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Compute anywhere~ But of course he computer industry traditionafiy divides the noteL. book computer market (and the personal computer market in general) into two grand segments: the consumer market and the business market. How 20th Century. Without question, there are many instances where personal computers are used for business processes, and business processes only (don't even attempt to sneak a simple game onto those locked-down systems). A PC designed for that kind of environment can be specified in great detail —and often is by corporations —giving legitimacy to the business computer market segment. But the so-cafied.consumer segment is a dil'ferent matter altogether. I' ve never liked that classification, because it implies a lesscritical and less demanding kind of computing.However, an argument can be made for justthe opposite. For many business installations, a personal computer has to perform just a few functions: report writing, spreadsheet analysis, contact management, email, and maybe the occasional presentation. Outside of a corporatestructure,however,the demands placed on computers are intense and diverse. It's often pointed out, for example, that the users who are really pushing the outer edgesof computer performance are the garners,not the businessusers. What's true for desktop computing is also becoming the reality for notebooks. Reports of computer sales in the consumer segment from research companies like IDC Canada indicate that portables are showing better growth than desktops. This means that the number of non-business notebook computer users is expanding. And these users will want everything in a mobile computer that they have come to expect in a stationary one: high-fidelity audio; large displays and fast video with 3D graphics; and big fast drives. Manufacturers that have clued into this are responding

with products that fit the times. One of the more interesting models we' ve seen recently is Toshiba's Satellite 5000-Z59. Sure, it has the latest Intel processor. but what distinguishes it are the other components —Harmon Kardon speakers including sub-woofer, nVidia 3D graphics, high resolution 15-inch screen, DVD, and more. The

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timedia content production, it would also make a be work machine than one of Toshiba's business-classT models, regardless of how the company chooses to clasi l fy them. f The business versus consumer dichotomy also beg( to fall short when you look at the expanded possibilit' inherent in mobile computing itseK Because noteboo can beused anywhere,they are aptto be used fora vatl etyof purposes. If you have purchased a notebook fots

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like updating your stamp database. If you are a notebook . user, you' ve probably already fuzzed the line by listi both business and personal events in your calendar. 4 including businesscontacts along with friends and f ly in your contact manager. A wedding guest I know holed up in a hotel room fo fewdays lastsummer and created a humorous and touc ing Powerpoint tribute to the bride and groom that w ' shown during the reception. A consultant I sometime deal with, who is also a photography enthusiast, uses his notebook as a portable viewer to show off his latest images. I' ve used my notebook to watch DVD movies while nestled in a campground. Interestingly„ in these three examples, the computers in question were serious business notebooks. But that didn't stop any of us &om having a little fun with them.

model we saw also has a very un-corporate metallic blue finish. As a Satellite, it's a member of Toshiba's consumer line, but it may be time to rethink that old distinction between businessusers and consumer users. The changing nature of working life puts more people in independent circumstances. perhaps working at home, or in short-term project workgroups. Whatever the case, the computing needs of these individual workers wifi be different than what the traditionally defined business computercan deliver. One of the hallmarks of business notebooks is their uniformity. There are some important reasons why this is good. A company can buy two today, three more in the nextquarter,another half dozen in the fafi ,and expect that they will afi be manufactured to the same specifi«ation. This means the inventory easier to manage, it simEnjoy the issue! plifies IT support, and makes capital spending more preDavid Tanaka. Editor dictable. In contrast, one of the hallmarks of consumers is IF Ib HHDtnx Hsnxsnsssin WIDNsznsHOA IHNNDIN t heir diversity. and b y IDHSCN , WHDNINHAVHA HNJI1IIS ANHvrnit WIHIA IAHAHAIDIiioantworsn. extension, the diversity of iltttHHHNIIH HHHOQxrs sNIHIDIs WHPIloll WHIIH Ir HHHsias4 1HIT rHHVInsrAHILV MWN,rtu AIL D!FFFHHHr. demands they put on their AHFAIAD AND!HAHrsDHWINI AHAHSHVHHW/! WHHI'irDWsrwx HXy computers. That Satellite Z59 would make a dandy piece of consumer electronics gear. For someone working in an industry like mul-

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Ttools LLC (wwwgoolszom) has released a privacy utility

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triple duty. The Handspring Visor-

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beenoptimized and itmakes betteruse of

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Opera.

In an effortto move smaU- and mid-sized businesses away from monochrome laser

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Accor ding to Andrew Kiss, product managerfor thebusiness products division at Lexmark Canada in Richmond HilL Ont., adding colour to a document can increase brand identification and help readers find and retain informauon. He says other research reveals that smailer operations recognize these benefi ts, but have been slow to embrace colourprinting because ofthe cost.

Kiss says Lexmark's new colour lasers address this.

Opera6.0 for Windows can be downloadedat the compa-

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er are available for Beos, Linux/Solaris, Mac, 05/2, QMX , andSymbian 05.A technology preview version of Opem 6.0 for Linux x86 is available now.

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The CT50 and C910 are nebrork laser printers. that offerfastmonochrome and colour output. TheC750 has a rated pri ntspeed of 20 pages per minute (ppm) and maximum resolution of 1.200x1,200 dots per i nch ( dpi) using

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Lexmark' ssingle-passtechnology.The C910 hasw a rated print speed of 28 ppm in both colour+ and monochr ome, and accepts 11xlT sheets. The CTSO and C910 start at $4,939 and $6.499,

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TCPProduct ReviewEditor, Sean Conuthea, replies: We haven't heoni of any mother-. boards that will handle two Pengum 4 CPUs ot this point, but that doesn't mean they're

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'th the combination of good portable computing power, battery-powered peripherals and digital wireless technology, we can now set up an entire oflice in our car. (Before we get into details, let us Erst emphasize that we do not recommend using any of these devices while driving. Controlling a vehicle, particularly in a busy urban environment, requires fulltime attention.) The average road warrior will hit the streets sporting a notebook computer and

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perhaps a handheld device, like a Palm or PocketPC PDA or a BlackBerry email pager. Add to this a wireless PC card modem or adata-enabled cellphone and a portable printer, and you can accomplish many of the tasks in your car that you do in your offfce —albeit at a slower pace.

A desk for your cer But digital gear is only part of the picture. Even ifyou have the computer, how can you effectively use it in your car? Working at a desk is comfortable — trying to balance your notebook on a steering wheel isn' t. How do you organize your papers? How do you communicate with people in all the ways you do (phone, fax, and email) in your stationary ofgce? These are some of the issues we looked at when we decided to set up an oiBce in

our car. The Erst problem we tackled was the desk We found two innovative and very different solutions. The ?otto Desk (wwwjoitodeskcaosda.com) is a free-standing pedestal that swivels, tilts, and holds all your technology within easyreach ofthedriver' sseat.Accessories, &om lights to PDA holders, are also avail-

able. lotto Desk Canada has models that fiit a variety of cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, and RVs,as wellas emergency vehicles. Prices listed at the lotto Desk Canada site rangefrom $219.95 to more than $500. The second style we found was from AutoExec. Widely available from a number of mobile equipment and supply Web

Moving on, let's look at computers. Notebook computers are old hat, but how about a tablet PC? That's a computer that integrates all components into a single panel — think of just the screen portion of a notebook that's thick enough to hold the processor, hard drive. and other PC components. We tested Fujitsu's (wwwtujitsu.com) Stylistic LT C-500. an older model that uses a 500 MHz Celeron processor, a 6 GB hard d r ive, a n d Wi n dows 2 000 ProfessionaL The latest models have a 600 MHz Pentium I I I processor and include a 15 GB hard drive. Expensive, ($5,000plus) but it is an impressive system. The Stylistic LT has a docking station that includes Ethernet, USB, video, printer, serial port. keyboard, mouse, PC Card slot, audio, and modem connections. The keyboard and mouse are entirely optional, since you can navigate and input data using the stylus and the unit's touch-sensitive display. Though small (8.4-inch), the TFT Continued on page!8

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The LT is Fujitsu's mid-range model. It also sells a high-end Stylistic 3500 and the

the stylus. It required a fidr amount of pressure to work it, making it feel like you had to hit the screen rather than tap it. Even after calibration there were some inconsistencies, such as the double-tap not functioning. That was overcome by tapping once and then hitting the Enter key. The Stylistic LT came with a handwriting-to-text conversion tool that worked in conjunction with the stylus. We could use the handwriting in any softwarethat used text entry — word processors or Internet browsers. While not perfect, it was pretty accurate if you wrote clearly. Pressure was the key; you need to press hard to make sure the stylus maintained contact. We

PenCentra, which uses Windows CE as its

judged recognition accuracy to be less than with voice recognition — about 75 percent correct in our tests — but that should improve with practice.

