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Sometimes Newer Is Smarter Than New.

It's hard keeping an office geared up with the latest
technology. And, in a PC-friendly corporate world, it can be
even harder trying to justify buying new Macs. So, when
you finally get your Macs configured
exactly right, the last thing you want
to hear is that Apple is about to
release even newer machines that
are twice as fast as what you have.

Not to worry. Newer Technology has the answer.

The Newer Technology MAXpowr 63 processor upgrade
card can make your current PowerMacs among the fastest

desktop computers available, comparing extremely
favorably with Apple's new G3 machines. Newer has cards
for almost every PowerMac, including Power Computing
and UMAX systems. There are also cards
for several models of PowerBooks.
MAXpowr G3 processor upgrade cards
are easy to install, and can potentially
save you thousands of dollars compared
to buying whole new systems. So, fret not. Install some
Newer Technology MAXpowr G3 processor upgrade cards,
and breathe new life into your older Macs.

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combines your Mac's internal RAM memory with the speed of your internal hard disk
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AUGUST 1998

Mac

520/540 line — code-named Blackbird— -was the much-anticipated ’040-based
( in its day. We show you how to get your bird singing a whole new tune.

BY T. KELLEY BOYLAN

MacAddict Tip-Off

scoured the land for hundreds of the absolute best Macintosh tips, and we put them
together just for you— great advice on everything from graphics to games to audio. You’re
welcome. Now go clean your room, edited by nikki echler

Subliminaily Subvert a PC User

Sometimes subtle means are the best means. Send no money now — or ever

YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY... so very
sleepy...

power up

76 How to Keep Your Mac Virus-Free

Between macro viruses and the new AutoStart Worm, all you need is the Mad Hatter for one
heck of a tea party. Here’s how to get rid of your Mac’s uninvited guests, by kevin savetz

Unleash QuarkXPress Style Sheets

style sheets can save you lots of time, but many folks don’t bother to use them. Here’s how to
get started. It’s easy! by elyse chapman

How to Share a Printer

You can make those serial printers— inkjets mostly— available to the masses on your network.
Equality for all! BY BUZ zoller

OVERPRINTING INSPIRED
by Margo Chase. Angled
grid inspired by Dutch
and Russian designers.
Thanks to Ritchie Lesovoy
for his bravery.

NOT IN THE FACE!
Not in the face!
I’m telling
Mom!

IF YOU LIVE UNDER OUR ROOF, you have to live by our
rules. And where did you get those needles?

every month

Editor’s Note

Dave shares his thoughts so you don’t have to.

Letters

Again with the dots on the spine— we’ve told you, they don’t mean
anything! Or maybe they do. . .

Is Get Info

Motorola’s AltiVec technology is posed to pants MMX and laugh at it.
Plus, Apple’s icon garden disappears as its logo colors bleed away, and
we show you how to get your own @mac-addict.com email address.

Cravings

A power strip to kill for, the most amazing digital camera, a stylish PIM,
a monster mail client, and multimedia speakers that will get you booted
from your home— it’s ail cool drool gear.

Reviews

Photoshop 5.0 is out, and we put it through the wringer to see what
would squeeze out. Ewww! We also beat on Animation:Master 98,

GoLive CyberStudio 3.0, Stylus Photo EX, Diablo, Cubase VST and two
Mactell video cards.

74 Fun & Games

Games on the Mac are coming back! We have previews of seven
(seven!) hot titles on their way soon to a Mac near you.

Ask Us

Learn how to turn off that annoying "Buy QuickTime Pro Now or Your
Toes Will Fall Off” message. Plus, we tell you how to untar a TAR file, get
System 6.0.7, and clean your PowerBook screen.

2 Shut Down

Do not drink hot liquids while reading the last page. Oh, and do not oper-
ate heavy equipment after taking antihistamines.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, SCULLY. And it^s on the Mac.

4 MacADDIcr AUG/98

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PUSLtSFIB^ITGRtAL DIRECTOR Cheryl Engiaird

EDITORIAL

EDITOR David Reynolds

MANAGING EDITOR Jeff Titterton

SENIOR EDITOR NiUri EchleT

ASSOCl^ EDITORS Robert Capps, Jenntfef Ho (reviews)

OIGRAL KEDIA EDrtOR Kris Fong

ONJJMEEOtTe^ fyiark Simmons

CONTRtBDTIHG EDITORS Ral Anzovin, Steven Anzovin,

Joseph 0. Holmes, Ross Scott Rubin, Buz Zoiler

ART

ART DIRECTOR KenBousE|uet
ASSOCIATE ART DIRECIDR Adam Vaiiderhoof
DESIGNER Chris Vanderhoof

PRODUCmON

PRODl.JC.TFON DIRECTOR Richard lesovoy
PRODUCTIONfeOOORDINATOR Susan Meredith

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AD DIRECTOR Amfre Lengyet
REGIQtslAL AD MANAGER Oon Kimenker
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MAGADDICTNET\TORKAD MANAGER Camilla Colegrave
MARKETING MANAGER Mary lachapelle
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WHERE'D ALL MY PAINTINGS GO?
I've been pobbed! Ob, sure, they
left the glass coffee table and the
stained couch.

From Apple

AudioTuneUp 2.0, Battery Recondition, HyperCard 2.4, Personal Web Sharing 1.5,
QuickTime 3.0'

the disc

OH, NO! Where'd I put my can of
Skeleton-B-Gone?

MULTIPLE PAGES, scpiptbig — it can
even do starbursts!

Diablo

The wait is over! Diablo has finally arrived to infiltrate your Mac
with pure evil. This stunning 3/4 isometric-view RPG immersesi
you in an eerie 3D world, with dark, moody music and chilling
sound effects. Battle monsters in reai-time combat as you unravel
the mystery behind Tristram. Beware!

Creator^:;/:..:::, :

With the huge success of QuarkXPress, Multi-Ad has revamped the
original Creator to give designers a full-featured design and layout program with many /
extras. The program easily handles multiple pages and provides document customization
and scriptabililyc;

DenebaCAD and Canvas 5

It’s power at your fingertips! These two programs take the drafting-board ache out of
professional design. DenebaCAD, an architectural design program, features 2D drafting
and 3D modeling and rendering. Professional illustrators use Canvas 5 for photo editing,
page design, and presentation.

RadiJack .

Here’s a peek at a new game due to hit the shelves this month. Ride the high seas with
this 3D, first-person-perspective adventure game. Animated, interactive characters await
you as you journey through the West Indies in search of lost treasure. Swashbuckle your

and ghosts. Aargh, matey!

THAT'S RIGHT, PAL
I've got a by
wooden chib, and
it's lust for you.

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WADE PAYS BIS BUCKS, and thus a new disc
editor arrives.

WHENEVER
you see this
icon in the
magazine,
pop in The
Disc for a
special treat.

6 MacADDICT AUG/98

If you think it takes several graphics programs to
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would be easy in Photoshop'", the
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and the whole layout plus matching
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but we're sorry you think it's so com-
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Software

Communication

AbbottChat, dataComet 4.5.1, Hipper Mail 2.0

Compress and Translate

QIMExtractor 1 .0.1 , Quickinstaller Maker 1 .2.1

Disk & File

Catalogue 3b3, CDWrapper, DiskTracker 1.1.3, JazzWrapper, ramBunctious
1.3, ZipWrapper

Fun & Games

aGORA Soul of the Oracle, Alien Attack 2.0, Blades of Exile 1.0.1,
Boogaioopers 1.2, Bubblomania, Bugs Bannis 1.3, Diablo Spawn, Enigmatic
Movements 1 .0, Flying Circus .91, Giza 2.1.4, Grid Warrior 1.2.7, Hang2000,
King of Parking 1.1, LazerZone 1.2, Lunar Commando 1 .0.4, Monkey Shines
1.2, Realmz 5.1, RedJack, Sentineis of Ceth 1.5, Sigma Chess Lite 4.0, Sim
Cinema Deluxe 2.1, Slick Willie III 0.6, Spades Deluxe 1.0, SpiralGraphics 2.0,
Squish 2.6.6, StarFight-Final 1.1, Virtual Viagra

Graphics & Sound

BladePro 2.08b, BriansSoundTool 1.3, Clixsounds, Club MID 1.0.7, Dingbat
Magician 2.0.1, Elastic Reality 3.1, EscapePPC 1.1b, FeatherGIF 1.95,
FrameBlenderQT 1 .Obi , Grab Audio 1 .2, Guitar Tuner 2.0, Install Acrobat
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Productivity

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Text Processing

Rick’s Free Fonts, Scriptware, Text Cleaner Lite

Updates

Conflict Catcher 4.1 .1

User Interface

Chronomenon 2.0.1, DP Autochanger, Droplet for Kaleidoscope, Rick’s
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Utilities

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Did you ever work with a video card in your Mac that was
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■ watch the current Apple commercial on ABC?

■ mix different audio sources?

Never done that before? Catch your breath, It’s here! Just
fire up our application on The Disc and be stunned!

8 M^qADDICT aug /98

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the Macworld

Join us for the ali-new ‘New York Macwoiid Expo experience. Our continuing show
coverage kicks off with July 7’s keynote, followed by the clamor and chaos of the

show floor.

MacAddict

NETWORK

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Mo^

http://www.macfixit.com

New! MacFixIt brings you all the latest news on bugs,
conflicts, and other Mac troubleshooting issues.

http://www.macresource.com

New! The Mac Resource Page provides timely news
and reviews, special deals, bug reports, how-to
primers, and the famed MRP RAMWatch pricing
guide.

New Icbhfactory site

Iconfactory has totally redesigned its site, and it rocks! So the site now sports
frames— big deal. It is elegant, easy to navigate, and offers tons of great hew icons.

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back as of this writing.
As we ready for next
issue’s anniversary
nostalgia, hinge,|iihre
rehistatcitliewHi d'
green an| purple.

Visit the PowerBeok
Sheif

Be sure to look up our Web Exclusive on Extreme
PowerBooks! You’ll meet the DeepSeaBook pic-
tured here, plus four of its exotic friends, in our :
fanciful gallery of high-concept laptops.

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VersionTracker’s up-to-the-minute listings keep tabs
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Apple execs suck the fun out of the Apple campus

n some ways, it’s like going
from the m^^cal land of Oz
back to Kansas. After liv-
ing in a Technicolor wonder-
land complete with two-
dimensional representations of
arguably the company’s most sig-
nificant contribution to the world of
operating systems, the entire Apple

campus seems to be waking up from
its head-trauma-induced
dream to find itself back in
a sepia world.

Hot on the heels of the
NeXT acquisition a year and a
half ago, we visited the NeXT
offices in Redwood City to find
out what the deal meant for
the Mac. During that time,
we got a glimpse into the stylish
NeXT headquarters. Sleek, dark, and
replete with edges, those offices were
chic to a fault. And the bathrooms...well, we
won’t go too far into that, except to say that
they, too, fit in with the classy interior.
Since coming to Apple, Jobs has bus-
ied himself remaking the company’s
image, trying to hold on to the best of
the brand while jettisoning the out-
dated and useless detritus of 20
years of business. Apparently, that
includes the familiar six-color logo and
the icon garden, both hopelessly mired
in the past. They’re just too darned fun,
and we can’t have that!

Being the Apple followers that we
are, we’ve decided to follow suit. Starting
immediately, the following changes will take
place in the pages oiMacAddict:

^ We will be moving to a black-and-white
format to make a clean break with the
gaudy colors of past issues. The logo will
be a translucent gray we’re calling
“Hail.”

It is important that Apple
remain a sometimes-goofy
place for its talented
employees to work and play.

^ All occurrences of the words
phat, frag, freakin' awe-
some, tweak, kick ass, lus-
cious, sexy, and drool are
hereby banned. We will no
longer use adjectives of any
kind. The page space that they
occupied cost the company
too much money,

^ Official editorial dress code will consist
of black shirts (which was already our
unofficial code, but we figured it should
be official). More than three violations
will result in mandatory turtlenecks and
chinos for all.

^ On the MacAddict Web site, only
tones will be allowed, and the coloi
be rotated on a strict three-day
schedule.

^ Max’s name will be changed to
Waiter. Do not call him Walt.

For the sarcasm-impaired, this
is a joke. Unfortunately, what’s
happening at Apple is not. Oh
sure, the company has had back-
to-back profitable quarters, the
stock price is up, the product
lines are amazingly cool (and
cheap) , market share is climbing,
and realistic (and awesome) system-
software plans are in place, but the
company seems to have lost its sense
of humor. Now I’m not suggesting that
Apple sacrifice these real — ^and des-
perately needed — business accom-
plishments for the sake of some fiber-
glass sculptures, but it is important
that Apple remain a sometimes-goofy
place for its talented employees to
work and play, a place where folks
still create balls made
from name tag stickers
given to visitors.

This sense of
fun was what
brought many
of us to the
Mac in the
first place,
and it’s im-
portant that
Apple under-

12 MacADD/Cr AUG/1 998

Stand that. Remember, this is the company
that brought us Clarus (complete with offi-
cial tech notes), Area 51 as a location in the
Newton OS, and the infamous Sosumi system
beep. This sense is still alive in such prod-
ucts as the iMac, and the upcoming Allegro
system software release is rumored to have a
new i^pearance Manager,
the sole purpose of
which is to let users
change how their Macs
look. Let’s hope the
somberness that has
descended over certain parts

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There are no dots! No dots! No dots on the
spine. January issue — no dots! Okay, I gotta
cahn down now. They’re just dots. But
they’re not there on the spine of the January
issue! They’re always on the spine! Ahhhh!
Why aren’t there dots? It’s a contest, isn’t it?
You wanted to see who would notice the
change, didn’t you, and give whoever
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be a brand-new 300MHz G3, wouldn’t it? I
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Right? Or am I just delusional?

— ^Daniel “G3-freaking addicted” Hamiuon
The six spine dots for the January issue
were requisitioned to add to the over 55,000
pixels that were needed to create Steve Jobs
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Depends on
THE Neighborhood

It’s either a symptom of my advancing age or
of my Mac addiction, but I found the Apple
Studio Display as sexy as the model displayed
on it. Unfortunately, however, your trotting
out of this salacious photograph was unac-
companied by a price, leaving me with a
question: Am I going to have to knock over a
bank to get one, or just stand outside the post
office on the day the httle old ladies get their
pensions and mug a couple? Please advise.
— ^Ed Ward

The retail price is $1,999.

Here’s a Tissue

When Steve Jobs first took over Apple, I knew
something bad was going to happen, but did
he have to take away the sacred icons? Those

icons are the very heart and soul of Apple,
and without them Apple’s just another dumb
company (kind of like Microsoft). Now, if
you’U excuse me, I need to go cry.

— Robert Goodwin

Weeee Don’t Know
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Doeeeees anyoneeeeeee know wheeeereeeee
I can geeeeeet a keeeeeyboard that
doeeeeeesn’t have a sticky letter eeeeeeeeee?
— ^Bryce Bagwill

Where’s Our
10 Percent?

While looking through the games available
on one of your early CDs, I came across Star
Fighters 1.01, which I liked, and I paid the
shareware fee for it. Later, 1 received an
email from the author of Star Fighters,
Laurie Murphie, and soon we became good
friends. We started a company called Fox-
change Shareware. Fourteen months later,
we have completed some impressive games:
Star Fighters, Mr. Cat’s Quest, Bob versus
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We are currently making several more
games — Station Devastator, Bob versus the
Aliens 2, Cave Fox 2001, Line Wars, and
another not-yet-named game. And it all
started when I found Star Fighters on the
MacAddict CD. So I would just like to say
that you have an excellent magazine, and

keep up the excellent work. We sure
will.

— ^Mahhew Beedle

Heeere’s Maxie

On a morbid note, on page 94 of
the October 1997 issue of
MacAddict, the Hot Tip starts out
with “Yo ho ho and a bottle of
redrum.” I noticed that “redrum”
spelled backwards is “murder.”
Considering what alcohol does to
you, that sounds accurate. Or is it
a subliminal message? Does it
reflect a darker side of Max?

Also — ^I’ve been meaning to write you
about this, call me a procrastinator — how
dare you “Unlock Bryce’s Hidden Secrets”
(April/97, p48)?

— ^Bryce “Weep-a-lo” Taenzer

Yes

Don’t you guys think I’m strange?

— ^Nick Hance

You’re Welcome,
Bran4don

I was initially elated to see my letter published
in my favorite mag, but my emotions quickly
changed when I saw that you spelled my name
Brando instead of Brandon. My immediate
response was to sue for slander and for the
defacing of private property; however, as I was
dialing my lawyer, an epiphany hit me. I
should be thanking you. You could have
defaced my name (changing it to Bran4don)
as you did that poor old Ch4ris guy’s, and
made me and my reputation the object of pub-
lic humiliation. Thank you.

— ^Brandon Gatz

Or You Could Hire
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C’mon, guys, get serious. This is the second
review I’ve read that essentially says,
“Microsoft Word 98 is so much better than
Word 6, it must be phenomenal!” So it’s very
good — lots of bells and whistles. However, it
needs 11MB of RAM, 60MB to 70MB of hard
disk space, and a 120MHz machine to

14 MacADDICT AUG/98

run — which excludes all first-generation ;
Power PCs. And the cost — a mere $200 to i
upgrade? For a guy like me who has sue- :
cessfuUy avoided buying big-bucks apphea- j
tions, it would mean an outlay of $400. For |
a word processor? For $400 I can add a :
whole barrel of RAM. For $400 I can get a
couple of scanners, a new ink-jet printer, or
four copies of Claris Works.

— Bill Eppick

Talk to Our Lawyers

I hope you have good liability insurance,
because otherwise MacAddict is finished.
You see, I checked my mail on the way to my ;
finals. Big mistake. There was your Power- I
Book G3 issue, with the sexiest ’Book ever on •
the cover. I’ll read it in the exam room! I |
drove so fast you wouldn’t believe it. But my f
professor wouldn’t hear of it. I had to go ;
through a whole three hours of having the !
unopened MacAddict by my side. I know — :
m read it as I drive home! For once, all the
lights had to be green. Well, people read on
the freeway, I can read in the city. Check out
those curves! Stupid kids, out of my way!
Look at those ports! S-video! Oh no! Crash!
Stupid car could have got out of my way. Oh
well, more time to read. That screen really is
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Ask Your
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I have a confession. I work for an auto dealer,
and our stock arrives on a local fi-eight truck.

It always seems to have a load of the new G3s ;
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me wrong. I’m not looking to sell them. I just
want to snuggle with them, turn them on, play ;
with them. Is that so wrong?

— ^Eric Schwarzkopf

Sing ir , Brother

In the June issue of MacAddict, Brice Rolston ;
wrote, “Cheiyi, what have you done? Now I ;
don’t get to admire your cute little face every
time my precious ’zine comes.” In response,
here’s a thought: Look at your old issues.
Geez, this new guy comes and everybody starts
talking about how much more they love Cheryl
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feelings, too. (You do, right, Mr. New Guy?) I
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New chip technology better than MMX, Olestra

S ure, it sounds like MMX, but it
goes so much deeper: Motorola
has announced plans to add a
new execution module to
upcoming PowerPC chips. This new mod-
ule, called AltiVec, will speed up future
PowerPC chips by crunching certain kinds
of data structures. Like MMX, AltiVec will
accelerate processes involving images,
video, and speech processing; unhke MMX,

AltiVec can also quicken other data-
processing functions such as those used in
Internet routers and IP telephony gateways.

It works hke this: Most microprocessors
these days have two execution units — an
integer unit and a floating-point unit. (It was
the lack of an FPU that crippled some Mac
models — namely those with a 68LC040
processor.) AltiVec adds a third execution
unit — called a vector unit — to the PowerPC
chip. This vector unit will be dedicated to
processing certain types of information, giv-
ing a speed boost of 2 to 30 times for cer-
tain operations.

A couple of factors make the AltiVec
technology scream. First, the vector-execu-
tion unit can perform up to 16 operations
per clock cycle, and it can apply a single
instruction to several different chunks of
data, which essentially means that AltiVec
chips can do several things at once. Also, the
vector execution unit has a 128-bit data path
that allows the chip to sling data around
inside itself at amazing speeds. (Data access

INIEUS-NEXT STEP

D ue to some very hard work by talented engineers— and some mighty impressive cooling
technology — Intel will have Its own answer to AltiVec. Code-named Katmai, the new Intel
chip should be faster when it comes to certain multimedia functions such as video, 3D
graphics, and speech recognition. As was the case with MMX, developers must support the 70
new processor instructions present in Katmai to get the speed boost. The chip, which will run
at around 500MHz, is due out during the first half of 1999 — about the same time the first AltiVec-
based PowerPC chips should hit the market.— DH

to and from the chip is
still hmited to 32-bit
widths). AltiVec
will be great at
doing data trans-
lation, such as
converting an
MPEG-2 stream
from a DVD
player into a
form that a dis-
play can use.

Such conversions
should see up to a
30-fold speed increase.

All of this speed doesn’t
come for free, though. Developers
will have to rewrite their applications to take
advantage of an AltiVec-enabled chip. This
isn’t as bad as it sounds, however. First,
when Apple rewrites parts of the Mac OS to
take advantage of AltiVec, apphcations that
use those parts of the Mac OS should get
acceleration automatically. For example, if
an application uses QuickTime, and Quick-
Time has been updated for AltiVec, that
apphcation should get a boost without a
rewrite. Metrowerks has also pledged to
include AltiVec instructions in its compilers,
which means that it may take just a recom-
pile by developers to produce an AltiVec-
aware apphcation.

Before you get your shorts in a bunch
waiting for these new chips, relax: AltiVec-

enabled processors won’t make it to the
Macintosh until sometime in the first half of
1999- At the Worldwide Developer Confer-
ence in May, Apple announced that it will
include AltiVec-enabled PowerPC chips in
future Macs. — DR

• Speeds up data-
intensive operations
by up to 30 times

• 162 new instructions

• Uses new copper-
based production
technology

• Vector unit has 32
registers, each 128
bits wide

• Avaiiable in first haif
of 1999

16 MacADDfCT AUG/98

Illustration by Bill Schwartz

Microsoft Deathwatch

Prospects dim for beleaguered software maker

T he following tidbits have been culled
from actual recent news stories about
Microsoft, and they have been given that
special MacAddict spin. One might almost think
from reading the following that Microsoft is
headed for some serious trouble down the line.
■ Computer makers are defecting: In a stunning
blow to Microsoft’s Internet-domination strategy,
both NEC and Gateway are preconfiguring PCs
with Netscape Communicator instead of Microsoft
Internet Explorer. These companies join ranks
with Hewlett-Packard, Sony, and Fujitsu.

■ Windows 98 sales are expected to be disap-
pointing: A recent study from International Data
Corporation says that sales of Windows 98, when
it is released, may lag by as much as 35 percent
■ In the ongoing s^a of antitrust fitigation,
Microsoft is currently under fire from the U.S.
Department of Justice and the attorneys general
of 20 states for anticompetitive practices. U.S.
district judge Thomas Penfield Jackson handed

down a trial date of September 8
for antitrust litigation, which is
coming much faster than the
wretched software giant would
have preferred. Microsoft dodged
a potentially fatal bullet in this rul-
ing when the government chose
not to seek to block Windows 98
sales during that time.

■ In a delay of Microsoft’s flagship
products, Office 98 — its premier
business software — shipped first
for the rival Macintosh platform,
with the Windows version still in
development. This is a surprise, considering that
Microsoft develops both versions. Some analysts
claim this delay points to a reluctance to support
the Windows platform with vital software titles.

■ Microsoft suffered a 15 percent drop in
stock price: After peaking at nearly 100 in late
April, the troubled company is trading at

around 85 per share. The Standard & Poor’s
500 has outperformed Microsoft stock over the
last three months.

With news stories like this, it’s a wonder
Microsoft still enjoys a warm spot in the hearts
of computer users. Oh, wait — I’m sorry. I was
thinking of Apple . — DR

Icon Garden Put
Out to Pasture

Clarus used to graze on Iresh Kentucky bluegrass
while safe between the pencil and the paint
bucket (the green icon edge-on in this image).

L ong the destination
for camera-toting
Apple pilgrims, the
famed icon kwn featured
fiberglass representations
of the original Macintosh
icons — ^including Clarus
the Dogcow. But that’s all
changed. In an effort to
update the company’s
image, ^ple has removed
the icons from the lawn,
leaving nothing but yellow grass
where these monuments to the
greatest user-interface revolution
once stood. No one knows what will
spring up in their place, but it’s
almost certain something will. As
part of its deal with the city of
Cupertino, Apple has agreed to a

Perhaps when
Jobs saw that

I J WSm

B this watch were

not

decided was
time to

Although no one
knows the fate of the
icons on the Caffe
Macs sign, it should
be noted that a new
chef was hired.

public display of art in that space —
in which role the icon garden
served until recently. Here’s our
photo salute to the dear departed
icon garden. For your own Web-
based tour, go to http://icongarden
.jory.org. It includes several photos
and a QuickTime VR panorama. It’s
better than being there, because —
well, at least there are icofis in the
VR panorama . — DR

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also need a JavaScript-capable
browser for the frames version. A
nonframes version is available,
which you can use if you live
behind a firewall.— DR

AUG/98 MacADDICT 17

get info

The Shape’s the Thing

No longer will Mac addicts bleed in six colors

o much for the rainbow-colored Apple.
Saying that the multihued look was a bit
passe, Steve

Jobs In a recent inter-
view hinted that the
six-color Apple logo is
on the way out, to be
replaced by mono-
chrome Apple logos
bearing the same
shape.

Apple spokes-
woman Rona Hamil-
ton confirmed that the
company is moving
away from its six-

colored past. “We’re trying to focus on the
shape,” she said. “That’s what we think is the
Identifying item.”

A monochrome mark isn’t
necessarily a new thing for
Apple. Depending on the situ-
ation, the logo has previously
been rendered in solid black,
red, or white. On new prod-
ucts, we’ll see more of the
same type of treatment
we’ve seen on the new
PowerBook G3 line, with its
two-inch ice-white crystal logo,
or on the iMac, with its similar-
ly styled Bondi Blue logo . — DR

The MacAddict Index

Average number of users logged
on to AOL at 9 p.m. each Friday
during February 1998: 600,000

Average number of viewers tuned
into MTV at 9 p.m. each Friday
during February 1998: 500,000

Number of Mac OS 8 packages
sold as of May 1998: 2.2 million

Estimated Mac OS 8 installed
base as of May 1998: 3.5 million

Rank of QuickTime among the
most widely owned Windows
software products, according to
Media Matrix: 8

Total amount Umax expects to
lose on its SuperMac clone
program: $33 to $36 million

Kaleidoscope 2.0

The world’s favorite window hack goes public beta

O h sure, we promised this to you a
couple of months ago, but due to
circumstances beyond our con-
trol (and a bout of intense weekend
therapy), we’ve been unable to get our
K2 preview out — ^until now. On May 28,
the good folks who make Kaleidoscope
released a public beta of the amazing
Kaleidoscope 2.0.

What’s New in K2

• New control panel with new options

• New windowing engine that allows for fea-
tures such as irregular window shapes

• Menus that look much better and are
more detailed

CHECK OUT THE IRREGULAR window shape. This Isn’t an easy
trick to pull off, but Kaleidoscope does it with grace — and all of
the controls even work properly!

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• Patches to the Appear-
ance Manager for more
complete conversion

• Tons of other improve-
ments

Under Kaleidoscope 2.0,
menus are significantly
enhanced. The new
backgrounds and dividers
show up, and the menu
background virtual-memory
bug has been fixed!

