MacWEEK articles from January 1996

MacWEEK archives from January 1996

ATI readies low-cost multipurpose board: $300 card does video, graphics. (ATI Technologies' XClaim MM)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 1996... Having champagne tastes on a beer budget hasn't been an option for would-be multimedia producers. But a new multifunction PCI card from ATI Technologies Inc. may make multimedia affordable even for entry-level users. The XClaim MM, which ATI...

Apple to raise low-end tower. (PowerPC Performa Instatower expected in summer 1996 with tower design) (Product Development)
January 8, 1996... In an effort to prove that vertically oriented computing isn't just for the rich and power-hungry, Apple will release this summer a PowerPC Performa in a new tower design, sources said. Instatower, the code name of Apple's first tower-style...

Big Island to spin out YoYo: telephony tool uses Caller ID. (Big Island Communications' YoYo hardware/software telephony product)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 1996... A new company wants to make dealing with your phone calls child's play. At Macworld Expo this week Big Island Communications Inc. will show YoYo, a telephony product that screens and routes calls and integrates with personal information managers....

Office makes a bundle: Power to offer Microsoft's suite. (Power Computing's agreement to feature preloaded Microsoft Office software on selected Power models) (Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 1996... Power Computing Corp. hopes to link its name with Microsoft Corp.'s in a deal that would marry Microsoft Office to selected PowerWave and PowerCurve clones. Despite a Microsoft denial, sources said an agreement will be announced this week at...

Kodak and Fuji focus efforts on digital cameras. (Kodak's Digital Science DC -50, Fuji Photo Film U.S.A.'s Fuji DS-220)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 1996... Two big names in photography are looking to make low-cost digital cameras a focal point of Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Eastman Kodak Co. and Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. will bring their latest offerings to the masses this week. Kodak's...

The calm before the storm. (Macworld Expo 1996 and Apple's 1996 outlook)(MacWEEK Insider) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
January 8, 1996... If it's January, it must be Macworld Expo San Francisco. Four days of products, parties, back-room politics and general chest thumping about all things Mac. The show's venue, Moscone Center, is -- to paraphrase a certain $35 million defensive...

NEC debuts LCD display. (NEC Technologies' MultiSync LCD200 12-inch monitor, MultiSync LCD300 13-inch monitor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Bringing displays with smaller footprints to the desktop, NEC Technologies Inc. this week will announce two monitors that use active-matrix color LCDs. The multisynchronous analog displays are smaller, lighter and consume less power than...

Tektronix phases in new printer. (Phaser 550 color laser printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Tektronix Inc. this week at Macworld Expo will release a new Phaser 550 color laser printer that uses a next-generation Matsushita engine, a speedier controller and longer-lasting consumables. The new $6,995 printer is externally identical to...

Nikon to show Coolscan II. (Coolscan II LS-20 slide scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Nikon Inc. will test drive its latest slide scanner for entry-level users at Macworld Expo this week. Due in mid-February, the 24-bit Coolscan II LS-20 will have an estimated $1,195 street price. It is a single-pass RGB scanner capable of...

SyQuest SyJet drive blasting into future. (SyQuest Technology's removable hard drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... SyQuest Technology Inc. will give users a peek at SyJet, its next-generation removable hard drive, this week at Macworld Expo. Expected to ship in the first quarter, the drive will use new dual-platter 3.5-inch cartridges with capacities of 650...

Apple readies Media Tool 2. (Apple Media Tool 2.0, Apple Media Tool Programming Environment 2.0 application development software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Apple plans to ship new versions of its Apple Media Tool and Apple Media Tool Programming Environment this month. At $495, the object-oriented Media Tool is aimed at nonprogrammers who want to create cross-platform interactive titles. The Power...

Show picks. (products featured at Macworld Expo 1996)(Buyers Guide)
January 8, 1996... Apple continues to ship record numbers of Macs, and developers keep releasing hundreds of new products and announcing even more. With so much to choose from and so many booths to visit, MacWEEK has come up with a helpful product A-list for...

