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Of course PC makers will, by copying some of the iMac's design features. One thing I hope the iMac hastens is the adoption of the universal serial bus (USB) as the primary peripheral connector on the PC.

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Live will take PC sound to the next level. The PSSU SNER / EEECDTIYEED ITORJ.DavidRitter, dritleretcpon.co rn David Tanaka, david@lcp.ca company has acquired a couple of profession- ESITOA ASSIST AN T E D IT O R Me ga n Jo hn ston, me g an j@ lc p.ca the iMac thus far has been how Apple hobbled al audio companies over the past few years, ASSOCIAT EEDITORJeffEvans Granted, one of the biggest criticisms of

the implementation of USB. However, I'm willing to bet that this is a temporary situation, and in six months the driver issues will be resolved and USB peripherals for iMac will

and the results of those acquisitions are show-

ing up in products like Live. This is pro-quality sound at consumer prices. The other event is graphics card maker

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formance is now becoming affordable and widely available. Within the next few months eliminate the rat's nest of cables coming out expect to see games and multimedia software of the back of every PC. No longer would you that exploits these advancements in sound need a separate ports for the mouse and key- and video.

released, and many more will be in the next few would revolutionize PC design, since it would months. Fall Comdex — North America's largest computer exposition — is waiting to gobble our attention in November. It's traditionally the prime event for manufacturers to make their

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to attach a device, since USB is hot-pluggable. showed three male children huddled around a When I talked to several manufacturers computer monitor while a fourth child — a busiest season for computer retailing as well. at a trade show in the fall of 1997, I was told female — looked on from a distance. Portraying And those of us interested in computer tech- that the industry was waiting for Microsoft a female literally and figuratively taking a back nology get to feast on the riches of the season, to release Windows 98. While later revisions seat to males vis a vis computers was insensiwhether we' re buying or just looking. of Windows 95 offered some USB support, tive, sent out the wrong message and perpetuOne of the most significant events this fall Windows 98 was supposed to provide a uni- ated gender stereotypes, we were told. w as the official i n troduction o f A p p l e fied spec that would simplify driver develDid we goof? I suppose the answer to that Computer's iMac, and in this issue we give the opment. depends on what readers thought of the cover. event special treatment, I believe Apple has In June of this year, I had the opportunity We certainly were aware that the picture

defined what the home computer will be in the coming years. While its lack of expand-

to tour Acer Peripherals' manufacturing plant might be controversial, What surprised us was in Taiwan. We watched scanners and moni- the passionate and detailed responses some ability will limit its customization — and there- tors being assembled, none of which were readers sent in, opining about the social, psyfore its appeal to power users — the iMac has equipped with USB. When I asked about this I chological and political consequences of the enough inthe box to keep most home com- was told that Acer (and presumably other use of such images. I think we can comfortputer users content. This is not to say Apple will displace the Wintel empire in the home. The PC still has many advantages: lower price, wider selection of software, wider choice of peripherals and more manufacturers in the game, which leads to a wider variety of systems. But the iMac has drawn a line in the sand, and is challenging PC makers to step over it.

peripheral manufacturers) had USB designs ready to roll, and could switch the assembly lines over to start manufacturing them at a moment's notice. However, there appeared to be little demand for USB devices. With the iMac adopting it as the primary peripheral connector, PC manufacturers may be willing to follow, Then the peripheral manufactures will come on board.

ably defend The Computer Peeper'srecord as a non-sexist publication. However, we are reminded that images do occur in a context and have implications and information components that go beyond the objective record of a subject captured on film. Enjoy the issue David Tanaka, Editor

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that all I needed was the diploma in the program and I would be guaranteed a job. The one thing that I and a fair number of others needed to learn in college is how to get a job after college. Canada, and are only available by mail order A statement in your article was the first (and the related nightmare of Customs) and time I had ever heard of recruitment agencies the associated problems when something for high-tech careers. One thing I would have doesn't work. asked for upon graduation if I had known Lorin C. Bloomfield about them is a list of recruitment agencies in • OO my field. As a possible addition to your paper I would just like to congradulate you for your I would suggest that you permanently add a excellent series of articles on Technology in small section listing the top two or three agenEducation in your September issue. They were cies in various centres across the country, very informative! Keep up the great work! Stephen Gallagher

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CATA). It would have been nice to know how This is a question for Rod Lamirand concemthese two organizations rate the various insti- ing his article "Want to be a Techie?" (TCP, tutions in Canada. September '98). I am a recent honors graduPlease, consider another article in the near ate in Toronto from Seneca College's computfuture that includes a rating of the education- er engineering technology course. In his artial institutions that provide training in the cle Rod makes it seem like you' ll be offered a technical fields (computer related, such as job as soon as you graduate. Unfortunately, it computer engineering, electronics engineering, network engineering, etc.). This would go a long way to helping prospective students choose an institution. It would also give those

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A word in the hand ... • After garnering best of show at Germany's giant CeBit computer exhibition, I.ibCom 1'echnologies, of Ste.-Foy, Que., has released its Quicktionary handheld translator in Canada. The small device, about the size of a marker pen, is used to scan a text, which is then the translated a n d di s p l ayed o n Quicktionary's small LCD window. If there are

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Press aims to become the first online publisher to sell books that can be read on the 3Com PalmPilot. The company will sell both contemporary fiction and non-fiction books straight from the original publishers. Peanut Press has initially signed deals with Tor/St Martin's Press, trade publisher Council Oak Books; self-help publisher Asian Publishing; and mystery publisher Intrigue Press.

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Rage 128 debut marks ATI's 1 billion year By Jeff Evans n late August, Marl ham, Ont.-based A'll, the leading supplier ol' I'C graphics cards and chips, held a splashy launch ceremony in 'Ibronto for its latest generation of high-speed graphics processors. All representatives tokl the audience of international computer journalists and editors that the nets )(age 128 chip is the fastest, most flexible graphics processor currently on the market. 'I he Rage 128 chip generation embodies the latest in leading-edge microprocessor technology, including superscalar architecture and .2SHardwired on micron chipmaking technology. the chip are sections of circuitry custom designed to accelerate 2D and 3D graphics, DVD and digital video, and enable super fast transmission of data. The internal data speed of the chip ran reach I.G GB/sec., according to ATI. ATI claims to have outpaced Moore's Iaw (a computer industry rule of thumb that microprocessor speeds will double every 12 to 18 months, while holding steady or slightly declining in cost) in its development of the Rage chips. A11 says the advent of the Rage 128 chips, about a year after its previous generation of Rage 32 Pro chips, represents a quadrupling in graphics acceleration horsepower in the space of a year. According to ATI, the Rage 128 chip will bring to the mainstream PC a level of graphics processing speed far beyond any previous graphics hardware available at a price affordable to the average computer user. Based on the price/performance demonstrated at the launch, all the competing mid- to high-end graphics card makers are in for some very hard competition from ATI's new product. Not hiding its light under a bushel Al'I went to great lengths to make the unique nature of its recent achievements understandable. Ontario's minister of industry made a congratulatory speech praising A'I'I as a prime example of Ontario's and Canada's technological ability, and presented a letter of commendation from Premier Mike Harris to ATI's co-founder, K. Y. Ho. Mr. Ho, widely recognized as the driving force behirtd ATI's success, addressed the audience, pointing out ATI's progress from high-tech startup in 1985 to a world leader in the intensely competitive graphics market. According to All, the company, which started in a G,000 sq. ft. former garage on Toronto's Danforth road in 198S, has reached the SI billion annual sales mark (based on its revenues so far in 1998) in 14 years, faster than any other Canadian high-technology firm. The company's capitalization value on the stock market has reached a level that makes it worth more than the capitalization value of all of its graphics chip competitors combined (about $4 billion, subject to stock market fluctuations). A parade of ATI representatives gave one stunning demo after another of the new product, showing the capabilities of the Rage 128 chip. Especially impressive were examples of DVD MPEG-2 playback, and high-speed 3D simulations and games. The demonstrations highlighted some of the oddities of current graphics applications. For example, a particularly gory shoot-'em-up game, consisting mainly of fountains of monsterburger bits spraying around the screen, made one wonder if this technological marvel was perhaps fated to be used for some unworthy purposes. As well, a rather limp

