Year: 1997

Pictorius Incorporated Closes $3.5 Million Financing Deal

Secured Financing Allows Pictorius to Expand Markets and Continue to Grow

Friday August 20, 1997 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – Pictorius
Incorporated, has announced the initial closing of $3.5 million dollars of
a $6 million dollar offering by way of a confidential offering memorandum.

In connection with the Offering, the Company has signed a financing
agreement with McLean Watson SOFTECH Fund. This Fund invests exclusively in
leading private software companies.

Stairways releases StreamWatcher 1.0

Perth, Western Australia — 15 August 1997 — Stairways Software, Pty Ltd,
today announced the release of version 1.0 of StreamWatcher, an Open
Transport TCP Stream debugging utility.

What is StreamWatcher?

StreamWatcher allows you to examine the data transmitted through Open
Transport TCP streams.

Fog City has extended the special $95 price for LetterRip for one more week
good through August 23, 1997.

Download a fully functional copy of LetterRip from:

(http://www.fogcity.com/lr_download.html)

To all Webmasters and Webmaster wannabes:

WebTen 1.1, Tenon’s new Apache Web server, is available for a limited time
)from DevDepot at the special price of $350. To order, point your
browser at:

(http://www.devdepot.com/SBDisplayItem.qry?ItemCode=SWEBTEN)

To read about WebTen and to download a copy for testing, see:

(http://www.tenon.com/products/webten/)

According to Ziff Davis, Tenon’s Apache Web server is the fastest Web
server for Macintosh. In the typical 4 -12 client range, WebTen is three
times faster than WebSTAR!

Jasik Designs posted the latest versions of it’s product:
‘The Debugger & MacNosy’ on it’s ftp site.

It also e-mailed out notices to all registered users.

If you did NOT recieve an update notice from Jasik, then you should e-mail
Jasik at mailto:macnosy@jasik.com with you name, address and current e-mail
address.

The update consists of the release notes, The Debugger, NosyII and a newer
xDbgr_Startup (better error messages).

This version of The Debugger is compatable with MacOS 8, and the recently
released ‘Speedbump’ Macintoshes and upcoming CHRP boxes.

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