April 1994 / What's New

Plug-And-Play X Terminals	The HP Entria X graphical desktop systems (from $995) show performance ratings of up to 104,000 Xstones.
Risc-Based Printing	The NPS 530 multiprotocol Ethernet pocket print server ($599) from Axis Communications (Danvers, MA) has a data throughput of up to 1200 Kbps.
Change Resolution On The Fly	Able to display 24-bit images at resolutions as high as 1152 by 882 pixels, the LeMansGT ($2999) has 3 MB of VRAM and a 72-Hz refresh rate in 24-bit mode at a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels.
Network Security	The 12-port Online 10Base-T Security Module (Model 5112-TPLS, $1995) provides two levels of protection for your UTP Ethernet network.
Put P C Peripherals On Your Mac	KeyStone ($99) from Silicon Valley Bus (San Juan Bautista, CA) lets you use PC-compatible keyboards and mice with your Mac while continuing to use your Mac keyboard and mouse.
A Color Printer To Be Shared	Designed for presentation graphics and color printing, the DECcolorwriter 1000 ($3999) directly connects to Macs and PCs with simultaneously active ports via its resident AppleTalk, serial, and parallel interfaces.
Parallel-Port Networking	Able to link 32 computers with as many as 16 printers at distances of up to 1200 feet, PrimaNet (starter kit, $329) has a data transfer rate as high as 1 Mbps.
Gain Wireless Control Of Your PC	DOS- and Windows-compatible, the RediDockit wireless docking system gives you wireless remote control of your desktop computer's keyboard and screen.
Waves Of Sound	SoundMan Wave ($349), from Logitech (Fremont, CA), is a 16-bit stereo card based on wave-table synthesis.
100 Platters Of Storage	Pinnacle Micro's (Irvine, CA) Cascade CD 100 CD-ROM jukebox ($9995) stores up to 65 GB (i.e., 100 CDs) of audio, video, or data CDs in a single CD-ROM library system.
Split Keyboard	An ergonomic keyboard that enables you to physically arrange the keypad in multiple positions, the Ergo Max ($99) from Maxi Switch (Tucson, AZ) includes a 72-key main keypad and a 30-key numeric keypad.
Stereo Sound For Your Laptop	A pocket-size box for recording and playing sound, PC*Max (from $199) attaches to the parallel port of your laptop or desktop system.
Data In The Fast-And-Wide Lane	The SiliconExpress IV SCSI-2 accelerator card ($995) supports sustained 16-bit SCSI-2 data transfer rates of 20 MBps, according to Atto Technology (Amherst, NY).
SCSI Host Adapter	The AME-1572 SCSI Audio Host Adapter ($349) has a SCSI-2-compatible programmed I/O interface that supports synchronous bursts of up to 10 MBps.
Short-Range Modem	A short-range modem that you can operate at distances of up to 2000 feet over UTP wire, the Model 1225 ($65) from Patton Electronics (Gaithersburg, MD) works in pairs.
Fault-Tolerant File Server	The San Francisco 466DS, a 66-MHz 486DX system, contains two completely redundant file servers in one chassis.
A Wireless Interface For Your PC And Phone	DigiDial lets you auto-dial directly from your computer to your PBX-system phone.
Faxing With The PowerBook Duo	The PowerPort/Mercury fax/modem for the PowerBook Duo ($399) is based on the V.32terbo standard, enabling it to transfer data at speeds of up to 19.2 Kbps and send and receive faxes at 14.4 Kbps.
Power Multimedia	MediaQuad ($5495) from Quadrant Components (Fremont, CA) features 16 MB of RAM (which is upgradable to 32 MB), 256 KB of cache memory, and a 1-GB hard drive.
Personal Printer	A color-upgradable 24-pin impact dot-matrix printer, the ActionPrinter 3260 ($299) from Epson America (Torrance, CA) has the ability to print up to 270 cps at 15 characters per inch in draft mode.
Four Pounds Of Power	The 4-pound Aspen 486 Color Subnote (from $1995) has 4 MB of RAM (expandable to 20 MB), 512 KB of VRAM, a removable 80-MB hard drive that's expandable to 120 MB, and a PCMCIA Type II slot.
Pentium And The PCI Local Bus	Micron Computer's (Nampa, ID) Pentium PCI Local Bus systems (from $2799) are designed for advanced graphics and memory-intensive applications.
