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FEATURES 60 Software for the annual tax ritual

30 The compleat PC artist 30 Monitors cater to graphic artists' needs 1

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32 The beginning PC artist's toolkit

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NEWS R REVIEWS

From the Editor Letters. What's New.

21 PC industry eyes promise, peril of MP3 audio

105 Corel founder's high flying detailed

28 It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Notes R5

107 A guide to intuitive Web site design

21 BeOS R4: New release offers multimedia underpinnings and Mac-like ease

108 Weaving your own Web site: Part 41

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Different positions: Using CSS positioning Part Hl

118 Searching for your roots online

100 The StarOffice way to productivity 110 Hey! What's that sound? 96 Desktop multimedia gets serious DVD and Dolby digital for the PC

COMING UP April 1999 Ultimateutility roundup Laser printers Docrunerrt management Tue., Mar. 2 Ad Deadline Distribution Fri., Mar. 19

112 A change of pace Ceremony of innocence rewards patient players

84 Choosing Y2Kwompliance testing tools 88 Convergence leading to database free-for-all

94 Mac news briefs

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inch TFT screen. This machine is faster than any Intel laptop in existence. In fact it is just as fast as the G3 desktop machines, which

u(acturer score higher on the benciunark test than a 400 MHz Pentium II from another, A perSOnal Computer equ'lpped With a 333 MHz Celeron processor will adequately nm any software you can buy today in a retail store. Whether the coinputer in question will be an allround "good deal' depettds on other factors such as thequality ofthe video card, the access speed of the hard drive, the quality ofassetnbiy, testing for component compatibility and matching, etc.

outperformall current Intel systems. So I opened your January 1999 Lab Report in anticipation of seeing how the Intel laptops were doing compared to the G3 laptops. To my astonishment, Sean Carruthers didn't even review the G3 laptops. Are you guys so indoctrinated by the %intel dogma that you are unaware of the competition?

Peter (no last name given) TCP replies: A coltpleofpoints. First, ifall they need isto do some word processing aild occasionally sttif the Internet, a486is hardly useless. Giving it a basic tune-up (by nmning ScanDisk and defragmenting the hard drive) and buying a few inexpensive upgrades (inore RAM, a faster modem, and a bigger hard drive i f storage space is a problem) will improve perfonnance.

differences between a Celeron, AMD or Pentiton ll are less important titan in a siniation where maximum processor perfonnanceis detnanded, Our lab reports on various machines indicate

that a 333 MHz Celeron turns in benchmark scores roughly the same as a 300 MHz Pentium II or a 300 MHz AMD IC6-2. However, the important thittg to retnember is that the CPU alone doesnot determine perfonnance. We've seen a 300 MHz AMD-powered system from one

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cachej, 64 MB SDRAM, 4 MB video card, 32MAX CD-ROM (unknown name), 4 GB hard drive, ASUS motherboard and no monitor or printer, because they don't need either.

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Nine models spruce up I'oshlba line Toshiba of Canada Information Systems Group has introduced nine new models into its portable lineup, including two Tecra 8000 models with 366 MHz Pentium 11 power, faster Porteges and cheaper Satellites. The Satellite 2520CDS marks a departure for Toshiba, in that it uses a 300 MHz AMD

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New release offers multimedia underpinnings and Mac-like ease By Craeme Bennett

between operating systems. BeOS Systems, emagic, Emu Systems and

also allows you t o Be0$4.0 forIntel processors

m o unt Steinberg, have confirmed plans to develop

Windows FAT16 or FAT32 parti-

applications for the BeOS.

From: Be Inc. http: //www.be.corn,

While they are few, we found some very tions (or Mac HFS partitions on that platform), making cross- good B e OS-compatible a p p s at http: //www,be.corn and http'://www.beshop.corn. platform file transfers easy. All

http: //www.bedepot.corn

worked well.

We downloaded Doom, the classic shoot'em-up game from ID software; NetPenguin, its multimedia prowess. Indeed, a a drag-and-drop FTP client that strongly look at the list of shareware and resembles the Mac's Fetch FIP utility; and a freeware applications (affection- BeOS clone of WinAmp for playing MP3 ately known as BeWare) shows audio files. Once downloaded, the BeOS large proportion of multimedia automatically offered to expand the ZIP programming, with MPEG audio archives using a function' called Expand-oand video players, fractal genera- matic — what a difference from the complexities of downloading and expanding files tors, and MIDI recorders. BeOS comes with some solid under Linux! •• e built-in media features, including We recommend taking a look at BeOS if a high-performance graphics you think you might enjoy an OS with such Pros: Amazingly easy installation mode called DirectWindow that f orward-looking f eatures a s a 64 - b i t end configuration; an elegant is faster and more processor effi- Journaling File System that supports multiuser interface, superior multithreading. tested the Intel R4 release of BeOS, cient t ha n t h e s t andard D rawBitmap terabyte files and disks (a FAQ at the Be site Cons: A limited number of commercial-quality appliInstallation of BeOS 4.0 was sheer sim- approach to screen rendering, as well as a says both file and disk sizes can be several cations. plicity. We simply booted from the supplied MIDI player and sound mixer with controls petabytes — 1,000 terabytes!); anti-aliased Summary: Animpressive, Mec-like "media-savvy" floppy, answered "Yes" to a few dialogues that, in a nod to Spinal Tap'sNigel Tufnel, go type; solid multitasking (including support operating system with much potential. and that was it. It automatically detected our up to 11!). for multiple CPUs); built-in support for system's hardware — even configuring the We also got a kick out of the Haiku-like OpenGL and the Interne; and, above all, a t's no wonder the BeOS is comparable in network correctly so we could browse the error messages that appear if the system's very, very good graphical user interface. Be ease of setup to the Macintosh operating Web with no manual fiddling. The resulting NetPositive Web browser can't find a Web has one of the best. system. Be Inc. founder Jean-Louis Gassee BeOS interface was gorgeous, in a evolved site. Instead of a boring "404" error, it says Be offers a demo CD of BeOS 3.2 for was a central figure at Apple in the compa- MacOS/OpenStep sort of way. something like, "Ephemeral site. I am the US$3.95 (US$9.95 outside the U.S.). At that ny's heyday in the late '80s. Although the In a subsequent installation, we were also Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your price, it's well worth investigating. Details at first releases of BeOS were developed for the able to configure a dual-boot — Windows 98 screams." Gassee insists the browser isn't tied http: //www.be.corn/demoCD. 0 PowerPC chip in a now-discontinued BeBox and BeOS R4 — with surprising ease. BeOS to the OS the way Microsoft's allegedly is. of the company's own design, the company supplies a version of Partition Magic, which Says Gassee, "Our browser is an application, later focused on mainstream PowerPC Mac makes a multi-OS setup a snap. If, for exam- just like a word processor, and it is removed and Pentium-class Intel hardware for its ple, you are running Windows 95/98, the just as easily." He jokingly says the Be brows- ;!Acoordi'ut j. tti:".'~ , : :::Mart~„;coedito1":. recent products. And, after a rumored deal Partition Magic Special Edition installer auto- er is "DOJ approved," (referring to the U.S. i"'-:'of;,3eMiii4„"-';jhij:+rjyjij1.;:~'';::;(Se'fite::::sys-.. ".','te'm with Apple fell through in late 1996 (a deal matically runs when you insert the BeOS R4 Department of Justice's prosecution of )::;was j.':::~."'.datebm~",Qeveloper that ultimately culminated in Apple buying disc. It allows you to re-assign a portion of Microsoft). NeXT and the return of Steve Jobs to the your drive to BeOS without destroying the Name-brand applications that run on the company he co-founded), Gassee has been existing setup. After your hard drive is parti- BeOS are in rather short supply, despite Be's decidedly steering Be's development efforts tioned and the BeOS installed, it optionally Feb. 3 announcement that 26 musicand in the direction of the Intel platform. We provides a boot manager for easy switching audio developers, including Arboretum

Much of the appeal of BeOSis

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Computer industry eyes promise, peril of MP3 digital audio technology By Ceof Wheelwright

a huge variety of sites all over the Web. Some sites offer material

P3, the controversial digital format for audio files, looks set to hit the mainstream computer industry soon. The MP3 file format allows music to be stored digitally on a computer. Playback quality is about the same as a standard compact disc, but since MP3 is a compression format, the audio files are about onetenth the size of the uncompressed source file. Thus, MP3 files can be

legally provided by copyright hold- player for mixing and storing up to

copied from one computer to another or downloaded over the Internet in relatively short time, and they suffer little deterioration or loss of quality.