Kaleidoscope 2.0 is available at http://www
.kaleidoscope.net, where you’ll also find lots of
Kaleidoscope 2.0-compatible schemes. For those
of you who use Kaleidoscope already, version 2.0
can use schemes made for Kaleidoscope 1.x. Oh,
and be sure to spend the $20 to register your copy
after you download it . — DR

Pop-up window tabs have been reshaped to match
other Kaleidoscope elements. Tabs can now have
irregular shapes, just like other kinds of windows.

Amount Motorola wrote off in
terminating its StarMax clone
program: $95 million

FOCUS ON: AMBULANCE
CHASING!

Amount for which thwarted Mac
clone maker Panorama Designs
is suing Motorola: $13.5 million

Total amount for which defunct
clone maker PowerTools is suing
Apple and UMAX: $350 million

Amount for which defunct chip
maker Exponential Technologies
is suing Apple: $500 million

Amount for which patent
huckster Imatec is suing Apple:
$1.1 billion

FOCUS ON: POWERBOOKS
IN EXTREMIS!

Maximum number of months for
which a PowerBook battery can
be left in storage and still be
rechargeable: 12

Minimum operating temperature
for a PowerBook: 10°C

Maximum operating altitude for a
PowerBook: 1 0,000 feet

Minimum recommended clear-
ance between PowerBook key-
board and display (if on): 1 inch

Sources may be found at the MacAddict
Web site.— MS

18 MacADDICT AUG/9B

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FlashBack your work
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Protected against loss by
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Aladdin FlashBack is a whole
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With FlashBack you can recover
not only lost or damaged files, but
even previous versions of files that
you changed, even if you made
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savings of unlimited undos.

FlashBack tracks changes
made to a file every time you hit
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even after you’ve quit your
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your computer
off and gone
home. If you ever
saved a FlashBacked file, you
can recover it exactly as it was at that time.

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Save Disk Space

Keep multiple versions of your
important files without gobbling up
disk space. FlashBack makes
only one complete copy of your
file. Previous versions are tracked
through tiny “diff’ flies containing
only the changes, or differences,
between one version and the
next. The result? You can save
five, ten, twenty or more versions
of a file in less room than you
would use hitting ‘Save as’ just a
couple of times!

Time & Date Stamping

FlashBack time and date stamps
each version it saves, making it
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cravings

Five fabulous finds that defy cents and bring you to a fiery boil

Series Surge Protector

t was a dark and stormy night I
was alone In the house, and there
was nothing to do. Hoping to find
something entertaining, I turned on my Mac. There
it was — my Web browser! 1 started surfing the
Web, hitting all my bookmarks, when suddenly
the lightning struck! And struck! And struck
again! The lights in the house flickered off and
on. My Mac! Saved by a surge protector— the
SP9200 from Curtis. All surge protectors in the
9000 series possess diagnostics such as a
surge indicator light, a wiring status light, and
an alarm that warns you when the electric surge
is too hot to handle— that’s over 1 ,350 Joules.

The wiring

status light SURFING— NOT SURGING— ON THE WEB.

will even tell

you if a wall outlet is miswired or potentially dan-
gerous. There are three models in the 9000 series:

SP9200T ($54.99) for personal computers, and
SP9500N ($64.99) and SP9700M ($74.99) for net-
works. These three models each have eight outlets;
accommodate power adapters; boast advanced tele-
phone-line protection via Sidactor Technology; and offer a
built-in cable manager, which lets you put all those cables into
the surge protector according to color codes. Call 800-272-2366
or 319-263-8144 for more information, or visit http://catalog.
esselte.com/curtis.— JH

Curtis Computer Products

information managers are use-
■ less, well, you’re probably right. Who wants to be
organized and efficient? Disorganization brings spontaneity into our
lives. But if you want to organize your life and look stylish, get
Consultant 2. This full-featured, Mac-only PIM organizes schedules,
contacts, and communication. It also allows you to view information
according to day, multiday, week, month, year, list, Gantt chart, journal,
and memo views. We especially love a couple of outstanding features:

The appearance-sawy GUI allows you to select different textures

including wood, parchment, brick,

ORGANIZE YOURSELF AND LOOK GOOD. shimmer, and so on — ^thlnk customiza-
tion. And a smart feature understands and interprets what
you type. For example, if you type, “Meet Steve Jobs tomorrow at noon regarding pro-
posal,” Consultant schedules the appointment and links his contact information. Drawing
on Apple’s speech technology. Consultant can read your schedule to you. You can also
launch your email client or Web browser directly from the PIM, and in the office you can
share Consultant data files over a network. Finally, Consultant offers a built-in word
processor that generates reports, mail merges, envelopes, faxes, and labels, as well as a
MiniConsultant utility that allows you to schedule appointments and access contacts
quickly in one window. Call 801-550-9337 for more information, or download Consultant
from http://www.chronosnet.com. Online registration costs $39.95 . — JH

FIND A
DEMO of
Consultant
on The Disc.

Chronos

■f you think personal

20 MacADDICT AUG/98

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pat do you get when you add a pinch of power to an email
client? You get PowerMail 2.0 from CTM Development.

Who said no one writes software for the Mac? Moreover,

PowerMail isn’t just software — its intuitive, easy-to-use interface
gels with the Mac GUI for a consistent user experience.

PowerMail 2.0 boasts some awesome features: It supports multi-
ple email accounts and POP3 and IMAP4 protocols (the latter

allows users to

SHAPE ELECTRONS THE RIGHT WAY WITH POWERMAIL. see and manipulate the contents of server-based mailboxes);

imports and exports messages from Eudora; boasts quality filters
for mail management and automatic archiving; works with Mac OS 8 or later; provides drag-and-drop functionality;
and does all this in 71 languages, including Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, and Nepali. What else? PowerMail
sports high-speed archiving and retrieval, thanks to its integration of Apple’s Information Access Toolkit (also known
as V-Twin). In fact, PowerMail was a runner-up in the category “Best Apple Technology Adoption” at the Apple
Design Awards for Macintosh developers. Tres cool. PowerMail 2.0 is available for $49. For more information, check
out http://www.ctmdev.com, where you can download the application, or call 800-424-9933 . — JH

PowerMail

T he offices are alive with the sound of music! Through this speaker
system, Mozart’s Divertimento 17 will not only sound allegro, but alle-
gro molto vivace. In addition to Mozart, my favorite electronics thunders
through the air-conditioned ether at MacAddict How? The ISO-9002-
certified SW-1273 has a subwoofer that blows out 40w RMS through ite
6.5-inch-long throw woofer. Also, the system comes with a pair of magnet-
ically shielded satellite speakers that deliver musical waves through 4-inch
cone-type drivers and 1,5-

inch dome tweeters. That SERIOUS VIBRATIONS AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL,
translates into 20w RMS on

each side of your Mac. And you can adjust the separate bass, treble, and
volume controls, all from your desktop. Rockin’! Your coworkers will hate
you, but you’ll bask in toe-tapping tunes. If you don’t want musically
agnostic coworkers to spoil your fun, you can sport your favorite head-
phones— -plug and play! The SW-1273 costs $149 (SRP). Who said the lis-
tening experience had to be expensive? For more information, call Kinyo
at 626-333-3711, visit http://www.kinyo.com, or scope out your local com-
puter store . — JH

-1273 Nultimedia Speaker System

Kinyo Company

CS 315 Digital Camera

trike a pose! This digital camera for imaging pi

rofessionals is unique. Aimed at cor-

porate and industrial photography, law enforcement, government applications,
ical and scientific imaging, professional services, and photojournalism, the DCS 315
provides high-quality digital capture. It has a lightweight Nikon single lens reflex
body; features high-performance focusing and metering, as well as variable
exposure settings; supports Nikkor AF lenses; and allows the use of multi-
ple interchangeable lenses. That’s not all: The DCS 315 cranks out 1.5
megapixel full-frame CCD and does both raw and finished files at three
levels of compression (good: 200K, better:

DON’T WORRY, BE CAMERA HAPPY. 350K, best: 650K). In addition to these

elements, Kodak’s wunderkind sports an
LCD review so you can analyze the shot, features voice annotation
so you can record notes for each image, and offers a dual PC Card
that allows you to transport images without lugging around the
camera. The DCS 315 is available for $5,995 through authorized
Kodak Professional camera dealers. Click over to http://www.
kodak.com/go/professional or call 800-235-6325 for the details.— JH

AUG/98 MacADDICT 21

cravings

You know you * re a Mac addict when you name your

baby Max (poor girl), remove all
the windows from your Souse, and
write love letters to your s|weet-
heart using AppleScript. Right?

Wrong. In order to qualify as a card-carrying
Mac addict, you need to be armed with more than just a
collection of clever phrases and cute puns. You’ve got to
know the Mac cold, cruise the Finder like a locked missile,
tweak your software until it screams, and keep your hard-
ware humming smoothly.

No longer so certain of your Mac addict status? We’ll
show you how to coax the most from your Mac with top-
notch tips culled from our first ever MacAddict Tip-Off.

As a service to you, our readers, we pulled together a
group of seasoned Mac pros, gave them a case of Moun-
tain Dew and a crisp fiver (each!), and challenged them
to reveal their secrets. What they came up with was a fully
loaded arsenal of more than 250 tricks, pointers, and
handy how-to’s on everything from graphics to games.

So, you can either continue to just dream in six colors,
or you can take our advice and make the most of your wak-
ing hours. We know what a real Mac addict would do.

22 MacADDICT AUG/98

Mean Joe Holmes
Dave “The Edge” Reynolds
Sweet Sandee Cohen
Terrible Tim Tully
The Prison Dude
T. Killer Boylan

AUG,'98 MacADDICT - ^

YOU’LL FIND
DEMOS and
a slew of
shareware
mentioned in
this article
on The Disc.
We Promise.

T R I C K S

miiG HIE

MOUSE-FREE

FINDER

PRACTICE MAKES

PERFECT

If it’s speed you’re after, quit
mousing around your Finder
and let your fingers do the walk-
ing. We double-dog dare you to
run your Mac all day without
touching the mouse. Sure, it’s a
snap in an application like
Microsoft Word, where you can
perform every action — even
menu selections — from the key-
board, But by making use of lit-
tle-known key combinations,
you can actually do a serious
amount of work in the Finder,
too, without ever lifting a fin-
ger... off the keys, that is. So lose
the mouse, limber up your dig-
its, and show that Finder exactly
who’s boss.

Now that you’ve got down
the moves, it’s time to put
them to the test. These are
great sets of keyboard com-
mand combinations that will
be sure to speed up your
work. Remember, you can
often type these really fast In
succession— bang, bang,
bang — without waiting for the
actions to catch up with you.

■SELECT AN INACTIVE OPEN WINDOW OR BRING A HIDDEN WINDOW TO THE
FRONT:

Command-Shift-up arrow (selects the desktop, if the icon is
on the desktop)

■TRASH EVERY FILE IN AN OPEN FOLDER:

1 , Command-A (selects all)

2 . Command-Delete (moves to Trash)

■CHANGE THE RAM ALLOCATION FOR A SELECTED APPLICATION:

1 . Command-I (does a Get Info)

2 . Tab, Tab (selects Preferred Size text box)

3 . Type the new FIAM partition.

4 . Command-W (closes Get Info window)

5 . Command-0 or Command-down arrow (launches app)
■RETRIEVE FILES FROM THE TRASH:

1 , Command-Shift-up arrow (selects desktop)

2 , Type tra (selects Trash).

SLEEP, RESTART, SHIFT DOWN

-■ Press

SELECTING

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0-^B for restart,

■ Select icons on the desktop or in an active window:

Type the first few letters of an icon name to select that specific
icon—for example, Qui for Quicken.

Or...

to move from icon to icon alphabetically

for shut down

^±z] for cancel^.

to move backward

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24 MatiADDICT AUG/9B

SPILLED A STICKY SODA ON YOUR KEYBOARD? NEVER FEAR! JUST PRESS
GOMMAND-OPTION-R-G TO CLEANSE THE GOU FROM YOUR KEYS.

3 . Command-0 or Command-down arrow (opens Trash win-
dow)

4 . Type the first few letters of the file name (selects the file).

5 . Command-Y (puts away)

6. Command-W (closes Trash)

■UEGTAREMOVIIBLEDISK:

1 . Command-Shift-up arrow (selects desktop)

2 . Type the first few letters of the disk’s icon name (selects the
disk).

3 . Command-E (ejects the disk)

■COPY THE NAMES OF ALL THE ICONS IN A WINDOW OR ON THE DESKTOP;

1 . Command-A (selects all)

2 , Command-C (copies all)

■UUNGH AN APPLICATION THAT’S LOCATED SEVERAL FOLDERS DEEP:

1 . Command-Shift-up arrow (selects desktop)

2 . Type the first few letters of the hard drive’s name and press

Command-0 to open your hard drive window.

3 . Select the folder by typing the first few letters of Its name.

4. Press Command-Option-0 to open the folder and close
the hard drive window.

5 . Select the next folder by typing the first few letters in its
name. Then press Command-Option-0 to open the folder
and close the parent folder window.

6. When you reach the file, select it by typing the first few let-
ters, then press Command-Option-0 to launch the applica-
tion and close the folder window.

■ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO LAUNCH AN APP THAT IS SEVERAL FOLDERS DEEP:

1 . Press Command-F to open Find.

2 . Type unique letters in the application’s name and press
Return.

3 . Select the file in the upper panel using the arrow keys.

4 . Press Command-Shift-0 to open the file.

Or...

any given direction.

to move to the next icon in

OPEN, CLOSE, LAUNCH

■ Ope n or launch a selected icon:

c5 Sffi

+ k

Or...

-■Deselect the active window and select the
desktop:

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also closes the parent window 1

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the selected file back in the original folder:

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an alias:

IShow the original of the selected alias:
■Eject and unmount a selected volume:

Z3l+(1Z

I Change a selected icon’s name:
Jype the new icon name,

Close the window:

+(E

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In the Folder List view, expand the selected subfolder:

WORK

■ Put the selected icon in the Trash:

expands all the folders I

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IDISK CACHE: Under Mac OS

7. x, set your disk cache to the
lowest possible setting to save
RAM. Setting it higher doesn’t
help your Mac’s speed much.

IDISK CACHE: Under Mac OS

8, set your disk cache to 32Kfor
each megabyte of memory you
have. Although you lose some
available RAM to the disk cache,
the Finder will speed up quite a
bit as a result.

I VIRTUAL MEMORY: Under
Mac OS 7.x, turn off virtual
memory unless you really need
the RAM. Your Mac will be
more stable and will run faster.

I VIRTUAL MEMORY: Under
Mac OS 8.x, turn on virtual
memory. Your applications
will take less R^, they’U
launch faster, and your system
will be more reliable.

lEXTENSIONS

I KEEP ONLY WHAT YOU
NEED: Although it’s tempting to
download and use every single
possible extension that ever
existed, resist this urge, as it is
the fastest road to hell. Instead,
choose your extensions wisely.
Otherwise you’ll run out of RAM
and suffer intense extension
conflicts — and your little toes
will probably fall off, too.

I ADD EXTENSIONS ONE AT A

TIME: Don’t just dump the 30-
item “Uncle Bill’s Deep-Fried
Extension Pack” into your Sys-
tem Folder all at once. Drop
each greasy morsel in one at a
time, restart, and see if there
are any problems. If not, drop
the next one in, and so on.

■ INVEST IN EXTENSION SOFT-
WARE: Although the Extensions
manager that ships with the Mac
OS is good, it doesn’t do every-
thing. Our favorite is Casady &
Greene’s Conflict Catcher 4.1.1.
It not only handles extensions, it
checks for conflicts and can be
used to manage such items as
Photoshop plug-ins and contex-
tual menu items.

■ COLOR DEPTH: Set this to
256 colors (8-bit color) to
speed up the Finder, which has
to convert everything it draws to
256 colors anyway. Make life
easier for your Finder.

■ DON’T USE A DESKTOP PIC-
TURE: The desktop picture
sucks up RAM and processor
cycles, so unless you’re really
stuck on the picture, get rid of it.

■ DON’T OVERDO IT: Each
font takes up memory, and the
Finder (and other applications)
have to keep track of each font.
Remember, the limit is 128
fonts in your Fonts folder.

■ CHOOSE OR LOSE: For sani-
ty’s sake (and your printer’s),
pick either PostScript or True-
Type versions of your fonts, and
stick to that format. Having both
types of a font can be confosing.

■ use a FONT MANAGEMENT
UTILITY: ATM and FontReserve
come to mind. These utilities
allow you to swap fonts in and
out on the fly, making sure your
type is at hand without getting in
the way.

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power of Contextual Menus to Mac OS 7.x. Find PowerMenu at
http://www.kagi.com/authors/marka.

WISH

I If you really want to play with fire, use the Wish I Were
I control panel extension combo to change your Mac’s
gestalt ID. This will fool software installers (including system
software Installers) Into thinking your Mac is something that
it’s not. You can use Wish I Were to trick the Mac OS installer
into believing that your llci is a Power Mac 9500. Warning:
We assume no responsibility for hosed hard drives if you do
this and something goes wrong. You’re on your own, bucko.
Find it at http://www.macfixlt.com.

SUPERSEC
DESKTOP

EBUILD

I Want to rebuild your desktop completely with the
I supersecret Stickles trick? Try Buz Zoller’s technique:
Open Stickles, type a little text Into an empty Sticky, and
choose Export Text from the File menu. Save the file at
your hard drive’s root and name it desktop db. Your Mac
should ask you if you want to replace the current desktop
db. Click Replace. Quit Stickles and trash the desktop db
text file at your hard drive’s root level. Restart your Mac,
and It will do a complete rebuild of your desktop, a la
TechTool. Or you could just use TechTool to do the same
desktop rebuild (we’ve put TechTool on The Disc).

26 MaeADDiCr AUG/98

GOMMAND-GLIGK ON THE SEGRET SPOT IN THE MEMORY GONTROL PANEL AND,
IN THE RESULTING DIALOG BOX, UNGHEGK THE OPTION “GRASH AT RANDOM.”

NElWORKINe

■ SERVERS: When connecting
to a file server, don’t check the
Connect Automatically box. In-
stead, make aliases to frequendy
used servers, and double-click

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these. That way, your Mac won’t
clog the network with unneces-
sary “Fm here” messages.

■ file SHARING: lUm off File
Sharing unless you need it.
When it’s on, it takes up CPU
time for no reason if there’s no
one there with whom you’re
sharing files.

INTERFACE

■ TURN OFF FOLDER SIZE
CALCULATION: This one wastes
a load of time, especially if you
have folders with lots of stuff in
them. lUm it off in the View
Options dialog box.

■ TURN OFF THE SHUTDOWN
WARNING: One of the most
annoying things after a crash is
for your Mac to tell you that
you turned off your Mac incor-

STOP THE INSANITY with a
check to the box.

reedy. Duh. Thru this annoy-
ance off in the General Con-
trols control panel.

■ CLEAN UP YOUR INTERFACE:
To hide the Finder automatically,
uncheck Show Desktop When
In Background in the General

Controls control panel. The
Finder now hides when it’s in
the background. Neat!

LEARN THE

CLICKS

■ COMMAND-CUCK: Do this on
the name in a window’s tide bar
while in the Finder, and you’ll get
a listing of \\diere the window’s
folder is on your hard drive.

■ OPTION-DRAG: This makes
the Finder copy the item that
you’re Option-dragging. It can
also be used to move the Con-
trol Strip tab around — even to
the opposite side of the screen,
where it belongs.

■ COMMAND-DRAG: Use this
to move the tabs on tabbed win-
dows. Put a litde space between
your tabs for an attractive desk-
top layout.

PERFORMANCE

AND MAINTENANCE

■ REBUILD YOUR DESKTOP:
We often forget to do this litde
task, but it is an important part
of any maintenance routine.
Hold down the Command and
Option keys while the Finder is
starting up, and you will be
asked if you want to rebuild the
desktop. Go ahead and do it, but
remember to start up with exten-
sions off for the best rebuild.

■ SET A START-UP DISK: If
your Mac doesn’t have a start-
up disk specified in its Startup
Disk control panel, it takes
some time at startup to figure
out which disk to use. Give your
Mac some direction by select-
ing a disk for it.

■ DEFRAGMENT YOUR HARD
DRIVE: For the fastest possible
performance, either use a com-
mercial utility to defragment, or
copy the drive to a spare and
then copy the data back to the
original drive.

HOWmHNDAWORDINIII

INVISIBIf ni£

So you say this isn’t useful, huh? Well, what if you once
made a file invisible {to hide it from certain prying eyes) and
you want to find it, but you can’t remember what you called
it or where It is? All you remember is that the words vorpal
rabbit are somewhere in the file. What do you do? Why,
take advantage of Find File’s secret features, of course.
Here’s how:

name

size

kind

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date created
date modified
version
comments
lock attribute
folder attribute
fiietype
creator

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START FIND FILE with Command-F. Hold down the Option key
and click on the Name pop-up menu. You’ll see four new menu
options at the bottom of the menu. Select Contents.

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size
kind
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date created
date modified
version
comments
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contents
name/icon lock
custom icon

contains

Find

CLICK ON THE MORE CHOICES button,
then Option-click on the Name pop-up
menu in the second item that appears.
Select Visibility from the menu, and set
It to Invisible.

SINCE YOU REMEMBER which hard drive contains the invisible
file, select that drive in the Find items pop-up menu. Finding
things by content takes a long time, so do anything you can to
narrow the search and speed things up. Press Find— you’re off!

'X<-- >

AUG/98 MacADD/Cr 27

tip-off

TAKE OFF YOUR MASK.
Halloween’s over, kid.

able the mask’s effects tem-
porarily. Hold down the Option

key and click on the preview of
a layer mask to see and work
on die mask.

■TARGET LAYERS: In the
Move tool, hold down the Con-
trol key and click with the
mouse. A contextual menu
appears with the names of the

PICK A LAYER, any layer.

layers in the document. Choose
the layer you want to go to.
Secret tip: Add the Option key
and you can click on the art-
work to get the target layer.
■BRUSHES: Use [ and ] (the
left and right bracket keys) to
loop through the choices in the
Brushes palette. Secret tip: This
works even if the palette is not
visible.

■SELECT LAYER: Select All
(Command-A) makes a rectan-
gular selection' of a layer. To
select just the shapes of the
images on a layer, hold down

PHOTOSHOP 4 OR 5

■drag from illustrator

OR FREEHAND: Drag artwork
from Illustrator or FreeHand
direcdy into Photoshop and it
comes in on its own layer. Hold
down the Shift key and the art
comes in centered on its own
layer. Hold down the Command
key and it comes in as a path.
■hide PALETTES: Press the
Tab key to hide all palettes. Press
Shift-Tab to hide all palettes
except the Toolbox. (This tip
worle for Illustrator, too.)
■fill with COLOR: Option-
Delete fills with the foreground
color. Command-Delete fills
with the background color.
Secret tip: Add the Shift key to
either of those commands to fill
as if Preserve Transparency is
turned on.

■layer MASKS; Hold down
the Shift key and click on the
preview of a layer mask to dis-

the Command key and click
the name of a layer. Secret
tip: Command-click the name
of a channel to make it a selec-
tion. Command-cfick the name
of a path to make it a selection.
Conunand-chck the name of
a layer mask to make it a
selection.

QUARKXPRESS 4

■CONVERT TEXT: Quark-
XPress 4 allows you to convert
text into picture boxes. Select
the text and choose Style, then
Text To Box. Similar to Create
Outlines or Convert To Paths in
vector programs, this action
copies the text, converts it to

Jelly

Beiiiis

THESE JELLY BEANS are pretty
as a picture box.

picture boxes, and then places
the copy directly underneath
the text. These picture boxes
are not part of the original text.
Secret tip: Hold down the
Option key as you choose Text
To Box. This deletes the origi-
nal text and pastes the convert-
ed text as an inline graphic.
These picture boxes will then
flow with the text.

■sticky APPLY: Hold down
the Option key as you click the
Apply button. This turns the
button into a Sticky Apply that
will keep applying automat-
ically. The Sticky Apply con-
tinues to work across all dia-
log boxes for the rest of the
Quark session. Hold down the
Option key again to unstick
the button.

■ARROWS INTO PICTURES:
QuarkXPress 4 allows you to
convert lines into picture
boxes. For example, draw a
thick line and add an arrow to
it. Choose Item, then Shape, fol-

HOW TO CAST A GIANT SHADOW

A picture-perfect Mac addict can mix and mingle a variety of graphics pro- ready to celebrate your artistic coming out, we’ll help you refine your image

grams with the grace of a socialite at a debutante ball. If you don’t feel quite with an all-purpose how-to that uses three programs at once.

1 Starting in your vector program (Illustrator
or FreeHand), open a logo or convert text
Into paths. Duplicate the logo. Then scale and
skew the duplicate so it looks like a

large shadow. (If you
are in FreeHand, use
the 3D Rotation tool
to give the logo per-
spective.)

2 Cut the large shadow, and then open a
new Photoshop file. The file will be the
size of the copied
image. Set this
new document to
be slightly larger at
a resolution of 150
pixels per inch in
gray-scale mode.

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3 Paste the copied
image as a set of
pixels on its own
layer. Set that layer to
preserve transparen-
cy, and then apply a
black-and-white gra-
dient across the
image.

28 MacADD/C7- AUG/9S

DON’T POINT WITH YOUR KNIFE
TOOL. IT’S RUDE.

CLIP'irSAVi: COMMANDS

THE SHORTEST WAY to a picture
box is not a straight iine.

lowed by the Bezier icon. This
converts the line to a shape.
Then choose Item, Content, and
Picture. You can now import
pictures into this picture box.
■DO THE MATH: You can
manipulate any number in the
measurements palette or in any
dialog box by doing math. So if

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QUARK 4.0 DOES THE MATH so
you don’t have to.

you want to make a 4-inch dia-
log box one-third its width, just
make the width field read 4V3
and press Return. You can even
mix math: To make a 4-inch
box one-third the size and then
add 24 points, you would enter
the equation 4V3+24pt and
press Return.

■increase line WEIGHT:
Command-Option-Shift- >
(greater-than sign) increases
the stroke weight of a line.
Command-Option-Shift-< (less-
than sign) decreases it.

■AVOID EXTRA CHARACTERS:
Instead of using the space bar
to make line spaces, use para-
graph formatting. Also, extra
paragraph returns add to the
file size and processing time.
■TEXT BOXES WITH BACK-
GROUND NONE: Unless you
need Background None for a
special effect, keep the back-
ground color as 0% Black. It
takes more time to process a
file with Background None.

■ ROTATING AND SCALING
PLACED IMAGES: Avoid doing
transformations such as rota-
tions and scaling in the page-
layout program. Instead, go
back to the original problem
figure and do the
transformation there.
■SAVE AS TIFFS: Do

this instead of saving files as
EPS with clipping paths — both
PageMaker 6,5 and Quark-
XPress 4 can read the clipping
paths in Photoshop documents
saved as TIFF files. This allows
you to reduce file size.
■general STRETCHING EXER-
CISES: Dragging and dropping
between documents usually
bypasses the contents of the
Clipboard. This is especially
important when you’re working
in Photoshop, where you don’t
want to waste your time copying
and pasting.

■ALIAS: You can force one

4 Turn off Preserve Transparency,
and then apply a Gaussian Blur
to your
image.

Flatten
the file
and save
it as a
TIFF.

If you’re a long-term Illustrator user who upgraded to Illus-
trator 7, the changes for many of the standard keyboard
shortcuts may have frustrated you. Or perhaps you com-
pletely lost it the first time you went to ungroup and your
artwork disappeared. (Check out the changes in Ungroup
and Hide.) The following major commands were changed
from Illustrator 6 to Illustrator 7.

