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Wants to doacrobatic tricks Every time I download a PDF file, the clarity and great style of the document is amazing. Graphics are downloaded inside a document without a problem. To say I'm impressed is an understatement. Is it possible to convert a WordPerfect 8 document into PDF? I would like to use it for tutorials and instructional documents. Incidentally, I enjoy TCPimmensely... keep up the good work Ron Hamilton

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me (Pentium PC running Windows 95) to share files with my printing company that uses, I believe, a Power Mac, System 7.5 (again I assume). Generally we would exchange PageMaker 6.5, Illustrator and Photoshop files or images. Can you guide me in the direction where I could search for such programs? Hart Sprenger

you mention are file-compatible anoss Macs and though a Mac may be able to open those files, Windows PCs. Moreover, a built-in featffre of Macs allows them to read PC disks. So, in other

thereare a few factors— the fonts you select or how you save the images, for that words, if you created a file in PageMaker 6.5 for could throw a wrench in the works.

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TCPreplies: PDF stands for portable document format, and we concur with you that it is afine way to distribifte documents with theformatting preserved.Youcan bfiy a program called Adobe Acrobat 4.0, which will allow yoif to convet your documents into PDF (Acrobat includes a nffmber of otherfeatures too). We ' ve seen it

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Fuji MX-2700 offers 2.3 megapixels Digital cameras have lagged behind film cameras in the maximum image resolution they can capture, but Fuji Photo Film of Canada Inc.'s MX-2700 is a fine example of how digital cameras are beginning to close the gap. The camera will capture 1,800x1,200 pixel images, which Fuji says will produce a 4x6-inch print at 300 dots per inch (dpi), or an Bx12inch print at 150 dpi. The company also claims the MX-2700 is the world's smallest two-million pixel camera. It measures7.9x9.7x3,3 cm (3.1x3.8xl.3 in.) and weighs 240 g (8.5 oz) without battery. The Lithium Ion battery is good for about 250 shots before it needs recharging, or about a third that many if the LCD viewer is used. The focal length of the lens is the equivalent of 35 min on a 35 mm film camera, and an optical zoom offers up to 2x zooming. A macro mode allows objects to be asclose as 8.9 cm (3.5 inches). Like other Fuji digital cameras, this model uses SmartMedia cards for image storage, and will accept 4 MB, 8 MB, 16 MB, and the latest 32 MB cards. The suggested retail price for the camera is $1,369, but Fuji estimates the street price will be around $1,200. We' ll have a more detailed review of this camera in a future issue.— DT Fuji Photo Film, http:I/home.fujifilm.corn

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reboot. When a fault occurs the s oftware should not h ang t h e whole system.

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teards and mice will move to USB trains in a children's park with the quickly. However, there is little Toronto subway system. number of difficulties that prove USB has a top speed of 12 Mbps

Such products are available but our (megabits per second or 12 million

But are those claims true? That' s current trusty input devices are so what we hope to answer in this stable and so ubiquitous that this article. might be an area that remains

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more information moves concurrently, which is why it is called a much more quickly using USB "parallel" po r t co nn e ction. than through a standard serial However, there is very little that connection. Digital camera users either the parallel or serial ports like to connect and disconnect have in common with UN ether often, so USB's "hot plugability" is than their basic conceptual simianother reason for its inclusion on larity. Comparing your serial port digital cameras. to USB is like comparing one of It has been argued that keythose miniature, steam-engine

favor with notebook computer users, particularly those who have USB was designed to allow hot- other uses for their notebook's PS2 swapping, dual-speed data trans- or serial port. mission, power distribution and Companies like Best Data and other functions considered useful. Entrega have come out with USB The "universal" in USB refers to networking products that allow the original USB consortium's you to set up a small peer-to-peer desire for a new way to connect network. Modem manufacturers pretty much any peripheral — a are also making the move but it is mouse, keyboard, scanner, digital unclear whether there is any bencamera, modem and speakers — to e fit t o b e g a i ned f ro m U SB a PC. And, in fact, product devel- modems. opers are moving to make it a uniGaming devices are increasingversal connection port. SuperDisk ly available in USB versions, but and Zip drives, home networks, they also have a regular 9 pin digital cameras, modems — you adapter just in case. This is a good name it, USB versions are either use of USB technology and should here, or on their way. Everybody really get multi-player applications and their peripheral is going USB. moving. Lastly, look for a future Scanners are leading the pack review in these pages of the new because they truly benefit frem the crop of USB peripheral adapters. ease of setup. It looks like you These products let you connect won't be able to buy a scanner your old peripheral to a USB plug. without USB by this time next Like your serial port, USB sends

bits per second), and a slower speed of 1.5 Mbps. The serial port in most PCs, on the other hand, t ransmits at a ma x i mu m o f 115Kbps.

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computer is painless. If you don' t use a hub then you are unlikely to

have any difflculty. Of course, if you don't use a hub you can only The testing hook up one or two devices. We mixed and matched nine USB Although there were times devices on three machines: a 450 when the computer needed a MHz Pentium III-based PC, a 200

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were properly recognized, applica- III system neither hub could have tions worked as advertised, and whether or not there were conflicts. The USB protocol calls fer up to 127 devices to be connected to

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Epson's Color Stylus 3000 is designed

on 8.5xll-inch (letter-size) paper or smaller. With that price spread comes an equally

use, a wide printer can output large spreadsheets, graphs and charts or other business number of manufacturers now offer broad range of specifications and capabilities. documents like floor plans or schematics. In inkjets that will print on l l x 17-inch a graphics or marketing department, it might be called on to output one-off or limited (tabloid) paper. Prices for these printers Why tabloid'F range from a few hundred dollars to a few An ll x 17-inch printer can be useful in a quantities of posters or bulletins. Some, like thousand dollars more than units that print number of circumstances. For general office the Epson 3000, are designed to be used as a color proofing system for graphic artists. Many will also print on 13x19-inch "oversize" paper, allowing edge-to-edge printing bleeds when the paper is trimmed down to ll xl 7-inch tabloid dimensions. Some will also print on 17x22-inch paper, or on banner paper up to 17x44 inches. In the home, a tabloid printer can be called on to produce a number of personal

specifically to be used by graphic artists as a color "comping" tool. It can't match the high monthly print volumes the HP 2500C is capable of, but it has the best color accuracy right out of the box, offering users a high degree of control over the color characteristics. It also supports a wide variety of media made by Epson, including 17x44-inch banner paper and transparent stock for backlit

signage. Xerox DocuPrint C20 From: XeroxCanada Tel: 600-275-9376. hitp 1/www.xerox.ca Estimated street price: $1,199 ($1,799 for the NC20)

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Tabloid inhjets for blei Prints Continued from page28 for printing typical office documents, such as letters, spreadsheets, and charts, the image

offers what Xerox calls "send ence, print graphic image, and many shadow details many„" the idea being that multiple copies of apparent in printouts from the other two a document will need to be processed once, printers were lost. This, of cours, could be cutting the overall print time. corrected with image<diting software prior A year or two ago, we would have been to printing.

quality was very good even on the standard setting. Text-enly documents could be printed in just a few seconds when the C20 was set to draft mode, and the printing was quite

astounded by the photo output of this printer. However, technology moves on, and

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acceptable, good, other tabloid printers in this roundup The printer emulates PostScript 2 as well did a better job. The C20 produced the darkas PCL printer languages. The print software est and most contrasty print of a photo-

The C20 uses a tw~artridge ink system, but offers the option of sixxolor printing if you substitute the black ink cartridge with a

tones, completely elimi nating the faint banding that was occasionally visible when using the main color cartridge with the black cartridge. Spot color printing was also quite good

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mixed text and colors can be quite slow when the printer is set to the highest resoluphoto cartridge. Rendering of photographic tion, as we discovered when we printed out images improves with the Photo cartridge, 16 bar charts for a report the boss needed which provides a more subtle rendering of "right away."

The menu panel has some odd and annoying arrangements. For example, the change cartridge button, which moves the printhead to an accessible area of the printer, is in the Tests menu, rather than in the

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HP 2$00C From: Hewlett-Packard(Canada)Ltd. Tel:800-387-3867. http://www.hp.corn/go/2500c Estimated street price: $1,899 ($2499 for the 2500 CM, which includes network connectlvity) The first thing that strikes you about the HP 2500C is its sheer size. This is the godzilla of

inkjet printers. In fact, one of TCP'sfreelancers declined an invitation to review the unit because it was just too big for his home

trays will accept paper up to 13x19 inches, allowing for full-bleed tabloid printing. The beefiness of this printer extends to office. It stands 33.7 cm (13.3 in.) tall and the cartridges. Here, we find four big indioccupies 68.5x73.6 cm (27x29 in.) of desk v idual cartridges — they look l ik e l i t t l e

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flasks — for cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

This size gives it extra capacity to shine in an office environment, however. The two paper trays hold a total of 400 sheets of paper, while a third tray, which also acts as the output bin, holds another 10 sheets. The

These were introduced on HP's 2000 model. As part of HP's Smart Printing Technology each print head/cartridge includes a chip that indicates when each of the cartridges is running low on ink.

The duty cycle for this printer is rated at 12,000 pages per month, more than double that of the Docuprint. The 2500C is also one of the fastest inkjets we' ve tested. It is rated

at up to 9 ppm (draft setting, black). Along with the big print cartridges, it has larger print heads that provide a wider print swath. This contributes to increased printing speed. Even for high-resolution color photo output, the printing times were surprisingly fast. Image quality is also very good. The printer uses HP's image enhancement tech-

nology called PhotoRet II color layering. While the printer is rated at 600x600 dpi, the dot pattern looks finer than on the similarly

rated Xerox DocuPrint C20. However, we did detect some fine banding in the mid-tones of

the test photographs. Like the Xerox product, the HP 2500C is

classed as a workgroup printer but requires the purchase of a network card to be used on a network. If you intend to install this printer on a network, you might consider the HP 2500 CM model, which costs more, but has networking built in.

