MacWEEK articles from May 1996

MacWEEK archives from May 1996

June debut for UMAX multiprocessor tower. (UMAX Computer's SuperMac S900L and SuperMac S900D systems)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 1996... Chosen by Apple to drive the Mac OS in Taiwanese markets, UMAX Computer Corp. this week will complete its strategy flip-flop by releasing models of its six-slot PCI Mac clone in the United States. Volume shipments will begin in June, the company...

Java to filter into Mac OS and OpenDoc. (Apple and other vendors announce Java licensing agreements) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 6, 1996... Sun Microsystems Inc. has just about accomplished its goal of Java ubiquity. At Spring Internet World 96 in San Jose, Calif., last week a string of operating system vendors, including Apple, said they had licensed Sun's programming language and...

Loma Prieta app to rock PageMill. (San Andreas Systems' Web page editor) (Product Development)
May 6, 1996... Hoping to follow in the foot-steps of Ceneca Communications Inc., which struck gold with PageMill and drew the attention of Adobe Systems Inc., a small Silicon Valley company is privately showing a new cross-platform Web-page editor that borrows...

Dantz to step into Windows. (Dantz Development's Remote Pack for Windows 95/NT backup software)(includes related article on Storage Management System architecture)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 1996... Dantz Development Corp., long the dominant force in Macintosh backup software, is reportedly ready to make its long-delayed debut in the world of Intel-standard PCs. Sources said Remote Pack for Windows 95/NT is slated to ship next month and...

ScanView flatbed scanner to take shot at high end. (ScanMate F8)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 1996... ScanView Inc. will move into the flatbed scanner market this month with a high-design, high-end model aimed at graphics professionals. The ScanMate F8 marks ScanView's first foray into a segment of digital imaging staked out by Linotype-Hell...

PowerBook pair due in fall after low-end laptop delay; PCI-based model aims for 200 MHz. (Apple's Epic and Hooper notebook computers) (Product Development)
May 6, 1996... Apple has reportedly delayed the introduction of Epic, its CD-ROM-equipped PowerBook originally due in July. According to sources, the company will now introduce the machine in October along with Hooper, its PCI-capable PowerBook. Epic will...

'Alternative' music to my ears. (IBM increases support for PowerPC platform) (MacWEEK Insider) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
May 6, 1996... I was very encouraged last week to hear an IBM Corp. executive describe the PowerPC reference design. He used two important words: "alternative platform." Those welcome words suggest a possibility of success for the PowerPC alliance, even after...

Fractal revenue increases 85 percent in fourth quarter. (Fractal Design Corp) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Completing its first full quarter as a public company, Fractal Design Corp. reported a resounding 85 percent increase in revenues. For its fourth quarter of fiscal 1995, ended March 31, net revenues rose to $6.55 million from $3.53 million in...

Asante gives boost to Open Transport. (Asante Technologies' NetDoubler file transfer software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Angling to pick up the pace of Open Transport, Apple's new networking architecture, Asante Technologies Inc. last week delivered NetDoubler. Asante said the software speeds Finder copies and data transfers in other applications by as much as nine...

Big Blue licenses Mac OS. (IBM licenses Mac OS to ease transition to PowerPC Platform) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 6, 1996... IBM plans to build PPCP structure This week IBM Corp.'s chip division will announce a broad license for the Mac OS aimed at easing the adoption of the upcoming PowerPC Platform for existing personal computer suppliers. "We make it...

Market share for Apple drops in Q1. (1st qtr 1996) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 6, 1996... Total U.S. units rise 15 percent A decline in first-quarter unit sales put Apple in the No. 3 or No. 4 position in overall personal computer market share, depending on whose research surveys you read. Dataquest Inc. and International Data Corp....