ILLUSTRATOR 6

ILLUSTRATOR?

Actual Size

Command-H

Command-1

Fit In Window

Command-M

Command-0

Zoom in

Command-]

Command-+

Zoom Out

Command"!

Command-

Artwork Mode

Command-E

Command-Y

Preview Selection

Command-Optlon-Y

Command-Shift-Y

Hide Edges

Command-Shift-H

Command-H

Hide Tempiate

Command-Shift-W

none available

Bring To Front

Command- =

Command-Shift-]

Send To Back

Command-

Command“Shlft-[

Ungroup

Command-U

Command-Shift-G

Make Mask

none available

Command-7

Reiease Mask

none available

Command-Option-7

Reiease Compound

Command-9

Command-Optlon-8

Hide

Command-3

Command-U

Show All

Command-4

Command-Shift-U

Hide Unseiected

Command-Optlon-3

Command-Option-U

Lock

Command-1

Command-L

Unlock

Command-2

Command-Shift-L

Lock Unselected

Command-Option-1

Command-Option-L

Average

Command-L

Command-Option-J

Average And Join

Command-Option-J

Gommand-Option-Shift-J

Reiease Guides

Command-6

Command-Option-5

Lock Guides

Command-7

Command-Option-;

I Save the small logo
^as an EPS.

6 In your page layout program (QuarkXPress or
F

^ PageMaker), import the large shadow TIFF, and
then place your text in front of it. (In QuarkXPress, set
the background color of the textbox to None.) Then
import the EPS image. (In
QuarkXPress, set that pic-
ture box for a background
color of None.) Adjust the
position of the front logo in
relationship to the back
shadow, and you’re made in
the shade.

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application to open another’s
fiOies by dragging file onto an
alias of the application. For
I example, this forces Photoshop
to open downloaded Web files,
and FreeHand to open Illustra-
tor files.

ILLUSTRATOR 7

ISCROLL WITH THE HAND
TOOL: Using the Hand tool is
much faster than moving all the
way over to the scroll bars.
Pressing the spacebar gives you
the Hand tool, no matter what
tool you’re in. However, if you
are working in the Text tool,
pressing the spacebar will add
spaces to your text, hi that case,
hold down the Command key,
add the spacebar, and then
release the Command key. This
gives you the Hand tool without
adding spaces.

INUDGING PATTERNS: You
can move, rotate, scale, reflect,
or skew patterns within an
object by holding down the
tilde (~) key while you move or
transform the object. To nudge
the pattern in small increments,
hold down the tilde key as you
press the up, dovm, left, or
right arrow keys.

■STARS, POLYGONS, AND SPI-
RALS: dick the up or down
arrow keys as you draw a star,
polygon, or spiral to increase

CLICK UP AND DOWN to
increase your star power.

or decrease the number of
sides or coils.

ILOCK AND HIDE: Command-
U hides selected artwork. Com-
mand-L locks selected artwork.
Secret tip: Command-Option-U

hides all the deselected art-
work. Command-Option-L locks
all the deselected artwork,
■SELECT ALL IN A LAYER:
Option-click the name of a
layer to select all the objects in
just that layer. Secret tip:
Option-Shift-ciick to add all the
objects in another layer to the
current selection.
■GRADIENTS: Hold down the
Option key as you drag a gradi-
ent color slider to duplicate that
color along the gradient. Hold
down the Option key and drag

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JUDGE YOUR COLOR on a
gradient.

one slider onto another to swap
the positions of two colors.

FREEHAND

■SMUDGE TOOL: To make a
smudge that extends out from
the center of the object (like a
glow), hold down the Option
key as you drag the Smudge
tool.

CREATE A LITERAL SMEAR
campaign. It’s your option
(key), you know.

■FREEFORM TOOL: Hold
down the left arrow key to
decrease the size of the effect of
the Freeform tool. Hold down
the right arrow key to increase
the size of the effect.

■KNIFE TOOL: Double-click

the Knife tool and check
Closed Cut Paths in Knife

StfIfiSS

HOW ELSE DO YOU THINK the
Swiss make their cheese?

Options. Then set the Knife to a
large width. The Knife will
work like an eraser, eating
away paths.

■CURVED LINES: Hold down
the Option key and drag on a
straight line segment to curve it.

IT’S NOT ALWAYS hip to be
square.

■SELECT UP IN A GROUP:
Select one point or object in a
group, and then press the tilde
key to select up the levels of the
group. Or you can use the com-
mand Edit, Select, Superselect.
■key into INSPECTOR PAN-
ELS: Command-single quote (')
jumps to the first field in the
first visible Inspector palette.
Tab to get to the field you want
or use Command-single quote
^ain to jump to the next
Inspector. Press Enter or
Return to apply whatever
changes you’ve made.

PAGEMAKER 6.5

■COLOR FRAME CON-
TENTS: Click a frame
to select a Page-
Maker frame
element. Then
click a color
in the Color
palette to
change the
background
color. Secret
tip: Command-
click on the frame
to select the object

(for example, a gray-scale
image) inside the frame ele-
ment. Then click a color in the
Color palette to change the
object’s color.

■SAVE ALL
OPEN DOCU-
MENTS: Hold
down the Op-
tion key as you
choose File,

Save. The Save
command be-
comes Save All.

■CLOSE ALL
OPEN DOCU-
MENTS: Hold
down the Op-
tion key as you
choose File,

Close. Close
then becomes
GoseAU.

■ADDANEW
PAGE: Press
Command-
Option-Shift-G
to add a new page immediately
following the page on which
you are currently working.
■IMPORT NATIVE ILLUSTRA-
TOR FILES: Some people have
found that importing native
Illustrator files into PageMaker
6.5 causes the file size to bloat.
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Spot color options:

(S) Odd spot color names to palette
(for correct spot separations)

O EHclude spot color names

(spot colors conuerted to process for separations)
Preuieur options :

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KEEP THE FILE, lose the fat.

Show Filter Preferences in
the Place Document
dialog box. Then set
the Preview Op-
tions filter for 72-
dpi resolution
and 256 colors.
This keeps the
file from explod-
ing in size when
you bring it in.

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DO’S AND DON’TS

■ Do buy a dark-colored
monitor rather than a beige
box because they offer better
contrast with the screen. Dark
borders around a monitor
screen provide the visual effect
of a brighter, sharper display,
and dark plastic won’t yellow
with time the way light-colored
plastic will.

■ Do use a monitor hood to
maintain consistent screen
color. Light changes in most
rooms as the day wears on and
as electrical lights fluctuate.
These subtle changes in light-
ing can affect how you per-
ceive the colors on the moni-
tor. Slapping a hood on your
monitor reduces the impact of
these fluctuations for a more
stable color appearance.

■ Do use your CD-ROM’s
built-in volume control to lis-
ten to music. If you pop the
faceplate off your CD-ROM
drive, you should find its
native volume control dial and
headphone jack. From the
Monitors and Sound control
panel, select None for the
sound-monitoring source.
This makes your CD sound
independent from your com-
puter’s sound. Plug a pair of
headphones directly into the
CD-ROM drive and vary the
volume of music while your
computer chirps away at its
own set amplitude.

■ Do buy lots of RAM. RAM is
your best friend. Figure out
how much you can possibly
afford, and install slightly
more. Things will crash less,
technologies you thought were
hoaxes (including, say, Real-
Audio) will work, and some
applications will speed up.

■ Don’t plug and unplug
devices while your Mac is run-
ning. The Mac maintains a
steady flow of current through
most of its ports, so to avoid
shorting things out, always shut
down before connecting or dis-

connecting a keyboard, mouse,
or other cool hardware add-
on... unless you have an iMac.
The iMac replaced SCSI and
ADB with USB, which is hot-
pluggable, meaning you can
connect USB devices without
restarting your machine. SCSI
and ADB both require you to
shut down your Mac.

■ Do deploy a RAID (Redun-
dant Array of Independent
Disks) . If you own two or more
large hard disks, stripe them
into a RAID. You can do this
with software from companies
such as Optima Technology or
Adaptec. Your computer will
see the hard disks as one and
write to them simultaneously,
greatly speeding up throughput.

TROUBLESHOOTING

■ If your Mac crashes or acts
weird for no apparent reason,
odds are your Parameter RAM
has turned to the dark side.
When you can’t remember the
key commands required to zap
your PRAM back to the right
side of the force, just think
copper — a handy mnemonic
device that stands for Control-
Option-P-R. Hold down these
magic keys while rebooting,
until you hear the Mac’s start-
up chime five times.

■ If your hard drive or your
CD-ROM drive mysteriously
disappears from your Mac’s
awareness, you might want to
check to make sure that your
internal ribbon cables are still
connected. Some Macs get a
lot of shaking from fans, CD-
ROM drives, and hard disks,
all of which can unseat an
internal drive chain.

■ a bad motherboard battery
creates a constant state of con-
fusion (kind of like Alzhei-
mer’s for the PRAM) and
could cause your Mac to start
up sometimes but not other
times. If this sounds like your
situation, try replacing your
motherboard battery.

■ Don’t use common electri-
cal devices to clean out your
Mac. You may think that you’re
being clever when you use a
dust buster or hair drier to
blow out dust bunnies, but
you’re building up a whole
bunch of static electricity
around components that don’t
like static electricity. Use either
compressed air or a special
vacuum designed to clean elec-
trical components.

■ To fix SCSI problems, buy a
SCSI Sentry. APS Technologies
(http://www.apstech.com)
sells a great device that will
make your SCSI problems go
away. The SCSI Sentry and the
the SCSI Sentry II monitor
your SCSI chain and fix errors
as they occur.

■ Make sure you assign dif-
ferent devices in a SCSI chain
different numbers. Assigning
two the same number is a sure
way to halt your computer’s
functionality and possibly even
corrupt data.

■ if you have two Etliemet-
capable Macs and would
rather play networked, full-
screen Marathon than share a
printer, buy an Ethernet
cross-over cable. You can get
one for about five bucks at an
electronics store, and it will
give you Ethernet network
speed ^vithout the expense of
a hub.

■ if your hardware-expan-
sion plans mean that you will
have to buy external hard
drives, Iomega drives, and
CD-Rs because you don’t have
any free ports in your Mac,
save your money. Instead,
invest in an empty PC case and
internal SCSI devices (which
are much cheaper) and build
your own SCSI device case. PC
boxes, which come complete
with a power supply and slots
for SCSI devices, cost around
$65. Just buy an internal SCSI
ribbon and an internal-to-
external port converter and
start saving.

AHEAD

If you need extra processor
speed and crave danger, the
mother of all bad ideas may
be just the ticket for you. On
every Mac (and every comput-
er) is a clock chip that tells the
machine how fast to go. Tell
the clock to tick faster and the
whole machine speeds up.

So why not crank a mere
33MHz machine up to, say,
700,000 MHz? First of all, it
would glow white-hot and
suck the electricity out of every
building in a three-county
radius. Second, not all chips
run well at high speeds. Or
sometimes they run fast for a
while, only to crash with bus
errors. If you buy a clock-chip
accelerator and see strange
crashes and bus errors right
after installation, pull the chip
and send it back for a refund.

Clock chipping is not for
the weak of heart, but if you
need the speed and have no
other alternatives you should
check out Output Enabler at
(http://www.io.com/'-oe/
Products.html). A snap-on
accelerator kit will cost you
from $10 to $80.

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■ The Mac startup sound is
burned into ROM, making it both
immutable and unmutable (ex-
cept by putting a dummy plug
into the Mac’s audio out), but
you can record your own system
beep. From your Apple menu,
launch Simple Sound, and you’ll
see the Alert Sounds window list-
ing the standard eeps and
quacks. Click the Add button

ble-chck them. Just drop your
sound files (they can even be PC
sounds) onto \he utility and it
will convert them to SND format.

■ Digital audio comes in a vari-
ety of file formats — some your
Mac can’t play, and some Brian’s
Sound Tool won’t recognize.
Visit http://www-cs-students
.stanford.edu/~franke
/soundapp/#information for the
latest version of Norman
Franke’s SoundApp for
and-drop conversion of all com-
mon file formats, as well as
uncommon ones such as Psion
sound, Ircam, and Scream-
Tracker 3 module.

■ Audio distortion doesn’t have
to be a bad thing. Tom Erbe’s
classic shareware, SoundHack
0.881 (http://www.gmeb.fr
/SoftwareCompetition/Sound
Hack.html) does time stretch-
ing, pitch shifting, vocoding,
varispeed, spatiaiizing, ring
modulation, spectral mutation,
noise reduction, spectral expan-
sion and compression, and even
more. Confijsed? You won’t be
for long: SoundHack is a great
way to tune up on audio basics.
The program also plays most
sound formats, records sounds
of any size, imports sound files
from audio CDs, and converts
sound file formats.

■ Rod Kennedy’s SoundMa-
chine 2.7.1, downloadable for
$10 at http://www.kagi.com/rod,
plays native Mac audio as well as
sounds in the AU format, which
is popular for the Web. You can
play sounds backward, change
their speed, loop them, switch
formats, change sample rate,
and perform other tricks. Sound
Machine works with files of any
length and can play in the back-
ground while you work.

FACE THE MUSIC with SoundMachine.

■ The Macintosh Simple Sound
recorder limits you to recording
10-second-long system sounds,
but Sound Recorder ($9-95 at

http://www.virtualsoftware.com
/softdisk/dl0318/) is limited
only by the RAM in your Mac.

■ The venerable Mac audio
Web site, pub/mac/sound (http:
//www.host.ots.utexas.edu/mac
/pub-mac-sound.html) , has
been offering the best of the best
of Mac audio shareware for
years. Here, all on one site, you
can find ConvertMachine 1.0.6,
Digital Oscilloscope 2.1, Fre-
quency Meter 1.0, MPEGAud
1.0, NetDeck 1.0, SoundApp
2.2.2, and SoundEffects 0.9.2. If
you don’t insist on having the
absolute latest version of your
audio shareware, this is a handy
way to get it all at one place.

■ Open the QuickTime Settings
control panel, click the button in
the window, and choose Auto-
Play. Then click the Enable Audio
CD AutoPlay check box to hear
your new Hanson CD rock your
Mac as soon as you pop it in.
Open the Apple CD Audio Player
(under the .^ple menu) to call
up controls that allow you to flip
between tracks and pause.

■ SurfSim, a $10 shareware
program at http://members.aol
.com/carlhuben, plays the sound
of the ocean surf fi’om your Mac.

■ Make your own startup or
shutdown sound by putting an
SND file in the startup or shut-
down folders. You’ll sffl hear the
“phong” sound at startup, but
your sound will play next.

■ Sample Editor (http://sol
.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/pages
/schools_online/using_audio
/sound_utils.html) opens AIFF,
SND, and compressed audio
files, and records with the
PlainTalk Microphone. The cool
thing about Sample Editor is that
it lets you see a graphic repre-
sentation of a sound, which you

can zoom in or
out and scroll
through. Sample
Editor lets you
cut and paste different sounds
together, Me a sound in and
out, cross-fade two different
sounds for a seamless audio

sphce, and manipulate sounds in
a number of other ways.

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SAMPLE EDITOR opens your
eyes to the world of audio.

■ Learn the difference between
AIFF and SND at Sound 0 Rama
(http ://www. soundorama. com
/formats.html) , where you’ll find
explanations of all the most com-
monly used sound file formats.

■ If you’re bored with the music
in your games, or if your email
alert sounds too generic, you can
swap in more personalized
sounds with either of two share-
ware utilities. Agent Audio Pro
1.2 (http-y/www.clixsounds.com
/products/agentaudio) allows
you to see and play sounds
embedded within your programs
or files and replace them with
your own sounds. Another utility.
Wired for Sound, ($14.95 at
http ://www2 . viaweb . com
/pittsburgh/wirforsoun.html)
features the Sound Stripping Util-
ity, which extracts sound files
from any file or program and
allows you to install a new one.
Wired for Sound also includes
over 500 l6-bit stereo sounds
and phrases in more than 20
sound categories, including cars,
groans, planes, voices, and more.

■ check out the Music and
Audio Connection (http:/Avww
.musicandaudio.com) for three
programs that will turn you on
your ear. Ear Training 2.41
helps you practice identifying
note intervals, chords, and
scales. Ear Workout 3.1 pro-
vides workouts on recognizing
intervals, chords, and arpeg-
gios, and on singing intervals.
Grab Audio captures the audio
from an audio CD in the Mac
CD-ROM player and saves it in a

IF FILE SIZE IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL, TRY QUICKTIME 3.0’S NEW NXVWL COMPRESSION.
YOUR AUOlO FILES WILL SHRINK 90 PERCENT WHEN NXVWL THROWS AWAY ALL THE VOWELS!

number of fQe formats.

■ QuickTime 3.0 supports just
about all the audio files in exis-
tence, synchronizes audio and
video playback, and allows for
an unlimited number of audio
tracks. It also includes an
improved, software-based music
synthesizer equipped with a
quality set of sounds. You can
cut and paste together videos
using sounds you’ve recorded
with the shareware mentioned
here to make your own Quick-
Time movies complete wi& dia-
logue, sound effects, and a
music background.

■ Assign a sound to any
event — from key clicks to error
messages — ^using Bruce Tom-
lin’s SoundMaster (http://lones-
tar.texas .net.net/~btomlin
/soundmaster.html). The cur-
rent version, 1.8.4, is not Mac
OS 8-ready, but this just means
it can’t assign sounds to window
zooming and Trash emptying.
■Visit Apple’s Web site (http://
www.apple.com/quicktime) to
see and download QuickTime
extensions, plug-ins, and helper
software such as MoviePlayer.
■You can find links to hun-
dreds of MIDI files of all kinds
at All About Penh: Music &
Lyrics (http://www.wantree.com
.au/~marty/world/audio.htm
#music). Download a MIDI file
and drop it onto the QuickTime
MoviePlayer. To play the Quick-
Time synthesizer in your Mac,
dick the start button of the file
that appears.

■ Apple QuickTime evangelist
Charles Wiltgen has a Web page
at http://www.quicktimefaq.org
/software with lots of QuickTime
goodies. One of the best is the
QuickTime Music Architecture
(QTMA) Atomic Editor, This
utility gives you the tools to cre-
ate digital musical instruments
for any QuickTime synthesizer,
induding Apple’s built-in soft-
ware synth. Use the instruments
you create with any application
(for example, MoviePlayer) that
handles QTMA.

■ For professional recording
quality, bypass the PlainTalk sys-
tem entirely and pick up a sound
card that accepts standard line-
level audio. Cards such as the
Audiomedia IB fi’om Digidesign
(www.digidesign.com) or the
1212 from Korg (www.korg
.com/sndnkl.htm) offer RCA
jacks that accept standard plugs
and levels.

VIDEO

■ Media Cleaner Pro (http://
www.terran-int.com) optimizes
and compresses QuickTime
movies that are designed to
play back on computers. Media
Cleaner works with any of the
standard QuickTime codecs,
such as Cinepak or Indeo, and
can create RealVideo, RealAu-
dio, VDOLive, and AIFF files.
Media Cleaner has special fil-
ters that preserve the quality of
video files you compress, and it
offers time-saving features for
managing compression jobs.

■ If you want to include Quick-
Time videos on your Web site,
visit Apple’s Web site at http:
//^vww.apple.com/quicktirae for
handy how-to’s and instructions.

■ if you have the QuickTime
plug-in in your Web browser
but movies don’t play back
smoothly, you may have your
Mac’s Virtual Memory turned
on. Go to the Memory control
panel and turn it off.

■ if you want to edit your
QuickTime movies but you don’t
have expensive editing software,
the QuickTime MoviePlayer
allows you to cut and paste any
media element — ^video, audio,
text, MIDI — into an existing
movie. Copy the material you
want to add, move the slider in
the target movie to the point
where you want to add in the
new material, and choose Paste
from the Edit menu. This seam-
lessly inserts the new material.

HOW

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COHVOLVE SOUND

SOUNDHAGK

Most people spend an entire lifetime without experiencing
the slightest desire to convolve two sounds. Then there are
those who, having learned such a process exists, never find
true happiness until the convolving engine is humming reas-
suringly beneath their fingers. For those of you who fall into
the latter category, the road to nirvana follows.

STEP ONE: SOUND ONE

After downloading, install-
ing, and launching Sound-
Hack, go to the File menu
and open an AIFF sound
file or import an SND file.
Alternatively, the File menu
opens a record dialog with
which you can record a

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new AIFF using the Mac microphone.

STEP TWO; SOUND TWO

Find a second AIFF file on your disk, or record and save a
new one. Keep this file closed.

STEP THREE: HACK

With your first file open, go to the Hack menu and choose
Convolution; you’ll see a dialog with several parameters.
Leave Gain at 42dB, choose any value you want from the
Windo button, check Ring Modulate, and click Pick Impulse.

STEP FOUR: CONVOLVE

In the scrolling dialog, open
the second AIFF you chose
earlier, then click Process in
the Convolve panel.

What happens is that
SoundHack multiplies the
frequency spectra of the
two files in such a way that it
reinforces frequencies com-
mon to both, synthesizing a
new sound file. You pretty
much have to hear the
results to get a sense of

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how this sounds, but if you listen to anything from The X Files
to Star Trek, you’ll recognize the general effect: a weird,
robotic, metallic, distorted mix of the two sounds. It may take
a little experimenting (and it’s a really good idea to read the
manual), but when you’re done you'll have a unique candi-
date for a new system sound. And as a bonus, turning a
mono sound into stereo with SoundHack’s Binaural filter will
be a conceptual snap.

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NETSCAPE NAVI6AT0R

AND MICROSOFT

INTERNET EXPLORER

■ Click and hold a link to open
the link in a new window.

■ Click and hold an image or
QuickTime movie to save it to
your hard drive or clipboard.

■ in Netscape Navigator only,
click and hold inside a frame to
open it in a full window. This
also reveals the frame’s URL in
the Location text box, which
makes for easy bookmarking,

■ You may already know that
you can type companyname
into your Web browser’s URL
box and it’ll look for htlp://
www.companyname.com. But
don’t forget you can include
directory info: Type company
name/directory to have the
browser check http://www
.companyname.com/directory.

■ Make it a habit to open two
windows in your Web browser.
Then, while you wait for insanely
large graphics to download in
one window, click on the other
window and go in search of
other pages.

■ If your Web browser returns
a 404 Not Found error, it means
you’ve reached a host comput-
er but the p^e you requested
isn’t there. This often happens
because the site has updated or
changed, so try deleting the
final page or directory in the

URL. For example, if typing in
http://www.chortle.com
/myhouse/bathroom.html
returns the dreaded 404 Not
Found, try deleting the words
bathroom.html. Also check for
typos in the URL.

■ if you don’t have Internet

Config (ftp ://ftp . share, com

/internet-configuration), get it
now — it’s a must-have, and it’s
free. Just put scads of Internet
preferences into Internet Con-
fig’s boxes, and from that
moment forth all your Internet
apps will automatically puU
most of their settings from it.

■ One of the most useful Mac
tools you’ll ever own is the free
Stuffit Expander (http://www.
aladdinsys.com/expander
/expander, html) , which ex-
pands several types of com-
pressed files. For the most
transparent use of the utility, set
all of your Internet apps to
expand downloaded files auto-
matically, and then set Stuffit
Expander’s preferences to
delete the original,

■ Stuffit Expander alone won’t
decode common Internet file
types, such as uuencoded and
TAR ffles. But if you pick up the
shareware DropStuff with
Expander Enhancer ($30),
you’ll never find a file you can’t
convert.

FI?: FETCH MD

ANARCHIE

■ You’ll often find a useful
read-me text file in an FTP
directory, but don’t download
it. Instead, select View File in
Fetch, View Selection in Anar-
chic — or press command-L in
either application.

■ Download a file from Fetch
or Anarchic by dragging it to
the Finder.

■ Click the Date category in a
directory window to see the
most recently modified files at
the top.

■ You can include your user
name and password in an FTP
URL, which saves you from hav-
ing to retype them every time
you go back to the site.

■ when you paste an FTP URL
into a Get Via FTP window in
Anarchic, the URL’s parts
appear in the correct fields
automatically.

■ Highlight any file or directo-
ry in a Fetch or Anarchic win-
dow and copy its name. You
can then paste the entire path
into any other application.

■ If you know a ffle must be on
a particular FTP server, but you
have no idea which directory
holds it, launch Anarchic.
Select FTP from the FTP menu,
and check Index Search in the
FTP box. Then fill in the FTP
server in the Server box and the
file name in the Index box.
Anarchic will search the whole
site for your file. If the server
does not support an index
search, you’ll get an error mes-
sage such as “Index command
not implemented.”

■ if your FTP connection is
refused, try a simple at sign
(@) as your password instead
of your email address. If your
FTP application crashes, try a
hyphen as the first character of
the password.

■ Fog City, the original devel-
oper of Emailer, posts many
Emailer extras and utilities on
its Web site (http://www.fog
city.com/em_utilities2 .0.html) ,
including Emailer Archives,
which lets you move all of your
read email into a FileMaker Pro
archive. Why would you want to
do this? Easier and more pow-
erful searching, for one thing;
off-site storage, for another;
and, most important, the Email-
er database can quickly grow to

dozens of megabytes in size,
and your backup application
will otherwise back up the
entire database every day.

■ Emailer allows you to drag
and drop almost anything. For
example, you can select a
group of email messages in
your in-box and drag them all
to the same folder at once.

■ You can set your reply pref-
erences so that your replies are
automatically addressed to
every recipient in the original,
or addressed only to the sender.
If you hold down the Option key
when choosing Reply from
Emailer’s Mail menu, that pref-
erence temporarily reverses.

■ Command-single quote (’)
pastes any text into the body of
an email as a quote.

■ To file any selecte'd or open
email messages quickly without
reaching for the mouse, press
Command-Option-F, type the
first letters of the folder name,
and press Return.

■ Press Command-Option-C to
copy an entire email message,
including the body, subject, and
header text.

■ You can’t drag an email
message from overview to the
desktop to create a clipping file.
But you can open a message,
select all the text, and drag the
selection to the desktop.

■ You can set boA Claris
Emailer and Qualcomm’s Eudo-
ra to skip very large messages.
In Emailer 2.x, the setting is
located in the Options panel of
each account’s Accounts dialog,
under the Setups menu. In
Eudora Pro, look in the Check-
ing Mail settings.

EUDORA PRO

■ If your recipients complain
that strange line breaks in your
email messages make them
virtually unreadable, open the
Composing Mail preferences
window (in Settings under the
Special Menu) and turn on
word wrap.

WHEN SELECTING AN ISP, ASK IF IT SUPPORTS THE IMAG EMAIL PROTOCOL IT WON'T
MANAGE YOUR MAIL, BUT IT MAKES YOUR MOUSE LIGHT UP WHEN YOU OPEN A MESSAGE.

HOW TO SET UP A PERSONAL WEB SERVER

In the very first issue of MacAddict, we
showed you how to set up a tiny area net-
work, or TAN (http://www.macaddict
.conrr/issues) for file sharing among the
desktop Macs and PowerBooks around
your house. If your TAN is up and run-
ning, you can convert it to a home
intranet — essentially a mini Internet on
your local network — and then use
Apple’s Personal Web Sharing to share
documents with other computers on the
network.

OS 8 installs Personal Web Sharing
by default, but you’ll want to download
the latest version (1 .5) from Apple’s FTP
site (ftp://ftp .info.apple.com/Apple_Sup-
port_Area/Apple_SW_Updates/US/Mac-
intosh/Networking-Communications/Per-
sonal_Web_Sharlng). Open Transport
1 .1 .1 or later is required.

