sLab finalizes acquisition of dtF/SQL for Macintosh, introduces Rhapsody-version and internet integration of dtF/SQL at MacWorld SF '98. BOEBLINGEN, GERMANY. January 2, 1998 -- sLab announced today that it has finalized the acquisition of the dtF/SQL for Macintosh product from theta group. With the aquisition of dtF/SQL for Macintosh, sLab reinforces its committment to the MacOS and Rhapsody market. At MacWorld SF'98, sLab will make available its first developer releases of dtF/SQL for Rhapsody. sLab will also demonstrate dtF/HTML, its new web-server integration of dtF/SQL. With dtF/HTML, dtF/SQL access can be directly linked with Apache and other Web-Servers, which provides developers with a high- performance, low-overhead database connectivity solution. Client access to dtF/HTML can be provided both via JDBC or server-based, HTML-integrated scripting languages like PHP/FI or heitml. Full versions of all dtF products can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.slab.de. dtF/SQL...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Susan Whitney marketing@mactech.com 805-494-9797 x104 MacTech Magazine Announces New Editorial Staff Additions Westlake Village, CA -- December 26, 1997 -- Xplain Corporation, the publisher of MacTech(r) Magazine, announced today its new editorial staff additions. MacTech has evolved into the primary news and information vehicle for over 40,000 Mac programmers and developers in 64+ countries. The magazine has established an eminent reputation within the Macintosh developer community. To that end, these editorial additions come at a great time for the magazine while it is enjoying its continued growth and success. "The Mac developer industry is at a point today where now, more than ever, developers are looking for information, direction and news." said Neil Ticktin, Publisher of MacTech. "MacTech has continued to grow, even in the past year, providing a variety of services in a variety of formats. Our new staff line up will help us accomplish even more...

From: "Rick Myllenbeck" (RickM@creaf.com) Subject: Re: Creative Labs Forces Goo to Close As you know, there has been a great deal of discussion in the last couple of days claiming that Creative Labs forced Goo Software out of business by filing a trademark action against it. This is untrue. Creative has filed no lawsuit against Goo. Creative has taken no steps that could conceivably have forced Goo out of business. Goo's claims to the contrary on its Website are false. All Creative has done to date with respect to Goo is to send correspondence to Goo's management objecting to Goo's use of the terms "Spam Blaster" and "Cache Blaster." Such correspondence is routine and in good faith. Creative owns a family of trademarks (thirty two registered in the U.S. alone) containing the word "Blaster." Our concern is that Goo is using the goodwill associated with our family of marks. In addition we are concerned that Goo is creating potential consumer confusion and, independently, diluting the...

Free Apple Guide-to-WinHelp Translator, FAQ DALLAS, Texas -- DECEMBER 22, 1997 -- StepUp Software announces the availability of guideWorks Translator and the Apple Guide FAQ, assets of the former guideWorks, LLC. guideWorks Translator is a utility which converts Apple Guide source code files to WinHelp files. Combined with StepUp Software's $99 Guide Composer (recently upgraded to version 1.2.1), this free utility provides an inexpensive cross-platform active assistance/help solution for Macintosh software developers. guideWorks Translator previously retailed for $199. Also now available at the StepUp Software website is the Apple Guide FAQ. This web-formatted FAQ was developed by and is provided for the Apple Guide development community. The site was designed by guideWorks. StepUp Software warns that guideWorks Translator is provided to the public 'as-is' and is no longer supported. "We wish to thank the former owners and management of guideWorks LLC for providing this useful tool to...

