FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tools Plus Plugs Into Plug-Ins `````````````````````````````` OAKVILLE, Ontario--November 18, 1996--Water's Edge Software, best known for their Tools Plus application development libraries, announced today that they will soon release version 3.2 which can be used to write plug-ins for most applications that support a plug-in architecture, such as Adobe's Photoshop and Acrobat, Microsoft's Excel, and others. Tools Plus libraries first broke new ground by letting application developers easily create working user interface elements with a single line of code, including all standard Macintosh elements plus popular additions like tool bars, floating palettes, sophisticated picture buttons, tabs, sliders, and a suite of 3D gray scale components. Once created, all elements are operational and interact correctly with one another, thus eliminating the need for many thousands of lines of code that are attributed to creating the interface, making it work, and accounting for...

Natural Intelligence Expands Java Training Division Curriculum and Services Cambridge, MA. November 8, 1996. In line with its strategy for providing a full array of Java(tm) products and services, Natural Intelligence (NI) has announced a dramatic expansion of its Java Training Division, offering a wide variety of on-site and off-site courses of instruction for management and technology workers. Widely acknowledged as a leader in the field of Java development, (including Roaster(tm), the Development Environment for Java), Natural Intelligence is uniquely positioned to offer this exceptional addition to its consulting services. Up to now, Natural Intelligence's Java Consulting Division has offered limited training as an adjunct to its consulting services, but the volume of ongoing requests from corporations and institutions for a traditional teaching structure became the catalyst for the current expansion. The Java Training Division now offers classes for students at all levels,...

BARE BONES SOFTWARE UPGRADES BBEDIT WITH RELEASE OF 4.0.2. Natick, MA -- Bare Bones Software, Inc. today announced the release of version 4.0.2 of BBEdit, their popular and critically acclaimed text editor for Mac(TM) OS-compatible systems. This new version includes a variety of enhancements to its feature set and capabilities: *Startup Items* When it starts up, BBEdit 4.0.2 will look for a folder named "BBEdit Startup Items" and open any documents it finds in that folder. While BBEdit will open a document window for any text file, picture file, or BBEdit file group in this folder, it will also direct the finder to open any other document file it finds in the folder, as well. Additionally, if you place a compiled OSA (AppleScript, or any other OSA-compliant scripting language) script in this folder, BBEdit will execute the script. *Improved Hotkey Generation* The "Set Keys..." command has been improved so that it is easier to assign key equivalents to extensions that are stored in...

Vivo Software Announces New Version of VivoActive Producer Streaming Web Video Post-Production Tool Now Brings Enhanced Productivity to Webmasters WALTHAM, Mass., November 12, 1996 -- Vivo Software today announced the newest version of its VivoActive Producer, a Web video post-production tool that enables Webmasters to easily produce and integrate streams-based video into their Web sites. VivoActive Producer 1.5 includes productivity enhancing features that help Webmasters manipulate and process vide o clips into their Web sites more quickly and easily. Available for both PC and Apple Power Macintosh platforms, it will be delivered initially on the Power Mac, the most popular development platform with most Web site designers today. A beta version of the VivoActive Producer 1.5 is available at Vivo,s Web site: http://www.vivo.com The initial version of the VivoActive product family, launched in September, already has generated considerable market momentum. More than 190...

Apple Releases Beta Version 1.0 of Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) Apple Challenges Developers to Show the "Geek Factor" at Macworld CUPERTINO, Calif.--Nov. 6, 1996--Apple Computer, Inc., today announced the availability of the beta version 1.0 release of Mac OS Runtime for Java. This product highlights Apple's strategy to make the Mac OS a best-of-breed development platform for the Internet. Mac OS Runtime for Java is an implementation of Sun Microsystems' Java virtual machine (VM) and run-time environment, enabling developers of Mac OS-based applications to create Java applets and standalone Java applications, and to embed Java functionality into applications written in native PowerPC or 68K code. As part of this beta software release, Apple also announced the MRJ Coding Contest, an opportunity for a developer using Mac OS Runtime for Java to create interesting and innovative Mac OS-based applications--and win new Apple products! For official rules and submission information, check...