New LaserJet 5M touts speed, PCL 6. (laser printer from HP; PLC 6 page description language)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Printer boosts graphics, lengthens duty cycle Hewlett-Packard Co. this month shipped the latest in its LaserJet line of black-and-white laser printers. The $2,229 LaserJet 5M replaces the LaserJet 4M Plus and comes with a 33-MHz Intel i960JF...

Groupware for the Internet. (Microsystems Software's CaLANdar WebScheduler and WebView; WebFlow's Same Page Intranet Work Processor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Developers are increasingly latching onto the Internet as the foundation for next-generation groupware applications. Microsystems Software Inc. last week began shipping CaLANdar WebScheduler, which lets remote users access their schedules using...

Microtek kicks in 30-bit flatbed. (Microtek Labs' ScanMaker E3 flatbed color scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Microtek Lab Inc. has rounded out the low end of its flatbed scanner line with a 30-bit-color model. The ScanMaker E6, which starts at $599, joins the $399, 24-bit-color ScanMaker E3 (see 01.22.96, Page 6). The new device's CCD (charge-coupled...

Optix 5 to improve doc links. (Blueridge Technologies' Optix Network 5.0 document-management system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Blueridge Technologies Inc. expects to update its cross-platform Optix Network document-management system in June, adding new file-linking and annotation features. Version 5.0 of the $60,000 system will let users generate links automatically...

Micro Design mounts eight-slot CD tower. (Micro Design International's CD-Express Tower CD-ROM server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Micro Design International Inc. recently released its CD-Express Tower, a new CD-ROM server. The tower holds up to eight quadruple- or sextuple-speed Toshiba CD-ROM mechanisms. A configuration packed with eight 4x drives costs $4,095 and a...

Sony adds to media options. (Sony Electronics' QTR-ISL cartridge and Zip disk)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Sony Electronics Inc. last week began shipping two new flavors of removable media: the QTR-1SL 200-Mbyte Travan technology cartridge and a Sony-branded 100-Mbyte Zip disk for the popular drive from Iomega Corp. The QTR-1SL cartridge, which can...

Java authoring tool aimed at neophytes. (PowerProduction Software's WebBurst multimedia authoring software)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 1996... WebBurst builds applets graphically Until now, Java development has been the exclusive domain of programmers. PowerProduction Software hopes to change all that with an interactive multimedia authoring tool for creating applets in Sun...

autodessys rounds out its modeler line. (form-Z 2.8 and form-Z RenderZone 2.8 modeling software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Three-D developer autodessys Inc. updated its modeler line in April with new versions of form*Z, the company's high-powered 3-D surface and solids modeler, and form*Z RenderZone, an enhanced version that features rendering capabilities. Both...

Streaming MPEG hits Web. (InterVU MPEG Player desktop video software) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... InterVU Inc. will add to its portfolio a new software-only MPEG player that displays video - slowly - as it streams over the Internet. A beta version is available now on the company's Web site; the free final version is due this summer. With...

New video effects span hardware, apps. (Artel Software's Boris Effects 2.0 video plug-in and Pinnacle Systems' GeniePlus and GenieFusion digital effects boards)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 1996... Digital video effects tools are zooming onto the Mac desktop from all angles. From the software perspective, Artel Software Inc. in April released a major revamp to its video effects plug-ins. And taking a hardware slant, Pinnacle Systems Inc....

Navigator Gold beta constructs Web pages. (Netscape Communications Web browser) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... HTML editor creates frames Users of Netscape Communications Corp.'s Web browser can now create the kinds of pages they see, thanks to the free prerelease of Navigator Gold for the Mac, a version of the company's browser featuring HTML editing...

Developers seek simpler way of life. (Macintosh developers) (Industry Trend or Event)
May 6, 1996... Making programming easier is high on the wish lists of many Mac developers as the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference approaches. They hope to find some tools to provide relief at the San Jose, Calif., show this month. "The problem is that...

Oracle tuning Web browser for intranets. (Power Browser Web software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Oracle Corp. plans to turn its Web browser into a searching and publishing tool for intranets. The free Power Browser, due for the Mac this summer, will feature client-side database query tools and a built-in Web server. Oracle said its...

