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73 Internet is playing a big role in big decisions 79 Online ad business looking up 95 'Experimental' online ads take on obnoxious tone I ' I

72 Quick Tips: Word formatting

64 ProcessorWars: Via hits the road with Eden 64 ProcessorWars:The usualsuspects,AMD, Intel

96 Music label releasesunenciypted MP3for sale 98 Geekcorpsvolunteers halfway through Ghanastay

68 AppleNews:Jaguara major05 X update 12 The coming world of digital photography 12 Keepingtrack ofyourimages 16 Photoalbums on yourhandhehf 18 Photographs from your inkjet

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98 Bookreview: The Web Design CD Bookshelf 99 Bookreview: Physics forGame Developers 100 Career Profile: Creating creatures in virtual worlds 100 Java Tutorials: Finishing duagist

85 Stand-tall FinePix gets facelift

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thestandard XGA screens ofthe same size. This is especially significant when running Windows programs. This can mean full or two-page editing when doing word processing and OTP

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There is a huge difference in functionalit y between a laptop that has a 15.1inch XGA (1,024x768) display, and one of similar size that does SXGA(1,400x1,050) or UXGA (1,600x1,200). Higher resolution displays present 50 percentmore screen area and data than

in future notebook reviews, if you please. Any display looks good with the screen saveron— show me the screen fonts! Glen C. Taylor

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its board appears lo be of less interest to even Canadian domain-name registrants. The currentcampaign has attracted eight candidates. bul six of them were re«ommended by the current CIRA board, with rank-and-file members

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drive, floppy or memory card, published on a Web site, or attached to an email to Aunt Martha Making prints kom images is only one of many, many options.

"Nearlyhalf of all photo kiosk sto beshippedin 2002 will be designedexclusively for digital camerausers." Do-it-yourself printmaking gives you more control over the process and

images printed professionally, an increasing number of photofinishers and camera shops oirer countertop or kiosk photo printers, as weU as online photo printing services. In mid-May, InfoTrends Research

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report, Photo Kiosk and Retail Digital PhoroJinishi ng Forecast,that "nearly half of afi photo kiusks to be shipped in 2002 will be designed exclusively for digital camera users." Info Trends says that cur-

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Photographers wiU also like the interactive red-eye remover, and the ability to instantly trim images to standard photo sizes, such as 8xio-inch or "wallet size." Even more dazzling is the ability to sort or smrch images by "similarity," based on a shrewd analysis of their content, then

compare them side-by-side in tiled viewer windows that zoom in/out and pan in unison. But where ThumbsPlus really excels is in its thumbnail-based file-management. The Explorer-like folder tree includes root-level entries for Ofgine CDROMs and Offline Disks. These can display thumbnails fo r r e movable archive media, aUowing you to easily build a catalogue of your images. You can manipulateaU your image data using standard tools such as Microsoft Ac cess. Th i s ma k es ThumbsPlus an ideal tool for enterprises needing to manage huge numbers of image Ules. About the only notable omission in ThumbsPlus is the one feature that' s taken for granted in other image utilities: the ability to Uip through your images in a fuU-size viewing window. The image viewer in ThumbsPlus shows only one selected image at a time. To view successive images, you have to open them individuagy from the thumbnail browser.

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So which one is best? For afi-round image viewing and processing, ACDSee 4.0 PowerPack, about $125 (US$79.95), remains the most convenient, though CompuPic Pm isn't too far behind, and lrfanView is practically a no-brainer, at the asking price. For image manipulation, it's a toss-up. ACDSee offers 3 fuflimage editor (FotoCanvas), but its powerful batch processor (RoboEnhancer) is a $110 (US$69.95) option. ThurnbsPlus larks pixel editing, but

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Oiglhtl darhraom tenth ups• Check the photoin animage editorand retouch any obviousflaws, such as red eye,if necessary. Digital-image enthusiasts hail Photoshop,but there are a number of cheaper packages— MGI Photoguite (www.roxio.com), Jasc Paint Shop Pro (wwwias ccom), and Ulead PhotoImpact (wwwuleadcom)—that make touch ups and otherimage-editing taskseasy.

cyan. Some paperand ink combinations take longer to dry, so make sure a print has drimpthoroughly before handling.

