ALADDIN SYSTEMS RELEASES TEN FOR X UTILITIES VOLUME 2

A NEW COLLECTION OF MUST-HAVE UTILITIES FOR MAC OS X

Latest Collection of Ten For X Rounds Up More Top-Rated Mac OS X Utilities And Delivers Them In One Convenient Package At One Great Price

Aladdin Systems, Inc., an Aladdin Systems Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: ALHI) company, today shipped Ten for X(tm), Utilities Volume 2, a new collection of it's popular Mac OS X utilities suite. Ten For X, Volume 2 includes 11 fully-registered top-rated titles valued at over $150 for $49.99. Included in this collection of products is Spamfire(tm) to eliminate annoying spam, Carbon Copy Cloner(tm) for backing up drives, volumes and files, and more.

"This is the second in our award-winning Ten for X Utilities series," said David Polzine, Ten for X product manager, "With this collection we wanted to expand the user's Mac OS X experience and solve some common issues computer users face."
Ten for X Volume 2 includes the following fully-registered products:

- Carbon Copy Cloner(tm) by Mike Bombich Software - Make backup copies of drives, volumes, and folders that can be bootable and preserve all file attributes including permissions. Great for incremental backups.

- DragStrip(r) by Aladdin Systems - Increase productivity by staying organized with one-click desktop access to anything on the computer (URLS, files, folders, music, pictures, applications and more).

- iCan(tm) by Kanzu Software - A skinable Trash Can for your Mac OS X Desktop complete with "Force delete," "Shred," and one-click to empty options.

- iClock SE(tm) by Script Software - A menubar clock replacement that displays a world clock, weather, calendar, Area and Zip Code look-up ability and more.

- iPulse(tm) by Iconfactory - A graphical system monitor which shows memory, CPU, disk, and network bandwidth at a glance.

- Labels X(tm) by Unsanity, LLC - Restores Classic Label functionality allowing users to label items with colors, then sort, find, or organize items by those labels.

- MacReporter(tm) by Wilfried de Kerchove de Denterghem - A news agent that resides in the Dock and tracks the headlines from favorite websites. See today's news and keep track of articles read.

- Path Finder(tm) by Cocoa Tech -A file browser that offers smart sorting, viewing, creating disk images, graphic format conversion and simple editing of common Text and Graphic files without using another application.

- Quick Voice(tm) SE by nFinity - A voice recorder makes it simple to record notes, reminders, voice stickies, as well as voice e-mail messages, and it works with all popular email programs.

- Spamfire(tm) by Matterform Media - Safe, thorough, and easy to use, Spamfire eliminates unwanted spam before it reaches the Inbox. Quick set-up allows imports from the Addressbook to ensure wanted emails, while preconfigured filters trap today's most sophisticated spam.

- X Overload(tm) by Teng Chou Ming & Scott Mitchell - An extension manager for OS X, it manages extensions, plug-ins, plus includes a database that explains what each of these items does

Availability
Ten for X collections include Utilities Volume 1, Utilities Volume 2 and Games. Available from Aladdin at http://shop.aladdinsys.com

Apple Releases Safari 1.0

The Fastest Browser on the Mac—the Best Browser on Any Platform

Apple® today introduced Safari™ 1.0, completing the wildly successful beta program which had nearly five million downloads since its initial release on January 7, 2003. Safari has become the browser of choice for millions of Mac® users and will be the default browser for all newly introduced Macintosh® computers, starting with the Power Mac® G5 announced today. Apple also released a software development kit that allows developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine directly into their applications .

Apple Previews Mac OS X “Panther”

More Than 100 New Features Push “Panther” Way Ahead of Competition

Apple® today previewed Mac® OS X version 10.3 “Panther,” the next major version of Mac OS X that will ship by the end of this year. The fourth major release of Mac OS X in four years, Panther sets a new gold standard for desktop operating systems with more than 100 breakthrough new features including a completely new Finder™; Exposé, a revolutionary new way to instantly see all your open windows at once; and iChat™ AV, a complete desktop video conferencing solution for business, education and consumers.

“With Jaguar, we moved ahead of the competition. With Panther, we’re widening the gap,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 100 new features, including some real blockbusters, Apple is again the industry innovator in operating systems.”

Panther features a completely new Finder that puts a user’s favorite folders, hard drive, network servers, iDisk and removable media in one convenient location, providing one-click access to everything a user needs. The redesigned Finder also features lightning-fast search, colored labels for fully-customized organization of documents and projects and dynamic browsing of the network for Mac®, Windows and UNIX file servers.

Panther also features Exposé, a revolutionary new way to instantly view all open windows and choose any of them to be on top. Exposé visually unshuffles overlapping windows on the desktop into an organized view so a user can quickly find and select the window they want. Exposé will even temporarily clear the desktop of all windows, so users can get to any file on the desktop previously hidden by the open windows. Powered by the Mac OS X Quartz™ graphic engine, Exposé is a major advance in user interface design that will change the way people work with multiple files, applications and projects.

Building on the success of iChat, Panther extends instant messaging to the next level with iChat AV. With full-screen, full-motion video over broadband, crystal-clear audio over 56K modem and a familiar easy-to-use interface, iChat AV makes natural conversations over the Internet immediate and effortless.

