Reader Mail and Rumor Report-April 9, 2005:

Today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report looks at 2 upcoming Babya software-Babya File Browser and Babya Photo Center and news about Babya bSuite 1.5.


Babya Photo Center:

Babya Photo Center is a all in one photo editing software designed for quick editing of photos. Also it can be used with Babya Photo Workshop or separately.

With Babya Photo Center you can:
-adjust contrast/saturation and brightness
- change RGB levels in images
-easily apply effects to images

Babya Photo Center will be released early next month.

A screenshot of Babya Photo Center:
http://img71.exs.cx/img71/527/babyaphoto2wo.jpg


Babya File Browser:
Also in development is Babya File Browser-a central way to preview images before editing in Babya imaging application.

The Babya bSuite product team provided the following details about Babya File Browser at their blog which you can visit at:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/babyasoftwaregr

The next versions of the Babya imaging applications (Babya Photo Workshop, Effects FX, Babya Album) will include Babya File Browser-a central file browser-a central way to view images before editing.
Babya File Browser is currently codenamed 'Prospect'.

If you have used other file browsers such as the File Browser/Adobe Bridge found in Adobe Creative Suite, it would then be easy to learn Babya File Browser as basically the UI shares common elements in both applications.

It's unclear when Babya File Browser will be released-perhaps with Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10-currently it is rumored to be released by the end of September.

Here's a screenshot of the current build:

http://img210.exs.cx/img210/4821/bfilebrws8ye.jpg

Babya bSuite 1.5:

A update to Babya bSuite, version 1.5 was announced this week and expected to be available in early May. Below is the official Babya press release for Babya bSuite 1.5:

Babya Software Group today announced Babya bSuite 1.5 -a update to Babya's ground breaking free office and digital media suite.

New in version 1.5:
-Babya bMovie HD-high definition quality video streaming solution
-Babya bMix-8 track MIDI sequencer
-Babya bFlow-visual flowcharting application
-Babya bMovie-a easy to use, 4 step movie creator

Features and Components:

Babya bSuite includes the below applications:word processing,spreadsheets,databases,slideshows and albums,web and RSS browsing,image editing,word translations,accounting software,web site creation ,audio playback/conversion.

Babya E-Type :

Babya E-Type is a word processor/script or programmer's editor with an incredible sense of style.
-Some of the features of Babya E-Type are:

Opens and saves text, Visual Basic .bas/module files (also can open other programming code files, eg. .asp, *.php or .html) and RTF files and the common .rtf format.
Babya bSheet:

-Excel style spreadsheetCan use more than 1 worksheet in a file.

Babya bAccounting:

Easy to use,Just the basics.
Comparable to QuickBooks New User Edition,Many small businesses don't need a complex package.-Includes customer management, invoicing and simple inventory management,Secure, multi-user login,Available standalone and in bSuite.
Uses a editable database.

Babya bDesign lets you integrate elements created in other Babya bSuite applications.
Stylish interface,Included with bSuite or available separately.

Comes with HTML page templates.

Outstanding Features-real time preview editing environment,HTML code editor with syntax highlighting,Dynamic action when editing your page,many cool functions.

bLogo includes an amazing and mind boggling 166 backgrounds and textures-fancy that!

Primarily for bLogo, but we thought many of you don't want to use bLogo.Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.

A.A. Fussy remarked, "At the first Babya Expo for 2005, building on the success of last year's 2 expos, we have bigger, better products to be announced, introduced or previewed. These products will be awe-inspiring, ground-breaking, and most important innovative and professional results, but with the ease of use, Babya programs are very famous for."

More information about Babya bSuite can be found at:
http://geocities.com/babyap2002

Pricing and Availability:

Babya bSuite 1.5 will be available as a free download in early May.

That's it for today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report. Next week we will report on some very interesting rumors about Babya Photo Workshop 10 and also news on when Babya bSecure 2 may be released.

Reader Mail and Rumor Report-March 9, 2005:

Today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report includes news about:a all-new Babya bPicture product line and Babya Photo Workshop Professional 9 and Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 9 and rumors on:a minor bSuite update, a possible mid-April release for bSecure 2 and a new edition of Babya Presenter- Babya Presenter Pro.

All-new Babya bPicture product line announced:

Although a new version of Babya bPicture was expected to be released in January, it wasn't.

Ending a three month wait and shipping next month, as previously rumored ( http://tinyurl.com/4o77y) a all new bPicture product line was unveiled earlier today-version X as we expected it would be called .

Below is the press release about the new bPicture product line :

Babya Software Group today unveiled the revolutionary and all-new Babya bPicture X product line.

The two new editions, Babya bPicture X and Babya bPicture X Express offers fast and easy image management and slideshows. Also part of the Babya bPicture X product line, Babya bPicture X Professional offers a high-end digital asset management solution.

New features in version X includes:
-Easy and intergrated way to create and play slideshows
-Faster-neat if you're browsing thousands of images
-Babya Effects FX 2
-Intergration with Babya bSuite

Babya bPicture X features include:
-Babya bPicture X
-Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL for pro level image editing and over 30 new and exciting effect filters
-Babya Effects FX 2
-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

Babya bPicture X Express features:
-Babya bPicture X Express
-Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL for pro level image editing and over 30 new and exciting effect filters
-Babya Effects FX 2
-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 and Availbility:
Babya bPicture X, Babya bPicture X Professional and Babya bPicture X Express will start shipping in early April.

(C) Babya Software Group, 2004-2005. All rights reserved.

Babya Photo Workshop Professional 9 and Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 9:

Babya Photo Workshop Professional 9 and Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 9 are expected to be released in April with Babya Effects FX 2 included.

Babya bSuite 1.1:
A minor update to Babya bSuite, 1.1 is currently being worked on and is expected to be released soon.

Babya bSecure 2 and Babya Presenter:
Babya bSecure 2 is now delayed to a mid-April release, whilst sources indicate a Pro version of Babya Presenter is in development.


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

Reader Mail and Rumor Report-February, 3 2005:

Today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report includes some very exciting news on the long-awaited Babya desktop search software, Babya Fractal Studio and Babya Effects FX 2.

Updated April 9, 2005 to include the latest information about the Babya desktop search software.


Babya Effects FX 2:
Babya Effects FX 2 is about to be released later this month, A.A. Fussy commented on this

" Babya Effects FX 2 includes a additional 34 wacky and zany image effects-some are very cool. We'll release it as part of Babya Photo Workshop 8 and XL Babya Photo Workshop 8.1."


Babya desktop search software:
Just as we go to publish today's report, only 30 minutes ago-Babya bDesktop Toolbar was intrdouced.

The slogan being used for bDesktop Toolbar is "Life is random":
You might wonder what the slogan means-A.A. Fussy explains below, what the Babya bDesktop Toolbar's slogan "Life is random" means:

"Life is random represents the unpredictably of what search results you get when you use Babya bDesktop Toolbar because you you can search in various categories and different search engines and you never know what the results might turn up.

You can even load it onto a iPod shuffle for instance, as some of the space can be allocated as storage on that or any USB flash drive."

Although the Babya desktop search software has not been announced yet, but it could be announced in the next 2-3 days.

Overall, we are very impressed and were suprised that it wasn't what we expected to be announced -a web toolbar that does not install any spyware, but actually was announced tonight.

Best of all, you can use and download it for free, right now at:
http://www.effectivebrand.com/LandingPage.aspx/CT35254

Update-April 9, 2005:The Babya desktop search suite is currently close to completing development and will be called called Babya bFind


Babya bSecure:

Last week we mentioned that Babya bSecure was to be released early this week. Suprisingly, it was not announced at all. Apparently the release date was pushed back to March.


