September 1996 / What's New

DeLorme's Tour de Force Traveling Companion AAA Map'n'Go	A new version of DeLorme's Map'n'Go program combines the American Automobile Association's database of points of interest in North America with links to the Internet to produce an up-to-date mapping program for travelers. - by Dave Andrews
Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia Move Over, Encyclopedia Britannica	The Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM ($39.95) includes information on the broadcast, cable, computer, satellite, software, and telephone industries.
Request Information via E-Mail	With Email-On-Demand (from $2500; fax option with one line, from $1150), you can request information via e-mail and receive it via e-mail or fax.
Circuit Encyclopedia Circuits on CD	The Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits CD-ROM ($99) contains 1000 circuit designs taken from industry leaders such as Motorola, Texas Instruments, General Electric, RCA, and National Semiconductor.
Network File Caching Share the Cache	Compatible with NetWare, NT, NFS, LAN Manager, Vines, and PathWorks clients, Shared LAN Cache redirects redundant file read requests to a combination of local and shared nonvolatile caches.
Antivirus for Network Firewalls	A companion product to WebScan, McAfee's antivirus scanner for Web browsers, called WebShield (per gateway, $3995), is compatible with almost all leading network firewalls and Internet gateways.
Mapping and GIS Components	MapObjects for Windows ($1995) , an OLE control and collection of more than 35 programmable OLE automation objects, lets you add mapping and GIS capabilities to your applications.
ActiveX Components Suite Sheridan Components Suite	The Sheridan Components Suite on CD-ROM ($349) contains Calendar Widgets, a set of components for visually displaying date- and time-related information in Windows applications; Designer Widgets 2.0, which includes a Dockable Toolbar, Notebook Control, Index Tabs, and FormFX; and Data Widgets 2.0, a set of 16- and 32-bit ActiveX Controls that provides a way to develop front ends for database applications.
32-Bit Web Authoring and Publishing Tools WebOffice	Web Office ($499), integrated tools for creating and maintaining intranet/Internet Web sites, includes WYSIWYG HTML Authoring inside Microsoft Word, We b Doctor, Web Graphics Editor, Web Graphics Library, Help-to-HTML Converter, and Mastering HTML Book.
Utilities for the Internet	A suite of Internet utilities for Windows 95, the Web.Max CD-ROM (about $39.99) includes search capabilities, a news-retrieval feature, an automatic downloader, an Internet telephone, file security, and an Internet start-up kit.
Groupware Solution for the Web	WebShare (server license, $1495 per server) helps you create groupware applications that readily share document-oriented information.
Run CD-ROMs Without a CD-ROM Drive Driveless CD Access	A CD-ROM emulation package, FastCD Personal Edition for Windows 95 ($24.95) lets you run Windows 95 or NT CD-ROM applications directly off a hard disk, without a CD-ROM drive.
Statistical Analysis for Windows	You can analyze data and present the results with StatView for Windows ($595), a 32-bit application that features spreadsheet-like data management, fully customizable graphs and tables, a complete drawing environment, broad-based statistics, linked results and data, and templates.
Import Graphics into Microsoft Office	With ImageStream ($69), you can import graphics files into Microsoft Office applications from programs such as AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, and CorelDraw without manual conversion.
High-Performance Host/DSP Interface Pass the Card	An interface card for passing data between Texas Instruments' TMS320C40s and the PCI bus, the TDMB414 (from $1695) comes with a TIM-40 site and two ways of communicating with a PCI host: a C40 COM port to the PCI bus via a 1024-byte FIFO queue and 32 KB of dual-ported memory that connects the C40 global connector and the PCI bus.
64-Bit Graphics and Video Accelerator	VideoMagic (with 2 MB of EDO DRAM, $159; with 4 MB, $239) uses Trident's TGUI 9682 64-bit graphics engine, which implements TrueVideo scaling in hardware.
2-D/3-D Graphics Board	For applications in high-end visualization, 3-D animation, and CAD/CAE, the Gloria-M ($1999) includes an S3 Trio64 chip and a dedicated Glint Delta geometry processing chip for 3-D performance under Windows 95 and NT.
CD-ROM Arrays for Mac Networks A Stylish Array	Three CD-ROM arrays for Macintosh networks feature Smart SCSI CD boards that map seven CD-ROM drives to a single SCSI ID.
Here & Now 2.0	Here & Now 2.0, a cross-platform file-interchange utility for PCs, offers Windows 95 support, expanded media support, enhanced bidirectional transfer capabilities, and flexible naming conventions.
Diskeeper 1.04	The Diskeeper 1.04 for Windows NT defragmenter is Microsoft BackOffice-compatible, runs on-line, and maintains databases, Web servers, e-mail servers, and other critical applications.
Builder Xcessory 4.0	A GUI builder, Builder Xcessory 4.0 adds object receptors; support for Sun, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Digital Equipment, and Silicon Graphics; Java objects and an optimized Java source code generator; an Object Hierarchy Browser; a specialized attribute editor; WYSIWYG development; and visual inheritance.
