Hi, my name is Andy Lauda and I'm the Director of Product Marketing for AppleNet, which is
Apple's Internet Software Division.
You know these days virtually everyone wants to set up their own webpage, whether it's
a home user who wants to set up a family website or a small business, maybe who wants to market
their products globally on the Internet.
Maybe it's a school, students within a school who want to share their learning experiences
with other students around the world or big businesses that want to do online commerce.
On the Internet it's really critical to make your site compelling.
It's the compelling sites that attract repeat visits and therefore in order to be successful
on the Internet creating a great, creating a cool site is very important.
As you probably already know, most sites on the Internet are created on Macintosh computers,
but what's even more important to notice is that the bulk of the really cool sites, the
really compelling sites are created on a Mac.
So what we're trying to do at Apple is provide the technologies and products and tools so
that virtually anybody can create, distribute and consume great, compelling content on the
Internet.
In order to achieve that goal we're starting at the operating system, at the Mac OS, building
Internet capabilities directly into the Mac OS, making it an open system by incorporating
IP networking, by making Java an integrated part of the Macintosh and by leveraging technologies
like OpenDoc to bring all of the different component architectures you find on the Internet
into your work on the Macintosh.
We're also defining new standards, new standards for creating, playing back great content like
the QuickTime Media Layer which allows you to display everything from 3D graphics to
virtual reality scenes to time-based media across the Internet.
We're also defining new standards to help you locate and find information on the Internet
more effectively and more easily, technologies like Hot Sauce MCF and V-Twin.
And finally, we're taking these technologies and putting them into products, products that
you can use to make you an Internet publisher.
Some of the products we're going to take a quick look at today are first the Mac OS runtime
for Java.
In fact, Apple was the first company to integrate Java right into the Macintosh operating system
providing Java services at the desktop layer.
Next we're going to take a look at AppleShare IP, the next generation of AppleShare which
provides a work group productivity solution based on Internet and Intranet standards.
We're going to look at a new product from Apple called Personal Web Sharing which is
a product that lets anybody who has a computer and a network connection set up their own
website.
We'll take a quick look at CyberDog, the OpenDoc based technology that allows you to bring
Internet content into your work.
And finally, we'll take a quick look at a new product called Cocoa.
Cocoa is a multimedia authoring tool for kids that allows even kids or kids of all ages
for that matter to create great, compelling multimedia Internet content.
Hi, my name is Will Iverson.
I'm the Java runtime product manager here at Apple Computer.
I'm here to talk about a couple of different things involving Java on the Mac.
The first of course is the Mac OS runtime for Java.
We've just recently shipped the first version of the Java runtime final.
It's available publicly for free on our website and it will be bundled with Tempo, our next
system software release.
The Java runtime lets you run any Java software.
There's a huge variety of Java software available both on the net and available from other application
vendors.
For example, one of the most interesting pieces of software now available is the Corel Office
for Java.
As you can see, it's a complete word processor, spreadsheet and 3D charting package all built
into one.
It has a familiar look and feel with Mac scroll bars, menu bars, and I can go ahead and even
do things like insert spreadsheets additionally.
And you can see that all that stuff happens just by a click and a drag.
So it's the familiar look and feel and user interface of the Macintosh combined with the
power of Java.
The neat thing about this software is that this software wasn't even written for the
Macintosh.
It was all written on the Unix box and then just brought over with a simple drag and double
clicked and it launched on the Mac.
Another piece of software I'm going to show you is the Marimba Castanet tuner.
Go ahead and hide the Corel Suite.
The Marimba tuner is a package that lets you subscribe to software.
So here you can see a list of software offered by trans.marimba.com.
So you're familiar with www.apple.com or any other website.
Instead of being, vending HTML pages, what the Marimba tuner lets you do is subscribe
to software.
The neat thing about this is that you can even run this software when you're off the
network.
