February 1994 / What's New

Desktop Ink-Jet	Based on the company's first internally developed engine, Lexmark's (Lexington, KY) IBM ExecJet II 4076 prints at a speed of 300 characters per second in draft mode and at 167 cps in letter-quality mode for an output of 3 ppm.
Parallel-Port Backup	A parallel-port tape-backup and recovery system, FileSafe SideCarII ($475) is designed for peer-to-peer networks, stand-alone PCs, and portable computers.
Share A Printer	The Sprinter II line of printer-sharing devices (from $499) lets multiple users share multiple printers.
Multimedia Pc	The Beethoven MPC-2 ($1495) is a TV-ready, 486SX-based, MPC Level 2-compliant PC.
Presentation Systems	The Impact 256 dual-scan color passive-matrix projection system ($4995) features a wireless remote control and built-in memory that saves adjustments from previous viewing sessions.
Cellular Data Transfer	A 1-pound cellular communications device designed for use with portable computers, the AirCommunicator lets you use your current software applications to send and receive E-mail, faxes, and data files.
Network In A Kit	The Pocket WinLAN Instant Networking Kit ($229 per PC) from Apexx Technology (Boise, ID) provides everything you need to create a workgroup consisting of two to 30 PCs.
Easy Sound	The 16-bit AudioBlitz Classic sound card ($79) from Genoa Systems (San Jose, CA) is compatible w ith all industry standards, such as Sound Blaster, AdLib, and Windows Sound System.
Network Protector	The LANMax line of power-protection devices (from $99) protects your network from power surges and spikes on your data and AC lines.
Two Color Technologies In One Printer	Fargo Electronics' (Eden Prairie, MN) Photo-Realistic Upgrade Kit ($249.95) combines dye-sublimation and thermal-transfer technology in the Primera Color Printer.
PCMCIA Ethernet	The NE4000T ($299) and NE4000 ($349) adapters connect PCMCIA-compatible notebooks to Ethernet networks.
A Flexible, Portable Plotter	The Draftsman 100 portable plotter from Parallex (Indialantic, FL) produces full D-size drawings.
Bar Code Reader With A Voice	With a prerecorded custom voice prompt, the TriCoder Portable Reader (from $799) lets you record up to 65 voice messages to be broadcast at specific data-entry steps and errors.
VL-Bus Control For IDE	The CSA-6210 32-bit VL-Bus IDE disk controller ($69) supports up to four IDE drives, two serial ports, and one bidirectional parallel port.
Add A PCMCIA Slot To Your PC	The DockIt Socket lets you use PCMCIA cards with your current 386 or 486 desktop PC.
CD-ROM For Your Network	Procom Technology's (Irvine, CA) CD Tower-7 subsystem (from $2795) lets you share CD-ROM applications over a network.
Display Super Video In Windows Or Dos	Super VideoWindows-SL ($895), from New Media Graphics (Billerica, MA), displays full-motion video in a window on your PC screen.
Smart Security	The Smart CAT (Computer-Access Authentication Terminal) from V-One (Virtual Open Network Environment, Potomac, MD) uses smart-card technol-ogy to safeguard the security of your computer network as well as your personal information.
Voice Annotation On The Road	The 2 1/2-pound, 486SLC-based DTR-Sound System ($2995) provides voice annotation, business audio, and multimedia functions.
A Cellular Modem	The Cellect 14.4 PCMCIA modem ($549) from Motorola UDS (Huntsville, AL) features the company's Enhanced Cellular Control (EC2) to improve cellular data reliability while retaining compatibility with CCITT- and Bell-compliant modems.
Plug-In Diagnostics	The POSTcard V2 plug-in diagnostic board ($499.95) monitors POST routines, provides continuous burn-in testing of the preboot function, and supports comprehensive system-function and component diagnostics for 386, 486, and Pentium PCs.
Type With Your Thumbs	The Touch Edit keyboard (from $99) adds eight extra keys below the space bar that you touch-type with your thumbs.
