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56 E~ommeice andyou Big thingspromisedfor buyersand sellers

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Internet service, it provides instant Internet a ccess from anywhere in t h e home. (The caveat is that if you have a portable that you use on a network at work, you may have problems setting the portable up to 6 Mbps downloading (the Internet to up on the HomeFree network.) After setting up H omeFree and the you) and 640 Kbps uploading (you to the Internet). Sympatico HSE service, I was able to wander Despite the fact that Bell's Sympatico HSE freely about our three-level townhouse with falls far short of 6 Mbps, in actual use, we' re a portable computer and access the Internet, network cabling, or having to plug a modem finding the HSE service to be fast enough for print remotely, transfer files between cominto the phone line. what we want to do on the Internet. For puters, and install software across the wireexample, we' ve downloaded files of around 2 less LAN using the CD-ROM drive on anothMB on several occasions in less than a er computer. minute. And although we' ve not made any There have been other small conveBell Symiaatlco High Speed Edition attempt to quantify this, the speed seems niences as well. When we came across a Internet accessservice Kit prices: $49.95 (Ior desktop PC) to $199.95 available most of the time. With the cable movie on TV that we didn't know anything modem service we'd previously subscribed about, we simply picked up the notebook (for portables, includes installation) AII kits include Ethernet card and cabling. to, but could no longer get when we moved PC, ran an Internet search on the movie title HSE subscription: $39.95 per month to a different neighborhood, Internet access and found a synopsis, the cast list and sever1 Mbps modem rental: $14.95 per month would sometimes slow to a crawl. al reviews. As I was listening to some music Diamond Rlnltimedia Homefree That's not to say the Sympatico HSE has by a '70s folk singer, a search on the Internet wireless network irit been troublefree. There seem to be times revealed a complete discography, the singer's Estimated price: $300-$350 (Ior two wireless when browser performance slows as it tries to biography and a list of other artists who have

ur home computing experience has taken a turn for the better since we installed Bell's Sympatico High Speed Internet service and Diamond Multimedia's HomeFree wireless LAN. When our main computer, located in a third-floor spare bedroom, is occupied â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is almost alwaysI can take my portable and wander to any room in the house and still have access to the network and the Internet. All this is accomplished without being tethered to any

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the PC. Once you' ve plugged in the AC adapter and powered up the modem, the physical preparation is done. The supplied Ethernet card comes with drivers on a diskette. Windows 98 recognized the card and installed the driver after

prompting us to insert the driver floppy. Sympatico comes with a software installation kit, which installs Netscape Navigator and makes the proper settings to allow access to the Internet through the 1 Mbps modem. However, since we were using Windows 98, we chose not to use the installation kit. Instead, following the instructions provided by Sympatico, we made just one change to the Internet Explorer settings (over-riding the automatic server configuration setting by providing a specific URL for the HSE server), and we were online.

When we tried to make a phone call while surfing the Net, we detected a moderate level of line noise. But this was eliminat-

network cardsandsoftware), US$99(eachextra

find the Sympatico Bellglobal server. And covered his songs. And I didn't even have to ed by plugging in the line filter included in

PCI or ISA card), US$129.95 (each extra PCCard)

during the first three weeks with HSE, we experienced one day in mid-March where the service seemed to shut down altogether. There are two systems that make this A call to the Sympatico help desk confirmed happen: a high-speed Internet service and a our suspicions that the service was experiwireless network. Although we are talking encing "technical difficulties." about specific products in this article, you On the whole, however, once you' ve should be able to achieve the same end with experienced a high-speed Internet service, it' s similar products and services from other difficult to go back to dial-up. With both DSL companies. and cable modems, you do not have to dial Bell's Sympatico High Speed Edition up each time you want to access the Internet. (HSE) wa s in t r oduced i n Tor o n t o, You are online each time you launch a browsOttawa/Hull, Montreal and Quebec City in er or email software. That convenience is December 1998. It is an ADSL (asymmetrical hard to beat. With speed, there is a definite digital subscriber line) technology, using the issue with actual performance versus adverphone wire already present in homes as a tised performance, but when the bandwidth

get off the couch. This is home computing as it should be. Both t he Di a m on d Mul t i m edia HomeFree system and the Sympatico high speed Internet access service were moderately easy to instalL If you can install a modem, network card or sound card, these products s hould not s tump y ou. I s e t u p t h e Sympatico service first, and then about a week later, the HomeFree LAN.

Because ADSL uses a different frequency

Sympatico sent me a do-it-yourself desktop kit, which retails for $49.95. It includes an ISA network card, a 1 Mbps DSL modem (with a separate power supply, which is also i ncluded), a t elephone line f i lter a n d Ethernet and telephone cable. Setting up involved installing the network card and the drivers, and routing the cables to the correct ports. The 1 Mbps modem has an Ethernet

conduit for high speed data communication. is there, it is a pleasure to use. band, a person can access the Internet with the ADSL modem and have aconversation on a regular telephone handset at the same time, using a single phone line. The Sympatico HSE was met with some criticism when it was launched, mainly because of Bell's decision to use "one-meg" DSL modems, which cap the download bandwidth at 1 Mbps. Although this is theo-

Diamond Multimedia's HomeFree wireless network makes my list of top 10 nifty products of 1999, but with an important caveat. In a nutshell, HomeFree creates a wireless LAN, connecting the computers you have in your home without the need to drop special Ethernet cabling. It also allows you to

set up one of the computers as an Internet server, thereby giving all the other comput-

HSE kit.

Setting lap HomeFree Once we had the Sympatico HSE working, we turned to the Diamond Multimedia product. We were quite interested in this because the advertising literature said HomeFree also included software that allowed Internet access for multiple computers using just a single connection to the Interne.

Setting upSyrnpatico HSE Sympatico offers four starter kits: Two do-ityourself kits (for desktop or portable com-

puters), and the same hardware options that a Bell technician will install for you for $50 more.

ers on the LAN access to the Internet. When jack and a phone jack. Phone wire goes from

Diamond Multimedia offers a couple of variations of the HomeFree kit: one includes an ISA and a PCI network card for use in two desktop computers, while another includes an ISA network card and a PC Card (PCMContinued on page 26

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modem). You then install the wireless card copied the HomeFree installation files to a 20 drivers and HomeFree software on the rest of MB memory card, and installed the software the machines that comprise the LAN. from the memory card inserted into the An old 486 ThinkPad Butterfly subnotebook we have seemed to be an ideal client for this network. It is a little underpowered, has

no CD-ROM drive and a broken fl oppydrive computer on the network, all of the computso adding new software is problematic. ers have to be on and in a "polling" state However, it is light, compact, has a decent screen and otherwise works fine. Using another portable with a CD-ROM drive, we

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RF systems work by having a small trans- there was only one phone line jack I spent an mitter/receiver on t h e n e twork cards afternoon that first summer in the dark, spi-

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three little outlet mnnectors, or whatever they are called, but needed a fourth so I used an old rusty one I found. And yet both systems The HomeFree Phoneline Desktop Pac from Diamond Multimedia Systems consists of world perfectly with this wiring. As a further challenge I tried running my two identical PCI cards, software and a coumini-LANs through two 7.5 m (25 ft.) tele- ple of telephone cords. Diamond also sells a phone wire extension cords. That way I Single Pac with ]ust one card for connecting could test different phone plugs without additional computers. The m i nimum having to physically move either computer requirements for a HomeFree LAN are Lastly, I also tried the systems by simply mn- 486/33-based systems running Windows 95 ning the telephone wire from one machine or 98, with 8 MB RAM, 10 MB free hard drive to the other without going through the space, a free PCI card slot in each machine phone lines. In the end I found no degrada- and a CD-ROM drive, of course. tion of transfer speed in any configuration. Before you install the cards you must I also transferred files from machine to dedde which machine is going to be your machine while mahng a phone calland Internet Sharing machine. This means that found there to be no loss of transfer speed. you cannot access the Internet from the secOf course, a 1 Mbps transfer speed is not very ond machine unless the designated Internet fast, but it is suffident for the needs of most Sharing machine is on (or you wouldn't be home PC users. I listened for any sounds dur- ableto access the modem). Once you have ing the call and could hear none. I also made this decision, you install the softvrare

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on the other computer, and if you have Connect Automatically checked off, your browser dials up. If you go onto the Internet

Sharing PC and launch its browser everything proceeds completely normally. Here are a few other points about Net first time (OK it was me) might not have set it all the way in. sharing: • You can only have up to three machines Once over these hurdles, the setup was

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other. The experience was a real pleasure. No • When you are sitting at the Internet this wasn't a 10 or 100 Mbps LAN, but with Sharing PC and someone is surfing from no fuss and little hassle I retrieve things from my old machine without using floppies, Zip or Jaz disks. And not having to setup another modem or printer — that is cool.

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Diamond product). The ability to use Home PC Link with NT is interesting. Multi-PC homes with a system running NTprobably already have a network

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72pin 4/ 8/ 16M ED0................................$19/24/45 72pin 32/64M/128M EDO...............$83/140/360 Parity 72pin 4 / 8 /16M..............................$20/32/60 Parity 72pin 32 / 64/128M....................$115/180/460 30pin IM / 4M ...............................................$1 /20 PC IOQSDRAM 32 / 64/ 128M...,........,..$55/100/200 ECC-SDRAM PC lllo 32/64/128...........$75/I 50/260 MAC DIMM 8/16/32/64M...................$25/45/85/ISS SOJ Video RAM 512k/IM..............................$8/$15 SO-DIMM 72p 8/I&/32M ........................$50/70/120 SO-DIMM l¹4p 16/32/64M....................$60/80/13Q RAMs Ior printcrs ......................................avaihblc PC-loo SDRAM256MB / ECC-256MB......$680/980

56k VoiceFax modemiat. V90 lSA/ PCL...$30/35 56k Voice Fax modern v.90 ext...........$110 USR 56kVoice .v90 int PCI I (SA OEN....$85/I l5 Supra 56k v.90 Voice PCUISA ............$58/12() 3COM-USR 56k vSO intlczt ............$175/195 3COM-USR 56k v.90 Voice ittt/ext ....$I90/250 Ascend P220 Router „..........,.......,.....„$2280 Cisco 250-CH + IP Drivers ...................$2370 Capture card & Toshiba Camera ................$(90 PCMCIA 56k vSO/with 1(IBT ...........$100/330 PCMCIA IOBT comboI 10-IOOBT..............S90/l(I

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• 32M/64M SDRAM/EDO............SBQ/140 ~NIMH battery .................................$120 • Li-Ionbattery .................................$190 • Car auto adapter................................$90 • ACSmart adapter (I I 0/220V) ......S I I 0 Toshiba 2.5" 4.0G HD............,........$265 Toshile 25" 6.1G HD........,.......„...$360

Portable Printer BJC-80/50......$380/460

• Potable Printer HP340 .........$380

•PCMCIAserial port/dual..$250/310 •Fash RAM card player...............$150 •32bit CardBus.............................$185 • PCMCIA 56k faxmodenL............SIQO •PCMCI A 56K w/cellular....$290 •PCMCIA 56k/IODBT.....................$360 • PCMCIA56k/I ODBTReal Port.......~o

CL5446 IM / 2M PCI..................................$23/28 $3 Virge 3D 4M PCI/AGP...,....„......„......,.„...„.$40/45 ATI 3D 4M PCI/AGP......................................,...$65/55 ATI SM AGP /ATI Xpert98 8M AGP..........„......$65/75

ATI Xpertoplay SM PCI/AGP .........,...,.......$120/110 ATI xpert'99 128 AGPw/16M................................$150 ATI TV Tuner 1Vonder PCI ..................$130 ATIAlt-in-Wonder Pm 8M AGP/PCI...........$210 /230 AT> Rage 12816M/ Furyl28 32M................$190/240 Matrox G200 Mill SM/16MB AGP.................SI IQ/190 Matrox Marvel GT200 TV Kit ............................$370 Matrox Rainbow Runner Studio for G-Series,...,...$160 Monster 3D Voodoo2 12M oem..................$220 Diamond V550 16M/Fusion 16MAGP............$170/140 Diamond GLIOOQPro 4M/SM AGP.....$110/195 Cmative Banshee 8M AGP...............................$130