Babya Fractal Studio:

Babya Fractal Studio again is something we didn't expect, but anyway it generates incredible and surrealistic images and wasy to use-a description:


Babya Fractal Studio-one of the most professional way to generate interesting and unusual fractal images.

Babya Fractal Studio includes features such as:

Fractal types inclusing- Mandelbrot, Julia set generation can be selected to create your image, a easy to use and customisable image effects system, a color palette creator similar in function to Babya Photo Workshop Professional's color palette editor.
Fast and quite mind boggling effects are easily achievable with Babya Fractal Studio in a matter of minutes.

Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy commented "Babya Fractal Studio is is one of most sophisticated fractal generators available for PC users."


Again, it's available now as well:
http://home.ripway.com/2004-12/221036/bfstudio.zip

Update-October 22, 2005: http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000038730

Reader Mail and Rumor Report-January 28, 2005:

Today's reader mail reports looks at the upcoming Babya System 14.0 and rumors on Babya bSuite.



Babya System 14.0
The next major release includes many of the Babya System applications from v 13.0, plus Babya bSuite. It's expected to be out in 1-2 months.


Babya bSuite:
Babya bSuite has started shipping, alongside Babya bPlayer, Babya Presenter 2.0, and Babya Discoverer RSS 11.0.

Babya bSecure 2.0:
The long awaited update is expected to be announced as early as next Monday and released a couple of days after.

That's it for today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report-next week we look at bSuite and bMix, Babya bFind-the Babya desktop search and more!:

BABYA EXPO:Babya bSuite Released:

Babya bSuite-a ground breaking free office and digital media suite.

Requires .NET framework, Windows 98 or later (some components require Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003)-includes the below:-word processing-spreadsheets-databases-slideshows and albums
-web and RSS browsing-image editing
-word translations-accounting software
-web site creation-audio playback/conversion
Components:
Babya E-Type-the bSuite word processor with a incredible
sense of style.-
Babya E-Type features:
-Babya E-Type is a word processor/script or programmer's editor with a incredible sense
of style.
-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, if you have PDF creation software installed (such as
Adobe® Acrobat® or Ghostscript)
-*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 bSheet::
Excel style spreadsheet
-Can use more than 1 worksheet in a file
-Easy to use
Babya bAccounting:

Just the basics
-Compareable to QuickBooks New User Edition-Many small businesses don't need a complex package
-Includes customer management, invoicing and simple inventory management-Secure, multi-user login
-Available standalone and in bSuite-Uses a editable .mdb database

Babya Discoverer RSS:
First update in nearly a year to the popular Babya web browser
-New look icon and splash screen and new look UI
-A new name for Babya Discoverer-Babya Discoverer RSS (11.0)
-Includes a download manager
-RSS viewer included-Babya bView (available separately)
-Access to Windows XP Service Pack 2's Security Center from Babya Discoverer RSS

-Babya bDesign lets you integrate elements created in other Babya bSuite applications-Replaces bWeb.
-Easy to use, creates professional looking sites quickly and with a minimum of fuss.
-Stylish interface-Included with bSuite or available separately
.-Comes with HTML page templates

-Outstanding Features:
-real time preview editing environment

-HTML code editor with syntax highlighting

-Dynamic action when editing your page
-Many many cool functions
.-Uses CodeMax for certain features


-bLogo includes an amazing and mind boggling 166 backgrounds and
textures-fancy that!
-Primarily for bLogo, but we thought many of you don't want to use bLogo.
Babya Presenter Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds
.-Use them in any application, as desired
-There will be addiitional volumes released throught 2005
bPlayer 2:
-A lot like MusicMatch, WMP or iTunes

Introducing bPlayer v 2.0 with Babya Shuffle:

-Features-very powerful music player-effortsly manage, play and convert music-View ID3 tags, manage playlists and organise your music albums.

-Uses Windows Media and Bass audio library technologies-All in one-no longer you need a separate program to convert audio.
-Built in Wav2MP3-now called Babya Shuffle.-"The best new feature in version 2.0-converts music into more audio formats (such as
.mp3 and .wma) that can be copied,for example, to an Apple(R) iPod(R) and other MP3 players."
- Babya Unwritten:
-"Easily translate a word into-eg. French."
-Compact and unobtrusive, can be used off a USB flash drive-Included with bSuite or downloadable.

Babya bSuite was announced at the Babya Expo and is now available to download.

Download:
Babya bSuite-Winsite

BABYA EXPO: Babya bPlayer, Babya Discoverer RSS and Babya Presenter 2.0 Released:

Babya bPlayer, Babya Discoverer RSS and Babya Presenter 2.0, which were announced at the Babya Expo are all now available to download:

Babya bPlayer 2.0-FileForum

Babya Discoverer RSS-FileForum

Babya Presenter 2.0 -FileForum

iReader Mail and Rumor Report-January 24, 2005

Today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report reports on the Babya Expo, Babya bMix and an Babya bSecure update, Babya Photo Workshop Pro being axed, updates on the Babya movie editor and desktop search and note the release of Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 8.0.




Babya Expo:
The Babya Expo is nearly over and we report on, some of the more impressive announcements and new products that were on show:

Babya bSecure/bZip:

Not demoed or announced, bSecure 2 is going well in development-A.A. says to expect a release early next week, with bSuite introduced.

Also version 2.0 archives files and there is also bZip, available standalone (saves in a custom file format).

Babya bFile 2:

Babya bFile 2 was announced and A.A. generously added that a CD cataloguer is include-out in 3 weeks, he mentioned.

Babya bSuite:

Babya bSuite is available starting from next month.

We were totally stunned when A.A. Fussy demoed a new 8-track Garageband style, sequencer-Babya , Babya bMix.

Available separately or with bSuite in February according to Fussy , features include

• Create music like Michael Jackson (or other artists)
• Powerful music composition
• Compose on up to 8 multiple audio tracks
• MIDI based with MIDI export
• 174 software instruments
• Adjust tempo and transpose tracks
• Notate music with over 30 tracks available
• Easy to use:

A.A. wowed the audience with a demo of some of the 174 software instruments available in bMix-for example:

• bass
• glockenspiel
• marimba
• Synthetic brass
• Shakuhachi (a oriental style of music)
• Guiro
• Sound FX effects
• Cabasa
• Shanai (another oriental style of music)- accordingn to A.A. "One night in Bangkok and Shanai's your music oyster"

Screenshot:

http://geocities.com/babyap2002/babya_3.jpg

All tracks are displayed in contrasting colours, for easy indentification, A.A. noted.

Babya, our regular reader was really in harmony with the demo of the Guiro instrument:

"Wow, now that's what I call funky music!"

We'll be trying bMix out in the week or so, and we'll report on it closer to the release of bMix .

GooGNews:

One other application shown was GooGNews, a versatile Google toolbar.

Tay Wei Kiat ( who provided the base source code for the latest Babya Discover) introduced GooGNews at the Babya Expo:

Tay Wei Kiat, former director of WickedSoft current director of Unignal Software Team who provided the base source code for the latest Babya Discover has come out with a new useful application!

GooGNews- Good News for Google News Users

A customizable, user-friendly and FREE toolbar that allows you immediate access to the lastest Google headline news, GooGNews is a must-have for users who wants to be constantly updated with the lastest events or happenings, and armed with the lastest piece of information that is made availabe on the Internet.

