MacWEEK articles from September 1997

MacWEEK archives from September 1997

Apple lowers licensing boom. (revamps its Mac OS licensing plan) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 8, 1997... After months of reports that Apple was planning to do away with Mac clones, the company last week formally derailed its OS licensing program, saying the strategy failed to expand the Mac OS market and has been at the root of Apple's shaky...

Third parties assess Apple's Power moves. (Apple's acquisition of Power Computing and its changed Mac OS licensing plans) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 8, 1997... As the Mac industry took stock of Apple's buyout of Power Computing Corp., its developer community remained split over the move to rein in Mac OS licensing. "I don't think it will increase the Mac market share. I think it will cause further...

Claris eyes Net gains. (FileMaker Pro 4.0 file-management software and Home Page 3.0 Web authoring software)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Claris Corp. will continue to weave the Web into its product line as it readies new versions of FileMaker Pro and Home Page and ties the two programs together. Claris said FileMaker Pro 4.0 will be based in part on Blue World Communications...

Print pros mob Chicago, Apple shows color server. (Apple's Color Composite and ColorTouch Pro prepress servers debut at the Print 97 trade show in Chicago)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Chicago - Representatives of the entire print industry, from prepress pros to press operators, rubbed shoulders at Print 97, which kicked off here last week. While some vendors displayed traditional press technologies, the spotlight was trained...

Ray Dream targets novices. (MetaCreations' Ray Dream 3D low-cost 3D software)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... MetaCreations Corp. is taking aim at 3-D hobbyists and neophytes with a $99 addition to its arsenal of 3-D packages. Ray Dream 3D will mark MetaCreations' first new release for the low-end 3-D market since merging with Fractal Design Corp. and...

Power cuts prices on midrange CPUs. (Power Computing's PowerBase 240 and PowerCenter Pro 240 PowerPC-based systems) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Following last week's buyout by Apple, Power Computing Corp. cut the cost of two desktop machines. The company decreased the price of its PowerBase 240 by $300, from $1,599 to $1,299, and it cut the price of the PowerCenter Pro 240 by $100 to...

FrameMaker and Illustrator redux. (Adobe Systems' FrameMaker version 5.5 and Illustrator version 7.0.1)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Adobe Systems Inc. last week shipped Version 5.5 of FrameMaker, its package for creating long documents. Meanwhile, the company rolled out an interim upgrade to Illustrator 7. FrameMaker 5.5, priced at $895 for a Mac version, includes a number...

Apple's 8600/250 hits U.S. shelves. (PowerPC-based system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Apple last week started shipping the Power Macintosh 8600/250 within the United States. Previously available only outside the United States, the Power Mac 8600/250 joins Apple's Power Mac 9600/350, 9600/300 and 8600/300, which were announced...

Apple relying on half-truths, omissions to justify licensing line. (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
September 8, 1997... There's a name for the technique Apple is using to justify its decision to end Mac OS licensing: It's called the Big Lie. During its Sept. 2 news conferences, in other interviews and in Steve Jobs' memo to Apple employees...

StockWatch 09.04.97.(Illustration)
September 8, 1997... 09.04.97 weekly close change Apple 22.50 0.50 NASDAQ 1624.64 43.32 MacWEEK Composite* 142.39 6.64 Adaptec ...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 8, 1997... Apple needs alliances After returning from Macworld Expo, I expected to read passionate responses to Steve Jobs' keynote speech (08.11.97, Page 1). Instead, all I saw was a pathetic and apathetic nonresponse. Microsoft may have a stake in...

Trapeze swings to version 3.0. (Ultimate Technographics' client-server trapping utility for PowerScript 3)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Ultimate Technographics Inc. last week climbed aboard the PostScript 3 bandwagon with the latest version of Trapeze, a client-server trapping utility. Unveiled last week at Print 97 in Chicago, the new version, which runs on Mac and Windows NT...

