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JULY 1996 / VOLUME12NUMBER 7
NEWS
Pentium Power Macs Add-in cards
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Multiprocessor Mac OS systems./
MacUser Utility of the Month SiteSeer. I Plus
Macintosh price index. / 25
MacWEEK Report From the heart of Silicon Valley
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Letters Tough love, inflationary
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Andy lhnatko Andy's high-tech dating advice. / 186
How to Reach Us/ 8
Product Index / 148
Advertiser Index/ 152
Marketplace/ 159
On the <over I The battle of the browsers Cover photo I Jim Karageorge
Screen illustrations I Clarence Emmons
REVIEWS
HP ScanJet 4p, Apple Color OneScanner
600/27, and UMAX Super Vista S-12
Three bargain- priced SOHO-targeted color fla tbed scanners vary in their ab ility to capture
color. I 39
Iomega Jaz You've read about the Zip drive; now meet its big brother. The Jaz offers ( A .... fast, reliable, removable large-file storage at a reasonable price. / 42
Now Utilities 6.0Now Software spruces up some old favorites and adds a few new ones to its
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mTropolis Drag-and-drop object-oriented programming makes this a powerful alternative to Macromedia Director. / 46
Live Picture 2.5and xRes 2Two image editors challenge Photoshop's dominance by finessing
big fi les. / 47
Suitcase 3.0, theFONDler 4.0, and Font Box Professional Edition l.7.1Three useful utilities help you
untangle your type. / 48
Adobe PhotoDeluxe User-friendly, entry-level image editor offers a subset of features used by
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KPT Cool Effects Bargain-priced Photoshop plug-in takes your digital-imaging skills to the
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IRIS IRISPen Trade your Hi-Liter for a scanner with this OCR-like pen./ 54
Panasonic KXL·D742 CD-ROM drive This battery-operated, quad
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30 World First QuickDraw 3D des ign program is quick and draws praise. / 59
Dramatica Pro 2.0Story writers should check out this aid to character development. / 60
COVER STORY
WEB WAR
CANMICROSOFT BEAT THE BROWSER THAT MADE
WORLD WIDE WEBAHOUSEHOLD PHRASE?
Is Netscape Navigator up for the challenge? The stakes are high as each browser jockeys to become the all-in-one Internet platform. The bottom line? Navigator faces some form idable competition from Internet Explorer but this is good news for users.
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Walking the Cyberdog
Apple's new Internet application uses OpenDoc to deliver a radically different approach to Web browsing, e-mail, and other Intei·net functions. You have to see Cyberdog to believe it, but it's definitely a tail-wagger. And best of all, it's
free. By Henry Bartman I 69
Power Takes the Lead
The premier Mac-clone maker streaks past Apple again witl1 its new PowerTower 180, which is at least 14 percent faster than Apple's latest top-of-the-line
machines. We test a dozen of the newest systems. By Henry Bartman/ 75
The Big Picture
Whether you're scanning one big original in a design studio or batch < A·'" processing multiple images in a production environment, large-format flatbed scanners can do both. We evaluate five for image quality, speed, and
price. By Roman Loyola / 80
Quick Labs
Problem: We just can't keep up with all the great products introduced <A ·'" each month. Solution: Quick Labs, a monthly bulletin of lab results on the latest printers, monitors, and storage systems./ 86
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AppleScript for Artists Isn't it time
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Graphics How-To Turn flat EPS
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and lighting controls. / 92
Expert Tips Fonts '96:
AppleScript-able Suitcase, embeddable fonts on the Web,
and more. / 95
NETWORKING
Gateway to Web Success How to use
CG! applications to bring your site
to life. / 97
Net Traveler With just the right
plug-ins, you're ready for the full
Internet experience./ 101
HANDS ON
networking system: the
basics./ 103
Help Folder Bob and
Chris answer all your
questions./ 105
PERSONAL MAC
The (ouch-PotatoMac Kick back,
relax, and check out the electronic
guides to movies and TV./ 113
The Two Dads Bailey gets a jumpStart. / 116
The Game Room Heavy on action, light on gore./ 117
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Cruel to Be Kind
I WOULD URGE Mac User not to continue to (the more it sells, the
place Apple on a pedestal for the things Apple more it loses),so giv
has done in the past. Apple has made some ing away software is
serious strategic business mistakes and will the road to ruin.
continue to make them if it listens only to There are oppor
praise from die-hard fans. It's time for some tunities for Apple.
"tough love" and for Mac User to push the cam IBM appears to have
paign to wake up Apple. It is time for Apple ceded the Mac/Win
fans and management to listen most to the dows-compatible
things they don't want to hear.
hardware market to
Apple's lead in education is no longer se Apple. Once Apple gets beyond its immediate
cure. On most campuses, you find more PCs problems and completes its hardware "fire"
than Macs. In secondary education, Apple is sale, it needs to begin aggressively promoting
up against stiff competition from PCs, because Mac/Windows hardware. When it does that, it
of the higher costs of Macs and because par won't need lectures from Apple purists who
ents want their children better prepared for a believe that Apple has sold out to Satan. It will
PC-dominated workplace.
need support from MacUser and others who
Ifyou consider PCs (not individual brands) can recognize that their needs are best served
Apple's competition, Apple does not dominate by an economically healthy Apple.
the home market, because it's not price competitive.
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mass of Mac OS fans . Sounds like the busi THE TRILLION-DOLLAR sizing of the future
ness plan Gates wrote. The difference is that PDA industry ("Toy Story;' April '96, page 68)
Microsoft had no plans to be in the hardware is an absolutely absurd claim, and nothing
business but did intend to be a broad-based even close to it was ever made by me.The only
software supplier. Apple is still trying to use trillion-dollar projections I've made in the
an operating system to sell hardware and is · past are that the collective size of all indus
not positioned to become a force in applica tries that would be affected by the digital revo
tions software. Is it possible now to build a lution (that is, all computers, all communica
business around an aging operating system? tions, all content, and all related services)
Although Microsoft had an old operating sys would exceed several trillion dollars eai-ly in
tem, it didn't have a Microsoft to compete with. the next millennium.
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THANKS FOR PAYING attention to the New ton and other so-called PDAs ("Toy Story;' Apdl '96, page 68). I don't really like the PDA moniker, since Iview my new Newton as more of a small computer with a pen input system than as some sort of "assistant:' Two things about the article surprised me: The "What's Missing" section fails to mention the single
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Erstwhile MacUser subscriber Kevin Atherton, of Vernon Hills, Illinois, took exception to our April article on Suck, the culture-watch e-zine devoted to lampooning electronic as well as print media. "At least 17 times, you use the slang expression for fellate," said Kevin, who promptly canceled his subscription and accused all and sundry (MacUser and Suck as well as Time and Newsweek - sorry to drag you guys into this) of propagating a lifestyle he feels is sending this country to [expletive] in a hand basket.
We know what you mean, Kevin.In addition to this reckless display of First Amendment.frivolity, certain members of our staff have been overheard using such double entendres as RAM, hard drive, motherboard, and PPP. We'll deal with the perpetrators among us.You take the good fight to America Online, which we hear is now allowing the use of that 8-word slang term for mammae.
Fourteen-year-old Kevin Sweeny, of Wappingers Falls, New York, is no suckling.Undaunted by our lascivious content (or perhaps drawn to it - let's face it, who among us didn't have a stash of MacUsers we hid from mom when we were at that awkward age?), Kevin has sent us a business proposition:"!wrote computer reviews for a local magazine that recently went under. Iwould like to transfer over to writing reviews for you.Here are my terms:$15 per review and afree subscription." Although there are currently no openings in our Reviews department, we are looking into that subscription. You've got moxie, Kid.
Self-professed Psychic Supreme Petrene Soames, who hails from - among other dimensions Houston, Texas, wrote to ask that she be included in MacUser as "one of the latest Internet personalities." It's too late to include her in the list of 101 Web sites we featured in our March issue. But readers who want to get in touch with their inner Hunk-ra should check out http://www .neosoft.com/-fabrice/toppsychic/.Petrene, the next time you're in the 21st century, could you check up on Apple and tell us how the company's future looks? More specifically, does it suck?
JULY 1996 I MacUser 13
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most antagonizing thing about the Newton: lack of backlighting. The Newton display is very hard to see, so the device is often diffi cult to use. Since I'm not familiar with the other Pads, I don't know if they share this problem. Ifyou can't see the display,what good is the Newton?
Second, the article mentions "two ways to get application software into the Newton;' along with the idea that there isn't very much software out there. Neither of those ap proaches is the most common in my experi ence, and I've found quite a bit of software. The real way most applications get onto people's Newtons is not directly by card or indirectly by disk but instead by a download to a desktop machine and then atransfer onto the Newton.
Terry Schmitt via the Internet
NICE TO SEE a review ofthe Mac's little broth ers. I'm happy to see there's hope yet for the Newton. But you missed what I've found to be the best PDA on the market, the Psion series of palmtops. This little thing is a Mac user's delight, with multitasking, excellent user in terface, and easy programming. I see them being used on planes and trains all the time.
Aston J. Bridgman astinj@haven.ios.com
Pippin Opinion
I DON'T THINK Ican stand the suspense! I'm one of the (I hope) millions of Americans eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Pippin ("Prime-Time Player;'April '96, page 64) in the U.S. Granted, the Pippin does need a few im provements, but I think it's about time a truly versatile game system came on the market. The Pippin would be even more versatile with the Digital Video Disk installed and would be well worth even more than its estimated price.
Ken King
via the Internet
THE PIPPIN SOUNDS great, if alittle pricey for what you actually get. But hey, why not market a SCSI VCR adapter so that info gleaned from the Internet can be stored on a cheap yet massive storage ·device? You could also run video games an'd apps straight offthe tape! Until DVD recordables ar~ as cheap as other media, why not explore other current consumer devices? How about a Pippin with an audiocassette drive? Reel-to-reel, anyone? These could also be used with the Mac as a
cheap, useful link to span the technology and price gap of new gadgets in the pipeline.
Michael Alvarado . Santa Clara, CA
THE PIPPIN IS NOTHING more than a stu pid little gadget Apple dreamed up when it should have been working on Copland. It's similar to the Newton, in that it's ahead of its time; it's not cheap; and it's not a necessity no matter how hard Apple plugs it.And finally, it's really cool and neat.
But when it comes down to whether we really need these gadgets, the answer is an overwhelming"I'd like one, but Ican live with out it:'
Kurt Ramsauer rams@nworks.com
Spinning Webs
CONGRATULATIONS ON raising some good points many Web designers are ignoring ("The Ant and the Grasshopper;' April '96, page 91). Quite a few people don't have the equipment, RAM, or desire to browse the Web with Netscape Navigator.
I would like to point out a solution that you didn't mention: creating multiple sets of Web pages that accommodate either ants or grasshoppers.
First, create ahome page for your site that's attractive in any browser. From there it's easy to let visitors choose their compatibility level: full graphics, minimal graphics, text-only, or any combination. Although this results in a little more work for the Web designer, it doesn't have to be difficult if you just go about it the right way.
Once you've established the site's overall design and written the content, start by creat ing text-only, HTML 2.0-compliant pages with no graphics and no proprietary Netscape tags. Then, when you want to create your full- or minimal-graphics versions, insert the coding for placing the graphics, tables, and the like. This way, you'll be able to accommodate all visitors without coming across as a Netscape tag snob.
Jeff Carlson kepi@halcyon.com
I Your point is agood one, although creating (and updating) multiple versions ofpages may be 11'!ore work than many Web authors will accept. Less in trusive would be using a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) application on your Web server to auto matically choose the HTML files that work best with a user's browser. I JS
YOU PROVIDED SOME interesting general ideas on providing readable pages using HTML table tags on viewers that don't sup port table tags, but the advice on adding lead ing spaces to <td> tags to separate column data and turning </tr> to <br></tr> tag pairs works only ifyou're not using <ltd> tags.
Following the article's advice directly when also observing the HTML 2.0 tag specification leads to large amounts of white space preced ing a table in Netscape browsers. Rather, you should add a space at the end of a table col umn and a <br> tag inside the last table column of a row. If you were following the HTML 2.0 format strictly, these changes would be required:
</td><td> ---7 space</td></tr> and </td></tr> ---7 <br></td></tr>. Dennis Haase via the Internet
When Is a Mac Not a Mac?
WHEN YOU WROTE about "Performa Anxi ety;'you effectively straightened out the writer who was confused about the differences among machines (Help Folder,April '96, page 117), but you neglected to point out one key difference (and benefit) of Performas: They come with a one-year in-home warranty! For first-time computer buyers, this is an incred ible service that shouldn't be underplayed. Not that most Macs need it ....
Jim Sachs Menlo Park, CA
I Good point. Ifyou buy a Performa, Apple coddles you a bit more than ifyou buy a Mac. An Apple representative will come to yourhome tofix aprob lem, such as an inoperable monitor, if it can't be
solved over the phone. I NP
BOB AND CHRIS state there's no difference between a Mac and its Performa counterpart. Why then does Insignia Solutions ·sell a SoftWindows for Performa and another ver sion for the Mac? Does the Performa version run on a regular Mac? The Performa version is about $100 less.
Gary Willard GaryW70451@aotcom
I OK, OK. So we overlooked one eensy-beensy little detail. Most Performas don't come with built-in Ethernet. OK, so it's not such a little detail Soft Windows for Performas is cheaper because it doesn't have networking. Apple designed it that way be cause most Performas don't have Ethernet built-in. /BL&CB
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INSTEAD OF SPENDING $149 on Big Island's YoYo Telephone Manager (News, April '96, page 29), you can get a much more affordable alternative, with practically the same options. Triplo Software's control panelPhoneWatcher (shareware, $15), combined with a modem capable of recognizing Caller ID, can log phone calls and callers, drawing names from a user database. Like Yo Yo, PhoneWatcher can call your pager and let you know who called. Con sidering the price difference ($134) and the fact that a control panel is somewhat easier lo cart around than a hardware device, you tell me which is the better product.
Info and the program are available from Triplo Software's Web site: http://www.triplo .com/.
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Quicken the Dead?
MACUSER 'S 4.5-MOUSE rating of the Quicken 6.0 Deluxe CD-ROM (April '96, page 40) was outrageously generous. It was prob ably the nicest thing anyone has done for In tuit since the Justice Department annulled its ill-fated marriage to Microsoft.
Quicken 6.0 Deluxe - it should really be called Quicken 5.5 - has two significant flaws.As an upgrader from 5.0 (as well as 4.0), I found that this upgrade added nothing im portant. Compare this with the upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0, which provided a cleaner interface and a graphical icon bar.
Most egregious,however, are the many sub stantialdifferences between the Mac and Win dows versions of the Deluxe CD-ROM. The Windows version includes the following: Tradeline Stock Trading Guide, Morningstar Mutual Fund Finder, Tax Estimator, The Wall Street Journal Personal Finance Gu ide, The Wall Street Journal Video Guide, and a library of U.S .government publications. For $59, Mac users get only the mutual-fund finder. It's in furiating, since none of these Windows mod ules would be all that difficult to port to the Mac - they are essentially only databases.
I urge anyone thinking about upgrading to wait for a version that substantially improves on Quicken 5.0 and to hold out for parity be tween the Mac and Windows versions.
Barry L. Ritholtz
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AS GOOD AS QUICKEN might be, I think it was unfair of you not to mention Intuit's false
advertising for Quicken 6. "Online banking" is promoted on the package, but you have to call Intuit to request the 6.5 upgrade (6.2 is on the floppies and CD-ROM in the shrink wrapped package). Also, numerous banks support online banking for Quicken users, but exclusively for PC users. Add to this the loss of stability in going from Quicken 5 to 6 and the huge amount of bugs that cropped up be tween 6.2 and 6.5, and you've got a product that no longer deserves the mouse rating it received.
I've been a Quicken user for over three years and will continue using it, because there is no close second.But I have given up counting on Intuit for reliable information about its prod uct and take extreme measures to ensure that my Quicken data has not become corrupted . Just because a product is better than all its competitors doesn't mean it's worthy of a high mouse rating.
Todd C. Merrill tcmerrill@tasc.com
I Quicken6.0 enables Macusers to obtain electronic banking from those institutions that offer this ser vice. Unfortunately, it's true that many banks that advertise Quicken electronic-bankingservicesdon't offer them to Mac clients. I ]SA
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YOU CLAIM THAT Symantec's Norton Disk Lock for Macintosh 4.0 ("For Your Eyes Only;' Apri l '96, page 82) is missing several features it actually does have. Your features chart says DiskLockhas no "system control;'when in fact DiskLock has a check box labeled "can modify system folder" - uncheck it, and the system folder is locked. Also, DiskLock is listed as having no "floppy control;' yet DiskLock has a check box labeled "can use floppy disks" unchecking it disables the floppy drive. You claim that DiskLock has no "desktop control;' but you can make the top level of a hard disk read-only, which prevents users from moving files and folders. The chart says DiskLock doesn't support "drop boxes," altho ugh DiskLock actually has four options for lock ing folders, including drop boxes. And you say DiskLock does not support"secure erase;' yet the encryption preferences offer three levels of secure erasure.
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I You're right; we were in error regarding DiskLock. a clock, a calculator, and the ability to put each
But the mistake we made was in the version num child's photo in a frame on the desk. Children
ber- we reviewed version 3.0 but listed 4.0 in the choose their own desk styles, and their files
chart and the article. Version 4.0 shipped just as we can be saved separately, preventing access by
were going to press, so we weren't able to test it for other kids.
this sto1y. It does incorporate all the importantfea The school edition allows classes to be or
tures you listed: system, floppy, and desktop control ganized separately by teacher, and there are
as well as drop boxes and secure erase. I SJ
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password for each teacher, and one for each
BEING AN AVID READER ofMac User for sev individual student.
eral years now, I was disappointed with your In both editions, a three-key combination
omission of On Guard, from Power On Soft controls access to the Finder, and the school
ware, in your security-software roundup.As a edition also requires knowledge of the
manager of over 20 Macs, I am always look teacher's password.
ing for software that will not only make my job easier but also prevent users from tam
ElsaPaton
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pering with system software. On Guard does
that and much more. Access levels can be set Making the Connection
on specific documents , folders, or an entire HAVING JUST ADDED a couple of Macs and
hard disk. User settings can be configured in a LaserWriter to our Ethernet network, I no
dividually or simply copied and pasted be ticed that you left out a simple solution for
tween users. Network setup couldn't be easier. connecting LocalTalk printers to networks
Simply choose a zone or computer, and save ("Easier Ethernet;' April '96, page 103 ). Apple
the settings from the administrator's com provides, in the latest version of the Network
puter. Its ability to individually designate Software Installer (1.5.l ), a control panel
Launch, Open, Save, Copy, View, and Eject called LaserWriter Bridge 2.0.1. It allows a
functions at any system level is a manager's Loca!Talk LaserWriter connected to the
dream come true.
printer port of an Ethernet-connected Mac to
The software is extremely sol id and (unlike · be visible to the Ethernet network.
most other security packages) in no way in This software is free for downloading from
terferes with the Mac's normal operations. most sites that have Apple software. We've
Tech support is among the best I've ever en been using it for several weeks and have ex
countered, and frequent updates continually improve the package.
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I ENJOYED YOUR STORY on software secu rity, but I noticed that it failed to mention the password protection provided by Aladdin's Stufflt. It allows the user to stuff an archive with a password and keep it from prying eyes.
This feature is even available in the share ware version. I'm sure this would be of inter est to many Macintosh users, many of whom may own this software but be unaware of this feature.
Daniel Mangialetto dmangia@GroupZ.net
IN YOUR SECURITY-SOFTWARE article, Edmark's KidDesk was notably omitted. This surprised me, since KidDesk is a delightful security option for home and school. The new family edition has added interfamily e-mail, voice-mail, an address book, and a notepad to the desk's original accessories: a calendar,
ANDY, ANDY, ANDY. You paid $30 for a copy of Bill Gates' latest bloated offering ("Road '{rip;' March '96, page 210)? For shame. Why, around here there are piles of copies at the lo cal Barnes & Noble for 40 ... 50 .. .yes, even 60 percent ofr. Had I but known, I would have gladly picked up a stack of them and asked our friendly UPS pickup guy to deposit them directly on your sundeck. They're like roaches underfoot, multi plying against all reason and threatening to overflow into the cutout shelves even before they're officially punted by the publisher.
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APPLE TURNED 20 in April, but don't feel bad if you didn't get an invite to the party. Posting a $740 million loss has a way of deflating any birthday balloons. The company has instead decided to defer its celebration to another time - perhaps early 1997 - when it can
face the future with a bit more optimism. By then, it'll be close to Apple's 21st birthday an age associated with entering adulthood and leaving childish games behind.
Once again, Apple finds itself at a cross roads. Clearly, the company has to reinvent itself. Everything we've seen thus far from Apple's new chief, Dr. Gilbert Amelio, indicates that the Apple we'll see at that birthday bash won't be the same company we're wringing our hands over now. But what will it be? More important, how will it change the Mac? I've gotten some indications from people within Apple, and Amelia's plans are coming into fo cus, but the way I see it, the company can take the Mac in one of four directions: The Computer for the Rest of Us. OK, so there's nothing new about this one, but many loyal Apple customers still cling tenaciously to an ideal that began as a marketing gimmick. It's the strategy that got Apple where it is to day, reeling from massive losses and gasping for market share. Let's face it: The Mac is no longer the Computer for the Rest of Us - that computer, wherever it might be, is running Windows and Microsoft Office.
When this slogan was first trotted out, the Mac had a distinctive look and feel, a certain power and elegance that distinguished the Macintosh from its PC rivals. But the playing field has leveled. ls there anything worth sav ing in th is scenario? Yep. IfApple can get back
to basics and simplify its prod uct line (even Apple ins iders are hard-pressed to tell you which Mac models have wh ich fea tures), then the company may still be a player in the low end, especially the home and small business markets. The Computer for the Few of Us. This statement may appear to be a sad commentary on Apple's market share, but think of it as a lifestyle mantra. Sure, it smacks of elitism, but so what? The Mac has never really been a computer for the masses. Apple could embrace the Mac's snob appeal by creating sleek, slick machines that, much like luxury cars, make a statement about their owners. It's the Ultimate Comput ing Machine. Instead of continuing to go through tradi tionalcomputer-reseller channels, Apple could sell these Macs through executive-toy catalogs such as the one from The Sharper Image or at posh retail outlets such as New York's Museum of Modern Art Design Store (an Apple Classic is already in its permanent collection). Apple's already working on machines like these, but will they ever see the light of day? I hope so, if only to reconfirm the coolness fac tor of the Mac. On the other hand, unless there's lots of power under the hood, machines such as these only reinforce the notion that the Mac is a toy rather than a business tool. The Computer for Some of Us. In this sce nario, Apple builds on its current successes: graphics, publishing, multimedia, and so on. Th ink Niche Knack. The Wintel juggernaut hasn't been very successful in these markets. As a result, Apple has a pretty clear shot, but
this is no time to be sanguine - the gap is narrowing. In the multimedia arena, Apple needs to edge out Si licon Graphics in the com petition for Hollywood big bucks. QuickTime has been a big hit, and with innovations such as the new QuickTime plug-in for Netscape Navigator (http://q uicktime.apple.com), Apple continues to build on that success. If Apple licenses Windows NT to run on its serv ers, the Macintosh will further solidify its dominant position as a front end for print publishers.And in the field of education,Apple should take seriously the old SNL parody of another of its slogans - the Power to Crush the Other Kids.
Apple would be foolish to neglect these markets, but right now I think some people at Apple already take them for granted. In the comments he's made thus far, Amelio often neglects to mention publishing and education. I hope that's corrected - and soon. The Computer for All of Us. This is the sce nario with the most currency.Amelio has pub licly remarked that Apple's future lies in an "Internet-based computing architecture" that's well suited to propell ing us into the In format ion Age. The Internet is the solution that conceivably embraces the other three sce narios - low-end or high-end.
The interesting thing about the Internet scenario is that the computer platform isn't much of a factor, according to Amelio. In this age of online information, it doesn't matter which machine you use to get onto the Internet: It's the experience you have once you're there. This strategy resonates with Apple's past. Twelve years ago, Appleemployed a similar approach by offering an alternative to working with text-based command-line computers.
Apple's got the basic elements it needs in order to succeed, but the strategy needs to be clearly formulated and communicated. With the Internet, I think Apple's found the right medium for a turnaround. Look for that party invitation to arrive on the Net. ~
JULY 1996 / MacUser 21
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NEWS
Mac No longer Easiest to Use
Consumer-electronics giants show interest in new technology from innovative startup.
WHEN YOU WANT TOAST, yo u use a toaster - use, inexpensive information-management or Web. The compact, futuristic Diba Internet box
you don't strugglewith a multifunction Sustenance -retrieval device. Because an IDEA is designed for contains a 28.8-kbps modem, proprietary browser
Management System that'll prepare anything from only one task, its interface and form factor can be software, and a composite-video port for connect
astrawberry smoothie to a rib roast.A toaster does specifically optimized for that task and that task ing to a color TV. The handheld infrared remote
only one thing, but it does it well.
includes scrolling and
Dealing with information should be
pointing controls as well
as simple as dealing with an English
as a flip-open alphanu
muffin. However, as you watch those
meric keypad for enter
dozen or so extensions march across
ing URLs. Browser soft
your screen during startup, you're re
ware has been optimized
minded of how far the Mac has strayed
for TV display and in
from its original goal: to be the world's
cludes the ability to save
first information applicance.
a list of favorite Web
An ambitious startup in Belmont,
pages. Manufacturing
California, is refocusing on that goal.
cost will be around $300;
Tiny Diba is negotiating with an
expect consumer cost to
impressive array of big guns from Futuristic design and simple setup distinguish these inexpensive, easy-to-use, single
vary, depending on com
the consumer-electronics world - purpose information appliances: the Diba Mail (left} and the Diba Internet.
petition and supply.
including Cable &Wireless, GoldStar,
DIBA MAIL. Nonbusi
Hitachi, NEC, and Zenith,according to sources alone - much as a toaster's bread slot need not ness e-mail is limited to the one-third of Ameri
about licensing the suite ofhardware, software, and
accommodate a Thanksgiving turkey.
cans who have a Mac or PC at home.The Diba Mail
networking technologies that underlies Diba's new,
DIBA INTERNET. The first piece of electronic aims to up that percentage. The Diba Mail appli
simpler way of dealing with the Information Age:
equipment every red-blooded American kid learns ance has phone and fax capability, along with a
IDEAs (interactive digital electronic appliances).
to operate is the TV remote.With the Diba Internet, fold-down keyboard and a monochrome LCD dis
A Diba IDEA is a single-purpose, easy-to that basic skill can be used to surf the World Wide play. Its proprietary e-mail software has standard
editing controls as well as an address book that
FUTURE TECH
includes batch fax and e-mail processing.Si ncethe
IBM Licenses the Mac OS - Finally · Diba Mail is designed to be used in conjunction
· · with an e-mail service provider, Diba claims that the Diba Mail should be available at nominal cost
THE PROVERBIAL SHOE has finally dropped: IBM to-appear PowerPC Platform (see"The Mac of the from the service provider when you subscribe.
will license current and future versions of the Mac Future;' May '96, page 78) - and the key to this DIBA KITCHEN. IfIDEAs are intended to be the
OS. The giant that was once Apple's most hated foe customizable, multi-OS system will be its adop toasters of the Information Age, why not an IDEA
has become one of its most valuable allies.
tion by third-party chip, firmware, and mother that complements your real toaster - and your
The deal is similar to the recently announced board suppliers.
blender, your microwave, and your Cuisinart? En
Apple/Motorola agreement: IBM will supply the Help is on the way.VLSI has announced its Gold ter the Diba Kitchen, a tiny menu planner, nutri
Mac OS to sublicensees of its choosing and may Eagle PowerPC Platform AS!Cs (application tion database, CD-audio player, and color TV that
build Mac OS clones. IBM and Motorola's goals, specific integrated circuits), and FirmWorks is now either sits on your kitchen counter or hangs from
however, will be different. Whereas Motorola will shipping Power FirmWare - ROM-based software your cabinets. The Diba Kitchen includes a CD
focus on "enterprise systems" that may never be that will let PowerPC Platform systems boot mul ROM with thousands of recipes - accessible via
available at stores in the U.S., IBM will work with tiple operating systems and support plug-and-play buttons labeled Chinese, Italian, American, Mexi
third-party parts suppliers and system integrators PC! cards.No details were available at press time, can, Quick&Easy, and Other - and with nutri
to produce not only enterprise-class workstations but major motherboard makers are rumored to be tional information divided into 26 categories,
but also servers, low-priced desktop models, and ready to board the rapidly accelerating PowerPC including calories and cholesterol. An optional
notebook computers for the U.S. market. Like Platform bandwagon. I RIK MYSLEWSKI
compact thermal printer connects to the Diba
Motorola, IBM will target the Chinese market, but [More information on the IBM licensing agree Kitchen's serial port. Estimated prices were not
it's eyeing Taiwan, India, Japan, and Europe too. ment can be found on MacUserWeb, http://www available at press time. 415-596- 1177; http://
The key to these ambitious plans is the soon .zdnet.com/macuser/. - Ed.]
www.diba.com/.I RIK MYSLEWSKI
JULY 1996 I MacUser 25
Multimedia Heavyweights leapfrog Sun's Java language
New authoring tools make it easy to create and maintain interactive Web pages.
FULL-STRENGTH multimedia-authorin g pro grams are becoming Intern et-savvy, making it easier to enhance your Web site with audio, video, and animations without learning Java or faci ng CG ! (Common Gateway Interface) creation.
SUPERCARD. Allegiant Tech nologies' SuperCard plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0lets Net surfe rs view interac tive applications from yo ur Web site. SuperCard -enhanced pages can include buttons and scrolling text field s within Navigator fram es and ca n download audio that plays while graph ics download.Likeany truly Internet-savvy appli cation, Sup erCa rd ca n now import GIF-, JPEG-, and ART-compressed files. 619-587-0500; http:I/ www.a llegiant.com/.
AUTHORWARE 3.5. Shockwave for Authorware, delivered in version 3.5 of Macromedia's indus trial-strength authoring program, is able to play back so und and anim ations over the Intern et via the Shockwave plug-in. Intranet-page designers
can create interactive applications fo r their users 3D, xRes 2, SoundEd it I6 2.0, and Deck II. to download or upload informat ion to an FTP 800- 326-2 128 or 415-252 -2000; http://www server fo r, say, a survey. The $4,995 Authorwa re .macromedia.com/. Interactive Studio includes Director 5.0, Extreme CLICKWORKS. Aimed at publishers who want
to easily repurpose print material for use on CD-ROM or th e Web, Sci tex's ClickWorks doesn't require
~ii~~i~!!~~~ cfuondcintigonfosr, smuachnyasofcirtesaitnintegrancatviivgitay ~ ti on buttons - you choose ac tions from a se ri es of pop-up menus. ClickWorks can embed URLs in graphics, and scripters can lin k a CD-ROM-based applicati on to data on the Internet with su pport for li nking to SQL databases. ClickWorks runs on Power Macs; has run time versions for 680x0 Macs, Power Macs, and Windows platforms; and will be avail ClickWorks offers easy programming of interface elements able this sum mer for arou nd $1,000. 800 such as buttons via navigation options on pop-up menus. 675-5666. I SEAN J. SAFREED
OpenDoc Coming to Your Office
Intel Inside
IT'S STILL TOO EARLY to say whether OpenDoc firm's first effort will be a word processor, code
will be a boon or a boondoggle, but practical Open named Opal, that will create Open Doc container
Doc parts are fina lly beginning to appear - and documents - parts that form the shell of a docu
Digital Harbor, a startup company fo unded by ment in which other parts can be embedded.
fo rmer WordPerfect employees, plans to be among Opal will offer standard formatting functions,
the first to provide them. Not surprisingly, the such as justification; a ruler fo r setting margins
and tabs; and heade rs and footers. It will be able
MACUSER UTILITY OF THE MONTH
to open and save RTF fil es but will not let users
create or save named styles. It wi ll also support
Free Web-Management Tool text wrap around irregularlyshaped objects.
Other plans are still sketchy: Columns, search
TIRED OF REMEMBERING to for your favorite Web sites?
Ncoresawteebatoo-kmMaarkcs
and-replace, spell checking, and HTML outpu t ar
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User's SiteSeer plugs into Netscape Navigator,
some possibilities - but they also might be left
Spyglass Mosaic, and Microsoft's Inter
as "opportunities" for other vendors to supply as
net Explorer; keeps track of every site
bundled parts. Meanwhile, another group of
you visit; and creates simple drag-and WordPerfect refugees has demonstrated World
drop-aware windows for your bookmarks.Drop Soft's Worl dWri te running as an Open Doc con
UR Ls in from the Finder, your Clipboard, or your favorite browser, and they'll be saved forever. And if you drag URLs or FTP addresses into the Download Later window, SiteSeer will grab all the files you've flagged, saving you repetitive chores.
Created by William Tudor,MacUser'sSiteSeer is available exclusively from the ZD Net/Mac ser vice on CompuServe (GO ZMC:MACUSER) and on the Web at (http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/). Available as of May 31. I SCOTT LOVE
tainer. WorldSoft declined to comment. Following Opal, Digital Harbor plans to release
a full-featured word processor,code- named jade, which wi ll support named styles, bookmarks and hype rlinks, mergingof multiple docu ments, table of-contents and index generation,outlining, tables, foo tn otes and endnotes, and a thesaurus. Expect jade when Copland sh ips in I997.
Opal will sell for under $100 and wi ll be ava il able this summer,primarily over the Internet. 801
796-82 13.! HENRY BORTMAN
POWER-HUNGRY Windows 95 ca n fin ally run at high speed on a PCl-based Power Mac, thanks to new cards from Apple, Reply, and Ora nge Micro.
Apple's two offerings are the most co nservat ive. Either card can run Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 but not Windows NT, and neither is a speed burner. For $1,049, you get a I00-MH z Intel Pentium pro cessor; $799 gets you a 100-MHz Cyrix 5x86 pro cessor that Appleclaims can provide speed equiva lent to that of a 100-M Hz Pentium . Each ca rd includes8 MB of RAM,an FPU,and a Level 2cache and ships with DOS 6.22. You can also buy your card witha shiny new Power Mac wrapped around it - just ask for a Power Mac 7200/1 20 PC Com patible. 800-538-9696 or 408-996- 101 O; http:// www.app le.co m/ .
