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regular modern line and worth the extra charges. We have had an ISDN line fot about tu-"o yearS now, and in" general II worked pretty well. The last three months, though. have heen hell-the kind ot hell that sneaks up on you, lilie those famous frogs In a hot water kettle. A5 thle heat goes up, they don't notice that the)’ arb getting cooked. One day, we woke up and realrlized that we were getting cookecl. The line wem down so often that users in the office no longer believe assuranees that the llnc would he hack up Shortly. We were waiting tliree da‚vs toiget baek online. lior our Information intenv sive ciffice, it i5 the equivalent of having our Iines cut. Everyone was getting Irritahle. phone 5 (Ionnecting t0 the Internet in the beSt possible way IS a huge challenge. lmagine, if you will, that the Internet consists of a giant Rube Goldberg contraption-a huge Set of pipes that Initerconneet. Where you connect has all kinds of implications for how fast ‚vour connection will be. lf you are lucky enough to connect (lose t0 the “big pipe" that goeS outof town‚ your connections to other cities will be good. Often, with an ISP, you are connected to a connection to Someone else’s connection, t0 the "Ijig pipe" that goes out of town. Really bizarre things happen vrith routing, even when you get a good connection out of towrl,The route will sometimes Shock you. T0 get frorn our office in Vancouver, to our own Web site In Vancouver, we bouncecl through Selattle. Going acroSS the country to one of our sites in Montreal resulted in a trip through Hartford, Connecticut and New York City. Most ISPs are reselling their bandwidth. ISPS d0 thIS on the Same principle as fitness Clubs that Sell thousands of memberships, wihen in reality‘ they can only Service a couple ofhundred people at a time. They know that nrost people have good intentions t0 uSe the facility, but often do not. It is common for ISPS to have line ratioslof 10 t0 one; that IS, I00 lIneS for 1,000 cuStomerS. Most of the time this works weil. In peak periods, Such as early eyenings, users sometimes get Some slow dowm and busy Signals. An Important question to ask any ISP IS "ivltat IS ‘your bandwirlth Litilization?" .-\sk for CllaflS and graphs. Ask the question 21 couple of times. Ask the Salespen Sdn, then ask the technica] person. Differences in their responses are often revealing. We often get requests from people asking ”which iS the best ISP?" or "who Should I go to Ior the beSt connection for rny Web Server, or III)’ ISDN line." The answer to each of these queries Is different. ISPS are Set up with differer-‚tt emphaSis‚ and as you will See in the follclmiing discussion, it IS often very ciifficult t0 diilscern which will provide a good Service. An ISP who provides great Service for clial up custclmers might not be the best for a company ldoking to serve a Web site, or put an entire network of users online. The factors that make up a great connec-
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mucli higher, estimated at 85 percent. Wc rnoved 0r1. N o t too fast One more Stop uras at a company that seemed t0 ltave all the higlt-end answers. These people were alumni of higlt-end networking companies, and had Some brilliant ideas and solutions about redundancy, Setting up guaranteed bandwidth and constant rnonitoring of their connections through the use of Scripts and pinging and pagers. The problem with this Company was that we received no follow" up on our request for a quote. Finally, we landed at a company that seemed t0 have the things we wanted. Good
connectivity, good utilization and decent tech Support. We balked when we got to their pricing. When we added it all up, we realized we could almost buy our own T] connection (about six times the speed of an ISDN linel frorn the phone Company for the amount that this company was asking.
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We were approaclted by people in our building who were planning to create a buying co-op for their own T3 line. They were proposing to bypass the telephone company altogetlter and rent Some kind of laSer beam contraption that Shot a beam from our office directly t0 the downtown nexus of the Internet. a building about a half dozen blocks from ourS. One more possibility IS to actually get our own T1, so that our bandwidth IS guaraxlteed. This Seems relatively plug and play once It IS Installed, but it does require more technical Support on our end. This approach is also more expenSIve than others, but the bandwidth ISall
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tial or biased information, or just plain‚ good old-fashioned ignorance. Misinformation is being spread Concerning the state of Apple Computer; The (fmnpztter Papefs readership deserves better. Here are the facts: Macintosh is the Number 1 multimedia vendor in the world——for the second year in a row with 18.8 percent market share (ltlziltimerlizi Market Trends, Dataquest, 1996.) Macintosh is the Number l platform for World Wide Web authoring, with 41 percent market share worldwide, and 64 percent of
U.S.-based professional Web site design firms (Mirai Consulting, published in Macweek, Oct. 16, 1995; VVebu/eek, Oct. 7, 1996) Apple is the Number 1 Computer Company worldwide in user loyalty, with 87 perCent of
users repurcltasing Macintosh Computers (Computer Intelligence InfoCorp‚ June 18, 1996)
Apple is the Number 1 Computer in K-12 education‚ with 60 percent market share (Quality Education Data, 1996-97 Technology Purclzrlsing Forccast). Apple i3 also the Number 1 Conlputer in
College and higher education Institutions (Roper College Track, 1994; Computer Intelligence Info(‘.orp‚ 1994. More Current statistiCs unavailable). Apple is the Number 1 U.S. Computer vendor in Japan, and the Number 3 vendor overall in Japan (Dataquest‚ March 1996). Apple is the Number 1 Computer used for
color desktop publishing, with 80 percent of the market share (Griffin Dix Research Associates, 1996). There are roughly 14,000 applications for the Macintosh, nearly 3,000 in native PowerMac Code. ‚After Unix. the Mac OS is the most popular platlorm lor World Wide Weh senrers (Georgia Institute of Iechnology, referenceci in Alacutlrld. Nov. l1, 1995). Regartlless of the [Jlatfürlll designed to run on, 42 or the 50 top-selliug CD-ROM titles worldwide were devclopetl on MaClnlOSh (Ijghtstone Thompson, i995). The Äiacintosh platfonu i5 used for 65 perCent of postproductioir Video editing (Film 8' Video, 1995). The Mac isused by 25.85 percent of all Internet users to access the lnternet. There are currently over 80 million
