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Comdex starts '98 season with PacRim BY ROD L A M I RAN D ancouver played host to the computer industry for three, rain-soaked days this past January. Comdex PacRim brought 30-odd thousand buyers, sellers,

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On the floor considerable changes could be seen. The Internet was no longer the belle of the ball as at last year's show. At that event you couldn't swing a dead 386 without hitting a booth devoted to ISPs, Web authoring or Internet TV schemes. This year everybody wanted to show a movie at their booth. Exhibitors selling anything remotely connected to the computer, monitor, graphics card, sound card, furniture or practically any other thing, had a DVD player or drive showing NakedGtttt. What was hot, and cool Fujitsu showed a DVD movie on its 42-inch flat screen monitor. The $17,500 view was amazing. Drool factor: 9.3. Creative Labs was handing out giant paper bags advertising its DVD-ROM product, Encore Dxr2. Thus, the booth was packed and the show looked like a walking Creative Labs advertisement. One of TCP'ssister publications,Canadian Comp !!ter Wholesaler,awarded the Encore product an Innovation '98 Award for Technical Excellence. The highest priced, floor real-estate was owned by Microsoft, which demo-ed Windows 98 among other things. Digital had oodles o f s p ace with dozens of very, fast machines. Its, demo of D ragon I Systems' Naturally Speaking written

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NEWS specially t'or (lie Alpha worked like something out of 5'Iar Trek. 'Ihat's what a 800 MHz machirie will do when it has 184 MB of RAM. I'he BC telco, I'nown, surprisingly, as BC Tel, was blowing people's socks off with its ADSI. service (which also vvon an innovation '9)t Award). tVhen a 8 I IB file downloaded in 14 seconds the attendant apologized for the delay! Coolest booth goes to The Media, a IVeb authoring/video making/marketing company with a great sense of the aesthetic. Toshiba showed a video of a woman beating ui> her laptop. 1'he loshiba computer went in the freezer, down a tlight of marble stairs alid even ended up under a car, all without breaking. 'I'he I.S-12() drive and disk combo from Imation Canada was heing pushed as the Super Disk. !vleanwhiie, over at Sony, conipany representatives claimed their 2(K) )vIB drive would be out this summer. Sony joined I:.pson, Canon and others in showing off their newest digital cameras. In

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nitely one product we want to put through a full hands-on review. The shape shifter For all the glamour and glitz, there were signs that the show is in transition. Although the attendance, floor space and exhibitor numbers are roughly at expected levels, according to Bob Beirman, general manager of Canadian Contiinlrrl on page l2

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b een paid for bu t h e d i d n't k now t h e answer to that question. 'I'he general impression on the floor was that the growth that has made each year bigger than the last may have come to an end. It is not clear if the industry is balking at the cost of attending so many events or i f t h e y a r e q u estioning th e g o als achieved at t hese conferences, Beirman says the shows are being re-focused on

their original intent — businesses and business people. 'I'hough it is unclear whether the international Comdex explosion will continue, it is a certainty that each year people will want faster computers with more storage, larger monitors with higher resolution and smaller portables with more features. As long as new technologies need to go from design and production through delivery

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Netscape browser and source code goes for free e In an attempt to retain its browser ma r k e t sh a r e Nets cape Communications, took a bold step by making its Netscape Navigator and Communicator Standard Edition 4.0 software products free for all users. This is a direct response to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' pledge a year ago to make its browser, Internet Explorer, free to all takers. This act is designed to remove any barrier

incorporate S.M.A.R.T. (self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology) systems to warn users of drive problems and allow for timely backup of files.— JE Contact: Fujitsu Canada,Tel: 800-263-8716, or 905-602-5454. http: //www.lujitsu.ca

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of Netscape's browser and comm unications products from being adopted by individuals at home, school or at work as their preferred interface to the Internet. While this plan will undoubtedly benefit the average Web surfer, the more stunning announcement to industry watchers was Netscape's plan to make the source code for the next generation of its highly popular Netscape Communicator client softwareexpected by the end of the first quarter of 1998 — available for free. The strategy behind this is to grab greater

"mind share" in the programming community, trying to freely harness the creative energies of the thousands of programmers who can now create enhancements and custom versions of Netscape's programs that are tightly integrated with the browser. This would further accelerate the developtnent and distribution of f u t ure versions of N etscape Communicator to business customers and individuals, thereby further seeding the market for Netscape's enterprise solutions and Netcenter business. Jim Barksdale, Netscape's president and chief executive officer, said that "by giving away the source code for future versions, we can ignite the creative energies of the entire Net community and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market."

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New Groove, contact Frank at 403-240-5225 or mail time calculator for modems of various speeds, identify "angels" — people looking for strate- your demo to BNGBox 136f, Stn M, Cafgary, AB,T2P a preview feature, and an anti-liaising feature gic personal investments who might back dig- 2L2 for review, ital media companies. The provincial government should assist Canadian Alta Vista search engine in training digital media entrepreneurs on the launched • AltaVista, one of the most popudevelopment ofbusiness cases,and look at lar search engines on the Internet, is now tax incentives to support the industry, the

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Melrose Ploceand Beverly Hills 90210 television series. The first album will be calledMelicious, and will contain a bonus CD-ROM music video and additional goodies. The disc should be available Q the time you read this.

