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Imagine van Gogh doing technical illustrations: chip schematics done with thick dabs of yellow paint; network diagrams that look like fields of wheat.
- by Dennis Barker
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You can access, search, and download contact information on 10 million North American businesses directly into Maximizer Enterprise 3.0is (US$660 per seat) via the Internet and MultiActive Data's MultiActive Eagle on-line database.
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Now organizations can provide guided, self-service customer support using the Web or corporate intranets.
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Designed for Windows 95 and NT, Re:Ply ($59.95) checks for and downloads e-mail from multiple accounts; generates responses to e-mail according to your criteria; maintains a library of responses or letters that it can automatically plug in; and maintains mailing lists.
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With WINview ($99), you can acquire, display, and store data from data-acquisition boards.
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The CorelDraw 6 Suite for Power Macintosh (US$595) includes CorelDraw 6, WordPerfect 3.5, CorelDream 3D 6, Corel Texture 6, Corel Artisan 6, Corel Multimedia Manager 6, CorelTrace 6, MasterJuggler 2.0 Pro, and CorelChart 6.
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A mapping add-in for Microsoft Excel 95 and Microsoft Office 95, the FirstMap CD-ROM ($69) includes boundary maps and data for counties, ZIP codes, and census tracts in the U.S. The package also includes U.S. census information, such as age, gender, race, household, income, employment, and industry.
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To give desktop PC users shared access to applications, info
rmation, and peripherals located on a server or on another workstation, Plus[NFS] (single user, $199; multiple-license packages, from $179 per user) offers the TinyTerm terminal-emulation utility, which allows desktop connections to popular Unix applications; FTP file transfers; an e-mail and newsreader client; a Web browser; TCP/IP file and printer sharing; and client/server and peer-to-peer networking capabilities using TCP/IP.
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With SCSI Express 2.0 for Windows NT ($1995 to $3995, depending on device support), you can use NT's performance monitoring to choose optimal configurations for networked CD-ROM drives.
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Now Unix users have a set of tools for scanning and working with scanned images.
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With Web Tracker 1.0 ($495), you can analyze access patterns for your Web site.
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Companies can manage and report their Internet, intranet, and on-line usage with Sequel Net Access Manager 1.0 (one to 49 users, US$89 per user).
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Dynameasure (foundation license, $29,995) puts controlled stress on Windows NT client/server systems and then measures the effect of the stress.
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Designed for unattended remote Windows NT servers, Sentry ShutDown R
emote Power Manager provides a multilevel-password interface for power management of mission-critical NT servers and worksta-tions.
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StudioPro 2.0 for Power Macintosh, a modeling, rendering, and animation package, adds in-context modelers; on-the-fly animation; a deformation tool
; spline and polygonal-based modeling; a project window; an Environment Palette; a scan-line renderer; and camera controls.
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A computerized in/out board and messaging package for LANs and WANs, Who's Where 2.0 for Windows offers automated status log-in upon start-up, automated
status log-out upon shutdown, group messaging, TCP/IP support, reporting capabilities, and integration with e-mail.
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An image editor for Windows 95 and NT, Paint Shop Pro 4.0 provides an enhanced paintbrush tool; special effects; support for 33 formats; an enhanced retouch t
ool; a selections feature, which allows you to adjust overall opacity, designate a transparent color, or feather a selected area; an Image Arithmetic feature; and an integrated image browser.
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Based on the S3 ViRGE 64-bit graphics and video accelerat
or chip, the Fahrenheit Video 3D package (with 2 MB of memory, $239) comes in a 2-MB EDO DRAM configuration for the PCI bus and supports screen resolutions up to 1600 by 1200 pixels, true color depths, and refresh rates up to 160 Hz.
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The CompuScope 8012 ($7995) is an IBM AT-compatible ISA-bus card capable of performing 12-bit A/D conversion at real-time sampling rates up to 100 MSPS in single-channel mode and 50 MSPS in dual-channel mode, with a bandwidth of 40 MHz.
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Designed for industrial applications, the IPV-586 ISA/PCI Pentium board ($925) comes with two serial ports, a bidirectional parallel port, a dual floppy drive port, a dual EIDE hard drive port, a VGA accelerator interface with feature connector, a PS/2 keyboard port, a PS/2 mouse port, an on-board speaker, a watchdog timer, and up to 128 MB of DRAM.
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The MP/8-I Modem and MP/16-I Modem integrate U.S. Robotics' V.34/Everything modem technology with ISDN terminal adapters.
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The Vivitar MPP-2 ($249.95), a color video phone system, transmits sight and sound over standard telephone lines using a 486-based multimedia PC and a 14.4-Kbps modem.
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The Solo 2100 series of multimedia notebooks blends raw power and good looks into a 7-pound package that's a perfect fit for on-the-go computing.
- by Robert L. Hummel
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The DirectNet EX II external print server and the DirectNet PEPS2 Plus pocket print server facilitate access to printer locations on NetWare, TCP/IP, and AppleTalk networks.
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Designed for Internet and intranet applications, the Axis NetEye 200 ($1299) is a self-contained, palm-size camera that attaches directly to a 10-MB Ethernet network.
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Four Fast Ethernet devices,
the HiSpeed 150 series (from $7595) provides up to 32 Ethernet connections, as many as 16 Fast Ethernet connections, and the ability to let users interchange FDDI, ATM, and WAN uplinks within the same unit.
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The PV116SX (under $10,000) is an active-matrix color LCD flat-panel monitor that measures about 3 inches deep and has a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels and a diagonal viewing area of 16.1 inches.
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The DeskJet 400 (about $199) offers 600- by 300-dpi black printing, Hewlett-Packard's Resolution Enhancement technology for crisp text and smooth edges, and 300- by 300-dpi color printing at a rate of 3 ppm.
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Featuring 2.5-GB linear technology, the Wangtek 52000 Universal QIC drive (about $475) offers a standard SCSI-2 connection with a sustained data transfer rate of 17 MB per minute.
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A palmtop-size optical-storage device for Mac, Windows, and DOS computers, the SYS.230 Personal Storage System (about $359) can store images downloaded from the Internet or from digital cameras; back up and archive files and databases; store music; and transport your work between office and home.
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Now you can print on multipart forms and on stock measuring up to twice the thickness that standard dot-matrix printers are able to handle.
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Procom's CD Tower-Rax (caddy, $56,928; tray, $56,008) rack-enclosed CD-ROM servers can contain up to 56 caddy- or tray-based CD-ROM drives to provide up to 36.4 GB of data over a network.
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The Axis StorPoint CD-ROM servers, for Ethernet and Token Ring LANs, allow users in NetWare, Windows NT/95, Windows for Workgroups, OS/2, Unix, and Web/intranet environments to access and share CD-ROMs and CD-ROM-based information over a network.
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The AlphaStation 500/500 ($54,660) supports Digital Unix, Windows NT, and OpenVMS.
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Designed for multimedia and gaming enthusiasts, the Presario 8000 Series (from $2499, without a monitor) delivers Pow
erVR Arcade 3-D Graphics technology, featuring 6 MB of graphics memory and supporting up to 1 million large polygons per second; the InterWave sound system; and JBL Pro speakers, with a separate tweeter and full elliptical driver.
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