Qualcomm releases beta of next version of Eudora. (Eudora Pro 3.0 E-mail software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Qualcomm Inc. last week started a semipublic beta program for the next version of its Eudora Pro e-mail package. Qualcomm said Version 3.0 will include improved mail filtering and find capabilities, drag-and-drop support, and address book and...

eXodus 6.0 does X Window. (White Pine Software's X Windows System server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Adding native Open Transport support, White Pine Software Inc. last month rolled out eXodus 6.0, the company's X Window System server. The new version, first announced last fall (see 09.04.95, Page 18), is compatible with the latest X protocol,...

WebLock speeds servers, eases security. (Maxum Development's Asynchronous Common Gateway Interface software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Maxum Development Corp. hopes to speed Mac-based Web servers and ease security setup with a utility it shipped last week. WebLock, an ACGI (Asynchronous Common Gateway Interface), functions as a preprocessor for Web servers. The $195 utility...

Which master? (opposing reactions by users and developers to Apple's plan to delay release of Copland Operating system) (Product Information)(Editorial)
May 6, 1996... The news that Copland will not ship until mid-1997 sliced through the Mac world last week and left a curious, twin-tailed pattern of turbulence in its wake. Developers are sanguine; users are mad. The different reactions will rend the Macintosh...

Thinking the unthinkable: time to deep-six Copland. (Apple's operating system)(The Second Decade) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
May 6, 1996... Here's a suggestion for what Apple should do about Copland: Kill it. Am I serious? Frankly, I'm not sure. But I think the idea is worth exploring. The 7.7 alternative Even if Apple can deliver on its latest Copland timetable - no sure...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
May 6, 1996... QTVR ain't out I notice you list Apple's QuickTime VR as a so-called "out" (04.22.96, Page 66). I, as an employee of Electronic Data Systems, say it's alive and well and have evidence of the technology being used in areas of advertising, sales...

Mac eats Windows' dust with new Visioneer release. (Visioneer Communications to release Windows only version of PaperPort scanner)(The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 6, 1996... We all have our favorite third-party software and hardware vendors. One of mine is Visioneer Communications Inc. This little company ran with the simple idea of scanning the paper that buries our desks and getting it quickly into our desktop...

Digital cameras starting to click with photographers. (includes related article about digital cameras in film)(Special Report: MacWEEK Guide to Digital Imaging) (Technology Information)
May 6, 1996... Despite high costs and transition difficulties, digital photography has made significant strides over the past year. Faster and more-sensitive cameras are allowing field professionals to use the technology for portraiture, for newspaper photos...

Not all digital cameras are created equal. (Tech Analysis)(Special Report: MacWEEK Guide to Digital Imaging) (Technology Information)
May 6, 1996... While they still have a long way to go before they supplant film, digital cameras are fast becoming entrenched in various market niches, and it's clear they aren't a fad. But the term "digital camera" is really an umbrella that encompasses...

Through a photographer's lens. (Nikon's E2s digital camera) (Special Report: MacWEEK Guide to Digital Imaging) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)(Column)
May 6, 1996... While returning home from a lecture on digital technology in Chicago, I could not resist the urge to check into the office from 28,000 feet. An editor called to ask if I would be willing to write a column about my experience with digital cameras....

UniQorn 1.0 puts new twists on DTP with good GX tools. (SoftPress Systems' software based on QuickDraw GX technology) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 6, 1996... Score card: UniQorn 1.0 SoftPress Systems Ltd. List price: $399* Overall value: 3 (Good) With UniQorn 1.0, SoftPress Systems has developed a document processor unlike any other. Unsurpassed typographical features, timesaving...

