March 1995 / What's New

Double The Storage In Your Floppy Drive Bay Doubleplay Series I	A two-in-one floppy and tape drive, the Doubleplay Series I ($229) fits into the computer bay usually occupied by the floppy drive alone.
V.34 Modems	Packaged in a compact tower case, the ViVa 28.8 V.34 external modem ($335) can test line conditions and simultaneously adjust transmission rates before and during transmissio n.
Skinny But Strong DEC HiNote Ultra CT 450 Notebook	The DEC (Maynard, MA) HiN ote Ultra CT 450 notebook packs power and TFT color into a 4-pound unit that's only 1.2 inches high.
Card Communications	PhoneWorks ($699), a dual-line communications adapter that supports the TAPI standard, enables you to make phone calls and receive faxes on your PC simultaneously.
Four-Faceted Fax Machine	Able to turn an ordinary fax machine into a combination fax, scanner, copier, and printer, the MFF-100 multifunction fax card ($249) continues working after you turn off your PC.
Personal Data Security	Based on the company's iPower data-security technology, National Semiconductor's (Sunnyvale, CA) PersonaCard 100 ($249) works with wired, wireless, secured, and unsecured networks.
Drive Supports Newest QIC Standards	The dual-format EXB-1500 QIC tape drive ($399) supports the QIC-3010 and QIC-3020 recording standards.
Workgroup LAN Switch	Based on a five-slot high-speed backplane, the AmberSwitch workgroup LAN switch ($1995 for eight ports) provides up to 32 ports of switched Ethernet on 10Base-T lines.
Lightweight CD-ROM Drive Panasonic KXL-D720	A portable CD-ROM drive that weighs less than a pound, the Panasonic KXL-D720 ($399) connects to your notebook via the provided Type II PCMCIA card or your PC's SCSI-2 connection.
Remote-Control UPS	The OnGuard Telephone Sentinel ($225), from Clary (Monrovia, CA), is a voice-prompted, remote-control system for use with the company's OnGuard LI series of UPSes.
Lock Out Intruders	The Modem Lock ($595) DES encryption device automatically provides a transparent user interface that does not require you to type a log-on.
High-Speed Data Acquisition	The CompuScope 250 ETS ($3995) XT-compatible ISA bus card performs an equivalent-time sampling rate of up to 4 billion samples per second on two simultaneous channels and a real-time sampling rate of up to 100 million sps on one channel.
Switch Power To Save Your Network	A combination hardware/software answer to eliminating network downtime, the PowerSwitch (from $1995) controls the switching between two servers and an external drive containing all production files.
Synchronous Communications	A single-channel multiprotocol communications PCMCIA adapter, the MPAP-100 ($595) is compliant with the PC Card Specification 2.1 and employs a Zilog 85230 serial communications controller.
Full-Duplex Fast Ethernet	Cogent Data Technologies' (Friday Harbor, WA) EM400 PCI Quartet adapter ($1395) for PCI servers is the latest in the company's eMaster+ Fast Ethernet series of networking products.
PCMCIA Storage	The Type III PCMCIA More MB Drive ($499), from MiniStor (San Jose, CA), incorporates Stacker Anywhere data-compression software to double the 260-MB native capacity of the drive.
Wireless Printing JetEye ESI-9580A	An infrared transceiver module, the JetEye ESI-9580A connects to your printer's parallel port to let you send documents to your printer from your infrared port-equipped portable computer.
Express Connection	A single-port PCMCIA board, the ExpressPort ($249) provides connectivity for mobile and desktop peripherals via its bidirectional EPP (enhanced parallel port).
Ruggedized And Pen-Based	With an internal, solid-state IDE flash disk, the pen-based 486 K2000F computer (from $3395) eliminates the need for a ro tating disk drive.
Security For Laptops	The C/DAS security system ($329.95) for laptop computers is compact enough to take on the road.
Heavy-Duty Video	An EISA-based video card that offers full-size, full-motion, true-color video for Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 700 family of graphics workstations, the XVideo 700 ($7485) is targeted toward applications developers.
Video Capture	The WaveWatcherTV-II ($429), from AITech International (Fremont, CA), features full-motion video capture with no video-motion artifacts, a built-in TV tuner and FM radio, and support of up to 1024- by 768-pixel resolution.
HASP On A Card HASPCard	A PC expansion card that combines a standard HASP software-protection key with a parallel port, the HASPCard (from $18) lets software developers enhance their HASP software protection by installing the key inside the PC.
