MacWEEK articles from September 1996

MacWEEK archives from September 1996

FreeHand graphics suite rides Shockwave to 7.0 (Macromedia's FreeHand Graphics Studio)(Product Announcement)
September 9, 1996... Macromedia Inc. last week used its International User Conference in San Francisco to announce a major update that adds a dash of Web flavor to its FreeHand Graphics Studio suite of tools. Version 7.0 of the suite, which comprises revisions of...

Adobe revamps top apps; PageMaker 6.5 delves into layers. (Adobe Systems' DTP software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 9, 1996... Adobe Systems Inc. steams into Seybold San Francisco this week with a one-two punch aimed at keeping the company foremost in users' minds as the premier vendor of graphics applications for the Macintosh. Adobe will announce updates of its top...

Photoshop 4.0: nondestructive image editing. (Adobe Systems' image-editing application) (Adobe Revamps Top Apps)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Photoshop 4.0 will come into sharper focus this week when Adobe Systems Inc. will officially take the wraps off the long-awaited major upgrade to its image-editing package at Seybold San Francisco. Photoshop 4.0, slated to ship in early...

Output, input, throughput: print to rule at Seybold SF. (Seybold San Franscisco publishing show) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 9, 1996... This week's Seybold San Francisco will demonstrate that print media is alive and well in the digital age. Although the ubiquitous Internet will continue to make its presence felt at the publishing show, attendees will find a grab bag of products...

Apple updates servers to join 200-MHz wave. (Network Server 700/200, Mac OS Workgroup Server 8550, 7250 enhanced)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Apple this week plans to unveil its revamped line of PCI servers at Seybold San Francisco. The spruced-up group will include two new Unix-based Network Servers and two faster Workgroup Servers running the Mac OS and AppleShare. Multiprocessing...

PowerBook 5300s shelved. (Apple discontinues PowerBook 5300 and 190 models) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Driving the final nail into the coffin of a troubled product line, Apple recently discontinued all PowerBook 5300 and 190 models. Sources said the move paves the way for the company's new laptops due this fall. Apple in late August told...

Netscape to give away 100 Java apps for intranets. (AppFoundtry Java intranet applications)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Netscape Communications Corp. is expected to start rolling out this week AppFoundry, a set of Java intranet applications that will enable corporate developers to rapidly deploy business applications for internal and external use. Netscape said...

Apple to introduce hi-res color flatbed scanner. (Color OneScanner 1200/30)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Apple next week will ship its Color OneScanner 1200/30, a color flatbed model with 600-by-1,200-dpi optical resolution at 30-bit depth. The scanner is bundled with ColorSync 2.1, MetaTools Inc.'s KPT Convolver 1.0 SE and Kai's Power Tools 3.0...

Digital cameras click. (Sony Information Technologies of America's DSC-F1 Digital Still Camera, Olympus Image Systems' D-200L, D-300L digital cameras)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Sony, Olympus enter the market The digital camera race is heating up, as first-time contestants Sony Information Technologies of America and Olympus Image Systems Inc. plan to add products to the lineup. * Olympus, which has focused on the...

Tektronix outputs color printer duo. (Phaser 350, 300X solid-ink-based color printers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Lowering its entree costs for color documents, Tektronix Inc. this week will release a pair of solid-ink-based color printers for general-office and graphic arts output. The Phaser 350 is based on a proprietary engine similar to the Phaser 340...

TeamAgenda debuts in U.S. (Teamsoft's TeamAgenda 2.5 group-scheduling application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Teamsoft Inc. announced it is now shipping in the United States TeamAgenda 2.5, its cross-platform group-scheduling program. Since its first iteration in 1992, the package has been available in Europe, Japan and Australia. Available directly...

Frontier heads to Windows. (UserLand Software's Frontier 5.0 scripting language to go cross-platform for Windows 95 and NT, Macintosh)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... UserLand Software Inc. is heading for the Windows frontier. The company said it will release this winter a Windows 95 and NT version of its Frontier scripting environment. Frontier 5.0 will be the first cross-platform version of the software,...