The handwriting software included an on screen "keyboard" that can be used for type by hitting individual keys with the stylus. Still, using a stylus is slower than a keyboard —but there is much less to hold on to. We found that in the car, the stylus was useful ,but ata desk, we prefened a

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operating system. IBM's (www.ibm.ca)ThinkPad TransNote ($2,699) is another departure Rom the typical clamshell-style notebook. The TransNote looks like a leather-bound

cle it on the pad. The software adds the item to the appropriate category. The Transnote weighs about 2.25 kg (5 lb.), and when introduced, carried a somewhat heRy price tag of $4,500. But

the IR ports since infrared needs a direct line of sight to communicate. Estimated pnces are $349 for t he Canon, and $399 for the HP pnnter.

that had dropped to $2,700 on ISM Canada's Web site in December. IBM

Bete Ihtk For data communication, there are two main options: a data-ready cdlular phone with the appmpriate serial cable adapter, or a standalone wirelem modem. We tried Sierra Wtrelets's (wwwsierrswire!ess.tom) AirCard 510 with the Fujitsu Stylistic LT. Talk about &sodom! Since it is lrasicsUy a PC Card modem, it can be used for wireless faxing too. We used it with Sell Mobility service. but you should check with cellular carriers in your area to see if they support it. The AirCard 510 has a suggested retail price of $499.

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Portable printers are a viable option now. They can start a s small a s SiPix's (wwwsipir.com) Pocket Printer A6, which has a footprint that measures 12.7x10 an (5x4

portfolio. The 10.4-inch TFT screen, which tilts and swivels, is dear and easyto read. The innovative part to the TransNote is the notepad, which is standard letter-sized paper that sits on top of a digitizer. As you write on the paper, the pen transmits its X-Y coordinates to the digitizer. creating a bitmap. This gives you both a paper copy and a digital copy of your notes. The Transnote is also capable of storing items to specific organizer categories, such as To Do or Contacts. This makes it a great tool to have if you' re talking on the phone and need to make notes, or sitting with a client, where you can use a paper pad instead of typing your conversation notes. You simply tell the Transnote that you' re going to identify an item, then cir-

in.). weighs only 250 g ($.75 oz.), and sells for about $200. The SiPix is a thermal

printer. It prints Rom a mll of paper (like an inexpensive kx machine) ratherthan cut sheets. While the Pocket Printer A6 is tiny and fits anywhere, it probably isn't practical for business use. It would be ideal for printing out information from a PDA. For business-quality printing, we tried out two portable inkjet printers: Canon's

If you already have a digital PCSphone or are planning to upgrade, most digital cellular service providers in Canada

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(wwwcanon.a) BIC-55 and HewlettPackard's (www.hp.cs) Desk)et 350ci. Both offer excellent quality and require no cable s— they can be powered by batteries

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designed for household AC power, not automobile DC power. But there is a simple solution: the power inverter. These devices are sold under a number of brands and are commonly available at electmnics stores. They plug into a cigarette lighter socket and convert the car's 12 volt CD power into 120 volt AC power. Inverters

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If you already have cigarette lighter adapters for your electronic devices, you can plug in more than one at a time using a three-plug extension for your cigarette lighter. We' ve seen them on various Web sites for around $25. Security should be an added concern when you carry thousands of dollars worth of gear in your vehicle. At the very least, consider a set of cable locks —but the best bet is to make sure your notebook and other equipment is hidden in the trunk if you leave your car unattended. You should also review your existing .insurance poliries, to make sure everthing will be covered in case something is stolen or damaged. Can we exclusively run our office fmm our car? No, not yet. We still need to find a way to put in a sink for the coffee machine. Ci

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gesluingthat notoboutu aren't justfor bmnessusersanymore, sony (unto, piduied leh) andApple (iaooh, picturwi right) have rduaied newmodelsthai meet new consumer demonds-induding FireWire puris, DVDplay-

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...shovedWindows XPinto a4 GBFAT32 primary partition ... and created a slim 50 MBprimary partition to serve asa Linux /boot partition. When the Linux distros arrived in the mail, my Brat chaUenge was to rearrange the Windows XP layout. Dell preinstaaed the Inspiron with XP occupying the entire 20 GB drive as a single NTFS partition. I tried Partition Magic 6.0 on it, but it wimped out, saying, in elrect, "I don't do

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ting things going. I liked several of the

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he latest solid ink printer from Xerox Tektronix has been improved in several areas. While very nice and capable of excellent quality output, last year' s Phaser 850 was larger, heavier, and slower than the new 860.

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systems. There are a number of options out there; one made-in-Canada solution we' ve looked at and liked is the one available from Techcraft (nww.computerpiug.corn). While we often joke around the offic that hard drives are one of the most unexciting things to review, they are certainly one of the most essential components in a PC. Continued on page 38

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were being proposed forthenext generation of optical media: a Sony and Philips consortium had the Multimedia CD (MMCD) f ormat and Toshiba and Warner led the Super Density (SD) disc consortium. I can't pretend to know the details, but I'd like to think that Sony, still smarting from the whole Beta/VHS thing (Sony announced that the Betamax model released that year would be its last) provided living proof of the perils of letting the market decide between two incompatible formats. The end result of the alliance was that when the DVD spec was finagy established and discs and players started coming out in late 1996, people didn't have to

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(16.75x23.8x12.9 in.). According to the manual, it weighs 35.5 kg (78 lb.) — and after lifting it onto the desk, we believe it. Likethe Phaser 850, the 860 uses solid cmyon-l ike blocks ofwax thatare keyed so they only fit into the correct colour slot. However,the technology in the new model has been improved, according to the manufacturer, with the new smaller Cotorstix II ink blocks lasting longer. There are three installation options for

software drivers: easy, custom, and minimaL Wechose easy,and it really was.The printer had already received its own Ip addressfrom the network server.When we installed the driver, the software searched forthe printer,and found it.We made the printer our Windows default printer, and

wereset. This was possibly the easiest, fastest, network printer installation we' ve ever dobe. We installed the drivers on three Mac 64s

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(unlikely). One big problem with drives this big: afl versions of Windows we' ve tried put a 137 GB cap on drive size when the hive is attached directly to the motherboard's IDE controller. That doesn't mean you won't be able to use the drive with Windows, though. At the very worst it means you wifl only have access to 137 GB of storage. If you use an add-on ATA/133 adapter, you' ll be able to take full advantage of the drive's storage space (and you' ll be able to m ake use ofthe drive's rated transfer speed. too). Early retail box versions of Maxtor's 160 GB drive also included an ATA/133 adapter card to get around this problem, but by the time you read this, those boxes may no longer be available. Once we got the drive formatted and hooked up, it seemed to function just flne as a standard drive. Wewere able to use it as a boot drive on both ATA/100 and ATA/133 interfaces, with the drive providing better

numbers using the ATA/133 interface. We did notice a quirk, though: on our test machine, the drive turned in an extremely anomalous reading on the CPU utilization test under Windows Xp (92.3 percent, compared to 1.57percent forthe next highest drive). Iketesting under Windows 98 gave us a rating of 1.18, which seems rather lower than expected, and we' re therefore still not sure we trust

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ahead on the BusinessDisk WinMark 99 test, but the Western Digital takes the lead with everything else, including highest

beginningand end transferrates. The drawbacks: it's the loudest drive of the bunch, and generated strange results in the CPU Utilization test (it would &ense up under Windows XP, and generated a scoreof zero percent under Windows 98, which is almost certainly an error). One other thing we still find peculiar is Western Digital's jumper configuration, which has two different settings for master drive (one when the drive is solitary and another when there's a slave drive present). It's not a serious issue... it just means you' ll have to pay extra special attention to your jumper settings during configuration of your system, or the system may think there's no drive attached. At US$300, the Western Digital is a bit pricey, but the performance is top-notch.

