For Immediate Release -------------------------------------------------------------- M e d i a B u l l e t i n -------------------------------------------------------------- Tools Plus Tames the Toolbox ```````````````````````````` OAKVILLE, Ontario--August 16, 1996--Macintosh developers have reason to celebrate as Water's Edge Software unveils version 3.1 of Tools Plus application development libraries. The newest edition now facilitates resource-based programming, a boon for Macintosh developers who have been toiling with the convoluted and limited Dialog Manager since the Macintosh originally debuted in 1984. The founding principle of Tools Plus is to let developers create any part of their application's user interface with a single line of simple C, C++ or Pascal code. Once created, these elements work without the need for support code, resource templates or event management. Identical benefits now extend to developers who, out of preference or necessity,...

Formation of Macintosh Internet Developers Association (MIDAS) Announced at MacWorld Group to Act as Clearinghouse for Macintosh Internet Client, Content and Server Standards Boston, MA August 7, 1996 --MacWorld-- A consortium of Internet software developers for the Macintosh, representing the entire spectrum of commercial, independent, and educational developers, announced the formation of the Macintosh Internet Developers' Association (MIDAS) at MacWorld Boston. Among the members of MIDAS are Akimbo Systems, Aladdin Systems, Apple Computer, Inc., BareBones Software, Inc., ClearWay Technologies, Cornell University, InterCon Systems, Maxum Development, Microsoft Corporation, Netscape Communications Corporation, Purity Software, ResNova Software, Stairways Software, the StarNine division of Quarterdeck Corporation, and Userland Software. THE CHARTER The charter of MIDAS calls for a forum in which Macintosh developers devise and refine standards and techniques for Mac-based Internet...

MAXUM DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCES UPGRADE TO PAGESENTRY - NOW MONITORING ALL INTERNET SERVERS MacWorld, Boston, Massachusetts, August 7, 1996 - Maxum Development Corporation, a leading developer of Macintosh Web server add-on tools, announces an upgrade to PageSentry, the Internet server monitor which allows network administrators to maintain reliable sites on the Internet. In addition to Web site monitoring, the latest version, PageSentry 2.0, now provides monitoring for FTP, SMTP (e-mail), DNS, and Telnet services as well. PageSentry uses these high-level client services to test the whole server, not just the low-level networking functions. "PageSentry 2.0 has been almost a complete rewrite of the earlier versions," says Michael Clark, Director of Engineering for Maxum Development. "We have tried to anticipate all possible concerns of the system administrator, including a more intuitive interface and tremendous flexibility in configuration." Providing visitors with reliable seven days a...

MAXUM DEVELOPMENT SHIPS UPGRADES TO POPULAR WEB TOOLS WITH SUPPORT FOR WEBSTAR PLUG-INS MacWorld, Boston, Massachusetts, August 7, 1996 - Maxum Development Corporation, a leading developer of Macintosh Web server tools, announced upgrades to two of its popular Web server tools, NetCloak and WebLock. The key feature of these new versions, NetCloak 2.1 and WebLock 1.1, is support for Quarterdeck's WebSTAR Plug-In architecture. Both products now support the W*API (WebSTAR Application Program Interface) and offer substantially improved performance over CGI (Common Gateway Interface) versions. Betas for both products have been available for downloading since the day of the W*API announcement. Also, both products now provide tighter integration and stability, and maintenance and configuration are easier than ever before. "Maxum was the first commercial developer to announce support for the W*API standard and their results are awesome. NetCloak is the perfect example of a Web server add-...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Cynthia Fray Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4758 cynthia@metrowerks.com METROWERKS ANNOUNCES CORPORATE REORGANIZATION Growth and Expanding Product Line Leads to Establishment of Japanese and Silicon Valley Offices and Company Management Additions AUSTIN, Texas-August 6, 1996- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ:MTWKF, TSE/MSE: MWK) today announced a new corporate organization. Since January, 1994, Metrowerks has become the leading vendor of MacOS-hosted programming tools in the world, and in the past 12 months, the company has announced new products for the embedded systems and Windows95/NT markets. In order to capitalize on these new market opportunities, Metrowerks will open two new offices, in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, and expand and realign its senior management team. Given the role of the major Japanese consumer electronics companies in the embedded systems market and the fact that over 10% of the company's current registered user base is in Japan, Metrowerks...

Mark your calendar for WebEdge 4 !! WebEdge, Inc. will continue it's series of conferences for Macintosh Web Developers and Webmasters on September 9-11, 1996 in Austin, Texas. In tradition with past conferences, WebEdge 4 will bring the newest and latest in web technologies to those wanting to further enhance their knowledge of development tools available. Presenting these ideas will be some of the world's leading Macintosh experts. WebEdge IV will be a three day conference that will bring together many of the top WebMaster and Web Developers for classes and third party demonstrations of Macintosh World Wide Web technologies. Special emphasis this year will be on "solution-oriented" sessions with over 75 PowerMacs being brought in for hands-on sessions as well as a "hack room" made readily accessible throughout the conference. Classroom sessions, product demonstrations, panel discussions, and a vendor fair will also be included in the agenda. Finally, the schedule has been...

