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"My guitar, amp and I this room will give a sound that's not quite like everyone else's. I l l everybody has the same plug-ins and effects, things tend t sound the same."

Kurt Swinghammer likes to create in the comfort of his home. The Torontobased musician and visual artist has divided his funky apartment into roughly three equal parts - a graphic studio, a music studio and a living space. He has been practicing home recording for about 25 years, during which he has recorded and released eight cassettes and four CDs. He has also composed and recorded music for many movies and television shows, including the theme to CBC's Smart Ask and Marketplace and the movie The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati.

"My first recordings were on a tiny reel-to-reel," he reminisced. "When I was about 18 I borrowed a four-track and caught the bug doing that." He later bought a Tascam 244 four-track, which he described as a "fantastic work horse." "I would make elaborate productions by sub-mixing many tracks."

He released about six or seven cassettes in the 1980s.

For Swinghammer, MIDI gear came in at the cusp -of the '90s along with an ADAT system.-An ADAT system is a modular digital recording system still using tapes, VHS tapes, on which you could record up to eight tracks. He had two of them, allowing him a total of 16 tracks. That system lasted about five or six years, according to Swinghammer.

He recorded his CD Vostok 6 (released in. 1999) with the ADAT system.

He got an Apple Macintosh G4 and the Pro Tools recording system in November 2000. "I was waiting for the price to get to the point where it did not seem to be a ridiculous amount of cash," he said. He recorded his latest CD, Black Eyed Sue (released in 2001) on this system. He is currently working on the score for a National Film Board documentary about Marshall McLuhan, to be narrated by New York-based musician/performance artist Laurie Anderson.

Swinghammer chose the Pro Tools system "because of how it dominates the film world," he explained. "A feature film I did a couple of years ago had to be done in Pro Tools Every film project I've done since then has been delivered on ProTools and it makes it a lot easier for everybody involved and saves lots of money." Although it only allows for 24 tracks of recorded audio (Swinghammer has the light version) he

is able to bounce and squash tracks together just like he used to do on a four-track porta-studio.

Besides the older synthesizers and other electronic instruments, Swinghammer has an old Atari computer standing prominently in the midst of all his recording gear. "I've had the Atari since 1989 or so.

I use Notator for sequencing." He bought it brand new and is still a big fan of this seemingly ancient computer. "It's never crashed. A lot of people think it's obsolete but the program is fantastic. It does all the sequencing that you'd ever want to do." He explained, "I know how to use it very well. I don't want to get something new just so I can read the manual so I can do exactly what I'm doing right now."

He'd had other Macs before he bought the G4. He tried remixing his Vostok 6 album on an older Mac 8100 (the first series of Power PC). The computer kept getting bogged down. "That's when I realized that computers are perishable," said Swinghammer, laughing.

Recording at home presents many challenges. One is the seeming miles, of cables involved in hooking everything together. For Swinghammer, keeping cables tidy is not an Issue. "It's like how do you keep spaghetti straight on a plate," he said, pointing to the jumble of cables that lies below his keyboard. "I've never dealt with it elegantly because you always have to repatch the whole time.

Every once in a while I will tear everything down and put it up again."

To avoid noise from the computer's fan - unwanted noise being the bane of every musician - he came up with an ingenious solution. "People would usually .build elaborate contraptions to muffle the noise. I just drilled a hole through the floor and put the computer in the basement." The cable between the monitor and computer is really taut.

"The computer is tucked right: under the floor," Swinghammer said. "I was really lucky that it worked out. If it would have been another two inches, I would not be able to do it."

Although his studio is filled with seeming exotic instruments spanning some three decades, he has a very practical view of them. "I see these instruments as tools. I'm not a collector or anything." He also does not hike a lot of the frills, plug-ins and effects that are available with most recording software.

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to get a good sound it will take a lot of processing power." True to his approach of using the computer as a hard disk recorder, he rarely plugs his guitars directly into the computer interface. "I'll run it through my amp to get the sound of the amp and the atmosphere of my room. My guitar, amp and this room will give a sound that's not quite like everyone else's. If everybody has the same plug-ins and effects, things tend to sound the same."

Swinghammer has not been enamoured by the loop recording that is so prevalent in digital recording. "I record just like I would be using a tape deck. I tend to go for performance because often if you play some part from top to bottom, you'll make some boo-boos and it's usually these bits that-are interesting," he explained.

The worst part about digital recording at home is the mouse, according to Swinghammer. This is worst during the all-crucial mixing down phase, when all the recorded tracks are combined to two stereo tracks. Unlike with a traditional mixer, where you can manipulate many sliders with all your fingers, a mouse only lets you do one at a time.

"I'm confident that by next year the manufacturers will realize that there are thousands and thousands of musicians, like me, who are recording at home, and will start to produce inexpensive interfaces."

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Swinghammer is a proudly independent artist and is not signed to a major record label. As with all independent artists, there are always problems in getting the CDs to the stores. His Vostok 6 album was released on Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe records label. His other works are available at Maple Music (www.maplemusiccom), an online store for Canadian artists, mainly independent but also featuring albums from Cowboy Junkies, Blue Rodeo and Gord Downie from The . Tragically Hip. "They carry only Canadian content and it is a great resource," said Swinghammer. "They sell merchandise and get a really good response." He's not interested in selling things through his own Web site (www.swinghammeccom).

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Sounding off: Multimedia speakers

By SEAN CARRUTHERS A lot of pundits have predicted that the computer will soon take over as the principle home entertainment device, i f it hasn't already. It's pretty easy to understand why. The emphasis of multimedia features on the home PC — MP3 audio, DVD movie playback and immersive gaming — are all key selling points for new computers.

The irony is that when you buy a new PC, the standard speakers are generally fairly mediocre, even when the soundcard is quite good. If you're planning to use your computer for gaming or DVD playback, it's definitely worthwhile to invest the extra money in a reasonably good speaker set because the results can be absolutely stunning.

For years, the standard speaker set has been a pair of low-wattage white plastic specials, perfectly good for general use, but not something that you'd mistake for quality. A lot of speaker sets now include a subwoofer for better bass performance, and there's a growing trend towards multi-speaker sets for surround sound in both games and movies.

What do the numbers mean?

Many speakers available today are listed with an x.1 number (2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1), which i,ndicates the configuration of the speakers, with the .1 always meaning the set includes a subwoofer. A set designated 4.1 will contain four satellites (left and right front, left and right back) and one subwoofer. These sets will be good for the majority of games and movies.

Audiophiles and serious movie freaks may want to go for a set designated 5.1 instead, which also adds a front centre channel for added definition. (True freaks may want to opt for a 6.1 or 7.1 set, but they're more expensive and may be overkill for most computer systems, even i f you can find applications that will take full advantage of the 6.1 or 7.1 configurations.) ' If you like your audio loud, the wattage rating is worth paying attention to when making your choice.

Without getting into the minutiae, the basic rule is that a higher wattage rating means a louder set and (generally speaking) cleaner reproduction -of the signal at the same decibel level. This month we've looked at speaker sets ranging from 48 watts through to 400. If you're not going to be blasting the sound at full volume all the time, a 48-watt set should be perfectly adequate. If you aren't happy until the walls are shaking, you should look at something with a higher rating.

This month the majority of the testing was done on a PC containing a 1.2GHz AMD Athlon and 256MB of DDR SDRAM. Creative Labs kindly provided us with a SoundBlaster Audigy X-Gamer card, which ensured a clean audio signal throughout (the card has a signal-tonoise ratio of >100dB, the cleanest consumer-level card currently available; see www.audigy.com for more details).

For the Yamaha set, we also cracked out the Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo, which has an optical output. (A 14

number of other Yamaha-based soundcards and Creative's Audigy Platinum also contain optical outs.)

Altec Lansing ATP 4 From:Altec Lansing Technologies Inc. www.alteclansing.com Estimated price: $240 (converted from US$150) Altec Lansing speakers are always interesting because they often skew slightly from traditional design. This 4.1 set is a bit different, too, with a skinny upright portion on each satellite speaker, with the base of the speaker wrapped around a "down-firing mid-bass driver" (meaning that the speaker points down at the desktop, which can act as an extra resonator). As with many of the Altec Lansing sets, the volume and tone controls are built into the base of the front right speaker.

The sound on the set is quite good. At 80 watts total output power, the set is reasonably loud for a small workspace or room in the home. There can be a bit of a muddy sound when you crank the volume and bass up to the top, but we found that you can clean it up a lot by lowering the bass level slightly, or if you're feeling ambitious, by finding a way to raise the satellite speakers slightly to bring the cones away from the desktop a bit. The most serious issue we have with the speakers is the digital volume/bass/treble adjustment, which is done by spinning a knob around and around (several times around to go from minimum to maximum). It's not that serious, though — you can get used to it quite easily, and the speaker set sounds good enough that you don't even think about it too much.

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Creative Inspire 5.1 5300 From: Creative Labs www.creative.com Estimated price: 5150 Already noted for its Cambridge Soundworks division (and its exceptional quality), Creative's decision to release a speaker set under the Creative banner again may seem a bit like backtracking. Face it, continued on page 18

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As you'd expect for a speaker set with this rating, it's not overly loud but it's certainly loud enough for most homes.

Cranked, the set holds up fairly well and

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Those looking for a step up may want to consider the 80-watt 5700 set, which also features digital input and Dolby capability, but that move will cost you $450. Most will be extremely happy with the 5300s, which are a

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9 9 9000 (P3-1000.256/30G/1417CORW-DVD/XPP) 4659 EXTERNAL 6 9 9 C L I C K S M A R T 310 1 1 9 QTR-1/QTR-3 2 9 .

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Sounding off: Multimedia speakers continued from page 18 neighbours that you don't want to bother. Each of the speakers connects to the subwoofer via wire with exposed ends just like on a component stereo, which means you can replace the wire fairly easily if you want longer or better-shielded cables. The speakers come with mountable-metal bases, which can be removed using the included hex key, and reoriented.

