MacWEEK articles from August 1998

MacWEEK archives from August 1998

Digimarc enhances watermarking scheme.(Digimarc Batch Embedder)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Digimarc Corp. is preparing to expand the scope of its digital-watermarking technology. The company this week will release a batch embedder and debut a new type of user ID that routes Web surfers to a specified destination. The company also...

FileMaker upgrade to gain ODBC hooks.(FileMaker Pro 4.1)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... FileMaker Pro will be able to play on the field with enterprise-level databases when it gains support for Open Database Connectivity in its next release, sources said. Code-named Slyder, Version 4.1 of the database software from FileMaker Inc....

G3 Macs due for boost.(Apple Power Mac G3/366)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Apple midmonth will revamp its Power Mac G3 series, shifting speeds up a notch or two. Sources said the systems will include new G3 processors running at 333 and 366 MHz. While it made no mention of Apple's plans, Motorola Inc.'s Austin,...

Mail bug buzzes Mac.(Microsoft's Outlook Express 4.x and Outlook 98) (Product Information)
August 3, 1998... Microsoft patches Outlook Express Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. last week rushed to patch a security loophole in their e-mail software that allows malicious code to be sent via mail attachments. Meanwhile, several other...

QuickTime still on top, but MS makes inroads.(Microsoft) (Company Business and Marketing)
August 3, 1998... After years of playing second fiddle to Apple's cross-platform QuickTime technology, Microsoft Corp. may have raised the stakes with its latest multimedia offering. At Siggraph 98, Microsoft introduced Chromeffects, a new technology that...

Mac news more often: Find it online.(MacWEEK.com)(Directory)
August 3, 1998... eMediaweekly will debut on these pages in three weeks, but the Mac news won't wait. Apple is expected to announce superfast 366-MHz Power Macs on Aug. 12, and three days later the revolutionary iMac will reach store shelves. If you don't have...

Newer RenderPIX cards do OpenGL.(Newer Technology Inc.) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 3, 1998... Newer Technology Inc. last week released a beta version of a driver that adds OpenGL support to its RenderPIX 500 and 502 QuickDraw 3D accelerator boards. In addition, the company said that it will cut the prices of the cards. With the new...

Open Door utility to protect servers.(Open Door Networks Inc.'s DoorStop)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Open Door Networks Inc. this week will post a beta version of DoorStop, its new software for creating TCP/IP connection filters. Designed as a security tool for use with Open Door's ShareWay IP as well as AppleShare IP and StarNine WebStar,...

The Summer Blockbuster.(computer bug alter)(Editorial)
August 3, 1998... Like the finale of the big summer movie "Armageddon," the Mac world dodged a bullet last week. But instead of an extraterrestrial object, the threat was an e-mail letter bomb. Security watchdogs discovered MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail...

Vendors ready faster G3 cards. (Industry Trend or Event)
August 3, 1998... Following the announcement last week of new versions of the G3 processor, third-party card vendors were quick to endorse the speedier chips for their upgrade lines. Mactell Corp. and PowerLogix R&D Inc., both based in Austin, Texas; XLR8, a...

Alien Skin plug-in to add wrinkles to Photoshop.(Alien Skin Software)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Alien Skin Software LLC at July's Siggraph 98 showcased Xenofex 1.0, a new effects plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and other image editing applications. Xenofex, due by the end of October for $129, will comprise 16 filters, each with at least 10...

AppleShare Client 3.8 hits.(Apple Computer)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Apple last week posted AppleShare Client 3.8, which offers a new User Authentication Module interface. Apple said the new interface is transport-independent and lets User Authentication Modules connect to servers using AppleTalk Filing...

AT&T Labs thinks compression.(AT&T Labs's DjVu imaging software)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... DjVu technology aims at the Web AT&T Labs (formerly Bell Laboratories) in July offered a new image compression scheme. The technology, called DjVu (pronounced deja vu), is designed to display high-resolution color images of scanned text at a...