A dynamic duo. (Adobe Systems' Ilustrator 6.0 and PageMill Web authoring tool to be showcased at Macworld Expo 1996)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Adobe Systems Inc. will showcase synergy between Illustrator 6.0 and PageMill. The Illustrator 6.0 upgrade, shipping at the show, lets users drag and drop images into PageMill, the company's newly acquired Web authoring tool, also shipping now....

mTropolis multimedia tool ships. (object-oriented multimedia authoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Newly shipping is mTropolis 1.0, the object-oriented multimedia-authoring tool from mFactory Inc. The $4,995 mTropolis creates multimedia projects such as this interactive game, where chess pieces battle hand-to-hand with swords.

Animated Web pages. (DeltaPoint's WebVision Animator)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... DeltaPoint Inc.'s WebVision Animator will let users build small multimedia files that play back on the Web through a Netscape Navigator plug-in. Authors will be able to synchronize sound to the action, interlace video files and create interactive...

Symantec to unpack updates at expo. (Macworld 1996 to showcase Suitcase 3.0 utility, DiskLock 4.0, DiskLock Administrator 4.0, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh 4.0.7)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Symantec Corp. will show a slew of updated utilities at this week's Macworld Expo San Francisco. > Suitcase. The company will unveil an update to its Suitcase font utility that adds Power Mac-native code and scripting support. Slated for a...

Protest in Taiwan. (Taiwan Mac users protest Apple's high prices for microcomputers in Taiwan) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Disgruntled Mac users protested alleged price discrimination outside an Apple Application Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, in December. Handing out fliers and sporting slogan-laden T-shirts, the demonstrators said high prices hold back the Mac's...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
January 8, 1996... The Dec. 11 Solutions (Page 63) incorrectly identified MountainGate, a Lockheed Martin Company, of Reno, Nev. Contrary to the Nov. 13 Storage Beat (Page 8), Plasmon Data Inc.'s Phase-change Dual/CD drive now costs $689.

Ultra SCSI takes off with expo launches. (Adaptec's PowerDomain 39040UW for Macintosh Wide Ultra PCI card, ATTO Technology's ExpressPCI Wide Ultra versions, FWB's UltraSCSI JackHammer PCI card)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Mac storage will pick up speed at Macworld Expo this week when several vendors take the wraps off Wide Ultra SCSI cards and drives for PCI Macs. > Adaptec Inc. will introduce a Mac version of its PowerDomain 3940UW, a dual-channel Wide Ultra...

Datadesk debuts new input devices. (TouchBoard, Lil'BigBoard keyboard, TurboBall trackball)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Putting users in touch with their data, Datadesk this week will debut three new models in its line of input devices. The units are expected to ship in February, the company said. Similar in size to Datadesk's 15-by-5.5-inch TrackBoard, the new...

ON Location pinpoints network data. (ON Technology's ON Location for Networks text-searching utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Stepping off of local desktops, ON Technology Corp. recently released ON Location for Networks. The new version is a revamp of the company's ON Location text-searching utility, last updated more than two years ago. Building on the previous...

New CD-R drives roll into market. (Sony's Spressa, Philips Electronics North America's CDD2000, Ricoh's new price for its RS-1060C CD-Recordable systems)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Several storage vendors recently unveiled new CD-Recordable systems and software. > Sony Electronics Inc. this week will introduce Spressa, its new double-speed recorder. The $1,895 system will come standard with a 1-Mbyte RAM cache and CD...

Used Macintosh prices. (Product Information)(Illustration)
January 8, 1996... Model Config. Price SE/30 5/40 $425 LC III 4/80 $350 IIci 5/80 $450 IIsi 5/80 $300 IIfx 4/80 $550 Quadra 610...

