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ArticlesMarch 1996 / Reviews


March 1996 / Reviews

article Navigating with a Web Compass
screen Search from Anywhere
screen Let the Agent Do the Querying
sidebar Searching from Among Searchers
illustration AI Comes to Searching
Quarterdeck harnesses leading-edge "metasearch" technology to create a smart agent that searches the Web and organizes the results
- by Rex Baldazo

article Big, Bright, and Beautiful
illustration Windows 95 Application Performance
photo ThinkPad 70CD
sidebar What's the Resolution?
illustration Pixels and Phosphor Dots
IBM's latest top-of-the-line notebook has a display to die for. Who needs an external monitor?
- by Russell Kay

article NetWare Mirror with a Twist
illustration Recording a Point in Time
photo Vinca's Standby-Server 32
sidebar Mirroring: Different Strokes
table Feature Comparison: Server-Mirroring Products
With its SnapShotServer option, Vinca's StandbyServer 32 provides inexpensive server mirroring and snapshot backups
- by Bill Lawrence

article The Paperless Cubicle
photo Visioneer Paperport Vx
photo HP ScanJet 4si
sidebar OCR: A Lomg Way fr@m the O!d Dajs
sidebar ScanMan Scans 24-Bit Color
photo Logitech's PageScan Color
Personal document scanning is big. Will Visioneer's PaperPort Vx and Hewlett-Packard's HP ScanJet 4Si handle our personal paper crisis?
- by Stanford Diehl

article Compiling Convenience +
illustration Microsoft is Fastest Overall
screen Compiler Offerings
sidebar Keys to the Enterprise: Data Access Technologies
illustration Analogous Architectures
sidebar Borland's 5.0
screen Borland C++ 5.0
We rounded up DOS/Windows-based C++ compil ers and found Microsoft and Watcom are tops, but where's Borland's upgrade?
- by Rick Grehan

article CD-ROM Changers: The Inside Story
table Features Comparison
photo CD-ROM Changers Exposed
sidebar Changing of the Discs
illustration Nakamichi/NEC Changer
Upgrade to one of these internal quad-speed CD-ROM drives from Alps or NEC and put four discs on-line instead of one
- by Chris O'Malley

article Windows-Built for Unix Power
screen DataWindow Central Feature Across Platforms
sidebar Wind/U Opens Windows to Unix
illustration Windows-Unix Negotiator
PowerBuilder, the leading client/server programming environment for Windows, moves to Unix so your apps can, too
- by Tom Yager

article Smart Forms for the Enterprise
table Design and Filler Features
table Database and Workgroup Features
table Overview
screen Thoughtful Forms, Not Afterthoughts
sidebar Scanning Forms with Caere
screen I Now Pronounce You, Forms with OCR
sidebar Forms and Data: An Uneasy Marriage
illustration Packaging Data with Forms
Your company's forms should be more than an afterthought. Four programs can turn forms into a medium for groupware.
- by Mark Hettler

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