MacWEEK articles from June 1998

MacWEEK archives from June 1998

SoftArc turns to Mac OS X.(First Class Intranet Server) (Product Development)
June 1, 1998... SoftArc Inc. last week threw its support behind Apple's operating system plans when it announced it is developing a version of its First Class Intranet Server that will run on Mac OS X (10). The company said it will release a beta version of...

Mac OS X to tap PDF, QuickDraw.(Apple's Extended QuickDraw imaging strategy) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 1998... Apple recently sketched out plans for a revised imaging model for Mac OS X (10) and the cross-platform Yellow Box API. The company said it will combine the imaging engines of QuickDraw and PostScript and will make Adobe Systems Inc.'s PDF its...

Prepress firms change names.(Linotype CPS changed to Heidelberg Color Publishing Solutions) (Company Operations)
June 1, 1998... If you're a prepress company, this is the time to change your name. Linotype CPS of Hauppauge, N.Y., the maker of LinoColor scanners and color management tools, last week renamed itself Heidelberg Color Publishing Solutions, or Heidelberg CPS....

GoLive gets personal with new edition of CyberStudio.(CyberStudio Personal Edition)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... GoLive Systems Inc. last week rolled out a consumer-level edition of CyberStudio, its Mac-only Web authoring package. CyberStudio Personal Edition's features are similar to the previous edition of its high-end cousin, CyberStudio 2.0....

New era for OS imaging.(Apple's Unicode Worldwide Character Standard) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 1998... Hailing it as the future of text on the Mac OS, Apple recently announced that the emerging Unicode Worldwide Character Standard would form the basis of upcoming releases. At May's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif.,...

End of the line nears for Mac clones.(Apple licensing agreements) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 1998... As licensees prepare to wind down their Mac clone business by summer's end, professional audio and video producers may see a scarcity of Macs with six PCI slots. While current Apple licensing agreements permit cloners to sell systems through...

Timbuktu to add collaboration features.(Netopia Inc.'s Timbuktu Pro With NetMeeting)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... Netopia Inc. intends to unveil this week an enhanced version of its Timbuktu Pro remote-control and file transfer software that will give Mac users cross-platform collaboration capabilities. The revision, Timbuktu Pro With NetMeeting, will be...

Painter 3D draws on third dimension.(MetaCreations)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... MetaCreations Corp. has combined many of Painter 5.0's 2-D natural-media tools with Detailer's 3-D environment, and named the resulting product Painter 3D. The product offers new features, including simultaneous map editing, map sharing across...

Farallon cuts networking prices. (Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 1998... Farallon, a division of Netopia Inc., last week cut prices by as much as 43 percent on a handful of its Ethernet networking devices. The company reduced the Starlet switch that comes with eight 10-Mbps Ethernet ports and two dual-speed 10- and...

Passport Designs enters bankruptcy. (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Mac music vendor Passport Designs Inc. recently filed for bankruptcy. The Foster City, Calif., company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy - the type of bankruptcy that often leads to liquidation - in the Northern District of California's federal...

Microspot licenses 3-D technology. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Microspot USA Inc. last week announced the Microspot 3D World Developer Partner Program, which opens the company's 3D World 3.0 programming code to licensing by other software developers. The company said it is offering Application, Shared...

Editorial: Round one to Judge Judy. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... The Microsoft Corp. vs. Netscape Communications Corp. browser brouhaha drew the attention of the computer industry last week. Pundits debated which company will take the prize in the battle for the Internet desktop. While we will see lessons from...

USB peripherals on deck for Mac.(Newer Technology, Aladdin Knowledge Systems)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Newer Technology Inc. in May announced a family of Universal Serial Bus-based appliances, which are slated for an August release. The first products to be released with Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports will be an external floppy drive, a...

News: StockWatch 05.28.98.(Directory)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Weekly Close Change Apple 27.44 -1.44 NASDAQ 1794.37 -26.62 MacWEEK Composite 158.05 -6.37 Adaptec 16.00 -0.94 Adobe ...