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Continued from page 8 that of any PC microprocessor currently available! Recently demonstrated on a Macintosh at the last Macworld Expo in San Francisco, it easily outperformed an Intel-based Compaq. Systems equipped with the‘ new Chip are expected t0 ship by the end of this year. In conclusion, I have just one question for Mr. Firth and the other Apple naysayers: Does this sound like a dead company? Kevin Bushell, Montreal Revenge on the nerds I read with great interest you article about Revenge on the nerds (Letter from the editor, April '97). I, too, am not convinced that tech-
nology is always the way to go. Ironically‚ my profession is to teach businesses how to use computer applications such as CorelDRAW. In reality, l find some instances where it's better to use the trusty, manual method. For example‚ I bought an accounting package two years ago. l tried to figure out the program myself and took a week to sift through the documentation (hard and soft). I then tried to customize the invoice program that came with the package. That didn't work. I got so frustrated that I sold the Software through the classifieds. My accountant convinced me to give it another try, so I bought the updated Version. That Version now sits on my shelf collecting dust. I see no faster way than writing invoices by hand assoon as the order comes in. No need to boot up the computer‚ start the Software, feed the invoice through the dot-matrix printer, and hope that it prints out OK. In fact, personal handwriting is‚ in my opinion, in vogue as most business correspondence is computerized
and lacks a personal touch. I could go on and on about personal organizers...I use a S5 monthly school calendar— needs no batteries, and I can look at it in a glance. No need to boot up the . . . Yadda, yadda. Technology is great. When it works. Tom Anzai,
More revenge I am a high school student and just handed in a beautiful history paper before spring break. This paper was worth one of the biggest marks for the term so a ‚Computer was a must. So, I went to work on my P—166 and Corel Wordperfect Suite 7, while running on Windows 95. Writing the paper was the easiest thing I did-compared to printing it. At an office replacement sale‚ we picked up a Xerox 4045-100 Series laser printer. This printer takes a while to warm up, but once it does, the image quality and speed are excellent. However, Xerox does not make a print driver for the 4045 in Windows 95. The print driver it does make is for Wmdows 3.x. So what am I t0 d0? The convoluted solution is to run Windows 3.1 and another program, (because Corel requires Win95)‚ to print something. Tnerefore in order to print my Wordperfect masterpiece‚ I have to: A) Type it out in Corel. (Why? Because I'm spoiled‘ and I really, really like all of the gadgets and doohickeys in WordPerfect). B) _Convert it to Microsoft Word forrnat. C) Exit Win9S to DOS mode. D) Start Windows 3.1. E) Start Microsoft Word. F) Then print the copy. I could look past this convoluted path if l just had to print the paper once, but things
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reafling off the Computer. So l have to d0 this prdicess several times a night. I've concluded th I spent just as much time printing the ess "y, as proofreading it. I've looked for solutions. I've tried dift drivers for the Win95 format and how print ferd ha emailed the companies involved (Corel, and Xerox) for a solution, but the Mitosoft ‘ on answer I received was from Corel telling melgthat they couldn't fix my problem (guessed uch) and that they were forwarding the lem to someone who could (I'm assuming Xe _‚x). As of yet, I have not received an an er and am not expecting one (I tried solvinäthis problem last year). iThough I love my Computer and all of it prdÄgrams and quirks, going through this pro cess is not as funny at 4 O'Clock in the morning when you find out-just after you've turned both your printer and cornputer o f f th l you've missed a period in one of thefootno s. Maybe I should go back to my 386, ‘
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we evaluate seven popular collections. Keep in mind that, like everything else in the computer industry, the quality, style and prices of Clip art packages vary _widely. Some packages, such as those produced by Expert Software Tor Softkey, are geared toward beginners or casual home users. They are inexpensive but tend to be simple in design. Others are targeted at commercial designers and boast superb quality, more imagina— tive and contemporary designs, and, yes, higher prices. Image Club's collections of clip art, for example‚ cost many times more than
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Looking for tL. highest quality clip art for business or corporate use? G0 for Image Club products, and you won't be disappointed. At S135 g each, Image Club's Ob ectgear collection of 85 images seems ex 4 nsive, but this isn't your ordinary set of C (ROMs. (Designed primarily for professional graphics (111565, Objectgear boasts a high level of quality, with sharp details and tme-to-life repres‘ ntation. In fact, Image Club even supplies twq versions of each image (high or low resolutlpn), with pre-designed drop or cast shadourä to give your presentation that extra i1"depth" look. The photo-based Objectgear collecl
Another positive point is the artistic appeal and innovhsltFora ative designs apparent in the collection. Instead of stuffing its CD-ROM with boring clip art, New Vision Technologies chose to include attractive images that are decorative, exciting, and even funky. lf you're looking for a simple, all-in-one package that isn't overwhelming or cumber-
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interesting and captivating. Image Club, a Calgarybased company that is now owned by Adobe Systems, offers many other types of clip art and photo images, including Web site images, background photos, contemporary art images, and even antique celestial maps. For an average home user, however, the niche-oriented Image Club clip art may be on the expansive side and too limited in scope and magnitude. In any case, you may want to order the free catalogue by Calling the company's toll-free number. You'll have fun just browsing through the pages.
Contact: Image Club, Tel: 800-387-9193. Corel Mega Gallery From Corel Corp.
