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Jan. 2000: Apple announces Aqua. Jan. 2000: Bill Gates, only weeks after Apple unveiled its glitzy new Aqua user interface, appoints himself see Rubber Ducky, page 16

M ac fans are crowing over t h e announcement that graphics adapt ers based on the new GeForce 3 chip have been promised to ship first for the Macintosh. However, PC versions won't be far behind. Look for PC-compatible versions of these high-end graphics cards to ship by the end of March. According to NVidia, Microsoft's DirectX 8 multimedia libraries will be able to take full advantage of its new features right away.

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Mac: Still holding the Advantage? Have other operating systems finally caught us with the Mac OS?

supported — a perhaps inescapable reality in light of Apple's small marketshare. 2. Adding Peripherals — It's hard to find a mainstream Windows box with less expansion potential than an iMac, or a market-leading peripheral that doesn' t support Windows. Linux and the Mac both suffer here, but the need for all-new device drivers for Mac OS X presents an additional hurdle for Mac users. With that said, Mac users moving forward to Mac OS X will sooner or later reap the benefits of a system with a state-of-the-art graphical interface and truly modern OS underpinnings, including a graphics engine based on Adobe's Portable Doc ument Format (PDF), delivering advanced typo graphical controls (ah, ligatures!), and other luxuries — all atop a practically crash-proof foundation. And,

2001. 1. Plug 8C Play — The Mac's plug-and-play support

ac users tend to be pretty smug about the ease-of-use and plug-and-play advantages of their platform. This legendary ease is brought about by several interrelating factors, not the least of which are Apple's strict human interface guide lines and close control over the clone-free Mac hard ware environment. But, Microsoft, which it can be argued, is at its best when motivated by a competitive

is slick, but the 15,000 devices supported out of the box by the latest Windows releases is a far, far greater number than the Mac's paltry few. Linux, while still less sophisticated than Windows or the Mac in terms of plug-and-play prowess, is catching up fast, now offering USB support, hardware detec tion through utilities such as Mandrake's Hard

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despite initially weak (or, as the driver signing to ensure that old case may be, totally absent) sup drivers don't corrupt the system. port for DVD in Mac OS X, the The Mac has none of these fea Mac tends to be a good founda tures, although it can be argued, it tion for video work, where the syn doesn't suEer from a lack of them ergy of easy-to-usesoftware and as badly as did Windows 95/98 built-in digital video (FireWire ) and earlier releases. Linux, with its ports reducescomplexities. focus on system security, doesn' t 3, Driver Management — Someday, allow non-privileged users to alter we hope that every Windows driver the system at all. will be added and removed via 4. Integrated User Interface — What a single control panel. As it i s, should we compare? Aqua versus though, it's not bad. The vast major Luna? Windows Me vs. Mac OS ity of d r iver-management tasks 9.1? KDE2 vs. Gnome? Each has can be handled via the Windows advantages.We'd say Linux isthe Device Manager. loser here, with competing graph The latest Windows releases have ical shells that don't provide deep system file protection and require integration with t h e u nderlying

system object models and Applica tion Programming Interfaces. And,

S. No 'Mystery' Files — Once a clear Mac advantage, it's now almost a' moot point — they all have lots. However, Windows can arbitrarily hide or show file type identifiers and protected system files. The Mac cannot. And while we' re sure

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In this regard, the Luna interface of Windows XP is a double bless ing: it's similar enough to previous Windows versions to be familiar in use,yet enough of a change to make the claim of a conceptual switch from "data-centric" com puting to "task-oriented" opera tion more than mere hype. We

Connection Sharing, VPN, Net Beui, AppleTalk, FTP, Web ser vices, Vines, TCP/IP, IPX, and a ton of others are directly supported by Windows 2000. Netmeeting (or the new Remote Assistance feature in Windows XP) allows

know the purpose of every file on their favoured platform, we think the lack of deep integration men tioned in item ¹4 is really working against Linux at this point. Until one GUI becomes dominant in Linux-land (and it seems to us that "dominance" isn't really a very Li n u--kk concept, anyway), tlus problem seems destined to remain.

