After Dark Online 1.06 - Berkeley Systems' "counter-pre-emptive" answer to PointCast. This, the first net-based "info screen saver" for the Mac is somewhat lacking in style but worth a look, if you can get it to work. This is the sixth release, so they ought to have got it working by now.
	Apple Video Software 1.5.1 - Not sure what's new, but if you've got an AV Mac, get these disk images if you want the latest and greatest bug fixes. In the great Apple tradition, your new Apple Video Player will become version 1.4.2, not 1.5.1 as the package number may suggest.
	Frontier 4.2 - UserLand have just released their latest incarnation of the Power Mac-native alternative to AppleScript. It seems they've been working hard to dominate the scripting front, especially in the Net arena, with version 5.0 expected to go cross-platform. AppleScript painfully awaits its fully-native upgrade to 2.0, but who knows when?
	FutureSplash Animator Trial - Although released back in September after some unstable Betas, FutureSplash vector-based animation could be about to take off in a big way. The technology and the company, FutureWave, were acquired a few weeks ago by Macromedia, so it is now part of the ubiquitous Shockwave family, renamed "Shockwave Flash". You can create FutureSplash animations with this 30-day fully-working trial. BTW, Microsoft Network uses the stuff too.
	GifBuilder 0.5 - An indispensable tool for anyone doing web work. It makes animated-GIFs. Drag-and-drop. It's free. It may only be inching towards "1.0", but it works and there's nothing else that comes close. What more do you want?
	Internet Phone 3.1 - Try to talk to (strange?) people around the world over the Internet. Like using the phone, only much worse.
	Mac OS Runtime for Java 1.0 - The final release of Apple's Java implementation. You can run Java applets using the viewer included, or embed them in OpenDoc documents (including Apple's Cyberdog). However, don't use it to run your nuclear power station - Apple warns against it.
	Marionet Xtra for Director 5 Trial Version - Forget the pain of the Marionet XCMD. This Xtra for Director 5 does actually work. Access to FTP, HTTP, e-mail, news and other Internet protocols are yours, right within Lingo. Try it now.
	NetObjects Fusion 1.0 Trial - The Betas were enormous, and this final 30-day trial version is too. Heralded as the "next generation" of web site design software, this uses a DTP/frame metaphor, rather than the word-processor style of packages like Claris Home Page and Adobe PageMill. It is also site-design oriented, with a very corporate slant. Definitely worth looking at if you do web design. A preview version 2.0 for Windows has already been announced.
	PointCast 0.9 Beta 45 - News, info and those stock quotes scrolling across the bottom of your screen. You know you want to immerse yourself in this stuff. The Mac version is here, but still in Beta.
	QuickTime PNG Importer 1.0 Beta 5 - Supposedly the replacement for GIFs on the Internet, the PNG graphics format is on its way. With this extension any QuickTime-enabled application, like SimpleText, can open PNGs.
	Shockwave Universal Installer 11 - Now includes the recently acquired FutureSplash vector animation format, now called "Shockwave Flash". Also installs Shockwave for Director, FreeHand and Authorware.
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