DataViz renews its commitment to the Mac Market as Apple "unbundles" MacLinkPlus.TRUMBULL, CT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 1998-- The "Ultimate Survival Kit" MacLinkPlus 10.0 has a whole new look for 1998 DataViz(R) announces an exciting new version of MacLinkPlus(R), with the most dramatic changes ever made to this "Mac survival Kit". This new version comes at a pivotal time as Apple(R) is reducing the amount of third party software included with the Macintosh OS over the next 3 months. "Millions of Mac users will no longer have the compatibility they are accustomed to when they purchase a new Mac. However they will be able to depend on DataViz to provide the PC compatibility that has become so vital in today's world. Apple's decision does not change DataViz' lifetime commitment to the Mac," comments Dick Fontana president of DataViz Inc. DataViz commits itself now more than ever to the Macintosh market by providing even more compatibility in the form of upgrades and a "Deluxe" version of MacLinkPlus 10.0 available in retail locations this Fall. For the past 15 years MacLinkPlus has allowed Mac users to convert hundreds of file formats between Macintosh and Windows computers. The new version of MacLinkPlus includes decoding de·code tr.v. de·cod·ed, de·cod·ing, de·codes 1. To convert from code into plain text. 2. To convert from a scrambled electronic signal into an interpretable one. 3. and decompression decompression /de·com·pres·sion/ (de?kom-presh´un) removal of pressure, especially from deep-sea divers and caisson workers to prevent bends, and from persons ascending to great heights. , a sleek new user interface, updated viewing technology, and new translators. MacLinkPlus continues to live up to its reputation of being the "Ultimate Survival Kit" for Macintosh users in a Windows world An earlier computer exposition sponsored by COMDEX. Its first show was in 1991, and it was often held in conjunction with another computer show. See COMDEX. . Decoding and decompression functionality introduced MacLinkPlus ends e-mail attachment A file that rides along with an e-mail message. The attached file can be of any type. E-mail programs make it easy to attach a file. For example, in Eudora, all you do is select Attach from the Message menu, browse through the folder hierarchy to find the file you want and then double problems for good. MacLinkPlus works to decode and decompress To restore compressed data back to its original size. (compression, data) decompress - To reverse the effects of data compression. e-mail attachments that won't open, including ".zip" files. It even handles compressed or encoded files that appear as "garbage text" within the e-mail message itself. Mac users can now receive e-mail attachments with confidence, no matter where they came from, regardless of the e-mail software they are using. Redesigned MacLinkPlus application and user interface MacLinkPlus introduces an entirely new user interface designed to make it even easier for users to work with incompatible files, no matter where they come from. Designed with Mac OS in mind, this new Power Mac native interface takes advantage of Apple technologies like "Contextual Menus" and "Drag and Drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. ". Mac OS 8 introduced Contextual Menus, which give the user the ability to easily take action on any file on their desktop with a simple "Control-Click." MacLinkPlus allows the user to access all its powerful compatibility related features through this convenient one click method. Quick viewing of documents without opening the application The new MacLinkPlus includes enhanced viewing capabilities which allow the user to get a quick view of text or graphics right from the MacLinkPlus application or even from the desktop using Mac OS Contextual Menus. The user can now quickly view a file without having to open the application that created it or having to guess what application might be able to help open the file. Also, MacLinkPlus has improved its file recognition and provides richer information to the user about problematic files. New translators added to the existing translation library DataViz includes new translators for Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. 98 and Excel 98, Macintosh Edition, adding to the thousands of conversions supported between different word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and , spreadsheet, database and graphics formats. MacLinkPlus users can now open various Windows files in Mac Word 98 & Excel 98 or convert files into their favorite Mac applications. Pricing and availability This "Deluxe" version of MacLinkPlus 10.0 will be released in late August and available at several new retail stores in the fall of 1998. MacLinkPlus sells for about $99 and is currently available at fine retailers including Micro Center, Fry's Electronics Fry's Electronics is a specialty retailer of software, consumer electronics, computer hardware and household appliances with a chain of superstores headquartered in Silicon Valley. Starting with one store located in Sunnyvale, California, USA, the chain now boasts sales of $2. and MacWarehouse. The latest version is available to all existing MacLinkPlus owners for $39.95. DataViz is a Connecticut company The Connecticut Company was the primary street railway company in the U.S. state of Connecticut from 1920 to 1936. It was controlled by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which operated almost all the steam rail lines in the state. specializing in Mac/PC file compatibility, PDA-desktop synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. and Internet utilities. For more information call (800) 733-0030 or visit www.dataviz.com. Come visit the DataViz booth (No. 438) at MacWorld New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of July 8-10
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