September 1995 / What's New

A Sparcstation 5 Compatible	The PowerLite 110 integrates a 110-MHz MicroSparc II microprocessor, up to 2.4 GB of internal hard disk storage, TGX graphics acceleration, an internal floppy drive, a fax modem, and a 10.4-inch, 1024- by 768-pixel, flat-panel color display, all in a compact 81/2-pound p ackage (from $12,995).
Multiprotocol Network CD-ROM Server	Now users running Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, or Windows NT, as well as those in an OS/2 or Unix environment, can simultaneously share networked CD-ROM information.
2-GB Minicartridge Drive	The Panther Mini 2000, a 3-1/2-inch SCSI-2 tape drive, comes with a 2-GB Sony QIC-Wide data cartridge, Arcada Backup for DOS/Windows software with data compression, and cables.
Power Management For Printers	Nightware ($109.95) turns off your printer during periods of inactivity and automatically restores power to it when needed.
15-Hour Zinc-Air Battery The AER in There	The AER Energy PowerPro ($399) can power Toshiba Satellite T1900 series systems, Satellite Pro T2400 series systems, and T4700C, T4800CT, and T4850CT portable computers for up to 15 continuous hours between charges.
Impressive Battery Life in a Laptop Pentium PC Performance Latitude With Attitude...and Power	Dell's Latitude line of laptops has been a remarkable resurgence for a company so thoroughly out of the laptop business a few years ago. - by Rex Baldazo
Pentium Multimedia System Multimedia Quadstation Provides Sound Workout	The Multimedia Quadstation series of multimedia systems feature Lasonic surround-sound amplified speakers, Sound Blaster 16 cards, and Teac quad-speed CD-ROM drives.
Sparc 5-Compatible Workstation	Incorporating a 110-MHz MicroSparc II processor, the SWS5/110 comes with five 32-bit master/slave SBus slots capable of supporting double- or triple-width SBus cards, a 64-bit AFX graphics bus, up to 256 MB of internal RAM, and 100 percent binary compatibility with the Sun SparcStation 5.
Erasing Ultrapen	The Erasing UltraPen lets you erase as you would with a real eraser -- the harder you press, the more it erases -- and offers up to 256 levels of pressure.
Integrated Audio/Telephony Product	Featuring audio, fax, and modem functions, the TeleCommander 2500XL ($229) integrates a 16-bit CD-quality sound card that works with Sound Blaster Pro-compatible applications and a 14.4-Kbps Rockwell modem (V.32bis) and 14.4-Kbps fax (V.17).
PCMCIA Modem With Status Lights PCMCIA PC Card Does it All	U.S. Robotics' Courier V.Everything PCMCIA PC Card with DataView ($575) has four LEDs that let you monitor power, send, receive, and on-line functions during a fax or data transfer.
Plug-And-Play MPEG Card MPEG Quality Will Put You on Cloud Nine	The 9FX-PlusMPEG card ($199) for PCI-based PCs lets you load and view MPEG video files without having to change your Windows settings.
Mainframe-Class Security For Pcs And Lans Stop Trouble Before It Starts	StopLight 95 (single copy, $295) prevents unauthorized PC access, illegal and unwanted file copying, configuration changes, and other security problems on individual and networked Windows PCs.
32-Bit Imaging Software	A high-level C library with optimized commands for image processing, pattern matching, blob analysis, gauging, and OCR (with an optional module), MIL-32 is a 32-bit version of the Matrox Imaging Library that allows you to build applications using only a few lines of code.
Debug, Analyze Visual Basic Applications This One Can't Fail	The VB/FailSafe ($179.95) integrated debugging and performa nce-analysis system for Visual Basic for Windows integrates error interception, program tracing, and performance profiling into a single software tool.
Internet Client/Server Software	Operating in the Windows environment, MindWire 1.0 (eight-user license, $495) helps you to create a dynamic m ultimedia on-line service offering modem, network, and Internet connectivity options.
Distributed Network-Monitoring Software They Call Me MasteRMON	MasteRMON 1.0 displays the activity of a selected Ethernet or Token Ring LAN segment via RMON agents.
Lantastic Power Suite A Sweet Suite for Network Communications	An integrated product, LANtastic Power Suite (one-user software-only kit, from $199) contains the LANtastic network OS and communications software.
Exchange Binary Files Via Fax Can't Execute Without the Fax	With 3D Fax, you can send and receive editable or executable files via standard fax.
Image Editing For The Masses	Image'n'Bits 2.0 ($79) can convert images, regardless of their origin, to OLE objects ready for you to edit, tile, and drag and drop into other applications or convert to other file formats.
Metering Software For Netware Lans	LANrecord 1.0 provides metering and chargeback for software applications, suite-based products, files, and other LAN resources, such as network connections and disk space.
Keep Your Visual Basic Code In Order	The Polisher ($149) formats, c omments, and spell-checks your Visual Basic programs.
The Track 3.0 for Windows	LAN-based defect-tracking and technical-support system adds the following: integration with version-control systems, which lets you keep track of the changes you make to source, design, and documentation files; en hanced reporting and analyzing features, which let you link Track's database with multiple external databases, link a defect database to a customer or project database, and import test results generated by automated testing tools; and support for Microsoft Mail and cc:Mail.
Hi-Res 5.0	Hi-Res 5.0, an SDK for Windows that provides for fractal still-image compression and decompression, offers compression ratios from 3-to-1 to 250-to-1; faster decompression rates; smaller file sizes for compressed images, which lets you place more images on a CD-ROM or other storage medium; improved resolution independence, allowing an almost unlimited number of zooming levels; color mapping; and cross-platform support for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macs, and the PowerPC.
RightFax for Windows NT	RightFax for Windows NT is 32-bit multitasking and multithreaded LAN fax-server software that allows workstations on a Windows NT network to send and receive faxes.

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