November 1997 / What's New

The Fastest Box on the Block Not Just for Servers Anymore	Digital Equipment's Alpha chip is not just for servers anymore, though it is still not your typical desktop processor. - by Jason K. Krause
Video Graphics TV Kit for PCs	Matrox's new Graphics, Video and TV Kit combines the Matrox Mystique 220 3-D and video accelerator with 4 MB of SGRAM and video-capture and TV-tuner options to let you capture and edit video.
Desktop Printing in a Small Package Color Me Affordable	Canon's BJC-80 offers color printing in a package that's not just affordable, but portable, too.
Digitize Images Faster Beam the Full Spectrum at Once	The HP ScanJet 6100C ($799) speeds the scanning process, capturing images with a single exposure, and hardware-accelerated image processing takes the guesswork out of scanning.
Bigger, Bolder Scanning	The Epson Expression 836 XL is a scanner for graphic designers and engineers.
Get the Picture Image This	The Toshiba IK-MM1 brings high-resolution imaging to the portable-computer environment for $139.
King of the PIMs King REX	REX is a PIM in a PC Card f orm factor. Use it to download information from PIMs such as Microsoft's Outlook, Schedule+, Lotus Organizer, and Starfish's Sidekick.
Get the Whole Picture	A 19-inch monitor from KDS USA, the Visual Sensations VS-19, presents 18.8 inches of screen space priced at $999.
The Power Paradigm	The Powerdigm XSU features Micron's Samurai chip set, which promises higher system bandwidth and support for Ultra SCSI, Gigabit Ethernet, or Fibre Channel I/O.
New Network Computers	Not everyone on a corporate network is a power user.
Making Picture Taking Simple	Epson's PhotoPC 600 digital camera ($799) captures images at XGA resolution (1024 by 768 pixels), with an auto-focus lens and built-in ColorTrue image-processing software for fine-tuning color accuracy, saturation, balance, and contrast.
Portable Sun Workstations Here Comes the Sun	The UltraBook ($11,995), from RDI Computer, offers Unix workstation performance in a portable notebook.
High-End Hard Drives	The Quantum Atlas III and Viking II have the disk space and throughput that high-end workstations and servers need.
Thin is In More Service, Lower Cost	The AutoNet ($995), from Mylex, is a platform-independent, embedded Plug and Play network server engine, otherwise known as a "thin" server.
Continuing the Revolution And the Beat Goes On	Building on the architecture of the ALR Revolution Quad6 and Revolution 6x6 servers, the Revolution 2XL ($3495) supports dual Pentium Pro or Pentium II processors and a host of the latest server features.
Highly Scalable RAID Solutions	The LynxStak Series 2000 RAID system scales from simple 4-GB RAID protection up to backup protection for workgroup environments with terabytes of backup disk space.
Photo Editing Made Easier Off Into the Sunset	Adobe's PhotoDeluxe 2.0 image-editing software adds a host of features designed to appeal to both novice and experienced users. - by Jon Pepper
Digitize Real-World Objects The Real 3-D World	PhotoModeler Pro 3.0 ($795) generates 3-D models of real-world objects and scenes for architecture, accident-reconstruction, forensics, archaeology, engineering, and 3-D-animation applications.
PC Camera and Software Can You Say 'Share'?	Intel's Create and Share lets you take snapshots from your PC, create short videos, or make video phone calls over the Web and regular phone lines.
Postproduction for Home Movies	Feed video into your computer and edit and add special effects with Iomega's Buz multimedia production software for under $200.
Java Development Tools	Borland's JBuilder family of visual development tools for Java, JBuilder Standard, JBuilder Professional, and JBuilder Client/Server Suite feature a JavaBean creation component, a scalable database architecture, and visual development tools.
Build a More Helpful Application	AnswerWorks ($795) is a natural-language interface for building help files in an application.
File-Compression Technology	RMX Technologies has developed Rush, an encoding technology that, RMX claims, can shrink some files by up to 95 percent of the original size.
Survive a Network Crash We Do It the Executive Way	Seagate's Backup Exec for Windows NT is backup software that, with its Intelligent Disaster Recovery module, provides recovery for your server after hardware failure.
Better Beta Testing Follow the Beta Trail	Aqueduct Profiler ($20,000) answers the questions on every beta tester's mind: How are people using an application, who is using it, how long they are using it, and when does it crash?
Dive Into Your Database	DI-Diver ($1000) takes ODBC-compliant relational database files or flat ASCII files and turns unfathomable amounts of data into functional reports and graphs.
Travel Assistant Speaks for Itself A Travel Assistant of Your Own	TravRoute Software's in-car navigation assistant (12-channel GPS receiver included) not only guides you in your trip from door to door, it will talk to you as you drive.
Stock Quotes on Demand	DataLink, a provider of financial and personal information services that are delivered using alphanumeric paging and other wireless networks, enhances its QuoteXPress stock market service by adding Quote-On-Demand capabilities.
Pragmatic Virtual Networks	Remote Net-Accelerator ($1999), from Traveling Software, lessens the burden of remote- and Internet- access clients on a network.
LAN, WAN, and VLAN Management	Digital Equipment's clearVISN 2.0 network management suite meets the demands of remote network administration.
LANDesk Virus Protect	Intel has introduced a unified Windows NT and Novell NetWare client/server virus-protection version -- 5.0 -- of LANDesk Virus Protect ($1495).
FileMaker Pro	Built-in HTTP and CGI functionality ends FileMaker Pro's r eliance on other software products for Web-related tasks.
First Aid 98	First Aid 98 ($39.95), the third-generation version of the PC repair software, has a newly refined interface, an Emergency Recovery System, and on-line help services.

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