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' tion of a solvent. The Phaser 360 comes with an integral Ethernet card for easy attachment to an office LAN, and offers 800 dpi print resolution. Its print engine is powered by a 100 MHz RISC processor, allowing full-color page printing at

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up to 6 ppm (pages per minute), faster than comparable color inkjet or laser printers. The Phaser 360 is much cheaper to operate

in terms of printer supply costs, according to Tektronix. A typical Phaser 360 color page costs only about a nickel to print, compared 10 to 50 cents for a color page created using other print technologies, such as color laser or inkjet. The wax-based solid ink cartridges of the Phaser 360 are so inexpensive that Tektronix literally gives away black cartridges to its customers. According to Jean Nassar, vice-president of marketing for Tektronix, "We' re the color experts, so we focus on color printers that lead the transition to everyday color printing. With free black ink, our color printers are so fast and economical that virtually anyone can make the transition to color." The Phaser 360's unique ink is compatible with virtually any paper, without the drying and crinkling problems of inkjets, or require-

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time energy management." The company says that through the integration of a central appli-

Apple splns off Clarls, cuts 300 jobs • CUPFRTINO, Calif. (NB) — Apple Computer, Inc. will lay off 300 workers as it spins off its Claris subsidiary and takes software sales in-

house. Claris now becomes a company called Filemaker Inc., and is left with the Filemaker Pro line of database products. The move is part of a restructuring of Apple designed to cut costs. Apple will assume all sales of its Mac OS 8.0 and 8.1 operating systems, and will support and continue to develop ClarisWorks, its integrated word processingpackage. A press release contained no further comments from Apple at deadline, nor was there a statement from Apple's acting chief, Steve Jobs.

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SOMEI5, N,Y. (NB) — The "smart" housewhich allows different appliances and features to be controlled by a single source —has been available for sometime, but for a price. Now IBM h a s in t r oduced H om e D i r ector Professional, intended to bring the intelligent home to new home builders less expensively, The company says a residence using IBM

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Fujltsu unveils world's smallest scanner • TOKYO, Japan (NB) Fuj —itsu Ltd. has unveiled a pen-type scanner that it claims is' the world's smallest and lightest image scanner. The unit is designed for use with mobile computers and will be marketed from early February. The entire unit, the RapidScan RS-10, is 18.3 cm wide,1.76 cm thick and 1.47 cm

high, and weighs just 80 g. The monochrome scanner has a resolution of 400 dpi and connects to the personal computer via a PC-card slot. In addition to carrying data, the PC-card

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DVD: oh what a feeling DVD is set to blow your socks off! And 1998 will be the year that DVD exploded, took off, and took over. Long promised, much fought over and very cool, DVD is finally, really here. Whether you are a computer aficionado or a home theatre guru DVD is in your future. You can run but you can' t hide — DVD is about to become defacto B Y ROD L A M I R A N D VD players have really amazing features. They can perform all the functions of a VCR, such as stop, play, pause, fast forward and rewind. If the DVD title you are viewing supports extra features you can also: • have captioning in other languages, • listen to the sound track in other languages, • listen to a voice over, • choose different camera angles, • ju m p to any point in the film, • bo o kmark segments of interest, • adjust color, brightness and other video attributes, • and even watch the film in letter-box mode (the wider format that films are shot in). The DVD player can do all these things because the specification allows it. The point here is you must buy a DVD title that takes advantage of these abilities.

The experience: there's nothing like it Stick in a movie and the screen goes blank just like the cinema. The sound begins to grow as the usual animated logos run across the screen. Perhaps you have been to a movie recently and it began with a downward shot of a movie marquee. As the camera pans down the big letters v e hear little explosions, the sound moves from upper left to bottom right and the marquee spells out D'O'L*B"Y Digital. With DVD, that's what happens on your computer, too.

It's one of those moments. The drool factor is off the register! Then the credits start to fade in and the film starts; andunlike anything you have ever seen on a computer beforeyou have a completely real, smooth, high-quality movie. It' s one of those moments. The drool factor is off the register!

The lnstlfication What makes DVD such a formidable technology is that it is not just for showing movies. Incidentally, DVD used to stand for digital video disc, which makes sense when you think of it as the replacement for laser discs or videocassettes. However, with new uses for the technology, the "video" makes less sense, so the new spin is that DVD stands for digital versatile disc. Some say it should stand for nothing at all — just DVD. When you watch a movie on your PC you are really stealing a DVD from the living room home entertainment world and bringing it into your den or workspace. If the only purpose of having a CD-ROM were to listen to CDs while you worked at your computer, you can bet precious few computers would have one. As it is, practically every computer sold today has a CD-ROM because it is useful to computing. ln the same way, DVDs are (or will soon be) useful to computing. Think about it. Already, Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia, which came on two CD-ROMs, containing 20 to 30 video clips and hundreds of sound files, is available on a single DVD disc (which also contains the Encarta Virtual Globe and Microsoft's Bookshelf reference library). And that disc contains 35 percent more video, and twice the number of 360degree views, thousands of sound files (how many bird songs are there anyway?) and a few thousand pictures to boot. What about a DVD disc with the 16 best episodes ofMad About You? Heck without the commercials you could probably get 18 ha! f hour shows on one disc. Video is one thing, games are another. Look, for example, at the new DVD title Wing Commander IV by Electronic Arts. The game starts out with a short movie starring Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell. During the high-quality movie, you get to make some choices. The movie stops and you decide, should I help this guy out, or should I just ignore him. That decision and others will So you can watch a movie on your PC. So what? This aspect come back to help or hurt you while you are playing the game. To be able to offer branching, full screen, video producers of the technology isn't very practical. We used a 17-inch monitor and three speaker set, and although it was exceptional by need huge volumes of space. Fortunately, a DVD disc can have any standards, you couldn't get the whole family around it. So, as much as 26 times the storage space of a standard 650 MB CD-ROM. DVD isn't a must-have yet, but it will be soon. 0 how do you justify getting a DVD drive?