Price: under S100 When it comes to giving users the most bang for their bucks, it's hard to beat Corel's Mega Gallery set of clip art CD-ROMs. Even though the fiveCD-ROM collection costs less than S100, its photos, clip an, and video images boast surprisingly
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from other programs in a variety of ways, including object linking and embedding (OLE). That means you can compose your literary masterpiece in a word processor, draw a pretty picture in CorelDraw‚ or enhance a scanned image in Photoshop, then haul it in for final positioning while still modifying the element in its original program. Once the major elements have been placed, MS Publisher has a number of features to help you spruce up your final product. This year's version comes with more than 5,000 clip art images, 150 fonts, 150 predesigned borders, 100 design templates, a vec— tor-drawing program called Microsoft Draw‚ and much more. The good news? Well, the clip art Collection is pretty fair considering it's reaily just a bonus add-on, and so too are the fonts. The borders are definitely not high—end‚ but the program will create one for you by automatically shrinking and duplicating any image you choose, an option not found in most other low-end packages. The bad news is that, despite suggestions to the contrary‚ MS Publisher still doesn't have what it takes to do high-end jobs all by itself. For instance, aithough you can enter‚ format, kern and flow text from frame to frame, throw in some fancy drop caps and work with columns and simple tables, you'll have to d0 it with a less than thorough spell checker and no thesaurus. You'll also have to d0 it with the program's seemingly inherent sluggishness‚ something that hasn't changed much thxough the years. The more artistic among you may want to twist, turn and rotate your text, and although MS Publisher allows you to do just that (and quite easily too, usually with just a couple of mouse clicks), it'll have to be in pre-set increments and forms. And if you've got a flair for drawing‚ the vector-based Draw component will handle only the simplest shapes and squiggles. For anything beyond basic boxes, circles and" lines‚ you'll have to turn to a standalone drawing package. One of the most damning aspects of the program in these days of multiple "undos" is that MS Publisher offers just a single level. So if you've made a mistake more than one action ago, you're gonna be stuck with it. Unless, of course, you want to go back to the last save, but by doing that you'll lose anything you've done since then. But let's get back to the positive elements‚ because there are so many. MS Publisher is getting more graphical as the years go by, and this edition offers both font and clip art previewing before you make your choice‚ automatic kerning of certain character pairs ("WA", for example), auto-hyphenation with customized zones‚ and automatic small capitals with a single click. Those who forget to regularly save their work-and who among us can honestly say we don't—can opt to have the program prompt us automatically in custom-set intervals from one to 999 minutes. This is but one of many features that make MS Publisher one of the "smartest" page layout programs
your current zoom setting." Nice. As I continued working, I discovered that a multitude of design and general tips were set to fly ‘into action whenever the program determined my button-clicking rampages exposed certain,
shall we say, weaknesses. Of course, what would an MS Publisher product be without Pagewizards. These design aids help you decide just what it is you'd like to produce, then put the basic lay-
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event tickets‚ bookmarks, and even Web sites. Actiially, Web site design is something Microsoft has jurnped into in a big way. With MsgPublisher 97, you can piece audio‚ Video, hypertext links, and just about anything else
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design elements limited only by how much stuff Microsoft puts on their site. I checked it out and was reasonably impressed with the quantity, even if the quality remains low- to mid-grade. The program is accompanied by a thorough manual (the Microsoft Publisher Companion), which features explanations of common and not-so-common taslcs, definitions and visual representations of included fonts, and a picture of each and every piece of clip art on the CD. Unlike another Microsoft .products of some note (can you say Windowsf’), Publisher owners are also offered free technical support for as long as they own
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the program. Microsoft Publisher 97 is a sure thing for beginners and an inexpensive "final step" for all but DTP professionals.
M ster Publisher is actually a suite of three roducts‚ TurboPublisher, TurboDraw
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Artists are increasingly aware that the Web can be a good promotional tool, offering cheap international exposure. There are so many Web sites catering to the music industry and bands that it almost seems like no band is legit thesc days unless they have a Web page. Representing the Web biz at the trade show was wwwhearandnowxom, a Web authoring company specializing in putting music and other entertainment-related items online. Artists are encouraged t0 add a short listing describing their band online for free. Bands with a little money can hire the company to create a professional Web site around the band, including the creation of sound files that users can download. If you are in a band and looking for some Web professionals to get a "Web presence,” these people are worth checking out. Steinberg had a booth at the show‘, demonstrating its uvell-known Cubase music production software. The latest‘, Cubase 3.0 for Windows 95 or Maci n t o 5 h
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splash? Two reasons are suggested: the demand Hollywood has put on DVD manufacturers to provide regional coding to prevent people from watching movies that have notyet been released in their home market; and, perhaps the bigger issue, the ability of DVD to record data. Currently only DVD players are available—units Capable of recording are expected t0 be available by the end of this year. By the end of 1998, fully recordable/erasable DVD
The Canadian presence Canadian cornpanies were well represented at CeBIT'97. Aside from prominent players like Corel and Newbridge, there were a number of smaller Companies looking to expand their international markets. A few of the interesting products included PhotoSuite from MGI. With this program‚ you can be your own photo editor and graphics designer, producing professional business presentations or designs at home. A product definitely worth taking a look at.
