SAN DIEGO, CA (May 7, 1997) - MSR Development Corporation announced today BackMaster Version 3.0, an upgrade to the industry's most popular 32-bit OS/2 desktop backup program. This new version includes a scheduler that automates backup, an enhanced user interface with an icon button bar, and is the only OS/2 backup software to support the very popular Iomega Ditto 2GB and Sony StorStation 2GB tape drives. In addition, the Verbatim EXtra high capacity cartridges can now be used with those tape drives compatible with the cartridge.
The new Backmaster Scheduler is a 32-bit presentation manager utility application designed to easily schedule frequent and dependable unattended backup functions, plus it will launch other utility programs and REXX scripts to perform just about any system function.
"This major new release reflects our commitment to our OS/2 customers and the OS/2 marketplace," said Dudley Westlake, President & CEO of MSR. "We've added the most often customer requested features in this new version plus support for new tape drives from Exabyte, HP, Iomega, Seagate and others."
Additional features of BackMaster 3.0 include:
SCSI DAT and QIC tape drive support for Hewlett Packard, Colorado and Tandberg models. Version 3.0 adds additional support for selected Exabyte and Seagate drives.
Support for higher capacity QIC minicartridge tape drives including parallel tape drives from Exabyte, HP/Colorado, Iomega, Seagate, MicroSolutions and others. Version 3.0 is the only OS/2 backup software to support the Iomega and Sony 2GB tapedrives.
Storage capacities from 120MB to 8GB and more.
More data cartridge options - Travan, QICWide, QIC, Verbatim EXtra, DAT and QIC minicartridge.
BackMaster 3.0 is available now with a list price of $99.95, and an upgrade price of $49.95 to registered users.
This includes free technical support and a 30 day money-back guarantee.
Visit the company's website at http://www.msrdev.com for additional information or contact sales@msrdev.com.
The software is distributed in the United States by MicroCentral and sold worldwide by the company's sales network of dealers, retailers, VARs and system integrators including CompUSA, Indelible Blue, MicroCenter or direct from MSR at 760/633-3900.
Other MSR products available include:
MicroLearn Game Pack Volume II for OS/2
ScreenSavrMaster for WINOS2, Windows 3.x, Windows95/NT
MSR Development Corporation is a specialty software development company. They are located at:
4407 Manchester Avenue #104 Encinitas, CA 92024 Tel: 760/633-3900 Sales Contact: MSR Development Corp. Tel: 760/633-3900 Fax: 760/633-3909 E-Mail: sales@msrdev.com Company Contact: Dudley Westlake MSR Development Corp. Tel: 760/633-3900 Fax: 760/633-3909 E-Mail: westlaked@msrdev.com Public Relations: Xenia Moore Moore Media Relations Tel: 619/274-5959 Fax: 619/274-5965 E-Mail: xeniam@aol.com
BackMaster and ScreenSavrMaster are trademarks of MSR Development Corporation. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
OS/2 products included in EVERY category
It is my great pleasure to announce the nominees for the 1997 Shareware Industry Awards. This year I'm especially pleased because for the first time we have nominations from all of the top platforms, Windows/DOS, OS/2, and Macintosh. On behalf of the other board members of the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation, I would like to extend my congratulations to ALL of the nominees!
Please Note: If you are the company/author of a nominated program please contact me via email at: mike@drff.com
I would like to have a Web address and an FTP link to your program. In this way we can insure that all of the judges, and the public, have easy access to your product.
Clone Cleaner finds duplicate files that take up precious space on your hard disk. Is you hard disk filling up with hard to manage directories of similar files and data? Don't waste space any longer, use Clone Cleaner. It will locates duplicate files across multiple disk drives, on both local and network drives. It can group the files together by name or by contents.
So even though the file names may be different and also be on different disk drive, if their contents are same, they will be grouped together and found. Clone Cleaner is the only disk utility capable of doing this. Of course you can find duplicate files by file name also. You have options to filter by file size range and by date range.
