Astrobyte Releases BeyondPress 3.0 New product provides WYSIWYG Web page creation in QuarkXPress For Immediate Release -- July 11, 1997 Denver - Astrobyte today announced the release of BeyondPress 3.0 for MacOS, the latest version of its Web authoring XTension for QuarkXPress. The 3.0 version includes all the document-conversion features of its predecessor, and adds powerful Web page authoring and management tools. Previously unannounced features of the new release include integrated online help, an evaluation version of Netscape Communicator, and a reduced price, to US$495 worldwide. WYSIWYG Authoring for Quark Users With BeyondPress 3.0, designers can create Web pages with the familiar tools of QuarkXPress, the world's leading page design software. Using the Cascading Style Sheet support of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator, plus Bitstream's TrueDoc font technology, BeyondPress converts stylized text in a QuarkXPress document to formatted HTML, retaining the...

Apple Board Announces the Resignation of Chairman and CEO Gil Amelio CUPERTINO, Calif.--July 9, 1997--Apple today announced that Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, after consultation with Apple's board of directors, has resigned his positions as chairman of the board and chief executive officer, and that the Company is initiating a search for a new CEO. Until a new CEO is hired, Fred Anderson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will assume additional responsibilities for the Company's day-to-day operations, working closely with the board and the executive management team, which includes: Fred Anderson - executive vice president and chief financial officer Guerrino De Luca - executive vice president, Marketing Dave Manovich - executive vice president, Worldwide Sales and Service Jack Douglas - senior vice president, General Counsel and Secretary Jim McCluney - senior vice president, Operations Jon Rubinstein - senior vice president, Hardware Engineering Avie Tevanian - senior...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No Wonder, Inc. Contact: Scott William, President/CEO scottw@nowonder.com Telephone: 913-696-0179, Fax: 913-696-0431 http://www.nowonder.com Free Computer Support Online for MacOS, Windows, Be, Solaris, and OS/2 Users (Overland Park, KS--July 8, 1997)--No Wonder, Inc. announces Free Computer Support for users of MacOS, Windows 95/NT, Windows 3.x, Be, OS/2 and Solaris. No Wonder has been providing free support to the MacOS community for over 8 months. During this time it has been 100% volunteer based, computer users helping computer users. No Wonder is made up of volunteers from all over the world including Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, Sweden and the US. Free Computer Support is available to all Internet users. What sets No Wonder apart from individual company web support sites, is the personal relationship they provide to its users. Scott William, Founder/President/CEO said, "It is our goal to keep users from spending hours on-line searching for answers...

Tools Plus Assists Mac OS 8/System 7 Developers OAKVILLE, Ontario--July 7, 1997--Macintosh developers creating applications or plug-ins for Mac OS 8 and System 7 have a new ally, now that Water's Edge Software has upgraded their Tools Plus libraries and framework to version 3.3. The latest version includes new routines to facilitate writing applications and plug-ins that can take advantage of Mac OS 8's new Appearance Manager while retaining compatibility with System 7. As in the past, Tools Plus libraries continue to shield developers from the multitude of intricacies and complexities of Macintosh programming. They allow developers to easily create professional quality applications and plug-ins, often reducing effort by as much as 85% and dramatically reducing the volume and complexity of source code. Tools Plus libraries can be used with or without the application framework that is included in the software developer kit. Developers using Tools Plus 3.3 can program for a specific...

VIVISTAR CONSULTING SHIPS VTEXT LIBRARY UPDATE FOR METROWERKS' POWERPLANT DEVELOPMENT 1 July 1997 -- ViviStar Consulting announced the immediate availability of an update for its VText library for Macintosh developers. The update includes full compatibility with and sample project files for CodeWarrior Pro 1. VText is a 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. "VText is a definite buy from its WorldScript features alone," said Jonathan Hess, product manager at ViviStar Consulting. The multilingual features support drag and drop, OSA scripting systems, tabs, and rulers. Hess added "developers don't have to do any...