Farallon preps LocalTalk adapter for iMac.(EtherMac iPrint Adapter LT)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Dual-speed hub added to line Aiming to get iMacs working on education networks, Farallon last week unveiled a new Ethernet-to-LocalTalk adapter. Slated for a September release, the company said the $99 EtherMac iPrint Adapter LT will let...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
August 3, 1998... Photoshop defaults no fault Adobe Systems Inc. finally reasserts Photoshop as a professional's tool for color management, and people are whining about how it's too complicated. What a wonderful opportunity Adobe has offered us to standardize...

300 PageMaker Templates.(Logic Arts Corp. shipped PrePage Templates for AdobePageMaker)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 3, 1998... Logic Arts Corp. last week shipped PrePage Templates for Adobe PageMaker, a $99 CD-ROM collection of 300 design templates. Categories include Advertisements, Announcements, Brochures & Flyers, Calendars & Forms, Direct Mail & Postcards,...

Agfa-Gevaert buys Monotype: Type library is world's largest.(Agfa-Gevaert Group, Monotype Typography Inc.) (Company Business and Marketing)
August 3, 1998... The Agfa-Gevaert Group, a division of Bayer AG, last month acquired Monotype Typography Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Ill. Terms of the deal were not made public. One of the oldest companies in the typography market, Monotype said it has the...

Compose to debut PDF work flow at Seybold.(Compose Systems Inc. unveiles NetFlow)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Compose Systems Inc. recently unveiled NetFlow, its forthcoming PDF work flow. Due for a September rollout at Seybold San Francisco/Publishing 98, NetFlow will let users connect multiple large-format inkjet printers, color copiers and...

DuoScan T2000 XL is flexible and fast.(Agfa DuoScan T2000 XL)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Dual-lens setup creates two scanners in one Graphics professionals looking for a high-end, large-format scanner will find that the DuoScan T2000 XL has a lot to offer. A souped-up version of the excellent letter-size DuoScan from Agfa, a...

New XTensions proliferate.(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... This month three companies announced Quark XTensions to add database, image-placement, automation and mail-merge capabilities to QuarkXPress. Treasure Pro from Jintek, due in the third quarter, creates image and text databases from folders or...

PostScript accelerator gets update. (Productive Intelligence shipped TurboPS! Version 2.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 3, 1998... Productive Intelligence Inc. in July shipped TurboPS! Version 2.0, which gains Mac OS 8 and QuarkXPress 4.0 compatibility. TurboPS! is a control panel that speeds the saving of PostScript files from XPress and Adobe Illustrator to disk. The...

sRGB as standard: The bandwagon is out of control. (Technology Information)(Editorial)
August 3, 1998... In a recent MacWEEK review, I castigated Nikon Inc. for releasing scanner software that (among other flaws) defaulted to producing output in the sRGB color space. I still think that it's a bad idea, but I've since learned that vendors of scanners...

Boris FX 3.5 adds time-line control.(Artel Software Inc.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Artel Software Inc. in July updated Boris FX, its effects plug-in for nonlinear digital editing systems, to Version 3.5. The company also discussed plans for Version 4.0, due this fall. Boris FX 3.5 works with editing systems such as Avid...

Canon's Vistura DV to zoom into market.(Canon U.S.A. Inc. Vistura DV, digital camcorder)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Canon U.S.A. Inc. last week announced the Vistura DV, a new digital camcorder that will come with a 16x optical zoom lens and the company's new Shift Optical Image Stabilization System. The Vistura DV, due in September for $1,999, will capture...

Heuris updates MPEG line.(Heuris Logic Corp.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Heuris Logic Corp. at July's Siggraph show rolled out two new MPEG products and cut prices on its MPEG Power Professional line. The company this month will ship MPEG Power Professional-Transport, a $5,000, software-based MPEG encoding package...

Premiere to get real.(Adobe Systems Inc.) (Company Business and Marketing)
August 3, 1998... Adobe preps real-time effects for Mac Adobe Systems Inc. last week said it is working with third-party hardware vendors to bring Adobe Premiere with real-time effects to the Mac. "It is simply a matter of time until we have a real-time...

Scitex's Sphere 2.0 supports digital TV.(Scitex Digital Video Inc.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Scitex Digital Video Inc. has added support for the digital TV wide-screen format to its line of Sphere editing and compositing workstations. Released in July, Version 2.0 of the Sphere software is the first update Scitex has charged money...