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The Color Stylus 3000 is one of several Epson tabloid printers. It is advertised as a color

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processor (RIP) called StylusRIP, which processes PostScript Level 2 files for output on the printer. It also has extensive printer control settings that can be adjusted to com-

pensate for image source (for example, a dig-

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ital camera file setting increases color saturation), paper type, and other variables. Like the HP 2500C, the Stylus 3000 is big,

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based studio, remember that you' ll need almost a metre of desk space for the printer. It has an 81x56.5 cm (32x22.3 in.) footprint, is 24 cm (9.4 in.) high, and weighs 17.2 kg

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The Stylus 3000 also uses large, individual ink cartridges. The color cartridges are rated at 2,100 letter-size copies, while the black cartridge is good for 3,800 pages (both

at 360 dpi and five percent ink coverage). The paper bin will hold up to 17x23-inch

paper, although the printer will accommodate continuous tractor-feed paper or banner rolls. The Stylus will print up to 17x44-inch

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Other problems induded various hung minor irritations will undoubtedly occur. programs that usually just required a quick CTRL+ALT+DEL, though there were a couple of times when we tried to plug in a hub already connected to numerous peripherals, which hung the whole system. One annoy-

Our tests show nothing conclusively. What they do reveal is that the Compaq had the least difficulty with USB devices, compared to the two clone PCs, and peripherals that are simple and use little bandwidth, like

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By Ross MacDonald ith all the hoopla surrounding

newly accessible technologies like DYD, CD-RW and scanners, little attention has been paid to what are arguably the most crucial devices attached to our computers: our mouse and keyboard.

Mouse and keyboard makers, however,

Vfe don't often think about our mice andkeyboards, but we should asthese peripherals can make the difference between pleasant and painful computing

pointer, you roll the ball â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is much larger and seated more firmiy than the ball in

realize the importance of these peripherals and have been steadily working behind the

scenes to create a whole new generation of

peripheral manufacturers, like logitech, have taken this into account and now produce several syinmetrical nuce as well as devices specifically for right- or left-handed users. In most cases, mouse-control software allows you to customize the button and wheel functions to accommodate user idiosyncrasies to some degree. However, lefties

pointers and boards to make our computing

experiencesever moreefficient and pleasant. So it is time to take a serious look at the meat and potatoes of interacting with o~ s t ems.

Mice Mice have evolved significantly from the single-button Mac mouse of yore through twoand even three-button variations. And variation is the key to mouse husbandry these days as manufacturers have not only added features but moved the activation buttons to some pretty curious locations on the anatomy of their mice. Of course, it is still possible to buy mice with the standard two or three buttons positioned where your first, second and third fingers might fall. But it is becoming more common to find ostensibly more ergonomic mice on which the buttons are positioned for the thumb, forefinger

a mouse â&#x20AC;&#x201D; around with your finger. Trackbails have been around for almost as long as mice but remain far less popular

will always have a more limited choice of because, as with integrated pointing devices

in portables, they take some time to get used models, On a slightly more specialized note, a few to. They are also slightly more expensive manufacturers have come up with special than mice, starting at around $80 and reachmice for portable users, perhaps in recogni- ing upwards of $150. tion of the fact that many notebookers are There are several reasons why trackballs unimpeded direct line to the receiving unit unhappy with the pointing devices built in merit serious consideration. The most obvior the infrared signal won't get through. to their machines. The two most popular are ous is that they remain stationary, which Soâ&#x20AC;&#x17E; if you' re in the habit of moving your the "joystick" type, familiar to IBM and frees up valuable desktop real estate for other mouse widely around your desk, for exam- Toshiba notebook users, and the touch-pad uses. Their stationary nature also allows engiple, the pointer on the screen will stop type, familiar to almost everyone else. I have neers to build a lot more variation into their responding as soon as you' ve hit an angle, or used both extensively and find that they are design and configuration, so users are more distance, beyond the capabilities of the equally effective after some practice. likely to find a combination of body design, receiver. Placing a book or other item on Many consumers, however, dislike them ball placement, ball size and button placeyour desk between the sender and receiver and end up purchasing an external mouse or ment to ideally suit their tastes. will also cut off communication. trackball to do the job. Mice and trackballs As with mice, ergonomics have played a However, this limitation has been largely specially made for use with portables are significant role in the design of trackbails. or even palm of the alleviated by the more recent introduction of essentially the same as desktop models but Body design can vary from long, slender and hand. radio-frequency (RF) cordless technology have a shorter cord and, often, software that undulating to wide and corpulent. You' ll . A dd t o the s e which does not require a line of sight reduces the degree of motion necessary to fmd less variation in ball placement, which is designs the introduc- between sender and receiver. Plus, the issues traverse the screen. situated for rolling with the index finger on tion of a s crolling of angle and rangeare essentially eliminated the majority of trackballs. However, some are "wheel," textured and because radio waves transmit radially. designed so the ball can be manipulated grip~oated buttons, and However, both IR and RF technologies interfacessuch as serial, PS/2, require that a receiving unit be hookedup hand. USB and cordless, and you have a dizzying to the computer so, though you might There seems to be an infinite varit+3 ' ' array of choices. It's no surprise then that have eliminated the cord between your ety of ball sizes, but the rule of (ahem) 4 prices can vary from $15 to more than $100 mouse (or other peripheral) and your thumb is that larger balls gather more for this erstwhile basic device. computer, you introduce a new one momentum and are easier to roll. from the computer to the receiving unit They also require less rotation to

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Cordless technology

'Cordless mice have yet to gain any real popularity in spite of the fact that so many people say they'd love to reduce the number of cables and wires connecting to their comput-

(another box that you must find space

for on your work area). Yet another drawback to both cordless technologies is that the "cordless" half of the send/receive partnership ers. But cordlesstechnology, when applied to requires batteries. While electronics engi,any peripheral, creates drawbacksmost con- neers have created circuity that is increasingsumers aren't yet prepared to undertake. ly power smart, batteries eventually fade and The most common version of cordless die so you' ll need to always be prepared with

technology currently is infrared (IR), which spares for your cordlessdevice or be willing

operates on the same principle as most to make unscheduled trips to the store. TV/VCR remote controls. The trouble with infrared, however, Is that it requires a clear But back to mice... "line of sight" to work. The sending device Another thing to keep in mind when pur-

(mouse, keyboard, printer, etc.) must havean

cover more screen area. Some users, however, find smaller baBs to be easier to maneuver and more precise

(for neophytes, on-screen accuracy can initially be a very frustrating aspect

of trackbaII use). Other mouse

Finally, button placement is almost as

variations to watch for are models for begin- varied as body design. Genuflecting once ners and children. These are basic units with again to ergonomics, designers have comeup few refinements or very large buttons for neophytes and little hands.

with multiple variations of button size and design with nearly every arrangement actual-

ly making sense. What they all share is that Traclihalls A trackball is basically a mousetumed upside

chasing a new mouse is handedness. Major down so the ball is exposed. To direct the

the buttons and scrolling wheel quite natu-

rally lie beneath one digit or another. Contfnued onpage44

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shapes, other tailored features can include tilt, wrist rests of varying design and composition and even dimensions — some boards

button is under your thumb on one model are specifically designed to maximize desk but under your index finger on another. space while maintaining full-sized keys. Some trackballs even make the ball itself a Though rare, it is still possible to find keyboards that have a built-in pointing device. The most common among these employ a trackball or joystick-type controller. However, these not only increase the

size of the board, they are usually miniaturized to fit onto the board and are less satis-

factory than separate full-sized pointer devices. button by suspending it on springs so it clicks when pressed down. This variety of design means almost everyone can find a version to ideally suit their needs, wants or habits.

Keyboard 'feel' It is also important to test the "travel and feedback" of a keyboard. Travel is the distance each key moves when you hit it. It has

As with mice, trackballs come in both fla- long been possible to make keyboards with vors of cordless (IR and RF). And they are far zero travel (like a touch-pad) but consumer better suited to these technologies than mice because they are stationary. Line-of-sight can still be a a problem if you put something on your desk between an IR sender and receiver,

testing has established that most people like keys to have some travel. Conversely, too

with batteries and accommodating receiving units somewhere on your desk, however, are still issues.

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game port altogether and connect a joystick «onclugion to the USB port. Silnilarly, if you prefer a As its huge screen and full~ize keyboard dicmouse over the unit's built-in trackpad, you

tate, this is one of the largest of notebooks

can easily add one via the USB or P5/2 ports. on the market. Still, it brings an unpreceOur test unit didn't indude a 56Kbps faxmo- dented level of portability — and expandabildem, but you can plug one into the USB or

ity — to the notebook user. It is a viable

PC Card ports, or pay Eurocom an extra $280 replacement for a desktop PC at the home or to install an internal modem.

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this system both before and after a BIOS a PS/2 mouse solved this problem, The sysupgrade that a d ded A CPI ( A dvanced tem induded an Adaptec AIC-7880 SCSIconTV out jack. A browse through the drivers Configurable Power Interface) compatibility, troller, connected to a Panasonic DVD-RAM revealed that ATI cards are well supportedwith interesting results. Before the ACPI drive and a S 270 MB removable drive. found that Windows 2000 had enabled "generic television" output for this ATI card's

e installed Windows 2000 on several machines, including one with a minimal configuration (a 150 MHz Pentium PC with 32 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GB drive) to test Microsoft's claimed min-

the list even included drivers for the unre- upgrade, Windows 2000 installed without leased (at press time) Rage 128 models. incident (except for the behaviors listed in Our second test machine was a Compaq the notes on installation), However, after a

anest

All was well, although the Windows 2000

imum hardware requirements for this oper- Presario 1920 portable. On this system, citating system. Windows 2000 issued several

flash EEPROM update that refreshed the

DVD player cautioned us that it required a hardware or software decoder to play back DVD movies — having the drive alone wasn' t

BIOS to a date later than 01/01/99 (an arbi-

enough. A Matrox Marvel G200-TV graphics

ing incompatibilities with the IDE controller,

trary date Microsoft uses to determine whether a machine is or isn't ACPI capable), the installer repeatedly froze moments after

warnings,

APM battery manager, and even our Windows 2000 Professional and Server beta

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Windows 9x. We elected not to i n s tall Windows 2000 on this unit, as a result. Our other test units didn't fare so well, either. The third test system we tried was a 166 MHz Pentium PC based on an Asus P5A8 motherboard, which includes built-in CMI8330A sound hardware. Windows 2000 didn't support this, either, nor did it like the unit's Adaptec 1542CF SCSI interface, which is not exactly an obscure model and was included in Microsoft's hardware compatibility list. However, we successfully tested both Voodoo Banshee and Permedia 2 graphics cards on this machine. We then installed Windows 2000 on a dual-processor machine based on a LegendQDI BrillianX IV motherboard. We tested

card — all of which worked fine under

On this system, we installed an ATI All In

Wonder Pro graphics card, a Sound Biaster 32 sound card and a 3Com network card. Not

surprisingly, we found the company's claims that "hardware requirements have not

changed since NT 4.0" to be unrealistic. The machine was very sluggish when applications were loaded onto t h e b are OS. Interestingly, though, the Display Properties control panel said the machine had "multi-

ple displays," Upon closer inspection, we

card worked as a graphics adapter only — its TV-out jack was not supported, and the video-capture software supplied by Matrox the Setup program started its process, We had for use with NT 4.0 caused the system to to disable ACPI functions by modifying a crash hard when we attempted to quit the text string in Windows 2000's setup informa- capture program. tion file to get the system to work. This conflguration gave us no other comTo disable ACPI BIOS detection (which is patibility warnings. (Of course, that doesn' t easiest if the required directories are first mean it was telling the truth. When we copied to your hard drive): inserted a 5.2 GB data disc into the DVD1 . Modify th e f i l e t x tsetup.sif i n t h e RAM drive, our attempts to read or write to it Windows 2000 Setup folder. failed, resulting in an "incorrect function" 2. Change the line "ACPIEnable = 2" t o error message.) This unit was also configured "ACPIEnabie = 0". Save. with a Sound Blaster Live! card, a parallel-

