September 1997 / What's New

One Laptop, with the Works Oh, Solo, Mio	Gateway is touting the Solo 9100 as a desktop replacement, and with 4 MB of EDO video memory, two USB ports, NTSC/PAL video input and output, a fast IR port, and up to 192 MB of EDO RAM, this system has more features than many desktop systems. - by Jason Krause
Security for the Small Office	RedCreek's Ravlin line of stand-alone security products provide standards-based encryption and authentication for mobile employees and small offices.
RAID for the Small Office or Home	RAIDPlus ($179-$499) is a SCSI host bus-adapter card for small office and home environments.
Faster Access to Data Don't Push This Aside	The Sidewinder 50 ($4000) is a high-end tape backup for midrange servers using Sony's new Advanced Intelligent Tape standard, which supports memory chips embedded in storage cassettes.
Create Bigger, Bolder Print s Epson Stylus Color 3000	Digital photographers and graphic artists can produce full-bleed color prints and presentation material at 1440 dpi with the Epson Stylus Color 3000 ($1995).
One-Stop Digital-Camera Printing	You can print color photos directly from digital cameras with the RXP-10 digital color printer ($499) without processing photos on a PC.
Easy Internet Access	The Matrox iSwitch ($999) has eight switched 10Base-T Ethernet ports, two enhanced serial ports for modem connections, and wire switching for instant Internet access for small office environments.
A Smaller Desktop Color Scanner	The Visioneer PaperPort Strobe (Windows, $299; Mac, $329) is an update of the PaperPort desktop scanner, with a new imaging technology and color scanning.
Walking and Talking with Yo ur Computer Everyone Needs a Mentis	The Interactive Solutions Mentis ($3699) computer measures 5-1/2 by 7-1/2 by 1-1/3 inches.
Beat PC Obsolescence The Nexar Best Thing to Being There	The Nexar XPA (starts at $1100), or Cross Processor Architecture, is a family of mini-tower PCs that feature an easily removabl e and upgradable motherboard for simplified processor changeovers.
Are You Ready for 800 MHz?	The Ruffian is engineered for power-hungry users.
High-Performance Graphics	The Revolution 3D ($349 to $449) is a graphics card with a new accelerator chip.
24X CD-ROM Drive A 24X Transfer Rate	The new Panasonic CD-ROM drives offer a transfer rate of 24X in a standard-size 5-1/4-inch unit that fits in a PC drive bay.
A Powerful Pen Tablet All That Power in a Pen	The Stylistic 1200 ($3300) is a system in a pen tablet.
The New Storage Medium: Floppy Disks	While the debate rages over the best digital-camera storage medium, Sony turns to an old friend, the 3-1/2-inch 2HD floppy drive.
Camera, Audio Recorder, and Messaging Center	The Coolpix 300 ($699) is a new hybrid camera, audio recorder, and message-pad product that Nikon is calling a personal imaging assistant.
New Brushes Make You a Better Painter A Brush with Greatness	Fractal Design's Painter has always been a favorite among artists for its brushes that closely simulate natural media. - by Jon Pepper
The Future of Videoconferencing	White Pine's MeetingPoint ($1995 - $10,000) conference-server software supports the International Telecommunications Union's H.323 standard for conferencing over packet networks.
Build Applications for Hand-Held Devices	Windows CE and Newton application developers have a new development platform, Wright Strategies' FormLogic 3.0.
Write and Rewrite Application Rules Rules are Made to be Rewritten	Presenter/J ($495), a Pure Java GUI toolkit, and Advisor/J ($6000 per developer), a Pure Java rules engine, combine to create an open-component framework for building Java applications.
Visual Java for Visual Basic Developers	Two new editions of SuperCede, the Java/ActiveX edition ($199) and the Database edition ($499), make it easier to change applications written in other languages into Java.
Beat the Clock Logical Date Changes	Micro Focus's SoftFactory/2000 application suite employs "windowing," a technique that leaves two-digit date fields in place but adds logic that allows programs to differentiate between centuries.
A Face Your Computer Will Love	Visionics' FaceIt PC 3.0 ($99) uses a videoconferencing camera that's mounted on a Pentium-powered PC to control access to your system.
Is True Interoperability Here?	Anysoft's Any97 ($69) promises an open cross-platform application environment for PC users to open any Windows application, including Internet, legacy, and PC.
Automated Internet Data Entry Cardiff Calls Collect	Collect data from Internet or intranet resources with Cardiff Software's TELEform ($4995).
New Work-Flow Functionality	NovaWeb is a suite of Java-based document management business applications that document and manage work flow.
Sync Up Your Network	SureSync ($795 per server, $69 per user) is synchronization and disaster-recovery software for managing remote PCs on LANs and WANs.
Build a Bug-Free Web Site	Big Picture Multimedia's Mortar 2.0 aims to be an all-encompassing tool for Web developers.
Untangle Your Intranet An Untangled Web	Inmagic and Lycos's Internet spidering technology is the basis for this intranet-indexing software.
Personalized Windows NT	NuView ManageX 2.0 ($299) extends Microsoft's Management Console for Windows NT with personalized remote-control functions.
Ray Dream Studio	Ray Dream Studio release 5, from Fractal Designs, updates the popular 3-D illustration program with new tools for more realistic 3-D rendering.
Lotus cc:Mail Release 8	Release 8 of Lotus cc:Mail, the popular e-mail system, provides Internet e-mail integration with support for Internet standards, including POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, and MIME.
Virus Scan 3.0	Virus Scan 3.0 ($49) promises improved virus-detection rates with a new Hunter engine that can detect a variety of viruses, including Microsoft Word and Excel macros, boot-sector infectors, multipartite viruses, encrypted viruses, and new viruses written in Microsoft Visual Basic.

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