MacWEEK articles from February 1998

MacWEEK archives from February 1998

MediaWay looks to marketers; asset manager boosts searches, Web interfaces. (MediaAssets)(Product Announcement)
February 2, 1998... MediaWay Inc. last week rolled out a new version of MediaAssets, its asset-management system, with a new focus on sales and marketing departments. The company said Version 2.0 offers a rewritten image and document repository, a new search...

Liquifier 2.0 to foil pirates plundering music on Web. (Liquid Audio's Liquifier for Pro Tools 2.0 music distribution software)(Product Announcement)
February 2, 1998... Seeking to make the Internet a safer place for music distribution, Liquid Audio Inc. will add extensive encryption and security features when it updates its Liquifier for Pro Tools application in March. Like its predecessor, Version 2.0 of...

FreeHand update gets two thumbs up. (Macromedia Freehand 8.0 draw software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
February 2, 1998... FreeHand 8.0 Beta Test Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand have long been battling it out to be the top professional drawing program. But after testing the beta version of FreeHand 8.0 (due in March for a street price of $400), we can...

Apple dismantles Claris; developers mixed about restructuring. (Company Operations)
February 2, 1998... Claris Corp.'s third-party developers said they view last week's reorganization with a mixture of hope and apprehension. "I've always gotten the impression that FileMaker's power has never been fully realized because of Apple's constraints,"...

FileMaker Inc. will stand alone. (Apple dismantles Claris) (Company Operations)
February 2, 1998... The restructuring of Apple's Claris Corp. subsidiary may improve FileMaker Pro's position in the database market - or position it for a potential buyout. Analysts said the future looks uncertain, however, for the rest of Claris' portfolio,...

Focusing on the users. (FileMaker Inc) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Focus remains the watchword at Apple, at least judging from last week's announcement that the company will absorb the bulk of its Claris software division. Rechristened FileMaker Inc., the subsidiary will hold onto FileMaker Pro and Home Page,...

Retail giants Sears, Best Buy drop Macs. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Citing sliding sales, retail giants Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Best Buy Company Inc. last week revealed they will stop selling Apple hardware. While Sears said its national chain no longer stocks Macs, Best Buy said it will discontinue Mac...

Power Mac 6500, PB prices slashed. (Powerbook) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Apple said it is cutting the prices of several PowerBook and Power Mac 6500 configurations this week. The largest price cut is for the PowerBook 1400c/166, which dropped $1,000, from $2,999 to $1,999. Apple also trimmed the prices of other...

Frontier 5 crosses over to Windows. (UserLand Software's content-management system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... UserLand Software Inc. said it released at the end of last week Frontier 5.0, the first cross-platform version of what the company calls its content-management system. The free scripting environment now runs on Windows 95 and NT systems as...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
February 2, 1998... A story in the Jan. 26 issue (Page 1) incorrectly stated the data rates of Apple's G3 Power Macs when working with digital video. According to Media 100 Inc., the machines can handle 300 Kbytes per frame, or 9,000 Kbytes per second.

Consortium pools efforts over streaming media. (Advanced Streaming Format standard proposed) (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Liquid Audio Inc.'s technology is among a handful of offerings in the streaming-multimedia market. The company's competitors include RealNetworks Inc.'s RealAudio, Microsoft Corp.'s NetShow, Apple's QuickTime and Headspace Inc.'s Beatnik. Most...

Apple readies education store. (Apple Campus Stores and Apple Education Stores online) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Apple will open an education section of its online store this spring, the company announced recently. Apple is planning Web-based Apple Campus Stores and Apple Education Stores, according to a Q&A posted on Apple's K-12 Web site...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
February 2, 1998... Who needs slots? While I cannot help but agree with previous writers about the inadvisability of a three-slot maximum for Power Macs (01.19.98, Page 8), I'm happily using an 8500 (boosted with a G3 card) with nine (yes, nine) PCI slots,...

Ricoh preparing latest digital camera. (RDC-4300) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Ricoh Corp.'s Consumer Products Group is putting the finishing touches on a new digital camera that can zoom, annotate sound and switch resolutions. The RDC-4300 will feature a continuous optical zoom lens capable of changing its focal length...