Another minor complaint is that the connectors to the PC are hardwired into the back of the speaker control pod, and the ends that connect to the PC have a right-angle connector, which could be a problem i f you have another card under or above your sound card. Those complaints are all fairly minor, though: The sound coming out of these speakers is nothing short of jaw-dropping, especially if you like it loud and booming.

Monsoon MH-505 From: Level 9 Sound Designs www.monsoonaudio.com Estimated price: $290 (converted from US$180) Monsoon Audio does work in three major categories — automotive, home theatre and multimedia speakers. The automotive speakers are fairly specific to certain models of cars and the home

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theatre speakers are very pricey, so the closest most of us will come.to Monsoon speakers is in the computer/multimedia world. The MH-505 is Monsoon's more value-oriented 5.1 set, and it comes in at 85 watts output power RMS (120 watts max). Like its louder and more expensive siblings, the Mil-505 set uses Monsoon's flatpanel style Planar Focus Technology.

Overall, the sound is a bit flatter than the other speakers we looked at this month — they didn't have the same room-shaking bass — but the sound was exceptionally clear all the way up to full volume. At that point, any distortion introduced into the sound will likely be a limitation of the soundcard —we got a bit of distortion using the older Yamaha-based card, but the SoundBlaster Audigy was still exceptionally clear. One of the nicest features on Monsoon sets is the wellplaced mute button, allowing you to kill the sound instantly.

Those looking for room-shaking bass won't find what they need here, but those looking for excellent clarity will love this set.

Yamaha TSS-1 From:amaha Canada www.yamaha.ca Estimated price: $299

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Yamaha has been a mainstay in the PC speakr world, but has mostly focused on two-speaker sets, The TSS-1 is the company's 5.1 set and is available in both black and white. At 48 watts RMS, it's not one of the louder sets, but it's one of the more versatile, featuring both analogue and digital inputs (in addition to the two standard 11B-inch plugs, the back of the amplifier unit also sports an optical connector and a coaxial RCA-style connector, and the set ships with the connector cables, too).

The amplifier unit is slightly more complicated than the other sets this month. In addition to the great big volume knob at the bottom, there are also smaller knobs for centre, surround and subwoofer. There are also buttons at the top for switching between speaker modes (digital vs. analogue, Dolby mode where applicable), for testing the speaker position and for muting. A bit more confusing is a little selector switch on the back of the box for selecting the number of speakers attached to the system, which seems to partially duplicate the button functions. The amp unit can be laid down or stood on end and comes with a small bracket for angling the front end upwards, i f desired.

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but it certainly does the job — i f you're ; in a small apartment, it will be more than adequate. When cranked, there's a tiny bit of distortion with exceptionally I low bass noises (we got some clipping When playing Hoist's The Planets, espe-; cially midway through track 7 when thel bass notes on the organ kick in).

Switching from analogue to digital boosts the volume level slightly and clears up the sound substantially. At lower volumes, the sound quality is aokay, and if you're not after raw power the versatility of the inputs makes this set a very attractive choice.

Editor's Choice Because of the range of wattage ratings and because it's a mix of 4.1 and 5.1 systems, it's pretty hard to say one is necessarily better than the other. For those who just want the sound at reasonable volumes, all of them are great. The Creative offers exceptional value, the Altec Lansing and Monsoon sets are very clear and the Yamaha set is incredibly flexible. We're giving the nod to the Logitech Z-560 set, though, for exceptional clarity and quality, even though it came in at about the same price point as many of the other less powerful sets. •

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By DAVID ROSEN Next month, two online music services will open their digital doors in Canada, allowing customers to listen, download and even burn music tracks for a fee. Unlike some of the existing organizations, which play fast and loose with copyright agreements and music licensing laws, PressPlay and Moontaxi will give Canadians legal (but strictly controlled) access to digital music.

Los Angeles-based PressPlay, owned by music giants Sony Corporation and Vivendi Universal, offers subscribers access to a broad catalogue of music through streaming and downloading - and allows "portability" through CD-R burning.

According to the company, the service will give customers access to a vast online library including music from Sony, Vivendi Universal and EMI Recorded Music.

Several independent labels such as Madacy, Matador, Navarre, OWIE, Razor Et Tie, Roadrunner, Rounder and Sanctuary have also signed on with PressPlay, citing the need to gain access to the same online music market as the major record companies.

In partnership with Canada's SympaticoLycos, PressPlay will offer its subscription service to Canadians who want to listen to an array of rock, pop, jazz, country, hip-hop and REtB songs on demand. Rumoured to cost $9.95 per month (the company had not finalized prices by press time), the Canadian version of PressPlay will let customers access streamed music much like digital cable subscribers currently listen to music channels over their home TV. But the estimated $9.95 a month will just get you access to streaming music; it won't let you download the actual music file, nor will it allow you to burn tracks with your PC or Mac. To get this increased functionality, you'll have to pay an additional (and, as yet, undisclosed) monthly fee. However, when the PressPlay service was launched in the United States a few months ago, four tiered price plans were announced.

In the U.S., PressPlay's Basic Plan costs US$9.95 per month, and allows 300 streams and 30 downloads.

The Silver Plan costs US$14.95 and lets customers stream 500 tracks and download 50. Under the Silver Plan, customers can also burn 10 tracks (of the 50 downloaded) onto a CD-R. The company's Gold Plan c anadacomputes.com

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Moontaxi's streams "will provide three personalized music channels in which individual tracks are randomly presented to listeners," explains van der Plaat.

A second component of Moontaxi's service is called Music Locker. Here, music lovers can pick 100 tracks from the company's playlist and then create virtual. CDs in which the specific artist, track and play order are specified.

According to van der Plaat, you will be able to change the content of your Music Locker at any time.

Thus, i f you fancy listening to a (virtual) CD of Beethoven one week and Bach the next, you simply change your Music Locker.

However, Moontaxi — a company partially owned

by EMI Group — has no immediate plans to offer downloads. "We won't be offering downloads for at least six months," explains van der Plaat. "We have to deal with the current restrictions of the music companies. Six months from now, the entire landscape will have probably changed and so we'll be looking at other services."

costs US$19.95 per month, allows 750 streams, 75 downloads and 15 burns. PressPlay's Platinum Plan costs US$24.95 and lets customers stream 1000 music tracks, download 100 of them and burn 20 tracks onto CD-Rs. Moontaxi - no counting, no downloads A Toronto-based startup called Moontaxi thinks it has the answer to PressPlay's complex model of counting tracks. When Moontaxi's service launches next month, Co-CEO Derek van der Plaat says it will charge only $5.99 per month for unlimited access to streamed music in a variety of genres.

Initially launching with classical and jazz music (and adding additional genres at a later date),

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Other labels Of course, Sony, Vivendi Universal and EMI Group aren't the only musical games in town. The other two major labels — AOL Time Warner and Bertelsmann AG — are also involved in online music distribution.

The problem for Canadian music lovers is that MusicNet, a company owned and controlled by these two labels (and EMI Group) has no immediate plans to move north of the border.

Will paid, legal online music distribution ever take off, especially since many music lovers have already downloaded millions of illegal songs? It will, i f you believe a recent survey from Jupiter Media Metrix.

Citing a huge market for legal downloadable music, the market research company projected US$1.6 billion in worldwide online music sales this year, and a whopping US$6.2 billion by 2006.

Naturally, only time will tell i f this forecast is correct, but many in the industry are cautiously optimistic.

• Clive Hobson, spokesman for Sympatico-Lycos explained, "it's a huge market ... but how the Canadian market will shape up, remains to be seen." • 25

Digital audio formats made easy

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By GEOFF MARTIN When it comes to audio formats, MP3 is still the king, at least as far as being able to trade and download them with a decent level o f selection. But truth be told, MP3 doesn't offer the best compression ratio out there, nor does it offer the best audio quality. So, f o r those seeking better compression ratios, better audio quality or a comfort level somewhere i n between, what follows is a brief rundown of the alternatives.

Of all t h e alternative formats o u t there, the one that might have the best chance o f taking t h e digital audio throne away from MP3 is AAC (www.aacaudio.com), which stands for Advanced Audio Coding. The AAC format was introduced by Dolby Laboratories at the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and Dolby claims that while its AAC files sound better than MP3 files encoded at similar bit rates, they are also up to 30 per cent smaller, which means faster downloading time and less time to rip an audio CD into AAC format. Of particular interest to the recording industry, the format also comes with built-in copyright protection, where necessary. Dolby recently introduced a new AAC consumer encoder, which puts the power to record files in the AAC format into the hands o f consumers, and this encoder is built into the newest version o f Liquid Audio software (www.liquidaudio.com).

Next is the Windows Media Format, or WMA (www.windowsmedia.com), w h i c h was born when Microsoft was forced to sit back and watch the start of the MP3 revolution without making a plum nick-

el from it. Not content with its headlock on the browser and operating system industries, Microsoft didn't waste much time i n developing the WMA format and is now pushing the technology wherever it can get a foot in the door. On the bright side, the format boasts smaller file sizes than MP3s with equal sound quality; but on the dark side, the format features copyright protection t h a t i s o f t e n unwieldy and i t i s still incompatible with certain operating systems (read: Linux), as well as many portable music players. Until some o f these issues are worked out, all the muscle of Microsoft won't be enough to take WMA to the top.

Ogg Vorbis (www.ogg-votnis.com) i s another format getting the attention of many audiophiles, and not just because of its unusual name. Unlike MP3, which is a patented audio format owned by the Fraunhofer Institute i n Germany, Ogg Vorbis is a completely open-source, roy-

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alty-free format. The royalty-free consideration is a big one, since the Fraunhofer Insitute now wants to charge a royalty fee for all products that use its MP3 technology — a story that could get very messy i f the Institute ever decides to make good on its threats. As i t stands now, the Ogg Vorbis format continues t o improve thanks t o i t s grassroots developing community, with compression rates getting better while t h e audio quality remains steady.

One of the newer formats is MP3Pro (www.thompson-multimedia.com), another innovation o f the Fraunhofer Institute, in c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h T h o m s o n Multimedia. MP3Pro files look and act the same as a regular MP3 file, and your regular audio player w i l l p l a y a n MP3Pro file just like any regular MP3.