The Reply and Orange Micro cards will be able to run Windows NT, and they promise morespeed. Reply is offering Pentium processors with clock rates of I00 to 200 MHz, from $695. Orange Micro plans to offer cards with AMD and Cyrix 5x86 pro cessors as well as with a variety of Pentium pro cessors, with clock rates of up to 166 MHz. Prices for Orange Micro's Pentium cards will start around $750; cards based on the AMD and Cyrix proces sors should cost much less. Reply: 800-955-5295 or 408-942-4804; http://www.reply.com/. Orange Micro: 7 14-779-2772.! CAROLYN BICKFORD
26 Ma cUse r I JULY 1996
NEWS
CLONE WATCH
low·Cost MultiProcessing
DayStar's Genesis MP 300 offers dual-multiprocessor pe~ormance at an affordable price.
TWO MICROPROCESSORS are better than one and cheaper than four. DayStar Digital, whose premium-priced four-processor systems were the first (and, to date, only) multiprocessor Mac OS systems, has released a more affordable dual PowerPC 604/150 model,the Genesis MP 300, with
prices beginning at $6,499 for a stripped-down unit that has no RAM or hard drive.Figure another $2,500 to $3,000 for 32 MB of RAM, a 2-GB drive, and a graphics-accelerator card, and you're ready to join the multiprocessor revolution.
We performed a set of five Photoshop tests on a
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MP 300 was significantly faster than thesingle-processor PowerMac9500/132. On all but the Rotate Image test, it also outperformed the PowerTower 180, which has a single 180-MHz PowerPC processor. All tests were performed with a 50-MB file and a 200-MB Photoshop RAM partition.
DayStar Genesis MP JOO DayStar GenesisMP 600 Power ComputingPowerTower 180 Apple Power Mac 9500/132
PHOTOSHOPTASKS
Rotate Image .3 Degree
65.2 60.2
Gaussian Blur (1-pixel radi us)
14.1
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351
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15.7 11.1
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prerelease Genesis MP 300 and compared the re sults with those of a quad-PowerPC 604/150 Gen esis MP 600, Power Computing's new top-of-the line 180-MHz PowerTower 180, and an Apple Power Mac 9500/132.On our Gaussian Blur (with a 2.3-pixel radius) and RGB-to-CMYK Mode Con version tests, the Genesis MP 300 was nearly twice as fast as the Power Mac 9500/132 and outran the PowerTower 180 by a sizable margin. On our Ro tate Image test, however, the Genesis MP 300 was only a bit faster than the Power Mac 9500/132. In fact, on th is test,the PowerTower 180 beat the Gen esis MP 300- and the Genesis MP 600. (For more on the Genesis MP 600's Photoshop performance, see "Formula 1 Photoshop;' June '96, page 70.)
In a related move, DayStar once again lowered its prices on Genesis MP 600 and 528 systems. A 16-MB/l-GB configuration of the Genesis MP 528 now squeaks in at just under $10,000; a 32-MB/ 2-GB Genesis MP 600 can now be had for $13,000 and change. 800-962-2077 or 770-967-2077; http: //www.daystar.com/. / HENRY BORTMAN
Which High-Speed Connection Scheme Will Replace SCSI?
SCSJ'S DAYS ARE NUMBERED - and the num bers we're hearing are pretty damn fast: For ex ample, check out the 40-MB-per-second basic throughput rate of SSA (serial storage architec ture), appearing in systems from M.icrotech (see "Storage Milestone:' June '96, page 28) and La Cie. Impressed? Then check out FC-AL (fibre channel arbitrated loop), which promises 100-MB-per second data transfers, announced ill' systems of fered by MegaDrive and Transoft.
Either technology lets you connect over 125 de vices to one or severa l PCI-card equipped Macs, but with some key differences. For instance,every Mac has equal, direct simultaneous access to each dev ice on a two-way SSA loop, but data transfers must travel one by one along a unidirectional FC AL loop. FC-AL proponents point out that its raw speed should preventgridlock; SSA proponents are skeptical about FC-AI.:s transfer speeds when nu merous nodes are busy transferring files.
SSA is also less expensive: Compare the esti mated $2,000 price for a La Cie SSA 4-GB RAID array bundled with a PC! card, due in July, with the estimated $5,000+ per node for Transoft's FibreNet system, which includes software, a PC! card,and an array with up to a terabyte of storage capacity. MegaDrive's FC-AL Aria systems, due to ship this fall, should also start at about $5,000.
Prices may drop when Digital and Seagate ramp up FC-AL drive-mechanism production later this year. La Cie: 800-999-1465 or 503-520-9000; http:
//www.lacie.com/. MegaDrive: 800-644-6342 or 310-247-0006. Transoft: 805-897-3350; http:// www.transoft.net/. / CAROLYN BICKFORD
Now You Can Use Adobe Premiere to Control the Weather
DAZZLING SPECIAL EFFECTS just got a whole lot easier to add to QuickTime video being edited inAdobe
Premiere. Arte! Software's Boris Effects 2.0sports new interface controls,and MetaTools' Final Effects AP
adds the sci-fi thrills of particle effects and the power to conjure up a thunderstorm on command.
'f' BORIS EFFECTS 2.0. The new attractive and easy-to-use interface in this Premiere plug-in shows a
preview of effects, has interactive 3-0 rotation with an on-screen dial, and can save the settings for
special effects you create.Also new are motion effects, including motion blur and motion trails, and the
ability to create a precise motion path with Bezier controls. Boris Effects ships with a bonus CD-ROM full
of transitions. $350. 617-566-0870; http://www.tiac.net/users/artel/.
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FINAL EFFECTS AP.MetaToolsof
fers most of the power of its After
Effects professional-quality video
effects package to Premiere users
with this set of 12 plug-ins and four
transitions. Notable are the particle
effects generators that can be em
ployed to create explosions or smoke
effects. You can also use the FE Rain
or FE Snow plug-ins to add a shower
or blizzard to your video composi
tions. All the plug-ins show small
previews of the effects. S199. 805
566-6200; http://www.metatools
.com/. I SEAN). SAFREED
JULY 1996 / MacUser 27
Top Web Server The Geek Beal
ISDN. SAGEM, maker of the Planet line of ISDN
cards, has developed an ISDN GeoPort Adapter
Lengthens Its Lead ($495).The device can also be used with non
GeoPort Macs, with the addition of an included adapter. Eicon Systems' Diva TIA($495) is an
ISDN terminal adapter on a Type II PC Card.
Motorola now ships a Mac cable and software (Software Ventures' Internet Valet) with its 1
Rivals can't match WebSTAR's convenient plug-in architecture.
BitSURFR Pro ISDN modem and offers afree ISDN provisioning and tech-support service called
TIM E'S RUNNING OUT for the competition to their CG! software. StarNine has also announced
LifeGUARD to its customers. Eicon: 214-239 catch up with WebSTAR, the runaway favorite Mac a developers ki t as well as a security AP! that will
3270. http://www.eicon.com/. Motorola: 800 Web server software. Taking a page from Netscape's allow developers to extend WebSTAR's security
894-4836. SAGEM:408-446-8690; http://www .satusa .com /. T NETWORK HARDWARE. Combine a router, an
ISDN modem, and a lOBASE-T hub, and you get the WebRamp ($695), from Trancell. Tar geted at small of fices, the 8-port
technology plan, Quarterdeck's StarNine division has added plug-in support to vers ion 1.3 of WebSTAR and has announced attractive enhance ments for its upcoming version, 2.0. The improve ments in one of WebSTAR's few competitors, lnterServer Publisher, on the other hand, are de cidedly underwhelming.
WebSTAR's server- extension plug-ins are com piled app li cations that drop into the Plug-ins
features . Plug-ins will add new features - such as built
in image-map support - to WebSTAR 2.0 (sched uled fo r release in June) .Version 2.0 will also sport an overhauled administration scheme and wi ll support applications created with thesecurity APl. Version 1.3 is free to current users; version2.0 pric ing has not been announced. 800-525-2580or 510 704-1272; http://www.starnine.com/.
WebRamp includes Mac or Windows configura folder. Sharing memory with
The latest news from Inter
tion software;an ISDN BRI and NTl ;and support for AppleTalk,IP, and IPX routing.408-988-5353. NETWORK MANAGEMENT. For the first time, Apple Share administrators can manage their servers remotely, with Nok Nok A/S 2.0 ($195), from The AG Group.800-466-2447 or 510-937-7900;http: //www.aggroup.com/. DEVELOPMENT TOOLS. Symantec's C++ Compiler ($399) now includes Java support and Caffeine,
WebSTAR, they're likely to be much faster than th e CGI (Common Gateway Interface) applications currently avail able for WebSTAR and other Web server-software packages. Major developers such as Maxum Developme nt (Net
Con is less interesting:Version 1. 2 of lnterServer Publisher adds support for Open Trans port, enhancements des igned to speed CG! processing, and new security features that pro vide better control of FTP ac cess. 800-468-7266 or 703
agraphical Java development environment.Ver Cloak and NetFo rms) have an
709-5500;http://www. intercon
sion 8, Release 5, of the PowerPC-native devel nounced plug-in versions of
.com/. /SHELLY BRISBIN
opment environment also includes support for
Pascal and for creating 680x0 applications. 800-441-7234 or 541-334-6054; http://www .symantec.com/. WORLD WIDE WEB. RushHour ($295) is graphics
NET.CETERA
Adobe Responds to PageMill's Critics
server software for the World Wide Web, from Maxum Development. It works with Macs, UNIX
ADOBE MADE becoming a Web publisher easy font sizes and colors for body text, flush- right
machines, or any otherWeb servers to speed the when it released PageMill 1.0 last year. However, alignment, ani:l hidden fields in interactive forms.
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most veteran HTMLauthors groused that PageMill lacked support for manycommon layo ut features.
The raw HTML code PageMi ll generates also promises to be improved - and those picky
Adobe must have heard all that grumbling: We just HTML wiza rds wi ll be able to view and edit that
Dantzing Windows
had asneakpeek at PageM ill 2.0, and we're willing code with PageM ill's new View Source feature. to bet that its powerful and easy-to- use features PageM ill 2.0's new features don't end with will please both novice and professional users. HTML. Additionall y on tap is limited support for
PC USERS NEED HELP when it comes to sharing a Mac backup server with Macs - and that's just what's provided by new Windows 95 and NT cli ent software fro m DantzDevelopment,for use with
Like version 1.0, PageMi ll
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28 MacUser I JULY 1996
NEWS
Net·Phone Threat
Industry group wants FCC to regulate Internet telephony.
BEWARE:An association of long-distance-service resellers wants tokeep you from using the Internet to ma ke cheap phone calls.
Today yo u can make inexpensive long-distance voice calls over the Internet byusing software such as Electronic Magic's NetPhone, DSP Group's DSP TrueSpeech, and the University of Illinois' Maven - but not fo r long, if ACTA (A merica's Carriers Telecommunication Association) has anything to say about it. This group of long-distance carriers and resellers has petitioned the FCC (FederalCom mun ications Commission) to des ignate - and regulate - Internet-phone-softwaredevelopers as telecommu nications car riers.
Standard phone service is regulated by the FCC and byindividualstate PUCs (public-utilities com missions) or similar agencies. In a petition filed on March 8, 1996, with the Policy Division of th e Common Carrier Bureau of the FCC, ACTA argues that telephonyon the Internet should be regulated in a similar way.
Not surprisingly, money is the central issue. According to ACTA, its 160+ members are "re quired to pay, directly or indirectly, various fees and charges in order to render their telecommu nications service to th e public:' ACTA's me111bers pass these expenses along to their customers, the
upshot being that an average domestic long distance call costs 22 cents a minute.ACTAclaims that th e sa 111 e call made ove r the Internet via telecom software costs about 3.3 cents a minute.
"ACTA is, in effect, attempting to eliminate out side competition by banning emerging technolo gies:' says Jeff Pulver, chairman of theVON (Voice on the Net) coalition, formed specifically to fight theACTApetition. So far, at least 75 companies and 400 individu als have joined.
Apart fro m its overt threat to Internet telephony, the ACTA petition has other, darker implica ti ons. Along with the named companies, the petition mentions "other, unnamed providers" of unregu lated phone services. "While the ACTA filing di rectlytarge ts two-way voice communications:' says XingTechnologies' president,Howard Go rdo n,"we expect it's onl ya matter of time before similar ef fo rts are directed aga inst Internet rad io and tele vision broadcasting." In other words, Intern et tele co nferencing products such as Xing Technologies' Strea mWorks, Co rn ell Uni ve rsity's CU-SeeMe, Apple QuickTime Co nfe rencing, and VD Onet's VDOLive may be the next targe ts.
Tune yo ur favo rite Web browser to http://www .von. org/ to ge t a progress re port on the ACTA petiti on./ STEPHENSATCHELLAND H. 8.J. CLIFFORD
CD -ROMS
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TWISTI NG, TWIR.LI NG, and tweaking pictures maybecome the rage for children and profession als alike, with a new application from MetaTools euphoniouslydubb ed Kai's Power Goo - Ka i be ing Kai Krause, the 111an responsible fo r Ka i's Power Tools, Bryce, and the halluci natory album covers of the '70s prog-rock proponents Yes.
What sets Ka i's Power Goo apart fro m distor tion co111petitors such as Gryphon's Mo rph and The Valis Group's Flo·is its easy-to-use interface. Brightlycolored buttons display distortionoptions for growing, shrinking,smearing, smudging, mov ing,and nudging portions of a picture.You simply click and drag to"paint"a distorti on. Further,Goo has a set of brushes for color manipulation such as lightening or darkening parts of a pictu re. Yo u can also animate the distortions you create and save them as QuickTime movies .Price? Less than $50. 805-566-6200. /SEAN J. SAFREED
WH EN STR ESSE D out, how do yo u cope?Do you breathe dee ply, turn to a friend, or settledown with a nice spoonful of pea nut butt er? Four new CD-ROMs may not cu re your mental distress, but th ey'll at least ge t your mind off yo ur tro ubles.
NATURAL STRESS RELIEF. Stop grinding your teeth,and take this disc's stress-reduction courses on How to CopeorSet Goals or start keepingajour nal of (self-determined) stress levels. There's even Immediate Relief: a cloud-dappled screen replete with peaceful ocean sounds and a low male voice saying - you got it - "breathe:' $80. InnerFlow Sofnvare: 800-928-9868.
.A. THE LOVE & RELATIONSHIP TEST AND PERSONALITY TEST. With whom wo uld you rather schmooze: Aristotle or Elvis? Answer such
searching qu estions in th ese tw o CD ROMs, and discover yo ur intimacy qu o tient,your self- image, yo ur des tin y, and more. Fo r a laugh, take the tests with a friend; fo r honest re sults, go at it alon e. Either way, yo u might find out yo u have a fasc inatio n for large exotic cats - or worse. $20 each. Virtual Enter tainment: 800-301 -9545 or 617-449-7567; http:// www.virtent. com /. PEANUT BUTTER: HOW IT'S MADE. If all that anxiety is makingyoudownright nutty, yo ushould take a brea k at Lernerville, an animated peanut produ cing pantheon, and find out everythin g you've ever wa nted to knowabout thewacky wo rld of peanut butter. But remember,60 bucks buys an awful lot of the real thing.$60.The Lern er Group: 800-328-4929 or 612 -332-3344. ! REBECCA OLSON
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Here's Looking at You, Kid
GET ANEW ANGLE on videoconferencing, movie making,ortaking still pictures by mounting your digital camera on a mini tripod. When topped by a Connectix QuickCam, th is 6.5-inch-tall tri pod with flexible legs looks like a creature from the Residents' Freak Show CD-ROM. Its swivel ing camera mount lets you take shots at any , angle,including fully vertical or horizontal.
Usually for sale as an accessory with a QuickCam, the tripod is also available separately for approximately $15 from Connectix (800-950-5880 or 415-571 -5195). It's worth shopping for the lowest price, since you .ought to be able to find this or similar tripods at any camera store.
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JULY 1996 I MacUse r 29
NEWS
NEW & NOTABLE
HARDWARE
SOFTWARE
SiteCheck. Ve rify all thehypertext links on your Web site remotely, thoroughly, and simultaneo usly.
T Nakamichi SP-3d. Apair of compact, lightweight $79 .95 . Pac ific Coast Software: 619-675- 1106;
satellite speakers and an http://www. pacific-coast. com/.
indep endent subwo ofer SiteEdit. Use this server-based utility to update in
promi se to give form ation on your Web site without FTP. $29.95.
you crystal-clear Pacific Coast Software:619-675-1106; http://www
stereo from yo ur .pacific-coas t.com/.
Mac intos h and Tommy - The Interactive Adventure. The Who's 1969
add a sci-fi look to album has spaw ned a concert, a mov ie, and a
your desktop.$199. 310-538-8150.
Broadway play. Now there's an inte ractive CD-ROM
CODi AirPro. The ultimate in safe passage fo r your version that combines concert and movie foo tage
precious Powe rBook, CODi AirPro carryi ng cases with an archive of original documents and inter
cushion shocks from drops of over 6 feet with a views. $40. MacPlay: 800-462-2752 or 714-553
six-sided,variablyinflatablesystemof internal air 3530; http://www.macplay.com/.
pockets and passages. $79 to $179. 800-263-4462 Magic Separator 4.1.Improve color fidelity when you
or 717-540-1337; http://www.codi-inc.com/.
convert RGBimages to CMYK with this Photoshop
Digital Vision TelevEyes/ SC. Use your television set as plug-in.The software provides ga mut control and
a second monitor or videotape multimedia pre reco mmends the best transformation for fo ur
sentations from your Mac by using this new VGA color separations. $198. Magic Software: 800-615
to-TVscan converter with built-in on-screen con 4787 or 716-855-0295.
trols. $499. 800-346-0090 or 617-329-5400.
MultiClip PRO 3.5.This smart Clipboard replacement
Microtek SconMaker E6. This 30-bit-color fl atbed now supports Macintosh Drag and Drop,has built
scanner has a resolution of600 x 1,200 dpi,an 8.5- in support for importingJPEG and other graphics
x- 13- inch scanning area, SCSI-2 compatibility, files, and can be automated with AppleScript. $149.
image-editingsoftware, and a nice price.$599.800- Olduvai: 305-670-111 2.
654-4 160 or 310-297-5000; http://www. mteklab PosterWorks 4.0. Whether fo r a billboard or a back
.com/ .
drop,layouts up to 10,000 square fee t in size are a
Hoyes Optima 288 Business Modem. Targeted at the cinch for this program,which now has indicators
small-busin ess market, this modem features fax that tell you about device limits, panel size, and
and data transmission, voice-mail,flash ROM,and more. $495. S. H. Pierce: 617-338-2222; http://www
security measures such as access control and call- .posterworks.com/.
back. $450.404-840-9200.
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capture, enhanced resolu tion of
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ages on its large 11.7-x-1 7- inch
ra nk areas by one or several
platen. $8,495.800-933-0330 or 51 0-562-2480. criteria, and estimate density. $1,295. ThinkSpace:
Lightware Viewpoint. Weighing less than ten pounds, 519-858 -5047; http ://www. th inks pace.com/.
this portable LCD data and video projector has QuicKeys 3.5. You don't need to write a script to au
NTSC/PAL/SECAM video capabilities and a reso tomate tasks with the latest version of this popu
lution of 640x480pixels.Also included is a 3-watt lar macro utility, which lets you map actions to its
per-chann el ste reo amplifier wi th integ ra ted new tool bar and floating palette as well as to key
speakers. $6,500. 541-484-7052.
combinations. $119. CESoftware: 800-523-7638 or
UMAX Powerlook II. You can scan 600-x- 1,200-dpi, 515-22 1-1801; http://www.cesoft.com/.
letter-sized,36-bit full- color images in less than a Tailor 1.0. This Postscript edi tor opens an EPS file
minute with thi s singl e-pass fl atb ed sca nn er. from any source and lets you co rrect typos; ma
$3,495. 800-562-0311 or 510-651-4000; http :// nipulatecolor;modify the shape of objects; extract
www. umax.com/.
data; and render a new, clean PostScript file. $495.
Lexmark Optro N. Designed for large workgroups, EnFocus Softwa re: 303-86 1-2395; http://www
this 600-x-600 -dpi monochrome lase r printer .enfocus.com/.
comes standard with two 500-sheet paper trays, Territory Manager 2.5. Salespeople can create sales
prints on paper as large as 11 x 17 inches, and has fo recasts and analyses,keep a prospect list,sched
a built- in SO-MHz processor and a 24- ppm print ule sales calls, and - using a link to a separate
engine. $3,339 and up. 800-891-033 1 or606-232 program - map their data. $295. Software Solu
2000; http://www.lexmark.com/.
tions: 812-477-31 81. / CAROLYN BICKFORD
MACINTOSH PRICE INDEX
THE UNITED COMPUTER EXCHANGE index reflects average sales prices of new and used Macs as of April 5, 1996. Prices (other than those for compact models, Performas, and LCs) do not include amonitor or akeyboard. The United Com puter Exchange is a national clearinghouse of used microcomputer equipment.
Mac Model
New Used
i Classic II (4/40) LC Ill (4/80)
$325 $325
Perlorma 5215CD (8/ 1GB) Perlorma 6220CD (16/1 GB) llsi(5 / 80)
$1,899 $1,400 $1,899 $1,550
$275
llci(4/ 80)
$400
llfx(4/8 0)
$500
Quadra 605 (4/80) Quadra 610(8/ 160)
$42 5 $550
Quadra 630 (4/ 250)
$600
Quadra 650 (8/230) Quadra 660Av (8/230/ CD)
$1,050 $800
Quadra 700 (8/ 230)
$775
Quadra 800 (8/230) Quadra 840AV (8/230/CD)
$1,05 0 $1,375
Quadra900 (8/ 230) Quadra 950 (8/230)
$9 00 $1,275
Power Mac 6100/ 66 (8/350/ CD)
$1,000
Power Moc 7100/ 80 (8/700/ CD) $1 ,299 $1,125
Power Mac 7200/ 90 (8/5 00/ CD) $1,449 $1,200
Power Mac 7500/1 00 (16/1GB/ CD) $2,589 $2,000
Power Mac 8100/1 00 (16/1 GB/CD)
$2,000
PowerMoc8100/1 10 (16/2GB/CD)
$2,300
Power Mac 8500/ 120 (16/2GB/CD) $4,499 $3,700
PowerMac 9500/ 132 (16/2GB/CD) $4,399 $3,800
PowerBook 1458 (4/80)
$700
PowerBook 150 (4/120)
$700
PowerBook 165 (4/80)
$850
PowerBook 165c (4/ 80) PowerBook 170 (4/ 80) PowerBook 180 (4/ 120) PowerBook 190cs(8/500) PowerBook 520 (4/160) PowerBook 520c (4/160) PowerBook 540 (4/240) PowerBook 540c (4/ 320) PowerBook 5300cs (8/500) Duo 250 (4/200) Duo 280 (12/240) Duo 2BOc (4/320) Duo 2300c (8/750)
$1,050 $850
$1,200 $1,999 $1 ,600
$1,000 $1 ,200 $1,400 $1,900 $2,499 $1,800 $1, 100 $1,600 $1 ,700 $3,499 $3,000
-=discontinued model
For more pricing information on these and other models, call 800-755-3033 or 770-955-0569 or visit http://www.uce.com/. And find it on ZD Net/ Mac, in ; Library 1 (Specia l Reports) of the MacUser Forum (GO ZMC:MACUS ER ).
30 Mac User I JULY 1996
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Developers hold back
Reli~bility
on new technologies
By MacWEEK staff
said Brian Lawley, director of C++ and Java
There's angst in the Mac developer com
tools at Symantec Corp. of Cupertino,
munity tod ay, and it's not all in response
Calif.
to Apple's second-quarter loss.
In addition to speedy delivery,
Many developers question Apple's
Apple must move new technologies
continuing support for numerous
more quickly into the OS, said Gary
technologies on its plate, and some are
Gonzalez, president of Binary Software
holding back their adoption of innova
Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif. "QuickDraw
tions, including OpenDoc, QuickDraw 30, GX will be 2 years old before it goes into the
QuickTime VR and QuickTime Confer system software. It's useless," he said.
encing. With the Apple Worldwide Develop
Developers said they have this same fea r
ers Conference around the corner, developers about QuickDraw 30 and OpenDoc. "If I
are seeking assurance that the company will were Apple, I'd be totally focused on integrat
back up its words with action.
ing OpenDoc into the Mac OS," said David
"Apple doesn 't jump into a new standard Smith, CEO ofCary, N.C.-based Virtus Corp.
with both feet," sa id Chuck Shotton, vice Apple and Claris Corp. have also had a lack
president ofQuarterdeck Corp. of Marina D el luster record in implementing new technolo
Rey, Calif.
gies.
Developers that have supported Power
"You never see a Microsoft product ship
Talk, publish and subscribe, QuickDraw GX, without OLE support," Symantec's Lawley
and other faltering Apple technologies said said. Resolving this issue is most critical, he
they feel justified in their hesitation.
said, "because if Apple won't bet on its own
"We really want to support OpenDoc, but technologies, then no third party is going to."
we're a little uncomfortable," said Joe Kissel, Some longtime Macintosh programmers
Nisus product manager at Nisus Software said some Apple efforts seem to be little more
Inc. of Solano Beach, Calif.
than technological exercises without a clear
Kissel said several of Apple's efforts have ar market.
rived unfinished . "It's like they're trying to "It comes down to 'What problem does this
test the waters and will decide later if they are [technology] solve?'" Smith said. He gave
going to support them," Kissel said. "I just got PlainTalk's speech recognition as an example:
the AP! for PowerTalk."
"When it's barely accurate enough to recog
Other developers pointed to Apple's diffi nize single words, you have to ask yourself,
culty in bringing tools and products to mar 'Why spend a huge effort to integrate it into
ket. "If there are long, significant delays in my application?'"
technologies, developers lose faith in them," Whi le many developers said Apple's current
Apple's technology pitches
technologies solved real problems, they were more concerned that
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Apple hadn 't learned from its past mistakes of keeping technologies proprietary.
Developers agreed Apple's tech nologies need to be cross-platform.
Shotton said that for QuickDraw 3D and QuickTime Conferencing to
succeed, Apple should publish them
" TrueType · Wo rldScript
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recognition ,. Publish and subscribe ,. PowerTalk/ PowerSh are · QuickDraw GX · Qu ickli me.I[~
as open standards. Virtus' Smith agreed about
QuickDraw 3D: "They make it an open standard or it ceases to exist. There's just no choice." o
key issue ·
for Apple
By Joanna Pearlstein and Kelly Ryer
Extended beta testing and a new Quality
Council comprising decision makers from the
company's engineering, manufacturing, test
ing, product marketing and customer service
groups are two key parts of senior vice presi
dent Frederick Forsyth's plans to improve the
reliability of Apple Computer's hardware and
software.
CEO Gi lbert Ame lio deputized Forsyth,
Apple senior vice president for worldwide op
erations, to oversee quality-assurance efforts.
Forsyth said: "[Amelio] doesn't care what
the cause is
- supply problems,
Help, Apple style
design problems, manufac turing, ser vice, distri bution. He is looking across the organiza
Apple's technical support can be reached at (800) 767-2775 . Users can sea rch Apple's technical information Iibrary at http:I/ til.info.apple. com/til /t iI.html.
tion to en
sure we have the processes in place for resolu
tion. "
According to Forsyth, one way to improve
quality control is to augment the testing pro
cess with more input from outside sources. In
the wake of public beta tests of Open Trans
port and Open Doc, Apple said it will continue
the trend with a public beta of Copland, its
next major OS release. Nancy Morrison, an
Apple spokeswoman, said, "It won't be really
widespread, but there will be a seeding pro
gram for customers."
But Forsyth said: "We 're looking to find
beta sites. We want to get a· broader base of
users to test things. [That's] clearly required
for major changes. We want to get some edu
cational institutions and developers."
An increased focus on quality is reflected in
recent Apple actions. The company report
ed ly delayed the release of faster Power Mac
models in order to ensure the machines wi ll
work properly when released. o
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MacWEEK REPORT
Apple puts SPA survey: Mac app
Finder on sales dropped in '95
the Web
By Joanna Pearlstein
Putting th e face of th e Mac O S onto th e Inte rn et, Apple last m onth unv eiled W eb Finder, a Finde r-lik e tool for se rv ing docu ments on th e Web, as wel l as new versions of both Ma cPPP and AppleSea rch Serve r.
WebFi nd er, an ACG I (Asy nchro nous Comm on Ga teway Interface), d isplays W eb pages in fil e directori es that resemble those of th e Finder. The prog ram di splays th e fil e's icon, a nd users ca n sort items by N ame, Size, Kind and D ate L ast Modifi ed.
Whenever a use r clicks on a text fi le in the directory, WebF inder conve rts it into HTML on the fl y, whi le maintaining all styles, Apple sa id . C lickin g o n a n Ad obe A croba t fil e launches the Acrobat plug-in, if a plug-in is a vai lable.
W ebFind e r's access pri vileges ar e se t th rough Apple fil e sharing.
John D as he r, e ngin ee rin g m a nage r for App le's C yberT ec h Inte rn e t prog rammin g g roup, said his tea m des igned WebFinder "as a complem ent to FTP. FTP turned out to be a li ttle too complex for some use rs, and we said, 'Gosh, there's got to be an easier way.' "
W ebFinder is currently run ning on Apple's CyberTech W eb site a t http ://cy be rt ec h .apple.com . The tool is expected to be ava il able free in the nea r futu re.
In other Internet news, Apple Compute r last month shipped MacPPP 2.5, an update to the tool used for a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connection. The new version is com pat: ib le w ith Open Tr a nspo rt a nd offe rs im proved virtual-memory support, better se rial port management on PowerBooks and seve ral bug fixes.
The new tool is included in Version I.I of th e App le I nte rn et Co nn ectio n Kit a nd is avai lable on Apple's Web servers.
MacPPP is free, but Appl e supports it only for owners of the $49 Apple Intern et Connec tion Kit.
F inally, Apple has rel eased a patch fo r the AppleSea r ch Se rve r, whi ch e nab les Wid e Area Informa tion Server fun cti onality with Open Transport; the Version 1.5.1 update is required only for those wh o are using O pen T r a n sport .
Both MacPPP 2.5 and th e Ap pleSea rch Ser ver 1. 5. l P a t ch a r e ava ila ble o n th e CyberTech site. o
By Mark Hall
D es pite reco rd shipments of 4.7 mi l
Key Mac market 589ments
li on Macs in 1995, Ap ple's soft war e devel opers lost ground.
Revenue changes 1994-1995
Acco rding to a su rvey of U.S. and
DTP
Ca nad ia n personal computer soft wa re
sa les conducted by the Software Pub
lishe rs Assoc iat io n of W as hin g to n,
D.C., th e Mac po rt io n tumb led to
$1. 05 billio n fr om $1.23 bi ll ion the
previous year, a 14.3 perce nt decline.
Total softwa re sales g rew 12.3 percent,
to $7.53 billion in 1995, up fr om $6.7 bill ion in 1994.
Mac a pplica tion sales took 14.5 per cent of the ma rket, dow n from 18 per
Spreadsheets
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, VVord processors
cent in 1994, whil e Wind ows softw are
dom inated with 75 percent of overa ll sa les . D O S soft wa re acco unted fo r
-40% -30 -20 -10 0 10 20%
only 9.5 percent of annual revenue.
Source: Software Publishers ksociation.
"T he concern for Mac developers is:
How big is the market ?" sa id SPA Re
sea rch D irector Ji m Sand ers. Acco rd ing to "We' ve seen some contraction, but we' re not
H eidi Roizen, Apple vice pres id ent of devel su re whether it's th e overa ll indu stry, Mac
oper relations: "Mac soft wa re sales we re $1 specifi c, o r anticipation of u pcoming releases,"
billion last yea r. That's not a dead ma rket."
sa id CEO Ford Goodman of C E Softwa re
Th e SPA said Mac databases, spreadsheets In c. of Wes t D es Moines, Iowa.
and word process ing applications declined the But Larry Zulch, president ofDantz D evel
most from 1994 to 1995.
o pment Co rp . of Orinda, Calif. , said : "Our
"O ur entire Mac busin ess is dow n in lin e sales have bee n stron g. O ther th an a sho rt
with the industry," said D ave Meltze r, Mac drop, we've bee n quite pleased with how sales
. pro du ct m a nage r for Mi c roso ft Co rp. of have been going."
Redmond , Wa sh. " But th e fund amental busi
C ritics have said the SPA's study reflects ex
ness streng th measured in volume co ntinues cessive channel sell -in of W indows 95 applica
to be stro ng."
tions, not actual sales to custom ers. D
Spyglass to acquire Surfwatch
By James Staten
Spyglass Inc. is adding a signifi ca nt new tool to its W eb kit. In Ap ril , t he compa ny a n
nou need a d ea l to ac q u ire Surfw a tch So ft w ar e Inc ., m a k e r o f Inte rn et co nte nt-fi lte r in g tools.
N a pe rvill e, Ill. - base d Sp yg lass pl ans to pu r chase Surfwatch in a stoc k sw a p va lu ed a t $12.6 mi llion. O ffi cials at Los Altos, Cali f -based Su rfwatch sa id th at upon completion of th e dea l, the company will become a West Coast research and devel-
opment di vision of Spyglass. No layoffs are ex pected at either company.
Spyglass CEO Douglas Colbeth wi ll run th e comb ined co mpa ny; th e future role of Sur fw a tch Pres id e nt Bi ll Du va ll is as yet undeterm ined.
Jay Fried land , vice president of marketing at Surfwatch, said his div ision's fi rst order of busines's will be to integrate its Internet filter ing tech nologies in to the client and serve r por tions of Spyglass' Web Technology kits, slated for release this summe r.
"[Spyglass] recogni zed th at Internet fi lter ing is more than a parental-control thing and that it has applications in the intranet and cor porate worlds," Friedland said . D
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REVIEWS
Color scanners for
homeIsmall office
HP ScanJet 4p
Apple Color OneScanner
600/27
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UMAX Super Vista S-12 ~~~~
Capturing color images gets easier and cheaper.
"A SCANNER FOR EVERY MAC" hasn't yet
emerged as a presidential-campaign slogan, but three new sub-$800 color scanners - the Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4p, the Apple Color OneScanner 600/27, and the UMAX Super Vista S-12 - make that promise enticingly real for many home and small-business com puter users.
Any of the three will do if your main con cern is scanning black-and-white and gray scale images, but chances are you're interested in quality color images - after all, these are color scanners.In that case, these scanners are decidedly not equal.
All three are flatbed models that connect to your computer's SCSI chain, and all ship with necessary cables and SCSI termination. (The UMAX uses an external terminator, and the Apple and HP models offer switchable in ternal termination.) All three accommodate standard 8.5-x-11 -inch pages, and the UMAX and HP models are large enough to scan 8.5 x-14-inch sheets.