Clone cleaner can output an ASCII report file or a batch file or a Rexx script. The Rexx script is very flexible in manipulating the files. Each field (date time size path file and extension) can be used in any manner you like. Clone Cleaner can be found on the following internet sites. Clone cleaner is marketed as shareware, and it only $17.95 to register.
CLONE220.ZIP file size 777,240 bytes
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/CLONE220.ZIP
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com /bmtmicro/clone220.zip
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/clone.html
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA (April 29, 1997) - Solution Technology (STi), developer of TWAIN for OS/2 , BarCode Anywhere, Genie Forms Processing for OS/2, and Image Edition for OS/2, is announcing the availability of scanner bundles created specifically for the OS/2 market. STi has selected, and will be supplying, the Epson line of SCSI scanners along with STi's TWAIN enabled Applause Image Utility.
"We're excited that we're able to offer these scanner bundles as we are impressed with the quality of Epson scanners. The OS/2 user now has a good, high quality, native scanning capability," said Leon Zetekoff, Product Manager of Solution Technology.
J3 Computer Technologies (http://www.os2store.com, 800/787-0930 or 909/985-6786) of Montclair, California, will be the first OS/2 re-seller to offer these scanner bundles. "This is great! A combination of Solution Technology software and Epson's hardware are the makings of a killer imaging bundle, definitely something the OS/2 community has been waiting for," said Jim Ames, President of J3 Computer Technologies.
"Epson is excited about Solution Technology's software support of our scanners and peripherals within the OS/2 environment. We look forward to extending our product offering into the OS/2 community," said Dwight Nichols, VAR Territory Manager of Epson America.
Other fine OS/2 re-sellers will be added to the program in the near future.
STi is a major manufacturer of production level OS/2 based image, barcode, and forms processing products. In addition, it is a principal supplier of accessory imaging support sub-systems for IBM's ImagePlus and VisualInfo product line.
HARRISON, NY (April 22, 1997) - InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc., announced today that it is building a Java e-mail client based on its popular Post Road Mailer software for OS/2.
"This is really exciting for us," said Dan Porter, president of InnoVal. "The new release of the Post Road Mailer, version 2.5, has been extraordinarily successful for both our individual and corporate customers. This will be the base from which we will build Post Road Mailer for Java. We have considerable expertise in e-mail technology, a large base of customers with many good ideas, and a track record for providing features that our customers want."
Asked if this meant that InnoVal was moving away from OS/2, Porter said, "Not at all. This move to build a Java version of Post Road Mailer, if anything, reinforces our commitment to OS/2. To succeed in the OS/2 marketplace, we need to be able to deliver cross-platform solutions. Java, in this case will do that. We fully expect IBM to release a client version of OS/2 Warp that is optimized for Java and OS/2 applications. We expect to be ready. Our customers tell us that they want cross-platform solutions. Many people run both OS/2 and 32-bit Windows on the same machine. It isn't practical to reboot the system just to check e-mail; nor is it practical to use two different e-mail client packages. Mobile workers who use a laptop and base system with different operating systems also want to be able to use a single client solution. Corporate workstations running different operating systems across the enterprise want to standardize on a single e-mail client to reduce costs and simplify procedures."
"IBM's Java strategy is right-on," said Porter. "It won't happen overnight; nor will it eliminate existing application dependencies for 32-bit Windows. But it will have a significant effect over the next few years. We intend to be on the leading edge of Java-based applications with the Post Road Mailer. As for the OS/2-only version of Post Road Mailer, I fully expect it to grow as well. Because release 2.5 is so unbelievably stable, reliable, and robust, one can be easily tempted to leave it alone. We won't. We'll learn a lot from our Java work and I expect that we will implement new function in the OS/2 version along the way."
"The Post Road Mailer has been touted in the press as one of the best e-mail packages on the market for any operating system. The problem for us has been that we have been limited to OS/2. We had hoped for better growth of this marketplace. Now we are betting on Java to expand our market penetration. Java will allow us to compete on an open playing field."
