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102 The gift of learning on CD-ROM

14 Gifts galore Neat stuff for the computerist

109 A Mac user's CD-ROM favorites

36 TCP's 4th annual gaming gift givefs guide

117 The best CD-ROM encyclopedias . 119 Coffee table CD-ROMs

62 A computer for Christmas

124 CanCon on CD-ROM

PCs packed with the latest technology

68 Maybe you'drather have a Ma cforChristmas Power Mac 6500/300 mixes business with pleasure .n

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81 Annual survey of Canadian payroll software 81 Spreadsheet inventor turns to the Web

146 A gift on paper Top 10 technology books of 1997 148 A trio of Canadian Internet Books

82 N etAngel, online help desksupport 88 Canadian payroll software chart 98 Sun, Microsoft and the Javalawsuit(s) 100 Get out-of-country medical insurance

152 The frugal computer 153 Apple delivers developer Rhapsody NOS

156 Investment tips in high-tech stocks

112 Publishing 97 — Seybold report

131 Building a Web site: The uncategorials

167 A tale of two platforms

133 Weaving your own Web site: Part XXVII Entities with character

136 Ethan Henry's top Javasites 142 The law of cyberspace: METAtag misuse

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have yet to meet the majority of them face-toface. Still, we maintain a productive business people oow have hearey relationship almost exclusively by email. conversations and develHowever, I'm not sure if email will become op important relation- a part of my personal life. I' ve got 10-year-old s hips t h r ough e m a i l letters and greeting cards stuffed in some exchanges. We' ve heard of friendships and drawer at home. I can't say that about any romances that have blossomed from Internet email — not yet anyway. email exchanges. And it's no longer newsworthy that new parents email baby pictures and 2S years in the telesphere Email is our current pre-occupation, but it' s often observed that Canadians have long been fixated on communication. And, as a country, we are early adopters of new communications technologies. Whether it's Internet access, cashless Interac cards or cable TV, we seem to just lap this stuff up. It's not surprising, then, that we were first in the w orld w it h a d o mestic satellite. November marked the 25th anniversary of T elesat Canada's launch of A Al , w h i c h was the w o rld's f irst synchronous-orbit domestic communications satellite. Anik 1 and its successors have become a central part of our lives, whether we realize it or not. The major TV networks like CSC, CTV and Global use it to beam their programs across the country, as do specialty channels. Telesat will be launching a d irect broadcast satellite in November 1998, which will carry the directto-home TV services we' ll be hearing more about in the coming months, as companies start pitching us about the virtues of a 500channel universe. Telesat's broadcast services have the most 4 observable impact on most people's lives, but ePhoto™ 1280. the company also has a business services diviahe hot eaapwoeaaeePa Phaewawea ahaaapeeleeahw aaewjoh aeahaao sion, where it offers satellite-based wide-area aaaahaveah haewivd aeeeolava

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A new focus on small business Beginning this month, you' ll find a new section in The Computer Paper,focusing on products, services and issues that are relevant to computer users in small business, which we' ve defined as companies or branch offices with up to 50 employees. This is not a radical change in editorial direction, but a formalizing of some small course corrections we' ve made during the past few years. Our readership surveys have been telling us that the interests and desiresof TCP readers are evolving, as much as the computer industry itself is evolving. Many of our readers work as professionals in companies, or are small business entrepreneurs, who want the straight goods on how computer technologies are going to help them survive and prosper. If this is you, then you now have a section to turn to each month. Whether you use your computer as a business tool, as a means of personal productivity or as part of the family recreation centre, we intend to keep Tfre Computer Paperrelevant to your interests; Enjoy the issue

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LETTERS Strangers in the Network Neighborhood I'd like to draw attention to a poorly documented and unwelcome feature of Rogers Wave. Prior to getting the Wave installed I had only two nodes on my network: my wife' s system and my own. After the install, while clicking on the " Entire Network" icon i n Win95, I found a whole big list of new groups. Suddenly I can see a whole bunch of servers

that are not on my network. These servers cannot be accessed due to password protection but thanks to the Wave, and the fact that I have not set up any passwords, they can probably access me. A call to Rogers tech line revealed that this is not some freakish occurrence but a situation common to many users of the Wave. In fairness to Rogers I find there is a disclaimer in their agreement that mentions

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My question is, would you invest in a hard drive (2.1 GB) for a 486DX66 PC with 16 MB or RAM and 420 MB hard drive, or buy a new system? To be quite honest, I cannot afford a brand new system at the moment. My kids are driving mecrazy,because they cannot download

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Creative labs ships secondg eneratlon P C-OVD k i t Creative Labs hasintroduced its PCDVD Encore Dxr2, a digital video disc kit designed to enable a PC to play the latest in DVD audio and video titles. The Encore Dxr2 consists of a DVD drive (which will also play most formats of CD-ROM and CD-Audio discs, including CD-R

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unveiled its fastest high-capacity hard disk drives ever. The Cheetah disk drive family includes 4.5 GB, 9.1 GB, and 18.2 GB models of drives. The new drives have average accesstimes of between 5.2 and 5.7 ms (milliseconds), which makes them among the fastest general purpose disk drives in the world. The Cheetah drives can transfer formatted data at rates of between 14.5 and 21.3 MB/sec. The drives are made in UltraZ SCSI and Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) versions, and are intended for the professional server, workstation and high-end PC market. Seagate's executive director of anarketing and planning, Rudy Thibodeau, toldTCP that the new drives are aimed at high-performance applications such as digital video, graphics, medical imaging, data warehousing, data mining, and transaction processing. Thibodeau says the improvements in the Cheetah drives include 25 percent lower power consumption, making the product more suitable for mass storage applications ("up to 384 drives in one storage array, but more commonly six to eight Cheetahs in a departmental server," Thibodeau says). One surprise Thibodeau has encountered with early customers is the tendency of some users to put these drives into high-end PCs or "personal workstations," particularly in design and video production environments. The Cheetah is a premium drive with list prices set for the 9.1 GB Cheetah 9LP and the 18.2 GB Cheetah 18 initially set at US$1,090 and US$1,755 respectively. Thibodeau expects the new Cheetahs will begin to ship to over 200 registered OEM customers in November. Full scale production and availability will likely be achieved in the first quarter of 1998. Continued on page$4

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Bumping up the performance of an (Cheap, too!) the last 18 months, drives with olde r c o mputer is often a better H e rearesomegoodstockingstuffers o v e r on e G igabyte (over 1,000 short-term policy than buying a th a t w ill increase the performance m egabytes) have become incredibly new one, if only because even if o f a PC at a relatively modest cost. c h eap. Any older computer is likely you could afford the new comput- K eep in mind that whatever you t o h ave a hard drive with 200 to er, it would quickly become obso- buy has to be compatible with the 8 0 0 MB capacity, and it's probably lete as welL Care should be taken c o mputer you are intending t o pr e tty much filled up and slow in ' a g ainst the common hazards of i n s tall it on. Politeness would sug- p erformance. For a little over $200, upgrading: lack of user knowledge, gest that if you buy an upgrade for y o u c a n g e t a 1 G B c a pacity ' a n d compatibility and installation y o u r c o m puterist, yo u s h o ul d e n h anced IDE drive, by a brandi p r o blems. So, our first recommen- i n c lude proper installation as part of n a m e m a n u facturer s uc h a s I d a t ion is either of two excellent t h e g i ft. b o oks on buying and upgrading a Mor e RA M : R A M ( r a ndom o f d r ives the target PC is compatiPC: access memory) chips are what your b l e with, and unless you are handy; Refe r ences: The PC Upgrade and PC uses to run software programs, w i t h c o m puters, make arrangeRepair Bible a is huge book that con- a nd t he more RAM a PC has, the m e n ts to have a technician do the:; t a ins virtually all the imaginable b e tter it can handle demanding i n s tallation.