PMP300. The Rio PMP300 is a

has strong appeal to joggers, hikers likely release it until the copyright portable, lightweight digital audio and anyone else who wants to lis- issues and disputes with the RIAA

ers, many others allow users to 60 minutes of CDguality music or download music copied from com- up to eight hours of voice-based pact discs without the permission audio from the Internet or CDs of record companies or the musi- through a PC. (See "Rio grand" in cians who recorded the music. the February issue of TCP for a Music copied from compact review of the Diamond Rio.) discs without p ermission and The Rio a l so turned into high-quality MP3 files comes with a verthat can be traded digitally over sion of the Internet has become an area of M usi c M a t c h ' s hot concern for th e r ecording Jukebox software industry. The Recording Industry for converting CD Association of America (RIAA) has tracks to MP3 forbeen very aggressive in trying to mat on a PC. The shut down Web sites that offer R io PMP300 i s "illegally copied" MP3 files of pop- s maller than a n ular tunes. audio cassette and, The issue came to a head late last because it stores

Anyone with a modem and a PC with sufficient processing power, storage, memory and multi- year with the release, by California- music in solid state media capabilities can already based Diamond M u l timedia form and thus has download and play MP3 files from Systems, of its sub-US$200 Rio no moving parts, it

ten to music while moving around. The Rio has also caught the imagination of a lot of users who like the idea of being able to download music, rather than having to go out and buy CDs. It has also sparked the competitive juices in other PC companies. In fact, at the recent C o m dex Canada West '99 t rade show i n V an c o u v e r , C reative La b s ' Canadian b o ss, Mark Jamieson,

Dlmioltl's II

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settled down. "Personal digital entertainment is the space we are looking to continue to expand our role in," he said. But a c c ording to Ken Comstock, general manager of the audio business unit at Diamond Multimedia, any new competitors in the mobile MP3 market will have to work fast if they want to take market share from the Rio. "It is

hard to say [whether any competitors could quickly catch up to the

Rio]," he said. "There are a lot of people that have announced products and have demonstrated products, but

revealed that his my sense is that they are immiparent company nent. It's not that hard to build a was working on its prototype, but it much harder to own MP3 product, b ut w o ul d n o t

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question "What is Art?" With the convergence of digital media on the computer, it' s even harder to neatly categorize art by distinct techniques. For example, a snapshot of Aunt Martha can be scanned and incorporated into a layout as part of a printed book or magazine, or ation of the Apple Macintosh and the money, or for both: howpanyou useyour PC put onto a Web site, or made into part of a business presentation slideshow, or texture Commodore Amiga computers in the early for creative purposes? mapped onto the face of an animated char1980s. acter — the possibilities ar e en d less. Whether in music, art, film, publishing Toolklta Nevertheless, for convenience if nothing There are a vast number of creative things or teaching, many people have found a way to use computers as a tool for exploring and you caa do on a computer, from capturing else, we' ll consider the creative arts on a sharing feelings, dreams and ideas with other the motion of a dancer or actor and applying computer in terms of several new and tradihuman beings. Personal computer technolo- it to a 3D animated character, to designing a tional media categories, always remembering gy, 1999 style, when combined with the poster for your garagesale. Even before comthat digital artwork can easily be "re-purpotential of the World Wide Web, would puters came along, it was hard to answer the posed." The general categories are: seem to offer a vast and ever improving toolkit to serve the creative impulse. We' ll consider creativity on the PC from ne of the strongest themes in the evolution of computing has been two perspectives: personal, to serve your own the desire to use computers for cre- expressive or social needs; and commercial, ativity and communication. That desire was where your voice must coexist with the a large part of the thinking behind the cre- demands of the marketplace. For love, or

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could apply clip art and text to complete the design. When we hit the print button, out of the printer came a full sheet of labels, each

options in the program to convert them to Web format, and uploaded them to our Internet service provider, which offers a free

with the design perfectly centered. Very slick which make it simple for businessusers to spruce up their letterhead, labels, and flyers. Web publishing, advertising and marketWhen we wanted to print labels for some ing:We kept it simple for publishing docuhome-made wine, we merely matched the ments in the HTML (hypertext markup lannumber of the Avery label we wanted to use guage) format required for the Web. We cre-

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with the corresponding template in Corel Print Office. We were presented with a single label of the correct dimension, onto which we

ated very simple Web pages as document pages in Microsoft Graphics Studio Home Publishing Suite 99, used the "save as HTML"

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grams were running. There are a few other peripherals that will help amateur video artists. Pinnacle Systems' Studio 400 is a VCR controller that connects to your computer through the parallel port. lt allows you to compile a shot list, then edit the segments together onto a clean videocassette. This is not a true digital vide~ i t i ng system, since you are working with the actual video footage for the assembly, rather than with a digitized video stream However, the Studio 400 does allow you to create a low-res-

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(MPEG)editing system. It requires a fast system, and between S MB and 15 MB of hard drive space for each minute of video you want to digitize. We wIII have reviews of both the Pinnacle 400 and the Dazzle in a future issue of The

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MAGIX Music Maker Deluxe. They allow any PC user to create, mix and edit audio and video clips on a PC. The MAGIX software enables even a beginner to create music to

accompany interactive presentations, desktop video productions, and even interactive Web sites.

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The Sony Digital Mavica camera features only true aII-in~ne graphics package on the a built in 3.5-inch floppy drive, so pictures market, and it delivers on that promise to a PC Haarcfware can be transferred remarkable degree. Workstation: Dell Dimension XPS 350. This by simply removing Our sentimental favorite, however, is still model is no longer available, but when new, the disk from the MetaCreations Fractal Painter. We tested the was worth under-$2,000. The system came camera and insert- latest Web-oriented version, Fractal Painter with a 15-inch monitor, a 350 MHz Pentium ing it into the PC's 5.5, as well as the "classic" version, which is II rocessor 64 MB RAM 8 MB AGP video p floppy dri v e . T he bundled with the Intuos tablet. Fractal actucard, CD-ROM drive, 16-bit sound, 56Kbps Mavica's main virtue is extreme ease of use, ally benefits from the user being an experimodem, speakers, and external Iomega Zip rugged good quality, and the convenience of enced artist: it offers uncannily natural, drive. While this is the system we used in a c heapandvirtuallyinexhaustiblesupply of intuitive drawing and painting tools that this feature,anyoneofthesystemsreviewed "film" — depending on how many floppies

mimic charcoal pencils, water color paints and other traditional art media. Painter is this reviewer's favorite graphics program, though Canvas is givin'g it heavy competition. Writing, designing and publishing for print: CorelDRAW 8, and Deneba Canvas 6

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The beglnnlng PC artist's toolkit Continuedfrom page 36 Services and utilities: Our IPC computer was equipped with both a 33.6Kbps GVC faxmodem and a 10 Mbps Ethernet card, which allowed faxing over regular phone lines, and also a high-speed cable modem connection via the Rogers@Home service. We used WinFax Lite software, which was bundled with the PC, for faxing.

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At the time of writing (late January), a Windows PC powered by a 350 MHz or 400 MHz Pentium II processor was probably the "sweet spot" for the intermediate graphics user. The systems in this month's Lab Report fit into this profile nicely. Such a system

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depending on the model. Similarly, the software ranges from about $150 to $600, though with a bit of effort it's usually possible to figure out a way to get an upgrade price for CorelDRAW. Overall, minus the digital camera, an intermediate computer artist's system is going to cost $3,000-$5,000, plus applicable taxes. 0

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also design their own frames. This is the perfect purchase for the photo buff who has a High<nd page layout features such as digital camera and wants to spruce up and master pages, kerning plus widow and use those photos. orphan control are now more accessible with toolbar or control key access to the com- Microsoft PhotoOraw 2000 mands. In fact„artists can customize toolbars Estimated street price: $223 with their own commands, Canvas com- Pres: This package offers a wealth of tools, templates sided polygons. These shapes can then be mands or or a combination of both. Finally, and special effects — many ol which have to be purfilled, transformed and/or combined. But with Canvas 6 requires only 50 MB for a full load chased as plug-ins in other equivalent programs. The this simple tool you can create some remark- and sports some of the nicest image compos- help system and tutorials are nicely integrated into able images with real "wow" appeal: Web ing tools of all the programs reviewed here. the GUI, which speeds up learning and mastery of objects like buttons, frames, menu lines, banthis program. ners, and wallpaper. And the printed tutorial MCI PhotoSuite ii Cons: It has very slow runtime performance. manual will get you off to a very good start. Price: $150 PhotoDraw wasconsistently slower than other Proc: Easy to use with help guides, consistent pregraphics programs on sametest machine. Also there Deneba's Canvas 6 views of effects, and a hugecollection of frames and was a wide variation — from 10 to 300 percent —in Estimated street price: $649 containers for photos. The photo editing has very comparative performance. PhotoDraw consumed Pros: The elusive one graphics program that fits all convenient controls and easy sophistication — with an more than all other programs in both installed disk needs isn't here yet, but Canvas comes pretty close. emphasis on easy. Thegreat printed how-to-manual, space and runtime resources required. It lacked a The photo-editing. illustration and page-layout feamakes learning Photolmpact a low-impact task. complete set of masking, layer/object manipulation tures have each been improved to the degree that Cons: Some rough edges included jaggies that were and color enhancement tools. more PC artists will find themselves working directly visible in large fonts, and some painful dialogues that Three favorite features in Canvas more frequently. And support for Adobe insisted over and over that the PhotoSuite CD-ROM 1) Templates are in a window-pane gallery of plug-ins allows users to further customize their be loaded. With layering, plug-ins and a few more thumbnails for quick, and easy use. design space. color corrections this program would be a great first 2) Touch-ups like red-eye removal, blemish cleanup Cons: The keystroke macros and scrlpting are still stop for digital imaging. But for now, Micrografx and despeckle were very easy to use. quite primitive, so batch processing is difficult. It Picture Publisher or Ulead's Photo Impact would be a 3) Dozens ofnovelshapescanbematchedwith would be nice to have more control over exporting better choice for photo retouching. The edited many linestyles and textures. pages with specific images/objects to the Web. For images could then be imported into PhotoSuite for such a feature-rich product, the documentation and use in a calendar, slide show or letterhead. Officially this is Microsoft's first entry into tutorials need more muscle. Three favorite effeclc the top-end bitmap graphics market, but Three favorite features 1) The watercolor and oil paint tools have the best with freebie Image Composer and Photoedit, 1) Using and combining layers of text, bitmaps and controls and results. Microsoft has had a lot of practice in bitmap vectors is very powerful. 2) Creation of slide shows and photo albums is graphics software. PhotoDraw 2000 has a 2) Page layout includes spell check, kerning, and quick. gallery of well thought out templates, effects, most of the controls of desktop publishing soft3) Projects and Guides simplify complex photo edit- fills, brushes, shapes, and textures. And given ware. ing tasks and touch-ups. the polish of its GUI — with clever use of

Canvas, Ulead's Photo Impact mixes objects, vector graphics and layers with huge galleries of drag-and-drop effects. Ulead does what its name implies: it leads the parade of such programs by offering the most galleries packed with the largest collection of effects. Many of these same effects can be easily duplicated through the pull-down command menus . and one or two dialogue settings. Think of these effects as little scripts or macros. The result is that a novice user can readily try out a whole range of effects and graphic processing that would otherwise lie buried and untouched. Photolmpact is like an active tutorial. The only ingredient missing in this program is speed. Like owning an Alfa Romeowhich has incredible handling finesse, but

3) Vector transparencymasks—wow!