Dear Developer, DevDepot already offers developer tools and books at the lowest prices in the market - guaranteed! We have hundreds of products available for you all year round. DevDepot has a special blow out this 4th of July! Act now and you'll get an additional 10% off our already low prices. Description In celebration of Independence Day, here's a limited time only sale (until midnight July 6th), we've lowered our already guaranteed super-low prices an additional 10%! You'll find incredible deals, plus a dazzeling selection -- everything from the latest OPENSTEP and Java books to brand new offerings from Apple, Metrowerks, Prime Time Freeware, BeatWare, Lakewood Software, AG Group, Bungie, Arboretum, Capilano Computing, Purity Software, Terran Interactive, Conix Graphics, Roaster Technologies, MacTech(r) and many more. To top it all off, we've made ordering a cinch! What's the catch? There isn't one. To qualify for the 10% discount you only need to order by e-mail, fax, or on our...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Natural Intelligence Meets Technology Industry Hiring Challenge June 30, 1997. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beginning on July 7, five successful candidates will begin their apprenticeship in Natural Intelligence's Developer Apprentice Program (DAP)Qan unusual and innovative mentoring program which has yielded the company some of its most successful hires. Created in 1994 in response to competition in the technology industry for highly qualified software developers, the program continues to prove an invaluable resource. The company regularly receives well over 100 applications for five positions. Shari Agatstein, Vice President of Operations, noted that the DAP program was quite unusual. "The 'DAPers' are not only trained in the technologies and development methodologies employed by Natural Intelligence, but considerable attention is also focused upon providing apprentices with those skills that transform a programmer into a highly skilled consultant." Agatstein...

Dear MacTech Magazine, We are the hosts of an internet resource for web developers and individuals who want to track visitors to their web pages. It is called the 'Museum of Counter Art'. The museum contains nearly 500 sets of TOTALLY FREE counter artwork for anyone to use. The counter sets can be used with most any counter CGI, across all platforms. We just completed a major redesign of the museum and would like to get the word out to as many people as possible. Although our site is not Macintosh specific, it is a resource any Mac web developer will want to know about and use. We would really appreciate a mention in your daily news section, and a link placed in your 'net reference area would be fantastic. Please stop by at the Museum for a tour. Here is a brief description that you can use: The Museum of Counter Art The museum is a showcase for digit artwork used with web page hit counters. Counter Art is displayed in the various exhibit rooms of the museum based on its particular...

From: hsoi@eden.NO-TREET.com (John C. Daub) Subject: [ANN]: PowerPlant Classes from Hsoi's Shop released Hsoi's Shop is pleased to announce the release of 5 contributed classes for Metrowerks' PowerPlant - some updates, some new! * CURLPushButton 2.2 Helps make your PowerPlant applications more Internet-savvy by adding clickable buttons that look and behave like URL links in web browsers. Just click and go! Great for listing web pages, email addresses, and ftp sites in About boxes and the like. * CVersCaption 1.3 A caption that automatically displays version information based upon the 'vers' #1 resource. Simple and seemless, just drop and go! * HCmdButtonAttachment 1.1 An attachment that gives controls command key equivalents to allow for more and easier keyboard navigation through your application. You can specify the key to be the first letter of the control's title or almost any character of your own choice. Furthermore, the title of the control can change on the fly to display the...

From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin) Subject: [Ann] TextureFnoob 0.5 (freeware) TextureFnoob is a graphics tool. Or a texture programming language. Or a mathematical graphing package. Or... no, I'll start over. TextureFnoob is a graphics tool which can do *anything*. Okay -- a good approximation of anything. It allows you to construct functions out of basic mathematical elements: numbers, addition, subtraction, colors, color-blending, color maps, rotations, translations, Perlin noise and turbulence functions, and dozens of other operations. And then it dynamically generates the result. Computer graphics are made of mathematics. TextureFnoob does not give you a preprogrammed set of special effects; it gives you a set of mathematical functions and lets you construct whatever image you want. There are functions to render marble and wood textures; you've probably seen those before. There are functions for ripples, bevels, bumps, spirals, wiggles, wobbles, color composites, and all...