HP adds color printers. (DeskJet 1600CN color ink jet printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Hewlett-Packard Co. last week introduced a network-enabled, professional color DeskJet printer, augmenting its August announcement of a low-cost consumer model. Shipping now, the $2,129 DeskJet 1600CN yields 600-by-600-dpi resolution in...

Office bundled in Europe. (Microsoft/Apple Europe's Microsoft Office 4.2.1 suite to be bundled with Apple's Power Mac 7600/132 and 8200/120 systems in Europe) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Apple Europe and Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft's Office 4.2.1 productivity suite will be bundled with Power Mac 7600/132 and 8200/120 systems in Europe. The announcement was made at the end of August at the CeBIT '96 exposition in...

Mo', betta MOs from Nikon, Sony. (Nikon Optical Storage's Beluga MO drive, Sony Electronics introduces SCSI-2-based SMO-F544, SMO-F541 internal drives, CMO-540F external drives)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Larger, faster optical storage options are in store, as Nikon Optical Storage Inc. announced a new 2.6-Gbyte magneto-optical drive and Sony Electronics Inc. added Fast SCSI-2 interfaces to its own line of large-scale optical products. * Nikon....

Publishers rethinking allegiance to Mac OS. (Macintosh OS still top-rated in digital publishing industry) (includes related article on Apple's response to changing market) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 9, 1996... Web, Windows challenge Apple Ask most professional publishers about digital publishing and they'll be happy to recite a litany of reasons why the Mac OS is superior to Windows. They'll talk about ease of use, superior color and font...

Iomega charges for support. (technical support system expanded) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Iomega Corp. ended August by unveiling an expanded technical-support system that promises to substantially cut customer wait times -- for a fee. The company is now using a large MCI Communications Corp. call center in Chandler, Ariz., to...

APS system to relieve heat wave for drives. (APS Technologies's Integrated Climate Control Electronics automated system to be included in APS drives to help them cool) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... If your drives can't stand the heat, get an integrated cooling system. So says APS Technologies Inc., which is outfitting most of its drives with its Integrated Climate Control Electronics, or IC2E, an automated system that regulates fan activity...

NSM Jukebox readies large-scale bundles. (NSM Jukebox America's announces new bundling options for its CDR 100 XA, Mercury 20, 30, 40 CD systems, announces Mercury 40 Net network CD model)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... NSM Jukebox America in late August unveiled new bundling options for its CD-Recordable and Mercury CD-ROM jukeboxes. NSM is also offering a network model of its 150-disc Mercury 40. The bundle consists of a CD-ROM jukebox and Astarte GmbH's...

IBM revs OpenDoc SDKs. (OpenDoc Developer Release 4 for OS/2, Windows 95 and NT betas) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... IBM Corp. late last month released updates to its OpenDoc software developers kits for Windows and OS/2. The new Windows 95 and NT beta, Developer Release 4, is the second from IBM. With the release, IBM said, it uncoupled the SDK from the...

Apple updates developer tools. (Essentials-Tools-Objects 21 developer tools suite)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Apple last month shipped the latest update to its Essentials-Tools-Objects developer tools suite. ETO Release 21 contains Version 3.4.1 of Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, which includes final versions of the MrC/MrCPP 2.0 compiler. Apple said...

PostScript goes to new level. (Adobe Systems' PostScript Level 3 standard) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 9, 1996... Adobe Systems Inc. this week will unveil a sweeping new strategy for PostScript at Seybold San Francisco. Sources said that the company, however, will wait until fall to fill in the blanks regarding details for PostScript Level 3. While the...

EFI to intro new server, copier RIP. (Electronics for Imaging's Fiery XJ-W server for wide-format output, OEM Fiery XJ+ Color Server RIP)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Color RIP vendor Electronics for Imaging Inc. will move toward new markets this week at Seybold San Francisco. The company will show a new server for wide-format output, release an updated copier RIP and demonstrate support for several Internet...