New arrays from Jaz ensembles. (new arrays and drives based on Iomega's Jaz removable cartridge mechanism) (MicroNet Technology's Array2000J, ProMax Technology's PR-2000 array, PR4-4000 array)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... A pair of vendors this month rolled out new arrays and drives based on Iomega Corp.'s Jaz removable cartridge mechanism. > MicroNet Technology Inc. released Array2000J, a two-drive array. The $1,275 unit has a capacity of 2 Gbytes and 1 Gbyte...

New 17-inch displays released. (Sampo Technology's AlphaScan 760, ViewSonic's Optiquest V775)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Several vendors recently released new mid-size monitors. > Sampo Technology Inc. shipped the AlphaScan 760, a 17-inch monitor with a Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT. The $949 display has a 0.26mm dot pitch and supports resolutions up to 1,152 by 870...

Macromedia revs XRes: face lift tacks on tools; image editor tied in with rest of line. (Macromedia's xRes 2.0)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 1996... Sticking its foot in the image-editing door, Macromedia Inc. this week will unveil xRes 2.0 at Macworld Expo. xRes, which the company acquired last year when it purchased Fauve Software Inc. (see MacWEEK, Sept. 4, 1995, Page 4), will ship in...

Photo CD stakes claim among pro presenters. (Kodak's Photo CD format used by presentation graphics developers) (Product Information)
January 8, 1996... Developers of presentation graphics are using the Photo CD format from Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., to help them focus on the bottom line when calculating time, cost and disc requirements of their productions. Professional users of...

Opcode Systems revamps MIDI apps. (Studio Vision Pro 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 1996... Macintosh-based musicians seeking closer harmony between audio and MIDI formats can turn to the latest version of Studio Vision Pro, Opcode Systems Inc.'s MIDI sequencer and audio-editing software . Version 3.0 of the $995 application features...

Betacam comes to Truevision PCI video card. (Targa 2000 Pro PCI card)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Truevision Inc.'s Targa 2000 PCI card is turning Pro. The company has released a daughtercard upgrade that adds Betacam compatibility to its PCI video-digitizing card. The upgrade provides 720-by-486-pixel resolution as well as component, RGB...

Matrox PCI card does 3-D. (Matrox Graphics' MGA Millenium)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Helping to flesh out the range of 3-D graphics accelerators available to owners of PCI Power Macs, a Canadian company, Matrox Graphics Inc., this week is slated to ship its MGA Millennium board, which accelerates QuickDraw 3D as well as 2-D...

Infini-D 3.1 handles QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime VR. (Specular's Infini-D 3.0 3-D modeling, rendering and animation software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Adding support for new Apple graphics technology, Specular in December shipped Version 3.1 of Infini-D, the company's 3-D modeling, rendering and animation software. Infini-D 3.1 offers full support for QuickDraw 3D, including interactive...

Cameras take a shot at the digital market. (Phase One's PhotoPhase Plus, Agfa's ActionCam, Studio Cam)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... In digital photography's latest double exposure, two companies will ship digital cameras this month: Phase One United States Inc. and Agfa, a division of Bayer Corp., are hoping their latest offerings will click with the growing digital camera...

Linotype polishes flatbed lineup. (Linotype-Hell's Opal flatbed scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Linotype-Hell Co. this week will take the wraps off a new flatbed scanner for graphics professionals at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The Opal, due in February for $9,990, will feature a double-lens system: One lens will be able to capture...

STFMail makes debut: STF shows e-mail and fax software. (STF Technologies' E-mail)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... At Macworld Expo this week STF Technologies Inc. will expand its connectivity offerings with a new e-mail product, a network fax system and an upgrade to its personal fax software. STF this month will ship STFMail, an alternative front end for...

SoftArc announces FirstClass updates. (FirstClass Client for Macintosh 3.0, FirstClass Server 3.5)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Making the most of its first appearance at a Macworld Expo in San Francisco, SoftArc Inc. plans this week to unseal its upcoming e-mail-system plans. SoftArc intends to announce that Version 3.0 of its FirstClass Client for Macintosh will ship...

