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April 8, 1997 Announcements

Web Organizer v2.00.00.b0 is now available.

ONG SoftWare is proud to announce Web Organizer V.02.00.00.b0 for OS/2 is now available as a public beta. Web Organizer has been completely re-written in a lower level language to allow for greater speed and flexibility. It has gone through a private beta for the last few weeks and we believe all bugs have been worked out.

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Web Organizer (WebOrg) is a quick and easy tool to organize that ever growing list of bookmarks for Netscape and WebExplorer. Based on your bookmarks, and by using a full drag and drop interface, Web Organizer will let you build categorized WebPages that will be used as your HomePage for either Netscape or WebExplorer. This will give you the fastest access to any site you want to visit.

Web Organizer is Shareware and will only cost $19.95 to register. The unregistered version is fully functional, except it is limited to a maximum of 25 WebPages and/or Web Sites.

REGISTER EARLY!: The registration cost is only $14.95 during the beta testing phase. After the final release of version 02.00.00, the price will be increased to $19.95. The beta phase will last between two to four weeks. All registered users are entitled to a free upgrade to all future releases of Web Organizer.

FREE!: All users who register during the beta testing phase will automatically be registered into a drawing to win a free copy of FaxWorks Pro for OS/2 w/PCL 1.3.
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BMT Micro, Inc. Assumes iLink/2 Development.

08 April, 1997 Wilmington, NC - BMT Micro, Inc. announced that it has assumed development of iLink/2 the popular PM internet dialer for OS/2 Warp 3.0 and 4.0.

iLink/2 was among the first alternatives OS/2 users had to the dialer supplied by IBM and is still the only full featured persentation manager alternative.

"iLink/2 is a breeze to setup and configure", says Thomas Bradford, president of BMT Micro. "The feature set, including auto-redial, autostarts, and information windows along with the extreme ease of setup make this the ideal PM candidate replacement for the dialer that ships with Warp. Now OS/2 users have 2 excellent dialer alternatives - InJoy, the text based dialer continues to be a consistent top seller for users who favor text based applications and iLink/2 for those who prefer PM applications."

The current version of iLink/2 is .99c and has been available since last year. A new release of the registered code (version .99d) is available to all registered users and a shareware version of .99d will be released on April 9th. Current registered users can contact BMT Micro at bmt@wilmington.net for information on how to download the new registered code.

Changes in .99d are:

1. Ported from Borland to Visual Age CPP
2. Code changes to increase speed and stability

More info on iLink/2 can be found at BMT Micro's Web site.
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Call for Alpha/Beta Testers.

Perfect Niche Software will soon (within the next 45 days) begin the beta test program for Smack!, our new OS/2-only labeling program. Smack! is a full 32-bit multithreaded label design and print application that runs under OS/2 Warp 3 or above.

If your computer can run OS/2 Warp and you have at least 2 megabytes of free disk space, Smack! will run on your system. A printer (or printer object) is recommended, but not necessary for designing labels.

Features include:

 * WPS aware
 * Multi-threaded
 * Templates
 * Fully REXX-enabled
 * Import/export data
 * Can use any data REXX can access, from DB2 to CSV
 * Text
   - Font support (including barcodes and Postnet)
   - Left, center, and right alignment
   - Color
   - Rotate, flip, and mirror
 * Graphics
   - Basic drawing tools (line, rectangle, ellipse)
   - Bitmaps
   - Rotate any object in 1ø increments
   - Move an object forward, backward or to front/back
 * Align objects horizontally and vertically
 * Rulers (US and metric)
 * Undo/redo
 * Numbering
 * Printing
   - Print preview
   - Range of pages, page-by-page, or label-by-label
   - Print first, last, next, previous
   - Skip selected labels
   - Merge and print capabilities
   - Multiple copies
   - Horizontal or vertical printing of labels
   - Support for any OS/2 supported printer including
     color printers
 * Support for international versions
As we get closer to having a full beta ready, we are looking for people who are willing to respond quickly. The plan is that we will be delivering new alphas every 1-2 days and will need quick feedback. We will select a limited number of the potential beta testers to participate in the alpha program. If you are interested in participating in either the alpha or the beta (or both) please send a note to robert@perfectniche.com along with a brief description of your system (including video card, video resolution, and printer(s) used), experience with OS/2 and with beta testing in general.