Porter went on to say that InnoVal would be starting an ideas forum to collect and share ideas from customers and the public. "We will then ask the forum participants to be prototype, alpha, and beta testers," he said. "We are going to make sure that this is the best Java e-mail client on the market whether for a simple network computer (NC) or a fully loaded OS/2 or Windows NT machine."
As further evidence of InnoVal's commitment to OS/2, Porter pointed out that Hacksaw, an Internet utility now in beta testing, was developed with cross-platform source code. Both the OS/2 version and a 32-bit Windows version are being tested concurrently. The product will be released concurrently for OS/2, Windows 95 and Windows NT. "We are also making significant enhancements to NetExtra, our OS/2 web browser add-on. We will bring it up to the level of features available in WebWilly for Windows NT and Windows 95." WebWilly is an add-on product for the Netscape Navigator and the Microsoft Internet Explorer that provides offline browsing, advanced bookmarking, site mapping, link validation and a number of other useful features. "WebWilly is like WebWacker, FreeLoader, Smartmarks, and a number of other tools all wrapped into one highly effective tool," said Porter. "These are Windows products. I promise you that OS/2 customers are not going to come out on the short end of the stick with browser add-ons."
A comprehensive list of Post Road Mailer features and demonstration software that can be downloaded can be found at InnoVal's web site, http://www.innoval.com. For additional information about the Post Road Mailer, NetExtra or the Hacksaw beta program, please contact Marianne Roderus by e-mail at innoval@ibm.net or by phone at 914/835-3838.
The One Button Zapper
X-it gives you a single click to many common actions that normally take a large number of mouse movements and clicking.
NEW FEATURES:
"I always feature the latest and greatest shareware in my demos and a LOT of people ask me where to get X-IT. I have grown to REQUIRE it (and can't stand working on a system that doesn't have it)."
"A VERY cool WPS enhancement!"
"There is a certain little desktop enhancement that is long overdue for a Rave ... X-it v2.2.... everyone should know how incredible it really is. X-it is super useful, super small, and super slick. This software is extremely configurable, allowing users to place a zillion buttons on either the left or right of any window's title bar to do about a zillion things. ... I've never once had to look at a readme or manual to figure out what a feature does. ... X-it is solid and beautifully discreet."
"After using it for the past two weeks or so I have found this to be one of my most treasured add-ons."
"This new version is *CO-OOL*!!!! A definite "must-have"."
"This is a *very* useful gadget that deserves a spot on *everyone's* desktop."
X-it was #2 in BMT Micro's Top 10 Shareware Sellers for spring and summer of 1996, and has been in the top 10 since February, 1996. X-it was the #1 utility downloaded (1558 times) from Hobbes in January, 1996, with PMJPEG in close second place (1529). And X-it was the #3 download for all of Hobbes files for the same month.
Product Info:
Product: X-it for OS/2
Filename: XIT24.ZIP. Language specific versions (XITDE*.ZIP) can be found
at the X-it web page (see below)
Type: Desktop enhancement utility, Shareware
Price: $25 US
CIS SWREG: #11263
Company: CodeSmith Software, RR 1, S-2, C-23, Fernie, BC, Canada V0B 1M0
Web: http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/xit/xit.html
Update notices via list server; e-mail: majordomo@bmtmicro.com
body: SUBSCRIBE XIT-LIST
Email: mshill@elkvalley.net
USA Phone: 800-414-4268 (orders only),
910-791-7052 (orders or order inquires only)
Requirements: OS/2 2.0 or later. @240K RAM (X-its usage), 300K disk space
Look for XIT24.ZIP at these sites:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/xit/xit.html (web)
ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro (ftp)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/wpsutil (ftp)
ftp-os2.cdrom.com (ftp)
http://www.musthave.com (web)
GO OS2BVEN, OS/2 Shareware, Library #1 (Compuserve)
Brad and Mike's OS/2 BBS: 604-436-0321 (Canada)
IBM OS/2 BBS: 604-664-6464 (Canada)