3. Install Windows 2000. Both before and after the BIOS update, several components on this system had a few difficulties with Windows 2000. Using a serial mouse caused the installer to crash during Plug and Play device detection. Substituting

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Bhster Live! and the MX300, although it cautions that such fixes shouldn't be tried on

Plextor SCSI CD-ROM drive, ATI Rage Pro After saving these settings and restarting graphics card, 3Com 10/100-BaseT network with the Windows 2000 disc in the drive, it multipmcessor PCs and, in fact, it didn' t card, and a Creative Labs AWK64sound card. booted directly into the Setup program. work for us.) Windows 2000 reported no problems, but From there, we were prompted to choose This desktop system also included a PC after restarting, complained it couldn't find a whether to reformat or convert our system's Card adapter with a Future Domain SCSI2Go CD-ROM drive and could not continue. blank FAT-formatted hard drive as NTFS or PC Card, which apparently would have Repladng the CD-ROM drive with an IDE leave it as is. We elected to leave it as FAT, to worked, but Windows 2000 complained that model was necessary to complete the instal- maxunize our options, although Micirmoft it was out of interrupts. A look at the Device

produced the same result. Alternately, Windows 9x users can "upgrade" their existing operating system, replacing it with Windows 2000, while retaining their existing appfication installation settings. In the event

of a clean installation of Windows 2000, all applications must be reinstalled (theoretical-

ly, at least — we found a number of apps ddn't need re-installation) and user settings re-

maintains that new features in Windows Manager in Windows 2000 revealed another complained again that the COM 1 and COM 2000, including new partitioning tools and problem: both serial ports were listed as hav- 2 ports had trouble finding needed resources. defrag functions, minimize the need to keep ing a conflict. (The system — Identically conAgain, we had shared an IRQ between them a FAT partition. Although Windows 2000 figured — worked fine under Windows 98.) without difficulties under Windows 98. supports NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16, several

IDK hard drives and CD-ROMs on all systems, however, were identified correctly. We later managed to get the PC Card adapter working by disabling one of our serial ports, freeing up an interrupt. It's worth mentioning that our tests reflect the results on this

lation. On this machine, Windows 2000

Apparently, Windows 2000 doesn't like this. Setting the IRQ allocations to Auto in the CMOS setup solved the problem.

The lesson we learned from our various installation atteinpts is t h a t W i n dows 2000= even with its large library of supported devices — can be trickier than Windows 98

entered.

In the case of an upgrade, the Windows 2000 setup program promptsyou to provide software and hardware upgrade files, if any. other PC operating systems, including DOS It will also search for Incompatible hardware, and the original release of Windows 95, only software and settings, and create an upgrade support FAT16. report that you can print or save, Users ran Fmm there, Windows 2000 booted quick- also connect to an upgrade support page at ly into a graphical mode, where it installed Microsoft's Web site during this process. Windows security features, device drivers In general, we recommend configuring and the various components needed for Windows 2000 (or NT, for that matter) to Workstation-mode operation. After about a dual-boot on your system to minimize com-

particular machine — you may, indeed, be able to use a serial mouse or two serial ports or 95 to configure. Using mainstream hard(etc.) on your system. ware and standard configurations seems to half hour and three restarts, the setup proWith a growing sense of unease, we be one method of siinplifying the process. gram was done and the system was usable. Inatallatless

nificant number of device drivers and software applications are currently incompatiminimum of 708 MB of free disk space; the ble. Until you determine if any such issues

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based on an Abit BH6 motherboard, with an AMD PCNet Ethernet adapter, Adaptec 1505 SCSI card, Canopus Spectra 2500 graphics card (using the nVidia TNT chip), a Voodoo2 game card (with NT 4.0 dnvers from Creative

patibility headaches. As noted above, a sig-

Windows 2000 Server beta 3 requires a

( W i n dows 2 0 00 exist for your system, retaining the option to

2000 is to simply boot from the CD-ROM. Professional) about 100 MB less, with a stan- select your previous operating system is the This requires a computer with a'BIOS that dard instauation occupymg 535 MB on a safest course of action. supports this feature, but it makes the instal-

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It is also possible to install Windows 98

lation more convenient than the "three-flopsound card. Windows 2000 reported compat- py" boot process required by previous ver- Sisal boot ibility problems with the Terratec product, sions of NT (and OS/2), Microsoft says it is Wealso tested an installation on a machine but seemed to like the other components, also possible to install the system over a net- that had Windows 95 preinstalled. Booting Lastly, we tested a mainstream machine work using a single boot floppy. from the CD-ROM automatically installed based on an AOpen AX59Pro motherboard We entered our PC's CMOS setup screen Windows 2000 as a dual-boot configuration. (with USB and ACPI support) configured (typically, you can do this by premng DEL at In a separate test, we found that inserting the with a 266 MHz Pentium CPU, 64 MB of startup time) and, from the Boot Order sec- Windows 2000 disc in the Windows 95 enviRAM, an Adaptec 151OA SCSI controller,

tion, selected CD-ROM as the boot device.

after Windows 2000 is installed, with no apparent problems. We installed Windows 98 to a different directory and, when we were done, we could select the desired operating system from a dual-boot screen at startup

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Following are some of the upgrades to utive use, The bug's fix (also available on the e Internet Connection Sharing feature Microsoft Web site) is built into Windows 98 that allows more than one PC on a existing features of Window's 98: Internet Explorer 5.0 (IKS): Microsoft's SE, along with fixes for a number of other home network to share a single Internet connection is this upgrade's hottest draw. latest browser update is its fastest yet~ issues. Overall, om' upgraded system seems a full 86 percent faster than Netscape little snappier, and so far seems to be very Navigator 4.5 at accessmg cached pages, stable. Wlnalows Sfa SE (dvlld 4.10.2222.A) Microsoft includes the standard 40-bit The following features are also new in From: Microsoft Price: USS19.95 for Step Up version; US$109 for full

encryption version of the browser with the Windows 98 SE: upgrade. However, Windows 98 owners • NetMeeting 3: Thisprogram is rapidly

retail version (for Windows3.x and95owners). A service packfor a number of minor bugs inWindows

can easily obtain the 128-bit encryption

98 will be available for free via the Windows Update feature to current Windows 98 users. Some features of this upgrade (NetMeetlng 3.0, Internet Explorer 5.0 and DirectX 6,1) can be downloaded for free.

version via the Windows Update feature. Even without the update, the 40-bit ver-

becoming the whiteboard and videoconferencing tool of choice. Version 3.0 makes big changes to the interface and

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Windows 98 SE and roll back your computer

to the previous operating system. This took 110 MB of disk space on our test system, which was running the original release of Windows 98 before the upgrade.

Also on the Wlnrfows 9$ SK CO • Mi crosoft's Personal Web Server, which is pretty lame and doesn't even support user authentication of FTP functionality. • Both 16- and 32-bit Citrix dients for

accessing Citrix's WinFrame terminal server. • A tonne of Microsoft marketing material. • T rial versions of several Microsoft games, induding Golf 99, Age of Empires,

Motocross Madness, Money, Monster Truck Madness,and Pinball Arcade. While the installer runs, Windows 98 SE ()an. 1 or later) have ACPI code that isn't • In the drivers directory, you' ll find a profull of bugs. Of course, the probability of gram for enabling or disabling the infatantalizes users with an announcement of with no ill effects. mous serial number built into every this Intriguing new capability: "Link several • I n ternet Connection Sharing: With this this depends on whether your video cani, network card, etc., will "wake up" propPeritluln IH processor modems together for faster Webaccess." At a feature, Windows 98 can share an erly after ACPI-induced sleep. • New drivers for a wide array of new hardglance, however, you'd be hard-pressed to Internet connection. Once one computer ware, including the Voodoo Banshee, tell the dilerence between this edition and is set as the "server" and connected to the • IR EE 1394 (HreWire): Support for 1394/USB CD-ROMs, discs, and optical Matmx G200, and most recent Epson the previous release. Consequently, it's not Internet, any computer on an internal and Hewlett-Packard printers (unfortumuch of an upgrade for those already using LAN may use that machine's connection discs is now standard. That's probably a nately, not the trouble-prone 722C). to browse the Internet. No setup is good thing, as now Intel says it will supThe old Microsoft Fax program is still required on the client machines. port the technology (despite earlier flip• DirectX 6.1: Drawing heavily from ideas flops). Support for Device Bay and lurking in a directory called "oldwin95." Windows Driver Model (WDM) modems • There are a few other uNities in the Tools pioneered by Apple's QuickTime software, directory. However, they were included Microsoft's DirectX 6.1 includes a number are also provided. (Contrary to reports we' ve read elsewhere, however, we could in previous Windows 98 release, so we of APIs (application programming interwon't discuss them here. faces) that allow programmers to more find no evidence of built-in support for easily add features such as 3D spatialized the Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Live on • We bTV for Windows, which, unfortusound, hardware or software-based 3D the Windows 98 SK disc.) nately, still sucks. On our 266 MHz test ." LOND95,9Q~N:~'ve.'evi."i:.oji&cI"-'up,.' machine, it t oo k several seconds acceleration, and other services to 32-bit • USB: Support for USB is apparently ',::.general':i'~dowi- Iri you'r ',Web::-bidrwjpbjr) between mouse dicks to change chanWindows programs. Direct3D, for examenhanced,although we could detect no :only'to'ji+'the-PC crash," TFf Tec~lqp';,'. nels and the process of auto-detecting obvious c h anges. A rep o r t at ple, allows programs such as games or 3D

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Better PLL control drive to another PC — a fairly common event here at the TCPTest Labs. We pulled the Software compatibility, in our tests, was not hard drive from the 166 MHz Pentium sys- as much of a problem. We performed intem and moved it to a machine configured depth tests of several programs known to with the same graphics card, keyboard, and "mess with the system," including internet mouse, and 40 MB RAM, aSound Blaster32 Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Office 2000,