Graphic Arts: Caffeine revs TIFFany.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Following the recent update of its TIFFany3 image-editing package for Rhapsody and OpenStep operating systems, Caffeine Software Inc. plans to announce a Windows NT version this week. The Public Release 7 version of TIFFany3 offers better...

Key Frame: Photoshop 5.0, RGB and bad color-space defaults.(Adobe Systems) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 1998... I have boundless respect and admiration for Adobe Systems Inc.'s Photoshop team, and I think Photoshop 5 is the best image-editing application ever, but... the team dropped the ball five yards from the goal line. Given the chance to deliver...

Xante revs PlateMaker.(PlateMaker 3)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... Xante Corp. last week announced the availability of its new desktop platemaker for the prepress and desktop publishing industry. Designed specifically with computer-to-plate printing in mind, the PlateMaker 3 is the first desktop platemaker...

EnCAD ships two 600-dpi printers.(NovaJet Pro 600e Series)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... EnCAD Inc. last week delivered its first wide-format inkjets capable of 600-dpi output. Aimed at the markets for making signs, photographic enlargements and fine-art reproductions, the NovaJet Pro 600e Series is available now in 42-inch and...

Minolta to launch new slide scanner.(Dimage Scan Multi)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... Minolta Corp. this month will debut a speedy slide scanner that will handle film formats as large as 6 by 9 inches. Debuting at PC Expo in New York and shipping shortly after, the Dimage Scan Multi will carry a street price of $2,500. It will...

Extensis updates plug-ins.(Intellihance 3.0.2, Mask Pro, PhotoFrame, PhotoTools 2.0.2)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Keeping pace with new releases, Extensis Corp. recently announced revisions of its entire line of Adobe Photoshop plug-ins that will work with Version 5.0 of the application. Updated and new plug-ins include Version 3.0.2 of Intellihance, an...

Low-cost image editor shoots for novice users.(MicroFrontier's Digital Darkroom 1.2.)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... MicroFrontier Inc. said it intends to give novices a crack at image editing with its new Digital Darkroom application, due this week. Version 1.2 will simplify image editing with easy-to-use filters, tools and other features; the $49.95...

Multimedia: VR vendors to ship stitching tools.(Enroute's QuickStich 360, Roundabout Logic Nodester 1.5)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... Virtual reality vendors Enroute Inc. and Roundabout Logic Inc. recently announced tools for warping images into perspective. Enroute in July will release QuickStitch 360, a $69.95 panorama stitcher that creates QuickTime VR movies. The product...

NewTek adds rendering finesse to LightWave 3D.(LightWave 3D 5.6)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... NewTek last week shipped a free update designed to ease rendering tasks for users of its 3-D animation software. Version 5.6 of the $1,995 LightWave 3D integrates a new, volumetric rendering function called HyperVoxels within LightWave's...

Sonic revs CD, DVD authoring.(Sonic Solutions)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... Sonic Solutions in May rolled out new authoring hardware and software for CDs and Digital Video Discs and revealed plans for future enhancements to its product line. At the Audio Engineering Society Convention in Amsterdam, Sonic announced...

Hash: Model app.(Hash's Animation:Master 98 3D app) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 1998... Martin Hash's Animation:Master 98 stands out from other Mac 3-D applications because it's designed for computer-generated character animation, not environment building or logo flying. You won't find tools to import and extrude EPS artwork, you...

Macromedia generates Flash graphics.(Flash Generator)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... Macromedia Inc. in May released a public beta of Flash Generator, its server software for real-time, data-driven Web graphics and animations. The software is available for Windows only. Scheduled to ship this summer, the software serves data...

Rockstar's Monkey helps Internet setup.(Rockstar Studio's Setup Monkey 3.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Rockstar Studios Inc. last week rolled out Internet Setup Monkey 3.0, the latest version of its tool for automating the installation of Internet applications. Aimed at Internet service providers (ISPs) that want to simplify installation of...