Component beefs up FileFlex database engine.(Component Enterprises Inc.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Component Enterprises Inc. entered its FileFlex relational database engine into a new field when it shipped Version 3.0 in July. The company's flagship product, FileFlex is a cross-platform Macromedia Director plug-in that creates multimedia...

Desktop DVD handles DVD-Video.(Sonic Solutions and Adaptec Inc., DesktopDVD 1.0.1) (Company Business and Marketing)
August 3, 1998... Adaptec, Sonic team for DVD Sonic Solutions and Adaptec Inc. have blended their Digital Video Disc offerings to create an integrated production system for business users. The result, DesktopDVD 1.0.1, shipped in late July. The Toast DVD...

Alder to manage FM DBs via Web.(Digital.forest Inc. announces Alder 2.5)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Digital.forest Inc. in July announced Alder 2.5, a utility for remotely administering FileMaker Pro databases running on Web servers. Due by mid-August, the package will let Web administrators move, open and close FileMaker databases using a...

BIAP Chat update speaks in tongues. (BIAP Systems Inc.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Six languages supported BIAP Systems Inc. will add multilingual chatting to its Internet repertoire this week when it releases BIAP Chat 2.1 and BIAP Chat Pro 2.1. The new versions will let users chat in multiple languages at once, BIAP...

BoxTop's ProJPEG 3.0 offers dual previews.(BoxTop Software Inc.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... BoxTop Software Inc. in July brought its ProJPEG Web graphics utility to Version 3.0. A plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 3.0 or later, ProJPEG 3.0 sports a revised interface that the company said provides immediate feedback when users edit JPEG...

EveryWare will dance Tango to 3.5.(EveryWare Development Inc.)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 3, 1998... EveryWare Development Inc. in July said it will soon release a Windows version of Tango 3.5, an update to its Web application development environment. A Mac version will follow in one to two months. The company said Tango 3.5, which it expects...

Fusion 3 supports DHTML, JavaScript.(NetObjects Inc.'s Fusion 3.0)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... App balances design flexibility with management NetObjects Inc.'s Fusion was one of the first Web site editors to let designers create a Web page as they would a print page layout. As HTML has become more sophisticated, so has Fusion: Version...

Tossing pennies into the Mac Internet wishing well.(Editorial)
August 3, 1998... As MacWEEK transmogrifies into eMediaweekly, this column will wrap up after almost three years of examining the Internet through Macintosh-colored glasses. In this final installment, I'd like to present my wish list for Mac Internet development....

Aladdin expands Windows presence.(Aladdin Systems Inc., Aladdin Expander 2.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 3, 1998... Aladdin Systems Inc. in July eased file transfers between Mac OS and Windows machines when it released Version 2.0 of Aladdin Expander, its file decompression utility for Windows. The update, which is Windows 95-, 98- and NT-native, can now...

DAX rolls out three routers for graphics.(Digital Art Exchange Inc.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Digital Art Exchange Inc. recently offered three new routers in its DAX Transport line aimed at graphics sites. Based on Cisco Systems Inc.'s 3600-series modular rackmounted or desktop hardware, the routers come preconfigured for dedicated...

DynaMorph to run on UnixWare 7 OS.(Morph Technologies Inc., DynaMorph 1.7)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 3, 1998... Morph Technologies Inc. in July announced that Version 1.7 of Dyna- Morph, its Web server scripting engine, would support The Santa Cruz Operation Inc.'s UnixWare 7 OS. Available for Mac OS, Windows 95 and NT, and various other flavors of...

OpenGL cards to speed rendering.(3Dlabs' Oxygen RPM 2/64 3-D, Intergraph Computer Systems's Wildcat 3D Graphics Technology)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Two recently announced OpenGL cards promise to boost 3-D performance. 3Dlabs Inc. is preparing its Oxygen RPM 2/64 3-D graphics accelerator card, while Intergraph Computer Systems Inc. rolled out its Wildcat 3D Graphics Technology at July's...

Win 98 venue set for Macromedia tech.(Microsoft Windows 98, Macromedia's Shockwave and Flash) (Product Information)
August 3, 1998... Shockwave, Flash will be part of OS Macromedia Inc. last week announced that its Shockwave and Flash players will be incorporated into Windows 98. The company said the players will be automatically placed on users' machines as part of the...