Dear BBEdit Bunch, We wanted to let you know about a new plug-in (CometPage For BBEdit) and a related special price offer on the plug-in for registered BBEdit users. CometPage For BBEdit is a plug-in tool which adds dynamic web page creation and site management to BBEdit's feature set. The graphical organizer in CometPage For BBEdit allows drag and drop of templates, site-wide macros/stylesheets and over 75 dynamic Comet commands into any BBEdit window, enabling BBEdit users to start building dynamic web pages immediately. For more information on the plug-in itself, refer to Digital Comet's web site (http://www.digitalcomet.com). A separate, stand-alone personal web server (called CometSite available for $129 directly from Digital Comet) lets you test dynamic pages on a local machine before the pages are loaded onto any Mac, UNIX, or NT based web server. This is a very nifty tool. It is available at a special discount price of $49 from our site (http://www.barebones.com/order-form....

Apple Announces Advertising Agency Review CUPERTINO, Calif.-June 26, 1997-Apple Computer, Inc. today announced a reassessment of general advertising needs in the U.S. consistent with Apple's restructuring of their marketing operations and strategy. As a result, Apple is inviting a number of advertising agencies, including BBDO, Apple's current advertising agency, to participate in an account review. "We have gone through the process of reconsidering all of our other existing business practices in the past several months and now we are doing the same thing with our advertising plans and resources," said David Roman, Apple's vice president of Advertising & Brand Communications . "1997 has been an opportunity to review the way Apple does business based on new goals and resources. We have chosen this time to explore other resources to meet our current and future advertising needs." Apple's renewed focus on its users and key markets necessitates a significant change in...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEAPINE SOFTWARE SHIPS TESTTRACK 1.5 FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH TestTrack 1.5 Offers Comprehensive Cross-Platform Bug Tracking, Automated Bug Reporting, and Unparalled Ease Of Use CINCINNATI, Ohio--June 25, 1997--Seapine Software, Inc., an innovative developer of cross-platform bug tracking tools, is now shipping TestTrack 1.5, a full-featured bug tracking solution at an affordable price. The most popular bug tracking solution for the Macintosh, TestTrack 1.5 adds versions for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. TestTrack offers complete feature parity and a virtually identical user interface across platform versions, so users can work on their platform of choice and retain full database compatibility between Windows and Macintosh systems. "Finally, a single bug tracking application that covers both Macintosh and Windows developers! As someone who tests both Macintosh and Windows products daily, this is wonderful!" said Rick Shields of Quality Assurance at Ann Arbor-...

To all, If you want to help spread the word for developer resources -- vote for the MacTech web site in the below survey. Then again, just vote for your favorite news regardless of your reason. As a MacDev-1 subscriber, you may not realize that the news distributed over MacDev-1 is also mirrored as web content on the home page of http://www.mactech.com -- check it out. Thanks, Neil Ticktin MacTech Magazine publisher@mactech.com ------------------- From: JM Pierce (jason@mactimes.com) Organization: Unofficial Macintosh PR Department Subject: Vote For Your Favorite Mac News Site! Hi, The Unofficial Macintosh PR Department is running a contest to determine the Mac community's favorite Mac news related site. Titled, "Vote For Your Favorite Mac News Site" and located at http://www.mactimes.com/archive/62497vote.html, the contest features appr. fourty nominee sites. We will be accepting votes from readers until the end of June at which point we will post the results of the contest. In...

For Immediate Release REARDEN SHIPS SITECAM 1.0 -- PROFESSIONAL STRENGTH UPGRADE TO MacWebCam -- Adding QuickTime Time-lapse Movies to Web Sites is Easier with New Streaming Video Management Tools; Now Only Application to Provide Automated Image Archiving -- SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 23, 1997 -- Rearden Technology, the leader in webcam software on the Mac(tm)OS, announces SiteCam 1.0, easily the most feature-rich webcam program on any platform, with more robust management tools for streaming video and now the only webcam application with Automated Image Archiving. SiteCam 1.0 is the fully supported commercial successor to Rearden Technology's popular shareware program, MacWebCam, already known for its high-performance, reliable streaming technology and QuickTime time-lapse movie generation. SiteCam 1.0 has been dramatically enhanced over MacWebCam to include faster streaming, several new display modes, all new and SiteCam-only image archiving capabilities by time stamp, a new status...

