MacWEEK articles from May 1998

MacWEEK archives from May 1998

News: Wall Street laptops span high, low ends.(Apple PowerBook G3)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... Powered by a new logic board, Apple's unified notebook line will hit the streets next week, sources said. The company will reportedly release Wall Street, the code name for next-generation PowerBook G3 systems that will combine a new case...

News: RealNetworks' G2 to tune into media standards.(RealNetworks' RealSystem G2)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... RealNetworks Inc. last week said it will convert its streaming-media technology into a standards-based architecture when it releases RealSystem G2 this quarter. While earlier versions of the package were based on RealNetworks' proprietary...

News: Survey: Mac market makes modest gains.(Apple Computer) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 4, 1998... Apple is holding its own in the U.S. market and showed quarter-to-quarter improvement, according to preliminary figures released last week by International Data Corp. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said Apple's U.S. market share for the first...

News: HyperCard 2.4 moves into QuickTime orbit.(Apple's multimedia authoring software) (Product Information)
May 4, 1998... Apple last week moved HyperCard into closer alignment with the rest of its multimedia tools, offering an update that integrates QuickTime 3.0. The company said it also changed the product's distribution strategy. Owners of HyperCard 2.3 or...

News: MediaPaint 2.0 due.(Strata Inc.)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... Strata Inc. in August will deliver a major brush-up to MediaPaint, its video-effects application. MediaPaint, priced at $695 and last updated in April 1996, lets users paint directly on the alpha-channel layer of a QuickTime video and keeps...

News: Apple, HP ink new deal.(HP DeskJet 890CM, DeskWriter 694C) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Apple and Hewlett-Packard Co. last week announced that HP inkjets will return to the Mac market. An agreement between the two companies gives Apple the rights to two of HP's current Windows models and provides for Mac compatibility in future HP...

News: StockWatch 04.30.98. (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... 04.30.98 Weekly Close Change Apple 27.38 -0.31 Nasdaq 1868.41 -13.05 MacWEEK Composite 169.29 3.70 Adaptec 23.69 1.44...

Review: G3/300: Apple's fastest Mac ever. (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
May 4, 1998... Power Mac G3/300 uuuu 1/2 Apple's new Power Macintosh G3/300 is certainly the fastest Mac that Apple has ever shipped. MacBench scores notwithstanding, we think it's also the fastest Mac OS machine ever. And finally, instead of saddling a...

Graphic Arts: AutoMask gains density tools.(Human Software's AutoMask 4.0)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... The Human Software Co. Inc. last week updated AutoMask, a member of its Adobe Photoshop plug-in family. Priced at $99, AutoMask 4.0 adds Density Brush and Virtual Brush masking, improving its use in masking difficult subjects such as hair, trees...

Graphic Arts: Software drives Stika cutters.(Roland DGA's SignMate Stika software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Roland DGA Corp. recently boosted users' control over its Stika line of design cutters with a new sticker design application. The SignMate Stika software is available in a $249 Mac package that includes a cable to connect the cutters' parallel...

Graphic Arts: Markzware to update PM2Q utility.(Markzware Software's PM2Q Quark XTension 5.5)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Markzware Software Inc. announced it plans this week to revise PM2Q, its utility for automatically converting Adobe PageMaker documents into QuarkXPress files. Version 5.5 of the $149 PM2Q Quark XTension will be able to convert documents from...

Graphic Arts: Airbag XTension tags text overflows.(Callas Software's Airbag XT Quark XTension 1.04r12)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Callas Software GmbH of Berlin recently released an update to its Airbag XT Quark XTension, adding support for QuarkXPress 4.0 and Quark Publishing System. Like the previous version, released in June 1996, Version 1.0.4r12 of the $69 software...

Out of Gamut: Self-calibrating monitors do a remarkable job.(Apple's ColorSync monitors) (Product Information)
May 4, 1998... Some months back I wrote of the futility of trying to manage color on the Internet when the destination monitor is an unknown. I deemed the current monitor-calibration solutions too costly or too difficult for the average consumer and concluded...

Review: EdgeWizard ably creates clean masks.(Chroma Graphics) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 4, 1998... EdgeWizard 1.0 uuuu When we reviewed Chroma Graphics Inc.'s MagicMask plug-in, our major complaint was that it made no attempt to handle edge spill around masks. The company's $99 EdgeWizard plug-in for Adobe Photoshop is the missing piece of...