Take Your Mouse Anywhere	The Mouse Slide ($24.95), from Creative Computer Accessories (Walnut Creek, CA), attaches to the bottom of most notebook computers and slides out for use as a mouse pad.
Workgroup Dye-Sublimation Printer	Tektronix's new Phaser 480 is a full-bleed 11- by 17-inch dye-sublimation color printer.
Drop And Drag Groups Across Disparate Platforms	The Gentium eis 1.0 analytical applications developm ent environment is a multiplatform system for use with EIS/DSS (Executive Information Systems and Decision Support Systems).
Workgroup Data Sharing	The network version of askSam for Windows ($1095 for five users) is a free-form database that combines database, word processing, text-retrieval, and OLE functions.
Zany Fonts	Font-o-Matic ($59.95), a utility from Altsys (Richardson, TX) , enables you to create unusual TrueType fonts from any TrueType or PostScript Type 1 font.
TCP/IP For Dos And Windows	A TCP/IP package, Piper/IP ($375) uses less than 6 KB of base memory and has a data transfer rate of up to 500 KBps.
Easy 3-D Animation	3D Choreographer ($149.95), from AniCom (Columbia, MD), offers a no-fuss way to integrate 3-D animation into your presentation, report, or multimedia production.
Add Zip To Windows	The DynaZIP Data Compression Library for Microsoft Windows ($295 per developer station) lets you incorporate into your programs the capability to read, test, create, modify, and write industry-standard ZIP files without having to shell to DOS.
Network Desktop Manager	An SNMP-based desktop management system for Windows, Newtwatch ($495) from NetManage (Cupertino, CA) lets you manage and analyze remote desktop PCs running the company's Newt TCP/IP stack and SNMP agent or other desktop SNMP agents.
Calculate In Windows	A six-in-one calculator utility for Windows, MasterCalc ($49) includes Mini, Math, Business, Statistical, Unit, and Programmer's calculators.
Put Server Capability On Your Pc	Entire Reporting Workstation for Windows (from $270 per copy) lets you use Windows to access enterprise data from multiple files and bring it to your desktop PC for additional processing and analysis.
Get Computer Clock Accuracy	Clockwright ($39), a utility from Barberry Hill Software and Engineering (Woodstock, VT), maintains the exact time on PCs running DOS, Windows, or OS/2.
Your Own Lan Mechanic	LAN Mechanic (from $199) is a network management utility for Artisoft LANtastic networks.
Job Scheduling Made Easy	EcoScheduler (from $8000) lets you schedule batch jobs for your enterprise system based on calendar events, the status of other jobs, and the level of resources required by a job.
Saber LAN Workstation 2.0	Saber LAN Workstation 2.0, Saber Software (Dallas, TX), adds centralized file and software distribution, an advanced programming language, remote alarm notification, a desktop launching utility, and a control panel that replaces the Windows control panel.
BookWise 2.0	BookWise 2.0, Xerox Imaging Systems (Peabody, MA), includes an advanced version of the company's OCR software, editing capabilities from within the BookWise program and file management, compatibility with Hewlett-Packard's scanners, and automatic page orientation.
Learn to Speak Spanish 4.0	Learn to Speak Spanish 4.0, HyperGlot Software (Knoxville, TN), features 60 QuickTime or QuickTime for Windows movies, a 350-page workbook, and an enhanced interface.
Opti-Net NLM 2.0	Opti-Net NLM 2.0, Online Computer Systems (Germantown, MD), is Novell certified and provides new diagnostics, improved administration functions for large database manipulation, client caching, seamless use across NetWare 3.x and 4.x operating systems, access to logical-unit-number CD-ROM drives, and support for ISA SCSI host adapters in servers that are equipped with more than 16 MB of RAM.
Not Just A Document Management System	SoftSolutions 4.0 combines document management, work-flow control, and a client/server architecture to create a workgroup environment that spans LANs and WANs, yet it gives individuals the capability to solve their particular needs.
Long Filenames Permissible	A Windows- and DOS-compatible document manager that lets you create file and directory names up to 255 characters long, QuickFind ($49.95) works from within your application.