From: hawkfish@electricfish.com (Richard Wesley) CWProjector 1.0 Press Release Electric Fish announces the release of CWProjector, a 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. CWProjector also comes with a prerelease version of CWCVS, a version control plugin for the POSIX CVS system. Later releases of both plugins will be free to registered CWProjector owners. CWProjector is available now at http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/CWProjector/Download.html for more information, contact Richard Wesley, mailto:hawkfish@electricfish.com http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/

UML Design Tools With Scriptable HTML Reports MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa -- December 22, 1997 -- Excel Software is pleased to announce availability of major upgrades to its software engineering products for Windows 95, Windows NT and Macintosh. WinA&D 2.0 and MacA&D 6.1 add complete Unified Modeling Language (UML) support to existing system analysis, software design and code generation capabilities. UML was created by the joint efforts of leading object technologists and represents a convergence of several object-oriented analysis and design methods including Booch, OMT and Jacobson's OOSE. The new WinA&D and MacA&D products offer extensive integration with HTML documents and allow custom scriptable HTML reports. The full UML notation includes use case diagrams and descriptions, class and package diagrams, state diagrams, collaboration and sequence style interaction diagrams, activity diagrams and deployment diagrams. Each use case represents a typical interaction between a...

HOT PROGRAMMERS MARKET: RUSSIA AS A SOURCE OF CONTRACT PROGRAMMING EXPERTISE There are thousands of ads in newspapers and on the Internet: Software developers wanted! The demand by far exceeds the supply. Many U.S. companies have to look abroad in search of talented programmers. Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are certainly among the most promising sources. There is still a large supply of highly educated underemployed programmers, many of them coming from organizations and research institutes that used to belong to the Soviet mi Auriga, a U.S. company established five years ago by a former Moscow State University Professor Aleksei Sukharev, has now expanded its activities to provide American customers with highly skilled programmers from countries of the former Soviet Union. For more information, please visit www.auriga-usa.com. Aleksei Sukharev Auriga, Inc. 76 Stable Road, Milford, NH 03055, USA Telephone: (603) 672-8674 Telefax: (603) 672-2316 E-mail:info@auriga-usa.com

Software by Tim Kelly and Friends (www.madison-web.com/tkelly) Announces Configuration Changer Scripts (CC Scripts) CC Scripts is a Scripting Addition/OSAX that enables changing the active configuration for all four Open Transport control panels from an AppleScript. CC Scripts works on both 68k and PowerMac architectures. CC Scripts also accepts remote events, so the active configuration can be retrieved and set on both local and remote Macs. Notable is the ease of use of CC Scripts. All it takes is one line of AppleScript (for example, set configuration of AppleTalk/TCPIP/OTPPP/Modem to "name of configuration"), and you've changed the active configuration. Additionally, with the "Get" feature of CC Scripts, returning the current configuration name, or if the keyword "with listing all" is used, returning all the user's configurations, for that control panel is a snap. As it can be used remotely, a system administrator can (with Program Linking enabled) tell at a glance which...

From: samizdat@earthlink.net (Chris Kelly) Version 1.1b of JConfig is now available. JConfig is a Java class library designed to help you create shrink-wrap style applications in Java. This version supports both Apple's MRJ and Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro2, as well as fixing a few bugs and adding some new features. You can download the latest version from: (http://www.tolstoy.com/samizdat/jconfig1.html) Some of JConfig's features include the following: - Get extended information on files, folders, volumes, and aliases: their icons, creation dates, version information, and more. - Enumerate the currently mounted disk drives. - Launch a Web browser with a URL or a file. - Identify, resolve, and create aliases. - Enumerate the user's video monitors. - Get information on a video monitor: bit depth, bounds, etc. - Create external processes. - Send basic commands to external processes. - Obtain the PSN or HWND of a process you created. - Convert between Windows file...

Digital Alchemy is pleased to announce the release of the Mercutio MDEF version 1.5. The Mercutio MDEF is a Menu DEFinition resource that allow developers to easily and elegantly extend the power of their application menus. Mercutio allow menu items to have multiple-modifier key-equivalents (e.g. shift-command-C), custom icons, item callbacks, and other goodies. Mercutio menus may also contain "dynamic menu items" that allow a single menu item to change depending on what modifiers are held down. This keeps menus shorter while allowing the flexibility of keyboard shortcuts. Mercutio can be downloaded from the Digital Alchemy web site: http://www.digitalalchemy.com/mercutio/ Version 1.5 improves compatibility with Mac OS 8, the Apperance Manager 1.0 (including Platinum Theme), and fixes a number of bugs. In particular, Mercutio 1.5 fixes a bug that would unlock GDevice handles when Mercutio was used to display popup menus, which could cause a crash later on at seemingly random times...