PART ONE; SEniNG UP THE SERVER

The Mac that shares documents with
other networked computers is the server.
Any Mac on your network can be the
server, although you’ll probably want to
use a desktop Mac that’s always on.
(You’ll still be able to use the server Mac
for other purposes; you just won’t be able
to log onto the Internet without first dis-
connecting It from the Intranet and
switching to PPP.)

STEPl Open the Chooser and check to
make sure AppleTalk is active. Then open
the TCP/IP control panel and press Com-
mand-K for Configurations. Duplicate an

ITCP/AP (ftpprRtalk intranet) ^

Connect vU: | AppleTalk (Mao IP)

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current AppleTalk z one >

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MeclP server zone

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existing setup, rename it “AppleTalk
Intranet,” and click Make Active. Then
change the settings to match our illustra-
tion— Connect Via AppleTalk (MaclP),
Configure Using MaclP Manually, and set
your IP address to 192.168.1.1. Leave the
other settings blank.

■ Skip to Step 5 if you want every Mac on
the network to have read-only access
to your shared folder.

■ Continue to Step 2 if you want more

control over access, such as the ability
to exclude some users or to allow
selected others to download files.

STEP 2 To control access to the shared
folder, use AppleTalk file sharing and set
up Users & Groups privileges. Open the

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Click Start to turn on file sharl ng. This
users to access shared folders.

File Sharing control panel and turn on file
sharing, by clicking the start button.

STEP 3 Open the Users & Groups con-
trol panel to create new users or to
assign users to groups. If you want every

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STEP 5 Now set the Web Sharing
options. Open the Web Sharing control
panel and select your Web Folder. When
you installed Personal Web Sharing, the ,
installer created a folder called Web
Pages on your hard drive: Use that folder |
or any other folder you like.

For Home Page, either select your |
own page or select None, in which case
visitors will see a hyperlinked list of files In ■
the folder.

Web Identity
MyAddrsss: hWp://192.166:i.1

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user to have full access, set all categories
for full read and write access.

STEP 4 After file sharing has finished
starting up (when the folders on the
shared drive appear with black tabs), go
to the Finder, select the hard drive con-
taining the folder you want to share, and
choose Sharing from the Finder’s Edit
menu. In the hard drive’s Sharing dialog
box, set the privileges for you, any
groups you created, and everyone else

on the
n e t -

If you’ve set access privileges using
file sharing, click the radio button Use File |
Sharing To Control User Access.

To start sharing, click the Web Shar- |
ing Start button, as we’ve done above.

PART TWO: SEHING UP THE CLIENT

The computers that will read the docu-
ments on your server using a Web
browser are the clients. On each of the
Macs connected to your AppleTalk net-
work, open the TCP/IP control panel.
Then set it up exactly as you did the serv-
er, with one exception: The IP address
must have a different final number on

ST ^ ' ^

iTCP/iP(Appietaik Iritram

(^nneoAvIt: ( AppleTalk (M^c IP)

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Configure : [ Using HeclP Manuallu i ^ I
MaolP server zone : < current AppleTalk z one >

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IP Address; 192.168.1.3

each machine. For example, the server |
address you set up is 192.168.1.1, so
your first client can be 192.168.1.2. You
can use any number from 1 to 254 after j
the third period, as long as no two clients ;
have the same number as each other or |
as the server. Save that configuration with
a handy name (such as AppleTalk
Intranet), then close it. Each client can
access the documents on your server
using the server’s IP address as the ^
URL— In this case, http ;//1 92. 168. 1.1,

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36 MacADOiCT AUG/98

HOW TO SHARE A HOME NETWORK (AND WE DON’T MEAN ABC, CBS, NBC, OR FOX)

So you have two Macs, two gamers in the house, and two copies of Myth: The Fallen Lords. Problem is, both gamers want to play on Bungie.net at
the same time, but you have one modem and one ISP account. Solution: Set up a home network that uses Vicom’s SurfDoubler to share the modem.

1 SET UP AN APPLETALK
NETWORK. You need
Ethernet instead of Local-
Talk to increase network
bandwidth. For this, you
can either use our cross-
over hardware cheat, or set up a network using
a hub. Check out our Nov/97 issue for the arti-
cle, “Hook Up Your Macs with Superfast Ether-
net,” which explains exactly how to do this.

2 INSTALL VICOM SURF-
DOUBLER. Buying it will
set you back $99 (http://
www.vicomtech.com) .

Vicom’s technology works
by setting up one Mac as a
software router. This Mac communicates with
your ISP and then routes Internet packets to both
Macs. Plus, it’s cheaper than setting up an extra
Internet account.

3 DUKE IT OUT! Since
SurfDoubler is script-
able, you can write a script
that launches the app, con-
nects to the Internet, then
launches Myth. With this
setup, the client Mac will not be able to host, but 5
the Mac that’s running SurfDoubler can. Log on =
to Bungie.net with both accounts and go into an |
unranked room to test out the connection. ^

BASIC BATTLE PUNS

■when remapping the controls
for a game, remember the limi-
tations of the keyboard. Most
keys can only send events one at
a time, so you can’t have more
than one key pressed and have
the program react to each key.
The Shift, Control, Option, and
Command keys, though, can
send signals when other keys
are down. Use these keys if you
want to be able to shoot and
bomb at the same time.

■With any game, try to grok
the patterns of its various
actions. Once you understand
the pattern a game uses to do
things, such as control enemy
movement, you’ll be able to
solve its puzzles more easily,
■if you’re a flight sim fanatic,
you need to buy a joystick.
Optionally, add a throttle to
your setup.

■Read all kinds of ancient
myths — Roman, Greek, Nordic,
Celtic, Eastern — to catch refer-
ences and possible solutions in
games.

■Don’t beheve that the “3D
acceleration” inside the Power
Macintosh G3 will make your
games play any faster. The chip
inside is a generation behind
the current standards available
in TechWorks’ Power3D card,
ATI’s XClaim VR, or Village-
Tronic’s 3D Overdrive. Do not
waste your money upgrading
the video memory in these

machines. Instead, just buy a
better video card.

■To get the absolute cheapest
3D acceleration on the market,
buy TechWorks’ PC version of
the Power3D (for about
$150), then download the Mac
drivers from the TechWorks
Web site. Don’t pirate Tech-
Works’ hard work by buying a
card from a competitor.

■if you have a slower Mac,
run action games at, a smaller
resolution.

■in driving games, brake
going into turns and accelerate
out of them.

■Get a Thrustmaster steering
wheel to complete the driving
sim experience.

■if you get stuck in a game,
don’t be afraid to get up, turn
off your Mac, and go outside —
you know... the place with that
bright shiny thing called the
sun. Clearing your head or just
doing something else can often
give your subconscious the time
necessary to come up with a
solution. Then, in an hour or
so, or even after sleep, you’ll be
able to solve that last puzzle or
find the secret door.
■Subscribe to the six or so
Mac game newsgroups (which
start with comp.sys.mac.games)
to get more hints on games or
to ask questions. There are
often game-specific news-
groups as well.

■Read Mac Gamer’s Ledge
(http://www.macledge.com) ,

Tikkabik (http://www.tikkabik
.com), and Inside Mac Games
(http://www.imgmagazine. com)
for excellent Mac games
reporting.

■Visit the Codebook at
http://www.codebook.pp.se to
download or browse hundreds
of cheats for Mac games.

STRATEGY

■in the Sons of Myrgard Myth
level, explore all caves to find
an entrance to a secret level.

If you want to find the secret
cave by yourself, don’t look at
the map in the upper right cor-
ner— oops, too late.

■when fighting with light

units in Myth, target opponents
properly. Don’t waste warriors
fighting thrall, or chase
archers with thrall. Instead, try
to foul up enemy warriors in
your own thrall, and quickly
eliminate archers with ghol
and warriors. Targeting wights
with thrall is a great ehmina-
tion tactic.

■in Master of Orion n, don’t
bomb all of a planet’s inhabitants
away. Instead, convert them to
happy workers for extra points.

In Civilization II, explore your sur-
roundings early — especially vil-
lages— so you can earn civiliza-
tion advances, settlers, military
units, and gold. These will give
you an advantage over other civi-
lizations later.

A DAILY JOGGING ROUTINE BUILDS UP
STAMINA VITAL IN MARATHON.

ADVENTURE

■in Sierra’s Rama, the whole
Rama universe has a repeating
pattern involving the number
three. Trying to find patterns
involving the number two or
four would be findtless.

■in adventure games, look for
parts of the picture that don’t
quite blend to discover impor-
tant clues or puzzles.

■Set up advantageous trade
routes with hired cargo ships in
Escape Velocity to jump right
from a Scout to a Kestrel.
■Chck on everything and any-
thing and whatever’s next to
that.

■Bad Mojo has lots of Easter
eggs hidden throughout each
room. Explore far away from
the actual puzzles with your
cockroach to find them.

■just because Myst elegantly
integrates the reading of books
into gameplay doesn’t mean you
have to read every piece of jour-
nal drivel written in an adven-
ture game. Most of them are
me-too copiers, and you can
skip right to the drawings for
any needed clues.

PUZZLES

■in block puzzles such as
MacSokoban or Blobbo, don’t
push blocks into comers unless
you absolutely know that you
won’t need to move them again.
Try not to push them up against
walls, either.

IN APEIRON (or Centipede),
don’t clear away too many
mushrooms from the bottom, or
you’ll get bombed.

■in arcade puzzlers such as
Chiral, Tetris, or Troubled
Souls, puzzle pieces fall at an
ever-increasing rate. Train
yourself for speed at lower lev-
els to succeed at the higher |
levels.

SHOOTERS

■in a shooter, figure out which I
action you’d want to have happen
for a length of time, such as run-
ning or autofiring. Map that
action to the Caps Lock key, so
you don’t have to press and hold
down one key for an extended |
period.

■in early arcade games such as I
Space Invaders, the swarms of
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entrance, then shooting the
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right spot, of course). This pro-
pels you up to the teleport plat- 1
form.

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Steel’s console to smite your |
current target.

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■in role-playing games such as
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members of your troop. A level
one cleric may not do much, but |
you’ll love his level 12 healing.
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easily in Fallout if you’re not |
tough enough to fight them yet.
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T he Blackbird, Apple’s 500-series PowerBook, made headlines even
before it hit the streets. Based on a 68040 processor, it broke records
by being the first portable computer stocked with a built-in trackpad,
stereo speakers, Ethernet, and intelligent batteries. The Blackbird also was the
first PowerBook with an upgradable CPU, an expansion bay, and two battery
slots. Jammed with gadgets and stylin’ in a curvacious, techno-matte black
case, it was painfully cool.

A balance of good looks, desktop power, and portable convenience, the

500 series was designed to do everything
a desktop machine could do, but at a
fraction of the size — big news in 1994.
The good news now is that as long as
you don’t use really big applications, the
Blackbird still does everything a desktop
model can. Mac OS 8.1 works great.
Microsoft Office 4.2.1, no problem.
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PowerPC upgrade. But before we get all
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What You Have to Work

The 520 and 540 are
twins except for two traits:
display and CPU. The 520
has a passive matrix LCD
display and a 25MHz
68LC040 processor (no floating-point unit).
The 540 has an active matrix LCD display and
a 33MHz 68LC040 — ^faster, but still no FPU.
(See the section on displays for details.) First,
let's talk processors.

The CPU

You can do a lot to bring the 500 up to speed.
One simple fix involves faking out your Mac to
make it think it has an FPU. If you need to
perform big spreadsheet calculations or Bryce
rendering, John Neil’s SoftwareFPU performs
the requisite math in software instead of hard-
ware. Horribly slow compared with the action
of a real FPU, this trick is best reserved for
emergencies. If you have an application you
must run and it must have an FPU, download
SoftwareFPU from ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/
plan/oberon/Macn/SoftFPU301.hqx or ftp://
ftp.wustl.edu/languages/oberon/OberonV4/
MacIl/SoftFPU301.hqx.

On a different tack, if you’re willing to
spend a ton of money to keep your Power-
Book alive, you can upgrade your 520 with a
540 daughtercard. A 520 runs at 25MHz, but
a 540 chugs along a little faster at 33MHz, so
if you can find a 540 daughtercard, you’re
buying a 25 percent speed boost...for several
hundred dollars.

Accelerator Boards

A 68040-based Mac still pulls its weight in
today’s PowerPC world, but if an 040’s just
not enough, dig up a NUpowr upgrade.
Newer Technology made a series of cards
that’ll bump you up to a 603-based PowerPC
running as fast as 187MHz — ^faster than a
PowerBook 1400.

Unfortunately, Newer no longer produces
the board, which makes finding one more of
a search-and-rescue mission than a simple
shopping trip. Prices vary widely and wildy,
depending on supply, demand, and supplier,
but you can try contacting Newer for old stock
or tips on where to find used models.

ff you manage to dig one up, be warned
that installation doesn’t work quite the way
Newer had planned, so it’s best not to use that
company’s instructions. Better ones are avail-
able at http://www.runtime.se/technical/
pbinstr.html. If you’re not sure the speedup
is worth your time and trouble, check
httpy/www.ogrady.com/bench/l67bench.html
for benchmarks. For a comparison of various
PowerPC upgrades, take a trip to http://www.

runtime.se/technical/pbfan.htnil.

Apple made its own upgrade that’ll pump
you up from a 68040 to a lOOMHz 603e
PowerPC. It’s not quite as fast as the NUpowr
upgrade, and it may be even harder to find,
but it does the job. At several hundred dollars,
though, the card (part number MS081LL/A)
will cost you.

Upgrade Battery Caveat: The PowerPC
upgrade can make Apple’s Battery Recondi-
tioner claim your battery is busted, even if
it’s not. VST Technologies’ EMMpathy fixes
this unfortunate misunderstanding. You can
pick up a copy at http*y/www.vsttech.com/soft
ware.htm.

RAM

RAM addicts will be pleased to know that the
500 series is expandable to 32MB, enough to
run any application on the market, at least for
now. A stripped-down copy of System 7.5.1
with RAM Doubler and Maxima (both from
Connectix) does a dandy job in just 20MB of
RAM. (Maxima is a control panel that lets you
boot from a RAM disk, as well as double your
RAM.) Set up in this manner, a Mac not only
runs well but also runs from a RAM disk,
which means higher speeds and longer battery
life. Unfortunately, Maxima was discontinued
and is not easy to come by. RAM Doubler, how-
ever, is ubiquitous — buy the latest version
from your favorite vendor.

For a spare Mac, 20MB will get you by. For
a Mac you use every day for everything from
email to project management, bump up
the RAM. You’ll need the 70ns RAM for the
PowerBook 500’s— it’s the only size that fits.

Display

There’s a slew of displays in the 500’s, from
passive matrix gray scale through active matrix
color. The 520 has a dual-scan display, vriiich
is a somewhat sharper twist on the passive
matrix concept. It comes in color or gray
scale, but it doesn’t refresh as fast as an active
matrix. The display’s a little faded and ghostly
viewed at an angle, and faint lines may extend
from window edges — ^an electrical thing. Also,
the cursor tends to disappear when you sling
it from one side of the screen to the other, only
to resurface after you’ve spent a second or two
searching for it. If you’re sick of playing hide-
and-seek, try Fat Cursors. It’ll swell that little
sucker up so you can see the I-beam and
arrow cursors on any PowerBook. Available at
ftp://ftp2.info.apple.com/Apple.Support
.Area/disability-soiutions/shareware/Fat_
Cursors- 1 22-cdev.sit,bin.

Active matrix screens, the standard for
most modem laptops, are sharp and dear

Hardware

Sources

C ontact several vendors when you
shop, and ask about warranties and
return policies just in case. This list Isn’t
comprehensive, but it’s a good place to
start.

The Computer Exchange

800-304-4639

http://www.compexch.com

Connectix

800-950-5880

http://www.connectix.com

Cyberian Outpost

800-856-9800

http://www.outpost.com

DataTech Remarketing
800-281-3661

http://www.datatech-rmkt.com

Electro Rent Remarketing
800-431-7716

http://www.geremarketing.com

MacResQ

510-689-9488

http://www.macresq.com

Mac Sales

800-729-7031

http://www.macsaleint.com

Pre-Owned Electronics
800-274-5343

Sun Remarketing

800-821-3221

http://www.sunrem.com

Networking

Faraiion (recently renamed Netopia)
800-397-8508 (MacWarehouse)
http://www.farallon.com
http://www.netopia.com

Repair Services

DT&T Macintosh Services

800-622-7977

http://www.dttservice.com

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from all angles, with no submarining. They
also use twice as much power and cost an
extra grand or more, but if you plan to ham-
mer a Blackbird all day, you’ll want one. If
your PowerBook’s a secondary machine, stick
with passive matrix — ^you’ll save on battery life
and money.

If you decide to make the change, you can
swap out a 520’s passive display for a 540’s
active one — ^the video hardware on both
machines is the same. But consider where you
work and what you’ll do with your PowerBook
before you buy. With an active matrix gray
scale, you can sit in bright sunlight, turn the
backlighting off, and see the screen with crys-
tal darity while getting the longest battery life
you’ll ever have. A color screen in the same
light will conjure up a few foggy images, and
that’s about it.

If you work at a desk, use an external
monitor alongside the built-in display —
500-series Macs support dual video. Put
email on one display and documents on
another, or palettes on one and art in prog-
ress on the other.

An external monitor will run at a resolu-
tion of 832 by 624, even with the internal run-
ning alongside at 640 by 840. (This is the
PowerBook’s maximum resolution, and
there’s no room to add VRAM.) External mon-
itor cables run about $20 and are available
from Cyberian Outpost, part number 43609-

Batteries

The “intelligent” battery, bom and raised in
the 500 series, was cursed at birth with just a
slight handicap. Apple designed the battery to
deplete as slowly as possible by putting a chip
in it that communicates with the system soft-
ware. Unfortunately, the processor within the
battery can become corrupted and make your
system believe that the battery is out of juice
when it really isn’t.

Instead of giving your battery its last rites,
you can usually resurrect it with VST’s EMM-
pathy or either of these miracle-working
applications: Apple’s Battery Reconditioner,
available at http:/Avww.apple.com.au/docu
ments/prodgroup.html, and Jeremy Kezer’s
BatteryAmnesia, which is found at http;//mem
bers.aol.com/jbkezer/shareware.html.

They’ll fix battery problems in an hour or
three, depending on how long the specific util-
ity needs. If none of them work, it could be
that the battery simply has held its last charge.

The PowerBook’s internal power manager,
which handles how the battery charges, can
also become corrupt, and fairly easily. This
can result in some bizarre behavior. To keep
corruption at bay, always plug the AC adapter
into the wall before plugging it into the Power-
Book. If it dies anyway, there are excellent

instructions on resetting it at http://www.
westwind.com/pages/techrefrpbpwrmgr.html.

SCSI In and Out

SCSI Disk Mode, one of the handiest
PowerBook perks, turns your
PowerBook into an external drive
mounted on another Mac’s desk-
top. You invoke it via a special 30-
pin PowerBook SCSI cable. Plug
one end into the PowerBook, one
end into another Mac, and boot
both machines — ^the Ij^top shows
up as a mounted volume. This fea-
ture is unbelievably usefiil when you need to
install software, synchronize files, or do some
general data moving.

You’U need a special cable, an HDI-30,
which is different from an HDI-29 (the stan-
dard cable for external devices such as a CD,
Zip, or Jaz drive). The HDI-29 lacks a comer
pin. It’s fine for hooking up an external drive,
but it won’t get you into SCSI Disk Mode. Make
sure your cable has either all 30 pins or a
switch to flip between standard SCSI and SCSI
Disk Mode.

Every SCSI device must have its own JD
number; the PowerBook Setup control panel
handles this. You’ll know you have a conflict if
the machine refiises to boot — ^no happy Mac
means you have a SCSI identity crisis.

Networking

like all Macs, the PowerBook 500-series
machines shipped with LocalTalk built in, but
they also have the luxury of built-in Ethernet
for more powerful networking. To use it, you’ll
need an AAUI connector (Apple Attaclunent
Unit Interface), which looks a little like a
Phonenet connector but handles Ethernet
cabling (RJ45, BNC, and so forth). You can
order the standard twisted-pair AAUI from
Apple (part number M0437) or from Asante
at http://www.goniark.com/html/networkmg/
asante/fiiendlynetaaultransc.html.

You’ll also need to plug into a network.
It’s possible to create your own network by
buying a hub, but that’s fairly complicated. If
you only want to connect a pair of Macs at a
full 10-Mbps Ethernet, cruise on down to your
local computer store and buy an Ethernet
crossover cable for $10 to $15. It looks just
like a regular Ethernet lOBaseT cable, but two
of its wires are crossed, so it can connect one
Mac directly to another. You can’t daisy-chain
machines, but you can connect a pair and
share files far faster than with AppleTalk.

Modems, Cages, and Cards

Hooking up to the Internet via a 500’s internal
modem means crawling along at a maximum
speed of 19.2 Kbps. If you simply must have

more modem, you’ll need to go on a hardware
hunt. Seek out the elusive PCMCIA adapter
cage, also known as a PC Card Cage. It fills one
battery slot, which means you need only a sin-

gle battery instead of two. Beware — ^it’s a big-
game hunt. We’re talking white rhino, almost
nonexistent. (If you’ve upgraded to PowerPC,
the cage needs to be version C. Versions A and
B both work with 68040 PowerBooks but not
with PowerPC models.)

The Inner Sanctum

You don’t have to be a certified technician to
add RAM and modem cards yourself. RAM
and internal modems all ship with instructions
on how to pop off the keyboard and make the
swap — ^a painless 15-minute operation.

TWeakMg the other innards, however, can
be a messy operation. If you’re not comfort-
able with a screwdriver, hex wrench, and lots
of painfully tiny parts, take your Mac to a
repair shop for the tough stuff.

Case in point (and in case you’re doing it
yourself anyway): Below the screen, a curved
piece of plastic wraps around the hinge and
connectors. It’s held in place by a row of prac-
tically microscopic plastic pins, and removing
that piece without breaking those pins is no
small task.

Fix-it Notice: If your screen wobbles every
time you open your PowerBook, you may have
a case of hingitis (inflammation of the hinges) .
The 500 series has hinge screws empowered
with the ability to self-unscrew. They hold the
case to the display, and the only fix is to open
the case and ti^ten them. Failure to do so can
mean some serious display problems — ^for
example, a cracked screen — so if your dis-
play’s flailing, have it checked. There’s an
excellent article on the topic by Joe Kudma
and Larry Bles at http://ogrady.com/articles/
500hinge.stm.

Software

Any System software, from 7.5.1 through Mac
OS 8.1, works great. The latest and greatest
networking and communications software all
works, too. Likewise with applications — as
long as they’re not PowerPC only, you’re in.

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in your document) tracks type and format-
ting info and lets you make changes to any
aspect of type at any time — just double-
click on the type to edit it.

At last, Photoshop includes profes-
sional-level type handling. You have full
control of tracking, kerning, leading, and
baseline control, just as in Illustrator or
PageMaker. You can play with unlimited
fonts and styles in a layer, too. While you
still have to enter and edit type in a dialog
box (which is now a floater, not a modal
dialog) instead of directly into your docu-
ment, the document’s type layer does show
a preview of what’s in the box. Moreover,
you can reposition or apply effects such as
drop shadows to the type layer in the doc-
ument while the Type floater is open.

THE LOOK OF PHOTOSHOP hasn’t changed
much in version 5.0, but excellent new features
make this the best upgrade in years.

When you edit the type, the effects update
to reflect your edits.

The other major innovation in version
5.0 is the History palette. This industrial-
strength approach to multiple undos pro-
vides almost unlimited options when you
change your mind. It is by far the best
implementation of the basic undo function
that we’ve seen. Each operation you per-
form — ^from selection moving to brush
strokes to filter options — is logged into
the History palette. The number of steps
recorded is limited only by the amount of
scratch disk space you have (or you can
specify an upper limit of steps to preserve
disk space).

If you want to return your ira^e to a
previous state, open the History palette and
click on the relevant line. A slider lets you
move interactively througli each stage —
a very cool feature indeed. Once you’ve
moved to an earlier stage in your work, you
can make any necessary modifications and
continue from there. (Note that you lose all
the steps that come after this point.) The

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Photoshop Does 3D, Sort Of

Photoshop 5.0’s new 3D Translation plug-ln lets you map your
image on cubes, spheres, and cylinders. It’s cute but quirky.

Start with any image— say, Max In his MacAddict cubicle.

2 Choose the 3D Transform plug-in from the Fitters menu. The
intuitive (though inexplicably black-and-white) interface lets you
deform areas of the Image with simple 3D shapes.

•fl

3 Placed against the original background, these objects simulate
protrusion from the image. To rotate them, choose a rotate tool,
then drag. Sorry, you can’t rotate them in different directions.

4 Push it too far and you can see around the back. And gee, there’s
no surface-normal smoothing! Well, after all, this is Photoshop,
not Lightwave.

History brush extends the power of the
History palette, allowing you to paint earlier
st^es of your image into selected areas. It’s
like the Magic Eraser on steroids.

The addition of layers was the most
important innovation in Photoshop 3.
Photoshop 5.0 adds built-in layer effects
that obviate the need for many third-party
effects filters. From one effects box, you
can control settings for drop shadows,
inner shadows, outer glows, inner glows,
and embossing. Once you apply them,
these effects remain live, so any further

work you do on the layer will display the
effect, too. Moreover, you can set bevels
and shadows to have the same light-source
angle and color, so any changes you make
to the lighting in one effect are applied
globally. This will be a major time-saver
for you pixel pushers doing drop shadows
all day long.

Photoshop 5.0 adds new plug-ins, too.
Most intriguing is the 3D Transform plug-
in. This gives you the option of mapping
your im^e on cubes, spheres, and cylin-
ders, then moving and rotating those

objects in 3D space. The idea is to allow
realistic adjustments to the perspective of
boxes and other geometrically simple
objects in the image. Of course, this isn’t
real 3D, and if you try to rotate things too
far you’ll see around the back, which is
just a featureless shape with no image
map. It’s only a first cut at what eventually
ought to be a full-fledged effort at integrat-
ing 3D into Photoshop’s 2D world. (While
you’re waiting for Adobe to get around to
that, try Vertigo’s Dizzy and 3D HotText
plug-ins for 3D work in Photoshop.)

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Text Mastery at Last

Photoshop’s new Type tool is a massive improvement over the wussy, balky Text tool
of the past. Here are a few of the tricks you can perform.

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1 Initially, the Photoshop 5 Type tool looks
very much like the old Photoshop 4 Text
tool— but it has a lot of new functionality.

2 In the Type box, you can apply different
fonts and font sizes, and change the lead-
ing separately on selected blocks of text.

3 Created text goes on a special text layer.
You can rotate, scale, and skew rt with the
Free Transform tool and not lose quality.

5 Add a drop shadow effect to the layer.
Adjust It interactively Inside the window,
or even with a dialog box up.

6 The text layer has been “frozen” to a
normal pixel layer. You can now edit It
with all of Photoshop’s painting tools.

Automation plug-ins (located some-
what anomalously in the File menu) are a
new plug-in type; they basically function as
file-handling wizards. For example, the
Batch command Automation plug-in han-
dles batch processing better than the
batch command in Photoshop 4’s Action
palette. The Contact Sheet command cre-
ates a contact sheet with thumbnails of all
the images in a folder. While you can do
the same things with Actions, Automation
plug-ins generally work faster and provide
more functionality (and, of course, you
don’t have to set up the Action yourself).
Third parties can design new Automation
plug-ins to perform any procedure
addressable through the Automation plug-
in API in the Photoshop 5.0 SDK (on the
Photoshop disc). Expect to see third-party
suites of Automations customized for the
file needs of various vertical markets.