Multimedia: DVD goes corporate.(Sonic Solutions' DesktopDVD)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... Sonic Solutions Inc. this week is shipping a Digital Video Disc production system tailored for businesses. Sonic DesktopDVD is a $39,999 single-workstation system that creates digital video and DVD-ROM content. It consists of the company's DVD...

Multimedia: Callisto delves into Photoshop.(Kas Thomas)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... Shareware developer Kas Thomas in April released an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for creating 3-D terrains and spheroid objects. The developer said Callisto, priced at $20, can import QuickDraw 3D 3DMF models and apply surface maps generated from...

Multimedia: Low-cost SoundView tweaks audio for pros.(Peabody Digital SoundWorks)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Peabody Digital SoundWorks LLC last week delivered a low-cost Mac software package that the company said combines professional-level sound analysis and manipulation capabilities. SoundView includes spectrum-analysis features that let users...

Multimedia: ViewSonic projector joins in XGA trend.(PJ1000 Extended Graphics Array LCD projector)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... ViewSonic Corp. this month added its own entry to the field of Extended Graphics Array LCD projectors when it shipped the PJ1000. The PJ1000, which lists for $8,995, uses a 260-watt light source to project 600 lumens through three 1.3-inch...

Multimedia: Songworks plays more melodies.(Ars Nova Software's Songworks II)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... Ars Nova Software got polyphonic in mid-April, adding a host of features to Songworks, its music education and composition package. Songworks II supports multiple staves for polyphonic playback. The original Songworks supported only one melody...

Multimedia: Artifice, Village Tronic team up.(Village Tronic Marketing) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Graphics accelerator maker Village Tronic Marketing GmbH and 3-D software developer Artifice Inc. announced a marketing and development partnership in April. The companies are now offering the $799 Professional MacPicasso Bundle, which...

Internet: Tenon extends Apache on Mac.(Tenon Intersystems' WebTen SDK)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Hoping to expand the reach of its Mac version of Apache, Tenon Intersystems this month will release a software developers kit for creating add-ons to the Web server software. The company said the new SDK will let developers write Apache...

Internet: Tango for FM gets runtime.(EveryWare Developement's Tango 3.1 for FileMaker and Enterprise)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... EveryWare Development Inc. this month released Version 3.1 of Tango for FileMaker and Tango Enterprise, its Web application development suites. The company is also bringing Tango Enterprise to the Mac. Tango for FileMaker, which ties FileMaker...

Internet: New Extensis tool puts moves on Web.(PhotoAnimator software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Extensis Corp. in April shipped a new application for creating animated GIFs for the Web. Extensis PhotoAnimator, available now for a street price of $100, generates animations with special effects, interactive previews and optimization...

Internet: Maxum maximizes its Web tools bundle.(Maxum Developer's MaxumPack Pro)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Maxum Development Corp. in late April released MaxumPack Pro, a beefed-up version of the company's Web development and administration tools bundle. The $995 MaxumPack Pro includes NetCloak, Maxum's Web development kit; NetForms, which provides...

Working the Net: Doing research over the Internet: The real story. (Technology Information)
May 4, 1998... My friend and Macintosh author Cary Lu passed away last September, leaving not just bereaved family and friends but also an unfinished book about bandwidth. A friend and I volunteered to finish it because we felt it was important. I search the...

Beta Test: ImageReady puts squeeze on graphics.(Adobe Systems' ImageReady 1.0) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 4, 1998... ImageReady 1.0 Beta Test Preparing and compressing a graphic for the Web can be a frustrating experience that involves a number of applications. Adobe Systems Inc. is trying to solve this with ImageReady, an image preparation application for...

Integration: SiteSculptor rev to create 3-D worlds.(Sculptware)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... The virtual reality modeling division of MCS Inc., formerly Cadkey Inc., announced the formation of a new company in April: Sculptware LLC. The group also announced a new version of its flagship product for building virtual 3-D worlds on the Web....

Integration: Freshwater aims at e-commerce.(Freshwater Software's SiteScope 3.0 Web server monitoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Freshwater Software Inc. last month released SiteScope 3.0. The company said the latest version of its Web server monitoring and administration suite is optimized for electronic commerce applications. Freshwater said the update can verify...