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Finally, any true audiophile worth his or her salt i s currently evangelizing about t h e Monkey's A u d i o f o r m a t (wiffintmorikeysaucho.com), which i s likely the best format for people who, well, don't like their audio "monkeyed" with.

Billed as a "lossless audio compressor," Monkey's Audio boasts a compression rate of nearly 4 to 1 in some cases, with no loss in sound data, which means that you could decompress a Monkey's file back into a digital copy that is identical to the original. As the format's site suggests, "think of it as a beefed-up Winzip for your music."

Whatever choice y o u make when you're encoding your own digital music files, you must first accept that for now, MP3 is still the most widely accepted format, and so for the least headaches, it's still the best option. It works seamlessly across all platforms, i t works on nearly 100 per cent of portable players, and it has the widest selection of songs available for download. But for those looking for better quality or smaller file sizes, MP3 is quickly beginning to look like the tyrannosaurus rex o f the audio world: It's sitting at the top of the food chain, but we all know it's eventually headed for extinction.

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Metronome Canada: The city of music

By CHRIS TALBOT After a decade o f gathering support, raising funds and drafting plans, John Harris's dream of a national music symbol could make a significant leap forward as early as July 2003 when construction o f Metronome Canada could begin. After ground is broken, i t will take t w o years t o build Metronome Canada on the waterfront at the base of Bathurst Street in Toronto.

Being billed as the world's first music city, Metronome will grow out o f the Canada Malting Silo Complex and will contain a music museum, an 800-seat concert theatre, offices f o r the music industry, a music education centre, music-related stores, restaurants, a music-themed children's playground and a floating e x h i b i t celebrating Yorkville Avenue o f the 196Os called The Riverboat. I f everything goes as planned, Metronome w i l l become a symbol of Canadian music accomplish-

ments — past, present and future.

"It's an initiative to integrate, educate, celebrate and promote a l l facets o f Canadian music," said Harris, president of Metronome Canada and the founder of Harris Institute f o r t h e A r t s .

Metronome's f o u r main focuses are business, education, performance and celebration, he added.

Since the first letters requesting support were sent out in 1993, 62 musicrelated companies have become patrons of Metronome. According t o t h e Metronome Web site (www.meironomecanada.com), 72 music-related companies have expressed interest in leasing space once it has opened.

Metronome will occupy approximately 33,750 square metres (375,000 square feet) o f space. The grain silos a t the Canada Malting Silo Complex will be re-used for Metronome (they date back to 1928 and 1944), and the rest of the music city will be built around them.

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on music in recent years. Aside from the debate about MP3 and digital music distribution, more complex and accessible recording and mixing software applications have become available. Digital instruments are now the norm in much of the music recorded today. I n some cases, music is programmed, not performed.

"The Metronome itself will be a technological hub f o r audio, video a n d telecommunications t e c h n o l o g i e s , " Harris said. "On top of that, part of the major exhibit, which is Canada's Music Museum, will honour and celebrate the role that Canadians have played in creating recording and broadcast technologies. So we not only intend to utilize cutting edge technologies, b u t w e intend t o celebrate the contributions Canadians have made."

While some o f the complex will be ,specifically f o r businesses, all o f the major exhibits are designed for the public. Harris said he expects Metronome to be a great tourist destination. 4'

August 12, 1993 Metronome Canada Foundation registered as a non-profit corporation.

March 15, 1994 The design for Metronome by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg unveiled. The design goes on to win a number of awards and is featured at an exhibition held in Barcelona, Spain by the Union of International Architects In 1995.

September 10, 1995 Many musk-related companies (62 of them, in all) become founding patrons of Metronome Canada.

October 6, 1997 Metronome Canada Foundation's application for a 99-year lease on the Canada Malting Silo Complex is approved.

January 11, 1999 Apublic awareness campaign Is launched.

August 20, 1999 The Metronome Canada Pavillon Is featured at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.

July 1, 2003 This Is the earliest construction could begin on Metronome.

July 1, 2005 If ground is broken on July 1, 2003, this Is when Motrogome would hold its grand opening.

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By ANDREW MOORE-CRISPIN So what do you do with those ISP CDs that come in the mail or the "coasters" that you made when you just couldn't wait to check your e-mail while you were burning a disc?

If you're like most people, you probably throw them out almost as quickly as you get them, perhaps after a quick and potentially i n j u r i o u s g a m e o f Frisbee.

For the environmentally conscious consumer, having CDs end up in a landfill is simply not an option. But what can you do?

Canadian companies that recycle CDs on a consumer level a r e seemingly n o n existent, or they at least don't have Web sites.

A recent study f r o m RBC Financial Group, conducted b y IpsosReid, says that around 50 per cent o f Canadian households have a PC. The study also suggests that almost half of the households with a PC also have a CD burner.

That, combined with the multitude of software o n C D , w h i c h eventually becomes redundant, makes for a lot o f CDs sitting in landfill.

Sony uses ultrasonic waves and solvents to remove and recover the gold and dyes that make CD-R discs recordable, for reuse. The polycarbonate that the actual disc i s made o f i s also reclaimed, but the process is apparently only used in the Japanese plant in the event of a quality issue.

Dave Kundapur, continuous improvement manager with Sony Music Canada says that if a CD on the line is flawed, it is sent out for secure disposal and recycling.

Kundapur says once the aluminum present in pressed CDs is removed, the polycarbonate "can be reused in headlights, taillights and other applications where c o l o u r i s n o t important."

However, because o f the high optical quality standards for CD manufacturing, the recovered materials aren't reused by Sony Music to make CDs. Pilot projects are going o n i n the States, but i t might be a while before they are widely available, Kundapur said.

He also says Sony is working toward "cradle-to-grave" manufacturing, where products are taken back to the factory when finished their useful life, and materials are reused and recycled.

Some American companies will recycle CDs on the consumer level, but ship-

ping costs will be your responsibility.

GreenDisk i s o n e such company.

GreenDisk president and founder David Beschen says they will accept all forms of electronic media for recycling, from floppies to CD and DVD discs from companies or consumers.

Beschen says GreenDisk fills a niche that is largely unexplored.

"If you want to recycle, that's great if you have a million pounds of something," he said, "but what i f you only have one?"

GreenDisk will accept any quantity o f CDs to be recycled.

GreenDisk started as a service for software companies concerned f o r their intellectual property when getting rid of overstock o r redundant software, and branched out into accepting recyclable media from the consumer level as well.

Magnetic media like floppy disks are degaussed a n d r e -sold u n d e r t h e GreenDisk label, and optical media is chipped up and shipped out to companies that de-metalize, and recover the polycarbonate for use in the automobile, appliance and computer industry.

GreenDisk also sells CD-R media i n Canada and the U.S. The disc itself is not made from recycled materials, but the jewel case and other packaging is.

"As I'm fond of saying, ' i f you're no buying recycled, you're not really recy Beschen said.

Scientists are at work trying to figuri out a way to recover polycarbonate of high enough quality to be remade into optical media discs, Beschen said. "It ha to reach a certain level (of optical qual ity) or it won't be used."

CD-ROMs and DVDs have to be of till highest optical quality, Beschen says but music CDs might be more forgiving Last year, GreenDisk diverted 20 mil lion units from landfill, "but in our peak we did about 60 million," he said.

GreenDisk can be contacted througl their Web site, www.greendisk.com. •

Everything old

By HAROLD LASS Until recently I had a 386, a keyboard and some single density 3.5 inch drives stashed in the basement. What are you still hanging on to? According to Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, what you're really stockpiling is a heap o f heavy metals — including lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, cadmium and brominated flame retardants — all highly toxic to the environment, wildlife and human health i f mismanaged. So, how can you safely manage that ancient four-yearold pile of technology?

First, here's what not to do — don't ever bag your unwanted computer and peripherals and put the works out for garbage on the curb. We don't need to contribute more toxic trash to landfills.

Environment Canada estimates that in 2005, approximately 12,000 tonnes o f computer waste w i l l be generated i n Toronto, of which 7,000 tonnes will be suitable for reuse or recycling. It's up to us to contribute to the 7,000 tonnes.

And there's a safe way t o d o i t .

Toronto, and most other municipalities, is equipped to dispose of your unwanted high tech write-offs. For Toronto computer recycling drop-off locations and times, visit the Toronto Recycling Web site. They'll consign your computer to hex heaven in an environmentally friendly way. And i f you have any exhausted laser printer toner cartridges, call LaserNetworks (416-363-7404) for pickup.

Give it away But what's old to you may be gold to someone else. W h y not donate your

tired piece o f technology t o others who'll appreciate i t ? N o t everyone needs hefty amounts o f hard drive space o r high speed processors. F o r word processing, for example, even a PC 8086, Commodore o r PET antique will do just fine. These folks would love to hear from you: • Computers for Schools is looking for organizations o r individuals t o donate t o this program. It's Canadawide and they'll see to it that your computer will find its way to a school where it will be put to use.

• U of T SwapShop will pick up your computer i f it's reusable and give it a new home.

• reBOOT Canada will also pick up your computer ($25 charge) or you can drop i t o f f and they'll rebuild i t and redistribute it to a charitable organization i n your community. They'll even issue you a tax receipt for the market value o f the donated equipment they accept.

• Possibilities Project wants Macs and PCs, no matter how old.

Cash i t in As admirable as recycling or donating may be, why not try to recoup some of the big bucks you laid out in the first place f o r that must have computer?

Here's how: • eBay Canada — There's probably someone out there willing t o bid on your once precious Pentium. Computers are hot items on eBay. Many go for around $300 including the monitor.

• Beyond the Bluebox — Enter "computers- in the search field o f this terrific city o f Toronto search engine for a

lengthy list of local area businesses that will most likely give you cash for your computer or components. And i f they can't, they'll take it off your hands.

• PCUsed — They buy and sell used computers and will even take a trade-in if you're moving up in quality.

• CPUsed — For all you Mac owners.

• CanadaSEEK.com — Once you've registered with them, you can post a sales listing of your own.

