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WiebeTech Introduces Three New FireWire 800 / USB2 Storage Devices WiebeTech Introduces Three New FireWire 800 / USB2 Storage Devices WiebeTech has introduced three new FireWire 800 / USB2 storage product lines, including a new FireWire 800 fanless desktop storage enclosure, a removable drive desktop storage system with single or dual bays, and a plug-and-play hot swappable dual drive FireWire 800 hardware based RAID. WiebeTech also cuts prices on select existing FireWire 400 products. Customer shipments begin the first week of November. Check their website for latest shipping information.
The new DesktopGB+800 provides dual FireWire 800 ports (400 compatible) and a USB 2.0 port utilizing WiebeTech's popular DesktopGB fanless enclosure. It provides transfer rates of approximately 50MB per second and is an excellent choice for anyone requiring high speed external storage. More product information can be found at:
The BayDock 800, a storage system utilizing removable trays, will be available in single and dual bay configurations. The dual bay configuration is available with individual FireWire 800 bridge boards for each bay. As a result, multimedia professionals will easily configure soft RAIDs providing read performance in excess of 80 MB per second at an economical price. More product information can be found at:
[Prices on existing FireWire 400 BayDock configurations have been substantially reduced, providing a new level of value for users who want inexpensive and versatile user configurable external storage.] WiebeTech's new RaidTECH provides hot swappable dual drive bays in a hard raid that is plug-and-play on most recent operating systems, including Windows XP, Mac OS 9.1 and higher, in addition to Linux. RaidTECH has FireWire 800 and also includes a USB2 port.
RaidTECH may be set as RAID 0 (striped) or RAID 1 (mirrored) by switch selection. It will be a valuable product to users who want an automatic, hot swappable, rebuildable storage device that is also extremely fast. It provides a far greater level of backup security because the backup is continuous and redundant. More product information can be found at:
Pricing And Availability Product// Order Code // Price // Availability
DesktopGB+800 with daisy chainable FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports, fanless.
Single BayDock 800 with daisy chainable FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports and hot swappable single bay including intelligent drive display.
Dual BayDock 800 with daisy chainable FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports and hot swappable single bay including intelligent drive display. One bridge board attaches to both drive bays. (Both drives will show up as separate drives on the desktop and may be soft raided.)
Dual BayDock 800 with daisy chainable FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports and hot swappable single bay including intelligent drive display. Two bridge boards are utilized with one for each bay. (Both drives will show up as separate drives on the desktop and may be soft raided. This configuration provides performance in excess of 80MB/sec.)
RaidTECH with daisy chainable FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 ports, plug and play hard raid with hot swappable and support for RAID level 0/1 including rebuildability.
Price Reductions: Product // Order code // New Price // Old Price // Availability
PRICE REDUCTION: Single FireWire 400 BayDock
PRICE REDUCTION: Dual FireWire 400 BayDock
PRICE REDUCTION: Quad FireWire 400 BayDock
Dealers may purchase WiebeTech products from WiebeTech's distributor, http://www.drbott.com, or from dealers. All configurations are in stock and available directly from http://www.wiebetech.com . Canadian resellers may purchase products from EMJ (http://www.emj.ca).
FirewireDirect.com, Inc has announced the progression of their Vanguard FireWire RAID system to include the new FireWire 800/1394b standard and the latest, faster USB 2.0 in a new combo interface capable of topping 60MB/s in an easy to use external FireWire system, making this the optimal storage and redundancy system available for digital video and audio producers. The Vanguard III FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 RAID System features an independent hardware controller to provide RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring), so the RAID functions are performed without draining precious CPU resources, and now breaks new performance barriers with the inclusion of the new connection technologies. With the addition of FireWire 800, the system will demonstrate a dramatic increase in speed when in RAID 0, providing speeds well in excess of the legacy FireWire external storage drives widely used for digital audio and video. At RAID Level 1, the system sets up a simple to operate drive mirror with a unique auto-rebuilding function and a host of security features designed to protect critical data, including convenient additional drive "Swap-Kits" for use as spares or backups. Daniel Jackson, FirewireDirect's Chief Technical Officer, says that like all FirewireDirect's new 800mbps FireWire products, the difference in performance opens up new possibilities. "Our previous Vanguard FireWire RAID brought stability, performance and affordability to desktop RAID. The new FireWire 800 Vanguard has all of this and an amazing performance level with speeds approaching that of SCSI while maintaining the ease of use of FireWire." The Vanguard III has a solid aluminum case and a host of diagnostic and security features. It is the first RAID product and the fourth major storage product from FirewireDirect to employ the new high speed standard. Partial list of features includes: Hardware RAID - A single FireWire (Oxford 922) bridge to an independent controller that improves system performance by providing a dedicated hardware controller for the RAID process. Unlike software RAID, it will not drain precious CPU and memory resources. Auto Rebuilding ˆ A unique feature that will allow full access to one volume while rebuilding the RAID 1 mirror in another in the event of a drive failure. Plug and Play ˆ Hot swap FireWire support means the RAID system can be removed from the host machine without restarting. True Cross Platform Support ˆ Will operate on any computer that supports USB or FireWire storage. Backwards Compatibility ˆ Will operate in systems still supporting legacy /1394a and USB 1.1 (Requires "bilingual" FireWire cable ˆ available separately - to connect to legacy FireWire). Solid Construction - Built to last with a rigid, durable aluminum casing, locking drive bays, powerful cooling fans and a unique suspended design hard drive tray that minimizes hard disk vibration Hot Swap Kits - For easy replacement or exchange of drives, FirewireDirect offers these low priced replacement drive/tray combos. Available separately. Configurations ˆ Preformatted for you in Level 1 or 0 for easy operation out of the box in configurations up to 500GB.
