January 1994 / What's New

Upgrade Your PC To Multimedia	Media Vision's (Fremont, CA) Memphis multimedia upgrade system ($999) gives you the power to create voice or video-annotated presentations on your PC.
Bubbles Of Color	The BJC-600 ($719) from Canon Computer Systems (Costa Mesa, CA) uses an ink formula that, according to Canon, dries 100 times faster than conventional inks, giving you nonbleeding color on plain paper.
Three-In-One Ethernet Card	A technique called workgroup filtering integrates Ethernet port connectivity, filtering, and on-board SNMP management on the 10BT-FTR card (from $3095).
Pen Input For Your PC	A combination software and hardware pen-input system, Handwriter for Windows ($399) is compatible with standard, off-the-shelf Windows applications.
Multimedia Upgrade	The Mega 535M Multimedia Upgrade Kit ($649) from Megamedia Computer (San Jose, CA) provides you with the necessary equipment to add multimedia capability to your 386- or 486-based computer.
Bitw ise Color Portable	The BitWise ACP (from $6295) 10-inch active-matrix TFT color flat-screen portable is packed with power for working in multimedia, CAD, and engineering applications.
A Five-In-One Desktop Unit	The multifunction Omnifax G5 ($1995) provides the functionality of a 14.4-Kbps plain-paper fax, a PC fax board, a laser-quality printer, a copier, and a scanner with optional OCR capability.
Mac Ethernet Connectors	The AAUI-2 and AAUI-T transceivers ($89 each) provide Ethernet connection for the Mac Centris 610 and 650 and Quadra 800, 900, and 950 systems.
Keyboard Calculator	A solar-powered calculator that adheres to your PC keyboard, the MediaMate Keyboard Calculator ($9.99) allows you to do separate calculations while working on your computer.
Portable SPARC	Based on the MicroSparc processor, the 50-MHz PowerLite portable workstation (from $9995) is configurable with up to 80 MB of memory and more than 1 GB of internal disk space.
Video Cards For TV Display	VideoOut ($99), from International Computers (Wauwatosa, WI), consists of a plug-in card and software.
Speedy Multiport Connectivity For Unix	Comtrol's (St. Paul, MN) RocketPort family of controller boards (from $259) replaces major hardware components, such as the processor, serial ports, and bus-interface logic, with two specially designed ASICs.
A Modem With Parallel-Port Connections	A 28,800-bps portable modem with fax, the TravelPorte Fast ($499) has data throughput of up to 115.2 Kbps using V.42bis and MNP 5 data compression.
PCMCIA SCSI Adapter	The FastSCSI PCMCIA host adapter card ($229.95) from QLogic (Costa Mesa, CA) is based on the company's ESP406, a single-chip SCSI processor that automates SCSI operations at hardware speed without host intervention, according to QLogic.
Imp Coexists With Your Mouse	A wireless remote-control input device, Imp ($199) lets you position the cursor, execute common mouse functions, and replicate keyboard functions from as far as 15 feet away from your computer.
Grab A Card And Scan It	The CardGrabber ($399) is a plug-and-play scanner of business cards that uses the parallel port of notebooks and desktop computers.
Connect Remote Users	The OutPost remote messaging system ($299) provides near-real-time E-mail responsiveness for remote locations and eliminates the need to regularly run an MHS session.
Speak To Your Documents	A fully integrated business audio system, SoundXchange Model BX ($169) lets you record and play your voice in OLE-compatible Windows 3.1 documents.
Card With A Multiple View	The FastMax/MV dual-channel display controller ($399) fro m VidTech Microsystems (Minneapolis, MN) supports two VGA channels that are totally independent of each other.
Digitally Controlled Monitor	The Brilliance 2130 21-inch color auto-scanning monitor ($3499) from Philips Consumer Electronics (Knoxville, TN) gives you digital control of internal s ignals to fine-tune picture quality.
RAID For Macs And PCs	A series of disk array subsystems for the Mac, the Personal Array (from $1595) supports striping, mirroring, and spanning, with seek times as low as 5 ms and data transfer rates of up to 10 MBps.
Pc-Peripheral Portable Power Projector	The ergonomic Desktop Projector 2800 ($8995) stands less than 6 inches high and pulls in its lenses and mirrors for transport and storage.
Build Applications From Pictures	A visual application builder that relies on moving icons and creating diagrams to develop client/server applications, HarborView (development license, $3900; database drivers, $700 each) has you build the actual application during the design and prototyping phase.
Numbers And Symbols	The Symbolic Math Toolbox ($495), from The Mathworks (Natick, MA), provides an extension to Matlab that integrates symbolic computing with numeric computation.
Detect NT File Corruption	File Alert for Windows NT ($99 for each hard disk to be scanned) is file-corruption-detection software that automatically notifies you at the first sign of corruption.
Tame All That Tax-Time Tension	The 1993 updates of AM-Tax Personal ($39) and AM-Tax Professional ($150) include what-if worksheets that enable you to quickly compare different tax scenarios, such as single, married filing jointly, and married filing separately.