For Immediate Release **2.0 Release on Schedule** Vancouver, Washington DataPak Software's (DSI) popular cross-platform text control, PAIGE, is on schedule for a 2.0 release in early July. Used by developers to add powerful text processing features, such as styles, tabs, paragraph formatting, multiple columns, etc., the 2.0 version promises to deliver several new features that have been requested by licensed users of the technology. The new import/export feature ships with a RTF translator and gives clients the ability to build their own translators for HTML, SGML or proprietary standards like MS Word, WordPerfect, MacWrite, etc.. Unicode compatibility for software localization, drag and drop, full MFC and OLE support are all new with this release. In addition PAIGE will ship on CD and will include a fully searchable electronic version of the product documentation. A beta version of the 2.0 release was distributed to several source code clients in early May for testing. "So far...

For Immediate Release From: Delta Tech Inc. Contact: Dr. Stephen Bryen Voice: (301) 588-4683 Fax: (301) 587-9200 Email: deltaone@radix.net New Software Will Help Speed Transactions on the Internet A new software from Israel will help speed transaction on the Internet by making it faster and easier to update programs, pictures, databases and other files. Call Update It! the software works in a different way than traditional compression. Compression tries to reduce the size of a file by using algorithms that look for recurrent patterns. Update It! works by comparing an original and an updated file, and extracting the difference between the two --called the "Delta." The Delta file is sent as the update file, and when received it is combined with the original. The software can be customized. While the Update It! software engine works effectively with most files, the program can be optimized for certain applications. For example, it is in use in Israel in the...

NEWS RELEASE... For further information, contact: Shari Worthington, Executive Director (508) 755-5242 4th Annual Conference on Scientific & Engineering Applications of the Macintosh Goes Electronic MacSciTech's SEAM'97 will take place on the World Wide Web Worcester, MA. The MacSciTech Association today announced that it will host the Fourth Annual Conference on Scientific and Engineering Applications of the Macintosh (SEAM) in January 1997. Scheduled to run from January 3 to 31, 1997, this year's conference will be the first to take place electronically, via the Association's World Wide Web site, http://www.macscitech.org/. Officially dubbed, eSEAM'97, the conference will cover applications of the Macintosh in many fields of science, engineering, and medicine. Sessions will address functional and practical applications, including: Multimedia in technical presentations, Software development for scientists and engineers, Application automation with scripting, Internet in...

A side note: Both the MacTech banner ad system and the DevDepot online shopping basket are built on top of EveryWare's Tango/Butler combination... Neil ------------------------------------------------------- Press Contact: Jeff Hendry Marketing Associate 905-819-1173 ext. 262 jhendry@everyware.com EveryWare ships Butler SQL 2.0 Butler SQL, now accessible via ODBC and bundled with CLEAR:Access from Sterling Software Inc. San Jose, CA-- May 13, 1996 -- EveryWare Development Corp. announced the immediate availability of Butler SQL version 2.0, their client/server SQL database for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh. Unlike other client/server databases, which lock you into proprietary APIs and front-ends, Butler SQL is based on open-standards: the Data Access Manager (DAM), ANSI SQL and the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard. This gives users choice and flexibility when selecting front-end applications used to manage and query back-end databases. Butler SQL has been optimized for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Kathleen Quirk Powersoft 508.287.1500 kquirk@powersoft.com Robert Beauregard Lois Paul & Partners 617.238.5704 rob_beauregard@lpp.com Cynthia Fray Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4758 cynthia@metrowerks.com David Perkins Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4744 perkins@metrowerks.com POWERSOFT TO INTEGRATE METROWERKS COMPILERS WITH POWERBUILDER ENTERPRISE 5.0 FOR MACINTOSH Metrowerks to Provide Optimized Compiler Technology for Client/Server Application Development CONCORD, Mass., and AUSTIN, Texas-July 29, 1996-Powersoft(R) and Metrowerks(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF, TSE/MSE: MWK) today announced an open agreement enabling Powersoft to license a special version of Metrowerks' CodeWarrior(R) C/C++ compilers and linkers. Under terms of the agreement, the tools will be shipped as shared libraries in PowerBuilder(R), thereby becoming an integral part of the PowerBuilder code generation engine for the Macintosh(R) platform. Metrowerks will supply components for 68K...