Luminous polishes PressWise. (version 3.0 of Luminous Technology's imposition software adds support for Adobe's PDF)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Luminous Technology Corp. last week announced plans to add Adobe Systems Inc.'s Portable Document Format to the repertoire of its PressWise imposition software. PressWise 3.0, which Luminous unveiled last week at Print 97 in Chicago, will let...

Corel sketches plans for its graphics suite. (version 6.1 of the CorelDraw graphics software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Reaffirming its commitment to the Mac platform, Corel Corp. last week announced its plans for the next two upgrades of its CorelDraw suite of graphics applications. Version 6.1 of the $595 package, due in October, will feature new Internet...

Printers find preflighting can save time and money. (tools in QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker for checking errors, or preflighting, before output) (Product Information)
September 8, 1997... Given the complexity of prepress and print operations, fatal errors are not surprising. A QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker file can reach the print house with errors such as missing fonts or graphics, incorrect resolutions, or overflowing text....

Vellum 3D 3.0 does smooth job. (Ashlar's CAD software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 8, 1997... Vellum 3D 3.0 3 1/2 Ashlar Inc. is known for its CAD innovations. It brought the widely mimicked Drafting Assistant, or smart cursor, to the desktop, for example. True to form, Ashlar advances CAD again with the $2,995 Vellum 3D 3.0, but the...

Chroma Graphics ships MagicMask plug-in tool. (for generating precise masks and selections in Adobe Photoshop)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Chroma Graphics Inc. in August shipped a new tool for generating precise masks and selections within Adobe Photoshop. MagicMask, priced at $99.95, uses edge detection, direct pixel selection, color range and selective color density to mask...

Internet color redux: The bottom line is monitor calibration. (reaction to a previous column on Internet color) (Out of Gamut) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Column)
September 8, 1997... Judging from the e-mail I received after August's column on managing Internet color (see 08.04.97, Page 18), I may have inadvertently generated confusion. Some respondents thought my criticism of sRGB, Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s...

Multimedia presentations picking up speed. (use of Apple's PowerBook for multimedia business presentations) (Product Information)
September 8, 1997... Presentation technology has come a long way since the days of transparencies and overhead projectors. Today, you plug in your PowerBook, connect to an LCD projector and let the multimedia show begin. With a full mix of media, presentation...

Puffin Designs delivers Commotion video app. (video paint and effects software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Puffin Designs Inc. last week shipped Version 1.0 of its Commotion paint and effects program for video. Commotion, priced at $2,495, was simultaneously demonstrated in August at both Macworld Expo in Boston and the Siggraph 97 show in Los...

Pioneer explores DVD design realm. (Pioneer New Media Technologies' DVDesigner authoring software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. wants to put a friendly front end on Digital Video Disc title creation. The company is working on DVDesigner, a $495 authoring program designed to work with premastering systems from Pioneer and other...

Alaras adds work-flow tools to Tropix. (version 3.0 of the multimedia cataloging utility)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Alaras Corp. is steering a new course for Tropix, the company's multimedia cataloging utility. Version 3.0, due to ship late this month, will let users include cataloged files in automated work flows. Tropix 3.0's work-flow functions will...

Director 6 leads the pack. (Macromedia's multimedia authoring software) (Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
September 8, 1997... Macromedia Director 6.0 4 (Very good) Now Shipping Macromedia Director 6.0 is a significant upgrade to the most popular multimedia authoring tool, offering advances in animation, interactivity and Web delivery. The update eases the creation of...

Persuasion: End of the line. (Adobe Systems discontinues the presentation software package) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Adobe Systems Inc. last week officially pulled the plug on Persuasion 4.0, its presentation software package. Persuasion sales were halted on Sept. 1, Adobe said. In a Q&A on the company's Web site at...

Adapter lets PC mikes tap into PlainTalk Macs. (Griffin Technology's NE Mic Audio Adapter)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Griffin Technology Corp. in August shipped a universal adapter that it said will make almost any Intel-standard PC microphone work with Mac models equipped with PlainTalk circuitry. The NE Mic Audio Adapter, priced at $19.50, works by...

