July 1996 / What's New

Navigate Cities Like a Local Metro Navigator	Metro Navigator, a Windows CD-ROM program, can eliminate a big frustration in business or recreational travel--getting where you need to be when you don't know exactly where you are. - by Dave Andrews
Reporting and Analysis Suite	The Focus Six Visual Business Information Suite's (from $295 per user) three-tier client/server architecture distributes application logic, business logic, and presentations among multiple computer platforms.
Integrated Windows Telephony Package Communicate	Communicate (US$179) combines a contact manager, telephony features, fax transmission and monitoring capabilities, a graphics editor, and OCR capabilities under one program icon.
Integrated Windows Communications FocalPoint	Streamline your communications with FocalPoint (about $99), which brings together fax, data, e-mail, Internet, voice-mail, speakerphone, file-viewing, OCR, remote-access, and paging capabilities.
Mechanical Engineering	With MicroStation Modeler ($5325), you can graphically view, edit, and manage a mechanical design, including Boolean union and subtraction of feature trees and feature "reordering" with validity checking.
Hierarchical Storage	By migrating unused files to second-ary storage, the HSM Toolkit for Macintosh ($79) helps you manage crowded storage environments.
Manage a UPS SmartMon	Designed to run on network servers or workstations, SmartMon (from $89, depending on your OS) monitors your UPS and, when critical events occur, performs an unattended system shutdown.
Visual C++ to Client/Server Visual SQL	Visual SQL ($1899) extends Visual C++ with visual designers, wizards, and object-oriented data access.
Structure Drawing for OLE 2.0 ChemWindow DB	With ChemWindow DB ($799), you can draw and edit structures from within OLE applications, drag and drop structures between OLE applications, and embed structures inside a chemical database system.
Secure Intranet Sites	Based on Windows Sockets technology, the Intranet Jazz Server Pro program ($2495) helps you construct a transparent security firewall component between your corporate intranet and the Internet or between individual intranet subnets.
Internet Access CD-ROM Package	ExpressNet Suite ($49.95) includes free Internet access from EarthLink Network; EarthLink Total Access software, which includes Netscape Navigator 2.0; SurfWatch, which lets you block and restrict Internet access; VocalTec's Internet Phne, which lets you participate in real-time, two-way Internet phone conversations worldwide without incurring long-distance telephone charges; APTE's Internet Coach Netscape tutorial; and multimedia plug-ins that let you "fly" through 3-D virtual-reality scenes and access real-time audio, multimedia animations, slide shows, and live video while exploring the Internet.
Web-Browsing Control WebViewer	You can use WebViewer ($249) in visual development environments to integrate browsing of the Web and HTML documents into Windows-based applications.
Print Unix Files on Color Printers	Now you can print Unix applications an d images on wide-carriage color plotters and color ink-jet, dye-sublimation, thermal-wax, and laser printers.
Anaylze Windows Memory Usage WinMiser Pro	With WinMiser Pro ($59), you can protect Windows DOS memory, analyze insufficient-memory errors, and recover memory lost due to programs "leaking" memory.
Adjustable IBM-Compatible Keyboard PerfecTouch 101 Keyboard	You can use the PerfecTouch 101 Keyboard ($89) in a variety of angles and multiple positions, separate it into two parts, or use it in a conventional position.
Wireless Printing Adapter	AirPrint Network ($300 per unit) allows wireless printer sharing with up to eight network printers.
PC-Based Remote Access	Remote-access solutions for dial-in telecommuting and dial-out modem-pool applications, RemoteMates (four-user version, $1335; eight-user version, $2395) combine an asynchronous multiuser board with NetWare Connect software for TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and AppleTalk users supporting client/server applications.
Remote and Internet Access	The Allegra internal ISA/EISA cards for PCs ($549 to $1995) integrate remote access and routing technology into Windows NT or Novell NetWare servers.
Workgroup CD-ROM Sharing for NT DiscPort Pro	DiscPort Pro ($1595) can support up to 14 six-speed CD-ROM drives on 10-Mbps Windows NT networks.
TouchPen CRT Monitors TouchPen Monitors	The TouchPen Monitors combine MicroTouch TouchPen technology, which can accept finger or pen input and disting uish one from the other, with a high-resolution 15- inch ($1595) or 17-inch ($2125) Mitsubishi Diamond Scan CRT display.
Wildcat 5 BBS/Web Server for Windows 95/NT	Wildcat 5 BBS/Web Server for Windows 95/NT includes real-time and threaded messaging, file management, interactive teleconferenci ng, data security, HTML graphics, e-mail, and Internet integration.