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Like Ulead's Photolmpact 4.2 and JASC Is it a bird or a plane? Is it an illustration pro- PaintShop 5, PhotoSuite II has an album utilgram, page layout software, a technical CAD ity to collect thumbnails of all your photos application, or a deluxe photo editor? Like for processing in this program. Although the old farce, A Servant of Two Masters, PhotoSuite is quite versatile, honors for Canvas may have justifiably been accused of speed and convenience still go to PaintShop a mixed performance or have been difficult Pro. to use in the past, but no more. The Deneba PhotoSuite is clearly geared towards easdevelopers have stuck to their path of knit- ing novice users into photo editing. Input ting together bitmap images, text object and can be directly from a digital camera, scanvector drawing elements. Having been tanta- ner, files on a computer or from the Internet. lizingly close in Canvas 5, Deneba has woven It has a number of guides in the left window a magic carpet in Canvas 6 that sends this pane to take the user through common tasks program to the head of the pack in 2D graph- like red-eye removal, color correction, and ics processing packages. Watch out Adobe, other touch ups. Or users can plunge in and Corel, Macromedia and others. edit photos directly. There are good masking What takes Canvas over the top is new tools, an ample supply of brushes, and good SpriteLayer technology, GUI improvements, previews of all effects. and efficiency of operation. SpriteLayers Finally, PhotoSuite supports a number of make layering and blending of vector draw- special projects that many users will find ings, bitmap images and t ext o b jects handy to embed their finished photos in: absolutely simple. Yet the fine control over professional slide shows, albums for storage transparency, masking and positioning, plus or printing, calendars in a variety of styles, blend modes allows for subtle to stunning letterheads or business forms, baseball card image renderings. At the same time Canvas or stock magazine frames, dozens of greeting

PhotoDraw delivers some powerful editing capabilities. But "some" is the keyword. To my surprise, PhotoDraw lacked full-featured masking, layers and objects, and color correction capabilities. Such a strong core of brushes, effects and drawing tools are left without

offers incredible features, but can't keep pace with Corel's Xara or PaintShop Pro.

Clip art and other resources

access via Web to 140KB clip art, 580KB JPEG and GIF images, 40KB animations, banners and textures, and 2,150 fonts.

cated photo retouching or image sketching. Unlike MetaCreations Painter o r C o i el PhotoPaint, which have dozens of brushes and effects, ImageStyler is dirt simple — there are no brushes. You can only sketch eight shapes: outline or filled circles/ellipses, rectangle/squares, rounded rectangles, and up to 10-

The Web tends to feed on itself, and with programs available that can go to a Web site and

vacuum up all its resources — images, video and audio clips, Java classes, Javascripts, and

HTML (hypertext markup language) codeyou'd think "borrowing" of resources would be a more common practice than it is. One deterrent may be that what is really

valued — style, not substance — can't be stolen. But it may also be because the smart artists have already pieced together their own collections of resources. Another reason is that huge, and increas-

ingly higher quality, clip art and graphic resource libraries are now available fairly

cheaply. The main appeal of such collections is that they are organized. They have search engines that allow users to find images by categories and keywords. This makes finding the right image or clip easier than ever before. Here are two examples of such collections:

needs a little supercharging. Cons: It had a wide variance in runtime performance like PhotoDraw 2000, but was not as slow. It also lacks sophisticated masking, layer control and color manipulation as in Adobe Photoshop or Carel PhotoPaint. It had a clumsy grouping of commands in the menus system: Color, Image, Masks/Selections, Layers/Objects were not main menu items, but were buried throughout the menus.

Three favorite features 1) All the finishing effects of the Shadowand Frame

commandwereinoneplace. 2) It has an easy-to-use palette of of drag-and-drop effects, texture, lighging, materials, gradients, and frames. There are 10 in all and each gallery can be customized. 3) The object transform tools do vector manipulations on bitmap objects.

Like Adobe Image Styler and Den eba's

Wrap up

Just when you thought things were settling down, the whole graphics world starts to percolate. complete graphic underpinnings. Likewise, With programs like Adobe's ImageStyler„ PhotoDraw has the templates, effects, and Extensis PhotoGraphics and e specially free clip art and images to get graphic design- Deneba's Canvas, mixing bitmap images, ers well on their way, but again without the vector drawings and text elements is becomfull range of compositing features, such as ing easier and more transparent. Likewise, full merge options, layer locking, and layer the gallenes and guides provided by prot ransparency c o n t rol . I n addi t i o n , grams such as MGI PhotoSuite, Microsoft PhotoDraw had some of the slowest process- Picturelt 99 and Ulead's Photolmpact make ing times of all th e graphics programs graphics and photo editing a lo t m o re reviewed. In sum, wait for the third release. approachable. Bottom line: if you are an artist, graphic Ulead Photolmpact 4.2 designer or just a dabbler, come on into the Estimated street price: $149 Compleat PC Artist world — it just keeps getPros: Galleries and vector effects in Photolmpact are ting better! Cl just wonderful. This is clearly the direction of GUls for 20 PC graphics. Both neophytes and pros can get Jacques Surveyer is a consultant and photographer; things done very quickly, yet in some graphic editing join him for a chat about PCArt at (note restdctions below) most sophisticated process- http: //www.inforamp.net/-jbsurv

sound clips, and 125 video clips. Its search engine offers fast access by name through a browser. Gallery 1,000,000 includes Corel Photo House version 2.1.

Organizing your own resources Database programs like Arriba allow users to organize their o w n r e source l ibraries.

Between the site management programs

IMSI Rlacter Clips 1,000,001 available from Web tools like PageMill and Price: $160 Visual Page, the clip art browsers, and the Coral g 1,000,000 This package provides primarily WMF format fine image albums provided by JASC Price: $159 files, in addition to GIFs and JEPGs. A brows- PaintShop Pro or MGI PhotoSuite, graphic This package collection includes 815KB Web er interface allows users to search for images designers have a number of ways to organize images, 140KB clip art in CMX format, 60KB by description. In addition, users get a one- their graphic and other design resources. GIF and JPEG photo images, 1,000 fonts, 500 year subscription to ArtToday and unlimited —facquesSurveyer

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Windows'98 full ver with cd...........+$135

56k Voice / USR 56k voice.........+AS/115 17" SVGA 12SOxl024....................+$130 Speaker 100%/GNTSOOOA...........+$12/55 MS Encarta'98 Home-pack...............+AS Epson 640/ BC-J4400.............+$280/230 Flat scaner Acer 600dpi .....$135

NEC ESOO/A700/E700................+$50/220/380 GNT5000/ ACS44 SpkraSubwfer.......+$50/90

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Intel SE440BX-2 / Asus P2B 128MB SDRAM PC IOOmhz 6.4G Ultm Quantum EX VIDE ATI Xpert9S 3DAGP SM 1.44G FD, 36x CD-ROM USR 56k voice fax modem Sportstor 19" ATX tower case 104 Fujitsu keyboard Microsofl mouse Windows 98 full ver. with cd

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Creative TNT 16M /Fusion 16M AGP....+$90 ATIAII-in-Wonder Pro SM AGP .........+$120 Matrox G200 8M / 16M AGP ....+$60/150 SB AWE64 / PCI 128/ Live value .„.e$55/68/I I 5 ViewSonic Q71 / PS775 / PS790.......$370/690/895 PanasonicSL70/ PL70/ SL90.........+$390/580/820 NEC A700/E700/E900+/P I 250 ... +$460/590/900/1580 Diamond Monster-II 3D voodoo2 12M...$220

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Matrox G200 Mystique 8M/16MBI AGP........$175/270 Matrox Marvel GT200 TV Kit .....................'.......$375 Matrox Rainbow Runner Studio for G-Series........$19S Monster 3D Voodoo2 12M ocm.................$220 Diamond V550 12M AGP ocm/retail.............$195/240 Diaroond GLIOOOPro 4M/SM AGP.....$110/200 Canopus Sccptra 2500 16M AGP (rmail) ...............$290 Diamond Fusion 16M AGP (ocm/retail)..........$1 88/210 C rcativ c B a n s hc c 8 M A G P . . ...$155 Crcativc TNT 16MB AGP (ocm/retail).....$180/225 w/Intel i740 8M AGP...............................................$65 Miro 3D +................................................................,$1195

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olntel Xeon 400mhz/512k.........$3520 • Intel Xeon 450mhz/512k.........$31$20 • Intel Xeon 450gnhz/I MB.........$5750 • Intel Xeon 450mhz /2M...........$7090 • Intel Xeon Dual 450/512k........$5250 elntel Xeon Dual 450/I M..........$9150

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• 12.1" TFT 3DI I-300mhz/3911-333.....,.$1995/2040 • 12.1" TFT 3DII-366mhzl 3911400...,...$2130/2290 • 133" TFT 3911-300mhzl3D11-333......QIOO/2220 • 133" TFT 39lh366mlul 3911400. ..2300/2480 14.1" TFT 391I-300mhz/ 3911-333......$2390/2450 with Car adapter ................+$95 with I OBT comb card .....+$110 with 10/100 BT card .......+$210 with 56k & 10/100 Lan ...+$400

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• 12.1" TFT Pll-233mhz/ Pll-266 ...... $2320/2650 • 12.1" TFT Pll-300mhz/512k ......................$3090 • 133" TFT Pll-233mhzl PI1-266,.....,32550/289il • 13.3" TFT Pll-300mbzl 512K....„......„....$3350 • 14.1" TFT Pll-266mhz/ Pll-300 .... $3290/3690 • 15.1" TFT PII-266mhz/ Pll-300 ....... $4450/4850 with Car adapter ................+$95 with I OBT comb card .....+$100 with 10/I OQ BT card .......+$210