RightFax NT 4.50	Fax-server software, RightFax NT 4.50 offers support for NetWare clients, remote-server status monitor and configuration changes, new protocols, user-interface improvements to FaxUtil, and RTF for OCR output.
Next-Generation Gateway Today Gateway P5-200XL	Gateway's new 200-MHz Pentium-based P5-200XL provides more than just the latest Intel processor for power users and early adopters. - by Jason K. Krause
Integrated Scanning Keyboard PaperPort Integration	Combining a Windows 95 keyboard with the PaperPort hardware/software system into a single integrated device, the PaperPort ix (about $349) provides Visioneer's proprietary SharpPage contrast- enhancement technology, 8-bit gray-scale scanning, and support for up to 400-dpi resolution.
100Base-T Media Converter Model 372 Goes 100Base-T	The Model 372 (from $349), a 100Base-T-to-fiber media converter provides a low-cost method of increasing the distance between 100Base-TX-compliant LANs.
Internal ISDN Modem	The Supra NetCommander ISDN modem ($299) integrates a 128-Kbps plug-and-play ISDN modem with an analog port to ring up to three telephones, fax machines, or modems and support for Multilink-PPP with bandwidth-on-demand.
160-Kbps Baseband Modem Model 1090 KiloModem PS	A high-speed baseband modem with interchangeable DTE/DCE interface modules, the Model 1090 KiloModem PS ($695) supports synchronous data rates of from 48 to 160 Kbps, and connects to V.35, X.21, G.703, RS-232, or RS-422 /530 hardware interfaces.
Four Medalist Hard Drives Four From Seagate	Seagate's Fast ATA-2 IDE interface Medalist hard drives (call for prices) include the Medalist Pro 2.5, with 2.5 GB of storage, a rotational speed of 5400 rpm, an average seek time of 11 ms, and an internal data transfer rate of up to 116 Mbps; the 2.1-GB Medalist Pro 2.1, with the same capacity and performance features as the Medalist 2.5; the Medalist 1.7, with 1.7 GB of formatted capacity, a rotational speed of 4500 rpm, and average seek time of 12.5 ms; and the Medalist 850, with a formatted capacity of 850 MB.
NT-Based Internet Server WebCube/NT	WebCube/NT (from $5995) can host multiple Web sites on the Internet, act as a hub for corporate intranets, or serve as an internal departmental or companywide communicatio ns server.
ISDN Communications Servers	The PortMaster 2E Communications Server comes with five ISDN BRI ports (from $3895) or 10 asynchronous serial ports, plus two expansion slots, each of which accepts a five-port BRI module or a 10-port asynchronous module.
Pentium Desktop PCs	The Z-Station GT 500 Series comes with 100-, 133-, and 166-MHz Pentium processors with Intel's 430HX PCI chip set, ATI's Mach 64 VT 64-bit graphics chip set with synchronous graphics RAM, 16 MB of EDO memory, 256 KB of synchronous pipeline burst cache memory, six SIMM sockets, Mode 4 hard drives, and Win dows 95.
Desktop PCs with Intel's Triton II Chip Set A Towering Preference	Available in desktop or tower configurations, the Preferred TR2 midsize PCs (from $1500) feature Intel's Concurrent PCI processing architecture for simultaneous activity on the CPU, PCI, and ISA buses.
167-MHz UltraSparc-Compatible Systems Powerful Workstations from Integrix	The UWS1/170E (from $12,500) amd UWS1/170E-SYS (from $17,400) workstations include four 64-bit SBus slots, 20-MBps Fast Wide SCSI-2, and 100-/10-MBps fast Ethernet and Media Information Interconnect interface.
Windows NT Personal Workstation	Powered by 300- and 366-MHz Alpha 21164 microprocessors, the Alpha XL 300 and 366 incorporate 2 MB of secondary cache memory, a 128-bit memory bus, a 32-bit PCI I/O bus, Fast and Wide SCSI-2 for high-speed disk access, and integrated Ethernet.
100- and 133-MHz Pentium Notebooks WinBook XP5 Pentium Notebooks	The WinBook XP5 Pentium 100- and 133-MHz notebooks come with 16 MB of RAM, a 1.3-GB hard drive, a 10.4-inch active-matrix color screen, 256 KB of cache memory, and a 28.8-Kbps fax modem.
Here & Now 2.0	Here & Now 2.0, a cross-platform file-interchange utility for PCs, offers Windows 95 support, expanded media support, enhanced bidirectional transfer capabilities, and flexible naming conventions.
Diskeeper 1.04	The Diskeeper 1.04 for Windows NT defragmenter is Microsoft BackOffice-compatible, runs on-line, and maintains databases, Web servers, e-mail servers, and other critical applications.
Builder Xcessory 4.0	A GUI builder, Builder Xcessory 4.0 adds object receptors; support for Sun, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Digital Equipment, and Silicon Graphics; Java objects and an optimized Java source code generator; an Object Hierarchy Browser; a specialized attribute editor; WYSIWYG development; and visual inheritance.
RightFax NT 4.50	Fax-server software, RightFax NT 4.50 offers support for NetWare clients, remote-server status monitor and configuration changes, new protocols, user-interface improvements to FaxUtil, and RTF for OCR output.

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