&Else... June 2002

01 Steal this e-Book!

02 QPict Media Organizer adds iPhoto Import.

03 Killer PC Text Editor adds ActiveX and C++ Class Library

04 Dual-Screen Laptops on their way to you

05 Now Windows enjoys StuffIt Deluxe 7.5

06 Tired of Click-N-Wait Web Navigation?

07 AutoCAD 2002, AutoCAD LT, Autodesk VIZ 4 Training CDs

08 Completely Web-based Administration for your Web Sites

09 Barcode UFL plug-in for Crystal Reports

10 NewsHunter Usenet Download Utility for Mac

11 rayPak hot new Tools for trueSpace Creations

Steal this e-Book!

Dan Snow has released "Steal this e-Book!" in paperback through BookSurge -- but you don't have to steal it, it's a FREE e-Book. This irreverent collection of articles and letters about electronic publishing includes commentary from Richard Eion Nash, Dan Poynter, Wade Roush and Glenn Sanders. I think you'll enjoy it, and benefit from it.
Our good friend Dan Snow sent this one in for our Great resources ... Download the free PDF at:http://www.u-publish.com/stealme   [top]

QPict Media Organizer adds iPhoto Import.

QPict Media Organizer is a powerful, easy-to-use media asset manager. Use QPict as your central media access point and take full control for organizing images, full-screen video, MP3 files, Fonts and live streaming audio and video. QPict fully supports Meta data such as ANPA (IPTC) and EXIF photo information. It includes advanced search and batch processing capabilities making it trivial to catalogue and organize more than thousands of media files in a fully searchable database. QPict fully takes advantage of Mac OS X. QPict Media Organizer is reliable and viable optimizing and improving your performance. This lets you use iPhoto for importing from camera and QPict for advanced searches and batch processing. Now also includes advanced Font File Support for index view, printing sample pages and even installing and removing Fonts. Support for creating super sharp Finder Icons has also been added.
This one from Rune Lindman for our Multimedia: video, slideshow, editing, DVD ... A free trial version is available.http://www.qpict.net/   [top]

Killer PC Text Editor adds ActiveX and C++ Class Library

TX Text Control is a royalty-free ActiveX and C++ Class Library that offers an extensive palette of word processing features. Today, the Enterprise/XML version, featuring a rich set of properties for the manipulation of XML and CSS was released.
      Building on the stability of the Standard and Professional versions, the new Enterprise/XML version enables developers to build applications that take full advantage of XML. Developers now get the chance to offer end-users the ability to separate their textual content from their formatting rules and to create both human and machine-readable documents with minimum effort. All this with a true, Royalty-free, WYSIWYG XML editor with an easy-to-use, word processor-like GUI
      A fully-featured evaluation copy of TX Text Control v9 Enterprise/XML, including a library of sample programs, is available for download from the TX Text Control web site
Sent in by Heiner Suhr for the Text Editing, Programming Dev ... department. Download the free eval copy at http://www.textcontrol.com   [top]

Dual-Screen Laptops on their way to you

A (patented) new dual-screen laptop is on the horizon for the fourth quarter of 2002. Estari Inc.'s new 2-VU product line will include an eBook, handheld, laptop and portable desktop models.
      The laptop version will have two, full-sized 15" diagonal screens and a Microsoft Windows XP OS, giving Estari's 2-VU all the features of a laptop, paired with a reading experience that is superior to that of a PC or a dedicated electronic reader. The 2-VU comes loaded with DocAble Organizer Professional, a digital document management software package that will organize and manage information in virtually any file format - whether the information is located on a single PC, network servers, the web or any removable media.
You can contact Karolyn Kelly-O'Keefe for more information on these Wow new products ... more details at http://www.dualscreen.com   [top]

Now Windows enjoys StuffIt Deluxe 7.5

Aladdin just released StuffIt Deluxe 7.5 for Windows, a new incarnation of its flagship product. It includes many new features to help with Internet communication and daily automation tasks. StuffIt's Zip compression is now the best available today. StuffIt Deluxe is more secure with encryption and corruption protection, includes ways to search archives AND their contents and the coolest Microsoft integration.