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To get the most out of a computer, there are ongoing expenses that need to be met: printer supplies, tech support, training, telecom services and the like. Gifts that take some of the programs, large graphics and video files sting out of the computerist's overhead costs much faster, and multimedia games and might include: High-speed internet service: The Rogers educational software, particularly t hose WAVE cable modem service offers up to 500 with long sequences of animation and kilobits upload and download speed, using video, will be able to run.

an Ethernet card installed in the subscriber's PC, connected to a cable modem that in turn connects to the household cable TV line. Rogers' WAVE is somewhat more expensive than a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) Internet hookup, but the added speed plus unlimited online time make for an attractive service for anyone who spends a fair amount of t ime surfing the Web. lnstaliation of the WAVE costs about $100,

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printer supplies ansi paper Printers, particularly color inkjet models, have plummeted in price: in fact, for under $200 a Lexmark color printer would make a very nice holiday gift. However, the shocking truth of the Great Printer Scam is that printer manufacturers make most of their profits nowadays from selling supplies — mainly ink cartridges for inkjets, and toner cartridges for laser printers. A handful of brand name, new ink cartridges for your computerist's insatiable inkjet would be a welcome gift, perhaps in conjunction with some high-quality specialty paper for making iron-on T-shirt transfers, or photoquality prints. Be somewhat wary of buying non-name brand supplies. A Toronto company called Image Control does a good, conscientious job of refilling and reselling laser toner cartridges and black ink c artridges for fax machines, and there may be other reputable companies in your area. But keep in mind that the formulation of color inks for highresolution inkjet printers is a tricky business: stick to the name brand ink cartridges unless you see good inkjet output that has been made using the reloaded or alternative ink cartridges.

Sometblne really affordable... For those who have extremely small budgets, or are just stingy, here are some under-$20 suggestions. A new mouse pad: Is your computerist a Star Trek or Garfield fan with a tatty old mousepad? Give him or her something that is both visually comforting and useful: a new

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Clfts galore Contimred from page 28 package, with over 1,000 pages and four CDROMs, Windows 95 Secrets Gold lays out all Windows 95's secrets, undocumented features, time-saving shortcuts, and fixes to common probiems. Some might think it unfair and perverse that the clumsier, less intuitive, harder to use MS Windows operating system has succeeded, while the delightful, humane Mac operating system is declining. If you think that, you' re right. But then, sometimes life IS unfair. The softcover, 1,000-plus page/4disc Windows95 SecretsGold 4tlr Edition (ISBN 0-7645-3094-1) is by Brian Livingston and Davis Straub, published by IDG Books and sells for $84.99.

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for the notebook user on your list. A desktop monitor and full-size key-

board: Current mid- to highl and notebooks really can be "desktop replacements," but that means having to live with a fairly small screen and keyboard 100 percent of the time, not just while traveling. Many people who find themselves relying totally on a notebook find a fullsized monitor or keyboard on the desk at home or in the office a good investment. At

least a 15-inch monitor (preferably 17 inches) and agood ergonomic keyboard areideal,and can reduce health risks and fatigue, and increase productivity. A spare battery: Few notebook computer batteries last for more than three hours of intensive use before needing a recharge. In many cases, especially with notebooks that have a large I I- or 13-inch color screen, hattery life is much less. A spare battery will douhle the

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politically incorrect suggestion for the dedicated PC gamer. get.a video games console suchastheNintendo 64,SegaSaturn,orSony Playstation. The logic is simple: rather than buy a $3,000 PC with all the bells and whistles needed to run Quake II at hyperspeed, spend about $200 on a video games console. This will free ' up the family PC for business or educational

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what the fuss is about, before buying a Sega Saturn. The Sony Playstation rounds out the Big Three of the video games console contenders, offering a custom chipset that produces 3D graphics that rival those of the N64. DVD or not DVD? In spite of the endless marketing barrage about digital video disc in 1996 and 1997, this

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storage capacity, has failed to make a quick impact on the computer market. However, hope springs eternal, and 1998 may be "the year of DVD." As far as buying a DVD upgrade kit, a new, improved version has just been launched by Creative Labs, but at this still-early stage, DVD is mainly of interest only to the true audiovisual enthusiast.

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Hit the road, Jack, effective mobility of the mobile computerist. An unobtrusive notebook bag: Targus, with a mobile computing device the largest maker of notebook computer carry- Quite often, someone who is' comfortable ing bags, has taken to making a wider variety with their desktop PC may need some kind of of bag designs that don't shout ni've got a mobile computing capability, but not a fullfledged notebook computer. This brings us to notebook computer in here!" to potential thieves. Some of their models are built as back- the possibility of buying a handheld device for packs, briefcases or schoolbook bags, offering our Christmas computerist. It used to be that the landscape downmarsome degree of protection by camouflaging ket from a notebook PC was populated by an the presence of the notebook computer.

unruly mob of rather feeble electronic organizers. No more. Now, if a PC user wants a high degree of real functionality in a handheld computer, there are a host of new devices that have lots of built-in capabilities, along with the ability to communicate via the Internet, and directly with PCs and printers. Philips Velo CE palmtop computer. The Windows CE platform, which was intended by Microsoft to take over the handheld com-

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g cold on the Newton since its invention, seeing the potential of Newton technology, but unable to begin to realize that potential until recently. The first Newton was difficult to use due to weak handwriting recognition software, and had a high sticker price for a gadget that needed a lot of extra hardware and software to be added before it became particularly

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The current model of Message Pad is a much more satisfactory product, and the eMate 300, which is based on Newton technology, but packaged as a kind of light weight miniature notebook, has proven to be quite a h it i n the educational market. The Message Pad 2000 sells for a street price of ar o u n d $1,400, and the e - Mate doesn't have a street price,

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for playing Duke Nukem and other business ports, a 20x CD-ROM drive, and 3D sound applications), an optional 4.7 GB DVD-ROM and Wavetable Synthesis, and full duplex drive, 5.1 GB hard drive, and full Plug and audio. All this, for only $10,869. For more ' Play and power management utilities. information, call 905-470-3478, or check out The 750 CDT's graphics subsystem is par- http: //www.toshIba.ca. ticularly impressive, based on a S3 Virge video The Kurocom 7200 No tebook: This controller with 4 MB of video ram that sup- Canadian-made desktop replacement notevideoconferencing capability (including a dig- ports 1,024x768, 24-bit display on the 13.3- book also comes with a 233 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, 20x CD-ROM drive and 13.3-inch TFT screen, but it lacks the videoconferencing capability and NTSC TV output, as well as some other features of the 750 CDT. However, ¹e. for mainstream business tasks, it is one of the fastest notebooks we' ve seen, and at a suggested retail price of $4,775, it is much more affordabfe. For more information, point your browser to http: //www.entoom.ca. 3