Ricoh color copiers house PostScript. (Aficio Color 2003, 2103, 22035, 5106, 5206 color copier-printers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Aficio models use EFI Fiery XJ RIP Ricoh Corp. this week at Seybold San Francisco will take the wraps off its fall line of color copier-printers, including new entry-level models that can handle a built-in PostScript RIP. Slated to ship in...

Imation to get Luminous. (Imation to acquire Luminous) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... One spinoff company is pulling another into its orbit. Imation Corp. of Oakdale, Minn., a recent spinoff of 3M, announced today that it plans to acquire Luminous Corp. of Seattle, which spun off from Adobe Systems Inc. this year. Imation...

Vivid Details strips out the guesswork. (new Test Strip Adobe Photoshop plug-in)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Aiming to make color correction in Adobe Photoshop less expensive, faster and more precise, Vivid Details is testing a new plug-in. Test Strip, which will ship by the end of October for $129, will borrow the "test strip" exposure-testing method...

Imagesetting for less. (Exxtra's ExxtraSetter Maxxima 300 imagesetter)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Exxtra Corp. is slated to roll out a new imagesetter based on the company's "virtual drum" technology at Seybold San Francisco this week. The ExxtraSetter Maxxima 300, which will be available from several OEMs, uses a pair of rings instead of...

Image Alchemy tool converts, compresses. (Handmade Software's Image Alchemy PS 2.1 image-conversion utility for Macintosh)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Handmade Software Inc. will be showing a new image-conversion utility this week at Seybold San Francisco. Image Alchemy PS 2.1, which began shipping in August for $495, is the first Mac version of the company's image-conversion and compression...

Sanity SaVR eases QTVR. (Apple distributing utility for creating QuickTime VR panoramas) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Generators of QuickTime VR content have long been frustrated by the necessity of writing scripts for Macintosh Programmer's Workshop as part of the QuickTime VR Authoring Tools Suite. Now, a new utility may make VR easier. While not an...

Monotype ships platesetter. (Monotype Systems' PlateExpress 1440)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Monotype Systems Inc. in August delivered a filmless platesetter aimed at newspaper publishers. Available now, the $150,000 system was designed for Monotype by Printware Inc. of St. Paul, Minn. As a direct-to-plate system, it rids the need for...

PlateRite feeds on Gerber engines. (Screen USA's PlateRite 30R, 30T, 42T, 68 platesetters based on Gerber Systems engine) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Screen (USA) is doing its part to cut out the middleman from the pre-press production process. It will roll out four direct-to-plate platesetters based on technology it licensed from platesetter designer Gerber Systems Corp. The new PlateRite...

Multiprocessing picking up speed for graphics apps. (MP systems can be complicated to adopt) (Technology Information)
September 9, 1996... For the Mac-based graphics professional, there is no speed that's ever enough. Users who depend on their Macs for such CPU-intensive applications as high-resolution image processing, video editing, or 3-D rendering and animation constantly strive...

xRes files in Photoshop. (Total Integration's FASTedit/LRG plug-in for editing Macromedia xRes files within Adobe Photoshop)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... In a bid to raise the level of integration among image-editing applications, Total Integration Inc. this week will introduce a plug-in for editing native Macromedia xRes files within Adobe Photoshop. The company plans to demonstrate this and...

BIAS scales Peak with Version 1.10. (Berkley Integrated Audio Software's audio-editing software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... At last week's Macromedia User Conference in San Francisco, Berkley Integrated Audio Software Inc. released Version 1.10 of Peak, its audio-editing and sound-processing program. The free upgrade adds a Phase Vocoder tool, for stretching audio...

Web to get new Texture. (FutureTense's Texture 1.1 Web publishing system for the Mac) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Publishing tool to bypass HTML FutureTense Inc. is bringing its Windows-based Web publishing system to the Mac this fall, and the company will show off the system at this week's Seybold San Francisco. FutureTense Texture 1.1, due in the...