MindVision Announces Installer VISE 4.1 The worldwide standard in state-of-the-art installation technology. Lincoln, Nebraska - November 1, 1996- MindVision Software today announced a new release of Installer VISE version 4.1, the standard installation product used by today's leading Macintosh developers and network administrators. The 4.1 version of Installer VISE totally automates software distribution and makes quick work of adding new files and or updating existing files to the latest version. Installer VISE is a professional installation program designed for anyone who distributes applications or data files using CD-ROMs or diskettes, or via the Internet or over a network server. It provides a full feature set, yet requires less than 30 minutes to create a personalized installation! The Installer VISE 4.1 version has all the basic features such as the best compression in the industry; find, delete and move any file; conditional installation; complete fat binary support; and much...

Metrowerks CodeWarrior IDE 1.7.2 is now publicly available from the Metrowerks Web site. This update includes numerous bug fixes for problems reported in the 1.7 IDE. It also incorporates the Metrowerks Version Control API. This version of the IDE is required to use the CodeManager IDE plugin found with CodeManager Release 3. The archive containing this update can be found at: (ftp://ftp.metrowerks.com/pub/updates/CW10/IDE_1.7.2.sit.hqx) Archive Size: 1142K There is no archive password.

Press Contact: Bill Doerrfeld President, Blue World Communications, Inc. (206) 313-1051 bill@blueworld.com Blue World Communications announces the availability of Lasso. New Tool to Effortlessly Tie One's FileMaker Pro Database to the Web Redefines Performance and Ease-of-Use ISSAQUAH, WA--October 26, 1996--Blue World Communications, Inc. announces the recent release of Lasso, the new tool for quickly integrating Claris(r) Corporation FileMaker Pro(r) 3.0 for the Macintosh databases with the Web. Lasso is designed for top performance. Searching FileMaker Pro Macintosh relational databases with tens of thousands of records in under a second is now possible with Lasso. Lasso's flexible object design allows modules to be easily constructed permitting additional capabilities to be tightly interwoven with Lasso's core technology. Unlike other solutions, Lasso allows complete flexibility of how FileMaker Pro data is formatted without requiring any changes to the actual database. Lasso...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Cynthia Fray Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4758 cynthia@metrowerks.com METROWERKS SHIPS CODEWARRIOR FOR PLAYSTATION DR/1 HOSTED ON MAC OS & WIN95/NT AND MW CODEMANAGER 3 AUSTIN, Texas-October 28, 1996-Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/ME:MWK), today announced the availability of CodeWarrior for PlayStation DR1, a development environment for creating software titles for the PlayStation game console, and MW CodeManager 3, Metrowerks' cross-platform revision control system which is fully compatible with Microsoft SourceSafe 4.0a. CodeWarrior for PlayStation DR1 is hosted on Mac OS and Windows 95/NT and is authorized by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. It features the full CodeWarrior IDE, a plug-in CodeWarrior C/C++ compiler for MIPS and a selection of integrated graphical format converters for managing game development with the CodeWarrior IDE. CodeWarrior for PlayStation DR1 is Metrowerks' first CodeWarrior product hosted on Windows 95/NT. MW...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Brent Simmons World Wide Power & Light (206)269-6505 bsimmons@wrldpwr.com http://www.wrldpwr.com/ Add a Fast and Flexible Search Engine to Your Web Server with SpotLight 1.0 Seattle, WA--October 28, 1996--World Wide Power & Light's new SpotLight CGI and file indexer now makes it easy for Macintosh webmasters to add a high performance local file search engine to their Macintosh web server. SpotLight's ease-of-use is its central design goal. Its capabilities include meta tag indexing; multiple search pages with unique search directories; and extendability through custom scripts. SpotLight is a suite of Userland Frontier scripts and code resources (written in C) that work with Claris Filemaker Pro 3.0 to index a site and search it via the SpotLight CGI. Frontier and Filemaker Pro are both PowerPC native. SpotLight's user interface takes advantage of new features in Frontier 4.1, especially the new MacBird user interface component. For...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Charles McHenry 541-772-2382 cmchenry@opendoor.com OPEN DOOR NETWORKS ANNOUNCES THE MAILDOOR MULTI-DOMAIN MAIL CLERK EXPANDS ITS MULTI-DOMAIN PRODUCT LINE ASHLAND, OR. -- October 22, 1996 -- Open Door Networks, Inc. today announced MailDoor(TM), another in its suite of multi-domain products for Macintosh Internet servers. MailDoor, a powerful multi-domain mail clerk, works with the Apple Internet Mail Server (AIMS) to offer server administrators the ability to create and manage independent sets of e-mail addresses within each AIMS mail domain. Together with Open Door's HomeDoor and LogDoor products, MailDoor enables Webmasters to offer users a complete set of multi-domain services -- all through a single Macintosh computer. As shipped from Apple Computer, AIMS does not provide the ability to set up independent e-mail accounts with the same account name. This limitation is most serious when it comes to setting up...