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A small company‚ with a big story had to be CSSIT of Montreal. CS&T is a developer of an enterprise-wide scheduling and resource manager called CorporateTime. It is a Client/Server application designed to reduce the workload of organizing people and resources across an enterprise. CS&T’s Client base reads like the Who's Who of multinational corporations. In addition CSSIT has licensed its technology to Netscape in order to be incorporated into Netscapes Intranet Client and server Software lines. Cl
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as 403 MB! These are only two applications, and although they are certainly among the largest, it is definitely a sign of things to come. Remember when your applications required what was then a measly 2 MB or 3 MB to install? Well, those days are long over‚ and we can look forward to more of the spacehungry variety, especially with the onset of
DVD—based programs just around the corner. Kind of makes you wonder, if a 650 MB CDROM-based application can require as much
as 200 MB(as in the case of MSOffice 97 Pro), what's in store for us when 4.5 GB DVD titles
hit the stores? But even before the onslaught of DVD titles, we have plenty to consider with the several thousand programs currently available. Some need hardly any hard drive space‚ while others will try and hog nearly every last precious byte. All applications aside, the operating system you prefer will also be a detennining factor in how large your hard drive will be. Good
pl’ DOS was the most disk-space friendljl, tequiring roughly 5 MBfor a complete install, including all those useless files you'll never in your life have any use for. Windows 3.1 and {Windows for Workgroups 3.11 weren’t all
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is something you can never have too much of. Well, okay, maybe you can. If you obsess over two or three particular games and you have one of these new 6.4 GB drives Containing nothing but add-on levels well, you get the idea. Aside from the space your applications will require, you will also want to consider how much room your data will need. Depending on what you do with your computer on a day-to-day basis‚ this can be one of the most important factors in deciding on the size of drive to buy. If most of your work is centered around word processing or spreadsheet calculations, it may be a while before you tun low on space. On the other end of things, there are those whowork with graphics-intensive files. In the publishing business especially, a single file can easily run you into the tens of megabytes. And if you have to work with more than a few of these at any one time, or if an entire collection must reside on your drive at all times, you can easily imagine how quickly a gigabyte or two will be used up. Another area where drive space is of great importance is in audio and video editing, where just a few minutes worth of digital data will eat up massive amounts of space. These are only a few of the many examples where it seems you can never have too much hard-drive space. Since the cost per megabyte is at an all-time low, it may be worth working out a rough estimate of how much space you'll actually need, and factoring in what we often refer to as "breathing room." There's nothing worse than going out and buying a brand new drive double the size of your current one only to find it three quarters full in under a month. With the way things are right now‚ we feel that a drive with a capacity of 3 GB will not only meet most consumers’ needs, but will also give them some overhead for the future. Let's face it, nobody wants to buy a new hard drive every six months, which is why we recommend planning ahead. And you 5houldn't worry too much about spending a lot of money on a new drive only to see it advertised for half the price a few months later. Last year, 1.2 GB capacity hard drives were selling for around S350. Those same drives today are selling for S270. What this shows is that hard drive prices don't really drop significantly in a short period of time, but as new technology becomes available, the new line of drives will scll for the same price that the old line once did. The new line of drives having capacities of 3.1 GB are selling for around S400 today. By this time next year, 3.1 GB drives could very well be replaced by 5 and 6.4 GB units (today's high-end models), and will probably sell for close to the same amount of money.
The faster the better Your computer’s Central processing unit (CPU) spends a lot of time waiting for your much slower hard drive to catch up. While operations inside the CPU are timed in nanoseconds (one billionth of a second), your hard drive operations are limited to mere milliseconds, or thousandths of a second. Although considered very fast by human Standards, a millisecond is actually 1,000,000 (one million) times slower than a nanosecond! Comparing the speed of your CPU to your hard drive is like Comparing a Ferrari to a turtle. The most obvious reason for this great dif-
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exceed 2.1 GB. Most drive manufacturers include some kind of disk-based utility that ships with your drive, which will help you do this easily and aCCurately. If not, you'll need to use a utility Called FDISK that comes with DOS. Follow the instructions as outlined in the documentation you receive with the particular setup software, or the DOS manual. Deciding on what size partitions you want to create is important not only because it will allow you to use your drive to its full capacity, but will also detennine how much of that space will be used effectively, and how much of it will go to waste. Let's say you just bought a new drive with a total CapaCity of 4 GB. There are several ways in which you Can partition it, but most people would Choose to go with two partitions, each with a Capacity of 2 GB just because it seems simple enough. And although it's certainly possible, here's why you may not want to. Under the FAT system‚ your Cluster size is determined by your partition size. Here's where it gets interesting! Earlier wesaid that the maximum number of Clusters you Can have on any one drive (or partition) is 65,536, or 64KB Clusters. By dividing the partition size by the maximum number ofClusters the drive Can hold, we get the individual Cluster size. So, let's say you wanted to make a 512 MBpartition and want-_ edjto know how big the Clusters would be. We divide S12 MB by 64KB, which gives 11s 8KB. So what's the big deal? Why the math lesson? Here's why: it so happens that every file on your hard drive must occupy at least one Cluster. This means that if you had a tiny batch file which was 157 bytes long, the FAT system would automatically alloCate an entire Cluster to that file, despite the fact that it's so small. So on a 512 MB partition, that 157-byte file would actually take up entire 8KB of spaCe! Don't believe it? Go ahead and try it! Make yourself a small file using Notepad in Windows or Edit underDOS and type in just a few Characters and then save the file. Open up a