Zydacron has introduced a new videoconferencing solution for OS/2 Warp which provides professional, high quality, standards-based communication to suitably equipped PCs. Systems can be connected over ISDN, Token-Ring, Ethernet, or other networks. This solution should also be adaptable to WorkSpace On-Demand, for interactive videoconferencing in the network computing world.
Now OS/2 Warp systems can enjoy videoconferencing with other platforms supporting industry standards (as well as Zydacron's own solutions for other platforms).
Videoconferencing can help save travel expenses, bringing coworkers "closer" together to work on projects, provide interactive "help desk" support, and consequently avoid extra expense and downtime.
For more information please visit Zydacron on the Internet at: http://www.zydacron.com/mainsite/onwan250os2.htm.
The Warpstock Committee announces the final pricing for Warpstock '98 to be held in Chicago, October 17 and 18th, of this year.
We have held the pricing for admission tickets at the same levels as last year for a very extended period of time. Our early bird pricing is now discontinued, and we are pleased to announce the final pricing for all admissions to Warpstock '98.
Tickets are still a bargain.
There are only two types of passes -- a two day pass for $75 and a one day pass for $50.
All passholders have access to all Warpstock events, venues and presentations. These passes will not have any raffle tickets attached to their purchase. All passes already sold will have the number of free raffle tickets promised for that pass. Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at Warpstock'98.
Our sales statistics figures show that there was a very very small number of people who purchased Bronze or Gold passes, the vast majority of the passes sold were Platinum. The Bronze passes will become One Day passes without raffle tickets. The Gold passes will be Two Day passes with two raffle tickets. Platinum tickets are Two Day passes with 3 raffle tickets.
You can buy your tickets online from our web site at http://www.warpstock.org/ or use the toll-free number 800/414-4268.
Warpstock '98 will be held at the Wyndham Northwest hotel. Wyndham's web site is http://www.wyndham.com/. You call the directly at 630/773-4000 or use the toll free number 800-WYNDHAM. Remember to get the bargain room rate of $99/night you must use the group reservation code, "Warpstock." A personal note if I may; the hotel is simply gorgeous. Amenities abound, restaurants, health club, you name it; you can not beat the rate of $99/night and not have travel time on the days of the event.
We hope to see everyone there. Get there safely.
BOCA RATON, FL (August 4, 1998) - Solution Technology (STi) has qualified their high performance BarCode Anywhere(TM) for OS/2(R) input filters under ImagePlus(R) VisualInfo(TM) Version 2.3.1 as well as the ImagePlus Workstation Program Version 2.1.0. Previously, BarCode Anywhere was qualified under the ImagePlus Workstation Program Version 1.2.x.
BarCode Anywhere is the first product in the industry to achieve a scan and read rate of over two (2) pages per second without special hardware and continues to be the fastest all angles software barcode image reader in the industry.
Solution Technology is a leading supplier of components for image analysis, data-entry, document management applications, and device driver development. Other barcode, forms reading, image data-entry, and departmental management products for OS/2 and NT are available for use in the transportation, banking, distribution, and insurance industries among others.
For more information, contact:
Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE
Product Manager
Solution Technology
Suite 14
1101 South Rogers Circle
Boca Raton, FL 33487
WWW: http://www.gate.net/~stidev.
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN (July 28, 1998) - Today, JMA Software Technologies shipped the first beta of WebNav 2.1. Version 2.1 is to be a minor upgrade to our WebNav 2.0, a Internet web browser and HTML document viewer.
Features include on-line and off-line browsing, news and mail support, internal/external downloads, select a new link while a document is loading, easy to use tree based quicklist and others.
There is also a new beta (beta2) of WebNavDLL (a browser plugin for Adventure Software's Internet Adventure).
For more information please visit our web site at http://www.algonet.se/~d103862/ or contact us by e-mail at mail@jmast.se.
There's a new project called WarpGLOBE. This is a program that puts an earth globe as desktop background, and paints the dark and light zones according to the sun position. It paints too a red point in the cities where are an OS/2 user. If you want to download the beta and/or participate sending your city, visit:
http://www.arrakis.es/~scostas/OS2/globeeng.htm
or (in Spanish)
http://www.arrakis.es/~scostas/OS2/globe.htm
BMT Micro and Semware are proud to offer special pricing on The SemWare Editor version 4.0 for OS/2. The SemWare Editor was formerly known as QEdit for OS/2.
I'm particularly excited about this - I swear by The SemWare Editor - I use it to do all my work, including these announcements and work with huge text files (it'll read and edit up to a 32 meg file!).
With this offer you will receive:
This pricing was worked out directly with SemWare in order to promote their OS/2 product.
Want to know more about The SemWare Editor? Please visit http://www.semware.com/.
Here's a brief description from the manual:
The SemWare Editor, formerly called QEdit, is a full screen text mode editor for the IBM PC and compatible computers. TSE is intended for us by those who want a fine-tuned, versatile editor that is inexpensive and operates efficiently.