One example of a piece of software that's available through the Marimba Castanet tuner
is this program called Pencil Me In from a company called Sorus.
It's a complete calendaring package.
So I can go ahead and look at my day or weekly detail or even a monthly overview of what
my current calendar is.
I can make appointments, I can schedule, and the neat part is that no matter what kind
of computer I'm using, I can still access this software.
Like I said earlier, the Mac OS runtime for Java is available today off the website, off
of Apple's main website.
We also have a version 1.5 of the Mac OS runtime for Java, which will be available later this
year by the end of the next calendar quarter.
That will be version 1.5 and it will include, among other things, a JIT, which is a performance
technology that provides, on average, a 10 times increase in performance, as well as
the Marimba Castanet tuner itself, which will be bundling with the Java runtime.
Later on we'll have MRJ 2.0, which will include JDK 1.1 functionality for those of you who've
been following Java closely.
Thanks for watching.
Hi my name is John Hiney.
I'm the product manager for AppleShare IP 5.0.
I'd like to take a few minutes and walk you through some of the features of the product
and then at the end give you a demonstration.
AppleShare IP 5.0 is a suite of five services.
It offers traditional file sharing, which you're familiar with under AppleShare today,
but we've extended that to incorporate TCP IP, and then I've added other services including
FTP, or file transfer protocol, an internet web server, an internet mail server, and then
a new AppleTalk based print server.
One of the big enhancements in AppleShare IP 5.0 is the support for TCP IP.
It's been a big request from our customers to add AppleShare support for TCP IP, and
we've done that in two ways.
One is to provide AFP services or AppleTalk filing protocol over TCP IP and integrate
that into the experience of the Macintosh.
So from the Macintosh a person through the chooser can log into an AppleShare IP 5.0
file server using the same interface that they are accustomed to from the past, but
get the benefits of the performance of TCP IP.
The system requirements for AppleShare IP 5.0 are fairly basic.
First it's a PowerPC processor, 601, 604, 604E.
We don't support any of the 68040 or 030 systems.
AppleShare IP 5.0 is completely native.
It requires system 7.6, which we've included in the box, and also OpenTransport version
1.1.2, which is also included.
Additionally, AppleShare IP 5.0 requires 32 megabytes of RAM installed in the computer.
So let me take you through the product and give you a demonstration of how a Macintosh
user would log into AppleShare IP 5.0.
We've kept this experience the same, but given the user the benefit of TCP IP.
And what I mean by that is, let's take a look at the chooser.
You select the AppleShare icon, click on the name of the server.
You'll notice, however, that in the chooser there's a new box called server IP address.
If you click on this you can type in an IP address of a server.
This might be the name of a server, either DNS or IP address, of a server that's across
on the Internet.
Begin the login process.
You'll notice that the experience has stayed the same for the user.
I can still drag and drop files, but now we're using TCP IP as our transport rather than
AppleTalk.
The benefit would be increased performance, 2 to 300% over AppleTalk, but at the same
time we're keeping the benefit of the Macintosh interface.
My name is Stacey Irvine, a product marketing manager in AppleNet.
I'm here to talk to you today about personal web sharing.
It's the easiest way for an individual to share information across an intranet.
This is something we'll be shipping in about a week and a half.
It will be part of system software going forward.
And first I'd like to start with, what's the problem we're trying to solve with this product?
The customer problem we're trying to solve is how to share information within a work
group.
If an individual is in a work group, they often need to share information with other
people in the work group, things like sales figures, draft proposals, other things.
If I'm on a network of 100% Macintosh, it's pretty easy.
All I have to do is take the file and drop it in a folder and enable personal file sharing
and everyone has access to it.
But what if I'm on a network that has things other than Macintosh?
If I have Windows NT, Windows 95, Unix, a lot of different types of systems that I need
to share information with, personal file sharing isn't going to help me.
The one thing I can count on is that everyone else on the network will have access to a
web browser, whether it's Netscape Navigator, CyberDog, Microsoft Information Explorer.
