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Revenge on the nerds One of the major goals assigned to computers has been to reduce work and allow us to do things more quickly and efficiently. All too often, this doesn't happen. Doing something on a computer often

takes longer than doing things the old way. Technology has many unintended consequences. I have been reading a very interesting book that looks at why so b otanytechnologies, including computers, end up backfiring on us. In Why T h ings Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences(published by K n o pf), a u thor

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cases among office workers than cumulative

trauma disorders. The Western style of sitting may be less healthy than the floor level living that prevails or once prevailed in Asia and the Middle East. Sitting on (a chair), as opposed

in the printing process. Installing this newequipment costs hundreds of thousands

the answer is negative. A person who sits all day and gets no other regular exerdse is more

even make money. This adds a significant

are supposed to pay for themselves, and new layer of cost for publishers and customers, who then decide to go back to doing things the old way, because the

mechanical camera method of the past has long been paid for by the printer and is now the low-cost option,

I can focus on longer term projects when I don't get interrupted by all the events of the office. The down side of staying home is that I often sit for hours in my chair and my back gets very sore. At the office, I am up and

Reading Why T hings Bite Back often brought a wry smile of recognition to my face, because of the ironic outcomes of many of the technologies. However, the book is not ultimately fatalistic. The author is trying to

down all day, talking to people in other offices, going to meetings, going out for lunch, etc. At home, I can plow through more

failures and develop strategies to anticipate

make a birthday card for a friend or relative on their computer, only io find themselves struggling with it hours later. Would

it not have been simpler just to go arid buy a card from the racks of existing cards on

come to terms with the patterns of our own and perhaps avoid these unfortunate consequences. In general, he seems to be advocating that simpler is often better. Definitely worth a read if you are looking at the big picture of technology and its impact on where we are going. Avenge yoatrself I would be interested in other revenge effects y ou have come across. Email t hem t o editorial@tcp.ca or fax them to 604-688-4680.

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greefingcard store shelves? The World Wide Web was supposed to make access to information instantaneous and easy for university and research professionals. It was such a great concept that huge numbers of people took to the wires. Now, it is increasingly difficult to find important things because of the sheer volume of information. Doing a search on AitaVista results in thousands of entries being returned, which take

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Where the SuperScrlpt? I enjoy reading your paper every month. However, it was disappointing to see that you did not review the NEC Superscript 860 printer as part of your review of budget printers in the March '97 issue. The NEC 860 is a true 600 dpi printer with print speeds of eight pages per minute. It has a straight paper path along with a number of other features, free software and an overnightreplacement warranty. It sells for approximately $640. I have been using one for a few months without any complaints whatsoever. Amritpal Shergill, Surrey, B,C. DT replies: As ageneral nde, we invite all major manufactrrrers to sIIbmit proCIrcts for review.

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about the service and their options. The following presents some clarifications and rebuttals to the points make about ISDN in the February "Letter from the Editor." Our customers mininuze their costs with

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commen with analog connections. A high-quality router now costs $1,000 insteadof the $1,300 you quoted. This is still $500 mere than an ISDN modem, but we rec-

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modems. A good router is easy to set up and maintain. An ISDN modem connectien is not a less expensive long-run alternative. The $500 additional investment is paid back with-

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B.C. students get access to The Brainium n an effort to prepare students for the challenges of the next millennium, British Columbia and MultiActive Technologies are heeding the words of Canadian Nobel laureate Michael Smith: "Make science fun." The province has licensedThe Brainiuman online interactive science tool aimed at Grade 4 to 8 students and basedon provincial

curriculum — for three years. The deal was announcedat Yancouver'sScience World by MultiActive president Terry Hui and B.C. Premier Glen Clark in late February. The province will pay MultiActive SMO per school, which will allow any public school to register directly with MultiActive and receive

the product and customer support.

''The Brainium takes students beyond the walls of the dassroom to explore a world of

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the Bug Zone, which is an episodic series featunng a cast of animated bugs —led by a pair of surprisingly muscular beetle-like co~mmanders — who encourage students to use their sdence knowledge to help them in their missions;

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home's exisbng wiring. Home Director features indude: • Routine, which controls multiple lights and appliances; • Dusk and Dawn, which sets lights to turn off and on at chosen times; • Lifestyle, in which the program "learns" how lights and appliances are used and then replays the p atternto make it look like someone's home; • and Wake up on Ring, which activates the computer at scheduled times to perform a Home Director task after which it shuts itself dowxl. Prices for an Aptlva C with the Home Director option and a 15-inch monitor start at $3,799. IBM has also introduced the Aptiva E series, a lower-cost alternative to the Apbva C and 5 lines already on the market. The Aptiva E models use Pentium or "Pentium-dass" processorsand are multimediaready. Prices range fromm $2,399 to $2,999, induding monitor and a software bundle.— DT

bit versions of Windows, UNIX, Mac OS, and Java, as well as MS-DOS and PC-DOS. In particular, Corel's policy of continuing to sell and support several versions of its flagship CorelDRAW product, to accommodate users of older PCs, has proven to be very popular. "Corel has had an ongoing commitment to DOS users, and Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS is the first and only suite for DOS users," according to Corel president, Michael Cowpland. Corel WordPerfect Suite f' or DOS wIII be offered on CD-ROM and floppy diskette, with the CD-ROM version offering a typical wealth of extras, such as W ordPerfect6.1 forW indows, 200 digital stock photos, 125 fonts and 10,000 ciipart pictures. As well, the package will include Core5hell 4.0c forDOS,a program integrator that allows users to create menus of programs and comxuands. Users can switch between programs without having to quit one and load another —a kind of DOS simulation of multitashng. As weII, theStairv/ay Software ScreenExtender and Merge Master improve screen display and database translation and ruerging, respectively. Also induded are utiBties for converting files, launching programs, and creating custom printer drives. System requirementsare a 3&6 processoror better, 520KB of RAM, DOS 3.1x or higher, 45 MB of hard-drive space, EGA or VGA graphics, and a 3.5-inch floppy or a CD-ROM dxive. The suite is priced at US$495 (US$149 toupgrade).— /E

