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• Freeway 3.1 Developer SoftPress Welcomes MacEvangeList To Oxford
Chief Evangelist Shane Anderson (http://www.macevangelist.com) has arrived in "the city of dreaming spires" on the European leg of his world tour. Shane is on the lookput for stories about Mac users in Europe. If you would like to talk to him about how you and your Mac are changing the world, then visit Mac Evangelist and send him an invite! SoftPress's Freeway 3.1 Web-design software for the Macintosh has been awarded the coveted "used and preferred by Mac EvangeList" title. The entire Mac EvangeList website was produced using Freeway. The latest Freeway 3.1 includes enhanced Flash handling, extended Freeway Actions, faster performance and improved support for Arabic Web publishing as well as performance improvements and maintenance changes. The update from version 3.0x is available from the SoftPress Systems Web site (http://www.softpress.com). New Features In Freeway 3.1
Freeway is designed to meet the needs of graphic designers who want an intuitive tool for designing industrial-strength Web sites... without the hassle of coding. It provides a fully-featured DTP-style user interface that makes professional Web-site design more accessible than with any other visual Web-design application. Freeway's "Page and Pasteboard" environment for designing and accurately positioning type, graphics and multimedia allows designers familiar with applications like QuarkXPress to feel immediately at home when creating for the Web. Freeway offers a wide range of features for the more technical aspects of site production. One of the keys to making high-end Web-design features fully accessible is the Freeway Actions technology. Actions effectively separate the creative design process from the integration of complex scripting for dynamic behaviors and back-end functionality - allowing creative designers to concentrate on what they do best. Application of Actions include Web publishing from databases, development of e-commerce solutions, Dynamic HTML behaviors and JavaScript objects such as rollovers. Light versions of Freeway 3 are marketed and sold by Macmillan Digital Publishing in their Web Page Construction Kit 6.0 and by Apple Computer through their K-6 Web Publishing Kit. The recommended retail price of Freeway 3 is US$299 with 50% discount for education and crossgrades from Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive. Users of Adobe PageMill and FileMaker HomePage also qualify for special crossgrade pricing - details are available on the SoftPress Web site. The light version of this Web design package, Freeway 3 LE, is now being sold by Apple Computer as a central part of their K-6 Web Publishing Kit, a bundle marketed in the Apple Learning Series. The bundle may be purchased on the Web through the Apple Store for Education or through Apple's approved Education dealers and account representatives. The recommended retail price of the K-6 Web Publishing Kit is US$99 when purchased with a new Macintosh or US$199 when purchased as a stand-alone product. Further details are available from the Apple Web site at
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Iomega Corporation has announced its Iomega HotBurn software for CD recording. In usability testing, HotBurn software consistently performed faster than the industry leader for users of all experience levels. In four out of five tasks measured, users were able to set up CD projects quicker, and they experienced less waiting time before and after the burn. "CD-burning software often puts the user through a confusing and complicated process," said Germaine Ward, senior vice president of software solutions, Iomega Corporation. "HotBurn software is a faster and easier user experience. It wraps the functions that people use most of the time -- burning music, copying data, creating liner notes -- into a clean powerful interface, replacing the usual complexity with one or two simple steps. HotBurn will allow CD-RW users to successfully burn a CD faster, and it will differentiate our optical drive bundles in an intensely competitive market." The HotBurn console interface conveniently groups all options for creating a CD on a single screen, and the interface is designed with replaceable skins that allow the user to customize the software's look and feel. Additional convenience features include a "Best Of" CD creation function, which streamlines the making of a compilation disc by eliminating the need to copy selections from several CDs to the hard drive first. Standard HotBurn features for Macintosh and Windows users include easy two-step music and data CD mastering, one-step CD duplication and convenient CD imaging of multiple copies from a source CD. HotBurn also fully supports new technologies like BURN-Proof, which virtually eliminates the buffer under-run errors that can turn a CD into a coaster. Iomega HotBurn software will be available in October with new Iomega CD-RW drives; it will also be available in the fourth quarter of this year as a retail download from www.iomega.com for users of third-party drives. Iomega HotBurn software is compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4, and Windows 2000 on Pentium PCs with supported USB, FireWire or ATAPI CD-RW drives, and will be compatible with Windows XP in the fourth quarter of this year. Iomega HotBurn software is compatible with Macintosh computers running MacOS 8.6 through 9.x with supported USB, FireWire or ATAPI drives. For more information, visit:
Autodesk, Inc. has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the software product line from Media 100, a leading provider of digital media products. With this acquisition, Autodesk's Discreet Division enhances its award-winning content creation product portfolio with Media 100's world-class streaming media software solutions -- allowing Discreet customers to create, distribute, re-purpose and publish media content for consumption via the Internet, corporate Intranets and IP-enabled devices such as cell phones and PDAs. The asset purchase for $16 million cash is expected to close during Autodesk's third quarter and is anticipated to be non-dilutive to Autodesk's expected earnings for the current fiscal year. The software acquisition forms the foundation of Autodesk's entry into streaming media for the corporate and institutional markets. Streaming delivers immediate playback of content over the Internet, without the need to download, and is fast becoming the distribution medium of choice for films and entertainment, advertising, corporate/investor communications, and distance learning and training. Software acquired from Media 100 includes the Cleaner family of products -- Cleaner 5, Cleaner EZ, Cleaner Live, Charger and SuperCharger -- and the editing and dynamic streaming media production software of CineStream, EventStream technology, EditDV, and IntroDV. Cleaner and its related products complement Discreet's entire family of content creation solutions, and is the industry's leading cross-platform (Macintosh and Windows) encoding software that delivers interactive streaming video and audio to websites -- such as live-event webcasting. CineStream, its predecessor EditDV, and IntroDV will provide Discreet with cross-platform streaming media production and non-linear DV editing technology. These new software products will reach new customers in the corporate, institutional and prosumer market segments. Media 100, led by CEO John Molinari, will continue developing digital media systems, such as iFinish and Media 100i, as well as continuing support for its ICE family of effects acceleration solutions, and its MediaPress family of real-time MPEG-2 encoding solutions. Key development and support personnel from the software division of Media 100, currently based in its Los Gatos, CA office, will transition over to the Autodesk Discreet division. The acquired software product lines will be sold and distributed by Discreet upon final completion of the acquisition and is expected to be fully branded under Discreet within the year 2001. For more information, visit:
Heartsoft, Inc. has announced that the company's Internet browser for children, Internet Safari, has received another positive review by an independent source. The following are excerpts from a review by Juline Lambert, syndicated columnist, homeschool parent, and certified special education teacher. Ms. Lambert uses real kids to test software. The full review can be found at: Internet Safari is the newcomer on the kid's browser block. Internet safety for children is something that I have been quite passionate about for many years. I have seen too many things happen with children in my community, and online. While our family used SurfMonkey rather faithfully, I was willing to give this one a try. My kids liked the layout and format much better. Considering the changes SurfMonkey has undergone this past month, Internet Safari is now the winner in our house. While Internet Safari lacks the tight sign-up constraints placed on kids using SurfMonkey, Internet Safari is more useable, and does not include the chat feature, which some parents do not like. Internet Safari also does not include the extremely strict e-mail configuration found at SurfMonkey. Your kids will get their own e-mail address. The safari interface is very nice, and my own kids and test kids loved it. You can type in the URL of any website by clicking on the animated jeep. If it is an unacceptable website, your child is given a cute message (read aloud) stating that there is "trouble up ahead, why don't we take a different route." There are other cute messages for bad links, and slow servers. If your kids need a bit more direction, the Safari mode is wonderful. My younger kids are always asking me to come up with interesting places to go on the Internet. Click on the Internet Safari icon, and you are whisked to base camp. From here you can visit hundreds of links that are pre-approved, and set up in an easy-to-navigate fashion. The screen shot above shows the various routes you can take from base camp. Every time your child signs online, the program checks for updates in the background, keeping the program up-to-date and functional. A new version due out in September promises to be an even stronger product rivaling the 'big boys' of the Internet. Your kids will have a fully functional browser that will keep them safe and directed in their explorations. I also appreciated the fact that this browser runs independent of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. When we used the original SurfMonkey browser, we had some problems with older kids being blocked from acceptable sites. Now when my younger kids want to get on the web I can just have them use the Internet Safari icon on the desktop. You can also install this on your home network, making it very versatile. This does not mean you do not have to be vigilant with your computer. Your kids can still access Internet Explorer or Navigator if you are not aware of what they are doing. All in all, a good browser, with very useable interface. Grading for Internet Safari Educational Value: 5
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