DOS box (unless you're already in DOS) and Change to the directory (or folder) where you Created your file. Type "dir" to get a direCtory, and notice your small file occupying just a few bytes of space, or so you think. Also take a look at the number of bytes free at the bottom of the list. Now delete the file and type "dir" once again. Check the number of bytes free once again, ‘and do a bit of arithmetic. You'll quickly notice that the numbers don't add up. By deleting that small file, you've actually freed up an entire Cluster on the hard drive. : Now you Can bring on the fat jokes. An yes, you guessed it. The larger the partition size, the larger the Cluster size. So if you didjgo ahead and make a A2 GB partition, keep ‚in mind that your Cluster size will be a whopping 32KB! Can you imagine the amountpf disk space you would be wasting if the major-_ ity of files on your drive were considerably less than 32KB in size? To prevent many unnecessarily wasted megabytes, we recommend you make your partitions only as large as you need to. If possible‚ use 1 GB or less, and ohly resort to 2 GB if you absolutely need to have all that spaCe on one drive. Using smaller partitions will also give you better perforrnance because your applications won't have to sift through so many megabytes of files in order to find what they're looking for: Also, maintenance tasks such as defragmenting the drive will V
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States with updated and upgraded abilities. Five of these six machines lie within what has been dubbed the 500 series (500, 520, 570, 580 and 590), with the remaining Pro ll50C Standing on its own. lt should be made clear, though, that none of the 500 series will be available in Canada until the end of 1997. You can currently choose between the Officejet 300 and 350 and the newer Pro ll50C. However, I've included all HewlettPackard models here in the survey so you can better make the decision a5 to whether to wait for the arrival of the 500 series or not. It's with the 5005 that the bulk of the Consumer market will eventually be wooed. All models in the series share rather more in common than in distinction. The are all modestly proportioned in the fashion of the competition with the simplified controls sitting comfortably at the right side of the machine. Paper feed from the 20-page bin as well as the single-sheet feed are from back to front. All employ a 4 ppm (b1ack)/ 1 ppm (color) inkjet printer and monochrome TWAlN-compliant scanner. The copying resolution is 600x300 dpi for all, and each has a 14.4Kbps faxmoContinued an page 70
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Other perks are incorporated into the software bundle, which includes HewlettPackard’s standard ColorSmart Software (to optimize color printing) as well as something called CopySmart t0 let you do all kinds of things with the scanner/copier function (like alter the dimensions between 50 and 400 percent). ScanSmart lets you add images to any 32-bit applications quite simply (though I didn't test the stated theoreticals, HewlettPackard says ScanSmart can put an image into a 32-bit application with three mouse clicks while, without it, you'd need 18 mouse clicks and the launching of two applications to achieve the same results). The rest of the bundle is made up of Adobe's PhotoDeluxe image editing and managing Software and Caere OmniPage LE OCR. All in all, this is an extremely high-quality and fine machine with only the lack of a faxmodem and that anachronistic Rube Goldberg paper-handling System counting against it. A serious machine for serious MFPers with what we can only suppose will have to be serious wallets.
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Luinina Motflels:Lumina 2096 and 2144 Enhanced Froln: Lumina Ofiice Prnducts Estlrnated street price: D35299 orapprox. S400 (2095), ussaen orapprox. e525 (2144) Hohl, you might well ask, can Lumina sell true MRPs for these low prices when everybody c more? The rejoinder, else wants so very much however, says less about covert corporate cartels, than good ol’ American ingenuity. The Lumina people reasonably reasoned, you see, thagt most Computer owners already have a
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That being the only 3 real difference from other MFPs, the Lumina is a fully featured plain paper fax machine‚ faxmodem, scanner and copier that connects to your Computer through the parallel and serial ports just like any other. Optimizing the desk-saving advantages of an MFP, the Lumina is deceptively small and light with a simple control panel traversing the entire top/front panel. To the left of C e n tre under a hinged panel lies the 33-key Alpha sectipn, which contains a few specialty buttons along with all the letters of the alphabet for typing in your phone book and stuff. To the right of the machine lies the Function section of seven one-touch keys for things like Copy, Redial, Start, Stop, etc. Between those "panels lies the two-line LCD above a standard telephone keypad which Lumina calls the Numeric Key section. Along the back panel is where you'll find the usual telephone and parallel and serial hook-ups as well as the additional connector for your printer cable. Alas, it's at the back too that you'll find the power switch. Ignoring that injquitous physical flaw, the raised buttons on all three control panels are well spaced and evoke a variance of "beeps" . to reassuringly acknowledge prestidigital success. And, lacking a printer engine, paper handling is through a single slot from the 30sheet paper bin straight through to the front of the machine in a fashion identical to a standard‚ standalone fax (all other paper handiing is dependent on your own printer). My Lumina came bundled with Phoenix's Eclipse Fax Software and a single diskette control package for controlling various tasks through your Computer. The press kit I received discussed the addition of an OCR package from Phoenix as well as the electronic file management application calledDocumagix PaperMaster SE. Which is where the enhanced designatioh now comes in for the 2144: as an added "enhancement," Lumina 2144s include an Internet Fax packmage that's Windows 95 and n Windows 3‚lx compatible and will allow you to send documents and attached files as email. Documentation wise, the user's guide for the Lumina is unintimidating in size and has been recentiy revamped to simplify what was once written in nearly incomprehensible computerese. Manuals for the software are relatively easy to work through for anyone with Continued an page 74
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were planning to get a new one. i}In addition to the price reduction and irifclusion of OCR, document-management and Internet fax Software packages, another new development for this product is that it's nöw much more readily available from retailers—the rather obscure Lumina company has struck deals with a number of office superstpres and regional distributors. Anyone who had difficulty tracking down the Luminas aftjer they first hit the scene will no longer have that headache.