QuarkXPress 4.0. (Quark's DTP software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... QuarkXPress 4.0 3 1/2 Quark Inc. (http://www.quark.com) List price: $995; upgrades from Version 3.32 and up, $298 ($398 for 680x0 Macs) Beta test: 08.04.97, Page 17 This long-awaited upgrade contains some important new tools....

Jetsoft updates scanning app; Art-Scan 4.0 gets price cut. (Jetsoft Development)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Jetsoft Development Co. in January launched a new version of its Art-Scan scanning package with a fresh interface and a range of automated features. Available now, Art-Scan 4.0 has been redesigned to offer a fully automated package for novice...

Fuji warming up new color printers. (Fuji Photo File U.S.A.'s NC-300D, NX-5 continuous-tone color printers)(Product Announcement)
February 2, 1998... Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. said it will introduce two innovative continuous-tone color printers this spring. Both the high-end, roll-fed NC-300D and the consumer-level, snapshot-size NX-5 will draw on a proprietary imaging technology called...

Developers put NT RIPs on the move. (Wasatch Computer Technology's PosterMaker RIP 3.3, Compatible Systems Engineering's ColorBurst Pre-press, Printware's ZAPrip HQ)(Product Announcement)
February 2, 1998... Several PostScript RIP vendors recently upgraded their lines of Windows NT servers. Wasatch Computer Technology Inc. released a new version of its $3,495 PosterMaker RIP for Windows NT and 95. Version 3.3 beefs up PostScript halftone screening...

Color-management true stories: see spot run. (Out of Gamut) (Technology Information)(Column)
February 2, 1998... While the sizzle in color-management circles tends to revolve around CMYK and HiFi Color printing, we should take a moment to remember that a huge number of print jobs use one or two spot colors. If we're being honest, we should also admit that...

GraphicConverter changes to 3.1. (Lemke Software's image-conversion and manipulation shareware)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... GraphicConverter, the popular image-conversion and manipulation shareware program from German developer Lemke Software, took on several new formats and features in January. Version 3.1 of the $35 GraphicConverter imports 100 graphics formats...

Feral to unleash sprites; tool aimed at new animators. (Feral Entertainment ScreenStudio)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Feral Entertainment Ltd. in April will release ScreenStudio, a simplified animation package designed for users with little animation experience. The package will specialize in creating animations with sprites, where a series of PICT images are...

Art*lantis moves into animation. (version 3.0 of Abventray-tracing renderer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Architectural and interior designers can set their creations in motion with a major upgrade to Abvent Inc.'s ray-tracing renderer Art*lantis. The company also updated its Zoom modeler. Version 3.0 of the $595 Art*lantis - a photo-realistic...

Animation Stand makes smart move. (Linker Systems' Animation Stand Multimedia Edition 3.6 animation software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
February 2, 1998... Animation Stand Multimedia Edition 3.6 4 (Very good) In a world of computer-generated and photo-realistic art, 2-D animation is often downplayed, perhaps because of the huge amount of physical labor involved in creating just a few seconds of...

Telex, Polaroid hit the road with new LCD projectors. (Telex Communications P600, Polaroid Polaview 215)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Telex Communications Inc. and Polaroid Corp. in January announced a new round of portable LCD projectors. Telex's P600, available now for $11,995, uses a 600-lumen light source and three polysilicon LCDs to project 24-bit-color, Extended...

Mac-based kiosks work for Smithsonian. (Company Business and Marketing)
February 2, 1998... Remodeling is a painful business. Imagine, then, a project that takes close to a decade from conception to execution and then has to look fresh for the next 30 years. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., had such a project with its...

Newsgroup clients expand repertoire. (Asar Hogwasher Internet newsgroup reader, John Norstad's NewsWatcher 2.2)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Asar Corp. in January announced a beta version of Hogwasher, an Internet newsgroup reader that the company said will make sending and receiving e-mail and Usenet news faster and easier. In addition, John Norstad updated his Usenet client,...

SiteZAP controls cam from Web; kit lets users zoom, pan. (Rearden Technology)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Rearden Technology recently added new capabilities to its line of Internet video products. The company released SiteZAP, a hardware and software package that lets users control a camera remotely with a Web browser. Rearden said it will offer...

Personal Web Sharing gets a boost. (version 1.5 of Apple's small-scale Web server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Apple took its small-scale Web server, Personal Web Sharing, to Version 1.5 in January. Personal Web Sharing, which Apple introduced as a component of Mac OS 8, lets Mac owners use their machines as Web servers and designate folders and files...

