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The ful new puzzle game edition of Encarta is E N C A R I A enough for more than half of Canadian famr' j j j company is now called Pandora's Box, ilies to have purchased at least one. Not coin- called R e ference which was develaped Continued on page 22 cidentally, these companies have aII pro- Suite 2000. It is a duced some really nifty personal computing products just in time for this holiday season. Microsoft, IBM, Sony, Apple, Hewlettn terms of personal computing, convergence today is expressed in the increasing Packard, Intel, and 3Com, despite radical difabifity of even an ordinary, plain vanilla ferences in business modelsand individual PC to inexpensively handle many more product lines, have all retained a very strong forms of network connectivity and digital interest in personal, consumer digital techmedia than before. Without much cost or nology, as well as higher end professional or trouble, anyone who wants to can use a cur- corporate markets. Aside from simply rent PC to create or playback high quality addressing an existing consumer mardigital video, generate fantastically good 3D ket, these companies all have longgame graphics in real time, get connected to term agendas. Producing attractive a high bandwidth Internet service or local consumer products helps them build area network (LAN), or publish on the Web. brand recognition that carries over Although still a longway from approach- into the corporate market. They also seeconvergence as the ing the ease of use of consumer electronics like TVs or audio CD players, today's PC has major opportunity for future growth, and benefited from recent efforts to make it sim- consumers buying into convergence in their pler to use. Innovations such as Plug and personal lives, and for their kids, will be the Play, universal serial bus (USB), and PC Cards key to making it a reality. Here"s what they' d for notebook computers, have all taken some love to put under your tree this year:

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home and small business suppliers. IBM has also just released its World Book

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ironic, since a decade ago, the paper version of The World Book Encyclopedia ranked among the most popular and well-known reference titles. IBM Canada is cur r e ntly showing off its vision of the wired home via a wired mobile home — a spedally fitted bus that contains a full home networking solution. At the moment, the full implementation of an IBM-style home network and automation solution requires the services of a professional solution provider and a fair amount of money, but IBM believes it is establishing a leadership position in the next frontier of networking.

At a more mainstream level, IBM's Aptiva line of consumer PCs, and its ThinkPad I series notebooks are popular choices for

Sony: The king of convergence Three years ago at the annual Comdex computer show in Las Vegas, I was stunned by the depth and breadth of the technology offerings at the Sony booth. Like some kind of computer age Aladdin's cave, Sony's space was piled high with digital cameras, mass storage media, new digital video products, personal computers, state-of-the-art monitors, and all kinds of portable gadgets that married consumer audio and video with digital computer features. Unlike the computer companies that are trying to get better at integrating other media, Sony is a media company that invent-

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(http: //p roducts.sony.ca/prod further blur the distinction between video cal) has a product line that includes the beautiful Sony VAIO notebook PCs, digital video palmcorders, the Memory Stick data storage cartridge„ the Mavica digital camera li ne, Trinitron CRT monitors, CD-R and CDR W drives, D V DROM recordable driv es, a nd So n y ' s Funmail CHI, a v ery good home video-email system.

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The digital camera and all-in-one markets are also heavily populated with competitors. Xerox, in particular, is now active in the all-in-one segment, with several new models, including the XK35 color flatbed device.

ital media technologies, including FireWire high speed connectivity, USB, MPEG QuickTime, and ATI graphics. Although still facing longterm challenges in a Microsoftdominated universe, Apple's

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good entry-level, do-it-yourself home network. • Th e Barbie and Hot Wheels "theme" PCs were also deve oped by Intel and Mattel, and manufactured by Canada's Patriot Computer Corp. These two home PC models are aimed at specific demographic groups, young girls and young boys. While some might complain the girly Barbie PC and "ruff tuff" Hot Wheels PC reinforce sexist stereotypes (and they might be right), these products are basically an extension of kid play reality into the PC market. Very economically priced, the two Celeron-based systems are packed to the gills with Mattel entertairunent software. The Barbie PC comes with the Barbie digital camera as well, while the Hot Wheels PC comes with steering wheel and pedal game peripherals. According to Intel

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past, with s t reet p rices of around $260 to $350 or less (older end-of-line CD burners are, periodi-

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making system backups before reformatting the hard drive or updating the operating system of the PC. The advantage of an external CD burner is that it can be used on multiple machines in an office, or taken on the road • 4 I with a notebook PC. The disadvantages of an playback. external drive are somewhat slower speeds, You can get an intermore tricky installation (a parallel port nal DVD drive for device attachment is still not ideal; USB around $300. If you would likely be easier), and potential for have reasonable computer skills, you may be able to install able CD technolgy: CD-R (CD-recordable) breakage. one using a DVD drive kit. However, and CD-RW (CD-rewritable). The former Other removabledrives for another $50 to $70, a dealer will allows you to record on the media only usually install a drive for you. To once, while the latter, like a floppy diskette, By comparison, all the other consumer mass play full screen MPEG-2 movie allows you to erase previously recorded data storage formats may have advantages of their titles, however, your PC will also and store new data on the same media, own, but can't match the price/performance need a good current graphics card More drives these days offer both CD-R and of do-it-yourself CDs. The Iomega Zip drive has been the tradithat specifically features hardware CD-RW capability. Both can store more and/or software support for MPEG-2. than 600 MB of data on a single disc. tional leader in consumer removable mass It seems certain that the "next big thing" However, the media are not interchange- storage, but it has a relatively high per in mass storage will be recordable DVD. If able — you can't use a CD-R disc for a CD- megabyte cost (15-20 cents), and not all other PCs have a Zip drive, which leads to compatibility and performance issues can be RW recording. Microsoft chief Blank CD-R discs cost between $1.70 and data portability problems. The Imation executive Bill Gates remi- settled and prices drop further, recordable nisced that when he first saw a demonstra- DVD could begin to replace recordable CD $3 each. CD-RW blanks are around $10 each. SuperDisk (also called the LS-120) has the tion of CD-ROM technology around 1990, technology in the next couple of years. For The per megabyte storage cost works out to advantage of backward compatibility with now though, a CD burner is still a great bet. be around 0.5 cents for CD-R and 1.5 cents the 3.5-inch floppy format, and has a somehe thought every computer user would what lower per megabyte cost than Zip carfor CD-RW. Another thing CD immediately rush out and buy a CD-ROM tridges. However, the SuperDisk is slower, Recordable CD burners have going drive. In fact, it took nearly five years for the noisier, and a bit more fragile than Zip techCD-ROM drive to become a standard feature Recordable CD drives, or CD burners as they f or them i s nology. in desktop PCs, and another year or two for are popularly known, have been around for a that virtually Other less common mass storage it to become similarly common in note- few years now, but t hey have steadily all current PCs options include the Iomega Jaz 1 GB or 2 books. become a better bargain. Initial problems h ave a C D GB cartridge drives, the Iomega According to some industry analysts, with non-standard disc formats and incom- ROM drive for Click! 40 MB mini th e DVD has finally broken through as a main- patibility between different recordable disc reading disc, Com p a ct recorded discs. vendors have, for the most part, been solved. stream technology this year. Sales of conFlash memory modMajor vendors sumer DVD players this year have increased Installing a CD burner is also, generally, a u les (common i n bu r n ers sixfold over sales the previous year. DVD dri- good deal easier than it was a couple of years of C D digital cameras), and i nclude Ri c o h , ago. ves are becoming increasingly common on the Sony Memory mid-priced desktop and even notebook PCs. Most compellingly, however, recordable Mitsumi, Sony and Stick. Q Apple Computer embraced DVD in its latest CD drives are now far cheaper than in the Hewlett-Packard. We as ATI now offer MPEG-2 (the standard video f ormat for D V D movies) digital video

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A variety of add-ons for the sophisticated notebook nomad By Ross MacDonald ortable peripherals have been around as long as portable PCs, as entrepreneurial engineers addressed the many compromises computerists on the go had to make. However, as notebook PCs became more sophisticated, products from t h ird-party manufacturers also evolved, enhancing instead of simply filling in the m issing necessities o n t h e portable PCs of yore. Following is only a small

sample of some excellent peripherals now available to make portable computing not only more practical but more appealing and convenient as well.