"PointCast Canada is an excellent means of delivering The Weather Network's extensive weather-related content to Internet users in Canada," according to David Beutel, vice-president and general manager ofThe Weather Network Commercial Services. "We look forward to adding additional weather channel content as PointCast Canada continues to increase its viewer base." Future services may include content to help viewers make travel, sports and recreational (i,e,, shing and boating) plans, and give environmental inforruation as well. Over 130,000 Canadians have become subscribers to PointCast since its hunch. PointCast Canada has also added The Globe and Mail News Wire service, which runs a continuous sbeam of current news stories. Software can be downloaded for free from the PointCast Canada Web site.— JE Contact: PeintCast Canada, Wab site; htip//www.pointcast.ca

Apple unveils Incremental o p eretlng Contact: IBM, Tel: 800<65-7999 system st r a t egy with Mac 0$ 7. 6 • gtaewoo Introduces new multlmeelle moniAfter years of slow tors i Daewoo Electronics Canada has introprogress, Apple has duced two new multimedia monitors that include begun to move more high-qualit y powered dome stereospeakers, an quickly with its develexternalheadphone, and built-in microphone. opment of improved Bryce 2 users can create fog, water, rocks, sun- The CMC-17058 is a 17-inch model with a 16.2- Contact: Carel, Tel: 613-728-8200, versions of its Mac OS. On January 7, at the light, reflections and clouds to mimic the natural inch diagonal viewing area, a m aximum Web sile: http: //www.coral.corn Mac World/Expo in S a n F r ancisco, Apple world or to i nvent an exotic environment, 1,280x1,024 resolution at 60 Hz, and a,28 mm announced its plans to deliver enhanced versions Creating mountains, valleys and deserts is easy dot pitch, The CMC-1509 is a 15-inch model with AST a n n ounces of its operating system to the Mac user base on a with the powerful terrain sculpting tools, This 1,280x1,024 resolution at 60 Hz, and .28 mm dot across-the-hoard regular, semi-annual basis. new version, with today's PCs, offers fast preview p i t ch. Both monitors incorporate powered dome "Apple is committed to delivering to its cusprice cuts • A S T and rendering. 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Corel Corp hasn't forgotten. In February, The reductions reflect the competitive pres- "Copland version of the Mac OS, while archWeb site: http: //www.metatools.corn Carel began shipping Corel WordPerfect Suite for sure on prices in the computer industry in gener- competitor Microsoft raced ahead with new verDOS, a new version of the best-selBng software al, as well as the common pattern of price cuts for sions of Windows and Windows NT, inspiring An Aptlva to rxrn your home • IBM Canada that includes Corel WordPerfect, Corel Quattro models that have been on the market for some hosts of third-party developers to create advanced has introduced a Home Director opbon to its Pro and Corel Presentations. months. new software apphcations for the Windows platAptiva C series. Home Director is a voicewnabled The new releaseis in line with Corel's crossAST Canada recently daimed to be the num- form, while the Mac platform shrank in market application that allows a user to automate and p l a tform approach to business computing soft- ber one PC brand among Canadian consumers, share. remotely control home appliances, lighting, etc. ware, which has seen the company continue to despite problems AST has had in the United An advancecopy ofMac OS 7.6 amved atThe through optional X-10 modules that work with a develop products compatible with 16-bit and 32- States. Korean technology company Samsung, Coxxiputer Papei's officesin mid-February, and at which recently increased its control of AST, has first glance, while the user interface retains the given AST the funding necessary to weather its Mac's classic appearance, a number of significant financial troubles, and has helped guarantee AST's areas of improvement, and many new capabiliaccess to supplies of critical components. ties, were apparent. In particular, Mac OS 7.6 aims to provide Contact: AST„Web sile: http://www.astcont maximum integration with the Internet and the Web by induding the latest versions of the Apple And new, forthe weather on the Web • Internet Connection Kit 1.1.1, OpenDoc 1.1.1, , .LiOli:@ bIii:wd::,CIA' 5~iitki C PointCast Canada, a free, user-customizabie infor- Open Transport 1.1.1, Open Transport PPP, i9'reiemefit',: «fx cprn@Jtins' Itots'iicj(f Feb.'2g,'ij~ Iar9est mer9e'r::.In the histopj" ' mation service that runs over the Internet, has TCP/IP 1.1, Apple Remote Access Client 2.1, and added a Canadian weather service through at Cyberdog. Also induded is the Mac version of ; @:~~ tue o r rxgM ~ .; TIte:.Ixte~,,,potty'aQ::,W~jo,.the 3Colxt-itive add ~., *chan ,"ftavB,: Netscape Navigator and Claris Emailer lite. IjIIWO:~vs ' "' ~ .g . 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VIA tlchets via the Internet • VIA Rail has Introduced an onhne reservation system that will aRow passengers to reserve tickets through the Internet. The service is called VIA Resernet Interactive, and the company says it is available for aII VIA's destination in Canada.