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t o the Advisory Group, a research company based in Alberta, 50 percent of Canadians who own PCs do not use tax software. For companies in the business of making tax software this is both

much the same as last year. A few years ago there was a sudden rush to get new tax products online. Today many of those products are memories. When the Internet really exploded it seemed like tax software was a natural product to migrate to the Web: the

program can be small and needs to be a curse and a blessing. Of course, such com- upgraded annually to reflect changes in tax panies would like to see 100 percent of Canadians using tax software, but they are secretly pleased to see there is still opportunity for growth. Having used and reviewed tax software since the category really began to blossom about six years ago, I can see why half of PC owners don't use it and the other half do. Many taxpayers wonder why they should pay good money to do something they can do themselves in a few hours after dinner one night. Others have an accountant do their taxes and thus have no need for such a

laws, which makes building a software distri• bution system easy and worthwhile. But the migration didn't happen. Although it might come to pass in the future — when we have bigger pipes to move data through — it is clear that online tax software sales remain minor. The top three retail products below are all available on the Web but much of what makes these programs so useful are the things that fill the 650 MB of space on a CDROM. When stripped down and sold on the

interesting multimedia, and scenario features. A new feature may appear one year in a program, such as the sliding-bar RRSP Analyzer in. this year's QuickTax. Overall these are incremental additions only. What you will find below is a short summary of

what to expect from these programs.

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From: Intuit Canada Ltd. PO 8ox 652, Station Main, Fort Erie, ONL2A6N7 Tel: 888-829-8608 Net, they command a smaller fee and http: //www.intuit.corn/canada become less appealing to tax software com- Estimated street price: $29.95 to $79.95 panies. Still, there are four products and one product. TIteEAS/EST wsy On the other hand, I am convinced that service that are available only online, and to rio your business tax software has matured to the point that it innovation is still happening. Particularly sari persona/ taxesl warrants the annual expense, Let's not kid interesting is the online tax service offered ourselves; you are paying $30 or more each by GriffTax (see below). All in all however, and every year for this product, but it has the Net as software distributor for tax programs is still evolving. many features that justify the expense: • If y ou choose a product from the same company that made the software you Stamps still winning used the previous year (and sometimes Electronically filing a tax return from your even if you used a competitor's product), home PC is not possible yet, but e-filing conyou don't have to re~nter your personal tinues to be very important for professional

p r e parers. R e venue C a nada and family information (SIN, addresses, tax names of children). (httpJ/www.rc.gc.ca) continues to modernize

• You don't have to fill out t he regular forms. Just print out your calculations when you are finished. • Tax software usually includes sound clips, videos, help files, or CD-ROM-based books to help you figure out more difficult questions. • Software simplifies the whole process of doing your taxes.

its services. More and more taxpayers aie efiling from registered agents each year, And Telefile, which allows selected taxpayers to file via a telephone service, much like telebanking, is growing. Also, automatic deposit of refunds is becoming more common.

However, public defiling looks to besome

Revenue Canada's automatic telephone voice-filing system. To use Telefile you must be invited to do so on your tax form. The people filing are invited because they have had simple tax situations in previous years so it is questionable as to whether the QuickTax feature is really needed. Intuit daims people have had trouble with Telefile and that the printout will

help. Intuit's decision to pull the small business components out of QuickTax and create a new product specifically for such taxpayers is sound. In previous years, business forms were in the product, but extras, like the buy/lease company car decision maker, or the tool that helps you decide whether to incorporate, were not. I liked QuickTax Home R Business and

hope it does well enough to return next year, although the price is about $10 too high. Yes, it will do your personal taxes as well, but don't forget a few years back QuickTax, then called WinTax and under a previous owner, gobbled market share by selling for $20with a $10 mail-in rebate! QuickTax is beautiful and feature-rich, as always, and continues to dominate this group, CanTax T1 From: CanTax 200-6130 3rd St. SE, Calgary, ABT2H 1K4 Tel: 800-265-3800, http: //www.cantax.corn Estimated street price: $36.95

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distance off. Problems delaying its roll out This year Intuit adds a fifth Canadian tax program to its line up. Intuit is the largest include security issues with accidental or intentional misinformation; lack of a taxpay- maker of tax software in both Canada and If you add to these the various smaller er signature; the infrastructure concerns for the U.S. In Canada it has the most titles. QuickTax Basic is a diskette based, multiperks, like being able to change data in vari- any system that would be under great stress ous fields and immediately see the effect on for a short period of time; and, most impor- media-less, Windows program with an estimated price of $29.95. QuickTax Deluxe is a your final amount owing/refund, buying tax tantly, the high cost of technical support, To haveyour tax return e-fi led by a pro- CD-ROM multimedia Mac or Windows prosoftware seems — to this reviewer — an easy fessional it will cost between $12 and $30, gram with an estimated price tag of $35 to choice. $40. ImpotRapide is a French version of depending on a number of factors. QuickTax Basic that comes on both disk and And then there were eight CD-ROM in one box for $29.95. QuickTax What to expect This year our roundup of personal tax software includes eight products — four products Here then are tax software programs avail- Home Sr Business is a Windows CD-ROM you will find on retailers' shelves, and four able this year. In p r evious years, The product that sells for about $80 and includes products that are available on the Web. None Computer Paper editors and I have selected everything in QuickTax Deluxe as well as feaof the companies wants to say precisely how one or more products to receive a Review's tures for small business owners. I have to say that Intuit's decision to conmuch of the tax software market it controls, Choice award. Last year's winner was tinue to make Macintosh products is smart. QuickTax. The decision has become more but I think it i s safe to say the shrinkwrapped retail products have the vast major- and more difficult as this category of soft- Intuit likely does not generate much income

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ity of customers. The online tax software ware has matured in both interface and fea- from either the Mac or French versions of ed to try a new look, but the following year they went back to the old look because, they said, users complained. Whatever the case may be, this year year's decision {which has since been reversed) Can Tax jumps up and finally becomes a fullto stop making Quicken for the Mac. QuickTax Deluxe is well crafted, slick and featured, personal tax program that is good looking and suave too. If you decide to use feature-filled. You can purchase it on the company Web site but if you do, you lose the the forms approach, you get a no-nonsense, video, sound, and extensive graphics that yet sufficiently helpful, series of screens. If reside on the CD-ROM. This year Intuit has you decide to use the interview method you paid attention to the number of people using get beautiful and intuitive options with nice-

industry remains very small. There really are three products that dominate the market, and two are owned by the

tures. The requirements of Revenue Canada's QuickTax but the company is sensitive to the tax forms and calculations mean that, bar- market and has learned a few things after last

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add and subtract equally well whether they use a forms or interview format. In the early years, innovations such as auto-complete, video help, and scenario functionality moved this class of software forward and made choosing a winner easier.

Nielson, QuickTax, by Intuit, is the number one retail tax software in Canada. CanTax a nd HomeTax, both o w ned b y C C H Canadian Ltd., are the other two big players, while the 12-yearold TAX made EASY is a

ring some software bug, the programs will

small player, with the program primarily sell- Today, the bg three, CanTax, HomeTax, and ing in Ontario and British Columbia. In the online offerings, things are pretty

QuickTax all offer a forms or Interview format. They all have excellent help systems,

Telefile and has added a small feature that ly dovetailed video and audio. will print out a prompt to use when calling

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Grayscale: 8-bit (256grayscalelevels) Minimumsystemrequirements: Pentium or equivalent CPU; Windows 95/98/NT 4.0; 16 MBRAM,COROM drive, VGAmonitor. Pros: Comes with both parallel and USBconnections.

Softwareautomatically scans imagesand/or recognizes text via OCR. It offers one-button scanning. *' Energy Star "sleep mode optionally puts the scanner into a dormant state when not in usa. Parallel mode is compatible with Windows 95/98 and NT4.0. It takes up tu 8.5x14-inch paper. Cons: No on/off switch. BecauseUSBis noi supported bysome versionsofW indows 95 orNT,users who connect this scanner via the parallel port may encounter conflicts with other parallel port devices. The HP ScanJet 5200C was a breeze to set up. We simply plugged it in, connected the

supplied USB (universal serial bus) cable and our computer prompted us for the driver CD-

ROM. (A parallel cable is also supplied.) A moment later, we were scanning. Really — it was that easy. It appears that the dark days of PC-scanner interface hassles may soon be nothing more than a topic for debate in the

Mac-versus-PC advocacy newsgroups. The 5200C continues the "one-button" tradition of the 5100C, A green button on the front of the unit is controlled by a software program that allows you to choose which application is launched when the button is pushed, and what action will be taken. For example, you can elect to launch OCR (optical character recognition) software and have the resulting text file open directly into Microsoft Word, or scan images directly to a file with a simple push of this button. It worked well in our tests, The PrecisionScan software also allowed us to scan or OCR directly into a n u mber of a pplications already on o u r h a r d d i sk , i n c luding FrontPage, Microsoft Imaging, Microsoft

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Options A 25-page automatic document feeder that allows unattended multiple-page scanning of up to legal-size sheets can also be purchased.