Web conferencing gains new options. (four new Web conferencing tools)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Webmasters charged with making their sites more interactive have a number of new conferencing tools from which to choose. * HomeCom Communications Inc. this fall will release Post-on-the-Fly, a $495 Web-based conferencing system that will group...

DataCraft to update DataWave. (DataWave 2.0 4th Dimension database Web-publishing kit)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... DataCraft Inc. plans to ship in October Version 2.0 of its DataWave 4th Dimension database Web-publishing kit. The collection of layouts, procedures and externals will allow users to serve data in a 4D database directly out of the database or...

Ikonic tackles Web content. (Ikonic Interactive's Ringmaster 2.0 system for managing flow of Internet-directed documents)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Ikonic Interactive Inc. will unveil at this week's Seybold San Francisco a system for managing the flow of documents destined for the Internet. Called Ringmaster 2.0 and due for its first public release in October, the product will coordinate...

HexMac extension merges Web multimedia, XPress. (HexMac International's HexScape XT QuarkXTension for prototyping Web pages)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... HexMac International Ltd. recently released HexScape XT, a QuarkXTension that lets users prototype interactive Web pages in QuarkXPress. HexScape XT imports a variety of Web graphics and multimedia formats, including QuickTime, Shockwave and...

Netscape preps Cyberdog part. (Apple has deal with Netscape to develop Netscape Navigator for Cyberdog)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Apple and Netscape Communications Corp. have been playing footsie with their Web browsing technologies for months, and the companies in August announced the fruits of their courtship. Last month the companies signed a deal for Netscape to...

Multi-user Fibre Channel speeds transfers. (Augment Systems' AFX 410 and 210 Fibre Channel-based file servers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Augment Systems Inc. will unveil two speedy Fibre Channel-based file servers at this week's Seybold San Francisco. The AFX 410 and AFX 210, scheduled to ship by the end of the year, are based on Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL), a...

Web video goes forward fast. (five new products for deploying digital video on Web)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Terran, Vivo, InterVU ship Three companies in August rolled out products for deploying digital video on the Web. Terran Interactive Inc. has shipped two tools for adding QuickTime to Web sites, while InterVU Inc. and Vivo Software Inc. have...

Farallon unleashes Timbuktu Pro 3.0. (Farallon Communications' remote-access and remote-control software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Farallon Communications Inc. last week took the wraps off Timbuktu Pro 3.0, a new version of its remote-access and remote-control software. Chief among Version 3.0's attributes is its integration of the functionality of Timbuktu Remote, the...

ActionLine creates applets for Java. (Interactive Media's Java-authoring environment)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Interactive Media Corp. has brought its multimedia authoring technology to Java. The company this month shipped ActionLine, a Java authoring environment that is derived from technology in Special Delivery 2.1, Interactive Media's multimedia...

Non-GIF, JPEG images on Web. (Total Integration's IntralImage image-format plug-in for Netscape Navigator)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Total Integration Inc. plans to show off a new image-format plug-in for Netscape Navigator at this week's Seybold San Francisco conference. IntraImage will allow Navigator to display several image formats, including EPS, Desktop Color...

Network traffic. (News Briefs)
September 9, 1996... * Professional Web site editing * Farallon bundles RunShare app Quarterdeck Corp. has released the first public beta version of Personal WebStar, a shareware version of the company's Web server (see 08.19.96, Page 22). Now available from the...

Real-world servers. (News Briefs)(Editorial)
September 9, 1996... For years Apple disappointed professional desktop publishers with its lackluster server efforts. The company's initial attempts to rectify its flawed product offerings through A/UX server systems proved underwhelming, except to die-hard education...

To Be or not to Be; that is the question Gil faces. (Apple CEO Gil Amelio) (adopting Be Inc's Be OS in place of Apple's Copland OS)(The Second Decade) (Product Information)(Column)
September 9, 1996... Knowing that Apple CEO Gil Amelio has plenty on his plate already, I've decided to pitch in and help out by drafting a letter I hope he'll consider sending to Apple's customers, developers, employees and shareholders. To the Mac community:...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 9, 1996... Twisted bias I thought I'd add another twist to the NASA Johnson Space Center story (08.26.96, Page 1). I'm a lead system administrator at one of the larger NASA centers, and I know some of the internal politics that govern our center as well...