Minor updates to the Selection and Pen
tools are mostly geared to edge detection,
which Photoshop previously hasn’t done
well and with which it still has trouble.

Trace along an edge between areas of high
contrast with the new Magnetic Lasso or
Magnetic Pen tool, and the selection hne
or path will snap to the edge. However, the
Lasso or Pen will often miss the edge when
there’s little contrast or where colors are
very close. Even when the contrast is high,
the smoothing algorithms appUed to the
Lasso or path tend to make it shrink. We
preferred the Magnetic Pen to the
Magnetic Lasso, because it provided more
editing control and better results.

You’ll also notice a host of color-
handling improvements. A multiple eye-
dropper lets you sample up to four color
regions at once. The RGB or CMYK color
info is reported in the Info palette. Color
management has been beefed up with spot
color channels, support for the Inter-
national Color Consortium (ICC) CMS and
the sRGB non-monitor color space, and a
gamma control panel that other Adobe
programs, including Illustrator, will share.

Now that Photoshop has eliminated its
two major weaknesses, what worlds are

left to conquer? The program still doesn’t
import 3DMFs or any other 3D model for-
mat, though you can do that with plug-ins.
The option to work on a low-res proxy of
big files, speeding your work and making
efficient use of hmited RAM, would be
nice, too. But our vote is for a more
sweeping innovation. We’d hke to see
Photoshop integrate the powers of the
Actions and History palettes and the
Automation plug-ins and go totally proce-
dural, so that you can make any feature of
the program interact modelessly with
any other, perhaps via an AppleScript-
compatible scripting language.

Until that high level of functionaUty is
added, however — if it ever is — ^you’re
bound to be happy with Photoshop 5.0.
— Steve Anzovin and Raf Anzovin

GOOD NEWS: Super text handling. ^
Multiple undos. More color manage-
ment features. Snap-to-edge paths.

Faster for some tasks. BAD NEWS: “

Needs more RAM and hard disk space than ever.

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Golive (yberStudio 3.0

GRAPHICS & SOUND

COMPANY: GoLive Systems

CONTACT: 800-554-6638 or 650-463-1580, http://wvvw.golive.com
PRICE: $299 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, System 8.0 or later, 16MB of free RAM (20MB
recommended), 30MB of free hard disk space, CD-ROM drive

I t’s ironic that the company that brings us
CyberStudio 3.0 is named Golive,
because we sure aren’t going anywhere
now that we’re glued to our Macs, cranking
out killer Web sites by the bucket. This mas-
sive upgrade adds a slew of features to this
robust Web-pubhshing tool that meet most
of the needs of Web pros.

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elements into your Web page. These tabs include HTML
basics, forms, header properties, frames, site elements,
CyberStudio special functions (such as a handy date and
time stamp), and a custom tab for your often-used elements.

Golive has labeled this upgrade the
Professional Edition for a reason. The man-
ual totals a whopping 843 pages (including
a WebObjects addendum); learning how to
use all of (}yberStudio’s features isn’t for the
faint of heart. To complete even basic tasks,
you need to become famihar with how this
application works. CyberStudio presents
many of its tools in palettes, which necessi-
tates not only a huge monitor but also the
ability to grasp the icon-driven process of
building Web pages.

CyberStudio 3.0 offers
three ways to create and edit
Web pages: WYSIWYG layout
mode, tag-outline mode, and
regular text-source mode.

GoLive has improved the
source editor for those Ludd-
ites out there by supporting
grep search and replace func-
tions, HTML syntax and com-
patibility checking based on a
number of different browsers,
and line numbering.

The WYSIWYG layout edi-
tor has been enhanced as
well. Finally you can select multiple objects.
You can import tab-delimited ASCII files as
tables. Object alignment is possible. And,
thankfully, you can select multiple table cells
and modify them as a group. One major
enhancement is the inclusion of master
objects, which allow you to edit the common
elements of a site — say, a navigation bar —
in one place and update them across the
entire site. All these features have been high
on user request lists since version 1.0, and
we’re delighted to see them in this upgrade.

Now the fun begins: CyberStudio 3.0
allows Web designers to create and edit
WYSIWYG Cascading Style Sheets and
Dynamic HTML. These advanced features,
which 4.0 browsers support, allow you to
animate your pages and to control design
elements such as placement and typography.
While these features still do not enjoy uni-
versal support on the Web, CyberStudio
helps you tackle the arcane scripting with a
minimum of fuss. Premade JavaScript

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(chosen at random, really!) is a snap with CyberStudio 3.0.

actions round out CyberStudio’s advanced
feature set.

Golive has completely overhauled Cyber-
Studio’s site-management tools. Previous
versions used a confusing system of abases
to files on the hard drive. This upgrade refer-
ences your hard drive directly, so you can
check links and view your site’s hierarchy
with ease. Version 3.0 also does away with
the old Projects window. Instead, it places
common elements of a site into the more
sensible Site window. CyberStudio 30. also
allows incremental page and site uploads to
your servers.

The 3.0 upgrade to GoLive’s Cyber-
Studio extends the original’s powers signif-
icantly, improving on old features and
adding new ones for today’s Web technolo-
gies. While it’s not the easiest tool to use, it
is one of the most feature rich. Given the
complexity of the Web as it exists today,
designers will very likely rely on Cyber-
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ONE OF THE BEST FEATURES in CyberStudio 3.0 is its context-sensitive toolbar. Change editing modes, and it
changes with you. Select an object, and It makes a number of handy shortcuts available.

GOOD NEWS: Master pages. Grep
searching. Easy-to-use JavaScripts.

Dynamic HTML support and
Cascading Style Sheets. BAD NEWS: The
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Anifflation:Master 98

GRAPHICS & SOUND

COMPANY: Hash

CONTACT: 360-750-0042, http://www.hash.com
PRICE: $199, network version $699

REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC Mac (G3 recommended), System 7.5 or later, 24MB of
RAM (64MB recommended), QuickDraw 3D 1.5 or later

I n the field of computer graphics, the
premier test of skill is character anima-
tion, the art of imbuing a 3D object with
life and personality. Most 3D developers
are scrambfing to include at least a few
relevant character animation features in
their products, but all too often these are
poorly thought-out tools tacked on to apps
that were never designed to do the work.

Then there’s Hash’s AnimationiMaster,
the only 3D app on the Mac expressly
designed for character animation. Hash
insists that AnimationiMaster, introduced
for the Amiga a decade ago, is primarily a
hobbyist’s program, but the new iteration,
AnimationiMaster 98 (also known as ver-
sion 6), competes directly with products 10
to 20 times its price.

AnimationiMaster 98’s pride is its
sphne-based modeler. Rather than using
polygons (rigid shapes that fit together to
form a 3D surface), as most 3D packages
do, AnimationiMaster is built from the
ground up around splines and patches.
These are better suited than polygons to
modefing seamless, flexible organic
shapes. (In fact, Hash provides no polygon

support at all, a
drawback if you
want to import mod-
els from other 3D
programs.)

The power of
Hash’s spline mod-
eler is its simplicity.
AnimationiMaster
dispenses with con-

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Project window and the Properties window.

trols to move and adjust surfaces made of
many spline control points. Other than a
lathe and extrude tool, there are no tools
for automatically building surfaces, either.
Instead, AnimationiMaster refies mainly
on lower-level tools. You can create, link,
and unlink splines in any direction. You
build complex surfaces spline by spline,
by drawing and attaching them. A similar-
ly simple method defines a patch — any
enclosure of three or four control points
of more than one spline. This connect-the-
dots approach makes AnimationiMaster
98’s modeling interface very simple,
direct, and easy to understand. However,
building complex objects control point by
control point can be a tedious process.

Any future release should add lattice
deformation tools or lofting and skinning
functions.

AnimationiMaster 98 boasts advanced
inverse kinematics (IK), bones, and move-
ment constraints that are optimized for the
creation of convincing movement. In
AnimationiMaster 98, you can save the
motions of bones — the skeletal structures
inside a character that govern its move-
ment — as a series of “Actions.” You can
keyframe Actions in the scene (called a
Choreography in Hashspeak) or in a sepa-
rate Action window, then drag and drop
them into multiple scenes and use them
with multiple characters. Actions applied
to a single character can overlap one

Animating a Waik Cycie

Making a character walk is relativeiy easy with AnimationiMaster 98. Here’s how to
use the Stride Length tool to create a walking character that changes direction.

I This creature was modeled with
tubelike joints that bend like rubber
hoses. For this reason, not much
detail was included in the elbow regions so
that they would bend smoothly.

2 Give every joint a bone; complex joints may need two or
more. Use Orient Like constraints blended together to ori-
ent middle joint bones directly between other joint bones,
so that the joint doesn’t buckle. Apply a Kinematic constraint to
the foot bones to root them to the ground.

3 In an Action window, give the character
a walk cycle— a loopable animation of
the character walking in place. The pro-
gram ships with various walk cycle Actions that
you can use.

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Animation:!VIaster version 6.1 , in early beta at
press time, will offer major enhancements
over version 98.

Complete undo: Multiple undo vi/orks in
all areas of the program, not just in modeling
windows.

Five-point patches: This new patch
type, placed at stress points such as under-
arms and elbows, eliminates creasing and
buckling in models.

Hair particles: These render long
strands of hair all over a surface.

Timeline; Displays time markers for the
keyframes of ail objects and allows you to edit
their placement.

Sound integration: Direct sound
import for timing.

Pose sliders; These blend together sev-
eral poses of an object.

DXF import: Brings in polygonal DXFs
and turns them into patch objects.
Radiosity: High-end, very realistic, and
very slow rendering mode.

Cubic and cylindrical mapping:
Standard texture-mapping geometries will save
you from having to flatten objects.

another at different times, and control cer-
tain bones while different Actions control
others. You could, for example, use a walk-
ing Action on the lower body of a character
while animating an entirely new upper
body animation.

The Action system makes possible a
whole range of advanced abilities that
other animation programs don’t provide.
Action Objects ^ow any object to tem-
porarily become part of the bone struc-
ture of the character. Making stars fly
around the head of a character who’s just
been bonked on the noggin is one typical
use for this tool. Another Action feature,
Stride Length, accomplishes nearly auto-
matically what animators have slaved over

4 Specify your character’s Stride Length.
This allows the character’s moving feet to
stick to the floor. Too long or too short a
length may cause the character to “ice-skate” or
seem to slip forward or backward as it walks.

since the dawn of computer animation —
getting a character’s feet to stick solidly to
the ground as it walks. One Actions draw-
back: Actions created in a Choreography
window can’t be used elsewhere. You
must use the Action window to create
portable Actions.

Character animation programs live and
die by their implementation of IK. This fea-
ture allows a whole chain of bones linked
together to move and bend at one time,
eliminating the necessity of bending each
joint separately. Hash’s implementation of
IK is the only one we’ve used that
approaches the ease of moving a puppet or
armature in the real world — all the con-
trols you need are included as handles on
the surface of the bones. The IK engine
effectively simulates the effect of moving
and posing joints — pull on the wrist, and
the elbow and shoulder follow. Pull on the
elbow, and it moves while trying to keep
the wrist m the same place. This function is
ideal for making slight changes in the pose
of a character.

Animation:Master 98 also has one of
the best constraint systems — settings that
limit an object’s movement — ^in the busi-
ness. Constraints can set a maximum
degree of rotation along any axis (so that
knees don’t bend the wrong way) or con-
strain the object to the movement or orien-
tation of other objects in complex ways.
For example, the Orient Like constraint
rotates an object or bone so that it points
in the same direction as another one. You
can use this constraint to keep a charac-
ter’s feet flat on the floor. Constraints also
can work in between the bone structures of
different objects, and you can animate the
level of influence of a given constraint over
time, blend and overlap constraints of the
same type, and add animatable offsets to
constraints. Similar features are available
nowhere else on the Mac.

The process of applying surfaces to
objects in Animation:Master 98 has some

5 In a Choreography window, set up a basic
scene with the character. Using the path
tool, draw a path for the character. Apply
the new walk Action to the character; then apply a
Path constraint to make It walk only on the path.

quirks. Most types of surfaces require a
decal (image map). Applying decals is
direct and simple. You just import the
im^e, drag it around on the screen until
it’s exactly where you want it, then stamp it
down. However, that’s all you can do with
it — ^you can’t wrap the map around an
object using various mapping geometries,
as you can in most 3D programs. To get
precise mapping control, you must “flat-
ten” the object before applying the decal,
which is difficult to do properly.

Rendering quality, a weak area in earlier
Animation.Master versions, no longer disap-
points. It now has high-end features such as
motion blur, depth of field, and nonsquare
pixels. The only feature seriously lacking is
field rendering, which is crucial for com-
positing your animation with video in post-
production. Net rendering is available in the
$699 network version of the program.

Unfortunately, the manual is not up to
the rest of the program. It glosses over
important topics with vague and elliptical
language, then tries to clarify its statements
with skimpy tutorials that may or may not
answer your questions. Luckily, very good
online FAQs and tutorials are available at
Hash’s Web site and at the 3D Ark site
(www.3dark.com).

Animation:Master 98 is certainly not
the software of choice for general-purpose
modeling and the animation of flying
logos. But if you want to create walking,
talking, living, breathing 3D characters,
there’s simply no other program that
comes close . — RafAnzovin

GOOD NEWS; Best app on the Mac "^0

for character animation. Advanced ■ I

iK, bones, and constraints. Stride
Length tool. Unique spline modeler.

Low price. BAD NEWS; Undo does not work in
all windows. Difficult to warp and deform large
numbers of points. Actions created within
Choreography windows are not reusable. Manual
needs work.

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one Side of the scene, turns to avoid
several objects In its path, and ends
up on the other side.

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COMPANY: Blizzard Entertainment

CONTACT: 800-953-7769 or 310-793-0600, http://www.falizzard.com
PRICE: $50 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, System 7.5 or later, 16MB of RAM
(32MB recommended), 40MB of free hard disk space, 2X CD-ROM drive

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The Disc.

D iablo has many of the features of a
classic role-playing game, or RPG. So,
before you start adventuring, the first
order of business is to decide what type of
character you will play. You have three
choices: warrior, rogue, or sorcerer. The
warrior can use just about any weapon. He
is very strong and tough, but he lacks
finesse. The rogue is the dexterous, stealthy
type who can disarm traps and use a bow
with deadly precision. She is neither as tough
nor as strong as the warrior, however, and
will be at a disadvant^e in close combat.
The sorcerer is the we^est of all the char-
acters at the beginning of the game, but has

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dungeon. Be careful, or you’ll be dead.

the potential to become the most powerful
of the three. His innate magical abifities
allow him to learn spells quickly — especial-
ly those of great potency. The sorcerer is
quite vulnerable in close combat, though, so
be careful.

Once you have selected your character
and given him or her a name, it’s time to
begin your quest. In single-player mode, you
alone must stop Diablo firom making evil
reign supreme. The ancient monastery in
Tristram, the medieval town in which the
game takes place, has been overrun by
Diablo and his evil minions. The once-pros-
perous town is quickly succumbing to this
plague of diablerie. Like Dante in the
Inferno, you must venture into the depths of
the abysmal tunnels and catacombs beneath
the desecrated monastery and destroy
Diablo.

In Tristram, you can do most of the
things you would expect to do in an RPG.
You can buy and sell armor and weapons
from the blacksmith; have the town’s sage
identify strange items; heal yourself; buy
healing potions from the cleric, which you
can use later; and exchange certain magical
items with the town’s witch. Interesting char-
acters will occasionally ask you to perform a
deed for them and reward you with some-

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YOUR ADVENTURE BEGINS in the center of
Tristram. You talk to the few Inhabitants, get
some information and background, and buy
and sell supplies.

thing when you have completed your task.

Once you’re outfitted with as much as
your starting 100 pieces of gold will buy, you
descend into the depths of the monastery.
Gameplay proceeds in real time. As you
walk around, monsters pop out and attack
you, and you assail them as quickly as you
can by clicking the mouse like crazy. You
can also open chests, barrels, and sar-
cophagi to find goodies such as potions,
scrolls, and weapons hidden inside. As you
kill more demonic creatures and devifish
acolytes and descend deeper into the
labyrinth, your character will gain experi-
ence, which allows him or her to increase
abifities. You will also begin to understand
the sinister implications of what is really
going on.

If you want to play with or against oth-
ers, you can either use a local network or
play over the Internet via Battle.net,
Blizzard’s online gaming service. Using
one of these methods, you can play with
up to four other people at once and either
cooperate to defeat Diablo or compete
and fight against each other. As in other
networked games, this adds a unique and
enthralling aspect to the game, because
you are playing with real people instead of
a computer.

The long-awaited Mac version of Diablo
does not disappoint. Blizzard has combined
the classic RPG style with real-time action
and multiplayer networking to produce an
addictive game with fantastic graphics and
an absorbing plot . — Wade Albright

GOOD NEWS: Addictive, absorbing ^
single-player and multiplayer action.

Awesome graphics and sound.

Interesting plot. BAD NEWS: Blizzard
took too long to come out with the Mac version.

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Norton Antivirus

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the plague of cross-platform macro viruses —
primarily transmitted via Microsoft Word 6.0
and later — ^has become a full-fledged epi-
demic. In the latest release of the utility for-
merly known as Symantec Antivirus for
Macintosh, Symantec has added a couple of
feature tweaks that better address this threat.

To stay a step ahead of prolific macro
virus authors, the newly rechristened Nor-
ton Antivirus incorporates a heuristic
“Bloodhound” system that promises to sniff
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now non-modal, and the controls and text have
been nicely simplified from SAM (bottom).

FRIENDLY DISCLOSURE TRIANGLES let you
inspect the details of NAV’s repairs.

Another more readily applied feature is a
LiveUpdate button that connects to
Symantec’s servers via the Internet or a
modem and checks for updated virus defin-
itions. However, virus deMtion updates are
no longer free; after the first year, you’ll pay
$ 3.95 a year for your subscription.

Norton AntiVirus now scans for and
repairs viruses in a single step rather than
two. The interface has been subtly made
over to match Mac OS 8’s Platinum appear-
ance. The pack^e includes a bootable CD-
ROM, and you can designate your entire
hard disk as a “SafeZone” where down-
loaded files will be examined for viral infec-
tion. In all, it’s a modest update to a simple,
effective utility . — Mark Simmons

GOOD NEWS: Nicer looking and
slightly simplified. Preferences dia- I
log is no longer modal. Effective virus
protection. BAD NEWS: SAM was a cute
acronym. LiveUpdate reties on your remembering
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Vision 3D
Vision 3D Pro II
ATI XCiaim VR

I 27 seconds
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9600/233

standard video card.

SCROLL THROUGH 400-PAGE WORD DOCUMENT

The lower the time, the better the performance.

HARDWARE

shift-F2 and the monitor suddenly zooms to a
2X magnification. Shift-Fl returns the moni-
tor to its regular IX display — particularly
useful for folks who need to see the detail in
a graphics program but don’t want to change
the view’s magnification setting. The driver
also includes a screen saver, a set of start-up
hot keys (which let you change monitor set-
tings when booting), and control over the
monitor’s gamma settings.

Installation was a bit tricky for both of
these cards. For some reason, neither card
would seat properly when we inserted it and
held it down with the anchor screw. To get
the cards to seat properly, we had to leave
them unanchored — a condition we don’t
recommend— and only then could we get
them to lock down in the PCI slots. The video
driver would not load until the cards were
properly seated. Once they were in, though,
we had no problem getting them to perform.

The Vision 3D and Vision 3D Pro II
cards can throw pixels around with the best
of them. In both cases, properly calibrated
displays were crisp and cool, and the video
driver software offers niceties such as hard-
ware zoom and gamma control so you can
get the most out of your Mac’s video. As an
entry-level card, the Vision 3D offers great
performance for its price. If you’re looking
to drive a high-resolution monitor at 24-bit
color, or you need some serious 3D accel-
eration, the Vision 3D Pro n card is a solid
contender . — David Reynolds

GOOD NEWS: Good acceleration of
basic video functions. Great perfor-
mance for the price. Crisp, clear dis-
play. BAD NEWS: Some problems get-
ting card to seat properly. Video and QuickTime
acceleration not as high as expected.

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Vision 3D, Vision 3D Pro ii

COMPANY: Mactell

CONTACT: 888-622-8355 or 512-323-6000, http*.//www.macteii.com
PRICE: Vision 3D $145; Vision 3D Pro II $995 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: One free PCI slot, System 7.5.2 or later, 16MB of RAM, QuickTime
2.5 or later, QuickDraw 3D 1.0.6 or later

VISION 3D PRO II

BIGGER IS BETTER: All those chips
on the Vision 3D Pro II provide a lot
of speed and deep, crisp color.

I t was a big deal when the Mac went color.
There was something about the switch
from black lines on white fields to fiiU,
glorious 8-bit color that set the stage for dig-
ital media. The thing is, as color depth has
increased and monitor sizes have grown, the
amount of processing power it takes to throw
that much data around has gotten steadily
larger. The standard Macintosh video cards
do a fine job, but they can be a little slow. The
Mactell Vision 3D and Vision 3D Pro II cards,
on the other hand, aim to provide snappy,
crisp video for your Mac.

At only $145, the Vision 3D card gives
you great video acceleration for the price.
The 4MB of VRAM installed on this card
allows 24-bit color at 1016 by 768 resolution
or, alternatively, 8-bit color at 1280 by 1024
resolution — enough to drive a 21-inch mon-
VISION 3D itor. Based on the S3

ALTHOUGH SMALLER than its
higher-priced cousin, the ^ard provides great

Vision 3D still prowdes a lot
of bang for the buck.

acceleration

of everyday Mac video functions, as well
as QuickDraw 3D acceleration complete
with modular lighting effects.

For a heftier $995, you can invest in the
top-of-the-line Vision 3D Pro n. This beefy
video card kicks out the video with 8MB of
VRAM for 24-bit color at resolutions as high
as 1920 by 1080. Try reading that on a 17-
inch monitor. The Vision 3D Pro n is based
on Number Nine’s state-of-the-art Ticket to
Ride video processor, which provides for
some fast video rendering. While the Vision
3D card uses a 64-bit bus, the Vision 3D Pro
n card has a 128-bit bus for even faster
throughput. Like the Vision 3D, the Vision 3D
Pro n also offers QuickTime and QuickDraw
3D acceleration.

Although the Vision 3D Pro n card has a
lot of built-in performance enhancement, we
didn’t see much of a performance difference
between the two cards in day-to-day use,
other than differences in resolution (and the
contrast between 4MB and 8MB of VRAM is
quite significant). In fact, our scroll test
showed exactly the same performance by
both cards — but this test examines only one
kind of video acceleration. We didn’t get
much acceleration when viewing QuickTime
movies, either. Both cards handled playback
of a large movie file well, not dropping a
frame even at double the frame size. When
we ran a full-size playback at 1024 by 768,
however, neither video card could handle
full-motion playback of the movie.
The included video driver is
a pretty nifty piece of software. It
allows you to turn QuickDraw,
QuickDraw 3D, and QuickTime
acceleration on and off. It con-
trols the size of the font cache,
reserving some of the system
memory for font display, which
can significandy accelerate text
display. The video driver also
takes advantage of hardware-
based video zooming. Just press

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Oiwi

GOOD NEWS; Finally integrated with
QuickTime and the Web. Retains
HyperCard’s retro charm. BAD
NEWS; Retains HyperCard’s retro
charm. Not a major upgrade.

HYPERCARD QUICKTIME TOOLS

DEVELOPMENT

the first complete implementation of a com-
mand language for QuickTime VR From with-
in HyperTalk, you can specify VR nodes by
their unique H)s, change to a custom cursor
when the mouse passes over a hot spot, and
move among multiple nodes even if the cre-
ator of the VR movie didn’t link them.

HyperCard 2,4 is not Web-ready out of the
box (you need Web server software and Royal
Software’s LiveCard to publish your stacks on
the Internet), but you now can use a
HyperTalk command to open an URL with
your default Web browser. For example, you
can set up a button action to link directly to a
Web page related to the material on a card.

Apple has made some welcome
improvements to the script window but
failed to address such problems as the pro-
gram’s inability to view and change the
properties of more than one object at a
time, its excessively modal structure, and
the tiny field capacity (still only 32K!). Not
to mention that HyperCard stili lacks built-in
color support, antialiased text, built-in text
replacement, forward deleting in text fields,
a database-style list view — and there’s not
even a Windows player for stacks.

Can you do serious work in HyperCard?
Absolutely. I use it every day to manage sev-
eral large reference book and directory
projects. And QuickTime or QuickTimeVR
creators definitely should add HyperCard
2.4 to their arsenals. Nonetheless, ihe pro-
gram is in desperate need of a major
upgrade that addresses its long-standing
shortcomings . — Steven Anzovin

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CONTACT: 408-996-1010, http://www.apple.coin/hypercard
PRICE: $99; free upgrade for owners of HyperCard 2.3 or 2.3.5
REQUIREMENTS: Any Mac (68020 or faster recommended); SMB of RAM (16MB
recommended); System 6.0.5 (System 7,1 or later recommended); QuickTime 2.5
(QuickTime 3.0 recommended)

HYPERCARD STILL HAS that 1987 look, but
version 2.4 taps QuickTime’s hidden power.

FIND THE
UPDATER
on The Disc.

ike a graying radical from the sixties,
HyperCard has been living in the past for
quite some time now. More than two
years have passed since Apple last upgraded
its once-revolutionary but now creaky-in-
the-joints multimedia authoring application,
and that was a mere shuffle from version 2.3

Customize a Movie

Without Scripting

I f you want to get the most out of HyperCard 2.4’s QuickTime wiz-
ardry, you’ve got to learn HyperTalk scripting. Luckily, Apple took pity
on you and included some cards that let you play with QuickTime’s fea-
tures first. Once you’ve got a sense of what the various options do,
press the shift key while choosing Card Info from the Object menu to
see the card script. It’s all in there. Other cards in the QuickTime Tools
stack provide a complete description of ail QuickTime-related com-
mands, functions, properties, and messages.

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by pressing a button.

START YOUR MOVIE at a spe-
cific point in time, set play-
back rate, ramp up the audio,
and do obscure things such
as set the badge (a little icon
you can put in the lower left
of the movie window).

EVER WONDER WHAT the
different Mac OS 8 window
types are called? Apply any
of these to your movie, and
deal with the consequences
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to version 2.3.5. Most of us die-hard stack-
ers frankly had given up hope for the old
gent and expected any day to read that he
had quietly passed away.

HyperCard 2.4, avaftable on Apple’s Web
site as an updater for versions 2.3 and 2.3.5,
actually breathes life into the old fellow.
What’s new in HyperCard 2.4 is mainly
QuickTime. Previously, you
could play movies in HyperCard
using QuickTime Tools, but now
the native vocabulary of Hyper-
Talk (HyperCard’s scripting lan-
guage) incorporates a large
number of new QuickTime-
related commands, properties,
and messages. These functions
give you unprecedented control
over every aspect of QuickTime,
including features you probably
didn’t know about, and for the
first time allow movies to be
interactive.

The new Movie XCMD
allows you to address the prop-
erties of each QuickTime track
type and use them to perform
tasks with your HyperTalk han-
dlers. You can play with sprites,
frame rates, track order, sound
volume, and so on. For exam-
ple, to adjust the volume of a
movie to maximum, you use the
command “set soundVolume of
audio track 1 of movie ‘My
Movie’ to 100.” What you gen-
erally can’t do is change the
content of a movie track. So
although you can search for,
extract, and jump to the text of a
QuickTime text track, you can’t
modify the text itself. Do that in
MoviePlayer or another Quick-
Time editor.