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Without this lock set, anyone can use the card as if it were cash, Boyaner says. Initially at least, the card itself is free, as is a 'cash tracker" device that is slightly larger than the card and„when the card ls inserted in a slot, inakes it possible to check the balance and see records of the last Rive transactions, as well as setting the electronic lock Mondex will charge for another device, the Mondex wallet, which is needed for person-toperson cash exchanges and can show records of the last 10 transactions. The fee for the Mondex wallet hasn't been set, Boyaner says. About 1,800 people in Guelph now have Mondex cards, and most sizable businesses in the city will be accegting.them, Boyaner says.—Grant Buckler

Nlendex Iixxxxxclxed In Gsxxadu •GUELPH, Ont. (NB) — The Mondex stored-value card got its official Canadian launch in February in the smail Ontario city where trials have been conducted for the past few months. Partidpatfng banks plan to hain extending Mondex service to the rest of Canada early in 1998, The Mondex card is a ~alled "smart caxd"about the size of a credit card but with a built-in microprocessoz It can he used to pay fer goods and services using electronic cash that is transferred to the card from the bearer's bank account. With certain telephones, the Mondex caxd can transfer cash over the telephone to and from the customer's hank account, says Marlene Boyaner, Sela clesas Cunadixixx oNce • ln a move general manager of stored value cards with the -described as a "restructuring of its North Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The BankofCommerce and the RoyalBank of American operations in response to the evolution Canada own Mondex in Canada and are running of the video game industry globally," Sega of America inc. announced in early February that it the service in Guelph, with the help of Bell would shut down its Canadian headquarters in Canada,the regional telephone company. The Hong Kong Bank of Canada and the Credit Union Richmond Hill, Ont., laying off all 13 Canadian employees. Central of Canada are also backing Mondex in "Sega's hardware and software will continue Canada. to fill store shelves in Canada.Our products will Some other Canadian banks are supporting be managed bySega of America and Canadiananother cash card called Exact, which recently began trials in Kingston, Ont. Boyaner says one based distnbutors who understand their market intimately. We will maintain Canadian-based advantage of Mondex over Exact is that it allows cash transfers between cardholders, public relations and customer service will be hanwhQe Exact can only be used to pay for transac- dled through the current system," according to tions. This works because Mondex relies on on- Ted Hoff, executive vici. president of marketing and sales fox ~a of America. card storage rather than linking to a central The company has been locked in a Berce computer for each transadion — a fact that, Boyaner says, also makes the Mondex card more struggle for the video gam market with Nintendo and Sony. Over the past couple of years, two other secure. The Mondex card can be locked with an elec- major video game platform vendors, 3DO and Atari, have seen their efforts to market new video tronic code to keep it from being used if lost

gaming machines end i n f a i lure. Sony's Playstation has taken significant market share in the last year, and Nintendo has scored a huge hit in the last few months with the release of its Nintendo 64, a Silicen Graphics-based 3D cartridge machine. As well, computer games have experienced a resurgence ever the last few years, due to the spread of cheap, powerful multimedia hardware on home computers. All this has meant that Sega, which for awhile was ahead of Nintendo, is having to rethink its North American business, Sega has had a high profile in Canada, in part due. to very clever public relations and advertismg campaigns. With no Canadian corporate presence, it will be interesting to see how the company fares against the competition in 1997.— JE

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Parents andstudentsalike seetheseareasasthe do next. The L Zone is an on<creen starting point to well-paying careers. resourcearea with an encyclopedia, games, Software companies have seen the light diagrams and quizzes. Kids will send and and are now developing products to satisfy receive email, and use a fax machine, telethe a generation raised on Reader Rabbit and phone, videoteleconference and a computer

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Math Blaster. Software for this age group was in thesegaliles. previously ignored but is experiencing one of Cri sis at Animalia Research Centre is set the fastest growth rates ~round. up like avirtual animal study/zoo display cenCorel has released three life science sleuth t r e There are two problems set up asseparate games in the last few months for this age g ames Computer Breakdown throws the cen-

For the past few years, the earlylearning crowd has been treated to some of the

group. While they have a game facade, they tr e into chaos. An electrical storm has also teach facts, scientific method and record destroyed the data on the centre's computers. keeping. Add these to Corel ChemLab, a vir- Only a secret password —which can be found tual chemistry lab/set with a college-level, by answering questions on online textbook, and a new locomotion, skeletal strucseries of famous literature ture and phyla of different CDs called T humbnail animals — can restore the Theater (MacBeth and files. Treasure Island are the first In Danger and Defense titles in this series), and in the Wild, players must someone should give Corel help set up exhibits due to

most innovative

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and engaging multimedia titles. Now, software companies are developing products to satisfy a generation raised on Reader Rabbit

year in producing software for the 12-plus demographic. Discovery Cha n nel

also just released a new version of Geometry Blaster on CD-ROM, which boasts that it teaches an entire year of high

school geometry, fasn wltla the adentiflc method The three Life Science Mystery series CDROMs from Corel are Crisis at the Animalia Research Centre, The Green Files, and Beyond the Naked Eye, Each has two problems to

and Math Blaster.

for definitions of technical terms and print chapters from the textbook. The Green Files contains two'mysteries.

The first, Oil Spill, requires you to look at and test underwater ocean life so that scientists at

the spill area can compare your data on healthy samples to those that may be damaged. This looks like a great game for learning biology and ecology. In the Gemco Disaster, you must examine the freshwater supply from an isLand that

may have been contaminated by a spill from a chemical company. Kids will have to deterreport on how it may have affected life on the island.