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to foot the bill. For the rest of us, however, the CapShare will probably have to remain the kind of James Bond-style device that we can only. dream of owning, until the price drops as new versions of this technology

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which has really been growing on us in recent months. As well, the graphics-heavy interface is a little sluggish at times, and there were often glitches while moving windows around, even on our Pentium fi test

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patch, which it says should be available just after press time. Acid, in contrast, ~orked

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Sl' (in fact, Darren Schebek wrote the first known sample player for the Atari STIII the mid '80s while working for the author of this

article). The MOD files played snippets of digital audio in sequences, designed to sound like continuous waveforms — but without, of course, the enormous disk and memory requirements of waveform files. Indeed, such software players were computer counterparts to hardware devices on

ACID FIOIII:SOIIIC Found(Y http:llwww.sonicfoundry.corn Price: US$399 full version, US$99 (trimmed-down

version), or USES(DJor Rockversions) In addition to being the subject of one of the most dever and outrageous marketing campaigns in recent history, Sonic FouIIdry"s ACID is a great program. At its introduction at Comdex Fall '98 in Las Vegas, groups of

the market that performed similar sample- conservatively dressed "zealots" stood with p lapback tasks: the Fairlight CMI a n d megaphones outside the Sands Convention Synclavier at the high end, aIId instruments like the EMU Emulator and the KILloniq „Mirage at the low end. By the late '80s, sample players were common in the musical instrument market,

Centre and cried "Don't let your kids try

ACID! ACID is dangerous!" Elsewhere, bands of tie-died "hippies'" passedout pamphlets for

the pIoduct, uttering slogans like "ACID is cool maIL Everybody should try ACID." as companies sudI as Korg, Yamaha, Roland, Throughout the city, bumper stickers and and others quickly advanced the state of the bus-banners proclaimed "Beethoven never tried ACID," and to top it off, there were a a rt. Korg was a trendsetter with its M l , which added digital effects units that greatly number of what may best be described as slutimproved the tone of the samples played. ty-looking rock chicks with their big hair, And now, all these innovations and more leather pants and electric guitar cases, emblahave now found their way into computer zoned with still more ACID promo stickers. software sample players. We tested the U()$49 DJ and Rock genrespecific versions of the program, and were BIiXman StudiO PrO very impressed, despite some limitations. The From: Mixman full version of ACID, unlike the "style" verhttp: //www.mlxman.corn sions, isn't limited to eight tracks and it can Suggested retail price: US$89 add digital signal processing effects. The interMixman Studio Pro is a product that uses the face for all versions, though, is simply greatDJ/record player metaphor for mixing audio completely convenient and natural to use, tracks. Like Sonic Foundry's ACID {below), it (We did, however, find Mixman Studio Pro's can automatically match the beat, pitch and real-time recording of volume fades, panning tempo of samples and loops, making it and pitch alteration superior to ACID.) remarkably easy to develop a mix from a colWAV sounds can be previewed while an lection of samples. ACID tune is playing, and adding tracks (M In our tests, Studio Pro exhibited some loops is as simple as dragging and dropping. annoyances, particularly an apparent bug Sections of music can be drawn in anywhere, which caused an occasional "giitchs sound and it is easy to change volumes, pitch or that was not in the original source record- tempo. Several hundred megabytes of samings. The steps involved III loading up to 16 ples are provided with all versions of ACID. instruments seemed clumsy; As well, we While it doesn't have as extensive an export found it fairly inconvenient to alter the oI mixing capability as Mixman Studio Pro, pitch of sections — a process that involved its interface is a better music-making tool. switching between the sequencer and track ACID is highly recommended. editor portions of the program. Studio Pro allows you to Anon-destruc- LOOPlng neWS tivelys add effects (reverb, wah-wah, and Not to b e o u tdone, Cubase developer more) to your sounds. Unlike some pro- Steinberg has posted samples of its own grams, Studio Pro can apply up to 80 multi- l ooping extensions for Cubase in t h e effects presets — a feat that would be impossiReCycle format. In addition, Steinberg and ble on even the most powerful computers Rocket Networks announced a new set of when running a real-time effects "virtual stu- extensions to the program that allow users to dios environment such as Cubase VST or link and share projects using the Internet as Cakewalk Audio. a live connection. Studio Pro comes with a limited edition Steinberg also announced a new version

of Steinberg'a WaveLab for editing sounds, of ReCycle, the loop and groove sample ediand a great collection of samples to get you

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umping out a few weeks ahead of mat for saving Word or Excel files. Corel has Microsoft's june 7 launch of Office 2000, taken a slightly different approach with its Corel Corp. unveiled the next generation Web tool called Trellis. WordPerfect Suite also includes an extensible markup language (XML) editor, and a portable document for-

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deliberations, the CRTC announced it wiH not institute any new laws on cyberspace,

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British members of Parliament say they on their sites, may be shelved by legislators, hope the tempering of key escrow and other there remains a case for new rules to darify draft laws will help Britain cash in on online marketing. Key escrow had been proposed as a way to police freewheeling electronic trade. It will

not be enacted, according to insiders, when report also recommends the creation of a

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Miniaturization What gives, you might ask. Cranking out

provide good to excellent performance, especially when the lower cost is factored in. Also worth noting is the move to the "three-spindle" machine, even at the lower

Testing this month was done with BAPCo's Sysmark 98 benchmarking software. All machines were tested using their AC power

new technologies, while not easy, is still relatively easier when t h ere aren't s i ze restraints. Items that are new and cutting edge in the desktop world generally take a while to shrink down to a size suitable for

Most earlier entry-level notebooks tended to include only two, which meant the user had

would support it. Benchmarking scores generated with Sysmark 98 should not be compared with scores generated with the older Sysmark 32

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come away with a b etter value, even if the price is a bit higher.

The research involved in reducing components down to notebook size can be substantial and tends to be reflected in the costs. Like with the desktop PC world, however, what's new (and expensive) today trickles down into the area of what's affordable tomorrow. Higher-end notebooks can cost between $5,000 and $10,000, depending on how cuttingwdge the components are. From that perspective, a notebook in the $2,000 to $3,000 range starts to seem like a bargain, especially when the payoff is the freedom to

take the computer anywhere you go.

adapters. The display resolution was set to end of the range. A three-spindle notebook is 800x600 in 16-bit color depth for all noteone that contains the floppy, CD-ROM and books. We also tested in 1024x768 resolution hard drives in the case at the same time. (also 16-bit color depth) if the machines to choose between inserting the floppy or CD-ROM drive and had to reboot the system when they switched between the two.

(which we used in TCPLabTests prior to Although the ability to hot-swap compo- January 1999), as they are calculated using nents has gained popularity, many users prefer a machine with all of the components in the case simultaneously. Another trend we noticed this month is that more 14-inch Tpr displays are starting to drop into ttus "affordable" range. When we benchmarked the machines this month, we decided to set the display resolution to 800x600, which was the highest resolution

different base platforms that are not directly comparable. A special note about all of the specs listed below and in the chart: these represent the specs of the exact models tested for this roundup. Most of the manufacturers offer multiple variations of each of these models, allowing different sized hard drives, more

RAM, extra components (a modem, or a DVD common to all the machines tested. The instead of a CD-ROM drive, for example), or

machines that could handle the higher 1,024x768 resolution were benchmarked at It's worth noting that this month we saw a that resolution, too. Oddly enough, most few changes in the notebook field. In the machines that could handle both resolutions recent past, it seemed most notebooks were showed l i t tl e p e r formance d i fference built around either a Pentium or the newer between the two resolutions.

different operating systems. Readers are encouraged to check the manufacturers' Web ' sites to flnd out what options are available and what configurations would be most suitable for them. Keep in mind, though, that

Pentium II processor. While we saw both

All systems tested in this roundup included a standard floppy drive, CD-ROM drive,

Diversity rules

Know your needs AMD's K6-2 chip was used in a greater num- Something that continues to hold true for ber of models from a wider range of manu- portable computing is the need to make sure the notebook you select suits your needs — it facturers. The introduction of Intel's Celeron is harder and more expensive to upgrade a processor into the notebook world has notebook than a desktop PC. Notably, make allowed manufacturers to put even faster absolutely sure that the screen is of adequate chips in at a lower cost. It will be a while size and quality (especially since the boost in used in this month's batch of notebooks,

before mobile Pentium III chips begin to

resolution doesn't seem to affect perfor-

appear, but the fastest of the Celeron chips mance noticeably). The screen is the most

each of these variations will affect the pricing. two PC Card slots and at least one USB port. Variations are noted where they occur.

Pricing for each of the models was obtained from the manufacturers or their representatives. Because of the fast pace of t he market and t h e v o l atility o f t h e Canadian dollar compared to the U.S. dollar, pricing may be subject to some fluctuation. Continued on page 74

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weighing only 1.85 kg (4.1 lb.) with the battery In. Because the CD-ROM and floppy drives are

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• Processor: 40QMHzCeleron with 128KB cache. • RAM: 128 MB. • Hard drive: 4.3 GB, Multlmedla • The 14,1 inch TFTdisplay is quite good. • Includes a 4 MBATI RagePro graphics chip. • Sound is good, and users can attach head-

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In addition to the standard VGA,there is also an S-VHS output

ultraportability. Unfortunately, this slim

design comes at the expense of usability. Users Size and usablllty • At 31.75 cm (12.5 in.), the 8200 is a bit wider who need to access data on floppies er CD• than a number of other notebooks, but this width ROMs on a regular basis may want to take a pass on this machine, but those who use them only occasionally may love the unit's incredi-

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into the case, it becomes even more attractive for those who like to travel light.

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Processor. 300 MHz Pentium II. RAM: 32 MB. Hard drive: 4.8 GB. Thefl oppy and 24x CD-ROM drives come in one external housing, which is connected via a cable.

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At 31.2 cm (12.3 in.) this case is one of the widest in this review, but it accommodates a

more full-sizedkeyboard. •

At 5.8 cm (2.2 in.), the notebook is also one of the thickest machines this report. The case simultaneously contains the floppy drive, CD-ROMdrive and battery, which elimi-

Created with business users in mind, the 8400 has a Pentium II p rocessor, better graphics (though with a slightly smaller

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accommodates a fuller, more usable keyboard. The8200is aIso thinner than most notebooks. The case can simultaneously contain the floppy drive, CD-ROMdrive and battery, which eliminatescomponent swapping.

Set up as an entry-level notebook, the 8200 Powerwote nonetheless has plenty of power and goodies. It has a large screen, two USB ports (double the usual number), and one of the faster CPUs in this report. The one thing that is really missing on this model is a modem, which the users can add in for a bit extra. Otherwise, this is a nice little package.