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same price category a year ago. Technology continues to advance quickly, and yesterday's cutting edge trickles down to the rest of us with the arrival of the Next Big Thing. For example, until recently DVD drives

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possibility of movie playback on the com- are a lot of different options for buyers lookputer. Making the deal even sweeter was the ing for a system in this price range. fact that DVD drives could play traditional CD-ROMs. As DVD technology caught on, New benchmarh newer and faster generations of DVD drives Testing this month wa s d one using became available, making the slightly older Sysmark98 b e n chmarking s o f tware. models affordable. Now, it's common to see Sysmark98 is the latest upgrade from BAPCo. DVD drives even in more moderately priced It offers better Windows 98 compatibility, machines. and includes a wider range of software, to The same goesfor hard drives. There has better reflect the range of tasks people may been an explosion in the size of hard drives require of their computers. in the last year, with many now pushing the The test includes workloads from 14 pop20GB mark. This has made drives of up to 10 ular applications. These are divided into an GB seem quite affordable ($300 to $400). office productivity section and a content creNowhere has the devaluation of slightly ation section. The former includes word proolder technology been felt quite as keenly as cessing, spreadsheets, optical character in the CPU market, however. When a new recognition (OCR), and voice dictation; CPU is released, the pricing is typically quite while the latter includes photo manipulahigh until something newer comes along. tion, 3D rendering, multimedia creation, and The pricing difference between the 450 MHz vector drawing. Because of the change in benchmarking Pentium 11 and the slower 400 MHz chip is a whopping $300 as we write this review in software, the scoring has also been altered to late January. That kind of disparity makes it a reflect a newer "reference system." The new lot easier to get a near top-of-the-line chip reference system is a 233 MHz Pentium II sysinto a system without feeling the price pinch tem, with a 4 MB video card and 64 MB of of the premium CPU. (And with rumors of RAM. BAPCo took the workload scores estabthe Pentium III's imminent release and lished by this system and assigned an arbipromise of 500 MHz performance, it may not trary value of 100. We all want to know how a system perbe long before the price of a 450 MHz forms, but for a performance score to be meanPentium II drops. Stay tuned!) ingful, we also have to answer the question "compared to what?" Benchmarking is a way This month's roundup We asked vendors to submit a system priced of answering the questions "how does this sysbetween $2,000 and $2,500, using either a tem perform?" and "compared to what?" Systems were set to a display resolution of 350 MHz or 400 MHz processor. The other components were left up to the vendor, and 800x600, with a 32-bit color depth (with one this time around we received a good variety exception, detailed below). of machines that target different users. Most Pricing was obtained directly from the opted for the 400 MHz Pentium H chip, but vendors. It's worth noting that suggested we received systems with a Celeron, the K6- retail pricing and estimated street pricing are 2, and a 350 MHz Pentium II chips aswell. just that: suggested and estimated. Prices There was a mix between DVD and CD- may vary from one retail location to another, ROM drives in the systems, and a couple of and as the computer industry is so fastentries beefed up the video editing and play- paced, prices may be subject to some fluctuback components. With this variety, there ation. Continued onpage 74 .

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The inclusion of the Matrox Marvel package adds a touch of fun to this system, giving the user the ability to watch TV on the computer, and offers video input and output. While the Marvel won't appeal to-serious video production people, it's a nifty device for the rest of us, allowing users to put home videos onto their computer, or channel surf and Web surf on thesame screen,This system also has a nice collection of components and performs well, making it a good system overall. http: //www.aiei.corn

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Estimated street price: $2,499 One of the members of HewlettPackard's extensive Pavilion line, the 6470Z offers a good selection of components, with great performance.

Software • Operating system: Windows 98 • The Pavilion 6470Z also comeswith Microsoft Express Micro's Works, Intuit Quicken 99, Microsoft Money 99, Smith/Micro Quicklink III fax software, Microsoft machine is geared With only a 350 MHz AMD K6-2 processor t owards us e r s Encarta 99, HPPavilion Media Rack byWillow onboard, this machine isn't as fast as some of with an interest In Pond, and McAfeeVirus-scan. the others in this survey. But its performance video work. Components would be fine for most users —especially fam• Processor. 400 MHzPentium II ilies. With the digital flat panel port and the • The 12.7 GBQuantum hard drive has a ton of Software Ethernet jack, this is a forward-looking sysspace. tem. For applications that aren't overly CPU- • Operating system: Windows 98 • At 32x, the CD-ROMdrive isn't the speediest, but intensive, this machine would be a great • Also included is Lotus Smart Suite. Millenium edition. should be fast enough for most users. choice, offering a lot of flexibility at a good • Components A Rockwell HCF 56Kbpsmodem comeswith the price. • Processor. 350 MHzPentium II. While the machine. httpi/www.compaq.ca installed CPU is slower than most in the survey, • It also includes an HPwheel mouse and Internetthis system still turned in a decent performance and multimedia-enhanced keyboard. overall. Multimedia • The 7.6 GBQuantum hard drive should be fine • Speaker sound is quite good, although the for regular use, but is likely on the small side for method of hooking the speakers up is not obvidemanding users (most notably those using the ous. and involves first hooking up a channelEstimated street included video-editing package). splitting adapter, then attaching the speakers to price: $2,040 • A 36x Acer CD-ROMdrive is installed. the adapter. This is further confused because the • Instead of a standard floppy drive, this system adapter is included in a different compartment Also coming In at includes Panasonic's LS-120 drive, which reads than the speakers. the lower end of and writes to both high-capacity (120 MB) The ATI video is built into the motherboard, but our price range removable disks and standard floppies. there is an AGPslot for future video upgrade. t his m o nth, I s • With a digital camera port on the front of the Empac's system- • A US Robotics 56 Kbps modemcomeswith the system. machine, it is easy to attach a cameraquickly a basic machine • A Microsoft Intellipoint mouse andKeytronic (the location of this port does mar the appearthat offers solid performance. 5

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Operating system: Windows 98 Also included are Lotus Smart Suite 97, ReCoil, and Half Life Day One. • The video editing bundle includes Avid Cinemania, Uiead Studio Pro, and Zoran Software's DVDEncoder/Player. Components • Processor: 400 MHzPentium II • At10.1 GB, the IBM hard drive offers plenty of space for multimedia work. • A US Robotics 56 Kbps modem is installed. Estimated street • The system comes with the Logitech Mouse price: $2,399 Man and a Keytronic Windows keyboard. A new e n t rant INultimedia into the Test Lab, • The Matrox Marvel video packagecontains the M DG ha s p u t G200 Miiienium card for great video performance. This is teamed with an attachable multitogether a system media input/output device, allowing the user to with a lot to offer. record video, watch television, and output to

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MHz Pentium II, the Sx DVD player, Sound Blaster PCI 128 and the LS-120 drive for Expendability high-capacity removable storage, you' ve got Three slots for SDRAMare included. a killer deal. Although some users may want • Four full-sized bays are available, as well as six to get a larger hard drive or upgrade the internal 3.5-inch brackets. speakers, the existing components are still The user can install three PCI cards and one ISA, very good and help keep the price very reaor two PCI and two ISA (one mounting bracket sonable. The system also features a flexible is shared). software bundle that gives the buyer some options. For users on a budget, it's hard to go At first glance, the Viper Gt/400 from Smart wrong with this system. Machine is an impressive system, with a case http: //www.std.net that literally towers over its competitors, The good news is that the items inside justify the size, with high-quality DVD, a great software

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Estimated street price: $1,999 Also at the lower end of the price range this month, Supercom's Avado system offers a good budget alternative.

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Check2000(Y2K-compliancesoftware), and a choice of one game(MSGames Pack, Half-Life, or Unreal). Corn pone nts • Processor. 400 MHzPentium II • At 6.4 GB, the Quantum hard drive is on the small side for power users. • Instead of a standard floppy drive, an LS-120 drive fmm Panasonlc is included, offering highcapacity removable storage while remaining backward compatible with floppies. • A 56 Kbps modem from GVCis included. • The system comes with a Microsoft lntellimouse and Keytronic Windows keyboard. Multltnedla • ATI's 8 MB Xpert 98 card is installed for great video performance. • A 5x Panasonic DVDdrive comes with the system, and the ATI soft DVD player software provides smooth, high-quality DVD video playback. • The Sound Blaster PCI 128 provides high-quality audio reproduction. • The system also comes with the MLi SW190 multimedia speaker set, inciuding a subwoofer. This set offers good sound without adding substantially to the cost of the system.

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mode). The Avado system is a good choice for a number of users because of its fast CPU, good hard drive and decent sound. The machine may be problematic for users who require a video card capable of 32-bit color, and a number of users would probably want to upgrade the speaker set to take better advantage of the sound card. Still, even after such substitutions, users with a $2,500 budget would have money left, making this sys-

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fact none of them can completely safeguard you from YZK-related problems, Especially when you consider that PCs account for a small portion of the Y2K problem as a whole. Before choosing a Y2K~mpliance test-

experts. They know that the Y2K problem is Unfortunately, the only way to know what not a branch of computing science like sys- might be affected by this problem is to make tems analysis, programming, or engineering. a list of the critical functions you, or your busiOne cannot get a degree in computer science ness, needs to perform to make money. This list will indude things like the products or serby specializing in Y2K issues.

ere are many products on the market now — and many more to come —that all promise to help you deal with the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem. Some of these tools focus on the hardware level of the problem your computer's BIOS and RTC (real-time dock). Others look at the applications and the operating system you use. Most of these tools will also look at the data you have stored on your computer, All offer

some level of inventory capability, for assessing

find little consensus on the issue. No one knows what will actually happen on Jan. I, 2000, but everyone who considers himself or herself an expert is willing to speculate. Does this mean the Y2K problem is an unreal or imagined threat? Certainly notthere are computer systems that will not handle the date change and these systems will behave in unpredictable ways.