Beyond the Naked Eye contains two mys-

animals in the

teries involving viruses, bacteria and using

wild and then develop appro-

scientific method. The Jungle Epidemic is a

priate exhibits.

while the AIDS Awareness Project deals

Neither game takes an exces-

with — what else but the AIDS virus. The vir-

time to solve, so they would be appropriate for 12 year olds to solve

younger kids, it is designed for the over-10 age group, Davidson has

Learning Zone, players can access a glossary

mine the amount of damage and prepare a

sive amount of

sound like a c uddly title for

among the investigator, field personnel, and lab technicians. There are offices with fax, telephones, etc., libraries with information, and labs with microscopes. While in the

hours. To do this, they mechanisms used by

Connections. This is a game based on a PBS history/science series of the same name, hosted by James Burke. While the title makes it

back to the field workers who then question incorrect answers and thank correct ones Both give a good idea of team work in labs

open in less than 24 must research defense

Multimedia has added a new title called Ammal Planet to the earlier release of

experiments set up in both The Green Files and Beyond the Naked Eye to gather information to solve mysteries. Results are emailed

at school as well as

at home. This is the simplest program of the three

take-off of the Ebola virus scare in Africa,

tual labs are great and the set up of the labs is well done. This program is probably the most difficult of the three and perhaps even 14 or 15 year olds will find the play challenging and the content educational. These last two games drive home experimentation and the scientific method, recording data carefully and working in a team environment. So, perhaps the lessons taught are

in the series. It is the information in the Zone that lifts it out of the eight-

as much about how science works asthey are about ecology or microbiology. On this score,

year-old category.

they will be a bonus for all teens to take the mystery out of the scientific process. These Corel titles all run on Windows 3.1/Win 95 or Macintosh computers and retail for $50 each.

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The other two discs require more study and attention to new facts and details, Along the way, scientific method and experimentasolve and a similar interface, There are labs tion are added. I particularly like the virtual

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the animation alone, or as aguided

give it, or some of the other books by Robert Lewis Stevenson described in the annotated notes, a try.

tour. Some of th e n otes also include a guide to pirates, life at

sea, the life and works of Stevenson, and the history of sail-

The animations, rather than being cute and cud-

dly, have a great sense of program's text resources and then coaches fun and humor. Along the them in creating a successful report. The pro- way, icons appearâ&#x20AC;&#x17E;signaling gram, Animal Planet, follows a "whole leam- that sidebars of explanation ing"' approach. Research skills and writing skills are intertwined with the discovery and learning process within the program.

ing ships .of the period and the story's characters.

providing historical background to the book in classroom situations. Like the other Corel titles, these run on

Windows 3.1/Win 95 or Macintosh computers and sell for $50 each. 0 Contacts:

There are also maps and a Carel, Tel:813-728-8200. chronology chart. Text pages Web site:hltpJ/www.coreLcom may be printed or copied into Davidson, Tel: 800-545-7677.

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A soaring eagle lets you drop down into any of a number of eco-environments, such

as a rain forest or desert. Each environment has a semi-hidden cave in which you can find more facts on the animals that belong in that eco-system. Information is also included on behaviors, physical characteristics, links to similar animals, etc. W hat m akes

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geometry problems to be solved, There is a textbook and three reference volumes on the-

orems, and postulates and a glossary. A geoboard looks a bit like an electronics bread board with a toolbox that lets kids draw lines and circles. Shapes automatically produce perimeter, area and reference points on graph paper. The beginning coordinates on the paper may be centered, start from the lower left or upperright. What a greattoy! There is also agame-like complex shape in the form of an object with possible shapes to use to construct it. It looks like elementary problem solving, but requires some thinking and work to solve the problem. A calculator is also included. Geometry Blaster requires Windows 3.1/Win 95 or a Macintosh system and retails for $39.95.

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with, then Corel has just rushed to the rescue with the release of Thumbnail Theater;

Treasure Island, This is adelightful mix of ani-

mation and annotation that delves into top-

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The SVHS option, with its separate chroma and luma signals provides better quality. To address problems that have plagued PC video capture and playback systems in the past, the SVR3's manual has a number of tips and optimization suggestions. A notable one is the option to interleave the video and audio, in order to eliminate the possibility that the video and audio could fall out of sync. As noted above, the Asymetrix Digital Video Producer 4.0 software bundled with the SVR3 is adequate for simple movie-assembly and multhnedia authoring tasks (and, in fact, DVP's capture option recorded slightly better frame-rates than Adobe Premiere did). Video

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age) — adds up to a more sophisticated set of titling, rotoscoping and special effects features than the Premiere bundle offers (version 4.2's better built-in titler and its inclusion of Crystal Flying Fonts LE notwithstanding). Premiere is really dumb about systems

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device control. Premiere's methods of gamma

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A few minor annoyances, such as a Preview button that doesn't toggle on and off correctly and a Print to Video function that claims it needs video clips to be compressed

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How to createa presentation without trying too hard I Y RO D

L A IH IR A N D

The little fib on your resume became an exaggeration during the interview and that's how you got the job. Fine. Time passed, sins almost forgotten, until one day when the word goes out the computer guru that does those slick corporate presentations has been headhunted and is gone. The new guru is you!

irst, relax. Second, don't even think about going back to smoking, it won't help. Third,

take a Turns and read on. As a favor to you, a faithful reader of

The Computer Paper,we have a basic introduction to everything you need to know about

presentation programs but were afraid to ask Fourth, after reading this artide, burn it before the boss gets hold of it.