WOWthing From: SRS Labs Inc. Tel: 800-243-2733. http:I/www.wowthlng.corn Estimated street price: $50 (based on US$30) This device is currently available only through mail order from the U.S. (pricing does not include shipping charges), although retail availability is in the works at time of writing. The WOWthing is a great little extra for both laptops and desktops because it combines several electronic audio enhancements in a handy box that's only 10x12.7x2.5 cm (4x5xl in.).

Portable PC users will especially appreciate the new dimension it adds to their substandard sound systems (whether integrated or not). Desktop owners will be equally surprised by the impressive enhancement the WOWthing adds to even the most sophisticated PC speaker system. In addition to boosting the high, low and mid-range imaging of any sound system via ampiiflcation and a virtual equalizer, the WOWthing incorporates what SRS Labs calls TruBass technology, which audibly enhances bass reproduction from speakers or head-

phones. As with all of th e WOWthing's enhancements, TruBass can be controlled and adjusted either directly from knobs on the

unit or through an onscreen control panel. However, it is SRS Labs' established "psychoacoustic technology" that makes the real difference here. The company says it "processes ambient details to increase the width, depth and height of any stereo image." In essence, it means that what you hear from two speakers sounds l ike mo r e l ike h o m e theatre surround sound. R eadi n g about this economical device simply ca n ' t communicate its impact. But once you hear what the W OWthing c a n do, there' ll be no going back to plain computer audio. MultlTech MultiMoblle USB From: MultlTech Systems Inc. Tel: 800-785-328-9717. http Jtwww.multitech.corn Estimated street price: $299

a re other r e asons t o co n sider t h e MultiMobile USB. Power users who look to employ more than one modem connection simultaneously, for example, will appreciate the ability to add this as a second modem. Because it i s c o n t roller-based, the MultiMobile USB assumes most modem functions, which offloads CPU cycles in contrast to soft modems and those without controllers. This means faster downloads and faster applications when downloading in the background. Installation is simple under Windows 98 and online diagnostics permit the user to verify the performance of the modem connection. Other features include flash memory for updates, comprehensive diagnostics, self-resetting lightning protection, and three-

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Marketed as t h e w o r ld' s smallest c o n t roller-based external modem for USBe quipped computers, t h i s 3.3x2.5x7.9 cm (1.3xlx3.13 in.), 56.7 g (2 oz.) V.90 modem is, handily, built right into the USB telephone cable. Also, as with so many portable accessoriesthese days, the design frees up the PCMCIA slot traditionally employed as the modem interface, and eliminates COM port bottlenecks. Of course, many laptop PCs already have a built-in modem so some of the form factor advantages of this device are moot. But there

automatic dialing. Though somewhat expensive in t oday' s modem market, the MultiMobile USB offers a number of features that will appeal to a wide ran g e of Internauts.

the new Bantam CD-RW drive is virtually identical to another Microsolutions CD-RW we tested, which performed very well through the parallel interface. The first of the enhancements is the Bantam's extremely slender form factor. It has a 15.2x20.3 cm (6x8 in.) footprint and is only 2.5 cm (1 in.) thick. And, weighing in at

only 600 g (21 oz.)~00 g (28 oz.) with cable and AC adapter — it makes for a considerably

more portable package. The second new feature here is the PC Card adapter, which is included as an alternative interface. Though using the adapter does not affect writing and rewriting speeds, it will optimize disc reading while freeing up the parallel port. As with the previous model, the Bantam has a maximum write and rewrite speed of 4x, and a maximum read speed of 20x. It comes with the very friendly Adaptec software bundle, which consists of Direct CD (allowing you to address your CD-RW like an additional drive), Easy CD Creator (for creating music and multimedia CD-ROMs) and CD Copier Deluxe (for coping whole or partial discs).

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CD-RW drive 4x4x20 From: Mlcrosolutlons Tel: 41 8-231-2995. http:ttwww.micro-solutions.corn Estimated street price: $599 (external) With a couple of significant enhancements,

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fromtoporbottom. The microscope comes with a CD-ROM, connection cable, slides holders, plastic tweezers and and specimen an eye dropper. My only complaint is that it does nothave a fine focus knob.

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Fashion Designer, Ocean Discovery, Screen Styler and Photo Designer that can be used with the Barbie Digital Camera, which is also included as part of the package. "The way we went about the deal was Mattel came up with the original idea of designing a computer for kids," Durst adds. "They had a success with the Barbie digital camera and the Barbie printer, so it made sense to look at the next step of making a

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last several years bringing out successful games and software packages aimed at girls. "We havedone a lotasa company to make technology accessible for young girls," Henry continues, "Video games and computer games were directed to a male audience, and many publishers said they did not feel girls were interested in playing games. We proved them wrong... and it has been part of our initiative to get girls interested in computers." Henry thinks the Barbie PC will appeal to

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board, which helps reduce the overall size of the system. The board was also designed to be compatible with a wide variety of hardware peripherals, making configuration of the system easier. And, according to Ashby, the use of USB "will get rid of some of the cabling in the back so you have a system that is plug-and-play and ready to go. "With this smaller board, you can get into some creative designs, and the Barbie PC is one substantiation of that," Ashby says. "It

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playbox or office desk just by adding the right software and a specialized peripheral or two By Jeff Evans Following are a few broad categories of software to turn the family PC into a multipurpose tool. Utilitarianism In the early days of MS DOS and Windows, there were so many things lacking in the Microsoft operating systems that they seemed almost designed to encourage third-party software developers to create utilities, such as file managers and hard drive tools, to fill those gaps.

Symantec (http: //www.symantec,corn) was one of the early leaders in offering professional, salable DOS and Windows utility programs, such as the Norton Utilities. As Windows has matured, Symantec has re-defined its product line to conform to the changing opportunities that Windows' limitations still offer. Other once-popular utility makers, such as

Quarterdeck and Borland, failed to adapt and went out of business. In this writer's computing experience, Norton Utilities in particular has proved invaluable in retrieving data lost in hard drive crashes or other disasters. In the Windows antivirus software field, Symantec and arch competitor Network Associates (http'J/www.networkassociates.corn), publishers of the McAfee antivirus software and other network security solutions, account for more than 80 percent of sales. However, in order to grow, Symantec has had to find a focus for its business outside the traditional utility market, and is increasingly concentrating on. . . convergence. The company sees its future role revolving around networking and Internet security and mobile telecommuting and remote management. Currently, Symantec publishes Norton System Works 2000, Standard and Professional Editions, which bundles its

antivirus, hard drive repair, crash guard, backup, Y2K and other utility titles in one mammoth, comprehensive bundle, for about $140. Symantec also publishes the leading contact management program, ACT!, the leading faxing program, WinFaxPro, the leading remote PC management program, PCAnywhere, and a variety of other mobile computing and telecom packages. While there is a seemingly infinite amount of often good shareware and freeware utility software available from download sites such as TUCOWS (http: //www.tucows.corn), Symantec, Continued on pageSl

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Software gift possibeltles Continued frompage 48 as the leading utility maker still standing, is a good brand to look to first if you' re considering buying a utility program for the computerist who has everything else. Creativityon the computer One of the most fun aspects of computing is the potential to express oneself and communicate with others through words, pictures, video and music. Briefly, in terms of words and pictures, there are plenty of consumerlevel creative software titles that we' ve tested and recommend.

pie but powerful painting program, and Dance Studio,. a do-it-yourself dance video animation program are also aimed at the general user. For the serious student or professional artist, MetaCreations offers Painter 6.0, Ray Dream Studio 5.5 3D design and animation program, Bryce 4 3D landscape and effects program, Poser 4 3D character animation program, and Canoma, which enables users to create 3D models from 2D photos.