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Scriptware 1.08

PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY

COMPANY: Cinovation

CONTACT: 800-788-7090, http://www.scriptware.com
PRICE: $299.95 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: 33MHz 68030 or faster, System 7.1 or later, SMB of
RAM, 10MB of free hard disk space, CD-ROM drive

FIND A
DEMO of
Scriptware
on The Disc.

W hat do The X-Files, King of the
Hilly Leaving Las VegaSy and Ace
Ventura have in common? Their
scripts were all created in Cinovation’s
Scriptware. Long a Windows product,
Scriptware is now available for the
scriptwriting Mac user.

Scriptware is a word processor that spe-
cializes in, not surprisingly, script creation.
The manual is a great guide and introduces
even the most novice Mac user to the appli-
cation with great efficiency — and the occa-
sional potshot at Windows users. Set up in
tutorial form, the manual leads you through
several lessons that quickly show you
Scriptware’s major capabilities.

Once you get beyond the basics,
Scriptware’s power becomes evident. The
product is completely customizable. The easy-
to-use default settings make scriptwriting a
snap, but should you need to change those
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simple interface disguises a powerful tool for creating scripts.

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YOU CAN EASILY CONFIGURE Scriptware’s actions and interface.

ter dialogue, you press the tab key and type
the first few letters of the character’s name,
and Scriptware autocompletes the name for
you — it appears in a pop-up window. Just
press return to accept the highlighted name,
and then start typing; the program formats
your dialogue for you. By default, shift-return
starts a new scene, and option-return starts a
new shot. Tabbing allows you to enter camera
instructions (pan to, fade to, and so on),
among other things. Scriptware features a
fijlly customizable set of scene-time features,
including day, dusk, and sunset. Shots, also
fully customizable, include Camera On and
P.O.V. Plus, Scriptware plays housemaid as
you type, automatically capitalizing the first
word in each sentence and all stand-alone
and contracted forms of “I” — ^a feature that
will save you the trouble of using that pesky
shift key so often.

Scriptware also offers powerful tools
for modifying an existing script. For exam-
ple, if you’ve typed a script intended for
sitcom use, you can change the entire
script to film formatting with one menu
selection. Scene Cards allow you to
move scenes as easily as you would
shuffle a deck of cards. All in all, the
organization and modification tools
are phenomenal.

Users will discover some other
useful features when they get further
into the application. A Notes feature
comes in handy for organizing your
thoughts or communicating with the
producer. You can also use Notes in
jump commands, such as “Jump to
next note,” and even hide them from
view. If dialogue continues across two

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character name and the word (contin-
ued) at the top of the following page.
Reformatting the script reformats every
page break almost instantaneously.

Importing scripts from your favorite
word-processing application is not as easy
as it could be. Scriptware allows you to
import text ffles; if this is successful, your
script acts like any other Scriptware docu-
ment. If your original document does not
follow conventional scriptwriting guide-
lines, importing the file results in a virtu-
ally unusable document.

Scriptware’s biggest flaw is the way it
handles standard text procedures. Shift-
chddng does not select blocks of text — ^you
must click-drag to select text. Adapting to
these quirks won’t kill you, but you shoul-
dn’t have to adapt in the first place.

Whether you need to write a script for
Hollywood or for Hollywood Hills High
School, Scriptware will star in the leading
role. — Erik]. Barzeski

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star Control 3

FUN & GAMES

COMPANY: MacSoft

CONTACT: 800-229-2714 or 612-509-7600, http://www.wizworks.com/macsoft
PRICE: $49.95 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, System 7.5.3 or later, 12MB of RAM, 64MB of free hard
disk space for standard instaii (5MB for minimum instali), CD-ROM drive

S tar this, star that. Given the abundance
of real-time strategy games that take
place in a sci-fi setting, a new offering
doesn’t exactly raise eyebrows. What does
Star Control 3 have that other titles in the
spaceploitation genre don’t? Star Control 3,
the third installment in the series, builds on
a complex history of events in a multiracial
galaxy where there is no short^e of politi-
cal conflicts and intrigue.

In this adventure, a mysterious force
seems responsible for the collapse of Hyper
Space travel — the destruction of which
threatens all sentient life. As a captain in the
League of Sentient Races, your mission is
twofold: explore the unknown Kessari
Quadrant — all League ships, colonies, and

Save the Galaxy

Stuck? Check the ICOM tor clues you may
have overlooked.

Turncoat League members? Talk
some reason into wayward Crux races.
Ships and fuel are basic resources.
Don't run out of either.

Use the variety offered by 25
ships to your advantage and to keep the
action interesting.

Size up enemy ships before
combat and choose a ship to match their
strengths and weaknesses.

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planet to planet on your search for artifacts
and allies.

resources are under your
command — and rescue
sentient life from an
untimely demise.

In your first contact with the game, the
interface and graphics look odd and out-
dated. Star Control 3, a direct port from the
PC, harks back to 1996 when Accolade first
published it, which explains both the old
graphics and the Mac-agnostic interface. In
any case, once you get your bearings and
proceed to gameplay, aesthetic concerns fall
away. Star Control 3's most compelling qual-
ity is the fusion of diplomatic interaction and
the quest for survival.

Most of your game advances in animated
tete-a-t^tes with alien races, old friends, and
new enemies. Behavior, sense of humor,
speech, and intelligence characterize individ-
ual species. The cinematic scenes feature
Claymation instead of M-motion video, and
wonderful voice talent brings the characters
to life, resulting in a high degree of expression
and fluidity. During these diplomatic
exchanges, you read a discussant’s mood
from visual dues. When you miss a plot twist,
you can mvoke the ICOM, a Hal 9000 look-
alike, which provides usefiil information.

The execution of the action and strategic
components is less brilliant. Blending too
many elements produced a mishmash of
interfaces. For example, 3D gameplay has
mixed results. The rotating 3D star map —
present in the original Star Control — tries to
depict space realistically, but its rotation
sometimes obscures unlabeled stars. In the
2D map, the calculation of distances between
stars is complicated. The battle scenes,
labeled “Hyper Melee,” occur in isometric
view — ^you can’t move in three dimensions.

Furthermore, though the box says
“Explore. Manage. Conquer,” you don’t
spend a lot of time building or managing
your empire of Le^e worlds. The com-
plexity extant elsewhere in Star Control 3 is
missing in the tacked-on colony manage-

HONE DIPLOMATIC SKILLS in conversations with
aliens such as the Daktaklakpak to fulfill your mission.

IN HYPER MELEE you must face the enemy to find
new information for your quest.

ment. In the colony screen, you have only
two architectural styles. You don’t mans^e
your colonies from a central control; you
must travel to a planet to modify the sliders,
which regulate resources. It’s laissez-
faire — establish one colony for each
spedes in the League, produce some colo-
nial modules, then balance them to build
fiiel and ships. On the other hand, less man-
agement translates into more exploration of
the quadrant and more interaction with
characters on your quest.

Star Control 3 has a multiplayer mode; it’s
limited to Hyper Mdee. Fight fiiends on the
same keyboard, or over a modem, serial, or
network connection. Star Control 3, although
dated, proves entertaining for fans of the
series or gamesters who like interactive
adventures without total strategic conquest.
Sometimes less is move.— Jennifer Ho

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Cool voices. Online help. BAD NEWS:

Has an interface only a mother could love.
Outdated graphics.

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HARDWARE

GOOD NEWS: Amazing print quality
for a low price. Printer is quiet.

Ability to print directly from Epson
PtiotoPC 600 camera. Decent software
bundle. Level 2 PostScript upgrade available.
BAD NEWS: No bundled serial cable. Installing
bundled software is needlessly difficult

Stylus Photo EX

COMPANY: Epson

CONTACT: 800-463-7766 or 310-782-2600, http;//www.epson.com
PRICE: $499 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: 68020 or faster, System 7.1 or later, 16MB of RAM,
50MB of free hard disk space, standard Apple serial cable

I t’s tough to get excited about an ink-jet
printer. After all, there’s not much new
about printing color images using sever-
al colors of ink, and color ink-jet printers
have been around for awhile. The reason
the Epson Stylus Photo EX gets our drool
a-flowin’ is its combination of print quality
and price. For about $500, this printer can
produce photo-realistic printouts at sizes
ranging from the standard 3-by-5-inch print
to 11.7-by-44-inch panoramas.

The Photo EX performs its magic with a
combination of l440-by-720-dpi resolu-
tion, a six-color printing process, and Micro
Piezo printhead technology (which gives the
printer tremendous control over the size
and shape of individual ink dots). When it
prints high-resolution photos on glossy film
paper, the result loote almost as if it had
come fi-om a photo lab — the resolution is
fine enough so the graininess of the film
starts to show through, large areas of simi-
lar colors have almost continuous tones,
and lines are crisp and sharp. The motion of
the printhead causes minor horizontal

ALTHOUGH THE QUALITY of this photo (shot
with a digital camera) isn’t quite up to the
level of a film-based image, the Photo EX
does a remarkable job of making the best-
possible print of it.

irs SLEEK, STYLISH, and its print quality
will amaze ail who see it— especially given its price.

banding, but it isn’t
noticable except on
close examination.

The print quality
depends on the kind
of paper used. The
finest print quality is
available with glossy
film paper, which is
also fee most expen-
sive option — a little
over $1.80 per letter-
size sheet. High-
quality ink-jet paper is significantly cheaper
at around 12 cents per 8.5-by-l 1-inch
sheet, so save that glossy film for fee best
photos. After all, fee regular ink-jet paper
takes a pretty good im^e. You might also
want to spring for the ll-by-22-inch
panoramic glossy film paper, which runs
about $1.70 a sheet.

While fee Photo EX wouldn’t win a page-
per-minute race wife a laser printer, it isn’t
deathly slow, eifeer. Printing an 8-by-lO-inch
image on fee high-quality setting takes just
under 5 minutes. Printing black text is also
reasonably fast. We were able to get a couple
of text pages per minute from fee printer.

One other nifty feature of fee Photo EX is
its connectivity wife fee Epson Photo PC 600
digital camera. By connecting a Photo PC
600 to fee Photo EX, you can print 4-by-6-
inch images directly from fee camera. The
quality of these images, while it won’t knock
point-and-shoot cameras out of the con-
sumer market, is remarkably good, and cer-
tainly acceptable for snapshots.

The Photo EX has its faults. To connect
fee Photo EX when you get it home, you’ll
need to buy a Mac eight-pin serial cable.
And while fee Photo EX ships wife a good
starter software bundle — including Photo-
shop 4.0LE, Extensis Portfolio, and Spin

THIS LONU-EXPU5URE NIGHTTIME SHOT Of San
Francisco shows some of the Stylus Photo EX’s strengths
and weaknesses. The image was scanned directly from a
35-millimeter negative.

A; The gradual color changes in the night sky show off
the Photo EX’S handling of continuous tones. Note the hint
of grain from the negative that shows in the image.

B: Individual cyan dots appear in the biown-out areas, one
of the only places where the dot pattern is readily visible.

C: Straight lines appear fairly crisp, given the muted
lighting in the shot.

Panorama — installing fee software requires
either using the Digital PhotoLab application
or digging around on the CD-ROM until you
find the installers. Also, there seems to be a
conflict wife FileMaker 3. and fee printer.

FileMaker 4.0 works fine, though.

The Stylus Photo EX is a great printer if
you print a lot of bitmapped images — espe-
cially, as fee name implies, photographs. It’s
inexpensive, quiet, and has very high print
quality . — David Reynolds

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That’s Infotainment

Entydopaedia Britannica Profiles:
Black History

COMPANY: Encyclopaedia Britannica
CONTACT: 800-747-8503,
http‘7/www.eb.com
PRICE: $29.95 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: Mac llci or faster, System 7.1
or later (System 7.5 or later recommended),

SMB of RAM, 10MB of free hard disk space,

2X CD-ROM drive

T his CD-ROM reference employs the
thus far unique shtick of using a Web
browser as a front end. This time
around, the HTML work is much better — it
has graphics, for starters — and the text is
more substantial, so we’ll give Britannica
credit for refining the formula to the point
that it’s a viable alternative to the ubiquitous
Macromedia Director fi’ont end.

Still, the actual contents of the disc dis-
appoint. Setting out to focus on Afiican

American history, with time
lines and in-depth essays on
major events and notable
figures, this CD-ROM is
more remarkable for its
omissions than its inclu-
sions. Although slavery, the
Civil War, and the civil rights movement are
extensively documented, the material gets
mighty sketchy over the last generation.

Meanwhile, the coverage is heavily
slanted toward sports and literature. We get
a detailed biography of Tiger Woods — and
even Mike Tyson’s recent ear-biting
escapade is deemed worthy of inclusion^ —
but rap music. Spike Lee, and George
Clinton don’t exist. The Million Man March
and the whole Rodney King controversy get
a sentence each, but author Cornel West
warrants an entire essay for writing about
the Los Angeles riots. We, Nat Himer is
probably a more significant historical figure

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BRITANNICA’S BLACK HISTORY disc sports ail
the modern HTML features, from graphics to
sound and movies.

than Tina Himer, but the arbitrary nature of
the post-sixties coverage is even more dis-
tressing than its scantiness.

For historical matters, the disc should
serve as a decent reference. The biographi-
cal features are chock-full of detail, and the
coverage of yesteryear’s controversies (for
example, the outrageous lUskegee syphilis
study) is quite good. The inclusion of mem-
orable video and audio dips is a gratifying
bonus, but we wish there were more than a
half-dozen of each . — Mark Simmons

Nature’s Legacy; Zion
National Park

COMPANY: Paintbrush
Productions
CONTACT: 435-628-1104,
httpV/www.pbproductions.com
PRICE: $39.95 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: 68040: 33MHz or
faster; PowerPC: 80MHz or faster;
System 7.0 or later, 16MB of RAM,
4X CD-ROM drive, 13-inch monitor
capabie of thousands of coiors

T his virtual tour of Utah’s
famed national park is a
good example of how the oft-
raahgned virtual reality tech-
nology can create multimedia
magic, letting you pan, scan,
and click your way through the
scenic vistas from the comfort
of your desktop. It’s not a sub-
stitute for actually going, but
just think of the tour-planning
benefits.

A couple of touches ease the
problematic QuickTime VR navi-
gation. To your left, a park map
shows your current location and

allows you to teleport between
locations, while the captions
beneath the panoramas tell you
where a given hot spot will actu-
ally take you (much better than
chck and guess). Should you
weary of aimless ambling, you
also can step through major
landmarks in a prefab tour. Each
scene is accompanied by a para-
graph or two of educational text.
Appendixes on the park’s wild-
life, geography, ecology, and his-
tory make sure that you get your
full U.S. RDA of informational
goodness . — Mark Simmons

OceanLife Volume 6: Eastern
Pacific

COMPANY: Sumeria
CONTACT: 415-904-0800,
http://www.sumeria.com
PRICE: $49.95 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: 68040 or faster,
System 7.0 or later, SMB of free RAM,
4X CD-ROM drive, 640-by-480-pixel
monitor with thousands of colors
or better

W e’ve already reviewed a
couple of earher volumes
in the OceanLife series — ^most
recently in July of last year —
and the basic format hasn’t
changed. Each disc delivers an
hour of underwater video
footage, chronicling the capti-
vating cavorting of undersea
denizens from skates to sea
cucumbers, plus a slew of large
and luscious still photos.
Soothing voice-overs and movie
clips accompany a catalog of
submarine beasties, and for
each featured location, you get
a map, a selection of scenic

photos, and a guide to especial-
ly notable diving spots.

This edition, focusing on the
eastern section of the volcanic
Ring of Fire that surrounds the
Padfic, offers in-depth features
on three island clusters. The
treatment of the famed Galapa-
gos Islands is disappointing:
The disc gives only perfunctory
coverj^e to star attractions such
as the marine iguana, the giant
land tortoise, and the lovable
blue-footed booby. Fortunately,
Costa Rica’s Cocos Islands are a
better fit, and the footage of the
mighty rays of the Revillagigedo
Islands is fi:ankly an awesome
sight . — Mark Simmons

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TextCleanei

TEXT PROCESSING

DEVELOPER: Studio 405

CONTACT: 301-270-8445, http://www.studio4Q5.com
PRICE: $110 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: Any Mac; System 7 or later (7.5 for
drag and drop); ASCII text files

FIND THE
FREEWARE
Lite version
of Text
Cleaner on
The Disc.

S imple as soap, TextCleaner is a mini-
application that does just one thing —
cleans crud from your ASCII text files.
You know the crud we mean — the grimy
page breaks, hard returns, tabs, spaces,
email quotes, hyphens, and straight (not
curly) quotes that always seem to soil email
messages, text downloads, and ahen word
processing files. You could run those dirty
documents through your word processor’s
find-and-replace feature all day long and in
the end still have to scrub them by hand with
a toothbrush,

TextCleaner’s back-to-basics interface
consists of a single dialog with check boxes.
You select a document, then choose any of up
to 20 simultaneous cleanup operations.
TextCleaner can strip away multiple spaces
and returns; delete line spaces and wrap text;
remove spaces before and after tabs and
hyphens; change certain patterns of hyphens
and spaces to en or em dashes; and add the
correct marks for inch and foot measure-
ments. Some of the cleanups are standard
stuff that most word processors can do; but
others, such as those involving the proper
formatting of dates and measurements, are
pretty smart and will save you real work. And
TextCleaner does them in the right order, so

THOSE EXTRA RETURNS and spaces make this
a job for TextCleaner.

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0 Page break to return
0 Remove space before period
03 periods to ellipsis

0 Remove space before/after tab
0 Multiple tabs to single tab

□ Remove email quote symbols (>)

□ Line breaks to wrapped text

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irs NOT BON AMI, but TextCleaner will scrub your documents clean of text crud.

each cleanup interferes as little as possible
with the next. (Advice: Examine the dirty doc-
ument carefully before you use TextCleaner.
You’re likely to want to change the default
settings for cleanup actions.)

Of course, there’s such a thing as being
too simple, and TextCleaner does err in that
direction. Stuff you’d expect to be able to
do, such as actually seeing your documents
from within the program — ^well, forget it.
You have to run TextCleaner alongside your
word processor and pop back and forth,
opening and closing the doc each time.
That’s hard on the back. Likewise, you’ll be
putting elbow grease into converting files to
ASCII in the first place, because TextCleaner
won’t do that for you, either.

VOILA! HERE IS the document, all spic-and-
span for your visual pleasure.

Custom Clean

If you clean lots of similar docs, make your
own TextCleaner preset for batch jobs. Click
Show Presets In the TextCleaner window, then
click the Name and Define buttons for one of
the existing presets to customize it.

Finally, sometimes you have an awful
lot of cleaning to do, and TextCleaner has
some limitations when it comes to really
big jobs. The program does provide a util-
ity that automatically cleans any number of
files you drop into it. But when you do a
batch cleaning, you can’t specify individ-
ual settings for docs, nor can you save
them to another folder or rename them.
(When you’re batch cleaning, put related
docs in one folder and rename them
ahead of time.) And TextCleaner is not
commodity priced: $110 puts it out of the
range of regular cleaning persons.

Despite its limitations, TextCleaner can
certainly save you a ton of scrubbing. It’ll
make your text brighter and your docu-
ments whiter . — Steve Anzovin

GOOD NEWS; Quickly cleans extra-
neous text characters from ASCII
docs. Tackles tough jobs such as
smart quotes and measurement ma
BAD NEWS: You can’t see the docs you’re working
on within the program. No batch processing con-
trol. Only works on ASCII.

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(ubase VST 3.52

GRAPHICS & SOUND

COMPANY: Steinberg

CONTACT: 818-993-4161, http://www.us.steinberg.net
PRICE: $399 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, System 7.5.3 or later,
16MB of RAM (24MB of RAM recommended), 5MB of
free bard disk space (CD-quality stereo files use
10MB per minute), CD-ROM drive

FIND THE
TRACK
“Groovin’’
on The Disc.

I f you ever wanted to create your own
MIDI sequences and audio recordings, or
process your own electronic tracks, but
you were afraid to take the plunge because
the amount of equipment was daunting, your
wait is over. Steinberg has created Cubase
VST (Virtual Studio Technology), which
loads a complete studio into your Power

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THE ARRANGE WINDOW SHOWS an overview of the tracks. You can move them in time or to other
tracks, select and copy parts, and double-click on a part to bring up an editor window. Also, on the
left side you can assign instruments as well as solo and mute tracks in your setup, select what
type of file you want to work with, assign MIDI or mixer channels, and name tracks.

Mac. This splendiferous software studio
includes full MTOI sequencing and editing,
hard-disk recording, real-time audio pro-
cessing, mix-down automation, and score
layout and printing capabilities.

The package includes two print manu-
als, a CD containing two additional PDF
manuals, and an in-depth tutorial movie
demonstrating the basic features and
operations of the program. Since Cubase
is complex, it’s nice to have this wealth of
well-written material available. (You
always read the manuals, don’t you?)

Once you’re set up, you can record live

THE SCDRE EDIT WINDOW is where you edit
note data, and arrange and lay out your music
for printing.

drums, rhythm parts, or anything else you
like directly to your hard drive, and then
let your creative urges take over. As with
any digital-audio creation, the more hard
disk space and RAM you have, the more
tracks you can record and the better
everything works. Once your files are on
the drive, you can edit mistakes, correct
your pitch, and loop sections. Cubase goes
out of its way to make sure that most audio
edits are nondestructive, so your original
take exists intact, somewhere.

Add MIDI tracks to your arrangement
and quantize to move the notes automati-
cally toward the nearest beat of a prede-
fined groove, metronomic tempo, or the
tempo map you made, so everything
grooves together. The editor windows

Drum Loop Tranceformation

Cubase VST gives you the power to transform a mono drum loop into
your own crunchy electronic groove, to disassemble individual hits, to
assign each drum sound its own location, and to produce your own EQ
and effects for each new track.

1 First you have to get a
drum loop into Cubase.
Listen to an audio track
with the AppleCD Audio Player.
Use the freeware program
GrabAudio to select the track
and set the timings.

2 Back in Cubase, using the Movie
Track Functions pop-up, choose
Open Movie and find the file you
just created. Using the same pop-up, save
the file, and then choose Export Audio.
Name the new file and use the Selection
menu to either Export or Convert To
MovieTrack’s Rate.

Select a new audio track.
Select Import Audio. Double-
click the track to reveal the
wave form. Line up the beats with the
bar numbers by changing the tempo in
Transport Bar. Create a two-bar loop.
Set channel to Any.

Select Dynamic Events in the
View pop-up (Edit window),
then change Volume to M-
Points from the Volume pop-up. Next,
choose Snip M-Points from the Do
pop-up. Each hit is now a separate
sound. Isn’t It fun to get to know your
groove so intimately?

70 MacADDICT AUG/98

allow an amazing degree of control, from
the most minute tick (384th of a beat) to
every MIDI event in your song. The
Interactive Phrase Synthesizer creates new
music modeled from existing MIDI tracks
and generates complicated arpeggios and
other ingeniously designed variations of
your music.

Style Tracks, another innovative fea-
ture, lets you create accompaniment pat-
terns. These mimic features on the organs
you hear in malls, where playing a chord
sets up a whole rhythmic pattern on which
you can improvise (you can also use one
of several accompaniment patterns includ-
ed on the CD). The only difference here is
that you can use any of your MIDI devices
to create your own patterns, making them
more musically interesting and hip than
the old standby beguine or samba
rhythms. You can set up eight variations,
which you trigger from the lower octave of
your MIDI keyboard, and perform them
live or record them as MIDI events. You
can really wail with some new house or
techno patterns here.

Once all your material is recorded on
the tracks and edited, then the mixing
processes can balance levels, adjust the
equahzation (up to four separate bands of
fully parametric EQ per channel), pan the
signal, and add effects. The window dis-
play emulates a real studio-type mixing
board, and all parameters — including
faders, buttons, knobs, EQs, and effects —
can be automated for that perfect mix. The
VST Plugin concept is another bonus. The
package includes excellent reverbs, a fuzz
box, a chromatic tuner, a binaural speak-
er simulator, and more. These look and
operate just as their hardware counter-
parts do — including a graphic power
switch that you must turn on to begin

IN THE KEY EDIT WINDOW, you can hear, add, and delete notes and change their position. The Controller
Display under the grid allows you to edit continuous events such as velocity, volume, pitch bend, and other
controller data.

operations — except that you access the
controls with your mouse. It’ll be a long
time before this system becomes obsolete.
Other manufacturers and individuals are
stretching the sound barriers, creating
new Plugins to ensure that the latest sonic-
effect tool is always available. There are
already hundreds out there.

But wait, there’s more. You can lay out
and print the score of any or all your MIDI
parts using the Score Editor. You can even
change or write new passages in that win-
dow. What more could you ask for?

Do you need to write and sync music to
a QuickTime movie or another external
device? Cubase sync options include
SMPTE, MIDI Time Code, and MMC linking
with existing music or tape. If you don’t
need them, you probably won’t even know
they’re there, but if you’re a professional

creating movie scores or adding tracks to
an existing piece of music, these features
are pure gold.

Since Cubase is so deep, Steinberg offers
unlimited free tech support; however, you
have to make a toll call to Southern
California. Cubase’s wealth of features and
well-designed integration make it an inspir-
ing and affordable tool for musical neophytes
as well as ^tos.—Jtidy Munsen

GOOD NEWS: Powerful MIDI and
audio file recording software.

Expandable real-time Plugin effects.

Score layout and printing capabilities.

An abundance of impressive and useful sound-
editing features. BAD NEWS: It’s more than chal-
lenging to learn bow to use the vast number of fea-
tures. Shift-dragging audio events between lanes
is difficult to control.

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5 To place drum sounds In sep-
arate lanes, notice where the
kick drum pieces are; select
them using the Arrow and shift key.
Hold the shift key and, with a down-
ward move of the mouse, move them
to the second lane. Find other drum
sounds; move them to their own lanes.

6 With the track playing, open
the Monitor window from the
Audio menu. Using the sliders
to the right of each track, adjust the
volume; do not overload the level. Get
a relative balance and stereo location
for ail your drum parts.

7 Click on the FX/EQ button in
the Monitor window to bring
up the Equalization window for
a track. Here you have up to four sep-
arate parametric EQs. The handy
Preset buttons start you in the range
you want to affect. Click On when
you're ready to add effects.

8 Choose Effects from the Audio
menu; turn on the Power but-
ton in the module. Select a
parameter; adjust it with the big round
knob. You can assign effects to any
track you’ve made. Once you get a mix
together, save the whole thing as an
AIFF file by selecting Export Audio.

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REQUIREMENTS: 68030 or faster, System 7.0.1 or
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SCSI CD-ROM drive

S oftware Architects promises you “the
speed you want from the drive you
have” with its new CD/DVD Drive Hme-
Up, a package consisting of an extension (to
replace the Apple CD-ROM extension), an
application for setting cache options, and an
Audio CD Remote controller for listening to
music discs. If this constitutes a tune-up,
we’d hate to see a car crash.

The CD/DVD TuneUp INIT acts as a dri-
ver for over 100 CD-ROM drives, but it
currently supports only two DVD drives,
and then only in data and audio mode

(there’s no player for watching movies).
Another drawback is that CD/DVD TuneUp
works only with SCSI drives, not with
increasingly common IDE drives. Worse
still, when it loads at start-up, the exten-
sion spends a maddening 25 seconds
looking for drives.

You need the application only for setting
up the caches that supposedly increase disc-
read performance by keeping recently
requested data in memory or in an invisible
hard drive file. In real-world testing the
caches often substantially hurt performance
on initial reads and offered little benefit dur-
ing subsequent reads.

