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Thu, 26 Aug 2004

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REAL Software Announces REAL World 2005 Conference Dates and Location

AUSTIN, Texas (August 26, 2004) - REAL Software, Inc. announced today that REAL World 2005, The REALbasic User Conference, will be held March 23-25, 2005 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Noted REALbasic authors and experts and REAL Software engineers will be presenting sessions at REAL World 2005.

"REAL World is the perfect opportunity for REALbasic users, both expert and novice alike, to get together to share ideas, information and techniques. Attendees gain critical content that helps make them better, more informed REALbasic developers," offered Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software.

"I attended REAL World in 2004 and I plan to have our whole team attend next year," stated Brian Boyer, president of Area251, a Wisconsin-based technology consulting firm. "We are migrating to REALbasic from Visual Basic as our primary development tool. Attending REAL World provided a great opportunity to meet the high caliber individuals behind the very exciting product, REALbasic."

Session specifics will be available soon. A general overview of the conference is as follows:

• keynote presentation by Geoff Perlman, founder of REAL Software

• two full days of sessions covering REALbasic topics at all skill levels, with introductory sessions for beginners and in-depth sessions for advanced users

• presentations by skilled REAL Software professionals, including REAL Software technical staff and respected REALbasic industry experts

• presentation of awards to REALbasic Design Award 2005 winners and preview their software

For updates regarding REAL World 2005, please visit http://www.realsoftware.com/realworld .


About REALbasic

REALbasic is a full-featured software design environment easily suited to creating all kinds of applications, from utilities to enterprise-class applications. REALbasic is available now starting at $99.95 direct from REAL Software or at Apple Store, Fry's and other software retailers. REALbasic Professional Edition, required for cross-platform compilation, starts at $399.95 and includes extended functionality for database and team development. Download a free trial of REALbasic at http://www.realsoftware.com/demo .

About REAL Software

For everyone who seeks the flexibility to create their own software for Windows, Mac and Linux, REAL Software provides REALbasic, a powerful, easy-to-use software development tool for Windows and Macintosh. REAL Software, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas. For more information visit http://www.realsoftware.com or call 512.328.7325.

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Inventive Releases iClip 3.2 Productivity Software for Apple Mac OS X

New Version Features New Way to Quickly Gather Information, Enhanced Clipboard Recorder, More Pop-up Preview Options

Inventive, Inc. announces the release of iClip version 3.2 award winning productivity software for Mac OS X. iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook/launcher application designed to improve user efficiency and productivity for various computing tasks.

Newly available is a way to add clippings to a clipping set via drag & drop to the icon at the top of the iClip window. This can be very useful for quickly gathering information like URLs and pictures from websites. A preference for the Clipboard Recorder has been added for choosing whether the newest recorded clippings are stored at the beginning or the end of the clipping set. This is useful for creating lists of text clippings when the order needs to be preserved. A preference has been added to give more control over how pop-up previews are shown.

iClip was recently awarded a MacMinute Showtime award at the Macworld Expo in Boston.

iClip functions as a floating window that allows users to store and retrieve various clippings, such as text, pictures, URLs, file aliases, movies, etc. in it's multiple bins. Clippings can be arranged into groups to keep users organized. iClip helps eliminate redundant typing, especially in tasks like filling out online forms. It's widely used to assist general purpose tasks such as word processing, web browsing, and research, while webmasters, graphic designers, and programmers also find iClip to be useful in their more specialized tasks.

Pricing and Availability

iClip 3.2 is available now for Mac OS X 10.2 or later on CD or as a "try-before-you-buy" download at http://inventive.us/iClip/. It can be purchased for $29.95 USD for the CD version and $19.95 USD for the trial version. The version 3.2 upgrade is free to registered users of any previous version.

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