Windows Magazine
September 1997

Analysis WinLab Reviews Features NT Enterprise How To Buy How To New Products News WinTips Windows on the Web Letters

Cover Story

• Super Shareware -- We scoured the Web to bring you our Top 100 shareware and freeware picks.

Analysis

• Start / Mike Elgan
  Share and Share Alike -- Some of the best Windows software ever created is distributed as shareware or freeware. But so is the worst.
• The Explorer / Fred Langa
  All Safe and Secure -- Here's the scoop on encryption tools and other easy ways to enhance your security online.
• Windows at Work / Lou Grinzo
  Smart Backups Made Easy -- You don't need to back up your entire hard drive. Just back up what's hardest to replace: your documents.
• Dialog Box / Diganta Majumder
  Better, Faster, Cheaper -- Upgrade when you're damn good and ready, not when the industry or media tells you to.

WinLab Reviews

• Cyrix 6x86MX Processor
• HP PhotoSmart PC photography system
• Macromedia Flash 2
• Intel 300MHz Pentium II Processor
• Head to Head: 166MHz Notebooks
• Gateway 2000 G6-266XL with DVD
• CTX Ez750MT and Ez764MT
• Samsung SENS Pro 525
• Compaq Presario 1080
• Head to Head: Bookmark Management Utilities
• Head to Head: Modem-Sharing Software
• WebHub 1.0
• Microsoft NetMeeting 2.0
• TurboProject v2 Professional
• Hit List Professional 3.0
• trueSpace 3
• MGI VideoWave
• ICQ 1.111
• Peachtree Complete Accounting Plus Time & Billing
• Maximizer 97is
• Clarion Internet Connect
• Head to Head: WinCE-Based Handheld Pcs
• Psion Series 5
• Head to Head: Sheetfed Scanners
• Head to Head: CD-R Drives
• Quantum Pioneer SG 2.1
• Panasonic Panafax UF-344
• Intel ProShare Conferencing Video System 200 2.0a
• Head to Head: Wide-Format Printers
• Alps Photographic Quality Color Printer, MD-2300
• Sony DPP-M55 Digital Color Photo Printer

Features

• Build a Win95 Web Server! -- Your Web server doesn't have to be a monster running NT or UNIX; a modest PC running Win95 will do just fine.
• On the Road Again -- Traveling with a computer doesn't have to be hard-but it usually is. Whether you're journeying stateside or worldwide, these tips will keep you and your PC well connected.

NT Enterprise

NT Enterprise Edition


• Arriving Now: The New NT -- Microsoft's NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition is the best NT release yet for building and running truly scalable applications.
• Good News, Bad News for NT/Alpha
• Multi-User NT Draws Near
• Heard in the Back Office
• Quad-Processor Server Showdown -- The Dell PowerEdge 6100 and Intergraph InterServe 660 prove NT truly does scale across four processors.
• Database Dilemma -- Microsoft, Oracle and IBM desperately want to manage your text, audio, video and numerical data. Choose wisely, or you could wind up out of a job.
• Virtual Peaceful Networks -- A secure network might be a simple matter of wearing your SOCKS.

How To Buy

• How To Buy A ... Digital Camera
• The Battle for Miniature Memory
• Aim, Focus and Buy
• Sites to Be Seen

How To

• Optimizing Windows / John Woram
  More Tweaks in Your UI
• Applications / Jim Boyce
  Get a Handle on Your Records
• Power Windows / Karen Kenworthy
  Make Directories Fit to Print
• Windows CE / John D. Ruley
  Pocket-Sized PIMs
• Windows NT Workstation / Rick Furnival
  Manage the NT Registry
• Web Programming / Martin Heller
  Take a Windows Census

New Products

• Hot Scanners Spark a Resolution Revolution
• Imaging Software
• OCR Software
• Clip Art
• Get Ready for Your Close-Up
• Monitors
• ASK Impression A4 -- ASK and Ye Shall See
• Dukane ImagePro 8020 -- Sharp Images for Presentations
• Panasonic MLP-2000 -- Precision Projection
• fyi
• Notebooks
• Desktop Systems
• Sharp PC-9800T -- Peripherals-Packed Portable PC
• Everex StepNote 5 -- 'Cool' Mobile Computing
• Toshiba Portege 300CT -- Lightweight's a Heavy Hitter
• Communications Software
• Networking
• Vectron WebSight Internet Video Conferencing Kit -- Let's Go to the Video!
• Essex NoteCam Complete -- Traveling Road Show
• Tekram How-R-U -- Capture It All In Full Motion
• Graphics Software
• Multimedia
• Imagineer Technical 2.0 -- Get Drawn into CAD
• Vdraft -- Catch a Draft from Open Windows
• Archivist -- Organize Your Images
• fyi
• Business Productivity
• ClarisWorks Office -- A Space-Saving Office Suite
• Survey System 6.0 -- The Survey Says ...
• Descriptions Now Direct -- Define Your Job Accurately
• Web Authoring
• SilverStream Web Application Platform -- Float Smoothly Through Web Applications
• CenterStage -- Web Filtering Takes Center Stage
• InstallFromTheWeb -- Empowered Installations
• fyi
• 3D Software
• Video Editing
• Graphics Accelerators
• LightWave 3D 5.5 -- LightWave Is a 3D Heavyweight
• Ray Dream Studio 5 -- Fine-Tune Your 3D Skills
• Web 3D -- Go from Flat To Fluffy
• Internet
• Express PageMeter -- Track the Trips to Your Web Pages
• Coast WebMaster 2.0 -- Web Monitoring Day and Night
• WebEx 2.0 -- Web on the Run
• Utilities
• P.I. Engineering Y-mouse Dual Mouse Adapter -- Two-in-One Mouse
• Darwin NoteBoard Keyboard -- Keyboard Evolution
• Fine Print 1.27 -- It's All in the Fine Print
• Programming
• SolutionsPIM -- Take Active Control of Your Schedule
• Parts for Java 2.0 -- It Does Everything but Make Coffee
• ChiliReports Enterprise -- Red-Hot ChiliReports
• fyi

News

Trends


• ZAW Zeros In on the Bottom Line
• Top Ten Best-Selling Windows Business Software
• Recap
• NetPCs: They're Coming
• Microsoft's Java Push Getting Cold?
• Speak Now, or Hold Your PC
• Another Attempt At Social Interface
• A Good Internet Tool Is Hard to Find
• ET Phone Home (over the Net)

  Notes from the Lab
  

• Heads Up
• No More Icon Blues
• Handy Device
• What a Load
• Oh, WOW

WinTips

• Win Tips: Windows 95
• Win Tips: Web
• Win Tips: Windows NT

R & R: Resources and Recreation

• Shake, Rattle And Roll
• Darwin on Disc
• Be a Know-It-All
• Sailing and Seamanship
• Lights, Action, Sarcasm!

Windows on the Web

• The Web Enters The Third Dimension -- Open the door to a world of three-dimensional objects, sounds and animation.
• The View from IE4
• News Briefs
• Latest Browsers Bet on Push
• Will Consumers Ditch Their Carts?
• Set Your Sites on Shareware
• Cyberguide

Letters

• Let the Chips Fall Where They May
• Beware Office 97
• Correction

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