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• One. yearwarranty. The latest version of LaCie's PocketDrive boosts the capacity to a maximum of 48 GB. The PocketDrive is essentially a notebook-sized hard drive with a special interface, all built into an enclosure only slightly larger than the drive itself. Holding everything together is a r ubberized moulding to help cushion the drive, which is absolutely essential on devices designed for portability. The Ugd stands for USB and IEEE1394 (FireWire) —both ports are induded on the drive. The inclusion of both interfaces means greater compatibility, allowing you to hook the drive up to either PC or Mac. The rubi because LaCie incorporates the pricier notebook-sized drives. the PocketDrive models are quite expensive, ranging from $369 for the 10 GB model through to a whopping $1,169 for the 48 GB version. Definitely not for the casual user, but the road warrior with a healthy budget will love it.

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ber the previous stackable design with the sharp edges (dangerous if you weren' t paying attention), which have now aU been smoothed ok, but the enclosures remain stackable. The price tag for the FireWire Hard Drive is nowhere near as scary as the PocketDrive. It's still pricier than an equivalent internal drive, but the extra cost is for the interface and the convenienceofhavingadriveyou can move from workstation to workstation.

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From: laGeCanada www.laae.corn Esfimatedprice range:5375to 5540 Test filecoplr. 12sec. • One USB 2.0 port. • 5,400 ipm ATA / too drive inside, vxth 2 MBcache. • Capaoti esof40 GB,60GB,and80GB. • Enclosure is 6x20x275cm (23x78xl0.7 in.), and just shy of 2 kg(44 lb.). • Compatible with Mac 05 8.6 and 9x Windows

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• Newly designed endasure is smaller, stackable, and morestreamlined. • One. year warranty. With a similar design to the FireWire version, the USB 2.0 Hard Drive swaps the two FireWve portsfor a single USB 2.0 port. For those with access to USB 2.0 on the PC, this drive has the edge in terms of transfer, but it's worth noting that USB 2.0 driver support is stig very spotty. In order to get pmper throughput on your drive, it' s important to ensure your USB host adapter drivers are correct and current. Once we loaded the drivers, we plugged the drive in and Windows 98 recognized the device right away. We used FDISK to get the drive set up and formatted, then it was ready to go. As expected, 6ie transfer w as slightly speedier than with t h e FireWire interface, though it was certainly very close.

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The 15 g EasyDisk isa miniature USB-based storage drive with roughly the same form factoras IBM's USB Key.The EasyDisk is compatibl e with USB 1.1 and plugs into any free port, or the USB extension cord providedin the box.Itcomes in 16 MB, 32 MB, 64 NB, 128 MB, 256 NB, and 512 MB capacities, with a 1 68 version anticipated. The drive's silver casing is smooth and shapelybutdoesn't have anything to hook directly onto a keychain. Instead, it comes with a small leather carrying pouch that

canbe attached to a key(oh ora neckstmp (induded). It's compatible with Windows 98, Me, 2000,and XP,since they aU recognize the drive without a driver —except Windows 98, which is a fairiy easy driver instalL Though it doesn't list compatibility in the specifications that come with the key,the key seems to be compatible with Mac 05, too. Nore information is available at www.easydiskusa.com.

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IDlyek Hash fi)SDDrive Distributedby: Foreseeson vmw foreseesonra Esfi matedpri cerange:560to5900 Also at 15 0, the 3NTek flash drive is pretty much the same type ofdevice:just stick it into any free USBslot and if your drivers are installed on the PC, it will immediately function as a removable drive. The device is compatible with USB 1.1, and is availabie in 16 NB, 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 NB, 256 NB, and 512 MB capadties,with a 1 GB version just around the corner. Itcomes with a smallhoie atone endfor attaching a carrying clip, which will allow itto be placed on a keychain oraround the neck. A USBextension cable is also included inthe box, so you don't have to reach around the back of your PC to plug it in. One nice feature ofthis key isthatithas a write-protect switch on the side, allowing you to protectyourdata againstaccidental erasure. It's compatible with Windows 98, Me, 2000, and Nac 05 8.6 through 10.1. A new driverless version is also expected soon. More information is availahie at wvvw.usbdrive.com. —Sean Conuthers

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Test filecopyKaren: 12sec. Test file copyFire Drive: 11sec. lf you already have a hard drive but want to make it external, Lava offers a solution with its drive enclosures. The Kazan enclosure hooks up to a USB 2.0 port, and the Fire Drive model hooks up to a FireWire port. Both consist of a plastic and metal enclosure into which you can mount any 3.5-inch hard drive. You simply screw the drive into the support rails and connect it to the onboard power supply and included mini-IDE cable. Then you plug the power cable into a wall outlet and the interface cable to your computer USB 2.0 or FireWire (as the case may be) port and away you go. A power switch on the back of the enclosure allows you to turn the drive ok when not needed, and the front of the enclosure has an LED light that indicates when the drive is being accessed. Assembly is pretty straightforward using the included instruction sheet. What' s

more, you can feel patriotic when using the Lavaenclosures— they'rem ade in Canada. Lava also sells its own FireWire ($85 street) and USB 2.0 ($55 street) adapter cards, if you don't already have the interfaces built into your system. A PC Card version of the FireWire interface is also available for approximately $230. but Lava doesn't yet oker a PC Card USB 2.0 interface. Windows 98 support for the USB 2.0 interface has been spotty while ag of the parties involved have been trying to 6nalize a standard (and we should stress that this is industry-wide, and has nothing to do with this particular product). Because of this, many USB 2.0 products have shipped with Windows 2000drivers, but not Windows 98 drivers. The Kazan USB 2.0 drive enclosure is one such product, but by the time you read this, you should be ableto download the updated 6les from Lava's Web site. Make sure you use the proper driver — if you use the Windows 2000 driver included on the floppy, your computer may appear to load aU relevant drivers but still not recognize the hard drive inside the enclosure. On«e we installed the proper drivers, our system recognized the drive as soon as we plugged the Kazan into the computer's USB 2.0 port. If you already have FireWire instaged on your system, the only thing you should need to do to is assemble and plug in the enclosure. We used a pre-formatted hard drive.and it worked the second we plugged in the enclosure. Its ease of use (because FireWire support is already native in newer versions of Windows, including Windows 98SE) is probably as good a reason as any to choose FireWue over USB 2.0, at least in the short term.

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days and enjoyed the experience overall, but I was disappointed in its sound support and its obsolescent DocBook supPoft.

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I was alittle startled to see that7.2wantedto make allof my LinuxpartitionsEXT3,the latest journallingfilesystem. The Red Hat graphical installation has changed very linle.There are a few new options and I was a little startled to see that 7.2 wanted to make aa of my Linux partitions EXT3, the latest journauing 6lesystem. Mandrake also offered this, as well as ReiserFS— another journaffing filesystem—but not as default. This is a fairly aggressive move, but a journauiog 6lesystem is a potentiauy good thing to run on a laptop where the battery might swoon unexpectedly, taking down au the active proonses with it. I elected to go with the new EXT3 rather than the traditional EXT2. Red Hat did a lesser job of detecting my display panel than Mandrake but by man-

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where I might find a Linux driver for it. Mandrake was ahead. overall. on hardware detection. Red Hat really excelled, however, with the audio chip. It not only detected it, but. unlike with Mandrake, the driver worked Ilawlessly. The playback on my MP3 files wasclear and enjoyable.Red Hat also endeared itself to me by including the very recent

4.1 and 4.1.2 versions of DocBook SGML and XML DTDs.