New components arrive for WebObjects.(Advis' Java Presentation Framework)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Apple and Advis Inc. in May rolled out three components for extending the business capabilities of applications built in WebObjects, Apple's high-end Web development system. The companies are offering Advis SAP R/3 Adaptor for WebObjects,...

Summary tracks Web server stats.(Summary.Net)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Summary.Net in May rolled out a new Web server analysis tool. Summary can generate reports on 60 server statistics, the company said. Summary lets Web administrators track the modem speed at which users connect to their sites. Webmasters can...

Working the Net: With the iMac, Apple shows it's thinking different. (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 1998... Back in January, I offered some ideas for how Apple could revitalize its position on the Internet. One suggestion was an "Internet computer" based on an all-in-one Mac with Internet software and the necessary hardware. I said it was time for...

Publisher tackles on-demand printing.(Simon & Schuster) (Technology Information)
June 1, 1998... Those who assume that on-demand printing is fancy photocopying done by reproduction shops may want to think again. Book publisher Simon & Schuster of Upper Saddle River, N.J., is using on-demand printing technology to add millions of dollars to...

Integration: DesignWorkshopnow in Windows.(Artifice's DesignWorkshop)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Artifice Inc. in May released its DesignWorkshop line of 3-D conceptual modeling software for Windows 95 and NT. Unveiled at the American Institute of Architects Exposition in San Francisco, DesignWorkshop, which until now was Power Mac-only,...

OnDemand serves up ImageRite.(OnDemand Imaging's ImageRite PrinterServer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... OnDemand Imaging Corp. recently released ImageRite PrintServer, its Windows NT print server software for color copiers. Based on a Windows Object Language Format (WOLF) interpreter, the $4,995 software supports direct printing from Windows...

IMSI to improve Click & Create suite.(International Microcomputer Software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... International Microcomputer Software Inc., also known as IMSI, last week announced plans to introduce a new version of Click & Create, the object-oriented multimedia-authoring package it acquired from Corel Corp. last year. The software...

Sun to revise Ultras.(Sun Microsystems' Ultra 450 workstation, Ultra 10 system)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... Continuing to expand its strategy to move into the publishing market, Sun Microsystems Inc. is poised to boost the performance of its high-end lines, while cutting prices on its entry-level workstations. The company quietly took the wraps off...

Integration: Backpanel. (Question and Answer)
June 1, 1998... Q Will I be able to run Windows 98 on a Macintoshwith one of the Windows emulators or Pentium coprocessors? A Yes. So far I've been able to run a Windows 98 beta on Connectix Corp.'s Virtual PC 2.0 and on Orange Micro Inc.'s OrangePC 550 card...

Integration: X-platform changes should be manna to FileMaker faithful. (Product Information)
June 1, 1998... The folks at FileMaker Inc. like to say that their database, which has an 85 percent Mac market share, defines the platform's database space. The company said it isn't doing too badly in the Windows arena either, with about 20 percent of database...

VST preps add-ons for PowerBooks.(VST Technologies' Zip100 drive)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 1998... VST Technologies Inc. said it expects to ship a handful of add-ons for Apple's newest G3 PowerBooks by the end of the month. Among the new products will be internal hard drives that fit in the portable's expansion bay. The company's 2-Gbyte...

FaceSpan utility polishes AppleScript. (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 1, 1998... Despite having been neglected for long periods by Apple, AppleScript has become a key technology for the Macintosh platform and is widely used to create custom programs and add-ons in the fields of prepress, Internet services, database publishing...

Gemini 112K modem to join connections.(Transend)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Transend Corp. is completing work on the Gemini 112K Modem, due by August. The 112-Kbps modem will use the V.90 56-Kbps standard and include two 56-Kbps data pumps. The device will require just one serial port, the company said; however, the...