AutoPhoto ships for Windows.(Desktop Darkroom Inc.)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 3, 1998... Desktop Darkroom Inc. recently released a Windows version of its AutoPhoto 3.1 tools for Adobe Photoshop 5.0. AutoPhoto is a $395 set of Actions that can "package" as many as four images into a template. According to the company, the Actions...

BackPanel. (Question and Answer)
August 3, 1998... Q I want to administer a Windows NT-based server from my Mac. A friend says installing Thursby Software Systems Inc.'s DAVE on the Mac should let me do this. Is he right? A No. DAVE gives the Mac a low-level connection through NetBIOS over...

Where's the beef? Microsoft must do better at Macintosh integration. (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
August 3, 1998... Managers on the Mac and Windows front line, trying to preserve heterogeneous sites as happy places to work, continue to get the short end of the stick. This was signaled clearly at last month's Macworld Expo by interim Apple CEO Steve Jobs' lack...

For best color, designer mixes three platforms.(Calvin Klein) (Company Operations)
August 3, 1998... Color is an essential element of fashion but one that is notoriously difficult to manage on computers. In a cross-platform environment the difficulty increases -- as the folks at Calvin Klein have discovered. Like many corporations, Calvin...

Command secures CD-R software line. (Command Software Systems Inc. acquired GEAR Software Inc.) (Company Business and Marketing)
August 3, 1998... Antivirus software vendor Command Software Systems Inc. acquired GEAR Software Inc. and its CD-Recordable software line, which Command intends to continue and expand with security features. GEAR Software, of Campbell, Calif., was previously known...

DataDirect preps LVD, FC-AL devices.(DataDirect Networks Inc.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Units increase speed, storage DataDirect Networks Inc. raised the level of two of its storage systems at July's Siggraph 98 with Low Voltage Differential and Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop configurations. The MegaDrive E-8 LVD, due Sept. 1,...

Griffin to grant iMacs ADB port.(Griffin Technology Corp.)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... iMate to bring USB to ADB Users of Apple's iMac won't have to toss out their ADB devices in favor of USB versions, thanks to a USB-to-ADB adapter due from Griffin Technology Corp. by midmonth. Meanwhile, Inside Out Networks Inc. this month...

Macintoshes find a place on VPN servers.(TimeStep Corp., Compatible Systems Corp)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Vendors recently rolled out Mac support for virtual private network servers that offer Internet remote access and routing. TimeStep Corp. last week released a $69 Mac client for its Permit Enterprise VPN server, joining versions for Windows 95...

Qdea accelerates TCP/IP transfers.(Qdea Speedshare Professional Edition)(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... Qdea in July released a professional version of its Internet file transfer software that boasts increased speed and unlimited simultaneous user connections. The company said the standard edition of SpeedShare, which was released in January,...

Storage Beat.(Product Announcement)
August 3, 1998... HFS Plus for RAID CharisMac Engineering Inc. of Newcastle, Calif., has released Version 2.0 of its CharisMac RAID utility software. CharisMac RAID Plus adds support for Apple's Mac OS Extended Format, also known as HFS Plus, which decreases...

The more things change, the more we remain the same.(Editorial)
August 3, 1998... A decade is a long time in the life of a person, a computer or a magazine. MacWEEK is about to transform into eMediaweekly after 11 years at the heart of the Macintosh community. The name is new, the layout is new and some of the topics will...

Good Knife, Mrs. Calabash. (Humor)
August 3, 1998... "Fetch the packing tape and strap on the back braces, Brett!" Mac the Knife bellowed in his best Paul Robeson basso profundo. "Today's the big day, and we don't want to leave a single sequin unturned!" Ever since Brett the Intern awoke him...

Digimarc enhances watermarking scheme
August 3, 1998... Digimarc Corp. is preparing to expand the scope of its digital-watermarking technology. The company this week will release a batch embedder and debut a new type of user ID that routes Web surfers to a specified destination. The company also...

FileMaker upgrade to gain ODBC hooks
August 3, 1998... FileMaker Pro will be able to play on the field with enterprise-level databases when it gains support for Open Database Connectivity in its next release, sources said. Code-named Slyder, Version 4.1 of the database software from FileMaker Inc....