Will they or won't they? WAMMO will get answers. (Worldwide Apple Mac Manager Organization group could help respond to Apple strategic development efforts)(The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
September 9, 1996... Well, summer's over and we all have to get back to work. (Of course, most of us never really stopped working this summer.) Getting back to work means we should stop worrying about Apple's many unresolved "wills." * Will Apple ever develop and...

Print publishers enter the rush to the Internet.(MacWEEK Guide to Internet Publishing) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 9, 1996... MacWEEK Guide to Internet Publishing Publications as we know them are changing before our eyes. MacWEEK examines strategies for developing Web sites for print publications, as well as concerns about staffing, tools and revenue. We also have a...

Out-of-control graphics can hamper Web searches(MacWEEK Guide to Internet Publishing)(Commentary) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)(Column)
September 9, 1996... I may royally offend my graphic arts friends and colleagues by what I'm about to say, but here goes: Do we really need splashy graphics on those Web sites? I spent the better part of an afternoon at work (where we have T1 Web connections)...

Printing on the Web: A sampling of sites.(MacWEEK Guide to Internet Publishing) (News Briefs)
September 9, 1996... It's getting harder and harder to find a print publication without a Web counterpart. While most publications say their Web sites offer items that the print siblings don't, each has its own style and offers original content in varying degrees. We...

ANS 700 ideal OPI pre-press server. (Apple Network Server 700) (Open Prepress Interface) (includes related articles on the Graphic Express network and servers capable of Web work)(In the Field) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
September 9, 1996... Apple Network Server 700 is a winner for networks with 10 to 15 heavy pre-press users. Apple's latest AIX-based servers, the Apple Network Server 700 and 500, are well-suited to commercial publishing. We asked Graphics Express, a service...

VideoVision PCI provides solid base for Mac video. (Radius' video capture card) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
September 9, 1996... Very good video and audio, excellent software raise Radius' video-editing system. Radius Inc.'s VideoVision Studio was the first NuBus video capture card to allow professional-level work. The company has solved many problems in the original...

RAM Doubler 2.0 lives up to its predecessor's fame. (Connectix's RAM optimization application) (Software Review)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... RAM Doubler 2.0: 4 diamonds (Very good) Connectix Corp.'s RAM Doubler created a sensation at its introduction two-and-a-half years ago. In a major upgrade to the original, RAM Doubler 2.0 continues to offer transparent RAM optimization in a...

For the record. (News Briefs)(Correction Notice)
September 9, 1996... The correct price for Claris Corp.'s OfficeMail (08.19.96, Page 38) is $299. Also, OfficeMail doesn't have a check box to switch your Mac from being a client to a server; Casady & Greene Inc.'s Snap Mail has that feature.

Photoshop filter edits large images without extra RAM. (Total Integration's FASTedit/Deluxe 1.2 graphics/imaging utility) (Software Review)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... FASTedit/Deluxe 1.2: 3 diamonds (Good) When Adobe Photoshop users want to improve performance, the usual solution is to buy more RAM. Total Integration Inc.'s FASTedit/Deluxe offers an alternative for certain RAM-hungry situations. It lets...

Alien Skin Stylist gives Illustrator a fresh look. (Alien Skin Software's Adobe Illusrator 6.0 plug-in) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 9, 1996... New plug-in enhances style-sheet concept with live updates, Constructions. Alien Skin Software LLC has used Adobe Systems Inc.'s new plug-in architecture to create Stylist, an Adobe Illustrator 6 plug-in that provides style controls long...