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cameras create images with 1280x960 or 1,024x768 pixel resolution, and currently cost about $1,100 to $1,200. All digital cameras have the ability to transfer pictures to a PC simply and quickly, and most decent digital - cameras also now coine with a tiny color LCD screen to view pictures before saving them onto a computer. Santa in a Big Blue suit: IBM for Christmas

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CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS NASCAR Racing 2 (NR2), the first Papyrus product to be distributed by Sierra On-Line, the little rodent the best got a lot better in early '97. It may have been a sequel, but NR2 had back to initiate more than enough legs (wheels?) to stand all the backswingthe further you on its own and was the first Papyrus product drag, the higher made to appeal to the masses, not just hardyour on-screen core realism fans. In that respect, N2 offered alter-ego raises several optional driving aids and even a pure arcade mode! Upgraded visuals (particularly

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Street price: $50 If you' ve got a hockey fan on your gift-giving list (and who in Canada doesn' t?), you wouldn't want to settle for anything less than the best, would you? And the best over the last several years has been EA Sports' NHL Hockey series, one that has been smartly upgraded with its latest installment, NHL 98.

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More importantly, true students of the game will appreciate EA's attention to artificial

97, and if previous efforts (NHL PowerPlay 96) it's been spotted still kickin' around on store and early word are any indication, it' ll give shelves and YOU MUST BE WARNED! intelligence this time around. Yes, the odd the EA Sports game its first serious competiT his weak e f fort w a s i n d icative o f glaring AI quirk remains, but for the most part tion. Consider yourself prepared. Microsoft's first ugly forays into computer NHL 98 plays much smarter than before and is gaming. Yes, the cut scenes were beautiful, hut game and not watching a television broad- absolutely brilliant in head-to-head mode. Not even in the discount bin the circa 1985 Space Invaders gameplay was cast — that's how real this thing looks. Add real Of course, EA Sports doesn't have a Deadly Tide, from Microsoft: Released back in astoundingly repetitive and m ost astute life Vancouver Canucks announcer Jim monopoly on PChockey. By the time you late '96, Deadly Tide deserves mention garners could work from beginning to end in Hughson and his mostly accurate play-by-play read this, Virgin will have released yet anoth- because, one, it was preceded by an heretofore less than half a day. Thank your lucky stars and this is hockey, baby. er Vancouver-designed title, NHL PowerPlay unparalleled marketing campaign, and two, I'm here to save you. NBA Jam Extreme, from Acclaim: Truly stu-

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for just under $200, These drives will read your existing 720KB and 1.44 MB floppies, as well as the new 120 MB floppy disks. They' re considerably faster, around five times the speed of current floppy drives, and connect via your IDE connector. Some manufacturers have already started to make these drives standard issue on some

traditional floppy, it's a faster drive, and it' s backwards compatible. These drives could quite possibly spell the end of 1.44 MB floppy drives and make way for this long-overdue technology. But before that happens, the $190 price tags on these drives will have to be dealt with. There's no telling how long that will take, but

The re-inventedfloppy The long awaited LS-120 floppy drives have of their models. And why not? You' re getting if demand for the new technology is great finally begun shipping, and are now available more than 80 times the storage capadty of a enough, it could be a matter of a few short

months. So should you buy one now or wait until the prices — hopefully — come down? If you currently have no other backup device such as a tape drive or ZIP drive, this could he just the thing for you. Even if you' re not into backing up your entire hard drive on a nightly basis, backing up your more important data is always a good idea, and these new 120MB floppy drives could be just the thing for you. If you' re on a tight budget, putting together the ideal system can be more work than you

may think. Once you' ve decided on the com-

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to move the image left or right, up and down and even stretch it vertically or horizontally. But the really good monitors are those that go one step beyond, allowing you to adjust the image's pincushion settings, or misconvergence values. The general rule is that the more things you can configure, the better the pic-. ture quality. Good 15-inch monitors can be found priced between $300 and $450, and can go as high as $550 for some Trinitron models. As far as the 17-inch units go, the decent ones start at around $650, and go up to $800. Anything beyond that and you' re venturing into the world of high-end units, where the manufac-

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Thecoateeders Compaq Presario 4$28 Leave it to Compaq to come up with some of the most aesthetically pleasing comp u ters ~~..''j ' .' you' ll ever have the privilege of seeing. This par t i c ular model, the Presario 4528, is not only easy on the eyes, but offers some innovative features not found on other systems, To start, the CD-ROM drive does not have a tray that holds the discs. Instead, you insert your CD-ROM about 1-2 cm into the drive slot, at which point the drive senses the disc and pulls it in the rest of the way. When the discs get ejected, they are pushed out just enough for you to grab them. Also, just above the CD-ROM drive are controls that allow you to adjust the system volume, as well as call up your browser at the press of a button, All nifty features aside, this machine is powered by a 233 MHz Pentium MMX processor, ZS6KB of pipelined cache, 32 MB of SDRAM, a 3,2 GB hard drive, 24x CD-ROM drive, an S3 video card with I MB onboard, a 56Kbps voice/faxmodem and a JBL 3D Virtual Theater sound system. The overall performance on this system wasn't what it should have been, due mostly in part to the video card used in the machine. The Presario 4528 has a suggested retail price of $2,492 and comes with a one-year limited warranty, with the first 90 days on-site.

L2300 video card with 8 M B o f SGRAM onboard,a 56Kbps voice/faxmodem, and an LS-120 floppy drive. Multimedia compnnents include a Sound Blaster AWE64 Value sound card, a 24x CD-ROM, and a pair of Rock-Excel SOW speakers. Priced at $2,490, this system carries a two-year parts and labor warranty. Darius The Danus system falls into the 200 M Hz Pen t i u m M MX c l ass o f machines, which make up a fair portion of th is month's roundup. Using the l atest 430TX chipset and S12KB of pipelined I.evel2 cache and 32 MB of SDRAM, this system offers good overall performance while maintaining a fairly modest price tag. The makeup of this system includes a 3.5 GB hard drive from Fujitsu, an 53 ViRGE video card with 2 MB of EDO RAM onboard, a Panasonic 24x CD-ROM, a CreativeLabs Sound Blaster AWE64, and a 33.6Kbps modem from USRobotics with voice and speakerphone. On the benchmarks, this machine came in at a score of 202 overall. This system is priced at $2,030 and comes with a threeyear parts and labor warranty.