Creative TNT 16MB AGP (oem/retail).....$155/210 w/tntel i740 SM AGP......,.„............,....„.........,.....„.$60 3DFX Voadoo3-2000with 16M AGP/PCI ...........$185 3DFX Voodao3 -3000 with 16M AGP ....................$245 Miro 3D +.............................................................$1180

SVGA14 "/15 "/17"..., ...........$160/190/320 Acer 15 "/17"(76ie/79G).......$240/38D/520 Acer 17" G79/G99 19" .25.........$550/760, ADI SP+(17") / 6P(19")......,.........................$460/680 AOC 17" .28 / .26 1280x1024......................$315/340 MAG XJSQQT.25 15" / XJ700T .25 17"........$260/440 Mitsubishi Plus72 IT'/ 900U 19" ........$720/1060

NEC ASOQ/E500/M500........,.$290/350/430 NEC A700/E700/E750..... ....$470/630/645 NEC A900 / E900+ /P1250..................$860/920/1500 Panasonic ESQ/PSQ/E70.........$240/330/380 Panasanic SL70/PL70/SL90....$440/580/820

Panasonic Sl lo/PI 10 21" .........,.$1320/1580 Sony I DOES/GS (I S").....,.„..........$360/430 Sony 200ES/GS/PS.(17")............$610/790/1020 Sony 400PS (19")/ 500PS (21").........$1120/1990 Sony F400/F500....................................,....$1490/2690 Vicwsonic E&55/g71/E771 ......$240/370/385 Viewsonic V73/V75/G773.......$490/570/520 Viewsonic PS775/P815/P817.....$670/1650/1980 NEC LCD V400/1510/I 5 QTouch...$1380/1990/2350 I

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Toshiba DVD2 / Black DVD3 drive ...Sl20/250 Toshiba DVD3 kit (w/deccrder, disks...,).......,$330

SONY DAT SOQDi4mm4G4G drive..............,.„...$990 HP DAT ¹G 90mm / 44G l25mm ...$890/l050 Vipower PCMClA Reader iut fcr desktop ...............$90 ZIP 100M int eide /parallel...„....,.....,.......,......$100/165 Z1P lDQM scsi int/extf USB ........,............$165/210/210 Zlp Plus scsi int. / paralleL..........................,...$240/24

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Lexmark

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Stylus 440/640/740 .............$160/255/360 Stylus 800 (l440dpi)/850 (PC/Mac)..........,..$420/528 Photo Stylus 700 720x720.............................$530

Brother

HP 7200i eide Rewriter Retail l 6x4x2x.............$295 HP glQQi /gl lei eidc Rewriter 24x¹x2x...$380/385 Sony CRX100 kit / CRX200 kit..................$395/495 Ysmaha 4416sscsi l 6x4x4xia / kit /E..$430/470/430 Plextor l2xgx4x int/ext ..............$530/660 Plextor 20x8x¹x int/ext .............$620/730 writesble cd-disk /Soay ............,...St.ge/2.5 Rewritesble cd-disk/Sony.......................$16/20

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access requests are routed through the same hands dirty with TCP/IP intricacies. computer. I went to th e computer without the A computer running Windows NT must modem, and clicked on my Web browser. After be designated as Server Capable. This can about 30 seconds, I had Internet access. If the cause problems if the computer doesn't have other computer had been online to the ISP, the a modem. I discovered this issue the hard access would have been immediate. Two users Up and running way, but it will be explained more clearly in or more can access the Internet at the same The very first detail I checked was "phone the next version of the documentation. .time, and as long as no large file downloads are The installation of DynaNAT requires no taking place, performance is what would be jack sharing." I wanted to be sure that a computer could share a jack with a phone, at the technical expertise on the part of the user. All expected with the modem being used. same time. This approach to networking

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bandwidth media, including up to 200 channels of analog television, digital video and

s mid-1999 approaches, high-speed music, Internet service, and local online DSI. Internet services that use regular hone lines are Anally being rolled out

community channels, delivered to both the home PC and home TV, but limited to a by many phone companies across Canada. fixed location. These services offer from 15 to more than 50 times the download speed of a traditional tele- Think globally, act locally phone modemconnection— theexactcapad- Shaw has invested more than $200 million in

ty varies from one phone system to another. the last five years to upgrade and enhance its The cable companies, which had seized technical facilities, with the result, it claims,

the high bandwidth high ground with their

that it is the leading provider of a complete

cable modem Internet services, are being challenged to shew why consumers should continue to go with cable Internet services when a completehigh-speed Internet package is now being offered as part of regular phone

"wired home" service in Canada. Shaw repre-

service, Shaw Cablesystems, with o ver 700,000 subscriher households across Canada, has risen to the challenge with a wide range of new or enhanced services, induding digital cable TV (DCT), the ShawTV community

As part of its announcements in midMarch, Shaw invited the Mayor of the town

sentatives claim the company has done a better job of going "the last mile" to the individual home subscriber than any other high-

speed Internet service provider in Canada. ef Vaughan, Lorna Jackson, to preside over

the launch of ShawTV, a 24-hour commurIity online service in the greater Toronto information channel, an d u p graded region. ShawTV is leveraging the subscriber loyalty that has been cultivated through Shaw@Homecable modem services.

years of community programming produced Inside the tilass house At a special press briefing at the Shaw Cabiesystems main offices in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto, TCP was shown a large, modern network data centre devoted

by its local cable stations with an interactive,

online version.

Shaw has allocated resources to allow subscribers to contact the ShawTV service via email or phone, and put local community to high-speed transmission of a wide spec- announcements on the Shaw Web page, The trum of information services. The Richmond result is a degree of true community interacHill facility is the heart of Shaw's Canadian tivity, arId an up-to-the-minute community operation, which currently irIeludes about information channel for Shaw subscribers. 100,000 Internet customers, and about 40,000 DCT customers, with thousands of PIUltal teleVhlen and beyond In the majority of Shaw subscriber areas, for new subscribers being added every month.

Using a huge concentration of high- $10.95 per month, or by purchasing a $299 speed servers, satellite lirIks„and high band- digital cable terminal, home subscribers can width fibre optic lines, Shaw is determined to add digital television (DTV) capability to Stay On the leading e4ge Of the infOrmation wave. It even hopes to challenge the phone companies on their home turf of voice telephony with a competitive IP telephony service to be launched sometime in the future.

CableInternet services share some fea-

their cable service. DTV offers higher video resolution and better digital audio quality than conventional television or radio, and also allows for p r emium p ay-per-view movies on demand, and other special interactive services. As the first Canadian cable service to pro-

tures with telecom company services such as Sympatice, or general online services such as vide DTV, Shaw is offering a range and qualAmerIca Online (AOL), but they have their ity of services that neither the telephone own peculiar and unique characteristics. For companies nor the direct to home (DTH) example, cable companies can only offer satellite TV services can match. Shaw repretheir services in the districts where they have sentatives told TCPthat, in contradiction to

been granted a cable licence — in effect, they are local cable TV monopolies.

the common public perception of cable TV companies as uncaring monopolies, Shaw

As well, the cable modem services are realizes it is in a tough three-way race with the telcos and satellite operators. It is spend-

totally "home-based" — if you are a traveling professional who wishes to dial in for email from a hotel or office far from home, you

ing substantial amounts of money not just for shiny new gadgetry, but for better tech-

would have to subscribe to a second online nical and customer support, and for comservice to handle your "roaming" connectivity needs (Shaw represerItatives claim that they will institute a North America-wide roaming connectivity option later this yearj.

munity-based information services, in the belief that it will gain and keep its increasing number of subscribers by offering the most complete, pleasant and economical services

This then, is the tradeoff offered by cable to the wired homes of Canada. 9 Internet providers: the richest mix of high

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10 Mbps HomePNA in the works Continuedfrom page $3 guage skills needed to connect PCs together."

Epigram has earned some credibility in the field. It demonstrated 10T phone line connections last fall, at t h e Las Vegas

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Lucent says the new agreement "blends tors. We recognize that a successful proposal Lucent's system-on-a-chip, communications semiconductor, and home networking expertise with Epigram's expertise in VLSI [very large scale integration] architecture and high-speed data communications over new

requires the backing of more than one com-

pany." The HomePNA called for specification

submissions early in February and more alliances like Lucent and Epigram may be in

Comdex computer show. It also supplies the submit its proposed version of the 10 Mbps media." the offing. HomePNA wants to publish the chipsets used by many system-level vendors. HomePNA specification sometime next quarEpigram's Jeff Thermond, president and final 2.0 specification in the second half of In addition to 3Com, its investors indude ter. The two firms cross-licensed significant chief executive officer, commented, "We this year. CI Texas Instruments, the NetGear division of portions of their technologies as part of the Nortel, and Panasonic. deal, according to Stein, partly in order to Also, Cisco Systems, working on a refer- accelerate the development process. ence design that some analysts think will become a standard for bringing outside broadband connections into homes, used Epigram c h ipsets a t the Co n s umer Electronics Show (CES) for a consumer network rollout, Stein says. HomePNA has put a high priority on the 10 Mbps upgrade. Cyrus Namazi, who heads the HomePNA from his day job at AMD, said the rapid growth of the organization — mem-

bership companies rose to over 60 earlier this year — indicates the industry's high interest in the technology. "Actually, we' re right on target with what we set out to do when we launched the alliance back in June, last year," said Namazi.

ActionTec eases home networking Continuedfrom page 49 I started with a two-node LAN, using two Intel EtherExpress cards and thin coax cable that w ere p art o f a Mi c r osoft Windows for Workgroups Starter Kit. I' ve added additional computers and an eightport 10Base-T hub with a BNC connector over the years. I have computers on my LAN connecting with 10Base-T or thin coax, as appropriate. I can add any of a number of industry standard devices to expand my LAN, such as additional hubs and switches, if I want to add computers or bandwidth. However, adding computers to the network in distant rooms presents a cabling challenge. The ActionLink Kits for two PCs can be purchased for low as US$72. I would expect Canadian prices to be in the $120 range. Let's compare that with the cost of a two-node Ethernet L AN : a fo u r -port Ethernet hub is about $75; Category 5 cabling is in the vicinity of $1 per foot; brand-name 10/100 Ethernet cards start at 'around $40 each; and Internet access sharing software is an additional purchase since it is not part of the Windows OS (the next Windows 98 upgrade betas have included this feature, however), so let's say $60. The total is over $200. It's clear that an Ethernet LAN, of the 10 or 100 Mbps variety, is faster than an ActionLink LAN. It is also more expensive, particularly with long cable runs, and more

difficult to setup, particularly with Internet access sharing. Then there's the question of unsightly cabling. It will cost you hundreds of dollars if you hire a cabling professional to make it disappear. The trade-off is clear. If you must have 10 or 100 Mbps performance, and you want to share your cable or DSL modem, the traditional choice makes a lot of sense. If you can a ccept the 1 M b p s bandwidth o f a n ActionLink LAN, and you want to share

your 56Kbps connection to the Internet, you gain an integrated, and easy-to-install solution for home networking that's priced to sell. 0

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business process, eaommerce is achieving high levels of integration with a corporation's other accounting and procurement systems, and we will not deal with that subject in this article.) As a consumer, you may find that you increasingly treat portions of the Web as a combination shopping mall and mail-order catalogue. Last year, Evans Research Corp., a Toronto technology market research firm,

items were music, financial products, travel, tickets for events and clothing. An Evans spokesperson said he hadn't analyzed the most current data, but you just have to look around to see the unmistakable signs of growth. From the recent stock frenzy surrounding the online auction site bid.corn, to the visibility of sites such as amazon.corn, there's a lot of attention being paid to consumer purchasing over the Web.

