Keller Group Resumes Direct OS/2 Sales.
Keller Group, developer of the OS/2 fax software sold as FaxWorks for OS/2 and PMfax, has resumed direct product sales through an enhanced Web site and electronic distribution. All of Keller's products can now be purchased directly from Keller Group's Web site, and customers also get free access to 22 program translations, complete manuals and program updates via the Web.
Keller Group's other publishers will continue to distribute and support boxed retail versions of Keller's products. Major publishers are Global Village Communication with their FaxWorks Pro for OS/2 products, NiteHawk Enterprises with the Corporate PMfax products and IBM with the "Lite" version which ships with every copy of OS/2 as FaxWorks for OS/2 in the OS/2 BonusPak. But in addition to these traditional channels, customers can now get the product directly from Keller Group for prompt electronic delivery of the latest program version, immediate access to all documentation and translations, and support directly from the program developers at Keller Group. Pricing starts at $69 for single-user upgrades and $499 for LAN versions.
Keller's PMfax fax and voice software for OS/2 is available in more than 25 languages, and the product is double-byte enabled for use on a worldwide basis. Licensed users of PMfax version 3 may download and use any of 22 translations at no additional charge, including Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, UK English and Japanese. In addition to the free translations, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese are available at a small extra charge.
Keller Group is now shipping an updated Windows client for the PMfax LAN product which supports NT, Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 workstations. Plans for the next version include NT and OS/2 fax engines and support for a wide variety of front-end clients using Java. Keller Group remains committed to the OS/2 platform, but will also use NT and Java to provide its customers with robust fax and voice solutions for standalone, LAN, multiline and Internet platforms.
Keller's Web page has complete details
on the latest products, features and program updates. Please contact
Mark Ahlstrom at Keller Group (612 429-7273) with any
questions.
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New Version of TransWarp PlusPak Released.
KrazyDog Software announces the latest version of TransWarp PlusPak .59. The latest version changes mouse pointers! It also gives you the choice of what items should be changed by the program for each scheme. For instance, if you choose the Blue Sky scheme, you can tell the program to only change the background bitmap and not the icons or mouse pointers. The program's look has also been modified to look more like a web page.
KrazyDog Software has also moved to a new web site: http://www.mindspring.com/~krazydog/kdog.htm and can be contacted at: krazydog@mindspring.com.
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OS/2 Central Developers Forum Opens.
Creative Systems Programming Corporation, in conjunction with Productivity Solutions, Inc., announces the opening of their newest CompuServe forum, the OS/2 Central Developers Forum. This new forum is designed to provide support for the OS/2 Developer Community.
The OS/2 Central Developers Forum (GO OS2DF1) joins the OS/2 Central Forum, which opened late last year as part of the expanding OS/2 Community on CompuServe.
The OS/2 Central Developers Forum includes discussion and file download areas for the Workplace Shell, SOM, APIs (Base systems, Presentation Manager and Open32), multimedia, device drivers and development tools. It also includes sections for C and C++, REXX, Java and Java Beans and other languages as well as internationalization. Other areas on this forum include Networks, Internets and Intranets, Netscape plugins, speech enabling, debugging and developer marketing.
"OS/2 isn't dead!" said David Moskowitz, President of Productivity Solutions, Inc. "We want developers to know they aren't alone -- that there is a place to get peer help from the community of OS/2 developers on CompuServe."
"The OS/2 Central Developers Forum has been designed to fill a gap created by the departure of IBM's Software Developer Operations on CompuServe.", said Larry B. Finkelstein, president of Creative Systems Programming Corporation. "While we understand IBM's desire to provide developer services via the Internet, there is still a very active OS/2 development community on CompuServe that has been abandoned. We hope that by creating this new OS/2 development area, we can revitalize an interest in developing new new OS/2 applications."
Productivity Solutions, Inc., founded in 1984, is a privately held consulting firm that specializes in new and emerging technologies including connectivity (Internet and Intranets), Object-Oriented development (including Java), and 32-bit operating systems (NT, OS/2 and Unix). David Moskowitz, the president of Productivity Solutions, Inc., is a featured author of the international best selling book, "OS/2 Warp Unleashed" (SAMS Publishing, 1995).
