Brand: MacNews

IDG World Expo today announced that more than 200 companies have signed up to exhibit at Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco 2002 in January. The press release also includes an overview of some of the other highlights of the Expo.

Apple’s Hot News page notes an article in Wired extolling the virtues of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X — released today. The article reads in part “…

A new company based in the south of France named Sockho has been created by Thierry Bucco and his brother. They are devoted to Mac OS X development and have released a new search utility called SockhoEasyFind. SockhoEasyFind simultaneously searches six popular search engines using the language of your choice — French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Danish and Norwegian.

Discreet has released Cleaner 5.1, an update to the video editing/optimization software formerly from Media 100. The new version includes the latest codecs for Sorenson Media, Real Systems, and Microsoft Windows Media; 2-pass VBR support for Sorenson Video 3 Professional; support for RealSystem 8.5.1; improved reading of .AVI sources; and higher performance MPEG output. Cleaner sells for US$559.95.

ScriptPerfection Enterprises has released Power Tracker, a hybrid (Mac/Windows) software package designed to help writers keep track of their manuscripts from original idea through the submission process. While helping writers stay on top of submissions, pitches, follow-ups, writing expenses, project research, outlines and drafts, Power Tracker also includes current names, addresses and phone numbers for over 5,000 producers, development executives, actors, agents and more from FilmTracker’s InfoSource database.