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Power Macintosh 6SOO/300 From: Apple Computer CPU:300 MHz PowerPC 603e RISC, with 512KB Level-2 cache (expandabie to 1 MB) Memory: 64 MB RAM(expandable to 128 MB) Storage: 6 GB IDEhard drive, 24x CD-ROMdrive, 100, MB removable Zip drive. 1.44 MBMac/PCSuperDrive Video: ATI Rage II 2D/3D graphics accelerator, with 2 MB SGRAM,supports 24-bit (millions) color on 17-inch monitor up to 800x600 pixels and 16-bit (thousands) color on 21-inch monitor up to 1,152x870 pixels. Expansion: Two 7-inch PCI slots, Apple Video System card, Apple TV/FMTuner card, SCSI. ADB, serial with AppieTalk network, 16-bit CD-quality audio output Pros: Screaming performance, built-in 64-bit 20/3D video acceleration, 3D surround sound and subwoofer, incredible software bundle Cons:CPU notupgradeable,accelerated video SGRAM not upgradeabie Suggested retail price: $4,299

market to come from Apple since the launch of PowerPC-based Macs in 1994. Its hardware features read like a power user's wish list: a PowerPC 603e microprocessor running at 300 MHz with a512KB Level-2 cache, 64 MB of RAM, a 6 GB IDE hard drive, 24x CD-ROM drive and an internal 100 MB Zip drive. Add to that an onboard ATI Rage Il 2D/3D 64-bit graphics accelerator, a 5 6 K B i n t ernal data/voice/faxmodem and an integrated dualfunction subwoofer with 16-bit 3D surround sound, and you begin to get the impression that this machine is loaded with everything the average user is likely to ever need — for at least a few years, anyway. The 6500 hardware components are housed in a rugged, kidproof minitower case. Unpacking it and plugging in all the clearly marked cables takes less than five minutes. When it's all done you .simply press the power-on key on the keyboard and you' re ready to rock 'n' roll. Upgrade and expansion are a breeze. To access any of the drive bays you simply slide upwards the front bezel on the CPU case, To access the motherboard for RAM, PCI, Video or TV/Radio tuner expansion slots, you remove two screws from the back plate, pop out a metal handle and slide the board out of the case. To put the board back, you line its edges up with two guide rails and slide it back in — totally painless and convenient.

ust a few years ago, who would have ever dreamed that a m i d -range computer Software would clock in at 300 MHz? Well, that' s By itself, the hardware configuration is precisely what Apple is currently offering impressive enough. But what gives the 6500 the home and small business user. tremendous value is the productivity, learning The PowerMac 6500/300— the flagship and entertainment software that comes bunmodel of the 6500 series — is certainly the dled with the unit. All of the pre-installed softmost impressive bundle for the home user ware is on CD-ROMs that are neatly packaged

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about jumper settings. Video on this machine is achieved through a Matrox Mystique video card with 4 MB of SGRAM onboard, which helped this system achieve the second fastest overall score, as well as in the desktop graphics portion of the benchmarks. A 3.2 GB Quantum hard drive with Ultra DMA support is the primary storage device, offering adequate storage and good performance. Without a doubt, Multimedia applications will make use of one of t h e b e st t he OPTI 9 3 1M-3DS sound c ard a n d buys this month is Panasonic 24x CD-ROM drive as well as a pair this fully l o aded of speakers. Rounding out the system is a CompuPartner sys- Linkskey 56Kbps voice/faxmodem based on tem from STD. This the Rockwell chipset, Priced at $1,699 with a system strikes an three-year warranty on parts and labor, this is excellent balance one machine you won't want to pass up.

between performance and pricing, being the second fastest system in the entire survey as well as the lowest-priced.

The machine is driven by a 233 MHz Pentium MMX processor, 512KB of pipelined cache on aQDI motherboard, and 32 MB of EDO RAM. QDI motherboards have a feature called SpeedEasy, which allows you td configure the CPU speed from inside the CMOS. This is a superb idea, allowing even the most novice users to insert a CPU onto the motherboard and set it up without having to worry

in a plastic-sleeved booklet. These titles are not the watered-down offerings you'd expect to find in a clearance bin at your local computer supoestore. Some of the 15 titles include ClarisWorks, N ow To uc h base Pro, MegaPhone, Grolier Encyclopedia, 3D Atlas, KidPix Studio, Descent II , V R S o ccer, Mechwarrior II, Virtual Pool and others.

The 6500/300 will run any standard productivity applications as fast as anybody would possibly want to run them, This computer really demonstrates its prowess when it flexes its muscle on multimedia. The combination of a fast microprocessor and on-board 64-bit accelerated graphics make this one mean gaming machine. Any one of the bundled gaming titles Impressions amply showcasesthis machines awesome The 6500 offers just about all of the communi- graphics capabilities. An excellent test of CPU cation tools a small business owner could use. and video perforniance is Descent II. Game The built-in 56K modem is capable of trans- play was incredibly smooth and fluid in the mitting and receiving data, fax, voice and high-res mode. Even when I engaged a dozen email. And of course, it can also be used to or more enemy ships at one time. the 65OO browse the Internet. Of particular interest to never flinched in it's responsiveness. And this reviewer was the bundled MegaPhone soft- when you couple the built-in 3D suhwoofer ware. It turns your Power Mac into a digital with a pair of external speakers you get awetelephone manager and answering machine. some, bone-jarring sound capabilities. . One of the neat features — especially if you have a family — is the ability to set up multiple Summary telephone answering mailboxes. MegaPhone Two words best describe the Power Macintosh can integrate itself with any of the contact 6500/300: performance and value. The only organizers you use, and is an indispensable reservations I have about this system is the tool if you spend a lot of your time on the non-upgradeable CPU and video RAM. If you telephone. are an avid gamer it's probably best that you One of the more interesting upgrade wait for the next-generation Gossamer Macs options is the Apple Video System and Apple that have video RAM expansion built-in. TV/FM Tuner cards. If you'd like to be able to However, if you feel you can live with a maxcapture and ed'it video, listen to the radio or imum of 300 MHz and 2 MB video RAM then watch TV on the 6500, then you can purchase the 6500/300 comes close to the ideal home this expansion kit separately. If you are seri- and small business computer. just remember ously interested in these options then I would all work and no play, makes]ack a dull boy. suggest you purchase the next model down in the chain — the Power Macintosh 6500/275 Contact: Creative Studio. You get 25 MHz slower clock Apple Computer, Web site: http: //www.apple.corn speed, no Zip drive and 32 MB less RAM, but this tradeoff is more than made up by the cost Peter Milburn is a consultant with Elite Systems of purchasing the video and tuner cards sepa- Support located in Calgary, Alta. He can be reachedon rately. the Internet at elite@cadvision.corn . 2S6KB of pipelinedcache, and 32 MB of SDRAM. A 3.2 GB hard drive is also found in the system, along with an ATI 3D Rage II+ video card with 2 MB of SGRAM onboard. A 16-bit 3D sound system will enhance the multimedia experience, and the 24x CD-ROM keeps video and audio clips flowing smoothly. A 56Kbps.Kflex modem is also included as part of this package to get you online right away. On the software side of things, we have Lotus SmartSuite 97, Netscape Navigator, PC Doctor, Crystal AudioStation and I BM's Antivirus. The Aptiva E25 is priced at $2,699, which includes a 15-inch monitor, and a one-

