Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 10:05:22 -0800 From: Conrad_Geiger To: user_groups@next.com Subject: v6.2 - NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 2, February, 1993 NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 2, February, 1993) *** TABLE OF CONTENTS NeXT ANNOUNCEMENTS (January) => 1. Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO => 2. Last Call for Submissions:1993 NeXTSTEP OBJECTWARE CATALOG NeXTSTEP DEVELOPER SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS (Fall 1992/January) => 3. Appsoft Ships Appsoft Image => 4. Millennium Announces NoteBook Conrad Geiger Manager, International NeXT User Group Program I would appreciate any feedback from you on how the Nugget News Digest can be made better. Please send me your comments! ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ NeXT ANNOUNCEMENTS => 1. Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO The 2nd annual gathering of the world-wide NeXT community! An international Developers Conference! An educational Users Conference! A NeXTSTEP product exposition! A global User Group Meeting! Call 1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call (508)470-3880 or fax to (508)470-0526 for registration information. When: MAY 25-27, 1993, Where: THE MOSCONE CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA Pass the word. Tell your colleagues, fellow user group members, other computer industry user group members, fellow NeXTSTEP developers, potential developers, and friends, to schedule this date, and stay tuned for more information!! Please post this message to local and community electronic bulletin boards and feel free to publish in your user group or company newsletters. Exhibitors please contact DCI West-- 408 280 6778 voice 408 280 6779 fax ___________________________________________________________________ => 2. Last Call for Submissions:1993 NeXTSTEP OBJECTWARE CATALOG SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 8, 1993. Even if you submitted for the 1992 catalog, please resubmit again this week. NeXT Computer is producing a completely new version of the ObjectWare Catalog. The Catalog will be distributed throughout the year to NeXT customers worldwide, and NeXT would like to have all current NeXTSTEP objects (commercial, shareware and public domain) included in the Catalog. The unveiling of the new catalog will be at NeXTWORLD Expo '93 in May. Although this does not allow you as much time to prepare your submissions as you might have liked, NeXT is certain that the catalog is a real opportunity to show the Object and NeXT world what you have produced, and we urge you to participate. Enclosed below is an entry submission form for the ObjectWare catalog. Please note the submission deadline is FEBRUARY 8. NeXTWORLD Expo '93 is scheduled for May 25-27, in San Francisco, California. More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the Expo, from commercial, government, and educational organizations worldwide. As NeXTSTEP is the premier platform for delivering the benefits of object-oriented technology, the exhibition floor will have a special section devoted entirely to objects. Floorspace, including the "ObjectWare Pavilion," which runs throughout the show floor, is still available. If you are interested in exhibiting, contact Matthew Schmuck or Charlie Hurth at Digital Consulting, Inc. They may be reached at: (408) 280-6778 voice (408) 280-6779 fax ____________________________________________________________________ Objectware Catalog Submission Form (Deadline for submitting entries is February 8) Please follow these instructions carefully. - Each product must have its own separate and complete submission (i.e., don't include multiple products in the same submission). - Submissions must be in electronic form (i.e., on floppies, ODs, or you may send them by electronic mail). - Type everything exactly as you would like it to appear in the catalog. - Use Edit as your word processor. - Don't use bold or italic typeface. - Don't format your text with multiple columns. Each submission must include the following: 1. Company, institution name 2. Company, institution phone number(s) - You must include a non-800 number (for international callers). 3. Company, institution fax number(s) - Add "fax" after the number. For example: (123) 456-7890 fax. - You must include a non-800 number (for international callers). 4. E-mail address for product information (optional) 5. Product name 6. List price 7. Product availability - Type "Shipping now" or appropriate quarter. 8. Product description in 100-150 words - Include a general summary of the methods implemented by the class. - Insert a blank line between paragraphs. - Include trademark symbols when you mention trademarked products or companies. 9. Trademark information - NeXT publishes trademark information for all products mentioned in the catalog. Therefore, you must include appropriate trademark symbols for your products as well as for ancillary products mentioned in your product description. Trademark symbols will appear as part of your product description; other trademark information will appear where appropriate. - You do not need to provide trademark symbols for NeXT products. 10. Is support available? 11. Is documentation available? 12. Is source code available? 13. Is the object on a palette? 14. Product icon (optional) 15. Graphic that will give the user a sense of where the product fits in the class hierarchy (optional) 16. Name of person preparing this catalog submission - This will not appear in the catalog. 