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cos make eCharge available across Canada. Another eCharge spokesman, Erica Beyer, says the B.C. chapter of The Canadian Cancer Society has also signed on to the eCharge service. Surfers can make donations to the society online, and have the amount show up on their phone bill. She says in the U.S., groups like the American Red Cross and other health organizations are eyeing the service as a way to reduce the high cost of processing small Just biii me One of the latest wrinkles to make online donations, such as $5 personal cheques. She buying easier for you was announced by says another type of service they see fitting BCT.Telus (the merged B.C. and Alberta well with eCharge is magazine subscriptions. Presently the eCharge works with telco) and eCharge Corp., which is based in Vancouver and Seattle, Wash. The two com- Internet services that use a telephone dial-up panies have launched a service that allows connection. The company states that supInternet shoppers to bill their online pur- port for cable modems, ADSL and ISDN conchases to their telephone account. According nections is scheduled for later this year.

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uct or service on an eCharge-supported site, Service collectlves you are diverted by eCharge software to a 1- For retailers trying to set up a virtual store900 number, where a transaction takes place. front or catalogue outlet, there seems to be You are then reconnected to the Web site, an often-confusing array of services available. and the charge for the product shows up on One trend-is the rise of service collectives' groups of companies with diverse skills comyour next phone bill. BCTTelus says the eCharge service was ing together under an umbrella company to rolled out in Canada at the World Ski and offer an end-to-end e-commerce package to Snowboard Festival held in Wh i stler/ the retailer. The retailer has a single point of Blackcomb in B.C. on April 9-18. By going to contact, reducing the need to become

released results of its residential Internet user study. It found that 56 percent of respondents in its study said they had purchased goods or services on the Internet. Of those who did buy over the Internet, 39 percent http://www.wssf.corn, customers could order said they made purchases monthly, and ticket packages for the event.

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online were computer software, computers limit to the size of the transaction, there is a and peripherals, and books. Other popular psychological zone of comfort: "No one

involved in all of the steps in the e-commerce chain, from designing a Web site and online catalogue to obtaining a merchant credit card

account. A couple of Canadian servicecollectives that have come on the scene are the, eMerge Alliance, and nGage.

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Electronic commerce has outgrown a single definition. It is now so far-reaching in scope, capability and purpose that it is part of every sector of the commercial world — from manufacturing to banking to distribution to retail operations. It is the future — and it is arriving fast. By Geof Wheelwright

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(EDI) applications of the past.

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new electronic commerce (e-commerce) developments, it is worth taking a step back and looking at how we got here. The truth is that each industry sector arrived at e-commerce from an entirely different direction, and yet they have all converged at a single point in time: right now. Banks started on the road to ewommerce in the late 1970s with research into what was then known as the EITS (electronic funds transfer system). The arrival of automated teller machines (ATMs) was the first step down this road — a road that eventually led to the creation of Interac in Canada and similar "debit card" services worldwide. By 1994, most banks were offering some form of telephone banking service, and eventually began offering "PC banking" via dedicated phones shortly thereafter. With the explosive growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, however, banks quickly came to realize they would have to do better than that to survive in a rapidly changing world. This represented a big challenge as' banks were not renowned for being particu-

larly good at changing quickly. In just three years, however, we have seen all major Canadian banks make enthusiastic jumps to the Web. They now offe bill payment, transfer between accounts and even some limited form of investment in securities online. Retail outlets, led by upstart companies that didn't exist a few years ago, have also made a fast transition, although not always a smooth one. For many, it has meant not only hanging out a shingle in cyberspace but also redesigning their entire business process to handle online business efficiently. Manufacturing companies, distribution firms and others that are typically one step removed from the retail business have also embraced ewommerce in the form of "business-to-business" electronic transactions that have become a natural outgrowth of

E-commerce enci you Continued from page$6 Launched in February at Internet World Canada in Toronto, the eMerge Alliance members are Inex Corp., Lasso Communications, Valu-Net Corp. and Citibank Canada. Inex offers Web storefront creation and management tools, lasso specializes in marketing and branding, Valu-Net has credit card payment software, and Citibank offers the credit card transactions infrastructure. Winnipeg-based n Gage E l e ctronic Commerce's service was rolled out just over a year ago by MIS Advanced, a division of

Once you get customeFs online,

how do you Ietthem to come hack? Customer loyalty in the world of ecommerce is something of an oxymoron. After all, when you only have a virtual store to impress and entertain your customers, how do you keep them loyal? You can't offer free coffee, doughnuts or have a sidewalk sale in the traditional sense.

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because of the way it brings selling partners online to interactively collaborate in the CRM process," he adds, Pivotal says its eRelationship software is a "next-generation" electronic CRM application suite that consists of two integrated Web applications. Pivotal says this allows companies to build "Internet relationship hubs" for conducting online marketing, sales and customer service with enterprise Web customers, sales and service partners,

pretty thin margins to stay competitive, so it's going to be hard to keep customers loyal just by cutting prices. It's easy to say you' ll use the Web to track your customers' preferences and respond to them, but your customers may object to that — and your competition will be doing it anyway.So how do you make a difference? A lot of companies are beginning to look for answers to these questions as the "second wave" of exommerce gets under way. The and prospects. first wave has been dominated by pioneers The first of these applications is known such as Amazon.corn, CDnow, e-Bay, e*trade as Pivotal eRelationship PartnerHub, which and others who respectively opened up the Pivotal boasts will provide a company's sales market for online retail sales of books, music and service partners with personalized CDs, auction items and securities. access to selling, marketing, and customer These companies won customer loyalty information that allows them to collaborate because customers didn't have a lot of other over the Internet. choices. They also won the confidence of Meanwhile, Pivotal claims that the secthe general public by reliably and srcurely ond application — Pivotal eRelationship allowing consumers to use credit cards to CustomerHub — will allow companies to make online purchases. In other words, they extend Web sites with interactive capabilionly had to do their jobs to keep customers. ties for what it calls "one-to-one marketing In this second wave, however, it is too and customer self-service." late to merely be first in the market. And According to Pivotal Software president even if you were first in the market, you and chief executive Norm Francis, this kind now have competition — and a lot of it. of software can heip business partners and So a number of companies are now look- their customers conduct "personalized busiing at the idea of "developing a relation- ness" online. "[It is] where a myriad of front ship" with their online customers as a way office activities are unified to result in oneto achieve loyalty during the second wave. to-one marketing, sefiing and customer serAnd they are turning to customer relation- vice," he says. "Put simply, the first compaship management (CRM) software as one nies that exploit the potential of I nternet way of helping establish that relationship. relationship hubs will have an unparalieled "Using the Internet for interactive mar- competitive advantage." 0 Manitoba Telecom Services Inc, Like the solution to their customers without having eMerge Alliance„nGage Is a service collective of to become experts in financial transaction companies specializing in transaction process- processing, secure credit card payments, etc. ing, accounting, and secure credit card proIn February, Vancouver-based Multiactive cessing as well as Web site design and hosting. Technologies and nGageannounced an agreeLast summer, nGage announced ment under which Multiactive will build the Commerce Express, browser-based cata- nGage transaction system into its ecBuilder logue-building software that allows a busi- Pro. ecBuilder Pro is Web site and catalogue ness to create and manage an online cata- creation software developed by Multiactive. 0 logue with as many as 10,000 items. eCharge, htIIK/Iwww.echarge.corn nGage has also developed some interesteMerge, http;/lwww.lasso.net/mirrors/emerge/ ing partner programs, For example, the Multlactlve Technologies, Certified Agent Program offers a way for httpi/www.multiaciive.cont Web site designers to offer a full ewommerce nGago, htIIzl/www.ngage.net

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':"~V'CIassi8ed IQ: Clients using this service ,. send in.ad text, which Classified ICI.parses and make's:searchable. TIM says the resulting ads support email, hotlinks, photos, video and archiving, and can be searched using Classified IQ's multi-level search engine, ,:,.',:.Encore Site Builder: The only thing required to create sites with this product is

a Web browser„according to TIM, Through .' it, a client..chooses a template, uploads ,. photos.'-'music, graphics and sets back' ground:colors, fonts and p atterns.Its developers, say this can all be done in as few as 15 minutes,, and the resulting inter-

active sites are searchable on several levels. In a matter of days, TIM says it can also create osstomized branded templates for clients to give each site in an online directory or community a c o mmon l ook. Encore sites support maps, links„email,

photos,.video and 360-degree immersive photography. They incorporate multiple levels of security, and generate reports. :">,". Directory Express: This service creates online directories, catalogues and other listings, which can then be linked to automatically created Web sites. For example, a client can create a wedding directory using

this service, and site visitors could search for services thI.y need, such as. musicians, After typing in their criteria, a list of performers matching it is generated, From the , list, the directory visitor can then click on ' the name of a band, link to its site, and explore its photos, audio and video clips. They can also book the band through the

:; Web site,. Sy assigning-a password.to the ' band (or err'any busiriess in such a directory), It cari'modify, rebuild or enhance the site itself. bsting entries and site modifica, tion are done online in'.real time. Because

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when there is no diskette in that drive can lead to problems. When a computer that i s sharing

resources is down, the entire LAN can slow down because the other computers that are

mapped to its shared resources will keep making automatic attempts to reconnect. A partial solution to this problem is to select

the properties of Client for Microsoft Networks, and to choose Quick Logon instead of Logon and Restore Network Connections. This meansWindows legs you on to the LAN, but your mapped drives are net reconnected until you use them. The

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printers and modem/phone line combina- that's not a good thing. There are other postions for accessing the Internet. There are sibilities, but none worth discussing for the some attractive new products for home net- purposes of this article. As for security options, there's only one working, as the main feature steries in this that can be implemented on a Windows 9x issue of TCP point out. In a business setting, it is harder to accept peer LAN: share-level security. This means the compremises of a peer network In the each shared resourcescan be protected with past year, I' veencountered only one scenario a password. Unfortunately, th» password is where a network without a dedicated server the same for all users, soonly one user needs made sense. Accounting firms send out a to disclose his or her passwordfor the whole team of professionals to conduct external network to be breached. Perhaps the biggest problem with a peer audits. Very small businesses might be visited by a single individual, but usually several network is unpredictability, and there is no accountants arrive with their portable com- straightforward way to address it, If you want to access Ales in a shared directory on puters, and set up shop for days orweeks. A Toronto-area firm of chartered accoun- Computer A, it had better be turned on. If it tants I'm familiar with has found it useful to isn' t, you can turn it on yourself, but you' ll

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resulted in users "clicking through" to the advertiser's Website, And gethng "dick-through" traffic from pop- Another strong appeal of online ads is the Through the use of simple identifying ular online magazine sites is a good way of ability to easily measure their effectiveness. technology, such as"cookies" (which store a achieving that. Demonstrating the value of print-based small, digital ID on your hard disk when you For companiesselling a non4igital prod- advertising is very tough. It involves ana- visit a site and pass that ID back to the site direct-delivery sales via the Web as they can.

