March 1997 / What's New

Acrobat Does Web Integration PortaPower	Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) hasn't made the paperless office a reality, as many people thought it might when the product first shipped two years ago. - by Jenny Donelan
3-D Modeling and Animation From Here to Infini-D	The Windows 95/NT version of Infini-D 3.5 ($649) supports Apple's QuickDraw 3D technology on the Windows platform.
32-bit Design and Illustration Program When My Photos Call to Me I Go to RIO	A vector- and raster-based graphics program for creating photo-realistic images, RIO Designer Professional ($299) for Intel, Alpha, Mips, and PowerPC platforms includes resolution-independent output; unlimited grouping and layering; and polygon , text, freehand, and Bézier-curve shape creation.
Add Features to Your Web Browser	Now available for the Macintosh, Web Buddy (about $50) assists Web browsers in collecting, converting, organizing, and sharing information you find on the Web.
Better Recovery for OS/2 Hang-Ups	When your OS/2 Warp 3.0 or 4.0 system hangs, you can press Ctrl+Alt+Del, which Process Commander ($69.95) traps and then allows you to try to recover (e.g., when the message queue hangs).
Create Geographic Systems Winning PC Mapping	The WinMap Software Developers Kit (from $5000) allows you to create geographic viewing and querying systems on a PC without having to learn geographic outline coding.
Build Applications for the Internet/Intranets	With Passport IntRprise (single developer's license, $8995), you can build applications that use Java front ends for Internet/intranet deployment and also support transaction processing, a multitier architecture, and fault tolerance for enterprise computing.
Cross-Platform Software Testing Tool	TestWeb (per seat, $6600) automates regression testing for PC- or NC-based applications, drivers, OSes (e.g., Windows 3.1, 95, and NT; and Unix Motif), BIOSes, and Web applications.
TurboTax and MacInTax for 1996	TurboTax and MacInTax for 1996 ($34.95; Deluxe, $49.95) include Where Am I?, which improves your ability to navigate through your tax retu rn; Smart Final Review, which checks your return for errors and provides helpful hints, planning tips, and money-saving suggestions; Refund Monitor, which shows your tax refund or amount due at a glance when you enter each new piece of data; and Enhanced State Assistant, which guides you through your state tax-preparation process with an EasyStep question-and-answer session.
All-In-One Web-Site Creation Suite One-Package Websites	The Web Studio ($129) suite of applications includes WebEdit, an HTML editor; Crystal Reports, Seagate Software's database-access and report-generating program for publishing data on the Internet; a GIF image editor; WebMap, an image map editor that allows you to create image maps and define hidden links for clickable areas of a picture; and tools for developing interactive Java applets, including Sun Microsystems' Java Developer's Kit.
Multilingual Communications for Internet Users	Now you can read, view, and process Eudora, Lotus cc:Mail, and Netscape Navigator e-mail messages in 23 foreign languages.
Solve Windows 95 Problems Repair Help at Your Fingertips	From printer-hookup complications to changing desktop icons to serious hard drive problems, PC Handyman ($49.95) solves more than 20,000 hardware and software problems and performs 16 regularly scheduled hardware and software checks.
Plan Client/Server Systems	A performance-model ing tool, SES/strategizer ($9500) can integrate the pieces of a client/server environment, such as networks, applications, databases, and user behavior.
Metering Across NT and NetWare Servers License Usage Meter	Now you can meter software license usage on Windows NT servers.
WanderLink 2.2	WanderLink 2.2, the remote-access solution for NetWare LANs, offers a LAN dial-out client, enhanced remote control, and built-in security.
Mathcad Plus 6	The latest version of the t echnical-calculation software package, Mathcad Plus 6 for the Macintosh, includes a "live" document interface that lets you integrate text, calculations, and graphs, and then document and share results; the ability to create and embed animation within a worksheet; and direct graphing of formulas and expressions.
WinHelp Office 4	The WinHelp Office 4 suite includes RoboHelp 4, ActiveX Controls, Moving-to-HTML Kit, WinHelp HyperViewer, What's This?
