Silicon Northwest
by Stephen R.Jones (Tuesday evening, November 16, 1999)
There were many exciting products shown at this year's Silicon Northwest which Rick has attended since way back in 1992! The following sponsors were scheduled to exhibit at Silicon Northwest:
Acer America
Agfa
Appian Graphics
audiohighway.com
Aureal
Backweb
Caere
Conversa
DeepCanyon.com
Eastman Kodak
Ecrix
Elastic Networks
Epson America
eSoft
GoAmerica Communications
HP JetSend Division
IBM Hard Disk Drives
ImageX.com
Intel Connected Products
IOGEAR
Iomega
JSB/surfCONTROL
Key Tronic
LanguageWare.net
Laplink.com
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LizardTech
LoisLaw.com
Linear Tape-Open Technology
NetZero
NETsilicon
Nikon
OfficeClick.com
Perfumania.com
Plextor
PowerQuest
Powerware
Reality Fusion
RuleSpace
Senada.com
Storactive
Thoughtstar
WeSync.com
Visio
Wild File
WizCom
Workfire.com
Worldstream
WRQ
XpertSite.com
Xybernaut
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LizardTech - MrSID image compression
If you share large scientific or pre-press images you know that even WinZip can't shrink them to a more modem friendly size. Well, LizardTech has applied wavelet image compression to the problem in the form of $495 MrSID software that can reduce high-res images down to as little as 3 percent of original size without visible loss of detail. Plug-ins for Photoshop or your web browser are a free download. What's more, the software can effectively "up-res" images, adding detail to large-format output.
Visio 2000 Professional
The newly released Visio Professional 2000 promises to be the Swiss army knife of IT diagramming tools. Its new features include updated network shapes (such as VPNs and firewalls), automatic diagramming of popular database, C++/Java/VB reverse engineering technology for generating class diagrams, and improved web site mapping with collapsible branches.
Copyright
© 1999 Stephen R. Jones All rights reserved.
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