Apple Open Transport 1.1.1 Enhances Mac OS Networking Performance and Reliability CUPERTINO, Calif.--Oct. 25, 1996--Apple Computer, Inc., today announced the availability of Apple Open Transport 1.1.1, an enhanced version of Apple's standards-based networking and communications system for Macintosh and Mac OS-compatible computers. Significance Open Transport 1.1.1 is an update for Mac OS-based systems currently running Open Transport 1.1, and is a recommended upgrade for all Open Transport users. In addition to bug fixes that increase overall compatibility, performance and stability, the update provides significant performance enhancements for Mac OS-based Internet and intranet servers and includes support for the new Open Transport/PPP implementation. Additional Mac OS Systems Supported Open Transport 1.0 began shipping in 1995 as a standard feature of Apple's new PCI-based Power Macintosh systems. Open Transport 1.1 added support for most 68030, 68040, and additional PowerPC-based...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 28, 1996 Pictorius Releases Free Macintosh Net Servers New Net Servers Offer a Free, High Performance Web Server Option October 28, 1996 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Pictorius Inc. today announced the first release of their free Pictorius Net Servers (formerly Entrada! Net Servers) for Macintosh. Available for both 68K and PowerMacs, the first release includes: a fully-threaded, full service Web (http) server; native Open Transport support for maximum performance and unrestricted simultaneous users; full support for CGIs and ACGIs; 14 Agents which provide the functions of CGIs but are fully integrated into the servers for better performance; multi-homing support for multiple domain names on one machine; and security features, including: prohibiting access by domain name or IP address; configuring user groups; and changing user access control without restarting. Pictorius will be adding new servers including Mail (SMTP and POP3), FTP, Finger, DNS, News...

Dear Mac-programmers, I have released version 3.6 of the Gestalt Selectors List (GSL) This list was released for the first time on this day in the year 1992. Hence, this release marks the FOURTH ANNIVERSARY of this list! To celebrate this a survey it held for every GSL user to fill in and return. The survey form is included with the GSL 3.6 release but it can also be entered using a form on a WWW page: http://www.bio.vu.nl/home/rgaros/gestalt/survey.html The GSL lists all sorts of information about the Gestalt Manager, but mainly about selectors and the meaning of the returned values. The Gestalt Manager is part of the Apple Macintosh System Software to enable programmers to determine the availability of certain software and hardware. You can obtain the latest version in several ways: - by sending email to the mail archive server at: gestalt-selectors-list-request@bio.vu.nl with the subject: archive get recent/gestalt-selectors.etx or to get...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Neil Ticktin Publisher MacTech Magazine 805-494-9797 publisher@mactech.com http://www.mactech.com Mark Gonzales Director of Marketing Be, Inc. 415-462-4100 markg@be.com http://www.be.com BeOS TO BE BUNDLED IN MACTECH MAGAZINE MENLO PARK, Calif. and WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- October 21, 1996 -- Be, Inc. and Xplain Corporation, the publisher of MacTech(tm) Magazine, announced today that the BeOS(tm) DR8 for Power Macintosh will be bundled, free of charge, on CD in the January, 1997 issue of MacTech Magazine. "We want to get the developer release of BeOS for PowerMac into the hands of active PowerMac developers so that they can get up to speed on the technology as rapidly as possible, " said Mark Gonzales, Director of Marketing at Be, Inc. "MacTech is recognized as a key development resource within the PowerMac community, and so it made complete sense that we should work with them to reach a wide base of developers." "With all of the buzz in the Mac...