That ought to be enough to get you started o n y o u r recycle quest. Just remember, though, that there are better uses for neglected computers than holding open doors or waiting on curbs for trash pickup. That just doesn't compute.♦

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By HAROLD LASS

When I first picked up a banjo, home computers, much less the Internet, didn't exist. But now that both do, the N,et's the first place y o u should head t o unleash your musical muse.

First, the basics. You need an instrument and you have several choices — new, used or rental. The best place to start i f you want to buy is eBay. You'll find lots t o choose from, and since many of them are unwanted cast-offs, the prices are good.

Musicians Buy Line sells (or trades) everything from amplifiers and band instruments to violins and woodwinds.

And most o f i t is pre-owned, so the prices are reasonable. Since many of the sellers are i n the U.S., you'll need to convert t o Canadian dollars (use The Full Universal Currency Converter) t o know what the bottom line is.

For a list of Internet links to Canadian used a n d n e w musical instruments retailers, C l e v e r J o e ' s Musician's Resource Centre is the place to go.

Don't let the name "pawnbroker" scare you off. Richmond's Trading Post on the

Net buys, sells and trades all types o f musical instruments from cutting edge to vintage. They have a large selection and a full range of prices and quality.

Of course, the classifieds are sometimes a rich source o f used musical instruments. Toronto's Classifieds.com has a selection every now and then.

Super Shopper Classifieds also lists instruments for sale or trade.

Don't forget the rent-to-own option.

It's not a bad idea if you're not sure this is a l o n g term commitment. G a r y Armstrong Woodwinds is one of a number of places that offer this opportunity.

Once you've become a musical instrument owner, the next step is to squeeze notes out o f it that sound reasonably close to pleasant.

Always wanted t o play the piano?

Simple. I f you've got a piano or keyboard gathering .dust, head over t o Piano Lessons Unlimited and they'll show you how rhythmic patterns and chords can unlock the keys instantly.

They compare their technique to playing the guitar. Very few casual guitar players read music. They play chords in combination with basic rhythms. Same

for the casual pianist. Their online demo claims to have you playing in one day.

Of course, for the full exposure to their approach, there's a fee.

Media Guitar Method produces a series o f professionally endorsed CD guitar tutorials. Their eMedia Guitar Method I is packed with chord strumming, playing melodies and fingerpicking, a n d includes songs f r o m B o b Dylan, The Grateful Dead and Steve Miller. The CDs come with a 30-day money back guarantee, which makes them a pretty safe venture. The prices are in U.S. dollars.

How about "live music lessons from your home, when you want with the teacher o f your choice." So says the OnlineConservatory. A l l you need is a MIDI-compatible keyboard and a connection to the Net. You can even sign up for a free trial lesson — no obligation.

There's a health benefit to all o f this musicianship, by the way. Aside from the pleasure your playing may give you (and others, hopefully), a Toronto group of researchers has set about ir, a longitudinal s t u d y t o demonstrate t h a t "childhood musical training may protect

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Hardware requirements are not anything different than what you needed to connect to your ISP. Each computer requires an Ethernet card with an RJ45 cable, and your Internet connection (xDSL or cable modem) attaches to the rear o f the Barricade. I moved m y inkjet printer to the Barricade's print server to make i t easy to print from both L i n u x a n d Windows. Under Linux, I just used the “printconf' utility to configure a network printer, and under Windows I used the Barricade's CD-ROM to install drivers, and then configured m y inkjet as a network printer. Both operating systems have no problems printing, although the Barricade's print server communicates only one way, so my special Windows print software, which allows me t o check t h e level o f ink, n o longer works. Note that you should immediately upgrade the router's firmware to the latest version to ensure all known bugs are fixed. The default version 1.0 had a few minor issues, but the current version 1.4 appears to have fixed all of the issues I had. Upgrading t h e firmware is performed with your Web browser after downloading the latest driver from SMC's Web site.

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Daily usage with the Barricade has proven to be a joy. I'm happy to have a strong firewall protecting my computers against hackers a n d other unauthorized users (since they are on 24/7) and using the print server made sharing my inkjet easy. The negatives include poor logging capabilities, no ability to notify me i f problems arise and the Web-based online help is minimal (although the printed and PDF manuals are quite good).

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By CHRIS TALBOT Photography can be a fun and rewarding hobby, but getting out in the field and shooting with your digital or 35mm camera until your heart is content is only half of the fun. Most amateur photographers' work ends when they drop a roll of film off to be developed or when they transfer images from their digital cameras to their hard drives (or, better yet, to a backup medium like CD-R).

No matter whether you shoot film or digital, however, there is much more you can do with your images after the shooting ends— and it requires you to have imaging software. All digital cam- eras on the market come packaged with software to get images from the camera to the hard drive, but they also have software that allows users to do some basic manipulation of the images — resizing, lightening, darkening, cropping and changing the image's resolution.

Many digital camera manufacturers have made deals with major producers of imaging software that allow them to bundle limited or full versions of software from companies like ArcSoft or ACD with their cameras. Whether it's basic image editing software or something more complex, the average digital photographer will find everything needed bundled with purchased cameras.

Those who want to get more from their hobby can use the software sold with digital cameras as a starting point, but software on the higher end o f the spectrum might be in order — and there are a l o t o f packages out there (too many to cover in only one column). I f you are shooting o n a f i l m camera,

you'll need to purchase a scanner before you can start manipulating photographs on your computer.

Three popular options Paint Shop Pro 7 by Jasc Software is a powerful application designed a n d priced for the consumer. Currently selling f o r a suggested retail price o f $149.99, Paint Shop Pro can be found at most computer software stores. The most recent version o f the software, Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition (marking the software's first decade), was released last year (see review in Toronto Computes! November 2 0 0 1 i s s u e , archived at www.canadacomputes.com).

The software allows users to modify the size, scale and, resolution o f the image, change i t from RGB (red, green, blue) colour mode t o greyscale (black-andwhite), add textures and effects, insert text and crop the image, among other things. What I really like about Paint Shop Pro is the ease of use and the number o f effects that are included i n the software. Users can add lighting effects, sunbursts, make the image look like i t was clipped out of an old newspaper or change the outlining shape of the image to, say, a pentagon (excellent for creating the impression of a framed image).

In the past, I've used Paint Shop Pro mainly f o r designing images for Web sites, which i t handles superbly. There are tools included that will help Web masters slice up images so each slice can be used as a separate hyperlink on Web sites. At one time, this was a timeconsuming and frustrating process.

The printed manual included with the software explains h o w t o use Paint

Shop Pro and how to get the most out o f the tools available. Written s o a beginner c a n read a n d understand it, the manual also defines key terms used in digital imaging, such as TIFF (tagged image file format), TWAIN (an industry standard f o r devices to communicate with imaging software) and AV I (audio video interlaced).

On the high end of imaging software i s Photoshop 6 . 0 from Adobe Systems, which makes a good claim for being the top producer of imaging software. Unfortunately, Photoshop's price is far out of range for the average consumer. Aimed a t the professional imaging crowd, Photoshop has a price tag of $999.99.

The learning curve for Photoshop is significantly higher than for consumer software packages, b u t t h e p o w e r behind the software itself is difficult to compete with. Photoshop allows users to modify images on the smallest scale. It comes complete with a variety of tools, palettes and effects that give users the ability to optimize images for the Web, change colour modes to and from RGB, CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) and greyscale, lighten, darken, crop and otherwise modify pictures.

For the consumer, Adobe released Photoshop E l e m e n t s l a s t y e a r .

Essentially, Photoshop Elements i s a scaled down version of Photoshop 6.01 Most o f the tools are present and accounted for, but the ability to work in CMYK colour mode has been taken out.

Unless y o u a r e d o i n g work that will be printed in CMYK (professional printers u s e C M Y K ) , Elements should be sufficient for your needs. The suggested retail price is $149.99.

Something to look' forward to In February, A d o b e announced t h a t Photoshop 7 . 0 w i l l b e released in April. During a demonstration o f a beta version o f the software, an Adobe spokesperson showed how the new Photoshop has been improved.

Many of the enhancements are not for everybody, but for people who want to retouch photographs, these tools could save hundreds of hours.

The healing brush is the most exciting of the new tools. Similar to the cloning tool, the healing brush can paint colours over top of surfaces but will not lose the texture. For example, it will allow users to edit out wrinkles on a person's face (this was shown during the demonstration).

The natural media paintbrush allows users to work with digital re-creations of chalk, pastel and other media that haven't had satisfactory results in imaging software to date. Colour correction is a snap with the new auto correction tool. Faded photographs can be scanned in and made to look like new again with a few simple mouse clicks.

Adobe has also made the menus more intuitive and easier to understand for first-time users. •

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By HAROLD LASS

haul a stack o f stored data with us wherever we go? There are better ways.

Who says you can't take it with you?

With these removable media, you can.

Diskettes By now, you've probably experienced the agony of lost data not backed up, as well as the thrill o f restoring precious data you did back up - and usually in that order. I f ever there was a compelling reason for the use of removable media, that's it. The simplest, cheapest and most readily available removable media i s t h e ubiquitous 3 . 5 -inch diskette. With it you can store data for safety or for use on another computer.

But what if a file you need to copy to diskette is larger than 1.44 MB, the maximum storage capacity of a high density diskette? Well, you can "stretch" the capacity from 1.44 to 1.7 MB with the use of a handy utility, MariDisk. Problem is, with the size of files these days, even 1.7 M B may fall short. You can, o f course, zip your data with WinZip and even span multiple floppies if the zipped data still is larger than the capacity of one diskette, stretched or not.

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By CHRIS TALBOT Have you ever read a magazine and said to yourself, "I can do better than that?" If you're still reading, the answer is probably "yes."

What kept you from publishing your own magazine? Lack o f knowledge?

Lack of talent? Too costly? Couldn't do it by yourself? Too corporate? It's not easy o r cheap t o p u t something like Toronto Computes! out on a monthly basis. Deadlines, ad sales, copy editing, hiring freelance writers and photographers (and finding the money to pay them) — it takes a staff of skilled people to make it work.

