May 1994 / What's New

Let A Troll Touch Your Powerbook	Troll Touch PB touchscreen ($695) for the PowerBook 180c is made of clear, pressure-sensitive, resistive-coated layers of polyester that will not shatter or break when in transit.
Computer Projections	A compact projection system that works with most PCs and Macs, the LitePro 540 ($7499) projects screen images measuring as large as 15 feet on the diagonal.
Internal Fax Modem	An internal fax modem that transfers data at 2400 bps and sends and receives faxes at 4800 bps and 9600 bps, respectively, the MX-2496B ($59) includes MNP 5 and V.42bis capabilities.
Share A Printer	MosesSpool (two-node starter kit, $149) lets two PCs share a printer; you can upgrade to a LAN if you wish.
Collect Scientific Data On Your Mac	The Serial Box Interface ($99) from Vernier Software (Portland, OR) connects to the modem port of your Mac.
A Video Camera For The Mac	A color video camera that works from the top of your monitor, the PC-7 Multimedia Video Camera ($349.95) has a resolution of 380 horizontal lines.
Flexible Digital Video	The Targa 2000 (f rom $5995) lets you display a Video-in-a-Window image while outputting video in NTSC or PAL format.
Make Your PC LocalTalk-Ready	The pocket-size PCTalk adapter ($199) from Apexx Technology (Boise, ID) snaps onto your PC's parallel port to provide a connection to LocalTalk.
Full-Featured Portable Workstation	Preloaded with the Solaris 1 or 2 operating environment and version 2.0 of the Nomadic Computing Environment, Tadpole's Sparcbook 3 portable workstation has a removable 340- or 520-MB hard drive.
TCP/IP Terminal Server	An eight- or 16-port terminal server that provides native serial access to a TCP/IP host regardless of where the users are on the network, the PortServer (from $1595) eases serial port configuration and management.
A Printer For The Network	A 300-dpi color and monochrome printer, the Codonics (Middleburg Heights, OH) NP-1600 Photographic Network Printer ($9995) uses dye-sublimation technology with 16.7 million simultaneously printable colors to produce continuous-tone prints.
Graphics Via The PCI Bus	Designed for the PCI bus, the GraphMax P12 (from $399) is based on IBM's XGA architecture.
A Notebook Designed For CAD	The top-of-the-line Tri-CAD DesignBook ($4595) provides 340 MB of hard disk storage and 12 MB of RAM (expandable to 20 MB).
High-Tech Terminal	The QVT520 video display terminal ($359) from Qume (San Jose, CA) provides ANSI emulations such as DEC PCTerm, VT420, VT320, VT100, WY-85, WY-60 native mode, and a Unix Console mode.
CD-ROM Tower Offers Flexibility	Compatible with ISA, EISA, and Micro Channel systems, Online Computer Systems' (Germantown, MD) CD-ROM tower supports from four to seven double-speed SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives.
Storage For The Mac	A rewritable magneto-optical storage system for publishing, prepress, CAD/CAM, multimedia, and imaging applications, the Olympus 128MO Macintosh ($1195) has a continuous read-transfer rate of 768 KBps.
Hubs With Split Personalities	Available in Ethernet, Token Ring, and terminal-server versions, each INXLink hub has its own internal management system.
Power Down And Save Energy	The 17-inch digitally controlled DX17F monitor ($849) from MAG InnoVision (Santa Ana, CA) can power down to 15 W in its sta ndby and suspend modes and to 10 W in its off mode.
Telecommunicate In Windows	A Windows-based telephone management system, Spectrum Envoy ($349) provides phone, data modem, fax, answering machine, voice-messaging, and PC audio functions in a single package that includes DSP hardware and Octu s PTA software.
Remote Power By Phone	Activated by a phone, the Mac Power On/Off + Aux ($199.95) remote power-control unit detects incoming phone calls and powers up a remote Mac, providing remote users access to a host Mac without keeping the host running when it's not needed.
Data Acquisition And Control Module	A general-purpose measurement and control device, the Model 40 ($99) from Prairie Digital (Prairie du Sac, WI) features 28 programmable digital I/O lines and eight analog input channels.
Let Your Notebook Answer The Phone	The Pocket FaxLink ($299) PCMCIA fax/modem card automatically answers incoming phone calls, records messages of up to several minutes in length, and prompts the caller to review, modify, or re-record the message.
