Dec 98 Newsbits
Volume Number: 14
Issue Number: 12
Column Tag: Newsbits
by Jessica Courtney, press_releases@mactech.com
Snowbound Software Announces Fast TIFF and
Document Imaging Applet for Netscape and Internet
Explorer
Java Imaging Applet Released
Snowbound Software announced the release of a powerful, new Java imaging applet
created from their RasterMaster for Java toolkits. This is Snowbound's latest Java
imaging solution for cross platform image viewing and manipulation. Some of the
potential for this applet's can be seen at http://www.snowbnd.com/Java/Applet.htm.
With Snowbound's RasterMaster for Java component library, any Java developer can
create a Java applet that download and views, from the Internet or Intranet, imaging
formats such as TIFF, BMP, JPEG, MO:DCA, CALS, and GIF through Netscape(R) and
Internet Explorer. Additionally, with the DICOM and JEDMICS support option, two
significant imaging market segments - medical imaging and military engineering
imaging - are now served with true 100% Java technology.
Snowbound's applet allows the browser client to offer functions such as zoom, rotate,
pan, scroll, save, and next page without any installation. Additionally, because
Snowbound provides an actual toolkit, their customers can modify the applet to create
whatever capabilities they need as well as provide their own look and feel.
Snowbound's RasterMaster for Java toolkit with applet capability is available NOW via
the RasterMaster for Java component library. Price starts at $1350 for a RM/View
developer's toolkit with the RM/Plus Version priced at $1995. Customized versions
are available.
http://www.snowbnd.com
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VOODOO Version Control Tool Integrates with Text
Editor Alpha
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GmbH announced the availability of an integration between the
company's award-winning version control tool VOODOO, and the text editor Alpha. Like
the already existing integrations with CodeWarrior and BBEdit, the new integraton
with Alpha offers full access to everyday version control tasks from directly inside the
host application.
In order to use VOODOO integrated with Alpha, you will need version 1.8.1 or later of
VOODOO and version 7.1 or later of Alpha. The integration package including installer and documentation can be downloaded from
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS ftp://ftp.unisoft.co.at/pub/voodoo/integration/alpha/ as well as
from the author's site http://www.his.com/~jguyer/Alpha/VOODOO.html or
ftp://ftp.his.com/pub/jguyer/Alpha/AlphaVOODOO.sit.bin
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Stone Design Ships CREATE 5.0 For OpenStep and
Rhapsody Developer Release 2
Longtime OpenStep and Yellow Box developers, Stone Design, announced that Create 5,
the powerful draw studio and web page maker has shipped for OpenStep and Rhapsody
Developer Release 2. This release incorporates numerous new features on the much
imitated but never duplicated Create.
Create is the all-in-one drawing and web page production application that has been
shipping for NeXTSTEP/OpenStep for over 9 years. Create has the power and features
that graphic designers need to make professional web pages, flyers, letterheads and
much more. The Stone Design web site, which was fabricated in Create, shows off the
range and power of this application.
Create lists for $695, but is specially priced to move at $249, and includes the web
animation making tool, GIFfun. Also included is a free upgrade to the Mac OS X Server
or Yellow Box version when they ship. Previous registered users of Create 4.2 can
upgrade for $39. Version 3.x can be upgraded for $149.
http://www.stone.com/Create_Latest.html.
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Steve Jobs to Deliver Keynote Address at Macworld
IDG Expo Management Company announced that Steve Jobs, the interim CEO for Apple
Computer, Inc., will deliver the opening keynote address at Macworld Expo January 5,
1999. Jobsà keynote address will take place from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. at the
Moscone Convention Center in the Esplanade Ballroom on Jan. 5, 1999. The session is
open to registered conference attendees only. Macworld Expo/San Francisco annually
brings together established and emerging companies to showcase innovative products
and services for the Macintosh community. The Macworld Expo/San Francisco show
floor and top-rated conference programs serve as the premiere showcase for products,
services and training geared to professional and consumers alike. The Macworld
Expo/San Francisco exhibit hall opens Jan. 5 and runs through Jan. 8 at the Moscone
Convention Center.