Panasonic Model: KX-PSSÜU Estimated street price: S799
that it's designed around a small footprint mini-tower type case. Unfortunately, though, that space-saving vertical thrust is defeated by the fact that the three paper trays (input tray, feed to scanner and a IOO-sheet hopper) all
stick out about a foot to the right from the top and bottom of the side panel and top again of the top panel. This mean it ain't as slim as it could have been, desktop wise. The second most notable thing is that, like a few others in this survey, the makers have elected to leave out a faxmodem-the KX-PS is essentially a Scannerand printer in one but makes use of your existing faxmodem card to perform all the rest of the MFP func-
tions. But Panasonic isn't trying to fool us entirely about that lack. They’ve designated theKX-PSGOO _as a ”Personal Image Editing System" instead of as an MFP. Applying a logical derivative of Luminafls reasoning, they contend that most people will already have a faxmodem so there's no reason to make them buy another. According to the company news release, the KX-PS6OO will offer 300 dpi, 64 grey-scale scanning at 5 ppm to a laser engine running at 6 ppm that can print and copy at up to 600x600 dpi. The copier function will make quick, exact copies without involving the Computer, or, through Software, you'll be able t0 recluce, enlarge and multiply. The basic model will be equipped with 512KB of memory that will be upgradable to 4.5 MB. Included in the proprietary Software bundie is drag-and-drop Client software for linking captured images to email and faxes along with other utilities including a basic image archival and retrieval database for personal image management. According to the MFP Report, these packages were developed by the ”U.S. branch of Taiwan's Destiny Technology Corporation in conjunction with KME, Panasonic's Japanese patent." As a very nice bonus—and like so many others now— Xerox's excellent TextBridge OCR Software is included as well.
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That said‚ 9.6Kbps fax speed amounts to about nine seconds per page while the 64 grey-scale scanner, when set for Rapid Scan, will reach as high as a blazing five seconds per page if the image isn't too complex. The TF601 comes equipped with 256KB of page memory (that's about 20 pages) but can be upgraded to 2.25 MB (144 pages) if required. Other features include a 160-sheet paper bin and a 20—sheet document feeder for the
fax/scanner/copier (this is protractedly acronymecl by Toshiba as the ADF, for automatic document feeder, so don't be confused by that if you ever take the time to read a brochure). The necessary ImageVision IV Software used to be sold separately for more than S200 in the U.S.‚ but now that it's bundled free in Canada, anyone who buys the TF601 can take advantage of what it has to offer. lmageVision IV is a document-management package and image-editing utility as well as control centre for the background operation of the TF601's features. There are also telephony features for hold, call waiting and call display compatibility, plus you can add an extemal answering machine to a create ”a virtual communications centre" out of your MFP. A5 well, ImageVision IV incorporates Caere's popular WordScan OCR package. Toshiba has developed the lmageVision lV package into a flexible, practical and intuitive tool. lt is a recent upgrade of, not surprisingly, its ImageVision package, so there are several refinements and extra features. As a footnote, Toshiba announced two more consumer priced MFPs just before deadline: the TF 42l for about S695 and the TF 461, likely to sell for around S795.
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This is a new entry into the MFP market from the venerable Okidata corporation; so new, in fact, that it won't be shipping until just about the time you're reading this. What that means is... it's another machine that l never actually got to see. According to Okidata, this "toner-based" (a kincl of LED technology that employs dry ink powder instead of wet ink—ie. it works similarly to, but not the same as, a laser printer) machine is capable of printing, copying, faxing and scanning. And for those of you frightened by the non-standard technology, refills for the toner come in proprietary cartridges just like for a laser printer. "Fhe rest of the machine features a 100sheet paper bin and a fax with 21 pages worth of memory and 55 numbers’ worth of speeddial memory. The OKIOFFICE 44 will be shipping with a Software bundle called Jetsuitethe usual management, control and utility package for all of the machine's abilitiesalong with Caere's WordScan OCR application. It's not possible to evaluate a machine like this without actually seeing it, but Okidata has made consistently capable and well-built products for a long time, so we can, at least, trust that the OKIOFFICE 44 will share that heritage. lt likely deserves at least a look-see before you comrnit to purchasing any other machine. Ü
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titles. While these new releases are on seemingly unrelated topics‚ one would expect that over the next few years, new titles will help fill in the gaps to create a core of essential home reference products. Interactlve Encyclopedla Estimated street price: S55 to S60 : Probably the best known of the Home titles is Library 1997 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. The bonus disc with this title is the H“: 51"" “
Time Magazine Multimedia Almanac. Yes, l groaned too‚ a Macleans Almanac might be more useful in Canada. That being said, this almanac includes the complete issues of the magazine from January 1989 to June 1995, and can be searched by person, topic or word. So, if your child is doing a research paper on the Hubble space telescope, a search for Hubble will lay out a timeline of articles on Hubble’s highs and lows since its inception. Students can then independently search the Web for the Current Status. The CD-ROM also contains views, photos‚ Videos, etc, on several topics such as environmental concerns like the Exxon-Valdez disaster. There is a mini-atlas for the United States as well, with maps and all sorts of statistical information. Perhaps this could be useful for geography or history courses. n this vein, there are 2,000 historically important articles dating back to 1923. The original commentary on some events‚ which may be {a7
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second quarter of '97, Lotus and Microsoft have their horses on the field today. Here then, is a general ovcrvicw of the top products of the arch rivals: Lotus Development Corporation, child of IBM; and, Microsoft Corporation, IBM's estranged partner.
