Year: 1999

For Immediate Release

MACROMEDIA BRINGS ABILITY TO EXPORT FLASH WEB CONTENT TO ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
USERS

Macromedia Flash Writer Lets Adobe Illustrator Users Natively Publish
Vector Content to the Internet Using Flash Industry Standard

Seybold San Francisco 99 – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 30, 1999 —
Macromedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: MACR) today announced Macromedia Flash Writer, a
free downloadable plug-in for Adobe Illustrator, which will enable
Illustrator users to save their artwork natively to the Flash Player file
format (SWF).

Beaufort, SC – August 30, 1999 – Always Thinking, Inc. proudly announces
the release of Thinking Home 1.0!

Imagine writing an AppleScript that turns on the coffee maker — something
like:

tell application “Thinking Home”
turn on the “coffee maker”
end tell

Or just talk to your Mac: “Turn on the coffee maker”. You can do it today!

Thinking Home is nothing less than the best application for working with
inexpensive X-10 (home automation) computer interfaces, including the new
FireCracker.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Farallon Ships SkyLINE(tm) Wireless PC Card for Cross-Platform Networking

802.11 Wireless Connectivity for Macintosh PowerBooks & PC Notebooks

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. August 30th, 1999 – Farallon Communications, Inc.,
developer of reliable, plug-and-play networking solutions for Macs and PCs,
ships SkyLINE Wireless PC Card for portable computers.

Elgrande.com
The New Face of E-commerce

Story Elements:

The First “Disintermediator”

Elgrande.com (http://www.elgrande.com) is the first of a new e-commerce
category, the first true “disintermediator”.

TRipp Lite announces industry’s first Full-Feature UPS management software
for the macintosh platform

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chicago, IL (August 30, 1999)*Tripp Lite, a leading manufacturer of power
protection products, introduces the first UPS management software developed
exclusively to provide full-feature UPS management and control for Apple
Macintosh computers.

Tripp Lite’s PowerAlert Software for Macintosh will allow users to view
operating conditions, load, capacity and other vital UPS information in an
easy-to-read graphical interface.