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devices, or writable CD-ROMs. All perfectly decent considerations and all seemingly one step behind. Magneto-optical drives are in a state of transition and haven't kept up with falling prices. True they have great life expectancy, being very durable (150 years, they estimate) but there is no real movement

1.5 GB removable drive called the SyJet. A little pricier, the SyJet is currently targeted at businesses but expect that to change now that lomega has upped the ante with its Jaz drive. The new Jaz 2 GB is a SCSI-based speed demon with cartridges that have the capacity of many hard drives. The unit is so fast you can use it as a hard drive with no noticeable depreciation in speed! If it weren't for price all the preceding categories would be redundant. Castlewood Systems has announced, but not yet delivered, a new product called the Orb, which it claims will have a 2.2 GB capacity, a data transfer rate of 12.2 MB per second and a costof $300 — the same as the 1 GB

Spar Q. The benefitsof tape At one time the only affordable removable storage game in town — apart from floppieswas tape, With the emergence of newer tech-

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ket level. Burning your own CDs using a CD-R or combination CD-R/CD-RW drive is becoming more economical, and data thus stored is easily accessible, since most computers now come with a CD-ROM drive that will read the discs. The main limitation with CD-R is that it is a write-once process, while the others in this roundup are re-writable. CD re-writable technology (CD-RW) is more promising but the media is still relatively expensive. For example, blank CD-R discs are available for about $2 each, while CD-RW discs cost approximately $15 each. However, this still provides up to 650 MB of storage at a lower cost than either a Zip or an LS-120 diskette (both of which cost around $20 each). The price of the CD recorders ranges from $450-$800, depending on the brand, whether the unit is internal or external and whether it will support CD-R, CD-RW or both. For example, Hewlett-Packard's latest CD-Writer Plus 7200 currently sells for about $550 for the internal unit or $680 for the externa l unit.

Tape systems are very cost-effective, In the business market there are a number of tape technologies and they dominate server storage solutions. At the consumer level excellent products are now available, and not only do they have huge capacity, but they are also increasingly simple to use. What tape backup technology lacks in random access it makes up for in size. The Hewlett-Packard SureStore T4 and Colorado use 4 GB cartridges. The Iomega Ditto Max Pro, and the newly released Bolt from AIWA Computer Systems, can hold up to 5 GB. There is even a product, called Backer32, which uses your VCR and regular videotapes to store up to 4 GB! Sbt of one, One note. Whereas the other products and halfa dozen of the ether here advertise their capacity in regular native The most popular transportable, rewritable megabytes, the tape systems always sell themcomputer medium, after the floppy, is the Zip selves based on a 2:1 compression. Thus the drive. The 100 MB Zip drive has blossomed Colorado 8 GB really only holds 4 GB, the Bolt over the last few years to the point where Zip says 10 GB but means 5 GB, and so on. We disks and drives are ubiquitous. have ignored the hype and translated back However, 100 MB isn't what it used to be, into uncompressed numbers, which is why foolhardy. However, Sony could be the excep- which has meant a number of other products Yamaha's CRW 4260 series costs between the Colorado 8 GB is discussed as a 4 GB tion because Sony is huge and Sony knows a vying for market share in the under I GB cat- about $640-$750 for internal and external device. thing or two about storage. After all in 1980 it egory. We are calling this group the Six of models: These models can use both CD-R and did invent the floppy drive! (On the other hand, One, and Half a Dozen of the Other category CD-RW media. Philips, Sony and Acer also sell Condnslons Sony came in second in the Beta vs, VHS con- because there are so many completely differ- CD-R, CD-RW or combo recorders. Virtually every manufacturer is about to sumer videotape standard skirmish —Ed.) ent solutions. On the horizon are recordable DVD drives, release a USB (universal serial bus) version of For the last year Sony has been saying that One contender for your dollars is the Shark which promise capacities of 4 GB-plus per at least some of their products. While parallel it is about to release a competitor to the LS- 250 Pro, which is a small parallel port or PC disc. The technology is still young, with many port interfaces will be most effected, there will 120. The HiFD {presumably meaning high- Card device that will cost you just under $400. standardization issues to be solved before con- be other products that will take advantage of density floppy disk, but that's only a guess) is The Sharkholds 250 MB of data on each $60 sumers can expect to feel confident they are USB benefits. As great as these units are, it also backward compatible with today's flop- cartridge. If it had the installed based that Zip not buying into a dead ends, remains an annoyance to have to fuss around pies but has a 200 MB capacity. Sony claims does it could be a great choice. As it is, the For general purpose removable behind the computer. the HiFD has a maximum data transfer rate of Shark 250 doesn't have the compact size of a under 1 GB, where sharing data is an imporHopefully the next time we take a look at 3.6 MB a second, which is fast indeed but we floppy, the capacity of a CD, or removable hard tant ability, your best bet remains the Zip Plus. this category, setting up a removable storage can't say for sure because Sony Canada won' t drive, or the compatibility of the Zip/Zip Plus. option won't even entail rebooting your PC. let us see one, yet. Other choices in this area would include Where the real action ls One last thing, if you don't save it, some At this time, Sony intends to announce optical drives, like the Fujitsu DynaMO, pd/cd Here is where all the excitement is: big, fast, day, you' ll lose it! Back up your work 0

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ics, which includes computer science studies, at Waterloo. s part of its budget in May, the Ontario The second level of funding would include government announced funding of up such startup funds and provide an overall to $150 million for university and col- higher level of funding. There is, however, a lege spaces in information technology fields. catch. Universities must double their total This includes computer science, electrical information technology enrollment and colengineering and computer engineering pro- leges must increase by 50 percent over the grams for universities and similar technology next three years to quality. It is hoped by the programs in 27 colleges in Ontario. Ontario government that 17,000 new spaces This new program, called Access to would b e c r eated w i t hi n f i v e y e ars. Opportunities, is expected to start this fall. It Universities and colleges would also have to developed out ofconferences between the find matching funds from industry. University of Waterloo, University of Toronto For some universities such as McMaster in and a major industrial partner. One of those Hamilton, this program is the jackpot. As it partners, Nortel, had made public its large planned to add a new software engineering annual a p petite f o r new h ir e s in program this year, the increase in enrollment electrical/computer engineering that conwill not be difficult to meet. For others with sumed a major proportion of graduates each already large programs, such as Waterloo and year in Canada. its prestigious co-op programs in engineering The consensus of the conference partici- and computer science, there are problems. pants was that current training levels were not Waterloo had a large influx of students in meeting and were not likely to match demand 1997-'98 because more students accepted for the foreseeable future. The Canadian their offer than had been anticipated or expeAdvanced Technology Association (CATA} had rienced in previous years. projected a shortfall in Ontario of 42,000 comThis represents a problem for calculating puter scientists and computer-related engi- the increase. Kalbfleisch was also quick to neers over the next five years. They suggested point out that given the tight employment Ontario must double the number of graduates situation in these fields, adding the necessary in these fields to remain competitive. faculty while maintaining quality would be However, as Ontario universities send out difficult to achieve as well. their acceptance letters to prospective students The Ontario government was initially in early]une, the government's funding offer unsympathetic to Waterloo's and University of left most universities scrambiing to figure out Toronto's similar problem. However, there are if they could match the terms. For universities, signs the program requirements will be softthe program is to operate at two levels. ened to allow these players into the market. First, there is to be additional money made There is an additional postscript to the available for each new student admitted funding problems for information technology above current levels. However, there must be fields. Funding for such departments needs to a 20 percent increase in a university's total also consider the role computer science faculinformation technology program to qualify. ties contribute to other hi-tech specialities Buying into the program at this level without besides just providing training for its own additional startup funds would be taking addi- majors. tional enrollment at less than the present per According to Kalbfleisch, there needs to be s tudent f u n ding, a c cording t o Ja c k a "balance and we cannot just put resources Kalbfleisch, dean of the faculty of mathemat- into honors computer science." 3