Watch TV In A Scalable Window	WatchIt Pro ($595) from New Media Graphics (Billerica, MA) receives and displays live TV in a scalable window on your PC screen in up to 16.7 million colors.
Grab Images For Science	The DT55-LC ($695), a scientific-quality square-pixel frame grabber, uses Global Lab Acquire software to capture, save, and print images.
A Bridge For Ethernet	The LB2 Ethernet Bridge, a local bridge with a forwarding rate of 14,600 packets per second and a filtering rate of 28,000 pps, has two AUI ports and a serial port for an ASCII terminal that's acting as a local management console.
Multipurpose Personal Player	Mac- and PC-compatible, the Reno Personal CD-ROM Player (from $399) is operable via nickel-cadmium batteries or AC power.
State-Of-The-Art Word Processing For Unix	An object-based word processing program for Unix, Rapport Script combines ease of use for the casual user with sophisticated elements for creating complex documents and presentations.
Create Tileable Textures	Specular TextureScape ($195) from Specular International (Amherst, MA) enables you to create high-resolution synthetic textures and images on your Macintosh that you can animate and morph over ti me.
RAID For OS/2	With EZRAID for OS/2 ($795) you can create your own OS/2 RAID subsystem using most off-the-shelf drives and drive controllers.
New Life For Your RAM Disk	Designed to make file access faster and extend the battery life of Mac PowerBooks, Atticus RAMDiskSaver ($69.95) makes scheduled automatic backups of your installed RAM disk.
Electronic Publishing	The graphical interface of the NeoBook electronic publishing package (from $45) consists of a tool palette and a command bar.
Gather Information In Real Time	A Unix server for rapid storage and retrieval of time-critical transaction data, TickBase (from $500 per end user) allows you to rapidly access, review, and analyze vast amounts of real-time information.
Quick Preview Browsing	A preview and file manager for Windows, Turbo Browser ($69) automatically previews thumbnail video and animation clips, graphical images, and sound bites along with a tabulation of associated file data.
MicroTap 3.0	MicroTap 3.0, Paladin Software (San Diego, CA), adds EGA/VGA font maps with an integrated font-map editor, a Hypertext reader with direct links to program-setup fields, expanded log capacity to 64 MB, and PostScript file exportation.
TeamOffice 3.0	TeamOffice 3.0, TeamWare Division, ICL (Santa Clara, CA), integrates seamlessly with your existing Windows applications via TeamFlow, supports Windows NT, adds a Windows interface for asynchronous dial-up client connection, provides forum support for X.400 addresses for senders external to TeamOffice, and supports Windows for Workgroups Microsoft Mail clients using a TeamOffice back end.
Calendar Manager 5.0	Calendar Manager 5.0, Russell Information Sciences (Laguna Hills, CA), lets you more easily schedule meetings and send messages to meeting schedulers; create to-do lists; and view and select Calendar Manager users, resources, and facilities across all enterprise servers.
Toolkit For Mwave	Intermetrics' (Cambridge, MA) Mwave Developers Toolkit ($495) provides a link for building multimedia applications for IBM's Mwave technology.
Visual Network Management	LANtastic Management Services software (from $199) provides basic visual monitoring of a network from a Windows-based platform.
Clip-Art Manager	Corel Gallery ($129) contains a collection of 10,000 clip-art images that you can drag and drop into any OLE-compatible application.
Proactive Time Management	A time management program for long- and short-term planning, First Things First Proactive ($149) h elps you define priorities and goals and then determine the daily path to achieving them.
3-D Animation Saves Screens	A Windows screen saver from FortŽ (Carlsbad, CA), 3DPC ($19.99) combines photo-realistic, 3-D animation with surrealism.
Travel The Information Highway On Your PC	Developed jointly by Spry and O'Reilly & Associates, Internet-In-A-Box lets you easily access the Internet from your PC.
Flip Through Graphics In FoxPro	Flipper for FoxPro ($349) is a graphics library that simplifies adding charts and drawings to FoxPro for Windows programs.
Real-Time Backup For NT	Real-time backup and recovery software for Windows NT, Octopus (from $3975) protects against loss of data from problems such as electrical failure and accidental human interference.