Each includes software for performing prescans - quick, low-resolution scans that help you decide on scanner settings for opti mal image quality - in addition to software for image acquisition and image editing. Although each scanner uses the same basiC procedures, the tools for acquiring, editing, and further handling scanned documents vary considerably. Before you buy, be sure to
consider the tasks you intend to accomplish after they've been scanned. To activate an ap
with your scanner and make sure to get the plication in the tool bar, you drag an image's
tools you need.
thumbnail from the PaperPort Desktop and
HP ScanJet 4p
drop the thumbnail onto the desired applica tion icon.
The ScanJet 4p's features list has everything Chief among the tool-bar applications are
you'd want in a small-office scanner: Multi PictureScan, which you use to adjust the
function, easy-to-use software; friendly, thor ScanJet 4p's settings, and Photoshop LE, alim
ough manuals that walk you through setup, ited edition of Adobe Systems' versatile im
the scanning process, and troubleshooting; a age editor that provides tools for sizing, crop
simple color-calibration system; and support ping, color-correcting, and retouching your
for an optional ($599 list) automatic sheet images. (PictureScan can be opened from
feeder for scanning multipage documents. within Photoshop LE and PaperPort.) Other
Despite these credentials,however, the ScanJet tool-bar icons include one for PaperPort's
4p came up woefully short in image quality. built-in OCR tool, which converts scans of
In our tests, scanned photographic images printed text into editable text, and one for
generallyappeared fuzzy and consistently ex ScanJet Copy, an application that lets you use
hibited poor color quality. Blues and greens the scanner and your printer like an office
appeared glaringly bright, and reds some copier. Your currently selected printer and
times appeared washed out.
your fax application, if you have one, also ap
The main software for the ScanJet 4p is pear as icons on PaperPort's tool bar.
Visioneer's PaperPort, which acts as a control HP designed PictureScan to spare first-time
center for a variety of scanner operations. users any confusion, so its scanning adjust
PaperPort's main screen consists of a customizable
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ments are intentionally lim ited: You select a printer
tool bar - with icons that represent applications you can employ to manipulate scanned images - and a large window, known as the Desktop, where documents appear as small thumbnails
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from a pull-down menu (which includes HP print ers plus generic options such as "300-dpi inkjet") and specify one of fo ur document types ("color im age with text:' for example).
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REVIEWS I SCANNERS
Although this approach appears sound, in re ality it's merely inflexible. Ifthe colors in your prescan don't look right - and most of ours didn't - there's little you can do other than scan the image and try to fix it afterward in Photoshop LE.
The ScanJet's color-calibration software of fered little help, although it was easy to use: You scan a supplied sample page, print it on your printer, and scan the printout, and the software tweaks the scanner automatically.We observed some improvement in color quality after we calibrated the ScanJet, but color im ages still looked unacceptable on-screen and in printouts.
Part of the image-quality problem may be with PietureScan's inexplicable restriction of the ScanJet 4p to amaximum resolution of200 dpi (the same resolution as most fax ma chines') - even though the hardware is ca pable of capturing images at 300 dpi. HP claims that resolutions greater than 200 dpi are overkill for the types ofprinters home and small-office computer users have. PictureScan therefore sets the scan resolution for most documents at 150 dpi - even though one of the program's printer options is a 1,200-dpi imagesetter.
We did find that a boost in scan resolution can make a big difference in image quality: When we printed images scanned at 150 dpi (PictureScan's chosen setting for our color dye-sublimation printer), the printouts were noticeably fuzzy. When we forced the scan resolution to 200 dpi (by "lying" to the scan ner and saying we planned to print on an imagesetter), the resulting images were decid edly sharper. HP is shortchanging users by denying access to all that the scanner is ca pable of.
Apple Color OneScanner 600/27
The Apple scanner delivers most ofthe advan tages promised by the HP ScanJet 4p but avoids the ScanJet's biggest drawback, by mak ing it easy to obtain acceptable-quality (if not picture-perfect) scans most of the time.
The Color OneScanner's central software application, aprogram called Dispatcher, pre sents you with four large buttons, each bear ing an icon that corresponds to Dispatcher's main functions: The Scan button is for adjust ing and controlling the Color OneScanner dur ing image captures. The Image Edit button provides access to basic image-editing tools similar to those in Photoshop LE, although Dispatcher lacks that program's support for
plug-in enhancement modules. The Scan settings for agiven document. It's so good that,
Router button lets you use the Color One in many cases,you won't have to useVistaScan
Scanner as a copier or conventional fax ma at all.
chine (provided you have your own fax soft AutoScan performs aprescan and, without
ware); you can fax a scanned page, or print showing you the image, automatically adjusts
multiple copies of it, without saving the scanner settings for best results with the
scanned image to your hard disk. (These func printer you've selected. Click on the Scan but
tions are made even more useful with the ad ton, and the image appears in a preview win
dition of an optional automatic sheet feeder dow as it's captured. If you don't like the
[estimated street price, $350] that Apple sup results, you can launchVistaScan (and Photo
plies for the Color OneScanner.) The Archive shop LE) from withinAutoScan to override the
button lets you view scans as thumbnails. automatic scan settings. VistaScan lets you
Dispatcher, like HP's PaperPort, lets you choose from dozens of preset scanning reso
establish links to other applications in which lutions, or you can type in your own. The plug
you'd like to work on your scanned pages. · in also provides image-scaling and -correction
Dragging an application's icon onto the Dis features, such as sliders for Highlights, Shad
patcher tool bar adds that icon to the tool bar; ows, and Brightness &Contrast.
dragging an image file's thumbnail onto an The UMAX VistaScan offers greater graph
icon on the tool bar opens the file in the cor ics versatility than the Apple and HP printers.
responding application.Apple supplies Xerox's In addition to an optional sheet feeder ($495
Textbridge OCR application with the Color list), it has an optional transparency adapter
OneScanner and recommends that you use ·($495 list) that lets you scan 35mm slides or
this drag-and-drop approach to activate it. transparencies as well as paper originals.
Dispatcher's simple Scan dialog box offers
users the flexibility to adjust the scanner for The Bottom line
most image types. You start the adjustment None ofthese scanners can compete with pro
process by selecting an output device from a fessional-caliber graphics scanners - but
pull-down menu. Once you've done a prescan, none of them attempt to. Each scanner's out
you have the option ofusing slider controls to put exhibited some artifacts and signs of
adjust the image's contrast and color balance. "noise" associated with imperfect captures.
You can also override the scan-resolution set Nevertheless, the scans produced by two of
ting Dispatcher has specified for your chosen these scanners are good enough for most any
output device. The Color OneScanner controls business-communications needs or for inclu
made it easy for us - after we found the out sion in family art or publishing projects.
put to our dye-sub printer a bit indistinct, for Despite a well-rounded software bundle
example - to improve image quality consid .and excellent documentation, the HP ScanJet
erably by setting a higher scan resolution. 4p falls flat where it really counts: image qual
UMAX Super Vista S· 12
ity. For that reason, we can't recommend it. Apple's Color OneScanner 600127 delivers
Whereas the Apple and HP scanners aim to usable-quality images and offers astrong soft
be multipurpose ·devices used for capturing ware bundle that will be useful in offices where
text pages as well as images, the UMAX Super OCR is desired or where a scanner pinch-hits
Vista S-12 is intended purely as an image as a fax machine and a copier (in conjunction
scanner. It dispenses with OCR and copier with your printer). Ifyour needs are confined
functions in favor of tools devoted to obtain to image capture only, the UMAX Super Vista
ing high-quality image scans - and succeeds S-12, with its impressive AutoScan tool, offers
admirably at that goal.
exceptional results and value. I Rick Oldano
The Super Vista S-12 ships with Photoshop LE and uses a Photoshop plug-in module, called VistaScan, for image acquisition and scanner-setting adjustments. Because Vista
Apple Color OneScanner 600/27, $599 (estimated street).Company: Apple Computer, Cupertino,CA; 800-538-9696 or 408-996,101 O; http://www .apple.com/.Reader Service: Circle #401.
Scan is a subset ofthe control module UMAX supplies with the company's high-end graph ics scanners, its interface may intimidate scanning novices. Fortunately, UMAX also supplies an outstanding tool called AutoScan, which automatically adjusts the scanner
Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4p, $615 (list). Company: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA; 800-722-6538 or 408-246-4300; http://www.hp.com/. Reader Service: Circle #402.
UMAX Super Vista S-12, $895 (list).Company: UMAX, Fremont, CA; 800-562-4000 or 510-651-4000; http:/I www.umax.com/. Reader Service: Circle #403.
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REVIEWS I REMOVABLE-STORAGE SYSTEMS
Iomega Jaz
Fast, high-capacity removable storage hits ahigh note.
COMBINING THE CONVENIENCE and
affordability of its predecessor - the Zip drive - with remarkablespeed, upped capac ity, and superior design, the jaz removable cartridge drive looks like another we ll deserved hit for its manufacturer, Iomega. The drive, with its sub-$100 1-GB car tridges, is sure to appeal to any one who works with large files, particularly folks in multimedia development and prepress.
greater than that of the SyQuest 270 with write verification off.)
Despite these impressive scores, !omega's claim that the jaz is faster than most hard drives isn't applicable to most current drives .
A1-GB Quantum hard drive in a Power Mac
7500/100 easily beat the jaz in the Disk Mix and Publishing Disk Mix tests . The jaz drive did, however, come close to hard-drive speed when writing large (1 MB) data chunks se quentially to disk, which means it would be well suited for digital-video-editing work.
If you work with large files, such as digital video clips, you may want to consider !omega's
Built for Speed
You won't have to compromise speed for price with the jaz drive: It's the fastest removable-media drive you can buy. In our Mac Bench 3.0 Disk Mix test, the Jaz drive was 37 percent faster than the previous speed leader among removable-media drives, the 270 MB SyQuest drive,and more than !omega'sJaz drive and cartri dges are conven iently porta ble. three times as fast as the Zip drive. Results were even more dramatic in our ]az Jet, a $100 Fast SCSI PC! card. The Jet card MacBench 3.0 Publishing Disk Mix test, in improved speed on reads and writes larger which the Jaz was 58 percent faster than the than 1MB in size; on the other hand, it slowed SyQuest 270. (We tested the jaz using the de down the small reads and writes that are typi fault driver settings, which, like those for the ca l with word-processor and spreadsheet tested reference drives, had the write-verifi documents. If you live and breathe for fast cation option turned off. When we turned throughput, you might consider one of the jaz write verification on, as Iomega recommends bundles from ProMax, MicroNet, or FWB for greatest data security, the Jaz's speed each of which offers two jaz drives with RAID dropped by about 18 percent but was still 0 software.
.. RAPID REMOVABLES I howJaz plays
< A · The Iomega Jaz compares favorably to the previousspeed leader among remova ble-media drives, theSyQuest 270. (SyQuest 270 mechanisms are sold only in third-party drives; we testeda Power User drive, from MacWarehouse). All systems were tested on a Power Mac 7500/1 OO's built-in SCSI cha in, with write verification in the default "off" setting. MacBench 3.0 scores are relative to those of the Power Mac 6100/60 with an internal 250-MB Quantum drive, which isassigned a scoreof 10.0 in each test.
Iomega Jaz
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Apple Power Mac7500/100 internal J.GB drive SyQuest 270 IomegaZip 100
MACBENCH 3.0 SCORES Disk Mix 12.5
15.l
9.1
3.7 -
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SCORE
BITTER
Publishing Disk Mix 10.9
15.8 6.9 4.3 SCOR E
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BETIER
Built to Last
You don't have to compromise on design or durability with the jaz drive. Unlike the Zip drive, which offers only two SCSI IDs and 25 pin SCSI connectors, the Jaz drive has eight SCSI IDs and two SCSI-II HD-50 connectors. The HD-50 connectors provide excellent data security, but they're not commonly used in the Mac market, so you need to use an adapter - which Iomega includes - to plug the jaz drive into a Mac. If you want to hook it into a SCSI chain that has more devices, cabling can get complicated. You don't have to worry about getting an HD-50 terminator, however, be cause the Jaz drive has built-in termination.
The 8-x-l.5-x-5.5-inch drive is small and light enough to carry around.You can't orient the case vertically, but even if you could, you wouldn't be able to use it, because the drive heads wouldn't work in that position.
To test jaz-cartridge durability, we heated the cartridges up to 185 degrees Fahrenheit with 95-percent humidity and also dropped them onto a metal surface from a height of 2.5 feet. The cartridges came through essen tially unscathed - a bit scuffed but with data intact.
The jaz drive comes with the same easy to-use formatting software as the Zip drive, and in fact, you can use the same software for both. One minor disappointment: You can't use the software to format a Jaz cartridge for use with PC-compatible computers. Iflomega truly wants its removable-media systems to become the floppy drives of the future, it needs to give its Mac clientele the ability to transfer data to PCs.
The Bottom Line
!omega's inexpensive Zip drive was a runaway mass-market hit last year, but its relatively low-capacity, 100-MB cartridges made it im practical for large files such as digital-video and -audio clips. jaz cartridges deliver much more storage capacity than do the highest capacity SyQuest discs, and the drive is fast, reliable, and reasonably priced. Later this year, SyQuest plans to release its retort to the jaz drive: the SyJET drive, which will use 1.3-GB cartridges. Producing a drive that combines speed and ease of use as well as the Jaz drive does should be a challenge for SyQuest - and a boon for consumers. I Kristina DeNike
Iomega Jaz, $580 (estimated street).Company: Iomega, Roy, UT; 800-697-8833 or 801-778-1000; http://www.iomega.com/.Reader Service:Circle #404.
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REVIEWS I UTILITIES
Now Utilities 6.0
New stars step up to the plate in
this revamped utilities package.
LIKE ANY BALL CLUB that has stars as well as benchwa rmers, Now Utilities, that venerable coll ection of Mac-customi zing tools, has somegreat features mixed in with others that, to put it kindly, still need work. Now Utilities 6.0 spruces up old favorites, but some awk wardness introduced in version 5.0 still re mains. Rather than address those problems, Now Software has added three new utilities - Now Auto Type,NowTabs, and Now Short cuts - in hopes they'll prove heavy hitters. Here's a rundown on the latest roster, with our appraisal of each utility's prospects.
The Starting Team
Now SuperBoomera ng is worth the entire price of Now Utilities. It adds menus of re cently opened files and folders to the Open and Save di alog boxes . In Now Utilit ies 6.0, Now SuperBoomerang's folder and volume menus arehierarchical,up to ten folders deep. Another great utility, Now Menus, lets you place icons in the menu bar,towhich you can attach SuperBoomera ng's lists of recently opened items or frequently used applications or any other fi les or fo lders. You ca n drag a file onto a Now Menu icon in the menu bar and through the hierarchical menu todrop it intoa folder as manyas ten levels down.This saves lots of folder clicking and closing.
Now Startu p Manager lets you create sets of extensions and specify which set loads when. It can even test your system for exten sion conflicts, although not quite as elegantly as Casady & Greene's Conflict Catcher 3.0 does. Now WYSIWYG Menus hierarchically groups typefaces in the Fonts menu by fam ily and displays their names in their own fo nts. Now Save automatically saves yo ur work in anyapplication at intervals you des ignate and additionally captures your key strokes as you work, so even in the case of a catastrophic crash, you can resuscitate your most recent notes.
Now Benchwarmers
The following tools are members of the Now Utilities team that,at best,need a li ttle coach ing; a few of them might ac tually be better
off retiring from the game altogether.
opens as a window, from which you can open
When youhold thecursor down on a folder files or into which you can save them.
or volume icon in the Finder, Now Folder Two buttons on the bar give you access to
Menus rewards you with a painfully slow hi other fun ctions: Clicking on either button
erarchical menu, as many as ten levels deep, pops up a menu that contains Now Super
of the item's contents. Among other things, Boomerang's list of recently opened files and
NowQuickFiler lets youcompress files on your folders (already easily accessible from the
hard disk both in the background, much like menu bar) as well as the date and tim e and
Symantec's AutoDoubler, and on demand,like several Finder commands, such as Restart and
Aladdin's Stuftlt. It also replaces System7.5.x's Shut Down.
Find File utility with a slower utility that al For perfor ming a variety of tasks, Now
lows you to see a file's size, creator, and type Shortcuts offers an alternative to mousing up
in a singlewindow,but Now QuickFiler doesn't to the menu bar in the Finder:When you Con
let you drag an item from its inspection win trol-click on the icon of a file you want to ma
dow or change an item's file type and creator. nipulate, Now Shortcuts invokes a pop- up
Now Scrapbook,a stand-alone application, re menu that lists - directly on the icon
places Apple's Scrapbook DAand offers some Finder actions plus QuickFiler's Find, Archive,
and Compress commands.
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You can "dock" open Finder windows to Now Tabs' tab bar.Click on a tab, and the window opens. Or click on either"Now" button to invoke a command menu.Plug-ins such asthe Arra nge Window module selected here let you customize this menu.
plug-ins, and Now encour ages users to post their plug ins for trade on Now's Web site. As this article we nt to press,onlytwo such plug-ins
nice features, such as an editor fo r text on the were available - one that makes it easy to
Clipboard, but it still doesn't support Mac arrange all the open windows on your desk
intosh Drag and Drop.
top or to pull anyone of them to the front and
The All-New Rookie Squad
one that lets you specify an application to use in opening any fi le you select. Both are handy
The star recruit is the nifty Now Auto Type, but hardly essential.
which lets you set up and use key combina
tions and abbreviations as alternatives to typ The Bottom Line
ing out frequently used or awkwardly long If you still don't own Now Utilities, buy it: It's
words and phrases. Even better, Now Auto st ill one of the best productivity enhance
Type monitors your typing, and if it notices ments yo u ca n get fo r yo ur Mac. If you're
that you're repeatedly typ ing a particular currently using Now Utilities 5.0, the new
phrase, such as your return address, it will functions and improvements in Now Super
suggest that you create a key combination for Boomerang, Now Menus, and Now Startup
it. You can also access a pop-up menu of your Manager and the new utilities are worth the
key combinations and abbreviations.
$29.95 upgrade price only if you know you'll
Now Tabs puts a tab bar along the bottom fin d them useful. I Eric Taub
of your screen. You can drag any window in the Finder onto this bar,where it will turn into a small,labeled button.When you cl ick on the button or drag something onto it, the button
Now Utilities 6.0, $89.95 (estimated street).Company: Now Softwa re, Portland, OR; 800-274-0670 or 503 274-2800; http://www.nowsoh.co m/.Reader Service: Circle #405.
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COMPUTERS, COMMUNICATIONS, MICROELECTRONICS
REVIEWS I MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING I IMAGE EDITING
mTropolis
mFactory's David takes on
Macromedia's Goliath.
MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING software is an old tradition on the Mac, dating back to the cre ation of HyperCard in 1987. With the intro duction of mTropolis,a new tool (with a fresh approach) has been added to the authoring program ranks.Although still in its infancy, mTropolis has the potential to give the domi nant tool, Macromedia Director, some serious competition.
The considerable power of mTropolis de rives from several sources: Its clever drag and-drop approach to object-oriented pro gramming allows speedy project development and troubleshooting. And, because mTropolis successfully separates programming instruc tions from the media they control (QuickTime movies, animations, sounds, and so on), the program makes it extremely easy to reuse portions of a project. For example, once you've programmed a goldfish to swim in one project, it's simple to drop the same fish into another project - or to applyits behavior to a guppy character. This sort of flexibility is unheard of in Director. Furthermore, although mTropolis runs only on Macs and compatibles (68040 or better, at least 16 MB of RAM), you can use it to generate programs that run on Macs, Power Macs and compatibles, and Win dows 3.1 and Windows 95 systems.
Most of your work in mTropolis is per formed in the Project window.Here, you can organize your program into sections and scenes, create objects that are linked to exter nal media, and control the objects through the use of modifiers - programming instruc tions represented as icons on floating palettes. To apply a modifier, you drag it off its palette and drop it onto the object you wish to con trol. Once a modifier is in place, you can double-click on it to open a configuration dia log box, where you specify the conditions un der which the modifier's instructions are to be executed.
mTropolis comes with 36 modifiers, orga nized into five categories: Effects, Variables, Behaviors, Mini Scripts, and Messengers. Ef fects modify object characteristics such as color and transparency in text or graphics or the rate of a sound fade-out. Variables store
numerical information, such as game scores language. If you're familiar with AppleScript,
and object-position coordinates. Behaviors HyperTalk, or Lingo, you'll have little trouble
serve as containers for groups of modifiers, learning the Min i Scripts language.
including other Behaviors;they are organized
hierarchically much like Finder files and fold The Price of Power
ers, so for example, a Tail Wag behavior could Developers familiar withDirector's score-and
sit inside a more complex Happy Dog behav cast metaphor or with the cards-and-stacks
ior. Mini Scripts provide a simple but power orientation of HyperCard and SuperCard will
ful programming language. And finally, Mes need some time to adjust to mTropolis' drag
sengers govern object interaction by sending and-drop environment, and lightweight docu
instructions to objects and modifiers.
mentation makes the learning curve steeper
The Message Is the Medium
than it should be.Experienced multimedia au thors can learn a great deal by dissecting and
Messages in mTropolis can be generated by studying the many example projects included
the user (through mouse clicks and key on the mTropolis CD-ROM, however, and can
strokes), by mTropolis itself (as in events trig- easily be doing productive work within a
month of working through the
mTropolis tutorial.
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Before shellingout $5,000 for the program, however, be aware that it is a version 1.0 release and therefore has a few bugs some of them quite serious: Us ing the Save command, for ex ample, may corrupt your project (mFactory recom mends using the Save As com mand as a workaround) . And
moving more than one message
at a time into an Author Mes
The Structure window in mTropolis reveals the hierarchy of sage group sometimes causes
objects and modifiers in your project.
the messages to be deleted, but
you're safe moving only one
gered by scene changes or completion of ani message at a time. mFactory acknowledges
mations), or by any object in a project: In a these flaws and has slated them for correction
simple example, a moving object that bumps in release 1.1, which may be available by the
into another might send a collision message time you read this. The update also promises
telling the struck object how far and how fast several new features, including real-time 3-D,
it should ricochet.
support for QuickTime VR, and the ability to
Each Messenger modifier's configuration generate programs that support multiple us
dialog box contains numerous standard mes ers over the Internet.
sages, including Show and Hide (for any vis
ible object), Play and Pause (for movies or The Bottom Line
animations), and Scroll (for text) .These stan For professional multimedia developers,
dard instructions go a long way, but for in mTropolis is a promising - if extremely ex
stances specific to your project, mTropolis pensive - alternative to Macromedia Direc
makes it easy to create custom author mes tor (estimated street price, $850). Although it
sages.You might use a New High Score author has a few rough edges and missing features
message to trigger a scene change in your (not surprising for a version 1.0 release), its
game, for example.
greater power and flexibility make it worth a
Some Programming Required
serious look. If mFactory follows through on its promises to squash the bugs and continue
When you need to perform mathematical op adding enhancements, mTropolis may prove
erations, inspect or change the attributes of irresistible. I Patrick Milligan
an object, or do conditional tests in your project, you use a Mini Scripts modifier, which has its own simple but powerful programming
mTropolis 1.0, $4,995 (list). Company: mFactory, Burlingame, CA; 415-548-0600; http://www .mfactory.com/.Reader Service: Circle #406.
46 Mac User I JULY 1996
Finessing Big Files
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These programs handle large images that Photoshop can't.
ALTHOUGH ADOBE PHOTOSHOP continues to dominate the Mac graphics market, the ven erable image processor does have weaknesses, particularly when it comes to working with very large (over 20 MB) images. In answer to this problem, both Macromedia's xRes and Live Picture's Live Picture provide tools opti mized for worki ng with large files.
Live Picture and xRes take similar ap proaches in their handling of large images. Each program converts your source images to a proprietary format, and while you're editing an image, each program applies edits only to the portion of the image you're viewing on screen. Sparing your computer the effort of applying changes to unseen portions of huge images saves considerable time.
During editing sessions, neither xRes nor Live Picture changes your original images. Live Picture FITS documents and xRes MM! documents are simplydescriptions of theed its you've performed. When you're finished editing, you can use the programs to render a final image in any of several formats.
For creating composites (multilayer im ages) involving many large images, these pro grams offer a levelof performance undreamed of in Photoshop. However, this doesn't mean you should throw out Photoshop; you'll still want it around for preparing images and for final output.
Live Picture now allows you to include one EPS image in the topmost layer. Unfortunately, absolutely no editing can be done on EPS graphics.
Live Picture 2.5
Although not a major upgrade, version 2.5 of Live Picture adds some useful new features as well as some needed bug fixes. Live Picture's new price ($995) is steep, but Photoshop and Live Picture 2.5make apowerful combination.
As in Photoshop, separate images in your document can sit in separate layers. In Live Picture, however, individual ed its can also sit in separate layers .You can applycolor correc tions, sharpening, or distortions in different layers, which you can easily alter, hide, or re move at any time. This frees you to experiment by trying different ed iting techniques, in vari ous combinations. What's more, you can use a brush tool to apply edits or effects from a particular layer onto selected portions of the image, without hassling with masks.
Among Live Picture's new features is its support for Photoshop -compatible plug-ins and ColorSync 2.0 and the addition of gamut preview features similar to Photoshop's. Ver sion 2.5 also lets you import anyEPS file into (only) the topmost layer of your image - but Live Picture cannot edit EPS graphics.
Despite the improvements, many of Live Picture's weaknesses remain. The program's brushes, for example, still annoy ingly apply ink only when the brush is moved, not when the button is pressed.For experienced Photo shop users, Live Picture's greatest weakness is its interface and the requisite learning curve. Otherwise excellent features, such as the sil houetting tool, are hindered by cumbersome controls.
Because Live Picture lacks a powerful set of painting and editing tools, you'll find your self frequently moving between the program and Photoshop. Complicating this process is Live Picture's inability to preserve layers when it expo rts Photoshop 3.x files.
xRes 2
Although xRes' approach to managing data is very similar to Live Picture's, xRes' designers have gone to great lengths to make the pro gram feel and act like Photoshop. In fact, ver sion 2's most significant feature is its com pletely redesigned interface.
xRes makes a great complement to Photo shop fo r handling large images, but the pro gram is also able to function as more of a stand-alone application than Live Picture. In addition to its Photoshop-like interface, the program provides a full set of natural-media brushes and familiar editing tools and, in ver sion 2, the ability to print directly from the
program. The natural-media brushes don't compare to those in Fractal Design's Painter, but for small touch-ups, they're quite handy.
Similar to Photoshop's Layers palette,xRes' Objects palette lets you move and relayer an image as well as create complex, multichan nel masks. Unfortunately, where Photoshop automatically understands that empty areas of a layer are transparent, xRes requires you to create masks that conceal everything in a layer except for the objects you want visible. Making these masks is fairly easy, but it's an extra step Photoshop users won't expect.
xRes can't compete with Live Picture's speed or flexibility, however. Although xRes
Along with some new features, xRes 2 features an all-new interface modeled after Photoshop plus Macromedia's new standard application tool bar.
offers as many as 20 levels of undo, these re quire enormous amounts of scratch -disk space. What's more, file manipulation in xRes is far slower than in Live Picture. And xRes' Photoshop-like interface, although it has pow erful tools, is not as flexible as Live Picture's layered-editing approach.
The Bottom Line
Live Picture and xRes handle large compos ites and edits much more speedily than Photo shop, but neither program is perfect. Although xRes features a more familiar interface and a broader tool set, its speed doesn't compare to that of Live Picture. Live Picture, meanwhile, is hampered by a cumbersome interface and dependence on Photoshop for many editing tasks. Ifwe had to choose just one of these two programs, we'd opt for Live Picture, because of its superio r speed and flexible edit ing env ironment. I Ben Long
Live Picture 2.5, $995 (list). Company: Live Picture, Soquel, CA; 800-724-7900 or 408-464-4200; http:// www.livepicture.com/. Reader Service: Circle #407.
xRes 2, $699 (list). Company: Macromedia, San Francisco, CA; 800-326-2128 or 415-252-2000; http:// www.macromedia .com/. Reader Service: Circle #408.
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REVIEWS I FONT UTILITIES
Type Organizers
Suitcase 3.0
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Trio of tools tries to tame troublesome type.
IF YOU'RE AMAC USER WHO depends on fonts for your work, you probablyfall into one of two categories (we hesitate to say types): You don't even pretend to understand the Mac's font architecture and you have a diffi cult time managing your typefaces, or you're an experienced user with a thorough under standing of the Mac's font architecture and you have a difficult time managingyour type faces. Fortunately, three new utilities can help you sort through the confusion associated with multiple font-file types, corrupted fonts, or font-naming and -ID conflicts.
All three of theprograms we tested - Suit case, from Symantec; theFONDler, from Ras cal Software; and Font Box, from Insider Soft ware - perform their feats on TrueType, PostScript Type 1and 3, and Adobe multiple master fonts. Currently, Suitcase is the only program that supports QuickDraw GX.
Suitcase 3.0
Although Sui tcase has been around since the early days of the Mac, version 3.0 is the first update this product has seen in years. Long time users will be thrilled that version 3.0, a complete rewrite, is fully PowerPC-native and stable on current-generation computers.
The original aim of Suitcase was to relieve
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demands on system memory that result when large font libraries load into RAM. The small Suitcase application lets you "turn on" sets of typefaces without having to move any fi les into or out of your System Folder. With Suit case, only active fonts load into memory and fonts can reside on any volume.
Suitcase 3.0's all-new interface enables you to create font sets by dragging and dropping folders from the Finder into Suitcase's single window or onto the Suitcase application's icon. Once the sets are defined, you activate them bydouble-clicking on their names in the Suit case window. Any font or font set can be dragged into the predefined Startup set and will be ava ilable at boot time.
Although the new interface is uncluttered and easy to use, previous versions of Suitcase made thorough use of keyboard command equivalents and could thus be driven entirely from the keyboard. The new interface is not as mouse-free, which may be irksome to ex perienced Suitcase users. However, the new version is entirelyAppleScript-able- it can't record macros, though.
As of this version, you can create applica tion-specific font sets by dragging any appli cation's icon into the Suitcase window. Fonts added to an application set are opened any time that application is launched. We'd like to see the add ition of document sets, which could activate font sets upon the opening of a document.
Unfortunately, there's nolinkbetweenSuit case's sets and their original Finder folders, so changing the contents of the original folder on your disk does not change the font set in side Suitcase. Instead, you have to make changes manually to your Suitcase sets.
theFONDler 4.0
Providing manageme nt as well as mainte nance features, theFONDler is a diagnostic laboratory for identifyi ng everything from simple problems such as corrupted or miss ing printer fonts to more-esoteric troubles such as "Bad Style map offsets ."
At the management end, you can use the FONDler's Collect feature to search a volume or folder for fonts and move or copy them into asingle folder. With the Disburse function, you can then organ ize the folder into separate subfolders, each containing all the files relat ing to a single font family (the regular, nar row, and italic versions of Helvetica, for ex ample) . Longtime Mac users will appreciate theFONDler's ability to delete now-obsolete
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AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) files and correct potential errors such as font-ID conflicts.
Collect and Disburse are great helps for quickly organizing all those files in your font folder. Such organization is particularly cru cial for users who need to be sure they're de livering all the necessary font files to a ser vice bureau or print house.
For more-serious diagnostic work, the FONDler can analyze any file, folder, or vol ume; examine all the included fonts (whether they're installed in your system or not) ; and create a text file containing a detailed report about potential problems and anomalies. In addition to reporting any number of fatal er rors, theFONDler also provides information about potential design problems in a font. For exa mple, the "Kerning applied to symbolic characters"warning is an indication that a font may have spacing problems.
Most of the information in theFONDler's reports are these sorts of warnings and re ports, which can be quite daunting to inexpe rienced users. For tunately, the program places a small icon next to each entry to let you eas ily differentiate warnings fro m fata l errors.
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IDs to eliminate conflicts, theFONDler cannot correct any of the mistakes it finds, nor can it automatically remove or delete fonts. It's up to you to peruse theFONDler's report and make any appropriate changes to your library.
Font Box Professional Edition
Font Box takes a more active approach to fo nt management. After searching any number of volumes, Font Box gathers all found fon ts into one complete, optimized font folder.
As Font Box collects your fonts, it automati cally deletes corrupted fonts, duplicate fonts, bitmaps whose PostScript fil es are missing
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Font Box takes an automatic approach to font troubleshooting and offers only a few configuration options.
(and vice versa), and unneeded screen fonts. It also resolves font- ID conflicts and moves loose screen fonts into suitcases.
Because Font Box can search multiple vol umes (including network volumes), it's ideal for groups of designers who want to ensure that they all have the same fonts installed.
Since some users might be a little con cerned about having an application muck around with their installed fonts, Font Box can copy them to a new folder and create an opti mized library there.You then have the option of installing the library or not.
The Bottom Line
Suitcase is probably the most useful of all these utilities. Agreat improvement over the Mac's built-in font-management facilities, Suitcase is a program you'll use repeatedly every day as you switch from project to project. Although there's room for improve ment, version 3.0 is a good upgrade.
Both theFONDler and Font Box provide good diagnostic features that will benefit the owner of any large type library. But unless you're eager to sift through theFONDler's ob scure reports and then track down and manu ally deal with the errors they identify, Font Box, with its automatic approach, is probably the better choice, despite its inability to find ev ery possible font problem.
Whatever your choice, you might.move from being a user who has difficulty under standing the Mac's font architecture to a user who has a program that understands for you.
I Ben Long
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REVIEWS I IMAGE EDITING
Adobe PhotoDeluxe
Image processor 'for the rest of us' hides many of its strengths.
WITH PHOTODELUXE 1.0, Adobe Systems puts much of the functionality of Photoshop - its popular image-editing warhorse - into a program designed for home users . Photo Deluxe may go too far in shielding new or ca sual photo editors from Photoshop's power.
Like Photoshop, PhotoDeluxe lets you do basic image-editing tasks, such as cropping, rotating, or resizing images; adjust colors; ap ply basic filters (such as Sharpen); and apply special effects.Also like its predecessor,Photo Deluxe accepts plug-ins;can handle many file formats; and accepts images from scanners, digital cameras, and Photo CD discs.
PhotoDeluxe keeps available controls to a bare minimum.After you launch PhotoDeluxe for thefirst time, only the Apple,File, and Edit menus are visible. (You can get more menus
byselecting Long Menus from the File menu.) The only additional controls are large, color ful buttons whose purposes are hard to miss.
PhotoDeluxe nests its tools inside two ar eas: Guided Activities and On Your Own. Each one, accessible by a click on a button, orga nizes the various tools for aproject differently. Each of the Guided Activities is a minitutorial on a basic task, intended to give a sense of PhotoDeluxe's practical and creative possibili ties. Each Guided Activity makes available only the tools needed for the task at hand.
Graduates of the Guided Activities and sea soned image editors might prefer the On Your Own area. It has the same type of button in terface as Guided Activities but allows more flexible access to a wider range of features.