Peripheral buys NewerRAM division.(Peripheral Enhancements, Newer Technology) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Memory vendor Peripheral Enhancements Corp. announced that it has purchased the RAM division of Newer Technology Inc. According to Peripheral, the acquisition should be completed this month. The company said it will keep the NewerRAM brand name...

DPT ships Fibre Channel RAID.(Distributed Processing Technology's RAIDstation7 Fibre Channel Storage Array systems.)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... Distributed Processing Technology Inc. last week delivered its RAIDstation7 Fibre Channel Storage Array systems. The front-loading, hot-swappable enclosure is available in tower and 19-inch rackmounted models. According to the company, the...

MacInTouch: QT's Windows-like AutoPlay hosts a nasty Mac worm.(QuickTime) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1998... A series of Macintosh viruses a decade ago triggered development of effective antiviral tools, and the Mac environment has been surprisingly free from virus problems over the years. New dangers come with new programming mechanisms, however, and a...

Mac the Knife: Viagra falls. (Humor)
June 1, 1998... As a self-styled postmodern Cuisinart of the eclectic and the obscure, Mac the Knife draws strength and sustenance from gleaning the feng shui of seemingly random historical events. This week, the Knife is breaking out the fondue forks and...

News: Goodbye, Rhapsody?(Apple's operating system) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 8, 1998... It's official: Rhapsody as a strategy is dead. But the technology lives on. "It is pretty clear coming out of WWDC that Rhapsody isn't a strategy anymore," said Ken Bereskin, Apple director of OS technologies, worldwide product marketing. For...

News: Fusion 3 forges FileMaker link.(NetObjects Fusion 3.0 for the Mac)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... NetObjects Inc. plans to bring interactivity and enhanced database integration to the Mac Web authoring crowd. The company this week will release a public beta version of NetObjects Fusion 3.0 for the Mac, which features drag-and-drop integration...

News: Web vector formats square off.(Vector Markup Language, Precision Graphics Markup Language, Web Schematics) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 8, 1998... The list of developers looking to shape the future of Web graphics is growing. Microsoft Corp. and several supporters in May submitted a proposal for a vector-graphics format to the World Wide Web Consortium, bringing the number of submissions to...

News: Apple turns Searchlight on Mac gray marketers.(Searchlight Program to identify gray marketers) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 8, 1998... In its latest move to clean up its retail channels, Apple is threatening legal action against gray marketers -- computer dealers that sell Macs to consumers and other resellers without Apple's permission. Responding to "reseller and customer...

Review: Stylus 5000: Proof positive.(Epson America's Stylus Pro 5000 tabloid-size printer) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 8, 1998... It's no exaggeration to say that Epson America Inc.'s Stylus Pro 5000 is the most important proofing product to appear in years. This tabloid-size printer offers print quality and color fidelity previously found only in products that cost two to...

News: Gray marketers caught in Searchlight.(Apple's Searchlight Program intended to identify unauthorized Mac dealers, or gray marketers, shows the company's loyalty to its honest resellers) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 8, 1998... While free-market purists may decry Apple's Searchlight Program, the company's latest offensive against unauthorized Mac dealers the so-called gray marketers -- offers a compelling demonstration of support for the company's loyal core of...

News: Hot List; check it out.(Web services that check sites for errors and bloated graphics) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 8, 1998... Checking over a complex Web site for errors and bloated graphics can make almost as long as building the site in the first place. Luckily, a range of Web-based services that do the checking for you are springing up. Here's a selection. * GIF...

News: Mactell revamps G3 upgrade cards.(Mactell's PowerJolt G3 upgrade cards)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Mactell Corp. last week shipped new versions of its PowerPC upgrade cards that the company said use new cache and bus designs. For boards with 512 Kbytes of Level 2 backside cache running at a 2-to-1 ratio, Mactell has a $549 233-MHz PowerJolt...

