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16 50 Biggest
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addresses. From “50 Biggest Mac
Bugs,” pi 6.
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Of Bugs and Men
The first step toward solving a problem
is admitting you have one.
This issue marks the third anniversary of the way-
popular “50 Bugs” series we began back in 2001.
Seems like only yesterday, but, as Groucho said,
“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
Last year's bugsapalooza focused on Mac OS
X and its growing pains. Good advice, good tips,
good troubleshooting tricks— and the source
of one of the strangest sc/7e/ss storms to
inundate yours truly in my nearly 15 years in
the Mac-mag biz.
I first knew something was amiss when I was
dining with a few Mac-industry bigwigs. One
gloweringly told me that I should be shot, sacked, racked, and made to
watch home videos of Steve Ballmer as a baby for publishing a cover story
suggesting that Mac OS X was anything less than the Second Coming.
! dismissed his choler as a byproduct of the eternal struggle between
marketing and truth, and thought little more of it.
Then I arrived back in my office and downloaded my email— and read
that he wasn’t alone. Many of you, dearest readers, also took me to task.
Interestingly, though, you weren't afraid that talking about OS X’s bugs
might affect its adoption, but rather that by doing so we were giving aid and
comfort to the “Let’s boot the Macs out of this company” gang.
So why are we again exposing Mac OS X’s peccadilloes to the world?
To slow its adoption? To provide excuses for the Mac-hating Wintel cabal?
Of course not.
We’re writing about how to overcome OS X glitches because we’re
dedicated to helping you get the most out of your Mac. And keeping it
bug-free (well, bug-lite, at least) is certainly central to that goal.
So sit back, relax, turn to page 16, and dig into Dave Hamilton’s sage
advice. And don’t worry that we’re providing ammunition to the “Macs out!”
mob. Au contraire, mon am/— we’re helping you show those nits that your
Mac is doing quite well, thankyouverymuch, and that they should go back to
staring at their Blue Screens of Death.
Enjoy,
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STAFF RANTS
Q: What's the most inturiating bug you've
ever encountered?
Narasu Rebbapragada arthropodally challenged
What's the most infuriating bug you’ve ever encountered?
Even though I'm neither African nor a queen. I’d have
to say a blood -sucking leech. That qualifies as a
bug, right?
Niko Coucouvanis mr.creant
W hat’s the most infuriating bug you’ve ever encountered?
it’s not so much a particular bug as a genus: the wily bugs
that masquerade as productivity-enhancing features, when
all they really do is annoy me and waste my precious time-
like Microsoft Office’s stupid little dancing Assistant guy, or the placement of
the Help key right next to Delete on the keyboard. Whose Idea was that?
Kris Fong easily bugged
What’s the most infuriating bug you’ve ever encountered?
Z— that obnoxiously whiney, Woody Allen-voiced nebbish
in Antz. Ten minutes into the movie, I prayed that someone
would break out the Raid.
Cathy Lu biungual but not nordic
What’s the most infuriating bug you’ve ever encountered?
I once plugged a Canon digital camera into my Mac and
all my peripheral-related dialog boxes started to appear in
Norwegian— or some Nordic language. Luckily it only took
reinstalling Mac OS X to fix it. Good-bye, Saturday afternoon.
Jenifer Morgan raid arrayed
What's the most infuriating bug you've ever encountered?
A terrifyingly resilient cockroach I encountered years ago...)
employed everything but a bayonet to no avail. It and its
stinking brethren live on.
Chris Imlay employee of the month
What’s the most infuriating bug you’ve ever encountered?
QuarkXPress 4.0. It was a dismal, foul, crashing headache—
the Word 6.0 of layout apps. And it took Quark two years to
fix it with the release of XPress 4.1 .
Peter Marshutz the new guy
What’s the most infuriating bug you’ve ever encountered?
I used the Mac OS X Software Update feature to update
IPhoto...and discovered that my entire photo library was
written over and couldn't be recovered. Apple tech support
said that it couldn’t help, but that it was aware of the bug. Small comfort.
Max ENTOMACOLOGIST
What’s the most infuriating bug you’ve ever encountered?
“The application [insert practically any app name here] has
unexpectedly quit. The system and other applications have
not been affected." The system and other apps may not have
been affected, but my mood certainly has been.
No mere magazine article can address everything that might possibly go wrong with your Mac. Fortunately, the Web
is packed with help. If you’re a seasoned Mac expert, you already have the following sites in your Safari Bookmarks
bar. If you’re a newbie, you should— if only to find out how a seasoned Mac expert gets his or her seasoning.
MacInTouch
WWW, macintouch.com
The M.l.T. of Mac forums. Here's
where the really smart folks
hang out — where problems are
first reported; where intelligent
discussion rules; where solutions
are offered, tested, and tweaked.
MacFixIt
www.macfixit.com
Great source of news, Informed
discussion, and troubleshooting
tips. To access the site’s detailed
reports, however, you must become
a MacFixIt Pro member— but at
$24.95 per year, It’s a bargain.
Computing.Net
www.computing.net
To be honest, one of the reasons
1 enjoy this site is to gloat oVer all
the keening and kvetching In the
Windows-only forums. The Mac-
specific info, however, is also a
treat: deep and informative.
VersionTracker
www.versiontracker.com
This extremely popular service is
not a troubleshooting site per se, but
rather an exhaustive and up-to-date
listing of Mac software, shareware,
freeware, and donationware. An
invaluable resource.
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Apple's Music Store Started Off
Strong — but Can It Last?
A pple’s new online music service
launched with a sonic boom
that muffled a few startup
squeaks. As the early excitement fades,
the larger question remains; Will Apple’s
pay-to-play business model live long
like Dark Side of the Moon or fizzle
quickly like the Macarena?
Apple’s pay-per-download service
differs from that of its subscription-
based competitors, Rhapsody and
Pressplay, which charge about 10
bucks a month for unlimited listening
privileges plus additional fees for
burning. So far, Mac music lovers seem
to prefer buying over renting.
“Clearly, purchasing on a per-track
basis is similarto current buying
behaviors,’’ says Gartner G2 research
director P. J. McNealy. “The 99-cent
pricing looks like a magical price point.”
Startup Snafus
Apple’s startup, however, has not
been free of glitches. Some of the
brainiac gearheads who swap stories
at MaclnTouch (www.macintouch.com)
reported trouble with billing and
interrupted downloads. Then there
was the day the music died: Some
tunes— such as those from alt-rock band
Radiohead— that were downloadable
one day vanished from iTunes the next.
Apple chalks up that problem to the
accidental posting of tracks for which
record labels did not own all the rights.
Apple Goes Indie
One class of music is missing
altogether: indie. Apple launched
the iTunes Music Store with 200,000
tracks from the Big Five major-label
record companies— BMG, EMI, Sony,
Warner Bros., and Universal— with nary
a track from independent U.S. labels.
“Apple went to lunch with the Big Five
without us— ‘those turkeys’,” jokes Josh
Ayala, the new media director of Subpop
records, which distributes alt-star bands
like Soundgarden and the Supersuckers.
“We always like to be in the system
when it launches.”
Subpop might very well be— and
soon. Apple hosted delegates from indie
labels like Subpop at a June 5 event in
Cupertino. According to Derek Silvers
of CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com), jobs
invited independent labels to put music
up on the ITunes Music Store, offering
a licensing structure based loosely on
Apple’s major label contracts.
The Competition
At Apple’s April 28 launch event,
Steve Jobs compared the iTunes Music
Store to two other players; Pressplay
(www.pressplay.com) and Rhapsody
(www.llsten.com). On May 19, Roxio.
acquired Pressplay, a joint venture
of Universal Music Group and Sony
Music Entertainment. Roxio will rename
Pressplay as Napster, which It purchased
last year. (See “Comparing Apple to
Oranges,” left, for the differences
between the services.)
Both Pressplay and Rhapsody, not
surprisingly, are wary of Apple’s listen-
for-30-seconds-then-pay-per-download
model. “That’s like going into a fancy
restaurant [where they’re] giving you
one bite and asking you if you want to
buy the whole meal,” says Rhapsody
spokesperson Matt Graves.
It’s unclear which model is better.
“We believe that both the subscription
model and the pay-per-track model
make sense,” says Scott Steinberg,
Roxio’s VP of strategic marketing.
While Apple’s model mimics CD buying,
the record labels see benefits to the
monthly subscription model. “They love
the marketing hook of people coming
back every month,” McNealy says. Plus,
Apple will need high-volume sales to
maintain profitability. McNealy estimates
COMPARING APPLE TO ORANGES
The iTunes Music Store’s two main competitors are Windows only— so far.
Here’s how their features compare.
Service
ITunes Music Store
Rhapsody
Pressplay
Owned and Operated by
Apple
Li8ten.com
Roxio
Accessed via
iTunes 4 (www.apple.com)
www.llsten.com
www.pressplay.com
Mac Friendly?
Yes, but Mac OS 10.2 only
No
No
Streamed Music Library
30-second previews of 200,000 songs
330,000 full songs
300,000 fuli songs
Cost to Stream
Free (30-second previews only)
$9.95 per month
$9.95 per month
Burnabie Music Library Size
200,000 songs
200,000 songs
270,000 songs
Cost to Burn
99 cents per track, approx $10 per
full album
79 cents per track
$17.95 per month for
ten songs (additional
songs extra)
File Format
AAC
Windows Media 8
WMA
The Catch
You must shell out 99 cents to listen
to— and own— an entire track.
Hardware support for AAC file format is
currently limited to Macs and iPods.
You must pay extra
to burn to CD. You
can’t download
anything to your
hard drive.
You have to pay
extra to burn to CD.
Downloaded tracks
disappear If you end
your subscription.
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that 60 to 65 cents of Apple's 99 cents
per song goes to the record labels.
Windows of Opportunity
Right now, comparisons between
Apple, Pressplay, and Rhapsody are
irrelevant, since Apple is Mac only
(http://drumbeat.info). “They're
not having to face the challenge of
the P2P networks,” says Seth Oster,
spokesperson for Pressplay. “But
they will face that, and then they’ll
experience what we all do.”
Then there’s the hardware issue.
“The 99 -cent pricing looks like a magical price point.”
— P, J. McNealy
and the latter two are Windows only.
When Apple launches its iTunes
Music Store for Windows at the end
of the year, that will level the field.
One battle will be against pirates.
Thus far, Apple has been insulated
from file-sharing networks like Kazaa
and Morpheus— PC-only hotbeds
of illegal MP3 trading— and has
disassociated itself from P2P (peer-
to-peer) Mac apps such as LimeWire
(www.limewire.com) and Drumbeat
Songs purchased on the iTunes Music
Store are playable only on Macs and
iPods. That limitation works fine for
Mac users, but Windows users with ^
more portable player options may find
this limitation, well, limiting. ^
One thing everyone agrees on,
however, is that Apple has brought
pizzazz to the online music industry.
Whether big buzz translates to big 0
bucks, though, is another question g
entirely.— A/orasw Rebbapragada ^
IRAQ iPOD
Apple’s Music Player Thrives in the
Middle East
M arine Corporal Jose Avila put his
iPod through the ultimate hardware
stress test. He brought it to Iraq.
A combat photographer with the 11th
Marine Expeditionary Unit, currently
stationed at Camp Commando Marine
Corps Base in Kuwait, Avila toted his iPod
through 120-degree heat in cities such as
Al Nasariya, Al Kut, and Baghdad. Avila
says the locals are fascinated with the
iPod. “Every time I take it out people are
curious and full of questions,” he says,
“[asking] how can you carry hundreds of
CDs in such a small package.” Avila says
his iPod doesn’t weigh his gear down and
“has proven itself combat worthy.”— /V/?
Marine Corporal Avila carries his
music along with his M- 16 .
NEW STUFF
DIGITAL DJ-WARE
Final Scratch
$699 Available: Now
Stanton Magnetics www.finaiscratch.com
What it Is: The Final
Scratch software-
hardware combo lets
DJsuse their familiar
tools (turntables and
mixers) and skills to
spin MP3, WAV, and
AIFF files stored on
a Mac. Displace two
Final Scratch records
on their existing
turntables and spin
them the way they would spin vinyl records.
By manipulating the Final Scratch records,
however, they are actually scrubbing through
digital music files to mix and beat-match music.
Why It’s cool: Final Scratch could spell the
end of vinyl or— more realistically— present a
viable alternative.
AFFORDABLE COLOR USER
Color LaserJet 1500
$799 Available: Now
Hewlett-Packard www.hp.com
What It Is: A compact USB color laser printer
that prints 16 ppm (pages per minute) in
black and white and 4 ppm in best-quality
color. See our review on page 47.
Why It’s cool: It’s the lowest-priced Mac-
compatible color laser printer available today.
EXCEL CHALLENGER
Deltagraph 5
$299 Available: Now
Red Rock Software www.redrocksw.com
What It is: Five years after SPSS released
Deltagraph 4.5, Red Rock Software licensed
this old-school 2D and 3D charting application
from SPSS and revamped it for OS X only. While
version 5 has the same feature set as version
4.5, Red Rock Software has worked out the
kinks in its AppleScripting.
Why it’s cool: If you’re sick of Excel’s limited
charting capabilities, DeltaGraph is a robust
alternative, with more than 50
mathematical and statistical
functions for analyzing and
presenting data.
ON THE
^PISC
DeltaGraph 5.0 demo
Where It’s at is two turntables
and a Mac.
August 2003 MacAldIct 11
DROOLWORTHY
Sexy Stuff We Can’t Wait to Get Our Mitts On
iRiver’s iFP-395T ($379.99, www.iriveramerica.com)
MP3 player sails from Korea to North America
this June. About the size of a Twinkie and the
weight of a pen, the iFP-395T comes with
512MB of memory, 128-Kbps real-time MP3
encoding (for recording radio), and an FM tuner;
it can also double as a removable USB drive.
Download the Mac drivers from iRiver's Web
site.— A//?
Allied Data Technologies’ Tornado 64MB and 128MB USB Memory
Watches ($59.95 or $79.95, www.allieddata.com) plug right into
your Mac and work just like normal USB Flash drives— with the added
bonus that they tell time. Sure, a short portion of the built-in USB
cable doesn’t detach, but that’s stylish, right?— A//?
12 MacAldict August 2003
USB Storage Watch
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF ALLIED DATA TECHNOLOGIES PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF IRIVER
BE YOUR OWN
BROADCASTER
m
If you use a router,
to share your Internet
connection over a LAN,
remove it. It Is much easier to stream with
a direct connection to your Mac. .
Our FAQ on Video-Streaming Software
W atching streaming media is fun; pushing it over
the Internet Is a whole new experience. Thanks to
some Mac OS X software packages, however, you're just a
ON THE
DISC
Live Channel Pro 2.0
demo and VideoLAN
Client 0.5.3
download away from becoming a streaming-media broadcaster. Here are the
answers to some frequency asked questions to get you started. Also check
out our how-to on broadcasting a news feed on p66.—Tom Lassiter
PLACE TO START
DIYTV STUDIO
TECHIE’S DELIGHT
What Is It?
QuickTime Broadcaster
Live Channel Pro 2.0
VideoLAN Client
A
Where Del Get It?
Apple Computer
(www.apple.com), free
Channel Storm
(www.channelstorm.com),
$999; $699 educational
VideoLAN Project
(www.videolan.org), free
What Hardware
Do 1 Need?
PowerPC G3 or later (G4
recommended for MPEG-4
streams)
PowerPC G3 or later,
native FireWire
No official requirements
What Software Do
1 Need?
Mac OS 10.1.3 or later,
QuickTime 6.0.2 or later
Mac OS 10.1.5 or later,
QuickTime 5.0.2 or later
Mac OSX
How Many
Internet Viewers
Can 1 Stream To?
One, but add a copy of
OS X Server ($499) and
the built-in QuickTime
Streaming Server, and
you can stream to
hundreds more.
Up to 100, but add a copy
of OS X Server ($499)
and the built-in QuickTime
Streaming Server, and
you can stream to
hundreds more.
One. Step up to the
VideoLAN Server to reach
hundreds more viewers, as
well as broadcast satellite
and digital terrestrial (non
satellite) TV channels.
Oh, and it’s free too.
Can 1 Add Any
Special Effects?
No
Yes— multiple layers,
picture-in-pIcture and
split-screen layouts, text
titling, overlay graphics,
effects and transitions
No
What Kind Of
Video And Audio
Can I Stream?
QuickTime and its bulit-in
formats
QuickTime and its built-in
formats
Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2,
MPEG-4, DivX, WMV, H/1
263. Audio: MPEG Layer 1,
2, 3: MPEG-4; AC3
Whafs The
Bottom Line?
QuickTime Broadcaster
is the best choice for the
novice Webcaster, since
it’s free and easy to setup.
Live Channel Pro’s
deceptively simple
Interface masks a powerful
and feature-rich tool that
lets you be your own
TV studio.
VLC is free but open
source, so there’s no
official tech support.
VideoLAN Server is
also free, but for tech
heads only.
NEWS QF THE MONTH
FINALLY, BOOTABLE
DISC UTILITIES
Although Mac OS X Is rapidly approaching
Its third major incarnation, we're only just
now seeing availability of full-featured Mac
OS X-bootable diagnostic and disc repair
utilities. Micromat's Drive 10 has been
OS X bootable from the get-go ($69.95,
www.micromat.com) but its full-featured
sibling TechTool Pro 4 ($97.98 estimate)—
with additional RAM and device tests— now
joins it, as does Symantec's Norton Utilities
8.0 ($99.95, www.symantec.com).
NASA PUTS OUT MAC SOFTWARE
In the ‘‘Gee Whiz” category, NASA is
beta-testing a Mac OS X aerospace
engineering application that it plans to
release to the public in June 2003. Called
TetrUSS (http://ad-www.larc.nasa.gov
/tsab/tetruss), this “unstructured-grid
computational fluid dynamic (CFD) software
system” (theirwords, notours) performs
advanced flow analysis and aerodynamic
design. TetrUSS will be free to US users, and
NASA Langley is offering interested parties
a free one-week training program.
NEWEMACS
Apple has speed-bumped and price-dropped
its eMac line. The new top-of-the-line IGHz
eMac G4 (see our review on p42) comes with
a 4X DVD-R SuperDrive for $1,299, and a
32X write-speed Combo DVD-R/CD-RW drive
for $999. Taking the new Least Expensive
Mac title is the $799 800MHz eMac, which
includes a 32X read CD-ROM.
SHAREWARE PICK OF THE MONTH
FOOTTRACK
|T-Squared Software
L ike your library's old card catalog file, FootTrack takes clips imported
into iMovie from DV or analog videotapes, compresses them, and
catalogs them so that you can store the original video somewhere other
than your hard drive, saving space. Catalog compressed clips any way
you want and search for them using an iTunes-style search window. Be
forewarned: Clips take a while to compress. T-Squared
Software says that on a 667MHz PowerBook, 60
minutes of video took 50 minutes to compress down to
a mere 180MB.— A//?
ON THE
DISC
FootTrack 1.02
Catalog compressed versions of your old home videos so you can
store the originals somewhere other than your hard drive.
August 2003 MacAldict 13
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Blizzard raises the real-time
strategy bar with the Frozen
Throne expansion pack.
THE FROZEN
THRONE COMETH
Blizzard to Release Expansion Pack for
Award-Winning Strategy Game
B lizzard has raised the bar again for the real-time strategy genre
with this WarCraft 111 expansion pack. The Frozen Throne's solo
campaign chronicles the exploits of the four playable races (Humans,
Ores, Night Elves, and the Undead) as they recover from the last
game’s final battle and unlock the secrets of a new threat, a creature
known as lllidan Stormrage.
Two new units per race are at your disposal, including the Humans’
Spell Breakers and the Undead’s Black Sphinx. Frozen Throne
is bursting at the seams with gameplay-boosting features such
as multiplayer play on Blizzard’s free online service Battle.net
(www.battle.net) and the advanced world editor for dreaming up
maps with your own sounds and cinema scenes.— yWoff Osborn
WarCrafUll: The Frozen Throne
_ Pric e I $35.99
AvaHabie! Late
Blizzard Entertainment
www.Blizzard.com
The Mac’s first pro surf sIm
makes a splash.
HANG TEN WITH
KELLY SLATER
First came Tony Hawk’s
Pro Skater. Now here’s
Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer.
Catch a wave toward 13
famous beaches with eight
pro surfers and six-time
World Champ, Kelly Slater. Learn tube stunts, aerials, and
other pro moves. Enter Career Mode to climb the circuit, but
don’t wipeout in front of sponsors.
Check out the multiplayer game,
but beware: Complex wave physics
and graphics may send your Mac’s
memory Into oxygen debt.— /WO
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
Price |S23.99
Available [ July BOOS
Aspyr Media
www.aspyr.com
MaePlay offers up a unique
role-playing war game.
WWIIGOESRPG
Place Diablo’s and Baldur’s
Gate’s role-playing styles in a
World War 11 scenario, and you
get a tasty Molotov cocktail
called Another War. Rescue
your friend from the Third
Reich and unravel a secret plot
by Axis engineers. Dodge bullets from France to Leningrad,
graced by high-quality graphics rendered from a bird’s-eye
perspective. Considering game
developer Mirage Interactive’s
World War II styling on the PC
game Mortyr, expect a thrilling
experience.— A^O
Another War
Price
*29,99 1
Available
June 2003 i
MaePlay
I www.macplay.com
Welcome to part two of
Aliens vs. Predator’s
mutant deathmatch.
ALIENS VS. PREDATOR,
BACK AND BADASS
The First- Person Bug Hunt Continues
E xperimental research on planet VL1201 has been dull lately, but when
a rogue scientist tries to create controllable army of Xenomorphs (aka
Aliens), all hell breaks loose. The Marines come to clean up the mess, the
Predators— a species of hunting alien— take
trophies, and the Aliens make lunch of them all.
As in the original Aliens vs. Predator, you can
play either race as species clash in crisscrossing
storylines. All your favorite weapons and abilities
return from the first game, from the pulse rifle to the tail whip. New features
include a fast pounce attack for the Aliens as well as the option to play
as a baby alien (a face hugger). The Predator can now jump higher and
immobilize its prey with a net gun. Marines get shotguns and spider mines,
and they can blowtorch doors. Happy hunting, whatever you are.— /WO
Aliens Vs. Predator 2
^ Price! $49. 99 _
Available fjufyZQO 3
MaePlay
www.macpiay.com
14 MacAddIct August 2003
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF PETER SIMPSON
THE PEOPLE'S
REPUBLIC OF MACS
China’s the Next Big Hardware Market— So Where’s Apple?
H ardware manufacturers are saddled
up to ride into the one of the last
remaining tech frontiers: China. The
question is, where’s Apple?
SARS woes aside, China is one of the
few countries right now with any good
economic news. Its state news agency
reported a 9 percent growth rate for its
economy in the first quarter of 2003. It
boasts the world’s largest cell phone
market and is set to surpass Japan as the
second largest PC market. So far Apple
has operated in relative anonymity in
China, but an enterprising, grassroots
Mac community is changing that.
“They want to see Apple become
more visible,” says Yan Feng, president
of the Beijing Mac Users Group
(www.beimac.com). “They want to see
more Mac users in this nation.”
Feng’s 114-member group offers one
good example of the Mac’s following
in China. An eclectic mix of students,
designers, video professionals, and
both Chinese and foreign nationals,
the group meets once a month to talk
Macs, see product demos, and bone
up on tech skills. Feng himself is a Mac
zealot. The self-proclaimed “Swiss expat
Chinese shoppers play with and peer at Macs.
with a Chinese face” owns seven Macs,
Including a 500MHz iBook, a PowerMac
7500, and a working PowerBook 170.
“Old habits die hard,” he explains.
Diehards like Feng drive Mac sales in
China. Wang Wo, 34, is a loyal Mac fan.
“I started off with PCs until 1995, then I
used a Mac, and I’ve never looked back,”
said the graphic designer, who runs a
small design business. “It may be a little
more expensive, but it’s worth it.”
Wo concedes that Macs users in China
accessories.”
That desire to buy is
attracting retailers to
China’s mainland. One
company with more
than 10 years of Mac
experience, the Hong
Kong-based Designer
Group Company, opened
its China flagship store
last year in Beijing’s
Oriental Plaza on the
capital’s best-known and
most expensive shopping
street, Wangfujing.
“Business is doing great,” says store
manager Catherine Ng. “So far, we’re
selling about 250 CPUs a month. People
are thinking that finally they can get the
software and accessories right here.”
The shop already has two major
corporate clients in Beijing: MTV and the
Western Academy Beijing International
School, which has at least 200 Macs.
The Designer Group Is planning to open
another branch in Shanghai within a year.
With more Mac shops and more Mac
users, China still needs a larger group of
developers. To promote development,
Apple runs an Apple Developer
Connection program In Beijing that
provides coding-level technical support
and a hardware- and software-testing
lab to developers in China, creating
titles like the Atomix Chinese Dictionary
and the Translate Star Chinese-English
machine translation. Also, California-
based graphics software developer
ArcSoft houses its engineering and
development teams in Hangzhou.