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Circus Ponies NoteBook 1.1v149.1 Note-taking & Freeform Database Circus Ponies NoteBook is a combination outliner and free-form idea organizer that lets you clip, organize, and share unstructured information from any source in any way they like. The program uses an easy-to-understand notebook interface to provide state-of-the-art media capture, multi-dimensional indexing, and inter-application clipping services. While you're busy taking notes and capturing your ideas, NoteBook indexes it all in the background -- it even remembers your stickers, keywords, and highlighting. Whatever you can remember, NoteBook can find.
Outlining & Note-Taking
Stickers, Highlighting, & Page Styles
Clipping Services
Media Capture & Media Frames
Index Pages
Intuitive outlining Customizable notebook interface Annotation with stickers, keywords, & highlighting Dynamic indexing Super-Find searching Drag-and-drop Page Bundles Inter-application Clipping Services Direct import from digital cameras Rich image handling through Media Frames Export to XML Online help Dramatic improvements in page display and scrolling performance. Also improved NoteBook launch time and the time to open a Notebook. New Features
You can now configure a Media Frame to draw its image file antialiased. A new Preference option lets you set this on a global basis.
New in this version:
System requirements:
Circus Ponies NoteBook sells for$49.95/$29.95 edu
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RealeWriter 1.0.2 To Create, Share, Web Publish Picture Story Books [Mac OS 9 /Mac OS X] RealeWriter is a new application developed by Hutchings Software for RealeStudios which lets you create picture story books, print them in several formats, save them as interactive websites, and share them with your family and friends. RealeWriter works on Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic, Windows 98/ME, and Windows 2000/NT/XP. A free "RealeReader" is available. You can share the RealeBooks (".reb" files) you create with all of your friends. RealeWriter comes with extensive help, including tutorial movies. If you would prefer a smaller download, use the alternate link, which does not contain the help files.
New in this version:
System requirements:
RealeWriter sells for $29.95
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New CyberGauge 4.2 Supports Panther Neon Software has announced CyberGauge 4.2, an update to its bandwidth monitoring software. CyberGauge works with any SNMP-based device, including routers, switches, and servers. CyberGauge monitors bandwidth usage and automatically creates utilization graphs as well as daily, weekly, and monthly quality of service (QoS) and billing reports. CyberGauge 4.2 now supports Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") and includes minor bug fixes. "Customers were asking for Panther support before Apple released the final software," said Craig Isaacs, Neon Software's president. "There's quite a bit of momentum, and Apple should be able to gain some new customers based on the strength of Mac OS 10.3.
CyberGauge Version 4.2 upgrades and free updates are available immediately from the Neon Software web site:
A free update is also available to Apple Xserve customers who received CyberGauge as part of their system purchase. (Apple Computer has bundled three Neon Software products with Xserve systems since early 2003: CyberGauge, LANsurveyor, and NetMinder Ethernet.) CyberGauge makes monitoring device and bandwidth utilization easy, efficient, and affordable. CyberGauge installs in less than 5 minutes and works with any SNMP-enabled device, including routers, gateways, NAS (Network Attached Storage), servers, printers and more. Ease-of-use, ease-of-installation, breadth of features, and affordability have won CyberGauge a consistently increasing number of loyal customers since its introduction in 1998. CyberGauge automatically creates at-a-glance utilization graphs as well as daily, weekly, and monthly quality of service (QoS) and utilization reports. These reports allow network managers to:
verify the bandwidth usage claimed by their provider matches actual usage, and
CyberGauge also monitors the status of a device and can notify the user if the device goes down, comes back up, or hits a through-put threshold. CyberGauge 4.2 is available for $295 for 5 devices, $495 for 10 devices, and $695 for 20 devices. A 100 device Multi-Station configuration is available for $2100. Free trial available.