Why not just go to Google News? Keeping a browser open all the time just to keep abreast of the news is not always practical. GooGNews comes to the rescue! Don't miss out on the news just because you don't want to open a web browser!

With GooGNews, users no longer need manually browse through scrolls of irrevelant news in the Google News to obtain the information they wanted. No longer do they need to check their mail more than frequently to be updated with the lastest headline news. GooGNews do so much work of you, that it makes news browsing seems so easy, fast and convenient.

And it won't take up much space in your desktop. The headline of all Google news are summarized and displayed in just one line, taking up approximately only 5% of your total desktop space!

Moreover, GooGNews comes with a powerful search bar. The bar allows you to search all major search engines and dictionaries. Before is a full list of search engine services that you can access directly through GooGNews Search Bar:
-Google Web
-Google Images
-Google Groups
-Google News
-Open Website (You may enter website address here to open the that website)
-Dictionary.com
-Spell Check (Powered by Dictionary.com)
-Wikipedia
-Wiktionary
-Wikibooks
-Wikiquote
-Wikisource
-Wikispecies
-Wikinews
-Yahoo! Web
-Yahoo! Images
-Yahoo! Directory
-Yahoo! News
-Msn Web
-Msn News
-Msn Dictionary
-Msn Encarta
-Msn Stock Quotes
-Msn Movies
-Msn Shopping
(Users may request the author to add more search services to GooGNews Search Bar by sending a feedback to the author via the built in "Submit Feedback" feature in GooGNews, which can be accessed by Menu -> Help -> Submit Feedback)

Below are detailed breakdown of other features/options found in GooGNews and additional information about their usage.


1)Show Latest News Only
Use: On average, Google News Homepage contains 100++ news articles. It may seem like a good idea to display all of these news on GooGNews. In actual fact, many of the news are actually repeats. Google News works by pushing each related News one "step" down whenever a newer version of the same News is discovered. Hence, by activating "Show Latest News Only" feature, GooGNews automatically filter out older News and display only the latest. This allows you to be constantly updated about what is happening around the world without reading through all the 100++ News.
How to access: Menu->Show Latest News Only

2)Fast Scrolling
Use: Everyone read at a different speed. The default scrolling speed of headlines in GooGNews may be too slow for some, thus there is a need to provide fast readers another options. Enabling Fast Scrolling increases the scrolling speed drastically.
How to access: Menu->More Options->Fast Scrolling

3)Auto Refresh News
Use: News are not static. Updates can appear anytime. Hence, it is necessary to be updated about happenings around the world constantly. Enabling this option will cause GooGNews to automatically "Refresh News" every 30 minutes, which is not long enough for you to miss out any News update, while not short enough for you to finish going through all 100++ News if you want to.
How to access: Menu->More Options->Auto Refresh News

4)Quick View
Use: Whenever you do a search using GooGNews Search bar or click on any scrolling News article, GooGNews will attempt to launch the website. GooGNews gives you the options of viewing the website in your default web browser, or using the built in web browser in GooGNews. Enabling Quick View allows you to launch web pages using the built in browser, while disabling it cause GooGNews to lanuch web pages using your default browser. Quick View is enabled by default, and highly recommended as Quick View saves you the trouble of waiting for your web browser to load.
How to access: Menu->More Options->Quick View

5)Vibration Alert
Use: Whenever GooGNews is ready to start scrolling the latest headlines from Google News, the main GooGNews bar will vibration for a short amount of time, at the same time displaying the number of valid News articles it detected. Vibration alert engage your attention whenever News update is available.
How to access: Menu->More Options->Vibration Alert

6)Google News Home
Use: You may sometime feel the need to visit the Google News Homepage. Clicking on this allows you to do so directly.
How to access: Menu->Google News Home

7)Auto Snap To Screen Edge
Use: If this option is enabled, moving GooGNews near to any of your screen edge will cause GooGNews to automatically dock at the edge.
How to access: Menu->More Options->Auto Snap To Screen Edge

8)Set Transparency
Use: Do you like/dislike the default see-through property of GooGNews bar? Change the transparency of GooGNews by using this option.
How to access: Menu->More Options->Set Transparency

9)Submit Feedback
Use: Feel that you have any suggestions/feedbacks/comments/complaints you want to make to the author? Submit your feedback via the built in Submit Feedback system!
How to access: Menu->Help->Submit Feedback

10)GooGNews Update Manager
Use: This feature is normally hidden. It attempts to check for any GooGNews update whenever GooGNews is used. If no update is found, the update manager will quietly close itself. However, if an update is found, a dialog will be displayed, providing you with relevant information about the update and how to get it.
How to access: Menu->Help->Submit Feedback

11)Notebox
Use: Select Notebox from the menu launches a seemingly useless window which consisted of nothing but an empty textbox and a "Save" button. Infect, Notebox is quite useful. When using Quick View, you can select text from the built in web browser and drag it into the textbox in Notebox window. Pressing the save button allows you to save the textbox's content in either plain text or rich text format.
How to access: Quick View Options->Notebox

12)Spell Check
Use: Need to spell a word and simply can't recall how to spell it? No fear! GooGNew's latest feature, Spell Check allows you to check your spelling directly from the GooGNews Search bar!
How to access: Enter roughly what you think is the correct spelling of the word in the GooGNews Search bar and select "Spell Check" from the drop down list. Press enter. A dialog will shortly appear, telling you if the word is spelled correctly and giving suggestions if it is not. This feature makes use of dictionary.com to do the checking.


13)Open Website
Use: For your convenient, we can now select "Open Website" from the drop down combo of the Search Bar and enter the address of the website you wish to launch and have GooGNews open it for you either via GooGNew's built in browser or your default browser, depending on your settings.
How to access: Select "Open website" from the drop down combo of the search bar and enter the url of the website you want to open into the textbox on the left. Then, press enter.

14)Region Selection
Use: Google News provides different internation versiob for each regions. This feature allows you to chose the region which is news is meant for.
How to access: Menu->More options->Select GooGNews Region

15)News vault
Use: An easy feature to archive News links url to a file named News Vault.txt
How to access: Activate quick view, press "Quick View Menu", select "Dump to News Vault"

Download/more details at:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1104463252/1

Sounds intriguing-we'll report on it very soon.

Babya Photo Workshop XL:

Babya Photo Workshop XL 8 was released on January, 21 with a redesigned interface. We predicted it would be version 7.2 but we are completely suprised that it's version 8.

Babya Desktop Search:

In December, we noted that a Babya Desktop Search software was in development. It now looks set to be released in late February-though we aren't sure if that is offcial just at the moment. We'll update on this throughout the next month or so.

Babya Movie Editor:

Although not announced yet-bSuite will include Babya bMovie, a easy to use, 4 step movie maker-Babya bMovie.

A.A. Fussy demoed it at the Babya Expo-here's what he said "We are offering the quickest video editor currently-just takes 4 steps to make a movie."

Babya Photo Workshop:

Babya Photo Workshop Pro 7 is likely to be discontinued in the next few weeks for the introduction of version 8.0-now set for a March release, apparently.

Babya bSuite Up To Date
Do you own and use a previous version of the below Babya bSuite applications? If you do, you might be eligible for an upgrade to bSuite. Fill out the form below, to see if you can upgrade to bSuite.

What is Babya bSuite:
Take photos? Need to create a document? Convert or listen to music? Even if you’ve never considered yourself a creative person, Babya bSuite — a suite of tightly integrated applications that places no limit on your talent or creativity — makes it easy and fun to learn new skills.
Babya bSuite offers major and new versions of Babya Discoverer , Babya Photo Workshop , Babya Presenter , and the new Babya bDesign , Babya Unwritten, Babya bAccounting, Babya bSheet , Babya bLogo and Babya bCal.