Feng is optimistic about Apple’s future
in China. “They’re taking baby steps in
the right direction,” he says. “That, at the
least, is pretty commendable.”— /Vorasu
Rebbaprogada and Peter Simpson
face language barriers, “It doesn’t have
great Chinese-language programs, but
I’ll always come back to make sure I
keep everything up to date. ( want the
latest in software and
Yan Feng is
president of
the Beijing Mac
Users Group
(Beimac).
3pd Annual Tpoubleshooting Supepguide
W e have a love-hate relationship with Mac OS X,
We love it for Its power and beauty. We hate it for
its occasional eccentric and inexplicable behavior.
Inexplicable till now, that is. We handpicked the most
infuriating Mac OS X bugs, problems, quirks, and just plain
annoyances, and we show you how to squash them—before
they squash your sanity.
We also throw in a few application and hardware bugs that
have driven us equally crazy, for a total of 50 frustrations that
you now get to annihilate. For good. Guaranteed.
by Dave Hamilton
illustration by Oliver Wolfson
Table of Contents
System Screw- Ups
Finder Flubs
Mail Maladies
Safari Snafus
iNfuriating iApps
Misbehaving Microsoft Apps
Network and Printer Woes
Security Breaches
Hardheaded Hardware
Petulant Portables
Big Trouble
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ON THE
DISC
Cocktail 2.2.1, Pseudo
1.2.3, Suitcase 10.2.2
demo, TinkerTool 2.32,
and XBattery 0.6.1
1
Easy Bug Finder
m
It’s time to break
out your pocket
pen protector,
These simple little
tricks can make a
big difference.
Time is money — and
these tips will add to
your account.
NOTE: We based all of
our bugs on the latest
release of Mac OSX
as of press time: Mac
OS 10.2.6. As Apple
releases updates, some
of the problems— and
solutions— may change.
And, of course, new
problems will appear.
System
Seraw-Ups
GD System Slowdown
PROBLEM: Sometimes when I have
lots of apps open, my system starts
moving sluggishly, my hard drive
crunches constantly, and finally
my Mac has a kernel panic. <
SOLUTION: Yep, this can
happen if you don’t have
enough RAM. You likely have
too many applications open
and Mac OS X Is starting to
make too-liberal use of its virtual
memory capability.
If you notice this happening,
quit your applications, then restart
your Mac to let the virtual memory
subsystem regain its composure
{and release the extra disk space It
has probably commandeered In the
process of losing its cool). There’s
only one true solution if this problem
plagues you often: Buy more RAM.
Hey, it’s cheap— so you shouldn’t be.
more on.
virtual memory
Virtual memory uses space on your hard
disk to store things for which there is no
longer room in RAM. This can work fine if
you’re just switching between apps and
happen to have more open than RAM can
accommodate. However, if one of those
applications starts conversing with the OS or
another application, virtual memory can start
swapping back and forth and get caught in
a nonstop loop.
WU'W
If an application doesn't respond
select Us name and click Force Q
A Mac without enough RAM makes OS X
very unhappy.
(l9 Red Force Quit
PROBLEM: Sometimes an app’s name
turns red in the Force Quit dialog.
What is my Mac trying to tell me?
SOLUTION:
It’s trying to
tell you that
the application
has stopped
responding and
Mac OS X has all
but given up on
It. At this point,
unless the app is
doing something
that is absolutely
life-changing,
force-quit it and
move on. Note,
though, that there
may be times when an application (such
as GraphicConverter) is doing some
major data crunching In the background
and may turn red fora period of time
before it comes back to life. In these
instances patience pays off.
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When an app turns red in the
Force Quit dialog, Mac OS X
is trying to tell you it*s just
about given up on whatever
the app’s doing.
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■H REPAIR YOUR PERMISSIONS
Disk Utility
0 Disks and i Volume Stiectcd | mformattcn | P\ m Mtj | Erase f PartiUon f RAlt
'ii 37.26 CB IBM-
To use Disk First Aid. select the volume and didc a repair button.
• Using OIsIc First Wd, you can verify or repair any Mac OS Standard, Mai
Extended, and UFS formatted disk, including hard disks and CO-ROMs.
• Disk First Aid cannot verify or repair the startup disk or repair a write-
disk, a CO-SOM, or a disk with open hies. The startup disk was verified
rep^red If necetsary, at boot rime, in order to repair or verify the staitu
please boot from the Mac OS X Install CO and ver^the disk using Disk
the installer Apple Menu.
• Vou may only repair permissions on a Mac OS X boot volume.
■ If a disk has severe problems, you may need to use other programs to
con^tlecely.
Mac OS X, bless its
Unix heart, sometimes
gets confused as to
who can read and write
which files. However,
the OS also provides
a simple way of fixing
this problem.
1. Run Disk Utility
(Applications >
Utilities).
2. Highlight your startup
partition and click the
First Aid tab.
3. Click Verify Disk
Permissions.
4. If you get a report of any problems, click Repair Disk Permissions.
HOW OFTEN: Before and after any OS updates or installations.
Rep
Use Apple’s Disk Utility to ensure that Mac OS X’s file
privileges stay where they need to be.
CB Installer Woes
PROBLEM: Every time I try to install
software, i get a dialog telling me an
unexpected error occurred.
SOLUTION: Sounds like you have
a damaged Installer application
component. Thankfully, this problem
is easy to fix: just copy the Installer
application from your most recent
Mac OS X CD to the Applications >
Utilities folder on your Mac. Inside the
Applications > Utilities folder of your
CD is a copy of the Installer app, but to
find it you have to open the actual CD
from the desktop— don’t just look in
the Welcome To Mac OS X folder that
automatically pops open when you
insert the disc.
The operation could not be completed.
An unexpected error occurred (error code 1000).
if you get this message any time you want to
update or install software, you need to reinstall
the installer. Now say that ten times fast.
GQ Library Cleanout
PROBLEM: There are a bazlUion OS X
files on my drive and there’s no way I
need them all, right?
SOLUTION: Right— but to borrow a
saying of Windows techies, if you don’t
know what something Is, don’t throw it
away. That said, here are some folders
in your Library that might contain data
you can trash— and make sure to check
all three Libraries: Library, System >
Library, and Users > username >
Library, since some of these puppies
hide in one or more places.
• Application Support Contains
settings and temp files for
certain apps.
• Audio > Sounds Stores any custom
sounds you may have added to
your system.
• CFMSupport Keeps plug-ins for
some Carbonized applications,
such as Palm Desktop.
• ColorSync Might contain old
ColorSync profiles.
• Contextual Menu Items Stores
plug-ins for items that appear in
certain apps’ contextual menus.
• Documentation Contains read-me
files and content for the Help system.
• Fonts Holds fonts you may or may
not still use.
• Image Capture TWAIN Data Sources
Might contain drivers for old
scanners.
• Internet Plug-Ins Contains plug-ins
for your browsers. Make sure you
quit your browsers before deleting
stuff from this folder.
• PreferencePanes Stores any
additional System Preferences
panes.
• Preferences Holds application-
specific settings files as well as
those for the entire system.
• QuickTime Contains built-in and
third-party codecs and QuickTime
plug-ins.
• Screen Savers Contains additional
and third-party screen savers.
• Startupitems Just what it sounds
like— but don’t delete anything your
Mac might need. Remember, if don’t
know what something is, don’t throw
it away.
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PROBLEM: I’ve got all these .dfont files
in my OS X Fonts folders— but when I try
to use them in OS 9, the font’s
not available. Why not?
SOLUTION: Ah...for this we
need to dig deep into our
memory banks and remember
the old days of Mac OS 9. Are you
with us? Good.
Remember that in Mac OS 9, all
your fonts stored their data in the
resource fork of the file (as opposed
to the more-standard data fork). Well,
Mac OS X stores its fonts In the data
fork, hence the
name ,dfont (which
stands for dofo for/:
fo/7f).Technically,
you can’t use these
fonts natively in
Mac OS 9. But as
with most things in
Mac OS X, where
there’s a will,
there’s the Terminal.
This hack
requires that you
have the Mac OS
X Developer Tools
installed. Once you
do, head to the Terminal and type
the following (pressing Return after
every line):
cd /Library/Fonts This changes
you to the Fonts directory,
touch Baskerville This creates a new
font file for use in Mac OS 9.
cp Baskerville.dfont Baskerville/
(no space) rsrc This copies the data
fork of OS X’s Baskerville font to the
resource fork of the OS 9 version.
/Developer/TooIs/SetFile -t FFIL
(space) -c DMOV Baskerville This
sets the type and creator and properly
registers your new font as an OS 9 font.
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03 Changing Window
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PROBLEM: How come my windows
won’t stay In Column view? I have to
change them to Column view each time
I open them. It’s very frustrating!
SOLUTION: The Finder needs definitive
proof that you really want to change
the default view (or location) of a
folder. To give it the proof it needs,
follow this quirky procedure: First
open the folder. Then, before you do
anything else (don’t even scratch your
nose if you’ve got an itch), change the
window view, position, and size to how
you want it to appear every time you
open that folder. Immediately close the
folder. Now you can scratch.
Bear in mind that if you open a folder
via both the Dock and the desktop, you
have to configure it twice—once for
each way you access it.
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PROBLEM: Whenever I’m in List or
Column view, I can’t select multiple
files that are not next to each
other the way I could in Mac
OS 9. What a pain!
SOLUTION: Remember
when Apple decided that
Command-N should open a new
Finder window rather than create a
new folder in OS X? (No, we’re not
still bitter...) Anyway, this Is the same
deal. You can still select multiple
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PROBLEM: When I paste a custom icon
over a default folder icon, the change
appears immediately. But if I paste a
custom icon over an existing custom
Icon, the icon doesn’t change till I
restart my Mac. Why the hassle?
SOLUTION: The Finder caches custom
icons when it reads them from a given
file or folder. As a result, it doesn’t
immediately recognize when you’ve
replaced a custom icon with a new
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PROBLEM: Before I installed Jaguar,
I was able to create a new folder
by pressing Command-Shift-N and
immediately typing a name for it. Now,
any time I create a new folder in List
view, it stays selected, but I can’t
edit its name right away.
How annoying is that?
SOLUTION: Yes, this
behavior did change with
10.2, but thankfully Apple was ?
consistent with another aspect of the ;
operatingsystem— the fact that you s
can edit any selected item by pressing -
Return. So create your new folder from 1;
the keyboard, then press Return to
03 Slow Mail Compactor
PROBLEM: Mail always seems to start
compacting at the most inopportune
times. What’s it doing, why does ^
it take so long, and is it OK
for me to stop the process?
SOLUTION: Mail stores
each mailbox as a separate
directory (all contained within
Users > user name > Library > Mail, for
those who care). Within each mailbox
directory is a handful of files, including
the mailbox data Itself, an index to
that mailbox, a table of contents (for
quicker screen-display operations), and
a separate file containing messages
recently added to that mailbox.
When you delete a message. Mail
doesn’t actually remove it from the
mailbox. Rather, it adds a note to the
table of contents and index that says,
“This message doesn’t need to be
here anymore.’’ When Mall compacts
a mailbox, it cleans everything up,
consolidating the new messages into
the main mailbox file and deleting
unnecessary items. Depending on the
size of your mailbox (and how long it’s
been since Mail last compacted), that
operation can
take anywhere
from seconds
to minutes
or more.
You can
manually
compact your
mailboxes by
Control-clicking
the in-box
you want to
compact in
your Mail
drawer and
choosing Erase
Deleted Messages from the contextual
menu that appears. Or you can set the
frequency of compacting by going to
your Mail preferences, double-clicking
your account, selecting the Special
Mailboxes tab, and tweaking the setting
under the Trash section.
One last note: Because Mail
stores data in lots of small files, any
Mail’s preferences, you can
set how often It compacts the
folders (and simultaneously
empties the Trash} for each
individual account.
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file-system corruption can potentially
wreak havoc on your saved mail. If s
always a good Idea to run fsck (or
other tasks related to file-system
maintenance) on a regular basis. See
“Run File-System Checks ” next page.
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Training
PROBLEM: We just got a second
Mac— for my husband— and l*d like to
give him the benefit of my six months
of training junk-mail filters (f m
a very giving wife). How can I
do this?
SOLUTION: Transferring
your six months of training
is a 3-minute job. Apple stores
everything your junk mail has learned
in the LSMMap file (Users > username >
Library) Mail).
1 - Start up Mail on your husband’s
Mac and configure it for him as you
normally would.
2. Go to the Mail menu, choose junk
Mail, and set it to Automatic.
Quit Mail,
3 . Copy the LSMMap file from your
computer to your husband’s
computer, putting it in the same
folder on that system. Restart Mail.
Voila! Six months of junk-mail training
transferred, just like that.
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PROBLEM: How come my drawer in
Mail switches from left to right on a
whim, without warning?
SOLUTION: Mail Is just trying to be
nice to you and read your mind by
putting the drawer on whatever side
of the screen has more real estate,
if you move your main Mail window
around, then Mail changes its mind
about where to put the drawer, just be
aware of where you’re moving the Mail
window, and if you get too close to one
edge of the screen, expect that the
drawer will open on the other side.
IB Regain Mail
Composure
PROBLEM: Whenever I try to
compose a new message. Mail just
sits and spins, and nothing happens.
Why the pause?
SOLUTION: This problem occurs
when Mail is waiting for Mac OS X’s
built-in spelling checker to kick in and
it never does. There are two possible
solutions. First, try running Disk Utility
to repair permissions (see “Repair Your
Permissions,” pl8). If that doesn’t
work, try the following trick.
Open the Terminal and type (with no
returns or spaces):
/System/Librapy/Services/
AppleSpelLservice/Contents/
MacOS/AppleSpell b
This command manually starts up
the built-in AppleSpell spell-checking
service, which should then let you
compose messages in Mail without a
delay. Make sure to type the ampersand
at the end, otherwise the service will
quit when you close the Terminal.
Unfortunately, the checker only stays
on until you reboot— you then have to
restart it again via the Terminal.
If neither of these solutions works,
you can go into the Composing pane of
Mail’s preferences and disable Check
Spelling As I Type—and buy a dictionary.
ID Autocomplete Woes
PROBLEM: Every time I type my friend’s
name in Mail’s To line, her old email
address pops up, even though I’ve
updated her address in Address Book.
SOLUTION; You know that creepy
friend who remembers everyone
you’ve ever dated and everything
you’ve ever said in your life? Mail’s
kinda like her.
Mail keeps a history of every
address to which you have ever sent
a message. When filling in To or CC
fields, Mail looks at this address
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history as well as at Address Book.
Thankfully, you can go to Window >
Address History and remove addresses
from this history list.
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PROBLEM: Ever since I upgraded to
the latest version of Safari, I can’t
FTP anymore.
SOLUTION; Chances are you’re behind
a firewall or some sort of router that’s
blocking standard FTP traffic. This
problem’s easily solved, though. Go
to the Network preferences pane,
click the Proxies tab, and make sure
Use Passive FTP Mode is checked.
In general, this makes FTPing more
compatible with firewalls and routers.
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fO Bookmarks and Tabs
PROBLEM: When I select a bookmark
from the Bookmarks menu, the
selected site doesn’t open in a
new tab, even when I Command-click
my selection.
SOLUTION; Fear not, picky Web surfer!
You’re almost there. Instead of pressing
Command when you select the actual
bookmark, press Command a bit
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sooner-when clicking the Bookmarks
menu. Now when you choose your
bookmark, it*ll open in a new tab.
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can keep their file systems in check by using the built-in, time-honored fsck tool,
which checks for and repairs damage within the file system.
1. Reboot your Mac.
2. Start up in single-user mode (hold down Command-S until you see text and
other Unix-type mumbo jumbo).
3. When you see a command prompt, type /sbin/fsck -y. This command will
run a series of tests, report any errors, and fix them. If it finds errors, rerun it
until you no longer get any errors. Type reboot once everything checks out.
HOW OFTEN: At least once a month.
Comtnand-click the Bookmarks menu to get links
to open in their own tab.
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PROBLEM: I am just bonkers over
Safari’s tabs, but am sick of having to
go through a contextual menu to make
a new page open In a fresh
tab. Is there another option?
SOLUTION: Certainly,
although you need a three-
button mouse for this (ora
two-button mouse with a clickable
scroll wheel). Simply use the third
button to click a link, and it should
open in a new tab. Third-button
support is built right into the OS— and
they never told us!
Note: If you’re using Microsoft’s
intelllPoint software foryour mouse
or trackball, you have to map a button
to activate a Command-click. If you
don’t have a free button or clickable
scroll wheel, you can manually
Command-click a link to open up
a page in a new tab.
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Madness
PROBLEM: When I click certain links, a
new browser window opens. Ugh! How
do I make it so that links open ^
in the current window?
SOLUTION: Don’t fret.
Simply drag the link from
the page up to the location
bar, let go, and Safari will open the link
in that window, no questions asked.
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PROBLEM: I want to kick back and
zone out to some iTunes with my
visuals playing in full-screen mode.
But my visuals aren’t flowing as
smoothly as I would tike, and it’s
freakin’ me out, man.
SOLUTION: Like the poor, tired
MacAdcf/cf editors, your Mac is trying
to do too much at once. Not only is
it decoding and playing your MP3s
(or AACs) in real time, but it’s got to
analyze them and create killer visuals
in full screen. Here’s a workaround:
1. Goto the Universal Access
preferences. UndertheSeeingtab,
dick the huge Turn On Zoom button, or
press Command-Option-asterisk (*).
2. Head back over to iTunes. In the
Visualizer menu, first disable Full
Screen, and then choose Small or
Medium for the size of your visuals.
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and make it easier on your Mac.
3. Turn on the Visualizer, get your
tunes cranking, and then use the
zoom keyboard commands to fill
your screen with smooth visuals—
Command-Option-plus (+) and
Command-Option-minus (-)w
Start playing your tunes with the Visualizer set to
a smaller size. Now you can start zooming.
03 Split Songs
PROBLEM: I ripped a Perry Como CD
and the last track actually contains
two songs— the normal song and a
bonus song. How come iTunes won’t
play them as two separate songs?
(I really can’t take two Perry Como
songs in a row.)
SOLUTION: In iTunes 3 and later,
you can cut up songs by setting start
and end times. Control-click the
offending track, choose Get Info from
the contextual menu, then go to the
Options tab and choose a start and
stop time. Next
go to Advanced >
Convert Selection
ToMP3(orAAC,
depending on
your Preferences
settings). iTunes
will create a new
song— leaving
the old one
untouched— based
on your chosen
start and stop
By setting start and stop
times, you can create two
different songs from one
tong track.
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times. Do this procedure twice for your
Perry Como track (once for each song),
and then delete the original track. Your
ears will thank you.
61 Gross iTunes Fonts
PROBLEM: After I installed iTunes 4,
the font looked jaggy— not all smooth
and silky as in iTunes 3.
SOLUTION: iTunes 4 does some
strange things with font smoothing.
One easy fix is to upgrade to Mac OS
10.2.6. Otherwise, go to the General
System Preferences pane and set Turn
Off Text Smoothing For Font Sizes
to the 8 And Smaller option (9 is the
default). Quit and relaunch iTunes, and
you Ye good to go. At this point, you
can even set font smoothing back to 9
and iTunes will behave properly.
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Problems
PROBLEM: Whenever I ask iMovie to
launch IDVD 3, it refuses. All I get is
that friggin* beach ball. I*m starting
to hate the sight of beach balls— even
real ones.
SOLUTION: Mac OS X Is simply getting
confused with which version of iDVD
it’s supposed to open. First delete
every copy of iDVD from your drive
(this includes any versions from
Classic too). Second, reinstall iDVD
from your install or iLife CD. Finally,
run Apple’s repair permissions (see
'^Repair Your Permissions,” pl8). That
should solve your problem— and make
you stop hating beach balls (for now).
® Out-of-Sync iSync
PROBLEM: I updated Palm Desktop
and now iSync doesn’t work.
SOLUTION: Palm Desktop places its
conduits in your system anytime you
install or reinstall the Palm software.
With Palm’s conduits active, iSync
doesn’t talk to your PDA properly. To
fight back, first reinstall the iSync
Palm Conduit (located at the bottom of
thewww.apple.com/isync/download
page). Next go to Library > Application
Support > Palm HotSync > Conduits
and delete the Address Conduit and
Datebook Conduit (if they’re already
gone, that’s OK). Now give iSync a try.
m iPhoto Bloat
PROBLEM: I swear I’ve deleted
hundreds of bad pictures from my
iPhoto library, but the size of my
iPhoto Library folder is still huge, I’ve
emptied my Trash, but it doesn’t help.
SOLUTION: Ah, yes. iPhoto’s Trash is
not the same as the Mac OS X Trash.
Simply deleting a picture from iPhoto
doesn’t actually delete the associated
files— you
need to
tell iPhoto
specifically
to empty its
own Trash
by going to
iPhoto’s File
menu and
choosing
Empty Trash.
You need to tell iPhoto
manually to empty its own
Trash of deleted pictures.
If you’re having a problem with a
specific font, check to see if it’s living
in multiple locales. If it is, make sure
the version you want to use is in the
individual user fonts folder and try
whittling down to just one copy of the
font— or use a utility like Extensis’s
Suitcase ($99.95, www.extensis.com),
which manages font sets and turns
fonts on and off as needed.
Word is also hypersensitive
to corrupted fonts. Microsoft
recommends running a font-fixing
utility such as Morrison SoftDesign’s
FontDoctorX ($69.99, http://
morrisonsoftdesign.com) if font
problems persist— it worked for us.
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PROBLEM: Sometimes when I change
fonts in Word, the app unexpectedly
quits. What’s the word on Word?
SOLUTION: Word unexpectedly
quitting— well. It happens all the
time— but it’s especially common
if you have a lot of fonts scattered
throughout your system or you have
multiple copies of the same font in
different places. Mac OS X looks for
fonts In the following order:
Individual User Fonts Folder (Users >
user name > Library > Fonts)
System-Wide Fonts Folder (Library >
Fonts)
Network Fonts Folder (Network)
Library > Fonts)
Mac OS X Fonts Folder (System >
Library > Fonts) Note: Do not edit,
remove, change, or add fonts to
this folder.
Classic Fonts Folder (System Folder)
Fonts)
PROBLEM: All of a sudden,
antialiasing stopped working in
Internet Explorer. I swear, I didn’t
touch a thing!
SOLUTION: Since it’s a Carbon app,
Internet Explorer can get flaky with
its antialiasing. (A Carbon app is one
that’s not 100 percent OS X native
and that relies on older components
to ensure system compatibility.)
The problem is more likely to creep
in if you’re running multiple Carbon
applications at the same time,
since they all use the same drawing
routines— QuickDraw, for those of you
keeping score at home.
To deal with QuickDraw font-
smoothing problems, use Marcel
Bresink’s TinkerTool (free, www.bresink
.de/osx/TinkerTool2.html). Open up the
TinkerTool system prefs, go to the Font
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Mac OS X stores a lot of commonly accessed data (like Finder icons and
Extensions data) in its caches to optimize performance. But sometimes the
data in these caches does not get updated properly. Here’s the fix:
1. Delete everything in Library > Caches.
2. Delete everything in Users > username > Library > Caches (if you want
to leave your Internet caches intact, don’t delete the Safari or MS Internet
Cache folders).
3. Reboot.
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PROBLEM: Sometimes when I delete
a word or two in Word, the entire
paragraph compacts down into a line
or two and the sentences end up on
top of each other.
SOLUTION: Like the “Internet
Explorer jaggies” bug (#26), this
problem relates to QuickDraw-
rendering inaccuracies in Mac OS X
(and makes us want to use a word
processor thafs built on a true Mac
OS X foundation— but that’s another
story). What’s happening is that the
system isn’t constantly rerendering the
screen. While this supposedly saves
processing time while you work, it also i
presents problems like this redraw
issue. Sadly, the only fix for this bug is
to scroll up or down to make your text
display normally again.
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Amnesia
PROBLEM: How come internet
Explorer can’t seem to remember the
preferences I’ve set for it the next time
I launch it? Doesn’t it care how I feel?
SOLUTION: Don’t take It personally—
you*re not the only one whom internet
Explorer ignores.
But before you start cursing out
Explorer, realize that other apps may
share the blame— namely, Entourage
and URL Manager Pro ($25, www
.url-manager.com). Like Explorer,
these apps write to the main Mac OS X
Internet configuration preferences
(to geeks, that’s the com.apple
.internetconfig.plistfile). If you launch,
say. Entourage first, it will take over
your Internet preferences file and not
let Explorer write any changes to it.
Here are a couple of workarounds:
1- Before launching any other apps,
start up Internet Explorer, make
the changes to your prefs, and then
quit Explorer. That should save the
changes to the prefs file.
2. Delete the com.apple.internetconfig
.plist file (in Users > username > Library
> Preferences)— it may be corrupted.
Network and
Printer Woes
@) Sharing Drives
PROBLEM: Can I share my entire drive
with a guest user as I could in OS 9?
SOLUTION; While you can’t share your
drive with a guest, you con share your
entire drive with anyone to whom you
have granted admin access on your
Mac. See “Create a New User,” p27, to
find out how to set up an admin. If you
turn on File Sharing (via the Sharing
preferences pane), any admin can
automatically see all attached disks
when connecting to your Mac.
0) Network- Printer
Problems
PROBLEM: I tried printing a document
to a network printer, and it didn’t
print. To add insult to injury, now I
can’t delete the document from
Print Center!