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balance of hardgood numbers on ware, software and the benchmarks, very competitive although it encountered some problems with pricing on a first tier machine. This unit con- the database portion of th e tests. Other than sists of a 200 MHz Pentium MMX processor, that, all numbers indicate this machine offers

computer. To start, there is the latest 233 MHz Pentium MMX processor, 256KB of pipelined cache,32 MB of SDRAM, a 4.3 GB hard drive, 24x CD-ROM, 16-bit sound system with wavetable surround sound and a USRobotics x2 56Kbps faxmodem. The ATI 3D RageII+ video card with 2 MB of SGRAM will help

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Oracle toput Intel inside NC lt appears another of the great differences between the Network Computer (NC) design backed by Oracle Corp. and the Microsoftsupported NetPC initiative is disappearing. After months of talk about getting an NC with an Intel p r ocessor t o ma r k et, Oracle's Network Computer Inc. (NCI) subsidiary was finally able to announce this fall that just such a thing was about to hap-

pen. NCI and Taiwan-based Umax Data Systems Inc. have unveiled a software licensing agreement they say will bring network com. puters r u n n in g X8 6 - based microprocessors to the corporate and home office markets. Umax says it will m anufacture and market network computers running NCI's NC Desktop client software and sell them through its channels and system integrators into corporate markets glob-

ally. The first systems from this new Intel-based NC product line will use 200 MHz Intel Pentium processors typical of Windowsbased desktop PCs. Umax hopes its NC-based systems will sell for less than US$700. The company also promises its new NC products will support standard network interfaces including built-

in Ethernet and graphic/sound cards, smart card readers as well as a standard keyboard and mouse. Umax expects to ship the NCs as early as next month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; initially in Europe, with North America t o fol low . â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Geog Wheelwright

Seachange secures remote access Would you like to be able to access the Internet, your office network and the contents of your home or office PC from a nywhere i n th e wor l d ? Mississauga's SeaChange Corp. aims to m ake secure global Internet access available to businesses and individuals in 1998. In October, SeaChange was appointed a Canadian Master Solution Partner by iPass, a system that allows mobile computer users to log onto any of 1,300 Inte;net providers' points of presence, in 150 countries, and make secure encrypted connections'via the Internet, to corporate networks, and individual computers. The iPass system, according to SeaChange's Bill Simpson eliminates the need for Continued on page $t6

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Canadian payroll software continues to become more feature packed and easier to use each year indows software has become the norm. There are still many more D OS p ayroll us er s th a n Windows payroll users, however, the DOS products are not evolving, they are simply being maintained, I have chosen to review only Windows software this year as organizations looking for a new payroll program will, in all likelihood, be looking for a Windows- or Macintosh-based system. All programs surveyed support multiple pay period types and all provinces and territories of Canada. The software features continue to improve; user interfaces are more consistent with the Microsoft standard and most of th e products have become more flexible. I found all of the programs to be ready for the year 2000. More and more systems are including human resources information (or offering add-on modules for human resources

management purposes) along with userdefinable fields. Paymate and Easypay offer the best value for your dollar in the under-$500 category with their high-end features, ease of use and user friendliness. In the integrated category I liked the flexibility and costing features in Quickbooks Pro. There was no obvious winner in the over $500 category. All of these products are outstanding. Accpac for Windows and Canadian Payroll fo r W i n dows and Macintosh are easier to use than Avanti a nd Grandmaster Il b u t A v anti a n d Grandmaster have more high-end features. All of the programs reviewed in this survey, except Checkmark, were installed a nd tested using Windows 95 o n a Pentium 100 MHz system with 16 MB Co@tinued onpage 86

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Spreadsheet inventor turns to the Web Bricklin was the inventor and co-creator of the original "killer e xt time y o u l o a d u p application" for personal computM icrosoft E x cel, C o r el ers: something called VisiCalc for Quattro Pro or Lotus 1-2-3, the Apple II. So, along with prospare a thought for Dan Bricklin, grammer friend Bob Frankston (who a ctually w r ot e t h e c o d e f o r inventor of the spreadsheet. VisiCalc), Bricklin unleashed the world's first spreadsheet in October of 1979. It sold for $100 and quickly became agood reason forusersto buy Apple II microcomputers. Word-processors, presentation graphics software, integrated pack-

ment on-screen is a secondary function to eventually printing the document out on paper or as an overhead transparency, Trellix does, however, support export to th e H TML (hypertext markup language) standard used to create Web pages, and Bricklin suggests Trellix will thus be an ideal way for creating online documents that can be viewed on the Web or over a corporate intranet. "When Bob Frankston and I created VisiCalc, we realized how important it was to let users build calculations which suited t heir needs. That meant allowing the user to lay out numbers, create labels, etc., without adhering to some predetermined outline we had arbitrarily imposed," he recalls. "This made working with numbers accessible to all kinds of people, not just pro-

grammers and financial managers.

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fully built on what Bricklin had pioneered. Meeting D a n Br i c kiin in September of 1997, you would not see a man who seemed bitter or disappointed about the way things tumed out. In fact, Bricklin was full of enthusiasm and "big ideas" when he t u rned u p at Mi c r osoft's Professional Developer's Conference in San Diego to share a stage with Microsoft co-founder and old rival Bill Gates (Microsoft's Multiplan was one of the first spreadsheets to comages, desktop publishing applica- pete with VisiCalc). Bricklin was promoting what he tions and Web browsers followed from other manufacturers, but few called "the first, innovative mainsingle pieces of software had as big stream application in a long time on an impact on the development of Windows." It is called Trellix and aims to the industry as VisiCalc. Yet for all its brilliance and sim- p roduce the w o rld's f i rst t o o l plicity, the spreadsheet wasn't an designed purely for creating documents that will b e v i ewed onidea that Bricklin attempted to own. In fact, he made far less screen. He argues that all previous money from the spreadsheet indus- attempts to do this have been based try than any of those who success- on the idea that viewing the docu-

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lawyer would be very leery about turning over his computer to a tech with a remote control package. He'd have control of all the lawyer's billing and client records. That's why we build in all the authorization and we don't get into the active remote control." The information in the sysfem is encrypted, even the audio, wifh Seraph's own 12II-bit

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What if the client either isn't happy with the result or claims the tech blew up his computer'? First there's a basic log at the service desk. The log tracks all the activity. The only thing it doesn't track is the voice interaction. The client also has a copy of the activity. And that means the client can always send in their record to the manager of the system and point out where they think the technician make amistake. But Jones adds, "We cannot guarantee that a technician will not blow up your machine. I would suggest that the chances are probably less than if the tech said now press any key." Platforms NetAngel Manager and Service Desk are designed for Windows 95 and NT. The Client is for Windows 95 but the company is developing one for Windows 3.1. Jones says a Macintosh client is a possibility, but a version for Unix is not planned. However, if they get they get enough interest, they may port Manager and Service Desk over to that environment. The most basic system will not have the