remote app sharing and document sharing, instant chat, and more. Then, there's the other Windows features: multi-user Terminal Ser vices, multihoming, t unnelling, DNS services, etc., etc. Windows is WAY, way ahead of the Mac here — OS X's improvements not w ithstanding. And L i n ux, l i ke other Unix systems, is nothing

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7. Graphics Support — Windows PCs and Macs are approximately on par in terms of multimonitor support at this point. But PC graphics driv ers are provably faster, and PCs running Windows or 'nix tend to have better OpenGL 3-D perfor mance, too.The Mac's legendary graphics strengths primarily man ifest in 2-D applications such as Photoshop, although a forthcom ing Mac port of the high-end 3-D application Maya may open up new

opportunities in 3-D. 8. Better Internet Support — Mac OS

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Internet functionality, such as a robust Web server, into the operat ing system where it belongs — and where virtually all server-oriented PC OSes have been ahead for years. Apple's reluctance to expose the complexities of the Unix underpin

nings of Mac OS X probably means that those looking for sophisti cated network management tools and console-oriented utilities will probably still have to look else where, though. 9 Easier Installation — Mac owners often cite this as a key advantage.

However, virtually any version of Linux or recent Windows release will boot and install from a CD,

too. In fact, I can boot a PC and enable recording to CD-R or copy i ng files over a network with a single floppy disk. I can't do that on a Mac. Realistically, all the systems have problems here — Linux users are probably the worst off: Red Hat and Mandrake users can use "Red Hat Package Manager" RPM files. Debian/Corel and s om e o t h er Linux variants use Tarballs (or with a little extra work, may have success with RPMs as well), and often eso teric shell scripts that unpack the archives and put the files heaven knows-where. If the Mac is the best here — usually (but not always)

an installation is a drag-and-drop affair — then Linux is the worst. It's not perfect, but at least Win

d ows' SETUP.EXE and A d d/ Remove Control Panel mechanism for installing and removing files is consistent. And system file pro tection and driver signing features of recent Windows releases is an attempt to minimize DLL conflict issues — an area in which Apple's Mac OS was always notoriously weak, with its simple-but-limited Extensions Manager. 10.Dependable Aliases — The Mac is still ahead here, thanks to the invis ible desktop database. The Win dows PC's ability to search for

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is no difference between stealing a copy of Photoshop and stealing music and income from an artist. Encourag ing this sort of theft of copywritten software is not at all what I expected a mass-distributed publication to be doing. If you are going to provide such coverage of pirate sites and software please at least mention to the public that the software they download from the site is stolen, and that they are acting as software pirates; the way your article is written it almost looks like you are unaware that this is theft!

issue of your paper, and was quite sur prised to see right on page one your "Editor's Choice for Best Piracy Soft ware". Co m e o n! What sort of message are you giving the general public with this sort of endorsement? Will you next publish addresses for where to best download hot copies of Microsoft Windows? So what am Italking about? I am talking about AudioGalaxy, a tool for distributing pirated audio files. There

I hope your paper starts to shape up better than this. This is a poor start indeed. Wake up and at least hit the 90's, if you don't recognise the issues of the new millennium. Doug Blackley

distribution and a grcrcoing number o f record companies andi ndcpdentdent art ists are doing the same, as they realize the potential o f this nnu mediumfor spread ing avsarenessfoa bands commercially availableproduct. Other users (and I believe it is a large group), such as mysel f, Thanksfor your letter, Doug. I suppose dcriunload audio+les they have previ I could get a'e fensive and say the same ously purchased on vinyl, cassette tape or

Windows XP, with its new enhanced experience.However, you failed to mention how Microsoft has enhanced the Windows experience. Could it be new security holes, allowing for a whole new family of script viruses? Or new expressive sounds to indicate an "illegal operation" program crash? How about a new properties dialog to thing to you, based on the stark reality other"old" media. For heavens sake,I've set the colours of the blue screen of that, in a recentpoll, h'996of our audience bought The Beatles' @Site Albumfour death? Gee I can hardly wait to find said they had used ¹pster at least once. ti mes already — surely I'm entitled to my out about all the wonderful new fea But perhaps a moreopti mistic perspec personal use backup byneo! tures of this all-new version. tive is to observe that this content is not Thanks for continuing to produce necessarily pirated, nor is a photo posted Hi Computer Trackers, the best darned computer publication online necessarily there vnthout permis Great to see your first issue — congrat in these parts. sion. I have personally posted dozensfo ulations. Yers, Dusty Cochrane MP3 fsles at TheMP3Zone. cornfor free Your first h e adline announced Squamish BC

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Video editing with the VAIO is easy and, for the most part, el.egant his is the sort of simplicity and elegance we expect to see from Apple... the Sony Pic tureBook is the most elegant and has sle-free portable video editing device we' ve ever tested.