For Immediate Release MacStandardBasic 2.20 is released and sold over the Internet INDIANAPOLIS, IN, June 19th, 1997 : ZCurve Software announces the release of MacStandardBasic Version 2.20 , the powerful BASIC development system for Macintosh computers. Users can purchase and download the complete MacStandardBasic package for a special price of $ 49, for a limited time, from the ZCurve Software website (www.zcurve.com). ZCurve Software is offering this as a free upgrade to owners of MacStandardBasic 2.0 and 2.1. MacStandardBasic is optimized for both Apple's newer Power Macintosh computers and older Macintosh models. MacStandardBasic can be purchased and downloaded directly from the ZCurve Software's website. Users anywhere in the world can get MacStandardBasic within minutes over the Internet. For more information about MacStandardBasic visit the ZCurve Software website at http://www.zcurve.com or via email at zcurve@zcurve.com . ZCurve Software 8206 Rockville Road #280 Indianapolis...

From: bill.m.catambay@lmco.com (Bill Catambay) Subject: [Ann] Metrics Software, and other Pascal updates James Derrick has written a short article about his freeware plug-in for the Codewarrior IDE to calculate the cyclomatic complexity metric for Pascal source code. The cyclomatic complexity metric is a measure complexity of a routine, originally described by Tom McCabe ("A Complexity Measure"). Check out Pascal Central for more details. New additions to the PascalWare page: FREEWARE: Monitor, Arrhythmia, Metrics, Puffyman If you know of other freeware or shareware apps written in Pascal, let me know and I'll add them to the page. Thanks! New links at the Forums and Links page: (Mac) TCL Archive - Archive of several Symantec Pascal TCL classes. (PC) Numerical Analysis - Some Sources of Numerical Analysis Code in Pascal. Check out the Pascal Central web site: http://www.catambay.com/pascal-central/ The intent of Pascal Central is to provide the pascal community one place to obtain...

For Immediate Release Media Contact: Susan Marlett ClearWay Technologies 617-973-5024 marlett@clearway.com CLEARWAY TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES WEB ARCHER DESKTOP INTERNET SEARCH SYSTEM -- Provides Desktop Access to Internet Searches, Databases, and Catalogs; Built-in Expertise Speeds Successful Searches -- New York City, June 17, 1997, PC Expo -- ClearWay Technologies, Inc. today announced Web Archer(TM) Desktop Internet Search System, a powerful new package that simplifies and speeds access to Internet searches, databases and catalogs. Web Archer's built-in searching expertise lets beginners and power users alike find Internet information with new levels of accuracy and speed. Complete desktop integration allows users to search with Web Archer at any time, from any program. "Most people access the Internet by starting with a search," explained Mark Kriegsman, president of ClearWay Technologies, "Web Archer is an Internet search expert right on your desktop. It knows where to look,...

For Immediate Release Media Contact: Susan Marlett ClearWay Technologies 617-973-5024 marlett@clearway.com CLEARWAY TECHNOLOGIES SHIPS FIRESITE VIRTUAL DOMAIN MANAGER -- The Web's Most Advanced Virtual Web Site Hosting System. Uses Only A Single IP Address, Does Not Depend On HTTP 'Host' Field -- New York City, June 17, 1997, Mac OS Expo -- ClearWay Technologies, Inc. today announced FireSite(TM) Virtual Domain Manager (VDM), the Web's most advanced virtual Web site hosting system, and its immediate availability for Web servers running StarNine's WebSTAR. FireSite Virtual Domain Manager allows Webmasters to 'host' multiple Web sites on a single Web server without the need for additional IP addresses, and without relying exclusively on the HTTP "Host" field. ClearWay has announced an introductory price of US$99.00, and has made 30-day evaluation copies freely available from their Web site. (http://www.clearway.com/pages/Demos.html) "Web hosting is big business these days, and clients...

Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Gene Backlin (gbacklin@marizack.com) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 97 01:24:33 -0500 To: MacDev-1-Moderator@listmail.xplain.com Subject: Update Diskette for OPENSTEP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 1997 UPDATE DISKETTE FOR "DEVELOPING NEXTSTEP APPLICATIONS" TARGETS OPENSTEP 4.2 CHICAGO, IL--Gene Backlin, author of the book "Developing NeXTSTEP Applications", ISBN 0-672-30658-1, published by SAM's Publishing, has released a new OPENSTEP compliant diskette version of the application projects that accompanied the original NeXTSTEP text. The new diskette release includes: - Applications that are created within the text, are now OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach compliant. - The comprehensive tutorial organization of the book to text is retained. - Practical, real-world example programs that demonstrate the new classes in OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach, including distributed objects, image and view handling, drag and drop and much more. "Developing NeXTSTEP Applications"...

From: MWRon@metrowerks.com (MW Ron) Subject: [ANN] CodeWarrior Pro Ships !!!! CodeWarrior Pro 1 has began shipping. Some CD's went out Wednesday, some will go out Thursday and some will go out Friday. It may be necessary for some to be shipped the first of next week. I'll be sure to post when they are all shipped and drop dead dates for when to bug me if you haven't gotten it. For right now that it's in the mail date is the end of June. Thanks for your patience as CodeWarrior Pro was put together, tested and retested. Ron

Colleen Miller (510) 549-2684 x210 colleen_miller@bmug.org For immediate release BMUG Hosts First Annual Rummage Sale Berkeley, CA - BMUG, the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group, hosts its first annual rummage sale on July 12, 1997 from 10am to 3pm. BMUG volunteers will be staffing tables to sell used computer equipment and software at the BMUG offices at 2055 Center Street. Excellent bargains will be offered throughout the day. All are welcome and admission is free! BMUG is the world's largest MacintoshUsers Group and is dedicated to providing computer education and access to members and the community at large. For more information, to purchase a table, or to sell your equipment or software through our BMUG volunteers, contact Colleen Miller at (510) 549-2684 x210 or email at colleen_miller@bmug.org.

MICRO PLANNING's NEW PROJECT MANAGERS SHIPPING Sophisticated Project Management Software for the Macintosh, Sun Solaris, HP and Windows 3.x, 95, NT Brad Pirrung, Director of Marketing, (303)757-2216 Andy Killinger, CEO, (303)757-2216 Press Release: Automatic Update Feature MICRO PLANNER X-Pert 2.4.2 and MICRO PLANNER Manager 1.4.2 offer a new Update feature, which enables project managers to automatically update project information from multiple external files. Project participants can now enter progress data easily using a database, a spreadsheet, or, of course, MICRO PLANNER. Using the Update feature, project leaders will have current project-wide status on hand with the click of the mouse. MICRO PLANNER's powerful analysis functions can then provide the up-to-date information needed to make decisions that keep the project on time and within budget. With the addition of on-demand access to project status, the new MICRO PLANNERs enable managers to become more productive by spending...

Introducing InterLok Pro, Powerful New Toolset for Creating Trialware and Locked Applications Next-Generation System from PACE Anti-Piracy Provides "Registration Insurance" for Internet Distribution of Software SAN JOSE, CA -- PACE Anti-Piracy, the leading developer of software authorization and protection systems for MacOS, is now shipping InterLok Professional Version, the comprehensive toolset for the creation and remote unlocking of trialware and protected software. InterLok Pro completes the transition of PACE's products to the company's fourth-generation technology, and joins InterLok Standard Version, the one-step turnkey trialware creation toolkit introduced in January of this year. The two products are fully technology-compatible, and all features of InterLok Standard Version are supported in InterLok Pro, along with an impressive list of more sophisticated capabilities, making InterLok Pro a complete software authorization, protection, and anti-piracy solution. "InterLok...