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Once you experience the near-instant gratification of high bandwidth, it's very hard to go back to dial-up Internet service By Jeff Evans

(Sympatico also offers ordinary dial up accounts), and uses a regular phone line to ne of the hottest computing gift ideas connect your PC with the Internet. You can this season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and one of the engines use your line for Internet access and voice driving the move toward conver- calls simultaneously. gence nirvana â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is fast Internet access. ADSL speeds vary from province to Regular dial-up Internet access, through an province, ranging from 4 Mbps (megabits per analogue modem with download speeds of second) from B.C.'s Telus, to SOOKbps or I up to 56Kbps, has become almost a "junk" Mbps elsewhere. We have a Sympatico ADSL commodity in that it's very cheap, and users subscription in our house as well, and have are often impatient with sluggish download found it to be quite reliable (though there are times when trying to access multimedia con- certainly still occasional service interruptent such as streaming video. tions, they tend to be less frequent and The real excitement in the Canadian briefer than those of the @Home service), Internet market is the rapid growth in high with generally faster and better technical bandwidth Internet service. Up to 400,000 support. Canadian homes have high bandwidth Already Internet service providers (ISPs) Internet service. There are two main types of other than the phone companies are offering high bandwidth service, cable modem and DSL services and expect to see this type of ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line), access expand. with a third kind, short range wireless, gearing up to compete. On average, high band- Look, INaI no wires) width home service costs around $40 a The new kid on the high bandwidth block is month, plus, in some cases, installation fees, the Look wireless Internet service. This techmodem rental, or other charges. nology, which uses short-range repeater broadcasters to blanket local areas with TV

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The longest established high bandwidth Internetservice isthe C|Home cable modem service, which originally rolled out under the name Rogers Wave in Newmarket, Ont. over three years ago. This writer, as one of the charter subscribers, experienced the pioneering cable modem service's teething troubles, and lived to tell the tale, barely. Our home still has its Rogers CaHome service, which despite occasional disruptions and variable levels of technical support has made Internet use much more productive since its inception. The @Home service has become an umbrella brand for cable modem service in general, and is also available in areas served by other cable carriers such as Shaw or Cogeco. Signup kits for cable modem service are widely available at many computer/electronics outlets. Signup specials, in which one can get a big reduction in the usual $150 installation fee, have been periodically offered.

ing new technology. Whether this latecomer in the high bandwidth game gains large market share depends on many unknowns, including whether or not it will be as reliable as ADSL service. Other high bandwidth options are satellite transmissions and ISDN (integrated services digital network). The Telesat DirecPC service, which used satellite dishes for individual downloads, and regular land-based phone lines for uploading data, had only specialized appeal, and was never widely used. The two Canadian satellite TV services are attempting to develop digital Internet content as part of their offerings, but so far have also been stymied by the one-way nature of satellite service, The 128Kbps ISDN service offered by the phone companies is still available, but is rather passe, as it offers barely twice the download speed of a $35 modem connected to a $10 per month Internet service. 0 Cogeco, http: //www.cgocable.net/wavindex.htmi DirecPC, http: //www.direcpc.corn/ Rogers, http: //rogers.home.corn/ Shaw, hitp://www.shaw.home.corn/ Sympatico, htlp//www.sympatico.ca

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A friendly food tour for children

ikolai's Treats is a great choice for parents who are looking for a non-violent computer game for children in Kindergarten to Grade 3. The two main characters, Nikolai and Neow-Neow the naughty cat, have reached near cult status through a

Italy, Japan and Mexico. In the Cookbook section,kids can create new recipes and print them out. The disc also includes a inath challenge and a inulti-level geography

game. The inost iinportant design feature of this

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In Nikolai's Treats, Nikolai asks kids to help him cook recipes, and together they virtually explore and sample food from France,

Software gift possibilities Continued from pageSl in progress, as well as a nicely organized online store for ordering items ranging from books to v i deos and m aps. National Geographic has three very attractive CDROM ti tles. Th e C o m plete N a tional Geographic CD-ROM: 110 Years Collectors Edition (about $199) is a classic CD-ROM title, with a scanned archive of every page of every issue of National Geographic magazine. The National Geographic Maps set has high-resolution copies of every fold out map published by the society, while the National Geographic Trip Planner Platinum 2000 edition is an aid to visiting destinations across the U,S., including inany of the sites covered by Geographic writers over the years. One of the most consistently entertaining lines of kids' edutainment software is the one put out by Humongous Entertainment,

(hitp://www.humongous.cpm), aimed at very young children (three to sixor three to eight years of age, depending on the title). Three current titles include Blue's Treasure Hunt, where kids help the onscreen character, Blue, and his friends find a treasure chest; Spy Fox: Some Assembly Required; and Putt-Putt Enters the Race. The Humongous titles are all charming and visually interesting, and actually do combine fun with mental exercise. IBM and Crayola have partnered to produce a series of paint programs. New this season are the Crayola Magic 3D Coloring Book: Favorite Places, which sells for under $15. This product is a basic click-for-effect

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This drive is "hot p luggable" under Windows 95 and 98.That means you can ough both these machines have CD attach, operate, and detach the drive to writing technology at their root, they either the parallel port or PC Card slot (if you are quite different in just about all have the adapter) without having to reboot other technical aspects, so what follows is the computer — which is all well and good if not a comparison as much as it is an evalua- it works. tion of each drive on its own merits. And it works extremely well. Having been loyal to my Syjet cartridge drive for several years, my experience o( recording CDs was limited to evaluating machines back in the old days when the immaturity of the technology made the process of engineeringand that's what it quite literally amounted to — your own discs a nightmare. The cost was also high, at around $1,200 for a very limited machine and $5 per blank disc. With theBackpack 4x 4x 20x, however, I had recorded my first data disc 10 minutes after taking the drive out of the box. Simply plug it into the parallel port and power outlet, install the drivers and software and you' re ready. My first disc was created so quickly — 80 MB of data copied from multiple directories off the hard drive in under two Backpack CD-RW 4x 4a 20x minutes — that I thought something must From: Microsolutions have gone wrong. I immediately checked the Tel: 416-231-2995. httpJ/www.micro-solutions.corn new disc in another computer to make sure Price: US$399 (parallel version) the data was complete and accessible in the applications in which it was created. And it was! Virtually all products from Microsolutions Part of my success is attributable to are external and are almost always config- Microsolutions' succinct Quick Start guide, ured to use the parallel port i nterface. but a larger part of the credit goes to the very Microsolutions has negotiated around many popular Adaptec software bundle included of the limitations of that interface by means with the hardware. The single software disc of proprietary engineering applied to both includes: Direct CD, which lets you use your hardware and software. All of its products CD-RW drive like any other disk drive for file tested to date have performed quite compet- transfer, storage or backup; Easy CD Creator, a Wizard-based program for creating music itively as a result. The Backpack CD-RW 4x 4x 20x drive is and multimedia discs, as well as jewelcase no exception. As indicated by its name, this inserts from an induded template; and CD drive writes and rewrites CD-R and CD-RW Copier Deluxe for copying all or part of an discs at a speed of 4x, and reads CD-ROMs at audio CD (this is the one that makes the 20x. This is avery good perfonnance com- music industry — and software industrypared with any drive currently available, and quiver because of its simplicity). is the fastest available of drives using the parallel port. A special PC Card adapter version is avail- TEAC 8 x 24 CD-R able, which allows for more flexibility. From: TEACOata Storage Products Division Though using the adapter does not affect Tel: 213-7264303. http Jtwww.teac.corn/ (increase) writing and rewriting speeds, it Price: (IS$299(internal). US$399(external) will free the parallel port for other devices if you don't like using the drive's built-in parallel pass-through. Unfortunately, the PC Fortunately, the TEAC 8 x 24 CD-R drive had Card version costs about $100 more. the same software bundle, giving me similarMicrosolutions is planning to make the ly successful results, although, as a Fast SCSIadapter available as a separate unit at soine 2 device, it can take advantage of the rapid point in the future but could not provide an data transfer rates of that interface. The TEAC drive optimally reads at 3,600Kbps and estimated street price at this time.