Digital Video Made Simple We try to present a balanced view of the ongoing "platform wars" behveen Macs and PCs and, truth be told, Macs have been better than PCs for video-editing tasks for much of the last decade. Indeed, we have owned several Macs (and a fcw "iX'Iac com patibles," too) over thc years, and have found them superior for most graphics-related tasks almost with out interruption since the mid-eight ies. In addition to the many PCs we regularly use, we currently have a dual 500 AIHz G4 t ower — an undeni ably great computer!

It's healthy for technology jour nalists to have a bit of a love/hate relationship with their subject matter. Otherwise, punditry can descend into zealotry, or may at least be suspected of bias. And, despite the way we' re sure it must appear trom time to time, we really don't like those "mine's better than yours" platform arguments. Currently, we' re watching Apple's position in the digital video market very closely, and seeing a widening gap between th e c apabilities of under-USS1500 systems available for

the PC (e.g., the US$999 Matrox RT2000, $1499 Pinnacle DC1000 DV, etc.) and those availablc on the Mac, with tools such as Final Cut Pro, iMovie2, etc. In our view, Apple seriously needs to offer a real-time editing platform in this price range

you left-click a movie, it plays. When you right click, it collapses and goes up to the parent directory. It's not

(or find one to champion) to stay rel evant.

We' ve been testing the Sony Pic turcBook, a 2.2-pound, inch-thick portable powered by a power-thrifty 600 MHz Transmeta Crusoe proces sor with 128 MB of KV I ( expand able to 192MB), a 1 2G B d r ive, built-in video camera, panoramic-for mat 1024x480 screen, iLink IEEE 1394 interface, TV out, VGA out, USB, PC Card slot, "Memory Stick" slot, built-in V .90 modem, stereo speakers, video effects processing tools, movie editing software, etc. and, we have to admit, it greatly exceeds the capabilities of any portable Mac as a video editing platform in terms of out-of-thc-box functionality. As wc noted in early July, we fully expect Apple to announce a pan oramic portable and an even stron ger emphasis on video editing (and DVD) next year, but we really think S ony has raised the bar. We ar e finding its "XilovieShaker" software

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3. Click to select one of five "mood icons" — ranging from mellow to exuberant. 4. Type a few text captions into the "Text Shaker" box. Click "Shake." 5. Wait a moment while AiovieShaker automatically adds music, edits thc clips together (completewith fades, transitions, borders and other spe cial effects and totally in sync with the musical soundtrack! ) and builds a movie. Preview results. Repeat or manually edit text, transitions, and other parameters if desired. 6. Export results i n Qu i c kT ime, MPEG-1, email, RealVideo, and other formats. On the downside, there are a few things MovieShaker lacks, too. Most quite magical — i t j ust works. It' s notably, it can't import files directly amazingly easy to build a fully edited from your camcorder - you have to video with a m u sical soundtrack, use a separate capture utility, or use professional looking edits, special Sony's proprietary Memory Stick e ffects and t i t l es. H e r e a r e t h e solid-state storage media to m o ve steps. thc files from device to device. It 1. furn the unit on. Swivel the built-in also can't export directly back to a camera to point at your desired digital camcorder, although it can subject. Press the button near the save files in DV format directly from l eyboard labeled Capture. Repeat MovieShaker. (Thus, you can save until you have all the clips you DV file directly to a Memory Stick, want. ifyou have a compatible Sony cam 2. Launch MovieShaker, select "Use corder.) SmartCapture's Movies." Add any Despite these minor lapses, Sony other clips or stills you want to appears to have the right idea. It cus include, or delete them hy drag tomizcs the Windows environment ging to the Trash. The software will significantly. It bundles a vast col automatically trim movies to exactly lection of software: antivirus tools,