AppleShare 4.2 faster. (Apple's AppleShare 4.2 server software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Apple in December shipped the first Power Mac-native version of its AppleShare server software and made several performance-enhancing changes. Version 4.2 offers file transfer speed improvements up to 136 percent; multi-user database...

PowerBuilder for Mac ships after long delay: dev tool bundled with PowerScript. (Powersoft's PowerBuilder for Macintosh)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Mac developers can stop holding their breath: Powersoft Corp. recently shipped the long-awaited PowerBuilder for Macintosh. The popular object-oriented, client-server development tool, originally due by the end of 1993, costs $3,295 per...

Open Transport gets ready for prime time. (Apple's Open Transport 1.1 networking architecture to be released)(Product Announcement)
January 8, 1996... Apple's budding networking architecture, Open Transport, is scheduled to bloom this month, and the company hopes the release will address the reliability and speed problems that have dogged it since its debut last summer. "We are trying not to...

More modems join market. (Motorola PCMCIA Products Division's Montana, Mariner fax modem cards, Viking Components' NetLink 28.8 Data Fax PC Card Modem)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Two more companies have entered the PC Card modem fray. Motorola PCMCIA Products Division has broadened portable users' connectivity options with the announcement of two new multifunction PC Cards. Due at the end of this month, the company's...

InterCon DNS set for release. (InterCon Systems' Interserver DNS domain name server, NFS/Share 1.4 network file-sharing software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... InterCon Systems Corp. this month will release a domain name server and Open Transport-native versions of NFS/Share and InterServer Publisher. Called InterServer DNS, the $295 domain name server, or DNS, will be released at the end of this...

Apple ships conferencing kit. (QuickTime Conferencing Kit videoconferencing hardware/software combination)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Almost a year after introducing it, Apple in December shipped the QuickTime Conferencing Kit, a hardware-software solution for videoconferencing and collaboration over AppleTalk and TCP/IP networks. Priced at $289, the kit includes the Apple...

Metrowerks hits expo swinging. (CodeManager DR1 source-code management software, CodeWarrior 8)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... After a record quarter, Metrowerks Inc. is eager to show off its accomplishments at this week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where it will ship the SourceSafe-compatible CodeManager DR1 and CodeWarrior 8. CodeManager is Metrowerks'...

PageMill, BBEdit deal. (Bare Bones Software offers discount deal on its BBEdit 3.5 text editor for owners of Adobe Systems' PageMill Web page editor) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Bare Bones Software Inc. announced late in December a discount opportunity for BBEdit 3.5, the company's text processor. Owners of Adobe Systems Inc.'s PageMill graphical Web page editor can buy BBEdit for $79. BBEdit, which was first released...

Hardware counts. (argument against Apple leaving the hardware industry) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
January 8, 1996... There's a faction in the Macintosh community that believes Apple should get out of the hardware business. The reasoning behind this idea stems from profit envy. People get wistful when looking at Microsoft Corp.'s and other companies' robust...

Low-cost Net stations? Don't forget the telephone.(The Second Decade) (Technology Information)(Column)
January 8, 1996... For a device that doesn't even exist, the $500 network computer has inspired an astonishing flood of words. In recent months virtually every industry pundit and major-company CEO (Michael Spindler excepted) has weighed in for or against the...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 8, 1996... I must take exception to Ken Kashmarek's letter (MacWEEK, Dec. 11, 1995, Page 33) discussing how Apple misses the mark when it comes to developer services. Developers do not have to maintain an AppleLink account. I have not had one for six...

Web developers can open Mac corporate databases.(The Mac Manager) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 8, 1996... 1996 has arrived. Once more we can renew our belief that maybe, just maybe, this year the Mac will get reasonably equal access to all our corporate data living in SQL and Open Database Connectivity-compatible files on our mainframes and...