SOLUTION; Print Center (like most
Mac OS X utilities) is merely a pretty
interface to an underlying Unix-based
engine that manages your printers.
Sometimes the hooks between
these utilities (Print Center, In this
case) and the Unix gobbledegeek
don’t work quite right. This is one of
those situations.
Thankfully, there’s an alternative to
digging into Unix. Mac 05 10.2 uses
an open-source engine called CUPS
(that’s common Unix printing system,
for acronym-philes) to manage its
printers. The coolest part is that
CUPS provides its own interface,
which you can access from your
favorite Web browser.
1- Open a Web browser and go to
http://127.0.0.1:631-the :631 tells
the Web browser which port It should
connect to. Note that this process
is connecting to your local machine
(127.0.0.1 is another name for This
Very Mac), so you don’t have to be
connected to the Internet to do this.
2. Click the Manage jobs link.
3- Find the offending print job and
click Canceljob.
You can use a Web browser to manage your
printers and jobs.
August 2003 MacAddIct 23
Preventative Maintenance
ED Stuck Printer
PROBLEM: Sometimes I can’t print
until I delete my printer profile from
Print Center and then add it
again. It’s so annoying!
SOLUTION: This problem
is often an indication that
your printing preferences are
corrupted. The easiest thing to do
is to delete them, restart, and let Mac
OS X rebuild them from scratch.
1 . Quit Print Center. After all, you don’t
want it caching your corrupted
preferences and rewriting them after
you delete them. But you already
knew that.
2. Delete the following files: Users >
username > Library > Preferences >
com.apple.print.PrintCenter.plist
and Users > user name > Library >
Preferences > ByHost > com.apple
.print.PrintCenter.w/7afeuer.plist.
Note that whatever \s different with
each system, so just delete any of
these PrintCenter files that you find
in the ByHost folder.
3. You’ll also want to delete these files:
etc > cups > printers.conf and etc >
cups > printers.conf.O. A warning
for Unix-phobes: You might need to
open the Terminal to delete these
files, since you may not see the etc
folder in the Finder. To remove these
files, type sudo rm /etc/ (no
space) cups/printers.cani; press
Return, then type sudo rm /etc/
(no space) cups/printers-ccnf-O.
Depending on how your printers are
configured, one or more of these
files might not exist. If your Mac says
there’s no such file, don’t sweat it.
4 . Now restart your Mac and add your
printers again.
+1 RESET YOUR NVRAM
Seciiitir
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@ Stop Keychain!
PROBLEM: Mail keeps asking for
permission to decrypt items in my
keychain— I always select Always
Allow, but it keeps asking me every
time I launch the app. How do I make
Keychain stop bugging me?
SOLUTION: Most likely your Keychain
has become corrupted. You have two
options for a fix.
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Use Apple’s Keychain First Aid to look for
and fix problems with your Keychain.
1. Run Apple’s Keychain First Aid utility
(available at http://docs.info.apple
xom/article.html?artnum=107234).
It has two modes: Verify and Repair.
Run Verify first, and if it fintjs
problems, tell it to repair them.
2 . If the above solution doesn’t work,
then Keychain is corrupted beyond
repair and you need to erase It
Starting over with a new Keychain
is about as fun as getting a cavity
filled, but sometimes It’s the only
Your Mac has software called Open Firmware built right into the motherboard.
This software tells your Mac how to start up and saves various settings about how
the Mac should talk to displays and other critical components. Sometimes these
settings can become corrupted, and you need to reset them.
1. Reboot your Mac and Immediately press Command-Option-O-F.
2. Type the three magic lines (see right) with a Return after
each one.
3. Your computer should reboot automatically. And don’t
forget to check things controlled by the PRAM, such as
date and time, just to make sure everything’s hunky-dory.
HOW OFTEN: Only when your Mac is acting funky. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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delete your existing Keychain and start
anew. Bummer.
option. Go to Applications > Utilities
and run Keychain Access. From the
File menu, choose Delete to start
over with a fresh Keychain file.
EB Lost Roots
PROBLEM: Shoot. I created my
root password years ago, and I’ve
forgotten it since. What do I do?
SOLUTION: Either take some
memory-enhancing Ginkgo Bilboa,
or follow these simple steps.
1. Log In as an admin user— hopefully
you remember t/?of password.
2. Open up the Terminal and type
sudo passwd root
3. The Terminal will ask you for
a password— type your admin
password (not root, which would be
impossible anyway since you don’t
remember it).
4. The Terminal now asks you to type
the new root password twice (and for
Pete’s sake, write it down this time).
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You can change the root password from
the Terminal.
ED Getting to the Root
PROBLEM: I need to run a program as
root to edit a system-owned text file,
but I don’t want to log out and log
back in as root. How can I do this?
SOLUTION: Well, there are two ways:
the pretty way and the ugly way. The
pretty way involves using Brian Hill’s
Pseudo ($15, http://personalpages
24 MacAddtet August 2003
.tds.net/'-brian_
hill/pseudo,html).
Simply drag your
favorite text editor
(like TextEdit) on
top of Pseudo, and ;
the editorwill run
as root.
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have Pseudo, ;
type in this Terminal command, which
teds the computer to run TextEdit as
root: sudo open -a TextEdit
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be careful. Don't do anything we
wouldn't do.
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Mac OS X, like all versions of Unix, has an
all-powerful user at its core, named root By
default, this user is disabled in Mac OS X, and
that's a good thing. If eyeryone were to log in
to their Mac as root, well, let’s just say we'd
be writing more articles along the lines of "50
Biggest Disasters Your Kids and Their Buddies
Inflicted upon Your Mac While You Were
Outside Gardening.”
Still, there are times when you want to be
root. Typing sudo before any Unix command
in the Terminal gives you root privileges. To
enable root outside the Terminal, open the
Netinfo Manager utility, click the lock to make
changes, then go to Security > Enable Root
User. Once enabled, you can choose to log in
as root and have free reign over your system.
If permissions get mucked up, for instance,
root allows you to edit all your files and
(hopefully) fix things.
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PROBLEM: How can I get rid of a |
deleted user's home folder? I
I tried dragging it to the
Trash, but to no avail.
SOLUTION: Despite the
fact that you deleted the
user, your Mac remembers that
the folder used to belong to someone 5
else, and therefore won't let you touch \
it— not without a little force, anyway. i
Fire up the Terminal and type the f
following, replacing user name with the J
user’s actual name: sudo rm (space) [
-R /Users/'user name deleted' [
(provided the folder shows up in Users i
as user name deleted). ^
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Dejected Eject
PROBLEM: I have a third-party
keyboard and one of those new Macs
that doesn't have a CD-eject key on
the front of the computer. I know F12
is supposed to eject the CD
tray, but it doesn’t. How do
I eject?
SOLUTION: First, let us tell
you about a few subtleties
involving the Eject or F12 key
(newer Apple keyboards have a
dedicated Eject key; older ones assign
the job to F 12 ). For one thing, in recent
versions of Mac OS X, you need to
press and hold the Eject key to make it
work. Apple did this to help out clumsy
users (or typists with really long
fingers) who were accidentally hitting
Eject. Second, on some systems—
especially those with external FireWire
CD/DVD burners attached— you need
to hold down Option-Eject. Don't ask
us why. We didn't make the OS!
Failing all of the above, add Jaguar's
Eject menu-bar item. Navigate to
System > Library > CoreServices > Menu
Extras and drag the Eject.menu folder
to your menu bar. Easy, eh?
Add Eject to the menu bar to control your
CD tray from the 05.
If you're really stuck, there are
two almost-foolproof ways to
eject a recalcitrant CD, but both
require restarting:
1. Simply restart while holding
down the mouse button— the CD
should pop right out early in the
startup process.
2, If that doesn't work, you can eject
from Open Firmware, the operating
system built Into your motherboard
that tells your Mac how to start up.
Immediately upon starting up, press
and hold Command-Option-O-F.
At the Open Firmware prompt, type
eject cd to pop open the CD tray.
more on
the Eject key
Here are a few Eject- key tricks (unfortunately,
some third-party keyboards don't support
these combos):
• Control-Eject Brings up the Restart, Sleep,
Cancel, Shut Down dialog.
• Command-Control-Eject Restarts your Mac.
• Command-Option-Eject Puts your Mac
to sleep..
• Command-Control-Option-Eject Shuts
down your Mac.
ED Determined Disk
PROBLEM: Sometimes when I drag my
FireWire disk to the Trash, It tells me
the disk is in use. But I swear I’m not
using It.
SOLUTION: Chances are you have an
application open that was using a file
on that disk at some point and is still
holding temporary Items open on your
FireWire drive. Just quit the offending
app to finish dismounting your drive.
If that doesn't work, you've got bigger
problems— and reformatting the drive
may be the only solution. Sorry.
ED Disk Pause
PROBLEM: Sometimes when I'm
navigatingthrough nested folders
in the Finder, my Mac will pause and
spin up my FireWire drive before
continuing— even though I’m not
trying to access that drive. It’s ^
very annoying and really
slows down the Finder.
SOLUTION: Your Mac spins
down your FireWire drive
when it's not in use (to save
power and presumably drive life).
However, when you navigate the
Finder, the system begins looking
for extra icons and applications to
associate with your files. During
this process, the system looks at
all available drives, including your
FireWire drive.
You have three options to cure this
annoying behavior:
1. Unmount your FireWire drive when
you're not using It. Obvious, but
worth mentioning.
August 2003 MacAddlct 25
2. Go into the Energy Saver
preferences pane and uncheck
Put The Hard Disk To Sleep When
Possible. Note, however, that
this affects all your hard drives,
including the boot drive. Laptop
users may not want to do this, as
spinning down the drive saves
precious battery power.
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your drives.
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spin-down completely, you can
change the amount of time before
the system spins the drives down
(by default, this happens after 10
minutes of inactivity). To do this,
you need— what else— the Terminal.
Type sudo pmset -c spindown 60
to set the hard drive spin-down to
60 minutes on AC power. PowerBook
users: This will nof affect the spin-
down when you’re on battery power
(to do that, change the “C to - fa).
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your Mac’s power-management settings.
@) Bleary- Eyed Mac
PROBLEM: When f wake up my G4
Mac, I get a screen full of squiggly
lines and bars that run across the top
and left side. Help!
SOLUTION: Starting with 10.2.5, some
Macs don’t properly set the resolution
when waking from sleep. This problem
affects users who had their displays
set to nondefault resolutions when
installing OS updates. The fix: Go to
the Displays preference pane, change
the resolution to something else (it
doesn’t matter what), restart, then
change the resolution back to the way
you prefer it.
CD Negative Screen
Experience
PROBLEM: All of a sudden, and for no
good reason, my screen looks like a
film negative. All I get is white text on
black! t can’t take it anymore!
SOLUTION; Ah yes, you’ve
Inadvertently stumbled into the land
of Universal Access and its various
(aka insidious) ways of turning itself
on behind your back.
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Use the Universal Access prefs to toggle
foreground and background colors.
If you open up the Universal Access
preference pane, you’ll see a big, huge
box that says Switch To Black On White
(orvice versa, depending on your
current setting). Click this to restore
normalcy. You probably turned on these
settings accidentally by pressing the
enabling key combination, Command-
Option -Control-asterisk (*). That, or
someone’s messing with your mind.
CO Mac Insomnia — and
Narcolepsy
PROBLEM: My Mac won’t fall asleep
and/or wake up from sleep!
SOLUTION; Starting with Mac
OS 10.2.4, very sleepy— and very
unsleepy— Macs have been a problem.
Some machines refuse to go to sleep
(party animals), some machines
refuse to wake up (lazy suckers).
This often happens in machines with
third-party PCI cards installed, but it
has also been known to happen on
stock machines.
The fix? Reset the machine’s
NVRAM (nonvolatile random access
memory)— the settings that persist
even after you turn off your Mac. See
“Reset Your NVRAM,” p24, to find out
how to do this. Oh, and if you’re having
sleep issues yourself, try sipping some
scotch before you go to bed (we like
The Macallan).
C9 Dead Mac Extraction
PROBLEM: My Mac won’t start up
and I’m on a deadline (I know, I
know— I should have finished that
report last week). I don’t have time to
troubleshoot right now. Is there any
way to grab my data off my dead Mac?
SOLUTION; Assuming you can get the
Mac to at least power up, you can start
up your Mac in FireWire Target Disk
mode. This turns your dead Mac into a
very expensive FireWire disk. To do this,
press and hold the T key immediately
upon powering up your Mac. Within a
few seconds, you should see a large
floating FireWire icon. Plug this Mac into
a healthy Mac via FireWire, and grab alt
the files you need.
To perform a quick data exchange, start up your
dead Mac in FireWire Target Disk mode.
26 MacAddict August 2003
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£0 Conserve Energy
PROBLEM: I was on a cross-
continental flight enjoying my
Gladiator DVD. Just as I got to the final
showdown between Maximus and
Commodus, my laptop battery pooped
out. What a buzzkill! Is there a way to
limit the power my laptop consumes
when Tm just watching a DVD?
SOLUTION: While you probably can’t
watch the entire extended edition of
Lord of the Rings on battery power, you
can tweak your system to conserve
every bit of energy.
Disabling unused networking
components, especially AIrPort and
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laptop, you can squeeze a few more minutes
out of your battery.
Bluetooth, can regain precious lost
minutes of battery life. Just go to the
Network preferences and create a new
location (from the Location drop-down
menu). Name it something like Nothing
Active. From the Show pop-up menu,
choose Network Port Configurations.
Once here, uncheck every box and
click Apply Now. You now have a
battery-saving profile that you can
select via either the Network system
preferences or Apple menu > Location.
ED Battery Confusion
PROBLEM; My 800MHz TiBook tells
me I’m on reserve battery power. I rush
to plug it in since I don’t want to lose
that amazing haiku I’ve been writing.
But when I do, the battery display tells
me I’ve got a full charge. To add insult
to injury, now I’ve lost my train of
thought and can’t finish my haiku.
SOLUTION: While we can’t help you
with the last line of your haiku, we can
help you with your battery problem.
Most likely, your Lllon battery's
memory is getting confused. In
our experience, If you connect a
PowerBook to its power supply for
a month or more, it tends to get
confused when you put it on battery
power. The fix is easy: Let the battery
completely discharge, down to nothing
(aka keep on working until your ’Book
dies), then plug your PowerBook back
in and let it charge all the way back up.
Now repeat that entire process.
You can monitor
the capacity
reported by your
battery with
Jeremy Kezer’s
XBattery ($15,
www.kezer.net
/xbattery.html).
Keep XBattery
open to track
your battery’s
capacity
overtime-“if
you notice a
significant dip
in capacity,
you should
recalibrate the battery.
E9 Dim PowerBook
PROBLEM: Sometimes while I’m typing
on.my 17-Inch PowerBook, the screen
appears to dim for no reason, then It
returns to normal. What’s goingon?
SOLUTION: If you’re lucky enough to
have a 17-inch PowerBook, we don’t
want to hear any complaints. None. Next!
OK, fine, we’ll help you out. The 17-
inch PowerBook has a built-in ambient
light sensor that by default adjusts
the screen brightness and keyboard
backlight if it detects a change in the
brightness levels of Its surroundings.
These sensors are installed underneath
the speaker grilles, and some folks
accidentally trigger the sensors by
covering the grille(s) with their hands.
if your wandering hand becomes
a huge problem, you can disable the
light sensor’s defaults in the Displays
preferences. Uncheck Automatically
Adjust Brightness As Ambient Light
Changes to disable the screen
dimming and undimming. If you want
to disable keyboard illumination as
well, go to the Keyboard pane and
uncheck Illuminate Keyboard In Low
Light Conditions.
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+1 CREATE A NEW USER
Sometimes your user preference files
can become corrupted and prevent
you from logging in to fix the problem.
Having a backup admin user allows
you to solve these types of problems
easily without having to revert to more-
drastic measures.
Adding a second user is a
cinch — just navigate to the Accounts
preferences pane and select New User.
Make sure you enable Allow User To
Administer This Computer for this user.
HOW OFTEN: Once — when you first
buy your machine, or as soon as you
finish reading this article, whichever
comes first.
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Add a second user with administrative
rights to assist you with troubleshooting.
Use XBattery to monitor your
battery’s capacity.
August 2003 MacXIddict 27
Big TmUe
03 Dark Shade of Death
PROBLEM: 1 was innocently using my
Mac when a dark, drapeiike shade
appeared. It looked like someone
had slowly lowered tinted glass over
my screen. Then a dialog with text in
many languages appeared, telling me
to restart. It*s the weirdest thing l*ve
seen since that chick kissed all those
guys in latex masks on Mr, Personality.
SOLUTION: Your machine suffered
from that Mac OS X phenomenon
known as a kernel panic. Depending
on your version of Mac OS X, a kernel
panic will appear as either a tinted
shade (like the problem described
above) or, even more disconcerting,
a series of white-on-black error
messages littering your screen. Either
way, the problem is the same: Your
Mac tried to do something and ran
into a brick wall. The only option is to
restart (which will likely take longer
than usual as your Mac performs some
file-system checks).
If this problem becomes chronic,
you can try to diagnose the cause of
the panic by holding down the Shift
key while restarting— this keeps all
kernel extensions from loading. Try re-
creating the steps that led to the error,
if your Mac doesn't crash with kernel
extensions off, you can be pretty sure
your problems are related to a recently
installed driver. Try to get an updated
driver from the device’s manufacturer
(or check www.versiontracker.com).
CD Jaguar Kernel Panics
PROBLEM: In Jaguar, i get kernel
panics all the time. And that’s
making me panic, colonel!
SOLUTION: Kernel panics
have been a chronic problem
with the majority of 10.2.x
updates. That’s because Apple
sometimes changes the built-in USB
device drivers, and invariably some
devices out there are Incompatible with
these new drivers. One solution is to do
a clean reinstall of Mac OS X and then
update to the version prior to the one
that presented the problem. OK, we’re
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location where the installer will save
your current lOUSBFamily extension.
sure you didn’t want to hear that.
But before you do that, try reverting
the USB drivers’ kernel extension back
to an older version. The file you need to
replace is lOUSBFamily.kext (in System
> Library > Extensions). Download the
version of that file for the OS prior to
the one you just installed— you can get
the file from http://developer.apple
.com/hardware/usb/usbloggers.htm.
Once you download the file, install
the package. Now, you know the read-
me screen— that thing you never read
during an installation? Well, read it this
time, because you’ll want to write down
where your Mac is saving the current
version of your USB driver (necessary if
you want to revert back to the original).
Once you’re done installing, restart
your Mac, then cross your fingers and
test your problematic USB devices.
If things don’t improve, revert back
to the original lOUSBFamily.kext file.
Head to the Terminal and type the
following, replacing /?/e name with the
file name given to you by the installer
(usually /var/tmp/IOUSBFamily-
XXXX.kext);
sudo -s (return)
mv /System/Library/ (no space)
ExtensiDns/IOUSBFamily-kext
(space) V.Trash (return)
m\i file name /System/Library/
(no space) Extensions/ (no space)
lOUSBFamily.kext (return)
touch /System/Librery/ (no
space) Extensions
Reboot your Mac again.
CD Prohibitive Signs
PROBLEM: When I start up, all I get is
a circle with a slash through It.
SOLUTION: This means your Mac,
despite all its best efforts, can’t
start up. Before you panic and run
screaming through the streets, calm
down. Think. Breathe.
Now ask yourself a few questions. Did
you change anything the last time you
ran your Mac? Delete any files you didn’t
recognize? If so, try booting from a Mac
OS 9 CD (if your Mac supports it), a Mac
OS X boot CD (if you made one), or a
bootable FireWire drive and replacing
those files you moved or deleted. Mac
Starting with Jaguar, the prohibitory
sign replaced the broken folder, if you
haven’t seen it since upgrading, that’s
a good thing.
OS X requires the presence of a mach_
kernel file in the root directory of your
hard drive. The file is visible in Mac OS 9
but invisible in Mac OS X— and many an
OS 9 user has deleted this file thinking
it wasn’t important. If the mach_kernel
file is gone, try copying it from another
bootable disk or CD.
If you swear that you didn’t move
anything, boot from a Norton Utilities
(www.symantec.com), TechTool Pro
(www.micromat.com), or Mac OS X CD
and run a disk utility to try to fix any
problems on the drive. Occasionally
file-system corruption can affect
startup files, so fixing that may solve
your problem.
If nothing’s working, you’re in for a
reinstall of Mac OS X. Chances are your
user folders don’t have any damaged
data, so you should be able to save
most (or possibly all) of the settings
you’d previously configured for
yourself. When the installer asks you to
choose your destination volume, dick
the Options button. Select Archive And
Install, and then check the Preserve
Users And Network Settings box.
28 MacAldlct August 2003
CD Very Dead Mac
PROBLEM; My Mac’s dead, it won’t
start up. Am I in big trouble?
SOLUTION: A Mac that won’t start up
isn’t always a horrible sign. Of course,
it’s not always a good sign, either.
First check all of your cables and
connections and make sure your Mac
and monitor are plugged in. Next
unplug ev^ery external device (yes,
including your keyboards and mice),
and try to start up using the power
button on your Mac. Oftentimes
something in the USB chain is getting
in the way of the startup signal.
Didn’t work? Try resetting the Power
Manager (on laptops) or pressing the
Cuda/PMU (power management unit)
reset button on your motherboard.
Since every machine is a bit
different, check your users’ manual
for instructions (you still have that,
right?). The reset button in desktops
is usually a small red or black button
on the motherboard. Press it once
and see what happens. If there’s more
than one button on your motherboard,
press ’em both. Heck, you ain’t gonna
make things any worse! just don’t try
cleaning it with hot, soapy water, OK?
^ HAVE A COCKTAIL
Press the magic button to try to revive a dead Mac.
Still didn’t work? Try replacing the
motherboard’s PRAM battery. You can
usually get one from Radio Shack or an
authorized Apple repair center.
If that doesn’t work, bringyourpoor
Mac into your favorite Apple store or
repair shop and show the guys what’s
going on (or rather, what’s not going
on). Alternatively, you can call Apple
and see if the company has any magic
solutions to share with you, or check
Sherlock’s AppleCare channel for
advice. Oh, that’s right, your Mac’s
dead— forget that Sherlock advice.
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on the Beach — although we find all three quite useful in their own way. We actually
mean you should check out Dicom’s versatile donationware Cocktail (http://www2
.dicom.se/cocktail/index.htmI), a
self-described “free general purpose
utility for Mac OS X 10.2 or later.”
This app will clean your caches, repair
your permissions, run scheduled system
maintenance, delete locked or inaccessible
files, clear out old logs, and more. There’s
nothing in this app that you can’t do from
the command line, but.. .well, why go there
when you can do it with Cocktail?
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69 Login Freeze Out
PROBLEM: Every time I try to log
into my Mac, it either reboots
automatically or just gives me the
spinning beachball. Why is my
own Mac shutting me out?
SOLUTION; There’s two
possible reasons your Mac’s
not showing you any love;
Either you’ve got something in your
login items that’s not up to snuff, or
you’ve got a damaged preferences file.
Here are a few solutions:
1- Log in as your backup admin user
and move your user’s Preferences
folder someplace safe— it’s at
Users > user name > Library >
Preferences). Your Mac will re-create
the Preferences folder the next time
you log in— if the problem was a
damaged preference file (say, your
login items file, which resides In
your Preferences folder), the Mac
should now let you in.
What? You haven’t created a
backup admin user? OK, well, put a
sticky note on your forehead to do
that the moment your Mac Is back in
working order— and then check out
“Create a New User,” p27, for some
help with this.
2. Remove your Preferences folder
the good ol’-fashioned way: via the
command line. Reboot your Mac
and hold down Command-S. This
will boot the system in single- user
mode, which gives you root access
to the command line. First run a
file-system check to make sure
everything on your system is kosher
(see “Run File-System Checks,”
p21). Once you’re done, type the
following lines, pressing Return
after each:
/sbin/mount -uw / This allows you
to make changes to the file system,
cd /Users This takes you to the
Users directory.
Is This brings up a list of all the
folders in the Users directory. Find the
folder that corresponds to the user
who’s giving you trouble,
cd user nume/Librery/ Substitute
your own user name for user name, of
course. That should get you to the right
directory to edit your Preferences folder,
mv Preferences Preferences.old
This renames your Preferences folder
and gets it out of the way (of course,
all of your preferences will revert back
to their defaults),
reboot Finally, reboot your Mac.
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August 2003 MacAddlct 29
We take the top national Mac-based Internet services to school.
Which ones make the grade? And which ones are out to lunch?
I f you want access to
email, the Internet,
and your own sliver of
Web space— and who
doesn’t?— you have a choice
of hundreds of ISPs (Internet
service providers). Picking the
right one depends on who you
are and what you’re looking for.