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speakers. It also has a small LCD screen. in&ared distance detectors, air samplers, range 6nders, and built-in searchlight The unit is run by an onboard Pentium III PC running Linux. In addition. the 'droid' — as it's commonly called — can be contmlled wirelessly by an onboard laptop

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Without a doubt, the dmid's most intriguing aspect is its ability to move inside the spscecra6. For power, the PSA has six ducted gms; the kind usually I'ound in model airplanes. These fans allow the droid to "move along six axes," says Yuri Gawdiak, ARC's principal investigator for the PSA pmject. In addition, the PSA will possess a limited degree of arti6cial intelligence. Coupled with its fans and in&ared distance detectors, the dmid will be able to move around the spacecraft without hands-on human controL

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Oneof[HP'5]fi rstcustomers wasWalt Disney, whosecompany usedthe audio oscillator in theproductionofthe 1942 animate dfeatureFantasia. One of their first customers was Walt Disney, whose company used the audio oscillator in the production of the 1942 animated feature Fantasia (a 60 t h anniversary special edition version of Fantasia, and the Fantasia Anthology are both available on DVD, and show an HPinspired animated oscilloscope sequence).

The goodengineers From the beginning, Hewlett and Packard displayed both an uncanny talent for innovating technology and for inventing a humane corporateculture.Their company ethic wasthat all employees wanted to do a good job, were to be trusted, and

should always have the freedom to «ontribute their own thoughts and ideas. World War I I c reated an i nsatiable demand for the electronic technology at which HP excelled, but a more long lasting elrect on HP's prosperity came from Hewlett and Packard's technique of"management by walking around." HP was radical in itsday for both open concept offices (no doors, and mostly cubides rather than rooms) and openminded management (consultation and teamwork rather than hierarchy, bonuses, profit sharing, medical and pension insurance plans, and other beneiits unheard of in U.S. corporations of the 1940s). Packard wrote a candid and inspiring account of how HP practiced its open styl e of management and product development in bis honk The HP Way (Harper Business, 1996, softcover, ISBN: 0887308171). The HP corporate culture encouraged creative input, devotion to quality and mutual trust among all employees, and this helped the company become a world leader in electronic instruments through the 1950s and '60s. However, as the complexity and cost of electronic research and development skyrocketed, a larger and higher capacity research effort was required. In 1966. HP Labs was formally estab-

lished "as a place where people with ideas c ould develop them," according t o Hewlett. Tangible results from HP's more organized research elrorts were quick in coming. In 1968, HP Labs developed commercial light emitting diode (LED) components, permitting the first mass production of LED displays for products ranging from medical monitors to automobiles to aircraft. In 1972, HP created one of the first workable pocket-sized calculators, helping to begin the worldwide adoption of personal computational aids.

The inkjet printer wasinspired by a percolating coffee pot. Although HP was an innovator of much of the electronic technology that

was in use during the early days of personal computing, the company initially missed the boat on the general-purpose consumer PC. It did come out with a business-oriented HP-85 computer in 1980, and a "desktop mainframe" HP 9000 technical computer in 1982, but both of these products never became mainstream hits. However, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. during the infancy of the PC, HP was developing technologies in its labs that would play a huge role

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What's inthecowes? According to Howard Taub, the current director of the printing and imaging technolom centre at HP Labs, the inkjet printer was inspired by a percolating coffee pot back in the 1970s. A researcher watching how the water at the bottom of the pot went from liquid to vapour, causing bubbles of steam to carry water up the percolator tube into the basket of coaee grounds, wondered if the same principle might offer a new way to deposit ink onto paper.HP was heavily engaged in laser printer development, which involved very complex machinery and processes, as well as high heat, high energy consumption, and messy carbon toner dust. The notion of an elegant, prerise, electronic means of shooting ink directly onto paper was born. Taub was present throughout the development of the first inkjet. An engineer with a physics backgmund who was recruited to HP's research pmgram out of IBM's printer division, Taub joined HP in December 1979, and has been involved in HP's printing and imaging research for 22 years. Once the potential usefulness of the inkjet concept was understood, HP Labs researchers became fascinated by the Continued on page 68

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ics. Inadvertently, HP kickstarted what is now a huge industry. As Taub points out with considerable understatement. "The printing and imaging businessturned out really well for HP." HP also led the way with the first colour scanner technology, which could scan red, green and blue colour components in one pass, using innovativ'e technology to separate the light. HP also developed some of the first Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) chips in the mid-'80s. After years of competing with Intel and Sun in the CPU market, HP decided in the late '90s to ally itself with Intel rather than continue to try to compete with a separate processor family. As a result, the latest generation of IA-64 chips containstechnologyfrom HP's labs. According to Taub, the CPU chip business simply became an impossibly highstakes poker game for HP once the cost of next-generation chip fabrication plants entered the multi-biUion dollar range.

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While we were predicfing a G4 was possi-

ble on the highend, Jobs'surprised usby announcing that the entire line will run PowerPC G4s. The two cheaper models havea 700 MHz G4s and the top model features an 800 MHz G4. That's only 67 MHz slower than the current fastest G4 tower you can buy. but at almost half the cost. Last on the list of items Apple says iMac users have been craving is a model that incorporates a DVD burner, so they can use iDVD to make home movies. Apple has made a DVD burning SuperDrive The first d emand standard on the top-of-the-line modeL Prices for the new iMacs range &om was an LCD US$1,299 for a 700 MHz CD-RW model s creen, s o t o US$1,799 US for a n 800 M H z Apple has made a 15- SuperDrive model. On a value basis the inch flat dis- $1,299 is almost equivalent to the 733 MHz G4 tower, which costs US$1,599. playon aU iMac modEven more impressive is the high-end els. It's absolutely stunning and runs at a model $1799, which is almost equal to an resolution of 1,024x768. Since it's digital, 867 MHz G4 tower, which costs US$2,499 there is no flicker and it's much easier on without a monitor. We predict that either the eyes than the old iMac's 15-inch CRT. The new screen has a viewable area that is speed bumps or price cuts will have to happen to the towers in the next two closer to that of a traditional 17-inch months, otherwise sales will take a huge CRT. hit &om these new G4 iMam. The second request was more power, Continued on page72 and Apple has exceeded our expectations.