Fusion 3.0 to get DHTML; JavaScript tool to arrive in NetObjects rev.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... NetObjects Inc. last week rolled out a new version of its Web authoring package at the Internet Showcase in San Diego. Version 3.0 of Fusion, NetObjects' flagship site-building tool, will pack support for dynamic HTML, automated creation of...

Funnel Web 1.5.1 aids site analysis. (Active Concepts Pty's Web site analysis tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Active Concepts Pty. Ltd. in January updated its Web site analysis tool, Funnel Web, to Version 1.5.1. Funnel Web, introduced in October, generates HTML-based reports and graphs that detail Web site information such as referring URLs and...

Code autodownloads Shockwave. (Macromedia's Smart Shockwave code)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Macromedia Corp. in January released a piece of JavaScript to help authors use Shockwave in their Web sites. Called Smart Shockwave, the code will help end users who visit Shockwave-enabled sites download the required Shockwave Web browser...

Optima System. (SitePrint Pro Web browser)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Optima System in January shipped and then updated SitePrint Pro, a utility for printing Web sites. The Stockholm, Sweden-based company said the software lets users select whether to print entire sites or only certain directories, and it will...

Panic LLC. (LinkPad tool for storing e-mailed URLs)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Panic LLC of Portland, Ore., has rolled out a tool for storing URLs e-mailed to users by friends or colleagues. The company said it designed LinkPad for users who need to store lists of Web sites they want to visit in the future. The free...

Brookline Software. (WebMiner scriptable utility alpha version) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Brookline Software of New York in January released an alpha version of WebMiner, a scriptable utility for automating Web tasks. WebMiner can be augmented by adding AppleScripts for opening Web pages, downloading content, submitting forms and...

Microsoft Corp. (NetShow 3.0 streaming audio and video technology)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Microsoft Corp. in January unveiled Version 3.0 of NetShow, the company's streaming audio and video technology, for Windows; a Macintosh version will arrive 90 days after the Windows product ships later this year, according to the Redmond, Wash.,...

HP JetDirect server carries Fast Ethernet. (JetDirect 300X)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Hewlett-Packard Co. this month will add a new external print server to its JetDirect line. The JetDirect 300X will allow administrators to upgrade their Ethernet networks without purchasing a new print server, the company said. The external...

Nailing down images: developers tidy libraries. (Cerious Software's ThumbsPlus 3.1, Softwhir's Quick Nailer 1.4.3 media organizers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Users trying to keep images in line will soon be able to enlist the help of Cerious Software Inc. and Softwhir, two developers that in January released public betas of their media organizers. Cerious Software is bringing its image repository,...

MAP II 1.5: a free GIS education. (ThinkSpace mapping software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... ThinkSpace Inc. last week made available a freeware version of MAP II, a specialized mapping program aimed at university students of GIS. Now at Version 1.5, MAP II was previously available only as a commercial product, ThinkSpace said. The...

Sculpt extends file-import tools. (version 2.5 of Interactive Simulations' 3-D molecular modeling tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Interactive Simulations Inc. said it will delve deeper into the molecular level this week when it releases the latest version of Sculpt, its 3-D molecular modeling tool for researchers and scientists. The company is also introducing an entirely...

TimeSlice update crosses platforms. (version 1.7 of Maui Software's time-tracking application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Maui Software last week released TimeSlice 1.7, adding new functions and online help to the commercial time-tracking application. The new version lets users import time data from any program supporting tab-delimited text. Hence, the company...

Compaq, Digital: they've got that merging feeling. (The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
February 2, 1998... By now you've heard the news: Compaq Computer Corp. is buying Digital Equipment Corp. for $9.6 billion in cash and stock. The largest acquisition in the computer industry, the merger portends more consolidation in the coming year among...

VirusScan 3.0 debuts under new owner. (Network Associates' anti-virus software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Network Associates Inc. late in January delivered an updated version of VirusScan for Macintosh that features a new interface and new administration tools. Version 3.0 is the first since McAfee Associates Inc., the original developer, joined...

KeyQuencer Contextual Menus arrive. (version 2.5 of Binary Software's macro utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Binary Software made its macro utility more Mac OS 8-friendly with the delivery of KeyQuencer 2.5 in January. New Contextual Menus list all active and orphaned macros. Control-clicking on an item in the Finder produces a menu of only those...