Integration: Wasatch utility eases PosterMaker.(Wasatch Computer Technology)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Wasatch Computer Technology Inc. recently released a free Windows printer utility for its PosterMaker RIP server for wide-format printers. The Print Redirector lets Windows NT and 95 users send print jobs to the server from within graphics and...

Integration: Snapsite: Add forms without learning CGI.(Media In Motion's Snapsite 1.5)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Media In Motion this week gave new form to its server-side Web site creation tool. Snapsite 1.5 adds forms capabilities to its arsenal. Users can enter the Form Tools area and add components to their Web sites without learning CGI commands....

Integration: Proxy servers add to Mac user woes. (Technology Information)
May 4, 1998... Windows NT on the server, Macintoshes on the network, universal Internet access, and all is right with the world. Until the network manager decides to add a proxy server to the mix. With more and more companies and organizations providing...

Bridging the Gap: Actively seeking ActiveX controls for the Macintosh. (Technology Information)
May 4, 1998... Component technologies have not been particularly good to Mac users or developers. While each - OpenDoc, Java, OLE/ActiveX - has at some point raised the cross-platform flag, none has delivered. OpenDoc, which died just as it started to live,...

Systems: TechWorks preps G3 upgrade cards.(TechWorks's PowerCPU G3)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... TechWorks Inc. said it will join the G3 parade this month when it releases its new family of G3 CPU upgrade cards. Called the PowerCPU G3 line, the cards will ship early this month in two configurations, TechWorks said. One PowerCPU G3 card,...

Systems: Hitachi plans 12,000-rpm drive for Q3.(Hitachi America Ltd's DK3E1 hard drive) (Product Development)
May 4, 1998... Hitachi America Ltd. expects to shift its storage line into overdrive this fall with the DK3E1, the first announced hard drive with a spindle speed of 12,000 rpm. The Brisbane, Calif., company recently said versions of the forthcoming OEM...

Systems: Dantz revs Retrospect.(Dantz Developement's Retrospect 4.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Dantz Development Corp. last week issued an updated driver for Version 4.0 of its Retrospect backup package. The driver, Version 1.4, fixes a bug in the backup software and the SCSI controller used in a variety of Apple Performa, Power Mac,...

Systems: XLR8 tool to test CPUs.(XLR8 Processor Info)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... XLR8 said it is putting the finishing touches on XLR8 Processor Info, its utility for determining system speeds and configurations. The tool, which XLR8 said will be available this month and bundled with its upgrade cards, will show a user's...

Systems: Asante trims prices.(Asante Technology) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... Asante Technologies Inc. announced it intends to cut the price of several dual-speed switches this week. The company said it will trim the price of the four-port FriendlyNet 10- and 100-Mbps Ethernet switch from $559 to $279. The eight-port...

Systems: CDNA to speed shared data access.(DataDirect Networks' Concurrent Data Networking Architecture.)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 4, 1998... DataDirect Networks Inc., formerly MegaDrive Systems Inc., is at work on a high-performance networking system that will offer multiple sites cross-platform data access and management. Concurrent Data Networking Architecture, or CDNA, is due...

Systems: Display Beat.(Nokia Display Products, Samsung Electronics America, ViewSonic)(Product Announcement)
May 4, 1998... New 21-inch from Nokia. Nokia Display Products Inc. of Sausalito, Calif., released a new 21-inch monitor in April and plans to release a 17-inch display later this month. The 21-inch 445Xiplus is the first entry in the new Xiplus series, which...

MacInTouch: Strong QuickTime is fundamental to TV-Mac convergence. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 4, 1998... Apple's April 22 annual shareholders meeting held no surprises and revealed no new details, although it confirmed the company's general strategic direction. Education and content creation remain Apple's near-term market focus, while enterprise...

Mac the Knife: You say it's your birthday. (Humor)
May 4, 1998... Vishnu knows Mac the Knife is no stranger to the mysteries of the human reproductive cycle, but even this utensil is awestruck by the powerful hormonal urges that produced this week's crop of noteworthy birthdays. While he bakes a cake in the...

News: Apple market share rebounds. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 4, 1998... Apple is holding its own in the U.S. market and showed quarter-to-quarter improvement, according to preliminary figures released today by International Data Corp. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said Apple's U.S. market share for the first quarter...

MacWEEK Insider: The kid is all right.(Macromedia's Flash Web authoring software) (Product Information)
May 4, 1998... I've always had a soft spot for Macromedia Flash. As one of the first members of the press to review the original version of the product, then called FutureSplash Animator 1.0 (see 10.28.96, Page 37), I feel as if I've watched it grow up. Back...

