January 1997 / What's New

Publish Dynamic Documents Why publish? i-publish!	Producing good-looking documents can be a struggle, which is why design templates and Wizards are a popular way to guide nondesigners through the process of turning ideas into compelling proposals and reports. - by Jon Pepper
Text and Numbers Become High-Impact Visuals Companionable Selection and Transformation	A companion to Microsoft Office, ActiveOffice (about $50) lets you highlight specific numbers or sections of text in a document, click once in the ActiveOffice Gallery, and transform those numbers and/or words into visual elements for presentations.
Customize Project Status Viewing Schedules Through Windows	With Schedule Insight ($189 ), you can view personalized status information from Microsoft Project schedules across Windows-compliant networks.
Sales Automation Info Organization Gets Logical	The SalesLogix Sales Information System offers contact, account, and opportunity management; group scheduling; territory management; word processing; printing to paper-based organizers; forecasting; custom and built-in reporting; a client/server database; and an on-line Sales Encyclopedia.
Thrive in a Diverse Workplace	Designed for organizations adjusting to an increasingly diverse work force and the globalization of business, No Potential Lost consists of three CD-ROMs (set, $4500; individual CD-ROMs, $1595 each).
A dd Chromatographic Data to Documents ChromKeeper	Now you can insert chromatographic data into word processors, spreadsheets, and database files as OLE objects.
Visual Modeling	Analytica for the Mac ($795) simplifies model development, maintenance, and communications.
Virtual IP Internet Gateway for NetWare	With Virtual IP Internet Gateway for NetWare (five-user license, $1055), network administrators can troubleshoot, manage, control, and analyze users' access to intranet resources and the Internet.
Manage NLMs	Config Central (10-server starter pack, $499), which supports NetWare 3.12 and 4.1, snaps into Novell's Managewise and NWAdmin to minimize the time you have to spend managing and troubleshooting NLMs.
Network Security, Management Suite McAfee Widens Protection Scope	McAfee Enterprise (site license per node for 1000 nodes, $125) bridges the gap between NetWare print- and file-server LANs and Unix database- and application-server WANs with a Windows NT-based view of the enterprise.
Build Help Files from VB Projects Visual Help Creation	ForeVB ($89) lets you create help topics that link to specific controls and forms in a user's Visual Basic project and create help files when you set up your forms from within Visual Basic.
Object-Oriented Ada Development	With ObjectAda for Windows and ObjectAda for Unix, you can develop complex technical applications, l ink Ada code with C++ applications and vice versa, and develop Internet applications by generating Java byte code.
Intranet Development Framework	The tools included with Salvo Vista (10 concurrent users, from US$7250) help developers build Web applications.
Audio E-Mail	A Windows 95-style task bar, Midisoft Sound Bar ($29.95) contains icons for point-and-click access to PC sound capabilities, such as volume, bass, treble, and balance, from the monitor desktop.
Globalink Web Translator	A browser add-on that lets you translate Spanish, French, or German Internet sites into English and vice versa, Globalink Web Translator 1.1 supports Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 and includes a Dictionary Editor, which lets you add new terms.
Uninstaller 4	With UnInstaller 4, you can tell the program you need a certain amount of memory and it will find it; you can remove an application from one PC and copy it to another PC; and you can delete all applications in one folder with one action.
SPSS 7.5 for Windows	SPSS 7.5 for Windows, a statistical package for Windows 95 and NT 4.0, includes an ODBC query wizard; a Statistical Advisor; the ability to save results in JPEG or HTML formats; and an internal scripting language.
Digital Camera Pixera Personal Camera	With the Pixera Visual Communication System, you can capture, manipulate, enhance, and ma nage 24-bit-color images in resolutions up to 1 million pixels.
Network Audio Communications	Mediatrix's Audiotrix Phone package (US$495) includes a plug-and-play audio adapter and Texas Instruments' TMS320C50 DSP; a handset with on/off volume control, a headset connector, hands-free speaker operation, a built-in microphone, and a built-in amplified speaker; and customized CTI software for Unix and Windows 3.1x, 95, and NT.
3-D Video Accelerator	With Velocity 3D Windows (with 4 MB of memory, $199; with 8 MB, $299), you get a 64-bit 2-D acceleration engine, a 3-D rendering acceler ator, and a Digital Video Engine delivered by the S3 ViRGE VX graphics-controller ASIC.