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The battery, ffoppy andCD-ROMdrives are aa included in the case simultaneously, which eliminatescomponentswapping. The Trackpoint is very responsive and precise, making it one of the best —if not the bestpointer control devices going. Thereare noW indows keys on the ThinkPad's keyboard, which can make life a bit difficult for those who are accustomed to using them for manual menu selection.

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MTI is offering some new models in its Smartbook line, and the 3100C is the more powerful of the two we looked at this month. Although the processor is a Celeron and not a Pentium II, it still provides ripping performance with some of the highest benchmarking results this month. With the DVD drive onboard, and two USB ports, this is a great little machine.

Mll 0Ioplhoo05100C The VersaNote 270 is one of the more budget-oriented models in NEC's notebook line. Performance is reasonable, and it fits all the

components (including a modem!) inside the case. With a 1 2 .l -inch screen (and its 800x600 maximum resolution), it may fall short of the needs of more demanding users, but others might find that it's just the thing they need.

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• Processor. 333 MHz Celeron with 128KB cache. • RAM: 32 NIB. • Hard drive: 4 GB. Multimedia • The 12.1-inch screen is a bit small but the quality is good. The display is running on an S3Virgo MX graphics chip. • Sound is good. Users can atbrch headphones or •

a microphone. In addition to the standard VGA,the notebook also has S-VHSoutput.

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Although the screen is on the small side„ the 5100C is a good overall choice for those who don'tneed a largerscreen.Ithas a good selection of components, and though it's not as speedy as the 3100C, the performance is still quite good. In all, it provides a good value for those who want to save a bit of money.

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phones or amicrophonefor evenbetter quality.

At $2,999, this system sits at the upper limit of this month's "affordable" price range, but manages to throw in a lot of the quality seen in higher-end systems. The screen is nice and large, everything is induded in the case, it comes with its own carrying case, and the construction is sleek and sturdy. Users with a few extra dollars will probably want to have

headphones or a microphone for better quality.

favorite of customers and reviewers alike.

Processor. 300 MHzMobile Pentium II. RAM: 64 MB. Harddrwe:4.4 GB.This isa good size. TheCD-ROM dri ve can be upgraded to DVD drive for an extra cost

in addition to the VGA, there is also an S-VHS port Size and usability • Although lighter than the 150 model above, the 6020 is still about 3.3 kg (7.5 lb.), which may be on the heavy side for some users. For the most part, it's a manageable weight, though. • The case manages to fit in the CD-ROMdrive,

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may be lower than that of other machines, there are a number of other things that compensate for it. The keyboard is one of the nicest in th e notebook world, and the Trackpoint pointer control is one of the easiest to use. There are external controls for Multimedia screen brfghtneu and volume, and every• The 6020 features a crisp 14.2-inch TFT screen, thing seems to fit together well, making it a with an 8 MBATI graphics chip lurking beneath, machine that's a pleasure to use, even when for excellent display quality. it isn't tearing up the competition perfor• The sound is good. and users can attach headmance-wise. • • • •

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Although all of the notebooks we looked at this month are designed to be mobile, the PowerSlim is the most portable, with a thin design and the lightest weight of all the units tested. Because of this, the screen is smaller (only 12.1 inches), and the floppy and CDROM drives are externaL Granted, it's not ideal, but for users who don't need either while travelling, it may be the best overall solution. Even better, the internal modem makes it possible to keep in touch while on the road. Demanding users may want to take

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quality output even on plain copiergrade paperfrom the Z51. Lexmark officials say paper handling is the single biggest problem for

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cartridge designs (one for black mizing technology called ColorSmart IL The black cartridge can also be replaced with a photo cartridge, which provides more subtle color rendering. The HP DeskJet 810C/812C printers will cost around $299 and up, and include both a parallel and a USBport. The series

new printers, Hewlett-Packard Canada tic colors and improved image quality." offered some budget photo inkjet

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and the fact that it was achieved, in the case is rated at up to 6.5 ppm for black and 4.5 ppm for color. This line also uses HP's PhotoREt 11 color layering techof the Z11, with a $150 printer was all the nology. Although we haven't seen samples from this printer, more remarkable. we' ve been impressed with the output from other HP printers that use the PhotoREt II. According to HP, the technology HP photo IIesirJets Two weeks after Lexmark introduced its "blends tiny drops of ink resulting in a broad range of realis-

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t Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, Calif., in mid-May,

demo, Apple showed the new graphics engine performing real-time soft shadows behind text typed on top of a TIFF image, with full anti-aliasing. Later, an imported PDF graphic was rotated, resized and made partially transparent, all in real time. While very cool, we recall seeing similar features in a NeXT Dimension demonstration several years ago. It's also safe to expect a few complaints about the large size of email files with embedded PDF enclosures, at least until broadband Internet access is ubiquitous.

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number of developments in Apple Computing hardware and software. Among the highlights: • Apple announced that Dragon Systems' market-leading NaturallySpeaking speech-recognition software is coming to the Mac platform later this year. • Jo bs announced a 400 MHz version of its DVDequipped PowerBook G3 that is slightly lighter, at less than 2.7 kg (6 lb.), yet delivers better battery life — up to five hours from one battery, or a whopping 10 hours from a dual-battery configuration. • Apple has posted Mac OS 8.6 for free download by Mac OS 8.5 users. • Qu i ckTime Streaming Server software is available as "open source," which means other companies can add it to their server platforms for video and audiostreaming at no cost.

New names for 0$ components Although Apple says its development strategy hasn't changed since last years' WWDC, Apple has changed the names of a number of components in the new OS. Gone is the confusing Blue Box terminology that signified classic Mac OS compatibility mode in 'the Mach/BSD Unix-based OS X. Now, Apple simply calls it Classic. Another Apple technology given a new spin is the Mac OS X application interface model formerly known as Yellow Box, which is now referred to as Cocoa. (This is apparently unrelated to the Cocoa programming language for children Apple developed then quietly dropped just after former chief executive Gil Amelio was given the big

During the many demos in Jobs' two-hour keynote address, several never-before-seen technologies were unveiled. Apple announced that its own implementation of Open GL, a standard 3D graphics API, is now available for immediate download. A cool flight simulator called X-Plane, that was also demonstrated during the keynote, showed off some features included of the next release of Mac OS, code-named Sonata. Sonata includes an enhanced ver-

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QuickTime 4.0 video, MP3 audio and live streaming features were prominently featured during the keynote demos. However users unable to attend the live session or its remote satellite broadcasts may have been disappointed by the performance of the live Web cast of the event, streamed via QuickTime 4. Due to heavy server loads, the remote broadcast frequently broke up and, at one point stopped entirely. This isn't necessarily Apple's fault — it says its popular servers have served more than 200 terabytes of data since the Star Wars: Phantom Menacetrailers were first posted. The company took advantage of the current Star Wars mania among its target audience to show the movie preview in its entirety. It also got in a few digs at Microsoft, with another in its series of HAL 9000 spoofs. This time, HAL announced he was based on code developed in Redmond, Wash., and, while he was more advanced than HAL 95, confessed that he still lacked people skills, such as those found in the Mac OS. Predictably, this was a big hit with the crowd of

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lowing code gives you an idea of how you can use these settings for FONT-SIZE:

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<8 STYLE='FONT-SI ZE:XX-iARGE'>Thissentence is (CSS) properties. This month we' ll con- set in a double-extra big font size. clude our overview of this family of pmper- ties. The CSS font family consists of the fol- Thissentence is lowing elements: FONT-FAMILY, FONT-SIZE, set in a double-extra small font size.dB> FONT-STYLE,FONT-VARIANT and the parent property FONT, which can take on all of the You can also set the font displayed to a features of its "children." We discussed how value that is either one size larger or smaller FONT-FAMILY worked last month, so we will than the base font size value being used. This

pick up this month with the FONT-SIZE property.

Not surprisingly, the FONT-SIZEproperty is used to set the size of the text to be displayed. It can do this in any one of three ways: by specifying the size relative to the default browser font, relative to the last specified font size, or with a precise size value. In many ways it operates in a very similar way to the HTML tag when its SIZE attribute is used. The FONT-SIZECSSproperty, however, provides greater flexibility than its HTML equivalent.

FONT-SIZEcan take seven specific name values for setting the size of the font dis-

played. Ranging from largest to smallest, theyare:XX-LARGE,X-LARGE,LARGE,MEDIUM, SMALL,X-SMALL and XX-SMALL.These settings are equivalent to the tag using attributes ranging from SIZE='7" to SIZE="1'. The fol-

Some text displayed using the browseVsdefault font size.

OBLIQUE for those fonts that do not understand

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This line of text is set to FONT-SIZE:200%, so it should be twice the size of the default font size, <JP>

<H2 STYLE='FONT-STYLE: NORMAL'>This isa normal header<IH2>

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and then set the font size relative to that be, so that the value SMALL is equivalent to This property is fully supported in value (i.e. by using or ). This can be done in CSS by using UM. This means that you can expect the IC are recognized within Netscape Navigator.

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named values to be displayed differently This is one of those CSS properties where you

between the two major browsers.

really have to wonder why anyone bothered to create it. It was likely created to round out the various font family properties, but it is highly unlikely to replace the tag in usage, as the tag form is much easier to remember and to write than its CSS equivalent.

The FONT-STVlE property

The FONT-STYLEelement is designed primarily to tell a font that it should be displayed in italics. It takes one of three possible name Finally, FONT-SIZE can also take on a per- values:ITALIC,NORMAL and OBLIQUE. NORMAL centage value. The percentage value that is tells the browser to use the default (i.e. nonspecified is relative to that of the size of the italic) setting for a font, ITALIC and OBLIQUE The FONT-VARIANT Element base font, where a value of 100 percent are equivalent, and should display a font in FONT-VARIANT is a rather obscure name for a equals the size of the base font. A value of its italic (or "oblique" ) setting. CSS property that essentially determines 200 percent would make the font twice the In essence this property is designed to sup- whether or not a font should be displayed in size of the default font, as can be seen in the plant or at least augment the common italics small capital letters (better known as "small following code: HTML tag (), and provides the value Continued on page 102

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In brief free Internetstream tlcleer VANCOUVER (NB) — Alpha Trade.corn has taken the wraps off AlphaTicker, the first in a series of E-Gate Java-driven applications the firm plans to offer via its Web site. AlphaTicker, as the name implies, is a PC-based stock ticker. However, unlike the stock ticker on Pointcast, for example, the ticker program itself is coded in Java. This means the Java window can be dragged and dropped from a Web browser onto the user's desktop. According to the firm, users will be able to download the Java application and install in on their PCs. Like Pointcast, the ticker can then run independently of a live Internet connection, based on the most recently downloaded set of data. Users will then be able to auto-update the ticker each time they log on to t he Internet.