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he 3DO corporation, originally founded in 1993 to develop the first "nextgeneration" video games platform (the innovative but expensive 3DO CD-ROM console), appeared destined for oblivion when sales of that platform (the hardware was actually manufactured by third-party partners, but the 3DO relied on royalties from product sales) crashed in the face of competition b y c h eaper Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation, and Nintendo 64 devices in. 1995 through 1997. Instead of folding the company tents and going quietly, 3DO chief executive officer, Trip Hawkins, re-constituted the Company as an entertainment software developer and publisher. TCP last encountered Hawkins in late 1996 at a San Francisco conference held by Intel o n the sub j ec t of "hybrid" I nternet/CD-ROM applications, at a t i me when it was obvious that the company had to change or die. At that time, Hawkins said 3DO was beginning to re-form as a content developer for online and CD-ROM games, Now the metamorphosis is complete, and 3DO is back in a serious way, with a s trong lineup of games and an i tch t o become one of the major contenders in the multi-platform (VC, Playstation, N64) games market.

Slow 'em away (nicely) In a sense, Hawkins' approach is simple: create great games, and the players will come. According to Hawkins, "The gaming market has become more concerned with the volume distribution of games, and less concerned with creating great games. That's the opposite of the way it should be. We' re putting everything into making a handful of the best games possible with the belief that customers will be attracted to quality products."

Building a brand and a studio In his pre-3DO life, Hawkins was t h e founder and chief executive of Electronic Arts (EA), one of the first and most impressive developers of lavish multimedia PC games. He gained a reputation as a hard driving software impresario, and pushed his development staff to c reate versions of games for every imaginable computing platform in th e 19BOs (Amiga, Commodore C D32, Mac, A p ple I I , M S D O S , M S Windows, Atari, etc., etc.). In EA's glory days, where there was a potential market, Hawkins wanted EA to be present.' In the modern interactive games market, 3DO is more selective. Hawkins sees three massive installed bases of potential 3DO software customers in high performance Windows PCs, the Sony Playstation, and Nintendo 64. All three platforms have roughly comparable high-end 3D, animation, audio an d g r aphics capabilities, although the special requirements of the N64, for games on expensive, limited capacity cartridges makes it a tougher publishing medium than the CD-ROM format used by the PC and the Playstation. Hawkins has concentrated his efforts on organizing a 3DO production studio that develops action, sports, fantasy role-playing

and other "guy-oriented" games. Early 3DO releases such as Uprising have been well received, and Army Men, and Might and Magic were strong sellers when released last May. Hawkins has always aimed to develop or hire the best management, design and programming talent available, and for 3DO he has hired some ex-EA stalwarts, including Richard Hicks, the head of development of Road Rash.

I Illte 'em big and stupid... and loud Current 3DO titles include Army Men, a PC game featuring kids' green plastic soldiers animated on the computer. The good, green plastic soldiers have the noble mission of defeating the evil tan army, with the help of the maximum number of explosions and sound effects. Army Men 3D is a fully 3D Playstation version of the original Army Men. Might And Magic Vl for the VC, featuring a new gameplay engine, combines realtime animation and turn-based play. Heroes of Might and Magic III is a graphically intensive VC strategy game, with multiplayer capability for online gameplay. Requiem Wrath of the Fallen, slated for fall release on the PC, is a full 3D, first-person simulation of the battle between Heaven and Hell. Billed as an "action game of biblical proportions," the emphasis seems to be on the angry, apocalyptic parts of the Old Testament or the Book of Revelations, rather than the more reflective, philosophical elements of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Uprising 2 for the PC allows the player to take on the role of a general who doesn' t phone his orders in to the front line from a quiet HQ — rather, he's shoulder to shoulder with the troops, showing them how to get the job done, or even doing it for them. A full 3D Playstation version, Uprising X, is due in late 1998. For the N64, Battlel'anx is a post-apocalyptic action/romance title, where players level the remains of Earth's cities to rescue the few remaining, beautiful QueenLords from wandering hordes of lonely barbarian

guys, For the less bloodthirsty gamer, 3DO has High Heat Baseball 1999, whose release was timed to coincide with the opening day of the 1998 baseball season. High Heat Baseball 1999 is a creation of 3DO's in-house baseball game development studio,Team .366.3DO claims this game gives the best ever user control over both the animated pitcher and batter, and combines realistic baseball game play without the realistic waiting time; players can get all the action of a three-hour game in about 30 minutes. As well, 3DO offers Vegas Games 99, a package of 24 casino-style gambling games, without the downside of real gambling (second hand cigarette smoke, bankruptcy, visits from large people with baseball bats who are not real baseball players). The bottom line to the 3DO story is that while there are no guarantees in the computer games industry for either gameplayers or games makers, there are often additional lives available. 0 Contact: 3DO.http: //www.3do.corn

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etc. When the l ayers are combined, it forms the full image. W hen the color hits the paper, it is applied as a series of droplets, or dots. How many dots are applied is a function of the printer and the software settings, but the range in our roundup this month is anywhere from 360 dots per inch (dpi) vertically to 1440 dpi horizontally. The higher the number, the more densely packed the dots will be, and the higher the resolution. It's more than just a function of the quantity of dots, though; droplet size is also important. Although the Lexmark and Epson provide outstanding quality with their high dotpitch (1,200x1,200 and 1,440x720 on their top models, respectively), Hewlett-Packard emphasizes a smaller droplet size with a smaller dpi rating (600x600). Placement of the dots can be as important as how many are placed onto the sheet.

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The mid-rangebetween the 440 and the 740, this printer offers better speed and much better resolution than the lower-end version. Still not quite up to the speed and functionality of anyone. the 740, the 640 nevertheless offers a good balance between speed and quality that makes Hewlett-Packard DeskJet722C this a great choice for overall use, both for text Price: $399 and color printing. Also well-known in the printer field, one of HP's latest offerings in the inkjet field is the 722C. More compact Epson Stylus Color 740 than some of HP's other models, the 722 delivers Street price: $429 great quality overall. Although not a whole lot different on the outside from its two siblings, the 740 packs adefinite punch in a few key areas. Speed-wise, it's faster (in draft mode, quite a bit so), the quality is excellent, and the extra ports make it a more versatile machine. Pro: • Excellent quality text and graphics. The photographic reproduction was the best of this month's batch of printers, • One-year warranty includes overnight exchange. • Good software bundle included. • This is the only unit tested that includes the Serial 8 connector for the Mac, and aUSBconnector. Con: • Ink is applied rather heavily, and could be a concern to users printing on regular bond paper, with possible smearing and wrinkling as ink dries. Pro: • Excellent color reproduction, with solid black and Epson always provides machines with fine excellent grayscaling. • Windows 95 driver seems to be compatible with quality, and the Stylus Color 740 is no exception. Photographic output was excelWindows 98. lent, as was regular black and color text.