Add Control To Your Keyboard	Belkin Components' (Compton, CA) OmniView keyboard-controlled switch ($349) is designed for system administrators, LANs with multiple file servers, test labs, and similar applications.
Push A Button To Digitize Paper Umax PageOffice Umax PageManager Software	An input device that acts as the electronic equivalent of an inbox for your PC, PageOffice manages the input of documents and images with a direct link to E-mail, OCR, image-editing, faxing, and document management applications.
X Server For The Mac	AGE L ogic's (San Diego, CA) XoftWare for Macintosh (from $295) lets Mac and Power Mac users concurrently access and display Mac and network-based Unix applications from a single Mac desktop.
Communicate With Objects In OS/2	An OS/2 general-purpose communications package with an object-oriented app roach, RhinoCom 1.0 ($199) features native Presentation Manager code for a true OS/2 look and feel.
Natural-Language Database Designer Database Designer 2.0 for Windows	Database Designer 2.0 for Windows ($350), from SerraCorp (Kent, OH), lets you use English sentences to design and automatically build normalized relational databases.
Manage Documents With Ease	A do cument management program, Kruse Control for Windows ($99) allows you to manage, view, and retrieve your engineering drawings, documents, spreadsheets, and digital images.
Fax Server For Netware	Biscom's (Chelmsford, MA) Faxcom for NetWare (from $1495) is an NLM-based fax server that supports NetWare 3.x and 4.x, as well as such client operating systems as Windows, DOS, the Macintosh, and the Unix X Window System-based Motif GUI.
Gain Internet Access Anywhere SuperTCP Pro	Designed for use in the office, on the road, and at home, SuperTCP Pro ($595) transparently adjusts its TCP/IP networking engine and its Internet, TCP/IP, and X Window System applications for the environment you choose from the program's menu.
Free Up Your Hard Drive	A personal storage management utility for DOS and Windows, NeverEnding Disk ($129) provides automated functions for compressing inactive files on your hard drive and archiving them to a floppy disk or other storage device.
Strengthen Your Decision-Making Skills Which & Why for Windows	Intuitive decision-support and valuation software for Windows, Which & Why analyzes factual and emotional data to help you compare options, rationalize conclusions, and consistently reach the best possible decisions.
Build Intelligent Forms Easily PerForm for Windows 3.0	By simply asking a question, you can build forms that have intelligence built in when you use PerForm for Windows 3.0 ($129) from Delrina (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Glue A Note To Windows Work	Evergreen EGlue ($69.95), from Evergreen International Technology (North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), lets you annotate Windows documents and applications with electronic stick-on notes that can contain text, sound, graphics, video, and animation.
Button Up Your Windows Applications	The Developer's Edition of SmartPad ($179) includes a SmartScript system, a set of tools for adding macroscript capabilities to Windows applications.
Convert Your OS/2 FAT	For use with OS/2, PartitionMagic ($129.95) lets you convert between FAT and HPFS file systems and resize and move disk partitions with the click of a button.
Tape-Library Tool	Video Librarian ($39.95) works in Windows to find any recording in a videotape library.
NetTools 5.1 NetT ools 5.1	NetTools 5.1, McAfee (Santa Clara, CA), adds the IniTool INI-file-manager module and improves the AppMan menu manager.
Vision 2.0	Vision 2.0, Unify (Sacramento, CA), has a scalable RADD architecture and provides automated application partitioning, a comprehensive application model, cross-platform portability, and an object repository.
Concordance 5.40	Concordance 5.40, Dataflight Soft ware (Los Angeles, CA), adds a Windows GUI and advanced print-design functions; supports fuzzy logic; performs field group and field wild-card searches; and includes a table view, browse headers, KWIC printing, a report writer, and support for an image viewer.
Facility Master II for Windows 1.01	Facility Master II for Windows 1.01, Comsec (South Windsor, CT), adds the ability to make multiple reservations in 2-, 3-, or 4-week increments.
DynaDesigner 3.1	DynaDesigner 3.1, Ditek International (Markham, Ontario, Canada), provides network capabilities; file locking; and security fea tures, such as encryption.
Cruising Down A Virtual Hallway Cruise Through Communications	More than a PIM or contact manager, Cruiser gives you control over your communications.
Advanced DSP Module DADiSP/AdvDSP 1.0	A complete, advanced DSP add-on module to DADiSP software, DADiSP/AdvDSP 1.0 (from $495) is fully integrated with the DADiSP worksheet.