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According to Rafael De Noyo, Alpha Trade's chief technology officer, the ficker is the first in a series of offerings the company plans to release under its AlphaWare/E-Gate brand name. Other A l p haWare a p p lications planned for later this year include word processing, spreadsheet functions, and live streaming video.

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Contact management forphones BLUE BELL, Penn. (NB) — Phone.corn, the firm formerly known as Unwired Planet, has announced that a third-party compa-

ny, Practical Sales Tools Inc., has developed a contact manager application for its UP.Browser microbrowser for smart

phones. Phone,corn's microbrowser technolo-

gy has been designed as a low graphics facility for accessing Web-based or intranet data across a mobile phone link. Because the microbrowser is built into

the phone, and displays on the phone's screen, it allows the phone to interact with the cellular network and retrieve, as well as view, hypertext-based data.

The idea behind the PC-basedcontact manager, known as UnwiredContact, is that users of microbrowser-equipped mobiles can edit, create, and generally interact with a contact database in their office, even when they are miles away. According to Cindy Dahm, director of alliances with Phone .corn, UnwiredContact is unusual in not requiring users to synchronize their mobile database with the host database — instead, users view a window on the database

PracticalSales,httpJlwww.practical-sales.corn

but has individual panels for the creation of

each primary color (red, blue and green),

resentation equipment manufacturers continue to produce new, more refined and much simpler to use devices, while maintaining traditional price points. This has resulted in more businesses and individuals taking advantage of this once elite equipment. What follows is a rudimentary guide to the technologies you might encounter while

shopping for presentation hardware. I.CD overhead panels This projection technology is definitely dead according to Feizal Paroo, sales manager at Sharp's Audio Visual Ltd., "Nobody's making

using the p h one's microbrowser. them any more but, if somebody really wants one, they can be found after some difUnwiredContact is a server-basedapplicaficulty." Thus they are briefly included here. tion that the firm says allows handheld LCD (liquid crystal display) screens are devices to serve as true thin clients that the same as those found on notebook comcan directly access and modify informaputers and comprise acompound of complex tion in Symantec's ACT and SalesLogix molecules sandwiched between two layersof sales information system databases stored glass or plastic. These moleculesbehave like on company Web servers. crystals even though they form a liquid. UnwiredContact runs on a Windows They move and twist to block light or let it NT Web server with I5 3/4 or Netscape through according to electric charges sent Server~ permanent connection to the Internet or VPN (virtual private network) from the edge of the screen. But LCDs don't create "active" light is required. The software sells for US$4,995 for the server edition and US$195 per user licence.

three-panel type works much the sameway,

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which are combined into a single image by mirrors before being projected by the lamp If

you really w ant a n LC D overhead panel the price remains in the $900 to $1,500 range — if you can find one. But the main reason they are no longer made is that they offer poor image quality by current

LCD projectors have the advantage of being small, light and self-contained while

producing sharper, clearer, colorful images. Of course, three-panel LCDs produce better results on all counts. Price-wise, single-panel models costbetween $2,500 and $2,900, while three-panel projectors will start at

standards and limited brightness from the around $3,900. adjunct overhead projector. Overhead proJustenteringthemarketisan incarnation jectors were designed to shine light only through a t h i n t r a nsparency sheet. Brightness is lost when that same light is broadcast through the two sheets of glass and liquid layer of an LCD panel. Another downside to LCD panels, is that you have to count on an overhead projector being avail-

able for your presentation.

of this technology called reflective LCD, which projects the image onto a reflective chipset then through an LCD panel to add color before being projected out of the lens. The result is a high quality image from a

small and light machine, which has the potential to be manufactured on a standard production line.

Which is why self~ntained projectors "The real benefit [to producing LCD have for the most part replaced LCD over- reflective projectors in this way] is that head panels. there will be lots of competing vendors because a feature-rich device will end up LCD projectors being a fraction of the cost of a current LCD projectors come in two basic flavors: device," says Ben Joy, senior product maran economical single-panel and a more keting manager for InFocus Systems. expensive three-panel configuration. "Single-panel LCD stuff is basically dead Single-panel projectors work on the same principle as an LCD overhead panel but with a built-in overhead projector. Inside

backlighting system. The bulb in an over- the device is a tiny LCD panel (.9x1.3 in.)

head projector serves the same function for on which the computer-generated image is the transparent LCD panel when you' re mak- created before being projected through a

ing your presentation.

and lens,

magnifying lens by a powerful lamp. The

because they simply don't perform well enough for today's consumer demands, while three-panel LCD is at its pinnacle right now — though it's hard to get that technology into a machine under 10 lb.

[4.5 kg]. Reflective LCD will eventually Continued on page1 l4

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Tips from a presentation disaster veteran By Ceof Wheelwright

public speaker — it lies in the technology you use to support your presentation. In many cases, that technology is a portable LCD projector, a mobile computer, and a presentation prepared in Microsoft

t will be alright on the night. That's

the time-honored phrase used to describe the hopes held by those of

us who venture forth to perform in front of others. Whatever your fears, anxieties and misgivings about the performance you have to give, no matter how many times you have blown your lines in a rehearsal, these seven words keep you going. And that may be OK if you are a professional actor, where a small measure of preperformance jitters can be channeled into positive nervous energy that yields a vibrant and captivating portrayal. But for those who have to "perform" daily during formal busi-

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ness presentations, this notion just doesn' t

cut it. ,sex,'Ask r ln fact, the rehearsal for a big presentation — walking through the whole shebang for the benefit of your boss and co-workers — can be even more important than the final pr e s entation to cu sto m ers. Customers may be willing to f orgive a flubbed line or a missed cue, but your own Leaving aside those considerations, one senior executives could take a different of the biggest challenges you can face during attitude. s

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graphics," he says. "But it is a bad thing if you' re presenting film."

Brightneaa matters "What we chose as an industry, is that lumens are more important than cartoonlike color saturation. We' re in a race for

the D L P pro- lumens in our industry," Joy says. Different companies describe the brightjector — employs a completely different technology. DLP (digital light processing) ness of their projectors in different ways but projectors are based on a digital mlcromir- a good tip is that brightness should be ror device (DMD) chip developed by Texas expressed in units called ANSI lumens. The Another new alternative

Instruments. This chip is covered by millions of micro-

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turers overestimate the brightness of their projectors. They know the consumer isn' t

and bulb design (which reduce heat and power requirements) have made it possible to put all this power in such a smafl package. projector type best suits your needs and Unfortunately, it s e s timated p rice—is not nearly as diminutive. higher the ANSI lumen number is, the then budget for the brightest available in US$7,0QQ brighter the image will be in larger and/or that range. Brightness tip more brightly lit rooms. What you are projecting your images onto Though it's a measure that's difficult to Other shopping tips size, weight and especially cost are all

affected as these factors are maximized. That means it is best to determine which

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pixel. To form the image, the mirrors turn a certain way to reflect or deflect light as instructed by the computer. The advantage of this technology is that, being reflectiv, the image is usually brighter while, being chip based, it is smaller and lighter than a

imagine without visual examples, it's fair to say that 400 ANSI lumens is adequate for a normally lit conference room with a seaflng capacity of up to 12 people. A classroom situation might require 600 ANSI lumens. A

three-panel LCD technology. However, the large, ballroom-sized conference room entry-level price for a DLP unit is about might require a projector capable of 1,000 ANSI lumens or more. The technology is $5,500. James Chan, product manager for flat- now approaching 2,000 ANSI lumens. However, Paroo warns that two projecpanel and p resentation systems for ViewSonic Corporation has a clear preference tors touting the same ANSI lumen value for three-panel LCD projectors, which he will not necessarily provide the same says have better color reproduction than brightness or picture quality because a lot

There are many other things to consider when buying a projector starting with resolution. Determine if a projector is capable of SVGA f600x800] or XGA [1,024x768j resolution, and which resolution you require. SVGA is sufficient for use with an older

can make a big difference in the final brightness of your images. A 600 ANSI lumen projector will look very good even on the average white wall. But Paroo says a new product, Instant Theatre, can maximize the impact of your projections. Instant Theatre is a small

model laptop computerbecause most are only capable of this resolution anyway. Interestingly, most SVGA projectors can perform a compression routine to reproduce 1,024x768 resolution and a lot of pre-

mylar screen packaged in a tube with telescopic legs, like home-movie screens of yore. But at 1.35 kg (3 lb.), Instant Theatre is much lighter and more portable.

sentation software is resolution independent so, when you go into slideshow mode, DLP. The latter's reflective nature causes depends on the optical design of the pro- the slides «re full screen regardless of the resolution setting. But resolution makes a some loss of color saturation. Feizal Paroo jector: "There is a genuine difference in brightness and quality between brands big difference in price. An SVGA projector agrees. But Ben Joy of I nFocus — an industry even when they might have the same spec- can run anywhere from $2,000 to $6,000, leader in DLP projections systems —suggests ifications o n pap e r, " he exp l a ins. XGA projectors will list anywhere from the color saturation of LC D pr o jectors "Brightness on paper doesn't necessarily $10,000 and up! "Many customers are now upgrading (which the company aho produces) is "car- equal brightness in the real-life situation. "That' s Customers shouldn't just shop based on from the SVGA to XGA projectors because toon like" because it's overdriven, not a bad thing if you' re doing computer brochures because a lot of times manufac- they' ve upgraded their laptops to those higher resolutions too," according to Paroo. "The reason you don't want to run the

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the extreme with its new LT-330 Dragonfly actually going to measure it. Other compa- DLP projector, which has XGA capabilities nies are more conservative and list a value and casts 650ANSI lumens. At 2.2 kg (4,9 lb.) closer to the genuine brightness. It is best to this m achine w i l l be t he sm a l lest (2.5x8.75x9.75 in.) and lightest available (it insist on a demonstration." But, where it might seem logical to sim- is due for release in June). Joy says recent ply go for the brightest possible projector, improvements in DLP technology and lamp

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cathode ray tube (CRT), LCD or gas plasma technologies. CRTs are, of course, the standard TV-like monitors we' ve all lived with for years — they' re just making them bigger these days, LCD versions are only now entering the large-screen category because recent improvements in the manufacturing process have made bigger panels more affordable. Because of the developments in projector

technology, monitors are gradually being high-res compression routine on an SVGA being phased out for use in presentations. laptop is that you have to turn the screen of the laptop off so you can't use it as a reference," says Paroo. "A lot of presenters need to use the laptop's screen as a reference — it's like a lifeline= so they' ll spend the extra money to get the capability of high-res projection with simultaneous high-res monitoring." The next important factor in buying a projector is the type of presentation environment you' re working in and how much control you have over it. Calculating the