With Babya bSuite ‘05, the must-have upgrade for everyone who uses a PC or even a Mac with previous releases of Babya bSuite's included software (all of bSuite can, of course save in common formats), you can easily create stunning documents, websites and presentations import, organize, and edit photos with EXIF data; and stun them with fully customizable slideshows using Babya Presenter. Babya bPlayer 2 converts and syncs with every member of the iPod family , a MP3 player or a Portable Media Center. You won’t find a better or easier to use set of creative tools than Babya bSuite.
We would like to give you the opportunity to upgrade to Babya bSuite for no cost .*



Babya applications:
Babya Word Processors Product: Versions: Eligible? Can the software be upgraded to bSuite? BabyaText 3.12 No1 No MemoWriter 1.0, 1.1 Yes Yes Constellation2.0 2.0 Yes2 Yes2 Babya System Babya System 7.1, 8.0, 9.0 Yes Yes 9.1, 9.15, 9.3 9.0/9.3-Yes29.15-Yes2 9.0/9.3-Yes29.15-No2
10.0, 10.0.1, 10.1 Yes Yes 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 Yes- 11.0/11.1/11.3 No -11.22 Yes-11.0/11.1/11.3No -11.22 12.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 12.0.3, 12.0.4, 12.0.6, 12.0.7, 12.0.8, 12.0.9, 12.1, 12.2

Yes Yes-direct bSuite upgrade 13.0, 14.0 Yes Yes-direct bSuite upgrade Babya Discoverer Babya Discoverer 3.0-5.5 No4 No4 6.0-8.0 Yes Yes Babya Discoverer RSS
11.0 Yes Included in bSuite Babya Photo Workshop Babya Photo Workshop Professional 1.0-5.0 Yes Yes 5.0-7.0 Yes Yes-direct to v 8.0 or 7.5 (bundled in Babya bSuite) Babya Photo Workshop Standard/Express 1.0-8.0 Yes Yes4 Babya Photo Workshop XL 7.0,7.1 Yes Direct to version 8



Babya bSuite System RequirementsWindows or Macintosh computer with a Pentium III 800MHz PowerPC G3/G4 1GHz or faster 256MB of RAM; 512MB recommended 32MB graphics card with pixel shader 1.1 support (Mac: 32MB VRAM, Core Image compliant) Windows 98-XP or Mac OS X v10.2 or later (does not run on Windows 95 or Mac OS 9) Some bSuite Babya applications require Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1/2.0 and Windows 2000 or XP Virtual PC 6.1/7.0 or similar for use on Macs 30-50MB HD Space QuickTime 6.5.2 Babya bSuite Up-To-DateCustomers who purchase a qualifying new Macintosh or Windows computer on or after January 11, 2005 that does not have Babya bSuite included can upgrade to Babya bSuite.If you purchased your system directly from the Babya online store, follow one of these links to participate in the program. Subject to terms and conditions.
For our international customers register and submit a support ticket at:
http://exocrew.com/helpdesk/index.php
If you purchased your system from an Babya website or an Babya authorized reseller, fill out one of these below , to participate in the program.

Enrol in Babya bSuite Up To Date :
Babya bSuite Up To DateName:
Babya product to upgrade?
E-mail address:



1.Eligible for standalone upgrade to a similar Babya software only (eg. E-Type, Discoverer) 2. Babya System bundled versions /Babya System are both eligible for a bSuite upgrade. 3.*Product availability: February , 2005 4.Babya Discoverer and Photo Workshop can be upgraded with bSuite or for versions before 11.0/ 5.0, separately

© Babya Software Group, 2005

Tay Wei Kiat, former director of WickedSoft current director of Unignal Software Team who provided the base source code for the latest Babya Discover has come out with a new useful application!



GooGNews- Good News for Google News Users



A customizable, user-friendly and FREE toolbar that allows you immediate access to the lastest Google headline news, GooGNews is a must-have for users who wants to be constantly updated with the lastest events or happenings, and armed with the lastest piece of information that is made availabe on the Internet.



Why not just go to Google News? Keeping a browser open all the time just to keep abreast of the news is not always practical. GooGNews comes to the rescue! Don't miss out on the news just because you don't want to open a web browser!



With GooGNews, users no longer need manually browse through scrolls of irrevelant news in the Google News to obtain the information they wanted. No longer do they need to check their mail more than frequently to be updated with the lastest headline news. GooGNews do so much work of you, that it makes news browsing seems so easy, fast and convenient.



And it won't take up much space in your desktop. The headline of all Google news are summarized and displayed in just one line, taking up approximately only 5% of your total desktop space!



Moreover, GooGNews comes with a powerful search bar. The bar allows you to search all major search engines and dictionaries. Before is a full list of search engine services that you can access directly through GooGNews Search Bar:

-Google Web

-Google Images

-Google Groups

-Google News

-Open Website (You may enter website address here to open the that website)

-Dictionary.com

-Spell Check (Powered by Dictionary.com)

-Wikipedia

-Wiktionary

-Wikibooks

-Wikiquote

-Wikisource

-Wikispecies

-Wikinews

-Yahoo! Web

-Yahoo! Images

-Yahoo! Directory

-Yahoo! News

-Msn Web

-Msn News

-Msn Dictionary

-Msn Encarta

-Msn Stock Quotes

-Msn Movies

-Msn Shopping

(Users may request the author to add more search services to GooGNews Search Bar by sending a feedback to the author via the built in "Submit Feedback" feature in GooGNews, which can be accessed by Menu -> Help -> Submit Feedback)



Below are detailed breakdown of other features/options found in GooGNews and additional information about their usage.





1)Show Latest News Only

Use: On average, Google News Homepage contains 100++ news articles. It may seem like a good idea to display all of these news on GooGNews. In actual fact, many of the news are actually repeats. Google News works by pushing each related News one "step" down whenever a newer version of the same News is discovered. Hence, by activating "Show Latest News Only" feature, GooGNews automatically filter out older News and display only the latest. This allows you to be constantly updated about what is happening around the world without reading through all the 100++ News.

How to access: Menu->Show Latest News Only



2)Fast Scrolling

Use: Everyone read at a different speed. The default scrolling speed of headlines in GooGNews may be too slow for some, thus there is a need to provide fast readers another options. Enabling Fast Scrolling increases the scrolling speed drastically.

How to access: Menu->More Options->Fast Scrolling



3)Auto Refresh News

Use: News are not static. Updates can appear anytime. Hence, it is necessary to be updated about happenings around the world constantly. Enabling this option will cause GooGNews to automatically "Refresh News" every 30 minutes, which is not long enough for you to miss out any News update, while not short enough for you to finish going through all 100++ News if you want to.

How to access: Menu->More Options->Auto Refresh News



4)Quick View

Use: Whenever you do a search using GooGNews Search bar or click on any scrolling News article, GooGNews will attempt to launch the website. GooGNews gives you the options of viewing the website in your default web browser, or using the built in web browser in GooGNews. Enabling Quick View allows you to launch web pages using the built in browser, while disabling it cause GooGNews to lanuch web pages using your default browser. Quick View is enabled by default, and highly recommended as Quick View saves you the trouble of waiting for your web browser to load.