Improve Your Windows Display	DisplayMate for Windows ($79 until May 31; $129 thereafter) improves monitor picture quality by improving sharpness and contrast, reducing certain forms of geometric distortion, minimizing or eliminating moirŽ patterns, and improving color and gray-scale accuracy.
Listen To Your E-Mail	The eNote for cc:Mail package ($49), a front end to cc:Mail, lets you filter important mail messages and route them directly to the screen.
Scanni ng In Unix	The PixelScan plug-in module for Adobe Photoshop 2.5 ($499 until June 30; $799 thereafter) enables you to connect to scanners from most major companies while using Silicon Graphics and Sun versions of Photoshop.
Intuitive Queries	An intuitive client/server, decision-support, and data-retrieval tool, Open/query builder helps you access databases such as dBase, SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle via ODBC.
Conversion Artist 2.0	Conversion Artist 2.0, North Coast Software (Barrington, NH), supports Photoshop CMYK TIFF files and features for image color correction, stylized filters, and color separation.
MacFortran II 3.3	MacFortran II 3.3, Absoft (Rochester Hills, MI), includes a full-screen source-level symbolic debugger; improved support for the 68040 CPU; MIG, a graphics library integrated with the company's Macintosh Runtime Window Environment; a software FPU; and a software emulator for machines without a math coprocessor.
TeleFinder 3.2	TeleFinder 3.2 , Spider Island Software (Irvine, CA), lets you view GIF files while on-line and automatically decompress and view graphics files while downloading them.
Progress 7	Progress 7, Progress Software (Bedford, MA), adds graphical and event-driven extensions to the 4GL and enhances the DataServer A rchitecture and the RDBMS.
Koyn Fractal Studio 2.0	Koyn Fractal Studio 2.0, Koyn Software (St. Louis, MO), adds color, an easy-to-use graphical editor, high-resolution rendering capability, templates, and floating-point coprocessor support.
Visual Data Analysis	PV-Wave Personal Edition ($695), a native 32-bit application for Windows, lets you visually analyze large amounts of complex data.
Error-Log Monitoring	The LANStor RedAlert network management utility ($295) has the ability to proactively monitor NetWare error-log events and automatically distribute the information via a twenty-fifth line console, a pager, a workstation broadcast, cc:Fax, or cc:Mail.
Data Analysis For Windows	Spyglass Transform ($595) has expanded to Windows and Windows NT.
Neural OCR Scanning	CharacterEyes OCR software ($695), from Ligature Software (Burlington, MA), uses advanced neural network technology to let you capture text at up to 300 characters per second with a recognition accuracy of up to 99.6 percent.
.INI File Control	A Windows .INI file editor, iniExpert ($34.95) has a comprehensive on-line reference.
PixelFX 2.5	PixelFX 2.5, Mentalix (Plano, TX), adds user-transparent links to FrameMaker and Interleaf programs; supports additional input, output, and image-compression file formats; enhances OCR capabilities; supports additional Unix operating systems; integrates with the ER Mapper earth-science image-processing application; and expands scanner support.
Forest & Trees 3.1	Forest & Trees 3.1, Trinzic (Palo Alto, CA), includes the ability to call external DLLs; adds four database interfaces; enhances the reporting feature so you can add pictures, business graphics, and color to reports; adds a "drill down" capability to get to the appropriate level of graphical or numerical detail; expands its graphical data-analysis capabilities; and increases user-interface options.
Remotely Possible/LAN and Dial 4.0	Remotely Possible/LAN and Dial 4.0, Avalan Technology (Holliston, MA), includes DOS and Windows in one package, supports full-screen DOS and data transfer speeds of up to 230.4 Kbps, adds DES encryption security, supports more than 150 modems and asynchronous modem pooling, and adds remote keyboard- and screen-disabling capability and printer redirection.
MetaCard 3.1	MetaCard 3.1, MetaCard (Boulder, CO), can import and run stacks developed in HyperCard 1.2.5 and 2.1, supports object-oriented graphics and the import and display of PostScript EPS graphics, plays back FLI/FLC format animation, and adds functions for spawning and managing external processes.
Interactive Document Conferencing	Based on Unix and X Window System 11, Sietec's jointX is an independent component placed between an X server and an X client to permit interactive document conferences composed of participants in different locations.

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