Digital audio upgrades increase Cubase's range. (Steinberg North America's Cubase 3.0 MIDI sequencer) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 9, 1996... Steinberg adds powerful hard disk recording and editing features to MIDI sequencer. Recording affordable multitrack audio onto the Macintosh without extra hardware remains more imagined than real. However, Cubase 3.0 from Steinberg North...

Internet Gateway 3.5 connects LANs well. (Vicom Technology's software-based internetworking router) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 9, 1996... Vicom software can connect several users at once through one Internet account. Companies are springing up everywhere to sell inexpensive Internet access to individuals, but connecting a LAN is another story. All of a sudden you find yourself...

EtherPeek 3.0 delivers net analysis the easy way. (AG Group's protocol analyzer) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 9, 1996... The AG Group's utility gives administrators a complete view to inner life of networks. Most network managers would agree that a protocol analyzer is one of their most valuable tools. A stalwart in this field has been The AG Group Inc.'s...

VIP-BASIC 2.0 simple app for simple needs (Mainstay's BASIC software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 9, 1996... Updated BASIC interpreter integrates flowcharting and resource editing. If you've been scared away from programming on the Mac, Version 2.0 of Mainstay's VIP-BASIC might be your answer. The $295 product offers a fast, Power Mac-native BASIC...

Surveying latest print software components. (Apple printer software components for Apple Color LaserWriter)(MacInTouch) (Product Information)(Column)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... When Apple introduced the Color LaserWriter, the printer came with a new generation of Mac OS printing software that overhauls the user interface to make control of printing functions more intuitive and flexible. The Color LaserWriter bundle...

Trading up: knowing when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em. (determining when to upgrade hardware) (includes related article on donating used equipment) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 9, 1996... For Camille Horan, systems manager at Wechsler & Partners, a graphic arts company in New York, Macintosh purchasing decisions, as well as upgrades, are based on the kind of work that comes through the door. The company creates brochures, booklets...

Macromedia show gets serious. (Macromedia User Conference) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Macromedia Inc. held its annual Macromedia User Conference last week in San Francisco. This year the suits came. Wednesday morning, the conference had a decidedly Wintel flavor. The keynote from Macromedia's chairman (listed as "Bud 'I ain't...

StockWatch. (News Briefs)(Illustration)
September 9, 1996... Apple Stock 09/05/96: 22.88 NASDAQ 09/05/96: 1125.66 MacWeek Composite 09/05/96: 193.03 09.05.96 Weekly Close Change Apple 22.88 -1.63 MacWEEK...

Apple, be quiet about OS talks. (Apple may be looking into whether to support Be's BeOS in place of Mac OS 8.0) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Apple and Be Inc. last week remained mum over reports that a deal is in the works for the Be OS. The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker reportedly is investigating whether to support BeOS in place of or alongside its own Mac OS 8, code-named...

There's a Starmax waiting in the sky.(Mac the Knife) (Humor)(Column)
September 9, 1996... The Knife this week finds himself in a state of considerable turmoil, trepidation and existential angst. For those uninitiated into the Masonic mysteries of Ziff-Davis corporate policy, MacWEEK is on the eve of vacating the spacious funk of...

HyperCard's new deal: QuickTime authoring. (Apple's HyperCard 3.0 authoring tool to be built on top of QuickTime Media Layer architecture) (Product Development)
September 16, 1996... Apple is reportedly at work on a version of HyperCard due in mid-1997 that will move the development tool into the world of cross-platform multimedia. Sources said the remake, Version 3.0, will allow users to play HyperCard stacks from within...

Apple moves multimedia to new wing. (Interactive Media Group) (Company Operations)
September 16, 1996... Apple broke out a new software division last week to direct the company's wide-ranging multimedia efforts. The newly independent Interactive Media Group recently said it will team up with several other developers to create a full-featured...

HP to ink deal for StyleWriters. (Apple and HP supplier arrangement to allow Apple to use HPinkjet printer engines in future Apple products) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 16, 1996... Apple and Hewlett-Packard Co. this week expect to announce a deal that will let Apple use HP's inkjet printer engines in future products. The companies said details of the supplier arrangement will be ironed out over the next several months....