To help you make the right
choice, we put five major
national services to the
test: America Online (AOL),
Earthlink, Microsoft Network
(MSN), Juno, and Apple’s own
.Mac. Some, like Earthlink and
Juno, are just in the business
of getting you up surfin’ and
emailin’. Others, such as AOl
and MSN, encapsulate the
whole Internet experience,
while .Mac provides a bevy of
Internet services you won’t
find elsewhere. Read on to see
which services passed the final
exam and which we want to
send back to remedial ISP 101.
by Robert Capps
photography by Mark Madeo
AOL for OS X
URL: www.aol.com
Price: $23.90 per month for dial-up service; $14.95
per month for Bring Your Own Access broadband
service ($9.95 per month when upgrading from
dial-up)
System Requirements: Mac OS X (OS 8 or 9 users
use AOL for Macintosh version 5, which offers some
different features from the version reviewed here)
A AOL is an immersive
online service, offering a
complete interface, its own
Web browser and email client, and 21
channels of custom content (usually in
conjunction with partners like WebMD
and AutoTrader). Sign up with AOL and
you get to hang out in its now- legendary
chat rooms and use tools such as its
calendar and messenger client.
For broadband users, AOL has
introduced a new option called Bring
Your Own Access— set up your own
DSL, cable, or other high-speed
Internet connection and run AOL’s
software on top of that. This has
allowed AOL to add a slew of bit-
intensive features such as streaming-
music radio stations and video news
feeds. Unfortunately, many of these
extras do not yet wor|c on the Mac.
Report Card:
Interface
AOL’s interface encompasses the AOL
mail client, a special AOL browser
(based on the Mozilla Gecko browser
engine), and windows for viewing each
of AOL’s 21 custom content channels.
Nelly: F “Why did you make me install
this ugly piece of crap on my computer?’
Fred: C- “It’s so cluttered and
complicated. It’s not clear when I’m
on the Web and when !’m seeing AOL’s
filtered content.”
The main AOL screen
offers a dizzying
array of content and
corporate synergies.
30 MacAddIct August 2003
Core Competencies Meet Our Testers
Our testers rated each major Mac Internet service To make sure we could provide advice that fits your particular level of Mac addiction,
in eight key categories, some fairly obvious, some we drafted two testers from opposite ends of the tech-savvy spectrum. WeTl call
a little more nuanced. Here’s the breakdown:
the proud propellerhead Nerdy NeUy, and the enthusiastic Switcher First-Time Fred.
Interface
Usability
Web
Email
Extras
Multiple
Users
Value
Overall
What email services does it offer? Some Internet
services offer a Web-based email option, while
others come with their own full mail client.
Nerdy Nelly
-I know my FOP From my IMAP and why
WebDAV and SOAP are important,
hate having my options limited ”
Is this service worth the money?
What’s the bottom line?
How well is the overall Interface designed in terms of
both aesthetics and intuitiveness?
How functional and easy to use is the service?
Does it make it clear how to access various features,
or does it leave users confused?
How do the Web components of the service stand
up? Does it offer Web space for making a home page?
Does it offer links to content on the Web?
Is the Integrated browser (if applicable) any good?
First-Time Fred
"j don’t care how my beautiful new Mac
works, as long as it does what 1 want it
to do easily and with no muss or fuss,”
What extra features are available? For example,
some services have exclusive content such as
news and entertainment channels, and others offer
easy-to-use Web-based site builders.
How well does this service suit a family? Does it
provide multiple accounts, and if so, how easy is it to
switch between them? Does it offer parental controls?
Usability
AOL offers a single interface from which
you access everything. This means
menus everywhere, plus some features
that you access from content windows
or the Integrated Web browser.
Nelly: F this day and age, any major
service that gets overloaded and asks
me to try again later just plain sucks.”
Fred: C- "I like the channels, but all
these different windows get confusing.
Plus the service seems to lock up a lot.”
Web
AOL comes with its own specially
designed browser, and offers 20MB of
personal Web space per screen name
for your own Web site.
Nelly: F “I like the 20MB of Web space,
but don’t even get me started on the
crappy AOL browser.”
Fred: C- “Wait, how do I know when
I’m on the Web? And where do I go to
figure out how to use the personal Web
space? It’s not clear.”
Email
AOL includes a built-in mail client. You
can also access your mail from another
computer via the AOL Web site.
Nelly: F “Spam already? I just installed
the %$#(§)! thing! And how about
support for multiple POP accounts,
advanced filtering, and preview
panes— is AOL living in the 1990s?”
Fred: C- “Too many unwanted ads, and
I can’t see my new and old email at the
same time. Plus, all the good screen
names are taken: I can’t believe I have
to be ffrsttimefred584**
Extras
AOL offers tons of extras, including
custom content, a digital-photo service
for sharing pictures online or ordering
prints, calendar software, and chat
rooms galore.
Nelly: F “Yawn...”
Fred: B+ “Cool chat rooms and handy
calendar. Plus I can share photos with
my friends through the new You’ve Got
Pictures center— if I ever buy a digital
camera.”
Multiple Users
You can create up to seven accounts,
each with its own screen name,
password, and custom-set access level.
Nelly: A “It works. Can’t knock that.”
Fred: A “Each member of my family can
have an account, and changing back
and forth is so simple. I like having
the ability to control Frieda and Freddy
jr.’s access,”
Value
You can pay $24 per month for dial-up
access or bring your own broadband.
Nelly: F “So I pay $50 a month for DSL
and then another $15 for AOL. What
kind of a chump do you think I am?”
Fred: D “It costs more than most
dial-up services, yet it’s more
confusing. Not good.”
Overall
The primary benefit of AOL is
(supposedly) convenience— it
puts everything together in one
(supposedly) easy-to-use package.
Nelly: F “Can I uninstall it now?”
Fred: C “I like having all the stuff in
one place, but AOL is too confusing
and expensive.”
.Mac
URL: www.mac.com
Price: $99.95 per year
System Requirements: Mac OS 9 or later
a .Mac is unique among the Web
services we’re rating here in
that it doesn’t actually get
you online— that’s up to you. Instead,
.Mac offers a range of specialized Web
features for Mac users. Unfortunately,
this means you have to pay for .Mac on
top of your ISP costs.
Offerings include iDisk, an online
storage space that shows up as
a hard drive on your desktop; an
(5)mac.com email address and AOL
instant-messenger name (for use with
iChat); an online address book; Web
space, along with HomePage, Apple’s
Web-based site-building software;
Apple’s homegrown backup software;
virus software; and a few other odds
and ends.
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Report Card:
Interface
.Mac Is a collection of online
components, so It doesn’t have a
main interface. You access It via
www.mac.com or from different
parts of the Mac OS.
Nelly: A "Interface? Who needs
an interface? .Mac is completely
integrated throughout OS X. Brilliant.”
Fred: C+ “1 keep forgetting howto load
my IDisk. It’s a little too complicated.”
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ability to mount iDisk from the Finder’s Go
menu are just two of the many ways .Mac
integrates with OS X.
Usability
.Mac is a natural extension of your
OS and is integrated Into a number of
Apple apps, like the Finder, IPhoto,
iCal, Address Book, and ISync.
Nelly: A “iDisk is the most useful tool
of the bunch— almost worth the price of
admission alone.”
Fred: C “I like iChat— it just works.
But how do you use all that syncing
stuff again?”
Web
You get 100MB of space
to use for online storage,
hosting Web pages, or
sharing files with other
Mac OS X or Windows XP
users (through Apple’s
new publicly available
IDisk utility).
Nelly: A “100MB of
iDisk and Web space!
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like...um...me.”
Fred: A “I love Apple’s HomePage
software— even / can make Web pages!”
Email
You can access your@mac.com POP
email address via your email app of
choice orthe Web. You can even check
other POP email accounts via the
www.mac.com Web site (and you get
15MB of mail space).
Nelly: C- “Lots of mail space, and the
ability to check other POP accounts
is handy. However, the lack of a
spelling checker in the Web mail Is
nearly unforgivabull.’’
Fred: B “.Mac works so well with
Apple’s Mall program.” -
Extras
In some ways, all of .Mac’s offerings
are extras. But it goes above and
beyond other products with its contact
and calendar syncing, as well as virus
and backup software.
Nelly: A “The ability to sync all your
contacts and calendars across iCal,
Address Book, and your online address
book is sweet. Backup is handy— but
I’m glad Tm on broadband.”
Fred: B “I’m not sure I’d use all this
stuff, but it’s good to know it’s there.”
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easy way to back up important files to
your IDisk, CD, or DVD.
Multiple Users
.Mac Is a one-account-per-person
service.
Nelly: F “If the kids want their own
IDisks and stuff, it’s $99 a pop. That’s
too much.”
Fred: F “HomePage lets me design
multiple pages so every member of the
family can have a Web page, but I still
wish ! could just add Frieda and Freddy
Jr. to my account without having to pay
nearly 200 more bucks.”
Value
You have to pay for .Mac above and
beyond the cost of an ISP.
Nelly: A- “If you move around a lot,
particularly If you have a laptop and you
travel, .Mac is definitely worth it. But I
still wish it were called iTools and came
free. Still, it’s only $8.33 a month.”
Fred: C- “I’m not sure I’d use the
features enough to justify an extra $99
a year.”
Overall
.Mac offers lots of extras, is tightly
integrated with Mac OS X, and adds
cool functionality to the iApps— for
instance, the ability to quickly publish
a Web site full of photos from iPhoto.
Nelly: A- “Definitely the most innovative
and worthwhile Web service going.”
Fred: C+ “It seems like a little
too much— and too expensive for
something that doesn’t even connect
me to the Internet.’’
EarthLink
URL: www.eartlilink.net
Price: $21.95 a month for dial-up service (first 45
days free): high-speed options include cable, $41.95
to $45.95 a month, and DSL, $49.95 a month (first
six months $29.95)
System Requirements: System 7.6.1 or later
0 EarthLink is the higher
education of Internet services,
while using Immersive services
like AOL and MSN is a bit like being
placed in the special-needs class at
elementary school.
The only software EarthLink provides
is Total Access, a small floating control
panel for quickly logging in, checking
email, launching a Web browser, or
getting technical support. EarthLink
has also partnered with a number of
cable and phone companies to cover
your high-speed options.
Report Card;
Interface
Earthlink’s Total Access is a resizable
floating palette with four buttons for
logging in, launching email or a Web
browser, and contacting tech support.
32 MacAddIct August 2003
Earthlink’s Total Access control palette is its only addition to the Mac OS X interface.
Nelly: B+ ’*i don’t need buttons to
help me dial in and launch my Web
Browser— and if I did, I’d want them
in the Dock or menu bar. At least I can
turn off Total Access.”
Fred: B ”The controls are easy to
understand, and I don’t have to dig
around in preference panes to find
everything. But why does the palette
always have to be in the foreground?”
Usability
Total Access allows easy access to the
Internet, and there are very few extras
to confuse matters.
Nelly: B+ "Once I turn off the Total
Access software. I've got a plain ol*
solid ISP.”
Fred: B- "Getting up and running took
just a bit more time than with AOL
or MSN, but once set up, everything
worked great. How come there’s no
button that takes me to the extras
Earthlink offers?”
Web
You can use any Web browser— and
clicking the Web button on the
Total Access palette takes you to
your favorite sites. You get 10MB of
personal Web space, along with a
Web-based site builder.
Nelly: A- “Total Access is a pain to
customize, and its built-in channels are
nearly worthless. But I can turn it off
and surf normally.”
Fred: A “I like using a regular browser
in Earthlink, instead of having to use
the AOl or MSN windows— those feel
somewhat patronizing.”
Email
Earthlink gives subscribers a POP mail
account, which you can access through
your own email program or from
Earthlink’s Web mail.
Nelly; B- “It’s straightforward, with
decent spam-blocking software— well.
1 haven’t gotten any spam yet But no
spelling checker in Web mail sucks.”
Fred: B+ “Setting things up is a little
more work than with AOl or MSN, but
using the Web for checking email works
great. As with AOl, it was hard to find
an unregistered user name.”
Extras
Earthlink offers only a few extras— AOl
Instant Messenger, 10MB of Web space,
and the Web-based site builder Trellix.
Nelly: C “What extras? All standard-
issue mediocrity, I say.”
Fred: B- “I really liked making my own
site with the Trellix software.”
Multiple Users
Earthlink offers up to eight individual
email addresses per account.
Nelly: B “Easy enough to set up
accounts for everyone in the family—
but again, standard-issue stuff.”
Fred: B “Once I figured out how to do
it, I gave everyone in the family their
own email address. Too bad the child-
protection software is Windows only.”
Value
You have several options for both
dial-up and broadband access.
Nelly: B- “A whopping $22 for a
dial-up account and 10MB of Web
space? Sheesh. Broadband costs are
respectable, though.”
The choices
from the
Earthlink icon
include log-in
settings,
tech support,
and access
numbers.
Fred: B “It seems reasonable to pay
a little more to be with a big- name
company— but juno is cheaper.”
Overall
Instead of spoon-feeding you content,
Earthlink concentrates on linking
you to the Internet and your email It
also provides a few extras and lots of
broadband options.
Nelly: B "Earthlink offers everything
I’d expect from a solid ISP— and it also
offers broadband.”
Fred: B “Easy to use and reliable.”
Juno Platinum
for OS X
URL: www.juno.com
Pricing: $9.95 per month
System Requirements: Mac OS X only
Juno is a no-frills nationwide
service In the same vein as
' Earthlink, but much cheaper.
In fact, the single most important
aspect of juno is its price of $9.95 a
month— far less expensive than any
other national service, and generally
cheaper than most local ISPs.
The trade-off, of course, is that
juno doesn’t really come with much
beyond basic dial-up service (you
can run it on top of broadband, but
what for?). Extras like personal Web
space and multiple email addresses
are notably missing, juno does offer a
small piece of software in the form of
a navigation bar at the top or bottom
of your screen, through which you can
access an online portal for searching,
shopping, accessing juno partner sites,
or checking email in juno’s Web-based
mail client.
Report Card:
Interface
The only interface Juno has is its
access bar, which provides buttons
for launching various parts of the juno
portal, checking the status of your
account, connectingto the Web-based
email software, and logging off.
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Nelly: B+ “I would never use the Juno
portal, so the access bar is worthless
to me. Luckily, 1 can turn it off.”
Fred: B- “The access bar is small, but I
don’t always like the sites to which the
links in the bar take me ”
Usability
Juno’s access bar helps make hopping
around the portal and getting mail as
easy as possible.
Nelly: B+ “Since it’s a national service,
Juno offers access numbers across the
country, which is a real boon compared
to local ISPs. But that’s pretty much
true of every service we tested.”
Fred: B “Getting set up was easy, and
searching, shopping, and checking
email is all just a click away.”
Web
Juno offers no Web space and doesn’t
provide a browser. It does have the
Juno portal, however, with a somewhat
customizable home page and quick
links for services including weather,
stocks, and 19 others.
Nelly: D “No Web space? Lame.
And this portal is weak. I can’t even
customize the news on the home
page— just stocks and weather.”
Fred: D “The portal links are much
worse and more random than those
offered by MSN.”
Juno’s Web mail is generally equivalent to
other Web-mail services.
Email
By default, Juno relies on its Web-based
mail service, which includes a standard
10MB mailbox and address book.
Nelly: C+ “Spelling checker— finally!
Bravo! But no filters, email forwarding,
or autoreply. Merde!**
Fred: B+ “Easy to understand.”
Extras
Juno cuts out the extras to cut cost.
Nelly: F “What extras?”
Fred: F “What extras?”
Multiple Users
Juno has no support for multiple
users— just one address per account.
Nelly: F “Nada.”
Fred: F “I guess the kids will have to
use my email account. Bummer.”
Value
Juno shines at $9.95 a month.
Nelly: A “It’s $10 a month? That’s
just three 6-inch Subway Cold-Cut
Trios— yum!”
Fred: B “It’s inexpensive, sure, but I
think its bare-bones access offers too
little, even at that price.”
Overall
No bells and whistles, but what do you
wantfor$9.95amonth?
Nelly: C “If I wanted a dial-up ISP,
Juno’s nationwide dial-in numbers and
low price would be very appealing. But
I don’t want dial-up service anymore,
and Juno doesn’t offer broadband.”
First Time Fred: C- “I just feel I need—
and want— more.”
MSN for OS X
URL: www.msn.com
Price: $21 .95 per month for dial-up (first two
months free); $9.95 per month for software only
(first two months free) if you supply your own
high-speed connection
System Requirements: Mac OS X (MSN for OS 9 is
available but lacks many of the features listed here)
MSN, like AOL for OS X,
is a complete experience,
sporting a unique interface
and its own Web browser and email
program (based on Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Entourage). MSN offers
Internet access through dial-up, oryou
can run the software on top of your
own high-speed connection.
MSN is more streamlined than
AOL, offering original content only in
the form of its Money Plus financial-
Report u
All the grades from all the tests.
AOL I .Mac I Earthlink | Juno |
Nelly
Fred
Nelly
Fred
Nelly
Fred
Nelly
Fred
Nelly
Fred
Overall
F
c
A-
c+
B
B
c
c-
B-
A
Interface
F
c-
A
c+
B+
B
B-i-
B-
B
A+
Usability
F
c-
A
c
B+
B-
B-l*
B
C
A
Web
F
c-
A
A
A-
A
D
D
D
B+
Email
F
c-
C-
B
B-
B+
C+
B-f
B
A
Extras
F
B+
A
B
C
B-
F
F
C
A
Multiple Users
A
A
F
F
B
B
F
F
A
A
Value
F
D
A-
C-
B-
B
A
B
B-
A
if you want options and control, take Nelly’s word.
if you just want simplicity and a few cool features, Fred’s your man.
34 MacAidict August 2003
Extras
MSN offers exclusive tools and content
through its financial and research
channels, as well as a calendar and
built-in chat client.
Nelly; C “The learning section is
actually pretty cool, no matter how
experienced you are. I don't think 1
would use much of the other stuff”
Fred: A “The research tools are great
for finding facts and information that
take forever to locate on the Web. I like
MSN consists of its own browser and its Dashboard side panel for storing extras. the money tools as well.”
management services and a research
section featuring Microsoft’s Encarta
encyclopedia. It provides several useful
tools, including Microsoft Messenger
for chatting, quick links to the MSN
Web network, parental controls, and an
online calendar and address book.
Report Card;
Interface
There's a special Web browser that gives
you access to all of MSN's features,
including email. The customizable
Dashboard lets you keep tabs on
stocks, your in-box, and local weather.
Nelly: B “Fairly well designed and
attractive, but a bit excessive in terms of
the amount of screen space it takes up.”
Fred: A+ “Much less cluttered and
easierto understand than AOL.”
Usability
Anyone who's ever used a Web browser
will quickly feel right at home in MSN.
Nelly: C “The integration between
features such as Web browsing and the
mail client is solid, but why does every
channel have to take you to an MSN
site? Oh, yeah...never mind...”
Fred: A “It's easy to find all the tools
like chat, calendar, and email. Even /
can customize the interface.”
want MSNBC links on my home page, I
mean it, damn it— but it ignores me.”
Fred: B+ “The search feature had
trouble finding some things, but
everything else worked great.”
Email
MSN offers its own built-in Entourage-
based email client, which you access
through the MSN browser (you can
work offline, though). To retrieve email
remotely, you have to rely on Hotmail.
Nelly: B “A decent mail program— far
better than AOL's. No support for
adding your own non-MSN POP
accounts, though.”
Fred: A “1 like the preview pane, and
the option to send pictures by dragging
them into the mail window is slick.”
MSN offers a mail client based
on Entourage.
Multiple Users
MSN lets you add accounts for up
to eight people and offers parental
controls to allow varying access to the
Web, email, chat, and other features.
Nelly: A “Setting up and logging in and
out of multiple accounts is just like how
you do it in OS X.”
Fred: A “if MSN didn't let me control
Freddy Jr.'s Web access, I don't know
how he'd ever get his homework done.”
Value
The dial-up rates are comparable to
Earthlink’s and slightly lower than AOL's.
Nelly: B- “A solid ISP, but why pay for
MSN software when you can do the
same stuff on the Web for free?”
Fred: A “I don't mind the price
considering all the guidance I get.”
Overall
You can get most of MSN's services
elsewhere—MSN simply packages
them for your convenience, and does
so better than AOL.
Nelly: B- “It’s well designed for what it
is. Although / wouldn't choose MSN, I'd
get it for my grandparents.”
Fred: A “Sign me up!”
The Bottom
Web
MSN offers its own Internet Explorer-
like Web browser. Various MSN
network channels provide search,
news, weather, and shopping.
Nelly: D “It's not as robust as the full
Explorer, and when i tell MSN I don't
Nerdy Nelly: “.Mac gets my top grade. If s clearly the best integrated
with Mac OS X, and the most valuable service of the bunch for me,
since 1 rely on my local carrier for high-speed Internet access.”
First-Time Fred: “Tm going with MSN. It may be from the company
that makes the operating system 1 just escaped from, but it offers
l,1|l
the best combination of services, ease of use, and price.”
Former MacAddict editor Robert Capps divides his time between freelance writing and
studying philosophy. All he can tell you for sure is that he /s— at least he thinks so.
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UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003
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All of these gorgeous
graphics come at a
price: maybe the price
of a new Mac.
game types; Bombing Run (“Think
rugby with guns.” says Gordon) and
Double Domination, in which you must
capture and hold two control points
for a certain amount of time. Plus, the
Mac version ships with bonus packs,
which offer even more game types. Of
course, there are also the old favorites:
Deathmatch and Capture the Flag,
There are also new ways to move,
such as double-jumping and wall-
jumping (a la The Matrix), as well
as better A! and the addition of
adrenaline pills (collect 100 points
worth and you get superpowers
for a few seconds). Add to that
new weapons: For instance. Epic
has replaced the sniper rifle with a
lightning gun. Like the sniper rifle, the
lightning gun can zoom and do one-
shot-kill headshots— but “with much
more style,” says Gordon. Also, the
gun’s rate of fire isn’t as fierce as the
original rifle, which provides for more-
balanced gameplay—meaning that if
it’s used against you, there’s a chance
you can locate your would-be assassin
before you’re pulverized.
As Gordon describes the lightning
Use the shield gun for protection and for
close combat.
GAME INFO
Publisher: IVlacSoft/Destineer
Developer: Epic Games
Contact: 866-512-9111, www.macsoftgames.com
Release Date: June 11, 2003
Price: $49.99
I t’s been three-and-a-half long
and lonely years since the original
Unreal Tournament for Mac was
released— not that we’ve been
counting. Finally, the wait is over. Its
sequel, Unreal Tournament 2003, is
here— and it was worth the wait.
Available June 11, UT2003
(or UT2K3— take your pick of
abbreviations) takes this first-
person shooter franchise to the next
level— and beyond. For starters, you’ll
want a 700MHz G4 (not a G3, as
recommended for the demo) stocked
with 256MB of RAM and at least an
AGP Radeon or GeForce2 MX graphics
card with 32MB of VRAM. Why so much
power? Well, according to Epic Games’
Ryan Gordon, lead programmer
for the Mac version, it’s because
“UT2003 pushes hardware in ways no
other game has. We’re moving more
polygons, using higher-resolution
textures, and processing a bigger
world with more going on in it.”
Not only is the game built to
/oo/c better than the original Unreal
Tournament, but it’s built to play
better. There are two completely new
38 MacAddlct August 2003
FIRST LOOK
The Link Gun’s primary firing mode is
the same as its plasma-firing ancestor,
but the secondary firing mode is now
an active-scanning, switchable energy
matrix (aka a swirling green beam).
gun: “There*s nothing quite like
replacing someone’s head with a piece
of charcoal from across the map!”
So what’s not new? Still no verbal
communication capabilities or level
editor, although the former should
appear in UT2004, and the latter is
on the developers’ minds. “The editor
is very Windows-centric right now,
but we’re looking at what it would
take to make it cross-platform for the
next rewrite,” says Gordon. “Hey, it’s
progress— the first version of the editor
was a Visual Basic application!”
Of course, a huge component of
UT2003 is its multiplayer capabilities.
The Mac version is fully network
compatible with the Windows and
Linux versions, so you can host
a multiplatform server or play on
non-Mac servers (that is, if it doesn’t
make you feel too dirty). Good news
for modem users: UT2003 uses less
bandwidth than the original UT. (But
even so, why the hell are you still using
a 56K modem?)
You know a game’s a huge deal
when Apple updates the OS just so you
can play a demo. That’s exactly what
happened when Apple released the
Mac OS 10.2.6 update in May. Among
other fixes unrelated to UT2003, the
10.2.6 update cured a bug in which
the tech demo would crash on Macs
with GeForce2 MX and GeForce4 MX
graphics cards. For those of you with
ATI cards, UT2003 runs fine on 10.2.5.
In fact, the frame rate is four times
faster on 10.2.5 than on 10.2.4 thanks
to a little ATI engineering magic.
So besides better graphics, better
gameplay, and better weapons,
what else can you look forward to?
How about the final single-player
level, DM-Serpentine? It’s one of
Gordon’s favorites. “You are always
stalking— and being stalked— by one
other player. You know exactly where
your enemy is, but there’s also enough
room to maneuver. It’s very intimate
but leaves some escape paths.”
/JK MacAddict Executive Editor Gathy
t5J Lu likes to keep It real-even when
playing Unreal.
If you want to take a closer look from a
safe distance, shoot the translocator...
...and use its newly installed camera to
peer (default key: Q).
FROM THE SOURCE
For those of you who already have your
finger on the trigger (aka your mouse), we
asked Ryan Gordon, lead programmer for
UT2003 Mac, for his insider advice on how
to kick serious Unreal butt.
1. Learn to wall-jump and double-jump.
2. Hoard adrenaline — learn to use the
right combo at the right time.
