Scott Clark

According to Bugnet, it’s possible for Microsoft’s FrontPage Web authoring tool to erase other Microsoft software on your disk inadvertently. This includes your operating system, not to mention all the other useful files on your C: drive. Bugnet’s claim is that a disk-based FrontPage web created in the root directory of a hard drive–where many […]

Fast Engines, Inc. this week announced the release of Fast.Serv Pro, the company’s new FastCGI Web server plug-in. Fast.Serv Pro is designed to increase the server performance of applications that use the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) by up to ten times or more. Fast Engines said the plug-in achieves this performance upgrade by porting FastCGI […]

IBM today unveiled plans for a new Web software product line that includes a Web application server platform and scaling software for efficient management of Web sites. The new product line, called IBM WebSphere, delivers a foundation that customers can use to build, deploy, and manage Java-based enterprise applications. The initial offerings in the product […]

Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of Microsoft Liquid Motion version 1.0 beta, a new tool that enables developers to create and publish animations on their Web sites. Many Web sites use animated images to grab the attention of their visitors. By using Liquid Motion, even beginners are able to use animation to improve the […]

Object/FX Corporation today announced the release of Version 1.2 of its SpatialX Java product, a suite of high-level Java software components that utilize relational databases to allow geographic visualization in enterprise-wide applications. SpatialX includes both JavaBeans and Java Classes that may be used to create client/server applications. Among SpatialX 1.2’s new features is a powerful […]

ICentral, Inc. announced today it is shipping ShopSite v3.3 for the Silicon Graphics IRIX Web server. Until now, ShopSite supported BSD, Linux, and Microsoft NT on the Intel processor, and Solaris on the SPARC processor. When the ShopSite software–which comes as a self-contained application–is installed on the Web server, it utilizes 13 MB of disk. […]

Blue Angel Technologies Inc. this week announced that its MetaStar product line is available with full support for eXtensible Markup Language (XML). The MetaStar line is a suite of software tools featuring a wide range of functions that enable users to capture, manage, publish, and discover structured information on the Web. The collection of standards-based […]

Elemental Software this week announced that RealNetworks’ RealPlayer and navigation controls will become SmartElements in its Drumbeat 2.0 product. The move is designed to provide developers with the tools they need to rapidly create interactive, streaming media applications–without writing code. By using Drumbeat 2.0, Web developers can utilize Point-and-Click Interactions to create pages that integrate […]

ICVERIFY Inc. this week announced that its NetVERIFY software is now integrated with Microsoft’s Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, one of the newest members of the BackOffice family. Merchants utilize NetVERIFY to process and settle transactions using all major brands of credit cards, including Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover Card, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, and JCB, […]

Media Design in*Progress today announced the release of Interaction 2.0, the Web server companion for dynamic social Web sites that adapt to the needs of each visitor. Interaction is the first application to utilize server-side XML 1.0 for generating dynamic Web sites. The software works in conjunction with Mac Web servers and generates HTML on […]

Adobe Systems Inc. today announced that the latest release of its best-selling image-editing software, Adobe Photoshop 5.0, will be available next month. The new version will feature new tools designed to unleash the talents of Adobe Photoshop users. These include: the History Palette Editable Text Layers Spot-Color Channels Color Management support The History Palette provides […]

Aufrance Associates this week released the newest version of Calendar Internet for Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 (IIS4). Calendar Internet enables Web developers to provide an interactive calendar of events for sites that run on Windows NT, such IIS or O’Reilly’s WebSite. Calendar Internet’s functionality includes: interactive and secure data entry of events via a […]