      "Aladdin's StuffIt 7.5 consistently creates smaller ZIP files than PKZip and WinZip in my tests and is fully compatible with existing ZIP de-compressors, even those dating back nine years." reported Jeff Gilchrist, author of industry-standard compression test site, .

      StuffIt is available directly from Aladdin with an MSRP for Windows, only $39.99 Registered users get a FREE upgrade
Thanks to Jennifer Watson from Aladdin for sending this one in under Wow new upgrades ... It's ready for download now at: http://www.stuffit.com/stuffit/win   [top]

Tired of Click-N-Wait Web Navigation?

According to the MicroSurfer Company, their new MicroSurfer 2.0 optimizes and organizes Web access, enabling you to jump directly between links -- without waiting for Web pages to display or backtracking through a browser. If it works, this is a very cool idea indeed. MicroSurfer's approach to navigating the Web solves surfers' two most common problems: waiting for Web pages to download and display, and getting lost trying to return to previously visited pages. Instead of visiting a series of links on a Web page individually in a browser -- returning each time to the original page to explore its remaining links -- MicroSurfer users are able to surf directly and immediately to any links they select, without having to return to the page the links came from.
      (Remember, you can do the exact same effect by opening each successive web page in a "new" browser window.)
      Links dragged from any Web page and dropped into the MicroSurfer window begin downloading in the background to the browser's cache, without interrupting the foreground session. Click on any downloaded link in MicroSurfer -- a color-coded download status icon next to each link indicates when it is ready to be viewed -- and the Web page displays in your browser immediately. Users can jump between captured links instantly, in any order, without having to find the page the links came from, making MicroSurfer indispensable for surfing through search results, portals, and news, sports or financial sites--anytime there is more than one link on a page that the user wants to explore.
      The downloadable software sells for $99.95 to businesses, governmental entities and educational institutions and for $39.95 to individuals and non-profit organizations. An advertising supported version is also available as a free download.
      MicroSurfer 2.0 requires a PC with an Intel 486 or higher processor; Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows NT or Windows XP with direct or dial-up Internet access. MicroSurfer supports Netscape Navigator 3 or 4 as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer 4, 5 or 6.
From Staci Simpson to file under Online: web, browsing, resources ... Get more info at: http://www.microsurfer.com/   [top]

AutoCAD 2002, AutoCAD LT, Autodesk VIZ 4 Training CDs

OpenCAD has updated and released its interactive training products for AutoCAD 2002, AutoCAD LT 2002 & Autodesk VIZ 4.
      OpenCAD President, Nancy Fulton, says "As always, the content for these comprehensive training products is taken from our successful Complete Support training sites. Each training CD delivers comprehensive, step by step instruction for the specified product. New users master the skills they need to use these applications in a production environment. Self-trained users quickly acquire the skills and confidence they need to tackle more advanced projects."
      OpenCAD founded its first commercially profitable online training site, called Complete Support for 3DS MAX, in 1996. The Complete Support for AutoCAD and Complete Support for 3D Studio VIZ sites were launched shortly thereafter. OpenCAD's most recent site, Complete Support for AutoCAD LT, went live in January.
      "We have thousands of happy customers who depend upon our products to make mastering difficult software applications easy and cost effective," Fulton states. "The secret to success in online training lies in the ability to produce a very large quantity of high quality content quickly and to support that content with exceptional service. In a very real way, people depend upon our training sites and CDs to do their jobs. We work hard not to let them down."
Thanks to Nancy Fulton for entering this for the Graphics and CAD department ... Check it out athttp://www.opencad.com/   [top]