Photoshop 4.0 builds on layers with solid upgrade. (Adobe Systems' image editing application)(Beta Test) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 16, 1996... Your reaction to Adobe Systems Inc.'s forthcoming Photoshop 4.0 will likely depend on whether you usually view the glass as half empty or half full. This is certainly the most modest whole-number revision in Photoshop's history -- it seems more...

Seybold: PCs upstage Web. (Seybold San Francisco trade show) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 16, 1996... "This doesn't compare to anything I've been to," said Curtiss Wright, vice president at Computer Systems Inc. of Des Moines, Iowa, who was attending Seybold San Francisco for the first time. "On the publishing side, everyone is here." The...

Apple server an NT promise but no product. (Apple Network Server 700 running Windows NT 4.0, but product development plans not finalized) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 16, 1996... There's an Apple Network Server 700 running Windows NT 4.0 at company headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., but last week Apple nixed plans to show the system at Seybold San Francisco. "I don't want to mislead anybody if we show this," said...

Apple's 15-inch AV screen due for education market. (Apple Multiple Scan 15 AV) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 16, 1996... Apple was expected to announce last week a new monitor solely for the education market. Sources said the $499 Apple Multiple Scan 15AV will have a 13.75-inch viewing area and a 15-inch CRT. It will reportedly sport a pair of integrated,...

The final cut: Duo 2300c prices trimmed by $500. (Apple notebooks) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 16, 1996... Apple last week cut the prices of two PowerBook Duo 2300c models by more than $500 each. Since the company reportedly discontinued all PowerBook 5300 and 190 models recently, the Duo 2300c is the only portable still on Apple price lists. The...

DayStar to introduce dual-processor tower. (DayStar Digital's Genesis MP 400+ Mac clone)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 16, 1996... DayStar Digital Inc. last week announced an entry-level multiprocessor Mac clone. According to DayStar, the Genesis MP 400+, priced at $5,499 and slated to ship in October, will use a pair of PowerPC 604e processors running at 200 MHz. The new...

This week online. (News Briefs)
September 16, 1996... Seybold continues Chang on board Hall logs off Running on NT Online exclusives Seybold San Francisco has come and gone, but you can catch up online. Come find all the news, features and commentary about the show.... Gareth C.C....

Apple preps System 7.5.4; last stop before Harmony. (OS) (Product Development)
September 16, 1996... Update to speed virtual memory Apple is putting the finishing touches on its next OS update, code-named Son of Buster. Sources said the release will be the first that uses Apple's new version numbering scheme and the last for machines that...

La Cie Speed2 drives to zip data transfer. (Speed2 drive systems based on Serial Storage Architecture) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 16, 1996... La Cie Ltd. said it plans this month to introduce its first drive systems based on the Serial Storage Architecture standard. Promising a fast data transfer speed, the products are aimed primarily at the digital video and pre-press markets, the...

PowerTools offers single-, dual-processor PPC cards cards. (PowerSource 604/150, 604/200; Dual 604/300, 604e; Quad 604/600, Quad 6043/800)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 16, 1996... PowerTools Corp. recently released new lines of PowerSource single- and dual-processor upgrade cards for a variety of Macintosh models. The $699 PowerSource 604/150 daughtercard upgrade sports a single 150-MHz PowerPC 604 for PCI Power Macs and...

Oracle readies developer suite for 680x0 Macs. (Developer 2000 1.2.1 client server development kit)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 16, 1996... Oracle Corp. said it will ship by the end of the month the next Mac version of its Developer/2000 client-server development kit. The company, however, continued to back away from previous commitments to fold OpenDoc into its tools. The...

Port Juggler splits the work. (Momentum's serial-port multiplier)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 16, 1996... Momentum Inc. plans to ship this week a Power Mac version of its Port Juggler serial-port multiplier. Power Port Juggler is a $129 hardware and software package that splits one Power Mac nine-pin serial port into four. Users can configure the...