MacWEEK articles from March 1998

MacWEEK archives from March 1998

News: Apple preps new CPUs; Wall Street PB now due in May. (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Apple's upcoming high-end PowerBook, code-named Wall Street, will reportedly pack a few surprises when it ships in early May, including a fast system bus, expanded video output capabilities and a completely redesigned case. Sources said...

News: Mac servers will feature G3, fast I/O. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... The Mac brand name will finally find its way to Apple's server line this month. Sources said the company plans to roll out two Macintosh Server G3 systems, its first server models to run the speedy PowerPC 750 processor, also known as...

News: Ultimate will serve up myriad prepress tools.(Ultimate Technographics' Ultimate Server Suite, UltimateFlow for the Mac, Printdesk print server software, and Estimate job-costing software)(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1998... Ultimate Technographics Inc. this month will deliver a battery of new and updated prepress tools for professional print publishers. At Seybold Seminars New York 98, the company will roll out the Ultimate Server Suite, a new client-server...

Analysis: Illustration heating up; Macromedia, Corel challenge Illustrator's market dominance.(Adobe Systems' illustration software) (Product Information)
March 2, 1998... Competition in the illustration market is mounting as new versions of Macromedia Inc.'s FreeHand and Corel Corp.'s CorelDraw suite put pressure on market leader Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator holds a commanding lead over FreeHand in the...

News: ACI to join Rhapsody ranks, 4th Dimension port on track.(ACI US' relational DBMS)(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1998... ACI US Inc. last week said it intends to make the jump to Rhapsody. The company announced it will port the server portion of its 4th Dimension relational database to Apple's upcoming, high-powered OS. The 4D database already runs on Mac...

News: Peripheral boosts memory on G3s.(Peripheral Enhancements RAM upgrade) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Peripheral Enhancements Corp. last week announced the availability of a 256-Mbyte memory module for Apple's Power Mac G3 desktop and minitower CPUs. The module measures 1.15 inches, allowing it to fit into the smaller case of the G3...

News: DenebaCAD rev offers new tools.(version 1.5 of Deneba Software's CAD software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Deneba Software Inc. shipped its DenebaCAD upgrade last week. Free to registered users, Version 1.5 includes new Elliptical arc, Three-point ellipse and Leader Text tools, Deneba said. DXF support and object trim and dimensioning features...

Editorial: The right fit for the market?(Apple's Wall Street laptop and G3 servers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Spanning both servers and PowerBooks, Apple's forthcoming CPU rollouts offer a study in contrasts. Both the new Wall Street laptop and G3 servers will be the latest installments in serial design and marketing dramas. The PowerBook once...

News: Marathon racks up G3 Macs.(Marathon Computer RackMac TS/G3 PowerPC-based system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Marathon Computer Inc. added a system based on the PowerPC 750 (G3) processor to its line of rackmounted Macs in February. Now shipping, the RackMac TS/G3 is the same model as the previously announced RackMac line (see 06.09.97, Page 7),...

News: For the record.(Correction Notice)
March 2, 1998... Contrary to a story in the Feb. 16 issue about Sony Electronics Inc.'s new digital video products (Page 1), the DVCam line will support 4:1:1 compression. In the same issue, Ric Ford's MacInTouch column (Page 26) should have noted that...

News: Apple numbers looking up. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Mac sales may be rebounding in certain markets, two new surveys report. Apple in January came in third among big sellers in the personal computer retail market, according to a survey by PC Data Inc. released last week. Also, a review by...

News: W3C proposes math standard.(World Wide Web Consortium, Mathematical Markup Language) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... The World Wide Web Consortium last week released its recommendation for Mathematical Markup Language, a proposed standard for displaying mathematical and scientific information on the Web. Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML, is based...

News: APS trims prices of tape drives.(Alliance Peripheral Systems HyperDAT, HyperQIC) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Storage vendor Alliance Peripheral Systems Inc., better known as APS, recently cut the prices of several tape drives. The company reduced the price of its HyperDAT drive from $849.95 to $599.95. The drive ships in APS' Pro enclosure. Each...

News: Qualcomm issues beta of EIMS 2.1.(Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Qualcomm Inc. in February released a public beta of an update to its Eudora Internet Mail Server. Version 2.1 of the Eudora Internet Mail Server, or EIMS, will allow administrators to take advantage of the multihoming capabilities in Open...