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making your first disc 10 minutes after opening the b ox. E v e n though I am experienced in setting up computer devices, it took me more than an hour before I could begin my first test of TEAC drive. Part of that time, of course, was taken up by having to open the computer case to physically install the SCSI card. Once both components are installed and configured, however, the SCSI card and machine work extremely well together, but again, thanks largely to the Adaptec software bundle. In addition to the three Adaptec applications described above, TEAC added MGI PhotoSuite software for archiving the digital photos and images you might wish to move off your machine and onto a CD-ROM.

PC with 32 MB RAM. I found through experimenting, however, that there were no error messages when I dropped the writing speed to Zx. While making a CD was fairly simple, creating an illustrated and titled jewel-case insert using the template provided with the software for both drives proved difficult. The file format is proprietary and the controls are non-intuitive, to the point of profound frustration in accomplishing even the simplest of tasks. The m i n i mu m sy s t em requirements for each machine are similar (and keep in mind that minimum requirem ents will n o t y i e ld m aximum per f o r mance): a Pentium CPU of (133 MHz mmimum for the TEAC drive); 16 MB RAM; Windows 95, 98 or N T ( N T 4 f or the Microsolutions drive); and lots of hard drive space (you' ll need 10 MB of free space for

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color photograph at the highest quality settings took more than 20 minutes. We encountered some problems setting the printer up, which were not helped by a driver that crashed our system every time we booted the computer with the PC Card inserted. After Brother sent us an updated driver, the printer was trouble free. The PC Card is a parallel port interface that the computer identifies as LPT 2. When you install the printer, you select that port if you are using the PC Card interface, and LPT 1 if you are using the regular parallel cable. The MP21Cdx comes with a detachable 30-sheet paper tray, which clips on the back of the printer and doubles its thickness (the MP21C is the same unit without the tray). The unit works very well and feeds individual sheets smoothly i nt o t h e p r i nter.

couple of features of the Brother MP21Cdx portable printer are sure to make it very attractive to weary, overburdened travellers. First is its single-cable access to a notebook computer. No more packing along a thick parallel cable and a bulky AC adapter. This tiny color inkjet printer communicates with the computer and draws its power through a PC Card interface. Its second attractive feature is its weight: at 1 kg (2.2 lb.) it is one of the lightest portable inkjets around (Canon's BJC 50 is 100 g — 3.5 oz.— lighter, but is slightly thicker).

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up with Gateway strategies for them." However, there are questions about how committed Gateway is to the Canadian market if many of its initiatives here are going to be driven out of the U.S. George Bulat, manager for PC research at International Data Corp. {Canada) Ltd. in Toronto said the ties to the U.S. between Keatirg and Gateway Canada will only be temporary. Keating's role will be to develop the brand recognition for Gateway, which is known to many here only through its success in the U.S. "The Canadian market is not an easy market to enter," Bulat said. "Once you see the Country Stores [what Gateway calls its retail outlets] land in Canada, you will probably see a more concerted effort to really establish a fully fledged Canadian subsidiary.U

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Gateway [in the U.S.]." McCullagh said Keating and Gateway Canada would leverage U.S.-based initiatives for the Canadian market, although Keating's more important role "will be to work with distribution channels and allow the channels within their own customer set to come

cern that Gateway's traditional model of direct and Internet-based sales could cause a variety of conflicts between the value added resellers it proposes to work with. Direct sales could allow resellers to bypass distributors and service providers like Keating and GE Capital altogether. One company that could conceivably face such a c onflict w it h r esellers is Markham, Ont.-basedSupercom Canada, a white box manufacturer and distributor.

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watched in a browser within 10 minutes. And the 28-second file, with audio and near ou could be forgiven if you were to full-motion video, occupied only 170 KB. There are two main "buts" to temper our conclude that S h arp's V N-EZ1U Internet ViewCam was just another overall enthusiasm for the product. First, the digital camera, since that's what it looks like. editing tools are quite primitive, allowing However, this tiny product (it fits in a shirt only simple segment cuts — and not very prepocket) represents what could be the begin- cise ones at that. If you wanted to do anything resembling offline editing, such as ning of an entirely different category of inserting a still image or graphic over the product — the Internet camcorder. The ViewCam allows you to p roduce video existing audio track, assembling two shots footage that's highly compressed, making it into a single movie, adding additional ideal for the Web. Short segments won't be sounds or inserting titling or scene transifrustratingly slow to download, while longer tions, you'd have to look elsewhere. The other ubuto has to do with Sharp's segments can be streamed. selection of ASF as the playback format. It is just one file format vying for supremacy in Internet VlewCaen the emerging area of streaming video. Having Microsoft in your camp is a plus, but From: Sharp Electronics of CanadaLtd. doesn't guarantee success against http:IhNww,sharp.ca other streaming specialists like Suggested retail price: $1,295 RealNetworks with its RealVideo, or Apple and QuickTime 4. If Sharp addressed these Sharp estimates the issues, it would broaden the product will be in stores appeal for the camera, which has in early 2000, and has a lot of endearing features. set th e s u ggested r etail p r ic e a t Isroduct highlights $1,295. The camThe ViewCam can capture video era uses MPEG-4 at a number of frame rates. The c ompr essi o n , most v i sually r e a listic is which according Superfine, which allows rates of 5 to Sharp, is a variable to 1S frames per second (fps). frame rate compression Achieving full motion requires 24 fps, method that results in very small files. As a basis for comparison, Sharp says a 2 MB so the ViewCam's best case still falls short of MPEG-4 file contains more than four min- that. The most obvious impact of the limited utes of video, while an MPEG-1 file of the frame rate is the loss of lip sync and some dissame size is only about 10 seconds long. continuity in the motion, although the variSharp has adopted Microsoft's Advanced able frame rate compression of MPEG-4 Streaming Format (ASF) as the playback for- seems to smooth out the jerkiness so characmat for this device, so ViewCam video can teristic of low frame rate video. Another sacrifice is image size. The be only be viewed through the Windows Media Player or other viewers that support movies appear in a 160x120 pixel window, the format. Included with the camera is a set which is fine for a talking head, but has limof software tools that allow for simple edit- ited appeal for other kinds of video content. ing of the video. A quarter-VGA option is available, but using a frame that large drops the rate to as low as 2 to 5 fps. V ery neat, but . . . The camera weighs just 148 g (5.2 oz) Sharp loaned us a ViewCam for about a week in late October, and our overall impression and measuresS.lxS.9x4.2 cm (3.2x3.5xl.7 was, "Very neat, but.. . . u The neat part is in). The top of the ViewCam is rounded, and the ease with which we could shoot a bit of the lens is located on a module that matchvideo footage and throw it onto a Web page. es the rounded contour of the body. The lens In a quick test of its capabilities, we recorded module pivots 270 degrees, which means a 35-second clip of a TCPeditor filing a you can record yourself, while framing your mock news report. Then using the software head properly using the image information that comes with the ViewCam, we edited it in the viewfinder. When the lens is returned down to 28 seconds, crunched the complet- to the "home" position, the camera goes ed file down to under 200 KB, and created a into playback mode; moving the lens anyWeb page with a hotlink to the file. When where within the full range of the pivot

we fired up our browser, leaded the page and shifts the camera back into record mode. External controls include a record button clicked the hyperlink, the movie played. These results were impressive — we managed

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e continue our look at Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by looking at the following set of CSS properties: TEXT-ALIGN, TEXT-DECORATION, TEXT-INDENT,and TEXT-TRANSFORM.These properties are all, not surprisingly, part of the text family of CSS properties, which also includes LINE-HEIGHT, LETTER-SPACING and WORD-SPACINGproperties. As a whole, the text family of properties is designed to change the manner in which text is displayed onscreen. Do not confuse this with the way in which the font family works. The font family of p r operties is designed to help you set specific font-related functions, such as specifying the type of font to be displayed, or whether it should be rendered in italic, bold, or what have you. The text family of properties is, instead, designed to accomplish a number of typographical display options, irrespective of the font being displayed. Using the various text family properties, you add extra spacing between the words or individual letters in your text, adjust the alignment of your text, the spacing between lines of text, and much more.