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Thermal ink'et 600x600 56 black 48 color 1.5 3.5

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Thermal ink'et 1 200x1 200 206 black 192 color

u to6 3.5 7.8 46.5x28x20.8 18.3x11x8.2 47dB A 100

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1 color 1black 1 color Win 3.1/95/98 Win 3.1/95/98 NT Parallel Parallel Micrografx WindowsDraw6 SE Micrografx Print Studio CreataCard

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$169 street $49.99 SRP $44.99 SRP

$279 street $53.99 SRP $44.99 SRP hoto: $59.99 SRP

$379 street $53.99 SRP $44.99 SRP hoto: $59.99SRP

$239 street 33.99 SRP 29.99 SRP hoto: $68.99

$279 SRP $16.79 SRP" $15.39 SRP rinthead: $69.79SRP

1 ear 1 ear 1 ear 1 ear 800-539-6275 800-539-6275 800-539-6275 800-632-4636 www.lexmark-canada.com w ww.lexmark-canada.cpm www.lexmark-canada.cpm www.nec.com

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349 SRP ** 16.79 SRP 15.39 SRP rin thead: $81.20 SRP

$249.00 SRP $379.00 SRP $14.99 SRP" 49.99 SRP $14.99 SRP $59.99 SRP rin thead: $69.99 SRP hot o: $59.99 SRP

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Notes: All pricing information is provided to us by the manufacturers or their representatives atthe time of testing. ' For Canon, printheadunit features both blackand color ink tanks, also individually replaceable ** For Okidata, price refers to each(cyan/magenta/yellow sold separately)

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Pentium II 266 CPU 32m Sdram 4m video 3.2 Gig HDD 3.5"FDD 32x CDROM speakers 16 Bit Sound Mouse 56k Modem Mic. Win95 Keyboard Mid. tower case 230 w 15" monitor 1024 x 768 I I Windows 88 full.....$138 64 m ram.........+.....$55 I 15" monitor.........+..$49 17"monitor.....+....$170 I Color printer...........$182 I P II 300...................$929 Pntium 233 m......$1189 P II 300 128k..........$1140 AMD K6 300.........$1089 Pen II 400...... $2160

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Technologies

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In living color Cnrrtrrrtrer/ frorrtpage40 requiring bigger output, high quality, and a higher speed. lexmark 7700 Street price: $169 Known for offering a lot of printer at a great price, Lexmark's latest budget model-is no exception. While the print quality is not quite up to some of its more expensive models (obviously), the 1100 still delivers

quite good quality for the price. Pro.. • Compact design • One-year warranty includes LexExpress next business day exchange. • Textis very good, even on standard bond paper. • Color reproduction is acceptable, with decent black scaling when using color cartridge. • Sound samples let user know whenprinting starts and finishes. Can: • Small sheet feeder holds only 30 sheets of plain

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paper; when using specialty paper, one sheet is the recommendedmaximum. • Only one cartridge onboard. User has to switch between black and color cartridge (optional) depending on job type, for best results. • Printing black text with the color cartridge produces muddy blacks, and uses a lot of ink. Color reproduction suffers a bit from the lack of black ink cartridge. • Fairly slow print speed.

lution bar earlier in the year, the 1100 chips away at the other end. While the resolution is only 600x600, and the printing speed is fairly slow, the 1100 delivers in terms of price. With only one cartridge onboard at a time, the color reproduction suffers a bit from lack of

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separate black. Using the straight black cartridge, however, produces high quality black text, and the color cartridges deliver acceptable photographic output (although it's a bit grainy at times). Although the quality won' t quite cut it for someone looking to print a lot of high-quality photographic prints, the quality is still very good, especially considering the price. For a first-time user, or a casual user, this one is hard to beat. lexmark 3200

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Street price: $279 Incorporating technology previously used in the slightPLUG(bLAY ly older and mare expensive 5700 model, the 3200 and Cu-geeMe. offers a compromise between quality and speed. Clocking in with slower print speed than the 5700, the quality of the output is still remarkable. Pro: lnfared Wireless Keyboard & Mouse • All-in-one design eliminates lengthy setup. Instead Csmputeraudio4 versosignal Combining VGA graphics and titles with Living RoamTV Home PC . of attachable plastic pieces, all parts are incorpolive external video, the AVer Overlay Box rated into the body, and slide into the printer when provides genlock functionality with the not in use. flexbility of an external device. The AVer Overlay Box supports both composite • When the cover.door is opened, the print heads and S (Y/C) video formats and boasts a boardcast quality output. automatically come out to the install/uninstall area (no button-pushing or software monkeying!). • With 1,200x1,200 dpi, photographic reproduction (Extenmi Tv tumor) is excellent. Watch TV,CATV,or video on a VGA gepbusuid mmsasommasds monitor unth or wilhout turning on your • Sound samples let user know when printing starts pc. Remote control your internet or computer thru Mlcrojack 3 plus and finishes. Play video gamesright on your VGA • One-year warranty includes LexExpress next busiWireless Video & Airboard Keyboard, Enjoy your internet on TV. monitor. 40 Shields Court Unit 1-8 ness day replacement. Markham, Ont. LBROM5 Plug and Play! Nosoftware drivers are required. Can: Alpha Plus Computers You May Computer OTA BusinessCenter Roger's Computer Technology Hits Computer 8 Electronics T o migl International • Al though it incorporates the same printing tech319 College Street Owen Sound, Ontario 525 University Avenue 7 6 1 Dundas Street Went 2059 Lawrence Avenue East Unit 226, 599016th Avenue nology as the 5700, this unit is slower. Tel: (416) 323-0898 Tel: (519) 376-6164 Tel: (416) 351-1177 Tel: (416) 6034222 Tel: (416) 2884160 Tel: (905) 201-1830

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Pra: • Compact, solid design its easily onto desktop. • The print mechanism is split into five sections: removable printhead, and four individual ink cartridges. Instead ot removing one integrated color cartridge, you only have to replace the individual color that is empty. Integrated cartridges can be wastefut if you use more of one coler than another. This is a wonderful salutian, • Good color reproduction and good black text. • The longer two-year warranty period includes

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Also featuring an intelligent and efficient printhead and separate cartridge system, the DocuPrint XJ6C has very good quality text an d p h o t o graphic r e production. What it also has going for it is an excellent warranty, and a lower price. Again, while the output isn't quite up to the standards of. the higher-end printers this month, it certainly would be a good alternative for the budget-minded user who is looking to do text and the occasional photographic output.

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minute) and cheaper home and business monochrome laser printers, and cheaper, easier to maintain color lasers for the small to medium business market. There has also been a radical strengthening of the multifunction device (MFD) product category, with prices dropping while sales sl'yrocket. A couple of major players, such as Hewlett-Packard and Tektronix, while rather quiet on the new product introduction front

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collaborative computing. There arc several approach- O es to such collaboration. These may be roughly grouped into: workllow solurions, "in-a-boxw solutions, reamware, and rentable applications. Each has its own set of benefits and limiy tations. g In this article, we will survey a cross-section of these approaches, and indicate directionhd that we see the industry taking. A typical business has many patterns ol collaboration, so more than one approach may be valuable and, thanks to the net's standards-based infrastructure, they can coexist in the overall intranet solution. •

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business process. Take capital expenditure authorization, for instance. In an intranet solution, a team of specialists can evaluate an on-line copy of a proposal at the same time. When the final specialist signals acceptance, the system will route 0 the proposal plus evaluations sequentially up an approval chain. The solution reduces time to make a decision (evaluations are done in parallel rather than sequentially as in a paper based system) and reduces Cj ad m i n istration costs {no stafF have to c hase around m o n i toring t h e

CO p r ocess). Thcsc solutions are often customdeveloped as part of a process automation or process re-engincering initiative. Done well, the solution will deliver return on investment (ROI), be regarded as a competitive asset. and will be bragged about'or kept secrct depending on rhe culrure. However, rhis is a high srakcs game, Ora sh with lors of financial, rechnical and culrural risks. There are shrink r a pped solutions For a variery of common 'processes such as contact management, sales Force automation,"1809000 rcotnpliance,:and help desk. These solutions have a e respectableIterliageand hav»gone through two or three generationssometimes in non-Web settings — and deliver solid functionality at a reasonable price. Some vendors have a consulting wing and ofFcr near shrink wrap Conti@vert ou page2 0

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The company says Hom»Free lets users "quickly and easily set up a local area netj svork [LANj to share files, Internet access, and peripherals such as printers an modems." HomeFree uses radio wave technology to pass connections through walls, floors and ceilinp at a range of up to 45 m (150 ' ft.}. It op»rates at 2,4 GHz and ofFers