InterMapper rev to add Web server. (version 2.0 of Dartmouth College's network mapping and monitoring tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Dartmouth College will release an update to its InterMapper network mapping and monitoring tool this week. Dartmouth said Version 2.0 of the $795 software will sport a built-in Web server and offer improved server monitoring, using a TCP...

Virtual PC picks up speed in update; PC emulator will handle drag-and-drop. (version 2.0 of Connectix's PC-emulation application)(Product Announcement)
February 2, 1998... Connectix Corp. filled in some details about Version 2.0 of Virtual PC, the update of its PC-emulation application due by the end of the month. The new version will gain several new functions and run about 40 percent faster than the previous...

Vendors plug G3s into older systems. (UMAX Computer, Mactell)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... The PowerPC 750 processor continues to make waves in the Macintosh community. UMAX Computer Corp. said it is expanding the offer it made earlier to buyers of its S900BASE Mac OS clone (see 01.12.98, Page 21). The company said registered...

Spectra to debut new AIT library. (Spectra Logic AIT TreeFrog Advanced Intelligent Tape library)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Spectra Logic Corp. this week intends to release the AIT TreeFrog, its new entry-level Advanced Intelligent Tape library. The autoloader offers Web-based diagnostics and support for bar-coded media. The AIT TreeFrog uses a removable pack that...

A bit touchy. (Elo TouchSystems Trimline touchscreen LCD monitors)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... A bit touchy. Elo TouchSystems Inc. of Fremont, Calif., recently introduced two touchscreen LCD monitors. The company's new Trimline series comprises an 800-by-600-pixel monitor with a diagonal viewable area of 12.1 inches and a...

Touchy-feely. (CTX Opto PanoView 630T LCD display)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... Touchy-feely. CTX Opto Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., also made an entry into the touchscreen market with the latest addition to its PanoView line, the 630T. The PanoView 630T uses resistive-touch technology in its 12.1-inch TFT (thin-film...

A new Cornerstone. (Cornerstone Imaging Color 50/95 CRT monitor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... A new Cornerstone. Cornerstone Imaging Inc. of San Jose, Calif., introduced a new CRT monitor, the Color 50/95. The company said the new display joins its Corporate line of monitors and has a maximum resolution of 1,280 by 1,024 pixels at a...

Taking a first look at Mac OS 8.1, a significant update. (MacInTouch) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Column)
February 2, 1998... For a free, "point one" release, Mac OS 8.1 holds a lot of new stuff. Its new file system is a big deal, and changes to Open Transport and PC Exchange are substantial, as are the performance boosts for virtual memory and disk caching. It is...

NEC presents.... (NEC Technologies MultiSync XV29 29-inch display)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 2, 1998... NEC presents... NEC Technologies Inc. of Itasca, Ill., debuted a new presentation monitor, the MultiSync XV29. The 29-inch display, designed for the education market, is based on a flat square CRT and has a 0.74mm dot pitch. The XV29 has a...

I'm just a Knife who cain't say 'no'. (mac the knife) (Humor)(Column)
February 2, 1998... Given MacWEEK readers' superior intelligence and keen sense of direction, Mac the Knife is confident that most of them have followed this magazine's Byzantine travels with the hollow-eyed fervor of a VW microbusload of itinerant, Odwalla-swilling...

Apple rethinks OS schedules, refines features. (Product Development)
February 9, 1998... As Apple refines the timetable and feature sets for its OS releases, sources said changes are in the works for the company's forthcoming Mac OS release, code-named Allegro, and its next-generation Rhapsody OS. According to sources, Apple is...

DesignJet 455CA makes it big. (HP's large-format color inkjet printer) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
February 9, 1998... HP DesignJet 455CA 4 (Very good) Hoping to expand its large-format printer market, Hewlett-Packard Co. has released a new large-format, color inkjet printer. The HP DesignJet 455CA comes in 36- or 24-inch widths ($4,195 and $3,195,...

IBM, Motorola ready G4 chips. (Product Development)
February 9, 1998... The PowerPC camp had reasons to crow last week as IBM Microelectronics Division showcased new high-performance RISC chips. The engineering crowd at the IEEE International Solid State Circuit Conference in San Francisco heard presentations on a...