In addition, Panther includes FileVault, a new feature that secures the contents of a home directory with strong 128-bit AES encryption. With FileVault, users can select to have their whole home directory encrypted automatically so it encrypts and decrypts files on the fly, without interrupting their work. For mobile users, FileVault provides a new level of security on the road so if anyone ever tries to access a user’s account or if their notebook is lost, important data is always protected by high-security encryption.

Panther also includes new features that make it even easier for Macs to co-exist in Windows networks including an IPSec-based VPN for Microsoft and Cisco networks, support for ActiveDirectory and SMB-based home directories on Windows servers and enhanced Windows integration within the Finder that enables printing to shared printers.

Mac OS X is the world’s most popular UNIX-based operating system and Panther adds system-wide advancements to UNIX-based technologies including X11 for Mac OS X, major performance improvements to NFS, a ports manager for accessing open source projects, expanded Kerberos support, an integrated IPv6 networking stack and the ability to access Quartz graphics from Python programs.

Additional new features in Panther include:

an enhanced Mail application that organizes email into convenient threads with drag-and-drop addressing and a Safari™-based engine for displaying HTML formatted email;
Fast User Switching, allowing users to share a single Mac and quickly switch between accounts without having to quit running applications and completely logout of the system;
Pixlet, the first studio-grade codec for filmmakers that was developed in conjunction with Pixar to deliver breathtaking HD-quality video on the Mac that is free from visual artifacts;
a fully integrated iDisk that increases productivity by automatically syncing a user’s offline work to their .Mac Internet server storage once they’re online again, so users can work locally on files with hard drive speeds and have them synced automatically back to their iDisk later;
integrated faxing synched with the Address Book so sending and receiving faxes is as easy as printing, and includes support for adding cover pages;
Font Book, a new application that provides system-level font management with double-click font preview, one-click installation and an intuitive iTunes®-like interface for managing font collections, and searching, activating and deactivating fonts; and
a significantly improved Preview application that is the world's fastest PDF reader with super-fast text searching that builds an instant index of search results in a PDF, text selection and copying, URL support and support for the PDF 1.4 format. Preview leverages powerful improvements to Quartz filtering technology such as colorspace conversion, image sampling and compression for advanced PDF workflows.

Apple Introduces iChat AV and iSight

Video Conferencing for “The Rest of Us”

Apple® today introduced a major breakthrough in video conferencing—the iChat™ AV software application and the iSight™ digital video camera. Together they enable high-quality video conferences between two Mac® users over any broadband connection, revolutionizing the way people communicate with business associates, colleagues in education, friends and family. iChat AV also features audio conferences even over dial-up connections to the Internet. iChat AV requires no set up or configuration beyond installing the software and plugging in any FireWire® video camera and microphone. Buddies with audio or video conferencing capability automatically show up in your buddy list, and initiating a video or audio conference is as simple as pushing one button. iChat AV is a key feature of the upcoming release of Mac® OS X version 10.3 “Panther,” and is available as a public beta today for Mac OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar.”

While iChat AV works with any FireWire video camera, Apple’s iSight digital video camera was designed for video conferencing, delivering sharp images and clear sound through its built-in, dual-element noise-suppressing microphone. Smaller and lighter than most cell phones, iSight has a unique center mount design which allows video conversations to be far more engaging and natural. iSight is available today and demonstrates Apple’s unique ability to create a tightly integrated hardware and software solution.

Apple Unleashes the World’s Fastest Personal Computer—the Power Mac G5

First 64-bit Desktop Processor; First 1 GHz Front-Side Bus

Apple today unleashed the world’s fastest* personal computer—the Power Mac G5—featuring the world’s first 64-bit desktop processor and the industry’s first 1 GHz front-side bus. Powered by the revolutionary PowerPC G5 processor designed by IBM and Apple, the Power Mac G5 is the first personal computer to utilize 64-bit processing technology for unprecedented memory expansion (up to 8GB) and advanced 64-bit computation, while running existing 32-bit applications natively.

“The 64-bit revolution has begun and the personal computer will never be the same again,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The new Power Mac G5 combines the world’s first 64-bit desktop processor, the industry’s first 1 GHz front-side bus, and up to 8GB of memory to beat the fastest Pentium 4 and dual Xeon-based systems in industry-standard benchmarks and real-world professional applications.”

Delivering the industry’s highest system bandwidth, the Power Mac G5 line offers dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 processors, each with an independent 1 GHz front-side bus, for an astounding 16 GBps of bandwidth. The line also features the industry’s highest bandwidth memory (400 MHz 128-bit DDR SDRAM with throughput up to 6.4 GBps); the industry’s fastest PCI interface available on a desktop (133 MHz PCI-X); and cutting-edge AGP 8X Pro graphics capabilities, all within a stunning new professional aluminum enclosure featuring innovative computer-controlled cooling for quiet operation.

The PowerPC G5 processor is a result of the strategic relationship between Apple and IBM. At frequencies up to 2 GHz, the PowerPC G5 introduces 64-bit processing technology to desktop computing, while also running 32-bit applications natively. The PowerPC G5 processor architecture is based on a completely new execution core that features massively parallel computation for an unprecedented 215 in-flight instructions, full symmetric multi-processing, two double precision floating point units and an optimized Velocity Engine™. The PowerPC G5 chips are fabricated in IBM’s $3 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor facility in East Fishkill, N.Y.

The new Power Mac G5 is the world’s fastest personal computer based on SPEC® CPU 2000 benchmark results and leading professional application performance tests when compared against 3.0 GHz Pentium 4-based systems and 3.06 GHz Dual Xeon-based systems.