CapeSoft Newsletter #29
- 8 April 2003 -
CapeSoft Email
Server (v1.51)
CapeSoft is proud to announce CapeSoft Email Server. This
new software product is a compact SMTP & POP3 Server for small or medium
businesses and home environments. It's easy to use and provides you with full
control over email domains, mailboxes and aliases.
For $30 it's a steal.
As usual - upgrades are free. The number of mailboxes are unlimited so you don't
have to pay again as your company grows or your needs increase.
CapeSoft Email Server, which has been built using our
popular NetTalk accessory, presents you with the following
functionality:
Price: $30
Download a 60-day trial or read all
about CapeSoft Email Server at:
www.capesoft.com/utilities/EmailServer/CapeSoftEmailServerIntroduction.htm
Software programmers please note we will
be selling the source code and a personal version of this mail server shortly.
More
details .
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NetTalk
(v2.73)
Quite simply, NetTalk is the
Networking accessory for Clarion. Using low-level Winsock functionality you get
unmatched flexibility, performance and compatibility. Whether you're writing
Clarion programs that need to talk to each other, or interacting via TCP/IP with
other software, NetTalk is the solution for you.
NetTalk features : SMTP / POP3 (Email), NNTP (News),
HTTP (Web) and FTP.
Dial-Up-Networking. NetTalk
Protocol, for ultra-robust, ultra-easy Clarion-to-Clarion communications.
150+ pages of documentation, 10 Jump-Starts and 20 Examples.
Read all
about NetTalk at
http://www.capesoft.com/accessories/netsp.htm
Price: $299
More important
recent changes in version 2.73 include:
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File Explorer
(v2.5d)
File Explorer is currently back in beta whilst
preparing for a version 3.0 release. We have rewritten the WebBrowser object and
underlying engine from the ground up, making the product even faster and more
stable, and opening up new functional possibilities which we're currently
implementing. These include moving the Html Editing control away from the
Clarion OLE dependencies, to a point where it now uses only pure (stable) COM,
implementing the Plugware engine. Lots of new methods, new examples and
new possibilities.
Price:
$99
For a complete list of what's been improved, please visit the File Explorer
webpage at http://www.capesoft.com/docs/fileexplorer/FileExplorer.htm
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Office Inside (v1.0 beta 4c)
Office Inside is one of our new
products. It wraps the MS Office COM objects, offering a truly stable approach
to integrating and automating MS Office functionality from within your
applications. We have just released the beta 4 release of Office Inside,
which now has a fairly extensive library wrapping MS Word, and has the
beginnings of Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook taking shape. We are starting
off by building easy ways to add Mail Merge, Spell Checking and Reporting to
your application, with many more ideas for the future. Watch this
space!
Price: $199
For more information please visit http://www.capesoft.com/docs/office/OfficeInside.htm
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Replicate (v1.0 beta 14)
Replicate provides an automatic, driver
independent, file-version independent, mechanism for replicating the data in
two or more databases.
Basically, Replicate logs your changes, adds and deletes and then using a transport
manager of your choice, exports the changes to the other sites, where the changes,
adds and deletes are imported to that data set. This all done completely automatically
without your users having to do anything!! Replicate
supports both offline and online environments.
Currently still in beta, Replicate is moving towards Gold status.
The product still has a way to go in terms of features, but has reached a healthy
stability point. For those on the beta program, we recommend implementing the
updates, and if you have not updated up to beta 14, please do so. If you are
not receiving notification of upgrades, please email
replicate@capesoft.com with
the subject: 'Notify me of upgrades'.
Price: $349
For more information please visit http://www.capesoft.com/accessories/replicatesp.htm
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CapeSoft Mailer (v1.9m)
CS Mailer is our bulk email distribution tool (used
to send you this newsletter <g>). We have been improving and tweaking
this product over the past months. For more information and screenshots, visit
http://www.capesoft.com/utilities/Mailer/Mailer.htm
Price: $99
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File Manager 3 (v3.0 beta 16)
File Manager 3 continues moving through the
beta stages steadily. Currently supporting the Microsoft SQL, Oracle, and ODBC
drivers (ODBC limited to Microsoft SQL, Oracle and MySQL backends), it has in
the last couple of months grown in features and solidity. File Manager 3 has
also grown in management and design characteristics as we have gained more knowledge
in best practices and design using Clarion and SQL.
A big thank you to Shawn Mason for his input and expertise at the Clarion/MSSQL
training course held in Cape Town, South Africa last month. His contribution
to our understanding of this complex topic has been extremely helpful.
In line with the general CapeSoft policy of maintaining support for 3 versions
of Clarion, we have dropped the support for Clarion 4 and 16-bit applications.
A build for Clarion 6 EA testers is available for download at our website.
File Manager 3 manages and upgrades the file structures of many of Clarion's
supported drivers including SQL drivers. Watch while it effortlessly converts
your TPS applications to SQL, including the creation of new files, and the copying
of existing data.
Price: $149
For more information: http://www.capesoft.com/accessories/fm3sp.htm
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Clarion / MsSQL training by Shawn Mason
Having experienced this intensive 3 day course right here in sunny
Cape Town, we can say unreservedly say that it's highly recommended, especially
for folk with little, or no, previous experience with SQL. If it comes
anywhere in range of you, and you're interested in SQL, then don't miss it...
Many of the CapeSoft programmers attended, and it certainly has increased our
understanding of the issues involved immeasurably.
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Recent Updates
Ezhelp - 2.53 released
25 March 2003
Winevent - 2.91 released
24 March 2003
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