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sentence. In a similar fashion, if the text being modified begins on a fresh line, Internet Explorer will do its best to indent the item, even if it i s not applied to a block-level element. In a ddition, both The TEXT-DECORATION property is only major browsers also accept negative valpartially implemented within the major ues, which is in accordancewith the offibrowsers. The SLINK value is supported with- cial specification. This means you could in Netscape Navigator. Since I nternet have a line of text beginning off-screen if Explorer has never recognized the <BLINK> you wanted. tag, it does not recognize the BLINK value of Despite the quirks, this property is otherthe TEXT-DECORATION property e i t her. wise fully supported by both major browsers. However, Internet Explorer does implement all of the other values associated with TEXT- The TEXT-TRANSFORM property DECORATION.The only value Netscape TEXT-TRANSFORM is another CSS property Navigator does not support is OVERLINE. whose name doesn't adequately describe what it does. All it really does is change the The TEXT-INDENT property "case" (as in upper or lower case) of the text TEXT-INDENT is designed to set an indent it encloses. from the left margin or from a block-level TEXT-TRANSFORM has four values: CAPIelement on a Web page. It can take any valid TALIZE,LOWERCASE, UPPERCASE and NONE. CSS unit of measure, such as millimeters, Each of these values is self-explanatory, and pixels or inches, as its value. It can also take affects the text it surrounds in the ways a percentage value, which is relative to the described, though it should be pointed out width of the browser window. that CAPTALIZE, in this case, means "initial TEXT-INDENT is straightforward to use, and capitals." The following code uses all four can be quite handy for placing text exactly TEXT-TRANSFORM values:

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Sharp unveils MPEG-4 camcorder Continued from pageSO that also acts as the play button when the camera is in playback mode; a rocker button controls audio levels and (digital only) zooming; a menu button launches the onscreen menus; a sliding switch offers the choice of movie or still modes (the ViewCam will capture still photos, but only at 640x4&0 pixels); an indoor~tdoor exposure switch; and an off ' s w itch. The unit also indudes a built-in microphone, speaker and color LCD viewfinder. A sliding plate on the bottom of the camera covers the battery compartment, which houses four AA batteries and the SmartMedia memory card slot. A 4 MB card comes with the camera. The menu button will launch one of two menus: the one for r ecording includes options such as resolution and backlight; and the one for playback includes shot selection, cut, delete and other basic editing features. We tried the ViewCam under a number of lighting conditions: outdoors in bright daylight, on a downtown street at night, indoors in n o rmal o ffice lighting and indoors in a dimly lit club. Even in the dimmest conditions, the scenes were usable and the white balance good. A small editing toolset of four utilities is included within a program called the PixLab Media Browser. • Th e ASF Extractor is the video editor. It allows you to edit start and end points

addition to using the ASF Extractor, you can edit scenes within the ViewCam itself. The edited segment is saved in a file format called ASB.) • Th e Bitrate Adapter aHows you to save a copy of your movie at various compression rates — more compression results in smaller files, but also poorer quality. We compared 170KB and 23SKB flles, and found, interestingly, that in the smaller file it was the audio and not the video that suff'ered the most noticeable degradation. However, the audio and video in both low bitrate files were noticeably worse than in the original file, which occupied 604KB. • Th e HTML Creator automatically creates the proper tags to allow the video to show up as a hyperlink within a Web page (clicking the link launches the Windows Media Player, and the movie plays within it). • Th e fourth utility in the PixLab Media Browser, called ASB to ASF converter, takes the ASB file and converts it to ASF format.

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pieces of software or hardware can make all the difference between a good system and one that's great and fun to use. Many of the systems we received this month included a good variety of software titles; for example, a game, anti-virus software, or an office suite. Other systems came with printers, scanners, or both. Getting enough extras included with the computer not only eliminates putting together the extras yourself, but often the items are cheaper when bundled in a system. Some users may still choose to put together the extras themselves, for a few reasons. A cheaper printer/scanner bundle is only a good value if you' ll use it. If you have no desire to use one or the other, there's no point in getting both. Similarly, if your bundle includes Printer X and Scanner Y, but neither are the brand you want, you' ll end up spending money replacing them down the road anyway. The same goes for software packages. It's better to get what you need up front instead of having to fix it up later.

Components • Processor. 500 MHzCeleron. • RAM: 64 MB of SORAM. The Tyan motherboard features both Socket 370 and Slot 1 chip slots for flexibility for future upgrades. • At 10.8 GB, the Fujitsu hard drive offers a reasonable amount of space for most users, and it utilizes the taster UDMA66specification. • A 56KbpsUS Robotics modem is included. • The system comeswith Logitech's Internetenhanced keyboard and First mouse. This month's systems Mullimedia For our last Test Lab of the 1900s, we asked • The 15-inch Optiquest Q55 is a high-quality vendors to put together a computer system monitor, though a bit smaller than most of those for Christmas. The criteria was that systems included with othersystems this month. must include both the computer and a mon- • The 6x Pioneer DVDdrive offers high-quality itor, and must be between $1,500 and DVD movie playback. $2,ON). All other choices were left to their • Matrox's G400 is included. It has 16 MBonboard discretion, including any extra hardware or as well as two VGAouts, for using more than software, type of processor, and amount of one monitor with your computer. RAM. Because of this freedom, we have a • Sound Blaster Live! provides high-quality envigood variety of choices this month. ronmental audio. Benchmarking was done using our usual • The Mli 480 multimedia speakers comewith a software package, BAPCo's SysMark98. Systems subwoofer and provide good sound. Headphones were tested with the display set to a resolution are also included. • As abonus,the packageincludes Intel's USB PC of 1,024x768, with a 16-bit color depth. Pricing was obtained from the vendors or Camera, for videoconferencing or snapshots. their representatives and were accurate at the • A game pad is included, for game players. time of writing. Because of the volatility of Exp andability the computer industry and fluctuations in • As shipped, this system has two PCIslots free the Canadian dollar, prices may be subject to (or one PCI andone ISA). TheMatrox card and some change. cooling fan actually block off two slots instead of the normal one. Users whowant to try to sneak Advance Interface a PCI card in right beside the fan may beable to Express Micro Celeron $00 get an additional PCI slot out of the machine, but Estimated street price: $1,999 the fit would be tight. • There are three slots for SDRAM.Only one slot Soltware • Operating system: Windows 98 SecondEdition. was in use in our test model. • A CD bundle features Webster 1999/2000 • The system features two USBports and one Encyclopedia, Corel WordPerfect 2000, Norton game port. System Works (with Anti-Virus), Redline Racer, Full Throttle, Adam Body,Chessmaster 4000, At the top end of our price range this month, Mavis BeaconTeachesTyping, US/Worfd Atlas, the Express Micro system nonetheless offers and a bundle of video-editing tools. excellent value, with a good software bundle,

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excellent video card and a few bonuses, like the camera and game pad. The monitor is a bit small, perhaps, but the system has a good variety for the family, and things that will appeal to game players.

Expandability • One PCI slot and one ISA slot are available. • The system has two slots for SDRAM.Only one slot was in use in our test system. • There are two USBports and one game port.