News: Tango Enterprise for Mac arrives.(EveryWare Development's Tango Enterprise 3.1 for the Mac allows Web developers to link databases to their sites)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... EveryWare Development Inc. last week released Tango Enterprise 3.1 for the Mac, a package that allows Web developers to link databases to their sites. The software offers a visual development environment for creating Web applications and lets...

News: Font utility adds foreign OS support.(Aedvantage's Fonts Manager 3.8 font-control shareware)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Aedvantage in May upgraded Fonts Manager, a shareware utility that controls fonts in much the same way that Extensions Manager controls extensions and control panels. Fonts Manager 3.8 uses font sets to make sense of the Fonts folder. Users...

Graphic Arts: OptiCal recalibrates. (Color Partnership's OptiCal 2.5 cross-platform monitor-calibration software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 8, 1998... The Color Partnership last week released an update to OptiCal, its cross-platform monitor-calibration package. Version 2.5 brings OptiCal in line with the latest version of Apple's ColorSync software and adds calibration controls for film and...

Graphic Arts: YARC boosts color handling.(YARC Systems' two PostScript 3 raster image processors)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... YARC Systems Corp. last week announced two PostScript 3 RIPs with enhanced color management capabilities. The $3,665 Canon Laser Copier YARC RIP drives eight models of Canon copiers, including the CLC 750 and CLC 800. The $3,495 wide-format...

Graphic Arts: Optimizer II Plus eases imagesetting.(Executive Publications' Optimizer II Plus version 2.5.9 optimizes output from third-party PostScript imagesetters and platesetters)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Executive Publications SA last week released a new version of Optimizer II Plus that makes it easier to optimize output from a variety of third-party PostScript imagesetters and platesetters. Version 2.5.9 of Optimizer II Plus is available now...

Graphic Arts: Ricoh camera offers JPEG, TIFF options.(Ricoh's RDC-4300 digital camera)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Ricoh Corp. last week shipped its latest digital camera, the $899 RDC-4300. Unlike most digital cameras, which compress every captured image, an option on the RDC-4300 lets users store a single uncompressed TIFF on a 4-Mbyte removable SmartMedia...

Graphic Arts: Toshiba to debut two cameras.(the PDR-M1 and PDR-5 digital cameras)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... At next week's PC Expo in New York, Toshiba Imaging Systems plans to unveil two new digital cameras. The PDR-M1, with a street price of $900, will feature a half-inch, 1.5-million-pixel CCD sensor and a glass lens equivalent to that of a 35mm...

Graphic Arts: Hot Door's Harmony helps with color combos.(the Hot Door Harmony Photoshop plug-in for viewing, creating and modifying color swatches)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Hot Door Inc. recently released a Photoshop plug-in aimed at graphics professionals who wish to view, create and modify color swatches. The $99 Hot Door Harmony 1.0 module provides an RYB (red, yellow, blue) color wheel that can show as many as...

Graphic Arts: Epson drops price of scanner, reconfigures software bundles.(Epson Expression 636 flatbed scanner)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Epson last week reworked configurations and pricing of its Epson Expression 636 flatbed scanner. The company added new software titles to business and graphics bundles based on the 600-dpi, 36-bit device (see 09.30.96, Page 4) and cut prices...

Review: PhotoFrame clearly edges out the competition.(Extensis's PhotoFrame PhotoShop plug-in) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 8, 1998... With the release of its latest Adobe Photoshop plug-in, PhotoFrame 1.0, Extensis Corp. extends its line of easy-to-use content-creation timesavers. PhotoFrame provides a library of sophisticated edge effects and the means to apply them in a...

Multimedia: Pinnacle ships miroMotion card.(Pinnacle Systems' miroMotion DC30plus video-capture card for the Mac)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Pinnacle Systems Inc. last week shipped the miroMotion DC30plus video-capture card for the Mac. Available now for $1,000, the Motion-JPEG video-capture board is aimed at the corporate, educational and professional markets. It has been shipping...