News: StockWatch 02.26.98.(Illustration)
March 2, 1998... 02.26.98 weekly close change Apple 23.44 3.00 NASDAQ 1777.15 50.14 MacWEEK Composite* 135.13 4.39...

Letters: Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 2, 1998... Not WY want In her 02.23.98 column (Page 20), Darcy DiNucci writes of Dreamweaver, Macromedia's Web layout program: "At last we've seen a model for WYSIWYG Web layout that works, and it's a trend that's picking up steam." First, I...

Graphic Arts: Heidelberg unveils new asset servers.(Heidelberg USA's DeltaBase asset-management server, SignaSetter Pro imagesetter)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Heidelberg USA Inc. in April will ship a line of Windows NT asset-management servers and update its Signasetter imagesetter. Resembling the company's high-end Unix-based LinoServer line, the new DeltaBase servers will comprise three...

Graphic Arts: AutoTools tunes batches of XPress files.(Macrobyte Resources' PrePress AutoTools)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Aiming to diminish the drudgery of common prepress tasks, Macrobyte Resources recently released PrePress AutoTools. The $289 engine batch-processes QuarkXPress files to create PostScript files or proofs. AutoTools is based on UserLand...

Graphic Arts: LaserSoft breaks out SilverFast.(LaserSoft International's scanning software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... LaserSoft International this month released a stand-alone version of its SilverFast scanning software. While SilverFast has been available in the United States to users of Epson scanners (see 09.29.97, Page 13), the new SilverFast Ai...

Graphic Arts: Painter Classic aims at low-pro market.(MetaCreations' natural-media tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... MetaCreations Corp. this week plans to announced a new version of its natural-media application aimed at the "emerging digital artist." Painter Classic, $99 and due to ship this week, is based on Painter but has a simplified interface,...

Solutions: Macy's West ads arrive via PDF.(Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format) (Company Operations)
March 2, 1998... Much of the talk about Adobe Systems Inc.'s Portable Document Format involves its role in distributing electronic documents, as well as its potential in the prepress industry - once issues of color support, edge enhancement and...

Out of Gamut: QuarkXPress 4.0 adds up to a missed opportunity. (Product Information)(Column)
March 2, 1998... When I learned at Print '97 that Apple had given Quark Inc.'s development team an award for its implementation of ColorSync in QuarkXPress 4.0, I was excited. I hoped for great things. Finally, I thought, ColorSync would get the shot in...

Multimedia: miroMotion to get a boost; New video card twice as fast.(Pinnacle Systems miroMotion DC30 video-capture board)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Pinnacle Systems Inc. in April will reportedly launch a new version of its miroMotion DC30 video-capture board that will provide double the data rates of its predecessor. The miroMotion DC30 Plus will be officially announced in mid-March...

Multimedia: ClickWorks Pro takes two tracks.(version 1.5 of Pitango Multimedia's multimedia authoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Pitango Multimedia Ltd. recently revised its midrange multimedia-authoring package and branched off a slimmed-down version. Version 1.5 of ClickWorks Pro includes support for QuickTime VR. Events can be triggered when the mouse hits a hot...

Multimedia: Allegiant to sell off product line.(Allegiant Technologies SuperCard multimedia-authoring tool) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Allegiant Technologies Inc. last week said it is seeking a buyer for its Mac-based authoring tools. The company is looking to sell off SuperCard, its multimedia-authoring tool; Flamethrower, a tool that adds CGI capabilities to SuperCard;...

Multimedia: Ensemble boxes to link analog, digital sources.(Ensemble Designs Networkable Catalyst CV Switcher and Keyer, Networkable Video Gateway MultiBuffer DS-1, Serial Box Video and Video Convertor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Ensemble Designs in April will release three new products for connecting Macs to broadcast-video production environments. At the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, Ensemble will ship new versions of its Networkable...

Multimedia: Studio Vision Pro tuned up; Opcode adds editing tools in Version 4.0.(Opcode Systems' integrated MIDI-sequencing and digital audio editing package)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Opcode Systems Inc. in mid-March will add a slew of new features to Studio Vision Pro, its integrated MIDI-sequencing and digital audio editing package. Studio Vision Pro 4.0, priced at $995, will expand support for hardware from Avid...

Multimedia: Philips readies Super XGA projector.(Philips Creative Display Solutions ProScreen 4700 Definition)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Philips Creative Display Solutions in February unveiled a high-resolution addition to its ProScreen portable projector line. The ProScreen 4700 Definition, due to ship this month for between $7,000 and $8,000, includes three 1.3-inch...