($o your eirtensive experience is apparent) When overhead projects replaced flip charts and slides, it was a good thing. However, slides were basically black and white drawings and very static. Then came

to US.

the liquid crystal display {LCD) panels. These devices ran off the computer and were placed on an overhead projector. Light from the projector came up through the LCD panel, through the suspended mirror/magnifying glass and splashed onto a regular projection screen with glorious colors such as muddy blue and faded green, Unfortunately, aside from the weak light and dull colors, the overhead project also distorts the image, making

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ilie veal Ifarlf (Why you will be getting a raise if you re not flrecl first) That is the basic idea, but if that is all you do, you will have a very dull presentation. You see, the whole point of these programs is to gift

wrap the information in as wonderful a way as

the top wider than the bottom. Then came projection machines. At first they were vety

possible. The truth is, if you weren't interested in all the little niceties you could as easily read the information to your prospective clients as put together a demo. This is a little bit of

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putting out multimedia presentation projectors that range from $2,000 to $10,000 and

Transitions

accept input from any source, including computer, VCR or cable. This new breed of machines has a luminosity and color satura-

Transitions are the way you get from one slide to the other. Because this is an electronic

tion that is amazing. The machines usually have more than one input port and can project high-resolution screens as large as 1.8 or

able to pull the screen in two or three or have little dots obliterate the picture. fransitions can be any number of visual

2.4 m (6 or 8 ft.) measured diagonally.

erasing or painting techniques, such as swipe, drain, checkerboard or rain. Not only can you move interestingly from one screen to anoth-

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media you can fade out and in. You may be

er but you can accompany the effects with (What yeu sahl yeu hnew when you get the jeb) Basically, and we mean basically, a software program, called a presentation or graphic presentation program, lets you choose a screen as a background. The screen is much like a slide

sound. Bells, whooshes, footsteps or zips can

liven up your presentation. Cllpart Every decent presentation program comes

and is often called that. You pick a slide and

with dipart. Nothing dulls a presentation faster than plain text or tables. Clipart can be

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process you have a small electronic slide show. You tell the program io run the slide show and the slides you made appear one

front of a bottle of champagne, for example. And even if you can't find the dipart you want, all new programs have the aMity to

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to help automate the creation of presentations. With titles like "inform," "persuade,"

"teach" and "special" and even further distinction such as "positive audience," "negative," "neutral" or "doubting," theze is a style

for any situation. Each of these programsallows the user to view the slides full screen or, for ease of edit-

options. The card supports "overlay mode,"

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played at any size on your computer semen newly installed drive's MaxBlast formatting

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ing, in a reduced size. As well, each has an outline view that allows for quick and easy Pres: The ATI Pzo Turbo+PCXIV's RAGE ll organization and editing of the slides. As

Windows programs, they all allow a user to drag and drop certain types of information onto the slide. This is because they adhere to a specifica-

rienced no such compatibility problems, although there was one minor snag: the

chip provides hardware support for Direct3D

acceleration (the earlier 3D Xpression'sRAGE chip did not support hardware-accelerated

Dizect3D), Its 2D and 3D drivers were generally trouble-free, and the card provided good

tion called OLE, OLEstands for object linking MPEG and full-screen AVI playback. and embedding, and OLEVersion 2 makesthis Conflgurable re'fresh rates, resolution settings technique very flexible. Don"t worry about the and gamma (color) contrOI. TV output setway it works. Just remember that you can tiny (composite and SVHS) are flexible and often shnply open two windows and drag provide a stable picture at 640x480 or something into your program. Theseprograms 800x600 on standard televisions orVCRs.Pan allow you to add buttons so that you can leave and Zoom controls are provided. The optional ATI-TV board(for ISA bus) the presentation on a computer and have a provides video capture and TV playback, visitor click to continue or tzy certain functions. This ls a goodoption if you want to set including closedzaption scan-and-capture up an unattended kiosk.

with no slowdown. And it's made in Canada. Cons: 'We had to restart twice to switch dis-

software was apparently installed on the

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(then-inaccessible) hard drive and, to make a the play modes to or from TV. Not quite as fast as long story short, I couldn't seem to access comparably priced offeriny from Matrox, etc. hard drive to copy the software to a floppy. The solution was to download another copy (hitpJhww.maxtor.corn). The software worked

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BIG — S.l GB! That's an amazing price per

than SCSI "AV" drives (preferably of the fast-

gigabyte. Cene: Drives larger than 4,092 cylinders are not supported by NT 4.0 {a jumper setting to limit the drive's capacity is available) and numerous znessages in OS/2 forums suggest

and-wide or better varieties, and configured in redundant arrays) for professional video applications. Nevertheless, weexperienced no obvious glitchesmcording to our defragmented Maxtor drive. 0

that thisdrive cannot easily be used at its full capacity with that OS, either. Using a

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Another feature that is becoming more

common in these programs is the automatic printing of audience handouts. The user can usuafly choose between printing out a miniaturized collection of the show's screens or a

copy of the text-based outline. This can be

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done to paper for distribution or even to diskette for later viewing.

There are a hundred other things that you will find you can do. For example, PowerPoint allows you to stick a music CD in

your CD player and record the output for use in your presentation {of course, remembering to avoid copyright infringement), and each product has dozen of other features that you

will. come across.

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(Ceffee seem ammo) Each of themajor suites mentioned above is making their presentation software Web enabled. Which is to say, you can take a pm. sentatton that you have created and save it as a hypertext document~ Ne that your information systems people can put on the company's Web page.Hey,you almost havea better reputation than the guy you replaced.