Cross-Platform CD-ROM	The QuickView multimedia viewer for Macs (developer's kit, $495) emulates the functionality of Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer 2.0.
Write In Kanji In Windows	A Japanese word processor for Windows, KanjiWord ($199) has a fully configurable kana/kanji front-end processor that allows you to enter Japanese phonetically using an English keyboard.
Safe Passage For E-Mail	MailWatch (from $5000) alerts network administrators and mail recipients on a multiplatform LAN of blockages that prevent the delivery of E-mail.
A First Addition	Now a stand-alone package, InfoPublisher Database Addition 2.0 ($199) from Aldus (Seattle, WA) links PageMaker 5.0 for Windows to database management systems such as Paradox 3.5, Access, and FoxPro.
Create Your Own World	The Vream Virtual Reality Development System lets you draw whatever objects you want in your 3-D world using a set of 3-D drawing tools within the Vream 3D World Editor.
Raosoft Survey 2.5	Raosoft Survey 2.5, Raosoft (Seattle, WA), offers additional options for forms design, additional capacity in analysis and reports, expanded data-entry support, and an intuitive calculation option.
Corel Ventura 4.2	Corel Ventura 4.2, Corel (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), combines Ventura Publisher, DataBase Publisher, support for Adobe Acrobat, and faster font loading.
Insync 1.1	Insync 1.1, Synergy Solutions (Mesa, AZ), includes a two-port version of Modem As sist Plus network modem sharing.
Rescue 5.0	Rescue 5.0, AllMicro (Clearwater, FL), gives you the ability to recover data from compressed drives, bypasses bad or destroyed partitions and root-directory damage to recover by filename, lets you choose which FAT to use, and is friendlier and quick er.
DeltaGraph Pro 3	DeltaGraph Pro 3, DeltaPoint (Monterey, CA), has been redesigned with a streamlined interface and now has a multiview configuration.
Access Unix From OS/2	XoftWare/32 3.0 (from $395) is now available for OS/2 platforms in addition to Windows.
OS/2 Scheduler	Sytos Scheduler ($99) is a scheduling utility for Presentation Manager that runs automated or background events, such as command and executable files, under OS/2.
Screen-Saver Selection	Art and photographic images are the mainstay of Second Nature Software's (Portland, OR) 30 screen-saver/wallpaper collections for Windows 3.1 ($15 per collection).
Hop Over T o Probability Calculations	The Electronic Handbook of Probability, or eHop ($49), calculates p values and percentage points for 28 probability distributions.
Simplicity Is A PIM	An entry-level PIM, Ecco Simplicity ($149) has an intuitive start-up screen that lets you start working quickly.
Create An Impact	ClarisImpact 1.0 for Macintosh automatically creates the graphics you define and updates them when you specify changes.
SCSI Director Professional 3.0	SCSI Director Professional 3.0, Transoft (Santa Barbara, CA), features integrated driver support for major CD-ROM formats, supports Apple's SCSI Manager 4.3, and is SCSI-2 compatible.
PacketView 1.10	PacketView 1.10, Klos Technologies (Merrimack, NH), supports the Open Data-Link Interface, expands support for the NetBIOS protocol, provides enhanced data-sharing with the Network General Sniffer, adds symbolic support for SNMP Object IDs, and supports FDDI networks.
Coherent 4.2	Coherent 4.2, Mark Williams Co. (Northbrook, IL), can run over 50 third-party software packages, adds a user-interface shell and a Unix System V-style print spooler, and supports SCSI and floppy tape drives.
Mirror-Fax with Voice 2.0	Mirror-Fax with Voice 2.0, SoftKlone (Tallahassee, FL), features data, fax, and voice capabilities and supports Cirrus Logic, Rockwell, Sierra, and ZyXel data/fax/voice chip sets.
Trak/Report 2.0	Trak/Report 2.0, Concord Communications (Marlborough, MA), adds group-capacity-planning capability, faster performance, enhanced database functionality, and support for token-ring and bridged networks.

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