Even with PhotoDeluxe, image processing is a demanding task. A poor photograph or badly scanned image will require great time and effort to bring to even mediocre quality.
Despite Adobe's efforts to make Guided Activities and On Your Own goof-proof, users will find much to confuse them in both areas. In some instances, clicking on a big, friendly button invokes a dialog boxthat asks for rela tively cryptic information. The slim manual and online documentation offer little help.
We suspect that once you've experimented a bit with PhotoDeluxe, you'll find its inter face overly friendly. Like us, you may wish you could thwart sometimes-baffling safeguards. We grew tired,for example, of having to go to Step 2of the "Remove Red Eye" Guided Activ ity to use the magnifying-glass zoom tool. Other frustrating limitations include a limit of one open document at a time and restric tion of paint colors to the 256-color Mac sys tem palette - even though the program can open and edit images in millions of colors.
PhotoDeluxe has tough hardware needs: 8 to 12 MB of free RAM (not astretch for graph ics pros but too much for home users) .It also requires a 68040 or PowerPC processor.
The Bottom Line
Alaudable, if imperfect,attempt to make im age ed iting accessible to nonprofessionals, PhotoDeluxe offers a safe, friendly introduc tion to digital-photo manipulation. But once you've got your feet wet, you may long for a tool with fewer restrictions. I Michael de la Pena
Adobe PhotoDeluxe 1.0, $89 (estimated street). Company: Adobe Systems, Mountain View, CA; 800 628-2320or415-961-4400; http://www.adobe.com( Reader Service: Circle #413.
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KPT Cool Effects
Low-cost PhotoDeluxe plug-ins have some interface problems.
STUNNING SPECIAL EFFECTS on the cheap that's the promise of KPT Cool Eff~cts . This set of powerful image-manipulation tools works with any applicati on that accepts Photoshop-style plug-ins but is designed for users ofAdobe's entry-level image-processing tool, PhotoDeluxe. KPT Cool Effects can pro vide professional results, but its awkward in terface makes it less than a pleasure to use.
KPT Cool Effects dresses up borders, text, and backgrounds by creating lighting effects, textures, abstract patterns, and overlays. Im age filters and pattern generators create fa ux wood picture frames,simulate neontype, and make photos appear more like paintings or professional "glamour"shots. Although 5of its 26 effects are included with PhotoDeluxe, KPT Cool Effects is a steal that's hard to pass up.
KPT Cool Effects filters let you add "noise" or distortion effects to any selected part of
your image, including type. Although they're a snap to apply, fewe r than a fift h provide a preview window. And although most effects can be intensified or weakened on a scale of 1 to 10, if you choose your setting before pull ing down the PhotoDeluxe Effects menu, you may lose the ability to undo. Save early and often.Also, watch out for the weather effects: The distortions of the breeze and wind effects are the reverse of what their names suggest.
The Gaussian Electrify and Gaussian Glow filters , which create subtle blurs that lighten or darken an image, are particularlystriking, especially when applied to portraits and lo cation shots. The first gives your photo an angelic look; the second makes it appear to have been shot in the glow of a neon sign.
In addition to the filters, KPT Cool Effects has four pattern generators - Gradient De signer, Gradients on Paths, Fractal Explorer, and Texture Explorer - which transform any selection into a modifiable pattern. As pow erful as these generators are, their interfaces are cumbersome. Navigating them requires repeated scrolling through menus and sub menus. What's worse, many preset patterns have unhelpful, self-consciously hip names such as Djungloid 2 and Killer Sweepoid that
tell you nothing about what effect they pro duce.Luckily, all four pattern generators have helpful, although small, preview windows.
The help text for the filters and the pattern generators, which describes the less -than obvious effect features, can be accessed only through the four pattern generators: Even if you want assistance with a filter, you must open a pattern-generator window to access help. The Limited manual doesn't help much either.Fiddling around is the best way to dis cover what the filters and the pattern genera tors can do. However,when you finally do con jure up the perfect effect, it's hard to say that it wasn't worth the effort. The combinations of shapes and colors can be truly stunning.
The Bottom Line
If you have Adobe PhotoDeluxe, using KPT Cool Effects is a fun way to take your digital imaging skills to th e next level. There are enough accessible, interesting effects to keep you exploring for days . However, the quirky Undo function and the paucity of preview windows can be frustrating. I Marcie Shatz
KPT Cool Effects 1.0, $29 (list).Company: MetaTools, Carpinteria, CA;800-472-9025 or 805-566-6200; http: //www.metatools.com/.Reader Service: Circle #414.
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REVIEWS I SCANNERS
IRIS IRISPen
Scanning 'pen' soaks up print and pours it into your Mac.
NO MATTER HOW FAST computer hardware becomes, keying in data will always be slow, tedious, and error-prone. Accordingly, devel opers keep coming up with new scanners and OCR (optical character recognition) programs designed to move information from paper to computer, avoiding the keyboard altogether. The latest such device, Image Recognition In tegrated Systems' IRISPen, combines a scan ner you hold like a pen with software that con verts the type, as you scan it, into digital text and pours it directly into any application. (Primax Electronics, which manufactures the hardware, sells the same product under the name DataPen Personal Text Scanner.)
Handy Hardware
The scanner, which looks more like a utility knife than a pen, is connected by a thin cable to a stand, which, in turn, is connected to one
ofyour Mac's serial ports. Ordinarily the stand is also connected to an AC adapter, although you can choose instead to power it with five AA batteries.
The IRISPen scans only one line at a time. You place the scanner at the beginning of the text you want to capture, press down to start scanning, and roll the pen across the line. Learning to keep it straight and finding an optimal speed take practice, but we soon got the hang of it.
We never came close, though, to the throughput of"up to 100 characters per sec ond" that IRIS claims. Typically, it took about 6 seconds to scan and recognize a line of about 100 characters. (Our average was 15 seconds per 100 characters until we turned off our in teractive spell-checking extension.)
One-Way Gate
The IRISPen's stand has a pass-through serial port - this is a nice touch, because it allows you to keep a modem and a printer or a Local Talk network connected simultaneously. Mak ing use of this option can be cumbersome, however: You have to reactivate the IRIS soft ware, a process that involves two dialog boxes and five mouse clicks, after you've used other
hardware via the pass-through port. There are other limitations too. For one, the
scanner can't share a serial port with an Apple GeoPort Telecom Adapter. And if it shares the printer port with a LocalTalk network, you have to turn off AppleTalk and thereby lose any active network connections before you can use the pen. Then, after you're through with scanning, you'll have to remount any servers you were using.
Soft and Easy
Happily, the IRISPen 2.0.4 software won't bloat your Extensions folder: It's just an application you launch when you want to use the pen. The software requires at least 2 MB of RAM (2.5 MB on Power Macs and compatibles not run ning virtual memory).The standard installa tion copies more than 90 files, which take up more than 8 MB of disk space, but that in cludes support for ! ! languages and you can get rid of most of the bulk by eliminating lan guages you don't expect to use.
Because the IRISPen software emulates the keyboard, it works within any application. The software has numerous useful configu ration options - for instance, you can select characters for entry at the start or end of each
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scanned line (such as a space, a tab or dollar sign, or even a string such as Tel:). You can also train the system to improve its accuracy with problematic fonts and teach it how to handle special symbols. And there's even a special setting for left-handed users.
The IRISPen system can handle any font in sizes from 8 to 22 points,but it isn't able to recognize the fin e print used for many busi ness cards, phone books, footnotes, certain
You can scan text, one line at atime, into any application with the IRISPen scanner and its unique, integrated software.
catalogs, and other listings. In tests with a va riety of magazines, books, press releases, and receipts, it typically recognized 95 to 100 per cent of the characters correctly. Remember, though, that 98-percent accuracy means that you'll have two mistakes to correct in each 100-character line. We had particular prob lems with the first character or two in each line. More often than not, the system failed to recognize them, no matter how carefully we
positioned the scanner. In addition, we en countered frequent errors when we tried to scan close to the gutter in books and maga zines that wouldn't open flat.
The Bottom Line
Even though its performance and accuracy are far from perfect, the IRISPen generally works as advertised. Its hardware and software both have an elegant look and feel, and it comes with a clear and even amusing manual as well as Apple Guide online help.
Our main question, though, is, Who needs it? If you're entering significant amounts of text, line-by-line scanning is tiresome and inefficient; for small amounts, most people will find typing faster and easier. But if you really don't like to type or you regularly need to enter large amounts of text a few words or lines at a time - say, personal data from pa per forms, product information from catalogs, or perhaps short excerpts from books and magazines - the IRISPen can provide some welcome relief. I Henry Norr
IRIS IRISPen, $299 (list). Company: Image Recognition Integrated Systems, Boca Raton, FL; 800-447-4744 or 407-395-7831; http://www.irisusa.com/. Reader Service: Circle #415.
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REVIEWS I POWERBOOK ACCESSORIES
Panasonic
KXL-0742
CD-ROM drive
Portable quad-speed CD-ROM drive complements PowerBooks.
SOME GOOD IDEAS ARE SO OBVIOUS, you
have to wonder why no one thought of them sooner. The Panasonic KXL-D742 portable CD-ROM drive is just such an idea: a battery operated, quad-speed external CD-ROM drive designed specifically for PowerBooks. Just the kind ofgoodie PowerBook road warriors have been craving ever since Apple added multi media capabilities to its portable line.
The Panasonic drive delivers quadruple speed CD-ROM data access plus support for multisession Photo CD, CD-ROM XA, and au dio CD. It can run off a tiny AC power supply (included), six AA batteries, or an optional rechargeable power pack. With a status LCD and push-button controls for play, pause, and
track control, the drive can also operate as a stand-alone audio-CD player.
It's obvious Panasonic had Apple's por tables in mind when it designed, if not when it named, the KXL-D?42. The drive comes in a slim, wedge-shaped chassis about as thick as a pack of cigarettes and weighing about a pound with batteries. Graceful curves and a charcoal-gray case make it look like a natural extension to a 5300- or 190-series PowerBook. And unlike the only other portable CD-ROM drive we've tested, MediaVision's REno Por table, it doesn't require any additional cables or adapters: The supplied 50-pin-to-HDI-30 cable is PowerBook-ready. The KXL-D742 also includes a mini stereo cable for PowerBook audio playthrough, but no headphones.
In our tests, the Panasonic drive ran for two and a halfhours offsix alkaline batteries. Even when there wasn't enough juice left to run the drive as a4x data peripheral, our alkalines still held enough of acharge to play the 45-minute soundtrack from Pulp Fiction twice from start to finish.Although this was admirable perfor mance, giving users a way to switch from 4x to 2x could extend battery life even more.
The drive goes to sleep when it's not in use, waking up when the SCSI bus queries it for
data. FWB's CD-ROM ToolKit 1.5.9, which ships with the drive, provides caching options that can extend the amount of time the CD-ROM drive stays in sleep mode. Unfortu nately, setting caches with FWB's software is difficult and can affect data-streaming perfor mance. In our tests, for example, a medium sized cache caused significant audio and frame dropout when we ran a QuickTime movie off a disc.
The Bottom Line
Even our most nitpicky examination uncov ered little to criticize in Panasonic's portable CD-ROM drive. Using the drive would be a great way to feed that field sales presentation with images and sound the next time you're on the road, plus feed your eyes with great CD ROM-based entertainment or your ears with a few good tunes on the flight home.
And for $399, only $60 more than the cost of Panasonic's 4x CD-ROM drive for desktop Macs, you may have enough money left over for an upgrade to first class. I Andrew Gore
Panasonic KXL-D742 CD-ROM drive, $399 (estimated street). Company: Panasonic Communications & Systems, Secaucus, NJ;800-742-8086 or 201-348 7000.Reader Service: Circle #416.
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REVIEWS I GRAPHICS TOOLS
·30 World
Entry-level 3-D program is easy to use but limited.
NOW SHIPPING WITH EVERY Power Mac, Apple's QuickDraw 3D System Extension puts powerful 3-D rendering onto ever_yone's desk top. The first program to harness that power in a creative tool, 3D World, from Microspot, is a generally easy-to-use introduction to 3-D creativity. But spotty documentation, a far from-intuitive lathe tool, and a stingy set of supplied textures limit its value in compari son to similarly priced, more powerful (if harder-to-learn) 3-D applications.
3D World's interface is simple and straight forward. Four palettes provide access to tools for creating objects and manipulating, light ing, and viewing them in a scene.Anyone fa miliar with basic Mac 2-D drawing tools will quickly understand thetools for creating solid objects such as spheres, cubes, and cones, which can be grouped and combined to cre ate more-complex shapes. Far less intuitive
is the lathe tool, which al
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tooled objects (such as dec
orative table legs) as well as
helixes (such as corkscrews
or bolts).
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objects you want to work
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specify object size and posi
tion, using the Info palette. (You can move and resize Easy-to-use tools in Microspot's 30 World allow you to create objects by dragging them 3-0 scenes like this one quickly.
instead, but using the Info palette gives you supplies 6 plug-ins with the program and an
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objects.)
portant gaps in the program: The align tool,
After you've finished a scene, you can use for example, is essential for snuggling objects
3D World's handy orbit tool to take a flying against one another for assembly into larger
tour around the place. You can easily stop at structures - a process that's truly difficult
any time during the trip and set up a new cam using the Info palette alone. More-innovative
era view or make adjustments to the positions plug-ins include Light Director, which lets you
of objects.
direct lighting to specific locations on an ob
3D World's architecture allows for the ad ject by pointing and clicking, and 3D Text,
dition of plug-in enhancements. Microspot which creates 3-Dtext from any of your fonts.
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REVIEWS I GRAPHICS TOOLS I WRITING TOOLS
Unfortunately, the only documentation pro vided for the plug-ins is skimpy and comes in the form of Read Me files.
Render Me Speechless
30 World's greatest strength lies in its real time rendering capabilities.When you create an object, it appears fully rendered on the screen. Double-click on it, and you're pre sented with the Info dialog box, which lets you specify several aspects of the object: its size and position on the x-, y-, and z-axes; its color; and its shininess and reflectiveness. If you have a QuickDraw 3D accelerator card in stalled, you can even render it transparent. If you drag a PICT or 2-D map onto an object, it wraps around it. Macintosh Drag and Drop capabilities also allow you to embed sounds or URLs in 3D World objects - clicking on the object plays the sound or links to the cor responding Web address. A separate library program that ships with 3D World lets you store colors,textures, bitmapped images, and views for reuse in 3D World.Unfortunately, the only sample textures Microspot supplies are a handful of swatches from the Apple Scrap book and Desktop Patterns DAs. Compared to the scores of realistic metal, wood, and stone sample textures and shaders supplied with other entry-level 3-D packages, such as Ray Dream Studio (now sold by Fractal Design) and MetaTools' KPT Bryce, this is a big flaw.
3D World can be enhanced by installation of a QuickDraw 3D accelerator card, but this is by no means necessary.Even with the mini mum required RAM (16 MB, mostly required by the QuickDraw 3D extension) and a small amount of virtual memory, the program ran without a hitch.
The Bottom Line
3D World is easy to use, very stable, and genu inely fun. Although it's not going to take the place of programs such as Specular Infini-D or Strata's StudioPro, it most definitely pro vides adequate 3-D drawing capabilities to the average user. However, for the price, you might do well to consider some of the slightly more complicated but fuller-featured competing programs. They may be harder to learn than 3D World, but they provide higher-quality object rendering plus more sample images and textures to help you generate top-notch 3-D objects. I Jeff Battersby and Jim Shatz-Akin
30World,S 139 (list). Company: Microspot, Saratoga, CA;800-622-7568 or 408-253-2000; http://www .microspot.com/. Reader Service: Circle #417.
Dramatica Pro 2.0
as whether you want your protagonist to change over the course of the story or to re
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Professional writers' story-analysis and troubleshooting tool.
SOMERSET MAUGHAM ONCE SAID there are
three rules for writing a novel - but unfor tunately, no one knows what they are. Well, Dramatica Pro 2.0, from Screenplay Systems, doesn't know the rules either, but if you're a serious screenwriter, playwright, novelist, or short-story writer, the program can offer meaningful help for honing your craft.
Dramatica Pro differs radically from other
sist change. Based on your answers, the program se
lects one of 32,000 possible"Storyforms" diagrammatic story representations - for your story. The Storyform includes events Dramatica concludes should occur to build and resolve the story's essential conflicts, and the roles characters in the story must play (examples include the Goad, who pricks the protagonist to action, and the Foil, whose behavior contrasts and underscores the protagonist's). If, in the course of answering Dramatica's queries, you've described charac ters that play any of these roles, Dramatica places them in the Storyform for you.
writing programs, such as Col- .o
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Plots Unlimited, in that it's fo cused far less on the process of writing than on the planning and development of characters before
you write. By helping you sort through character motivations and relationships, story theme, action, and plot, Dramatica Pro helps you define the essence of the story and avoid unnecessary
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Dramatica Pro's Build Characters screen helps yo umodel
yourstory's characters and diag ra mthei r relationships.
rewrites. If you've got an existing story that's proving difficult, the program can also help you troubleshoot it and uncover weaknesses in its plot or character development.
ACompelling Argument
Key to Dramatica Pro is a theory that all the characters, scenes, and action that make a good story are elements in an argument the central message or experience you, the author, want to communicate. Dramatica's
Dramatica's next step is to help you fill in the gaps in the Storyform.By using the StoryGuide Pro textbook and a series of detailed worksheets, you add, delete, or change epi sodes and characters; enter notes on action; or begin drafting dialogue and narrative. When you've finished - or at any time dur ing the process - youcan view or print your notes or any of 35 reports that chart plot progress, character development, and so on. You can use the reports as a kind of super
purpose is to help you clarify that message and then ensure that the elements of your story advance it. (This theory,aswell as the special ized terminology that appears throughout the program's story-development process, are de tailed ina highly readable, ifweighty, 416-page textbook that ships with the program.)
For starters, Dramatica asks you a series of highly structured multiple-choice questions about the charac ters, themes , problems, scenes, and outcomes of your story. (Where appropriate, the program prompts you to type character names and other information in addition to answering questions.) Queries touch on technical matters, such as whether your narrator will be the main character or a detached observer, and thematic ones, such
outline when you get down to actual writing. Dramatica Pro's developers have gone a
long way to make things easier in version 2.0, notably with a completely rewritten manual and the StoryGuide Pro textbook, the new workbook, and greatly expanded online help. Still, the program demands significant effort and time.It's not for dabblers or hobbyists.
The Bottom Line
Dramatica Pro won't write your screenplay or novel for you (or improve your style), but it's invaluable for helping you think through all the elements of your story. I Michael Miley
Dramatica Pro 2.0, $399 (list).Company: Screenplay Systems, Burbank,CA;800-847-8679 or 818-843 6557. Reader Service: Circle #418. ~
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IMICROSOFT AND NETSCAPE SQUARE OFF IN THE INTERNET'S
Choosing a Web browser is a no-brainer, right? If you've got a direct connection to the Net, you use Netscape Navigator.
If you're a dues-paying member of an online service such as
America Online, you go with the browser your service provides.
NOT ANYMORE.
Now, anyone who surfs the World Wide Web has a choice. anything the Web throws at it today and that'll be ready
For the first time, Navigator has some real competition: for whatever appears tomorrow. Luckily for you, Net
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 2.0 for the Macintosh, a scape and Microsoft are each firmly committed to win
speedy and compatible Web browser with a feature set ning the Battle of the Browsers - and both have deep
that matches - and often exceeds - Navigator's.
enough pockets to fund their armies of developers.
Everyone has achoice - even subscribers to AOL and What does a browser need to do to win the war? Let's
CompuServe: Later this year, America Online will inte- . take a look at the combatants.
grate Internet Explorer into its software and will also
provide compatibility with Navigator. CompuServe will cmil) Go Beyond the Basics
allow its customers to use either browser.
In order to compare Web browsers, you need to under
Navigator and Internet Explorer are freely down stand how they work. When a Web page is sent over the
loadable from the Internet, so you can try them both out Internet, it's all plain text - there are no bold or italic
yourself - but in the end, you'll have to pick one ofthem characters, no fonts or point sizes, not even any graphics.
to be your main surfboard.
Instead, the plain text uses a system called HTML,
Which should you choose? The groundbreaking stan HyperText Markup Language, which describes styled,
dard setter or the upstart challenger from the mega graphics-rich pages by using special codes called tags.
company all Macintosh users love to hate? And does it When a browser receives an HTML file, it interprets the
really matter? After all, isn't a browser just a window onto tags and draws the page on-screen, calling on image files
the Web that simply displays the creations of Web-page as needed.
designers?
Because HTML was originally designed to describe
You bet it matters. The Web is still in its frontier phase, pages only in general terms ("This is a big headline;'
with millions of designers developing new tricks and rather than "This is a 48-point headline in Times Bold"),
techniques daily. You need a browser that can handle the same page might be displayed in wildly varying ways
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BY JASON SNELL
FIRST BATTLE OF THE BROWSERS. THE WINNER? IT COULD BE YOU.
INTERNET
BATTLE OF THE BROWSERS / Microsoft's Internet Explorer beats Netscape Navigator
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The cha llenger edges out the market leader through compati bility, versatility, and speed - but improvements still need to be made.
Support Enh ancemen ts Plug-ins Other Speed Reliability In t erfa ce Mac savvy Other
Solidly supports standard HTML tags as well as Netscape's enhanced tags. New text-display and sound-management tags give Web designers further options.
Microsoft has done a good job of providing support for Navigator-compatible plug-ins. Supports multiple sound and video formats and a primitive but workab leVRML browser.
Smart page-drawing tech niques make Internet Explorer simply feel faster. Somewhat more robust tha n Navigator, but still unacceptably unstable.
A better scheme for managing favorite Web ad dresses provides a sl ight advantage. Internet Config makes a Net administrator's life easier; QuickDraw 3D isa welcome addition. Send-only e-mail and rudimentary newsgroup access are disappointing afterthoughts.
ADVANTAGE
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If Netscape hopes to maintain itsWeb-browser dominance, it must match the advantages of Internet Explorer.
Web browsers owe Netscape a debt of gratitude for its contributions to HTML. Frames are promising but difficult to implement and navigate. Its plug-in architecture may still be shaky, but it opensup a world of possibilities. Support of JavaScript is good, but most in-line multimedia support still needs work. Netscape needs to remove the roadblocks to faster page drawing. Users should demand more stability from such an important, everyday application. File-download-progress bar is nice, but bookmark management needs improvement. AppleScript support is solid, but Internet Config support is a must for versio n 3.0. Full send-and-receive e-mail and a better news reader give Navigator the edge.
- depending on the Web browser (see "The Ant and the Grasshop
per:' April '96, page 91, and "From the Web Press to the Web;' October
'95, page 117).
One of the reasons Netscape Navigator became the leading Web
browser was because it provided support for new HTML tags, for
centering text, adding background colors and patterns,and aligning
text and graphics within tables. Because other Web browsers could
not use these tags, Web pages that had been designed to use Navi
gator's tags - lots of Web pages - looked good only in Navigator.
While rival browser makers have been playing catch-up (see the
"Also-Rans" sidebar), Netscape has kept several steps ahead of them
by adding even more - and more-powerful - features to Naviga
tor. But in just a few months, Microsoft has managed to leapfrog
other rivals and now provides the only real alternative to Navigator.
Internet Explorer supports almost every feature offered by Navi
gator - since it has to:Why would you want to switch from Naviga
tor and lose access to all the graphically pleasing HTML tags Net
scape has introduced? Navigator and Internet Explorer each support
the most popular of the "extended" HTML features, most of which
were introduced or popularized by Netscape: background patterns
and colors, colored text, type-size controls, tables, and horizontal
and vertical positioning of graphics.
Microsoft hasn't merely replicated Navigator's tags - it's one
upped Netscape by introducing a host of additional HTML tags
Navigator doesn't yet support, such as ones that let designers set text
in various typefaces and have a background sound play while a page
is being loaded.
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Most browsers simply ignore HTML tags they don't understand. If
a Web-page designer uses tags supported by only one browser,other
browsers will ignore them. Although this may sound distressing, Microsoft turns it into a virtue: Designers can add Internet Explorer specific tags to their pages without fear of turning away the legion of Navigator users on the Web - the Navigator users may not even know they're missi ng anything.
For example, rather than creating an entirely new tag for inserting QuickTime movies into Web pages, Microsoft enhanced the existing HTML tag for placing still images .As a resu lt, you can design a page that will show a QuickTime or AVI movie when viewed in Internet Explorer and that will substitute a GIF or JPEG still image when viewed by browsers that don't support Microsoft's new tag (cur rently, no other browsers do) .
In contrast, many Web pages that rely on Netscape-specific tags can be unreadable or extremely unattractive when viewed by other Web browsers. For example, although Navigator was one of the first browsers to support the display of images using the high-quality JPEG format - rather than the old, fat, grainy GIF format - Navi gator doesn't provide Web designers a way to send JPEG files only to those browsers that can view such images (and GIF files to those that can't) .Therefore, page designers have to use either JPEG images ex clusively - thus limiting their pages to Navigator users only - or GIF images exclusively. These days, most browsers support JPEG images, but there's always another "only in Netscape" feature just around the corner.
Because Web pages can be rendered in wildly varying ways, de pending on the Web browser being used, it's important to note that Internet Explorer is remarkably good at displaying pages exactly as Navigator - the de facto standard - would display them. When we used Internet Explorer to view a complex test page designed for
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Navigator and laden with graphics, tables, and interactive forms, it looked nearly identical to the same page as viewed by Navigator absolutely identical in most details.
We even encountered an instance of Internet Explorer rendering pages better than Navigator. On an interactive Web page containing an HTML table embedded within a cell of another HTML table, Internet Explorer correctly rendered both tables. But Navigator couldn't - it showed what was supposed to be the embedded table as if the table tags weren't even there.
The one notable HTML feature Navigator 2.0 provides that Inter net Explorer doesn't is frames ..When a frames-based page is dis played in Navigator, Navigator can split the page into several scroll able panes and view multiple HTML documents at once. By using frames, a Web designer can, for example, create a hyperlinked table of contents that can remain open while pages referenced in that table of contents are viewed in a separate pane of the same browser win dow. Unfortunately, it's notoriously difficult to create pages that use frames - most current efforts look ungainly, and such pages can be extremely hard to navigate.
l~tnDm!ttl Be Ready for Anything
Although HTML support has traditionally been the major issue in evaluating Web browsers, version 2.0 of Navigator introduced a new set of issues: how best to play multimedia content in-line - directly in the browser window. Although multimedia content could previ ously be displayed with external "helper" applications, the plug-in architecture built into Navigator 2.0 allows the playing of just about any multimedia file format in the browser window, as long as an ap propriate third-party plug-in has been installed.
Since the world of Navigator-compatible plug-ins is so new, the future of the technology is hard to predict. Major plug-ins such as Adobe's PDF (for high-quality page rendering) and Macromedia's Shockwave (for animation and increased interactivity) will prob ably become popular, and no doubt some of the many new plug-ins on the market will also become de facto standards. If a Web browser is to compete with Navigator, it must support in-line display of PDF documents, Shockwave presentations, QuickTime movies, and more - to do so, it must support the appropriate plug-ins.
Internet Explorer is the first browser other than Navigator to sup port Netscape's plug-in architecture. Although the plug-in technol ogy is still shaky- even Navigator doesn't run all plug-ins success fully all the time - Internet Explorer works with most common plug-ins, including those from Adobe and Macromedia. As a result, just about every multimedia format in use on the Web can be played in Internet Explorer as well as Navigator.
Internet Explorer also supports some multimedia formats with out needing plug-ins: It can play sounds in the common WAV,AIFF, MIDI, and Sun µ-law formats as well as movies in either the AVI or the QuickTime format - users of Internet Explorer don't necessar ily have to download and configure helper applications just to hear the latest sound clip from Friends or to view a teaser of next week's episode of Babylon 5.
Internet Explorer also offers rudimentary support for VRML, Vir tual Reality Modeling Language, via Apple's QuickDraw 3D technol ogy. Internet Explorer's VRML browser doesn't support mapped tex tures and other advanced VRML features, and it's not easy to navi gate a 3-D world by using the QuickDraw 3D interface, but Internet
Explorer provides the Mac's first usable, stable VRML browser. Netscape currently offers VRML support only through plug-ins, and at press time, there was still no Mac VRML plug-in that could match the quality of Internet Explorer's VRML browser.
Neither Internet Explorer nor Navigator yet supports Sun Micro systems' Java, the much hyped cross-platform language that allows small programs called applets to be embedded in Web pages and ex ecuted within the browser window. However, Navigator - unlike Internet Explorer - currently supports a simplified subset of Java, known as JavaScript, which allows simple scripts to be embedded in Web pages.
Trying to be the only Internet-access application you'll ever need, Internet Explorer and Navigator each also support e-mail and news group access. However, you can only send - not receive - mail with Internet Explorer. Using Navigator, you can send as well as re ceive mail, using the POP and SMTP protocols. Navigator's news reader is more advanced than Internet Explorer's, which is rudimen tary at best - but to be honest, neither program's e-mail and news features come even within hailing distance of adequacy. If you send and receive e-mail or read newsgroups on a regular basis, you'll be better off using free stand-alone tools such as Qualcomm's Eudora Light or John Norstad's NewsWatcher.
THE ALSO-RANS / too little too late
IT'S ATOUGH SELL when you're up against the free-to-download, $49 Navigator and the completely free Internet Explorer. Four second-tier browsers are hanging on, however - although just barely.
!! MacWeb 1.1.1, from Tradewave, was the first good Mac Web
browser - small and simple, not requiring much RAM or hard-disk space. Unfortunately, MacWeb is showing its age - it doesn't support background colors, tables, or just about any Netscape innovation. Hopefully, MacWeb 2.0 will offer some improvement, but for now, MacWeb is useful only if you're stuck with an underpowered Mac.
!! NCSA Mosaic 2.0.1 is the latest version ofthe browser that started
the World Wide Web revolution. Mosaic 2.0.1 supports a variety of HTML features, although it can't display background colors or patterns. It can be sluggish, and it's pretty bare-bones:There's no drag-and-drop support, and you don't get a pop-up menu when you click on a hyper link. Mosaic is free ... but, then, so is Internet Explorer.
!!! Spyglass Mosaic 2.1 - an updated version of NCSA Mosaic
is the third-best Mac Web browser but has no compelling advantages over th.etop two.It's speedy and supports most Netscape extensions to HTML, and it offers some Spyglass innovations, such as client:side im age maps, that are now supported by Navigator and Internet Explorer. A demonstration version is available directly from Spyglass; the prod uct is bundled with various books and software packages, including StarNine's WebSTAR.
!! ~ TCP Connect II 2.3.1, from lnterCon Systems, is the ClarisWorks
oflnternet access, offering e-mail, FTP, Gopher, and news in addition to
Web access -at $395,a pricey but convenient collection.The browser
will be familiar to plenty of AOL users and eWorld expatriates: It's the
one those services used - although AOL is now replacing it with
Internet Explorer and eWorld has eXpired. The browser is serviceable
. but painfully slow. It supports most HTML extensions but not Navigator
plug-ins or any form of Java.We recommend it only ifyou must use just
one application for all your Net access.
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INTERNET
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Given the deserved grief Microsoft got from Mac users when Micro soft Word 6.0 was released - complaints were that it was as slow as erosion, looked like a Windows application, and didn't support Mac technologies - it's fair to question how Internet Explorer matches up with Navigator in terms of speed and usability.
It matches up quite well, actually. When it comes to displaying pages, Internet Explorer is faster. For example, when you click on Navigator's Back button, you usually experience a brief delay, fol lowed by await while Navigator redraws all the items on the previous page. In contrast, moving back one page in Internet Explorer is nearly_instantaneous, with the page appearing completely rendered. Likewise, selecting text takes noticeably less time in Internet Ex plorer than in Navigator.
The method Internet Explorer uses to render pages also beats Navigator's - page loading feels faster. It's just a matter of page loading priorities: When Navigator loads a page, it won't display any thing below any images that have yet to be loaded unless the Web page designer has embedded the height and width dimensions of an
image in the HTML code. Also, Navigator won't draw any part of a table until all the images in that table have been loaded.
Internet Explorer, on the other hand, is designed to display every thing as quickly as possible. If an in-line image is present but the HTML code doesn't say what its height and width dimensions are, Internet Explorer will draw a generic placeholder, render the rest of the page, and then move items on the page around once the image begins to appear. Tables appear as soon as they're loaded and then constantly redraw as their images are loaded.
Even though each browser takes the same total time to download a full page of text and graphics, Internet Explorer's method of always displaying as much of a page as it can (and first displaying the most useful information - the text) makes it feel much more responsive.
The two browsers have quite similar interfaces. Both include a tool bar, although Internet Explorer's provides more options than Navigator's. Both display pop-up menus when you click and hold your mouse button on a hyperlink,offering the ability to open a link
SUBTLE DISTINCTIONS / small additions add up to big improvements
INTERNET EXPLORER ANO NAVIGATOR may look similar, but they're far from identical:Their interfaces are subtly different, and both support some unique HTML features.
Internet Explorer's large tool bar gives one·click access to news ond mail, the Microsoft search page, "favorites,"and settings. Other buttons increase and decrease font size; copy, cut, and paste; and display HTML source code.
Thisheadline is in a typeface different from the body text's, thanks to Internet Explorer's support for the font face HTML tog; o backup typeface con be specified if the first choice isn't installed on auser's system.
This page ta kes advantage of Navigator's frames ta divide itself into different panes, with anavigation frame at left that includes links to various topics. When you click on a link, itscorresponding page is loaded in the large frame at theright. _ _ __
; Internet Explorer users see this coffee cup steom and spin, thanks to a linked AVI movie; users of other browsers will still be
able to see astill ......---"t-111- image of the hot jova.
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Navigator's main tool bar is smaller than Internet Explorer's, but asecond raw of "directory" buttonsoffersautomatic links to several Netscape· maintained Web-resource pages.
Internet Explorer displays a placeholder while a graphic isloading, even if the graphic'ssize isn't known or the graphic is port of otoble; pages are readable sooner thon in Navigator.
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Another Internet Explorer HTML addition is the marquee tag, which lets authors place moving text on a Web page - about as annoying as Navigator's blink tog, which causes text to flash ad infinitum.
This key is an indicator of browser secunty: If the browser is connected to asecure poge, the key will appear whole. Navigator supports the SSL security protocol, os does Internet Explorer.
The scrolling text in the bottom of the browser window is created by a script embedded in the Web page and written in JavaScript, asubset of Sun Microsystems' Java programming language.
in a new window, download a file to disk, or copy an image to the
Clipboard. Both use the same file format to store bookmarks (in FEATURES / it's close, but Internet Explorer has the edge
Netscape terminology) or favorites (a la Microsoft) - names and addresses of your favorite Web sites.And both use a similar interface to organize that information: a Finder-like window.