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Adding DVD to your computer We test two DVD-ROM upgrade kits BY RQO L A M I RAND

Dynatek Automation Systems of Bedford, N.S. was not sure of its commitment to DVD even though its DVB-471TII upgrade had

n behalf of our readers we contacted six manufacturers of P C DV D -ROM been well received. The company declined to upgrade kits. send us a review unit. Techmedia Computer Diamond Maximum Systems Inc. of San Systems of Garden Grove, Calif. was also Jose, Calif. did not have a Generation-2 DVB reluctant to send us its DVD-ROM drive until device ready in time for our review and did not a new generation couid be offered. Company have any Generation-1 devices left for evalua- representatives said they would try, but didtion. n't send a u n it . U t obia Corp. also of The term Generation-1 refers to the first California said it would send its Utobia generation devices that came out in 1997. Hollywood DVD/MPEG-2 AC-3 I'layback Kit, Generation-2 refers to improved DVD-ROM dri- which is a first generation device, but it never ves that have been arriving since October and arrived. which can read CD-R and CD-RW — something This left two units that did arrive: Pacific that Generation-I DVD drives could not do. Digital's PDC DVB-ROM Kit and Creative

Labs' Encore — both second generation, highquality, DVD-ROM upgrade kits. These DVD-ROM kits will upgrade a PCI Pentium computer into a DVD player. They take somewhat different approaches, but for the most part, they include the same compo-

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gets to be "master," On the primary ribbon your hard drive has to be the master, on the secondary ribbon, the DVD drive should be

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A DVD-ROM upgrade kit has two main components: a PCI card and a DVD drive. The card inserts into a free 32-bit PCI slot, while the drive fits into an empty bay. The drive has the same look and dimensions as a regular CD-ROM drive, One of the few differences is that CD drives don't usually have the following warning, written in 12 languages, on them: "Warning visible and invisible laser radiation when open. Do not stare into beam." Other items included are ribbons and cables, plugs and cords.

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THE ABCs OF DVD

Adding DVD to your computer Couth nu'rl frown page30 room for both S-video Out and a composite video out. To remedy this, the kit includes a modified S-video cable that splits into both plug styles. If your TV uses the composite (RCA) style jack you will need this to show movies on it. The cable is 1.8 m (6 ft.) long but you can get a standard S-video cable that is longer. You will need a female-to-female adapter, which is available from Creative I.abs for $6 plus postage. Also on the card is an external S/PDIF (pronounced speedif) jack. This connection is for running sound to a Dolby Digital device. The Encore Player (the software that lets you control the video) was far better than the software that came with the other kit reviewed here. The remote control-style controls are intuitive and aesthetic. Everything, in fact, about the I',ncore is well done. Creative I.abs is going to be tough to beat. It has a second generation DVD kit that works well, reads practically every previous C: D format, and costs only about $$00. This is a product whose time has come.

DVD-ROM From: Pacific Digital Corporation 2052 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92606 Tel: 7(4-252-1111 www.pacificdigitalcorp.corn Estimated street price: $540

by offering a second generation device, Pacific Digital is pulling out all the stops. l,ike the Fncore, Pacific Digit'al's DVD-ltOM can read almost any previous CD format including: CD-I, CD-R, CD-RW, CD, and CD-Audio. Unlike the Encore, Pacific Digital uses what is called an inlay approach, and therefore its minimum PC requirements are a little stiffer: 133 MHz Pentium PC or better, 16 MB RAM, 8 MB disk space, 32-bit PCI slot with bus mastering capabilities, Windows 95, an SVGA monitor and a PCI display card from an approved list, The DVD card may work with other video cards, but for certainty you will want to check the list. It can be found on the comp any's Web page. Here are a few of t he graphics cards listed: • ATI's Rage 2+ or Mach 64 • Matrox's MGA • Number Nine's Imagine or Imagine 2 • S3 's Vision 868, 968, Virge DX, YX, or Trio 641I • Ts eng Labs' ET6000. The PD DVD-ROM uses a Hitachi second generation <(rive (GD 2000) and a CineMaster PCI card. The CineMaster, by Quadrant International, performs the job of taking the encrypted and compressed data that comes from the drive and turning it into video, audio and/or data for your processor. (This is the same for all DVD drives.)

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DVD and your TV VD players cost between $250 and $1,200, compared to about $550 for an add-in kit for your PC. Say that you now have a DVD player in your computer. It can play movies, and has video and audio outputs on the back. Why not send the signal from your computer to the TV or VCR in your living room) You get high-quality video and sound at a low cost, right? Not quite! Unless your computer and TV are side by side, you are going to have difficulties. If you manage to get a cable to connect your DVD-ROM drive to your VCR you may still have problems. One problem is that DVD and DVD-ROM drives don't live in the coaxial world. If your VCR doesn't have S-video (these are sometimes called mini-DINs and have four little pins, inside), or at least RCAicomposite jacks, you are out of luck. Once you do get the video to your VCR, you will notice that the image on the TV is awful. You have forgotten that the DVD-ROM drive sends the CGMS signal to your VCR and your VCR now varies the brightness of your screen. The movie is wrecked. So, what do you do? You connect the video out from the DVD-ROM directly to a TV. The catch: only high-end TVs have S-video and/or RCA input jacks. There's more. One of the biggest things advertised with DVD is superior sound quality. A set-top DVD player can give you amazing sound using the newest and highest quality sound standard — Dolby Digital. Dolby Digital, also known as AC-3, is a S.l sound systetn and the one that is used in theatres, some direct broadcast dish systems and the impending HDTV. The term S.l means there are five channels (front right, centre, and left; rear right and left)' and a bass channel (sub-woofer). DVD players, but not as of yet DVD-ROM drives, can take this signal, connect to six speakers and wow you. But the player will need either a chip upgrade or a stand-alone Digital Dolby device. There are DVD players costing well over $1,000 that have Digital Dolby built in. If you have a device that can decode the AC-3 signal, you will need to run a second cable from your computer to it. The Digital Dolby signal can be read and sent out of your DVD-ROM card via the SfPDIF. However, to be used, it must then run to a standalone Dolby decoder before running to receiver and speakers. Some new high-end computer speakers can use software to translate the AC-3 signal into very good three-speaker stereo but it still isn't what you would get from a full-fledged DVD player with Dolby Digital and six speakers. There are other considerations and other possibilities, including a small transmitter that sends the data from your den to your TV — through the walls. Suffice to say, if you buy your DVD-ROM drive with the expectation of using it as a living room entertainment device, you have considerable homework to do.—Rod Lamirand