of Windows yet). No longer do you have to worry that the QuickTime Player docsn't do full-screen mode unless you pay US$29.95 for th e Pro e dition of QuickTime (an issue that is still true, by the way — wc don't know how Sony manages to fool the QT player to go to full-screen mode when it is *not' the Pro edition ), No longer do you have a separate CD audio player, MP3 player and yet another player for Windows Media files. Sony's Media Player handles full-screen QuickTime Alovies, CD audio (complete with artist and song names pulled from the CDDB database) Windows Media video, audio, etc., all in a single uni fie interface. Looking for a picture or a video file? The system's VideoFlow browser displays the pictures and movies in a fun, freeform fashion,where the directory hierarchy is displayed as a floating, moving collection of icons that follow your mouse pointer around the VideoFlow browser screen. When

images or full-motion video. A large number of special effects are avail able, all of which can be previewed in real time. W it h t h em, you can alter your videos with effects such as cartoon borders, spherize and warp distortions, black-and-white and high-contrast colour m odes, real-time mirror images — there' s even a cutsie "change faces" effect that can he used to put someone' s face on another person's body. What fun!The effectscan be added tnyour movie and processed in real time, albeit at a resolution best suited for web-based movie distribution. Anyway, this is the sort of simplic ity and elegance weexpect to see from Apple. It's good stuff, and we hope Steve Jobs and the team at Apple are still thinking of the small but elegant things that make 5'Iac fans "love" their computers. For now, the Sony PicturcBook is the most elegant and hassle-free portable video edit ing device we' ve ever tested. Recom mended. t&

GenericMedia Last issue, we noted increasing demand for RealNetworks, Microsoft and Apple (and Macromedia. etc., etc.) to work to unify their respective media players so that codecs are interoperabie. But we may not have to wait for the Big Three to decide to work together. A founding member of App!e's Quick Time engineering team, Peter Hoddie, is attempting to break down the walls between different multimedia content formats. His company, Generic Media, recently unveiled "new software that it says will allow online video and audio clips to run across a variety of networks and devices without having to select media formats." Sony (which, perhaps

not coincidentally, is an investor in Generic Media) has already proven that it is possible to unify the Media Player morass, at least on the PC. Its Media Bar (as found on Sony VAIO PCs) can play CDs, DVDs. CD Extra, Video CD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2,MP3. AYI, AU. AVI, AIFF files (etc.) and Apple QuickTime 4 movies, and it can even play QuickTime 4 movies in full-screen mode without requiring the user to purchase Quick Time Pro. Perhaps this innovation will push Real Networks. Microsoft and Apple to work together more closely. If not, we hope Mr. Hoddie and others striving toward this worthwhile goal reap the benefits.

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have many decisions to make. This article provides additional details on recommended hardware and soft ware. Obviously, these general rec o mmendations mav no t a pply t o everyone. The main focus is on help ing you t o b u ild a s table system to avoid crashes and other technical problems (you' re a musician, not a computer wizard, right?) and getting the best possible performance.

Getting Started To get started, you should go to a few music stores and sit down in front of each type of system you are consider ing for a while (in the Vancouver area,

Long R. McQuade and Annex Hi Tech are two good places to start.), or go to a local user group and talk to some experts.

Mac or Pc? The PC versus Mac question is as tricky to answer as ever. Here are a few items to consider: 1) Cubase is the most widely used "high-end" seque neer and a udio recorder available. If you are consid ering building a system for use with Cubase, you should consider the so called "latency" delay introduced by the driver software (and, sometimes, exacerbated by the operating system). If you look at the latency values of the top 20 professional-level sound cards for PC and Mac, not one ofthe top 13 performers is running on a Mac. And the Mac, at this writing, only figures t~vice in the top 20. This definitely suggests that PCs have the potential for better performance. Indeed, there are those who maintain that, since Apple dropped serial ports on Macs in favor of USB, MIDI on the lvlac has never been quite as good. From a purelv technical standpoint, this posi