Teel time Now that you understand the problem and some of the issuessurrounding it, let' sbring our

However, dedding on which product is dynamic and complex issue, with roots in focus back to finding a tool that will help you. Don't assume you are out of harm's way best for you is not easy. The major issue is not ignorance, lazy programming and/or if you don't use a computer in the workplace. whether these products actually help but the planned obsolescence, consider themselves

The Y2K problem is a technical issue like ing tool you need to understand the YZK problem and what is meant by Y2K compli- an outbreak of a computer virus. It isnat a after: this, issue of TCPgoes to press in- ance. Unfortunately "millennium compli- bug! Nor is it an errant, or malfunctioning, . mid-februaiy..~g~p~m~ri5„~~~~;;~~@, ance" is defined and redefined almost daily piece of code, It is a design flaw, or limitaand companies that sell YZK-testing software tion, either deliberately or shortsightedly j;.-'-' hiap Mahility,hitp//www.mapmahilityiaat.:~N aren't always the best help. While a compa- worked into a variety of computer-related ny's Web site may affer lots of information, technologies. That is why you will read so -

many stories about the Y2K problem and

it is also likely to promote that company's own interpretation of — and solutions tothe problem, and be laden with the accepted Y2K myths. And you' ll have to weed through these to get to the information you need. Some companies use an accepted definition to aid their cause or go into minute technical details to show their expertise. The Y2K problem, simply put, is the inability of computingsystem sto handle dates coaectly. Therefore, to be compliant, a computer systern must handle dates correctly. Let me be more specific. I'ew people who understand that the Y2K problem is a

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line versions of databases (plus Web and some development software) from Oracle, Informix, Software AG, and Sybase results in flowering of application development in the Linux world. It certainly could happen in the Web and e-commerce arenas because Linux and Apache Server are still the software of choice for more than 40 percent of Internet service providers. However, it is less likely to happen in other OLTP and OLAP segments because the big developers, enterprise resource planning (ERP) firms like SAP, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft and large outsourcers and value added resellers (VARs) like Andersen, EDS and Tech Data have not adopted Linux in a big way, However, pricing pressure could have some VARs and out-

itable software company has a databaseserver

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speech recognition and English language

Continuedfrom page 88 have had quite different proprietary stored procedure languages. Now five of the six major database vendors (Microsoft is the notable exception), following SQI.J standards and using Java for stored procedures and Java OQL query syntax, are more directly compara-

understanding. However, his slides showed all but one of

the nine major challenges to software and coinputing as having been solved. The one remaining challenge — fully distributed pro-

cessing — involved databases.

But even in that arena, much progress has been made with Web and commerce systems acting as an impetus. So, as the market matures — and because relational databases lead in all three segments — one would expect and applications available. In short, as the the competifion to be based on the factors database market and technology matures (i.e., noted above, including reliability, and perfordatabases become more of a commodity), the mance. inevitable price wars and competitive free-forThe problem is that the world's most prof-

ble and interchangeable than ever before. To differentiate themselves, relational database vendors compete on reliability, performance, security, manageability, support,

all is breaking out.

and IBM cost $1,100 to $1,500 per user. This works out, roughly, to a four to one price advantage for Microsoft. But Oracle and IBM counter that their

workgroup and NT versions are priced very competitively at $300 per user as well. In return, Microsoft counters by giving away for free Microsoft Decision Support Server, a top quality OLAP Server; Visual Modeler for data-

base design; English Query, an add-on pmgram that allows English language retrievals into SQL Server; and DTS (data transmission

services) for moving data among databases

on the basis of functionality, high~nd perfor- soon followed by Oracle, gives away training open source code.

Price and for-free wars In his speech at the Microsoft Professional mance or reliability with the top four database or consulting services. A price and bundling free-for-all has bro- Snrnrnary Developers Conference, Microsoft vice-presi- vendors. Even with marked improvements

such as row-level locking, auto-memory man- ken out in the database world. Some wouM Just as database systems split into three segagement, and tuning wizards, Microsoft's SQL argue that it's finally time since, at $1,200 per ments with their unique development and (graphical user interface) navigation, digital Server must rely on bargain-basement pricing user, database services are three to four times usage requirements, relational and hybrid relaphotography, and simplification of the inter- and free-forwll bundling to even the scales. more expensive than a mail/messaging service tional databases now lead the fielcL But with face including computing through gestures, SQL Server costs $300 per user whfie Oracle (about $80 to $150 per user) or an office suite four to five major vendors jockeying for dominance of this still lucrative market, a price war (about $200 to $300 per user). It is argued that lower database prices will has broken out. Even the highly specialized bring more database applications into use. m obileand embedded processing market segThat may be partially true, but unlike offiice ments are not impervious to price and bundling free-for-alls. As technologically suites or messaging systems, database systems have significant development costs associated sophisticated outsourcers and ERP vendors with them. These costs are often quite substan- increasingly call the technical and market tial, and given the shortage of programmers shots (taking over from all but the biggest IT and qualified staff, they will continue to rise. shops); it will be interesting to see how the The price war has extended itself to Linux. database industry evolves in the next two or three years. I3 IBM had announced in December that it would be releasing version 5 of DB2 for free in early January. What will be interesting to see is Jacques Surveyer is a consultant who answers dataif the recent spate of low or no-cost t off-the- base queries «t http: I/www.inforamp.oct/-jbsurv. dent David Vaskovitch cited exciting new

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your video card and sends it out to the monitor. The design creates superb video without the need for a specialty video card. I have used the drives with both a 2 MB and an 8 MB video card without any discemible difference. Because your monitor can display at higher resolutions than your TV, the films are gorgeous.

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combined a five-speaker Digital Dolby product with its newest DVD drive to offer computer users a mini theater on their PCs. And thanks to the Creative Labs people on this side of the Pacific Ocean, I had a couple of weeks to setup and play with the new products. The results? I amazed my tech friends and my new PC theater made watching movies in my living room a bit of a bust.

shaped, and only 7 cm (2,73 in,) per side.

The sound sffsteln Generally, surround sound refers to a multiple speaker setup that tries to create the experience — as in real life — of sound coming from all directions. Basic surround sound systems use four speakers — right front, left front, and two back speakers on one channeL Dolby ProLogic uses five speakers: right, left and centre at the front, and two at the back on one channel. Dolby Digital, also knows as AC-3, is similar to ProLogic except the rear speakers are on two distinct channels, and there is a sub-woofer. Dolby Digital is often called 5,1 (five-dot-one), referring to the five wide-frequency speakers and one subwoofer. For PCs there are similar systems. Some use three speakers: rightand left,plusa subwoofer on the floor. Some use four: two in front, two in the rear. Some use five: two at the front, two at th e back, and a subwoofer. And now, we have six speaker systems like the Desktop Theatre S.l.

Creative Labs PC-DVD Encore Sx Caenbrldge SoundWorhs' Desktop Theatre S.1 Sound From: Creative Labs, Inc. http:ttwww.soundblaster.corn Estimated street price: $800 We reviewed the Encore DVD kit last year and found it to be the best product tested at that time. The new Encore Dxr2 Sx uses the same design but increases the drive's maximum speed to five times that of the first-generation DVD-ROM drives. The Encore Dxr2 Sx looks and works just like a standard CD-ROM drive. You can operate it as a generic CD-ROM drive under Windows 98. The difference is that audio and video information is sent to the Encore PCI card when a movie is being shown. The card overlays this data with information from

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The rear two are slightly larger, while the subwoofer is quite large, about the size of a small toaster, but it sits out of sight on the floor, I have 17-inch monitor raised to eye level on my desk, I had closed the blinds and dimmed the lights.

The film Fifth Elementwas on the DVD player, and Mille jovovich was just about to leap off the side of a building into Bruce Willis' cab. I pressed play, left the room and closed the door. Five minutes later a slackjawed convert wandered down the hall to tell me it was incredible. One of the reasons this system works so well is that the work of the film's sound people comes through loud and clear. Footsteps behind and to the right begin before the character enters the view. The sound is engulfing and, combined with a super-sharp image, raises the bar for at-home movies. I would put the difficulty level of setting up the system at medium. If you have installed a CD-ROM drive and a sound card, you could do it, The SoundWorks control box takes the digital signal and an analogue signal from your sound card and processesit before it goes to the speakers. You must run two wires from the card to this unit, then six to the speakers. That's a

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to play music, movie, and stereotfourpoint. There are buttons for ProLogic ciigital in or analogue in, as well as a test that plays each of the speakers in turn. The DVD drive and the sound system can be purchased separately. Having watched a number of movies with the sound running to a plain old amp and stereo speakers, I can say the experience is still quite good. The speakers here will do a great job with almost any sound source and would be the ultimate

for garners assuming the game they are playing adheres to Creative's EAX or Microsoft's DirectSound 3D protocols. If not the system will work but will revert to stereo sound. The Desktop Theatre 5.1 sound system works with the AWE Sound Blaster series but to get separate rear channel sound you need a PCI cards, such as Sound Blaster PC64, 128 or Live. While the total package is really amazing, you do have to consider why you would want to watch a movie on your PC. Your screen is probably too small and your chair is not a sofa. However, as more games and other titles support DVD audio and video, this system will become more useful. If you can fit it into your budget this DVD solution is the full meal deal. 0 * A note about priclag: At the time of writing, the manufacturer's suggested retail price for the Encore 5x and Desktop Theatre Sound System wasUS$299 per product, for a total of US$600, or about $900 Canadian.

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release of a version of its Windows CE OS that offers color screens on small portable devices. The two companies are competing head to head to become the provider of a standard environment for the multitude of new mobile computers being developed for consumer applications. Sun's PersonalJava application programming interface (API) was created specifically for network-connectable consumer devices that people might use for communications, entertainment and mobile computing applications. The firm said that manufacturers of c onsumer devices can n o w u s e the PersonalJava platform to create network-connectable products that can access the vast array of applications and services via the internet. According to t h e f i rm , v ersion 3.0 includes features that will simplify the construction of consumer-oriented graphical user interfaces. These features are delivered in a graphical toolkit dubbed Truffle. Truffle is designed to allow device manufacturers to establish a distinct product identity by customizing the look-and-feel of their user interface. Sun also contends that compared to previous solutions on the market, Truffle will allow device manufacturers to build graphical user interfaces that require significantly less memory. The release of the PersonalJava 3.0 application environment follows on the heels of the recently released EmbeddedJava application environment.