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icroso t unvei s ass ort site Microsoft wants to go shopping with you. The world's largest software company announced plans in March to offer a service it claims should eliminate many of the current inconveniences of shopping on the World Wide Web. By Ceef Wheelwright

Microsoft Passport is known as "singleclick" shopping. After signing in at a "portal" SAN FRANC5CO — At the moment, every site, such as the MSN (Microsoft Network) time you enter an online shop and decide to Web site, you can then shop ataffiliated Web buy something, you have to provide a long sites that support the technology. Passport holders who begin shopping at laundry list of personal details to complete the purchase. For each of the purchasesyou the MSN site will also have the help of a virmake at each site, you need to key in the details of how you will be paying for your purchase (i.e., your credit card information), as well as your address, telephone number, postal code and information on your preferred method of delivery. Microsoft has come up with a technology that it says will allow consumers to shop without having to repeatedly key in all that information. It's essentially an "electronic wallet" in cyberspace. This is not a new idea for Microsoft, as cofounder and chief executive Bill Gates has promoted such a concept for much of the past decade. But this particular implementation of the electronic wallet idea could be quite useful. Through a ne w service known as Microsoft Passport, you' ll be able to have this electronic wallet~long with all your credit card information and delivery preferencestravel with you from site to site as you shop. You' ll feel a little like the Queen, who reputedly never carries cash with her, allowing members of her staff to deal with such vulgar transactions on her behalf.

as American consumers —probably in late summer or early fall. Nickerson says reaction from Canadian retailers so far hasbeen strongly positive. "It is fairly new and so far we have only been working with a few-select folks, but there is this desire by all the Canadian retailers we talk to [to get involved]," he says. "Certainly there is a recognition that e~mmerce in Canada is catching on and we are catching up to the U.S." 0

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Passport and Compare.net services are only a small part of a much larger effort by Microsoft to become the key player in electronic commerce (e-commerce). The central element of this strategy is an commerce framework Microsoft is calling "BizTalk," which allows companies to conduct transactions with one another, integrate applications and exchange transaction information. "The Internet has forever changed the way business is conducted," Gates said at the announcement. "With these tools, our hope is that the electronic commerce opportunity is opened up for everyone. You don't have to be a big corporation with a well-known

However, the high frequency and the long duration that files stay on the primary storage medium make this storage opportunity significant," he said. IDC found that the type of file that is downloaded varies by site type. Email and application software are most commonly downloaded at commercial sites. At consumer sites, however, graphics files, still pictures or images, and clip art are most frequently downloaded. IDC also found that for secondary storage media, the accumulation of data contributes the most to t h e storage opportunity. However, the opportunity also varies according to site type. Commercial respondents

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Study finds Net downloading equals nice earnings for storage firms FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (NB) — The increase in I nternet downloading i s c r eating a groundswell of sales in the storage industry, according to a r e port just out f r om International Data Corp. (IDC). In its report entitled DovrnloadinII and Storing Filesf rom the Internet: An IDC End-User Survey,the research company notes that 56 percent of commercial survey respondents and 49 percent of consumer survey respondents download data from the Internet at least a few times a week. Wolfgang Schlichting, IDC's research manager, says some respondents said they are downloading multiple times each day. "Downloading data from the Internet provides a new opportunity for storage products," he said, adding that the firm found that hard drives are reaping the most benefit from this opportunity. Approximately 91 percent of commercial

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you, I am going to do it now. I am going to saddle you with a new acronym — one I created myself purely for the purposes of explaining a key principle of mobile com-

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Navigator 4.5 at accessing cached pages), but the large size of the required files makes it a challenging download for users with slow

Internet connections. A minimum installation can take as little as 7.5 MB of disk space, however, the full feature-set requires over 100 MB. On one of our Windows 95 systems, the installer told us it needed 9,1376 KB free on drive C to continue a "typical" installation. Obtaining the CD-ROM from Microsoft is a better plan for modem users.

InternetExplorer $.0 From: Microsoft, http:I/www.microsoftcom Pros: Faster. Improved Search Assistant helps find email addresses, Webpagesandother types of data. History list can now be sorted (automatically disregards the "www" prefix). Auiocomplete feature types in Web addresses and fills in forms. Allows multiple connection configurations, maldng it easier for users with multiple Internet service provideis to conneci. 0piional Web view of FTPpages. Cons: Conflicts with some video drivers. No 128-bit version currently available However, the standard 40-bit version does include Server Gated Ciyptography (SGC)technology, which allows international customers to conduct 128-bit transactions with banks and financial institutions around the woifd. Netscape Navigator 4.51 browser is slightly faster at loading pages with mixed text and graphics.

Synchronizing with IE$ When testing this browser, one of the first things we tried was opening another user's desktop (some 3,200 km away, via TCP/IP) as an Active Desktop window, using IES. In our test, we opened the Desktop folder of a Macintosh computer on our PC and browsed text, Adobe Photoshop and JPEG files. By rightwlicking on a file (or even a folder) on the remote computer, we were able to place an Active Desktop object onto our

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can drop by Microsoft's Web site for an overview of these features. The FTP functions of IES have been greatly improved over those of IE4 or earlier

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units of blank media may be enough to

hard drive. Further down the road when more ilies start to clog up the drive, it's as simple as buying another removable disk Repeat as necessary. Another important benefit of removable storage is the ability to take large amounts of At the lowered, the difference between information with you and access it on a 4 GB driveand a 6 GB drive may be only another computer equipped with the same S20 to S30,A 10 GB drive may be less than type of drive. If you' ve ever tried to move 10 twice the price of an entry-level 3 GB drive. MB of files from one place to the other using That extra investment may seem excessive at nothing but floppies, you know how frusfirst, but it ran certainly pay off down the trating it can be. With a higher-capacity road. solution, huge numbers of files can be moved in one shot.

Can you handle it7 One thing to keep in mind when picking out a hard drive is whether your computer can handle a big drive snag-free. Two problems can surface with the new larger hard drives: operating system and BIOS limitations. Operating systems using an older file system (which would include DOS, Windows 3.x, early versions of Windows 95 and some installatioris of Windows NT1 limit partition sizes to 2 GB. For a 10 GB drive, this would mean dividing the drive into five smaller sections, which is a bit inconvenient. Newer operating systems like Windows 98, later versions of Windows 95 and NT (when using the NTFS file system) are able to use today' s larger hard drives as one single partition. Older BIOSes had caps on the maximum size of hard drive they would recognize, and even some recent BIOSes can't recognize drives larger than 8 GB. Many new hard drives ship with software that can help update the BIOS, but for some machines, it may be necessary to upgrade the BIOS at the hardware level. With all those factors taken into account, a new hard drive may be a great upgrade for your system, and one that will last for a few years.

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There are a couple of reasons, actually. Many users who are running out of space are doing so because of saved data files, Take the case of a user whti doesn't see the need for installing a lot of additional software but could use space to save digital camera pictures, for example. This person may not really find it worthwhile to buy a huge hard drive and go though the hassle of installing

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Store this! depth), Each drive was formatted with the Continued from page19 FAT32 file system as one large partition, and two parts. The first addresses fixed disks, for then had Windows 98 installed. Benchmarking was done with Ziff-Davis' those users looking for an upgrade of their existing disk to something larger. Though WinBench©99 disk test software. (Thesetests there are hard drives available in lower were performed withorif independent verification capacities, we asked for drives between 10 by ZiffDavis, and Ziff'-Davis makes no repreand 13 GB, for a reasonable balance between .sentations or warranties as to their results. WinBench is aregistered trademark of Ziff Davis size and overall cost. Drives were tested on a 300 MHz Pentium Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. It can be i ndividual u s e at II-based system, with 128 MB of RAM and an downloaded for 8 MB ATI Xpert 98 video card (set to a screen httpJ/www.zdbop.com.) The Disk Inspection resolution of 800x600, with 16-bit color section of the program tests transfer speeds SE

tory (composed of 476 smaller files). The file size was picked arbitrarily, just to get an idea of the differences in transfer times between drives, when file sizes get larger. The directory was constructed to match the single file in size, to illustrate the difference some drives exhibit when copying individual files (sometimes it's substantial).

over a period of time, and gives transfer rates near the beginning and end of the test period. The test also checks the average time to access the disk, and a separate test determines how much of the system's CPU power is being used up in writing to the hard drive. The second part of the tests was set up for the removable storage side. We asked vendors to supply us with removable storage solutions aimed at the consumer market. Testing was done on the above-mentioned Pentium II system. We checked write speeds with a 72 MB single file and a 72 MB direc-

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Quantum Fireball Cit 13.0 Suggested retail price: $399

Well-known for a wide range of technologies spanning from storage to notebooks, Fujitsu has introduced a number of new models in its Picobird 13 hard drive series, which now goes up to 17.3 GB. This one comes in at 10.8 GB. As a mid-range selection in the Picobird 13 series, the performance is good, and there's a lot of space on the drive. Backed by

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(Thanks to Samtack Computer far providing us with a drive for evaluation. Samtack can be contacted at Tel: 905-940-1880, or httpi/wwwsamtack.corn)

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very useful tool. The larger size and backward compatibility make it a worthwhile investment for Jaz users looking to store slightly larger files. Highlights • Ultra SCSI connection means the computer should recognize the drive immediately upon bootup, when attached to an existing SCSIchain.

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(it is expected in Windows 2000). Traasfer rates • Large file: 2:40 (Win98) • Large directory: 2:50 (Win98) lamella Zip 2$Q Parallel Estimated street price: $319 Estimated cost of media: $30 (subject to change) A bit more of a departure, this new version of the Zip takes the same form factor, but ups the removable disk capacity to 250 MB. Presently, the Zip 250 is available in parallel and SCSI versions; we looked at the parallel version. For users of the Zip 100, this is the next worthwhile step up. While it will take a while for 250 MB disks to become widely used (meaning, in the short term, it won"t be

As one of the companies responsible for LS120's creation, Panasonic does the actual manufacturing of the 120 MB drives. Thus, the Panasonic version is identical to the Imation drive reviewed above, including specs and transfer rates. Users looking for a high-capacity removable solution that can replace the floppy drive would also be well served by the LS-120 drive coming out under the Panasonic name. Panasonlc if-D1Q1 DVD4lAM Suggested retail price: $1,149 Estimated cost of media: $M (5.2 GB), $39 (2.6 GB)

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as easy to swap disks), the drive will also handle the 100 MB disks, too. This is a worthy successor to the Zip 100.

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Parallel connection means it can be attached to most computers without requiring extra cards. • Larger disk size comes in handy for today's higher-capacity multimedia needs. • Parallel port versions Bnay cause conflicts with other parallel devices, especially under Windows NT —users mayneed to troubleshoot. • New 250MB disks should notdamage old 100 MB drives; 250 MB disks eject instantly when inserted into Zip 100 drives. • The parallel version of the drive reported slower transfer times. Where speed is a concern, users should opt for the SCSIversion. Transfer rates • Large file: 7:05 (Win98), 6:50 (NT) an external storage solution. The speed is • Large directory: 7:20 (both Win98 and NT) slightly better than the older SCSI model, and much faster than the parallel version, so Panasonic SuperDislr l$-120 2x even Windows users may find a lot to like Suggested retail price: $175 about this new incarnatio. Estimated cost of media: $25, $150 (10-pack) While the Jaz has certainly contributed to Iomega's success, it's the Zip drive that has been the company's bread and butter. At 100 MB, the Zip has offered reasonably large removable storage, at a reasonable cost. Previous versions of the Zip have been internal, and external via SCSI and parallel connections. Now, the 100 MB Zip drive is being introduced in a USB flavor, with coloring to match the first generation of Apple's IMac. For users of the previous models of the Zip drive, this version isn't a radical departure, although lt is a great offering for those who have recently bought an iMac and want

Highlights • The drive attaches easiiy to both the iMac and to Win95/98 machines that have USBenabled. • Installation of the drive is quick and easy, and after initial installation of drivers, the drive can be attached and removed from a system without the need to reboot. • The 100 MB disks are identical to previous versions of the Zip 100, making it completely compatible. • At present, Windows NTdoesn't support USB

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has become reasonably popular. It's only natural that a rewritable DVD solution would

follow. While not yet capable of the full 17 GB that a DVD-ROM can contain, DVD-RAM is working its way up, with drives capable of writing 2.6 GB on each side of a blank DVDRAM. The LF-D101 is certainly an impressive bit of technology, offering storage sizes comparable to some of the higher-end magnetooptical solutions, but at a fraction of the cost. The ability of the drive to read discs of so many other formats is a plus too. The major sticking point with the technology at this point is that .there is the potential for a shakeup In the DVD-rewritable field, as not all the standards have been agreed upon yet. Although users are likely to be satisfied with the performance of this drive by itself, future incompatibility may be an issue.

