Year: 1997

INSIDER UPDATES 2 NOW AVAILABLE
SIGNIFICANT FUNCTIONALITY AND IMPROVED INTERFACE ADDED TO MACINTOSH
SOFTWARE UPDATER

Insider Software today announced the availability of Insider Updates 2, a
release that adds significant functionality and usability features to the
leading Macintosh software-updating product. The new version uses smarter
approaches for both determining which updaters users need to bring their
Macintosh software up-to-date with the most current developer releases, as
well as improved methods for determining when new updaters become available
on the Internet.

From: quinn@quinn.echidna.id.au (Quinn)
Subject: Announce: Internet Config 1.4

The Internet Configuration System
— Making Macintosh Internet Activity Easier

Internet Config is an application that allows you to set Internet
preferences in one place and have them read my any other “IC aware”
application. Internet Config is supported by many Mac OS Internet
applications, including NewsWatcher, Anarchie, Fetch, and Internet Explorer.

It is my pleasure to announce the release of Internet Config 1.4.

Be, Inc. names Heidi Roizen to Board of Directors

Menlo Park, CA (September 23, 1997) – Be, Inc. has named Heidi Roizen to
its Board of Directors.

Heidi Roizen is an accomplished executive with fifteen years of senior
management experience in the computer industry. She serves on the Board of
Directors of Great Plains Software (Nasdaq:GPSI), and is a Public Governor
of the Pacific Exchange. Her most recent executive position was as the vice
president of Worldwide Developer Relations for Apple Computer, which she
left in February of this year.

AIMED Conducts a series of polls for the Mac developer community!

Los Angeles, CA — September 23, 1997 — AIMED, the Association of
Independent Macintosh Engineers and Developers, is conducting a series of
polls to collect data that it’s developer membership can use to chart their
Macintosh development efforts. The information the three polls gathers has
been requested by AIMED members and is intended to gather information from
the developer community on the following topics, State of Macintosh
Development, Rhapsody, and Clone/CHRP issues.

New utility extends Mac OS 8 Contextual Menus

September 17, 1997 – Limassol, Cyprus – Annoyed that you have to press the
Control key to open Contextual Menus? “Look Mom, No Hands!”, Tools & Toys’
newest shareware utility, lets you open Contextual Menus by just holding
down the mouse button, and leaves your other hand free for the coffee cup.
This handy US$ 9 software requires less than 10K of RAM, installs in less
than a minute, and is definitely a must for every Mac OS 8 lover!