Overall, the Pacific Digital was easier to that use the inlay method of displaying video then send that information to your install but harder to fine tune than the video card to display on the monitor. Encore, The DVD-ROM drive came with a Overlay systems like the Encore Dxr2 rather strange collection of m ovie titles simply add the video signal to the signal including: Diana — The People's Princess,and coming out of your graphics card and send Deadly Encounters, starring Larry Hagman! The game Spycraft however really takes it on the way. This means that with an inlay system your advantage of DVD's capabilities. This drive also has a S/PDIF plug and monitor is still connected to your video card. In an overlay system, your monitor is plugged both composite and S-video outs, Pacific into the DVD card, while a separate cable Digital has recently cut its price to compete brings the video card signal into your DVD with Creative Labs and thus has brought card — in essence the DVD card is a pass itself into real consideration as a recomthrough. mended product. The consequences of this are twofold. First, in an inlay system you must have a The best choice very good video card. Second, the inlay tech- With only two drives available for evaluanique uses a certain amount of your system tion it is difficult to discern whether overlay resources and will even bog down under or inlay is the best route for DVD. As well, some conditions. The benefit to this system the two kits were comparable in almost is that you can, in theory, get a better, more every way. We did have a small problem with the detailed picture this way. ln our experience, a difference in quality Pacific Digital kit. In both computer systems between the two methods is not discernable. it would not read the video from Flectronic Although this would seem to suggest the Arts' Wing Commander IV. And yet the I'acific Digital board is at a disadvantage, that Creative Labs drive would. We were unable is not the case, because the CineMaster inlay to rectify this problem although Pacific board has an internal video connection that Digital's tech support had run this title on can be used to make it perform in an overlay the drive without difficulty. ' mode, with certain video graphic adapters. Either of these drives is a much better 'Ihe DVD player is competent, but, on choice than the Generation-I drives that both systems, often returned to the parental are still out there and run slower. For its control level of "kids." This meant that we great player, great titles and gentler requirewould insert a DVD title that was rated as m ents, ou r r e c ommendation g oes t o adult and the movie wouldn't play. The set- Creative Labs' Encore. Look for a flurry of tings for the player were quite good and new Generation-2 DVD hardware in the next few months. 0 allowed extensive customization.

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How we got from CD to DVD material below a transparent protective outer coating. These little holes are called pits, hen the compact disc (CD) kicked while the spaces between them are called audio cassette tapes out of record lands. The pits and lands are arranged along a stores, it was only doing what tapes path that spirals around the CD in one long had done to vinyl LPs and good old eight- continuous line. track tapes. CDs were a big improvement with A laser shines a light along the path and more than 70 minutes of quality audio. When senses the reflected light. Where there is a pit, the computer industry got tired of swapping no light is reflected. This represents data digi1.44 MB floppies, it only seemed natural to tally, in just that same way a magnetic on/off look to the technology of the CD. represents a 1 or 0 on a magnetic storage device like your hard drive. 58ow it wor8cs The letters DVD once stood for digital CDs work by burninglittle holes in a layer of video disc, but now stand either for digital

versatile disc or for nothing at all — depending either the top or bottom layer without interon who you talk to. ference. This means you can put 8.5 GB of A DVD disc works in a very similar way data on one side. That's approximately two but with a few improvements. First, the pits hours of vide(). and lands are much smaller and closer togethThere's more. Remember, DVD discs can er.This means you must have a more accurate be two sided. The result — 17 GB of data on and sensitive device to read these discs — in one CD-size disc. That's eight hours of video other words you need a DVD player. It also or 1,900 minutes (31 hours) of audio. means youcan place 4,700 MB (4.7 GB) of Thirdly, unlike CDs, DVDs need to be able data where 650 MB once existed! to jump from one place on the disc to another. Secondly,DVD discs can have two layers Thus, they are organized differently and use a that contains both content and navigaof data, one below the top layer, which is system semi-transparent. By altering the laser, and tional information. This two-track organizathe lens that reads it, the DVD drive can read

