September 1994 / What's New

High-Capacity Netware Storage	Available in EISA and Micro Channel configurations, the MonStor rack-mount storage system ($8640) supports scalable single-server capacities of 9 to 252 GB.
Off-Line Network Sentry	A hardware-based LAN management and security device currently available for NetWare 3.x and 4.x, Network Sentry ($3000) from Cyberlock Data Intelligence (Philadelphia, PA) connects to the server but operates off-line.
Stackable Hubs	Designed for departmental 10Base-T networks, the KleverHub Stack K1016 ($895) and K1032 ($1685) stackable hubs feature 16 and 32 unmanaged UTP ports, respectively.
Pedal Your Way To Productivity	Consisting of three electronic foot switches, the Step On It Keyboard Control Pedals ($69.95) can be custom-programmed to assign or reassign any three keyboard keys to foot operation.
Notebook Data Acquisition	The DAQ-19 data acquisition board (from $299) features 19-bit A/D capability on eight differential-ended or 16 single-ended channels, a 12-bit D/A port, an 8-bit digital I/O port, and source code for a Windows data acquisition program.
Give Voice Commands In Windows	The Timeworks Say It V-Command Voice Recognition System ($299) combines a sound card with voice-print capabilities to let you record messages under Windows.
Travelers' Storage	A portable storage system that plugs into the parallel printer port of your PC, the Data Traveler DT200EX (from $585) has a capacity of 127 or 209 MB.
Expand Capacity Quickly	The SSI-5200 ($4995) 3 1/2-inch SCSI-2 drive has a formatted capacity of 5.2 GB, an average access speed of 9.2 ms, and a media-to-buffer data transfer rate of 12.17 MBps.
Portable 10Base-T Connection	Farallon Computing's EtherWave PCMCIA Adapter connects PC notebook computers directly to 10Base-T Ethernet networks.
A Notebook With Choices	The WinBook XP notebook computer ($1999) incorporates the SL-enhanced 486DX4 75-MHz processor and a dual-scan color screen.
Ergonomic Monitor	Compatible with Apple and Sun SPARC systems, MAG InnoVision's (Santa Ana, CA) MXP17F monitor ($1299) has a flat-square CRT with an Invar shadow mask and an antiglare treatment.
Robots For Unix	Driverless tape auto-loaders for Unix platforms, the Encore Plus Robotic Tape Handling systems (from $5995) have built-in robotic-control intelligence.
Create A SCSI Daisy Chain	The ParaSCSI Plus ultrahigh-speed parallel-to-SCSI adapter ($216) supports up to seven daisy-chained SCSI or SCSI-2 devices.
PowerBook Battery Assist	A battery-charge extender for all 100-series Apple PowerBooks, the PowerAssist ($69) from Newer Technology (Wichita, KS) charges batteries in sleep mode and extends battery life by up to four times when plugged into an active PowerBook.
Data Acquisition And Control	A data acquisition and control module with a serial-port interface, the JSL11A84 ($259) from Jasco Research (Sidney, British Columbia, Canada) has 11 analog input channels with programmable X1 or X10 gain on four channels.
Send Your Notes Through The Air	More than a pocket-size text pager, AirNote ($349) has its own Internet address, so you can receive Internet messages while you're away from the office.
Fax Modem With Voicevie w Support	An internal multifunction fax board, the Connection Pro ($249) has built-in support for the Radish VoiceView protocol.
Multimedia-Ready Macs	With a built-in CD-ROM drive, a 66-/33-MHz 68LC040 processor, video- and TV-expansion options, and support for 16-bit stereo playback, Apple's 630 series of Macs (from $1199) are targeted toward users looking for a powerful entry-level multimedia system.
SCSI Adapter	A bus-mastered SCSI-2 host adapter for VL-Bus systems, the BT-445C ($279) from BusLogic (Santa Clara, CA) has an on-board AutoSCSI Utility and dual-floppy support.
Remote Windows Control	A hand-held programmable remote control, the PowerControl ($195) allows you to control your Windows presentations from up to 30 feet away from your computer.
Protection From Static	A small accessory that installs on your computer, UltraStat ($59.95) continually drains harmful static from your system and from you, according to its manufacturer, UltraStat (Colorado Ci ty, CO).
Integrate Multiprotocol Workgroups	The GatorRoute iR router ($2495) provides simultaneous routing of IPX, TCP/IP, AppleTalk, and DECnet protocols.
A Keyboard With A Twist	The Select-Ease Keyboard ($179) from Lexmark International (Lexington, KY) splits into left and right halves, each with an inverted-T cursor-key arrangement.
Flat-Square And 15 Inches	The Diamond Pro 15FS monitor ($535) from Mitsubishi (Cypress, CA) automatically readjusts image centering, size, and geometry when you select nonstandard resolutions.