G3 Macs due for boost
August 3, 1998... Apple midmonth will revamp its Power Mac G3 series, shifting speeds up a notch or two. Sources said the systems will include new G3 processors running at 333 and 366 MHz. While it made no mention of Apple's plans, Motorola Inc.'s Austin,...

Mail bug buzzes Mac
August 3, 1998... Microsoft patches Outlook Express Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. last week rushed to patch a security loophole in their e-mail software that allows malicious code to be sent via mail attachments. Meanwhile, several other...

QuickTime still on top, but MS makes inroads
August 3, 1998... After years of playing second fiddle to Apple's cross-platform QuickTime technology, Microsoft Corp. may have raised the stakes with its latest multimedia offering. At Siggraph 98, Microsoft introduced Chromeffects, a new technology that...

Newer RenderPIX cards do OpenGL
August 3, 1998... Newer Technology Inc. last week released a beta version of a driver that adds OpenGL support to its RenderPIX 500 and 502 QuickDraw 3D accelerator boards. In addition, the company said that it will cut the prices of the cards. With the new...

Open Door utility to protect servers
August 3, 1998... Open Door Networks Inc. this week will post a beta version of DoorStop, its new software for creating TCP/IP connection filters. Designed as a security tool for use with Open Door's ShareWay IP as well as AppleShare IP and StarNine WebStar,...

Vendors ready faster G3 cards
August 3, 1998... Following the announcement last week of new versions of the G3 processor, third-party card vendors were quick to endorse the speedier chips for their upgrade lines. Mactell Corp. and PowerLogix R&D Inc., both based in Austin, Texas; XLR8, a...

Alien Skin plug-in to add wrinkles to Photoshop
August 3, 1998... Alien Skin Software LLC at July's Siggraph 98 showcased Xenofex 1.0, a new effects plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and other image editing applications. Xenofex, due by the end of October for $129, will comprise 16 filters, each with at least 10...

AppleShare Client 3.8 hits
August 3, 1998... Apple last week posted AppleShare Client 3.8, which offers a new User Authentication Module interface. Apple said the new interface is transport-independent and lets User Authentication Modules connect to servers using AppleTalk Filing...

AT&T Labs thinks compression
August 3, 1998... DjVu technology aims at the Web AT&T Labs (formerly Bell Laboratories) in July offered a new image compression scheme. The technology, called DjVu (pronounced deja vu), is designed to display high-resolution color images of scanned text at a...

Farallon preps LocalTalk adapter for iMac
August 3, 1998... Dual-speed hub added to line Aiming to get iMacs working on education networks, Farallon last week unveiled a new Ethernet-to-LocalTalk adapter. Slated for a September release, the company said the $99 EtherMac iPrint Adapter LT will let...

300 PageMaker Templates
August 3, 1998... Logic Arts Corp. last week shipped PrePage Templates for Adobe PageMaker, a $99 CD-ROM collection of 300 design templates. Categories include Advertisements, Announcements, Brochures & Flyers, Calendars & Forms, Direct Mail & Postcards,...

Agfa-Gevaert buys Monotype: Type library is world's largest
August 3, 1998... The Agfa-Gevaert Group, a division of Bayer AG, last month acquired Monotype Typography Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Ill. Terms of the deal were not made public. One of the oldest companies in the typography market, Monotype said it has the...

Compose to debut PDF work flow at Seybold
August 3, 1998... Compose Systems Inc. recently unveiled NetFlow, its forthcoming PDF work flow. Due for a September rollout at Seybold San Francisco/Publishing 98, NetFlow will let users connect multiple large-format inkjet printers, color copiers and...

DuoScan T2000 XL is flexible and fast
August 3, 1998... Dual-lens setup creates two scanners in one Graphics professionals looking for a high-end, large-format scanner will find that the DuoScan T2000 XL has a lot to offer. A souped-up version of the excellent letter-size DuoScan from Agfa, a...

New XTensions proliferate
August 3, 1998... This month three companies announced Quark XTensions to add database, image-placement, automation and mail-merge capabilities to QuarkXPress. Treasure Pro from Jintek, due in the third quarter, creates image and text databases from folders or...