Founded in 1984 and a privately-held company, Creative Systems Programming
Corporation designs client-server applications for 32-bit operating systems
and is a leading developer of communications software, including the
internationally acclaimed Golden CommPass, OS/2 Navigation Software.
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FixPack 1 for Warp 4 will be available mid-end of February. It is required to work with SmartSuite 96.
You will be able to download this fix at :
Check the above site for availability.
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One Up signs agreement with Sterling Commerce Inc..
One Up Corp. (OTC BB:ONUP) announced an agreement with Sterling Commerce Inc. to migrate its CONNECT:Direct(TM) high-performance file transfer application to the OS/2 Warp operating system, enabling Sterling Commerce to serve growing customer demand.
One Up will use its Conversion Factory automation to minimize the cost and shorten the time to market for Sterling Commerce's CONNECT:Direct for OS/2 Warp product. As part of its integrated offering, One Up also will re-engineer the program's business logic as necessary and provide beta support for the product launch. Financial terms of the release were not disclosed.
CONNECT:Direct is currently available on 28 different operating systems including MVS, AS/400, Windows NT, NetWare and 14 different versions of UNIX.
One Up Corp. is a leading provider of software management and migration services to businesses and software developers. One Up has participated in more than 350 successful migrations for Fortune 500 companies.
The company's Conversion Factory methodology and related Commander Technology expert systems are revolutionizing the way organizations manage and migrate software platforms and applications.
Visit the company's web site at: http://www.1up.com.
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In the eventuality of new OS/2 developments, I am conducting a survey on sound & music software.
I need some feedback from OS/2 developers and users. If you have used DSMI/2 applications, such as Dual Module Player, Flight for OS/2, or the Navigator/2 Digital Sound & Music Interface plug-in; or if you are currently a developer working on OS/2 applications, please fill the form at:
http://www.netsrq.com/~madbrain/survey.html
DSMI/2 is a sound interface for PC compatible computers running on IBM's
Operating System /2. It goes way beyond the basic sound functionality
offered in OS/2 via MMPM/2 and provides programmers with a variety of
functions to play music and sound effects in their programs.
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Games Programming Site Online.
A new web site on multimedia and games programming for OS/2 is launched in late Monday (02/10/97).
http://www3.sympatico.ca/pinard/os2mmprog.html
Due to the retirement of the IBM game developing page, I decided to make this page to centralize all informations on the subject. Unlike the IBM page, I will try to maintain it on a weekly basis until it comes to a substantial size.
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The Java Education World Tour 97 is launching on February 21st in San Francisco. This event will be simultaneously satellite broadcast to seven other west coast cities on February 21st and will travel to 41 cities worldwide throughout the months of February and March. The Java Education World Tour is being hosted by IBM, Netscape Communications, Novell and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Its going to change the way your write software. Forever.
At this event, there will be four in-depth sessions covering:
* Network View of the Application Environment: The Java Computing Platform * System Management for the Network Computing Environment * How to Build Java Applications * Electronic BusinessIn addition, there will be a keynote by John M. Thompson, Senior Vice-President, IBM Software; Jim Barksdale, CEO, Netscape Communications; and Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Each attendee will receive a free Java Tools CD and a CBT Java Training CD.
Because this event will focus on how 100% Pure Java will change the future, you wont want to miss it. On-site registration is $149, but if you register now, the cost is only $99, a savings of $50. Members of IBM, Netscape, Novell and JavaSoft developer programs can register for $49 Early Bird and $99 On-Site rates. See specific company web sites for information on how to join developer programs.
To review the tour schedule and locate the city nearest you
or to register visit our web site at http://javaworldtour.sbexpos.com or call 888-554-5282 or 415-372-7073. Space is limited so register today! We look forward to seeing you at the event!
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Modular Dreams Incorporated today announces the release of MD+F Plug-ins for ColorWorks - Renders, their third product in a series of plug-in enhancements for SPG ColorWorks V2.