The best component is the pedestrian
Audio CD Remote, which provides basic
audio CD control features: volume, track,
scan, play, pause, stop, and eject.

If you use a variety of third-party CD-
ROM drives, forget about CD/DVD Drive

THESE CACHES ARE SUPPOSED TO speed
things up, but in reality they often make read-
ing from CD-ROMs slower; even when they do
work, the improvement isn’t noticeable.

HineUp and buy FWB Software’s CD-ROM
ToolKit (see review, Dec/97, p.63). It
doesn’t boost performance much, but it
costs the same, supports a far wider range
of drives (including almost every DE and
SCSI drive on the market), and comes with
a nifty CDT Equalizer for tweaking audio
playback . — Owen W. Linzmayer

GOOD NEWS: Handies mulUdisc
changers. BAD NEWS: Limited DVD
support. No IDE support. Long
delay at start-up. Cache often harms

performance.

Yamaha CD-RW Drive

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CONTACT: 800-823-6414 or 408-467-2300,
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PRICE: $549.95 (SRP)

REQUIREMENTS: System 7.0 or later, 1MB of free
RAM to run Adaptec’s Toast

T he newest CD-mastering drive from
Yamaha sets the industry standard in
speed, reliability, and ease of use, even if
its full name — the CRW4260TXPM — is more
than a mouthful. Not only does the
CRW4260TXPM ftmction like a regular CD
burner, it also handles rewritable media,
making backups and multiple edits conve-
nient. Included is Adaptec’s Toast mastering
software, which makes it easy to create many
different types of CD formats.

The drive reads at 6x and writes normal
CD-Rs at 4X and rewritable CD-RWs at 2X,
making this one of the fastest CD burners
available. A fiill (D at 4X speed takes just
under 20 minutes to master, while a full CD at
2X takes almost 40 minutes. And now that

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blank CDs cost about
$2 or less purchased in quantify, using
them for just about everything is cost effective.
When it comes to archiving, CDs are much
more reliable than tape drives, and though
their capacity is smaller, you can get about 30
CDs for the price of one tape. The only incon-
venience is having to find your data on sepa-
rate CDs rather than on one tape.

The CRW4260TXPM also works well as a
regular CD drive. If you’ve ever had to eject
your favorite audio CD regretfully in order to
use another CD, you’ll love putting your audio
CD in the CRW4260TXPM and changing CDs

other drive.

The only drawback of the CRW4260TXPM
is that it doesn’t come with a SCSI cable. It
serves both the Mac and PC, so you need a dif-
ferent cable depending on your system. It
would be better to have a drive ready to go out
of the box without having to worry about find-
ing a SCSI cable , — Wade Albright

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Zero Entertainment: 206-329-8986,
http://www.zeroentertainment.Gom

Z ero Entertainment, dedicated to boxless
software, is releasing Crop Circles:
Escape from Planet 3. Sci-fl meets pop cul-
ture in this arcade game in which you con-
trol an otherworldly flying saucer: Evade all
farmers, government agents, and photogra-

phers. Your mission is to blaze
mysterious markings onto the Escape from pianet a
surface of the Earth while beaming
up cows, which power your space-
craft. Hint: Don’t suck up mad cows — ^they
damage your celestial vessel—;)^ BEAM THEM UR Scotty. You need to suck up

cows to fuel your ship. Then use your
spacecraft to draw dreamy circles.

GAZE AT THE AMAZING light
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RedJack:
Revenge of
the Brethren
on The Disc.

Dark Vengeance

Reality Bytes: 617-621-2500,
http://www.realbytes.com

V engeance is a dish best served cold. In
Dark Vengeance, you enter a fantasy
world held captive by a magical eclipse. A
band of renegade elves rises to challenge
the world order. These dark elves vow
revenge on surface dwellers. You must
fight off this Anschluss of evil and free the
world from the eclipse.

This state-of-the-art game is a third-
person action adventure In a fully engross-
ing 3D world. Not only can you choose
from five characters— each character has

THE GLADIATOR IS ONE of five characters
who deferid humans against dark elves and
their acolytes.

a distinct fighting style, follows a unique story
line, and acquires new skills in missions that
take place both indoors and outdoors— Dark
Vengeance also features 20 missions, over
40 weapons and spells, and over 40 enemies
to battle. Could you wish for a tougher chal-
lenge? How about 32-player death matches
and team network gaming via the Internet?
Dark Vengeance will be optimized for 3D
graphics accelerator cards.™n/H

Carmageddon 2

SCI: http://www.scl.co.uk

S tep right upl
Strap yourself
ini Get ready to
drive right on
over Miss Daisy
in this follow-up
release to the
original, wildly
successful Car-

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mage^don. If you’ve ever played Carmaged-
don and loved It, you’ll love Carmageddon 2.
What more can we say? Words can't com-
pare with the cathartic experience of power-
ing your colossal car up and down the race-
track as you crush pedestrians and mortal
enemies. To crush or not to crush? That’s not
the question In Carmageddon 2.—JH

The

Fox Interactive: 310-369-5369,
http://www.foxinteractive.com

G ood news for fans of
the popular television
series The X-Piles. Fox
Interactive has just released a CD-
ROM adventure-mystery based on
the program.

The game puts you in the role
of Seattle FBI agent Craig Willmore;
you’re working on a typical case. You’ll
interact with special agents Scully and Mulder, played by
stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, through
HyperBole’s patented VirtualQnema, a new technology
that allows you to dick on items and call up a dialog box
in the middle of full-motion video.

Chris Carter, creator of the TV series, is working
closely with Fox Interactive developers to make sure the
game maintains the aura of mystery and intrigue so
prevalent in the hit show.

So if you want to try your hand as an FBI agent
exaniining mysteries of the paranormal, X-Files marks
the spot. Both PC and Power Mac versions should
appear on store shelves this summer, perhaps by the
time you read X\As.—John Lee

RedJack: Revenge of the Brethren

THQ: 818-225-5167, http://www.thq.eom

i n the mood for black piracy and some
good old-fashioned skullduggery? Get
ready for RedJack: Revenge of the
Brethren, an action-adventure title due to hit
stores in August. RedJack, perhaps the
scummiest pirate ever to hoist a cup of grog,
has been dead for 17 years, betrayed by
one of his own men. Now it’s time for
RedJack’s crew, aka the Brethren, to
reassemble, find the traitor, unearth their
dead captain’s pirate treasure, and sail off
into the Caribbean sunset.

The fighting is fun. Old Lyle, a snaggle-
toothed, foul-mouthed member of the origi-

nal crew, will show you how to
parry, how to cut and slash, and
how to duck thrown objects.
Learn well: You’ll need all three
skills to fight cutthroats, assas-
sins, and ghosts. You’ll visit exotic
ports of call in this rough and
rowdy adventure. You’ll even
encounter tons of adventures,
puzzles, and oddball animated
characters along the way. Hardy-
har-har.— Jo/?/? Lee
A DYING CAPTAIN RedJack, betrayed
by one of his own, extracts a promise
of retribution from bis crew.

Defiance

Logicware: 888-564-4245,
http://www.logicware.com
Ail f it’s battle you want, it’s battle you’ll
■ get!” say the makers of Defiance,
the critically acclaimed 3D action adven-
ture, which is coming to the Macintosh in
August. As the test pilot of an experi-
mental vehicle, the LAV-6 Saber attack
hovership, you must brave 13 levels of
Intense action. With a cutting-edge 3D
engine and QuickDraw 3D RAVE accel-
eration, Defiance is unlike anything cur-
rently available for your Power Mac.
Prepare to engage 1 8 different creatures

that attack you from all sides!
Defiance also offers Death
Match, which accommodates
network battle for up to eight
players. And of course you get
awesome weapons with which
to gib and frag all beasties to
the tunes of an original sound-
track. if you survive, you’ll get
to witness Defiance’s shocking
conclusion.—

DEFY DEADLY CREATURES as you
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Keep Your Mac Virus-Free

by Kevin Savetz

C omputer viruses don’t seem
like a big deal — that is, until
your Mac catches one. Once
that h^^pens, a virus may slowly
corrupt your fQes, print strange
messages, rename your hard
drive, or even attempt to erase
your disks. Relatively few viruses
affect Macs: Macintosh users
need to dodge somewhere
around 55 viruses, compared to
the thousands of strains
beset DOS and Windows users.
Don’t let that number lull you
into believing that your computer
is immune from infection. It only
takes one virus — ^passed from a
friend’s floppy, downloaded from
the Internet, or spread over the
office LAN — ^to trounce the pre-
cious information stored on your
Mac. An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of I-told-you-sos.
Here are five steps to protect
your Mac from viruses, plus one
great Web site you should check
out for more virus information.

Disinfectant

Disinfectant 3.7.1

Please read the "Quick Start " section of the manual
before running Disinfectant for the first time. It vill
tell you hov to use this program to check your system
for viruses^ remove any viruses which you may have on
your system^, and protect your system against future
infections. To read the manual^ select the "Disinfectant
Help" command in the Apple menu.

WARNING : Disinfectant does NOT recognize the
Microsoft Word and Excel macro viruses. Please see
the "Introduction" section of the manual for more
information on this problem.

Mr. Bombastic

Disk disinfection run started.
3/19/98, 10:29:32 PM.

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Files scanned : 376
Infected files : 0
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1 Choose Antivirus Software

First things first: To keep your Mac free
from infection, you’ll need an antivirus utility.
You can go two ways: Buy a commercial
antivirus program, or choose a free one. If a
free inoculation sounds like the way to go,
Disinfectant (version 3.7.1) is the de facto stan-
dard. It does the basic job of scanning your
system for viruses and removing any nasties it
finds, but it doesn’t cover all of the bases.
Commercial antivirus programs tend to offer
niceties lacking in bare-bones Disinfectant,
and, sadly. Disinfectant will not be updated
beyond its current version. Contenders in the
commercial category are Symantec’s Norton
Antivirus 5,0 for Macintosh (http://www.syman-
tec.com/sam), Virex (http://www.drso!omon.
com/products/virex/index.cfm), Dr. Solomon’s
Antivirus Toolkit (http://www.drsolomon.com/
products/avtk/ps_mac.html), and McAfee’s
VirusScan (http://www.mcafeemall.com/mall/
mcafee/vsmacxfact. html) ,

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Viruses — and Get Rid of

Them After you’ve purchased or down-
loaded your antivirus utility, use it regularly. It
thoroughly searches your Mac’s hard disk for
telltale signs of viruses. If it finds a virus, the
software removes it — hopefully before the virus
damages your precious data. Like that roll of
dental floss you’ve pushed to the back of the
medicine cabinet, antivirus software doesn’t
work unless you use it often. Running a thor-
ough scan once a month should be fine for
most people. Run it more often if you download
many programs or exchange lots of disks with
your associates, or if your Mac starts to act
wonky. Every one of the programs listed above
includes an extension or control panel that
watches constantly for nefarious virus activity,
even between scans. Make sure you enable
that function for maximum protection.

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assure that no new strains can take residence in your Mac, keep your
antivirus software up to date. Commercial antivirus tools make this easy: Their
makers automatically send you updates — enhancements that tell the program
how to identify new viruses — via the Internet or snail mail. If you use the free-
ware Disinfectant, don’t bother looking for new versions, because there won’t
be any. You can also check with sites such as Version Tracker (http://www.ver-
siontracker.com), which keeps track of the latest updates. Just search for the
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4 Trounce Annoying Macro Viruses Once and for All

A relatively new and exceptionally annoying type of virus is the macro
virus. Normally viruses can travel only via Infected applications. Macro viruses
are the exception to the rule: They travel in the documents of programs with
powerful scripting languages. Files In Microsoft Word and Excel are the most
common macro virus hosts. Macro viruses are cross-platform — your Mac can
catch a macro virus created on a PC. One way to deal with them is Microsoft’s
antivirus tool, available from http://www.microsoft.com/office/antivirus.asp.
These scripts eradicate the most common Word and Excel macro viruses.

5 Lock Out and Back Up No antivirus software is foolproof.

Happily, software is not your only defense. Viruses can’t infect read-only
media. If you walk around with floppies, Jaz disks, or other removable media
in your pocket or purse, lock them to protect them from infection when you pop
them into others’ computers. A virus can’t infect a medium it can’t write to. Your
ultimate defense — and you’ve heard this a thousand times — is to back up your
data regularly. Don’t just keep one backup of the most recent version; instead,
rotate between several sets of back-ups. Keep them somewhere safe. Hide
them in a place where no one ever goes. Put them in the pantry with your cup-
cakes. That way, even if your computer does manage to get Infected, you can
be sure that you’ve got at least one safe copy of your data.

Kevin Saveb (http://www.savetz.com) is the keeper of Trivial.Net— trivia just for
nerds— at http://www.trivial.net.

great place to find the latest information on Macintosh virus*
\es is at Mac Virus (http://www.macvirus.com). This Web^site,
maintained by Susan Lesch, contains a ton of useful information
about Macintosh system viruses, macro viruses, and other annoy-
ing pests. If you're looking for up-to-date virus inforitiatibnv check
here early in your search. Mac Virus has an interesting article on
the recently discovered Autostart 9805 Worm, which is the first
worm to infect the Macintosh. To combat the Autostart 98G6 Worm,
Mac Virus recommends that you turn off the Enable CD-ROM
AutoPlay in the QuickTime settings control panel. You can see if
your Mac is infected by using the Finder’s Find command to look
for invisible files named DB, BD^ or DELDB at your hard drive’s root
leyet or those named Desktop : Spooler, Desktop Frintr
Spooler or DELDesktop Print Spooler in the Extensions fdlder.
Files named Desktop DB and Desktop Printer Spooler are legiti-
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GRAPHICS & SOUND

Unleash the Power of QuarkXPress 4.0 Style Sheets

by Elyse Chapman

T he biggest reason for using style sheets in
QuarkXPress is the monstrous amount of
time and toil they save, but even so, pro-
fessionals often don’t take the time and trouble
to set them up properly. If it helps, think of a
style sheet as a name in a palette. The name
carries a whole bunch of instructions that exe-
cute when you click on it with text selected.
You don’t have to mouse around to this or that
menu or palette, changing every little attribute
spec by spec. In less than a second, style sheets
carry out detailed text formatting that would
take an eternity to set manually.

Style sheets save you even more time and
trouble when you need to go back and edit
your text. With decently designed style sheets,
you can add new text and instantly format it to
match the rest. Should you need to change a
font or size setting in text that has a lot of local
formatting, you can edit just certain style sheets
and watch your changes ripple through your
document like magic. If you’re using Quark-
XPress 4.0’s new book feature on a large pro-
ject, you can synchronize your project so that
the style sheet changes you make in one docu-
ment will be reflected in its sibling documents.
If you’re a Photoshop 4.0 user, it might help to
think of style sheets as a bit like Photoshop
actions — ^formatting instructions assigned to a
name in the palette are applied automatically to
selected text.

Here’s how we worked with style sheets to
format a mildly fussy little table that recently
came our way. It had siblings that needed iden-
tical treatment, so creating and using the style
sheet settings from the first table saved us a
whole lot of time and effort, not to mention our
overall sanity.

Previous versions of QuarkXPress only
offered par^aph-level style sheets. Version
4.0 introduces character-level style sheets. In
4.0, paragraph styles (predictably) affect para-
graph formatting: alignment, indents, hyphen-
ation and justification settings, space before
and after paragraphs, drop caps, leading,
keeping a paragraph with the next one, keep-
ing lines together, rules above or below, and
tabs, with all of their fussy settings. Character
styles, on the other hand, are concerned with
the attributes of individual characters or
words: font, size, color and shade, scaling,
tracking, baseline shift, and styling (bold,
underlined, subscript, and so forth).

3 W ay M
7'

odel !

M-32

704-34

Port SIZ,
Inlet & C

utlet 1/4” '

3/8” 1/:

y’

Flared Ti
Orifice (1

jbe

.imiting)

1/8” 1A

t”

Cv [Kv]

0.3

[0,43] 1.

[1.58] 3
A 3

1 [4,46

67 [93]

3.76 [91

[118]

B 1

15 [29]

1.15 [2!

Afy Sfyjf?
Normal
Table 1
Table 2
Tables
TCvKv

^ TEyen
TLastShade
TOdd

^ TOrifioe

o/<4

0/1 Normal
A Table 1
A Table 2
A Table Body
A Table Body Small

1.62

X: 24p2.435

V: 17p6

AO®

B| $ auto

Y: 17p1 1.446

H: 14p10.011

Cols: 1

Isi

IIh^

S 1^ I Helvetica

ah2 pt a

before

The prospect of manually formatting a complex table such as this one
is daunting. Fortunately, we have style sheets to help us out.

after

By first formatting the table and then creating style

sheets from that formatting, we have the templates
to format the rest of the tables swiftly. It takes practi-
cally no time at all— including adjusting the vertical
rules for longer and shorter tables.

Style Sheets

IT Normal
11 Table 1
11 Table 2

3 WAY

MODEL •

4T Table

C|7r

704-32

704-34

^ 1 1 IV w

11 TCvKv

rort Zb|jL.b
Inlet & Outlet

IM"

3/8"

TEven

Flared Tube

11 TLastShade

Orifice <um«sr^ i

l/fi"

1/4“

11 TOdd

...

luriTice

2.Q ‘[93]^

376

[94]

*4^

___

US [29]

[»]

3.3fi [86]

3.38

4.-

A Normal

1 B4 [47]

154

[47]

A Table 1

79 [30]

[2D]

A Table 2

U09 [28]

IJ09

[2S]

l.i

A Table Body

1.19 [30]

[30]

1.'

A Table Body Small

1.30 [30J5]

[30.5]

is [11,4]

.60 [15,2]

.60

[15.2]

54 [14]

[14]

59 [IS]

159 [40,4]

159

[40,4]

159 [48J0]

n m

[3] ■

=€) -14 [4]

-0. [0]

-0-

.10 [4]

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5/8"-~20

—

3/4*

'-20 — 1

XI : 37p3.435

First Point I

V:1 pt

Y1 ; 18p3.519

L: 14p7.818

78 MacADDICT AUG/98

AK&I!Q9H

Port SIZE

7D4-22

704*24

704*26

Inivt A Outkt

1/4'

1/r

Flar«dTubi
Orlfica (UmMnft

I/S'

1/4’

3/8*

W P43]

JJB i\MJ

25 [4.I8J

3.67^ [93]

376 [96]

4.63 [IIS]

1.15 [29]

162 [41]

23S [86]

3.3S [86]

386 [98]

184 [47]

1 84 [47]

2.17 [S5]

|J09 [2S0

109 [28]

154 [34]

129 [33]

122 [31]

159 [40A]

159 [404]

189 [480]

IJO [305]

IX [305]

153 [35.1]

60 [155]

45 [IM]

.12 [3]

•12 ra

.14 [4]

73 [19]

75 [19]

UY-X —

S/8'-3D —

3/4'-X —

Stu1>ShMts !

^ Normal

wmm

E<m

PupHMt« Albo*..
£>#lf t# 4fcw

X:24p2.435
i|Y:17p1 1.446

V: 17p6
H: HplO.Oll

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Coli: 1

0I7 pt ^

I The easiest way to create a new style sheet is to select some text that
has the formatting you want the style sheet to carry (for paragraph
style sheets you just place the cursor in the paragraph), press and hold
down the control key, and click in the Style Sheets palette. Click in the
upper part of the palette to create a paragraph style sheet, or in the lower
part for a character style sheet. Choose New from the pop-up menu.

I Edit Paragraph Style Sheet I

Nome: £|hTe 1

Ocneral J Formats [ Tabs J 1

Keyboard Equiualent: T

Based On: | ^ >Vity S/j//e ▼ [

NeHt Style: |U Table 3^|

-Charai

1 Defauft

1 ^Normal

[ Neiu 1

1 Edit J

Description:

Alignment ; Left; Left Indent : Op; First Line : Op; Right Indent : Op; Le.ad1ng :
7 pt; Space Before : Op; Space After : Op; H&J: Standard no hyph; Tabs;
6p^ 1 1p^ 1Sp6; Next Style: Table 3; Character; (Name: Table Body;
OillSans; 7 pt; Plain; Black; Shade; 1009?; Track Amount : 0; Horiz.
Scale: 1009?; Baseline Shift : 0 pt)

iPanpell ll )|

3 It’s easiest to create the character style sheet first, and then apply that
character style to the paragraph style(s) that will use It. Creating the
character style first allows you to specify It at the same time as all the
other attributes of the new paragraph style sheet. It saves the step of
returning to the paragraph style sheet dialog box to specify what charac-
ter style you want to apply in that paragraph style.

Style Sheets ’W ‘ ,

51 fib sty
il Normal
11 Table 1
11 Table 2
11 Tables
11 TCvKv
11 TEven
IT TLastShade
It TOdd

ir*TOr1floe

A fib sty b
A Normal
A Table 1
A Table 2
A Table Body

A Table Body Small

5 Now that you’ve finished the style sheets, formatting the table is a
breeze. Just select the text to style, and then choose the proper style
sheet entry. With a minimum of fuss and muss, this automatically formats

the text with the chosen attributes.

I Edit Character Style Sheet 1

Name: |Table Body

Keyboard Equiualent: |

Based On: | A ^ I

Font: IcillSans

Size: |7 pt ll^l

Color: !■ Block 'v'l

Shade: 1 100%

Scale: | Horizontal ▼ |

108%

Track Rmount:

Baseline Shift:

e pt

-Type Style

^ Plain □ Shadow

□ Bold □ All Caps

□ Italic □ Small Caps

□ Underline □ Superscript

□ Ulord U-Iine □ Subscript

□ Strike Thru □ Superior

□ Outline

2 After you choose the New option, a dialog box appears with all the
attributes of the text you selected already entered in the fields. Name
the style sheet (we’ve named this one Table Body) and assign it a key-
board shortcut. Click OK and you’re done — ^you've created the style
sheet. Note that although the text you selected has the same attributes
as the style sheet, you still need to assign the style sheet to that text.
(This doesn’t happen automatically.)

HRRCtiSSIBH

704-22

704-24

704*26

tort SIZE

Inlet A Outlet

t/4’

3/8’

l/2‘

FlaredTube

Orifice (Untwiy)

1/8'

1/4'

3«'

\ 0.3 [0.431

, [M4] ;

. 2.^7 ^{4:iei

3.67 [93]

3.76

[96]

4.63 [lie]

1.15 [29]

[29]

1.62 [41]

3.38 [86]

3.38

[86]

386 [98]

' D

184 [47]

184

[47]

2.17 [55] '

1.09 [280

[28]

154 [34]

1.29 [33]

1.29

[33]

(.22 [31]

159 [40/1]

159

[40/1]

189 [48.0]

IX [X51

158 135,1}

.60 [155]

.60

[155]

.45 [11,4]

.12 [3J

.12

[3]

>,14 [4]

73 [19]

[19]

.75 [19]

l/2‘-2C' —

5/8’-»

—

3/4*-20 —

|5|lC;iii::ii;;i!Stule Sheets

IT fib sty b
IT Normal
IT Tablet
IT Table 2
Table 3
IT TCvKv
IT TEven
IT TLastShade
IT TOdd

IT^rlflcC

A i^ifStyb

A Normal
A Table 1
A Table 2
A Table Body

A Table Body Small

V: 17p6

AO® IS

Cols; 1 la

$9 pt

GillSans Q|s pt Ql

H: 14pt 0.011

40 0

4 Following the above steps, we’ve created character and paragraph
style sheets from the formatted text. Now we need one more char-
acter style sheet for the smaller text used in line 6 (the word Limiting).
Select just the affected word, create the style sheet (naming it Table
Body Small), and apply it to the selection. The Style Sheets palette
shows the paragraph style assigned to this single-line paragraph, but a
plus sign now appears next to the style sheet name. This plus sign indi-
cates that— since we applied the Table Body character style to text in
TOrifice paragraph style— this text strays from TOrifice’s formatting. If
we select the word Orifice, to which we haven’t applied the new char-
acter style sheet, the plus sign disappears. In short, the plus sign means
that something in the selected text or paragraph deviates from the specs
of the assigned style sheet.

704*32

Port SIZE

Inlet & Outbt

1/4“

Flared Tube

Orifice <umnr«

1/8"

3.67 [93]

US [29]

3.38 186]

184 [47]

,79 [X]

109 [26]

U9 [X]

I.X [X5]

.60 [15.2]

54 [14]

1 .59

[40,4] 1.

89 [48,0

.12

1/4"

3.76 [96]

1.15 [291

133 [S61

\M [47]

.79 [20]

Ij09 [28]

1.19 [30]

1.30 [30^1
.60 [15,2]

[40.4j'li

1 / 2 -

3/8"

4.63 [IIS]
1.62 [41]

4.48 [114]

2.17 [55]

.99 [25]

1.17 [30]
1.99 [SI]
1.38 [35.1]
.45 [IM]
59 [IS]

[3] [3] B

Stule Sheets

:!i;!

IT M}Sfyb

IT Normal

IT Tablet
IT Table 2
IT Tables
IT TCvKv
IT TEven
IT TLastShade
IT TCddw
IT TOrifIde

A AbStyb

A Normal

A Table 1
A Table 2
A Table Body
A Table Body Small

With a finished set of style sheets, powering through a table takes
almost no time at all, especially compared to the pain of formatting

such a table by hand.

AUG/98 MacADDICT 79

power up

COMPATIBILITY

How to Share Your Printer

by Buz Zoller

T he original LaserWriters from Apple
were network printers, which was both
a blessing and a curse. The curse was
that you also had to buy expensive LocalTalk
network boxes in order to use the print-
ers — no straight serial connection here.
The blessing was that once you had pur-
chased the proper network boxes and
cables, any Mac on the network could use
these printers; they weren’t limited to a sin-
gle computer. Then Apple produced a series
of less-expensive serial printers (mainly
inkjets but some LaserWriters as well),
which you could hook up to only one Mac
at a time via a serial cable. If you were used
to previous Apple printers’ networkability,
this limitation was frustrating. You had to
move the files you wanted to print to the
Mac connected to the printer.

There is a fix for this litde shortcoming.
A htde-known feature of Apple’s serial print-
ers is that you can share them with other
computers on the network, courtesy of a soft-
ware technology called GrayShare for black-
and-white printers and ColorShare for color
printers. How does it accomplish this amaz-
ing feat? It does its job by turning your Mac

into a print server; one computer plays host
for all the documents printed, and these
documents can come fi’om any computer on
the network. All print jobs go to the printer
via the host computer. The GrayShare and
ColorShare software doesn’t make a serial
printer into a true network printer (like most
LaserWriters) , because a computer needs to
act as host. But if you have an Apple serial
printer, share the wealth by putting it on the
network. And the best part of all — the soft-
ware is firee.

So let’s say you have one of the share-
able Apple printers. What do you need to
set it up? First of all, you need some Macs
connected via a network, either LocalTalk
(with LocalTalk or the cheaper but still
amazingly reUable PhoneNet cabling) or
full-blown Ethernet complete with an
Ethernet hub. You even can set up a printer
on a two-Mac Ethernet network created by
an inexpensive crossover cable. Once the
network is ready to go, all you need is your
printer, the printer software that came with
your computer, and about 15 minutes.
Sound too good to be true? Just follow
along — you won’t be disappointed.

Printing for All

In a mere six steps, you can share your serial printer on a network.
All you need is a printer, the software, and a few minutes.

Confirm that your network is up and run-
ning. Networks can be tricky, but keep
in mind that it takes only two computers
to make a network. Next, designate one of the
Macs to be the host computer. This Mac must
always be turned on, and the printer must be
directly connected to it. Connect the printer to
the host Mac’s printer port (although you can
use the modem port in a pinch).