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The BSSDchipset Those who have been following our motherboard and processor tests have no doubt been interested in the saga of the Pentium 4 and memory compatibiTity. Until recently, Intel had been fairly firm in its alliance with Rambus and its RDRAM technology when it came to the Pentium 4. The introduction of the value-oriented 845 chipset made it possible to pair up the Pentium 4 processor with cheaper SDRAM. But, though it was theoretically possible for the Pentium 4 to be teamed up with h igher-performance DDR SDRAM, Intel was being a bit more coy on the matter. In fact. both VIA (wwwvistech.corn) and SiS (www.sis.rom) beat Intel to the punch, releasing chipsets to pair up the Pentium 4 and DDR, afi without Intel's consent. Intel has now officially allowed the Pentium 4 processor to be teamed up with high-performance DDR SDRAM with its release of the Intel 845D chipset. This chipset, essentially the same as the previously released 845 chipset for SDRAM, now oificiafiy supports DDR memory up to 266 MHz. Intel has also introduced several new motherboards incorporating the new chipset. The D845PT and D845PTL are both micro-ATX boards, with the PTL model featuring onboard LAN. The D845BG, D845BGL and D845BGSE usea fufi-size ATX form factor, with the BGL featuring LAN and the BGSE including USB 2.0 right on the board. AU of these boards have the Socket 478 interface, and come with ATA/100 hard drive controflers. While Intel's offlclal sanction is welContinued on page 71

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$0.59. Both consider file size to determine the maximum print size. I found London Drugs to be a little fussier than Future Shop. After you' ve made the selections, the files are automatically uploaded. Since each file will be at least I MB, you' ll want a high-speed connection if

you are sending more than a couple. Both services will mail your prints, and Future Shop also allows you to pick up finished prints at selected stores. Within seconds Future Shop confirmed the order, and 45 minutes later another email told me that they were ready for

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The announcement is marked by the introduction of two new processors, running at 2.2 GHz and at 2 GHz (known as 2.0A). While the 2 GHz processor seemingly doesn't break any new ground in terms of speed —the Willamette-generation Pentium 4 line already included a 2

GHz model — the new manufacturing process and the indusion of twice as much on-die cache will boost performance of the processor, even at the same clock speed. The new 2.2 GHz model will provide a modest performance bump up from the 2.0A processor. All new proces-

sors in the Northwood line will move to the Socket 478 interface, to take advantage of that socket's greater number of power and grounding pins. At press time, Intel said the new processors were to have started shipping in early January. Cl

Nosthwood When it comes to manufacturing, getting smaller has definite advantages. The latest target in the world of processors has been .13 microns. While it's been proven to be possible, both the Pentium 4 and AMD's Athlon processors have been manufactured using a .18-micron process. (The notable exception has been the newly updated Pentium II I p rocessor, also known as the Tualatin, which since its release in mid-2001 hasn't exactly set the world on 6re.) Intel has now announced its new .13micron Pentium 4 l i ne, codenamed Northwood. The smaller manufacturing process allows for more transistors on the same wafer. Northwood processors come with 55 million transistors onboard — 13 million of which are dedicated solely to the processor's on-die Level-2 cache, which has been doubled to 512 Kn in order to achieve better performance. Another bene6t of the smaller process is a lower power requirement for the processor, down to around 50 W from a previously toasty 70 W. This new pmcessor design also marks the introduction of copper interconnects to the design, something that has been talked about previously but not implemented.

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The new version of F inal Cut Pro (wwwapple.com/linalculpro/) is big news for PowerMac video editors. It requires either OS 9.2.2 or 10.1.2. The OS X version makes better use of the Velocity Engine and dual CPUs, so will run faster on dualprocessor PowerMac G4s. The biggest selling point of Final Cut Pro 3.0 is that you can preview transitions and titles in real time without additional hardware —as long as you have a 500 MHz G4 or faster. Many real-time PCI cards cost as much as Final Cut Pro itself,

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Virtual PC5.0 for 0$ X Connectix's (www.connechxcom/virtualpc) new Virtual PC 5.0 now supports OS 9 and X in the same application, and boasts some new OS X-only features. If you are running X, Virtual PC 5.0 can make full use of multiple processors, and it also features a "virtual switch" that allows communication between multiple PC environments. For example, you could run one Virtual PC session with Windows 98 and another with Windows XP and they would be able to see each other as if they were on a network. This feature is exclusive to OS X. Virtual PC 5.0 supports many different Intel OSes, including Linux and every Microsoft OS from DOS to Windows XP. It also features improved video performance, which Connectix says will make for much snappier menus and smoother scrolling, two areas in which previous versionshave often lagged. Another neat trick in version 5.0 is the ability to undo a session, so if you make a mistake you can quit the Windows environment without saving any changes to your drive image. The RAM requirements for Virtual PC 5.0 are steep, with the OS X version ranging from 160 MB to 256 MB and the OS 9 version requiring from 64 MB to 192 MB dependingon what PC OS you want to run. As for CPU support, you need to have a G3 or G4 processor, and obviously

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for non-online shoppers," he said, "but it is

"On the positive side, our numbers proj-

Canada, according to a report released in

2000, the samesurvey found such concern

stiR the majority of frequent online shop-

December.

among 52 percent of those yet to shop

pers having this concern."

day season will grow from $650 million last

online. Ipsos-Raid said the numbers are significant. since those who aren't online

The Ipsos-Raid report, based on two 1,000-person surveys—one targeting a

year to $060milbon this year, which is good R)r a 32 percent increase," Sayiner said.

shoppersinclude 59 percent of Canadians withInternet access.

panelof Internet users and the other a sampling of the entire population —also

"However, this growth is due to regular online shoppers purchasing a greater per-

"Clearly these issues are not being addressed properly b y e- t ailers", Ferneyhough said. Ferneyhoughalso said thatitappearsto

found that Canadians expected to spend more money online over the holiday sea-

centage of their gifts online, instead of more people shopping online during the holiday season.

be "amyth" that those who have shopped

ber of online shoppers as a share of all Net users will remain about the same as 2000

TORONTO— Consumers' concerns about the

What' s more, say the pollsters at Ipsos-

Reid ,who have been tracking theopinionsof Internet users since 1995, Canadian consumers appear to be growing increasingly

concerned— rather than mom confi dentaboutwhat could happen to personal data

and credit call information exchangedonline.

83 percent of thosewho have yetto shoponlinecited reluctanceto hand outcredit card information via the Internet... A yearago,that

figure was 72percent.

In 2001, 66 percent of non-online shop-

onlin e havejettisoned fears aboutInternet security.

"Skilled Internet users, newbies, online

clearly not the case. There is no easy solution, but if e-tailers want to stick their headsin the sand and hope thatthese con-

cerns will simply disappear on their own, theyare going to be disappointed." The most-recent surveys behind thecom-

pany's quarterly Canadian InterictNe Reid Report found that 03 percent of those who

haveyetto shop onbne cited reluctance to hand aut credit card information via the

Internet as a reason they had not made an online purchase. A year earlier, that figure was 72 percent.

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leng thy privacynotices. " Onlythree percent of more than 2,000 adults surveyed said they bothered to read privacy notices carefully, and nearly 64 percent said they did not read notices at all or only glanced at them. More than 70 percent said they would favour short, mncise privacy policies that included the same summary or checklist of privacy promises.

A second study by Mary Culnan, a Slade Professor at Bentley College, and George Milne, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, reached roughly the same conclusions. The surveys come on the eve of a workshop being offered by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, designed to help financial services providers write privacy policies that customers can understand without first having to consult an attorney. The FTC workshop was prompted in

large part by the garbled and largely inderipherable privacy notices mailed to consumers earlier this year as required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley financial services modernization legislation. Passed in 1999, the GLB Act required banks, insurance companies and securities firms to tell their customers what sorts of data they plan to share with third parties, and to give customers a chanceto "opt out" of that data-sharing. Yet, shortly after companies began sending the notices in the summer of 2001, consumer rights groups accused most banks of fudging the requirement, noting that the mailings were ofien written in confusing legal jargon and printed in very 6ne type.

Klaus said he plans to discuss the PLI's work on a "short notice" that would allow consumers to compare privacy notices from various companies and Web sites. The commission announced the workshop earlier this fall. following FTC Chairman Timothy Muris' decision to reverse the policy direction of the commission under the Clinton adininistration, which called on the U.S. Congress to pass meaningfid privacy legislation that would require companies to meet a set of minimum standards for online privacy. "I think at this time what we need is more law enforcement, not more laws," Muris said in an interview at the time. "To pass another [privacyj law before we figure out how to make the laws we just passed work seems to me to be premature." At least one consumer group plans to attack the commission's focus on the GLB Act as a non-starter. "What I will argue vigourously is that GLB is not a privacy law because it doesn't meet the bare minimum for consumer p rivacy pr o tection," sa i d Chr i s Hoofnagle, legislative counsel for the Washington, D .C.-based E lectronic Privacy Information Center. "Any consumer who reads one of these

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ly sought publiccomment on proposalsthat

Turcott e said GRA hasn't been receiving

status under the U.S.-based Internet

Canada' s domain name space says it may

include some kind of certification process for companies that resell domains-businessesthat can range from substantial

a Rood of complaints about resellers. However, he said, the organization would like to gauge opinions on possible changes

Corporation for Assigned Names and

Web-hosting companies to one-person Web-design outfits.

to accreditation policies under which the

create special rules for businesses that

resell Internet addresses through "official" .ca registrars. However, the Canadiancom-

panythat is one of the largest wholesalers of domains distributed using the reseller

statusofresefi ersis now a gray area.