3. Learn to command your Al teammates
effectively. (The new bots are
much smarter than the ones in the
original game.)
4. Take advantage of the translocator’s new
camera feature for tactical advantage.
5. Don’t get hit. Don’t miss.
On golden pond....with huge guns.
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56 The best ol the best from recent reviews.
Talk to the hand” takes on a new meaning when the hand is holding a
I fancy- pants new Palm PDA with a camera on its back — namely the Zire 71,
pictured here. WeTe not exactly sure what that new meaning might be, but it sure
Is fun to sneak snaps of poor suckers stuck In meetings who think we’re just jotting
notes on our PDA. Other fun this month came in the form of real surround-sound
audio solutions for everyone, even iBook owners; oodles of iPod accessories; and
the unlikely king of the consumer-Mac hill: the surprisingly snappy 1GHz eMac.
In the near future, we’ll talk terabytes — if we can find someone buff enough to lift :
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1GHz eMac
ALL-IN-ONE G4 MAC
J ust when we thought the ol* cathode-
ray tube was finally going the way of
the dodo and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer,
Apple sent us the newest member of
its CRT-equipped all-in-one family: the
IGHz eMac. Apple is quick to point out
that the eMac's e Is for education, but
with Its $1,299 price tag, we say e is
for everyone, at least in the consumer
market. The eMac's only competition is
the IMac G4, which will run you $500
more when similarly configured— and,
believe it or not, which trailed the eMac
In all of our real-world tests.
The eMac consistently
embarrassed the iMac.
Compared to the original 700MHz
eMac (Reviews, Sept/02, p42),
the new top-of-the-line eMac is a
monster. Besides the extra 300MHz
of processor power, you also get
twice the RAM (256MB in the same
two-slot configuration, with a 1GB
maximum capacity); twice the disk
space (80GB) in a faster, Ultra ATA/100,
7,200-rpm mechanism; and a fast
(4X8X write, 8X16X32X
read) SuperDrive. On the
graphics side, it has the
same 32MB of VRAM as
previous eMacs, but it
pairs that VRAM with an
ATI Radeon 7500 chip set,
as opposed to the nVidia
GeForce2 MX of yore. The
eMac*s 17-inch flat-panel
CRT remains unchanged, and
It looks a little grainy when
viewed next to the smooth-as-
a-baby’s-bottom LCD with which Apple
spoils iMac owners. To be fair, the iMac’s
screen looks a little washed-out and
lacking in contrast next to the eMac's.
But here’s where the comparison
gets interesting: The IGHz IMac is
equipped with a 64MB nVidia GeForce4
MX video system, yet our testing with
the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo
(on the Disc) had the eMac eking out a
slightly faster fps rate than the iMac:
56.4 over the IMac’s 55.3 In the flyby
test. What’s more, in this and other tests
(see “Consumer S-Mac-Down,” below),
the eMac consistently embarrassed
CONSUMER S-MAC-DOWN
How much bang do you get for
your eMac buck? Lots, according to
our real-world Adobe Photoshop
Elements benchmarks.
Other tests focusing on the
SuperDrive revealed more-
comparable results. These included
ripping and burning CDs in ITunes
and, uh, “backing up” a DVD copy
of Down Time, a gritty prison drama
ripped from today’s headlines,
starring MacAcfd/ct’s own reviews
editor, Niko Coucouvanis.
We tested with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2,
usinp a 115MB PSD fife. Both Macs were equipped
with 256MB of RAM and were running Mac OS X
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Despite what Steve says, the CRT is not dead— not even
at his own company.
the iMac— performing feats such as
exporting a 1.25GB iMovie in 3 minutes
as opposed to the iMac’s 5.
Suspecting a hidden sandbag— such
as human error or a fragmented disk— we
tested and retested, even reformatting
both machine’s drives and reinstalling
Mac OS 10.2.6 on both. We stopped
short of swapping the two machines’
hard drives— though we suspect that a
slow drive was holding back the IMac.
Spec-wise, the two Macs use the same
type of drive— 80GB, 7,200 rpm on an
ATA/100 bus— but Apple, as usual,
declined to comment on minutiae such
as drive models or manufacturers.
Our test results even stymied the
propellerheads deep in the bowels of
Apple’s engineering labs: Other things
being equal (the system bus, processor
cache, hard-drive speed, and so on), the
iMac, with its DDR-RAM and advanced
system architecture, should leave the
eMac in the dust— in some of ourtests,
at least. Frankly, we’re still scratching
our heads. So are the folks at Apple.
Given the $500 price differential,
the eMac looks way better on paper.
Aesthetically, though, the iMac leaves It
way behind. For our money, the iMac’s
ergo-maniacal neck, smaller footprint,
and general coolness are worth going
into hock or debt, benchmarks be
damned. But if shelling out five Franklins
(or one McKinley) gives you pause, go
ahead and pop for an eMac— you won’t
be sorry— Niko Coucouvanis
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REVIEWS
MovieWorks Deluxe 6
MULTIMEDIA-AUTHORING SUITE
I f the name MovieWorks
makes you think of
video editing, think again.
MovieWorks is an interactive
multimedia-authoring
environment— that is, it
can blend video, animated
graphics, sound, and
buttons into interactive
presentations for business,
education, and what have
you. Think of MovieWorks
as a light version— a
yery light version— of
Macromedia’s Director.
MovieWorks is actually a
concoction of five different
applications that work
together. You can create
media elements using the
Video. Sound, Paint, and
Animator apps, then with
one click import those elements Into
the main MovieWorks app. Using
MovieWorks’ Sequencer window, which
works much like a video-editing app’s
Timeline, you can group your media
elements into Scenes (like chapters in a
book), position the elements onscreen,
and arrange when they’ll play. You can
also add text, standard QuickTime
transitions such as fades, and script
buttons to jump to any scene in your
movie. When you’re finished, you can
export noninteractive presentations
as QuickTime movies. Interactive
presentations use MovieWorks’
proprietary format and require an
included Player application that you can
distribute freely to users of Macs and
Windows PCs.
MovieWorks imports a broad range
of media file formats, including— take
a deep breath— AVI, MOV, DV, and
MPEG-1 video; AIFF, SND, MP3, MIDI,
and WAV audio; PICT,
BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF,
and Photoshop Images;
plus VR movies and TXT
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Interactive multimedia is where it’s at, and MovieWorks Is the cheapest
way to get there.
ON THE
MovieWorks 6.0 Deluxe
demo
text files. If you want
to create content within the program
itself, however, you’ll have to work with
bare-bones tools. The Sound app is the
most solid. You can record any audio
source that’s hooked up to your Mac;
cut and paste waveforms; apply basic
filters like Echo, Reverse, and Fade;
and adjust volume levels. One audio
limitation: There are no volume
keyframes for real precision. The
Video app can capture footage
from a DV camera or analog
source, but you can’t trim a
video clip once you place it in
MovieWorks’ Sequencer— this
limitation makes editing tough.
The simple Paint app can create
solid or gradient backdrops and
other no-frills artwork. With the
Animator app, you can merge multiple
pictures into animations, but you don’t
get any handy, vector-based animation
tools like the ones in Macromedia’s
Flash and Director.
Though MovieWorks includes a
library of free media to use in your
movies, these are more Cheez Whiz than
gee whiz. The buttons and backgrounds
have a dated feel, and many
buttons don’t even animate
their up and down states.
Much of the royalty-free
music is in the vapid elevator
genre, and often suffers from
noticeable hiss and other
signs of bad compression.
The stock video clips of
travel spots and other stuff
are sized at a lowly 320-by-
240-pixel resolution, which
means they’ll pixelate and
look crappy if you want your
presentation to play at a
higher resolution.
Another beef we have with
' MovieWorks is its interface. A
couple of years ago (ReviewSy
May/01, p60) it was au
couranty but in the interim
Apple’s smooth iApps have
spoiled us, and MovieWorks now looks
and feels clunky. Finally, considering
that Interactive bills its software as
easy to use, we were dismayed to find
there was no pop-up help— such as tool
tips that appear when you roll over an
icon— or decent onboard help system.
You don’t even get a manual, just a
MovieWorks’ Sequencer works much like a standard
animation timeline, but without any keyframes.
tutorial showing how to create a sample
interactive movie.
Still, if you need to do interactive
multimedia and don’t want to drop
big coin on a bigger app, MovieWorks
can do the job— actually, it’s your
only option. But beware: It’s a
mature app, and it’s showing Its age.
—Helmut Kobler
COMPANY: Interactive Solutions
CONTACT: 925-734-0730,
www.movieworks.com
PRICE: $99.95. $39.95 (upgrade)
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 8.1 to 9.x
orlO.I.Sorlater. 128MB RAM
GOOD NEWS: Delivers basic interactive-multimedia authoring
at a low price. Presentations can play on Macs and Windows.
BAD NEWS: Outdated feature set and interface. Included
royalty-free media is lame. No documentation.
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W ith a built-in digital camera,
MP3 player, and video
player, the Palm Zire 71 is a
multimedia-phile’s dream. In fact,
we’ve been having so much fun
taking candid pictures with the
Zire 71 that it hardly seems like a
Boring old PDA anymore.
The highlight of the Zire 71
is a digital camera that’s so
seamlessly integrated your
subjects won’t even know you’re
taking pictures until it’s too
late— forthem. Simply slide the
Zire 71 open and aim its back at
your subject, and the device’s
screen becomes your viewfinder.
Push a button, and you’ve got
yourself blackmail material in 640-
by-480-pixel resolution— not great
images, but not heinous, either.
The whole time your subject thinks
you’re just checking yourself out
in the screen reflection. When you
slide the Zire closed, its screen
displays a thumbnail library of all
the pictures you’ve taken. And
when you sync the Palm to your Mac,
the pictures go straight into your
Pictures folder.
One of the funnest Palms ever.
One problem: The shutter click
occurs a fraction of a second before the
Zire 71 actually takes a picture. If you
move the camera away immediately
after you hear the click-or if your subject
moves too soon— you get a big,
Closed, the Palm Zire 71 is just another PDA.
blurry mess. We got used to this bug,
and quite frankly our subjects did
more-amusingthings after they thought
we’d snapped the shot (even better
blackmail material).
The Zire 71 also lets you watch— but
not capture— video clips and play MP3
files. Of course, those types of files
take up massive amounts of space— the
Zire’s 16MB of built-in memory can store
about, oh, four MP3s. You’ll definitely
need to buy an SD card to store your files
BUG OFF,
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ER
BUG
Sure, you’ll get better results
with a dedicated digital camera.
But somehow it’s just not as fun.
.or as annoying for your subject.
Slide It open, and your PDA becomes
a sneaky III’ camera.
(about $60 for 64MB). The Zire
71 comes with RealOne Player for
playing MP3s. Palm uses an app
called Kinoma Player to play video
clips— you’ll have to install the
included Kinoma Producer app
on your Mac as well to convert
MPEG-1, QuickTime, and AVI files
into this proprietary format.
This device’s nice touches
include a five -way joystick
for navigation (up, down, right, left,
and press to select), a very bright
transflective TFT LCD screen, and
Graffiti 2— Graffiti's more gifted younger
sibling. Among other things. Graffiti 2
lets you write lowercase and uppercase
characters in different sections of
the writing area so you don’t have to
indicate to your PDA first that you’re
making a capital letter.
Of course, the Zire 71 has the easy-
to-use PDA software found in all modern
Palms, but it’s the little improvements
we just mentioned, along with
that sweet lil* digital
camera, that
make this
one of the
funnest Palms
ever— and one
of our favorites.
— Cathy Lu
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COMPANY: Palm
CONTACT; 800-881 -7256 or
408*503-7000, www.palm.com
PRICE: $299
REQUIREMENTS; USB-equipped Mac,
Mac OS 9.1 or 10.1.2 or later. 12MB RAM,
25MB disk space
GOOD NEWS: Integration of digital camera is seamless.
Screen looks great.
BAD NEWS: Camera’s shutter sound is out of sync with
picture-taking. Not enough built-in memory for a media player.
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gallery 1740
Platinum VGA
17-INCH VGA LCD
N ot everybody’s lucky enough to
have a DVI or ADC video port on his
or her Mac. if you have an iMac, eMac,
iBook, 12-inch PowerBook, ora Mac
olderthan a Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics
“Sawtooth” tower and you want to
plug in a display, you’re stuck with
old-fashioned analog VGA (Video
Graphics Array) ports.
If so, Formac has some good news
If you need a VGA display,
get this one.
for you: the gallery 1740 Platinum VGA,
a great-looking l,280-by-l,024-pixel
display. If you need a VGA display, get
this one. If, however, your Mac has ADC
and/or DVI capabilities, we’d have to
The gallery 1740 Platinum VGA does the job— and
looks pretty too.
call you a chump for considering
any VGA-connected monitor
over the superior quality of
all-digital ADC or DVI. The price
is a moot point— both Formac’s
gallery 1740 DVI and Apple’s
ADC-equipped Studio Display,
two digital 17-inch LCD displays,
cost the same as the gallery 1740
VGA: $699.
Formac used the same LCD panel in
both the gallery 1740 Platinum VGA and
DVI modes, but some quality gets lost
in the translation to analog VGA. There
is a noticeable drop-off in color gamut,
text crispness, brightness, and contrast.
You can minimize much of the difference
usingthe on-display controls and
ColorSync— in fact, Formac recommends
that you fine-tune brightness and color
temperature in ColorSync.
Digital DVI and ADC are the future,
but if you still need VGA, you’ll be happy
with the gallery 1740 Platinum VGA. It
does what it does well and looks good
doing \t—Narasu Rebbopragada
COMPANY; Formac Electronic REQUIREMENTS; Mac with VGA
CONTACT; 877-436-7622 or video out
510-528-9300, www.formac.com
PRICE; $699
GOOD NEWS; A Stellar VGA LCD display.
BAD NEWS: Image quality inferior to that of
comparable digital LCD displays.
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Radeon
7000 Mac
Edition PCI
PCI VIDEO CARD
W ho needs a PCI graphics card
these days when dual-monitor
AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) video
cards ship in every Power Mac? You do,
if you want to affordably expand your
pre-AGP Mac’s display capabilities.
ATI’s Radeon 7000 Mac Edition fills this
niche perfectly, adding dual-monitor
support (one DVI and one VGA port),
plus composite and S-Video.
Installation is a snap. Just load the
included drivers and replace your old
video card with the Radeon 7000. Or
The Radeon 7000 Mac Edition PCI supports
dual monitors and TV out, all from one card.
stick the Radeon in any free PCI slot,
either 33MHz or 66MHz, and It’ll happily
cohabitate with your current card.
With 32MB of DDR RAM, this isn’t
the burliest video card, but its 2D and
3D performance was noticeably better
than that provided by our blue-and-
white PowerMac G3*s stock 16MB card.
Games run better— we replayed some
old favorites, and the graphical glitches,
hiccups, and lags were gone. The Radeon
7000 won’t fool you into thinking you’re
running the latest and greatest, but the
improvement is noticeable.
Like the AGP graphics cards that have
been appearing in Power Macs since the
early Quicksilver G4 towers, the 7000
can run two displays at once, either
mirrored or extended (splitting the image
between monitors). Alternatively, you
can use the Radeon to power a bigger
screen, up to an unreal 2,048 by 1,536
pixels on some monitors.
Sure, we’d prefer the latest bleeding-
edge 64MB AGP card, but the Radeon
7000 is a solid step forward for those
of us who haven’t moved up to an
AGP-equipped Mac. It may not perform
dazzling tricks, but it’ll blow the sock off
your stock PCI video card. That’s just one
sock. Not both.— John Lee
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COMPANY: ATI Technologies
CONTACT: 905-882-2600,
www.ati.com
PRICE: $129
REQUIREMENTS: PCI-equipped Mac
(Blue-and-WhIte PowerMac 63 or later
for Mac OS X support), Mac OS 9.2.x
or 10.1 or later
GOOD NEWS: Versatile. Trouble-free drivers.
Running two displays on one PCI video card rocks.
BAD NEWS: Doesn’t provide a huge performance
upgrade over PCI video cards in most older Macs.
August 2003 MacAddict 45
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Shadowbane
MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE
ROLE-PLAYING GAME
T ime to join a few thousand of your
closest friends and go monster-
bashing on the Internet. Shadowbane,
a dark new fantasy world from Ubi Soft,
piqued our bloodlust with its combined
role-playing and strategy elements, and
kept our interest with rapid character
advancement and fun, effective
collaboration with other players.
The latest in massively multiplayer
online role-playing games, Shadowbane
is a shot in the arm for a gaming genre
thattruly needs it. Like most MMORPGs,
Shadowbane first plunges you into a
Here’s a shot in the arm for a
gaming genre that truly needs it.
chaotic landscape full of confusion and
strife— but you don’t just hack and slash
yourway through the monster-infested
countryside, picking up loot and building
your character. No, It’s a more intelligent
game than that. As it progresses, role-
playing blends with strategy, and you
can join guilds and work with others to
Meet two of the thousands of players
waiting online to fight with you or
against you.
build and manage cities, recruit armies,
and engage in siege warfare.
You start the game in a safehold city
where people-versus-people (PvP)
carnage is prohibited. You get lots of
PvP in higher levels, but until then you
get to wander through the countryside
alone or in groups and clean up
COMPANY: Ubi Soft
CONTACT; 919-460-9778, www.ubi.com
PRICE; $39.95, $12.99 monthly
subscription to play online
monsters without fear—
don’t worry, no group
hugs are involved.
And the game is /i/n.
Most MMORPGs keep
players on an endless
treadmill, trying to
add points and gain
experience to move
up. But advancing in
Shadowbane can be
fast and easy. Instead of
fighting to stay alive, you
can go critter-hunting,
mingle with other players
with whom you can join
to slaughter monsters,
and watch your status
levels soar. Working in groups is the
key. You get the same experience points
for killing in a group as you would get
alone, but the kills come much faster.
We estimate that you can rise to level
30 and be ready for PvP competition in
a leisurely two or three weeks— faster, if
you have no life.
Of course there’s more to moving up
than just killing spiders, snakes, and
lizard hunters. You start by selecting
your warrior from ten races, including
humans, elves, shades, and red-skinned
Irekei. You can create and save up to five
characters each. You can even try horsey
Centaurs, bullish Minotaurs, and birdlike
Aracoix— but not right away. You unlock
these advanced races one at a time
during your first three months of gaming.
Once you reach level 10, you choose
a profession (bard, warrior, warlock,
assassin, and so on). There are more
than 20 professional classes and some
40 subclass disciplines. By the time you
reach level 20, the real gaming begins.
You leave your safehold city and ascend
into a world of guilds and the many
conflicts that arise among them. You and
your chosen guild will build cities with
shops, merchants, houses, armorers,
and fortified walls. Other guilds may
besiege your city, loot it, occupy it, or
burn it to the ground, so you need to
recruit armies to protect It.
The downside— otherthan being
attacked by a jealous guild, that
is— include barely acceptable graphics,
no quests to speak of, no dungeons to
crawl (at least not yet), and interface
windows that pop up unexpectedly and
soon become annoying.
Overall, however, whether you’re a
newbie or an experienced MMORPGer,
Shadowbane has a lot more going for it
than against it— especially Its safehold
scheme and quick level-jumping. Go
ahead— grab a copy, go online, and
indulge your fantasies.— yo/?/7 Lee
MMOR. . .WHAT?
Shadowbane is a cross-platform
MMORPG— a massively multiplayer
online role-playing game. Great, now
what the hell \sthat?
Simply put, it’s an online role-
playing world in which both Mac and
PC players can meet and play at any
hour of the day or night. Because
Shadowbane’s world is persistent.
It continues to exist and advance
whether you’re logged on or not.
REQUIREMENTS; 350MHz G3 or
faster, Mac OS 10.2 or later, 128MB
RAM, 1GB disk space, Internet
connection, 32MB VRAM
GOOD NEWS: Clever combination of role-playing and
strategy gaming. Level climbing is fast and furious.
BAD NEWS; Graphics are dated. Performance lag
during peak hours. Interface windows can clutter screen.
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Color LaserJet 1500L
COLOR LASER PRINTER
H ow do you make a laser printer less
boring? Easy: Throw in color-toner
tanks so it can print photos and color
brochures along with the expected
mountains of laser-sharp text HP's
just-released Color LaserJet 1500L is a
fine example. That/., it seems, stands
both for limited (16MB of RAM, a 125-
sheet paper capacity, and USB-only
connectivity) and low, as in price: 800
simoleons for a color laser printer is a
Eight hundred simoieans for
a color laser printer is a pretty
sweet deal.
pretty sweet deal— although the price
jumps to $999 if you want an extra
250-sheet input tray. Ethernet adapters
start at $159, replacement toner
cartridges are $82.99 for 5,000-page
black, and $99.99 each for 4,000-page
cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Despite how fat and happy (and
Fisher Pricey) it looks, this printer isn't
terribly friendly— at least not over here
in Mac-ville. For starters, the quick-start
brochure is 50 pages long. Granted,
it contains setup instructions in 17
languages— HP is apparently expecting
hot sales in Israel— but we prefer the
COMPANY: Hewlett-Packard
CONTACT: 800-752-0900, www.hp.com
PRICE; $799.99
Standard poster-size guides, which
take all of the guesswork out of setting
up a printer as complex as this one.
The included PDF manual is thorough
enough, but a lot of it is irrelevant to
Mac users because it deals with the
1500 Series Toolbox, a Windows-only
utility suite.
The 1500L's quick
\warm-up time Impressed
us— most laser printers
sputter and shake for at
least half a minute when
starting a print job after a
period of Inactivity, but this
one cuts the stammering
down to about 15 seconds
for text (black- only)
printing. The 1500L also
prints quickly, meeting its
claimed 16-ppm black and
4-ppm color specs. More
impressive is the quality of
text the 1500L spits out:
Text was sharp and crisp,
and even the minuscule
type we got when printing 16 pages to a
single sheet was legible (though barely).
Photos came outcleanerthan we
expected on such an inexpensive color
laser printer, with good color accuracy
and fairly sharp detail, although they
looked muddy next to a glossy, high-res
printout from a six-color inkjet photo
printer. Composite documents with
nonphoto graphics— think presentations
and Excel charts— are the 1500L*s
specialty, and the printer delivers for the
most part. Edges and borders are sharp,
but dark colors exhibit slightly uneven
ink coverage. Black-to-white and color
gradients printed with visible banding,
most noticeably in the midrange, and the
printer punted on the lightest shades of
gray, displaying white instead.
The 1500L doesn't do PostScript-it's
a host-based printer, meaning that your
Mac provides the brainpower, rendering
and processing pages before sending
the data to the printer. We can live
without PostScript— the 1500L printed
everything we threw at it, including
mountains of text, mongo Acrobat
PDFs and InDesign files, and 200MB
Photoshop images, all with smooth
background processing (thanks, Mac
OS X!)— but if you need PostScript, the
1500L isn't for you.
Out of the box, this printer
is ideal for folks demanding
high-quality output, with
some limitations— not a lot
of it in one run unless you
buy the extra paper tray;
not from multiple
workstations unless you
buy the extra network-card
upgrade (or use USB Printer
Sharing); and not at all if
you're looking for glossy,
Photomat-style photos.
Our final beef with the
1500Lis the fine print:
“USB cable not included."
Sheesh— why are printer
manufacturers so cheap?
However, if you can accept its
limitations, this color laser printer
reaffirms the old adage that you get
what you pay for— and we mean that
in a good way.—Niko Coucouvanis
REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped
Mac, Mac OS 9 or later
GOOD NEWS: Quick, crisp text printing with little
warm-up time. Adequate color printing.
BAD NEWS: Measly 125-sheet paper capacity.
Utility software is PC-only.
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four toner cartridges slide
right in, as illustrated by
the handy picto -stickers.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK MADEO
REVIEWS
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Revolution 7.1
PCI AUDIO CARD
F inally, true surround
sound has come back
to the Mac. Ever since
OS ^ came around (and
SoundBlaster audio-card
drivers didn’t), getting
multichannel audio into or
out of your Mac has been
too expensive for the casual
audiophile. No longer.
M-Audio’s Revolution PCI
card provides a wealth of
options for surround-sound
encoding and decoding.
And— to the delight of
PowerBook and iBook
owners— there’s a USB
version as well (see our
review of Sonica Theater, next page).
Both devices will happily play back the
most common surround-sound formats
from a DVD disc— Dolby 5.1, DTS, even
the newer Dolby Digital EX— and all for
around a measly 100 bucks.
As of Mac OS 10.1.5, the Apple DVD
player (finally) passes DTS and Dolby
Digital signals to the card unmolested
Instead of condensing the signal to the
Mac’s native two-channel
stereo. This means you
can now enjoy real (not
interpolated) surround
sound from a Mac— a huge
development. Before Apple
enabled multichannel
digital-audio throughput
in Its DVD Player app, true
surround sound required a
component DVD player— your
Mac was superfluous to your
home-entertainment system.
One somewhat irritating
limitation is the inclusion
of only coaxial digital out,
and not the more commonly
used and convenient optical
digital out. This is a pity,
since it limits your options
when connecting to another
device, such as an external
Plug six or eight speakers
into this card and surround
yourself with sound.
amp-decoder or headphones
based on the increasingly
popular Dolby Headphone
technology. However, since
most users will want to make
a direct connection to analog
speakers from their Mac, this
constraint isn’t too big a deal. After all,
the cognoscenti claim is that coaxial is
the better digital connection.