Gain Network Privacy	The Oncore Ethernet Private Line Card ($1995) is a daughtercard from Chipcom (Southborough, MA) that plugs into the company's Oncore Switching Hubs.
A Small Ups With A Large Attitude	Incorporating Deltec's large-system-engineering expertise, the PowerRite Plus UPSes protect stand-alone PCs as well as network nodes against power blackouts, surges, spikes, and power-line noise.
O pen-Architecture Visual Development System	ProtoGen+ NT, a fully integrated visual development workbench that streamlines the development of C and C++ applications for Windows and NT, supports Intel, Dec Alpha, and Mips processors.
Object-Oriented Imaging	A suite of object-oriented imaging development tools for Visual Basic and Visual C++, KIPP (Kofax Image Processing Platform) ImageControls (from $995) makes use of drag and drop to reduce the time needed to create production-level applications.
Process-Improvement Package	Windows-based process-analysis and improvement software, Optima (single license, $1500) incorporates process-mapping, modeling, simulation, and reporting capabilities.
Do Some Real-Time Thinking	Designed for thinking in real time on the computer, Inspiration for Windows ($129) is a visual tool for planning and developing ideas.
Publishing-Productivity Program	A program for creating greeting cards, banners, calendars, signs, and stationery, P rintMaster Gold CD Bonus Pack ($79.95) provides verbal assistance via an audio interface.
A Workshop For Multimedia	The Multimedia Workshop ($79.95) from Davidson & Associates (Torrance, CA) contains writing and video workshops to let you create multimedia presentations and published document s.
UPS-Monitoring Software	PowerEdge NetServer ($199) from CompuSci (St. Louis, MO) monitors any UPS and, in an orderly way, shuts down your computer's operating system before the UPS battery reserve is exhausted.
Financial Tools	The Mathematica Finance Pack ($395) helps finance professionals to analyze numerical and statistical data, optimize mathematical models, display data graphically in 2-D and 3-D, and create animations.
Expense Reports Customized	The Expense It for Windows program ($129.99) manages expense accounts for business travelers by providing customizable expense reports, rapid-receipt entry, foreign-currency conversion, and complete management and reconciliation of expense accounts.
Carrying On The Generic CADD Tradition	A $495 professional-level 2-D design and drafting program, Visual CADD works in Windows, so you can customize it through a macro language or any standard Windows programming language, such as Visual Basic or C++.
Integrate On The Newton	Developed for the Newton, TapWorks ($119) integrates text processing, spreadsheets, drawings, and graphs into a single application.
Multiserver Auditing	A Windows-based multiserver auditing tool for NetWare, AuditWare ($595 per server) provides a look and feel similar to that of the NWADMIN NetWare 4 tool.
Easy Bar Code Printing	A collection of bar code soft fonts, On-Tap/DOS (from $295) lets you print more than 13 different types of bar code symbologies and subsets.
Investment Tracker	Fundwatch Plus for Windows ($39) from Hamilton Software (Englewood, CO) has a spreadsheet-like tracking system that lets you maintain price data for investments at weekly or longer intervals.
Editing Utility	A Windows utility that lets you cut any screen and deposit data in a customized file for reassembly, SuperCut ($79.95) is designed for the creation of multimedia and desktop publishing presentations.
Powerbuilder QA	An auto mated software-quality system for conducting comprehensive QA and testing of applications developed using Powersoft's PowerBuilder, PowerRunner ($2850) employs Powersoft's standard PowerBuilder API.
Excalibur EFS 3.5	Excalibur EFS 3.5, Excalibur Technologies (San Diego, CA), is easier to inte grate with third-party software, has a new API, and provides additional structured RDBMS indexing support.
FilePower MultiFiler/Finder 4.0	FilePower MultiFiler/Finder 4.0, Optika (Colorado Springs, CO), adds OCR for automatic indexing; full text-retrieval and keyword-searching capabilities; m ultiple annotation features; internationalization; Oracle SQL database support; and multiple-page display.
Minitab Statistical Software for Windows 10	Minitab Statistical Software for Windows 10, Minitab (State College, PA), includes new graph-editing capabilities; expands its exploratory dat a-analysis and statistical capabilities; and adds 3-D graphics, fully implemented DDE, and a session window that you can edit to generate reports from within the statistical package.
Aion Development System 6.4	Aion Development System 6.4, Trinzic (Palo Alto, CA), improves development product ivity on GUI workstations and integration in client/server environments.
SQL Windows 5.0	SQL Windows 5.0, Gupta (Menlo Park, CA), adds QuickObjects, workgroup integration, and the SQL Windows Compiler.