Video for Sun Workstations	If you use a Sun UltraSparc or SparcStation 5, 10, or 20 workstation, the XVideo Xtra ($7995) may be for you.
Pentium Pro System Board	Targeted to deliver RISC-level performance with Intel's 440FX chip set, the W6-LI (with sound, $746; without sound, $702) features 150- to 200-MHz Pentium Pro CPUs; Enhanced IDE, PCI, and ISA expansion slots; Ultra Wide SCSI (up to 40 MBps); and optional 16-bit Sound Blaster-compatible sound.
Phaser 350 Beats Laser Printers Planet-ISDN	Today's low-cost color ink-jet printers deliver high-quality output, but their speed is another matter. - by Jon Pepper
ISDN Terminal Adapter	The Omni TA128 ISDN modem ($399) feat ures two serial DTE interfaces, so you can connect it as if it were two modems using a single ISDN line.
Industrial Surge Protection Stop Transient Pulses	Designed to protect data-communication lines in industrial environments, Telebyte's Model 8022 ($145) suppresses damaging transient overvoltage pulses caused by nearby lightning strikes, power-line disturbances, electrostatic discharge, and industrial load switching.
ISDN Parallel-Port Terminal Adapter Terminal Adapter	The DataBurst ISDN 128K provides uncompressed throughput of 128 Kbps and compressed data transfer rates up to 512 Kbps.
Network-Based Data Acquisition Instrumental for Acquisition	Available for NuBus Macs runn ing System 7.0 and PCI- and ISA-bus PCs running Windows 95, instruNet places the analog electronics in boxes outside the computer and the noisy digital electronics inside the computer.
3-D Graphics Accelerator	Based on the Oxygen chip, a scalable, pipelined 3-D graphics-rendering and texture- mapping processor, the Oxygen 402 card ($4995) provides four Oxygen chips operating in parallel; 32 MB of synchronous DRAM; resolutions from 640 by 480 pixels to 1600 by 1200; color depths of 8, 16, or 32 bits per pixel; Gouraud shading and hardware dithering; and hardware z-buffer depths of 16 or 24 bits.
Hand-Held Network Diagnostic Tool Solid Diagnostics No Fluke	You can verify network connections and diagnose network problems with the Fluke OneTouch Network Assistant.
Six-Color Wide-Format Printer	A Pantone Hexachrome ink-jet printer, the SpectraJet Hifi (approximately $10,000) lets you work in formats ranging from 8-1/2 to 36 inches wide and up to 10 feet long.
Multimedia Notebook Projector Lightbook Projector	Weighing about 11 pounds, the Lightbook projector ($4999) provides plug-and-play SVGA image support and integrated video with direct connection of video sources, such as VCRs and laserdiscs.
DDS-2 Tape Drive	Offering a data transfer rate of 1.5 MBps, the WangDAT 3800 (internal model, $1299; external model, $1460) features 100X speed-search mode, a fast SCSI connector, and a 1-MB data buffer.
Desktop RAID Subsystems for Sparc and Windows NT RAID Subsystems Spark Storage	The RD10/25 ($17,500) provides up to 25.2 GB of storage for Sparc, Ultra Sparc, and Windows NT environments.
13-GB Tape-Storage Solution MLR1 Tape Storage	Utilizing Tandberg Data's Multichannel Linear Recording technology, the MLR1 Tape Storage Solution (internal model, $2749; external model, $2949) features a Tandberg MLR1 tape drive; the Seagate Software Storage Suite for Desktop and Servers on CD-ROM, which is provided in English, French, German, and Spanish; a 13-GB Imation MLR Tape Cartridge, which has a 26-GB capacity with hardware data compression; and cables for connection to 16-bit wide or 8-bit narrow SCSI connectors.
Notebook Has Removable MO Drive	With the PowerMedia III Plus notebook's (from $2875) removable 3-1/2-inch read/write MO drive, you can store graphics and sound files, video sequences, and large databases and run applications directly from the drive.
PC with 12-Speed CD-ROM	The top-of-the-line Innova Media MT 9800 (about $3299) comes with a 200-MHz Pentium CPU, 32 MB of EDO DRAM, a 3.1-GB hard drive, a 12-speed CD-ROM drive, an Iomega 100-MB Zip drive, 3-D video/graphics, wave-table audio with 1 MB of ROM storage, and a six-button, eight-point directional game pad.

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