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(Where te Ile fer help) first, your manual wiB likely have a practice presentation. Second, the program will pmbably have asample presentation. Thirdly, everybody mentioned in this article has a Web page, often with examples. Next, them are numerous books on working in P owerPoint, Freelance Graphics and Corel Presentation. As well, there are night school and weekend courses for this type of thing. Lastly, practice. Only when you understand what your particular machine and your particular software can do will you settle down enough to

start loohng at your presentations as what they really are. We didn't want to scare anyone, but the

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diagonal). Panels based on passive matrix

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screens tend to have lower contrast and less vibrant colors, Because the pixels refresh

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SSultimedla peojectors The latest development in business presentation hardware is the multimedia projectorcousin to those giant big-screen TV projectors

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text of paper documents and converts those documents to PDF) for Windows 95 (and, according to the Adobe rep, "soon" for Power

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are seamlessly inrerted as a graphic in plan. so that the file is completely human readable, and all but th e unrecognized words are machine-searchable, using th e i n c luded Catalog and Search functions. The PDF fiies created by Disfiller 3.0 may

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FGS we received did not ship with Extreme 3D 2.0. It ships with version 1.0, which runs

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PageMaker releases listed above) cansave files in the 2,1 format that FreeHand 7 can open. The program's ability to edit or move graphics that have been pasted inside" others is a welcome improvement, too. The Mac versions of the FGSappstend to have slightly better drag~dWop functionality than their Windows siblings, and the

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on the F3 and F4 keys is unfortimate, consid-

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environment, version S.OF2 was definitely

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less troublesome (and more widely used

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among many PC-using customers) than ver-

Windows version ofExtreme 3D'sdependence

sion 6.x, which Corel now acknowledgeswas a tough transition, as it was the first 32-bit version of the program and a number of problem areas (OLE, font management, etc.) were

3.0 and Fontographer 4.1 in the suite, along common to many of the first generationof with 10,000 pieces of dipart and 500 decent fonts) is an excellent update to what had pre-

Windows 95 apps — most of which were developed using beta versions of Microsoft's OS.

viously been a fairly unimpressive 1,0 release

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of this 3D program. Hardware accelerated 3D graphics rendering via Direct3D on the Windows version produced less visually rich

interactive renderingsthan the sBghtly slower internal renderer, which it should be noted

does not support ray-tradng. Despite this limitation, the renderers produce impressive results with such features asfog, soft shadows, plus transparency, bump, luminosity and environment maps. Optional support for hardware 3D acceleration meansthat you can, with an appropriate video card, see real-time shaded renderings of objects whfle dragging them or animating them. I tested the Macversion with an ATI Xdaim VR card, and the

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collection of AC bricks under your desk Unfortunately, CoStar has opted to put the

you want more down the road, but I'm fairly confident that baby wipes are considerably

plug directly onto the power supply, which anyone with lots of computer hardware will

more economical and just as effective (but then, I'm not a daddy). know means losing the outlets to the left and Once plugged in and powered up, it's a right (or above and below) on your power baz simple process to install the appropriate driElsewhere in the box you' ll find one roll ver for your operating systein (from a choice of 6.35x10.16 cm (2.5x4 in.) labels and two of Windows 95,NT and 3.x) and install the diskettes that hold your drivers and your soft- software packages called AddressMate and ware. Also included is one baby-wipe like Easy Software Suite that come bundled with cleaning card for your print head. CoStar will the machine. sell you packs of 10 of thesecards for $9.95 if AddressMate, as you might expect, is a

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mailing database that links to your word processor so you can print onewff or multiple labels and control the layout and fonts, etc.

label (e.g., a company logo) is also possible

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them. The prime Rnitation here is that AddressMate will only integrate with Ami Pro,

while the instructions for AddressMate reach

through the use of templates, as long as your

image is in bitmap (BMP), Paintbrush (PCX), Macros also allow you to apply addresses TIPP (TIP), Targe (TGA) or WordPerfect (WPG) from your AddressMate database onto your format. The flexibility of this program is well i

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quick, "I need a label for bar code, or badge] now!" situations). EasyBadgegenerates photo ID badges on the spot using any Video for Windows AVI compliant device you might

have accessto. -My experience with the LabelWriter XL Plus was that it was quiet, worked well, and was easy to handle. The labels insta!I through their designated path without strenuous prestidigitation and the output — once I got AddressMate Plus figured out — was of very high quality.

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(1.)25x3.5 in.) standard address labels. (The owner's manual promises other sizes for future availability but without indicating what other sizes might be possible). However, there are a variety of things you can do with whatever might fit into that space — they ain' t

called "standard addresslabels" for nuthin'. Connection is, as might be expected, as simple as power-to-label maker, label makercable-to-serial port. A nice touch is that the

cable here allowsyou to connect to a nine-pin or 25-pin COM port by having both connectors spliced onto the single line, However, like CoStar, Seiko has opted for putting the AC

plug directly onto the powersupply and, simihrly, they' ve thrown in a roll of labels.

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Seiko's software is called SLP (for Smart Label Printer) and, though it comes in both DOS and Windows versions, I looked only at the latter. The manuals for the EZ30 and the SLP soflware are integrated into a single volume which covers all aspects of both, The SLP for Windows software operates thmugh a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) window interface, giving you a com-

ware manufacturers don't take this approach as it relieves many frustrations at the outlet end of things while giving you the maximum amount of flexibility because you can use any length of power cord you want. Regardless, the software bundled with the Smart Label Printer PRO is called, appropriately, SLP PRO and constitutes an enhanced version of the SLP package that comes with

you that much wider variety of label sizes. The interface is as intuitive as any other Windows application (i.e., similar tool bars and menus) but, because of the wide range of abilities, you' re going to have to spend some time with the manual before completely mastering all of what SLP PRO can do — separate label libraries and mailing lists, bar codes,

in.) and, like the others, has a nice straight

plete picture of your label on the screen before you send it to the hbel maker. Though

the EZ-30. Though essentially the same software, there are far more options with this PRO version because the machine itself allows

POSTNET codes, graphics, etc. Back at the hardware end of things, the Smart Label Maker PRO has a nice, compact footprint at about 18.4x10.79 cm (7.25x4.25

hol. This is a very capable and attractive

it operates quite differently, the features and abilities of SLP are pretty well the same as the

paper path that ought to circumvent any label-feeding jarns, If that actually did happen, however, or lf the machine gets just plain dirty from extended use, the front cover conveniently pops off to reveal both the paper feed and printing mechanisms for

dearing and deaning with a Q-Tip and alcomachine at a relatively reasonable price.