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What's to watch: DVD titles t is estimated that there are over 6,000 DVD movies currently available. This may be true, but from our limited research many of these titles are little more than a plain copy of the original movie. A visit to HMV, AM) Sound, Costco and other Vancouver stores revealed that most releases do not have captioning, never mind the captioning in two or three language that is possible with DVD technology. As well, most of the titles Kid not have more than the one soundtrack. TheMask and other new rel eases have English, French, and other languages — even a director's voice over. But additional camera angles are rare (clearly, it would not be easy to get additional camera angles for an Elvis Presley movie made in 1962, but for newer movies it would be fairly simple), and

wide screen is often not supported in these titles. Consumers are unlikely to pay the $26 to $32 per movie currently being asked in stores, unless the extra capabilities of DVD are utilized. The cheapest price we found for DVDs was at Costco, where the Director's Cnt of f)fade Rnnr rercost $21.95. Other titles like Austin Powersand TheRock were priced in the range of $29.95. Games are now arriving for DVD-ROM but at a slower pace than movies because there are fewer DVD-ROM drives than players. If the PC is ever going to match dedicated machines like Nintendo in quality, DVD-ROM is the way they will do it . Flectronic Arts, the maker of Wing Commander IV, one of the first and best DVD-ROM games,

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be based on an existing piece of out-of~opy- Reality check: most graphics service right artwork, I had the image scanned using bureaus are strongly Mac-oriented. a high-quality drum scanner. Although the $80 one of these high-quality images costs to acquire is nearly the total price of one of today's cheapo flatbed scanners, such inexpensive units are not capable of the image quality I wanted for a professional job. Indeed, even an image saved at the highest resolution on a (Kodak) Pro Photo CD disc is not of the quality captured by a decent drum scanner. The service bureau where I had the scan done saved the file onto the SyQuest

Yet another problem cropped up soon thereafter. My client supplied the text for the cover on a Mac floppy diskette and I could initially understand why MacDrive95 could not read it. Bizarrely, I could not even read the disk on my Macintosh! Can you guess the problem? Although it is true that a PC's floppy drive cannot read old 800KB (GCR format) Mac disks, this disk was a high-density 1.4 MB

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lem. It was only when I asked the client what type of Mac she used to create the disk that the answer became clear. The Mac, she noted, was a "really old one." As it turned out, she had formatted a 1.4 MB disk on a Mac that was so old, it didn' t know 1.4 MB disks existed. In other words, it was formatted as 800KB. I stuck a piece of tape over the hole on the top-left side of a HD disk that modern disk drives use to differentiate between double-density and high-density disks, and it became readable in my Mac. I transferred the files to a PC-formatted disk (which the Mac can read and write) and finally got the documents onto my PC. Whew!

Reality check: the Mac was necessary to solve this problem and, truth be told, my PC efforts were looking pretty dubious to me at this point. For a border around the main image, I scanned some Celtic knot patterns out of a

clip-art book of such designs. Because I knew that the Celtic knot art would be greatly altered, I was not terribly concerned with the quality of the original scan. I used an Epson Expression 636 scanner (which proved to be quite a bit better than the HP ScanJet Ilcx I also experimented with) to capture the Celtic knots and some other incidental artwork for the booklet that would comprise the CD cover. In fact, scanners played yet another role during this production. I used OmniPage OCR (optical character recognition) software to eliminate the task of retyping a couple of pages of typed lyrics for which there were no disk-based originals. These files, like the Mac documents, were saved in MS Word format, so that they c ould b e l a ter p l aced with PageMaker. As the work proceeded on the cover, I kept several backups of the files, including copies saved nightly onto removable SyQuest disk for remote storage, in case of fire or theft. I used the Layers feature of Photoshop to assemble images with shadows and border elements that could easily be altered as per the client's requests. For the Celtic knot border, I Continued on page$4

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ticated software package and thus presents the your hardware habit for a while in order to pay new user with a hefty learning curve. The new for Photoshop. Do you really need that faster Photoshop user can expect to invest some seri- CD-ROM drive? That shiny new modem? I didous time into really learning the program and n't think so, Save your beans and spring for the all that it can do. Also, it ain't cheap. But it's a bigcheese of design packages. Because it takes worthwhile investment: if necessary, curtail more than a couple of beans.

Kai's Power Tools 3 Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 95/NT System requirements Macintosh: A host application that fully supports Photoshop plug-in architecture; Macintosh 68040 or greater with math coprocessor;

like a fish without a bicycle While almost every software developer will tell you their graphics tool is the one you can't live without, there are actually very few pieces of software that will cause you to cease breathing if you don't own them. In fact, there are precisely none. But (and you knew that "but" was coming, right?) there are a very few that are so necessary that attempting to make Internet graphics without them is like eating sushi without chopsticks: you can do it, but your handssmell like fish. Let's look at some of those essential and nearly essential software packages and see what's so cool about them.

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sor; 16 MB RAM;24-bit video. http: //www.metatools.corn Okay: this one isn't strictly essential. However, i f you' ve already blown t h e w a d f o r Photoshop, Kai's Power Tools 3 is a very cool package to have around. Power Tools work with Photoshop as well as any other bitmap program that offers 100 percent support for Adobe Photoshop plug-ins. Check the label of

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In addition, the email functions on-board the 620LX promise support for binary and other attachments. As well, HP appears to have remedied its keyboard problems by using a larger and wider-spaced keyboard and has included "quick-start" keys for easy access to frequently used applications. While it has not gone as far as including a VGA cable inthe package, the 620LX does

Contimied frompage 60 lars more than the 360LX, but includes 16 MB of RAM, a color display (capable of showing 256 colors on its high-contrast screen) and a voice-recorder feature with a built-in microphone and voice-compression engine devel-

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calculator is the preferred choice only for people who: a) like reading numerical tables in a font called Lilliputian 6 Point; b) have an accountant in the family with the patience of Mr. Rogers; or, c) enjoy the multi-level intrica-

cies, and hollow pleasantries, of Revenue Canada's voice mail system. If you own a computer and don't like any of the above choices, one of the tax programs below is for you.

