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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:41:53 -0800 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR-Galleon Software releases MacTicker 1.0
This announcement is from:
Roy Schulze, roy@galleon.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GALLEON SOFTWARE RELEASES MACTICKER 1.0 Internet application brings the stock market to Macintosh desktops
Contact:
Roy Schulze, Galleon Software Phone: 416-955-1777 E-mail: roy@galleon.com Web: <http://www.galleon.com>
Toronto. December 22, 1998. These last few weeks, Marc LaFoy has been heavily involved in the final testing of MacTicker, a simple Macintosh application that lets you browse the stock market information supplied by financial websites around the world and put a stock ticker right on your desktop.
Marc came by his enthusiasm for the stock market just last year when the right combination of loyalty and luck prompted him to buy shares in Apple computer just before they began their seven-month climb from a low of $12.75 to a high of $43.75. Ironically enough, however, with Apple's fortunes rebounding, there were then no Macintosh applications he could use to gather these quotes from the Internet.
"I wish I could've watched it all happen right on my screen," says Marc, "but I had to settle with looking up Apple's stock every day on my browser, and reloading the screen whenever my curiosity got the better of me."
With the release of MacTicker 1.0, you can now watch any number of your stocks roll by on an animated stock ticker, or call up a detailed report for each of your favorites. MacTicker updates this information once a minute, right on your desktop. You can configure MacTicker to alert you to stocks that are doing particularly well, or warn you when your fortunes are sinking.
"MacTicker is a highly specialized web browser," says Colin Biggin, the lead developer on this project. "It automatically generates the same queries you would otherwise have to enter manually through your regular browser and processes the HTML returned by the server."
But instead of just displaying a static page for each stock, MacTicker builds a scrolling display containing the current status of each of the stocks you've specified. You can also call up a variety of dynamic reports for individual stocks, from comprehensive reports of each stock's fundamentals to a tiny display that you can move into the corner of your screen and watch in the background.
MacTicker gathers American, Canadian, and European market information from a collection of online financial sites. Each of these sites offer free delayed stock quotes from a number of different sources. Delayed quotes are generally 15-20 minutes behind the real-time service required by professional traders, but are well suited for the casual investor.
You can learn more about MacTicker on Galleon Software's website:
<http://www.galleon.com/macticker>
Or download a copy of MacTicker with full documentation from:
<http://www.galleon.com/macticker/demo>
An unregistered copy of MacTicker runs for thirty minutes before it quits, but otherwise lets you evaluate all of MacTicker's features before you decide to purchase a serial number.
Galleon Software is a Canadian developer of desktop communications software for small, specialized markets. MacTicker is a trademark of Galleon Software. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 15:56:35 -0800 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - Cameraid 1.1.1 Press Release
This announcement is from:
Juri Munkki, jmunkki@iki.fi
For immediate release
Cameraid 1.1.1 is the all in one digital photography utility program for the Macintosh.
Version 1.0 has already been extremely popular among owners of Olympus, Agfa, Epson, Sanyo and Nikon digital cameras. Version 1.1 added a lot of new features, making the program indispensable to anyone who needs to manipulate JPEG images on the Macintosh. Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance release containing some improvements and several bug fixes.
Cameraid downloads images from Agfa, Apple (QT-200), Epson, Fuji, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Sanyo and Toshiba digital cameras. Use any serial port, including third party solutions such as the Keyspan SX Serial Card (http://www.keyspan.com). Cameraid works transparently in the background, allowing the user to continue working while the images are downloading.
The program features a very fast viewer, capable of opening up to thousands of images with drag and drop from the Finder.
The viewer displays useful information about digital camera files. It's the most convenient way to find out what exposure time and aperture was used for taking a photo. Supports all the cameras mentioned above and any that use the Exif standard (including Kodak, Ricoh and many others).
Lossless JPEG transforms: Cameraid can rotate and transform on JPEG images without degrading the image quality. Indispensable for rotating portrait oriented photos from digital cameras to their proper orientation.
Powerful batch operations can be used to copy files from flash memory cards, automatically create simple HTML web pages, add custom icons, rename files based on the date and time when the photo was taken and much more.
Automatic enhancement filters to enhance images with minimal user interaction. What used to take hours of manual labor can now be done in minutes using a single batch operation. A unique filter can be used to reduce CCD image sensor and interlace artifacts.
Cameraid 1.1.1 requires A Macintosh with a 68020 or better processor, QuickTime, at least System 7 and 2MB of available RAM.
The unregistered shareware version is fully functional, but includes built-in delays and registration reminders in some operations. The $15 registration fee (payable through Kagi) will eliminate the delays and make working with Cameraid faster and smoother.
Cameraid 1.1.1 is available on the web from http://www.clinet.fi/~jmunkki/cameraid and will soon also be available for download from most Macintosh shareware download sites.
For more information on Cameraid, please E-mail cameraid@kagi.com
A full version of this press release is at: http://www.clinet.fi/~jmunkki/cameraid/PressRelease.html
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:06:56 -0800 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - The Sherlock Library
This announcement is from:
MacSurf Network, MacGuru@macsurf.net
MacSurf Network, California's Mac only ISP is proud to announce the Sherlock library. We have over 100 free plug-ins for downloading and our library grows daily.
Please visit <http://www.macsurf.net/sherlock.shtml>. We have everything from the Evangelist to David Letterman's Top Ten. We would love to add yours as well please send them in .sit format to <mailto:sherlock@macsurf.net>. We will not say no to any plug-in offered. (well within reason). :-)
Happy Holidays, The Staff at MacSurf Network
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