If I can take that information and share it in a platform neutral, content neutral format,
then everyone can have access to it.
And that's what personal web sharing does.
Who are the kinds of people we think will be using it?
College professors being able to publish their office hours so their students have access
to them.
Sales professionals as this week's sales figures, they want to get it out on the internet,
make it available to people on their local area network and they want to do it quickly
and they don't want to have to go through MIS.
They just want to have control over what gets shared and when it gets shared.
Finally, the third group we think will be using it is publishing professionals, people
who are prototyping a website.
They can get everything working on their local machine.
Once they have everything working the way that it's supposed to be working, have people
on their local work group check it out and test it and try it, then they can put it up
on the dedicated server.
So let's take a look at how this works.
Configuring personal file sharing is very simple.
It's a control panel.
Once I run the installer script, I just go to the control panel's folder and I get this
dialog screen.
If I want a very simple configuration, all I have to do is click start and the system
starts up.
And I'm using, right now I'm using personal file sharing to control access, though I could
also have it set up to give everyone access.
It goes out and talks with, it talks to TCPIP and sees what my IP address is.
If I had a domain name server on this system, it would also list my domain name.
So if I had, for example, Irvine.apple.com, that would show up here as well.
So I could give someone my domain name instead of having to give them a string of an IP address.
So it gives me a choice of a folder to go ahead and select the files that I want to
go ahead and share.
It comes with a default home page or I can go ahead and create my own.
And that's what I've done here.
I selected my default home page.
So now I'm going to go into Navigator and take a look at what this looks like.
So this is a web page that I created while I was out of the office at Macworld.
This is just plain HTML.
It does the kind of things I'd expect.
I click on a link, it opens up the link, I can see the different things that are coming
up.
I'm going to be looking at the sales figures for this week and go ahead and put them into
HTML, into an HTML table, and now I can see them on the screen.
So this is great if I know how to write HTML.
But what if I'm a college professor or an English professor or something and I write
great creative writing and poetry and prose, but when it comes to HTML, if I see that A,
HREF, open bracket, it's just not going to work.
But I still want to take some information and share it across the internet.
So I have the option under here of saying, HTML, no, I don't want to do that HTML stuff.
So I say I don't want to have a home page.
And in this case, it says, well, we're going to use something called Personal Net Finder.
So let's take a look at what that looks like.
Personal Net Finder gives me a graphical view of the files that I've gone ahead and shared.
You'll notice that this looks like the Finder.
I have icons on the left-hand side that indicate what kind of file it is that I'm sharing.
I have name.
I have size.
I have kind.
I can sort on the different types of files that are out there.
It's a very Finder-like interface.
This is available from any web browser.
So if I'm in Microsoft Information Explorer, I'm in Cyber Dog, I'm in Netscape, whether
I'm on Windows NT, Windows 95, Unix, or the Mac OS, I get the same view.
Things look the same no matter which browser or which client I'm coming in from.
It's just generating straight HTML and displaying it on the page.
So that homepage that I created earlier, I can go ahead and click on it, and it comes
up and it comes the same way it did as if it was the default homepage.
So I can browse HTML.
But remember those sales figures.
I had to write some HTML to get them into a table to display on the HTML page.
What if I find the original Clarice Works document, the spreadsheet that had that information?
There it is right there.
It's a Clarice Works format document, and it's going ahead and launching Clarice Works
for me and opening it up on the screen.
So I didn't have to do any file translation.
I didn't have to write any HTML.
This is a native Clarice Works document.
Just open it up in the spreadsheet.
It's doing that through configuring different MIME types because it knows that on the client
and the server which MIME type to open, and it goes ahead and opens it.
For example, if I had Clarice Works on the Windows side, it would launch Clarice Works
on the Windows side.
If I had Excel on Mac and Excel on Windows, it would open the appropriate application
on the other side.