Internet: EveryWare readies revisions to Tango.(EveryWare Development Tango for FileMaker 3.0 Web database connectivity software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... EveryWare Development Inc. is preparing to ship new versions of its Web-database connectivity offerings. Version 3.0 of Tango for FileMaker, scheduled to ship in mid-March, and Tango Enterprise, due in early April, will provide a visual...

Internet: RealNetworks takes over Vivo.(Vivo Software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Hoping to extend its grasp of streaming media, RealNetworks Inc. last week bought video software developer Vivo Software Inc. RealNetworks of Seattle said it purchased Vivo's technology, customer base and intellectual property. In...

Internet: Traffic Report to drive site stats.(Advanced Reality Communications)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Webmasters who want to analyze their sites' traffic gained another option in February when Advanced Reality Communications Inc. released a beta version of Traffic Report. Expected to arrive in final form in April, Traffic Report will...

Internet: Welcome Plug-in does virtual domains.(Andreas Pardeike's multihoming program)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... German shareware author Andreas Pardeike recently released an upgrade to Pardeike's Welcome Plug-in, a $20 tool aimed at Webmasters seeking an inexpensive multihoming program. Welcome uses host-field mapping to redirect browser requests...

Internet: Microsoft ships Explorer tool kit.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Microsoft Corp. last week unleashed a package to help IS administrators juggle multiple copies of its Internet Explorer browser. The free Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 4.01, available now for Mac OS, Unix, and Windows 3.1...

Internet: Imagina delivers enhancements to Newstand server.(version 1.0.1 of Usenet newsgroup server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Imagina Inc. in late February updated Newstand, its Usenet newsgroup server. Version 1.0.1 adds an enhanced user interface, features better integration with popular newsgroup clients and offers improved downstream feeding of articles...

Internet: Web Tools Beat.(Maxum Development NetCloak 2.5.2 and NetForms 2.5.2 Web server add-ons, GoLive Systems' CyberStudio 2.0.3 Web authoring software, Connectix's Surf Express 1.1.1 Web browser accelerator)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Maxum revises server add-ons. Maxum Development Corp. in February moved two of its Web server add-ons, NetCloak and NetForms, up to Version 2.5.2. The revisions improve compatibility with Web servers that support Secure Sockets Layer and...

Productivity: Qualcomm unifies Now acquisitions.(Eudora Planner) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Eudora Planner, Qualcomm Inc.'s unified incarnation of Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact, is currently in private beta testing and due to arrive as a public beta for the Mac sometime this month. It's scheduled to ship during the second...

Productivity: Screenplay splits Dramatica line.(Screenplay Systems Dramatica Pro 3.0, Movie Magic Dramatica 3.0 plot-development applications)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Screenplay Systems Inc. last week split the focus of Dramatica when it released two new versions of the plot-development application. Meanwhile, on the financial side of film production, the company recently released a major update to...

Productivity: Aladdin to beef up Flashback tracking.(version 1.1 of Aladdin Systems' version-tracking utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Aladdin Systems Inc. is prepping an update to its $69.95 Flashback version-tracking utility. The upgrade and a new Windows version are due this month. Responding to requests from its corporate customers, Aladdin said Flashback 1.1 will...

Productivity: ACI nails bugs in4D tool line.(ACI US 4th Dimension 6.0.5 DBMS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... ACI US Inc. has posted a free update to its 4th Dimension line of database products. 4D 6.0.5, available from the Web site of the company's French wing (http://www.aci.fr), nails a variety of bugs in the Mac and Windows versions of...

Productivity: d.i.d. does medical billing.(d.i.d. Circle Organization's Medical Billing Circle billing and scheduling package)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... The d.i.d. Circle Organization in late February released a medical billing and scheduling package aimed at doctors and claims processors. The Medical Billing Circle maintains billing hierarchies when dealing with the carriers, patients,...

Productivity: CrystalDiffract now edits.(version 2.0 of CrystalMaker Software's scientific-visualization package)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... CrystalMaker Software in February released Version 2.0 of CrystalDiffract, updating the interface and adding editing functions to the scientific-visualization package. The free program, designed as a companion application for...

