Author: mactech

Macworld Magazine and MacTech magazine have just made the below
announcement. As a developer, you’ll want to take special note of the new
developer part of these awards.

Stepwise and P & L Systems announce availability of OpenUp.app for Rhapsody

Waterloo, Ontario, Dec 10 1997 — Scott Anguish of the Stepwise
Rhapsody/OpenStep Information Server today announced the immediate
availability of OpenUp.app for Apple’s new Rhapsody operating system.

OpenUp allows a user to double-click on compressed and archived files and
have them open in the Workspace without having to resort to the
command-line tools gnutar and gunzip.

Alphabetas Announces Holiday Price Savings

The CFO of Alphabetas, Inc., Dwight Ludvigson, announced Thursday (Dec.11
1997) that they would be offering considerable savings (up to 50% off)
their Beta-Test cycles to selected lists members and key parts of the
Macintosh developement community.

Alphabetas, Inc. is a company established just this year made up of skilled
technical and creative people in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area. Most of the
testing they have finished is Game-centric, although they do admit to
having thoroughly tested business and home use applications.

I hope you will all find the following information of use. Iceni are a UK
company, specializing in PDF tools, and we have announced the “GENUS” range
of Adobe Plug-In’s for Exchange 3.0 that will allow you to generate HTML
)from PDF documents, automatically…

XMAS OFFER……IF I MANAGE TO GET THESE BLOODY REINDEER OUT OF THE
OFFICE…………

We would like to extend a special early Xmas offer to all the readers of
MacDev. If you purchase the products before the 31st of December we would
like to offer you a 20% discount.

VRML Consortium and 3D Design Magazine Organize VRML Contest

San Ramon, CA — December 10, 1997 — The VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling
Language) Consortium today announced that it is sponsoring a VRML contest
in collaboration with 3D Design Magazine, an industry recognized source for
3D graphics news and information.