Projection Panel	The latest of In Focus Systems' (Tualatin, OR) PanelBook projection panels, the PanelBook 530 ($5299) can project more than 1.4 million colors simultaneously with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels.
Make The Connection While Traveling	The Model 305 Konexx Modem Koupler ($299) has a built-in 2400-/9600-bps data/fax modem and connects to the serial port of your PC.
Wireless Communication Between Buildings	The AirPort Wireless Interbuilding Systems use spread-spectrum radio technology to provide 16-Mbps wireless point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communications at distances of up to 1.8 miles.
Real-Time Document Conferencing	Platform-, application-, and network-independent, Face to Face lets two people use any combination of Macs and Windows-based computers to work together on a document while they discuss the work in progress over the phone.
Network Job Scheduler	A distributed-network job-scheduling and workload management system, OnSchedule (server version starts at $2500) has the ability to automatically schedule, execute, and manage processes over a network of heterogeneous machines.
Relational Database Management	A contact management program for the Mac, Full Contact ($169) uses RAM-based relational technology to keep track of contracts, activities, and dates.
Put Your RAM To The Test	RAMexam ($29.95), from Qualitas (Bethesda, MD), helps you avoid system crashes resulting from RAM failure.
Control-System Designer	The Nonlinear Control Design Toolbox (Windows version, $895) from The MathWorks (Natick, MA) works with the company's Matlab and Simulink software to help you design controllers directly in the nonlinear domain.
Build A Skyscraper For OS/2	From Binar Graphics (San Rafael, CA), SkySc raper--Desktop Manager for OS/2 ($99) provides a visual representation of OS/2's multitasking capabilities.
Presentation Software For Unix	A native X Window System application, Ovation presentation graphics software ($795 per user) runs on X terminals, workstations, or PCs running X software on a network.
Catalog On Disk for Windows 2.20	Catalog On Disk for Windows 2.20, Curtis Software (Torrance, CA), improves speed, adds Format Viewer and the capability to copy complete product records to a buffer and paste them to create new records, modifies Product Line files, and adds enhan ced on-screen ordering and importation as options.
Pixar Typestry 2	Pixar Typestry 2, Pixar (Richmond, CA), includes Adobe Illustrator import, a particle system tool, new options for building objects, enhanced animation control, a Looks editor, new perforation control, editable bevels, new En vironment Looks, and fog.
Tech Help 6.0	Tech Help 6.0, Flambeaux Software (Glendale, CA), has an enlarged hypertext database of BIOS and DOS functions, covers system-extension APIs, and uses the latest version of the Flambeaux Help Viewer.
Automenu 5.0 Net	Automenu 5.0 Net, Magee Enterprises (Norcross, GA), updates its look with menus arranged in overlapping windows, improves setup and maintenance, lets multiple MDFs (Menu Definition Files) reside on the same screen, adds a software-detection module, supports cutting and pasting of items between menu pages and MDFs, and provides hot-key access for any displayed menu item.
Encrypt And Compress Data	Crypto/Cram, a data-encryption/data-compression system (from $30), lets you compress or encrypt multiple files by wild card with or without a specific file-attribute criterion.
Facility Scheduler	A Windows-based program for scheduling facilities and their related support equipment, Time and Place (from $89) enables you to see and manipulate all your room schedules at once so that you can schedule blocks of rooms and move events from one room to another.
Mac File Management	A file management application for the Mac, ProFiles ($129) from Dayna Communications (Salt Lake City, UT) lets you work in a window called the Filelist.
CD-ROM Network Caching	Opti-Net Lite (CD-ROM server license, $179) adds data caching and data prefetching to shared CD-ROM drives installed in peer-to-peer network servers.
See The Handwriting On Your PC	Rite-Expressions ($379) from Inforite (San Mateo, CA) lets you annotate and import handwritten information to off-the-shelf Windows and DOS programs using your MP100 Writing Pad.
A Workshop For Unix	SunPro WorkShop is an integrated product suite for C, C++, or FORTRAN Unix developers running the Solaris 2 operating environment for SPARC.
Charting Through Windows	Charts Now ($99.95), a Windows-based graphics editor, lets you quickly create organizational charts, flowcharts, network and block diagrams, project schedules, and viewgraphs.
AutoCAD File Converter	An HPGL/2-to-AutoCAD file converter, HP2Design for Windows ($395) converts HPGL files to DXF, DXB, or binary DXF formats and works with AutoCAD releases 10, 11, and 12.