17. Phone number, fax number, and e-mail address for person preparing this catalog submission if different from questions 2-4 (above) - This will not appear in the catalog. Send your submissions to: Developer Programs Attn: ObjectWare Catalog NeXT Computer, Inc 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 E-mail: developer_programs@next.com Entitle your e-mail "ObjectWare Catalog Submission" NeXT will confirm receipt of your materials. If you have not heard from NeXT within 14 days after you mailed your materials, call (415) 780-3712. All submissions become property of NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT reserves the right to edit all submissions. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ NeXTSTEP DEVELOPER SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCEMENTS (Fall 1992/January) => 3. Appsoft Ships Appsoft Image For information contact: Randy Adams, President, Appsoft, Inc. 28 Laburnum Road Atherton, CA 94027 Phone: (800) 428-2777 (sales) Phone: (415) 802-2900 Email: info@appsoft.com APPSOFT SHIPS APPSOFT IMAGE PHOTO EDITING AND IMAGE PROCESSING FOR NeXTSTEP Brings fast, high-quality photo editing to the NeXT market. REDWOOD CITY, CA. January 15, 1993 -- Appsoft Inc. announced today that Appsoft Image, the image processing and photo editing package for the NeXTSTEP operating system has begun shipping to customers worldwide. Appsoft Image brings fast and powerful photo editing to the NeXTSTEP desktop. Appsoft Image is designed to be used by newspapers, magazines, graphic designers and users in small businesses that need high-quality image processing for documents, ads, brochures, presentations, newsletters and publications of all kinds. Appsoft Image is the first image processing program to take full advantage of the powerful Display PostScript imaging model offered in the NeXTSTEP environment. Appsoft Image offers a complete range of painting and image manipulation tools including: IMAGE SELECTION AND MASKING TOOLS Rectangular Elliptical Freehand Bezier Magic Wand (edge detection) Add to, subtract from and refine your current selection Cut, copy or paste selections with the pasteboard Soften Edges PAINTING TOOLS Use any of the program's 24 paint tools Paint with textures, gradients, colors, cloned images or filters Paint with transparency to lighten, darken, paint on top of or behind an image Erase part of an image, a specific color, or revert to a previous version Blur, sharpen or smudge all or just a portion of your image Control paint tools with independent line and fill properties Use other paint tools with Appsoft Image's plug-in support Create a library of custom brushes, textures and gradients CHANNEL EDITING CAPABILITIES Work in separate RGB, CMYK or HSB channels Add, subtract and combine multiple channels from different images Create, edit and store an unlimited number of masks IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS Scale, rotate, flip, slant, skew, distort or alter the perspective of any part of your image Resample or resize your image to any resolution Magnify from 32:1 to 1:32 IMAGE PROCESSING EFFECTS Apply any of the program's 25 filters to a specific selection or all of the image Adjust Filters: Alter Color, Arbitrary Map, Brightness, Color Balance,Contrast, Convert to Grayscale, Equalize, Invert, Posterize Process Filters: Add Noise, Blur, Convolution Matrix, Despeckle, Sharpen, Minimum, Maximum, Find Edges, Unsharp Mask Stylize Filters: Diffuse, Emboss, Motion Blur, Offset, Pointillize, Swirl, Waves Add filters through Appsoft Image's plug-in support TEXT Create anti-aliased text Apply textures, gradients, cloning, filters or transformations directly to text PRINTING Print to any PostScript color or black and white printer Output four color separations Calibrate your monitor to multiple output devices For complete compatibility with other applications and platforms, Appsoft Image comes with read and write support for TIFF, EPS, Scitex, PICT, PhotoShop and over 10 other external formats. Key features include the ability to work with 2 to 24-bit images in RGB, CMYK, HSB color models; define, name, group an unlimited number of masks; apply 25 build-in filters or plug in custom filters through the API; view and manipulate individual color channels including alpha transparency; clone and tile source images; construct complex discontigous selections; create custom brushes, textures and gradient blends of up to 100 component colors; create sophisticated 4 color separations and calibrate monitor color. Appsoft Image and all other Appsoft products are available through NeXTConnection and all NeXT dealers and VAR's worldwide. ____________________________________________________________________ => 4. Millennium Announces NoteBook Millennium Software Labs Defines Emerging Application Category on NeXTSTEP Computers Contact: Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President Millennium Software Labs 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300 Menlo Park, CA, 94025 (415) 321-3720 Phone (415) 321-3650 Fax Email: info@millennium.com Company introduces NoteBook, an object-oriented software application that improves information processing productivity for individuals MENLO PARK, California, January 27, 1993 - Millennium Software Labs announced today that NoteBook, its new breakthrough software application for the NeXTSTEP operating system, shipped last week. The product defines information processing, an emerging application category for personal productivity and information management on commercial