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Why you might need an intranet Does your small business need an intranet7 Give yourself 30 seconds to consider this question before

you say no. If you run a small business with Up to 50 employees and have already discovered the value in having art internal computer network for your mmpany, then you may benefit from art intranet. By Geof wheelwright n intranet is a secure, internal corporate network based on Internet stanards such as TCP/IP networking protocols.and World Wide Web-based presentation formats. These standards allow you to use common Web tools (such as a Web browsers and Web page design tools) to access, mod' and maintain co~man~infor-

mation of all kinds. By being based on Web i n f ormation can be everything from profiles technology, intranets can help cut down on o f key customers, to employee-benefit packemployee training time because the mainyu ages, to online versions of brochures and tool for using it is a Web browser — an inter- even company videos. Face many users are already familiar with. '= lmraners can he used for looking uP darardw r iNhy do you nuud onu7 hdd in large databases, entering information~ a In a small, growing company, an intranet into databases, providing "help desk" sup-» can serve as a tool for building and mainport For users and ofrering a central reposi-~~. taining a sense of "community." It can keep I tory of' vital company information..That~=~ ': Continued onpage20 .• rIa '

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provide a turnkey package by adding a server to the suite (or by adding a suite to their server), with an out-of-the-box installation procedure flowing seamlessly from server installation to application deployment. The product name lypically contains the words "Instant" or "In a Box" or "Starter" which, like "Great Tasting," give no hint as to its value, For heophytes and small networked businesses, these products represent an excellent, zero cost way to gain hands-on experience with the intranet world. Zero cost? Most vendors' Web sites include a hands-on demo area that will let you experience their product withour having to purchase their software or install any infrastructure. If you take this opportunity seriously and comparison shop, you will learn a lot about intranet capabilities, how

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solutions plus customization services. Their base package will demonstrate their competency, and for a price, their development staff will tailor the software to a customer's specific needs, as uncovered by their analyst. This is oftencost-efFective. Many oF these products are large, complex and tightly engineered and attempted do-it-yourself changes can

Last year saw an increase in the number of "instant" intranet offerings. A typical suite has a dozen or so modules, such as home

page, FAQ (frequently-asked questions), policy manual, discussion area, and corporate white pages, that comprise a simple corporate intranet. In some cases, the vendor will

Intranet effectiveness tied to business objectives: Gartner study

The primary business objective serviced by both GroupWiseand Exchange,forexample, was simple ofFice automation. Lotus Notes was ".by far the leader" in non-Webbased collaboration, and the dominant product in Web-based collaboration was Microsoft Internet Information Server. Gartner f u r ther s u ggested N etscape SuiteSpot's clear strength was in corporate electronic publishing. Not surprisingly, the study observed that the cost per user for planning, implementing and operating the systems depend-

A typical teamware product lets you carve out a private region in cyberspace for a team to work on a project.

the effectiveness with which each enterprise implemented the products. Therefore, Gartner found t hat cost comparisons between products in different usage profiles were not meaningful. Where two products were used for the same purpose — such as

Exchange and GroupWise for simple oIIice

"Office", "Space"and "Team". A typical teamw are product lets you carve out a private region in cyberspace for a team to work on a project. You can specify the purpose of the project, have discussions, and create and edit ables. As well, you identify'team members and what system access they have, such as Administrator, Reader, Contributor. Many businesses have a profile that makes teamware very attractive. A strong project and team orientation, geographically dispersed teams, teams that include customers or other people outside the organization, all support this approach. For example, a inanagement consulting firm might have numerous on-line committees charged with making decisions and recommendations. Teamware offers considerable savings in travel logistics, costs of distributing documentation and electronic files, and speeds up decision making by allowing input from the best quali6ed people, wherever they are located and with more time flexibility than face to

Renting out ln cyberspace Internet business applications are now

becoming available on a rental basis. An ISP, typically a business partner of the vendor, provides all infrastructure and application hosting services for the teamware. All team

members, in their office, in someone ebe's

ofFice, or at home, collaborate and co-ordinate their activities via a browser. The subWhile some modules (white pages, com- scriber organization pays on a per user per-

automation — the study concluded that the data illustrated a significant cost advmtage

for GroupWise, The Gartner Group report Nanlgmup and Intruder Compu ting: CosrfoOummbq Study was designed by GartnerGroup ana-

pany mission statement) are corporate and rnonth basis, around $25 per month per only need to occur once, others (discussions) are functions of a team or project, and properly occur many times. Recognizing this, some solutions Focus exclusively on the team, ignoring the corporate level.

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ment sharing, discussion databases, project coordination and oflice automation). An additional 45 enterprises used the products to provide collaboration services in a Webbased environment, and the smallest distinct group — 28 enterprises — focused on providing access to electronically published

mix of functions active at any one time reflects the current state of the business. The term "Teamware" describes light- to

the opportunity for your company, and possibly 6nd a package that meets your current and near term needs. But be careful.There are major issues with many "In A Box'" solutions that limit the long-term value of these products in growing businesses. Consider a product containing a set o f c o llaborative modules, including FAQ, white pages, discussion, corporate policy manual. etc. Everything works fine until somebody suggest that two manuals would be nice, one for Corporate Policies and Procedures, another for H R Beneflits (with maybeanorher for Safety Procedures). Then you could run into an architectural dead end if there is no mechanism to create clones of the existing modules, "In A Box" becomes "Boxed In."

databases), The Gartner Group explained that the usage patterns associated with each of the four categories «re quite distinct, with each product tending to be tighdy linked to specific business-objective-oriented segments.

collaboration capabilities (Qe and docu-

published in knowledge bases. The particular

the products have helped other companies, project documents, including final deliver-

information (both PC files and back-end

he wholeidea of the company-wide internal Web — commonly known as a corporate "intranet" — is so new that, until recently, there was little information on just how effective intranets can be as a workgroup and collaborative-computing tool. All of that changed earlier this year with a major examination of this issue by U.S. research organizarion Gartner Group Inc. in its Wirkgnmp and Inrruner Computing: Curt af Oumership Sixty. The study examined detailed costs and usage profiles of 338 enterprises that use Lotus Notes (Domino), Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Internet Information S e rver ( I I S) , Ne t scape SuiteSpot, Novell GroupWise and Oracle InterORice. The Gartner Group concluded that the business objectives for these products were so varied that they could be properly evaluated or compared only within the context oF an enterprise's intended business use for each product. Two-thirds of the enterprises surveyed Fell into one of four distinctly different categories based on the business objective they service with these products. The largest group — 99 enterprises — used the products for email and calendaring, i.e.. simple office automation. The second-largest group — 57 enterprises — focused on non-Web-based

is very dynamic. Numerous small, simple applications come into being and flicker out of existence days, weeks or months later. Discussions are initiated as required. Project calendars and to-do lists come and go. The results of discussions may be decisions with no permanent on-line footprint, or may be

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panies as closely as we deal with employees within our own. In all these combinations, there is a common need to share company information, and to be in the communications loop for decision making. In the past, the solutions could be found in a number of forms, the best known being the groupware and collaborative computing advocated by Lotus Notes devotees. Today, intranets seem to have centre stage. Offshoots of Internet technology, intranets promise the immediate information and communication access of a LAN (local access network) without the high cost of a dedicated WAN (wide area network) system. Intranetbased solutions ofFer the information access and collaborative fearures of'proprietary systems like Notes, but using open, Internetbased technologies. And just as the Internet has transformed how individual PC users handle inFormation and communication, it is also rransforming how business-to-business relationships are being conducted. h is influencing the way software vendors design their applications and operating systems. Windows 98 is a good example of the Internet's influence oF operating system design. The integrated Web browser, file management and navigation system makes it easier to look For information on a local hard drive and on a reinote Web server. In terms of'individual productivity, Lotus,