For Immediate Release Contact: Larry Luke lluke@spii.com http://www.spii.com Software Products International, Inc. 6620 Flanders Drive San Diego, CA 92121-2976 TEL: 619-450-1526 FAX: 619-450-1921 URL: http://www.spii.com SPI Announces Release Of WorldDoc Create Web Pages without HTML Editing San Diego, CA - July 26, 1996 - Software Products International, Inc. today announced the release of WorldDoc (TM), its eagerly-awaited Web page layout program. WorldDoc makes it possible for anyone to create and publish documents on the Web using its unique point-and-click interface without having to learn the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). WorldDoc is unique among Web page authoring tools because it gives users a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) view of their pages, presenting them as they will actually appear on the Web. A previous generation of tools-so-called HTML editors-generate HTML code in a text window without showing the resulting page. Users of these products are...

QKS is pleased to announce that SmalltalkAgents 2.1, a netborne update, is now available. The installer is available for downloading from our FTP site at: (ftp://ftp.qks.com//ftp/2.1update/) [If you would like to mirror the update, please drop me a note. We'd especially appreciate help mirroring this in Europe and the Pacific Rim. Our web site (http://www.qks.com) will have a list of the latest available download sites.] We'd like to highlight some of the new features included in this release. Code Fragment Manager SmalltalkAgents 2.1 now supports the Code Fragment Manager (CFM). We are excited about this important milestone for QKS and SmalltalkAgents. This feature provides direct access to native PowerPC code libraries. Not only can you more easily call code written in other languages, you can also take full advantage of the increasing variety of libraries available from Apple and third parties. In addition, QKS has also incorporated CFM-68K support. This unifies and...

As you know, you've gotten a handful of e-mails from MacDev-1 regarding Mac OS development news. The original list for MacDev-1 was seeded with press and influence makers names drawn from companies all over the community. It was never the intention to send MacDev-1 msgs to any mailing list -- that would be poor netiquette. It took us a bit to figure this one out because only one person was complaining (that we know of). But, in the end, he shed some very useful light on it being the tools-hackers address that was the recipient. That address will be removed later this morning (when I get into the office). You shouldn't receive any more MacDev-1 messages through tools-hackers -- but if you do, let us know (there must be another address). If you are interested in continuing to find out about Mac OS news, you will need to subscribe to MacDev-1 individually. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send e-mail to: macjordomo@listmail.xplain.com with sub MacDev-1 yourname in the body of the...

FOR IMMEDIATTE RELEASE For information contact: Hillel Cooperman, Natural Intelligence, (617) 876-7680 x1221, mail to: coop@natural.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cambridge, MA: To provide users more time to evaluate Roaster(tm) and provide feedback, Natural Intelligence is shipping a prerelease version of what will be Roaster Release 1, the first environment for developing in Sun(tm) Microsystems' Java(tm) programming language on the Macintosh(r), on May 13th at Apple(r)'s WorldWide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California. Owners of Developer Release 1 and those who purchase a subscription now will receive this version, called Developer Release 2, as well as Roaster Releases 1 and 2. Roaster DR2 feature set Roaster DR2 has many new additions to the DR1 environment, including: * 68K support * fully integrated browser and class tree * full AppleScript(tm) support, plus AppleScript class wizard that guides you through...

As you know, you've gotten some e-mails from MacDev-1 regarding Mac OS development news. The original list for MacDev-1 was seeded with press and influence makers names drawn from companies all over the community. It was never the intention to send MacDev-1 msgs to any mailing list -- that would be poor netiquette. We humbly apologize for this error. While this message does confirm that your list address has been removed from the list, it is possible that you will get other messages if they were sent out before now. You shouldn't receive any more MacDev-1 messages through this list -- but if you do, let us know (there must be another address). If you are interested in continuing to find out about Mac OS news, you will need to subscribe to MacDev-1 individually. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send e-mail to: macjordomo@listmail.xplain.com with sub MacDev-1 yourname in the body of the message. We thank you for your understanding in this matter -- and we hope to see you subscribe...

As you know, we launched MacDev-1 in Mid-May and you've been getting some interesting information on Macintosh Development issues, tools and announcements. But, we were not expecting the overwhelming success of the list. With now thousands of people reading MacDev-1, we came within hundreds (of subscribers) of hard limits on our server. As a result, We have recently changed the software which hosts the MacDev-1 mailing list. And thanks to the folks at StarNine/QuarterDeck (the makers of ListSTAR), we're moving forward again with this growing list. This changeover affects the commands which are used. We believe we have successfully migrated all users from the prior package. Below are some answers to questions we anticipate you may have. Remember, anyone that you know of interested in news for the Mac OS developer should subscribe to this list. Tell a friend! Put it on your web site! Thanks, Neil Ticktin MacTech Magazine publisher@mactech.com http://www.mactech.com...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Neha Mirchandani Stirling & Cohan, Inc. 415.513.0989 neham@s-c.com Cynthia Fray Metrowerks, Inc. 512.873.4758 cynthia@metrowerks.com METROWERKS SHIPS MW CODEMANAGER VERSION DR2 Metrowerks Enhances Source Code Management System for Macintosh AUSTIN, Texas-July 1, 1996-Metrowerks(R), Inc. (TSE,ME:MWK) today announced that a new version of MW CodeManager, a cross-platform source code control system for the Macintosh(R), is now shipping. Based on and compatible with Microsoft(R)Visual SourceSafe(TM) version 4.0a, MW CodeManager DR2 offers greater ease in managing complex software development projects. MW CodeManager DR2, designed for use by individual users and large, multi-platform project teams, allows developers to manage millions of lines of code within hundreds of files and easily maintain version control. Consequently, users can shorten project development time and maintain source code security. This new version boasts several new...