AUDIO PRIMER
Confused by the sheer number of logos oh the front of your
audio equipment? Here’s a breakdown of some of the
The Revolution 7.1’s interface
software is deep, clear, and
easy to use.
more-common standards.
Dolby Digital 5.1 This format is
supported in most DVD movies
and is the most widely used
digital surround format, using
five surround speakers. The .1
refers to the subwoofer.
SRS Surround Very similarto
Dolby Pro Logic, SRS creates
a convincing surround effect
from a stereo signal and
distributes it among up to
5.1 channels.
Dolby Digital EX This format
adds a rear-center surround
channel to the Dolby Digital
5.1 standard and improves
decoding.
DTS Similarto Dolby Digital
5.1^ but allegedly superior,
this format is found in many
movies, although it uses higher
bandwidth and more DVD space.
Dolby Pro Logic This clever
but fake surround effect
redistributes a stereo signal to
four or more speakers.
THX This high-quality LucasFilm
standard is /?of a technology
in itself. THX certification is a
stamp of approval.
M-Audio bundles some
useful software, but the
inclusion of a PC-only copy
of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
(the full version, even) merely
illustrates the lack of digital
surround-sound titles for
the Mac. The drivers, on the
other hand, are spectacular.
A clean Install of the updated
software from the company’s
Web site reveals one of the
cleanest interfaces
ever conceived for
surround sound. You
can tweak any level
to suit yourself, or
even choose from a
pull-down of presets
forthe most common
desktop speakers.
The PCI card
seats easily enough
and sports the
aforementioned
coaxial digital-out, mic, and line-in
jacks, as well as four analog speaker-
out jacks. Depending on your speaker
setup, you may need to
buy some Y-splItters
and adapters.
We’d be happier if
the Revolution 7.1 could
automatically detect
what type of device it’s
connected to and switch
Its output accordingly— but
it can’t. You have to do
so manually In its control
panel. We would also have
appreciated more demos
that could run on a Mac.
The price is right, however,
and the sound quality is
astonishing. The Revolution
7.1 may require lots of
cables that create lots of
tangles, but it rewards you
with lots of clean, Immersive
sound.— Fmnk O'Connor
COMPANY! M-Audio
CONTACT: 800-969-6434,
www.m-audio.net
PRICE: $119.95, $99 (street)
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 9.2.2 or
later (10.1 .5 or later required for Dolby
Digital pass-through), available PCI slot
GOOD NEWS: Simple and well-specified solution for
3D surround sound from two to seven speakers.
BAD NEWS; Limited applications for current Mac
users. Digital out is coaxial only.
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Sonica Theater
USB AUDIO INTERFACE
F or those of us who are drooling over
surround sound but whose Macs
lack the requisite PCI slot for an audio
card, M -Audio offers an external USB
version of its Revolution 7.1 PCI audio
card (see previous page). The Sonica
Theater provides the same eight-channel
analog-out, S/PDIF (Sony/Philips
Digital Interface) RCA coaxial out, and
1/8-inch line in as the Revolution. Since
our iBook-based home theater doesn't
need the Revolution's mic-ln port and
higher-frequency (192KHz, compared to
the Theater's 96KHz) audio, the Sonica
Theater has all we need to reach the next
level of wretched excess: in-bed theater.
With its limited input— one— this
device is strictly for folks looking to
consume the best audio possible,
not create it. Audio purists will
love the Sonica Theater's true
surround sound when playing
surround-encoded discs— it
sounds worlds better than the
interpolated (SRS Circle Surround
II) surround the device uses to
enhance nonsurround audio. When we
turned on SRS for nonsurround audio
from games, music, and movies, the
sound came out of all the connected
speakers, but the reduced audio
quality overshadowed any discernible
separation. The Sonica Theater control
app lets you tweak each speaker's level,
overall volume, and so on. (Hint; If the
audio comes out completely butchered,
try a different speaker-setup preset— the
5.1 one rendered some music completely
distorted but switching to 4.1 or 7.1
cleared it up.)
The Sonica Theater’s usefulness
is limited to DVD playback or iffy
interpolation, and our350MHz G3
experienced the occasional stutter
during playback (our 600MHz iBook
didn’t). Nevertheless, surround sound
rocks— especially when it's blasting
your bedroom via an iBook, six or eight
speakers, and this great little box.
—NIko Coucouvanis
COMPANY: M-Audio
CONTACT: 800-969-6434,
www.m-audio.net
PRICE; $119.95, $99.99 (street)
REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped
Mac, Mac OS 9.2.2 or later
(10.1.5 required for Dolby Digital
pass-through)
GOOD NEWS: Movies sound great in true surround sound.
External unit offers more cable-management options.
BAD NEWS: Limited uses for surround sound on a Mac.
Playback gets chunky on older Macs.
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KanguruMicro MP3
MP3 PLAYER AND FLASH DRIVE
T he lightweight KanguruMicro MP3
player delivers on Its promise to
play MP3s and double as a USB Flash
drive, but it’s so bare-bones that we
recommend you steer clear.
We tested the 64MB version of this
lipstick-size, 1.6-ounce gadget. We
plugged it into our Mac’s USB port using
its annoyingly stiff 6.75-inch extender
cable, waited forthe orange LED to
turn green— indicating a full battery
charge— and dragged MP3 files onto the
NO_NAME disk image that appeared on
We suggest looking elsewhere.
our desktop. No drivers were required,
and the KanguruMicro worked just fine
as a USB Flash drive.
You adjust the volume and select
The Kanguru MP3 player is cheap in all
senses of the word.
tracks with a single jog dial. That’s
handy— but that’s where the fun ends.
First, there’s no LCD display, so you
have to memorize coded flashes of red,
orange, and green LEDs to understand
the KanguruMicro, Worse is the fact that
there are no playlists for organizing your
MP3 files— you have to scroll through
your tunes one at a time. While this is a
minor annoyance forthe 18 songs that fit
on our 64MB model, it’d be a major pain
on the 512MB version.
Unplugging the earbuds from the
player switches the device into Flash
drive mode, and plugging them back in
restarts the player from the first song.
Adding to this inconvenience, the earbud
jack on our test model kept shorting
out when it was jostled— we heard
Aerosmith’s “Dream On” about eight
times too many during a bumpy bus ride.
If you’re looking for a keychain Flash
drive and consider limited music-playing
abilities a fun addition ratherthan an
annoyance, you might be amused.
However, there are cheaper Flash drives
and much better MP3 players available.
We suggest looking elsewhere.
—Narasu Rebbapragada
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COMPANY: Kanguru Solutions
CONTACT: 888-526-4878, www.kanguru.com
PRICE: $74.95 (64MB), $99,95 (128MB),
$149.95 (256MB), $249.95 (512MB)
REQUIREMENTS:
USB-equipped Mac, Mac OS 8.6
or later
GOOD NEWS: Lightweight. Inexpensive.
BAD NEWS: Lousy interface. No playlists.
Sonicfire Pro 3.0
SOUNDTRACK-CREATION SOFTWARE
C reating a great soundtrack for your
multimedia masterpiece— finding
the right tune and making it fit the
project’s duration and timing— can be
maddening. Sonicfire Pro addresses
this challenge by providing libraries of
royalty-free music and a handy block-
based interface in which you can trim,
stretch, and arrange clips to your liking.
Just to clarify, Sonicfire isn’t a
traditional audio editor— you can
look at the waveforms, but you can’t
edit EQ or other settings. Soundtrack
manipulation is supereasy, and— to
our surprise— the provided CD-based
music isn’t a// bad,
although we’re glad
we can import our
own audio.
Sonicfire Pro provides royalty-free tunes and breaks them
into blocks you can resize to fit your needs.
Adobe Premiere, and iMovle. Sonicfire
will deliver an AIFF or QuickTime file
directly into the appropriate projector
into your Movies folder.
If you’re like us— lacking the time
and talent to compose your own
soundtracks— Sonicfire is a sound
alternative (bad pun fully intended).
—Niko Coucouvanis
Creating soundtracks is
simple: You just export a
reference movie from your
video editor, then import
it into Sonicfire Pro. The
SmartSound Maestro file
browser lets you peruse
libraries of audio tracks that
you then load, arrange, and
sync to your movie with frame-
level precision. You can also browse
and purchase additional music libraries
online In a variety of genres, including
sound effects. Some of the online tracks
we’d actually use, but the sound effects
are overpriced at $19.95 each.
When you’re ready to export the
soundtrack, you can pick from presets
including Final Cut (Pro and Express),
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COMPANY: SmartSound Software
CONTACT; 800-454-1900.
www.smartsound.com
PRICE: $299, $99.95 (additional libraries)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerMac, Mac OS
9.1 or 10.1 or later, 30MB RAM, QuickTime
5.0.1 or later
GOOD NEWS: Makes syncing audio to video
extremely easy.
BAD NEWS: Provided music leans toward
schmaltz. Expensive for casual use.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK NIADEO
MotionBuilder PE 4.02
CHARACTER-ANIMATION SOFTWARE
Y ou can get all the features of a
$4, 000-plus animation application
for just $100. Sound too good to be
true? It isn't. Kaydara's MotionBuilder
Personal Edition, the company's flagship
character-animation program, allows
you to do amazing 3D-animation work
and motion capture for an amazingly
low price. The only catch is that the
$100 buys you a one -year, not-for-
commercial-use license rather than the
full, unfettered application. Once you
learn the program, the full version (and,
hopefully, wealth and fame) is a simple
upgrade away.
MotionBuilder offers a full suite of
animation tools, from bones to shaders,
Do 3D animation and motion
capture for an amazingly
low price.
but where it really shines is in Its speed
and In the ability it offers to use low-end
devices for motion capture. Want to
make a character's eyes look around?
Use your mouse. Want to make him
or her talk? Speak into a microphone.
COMPANY: Kaydara
CONTACT: 514-842-8446, www.kaydara.com
PRICE: $100 (Personal Edition), $4,190 (commercial version)
And you can do all of this in real time.
On our 733MHz Power Mac G4, we
could fluidly scrub the timeline while
changing the camera view— a combo
that made adjusting our animation
painless. When you're done animating,
you can move your animation into any
other application that supports the
FBX format for interoperability— and
that includes most of the
major 3D apps, such as
Alias|Wavefront's Maya,
NewTek's Lightwave 3D,
and Discreet's 3ds max.
The biggest problem we
have with MotionBuilder
is its user interface. Even
if you're familiar with 3D
apps. It will take a lot
of time to find your way
around this program. First,
the interface is not very
Mac-like- it’s got some
Aqua bits, but they’re
pretty random, and the
layout of controls and
tools isn’t very intuitive,
so It takes plenty of
exploring to find the exact setting you
want to change. Kaydara has done a
decent job of offsetting these liabilities
by providing some thorough online
instructional videos, but MotionBuilder
remains a difficult program to learn.
MotionBuilder's strength is, well,
building motion. You can use it to
create 3D content, but most dedicated
modelers provide more object-creation
options. Similarly, you can export your
files to other applications for ray tracing
if you don't like MotionBuilder’s capable
OpenGL renderer.
Despite its less-than-polished
interface, MotionBuilder is incredibly
powerful, and the PE version puts this
prohibitively expensive technology
within reach —Rick Sanchez
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.1 or later, 256MB RAM,
300MB disk space, 16MB OpenGL graphics card
GOOD NEWS: Outstanding character-animation tools. Easy motion capture.
BAD NEWS: Difficult learning curve. User interface not very Mac-like.
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iTrip
a
FM TRANSMITTER FOR IPOD
G riffin Technology calls its iTrip
FM transmitter the coolest iPod
accessory in the world, and until
someone comes up with, oh, say, an
iPod-mounted light saber, we’ll concur.
Like other FM broadcasters, the iTrip
plays tunes from your iPod on a nearby
FM receiver, such as the one in your car
stereo. Unlike other FM broadcasters
(such as the TuneCast; see our review
below), which require batteries, ITrip
draws powerfrom the headphone jack
on first- and second-generation iPods.
While other FM broadcasters typically
provide a choice of four preset radio
frequencies, Trip’s included software
creates a playlist of FM frequencies
ranging from 88.1 to 107.9, which you
can navigate and activate the same way
you play songs off a regular playlist on
the iPod; it plays at 87.9 by default. A
In a perfect world (or on a desert Island), ITrip would be
perfect— in our overcrowded world, it’s merely great.
blue LED status light blinks to tell you
when the signal’s locked in, but it’s
tough to see in bright sunlight.
Some caveats: Read the manual
carefully, especially the part about using
the pause-play button (that’s not the
one in the center of the jog wheel) to pick
a station, and keep your iPod’s volume
between 40 and 80 percent.
Trip Itself works great— but that’s
only half the battle.
The airwaves are
crowded. Trying to find
a vacant frequency while
driving around San Francisco
was a stone drag. (You’ll do
better outside Tuba City,
Arizona.) When we did find
a free frequency, though.
Trip locked in and sounded
as good as anything else
on the radio. We found Trip
worked especially well in a
car whose antenna had been
snapped off by a passing
militant bicyclist (less competition from
commercial stations), and best with
radios inside our house.
Superior design, cord- and battery-
free convenience, and the ability to use
any available frequency earn the Trip
our coveted Editors’ Choice award— at
least until we get a new iPod. But don’t
fret— the company says it’s working on
an Trip for the latest.— A///co Coucouvanis
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COMPANY: Griffin Technology
CONTACT: 615-399-7000,
www.grjfflntechnology.com
PRICE: $35
REQUIREMENTS: First- or second-
generation iPod, FM radio receiver
GOOD NEWS: Perfect design. No batteries required.
Uses any available radio frequency.
BAD NEWS: Tough to use in a location with a crowded
radio airspace. Not compatible with latestjPods (yet).
MacyAddict RATED
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GREAT
Super Dooper iPod Case
IPOD CASE
F inally, equality for all iPod owners: Super Dooper cases come
in variations to fit any iPod. We tried a Size 3, designed for the
thin 30GB and thinner 10GB and 15GB third-generation iPods.
Ballistic nylon and Velcro closures let us encase our ’Pods snugly
and securely. The case’s flip-up front provides easy access to the
screen, controls, and a small earbud pouch. A top-access slit serves
the earbud and remote ports and the Hold
switch, but partially blocks the latter.
The manual touts docking a Super
Dooper-encased third-generation iPod (with
the case hiked up, Girl Scout-in-the-woods
style), but we’re glad the case also has a
bottom-port access slot so we can use the
FireWire cord directly. Slap the included
sturdy swivel clip on the back, and this is
one solid case— Niko Coucouvanis
COMPANY: WaterField Designs
CONTACT: 877-546-1040,
www.sfbags.com
PRICE: $40
REQUIREMENTS: Any iPod
(see company’s Web site for sizing info)
GOOD NEWS: Tough ballistic nylon. Plush face
padding. Great removable belt clip.
BAD NEWS: Top-access Slot obscures Hold switch.
Earbud pouch is small. A less than super-duper name.
Mac/lddlct rated
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TuneCast
FM TRANSMITTER FOR IPOD
B elkin's TuneCast is a capable
transmitter, but like most
such devices, it’s limited to four
FM frequencies— 88.1, 88.3, 88.5,
and 88.7— which you select via
a handy switch on the device’s
side. Unfortunately, our local NPR
affiliate overpowered TuneCast's
signal on 88.5 and caused random
interference in other channels as we drove about town.
Bummer— but that’s not wholly TuneCast's fault
TuneCast runs on two AAA batteries, and its cord tucks
neatly into its side for easy transport This transmitter Is an
excellent match for the new dockable iPods— It looks great and
works with any standard audio-out jack. Whether it'll work in
your town depends on the local airwaves.— A///co Coucouvanis
TuneCast rocks the
house— or car.
COMPANY: Belkin
PRICE: $39.99
CONTACT; 310-898-1100,
REQUIREMENTS: iPod or any music player
www.belkin.com
with 1/8-lnch audio jack, FM receiver
GOOD NEWS: Looks great. Sounds good.
MacAjdlct RATED
BAD NEWS: Limited to four radio
frequencies.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK MADEO
Moog ModularV
SOFTWARE AUDIO SYNTHESIZER
W hile the current craze swirling
around re-creating classic
hardware synthesizers in software
shows no signs of abating, certain
legendary devices have eluded
attempts at digital re-creation. One of
the most daunting monsters of analog
synthesizers, the venerable Moog
Modular, has been brought to glorious
life in Arturia Software's stunning
ModularV. Not only is this one of the
best-sounding software emulations
of a specific piece of hardware we've
ever heard, it also provides
powers not present in the
pioneering 1967 device
(such as MIDI support)— and
at a fraction of the cost.
ModularV runs as a
stand-alone program or
as a plug-in to MAS, VST,
RTAS, and Pro Tools HTDM
systems. The original
Moog Modular hardware
synths were monophonic,
single-voice instruments,
but Modular V can produce
up to 64 simultaneous
tones. This is especially
impressive given the
incredibly muscular sounds
this software can induce your Mac to
produce— a simple four-note chord built
with some of its more massive sounds
can blast the roof off your studio.
Modular's huge complement of
synthesis modules includes filters,
oscillators, voltage-controlled amplifiers
(VCAs), and an excellent re-creation of
a classic step sequencer that can
help you compose trance, dance, and
syncopated burblings of the most
hypnotic order. Plus,
if you've been seeking
the legendary Moog
bass sound, your
search is over— ModularV kicks.
The original Moog Modular was,
well, modular. You could customize
its specific configuration. ModularV
contains many of the original modules
and adds some welcome new ones,
such as an integrated delay, chorus,
and parametric equalizer, all created
mimicking analog-style circuit design.
Getting the most out of the software
requires some core understanding
of subtractive synthesis, especially if
you're designing sounds from scratch.
This sound-creation process is far too
complex to explain here, but a great way
to start mastering it is to modify 1 or
more of the 400 included preset sounds.
While its documentation leaves
much to be desired— especially for a
virtual device of this complexity— Moog
Modular V looks and sounds fantastic.
Hey, the virtual analog patch cables
are even animated to swing out of the
way as you drag your cursor over the
controls. Even if you’re not old enough
to remember Moog artist Walter/Wendy
Carlos, we highly recommend Moog
Modular y.— David Biedny
PUPPY.
Fingerprint Authentification
for
Mac OS X
Your fingerprint
is your password.
www.PuppySulte.com
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
13427 NE 20th St. Suite #120,
Bellevue, WA 98005
TEL: 800-232-3989 Ex. 2
426-957-0808 Ex. 2
Email: sales@pspinc.com
MSRP under $200. Reseller inquiries welcome.
®2003 Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.
PUPPY and PUPPY Suite are traderharks of Sony Corporation.
Mac and the Mac Logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.,
registered in the United States and other countries.
COMPANY: Arturia
CONTACT: www.arturia.com
PRICE: $329
REQUIREMENTS: 500MHz G3 (64 recommended), Mac OS 9 or later.
128MB RAM
GOOD NEWS: Incredible sounds. Virtually every plug-in format provided.
Many more voices and effects than in the original hardware.
BAD NEWS: Weak documentation. Needs a fast processor for multiple
voices or complex sounds.
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The Moog Modular V interface is true to the original analog
hardware it emulates so well, with a patch bay (shown),
sequencer, and keyboard.
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Marine Aquarium 2
SCREEN SAVER
W ise men say that a bad day of
fishing is betterthan a good day of
work. With Marine Aquarium (a virtual-
fish-tank screen saver) you get both. The
fishing is vegan-style: Just admire your
colorful aquatic buddies as they cavort
against a realistic backdrop of coral
and sand. And, yes, you can work while
watching Marine Aquarium— just select
its window mode. We, however, prefer
screen-saver mode, which turns your
We’d buy Marine Aquarium Just
because we think it’s cool. .
you can only have seven fish
in the tank (on the screen)
simultaneously. If you own a
widescreen display (such as
an Apple Cinema Display),
you can have eight. However,
they can be all of one breed
or mixed— even randomized.
Nifty touches include dynamic
lighting, which consolidates
a day’s day and night lighting
into a 30-minute cycle that
you can shorten to as little as
3 minutes. This light cycling
was enjoyable for a while, but we’re glad
the program also offered manual light
settings we could set once and enjoy in
perpetuity. You can adjust basic settings
via System Preferences* Screen Effects
pane or the application preferences
dialog when Aquarium is running in
window mode.
The Squarespot Anthias and Percula Clownfish are two of
the 26 species offish waiting for you in Marine Aquarium.
We know nobody really needs a
screen saver: Modern computer displays
are virtually immune to the dreaded
monitor burn-in of old. No, we don’t
need it, but we’d buy Marine Aquarium
just because we think it’s cool— and
because it drives our cat crazy.
—Niko Coucouvanis
whole screen into a gorgeous fish tank,
complete with rising bubbles.
Version 2.0 adds five new fish,
bringing the ichthyological total to
26— we’re especially fond of the Blue
Tang and Lionfish. The bad news is that
a
COMPANY: Prolific Publishing REQUIREMENTS; 350MHz G3. Mac
CONTACT: www.serenescrBen.com OS 9.x or 10.1.5 or later, 48MB RAM
PRICE: $19.95 (128MB in OS X), 16-bit color
GOOD NEWS: Like a real fish tank without the fuss
Mac>4ddict rated
and muss. We could stare at it all day.
BAD NEWS: Staring at it ail day might get you fired.
Limited number of fish onscreen at a time.
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LabelWriter
330 Turbo
LABEL PRINTER
M ac addicts have only one choice in
dedicated label printers: Dymo’s
LabelWriters, compact thermal printers
that use heat-sensitive labels. Dymo
has lowered the price of its speedy
LabelWriter 330 Turbo since our first
review {Reviews, Oct/01, p49), but
today’s big news isn’t a price drop, it’s
OS X-native software.
Your Mac’s standard driver software
allows any application to print to the
LabelWriter, but to take advantage of
special features (barcodes, counters,
time-and-date stamps, and so forth),
you need the included Dymo Label app.
Dymo’s LabelWriter 330 Turbo is ready to
pow-wow with Mac OS X.
The Classic version of Label remains
unchanged, with a functional but clunky
interface. The OS X version is more
elegant. You can now edit content and
adjust formatting directly on a template
rather than through cumbersome
dialogs. A new Smart Paste feature
prints multiple labels from the Clipboard
or a file, and the new curved-text feature
takes advantage of Dymo’s nifty CD/DVD
labels (2.25-Inch diameter; $11.95 for
160). The LabelWriter 330 Turbo isn’t
flawless, however: There’s no Internet
postage option; the software lacks
integration with Apple’s Address Book
and Microsoft’s Entourage; and the Mac
software is missing several features
available in the Windows version,
such as Address Fixer, which checks
addresses against the U.5. Postal
Service’s database if you’re connected
to the Internet.
The LabelWriter is convenient and
reliable, and its new OS X software is
farsuperiorto the old Classic app. If
only the Mac market share was large
enough to entice Dymo to make the Mac
software as capable as its Windows
counterpart.— Owen 1/14 Linzmayer
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COMPANY: Dymo
CONTACT: 800-426-7827 or
203-355-9000, www.dymo.com
PRICE; $209.99
REQUIREMENTS: USB- or
serial-equipped Mac (only USB
support In OS X), Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x
or 10.1 .5 or later
GOOD NEWS; Affordable. Great print quality and speed.
Easy setup. Native OS X application.
BAD NEWS: Missing Internet postage, PIM integration,
Address Fixer, and other Windows-only features.
Mac/lddict RATED
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PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MADEO
QuickBooks Pro 5.0
SMALL-BUSINESS ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE
F or some time Intuit has alienated
the Mac-addicted small-business
crowd by ignoring Mac OS X, but the
company has at last regained its senses
and reaffirmed its commitment to
the Mac: QuickBooks Pro 5 for Mac is
here, and it works in both OS 9 and
OS X. We’re happy to see ol’ familiar
QuickBooks in all its new Aqua glory,
but it’s a rather underwhelming
upgrade with nothing much in the way
of new features— OK, the new Report
Finder is handy, but there’s not much
else to get excited about.
Getting up to speed with QuickBooks
Pro is a snap. You can seamlessly
update your data from QuickBooks
Pro 4, but only if you have version
M12a— and If you’re a QuickBooks user,
you probably do. Windows refugees
(aka Switchers) can use Intuit’s pricey
conversion service ($99 for 10-day
turnaround, $250 for 2-day) to get
QuickBooks for Windows files into
the Mac format. Alternately, you can
download tools from Intuit’s Web site
and do the conversion yourself (for
$0). Either way, some data gets lost
in the translation (see www.quickbooks
.com/support/index/win2mac
/dataconverted.html for more info).
QuickBooks still deftly handles
most normal bookkeeping elements
of your small business, Includingthe
checking account, accounts payable,
accounts receivable, invoicing,
expense management, credit sales,
inventory, time sheets, sales tax, and
other essentials. You can even process
the company payroll via the included
copy of AatrixTop Pay, which links to
QuickBooks for Its financial data. You
also get a first-time-free tax-table
update from Aatrix, but additional
updates, state payroll reporting, gnd
direct-deposit capabilities cost extra.