I AddressMate package that comes with the CoStar unit. SLP will even generate the U.S. Post Offices POSTNET codes above the text on your label to ostensibly speed delivery along. Graphics are possible here too, but it's a some-

what complex process to capture, adjust and edit them. The EZ30 is a very basic label maker at a very basic price but, thanks to the software, capable of some very sophisticated things as long as they flt within the prescribed dimen-

sions of the label. The label path is so direct I can't even imagine having ablockage,except, perhaps, if a label gets dog~ared on its way through the machine. Cleaning wiII be easy

enough too, as removing the top cover exposes the innards to a Q-Tip dipped in alcohol. Smart label Printer PRO Fmm: Seiko Estimated street price: $295 Unquestionably the sleekest guy on the block, the flat black Smart Label Printer PRO consti-

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Nrey K22$ From: Kroy Estimated street price: $275 Kroy's entry into this particular Inarket is the sleek and

handy K225, which, like the

others, is capable of printing on a variety of label sizes up to 5.7 cm (2.25

ing a Windows 95 driver that will allow you to print labels from your MaIIMerge or any other type of database but that is not expected until later this year. Registered purchasers will be able to get a free update when it becomes avail able. Some of th e advanced features here include automatic formats for five intemational m a iling s y stems — United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and continental Europe — plus surprisingly straight-

forward graphic and image capture and import abilities. Of course, POSTNEI' and other types of bar codes are also possible. Opening the cover does not expose the print head so cleaning will quite literally involve the tenuous laying on of screwdrivers to open up the main casing. Kroy does, however, provide illustrations in the manual on how to do this, so I guess that means they

your label-making needs as any of our other

choices, operating as well as any of the others but making the process of designing a sophis-

ticated label at l east slightly f riendlier, However, I would be somewhat concerned about the fact that the warranty is only 90 days, as that hardly seems an adequate amount of time to determine any hardware's fitnefs — unless you run it continually during that period to stress any of the weaker links in the operative chain. CI

don't mind if you do. All in all, the Kroy.is as sound a choice for

in.) wide. Also

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People interested in the models we are basically disappeared. This drop is partially reviewing are not early adopters. They have the result of the introduction of SDRAM, the waited for the technologies to be tried and latest and fastest type (SDRAM showed up in tested. They don't want — or simply can' t one of the pricier systems we reviewed this afford — all the bells and whistles offered in premium systems. For many people, this will

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Hard drives these days can store upwards of 4 GB of data, at prices stiH within most

and quality that you'd get from buying a card that is fully supported by your pregrams. Don't settle for anything less than a 16-bit

users' reach. For the average user, a 1.6 GB

card, as this wHI let you play and record CD-

hard drive should suffice, but applicatiens are continually growing. Before you know it, your 1.6 GB hard drive will hold but a few

quality sounds in 44 kHz stereo.

applications. When shopping for a hard

Besides audio and video cards, the only other peripheral you may Bnd in an introductory system is a modem. Communicating with other systems has become a central feature in

drive, look for one that has low access times

(under 10 ms} and high data transfer rates (upwards of2,500 KB/sec) which can be measured using various hard-drive benchmarking tools such as Norton's Sysinfo, @Bench and Coretest.

Net-ready

contemporary computing. Many people are upgrading from their present systems because they want to connect more effectively to the Internet or to work For a modem to be up to

Vomr view om the world

the task, it should be operating at at least

No computer is complete witheut a monitor, yet it is common for systems to be sold without one. While this may be inconvenient, it is

14.4Kbps. At this speed you can go beyond

not necessarily bad. If you are going to spend a ht tie extra cash anywhere, it should be on

take advantage of online resources, systems should include a 28.8Kbps modem. Keep in mind upgrading and installing a modem is

the monitor. Compared to other components, your monitor will last and retain its value the

basic emaH, but wiH fmd downloading files and touring the Net awfuHy slow. To really

one of the simplest things you can do without

longest. While a 14-inch monitor is adequate for almost any task, opening multiple documents will be more than a little frustrating.

taking your modem in to the shop.

Whatever the size of the monitor you choose,

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make sure ithasarefresh rateofatleast70 Hz there are a number of "soft" issues new buyin whatever resolutions you'H be using fre- ers shouM consider. People buying an introquently. A monitor with a lower rate can eas- ductory system are probably not very technologically literate. It wHI be tempting for sales ily cause eye strain and headaches. When choosing a monitor, aim for a 15-inch model people to take advantage of their situation A if you can afford it. Although the extra inch common ploy, used by less reputable compamay not seem like much, once you' ve worked nies, is to hold on to your money for several with a larger model, you' ll never want to go weeks before shipping the system. Often they will blame unexpected shortages in parts. back During those precious weeks the cost for comfw»»ltlmedla ponents drops and they pocket the difference. One component that has undergone vast Ask them exactly when you will receive the improvements over the past year is the trusty system and try to get a guarantee. Even better CD-ROM drive. We' ve seen them go from don't give them the Ml amount untH you speeds of 4x around this thne last year to receive the system.

you' ll certainly appreciate the reduced CD access. In an entry-level system, you should

expect an Sx drive, not because they' re required by software, but because it's almost impossible to find a store that will sell anything slower. Keep in mind thatit is very rare for a software package to require anything faster than a 4x drive, but that doesn't mean that you won't benefit from a faster modeL

The final two components you wiH want

Before buying from any stere, do some research. Even if you are buying a brand name system, it is advisable to check up on the store they are seHing through. There are several ways to check up on a company. The easiest is

to ask around. Who do your friends and business acquaintances recommend? Call up the company's service line and compare the

response time to their sales line. There are a

number of online resources you can take advantage of. If you have access to the Internet — through a friend, for example-

check out newsgreups devoted to computing in your area. These newsgroups will have lots of information about people's experiences

to consider are your sound and video cards.

with various stores and companies.

