Scott Clark

Macromedia and Adobe today separately announced the release of upgrades for their flagship products, Macromedia FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator. Macromedia announced FreeHand 8.0.1, a free update to the company’s FreeHand design software, and Adobe announced Adobe Illustrator 8.0, a powerful, innovative upgrade designed for professional designers and business users. Macromedia FreeHand 8.0.1 enables designers to […]

The Symantec Antivirus Research Center (SARC) this week reported the first known instance of a Java-based virus. Strange Brew, as it’s called, is what’s known as a parasitic virus. A parasitic virus attaches itself onto a host program so that the host program is still capable of functioning after it is infected. The Strange Brew […]

RAMWORKS today announced the full release of AdmiNet 3.0, which gives organizations an easy-to-operate tool to change and update content on their Web sites, including text and graphics, from any networked personal computer. The introduction of AdmiNet allows an organization’s “Subject Matter Experts,” or SMEs, to directly edit the web site content right from their […]

IBM’s alphaWorks today debuted MediaBeans, the latest multimedia tool to be added to its collection of Java-based multimedia products. MediaBeans is a “Java-based modular component framework” that was designed expressly for multimedia applications. The MediaBean enables users to create custom combinations of multimedia components that can run on users’ local machines, on a network as […]

Tenon Intersystems is now shipping Power MachTen 4.1.1, a POSIX-compliant, BSD 4.4 UNIX, with a Mach kernel foundation, that operates in concert with the Macintosh Operating System. The new Power MachTen 4.1.1 release includes updated software development tools, enhanced performance and security, and a dramatic price reduction. MachTen is a multiuser system with remote login […]

ALC Interactive recently introduced “EyeStoppers,” a service that allows full-motion video footage to be converted to standalone graphics files for use on Web pages that are viewed by any browser, without Java or plug-ins. According to ALC Interactive, recent tests have indicated that the use of full-motion video increases clickthrough rates and product sales on […]

HindSight Ltd. this week announced the release of forumLynx 2.0 and searchLynx 2.0 with new improvements that include a 400% increase in speed, expanded vocabulary of remote commands, and several interface enhancements. forumLynx enables the developer to set up and host online discussion forums. The software features fast response times and message threads that are […]

Evolution Online Systems, Inc. today announced the beta release of EvoScript 4, the company’s Perl-based Web-database application framework. Evolution Online said the product is targeted at developers looking to rapidly develop dynamic Web sites and network-based business information systems. EvoScript 4 features an extensible, standards-based platform for creating server-side Web applications, and uses a simple, […]

Commercial Interactive Media (CIM) this week released SimpleMerchant 1.0, a new e-commerce solution that enables small- to medium-sized enterprises to set up online retail outlets. SimpleMerchant 1.0 is an “ecash ready” e-commerce solution that provides a simple “internet-shop-in-a-box” solution for those looking to place their business online. SimpleMerchant doesn’t require a dedicated server, and the […]

Netscape’s latest Communicator 4.5 browser suite released in beta last week includes many improved features, including the ability for users to access their own personal information–such as bookmarks, e-mail and address books–from almost anywhere on the Internet using their standard Web browser. The bookmark feature is accessed by the user through the Netscape Web site, […]

WhoWhere? Inc., a provider of free Web-based communication and collaboration applications, announced today the launch of WhoWhere Pages, a personal home page publishing application. WhoWhere Pages features HTML editors, Web page hosting and pre-designed templates and style sets. Five megabytes of disc space are provided to users for their home pages which the company said […]

Intertop Corporation last week at Mecklermedia’s Summer Internet World announced its Internet Application Platform, a full-featured solution that allows businesses to create and deploy fast, efficient business applications on the Web. The Internet Application Platform features the Intertop Application Server and i-Xpresso Integrated Development Environment. This package enables developers to create applications that speed up […]