Mac Manager: Mac Manager; Are we "trending up"? Mac managers report a warm front ahead. (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
March 2, 1998... This past week I started getting the weirdest feeling, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the result of something I ate, drank or inhaled. Instead, this strange sensation resulted from a spate of e-mail from other Mac managers and Mac...

Systems: Hardware Research puts Macs in racks. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Mac systems newcomer Hardware Research Inc. last week rolled out several lines of rackmounted Macs aimed at professional audio and video production. The company equips its HR Rackmounted systems with the PowerPC 750, also called G3, and...

Systems: La Cie and Smile roll out monitors.(Smile International CA6919-SL 19-inch color monitor, La Cie Electron21/108 21-inch color monitor)(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1998... New CRT-based monitors from Smile International Inc. and La Cie Ltd. made their way to market in late February. Smile's product, a 19-inch model called the CA6919SL, is based on a flat square CRT and boasts an 18-inch diagonal viewable...

Systems: Anubis gets boost.(CharisMac Engineering's Anubis Plus 3.0 hard drive utility software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... CharisMac Engineering Inc. recently rolled out a new name and new capabilities for Anubis, its hard drive utility software. Anubis Plus 3.0 adds support for the new Mac OS Extended Format, also known as HFS Plus, that made its debut with...

Systems: Dayna adds 100Base T to Ethernet hub line.(Dayna Communications DaynaStar FastHub-8)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Dayna Communications Inc. expanded its line of Fast Ethernet devices at the end of February. The company shipped the DaynaStar FastHub-8, an eight-port 100Base T hub. The $309 networking device comes with diagnostic LEDs for each port and...

Systems: InterMapper ships.(version 2.0 of Dartmouth College's network mapping and monitoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Version 2.0 of InterMapper, the $795 software for network mapping and monitoring from Dartmouth College, shipped at the end of February. The revision lets administrators monitor servers, create strip charts of network statistics and...

Systems: Viking modems to embrace V.90 standard.(Viking Components) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1998... Viking Components Inc. said it will release this month a free firmware update that will bring its modems in line with the emerging V.90 specification for 56-Kbps modems. Users will be able to download the update from Viking's Web site....

MacInTouch: Apple's partnership with ex-rival Microsoft remains a mystery. (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
March 2, 1998... Steve Jobs and Bill Gates last August announced a five-year business deal with enormous implications, but we have yet to see many details or results from the pact. The August news release dutifully reported Microsoft Corp.'s $150 million...

Mac the Knife: The freewheelin' Mac the Knife. (News Briefs)(Column)
March 2, 1998... Common decency and state laws require that Mac the Knife kick off this column with an explanation of his disappearance from last week's issue, when your humble narrator abruptly left this column in the meaty yet nimble paws of Brett the...

News: Agfa nears Apogee for PDF production.(Apogee Publishing Production System) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Bayer Corp.'s Agfa division expects it has just the ticket for prepress rapid transit. The company next week will demonstrate its Apogee Publishing Production System at Seybold Seminars New York 98. The forthcoming modular, high-end Apogee...

News: EnFocus tool to find, fix PDF glitches.(EnFocus Software Ferrari autocorrection software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... EnFocus Software Inc. will hit the road next week at Seybold Seminars New York 98 with Ferrari, the code name for new autocorrection software for PostScript and Portable Document Format files. The company will also roll out an upgrade to...

News: Dantz to add FTP uploading to Retrospect.(Dantz Development Spot add-on) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Backups will soon go long distance, sources said, courtesy of an add-on to Dantz Development Corp.'s Retrospect software that will let users back up across the Internet. Aimed at enterprise sites with many mobile users, the plug-in,...

News: NewTek to roll out $500 3-D software.(Inspire 3D graphics software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... NewTek will introduce a 3-D package next week at Seybold Seminars New York 98 that targets professional creators of multimedia, print and Web graphics. Inspire 3D, priced at $495 and due later this month, will perform modeling, surfacing...

News: Macromedia preps FireWorks.(image-editing application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Macromedia Inc. this week will reportedly launch a new Internet salvo with FireWorks, an image-editing application tailored to the needs of Webmasters. Sources said the San Francisco-based company will unveil a public beta of FireWorks...

News: STiNG to squeeze images.(Iterated Systems image-handling technologies)(includes related article on fractal compression) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Iterated Systems Inc. has big plans for image compression. Despite the widespread use of pixel-based compression schemes such as JPEG and GIF, Iterated is hoping its fractal-based mathematics will transform the way prepress and graphics...