Professional magazine publishing isn't for everyone. However, amateur publishing can be an easy and cheap hobby.

Known as "fanzines" o r "zines," amateur publications are labours o f love that generate little to no profit (most generate losses), but give that desired voice to editors and writers. I n many cases, the text and graphics in zines are too far o ff the mainstream to ever be considered worthy o f publication i n typical magazines.

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and folded over t o create a bookletsized publication, zines are sold, traded and collected b y people all over the world. Zine publishers, sometimes called zinesters, have been around for as long as people have had access to printing presses, but the hobby really took o ff with the invention of cheap and accessible copy machines.

The zines of the 1970s (the height of the zine craze) were written on typewriters, laid out by cutting and pasting text and graphics, copied and then distributed by snail mail, word o f mouth and in public places. These days, most of the work i s done o n computers.

Desktop publishing and image manipulation software, word processors and laser printers make it easy to put a zine together, but most would-be publishers would prefer to work on a personal Web site than on a print zine these days.

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Some publications start small and then try to build themselves up so they become accepted o n a larger scale.

Lichen Literary Journal, published out of Whitby, started up in 1999. Its team of four editors publish issues of Lichen twice a year. According to Ruth Walker, one of the editors, one of the most difficult things for a new publication is getting publicity, although trying t o convince writers to submit work is also a chore.

When launching a new publication, there are a few things to keep in mind, Walker said. Have a focus, maintain a sense of humour and don't compromise standards f o r friendship. L i c h e n launched its Web site i n January a t www.licheniciumal.ca.

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To prove how ridiculous the content was, stories were printed with bylines like Milky Puppy, Asphalt Bastard and Corn Syrup. Gradually, Chapman and his friends moved from the cut and paste method t o desktop publishing with Aldus PageMaker (now owned by Adobe) and Quark XPress. YIP is still being published, although on an irregular basis. In the mid-1990s, Chapman started archiving YIP's stories, artwork and general insanity t o a. Web site (inAntyip.org).

When asked to offer any general tips to the next generation o f zinesters, Chapman said, " I n terms o f printing, ignore posted prices and negotiate the lowest price per unit you can. Most [copy shops] will negotiate in order to have regular business. Insist o n test copies and refuse to pay for any results that are not what you desired."

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involved a complicated step-writing system, whereby you enter the notes one a t a time according t o the beat count. This system is good for programming rhythms f r o m existing music scores o r creating very complex patterns. The quantize function works differently in both instances.

In the real-time method, the quantize function corrects you i f your timing is off. If you set your quantize filter at oneeighth note, all the notes that you hit will be moved to the nearest eighth note.

Having the quantize set to one-eighth note also means that you cannot have more than eight beats in a 4/4 time bar.

Slight syncopation and beat irregularities will be achieved i f you set the quantize threshold to a lower level such as 1/32 or 1/48. By setting the quantize level a t 1/192 (on some machines this setting is simply labeled as turning quantize off) my drum machine would record the patterns exactly as I entered them.

By fooling around with the quantize threshold, you could alter the feeling of the rhythms. A high quantize setting produced a mechanical/industrial rhythm with very little life or move-

When learning about MIDI, there are a lot o f new phrases and concepts t o learn. This i s occasionally frustrating for musicians, as i t seems to be more technical than creative. It is not called MIDI programming for nothing. Perhaps one o f the strangest and initially most baffling phrases is the term quantize.

Basically it means, that the rhythmic values - the duration of a played note - of the MIDI information are rounded off to a set value, be it whole notes, sixteenth notes, dotted notes, whatever.

Consequently, this system usually then "corrects" all the rhythmic information in a given performance to have all the notes line up evenly. Let me explain with a personal experience.

My first encounters with the term quantize came when I bought a drum machine. There were two ways to program rhythms in this machine - this is true of most drum machines. In the simplest method, you could write a one- to 99-bar rhythm pattern live in real time by tapping on the different drum keys at appropriate times. The second method

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quantize level. This gets to be quite confusing, but the beauty o f this is that when you do it properly you will have all the elements o f the rhythm pattern falling exactly where you want them to.

The drawback with the whole quantize system of ordering notes is that it makes the music itself lifeless by playing identical patters of seemingly equal and well mannered notes consistently without fail. This is what is sometimes unaffectionately known as the "MIDI sound" and w h y many traditional musicians steer a clear path away from MIDI. It is also why many MIDI experts seek to find a way to make MIDI sound more human.

A simple way to do this is to set the quantize level o f your MIDI recording device, w h e t h e r d r u m m a c h i n e , sequencer or computer program, to the 1/192 level and then record the pattern live. If you are recording a drum pattern that will be repeated often in a song, try to record it as several beats long instead of one beat. Recording several versions of the same pattern and mixing them in a random fashion will also get rid of the structured quantized MIDI sound. â&#x20AC;¢ r"

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In the step-writing method, the user enters the note according to the quantized time. Let's say you want to program one bar of a 4/4-time pattern. To enter a 1/16 snare note on every second 1/16 beat, you would set quantize at 1/16 and program the note on every second beat. I f you want two quarter note high-hats to sound twice i n the pattern, y o u must leave the pattern, select the quantize level at one-quarter and then re-enter the program to enter the new information according to the new quantize threshold. The fact that the first snare drum was inputted a t 1/16 will not affect any new information being programmed nor will it itself be affected b y a change o f quantize level.

The function of quantize is to let you structure your notes i n a precise and pre-ordered manner. A drawback of the step-writing method i s that you can only enter 1/16 notes when in the 1/16 quantize level. To enter notes of different duration you have to set a different

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The package works well but there are some limitations. The main feature of this kit is the MK-249C keyboard. It has 49 regular touch-sensitive keys, 12 assignable dials for realtime effect control, an assignable slider and modulation wheel, USB and MIDI out port, 10 memories for storing presets and octave up/down keys that will take the sound out o f the range o f human hearing.

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By GEOFF MARTIN One of Toronto's most popular exports has been causing quite a stir on the Net recently, as the maniacally devoted fans of progressive rockers Rush have been combing Web sites for any crumb of information about the band's upcoming album, which is to be its first in six years.

Message boards were all aflutter when a New Jersey deejay claimed to have the inside scoop on the band's 17th album, and told fans that it was to be called "Vapour Trails." Not long after that, another fan posted a message to the popular Rush site www.r-u-sh.com stating that he had received an advance copy of the album and that he planned to post samples of the

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album later that day. This triggered an absolute feeding frenzy from fans all over the world and within several hours, the site's server suffered a seizure as a result of the relentless door-knocking front Rush fans.

The site's Web master was forced to pull it offline.

Worse still, the entire episode appears to have been a hoax, as no samples have been seen on the site to date. Anthem Records, the band's label, have tried to satiate the fans' unquenchable thirst for all things Rush and recently confirmed that the reported album title and a subsequently leaked track list were correct and launched a mysterious Web site at www.officialrush.com. At press time, the site featured nothing more than a stark black background and a simple blackand-white graphic portraying an eye looking back at the visitor, perhaps to indicate that the band's members have been watching its fans just as closely as they're being watched themselves.

Anthem also announced that the first single from the album, called "One Little Victory," would be released to radio stations on March 29 and that the rest of the album would hit stores on May 14.

If there are any fans so dedicated that they can't wait that long, they can always spend their time planning for RushCon 2002, which is a Toronto convention dedicated to Rush, its fans and its music, scheduled to take place in July. Few pop culture icons command a following dedicated enough to inspire an entire convention, but Rush is apparently now in the impressive company of fellow rock band KISS and Star Trek - you can find the proof at www.rushcon.org.

Time to get to work, Hilary Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) president Hilary Rosen is back to her constant whining about digital music piracy, claiming that the record industry slid by up to 10 per cent in 2001, thanks in large part to the scourge of MP3s.

Rosen revealed numbers showing that U.S. record company shipments in 2001 had been reduced by 10.3 per cent over the previous year and that the total dollar value of shipments had fallen by 4.1 per cent during the-same period. The recording industry tracking firm Soundscan also supported these numbers, showing that sales of compact discs, the industry's most popular format, were off by 5.8 per cent from the previous year during the year-to-date ended February 17.

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factors that affected the industry, such as critical fourth-quarter release schedules that were thrown out of whack in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, but she couldn't resist the urge to place the lion's share of the blame on MP3s.

"When 23 per cent of surveyed music consumers say they are not buying more music because they are downloading or copying their music for free, we cannot ignore the impact on the marketplace," Rosen said in a statement.

Of course, it couldn't be that the music industry is growing horrifically stale in the age of Britney Spears and 'NSYNC, could it? One need only look to the snooze-inducing Grammy Awards last month for the answer - ratings for the event (which is supposed to feature the very best the industry has to offer) were down nearly 20 per cent over last year's totals. By those numbers, Rosen might want to think about encouraging record labels to groom some innovative new talent, rather than going after people who are downloading copies of last year's hits.

Copyright Board: Get your wallets out There are plenty of uses for recordable CDs other than burning illegal copies of music, but the Copyright Board of Canada wants to start charging you a lot more for them, under the ignorant assumption that's all they're being used for.

Everyone who purchases a blank CD in Canada today already pays a 21 cent levy on each disc, but the Copyright Board is proposing to nearly triple that amount for 2003-2004, raising the levy to 59 cents.

The tax is currently paid at the manufacturing and distribution level, who then pass these costs along to the consumer. The proceeds of the levy go to the Canadian Private Copying Collective (www.cpcc.ca) and are then distributed to copyright-holding Canadian musicians.

The Copyright Board is also proposing a brand new levy on portable MP3 players that would see a levy of $21 per gigabyte of storage, which would raise the price of a $599 Macintosh iPod by more than $100, and would jack the price of a 20 GB Creative Jukebox, which retails for about $600, by a staggering $420.

You can read the full proposal at www.cb-cda.gc.ca, and you can read up on the fight against it and sign a virtual petition thanks to the Canadian Storage Media Alliance at www.sycorp.com/levy/index.htm. â&#x20AC;˘

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bat, such as a shaking bridge, exploding consoles and dazed arid confused crew members strewn about the floor.