How to access: Menu->More Options->Quick View



5)Vibration Alert

Use: Whenever GooGNews is ready to start scrolling the latest headlines from Google News, the main GooGNews bar will vibration for a short amount of time, at the same time displaying the number of valid News articles it detected. Vibration alert engage your attention whenever News update is available.

How to access: Menu->More Options->Vibration Alert



6)Google News Home

Use: You may sometime feel the need to visit the Google News Homepage. Clicking on this allows you to do so directly.

How to access: Menu->Google News Home



7)Auto Snap To Screen Edge

Use: If this option is enabled, moving GooGNews near to any of your screen edge will cause GooGNews to automatically dock at the edge.

How to access: Menu->More Options->Auto Snap To Screen Edge



8)Set Transparency

Use: Do you like/dislike the default see-through property of GooGNews bar? Change the transparency of GooGNews by using this option.

How to access: Menu->More Options->Set Transparency



9)Submit Feedback

Use: Feel that you have any suggestions/feedbacks/comments/complaints you want to make to the author? Submit your feedback via the built in Submit Feedback system!

How to access: Menu->Help->Submit Feedback



10)GooGNews Update Manager

Use: This feature is normally hidden. It attempts to check for any GooGNews update whenever GooGNews is used. If no update is found, the update manager will quietly close itself. However, if an update is found, a dialog will be displayed, providing you with relevant information about the update and how to get it.

How to access: Menu->Help->Submit Feedback



11)Notebox

Use: Select Notebox from the menu launches a seemingly useless window which consisted of nothing but an empty textbox and a "Save" button. Infect, Notebox is quite useful. When using Quick View, you can select text from the built in web browser and drag it into the textbox in Notebox window. Pressing the save button allows you to save the textbox's content in either plain text or rich text format.

How to access: Quick View Options->Notebox



12)Spell Check

Use: Need to spell a word and simply can't recall how to spell it? No fear! GooGNew's latest feature, Spell Check allows you to check your spelling directly from the GooGNews Search bar!

How to access: Enter roughly what you think is the correct spelling of the word in the GooGNews Search bar and select "Spell Check" from the drop down list. Press enter. A dialog will shortly appear, telling you if the word is spelled correctly and giving suggestions if it is not. This feature makes use of dictionary.com to do the checking.





13)Open Website

Use: For your convenient, we can now select "Open Website" from the drop down combo of the Search Bar and enter the address of the website you wish to launch and have GooGNews open it for you either via GooGNew's built in browser or your default browser, depending on your settings.

How to access: Select "Open website" from the drop down combo of the search bar and enter the url of the website you want to open into the textbox on the left. Then, press enter.



14)Region Selection

Use: Google News provides different internation versiob for each regions. This feature allows you to chose the region which is news is meant for.

How to access: Menu->More options->Select GooGNews Region



15)News vault

Use: An easy feature to archive News links url to a file named News Vault.txt

How to access: Activate quick view, press "Quick View Menu", select "Dump to News Vault"



Download/more details at:

GoogNews

Babya Presenter 2 unveiled at the Babya Expo:

Babya Presenter 2.0 was released this week, at the Babya Expo.
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.

Primarily for bLogo, but we thought many of you don't want to use bLogo.Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.Use them in any application, as desired.There will be addiitional volumes released throught 2005.Babya Presenter 2 is out later this month alongside Babya Presenter.

Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.

Available separately, with Presenter 2 and in bSuite.One more most request feature-set up customized full screen slideshows as a

screensaver and also with music,Babya Presenter 2 lets you do that with ease,Updated Babya Album also supports this feature-version 2.

Downloads:

Babya Software Group Updates Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL

(PRWEB) January 22, 2005 -- Babya Software Group today updated Babya Photo Workshop Pro XL to v 8.0, with a redesigned UI. Babya Photo Workshop Pro v 8.0 will be available soon.

Features:
This new addition to the popular Babya Photo Workshop image editor product line has all features from Babya Photo Workshop Professional that are a breeze to use and offers new and enhanced editing features such as gradients, advanced selection masks, neat and unusual drawing tools, a impressive pallete editor and layers support via a 'stack' tool and built-in file browser modelled closely on bPicture's image sorter tool.

In addition, Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL includes Babya Presenter, which garnered a five-star , the neat Babya Photo Workshop Professional Mini Lab, introduced with the previous 6.x product line and Babya Album.

Other new and improved features in Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 7.0:

-Improved compatibility-It works with 8bpp BMPs in byte arrays but other formats can be converted in a Browser, Strict control over the colors can thus be maintained.
-Enhanced!-15 level undo/redo viewable
-New!-a manipuable stack-similar in function to Microsoft(R) Digital Imaging products
-Improved with dozens of new drawing tools.
-Improved!-Filters:
-New!:Unique and revolutionary deformer and adder effects
-Improved!-Many effects can work on the whole picture or on a selection including saving as 8bpp BMPs or GIFs and printing.
-Improved color management with several default palettes and a palette maker
-Completely new rectangular, circular, elliptical and lasso selections.
-Improved-Most shapes can be drawn with the mouse or keys.
-Expanded!-new help has detailed description of all features.
-New!-Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL supports the JASC Paint Shop Pro's pallete files for importing/exporting-so you can share palletes effectively with programs that can use .pal files created with Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL or JASC Paint Shop Pro.
-New!:The Browser contains a color sorting and re-mapping function.
-New!- Windows XP users can archive photos for safe keeping with the intergrated Babya CD Studio Express
-New!-View EXIF meta-data using the GDI+ based program simply called Babya EXIF Viewer

The most complete suite of digital imaging products ever offered as freeware,Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL includes 10 Babya digital imaging products.

Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL includes:
-Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL for pro level image editing and over 30 new and exciting effect filters
-Babya Effects FX XL with over 100 image effects:
-Babya Effects FX Professional
-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
-Babya Photo Workshop Express 3.0 (formerly Babya Photo Workshop Standard for fast image editing.

Babya Expo-Winners and Losers:

The Babya Expo keynote is now over, so today, we express our opinions on what we said was expected or unexpected to be announced, and and reflect on what was actually introduced or previewed-see below for the transcript.

Winners:

Babya bSuite:

We said: " Babya bSuite will be announced for a early Feb. release and it was recently announced that bSuite will include CDBurnerXP. Also the new .NET based edition of Babya Photo Workshop will be exclusive to bSuite, includes Babya E-Type"

Were we right/true/accurate?: Yes, it was announced with all of the above, and the release date was true.

Babya Presenter:

We said:"version 2.0 to be annouced, includes logo creator and the first 'Presenter Pack' (codename Space Monkey)"

Were we right/true/accurate?: Yes, we were spot on-both were announced and the rumored version number was correct .

New Babya software updates:

We said:"Babya bPlayer-new version, includes built in Wav2MP3-converts audio to more formats. bSecure-no update expected this week, but in 1-2 months,Babya bAccounting-confirmed for announcement today"

Were we right/true/accurate?: Yes, all were correct.

We said:"Babya Unwritten:Another new Babya program will be announced-Babya Unwritten, a easy to use translation software.

Screenshot:http://xs12.xs.to/pics/05031/bwrite.JPG

Were we right/true/accurate?: Yes, Babya Unwritten was announced.

Babya bCal :

We said:"One more thing-bCal 2"

Were we right/true/accurate?: Yes, bCal received a update.