The printer software for your printer
model needs to be Installed on all
1 the networked computers. If you’re
not sure this has been done, check by look-
ing in the Chooser for the proper print driver.
If it’s not there, you need to install it. In the
Sharing Setup control panel in System 7, or
In the File Sharing control panel in Mac OS 8,
assign each computer a name to give it an
identity on the network.

On each computer, confirm that the
Printer Share extension is enabled in
the Extensions Manager control panel
(or In whatever other utility you use to manage
extensions). If it isn’t enabled, reinstall the printer
software, or better yet, custom install only the
printer software from your system software CD.
The current version of the Printer Share exten-
sion is 1.1.3, although earlier versions should
work fine.

80 MacADDICT AUG/98

AT THE CORE of any print server setup is the print
server, or host. Any networked Macintosh will do.

The host handles print jobs from other Macs on

the network. /

PRINTERS

ONCE THE HOST COMPUTER has the print job spooled on its hard drive,
it feeds the job to the shared inkjet printer. The shared printer occupies
one of the host Mac’s serial ports.

ere Is a list of printers that

can be shared and soft-
ware you need to share them:

Using GrayShare

StyleWriter f{

StyleWriter 1200
/sy^ple Color Printer
Personal LaserWriter 3(
LaserWriter Select 300

Using ColorShare

Color StyleWriter Pro
Color StyleWriter 1500
Color StyleWriter 2200
Color StyleWriter 2400
Color StyleWriter 2500

Note: Color StyleWriter

41 00s, 4500s, and 6500s alt are
capable of LocalTalk network-
ing, so you don’t need
to use ColorShare to access
them on a network. You can
network all other Apple
LaserWriters (except the Laser-
Writer SC) directly via either
LocalTalk or Ethernet. Many
Hewlett-Packard and Epson
printers also have LocalTalk
and Ethernet capabilities, bOt
you need to check your docu^
mentation for details. This
Apple sharing software works
only with certain Apple-brand
printers, so your mileage may
vary if you try to use it with an
unsupported printer.

^ StyleWriter 1 200 Sharing Setup 2.1 .i

M Share this Printer

[u^ ^ featire to allov other p*«pV to us* Ihe printer

lattached to this Macintosh

Name: | Shareii Printer
Password: | •••»• |

□ Keep Log of Printer Usage

I Cancel ] ll <*< I

On each computer, check the
Chooser or the AppleTalk Control
Strip module to make sure that
AppleTalk is active. Open the AppleTalk
control panel to see that the correct network
type is selected— either Ethernet or the
port to which your LocalTalk network is
connected. If you don’t have an AppleTalk
control panel, you will have a Network con-
trol panel, in which you choose either
Ethernet or LocalTalk.

On the host Mac, open the Chooser. Click
once on the appropriate printer icon in the left
part of the window. Then select the port to
which you’ve connected the printer on the right side.
You also need to enable Background Printing, Next,
click the Setup button, and a window will open. Click
the Share this Printer checkbox, and type in a name
for the printer (it can be anything). You can password-
protect access to the shared printer if you wish, which
can help control who prints to your printer. Click OK
when you're done, and the printer is now shared.

To use the printer from the nonhost com-
puters, open the Chooser on the Mac
from which you want to print, and select
the printer driver on the (eft side of the Chooser
window. (Be sure to use the same printer driver
the host machine uses). You’ll see an extra choice
on the right side— it’s the name you gave the
printer on the other computer. Select it, close the
Chooser, and you now are ready to print. Pretty
cool, huh? Be aware that your new setup is not
going to win any speed contests, but it works!

AUG/98 MacADDlCT 81

power up

DEVELOPMENT

Mercury Center
Deconstruction: part 2

by Joseph O. Holmes

The Page: The Mercury Center welcome page
(http://www.sjmercury.com), which greets visitors to the Web site of the
San Jose Mercury News,

The Designer: Albert Poon, chief designer. JavaScript by Nick Heinle,
Albert Poon, and Tim Colson.

The Tools: HTML editing on the Macs is done with Bare Bones Software’s
BBEdit (http://www.barebones.com).

Smart Design: The site is presented against a white background, which
not only gives it a clean, newspaperlike appearance, but makes it easy for the
designers to add graphical elements that blend in seamlessly.

JavaScript

Last month, we looked at some of the
JavaScript behind the yellow triangles that
magically appear when a visitor’s mouse
pointer passes over the links along the left
side of the page. We showed you some of
the script hiding inside the header, between
<SCRIPT=”JavaScript”> and </SCRlPT>
tags, which set up variables and image
pointers.

This month, let’s view the page’s source
and take a look at the two event handlers
that control the action, onMouseover and
onMouseout.

These JavaScript components are put
inside a hyperlink tag to control what hap-
pens when the mouse pointer passes over
the link. Here’s a simplified version of the
code at each link:

HREF"''http://www.mercurycenter.coin/business/"
onMouseover » "img_onarrowCpb');
return true'" onMouseout = "img_offarrowCpb')r
return true">Business & Stocks</A>

Event handlers such as these
are permitted outside the
<Script> tags because most
browsers (Navigator 2.0 and
later or Internet Explorer 3.0 and
later) know how to Interpret them
directly.

On the Mercury Center page,
the onMouseover handler calls
the function img_onarrow(*pb’),
defined in the JavaScript in the
header, which pulls up the yellow
arrow image. The onMouseout
command calls the function
img_offarrow(‘pb'), pulling up
the blank image.

For more on handlers, pick
up a good JavaScript book such
as JavaScript: The Definitive
Guide, second edition, by David
Flanagan (O'Reilly & Associates,
1997).

HTML

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EUSIMESS

Hand-to-hand

combat

with Aiii:msoN:'s Palm PC

30OKf*S PalmPilot ruled the haiu
computer market last year. But th
introductioi
Microsoft's !
lead to a fac<
could cut in
dominance,
introductioi
Palrnm.Wl
outcome,^th
cornpetition
^befen fierce: :
into marketing campaigns.

^ Stoity lyyMgaKUgy News Stall Wnh

I INSIDE

■ Chris Nolan: Quattrone eyes Me

■ |ustGo; A look at the Oscars

Cool Stuil

Home Sit

YellowPa gei

The look of this navigation bar matches that
of the other bars on the site, but it wasn’t cre-
ated with tiny lines set around a text-based
hyperlink. Instead, because it appears on all
of Mercury’s pages, the designers created it
as a single graphic hyperlinked with image-
map code.

If you’ve forgotten how to make an
image map, take a moment to look over the
HTML on the Mercury page (search for the
word toolbar in the source code to find it).

<A HREF=>"graphics/toolbar.map">

</A>

A hyperlink anchor is coded around the
toolbar image. Inside the anchor, the ISMAP
attribute tells the browser to treat the image
as an image map. The usemap attribute
points to a label elsewhere in the page,
where the code sets up the shapes Inside
the image and the actual links.

<area shape=rect href- 'http://wvw. mercury

center.com/resources/map/"

coords»170,0,220,l7>

The map shapes and links to which the
usemap attribute point are placed Inside a
pair of map tags, <map name = "toolbar” >
and </map>, set out of the way at the very
bottom of the page.

By the way, the Mercury designers do
include ALT tag titles in all their images, but
we’ve omitted these for simplicity.

82 MacADDICT AUG/98

BUSINESS

A smaller two-
column table Is
inserted into the
larger table’s left
column to hold
the illustration.

IVtex Saue^ left/ and .
lee o^cywin ovei W.

Mixed emotion
^ — far Stanford'

iHand-to-hand

combat

FalmHIot braces Ibr battle
with Miaa^fts Palm PC

. i i3COM"S PalmPilot ruled the hand-held
jcomputer market last year, But the

introduction of
Microsoft's Palm PC
may lead to a faceoff
that could cut into
SCom's dominance,
despite the
introduction of its
new Palm III.
Whatever the
outcome, the
competition has
already been fierce.

Itaff Writex K. Oanh Ha

Stanford

SaucG^ left, and ArtKui
eryoywin 09CZ W.

[beed emotions
Stanford

■ Look closely and you’ll see
that the larger table consists of
three columns, including a
thin, empty middle column as
a spacer. (Of course, this larg-
er table in turn is contained
within the table that makes up
the whole page.)

i DAY after the Stanfbrxf?
women's stunning
first-round exit from 1
MCAA tournament,^
Stanford men's <

3f reaching th^

Four tume "

Again, an invisible graphic In
the left column creates some
white space.

pNCAA touumaTYient

^ jk DAY after the Stanford
' women's stunning
first-round exit from the
NCAA tournament/ the
Stanford men's chances
of reaching the Final
Four turned rosier.

■ NCAA tournament
coverage

cli I Fcalliact | Help | Distpaia Swrict |

dmfment;Tu 5 tGo

Get PointCast

■ Another small table in the larg-
er table’s right column holds a
pointer.

An invisible graphic placed
in the smaller table creates
space.

Layout

The Mercury Center’s designers created the Welcome
Page’s magazinelike layout by placing all of the text
and graphics into a sophisticated table with invisible
borders.

The designers set the table width to exactly 590 pix-
els to guarantee that the layout will be consistent in every
browser and every monitor size. For example, this tactic
keeps the text lined up under the ad banner and the hor-
izontal navigation bar.

The first table cell on the page contains the ad ban-
ner and a Jobs/Homes/Cars navigation graphic. The
colspan attribute makes that cell span all three columns
of the table so it fits across the top of the page.

The rest of the page’s intricate layout is created by set-
ting tables inside tables inside tables. To see all the table
components clearly, check instruction 3 in the sidebar
Deconstruction at Home.

J<amining real Web sites at hdrhe fs the
best way to learn about site design. But
remember this simple ruie: Steal ideas, not
words, images, or 0od

Follow these steps for yc?un at-home decon-
struction:

1, Examine a page’s source by selecting
Document Source, Page Source, or Source
from your browser’s View menu.

2. Save a page’s HTML source code as a tekt
file on your h^d drive by selecting Save As
from your browser’s File menu, fend then

selecting Source or HTML Source from the
pop-up menu in the dialog box.

3. Check out the page‘s table layout (only
Internet Explorer can see colored columns and
rows, so you’ll need that browser for this part :
of the experiment) :

a. Open the HTML source in your word proces-'
son

b. Use the search and replace function to
replace BORDER=:”0’’ or BORDER=0 '
(depending on the page) with BORDER=”4” ■
BORDERGOLOR=”RED’’.

c. " Scroll through to make sure ybu haven’t
changed image borders to red as well.

d. Replace <tr> and

colGr=”red”> and <td bordercolor=”red”> to
see the table columns and rows. ^ :

e. When yoii’re finished, open the file in
Explorer,

4. Check but a shareware solution, such as
WebDevil (http://www.chapticsoftware.eom),
' Which downloads ail the components a
; pagfe^ Including graphics, so you can play with
it offline.

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0 I downloaded QuickTime 3.0 (http://
www.apple.com/quicktime), but haven’t yet
upgraded to QuickTime Pro. The first time I
launch MoviePlayer each day, up pops a
reminder begging me to purchase
QuickTime Pro. Is there a way to turn off
this nagging message?

A Here’s the solution you seek, courtesy of
ResExcellence, a wonderftii site for ResEdit
users (http://www.resexcellence.com). Open
the Date & Tune control panel and advance
Current Date forward to the year 2000. dose
the control panel and immediately launch
MoviePlayer. When the alert box appears ask-
ing if you want to update, click Later, then quit
MoviePlayer. Reopen the Date & Time control
panel and return Current Date to the correct
setting. Now you can forget about the
MoviePlayer reminders for a few years, at
which time you’ll be ready to upgrade to
QuickTime 2000.

Oi I recently bought a used PowerBook
165c. It has System 7.1 installed; however,
the floppy disks that came with it are for
System 6.0.7. Is there any place, such as
Apple or a reseller, that might sell older sys-
tem disks?

A Most retailers carry only the latest version
of the Mac OS (at the time of this writing that’s
Mac OS 8.1). However, the i^ple Software
Updates site (http://www.mfo.apple.coni/
swupdates) has links for ordering recently
discontinued packages, plus you can down-
load free disk images for System 6.0.3, 6.0.5,
6.0.8, 7.0, and 7.0.1. If you want to get really
retro, contact Sun Remarketing (800-821-
3221 or 801-755“3360, http://www.sunrem
.com). These guys have everything dating
back to System 3.2 for the Mac 512K.

0 One thing I find very annoying about
Mac OS 8 is the spring-loaded folder fea-
ture. Yeah, it’s cool for novices, but it’s so —
well, unsophisticated. I used PopupFolder
(ASD Software, 909-624-2594, http://www.

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asdsoft.com) under System 7 and it kicked
butt; however, version 2.0 doesn’t work on
Mac OS 8, I relied heavily on
PopupFolder’s ability to create hler- ■ 3
archical menus showing me the con-
tents of folders

accustomed. Alas, the current version of
PopupFolder doesn’t work under Mac OS 8,
and ASD has no plans to offer an upgrade, but
an alternative does much the same thing.

FinderPop is a control panel from Tax-
lough O’Connor (http://bounce.to/turly)
that extends Mac OS 8’s contextual menus. It
has options for allowing contextual menus
to appear tvithout you having to hold down
the control key, and for greatly enhancing
navigation through standard open and save
dialog boxes. But the feature that you will
most appreciate is the one that — ^just like
good oi’ PopupFolder — builds hierarchical
menus showing the contents of a selected
folder or volume. Best of all, FinderPop is
absolutely free.

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and volumes,
and can’t find
anything simi-
lar for Mac OS
8. Got any ideas?

A Brother, I feel your pain. One thing that
baffles me about Mac OS 8 is the way spring-
loaded folders work. If enabled in the Finder’s
Preferences window, spring-loaded folders
allow you to burrow through nested folders
on a volume without double-clicking endless-
ly. My problem with this scheme is that it’s so
difficult to use.

First of all, try explaining to a novice how
to execute one-and-a-haJf mouse clicks. First,
you need to double-click and not release the
mouse button after the second click. Second,
you must keep the mouse button depressed
the entire time. For anyone who suffers from
repetitive strain injuries, this ain’t no picnic.
Third, if you inadvertently open the wrong
folder, it’s hard to figure out how to backtrack
Fourth, if you drag the cursor off the desktop
by mistake, all your painstakingly opened win-
dows snap shut in an instant. Finally, the thing
that’s most annoying about spring-loaded
folders is that someone else had already fig-
ured out a perfectly wonderful way of accom-
plishing the same thing. As you mentioned,
with PopupFolder you clicked on a volume
and waited a second for a hierarchical menu
to pop up right on the desktop. Burrowing
down throu^ levels was as easy as choosing
from the Apple Menu Items folder, a proce-
dure to which every Mac user was already

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menus that are much easier to use than spring-
loaded folders.

In 1 recently downloaded a file and my
browser said I should open It with some-
thing that can handle a TAR file. What is
that? I’ve never heard of it.

A According to the good folks at Aladdin
Systems (800-480-4011 or 408-761-6200,
http://www.aladdinsys.com), TAR is a file
format that Unix uses. It means that the file
is in a tape archive format. To open such a
file on the Mac, you need to decompress it
with the commercial version of Stuffit
Deluxe 4.5, because the shareware Stuffit
Expander doesn’t have the necessary
translation engine.

In Whenever I run the Disk Doctor
portion of Norton Utilities 3.5 on my
Power Mac 7600/132, it uncovers a
major problem involving an error in the
catalog b-tree. This happens regardless
of whether I’m running System 7.6, Mac
OS 8.0, or Mac OS 8.1 . It also occurs on
my daughter’s Power Mac 7200. It even

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shows up on a totally reinitialized hard
drive with Mac OS 8.1 and little else
installed. What gives?

A For help in answering this question, I
turned to the Norton Utilities experts: Sy-
mantec (800-445-4208 or 408-253-9600,
http://www.symantec.com). A Symantec
technical support representative says, “The
catalog b-tree is one part of the ^rectory
structure of the Macintosh. It stores the
location of all of the files on the hard drive.
The Mac stores info via two systems:
Hierarchical File System (HFS) or HFS+
(Apple’s new version of the HFS structure
in Mac OS 8.1). The catalog b-tree is basi-
cally one part of the HFS structure. It is
similar to a large filing cabinet that keeps
track of the names and locations of all of
your files. Since it is the structure that has
a record of all of the files on your drive, it
is most prone to experience corruption
due to crashes, freezes, and system errors.
If your computer experiences a problem in
the file system, it is most likely in the cata-
log b-tree. Thus users will frequently see
that Disk Doctor is reporting catalog b-tree
problems.”

lA I used to have a find function in
open and save dialog boxes, courtesy of
Wunderbar. Then I updated to Mac OS 8.
Now I have to try to remember where In
tarnation I put things because Wunder-
bar doesn’t work with Mac OS 8. Is there

ACTION FILES ADDS A NUMBER of useful
features to open and save dialog boxes, not
the least of which Is a fully functional find
command.

A There sure is. What you’re looking for
is Action Files from Power On Software
(800-344-9160 or 330-735-3116, http://
www.actionutilities.com). Action Files adds
a powerful find feature to open and save
di^og boxes, and it modifies these dialog
boxes in many other useful ways (see our
review, Jul/98, p58). It has taken the place
of a half-dozen shareware and freeware
extensions that used to clog my System
Folder, including SuperBoomerang, Default
Folder, Dialog View, and others.

How do 1 clean my PowerBook
screen?

A If you crack open the documentation
that came with your PowerBook, you’ll find
the following advice from Apple: “Clean the
computer’s outside surfaces with a damp
(not wet) cloth. Clean the screen with soft,
Unt-free paper or cloth and a mild glass
cleaner. Do not spray the glass cleaner
directly onto the screen.”

an OS 8“Compatible find function for
open and save dialog boxes?

Vt I sometimes try to arrange my icons
neatly on my desktop to add some order to
my life. However, when I restart, my two

% Mac dS 8.x, you can send instant mes-
^'sages to users connected to your Mac
without resorting to email. Just open the File
Sharing control panel, select the Activity
Monitor tab, then option-double-dick any of
the connected users. In the dialog box that
appears, enter your message (up to 199 char-
acters) and click OK. The message instantly
appears in an alert box on the connected
users' screen. There are no provisions for the
recipients to respond easily to your message,
however.

Send message to selected users:

Anything you enter here can be
broadcast instantly to selected users
connected to your Mac]

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Anything you enter here can be broadcast instantly
to selected users connected to your Mac.

hard drive Icons always move back to their
original location at the top right of the
screen! I was wondering, is there a way to
get these icons to behave and stay where I
put them on the screen?

By default, the Mac always displays avail-
able volumes along the upper ri^t-hand of
the Finder’s desktop, and until recently there
was nothing you could do about it. However,
there are now several freeware and share-
ware programs — such as Desktop Icon
Manager by G.J. Parker, Desktop Resetter by
Nick D’Amato, and DesktopMaid by Tom
Bovo — ^that can remember where all of your
icons were and restore them automatically
whenever you restart or change resolutions.
Each utility operates a little differendy, but
with several to choose from, one is bound to
meet your needs.

lA Can I add an internal 56-Kbps
modem to my desktop Mac?

A Internal K56flex modems come prein-
stalled on some Power Mac 6500s and are
available as an option on build-to-order G3
computers. If you want to add such a
modem to a Power Mac 6500 or G3 you
already own, you can purchase the Apple/GV
56 k modem (part number 652-0038) by
contacting an Apple-authorized service
provider. Sometime this summer Apple
plans to offer owners of these modems an
update that complies with the new V.90 stan-
dard for universal 56-Kbps support.

i^ple currendy does not offer K56flex
modems for owners of Power Macs and
Performas in the 4400, 5400, 5500, 6200,
6300, 6400, and 6500 series. Nor does Apple
plan to update the i^ple Telecom software for
the internal GeoPort modem or the external
GeoPort Telecom Adapter beyond the V.34
standard (33.6 Kbps) the latest version sup-
ports. ./^ple Telecom 3.1.1 is available from
the ^ple Software Updates site (htft)://www.
info.apple.com/swupdates), and is on the
Mac OS 8 CD in the CD Extras folder. If you
have one of these older Mac models with a
slower internal modem, to upgrade you must
remove both the modem and the plastic cap
covering the modem port on the rear of the
computer, then attach an external modem and
install the accompanying software.

Owen W. Linzmayer (askus@macaddict.com,
http://www.netcom.com/— owenink) is a San
Francisco-based freelance writer and the
author of The Mac Bathroom Reader, Please
submit technical questions or helpful tips
directly via email or c/o MacAddict, 150 North
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ThunderTX1152 899.

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P1 150 21* 1600x1200 .28dp
E1100 21* 1600x1200 .28dp
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Sony400PS 899.

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Powerbook Batteries for 1400,5300,190 119.

Zip 100MB For 5300 & 150 249.

Charger for 1 400 w/AC adapter 1 29.

Charger for 1400 battery & Apple ac Adapt. 229.
3400 MobBity Bundle (Charger. AC &Batt) 299.
3400 Apple LHon Battery 1 49.

Auto Adapter for 3400,1 400 &G3 95.

Power Adapter 3400.5300, G3 &1 90 149.

Charger 3400,5300,03 &190 149.

Apple AC Adapter 3400 & 1400

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Q3 300MT 128/2X4GB Wide/24x/8MB VR

G3 300MT 64/4GB/24X/6MB Video

G3 266MT 128/4GB Wide /24X/8MB VR

Q3 268MT 32/6GB/24x/512k/Zlp

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9600/350 64/4G/24XCD

9600/300 64/4GB/24CD

9600/300 64/4GB/24CD/Zip

9600/233 32/4Q/12XCD

9600/200 32/4G/12XCD

9600/2000/0/CD

9600/200MP 32/4G/12xCD

9500/150* 16/2G/4XCD

8600/300 64/4G/24xCD/zlp

8600/250 32/4GB/24X

8600/200 32/2G/CD

8500/180 32/2G/8XCD

8500/150 16/2Q/CD

7600/132 16/1.2G/CD

7300/200 32/2G/CD/KBRD.

7300/180 16/2G/12XCD/KBD.

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G3 233MHZ 32/2G/20X/13.3 TFT
G3 233MH2 32/4G/20X/14.4 TFT
G3 250MHZ32/4G/20X/56K/13.3 TFT
G3 250MHZ32/2G/20X/MDM/12.1 TFT
G3 250MHZ 32/4G/20X/56K/14.4 TFT
G3 292MH2 64/8G/20X/56K/14.4 TFT
G3 292MHZ 64/4G/20X/56K/13.3 TFT
1400c 166MHz 16/2G/CD
3400c 180MHz 16/1 .3G/CD
3400c 240MHz 16/3G/CD/Modem
2400c180MHz 16/1 .2G
5300c 16/750
5300CS 8/500

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620c 4/240
520 4/240

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DUO280* 12/240/M0dem
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3199.

1.4QB Toshiba 1401 MAV 12ms
2.1 QB Toshiba 21 03MAV 1 2ms
3QB Hitachi Slim 12ms

Iomega

Jaz 2GB Drive External SCSI
Jaz Drive Internal SCSI
Jaz Drive External SCSI
Zip Drive Internal SCSI
Zip Drive External SCSI
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iomegaBUZ
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Internal Hard Drlifes

179-

229.

349,

gel

549.

249.

139.

189.

249.

209.

Quantum Atlas 2.1GB scst 3.5
Quantum sirata 2 ,igb scsi 35 ...

Quantum strata 4.36B scsi 3 j
Quantum Atias 11 4.5 ui&a sesr av 3.5
Quantum AUas 11 4.5 Uttra Wds SCSI AV 3 .

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449.

479.

749.

279.

549.

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6400/180 16/1.6Q/8XCD
640/33DOS* 12/500/CD/DOS
6300/120* 16/1.2G/4XCD/TV
6320/120 16/1.2G/4XCD/TV
6220/75* 16/1.2Q/4XCD
6200/75* 8/1.2Q/4XCD
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479.

4MB Twin Turbo Video Card

249.

8MB Twin Tuibo Video Card

399.

ProflK 8MB

289-

MacRock^w/4MBSGRAM

209,

Turbo TV

89.

Fax

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Macintosh Workgroup
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GV56K Teleport Ftex

129.

GV56KTeieportV90

179.

6V56K PCMCIA

189.

QV56K Platinum Pro + Ethernet

299.

QV 192 Mercury PB5(X> Series

99.

GVt4.4Gold PCMCIA

49.

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AMC - Advanced Multimedia Concepts

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108

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Awhen

111

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Blizzard Entertainment

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Chase Trading

101

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90-91

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111

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94-95

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Compu. D

102

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111

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DPI

109

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Digitek

109

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Drive Savers

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109

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FWB Software

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111

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Impulse, Inc.

107

702-948-1100

www.coolfun.com

Infinity Micro

109

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InterLand Inc.

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Kensington

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LA Computer Center

96-97

800-689-3933

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Leister Productions

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Mac Power Sales & Service

111

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Mac Sates

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Mac Solutions

108

800-873-3RAM

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877-MacLink

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MacMall

86-87

1-800-965-3282

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61,63,65,67

800-229-2714

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Mactica

101

888-666-5147

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MacZone

92-93

800-304-0286

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Madsonline

415-339-8900

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MediaGuide

106

800-463-0686

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MicroMac Technology

101

800-600-6227

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MicroMat Computer Services

800-829-6227

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800-843-2515

VAWw.mitsubishi-display.com

Newer Technology

IFC-1

316-943-0222

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Olympus America

10-11

1-800-6CAMERA

www.olympus.com/ digital

Ontrac Data

111

(760) 864-9535

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Orange Micro, Inc.

714-779-2772

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Other World Computing

88-89

800-275-4576

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Power Max

100

800-441-6922

wvAv.powermax.com

PowerON Computer Services

105

800-673-6227

WWW. poweron .com

REAL Software

107

512-292-9988

www.realsoftware.com

Rockstar Studios

415-242-1984

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Software Architects

425-487-0122

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Sonnet Technologies

103

800-786-6260

www.sonnettech.com

The Computer Exchange

108

800-304-4639

www.compexch.com

Totally Hip Software

888-8THEHIP

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DoodJe by Mark Simmons

E3 SPEED

'“...th^card that produced by
^ ASbest performance for

’-sSvSi'J® *

Its

pfltre was XLRS’s MACh
Speed G3 220. Although the
processor on this card is
rated at 220MHz, its default
settings can push it to
260MHz. In some of our
tests it managed to beat
cards rated at 250MHz/' as
reported by MacUser UK.

“I feel XLRS's entry into the
market with lower priced
models (and with far more
adjustability than anything
on the market at that time)
helped bring prices down
which benefited all Mac
owners," reported Michael
Breeden, web master for

AccelerateYourMac.com.

rr...

Because FASTER is always better."

New Machines too much dough? Old
Machine too doggone slow? Then puli
your head out (of your shell) and SOUP
IT UP! Put the flame throwing, fire
breathing, tire screaming processing
speed back in your old Mac now. As
you know, MACh Speed™ G3 processor
upgrades will take you there. BUT
WAIT^ XLR8™ by Interex gives you
more bang for your G3 buck, MVP™.
Just what the heck is MVP? Multiple
Variable Processing is, in a (nut) shell,

the fine-tuning, the masterstroke, the
coup de grace in processor upgrades.
Exclusive XLR8'^‘ MVP™ technology,
allows you to tailor the BUS speed arid
BUS ratio of your new G3 XLR8 card to
maximize your machine's performance.
Combine M\^P with badkside cache
and hold on. You and ydur new XLR8
G3 card are about to put the pedal to
the metal, take it to the limit, go
ballistic, arid check ouf . the fdt lady
because she's singing, SOUP IT UP!

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