definite rewards — not the least of tion is arguable, given USB's maxi which are a greater number of hard mum theoretical throughput,. which exceeds that of the older Apple serial ware and software options. I per sonally wouldn't want to t rade my standard. However, almost nothing in the computer world works in practice PC-based music system, even for the as it does in theory. Others believe best software that's currently available for the Mac. the main culprit in the Mac's lacklus And, just in case you think I am tre MIDI performance is OMS, the biased, I have a top-of-the-line dual troubled successor to Apple's now CPU, 500 MHz G4 here. Its CD defunct MIDI Manager. See the "low latency" list of the top writing software is weaker, its audio editors are less friendly, and its selec 20 cards at http: //w~v.kvr-vst.corn/ tion of plug-ins is decidedly more asio.php 2) Many high-end studios use Macs, limited than the PC. However, the Mac continues to be strong at th e and it seems that most pro-audio high end, where ease is less important music stores continue to recommend Macs over PCs. Part of this is based than pro-oriented features (S'vIPTE, on the Mac's legendary ease of use; etc.). At this level, Pro Tools for Mac is still a leader. part is, we believe, based on the long As far as complexity goes, the Mac terin view of the Mac as a more reli is definitely easier to maintain, but a able platform for music and audio work. This situation, however, doesn' t well-configured PC, with the sound hardware preinstalled is not very com necessarily reflect current realities. Over the last couple of years, the plex, either. Windows Me goes a long PC has matured into a flexible and way to "beginner-proofing" the PC experience. full-featured foundation for a digital However, if avoiding crashes is music studio at this point. It is still your top priority, you might prefer a somewhat more complex than a Mac to set up and maintain, but there are Mac, or find Windows 2000 (or the sa Ea '~ ~~ o w l i l pT

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May 24, 2000: Microsoft releases its Pre view 1 beta of MSN 6, which features what can be charitably called an Aqua-inspired user interface, as this MSN button shows. Feb. 13, 2001: Microsoft unveils Windows XP, with a trash can in the lower right corner (a rather more Mac-like position than in pre vious Windows releases), subtle, true-colour icons, translucent selection rectangles and built-in tools roughly equivalent to iTunes,

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But there's one item that's causing more controversy than all the others combined. It's an icon in more than one sense. Already made famous in an immortal performance by Kermit the Frog, we speak of a rubber ducky icon in Windows XP that's suspiciously sim ilar to one supplied with the Mac OS almost two years earlier.

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Microsoft Office Xp Codename: Office 10 Product: OfficeXP(Lmownas Office 10 in beta.) From; Microsoft Price: TBD; anASPpricing structure is also expected. Pros: ImprovedWebintegration, including the ability to save documents to 8 URL,for access viathe"web storagesystem."Enhanced ability to collaborate on documents aftd anno tate them. Controversial "subscription" (ASP)

Office XP is not, as some reports have suggested, abandoning the shrink wrap "traditional" office software model, nor is it completely Internet based. Instead, it adds (for better or worse) a smattering of both of these components to the existing Office code base, making Office 10,orOf fi ce XP as it will be known when it is released, around the end ofMay2001, an upgrade appealing to those looking for new functionality from the classic office apps: the PowerPoint presenta tion program, Excel spreadsheet, and the ubiquitous Microsoft Word. As with previous Office releases, you can expect to see Standard, Professional

option."Smart Tags" is probably the addition that most users will see as the "must have" feature. Integrated OCR feature. Cons: (currently) problematic speechrecog nitlon. Controversial 'Windows Product Acti vation" (copy protection) requirement. Office Designer andWebStorage features from betas 1 and 2 are slated to becut from the final release.

and Premium editions of the pack age, adding new components (Access database, FrontPage web-design tool, Publisher DTP application, etc.) to various version of the mix, too, There is, however, at least one former Office feature that doesn't seem to be here this time around. Although the situation could change by the suite's release date, at the moment, it looks like PhotoDraw is no longer an Office inclusion. Instead, there's an Office Document Imaging applet that performs OCR and allows to to reuse text directly in Office applications. The text found in the scanned images can also be searched. Characterized by B il l G a tes as

"the most significant release of Office ever," the first two beta releases of the next version of Microsoft's fl agshi business application have been getting

so-so reviews from early testers, (We have to wonder: why are they com plaining that Office XP's speech rec ognition is "imperfect?" Are there any alternatives that aren' t?) A US$19.95 Corporate evaluation kit (detailed later in this article) allows you to decide for yourself if Office XP is a worthwhile upgrade. It strikes us that complaints ofbeta 2 not offering significant advantages over beta 1 or previous versions of Office are, at the very least, shallow observations.