Audiofile CD-cataloging util accesses info on the Web. (Spinfree's Audiofile 3.1 software for organizing a CD collection)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Keeping track of the tracks in any sizable music collection is a daunting task - a task which Spinfree is making less challenging with the release of Audiofile 3.1. The utility lets users enter information about any album, including title,...

Pinnacle buys Miro Digital Video Group. (Pinnacle Systems acquires the division of Miro Computer Products AG of Germany) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Pinnacle Systems Inc. last week announced that it has completed its purchase of the Miro Digital Video Group (see 07.28.97, Page 3). A division of the German company Miro Computer Products AG, the Digital Video Group formerly sold PCI-based...

Toshiba projectors turn to XGA output. (the TLP-511 and TLP-510 LCD projectors)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Toshiba America Consumer Products Inc. in August raised the resolution of its MediaStar line of LCD projectors with two new models. Both the $9,995 TLP-511 and $8,995 TLP-510 project true Extended Graphics Array (XGA) resolutions of 1,024 by...

Trax software puts Director at the helm of hardware. (Dataton North America's Trax version 3.5 software for the company's hardware controllers)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... If you'd like to control your video presentation, smoke machine, slide projector or other device from within Macromedia Director, Dataton North America LLC may have the answer. Dataton's Trax 3.5 software, which hooks up to the company's line...

CE Internet server joins QuickMail line. (CE Software's QuickMail Pro Server for Mac OS e-mail software)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Naming a successor to its line of proprietary mail products, CE Software Inc. in August posted its first server based on Internet standards. Available now, the QuickMail Pro Server for Mac OS can send mail using both Post Office Protocol 3...

Hotline to make mark on Internet. (Hotline Communications' NetScrawl collaborative painting software for the Internet)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Hotline Communications Ltd. this month will unite visually oriented Internet users with a collaborative painting tool. NetScrawl will let two or more users paint on a single canvas in real time over the Internet, according to the company....

Mac client for NetShow due this month. (Intelligence at Large's Mac client software for Microsoft's NetShow 2.0 streaming multimedia technology)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Intelligence at Large Inc. in August announced a beta version of Mac client software for Version 2.0 of NetShow, Microsoft Corp.'s streaming multimedia technology. A final version of the Mac client is due later this month. Intelligence at...

WebObjects links Web, programming. (the WebObjects Web development software acquired by Apple along with NeXT Software)(includes a related article on StarNine's new version of WebStar) (Product Information)
September 8, 1997... When Apple purchased NeXT Software Inc. last December, the OpenStep operating system wasn't the only prize it picked up - it also acquired WebObjects, a promising package of sophisticated Web development tools. The aim of the WebObjects...

DitherBox 1.0 greatly expands Web palettes. (RDG Tools' Adobe Photoshop plug-in for creating patterns) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 8, 1997... DitherBox 1.0 4 1/2 For Web designers frustrated by the 216-color "Web-safe" palette, RDG Tools' DitherBox 1.0 is a godsend. With a deceptively simple method, the program opens up the entire RGB spectrum to your flat-color artistry. The...

Myrmidon gains firmer HTML grasp. (Terry Morse Software's Myrmidon HTML creation software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... The odyssey continues for Myrmidon, Terry Morse Software Inc.'s HTML creation package. The company this month is due to ship Myrmidon 2.0, which promises to arm the Chooser extension with new conversion and positioning capabilities. Like...

Luckman, 1.0 Technologies eat cookies. (Luckman Interactive's Anonymous Cookie and 1.0 Technologies' NoCookie free anti-cookie utilities)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Users who have lost their appetite for cookies can turn for help to two new free utilities, released in August. * Luckman Interactive Inc. added Macintosh support to its Anonymous Cookie utility. Anonymous Cookie 1.0, which was originally...

