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Week
of April 20 1998
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April
24
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A report on PCWeek
online
says that Adobe will announce Monday that
Photoshop 5 will be released in
May.
MacWEEK has a beta
test
review
of CyberStudio 3, WYSIWYG HTML editor that
support DHTML.
Cinovation
now has a Macintosh version of Scriptware,
their scriptwriting software. You can also
download a demo version.
Jim Hied has put together a very good
article on Bluescreening.
It's at the MacWorld
website, and covers Premiere and After
Effects, but anyone should fine this
article interesting.
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April
23
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We take a First
Look
at Adobe ImageReady, an image editing tool
for Web developers.
An
article in USA
Today Tech
Report
notes that bills moving through Congress
designed to strengthen the protection of
intellectual property, may limit Internet
search engines' ability to link to Web
sites. They may also restrict consumer's
ability to tape TV, movies and music at
home (which is currently protected under
the concept of "Fair Use.")
IPIX,
developers of the IPIX immersive
technology (a competitor to QuickTime VR
et. al.) announced on April 14 they had
secured $10.7 million in equity funding.
Investors include Media One, Advance
Publications (publishers of Conde Nast
Publications.)
The most notable advantage of IPIX is that
it is created from two single images taken
with a 180 degree fisheye lens, and
creates nodes that are spherical, rather
than cylindrical.
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April
21
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Macromedia has announced a new release of
the DHTML editor Dreamweaver. A
30-day trial version of Dreamweaver 1.2 is
available for download at no charge at
http://www.dreamweaver.com.
All current Dreamweaver 1.0 customers can
download a free Dreamweaver 1.2
updater.
The
new features in Dreamweaver 1.2 include:
3.0
and 4.0 Browser Compatibility - A Convert
to 3.0 Browser command, creates pages that
are compatible with 3.0 browsers, while
retaining Dynamic HTML.
Site
Management - Users can now check for
broken or external links within pages,
directories, or the entire web
site.
Integration
with Web Development Tools - The program
will launch editing tool, such as
Macromedia Fireworks or Adobe Photoshop.
New
JavaScript Behaviors - includes a library
of JavaScript behaviors. In addition to
rollover effects, form validation, drag
and drop, image swapping and Shockwave
controls, Dreamweaver 1.2 now also
includes new behaviors such as check
browser, drag and drop layers and preload
images.
International
Authoring - Dreamweaver 1.2 is now
double-byte enabled.
A
Tech Note
at Apple's website notes a problem with
QuickTime 2.5 and Mac OS 8.0 (or 8.1).
Computers crash when playing QuickTime
from an ISO-9660 CD-ROM.
If
the movies are dragged to the hard drive
first or played from a standard Macintosh
format CD, they work correctly. Using
system software 7.6.1 or earlier, the
problem doesn't occur.
This
problem is now fixed in QuickTime
3,
and upgrading is the suggested
fix.
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April
20
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Patriot's
Day
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