You can set up the basic books for
a new company in short order using
the convenient New Company Setup
Assistant wizard, which helps you tailor
QuickBooks Pro to your business. We do
advise, however, that you
peruse the documentation
(a thorough 500-page
tome) before you begin, or
consult your accountant to
ensure that you make the
correct choices.
The new Report Finder
feature allows you to easily
find and customize the
various financial reports
you generate for your
business. You can also
now save your output in
PDF format In OS X, an output option
shared by almost every other OS X app.
If you’re starting from scratch, you’ll
want to take a close look at QuickBooks
Pro 5. If you are using QuickBooks 4 and
can survive in the Classic environment
of OS X (and don’t need to create PDF
files), there’s little to tempt you to shell
out $179.99 forthe upgrade. However,
if you prefer the stability and beauty
of OS X, you can always write off the
upgrade as a business expense.
—Gene Steinberg
introducing the
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Constantly retrieving
wires from behind
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Custom imprinting available.
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COMPANY; intuit
CONTACT: 800-446-8848 or 650-944-6000,
www.intuitxom
PRICE; $299.95, $179.95 (upgrade)
GOOD NEWS: Relatively easy setup. Smooth learning curve. Powerful
reportfeature. Decent performance.
BAD NEWS: Difficult cross-platform conversions. Not enough new
features to justify upgrade price.
REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac, Mac OS 9.2.2 or 10.1,5 or
10.2.1 or later, 128MB RAM, 50MB disk space
MacAddict RATED
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SOLID
An easy questlon-and-answer wizard helps give QuickBooks
Pro the information it needs to get your business in order.
CharisMac FireWire Dino
Bun for your livesi It’s Godzilla! It’s a FireWire 400 hub!
Dr. Bott’s extendAIR Direct
Make AirPort Extreme’s range noticeably more extreme.
MacWiretess Power Over Ethernet
Mount an AirPort Base Station 250 feet from AC power.
Jun/03, p61
XtremeMac UFO
May/03. p59
if you own a G4 iMac, you gotta get this way-cool hub.
The world’s greatest MP3 player gets smaller and cooler.
Digidesign Mbox
This audio interface is a traveling musician’s delight.
Apple Cinema HO Display
This 23-inch, 1,920-by-1, 200-pixel beauty inspires lust.
$1,399.00 Jan/03, p47
Formac gallery 2010 Platinum
Bright, fast, huge— and it costs only $.0007 per pixel.
Need a sturdy laser printer? This one’s a workhorse.
Brother HL-1870N
$699.00 0ct/02,p42
Epson Stylus Photo 2200
The most stunning photo printer we’ve ever tested.
Canon CanoScanLiDE 30
$99.00 Nov/02, p52
This entry-level scanner gets the job done Inexpensively.
Epson Perfection Photo
$399.00 Oct/02. p48
UCie d2 200GB FireWire 800
Jun/03, p47
FireWire 800 speed meets sotid-as-a-rock construction.
Maxtor Personal Storage 5000XT
Solid construction, push-button backup, and 250GB.
owe Mercury Elite Pro
This 180GB FireWire 800 drive outpaces its competition.
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FireWire Dino
Wethought we had
seen it all, and
then a FireWire ^
400 hub shows ^
up in the form of "
a Godzilla action
figure* As Reviews
Editor Niko Coucouvanis said,
“Hubzilla is way cool; just get one
GRAPHICS & LAYOUT
PRODUCTIVITY & UTILITIES
ACCESSORIES
This third-generation iPod
inspired Editor in Chief Rik
Myslewski to gush that it
“redefines 'insanely great.'"'
Yeah, It may sound like Rik's
lost his cold, hard objectivity
but he’s right.
AUDIO
DIGITAL CAMERAS
DISPLAYS
PRINTERS
It’s Still early in the race to build the
fastest FireWire 800 hard drive, but
there's already a new leader: Other World
Computing's Mercury Elite Pro. Rik again;
“It’s a great drive."
SCANNERS
STORAGE
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1 Canon PowerShot S230 Digital Elph
$399.00
Mar/03, p48
A great 3.2-megapixel camera In a tiny, low-cost package. |
1 Nikon CoolpixSIOO
$340.00
May/03, p43
The best point-and-shoot digicam we’ve seen yet. I
1 Olympus C-4000 Zoom
$499.00
Jan/03, p52
Great image quality, 4 megapixels, and versatile controls. I
AUDIO
MOTU Digital Performer 3
$795.00
Feb/02, p58
This pro-audio app has a great array of features. |
Propeilerhead Software Reason 2
$399.00
Mar/03, p50
It's the best software-synth bargain available today. |
Roxio Toast with Jam 5
$189.95
Sep/02, p49
Burn CDs, MP3 CDs. DVDs, and VCDs, and edit audio. |
GAMES
Ambrosia Software Escape Velocity: Nova
$30.00
Sep/02, p48
Enjoy the perverse thrill of galactic domination.
Aspyr Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
$49.95
Feb/03, p37
Fantastic gameplay with both weapons and The Force.
Aspyr NASCAR Racing 2002 Season
$39.99
May/03, p57
Realistic NASCAR racing on a Mac? Believe It.
Aspyr The Sims Unleashed
$29.95
May/03, p58
Pixel-pets abound in the best Sims expansion pack yet.
MaePlay No One Lives Forever
$49.99
Mar/03, p49
A beautiful spy, sly foes, nifty gadgets, fast action— nice.
MacSoft Max Payne
$40.00
Dec/02, p42
Max seeks revenge— and gets plenty of it in this FPS.
Adobe After Effects 5.5
$649.00
May/02, p49
This motion-graphics stud improves its 3D powers.
Apple DVD Studio Pro 1.5
$999.00
Oct/02, p55
Apple's essential DVD -burning app gets even better.
Apple Final Cut Pro 3
$999.00
Apr/02, p45
This pro-level video editor is a real-time revelation.
Apple Keynote
$99.00
Apr/03, p48
This presentation app was built for Mac OS X— and it shows.
Bare Bones Software BBEdit 7.0.1
$179.00
Mar/03, p52
By far the most powerful text editor money can buy,
Microsoft Office v.X
$499.00
Feb/02, p42
The 800-pound gorilla of productivity applications.
Script Software CopyPaste-X 1.5.1
$20.00
Apr/03, p61
Shareware must be great to make the list. This clipboard is.
Adobe InDesign 2.0
$699.00
May/02, p50
Look out, Quark— Adobe’s rival layout tool kicks butt.
Adobe Photoshop 7
$609.00
Jul/02, p46
Picture-perfect pixel pusher moves to Mac OS X.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2
$99.00
Dec/02, p40
This has most of Photoshop’s power for $500 less.
FontLab 4.5.2
$549.00
May/03, p53
The font editor all type geeks have been waiting for.
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
$399.00
Sep/02, p44
Ourtavorite Web-design tool gets a strong upgrade.
Macromedia Flash MX
$499.00
Jul/02, p51
It started in animation; now it can do anything.
Macromedia FreeHand MX
$499.00
Jul/02, p5
In the race with Adobe Illustrator, FreeHand pulls ahead.
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How can I remove a CD that’s
stuck In my Mac?
Method 1: Hold down the mouse button
while your Mac starts up to force the
CD drive to spit it out. Method 2; Boot
into Open Firmware by holding down
the Command-Option-O-F keys at
startup. When the Open Firmware text
screen appears, type sjact cdand
press Return— the CD will pop out. Type
rasBt-all to reboot your Mac.
REMOVING .DS.STORE FILES
How important are the .DS_Store
files in Mac OS X?
Not very. In theory, .DS_Store files
keep track of icon positions in a folder.
In reality, deleting them does nothing
to icon placement. If you would like
to delete them, say, for burning an
MP3 CD without extraneous files that
Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and
type the following command:
In -s path/to/new/ocaf/on/Mail (no
space) /Usaps/username/Library
This will put what appears to be an
alias— but is actually a symbolic
link— into your Library folder.
TIP: To quickly get the exact path to
your new Mall folder location, drag
the Mail folder from Its new location
into the Terminal window after you
have already typed In *s.
INTERNET DISK IMAGES
How do you create an Internet
disk image?
With Mac OS 10.2.3, Apple introduced
the Internet disk image, which works like
the regular disk image for downloading
files from your Web or FTP site, but with
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Why can’t I trash certain folders?
The Trash is actually just a folder, and
like other folders, it has permissions
and privileges that sometimes stop
you from tossing certain files. When
files and folders just won’t go away, try
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TO QUICK QUESTIONS
SAFARI SYNC
How can I move my Safari
bookmarks from one Mac
to another?
just copy the Bookmarks. plist stored
in your Library > Safari folder from one
Mac to the other.
WHEN MAIL MUST MOVE
Can I store my Mac OS X Mail on an
external drive?
Yes. First, launch the Terminal. Since
Mac OS X’s Mail application can’t follow
standard aliases to a new location,
you need to create a kind of superalias
called a symbolic link. Copy your Mail
directory to the external drive and delete
the original Mail folder. Then fire up the
DVD STILLS
How do you capture still images
from a DVD In Mac OS X?
Use DigitallyObsessed’s free utility,
DVD Capture 2.0 (www.digitallyobsessed
.com), which works within Apple’s DVD
Players to let you take
stills from running
movies. You need
jaguar to ;run jt.
Just type one simple command line, and you’ll
enable a neat-and-tidy Internet disk image.
one exception: It deletes itself after
mounting and copying files to your Mac.
(Regular disk Images leave a messy
trail of used wrappers.) To create an
Internet disk image, first create a normal
disk image file by using Disk Copy
(Applications > Utilities). Then open the
Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and
use the following command to convert
your disk-image file into an Internet disk
image: hdiutll internet-enable -yes
(space) /path to diskimage.i\mB
just holding down the D key during startup
should do the trick.
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THE INTERNAL BOOT
How can I force my Mac to boot from
the system software on an internal
hard drive instead of on a CD?
BIGGER MOUSE
CURSORS
is there a way to make
my cursor larger?
In Mac OS 9, use
Rj Cooper’s Biggy-Light
($29, http://rjcooper.com).
In Mac OS X, use Unsanity’s
Mighty Mouse ($10, www.unsanity.com),
which allows you to do all kinds of
customizations.
Meet the Yao Ming
of cursors.
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UNIX UNIVERSITY
COMMAND OF DEATH
How much damage can one
command do?
A lot. For example, the remove
command, rm, is very dangerous. Used
incorrectly, however, it can exterminate
your data or extinguish your Web server.
Here are some variations on the evil.
Warning: Back up your Mac before using
these commands.
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Use rm with caution.
rm This command deletes files and
folders. Unix has no undelete, so when
you rm a file,
if s gone, baby.
rm * This infinitely more dangerous
variation of the rm command uses
the asterisk (*) wild card, which
substitutes for any and all characters.
The command rm * would delete any
file In the current directory,
rm -R * This is the most dangerous
command In the Unix universe. The -R
stands for recursive, which means it
applies the remove command to both
a directory and all its subdirectories to
delete everything permanently.
This harmless little combo wlU (actually
did, we're embarrassed to admit)
irrevocably delete the contents of the
home directory.
Preview EPS files in Mac OS X.
EPS PREVIEW IN MAC os X
How can I preview an EPS file
in Mac OS X?
Thomas Kiffe's MacGhostView ($20,
www.kiffe.com) can render any raw
PostScript file to the screen as well
as display the contents of any EPS
(Encapsulated PostScript) file.
This is a great way to
get a quick preview
of an EPS file without
opening it.
^1 I technical
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Brisbane, CA 94005.
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for Apple, Power Computing, and a
Texas school district have given Buz Zolter
Mac superpowers.
ON THE
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MacGhostView 2.7
INVISIBLE VISIBLES
How can I make Mac OS X folders
invisible to keep them away from
prying eyes?
Use Citrus Software's CloaklT ($9.95,
www.citrussoftware.com), which can
make files or folders disappear from vievv
and even password-protect them.
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VCD VIEWING
How can I play Video CDs
on my Mac?
Use MacVCD X ($19.95, www.mireth
,com/pub/mxme,html), available for
both Mae OS 9 and Mac OS X.
WHERE CAN I GET INFO?
How can I learn everything about
a used Mac I inherited?
Get Mactracker, by Ian Page (free,
http://www.mactracker.ca), which
contains a wealth of info—from tech
specs to original price to startup
chime— about every Mac ever made.
ThisMonth
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60 Build Your Own
WebS'ite
Why run with the herd, using your
ISP's or .Mac's Web page templates
to create a cookie-cutter site? Be
unique. Be original. Do it yourself.
We show you how.
64 Control Your Mac with
Your Voice
Give your fingers and wrist a rest. We
show you how you can get your Mac
to perform everyday routine tasks
with the mere sound of your voice.
66 Broadcast Your
Own News Feed
Keep them informed. Whether you
have a personal Web site, a blog, or a
commercial Web presence, we show
you how to create news feeds that'll
display your headlines in any news
ticker app.
68 Design Your
Own Font
YouVe always thought
It would be cool to
have a font in your
own handwriting.
Now you can. Create
a handwritingtypeface Uckety-spiit
or spend time designing a stylized
one— the choice is yours.
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Web-page design* but clueless
when it comes to code? You can
quickly build your own site—
code-free— with Dreamweaver.
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WHAT YOU NEED
• Dreamweaver MX ($399 or free trial version;
www.macromedia.com)
• FTP client, such as Transmit ($24.95,
www.panlc.com) or Dreamweaver
• Web host
S o you want a Web page. lt*s 2003, for crying out loud—
nobody gives a fart about the Internet since the great dot-
bomb of *01. But they’ll be back, and this time you’ll be
there ahead of the pack. Sure, you cow/d just fill in the blanks on
your .Mac homepage or click HomePage in iPhoto (or just about
any modern word- or image-processing app) to autogenerate
one, but where’s the fun in that? Shouldn’t
your Web page symbolize your individuality
and belief in personal freedom? We say,
“Hell, yeah!” We even show you the way.
You’ve always wanted to flaunt your fluff ’n’
stuff electronically to the masses, but .Mac
doesn’t cut it for you. Here, we instruct you on
how to create a basic home page, complete with a title graphic,
text, a photo, and navigational links to your unknown treasures
within. We demonstrate how to Web-optimize photos and build a
custom-made photo-gallery page. And don’t worry— we also
tell you how to get everything up on your hosted Web space.
ON THE
DISC
Dreamweaver MX 6.1
trial, GraphicConverter
4.6.1, Know Thy Code
supplement, and
Transmit (OSX) 2.5
1
Make the Map Launch Dreamweaver MX. The
program opens a blank document— save the page as
index.html in Library > Webserver > Documents. Then tell
Dreamweaver to store your pending images and HTML
files in this same Documents folder; select New Site from the
Site menu; and in the resulting dialog, click the Basic tab and
enter a name for your site in the field. Click Next to continue,
leave the default setting, and click Next again. Select the same
Documents folder by clicking the folder icon, navigating to it,
and clicking Choose. Click Next again, select None from the
server access pop-up menu (we’ll deal with uploading files
later), and click Next to see a summary of your site’s settings.
Click Done to
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built-in Web server.
2 Set the Page From the Modify menu, select
Page Properties. In the dialog, type a name for your
page In the Title field (this is what your visitors
will see). If you want to display a graphic in the
background, click the Browse button next to the Background
Image field, navigate to an image, and click Choose.
Dreamweaver offers to copy the file to the Documents folder-
click Yes, and in the resulting dialog, click New Folder, name
the folder //7?apes, and click Create, then Save. For a solid-color
background, click the Background swatch and choose a color
from the palette. If you want to change text or link colors, click
the appropriate swatch and choose a color. Then click OK.
After we defined the
mapping in step 1,
Dreamweaver copied our
background graphic to
our storage folder.
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HOWTO 5]
3 Set the Table HTML tables allow you to arrange
images and words into rows and columns, and are
the best way to design pages thatTl look the same
across different Web browsers, operating systems,
and platforms. Thankfully, Dreamweaver can build the tables
foryou; if youTe a budding propellerhead, check out our HTML
cheat sheet, “Know Thy Code,” on the Disc. In Dreamweaver,
select the Common tab and click the insert table icon in the
Insert window. In the resulting dialog, type 2 in the Rows field,
3 In the Columns field, and 750 in the Width field. Select Pixels
from the pop-up menu next to Width. To create breathing room
between cells, type 9 in the Cell Padding field, and then click OK
to generate the table.
Trust us, creating
HTML tables in
Dreamweaver
is much easier
than coding them
by hand.
4 Color the Ceils To make your page easy to
read, choose a background color for the table’s cells.
In the Properties window, click the Bg Color swatch
and use the eyedropper to select an easy-on-the-eyes
color from the palette— we chose white to keep things looking
clean. To choose a background color that complements your
background graphic (if you’re displaying one), click the Bg Color
swatch and use the eyedropper to select any desired color in
your document window.
Choose a solid color for your table’s background for better
readability— especially if you have a background graphic.
5 Merge Ceils Since a home page is all about
self-aggrandizement, a nice big logo or text title that
loudly announces your arrival to the Web world is par
for the course. However, one cell Is too puny for such
grandiosity, so merge the top row’s three cells so that your title
or image runs the width of the table. Click the top-left cell to
select it, hold down the Shift key, click twice in the adjacent
cell, and then click the far-right cell to select the entire row (the
borders will appear in bold). Then click the merge cells icon
under Row in the Properties window.
You can easily merge cells in HTML tables with the click of a
button-a task that used to take days to code by hand.
Insert a Title Ifyou’ve got a logo, click the big
cell, and then click the image button In the Insert
window. In the resulting window, navigate to and
select your logo graphic and click Choose. Click Yes in
the subsequent dialog. In the next, save the graphic into your
images folder (create this in the Documents folder if it doesn’t
already exist). The cell expands to hold your logo— drag any
bounding-box corner if you need to scale It. If you want a text
title, click the text-color swatch in the Properties window and
choose a color. Then select a font from the font pop-up menu,
click the bold button if you want a heavier line, select a number
from the Size pop-up, and type a title. To center your logo or title
in the cell, click the align-center button. Then save your file.
To title your page,
insert a graphic logo
or type text in the
top cell and then
center it.
7 Show Thom th© Way Home now that you’ve got the basis
foryour home page, use it as a template foryour site’s subpages. First,
create a link foryour logo or title so that when surfers click it, they’ll be
brought back from any page within your site to your home page. Click
your logo to select it, or highlight your title text. In the Properties window, type a
backslash (/) in the Link field, which tells the Web browser to go to the site’s root-
level index page. Then select Save As from the File menu, enter a name for the next
page you want to create (photos.html, bio.html, or what have you), and save it Into
the Documents folder (save a backup too). Repeat for any additional pages.
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HOMEPAGE
But wait, you say— 1 use Apple’s .Mac for
my Web space. Can I have my righteous
Dreamweaver creation appear as my .Mac
home page? Sure, just mount your iDisk by
selecting iDisk from the Finder’s Go menu.
Then deposit all of your HTML and image
files in your iDisk’s Sites folder. That’s it—
really. Now anyone can see your handiwork
by logging onto your .Mac home page.
August 2003 MacAddlct 61
AO <1 HOW TO
wZ- V build your own Web site
8 Make Menu Links If you want people to
see your subpages, create menu links on your home
page to lead them deeper into your site. Go back to
your home page, click the bottom left cell, then select
Center from the Horz pop-up menu in the Properties Inspector.
Then click the text-color swatch, choose a color, select a font
from the Default Font pop-up menu, select a size from the Size
pop-up, and type a title that describes yourfirst subpage (such
as Photo Gallery or About Me). If you want to change the cell*s
background color, click the Bg Color swatch and select a color
from the palette. To set the text so it links to its corresponding
HTML page, click and drag over the text to highlight it, click the
folder icon next to the Link field, navigate to the file, and click
Choose. If you have more pages, press Return, type more titles
below the first, and link each title to its corresponding page.
Type titles for your site’s subpages in the bottom left cell to
create a menu, and then link them to their HTML pages.
9 Fill ’Er Up Now let’s add a pretty picture and
some compelling content. To add an image (see
“Optimize Photos,” next page, for important image-
compression info), click the bottom center cell, and
click the image button. In the resulting dialog, navigate to your
desired file, click Choose, and direct Dreamweaver to copy it
into the images folder. Feel free to resize the image and change
its alignment within the cell (we right-aligned ours and then
typed 5 in the H Space field to move the image 5 pixels away
from the right). To add text, press your keyboard’s right-arrow
key to deselect the image, and then start typing— the text will
flow within the same cell. Then apply your page design and
linking knowledge to your subpages (see “Build Your Own Photo
Gallery,” next page, for our photo-page tutorial).
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L©aVG th© N©St Once you’re finished,
■ ■ ^P^o^d your site to your Web host for all the
II ■ world to see. (If you’re a .Mac subscriber, see
I “Hijack Your .Mac Homepage,” p61.) Though
Dreamweaver lets you upload directly from it, Transmit is easier
to use (if you’re using Dreamweaver, select Edit Sites from the
Site menu and apply our instruction to the appropriate panel).
Launch Transmit. In the right side of the window, enteryour
server address (If you don’t know it, ask your ISP), username
(for the server), password, and the path to the folder where you
want to put your stuff in the corresponding fields. Then click
Connect. In the left side, navigate to your local Web directory
(Library > Webserver > Documents), Command-click all the files
and folders that comprise your site, and click the upload arrow
button to send them off. Then fire up your browser and admire.
Your personal information will vary, but this is where you need to
enter it to upload files.
SERVE YOURSELF
As you build a site, check it out in a browser from time to time.
Don’t settle for Dreamweaver’s Preview In Browser function.
Serve the site to yourself on Apache Web Server— it’s installed
with Mac OS X. Open System Preferences and click Sharing.
Check the Personal Web Sharing box to start it up. Then launch
your browser. Because we had you save files to the Library >
Webserver > Documents directory, just enter / 7 ffp;///oco// 70 St
in the browser’s URL bar, and Apache is smart enough to know
to look there to find your site.
One little checkmark turns on your Mac’s
built-in Apache Web Server.
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HOWTO ^3
Optimize Photos
WHAT YOU NEED
• GraphicConverter ($30, www.lemkesoft.com)
I f you’re putting photos online, you need to bring down the file
I sizes unless you want visitors complaining about outrageous
download times. Here’s how to do just that without sacrificing
too much quality.
1 Optimize Open a photo in GraphicConverter, From
the Picture menu, select Colors, then Minimize Color
Table to remove unused colors. Select Size from the
Picture menu, and then Scale. In the resulting dialog,
check the Keep Proportions box. Under Size, select Inches from
both the Width and Height pop-up menus. Then enter a number
in either the Width or the Height field so that your image is no
larger than about 4 by 6 inches at 72 dots per inch (the adjacent
dimension will scale accordingly), and click OK.
For the fastest
downloads, scale
down photos before
you use them on your
Web page.
2 Compress From the File menu, select Save As.
In the dialog, select jPEG/jFIF (*.jPG, *JPEG) from the
Format pop-up menu, and click Save. Another dialog
pops up, allowing you to adjust compression quality.
Check the Show Preview box to see before-and-after images,
and check the Calculate File Size box to preview the final
size. Then use the Quality slider to adjust the amount of JPEG
compression until you get a good balance of quality and file
size. Click OK to slim down your image.
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Build Your Own Photo
Gallery
WHAT YOU NEED
• Dreamweaver MX
• GraphicConverter ($30, www.lemkesoft.com)
W hy force family and friends to click through pages of
vacation photos before they find that priceless image of
your 2 a.m. swim in theTrevi Fountain? Instead, present them
with a page of thumbnail images, and give them one-click
access to your most embarrassing moments.
Minimize (Mini-Me-ize) Instead of
cramming a bunch of full-screen Images onto one Web
page, pack your gallery page with thumbnail images,
which viewers can then click to open the full version.
Follow our instructions in “Optimize Photos,” left, to size down
and compress an image, and then—with your image still open
in GraphicConverter— create the thumbnail. From the Picture
menu, select Size, and then Scale. In the resulting dialog, type
a number in the Width or Height field so your image ends up
at 1 by 2 inches (orthereabouts)— that way you can fit several
on a page (the ultimate
dimension is up to you).
Then select Save As from
the File menu, and save the
image with tn or the like in
the name to distinguish it.
After you scale down and
optimize a photo, create a
miniature version using the
same principles.
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2 Toss ’Em in the Cell In Dreamweaver, select
New from the File menu, and click Create in the resulting
dialog to create a new HTML page. Then follow steps 2
and 3 of “Build Your Own Web Site,” p60, but create a
bigger table with more rows and columns. Place all of your photos
andtheirthumbnails in the images folder at Library) Webserver)
Documents ) images. Then click inside a cell, click the image
button in the Insert window, navigate to a thumbnail image in
the resulting dialog, and click Choose to add it. In the Properties
window, link the thumbnail to its full-size version by clicking the
folder icon next to the Link field, navigating to the image in the
dialog, and clickingChoose. Add
a text title, and then repeat for all
otherthumbnails and links.
We like .Mac’s photo page, but we
have more control over the layout if
we make our own.
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his way out of a paper bag. Really.
August 2003 MacAddIct 63
r (r control your Mac with your voice
Control Your
Mac with
Your Voice
by Kris Fong
WHAT YOU NEED
• Mac os X
• Microphone, built-in or external
Feeling powerless? Boss around your Mac— you may be surprised to find how
often it’ll obey.