Nova Development ships Web animation collection. (the Animation Explosion CD-ROM)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... The latest collection from clip-media company Nova Development Corp. is aimed squarely at Webmasters. Priced at $49.95, the Animation Explosion CD-ROM contains more than 5,000 royalty-free animations and will work with all Web page editors,...

Mac Office 98 taking shape. (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Microsoft Corp. in late August sketched out the path for the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 98 for the Macintosh. The productivity suite, which the company said it hopes to ship at the end of the year, will include Word 98, Excel 98,...

ResumeMaker moves to Mac. (Individual Software's ResumeMaker Deluxe for Macintosh)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Individual Software Inc. in August offered a helping hand to job seekers when it delivered ResumeMaker Deluxe for Macintosh. ResumeMaker Deluxe, first published for Intel-standard PCs, carries an estimated street price of $39.95. The software...

Aladdin revs ShrinkWrap disk utility. (Aladdin Systems' ShrinkWrap 3.0 disk-image utility)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... In a move that the company said will help users distribute more disks faster, Aladdin Systems Inc. in late August shipped ShrinkWrap 3.0, a new version of its disk-image utility. Aladdin also took the wraps off its plans for the next upgrade to...

BoxTop pays visit to Mac conferencing. (BoxTop Interactive's iVisit desktop videoconferencing software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... BoxTop Interactive Inc. recently jumped into the videoconferencing arena when it released a public beta of iVisit, a cross-platform, serverless video chat application. iVisit creates a peer-to-peer connection and transmits four-bit gray-scale...

Timeslips to revise software. (Timeslips Deluxe for the Mac 5.0 for tracking billable hours adds features for agency-specific tasks)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Timeslips Corp. keeps on slipping into the future with plans to release Timeslips Deluxe for the Mac 5.0 in November, adding agency-specific features to its time-billing software. The upcoming version, priced at $299.95, is aimed at...

Shaman changes pricing. (the Shaman Update Server 2.0 and Shaman Scouts) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Shaman changes pricing. Shaman Corp. of San Francisco recently altered the price structure for its Shaman Update Server 2.0. Users can now purchase the Update Server bundled with packs of 10, 25, 50 or 100 Shaman Scouts for $595, $695, $895 or...

Virus check in the mail. (Datawatch's automatic updates for its Virex Protection Service)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Virus check in the mail. Datawatch Corp. of Wilmington, Mass., in August introduced a new distribution program that delivers updates to its Virex Protection Service directly to subscribers' e-mail accounts. Previously, subscribers to the...

OneStep beyond. (Objective Software's OneStep version 1.1 user interface utility for the Mac)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... OneStep beyond. Objective Software in August revised OneStep, its user interface utility. Version 1.1 adds an Inspector application for previewing and installing Appearance files. Also new to the $15 shareware package are additional customization...

AOL help. (version 2.0 of the Dot-loa shareware utility for logging onto America Online in the background)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... AOL help. Shareware author Karl Bunker has updated Dot-loa, his utility for logging onto America Online in the background. New to Dot-loa 2.0 is infinite redialing until a connection is made, background Auto-AOL sessions and notification of...

Utility vehicles. (WorqSmart's Simply Surveys version 3.4 is cut in price) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Utility vehicles. WorqSmart LLC of Phoenix in August cut the price of its survey software, Simply Surveys 3.4, to $149.95 from $395. The company said the price reduction is in preparation for the upcoming release of Version 4.0. As of the time of...

Create Apple-licensee unity via a platform marketing group. (Apple, its partners and customers need a Mac OS Platform Marketing Association) (The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
September 8, 1997... With confusion and the resulting cacophony reigning in the Mac world now, it's time for Apple and its partners to find public ways to work together, even as licensing negotiators go at it with bare knuckles. If that's not done soon, the damage...

Apple ends Mac OS updates for cloners. (the Mac OS Up-To-Date program is discontinued) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 8, 1997... Apple surprised clone buyers and licensees at the end of August when it said that as of Aug. 1 it had ended its Mac OS 8 update program for owners of clone machines. Apple's Mac OS Up-To-Date program was originally intended to let users of...