MiscKit for Rhapsody available for free download (Las Vegas, NV - Dec 16th, 1997) - Ensuing Technologies announced today they are now mirroring the complete and official archives of the MiscKit Effort. The MiscKit is a free to use framework of classes and example code for Rhapsody, Apple's next generation operating system. Previously, only small portions of the MiscKit were available on various FTP servers located throughout the world. Now, the entire MiscKit, documentation and archives are now available in a single location. The archives are being hosted on an FTP server supplied by Ensuing Technologies, a premier Rhapsody developer. FTP services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A quick index of the FTP server can be found at http://www.ensuing.com/freebies/misckit/. Users wishing more direct access can check out ftp://misckit.ensuing.com/ or ftp://ftp2.misckit.com/ . MiscKit was originally released in 1993 by Don Yacktman, now the founder and maintainer of the...

VSE ANIMATION MAKER 3.0 - WE WANT YOU TO BE PRODUCTIVE (Bonn, Germany, December 17th, 1997). Today, Voget Selbach Entertainment announced the highly awaited major revision of their animation software "VSE Animation Maker" for Apple Macintosh computers. With this new version, you can create impressive animations even more effectively. VSE Animation Maker 3.0 is still very easy to use and quick to learn. It offers many new useful features, so it is ideal for web designers, online-agencies, multimedia authors, computer game designers, teachers, pupils and anyone who likes to have fun with animated pictures. "VSE Animation Maker 3.0 is easily the biggest leap forward in functionality since we released Multimedia Animation Maker 2.0 almost one year ago", said Andre Voget, President of Voget Selbach Entertainment. "The focus of VSE Animation Maker is still on ease-of-use, and with Animation Maker 3.0, we are bringing new powerful and useful features into the hands of virtually any animation...

Symantec Ships Visual Cafe for Java 2.0 Macintosh Professional and Database Development Tools CUPERTINO, CA -- Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the leading provider of Internet development tools, announced today that Visual Cafe for Java Macintosh, the fourth generation of its popular Cafe product family is now shipping. Visual Cafe for Java Macintosh is the only comprehensive Java development tool available that fits the diverse needs of today's Macintosh developers, allowing Macintosh developers to take their Java applications and applets to a higher level of interactivity with corporate databases, HTML Web page development and deployment. This release contains the latest Java technology and the most powerful development features available for Macintosh developers today. Visual Cafe for Java Macintosh is an open standard, multi-platform, visual Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for quickly and easily developing Java applets and applications. And through RAD on /off...

WWW SURVEY ASSISTANT REINFORCES ITS POSITION AS THE LEADING WEB SURVEY/TEST SOFTWARE HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 11, 1997: S-Ware introduces an exciting new Java-based tool to complement its web survey package, World Wide Web Survey Assistant. The new Java editor and updated website at http://www.surveyassistant.com make WWW Survey Assistant easier to use than ever. The new editor runs as an applet through any Java-enabled web browser. As no download or installation is required, users will be able to immediately take advantage of software enhancements as they are added. The Java editor can also be downloaded and run as an application independent of the user's web browser. S-Ware will continue to support its CGI-based editors for users who are not yet using a Java-enabled browser. WWW Survey Assistant is the most versatile, full-featured and economical software for creating web surveys and tests. The survey/test administrator needs only to supply the questions. WWW Survey...