Gas plasma monitors, however, are the exception. Despite the high cost of this technology, there is growing interest in using these displays for presentation purposes. Gas plasma begins with a sheet of glass onto which a fine grid of raised ribs is applied, according to an NEC release. A coat-

ing of red, green and blue phosphor material is deposited into the spaces on the grid. Each

set of three adjacent cells, one of each color, constitutes a pixel. A second glass plate is

required number of ANSI lumens is easy if placed on top of the assembly, trapping a you' re going to be making all your presen- gas — helium, neon o r x e non — inside. tations in the same environment. But for Electrodes are embedded in the glass plates. those taking their show on the road, balSelectively applying voltages to the elecancing brightness against cost, size and weight i s a m o r e c o mplex equation. However, 600 ANSI lumens is considered plenty for most business presentation environmehts. The weight of a projector is another serious consideration, especially if you plan to mount it on a wafl or ceiling, or travel with it. If doing the latter, the frequency and mode of travel should also be considered when deciding how much you are willing

trodes causes the gas inside to discharge ultraviolet light, which in turn causes the phosphor to fluoresce, sending colored light out to the viewer. The individual cell structure and selective voltage technology. enable the plasma display to produce even illumination and exceptional image quality at large

screen sizes. The key difference between LCD and this technology is that gas plasma actually emits light while LCD requires backlighting to

broadcast images. The image produced by gas plasma is ultraportable, which is less than 4 kg. (8.8 exceptional — as is the price. A large (20 inch) lb.); portable, which is between 4 and 7 kg LCD might cost a few thousand dollars, to tote around.

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an external VGA display. While all of those features were great, the real difference from my previous encounters with Windows CE systems lay in the stability of the applications, and the breadth of their abilities. The MobilePro comes with Pocket versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, Access and PowerPoint.

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Word, for example, now comes with built-in spell-checking, document outlining and multiple levels of "undo." If Microsoft would only put a "wordhount" feature (an essential

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switching off by mistake. But that leads me to what is probably the best part about the recent crop of Windows CE machines — the ability to switch them on and off at will without losing data. Not once during my test of the MobilePro did I have to reach for the "re-set" button. And every time I switched the machine off then on again, it would reli-

This is a huge contrast to my notebook 700 and PhotoPC 750z digital cameras. the desktop via the Series 5, then erased the computer, which can take several minutes to Support for this memory standard also data on the card. I could then insert it in the start from a "cold boot" and is often a bit

CE machines, it was also very useful to be able to swap CompactFlash memory cartridges, allowing me to use a single cartridge to store files from three different mobile

ably return to where I left off, without me hav- computers (the MobilePro, the Jornada anda ing to wait more than a split second.

meant I didn't have to install multiple data

MobilePro, the Jornad, or the digital cam-

flaky when I use the built-in "resume" mode. transfer applications on my desktop comput- eras to store data from any of those devices. With this latest generation of Windows er to store files from the digital cameras, the At any rate, I hope to be able to report

Psion Series 5) along with Epson's PhotoPC

handheld computers or the MobilePro. In fact, I was able to use the simple file transfer utility that came with my Psion Series 5 to copy files to and from the desktop. I merely inserted the CompactFlash card into the Psion, moved whatever was on the card to

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finally be "ready for prime time." 0 Avoiding presentation gotchas Continued from page116 errors and misplaced graphics then shine down on an audience of hundreds of people. In an effort to help out at a presentation about a planned construction project, I once made this very mistake. In one slide, we were due to have a number of architectural drawings that showed off the new building. The only problem was, that when we got to that slide, PowerPoint was having real problems displaying the graphic. In a desperate attempt to get the graphic on the screen, I opened up the raw data file in Microsoft Photo Editor only to find that the

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n the June issue of TCP,I described NetWare for Small Business 4.2 — a version of NetWare 4.2 optimized for a single-site

small office (50 or fewer users) that is bundled with a suite of Novell and third-party

server-'based applications, I attended the launch of this product at Fail Comdex '98 in Las Vegas in November. Since NetWare 5.0 had already shipped in September, the obvious question for the Novell presenters at Corndex was, "Why base the Smafl Business package on NetWare 4.2, and not the latest version'?" There were sev-

eral reasons given, but the most plausible seemed to be that, because of the integration work and testing required, it was too early to

release a version of the suite based on NetWare 5,0. We were told to expect it somet ime in l 9 9 9 . W h i l e writing this column, I w as n o t i f ie d t ha t

Novell Small Business Suite 5.0 had entered beta testing, so it is rea-

sonable to expect a version to ship by the end of the suinmer.

Replacing NetWare 4.2 with 5.0 is not the o nly change i n t h e Small Business suite. An interesting, and perhaps most significant, change is in the name — replaci ng N e t Ware wi t h

Novell. Other changes include the upgrading (or

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less than 20 percent, add RAM, Choose Cache Utflization, then Long Term Cache Hits, and if below 90 percent, add RAM. excellent communications and collabora- Choose Cache Utilization, and if too many tion package, supplying much more than dirty blocks increase rapidly while you' re just email. It doesn't have the high-end monitoring, add RAM. development capabilities that have made Adding a new hard disk is a common Lotus Notes so popular in some environ- source of RAM requirement problems. After ments, but it can be described as groupvrare all, one of the parameters that influences RAM requirements is the size of disk space without abusing that term. GroupWise works best with a dedicated being cached. It can be tempting to add RAM and a new Internet connection. That represents a higher monthly cost than hard disk at the same time. But, while seem-

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d epending on y o u r point of view) of several appfications in th e suite. Novell didn' t

many offices are pre- ingly the most efficient approach, it is p ared to p ay. A n I nternet

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to address the inability of the SMTP protocol to function between dial-up connections

between two SMP servers." It goes on to "headaches" associated with EfRN, This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I think it's wise to consider how you would implement GroupWise before committing to it.

NetWare and Windows NT is that the latter

offers a much better choke of server-based applications. Creating NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) to run on NetWare is a more difficult programming feat than creating a program with similar features to run on Windows NT Server. Novell has decided that the long-term solution for this problem is to support Java applications on N etWare 5.0. At some point in the future, there may be a good choice of such applications, but for new, if your needs are not met by the applications in NetWare for Small Business 4.2, you must add an application server to your

problems in NetWare. Unfortunately, NetWare doesn't give

dear error messages if there's a problem with the RAM. Error messages are generated, but they can be difficult to associate with faulty RAM, In fact, the most common error messages are consistent with a disk problem. So„ to isolate potenflal conflicts, you shouldn' t do the two upgrades at the same time. Do

one upgrade, then if the server runs successfully for a few days, do the other. 0

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include details on price or upgrade programs, point out the performance and security but they will be available at the Novell Web

u s i ness suite requires, but they are inaccurate. The best fraught with danger. This is because NetWare approach is to enter the command Load is more demanding of RAM than other operMonitor on the console of the server and ating systems. Just because your new RAM examine some statistics. Choose Resource passes the computer's power-on self-test Utilization, then Cache Buffers, and if it is doesn't mean it's good. It can still cause

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LAN. Depending on the server-based applications you need, that wouM mean running Windows NT, Linux, or some version of Unix. All of these platforms present more applications than NetWare. Only offices that want to get by with a single

One of the reasons for NetWare's speedy performance is the way it uses RAM for caching. Without sufflcient RAM, two different kinds of problems can arise: NetWare's performance declines dramatically, and worse, it can become unstable. Versions of

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and advanced VB users, we have provided a reading list of books. In addition, we will

browser, in Word, Lotus 123, or other appli- suggest additional reading in each tutorial from two of those books: Peter Wright's BeginningVLTlftglBasic II for beginning users and Visual Bfgsic6 Bluck Bookfor advanced users.Now, without further ado, welcome to Visual Basic. As we have pointed out in the introduction to these tutorials, VB and its follow up, Visual Basic for Applications (abbreviated as VBA, which is the scripting language for Microsoft Office Suite and about 100 other major Windows applications) pioneered and

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aster our o cuments By Helen Bradley

n response to reader requests, this month we' ll look at the benefits of using your word processor's master document function when preparing large documents. A master document allows you to manage a hrge project as a series of smaller documents. Each of the smaller or suMocuments can be edited separately, then brought together for final printing. Or, you can edit aII the documents by opening and expanding the master document. This allows you, for example, to move text from one subdocument to another. I' ll d i scuss m aster d o cuments in Microsoft Word 97. These features work similarly (but not exactly the same) in other versions of Word. I' ve also included some brief starter notes for master documents functions in Corel WordPerfect and Lotus Word Pro.

The choice of styles is critical to the process. Heading 1 is the title of the master

openedasyou would any otherdocument by

opening it an d selecting the Expand

selecting File, Open and locating the file

Subdocuments button. To create a table of

document and Heading 2 will be the starting point for every suMocument that will be created. Heading 3 is the heading style for subheadings within the suMocument. When you are creating your own master documents, stick to using these headings for these purposes. So, there should only be one Heading I in your document, and each Heading 2 will become the beginning of a new subdocument. Lower level headings will be subheadings in the subdocuments. Remember that you can always change the heading styles so you' re not stuck with their default appearance. Styles should be

name anddicking Open. contents, for example, position your cursor Other people in your office, or elsewhere, where the table of contents is to appear and can open and edit a subdocument without select Insert, Index and Tables and select the needing access to the other suMocuments or Table of Contents tab. Select a style from the the master document. list and click OK to create the table. You' ll probably find, even if you' re the If you view your master document in only person working on a document, that it Master Document view and select the is easier to open a single subdocument that Show/Hide 'I button on the Standard toolrequries editing than it is to open the master bar you' ll see the section breaks that appear document. between subdocuments. You can use this You will need to use the master docu- view to control the final layout of your docment, however,when moving or copying ument. A section break labeled Continuous data from one document to another. To do means the text following the section break this, open the master document and select will appear immediately after the break A

changed in the master document so they will override any style definitions in subdocuments. One of the benefits of using master docuS elect all t h e t e xt

ments in Word is that the styles in each subdocument will be "overridden" by the styles in the master document. So, provided you use the same style names in all your subdocuments, the formatting will be consistent

from (and including) Toolbars to the end of the document and select the Create Subdocument button on the Master

w ithin the master document when it

Document toolbar. Word uses the style of the first

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assembled and printed. You can also format the master so page numbers flow correctly line of text you have through the subdocuments correctly, and cmss references and footnotes are automatically updated within the master document.