But, unlike t h e television series, game battle is a slow and considered event, reminiscent o f submarine combat. For example, engaging i n an evenly matched one-on-one battle, just you and another ship, can take five minutes or more. (This type of battle in a space fighter simulation, t o contrast, can b e over i n seconds.)

Why does battle take s o long?

Because you have to tell your crew what t o do and manage your ship resources. For example, you can tell your tactical officer to designate specific ship systems to target, such as impulse engines to prevent the enemy from moving, or to target sensors to make i t impossible for an enemy to target you. A n d you must invest a fair amount o f time juggling t h e amount of power that is being fed to different ship systems, target specific shields on the enemy ship to disable specific systems and manoeuvre your ship to ensure your strongest shields take the brunt o f the attack. And, because combat is complex, it means that the beginning player has a difficult learning curve to master.

While t h e ships are excellent — nicely detailed, faithful to the television series and capable of displaying realistic damage — and the lighting effects, especially during combat, are quite good, the characters, unfortunately, move like marionettes with jagged heads and mouths that look like the old, rough computer simulations when they talk.

I f you love the show and you want the incredible level o f involvement and detail this game demands, then, by all. means, buy a copy. If, however, you don't have the patience t o issue orders f o r everything y o u r bridge crew must do and you prefer action over talk, you may wish t o pass on this, the best of the Star Trek games. •

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By NESTOR GULA Many people consider stock car racing to be rather primitive and boring.

Despite its huge popularity in the United States, it has never really outgrown its southern rural roots and been embraced by the urban masses. For many people, even race car fans, the prospect of racing a relatively large American car painted like a billboard for 805 km (500 mi.) on an oval, even if it is at speeds of over 290 km/h (180 mph), has no appeal. They think it's Mickey Mouse. This is probably why there are so few NASCAR racing games on the market, but several Formula One games to choose from.

Following in the footsteps of the successful NASCAR Racing 4, Sierra Entertainment has released NASCAR Racing 2002 Season (NR2002).

Although not a great departure from its predecessor, this game is updated with the full 2002 line-up that includes new drivers, cars, paint schemes and sponsors. Looking through the cars on screen I was saddened to see that my favourite NASCAR car was missing.

This is, of course, the car sponsored by the makers of Spam and painted to resemble a can of Spam. Seeing it hurtle around a racetrack always made me smile. I have yet to watch a NASCAR race to confirm its disappearance but I feel it should have been included for sentimental reasons. The game does have a paint shop where you could paint an available car to suit your fancy, but the controls and execution are quite primitive and frustrating.

After an hour of fiddling I gave up and went back to doing what this game does best — simulating stock car racing.

Far from being easy, racing on the ovals is tricky business. While travelling past a wall just inches away at unbelievable speed, it takes all your concentration to keep focused on the proper racing line. The key to good i - - stock car racing technique is knowing when to floor the gas pedal, when to massage it, when to tap the brakes and ,- how to gently coax a large, normally ill-handling car to go where you want it to. Abrupt moves in NASCAR put o f s o

you in the wall. There are six driving lessons that give you the basics of driving a NASCAR race car. The tutorials put you in the car and NASCAR cham-

pion Darrel Waltrip explains how you should run each of the 24 tracks included in this game. Going to the testing sessions is where you'll really hone your skills. A great addition to this simulation is the digital steering assistance that gives you the ideal line to take on the track and how hard or soft your foot should be on the gas pedal. A couple of single races and you'll be able to start the championship mode or even go for the free multiplayer option. In the latter, you can race against up to 42 other competitors at Sierra's free online service.

NR2002 is developed by Papyrus Racing games, the developer of perhaps one of the best racing sims ever — Grand Prix Legends. True to their form, the developers did a great job with NR2002. The graphics are stunning when displayed at 1024x768.

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WW II sims: Lots of reading, little action

By CHRIS TALBOT Developed by SSI and released to the world by Ubisoft, two new naval simulation games can link up via the Internet or through an intranet and let players go head to head.

Sold separately, Silent Hunter II and Destroyer Command simulate naval warfare during World War II. In Destroyer Command, players take on the role of a captain of a United States Navy destroyer on the open seas against German, Italian and Japanese forces.

Silent Hunter II puts players in command of a German U-boat that goes up against U.S. and British ships.

In single player modes, players can run through missions or launch into a campaign, but the two games can be used in conjunction with one another in online naval battles.

Silent Hunter II Have you ever wondered what it would be like to command a submarine? Silent Hunter II will give you that chance. Unfortunately, piloting a German U-boat in a simulation isn't quite the same as what is seen in the movies. As the pilot, players will find they will be fighting boredom a lot more than they will fight other ships.

Imagine being cooped up in a sardine tin for months on end and being completely blind every time your ship submerges under the water. Welcome to Silent Hunter II. While the game is easy to install, the gameplay is complicated. The 195-page manual is a necessity. Players are advised tb read the book from cover to cover and to keep it beside their keyboards in case of emergencies.

To SSI's credit, the game developers obviously spent significant amounts of time researching naval warfare, German U-boats and American and British ships. The game is visually beautiful when you're staring at something more than kilometres of ocean, but simulation games try to re-create something — and the truth is, commanding a submarine is nothing short of dullness occasionally interrupted by combat.

When I first sat down with the game, I was happy to find some training missions listed. Unfortunately, all of the instructions for the training missions are in the manual. The training missions themselves are completely useless when it comes to helping players learn to command the U-boat. I slowly discovered how to set a course, adjust the speed of the engine and dive below the waves. Unfortunately, the periscope still confused me after I finally gave up on the training mission.

For players with a lot of patience and a lot of time on their hands, this game might hold some enjoyment.

Destroyer Command Compared to Silent Hunter II on a fun level, Destroyer Command has something that Silent Hunter II doesn't have — suspense. Somewhere out below the waves, there is most likely a U-boat loading a torpedo with your name on it.

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Unfortunately, I lacked both time and patience.

On the plus side, the manual that comes with the game is much smaller than the one for Silent Hunter II, weighing in at only 72 pages. Again the instructions for the training missions are in the manual. I'd hate to be the player who loses the manual.

"Less reading, more playing" should be the motto of every game producer out there.

Because of a destroyer's inability to dive, players have portholes and windows in most rooms, so they don't have to drive blind. This makes it much easier to change direction, see the water splash past and notice U boats sneaking up on you. However, the boredom I found playing Silent Hunter II is in Destroyer Command, as well. Most of the time, you're just piloting the boat, which isn't a very exciting thing to do.

The final word Maybe I'm not enough of a fan of simulation games to appreciate Silent Hunter II and Destroyer Command.

Despite the complexity and difficulty of the games, the gameplay itself seems sound. Persistence and patience are assets, for sure.

Some players might be attracted to the games by the multiplayer functions. After all, human opponents are always more fun to play against than computer ones. ♦

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Play along on the PGA Tour with Tiger Woods

By CHRIS TALBOT The golfing season is just about to start, and golfers of all calibre are itching to tee off. Although it's not quite the same a s going o u t o n t h e course, Electronic Arts' Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 might keep you occupied until the courses open up. Besides, how else will you ever have the chance t o play a round with the man who made g o l f cool?

Even though the Toronto area has some nice golf courses, wouldn't it be cool to play the greens at a famous club used o n the PGA tour? The game's course lineup includes places like Pebble Beach Golf Links, Poppy Hills, Spyglass Hill and The Royal Birkdale Golf Club in England.

Players can compete in matches and tournaments as professional golfers like Tiger Woods, Justin Leonard, Brad Faxon, Notah Begay III, Vijay Singh, Jesper Parnevik, Colin Montgomerie and Lee Janzen; as one of several different amateurs; o r as a golfer they create using the golfer creation function in the game. When creating a golfer, the game lets players customize things like ability

Golf commentators David Feherty and Bill Macatee add more realism t o t h e PGA environment through t h e i r on-going commentaries o n each round of a tournament.

level (amateur, professional, t o u r and championship), what the golfer looks like and what kind of equipment he carries.

Simple to install and easy to learn, the game controls f o r Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 are keyboard- and mousedriven. It will take some practice to get good at the game, but learning to drive, chip and putt will only take a few minutes. I n fact, t h e game i s s o selfexplanatory that t h e manual hardly seems necessary, although the charts at the beginning o f the manual detailing all o f the game control commands are helpful. The most important commands are listed on the back o f the game's jewel case for quick reference.

There are nine game modes available practice, stroke, tournament, S k i n s game, shoot-out, match play, foursomes, fourball and multiple year PGA tour seasons. A caddy book option is available to get the best tips and information on how to make great shots. Players can also practice their swings at the driving range, chipping area, putting green and practice holes. All this game needs is a miniature golf area and i t would be complete (that's a joke, kids).

More Goodies If this isn't enough for you and you want more control over your golfing environment, the Course Architect tool allows players t o create a g o l f course of their very own. Unfortunately, the manual offers no detail on how to create a course, so you have to learn by doing. I f you want to try other courses but don't have the time to create your own, the Course Utilities tool will allow you to import courses that other players have made and uploaded t o Internet sites.

One complaint that has been popping up on the EA Sports message boards is transparent foliage. When stuck in the trees (and even good golfers slice once in awhile), many players have found that trees and bushes become transparent and you don't know they are there until they've cost you a stroke on your

score. Hopefully this is something EA will f i x i n a future patch, but for now, it's obviously annoying a lot of players. For now, the way to avoid this seems to be to stay out of the trees. Good luck.

Otherwise, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 is a fun game that only has a fraction of the frustration I feel every time I pick up a real golf club. •

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By ERIK SEBELLIN The plot o f the first-person shooter Command E t Conquer: Renegade revolves around two factions - the GDI (Global Defense Initiative), an aggressive arm of the UN, and the Brotherhood of NOD, a terrorist organization bent on world conquest. You play the game in one of three ways. First, you can play as Major Havok, an elite commando of the GDI, in a scripted campaign. As Major Havok, i t is your job to perform missions, such as rescuing civilians, blowing up everything from enemy troops to vehicles along the way.