Modular Dreams' MD+F Plug-ins for ColorWorks - Renders consists of 20 plug-ins which add pattern rendering capability to SPG Inc's ColorWorks V2. The patterns created by these plug-ins can be used as-is or they can be retouched using ColorWorks' standard set of filtering and image processing tools or other MD+F plug-ins to create more complex paintings. Intended for Internet based publishing usage, most plug-ins shipped in this package render truly seamless images and an auto-tiling feature is provided where appropriate.
The following are the modules currently shipping in this package. Each module name is followed be a short description:
Bars - Equally distanced curved bars.
Fire - A field of fire with various coloring schemes such as Fire, Smoke,
and Plasma or custom palettes.
Foil - Three different foil textures. (seamless)
Loops - Colored loops which star at full strength and slowly disappear
as they expand. (seamless)
Magnetic Field - A two or three colored cartoon-like magnetic field.
Moire - A moire pattern with controllable density for the three primary
colors. (seamless)
OPC Stars - OPC opening-sequence like stars. (seamless)
Parquet - Various tiling patterns in metallic or bar styles. (inherently
seamless)
Pulsars - Pulsar or Disc shaped objects. (seamless)
Radial Stars - Radial stars with controllable flares. (seamless)
Rings - Colored rings or loops in various sizes. (seamless)
Rods - Neon colored rods or melting objects. (seamless)
Sand - Classic sand/gravel pattern, can be recolored to create
additional textures such as paper. (seamless)
Sinewave - Sine or double wave in solid or various other coloring
schemes. (seamless)
Spheres - Spheres or Orbs with controllable glow rendered with
hard or soft edges. (seamless)
Stars - Dense cartoon-like star fields. (seamless)
Strands - Colored stands. (seamless in one direction)
Strings - Strings with adjustable flexibility overdrawn on an
image. (seamless)
Waves - Water waves.
Weave - 3D weaving ribbons with palette specified colorings. (seamless)
Unlike Modular Dreams Inc's Effects packages, the Render package is currently a one volume product and any new render plug-ins they create will be added to it and also made available as free upgrades on the company's website.
You can get current information about the MD+F Plug-ins for ColorWorks from
Modular Dreams at their website. The
website also contains usage information and screenshots of the product.
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TAXDOLLARS 1996 Final Version Available.
BT&T Consumer Technology have posted TAXDOLLARS 1996 Final Version - Release 2.96A on its home page at: http://www.electriciti.com/bttech/freebies
OS/2 users are welcome to download this release and use it to file their 1996
tax return. As a true SHAREWARE, there is no disable functions as well as any
required registration key. BT&T do expect that TAXDOLLARS users to make a
shareware payment of $9.95 if they satisfy with TAXDOLLARS 1996 Final Version.
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Clear & Simple, Inc. announces the Winter OS/2 Software Special.
For a limited time, purchase Performance PLUS and the DiskJockey together and save $30. Normally priced at $39.95 each, order before April 1, 1997 and get BOTH for only $49.95!
Performance PLUS is a tuning and Utility Kit for OS/2 v2.1 to Warp 4. Now in its fourth version, Perf + can help all users squeeze the most out of their system. OS/2 tuning expert Tony Pereira explains how to tweak your system for optimal performance in the included Performance PLUS book. After reading the book, use the simple and effective software to easily get your tuning done. Performance PLUS' software includes 19 utilities for benchmark testing, config.sys analysis and optimization, DOS/Windows session tuning and much more.
The DiskJockey is the clear and simple way to manage your files. Guaranteed to save you time! The DJ interface is quick to learn and easy to use; features extensive drag and drop connectivity with the Workplace Shell. Efficiently find, catalog, move, delete, copy and rename files. Easy Zip and UnZip file compression. View text, zip, image, sound and video files. Eliminate duplicate files with a "Drive Clean-Up." Quick format diskettes, make directories, change file attributes and more! 32-bit Multithreaded operations keep you working instead of waiting. Clear & Simple Guarantee: If you don't like it we'll give your money back!
For further descriptions, demos, screenshots, testimonials and ordering visit
our website: http://www.clear-simple.com.
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