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Here the similarities end and Internet Explorer's advantages be HTML
gin to show. Although Navigator 2.0's bookmark manager is a big improvement over version I.O's, it's slow and frustrating: The book mark window may look like a Finder window, but you can't rename bookmarks without selecting Edit Bookmark from the Item menu. Microsoft's Favorites window, on the other hand, works like a good Finder window should - right down to the keyboard shortcuts. It's also much speedier.
Navigator does offer one interface element Internet Explorer can't match: Netscape knows that when you're downloading a file, you don't want to stare at an empty Web-browser window. Taking a page from the book of FTP client software everywhere, Navigator creates a small, separate progress window while it's downloading files. In contrast, Internet Explorer downloads files from within the browser window, wasting screen space and making it far too easy to mistak enly abort your download by clicking on a link in that window or by accidentally closing the window. Neither browser, however, can dis play information from FTP and Gopher sites in as Mac-like a fashion as can Apple's Cyberdog (see "Walking the Cyberdog;' in this issue), which works like the Finder in ways a Web-browser window can't.
Both applications offer acceptable AppleScript support, but Inter net Explorer also offers support for Internet Config, the Mac-only system of sharing preferences among various Internet applications - and a great time-saver for network administrators. If you use ap plications that support Internet Config (such as Claris Emailer, Eudora, NewsWatcher, Anarchie, or Fetch), then many common Internet settings - including information about file formats, server
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names, and e-mail addresses - don't need to be reentered every
time you install new Internet-savvy software.
Well before the end of this year, both companies will release ver-
Sadly, Navigator and Internet Explorer are still annoyingly un- si,;m 3.0 of their browsers. Navigator 3.0, already in prerelease test-
stable - unforgivable behavior for such important, everyday tools. ing, offers full support for Java, some support for Internet Config,
Both crash much more frequently than other mainstream applica- and built-in support for several multimedia formats. We expect
tions - and they usually bring the whole Mac down with them. (In Internet Explorer 3.0 to also add Java support and to match Navi
our testing, Navigator crashed more often than Internet Explorer. We gator's support for frames and JavaScript. And, of course, Microsoft
extensively tested both applications exclusively on PowerPC-based will try to extend the Web playing field: Internet Explorer 3.0 will
machines.) And any use of plug-ins only heightens the chances of a also support ActiveX - a Microsoft-created alternative to the Navi
crash - in fact, our experience suggests that every popular plug-in gator plug-in architecture - which allows various kinds of data to
is still susceptible to sudden crashes.
· be viewed by Web browsers.
The Battle for Internet Dominance
Since you can download both browsers from the Internet, you can easily try them out for yourself. Internet Explorer is a fast, well
This competition between two free products isn't making either behaved, well-made product, one any Web surfer can use to travel the
Microsoft or Netscape much money (Navigator is actually free only Net. And Navigator's immense popularity isn't a fluke - it's also a
to members of educational and nonprofit institutions; other users solid application that, with every successive version, seems to steer
are obliged to pay $49). However, this battle is just the first shot of a the Internet in exciting new directions.
growing war over the Internet.
But in the end, we recommend Internet Explorer; it's the best Web
With its agility as a startup company founded by Internet veter browser available today. What's more, its price - free - can't be
ans, Netscape has quickly become a major developer ofWeb-browser beat. In the first skirmish of the Web War, Microsoft has pulled off a
and money-making server applications (none of its servers run on stunning victory. ~
the Mac OS, however). Microsoft is using its money and muscle to catch up fast. Considering that Navigator currently holds between 80 and 90 percent of the browser market, it'll be a tough chase - but Microsoft has time.
Mac User associate editor/online Jason Snell has been on the Net for eight years and on the Web for about half that time. He is the editor of the online magazine InterText (http://www.etext.org/Zines/InterText/) and the coauthor of Providing Internet Services via the Mac OS (Addison-Wesley, 1996).
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THESE DAYS, NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR is the big dog on the Web, although Microsoft's Internet Explorer seems poised to take a bite out of it (see "Web War;' Mac User's contribution to the debate, in this issue). How ever, using aWeb browser isn't the only way to surfthe Internet, as Apple is showing with Cyberdog, an OpenDoc-based Internet application that barks up quite a dif ferent tree. Both Navigator and Internet Explorer approach the Web from a similar vantage point. When it's time to surf, you launch a browser application and get to work. The problem with this approach is that other Internet functions, such as e-mail, newsgroup access, and FTP file transfers, get tucked in around the edges of the browser's central function. In fact, many people opt to use a separate application for each of these functions: Eudora or Claris Emailer for e-mail, Fetch or Anarchie for FTP transfers, and so on. By implementing Cyberdog as a collection of specialized software components, not unlike the way ClarisWorks combines spreadsheet, word-processing, and graphics capabilities, Apple has created an all-in-one Internet application users can customize or even use pieces of in other OpenDoc-compliant software.
BY HENRY BORTMAN
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JULY 1996 / MacUser 69
CYBERDOG
CYBERDOG: GREATER THAN THE PARTS
Rather than being yet another monolith ic browser application, Cyberdog is a collection of OpenDoc parts, small chunks of applica tion code, each of which serves a particular Internet-related func tion. The easiest way to understand how these parts work together is to take a look at Apple's Cyberdog Star ting Point document.
Starting Point contains several CyberButtons, which are Open Doc parts. CyberButtons are embedded in what is known in OpenDoc parlance as a container document. In this case, the con tainer is a Cyberdog DocBuilder document,but it could just as easily be created by any OpenDoc container application. Claris, fo r ex ample, has announced that the next release of ClarisWorks will be able to generate OpenDoc container documents (see figure 2). This is the beauty of Cyberdog:You no longer have to use specialized ap plications toaccess theWeb,download a file,or send e-mail; instead,
you ca n embed a cyberlink in any OpenDoc-savvy document. Eac~ CyberButton has associated with it a Cyberltem that defin es
its behavior and a graphic.For some buttons,such as Starting Point's Explore and Search buttons, the Cyberltem is a URL - clicking on one of these buttons opens a browser window that connects to a cor responding Internet site.Clicking on other buttons, such as Starting Point's Log and Notebook buttons, invokes special functions.
CYBERCRUMBS: DOGGING YOUR TRAIL
When you click on the Log button, for example, Cyberdog's Log win dow opens.The Log lists CyberItems for the last 100 Web pages,FTP sites, and newsgroups you've visited. It updates automatically each time youvisit an Internet site and is smart enough not to display the same site multiple times.You can display the Log's listing hierarchi cally, chronologically, or alphabetically.
figure l / ANATOMY OF ACYBERDOG
A. Cyberdog Starting Point
Apple provides a document entitled Cyberdog Starting Point, a collection of CyberButtons that enable you to access the full range of Cyberdog's features.You can customize this document to provide instant access to Web pages, FTP sites,your personal Internet mailbox, and other Internet functions that reflect your individual work routines.
B. Notebook
When you first click on the Notebook button in the Starting Point document,you see Cyberdog's default notebook.You can create as many additional notebooks as you like.You can drag and drop Cyberltems that represent e-mail addresses or URLs for Web pages, newsgroups, FTP sites, and other Internet locations into a notebook.Any e-mail address stored in your default notebook becomes accessible automatically when you're addressing Cyberdog e-mail messages.
C. Web search
Starting Point's Search button takes you to Apple's Cyberdog Search Web page, which is wired to Digital's Alta Vista search engine.This page provides access to other search engines as well.
D. Newsgroups
The left-hand button in Starting Point's discussion area takes you to a listing of Cyberltems for newsgroups you have connected to.You can access newsgroup messages by double-clicking on these Cyberltems.
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Cyberdog's notebooks are similar to the Log. They too can contain Cyberltems for Internet locations.A notebook can also contain mail addresses, pointers to text and binary files, and other Cyberltems. But whereas the Log updates automatically, followingyou like a digi tal bloodhound, notebooks contain only Cyberltems you've dragged into them.
Anotebook also lets you rename items. If, for example, you drag a Cyberltem for a favorite home page into a notebook, you can rename it with a more recognizable title, just as you wo uld rename a file in th.e Finder. In this way, notebooks act almost like little Finders for Internet-related data.
You can put as many Cyberltems as you like into a notebook, and you can group them into folders for easier cataloging, although fold ers can go only one level deep. You can also create multiple note . books. One of the notebooks you create (the default notebook) has a
special property: Addresses you store in it are directly accessible from within e-mail and newsgroup message windows, relieving you of having to type lengthy and enigmatic Internet addresses.
CYBERDOG FETCHES THE PAPER
Cyberdog Starting Point includes Cyberltems for accessing Internet mail and for news reading.You access these services from the two CyberButtons labeled Discuss in the Starting Point document. Click ing on the mail button (the right-hand button) opens the CyberMail window, which displays a list of your mail trays. CyberMail comes with In and Out trays and a Tr ash tray, for deleting e-mail messages. You can create additional trays to help categorize messages you want to store. Clicking on the triangle next to a tray expands its contents, much like expanding a folder in the Finder. Double-clicking on a mail tray opens a window that displays a list of stored messages.
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E. Log
Cyberdog's Log automatically maintains a running list of the last 100 Internet sites you've visited.You can sort the Log hierarchically, chronologically, or alphabetically. Double clicking on an icon in the Log opens the appropriate applet window.
F. Tool palette
Cyberdog provides a simple tool palette to aid in designing documents with Cyberdog DocBuilder.
G. Cyberdog Parts palette
The Parts palette gives you an easy way to embed (from left to right) text elements, CyberButtons,and notebook elements in an Open Doc document.
H. Web access
Clicking on Starting Point's Explore button opens a browser window that displays the Cyberdog Explorer home page.The Cyberltem icon in the upper left corner of the browser can be dragged to a notebook for permanent storage, onto a CyberButton to create a link to aWeb page,or into a Cyberdog document window to embed a Web page directly in the document.
I. CyberMail
Cyberdog lets you access Internet e-mail by clicking on the right-hand one of the two buttons labeled Discuss. You can attach any type of Cyberltem,as well as files and graphics,to a Cyberdog e-mail message.
J. Progress bar
This progress bar is displayed when a new browser window is being opened.
JULY 1996 / MacUser 71
CYBERDOG
CyberMail is fully compliant with MIME
Apple is aware of the need to catch up and
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Enclosures):
is working with third-party developers to
You can enclose fi les within a mail message
provide appropriate solutions. In fact, one de
by dragging them directly into the message
veloper, ResNova, of Berkeley, California, has
body. Drag-and-drop enclosure also works
already demonstrated a prototype OpenDoc
for any Cyberltem. If the recipients of yo ur
part that can view Java applets.
mail messages are also Cyberdog users, they
The Cyberdog approach to browsing does
can drag the enclosures back out of the mes
have some advantages: Other browsers re
sages onto their desktop or into a Cyberdog
quire you to cut and paste - or type - URLs
notebook.
to change locations on the Web. Cyberdog
Clicking on the left-hand Discuss button
simplifies this process. In the top left corner
opens a window entitled News Groups,
of every Cyberdog browser window, just
Cyberdog's news reader. Within the News
above the URL listing, sits a Cyberltem that
Groups window is a list of available news
contains the link to the page in the window
servers and newsgroups. As in Cyberdog's Mail Tray window, you can expa nd the con tents of a news se rver by clicking on the tri angle to the left of the news server's icon. This is a feature that NewsWatcher, the most popular freeware news reader for the Mac intosh, fa ils to offer. Cyberdog goes even fur ther to make li fe easy for newshounds: Its news reader enables you to view the contents
figure 2/ ClARISWORKS DOES CYBERDOG
Thi s document was created with an early prototype of ClarisWorks 5.0, which will be able to create OpenDoc container documents.The document has CyberButtons for three Apple Web pages and a live, embedded FTP site - Adam Engst's site for Mac Internet software.You can download a file from an FTP site
below. You can switch instantly to another Web page or to an FTP site or newsgroup by dragging the Cyberltem for that location over the Cyberltem already there. Want to save a reference to a page yo u've just surfed to? Drag its Cyberltem to your notebook or the desk top. Want to pass it on to a friend? Drag it to a floppy disk, or e- mail it. Big deal, yo u say? Navigator bookmarks can jump through
of more than one newsgroup simulta embedded in a Cyberdog document by
most of the same hoops. Perhaps. But there's
neously. One shortcoming of Cyberdog's dragging its icon onto the desktop.
one hoop they can't jump th ro ugh.
news reader, however, is its poor handling of binary files that are embedded in news-
BURIED BONES
group messages; they appear in a news message as garbage text. Although notebooks and the Log are time-savers and CyberButtons
WEBBING THE DOG
have a great deal of flexibility, there is an even more compelling as pect of Cyberdog that no other browser can match: the abi lity to
Start ing Point also contains two buttons that access specific Web embed Internet sites directly within a document.
pages. The Explore button opens a browser window that displays the Here's how it works. Ifyou drag a Cyberltem for a Web page into an
Cyberdog Explorer home page. The Search button takes yo u to a OpenDoc document, you don't get a button or icon that can take yo u
Cyberdog-customized front end to Digital's Alta Vista search page. to that site - you get a browser view of the site itself, live and in
When it comes to surfing the Web, Apple's Cyberdog is a mixed person. Same for an FTP site or newsgroup location. Close the docu
bag. The browser windows are HTML 2.0-compliant and support ment, and reopen it later. The sites update automatically. You can put
tables and backgrounds. They do not, however, support right as many of these live links into a document as you like.
aligned text or client-side image maps; nor do they support Naviga Sounds like Navigator frames? Somewhat. But Navigator frames
tor plugs-ins or Java . These are serious shortcomings in a world in are stuck in the Navigator browser. Embedded Cyberdog browsers
which the sizzle half-life of new Web feat ures is measured in months. can go anywhere, at least within the currently limited panoply of
STUPID CYBERDOG TRICKS
THE OPEN DOC ENVIRONMENT in which Cyber dog runs contains no applications in the tradi tional sense. This can make the dimension in which OpenDoc documents and traditional applications coexist pretty bizarro.
Try this:Open the Cyberdog Starting Point document; you'll notice that the File menu becomes the Document menu.Pull down that menu; although there's no Quit option, there is an item labeled Close Cyberdog Starting Point. OK, it's a document, not an application, so that makes sense.
Or does it? Examine the Application menu on the far right of the menu bar. You'll see
Cyberdog Starting Point, not Cyberdog, listed. Click on the Notebook button in the Starting Point document; a notebook window entitled First Notebook opens. Now check out the Docu ment menu again, and you'l l see Close First Notebook. Close Cyberdog Starting Point is gone.Hmmm.Just for kicks,go back to the Ap plication menu - Cyberdog Starting Point is still the lone document (application?) listed.
It gets better.Click on the Cyberdog Starting Point window to make it active. Go back to the Document menu, and select Close Cyberdog Starting Point. Now make sure the First Note book window is still open, and then click on the
Application menu.What do you see? Cyberdog Starting Point. That's kinky.
Here's one last stupid Cyberdog trick. Open the Cyberdog Starting Point document again. Click on several buttons to get a bunch of win dows open. Now go to the Application menu, and select Hide Cyberdog Starting Point. All the windows you just opened vanish, just as if Cyberdog Starting Point were an application, not a document. But try to close all these win dows at once, as you would by quitting a nor mal application - try to quit Cyberdog Start ing Point - there's no way to do it.
Ah,well, that's what updates are for, right?
72 MacUser I JULY 1996
CYBERDOG ICONS AND WHAT THEY REPRESENT
OpenDoc container apps.
Cyberltems
Figure 2 shows a simple ex ample of the kinds of docu ments you can create with this
.I aWeb page
capability; the container appli cation for the document is an early prototype of the upcom
·iU atext file
ing OpenDoc-ba_sed version of ClarisWorks. The document has three CyberButtons pointing to
J~ a picture file
various Apple Web pages and a live FTP browser view linked to Adam Engst's FTP site of Mac
Ji asound file
Internet goodies. Cyberdog's FTP browser has an interface
.~ amovie file
that is much better than those
of Fetch or Anarchie. Like the Finder, Cyberdog's FTP browser lets you expand an FTP site's di rectory hierarchy by clicking on triangles that represent differ ent levels of the hierarchy. Fur thermore, the Cyberdog FTP
[liill ·
a binary file
. ~ an e·mailmessage
§ a news server
browser is fully integrated with
the Finder: To download a file
from an FTP site, drag it to the
a newsgroup-group browser
desktop or to a hard-disk icon.
But the possibilities for Internet embedding go far beyond this
basic demonstration. Imagine, for example, an astronomy lesson. In
an OpenDoc container document, the teacher has placed some text
describing a research assignment, a live browser window linked to a
Web site maintained by NASA, and a custom OpenDoc part that can
use data gathered from the site to create a map of the space shuttle's
orbit. Sure, you could provide the same functionality with a mono
lithic application that had these capabilities. But who wants to pro
gram a text editor, a Web browser, and a mapping utility for a single
assignment? The advantage of the OpenDoc/Cyberdog approach is
that you can construct an infinite variety of customized documents
with components from many sources.
PAPER TRAINING FOROPENDOC
For the moment, the Cyberdog vision far outstrips the reality. Open Doc is still in its infancy, and Cyberdog has both the distinction and the burden of being its first real raison d'etre. Although Open Doc is supposed to elevate the Mac's ease of use to new heights, it's equally likely to cause a good dea l of confusion in the interim .
Plus, Cyberdog/OpenDoc is a total memory hog. Just launching OpenDoc and opening the Cyberdog Starting Point document causes the system to swallow over 5 MB of RAM . The system wants nearly another megabyte to open a browser window and half a megabyte more to open the Notebook. That's 6.5 megs. Did someone say some thing about component software being small and lightweight?
Neither OpenDoc nor Cyberdog is widely available. OpenDoc isn't slated for inclusion in Apple's System 7.5.3 retail product until about the time this article appears.Although Cyberdog 1.0 is expected to be finalized around the same time, it will not be included in the initial System 7.5.3 retail product. In fact, as we went to press, Cyberdog was
)II a newsgroup-articlebrowser
still in beta and worked only on PowerPC-based Macs. Apple
probably won't make it com
a Gopher folder
mercially available until later in the year, when enough other
OpenDoc parts and containers
a folder on anFTPsite
are available to create a viable
working environment.
Other Icons
When Cyberdog is ready for prime time, expect Apple to go
~ ~ ane-mail address
all out to get it into as many us ers' hands as possible. It will be
available free online and from
a search document
user groups. It will be bundled with Macs. And don't be sur
prised if Apple uses it as the jus
CyberMail In tray
tification for releasing a new System 7.5 update,followed by a
new System 7.5.x retail product.
CyberMail Out tray
Still, Cyberdog is intended to be "exampleware:' Apple's not
trying to compete with Net
notebook stationery
scape or Microsoft for domi nance in the browser market.
Quite the contrary: Apple is en
CyberButton statianery
couraging third parties to de
velop more-powerful alterna
tives to its Cyberdog parts. Eric Jackson, of Amplified Intelligence, is
already at work on a browser part that will support VRML and
QuickDraw 3D, which Cyberdog's browser part does not now sup
port. Virtus is reportedly working on similar technology.
MY DOG'S BETTER THANYOURS
Apple has been hyping the OpenDoc/Cyberdog combo for so long now that it's starting to feel like YAFAI (yet another forgotten Apple technology). But don't be lulled into disinterest by the deafening lack of promotion. True, OpenDoc has been available to developers for nearly six months now. And, no, there still isn't a single piece of OpenDoc software worth loading on your Mac, let alone paying for.
But that's gonna change. Apple did itself a serious disservice by the way it initially presented OpenDoc to the world. By making it look as ifOpenDoc did little more than provide away to edit graphics in place, Apple created the impression that DTP-oriented users were the only ones for whom OpenDoc was of interest. When none of the leading vendors of graphics or page-layout software stepped for ward to embrace OpenDoc -Adobe's initial endorsement was weak at best - its main purpose in life appeared to have evaporated.
Apple has chosen wisely in making Cyberdog the centerpiece of its reinvigorated OpenDoc strategy. With Cyberdog, the company has found a way to take some leadership in what i!l arguably the hottest market in the computer industry today - not by jumping in two years too late with another Apple me-too product but by developing as core OS technology a whole new approach to cybersurfing.
OpenDoc could be the biggest system-software sleeper Apple has had in years. ~
Henry Bortman is Mac User's technical director.
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CIRCLE 82 ON READER SERVICE CA RD
Takes the Lead
I NTHE RACE TO DELIVER THE FASTEST MACS money can buy, Apple has been struggling to keep pace with Power Computing. Once again, the pre mier Mac-clone maker has blown past Apple, with
the PowerTower 180, which is at least 14 percent faster than Apple's latest offerings.
PREMIER CLONE
MAKER BEATS
APPLE AGAIN WITH
The 7200 was previously available with either a 75 MHz or a 90-MHz PowerPC 601.
At the same time, Power's product line under went dramatic change. The company's top-end PowerWave systems, which came with 120-, 132-,or 150-MHz processors, have been replaced by the
Power Computing first distinguished itself last November as the company best able to produce the fastest PowerPC machines when it shipped the 150-
166- AND 180
PowerTower, a three-slot minitower. This system comes with a 166- or 180-MHz 604 onboard. Also gone from the Power price list is the entry-level
MHz 604-based PowerWave 150.At the time, Apple's fastest model was the Power Macintosh 9500, which
MHZ 604-BASED
PowerCurve series, which featured a 120-MHz 601. It has been replaced by the PowerCenter, which is
topped out at 132 MHz. It wasn't until the end of April that Apple made its move to catch up, "speed
CLONES.
available with a 120-, 132-,or 150-MHz CPU. Unlike Apple, Power no longer uses PowerPC 601 chips.
bumping" the Power Mac 9500 to 150 MHz. But
Power Computing once again zoomed past, this time with two new POWER GRABS THE POLE POSITION
Power Macintosh clones, clocked at 166 and 180 MHz.
The most exciting of this latest round of Mac contenders is, without
The high end is not the only place where changes took place in the a doubt, the PowerTower 180. At the heart of Power's top-of-the-line
spring. Along with a 150-MHz 9500, Apple released 150- and 132- machine lies the fastest PowerPC chip available, a 180-MHz 604. On
MHz versions of the 8500. The 7500 was replaced by the 7600, reflect our MacBench tests of near-final systems, the PowerTower 180
ing a jump from a 100-MHz 601 CPU to a 120-MHz 604. And at the clocked in at 14 percent faster than Apple's new 1SO-MHz top-of-the
low end, Apple beefed up the processor in the 7200 to a 120-MHz601. line system. Before you sneer at a mere 14 percent, note that Apple's
BY HENRY BORTMAN
JULY 1996 I MacUser 75
CPU SHOOT-OUT
own speed-bump of the 9500,from 132 MHz to 150 MHz, yields a 17 percent boost in processing speed, according to MacBench. The PowerTower 166, as expected, finished between the new 9500 and the PowerTower 180, about 5 percent faster than the former.
One reason the PowerTower doesn't do even better is that its motherboard design doesn't support interleaved memory, as the Apple 9500 and the PowerWave boards do. Why would Power aban don a superior memory architecture in designing a high-end ma chine? That's an interesting story. The PowerTower's motherboard is based not on Apple's high-end Tsunami architecture, used in the 9500, but on the cheaper Catalyst architecture, used in the 7200.
This may seem like an odd choice, but there's a good reason. The Tsunami motherboard has a maximum processor-bus speed of 50 MHz. Because the current 604 chip can run no faster than three times the speed of the processor bus, Tsunami-based systems can't go above 150 MHz. This won't change until the PowerPC 604e ch ip becomes available, later this year. With a 604e processor, Apple will be able to push the 9500 to 200 MHz.
Curiously, the processor bus in the lower-end Catalyst architec ture can be pushed to 60 MHz. That's why Power chose this design for its superfast PowerTower systems - the same design, incidentally, on which it bases its PowerCenter (formerly PowerCurve) systems.
Although Apple's specs for the 9500, other than the processor speed boost, haven't changed much, Power has made some nice im provements over its previous high-end systems. The PowerWave shipped with the same ATI Xclaim GA card as the 9500/120. This time out, Power has chosen a faster card, the IMS TwinTurbo-128M. On our MacBench Graphics Mix and Publishing Graphics Mix tests, the PowerTower/TwinTurbo combination outpaced the 9500/ATI
to the MOVING UP twosome by 31
percent to 49 per
604
cent. And the
Tw inTurbo has 4 - =reference model
MB of VRAM,
twice what Apple
ships with the 9500's ATI card. That means users can work in 24
Power Mac 7500 with Apple 604/132 upg rade card Power Mac 7500 with Apple 604/120 upgrade card Power Mac 7500/100
bit color at much
higher resolutions.
The high-speed Micropolis AV drive in the PowerTower also beat
the 9500/150's Seagate drive. Curiously, although the AV drive is de
signed for the high throughput typical of digital-video and publish
ing applications, the PowerTower's drive ra n neck and neck with the
9500/150's in MacBench's Publishing Disk Mix test. It was on the
standard Disk Mix, which mimics the small-block access typical of
business applications, that the Micropolis drive stood out - it was
more than 1.5 times as fast as the 9500/ lSO's Seagate.
Power bundles Connectix's Speed Doubler with the PowerTowers,
which features a RAM cache that helps small -block transfers far
more than throughput-intensive large-block transfers.
/
The PowerTower's speed on the MacBench CD -ROM Mix test was
nothing short of astonishing. This, too, is attributable to Speed Dou
bler, as well as to the FWB CD-ROM ToolKit driver Power includes.
When we installed these enhancements on Apple's 9500/J 50,we saw
CD-ROM speed that equaled that of the PowerTower.
The PowerTower's impressive speed credentials shed light on an
HOW THE NEW MAC OS SYSTEMS STACK UP I tested configurations
USING MACBENCH3.0,we measured -
.. th e speed of the new lineups from
< A~ Apple and Power Computi ng. Mac-
=reference model
- = fastest in vendor's lineup
Bench measures aMas:'s subsystem s-that is, it isolates th e various components that contri bute to a Mac's performa nce. The Processor test measures raw computing power on th e full range of Mac tasks; itsfocusisthe CPU and
Model
Price* Processor
APPLE COMPUTER SYSTEMS Power Mac 9500/150 $4,371 Power Mac 9500/132 $4,599
604 / 150 604/132
Installed Installed
RAM
L2 Cache
16MB
512K
16MB
512K
mem ory subsystem. Th e Fl oating Point test Power Mac 8500/1 SO $4,371 604/150 16 MB 256K mea sures specia lized math emat ica l calc ul a- Power Mac 8500/132 $3,627 604/132 16 MB 256K t ions. Th e Disk Mi x and Publish in g Di sk Mix Power Mac 8500/120 $3;999 604/120 16MB 256K
testsmeasure th espeed of t he di sk subsystem. Power Mac 7600/120 $2,562 604/120 16MB 256K
TheDisk Mi xtest emulateshow bu siness appli Power Mac 7500/100 $2,699 601/100 16MB none
cations such as Microsoft Word and Excel uti
Power Mac 7200/120 $2,025 601/120 16MB
256K
lize a hard-d isk drive.The Publishi ng Disk Mix
Power Mac 7200/90 $1,549 601/90
16MB
none
test em ulates Photoshop and QuarkX Press
drive usag e.The Gra phi cs Mix and Pu blish ing POWER COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Graphics Mix test s measure the speed of the Powerlower 180
$4,995 604/180 32MB
512K
gra phics subsystem. Li ke th e Disk Mixtests, th e PowerTower 166
$4,595 604/166 32 MB
512K
PowerWave 604/150 $4,349 604/150 16 MB
512K
Graphics Mix test is based on business tasks
and the Publishing Gra phi cs Mix test is based PowerCenter 150
$2,926 604/150 16MB
256K
on DTP t asks. All tests we re conducted with PowerCenter 132
$2,426 604/132 16 MB
256K
Syst em 7.5.3 installed.All MacBench 3.0 scores PowerCenter 120
$2,144 604/120 16 MB
256K
are relative t o t hose of a Powe r Mac 6100/60 PowerCurve 601/120 $2,117 601/120 16MB none
with an internal 250-MB Quantum drive.
*Estimated street prices; Power Computing direct prices.
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APPLE INITIALLY SHIPPED the Power Mac 7500 with a 100-MHz ., processor. It now sells 120- and 132-MHz 604 processor up < A · grade cards for speeding up your system.Using MacBench 3.0, we compared the speed of the 7500/100 with that of a unit upgraded
with each of the faster processors. The 7500/100 had no L2 cache in stalled; the upgraded systems had 256K of L2 cache. All tests were run with System 7.5 .3. All MacBench 3.0 scores are relative to those of an Apple Power Mac 6100/60 with an internal 250-MB Quantum drive.
MACBENCH 3.0 SCORES
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26.8 24.4 16.5
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BEITER
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Graphics Mix
17.S 17.4 15.2
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28.0 25.8 16.7
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23 .1 21 .1 13.6
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intriguing point: Clones are supposed to be cheap. The PowerTower 180 isn't. In fact, in its $4,995 QuickStart configuration, the modelwe tested, it is the most expensive single-processor Mac OS system available today, costing some $600 more than the estimated street price of Apple's 9500/150.
But take a closer look. The PowerTower 180 comes with 32 MB of RAM, versus the 9500/ISO's 16 MB. Its accelerated-graphics card includes 4 MB of VRAM, compared to the 9500/1 SO's 2 MB. By the time you outfit a 9500/150 with RAM and VRAM equivalent to those of the PowerTower 180 - not to mention a keyboard, which Apple's machines lack but which comes standard with all Power Computing systems - the PowerTower 180 starts to look like a bargai n.And you can chop an additional $400 off the 180's price if you're willing to settle for the slightly slower PowerTower 166.
The 9500/150 does have one advantage over the PowerTower 180. Until Power ships its first six-slot machine, later this summer, the 9500/150 is the only machine with six PCI slots. For maximum ex pansion capability, the 9500 is the only game in town, for now.
THE 8500 PASSES ON THE TURN
If the edge goes to Power at the high end, Apple's 8500, now available in 132-and 150-MHzmodels, is a strong contender for the midrange. What distinguishes the 8500 is its integrated digital-video input and output; no other desktop computer on the market, Mac or PC, can match it. If you need top-notch broadcast-quality video, the 8500's built-in .circuitry will come up short, but for more-casual use in-house corporate use, educational use - it's a winner. Power Com puting, although it promised months ago to offer low-cost PCl based digital video, has yet to deliver on its commitment.
The 8500 also holds up well in terms of raw speed. Compared to PowerCenter systems with similar processors, the 8500s were about 10 percent faster on MacBench's Processor test. This is probably due to their use of interleaved memory, a feature they have in common with the 9500 but that PowerCenter systems lack.The 8500s also do significantly better in terms of disk speed - some SO-percent better - than PowerCenter systems with equivalent processors.
On the MacBench graphics-subsystem tests, the PowerCenters
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CPU SHOOT-OUT
HOW TO Make Your CD-ROM Sing
THE POWERTOWER scores on MacBench's ., CD-ROM Mix test were t he best we've seen . < A · The difference is not in the CD-ROM drive, however.Power shipsthe FWB CD-ROMToolKit driver,
Powerlower 180
along with Connectix's Speed Doubler, preinstalled
PowerTower 1BO on the hard disk, which improves CD-ROM perfor
Power Mac 9500/150 mance by caching large amounts of data in memory.
Power Mac 9500/150 When we installed the same software on a9500/150,
Power Mac 9500/150 its CD-ROM Mix scores shot up as well.
4X CD-ROM MECHANISM
Toshiba XM-5401TA Toshib a XM-5401TA Matshita CR8005-A Matshita CR8005-A Matshita CR8005-A
CO·ROM DRIVER
FWB CD-ROM ToolKit FWB CD-ROM Tool Kit FWB CD-ROM ToolKit FWB CD-ROM ToolKit Apple CD-ROM
SPEED ACCESS INSTALLED
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and 8500s got a split decision: The 8500s led by 13 to 16 percent on the Graphics Mix test, but they fell behind by 12 to 13 percent on the Publishing Graphics Mix test. This was due largely to the poor per formance of the 8500's built-in video circuitry in accelerating the drawing of vertical lines.
Since we've praised the 8500 for its video skills, it seems only fair to raise the small matter of price.The 8500/150 we tested was nearly $1,450 more than the PowerCenter 150. The 8500/132's sticker price was $1 ,200 above that of the PowerCenter 132.Granted, the 8500/150 had a 2-GB drive and the 8500/132 a 1-GB drive, whereas the Power Centers had only 850-MB drives. Still, that's a huge price difference.
CRASH·TESTDUMMIES?
In any new set of CPU announcements, the excitement is always at the high end. The bulk ofsales, however,are found at the other end of the spectrum, where the cost-conscious part with their cash.
Power's lowest-end system, the PowerCenter 120, available at $1,899, distinguishes itself as the lowest-cost 604-based system (if you're bold enough to confront today's bloated software offerings with only 8 MB of RAM, that is). Apple's comparable offering, the 7600/120, costs around $450 more for a similar configuration. It also offers digital-video input, which the PowerCenter 120 doesn't. Both systems sport 120-MHz 604 processors.
Although it might appear at first glance that the PowerCenter 120 is the better deal, a closer examination of the 7600/120's test results shows that the 7600/120 bested the PowerCenter 120 on most MacBench tests, particularly on the Processor and Graphics Mix tests. The Disk Mix and Publishing Disk Mix tests, on which the 7600/120 also did better, are heavily dependent on the drive mecha nism; presumably the PowerCenters would do better with higher capacity, faster drives than the 850-MB unit we tested.
Is an extra $450 a fair increment for a performance edge, digital video input, and the Apple logo? Unless you know you won't want the video capability somewhere down the road, we'd say yes.
Bringing up the low end of Apple's lineup is the Power Mac 7200/ 120, a speedier version of the original 7200/75 and 7200/90. It costs only $120 less than a PowerCenter 120 for similar configurations (if you consider the $100 keyboard, it's a wash), and its processing speed falls below that of Power's low-end offering. Furth~rmore, the 7200 has no processor-upgrade slot. For this reason, we question Apple's wisdom in even bothering to keep this car on the track.
UPGRADE PIT STOP
Apple appears to have conceded the severe limitations of the 7200 by offering a logic-board upgrade for 7200/75 and 7200/90 owners. This $1,300 upgrade will turn your limping 7200 into a sparkling
new 7600/120, complete with a processor-card upgrade slot and digital-video input. There is a catch, however: You have to spend an other $600 on a 120-MHz processor-upgrade card. In other words, to upgrade to a working system, you have to spend nearly $2,000.