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the view of his or her audience. At times, the process resembles a comedy routine, with people craning their necks, squinting, and bobbing their heads up and down trying hard to get a dear view and make sense of what's going on. Anyone who has been in this situation has probably thought there must be a better way. In fact there are several: if the presenter carries a second, larger monitor along, or uses one at the presentee's office, then the presenter can view the laptop screen comfortably, while the audience looks at the monitor. However, the size probleln persists — unless a very large monitor screen is available, it's still hard for an audience of more than a couple of people to see what"s going on. Wouldn't it be nice if one could carry a second, giant coinputer screen, that weighed no more than a notebook PC'? the hetter mousetrap As it happens, a nearly perfect solution to the mobile presentation challenge has evolved over the last few years. Multimedia notebooks have become lighter, cheaper, and designed to offer better graphics display capability, either on a large, bright, wideangle active matrix screen, or via RGB output to a large display device. At the same time, LCD projectors have radically dropped in weight, and increased in brightness and ability to display very high resolution graphics, as well as full motion video. As a result, both the long-suffering presenter and his or her audiences can now enjoy audio-video presentations that rival a full-blown home theatre setup in quality, but from a system that

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Navigator Web b r owsers, video from a DVD drive on a Eurocom 8 50 0 d e s ktop replacement notebook, and regular video from a VHS video cassette player. Audio from the included speakers on the LCD projectors was adequate for small 'meeting room purposes, though for a larger venue, or for a presentation where good quality audio is important, it would be worthwhile to bring a set of external, powered stereo

speakers. Durability PowerPoint presentation on his notebook, the audience, ranged around a large boardroom table, was able to comfortably view a 1.8 m (6 ft.) wide projection of the presentation at the end of th e room. Everyone involved was able to concentrate on communication, rather than struggle with the medium being used. To test the viability of this method, TCP asked for and received test units of lightweight, slim notebook PCs from NEC, Toshiba and Fujitsu, and ultralight LCD projectors from NEC and Epson. We tested the notebook/projector combinations over a two-month period, taking them with us wherever we went, and testing their effectiveness. Here were the results:

We had no problems with breakdowns, light bulb failures, or any other defects or weaknesses with the LCD projectors. The latest LCD projectors seem to be quite robust, well developed products, and have benefited from the several generations of LCD projector designs that preceded them. We did have an occasional problem with a strip along the bottom of the image area being cut off by the NEC projector, but easily fixed it by resizing the window on the PC. Admittedly, we were careful in handling these units. They always traveled in padded containers, and for reasons of avoiding either breakage or theft, we seldom let theln out of our sight.

Bonus feature An LCD projector is the equivalent of a truly Pertablllty giant monitor. it can create a good quality The lightweight multimedia notebooks we projected image with a viewable diagonal tested were the new, metal-lid, slim models, dimension in excess of 2.25 m (90 in.). with removable drives, or in the case of the This is truly "home theatre" size and Fujitsu, a removable "slice" that contained a quality, but in a unit so light and portable, floppy drive or CD-ROM drive. The stripped that it can easily be moved around the office, presentation weight of t hese notebooks, home, or clients' offices. including battery, ranged from 2.2S to 2.7 kg There is only one, non-trivial barrier to (5-6 lb.). The LCD projectors weighed TCP recommending an ultra-portable LCD between 3.6 and 5 kg (8 and 11 lb.). projector to every computer user. Including padded carrying bags, or a little wheeled airline trolley for the NEC projector, Mcber shock the total weight of the digital traveling ciicus While a highly portable, multimedia-presenwas between 8.1 and 10.8 kg (18 and 24 lb.). tation~pable notebook PC carries a slight This is a significant load, but using the trol- premium in its pricetag, it is still only around ley to reduce back strain„ it was eminently $3,S00 to $4,000. Lightweight, high intensiportable. ty LCD projectors, on the other hand, range in price from $8,500 to $13,000, with the Display quality really lightweight models clustered at the Both the LCD projectors provided very high end of the price scale. This cost is high

weighs only about 9 kg (20 lb.) and can be bright, crisp projected SVGA or better dis- enough to ensure only those with a real busitaken anywhere. plays (resolutions of at least 1,024x768). The ness case for ultra-portable presentations will This was powerfully conveyed when models we used were current tof f - t he-line Epson representatives came to show off some units with ferociously hot and bright light new products at the TCPoffices a couple of sources that threw images of up to 1.8 m (6 months back They brought one of the latest, ft.), which were very viewable in moderate lightweight LCD projectors, and a slim, light- interior light conditions. weight multimedia notebook. These projectors handled regular PC W hile t h e p r e senter v i ewed t h e g raphics software p rograms such a s

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Store thisl Continued from page89 but demands to be the master on the chain it is connected to. This could cause problems, or force the user to substantially reconfigure their system. • Because the read/write heads are in the removable media instead of in the station, it means there is no size cap on the media. As larger hard drives are introduced, larger MobileDrive disks will be available. • The MobileDrive can be set up as the boot disk, allowing the samecomputer to be booted up into different operating systems, depending on which drive is inserted at startup. • Because they' reself-contained hard drives, these cartridges are far more expensive than other removable solutions. • The biggest advantage is speed; performance is similar to fixed drives inside the machine; users can run applications from the MobileDrive without bottlenecking, including games! Transfer rates • Large file: 0:20 (Win98), 0:45 (NT) • Large directory: 0:32 (Win98), 1:00 (NT)

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New color management paradigm Photoshop 5 users will have to spend some time wrapping their heads around the complete revamping of the program's color architecture. Although it may be a painful transition for some, the benefits of much tighter control over color consistency will likely far outweigh any shortterm discomfort from having to alter your way of thinking. In previous versions of Photoshop, its built-in color engine transformed cap-

tured RGB values (from a scanner or digital camera, for example) and mapped them to your monitor's RGB color space. This device-dependent model meant you were confining your editing to the colors

your monitor was capable of displaying. This baseline worked fine as long as you could calibrate your own monitor, and limit your workflow to your own computer and output devices.

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Setup dialogue box to get proper results. ColorSync, Apple's system-level color management software, is robustly supported in Photoshop 5 and extensively supports industry-standard ICC profiles. Those who don't have the benefit of system-level color calibration can attempt to get reasonable color-matching by generating a homemade ICC profile for t h eir monitor using Adobe's gamma control panel. If you need to get quickly up to speed on what the new color architecture means to you and your workflow, you should r efer to t h e P h o toshop m anual a n d Adobe's Web site..There are also some excellent third-party Web sites and reference books on this topic. The bottom line Photoshop has earned its leadership position by introducing many technical and user interface advancements over t h e years. Version 5 continues its tradition as the premier image manipulation tool for

photographers and graphic artists. Photoshop 5 is chock full of useful new features that are thoughtfully implemented so the user won't suffer from information overload. The multiple undo and redo capability of the history palette and dynamic layer effects will be a boon to many users, though the euphoria from

However, this method failed miserably if you planned (like most of us) to share your manipulated images with co-workers and other production facilities. Why? As anyone who has seen a wall of TVs in an

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forthcoming. Once along that road, however, your own once you are familiar with home and desktop publishers will be amazed at the difference between the graphics handled in PhotoDraw 2000 and those manipu-

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lated in other consumer-level packages. PhotoDraw 2000 can import photos and graphics from any digital source (scanner,

PhotoDraw 2000. A key to getting the most out of this package lies in its ties to Microsoft Office. You don't need to have Office installed on, your machine to use this program, but if; you do, PhotoDraw 2000 will be added to

digital camera, video input, and clip art), and the main directory as a a user-changeable in a number of alternative file formats, including AutoCad 2D, CorelDraw, GIF, JPEG, and even Macintosh PICT. Once

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packages from a number of publishers and lr: c.'0;9:.: w ir;::q.:<. wn(i'i.' M.;woe>l; ni<.;c; the highly professional packages from the Unfortunately — wizards notwithstandlikes of Corel and Adobe. Here, however, Microsoft has helped bridge that gap with a ing — as the features and flexibility of a soft-

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Cards (the greeting and email varieties), and

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images will automatically be resized and reformatted to suit the space in the specified document. You can also use PhotoDraw 2000 to create a consistent look (colors, fonts, layout, etc.) for Office documents and files. Though still a consumer-level package, PhotoDraw 2000 will appeal to the large number of computer users who want pol-

ished and professional looking output withand banners), Business Graphics (bulletins, out having to spend the time and money flyers, labels, logos, and business cards), professional packages command. Among the plates are Web Graphics (including buttons

Designer Edges (a catalogue of borders and outlines in various shapes and configurations). While many might never stray from

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like most of you have, all these years. I An analogue sound cable also needs to haven' t. {In fact, until recently I used an run to the back of your sound card. This is t is rare indeed that I run out and buy a old stereo amp and two large speakers.) But because not aII sound can be sent digitally computer product the day after I have the thing is, you see, the Microsoft system over the USB bus to your sound system. If it could, and one day soon it will, you wouldreviewed it and sent it back Usually I dis- rocked my world. n't even need the sound card. As it is, DVDcover that I don't really need the product or that there are better ones out t h ere. Sometimes I'd like to buy the product, and it

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may have been the best one I'd ever seen, but when it comes right down to it, I just can' t part with the cash.

problem is, even on the Digital Sound n on-digital nature of your CD o r D V D) System 80, analogue sound doesn't compare drive. If you don't hear sound when you test the digital ability of the player you well to digital sound. Microsoft Olgltal Soauul System SO 'e The digital sound demo that comes simplyconnect the analogue cable. From: Microsoft Canada Microsoft expects this to change as more 300-90Matheson Blvd.W,MIssissauga,ON LSR 3R3 with this system contains three musical Microsoft Digital Sound System 80 clips and three sound dips. The music is companies indude the ability to output digi• http J/www.microsoftcom/canada/ comprises a rather large subwoofer for the rock, classical, and jazz. The quality is tal sound data from CD and DVD drives. The Estimated street prIce: $230 Because the information is digital company won't say how long this will take floor, and two nicely sculpted desktop speakers. The connections are simplicity it can, and does, run through a small pro- and it is far from dear on how all the pieces However, I have just boxed up the itself, a power cord from the wall to the gram that acts as an equalizer. This means will c ome t o gether. Needless to s ay, Digital Sound System 80, which is a three- subwoofer (the AC converter is hidden you can choose any one of 10 frequency Microsoft's game titles all sounded great with speaker USB product f r o m M i c rosoft inside the car battery sized subwoofer). A bands and raise or lower its level. This tliese speakers. The Microsoft Digital Sound System 80 USB plug also runs from the back of the means you can shape the sound to your likCanada, and sent it back Tomorrow I'm ing. It is similar to what big sound studios does not have the most speakers. It isn't percomputer to t his 18.5x22.6x32.5 cm going out to get one of my ownl Don' t think I am new to computer sound — I just (7.3x8.9x12.8 in.) speaker, which like most do with a hundred levels, but on a smaller fect, but for elegant simpflcity, an unclutreviewed a six speaker, digital Dolby system subwoofers lies unseen on the floor. A cable scale. The sound effects samples are a heli- tered desk, and kick-ass bass, it's the one. At last month. And don't think I' ve been runs to each of the two desk-mounted copter and other examples that showcase an estimated price of $239, I will be picking the speakers' ability to make sound come one up today. CI using those tinny little computer speakers, speakers and that's it. Almost. ~

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Monsoon speakers, although they did not

a plethora of multimedia PC sound systems handle excessive volume well. A sharp, digital clipping noise and an excessivedegree of For this update on powered speakers, distortion was dearly audible when the

on the market.

or headphone output is provided.

hang the satellite speakers from the sides of a LCS-2632 From: Lahtec

cts/LC8-2032.html we tested big-box powered speaker systems speakers were pushed too hard, Nevertheless, http:Itwww.labtec.corn/produ from Sonigistix, Cambridge SoundWorks, we recommend them, as most people are Price: US$99 and Labtec. We tested all these speakers with FutureMark's 3DMark 99 MAX, its demo mode as much a thrasher of audio

unlikely to use these htghguality units, or indeed any PC speakers, at such extreme volumes, anyway.

systems as it is a benchmark for graphics MlcroWorks by Henry Ness subsystems. From: CambridgeSoundWorks Price: U8$249 Monsoon MM-1OOO From: Sonigistix Corp. The second-best sounding speakers tested were the MicroWorks speakers by Henry htIPJheww.monsoonpower.corn Pdce: US$209 Kloss (from Cambridge SoundWorks). These Of these three "big subwoofer" systems, the small 7.5 cm {3 in.) cube satellite speakers Monsoon delivered by far the biggest bass. and accompanying 20x20x35.5 cm {8x8x14 Its two "planar magnetic" satellite speakers in.) subwoofer come in PC beige, They were also the most unusual {at least to sounded almost as good as the Monsoon those unfamiliar with the company's back- units at moderate levels, and sounded better ground in a u tomotive audio systems), at high volumes. Amplifier noise was a little more audible at extreme volumes. However, being more or less flat. Each of the two

Labtec's LCS-2632 is currently the top-selling computer speaker system in the U.S. It is part of the company's sowalled Audio F/X series and includes 3D "spatialization" drcuitry to enhance a stereo sound signal.