Multimedia: Pipeline debuts ProVTR 6.0.(Pipeline Digital's ProVTR version 6.0 Adobe Premiere plug-in for controlling videotape decks)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Pipeline Digital Inc. last week launched Version 6.0 of ProVTR, an Adobe Premiere plug-in for controlling videotape decks. Available now for $200, the update adds the capability to make insert edits to tape. The new feature lets users with...

Multimedia: Wired accelerates MPEG-2 streams.(Wired Inc's Jasmine MPEG-2 DVD software for Power Macs now includes the ButaneApp and ButaneMux video streaming software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Wired Inc. last week said it cut the creation time for MPEG-2 streams by more than half when it released new versions of its Butane encoding and multiplexing applications. ButaneApp and ButaneMux are bundled in Jasmine, Wired's $6,499...

Multimedia: Arboretum updates audio tool.(Arboretum Systems' Hyperprism 2.0, Ionizer 1.2 and Ray Gun 1.1 professional audio software)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Arboretum Systems Inc. in late May updated its Hyperprism, Ionizer and Ray Gun professional audio tools. Hyperprism 2.0 now supports multiprocessing and adds several new effects for use with live or recorded audio input, Arboretum said. Users...

Multimedia: Digital video plug-ins lend finesse to Premiere.(Synthetic Aperture's Video Finesse set of seven digital video filters for Adobe Premiere 4.2.1 and 5.0)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Synthetic Aperture last week delivered a collection of seven digital video filters designed for use with Adobe Premiere 4.2.1 and 5.0. Video Finesse 1.0 is targeted at video professionals who want to maximize image quality by remaining digital...

Multimedia: Multimixer Xtra 1.5 gains QT 3.0 support.(version 1.5 of Turntable Media's Multimixer Xtra scripting software for Macromedia Director supports QuickTime 3.0)
June 8, 1998... Turntable Media gave multimedia directors and developers a new sound tool when it updated its Multimixer Xtra scripting software in May. The Macromedia Director add-on mixes and pans multiple audio tracks of QuickTime files. Version 1.5, priced...

Multimedia: SuperCard authoring line finds home at IncWell.(IncWell DMG Ltd acquires the SuperCard multimedia authoring products from Allegiant Technologies) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 8, 1998... It's official. IncWell DMG Ltd. became the new owner of the SuperCard line of multimedia-authoring products when shareholders of former parent Allegiant Technologies Inc. approved the deal last week. IncWell said it has immediate plans to...

Multimedia: MetaStream will flow to Windows.(Microsoft licenses the MetaStream 3-D technology recently unveiled by MetaCreations and Intel) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 8, 1998... Microsoft Corp. last week said it has licensed the MetaStream 3-D technology recently unveiled by MetaCreations Corp. and Intel Corp. Microsoft said it will incorporate the 3-D graphics file format and runtime engine into future versions of its...

Review: Xpress success.(Avid Technology's Xpress 2.0 video editing system for the Macintosh) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
June 8, 1998... In the entertainment industry, Avid Technology Inc. virtually owns the market for nonlinear video editing systems. Now the company is seeking the same success in the broader-based corporate and professional markets with Avid Xpress for Macintosh....

Key Frame: Digital effects industry blooms in summer movies.(the success of the movie "Titanic" bodes well for the digital video effects industry) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
June 8, 1998... Not long ago the film industry worried that if "Titanic" failed at the box office, dozens of large and small digital effects houses would fail along with it. Fortunately, "Titanic" has not only succeeded, it has become a phenomena the likes of...

Review: Avid Xpress 2; Easy pro video.(Avid Technology's Xpress 2.0 video editing system) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 8, 1998... Avid Xpress 2.0 for Macintosh * 1/2 Avid Xpress for Macintosh 2.0: 4.5 diamonds In the entertainment industry, Avid Technology Inc. virtually owns the market for nonlinear video editing systems. Now Avid is seeking the same success in the...