Second, you can play Renegade multiplayer online. In this team-based game, you choose a skin, align yourself with the GDI or NOD and try to destroy the other team's base. In the third option, you a g a i n choose y o u r s k i n a n d alliance, but this time, you play offline against bots (computer-controlled characters) for practice. • Totell the story, Command Et Conquer uses cinematics rendered with the i n game engine. Westwood has a background filming l i v e actors and this influence shows, because not only are

the camera angles the type you would guard will run toward find in live-action dramas (such as in a the shooter, weaving movie), but the characters move realisleft and right to make tically, just like real actors. himself harder to hit.

As the game unfolds, you get the Another n e g a t i v e chance t o operate multiple vehicles, occurs when you die. including the NOD Buggy and Flame Every time you die in Tank, as well as the GDI Humnwee and the single player game, Mammoth Tank. A l l the vehicles are you must wait during easy to get and operate - you simply an immense r e l o a d walk up to one, hop in and use your period, whether y o u arrow keys and mouse to steer and aim. restart the mission o r In fact, despite the somewhat cartoonrestart from a loaded ish, low budget feel o f the game, the game. Even worse, i f graphics are quite fantastic. The charac- you did not have the ters are animated beautifully, weapons forethought t o save offer some nice effects and the vehicles • midway t h r o u g h a look great. mission, i f you choose Unfortunately, as w i t h the original to restart, you will do Command Et Conquer, the enemy artifiso from the start o f the mission cial intelligence (AI) is dumb as a doorincredibly annoying if you had the misknob. For example, in other first-person fortune to get yourself killed just before shooters, if you snipe one of two guards, the end. the other guard w i l l often r u n and The bad news is that the single-player sound an alarm. In this game, however, version o f Command a Conquer: if you snipe one of a pair of guards, the Renegade is merely a ho-hum first-perother just stands there as though nothson shooter. The good news, however, is ing happened. However, o n the plus that the multiplayer version is so good, side, i f a guard is shot from up-close this is destined to be one o f the best so i t sees the shooter - the surviving games of this year. •

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By NESTOR GULA Desktop publishing on personal computers has come a long way since its humble roots in the mid 1980s. There are a plethora of DTP software packages available to the computer user. Some word processors and design software packages also include DTP functionality.

But while even 10 years ago DIP meant print this is not the case today.

Today, publishing means everything from print to Web to electronic methods of delivering the message. Very often the need is for the same information to appear in different formats. This need is not exclusive to large corporations or high-end business users. Small a n d home-based businesses and even regular computer users have the occasional need to create the same documents in multiple formats.

Adobe's InDesign 2 . 0 was released near the end of January in a relatively low-key announcement. I t should be noted right away that InDesign is geared to be used by the design professional and is not intended for the home user.

Adobe has three distinct DTP products, PageMaker, for the home and business user, FrameMaker, for corporate publishing needs and InDesign, for professional designers.

In the world o f professional page design a n d layout Quark XPress i s more-or-less the standard package. On a personal note, most magazines, including this one, use Quark for the design and layout. InDesign is Adobe's entry into this arena. The first two versions of InDesign, 1.0 and 1.5, did not set the design world on fire, although many graphic designers admired InDesign's i n t e g r a t i o n with Adobe's Illustrator and Photoshop. These two programs, e s p e c i a l l y Photoshop, are effectively standards i n the publishing world.

The integration between these two programs and InDesign i s enhanced i n this version. You can now import Photoshop f i l e s without having to flatten

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InDesign recognizes Photoshop layers a n d a n y transparencies in them. T h i s , i n turn, allows the designer great leeway in formatting images w i t h text because hard clipping paths are not the only way to go. The images can now be softly merged into, o r out of, the text.

Illustrator layers are also preserved.

InDesign also contains a great set of its own effects and transparency controls.

You can apply drop shadows, featherings to text or images. Special effects can be applied to objects by combining blending modes with opacity settings.

These blending modes include Darken, Lighten, H u e , S a t u r a t i o n a n d Luminosity. They work just like similar modes in Photoshop. In fact, i f you are quite f a m i l i a r w i t h Photoshop o r Illustrator you will have a jump start in learning and mastering InDesign.

My f a v o u r i t e enhancement i n InDesign 2.0 i s the tool that creates tables. For some reason tables have always been a royal pain to create in DTP programs. In the March 2002 issue of Toronto Computes! we ran a twopage table comparing different cell phone packages. This table was originally created in Microsoft Word. Quark would not read the information so we had to do many conversions to get the table i n proper shape. Although w e never really kept a timer on the process, I would have to estimate about 10 hours were spent just formatting the table to

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Since i t s inception, InDesign has always had great typography tools. The Paragraph Composition tool allows the reflowing of text to adjust the spacing to get an even look for the text. Version 2.0 has expanded support for OpenType fonts and even includes some o f these fonts (Adobe Caslon P r o , A d o b e Garamond Pro, Caflisch Script Pro and some Japanese fonts, as well) i n the package. OpenType fonts give the user many more characters (glyphs) i n a typeface than the 256 contained in normal fonts.

Adobe sees InDesign's strength in its

ability to save document's in many formats. It will export a file to PDF (either Acrobat 4 o r 5) format, HTML document, Postscript file, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) and X M L (eXtended Markup Language) document. The latter is the way publishing is perceived to be moving. X M L allows the tagging o f objects and text and the importation of fully formatted text or objects into other documents. Tagged XML items may be then moved about between different XML programs for reuse. A formatted XML t e x t f r o m InDesign c a n b e dropped, all formatting preserved, into

Adobe's Web design program GoLive.

No only is InDesign able t o save i n many formats but it will also open and import documents from many sources.

It will import most PDF documents and will open PageMaker 6.5 and 7.0 documents as well as documents created by Quark XPress 3.3 and 4.1x. The latter is no doubt to attract Quark users and ease the transition.

Will InDesign succeed i n becoming the standard for DTP? It is too soon to tell. Quark is just releasing version 5.0.

Beta copies have been available for a while. InDesign is a very good program

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By SEAN CARRUTHERS Are you resigned to the fact that your notebook computer's audio isn't very good, and that you'll never be able to use it to play all your MP3 files at your upcoming party? Upset that your home PC has lousy onboard audio and no slots available for a new and improved sound card? Well, Creative Labs may have just the deal for you!

Already famous for its SoundBlaster line o f audio cards, Creative Labs recently announced the Audigy series of internal cards. The cards improved on the multi-channel sound already offered by the Live! series o f cards, increased the signal-to-noise ratio to more than 100(113. Now, with the release o f the Extigy, Creative has brought the same quality t o your PC o r notebook i n a design you can plug into a USB port.

The Extigy looks like a little home audio component, b u t substantially smaller. It adds two optical connectors, jacks for line in, microphone and headphone, MIDI in/out and SPDIF in. The box i s designed f o r use with a 5.1 speaker set, which is great for gaming or for DVD movie playback. The Extigy also comes with a remote control, so you can change tracks or adjust the volume from across the room.

Even though it's smaller than a home audio component (like an amp or cassette deck, for example), it's still going to take up some space on your desktop.

Though a bracket is provided for setting the Extigy on the desktop vertically, there will also be a bit of a wire tangle with the power cord and the connection to y o u r desktop and speaker set. I f you're adding it to a desktop PC, that's not necessarily an issue, but i f you are

using i t w i t h a notebook, b e forewarned: It's not necessarily as portable as you'd want. It's better to leave the Extigy and speakers o n the desktop when you take your notebook on the road and re-hook when you return.

How does i t sound? Well, pretty darned good. We tested i t o u t w i t h Creative's Inspire 5300 5.1 speaker set, and the audio quality was excellent. The USB 1.1 connection did an excellent job of getting the data to the Extigy without deterioration, and the only problem we had was with digital audio extraction from the CD player on our notebook.

(As with any other computer product, you have to make sure all the rest o f your components are up t o snuff to ensure proper operation).

The E x t i g y i s compatible w i t h Windows 98SE, 2000, ME and XP, and obviously; you'll need a USE 1.1 con-

nection on your computer. It requires a processor running at least 350MHz, but you'll probably want something faster if you w a n t maximum performance.

Minimum m e m o r y requirement i s 128MB, though you can squeak by with only 64MB on a Windows 98SE system.

As always, we'd recommend higher specs for trouble-free performance.*

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Audiotron: MP3 at home

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If you're a rabid fan of digital audio, there comes a lioint when you have so many MP3s that you want to start listening to them at home as well as on the road. You've put the effort into collecting them and ripping them, but you can only upload so many to the portable player, so why aren't you taking advantage of that library?

For a lot of people, it's probably that they don't want to sit in front of the PC every time the urge to listen to music strikes. Turtle Beach recognized that quite some time ago--it introduced the Audiotron home MP3 appliance back in 2000, and it's been going strong ever since. It's designed like a home audio

component for a reason: It's supposed to be hooked up to your home stereo system so that you can enjoy your MP3 collection in the same place you enjoy your CDs and records. You can hook the Audiotron to your home system using standard RCA connectors or you can use the SPDIF digital output i f your stereo supports it. A remote control is included.

To get the Audiotron to work, you will need to connect it to at least one PC that's powered on and contains a shared directory f i l l e d w i t h a u d i o files. T h e

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One thing that's been added, since the introduction of the Audiotron is support for streaming audio, allowing users to tune in to select Internet radio stations.

(Those of you who got the first edition can f i n d a R O M update f o r t h e Audiotron a t t h e Turtle Beach site, which will add this function.) You manage your radio stations using a Web interface f r o m y o u r PC, a n d t h e Audidtron will pull down all relevant data from the Turtle Radio server. You can choose from a number o f stations already listed, or you can add your own, so long as they are compatible (the serv-

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Now, I have to emphasize that the fellow who made this comment isn't your standard-issue, backward-looking Luddite.

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I was dumbfounded. A n d I found I couldn't come up with any other examples of the blessedness created by computers.

That's partly because we were approaching a huge hill. Time to buckle down and let legs and lungs and do the necessary work.