Data Compression And Archiving	A Windows product that also runs under DOS, Greenleaf ArchiveLib ($279) from Greenleaf Software (Dallas, TX) is an object-oriented data-compression run-time library that lets you compress ASCII or binary data into an archive for storage.
An Atlas For The Mac	Now available for the Macintosh, Street Atlas USA ($169) provides a complete road map of the U.S. on a single CD-ROM.
Documents By Design	By Design for Microsoft Word for Windows ($99) enables you to create professional-looking documents even if you have no design training.
Cross-Platform Data Access And Manipulation	Multiuser client/server-based software, Kenan Technologies' Acumate Enterprise Solution 1.0 lets you access all the data on your company's enterprise-wide system regardless of its format or location.
Multimedia In A PIM	Ava ilable in three editions, the Personal Daily PlanIt PIM ($59.95 on CD-ROM or $49.95 on floppy disk) can run under Windows or on the Macintosh.
Improve Picture Quality	By presenting a slide show of screen images similar to test patterns used by TV stations, DisplayMate for Windows ($79) gives you the means to improve monitor-picture quality.
Put A Cloak On Your TSR	Developed for Netroom 3.0, Helix Software's (Long Island City, NY) Cloaking technology is now available as the Cloaking Developer's Toolkit ($299) for designing "Cloaked" utilities for memory managers such as DOS, DR D OS, QEMM, and 386Max.
Design Applications In Ada	A GUI application designer and Ada GUI source code generator for Windows, Visual Ada for Windows ($595) lets you choose from push buttons, bit maps, text-entry fields, combo boxes, static text fields, radio buttons, and scroll bars to create an d modify GUI applications.
4PC-Doctor 1.2	4PC-Doctor 1.2, WaterGate Software (Emeryville, CA), adds external cache testing, tape drive information, SIMM stress testing, modem setup information, PostScript printer testing, disk-usage information by file type and directory, BIOS data area infor mation, and more.
Sentinel 2.0	Sentinel 2.0, AIB Software (Dulles, VA), is fully integrated with Hewlett-Packard's SoftBench development environment and adds a new GUI.
MapExpert 2.0	MapExpert 2.0, DeLorme Mapping (Freeport, ME), is a completely revised and expanded database of every city, town, and rural area in the U.S., including urban areas, population centers, and elevation lines.
GX Graphics 3.0	GX Graphics 3.0, Genus Microprogramming (Houston, TX), features direct support of Super VGA chip sets, high-color and true-color video modes, increased VESA support, mode X resolution support, multiple Super VGA pages, faster drawing primitives, 16-bit protected-mode support, and more.
NovaLink Professional 3.1	NovaLink Professional 3.1, ResNova Software (Huntington Beach, CA), provides support for Apple Open Collaborative Environment, Novell, UUCP, and FidoNet; multiple file attachments; and enhanced graphics and sound.
Cognitive Software Learns From Experience	Based on cognitive processing, the Top of Mind Help Desk for Windows incorporates principles of fuzzy logic, neural networks, case-based reasoning, expert systems, and text association.
Diagnostic Utility Has Answers	Designed specifically for Microsoft Windows, CheckIt Pro: Analyst ($149.95), from TouchStone (Huntington Beach, CA), is a diagnostic utility that provides a comprehensive system analysis.
Virus Detective	A 3-D proactive antivirus program, Virus Detection System Pro 3.0 (from $49) from Z-RAM (Annapolis, MD) combines scanning, integrity verification, and decoy launching to identify and eradicate viruses.
Add Your Voice To Visual Basic	The Visual Voice ($495) custom control and toolkit for Visual Basic and C++ developers lets you build PC-based voice-processing applications such as voice mail, interactive voice response, and fax on demand.
Document Imaging For The PC	Westbrook Technologies' (Westbrook, CT) PC-based document-imaging File Magic Vision ($199) software supports 200 file formats, including color photos, video, and slides.
FAServer 1.1	FAServer 1.1, Network Appliance (Santa Clara, CA), supports FDDI, has increased disk storage (to 27.3 GB), rebuilds replaced RAID disks on-line, and adds a Unix-compatible rdump command for network backup.
Global Lab Image 3.0	Global Lab Image 3.0, Data Translation (Marlborough, MA), supports Add-In Modules, adds image-analysis features, and provides additional particle measurements, enhanced particle counting, new filters, and new frame-grabber support.
The Norton AntiVirus 3.0	The Norton AntiVirus 3.0, Symantec (Cupertino, CA), can identify and resist known and unknown viruses, incorporates Virus Sensor technology, detects 100 percent of the NCSA libraries, and optimizes the virus scanner and user interface.
TapeWare/LAN-NLM 4.2	TapeWare/LAN-NLM 4.2, Emeritus Technologies (Fresno, CA), adds full NetWare 4.x Directory Service backup support and Cruise Control for automated backup tape rotation.
OS-9 3.0	OS-9 3.0, Microware (Des Moines, IA), adds a preemptible kernel and enhancements such as faster interrupt respons e and context switching, more efficient interprocess communications mechanisms, improved determinism, enhanced memory management facilities, and greater system-call throughput.
Integration And Linking For Unix	Applixware applications and tools provide Unix LAN and WAN information-sharing as w ell as personal office functions.

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