Back Up Any Node	A program that lets network administrators and workgroup managers back up the hard drive of any node attached to a NetWare 3.x or 4.x network, DriveMaster (from $249 per server) establishes a peer-to-peer link between the backup machine and the node to be backed up.
Office Equipment For Your PC	E-Quip+ ($159), from Alacrity Systems (Hackettstown, NJ), adds the cap abilities of a digital copier; plain-paper fax machine; electronic file cabinet for paper and fax documents; and OCR system to your Windows PC, page scanner, and fax modem.
Data Integration On The Desktop	The client-based ODBC Integrator ($400 per user) makes distributed ODBC data sources app ear as one source and provides the capability to join data transparently among multiple data sources.
Desktop Data Access	With its focus on analyzing data rather than simply producing reports, BrioQuery (from $595) is a full-featured desktop-query, analysis, and reporting tool for data wareho uses.
CentaMeter 2.0 CentaMeter 2.0	CentaMeter 2.0, Tally Systems (Hanover , NH), adds suite metering, suite-license optimization, DOS-client support, software-version differentiation, and application-inactivity tracking.
Chantal RAID Software for NetWare 5.0	Chantal RAID Software for NetWare 5.0, BusLogic (Santa Clara, CA), includes support for the ASPI protocol an d the ability to boot from the disk array.
GammaTech Utilities 3.0 for OS/2	GammaTech Utilities 3.0 for OS/2, SofTouch Systems (Oklahoma City, OK), adds more than 200 enhancements, including a disk map that displays the layout of FAT and HPFS volumes, graphi-cal representation of the optimiza tion process for FAT volumes, automated HPFS optimization, and formatted display of file-system structures.
High C/C++ 3.3 Compiler for Windows and Extended DOS	High C/C++ 3.3 Compiler for Windows and Extended DOS, MetaWare (Santa Cruz, CA), includes fully implemented C++ exception handling, C++ namespaces for compatibility with third-party class libraries, new-style casting notation, and a Windows 3.x application development kit.
No Proprietary Code In These Interfaces X-Designer 4	X-Designer 4, a cross-platform GUI builder for Motif and Windows applications, uses the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) library as the Windows interface to ensure compatibility with all Windows versions.
Ask Your Request In English English Wizard	Able to translate ordinary English database requests into SQL, English Wizard ($99) can enable any relational-database access tool to understand such requests.
EZReport 2.7	EZReport 2.7, Raosoft (Seattle, WA), expands the Intuitive Command Structure to support additional grouping and statistical commands, adds a one-word Summary command, produces instant repetitive statistical analysis for departmental or periodic analysis, automatically recalculates stratified sample data for population adjustments, and uses Gap analysis, among other enhancements.
Infinite Disk Pro	Infinite Disk Pro, Chili Pepper Software (Atlanta, GA), adds a new user interface, the latest HSM technology, and support for quarter-inch data cartridges.
Business Card Reader 2.0 Business Card Reader 2.0	Business Card Reader 2.0, Maxsoft-Ocron (Fremont, CA), provides improved OCR accuracy via MORE technology; can read 11 foreign languages; has an Auto Scan feature, automatic orientation, a field verifier, and background-processing and batch-card scanning; and lets you call up the scanning function while you're working in most PIMs and databases.
Macola Progression Series 7.0	Macola Progression Series 7.0, Macola Software (Marion, OH), adds more than 100 features, two modules, multinational and customization capabilities, and advanced windows functionality.
Wireless E-Mail	RadioMail Connection for Windows ($39) is a wireless communications application that provides Windows users with a mobile messaging capability.
Pop-Up Icons MiraFlick's Popping Up All Over	A tool to enhance the Windows interface, MiraFlick ($79.95) pops up a menu of icons around the cursor, letting you choose a command with a directional gesture.
Keeper Of A Small LAN	The LANkeeper Company's (West Caldwell, NJ) LANkeeper ($249) offers effective LAN-administration capabilities to organizations that don't need a professional administrator to maintain a small network.
Integrated Business Plan	Palo Alto Software's (Eugene, OR) Business Plan Pro ($149.95) lets you custom-build a plan for your business by selecting the applicable business option and then choosing the proper charts, tables, and text topics to reflect your approach.
Navigate Through Your References	The Cross Reference Navigator ($195), from Synthetic Intelligence (New York, NY), lets you create and display relationships.
Picture It Personal	The Personalize It screen-saver package ($24.95 for one image; each additional image, $5.95) lets you select images to appear on your monitor's screen.

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