Gateway, Apple spar for schools. (Gateway 2000 and Apple battle for the top spot in the US education market) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 8, 1997... Gateway 2000 Inc., the North Sioux City, S.D.-based manufacturer of Intel-standard PCs, said it overtook Apple as the No. 1 supplier of desktop and portable systems to the U.S. education market in the second quarter of 1997. The company cited...

PowerTools releases new Infiniti clone. (PowerTools Computer Systmes' Infiniti T2 Mac OS clone)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... PowerTools Computer Systems at the end of August released the Infiniti T2, the newest member of its Mac OS clones. Based on a Motorola Tanzania II logic board, the $2,199 T2 has a system bus speed of 50 MHz; PowerTools' previous models were...

Iomega revamps Zip for automatic switch. (the ZipPlus removable disk drive)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Iomega Corp. announced plans to refresh its removable cartridge line in October with an updated version of the popular Zip drive. Offering interface flexibility, the forthcoming $199 ZipPlus will support either a parallel or SCSI connection...

CodeWarrior remains best developer tool. (Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Professional application development software)(includes a related article on the company's Latitude code library) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 8, 1997... CodeWarrior Professional 1.0 4 (Very good) Like its predecessors, Metrowerks Inc.'s $599 CodeWarrior Professional 1.0 consists of a comprehensive set of development tools for C, C++, Pascal and Java programmers. Starting with this release, you...

Orange speeds PC card. (Orange Micro's 530 and 540 PC cards for Macintoshes)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Orange Micro Inc. in August added a 233-MHz option to its PC compatibility card arsenal. Available in the 500 series of cards, which use Intel Pentium processors, the 233-MHz version includes support for the MMX instruction set. It is...

Lantana uncrates PDF utility. (Lantana Research's Crackerjack preflight utility for prepress work using Adobe Systems' PDF)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... Lantana Research Corp. recently released Crackerjack, a preflight utility for prepress work flows that draws on Adobe Systems Inc.'s Portable Document Format. The $495 plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Exchange 3.0 lets users fine-tune Portable...

Metrowerks back in the black in Q4. (4th qtr financial report) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Metrowerks Inc. returned to the black in its most recent quarter, announcing a net profit of $155,000 on revenue of $6.2 million for its fourth fiscal quarter ended July 31. The profitable period follows five consecutive down quarters for the...

Momentum doubles ports. (the PortDoubler port-sharing device)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 8, 1997... That two serial ports are better than one is a fact not lost on Momentum Inc., which this week will provide such an arrangement with the release of its new PortDoubler. The compact, $49 device provides an alternative to Momentum's Port Juggler...

SyQuest lowers prices. (SyQuest Technology's EZFlyer removable-cartridge drives) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... SyQuest Technology Inc. last week reduced prices for its SyJet and EZFlyer removable-cartridge drives. The company is now selling the EZFlyer, a 230-Mbyte drive, for $149, or 25 percent less than the previous price of $199. The EZFlyer drive is...

Lifetime ships 128-Mbyte DIMMs. (Lifetime Memory Products' upgrades for Apple Power Macintoshes and compatibles) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 8, 1997... Lifetime Memory Products Inc. said it shipped 128-Mbyte DIMM upgrades at the end of August for various Apple and Mac OS-compatible desktop machines. The supported CPUs for the DIMM upgrades include Apple's Power Macintosh 7200, 7500, 7600,...

Managing Mac OS 8 compatibility issues; licensing world turns. (MacInTouch) (News Briefs)(Column)
September 8, 1997... As I write this, the Macintosh licensing soap opera continues to turn, and it is holding up purchases. Power Computing Corp.'s top-rated PowerCenter Pro systems are just what I want for a server and for a workstation because I think the fast bus,...