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Starfish intros Sidekick 99 upgrade SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (NB) — Starfish Software Inc., is shipping its Sidekick 99 personal organizer upgrade to distributors and retail outlets. The new version can synchronize multiple devices so mobile users can keep their schedules or other data with them. Sidekick 99 gives quick and easy access to calendars,contacts and tasks, says Starfish. The program can input, import, schedule and synchronize using updated TrueSync technology. A Starfish spokesperson told Newsbytes the version of TrueSync technology SideKick 99 uses has been updated to offer multiple synchronization with most hand-

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ewlett-I'ackard was a pioneer in both the notebook and handheld I'C market, with its first handheld systems evolving from the HP calculators of the 1970s. And it started producing notebook computers, albeit proprietary systems that were not PC-compatible, in the mid-1980s. Within a few years, the company had joined the PCcompatible club — but not until upstarts such as Compaq and Toshiba gained a foothold in this sector. Throughout the last few years, HP has sought to make up for lost time with ever more powerful versions of its OmniBook notebook computer family, culiminating in the recent release of the HP OmniBook 7100. OK, history lesson over. The OmniBook 7100 carries a long pedigree, and its design shows the result of that heritage. It is full-featured, innovative and expensive. At $7,999, the OmniBook 7100 is no casual purchase — but you probably knew that. If you have that kind of money, you' ll get a beefy notebook with an Intel 266 MHz Mobile Pentium II processor, an ATI Rage LT Pro graphics accelerator (from Canada's own graphics market leader), an 8.1 GB hard disk drive along with a built-in 24x CD-ROM drive and floppy disk drive. This latter feature is quite nice because the floppy drive and CD-ROM drive are combined to fit in a single drive bay, meaning that you can haveaccessto both of these internally. Up until now, most notebook PCs required you to choose between the two and, if you needed both, you would have to have one of them plugged into the back of the notebook and one fitting internally. The screen on this notebook also looks great — and it's huge. The OmniBook 7100 includes a 14.1-inch viewable image XGA color display using TET technology, which is bolstered by the 64-bit graphics engine as well as 2D and 3D acceleration provided by the ATI Rage LT Pro graphics controller. The other thing you get by spending a small fortune on your notebook is flexibility. Not only does the OmniBook 7100 include dual pointing devices (giving you choice between the pointing stick popularized by IBM and 1'oshiba and the touchpad common on systems from Compaq, Sharp and others), it also offers an option to include an internal DVD-ROM drive, SuperDisk (LS-120) highcapacity floppy disk drive and a choice between a port replicator, a "mini-dock" and a full-blown docking station. 1'he OmniBook 7100 truly fits in the desktop replacement category. It is as fast and as powerful as any Pentium II desktop systemalthough you can't run either PCI expansion cards or ISA cards in it. If you want to add to the machine, you' ll have to use PC Cards. Even the docking station for the OmniBook (which is designed to be used with a number of OmniBook models) cannot accept ISA

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ImageReady has many of Photoshop's filters and can use its plug-ins — work regardless of the image mode. This is accomp lished by simply doing away with t h e whole idea of image modes: all of the work is done on a true-color image. With the click of a mouse button, you can check the optimized version of the image. "Optimized," in this case, depends on what you plan to do with the image. You can specify if the output is going to be a GIF, )PEG, or an 8- or 24-bit PNG; the number of colors; the type of palette or compression; and the level of dithering. (The dithering levels are particularly welcome; Adobe's decision to g o w i t h a n a l l - or-nothing approach in Photoshop has puzzled me for years,) Any time you click on the "Optimized" tab above the image, ImageReady shows you what the optimized version will look like, allowing you to easily toggle back and forth to compare. Best of all, the status bar below the image can show the projected file size and download time depending on the type of modem connection. This combination of flexible parameters and status information makes it a lot easier to strike a balance between image quality and file size. The other major draw is the droplet feature. You can create a droplet by setting your preferences for image format, compression, d i t h ering o p t i o ns, s p ecific actions,and so on. This can then be saved as a droplet file for future use: should you ever want to q u ickly make an existing graphic Web-ready, you can just drag it onto the appropriate droplet icon and let ImageReady do the rest. Droplets handle batches of graphics just as easily. ImageReady also has animated GIF features, though I'm a little less ardent about those. At best, they' re serviceable: you can pick a start point and an end point for individual layers within an image, set the numb er o f fra m e s d e s ired, a n d hav e ImageReady figure out all the intervening points. (An animator would refer to this as inbetweening; ImageReady uses the abbre-

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up and down, but not toward you or away. Finally, you can't use the tweening function on existing frames; tweening always generates new frames, which means you have to plan to animate all the layers in a given set of frames all at once. Memo to Adobe: find an Amiga and a copy of Electronic Arts' DeluxePaint III to see how to make a simple and effective animation interface that includes all of these functions. Also on my wish list for future versions: it would be nice to be able to animate filter effects over time. For instance, maybe I'd like to have my text become increasingly blurry over 30 frames. Adobe generally has a good knack for designing software so t o m eets artists' needs, but in this case it feels as if it didn' t bother to find out, how animators work. I'm not looking for a full-fledged studiothere's other software for that — but I would like to see some nod toward the techniques that have been honed in the past century. Notwithstanding the animation features, ImageReady fulfills a long-standing need; the ability to apply Photoshop's considerable abilities toward creating Web graphics without a lot of guesswork. The time I' ve saved since installing lmageReady is more than worth the price tag. I suppose the only other question to ask of Adobe is, what took them so long? 0 Emru Townsend's Web site is at http: I/www.cam.org/-emru.

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Apple wouldn't say what — if anything — an unlabeled "Bondi blue" port cover on the right side of the machine might be for. As it the hype we' ve heard about how, great the turns out, the closed architecture design of the monitor on the iMac was, the 15-inch moni- iMac hides a 160-pin connector clearly labeled tor of our test unit was a little blurrier than MFZZANINE on the motherboard. This conwe'd hoped, especially in the upper corners. nector is likely to be some sort of PCI variant Although dealers have told us that their Perhaps the hype had inflated our expecta- (PCI is known as a "mezzanine bus"). cost on the iMac is as high as $1,850, we' ve tions, or perhaps the monitor on our unit was Although Appie says the connector is for seen retail prices as low as $1,899, which worse than most, but we'd recommend taking internal development only and shouldn't be includes an additional 32 MB of expansion a close look at a non-photographic image on used, our guess is that a future model will supmemory (normally about $159). Not so good the iMac, taking a good look at the corners, ply an expansion connector (probably based for dealers, but a great value for iMac pur- and comparing with other good-quality mon- on either SCSI or the FireWire standard that chasers. So, what do consumers get for the itors to ensure the disp)ay is to your liking. If Apple helped create) here. Others postulate money? you decide to buy an all-in-one iMac you' re that it may someday provide a connector for a According to Apple, the software bundle stuck with the screen it comes with (officially, video capture system, based on hardware included with the iMac in Canada is exactly at least — see below). Admittedly, our iMac's designed to support the Final Cut video editing software Apple bought from Macrornedia. Another possible use for the port cover was revealed in pre-release models of the iMac, some of which sported a DB-15 monitor port here. (A DB-15 connector is still buried inside e • the iMac, as pictured in the iMac Developer Technote PDF avail a bl e from •

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Goove Cyberstudlo 3.0 From: GoLive Systems Inc. http: //www.golive.corn Hardware requirements: Power Mac. 30 MB hard disk space, 16 MB RAM(20 MB preferred) Retail price: $529 Pros:Layout precision, drag-and-drop support, palette interface, improved documentation, improved site management, advanced capabilitiessuch as DHTML, JavaScript actions, WYSIWYGcascading style sheets. Cons: Undo capabilities can still be improved, degradation in performance when upgrading from version 3.0 to 3.1

CyberStudio has been a rising star since version 1.0 debuted in April 1997. GoLive has pursued an aggressive upgrade schedule in an attempt to establish the product as a de facto standard for professional Web site development. Since its i nception, CyberStudio has