TSE is a text editor as opposed to a word processor. This means that most of its features are geared towards creating and maintaining ASCII text files (ideal for program source code). However, it can also be used like a word processor to write documents or letters since it includes many word-processing capabilities.
The OS/2 version works with extended attributes and can edit files up to 32 MEGABYTES in size.
Features include:
BMT Micro, Inc.
Suite 202
5019 Carolina Beach Rd.
Wilmington, NC 28412
Tel: 800/414-4268 - Sales
Tel: 910/791-7052 - Inquires
Fax: 910/350-2937
WWW: http://www.bmtmicro.com/
FTP: ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro
E-Mail: bmt@bmtmicro.com
HARRISON, NY (July 19, 1998) - InnoVal Systems Solutions is pleased to announce that it has committed to build a native OS/2 version of Web Willy Watch for release by early September.
"The many encouraging emails from OS/2 users convinced us that it is the right thing to do," said Dan Porter, President of InnoVal. "I wanted to do it but I had to make sure that there was enough interest. There is. We have come up with a plan that I think is right for OS/2 users."
OS/2 users who also use Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT, may order Web Willy Watch now and receive both the Windows version immediately and the OS/2 version in early September at no additional charge. In fact, we can process your order at http://www.webwilly.com/ in five minutes and you can be up in running in 30 minutes. Web Willy Watch is also available from BMT Micro at http://www.bmtmicro.com/.
For Web Willy Watch, we are also announcing a Single Family License and a unique, low-cost Every Family License for churches, synagogues, K-12 schools, businesses, and membership organizations. The license agreement will apply to both OS/2 and Windows platforms.
"We've put together new technology for blocking pornography sites with an unusually attractive price and distribution concept," said Porter. "As an example, if a school or concerned parent buys an Every Family License for (or on behalf of) a school, then every parent with a student in the school may download and use the software at home. The school can put the software (OS/2 and Windows Versions) on a school web page or a parent can do so on a personal web page. In fact, the Every Family License grants the school a site license for all OS/2 and Windows 95/98/NT computers in the school."
In order to block pornographic sites, Web Willy Watch checks to see if the site is one of tens of thousands of known pornography sites. It also evaluates page content looking for word patterns that suggest that a site has inappropriate sexual content. The software can be easily customized by parents to disallow additional sites, allow certain sites, add key words, and adjust the sensitivity of the program's word pattern logic. Extra features allow parents to block numeric-only IP addresses, common among pornography sites, and pages with 1-900 phone numbers. It is easy for someone with a password to switch between secure and non-secure mode.
In addition to blocking pornography sites, Web Willy Watch may be used to gather web content for offline browsing. The program can also record the title and URL of every web site ever visited. In addition to being useful for monitoring a child's web activity, this is a useful feature for tracking down forgotten URL's that were not bookmarked.
"Have you ever wanted to find a site you visited three or four months ago," said Porter. "You didn't bookmark it, you don't recall the URL, and it's one of those sites that is probably very low on search engine lists. I've gotten so used to what I call bookmarks for the rest of us,' that I can't imagine not having this feature on my computer."
Web Willy Watch for Windows works with Netscape's browsers and the Microsoft Internet Explorer. The OS/2 version will work with Netscape browsers for OS/2. A Single Family License is $20.00. An Every Family License for a K-12 school, church, or synagogue as well as for a small business or membership organization, costs $159.00.
InnoVal is a leading producer of specialized software for the Internet including the J Street Mailer, a Java email client, Post Road Mailer, a popular native OS/2 email client, and Hacksaw. Hacksaw is a popular 32-bit Windows and OS/2 file transfer utility.
Additional details about Web Willy Watch and Single Family and Every Family licensing may be found at http://www.webwilly.com/. An important FAQ for OS/2 users may be found by visiting InnoVal's home at http://www.innoval.com/.
He's here! Captain Warp that is.....
BMT Micro and the OS/2 Supersite are proud to introduce Captain Warp and our Captain Warp t-shirts.
These shirts feature Captain Warp in full color - you can check out the full graphic in more detail by clicking on the image below:
The shirts look identical to the graphic - full color - and the Captain Warp graphic pretty much covers the entire front of the shirt. The shirts look simply fantastic!
Shirts are white, high quality Hanes Heavyweight 50/50 and pre-shrunk. Sizes available are Small, Medium, Large, and X-Large. These are not cheesy shirts.
The price is $16.99 shipping. All preorders were shipped July 8th.
The Secure order URL is: https://secure.falcon-net.net/BMT/order1199.html or you can order by phone at 800/414-4268.
Now in stock: The new Summer '98 Hobbes OS/2 shareware CD, a 2 disc set featuring over 4000 native OS/2 programs. These files (from ftp-os2.cdrom.com) are the freshest in OS/2 shareware and freeware.