Screen Illusions	Stereolusions ($49) from I/O Software (Cucamonga, CA) lets you turn your Windows- and Windows NT-compatible drawings and pictures into SIRDSes (Single Image Random Dot Stereograms).
Fonts On CD-ROM	The Bitstream 500 Font CD for Windows ($49.95) has mo re than 500 professional-quality typefaces in TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats.
Design With These Widgets	A set of custom controls for Visual Basic, Designer Widgets ($129) lets you add graphical interface design elements to the applications you design.
Sophisticated Statistics In Windows	Built specifically for Windows, Statgraphics Plus for Windows emphasizes the exploration of data and interpretation of results in its interactive graphics.
Energize 2.5	Energize 2.5, Lucid (Menlo Park, CA), supports automatic precompiled header files, reduces the size of files by 50 percent, uses automatic dependency analysis for make files, speeds up application development, incorporates compiler technology advancements, and supports the "long double" type for more precision in floating-point arithmetic.
ABC FlowCharter 3.0	ABC FlowCharter 3.0, Micrografx (Richardson, TX), features expanded shape palettes, an automatic alignment tool for graphics within flowcharts, improved quick-and-easy connection lines, OLE 2.0 implementation, and new keyboard shortcuts and hot keys.
CodeBase 5.1	CodeBase 5.1, Sequiter Software (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), includes the CodeControls Windows interface designer and the CodeReporter developer's report writer.
OS/N (Optical Storage for NetWare) 2.0	OS/N (Optical Storage for NetWare) 2.0, LaserData (Tyngsboro, MA), adds NLM optical drivers with multitasking and multithreaded capabilities, supports configurations that include a mix of 5 1/4- and 12-inch WORM and CD-ROM optical storage devices, provides direct connection of WORM optical drives and jukeboxes to NetWare servers, and provides server-based optical backup and automatic synchronization.
Create Landscapes In 3-D	A 3-D landscape-rendering software program for the Macintosh, Scenery Animator ($149) uses 3-D models from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accuracy when rendering pictures of scenes as diverse as national parks and a simulated lunar landscape.
Automatic File Integration	Trans Plus for Windows ($225) from Intex Solutions (Needham, MA) converts most ASCII files into valid spreadsheet files and then automatically launches your spreadsheet program and opens the file in a ready-to-use format.
File Transfer With OS/2	Net/WrkOS2 ($1495) allows you to transfer files bidirectionally and remotely execute programs across similar and dissimilar hardware platforms without doing any programming.
Scanning In Unix	Unix software that can run on SunOS, Solaris, RS/6000, and DEC systems, Imager Desktop ($795) supports Hewlett-Packard ScanJet IIcx color flatbed scanners.
Dos Extender	A 386-based DOS extender, CauseWay for Assembly Language ($147) has an integrated linker with a morphing feature that allows it to read and use most linker scripts without modification.
Mathcad 5.0	Mathcad 5.0, MathSoft (Cambridge, MA), offers usability enhancements; learning aids; and additional graphics, numeric functions, and DDE support.
CV Mate/Pro 6.0	CV Mate/Pro 6.0, Vermont Microsystems (Winooski, VT), boosts the graphics performance of Computervision's Personal Designer by as much as eight times and features productivity tools such as a Bird's-Eye View, Magnifying Glass, and Real-Time Anti-Aliasing.
HyperHelp 3.1	HyperHelp 3.1, Bristol Technology (Ridgefield, CT), adds support for kanji, Frame 4.0, DEC's Alpha OSF/1 workstation, and Silicon Graphics' Indigo and Iris workstations.
DP Umbrella 2.5	DP Umbrella 2.5, Vycor (College Park, MD), supports Microsoft Mail and cc:Mail, adds task dependencies associated with activities and work orders, provides equipment searches for equipment items on any number of fields, and adds a zoom feature in the Help Desk Monitor module as well as configuration options to set counters in activity, personnel, and component windows.
MacAnalyst 4.1	MacAnalyst 4.1, Excel Software (Marshalltown, IA), adds enhanced object-oriented design, code browsing, and reengineering capabilities.
Work In 3-D Windows	Caligari trueSpace for Windows immerses you in a 3-D-perspective workspace where you can shape objects as if working in clay and interact with them in real time.

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