Mac multihoming: options proliferate. (Mac OS 8.1, Open Transport 1.3) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
February 9, 1998... With the recent release of Mac OS 8.1 and Open Transport 1.3, the Mac OS' Web-serving capabilities are on par with Windows NT. Now, hosting multiple Web sites on a single server is a built-in property of the Mac OS. This feature is a boon for...

Media Composer 7.0 bolsters effects, audio. (Avid Technology's video editing software)(Product Announcement)
February 9, 1998... Avid Technology Inc. next week will ship a major upgrade to its Media Composer video-editing software, adding features that editors need to complete broadcast-quality projects. Media Composer is Avid's line of high-end, nonlinear video-editing...

Apple goes about its business. (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... While you'll see plenty of stories about the Mac industry in this issue, you won't see one of last week's buzz stories: the nonevent that ensued when interim Apple CEO Steve Jobs addressed the company's employees. As word leaked out that...

Avid posts record revenues. (Avid Technology) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Citing strong sales of new products and improved asset management, Avid Technology Inc. last week reported record revenue for the fourth quarter of 1997. The maker of high-end video-editing systems posted a profit of $9.3 million on revenue of...

Mac PowerBuilder: no more updates. (Sybase's DBMS) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Sybase Inc. last week confirmed online reports that it was ending development of the Mac version of PowerBuilder, its high-end, cross-platform database package. The company said Version 6.0, released in December 1997, will be the last version for...

QTVR tools get new publisher. (Roundabout Logic) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Newcomer Roundabout Logic Inc. last week announced that it is now the official publisher of Nodester and Widgetizer, QuickTime VR tools that were formerly published by Panimation Inc. of Winter Park, Fla. Roundabout said it will continue to...

Chroma preps search engine. (Chroma Graphics ProFILE) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Chroma Graphics Inc. is seeking new and better ways to search. The Burlingame, Calif., company last week announced a new object-based pattern-recognition system. Chroma said the new technology, dubbed ProFILE (for pattern recognition and...

For the record. (Credit Ratings)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... A Jan. 26 story on dual-stream video editing (Page 1) failed to note Media 100 Inc.'s high-performance dual-stream video card, the Media 100 xr, available for $19,995.

Newer G3 cards speed Power, UMAX clones. (Newer Technology MAXpowr G3 accelerator cards)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Newer Technology Inc. broadened its MAXpowr G3 line of Power Mac accelerators with last week's announcement of several new models. Among the latest offerings to feature the PowerPC 750 processor (also known as G3) are forthcoming boards that...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
February 9, 1998... Palette pusher In reference to Ralph Berger's superb beta test review of FreeHand 8.0 (02.02.98, Page 1): As a veteran FreeHand user for eight years now, I agree almost totally with this article. However, I disagree with his objection to...

Fuji's petite camera to yield 1.5M pixels. (Fuji Photo Film USA's Fujifilm MX-700 digital camera)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. this week will take a small step for digital photography when it unveils a camera that the company said will be the smallest 1.5-million-pixel device on the market. Due to ship in the late spring, the Fujifilm MX-700...

Kodak and Canon develop pro camera; device offers high-speed image transfers. (Kodak DCS 520, Canon EOS D2000)(Product Announcement)
February 9, 1998... Eastman Kodak Co. and Canon U.S.A. Inc. last week announced a professional camera that the two companies developed in tandem. Kodak will sell the $14,995 camera as the DCS 520, while Canon will call it the EOS D2000. The name is the only...

Philips ships camera and printer duo. (Philips Consumer Electronics ESP2 Digital Camera, VCP1 Digital Camera Colour Printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Philips Consumer Electronics Co. recently announced its new entry-level digital camera and a companion photo printer. Based on Ricoh Corp.'s RDC-300 digital camera, Philips' pocket-size ESP2 Digital Camera is available now for $430. The ESP2...

Olympus D-600L. (Olympus America's digital camera)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... With a 3x optical zoom, excellent flash and sophisticated exposure controls such as spot metering, the D-600L doesn't feel like a digital camera. And the 1,280-by-1,024-pixel images it produces rival those found in cameras costing up to $10,000....

Second Glance renews plug-ins. (Second Glance Software's LaserSeps Pro 1.5 Photoshop plug-in)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Second Glance Software in January released updates to three of its plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop. Leading off the new releases is Version 1.5 of LaserSeps Pro, a $595 tool for creating stochastic screens (separations without halftone screens)...

