rights to use of the term "blaster', even though there are over 100 federally registered trademarks that use the term in product names. Only a handful of these trademarks are owned by Creative Labs. "Obviously, if the Federal Patent and Trademark Office has granted use of the term 'blaster' in combination with other terms in product names, it feels that the term "blaster" is a generic term and cannot be trademarked", said Michael Amorose, Principal for Goo Software. "How can you have...

LASSO 2.5 NOW AVAILABLE Major Upgrade Includes Plug-in Architecture and Advanced Data Handling Capabilities Bellevue, WA - December 17, 1997 - Blue World Communications, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Lasso 2.5, the new version of the company's award-winning solution for Web- and Java- enabling FileMaker Pro for Mac OS from Claris Corporation. Released just five months after Lasso 2.0, Lasso 2.5 represents a significant upgrade further positioning Lasso as the tool which sets the standard for Mac OS dynamic Web database publishing. "With Lasso technology embedded within FileMaker Pro 4.0 and included with Symantec's Visual Cafe Pro Database Edition, Lasso technology is widely deployed on a rapidly growing number of Web sites," said Bill Doerrfeld, President & CEO, Blue World Communications. "Now with Lasso 2.5, Web masters have unprecedented creative control and flexibility to develop even more powerful Web database applications." Lasso 2.5 is the ultimate Web...

From: Jon Summers (jons@vrtools.com) PanoMAGIC, a shareware MacOS QuickTime VR tool that produces QuickTime VR panoramas, has been released and may be downloaded ConVRter, a shareware MacOS QuickTime VR tool that converts QuickTime VR panoramas between QuickTime VR 1.0 and 2.0 file formats, has been released and may be downloaded ReverseVR, a shareware MacOS QuickTime VR tool that extracts the picture image from QuickTime VR 1.0 and 2.0 panoramas, has been released and may be downloaded PanoMAGIC is an integrated development environment for the creation of QuickTime VR. Version 1.0 creates single and multinode QuickTime VR 1.0 and QuickTime VR 2.0 panoramas. PanoMAGIC manages QuickTime VR multinode projects, authoring of hotspots, adding URLs, linking panorama nodes and QuickTime VR Objects, defining custom VR cursors and creating web ready html. The Apple QuickTime VR Authoring Kit is supported with a graphic user interface Stitch Wizard to quickly determine optimum stitching...

Cyberian Outpost Becomes An Authorized Apple Product Electronic Reseller Agreement offers customers opportunities to electronically purchase wide array of Apple products Kent, Conn. --- December 16, 1997 --- Cyberian Outpost (www.outpost.com), one of the leading online retailers of Apple products, has been named an Apple Computer, Inc. (www.apple.com) authorized electronic reseller. As an authorized reseller, Cyberian Outpost will resell via the Internet all manufactured Apple and Macintosh products. "It's quite an honor for a small, rapidly growing two-year old company like Cyberian Outpost to become a reseller of one of the world's most recognizable computing brands," said Darryl Peck, president and CEO of Cyberian Outpost. "And now as an Apple authorized reseller, we will provide Apple online customers competitively priced Apple-based products with the exceptional speed and service Cyberian Outpost customers expect and appreciate." Effective October 30, 1997, Cyberian Outpost...

New native Absoft F90 and F77 for Linux Absoft Corporation today announced immediate availability of two new commercial Fortran toolsets for Linux: - Pro Fortran - F90/F77/Fx suite, suggested retail $899 (USA) - F77 SDK v4.4 - F77/Fx, suggested retail $699 (USA) Absoft F90 is full ANSI/ISO native implementation. Utilizes extended version of Cray CF90 front-end. F77 supports most workstation extensions. Both compilers are fully link compatible. New features include faster compile speed, link compatibility with g77, f2c and gcc, Big Endian (-) Little Endian data conversion, Pentium Pro optimizers. Fx multi-language debugger is Fortran savvy. Also debugs gcc, assembler and now supports hardware break points. Motif and curses interfaces included. Distribution CD also includes complete DISLIN graphics library, compiled HDF, BLAS, LAPACK routines and HTML document on converting F77-)F90. Complete v3.0 IMSL Math and Stat Fortran libraries are available as an extra cost option. Product...

Drag-and-drop File Sharing over the Internet ST. PAUL, Minnesota -- December 12, 1997 -- Qdea today announced the release of SpeedShare Beta 5, a free public beta of its file sharing utility for Macintosh computers connected to the Internet. SpeedShare Beta 5 can be downloaded from the Qdea web site at (http://www.Qdea.com). SpeedShare has the following benefits: * Works like (and with) the Finder, with drag-and-drop simplicity. * On-the-fly data compression. * Real-time messaging to and from the server. * Transfer files between any two Macs on the Internet, even if both have dialup modem connections. * Copy open files from a remote Mac. When released, SpeedShare will be $49.95 for one server + one client, and $29.95 for additional clients. For more information, and for downloadable demos of all Qdea products, visit the Qdea Web site at http://www.Qdea.com. Qdea is an innovative developer and publisher of Macintosh software, founded in 1992. Specializing in products for the...