NUpowr 603e card gives PPC boost to PB 500s. (Newer Technology's PowerPC processor upgrade for PowerBook 500s) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
May 6, 1996... Score card: NUpowr Newer Technology Inc. Overall value: 4 (Very good) List price: $590* Newer's NUpowr board for PowerBook 500-series machines puts a PowerPC 603 cranked to 117 MHz in your portable at a very attractive price....

LightningDraw GX 1.0 strikes right GX chord. (Lari Software's draw program uses QuickDraw GX technology) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 6, 1996... Score card: LightningDraw GX 1.01 Lari Software Inc. List price: $299 Overall value: 4 (Very good) LightningDraw GX - the first drawing program to take advantage of QuickDraw GX - enters a software category ruled by two popular,...

Power Mac 5400 a dream with RAM, slot quirks. (Apple's PowerPC-based system)(MacInTouch) (News Briefs)(Column)
May 6, 1996... Ric Ford is moving this week and has taken a well-deserved respite from the duties of the column. Henry Norr and Rick LePage sifted through Ric's pile of tips and tricks to come up with this week's column. Look for Ric to return next week....

Competitive upgrades offer an edge over licensing costs. (Industry Trend or Event)
May 6, 1996... Sidegrading, or competitive upgrading, has become common among systems administrators who are trying to keep users' software up-to-date and keep an eye on the bottom line. Rather than accept generous offers to upgrade all users to an...

IBM Japan has designs on PPCP notebooks. (PowerPC Platform notebooks) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 6, 1996... Behind closed doors, IBM Corp. is reportedly planning to bring the Mac OS to its portable line. In the second half of the year, IBM of Armonk, N.Y., will release a reference design for portables based on the PowerPC Platform, sources said....

StockWatch.(Illustration)
May 6, 1996... 05.02.96 Weekly Close Change Apple 23.75 -1.13 MacWEEK Composite* 266.20 -6.88 Software developers Adobe 41.38 -1.63...

Bus kept a-rollin' all night long. (Mac the Knife)(Column)
May 6, 1996... In light of recent developments in Montana, the Knife has begun to worry that he may be spending too much time enjoying his own company. While he likes nothing better than locking himself in his rustic shack (located in the heart of San...

Platform struggles test hearts, minds. (developers respond to Mac platform plans) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 13, 1996... "The visionary part of Apple has to end," said Terry Kunysz, president of longtime Macintosh developer Casady & Greene Inc. of Salinas, Calif. "They have to be practical. Microsoft [Corp.] gives you all you need; Apple says you have to figure...

PBs, Performas due for repair: Apple foots bill. (new repair program for PowerBooks, other systems) (Product Information)
May 13, 1996... Apple last week pulled most of its currently shipping PowerBooks out of the retail channel and announced a repair program for many PowerPC-based consumer and education systems. In a May 8 bulletin, Apple asked dealers to return all PowerBook...

Macs to divide along CPU lines. (market high-end and entry-level models, creating new Montana Power Mac line) (Product Development)
May 13, 1996... Apple is reportedly working on a plan to bisect the desktop Power Macintosh line into two streams later this year: high-end systems will use the upcoming PowerPC 604e chip and entry-level models will be based on the PowerPC 603e. Sources close...

Adobe jumps into Net. (Adobe Systems' Internet strategy) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 13, 1996... Standards offered for Web graphics Adobe Systems Inc. said it expects to "change the face of Internet computing forever" with a broad, open-ended strategy it unveiled last week for integrating its products and graphics technologies with the...

Digerati makes movies. (Digerati Multimedia's MoviEclipse video-editing application)(Product Announcement)
May 13, 1996... Video editing's steep resource requirements may fall into the shadows thanks to Digerati Multimedia Inc. Its MoviEclipse video-editing application requires no special hardware, offers "almost real-time" editing and costs only $249. Aimed at...

nDevelopers to gain API in QTVR 2.0. (QuickTime VR 2.0) (Product Development)
May 13, 1996... Apple this week will announce a rollout schedule and product details for Version 2.0 of QuickTime VR, which is due in final form this August. Key elements of the update to Apple's virtual-reality authoring tools are an API, audio support,...