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rounded edges and subtle, true-colour icons and shading effects. The but Remote assistance allows remotemanagement and tons and other window controls are g user assistance. A special all in familiar places, but have a pleas "Win9x Compatibility ing and — dare we say it? — some what Mac OS X-inspi red luminescent quality. Hovering the mouse over the close window icon causes it to glow red. Selection rectangles are a trans Cons: Windows XPhas hig her system requirements than Windows lucent colour, blue by default. No 9x; some compatibility issues. Controversial longer is there a three-pixel "dead "product activation" schememaycause space" below buttons in the taskbar. inc onvenience during hardware upgrades. And, when you start to work with Str o ngest Competitors: other versions the system, you soon see that the o fWindows, Linox (especially desktop interface and taskbar improvements o riented versions such as Mandrake 7.2), are morethan superficial.E ver opened up several browser windows in Win Mac OSX. dows 9x or Windows 2000 and then tried to make sense of the page titles desktop with her own customized set listed in the taskbar? Not an easy tings, running her programs exactly thing to do. Do this in Windows XP as she had left them. The speed at and aftera second or two, the doc which the system switches between uments reassemble themselves into user accounts is positively astonish a neat pop-up menu in the taskbar ing. On the Compaq M700 portable above the application to which they system on whichJim Allchin demon belong. Mac OS X users loved this strated the feature, the switching pro feature when Apple showed it off in cess took less than a second. (These January, and we think Windows users models currently top out at 850 MHz. will appreciate it, too. David Coursey, — Ed.) So far so good.... executive editor for ZD Anchordesk, says, "I think Microsoft has finally The Desktop beatthe Apple Macintosh forease-of When your desktop appears, the first use." Wishful thinking? Read on..... thing you notice is... there's practically nothing on it. There's a cool-looking Task-oriented Design translucent trash can i n t h e l o w er Allchin focused on four areas where right corner (a rather more Mac-like Windows XP shines: Photos, Music, position than in previous Windows Video and Remote Assistance. Not releases), a redesigned taskbar at the surprisingly, considering his stature b ottom (mostly blue, with a 3 - D as a jazz/fusion musician of some shaded look and a green "Start" button, renown, he started with a demonstra which, when you think about it, makes tion of several significant enhance

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Redmond. Enthused Ji m Allchin, platforms product group vice presi dent, "it's almost a lifestyle upgrade." But, amazingly, you may be inclined to agree.

Startup Windows XP includes several new features t ha t c o u l d s i g n ificantly change the way you use your com puter. For starters — literally — there' s a new Fast User Switching screen that greets you when the machine starts up or another user logs off This screen shows icons (random photo icons are inserted by default; you can custom ize these at will) and a few lines of descriptive text for each user with an account on the machine. If user "Joe" has email, the number of unread mes sages is listed. If user "Josephine" was running three programs before she logged out, these programs are listed

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Cameras and Scanners The Cameras and Scanners wizard in Windows Me turns up in Windows XP, with a few neat improvements. Images are automatically pulled from a supported camera (we saw it demon strated with a USB-connected Kodak unit ) and displayed — remarkably quickly — in thumbnail format on screen. As in the Windows Me edi tion, images can be zoomed, rotated and so on,but there are a couple of new options, too: a slideshow feature complements the thumbnail mode for those wanting to show off their images and a new "email this image" function invokes a wizard that offers to compress big files for easier email lilg.

There's also a feature that allows you to automatically upload the images to the Internet, via the built-in Web server in Windows XP, and another that enables you to order prints over the Internet. All of these features are ho-hum to those who already know how to do this stuff, but may be a boon to beginners. But the big change is in the printing feature: A Photo Printing Wizard can automatically format images in a variety of multiple images-per-page formats and print them directly from the desktop shell — ideal for printing a batch of wallet size photos, contact sheets or other popular formats. This will save almost anyone time, plain and simple.