Anclent history While the Apple Macintosh has always had a somewhat integrated format with a graphical interface, a unified, Common application format, drag and drop, and cut and paste between applications (not to mention, between different data types), the other side of the PC world didn't. Thus, when the DOS world began to fall to the Windows world, circa 1991, the market was crowded with word processors and spreadsheets that neither looked similar nor worked with each other. In 1993, when Windows 3.1 had won the day, things began to change due to the advent of common features such as cut and paste, Object Linking and Embedding 1.0 (OLE) and the work of standards committees. At about this time, the makers of programs such as Word Perfect or Ami Pro began to tailor their word processors to spreadsheet programs, giving them not only the ability to work together but a similar look and feel, as well. in 1994, suites were becoming popular, more unified, and more powerful. The arrival of Windows 95, with its improved OLE ability—with OLE 2.0, 32-bit abilities, as well as the more powerful hardware Win 95 necessitated—made the arrival of truly integrated, multi-function suites the next evolution. With the emergence of the Internet as a serious force in 1996, Lotus, Microsoft and the new owners of WordPerfecL Corel, began '
to integrate their suites with the burgeoning Internet. This process has matured in 1997 with Microsoft Office 97 but to a greater degree with Lotus SmartSuite 97. Corel continues this trend with WordPerfect Suite 8 and hints at the next step by including support for the new Intel MMX processors.
Thoroughbreds Both SmartSuite and Office are mature and rich productivity suites that run on Windows NT or 9S. They both come on CD and require between 100 MB and 200 MB of hard-drive space depending on your choices. Both products were released in the first quarter of 1997 and in both, the individual applications have been more tightly tied together by a central program within the suite. Both have award— winning applications as part of their suites and both are part of a larger strategy that includes network applications. They also both have strong and deep corporate Support and weighty companies Standing behind them. The feature set of any one program in either suite is such that a single review could run thousands of words. This more gencral comparison is meant as a survey of the two suites rather than a point-by-point companson of features and functionality. This review is meant to give readers a starting point by comparing the Overall direction these programs are taking. More in-depth reviews will make their way to the pages of The Computer Paper and its Web site (httpz/ltcpca) as part of more specific category reviews.
a relational database. The package also includles Microsoft Bookshelf Basics‚ a quick refererlce tool with a dictionary, thesaurus and q liotes. The program runs on a multimedia 48i; or better running Win 95 or NT. First out of the gate with an office suite for Windows 95 was, unsurprisingly, Microsoft. Now, Microsoft is first with an upgrade. The
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world, with trial versions of Office 97 given away to more than 80,000 MIS (manager information services) executives. On top of this push, Microsoft worked with more than 80 organizations worldwide, representing more than one million desktops, as part of its early adopters program (EAP). Many large corporations were represented in the EAP, including Ontario Hydro. Clearly, this is big business. What is all the fuss about? Well, Bill Gates, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft, says, "Office 97 is our most significant release of the Suite to date. We've invested nearly three years of development time and over 25,000 hours of usability testing to deliver the new capabilities our customers have requested." Microsoft Iists four areas where the product is improved. Here are its claims:
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Intemet/intranet: SmartSuite 96 did get its Intemet-focused prociuct out the door first. It has been a leader in recognizing the importance of the Net and of nets in general (intranets, extranets, etc.). However, with Corel about to release its suite with strong Internet hooks, and Microsoft having already done so, the point is somewhat moot. Working a5 a team: Fach of the three major suite: has created an environment where working as a team is irnportant+after all, that is the point of a suite. However, none has done so as weil as Lotus in SmartSuite 97. Team collaboration, such as group editing, is possible in Office 97 but the most experienced and strongest in team computing is SmartSuite 97. Up-to-date technology and tools: Now that SmartSuite has gone all 32-bit‚ and therefore fully compatible with Windows NT, it has caught up to Microsoft's Office. In this area‚ SmartSuite is simply getting to where it should be. Information anytime, anywheme: Just
like Office 97, SmartSuite 97 is part of a bigger picture. The suite and its components are ideally suited to network use. The fact that they are written to work with Windows NT, a more and more popular choice for local area network (LAN) operations, and the fact that they are fully customizable, is because both companies recognize this is a fight for the corpo— rate desktop more than the individual PC. The nature of computing is ubiquity and divergence. Any package of essential and intensely used programs that wants to dominate must be able to interface with as many systems, programs, and needs as possible. Smartsutte does this but so does Office. One size does not fit all: Again like Office‚ SmartSuite is very customizable. I-‘or
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example, Organizer can be bent and adjusted in so many ways that you can please almost everyone. This ability is becoming more and more Common to all types of programs from browsers to graphic programs. This is apparent in the trend to floating toolbars. As well, companies need to be able to customize suites for security, productivity, or even resource reasons. Because of the component architecture of the Software, this is possible; and because of the large number of third-party developers with large installed bases, this is easy. _ The suite is full of great stuff that will be covered in later reviews with a tighter focus‚ but here is a small sampling. SmartSuite Center, which places drawers at the top of the screen for easy access to program icons and other information, includes an Internet draw-