Bernard Turcotte, GRA's president and

WhileGRA could make no changes ataB,

modelsays there's no need to change the

chiefexecutive off icer, said that the .ca

system. The Canadian Internet Registration

authority's systems and policies weren't

. a document posted on its Website outlines a few proposals thatcould give the organ-

designed with resellers in mind, but that

ization a firmer hand over resellers.

Authority (CIRA at www.dra.ca),which

thechannelnow accountsibrabouthalfof all domains registered by individuals and businessesseeking .ca addresses.

But Ross Rader, who heads up the OpenSRS business operated by Torontobased domain wholesaler Tucows, ques-

recently celebrated the first anniversary of the .ca regisby'5 commercialization, recent-

tionedwhy GRA ispondering the issue at all if the public doesn't appear to be com-

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Rader— whose company is an accredited

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shareof its revenue. In addition, a ban would place GRA in the position of having to hunt down registrars who skirt the prohibition. One proposal outlined in Gil s discus-

sion would require all players to be certified but permit one registrar to use anoth-

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to prevent a regisbar from accepting new mgistrations while not severing it from its

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ast year was not a very good one for businesses in Canada. First. there was the dot-corn meltdown that saw the dream of endless Internet riches disappear as quickly as the many online businesses that fell by the wayside. Then there was the recession, the effects of which are still reverberating thmughout the economy. And fi nagy,there were the

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sending many companies reeling as they watched business further dry up in the aftermath. In this climate, businesses are approaching the Internet cautiously. Phil Cohen, director o f I n ternet research wit h Toro n to-based International Data Corp. (IDC) Canada (www.idcca) says that, overall, smaB business growth on the Internet was minimal last year, rising only slightly I'rom 2000, when IDC last looked at the state of electronic commerce and small business. While IDC Canada's most recent study of Canadian small business Internet opportunities is not yet complete, Cohen revealed that preliminary findings show Internet development activities increased "only minimally" in 2001. "Part of the reason," Cohen says, "is that small business tends to react quickly in tough times, and we certainly have seen a whammy of tough times." Cohen suggests that many small organizations are rethinking their whole approach to the Internet. After the dotcom meltdown, these businesses began asking whether going full-throttle online would necessarily result in a quick return, and consequently, cut back on their online investments and projects. Add the slowing economy to the mix and business has become even more cautious. In October, the research finn cautioned that Canada's technology sector would experience slower growtlc In the same month it also reported that the Canadian PC market was continuing to deteriorate, with shipments declining 17.5 percent compared to the same quarter in 2000.

"When the economy takes a dive, peoplestartto second-guess themselves and once they start to second-guess themselves, it contributes to the downward pressures on the economy and investment," Cohen adds. But this does not mean that Canadian small businesses have completely given up on the Internet and electronic commerce.

has been a much bigger thing than it has been in Canada and the online experience in Canada reflects that as well. Canadians are a little bit more cautious about giving their credit card information, not only over the phone, but over the Internet." Kangur says businesses that are most successful at Internet commerce tend to be established brick-and-mortar operations. They have already worked out efficient ways of conducting business with

Slowandcsteiousapproach Ivar Kangur, a consultant with Torontobased Evans Research Corp. (wwwevansresearch.mm) says that nearly ag Canadian smaB and mid-sized businessesnow have Internet access and dose to 75 percent have some kind of presence on the Internet. Only about live percent of their overall revenue comes fmm an online component for many of these businesses. Kangur doesn't think this lacklustre online revenue is entirely due to either the slowing economy or a rethinking of Internet strategies. He says it has more to do with Canadian purchasing habits, particularly with our reluctance to try new ways of shopping. "Canadians have traditionally been more conservative in their bu)dng habits" (compared to Americans), Kangur says. "Down in the V.S., catalogue shopping

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also a credible personal information m anager (P I M ) , with i t s A d dress Book, Calendar, and To Do List features, which you can use to store ag your information and use as an electronic organizer. This month, we' ll take a look at Outlook t ools f o r m anaging your appointments and meetings. You' ll learn how to create one-time and recurring appointments and how to set reminders. You'B also see how to plan meetings and how to take the Calendar with you when you' re on the road.

Umtgthe Catentatr Outlook's Calendar is similar to a paper diary but it is a lot more tlexible. For example, you can switch layouts from a fullday per page to one week or one month. The Calendar can also be set to remind you of impending appointments and the warning time can be adjusted depending on whether the appointment is down the hall or across town. To view your Calendar, select Calendar from the Outlook toolbar, then select a view option from the toolbar: 1 Day, 5 Days, 7 Days, or a full month view. If the toolbar isn't visible,, choose View, Toolbars, then Standard to display it. You can also choose to view a number of days that are not concurrent: successive Tuesdays, or Monday, Thursday, and Friday from the same week, for example. To do this, switch to I Day view and display the first date that you want to view. Hold the Control key and dick the other dates you want to add to the display in the Calendar in the top right of the window. Create appointments in your Calendar Continued on page 84

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Continuedfrom page 82 nesses in that that maximizes their investmentsand maximizes theirexposure." Bectronic marketplaces allow a small business to post information about the company. products, and services. At their best, these online marketplaces also allow them to get access to other businesses, tools, solutions, and information that can help their business. "Bectronic marketplaces may not be getting much media attention, but from a business perspective my feefing is that they are building on very solid ground," says Luc Filiatreault, president and chief operating officer of BeBZinc.ca(wwwbelltinc.ca) an electronic marketplace headquartered in Montreal, Que. Filiatreault says BellZinc.ca offers small businesses a set of services and tools to help them increase their sales, and save timeand money. "If you are looking to increase your sales, one of the best tools is what we call the Yellow Pages Trade Directory," Piliatreault says. "If you are a small manufacturer, one making ball bearings in a small community, you probably don't have too many ways of augmenting your business." The directory allows people to search

Many electronic marketplaces still only exist for larger businesses or for those that have revenue of $1 million or more a year. For example, Bellzinc.ca usually works with small businesses that start with revenues of about $1 million and top OIT at

about $50 million. That is not to say things won't change. As with all technologies and solutions, they oi'ten first make an appearance at the high end of the market then work downwards, soon becoming available for larger segments of the market. This will most

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for specifi c kinds of products and solutions and to contact the company. So the hypothetical baB bearing maker's marketplace is no longer restricted to its community or region. Filiatreault says that companies listed in' the directory can use Bellzinc.ca to help build transaction capabiTities, or to link from Bellzinc.ca's online transaction site. The site also includes tools for conducting electronic direct mail or marketing campaigns. Bellzinc.ca offers pre-made expense forms, accounting forms, and templates for creating and customizing a variety of business forms. The site has a searchable database of articles and information on businessand legal issues. "So if you want to look at financing or even refinancing, you simply type in that word and you will soon find dozens of articles and other content like how to renew your credit margin at a bank, how to look for angel financing, what is an IPO and how to make one," Filiatreault says. The company also ofiers a procurement system through which small businessescan buy things like office supplies, computer technology, and services. Bellzinc.ca combines the individual purchases to get volume discounts that are typically only available to large companies with large orders. Other electronic marketplaces that small businesses may want to look at indude EDeal (www.edeal.<om). Microsoft's bCentral (www.bCentral.tom), or Toronto Dominion Ba nk's TDM arketSite (wwwtdmalketsite.com).