TextBridge Pro 96	A 32-bit OCR application, TextBridge Pro 96 provides SoftQuad's HotMetal Light 2.0 Web editor; support for Windows 95 and NT; expanded input formats; and drag-and-drop operation with Visioneer's PaperPort so ftware, a link that also supports Compaq's Keyboard Scanner and Hewlett-Packard 4 Series scanners.
Prospero 1.1	A tool for integrating data among applications, relational databases, and Lotus Notes, Prospero 1.1 lets you access data from the Web, implement a CGI script as a visual program, en capsulate new applications in addition to those supported by Prospero's application building blocks, and create custom building blocks for specific applications.
Eight-Speed CD-ROM Drive	The CD-58E drive (about $200), which includes an Enhanced IDE interface, and the CD-58S drive (call compan y for price), which has a SCSI connector, provide 1200-Kbps data transfer rates, 128-KB buffers, 110-ms seek times, and 140-ms average access times.
Large-Document Scanner TruScan Flash	TruScan Flash ($24,995) can scan a black-and-white E-size document in less than 15 seconds at 400 dpi and in 7.5 seconds at 200 dpi.
15-Inch Multimedia Color Monitor MM6536SL Monitor	The MM6536SL monitor's sound system has its speaker grill and volume-control, microphone, and headset sockets built into the front of the bezel.
ISDN for the Macintosh Planet-ISDN	ISDN capability for the Mac has been somewhat hard to find lately. - by Jeffrey Fritz
All-in-One Storage Expansion Kit Adaptec Power Storage Hard Drive Kit	If you're looking for future expansion options for your PC's internal IDE/Enhanced IDE hard drive, then the Adaptec Power Storage Hard Drive Kit ($599) may be of interest to you.
Plug-and-Play Hard Drives for Notebooks	The Easy Plug-Easy Go external and Remove'n'Replace internal removable hard drives increase storage capacity on AST, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NEC, and Toshiba portable PCs.
Scalable Storage Library-Xpress	The first component of the LibraryXpress automated tape library system is the LXB base module with one or two DLT2000XT or DLT4000 tape drives and 10 cartridges, generating a storage capacity of 300 to 400 GB with a data transfer rate of more than 10 GB per hour.
Cyrix Windows 95 PCs Cyrix 6x86 PC	Available in minitower or desktop cases, the Cyrix 6x86 PCs (from $2399) offer P133, P150, or P166 processors; 256 KB of synchronous pipeline burst cache; 16 MB of 60-ns EDO DRAM; a 1.6- or 2.1-GB Enhanced IDE hard drive; a 31/2-in ch 1.44-MB floppy drive; 64-bit PCI video with 2 MB of EDO DRAM or Matrox MGA Millennium video with 2 MB of WRAM; a six-speed EIDE CD-ROM drive; Sound Blaster 16-bit stereo sound or Sound Blaster AWE32 wave-table sound; Labtec LCS-1021 stereo speakers or a Cambridge SoundWorks speaker system; a 28.8-Kbps fax/modem/phone answerer; a 15- or 17-inch monitor; a 104-key keyboard; a mouse; and Windows 95.
Multimedia Notebook CD-62 Multimedia Notebook PC	The PD drive on the CF-62 multimedia notebook PC (call company for price) enables you to read from and write to a 650-MB rewritable optical disk or a quad-speed CD-ROM.
120-/133-MHz Pentium Notebooks OpenNote Notebook PC	A fully loaded OpenNote notebook PC (from $1599) comes with a PCI-based 120- or 133-MHz Pentium processor; 16 MB of RAM, whi ch is expandable to 64 MB; a removable 810-MB hard drive; a 31/2-inch removable floppy drive; two Type II or one Type III PC Card slot; an 88-key keyboard with Windows 95 function keys; a touchpad pointing device; a 10.4- or 11.3-inch DSTN or TFT SVGA color display; a dual NiMH detachable/rechargeable battery supply; an AC power adapter; and Windows 95.
Supercharge Your 486 and Pentium PCs SpeedStack Microprocessors	The SpeedStack family of microprocessor upgrades includes the SpeedStack I, which upgrades Pentium 60-/66-MHz systems to Pentium 100-/120-/133-MHz PCs; the SpeedStack II, which upgrades 486SX/DX/DX2 systems to 586 100-/200-/133-MHz systems; and the SpeedStack III, which upgrades 486SX/DX/DX2 PCs to 486DX4 75-/100-/120-MHz PCs.
Digital Video Card for the Mac	With miroMotion DC20 ($999), you can edit and store complete video productions as QuickTime files on your hard disk and then output to videotape in Super-VHS, VHS, Hi8, and Video8 formats.

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