I'd like to show you a little bit more about how well it performs.
Most people have personal file sharing enabled if they're on a local area network.
If someone's hitting your machine, you know.
Your machine crawls to a halt, and you know someone's downloading software from your drive.
This is over 10 megabyte QuickTime movie.
I'm going to go ahead and drag this out to my desktop.
I'm copying it to my local machine, and I'm going to watch how that copy goes in the background.
In the meantime, I'm going to bring up Clarice Works.
I'm going to create a new word processing document and make the window a little bit
smaller so I can see the copy still going on in the background.
I'm going to type and see that there is no performance hit on foreground applications.
I can go ahead and continue to work while things are happening in the background, while
I'm sharing data and sharing files in the background.
It's a very high performance, well-behaved application.
Makes good use of system resources.
I'm going to go ahead and cancel that.
When I go ahead and share information out of the networks, you might think it's very
easy to accidentally share more information than I wanted to, accidentally get more things
out there than I meant to.
Notice that this folder out here has a bolt on it.
It's a lock, just like with personal file sharing or Apple Share.
If I protect something using access privileges, then I have to have a username and password.
This works the same way.
We use the access privileges model from personal file sharing.
I just set up users and groups within personal file sharing.
If I go ahead and in order to get access to the data in that file, I need to enter a username
and password.
If I have the wrong username and password, it's going to come back and say, well, that
isn't correct.
You have to try again.
Now I have access to the files that are inside that folder.
Not only is the data, it's very easily accessible.
I can also make it secure using the personal file sharing users and groups.
For more information on personal file sharing, you can either check out ervine.apple.com.
I have some demonstration files up there, demonstration scripts.
You can also get access to the software up there.
If you have any other questions, then send me an email, stacey.apple.com.
Hello.
I'm Mike Vargas from Apple's Internet Product Marketing Group.
Today I'll be demonstrating CyberDog 2.0, the latest version of Apple's integrated suite
of Internet components that helps customers better manage their Internet access.
It includes web browsing, email, access to FTP and gopher sites, and a whole lot more.
We begin from the CyberDog Tour.
From here we can access all of CyberDog's components.
We'll start with the email system.
CyberDog has a very sophisticated email system.
With CyberDog, I can handle multiple email accounts and sort the email into multiple
trays.
I can even create handlers that will sort the mail automatically.
CyberDog also has a very fast and powerful full text search feature.
I can do a full text search over all the text in my email very quickly and easily.
On the left side, it will return a relevance ranked return of the results.
If we open a CyberDog email, you'll get a sense for how powerful the CyberDog email
system is.
It's a very rich email system, including colored and stylized text and graphics.
And we can even include live links to FTP sites, to URLs, or Apple Talk networks.
To show you some of the integration in CyberDog, I can just double click a live link from the
email and it automatically brings up the web browser.
We've also improved CyberDog's web browser.
We now support frames, animated GIFs, and HTTP cookies.
In CyberDog's notebook, you can store URLs, email addresses, and any type of file.
You can very easily drag and drop these files to your desktop, again, with close integration
with the Macintosh operating system.
CyberDog Log keeps track of where you've been on the internet.
It maintains a list of the last 100 sites that you've visited, and you can then go
back and examine this list either chronologically, alphabetically, or as a hierarchy of sites
that you've visited.
CyberDog also includes a tool called DocBuilder that lets anyone very quickly and easily create
their own internet access applications.
What we see here is a blank CyberDog DocBuilder document.
If I would like to create a button to access the internet, it's as simple as dragging
open a button.
I then drag and drop the URL or location on the internet that I would like to go to, and
I can also drag a picture to give it some context.
I can also add in graphics, create another notebook file to hold either locations on
the internet or any kind of file.
I'll show you some sample applications that were actually created by our customers.
The first is an application created for UCLA students.
There's a live browser window that shows the campus calendar, a notebook on the side to
access resources for UCLA students, and buttons that will launch a web browser, for instance
to check the schedule of classes.