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To include other people in the meeting, Print a copy of your calHot alert your Oullook Calendar endar to take with you on choose Invite Others, then click on their If the Calendar is the Outlook tool you use names in your Contact list. If someone the road by choosing File, the most. you can have it displayed auto- you want to invite isn't in your Contact Print, then choose the style of calendar (Daily, Weekly. maticafly whenever you launch Outlook list, choose New Contact and add their To do this, you need to add a command or Monthly), select the date details (at a minimum you'U want to add range, and enable t he line switch to your Outlook shortcut. their name and email address). Select each Private appointment checkBecause the shortcuts created by the Oflice person you want to invite and move their 2000 install routine can't be edited, you box if you want to Ster out names to the Required or Optional lists. Iweh • o p t • 4 l vc 4la need to make a new shortcut. Right-click those appointments. You When you' re done. click OK to finish. The n aA the desktop, choose New, Shortcut, then can click Preview if you names are now entered in the meeting ~M ~ ~ ISTHMI Q~lrrr J click Browse. Locate the Outlook.exe file Attendees list at the left of the dialogue. want see how it looks before If you' re using a networked version of on your hard disk (it is likely to be in the prmtmg lt Out. Program Files(Microsoft Office(Office You can also post a copy Outlook and you' ve chosen other people unroot'sMeeangplannerdoesconchol aroworkof sdredrdlnga rneedng lor ron,andgivesyona puce torecorddelaih aboutare irnduos. folder. Click the Outlookexe file to select it from your office to attend the meeting, of your Calendar on the and click Open. In the Create Shortcut dia- you' ll be able to see their schedules listed Web so others can view it. Appointment dialogue. Now you can set To do this. choose File. Save AsWeb Page. logue, add the following text to the end of in the Calendar too. You can now check to the or the recurrence asrequirecL the command line (outside the closing see if there are any scheduling conflicts In the Duration area, choose the dates you quote marks): with the proposed time for your meeting. You can set a time frame for the appoint- want to display. You have the option of You can alter the time at this stage, if necments (for example, a class that goes for including appointment details and/or a Oneook:Calendar eight weeks) or you can leave it open backgmund image. essary. If you' re using a standalone version ended. When you' ve made these selections, of Outlook (for example, if you' re workWhen you click OK to create the Click Next, name your shortcut ing at home), you won't be able to see type a filename. 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Ruby ntby One of the most interesting additions that Internet Explorer has added to CSS (and, seemingly as an afterthought, to HTML) is the new ruby CSS property/HTML tag. What makes it interesting is that ruby is a set of proposals in the forthcoming CSS3 specification for better handling layout of Asian character sets. So, Microsoft seems to be jumping the gun a bit here, but by providing control over ruby display characteristics, it gives Web developers —especially those creating sites using Asian character sets —greater control over how characters are displayed without having to employ complicated

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and fussy HTML table code. Ruby refers to a technique for laying out text used in many Asian character sets, like Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kana, and Kanji), Korean (Hangul and Hanja) and Chinese (the Bopomofo characters used in Mandarin, for example), where additional characters are used in conjunction with "base"characters as an aid in pronunciation or as an explanatory annotation. There are three implicit structures for ruby: the initial base text, "ruby base"; the commentary text, "ruby text"; and the bounding box that contains both. the "ruby" itsdf. The illustration (see Fig. I) using English words will give you a better

idea of what ruby is all about. In this case, the specific date and time info (December 15 2001 10:15am) comprise the ruby base, the text above it (MONTH, DATE, YEAR, and TIME) is the ruby text, and you can also see from this example how ruby text is used to help explain the text contained in the ruby base. The ruby is the bounding box that surrounds both the ruby text and the ruby base, and controls such things as setting the padding around each. While the W3C tries to 6gure out the best way to implement ruby, Microsoft has inserted its own implementation into Continued on page 90

By KenbScbeayli-Rebuffs nce I had committed to the idea of putting a Mul t iple A r cade Machine Emulator ( M A ME) arcade unit together, one of the 6rst things I had to decide was the type of controls I wanted to use. This involved 6guring out which type of classic arcade games I enjoyed most, and the types of controls they used. My online research revealed that the most popular choice among other people who've put arcade cabinets together is a simple joystick with at least four 6ring buttons. and more often than not, a trackball as welL This simple combination probably allows you to playthe vastmajority ofarcade games ever devised. But there are other controllers options worth investigating. A simple joystick by itself will allow you to play a certain range of games, such as PacMan and its many variants. But anybody who enjoys basic shoot-'em-ups wIR also Continued on page 89

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want at least two firing buttons. Add two more buttons and that opens up the possi-

bility of playing games like Asteroids, which uses three buttons (Rotate-left, Rotate-

right, and Hyperspa«e). Make it a total of six buttons, and you can play such arcade classics as Defender and Stargate,which had a diverse array of «ontrols (T h rust, Fi r e , R e verse, Hyperspace, Smart Bomb, and Inviso). A six-button configuration also allows you to play more modern fighting games, like Street Fighter or Mortal Combat. But there are other game controls that I

had to consider. Adding a trackball eflectively opens up a large range of additional games for which a joystick is a poor substitute, including Missile Command and Centipede. In addition, it makes for a good computermouse, so you can use it for navigating around your o perating system

when notplaying agame. The spinner (sometimes known in the trade as an Arkanoid control) is used for producing rapid movement where one axis is fixed, and is used in many games. from the original Pong to Arkanoid, Tron, Omega Race, and Heavy BarreL Then there is the steering whed/racing

Wolf, which used a n U z i m achine gun/grenade launcher combination. Since many of theseguns work using optics, which would add another level of complexity, I decided against adding a gun. There are also several controls unique to

specifi cgames.Probably themost famous is the flight yoke that came with the original Star Wars game and worked like a «ombination steering wheel and joystick Other specialized controls include motorcycle steering yokes (with corresponding brake and acceleration controls), and the more recent crop of games include snowboards, hanggliderstrapsand bracings,air hockey paddies, fishing rod and reel, and even some that use actual footballs or basketballs. These were all too esoteric and single-pur-

pose for my needs.

WhatI Bedded upon Since many games use up to four buttons and a joystick, this should be considered the base set of controls any would-be MAME arcade builder should start with. I ended up choosing six standard game buttons to keep the system flexible. I also opted

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Conrinued fromprtge 88 Internet Explorer, starting with version 5.0. As mentioned earlier, ruby works as both an HTML tag and as a set of CSS attributes. The HTML tags it uses are called <ruby>and <its. The three CSSprop-

erties arerubyslign,ruby-overhang,and rubyposition. The way it works is that the Web author sets the <ruby> tag, then uses the style attribute to set one of the three CSS properties to rt.

This is definitely an odd way of doing things—you'd think the CSS properties could simply be set up as attributes of the <ruby>' tag instead, but they must be set as sty)es. The ruby base text is defined by <ruby>, and the <lt> tag endosesthe ruby text. The simplest example code without any CSS values is sufficient to display the intended effect of ruby text

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Rubybase <ttsRubytext</rI> </ruby>

This sets how the ruby text should appear in relation to the ruby base, and it comes with seven separate values: auto, left,center, right, distribute-letter, distributespace. and line-edge. With the auto value the browser determines the best arrangement, and the left, «enter, and right align-

right <rubystyle="luby-align:ngh& Rubybase <rt>Rubytex(</0> </ruby> dislributeletter <rubystyle= ruby-align:distribute4egef> Rubybase <rt>Rubylexl</rt>

Ruby-posilon This specifies the position of the ruby text in relation to the ruby base. It takes two values: above and inline. The default for this value is above, and inline essentially places the ruby text immediately after the ruby base. The draft CSS3 specification outlines other possible useful values for ruby-position, including a value (alter) that would place ruby text underneath the ruby basetext.