News: Metacreations brushes up 3-d tool.(Painter 3D painting tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... MetaCreations Corp. this week will unveil a revision of its Detailer 3-D painting tool. Renamed MetaCreations Painter 3D, the $449 software will ship this spring and include new features for painting directly on 3-D models in real time,...

News: La Cie makes deal to buy APS assets.(APS Technologies) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... A new storage powerhouse is in the works as La Cie Ltd. last week signed an agreement to purchase the assets of Alliance Peripheral Systems Inc., more commonly known as APS Technologies Inc. The offer follows the late-January filing for...

Editorial: You can't always get what you want.(Editorial)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... As many an aspiring New Age ascetic has discovered, finding your focus is no easy task. If getting centered is difficult for an individual, imagine the challenges faced by a large corporation like Apple. Consider last week's hodgepodge of...

News: Newer preps PB G3 upgrades.(Newer Technology NUpower G3 250/166, NUpower G3 216/108 processor upgrades)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Moving older notebooks into the fast lane, Newer Technology Inc. last week rolled out two new processor upgrade cards for the PowerBook 1400c line. The swap boosts the entry-level system to the top of the performance chart, the company...

News: StockWatch 03.09.98.(Illustration)
March 9, 1998... 03.09.98 Weekly Close Change Apple 26.02 .62 Nasdaq 1711.92 -66.23 MacWEEK Composite 136.09 .96 Adaptec ...

Graphic Arts: Ultre to deliver dry imagesetter.(Heidelberg Group Ultre 5400dri imagesetter)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... The Heidelberg Group's Ultre capstan imagesetter wing next week will roll out a new dry-imaging model in its Ultre 5400 line. The Ultre 5400dri, which will start at $38,000, features imaging technology that Ultre developed in partnership...

Graphic Arts: ScanMaker 5 quality makes an impression.(Microtek Lab scanner) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Microtek Lab Inc.'s $2,999 ScanMaker 5 is a lot of scanner for the money, particularly at its $2,500 street price. Its impressive specs include an optical resolution of 1,000 by 2,000 pixels per inch and a dynamic range of 3.4. It...

Graphic Arts: FilmStar 2 to double up processing.(Xante film processor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Xant Corp. last week announced the FilmStar 2, a new film processor the company said will process positive and negative film in less time than traditional photographic methods. The $995 unit, which Xant said features improvements in...

Graphic Arts: Epson inkjet proofer to ship this month.(Epson America Stylus 5000)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Epson America Inc. last week took the wraps off its new large-format Stylus 5000 inkjet proofer. As previously reported, Epson's six-color, tabloid-size inkjet for the proofing market is set to ship at the end of the month for less than...

Graphic Arts: InkWell sharpens film-imaging app.(InkWell Software FilmMagic Pro)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... InkWell Software Inc. of Atlanta this month enhanced FilmMagic Pro, the company's Mac-based imaging software for film recorders. Like the original version, FilmMagic Pro 2.0 has a PostScript Level 2-compatible RIP and automatically...

Multimedia: Nexus GA accelerates the creative process; Card offers good high-resolution 2-D and 3-D performance.(ATI Technologies PCI card) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Not content with a leading role in the "affordable" video solutions market, ATI Technologies Inc. has gone upscale with its new Nexus GA. Based on the company's proprietary Rage Pro chip, the PCI card's combination of conventional...

Multimedia: Avid rolls out Xpress 2.0.(Avid Technology Xpress Digital Video 2.0 editing system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Avid Technology Inc. shipped Version 2.0 of its Xpress Digital Video nonlinear editing system at the end of February. Formerly known as MCXpress for Macintosh, the Xpress system was announced at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco...

Multimedia: Cakewalk to compose new music, MIDI apps.(Cakewalk Music Software InConcert music accompaniment software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Cakewalk Music Software will ship a new music accompaniment program for keyboard players in mid-March. The company will also release a major update to Metro, its MIDI sequencing application. The accompaniment program, called In Concert,...

Multimedia: Pinnacle ships FireWire DV capture board.(Pinnacle Systems miroVideo DV300 FireWire)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Pinnacle Systems Inc. began shipping its miroVideo DV300 FireWire digital video-capture board at the end of February. Originally due to ship in December, the $800 DV300 is a PCI board with a FireWire interface for connecting to digital...