Alpha/Beta Testers:

All alpha/beta testers who make some reasonable contribution to the testing and development of Smack! will receive a 40% discount on the the purchase of the final product. Those alpha/beta testers who make a significant contribution will receive the final product at no cost. Perfect Niche Software will be the sole judge of what constitues "reasonable contribution" and what constitues "significant contribution."
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MainActor v1.00 is finally available.

MainActor, a modular animation processing and editing package for Windows 95 / NT 4.0 and OS/2 has finally left the Beta stage.

MainActor is now able to load, edit, play and create / convert more animation formats than any other program on any platfom!

Supported formats include: AVI, BMP, DL, FLI/FLC, GIF, GIFAnim, IFF, IFF-Anim3/5/6/7/8/J, JPEG, MPEG-I/II, PCX, QuickTime, TGA and WAV.

For more info see BMT Micro's Web Site.
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Win Free Software from the OS/2 Supersite and BMT Micro.

From now until April 30, all users who register PMMail, MR/2 ICE, and Internet Adventurer using the OS/2 Supersite's Rapid Internet Purchasing system will be entered in drawings for $30 BMT Micro gift certificates. A drawing will be held for registrants of each program. The winners will be determined by random drawing.

The "instant" online registration area requires a secure browser such as Netscape Navigator and can be found at:

The OS/2 Supersite is located at http://www.os2ss.com and the BMT Micro web site is at http://www.bmtmicro.com.
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International Version of Navigator/2 Available.

The international version (10 countries translated) of Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 Warp is now available.

This new version not only provides more languages, but it is also designed to install over the U.S. English version released in December, 1996. This international version of Netscape contains the latest Java 1.02 runtime, many defect fixes, and full support for all types of document encoding. All Netscape for OS/2 Warp users are encouraged to download and use this latest version.

Visit http://www.internet.ibm.com/browsers/netscape/warp and download whichever language you need.

Also stay tuned for Navigator Version 4 for OS/2 Warp from Netscape, now in development.
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REXX Code Formatter/2 Released.

RKE Consulting, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the REXX Code Formatter/2 (RCF/2) program for OS/2(*). This shareware program is a full-function REXX code "formatter" written in REXX and using the facilities of VisPro/REXX(**) and VisPro/ Reports(**).

The purpose of this program is to provide users with the ability to format their REXX programs in a style that best suits their desires.

Why REXX Code Formatter/2

There are three important reasons why an application like RCF/2 is developed and used:

(1) All programmers, novice or professional, develop a style of coding that they like to use when writing a program. Often times, however, in the haste to complete a program, or simply because they are concentrating on the logic and not the format, the style used is not always consistent. For example, comments are not aligned alike for easier reading and statements under a DO or SELECT are not properly or consistently indented.

(2) Some programs are inherited and some contain code that was included from another source. In both cases, the style is often different, and in some instances, very different from that used by the person maintaining the code. A program with the END statement aligned with the other code under a DO statement is very difficult to maintain by a programmer used to having the END align with the DO statement, itself.

(3) Finally, when a person has completed a program and wants to turn it over to maintenance, give it to the customer for whom it was done, or simply show to others, there is a natural desire, if not a need, to make it neat, consistent, and professional looking. Even the best of programs can look a bit sloppy if functions and REXX keywords are sometimes in one case and sometimes in another.

Time does not always allow programmers to go back over their work to "clean" it up, and even when there is time, the task, by its nature, is a very boring one, and all inconsistencies are seldom removed. The purpose of REXX Code Formatter/2 is to handle this formatting chore for the programmer.

