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LOTUS SMARTSUITE FOR OS/2 PRE-ORDERS

Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 provides you with a complete set of 32-bit OS/2 desktop applications, with all the tools you need to streamline everyday business tasks - plus quick, easy ways to connect and collaborate with others. Whether you're creating a document, working with colleagues on a report, or communicating results via the Internet, SmartSuite helps you do it faster and better.

Everyone who orders the Lotus SmartSuite for Warp 4 from J3 Computer Technologies will be automatically entered into J3's Sony Mavica FD7 (1st prize) and Epson Perfection 600 (2nd prize) drawing.

We expect the product to ship in April.

086575 SmartSuite for Warp 4 Full: $379.00
092275 SmartSuite for Warp 4 Upgrade: $139.00
086785 SmartSuite for Warp 4 Academic: $89.00

Additional/site licenses are available.

To place orders or for more information visit http://www.os2store.com/.

- Jim Ames
J3 Computer Technologies
Tel: 800/787-0930
International: 909/985-6786
Fax: 909/625-7157
March 10, 1998

SMARTSUITE USER GROUP SPECIAL

Greetings from Indelible Blue!

Many of you may have already received an e-mail concerning preordering SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4. If not, here's a brief recap:

We're pleased to announce that we're now taking pre-orders for the NEW SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4! Preorder special pricing:

086575 SmartSuite Full Version SRP:$679 IB:$395
092275 SmartSuite Upgrade SRP:$249 IB:$149

Take advantage of these great SmartSuite specials!

* If you purchased the SmartSuite Beta CD from Indelible Blue, you will receive an additional $10 off the price of either the Upgrade or the full version. Proof of purchase for the Beta CD is required.

*Special For User Group Members If you did NOT purchase the Beta CD, and you are a member of a users' group, you are still eligible for the $10 discount. Please note--you may take advantage of only one discount: either the Beta CD discount or the users' group discount, not both.

* Everyone who orders SmartSuite will be automatically entered into Indelible Blue's Domino drawing. The first place winner will receive a free copy of Lotus .domino GoWebserver Pro v4.6. Two second place winners will each receive a copy of Lotus .domino Mail.

If you have any questions, please let me know!

- Tracey Phillips Peake
Indelible Blue
March 11, 1998

DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGE TRANSFER UTILITY FOR OS/2

A new version of DCITU (Digital Camera Image Transfer Utility) for OS/2 has just been released. This new version includes code to allow images from various digital cameras to be downloaded via serial port.

More information is available from the official web site: http://members.tripod.com/~dc210/index.html

The current set of supported digital cameras include most models from:

- Stephane Charette
Internet Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP
March 3, 1998

EDITOR's NOTE: I have personally downloaded and used the trial version and am extremely pleased with the results. I use an Epson PhotoPC digital camera and the DCITU interfaced nicely with it. I am now ordering the full version. Up to now, I could only use the camera under Win95; now, DCITU frees me from M$. Many thanks Stephane.


QUICKMOTION 2.0 WITH VIRTUAL REALITY

Practice announces QuickMotion 2.0 with QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) playback. QuickMotion 2.0 is a major upgrade to the award-winning QuickMotion product for playing QuickTime movies natively under OS/2 Warp.

With QuickMotion 2.0, you can view real-life objects captured in the interactive QTVR format, by far the most widely used VR format on the web. You can also interact with single and multi-node panoramas, which are complete 360-degree views constructed from real photographs, 3D renderings, or any other source. Zoom in and discover more detail. Click on a hot spot to link to another location in the scene or to another web site.

Virtual Reality content can be navigated inside Netscape using the QuickFlick plugin, or stored locally and brought up on your desktop using the QuickFlick stand-alone application.

QuickMotion is not just a clone of the QTVR players for other platforms. It was designed just for OS/2. Many of these features are ONLY available to OS/2 QuickMotion users, and not to users of the shipping Windows plugin:

QuickMotion 2.0 is currently available for on-line purchase at our web site. The full version is $34.95. Registered users of QuickMotion 1.x can upgrade for $19.95.

To purchase, or download a demo, visit

http://www.quickmotion.com/

Enjoy!

- Tom Harding
Practice Corporation
Internet Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP
March 2, 1998

TWO-LINE SOHO FAX/VOICE SOFTWARE FOR OS/2

WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINNESOTA (March 2, 1998) - Keller Group, developer of the fax software sold as FaxWorks for OS/2 and PMfax, now has special dual-line versions of its popular fax and voice software for OS/2. Available in both standalone and LAN configurations, the new products provide two-line capability at a very attractive price so that small office and home office (SOHO) users can satisfy all their fax and voice messaging needs on the OS/2 platform.

The new SOHO standalone product ($199) allows simultaneous use of two telephone lines for faxing and voice messaging. Many popular fax modems and Brooktrout cards are supported, and scripts are provided for multiple voice mailboxes, fax-on-demand, remote retrieval of voice and fax items, forwarding and paging. You can forward your fax and voice messages to another telephone number, or forward them via e-mail for Internet retrieval anywhere in the world. The same type of fax/voice hardware is needed for both lines, but each line can be separately controlled in the script to provide different fax and voice services on each line.

The SOHO LAN product ($299) provides all of the above features and adds simple LAN support. This product allows "shared mode" use of the fax/voice hardware by up to five other OS/2 workstations and includes the dual-line support. It is intended for small LAN configurations where privacy, routing and other advanced features of the regular PMfax LAN products are not needed.

"These new products demonstrate our commitment to supporting the use of OS/2 by the home and small office user," says Mark Ahlstrom, President of Keller Group. "We have other products for larger corporate users, but we continue to see OS/2 used in small office and home office situations. We want to make it easier for these users to run PMfax for both their fax and voice lines."

PMfax is available in multiline configurations of up to 96 lines per CPU with support for multiple CPUs and may other advanced features, but this advanced functionality is designed for larger LAN and fax broadcasting users and is priced at several hundred dollars per line. The new SOHO products provide the second line at a much lower price, but they do not affect Keller's previous offerings since the special SOHO line cannot be combined with other multiline or LAN options.

All PMfax products are now available for electronic ordering and delivery through the Keller Group web site at http://www.kellergroup.com/.

PMfax is a trademark of Keller Group Inc. FaxWorks is a trademark of Global Village Communication.

- Mark Ahlstrom
Keller Group News Release
Tel: 612/429-7273, Fax: 612/653-1987