Is your Power Mac's processor in need of a faster sequel? (processor upgrade cards for PowerPC Macs)(Buyers Guide)
September 8, 1997... Whether it be car, coffee maker or computer, one heartbreaking tenet of technology is irrefutable: If you've owned it for more than six months, your once-glorious machine has been outpaced by newer, faster and - perhaps most wrenching - cheaper...

This is Radio Knife. (Mac the Knife) (Humor)(Column)
September 8, 1997... The winds of change blowing through Apple's licensing strategy continue to kick up more corrosive vapors than a shallow trench full of contaminated ground round. Blinded and choking, Mac the Knife this week finds himself clinging like a hardy...

Exit Moto: cloner to quit OS licensing. (Motorola Computer Group discontinues its Mac OS clone business) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... Motorola Computer Group last week threw in the towel, ending its fight with Apple over Mac OS licensing. "We had no choice," said Joe Guglielmi, vice president and general manager. The Tempe, Ariz.-based company said it decided to discontinue...

Newton back; ATG, QA cut in Apple reorg. (Apple disbands its Reliability and Quality Assurance group; will close its Advanced Technology Group in Oct 1997) (Company Operations)
September 15, 1997... Tremors from Apple's restructuring process will be felt this month in several areas, including its quality assurance and R&D divisions. In addition, the company last week said it will reel in Newton Inc., which was due to be spun off into a...

Apple will wed OS to HFS Plus. (Apple's Mac OS 8.0.1 will include Hierarchical File System Plus) (Product Development)
September 15, 1997... Apple is reportedly working on the next revision of its Mac OS, code-named Bride of Buster. Sources said the upgrade, Mac OS 8.0.1, is due around the end of the year and will bring new features to Apple's operating system as well as squash bugs....

Make room for zooms. (Olympus America's D-500L and D-600L, Agfa's ePhoto 1280 digital cameras)(Product Announcement)
September 15, 1997... Zoom lenses and higher resolutions look to be the next heat in the digital camera race. New models from Olympus America Inc. and the Agfa division of Bayer Corp. will leave the gate in October, costing $800 to $1,300. Equipped with 3x zoom...

Qualcomm posts new mail server. (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.0)(Product Announcement)
September 15, 1997... A popular e-mail server for the Mac will get a long-awaited update when its new parent ships a revision this fall. Qualcomm Inc. is preparing an upgrade to the e-mail server it acquired from Apple earlier this year; the new version will be the...

FileMaker's a Pro for Web databases. (Claris' FileMaker Pro 4.0 Web database publishing software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 15, 1997... With FileMaker Pro 4.0, Claris Corp. promises to bring Web database publishing to virtually anyone. The Mac's most popular database application is adding built-in HTTP support and CGI functions, both of which used to require third-party plug-ins...

Insignia Solutions ships RealPC. (PC-emulation software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... Insignia Solutions last week began shipping RealPC, its PC-emulation package aimed at gamers. Priced at $79, the emulator includes Microsoft Corp.'s DOS 6.22 as well as a CD-ROM filled with 15 popular Intel-standard PC game titles. Unlike the...

Goo Software takes on spam. (Spam Blaster anti-spam software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... Helping users quash unsolicited e-mail, Goo Software last week rolled out Spam Blaster. With the $40 Spam Blaster, a user first enters information about an e-mail account in the configuration component. A background application periodically...

Killing clones will profit Apple only if users pick up the tab. (The Second Decade) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
September 15, 1997... Apple's decision to allow UMAX Computer Corp. and Power Computing Corp. to distribute Mac OS 8 is good news as far as it goes, but I'm afraid those interpreting it as a retreat from the company's anti-licensing stance are deluding themselves....

StockWatch 09.11.97. (News Briefs)
September 15, 1997... 09.11.97 weekly close change Apple 22.38 -0.13 NASDAQ 1639.86 15.22 MacWEEK Composite* 148.52 5.63 Adaptec 49.44 1.69 Adobe 44.56...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 15, 1997... Next buy: Windows The purchase of Power Computing and the end of Mac OS licensing sounds the death knell for Apple (09.08.97, Page 1). I have been a Mac loyalist for years, but that's over now. I had just ordered a Power Computing machine...