Utils improve file access for Mac-Windows users. (Software Architects' Here & Now 2.0 utility, Insignia Solutions' MacTransfer Window 95 file utility, Optima Technology's XChange 1.2 utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Giving a boost to cross-platform file transfers, vendors recently released new Windows utilities and updated versions. > Software Architects Inc. last month updated its Here & Now utility. Version 2.0 of the $99.95 program supports Windows 95...

HP delivers entry-level print server. (HP's JetDirect EX Plus)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Hewlett-Packard Co. last week released its JetDirect EX Plus, a low-cost, multiprotocol print server for Ethernet networks. Available now, the $349 device replaces the $499 JetDirect EX. The JetDirect EX Plus features 1 Mbyte of flash memory,...

Video PCI price cuts. (Diamond Multimedia Systems' Javelin Video 3240XL, 3400XL, PCI graphics accelerator boards) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. recently cut prices up to 25 percent on its Javelin Video 3000 product line of PCI graphics accelerator boards for Power Macs. The Javelin Video 3240XL, which comes with 2 Mbytes of video RAM, now costs $299,...

TopSoft offers free batch-processing utility. (FilterTop file maintenance utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... TopSoft Inc. put batch-processing power on the Mac desktop in April when it released FilterTop 1.0, a free utility. FilterTop allows users to process as many as 1,000 files through a series of filters, the company said. Users program FilterTop...

Immedia plugs XPress docs into multimedia. (Quark's Quark-Immedia multimedia authoring extension for QuarkXPress 3.32 and later) (Product Development)
May 13, 1996... QuarkXPress users are accustomed to a steady stream of new plug-in capabilities, but the granddaddy of all QuarkXTensions is nearing completion. Quark Inc. is readying QuarkImmedia, a massive $995 XTension that will add multimedia authoring...

Steinberg cues up sound-editing app. (Steinberg North America's Cubase 3.0 audio-production software)(Product Announcement)
May 13, 1996... Longtime Mac audio developer Steinberg North America Inc. last week brought its audio-production software up to speed with a major upgrade. Cubase 3.0 puts the features of a digital recording studio on the desktop, the company said. Version...

Color-matching app goes on networks. (Praxisoft's MatchLink Color System color-management software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... MatchLink system to handle vector art Praxisoft Inc. in June will tone up its Mac color-management software with a comprehensive network system for vector-based art. The MatchLink Color System will draw on the capabilities of ColorSync 2.0,...

BAGH rebuilds Architrion. (BAGH Technologies' Architrion VI CAD and drafting software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Sometimes it's easier to rebuild than to remodel; following this rule of thumb, BAGH Technologies Inc. has completely revamped Architrion, its architectural CAD and drafting software. The $4,495 Architrion VI, which shipped in April, features a...

Free photos. (PhotoDisc's marketing campaign for online photodisc images) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... To help spread the word about its online photographic marketplace comprising 20,000 drum-scanned, royalty-free images, Seattle-based PhotoDisc Inc. is offering a free image to anyone who visits its Web site at http://www.photodisc.com/ before...

War etched in time. (Judson Rosebush/Wildside Press' Arms, Armor and Battles Classic Steel Engraving series of TIFF images)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Judson Rosebush Co. Inc. and Wildside Press co-published the third collection in their Classic Steel Engravings series. Arms, Armor and Battles, $49.95, is a collection of royalty-free, high-resolution, anti-aliased TIFF images of 19th- and...

In the background. (Image Club Graphics' PhotoGear Texturework background images)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Image Club Graphics of Calgary, Alberta, a division of Adobe Systems Inc., recently released PhotoGear Texturework, a $59.99 collection of 30 high-resolution background images. PhotoGear Old Country Collages, $79.99, another set of backgrounds,...