And that's a bare-bones system. The original 7200 shipped with only 8 MB of RAM; if you want a more reasonable complement of 16 MB, figure in another $250.And throw in an extra $125 for 256K of Level 2(L2) cache, which the 7200 lacked and which is highly recom mended. We won't mention the fact that the 7200 came with a 500 MB hard-disk drive. The grand total: nearly $2,300,just $250 shy of the expected street price of a brand- new 7600/120. Hmm.
Apple's 8500 logic-board upgrade, for $1,799, may prove a more attractive offer.It can upgrade a Quadra 800 or 840AV or a Power Mac 8100.Again, you have to purchase a processor-upgrade card in addi tion: $599 for the 120-MHz 604, $899 for the 132-MHz 604. Even if you go for the faster processor, your total will be nearly $1 ,000 less than the cost of a new 8500/132. However, proceed with caution if you're upgrading from a Quadra model - you can't move your Quadra RAM into a Power Mac.
Apple will also sell its 120- and 132-MHz 604 processor-upgrade cards to 7500 and 8500 owners; Power Computing will market only a 120-MHz 604 card. The good news: At $295, Power's card will sell for exactly half the price ofApple's 120-M Hzoffering. The bad news: Power has not yet decided to make it available to Apple Mac owners. To order one, you have to provide Power with the serial number of your PowerCurve 601/120.
Later this year, Power will offer 132- and 150-MHz 604 upgrade cards, for $495 and $695, respectively. With prices like those, Power can expect Apple Power Mac customers to be beating down the door to get at its upgrades. But Power is still unsure about whether it can support the demand such cheap upgrade cards would generate.
THECHECKERED FLAG
Amere two years ago, it looked like Apple would keep the Mac OS a single-entrant race and that the Mac faithfu lwould forever cast their collective gaze toward Cupertino for the latest round of new Mac models.Clones seemed a distant possibility, and real competition for Apple seemed even more distant. The notion that twice in one year, it would be a clone vendor - not Apple - that would push the Mac performance envelope was positively heretical.
Apple is no longer the only contender in this competition, and a Mac doesn't get the pole position just because it has a multicolored logo on the case. In the latest lap, Power Computing has fielded some killer machines.Apple will be hard-pressed to catch up. fUJ
Henry Bortman is Mac User's technical director.
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Large-format flatbeds handle bigger originals than standard
scanners, as well as more originals for batch scans - abig
plus for production environments. They can't beat the drums - drum scanners, that is - but two come darn close.
. BATCH SCANNING IS WHERE IT'S AT for high-volume, deadline-pressured ., prepress houses, service bureaus, and art departments. For users working in those
( A· environments, the standard 8-x-14-inch scanning area of most flatbed scanners is
just too small.For starters, it can't handle large-sized original images.More important, ifyou want to save time by scanning multiple originals simultaneously, you're limited in the num ber of items you can fit on the scanning area.
Traditionally, prepress users who require the ultimate in image quality and scanning pro ductivity have relied on expensive drum scanners for batch jobs.But not everyone needs the image perfection offered by a drum scanner and not everyone can afford the $40,000-to $80,000 price tag. Enter large-format flatbed scanners, cost-effective alternatives to mid range drum scanners that offer a scanning area of approximately 11 x 17 inches. In the past year, the number of vendors offering large-format scanners has grown, and several of the new products boast aggressive prices. To see how the current crop of large-format flatbed scanners measures up, MacUser Labs tested and evaluated the five scanners in the $7,000-to $30,000 price range. We scrutinized each scanner's image quality, scanning speed, software tools, and overall ease of use. By and large, we found that each can be a viableproduction tool, but in the end, you get just what you pay for.
BY ROMAN LOYOLA
JULY 1996 / MacUser 81
SCANNERS
QUALITY CONTROL
Although you may not require the top-notch image quality of a drum scanner, you still need good-looking images. If you're putting to gether a clothing catalog, for example, you want the blue blazers to look blue, not purple, and the gray slacks to look gray, not brown.A good scanner must accuratelycapture a wide range of colors as well as handle various levels ofbrightness and contrast correctly,provide good color saturation, and maintain a high level of image detail.And the better the image quality of a raw scan, the less time you'll need to spend tweaking the image to make it right.
To test the image quality of each of the five scanners, we used a Power Mac 9500/ 132 equipped with a Radius ThunderColor 30/ 1600 graphics card and a Radius PressView 17 SR monitor. We calibrated the complete system with the Radius ProSense calibrator. For output, we used a NewGen ChromaxPro dye-sublimation printer in order to check basic color accuracy and then sent our final scans to a service bureau to obtain 3M Matchprint proofs.
The original we scanned was a 5-x-7-inch color transparency from the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylva nia; 412-621-6941). We chose the GATF transparency because it challenged the scanning prowess of each device in several ways - it had a wide color range as well as skin and other natural tones,a gray gradient background, highlights, shadows, and fine detail.
For each scanner, we first performed a raw (unadjusted) scan and then used the software tools bundled with each device to improve the image quality as best we could. We made two Matchprint proofs for each device - one of the raw scan and one of the corrected scan - and compared them with proofs of the same original scanned by the Howtek Scanmaster 7500, a $56,000 large-format drum scanner.
THE BOTTOM LINE
A LARGE-FORMAT FLATBED SCANNER should provide you with more than just an extra-large scanning area that can accommodate multiple items, for batch scans, and large originals. In rating the five scanners, we gave image quality and software tools for image adjustment the most weight but we also considered speed and price. With these factors in mind, one scanner stood out from the rest.
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image quality, powerful software tools, and competitive price
($15,900). It wasn't among the fastest scanners we tested, but
the image quality it provides isso good you won't have to spend
alot oftime tweaking images.Its Trident software requires sev
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level of control it provides over image adjustment.
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What we found was that although all the scanned images required adjustment, some needed much more work than others - an im portant consideration for users working in time-sensitive produc tion environments.
The scanner that produced the best-looking raw scan was the new $29,950 Scitex SmART 320. It was the most expensive scanner we tested but was also the newest and least expensive addition to the Scitex SmART line. Printouts were consistent with what we saw on screen, and colors were well saturated.Althoughhighlights showed a slight cyan cast and skin tone had a bit too much magenta, these problems were barely noticeable and were easy to correct with the software tools .The number of artifacts was almost nil, and the Scitex scanner was the only one that was able to reproduce the original's gray gradient background without a hitch.
Second in line for image quality was the $15,900 Howtek Scan master 2500. Although the colors weren't as vibrant as those of the Scitex scanner, the Howtek scanner boasted good color consistency between screen and output, good reproduction of details in shadow areas, and very few artifacts. As with the Scitex scanner, only minor image adjustments were necessary.
Placing third on the im age-quality scale, the $17,995 Agfa Hori zon Ultra produced images that had a pronounced yellow cast, and some image areas were blurred. We were able to eliminate the cast and sharpen images by using the scanner's software tools, but these adjustments required more work than the adj ustments of the images from the Scitex and Howtek scanners.
Not surprisingly, images scanned by the two lowest-cost scanners, the $12,995 PixelCraft Pro lmager 8200 and the $6,995 UMAX Mi rage D- 16L, required the most adjustment. Although the PixelCraft scanner did a good job of reproducing the gray gradient back ground, colors were overly dense and there were many artifacts .The UMAX scanner's images suffered from a pronounced yellow cast that blew out the highlights, made the gray background look brown, and gave skin tones an unnatural look. However, using each scanner's software tools, we were able to dramatically improve the images, although achieving the results we wanted took two to three times as long as with the Scitex and Howtek scanners.
One image-quality factor you'll want to consider is bit depth.The higher the bit depth a scanner supports, the more color information it captures and the more data you have to work with when tweaking an image. The UMAX scanner captures 10 bits of data per color (red, green, and blue), whereas the Agfa, Howtek, PixelCraft, and Scitex scanners each capture 12 bits of data per color.
WIN, PLACE, SHOW
Altho ugh yo u can fit more originals onto the bed of a large-format scanner than you can onto that of a standard-sized one, you'll find that each scan takes longer to perform than with a standard flatbed scanner, because of the larger scanning area.However, within the set of large-format scanners we tested, we discovered a wide variation in scanning speed. To compare the scanners, we first timed a raw scan of a single original - the 5-x-7-inch GATF color transparency- at 300 dpi and then timed a raw scan of multiple originals at 300 dpi. Our scanning times did not include times for prescans or the time required to make image adjustments.
The Howtek and Scitex scanners let you scan directly in the CMYK color space and make adjustments there - a big plus for prepress
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AGFA HORIZON ULTRA
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SCITEX SMART 320
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Howtek Hudson, NH 800-444-6983 603-882-5200 603-880-3843 (fax) http://www.howtek .com/
Pixel Craft Oakland, CA 800-933-0330 510-562-2480 510-562-6451 (fax)
Scitex America Bedford, MA 800-685-9462 617-275-5150 617-275-3430 (fax) http://www. scitex .com/
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*Supports up to 2,630 dpi (5,260 dpi interpolated) with 35mm slides. tone-d ay training avai lable for $1,250.
§Computer-/video-based self-training package included. 0Extended-warranty program planned for later this year.
pros. The UMAX scanner can scan in CMYK, but because you can use the color-correction tools that come with the scanner only in the RGB color space, you'll have to work in Photoshop if you want to make adjustments in CMYK. The Agfa and PixelCraft scan ners work only in RGB, so prepress professionals have to convert their final scans to CMYK and adjust them in Photoshop.
Although its images required a lot of adjustment, the UMAX Mi rage D-16L boasted the fastest raw scans for the single and the batch scan. In our single-image test, it finished in just under 50 seconds. The PixelCraft Pro Imager 8200 ranked second in the single-image test, finishing in a little more than 1 minute.The Agfa Horizon Ultra finished in 1 minute, 40 seconds. The Agfa and the PixelCraft scan ners were surprisingly fast, given that each is a three-pass scanner (the only two of that type we tested) .
The Howtek Scanmaster 2500 and the Scitex SmART 320 finished last in the single-image test, with the Howtek scanner finishing in 3 minutes and the Scitex unit in close to 4. But keep in mind that al though these scanners took the longest to perform the scans, each scans directly in CMYK.
We got slightly different results for our batch-scan test, which con sisted of scanning four 4-x-5-inch transparencies and one 6-x-6centimeter transparency. The PixelCraft scanner finished 10 sec onds behind the speedy UMAX Mirage D-16, which took a little more than 4 minutes to perform the batch scan. However, there's one
caveat with the PixelCraft scanner: When you scan in transparency mode, the maximum scanning area is reduced to 8.5 x 12 inches. Because we couldn't fit all five of our originals onto the PixelCraft scanner's transparency scanning area, its batch-scanning time is based on scanning only three of the five originals. The Agfa and Scitex scanners also have scanning-area limitations for transparen cies, but each was able to accommodate all five originals.
The Howtek scanner finished its batch scan of the five originals in slightly less than 5 minutes. The two slowest scanners - the Agfa and the Scitex SmART 320 - each took more than 8minutes.We ex pected better results from the Scitex scanner, but it was slow because it calibrates itself after it has scanned each original in the batch. The good news is that you can always be sure of calibrated scans; the bad news is that scanning times are relatively long for production envi ronments.The Scitex scanner also requires the use of a special plas tic mask that blocks out extraneous light, which can degrade image quality. However, before you scan, you must cut a hole for each origi nal and tape the original to the mask.
One note about batch scanning: The Howtek and Scitex scanners can accommodate reflective media and transparencies in a single batch scan. The UMAX scanner can too, according to the company, but UMAX doesn't recommend combining media. The Agfa and PixelCraft scanners can scan in either reflective or transparency mode; you can't scan the two types of media at one time.
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and the Scitex SmARt 320- feature software
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SOFTWARE TOOL KITS
Another way to distinguish one scanner from another is to look at the software tools that come in the box.The scanners we tested came with two main types of tools - those that work in CMYK and those that work in RGB. We favor software that lets us scan and make ad justments to our images in CMYK, the colors used for printing. We also like software that lets us make as many adjustments as possible to our prescan images. That way, we're working with all the bits of color captured by the scanner (30- or 36-bit color, depending on the scanner) .When you have to make adjustments to an image in Photo shop or a color-separation package, you're stuck working with only the bits that were saved in the image after the final scan (24-bit co lor ).
The Howtek Sca nmaster 2500 and the Scitex SmART 320, which let you scan and adj ust in CMYK, provide the most-robust software tools. But the flip side of the software tools' power is a steep learning curve - be prepared to spend severaldays learning the ins and outs. Once you're fami liar with the software, however, you'll appreciate the flexibility and power each set of tools offers.
Howtek's Trident software,thesame as what comes with the more expensive Scanmaster 7500 drum scanner, offers three main pal ettes for image adj ustment- one for tweaking highlights and shad ows, one for adjusting color cast, and one for unsharp masking. We liked the level of control these palettes provide: You can enter nu meric values and selectively adjust areas of an image. The one draw back is that the tools lack keyboard shortcuts.
Scitex's SmART Color software uses a similar series of palettes, but what makes Scitex's software noteworthy is the handy and well designed Color Correction tool, which lets you fine-tune a selected color.One important feature we missed, however, is the ability to ro tate and invert images - for such a powerful set of tools, this is a surprising omission.
The Agfa Horizon Ultra comes with FotoLook, a Photoshop plug in that handles images in RGB. You can scan in CMYK by using
FotoLook, but you first have to do some time-consuming prep work that involves scanning an ITS color-calibration target and using it to create a reference file in Photoshop. The reference file, which FotoLook uses to work in CMYK, is based on CMYK curves you cre ate in Photoshop. But because so many variables are involved in creating the curves - including proper calibration of the monitor, calibration of the output devices, and the veracity of the scanned calibration target - the process leaves lots of room for error.
The PixelCraft Pro Imager 8200's software divides the scanning process into two parts. The first phase involves QuickScan, a Photoshop plug-in that captures images in RGB. We fo und that this phase went without a hitch, but if you want to create color separa tions, you have to go on to the second phase - bringing the images into ColorAccess, PixelCraft's color-separation software. Not only is the software confusing but we were also never able to get it to work properly - once we'd created and saved a CMYK image in Color Access, we weren't able to open it.
The UMAX Mirage D-16L comes with MagicScan, a Photoshqp plug-in, and MagicMatch, a stand-alone application. We couldn't discern any differences between the plug-in and the application. Moreover, the software offered the most simplistic level of control over images of any of the scanner software we looked at.
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Belying the claims of several vendors oflarge-format scanners, none of the scanners we tested produced results that were as good as those of the Howtek drum scanner. The Howtek and Scitex flatbed scan ners came quite close, however, and their accompanying software tools are more than up to the job of making the necessary image corrections.
Considering these two high-quality contenders, we feel that the Howtek scanner offers the best overall combination of image quality, speed, powerful software tools, and price. It's not the fastest scanner we tested, but it will save you considerable time making image
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The UMAX Mirage D- l 6L offers a good alternative fo r users on a budget. But be aware that what you save in dollars, you pay in image correction time. ~
In the old days, associate editor Roman Loyola's Thu nderScanner made him assemble an image from small pieces he'd scanned. MacUser Labs project leader Rick Oldano managed the testing for this report.
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THE LARGE-FORMAT-SCANNER ARENA continues to heat up. Veteran At the opposite end of the price spectrum is the Opal,from Linotype
scanner vendors ScanView and Linotype-Hell have each announced a Hell (800-799-4922 or 516-434-2700), a company that is also known
new offering in this category, but ScanView's entry won't be available for its successful line of drum scanners. Priced at just under $10,000,
until about the time this article appears and Linotype-Hell's product the Opal has a maximum scanning area of 12 x 17 inches fo r reflective
shipped just after we completed the review.
and transmissive media.
ScanView (415-378-6360),best known for its qual
The Opal captures data at 10 bits per channel (RGB),
ity desktop drum scanners,will make its first foray into
usi ng a one-pass, trilinear CCD (charge-coupled de
the flatbed-scanner arena with the ScanMate F8. A
vice) . For the 12-x-17-inch scanning area, the Opal
pricey offering (it will cost $30,000 to $40,000), the
supports 400-x-800-dpi resolution, scalable from 10
scanner is intended for use by newspapers,commer
to 300 percent; for the 6-x-17-inch area, it supports
cial printers, and service bu reaus. What's different
800-x-1,600-dpi resolution, scalable from 10 to 600
about the ScanMate F8 is its design - it'safreestand
percent. The larger scanning area can interpolate to
ing floor model. It has a maximum scanning resolu
6,400 x6,400 dpi and the smaller to 9,600 x9,600 dpi.
tion of 4,000 dpi and the ability to scale scanned im
The Opal ships with Linotype's powerful LinoColor
ages destined for a 150-line screen at 1,333 percent.
prepress scanning and color-separation application,
The ScanMate F8 can handle positive and negative .
which is based on the company's Color Technology.
film as well as color, grayscale, continuous-tone, and
LinoColor, which requires a Power Mac or compatible
halftone images and line art.The ~canning area is 11 x
to run, makes full use of Apple's ColorSync 2.0 color
17 inches for reflective media and 8 x 10 inches for
management system.For those who prefer to acquire
transmissive media.
SCANVIEW'S SCANMATE F8 takes images in Photoshop or who own a 680x0 Mac, the
With a dynamic range of 3.6, the scanner can ac scanning to new heights,literally, Opal comes with the Scanlite Photoshop plug-in. In
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Photoshop, the Canto Cumulus Desktop Image Data
ColorQuartet is designed not only for acquisition but scanning bed houses the device's base, and Linotype's Fonts Just in Time CD-ROM.
also for color correction and color separation.
optics and electronics.
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Okidata Trio · Hard Drives with Style · Apple Monitor Seen but Not Heard
BREAD-AND-BUTTER PRODUCT SETS for Quick Labs are monochrome laser printers,high-capacity hard drives, and monitors.We review aslew ofthese prod ucts in each issue, so you can stay informed and up-to-date on the flood of new hardware that hits the street every month. Most of the products we review in Quick Labs are solid performers, but a few truly stand out.
This month, a new monitor from Apple wins a special round of applause. It boasts a good-looking ~isplay, a time-saving calibrator, and well-designed soft ware controls. If this monitor looks familiar to you, you're right. It's a version of
Apple's AppleVision l 710Av multimedia monitor aimed at users who can live without the AV model's built-in speakers in order to save some money.
Okidata's trio of monochrome laser printers covers both ends of the business spectrum - from small businesses and home offices to workgroup environ ments. All three are solid workhorses that can be counted on to get the job done.
For storage, La Cie's pair of stylish-looking Tsunami drives proves that image isn't everything. What counts most is rugged reliability and convenience - both areas in which the new Dynatek drive has a slight edge over La Cie's offerings.
In the printer spotlight this month is Okidata, with its latest lineup of monochrome PostScript laser printers. Two of the new printers, the OL61 Oe/PS (pictured) and the OL810e/PS, are tailor-made for small businesses. The third, the OL1200/PS, is designed for workgroups that have relatively high-volume printing needs.
Priced at $949, the OL61 Oe/PS has a 6-ppm engine and comes with 2.5 MB of RAM, expandable to 18.5 MB. The printer's standard print resolution is 300 dpi, but for better looking output, it can print at 600 dpi by using interpolation. Because of its relatively slow
engine and limited paper capacity (100 letter sized sheets of paper), this printer is best used in small businesses and home offices.
Moving up the price scale, the $1,439 OL810e/ PS is faster and can hold more paper (250 sheets) than the OL61 Oe/P5. The OL810e/PS has an 8-ppm engine and comes with 3 MB of RAM, expandable to 19 MB.
Intended for medium-to-large workgroups, the $1,839OL1200/PS has a 12-ppm engine and 6 MB of RAM, expandable to 34 MB. It can hold 500 sheets of paper and prints at 600 dpi. An Ethernet card costs an extra $479.
The print quality of all three Okidata printers was just OK.Overall, the most distinguishing characteristic was heavy, dark images and text. When we printed grayscale images, for example, the results from all three printers lacked detail in shadows. And on our text document, printed characters weren't as finely reproduced as those from some other printers we've tested.
Of the three, the OL1200/ PS produced the best-looking documents.Graphics and text weren't quite as heavy as those printed by the other two devices.
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$1,439 monochrome laser
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Hard-drive design has come a long way since the early days of computing. In contra st to the nondescript boxes that housed the first drives available for the Mac, two of the drives tested this month boast sleek, stylish cases.
However, although the La Cie Tsunami 1280 (pictured) and the Tsunam i 2160 look good, they use dated technology.The Tsunami case material isn't as rugged as it should be, and the drives have DIP switches for setting SCSI IDs lose the manual or forget how to set a new ID, and you can end up in a SCSI version of Russian
roulette. If you're looking for a more rugged case design from La Cie, check out its Jou le drive line. La Cie bundles its Silverlining driver software with all of its drives. If you're using System 7.5.3, make sure you have Silverlining 5.6.3, which installs the necessary SCSI Manager 4.3-compl iant drivers. The Silverlining upgrade can be downloaded from La Cie's Web site (http:// www.lacie.com).
Dynatek's newest offering, the Orion HOA 2.21 SD-Ml , has a more modern case design.The case is large (2.3 inches high, 6.4 inches wide,
and 9.8 inches deep), but it's sturdy, has a clean design, and uses the more conventional push wheel for setting the SCSI ID. Its cost per megabyte is also lower than that of its closest rival in this product set, the La Cie Tsunami 2160.The Dynatek drive's software, Compass Pro 3.0, does a good job, but it lacks an initializing feature, standard in most formatting software.
All MacBench 3.0 Disk Mix scores are relative to that of a 1-GB Quantum internal drive in a Power Mac 7500/100, which has a score of 10.
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This month Apple's 17-inch AppleVision 1710 gets our undivided attention. It'sthe same model asthe AppleVision 171 OAV but with two key differences - it doesn't have speakers, and it's about $200 cheaper. The 1710 teams excellent image quality with flexible, well designed software controls and automatic color calibration.
The monitor's software controls are installed as a control panel that replaces your system software's Monitors control panel. The software controls communicate with the monitor through the ADB port (don't worry about losing your ADB port - the monitor's base has ADB ports into which you can plug your keyboard or
mouse) and let you control the monitor's geometry, convergence, and color.White point, gamma, and even ambient-light settings can be saved, so if you have favorite settings you use for various kinds of documents or lighting conditions, you can easily call them up.You can also import and export ColorSync profiles.
The 1710 uses DigitalColor, a technology developed by Apple that automatically calibrates your monitor. How does it work? Each 1710 is calibrated at the factory, and the data created during calibration is stored in memory inside the monitor.When you do your calibration of the 1710, it measures its own red, green, and blue values. If they don't match the
data in the monitor's memory, the monitor recal ibrates itself - a real time-saver compared to the typical calibration process with external equipment.
We liked the AppleVision 1710, but it is somewhat pricey.You can buy the Viewsonic 17GA, for example, for about the same price, and it comes with speakers.
Image-quality scores reflect the resultsof our tests for image sharpness, focus, brightness, uniformity, pincushioning, color range, color accuracy, and vibrancy. A score of 1.0 is considered acceptable.
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Let us show you how a little script writing can reduce alot of busywork
for graphic artists.
By Chuck Weger
AppleScript for Artists
LEAVE THE REPETITIVE TASKS to your Mac by using AppleScript, so you can get back to the more creative aspects of graphic arts work. With this plain-English program ming langl!age, ·you can automate the time consuming steps involved in such tasks as processing incoming scans, compiling cata logs, and moving printed documents to the World Wide Web. And because AppleScript works with many popular applications, you can very likely create your scripts by using applications you already have.
Here's a brief overview of AppleScript and some ideas on how to use it to streamline common graphic-arts processes.
What Is AppleScript?
AppleScript is aprogramming language that's both simple enough for nonprogrammers to learn (see the sample code in the "Photoshop Image Manipulation" figure) and flexible enough to perform pretty much any task us ers can with a keyboard. And it's ideal for tak ing over repetitive tasks while you're doing something else.
Some people think of AppleScript as a high-powered macro language, similar to QuicKeys or Tempo. But an AppleScript script
can do more than select a menu item or click on a dialog-box button; it can manipulate many of a document's parts (called objects), such as fields in a database, paragraphs in a document, or values in aspreadsheet. Not only can AppleScript outdo a macro program but it can also outperform a user at a keyboard. That's because it can access properties of a document the user can't see (the name of a text box in QuarkXPress, for instance). A script can also be more methodical than even the most careful user at checking details.
Supporting Cast
AppleScript doesn't work alone. Part of what makes it so powerful is that it can manipu late one or many applications (on one or more Macs). So you can automate an entire job, whether it requires using a database applica tion, a page-layout program, or a utility.
Unfortunately, not all applications are scriptable. For those programs that aren't, there's help: Prefab Player, from Prefab Soft ware,lets you script the unscriptable (see the "Must-Haves" sidebar and the "Photoshop Image Manipulation" figure). Still, you can do the best scripting with programs that give you full scripting capability. Here's the lowdown
on what you can expect from some represen tative publishing-program favorites: QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress was one of the ear liest and best supporters of AppleScript (it even shipped with a run-time version of an other scripting language, UserLand's Fron tier). Hundreds of complex routines have been developed with QuarkXPress as a base, partly because of its scriptability. Even some Quark XTensions (for example, XCatalog, from Em Software) are scriptable. Adobe Photoshop. Adobe has been notably late · to the scripting party, with only Fetch (inher ited from Aldus) and some of the Prepress Division tools (ditto) being scriptable. Photo shop, an application that would benefit dra matically from scripting, continues to lack it. You can use Prefab Player as a workaround for creating scripts in Photoshop, but it's not as powerful as a scriptable version of Photo shop would be. FileMaker and Cumulus. Two database programs heavily used in graphic arts - Claris File Maker Pro, for text, and Canto Cumulus, for images and other media assets - are both scriptable.You can use them in concert with AppleScript to perform publishing tasks that require accessing or storing data.
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Apple Media Tool. Even Apple, long dormant in
the area of scripting, is back in the act. The newest release ofApple Media Tool is not only scriptable but it's also recordable, meaningthat you can record aseries of actions into a script rather than write the script from scratch.
Suitcase. For those of us who live in a font
swamp - creating, loading, and unloading font suitcases - there's good news: Suitcase 3.0, from Symantec, is also AppleScript-savvy.
Photoshop Image Manipulation
DOES THIS PROCESS LOOK FAMILIAR? If you feel as though you could do it in your sleep, you'll be glad to know that AppleScript can do it for you while you sleep - even though Photoshop isn't scriptable out ofthe box.By using an application called PreFab Player {see the"Must-Haves"sidebar),
Working Scripts
Here are some specific situations in which an AppleScript script or two can offload a good chunk of your repetitive work:
Preflight. The process of checking files for cor
rectness before they're output to film or plate is a prime example of time-consuming, repeti tive work. You can use an AppleScript script with Luminous' Color Central to take over the checking of resolutions and color palettes and also to make sure a file includes the right graphics.
Desktop Color Separation (DCS). Wherever the
same set of operations must be performed on many files, such as in DCS, you should thin k scripting. For example, you could automate the creation of DCS fil es with Photoshop and Prefab Player and the e-mailing of the low res master file to clients with Eudora or Claris Emailer.
Image input. Another good use for AppleScript
is in the acquisition of images from a scanner or digital camera (using Cumulus) and then the transformation of those images. To trans form them, you could write ascript that would instruct Photoshop to apply color separation, change resolution, and rotate them.
1. ORIGINAL IMAGE
Cataloging images. Scripts are particularly use
ful when coupled with databases for perform ing such tasks as storing tagged images. Each step in this common procedu re, which in volves the manipulation of Photoshop files, can be performed through scripting: Move Photoshop files onto aserver, usingthe Finder; resample them with Color Central togenerate a low- res file for OP! (Open Prepress Interface) use; catalog them with Cumulus; and tag the cataloged images with information (such as a photo source or a product code) from a cor porate FileMaker database.
Database publishing. Scripts and databases are
also useful in repetitive types of publishing, such as creating product catalogs. You can, for instance, automate the use of inform ation
Must-Haves I software for serious scripters
WHY BE SATISFIED with creating average scripts? Here's a list of software that will give you more scripting
power, ranging from making scripts easier to use to helping you learn how to script:
FaceSpan. This isan interface builder that lets you build windows, dialog boxes, and menus for your scripts.
Use it to make projects look and feel like other Mac applications.Software Designs Unlimited, 919-968-4567.
Prefab Player. Many applications (Photoshop,for example) aren't yet scriptable. Prefab Player lets you write
scripts for those applications. It simulates such actions as making menu selections, clicking on dialog-box but
tons, and just about anything users can do under script control. Prefab Software,617-628-9025.
Scripting additions. Commonly called OSAX (after the file type - the plural is OSAXen), these are plug-ins
that extend AppleScript by adding new commands and new data types.There are hundreds of them,they're all
shareware, and most can be obtained from ScriptWeb (http://www.scriptweb.com/scriptweb/).Some popular
additions include ACME Script Widgets,Jon's Commands, GTQ Scripting Library,and Script Tools.
Sal's AppleScript Snippets. This is a collection of QuarkXPress unlocked sample scripts (scripts with view
able code) written by Sal Soghoian,one of the world's leading QuarkXPress scripters. Call the vendor,XChange
(800-788-7557 or 970-225-2484),for this inexpensive ($39) and useful learning tool, or download it from Sal's
Web page (http://users.aol.com/nyhthawk/welcome.html).
Script editors. For those who outgrow the script editor that comes with AppleScript,there are three commer
cial products that do more in terms of editing, debugging, and general utility tasks.Scripter (Main Event Soft
ware, 202-298-9595) is perhaps the most comprehensive."lt's great for beginners exploring scripting terminol
ogy. Another good script editor is Script Debugger (Late Night Software, 604-929-5578), which is fast and
functional. Last,there's ScriptWizard (Full Moon Software,800-232-1560 or 510-843-6485).
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from a FileMaker product database in order to create a page layout in QuarkXPress and then the copying of product shots from a Cumulus database into the layout (see the "Saving Time with AppleScript" figure).
Finding fonts. AppleScript can also do some
thing as simpleyet time-consumingas check ing for fonts. Using Suitcase and AppleScript, a service bureau can automate the process of analyzing an incoming file for required fonts and then locating and loading them.
How to Learn Scripting
There isn't room in this article to teach you eve rything you need to know to take advan tage of AppleScript. But we can point you to ward the best books on the topic plus some crucial online resources (see the ''AppleScript Library" sidebar) .
You won't really get AppleScript until you start scripting yourself, though. The best way to learn is bycopying - er, shall we say, emu lating - someone else's work. Grab a script that works, and start playing with it. You can find a wide variety of scripts online (see the "Must-Haves" sidebar) or simply use the sa mple script that's posted on MacUser's FTP site (ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/macuser/ graphic-artist-script.hqx), which automates the conversion of spot color to process color in QuarkXPress. (Be sure to download the ac companying read-me fi le and the file Jon's Commands as well.)And remember: You can't break anything, as long as you steer clear of dangerous commands such as the Finder's Delete command.
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you can write easy, English-like AppleScript code that simulates menu selections such as these in Photoshop and in other nonscriptable appl ications. (You can download the actual script for this process from MacUser's FTP site at ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/macuser/graphic-artist-script2.hqx.)
5. FINAL IMAGE
4. MODE CHANGING
The Future of AppleScript
Ifyou put in the time tolearn AppleScript,can you rest assured that you haven't wasted your efforts on a technology without a future? For tunately, AppleScript's future looks bright. Besides the benefits graphic artists can reap, those who frequent theWorld Wide Web have plenty to celebrate. There's a host of new scriptable applications - from mail client software such as Eudora and Claris Emailer to browsers such as Netscape Navigator and server software such as WebSTAR. Usi ng
AppleScript is one of the best ways to auto mate Interne t-related wo rk, includin g retriev ing and filing mail. It's also the simplest way to develop CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programs, those littlegnomes that live onWeb servers and help generate forms, databases, and interactive Web pages.
The reception by the user community has been welcoming, and Apple is showing re newed interest. AppleScript is slated for in clusion in Copland and is scheduled to be PowerPC-native by the time you read this.
The AppleScript Library
THERE'S NO SHORTAGE of places to read about AppleScript. Here are some popular ones:
Books Goodman, Danny. Danny Goodman's AppleScript Handbook. Second edition. New York: Random House, 1994. If you get just one AppleScript re source, make it this book.It's comprehensive;tough reading in parts, but everything'sthere.
Schneider, Derrick.The Tao ofApp/eScript. Second edition .Indianapolis :Hayd en Books/ BMUG, 1994.A kinder, gentler alternative to the Goodman book. This may be an easier read for those who have no programming experience.
Michel, Steve. Scripting the Scriptable Finder. Pleasant Hill,CA:Heizer Publishing,1995.Athin but information-packed book.Most of the material in here is in Goodman's book somewhere,but you may be able to find it more easily in this guide.Call 510 943-7667 to get it.
Trinko,Tom.AppliedMacScripting.New York:M&T Books, 1995. Amammoth work that covers both AppleScript and Frontier scripting.
Online Resources All the major online services have forums devoted to scripting, and many vendors, such as Quark and Claris, have forums with scripting sections. But the best resources are on the Web. Point your browser at http://www.scriptweb.com/scriptweb/.
With the support of the larger community of use rs taking adva ntage of it in order to streamline their work, AppleScript will help ensure that the Mac continues to be the best platform for getting real work done. ~
Chuck Weger is a MacUser contributing editor.
Saving Time with AppleScript
ANY REPETITIVE PROCESS that ha s many steps, including one that involves using multiple applications, is an excellent candidate for a time-saving script. AppleScript's ability to manipulate objects across the boundary of separate applications makes using it a great way to automate processes such as searching for images and related text in separate databases and putting them together in a layout.
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2. Searchfor imagein
Cumulusdatabase.
3. If youfind multipleimages, determine the correct oneby checking information suchas most recent dateor image source.
4. Drag an ddrop imoge into QuarkXPress.
S. Switch to fileMaker Pro.
6. Search for text relatedto image.
1. Cut and pastetextinto
QuarkXPress.
8. Edit textosneededin QuarkXPress.
9. Return tostep2and repeat remaining stepsfor next image.
Steps for the same task with AppleScript:
1. first timeonly: Createon AppleScript script that performs thestepsfor thistask.
2. Double·dickon thescript
icon .
3. Comebockto Moc when the script has fini shed running, and edit results in QuarkXPress os needed.
JULY 1996 I MacUser 91
GRAPHICS HOW-TO/ By Sean J. Safreed
Painless Paper-Cut Effects
Use Painter 4to turn flat EPS illustrations into virtual paper sculptures.
0RNATE PAPER SCULPTURES take a fine hand - and plenty of time - to create. However, digital illustrations with the look of cut and molded paper are simpler to create than you might guess. With Fractal Design's Painter 4, you can take a flat, black-and-white EPS illustration and give it the distinct edg ing and three-dimensional look of a paper sculpture.