Dan Bricklin Crmtimred from pageSf wanted to create a product environment which would let users edit an entire hypertext document in a single, integrated package. It had to be more than just editing individual, linear pages and then linking them together." He says this is where Trellix broke new ground, giving users automation and direct manipulators through an on-screen document map. "It's the way we integrate hyperlinking and working with all the pages at once which sets Trellix apart from the traditional office applications like Microsoft Office or Lotus SmartSuite," suggest Bricklin. "As we developed the product we incorporated recommendations from a variety of expertsincluding neuropsychologists — on the way people process information. We conducted formal usability testing, videotaping dozens and dozens of people of all ages and backgrounds using successive versions of the product." But Bricklin still enjoys looking back on his VisiCalc days, knowing that they marked a watershed in the computer industry. "It lcreating new types of applications] is what I do, it is how I am wired," Bricklin says. "I am successful sometimes, but you have always to keep trying. And when I turned 40, I didn't have to say 'what am I going to do with my life' — and that really makes me feel good. If you are a child of the 1960s, you want to change the world." And anyone who can remember what it was like to work with grids of numbers before the spreadsheet would have not trouble admitting that this child of the 1960s did indeed change the world. And he's still at it. 0

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MYOB AccolInting with Payroll MYOB Accounting with Payroll is available for both the Macintosh and Windows environment. It Is a fully integrated software program for small- and medium-sizeII businesses. 1he new multi-user version is amazingly affordable and comes with six months of free updates for tax tables and support. It ships with extensive help on CD-ROM. MYOB provides for a large number of very flexible earnings and deductions. As a result of its flexibilit it requires good understanding of the payroll process when setting it up, Both versions come with an easy setup Wizard to walk you through the setup procedures. The program does not track insurable hours or print a r ecord of employment. Reports and forms are customizable. This is a good program for organizations requiring job or departmental costing and a very flexible payroll solution.

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Quickbooks for Windows is a fully integrated accounting solution for small- to mediumsized businesses and professional practices. The payroll component offers unlimited earnings, benefits and deductions. It is easy to AccPac $imply Accounting setup and use. Instructions pop up in a box as AccPac Simply Accounting is very simple to you are using a function. Reporting is very install and the payroll is very easy to set up complete and I>istory retention is good. and use, It is available for both the Windows You should choose the Quickbooks Pro a nd Macintosh environments bu t t h e version if you require project tracking, time Macintosh version does not have all the fea- tracking and job costing. It offers you the tures described here. opportunity to enter time to a timecard that Accpac handles manual and computer can be used both for invoicing and payroll. cheques and after the fact payroll. Payroll You can edit invoice and paycheque hours chequescan be adjusted by using the adjust and the original records remain intact. You cheque command to enter the correct infor- can elect to view the pay earnings and deducmation. The program prepares the adjusting tions prior to generating a cheque or you can entries for you. The program has been review a list of the persons and amounts to he enhanced to retain two years of detailed infor- paid and generate a batch of cheques. mation. Earnings and deductions types are Like most of the newer products, it has limited but the program calculates workers incorporated a personnel management funccompensation and prints T4s, T4As and tion with the payroll. You may find it difficult Reievels. Simple job costing is also available. to adjust to accounts with no account numThis program is a good solution for small ser- bers, but if you require a low cost complete vice or construction businesses. accounting solution in one box, you will find this payroll system as good as many stand Business Vision Encore alone products. and 8tssiness Vision 2600 The program installed without a hitch and I was up and running in no time. I found the screens difficult to read as the employee eamings and deduction information was all on a single screen. However, this made it easier to The products in this group are designed for locate the information. The payroll program is larger businesses and not-for-profit organizaextremely streamlined and easy to use, You tions from 50 to 5,000 employees. AII have can prepare pay cheques one at a time or in a the ability to calculate complex earnings and batch mode. It is, however, missing essential benefits and to track accruals and bank time. payroU elements such as ROE forms and T4 They are «11 designed for fast, easy input and summary forms. verification o f ti m e c a r d i n f o rmation. Reporting by groups and transferring payroll Dynacom Accounting 97 cost data to general ledgers and job cost modDynacom Accounting 97 for Windows Gold is ules are important features. Direct deposit, one of the few bilingual Canadian payroll time clock interfaces and human resource products. It is an excellent choice for business management features are usually available. and non-profit organizations needing project These programs are all more difficult to costing and job costing in Quebec. With its Corrtfriued onpage Ir4

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product with unlimited earnings and deductions and the ability to retain payroll history for 99 years. Earni ng, benefits and deductions are user definable and the set up is so simple you can easily calculate the most complex amount. You can select up to three general ledger account segments for cost centre reporting. Any combination of segments can be assigned

t'o an employee's earnings and deductions. The system distributes statutory deductions propoitionatefy to the cost centres in which the employee's taxable wages were earned. The batch timecard entry system uses tables to calculate overtime and shift differentials for union workplaces. Time cards can be reused from period to period or imported from other systems. As well as eight user-defined custom

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applications. Avanti GT 7,0 is a transition release that moves Avanti from a characterbased display to a graphical interface. A Iot of the DOS appearance remains and will be replaced in a later version. It integrate~ with many third-party general ledger systems and with t h e A v anti H u man Resource I nformation System. Avanti p a yroll i s e xtremely f l e xible â&#x20AC;&#x201D; employees can b e assigned to pay groups, departments, Workers'

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and locations. Complex deductions and benefits can be defined with a spreadsheet-typeformula to facilitate calculations within the program. Tax can be calculated using the graduated method, the bonus method and the lump sum method. You can establish up to 9,999 locations or divisions, each with individual general ledger earnings and benefit costing. Rate grids are available for groups of employees assigned to the same wage scale. Earnings can be entered from timecards, imported or generated by the system. The program comes with a complete set of standard reports or custom report formats can be set up using the report writer. The payroll run can be cancelled, corrected and reprocessed even after cheques have been printed. Avanti payroll has full lob costing capabilities and large general ledger account numbers. You can file submissions to CEC and T4s to Revenue Canada on diskette. Direct deposit is a standard feature of the program. This is a very powerful payroll system for complex payrolls.

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their technologies conform to the Java specifications and APIs," the company said in the announcement of its lawsuit. "The products that failed are Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and its Software Development Kit for java (SDKJ). As a result, applications written using Microsoft's development tools may not run on other operating systems, such as MacOS, UNIX, or other browsers such as Netscape Navigator. Conversely, applications written using Sun' s J ava Development Kit (IDK) that run o n MacOS, UNIX and Netscape Navigator may not run on Internet Explorer 4.0." For its part, Microsoft is maintaining that it doesn't interpret its licence agreement with Sun in the same way Sun does — and that it will not be party to the creation of a new operating system layer on top of Windows just to run Java applications. Bllcrosoft answers in ltlnd At press time, Newsbytes news service reported that Microsoft is not taking the lawsuit lying down. At the end of October, it filed its own suit against Sun in U.S. District Court claiming breach of c o ntract, breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and unfair competition, it refutes Sun's charges, and seeks unspecified damages. Microsoft is also seeking a declarative judgement, which involves having the terms

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The gift of learning on CD-ROM Continued f'yoyn page102 humorous adventure, in which players help out in a rural post office with a decidedly British flavor (although the geography lessons are based only on the continental U.S.). The poor postmaster has a few broken parcels that need to be put back together. Kids can also design and print their own stationery or

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Sept. 29-Oct. 3, at the Seybold publishing conference, to track down the latest graphics and publishing software and hardware systems.