Alpha Debugger	TotalView (single-user license, $975), a source-level debugger from BBN Systems and Technologies (Cambridge, MA), is available for DEC's Alpha AXP RISC workstation running the OSF/1 operating system.
Document Management Aid	With View Pro (from $395), you can simultaneously view, annotate, and mark up documents regardless of their original size and file format; document notes are automatically updated, and all comments and changes are linked.
Manage The Issues	Issue- and problem-tracking software for Windows, Issue Manager ($49.95) provides a way for you to track issues, note their progress, and record when an issue is closed.
Develop Client/Server Applications	ObjectPro ($2995 per seat), an object-oriented development tool, is designed for programmers building client/server applications that have business objects programmed into them.
Source Code Collection	A compilation of Mac source code and utilities on CD-ROM, Apprentice ($35) has working examples of applications, control panels, extensions, utilities, and more.
Windows NT Makes The Unix Connection	The eXceed/NT 32-bit X Window System server software package ($545) for Alpha- and Mips-based PCs enables you to use Windows NT to connect to and display network-based Unix/X and/or VMS applications simultaneously in windows on your desktop.
Diagram Your Database	A reverse-engineering and documentation application for Oracle 6 and 7 databases, Database Illustrator (from $100) uses table, column, and constraint information stored in the data dictionary to produce an entity-relationship diagram with automatic entity layout and relationship routing.
A Graphical Voice System For Visual Basic	A voice and telephony integration package for Visual Basic, VBVoice is a complete graphical voice-application design tool.
IDL 3.6 for Windows NT and Power Macintosh	IDL 3.6 for Windows NT and Power Macintosh, Research Systems (Boulder, CO), improves its user interface, enhances its numerical analysis and data handling, and adds new plotting techniques.
Multimedia ToolBook 3.0	Multimedia ToolBook 3.0, Asymetrix (Bellevue, WA), adds over 200 enhancements, including increased productivity, improved applications performance and text capabilities, better user interfaces and database support for applications, and comprehensive multimedia features.
SuperOffice 3.0	SuperOffice 3.0, SuperOffice (Bedford, MA), offers calendar sharing between executives and secretaries and group scheduling; interoffice E-mail; built-in PaperClip document imaging to let you link any type of document to a specific account; access to corporate databases; and linkups to employees in the field.
askSam for Windows 2.0	askSam for Windows 2.0, askSam Systems (Perry, FL), adds a spelling checker, multiple fonts in the report writer, searching over multiple files, hypertext links, superscripts and subscripts, additional import filters, and an optional OCR module to scan text directly into an askSam database.
Two Beats Beyond A PIM	Using a concept called the Conducting Platform, SuperConductor ($99) allows you to organize your computers and information around the people (or companies or subjects) you ordinarily interact with rather than around your applications.
Remote Access Goes Local	TakeIt ($139.95) from G'Vosay (Provo, UT) provides access to your network files when you're away from the network.
Batch Tiles	With Batch It ($199) from Gryphon Software (San Diego, CA), you can color-correc t an on-screen digitized video clip by dragging the entire movie onto a color-correction tile instead of correcting it frame by frame.
Network Management	FreedomView NMS ($395) uses SNMP to manage Ethernet networks running under Windows.
Entry-Level Spice	A 32-bit analog and mixed-signal circuit-simulation system that employs Win32s extensions, ICAP4/Lite ($595) is based on ICAP/4Windows.
Add Geographic Analysis To Your Spreadsheets	A joint effort from Wessex and Environmental Systems Research Institute, First St. mapping software includes the core data from the U.S. Census Bureau, ArcView 2 software, and a set of 22 CDs with geographic and demographic data.
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Sculpt 4.0	Sculpt 4.0, Byte by Byte (Austin, TX), features a new user interface; free-form modeling tools, such as b-spline, Bezier spline, and NURBS; and native support for Power Macs.
Collage 2.0	Collage 2.0, Specular International (Amherst, MA), supports the Power Mac and CMYK image files, is PowerPC-native, and has increased image sizes and an improved user interface.
Air Series 2.75	Air Series 2.75, Spry (Seattle, WA), enhances installation, Telnet, mail, and news and adds PPP Windows Dialer and Mosaic.
OPN:Office 7.3	OPN:Office 7.3, OPN Systems (Fort Wayne, IN), includes a GUI that supports X Window System terminals and PCs running an X terminal-emulation package; adds a document-tracking system; and comes with PC Companion, OPN:Style, and OPN:World gateways.
Catalog On Disk for Windows 2.30	Catalog On Disk for Windows 2.30, Curtis Software (Torrance, CA), adds support for CD-ROM and the ability to distribute catalogs over dial-up services.

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