Multimedia: Searching for the silver lining in Apple's dark clouds.(Keyframe) (News Briefs)(Column)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Three recent products represent great strides for performance, creativity and even more fun with the Mac. Apple's QuickTime 3.0 and QuickTime VR Authoring Studio and iREZ Research Corp.'s Kritter camera and CapSure card are bright spots...

Internet: WEB FM moves to 4.(Web Broadcasting's FileMaker-to-Web connection tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Web Broadcasting Corp. this week at Spring Internet World in Los Angeles will release WEB FM 4.0, the latest version of the company's FileMaker-to-Web connection tool. WEB FM, which works as a plug-in to Mac Web servers such as StarNine...

Internet: Big Board tackles conferencing.(Steve Wilmes Consulting)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Steve Wilmes Consulting Inc. this month rolled out a FileMaker Pro-based conferencing system for Web sites. The company's Big Board, priced at $149.81 and available now, works in conjunction with FileMaker Pro 4.0 and Lasso 2.5 from Blue...

Internet: ShareWay IP Professional out the door.(Open Door Networks Internet Protocol connectivity tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Open Door Networks Inc. in February rounded out its network offerings when it shipped the Professional edition of ShareWay IP, the company's Internet Protocol connectivity tool. The product, introduced in January, lets...

Internet: Quickscape 1.0 speeds Web access.(Quickscape's Internet navigation utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Quickscape Inc. hopes to make Web browsing faster and easier with Quickscape 1.0, an Internet navigation utility. Available now, Quickscape 1.0 is a Java-based application that browses Web pages and downloads only links and corresponding...

Internet: DynaMorph adds dynamic graphics.(Morph Technologies scripting technology)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Morph Technologies Inc. last week added dynamic graphics features to DynaMorph, the company's server-side scripting technology. Version 1.6 of the package can create graphics using data contained in a database, file or form submission....

Working the Net: Making connections with Internet servers: A quick and dirty guide. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Column)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Reader Doug Crichlow recently wrote to complain that Mac Internet servers may be cheap and easy, but setting up the connections seems just the opposite. Although details and prices vary widely by location, here's a quick-and-dirty guide...

Productivity: Okidata debuts workgroup lasers.(Okipage 10i, 10i/n monochrome lasers, Okipage 8c color laser printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Okidata this month released three new workgroup printers: the Okipage 10i and Okipage 10i/n - monochrome laser devices aimed at small businesses - and the Okipage 8c color laser printer. The Okipage 10i series is based on a MIPS R3000...

Productivity: Xant ships PostScript 3 for 8300.(Xante Accel-a-Writer 8300 laser printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Xant Corp. last week announced the availability of Adobe PostScript 3 on its Accel-a-Writer 8300 laser printer. The printer, introduced in 1996 (see 01.15.96, Page 12), can print on paper up to 12 by 25 inches and can produce full-bleed...

Productivity: EndNote gets grip on Web.(Niles Software EndNote 3.0 bibliographic database software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Niles Software Inc. last week released a major upgrade to its cross-platform EndNote bibliographic database software. Version 3.0 adds access to Internet research sources, lets users publish Web references and provides support for...

Productivity: ClearPhone boosts audio with QT 3.(Engineering Consulting's ClearPhone 4.3.2, QuickTime 3.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Engineering Consulting last week launched the first videoconferencing application to take advantage of a new high-fidelity voice compressor-decompressor built into QuickTime 3.0. Thanks to the PureVoice compressor-decompressor, or codec,...

Productivity: Insider CD delivers software updates.(Insider Software InsiderUpdates CD Edition)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Insider Software Inc. in February introduced a new CD-ROM package aimed at keeping Mac software installations up to date. InsiderUpdates CD Edition will offer users quarterly CD-ROM releases. Each pair of discs will include more than 1...

Productivity: QMS cuts printer prices.(QMS 4060 Print System, QMS 2425 Turbo Print System) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... QMS Inc. last week announced a round of price cuts to two lines of its high-volume office printers, the QMS 4060 Print System and QMS 2425 Turbo Print System. The basic QMS 4060 Print System, which features built-in duplexing, outputs up...

Productivity: CopyPaste offers 100 clipboards.(Script Software International CopyPaste 4.1 shareware)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 9, 1998... Script Software International last week delivered a new version of CopyPaste, its shareware replacement for the Mac Clipboard. CopyPaste 4.1 comes with 100 clipboards in 10 sets of 10, up from a total of 10 clipboards available with...