Flatbed Scanner Offers Well-Rounded Package ScanJet 5p	Hewlett-Packard's ScanJet 5p adds improved image quality, a sleek new design, a wide range of software, and Plug and Play installation. - by Jon Pepper
Internet Telep hone Keyboard	You can make and receive phone calls from your keyboard, even typing as you talk.
Wireless Keyboard Wireless SurfBoard	You can operate the Wireless SurfBoard ($399) keyboard and perform mouse operations at distances of 50 feet or more.
Router Links Ethernet to Internet Route Your Office Access	The Model 9010 Web Router ($995) provides full-time connectivity from an office to the Internet via frame relay or other WAN services.
Palm-Size UPS Monitor Hand-Held UPS Management	A hand-held electronic display pad, the PowerView UPS Management Module ($249) lets you monitor and configure your Smart-UPS or Matrix-series UPSes without using a PC.
Videoconferencing Kit for Pentium PCs	A desktop videoconferencing package for PCs with a 100-MHz Pentium processor and Wi ndows 95, the Supra Video Phone Kit 3000 ($399) features a SupraExpress 33.6-Kbps V.80 internal modem, a Diamond Crunch It 1001 video-capture card, a camera with a microphone, VDONet videoconferencing software, and cables.
Portable 10-Speed CD-ROM Drive ProMedia 10XR Powers Up Laptops	The ProMedia 10XR (about $429) draws power from a laptop computer via a Type II PC Card.
Las erJet 5Si Upgrade Kit	You can upgrade your LaserJet 5Si printer to produce high-quality printed documents and decrease network traffic while reducing trips to the office copier.
24-inch Color Monitor	With a viewable image size of 22.5 inches, a usable screen area of 18.7 inches wide by 11.7 inches high, and a maximum resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels, the GDM-W900 (about $4999) lets you view two full-size 8.5- by 11-inch or two A4 pages side by side.
D- and E-Size Wide-Format Plotters Great Plotting	The latest SummaCAD plotters (D-size, $2495; E-size, $2995) can plot monochrome images at a resolution of 720 by 720 dpi and color drawings at a resolution of 360 by 360 dpi on cut-sheet media ranging in width from 8.5 to 36 inches and roll-feed media with a maximum plot length of 59 feet.
Variable Dot-Transfer Color Printer The Virtuous Tabloids	The Spectra*Star T8050 ($11,500) produc es photo-realistic, full-bleed tabloid-size (12.16 by 17.5 inches) documents.
SVGA LCD Projector You Asked For It	A high-contrast 800- by 600-pixel LCD projector, the Impression 880 ($7495) can project computer-based images or presentations even in brightly lit rooms.
128-bit Graphics Notebooks WinBook Notebooks	The WinBook LM notebooks (P133, $3399; P150, $3799) are the first WinBooks with a 64-bit video accelerator and 128-bit graphics.
150-MHz Notebooks and Docking System Echos Pro Notebooks	The Echos Pro notebooks (from $3499) feature 133- or 150-MHz Pentium processors, 16 MB of EDO memory (expandable to 128 MB), a 12.1-inch color TFT or DSTN display, a 1.3- or 2.1-GB hard drive, a Point Pad pointing device, and an internal 28.8-Kbps data/fax modem.
Windows NT Graphics Workstation Acer Ups the Ante	Acer's minitower-configuration workstation, the AcerPower Windows NT Graphics Workstation (from $7500), comes with a 180- or 200-MHz Pentium Pro CPU, 64 MB of EDO RAM (expandable to 384 MB), a 4.3-GB Ultra Wide SCSI hard drive, an eight- or 12-speed IDE CD-ROM drive, and an Adaptec Ultra Wide SCSI adapter.
Portable Workstation Dual PAC-Pro	Built around twin 200-MHz Intel Pentium Pro CPUs, the Dual PAC-Pro (from $9295) comes with a 12.1-inch XGA flat-panel TFT display, five full-size PCI/ISA expansion slots, a patented card-retention plate, and high-throughput cooling integrated in the 20-pound portable package.

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