No OS/2 user is complete without this collection of over 4,000 files (1,300 megabytes). This CD, because of its size, makes the best "foundation CD" than an OS/2 user can have.
BMT Micro has this disc in stock today for only $14.99. The disc can be purchased on-line via SSL at this URL:
https://secure.falcon-net.net/BMT/order1078.html
Or from http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/hobbes.html or give us a call at 800/414-4268.
The categories of software include:
* Internet Software: Web Server, Mail Server, FTP Server
* Programming: C++ Compiler, Perl, Python
* Updates: Service Disks, Drivers
* Text & PostScript: Emacs, Ghostscript, TEX
* Networking: Client Software, Patches, Network Managers
* Multimedia Programs: Image Viewers, Movie Players, Raytracing, Paint Programs
* Desktop Utilities: Spelling Checkers, Calculators, Address/Phone books
* Entertainment: Games, Screensavers, Icons
Adds Support for IBM's New Enhanced Java 1.1.6.
HARRISON, NY (June 24, 1998) - InnoVal Systems Solutions announced today that Release Three of J Street Mailer is now available for Charter Users and new customers.
"This new version was necessitated by IBM's release of Java 1.1.6 for OS/2," said Dan Porter, President of InnoVal. "We had planned to release a new production version later this summer, after adding some features requested by our customers. But with the new release of Java 1.1.6 from IBM, we decided to move the schedule up so that OS/2 users could benefit from IBM's new code. Java 1.1.6 and Release Three is an awesome combination for e-mail with OS/2, Windows NT, or Windows 95."
IBM released an enhanced version of Java for OS/2 Warp on June 19. IBM's Java 1.1.6 provides the latest Java capabilities for Warp Server, WorkSpace on-Demand, and OS/2 Warp. A version of Java 1.1.6 for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 is also available from Sun Microsystems. J Street Mailer may also be used on Linux, Solaris, MacOS and other operating systems that support Java.
WHAT IS NEW IN RELEASE THREE
For those running OS/2, J Street Mailer allows a user to invoke the Netscape Navigator or the HotJava Browser by clicking on web page links in e-mail. It will also support the Netscape Communicator 4 for OS/2 Warp and the Opera Browser for OS/2 when those products are released. Windows users may use Netscape Navigator, Netscape Communicator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer or other 32-bit Windows browsers. J Street Mailer also provides two integrated browsers, the HotJava Component Bean and the ICE Browser Bean, for viewing web links and HTML formatted e-mail messages.
Release Three includes a new feature that allows quoted pasting of text from the clipboard. This is useful for people who want to quote text from another source such as a web page or a word processor document. With this feature you can even quote an article from the DejaNews or HotBot web site and post a reply through your own news server without using a news reader. J Street Mailer is smart enough to put header information into the right places and maintain message threading integrity in the newsgroups.
AVAILABILITY
Release Three is available now. The price for J Street Mailer is $49.00 USD. Students and Java Lobby members are eligible for discounts. InnoVal offers its customers a full year of free upgrade protection when they purchase the J Street Mailer.
InnoVal has instituted a unique approach for incrementally improving J Street Mailer. The product is in a constant state of improvement with frequent beta releases. Customers are invited to recommend improvements and participate in open discussions with the company through a very active mailing list. Periodically, InnoVal releases a production (gold code) version. They have called these production versions Release One, Release Two, and now Release Three. Production versions are not considered beta releases, are supported by InnoVal, and are, in InnoVal's opinion, ready for regular customer use.
JAVA 1.1.6
"The latest release of Java 1.1.6 from IBM is outstanding," said Porter. "It's fast, robust and very compliant with standard Java. This is a great time for OS/2 users to embrace this exciting technology, if they haven't done so already. Sun's Java 1.1.6 for Windows is equally impressive."
"For anyone who uses the Internet for e-mail, J Street Mailer is an excellent application for discovering the power of Java. It is rich in the features that power users expect yet easy to use. It is state-of-the-art technology. I think of it as the 'Sports Utility Vehicle' of e-mail clients," said Porter.
J Street Mailer, perhaps better than any other Java application on the market, demonstrates Java's cross-platform 'write once, run anywhere' capability and Java's capacity and performance for real world applications.
InnoVal is a leading producer of Internet, Java, and OS/2 software for the consumer and the information technology sector. InnoVal produces the Post Road Mailer, a leading native OS/2 email client; and NetExtra, a powerful Netscape Navigator add-on for OS/2. InnoVal also provides custom-written Java, OS/2, and DB2-based solutions for its corporate customers.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
J Street Mailer may be ordered directly from InnoVal by visiting their web site at http://www.innoval.com/ or by calling InnoVal at 914/835-3838.
For more information about J Street Mailer, InnoVal's product offerings, and resellers, see InnoVal's web site at http://www.innoval.com/ or call InnoVal at 914/835-3838.