Comtronk AOpen AeroOpen Custom PC

The AeroOpen system, put together by Comtronic, makes use of mostly AOpen and Acer components, for a system that works very well together. It has a good software bundle, and comes with both a printer and scanner, making it a great all-in-one solution for the whole family. The included Ethernet card is a nice touch for families who want to make use of cable modem or ADSL. (*Note: manufacturer's rebates will bring the price down to $I,945.) Creative/Empac Slaster PC

Suggested retail price: $1,995' Software • Operating system: Windows 98 Second Edition. • The system also includes a Microsoft bundle (Encarta, Works, Money99, Picturelt), an AOpen bundle (Norton Anti-Virus, Virtual Drive, Cheyenne Bitware, and viewers for Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint files), Kai Photo Soap II, Ulead Photo Express II, Xerox Copier, and Textbridge Classic. Components • Processor. 500 MHzCeleron. • RAM: 64 MB of SDRAM. • The 9.1 GBQuantum hard drive has a spindle speed of 7,200 rpm for faster performance, and uses the faster UDMA66specification. • In addition to a 56Kbps modem, the system

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• Processor: 500 MHz Pentium II.I • RAM: 64 MB of SDRAM. • At 10.2 GB, the Quantum drive offers a good amount of space for most users and uses the faster UDMA66 specification. • Thesystem includesa basic Windows-enhanced keyboard and a Mitsumi scroll mouse. • A 56Kbps v.90 ModemBlaster modem is includes anEthernet card,making it readyfor included. dial-up, higher speed Internet connections, or Multimedia • The system will include a BlasterPC monitor. At business networking. • The EZKeykeyboard is Internet-ready. The systhe time of reviewing, the branded monitors tem also comes with an AOpen-branded Logitech were not available, and therefore we didn't have wheel mouse. a chance to evaluate them. • Video is courtesy of an AGPGraphics Blaster Muffimedia The 17-inch Acer monitor provides a high-quality Riva TNT card. • The integrated Sound Blaster Live! sound card display. • The 8 MBATI RageFury comes with 8 MB of provides high-quality environmental audio. • An FM tuner is integrated into the board, allowonboard memory, but it is integrated into the motherboard. As there is noAGPslot onthe ing users to listen to their favorite FM radio stamotherboard, all future video upgrades must tions through their PC. • Thesystem comes with Cambridge Soundworks' move over to the PCIbus. • TheESS Solo sound card delivers good 3D audio. PC Works multimedia speakers. • The multimedia speakers are pretty basic. Most • The front of themachinefeatures anum ber of users should find them adequate, but garners multimedia ports, including MIDI in/out, SPDIF may want to upgrade. in/out, and an optical port. • As abonus,this packagefeaturesan AcerScan Expandabillty • Three PCI slots and one ISA slot or two PCI and USB scanner andCanonBJC-1000SEinkjet printer. Both are fairly basic, and will be good two ISA slots are available. choices for casual image input/output work. Continued on pageSS

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together into one Blaster-branded box. The components included in this version of the BlasterPC are all high-quality and work together well, offering a great all-in-one multimedia solution. It is worth noting, however, that no software is included other than Blaster-related software. While it's a great choice for those looking for a bare-bones system with quality components, those looking for software will have to spring for a bit more.

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inch M70 monitor, which provides an excellent display. • The video component is the integrated ATI Rage Pro AGPchip with 8 MB of memory. Despite the integration of the AGPvideo into the board, the board also has a free AGP slot for future upgrades. • The Pavilion comes with Riptide audio and Polk Audio multimedia speakers. • Thepackagewe tested also camewithan HP Desk Jet 610Ccolor inkjet printer. Exp andabilily • One AGP, one PCI and one ISA slot are available for future upgrades. • There are two slots for RAM, only one of which is in use in our test system. It should be noted that the slot is fairly inaccessible with the compact design of the 6532, so novices shouldn' t plan to upgrade the RAMthemselves. • There are two USBports and one gameport. As one of the major PC manufacturers, Hewlett-Packard typically offers systems in a higher price bracket, but this budget system delivers the goods. Compared to some of the other systems reviewed this month, the hard drive on this model is a bit smaller and the optical drive a bit slow, but the software bundle is good, and for just a bit more than our minimum price, the package includes both a htghguality monitor and an inkjet printer. IBM Aptlva E Series SSU

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Estimated street price: $1,699 Software • Operating system: Windows 98 SecondEdition. • The system also features WordPerfect 2000 Suite, Christmas for Windows, and Compton Encyclopedia 99. Components • Processor. 500 MHzCeleron. • RAM: 64 MB. • The 6.4 GBQuantum drive may be abit on the small side for more demanding users. • The iNet uses a 40xCD-ROMdrive. • There is no modem on this system, so users who plan to go online will have to purchase one separately. • The system comes with a Fujitsu Windowsenhancedkeyboard and a Logitech Firstmouse. Multimedia • The new 17-inch TVM AS6S monitor provides a good display. • The video component is integrated into the Intel 810 chipset. Because there are noAGPslots on the motherboard, future video upgrades will have to shift over to the PCI bus. • The Creative PCI128 audio component is also integrated into the motherboard. • MLi-699 multimedia speakers provide good

Suggested list price: $2,099 audio, thoughgarnersmaywanttoupgrade. • As abonus,the system comes with Epson's Software • Operating system: Windows 98 Second Edition. Stylus Color 440 inkjet printer. Components Expandabillty • Processor: 500 MHzPentium III. • There are four PCI slots available. • RAM: 96 MB. • The board has two slots for SDRAM,oneof • At 13 GB, the Quantum hard drive offers plenty which was in use on our test system. • Thesystem has two USB portsand one game of space, even for more demanding users. • A 56Kbpsv.90 m odem isincluded. port. • The system ships with IBM's Rapid Access II keyboard, and a two-button mouse. Almost everything that's wrong with this Mullimedia system can be summed up in two words: no • Our test system camewith a 15-inch IBM Aptiva modem! Otherwise, the iNet offers a lot of monitor, which has the multimedia speakers value, with a good software package, good built into the side. quality components, and the bonus of a • The 6x Hitachi DVDdrive provides smooth DVD printer thrown in. The system is well-priced, movie playback. too. Users who had budgeted for $2,000 will • Videois provided by an S3 Savage4 AGP card probably want to bump up the size of the with 8 MB of memory. hard drive... and add a modem, of course. • The sound is the integrated ESSSolo chip. Exp andabilily Mynlx • There are two PCI slots available, or one PCIand Mycomp Vantage-2000 one ISA. • There are two slots for RAM on the motherboard, both of which were in use on our test model. • There are two USBports and one game port. The monitor is a bit small, and the system includes no additional software, but the Aptiva E 55U may be worth a look anyhow. The video card is nice, the hard drive is a bit larger than others looked at this month, and the system comes with the powerful 500 MHz Pentium IH chip. It may be overkill for some users, but for those looking for power

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Processor. 500 MHzPentium III. RAM: 64 MB. At 13 GB, the Quantum hard drive offers plenty of space for most users, and uses the faster UDMA66 specification. • Thesystem uses a 6x PioneerDVD drive,which provides good DVDvideo playback. • A 56KbpsUS Robotics modem is included. • The keyboard is a BTCWindows-enhanced model, and the Vantagealso comes with Microsoft's Intellimouse. Multimedia • The new 17-inch TVMAS6Smonitor provides a good display. • Video is integrated into the Intel 810e chipset. Because there is no AGP slot, future video upgrades will have to shift over to the PCI bus. • Audio is also integrated into the board. • No multimedia speakers are included in the package, meaning users will have to pay more for audio. Expandability • There are five PCI slots free, as well as an AC97 modem slot. • The board has two slots for RAM, only one of which is in use on our test system. • There are two USBports and one gameport. • •

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Gigabyte Intel 440BX PIUPIII ATXM/B 64M PC-100 SDRAM Panasonic 1 44M Floppy 8.46 UDMA Hard drive Hitachi 6X DVD/32X CDROM Rhe TNT2 AGP 32M Video Card Xkrave 3000 PO 128 Sound Card Motorola V.90 56K Fax/Voice Modem 19" ATX Case w/250W power windows98 Keyboard PS2 A4 3D Wheel Mouse w/Pad Juster 320W 3D Multimedia Speaker AOC 1T 7Glr .26dpi Monitor (3yrs wty) First Month Free internet CD

Glgabyte Intel 440BX Pll/Pill AlX M/B 128M PC-100 SDRAM Panasonlc 1.44M Floppy Drive Quantum 13G UDMA Hard drive Pioneer 1QXDVD/40XCDROM Rive TNT2 32M Video Card w/Tvout Creative SB Live Value w/Digital out Creathe V.90 5&K Fax/Voice Modem 19 ATX Case w/250W power windows&& Internet Keyboard Logitech wheel Mouse w/Pad GNT5000A Speaker w/Subwoofer AOC 19" 9Glrs.2&dpi Monitor(&yrs wty) First Month Free internet CD