Editorial: The show goes on.(Apple announcements) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
May 11, 1998... Everyone loves a three-ring circus, and Apple didn't disappoint last week. Between its new Mac systems for mobile pros and desktop consumers and its intriguing acquisition of video technology from Macromedia Inc., the company demonstrated...

News: UMAX reduces price of Mirage II.(UMAX Technologies large-format scanner) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
May 11, 1998... UMAX Technologies Inc. last week cut the price of its large-format Mirage II scanner. The Mirage II now costs $7,295, a reduction of $1,100 (see 05.05.97, Page 19). In addition, UMAX is offering a $500 mail-in rebate to users who buy a Mirage...

News: Intuit resurrects Quicken for Mac. (Product Development)(Brief Article)
May 11, 1998... Quicken for Mac is back. Apple and Intuit Inc. last week said Mac development of the personal finance package will resume, reversing Intuit's April announcement that it had ceased work on future Mac versions of Quicken. The companies said...

News: StockWatch 05.07.98.(Illustration)
May 11, 1998... WEEKLY CLOSE CHANGE Apple 30.19 2.81 Nasdaq 1835.14 -33.27 MacWEEK Composite 173.32 4.03 Adaptec 19.13 -4.56...

Graphic arts: Quark names new COO.(Chuck Bland) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 11, 1998... Quark Inc. last week announced a new chief operating officer and a variety of new steps to beef up its customer service. Chuck Bland's appointment as COO signals a withdrawal of Quark President and CEO Fred Ebrahimi and Chairman Tim Gill from...

Graphic arts: PhotoScript Group preps RIP servers.(PhotoScript 5200, 5300)(Product Announcement)
May 11, 1998... PhotoScript Group Inc. said it expects to ship the latest in its PhotoScript line of Unix-based large-format PostScript RIP servers by the end of the month. Meanwhile, the company last week released an update to its Mac-based RIP software....

Graphic arts: LDR ships FusionCPS.(Litho Development & Research image processor)(Product Announcement)
May 11, 1998... Litho Development & Research Inc. this spring shipped FusionCPS, its Unix-based RIP and Open Prepress Interface server for wide-format output. Supporting EnCAD Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. wide-format inkjets, the RIP comes with Harlequin...

Graphic arts: MassTransit upgrade arrives.(version 2.0 of Group Logic's file transfer software)(Product Announcement)
May 11, 1998... Group Logic Inc. last month shipped a revision of MassTransit, its high-speed file transfer software for prepress and printing businesses. Version 2.0 adds remote proofing and improves work flow. MassTransit 2.0 quickly delivers large graphic...

Graphic arts: Chroma readying MagicMask plug-in.(version 2.0 of Chroma Graphics Adobe Photoshop plug-in)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 11, 1998... Chroma Graphics Inc. plans to ship next month an improved version of its MagicMask plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. With its ship date set to coincide with the release of Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (see 04.27.98, Page 1), MagicMask 2.0 will work with...

Graphic arts: Epson delivers megapixel camera.(Epson America PhotoPC 700)(Product Announcement)
May 11, 1998... Epson America Inc. last week unveiled a megapixel camera with a street price of $700. The PhotoPC 700, due in June, will employ a 1.3-million-pixel CCD and come with rechargeable nickel-metal-hydride batteries and a recharger, the company...

Multimedia: After Effects tool imports QTVR.(Electric Fish QTVR Matte desktop video plug-in) (Product Development)
May 11, 1998... Electric Fish Inc. in late April released a free public beta of its plug-in for manipulating QuickTime VR panoramas within Adobe After Effects. According to the company, QTVR Matte lets users add layers containing QuickTime VR panoramas to an...

Multimedia: Conix hard-wires OpenGL.(Conix Enterprises OpenGL 3-D 1.3 API)(Product Announcement)
May 11, 1998... Conix Enterprises Inc. last week released a new version of its OpenGL 3-D API for the Macintosh that adds support for hardware acceleration. Version 1.3 marks the debut of the OpenGL Plug-in Interface, or GLI, as well as a plug-in for QuickDraw...

Multimedia: SuperCard will find a new home.(Allegiant Technologies, IncWell Digital Media Group agreement) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 11, 1998... Allegiant Technologies Inc. this month confirmed that its line of SuperCard authoring products will be acquired by IncWell Digital Media Group Ltd. in June, pending shareholders' approval. The products are SuperCard, a multimedia authoring...