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NetMeeting an d R e m ote A c cess capabilities it has offered for years respective album covers. under Windows NT and 2000, Win Windows Media Player 8 will now dows XP provides a feature Micro support encoding to MP3 as well as soft calls Remote Assistance. With it, Microsoft's proprietary WMA stan users can allow an expert to remotely dard. No big deal, considering the connect to their computer and, if per vastnumber ofMP3 encodersalready mitted, take control of the system and on the market, but a nice enhance actually fix the problem, right over ment, nonetheless. the Internet. A built-in chat mode and screen-sharing features add to Video the versatility of this feature, which DVD playback is simplified, with essentially eliminates the need for movies now appearing directly in the a third-party utility such as pcAny Media Player window, as opposed to where, Timbuktu, or AT8cT's VNC. previous releases, which bundled a Obviously, this raises some security separate DVD Player. Movies, too, and privacy concerns, but Microsoft automatically download metadata in maintains that the sessions are fully the background to p r ovide movie encrypted and require the user to buffs with additional information on specifically allow remote access and the production. Apparently, this data interaction. Hackers won't be able to persists on the local machine even just waltz in and take control of your when not connected to the Net. machine with this new feature.

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There's also a special application c ompatibility m o d e t h a t a l l o w s Windows XP to create an environ ment that simulates the operating system for which the program was designed. With i t , W i n dows XP p romises to be better able to r u n

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works on an AGP 2x or 4x mother board. We are using one right now in an Asus P2B, based on an old lmost any video capture card you want it to connect to the cornov e r all solution, despite a few early 440BX chipset, with AGP2x only, or plug-in "video grabber" puter? What kind of computer and d r i ver glitches. It's most remarkable We have, however, had some difficul will p r o duce a c ceptable operating system are you using? Do f e ature is "TV on Demand," the abil ties on motherboards with VIA (non results at lov resolutions, on a fast you want analog video capture or dig- i t y to, in effect, pause live television. Intel) AGP chipsets. computer. But when you are looking ital video capture.' What form do you It ha s ever)ching you'd probably for better quality, or trying to find a want the video to end up in (i.e., does want i n a n a nalog video capture Matrox system that works well with an older t heboard needtobeabletodurnp the c a r d (TV in, TV out, still or full Other "all in one" graphics/capture 400 or 500 MHz computer, things results out to video tape?Or are you m o t i o n capture,closedcaptiondecod card choices include the M a rvel get a little trickier. planning to write a DVD or Video i n g , "video magazine" features, DVD G450 eTV or the older and slightly Most video capture products boast CD disc?) more expensive but somewhat better decoder, etc., etc.), and close-to-lead captures of "up to" 30 frames per The two least 'xpensive analog i n g edge 3D graphics performance as Matrox iblarvel G400. T h e G 450 second, but the rates can be custom features a "time-shifting" (TV on c ards we' ve tested that vield good cap- w e l l . ized — and 30 frames per second at mre and dump-to-video results are the A deta i led review (rather critical, demand) feature l acking i n the highest resolution often isn't pos the ATI All in Wonder 128 (not the i n p l aces) is at http: //pchuyersguide. Marvel G400. We a'so found out sible. Fornmately, the quality obtained n ewest model at this point, but still c o r n / h a r d ware/graphics/A l l - i n that there are a f e w n o t - so-good cost-cutting measures in it, compared by capturing at resolutions as low as a reliable and inexpensive performer) Wonder Radeon.html the IvlPEG-I standard of 352x240 and the Matrox Marvel G400-TV (or T he l e ss expensive All-in-IVonder to the Xlarvel G400: cheaper R WWI (or the quarter-screen standard of even the older Marvel G200-TV ). 1 2 8 Pro (or even cheaperbut now rare DACs, no M o tion JPFG decoder chip, a 4-layer board instead of a 320x240) yields acceptable results for lilnte that these cards may or may A l l - i n - W o nder 128) arc also rea most users. 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Speculation about new Palm m505 heats up umors are swirling about the specifications of a new, lightweight handheld orga nizer coming from Palm. Although the company won't confirm the specs, here's what you can probably expect to see somewhere around the time of the big Cebit trade show in Hannover, Germany (Mar. 22-28, 2001).