PostScript accelerator gets update
August 3, 1998... Productive Intelligence Inc. in July shipped TurboPS! Version 2.0, which gains Mac OS 8 and QuarkXPress 4.0 compatibility. TurboPS! is a control panel that speeds the saving of PostScript files from XPress and Adobe Illustrator to disk. The...

sRGB as standard: The bandwagon is out of control
August 3, 1998... In a recent MacWEEK review, I castigated Nikon Inc. for releasing scanner software that (among other flaws) defaulted to producing output in the sRGB color space. I still think that it's a bad idea, but I've since learned that vendors of scanners...

Boris FX 3.5 adds time-line control
August 3, 1998... Artel Software Inc. in July updated Boris FX, its effects plug-in for nonlinear digital editing systems, to Version 3.5. The company also discussed plans for Version 4.0, due this fall. Boris FX 3.5 works with editing systems such as Avid...

Canon's Vistura DV to zoom into market
August 3, 1998... Canon U.S.A. Inc. last week announced the Vistura DV, a new digital camcorder that will come with a 16x optical zoom lens and the company's new Shift Optical Image Stabilization System. The Vistura DV, due in September for $1,999, will capture...

Heuris updates MPEG line
August 3, 1998... Heuris Logic Corp. at July's Siggraph show rolled out two new MPEG products and cut prices on its MPEG Power Professional line. The company this month will ship MPEG Power Professional-Transport, a $5,000, software-based MPEG encoding package...

Premiere to get real
August 3, 1998... Adobe preps real-time effects for Mac Adobe Systems Inc. last week said it is working with third-party hardware vendors to bring Adobe Premiere with real-time effects to the Mac. "It is simply a matter of time until we have a real-time...

Scitex's Sphere 2.0 supports digital TV
August 3, 1998... Scitex Digital Video Inc. has added support for the digital TV wide-screen format to its line of Sphere editing and compositing workstations. Released in July, Version 2.0 of the Sphere software is the first update Scitex has charged money...

Component beefs up FileFlex database engine
August 3, 1998... Component Enterprises Inc. entered its FileFlex relational database engine into a new field when it shipped Version 3.0 in July. The company's flagship product, FileFlex is a cross-platform Macromedia Director plug-in that creates multimedia...

Desktop DVD handles DVD-Video
August 3, 1998... Adaptec, Sonic team for DVD Sonic Solutions and Adaptec Inc. have blended their Digital Video Disc offerings to create an integrated production system for business users. The result, DesktopDVD 1.0.1, shipped in late July. The Toast DVD...

Alder to manage FM DBs via Web
August 3, 1998... Digital.forest Inc. in July announced Alder 2.5, a utility for remotely administering FileMaker Pro databases running on Web servers. Due by mid-August, the package will let Web administrators move, open and close FileMaker databases using a...

BIAP Chat update speaks in tongues
August 3, 1998... Six languages supported BIAP Systems Inc. will add multilingual chatting to its Internet repertoire this week when it releases BIAP Chat 2.1 and BIAP Chat Pro 2.1. The new versions will let users chat in multiple languages at once, BIAP...

BoxTop's ProJPEG 3.0 offers dual previews
August 3, 1998... BoxTop Software Inc. in July brought its ProJPEG Web graphics utility to Version 3.0. A plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 3.0 or later, ProJPEG 3.0 sports a revised interface that the company said provides immediate feedback when users edit JPEG...

EveryWare will dance Tango to 3.5
August 3, 1998... EveryWare Development Inc. in July said it will soon release a Windows version of Tango 3.5, an update to its Web application development environment. A Mac version will follow in one to two months. The company said Tango 3.5, which it expects...

Fusion 3 supports DHTML, JavaScript
August 3, 1998... App balances design flexibility with management NetObjects Inc.'s Fusion was one of the first Web site editors to let designers create a Web page as they would a print page layout. As HTML has become more sophisticated, so has Fusion: Version...

Aladdin expands Windows presence
August 3, 1998... Aladdin Systems Inc. in July eased file transfers between Mac OS and Windows machines when it released Version 2.0 of Aladdin Expander, its file decompression utility for Windows. The update, which is Windows 95-, 98- and NT-native, can now...