Losers:

We said "Updated versions-Babya Photo Workshop 7.1, Babya Photo Workshop XL 7.2-will include Babya EXIF Viewer 2 with EXIF data editing, bSync 3, Babya bFile 2, Babya Album 2. "

Were we right/true/accurate?: Partly correct-only Babya EXIF Viewer 2, bFile 2 and Babya Album 2 were announced, no updated Babya Photo Workshop/Babya Photo Workshop XL or bSync , contrary to our beliefs

Overall:

The announcements were fairly accurate, with a few unexpected releases

Babya Software Group today unveiled Babya bSuite-a ground breaking free office and digital media suite.

Features
Requires .NET framework, Windows 98 or later (some components require Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003)-includes the below:
-word processing
-spreadsheets
-databases
-slideshows and albums
-web and RSS browsing
-image editing
-word translations
-accounting software
-web site creation
-audio playback/conversion


Components:Babya E-Type-the bSuite word processor with a incredible

sense of style.
-Babya E-Type features:

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

of style.

-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, if you have PDF creation software installed (such as

Adobe® Acrobat® or Ghostscript)
-*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 bSheet:
-Excel style spreadsheet
-Can use more than 1 worksheet in a file
-Easy to use

-Easy to use
-Just the basics
-Compareable to QuickBooks New User Edition
-Many small businesses don't need a complex package
-Includes customer management, invoicing and simple inventory management
-Secure, multi-user login
-Available standalone and in bSuite
-Uses a editable .mdb database



Babya Discoverer RSS
-First update in nearly a year to the popular Babya web browser
-New look icon and splash screen
-New look UI
-A new name for Babya Discoverer-Babya Discoverer RSS (11.0)
-Includes a download manager
-RSS viewer included-Babya bView (available separately)

-Access to Windows XP Service Pack 2's Security Center from Babya Discoverer RSS

-Babya bDesign lets you integrate elements created in other Babya bSuite applications
-Replaces bWeb.
-Easy to use, creates professional looking sites quickly and with a minimum of fuss.
-Stylish interface
-Included with bSuite or available separately.
-Comes with HTML page templates
-Outstanding Features:

-real time preview editing environment
-HTML code editor with syntax highlighting
-Dynamic action when editing your page
-Many many cool functions.
-Uses CodeMax for certain features


-Very popular free disc authoring suite
-Included with bSuite
-Features:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php





-bLogo includes an amazing and mind boggling 166 backgrounds and

textures-fancy that!
-Primarily for bLogo, but we thought many of you don't want to use bLogo.


Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.
-Use them in any application, as desired
-There will be addiitional volumes released throught 2005
-Babya Presenter 2 is out later this month alongside Babya Presenter

Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.

-Available separately, with Presenter 2 and in bSuite
-One more most request feature-set up customized full screen slideshows as a

screensaver and also with music.
-Babya Presenter 2 lets you do that with ease.
-Updated Babya Album also supports this feature-version 2.




bPlayer 2:
-A lot like MusicMatch, WMP or iTunes

-Introducing bPlayer v 2.0 with Babya Shuffle:
-Features
-very powerful music player
-effortsly manage, play and convert music
-View ID3 tags, manage playlists and organise your music albums
-Uses Windows Media and Bass audio library technologies
-All in one-no longer you need a separate program to convert audio
-Built in Wav2MP3-now called Babya Shuffle.
-"The best new feature in version 2.0-converts music into more audio formats (such as

.mp3 and .wma) that can be copied,for example, to an Apple(R) iPod(R) and other MP3 players."

- Babya Unwritten:
-"Easily translate a word into-eg. French."
-Compact and unobtrusive, can be used off a USB flash drive
-Included with bSuite or downloadable.

A.A. Fussy remarked, "At the first Babya Expo for 2005, building on the success of last year's 2 expos, we have bigger, better products to be announced, introduced or previewed. These products will be awe-inspiring, ground-breaking, and most important innovative and professional results, but with the ease of use, Babya programss are very famous for. Additonally, our software are Mac/Linux compatible with software such as Virtual PC or WINE. You'll be suprised what we have in store for Babya software and users in the months to come"

Pricing and Availability:
Babya bSuite will be a free download, availablr starting from early February.

(PRWEB) January 20, 2005 -- Babya Software Group today unveiled Babya bSuite-a ground breaking free office and digital media suite.

Features
Requires .NET framework, Windows 98 or later (some components require Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003)-includes the below-word processing,spreadsheets,databases,slideshows and albums,web and RSS browsing,image editing,word translations,accounting software,web site creation ,audio playback/conversion

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

-Some of the features of Babya E-Type are:
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.

Babya bSheet:Excel style spreadsheetCan use more than 1 worksheet in a file,Easy to use,Just the basics.

Comparable to QuickBooks New User Edition,Many small businesses don't need a complex package.-Includes customer management, invoicing and simple inventory management,Secure, multi-user login,Available standalone and in bSuite.

Uses a editable .mdb database.

Babya bDesign lets you integrate elements created in other Babya bSuite applications.

Stylish interface,Included with bSuite or available separately.
Comes with HTML page templates.

Outstanding Features-real time preview editing environment,HTML code editor with syntax highlighting,Dynamic action when editing your page,many cool functions.

-Uses CodeMax for certain features.

bLogo includes an amazing and mind boggling 166 backgrounds and textures-fancy that!

Primarily for bLogo, but we thought many of you don't want to use bLogo.Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.Use them in any application, as desired.There will be addiitional volumes released throught 2005.Babya Presenter PaVolume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.
Available separately, with Presenter 2 and in bSuite.

A.A. Fussy remarked, "At the first Babya Expo for 2005, building on the success of last year's 2 expos, we have bigger, better products to be announced, introduced or previewed. These products will be awe-inspiring, ground-breaking, and most important innovative and professional results, but with the ease of use, Babya programss are very famous for. Additonally, our software are Mac/Linux compatible with software such as Virtual PC or WINE. You'll be suprised what we have in store for Babya software and users in the months to come"

Pricing and Availability:
Babya bSuite will be a free download, available starting from early February.

Babya Software Group today unveiled Babya E-Type-a word processor/script or programmer's editor with a incredible sense of style at the Babya Expo.

A innovative word processor, Babya E-Type includes:
-Babya E-Type features:
-Babya E-Type is a word processor/script or programmer's editor with a incredible sense of style.

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, if you have PDF creation software installed (such as Adobe® Acrobat® or Ghostscript)
-*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.

Screenshot:
http://www.iuploads.com/uploads/b1231443de.jpg

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-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 Expo Jan. 2005 keynote:
Babya Expo Jan. 2005 keynote:

PRESENTER:A.A. FUSSY
STARTS:2 PM EST

Welcome to the keynote
Introduction:
-2005-"The year of creative multimedia"
-Because all our new software are all related to multimedia
-"Today, We've got some impressive, awesome, ground-breaking and innovative new Babya products and updated versions of Babya applications to announce that will amaze you. [that's enough to fill 2 keynotes!] "
- Recap last year's main higlights,etc
-2004-the year of Babya image editing
-We launched Babya Photo Workshop v 7.0 last month, new XL version in August and bPicture in February
-Babya Discoverer 8 was a instant hit
-Today we're excited to announce Babya Photo Workshop has been downloaded over 25,000 times since late 2003.