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All the products offer you a choice of lcharts of accounts for different types of busi„ . . . .. pesses. Customer mvoicing, cheque wnting {and bank reconciliations are Standard fealtures. You can track GST on purchases and jsales and PST on sales, and automatically caliculate your payroll taxes. (Businesses in {Atlantic Canada shouid note that none of the broducts reviewed are pre-configured _for the harmonized sales tax-or HST——but all are jcapable of recording and reporting the new lax.) All have the capability of handling onejtime cash receipts and cash invoices. You can create more than one company‚ protect your data with passwords, customize your invoices and cheque forms, track both cash and credit saies and calculate terms and discounts. You can print innumerable reports, You can define free form inventorf items up to 15 characters in length. A four-character including comparative profit and loss Statements and balance sheets, aged accounts category code is used— for ciassifying the receivable and payable listings, sales analysis inventory. Inventory can be standalone or and inventory stock and reorder reports. All linked to the general ledger. You can assign the products have context-sensitive help, -each item to a different general ledger excellent manuals and a multitude of other account and define different units for purtielpful features. chasing‚ Stocking and selling. i Some programs come only on CD-ROM Payroll offers an unlimitednumber of user iivhile others come only on 3.S—inch floppy definable eamings and deductions, which can diskettes. Many provide you with a choice. be calculated using the formulae supplied. Check the box carefully for the equipment The payrol] can be computed any number of riequired to take advantage of all the product times before you print or issue the cheques. features and ensure you have the necessary Each earnings and deduction can be assigned to a different general ledger account for costequipment to install the program. ing purposes. Payroll reporting is very comljynacom Accounting plete. You can use the report writer to create Dynacom Accounting for Windows Gold is a tiuly Canadian bilingual accounting system. forms and reports or modify those provided Qne of its strongest features is its flexibility. with the program. Ypu can open several periods simultaneously This is a very powerful flexible solution for small- and medium-sized businesses in the afnd change the system date to enter transactibns to another date or period. You can cus- construction or distribution industries. Some tomize the toolbar. However, I couldn't see of the more advanced features were not too tlie buttons well and there i5 no feature easy to use, so plan to commit some resources for training. describing the buttons. You can click on the tooibar or press a fnnction key to search for data by account, QuickBooks Pro d;ate, sequence number, customer, vendor and QuickBooks Pro is a very easy program to set document number. lt has a link to your text up and use‚ yet it has many powerful and eclitor and your backup program. lt can be flexible features. During set up of your comnfetworked with Net Bios, Novell-compatible pany, it offers industry-specific advice to help nletwork or Windows Workgroup setup. you take advantage of these features. You can create custom fieids to track the speciai infor"g Whcn you set up a new company, you can mation you require for customers‚ vendors, cciipy files from another company or enter
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Business Vision Encore’s product philosophy is that business processes-such as taking an order‚ receiving goods or creating a purchase order-come first and that business information should be delivered to the user visually» on screen——and quickly. The product certainly meets its objective. You can view graphs in the general ledger t0 compare last year's net change of an account with this year's net change and compare balances by fiscal period. You can quickly make inquiries from any account balance
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If you have set up a job to track reimbursable expenses, you can link that job to a customer so that when you assign expenses to (hatjob they can be recalled and billed with a click of the mouse. You can enter a budget amount, by account, for every detail job in the system and the job budget analysis teils you if you are making money on a project. M.Y.O.B. comes with a card file system that allows you to manage information on your prospects or contacts as well as your customers, vendors and employees. There are so _ many HELP features I d0 not have room to list them all here. One notable feature is the CDROM online Video that presents the help you need in a friendly and informal way (if you have a CD-ROM drive, accelerated VGA graphics card‚ a Pentium processor, Windows 95 and a sound card). M.Y'.O.B. is available for the Macintosh as well as for Windows Computer Systems.
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and models of televisions for sale at a store will immediately notice that not all TVs are equal When it comes to displaying color. They have a wide range of color hues, so what may appear red on one TVmay appear pink-ish on another. TVs have a wider Variation in displaying color
The user then sits back in liis or her favorite chair and proceeds to surf the Net via the TV using a device similar to a remote control. Users can send and receive email, but the prithan Computer monitors, so do not mary purpose of WebTV is to surf the Web. expect colors t0 be displayed in exactly the There are several tips for writing hypertext nianner specified (this applies even to the "safemarkup language (HTML) for WebTV that palette" discussed earlier in this series). serve as good, general tips for Web authors. ’« In particular, HTML authors creating Web For example, it is a wise to avoid small text pages for WebTV should not use full red sizes in both the HTML or graphics (e.g. an (#30000) or full white (#FFFFFF)‚ as they both image containing text), This is because small cafuse distortion on a TV screen, so that the text is difficult to read on a television screen. edges of the page will appear to bow. lnstead, it Also, consider the fact that your WebTV user is recommendecl that HTML authors try subis probably further from the TV screen than a stituting a color value that is 90 percent white, traditional Web surfer would be from a comlike using the WebTV color names "linen," puter monitor. While this limits Web authors "whitesmoke" or the more universal hexadecito some extent, it does make Web pages easi- mal color value #EFEFEF. This is a good pracer to read. By avoiding the use of text that is tice, because while black text on a white backsmaller than the base font size of the browser, ground is easier to read than on light gray (the you can make Web pages easier to read for typical background default color for many Web both WebTV and non-WebTV surfers. browsers), it is also harsh on the eyes, and can cause eye-strain in the user. Reducing the conColor and images trast between background and text can make There are some special color considerations to Web pages easier to read. _ keep in mind when writing for WebTV. When it comes to images, there are a lot of Anybody who looks at a row of different brands sensible suggestions that apply t0 WebTV but
are equally useful when writing HTML for other browsers. It is good to consider the order in which the parts of the page display on-screen. ln general, text displays faster than images, and small images load faster than larger images. So try to place any large images you have on a Web page below the part of the screen that is initially visible, sothe user can read the text while the image finishes loading. When possible, try usingJPEG images instead of GIF, as the file size of the former tends to be smaller than the latter. The extra compression involved in the JPEG format does entail some extra number-crunching by the computer or WebTV to process the image, but as CPUs get faster, this is less of an issue. JPEGs also have a much wider palette of colors (numbering in the millions) as opposed to the 256—color GlF palette. When possible, try to reuse the same image within your Web pages, so that you can take advantage of automatic caching abilities of most Web browsers and WebTV. ln addition, it is always a good idea (WebTV or no) to
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A Celebration of Women Wrlters 0 A cäomprehensive guide t0 online writings by rlyomen worldwide up through the early 20th (fientury. Also includes biographical and bibliqgraphic information on many of these writers. llttp://www‚cs.cmu.edu/als/cacmuedu/user/mmbt/w vlgw/women/writerahtml
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