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Reviews News: Software galore

November 15, 2002
URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/reviews/hardware/storage/soa/Reviews-News-Software-galore/0,139023427,120269974,00.htm

There's a fair bit of cheap, small-company software this week, followed by some pretty serious storage solutions. First up, our personal favourite, a dirt-cheap digital camera.

A sub-hundred dollar digital camera is on the market just in time for Xmas. SiPix has released its StyleCam Blink, a 5x5cm USB camera that can store up to 400 images in it's 8 Mb of memory. Of course, that's only about 20Kb an image, so the images won't be brilliant. However, it's a 0.3 megapixel resolution, and can stream 100 images together to create a video clip. It also comes with some software.

Good ol' D-Link has announced a new version of the DWL-810 ethernet to wireless bridge-this one allows an Xbox or PS2 to link up and connect in either ad hoc mode, one console to another or infrastructure mode. This can be done over the Internet or to an 802.11b wireless network, according to D-Link. The device goes for AU$270, or NZ$408.

A company by the name of Gilles Vollant Software has released Smartversion, a US$30 program which allows you to save and retrieve multiple versions of the same file. It does this by storing the changes to the file with a compression algorithm, according to the company.

Small business got some simple help from MYOB this week with the release of BusinessBasics. For AU$179 MYOB reckons SOHO operators can produce professional looking quotes and invoices in seconds and e-mail them straight from the program. It's also customer payments services capable.

Once you've created all those masterpieces, you can hop-on-over to CyberMatrix Corporation, which has released Image Vault, a US$25 program designed to allow you to manage and control access to large image collections.

For the artistic, NaturePainter Software has released a tutorial program to teach budding painters how to paint with oils and acrylics. Dubbed NaturePainter Digital Canvas, it has tutorials and features designed to help you learn how to paint before investing in expensive supplies. It's priced at US$49.95 and there is a free trial version available from the site.

Quantum has released the DX30 in Australia, a move which was mooted way back in May. The concept is to provide tape-density backup in a disk format. The RRP is AU$110,000, quite a bit higher than the AU$90,000 it was originally going to go for.

StorageTek has released the StorageNet 3400 (SN3400) Multi-Protocol Router, which is designed to bring SCSI tape libraries such as the L180/700E/5500 into Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.