Multi-speaker support A growing number of audio cards, such as the Diamond MonsterSound MX300,Sound Blaster Live! and Terratec RWS 64XL support more than two speakers. Aswell, a number of DVD upgrade kits support multi-speaker configurations. Thus, a multi-speaker setup is

impressive as that of t h e p r icier units reviewed here, but its highly functional

design is likely to win over some consumers. ~~~.'<.'$$ae'searIah-ls:aIheut.'t'ejaegli+ %-' ,i tflel:$eaecll::50rhrtra'-':9+restdal The Labtec system not only has an audio input jack on the back of the 20x10x35.5 cm

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tested here that featured 3D spatialization circuitry, designed to provide extra "depth," p articularly to CD audio and high~ lit y

includes a roughly 25 cm {10 in.) square "dirty" analogue distortion. At m ore

monitor.

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slots. The graphics card has 2.5 MB of video

memory. e Presario line of notebook computers from Compaq Canada tries to hit a variety of price points with

It is obvious that Compaq wants to sell this model primarily as a multimedia computer. Aside from the usual buttons you find on a Presario, there are extra buttons to

a varying range of features. At $4,199,

187) but is good for a laptop. Informal tests operate the DVD drive. Yes, you can use the on a 233 MHz-based IBM ThinkPad note-

the Presario 1810 is on the higher end of this line and includes a big screen, fast processor and an i n t e rnal D V D-ROM drive. (We r eviewed th e e n tr y l e v el Presario 1230 in the January issue of The Computer Paper).

onscreen software controls, but you also

buttons. This is a nice touch. The Presario's keyboard is also goodneither too shallow nor too soft. W indows 9 8 co m e s installed i n th is P resario, a l o n g with the usual collec-

tion of C ompaq's

own diagnostic tools. The

system comes with a Return to Original Configuration disk that will completely rewrite the hard drive and return the laptop to the original condition it was in, when you first got it. I really like this feature. It means you can muck around and if you go too far, you can use the disk and reinstall your applications.

User experience

display. The quality screen is a good feature as you are likely to want take advantage of its s econd-generation DVD-ROM drive t o watch movies. I w a t ched Mask, Fifth

book produced a result of 75, while the

have the easier option of pressing play, Fujitsu notebook we tested last month, powstop, fast forward, rewind, eject, or volume ered by a 266 MHz Pentium 11 processor,

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Like the other Presarios, the 1810 is a good l ooking, sculpted machine with built i n JBL speakers and touch pad. The 1810 sports a 300 MHz Intel Pentium II processor and a 13.3-inch TFT active matrix XGA

official rating. However, from the testing that was successful I was able to give the 1810 an unofficial rating of 105. That is not great compared with a new desktop machine (my 450 MHz Pentium III-based system scored

Element and Blade Runner with the JBL speakers and with a headset and the expe-

rience was very good. It would have been hard to imagine a 6.4 GB UltraDMA hard drive, even in a desktop computer, just a year ago, but the Presario has one. The 1810 comes with a standard 64 MB of SDRAM, which is expandable to 96

Performance

I tested the Presario 1810 using Bapco's SYSmark 98 benchmark software. For various MB. There is also an internal floppy drive, reasons I was unable to complete all parts of internal V.90 56Kbps modem, and PC Card the benchmark and therefore cannot give an

scored 107.

Summary After using the Presario 1810 over a sixweek period in a number of different environments, I found it very friendly. I like the Presario line of notebooks. They are not cheap but n e ither are t hey CEO-only m achines. Attention has been paid t o details that are important to the average consumer. Support, from the starting tutorial to the tech help and warranty, are all

good. When you buy a machine like this you pay a bit more for the assurance that the company will be in existence and willing to support its products should you need help, If I weren't afraid of owning something that someone could easily walk off with, I would buy one today. If you can afford it, and especially if you want to watch, or show, DVDs on the road, the Presario 1810 is a pretty hot portable. Cl

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The Africans on Camera section likely Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is had the highest potential appeal, but it is listed, for example, but the article outlinlargely unrealized. This assembly of all too ing his biography and deeds is long on his-

ith its move away from broad entertainment and the demise of its Home line of CD-ROMs, it' s unusual to see a new release from Microsoft that is outside of the productivity, utility or

short (two- and three-minute) "statements" by prominent black Americans addressing

different aspects of Africans's contents includes poet Maya Angelou speaking about

gaming categories. But here, as an adjunct to

the forced spread of Africans throughout the

the company's extremely popular Encarta

world, while United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan summarizes Africa's past and future. Also, curiously, included in this small gallery of prominent individuals are

encyclopedia, we have Africans: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia o f History and Culture.

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torical fact but short on profound interpretation: "Rumored to have engaged in cannibalism as well as traditional Kakwa blood rituals, Amin came to be viewed by many as both sadistic and irrational." This is akin to suggesting Hitler had anger management issues. Entries into the search engine for "tribal wars," "internal strife" o r e ven " Black

Whoopi Goldberg and Quincy Jones, who Panthers" all came up with a similar prompt: are at least more at ease in front of the camera than the other, arguably more credible,

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but decidedly more stiff, commentators.

use this two4isc set. Sharing Encarta's inter-

In Topic Treks theie are guided tours through groups of related articles and multimedia clips oriented toward a variety of central themes like music and musicians or people and places. One trek certain to garner a great deal of attention is Masters of the Among the more standard features — like Game, an exploration of black participation a media gallery, interactive maps, historic in sports that includes historical accounts sites and virtual tours of the dark conti- and the experiences of individual stars. Overall, however, it is quickly obvious to nent — Microsoft has mixed in interesting

face, however, Africana makes it easy for both Encarta veterans and newcomers to move around and discover the contents of this "comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent."

menu items like Africans on Camera and anyone with a critical eye that Africans is a Topic Treks, and has even included a listing sanitized document, tainted by its clear agenof academic credits of the 261 contributors da in favor of its topic. If Africans is to be and 36 scholars that constitute the Africana believed, blacks and black history have been essentially positive throughout the ages. advisory board.

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Khalifa explained that t h e c o ntinuing decline in PC component prices not only allowed IPC to sell a very capable PC for $499, but added, "you know what, they [prices] are going to continue to drop."

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to an NC "appliance." The "true" NC, on the other hand, is targeted at saving organizations or individuals the costs of buying and maintaining full-featured PCs, The NC is supposed to be cheaper because it relies on a network connection to a server or mainframe system for access to software, saving and loading files, and communicating via the Interne. Only an NC, according to its supporters, could be created

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such as capturing names and addresses for able battery that I/OMagic says can scan rate with Novell to refine digitalme features customer orders and insurance claims forms. "about 60 pages on a charge." The software and functionality, and work with Novell to SpeechMachines, htipi/www.speechmachines.corn bundled with the scanner indudes MGI's create open standards for Internet identity, Photosuite and Xerox's TextBridge Classic the firm said. HP lntrosbusiness greeting cards OCR software. Digitalme uses a flexible software archiPALO ALTO, Calif. (NB) — Hewlett-Packard The parallel port scanner has an estimat- tecture and "card" metaphor to manage

Continuedfrom page $6 Fileforms over the phone MALVERN, U.K. (NB) — Speech Machines has

taken the wraps off its CyberTranscriber Co. has added two new sets to its Printable TalkForms service, which it says is the world' s Expressions line of greeting cards. The first speech-to-text service for filling out Boardroom Business Collection and the forms over the phone. Watercooler Business Collection target the

Amends Taylor, a spokesperson for the company, said the CyberTranscriber service runs on a Windows NT-driven set of servers located at the firm's U.K. headquarters. Because of t h e n a t ure o f the

identity. The virtual "meCards" include tools to let consumers create, personalize and manage their digital identities. Since the user controls what information they

ed retail price of US$200. I/OMagis says it is also planning versions with USB and infrared

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share, they know when and by whom their

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Novell prevlews 'dlgitalme' SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (NB) — Novell, Inc. ers. HP sells each collection for about U S$23.99 an d a Gre e ting C a r d has announced a digital identity system it Replenishment Pack of 20 blank cards and says will fill the need for better control and CyberTranscriber feature, Taylor said it does envelopes for about US$14.99. use of personal information on the Internet. not matter where in the world the client Dubbed "digitalme," the system builds HP, httpitwww.hp.corn company is located. Smaller client compaon the firm's Novell Directory Services (NDS) nies would have their calls routed from their ColorlioblleScan battery-powered as a tool to manage a user's digital identity, own call centre to Speech Machines' server. IRVINE, Calif. (NB) — I/OMagic Corp. has induding personal information and authenFor larger companies — or if a client company's call centre is outside of the U.K.— voice data canbe captured and sent on to Speech

announced the release of a battery-powered MobileScan portable color scanner. Targeted at mobile professionals and consumers with limited desk space, the 24-bit,

tication of users. Authentication and privacy sometimes come into conflict as methods

the software can auto-regilster a user by filling in registration forms to establish access priv-

ileges on many World Wide Web sites. A personal proxy system intercepts the forms, fills them in for the user and provides a completed form for review. When a user next accesses the Web site, digitalme handles the sign-in Ultimately, says the firm, it hopes digitalme will balance the interests of consumers who want control over their personal information, with those of firms that want to increase customer confidence and their own brand identities by providing personalized channels and interfaces. Novell, site at httpitwww.novell.corn

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charge-coupled device (CCD) chip — much like that found in "real" digital camerassurrounded by a hard plastic housing with a simple on/off switch and a shutter button. It has enough memory to take a grand total of six pictures at a relatively meager 160x120 pixel resolution with a color depth of 16 million colors (this is about one tenth of the pixel resolution typical of current "megapix-

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latest PlayStation-like program was designed by Bleem and is being marketed under the

FOSTER CITY, Calif. (NB) — Another software emulator that allows PC users to play video

same name.

The Bleem emulator joins Connectix games designed for S ony's popular Corp.'s Virtual Game Station as a low-cost PlayStation console has hit the Interne. The product giving consumers access to hun-

ta t i o n

dreds of PlayStation video game titles from a computer's desktop. B leem ma y a l s o e v e ntually j o i n Connectix as a target of legal action from

has declined to comment on whether or not it is considering legal action against

Sony, which has come down hard against

ing order earlier this year that would have prevented Connectix from selling its system. But the PlayStation maker has vowed to continue fighting emulation programs. Unlike th e V i r t ual G am e Station, which gives users of nelver G3 Power

third-party PiayStation emulators. Sony

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The main appeal of emulators is their relatively low cost. While a new Sony PlayStation markets for about US$12(), a Bleem emulator Nlill only set you back by

US$39.9S. The company was expected to begin shipping its product by April 10. Connectix began shipping its US$49 Game Station in mid-January through its Web site, and the product is also available

at some Macintosh software and peripherals retaiiers. The gaming system allows Mac users to play about one-third of the 300 titles available for PlayStation. Sony's console is one of the most widespread game systems in the world. The

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The PC Oads Culdeto Secomlng a Computer-Smart Parent Authors: Mark Ivey and Ralph Bond Publisher: Dell Publishing, DTPTradePaperbacks ISBN: 0-440-50B43-6 Price: $20.95 The PC Dads Guide ta Becoming a CornprrterSmart Parentcovers some of the same ground as the other two tities, but is concentrated more on what parents should do after buying a PC for the family. (It should be noted that the authors developed their PC Dads shtick while working for chipmaker Intel, so the book is based on the assumption that

tions that explain how things work. In the guide to CGI and Perl, the "pictures" are primarily lines of code with descriptions, and the occasional Web page that shows how the code behaves. CGI and Perl are relatively complex but this Visual Quicksfart Guidewhich is aimed at the beginner with little or

no programming experience — manages to explain things clearly. It begins with a few pages on the basic building blocks of Perl, such as numbers, strings, variables, arrays and functions. It then goes on to explain how to create a very simple Perl script. It looks at how to upload that script to a Web server and test it. With this basic knowledge outlined, the book dives into creating basic Web forms using Perl, and looks more closely at arrays, creating conditional statements and writing subroutines to perform specific functions. It also looks at how to effectively analyze the resulting data, how to use cookies and how to

everyfamily needs a computer.) The book reads like a long consumer

magazine column on family computing, with the authors interspersing personal stories with comments from other parents. The layout borrows somewhat from I D G's Dummies series, employing numerous illustrations and screen images to help convey information. There is a strong belief expressed by the authors in the educational value of home PCs. In fact, there is a very middle class, upward-striving ethos behind this book. Parents in the PC Dads universe are really, really devoted to doing the right thing for their kids — which is not a bad thing at all. After acting as boosters for the positive side of computing, the authors then spend several chapters dealing with the hazards of the new technology, including the potential for addiction to violent games, how to protect minors from online stalkers, porn and Continued on page 117