Your video card is in charge ef placing inforrnation on the screen. The faster the video

If you are unfamiliar with computing, make sure you buy from a company with

card can process the information, the faster everything runs overall because you won' t

good after-sales support, since you may need someone to help you after the initial set up.

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$30 "16-bit" card. What they' re probably buy-

ing themselves is a lot ef unnecessary grief and frustration. Your sound card is only as good as the software that uses it. Always check with several software titles to see if they support the

particular brand you' re considering. The same

but if you use multimedia software such as encyclopedias or CD-based games frequently,

You name it, We got it.

ware and whatever operating system you will be running. Some newer video cards will offer 3D acceleration, definitely an asset for many of today's games. When it comes to sound, mest people think that they' ll save a few bucks by buying a

kilobytes (KB) for the transfer rate. High-end hard drives use SCSI connections, whereas the

today's 12x and new 16x units. For the higher performance CD-ROM drives, you'H definitely have te pay a bit more,

TOAS of older, hard to find products

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because this will offer you high color depths and higher resolutions. Stick with brands that

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Its system uses software and a modem to call a local phone number, which connects to a proprietary network. Registered users select an account and enter a password to work on their accounts. This type of system remains one of the most popular and secure and is used today by about half of the financial institutions in Canada that have online banking. Where an individual is not within local calling distance of their institution's network, a toll-free number is usuaBy provided. In this type of service there are virtually no security concerns.

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real thing. This is the future. In the last half of 1996, no less than four national finandal institutions joined the three early starters to

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into a bank. These companies have realized that they can pretty much give the service away to gain, or keep, customers; and to save the costs associated with your visits to the bank (everything from the building to

the coffee) or the ATM (installation, service, repair).

It's a lhflndews world AU of the programs used by these banking institutions are Windows 3.x/95-compatible

programs. They all expect at least a 386 (CIBC expects a 486) but shouldn't be run on anything less than a 486. They all need a modem — with 9.6 Kbps or 14.4 Kbps being a minimum data transfer rate depending on the

bank, These programs are srnan and not intru-

sive. Those programs that use the Internet expect you t o h ave an I n t ernet service provider (ISP) but if you don' t, they often contain offers and advertisements of one sort or another. Where a provided browser is used by the program to access an Internet s ite, you may have a problem with t h e install program overwriting or displacing your current ISP's software, although this is

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service you will be accessing the most. All the companies have technical support and perhaps due to the newness of this kind of service, access to technical support seems good. For Macintosh users there are, at time of writing, no programs available for the private networks. Citizens Sank says it is working on it. The other institutions with closed systems say nothing or make vague promises. On the Internet side, things are brighter. M banx will o n l y sa y t o e x pect an announcement by

t h e t i m e t h i s s t o ry

appears. Royal Sank and Canada Trust tell us that anyone who can access the Web with a browser can use their banking systems. This is true but they cannot download the data into any Bnancial program as of yet. Users of Quicken for the Macintosh may be able to do so in the future but not today. Toronto Dominion Sank promises Mac access via the Internet soon, as does Scotiabank. All in all it seems likely that any Interneaccessed online banking will be operating system independent soon but that proprietary systems will not.

Crystal IeaN time Of the seven services summarized here, two access account information via the Internet only, three via a proprietary network only, and two via either method. Which is best? That depends. New encryption tectmology and the OFE built-in safeguards are bringing Internet security to almost the same level as that of a closed network, while at the same time, continent-wide, toll-free numbers are

bringing private network access doser to the universality of Internet access. Where are we going? Well, it seems that

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Web site: http://www.citizens.corn Citizens Bank, Canada's newest national bank, was born in January 1997, the child of VanCity. It is Canada's first virtual bank, hav-

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on a closed network. The software is a refurbished version of the online banking software from the parent company, VanCity. The program is basic but perfectly dear and straightforward. It has none of the fancy options of a personal financial program, but paying bills immediately or at a future date is as easy as checking the last

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Mbanx customers who have Quicken 6 for Windows will be able to activate these online banking features at no extra cost. The plan takes the service from good to great and will bring the mbanx/Intuit team dose to the

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What makes EasyWeb great is that, like to an agreement with Intuit to conform to the OFE standard. Thus users of Quicken or Microsoft Money (which also conforms to the new Microsoft/Intuit standard) will have a much more automatic way to bring their account information into a f i nancial pro-

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There are no connection fees and the software for TD Access: PC is free, until sometime in this spring. TD claims its service is the most s ecure home-banking service i n N o r t h America and this is probably so. However, with the new security of Internet access, it looks like TD is considering an Internet service, in which case, we suspect these claims will suddenly go silent. TD Access: PC is a very good closed network service.

in excess of 30,000 we understand). So it is no surprise that TD has an online banking serHowever, it is a surprise that the service is on a private network. TD Access: PC is a full-service banking for your home PC that includes the expected functions as well as access to Green Line, TD's discount brokerage service. TD advertises that, "the future of banking and investing is having access to

believe that many people will select a bank based on these services, but we do not believe

that many people will change banks because of these services. The experience of online banking, however, makes it clear that there is

no going back. This is one of the most logical, useful and convenient functions the home computer has ever offered and woe to any instit ution that t r ies t o t ake i t a way o n ce

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