Although RCF/2 was coded using VisPro/REXX and VisPro/Reports, it does not require that a user have a license for these products in order to be used.

Availability of REXX Code Formatter/2

You may download a shareware copy of the REXX Code Formatter/2 program from:

- BMT Micro at:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/rexxcode.html

- HOBBES at:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/rexx

Additional Information

You can get more information from the product package

Questions or suggestions about the product can be sent by E-mail to rkeinc@ibm.net.
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Available now: SecureIt v1.0 for OS/2.

SecureIt is a tool for all OS/2 shareware developers that enables you to build in very good protection against having non-paying users use the registered versions of your software.

A demo version of SecureIt is available from BMT Micro's web site at http://www.bmtmicro.com/secureit.html, which also includes more detailed information about SecureIt and the protection it offers. The demo is also available from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming/sidemo10.zip.

SecureIt includes examples in both C and Pascal source code, and is easily integrated into both existing and newly written applications in either language.

For only US $149 as shareware, SecureIt is a find! The license includes full rights to use SecureIt to secure all of your shareware programs using the toolkit - a better protection against not getting paid for your efforts in software development cannot be found.

Also included in the price is reasonable amounts of support and advice in getting the most out of SecureIt in your program.

Please send e-mail queries to any of addresses below:

Internet: mertner@ibm.net (preferred)
CompuServe: 100327,2035 or 100327.2035@compuserve.com
FidoNet: 2:235/100.1 or 2:254/283

And to order SecureIt: http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/secureit.html.
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CSN Announces Cyber-Alert Will Ship 4/1/97.

West Hartford, CT March 12, 1997 - Client Server Networking (CSN) today is announcing CYBER-ALERT will be begin shipping April 1, 1997.

Use of the Internet or a corporate Intranet is a golden opportunity to instantaneously get needed information, share ideas and sell your products. The success of the "net" endeavors depends on customer acceptance, ease-of-use, and availability. Does your presence on the Internet or your corporate Intranet provide the accessibility, availability and performance needed to measure up to your expectations and strategies? Increasing numbers of IS executives are looking for ways to document the cost and value of Internet/intranet use.

To help you get those important facts, Cyber-Alert constantly monitors your Internet and Intranet servers. Designed for simple installation on a single OS/2 system with a TCP/IP connection to your net, it requires no other agents or remote installation.

Mail, Web, FTP, News, Gopher and your custom socket servers are monitored for availability. You may even ping any node to simply check viability. Continually updated graphics provide a visual display of availability. By checking those servers at regular intervals and logging responses, you can finally know what's going on and intelligently solve or understand performance or availability concerns.

Monitoring is not just a Ping but a connection is made to each server with a request for service. This connection and request for service provides for statistics to analyze performance. The optional Log and analysis program provides for a review of each server by graphing and printing performance for connection and data transfer. Node performance data may be exported to your favorite spreadsheet or data base.

Cyber-Alert provides user exits for successful or failed connections. A sample exit in REXX provides a simple Web server allowing you to remotely query Cyber-Alert for all your server status. These exits provide a facility to automate recovery procedures.

Any detected server failure will provide a notification via SMTP Mail and/or make a phone call to your pager. You'll never need a user call to know a server is down!

CYBER-ALERT is an OS/2 program and requires an Internet or Intranet connection and the installation of TCP/IP.

Product features

- Monitor selected servers on your Intranet or Internet.
- Selectively monitor specific Mail, Web, FTP, News, Gopher and custom socket based servers.
- Not just a Ping but a connection is made to each server with a request for service.
- Ping any node to monitor viability.
- Requires no remote Agents or installation
- Available and failed servers displayed graphically.
- Performance logging and analysis program provides a review of server performance.
- Graph export and print performance characteristics.
- When a server fails be notified by a pager call or mail
- User exits provides the ability to start a program of your choice to restart or modify a servers' operation at the end of each poll.
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