The device, positioned as a suc cessor to the Palm Vx, will likely be called the Palm M505 and will be distributed in two different versions: monochrome and 16-bit colour. A key improvement of the M505 is said to be its weight — a mere 3.25 ounces (90g) for the monochrome versions (which may be called the M500), or 120g for the colour model.

Thus, the monochrome model weighs in at about an ounce lessthan the cur rent Palm V. The new models,expected to be priced at less than US$500 and US$635 for the monochrome and colour versions, respectively, are believed to make use of the Dragon Ball VZ processor, running at a speed of 33 MHz and will include 8MB of RAM. (For comparison, Compaq's similarly priced iPAQ handheld runs at 206 MHz and sports 32MB of RAM.) The Palm units will reportedly include a postage stamp-sized expan sion slot, and will come, sources say, with an "Internet Kit."

Unfortunately, the M505 appears to be incompatible with all periph erals an d h a r dware e x pansion options for previous Palm models. B y our count, that w il l ad d u p to four different Palm expansion specs, all of which are incompat ible. A lthough t h ere's stil l s o m e question about what screen res olution the new unit will sport, images posted at w ww.palminfocentencom a n d elsewhere suggest that the dis play resolution hasn't changed much — if at all — from the current models' 160x160 pixel array.

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times through their mechanisms, apply ing each of these hue in turn, before spitting out the finished page. As you can imagine, this procedure takes time.

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Product: OKIC7200n (seealso: other 7000 series models) From: OKI(www.thecolourofbusiness.corn) For: Windows 3.x, 9x/NT/2000, MacOS Price: C$5999 Pros: Single-pass colour. Fast (12 ppm) colour, 20 ppm mono;600x1200 dpi;64 MB up to 1024 MB;PCL5c PS3; IEEE1284 and USB 1.1; 10/100BaseEthernet card standard. Cons: Someissues with colour matching,

whichcan beworked aroundwith manual adjustments via the front panel. Strongest Competitors: HPLaserJet 4500N, Brother HL2400C

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instead of a laser beam to record the image to be printed onto the drum of its printers has refined this technique by creating a printer with four in-line e printing of full-colour pages, LED heads, which allows each colour as those familiar with the term page to be printed in one pass. It CMYK are familiar, is most uses four separate drums — a design often accomplished by the separate that allows for a perfectly straight application of cyan, magenta, yellow manual feedpaper path and speedy

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The Hardware With a shipping weight of 132 lbs.,

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capable of doubling the output reso lution to 1200x1200 dpi. See the OKI site for details. It is also notable that OKI claims the printer to be virtually ozone fee in use, allowing unrestricted placement in your office environment. As users of laser printers may know, such units t)Iyically emit a significant amount of potentially harmful ozone, making them unsuitable for use in poorly ven tilated areas — as production and equipment rooms so often seem to be.

The Software OKI supplies an administration util ity with its 7000 series units called AdminManager. This utility auto

matically searches the network for installed network servers and lets you assign the printer to various servers. As well, it provides options for man aging the print queue and determin ing the printer's status. Another intriguing feature of the printers is a built in web server. With it, a printer that needs to be config ured, reset or otherwise administered can be accessed from any web browser, simply by entering its IP address! In addition to the obvious benefits, this also means that the printer is easily managed, whether the admin is using a PC, Mac or some other platform. Functions that can be controlled via the Web include:

Viewing the status of the printer Network configuration change Alerts configuration — the printer can send a n ema i l to the adminstrator(s) when it needs con sumables or experiences an error. Printer menu configuration changes such as paper size, t)Iie, colour set tings etc.

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on the market today. But the real sur prise, as noted in a recent review by BareFeats.corn, is that today's Ultra ATA drives are as fast as their much more expensive Ultra SCSI counter parts. In fact, says BareFeats publisher Rob Art Morgan, "test results show that the bargain priced Ultra ATA/66 Fire Wire drives and controllers are every bit FireWire, now widely their equal, especially if you compare available on d i g i tal 7200rpm drives to 7200rpm drives." video cameras and a I n short, there i s n o d o ubt t h at growing number o f FireWire drives are substantially M acintosh and P C slower — an d m ore expensive, in storage devices, l anguishes at most cases — than SCSI or bargain

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