Key Frame: DV is promising, but splinter groups could limit success.(Digital Video format) (Technology Information)(Column)
May 11, 1998... Not since the original release of Sony Beta has a video format been anticipated with as much enthusiasm as Digital Video. While the 8mm and Hi-8 formats brought the first wave of true miniaturization to video cameras, the first generation of DV...

Review: Ultimate Rez mixed.(IXmicro ix3D Ultimate Rez graphics accelerator) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
May 11, 1998... Time was, the battle between IXmicro (formerly Integrated Micro Solutions Inc.) and Number Nine Visual Technology Corp. dominated the high end of the Mac graphics accelerator market - with Number Nine consistently winning on performance. But...

Mac the Knife: Panic in Detroit. (Humor)(Column)
May 11, 1998... As a wholly unreconstructed international socialist, Mac the Knife is heartened by news that Stuttgart Kraftwagenfabrik Daimler-Benz has bought Rust Belt kahuna Chrysler Corp. for $36 billion plus change. And as Macdom's premiere evangelist for...

News: Symantec posts Norton AntiVirus 5.0 beta. (Product Development)
May 11, 1998... Symantec Corp. at the end of April released a public beta of Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh, Version 5.0. The beta features a new plug-in architecture for the NAV scan engine, and it can automatically repair detected viruses. NAV 5.0 is HFS...

News: IncWell making plans for SuperCard.(IncWell Digital Media Group) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 11, 1998... IncWell Digital Media Group Ltd. a publisher of educational information on the Web, said it plans to update and expand Allegiant Technologies Inc.'s SuperCard line when it succeeds in acquiring it. The acquisition is expected to occur June 4,...

News: Apple, Macromedia mum on technology ID. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 11, 1998... While Apple and Macromedia Inc. still decline to identify the technology that Apple acquired yesterday, new clues point to Final Cut, Macromedia's video editing suite. Sources said Randy Ubillos, lead developer on Final Cut and the original...

News: Quicken back on Mac. (Product Development)
May 11, 1998... Quicken for the Mac is back. Apple and Intuit Inc. today said Mac development of the personal finance package will resume, following Intuit's April announcement that it had ceased work on future versions of Quicken for the Macintosh. Citing...

News: Apple buys out Macromedia's video works. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 11, 1998... Apple's top-secret deal with Macromedia Inc. will involve the wholesale relocation of Macromedia's former video-editing projects and staff to Apple, sources said today. The deal is effective immediately, sources said, and the newly anointed...

News: Jobs unveils consumer iMac.(Steve Jobs, Apple)(Product Announcement)
May 11, 1998... "I am incredibly thrilled to tell you that Apple is getting back into the consumer market," interim Apple CEO Steve Jobs said at this morning's news conference, where he unveiled the company's new iMac consumer model. The futuristic-looking...

News: iMac: New twist on Mac design.(Apple's new system) (Product Information)
May 11, 1998... Cupertino, Calif. After helping to roll out Apples iMac at a news conference here today, Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller explained how the new consumer-level desktop system will fit in with the companys technology and...

StockWatch 05.14.98.(Directory)
May 18, 1998... weekly close change Apple 30.06 -0.13 Nasdaq 1865.40 30.26 MacWEEK Composite 169.47 -3.85 Adaptec 17.44 ...

New hardware directions for Mac. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 18, 1998... Think simple. Think fast. That's the mantra shaping Apple's hardware efforts, company officials said at last week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. While offering few specifics about upcoming products, Apple presented...

Electric Cafe to shake up Web graphics with Twitchy.(Web graphics software)(Product Announcement)
May 18, 1998... Targeting the expanding market for Web graphics software, Electric Cafe Inc. this month announced an all-in-one tool for creating common Web page elements. Code-named Twitchy, the product will let advanced and novice Web designers create...

Developers hail simplified app transition.(Apple's new Mac OS X (10) strategy) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 18, 1998... Apple's new Mac OS X (10) strategy received a warm welcome from third-party software developers at last week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. Most developers at the annual gathering wholeheartedly endorsed the...

Apple's formula: OS=X.(Mac OS X) (Product Development)
May 18, 1998... Acknowledging that its initial plan to move the Mac community to Rhapsody has stalled, Apple at its developers' conference last week announced a new tack for giving Mac developers and users a modern OS. The plan, unveiled by interim Apple CEO...