We're happy to announce that PERFORCE -- the FAST Software Configuration Management System -- now supports Macintosh clients. Coupled with existing support for Windows/NT, Windows/95, OS/2, and nearly a score of UNIX platforms, PERFORCE now provides just about universal platform coverage. (Sorry, Win3.1 is still out of luck.) The PERFORCE Macintosh client currently works with the MPW shell. The Mac client handles both data and resource forks of MacOS files, and allows both forks to be shared and edited by non-Mac clients. MacOS data forks are treated as ordinary text or binary files on a non-Mac client. With this, Mac and non-Mac users can share their source code, while Mac users additionally can share Mac resource and file type attribute information. The new PERFORCE Mac client is available directly from Perforce Software. For further information on availability, platforms, pricing, documentation, and free evaluation software, check our Web site (below) or send email inquiries to...

Frontier 4.1 is shipping at (http://www.scripting.com/frontier/). Here's an overview of the new features in 4.1, full detail is available on the site. ***Ease of Learning and Use The main priority of Frontier 4.1 was to re-design the user interface to incorporate what we've learned about Frontier over the last four years. The User's Guide has been completely updated and made current with the feature set of Frontier 4.1. Frontier's menus have been reorganized to be easier for the first-time user, and more complete for experienced users. Navigators make finding your way around the object database easier, and supply vital information for the beginning script writer. Where do I put my script? This was the number one question for new Frontier users. New places include the Workspace table, which is the best place to store personal scripts; the Overnight and Hourly scripts tables store scripts that run every night at 2AM and every hour on the hour; the webServerScripts table stores CGI...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Natural Intelligence Releases Roaster(tm) 2.3 Includes Support for Sun's JDK 1.0.2 Cambridge, MA, October 17, 1996. Natural Intelligence, Inc. (NI), the company which led the Java(tm) revolution for the Macintosh(tm) in January of this year, has released the newest update of Roaster, the Development Environment for Java. Roaster was the first development environment for creating applets and applications in Sun(tm) Microsystems, Inc.'s Java(tm) programming language on the Macintosh platform. This latest release, Roaster Developer's Release 2.3, furthers the functionality of the development environment by including support for Sun's JDK 1.0.2. This release also dramatically increases the stability of the development environment for Java. Russell Neufeld, one of the Senior Developers of Roaster noted: "We are very pleased with this updated version which reflects the great strides taken toward the stabilization of our Virtual Machine. We have done this without...

Dear Customer, Many of you have been requesting various additional services and products from us. Because of your recommendations, we have some exciting announcements to make later this year. In the meantime, we've recently unveiled our new Seagull Networks web hosting service. If your company or organization is looking for a quality web presence provider, we have the resources to make it happen. And as a special promotion, we are offering a free on-going subscription to the Apprentice CD-ROM to anyone who orders the top-of-the-line package from Seagull Networks! You get the latest edition of Apprentice as it is released, as long as you use our web hosting services. Just let us know that you heard it from this emailing. The top-of-the-line package includes the following features: - 125 megabytes of space! - Your own domain (www.yourcompany.com) - Your own IP number - Your own virtual web server - Your own root ftp server - Your own smtp and pop3 mail servers - Your own...

Hello! I wanted to let you know about some of the new products that we've just released. The four products are WebDetour (a Mac Web CGI), FingerToys (a Finger Server), PowerGate (another Mac Web CGI), and Mondo Mail (a scriptable SMTP client). I've included our press releases about the first three. The fourth, a freebie, is Mondo Mail. Mondo Mail is an easy-to-use, reliable mail gateway for use on a web site. It's not a fancy program, but it has a few advantages over other alternatives. It's written in C, built from a well-tested and reliable code base, is friendly to other applications on the system, and is free. It also has a failsafe "kill file" where undeliverable mail and associated errors are written. This product is currently unsupported, meaning we can't dedicate resources to supporting it, not that bugs and/or problems shouldn't be reported to us. The Acme Technologies Web site is located at http://www.acmetech.com/ and our downloads page is located at http://www.acmetech.com...