desktop systems. Jayson Adams, Millennium's CEO, Chief Scientist and co-founder, remarked, "We met our original goal of first customer ship by January, 1993 and we're very proud of this achievement. NoteBook marks an important milestone in the NeXTSTEP marketplace as well. NeXTSTEP's outstanding object-oriented architecture allowed us to develop and deliver a high-quality commercial application with just over 9 person-months of development time, an impossible accomplishment under any other software development environment available today. NoteBook for NeXTSTEP clearly demonstrates that NeXT holds an important commercial lead over Microsoft, IBM, Apple and the rest of the software industry in delivering on the promise of object-oriented technology. It's worldclass and it's available today." NoteBook is a new product for an emerging application category that Millennium defines as information processing. Scott Love, Millennium's President and co-founder explains, "Individuals have a great need to store, organize, and retrieve unstructured information, and yet no real tools exist to directly assist them with this task. For example, electronic mail inundates users with information of varying importance, and no simple way exists to clip and store portions of messages, and then later retrieve them. The beauty of NoteBook is that rather than forcing users to conform to computer-oriented information management, such as a typical database system, NoteBook presents users with very familiar metaphors so that storing and organizing information is simple, and then works with a user's associative memory processes to help them retrieve the stored information." NoteBook has been designed for users seeking a convenient way to manage and organize the everyday flow of information and ideas. It's a revolutionary application whose power comes from two breakthroughs. First, NoteBook uniquely combines an outline processor for creating lists of information with a visual notebook metaphor for managing these lists. Together, they make storing and organizing information simple and elegant. Second, NoteBook employs "Dynamic Index Views technology" (Patent Pending 1992), allowing users to instantly view "cross-sections" of their information. It's like having the power of a sophisticated database query system without the complexity. NoteBook's simplicity and flexibility make it applicable to a wide range of information processing tasks. Users can create intelligent notepads for jotting notes and ideas; clip and store important electronic mail messages for fast retrieval; or even organize fax documents, news clippings, project tasks, agenda outlines, to-do lists, meeting notes and diagrams. Whenever users start a new project or plan, chances are they'll use NoteBook to help manage their information flow. NoteBook is truly a productivity application for individuals. "We ran an extensive test drive program to determine what NoteBook applications users would create and why," said Mr. Adams. "The results indicate that NoteBook has several key productivity applications, and that our customers will continually discover unique uses. The response from key NeXTSTEP customers has been very positive and enthusiastic. We fully expect users and large organizations to add NoteBook to their application suites immediately." In addition to helping individuals manage personal information, NoteBook is a powerful tool for publishing and sharing information within a group. Groups can store and display electronic libraries of images, charts and graphs. They can create telephone directories, company policy handbooks and briefing books, accessible through network file libraries. And individuals can easily distribute NoteBook-stored information just by clicking and dragging. Whether an individual or an enterprise- wide team, NoteBook promises to dramatically improve the way people access and utilize information. NoteBook Release 1.1 has a suggested retail price of $495.95 and runs on NeXTSTEP Release 2.1 and higher. Engage! Release 1.1 is also shipping, and has a suggested retail price of $99.00. Millennium products are sold direct to qualified corporate customers as well as through authorized resellers. Customers can order products today by calling 800 732-9009, or by contacting Millennium at their offices in Menlo Park, CA at (415) 321-3720. Millennium Software Labs, Inc. is a privately-held startup founded by Jayson Adams and Scott Love, former employees of NeXT Computer, Inc. Millennium develops and markets personal productivity software for NeXTSTEP-based computer systems. The company's mission is to develop state-of-the-art applications for information management. Product design and architecture are based entirely on NeXTSTEP, the most advanced object-oriented software technology available today. For more information about this press release, contact Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President. Millennium Software Labs is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. Phone: (415)321-3720, Fax:(415) 321-3650, Email: info@millennium.com. Keywords: computers, technology, software, Millennium Software Labs, NoteBook, NeXT, NeXTSTEP c 1993 Millennium Software Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dynamic Index Views, Engage! and the Millennium logo are trademarks of Millennium Software Labs, Inc. NeXT and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Any and all other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. ___________________________________________________________________ continued in issue 6.3