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The taskbar; switching to a Netscape's open source code, one of the more thick, and some of prospect of even half of these people switching different window interesting wrinkles is yet another volley the shading was aimed across Microsoft's bow. A German to a free or cheap alternative must make Bill altered. Some cells Gates a little antsy. That StarOffice is compatibars to what is approprifirm, Star Division, has released StarOffice, a even had shadmg ble with m ore operating systems than ate to the document productivity suite crammed with enough tS PV m.eateSt added, which was The applications are software to compete with even the profes- Microsoft Office — with Sun Solaris Spare, X.86, 'm Madntosh, Java, and Windows 3.1 on the sional edition of Microsoft Office. And in while S t a rC ale g way — must keep him up at night. of features as their case you hadn't guessed, it's free. mixed suPPorts To test the Gates insomnia theory, I used Microsoft counteparts. Well, kind of free. StarOffiice is free for StarOffice instead of StarWriter handled any personal use, if you' re Microsoft Office 97 willing to d ownload di d n ' t for a l i t tle over a and performed any func- Wi th MiCrOSOft ORCe 97 cell, i t the 62 MB installation month. To test the tion I asked of it without file (the Linux version ii~~ «file compati- faiL It. matched Word for every feature I well. Cells with mixed bold and plain text i s 70 MB) from Star juSt abOut a S bility, I used the same could think of, including borders, shading, came out in Excel 97 as completelybold text. Division's Web site, For Finally, there's an aggravating problem fi«s ~th Mi«osofi spell check, AutoCorrect, AutoFormat. styles, U SS39.95 yoii -' g.t Of f e a t u r e S Office when I had to columns, and headers and footers. Some fea- with file export. 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(Every article I' ve done over any of Excel 97's recalculation bugs. deal as well: the most expensive package the last five weeks —induding this one — was StarOffiice is also staggeringly customiz- mat when it comes time to save? offered is only US$169 per licence. Even with these problems, StarOffice written with StarOffice. None of my editors able. There actuaHyseemto bemore options The StarOffice suite includes StarWriter, have complained yet.) than in Microsoft Office. Just about every cuspresents a viable alternative to other office StarCalc, StarDraw, Starlmpress, StarBase, suites. 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Corp.) and making millions in the process, ' perhaps Cowpland won't care.

ith a title like this, it's obvious why Canada's own software magnate, M ichael Cowpland, might n o t appreciate his recently released biography. Although he participated in the book's research, the extensive interviews with former business partners, terminated employees and an ex-wife, tend to portray the 56-yearold founder and chief executive officer of Ottawabased Corel Corp. as a reckless egomaniac. But after creating two of Canada's most successful high-tech companies (the other being Mitel

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1997 Corel Gala are noted (there are a couple of photos, as well). The author takes time to

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including his expensive sports cars, helicopters and lavish mansions. Understandably, most of the book is devoted to C owpland's reign at C orel. Founded in 1985, Corel quickly grew to a $1.3billion company and became the world's second largest producer of PC software. Corel began as a laser printer manufacturer and later moved into system integration for desktop publishing. After stumbling into softContinued on prI/fe 1 07

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well-known (and successful) sites as FAO Schwartz, National Geographic, and IBM. The accompanying CD-ROM serves as a launch~ pad to the sites mentioned in the book, and includes an interesting "netography" of related Web resources. While the disc contains some interesting info, it doesn't add much to the book. The book itself is a solid introduction to the concepts of Web site design. It marks a watershed in Web development, providing concepts that will help any Web master design sites that work for — rather than against — the user. I3

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Carel's founsler's high flying eletalletl Continued from page10$ ware development in 1987, Cowpland found an unfilled niche for graphics software for the PC. CorelDraw quickly led the industry, and it took competitors years to catch up. Random Excess offers interesting insight into what it takes to drive a company forward in the fast-paced and high-risk high-technolo-

gy sector. The effort to build Corel and keep it ahead of its competitors is amply revealed. Cowpland is shown as the ruthless executive who pushed Corel into its leadership position and kept it there. Mass market software production was the game. Cowpland was making software that would appeal to as many people as possible. And he was trying to re-sell it as many times as possible. According to Laver, he iinplemented

set up different types of Web directory structures, how to conduct focus groups and develop a conceptual blueprint for a site before laying the virtual foundations. Fleming also outlines a six-phase cycle for the process of Web development that is a good guide for any Web master. It begins with outlining goals, defining a strategy, coming up with a prototype and then imple-

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I The first part of the program sets up several variables: isNav, isIE, intervalID, coll and

styleobj. These namesare reserved in memory for use later in the program, when specific values are passed onto them, Once the variables have been set, the browser-detect routine begins with the first if statement. This is a simple if/else routine that initially checks to see whether or not the browser is Netscape Navigator 4.0 or greater, and if it isn' t, then the browser is assumed to be Internet Explorer. In this manner, it passes on the value "true" to the variables isNav or isIK for Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer respectively. Note the additional

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="intro()"> <BODY onLoad ="statement" STYLE='position:absolute; <DIV ID left:10; top:20; background-colonblack;"> ="font-size:0.5in; colorwhite">SeeYou <H1 STYLE Later, Agigator...</H1> </DIV> <P><BR> ="font-size:0.5in">...Quite a While, <H1 STYLE Crocodge</H1> </BODY> </HTML>

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extract letters and peer into the private correspondence of the title characters. The beautifully illustrated stories were like adult pop-up books that drew readers into the world Bantock created by having them literally reach into it. The books were successful because they altered the traditionally passive role of the reader.

original books? The good news is that, as Bantock played with the conventions of bookmaking, the

one of the characters in the painting and you must figure out another way in. The disc improves on the Gri/Pn and Sabinebooks in one important way: the tricks

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code is the fact that Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator use different JavaScript Continued from page 8 82 There are certainly other refinements handles to accomplish the same actions. As that can be made to this program, such as we have seen in previous articles, Internet checking the browser's window size before Explorer and Netscape Navigator don' t agree about a lot of things, and the options running, or telling the banner to stop scrolling (in this case it keeps going forever!). open to Web masters are either to create But this example is enough to give you a browser-specific Web pages like this one, or sense of what is involved in creating cross- simply not to implement thirigs like this at I am sure a lot of you are thinking this is a lot of work just to move a silly statement around. What really bulks out the

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Workbook is that because it's always open, any macros stored in it are automatically available to any Excel workbook. So, when you' re recording or creating a macro that you

Your personal worhhooh Excel offers a special Workbook personal. xls ( Personal Macr o

book is open but not otherwise. Before you begin creating macros using the Visual Basic Editor, you' ll need to check to see if you have a personal macro workbook, and if you don't you' ll need to create one. To check, open Excel and select Window If the file personal. xls doesn' t

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appear in the list of open files at the foot of

the menu, and if the Unhide menu option is greyed out, you don't have a personal. xls file. If Unhide is visible, select it and see if personal.xls is listed — if not, you don't have a

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opened whenever Excel is loaded). You may already have a personal

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To create a personal. xls file you' ll need to record a very simple macro. To do this in Excel select Tools, Macro, Record New Macro, in the Macro Name area type the name "test" and from tke Store Macro In dropdown list

select Personal Macro Workbook and select OK. Click any cell, press the Bold button and

then select Tools, Macro, Stop Recording. Now exit Excel by selecting File, Exit and when you' re asked, "Do you want to save the changes you made to the Personal Macro Workbook?" click Yes if you want the macros to be available the next t ime you start Microsoft Excel. When you restart Excel you' ll be ready to create macros, as the personal. xls file has been created for you. Excel will take care of this file and it will always open it when it loads and close it when you exit,

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Typing a macro The text of the macro goes between these To create the macro to toggle the display of two lines, so type this line before the End Sub Gridlines, begin with any workbook open on statement and all on one line: the screen, select Tools, Macro, Qacros, type the macro name — ToggleGridlines, from the

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Macros in list select Personal. xls and clKk Create. The Visual Basic editor will open, and Close the Visual Basic editor by selecting on the screen you' ll see the procedure beginning and end statements. File, Close and Return to Microsoft Excel. Test your macro by selectmg Tools, Macro, Macros. From the Macros in l ist select Sub ToggleGrldllnes() Personal. xls and select the Macro Name (in End Sub

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Last month's column contained instructions - Slmlele eIrectory cleanoe maceo for adding a filename to an Excel foater. It Macros attached to toolbar buttons like the To adapt this macro, replace the string isn't easy to add the document path to a ToggleGridlines macro make it easier to man- "C."cwork" with the directory you want to footer without typing it manually, unless age your files. Youcanbypass having to nego. change to and the siring "budget. xls" with you use a macro to do the work Here's one which puts the filename and path in the tiate yaur directory structure using the Excel the name of the file to open. This macro opens a file without changing footer of a worksheet: File Open or the File Save Asdialogues by making Excel change directory for you. This macro the current document dhectory. To adapt it to your system,replace the fi changes the directory to C."~woric. lename and Sub FileNameinFooter(} path with the name and path of the file you ActiveSheet.PegeSetup.RightFooier= want to open: ActiveWorkbook.FullMeme Sub FIles0!rectory{) End Sub ChO!r 'G:'cwork' Sub OpenBudget{) End Sub Workbooks.OpenFileName:='C:KwoNbudget.xls ' Running the macro will place the fiie's Create this macro using the steps out- End Sub current name and path in the right footer area. You can change the placement of the lined for the ToggleGridlines macro and information by repladng "RightFooter" with adapt it by repladng the string "C:cwork" . Creatlno a custom toolher with the drive and directory you want to If you' re adding a number of buttons ta your "LeftFooter" or "CenterFooter" or place the change to. When you run this macro you toolbars to open files or change directories, information in th e worksheet header by won't see anything change on the screen, sooner or later you' ll probably want to create using "LeftHeader", "CenterHeader" or but when you select File, Open or File, Save your own toolbar. To do this, select View, "RightHeader". As you' ll see the contents of the directory Toolbar, Customize select the New button Unfortunately, the 6!ename won't be and in the Toolbar name area type "My Files" automaticaiiy updated if the file moves or its you have specified. in either case simply run the Create a version of this macro for each of (or anather appropriate name) and select OK. name changes — your favorite directories making sure you You will now see your new toolbar on the inacro again anytune you inove the file or give each macro a different name and yau screen (if necessary, move the Customize dia- s ave it u s ing File, Save As. L ike t h e attach each to a different toolbar button so logue out of the way so you can see it) and TaggleGridllnes macro, you can add this they are only a dick away. you can add new buttons to it as you would macro to an Excel toolbar or assign it to a There are numerous variafions on this any other taolbar or move buttons from shortcut key. mano — this macro changes the current other toolbars by dragging them onto it. Once you have created a new toolbar, Recently used flies anil favorites directory and opens a file which is contained you can move toolbar buttons onto it from At the foot of the File menu Excel displays, in it: any other visible toolbar at anytime by sim- by default, the names of your four most ply holding down the Alt key as you drag the recently used files. You can alter this to Sub OpenBudgei{) buttons one by one to their new location. show any number of files from 0 to 9 by ChDlr 'O:'cwork' selecting Tools, Options, select the General tab and alter the "Recently used file list" Study for your Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer setting. If you deselect the checkbax no or learn Microsoft Office 97„whenever you want, files will be listed, or you can select it and with pacifIc Internet EducatiorL