Allegiant Technologies is pleased to announce an unbelievable holiday season offer on SuperCard 3.0, the "Best Multimedia Authoring Tool of 1997." For a limited time, you can buy SuperCard 3.0 for just $69.95 + shipping & handling. How's that for holiday spirit -- an incredible $260 off the normal street price! In picking it as the "Best Multimedia Authoring Tool of 1997," Macuser UK said SuperCard 3.0 was "a multimedia authoring package for ordinary people, but with an extraordinary feature set" and called it "...a serious authoring application" while giving it top honors over Macromedia Director 6.0. While we don't think any of our customers are "ordinary," SuperCard 3.0 is unquestionably a breakthrough for ease of learning and ease of use. But that's only our most recent award. In the past two years SuperCard has swept just about every major honor from the Mac press. SuperCard has been used around the world to develop stunning multimedia CD-ROMs, compelling computer-based...

Natural Intelligence Announces QuickCode Pro, V3, for 4th Dimension, V6. December 15, 1997. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Natural Intelligence today announced the release of QuickCode Pro(r) 3.0 for the Macintosh, their popular assistant editor for 4th Dimension (4D). This new release is compatible with 4D Version 6.0.3, the current ACI US version of the 4D development environment. Natural Intelligence, one of the pre-eminent 4th Dimension consulting and development houses in the country, will continue to develop and support QuickCode Pro, a product which is an integral part of their 4D consulting services. Joshua Wachs, President and CEO noted that the product's evolution "was guided in large part by Natural Intelligence consultants who use the product for creating small business as well as enterprise solutions. Wachs added, "We are very happy to make this product available to loyal customers who have literally besieged us with encouragement, to put it mildly." "This tool adds...

NeoLogic's Object Database Management System Adopted by Connectix to Aid in Accelerating Web Browsing - NeoAccess-enabled Surf Express(tm) Loads Pages Up to 36 Times Faster Than Stand Alone Browsers Berkeley, CA - December 15, 1997 - Reinforcing its position as the leading provider of object databases for the desktop, NeoLogic today announced that NeoAccess was chosen by Connectix Corporation as the database foundation for the recently released Surf Express(tm). Surf Express is a performance optimizing application which accelerates the web browsing experience by loading pages up to 36 times faster than stand alone web browsers. "NeoAccess gave us the back-end infrastructure we needed to meet our performance objectives," said Connectix lead engineer Jim Gochee. "Its fast access speeds, highly efficient caching mechanism and cross-platform support for multithreaded applications all contributed to the speed of Surf Express. Beyond our appreciation for the product itself, we're extremely...

December 11, 1997 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Scott S. Lawton, ssl@prefab.com 288 Littleton Rd, Suite 20, Westford, MA 01886, 978-692-1256 *** Survey on Text Utilities, Drawing for over a dozen great prizes! *** PreFab wants your feedback on two different types of text utilities: - enhanced search & replace ("or" search, wildcards, pattern matching and more) - document comparison (automatic redlining of HTML, QuarkXPress and other documents) Please consider taking a few minutes to fill out our web survey at (http://www.prefab.com/survey/survey1.html) As thanks for participating, we'll have a drawing on Thurs. Dec. 18 (at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time) and give away 1 copy each of BBEdit, Timbuktu, LightningDraw/WEB, Default Folder, MacTech subscription & CD, FileFlex, Style and every major scripting product: ACME Script Widgets, FaceSpan SRT, Player, Script Debugger, Scripter and Text Machine.

Stepwise and P & L Systems announce availability of OpenUp.app for Rhapsody Waterloo, Ontario, Dec 10 1997 -- Scott Anguish of the Stepwise Rhapsody/OpenStep Information Server today announced the immediate availability of OpenUp.app for Apple's new Rhapsody operating system. OpenUp allows a user to double-click on compressed and archived files and have them open in the Workspace without having to resort to the command-line tools gnutar and gunzip. It also supports opening the many other common and uncommon formats. "OpenUp allows normal users access to files compressed by many different Unix and non-unix commandline tools without having to know the magic incantations required," commented Scott Anguish, Stepwise creator and OpenUp author, "Further, it's expandable, so if it doesn't handle handle the compression and/or archiving formats you use now, additional scripted bridges can be written." The first release of OpenUp for Rhapsody will contain the following new features: *...

