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Chem USA has announced its ChemBook 8600 series, a laptop that includes a biometric fingerprint sensor, dual hard drive and battery options, and incorporates Intel Mobile Pentium III processors, with speeds up to 1.0 GHz and a 100-MHz system bus. Display options include 15-inch TFT displays, which support XGA resolutions up to 1,024 by 768 pixels with 16.7 million colors.
The fingerprint security feature prevents unauthorized booting up or logging on by requiring a user to place his finger on the device during boot-up. The notebook also features four "instant launch" utility keys - for e-mail, Internet and power-saving, and one for users to define their own applications.
The notebook starts at $1,500. Head to www.chemusa.com for more features and information.
Two cool searching and screen printing tools
SilverLakeTech has two cool products you should take a look at:
Print Screen Works Version 6.0 gives you an easy way to capture and print, e-mail or fax anything that's on the computer screen. In the present Windows form, pressing the "Print Screen" button launches a tedious process of copying, pasting and opening other applications. Print Screen Works 6.0 sits in your system tray and converts the Print Screen button into a hot key, which triggers the capture process.
Once you capture an image (and you can capture the whole or just parts of the screen), you can save it as a .bmp or .jpg file.The software costs $30, and site licenses are available. A 15-day trial version is available at www.silverlaketech.com.
PC Data Finder Version 5.5 offers more file-searching flexibility than the Windows Explorer utility. With this software, you can search for keywords, e-mails, Outlook PST, Adobe PDF, ZIP compressed files, HTML files and Office Suite extensions.
The program can also conduct Boolean, proximity, phrase, wild card and complex queries on the documents in any directory or drive. The software costs $40; site licenses are available. Go to www.silverlaketech.com for more information.
Red Queen marries software and hardware
Red Queen Software has teamed with the makers of the ThumbDrive Secure hard drive to present the SAFE Plus package, which includes Red Queen's SAFE (Secure Assets For Everyone) software and a 32M-byte ThumbDrive Secure Universal Serial Bus hard drive.
The software lets you track all of your belongings in an easy-to-enter format. Originally started as an insurance industry application for logging antiques and other valuables, the software has evolved into a personal asset collection program.
The amazing part of this package is the technology behind the software. SAFE uses an SQL database, Microsoft ADO and DCOM technologies, and Seagate Crystal Reports as a report generator. It includes a built-in browser for cutting and pasting information from company Web sites into the records.
The SAFE Plus package costs $140 and comes with the 32M-byte ThumbDrive Secure to store all your records on the hard drive. Go to www.redqueensoftware.com for more information.
Get a 17-inch LCD monitor for $800
NEC-Mitsubishi last week announced two large-screen LCD monitors: the 17-inch NEC MultiSync LCD1720M and 18-inch NEC MultiSync LCD1850E, which cost $800 and $900, respectively. The LCD1720M has internal front-firing multimedia speakers built into its 3.4-inch-deep frame and weighs 16.1 pounds with its stand. The 1720M offers an ultrawide viewing angle of 160 degrees horizontally and vertically through NEC's XtraView wide-viewing-angle technology. The 1850E also includes the XtraView technology, measures 3.1 inches deep and weighs 18.7 pounds with its stand.
Both monitors are available now through NEC-Mitsubishi resellers. For more information, go to www.necmitsubishi.com.
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