Another example was created by the Small Business Administration.
They wanted to collect internet resources for small business owners.
Here you can see a button that goes out to the SBA home site, and you can even contact
the SBA directly simply by selecting their email address.
It brings up the CyberDog email system, and you can now email to the SBA.
It's incredibly easy to create these very powerful applications with CyberDog's DocBuilder.
Since CyberDog is based on Apple's OpenDog technology, any other OpenDog compatible application
is now internet enabled through CyberDog.
For example, Digital Harbors Wave word processor includes CyberDog components.
If I select the CyberDog tab from within Digital Harbors Wave, I've got access to all the CyberDog
components.
I could browse the web or email directly from the word processor.
That can be downloaded free from the CyberDog homepage at cyberdog.apple.com.
Hi, my name is John Clem.
I'm the product manager for Cocoa.
Cocoa is a visual, interactive programming environment for kids with internet publishing
capabilities.
It's very simple to use, yet it's very powerful.
Let's take a look at a demonstration of Cocoa.
This is a Cocoa splash screen.
It's very simple and it was designed for kids.
You can either create a new world or open a saved world.
Let's create a new world.
In Cocoa, we have a simple toolbar with VCR controls that allow you to run the program
and control the program.
We have a stop and run, a forward and backwards, a program clock, and a speed control.
We also have tools to create characters in the world.
Let's create a character.
We grab the paint tube and we start with a splatter of paint and we grab our paintbrush
to open the character editing paint box.
I won't embarrass myself by trying to create a character.
I will paste one in from the scrapbook.
Now we have a character in our world.
Let's run the program and see what happens.
Nothing happens because the character doesn't have any rules to behave by.
Let's teach the character a rule.
We grab the camcorder icon and click on the character and that opens the rule editor box.
This is the state the character was in before it knew the rules.
Now when I teach it a rule by showing it what to do, the character knows to always move
forward to the next box.
These are called graphical rewrite rules and it's a patented technology that Apple has
created.
Let's see what happens when we run the program now.
Now the fish knows to always swim forward.
I'll close this world and open one that I've created previously.
This is the same world only it has a new character, Seaweed, and the fish knows to flap its tail
and to swim over the seaweed any time it encounters it.
There can be any number of characters in your world and they can have any number of rules
describing their behavior.
In this case, the fish knows to flap its tail and to swim over the seaweed.
Now let's publish this world to the internet.
It's very simple.
Just save the world for internet.
You simply go to the finder window and grab the file and put it in your browser.
It's as simple as that.
We're now running our Cocoa world on the internet.
Let's look at some previously created worlds.
This is an example of a flower garden.
It's a simulation of the ecosystem done by a sixth grade teacher for a class to explain
how the ecosystem works.
In this simulation, the bees pollinate the flowers and the seeds grow into flowers and
the water evaporates and turn into cumulus clouds and they rain on the flowers and make
them grow.
The user weeds the garden by clicking on the weeds.
The interesting thing about this simulation is that the class, the sixth grade class,
knew that this tool allowed you to customize the ecosystem.
After they understood how it worked, they asked the teacher to change the rain to acid
rain.
All the teacher had to do was click on the raindrop character, look at the list of rules
and change one of the rules to make the rain acid rain.
This of course is a very effective teaching tool.
Let's go to another example.
Here's a game that's created by a professional software publisher.
This game illustrates that there will be worlds created by professional software publishers
as well as curriculum publishers.
The look is very different because professional artists have created the world.
There are several developers that are currently making plans to develop content with Coco.
As you have seen, Coco is simple enough to use for kids, yet powerful enough for developers.
Coco is a design release and will be available as a product in July.
For more information or to download Coco, go to www.coco.apple.com.
The demos you just saw highlight just a few of the products that Apple is delivering to
make building, serving and surfing great websites something that virtually anybody can do.
Thanks very much.