programs have all become better and cheaper. Also good news, the Web-offered programs are challenging how we do our taxes and even There are fewer personal tax software products how much we pay to do our taxes. It is their on the market than before. This category has innovation in both the technology, and the thinned as it has matured. Today's Canadian business model, that is spurring the . tax products are rich, complex offerings that big three into offering more for less. are well entrenched. What's left are three The bad news — Efiling remains r etail, off-the-shelf, products and a f ew inconsistent. The basic problem has Internet entrepreneurs with new ideas about been thatRevenue Canada must be tax software. able to show legal proof that you are The good news — the three shrink-wrapped culpable if there is false information on your return. What if someone were' to fill out a T-1 in your name and send it in. Well, you might be

Apology and Correction

, In last month's preview of tax software we incorrectly stated that Tax Made Easyfrom la Motte Enterprises Inc, was no longer around. A justifiably angry Aubrey Little, president of the company, faxed us to say the company was indeed still in business and that its software would be

software simply to speed up a refund by a few days or perhaps weeks? Well, clearly a lot of people do because over four million did last year. But it is not enough.

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Mr. Little writes: We know Ihnt your reviewer has, over the pastfew years, given less than favorableaccoim tsof our produt7 because it is not Windows bnsed. Much like saying I/rat miless one's car lias nn mitomatlc trails/nission, it should not be purchased to transport people on public hlglnvays. TAX made EASY hns been available for 12 years with nu complaints ever from either our clients or Reveime Ccniada. Without a rodent and glitzyscreens,it is very easy to use and colculales and prepares tax returns as accurntely and as fast as auy. 1t is directed at a nl che in the irurlket which we want to service regardless of your reviews.

ensure authenticity for electronic filing? They do so by only allowing registered Efilers to submit returns. These Efiling agents.must

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We apologize for this inaccuracy. Anyone interested in more information about Tax Made Easy can contact La Motte Enterprises Inc., 4406 Shore Way, Victoria, BC, VSN 3T9, Tel/fax: 250-477-9145.

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dozen employees. As larger corporations and government institutions have slashed their own work forces in the "downsizing" mania of the last decade (brought about in part, alas, by computer technology), we have increasingly had to look to ourselves, rather than our elected and appointed rulers or Canada's equestrian class, for new jobs. In fact, small business has become the major creator of new jobs in Canada. Much of this flourishing of small scale entrepreneurial enterprise has been made possible by personal computers, and increas-

for technology that gives the small business person more "bang for the buck." A vast array of new computer and telecom products and services are now available for the small b usiness sector. How ca n y o u ingly, by inexpensive, small scale exploit the opportunities that infornetworking technology and the mation technology offers to succeed internet. at your own business?

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much more. Computers rapidly developed the ability to enable even a single Continued on page 66

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AD: Actually, nothing. It's just a corporate name, with a ring to it, such as MGM. However, we often say that i t s t ands for M i g hty Good Investment. [MGI is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.] Oren Asher, our chairman, had thename trademarked around the world and set it aside for some future opportunity. CG: How was the company started? AD: Oren and I started the company. I' ve known him nearly 15

years. One day, while showing me his CAD [computer aided design] program, he flipped through an image-editing program that excit-

designed for in-house use. However, I ' kn e w t he image-editing segment of the market was at a posit ion wh e r e i t cou ld explode, so I told him that I would use his program to raise money and start the

company. , Because of our previous k ~ ' track records, I was able to f ind supporters. With t h e financial backing in place, I brought i n a t a l e nted team. Because of the acquisition of Delrina by Symantec, we

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The connected company Last issue we talked about "convergence," the coming together of traditional and new media in an increasingly standardized digital format. There is a kind of convergence happening in business, as well, as the human relationships and electronic- and paper-based business technologies of the past are going digital, and going online. This convergence of business onto the networked computer is changing the nature of work, of employer/employee relationships, and of society itself. The networked computer tools that used to be the domain only of the largest corporations, using expensive mainframe computers, have come down to the level of the desktop PC.

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INetroNetlights up Toronto network, demos dial tone TORONTO (NB) — Joining the vanguard of local telephony competition in Canada, Calgary-based MetroNet Communications Group Inc. inaugurated its fibre-optic network by placing of two local telephone calls over that network. The calls — to the Metropolitan Toronto Board of Trade and to the cellular telephone of MetroNet's central region vicepresident and general manager, David Pasieka — were the company's first public move toward entering the local telephone service business, which officially opened to competition on Jan. 1. Pasieka said MetroNet plans to test its local telephony services with customers in Febru'ary, and soon afterward launch local phone service in competition with Bell Canada. To provide that and other services in Toronto, MetroNet is using a network of .optical fibre, the downtown portion of which runs through abandoned water pipes

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vices, and access to long-distance services dropped from 65 to 27 percent while Microsoft Excel jumped from 44 to 79 perLong Distance Services Inc., Sprint Canada cent. Harvard Graphics, th e p r esentation Inc., and Fonorola Inc. Toronto is one of six cities where the company is operating; software package, all but fell off the radar the o t h ers a r e C a l gary, E d m onton, and now shows three percent usage, down V ancouver, W i n n i peg, O t t a wa, a n d from 27 percent in 1995. During the same Montreal. Pasieka said the firm has plans to three years, Microsoft Powerpoint rocketed ' from 18 percent to a dominant 86 percent enter four more cities this year. of those surveyed. In the groupware arena the battle is still INicrosoft tops North America corjoined, with Microsoft Exchange used by porate desktops 32 percent of the respondents compared to MELVILLE, N.Y. (NB) — An annual. mail-in through partnerships with ATILT Canada