Digital views. (Image Farm's Arizona Desert, Berlin Walls and Streets of London CDs of digital photographs)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Image Farm Inc. of Toronto recently released five CDs of royalty-free digital photographs, including Arizona Desert, Berlin Walls and Streets of London. The discs cost about $99 each or $399 for all five. Phone (416) 504-4161 or (800) 438-3276;...

Host of tools at WWDC. (Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference) (Metrowerks' CodeWarrior 9, Apple's MacApp update, OpenDoc Developer Release 5, Motorola's C/C++ Software Development Kit 3.0, others)(Product Announcement)
May 13, 1996... CodeWarrior 9, Java tools on tap Developers hungering for Java, OpenDoc and Internet tools should leave this week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., sated. > Metrowerks Inc. intends to ship CodeWarrior 9. The update...

ActiveX , Navigator to do summer battle. (Microsoft's ActiveX part of beta version of Internet Explorer 3.0 for Macintosh) (Product Development)
May 13, 1996... Microsoft Corp. will expose Macintosh users to its ActiveX technology this summer when it releases a public beta of Internet Explorer 3.0 for the platform. ActiveX is the Redmond, Wash.-based company's cross-platform architecture for...

iSeek marks queries, links. (Infoseek's Internet search software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Fans of Infoseek Corp.'s Internet search engine can now download a stand-alone utility that will query the database from the desktop. The free iSeek application sends queries directly to the Infoseek database, then launches the user's browser...

Pictorius to put Net into apps. (Entrada free Internet servers, Entrada NetBuilder development tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Software developers will soon be able to embed Internet servers into their applications using tools due this summer from Pictorius Inc. Debuting this week at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., the company's Entrada...

Ignore beta releases of Web browsers.(Working the Net) (Technology Information)(Column)
May 13, 1996... Last month's release of a number of updated Web browsers has prompted a frenzy of analysis and questioning. I'd like to point out how these programs are pulling the wool over our critical eyes. In an effort to make product cycles seem shorter,...

MacDNS now available free. (Apple's MacDNS 1.0.2 domain name server software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Apple released its domain name server software free to the public and announced plans for a fall update at this month's Internet World in San Jose, Calif. The just-released software, MacDNS 1.0.2, is a primary domain name server (DNS) used to...

ACI to deliver Internet tools bundle for 4D. (ACI US's 4D Web SmartServer bundle of third-party tools)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... ACI US Inc. this week will ship a bundle of third-party tools for turning its 4th Dimension database into a Web client or server. The 4D Web SmartServer bundle includes a one-user version of 4D; 4D Insider, a layout- and procedure-management...

Beyond 100 days. (Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio's first 100 days) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
May 13, 1996... This week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference marks a turning point for Apple in the Age of Amelio. The event comes fortuitously at the end of CEO Gilbert Amelio's first 100 days at the company, his self-imposed time limit for determining and...

Newton's still important arrow in Apple's quiver. (Apple's MessagePad PDA with Newton OS 2.0 could be big winner)(The Second Decade) (Product Information)(Column)
May 13, 1996... With the notable exception of Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio, few of those commenting in public about Apple's prospects in recent months have even mentioned Newton. To my mind, that's a big mistake: I think it remains a significant strategic asset for...

Letters. (News Briefs)(Letter to the Editor)
May 13, 1996... Interim Copland needed Well, Apple has finally announced what we have all feared: pushing Copland back yet another year (04.29.96, Page 1). I did notice the definitive statement, "Final customer release in mid-1997." I hope this indicates from...

Apple needs easy-to-use, integrated Web program.(The Mac Manager) (Technology Information)(Column)
May 13, 1996... No matter what Apple Internet strategy CEO Gilbert Amelio lays out this week at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, it won't be enough to please all of the developers all of the time. He'll be lucky to please some of them some of the time....

