March 1996 / Reviews

Navigating with a Web Compass Search from Anywhere Let the Agent Do the Querying Searching from Among Searchers 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
Big, Bright, and Beautiful Windows 95 Application Performance ThinkPad 70CD What's the Resolution? 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
NetWare Mirror with a Twist Recording a Point in Time Vinca's Standby-Server 32 Mirroring: Different Strokes Feature Comparison: Server-Mirroring Products	With its SnapShotServer option, Vinca's StandbyServer 32 provides inexpensive server mirroring and snapshot backups - by Bill Lawrence
The Paperless Cubicle Visioneer Paperport Vx HP ScanJet 4si OCR: A Lomg Way fr@m the O!d Dajs ScanMan Scans 24-Bit Color 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
Compiling Convenience + Microsoft is Fastest Overall Compiler Offerings Keys to the Enterprise: Data Access Technologies Analogous Architectures Borland's 5.0 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
CD-ROM Changers: The Inside Story Features Comparison CD-ROM Changers Exposed Changing of the Discs 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
Windows-Built for Unix Power DataWindow Central Feature Across Platforms Wind/U Opens Windows to Unix Windows-Unix Negotiator	PowerBuilder, the leading client/server programming environment for Windows, moves to Unix so your apps can, too - by Tom Yager
Smart Forms for the Enterprise Design and Filler Features Database and Workgroup Features Overview Thoughtful Forms, Not Afterthoughts Scanning Forms with Caere I Now Pronounce You, Forms with OCR Forms and Data: An Uneasy Marriage 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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