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education can reduce the likelihood of com-

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communications system can be used and misused. A CSP should be munications system misuse. There should also policy (CSP) to enhance compatible with the organization's culture. It be ongoing training, periodic updates and system benefits and reduce should reflect well on the organization and its users, since the policy itself may be publicly system nsks and habihties. disclosed and subjected to judicial scrutiny. A CSP should include appropriate explanations, so that it will contribute to a healthy workplace environment and not create undue stress or adversely affect morale. The CSP The perils of communica- should be prepared with proper legal advice to tions systems were discussed in ensure that it is consistent with applicable the February 1998 edition of The laws and contractual obligations, including Computer Pnper,and include: (a) liabilicollective bargaining agreements. It should ty for, civil and criminal misconduct; (b) a also be prepared with proper technical advice. source of embarrassing and harmful electronic evidence; (c) infringement of user privacy -

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Policy overview An effective CSP should educate users regarding communications system risks and liabili-

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communications to be private, they should not use the organization's communications system; (d) passwords are used for security reasons„but do not prevent system managers from authorized system use and data monitoring and disclosure; and (e) email may be reviewed when users are absent from work. If such warnings are not given, users may argue that they had a legitimate expectation of privacy regarding their communications system use.

Decisions regarding system-use monitoring and data review and disclosure ought to be made by properly trained, high-level personnel for legitimate purposes and with the benefit of proper legal advice. n Security: Communications systems are vulnerable to internal and external security threats. Technology and expert advice are available to reduce or eliminate many security threats. There are also a number of common sense security precautions; (a) master passwords and other security-related information should have limited disclosure; (b)

user passwords should be non-obvious, hard-to-guess, confidential, and changed on a regular basis; (c) all computers should have password-protected screen savers; (d) users should log off the system at the end of the

day; and (e) system hardware should be secured. Information technology (IT) personnel can present a security risk. They may

have access to passwords and other securityrelated information that may be misused

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Stuaill Business CottjLpucing email is not secure or private unless it is purpose. It might also include an email forencrypted. For this reason, it may be pru- malization protocol that requires users to dent for a CSV to prohibit the use of unen- record and file important business-related crypted external email-for sending or receiv- email permanently, either in electronic or ing confidential i n formation, i ncluding paper format. trade secrets and solicitor-client privileged • Software m anagement: For l e gal information, and t o r equire all external (copyright) and practical (system perforemail to be marked with a confidentiality rnance, maintenance, and support) reasons, warning, for example "Confidential — Do a CSP may prohibit the use of software that Not Distribute or Disclose — Do Not Forward is not properly licensed and approved by IT Without P ermission o f S e n der — Please personnel. Immediately Notify Sender if You Receive • Compliance: Users ought to be warned this Message in Frror and then Purge the that CSP violations may result in discipline Message." corresponding to the gravity of the offence, A CSP might also require that internal including summary dismissal, and restricemail containing confidential or solicitor- tions on communications system use. client privileged information be properly • Notice and acceptance: A CSP should labeled as " Confidential" o r "Solicitor- form part of the organization's policies and Client Privileged" and be distributed on a procedures manual and the communicaneed-to-know basis. tions system user manual. A CSP should The uncontrolled use of data encryption state that use of the system constitutes can interfere with data access and system acceptance of the policy and agreement to monitoring and maintenance. Accordingly, its terms. The safest course is to require all a CSPmight also contain encryption guide- users to sign a written acknowledgement lines, including permissible encryption that they have read and understood the CSV methods and when encryption should and and agree to abide by it, although in some should not be used. circumstances that may not be practicable. • Data retention and d estruction: A A CSV should be well publicized. Users CSV should include a data retention policy. should be reminded of it on a regular basis. 'I'he fundamental goal of such a policy is to On-screen reminders and non-privacy warnensure that electronic data is organized, ings can be programmed to display as part of archived and stored in a secure tnanner that log-on procedures. Similar notices may be provides for efficient retrieval for business communicated periodically by memoranpurposes, including legal disputes. It should dum or email. also attempt to minimize the unnecessary • Insurance: As part of a CSP preparaaccumulation of data that serves no business tion process, it is prudent to ensure that ade-

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rise to substantial risks and liabilities. A clear and comprehensive policy, prepared with proper technical and legal advice, can reduce those risks and liabilities. Every business should have a communications system policy that educated users and establishes guidelines for proper system use. IJ

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Bradley J. Freedman is a trial lawyer with the Vancouver law 1irm Ladner Downs. His preferred areas oi practice include intellectual property law and commercial litigation. He can be reached by email at bfreedmancgjladner-downs.com. This article is of a general nature. and cannot be regarded as

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Can Tax page. Like the other two programs, Can Tax will not allow you to make stupid mistakes. If, for insurance number or date the program will tell you. One area where CanTax is very efficient is in its use of hot keys. For the professional, or the dedicated user, nothing is faster than logical and consistent hot keys. That doesn't mean CanTax has ignored the right-click button. Right clicking is content specific and will bring up the most used options for that window or form. Also available is CanTax Canadian Tutor

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• SOFAR E The second prong of t h e company's approach is GriffTax on the Web. This is a service more than a product. With it anyone, regardless of their operating system proclivity, can enter data on the Grifffax site and f ind ou t w h a t they owe or can expect a s a refund. Pay ten bucks and download the r esulting I'DF file. Print it and mail it i n .