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Call 19" SL90 .25dpi 1600X1200,......,$749 128/256M PC-100 ......„.........Call kQSJ IdaidLBt QT9.1/18/3&G...,.........$429/739/1359 Savage4 32M AGP/PCI...............$155 21" S110/P11D .25dpi........$1279/1459 64/12&M PC-133...................Call Fujitsu 9.1/18G...................$599/1019 TNT2/TNT2 Ultra 32M............$189/249 Uutgt CDRIDM W.D.9.1/186........................$599/949 Annihilator GeForce 256 32M.......$339 1P 110GS .25dpi 12&QX1024......$339 17" 210GS/E200.24mm.......$519/629 Aopen 4&X..................................$65 Khga~z 19" 420GS/F400 .22mm.....$919/1529 Asus 40/50X..........................$69/85 Panasonic 1.44M Floppy...............$22 Voodooll 1000 12MAdd on Card..$129 Creathe 4&x/52X.....................$65/69 Panesonic LS120 Int/par........$109/195 Voodoolll 2000/3000 AGP ...$149/199 21" F500 .22mm.......................$2779 Delta 44XCDROM IDE...................$58 IOMEGA 100M Zip int/ext.........$95/155 Voodoolll 3500-lV 1&M AGP........$359 Qdittugst 17" Q71N73/V75..........$349/469/509 Samsung 48X CDROM.........,......$65 100M Zi Disk/120M LS Disk......$15/16 Q h K ' Asus V3800/Deluxe 32M.„...,$269f335 19' Q95/21 "V115................ $589/1419 ILVV Rgg Asus Voodooiil 3000 16M..........$159 'I~le ~So I Creative SX/6X DVD kit..........$219/329 Mo~sO. Logitech 2B/wheelmouse............$9/19 S3 Trio3D/2X4M/8M AGP.........$42/59 17" E771/E773/GF775.....$369/459/549 Hitachi 6X DVD Drive...................$115 Pioneer 6X DVD/10XDVD.......$125/145 MS intelllmousePS2/USB............$35/88 Thri2 32M w/WinDVD/Tvout...$139/159 19" E790/G790/PS790.....$619/759/779 Sis&326 4M PCI...........................$39 21" G810/P&10/P&15..$1239/1349/1459 Sony 6XDVD..................„........$119 58)titttitcl Sigma PCI Decode Board..............$139 win98/Internet Keyboard..........$15/35 MS Natrual Elite keyboard..............$49 Canon BJC 1000/2000SE.......$129/149 ~DMdttLr Creative CDRW4224/6424......$249/329 3COM 3C905lX10/100 PCL..........$79 Canon BJC 5100/6000.........,$229/329 HP 7510e/8100i cdwriter.......$399/299 1T/19" ATX Case w/250w.......$50/60 I n tel Etherexp Pro 10/100 PCI........$79 Epson 440/660/740...,.....$199/249/299 HP 9210i 32x/4x/&x SCSI cdwriter.$529 1T/19" ATX Case w/300w.......$75/79 D - Link 530TX10/10D PCI...............$35 HP 610/810/880C...........$149/229/389 RJ45 Cat& Cable (1' to 15').„.....„..$10 Lexmark Z11/Z31/Z51 ...$149/279/369 Mitsumi 24X/4N4XIDE cdwriter.....$329 UJLe~k Yamaha 6416 Bare Dme..............$305 Juster 140W/320W speaker......$14/31 RJ45 Cat& Cable (18' to 25')..........$15 Lexmark 5770 photo..................$509 Yamaha 6416Value Kit..............$395 Altec ACS45.1 w/Sub................$119 RJ45 Cat5 Cable (51' to 1my).........$35 Uggmterg Acer 320p/320u..................$109/125 Yamaha 6416PC Kit..................,$459 Creathe 4Polnt Sunound 5Ps...,...$129 ~ l Sony 24x/4x/4x w/Software.......$369 Yamaha MSW10&M20 ...............$189 Adaptec 2940 w/50pln Cable,......$259 Canon 320p/630U................$147/209 74 Min/&Dmin CDR ...................$2/2.5 Juster 3D/FX1 w/Subwoofer......$57/40 Adaptec 2940 w/6&pin Cable.......$309 Epson 636/636U..................$409/279 BASF CDRW Disk.....,........., .........$5 GNT500QA w/Subwoofer...........,..$64 M l e x Ultra SCSI PCI Ada ter.......$199UMAX2000p/2000u.............$14$199 QRLlZggtittm Pentium 233 MMX w/Fan...............$85 Celeron 366/400 ...................$89/109

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Under the treel Continuedfrom page 9$ Components • Processor: 450 MHzPentium lil. • RAM: 64 MB. • At 9.1 GB, the Quantum hard drive may be a bit small for more demanding users, but it has the faster 7,200 rpm spindle speed, and uses the faster UDMA66 specification. • Skipping a standard CD-ROMdrive, the Voodoo system opts for an HPCD-RWdrive (with 2x

write and rewrite, and 24x read speeds), for archiving and burning personalized CDs. • A 56KbpsDiamond SupraMax v,90 modem is included. • Thesystem comes witha Logitechwheelmouse and aFujitsu Windows-enhanced keyboard.

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speakers(completewith subwoofer) is included.

As a bonus, the Tsunami RWIalso ships with Lexmark's high-quality Z11 inkjet printer. Expandabllity • Three PCI slots and one ISAslot, or two PCI and two ISA, are available. • There are three slots for RAM onthe motherboard, only one of which is in use onour test system. • There are two USBports and one gameport.

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Intel MMX 233/Cyrix MX333 Intel PentlumH 400

Printers 469/379

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Technology International Data Group, was

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promised paperless office will finally emerge. there on the auspidous day when that first attend- Ethernet network went online. He thought In fact, the nearly 200 j

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Internet, then point that same phone to a printer to produce a hard copy of the artide or page they want. Already, people are using the Internet to download and print high-quality photographs and art work, said Tony Rojas, president of Corbis, an online catalogue of images and art that can be accessed by newspapers, publishers and the public. Corbis offers some 25 million images for download and sale, including access to such collections

conference here were told to expect paper to taking the first step to developing a paperless office. Sadly, that never came about. "As a result of our research, the use of paper there skyrocketed," Metcalfe said. With paper and the printer firmly as the Bettermann Archive, Lynn Goldsmith and the Internet was just a tool for sdentists," said Tom Lamb, executive vice-presi-. entrenched in the home and office, the revo- International, Digital Stock and Outline. "We currently get some two million condent for Lexmark International Inc. "That lution underway now is not how to elimisumers each month," Rojas added. "There is nate paper, but how to give people more conyear, just a mere trillion sheets of paper were trol over what is printed and how the infor- a huge pent-up demand for our services and used in the office." jpeople] come to our Web site to find hnages Now, PCs are everywhere and almost mation will look on a page. for greeting cards, prints or just images for The reason for this shift is that the printeveryone uses the Internet and email. This has driven paper shipments to nearly three er has moved from a standalone device to a their personal use." To help people get more out of this growtrillion sheets a year as people print out their network-connected device that is central to ing digital imaging and digital photography information management. The printer will email and the results of their Web surfing. be around for quite some time yet. "In 1982, email was unknown, the personal computer industry was in its infancy