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Favorites button and select Add Selected Item to Favorites and then select Cancel. You can now access the file fram the Favorites folder at anytime by displaying the Web toolbar (select View, Toolbars, Web), selecting the Favorites button, selecting Open Favorites and then selecting your file from the list and selecting Open. There's an added bene6t of placing a file in the Favarites folder, which you' ll discover if you have Internet Explorer. From within IE, select Favorites and select your 6le from the list and ydu'll be viewing your Excel file from within Internet Explorer! As you can see, there are numerous options available to you for managing your files. Which option you choose to use is less a matter of selecting between the right or

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puter users to Canadian computer industry using pioneering technology. Examples of device to talk to every other. leaders dealt with mobile computing and early adopters are users of handheld devices The only way to make tiny, portable info connectivity issues. While the assumption such as the PalmPilot, who have sprung for gadgets- really useful is to give them full remains that the average computer user extra features such as aconnection to a digiaccess to the richness of the Internet's world thinks of a desktop PC or to a library, world school, and lesser extent, a notebook PC world marketplace. as the norm for "real" computing, I can say there is now a rapidly increasing level of grassroots interest in other kinds of computing. This is evidence that the shift to a much more variable,

The only way to make tiny, portable info gadgets really useful is to give them full access to the richness of the Internet's world library, world school, and world marketplace

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world to function. According to Benhamou, the work of portable and miniaturized building the network services When I talk to reps from these compa- model of connected computthat convergence needs is well underway. By the first few years nies, they claim they want to focus their lim- ing is underway. Increasingly, ited marketing and sales budgets more effec- computer users of all kinds, from corporate tal cell phone, so they can send and receive of the next century, it should be possible to

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tively. Trade shows cost a lot of time and systein administrators to hobbyists, say they money and have minimal results, they say. want to be able to find, create, and commuHowever, they might keep in mind that pres- nicate information wherever they go, using ence at computer shows can work for them portable, or even wearable devices, which in two ways. Not only do businessand home automatically connect them to the nearly computer users get to see the latest goodies, unlimited resources of the Internet. The but technology experts get to hear what their Palm line of handheld comput ers from

customers really think The big PC makers' disappearance from Comdex events has allowed

attendees to pay more attention to the innovative "little

guys," who are increasingly leading the way in mobile computing. Not all the players in small-sized computing are small companies. Toshiba,

Panasonic and Sony all have a Anger in the ultra-moMe com-

3Com has been the big winner so far in this wave, but the market is wide open for other

email. By the end of 1999, there should be a carry a stripped down but functional version large increase in the number of portable con- of your digital oNce in your shirt pocket. nectivity gadgets and services on the market, You should also be able to connect to your a large increase in the number of people office PC and servers, and any other using them, and the beginnings of a rapid resources on the Internet, wherever you are, drop in prices. The quality of the connection is key. If you can access the resources of a big comConvergence on the move The keynote address at Coindex Canada West '99 was delivered by Eric Ben hamou, the chief executive officer of 3Com, one of the l eading networking

The old models of graphical user interfaces, ope.""..ting systems, and big, user-configurable boxes of PC hardware now face a major challenge

puting market and seem to be benefiting from the lack of competition from their PC rivals. However, it wasn't just portable technol-

c omp etitorswho come up with new worldbeating portable products.

puter somewhere else, then your pocket gadget doesn't need to carry much on its own limited resources. It a c cesses remote resources as it needs to. Of course, the road will b e rocky. Benhamou got a forceful reminder of the technology firms,and the limitations of mobile computing when his company that makes the Palm notebook compu ter's battery failed in the

line of handheld computers. middle of his PowerPoint presentation before Benhamou outlined his vision a packed hall. A lesson in humility, perhaps,

of "convergence," a concept that like its predecessor "multiinedia," i s a co n stantly evolving ideal, rather than a specific tech-

though Benhamou continued his presentation without notes, and without missing a beat. The big PC makers should also consider the humbling thought that unless they pay very close attention to the movement of

nology. The old models of graphical user interEssentially, as Benhamou sees it, con- the market, they may And in a few yearsthat faces, operating systems, and big, user-convergence is not only the coming together there may not be many customers for big, figurable boxes of PC hardware now face a

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involves building an i nfrastructure of industry standards and common services to connect all kinds of computing devices pay a premium price and risk rapid obsoles- together. If telephony and computing tech-

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S' Pentium II 350 MHz

Pentium II 400 MHz

Pentium II 450 MHz

Intel Pentium II 350 MHzProcessor ASUSP2BXMotherboard, 100 MHz Bus 8 MegAGP PC to TV Video,DVD Ready 64 Meg SDRAM - 100MHz 6.4 Gig Ultra DMAHard Drive 56K V.90VoiceData Modem 17" Non-interlaced Monitor, .28dp 40X CDROMDrive, 3 112 Floppy Mouse, Keyboard, 19" ATXTower 80 Watt Spkrs,SoundCard, Windows98 Bonus Software Package: Wordprocessor,Spreadsheet, Database Games,LotusOrganizer 5 more

Intel Pentium II 400 Mhz Processor ASUS P2BKMotherboard, 100 MHz Bus

Intel Pentium II 450 MHzProcessor

ATI Xpert®play 8 MegAGPPC-TV Video 64 Meg SDRAM- 100 MHz,DVD Ready 8.4 Gig Ultra DMAHard Drive US Robotics56KV.90 VoiceData Modem 17" Non-interlaced Monitor, .27dp CreativeLabs36XCDROM, Microsoft Mouse SoundBlasterAWE64, Keyboard,Speakers Windows 98 &BonusSoftware Pacitage

ATI Xpert®play 8 MegAGPPC-TV Video

'1899

DXT-73301

ASUS P2BXMotherboard, 100 MHz Bus 128 Meg SDRAM - 100 MHz

13.4 Gig Ultra DMAHard Drive 56KV.90Voice Data Modem 19" Proview Monitor, .26dp 1600 x 1200 DVDCDROMDrive, Mouse Sound Biaster 128Sound,Keyboard Speakers, Windows98 Bonus Software Package: Wordprocessor,Spreadsheet,Database Games, Lotus Organizer 5 more

DXT-73302

DXT-73303

Or lease for ®5/mo.*

Or lease for $71/ma'

Or lease for $125/mo.

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WordPerfect

Internet Fackage One yearunlimited access

259

Software Corel WordPerfect8 Encydopedia,MadDog,Kink Things, Peter&Wolf andmore 4

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Sub Woofer

500 Watt Sub-WooferSpeaker System

5 Speaker SurroundSound System 12 DVDCD ROM

Sound BlasterLiveValue

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Toshiba 4000©S IBM Thht httad 385 Toshiba 4010 Pentium II 233 Notebook 32 Meg RAM,3.8 Gig Hard Drive 24X CDROMand Sound 12.1" Display Windows 98

Pentium 233 MMXNotebook 32 Meg RAM,3.2 Gig Hard Drive 24X CDROMand Sound 12,1" Active Display Windows 98

32 Meg RAM,3.8 Gig Hard Drive 24X CDROMand Sound 12.1" TFT Display Windows 98

Or lease for $97/mo.*

Or lease for $111/mo.*

Pentium H 266 MMX Notebook

DXT-66801

Or lease for $88/mo.*

• Colour Flatbed Scanner

30 Bit Scanner .................. 149 DXT-87401

• lomega Zip Drive

• HP 8100i CD-Writer........,.. 549 • 56K v.90 Fax/Voice Modem .... 8 DXT-87404

• Wearnes 622 CD-Writer ........ $

DXT+7405

DXT-87408

• PCMCIA 56K Modem ......... 24

DXT-22201

Internalmernal,...s12l9/8199 • 6.4/13.4 Gig HD,.... 249/ $99 • PCMCIA 10/100 NIC .......... 349 DXT+7402 DXT-87408

• 32 Meg SDRAM DXT-87403

DXT-22202

• Targus carrying case ......... $149 • PCMCh Combo 56K/100mb. 489 DXT+7407

DXT-22203

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Items may not be exactly as illustrated. Prices and product availability are subject to change without notice. Errors 8r omissions excluded. ' Lease figures based on 39 month lease with 1(P/0 early purchase option at 36 months, ask us for details. ' Minimum trade-in rettulrement for trade-in specials is 100 MHz computer.