Entry-level 5400 delivers power, PCI to the masses. (Apple's Power Macintosh 5400/120 PowerPC-based system) (includes related article on the Apple Power Macintosh 5260/100) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
May 13, 1996... Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * Overall value: Performa 5400/120: **** (Very good) Performa 5260/100: *** (Good) Apple can be reached at (408) 996-1010 or (800) 538-9696;...

Adapt together or die. (Apple must form critical relationships with developers to survive)(MacWEEK Insider) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
May 13, 1996... When Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio caps his first 100 days in office with a widely publicized Apple Worldwide Developers Conference appearance, he will be framing the next evolutionary step in the Apple saga. The Darwinian metaphor is an apt one,...

DeltaGraph 4.0 tops the charting charts again. (DeltaPoint's charting/graphing application) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 13, 1996... Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * Score card: DeltaGraph 4.0 DeltaPoint Inc. Overall value: 4 (Very good) List price: $195* DeltaGraph 4 begins where spreadsheet...

Color QuickCam. (Connectix's 24-bit digital camera) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
May 13, 1996... Color changes everything for Connectix digital camera Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * Overall value: 4 (Very good) The arrival of Connectix Corp.'s Color QuickCam 24-bit...

XPert Tools Vol. 2. (a lowly apprentice production's XPert Tools Volume 2 QuarkXTensions) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 13, 1996... 15 XTensions simplify, enhance QuarkXPress Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * Overall value: 3 (Good) The developer known as a lowly apprentice production inc. changed the...

MYOB Accounting 6: Big payoff for small offices. (BestWare's accounting software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 13, 1996... Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * Score card: MYOB Accounting with Payroll 6.0 BestWare Estimated street price: $119.95* Overall value: 4 (Very good) MYOB is a...

Apple fixes 7.5.3: HP updates its DeskWriter driver.(MacInTouch) (Product Support)(Column)
May 13, 1996... Since introducing System 7.5.3 (System 7.5 Update 2.0), Apple has released a few additional updates and fixes. Some serious bugs remain, according to a confidential Apple note and other information, and I am following up on those issues....

IBM delivers two licensing deals. (Tatung, DataTech Computer first Mac OS sublicense customers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics Division today detailed its agreement to license the Mac OS and introduced its first customers for Mac systems. The East Fishkill, N.Y.-based company said it has signed up Datatech Computer Inc. of City of...

SyQuest crashes; execs swapped. (SyQuest Technology reports loss, names Edwin Harper new president and chief operating officer) (Company Financial Information)
May 13, 1996... With margins and sales sliding, SyQuest Technology Inc. last week reported a big loss and a major management shake-up. The Fremont, Calif.-based company lost $51.1 million ($4.49 per share) on net revenues of $47.4 million in the second quarter...

Word tools say 'Ahh' to OpenDoc. (Digital Harbor's Opal, WorldSoft's WorldWrite word processing applications) (Product Development)
May 13, 1996... Opal, WorldWrite to accept parts Two companies plan to take the wraps off OpenDoc word processors at this week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. Digital Harbor's program, code-named Opal, is based entirely on...

SoftArc buys out Delphic for its Internet expertise. (acquires Delphic Software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... SoftArc Inc.'s FirstClass online conferencing system may gain new Internet capabilities, thanks to the company's acquisition last week of Internet tools maker Delphic Software Inc. Both companies are privately held; the terms of the acquisition...

Lexmark shines printer line. (Lexmark International's Optra Lxn+, Optra Rn+ laser printers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 13, 1996... Lexmark International Inc. recently delivered new configurations of its laser printers, revamped its lineup and trimmed prices for several models. The $2,749 Optra Lxn+, an Ethernet version of the Optra Lx+, replaces the $3,249 Optra Lxi...

Users find a happy storage medium with CD recorders. (includes related article on upcoming disc improvements)
May 13, 1996... Years after the first Macintoshes donned CD-ROM drives, the capacious digital discs have found new value in the hands of Mac users. In addition to using the discs for distribution of system software and large applications, systems administrators...