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SLJPerDiSk rideS the iMaC WaVe At the official launch of Apple's iMac personal computer, one prominent third-party developer was iMation, the company behind the SuperDisk high-capacity, removable storage system. iMation showed off a new model of the SuperDisk (previously called the LS120) drive, designed for the iMac's integrated USB (universal serial bus) port. One of the oddities of the otherwise advanced and richly featured iMac is that it doesn't have an internal, writable diskette or cartridge drive to allow users to save files onto a removable medium. The new Superoisk model is designed to meet the iMac user's need for a high-capacity (120 MB per diskette), mass storage device that is backwards compatible with 1.44 MB, 3.S-Inch floppy diskettes. iMation worked closely with iMac designers to ensure the casework of the iMac USB SuperDisk drive was compatible with the iMac's distinctive translucent blue and white outer shell. According to Ray Miefert, SuperDisk business director, initial orders for the iMac drive have far outstripped iMation's production capacity. 1'he new drive is expected to ship in Canada in early September, Miefert said, and as production ramps up, it will become more widely available. 1'he Canadian street price was not available at press time. The SuperDisk format has spread widely through the Canadian market since spring. According to Miefert, more than two million drives have been sold, the vast majority

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leedeestrlal-strength C<wtiwuerf f'rompage S4 Foremost among these is support for WYSIWYG cascading style sheets (CSS). A feature unique to CyberStudio is the ability to create and edit these style sheets, then immediately preview them from within the program itself. Styles can be applied to characters, paragraphs, sections and page areas. They can also be tagged as page-specific or site-specific. Other labor savers are t h e M a ster Flements, which are based on the same principle as Master Pages in page layout software. Master elements are also known as components, which are snippets of H I'ML code that you can save in a library. You can then dragand-drop these components from the library onto any of your pages. Instead of revising each and every repeatable element when it needs to be changed, you simply change the master component in your library to update all occurrences of the element on your site. As an experiment I tried embedding components within components. When I did this more than two levels deep, I found that in

order to properly preview the page within CyberStudio, I had to save the window, close it and re-open it again. Therefore, it's probably a good practice not to use multiple embedded components on your site. CyberStudio also allows you to create your own Web page templates, or use any of the predesigned templates that come with the package.Once you have designed a page or a template you can save it as a stationery file. Also, multiple page objects can now be grouped, selected, locked, aligned and distributed. While the table tool in CyberStudio 2.0 was flexible, it has been refined even more in the current version. You can now select multiple cells for formatting and directly import text files from spreadsheet applications — a great timesaver. FTP upload and download has also been vastly improved in this version. You can now drag-and-drop multiple files from the site window into your FTP server window, as well as directly edit pages right on your server. CyberStudio is also smart enough to perform incremental updates to your site by only uploading the pages that have changed since the last upload. You now also have the ability to open multiple site windows so you can share resources between different Web sites. Advanced features In addition to the CSS, CyberStudio has been endowed with some other features you won' t find in any other Web-authoring tool. CyberStudio 3.0 fully supports dynamic

HTML (DHTMI.) tags, which allow you to create sophisticated dynamic Web effects without having to write complicated scripts or any other type of code. Floating layer boxes are DHTML objects that contain text and graphics that can be suspended above your conventional HTML pages. A fl oating box can beanimated on a path by opening an easy-to-use timeline editor window that allows you to specify keyframe posi• tions, a path shape and a frame rate. Gol.ive has also integrated an improved JavaScript editor that comes bundled with pre-programmed JavaScripts called Actions. These can be placed in the timeline editor window, or designated as standalone effects such as creating a mouse roilover on a button. One small glitch I noticed is that I couldn' t jump to a linked page and preview it within CyberStudio after clicking on a rollover button. The only way I could jump to the linked page was to open my site and preview it in a Web browser. CyberStudio currently stands at version 3.1.1, Version 3.1 added support for QuickTime 3.0 editing, ColorSync color-matching, additional JavaScript actions and readiness for navigation services — a user interface enhancement in the upcoming Mac OS 8.5. I experienced a noticeable degradation in CyberStudio's performance when upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1, GoLive has received similar reports from other users and is currently investigating the issue. Version 3.1.1 is a maintenance release that fixes some bugs. Gol.ive has made big improvements to the printed documentation that comes with the package. But if you want to see a bellwether of how software companies will introduce users to new features of a program, go to GoLive's Web site. It has a t utorial section containing QuickTime clips that can be viewed online or downloaded. If you want to try CyberStudio before you buy it, download the fully functional 30-day trial version from Gol.ive's Web site.

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The tablet can translate 512 levels of pen pressure and 45 degrees of tilt into line thickness, shading and color blending. Tracing ran be done through 1 cm thickness of magazine or a book. Since the slate detects movement from this distance, if you accidentally lift the pen slightly off the tablet, lines will still be smooth and without breaks. Tradng a Gothic church for the title page of a school project or a flower for the logo on a club newsletter front page is simple.

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you can zoom into a section of your image to draw or edit pixel by pixel. The results are satisfying with very little practice. A few months ago, I reviewed photo editing software, which require outlining-an object to remove the background image. Using a mouse or a trackball to do this usually required a couple of rounds of editing. Even this inexpensive child's pen and tablet would graphics program. The results have been make quick, smoother work of such projects crudely rendered and unsatisfactory.. than the more popular input devices. However, I found using the Learn 'n' Sketch Learn 'n' Sketch also comes with ten overwas better than working with a pencil because lays of the alphabet, words and numbers that

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tailored to specific needs. Pop-up hot keys -may aiso be customized to come up at the press of a pen button. Installation is relatively easy for both products. The average home computer only has one serial port into which a mouse or trackball is connected. If you have more than one, you may still be able to leave your mouse connectedand assigned the mouse and slate each to a di f f erent c orn d esignation. Otherwise, you unplug the mouse cable and plug in the Learn 'n' Sketch instead. With UltraSlate, you do the same but also '

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written down the left side of the screen). For schools, Writing Blaster is a viable option. It only takes a couple of minutes from launching the program for kids td be working on a project, making the most of valuable class time. The drawing tools have some fun addi-

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By Jean Allen-Iheson armen Sandiego, the villainess who has led kids on a chase across computer and T1/ screens for more than a decade, has a new face. Two terrific titles have been released by Broderbund with a more interesting and complex look to their central screens. The games — for eight- to 14-year-olds — are still based on finding Carmen to thwart her evil plot and looking for clues to her latest hideout, but along the way players improve their general language skills in C armen Sandiego Word Detective or math proficiency in Carmen Sandiego Math Detective. Both have a similar look take place in different environments. In Math Detective, Carmen lurks in the high-tech realm, whereas in Word Detective she is dropping clues at the Pyramids in Egypt, a study center for aliens, a library, or one of the dozen other V.I.L.E hideouts. One of the best features of both these educational games is that they are aimed at the late primary and middle school crowd, a

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about Carmen's whereabouts. ln the Fusion C hamber, k i d s learn about building ne w w o r ds with roots, prefixes and suffixes. This activity c ombines building the mean/ ing of a prefix or suffix with the meaning A of a root word to form a new word with a new and often combined meaning. It shows kids how words are built from other words and ultimately helps them decode new words while they are reading. It combines spelling . C" with expanding vocabulary. This is a more in-depth approach than I have seen with other programs and an understanding of Greek and Latin roots is stressed. With the Power Pack activity, kids learn and reinforce alphabetizing skills in a game that is structured a bit on the lines of Windows' Solitaire. But in this case, rather than putting cards in order, you put words in a challenge alphabetical order in a logical puzzle. At the to 12- and 13-year-olds. highest difficulty level, this will challenge My nine-year-old found Word Detective even adults (whom am I kidding, kids are good fun and a challenge on the easiest often better at these computer games than level. As his spelling is sometimes rather cretheir parents!). ative, I was delighted to have this new proCode Breaker shows jumbled letters on .gram to reinforce and teach spelling and screen and reads the sought-after word aloud. vocabulary skills. My 12-year-old found the most difficult Kids must unjumble it to the correct spelling, which is another good reinforcement for level a challenge in Math Detective and spelling skills. And the word is used in a sen- needed some encouragement to not slip -tence to strengthen vocabulary. down to an easier level. At this age, it is most Like Word Detective, Math Detective can important that kids are offered a challenge be played on three difficulty levels. Both pro- and not allowed to rest on a comfortable grams also have a practice mode in which kids level of expertise with "reading, writing and can work on solving math or decoding lan- arithmetic." Parents and teachers have constantly guage problems without trying to solve the mystery of where Carmen is hiding. challenged kids to read "chapter" books or In Math Detective, kids must stop Carmen spell well enough to write a credible essay, from shrinking the world's treasures including but teaching them t o " c hallenge themMount Everest and the Great Wall of China with selves" is where programs like Word her Quantum Crystallizer. Only by solving the Detective and Math Detective become valu12 critical missions will they thwart the villain- able tutors. ,