Completely Web-based Administration for your Web Sites

The latest release of FastPage (v3.5) from Internet Expressions, Inc., offers a number of new features and represents the largest update in the history of the product. Version 3.5's completely web-based administration tools give site administrators the ability to create and edit pages using customizable templates, assign user edit permissions, define portions of pages that are allowed to be edited, and define content format. Site administrators can give permissions to users to edit specific pages, create new pages from templates on-demand, upload images, media files and edit rich textual content. A new online help system ensures that users that are editing their web pages only need basic word processing skills to maintain content.
Good tip, sent in by Paul Mancini File it under Web Design and Dev ... Get more into at: http://www.iexp.com/corpinfo/press.cfm   [top]

Barcode UFL plug-in for Crystal Reports

IDAutomation.com, Inc. has released version 2 of their Barcode UFL (User Function Library) which is a plug-in for Seagate Crystal Reports. The UFL plug-in allows users of Crystal Reports to integrate modern barcode font technology directly into their report print process instead of exporting data to a proprietary label program. Version 2 includes performance improvements, new mode options and support for Code 128, Code 39, LOGMARS, Interleaved 2 of 5, SCC-14, SSCC-18, POSTNET, USPS Special Services as well as other popular barcodes.
      The UFL plug-in is supplied in an easy-to-install executable file. Once installed, barcode functions appear in the formula editor. These functions can be easily applied to fields on reports that require barcodes. The UFL will perform the proper calculations required and format the return string for the selected barcode font. The UFL plug-in is a free download, however, it only works with barcode fonts available from IDAutomation.com, Inc. Their "Complete TrueType Font Package" costs $199 USD and includes all linear barcode fonts as well as MICR and OCR. (http://www.bizfonts.com/crystal/)
      In addition to Barcode fonts, IDAutomation.com, Inc. also provides the ASP Barcode Server Component, Java servlets, barcode scanners, Microsoft Office Barcode Add-ins and ActiveX Controls.
Brant Anderson lists this one under: DTP: Publishing, printing, output ... The full story is at http://www.idautomation.com/   [top]

NewsHunter Usenet Download Utility for Mac

NewsHunter is an application that automates the process of downloading images and files from Usenet newsgroups. NewsHunter runs under OS X. There is also NewsHunter Classic for those who have not yet upgraded to Apple Computer's latest operating system. Notable features of NewsHunter are: Persistent Article Queues, which allow NewsHunter to suspend and resume downloads, support for multiple documents and multiple news server accounts, as well as automatic assembly of multipart posts and configurable download folders for each newsgroup. To make tech support easier, NewsHunter can also generate detailed error and event logs that can be emailed to Parker Software.

      Unregistered versions of NewsHunter and NewsHunter Classic are fully functional, will not time out, and will never expire. They will, however, occasionally display reminders to register the $49.95 program.
Good lead from Mike Trivisonno for Online: web, browsing, resources ... Get it at: http://www.parkersoftware.com   [top]

rayPak hot new Tools for trueSpace Creations

Caligari Corporation has rolled out rayPak, a powerful collection of plug-ins, libraries, and standalone programs for trueSpace users who want to enhance their creations with realistic, professional lighting, shaders, and presentation effects. This collection is fully compatible with Caligari's previously announced aniPak for animation, fxPak for special effects, and dePak for professional design.

      "The sophisticated shading and lighting tools in rayPak bring scenes with trueSpace content to an even higher lever of realism," said Jeff Parish, Caligari's director of product management. "The way light interacts with the surfaces and materials of the objects it illuminates is extremely important to trueSpace users. The high-end presentation tools in rayPak sharpen communication of perspective and mood, and enhance the movement of trueSpace creations."

      Valued at more than $550 and regularly priced at $199, rayPak is available now for a limited-time introductory price of $99 to trueSpace5 users.
Sent in by Lynn Stadler for Graphics, 3D, rendering ... More info: http://www.caligari.com/   [top]

...have fun
Fred Showker

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