Fabulatech Inc and Cat Software for Windows

Virtual Modem
$199.95 - FabulaTech, Inc.

There are many old data-centric applications that, for historical reasons, use direct modem connections to exchange data between Client and Server. Nowadays, local and global TCP/IP networks have made the direct modem connection obsolete.

Here's why: When you use a direct modem connection, you need to have a physical modem installed on each PC that needs to exchange data. You also must use a physical phone line. This makes the line busy and may even be costly, if long distance calls are required. Modem transfers are also not secure. A hacker doesn't even need to have an access to your phone line. Your data can be easily intercepted with a remote phone line scanner. In a TCP/IP network, on the contrary, you can use the power of a VPN (Virtual Private Networking), SSH or any other secure tunnel to ensure privacy and security.

There are a lot of reasons to move from a direct modem connection to TCP/IP networking. But, how can you do this without investing thousands into new software? Virtual Modem from FabulaTech provides a cheap and effective solution. This program creates virtual modems that use your local network or the Internet instead of a physical phone line.

How does it work? The virtual modems are accessible to all the applications that work through a direct modem connection. Setup is no different from setting up a physical modem. You simply select a virtual COM port in your communication application settings. The application can control the virtual modem directly by sending AT commands or with TAPI (MS Windows Telephony API). Thus, Virtual Modem should work out-of-the-box for all your communication programs.

One of the very useful Virtual Modem features is its "Address Book". The Address Book allows you to transparently translate phone numbers into IP addresses. You don't even have to change the phone numbers in your communication programs. Just put them into your Address Book.

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Virtual Serial Port Kit
$99.95 - FabulaTech, Inc.

Virtual Serial Port Kit creates pairs of virtual serial ports in your system which are virtually connected to each other. Physical null modem cables are not required. You can connect any number of virtual port pairs. Virtual serial port pairs will look and work exactly like real hardware serial ports connected via null modem cables.Virtual Serial Port Kit is designed for software developer to speed up development process during debugging and data-logging period and cut months or even years from total project time. Virtual Serial Port Kit is useful also for users which work with Windows applications using serial COM ports joined by null modem cable especially if those applications require more than one serial port pair.

FEATURES
- full hardware serial ports emulation.
- virtual serial ports look and work like real hardware ports.
- physical null modem cables are not required.
- virtual communication is more fast (up to 250 Kb/s) and reliable than
via real null modem cable.
- Serial data transmission speed (bitrate) emulation
- virtual serial ports configuration via Windows Device Manager.
- compatibility with PnP and WMI technologies.
- compatibility with VMware.
- hot program install - no system reboot is required.
- up to 127 virtual serial port pairs can be created.
- one click enable/disable button for all virtual serial ports.
- user friendly program interface.

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Network Serial Port Kit
$199.95 - FabulaTech, Inc.

Network Serial Port Kit allows you to connect any serial port devices over the TCP/IP network or Internet. Creation of local virtual serial ports pairs are available as well.

Program creates up to 254 virtual serial ports at a time. Physical COM ports located on remote computer can be connected to host computer over the network as well. You can connect data collection serial devices: bar code scanners, modems, sensors, meters, gages, RF equipment, telephone PBX systems, laboratory or industrial instruments, and so on - to the serial ports of your computer to deliver that data anywhere over any TCP/IP based network.

For example you can convert usual PC to "Serial Port Server" so then you can connect any serial device directly to a TCP/IP network and communicate with that device from any other PC in the same network or across the Internet. This allows you to use existing Windows based serial communications software to send and receive data to remote serial device across a network.

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Serial Port Splitter
$99.95 - FabulaTech, Inc.

Serial Port Splitter allows to share dataflow of one COM port between several applications or vice versa to join dataflow of several COM port devices to one application. Such program universality is achieved by means of virtual serial ports technologies. Moreover Serial Port Splitter allows to setup READ/WRITE or READ ONLY mode for splitted ports and READ/WRITE or WRITE ONLY mode for joined serial ports.

Program features:
- One COM port can be splitted up to 254 virtual ports
- One COM port can be opened by several applications at the same time
- Several COM ports can be joined to one virtual port
- READ/WRITE or READ ONLY mode mode for splitted serial ports
- READ/WRITE or WRITE ONLY mode mode for joined serial ports
- Once created virtual serial ports are operable at each system startup
- Compatibility with Hyper-Threading Technology
- Compatibility with PnP and WMI technologies
- Compatibility with VMware software
- Hot program install - no system reboot is required
- User friendly interface

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Virtual Serial Port Control
$199.95 - FabulaTech, Inc.

If there is a task to provide interaction between communications application and your own program (e.g. serial device emulator), there is no common solution to accomplish it. It is considered that communications applications are intended to work only with hardware serial devices connected to physical serial ports.

Virtual Serial Port Control is an ActiveX control which makes it possible to create virtual serial ports directly from your program and fully control them. At the same time virtual ports look like real hardware serial ports for all Windows applications. And any communications application can work with them as if they were physical ports.

On the other hand, developer API provided by Virtual Serial Port Control allows your program to access data written to virtual serial port by communications application and to respond with your own data. The data will be read by communications application from virtual serial port as if they were read from a physical port.

Event driven architecture is a snap to use. You don't have to check ports periodically in order to find if their state is changed or new data available for reading from a port. Simply define a function in your program that will be triggered automatically by the appropriate event and process the data.

At the same time Virtual Serial Port Control immediately notifies your application about any actions done by communications application with serial port (port opening/closing, setting DTR/RTS handshake, baud rate setting, XON/XOFF symbols setting, etc).

Virtual Serial Port Control provides developer with full control over virtual serial port. Everything that can be done with physical serial port by a serial device is possible to be done with virtual serial port by VSPC.

What is more important, OEM license allows you to distribute this ActiveX control as part of your own application and you don't have to license every single copy.

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WinCatalog 2.3
$39.95 - WinCatalog.com

It?s more than a simple CD catalog. It?s WinCatalog.

What is WinCatalog? Three words answer is ?cd catalog software?. But WinCatalog is much more. Actually, WinCatalog is a program for cataloging disks, folders, files and even non-file items like books or home inventory. With WinCatalog you can take stock of every item from your environment.

Here are some parts of the program.

Each PC user, web surfer or music fan has dozens of disks burned with programs, downloaded web pages or music, digital photos or other files. And he/she periodically asks three questions: (a) which disk a file (document, song, etc.) is burned on, (b) where that disk is located and (c) who has taken the disk?

WinCatalog will answer these questions at once.

You do not need to re-purchase a song just because you can?t find the purchased one. With WinCatalog you will never loose your files again. Just type a song title and WinCatalog will tell you which disk it is burned on and which shelf the disk is located on.

Cannot find a disk? Run WinCatalog and it will tell you who (and when) have borrowed the particular disk.

Do you want to catalog books? You can catalog books in the same way as disks and track the every book location and availability.

Do you want to catalog your garage storage? It is not a problem, use custom records. One item in the program can represent one real thing from the storage. Attach a comment if you want and you will always know what is kept at home.

Do you want to try WinCatalog for FREE? Download WinCatalog today and get your time unlimited FREE trial. The evaluation version allows adding up to 5 volumes into a single collection file. Start cataloging right now and you will be able to merge your collections in the future.

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