Web fever soars; clone buying slow. (Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 1996... MacWEEK's annual State of Mac Management is the survey in which we closely monitor key issues affecting Mac managers in their daily work life. This study looks in detail at future Mac purchasing, operating system issues, use of file servers,...

Managers consider the clone and favor known quantities.(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 1996... The first generation of Macintosh clones resembles a movie that bursts into theaters wrapped in a buzz of expectation. It has sparked favorable press and a goodly amount of excitement, but it's too early to say whether a thumbs up from the...

Macs drafted into the U.S. Army. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers purchase of 45 Power Macs)(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Technology Information)
January 8, 1996... Tim Winter finally has his Macs. And what Macs they are: 45 brand-spanking new Power Macs, which he brought into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to handle the New England Division's GIS computational duties. More impressive, those 45 Power...

Survey exposes hope for new technologies. (users expect benefits from Apple's OpenDoc, Copland and PowerPC Platform technologies)(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Technology Information)
January 8, 1996... Reliability, productivity and simplicity -- these are the benefits Mac managers expect from Copland, OpenDoc and the PowerPC Platform, according to MacWEEK's latest poll. Of those MacWEEK subscribers surveyed, 40 percent list the PowerPC...

OpenDoc, Copland, PPCP: not nirvana. (future of Apple's key technologies)(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Technology Information)
January 8, 1996... How realistic are Mac managers' high hopes for OpenDoc, Copland and the new unified PowerPC Platform? It won't be possible, of course, to make any definitive pronouncements until real products incorporating these key new Apple technologies begin...

Everybody really is surfing the Internet.(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 1996... While making money over the Internet's World-Wide Web remains an elusive proposition for most companies, Macintosh managers are racing to put the medium to use for marketing their companies and services. Today, more than 92 percent of Mac...

Apple: remain loyal to your loving family.(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
January 8, 1996... Several weeks ago, I was sitting at the top of the stairs in my home with my arms wrapped around my 7-year-old son. "Richard," I said, "Why do you love me so much?" "Well, Dad," he replied, "I'm getting used to you." Familiarity is a powerful...

The Mac carousel: clones, clowns, kludges main attractions in 1995.(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Industry Trend or Event)
January 8, 1996... Jan. 1, 1996 -- America loves a parade, especially when it involves freaks, geeks and sneak peeks. The Mac industry offered spectacles aplenty in 1995, though some bore closer resemblance to multiple-car pileups. Still, we can't resist...

1996: A MacWEEK oracle foretells Apple's comeback. (The Mac Carousel) (predictions for Apple in 1996)(Special Report: The State of Mac Management 1995) (Company Business and Marketing)
January 8, 1996... Jan. 1, 1997 -- "Imagine there's no Microsoft, it's easy if you try." These words in Apple's 1996 ad campaign, licensed by Yoko Ono for a rumored $14 million, were the cornerstone of a promotional blitz ushering in the first major update to the...

After Effects 3.0 now a powerhouse for video editing. (Adobe Systems) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 8, 1996... Score card: After Effects 3.0 Adobe Systems Inc. List price: $995* Overall value: 5 (Excellent) With Version 3, Adobe has successfully turned After Effects into a must-have video-editing program for industrial video and multimedia...

Graphsoft MiniCad 6.0 piles on the Toolkits. (CAD software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 8, 1996... Score card: MiniCad 6.0 Graphsoft Inc. Overall value: 4 (Very good) List price: $795* MiniCad 6's new design and drafting Toolkits, which embed industry-specific symbols, hatches and commands, mark the program's first move into...

KPT Final Effects 3.0. (MetaTools' KPT Final Effects desktop video software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 8, 1996... Overall value: 4 (Very good) You don't have to look beyond Adobe After Effects 3.0 for your garden-variety special effects, such as 3-D rotations, blurs and distortions. But if you want to produce high-end visual effects, spend the extra $695...