Callas reprises PDF plug-in tools. (Callas Software GmbH's pdfToolbox 1.1, MadeToPrint XT Professional 3.0 DTP extensions)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Callas Software GmbH recently announced updates to a pair of Portable Document Format tools, pdfToolbox and MadeToPrint XT. The company this month will ship Version 1.1 of pdfToolbox, a set of three Adobe Acrobat 3.0 plug-ins for creating and...

Canon to launch tiny DV camcorder. (Canon U.S.A. ZR Digital Video Camcorder)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Canon U.S.A. Inc. last week announced a new digital camcorder that will double as a still camera. Aimed at consumers, the ZR Digital Video Camcorder is the size of a point-and-shoot camera. Measuring 5 by 3.5 by 2 inches and weighing about 1...

Macs making music: NAMM show debuts sound, music apps. (National Association of Music Merchants)(Product Announcement)
February 9, 1998... Los Angeles - The Mac was out in force at the National Association of Music Merchants show here at the end of January. Several vendors showed off new products and updates for sound and music applications. BitHeadz Inc. of Capitola, Calif.,...

MetaCreations to present Show. (multimedia authoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... MetaCreations Corp. unveiled a new package for creating multimedia presentations at last week's Demo 98 show in Indian Wells, Calif. The company said the forthcoming product, code-named Show and due this spring for the Mac OS as well as Windows...

Tropix update features direct PDF previews. (version 3.0.3 of Alaras' multimedia cataloging application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Alaras Corp. last week added new features to Tropix, its multimedia cataloging application. The new release supports direct previewing of Portable Document Format files, Alaras said. In addition, it adds the capability to drag and drop files...

ViewSonic, Sony to roll out new projectors. (ViewSonic PJL802 ViewBook, Sony VPL-X600U LCD projectors)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... ViewSonic Corp. and Sony Electronics Inc. this month will add new portable models to their LCD projector lines. ViewSonic's PJL802 ViewBook, slated to ship this week for $5,495, uses three 0.9-inch LCD panels to project 24-bit-color images at...

NAB battle brews as Apple confronts Windows NT challenge. (National Association of Broadcasters show) (Keyframe) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
February 9, 1998... As Apple's marketing strategy takes shape, it appears that Microsoft Office is hot and digital video and imaging applications are not. Apple's reported cancellation of Power Express (see 01.12.98, Page 1) leaves the stage open for a...

Adobe PageMill 3.0 on Web's horizon. (Adobe Systems)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Adobe Systems Inc. released a beta version of PageMill 3.0 for Windows this week and said it expects to release the Mac version early this summer. PageMill 3.0 will have more-integrated site management capabilities than Version 2.0, Adobe...

HexMac to tie XPress, DHTML. (HexMac Software Systems GmbH's Challenger QuarkXTension)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... HexMac Software Systems GmbH this month will release a QuarkXTension that the company said will allow QuarkXPress users to take advantage of cascading style sheets and dynamic HTML. Code-named Challenger, the XTension will preserve XPress pages...

Dreamweaver 1.0. (Macromedia's Web authoring tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Dreamweaver is an impressive visual Web authoring tool. Like GoLive Systems Inc.'s CyberStudio, Dreamweaver lets you edit HTML code directly and cleanly, but it also supports dynamic HTML, cascading style sheets and other up-to-the-minute Web...

Internet Explorer 4.0. (Microsoft's Web browser) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
February 9, 1998... Internet Explorer 4.0 supports cascading style sheets, dynamic HTML and Active Channels, and it ships with a number of other programs, including Outlook Express 4.0; Personal Web Server 4.0; and NetShow 2.1, a helper application for viewing...

Robin to build code-free CGIs. (1.0 Technologies' Common Gateway Interface editor)(Product Announcement)
February 9, 1998... A start-up company hopes to take the pain out of writing CGIs with a software package scheduled to take wing this spring. Robin, a CGI editor from 1.0 Technologies Inc., will let users select a variety of features to add to their Web sites in...

DSL may hold promise, but will it power the Internet? (Working the Net) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Column)
February 9, 1998... I've got a problem. I really want to like this new Universal ADSL service proposed by the Universal ADSL Working Group (UAWG). Heck, I'm lusting after the throughput it promises. Before I get to the problems, let me say that Universal ADSL, or...