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development effort, code-named Aurora. such as Adobe, Apple, I ntergraph, Netscapeshowedhow Aurora's Web-site layout Macrornedia, MetaCreations, Microsoft, and

language tedmology used a meta data frame-

Quark host expansive booths and demo work, called Resource Description Framework their wares. The other aspects of the show

{RDF), to organize, describe, and display infor-

are the keynotes speeches, conference and mation from the Interne, intranets, LANs, tutorial sessions, where professionals pay

legacy databases, and PC hard drives into one

big money (around USSI,500) to sit in on universally recognizable format. Microsoft had some Web-related announcements of its own that day.

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ment, Warnock sees emerging opportunities for merging and creating content once and using it for print, CD-ROMs, and the Webwhile separating form and content to ease

Explorer d e velopment that re-purposing, Warnock foreseesasset and team offtdally launched IE document management also becomingmore 4.0. impor tantto companies as content is growing

Softbank, the sameorganization responsible for Comdex expel, showed ample proof that it is becoming a major launchpad for markets other than professional print publishing. It was the site of t h e o fficial Explorer 4.0 and the kickoff of Apple's new

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the city's spectacular Museum of Modem Art, waiting in line to attend featured keynotes by both Gates and Apple "interim chief exectut ive officer,"' Steve Jobs on Oct. I an d 2, respectively, The main foyer provided the first evidence that this wasn't the same sort of Seybold show we'd attended a few years earlier (check out the Seybold report from our Dec. '93 issue in our online archives at http: //www.tcp.ca). In bygone days, the registration system was handled on Macintosh systems, and the Mac was clearly the dominant platform with the pony' tailed and brightly vested attendees. This year, attendees looked more corporate (the $1,500 conference session fees might have had something to do with that), and they lined up at PC portables to complete their registrations, while a huge Microsoft banner hanging over the escalator pronounced "Windows: the Platform for Publishing." On a nearby wall, a monstrous Intergraph banner touted the speed of Windows NT publishing workstations that company officials claimed were up to 36 times as fast as Apple's PowerMac 9500.Indeed, things had changed in Apple's stronghold. Of course, Apple was there at the show, and under the guiding hand of Jobs, was making a few splashes of its own. The night before the conference opened, during the television premiere of the computer-animated movie Toy Story on the Wonderfiil Worlrl of Disney, Apple had rolled out its controversial new "Think Different"' ad campaign. (This was not coincidental, Toy Stvrywas produced by Pixar, a company whose chief exectutive is none other than Jobs.) The new Apple ad that ran on the Disney show focused on great historical figures instead of MIPS, windows and megahertz. A similarly therned full-page ad ran in Monday's USA Today n ewspaper, delivered to t h e

doorsteps of all the hotel rooms in the vicini• ty of the conference. In short, Apple made it clear that it's not out of the raceyet. And yes,

we' re of the opinion that the campaign slogan "Think Different" is grammatically incorrect.

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as a Web-connected entertainment center where, instead of being used, as today's PC monitors are, by a user sitting a mere arm' s length away, the "smart TV" will be in the farnily room, with the users sitting ten feet away. Gates is apparently convinced that a TV with a hard drive inside to cache your favorite content will bring this Web lifestyle to the mass market, and several of his comments

reflected this belief. He talked of the benefits of ence before him. As is seemingly inevitable at having color management in the Web browser such events, Gates resorted to the popular (and used online shopping for sweaters as his "dog and pony show" technique of parading example) and claimed that Microsoft is assum- out a stream of leading solution providers. For ing that natural (continuous) speech input wi)I his one-two punch, Gates chose Adobe chief be the way most of us communicate with our John Wamock and Macromedia boss Bud computers in a few years. Colligan. Of course, Gates soon shifted to topics Gates and Warnock announced collaboramore near and dear to the hearts of the audi- t ive effor ts t o a d d T y p e 1

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demonstrated advanced Plug and Play functionality in its upcoming OSes by plugging a Logitech VSB scanner into a machine running floor, the company was showing QuarkXPress a prerelease version of Windows NT 5.0 with4.0 running very, very quickly on InterGraph's out turning the power off. Windows NT S.O 0 u nder-US$2,000 300 M H z P e ntium l l immediately recognized the scanner's presmachines running NT 5.0). ence, configured the hardware and installed

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USB makes PC hardware configuration, although I could have sworn I saw a look of relief on Gates' face. Note that USB support is already available in recent releases of Windows 95specifically, the OSR2.1 release added USB drivers. USB support will be a standard feature in b oth W i ndows 98 and N T 5 .0. Although most new motherboards come with USB built in, you can add USB ports to an existing system, using add-on cards available from several manufacturers. Gates also described NT 5.0's new "Find a Printer" feature that allows you to search for printers on a network based on the printers' capabilities (color, paper size, etc.). Gates claims that, once found, Windows will, with a simple right-click, install the necessary driver and install the appropriate color management device profile automatically. He also noted N T c u r rently h a s b u i l t-in AppleTalk network connectivity. Such demonstrations, plus state-of-the-art software support f r o m Q u a rk, A d obe, MetaCreations and others, showed all too clearly the speed at which NT is catching up as a publishing platform. After his keynote, Seybold conference founder Jonathon Seybold came out of his post-Softbank retirement to ask Gates several questions. One of the most interesting was why Gates neglected to even mention Java during his talk, Gates replied, "I didn't think the audience wanted to hear about programming. I didn't talk about Cobol, either." Gates added, "Hey, I'm a programmer, I love talking about languages." Thus, Gates neatly

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at the heart of every PowerMac!) had lost their MacOS licenses as welt.

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NEWS sales of Adobe software titles were still strong (over 50 pecent), and said he believed in what Jobs was doing. Quark's Gill got all choked up as he uttered his words of support. And then Jobs played — twice — the new Apple "Think Different" ad and described how things were indeed going to be different at the new Apple. How do you get to talk to Jobs (other than emailing him at Pixar!)? Careful planning worked for your faithful reporter, who managed to speak personally to Apple's chief at the Seybold conference. Getting up early, standing in line for the Jobs keynote on Oct.

2 (the only people in front of me were a pair of editors from Ma cAddict — appropriate, don't you think?), and racing down to sit in an aisle seat next to the microphone was easy. Now, the tricky part — what would I say if I got the chance? Considering the crowd' s penchant for publishing, I elected to ask Steve about Apple's plans for OpenType, PostScript Level 3, OS-level PDF support and so on. When the QRA session began following his one-hour pep talk on why some of the recent tough decisions had to be made; I jumped up and asked point blank why Adobe Type 1 font support wasn't built into the OS (what professional publisher on the Mac uses TrueType?), and (to loud applause) whether TIFF/IT and PDF might be more useful than PICT as OS-level graphics formats on a platform where almost nobody uses PICTs for publishing. Jobs replied with a question; "What if PostScript was built right into the MacOS?" and elaborated by saying the OS team are currently examining the possibility of adding PostScript to the OS. Perhaps Mac OS (and qot just Rhapsody) will gain some of the Display PostScript features from Nextstep? Apple needs to act decisively and quickly in this regard to reclaim its lead in the publishing arena — the enemy is at the gates, if you' ll pardon the pun.