The key to creating these effects is to use the right settings for Painter's surface and lighting controls. New options in Painter's surface controls let you easily add beveled edges to any Floater - Painter's term for a floating layer - by simply changing the softness setting of the mask; the result is a paperlike edging effect. Creating the same effect in previous versions of Painter meant changing the Feather controls in a separate palette. Don't worry about converting shapes to Floaters.Painter 4automaticallychanges shapes - Bezier based Floaters - into bitmapped Floaters when you ap ply effects not possible with vector-based shapes. As for creating the 3-D look of molded paper, we chose not to paint in the highlightingby hand, which would have been a time-consuming process. Instead, we exploited the lighting controls' color-enhancing capabilities, using lights to create the illusion of contours and gradations on the objects.
Sean]. Safreed is associate editorfor graphics at Mac Use r and an ardent Painter aficionado.
STEP BY STEP
1. CLEAN UP THE ORIGINAL. To clean up,the image (we chose an EPS illustration with a Fourth of July theme from T/Maker's Incredible Image Pak 25,000), open it in Adobe Illustrator 6.0 and simplify the shapes into separate closed objects.Color the objects at this point if you want them colored,and then copy the illustration to the Clipboard. 2. PAINT WITH LIGHT. Open Painter 4, and paste (Edit: Paste:Normal) the EPS objects into a new Painter document. Painter 4 handles Postscript objects pasted from Adobe Illustrator as individual floating objects: You can edit the objects' Bezier curves if you need to tweak shapes.
To provide contours and highlights, you need to apply colored lights, using the Apply Lighting filter.Click on a Floater, using the Floater Adjuster tool, and open the Apply Lighting dialog box (Effects: Surface Control: Apply Lighting). This dialog box lets you bring out parts of your
92 MacUser I JULY 1996
image as if it were sitting under a set of spotlights.The icons in the preview window represent the lights shining on the image.
We also used the Apply Lighting filter on every Floater in our firecracker image to give it a graduated surface.We created the shaded highlights for the fuse in the image by setting three spotlights, two white and one red,to color the fuse's Floater.We avoided creating overly bright highlights on the object by lowering the brightness setting for each light to about half its default value.
Save each lighting setup, using the Save button, so you can return to the settings later. 3. ADD ABEVEL. To create a beveled edge around the shapes, use the Apply Surface Texture filter to create a blurred version of the mask surrounding each Floater.
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library included with Painter).Set the Scale slider in the Art Materials:
Paper palette to 50 percent.
To apply these settings,click on a Floater and open the Apply Surface
Texture dialog box again. Select the Paper Grain option from the Using
pop-up menu. Slide the Amount slider to 60 percent and the Shine slider
to 20 percent,and apply the settings to the Floater. S. APPLY ADROP SHADOW. Paper sculptures exist in three dimensions.
To add that illusion to each Floater, apply a drop shadow. Click on a
Floater, and open the Drop Shadow dialog box (Effects:Objects:Create
Drop Shadow).Set the x-offset to 4 pixelsand they-offset to 5 pixels.
Change the opacity setting to 55 percent and the radius to 6.0 pixels.Not
a masterpiece but an appreciably more eye-catching image than the
original.
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EXPERT TIPS/ By Bob Schaffel and Chuck Weger
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Fonts: AReprise
If you toil in type, check out these utilities.
0 UR COLUMN ON FONT ISSUES ("Font Fatigue:' January '96, page 111) brought in more mail than most other topics we've covered. For example, our col league Kathleen Tinkel wrote to chastise us for not pointing out that Symantec's Suitcase can, in fact, show which printer font is re quired by a given screen font. So, fine,we made a mistake. "Let sleeping fonts lie" is our motto.
But time (and software) marches on, so we've decided to report on several major de velopments in the Mac font universe. For those of us who use more than a dozen fonts, 1996 could be the year all our dreams come true (we have very modest dreams).
First of all, Symantec (800-441-7234 or 541-334-6054) released an upgrade of Suit case, its font-management utility, earlier this year.After years oflounging moribund in our Extensions folders , Suitcase is back with a vengeance. It works reliably with System 7.5.x; sports a redesigned user interface; and offers new features, including application-specific font sets that come alive only when needed.
What's more interesting, Suitcase is now AppleScript-aware. You can write scripts to add fonts to suitcases (collections of screen fonts) as well as to open and close suitcases. So, for example, you can write a preflight script that opens a QuarkXPress file, asks Quark XPress for a font listing, and then uses that listing to create a set of suitcases or to gather all the fonts into a single folder for transmis sion to a service bureau.
One drawback is that Suitcase no longer comprehensively reports on font-ID conflicts when you try to open a suitcase containing a font that's already in use. Also, its windows have gotten overly large and there are some strange interface quirks, particularly with Macintosh Drag and Drop. Two steps forward, one step back. It's still a worthwhile upgrade.
Notto be outdone, Alsoft (800-257-6381 or 713-353-4090) has upgraded MasterJuggler. Although the upgrade is not as dramatic as Suitcase's reawakening (Alsoft's utility has always worked on System 7.5), if you're a fan
of MasterJuggler, you
should make sure you
are running the latest,
PowerPC-native version.
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We also shou ld ~ mention a handy control
the product should be out some time this summer.
panel called TypeTamer, from
And for the complete font geeks among
Impossible Software (714-470-4800) .
us, there is the recently revised utility called
TypeTamer is like Adobe's Type Reunion; it the FOND ier (winner of our own personal
merges styles and thereby shortens your font Worst-Named Product Contest), from Rascal
menus, so you don't see things such as BI Software (805-255-6823). Despite its name,
Helvetica Bold Italic in a different spot on the theFONDler is perhaps the best utility we've
menu from other Helvetica typefaces. Type seen for peeking inside a font and looking at
Tamer also shortens an application's font the important resources that make type hap
menu by showing only those fonts that are pen on the Mac. It shows you when a font is
used in a document - a separate pop-up likely to cause problems in your system and
menu labeled All shows all the fonts installed gives suggestions regarding what to do about
in the system. Plus, TypeTamer lets you de it. The same company makes theTypeBook, a
fine your own "sets" (different from Suitcase handy utility that inventories your fonts and
sets), which show up on their own pop-up prints type spec sheets.
submenu on the Fonts menu.
The sleeper of the year, however, could be
Fonts and FONDs
the agreement among Apple, Adobe, and Net scape to allow embedded fonts (read: realty
Perhaps most important to those of us in the pography) on Web pages. It's not clear as of
heavy-duty design and prepress worlds, a this writing what will result from this part
small company called DiamondSoft (415-381 nership, but we think it will probably mean
3303) is working on a product called The Font more font headaches before the dust finally
Reserve. This is the world's first (to our knowl settles. Ultimately, fonts on the Internet will
edge) production-quality Mac font organizer. be AGood Thing; as Netscape's press release
Offering more capabilities than Suitcase or says,"Peoplecreating information for the Web
Masterjuggler, The Font Reserve can collect will be able to choose from numerous fonts
all your fonts into a database, analyze them, and ensure that users see their pages as they
remove duplicates and corrupted files, and were originally intended to be seen:' Imagine
automatically load and unload fonts as an that! But getting there, as they say, will be half
application calls for them. It also does much the fun.
of the grunt work involved in preflighting There are other font issues we're bypassing
documents for proper font output on an for now, but that's the Font Report for the sum
imagesetter. lt has half a dozen ways of orga mer of '96. Good night, and good luck. ~
nizing fonts, including by font foundry, by cus tomer, and by family. What's more - here's the really cool feature - it allows a network server to handle all the fonts for a workgroup.
Bob Schaffel is emerging-technologies consultant for R.R. Donnelley & Sons. Chuck Weger is agraphic-arts consultant and a partner in Genex Media, a company specializing in new media and Web design.
JULY 1996 I Mac User 95
To make your Web site a
productive gateway between
you and your customers, you
need aCGI application
the right CGI application.
Gateway to Web Success
By Jon Wiederspan
CREATING A MAC-BASED Web site is amazingly easy. With server software, a direct connection to the Internet, and the HTML pages and graphics that make up your site, you're in business. Basic Web pages aren't very interactive, though: They can pro vide links only to predefined pages, and they don't allow users to conduct searches or send information to the site's owner. If you want to perform business transactions on the Web or let users search your database,it's time to take the next step: You need a CGI application.
If you've filled out an online form, clicked on aWeb-based map, or bought anything from an electronic mall, you've probably encoun tered a CG! application. CG! stands for Com mon Gateway Interface. The CG! standard de fines an interface through which information server software (such as Web server software) can communicate with other applications on the server or on the network. Software that exchanges data via this interface - a CGI application - gives Web servers new features, such as forms processing, image mapping, and linking to databases. You'll find CG! applica tions running on almost all Web servers, in cluding UNIX and Windows NT platforms and the Macintosh. To help you choose the right
applications for your Web site, here's a guide to using CG! applications, the issues you'll face when working with them, and the key points to consider when making your choices.
What's a CGI Application Good For?
CG! applications can bring life to your Web site, by adding features to the server software itself and linking the site to other applications.
Image-map processing is the most com mon example of a CG! application that adds to server software.It's also one of the simplest. An image map is aWeb-page graphic element that contains "hot spots:'When you click on a hot spot, a CG! application retrieves an HTML page that matches your request. You might, for example, click on a city on a map of the U.S. to view a page containing information about businesses in that city. Unlike standard HTML pages, image maps allow you to include a lot of hot spots within a single graphic element.
In addition to enhancing server software, CG! applications can ·link Web servers with database managers, statistical packages, and other applications in order to bring a wide variety of information to the Web. If, for ex ample, you provide a searchable product cata log, a user can enter a keyword into an HTML
form. The CGI application sends the request to a database program and tells it to return the results of the search as an HTML page. This CG! function is called HTML on the fly, because the application generates a new page each time the database is searched. Web masters can also use CG! applications to count Web-page "hits" and send the data to a spread sheet program for analysis and reporting.
Preparing for Problems
Although CG! applications add greatly to a Web site, they're not without problems. You need to prepare for the impact on speed, se curity, and system stability when you add CG! applications to your Web server. Slower response. When you use CG! applica tions with a Web server, you reduce the po tential server speed. Asingle CG! application - particularly if it's a simple one, such as an image-map processor - may not place much strain on the server, but speed can decrease as you add more CGI applications. Servers slow down because CG! applications compete with the Web server software for resources, including CPU time, disk access, and network bandwidth. The degree of resource competi tion varies widely among CG! applications.
JULY 1996 I MacUser 97
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How CGI Apps Work
Database access is one of the most important purposes of CGI applications on the Web. You can, for example,give customers access to a product catalog and track their information requests. If you're very ambitious,you can make sales right from your Web site.
1. User enters keywords
into on HTML form and dicks on Submit.
8. The browser displays anew HTML page.
2. The Web browser sends the user's request ta the Web server software.
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7. The serversoftware sends thereply to the Web browser.
3. The server software forwards the keywords to aCGIopplicotion designed to convert requests into dotobose-search queries.
4. The CGIopplicotion sends the search query tothe database opplicotion.
6. The CGIopplicotion converts the results into HTML text and sends it to the server.
5. The database opplicotion performs the search and sends the results to the CGI applicotion.
Using a CG! application to publish an image map requi res littl e server horsepower, but providing access to databases co nsum es disk-access and CPUtime. You can minimize database- related slowdowns bystoring data base applications and fi les on a separate server, leaving the Web server to handle Web connections and CG! applications. Security risks. While you're counting CG! ap plications, conside r this: Every CG ! appli cation you add to the server is a potential se curity risk. That's because CG! applications can do things your server wouldn't normally allow users to do. Most server software has built-in security measures to protect files and folders. Awell-designed server will provide a way for CG! applications to complywith these security measures before it returns a fil e to a user, but it is very easy for a CG! application tosimply ignore these securitymeasures and access whatever file it wants. Aless stable system. Like Web server soft ware, CGI applications must bestable enough to deal with the demands of processing Web access requests. Even commercial CGI appli cations can be unstable at ti mes, and when they crash, they can take your whole server with them.When you install a new CG ! appli cation, test the system exhaustively before making the site ava ilable to the public.
What to Look For
Several commercial and shareware Mac CGI applications are available - mostly distrib uted through theWeb.Ifyou're a programmer, you can write your own, although it's a good idea to check out the professionallydeveloped options first (see the "Finding CG! Applica tions" sidebar). Selecting the proper CG! ap plication to use on your server can be hard.In general, you should look fo r the foll ow ing characteristics in CG! applica ti ons you buy: Fast, compiled language. CG! applications
written in C or another compiled p rogra m ~ CG! application is a company to be avoided.
minglanguage are usually preferable to those Atrack record. Given theWeb's relative youth,
written in a scriptinglanguage, such as Apple it may seem strange to fault a CGI-application
Scri pt or Use rLand's Frontier. Compiled CG! developer whose produ ct is new to th e mar
applicati ons are fas ter and generally have ket. There's a big difference, though, between
more fea tures and a better interface. Because a prod uct that's beenaround for a year or more
th ey consist of a single fil e, they also tend to and one th at was only rece ntly int ro duced.
co nsume less memory, are easy to in stall , Very few companies get it right the first time
and are not subject to damage inflicted by a around - especially on the Internet, where
Webmaster's tinkering with the code. Many technologies ca n change drastically in the
amateur an d professiona l developers use time it takes to release a shi pping product. If
AppleScr ipt to create CG! applications, but you find yourself choosing between an older
these, unlike CG! appli cations written in a product with an established user base and a
compiled language, are generally slower and newer product with more-exciting advertis
more difficult to maintain;because they con ing, take the old-timer. Here's a tip: A com
sist of multiple files that must be installed and pany's mail ing-list archives can also give you
configured incertain ways, one fi leout of place an idea of a product's reputation among its
can cause the whole CG I-application fra me users. If you notice chronic user complaints
work to come undone.Frontier-based CG! ap or an unresponsive developer,lookelsewhere.
plications offer some advantages over those CG Iapplications give you the tools to oper
written in AppleScript - they are often faster, ate a useful and interactive Web site, but soft
fo r example.
. ware is not a shortcut fo r an organized, well
Responsive tech support. Support should be designed set of pages. To get the most from
a major consideration when you're choosing CG! applications, plan the rest of you r site as
CG! appli cations fo r commercial Web sites. carefull yas you seek out good softwa re. ~~
Look fo r developers that provide mail inglists
where users can discuss problems and sug gest new fea tures. The co mp any may also make these lists searchable online or supplya FAQ (Frequen tly Asked Questions) li st fo r
Jon Wiederspan is director of technical services for Com Vista, an Internet consulting group in !led111ond, Washing ton, and is coauthor of Planning and Managi ng Web Sites on the Macintosh (Addison Wesley) .
new users. Because
broken CG! applica Finding CGI Applications
tions can bring yo ur
Web site to ascreech ing halt, you should addi ti onally look for developers that prov ide prompt re ·sponse to problems, via ph one and e mail. Acompanythat does n't provide On lin e supp ort for its
SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS offer CGt tutorials and maintain lists of Mac CGI applications.Here are some of the best resource collections: ComVista {http://www.comvista.com/net):Tutorials on writing CGt applications, plus links to a wide variety of Mac Internet tools. Mac OS WWW Page {http://www.ape.com/webstar): An unabashed evangelism site for Mac Web servers and tools, including CGI applications. Macintosh WWW FAQ{http://arppl .carleton.ca/mac/}: Comprehensive list ofWeb client, server,and CGt tools. WebEdge Resources {http://www.webedge.com/resources):Resource collection from sponsors of a semiannual Mac Web development conference. Web66 {http://web66.coled.umn.edu):Web development resources and tutorials geared toward educators.I Shelly Brisbin
98 MacUse r I JULY 1996
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Smarten Up Your Browser
Your browser can show movies, play music, and read to you with the right helpers and plug-ins.
YOU'RE CLICKING FROM site to site like a loco flamenco dancer, trying to locate that one cartoon or video diversion that can get you through another shift in the hold of the good ship Commerce, when suddenly you're stopped in your clicks by the Spanish Inquisition:
"This page contains information of type basura/x-vil that can be viewed onlywith the appropriate plug-in.What do you want to do?" Searching in vain for the "How should I know?" button, you mutter under your breath, "Do I need this?"
You don't need the aggravation, but maybe you do need that basura/x-vil information.You can't help worrying that this obscure message might be trying to alert you to something you actually care about. New technologies are turning up on the World Wide Web almost daily - live video, talking pages, CD-quality music that plays while you work - all flow ing from that same spigot you opened when you began your quest. Granted, you could probably live without the singing commercials and strangers' home videos, but how about tiny movies that show how to form words in sign language? Or Spanish-language lessons using text-to-speech?
Fortunately, you can get the Spanish with out the Inquisition. By downloading and in stalling a few well-chosen tools now, you can head off most of the basura/x-vil-like dialog boxes and smarten up your browser so you don't miss out on the cool stuff. Here's how to pack your utility belt before you leave the cave.
Hofta-Have Helpers. Your browser can handle
any data type your Mac can, including PICT and TIFF images, MIDI music, text read as speech, virtual-reality worlds, 3-D models, CAD designs, movies, and PostScript docu ments. Actually, your browser doesn't know the first thing about these data types, but it does know how to hand them off to a helper application that does - once you've told the browser which helpers read which data types. Shareware and freeware applications are avail able to read most data types used on the Web.
You'll find loads of helpers at the usual Mac Internet Explorer supported plug-ins, but any
archive sites and at ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ browser released this year is likely to be
Mosaic/Mac/Helpers.
plug-in-friendly.
The procedure for activating helpers var Common plug-ins bring formatted docu
ies from browser to browser, but it typically ments, video, and sound to the Web. PDF
goes something like this: Find General Pref (portable document format) readers such as
erences on the Options menu, and pick Help Tumbleweed Software's Envoy (http://www
ers.You'll see a list of data types in the form .twcorp.com/plugin.htm) and Adobe's Acro
video/quicktime, image/pict, or maybe bat Amber (http://www.adobe.com/Amber/)
bring WYSIWYG docu
ments to Web sites. Sev
eral plug-ins put video
and animation onto
the page (check ou t
Macromed ia's Shock
wave, at http://www
.macro media. com/
Tools/Shockwave/sdc/
Plugin/). Count on Web
sites becoming noisier
as well, with Progressive
Networks' nice Real
Audio plug-in (http://
www.rea laud io.com/
products/ra2.0/); text
to-speech plug-ins such
as Talker, from MVP So- ·
basura/x-vil. For the recognizable data types, lut ions (http://www.mvpsolutions.com/
just pick an application on your hard disk that PluginSite/Talker.html); and MIDI music
can read that data type (SimpleText for PICT · plug-ins just around the corner.
images, for example). If you want to watch You'll find the best list of plug-ins at Dave
video and listen to sound over the Web, you Garaffa's BrowserWatch Web site (http://
need at least Sparkle and SoundMachine, www.browserwatch.com/plug-in.html).
availableat NCSA and elsewhere.Your browser Mac WEEK also maintains a Mac-specific
may already have many data types paired with li st, at http://www.zdnet.com/macweek/
popular helper apps.
plugins.html.
Plug-in Play. With version 2.0 of Navigator, By the way, basura/x-vil is Spanish for
Netscape introduced an alternative to helper Microsoft Windows.
apps: plug-ins, which integrate browsers more
closely with external software. Whereas help Don't Know GIF from Gab?
ers put multimedia files into a separate win MacUser maintains a list of frequently
dow, plug-ins display them right on the Web asked questions (FAQs) about the Internet,
page. Plug-ins are installed in a folder adja MacUser itself, and this column specifically.
cent to your Web browser. They are not Send mail to faq@macuser.com. MacUser's
clickable applications but are activated when address on the World Wide Web is http://
you click on a file the plug-in supports. At www.zdnet.com/macuser/. You can reach me
press time, only Navigator and Microsoft's at traveler@macuser.com. ~
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help you prepare.
Open Transport 101
IF YOU'VE BEEN EXCLUDED from using Open Transport, Apple's latest networking system software, you're not alone. Until re cently, only those who owned certain Power Mac models could use this software, which makes network setup simpler. Recently, how ever, Apple updated Open Transport to ver sion 1.1, opening up its use to PowerPC and non-PowerPC systems alike.
Now that Open Transport is available to just about every Mac user, it may be time to con sider whether this new part of the system soft ware can benefit you. Here are insights on who should buy in and some troubleshooting tips to get you out of minor jams:
Why Buy In?
If you own a PCI-based Mac, you have to use Open Transport in order to get networking technical support from Apple. On the other hand, Open Transport isn't compatible with 68000 and 68020 Macs. For users of all other Macs, using Open Transport is an option, and it's an attractive option, for several reasons: Simple interface. Part of what Open Transport does is replace Apple's complicated Network and MacTCP control panels with a simpler control panel called TCP/IP (see figure 1). You
don't have to enter as much arcane informa to periodically need to switch configurations.
tion in the new control panel, and you don't Quick switching is also useful if you need
have to understand as much about low-level to switch among Internet providers or if you
networking protocols to configure TCP/IP. need to change connection methods on a
Also, user-configurable options appear au desktop machine. For instance, a desktop Mac
tomatically. So, when you install a network ser that usuallyconnects to an AppleTalk network
vice such as PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) or over Ethernet may occasionally need to hook
SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol), that ser up to, say, a PowerBook 170 that can commu
vice automaticallyappears in Open Transport's nicate only over Loca!Talk.
TCP/IP control panel. All you have to do is se To switch among settings, all you are
lect an option from a pop-up menu in the con required to do (once you have created your
trol panel to use the service.
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figure 1 I One of the bea uties of Open Transport is the simplicity of the new networking control panel,TCP/IP. For instance, all yo u have to do to choose your connection method is select an item from a pop-up
PowerBook users, since they're likely menu (as shown at the top of this sample control panel).
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settings) is select one from theConfigurations fixed IP number, select Manually dialog box (see figure 2), accessible from the from the menu . In the field that ap
Configurations Rctiue configuration: RppleTalk (Normal Ethernet)
TCP/IP control panel.
Troubleshooting Tips
pears, enter your IPnumber if it's not already filled in for you.If you're us ing a dial-up SLIP or PPP account,
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and using new softwa re can always have snags . Here are some typical problems with Open Transport and likely solutions: PROBLEM: I can't make a connection.
In most cases, you won't be able to make connections if you don't enter at least one IP address in the area la beled Na me Server Addr. A name
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SOLUTION: Start with the basics - check to see if your TCP/IP control panel is set up cor rectly. The exact settings vary with the soft ware you're using for connection and with you r Internet service provider's setup, but
server is a server that fi nds Internet addresses for you. It's a good idea to enter more than onename-server ad dress, just in case the fi rst one's un available. If there are no addresses in
figure 2 I Don't touch that restart button.With Open Transport, you don't have to restart your Mac to switch network settings.You're set as soon as you choose a setting in this dialog box within the TCP/ IP control panel.
there are some basic guidelines:
this field, ask your Internet provider for them. PROBLEM: Idon't have enough memory to run
The type of connection you use does n't PROBLEM: My Macintosh crashes when I use Open Transport.
necessarily show up as the default setting in Internet-connection software.
SOLUTION: If there's a disadvantage to Open
the TCP/IPcontrol panel. You have to find the SOLUTION: If you are using MacPPP or Transport, it's the amount of RAM each pro
setting on the pop- up menu at the top of the FreePPP (both freeware) and you crash,make tocolcan require. On a PowerPC system,Open
control-panel window and select it (see fig sure you're usingversion 2.5 or later of either Transport can requi re as much as 1.5 MB of
ure 1). It's simple - if you're connecting to program.
RAM; on a non-PowerPC system, as much as
the Internet via your Mac's Ethernet or Apple If you use commercial software and you're SOOK. Using virtual memory or RAM Dou
Talk connection, choose either Ethernet or experiencing crashes, it could be because the bler will allowyou to recover some memory,
AppleTalk (Mac!P). If you're using a dial-up third-party software is incompatible with but there's a catch, since some connectivity
account, select the name of the software you Open Transport. Current vers ions of most software - includ ing pre-2.5 versions of ·
use with that account (such as MacPPP) from commercial PPP and SLIP implementations MacPPP and FreePPP - isn't fully compat
the list.
- including Intercon's InterSLIP, InterPPP, ible with virtual-memory schemes.
What can be confusing is not finding your and InterPPP II ; Hyde Park Software's Rather than use virtual memory, you can
dial-up account on the list at all. If your con MacSLIP;Synergy Software's VersaTermSLIP; conserve RAM by disabling protocols you
nection software is completely missing from and Sonic System's SonicPPP - are compat aren't using. For instance, if you don't n~ed
the menu, the software may not be installed ible with Open Transport. If the product you AppleTalk, you can disable it by opening its
correctly. Try reinstalling it.
use is not among those listed, contact theven control panel; choosing User Mode from the
The second part of the control panel you dor to fi nd out if there's an Open Transport Edit menu; selecting Advanced User Mode
should check ifyou're not able to make a con compatible update.
from the resulting window; clicking on the
nection is the Configure pop-up menu. The PROBLEM: I must use incompatible software. Options button; and, finally, clicking on the
default settings, even on machines upgraded SOLUTION: Just because you must use incom Inactive radio button.
from MacTCP to Open Transport, may be in patible software, such as the Microsoft Mail
correct. Thecorrect option to select from that 3.1 client or Apple's LaserWriter Bridge or An Open-and-Shut Case
menu depends on your connection method. Loca!Talk Bridge (version 2.0.l or earlier of Is Open Transport 1. 1worth it? Ifyou're happy
If your Internet service provider gave you a either one), it doesn't mean you can't ever use with your current networking setup, espe
Finders Keepers I how to get Open Transport
Open Transport. It just cia lly if yo u're alrea dy running low on mea ns switching back memory, the answer may be no. But if you
IF YOU'VE MADE THE DECISION to install Open Transport,first you have to find it. It comeswith System 7.5.3,which is included with all new Macs.It's also available for free from Apple via the Internet and online services, as part of System7.5 Update 2.0 (which updates any version of System 7.5 to 7.5.3).You can download it fromApple's Internet site at ftp://ftp.support .apple.com/pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/system_sw/System _7.S_Update_2.0/. If you're not interested in downloading the entire System 7.5 Update,you can buy Open Transport separately from retail stores for about $30.As always,it'sa good idea to back up your data before installing new systemsoftware.
The only PowerPC machines excluded from the Open Transport 1.1users club are the Power Mac 5200,5300 (d_esktop),6200,and 6300, but at press time, Apple planned to shipan update, Open Transport version 1.1.1, specifically for those machines.It should be available nowfrom the Apple support areas online.
and fort h between Open Transport and "classic" networking. To simplify the process, you'll need a copy of Apple's Network Softwa re Selec tor. It comes with System 7.5.3 and System 7.5 Update 2.0 (see the "Find ers Keepers" sidebar for in formation on obtaining this system software and the update).
need to switch config urations periodically, want a faster networkingsystem for PowerPC systems, or just want a simpler netwo rking interface, the answer is almost certainly yes. And as more and more software becomes Open Transport-savvy, running Apple's new networking system software may be the only way 'to make sure developers will support your Mac. Q
Geoff Duncan is a Ma cintosh and Internet consultant as well as the managing editor of TidBITS (http:// www.tidbits.com/), an online Macintosh weekly newsletter.
104 MacUser I JULY 1996
By Bob LeVitus and Christopher Breen
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Help Folder
Mac common sens~, word-processing nostalgia, and mysterious dialog boxes.
Mac No-Nos
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BOB: Before Chris lets loose with the sermon,
Q. I desperately need you help! I installed I'll provide the way out. You need a utility that
Snitch (a free utility that lets you modify sev can make the folder reappear, such as Evan
eral attributes from within a file's or folder's Gross' $20 shareware utility collection, Disk
Get Info window) and selected Get Info on my. Tools (see figure I). Open DiskTools, locate
Games folder. I checked the Ihvisible box.Now your Games folder in the scrolling list, click I
I can't find the folder! How do I get it back? on the second button from the left (it's not la
beled), and uncheck the Invisible box. Your
folder is now back in business.
By the way, DiskTools is worth download
ing for the main program alone, but you also
get a killer calculator replacement, a wonder
ful note pad, and a couple of other nifty DAs.
You were saying, Pastor Breen?
CHRIS: Bob and I - in our never
ending search for truth - have
committed just about every fat
headed sin a person can perpe
trate on a Mac. Perhaps we can
save our readers a little grief by
pointing out areas where we've
ventured and where more
cautious beings should fear to
tread.
BOB: I'll take software and start
with the lesson learned from the
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experience of our anonymous questioner.Don't flirt with dan
figure 1 I DiskTools changes file and folder attributes and restores invisible files and folders with a click on a button.
ger! Clicking on boxes marked Invisible or selecting menu op tions reading Erase, Delete, or
some of the most valuable experience one can Clear without knowing how to restore files or
gain comes from making mistakes. Fortu folders to their original state is a bad idea.
nately, we can all learn from them. First we're Memorizing the keyboard shortcut for Undo
gonna undo the one you've made, and then (Command-Z) is a must. Don't count on its
we'll go over a few more Mac no-nos, for the working every time, though.
benefit of all.
Leaving yourself an escape hatch is particu
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CHRIS:The following hardware tips may seem
Don't wa nt to wait for an answer?[Post your question on ZD Net/Mac, MacUser[sonline service, or send e-mail to helpfolder@macuser.com or
tips@macuser.com. We pay $25 to $100 for any
undocumented tips we publ is h. I
obvious to some,but ignoring them could land you smack-dab in the chowder.
Don't move a hard drive while it's turned on. Chances are you'll gouge a deep trench into a disk platter and your drive will be trashed.
Likewise, plugging and unplugging cables while your Mac is switched on is a formula for disaster, particularly when messing with ADB cables. One pin bent in the wrong place, and kazap!- your ADB controller is a crispy critter.
And finally - I know this sounds bizarre, but I swear I've seen it done - covering your Mac, hard drive, or printer with a blanket to muffle the sound can also apply deep, pen etrating heat to the hardware's components. The vents are there for a reason. Keep'em clear of blankets, external peripherals, and your scrapbook full of old Help Folder columns.
Promised PPC PowerBook
Q. Why can't I find an Apple PowerPC up grade board for my 500-series PowerBook? Is this another unrealized Apple promise?
Mike Mierau via AOL
CHRIS: Unrealized promise? Well, no and yes. BOB: No because Apple has supposedly been
providing PowerPC upgrades for the 500 series PowerBooks since last December.
CHRIS: And yes because Apple has kept a very
low profile with regard to these upgrades and users have reported great difficulty in track ing them down .
That fading red sticker on your PowerBook that says "Ready for PowerPC Upgrade" isn't false advertising - the PowerBook SOOs are indeed upgradable. If you want your Power Book to jam,however,the upgrade you get will probably bear the Newer Technology label.
JULY 1996 /MacUser 105 .
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Tips I PowerPC upgrades from Apple and Newer typewriter fonts are interesting, but Susan's
consist of a daughterboard with a PowerPC available in your choice ofTrueType or Type 1
Recordable CDs
603e processor. The Newer upgrades start at - are consistently beautiful. $600 (estimated street price after you've CHRIS: Hey, Bob, what's the name of that noisy traded in your old daughterboard). You can program you say is so wonderful in your New
Choosing Dim Not all discs are created equal whenit comes to protecting yourdata.To helpguarantee a disc's
get the upgrade with 0, 4, or 8 MB of RAM. Newer's boards contain a 117-MHz processor, and Apple's come with the 100-MHz variety.
BOB:Users of the Duo 200 series haven't been
left out - although they'll have to fork over lots more cash to speed up their portables, since the upgrade consists ofa completely new motherboard. The $1,299 Apple board con tains a PowerPC 603e processor with 8 MB of
& Improved Stupid Mac Tricks book/disk col lection (San Diego, California: AP Professional, 1995)? BOB: You must mean TappyType, a control panel that adds the clickety-clack sound of a manual typewriter - complete with the kerchunk-ding bell sound of a carriage return - to your Mac. CHRIS: TappyType is "Gumbyware" by Colin
reliability, seek out a bra nd that offers an optional protective resinlayer. Thisextra layergua rds agai nst suchhazards asthe chemicalsfro mink and the pressure youapply when you write with a penon a disc. (EastmanKoda kand Mitsui/MTC are among the companies that make discs with an extra layer.) You should be able to tell ifthere's an extra protective layer byreading the fine print on a disc's packagi ng.
Christopher Breen
MacUser contributing editor
RAM soldered on. I know it's expensive, but it Klipsch. Try it for 30 days. If you like it, show
does have one significant advantage over the your support by wearing a handkerchief on Righteous Rebuild 500-series upgrades: It will run the Copland your head, clenching your fists, and strutting Q. Is it true that I coul~ damage my System
OS, which Apple plans to release next year. around yo ur neighborhood sho uting Folder by not turning off extensions before I
CHRIS:I can hear the screams from here. You'd "WOOOH!" at interesting bits of cement. In rebuild the desktop?
better explain that.
other words, TappyType is free.
Pam Page
BOB:I hate to be the one to break it to you, but BOB:I'm using Susan's Smith Upright font and via the Internet
the old motherboard of the 500s is based on Colin's TappyType. There's something per BOB: Yep. Here's how to rebuild it correctly, ac
680x0 technology. Even with the PowerPC up versely wonderful about making thousands of cording to Apple:
grade, Copland isn't expected to run on those dollars worth of Mac and printer look and l . Before you rebuild your desktop, use the
machines. You'll have to stick with Apple's Sys sound like $10 worth of'40s pawnshop junk. Extensions Manager control panel to save your
tem 7.5 instead.
Really Retro Writing
Jammin' RAM
extensions configuration. 2. To turn off all extensions, click on the Sets
Q. Is it true that my Power Mac's RAM will pop-up menu in the Extensions Manager and
Q. I would like to locate a font that mimics run 10 percent faster if I install DIMMs in choose All Off.
the type of a l 940s-vintage manual typewriter. pairs?
3. Turn on Macintosh Easy Open, by finding
I'd also like my Mac to make the sounds of Simon Y. Chang clicks, clatters, rasps, and rings with my key Providence, RI
it in the list of control panels and clicking on it to put a check mark beside it.
strokes and carriage returns.
BOB: I had a hunch that what you've heard is 4. Restart your computer while holding down
Sheldon Levy Midland, Ml
true, and upon consulting my expert sources, the Command and Option keys.
I learned why. It has to do with interleaving 5. Release the keys, and click on OK when a
BOB: No problem, Sheldon, on either count.
- a process in which bits of data "ping-pong" . dialog box appears asking, "Are you sure you
CHRIS:Aquick search ofAmerica Online's soft
between two banks ofDRAM to speed things want to rebuild the desktop ... :'
ware library for the keywords typewriter and
up.
6. Open the Extensions Manager, and turn
font scored more than 40 files.