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Boinx iStopMotion Wins First Place In O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Contest O'Reilly yesterday announced that Boinx iStopMotion is the winner of the O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Contest in the international category. Boinx Software celebrates this with the release of the new version 1.1 of Boinx iStopMotion and by opening their Kagi store. "We are very proud of winning first place of the O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators contest", says Oliver Breidenbach, Manager of Boinx Software, a division of GeBE Computer & Peripherie GmbH of Munich, Germany. "Winning this prestigious industry contest confirms our belief that it pays off to produce software that is focused on making the user's life more enjoyable," continues Breidenbach. O'Reilly's Derrick Story, MacDevCenter managing editor, outlines the main criteria for the contest: "I'm particularly excited about the fact that all of our winners have involved their users in the development of these killer apps. Each one of them has done a great job of listening to the people who've embraced their applications, and then incorporating that feedback and making their software even better." Spurred by winning the contest, Boinx Software engineers have been hard at work to release Boinx iStopMotion 1.1 in time for the announcement and it is available for download now. Besides the usual bug fixes, iStopMotion 1.1 features a new overlay to mark title safe and action safe areas of the image and an aspect ratio for creating other format than PAL and NTSC like 16:9. Users with cameras using the IIDC standard now benefit from a much faster performance. Current license keys continue to work with version 1.1 The Boinx iStopMotion DV license is now available through Kagi for USD 39.95, giving users a large range of payment options ranging from Credit Cards to cash, checks and money orders.
Boinx iStopMotion 1.1 is available immediately for download at:
It requires a valid license to operate. The free Lite license can be obtained from the Website. It offers all features but limits the resolution of the captured frames to 320 x 240 pixels. The DV license can be purchased online and sells for US$ 39.95. A 7 day demo license can also be requested online. Please contact the Boinx Software Sales Department (sales@boinx.com) for information on Pro licensing and educational Volume pricing.
More info about iStopMotion can be found at
X-Plane is an advanced general-aviation flight sim. With hardware-accelerated texture-mapped graphics, dynamic speech synthesis, full-planet terrain-mapped scenery, helicopters, and the widest range of airplanes available in flight simulation, X-Plane will keep your eyes popping out for hours. New features for 7.20 since 7.15:
Pressurization system is operative and functional.
Refinements for 7.20 since 7.15:
Sunset default condition... more realistic for So-Cal.
Bug fixes for 7.20 since 7.15:
System requirements:
Price increase to $99.99 Scheduled For November 20. Until then You Can Still Get It For $59.99+Shipping.
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Dragon Burn 3.0.25 CD & DVD burning software [OS X 10.1.5 up] Dragon Burn enables Mac desktop and PowerBook notebook computer users to quickly and easily begin producing audio, data and mixed-mode CDs and DVDs without poring over the software's user's guide. The new Dragon Burn multi-burning engine allows users to simultaneously write multiple CDs or DVDs. It also fully supports new 4x DVD-R internal and external drives as well as advanced CD writes including recently released 52x CD-R and 24x CD-RW drives. Using Dragon Burn, Mac and PowerBook users can easily produce their own audio and data CD and DVD discs as well as mixed-mode and CD extra discs. Users can mix and match AIFF, CDDA, MP3 or wave files to produce custom audio CDs. For CD and DVD data mastering applications, Dragon Burn fully supports ISO 9660 MS-DOS and Joliet, HFS (Mac OS) and HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) file systems. For Hybrid CDs and DVDs, users can select Mac OS and ISO 9660 file system combinations including data from previous ISO 9660 sessions. For complete data protection and recovery, users can burn layouts to a disc or save them as complete disc image files. Using similar creation techniques, users can quickly and easily produce a backup copy of any CD or non-copy protected DVD. To ensure that users always produce quality discs, Dragon Burn supports BurnProof and other buffer-underrun protection technologies. For maximum throughput performance, the mastering software also supports USB 2.0 and FireWire CD and DVD burners.
Key Features
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Dragon Burn sells for $49.95
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