Trade show highlights I spent the rest of day two perusing the many booths in the North and South halls. I was struck by how many vendors were showing products running on the Windows NT platform. I was also amazed to see how many companies were in the large-format printer market. Such printers, w'hich typically print metrewide or larger pages in full color on glossy stock, were seemingly everywhere. I particularly liked the offerings from ColorSpan, the company formerly known as LaserMaster. Hewlett-Packard's giant inkjet units were producing spectacular output, too. At its huge booth, Quark was busy handing out demo versions of QuarkXpress 4.0 and crowing about its plans to move its entire suite of publishing apps, including the highend (and p r eviously M ac-only) Q uark Publishing System, to the Windows platform. Quark reps were also boasting about their direct import of Adobe PDF files in an upcoming version of XPress but, when quizzed on the subject, they conceded that the import function will only import a single page at a time — weak! This feature is not expected to make it into the still-unreleased version 4.0. Looking back on our Seybold report from The Computer Paper's Dec. 1993 issue, it is amazing to consider how much has changed in the interim. Back then, the Internet wasn' t even mentioned in our report. Apple hadn' t even released the first PowerPC computers,

and Microsoft's very first application to support Object Linking and Embedding had just been released. Now, of course, there is scarcely a company on the show floor that doesn't have an Internet tie-in in some form, except Quark which, perhaps not coincidentally, is at this writing still selling as its current product version 3.3x of QuarkXPress. Discounting a few bug-fixes, this is the same version the company was selling at the 1993 show, and the s t i l l -unreleased v ersion 4 . 0 of QuarkXPress does not include Web-authoring support, either, although several thirdparty products I saw on the show floor added Web-page output features to Xpress, Extensis' Cybe r Press, Astr o b yte's BeyondPress 2.0, Terry Morse Software's Myrmidon 2.0, and HexMac's HexWeb XT all deliver HTML output from Xpress. Of the b unch, I wa s m o s t i m p r essed w i t h BeyondPress 2.0, a l though M y r midon, which is designed as a Mac-only printer driver, is perhaps the easiest to use and most widely compatible. BeyondPress handles tables, fonts, style sheets, TrueDoc and more quite elegantly (although not always accurately) and, best of all, it can output HTML documents of any length automatically from XPress pagesincluding graphics. For more info on these and other Web publishing products, see the report on Web A uthoring T o ol s a t our Web sit e :

http: //www.tcp.ca/gsb/net, Of all the vendors at Seybold, the one that had changed the most since the 1993 show was undoubtedly a company that in 1993 had been known as HSC and had, in the interim, bought up several other companies including Specular I n t ernational, Fractal Design, and Real Time Geometry. It then fused its product lines with its own Metatools o fferings, yi eldi n g MetaCreations. At t hi s show, Metatools titles like Painter 5.0, Ray Dream Designer 5.0, Kai's Photo Soap and KPT Bryce 3D were wowing crowds not only with their elegant feature sets, but also with their low prices. Soap, for example, is only US$49. Without a doubt, MetaCreations' offerings are some of the most "artistic" graphics tools on the market. A good example is KPT Bryce 3D, a 3D landscape modeling and rendering program that, for the first time, supports animation. (Check out the demo versions of Bryce for Windows .or Mac at

http: //www.metacreations.corn.) Elsewhere on the show floor, author Susan Kitchens, known as "Brycequeen" to her fans, was autographing copies of her new book on Bryce 2. Like the first edition, Kitchens' Real World Bryce 2offers deep technical info in an entertaining and easy to understand way. Details that are glossed over in the official Bryce manual, such as the "deep texture editor," get plenty of pages inReal World Bryce 2. It's from Peachpit Press. For those who don't consider themselves artists or publishers per se, the most promising package on the floor was undoubtedly Ipublish 2.0 from Design Intelligence. This package, for Windows 95/NT, makes it extremely easy to set up stylish looking printed and/or Web-based documents. Ipublish is the easiest to use publishing tool I' ve ever used. Of course, its extreme ease means that it has more limited Continued onpage 1$0

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alone would almost justify purchasing this disc as it displays the art and artists behind all the great comics. Stan Lee is in there and, of

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examples of each artist's work, as well as complete transcripts of their interviews. There' s also a mini-film tour of the actual 1970 exhibition, which ingenuously shows the works as hung at the Metropolitan, free of narration, analysis or commentary (but with an annoying contemporary soundtrack by John Cage).

Despite that, Painters Painting is likely to be viewed over and over again; the comprehensive approach to this ostensibly fascinating period of artistic development — in combination with all the archival features — will see

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Estimated Street Price: $59.95 (standard), $89.95

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to go within the encyclopedia and a short quiz graphics employed in the comfortably naviga- on the topic for after you' re done. It's a simple ble interface. Though not quite as intuitive as thing, but one that will help keep the dust off some of the other encyclopediae, it doesn' t this family oriented CD-ROM long after

lines or reports, including the proper source citations. Writd-o-phobes wil l e specially appreciate the tutorials, which help toward learning effective research and report writing skills. Marketed handi n-hand wi th E ncarta i s t h e Encarta Virtual Globe 98 — christened E n c arta World Atlas in

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horse in Canada in terms of both market presence and sales. Yet this encyclopedia comprises an excellent alternative to several other "consumer-level" reference discs, largely

The Deluxe edition has a new feature this year that Grolier calls the "Online Knowledge Explorer," but which constitutes little more than the aforementioned Internet links to other Grolier sources. It also includes, however, links to the Grolier Internet Index, which offers more than 21,000 links to Grolier selected Web sites and to future article updates that Grolier expects will number more than 500 a month.

thanks to the consistent quality of Grolier's

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you p i n point more than 1.2 million (I) place names around the world and zoom in on many to see not only maps, but encyclopedic information and

Encyclopedia,which is, naturally, the basis for

through the discs' contents addressing a wide

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articles, photos, videos and sound. Of course, there are Web links too. This I did have an opportunity to see and play with — a very nice enhancement to

this by including direct Internet links to online versions of more erudite Grolier prod uced references: Th e N e w B o o k o f Knowledge and the Encyclopedia Americana, along with hnks to Internet updates and, of course, the rest of the Web. Again we have two versions of the Grolier to choose from: a single-disc standard and a two-disc "deluxe" edition, the latter of which was submitted for viewing and, like Encarta, differs only from the former in offering a lot

Encarta or any other encyclopedia with an equally attractive street price of only $69.95.

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Okay, so I just made this category up. But it breaks down like this: color on the Web is rendered differently than it is in print, Further, 'Web color is rendered in a more limited way than it is on most designe'r's screens. One of the challenges in designing for the Web is getting the colored creations you design to end up looking pretty much the way you intended once they get to your viewer's

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