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Here's an overview of of the software titles I've written over the years.

o Frameserver, a cgi application which allows people visiting your web site to capture still images from a camera hooked to your web server. Steve Wozniak (with Steve Jobs the inventor of the modern pc and co-founder of Apple) uses it to teach his computer class. Available from the Info-Mac archives.

o Webphone, a cgi applescript which allows people to call you via the WWW. Essentially, this piece of software behaves like a telephone, and starts up the necessary internet audio or video communication applications on both ends in order to establish a communication link. Available from the Info-Mac archives.

o Eudora Announcer, an applet which uses the Speech Manager to announce incoming mail by voice (written together with Ronald Leenes). Available from the Info-Mac archives.

o Apres Fax, a control panel used in conjunction with Ronald Leenes's PreFax hardware to automatically turn on your computer momentarily in order to receive a fax. Available from the Info-Mac archives.

o The Intuitive Sound Editing Environment (ISEE). This sound editor allows you to synthesize sound on any MIDI synthesizer in the same user-friendly way, using a perceptual model of sound manipulation. Creating sounds on your YAMAHA DX7II or SY77 has never been so easy!

o The GAZE Groupware System. This multiparty conferencing and collaboration tool conveys who is listening or talking to whom about what. The system combines eyetracking, VRML and JAVA to measure and represent the users' point of gaze in a 3D virtual meeting room and within shared documents.

Software Publications

Some of this software appears on CD-ROM. Here's a selection of these publications.

FrameServer. In "Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh (4th Edition)". Adam C. Engst. Hayden Books , 1996, Book + CD-ROM. ISBN: 1-56830-294-0.

FrameServer and Webphone. In "Planning and Managing Web Sites on the Macintosh". John Wiederspan, Chuck Shotton. Addison Wesley Developers Press , 1996, Book + CD-ROM. ISBN: 0-201-47957-5.

Eudora Announcer. In "Special Edition: Using the Internet with Your Mac". Mary Ann Pike et al. (ed.). Que Corporation , Indianapolis, 1995, pp: 864 and CD-ROM. ISBN: 0-7897-0212-6.