"That certainly confirms reports that when email is introduced to an office, print-

ing volume increases by about 40 percent,"

become an important device for helping people get at the information they need on a network, whether that network is a corporate

revolution, Lexmark and Kodak announced a

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Nationaux (RMN) to develop a set of Print Gallery CD-ROMs. These discs will have some 100 works of art from the RMN's collection that can be printed and used in what-

ever fashion the purchaser chooses. The Print Gallery collection will be induded with Lexmark's Z line of inkjet printers. Lexmark also announced new monochrome laser printers based on its Optra S line of printers and a set of multifunction solutions for businesses looking at better

documentmanagement on a network. Eamon Ryan, vice-president and general manager for the business printer division of Lexmark Europe said that as printers take on

more functions and become connected to networks, the role o f a c o m pany l i ke Lexmark begins to change. It moves from

being a printer company to a document management company. "As copiers become digitized, the copier

collaboration to develop appliances for more now becomes a device that helps manage affordable printing of digital images. Already, information," Ryan added. "If you were to Lexmark is shipping the Kodak Personal characterize our own strength, it is that we

intranet or the rapidly expanding Internet. Metcalfe predicts people will soon use Picture Maker printer that lets people crop, have been able to develop software that can manage documents and information on netmuch of a surprise. When Ethernet was cre- network-connected devices, such as cell personalize, print and store photos. works." 0 Lexmark also announced a partnership phones, to access information on the ated, its goal was to network a desktop PC Lamb continued. Still, this trend should not come as too

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• Vi r tually unlimited number of images can be open at one time. • Ex tremely powerful gradienteditor and cated, powerful, and frequently compared to blend tool, Adobe Photoshop. It offers layers, color chan- • Lo ad and save animations in a convenient nels, transformation tools, "intelligent" scisframe-as-layer format sors, blending modes, masking„ filters, text Transformation tools including rotate,

effects, plug-ins, and its own scnpting lanscale, shear and flip. guage, Script-Fu. Oh yeah, and it does screen • Support for many fil forinats, induding: captures. GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, The GMP can be used to create Web graphPS, PDF, PCX, and BMP. ics, retouch digital photos, generate desktop • Will load, display, convert, and save to wallpaper, asseznble graphic montages, design many file formats, magazine cover art — in short, it will do just Selection tools i n cluding Rectangle, about anything you can do with a raster-based Ellipse, Free, Fuzzy, Bezier and Intelligent product like Adobe Photoshop. It Gm work • Ha s plug-ins that allow for the easy addiwith scanned images, digital photographs, and tion of new file formats and effect filters. imports a wide variety of graphics formats. The Over 100 plug-ins already available. GIMP's export capabilities are excellent Supports custom brushes and atterns. p The history of the GIMP is a typical o pen-source story. When t h e original The feature set may not be something authors, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, you'd expect from a free program. The GMP were undergraduates at the University of has given some users the very reason they California at Berkeley, they decided to create needed to run Linux in the first place. If bezia Photoshop-like tool as a class project. The er curves interest you more than Perl proGIMP project was born, and before long the gramming, this is a product you should take project attracted developers worldwide, who for a test drive. The GIMP is included as an joined in its creation, extending its capabili- option on every Linux distribution CDties. Work progressed slowly but word spread ROM, and can also be downloaded directly quickly and the GIMP was used extensively from the GIMP Web site. before it ever reached release 1.0. At the time of this writing, the current version is 1.04. IsnagelNaglck Although Linux itself can run on remark- Before the GIMP came along, the workhorse ably low-horsepower PCs, running the GIMP for Linux graphics was ImageMagick, a colon Linux is like running any graphics pack- lection of robust tools and libraries forreadage on any platform. The more memory, ing, writing, and manipulating an image in hard disk space and processor speed you any of the more popular image formats have, the better. Even so, the GIMP's intelli- including GIF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, and Photo gent use of memory makes it possible to run CD. ImageMagick is still widely used. it even on machines with limited memory Because some of the tools can be invoked resources. It uses tile-based memory manage- from the command line (and hence froin ment, which swaps out portions of an image scripts), ImageMagick lets you create GIFs to hard disk when memory is insufficient. dynamically, makingit suitable for Web The GIMP benefits from top-notch video applications. The ImageMagick Web site cards. For any serious work, a good 4 MB (httpf/www.wizards.dupont.corn/cristy/ImageMagic card, capable of displaying a resolution of k.html) lists the following toolkit highlights: 1,15Zx900 with 16-bit color, is the mini• Co nverts images from one format to

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ponents: server and client. The server can actually be on one computer and the client on another but in most cases they' re both on the same machine. You need to match a server with the video card you have in your system. There are X Window servers for VGA, SVGA, $3, ATI, and a large number of other video adapter families. The client side of X Window is essentially a GUI toolkit, full of widgets and intrinsics (programming calls). By itself, X does not even provide an interface. That is the job of whichever windows manager you choose to use on top ofX. Getting confused? It becomes

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receive a purchase order from you, it is you Verification Manager (UVM). The UVM and not a hoax," Strum continues. "The allows different levels of access and privileges to be set for users. Strum adds that the chip is also less vul- intent here is to open up the door ofemmRoger Kay, manager for International nerableto outside hacking, which will be merce withsome degree of confidence." The chip will make its debut on IBM's Data Corp.'s (IDC's) personal computing valuable to those looking to add an extra level of security to e-commerce transactions. 300 PL commerdal desktops, and will even- research group in Framingham, Mass., says "People are doing business over the tually make its way into other IBM commer- hardware-based security systems, such as Internet and conducting important business dal and consumer systems. In addition to through browsers like jMIcrosoft I nternet] the security chip, the 300 PL desktops will Explorer and Netscape [Communicator], and have an integrated client-based authenticapeople want assurances that when they tion and authorization system called a User

chological, saying that few people hesitate to hand over a credit card to a waiter who disappears with it for several minutes, or to give credit card information over the phone, bui they are reluctant to provide the same information online. "Everyone needs to be convinced that

IBM's security chip, should begin to address

doing business over the Web is safe and the some of the lingering security concerns peo- problem is one of perception," he adds. Kay also sees advantages for IBM in movple have about conducting business over the Internet. Kay seesthe problem as largely psy- ing so quickly to put the security chip on systems. In doing so, it can build up momentum, helping the chip become a standard for conducting secure e-commerce.

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Access 97 and 2000 database tips Continued from page l22 Y2K protection To prevent errors creeping into your data, set the date format for all date fields to display with a four-digit year. When the full year is used, you get a visual check that your data has been entered correctly. The short form date format can give unexpected results:

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now appear on the application's switchboard. Conditionalfooter text You can specify header or footer text to appear on a report if certain conditions are met, if you use the IIf function. Try these examples in a text box in a report's header or footer: mllf([Page]m1,[Name],ePage " IIT [Page]) Report name on page 1, page number on other pages. mllf([page]=[pageS],eprinted: " 5$ Format(Nowo,ehh:mm am/pm dd mmm yyygjr) II lr ) The date the report was printed on the last page only.

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Setting up X Window Continued from page12$ Non-Interl aced SVCA, 1024x768 I 60 Hz, 800x600 Ca 72 Hz setting, which is the setting I select. The next custom setting is vertical sync range of your monitor. If in doubt, select the 50-70 option. My Dell monitor is capable of a higher rate, so I select 50-90. Now we come to Screen Configuration where you are presented with two options: Don't Probe and Probe. Probing attempts to automatically determine the best video

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Window managers and desktop environments Linux is about choices. Nowhere is this more evident than in the choice of a window manager or environment for X Window. If you did not select GNOME or KDE when you installed Linux, Red Hat will default you to a window manager called AnotherLevel, which looks quite a bit like Windows 95. The match isn't 100 percent, but it's close enough that you should find it

CD-ROM) and will display a dialogue box that says Can you see this message?Yes / No. mode and color depth for your system. The dialogue expires in 10 seconds, so if the There is always a chance it could lock your attempt fails it will return you back to the very comfortable to use. system, however. I always select Don' t Xconfigurator menus. If you instaHed both GNOME and KDE, Probe. If you can see the box and the resolu- Red Hat 6.0 defaults to GNOME. The way to Next is Video Memory. In my case, I select 4 mb. Then comes Clockchlp Configuration. These are special settings needed by a few older video cards. You normally select No Clockchlp Setting (recommended) as the option. Okay, feeling brave? The next option is Probe for Clocks with two choices: Probe and

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