- Babya Products are available for Windows/Mac/Linux (the last two platforms using Virtual PC/WINE or similar software)
New products:


-First up, Babya bSuite:
-"A ground breaking free office and digital media suite-think of it as iLife for Windows." Requires .NET framework, Windows 98 or later (some components require Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003)-includes the below:
-word processing
-spreadsheets
-databases
-slideshows and albums
-web and RSS browsing
-image editing
-word translations
-accounting software
-web site creation
-audio playback/conversion

-More features than say,Apple iWork/OpenOffice.org
Components:
-Discuss, introduce and demo Babya E-Type-the bSuite word processor with a incredible sense of style.
-Babya E-Type features:

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

-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, if you have PDF creation software installed (such as Adobe® Acrobat® or Ghostscript)
-*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

-Next, Babya bSheet:
-Excel style spreadsheet
-Can use more than 1 worksheet in a file
-Easy to use
-Discuss, introduce and demo Babya Presenter 2.0 with powerful title generator feature

-Discuss, introduce and demo Babya bAccounting (accounting software)
-Easy to use
-Just the basics
-Compareable to QuickBooks New User Edition
-Many small businesses don't need a complex package
-Includes customer management, invoicing and simple inventory management
-Secure, multi-user login
-Available standalone and in bSuite
-Uses a editable .mdb database

-Going on to-Babya Photo Workshop:
-Adding .NET Framework based edition
-Babya Photo Workshop Pro 7.5
-Layers support (as rumored)
-Available only as part of bSuite
-This version will not be released standalone
-No updated standalone versions today
-XL and Pro will now add Babya EXIF Viewer
-New versions out mid-February


-On to Babya Discoverer RSS
-First update in nearly a year to the popular Babya web browser
-New look icon and splash screen
-New look UI
-A new name for Babya Discoverer-Babya Discoverer RSS (11.0)
-Includes a download manager
-RSS viewer included-Babya bView (available separately)
-"Safari on Mac OS X 10.4 supports RSS, but not available yet, we're including RSS support with ours ahead of time."
-Access to Windows XP Service Pack 2's Security Center from Babya Discoverer RSS


-Moving to bDesign:
-"Have you ever wanted to design professional style websites?"
-Babya bDesign lets you integrate elements created in other Babya bSuite applications
-Replaces bWeb.
-Easy to use, creates professional looking sites quickly and with a minimum of fuss.
-Stylish interface
-Included with bSuite or available separately.
-Comes with HTML page templates
-Outstanding Features:

-real time preview editing environment
-HTML code editor with syntax highlighting
-Dynamic action when editing your page
-Many many cool functions.
-Uses CodeMax for certain features
-Available standalone in February, with bSuite: available in 2-3 weeks

-Now we'll discuss CDBurnerXP Pro:
-Very popular free disc authoring suite
-Included with bSuite
-Features:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php
-Moving onto bPicture:
-"Today, we aren't releasing a update for Babya Photo Workshop, as we usually do, but we are including the new version of Babya Presenter."
-"In bPicture, you've always been able to view EXIF meta-data from cameras or other hardware, but we thought there should be a way to edit that."
- "Presenting the new Babya EXIF Viewer 2.0"
-Now edit and view EXIF meta-data
-New bPicture release
-Version X or 7.5 (haven't decided on the new ver. number yet)
-Available next month


Next up-Babya Presenter:
-Popular Babya presentation package
- Today, we're going to v 2.0
-Rumors suggested this was to be v 1.1, but the new logo creator and UI enhancements made us bump up the version number to 2.0.

- Ask the $1 million Presenter question
"What is the most easist way to add maximum impact to slideshows?"
-(A) Spend hours adjusting slides manually
-(B) Hire a designer to design slides for you
-(C) Uses Flash to create graphics
-(D) Use Babya bLogo
Answer (D) bLogo
-"You might have wondered why it took so long for a new version to come out, just like with Discoverer?"
-"Well we found that logos can spice up boring and not so lively slideshows and rumors suggested a logo creator was a great solution."
-Introduce bLogo and do several title creations demos
-Demo using this and importing the resulting logos into popular programs.
-Very powerful- features such as bevels,gradients, 3D effects-just naming a few effects
-"Another popular request:Why not have even more graphics to use with Babya Presenter?
-The answer-bLogo includes an amazing and mind boggling 166 backgrounds and textures-fancy that!
-Primarily for bLogo, but we thought many of you don't want to use bLogo.
-So we're making these amazing additional graphics into a Babya Presenter Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.
-Use them in any application, as desired
-There will be addiitional volumes released throughout 2005
-Babya Presenter 2 is out later this month alongside Babya Presenter Pack-Volume 1:Textures and Backgrounds.

-Available separately, with Presenter 2 and in bSuite
-One more most request feature-set up customized full screen slideshows as a screensaver and also with music.
-Babya Presenter 2 lets you do that with ease.
-Updated Babya Album also supports this feature-version 2.



-After that move onto and discuss Babya audio software:
-Recap exsiting Babya audio software:
-bPlayer (and Babya Media player) have been popular
-WAV2MP3 easily and effortsly converts audio to different formats
-"We researched solutions to this and found it would be important to include both of the above in just one program-easily copy converted music to MP3 players and easy to install."
-A lot like MusicMatch, WMP or iTunes
-"Today we're launching the first update since bPlayer's introduction, early last year"

-Introducing bPlayer v 2.0 with Babya Shuffle:
-Features
-very powerful music player
-effortsly manage, play and convert music
-View ID3 tags, manage playlists and organise your music albums
-Uses Windows Media and Bass audio library technologies
-All in one-no longer you need a separate program to convert audio
-Built in Wav2MP3-now called Babya Shuffle.
-"The best new feature in version 2.0-converts music into more audio formats (such as .mp3 and .wma) that can be copied,for example, to an Apple(R) iPod(R) and other MP3 players."
-Available in early February. Requires Windows 2000/XP.
-Demo video (available online after the keynote)

-Babya bSecure:
-New update for a February release date
-"Not updating bSecure today or discussing what's improved, but expect an updated version in the next month or two."

-Now onto Babya Unwritten:
-"Easily translate a word into-eg. French."
-Compact and unobtrusive, can be used off a USB flash drive
-Included with bSuite or downloadable.

-Moving to Babya bFile
-New version 2.0
-First update in 2 years
-Now intergrates Babya bFTP
-Available in February


-One more thing:
-bCal-new version, first since Sept. 2003 now offers complete PIM features-included with bSuite

-Thanks to all Babya developers who worked on the above, and to our users.
-I would like to thank everyone for viewing this keynote and for your patronage.
-We will have another keynote in the next weeks or so, to introduce other Babya software which wasn't announced this time around

Reader Mail and Rumor Report-January, 17 2005:

The Babya Expo starts today with the keynote by A.A. Fussy-we roundup recent rumors and what's expected to be announced


Rumor Roundup:

Babya bSuite-it was recently announced that bSuite will include CDBurnerXP. Also the new .NET based edition of Babya Photo Workshop will be exclusive to bSuite, includes Babya E-Type
Babya Presenter-version 2.0 to be announced, includes logo creator and the first 'Presenter Pack' (codename Space Monkey).
Babya bPlayer-new version, includes built in Wav2MP3-converts audio to more formats.
bSecure-no update expected this week, but in 1-2 months
Babya bAccounting-confirmed for announcement today


Babya Unwritten:
Another new Babya program will be announced-Babya Unwritten, a easy to use translation software.
Screenshot:
http://xs12.xs.to/pics/05031/bwrite.JPG

What to expect:

• Babya bSuite will be announced for a early Feb. release.
• New versions of Babya bPlayer (featuring Babya Shuffle-audio converter), Babya Presenter, Babya Discoverer RSS (support RSS viewing with bView-also available separately).
• New applications-Babya E-Type, Babya Shuffle, Babya bView, Babya bDesign, Babya EXIF Viewer 2 with EXIF data editing)
• Updated versions-Babya Photo Workshop 7.1, Babya Photo Workshop XL 7.2-will include Babya EXIF Viewer 2 with EXIF data editing, bSync 3, Babya bFile 2, Babya Album 2.
• Babya Unwritten-a awesome translation program-many languages to convert to/from , can be used with most software, very compact-can be used from a USB flash drive.
• One more thing-bCal 2

The keynote begins at 2pm-at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/systemsoftware/chat

That's it for today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report. In our next report, we'll look at what was announced and what new products we think was expected/unexpected to be announced , and report on the keynote.