We never got back to that conversational thread. But I've wondered — and worried — about it ever since. Computer technology has changed my life in so many ways that it staggers me to even think about what things were like without a PC. And I constantly wonder at how the world I live in works so very differently because of the presence o f computers and their corollary technologies. Good heavens, think o f e-mail, i f nothing else! How about the magic even the numericallychallenged (such as yours, truly) can do with a spreadsheet? How about being able to search the Web for the meaning of a word, for stock market news, for pictures of your mother-in-law's cat?

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Keyboard Although you can input data manually with your stylus, in reality -the most important addition to a PDA for entering large amounts of data is a keyboard.

There are many different types of keyboards available and I discovered that none offer me everything I want. S o I ended up purchasing both Landware's _ GoType! P r o (www.landware.com) a n d Palm's own folding Portable Keyboard. (vwvw.palm.com). Each has their advantages and disadvantages.

The GoType Pro! is better for situations where I need to HotSync (as it has a built-in cradle) or if I want to type on a soft surface such as my lap. The Palm Keyboard is better in situations where I will be working at a desk or another flat surface for a while.

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Securely attaching to the bottom o f my PDA, I feel it offers the best and easiest method to send and receive e-mail and for general Web browsing. I t uses its own batteries and I have had no difficulties connecting t o m y Internet Service Provider (ISP) throughout Canada. U s i n g the freeware Eudora Internet Suite, I am able to text-mode browse t h e Internet a n d send a n d receive e-mail. AvantGo keeps me u p to-date with information customized for viewing on my PDA, and Yan off lets-me access Usenet newsgroups. A n d note that although I utilize e-mail, commercial fax software is available should my needs change.

Printer Since every, office needs a printer, wouldn't i t be great to print directly

from your PDA? I recently bought SiPix's Pocket Printer (www.sipix.com), which supports printing via the Palm's infrared port (or the serial port o f any notebook computer).

Although i t only prints on A6 paper (approximately 1/4 the size of a regular sheet) it allows me to print my addresses, ToDo lists, notes and articles wherever I go.

Note that not all Palm applications support t h i s p r i n t e r b y d e f a u l t , although there are commercial device drivers f o r many common business applications: Having the printer is also great f o r sharing information w i t h coworkers when you are on business trips, although be warned that it is not something t h a t can produce quality output for clients.

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You can get a combo pen/stylus that fits into the slot on your PDA, or you can go with a regular pen-sized unit.

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Mac has finally come into its own as a hub of a new digital lifestyle. As we say in marketing, this is a significant paradigm shift.

Now, I ' m n o t knocking traditional computer applications such as word processing, e-mail o r spreadsheets. In fact, I spend about 10 hours a day working w i t h these three very computeresque applications. But Apple's new positioning has really got me thinking about how we use computers — and how we will use them in the future.

Rather than typing numbers or words into a keyboard so we can later print them out on pulped, bleached pieces of trees, we'll be relying a l o t more on speech recognition to capture information and flat screens to display it — and reserve printing f o r important keepsakes.

Thus, the new iMac really grabbed my attention. Not only is its outward design very cool, and thus, likely to capture the imagination o f millions o f people, i t also has been built from the ground up to be the centerpiece o f Apple's new digital lifestyle metaphor. The iMac

It's no coincidence that Apple's most recent computers are built around powerful graphics machines, futuristic flat screens and space-age industrial design.

After a l l , A p p l e introduced t h e Macintosh, the world's first multimedia computer, over 18 years ago. Perhaps we didn't know enough t o call i t a "multimedia" machine at the time, but we all knew the Mac's graphical user interface was very different from the command l i n e codes t h a t propelled other computers in the market.

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Digital lifestyle epiphany But my digital lifestyle epiphany came a few weeks ago when I was chatting with two folks from Apple about iPhoto.

With its simple but elegant interface, iPhoto makes it easy to import, edit and print digital photos, as well as organize and manage an entire photo collection containing thousands o f pictures.

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By MARA GULENS Somehow evaluating children's books seems so much easier. Aphorisms aside: If the cover's off, that's often reason enough to forgo the contents. Flip open the book, check out the graphics, scan the text. Then either buy, borrow, even return i f necessary.

If it were only so easy with children's software! Not only are we forbidden to crack open the package, we can't even try it out, not to mention return it. Since a CD-ROM doesn't stand a chance in heaven without a great cover, judging according to looks isn't a good idea, either.

So how does one choose children's software? Here are my tips, along with some additional insight from Jennifer Penney, manager of The CD-ROM Store.

Talk to friends People who know I review kids' software will often ask what I recommend.

My first question to them is: For whom?

Your three-year-old daughter? Yo u r ten-year-old son? It makes a difference.

Friends are the best source o f infor-

Be your own expert mation o n k i d s ' CD-ROMs. They'll tell you the truth, especially i f they think they sunk money, and even more so i f they know they scored.

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Go to the source Companies are realizing it's worth giving players a chance to see what their product i s about and I suspect this will become more popular w i t h time. Go to Learningco.com to see what you can do with Kid Pix Deluxe. B e t t e r y e t , g o t o vwvakidpix.com a n d try out an online version.

Penney imagines an even more exciting scenario, where producers would allow kids t o t r y o u t titles f o r free online. I n this way, "parents would know whether the title actually engages their kids to, f o r example, save the world by solving -math problems. This would also h e l p parents determine ahead o f time whether the title will in fact run on their home computer," she says.

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My sister-in-law was convinced a game I was reviewing would be perfect for her six-year-old son. After ten minutes, it was clear the game was waaaaay too scary for this individual.

demos show you the best (fortunately, they can't show anything better!). If you don't like what you see, move on.

Read reviews Besides t h e reviews i n Toronto Computes!, there are gazillions o f others. Just beware who sponsors them, remember opinions d i ff e r a n d take everything with a grain o f salt. With time you'll learn whom to trust.

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Things to look out for: 1. Age and skill appropriate.

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By MARA GULENS Sometimes game developers forget what their target group i s a l l about.

Take pre-schoolers. No, they're not master readers and writers. Yes, they like their actions to yield quick results.

Disney's Rolie Polie Olie: The Search for Spot gets high marks for catering to the two-to-five crowd in some respects,

but falls short in others. Here's why.

Rohe gets bonus points for a quick introduction that pulls players right into the game — sans sign-in. About time!

This definitely makes life easier for the two- and three-year-olds I know. On the other hand, this means the game can't be saved, so that each time kids play, they have to start from scratch. This may lead t o questions like, "Didn't I clean u p that room last time?" o r "How come t h e fridge i s tipped over again?"

Once i n O l i e ' s house, a brief introduction lays out the goal o f t h e game: Find Spot. Now kids can start clicking, and Rolfe Polie Olie is a clicker's p a r a d i s e .

Click on a lamp and it turns off; click on the toaster and bread flies out; c l i c k o n t h e fridge, the door opens —more clicks and you can remove the food.

Clicking on certain items also leads to mini-movies and games, b u t without specific markers or icons, it's initially hard t o tell where that w i l l be. For example, in the living room you click on an object, Telly, to play a game; in the kitchen you click on Olie's sister.

While the movies are short and fun, they interrupt clicking because y o u can't click while in movie-mode.

This i s h a r d because w h o wants to stop and wait while you're having so much fun?

Unlike other popular kids' games, this house has a layout that makes sense — so kids should be able to make their way around without getting lost. I n each room they have to right a piece of furniture that Spot has lcnocked over and then play a game.

Ah, the games. Somehow they bring to mind a group of developers in a corporate cafeteria setting, scribbling ideas on napkins. Next time maybe they should look to elementary school playgrounds for inspiration.

Telly Builder is a strange game

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Canister Can-Can is a fairly complex music-making program, found (but not so easily) in the kitchen. The canisters neatly represent musical notes, and you can click on the tap and kettle for extra sounds — but i t won't keep kids occupied for long.

Crayon Crisscross i s perhaps t h e most fun, basically because it's based on something kids know from the real world - colouring. Kids have to grab crayons that move over the screen — and then click on the circle they want coloured. As the levels o f difficulty increase, kids can even start mixing colours — a great thing to experience and learn at this age.

Only after kids have made their way through all the rooms can they go to the bathroom to play Scuba Splash — the weirdest game of all. With bouncy music and a weird theme, it somehow seems, like it's here just because there was no room for it in Monsters, Inc. Scream Team Training.

Pappy is preparing the bath for Spot, but all sorts of items have fallen into the tub. Your mission: Put on scuba gear, enter the tub and retrieve the missing items — including Pappy's teeth. And that one just rubs me the wrong way. How do you explain dentures to a four year-old? But you have to because if kids don't retrieve them, Spot doesn't get a bath.

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target. Read online notes t o check whether the required skills are in line with your child's. For example, i f your child excels in art, but is still grasping the ABCs, he or she might leap ahead in creativity programs, b u t have t o g o down a level for reading.

Like clothing, make sure programs can grow with your child. "Often we recommend something [the kids) can grow into rather than something that might be too easy and hence a less-valued investment," says Penney. But it really depends on the situation, i.e. number of children in the household, etc.

2. Suitable subject matter.

Even if the title you're thinking about scored high marks in every review, i f the cast o f characters is not to your child's liking, you're wasting y o u r money. On the other hand, new titles with interesting new characters can be worth exploring.

There a r e programs t h a t t e a c h through creativity, problem solving, detective-like adventures a n d r o l e playing. Some require short attention spans, o t h e r s r e q u i r e h o u r s o f sleuthing. Match your child's interests and abilities. Talk to your kids about what they like.

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3. System compatibility.

When you head off to the store, make sure you know your system requirements.

"A lot of people don't check the system requirements before they buy the latest and greatest kids' titles, resulting in big disappointments for both parents and kids alike," says Penney.

They find themselves i n a position where they either have to upgrade their computer (often the video card), or give the software to someone else (schools, libraries, friends), because most stores won't take back opened merchandise.

4. You're the expert!

Most importantly, don't expect someone else to answer your questions for you.

By the time you're dishing out dollars for children's software, you should be the expert.

How do YOU choose children's software? Let me know at: maragulens@yahoo.com. •

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