W e humans are a bossy breed. When it comes to getting
what we want— whether it*s combo meal number 5
with pickles and onions on the side, green M&M’s,
or MacAddict Disc sleeves— we voice our demands and expect
to get what we want (well, some of the time). If you thrive on
barking out orders, you can apply your doggedness to your
relationship with your Mac.
Plenty of you already know that Apple built speech technology
into earlier versions of the Mac OS so that users could verbally
control some of their Macs* actions. But few have tried it for fear
of frustration or failure. Thankfully, Apple’s Mac OS X Speech
Recognition is easy to get up and running, and it doesn’t require
that you train it to understand spoken commands. It does,
however, require some patience to perfect your speech delivery
so your Mac can comprehend what you’re saying.
If your mousing hand or fingers need a little rest— or if you
just want to impress your sci-fi geek friends— here’s how to set
up your Mac for speech recognition and how to create your own
custom commands. We used Mac OS 10.2— if you’re using an
earlier OS, it’s easy to apply our instructions to your OS.
1 Enable Speech Recognition
You’ve gotta turn it on to make it work.
Open System Preferences and click
Speech to display its options. Click the
Speech Recognition tab, and then click the On/Off
tab. Select the On radio button to enable Speech
Recognition; a round, floating feedback window
appears on your desktop. This window allows you
to monitor the volume levels picked up by your
microphone and displays text feedback when it
understands a spoken command.
Just click the On radio button to turn
on Speech Recognition. A float-above-
everything, round feedback window lets
you know it’s running.
2 Have It Your Way Click the Listening tab and choose
whether you want your Mac to respond to commands only when
you hold down a key and speak (select Listen Only While Key Is
Pressed) or anytime its listening mode is turned on (select Key
Toggles Listening On And OfO- We picked the latter so we could speak
without pressing anything. If you do the same, type a name foryour computer
in the Name field (not required for key-press listening)— speak this name to
alert your Mac of an impending voice command. From the Name Is pop-up,
select whether you want to preface each command with your computer’s
name, have it as an option, or require it after a certain amount of time lapses
between commands. To avoid inadvertently commanding your Mac to do
something when you’re, say, talking to your cat, select Required Before Each
Command. To change the default activation key (Escape), click Change Key. In
the dialog that appears, use your keyboard to select any listed key and click
OK. Then select your microphone input from the Microphone pop-up menu.
We selected our built-in mic from
the Microphone pop-up window-
note the feedback window’s active
volume-bar display.
64 MacAddict August 2003
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MAOEO
HOWTO [^65
3 Control the Volume To avoid problems,
gauge your mic input volume: Activate listening as
determined by your Listening Method choice, and
then say anything that isn’t a command, such as
your name. Watch the feedback window’s colored bars— they
should display green as you speak. If your volume level is
too tow (blue bar) or too high (red bar), click Volume. In the
resulting window, speak one of the commands listed and adjust
the volume slider so that the levels are green. The command will
blink If your Mac understands what you said. Then click Done,
and you’re ready to go.
For best results, adjust
the volume slider while
speaking until your
vocalizations keep the
bars in the green.
4 Command Your Mac Your Mac comes with a
slew of preprogrammed commands. To see a complete
list, click the On/Off tab and click Open Speakable
Items Folder. To test one out, ask your Mac “What time
is it?” in your normal voice (don’t forget to say your Mac’s name
first if you chose that option). If your Mac understands, your
question will appear above the feedback window and your Mac
will tell you the time. Turn down your stereo, TV, and so on when
speaking— background noise can cause your Mac to perform
unwanted commands (something in jay Leno’s monologue
made our Mac suddenly want to log us out). If you don’t want to
remember exact command phrases,
click the Commands tab and uncheck
Require Exact Wording Of Speakable
Item Command Names; this allows you
to give voice commands that are similar
to the real deal (such as “Gimme the
time”— yes, this does work).
If your Mac understands your orders,
it displays your command or question
above the feedback window.
5 Create Custom Launching Orders
With Apple’s presets, you can perform mundane tasks
such as emptying the Trash, creating new folders,
getting mail, saving files, and more- including getting
your Mac to tell you a knock-knock joke (though ours failed to
deliver a punch line 50 percent of the time). But for ultimate
control, create your own commands. To create one that launches
a specific file, folder, Web site, or app, make an alias of the
item (Command-L) and drag it into your Speakable Items folder
(say “Show me what to say” to open it). Then rename the alias
as a command by typing Open followed by the item name.
For example, we renamed our iTunes alias Open iTunes. Wait
about 15 to 20 seconds for your Mac to settle In with the new
command, and then test It by speaking it. Repeat for any other
app, file, or folder you want to open verbally.
If you want to open any file,
folder, URL, or app verbally,
stick an alias of the item into
the Speakable Items folder,
and rename the file with its
spoken command.
6 :
:
Customize Menu Commands Although
the presets provide some common menu commands to
copy, paste, hide apps, and more, there are other tasks
we wanted to perform without repetitive keystrokes
or mouse clicks. No problem— we can create custom voice
commands for just about any menu command. To do this,
launch an app and pick a menu command (we chose Microsoft
Entourage’s Next command so we could step through email using
our voice). Then tell your Mac, “Define a keyboard command.” A
dialog opens, asking for a key combination— press the keys that
correspond to your menu command (we pressed Command-]),
and click OK. In the underlying dialog, type an appropriate verbal
command foryour menu item in the BySayingThis Phrase field.
Then choose to
use the command
eitherwithin the
specific app or
systemwide, and
click Save. Speak
the command to
test it out. Then
repeat for other
commands.
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each email entry, we created a voice
command for Entourage’s Next command.
Kris Fong wishes that people were as compliant
with her every demand as her Mac is.
TPS FOR TALKERS
Step Away from the Mic Unlike recording
apps, Speech Recognition works best
when you’re about 2 feet away from
your mic.
Speak Normally Don’t shout or speak
like a robot when delivering commands,
Speak like you would in a conversation
with someone.
Pause After Getting Your Mac’s Attention
When addressing your Mac by name,
wait one second before delivering
your command.
August 2003 MacAidIct 65
^ HOW TO
IT broadcast your own news feed
Broadcast
Your Own
News Feed
by Mary E. Tyler
WHAT YOU NEED
• TextEdit (part of Mac OS X)
• Website
• NetNewsWire Lite (free,
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire)
Got something to say (and readers who give a darn)? Broadcast your Web site
headlines by creating a news feed.
ou*ve always been somewhat of a gossip king or queen—
and at some point you decided to take your knack for
dishin' it to the next level in the form of a celebrity gossip
site. Now that you've got some pretty good Web traffic, you're
looking for a way to alert your reader faithful whenever you post
juicy new stories. Rather than spam your mailing list, why not
provide a news feed?
Most of you have probably seen a news feed— it’s the ticker
in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), the scrolling
text that squishes the picture on ESPN, and
the latest-posts listing on Siashdot.org.
Though a news feed looks like a dynamic text
stream, it actually works more like an MP3, where the music is
all there in the file and the player streams it to your ears. With
a news feed, the text is contained In a file and a news-ticker
app broadcasts it to your eyeballs.
Providing a news feed for your site is really simple— Really
Simple Syndication, that is. RSS (aka RDF Site Summary or
Rich Site Summary, depending on whom you ask) is the standard
way of delivering headlines to the Web masses. It's much like
HTML in that it's a markup language. If you'd like to let your site
fans know about the big headlines of the moment (even if you
just want to keep your friends and family updated about your
so-called life), here's howto create your very own news feed.
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I Make It Plain, TextEdit Launch TextEdit to
open a new document. From the Format menu, select
Make Plain Text (if TextEdit isn't already set to open
PlainText as its default). From the File menu, select
Save; in the resulting dialog, type index.xml in the Save As field,
select Unicode (UTF-8) from
the Plain Text Encoding pop-up
menu, and click Save.
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document to serve as your RSS
code sheet.
2 Define XML and RSS Because RSS
is XML-based, you must first specify the XML
version you want to use and the encoding.
In the first line of your document, type,
<?xml version = "l-0" encoding=’*utf“8"?>to dothis.
The next line describes what version of RSS the file uses.
Current news tickers can handle both RSS 1.0 (RSS-DEV) and
RSS 2.0 (Userland) feeds. Because RSS 2.0 is much easier to
use (RSS 1.0 is more verbose), type <pss version = ”2-0”> in
the second line. Then press Return twice to create a line break.
9 @ d index.xml
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Define what version of XML and what type of encoding to use in
the first line.
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HOW TO (57
3 Create a Channel The next block of
code creates an RSS channel foryour Web site
and operates much like a TV channel— it’s your
brand. The <channel> element features several
subelements, displaying information about your site to
viewers. Press the Tab key, type <channel>, and press
Return, Then give your site a title: Press Tab, type <title>,
type the name of your site, and then type </title> to end
the code. To add your Web address, press Return, Tab. Then
type <link>, your site’s URL, and </link>. Our screenshot
shows the other required elements and a few optional ones.
Just copy our code, but apply your own variables.
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Create an RSS channel for your site to establish who you are.
Link a Logo An RSS channel can also display a logo.
To do this, create a couple of line breaks (press Return
twice), press Tab, and type the subelement <image>. Press
Return, press Tab twice, and type <title>. Type your logo’s
name, and then type </title>. Press Return and press the Tab key
twice. Then describe where to find the graphic by typing <url>, the
server location of your logo, and </url>. Again, copy our code, but
use your own variables. For the <link> element, type the location to
which you want to take viewers when they click your logo (say, your
home page). RSS displays logos at a default 88 pixels wide by 31
pixels high, but you can dictate your own size using the <width> and
<height> elements (the maximum is 144 by 400 pixels). Finish the
code by typingthe ending subelement </lmage>.
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To add a logo, just use the <fmage> element code and then
tell the file where to find it using the <url> element.
5 List Your Headlines Create a line break, press
Tab, and type the subelement <item>. Press Return,
press Tab twice, type <title>, type in your headline
news flash (one short sentence), and end by typing
</title>. Press Return and press Tab twice. Then type <llnk>, the
URL to the full story on your site, and</link>. Press Return and
press Tab twice. Type <descpiption>, enter a short synopsis of
your story, and type </description>. End the item listing by
pressing Return, then Tab, and typing </item>. Repeat for other
headlines. When finished, type </channel> on a new line to
complete the channel code, press Return twice, type </rss> to
end the RSS file, and save it.
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under its own <item> listing.
6 Validate Your File Time to upload your
news feed to your server. Using your FTP method
of choice, upload the index.xml file into the same
directory as your home page. But before you
publicize your news feed, first make sure it’s working by
validating it. Head over to Userland’s RSS Validator site
(http://aggregator.userland.com/validator), type the URL
to your index.xml file in the field, and click Validate. If
you’ve made any errors, the site will list them for you to fix.
Otherwise, it’ll give you the green light to tell the world.
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server-stored RSS file to
ensure that you haven’t
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7 FG 6 CI Mg To view your feed, you need a news-ticker
app— we’re using NetNewsWire Lite. Launch the ticker and
click the Subscribe button. In the resulting panel, enter your
RSS file’s URL and click OK. Once it loads, click your site’s
name in the Subscriptions panel, and then click a headline to view
it. Looks good, doesn’t it? Click the headline again in the description
panel to open the article in your default browser- bravo! Then just
give your audience the RSS file’s URL so they can subscribe to it
themselves. To update news, just
change the <items> stuff in the
index.xml file.
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qU who firmly believes that no
news Is not good news.
Once you tell a
news ticker to
subscribe to your
site, it’ll stream
in the headlines
based on your
RSS file.
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LQ A HOW TO
W w IT design your own font
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Not satisfied with
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You can create your
own handwriting
font easily in minutes (or
take a month to master a
highly detailed, fantastic
magnum opus).
Active Characters
Cap-Height Line
•X-Height Line
Base Line
Descender-Height Line
Width Guides
Design Your Own Font
by Paul Yoon
WHAT YOU NEED
• TypeTool 2 ($99, www.fontlab.com)
• Drawing tablet (optional) such as the Graphire2
($99.95, www.wacom.com)
T hose quirky handwriting analysts say they can determine
brains and personality by studying how we dot our i’s and
cross our t*s on paper. Maybe they could say the same of
our font choices. Oh, the things one can say about a guy who
prints his resume in a blood ’n’ daggers typeface— or worse,
uses hearts as bullet points.
In our personal documents, we tend to choose fonts that
show our sense of style or design aesthetic, or that capture
a mood. While a gazillion and one fonts are available on
the Internet to satisfy just about every need, sometimes
it’s impossible to find that perfect typeface you envision in
your head. Luckily, designing your own font can be as easy
breezy or as painstakingly laborious as you choose to make
it. In minutes you can create a font that mimics your
handwriting, or it may take you days, weeks,
or mdnths to craft some sculpted work of
alphabet art that would make Big Bird proud.
Regardless of design skills, anyone can make
a font— here’s how.
ON THE
ISC
TypeTool 2.0 demo
Goosefish font
I Fire Up the App TypeTool comes with a full
complement of vector drawing tools that allow you
to transform scrawl into typeface by drawing letters,
numbers, punctuation, and other glyphs directly in the
application. Launch TypeTool. From the File menu, select New
to open a blank font document; you’ll see a template for all the
standard Latin characters, each in its own box. If you’re pressed
for time, make it a point to create characters for all capital and
lowercase letters, numbers (0 to 9), and common punctuation,
at the very least. You can skip some special characters, like
umlauts, tildes, and esoteric glyphs— probably no one except
foreign-language speakers, typographic fanatics, and Mbtley
Crue will miss them anyway.
TypeTool provides
a template that
displays standard
Latin characters,
so you can keep
track of glyphs as
you design them.
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HOW TO ^9
2 Digitize Your Chicken Scratch
OK, let's draw. Double-click any letter box to open its
editing window. To keep characters uniform in size,
pay attention to the guidelines, but feel free to adjust
them to suit your needs before you start— select the edit tool,
then click and drag any line to move it, or click and drag from
the ruler to create a new line. Then select the pencil tool (for
skinnylines) or the brush tool (for weightier strokes), and
sketch out the letter— either in your own handwriting (if you
have no patience) or in a particular style. Try to keep characters
grounded on the baseline and between the width guides. Align
capital letters with the cap-height line. Align lowercase letters
with the x-height line, except for those with ascenders (b, of, f,
h, i, j, /c, /, and f)— align the tops of these letters with the cap
height, or create an ascender height line for variation. For letters
that dip below the baseline (g, /, p, g, and y), align their bottoms
with the descender height line.
Use TypeTool's guides
to keep your characters
uniform in size, but it’s
perfectly OK to have
lines go slightly over or
under any line.
3 Sculpt Your Strokes As you draw, your
strokes appear as editable vector art— that means
you can alter the letter’s size and shape by dragging
points around. This can become a trial-and-error mess
if you’ve never worked with vectors before— you might want
to stick with creating a handwriting font for now to avoid the
aggravation. Ifyou wantto alter one, select the edit tool, click
either a point or a handle (points that alter curves), and drag
it to change the shape. Use the add point, add curve, or add
tangent tools to modify precise parts of a stroke. Ifyou don’t
like a stroke, Command-Z it bye-bye or use the eraserto delete
points. When you’re finished, close the window and repeat
steps 2 and 3 for all other characters that are important to
you. The template displays active characters inside a white box,
inactive ones inside a grayish background— double-check
to make sure you didn’t leave anything out (don’t forget to
double-click the Space glyph
box to engage it even though
you won’t need to edit it).
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•we clicked and dragged
key points to sculpt some
curvy serifs.
4 Adjust to Taste Unless you’ve managed
to draw your letterforms with perfect consistency,
you’ll most likely need to fiddle with the
individual glyphs a bit more— they tend to look
pretty different in close-up editing mode, and something
you thought was cool or interesting may suddenly look
indecipherable or lame when shown zoomed in or at a
display-type size. Take a gander at your character designs
in the template’s individual boxes. This gives you an idea
ofwhat your type will look like in use. Ifyou need to make
adjustments, pull points around with the edit tool so that
the strokes (line thicknesses) of your letters are similar and
consistent— use the ruler measurements as a guide.
After drawing all of our characters, we went back
through to make sure we’d perfectly aligned each
one within the guidelines we set In step 2.
5 Kern, Baby, Kern Once you’ve got your glyphs
looking gorgeous, clean up their spacing. TypeTool lets
you adjust the amount of space between characters by
establishing sidebearings (the amount of space surrounding
any given glyph) and kerning (space inserted between two specific
letters to compensate for inconsistencies: for example, between
fand I (that’s a lowercase L as In lunkhead). From the Window
menu, select New Metrics Window and click the auto tool (the green
diamond icon). In the resulting dialog, click OK to have TypeTool
calculate the metrics automatically. Select a phrase from the
right-side drop-down menu, or type something (like a pangram, a
phrase that comprises all letters of the alphabet) in the field to get
a preview of your font. Ifyou need to adjust the general spacing
(sidebearings), click the M button and click an affected letter. Drag
the handles that appear below it to open up or close the space
until things look balanced. Repeat the process to fix any other
Inconsistencies. To adjust spacing for individual letters (kerning
pairs), click the K button and adjust In the same manner.
To keep everything in our font balanced, we adjusted the space
surrounding some problem letters.
August 2003 MacAddIct 69
70 1 HOW TO
/ W "Jr design your own font
6 Take a Hint Hints (also called Instructions) are
guides that tell your computer how to rasterize a font
(convert it from its native vector format into pixels
or dots). Hints control how a font prints or how it’s
displayed onscreen at small point sizes, determining which
pixels get displayed and which don’t. Because thin lines tend to
fall unevenly when scaled, a poorly hinted font looks chunky or
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Hard-core font designers have the laborious
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did find MacCoffee. Now if
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—Gary A, Holmes
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called iCoffee.— /Wox
HE'S CRAFTY
I’m a 13-year-old Mac user
in Canada. I made this clock
in the wood shop at the high
school I attend.— /a/7 Strom
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off.— /Wax
LARAAUNATUREL
I’d like to debunk John Lee’s
assertion that a “secret
‘nude’ code” in Tomb Raider
doesn’t exist (“The Next
Level,” May/03, p34). While
there is no secret code
within Tomb Raider that
creates a nude Lara Croft,
there are a ton of third-party
“NudeRaider” patches that
remove Lara’s outfits.
—Chris Calvert
Yeah, and they’re all
peecee-only— though
definitely not PC.— /Wax
Dear Max
Your beacon of
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Dear Troubled:
Remember, your crust of
bread may be someone
else’s slice of cake. While
you’re under no moral
obligation to keep the
Apple II GS, at least offer it
up on eBay or donate it to
CARE along with your uneaten
CAR TALK
Great review of FI
Championship Season
2000 in the April 2003
issue {Reviews^ p60). The
members of my club and
I especially liked the “Go,
Minardi!” line. It pretty
much sums up what we
are all about. Keep up the
good work and remember to
support Minardi!— f/77/77ett
Quigley President, Minardi
Club San Francisco
MacPlay
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Dear Max,
I recently remodeled mv
house, an endeavor that
question arose; How
ioug an, I ethioall;
and emotio^ailv
required to provJrf!
for my ^
Sincerely,
^■roubled (aka Alex Boomer)
brussels sprouts.— /Wax
Ah, the glam world of
Formula 1 racing. Minardians
wouldn’t associate with
MGD-swilling crews in the
NASCAR pits.— /Wox
FUZZY ABOUT
FIREWIRE
In your article “Inside
FireWire 800” {Get Info,
May/03, pl4),you say
FireWire 800 will reach 3.2
gigabits per second. How
can FireWire 800— named
for its 800 Mbps speed-
support 3.2 Gbps using the
same interface connection?
—Donny
The IEEE-1394b FireWire
technology FireWire 800
is built on is capable
of reaching 3.2 Gbps—
eventually. No doubt the
interface will change.— /Wox
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CROSSOVER
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In the story “Shuttle Files
Across Ethernet,” (How To,
May/03, p73), you mention
the need to use a crossover
cable to network two Macs.
Wrong. Most Macs made in
the last few years require
only a standard Ethernet
cable— they’re smart enough
to manage the crossing-over
t h e m s e I ve s .— /Cerry Murphey
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(www.info.apple.com)
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Apple Products That Require
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(Article ID: 42717).— Max
BATHROOM
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Having toddlers inspires new
and amazing insights. As I
was unpacking a new iBook
from its cardboard box,
something looked strangely
familiar, and then it hit me:
Apple’s New iPotty! It’s
stylish, fun, and free with the
purchase of a new iBook.
—Chad Sanborn
I’d hate to have to clean out
fbaf thing,— Max
ON THIN ICE
In his test drive of Postworx’s
Freestyle Speedball
notebook risers {Reviews,
May/03, p59), Niko
Coucouvanis describes how
an iBook “skated across
the table (ike a manlier
Scott Hamilton.” I’m not
sure how a shoved laptop
can move in a manly or an
unmanly fashion, but I am
sure that Mr. Coucouvanis’s
homophobia is showing.
—Robert Yanal
Niko assures me he meant
no disrespect to either set
of co/o/?es— Postworx’s or
Hamilton’s. Just call it a
simile that skated out of
control.— Max
GOTCHA!
The Sims Fall on Hard Times
expansion pack {Shut Down,
j un/03, p96) is fake, right? I
fell off my chair laughing and
sprained my wrist. Someone
should make it. I would
seriously buy \t—HyperJ
I’ve approached Aspyr,
the Mac publisher of The
Sims series, but they’re not
returning my calls.— Max
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150 North Hill Dr„ Brisbane, CA 94005. This contest is limited to residents of the United States. No purchase
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WINNER! True Colors Contest Results
Congratulations to Deborah
M. Roach for winning our
True Colors contest, in which
we asked you to send us an
image that represents
glowing wonderfulness of
your inner hues. She wins
Epson’s Stylus Photo 960
photo printer (retail value
$349, www.epson.com).
Deborah says, “My day Is
gray, but my color is music.”
August 2003 MacAddict 95
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BRISBANE Calif.-
Ar^ residents and
the entire Macintosh
conuiitiflity are reeling
in shock today in the (
aftermath of a powerful
explosion at the
MacAddict Intergalat^
Product 1 estir^_ rnr-J
AFTER SCATHING REVIEW,
COLONOTECH FOUNDER
FLEES
Yesterday: computer hardware tycoon. Today; federal fugitive.
SE2
THE POWER OF
THE WIDGET
A Bad Product. A Bad Review. A Mega Bummer.
I n last month’s MacAddict, reader Danny Soto wrote to ask why
we hadn't yet given any product a zero-widget rating. Max's
response (that we were waitingto bestow that horrific honor
until we met a product that was heinous to the point of being
dangerous) was incorrect. We regret the error.
In fact, we bestowed the dreaded zero-widget rating once— and
only once— and to the misfortune of many. The Colonotech
MicroNukie Pro 111 Deluxe Gold Studio Edition X (see right) was the
all-too-deserving recipient. Our own experience with this vicious
and deadly product, in conjunction with the dreadful aftermath
of our scathing review, has made us wary of ever again rating a
product Damned, Read on for the sad saga.
Ute fifitioD
Yestenuy:
it took the exhaustive efforts of an FBI forensics team to explain
the mighty blast that reduced the MacAddict staff from its
former 15 to Its current skeleton crew of 8, but we editors knew
what it was well before the gumshoes announced their findings.
It was the Colonotech MicroNukie Pro HI Deluxe Gold Studio
Edition. Our duty was clear— or so we thought. We gave it the
dreaded zero-widget rating.
A MacAddict review is a powerful force for good— or for
evil. Although the MicroNukie Pro III Deluxe Gold Studio
Edition richly deserved its no-widget rating, we didn't
anticipate that Colonotech's founder would abscond
with his company’s few remaining funds and abandon
his hometown to whatever fate awaited it.
DISMAL, Tenti,-
Oaixlner Colon,
ftnuider of Di&inal
major employer, Cok>-
noieeh. outrun an
an^*ry mob this
moniirij: ntier he
liKked The on l\i>
tailing cmerpii>c.
forcing hiindrc»J.s of
Dismal residem.-. out
work. Said fJcs
Tumor. Colon’s long-
time friend und
partner, "Tiint low- F
down, thieving. ■ J
hearted, spineless.
loathsome. txJious.
doiihfc'crossing,
faecd
Vesterrfay.athrivioB
toraiHny town. Today.
OeKalft County's Kabul,
pierce,
j and smoke of
j night Of
' “'^'‘^f'd'naybemw
, ®’*®al,DeiCaIb County,
Stud Manley of neigh.
bonagPisgahwas^n
, ''"WRg arvayej
f '7: a dun veneer
! oCavilizaHon" his -
i fteely voice intoned.
pemuscctmmu^ ^
The closing of Colonotech thrust Dismal into chaos.
Unemployed and desperate ex-Colonotechers went
on a rampage, first pillaging their now-abandoned
plant, then looting the estates of their ex- managers,
and finally taking out their rage on the entire town.
The tragedy that began with the loss of seven of our
best and brightest had now ended. The moral is clear:
A no-widget review Is a fearsome responsibility.
96 MacAddict August 2003
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