Clean, simple, and cheap. The service was not yet up and running in time for this review, but the information on the GriftTax site explains the process and its limitations; while at the same time, answering concerns about the sending and receiving of data of the Net. This is an i nnovative and interesting development that is priced right and makes sense. If Grifffax can make a financial success out of it, and there is no reason not to think it can, look for imitators and adopters to abound. Good luck to Griffl'ax.

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Lotus' graphics program. But again, there's a positive to counter even that drawback. The common interface of the applications put into office suites is definitely a positive, as are the special links between applications that make it eminently practicable to move around between them, and to move items from one application to another, In all of this there's an oft overlooked point that office suites are called office suites for a very good reason: they' re constructed to address the most common tasks demanded of

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Which is where Microsoft comes into the picture with this excellent suite of home-oriented applications that sells for under $150. Microsoft apparently consulted the results of a survey to determine the top 10 home PC uses in terms of "percentage of PC owners performing [a certainj activity" and consequently tailored this package to address the findings. The result is Home Essentials 98, six and a half of Microsoft's very popular program in a five-CD-ROM set containing full and current versions of Word 97, Money 98, Works 4.5, G reetings Workshop, Encarta 9 8 a n d Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection. The half (above) refers to the one month free trial offer for the Microsoft Network (MSN) online service. Each program can be loaded or deleted independently of the others, so you can choose what you want when you want it and modify your installation at any time later. First, I should mention that I particularly like Home Essentials for including Works because I'm an inveterate Works user and have been ever since I got my first PC compatible in 1990. I find that the simple yet intelligent features of Works' integrated word processor, spreadsheet and database more than fulfill my digital desires. There's plenty of formatting, fonts galore and enough control over the final result that I often wonder why so many people with undemanding requirements like mine want to tie up their computer resources with a full version of Microsoft Office. Works also contains a communications component for sending and receiving documents through the modem. The unfortunate th)ng about the gradual maturation of Works is that Microsoft releases each new version ina more and more cumbersome incarnation as they fill it up with virtually hundreds of templates and those annoying "wizards" that I'm sure are appreciated by only the least experienced computerist. My favorite version was the !an't one before Windows 95, but like everyone else, I have succumbed to Bill Gates' siren song and steered by computer heavily onto those rocks too.

The latest version of Works in Home Essentials 98 is very much like the previous "for Windows 95" version, but with the addition of Internet Explorer, more templates and many more clip art. A good, solid all around program and well worth the purchase of this bundle alone. Word, on the other hand, is Word. And words alone can't express the nuances of the love and hate relationship so commonly arising in Word users. It's super sophisticated and super advanced to the point that most home users are unlikely to ever tap the many capabilities of this word processing/publishing environment. Home Essentials comes with a 359-page manual. The fact that 274 of them are devoted to Getting Results with Microsoft Word 97 ought to give the unversed some idea of just how powerful this word

tos tend toward the banal. The fact that you can import graphics (and photos too if you have a color scanner and Microsoft's companion product Picture It!, reviewed recently in TCP) injects some much needed flexibility to make the Greetings Workshop really work as long as you' re willing to put in the time. But don't forget that printing even a few full-color greetings is going to tax your wallet mightily as you head to the store for more printer cartridges. Nicely though, among several features, is the option to simply create electronic greetings for transmission through

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Small wonder it's good. The executive producer for the game is Al Roireau who has worked on both Civilization and F-19 Stealth Fighter. The game i s p r ogrammed by Crossover Technologies in New York and distributed by Interplay, which should make it easier to find than some Discovery titles have been in the past. Evolution fits into the educational arena because players learn about biological evolution across a span of 360 million years; 170 existing, extinct and fictional species; geology (such as plate tectonics) in the format of problem solving; strategy; and the history of science. For each species (many are dinosaurs) you learn when they lived, where they feed and how well they feed in each terrain, You may want to evolve a new species that will thrive in an environment different from your current creature. It might be a predator to attack opponents or a species that will thrive in a coming era, Like SimCity or SimFarm, "things" happen. The game may pause while continents drift and move, the climate may abruptly shift at an era change, often triggered by disasters such as asteroid impact, supernovas or huge volcanoes. Watch a comet plunge to Earth and destroy 90 percent of all living species! (You can even trigger these disasters yourself,

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group that typically has more disposable news, weather and traffic conditions, which income than the rest of the general populace. they get from the local stations." But considSo where do you find the stations on the ering the fact that real effortsare being made Internet? There is no dial — instead you will to improve audio quality and the increasing find Web pages that list where the stations are. availability of fast connections for the averOn The Air (http J/www.onthaair.corn/) is one of age computer user, more people can be the more comprehensive listings of radio sites expected to "tune into" the Interne. And found on the Web. Here you can find radios there is increasingly plenty for you to listen stations by location or by category, including to — during the time take to research this artialternative, Christian, dassical, country, top cle, more than 100 stations were added to On The Air's extensive listing. 40, jazz, news, oldies, rock, sports andurbanSoon people will not only be surfing on if you can find it on the radio dial, you will find it all, and more, on the Internet. Then the Net, they' ll also be grooving to it. 9

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Aimed at developers, the MCSD designation certifies that the holder is qualified to design and develop custom business solutions with Microsoft development tools, technologies, and platforms, including MS Office and MS BackOffiice. MCSD candidates are required to pass two core technologyexains and two elective exams. The core exams involve Windows 32-bit architecture, OLE, U I design, and Windows Open ServicesArchitecture components. The elective exams tests the candidate's skill with Microsoft's development tools. Microsoft Certi5ed Professional (MCP) This certification is for those who have demon-

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