Macworld Expo's multiple conference programs cover beginning and advanced uses of
the Mac. The Macworld/Pro sessions offer a technology-intensive professional
development series for the Macintosh design, management and networking
professionals. The Users Conference covers beginning and advanced uses of applications
and techniques in all areas of the Mac OS. Macworld Expo's general conference, begins
with pre-conference workshops on January 4 and continues through January 8,
1999. Interested parties can save up to $100 by pre-registering by Dec. 4 through
the Macworld Expo website at http://www.macworldexpo.com or by calling
1-800-645-EXPO.
http://www.macworldexpo.com
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Quest Software Adds Toad to Its Suite of Oracle
Developer Tools
Quest Software announced the addition of TOAD (the Tool for Oracle Application
Developers) to its family of database development and management solutions for
Oracle. With tens of thousands of combined users, TOAD and Quest Software's SQL
Navigator are the two most widely used graphical environments specifically designed
for Oracle Developers. With this acquisition, Quest Software becomes the clear leader
in this growing market.
TOAD, formerly a freeware product, has enjoyed rapid growth and support from
thousands of Oracle developers around the world. In order to provide a higher level of
service to this user base, Quest Software will be offering a low cost support and
enhancement plan for users who rely on TOAD every day. A limited-support freeware
version of TOAD will continue to be available.
http://www.quests.com/
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OpenGL for the Macintosh 1.5 (SGI API 1.1) Now
Available
Conix Enterprises, Inc. announced the availability of OpenGL for the Mac 1.5. This is
the OpenGL the Macintosh graphic's community has been waiting for. With incredible
performance gains and improved support for hardware acceleration, Conix provides
the ultimate solution for 3D graphics on the Macintosh. ATI Fully Supports OpenGL.
Conix provides affordable distribution licensing for application vendors, and internal
distribution agreements for our commercial customers who are developing apps for
internal distribution.
http://www.conix3d.com
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iMac is Now Most Affordable Consumer Computer
Apple Computer, Inc. announced the industry's most aggressive financing program
which enables customers to buy an iMac for just $29.99 per month. Apple's financing
program features instant in-store credit approval, no payments for 120 days, and one
of the lowest interest rates available to consumers anywhere. Participating Apple
resellers nationwide, including CompUSA, are offering instant in-store credit
approval using Apple's web-based loan application. Approved buyers can take their
iMacs home with no down payment, and with no payments for 120 days.
Apple will be supporting this financing program with television, radio, print and
outdoor advertising, as well as with in-store merchandising throughout the retail
channel.
Apple also announced some enhancements to iMac. All iMacs now come loaded with Mac
OS 8.5, Apple's "must have" upgrade to the Macintosh operating system. All iMacs are
also now equipped with ATI's Rage Pro Turbo graphics controller and 6MB of video
RAM, for increased graphics performance. Adobe PageMill 3.0 has been added to the
selection of consumer software that comes with iMac, allowing customers to easily
create and manage their own Internet web pages.
http://www.apple.com
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Un-SourceSafe 1.0.1
Michael Amorose has released Un-SourceSafe 1.0.1, a simply Macintosh utility which
removes the Visual SourceSafe information added to files by Metrowerks' Visual
SourceSafe Client. The utility can remove info from up to 1000 files dropped onto it -
even if they are nested 100 levels deep. A special optimized version is also available
for G3-based machines. Un-SourceSafe is free and can be downloaded from most public
Macintosh ftp utility sites such as InfoMac or UMich.
http://home.earthlink.net/~amorose/devtools/devtools.htm
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Canadian Software Developer Announces Major
Upgrade to VR Authoring Tool
Squamish Media Group, Inc., announced that they have released a major upgrade to
their popular software application, soundsaVR 1.0, the first product of its kind
available to allow the embedding of directional stereo sound into QuickTime VR using
Apple's new 'wired sprite' technology.
soundsaVR 1.1 is a fast and efficient way to add sound to photographic or rendered
single node and multi node QTVR movies (1.0 and 2.0), and can import any file in
sound formats supported by QT3.0 to enhance the immersive experience of QTVR with
realistic directional stereo sound.
Output movies made with soundsaVR are saved using the QuickTime 3.0 movie file
format - requiring no special plug-ins - for playback on computers running the Mac
OS, Windows 95, or Windows NT.
soundsaVR 1.1 is available now at a limited introductory price of $70.00 (US), and
can be purchased through the Squamish Media Group, Inc., web site.
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LightSoft Updates Fantasm to Version 5.30
Fantasm is a powerful Macintosh assembly language development environment capable
of translating both 680x0 and PowerPC assembly language. Our design ethos is
simplicity with power and hence Fantasm's main aims are to make Macintosh assembly
language simple to write, to ensure the code produced is running it's fastest and to
provide the most powerful environment for Macintosh assembly language
programmers.
Version 5.30 adds full AltiVec[TM] support along with a few bug fixes and tweaks.
Registered Fantasm 5 users who have not received their update should contact
Lightsoft.
http://www.tau.it/lightsoft