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its right, and the next image appearing underneath the text and to the right of the Arst image. Not pretty. To solve this problem you could use<BRCLEAR='ALL'> after the text

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the Arst, eliminating the jumble onscreen. You can now use the CLEAR element to accomplish the same thing. way it is not very different from the CLEAR The CLEAR element uses the following attribute, which is used with the «BR> modifiers: LEFT,RIGHT,BOTHand NONE.LEFT HTML tag, and it works in exactly the same tells the browser to display the text below the ='LEFT . manner. image when the image is set to ALIGN RIGHT tells the browser to display the text When text follows an image, it generally Aows immediately after it in the same verti- below the image when the image is set to cal space occupied by the hnage. Using the ALIGN='RIGHT'.BOTH should be used when CLEARCSSelement you can control where you have two images aligned left and right,

is left aligned. </8> <P» ='RIGHl > <IMG SRC='image.jpg' ALIGN <8 STYLEm 'CLEAR: RIGHT) This paragraphshould appear belowthe imagethat is right aligned. </8> ="ALL'> <IMG SRC <IMG SRC="image.jpg'ALIGN='RIGHT'> ='CLEAR:BOTH"> «8 STYLE This line oftext appears«l»below thetwo images. «/8> ='ALL"> <IMG SRC ='RIGHT > <IMG SRC="image.jpg'ALIGN ='CLEAR:NONE'> <8 STYLE This line oftext appears<l>between the two

out to arrange the text and image, but the CLEAR element provides an alternate way of

doing things. The CLEAR element is supported equally weII in the latest versionsof both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. It is considered a "safe" CSS element to use. The COLOR element The COLOR CSS element is much easier to understand than CLEAR —it simply sets the color to be displayed for the HTML tag it is associated with. It can take either a color

name (such asRED,AQUA or TEAL) or a hexadecimal color value. It works in the same way as the COLOR attribute does with the tag or with a number of other HTML tags. The following code displays HTML and CSS code that produce the same results: «FONTCOLOR=cREO">«B>Red,bold text</8>«/FONT> <FONTCOLOR='GREEN)«8>Green,bold text«/8>«/FONT> «FONTCOLOR="BLUE"»<8>Blue,boid text«/8>«/FONT>

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includes tags like , or that do not begin and end a line. The LIST-ITEM makes the associated tag appear offset as if it were like a bulleted item in a list. Finally, the NONE setting takes away the typical formatting normally associated with a given HTML tag. You might be looking at this and be

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="DISPLAY: INLINE'>This header<iH1> <H1 STYLE will appear within the sentence.

accomplish much of the same effects with other CSS elements that would give you more precise control. For example, CSS

provides better ways of setting margins <H1>This header<iH1> will appearona separate line than the rest of the sentence.

for text than that used in the first example. But this quick peek does give you an idea of what is possible with the DISPLAY

element. thinking to yourself "big deal," and for the and Internet Explorer, and is considered most part you are probably right. But giving You can also force inline elements to There is partial support for this element "safe" to use. a tag the appearance normally associated appear on a separate line like a block element in Netscape Navigator 4.5 (it does not fully with another can create some interesting would do, as the following line of code shows: support the INLINE value), and it is now The DISPLAY element DISPLAY belongs to the classification group of CSS elements. This is a powerful group of

effects. For example, list elements are always indented from the left margin, and you could use that to your benefit, as the follow-

='DISPLAY:BLOCK">bold text<iB> in The <B STYLE this sentence will appear on a line by itself.

elements designed to fundamentally change ing lines of code show: the way an HTML tag is displayed. For exam-

ple, you can make a bulleted item appear as This italicized text if it were a regular block of text, or make a

is indented in the sameway a list-item would be.<il> blue hyperlink appear as regular text. The DISPLAY element has four values: Compare this line to the one above to seethe BLOCK, INLINE, LIST-ITEM and NONE. BLOCK sets effect.<il> the specified element to appear like a blocktype taglike , <H1>, or <BLOCKQUOTE>, You can also force a header to appear which are always on a line by themselves. within a line of regular text, as the following Contrast this to the INLINE setting, which lines of code demonstrate:

Finally, the NONE value makes the element it is associated with disappear com-

fully supported in Internet Explorer 5.0. 0 Next time: The FLOAT and FONTCSSelements. Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes any comments,

pletely, as the following code, when viewed, suggesti ons orHTML tips you may have.You can demonstrates: email Keith at: robertsk©wave. home.corn. Look for Now youseeit,now you don' t.<iB> DISPLAY is a rather odd CSS element, since there are arguably better ways to

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Motorola believes it can achieve that goal, thanks to the use of better graphics and microbrowser technology in its next generaSpanning seven days and dozens of halls tion cellular handsets. Motorola has introduced the L7089 trilarger than a football stadium — even the press operations centre was larger than many band phone, the world's first to support GSM exhibitions — CeBIT was big. Poring over the 900, 1800 and 1900 wavebands, making it a t rue g l o betrotter. T h e press statistics revealed that, in terms of exhibitors and. phone, which will be available in the summer, supshow goers, this year's show was about 50 percent larger ports a series of voice comthan Comdex Fall in Las mands including dialing numbers, replaying mesVega s. sages and accessing voice Some 7,341 companies and organizations (commail. As well as making all its pared with last year's 7,239) from 60 different countries new handsets microbrowsershowed this year's revolucompatible by the end of the y ear, Frank L l oyd, tionary advances and prodMotorola's personal comms uct updates to over 650,000 s ector president for t h e visitors from around the firm's EMEA (Europe, world. •

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Web accessfor new Motorola phones Motorola has promised Web access on all its new cellular phones by the start of 2000.

end of the year, and across our entire digital phone range in 2000," he said. Motorola, http: //www.motorola.corn

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and the same disk as the Type m. Calluna says a new mechanical and electronic design

region said, Motorola wants to make all its phones wireless application protocol (WAP) compliant as soon as practical. "This means that consumers can expect to see the first Internet- browsing capabilities

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Qg NEWS compatible applications in order to view and print. One of the most interesting features about the package is that it is not speciflc to the printer at the local or distant end of the link, since it uses what Nadio calls a universal print driver that is built around graphic

mobiles, in exchange for a slightly greater

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use of available bandwidths. AMR builds on EFR by dynamically allomobile phone infrastructure and handset A Nokia developer has revealed that the

firm is developing a new service in conjunction with IBM and Sabre, the online airline reservations system operated by American Airlines. The system will be one of the first microdevice independent (GDI) language. To pr e v en t task i nte r ception, browser-enabled services developed for the InternetPrint incorporates a data encryption GSM/PCS mobile phone environment and system to protect users' privacy. In addition, will effectively extend the Sabre reservation to prevent Internet "spammers" from using system to a user's mobile phone. InternetPrint to send out unwanted material, As well as the more obvious booking the software has a security option. facility for flights, hotels, and rental cars, for InternetPrint requires at least a 486 66 example, the mobile Sabre service will also MHz processor-based PC running under feature pro-active information, according to Windows 95/98 with a minimum of 16 MB the Nokia representative. For example, if a of memory. The software ships next month flight booked through the service is delayed, the user can be alerted by SMS (short mespriced at US$79. Nadio, http: //www.nadio.corn sage system) text messaging. Initially, Nokia plans to offer the microTekneme box controls appliances browser-enabled version of the Sabre system Teknema has taken the wraps off an Internet for its own range of microbrowser-enabled set-top box (STB) that interacts with a home smartphones, setting up its server interface network to allow users to control home to work across microbrowser and SMS text appliances from their TV sets. messaging links. This may sound like a couch potato's The idea is that airlines can supply or rec-

dream, but the STB has the computer power to control many appliances within a home and, bearing in mind that there are PC programs around already that perform this function, the inclusion of the facility inside an Internet STB is not as crazy as it first sounds. For the unit, Teknema has partnered with BPI; the Italian electronic switch maker, to

develop a system for the STB to interface with the electrical wiring in a typical home. The STB communicates with devices also connected to the network using Echelon's L ONworks t e chnology. A c cording t o

cating bandwidth to the call, dependent on whether either party is speaking. Instead of each digital mobile call being allocated a fixed bandwidth, calls are allocated bandwidth based on their actual needs, and so,

when a person is speaking, the call quality can actually exceed that of a landline phone call. VLSI Corp. demonstrated what it says is the industry's first AMR vocoder for use on GSM/PCS Phase 2+ mobile phones. According to VLSI, the use of an AMR vocoder will really come into its own as the next-generation mobile networks start to arrive over the next few years. VLSI says its AMR vocoder is now being offered to cellular handset vendors. VLSI, http: //www.vlsi.corn

Mobile banking demonstrated

A group of four companies jointly demonstrated real banking transactions in a mobile environment at CeBIT '99. The companies involved in the demo ommend their frequent flyers to buy or rent were 1822.direkt, the direct banking service; a mobile phone and have access to the Sabre Schlumberger, the smart card firm; Brokat, which developed the software; and Viag reservations system while on the move. According to Nokia, plans call for trials Interkom, which drew all the other compaamong frequent business fliers to take place nies together and used its E2 cellular network during the summer. Although aimed at to carry the transactional data. According to Viag officials, the transacmicrobrowser-enabled mobile phone users, the plan is for the system to also be accessi- tional data is routed across GSM/PCS short ble using standard SMS-enabled GSM/PCS message system text messages, encrypting handsets, allowing users to receive updates data flowing across the link to ensure integrion their travel plans from the Sabre system ty and secrecy. The final security mechanism used in the Viag facility is the use of transacon a regular basis. Nokia, http J/www.nokia.corn tion numbers and PINs for each transaction. Viag said that by employing transaction Sabre, httpJ/www.sabre.corn

Teknema, this allows the Internet STB to connumbers, users can retain control of and trol various systems around the home, such as Next-generationvocoder unveiled . access to their account across remote conthe heating system, the lights, the security system, and the power management of a house. One of the most recent enhancements to nections. Company officials said using a simple Internally, the Teknema Internet TV STB digital mobile phones, the development includes an 32-bit RISC multimedia chipset of enhanced full rate (EFR) codec technol- menu-driven handset display, users can initidesigned by ARM and manufacturedby ogy, is about to be leapfrogged by the ate account transfers and request details such Cirrus Logic. The STB also has an integral network interface, flicker-free TV interface, a printer port, smartcard reader, and a wireless remote control plus keyboard. BPT, http J/www,bpt,it Teknema, http: //www.teknema.corn

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expanded in the future to support additional applications. The firm said, it envisages integrated services such as a mobile brokerage for buying and selling securities, replenishing

electronic purses, and building other information services around banking transactions. Viag said electronic banking is enjoying growing popularity in Germany. 1822direkt, a savings bank subsidiary, says it already carries out over 70 percent of its transfers online. For the CeBIT demo, Schlumberger supplied a Java-based SIM (subscriber identification module) card, the Cyberflex Simera, to guarantee the security of mobile banking transactions. The company also provided a server platform (Aremis) that ensures local independent administration and a reliable continuous data flow over the Viag Interkom network. If all goes well, the four firms plan to start trials of the mobile banking service to selected 1822.direkt subscribers later this year. Viag Interkom, httpi/www.viaginterkom.de