Internet: Assimilator writes CGIs for the Mac.(Infinity Solutions' CGI Assimilator version 1.4 code library)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Infinity Solutions Ltd. in May rolled out an upgrade to its CGI code library, CGI Assimilator. In addition to fixing bugs found in the previous version, CGI Assimilator 1.4 includes a number of rewritten code libraries that the company said...

Internet: XML: Is it still too soon to tell?(the outlook for the Extensible Markup Language) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
June 8, 1998... Since the World Wide Web Consortium recommended Extensible Markup Language as a standard early this year, many vendors in the enterprise Web publishing community have found ways to incorporate the emerging technology into high-end development...

Internet: Macromedia sets off final Fireworks.(a Web graphics tool for editing vector objects, bit-map images and text, and for adding interactivity and animation)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... A new breed of all-in-one Web graphics tools is emerging, and Macromedia Inc. last week was first out of the corral with its offering, Fireworks. The cross-platform software, with a street price of $300, offers a unified environment for...

Internet: Shareware utility animates GIF files.(Voget Selbach Entertainment's English version of the VSE Animation Maker 3.1 shareware for creating simple animated GIFs)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 8, 1998... German developer Voget Selbach Entertainment GbRmbH recently released an English version of its shareware tool for creating simple animated GIFs. VSE Animation Maker 3.1 quickly generates animations with unlimited frames. The $20 software...

Internet: Injection generates Web metatags.(Glucose Development's Injection software automatically creates metatags in HTML documents)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Glucose Development Corp. last week posted a public beta version of Injection, a tool for automatically creating metatags in HTML documents. Web authors will be able to drag HTML files and folders onto the Injection icon; the software will...

Productivity: NEC delivers new SuperScript.(NEC Technologies' SuperScript 870 personal laser printer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... NEC Technologies Inc. last week updated its personal laser printer line when it debuted the SuperScript 870, the follow-up to the company's 2-year-old SuperScript 860. The 8-page-per-minute SuperScript 870 prints at 600 dpi and packs 128...

Productivity: VocalTec extends Internet Phone.(VocalTec Communications' Internet Phone version 3.5 cross-platform communications software now connects to regular telephones)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... VocalTec Communications Ltd. recently gave Internet Phone users a way to connect to regular telephones with a new version of its cross-platform communications software. Available for PowerPC-based Macs, Version 3.5 of the $49.95 application...

Productivity: Xante speeds laser printer line.(Xante's Accel-a-Writer 3, Accel-a-Writer 3N and Accel-a-Writer 3G laser printers)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Xante Corp. last week unleashed three high-speed additions to its Accel-a-Writer laser printer line. The $2,395 Accel-a-Writer 3, $2,995 Accel-a-Writer 3N and $3,295 Accel-a-Writer 3G print 20 pages per minute at a resolution of 1,200 dpi....

Productivity: Plug-in makes tech data into graphics.(Octavian Micro Development's OMDI Image Tools Excel add-in converts scientific data into an image)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Octavian Micro Development Inc. recently released OMDI Image Tools 1.0, an Excel add-in that lets technical users turn scientific data into an image. Aimed primarily at researchers who want to represent data in a graphical form, the $28 Image...

Productivity: Assimilator utility keeps Macs in line.(Stairways Shareware's Assimilator 2.0.1 network configuration management software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Stairways Shareware in May gave administrators more ways to keep lab machines in line with the release of Assimilator 2.0.1. Like previous versions of the $10 shareware tool, Assimilator 2.0.1 lets administrators make all Macintoshes in a lab...

Productivity: Kaetron updates charting app.(version 5.5 of Kaetron Software's TopDown Flowcharter business charting and diagramming software adds tools and Web export functions)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 8, 1998... Kaetron Software Corp. recently updated its TopDown Flowcharter business charting and diagramming program, adding a variety of tools and Web export capabilities. Version 5.5 of the $199 cross-platform application offers a wider range of...