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InterMapper 4.0.5 available

InterMapper® 4.0.5 network monitoring and
alerting program and its companion viewer and configuration tool, InterMapper
Remote™ 4.0.5, are now available from Dartware.


InterMapper provides a graphical view of your network so that it's easy to see
what's happening. It also offers a rapid time to value - 75% of our customers
report they had InterMapper monitoring their network within two hours. When
InterMapper detects a problem, it notifies the network manager of problems using
sounds, pages, e-mail, and text messages.

InterMapper Remote lets you see a live view of the network, and allows the
network manager to configure the InterMapper server from a remote location, even
while on the road or from home.

InterMapper tests virtually any kind of network device (router, switch, server,
workstation, etc.), and can monitor small and large networks (over 1500 devices)
with equal ease. It runs on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, MacOS 9 and MacOS X, and
various Unix/Linux distrubutions including Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, and
FreeBSD.

The new features of InterMapper 4.0.5 include:

• Drill-down for local maps on Traditional (MacOS 9 & X) versions.
  
• Improved installers for Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD and other Unix
  distributions.
  
• Improvements to the Map Status probe to better reflect the state of the
  underlying map.
  
• Uses OpenSSL 0.9.7b libraries on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD to incorporate
  security fixes in that library.
  
• New POP3-SSL probe; the existing POP3 probe can now test authentication.
  
• Improved messages make it easier to enter evaluation serial numbers.
  
• It is now possible to include parameter data in a device label.
  
• Fixes to HTTP, DHCP and RADIUS probe, saving maps, outages log file,
  background images, custom icons in Unix/Linux, modem paging, and several minor
  bugs.
  

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Product Announcement: Cinematics v1.0.1

Charlotte, NC - einstein’s legacy, LLC. is proud to announce the release of Cinematics (version 1.0.1), an innovative new media player that helps you build and manage playlists of digital movies on your Macintosh. Cinematics can be used for a wide variety of applications, both in the office and at home. Whether you are a business owner who needs to showcase your producs or a home video enthusiast who needs help organizing and presenting your digital video collection, Cinematics is an excellent tool to help you with your needs.

Key Product Features

• The User Interface
  
  
  Cinematics intuitive user interface makes building, modifying and playing movie playlist easy. Your playlist and movie information is always visible, along with a current movie preview and your movie controls. Most tasks can be initiated with a single mouse click or by a simple drag’n’drop. For example, to add an entire directory of movies to a playlist simply drag the folder from the Finder onto the Cinematics Playlist or Movie tables.
  
  
  
  
• QuickTime Technology
  
  
  Using QuickTime’s movie importers, Cinematics can play a wide variety of movie formats including native QuickTime Moov, MPEG, and Microsoft’s AVI formatted media.
  
  
  
  
• Expert Mode
  
  
  Cinematics provides shortcuts that enable advanced users to perform most tasks without needing to navigate through any menus. Almost all the things you do to play back a movie, manage a movie playlist, or adjust the viewing environment can be accomplished with the use of a few keystrokes.
  
  
  
  
• Detailed Movie Controls
  
  
  Cinematics movie controls give you a great deal of freedom in how you playback your movie playlists. You can control attributes such as frame-level playback, movie playback speed, and random access to movie information.
  
  
  
  
• Additional Features
  
  
  Cinematics has a number of other great features designed to enhance your user experience. These include full screen playback, context sensitive playback menus, fixed and adaptive movie playback sizes. Cinematics ease of use is facilitated by interactive tool tips throughout the user interface, Mac OS X help viewer integration, and high quality, comprehensive printable documentation.
  
  

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