We got the connection between Java and Frontier working today. (http://www.scripting.com/goodies/java.html) What's next? You tell us. CGIs written in Java? Why not! Does AppleScript connect thru this channel? Absolutely. You can reach both ways, Java apps can now connect to features of the Mac OS thru Frontier's runtime environment and object database; and Frontier scripts can connect to software written, and coming soon, written in Java. The doorway to the future! It's heavy. It's fun. Go get em! Ye-aaaah. Dave Winer

Contact: Dean Dahlgren Phone: (708) 830-1113 Fax: (708) 830-1262 dean@maxum.com Mactivity Booth #319 For Immediate Release Maxum Development Upgrades NetForms to Version 2.0, Adding Greater Flexibility to HTML Forms Processing Mactivity, San Jose, CA., July 14, 1996 -- Maxum Development, a leading developer of commercial World Wide Web server tools, today announced it is shipping an upgraded version of its popular Web server add-on application, NetForms. NetForms is the Web server "back-end" that allows Webmasters to easily process information entered by visitors to create completely interactive Web sites. NetForms can take user submitted information and create a new HTML page, send an e-mail message, insert text into an existing page, and store the data for later processing by virtually any application (including databases, spreadsheets, text-processors, etc.). NetForms provides all these capabilities while keeping the Webmaster in complete control of their site. NetForms 2.0...

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The Return of Nisus Software's QUED/M. The Saga Continues! SOLANA BEACH, CA, Nisus Software Inc. releases QUED/M 3.0. Oh so many years ago there was just one choice when it came to editing code or large amounts of text on the Macintosh...QUED/M. But then it faded away in sea of competition. With the release of version 3.0, users and reviewers acclaim that QUED/M is back and is better than ever. The text editor that dominated the 1980's is revived and ready to take the lead with innovative features such as Unlimited Undos, Color Coding, GREP Find, Macro Programming Dialect and Noncontiguous Selection. QUED/M targets not only programmers but anyone who needs a fast, versatile, and powerful program that can handle volumes of text. Users can speed-search closed files, opening only the ones that contain what you are looking for. With one command, QUED/M can combine two or three versions of the same file and mark the differences automatically. The upgrade price of QUED/M 3.0 is just $49.00...

Web Broadcasting Co. releases WEB FM 2.0v3 update for FileMaker Pro 3.0. Palo Alto, CA -- Web Broadcasting Co. has announced availability of the version 3 update for WEB FM 2.0, a full-featured common gateway interface (CGI) that links Claris Corp's FileMaker Pro 3.0 databases with Quarterdeck Corp's WebSTAR world-wide web server software for Mac OS. WEB FM allows you to quickly and easily put a web interface on your existing FileMaker Pro 3.0 databases, or add forms and database processing to your existing web broadcasting station. Empowering Dynamic Internet and Intranet Web Sites WEB FM 2.0v3 provides FileMaker Pro customers with an easy to use and powerful tool for creating dynamic web-based solutions for the Internet and Intranet such as: * Product & pricing catalogs * Membership directories * Event registrations * Online Surveys * Order Processing WEB FM enables FileMaker Pro customers to easily build dymanic web-sites without the complexity of CGI programming. HTML fill-out...

Apple Launches ATM Developers Program Aimed at Increasing Availability of High-Speed ATM Networks for Multimedia Applications MACTIVITY, SAN JOSE, California--July 16, 1996--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced the ATM Application Jump Start Program, aimed at promoting and facilitating development of applications that take advantage of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) features such as Quality of Service guarantees and scalability in both speed and distance. For a $7,500 licensing fee, a limited number of developers will receive a package that includes a development license to Apple ATM Middleware, designed to help accelerate ATM solutions development by providing compatibility to the Mac OS, in addition to signaling modules, LAN emulation, classical IP (Internet Protocol) and an intuitive user interface. Recognizing the superior multimedia data handling capabilities offered by ATM networks, Apple's participation in ATM has progressed from a research and technology emphasis to offering...