Reader mail & Rumor Report-October 21, 2009

Welcome to this week's Reader mail & Rumor Report.

This week's rumors:

• Babya to release bTunes Plus
• bSuite loses bLib?
• Production Suite 2
• Babya System
• Babya Discoverer

Babya to release bTunes Plus

Babya's new bTunes is proving to be quite popular-so we were interested to hear from one of sources that a "plus" version is in the works for early 2010.

Apparently, the plus version will include bTunes and a video playing companion app-bTunes Movie Store.

The unusual name for the video playing companion, our sources says is because it not only plays videos, it can catalogue them.

bSuite loses bLib?

In conjuction with above rumor of the "bTunes Movie Store", it's been reported by a source closely involved with Alvin Novick's digital media team that bLib has been dropped from bSuite 2010.

Production Suite 2

Babya recently confirmed "Production Suite 2" but didn't announce any new features-however a source closely involved with Alvin Novick's digital media team has suggested the following is new:

• there's a new FFMPEG based video conversion utility
• Babya Firestorm is not included-replaced by a new, as yet unnamed special effects generation app

Babya System

The next version of Babya System-2010, our sources indicate is likely to be demoed at the January Babya Expo.

Contrary to what is said on the Babya website-saying that the 2010 version focuses on refining Babya System's feature set-paving the way for exciting new features, there has been a couple of new additions being planned-eg.

bDesktop has a redesigned layout, saying "it's designed to resemble a Linux based OS".

Development is expected to start soon.

Babya Discoverer

On a related note, Babya users expecting Babya Discoverer 2010 to be out next month will be interested to hear that one source suggests "it has been been constantly delayed-the planned dual view feature is being dropped as Babya is investigating its future."

That's it for this week's report

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-March 26, 2007

In today's Reader Mail & Rumor Report, we note the release of Babya BookSmart and Babya Spotlight 1.1 and we preview some of the new features in Babya System '08.

Babya BookSmart

Babya BookSmart is now available to download.

BookSmart is a complete, customable and free library management system which you can be able to use it for any college school or institution and for other types of business (eg. book retailers) or personal use .

The system can be able to perform inventory process on books, borrowing books, returning borrowed books as well as monitoring them all.

It also comes with a secure user management system and security system and lot,lot more in one application.

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?30000000036587

Babya System '08 preview
Below is a sneak preview of some of the features that will be included with the upcoming Banya System '08.

Desktop4
A new feature in Babya System '08 will allow you to have multiple virtual desktops is Babya Desktop4.

Many other operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" include a virtual desktop.

Babya System '08's Desktop4 application does this in Windows via a attractive launcher.

You can have a desktop dedicated to a specific task-eg. you might setup Desktop4 like this: games on desktop #2, one for Office on #1, and for 2 different types of Babya apps on #3 & #4.

On each virtual desktop you can have different wallpapers, icons, folders, colors, etc.


Desktop4 is very unobstrusive-you can position it anywhere on your desktop.

Babya Virtual Drive

Babya Virtual Drive lets you create virtual drives from folders without using Subst.exe.

Babya Virtual Drive will also be available to run from the Babya System control panel

Using Babya Virtual Drive:
[1] Start Babya Virtual Drive.
[2] Select Drive Letter from list of drive Letters.
[3] See if you can use this Drive letter under Drive Type info.
[4] Select Folder which you want to mount as Drive. You also can Drag a folder into the textbox.
[5] Click on Mount button to Mount it or else click on the Unmount button to Unmount the virtual drive

You can also use two keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+M-mounts the virtual drive
Ctrl+U-unmounts the virtual drive

Babya Virtual Application Platinum

One of the features of the upcoming Babya System 2008 (15.0) will include is Babya Virtual Application Platinum-a remote desktop type server/client designed especially for applications-such as small utilities.

Babya System '08 will be released in mid-2007.

Babya Spotlight 1.1

Babya Spotlight 1.1 is now available to download.

It is a recommended update for users of Babya System '06.

Babya Spotlight 1.1 gives you quick access to multiple search engines-such as Google and Lycos from the system tray.

It's very unobustrive and can be run from a USB flash drive.

Download:

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?29000000037376

That's it for today's reader mail and rumor report.