Proviso While Word 97 overcomes many of the mas-

ter document problems found in earlier versions of the word processor, it's by no means faultless. There is an extensive troubleshooting section in Word 97 Help devoted to mas-

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Knowledge Base article) if you send an email Savln9 your documents When you save your master document all Another article (Q164458) covers the the subdocuments are automatically saved in issue of corrupt master documents and con- separate files at the same time. Word also to mshelpCemicrosoft.corn that includes the article number (Q180142) in the subject line.

names each subdocument using the first few

them. You can download it from http: //sup words from the subdocument. For ease"'of portmicrosoft.corn/supporI/downioads/LNP1 52.asp. working, you should save a master document (and, consequently, its subdocuments) in a Creatlni a master document You can create a master document from scratch or by assembling a range of existing documents. To do this, you' ll use Word's Master Document view and a process which is similar to Word's Outlining function. To start a Master Document, create a new document and select View, Master Document

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separate folder. To do this select File, Save and locate the folder to use or select the Create New Folder button. Give your master document a name and click Save. Now select File, Close to close your file.

choose Continuous or New Page as well as specifying that text following a section break

appear on an odd or even page. Be careful if you rename or move a subdocument. Unless you do this from within

the master document, 'Word won't know where thedocument has been moved to and it won't be able to find the document when '

you next open the master document. If you need torename or move a subdocument, open the master document and click on the the Expand Subdocuments button to see the subdocument you want to rename to open it document contents. You can then copy or in its own window. Select File, Save As and move text as you would in any regular Word give the file a new name or save it to a difdocument. ferent folder (or both). Once you' ve done When you' re working on a master docu- this, you can switch to the master document ment with the subdocuments expanded, you and close it (make sure you save the subdocmay prefer to switch to another view such as ument first, however). Normal view (select View, then Normal) to work on the document. This is a more famil- Printing options iar environment than the Master Document As a rule of thumb if you select Print when view for most people. your master document is open you' ll print out a copy of what is currently visible on Other options your computer screen. For example, if the Often you' ll want to add a subdocument to a subdocuments are collapsed and only the

master document. To do this, open the master document an d s elect t h e E x pand SuMocuments button. Put your cursor in the place you want the new subdocument to appear (this should be between suMocuTo see how Word displays your master documents not within one) and click the Insert ment as a title with hyperlinks to each sub- S ubdocument button. Locate the file t o document, select File, then Open. Notice insert and click OK. that the title is the only text that appears in You can remove a subdocument from the

and type the following text using these styles, which you can select from the Style the master document — all the other text is dropdown list on the Formatting toolbar: contained in the subdocuments. To open a subdocument click on the Text format as this style: hyperlink and the file will open in a separate Word 97 tools Heading 1 window for editing. You also have the option Taoibars Heading 2 of opening the contents of suMocuments Using Heading 3 within the master document by switching to Creating Heading 3 the master document and selecting the Shortcut Keys Heading 2 ExpandSubdocumentsbutton. Using Heading 3 Creating Heading 3 Sharini the work Menus Heading 2 One benefit of using master documents is Using Heading 3 that you can share the work on a project Creating Heading 3 with other people. Each suMocument can be

page. You can alter a section break by opening the master document and select Expand Subdocuments. Move the insertion point so it appears immediately after the desired section break and select File, Page Setup, and select the Layout tab. From the Section Start dropdown list select the type of section break you want. From the Apply To: dropdown list select This Section and click OK. You can

h yperlinks are viewable, then only hyperlinks will be printed.

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If you select Expand Subdocuments and you can see the text from each of the subdocuments, the entire document and the

styles and other options such as page numbers wfll print. If you' re editing a subdocument in its own window and you select Print, only that

master document by first selecting the subdocument with styles and other docuExpand Subdocuments button, then select ment options specific to that document will the subdocument's icon and select the print. Remove Subdocument button. This removes the subdocument and moves the text it contained into the master document. If you want to delete the suMocument, select the

subdocument icon and press the Delete key. Similarly you can move a subdocument by clicking and dragging its Subdocument icon to the new position in the master document. You can easily create indexes and tables of contents from your master document by

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WordPerfect uses the same terminology as Word, induding master documents and subdocuments. Style definitions in the master

document override those in the subdocuments. However, WordPerfect has a simpler approach to master documents and doesn' t display them in Outline format, which makes them a little easier to work with.

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You can create a master document by simply creating a regular WordPerfect file. Wherever you want to add a subdocument select File, Document, Subdocument and select the document you want to create a link to and click Include. Repeat this for all documents you want to add as subdocuments.

documents to view and click OK. Collapse the s ubdocuments b y s e l ecting F i l e, Document, Condense Master. You' ll see a dialog with all the files listed twice — once for closing and once for saving. Select OK to save and close all the subdocuments. To remove a subdocument you' ll need to reveal the codes in the master document

lotiis WoeiPro t tt Master documents in Word Pro are treated a little differently than in WordPerfect and Word. Each subdocument is a separate division in the master document, and as each file uses its own SmartMaster, you can cus-

To create a master document, select Create, Master Document. Select the Add button, locate a file to add to the master document and click Open. Click OK when all the files you want to include in the master document have been added. You can also add internal divisions to your master document by selecting Create, Division.

tomize styles in each file. You can create (View, Reveal Codes) and click and drag the indexes and tables of contents across the Each document will be accessible by clicking its tab. If the tabs are not visible, select y our m a ster d o c u ment s e l ect F i l e , subdocument's code out of the Reveal Codes entire document and print with sequential View, Set View Preferences, select the Show Document, Expand Master. Select the sub- window. page numbers. tab, and select the Show Divider Tabs checkbox and clickOK. Every time you open the master document Word Pro will open all the external files (subdocuments)„ and any changes you make to the master document will be reflected in the subdocu0 e To display the text of subdocuments in

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sheet problemsaffecting the accuracy of yourwork andhow youcanavoidthem.Helen Bradleycanbe contacted at helenOhelenbradley.corn.

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Established companies often do more to drive away their bright

young minds than any of the govemment policies they criticize. One of the biggest incentives for a

crackerjack programmer or engineer to leave Nortel for, say, an a big secret: the Greater Toronto Cone global Kitchener/ Waterloo area west of from a desire for preferential tax Internet startup company is that a Area (GTA) may be the third most M uch to the annoyance of the 26 Toronto, a hotbed of high-tech breaks, grants, and other lucrative little leading-edge company may significant technology centre in million Canadians who don't live activity, tends to act as asuper-sub- favors. All over the world, hugely be willing to offer equity in the ing region of suburban sprawl hides

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San Francisco Bay region of California is, of course, the first.

collective opinion of itself as the pendent entity. out of governm ents asa formof centre of the universe now has The most ironic aspect of the economic extortion. "Pay up or I' ll more legitimacy, at least in the recent survey, however, was that at shoot these jobs," would be one Canadian technology field. The the exact same time it was released, way to characterize this strategy. reasons for this are many: it has a some of Canada's top technology Unfortunately, in a global econconcentration of highguality uni- executives were warning that they omy full of g ravenous versities, a deep pool of highly might have to pull out of Canada for jo~ a t i ng private investment, skilled technical professionals, in order to remain globally com- this tactic increasingly works like a excellent transportation and tele- petifive. charm for multinationals playing com infrastructure, proximity to hardball. However, it's not all a simthe eastern and central U.S. marple case of corporate welfare burns kets, job opportunities for skilled at the trough. According to Roth, it migrants from COOT and abroad, isn't just corporations and money and many more. that flit around the world. It's also To be fair, Toronto has also had highly talented individuals.

when the company "goes public" with its initial public offering (IPO) of stock. Bigger, stodgier companies, run by accountants and lawyers, look coldly on sharing

the luck of becoming the technology metropolis of Canada somewhat by default. Montreal was Canada's original cosmopolitan centre, but the last 30 years of debate over

more common for Canadian tech- .

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begin to sense Toronto's quiet achievement, there are indications

that its invisible golden age may be threatened.

For the past couple of years, Toronto has enjoyed a sustained economic boom that only came after an equally sustained economic recession. "New economy" sectors, induding high tech, entertainment, financial services and tourism, have contributed mightily to that boom. Toronto needs some fat years to try to make up for the lingering debt, cutbacks and unem-

ployment assodated with the 1992 recession. A success%Toronto is alsogood news for the rest of Canada, since the GTA generates a disprOportioate amount of the export and tax revenues that help propel the nation's economy and fund its social programs. There are more than 3,400 technology firm in the GTA, indud-

urb of Toronto more than an inde-

profitable companies squeeze favors form of stock to the new employee

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Leadingwdge technologycompanies are absolutely dependent on that rarest of natural resourcesexceptionally creative h uman thoughts. According to R o th, ®ebec's future have stymied its Don't tax me, don'ttax thee, Nortel loses up to 500 engineers economy and growth and it appears tax that man behind the tree each year to U.S. competitors,

ownership with "the hired help."

In fact, they are much more likely to downsize and cut back Big fish eat little fish There is only a relative handful of

Canadian companies such as Nortel that have becomeplayers on a world scale while retaining a

strong Canadian identity. It's much nology companies to eagerly sell out to a larger company (usually American) when they reach a certain size and level of success. Former Canadian t e chnology superstars such as Delrina, Alias,

incapable of catching up. No matter On April 27, John Roth, the chief largely for economic reasons—the

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N o rthern pay there is better and taxes lower.

ratism/sovereignty issue, it seems very unlikely that Montreal will ever again be more than a regional centre of modest significance in

Telecom (Nortel), one of the few truly global Canadian brand names, joined a chorus of senior Canadian business executives continental high-tech terms. claiming that high federal and Similarly, the pockets of tech- provincial taxes and other "businological activity in other regional ness unfriendly" policies were centres, such as V ancouver, putting pressure on Canadian techCalgary, Ottawa and Halifax, will

find it hard to gain the critical mass ing thousands of Canadian firms of to challenge Toronto, much less all sizes, and hundreds of Canadian Silicon Valley, New York, Los head offices of multinational (most- Angeles, Boston and other North ly American) firns. American, centres. Even the

nology firms to leave this country.

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The IPO frenzy Once again, there is a mix of media spin and truth in this argument. While it's true that a world dass nerd can often command a higher salary and pay lower taxes in the U.S., it's also true that among the breaks businessleaders are demanding are tax exemptions on stock options. Theseextra financial incentives usually benefit senior executives or shareholders, much more than the actual creative talent.

they couldn't refuse from a U.S. giant. Toronto is doing something right as far as offering an environment for the creation of world-

beating new technology. It would b e better to rationally try t o

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