Segem shows mobile microbrowaer Sagem has taken the wraps off the cellular industry's first dual-band microbrowserenabled mobile phone. The phone, the Sagem Dual, u s e s U n w i red P l anet's UP.Browser technology. The microbrowser technology allows a

mobile phone to access data on the Web, as well as allowing a cellular carrier to migrate users away from help and information systems that use up valuable voice channel capacity, and over to an interactive menustyle system that uses data exchange instead. In a demonstration at CeBIT '99, Sagem officials showed how the dual GSM mobile interactswith a serveraccessible across a cellular network to view and reply to email, as well as gain access to personal organizer-style functions. According to Sagem, by combining the microbrowser technology with its existing

user interface software, the flrm gives cellular network operators a new way to reach subscribers and add innovative services, with seamless integration of all voice and data features. According to Malcolm Bird, Unwired Planet's European managing director, the firm's microbrowser technology is n ow Involved in more than 10 active trials across the world. Sagem, http: //www.sagem.corn Unwired, http: //www.uplanet.corn

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Dark Games, is the latest culprit in screen

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like games that can easily cut your computing p r oductivity d o w n to nothing. Generating more plaintive promises of "just one more game" than the other 10 games combined, Roof Rats has the same addictive arrange-the-blocks theme as Tetris, but in reverse. Here you remove similarly colored rooms from a building, in order to get the people and animals stranded on the roof

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utility into marketable and entertaining eye candy. Still, as far as I was concerned when I

sions in After Dark Games, but for the most part the 11 games contained on the CD-ROM keep the mental gears turning. Four of the games (Hula Girl, Mowin' Maniac, Rodger Dodger,

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(including the titular rodents) safely to the much of your adolescence playing similar ground. Some characters don't have to make it all th e way to t h e ground; the buff games. Foggy Boxes, After Dark Solitaire, and Marines, for instance, can rappel down from MooShu Tiles are repackaged oldies. Foggy five stories up, but the old ladies have to be Boxes is a digital version of an old pencil- lowered all the way down. Roof Rats' appeal is its apparent simpliciand-paper standard: you and your opponent (the computer, playing the enigmatic "foggy ty. But to win, or achieve any degree of succem, you have to mentally map out cause and effect, taking in the big picture with every mouse click. The game is easily worth

This can wear thin if, like me, you spent

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with relatively low system requirements (35 MB hard disk space, any old CD-ROM drive, and a minimum 486SX or PowerMac CPU) and the low cost, I'd say Berkeley has another winner on its hands. 0

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petencies, market presence and tough competitive nature. Intel has already targeted home networking as an "area for success," noted Armstrong. Diamond Multimedia also has a chance at success in this arena, primarily because of the high brand recognition it shares

with Intel and 3Com, he added. Trailing because of lesser consumer recognition will be Nortel's Bay Networks and Cisco, which may prevail at the gateway but which are less known in retail space. Declared Armstrong, "We believe this is a very exciting, emerging market that will

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play directly into the home. If you consider the types of households with multiple PCs in the homes, we' re talking about an affluent set if consumers, almost an elite group. You can expect to see lots of other high-value services to be delivered to this market as it expands." 0

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ee our nee o r s ee wit t w o new racin sims By Cordon Coble e computer garners certainly love

realistic and compelling fashion. With 12

ri of 3D effects found in most hlghwnd rac-

our automobile racing, as evi- sors, it sports a tmly authentic environment. erously strewn throughout. No, Superbike is denced by the wave of racing With hauntingly photorealistic graphics that quite possibly the best looking thing on any games being releasedover the last year or so. surpass those of Ubi Soft's superb Fl Racing number of wheels because it is rendered While two of the most hyped new titles Simulation, it is a visual masterstroke. And unlike anything I' ve everseen. come from the same publisher, Electronic with a demanding and complex physics How can I describe it? I' ll just saythat it' s Arts (EA), they' re worlds apart in terms of model, it challengeslike no other bike racing the dosest thing to TV-quahty visuals yet manufactured. Granted, you have to exceed quality and long-term playability. game. The astounding Superbike World the recommended system requirements to Championship, a motorcycle racing simulaexperience the full glory of the visuals while maintaining a workable frame rate, but it's a tion, is my personal early pick for racing knockout show if you do. Heck, it looks good game of the year. However, the secondgame,

NASCAR Revolution is a curious arcade-simulation mix that doesn't really work on

either level. As you' ll see, with publishers now often acting merely as the marketing

department for whatever developers they've signed, having a prominent and respected name such as EA on a gamecertainly isn't a guarantee that it will be good.

Superblte World Chatnplonshlp From: ElectronicArts

Tel: B06-245-4525,httpl/www.easporte.corn Minimumsystemrequirements: 166 MHzPenium CPU,Windows 95/98,32 M B AANI,4x CD-ROM drive, DirecIX 6-compatiblesoundcard, 20 4 MB DirectX &compatiblevideocard, 144 MBfree hard

Its real problems stem from the rough

real world Superbike courses and an over- ing games, though features such as light edges that surround just about every facet of flowing roster of real riders, bikes and spon- sourcing, shadowing and tire smokearegen- the product. There's the enormous yet mandatory 370 MB install and the monoto-

nous track loading and unloading procedure that occurs should you venture even

momentarily to the garage for a quick

Superbike World Championship is with the detail turned down — a real an absolute must-have even plus for those running the game on an older or budget system. for any fan Sadly, Superbike has this annoying trait of completely unloading/reloading each of high-speed action track between sessions and even during For motorcycle simulation b uffs,

Superbike is the only way to go. How complex and engrossing isthe ride?Let me put it this way: I spent my flrst two hours playing this game just trying to carve the perfect lap at Italy's Monza, enjoying every subtle moment and reminisdng fondly back to my earliest experiences with Micr opros' Grand

momentary garage visits, but that's one of its few flaws. Otherwise the game simply out-

mechanical adjustment. Or, how about the

classes all mototcyde and most car racing fact that human drivers can't compete under games too. It is truly state~f-the-art.

their own name. Then there's that annoying

NASCAR Revolution

auto-pilot feature that assumestotal control during all pace laps, pit stops, and caution periods. I mean, the idea is to actually drive

From: ElectronicArts Tel:800-245-4525,httpl/www.easporis.corn

the thing, isn't it? Yet the above complaints seem to be nitpicking in comparison to the game's inordi-

233 MHzPentium CPU, Sx CMOM drive ,3D graph-

Prix H. Minimumsystem requirements: 200 MHzPentium I soon found that I was indeed astride a CPU, Windows95/98, 32 MBRAM,Sx CD-ROM tenuous, nervous motorcycle, with each drive, 30 acceleratorcard with Direct 30 and/or Glide experience differing as I moved from Honda 3.02, and high-color-capable 1 MBPCI videocard to Ducati to Yamaha. If I accelerated too with DirectDraar-compatibledriver, 370 MBhard disk

ics acceleratoror Direct30mmpatible soundcard

quickly, there was a good chance I'd pop a space.

chugging and completely still pictures in the midst of any moderate action. Worse still,

with 8 NIBRAM,402 MBhard diskspace. Street price: $65

wheelie and flip, if I braked too suddenly on

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NASCAR's real-time gameplay suffers just as

On the other hand, we have NASCAR

much. I found that rounding the relatively short 1.6 km (1 mile) Phoenix oval with a full field of cars took nearly as long as driving the

diskspaceplusspaceforsavedgames. Recommen dedsystemrequirements: Asabovewith

publisher Intense Entertainment and developer Interactive Entertainment were able to

meanwhile, though usually semi-believable and certainly capable of waging their own

title that explored the simulation (read: real-

istic) side of motoxycle racing. Flawed in

gamesand garnered

its fair share of critical praise. It also unwittingly set the stage for what must surely be considered the finest bike rac-

ments, the frame rate will slow to a series of

Your artificially intelligent opponents,

do what no one else had, namely create a

physics of other "arcade" more

meet the recominended system require-

Revolution, a game EA had originally pro- huge 4 km (2.5 mile) Talladega circuit with fessed would be a cutting<dge simulation. no cats! Now that is one heck of a serious As it turns out, Revolution is anything but. blow to the rules of virtual racing.

With last year's Superbike World Champions,

some areas and limited in terms of available bikes, tracks and a truly realistic ride, Supe rbike World Champions nevert heless took u s s wiftly from t h e stereotypical whips, chains and bizarre

nate graphical demands. In short, even if you

impressive battles with one another, are prone to major errors in judgement and may well be caught plowing right through you like you weren't there. A cool pit stop procedure with little crew members who scurry . about servicing your car and the very impressive sensation of bouncing suspensions serve to undo some of the damage, but they can't save

a downhill slope I'd bring t he rear wheel up a nd potentially take a dive over the handlebars. But more importantly, the subtlety was there.

Sup erbike forces an Sure, this quirky ultra-smooth, unwavering study of America' s approach and smart radng NASCAR Racing series lines at all times, with the added bonus of the believable crash avoidance -techniques and uncanny behavior of the artifidally intelligent competition. And, as a rookie incentive, the game features not only a mul-

is fllled with some very pretty cars, lots of

flashy 3D-accelerated

what seems to be

a game released before its time. If not h i ng else, NA S CAR Revolution does

effects and a whole show just how well Pa p yrus bunch of the glossy titude of realism and difficulty options but a wrapping that has Design Group had this whole stock Superbike World Championship, and it is an separate arcade modethat serves asan excel- become an EA Sports absolute must-have for any fan of high-speed lent starting ground. trademark Sure, the dhuits are satisfactory car racing thing down years ago with the action. But wait — the best is yet to come. depictions of actual NASCAR tracks, with all original NASCARRacing. Into its third iteraDeveloped by the obviously adept Superbike's fabulous technical aspects are the appropriate corporate logos, colors, and tion as NASCAR Raang 1999, and now under Milestone design house in Milan, Italy, further heightened by what must be consid- even individual track textures. And yes, the the Sierra Sports banner, it remains the game Superbike explores the upper echelon of ered the juiciest graphics this side of a teal driving model is pretty fair — for a somewhat of choice for a realistic and involving stock motorbike radng, and does so in the most track And I don't mean the typical potpour- less-than-realistic arcade game, that is. car experience. 0

ing game, and quite possibly one of the finest racing games of any kind ever to be released. That game is the similarly titled

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Picky Eater a flavorful treat for youngsters By Jean Allen-Ihesen

ost young children are already

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sheet. We' ll also discuss how to draw attention to i n formation using the computer

is month we' ll look at a number of ways to add comments and notes to text in a document or data in a work-

others stand out so their message won't be missed.

equivalent of a highlighter pen and sticky notes. And Anally we' ll look at how some comments can be hidden and how to make

Take ontthe hlghBghter Word 97 has a number of options to draw

attention to text. To highlight text as you

would on paper with a highlighting pen, you need to display the Formatting toolbar and use the Highlight option. Select the text, then click the Highlight button to highlight it. To use a different color, simply click the arrow to the right of the button and select an alternate color from the drop-down list.

Using a variety of colors you can differentiate selections. For example, text that needs to be

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area and return to your document. The text the comment is attached to should be highlighted. If it isn' t, select Tools, Options, View, then choose the Screen Tips checkbox and click OK. To view the comment, hold the mouse pointer over the highlighted text and a small box will appear with your name and the comment text. If your initials or name are incorrect, alter them by selecting Tools, Options, User Information. If you are reviewing a document that contains a number of comments, you can move from one to the next using buttons on the Reviewing toolbar. To display this, select View, Toolbars, Reviewing, then use the Previous Comment and Next Comment buttons on the toolbar to move from one comment to the next through the document. U se the Delete Comment button to delete a comment leaving the t ext it' s attached to intact. Right-clicking on a comment and selecting Delete Comment from the shortcut menu does the same thing, Selecting Edit Comment from the toolbar or the shortcut menu allows you to alter a

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When you print the document the author's initials and the comment number print in brackets immediately after the highlighted text and, on a separate page, the page and comment number are printed with the comment text. Comments are particularly useful when you' re working on a document with another person. They allow you to effectively carry on a "conversation" about the contents of a document 'behind the scenes. listen to this! If you have a microphone and sound card you can record an audio comment in place of writing it. Just be aware that sound files are very large so comments need to be short and to the point. To record a voice comment select Insert, Comment and type a note such as "There is an audio message here" as this will appear in the comment box to alert you or another reader that there's a sound message attached to the comment. Now click the icon that resembles an audio tape on the bar dividing the comment from your document. When the

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