Scanners surface at Print 97. (Eurocore's HiScan A4 drum scanner, Screen USA's Cezanne flatbed color scanner unveiled at the 1997 Print 97 show in Chicago)(Product Announcement)
September 15, 1997... While output was the name of the game at this month's Print 97 show in Chicago, the event also saw the debut of some heavyweight scanners for prepress professionals. New models included 48-bit-color, high-resolution devices from Eurocore SA of...

Agfa preps digital press. (Chromapress 50i)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... Agfa last week offered attendees of Chicago's Print 97 a look at a wide-format addition to its Chromapress line of digital presses. Based on a Xeikon engine, the forthcoming Chromapress 50i will handle media widths up to 20 inches; the original...

Automating color matching. (Apple's ColorSync engine for graphics programs) (Product Information)
September 15, 1997... One of the oldest problems in printing is the difficulty in keeping colors true from the designer's desk to the printer's press. Although there have been a number of attempts to automate this highly subjective art, one with high visibility is...

Sony camera heads for high-end studios. (Sony Electronics' DKC-ST5 digital studio camera)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... With the studio and portrait photography market in its sights, Sony Electronics Inc. this month introduced a high-resolution digital studio camera, the $31,000 DKC-ST5. The camera includes three diagonally offset, 1.4 million-pixel CCDs...

Apple revs QuickDraw; Strata ships 3-D update. (Apple's QuickDraw 3D 1.5.3 acceleration API, Strata's StudioPro 2.1 CAD software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... The 3-D game continues its lively pace with recent updates to a pair of key players. This month, Apple released a new version of its 3-D acceleration API, while Strata Inc. shipped StudioPro 2.1. QuickDraw 3D 1.5.3, available from Apple's Web...

PowerProduction updates storyboarding software. (PowerProduction Software's StoryBoard Quick 3.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... PowerProduction Software Inc. last week shipped an upgrade to StoryBoard Quick, the company's storyboarding program aimed at media and communications professionals. StoryBoard Quick 3.0 lets users import GIF images in addition to Mac PICTs and...

Casting call for Director: 2,000 elements in pack. (Component Software's 2000 Cast Members for Director animated elements)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... Component Software Corp. is bringing a cast of thousands to users of Macromedia Director. The 2000 Cast Members for Director collection of royalty-free animated elements is available now for $29.95. The cast members are organized into 52...

FireWire video tools boost speed and quality. (Radius' PhotoDV and ProMax Systems' FireMAX) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 15, 1997... PhotoDV/MotoDV 3 1/2 FireMAX 3 1/2 FireWire has finally become a reality. We found that the first two Mac products for the new bus architecture give video editors significant advantages in speed and image quality. Radius Inc. was first out...

Portfolio 3.0 catches up where Fetch 1.5 left off. (Extensis' image database) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 15, 1997... Portfolio 3.0 4 1/2 Users of the venerable image database Fetch may be tired of all the owner and version changes, but Portfolio 3.0, or "the database formerly known as Fetch," makes a great showing in the hands of Extensis Corp. Nearly every...

Outlook Express to hit Mac this fall. (Microsoft's Macintosh e-mail software) (Product Development)
September 15, 1997... Microsoft Corp. revamped its Mac e-mail software last week when it released a public beta of Outlook Express. The company previously offered Internet Mail & News, a free client bundled with Internet Explorer. This fall, Microsoft will replace...

Beatnik hooks up with Netscape. (Headspace's Beatnik sound and music plug-in to be bundled with Netscape Communicator workgroup software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 15, 1997... Headspace Inc. is bringing Beatnik, its sound and music plug-in, to Netscape Communicator. It recently announced that Beatnik will be bundled with Netscape Communications Corp.'s browser package. The Beatnik plug-in can play back a variety of...