Adobe After Effects 3.0 Production Bundle. (Adobe Systems' desktop video software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 8, 1996... The $1,995 Adobe After Effects 3.0 Production Bundle from Adobe Systems Inc. consists of a number of plug-ins offering extra functions in four categories: motion control, keying, distortion and device control. As part of After Effects 3's new...

Reviews forum. (News Briefs)
January 8, 1996... 5300cs is sweet Thanks for your honest review of the PowerBook 5300c (MacWEEK, Dec. 11, 1995, Page 37). I have just recently purchased a 5300cs and have been very happy with it. My only disappointment thus far has been the lack of a...

PageMill Web-editing app powerful, but crash-prone. (Adobe Systems' Web-authoring application) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 8, 1996... Score card: PageMill 1.0 Adobe Systems Inc. List price: $99 Overall value: 3 (Good) PageMill is a Web-authoring tool that promises easy page creation without having to learn HTML. Under its new owner, Adobe, PageMill 1.0 offers...

MacBench 3.0 testing tool starts new numbers game. (Ziff-Davis Publishing's Mac performance testing tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 8, 1996... New version improves accuracy and adds test sets for publishing systems. This week MacWEEK, along with the other Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. magazines and newspapers, will release an updated version of its Mac performance-testing tool, MacBench....

The year in reviews.(Directory)
January 8, 1996... These are the 280 products reviewed by MacWEEK in 1995, along with each reviews publication date. This list is available on-line in the MacWEEK forums on CompuServe and the Web. *Review of beta version of the product; **Power Mac Quick Look;...

Mainstream photography migrating toward digital. (digital cameras) (Technology Information)
January 8, 1996... Professionals feel good about high-end digital cameras, but film isn't on its way out yet. There's a sense of inevitability in the professional ranks about digital photography. Despite the high costs, transition nightmares and limitations of...

Taking stock at new year and noting problems. (MacInTouch) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
January 8, 1996... The start of a new year is a good time for taking stock. Last year brought the Macintosh unprecedented raw performance for the dollar, but problems with quality and complexity raised real costs. Meanwhile, Intel Corp. pushed personal computer...

Live Picture 2.5. (Live Picture's image-editing application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Live Picture Inc. of Soquel, Calif., will ship a new version of its image-editing program at Macworld Expo. Previously sold by MetaTools Inc., the $995 Live Picture 2.5 adds import and export of EPS files, direct support of third-party Adobe...

ISDN modem. (Farallon Computing's Netopia ISDN modem)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Farallon Computing Inc. is showing its first personal ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) product, the Netopia ISDN modem, due later this quarter. Aimed at users seeking high-speed Internet access, the $549 modem is a dual-channel ISDN...

Newton, round 2. (Apple to promote Newton OS 2.0 PDA operating system at Macworld Expo 1996) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Apple will be dedicating a chunk of its booth space to the second coming of the Newton OS, which was a hit at Comdex in November. The Newton area will feature demonstrations of Apple's new PDA operating system; Newton Backup Utility; Newton...

Freehand Studio. (Macromedia's FreeHand Graphics Studio graphics bundle, ShockWave for FreeHand plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... San Francisco-based Macromedia Inc. this week will unveil the FreeHand Graphics Studio, a $699 bundle of four design applications: FreeHand, xRes, Extreme 3D and Fontographer. The company will also debut Shockwave for FreeHand, a free plug-in to...

Pippin player. (Bandai's Pippin-based Power Player highlighted by Apple at Macworld Expo 1996) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Apple will showcase Bandai Co. Ltd.'s Pippin-based Power Player in both its main booth and developer area. In addition to Pippin games and entertainment titles, Apple will demonstrate the clone's Internet connections. Sources said the unit is on...