CHRIS: I might add that interleaving works only your extensions back on, by clicking on the
BOB:We'll save you the trouble of download
if same-sized DIMMs are plugged in at the Sets pop-up menu and choosing the set of ex
ing them all; head straight for the Vintage
right locations.So check your manual {it's dif tensions you saved in step 1.
Typewriter font family, created by Susan
ferent for each model).
7. Restart your computer in order to activate
Townsend (see figure 2). The $20 shareware
BOB: Last but not least, not every PCI-based the extensions.
package includes six fonts. Some of the other Power Mac and compatible supports memory CHRIS: I might mention that the Apple
interleaving. (The Power approved method - although it works most
Mac 7200, for example, of the time - isn't always the best way to re
does not support RAM build your desktop.If you want a crystal-clean
interleaving.) Make sure rebuild, try MicroMat's freeware TechTool.
yours does. And even if it This marvelous utility vaporizes the old in
doesn't, look on the bright visible Desktop file and creates a brand
&a the nurut aiuiber of the ViDtagel)pewrltn fa.ally, Saith Upr~t sports
bY.D.tiful.ly revul.hl.c ribbon texture .
side - you now have the spanking-new one. The advantage? Desktop option of adding RAM one files sometimes become corrupted, leading to
Sal.th Uprlght is a. LZ.'-pltch ~ewriter, 'l!b..ich ~you get tftl.ve cbaza.ctera per horii:ontal. lnch, not the ua:ual ten. (For an au.then.tic look., uae thU fant a..t
lZ.--polnt . ) Of COW'ae , Saith loaka best a.t Laree air:u , en :ao'Vie posters, CD covera, and ADiJth~ obn.oxi.OQ.&J.y retro .
module at a time, some thing you couldn't do with earlier Mac models, which
such ugly manifestations as generic icons and documents that can't find their creator when you double-click on them. An Apple rebuild
fi!Jlll'e 2 I SusanTownsend's VintageTypewriterfon t family
forced you to add memory can't repair that corruption. TechTool starts
incl udes this killer re-creation ofa 12-pitch Smith Upri ght.
modules two at a time . fresh .
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BOB:Either way, it's agood idea to rebuild your
Desktop fil e every month or so, whether you think you've had problems or not.
Know the Code
Q. When my Mac locked up recently, I tried to use the Command-Control-power-key shortcut to restart it. By mistake I used the wrong key sequence, and a blank dialog box with an angle bracket(>) in the top left cor ner appeared on the screen.What is this dia log box used for?
Cramer51 via the Internet
BOB: Sounds like you missed a keystroke. Com
mand-power-key brings up that whitedialog box. Adding the Control key to the sequence restarts the Mac.
That dialog box is the Mini-Debugger. Like the Wizard of Oz pulling levers (pay no atten tion to the man behind thecurtain),it's a part of the Mac you'renot supposed to see. It's used for the most part by programmers for testing and debugging parts of their programs.
CHRIS: In the old days, there was no keyboard
sequence for restarting your Mac or bringing up the Mini-Debugger: Almost all Macs came with a plastic doohickey (call ed a pro grammer's switch) that you could install and use to rescue a frozen system. It consisted of a plastic switch containingtwo buttons: the Re set button (usually marked with a triangle) and the Interrupt button (usually marked with a circle or dot) .
BOB:Many newer Macs have built-in Reset and
Interrupt buttons. Pushing the Reset button restarts your Mac instantly; the perfect cure for a freeze.
CHRIS: Pushing the Interrupt button, on the
other hand,causes the Mini-Debugger dialog box to appear.
BOB: Here's where it gets interesting: Not all
Macs have Reset and Interrupt buttons. In stead, keyboard commands are necessary. These commands also work on machines that have Reset and Interrupt buttons.
CHRIS: To make the Mini-Debugger disappear,
press the Gkey and then Return. Depending on how badly your Mac is hung, crashed, or frozen, this sequence may allow you to exit the Mini-Debugger gracefully.
BOB: Ifthat doesn't work, you'll have to restart.
Press the Reset button, or use the Command Control-power-key shortcut.
CHRIS: Here's one last thought before we leave
this topic: The Reset button is not a substi tute for the Restart command on the Special
menu. Using Restart is kinder and gentler to your Mac than using keyboard shortcuts or the Reset button. An abrupt reset can damage system files.
Missed Manners
Q. HEY! I CAN'T FIND THE THING YOU GUYS MENTIONED IN LAST MONTH'S COL UMN ANYW HERE!!! YOU KNOW THE ONE IMEAN.WHAT KIND OF IDIOTS ARE YOU!?? I'M PAYING FOR MY TIME ONLINE, AND I CAN'T SPEND ALL DAY LOOKING FOR THIS STINKING FILE!!! WHERE THE HECK IS IT???
AVocal Minority via AOL
BOB: Whoa! Did we really get a message like
that?
CHRIS:No, not exactly. Iboiled acoupleof read
ers' messages down to their basic components to present this lesson in online manners.
BOB: You mean netiquette? CHRIS: Right-a.
Friends, the Internet has swollen with a tor rent of new users, many of whom don't un derstand the proper rules of behavior. Of course, none of our subscribers would be gµ ilty of such atrocious behavior, but I sus pect that there are a few ill-mannered non subscribers reading this for free in an oral surgeon's office prior to undergoing an ago nizingly painful root canal and that these people may be unaware of the proper way to comport themselves online. Yeah, we mean you, Mr. I-Don't-Have-Time-To-Floss.
Let's start with an easy one: Don't type in all capital letters. That's read as shoutingand
Tips I Hidden Keystrokes
Control Strip
When Istarted using the Control Strip utility, Iwas unhappy with its position at the bottom left corner of the screen.Applications always seem to open their documents aligned to the left side of the screen, so the documents were being partially obscured by the strip. Irecently discovered that pressing the Option key as you select the tab of the Control Strip lets you move the strip not only vertically but also to the other side of the screen. Chris Connors via the Internet
Launcher
You can shrink or enlarge the Launcher's buttons by holding down the Command key and clicking anywhere between the buttons.Choose among small, medium, and large buttons for each category. To view the Launcher's secret About box, hold down
will anger the message's recipient.
BOB: Here's another basic one: Include your
name at the end of the message if you're writ ing to someone for the first time. The user name "hsrgsuzw666@zlo.com" in the message header is the next-best thing to being anony mous. Nobody likes getting anonymous mail.
CHRIS: Don't send files via e-mail unless the
recipient has requested them . That 753K screen dump may look totally gnarly to you, but the person on the other end is paying to download it. Ask first.
BOB: Don't expect others to be your personal
librarian.If youwant information or a file, try to find it on your own. When you've doneyour best and have still come up empty, politely ask others for help.
CHRIS: Try to refrain from using educational
FTP sites during business hours. People us ing these sites are trying to get some work done. Even though many university sites in clude directories full of fun stuff, download ing a 4-MB game demo in the middle of the day could deny access to people who are do ing their jobs.
BOB: Last and probably least, a pet peeve: Avoid
participating in chain-mail threads.Honestly, the sky will not cave in because you trash this junk.
Here's a tip: If simply breaking the chain is too passive a way to express your disgust at this waste of bandwidth, try Dr. Bob's patent pending Chain-Breaking System (infomercial in the works).Test thefaith of those who send chain letters by forwarding the letters right back up the chain. Sureit's rude, but you'll fer ret out the true believers in a hurry.
the Option and Command keys and click anywhere between the Category buttons.To open a Category folder on the desktop, hold down the Option key and click on the Launcher's corresponding Category button. Marvin Panganiban via the Internet
Netscape Navigator
For the ichthyologically attuned, Netscape Navigator offers a hidden treat. Pressing Control Option-F calls up a page on Navigator's server featuring a picture of a fish tank - updated anywhere from every 30 seconds to every five minutes in JPEG and GIF formats.Look for the image of FishCam creator Lou Montulli in the tank's reflection. Derek Jacobs via the Internet
108 MacUser I JULY 1996
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Drag and Drop or Not
Q. I used to be able to drag files from the Items Found window in Find File. Not any more. What did I mess up?
E.Drucker via .the Internet
BOB: I boldly predict that our friend E. (may I call you E.?) has lost or disabled the all important Clipping Extension (included with System 7.5) or the Macintosh Drag and Drop extension (included with earlier versions of System 7). CHRIS:Very good.Now tell the nice person how to fix it. BOB:Sure. Just reinstall your system software from the original disks, and Drag and Drop will return to Find File and other programs. CHRIS: If you've merely disabled the Clipping or Drag and Drop extensions, return them to the active Extensions folder and restart the Mac.
I Mean Really Erase
Q. I must return a borrowed PowerBook 540c. How can I quickly return the hard disk to pris tine condition and delete files Idon't want the next user to have?
Cate Gable via the Internet
BOB:You're right to worry. Items dragged into the Trash - even after the Trash has been emptied - can be recovered by a clever user, with noth ing more sophisticated than a copy of Symantec's Norton Utilities or MacTools Pro. The easy way to avoid such skulduggery is to erase the entire disk, initialize and refor mat it, and then reinstall only Apple system software before turning it in.
Tips I Saving Money
Graphic Online Expense AOL has awonderfully rich graphic environment, but waiting around while the service downloads graphic after graphic may not lie the most efficient way to spend your time or money.
Bill Karsh has developed ArtValve, aterrific control panel that allows you to turn off the automatic downloading of AOL graphics.When AOL queries the software to see if you have a particular picture,ArtValve intervenes; responds, "Got it, thanks all the same"; and substitutesa not terribly attractive default graphic in its place.If you can't live without those beautiful graphics after all, you can turn ArtValve off.
Frequent visitors to AOL will find that this $5 shareware program paysfor itself in amatter of weeks.
Christopher Breen
MacUser contributing editor
CHRIS: I suppose you
Wipe Info
want me to tell her
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~ Once you erase something with Wipe Info, it is gone forever. 1"11' The Norton Utilities will not be able to recover the information later.
the junior member
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tents and purposes,
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ing to erase the entire disk.
your Mac in black-and-white and choosing
You've got a couple of choices: the free way, Small Icon from the View menu. And if you
as represented by Greg Koenig's elegant File have enough memory, try a RAM disk (you
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set one up).
Now don't discount File Fire just because it If you don't have it already, you should con
was written by a 13-year-old. It overwrites sider using Connectix's Speed Doubler. It won't
trashed files multiple times and can also do much for your PowerPC-native applica change a file's name, size, type and creator tions, but non-native programs will shine
codes, and creation date. With a simple drag when doubled. and-drop onto File Fire, your file, folder, or CHRIS: Of course, if you're willing to throw
volume is toast.
money at the problem, you have plenty ofgood
If your utility needs are broader - or you options:
already own the darned thing- Norton Utili · Accelerators: Clock chippers, faster proces
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lete your data but it's also bundled with the · Cache cards: You can see as much as a 40
wonderful Norton Utilities package, which percent speed increase with one of these plug
includes such gems as the Disk Doctor diag in babies.
nosis-and-repair utility and Floppier, a fast · Fast SCSI-2cards with Fast SCSI hard drives:
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Technically they won't make your Mac faster,
Faster! Faster!
but they sure wi ll suck the data off your disk in a hurry.
Q. Like many other users, I am always in · Additional RAM: With a ton o' RAM, pro
search of ways to increase the speed of my grams such as Photoshop - which resort to
machine. I have a fairly fast Power Mac with virtual- memory schemes in low-memory
16 MB of RAM, but it's not enough. What can I do to soup up my Mac?
R. Christian Alperin-Lea New Orleans, LA
CHRIS: Buy an old Mac Plus, and work with it exclusively for a couple of weeks. I guarantee
situations - will perk right up. BOB: Don't forget those utilities that let you work faster: macro programs, navigation en hancers such as Now's SuperBoomerang, and CD-caching software such as FWB's CD-ROM
ToolKit. ~
you'll be as giddy as a schoolgirl (which you may actually be) when you return to your Power Mac.
Barring that fatuous solution, there are a
Bob Le\litus is director of evangelismfor Power Computing. Christopher Breen recently coauthored Th e Macintosh Bible Guide to Games, published by Peachftit Press.
few tricks for giving the goose to your com puter's performance. BOB: You can speed up your Mac without spending a nickel, just by managing it cor rectly. For example, you'll get a speed benefit
I You can find the shareware and freeware programs referenced in this article on MacUser'sWeb page (http://www.zdnet.com/ macuser/). Yo ucan also find them in the MacUser
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Comanche Mac
The Game Room
I'masucker for flying games,so it should come as no surprise that I think the helicopter flying game
BY BOB LEVITUS
Comanche Mac is the coolest thing since
AS IN REAL LIFE, thi smonth's selection of games gives you morethan one way to move through your adventures - you either walk, drive, or Oy your way into entertainment-landia.
In System Shock, you go by foot (mostly) on an adventure that requires mindless destruction as well as thought ful puzzle-solving. Comanche Mac also
propellers on beanies. Comanche is ideal for those who find flight simulators such as A-10 Attack! and F/ A 18 Hornet too finicky
satisfies an appetite for destruction but requires a different type of skill - to be enjoyable.
Oyingamilitary helicopter. Al Unser Jr., Arcade Racing offers cars rather than
As the pilot of an
carnage, in a racing game that's much like those you'd find in an arcade.
RAH-66 Comanche
System Shock
attack chopper,you're in command of a
This game succeeds by balancing
feeds you clues to help you figure
deadly piece of
mindless shoot-'em-up action with out how to destroy SHODAN, a
military hardware that
thought-provoking challenges.
ruthless artificial-intelligence center can achieve high speeds at altitudes
Your goal in System Shock
that controls th eenemy army.
as low as 50 feet. You're armed with
surprise, surprise - is to save the
Although the theme of saving the an ample supply of missiles, rockets,
world.The twist here is your role:You world isn't new, System Shack'swell cannons, and other weaponry,
play the world'smost notorious
designed user interface makes the
providing a plethoraof pyrotechnics
cyberspace thief.
in every mission.
After being
Comanche's first ten missions act
busted for
as atutorial to let you learn skills
hacking, you get a
you'll need in the real missions.Once
rare "cyberjack"
you've completed the tutorials
brain implant that
which should take 10 to 20 hours
helps you save the
you get 90 other missions that take
space station
place in avariety of regions, from
you're on, which is
Antarctica to South America.To add
swarming with
more va riety, the mi ssions present
cyborgs,robots,
you with several conditions,
and human
including reduced-visibility
mutants. Your
situationssuch as night flying.
brain implant
Comanche Mac has some
interesting effects, such as
lffi\lllGllHHI
game uniquely fun to play. Whatever translucent smoke, snow, haze, and you need - regardlessof when you reflective water. One particularly
System Shock is a sci-fi game with need it - is a mouseclick or key
intriguing effect can be seen during
just the right balance of destruction and puzzle solving. The helicopter simu lation Comanche Mac is a happy medium between a complex flight sim and a simple arcade game. Al Unser Jr., Arcade Racing is just like arcade racing games, but don't ex pect the thrilling crash scenes.
press away.For instance, adermal stamina patch is stored on the side of your viewing window so you can access it anytime.
For a shoot-'em-up, System Shock is also unique in that there's little mayhem and almost no gore.To take
night flight when you use your handy FLIR (forward-looking infrared) - this device lets you amplify moonlight and casts aweird green glow.
The controls are simple. All you have to worry about is steering,
up the slack, you have mental
controlling your altitudeand speed,
System Shock!!!!
exercises - such as puule solving aiming,and shooting.There is one
Price: $40 (estimated street).
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Comanche Mac!!!!
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Comanche gets kudos for running decently on 68030 Macs, although on
Price:$50 (estimated street).
cyberspace experience (the portion those machines,you have to turn
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of the game in which you enter a make-believe Internet) - making System Shock suitable for awide
down the graphics resolution, put up with some jerky motion,and miss out on lots of cool effects.
Al Unser Jr., Arcade Racing!!!
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variety of players. The only drawbacks I found were
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Al Unser Jr., Arcade Racing
Take an Indy-style racing game out of the arcade and put it on your Mac,
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Driving is smooth and responsive in every one of the ten cars you can choose from (all of which, unfortunately, seem to handle the same).You drive around one of 15 tracks, challenging yourself (Practice mode), the clock (Timed mode),or computerized opponents (Championship mode).
Now for the bad news: In this game,you never crash, burn,or die, even when you drive directly into an object bigger, heavier, or more flame resistant than your car.If you drive poorly, you should have to pay the price - aspectacular,flaming demise.You might consider this built-in immortality an enhancement, since it movesthe game along quickly, but I call it a disappointment.
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Claris Corporation 800-293-0617 ext. 995 .................................................. 38
Display Systems & Video
Corel Systems Corporation 800-248-0800 .................................................. 19
Eastman Kodak 800-322-2177 ext. 602 ....................................................... 41
Epson America 800-BUY-EPSON ................................................................... 15
NEC Technologies Inc. 800-NEC-INFO .................................................... 22-23
Portrait Display Labs 800-858-7744 ............................................................. 51
Video Labs, Inc. 800-467-7157 ...................................................................... 61
Viewsonic 800-888-8583 .......................................................................... 10-11
General Hardware & Accessories
Kingston Technology 800-259-8965 ............................................................ 12
Lind Electronic Design 800-897-8993 .......................................................... 54
Matrox Graphics Systems 800-660-1873 ..................................................... 20
Momentum 808-947-0055 ............................................................................ 54
Power Computing 800-999-7279 ..................................................... Cover 5-8
VisionTek800-360-7185 .............................................................................. 109
Graphics & Design
Corel Systems Corporation 800-248-0800 .................................................. 19
Deneba Software Inc. 305-596-5644 ........................................................... 16
Engineered Software 910-299-4843 ...............................................................6
Graphsoft 4.10-290-5114 ................................................................................ 94
Macromedia 800-326-2128 I 415-252-2000 ............................................... 48
Macromedia 800-326-2128 I 415-252-2000 ............................................... 49
MacTemps 800-MACTEMPS ......................................................................... 102
Specular International 800-433-SPEC .......................................................... 88
Video Labs, Inc. 800-467-7157 ...................................................................... 61
Input Devices
Connectix 800-950-5880 ext. 101 ................................................................. 57
Eastman Kodak 800-322-2177 ext. 602 ....................................................... 41
Video Labs, Inc. 800-467-7157 ...................................................................... 61
DataViz, Inc. 800-249-1116 ....................................,....................................... 52
Earthlink Network 800-395-8425 ................................................................ 68
Farallon Computing 800-995-7761ext.1 ................................................. 100
GDT Softworks 800-665-8707 ....................................................................... 43
Insignia Solutions 800-848-7677 .................................................................. 96
White Pine Software 800-241-PINE .............................................................. 17
Organizational Tools
AEC Software 800-450-1983 .......................................................................... 36
Lind Electronic Design 800-897-8993 .......................................................... 54
Mainstay 805-484-9400 ................................................................................. 24
Now Software 800-544-2599 ........................................................................ 74
Output Devices
Canon USA 800-0K-CANON ...................................:................................. 32-33
LasermasterTechnologies, Inc. 800-339-3590 Dept. N22 ........................ 56
XANT~ Corporation 800-926-8839 .................................................................. 7
Performance Enhancers
Connectix 800-950-5880 ext. 101 ................................................................. 53
Connectix 800-950-5880 ext. 101 ................................................................. 55
Focus Enhancements Inc. 800-538-4888 ..................................................... 31
Newer Technology 800-678-3726 ................................................................ 79
Programming & Systems
Power Computing 800-999-7279 ..................................................... Cover 5-8
Resources
AEC Software 800-450-1983 .......................................................................... 36
Spreadsheets & Numerical Analysis
Abacus Concepts 800-666-STAT ................................................................... 50
Microsoft Corporation 800-531-6748 ......................................................... 2-3
Entertainment
Storage Systems
Connectix 800-950-5880 ext. 101 ................................................................. 57
Eastman Kodak 800-322-2177 ext. 602 ...............................................:....... 41
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Bottom Line Distribution 800-347-8759 ..................................¥ ...............
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ClubMac800-258-2622 ........................................................................ 138-139
Computer Discount Warehouse 800-291-4CDW ............................. 149-151
CRA Systems 800-375-9000 ................................................................. 130-131
DGRTechnologies 800-990-5696 ....................................................... 128-129
Digital Graphix 800-680-9062 ..................................................................... 119
Home Computer Catalog 800-454-3686 ........................................... 114-115
Image Solutions 800-352-3420 ................................................................... 142
LLB Company, Inc. 800-848-8967 ....................................................... 146-147
Mac Bargains 800-407-7404 ................................................................ 132-133
MAC Xtra 800-553-4230 ............................................................................... 157
MacConnection 800-800-6227 ............................................................ 126-127
MacMall 800-222-2808 ......................................................................... 143-145
MacProducts, USA 800-990-5696 ....................................................... 128-129
MacWarehouse 800-255-6227 ............................................................ 140-141
MacZone 800-436-8000 ....................................................................... 124-125
MegaHaus 800-786-1191 ............................................................................. 15's
POWERtools (The Performance Company) 800-347-8759 ..................... 123
ProDirect 800-555-1256 ............................................................................... 156
Syex Express, Computize 800-876-3467 ................................................... 134
APS Technologies 800-289-5385 ........................................................ 120-122
Direct Tech 800-279-55.20 ............................................................................ 158
Fujitsu Computer Products of America 800-898-1455 .............................. 45
La Cie Limited 800-999-1528 .............................................................. 135-137
MegaHaus800-786-1191 ............................................................................. 155
Toray 800-TORAY-PD ........................................................,·..:....................... 107
Utilities
Aladdin Systems408-761-6200 .................................................................... 51
Casady-Greene Inc. 800-359-4920 ............................................................... 34
Dantz Development 800-95-BACKUP ............................................................. 9
GOT Softworks 800-807-9905 ....................................................................... 99
Word Processing
Nisus Software 800-493-0998 ....................................................................... 58
General
Delorme Mapping 800-452-5931 ext. 320 ............................................... 112
Eastman Kodak800-322-2177 ext. 602 ....................................................... 41
Epson America 800-BUY-EPSON ................................................................... 15
Lind Electronic Design 800-897-8993 .......................................................... 54
MacTemps 800-MACTEMPS ......................................................................... 102
Microsoft Corporation 800-531-6748 ......................................... Cover 2-4, 1
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MacUser
950 Tower Lane, 18th Floor
Foster City, CA 94404
Phone (415) 378-5600
Fax (415) 378-6903
National
John Blake, Group Associate Pu blisher (617) 393-3075
Cheri L M<Keithan, Group National Sales Ma nager(415) 378-5652
Elizabeth Turney, Ad Coord inator (415) 378-5606
Mid-Atlantic/Southeast (Al. DC, DE, F~ CiA,MD, NC, Metro NY, NJ, PA, SC, VA, WV)
Laura Mosier, District Sales Representative
Mystic Center, 10 Pres ident's Landing
Medford, MA 02155; (617) 393-3692
James Loza, Account Executive (4 15) 378-5677
Andrea Villani, Sales Assistant (6 17) 393-3068
Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, upstate NY, RI, VT, Canada , except Alberta and British Columbia)
Sharon Kiernan, District Sales Representative
Mystic Center, 10 President's Landing
Medfo rd, MA 02155; (617) 393-3060
Heather M<Kee, Account Executive (415) 378-5640
Andrea Villani, Sales Assista nt (617) 393-3068
Midwest (AR, IA, I~ IN, KS, KY, LA. Ml, MN, MO, MS, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, SD, TN, TX. WI)
Tom Hernandez, District Sales Ma nager
150 North Wacker Drive, Su ite 2500
Ch icago, IL 60606; (3 12) 214-7343
Dan Hudson, Account Executive (415) 378-5622
Northwest CA (S.n Mateo and north, AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, WA, wr.
Canada; Alberta, British Columbia)
Ellen Skugstad, District Sales Manager
950 Tower Lane, 18th Floor
Foster City, CA 94404; (4 15) 378-5657
Brigid Dombrowski, Account Execu ti ve (415) 378-5658
Jen Weiss, Sa les Assista nt (41 5) 378-5626
Bay Area CA (SouthBay, NV)
Chris Marrow, District Sa les Representative
950Tower Lane, 18th Floor
Foster City, CA 94404; (4 1S) 378-565 1
Casie Davis, Account Executive (41 5) 378-5630
Jen Weiss, Sa les Assistant (4 15) 378-5626
Southwest CA (So Cal, PJ., CO, UT)
Dale Hansman, District Sales Ma nager
11 766 Wilshire Blvd.. Suite 1550
Los Angeles, CA 90025; (3 1O) 268-1376
Laura Goodwin, Accou nt Executive (415) 378-5605
Lisa Armendariz, Sales Assista nt (3 1O) 268-1375
152 MacUser I JULY 1996
Advertiser Index
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120 136 62 63 64 77 50 28 163, 164 150
24 33 55 90 4 73
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AEC Software .................................................................... 800-450-1983 .................................................. 36
Aladdin Systems .............................................................. 408-761 -6200 .................................................. 51
APSTechnologies ............................................................ 800-289-5385 ........................................ 120-122
Bottom Line Distribution ............................................... 800-347-8759 ............................ .................... 123
Canon USA ........................................................................ 800-0K-CANON .......................................... 32-33
Casady-Greene Inc. ......................................................... 800-359-4920 .................................................. 34
ClarisCorporation ........................................................... 800-293-0617 ext. 995 ................................... 38
ClubMac ............................................................................ 800-258-2622 ........................................ 138-139
Computer Discount Warehouse .................................... 800-291-4CDW ...................................... 149-151
Connectix .......................................................................... 800-950-5880 ext. 101 ................................... 53
Connectix .......................................................................... 800-950-5880 ext. 101 ................................... 55
Connectix .......................................................................... 800-950-5880 ext. 101 ................................... 57
Corel Systems Corporation ............................................ 800-248-0800 .................................................. 19
CRA Systems ..................................................................... 800-375-9000 ........................................ 130-131
Dantz Development ........................................................ 800-95-BACKUP ................................................. 9
DataViz, Inc. ...................................................................... 800-249-1116 .................................................. 52
Delorme Mapping .......................................................... 800-452-5931 ext. 320 ................................. 112
Deneba Software Inc. ..................................................... 305-596-5644 .................................................. 16
DGRTechnologies ........................................................... 800-990-5696 ........................................ 128-129
Digital Graphix ................................................................. 800-680-9062 ................................................ 119
Direct Tech ........................................................................ 800-279-5520 ................................................ 158
Earthlink Network .......................................................... 800-395-8425 .................................................. 68
Eastman Kodak ................................................................ 800-322-2177 ext. 602 ................................... 41
Engineered Software ...................................................... 910-299-4843 ..................................................... 6
Epson America ................................................................. 800-BUY-EPSON .............................................. 15
Farallon Computing ........................................................ 800-995-7761 ext. 1 ..................................... 100
Focus EnhancementsInc. ............................................... 800-538-4888 .................................................. 31
Fujitsu Computer Products of America ........................ 800-898-1455 .................................................. 45
GDT Softworks ................................................................. 800-665-8707 .................................................. 43
GDT Softworks ................................................................. 800-807-9905 .................................................. 99
Graphsoft .......................................................................... 410-290-5114 .................................................. 94
Home Computer Catalog ............................................... 800-454-3686 ........................................ 114-115
Image Solutions............................................................... 800-352-3420 ................................................ 142
Insignia Solutions ............................................................ 800-848-7677 .................................................. 96
Kingston Technology ...................................................... 800-259-8965 .................................................. 12
La Cie Limited .................................................................. 800-999-1528 ........................................ 135-137
LasermasterTechnologies, Inc. ..................................... 800-339-3590 Dept. N22 ............................... 56
Lind Electronic Design .................................................... 800-897-8993 .................................................. 54
LLB Company, Inc. ........................................................... 800-848-8967 ........................................ 146-147
Mac Bargains.................................................................... 800-407-7404 ........................................ 132-133
MAC Xtra ........................................................................... 800-553-4230 ................................................ 157
MacConnection ................................................................ 800-800-6227 ........................................ 126-127
MacMall ............................................................................. 800-222-2808 ........................................ 143-145
MacProducts, USA ........................................................... 800-990-5696 ........................................ 128-129
Macromedia ..................................................................... 800-326-2128 I 415-252-2000 ................ 48-49
MacTemps ........................................................................ 800-MACTEMPS ............................................ 102
MacWarehouse ................................................................ 800-255-6227 ........................................ 140-141
MacZone ........................................................................... 800-436-8000 ........................................ 124-125
Mainstay ........................................................................... 805-484-9400 .................................................. 24
Matrox GraphicsSystems ............................................... 800-660-1873 .................................................. 20
MegaHaus......................................................................... 800-786-11 91 ................................................ 155
Microsoft Corporation .................................................... 800-531 -6748 .................................. Cover 2-4, 1
Microsoft Corporation .................................................... 800-531-6748 ................................................. 2-3
Momentum ...................................................................... 808-947-0055 .................................................. 54
NECTechnologies Inc. .................................................... 800-NEC-INFO ............................................ 22-23
Newer Technology .......................................................... 800-678-3726 .................................................. 79
NisusSoftware ................................................................. 800-493-0998 .................................................. 58
Now Software .................................................................. 800-544-2599 .................................................. 74
Portrait Display Labs ....................................................... 800-858-7744 .................................................. 51
Power Computing ........................................................... 800-999-7279 ...................................... Cover 5-8
POWERtools (The Performance Company) ................. 800-347-8759 ................................................ 123
ProDirect ........................................................................... 800-555-1256 ................................................ 156
Specular International .................................................... 800-433-SPEC .................................................. 88
Syex Express, Computize ................................................ 800-876-3467 ................................................ 134
Toray .................................................................................. 800-TORAY-PD .............................................. 107
Vid eo Labs, Inc. ...................................... .......................... 800-467-7157 .................................................. 61
Viewsonic .......................................................................... 800-888-8583 ............................................. 10-11
VisionTek ........................................................................... 800-360-7185 ................................................ 109
White Pine Software ....................................................... 800-241-PINE .................................................. 17
XANTE Corporation ......................................................... 800-926-8839 ..................................................... 7
ZDNet ................................................................................ http://www.macuser.com ............................... 8
ZDNet ................................................................................ http://www.zdnet.com ............................... 111
Ziff-Davis Reprints ........................................................... 800-825-4237 .................................................. 59
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ANDY IHNATKO
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IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL wedding I've
ever attended and, having four sisters, I've been to a few. Erin and Allan, all decked out in the traditional finery, exchanging tender vows of peace and love in front of the world. It was enough to move this columnist to the occasional tear, and I don't normally cry at weddings. Of course, I don't normally attend a wedding dressed in a Mac RenderMan T-shirt and shorts either, but unlike the stick-in the-mud fami ly that Sister #2 inexplicably married into, the Crains had no objections to a pants-optional ceremony: Theirs was held in a live online conference room.
It comes as no surprise to people who can see the photo above that I am indeed a major geek, and therefore in my interludes with women, th e phrase"like a brother"comes up with disturb ing frequency. But Allan's wedding renewed my hopes. Clearly he pegged the needle on the ol' Geek-Meter too, and yet through the miracle of modern digital technology, he'd managed to get Erin to sign on the dotted line. Is that the secret? Could megahypersupercool technology help random geeks attract mem bers of the preferred target gender (in my case, chicks)? Can a PowerBook 5300ce do for single guys in the '90s what a customized van and a quart of Hai Karate did for them in the '70s? Clearly it was a question that could be an swered only through strict empirical methods, by consuming many gin and tonics in many downtown bars over a period of months.
Field Trial 1. The Pla ce: The Miracle of Sci
ence bar and grill, Central Square, Cambridge, MA. The Attractant: PowerBook 5300ce. Lo cated mere blocks from MIT, the MOS has es tablished itself as one of the bars of choice for the geek element to meet and interface. Con fident that I have brought the right hardware to the right place,I open the PowerBook and
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begin some idle work. I am ignored. I order the coveted Barry White Trophy when she lets
another drink. I maintain my invisibility.With slip that she loves my music. I get a slightly
the third drink, I realize the idiocy of bring nauseated feeling and through a series of
ing a hot notebook to a place where people go questions determine that she believes me to
to take a break from Class 12 exposure to tech- be john Popper, lead singer of Blues Traveler.
nology, and after the fourth I break the news to her,and she returns to the
and fifth, I fire up Speech gaggle of girlfriends whence she came. The
Verdict: Just the ticket for overweight men
with sideburns and not the barest hint of
sc rupl es. john Popper, you owe me one.
Field Trial 3. The Place: Au Bon Pain,Harvard
Square, Cambridge, MA. The Attractant: IBM
ThinkPad 701C. Under the impression that
the way-cool "Butterfly" keyboard of the 701
series might prove to be, like its namesake, a
more colorful and therefore effective commu
nication of the desire to mate, I open the lid
and prepare to fire up a game. But Windows
can't find the sound hardware. After an hour
of troubleshooting, I realize that I have gar
nered the attention of three other patrons (1F
· 2M). I motion to them, and they each make
suggestions regarding my .WIN, .IN!, and
.SYS files. After another half an hour's work,
the game's opening strains come ringing out.
Recognition and spend the rest of the evening Conversation ensues, and e-mail addresses
having "Victoria" tell me knock-knock jokes. are exchanged. The Verdict: Success, but it's a
The Verdict: Success - I was, technically, talk relationship forged in combat against a mu
ing to a woman - although limited.
tual enemy and consequently a bogus foun
Field Trial 2. The Place: The Ginger Man bar, dation for romance.
just a few short steps from Wrigley Field, Chi Field Trial 4. The Place: johnny D's music club,
cago, IL. The Attractant: New ton MessagePad Davis Square, Somerville, MA. My empirical
100. In a word, Jackpot. I get myself a drink data being mixed at best, I decide I need a
and retire to the rear sec tion of the bar. I take nontechno logical attractant as a control.
a seat along one of the three pool tables, torch Therefore, I approach the bar, order a bever
my Sty-Lite Illuminated Stylus, and begin tak age, take a 5-pound bag of potting soil out of
ing notes.Almost instantly, I am approached my satchel, and perch it jauntily atop my coat
by a comely young lady, who asks about the on the seat next to me. The sight of a man with
illuminated pen.I describe the device and its a bagof dirt sparks one's curiosity, and by the
purpose while she grins heav ily. I make con end of theevening, I have two solid prospects,
siderable progress, and she is very interested one of which leads to four very nice dates. The
in learning where I've come from, where I'm Verdict: Unqualified success. I suspect that it
staying, and how long I'll be in town . Ulti won't work for you unless you can answer the
mately, she makes overtures indicating her inevitable first question by saying you're writ
being amenable to interludes of a more per ing a magazine column, but hey, I mean, who
sonal nature. I'm about to award the Newton cares aboutyou? Q
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