Apple licenses Symantec JIT.(just-in-time (JIT) compiler for Java, Mac OS Runtime for Java OS enhancement) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 18, 1998... Apple last week at WWDC announced that it has licensed Symantec Corp.'s just-in-time (JIT) compiler for Java. The JIT from Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec will be integrated into the Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) and delivered this summer,...

Review: Flash 3 shapes up as a fine design tool.(Macromedia Flash 3.0) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 18, 1998... Flash 3.0 uuuu Macromedia Inc. is taking Web animation to the next level with Flash 3.0, its vector-based graphics development tool. We looked at Version 3 and found that its real-time shape morphing, animated-button and variable...

At Deadline.(Metrowerks, Apple, Macromedia) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 18, 1998... Metrowerks Inc. last week rushed to embrace Apple's new OS strategy by announcing plans to move its set of development tools to Mac OS X (10). In addition, the company said it had licensed its Java compiler to Macromedia Inc. At the Apple...

VST packs add-ons for G3 PowerBooks.(VST Technologies's VST Zip100 internal removable drive and Apple auto adapter, Apple G3 PowerBook) (Product Information)
May 18, 1998... VST Technologies Inc. is polishing a line of mobile computing peripherals for Apple's newest G3 PowerBooks. VST kicked off the line with its $249.95 VST Zip100 internal removable drive and a $79.95 Apple auto adapter. Due in June are VST's...

UMAX cuts cost on SuperMac clones. (Product Information)
May 18, 1998... blurb: Company trims prices of high-end and entry-level models, extends scanner bundle promotion. UMAX Computer Corp. this week cut prices on several of its SuperMac clones. The company said its six-slot S900BASE bundled with a Newer...

Editorial: Third time's the charm.(five Web sites on digital color technology) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 18, 1998... Digital color technology has come a long way since the Mac II, but managing colors can make designers see red. This sampling of sites aims to help prepress and Web users tweak their hues. The International Color Consortium...

Graphic Arts: Agfa cuts camera prices.(ePhoto 1280, ePhoto 780, ePhoto 307) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 18, 1998... Bayer Corp.'s Agfa division last week cut prices across its line of ePhoto digital cameras. All three cameras in the ePhoto family were reduced. Originally $899, the ePhoto 1280 digital camera is now $799; the ePhoto 780, previously $499, is...

Graphic Arts: QuickCheck flags output errors.(Acquired Knowledge's printer support software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 18, 1998... Acquired Knowledge Inc. last week shipped a new low-cost PostScript preflight utility. Available for $99, QuickCheck is aimed at creative professionals who want to check the integrity of their PostScript files before they are sent to an output...

Graphic Arts: ArchiCAD 6 on deck.(Graphisoft U.S.'s CAD software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 18, 1998... CAD vendor Graphisoft U.S. Inc. is building up to Version 6.0 of its flagship ArchiCAD package. Due in mid-July, the upgrade will offer closer integration of 2-D and 3-D models, allowing users to model and edit in perspective and axonometric...

Graphic Arts: Prepress server to run on Rhapsody.(Helios Software's EtherShare and EtherShare Open Prepress Interface software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 18, 1998... Helios Software GmbH at last week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference released a beta of its server software for the upcoming Rhapsody OS. The prerelease software, which includes three components - Helios EtherShare, EtherShare Open...

Graphic Arts: Posterization plug-in due.(ImageXpress Alius)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 18, 1998... For those tired of haphazard results from Adobe Photoshop's Posterize effect, ImageXpress Inc. is set to introduce Alius, a $95 suite of posterization plug-in tools. ImageXpress calls Alius 1.0 a "neoposterization" plug-in whose effects go far...

Graphic Arts: FontDoctor reaches 3.0.(Morrison SoftDesign's font software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 18, 1998... Shareware developer Morrison SoftDesign last week released Version 3.0 of its FontDoctor diagnosis and repair tool. The new version includes a Diagnosis Only mode that evaluates font conditions in a user's system without making any changes or...

Print Clearly: The euro symbol poses problems for designers. (Technology Information)
May 18, 1998... blurb: A typographic critique of the new euro symbol. Font revisions make me nervous. Revised fonts are hard to identify, and output errors are much too likely. So the news on May 4 that 11 European countries adopted a new shared monetary...