Thunder rolls. (Casady & Greene's SpellCatcher revamped version of Baseline Publishing's Thunder 7 spell-checker) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Casady & Greene Inc. of Salinas, Calif., has rescued Thunder 7, the popular universal spelling-checker utility from defunct Baseline Publishing Inc. The utility is being updated to work with the latest Mac hardware and will resume shipping in the...

Resolut PSC. (Scitex America's ResoLUT PSC Power Mac-based color tools application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Scitex America Corp. of Bedford, Mass., will ship ResoLUT PSC, a Power Mac application that it said provides industrial-grade color tools. The $4,500 software package lets users perform color corrections using Scitex transformation tables and...

Mathematica Link. (Wolfram Research's math software add-on for Microsoft Windows)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Combining verbal and math skills, Wolfram Research Inc. of Champaign, Ill., has Mathematica Link for Microsoft Word. The tool lets Word users simply enter calculations in the word processor to access Mathematica's numeric, graphics and...

FileMaker learns to relate. (Claris' FileMaker Pro 3.0 DBMS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Celebrating delivery of the next generation of FileMaker Pro at the end of 1995, Claris Corp. will showcase a relational version of the popular database at this week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Version 3.0 lets users set up relationships...

Power delays PCI-NuBus board. (Power Computing delays mixed NuBus and PCI board for PowerWave systems) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
January 8, 1996... Power Computing Corp. recently addressed availability of the NuBus option for its PowerWave clones. Power said that its $249 mixed NuBus and PCI board for the PowerWave machines will not ship in volume until February. PowerWave models ship...

StockWatch. (News Briefs)(Illustration)
January 8, 1996... 01.04.96 Weekly % close change Apple 31.56 -1.37 MacWEEK Composite* 320.14 -7.34 Software Developers Adobe ...

Fast video, fiery clones, ISDN, beer.(Mac the Knife) (Humor)
January 8, 1996... New Year's is a time to stand back and take stock (or divest, if you happened to have bought shares of Caere Corp. in the past six months). The Rat Pack is another rodent lighter, and luckless taxpayers are still waiting for the gates to open at...

UMAX backing SuperMac box: Radius dishes off licensing rights.(UMAX Technology, Radius Inc to collaborate on Mac clone) (Product Development)
January 15, 1996... Seeking to turn up the heat on the Mac clone market, UMAX Data Systems Inc. last week showed a high-end Power Mac clone bearing the SuperMac moniker for less than $4,000. UMAX, which last November announced a Mac OS license for the Asian...

Apple squashes 5300 bugs. (fixes issued for PowerBook 5300 notebook computer) (Product Support)
January 15, 1996... Apple last week shipped a major update to the system software for the PowerBook 5300 series that the company said addresses many of the bugs reported by users. Posted on-line last Wednesday, the update includes a new Finder, emulator, and...

Early results are in: Apple to lose $68M. (Company Financial Information)
January 15, 1996... Rumors of Apple CEO Michael Spindler's departure tore up and down the aisles of Macworld Expo last week in the wake of the company's announcement of quarterly losses, executive departures and reports of upcoming layoffs. The source of the...

Mac vendors rebound as sales, earnings jump.(MacWorld San Francisco) (Company Financial Information)
January 15, 1996... John Travolta; Tony Bennett; and Jim Harbaugh, the nimble-footed Indianapolis Colts quarterback nicknamed "Captain Comeback," have proven that life sometimes offers second chances. Further illustrating this point, a handful of Mac vendors...

Third parties serve up Java, Internet apps.(Product Announcement)
January 15, 1996... While Apple may not have used last week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco to unveil its Internet strategy, the rest of the Mac market did. The myriad Internet announcements included publishing tools from Virtus Corp., FutureWave Software Inc....

News everywhere we look.(MacWEEK Insider) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 15, 1996... Remember that arcade game where the alligators pop out, rearing their snouts, and you have to pound them with a mallet before they retreat? That's what it was like staying on top of the breaking news at Macworld Expo last week. When MacWEEK...