Reader Mail and Rumor Report-January 15, 2005:

Today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report includes- rumors on: Babya bSuite to include CD/DVD burning, and we revisit earlier rumors in the lead up to Monday's Babya Expo.

Babya bSuite:
We previously said that bSuite will include a new word processor, updated Babya bCal (greatly improved, first new version since Sept. 2003), Babya Photo Workshop, Babya Discoverer RSS (v11) and web site creation software.

Now it is now confirmed that Babya bSuite will also come with a powerful CD/DVD burning application-CDBurnerXP Pro (http://www.cdburnerxp.se), by Stefan Haglund, Fredrik Haglund, Florian Schmitz.

Features of CDBurnerXP Pro:

• Write CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs (as Data and Video)
• Burn audio-CDs with and without gaps between tracks
  
• Burn on the fly / Burn-proof
• Supports most IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives
• Rip Audio-CDs to harddrive, obtain track-information (ID3-tags) from Internet
• Burn and create ISO-files
• Customizeable with many settings
• Data verification after burn, create bootable discs
• (will be) available in multiple languages
• 100% freeware - no adware or restrictions
• Audio Editor (ver. 2.2.9 and upcoming version 3.5)
• ISO converter
• Simple cover printing and much more!
  Operating systems: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP systems.
  
• All features in detail:
• Create Data-CDs/DVDs
  burn any Data on CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD+RW/DVD-RW
• burn mp3-CDs to store many audio files on one single disc
  burn Video-DVDs with menus (read in helpfile how to do that)
• create bootable discs
  verify written Data automatically after burning process
• use either the internal browser to add your files or the intuitive Drop-Box to drag and drop files
• directly from any Windows Explorer window
• 
  apply file filters to see only the files you need (for example *.jpg to display only JPEG files in local browser)
• 
  save your compilations for creation of backups
• 
  burn on-the-fly and with buffer-underrun protections
• 
  import previous (ISO 9660) sessions and edit existing file structure on CD/DVD
• 
  quick- and full-erase disc
• 
  retrieve recorder and disc information
• 
  overburning possible
• Create Audio-CDs
  create Audio-CDs from mp3, wav, ogg and wma* files
• 
  add single or multiple tracks from existing audio-CDs directly to your new compilation without ripping tracks before (add cda-files)
• 
  play audio-files with integrated audio player
• 
  gapless audio-CDs supported (disc-at-once-mode)
• 
  import m3u-playlists
• 
  integrated advanced audio editor
• Rip Audio-CDs
• rip tracks from any audio-CD to wav, mp3, wma or ogg
• download album information from online database
• sort ripped files in subdirectory automatically (based on information you get from online database)
• supports jitter-correction ripping modes to rip tracks from scratched CDs ISO features
• burn ISO files to CD
• create your own ISO files
• convert bin- and nrg-files to ISO
• Other features
• 
  simple cover printing feature for Data- and Audio-CDs
  Audio Editor
• 
  MP3 Tag-Editor
• 
  converter for audio files (wav+mp3)
• 
  supports most IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives
• 
  ASPI not required for NT/2000/XP
• 
  integrated option to enable access to drive for restricted users
• 
  lots of settings to customize CDBurnerXP Pro
• 
  multi-language interface
• 
  online update

Screenshot:http://www.cdburnerxp.se/screenshots/main-data.png

We revisit some of the earlier rumors:

With not long to go until Monday's keynote, we revisit and update on several earlier rumors from previous weeks.

Babya IIS alternative:

The Babya IIS alternative is currently under development for a February/March release. It's expected that this won't be released at the Babya Expo, but a possible preview of it .

Babya video editor:

It is likely to be Wax (http://babyasystem.portal.dk3.com), and included with bSuite, but as a optional download.

Babya desktop search:

The Babya desktop search is to be included with bSuite and Babya Discoverer RSS and possibely announced at Monday's Babya Expo, and released within the next 30-60 days.

Also it will be available as a separate download.

Babya bSecure :

A couple of weeks ago, we reported on a rumor about a bSecure update. Unfortunately, a updated version is not expected to be announced at the Babya Expo, but one source said, a update may be released in about 2-3 weeks, after the expo. Still, no information about what the improvements are yet.

Babya Photo Workshop .pal file support:

Babya Photo Workshop is now not to include in the next version (v7.1), JASC .pal file support, but the v 7.1 update will be included with bSuite and has access to the other bSuite components and a updated UI and logo.

That's all rumors and reader email for today's report.

In our next report, we'll post a roundup of recent rumors related to the Babya Expo and Babya applications, and what we expect will be released/announced or previewed at the Babya Expo.

MEDIA ALERT: Babya Software Group to introduce new products Jan. 17

Babya Software Group today announced that several new Babya products, including a office suite, accounting software, new version of Babya Discoverer that includes a RSS viewer, will be introduced or previewed.



WHAT: Babya Expo Jan 2005


KEYNOTE PRESENTER:A.A. Fussy



WHEN: Monday , January 17, 2005, 2 p.m. EST



REBROADCAST: A transcript of the keynote will be made available after the keynote concludes at the below sites


Babya Photo Workshop Official site


Babya Software Group


Babya Rumors


Babya System JoeUser



WEBCAST:
A live feed of the keynote will be available at the following sites :


Babya Keynote Live Feed



Babya Photo Workshop Official site


Babya Software Group


Babya Rumors


Babya System JoeUser

Reader Mail and Rumor Report-January 14, 2005:

The January Babya Expo keynote is only a few days away (Jan. 19), so today's Reader Mail and Rumor Report will not only include several rumors, we answer a reader's question on when will Babya System be updated. Also, we also discuss a new bCal release.

Jafo writes:

"Any truth to the rumor that Babya System will actually do something now?
Jafo has heard-tell that development has been derailled in favor of actual function.
The original System was perfect and still.....perfectly still....did nothing wrong.......did nothing at all.."

A.A. Fussy replies:

A update to Babya System may be released in the next month or so-v 13.1 or v 13.5 according to one source. We don't have any information currently about what will be new in this update, but we'll update on this rumor in the weeks to come.

Babya bSuite:

Babya bSuite-the Babya office suite, will be announced on Jan. 17. It is expected it will include a new word processor, updated Babya bCal (greatly improved, first new version since Sept. 2003), Babya Photo Workshop, Babya Discoverer RSS (v11) and web site creation softwate.

At this stage, we haven't heard that a spreadsheet or database will be included.

Babya audio converter-Babya Shuffle?:

A replacement for Wav2MP3 Babya edition is rumored for a announcement at Monday's Babya Expo. Sources inform us that it would be "Babya Shuffle" and part of a new Babya bPlayer release.

Babya Discoverer:

Babya Discoverer is almost definitely be updated at next Monday's Babya Expo. Not only does it include a download manager, Babya bView-which is a RSS feed reader is included. Due to that, Babya Discoverer RSS is the rumored name for the new release.

That's it for our rumor and reader mail report for today. As the Babya Expo is not far away, our next report will revisit earlier rumors and what is expected to be announced at the Babya Expo