Reader Mail & Rumor Report-November 8, 2005:

We conclude our coverage of the Babya media event with the announcement of Babya Publisher.

Babya unveils Babya Publisher:

Babya Software Group today introduced Babya Publisher-a innovative page layout application which features a intergrated Babya Photo Workshop.

Babya Software Group today introduced Babya Publisher-a innovative page layout application which features a intergrated Babya Photo Workshop. With Babya Publisher, users can easily create various types of documents-such as flyers, business cards and greeting kinds and enhance images without opening a separate image editor. The intergrated Babya Photo Workshop has several new features. New airbrush tool Can open and roundtrip files (eg. you could open a image in Publisher, edit it there and import that in to Photo Workshop) from Babya Photo Workshop Professional and Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL. File/standard and paint tool icons arragned vertically Image tracing Smudge brush Different text placement-a text box is placed first, whereas in the standalone Babya Photo Workshop, text is put on the canvas last. Text options-new 3D effect option Fill patterns "Hollow" shape option is called "Clear" No Magic wand tool for color changing Visual zoom tool Comic book creation (create your own Jhonen Vasquez style comics)-word balloons Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy noted, "I think the last feature, is a very fun new addition-you'll spend hours creating your own comics with it. " Pricing and Availability: Babya Publisher is available from today to download at: http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000039053 About Babya : Babya Software Group is a award-winning developer of digital media software including Babya bSuite, bPicture and Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic. Babya's software has won many awards over the past 2-3 years, including 5 stars (Babya bSuite, 2005).

Babya Media Event-Presenter & Babya Presenter Pro 3 announced:

In this report we continue our coverage of the media event with the announcement of Babya Presenter & Babya Presenter Pro 3 .

Babya PhotoPro is mentioned in the press release, but it has yet to be announced. .

Babya Software Group today announced a all-new Babya Presenter product line, featuring a new Pro version with support for creating audio & image slideshows.

Babya Presenter is a easy to use presentation package, with a basic and a 'studio' interface. Many images are provided.

It can integrate with Babya Photo Workshop Professional.

Babya Presenter Standard 3.0 also includes a impressive titler application-Babya bLogo

Also available is Babya Presenter Pack:Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.

Babya Presenter Pack:Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds is a collection of 166 amazing backgrounds and textures for use in presentation packages such as Babya Presenter, OpenOffice Impress, Microsoft Office Powerpoint & Apple Keynote.


Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy noted, "The new Babya Presenter product line with the all-new Babya Presenter Pro are easy to use presentation packages, offering slideshow creation with impressive transitions."

Babya Presenter & Babya Presenter Pro are also offered in the most complete suite of digital imaging products ever offered as freeware-,Babya Photo Workshop Professional & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL and also included with the new Babya Graphics Suite & Babya PhotoPro.

Each of the above includes 10 Babya digital imaging products.

Babya Photo Workshop Professional & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL includes:
-Babya Photo Workshop Professional for pro level image editing and over 30 new and exciting effect filters
-Babya Effects FX
-Babya Effects FX Studio
-Babya Album-a web album creator
-Babya Photo Workshop Mini Lab with brilliant color correction tools
-Babya Presenter-the popular Babya presentation tool

Pricing & Availbility:
Babya Presenter Standard, Babya Babya Presenter Pro 3.0 & Babya Presenter Pack Vol. 1 are now available to download at:

Babya Presenter Standard 3.0:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000039029
Babya Babya Presenter Pro 3.0:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000039028
Babya Presenter Pack Vol. 1:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21500000036519

That's it for today's reader mail & rumor report-our next report will include our wrap up and thoughts on the event and our rumor winners/losers list posted, and other notes about the announcement as well.

Babya Media Event-Babya E-Type 2 announced:

In this report we continue our coverage of the Babya media event with the announcement of a new version of Babya E-Type, featuring a built-in Babya PDF Converter.

Babya Software Group today unveiled Babya E-Type 2 featuring support for the industry-standard Adobe PDF file format.

Babya E-Type is a word processor/script or programmer's editor with a incredible sense of style.

Now included with Babya E-Type is a built-in version of Babya PDF Converter, allowing anyone convert their text based documents to PDF in minutes, without using a separate PDF creation package."