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and I spent three years there, supervising shoots, processing data, and working with some great athletes. I took that to the position I have here [at

called motion capture, where a human stand-in is filmed going through scripted

movements that are later applied to an animatedcharacter's frame. It's a highly technical process, one that

Mainframes, where I wasasked to help start

Andrea Donnelly has specialized in for mostof hercareer.Donnelly is the head of

up a motion capture studio. I' ve worked herenow for two years,and have made my

t he m o tion c apture d epartment f o r Mainframe Entertainment, the Vancouver-

way to department head, which is a very challenging and very fun position. I love coming to work We work on some fascinating stuff.

based company responsible for animated television shows such as Reboot and Action Mon. She sat down with TCPrecently to discuss the intricacies of a career in the motion capture field. What follows is an

scale and rotate. In this article, we take a look at the shape drawing tools.

ADi It usually involves a little bit of preproduction for the shows that I'm working on. Typically, we would be shooting three or

TCPr So, how did you gei beret ADi I first got interested in motion capture, or in 3 D a nimation, when I w a s

to think about what I wanted to do next. I

n the previous artide in this series, we looked at all of the basic line-drawing tools available in Macmmedia Flash 5.0, along with basic manipulations, such as

TCP: So tell me about o iypicul doy ot work.

edited version of that conversation.

attending Vancouver Film School's multimedia program. That was in I996, following completing a degree in psychology at VBC. It's kind of different... but a lot of people in new media have varied backgrounds and come from difi'erent disciplines. About halfway through my degree I started taking video production. I completed my psychology degree, and I was still interested in video and new media. I had a bit of time

Creating shapes in Flash

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really good to hear that, becauseit is suchan isolated iield. It is still quite new, even though it's beenamund for, maybe 15years, in its early forms in the '80s, but in the last 10 years it's definitely come a longway. The software is just now becoming really good, the hardware is just now becoming high-res, and tbe cameras in particular, [are getting) to where wecan saywe're starting to push the envelope in computer vision.

silence. I really have a great respect for that... anyone who is good at what they do and is a

TCP: How many motion coprure studios would therebe in North America?

TCP: And what is your leastfnvourire part

of yourj ob? ADi The boring part is probably dealing with invoices,quotesfor maintenance, costs on our software, things like that, really administrative paperwork tasks. I mean that's obviously more dry. TCls Wlier do Jou do ss keepup whh whork going on in your industry nnd technobgy? ADi I do a lot of software evaluation. I do

TCP: How much ofyour time is spent mlJoboruring with others ondhow much work-

and prop lists I need to spend some time away fmm the fray, so I can get my mind around what'sgoing on. It's very busy on the shoot floor —you have directors directing talent, I'm watching what's going on, I'm making sure the shoot supervisor is watching what's going on.

every time — it's amazing to watch. Whether you' re into sports or not, or into

pleasure to work with.

TCPi So, how mony people do yousupervisethm? AD: In my department, there are 11 people I supervise.

scripts and break them down into move lists

Pretty much we all have the same stories, you know, in terms of experiences, and it' s

reactions of people in the studio when they watched her dance— there was perfect

some seisin work About seven or eight mmpanies mar thelastfew monthshaveappnuched me to do savke work for them

ing onyour own? ADi When we' re shooting I spend all of my time with other people. When I read

initely have to say that is the highlight for me, to work with people whohit their marks

to d o t h e p romo fo r Barbie in t h e Nutcracker. and it was amazing to see the

of the Vimn motion capone staten and they have a Motkm Analysissystem right now, and duringour downnmewe'vebees doing testcapnues,doing btrial snd band captme—we normagyJustdo Atgbodycapture hae. We'vebeen working on a demo tosendout and on doing

with the New York City Ballet. capturing them in New York in the spring. I would def-

working on the job, and working with others who are knowledgeable about what they do, talking to other people who work in the industry, attending conferences like Siggrapiz

ballet or not, when you watch people who perform motion so gracefully, it's jsw-dropping. Wehad this wonderful ballet dancer in

In our downtime,we've bem going duougb

expensive, the actors are very expensive. If we do anything that requires anyother people to be brought in, like technical advisors, stunt co-ordinators, anything like that,

those people are very, very expensive, so an eyeneeds to be kepton ag ofthat. When we' re in downtime I spend more time on my own. Then I usually focus on working with people outside of the company, in terms of providing service work to them, and again, preparing for upcoming shoots.

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the Sunnyhill Gait lob. They do optical motion capture, but that's mostly for biomedical research and consultations, not for entertainment production. There are a few companies in Montreal and in Toronto that do work as well. There's a few collegesHumber CollegehasaVicon system. It keeps popping up, because it is a technology that Continued on page 94 s

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something that there is a usefor —it is a sperial effects commodity I suppose. There is something I wanted to add though, touching on training — another important part is doing in-house training on software. When we do have downtime, we are able to do that, and that is really important. Occasionagy we get training &om ow software vendors, which is helpful, as is being a part of certain organizations like Women in Film and Video and Wired

Women. I'm amember of both. There are several organizations out there that provide training, not in motion capture

per se, but in related Belds, and that is also help&d. And the networking aspect's helpful because you can talk to people about 3D animation and you can get more insight on that. It's not a huge Beld, but there is a lot of

that done out here,especially at Main&arne. TCPrIf you were hiringfor your position. what qualities would you lookfor in a candidate?

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experience is optimum, obviously, because there aren't a lot of people out there who have that kind of knowledge. People that do are primarily working, so there isn't a lot to

choose &om.

I think the drive and the desire to work in 3D animation [is important j —the production schedules can be pretty gruelling. I haven't found that as much in this position

ical Beld and from being used in the military and defence, in the States, to become

as I have in others, but there are still long entotL

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Anyone who's ambitious, creative, is willing to pushtheenvelope... because this Beld isdriven by research and development. That's how it's expanded &om the biomed-

doing fitness-related things like hiking, yoga. I love writing, reading, socializing, travelling. I like to attend lectures by people in the industry who have relevant knowl-

hours, a lot of work, and it's very detiil ori-

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When you, dick the mouse, you set the

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your mouse, and you will see that the oval

notice a couple of things: there's an outline of the oval that didn't move when you

grows I'rom that initial point, using the radiusyou create onscreen to draw a corresponding larger and larger ovaL Release your mouse, and you get a coloured oval. Now click on the Rectangle tool, and create a rectangular shape that intersects with th'e oval you have already drawn. You' ll notice that the Rectangle tool works in the same fashion as the Oval tool, creating a rectangularshape onscreen based on the begin-

ning and end points you draw. There's a lot going on here that you may not notice ini-

moved the "inside" of the oval; and there's a chunk taken out ofyourovalwhere the rectangle intersected it. This helps explain why there are two colour settings visible when you draw one sets the colour For the outline, and the other For the "liU" of'the shape. The colour setting with the pencil beside it (Stroke Color) controls the colour af the shape's outline, while the colour setting with the paint bucket beside it IFig Color) controls the lill colour of the shape.

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tiagy. You probably realize that the rectangle you drew over the oval doesn't simply inter-

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A little bit of socializing with &iends, but I deffnitely like to spend some time in yoga

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TCPr Thar would be a lot calmer than work.

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nice to bring it down into your body and keep yourself sort of integrated. Cl

as well as the outline around tbe rectangle. If you try moving the shapes around, you' ll Brid'you'move boih the shapes and the rectangle's outline. You won't be able to move the outline for the oval, because the program no longer sees it as a contiguous

shape necessarily connected to the ovaL If you want to choose the oval outline fragments as well, hold down the Shift key and click on each fragment. Doing this "groups" everything together, and agows you .to move sU of the elements as a whole. To deselect the group, click outside of it. One other selection worth noting:

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