I hope you will all find the following information of use. Iceni are a UK company, specializing in PDF tools, and we have announced the "GENUS" range of Adobe Plug-In's for Exchange 3.0 that will allow you to generate HTML )from PDF documents, automatically... XMAS OFFER......IF I MANAGE TO GET THESE BLOODY REINDEER OUT OF THE OFFICE............ We would like to extend a special early Xmas offer to all the readers of MacDev. If you purchase the products before the 31st of December we would like to offer you a 20% discount. Normal purchase price of the Text tool is $100.00 - XMAS price $80.00. And the normal price for the 'Photo' tool is $125.00 - XMAS price $100. Just mention MacDev when ordering to claim your discount. Demo's can be downloaded from (www.iceni.com), and sales can be contacted at (sales@iceni.com). The following press release gives more details, but please do not hesitate to contact us directly if you require further information. Regards ICENI...

PRESS RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE ROASTER TECHNOLOGIES CLOSING ITS DOORS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY December 11, 1997 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Roaster Technologies' Board of Directors this week concluded, regretfully, that the financing necessary to keep Roaster Technologies a vital concern in the competitive Java developer tools marketplace was not likely to occur within a reasonable time frame. The Board also decided to make the technological assets of the company available for purchase. All day-to-day business activities will cease immediately. Until the end of the year, John Dhabolt, President/CEO, will continue to be involved in the required business closure activities. Additionally, Dhabolt will be interviewing companies and individuals who have expressed interest in acquiring all or part of the technological assets of the company. Dhabolt expressed his regret for the inconvenience to current Roaster users. "We have an exceptional product--witness the great press and industry...

Apple On-Line Store Orders Top 12 Million Dollars in First Month Apple Store Becomes Third Largest e-commerce Site in Under 30 Days CUPERTINO, California--Dec. 10, 1997--Apple Computer, Inc. today reported that The Apple Store, its new online store (http://www.apple.com/store), received over $12 million dollars of orders in its first 30 days of operation. The Apple Store opened its e-doors on Nov. 10, 1997. "The Apple Store is now one of the top e-commerce sites on the Internet," said Steve Jobs, Apple's interim CEO. "We are thrilled by the customer acceptance of both the store and our new build-to-order program." The Apple Store is one element of Apple's new distribution strategy, which also includes a broad new relationship with CompUSA, one of the nation's largest computer resellers. CompUSA is opening an Apple "store within a store" in every one of their over 140 stores in the US. Each "store within a store" features the complete Apple computer line, a large selection of...

Frontier 5: Public release of Frontier 5.0/Mac Frontier 5 is a now a cross-platform product! On Saturday we released the first public alpha of Frontier, version 5.0a22 for Windows, and today, 12/10/97, we have released the Mac version of the same software. Why the delay? There are a core set of features gathered around website building and system management that work exactly the same on both Mac and Windows. Our first goal in getting this release out was to get that core set working properly on both operating systems. The core functionality, at this time, pretty much defines the Windows product. There are almost no features that are in the Windows software that aren't also in the Mac software. Over time this will change as we support all the scripting culture on Windows, but for right now Frontier/Win is mostly the cross-platform subset. After we do a Windows release, the Mac-specific bits have to be imported into the new root and tested. The first time we did this it took four days....

For Immediate Release:- Groupe Mirande offers free advice to developers who want to break into the French market. France - 9th December 1997 - Groupe Mirande the French based consultancy company is offering a period of free advice for developers who want to sell their products into the French market. "The French market has always been difficult to break into and to get results", says Paul Lambert of Groupe Mirande. He continues "the vast cultural and the always present language differences have proved the down fall for a number of companies who wanted to promote their products in France". "With Groupe Mirande's experience we hope to point out the main stumbling blocks for companies, so they can reap the rewards from this exciting market" In 1996 the French PC market was worth around 6,000 million US$, and is expected to reach 8,000 million US$ in 1999, with the Internet and related sectors accounting for much of that growth. The French as a nation historically have taken to new...