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people who want to know how to go about writing a computer book and getting it published. As the author of two published books (the first and second editions of The Advaiiced HTML Coinpnnion) and having talked to authors who have written for other publishing houses, I have a few tips to pass on to those considering writing their own computer book. First, I assume you want to get a computer book, as opposed to another sort of book, published (if you want to get a novel or a collection of poetry published, much of what I am going to say simply doesn't apply). The computer book business is very different from the rest of the publishing industry. This is due to fast turnover rate — there are always new products and new versions of existing programs being created, which means any computer book title has a built-in obsolescence. I have been told that the shelf life of a typical computer book is six months, and in some cases less than that. It is rare to pick up a brand new computer book that is wholly current — the industry moves at a pace that the publishing industry simply can't match. This continual drive to create new books has implications for the writer too — the second book I just completed on HTML went through a couple of major revisions thanks to feature changes in Netscape and Microsoft

ence/market for the book (i.e. beginners, Web browsers. However, this drive also creates Ap p ealing to a publisher

intermediate or advanced), state how many pages you think the book ought to be, and l o o king at publishers. The vast majority of when you think you can complete it. With

the one main advantage for a writer trying to If you think you qualify, you should begin break into the computer book publishing

field: so many people are required to supply computer publishers now have a Web pres- this material in hand, approach the publisher ence, and it is relatively easy to find their cri- and pitch your idea.

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teria for prospective writers. Most publishers want some basic contact information, some credentials, and a sample out'ine of what you want to do.

This was essentially the process I went through with my first book. For your first outing, you may want to think instead about So who's qualwriting a chapter or two on a particular subified to write a c omp u t e r Developing an ject for a collaborative book. Publishers like book? I 'm outline is fairly sim- Sams, Coriolis and a few other publishers like pie. List what you this approach, and if you can demonstrate pretty much c onv i n c e d t hink t h e ma i n some writing capabilities and some expertise, that anyone topic headings of it is a good way to start. If you want to take can write a the book should be. this approach, simply contact the publisher, R c omp u t er The sample outline describe your area of expertise and suggest book if t h ey should include each that you'd be interested in writing a chapter have: of the chapters you or two for a book the publisher may currently • some experintend to write, with be doing on the subject. Occasionally, some of the larger publishers tise in a given quick one- or two-line descriptions of what each put out a cattle-call for authors for particular area of computing ( i .e. H T ML, chapter will contain, along computer subjects in Usenet newsgroups, so with rough page counts. It is in you may want to keep an eye out for them. Java, C, a particular your best interest to make the out- Doing a chapter or two is enough to get your program, etc.), and • the commitment to sit down and line simple and flexible — it is important at feet wet, establish a relationship with a pubwrite, write, write (and then write, write, t h i s stage not to get bogged down with the lisher, and determine if it is something you write some more). fine details, because chances are at least some really want to pursue. things will change over the course of writing Conti imed onpage 102

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ilultiply that by that and add them! The SUMPRODUCT function gives you a quick way of multiplying all the numbers in one column by the corresponding numbers in another column and totalling the results. 1'his function takes as its arguments the two cell

Only add lt if.... 'I'he SUMIF function adds numbers only if a certain condition is met. For example, you might want to add only the numbers in a column which are greater than zero. The SUMIF function takes as arguments the range to test and the condition to test for. 'I'here is a third, optional argument that is the range to total if the condition is met. If this argument is not included, then the range that was tested will be totalled. If that sounds a little confusing some examples will make it clearer. This function adds together all the numbers in the range 84:810 that are greater than zero: =SUMIF(84:810,o>0o)

ln the next example, the third optional argument is included. 'fhis function will add together those numbers in the range 84:810 that have the word "apples" opposite them in the range A4:A10: =SUMIF(A4:AIO,"=apples".84:810) The COUNTIF function works similarly but it counts the number of matches rather than adding them. 1'his example counts the number of cells in the range 84:810 that have values greater than zero: =COUNTIF(84:810,o>0o)

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Nelp! Excel has a handy option to help you find and use functions in your worksheet using the Insert, Function dialog. To use the dialog in the earlier example of calculating the mortgage repayment, select the cell to place the answer in and then select insert, Function. From the "Function category" list, select Financial, and in the "Function name" list, select PMT and select OK. Now complete the dialog box by entering the values opposite each of the listed arguments; opposite Rate, type .07/12, opposite Nper, type 25'12 and opposite Pv, type 100000. Instead of typing the numbers, you can point to figures in your worksheet by selecting the Collapse dialog button at the end of the text box and point to a cell or cells in your worksheet. Select the button again (or press Enter) to return to the dialog. If you need more Help select the Office Assistant button and when you' re finished select OK to paste the function into your worksheet.

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OSUMPROD UCT(B6..89,C6..C9) Lotus has no COUNTIF or SUMIF function but you can get a similar result by the more complicated and cumbersome method of setting up a database and using the ODSLIM and ODCOUNT functions. Lotus' time and date functions are @NOW and @TODAY. Lotus' PMT function expects a different ordering of arguments to the order than Excel uses. This formula will make the mortgage calculation discussed earlier. OPMT(100000,0.07/12,25'12)

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An arrogance towards non-Apple technology, summed of the '60s counterculture perhaps, which valued sharing and up with the phrase "Not Invented Here," resulted in Apple slipcreativity over greed. The inmates were in charge of the per- ping behind the Wintel market in terms of innovation. Key sonal computer asylum for a few years, and the result was very new technologies such as the PCI bus, PCMCIA Cards for noterapid progress, Jobs "borrowed" many of the key ideas for the books, enhanced IDE hard drives, cheap graphics cards, and a Macintosh (pointing device, on-screen windows, icons) from powerful network-oriented OS like Windows NT all gave the research done at Xerox's PARC lab in Palo Alto, Calif., and pol- less pleasant to use, but cheaper and more competitive Wintel platform an unbeatable edge. ished them up into the Apple version, Much richer companies like IBM, Xerox, Wang, and AT6tT, with their huge Sack from the brink research budgets, could have done everything Apple did, Jobs was dragged back into the Apple orbit about two but it never occurred to them to try. 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IfJobs can spearhead a renaissance of the company didn't get mad at Apple's dismissal of his proposal: he got even he founded, he' ll find himself in a new dilemma: it' ll be easier instead, redoubling his efforts to recreate the Mac OS on the PC, to attract a capable replacement for himself, but he may not want to go. 0 As someone who had the dubious privilege of having to in the form of ever-improved versions of Microsoft Windows. hen the i Mac was officially released in the Canadian market and in other countries around the world on Saturday, Aug. 15, it was almost possible to hear a globai sigh of relief among millions of computer users. For Mac users, famous for their often fervent, evangelical support of the Mac, the reason was obvious. After a "time of troubles" lasting nearly three years, Apple has coine storming back into the coinputing mainstream with an undeniably impressive mass market computer product. 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