Announcing Licorice, Web Pages for Sprocket(tm) Development Viperware(tm) is proud to announce Licorice, a new series of web pages designed specifically for developers using Apple's Game Sprockets. The URL for Licorice is: (http://www.viperware.com/licorice) Licorice features FAQ's for each of the Game Sprockets. Questions and answers have been taken from the past 6 months of the Mac-Games-Developer mailing list. If you have a question concerning Game Sprockets, you should check Licorice first to see if your question is answered in a FAQ. Hopefully this will reduce noise on the newsgroups and mailing lists, and will make using these services more enjoyable. ** Also take a look at Butterscotch, the #1 source of information for game developers: (http://www.viperware.com/butterscotch) *Sprocket is a trademark of Xplain Corporation.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Joel Zeff ObjectSpace, Inc. 214.823.8242 joelzeff@objectspace.com Cynthia Fray Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4758 cynthia@metrowerks.com METROWERKS BUNDLES OBJECTSPACE'S JAVA(tm) GENERIC LIBRARY DALLAS, Texas & AUSTIN, Texas-October 14, 1996-ObjectSpace Inc., a leading provider of object-oriented technology, and Metrowerks(R) Inc., (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/ME: MWK), the leading provider of software development tools for Macintosh(R), today announced an agreement to include the ObjectSpace Java(tm) Generic Library (JGL) with Metrowerks' CodeWarrior(R) Java Development Environment. The Java Generic Library is the most comprehensive set of reusable containers and algorithms currently available for Java. "ObjectSpace has created a high quality container and algorithm library for Java that will facilitate the development process for Java developers, much like the standard template library has done for C++ programmers," said Greg Galanos, President and Chief...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WebVentures Pty Ltd 23 Clarkson Place, KENMORE HILLS, Qld, Australia 4069 Company URL: http://www.webventures.com.au Media Contact: Colin Lythall , Managing Director Tel: (07) 3374 0281, Intl +61 7 3374 0281 clythall@webventures.com.au Company Fax: +61 7 32012044 (Brisbane, Austrailia--October 9, 1996)--(PRESSXPRESS)--Managing Director of WebVentures Pty Ltd, Mr Colin Lythall, announced the release today of the Do-It-Yourself Database(TM). With DIY-DB, anyone can build working databases on the Web in ten minutes without a knowledge of database systems or CGI-scripting. On-line configuration is easy with DIY-DB. Just 'load and go' onto any server running Java, then link to common database engines such as mSQL or ODBC-complient databases. DIY-DB makes it simple and quick to build a database on the Internet or an Intranet from scratch. Everything is done right down to the consistent look and feel of presented pages. It's easy to add your own logos and text to...

MAXUM DEVELOPMENT SHIPS PAGESENTRY AND PAGESENTRY PRO - NOW MONITORING ALL YOUR INTERNET SERVERS Streamwood, Illinois, September 30, 1996 - Maxum Development Corporation, a leading developer of Macintosh Web server add-on tools, this week shipped its upgrade to PageSentry Pro and a new product PageSentry. Maxum's line of Internet server monitors allow customers to maintain reliable Internet services seven days a week, 24 hours a day. In addition to Web site monitoring, PageSentry 2.0 and PageSentry Pro 2.0, now provide monitoring for FTP, SMTP (e-mail), DNS, and Telnet services as well. PageSentry and PageSentry Pro use these high-level client services to test the whole server operation, not just the low-level networking functions. PageSentry Pro now allows the addition of 100 Sentries to monitor large enterprise sites and Internet Services Providers. PageSentry is designed to meet the needs of departmental or small enterprise server monitoring. "This version has been almost a...