Some of the features of Babya E-Type are:

-MDI/tabbed interface (similar in style to Babya Discoverer)

-Easy access to files via a file explorer task pane

-Can be used as a programmer’s text editor/script editor

-Opens and saves text, Visual Basic .bas/module files (also can open other programming code files, eg. .asp, *.php or .html) and RTF files (can open files of unlimited sizes, unlike Notepad on Windows 95/98/ME systems) and the common .rtf format.

-Can export documents to PDF

-Also can be installed and used from a USB Flash drive-very compact when installed

-Multiple item clipboard

-Encrypt and decrypt text files feature for extra file security

-Document compare

-Can use/intergrate files from other Babya or third-party software-create compound

documents.

Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy noted, "Babya E-Type 2's intergrated support for the industry-standard Adobe PDF file format, allows anyone to easily convert their text based documents to PDF in minutes, without using a separate PDF creation package."

Pricing and Availability:

Babya E-Type is available immediately as a free download at :

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Babya_EType/1105869579/1

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000038621

Also, it is available as part of Babya bSuite 2-components include:

-word processing

-spreadsheets

-databases

-slideshows and albums

-web and RSS browsing

-image editing

-word translations

-accounting software

-web site creation

-audio playback/conversion

Babya Media Event-Live Coverage:

In this report we continue our coverage of the media event with a live coverage of the event.

Babya Media Event
November 6, 2005
Welcome to today’s media event
First up
Babya PhotoRoll
Fun photo editing software
Act 1:
Babya Photo Workshop
Over 20, 000 downloads since Nov. 2003
Released v. 10.0 in August with Babya Photo Center for easy photo correction
Today
We’re going to replace both Babya Photo Workshop and Photo Workshop XL with all-new versions
New Features in Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10.5 & Photo Workshop XL 11:
Babya Mandela Painter
Babya PhotoMasker
Babya Particle Studio
Act 2Babya bSuite :
Babya E-Type
Introducing version 2
New in Babya E-Type 2
New Features in Babya E-Type 2:
Babya PDF Converter Features
Babya E-Type Draw
Easily create artwork within E-Type, while composing documents
Babya bSuite 2.0 available in December, includes Babya E-Type 2.
Act 3:
Introducing Babya Graphics Suite:
A complete and powerful graphics suite, featuring Babya Publisher, Babya PhotoPro and Babya bPicture & Babya Presenter Pro
Babya PhotoPro:
A professional image-editing and digital asset management suite which includes Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL & Babya bPicture.
Babya Publisher:
"DTP with the ease of Babya Photo Workshop"
Basically, a page layout application with a simplified, improved and integrated version of Babya Photo Workshop.
About the built-in Babya Photo Workshop:
· New airbrush tool
· Can open and roundtrip files (eg. you could open a image in Publisher, edit it there and import that in to Photo Workshop) from Babya Photo Workshop Professional and Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL.
· File/standard and paint tool icons arragned vertically
· Image tracing
· Smudge brush
· Different text placement-a text box is placed first, whereas in the standalone Babya Photo Workshop, text is put on the canvas last.
· Fill patterns
· "Hollow" shape option is called "Clear"
· No Magic wand tool for color changing
· Visual zoom tool
· Comic book creation (create your own Jhonen Vasquez style comics)-word balloons
Babya Presenter 3.0
Create slideshows with high-quality pre-rendered transitions for use in presentations. Slideshows can be set to loop continuously (and can be timed) if needed.Comes with Editor (to organize your slideshow, and to render it), and Client (deployed with the slideshow for playback). Writes 24-bit bitmaps for superb picture quality and crossfades, and can render to various resolutions.
With simplistic coding, the small program contains numerous transitions, and renders images quickly.* Requires no additional DLLs for rendering. The slideshow viewer uses as little memory as possible to still provide smooth transitions, and is optimized to be fast and efficient.
Now includes support for audio/image slideshows
"Slideshows on the go”-according to A.A. Fussy
Audio + image slideshow support in new pro version
Available to download today at:
Babya Presenter 3.0:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000039029
Babya Presenter Pro 3.0:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000039028HYPERLINK "http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000039028"