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Applian Technologies' (www.appiian.corn) PicturePerfect 5.1 for the Pocket PC, which gives you thumbnail views of your pictures, image-editing tools, and lets you create slideshows with transition effects thatcan be synchronized with MP3 music. You can purchase and download the software from the company's site for

imagesin 3PEG format, which compresses files to reduce their si ze.This compression format is called a lossy method, because some information about the

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thmughout,butthe high-end modelisdef-

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focussing manually. that clarity is a real necessity (again, some other cameras have a slightly grainy LCDscreen, which

thetop ofthe consumercategory and fea-

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anasoni c hasshown usan assortment of digital still cameras over the past fewyears,buttheintrodurtion ofthe Lumix line this year indicates it's makng a

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The included LCO shade attachment isa very nice touch. Anyone who's worked extensi vely with LCD viewfinders knows they' re greatindoors buttend to wash out whenyou get outdoors, which limits the usability of a digital camera. The shade

tions (left, right, and top), and making the display usable even in bright sunlight. Why noone has thoughtofthis before is a mystery;it's probably the most useful innovation we've seen in some time. Thecamera can be set to a number of shooting modes, including single, burst (four to eight frames per second), bracket,spot focus,and movie.The QuickTime movie mode is limited only by the size of your memory canl, and shoots in 320x240 resolution at 10 frames per second. with

era is DPOFcompatible. The Lumixline is one of the few we know ofthat uses MultiMedia Card/Secure

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amundthe base ofthe lens,andthough it's

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audio.Stillimages can be saved as JPEG oruncompressed TIFF files,and the cam-

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lose that option), and covers the LCDwith a little fbp-up door. When you bft the

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If you don't want to Sddle with cables or Memory Sticks to get your digital pictures on your computer's screen, then Sony's latest Mavica lineup may be what you' re looking for. Sony has two favours of Mavica these days: one that writes your pictures directly to a standard-sized floppy disk, and another that takes small-size 8 cm CD-Rs or CD-RWs. The nicest FD Mavica (i.e., the Soppy disk model) is the $899 MVC-FD200,

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Nikon shakes up Coolpix line ust as we were going to press, we received an announcement from Nikon (www.sion,cs) of three new models in its Coolpix digital camera line. These include the Coolpix 5700, 4500, Coolpix 2000— five-, four-, and two-

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Mekmgthe right choice W'hen you' re choosing flatpanel for a dual-monitor environment. you' ll want to consider two things. First up is the resolution: flat-panel monitors have a hard-wired maximum resolution (typicafly 1,024x768 pixels for a 15-inch display, 1,280x1,024 for an 18inch, and 1,600x1,200 for larger displays). While you can generally set the monitor to a lower resolution, the image may end up on the blurry side. Keep in mind that in a dual-monitor setup, you' re effectively doubling one of those dimensions— two 15-inch monitors would yield a desktop of 2,048x768 altogether, or 1,536x1,024 if both are oriented in portrait mode. The second thing to consider is the connectors on the back of the monitor. Most new graphics cards with dual-monitor output feature one VGA connector (the standard 15-pin blue connector on most graphics cards) and one DVI connmtor (digital video interface. or a white rectangular connector). Most flat-panel monitors have the VGA connection, though somecome with DVL Most monitors that ship with a DVI connector,

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ible analogue signal, but the reverse isn't true — if you have two DVI-only monitors, you' ll probably be out of luck. It' s better to go with two VGA displays or two hybrid displays. Theoreticagy,,the VGA connector doesn't provide the sanie picture reliability as the DVI connector, but we' ve noticed precious little difFerence between the two in our testing. Unlessyour eyes are extremely sharp, you' ll probably get along fine with the analogue display—just make sure you have a DVI-to-VGA dongle!

The downside Of course, there's still a downside to putting a pair of flat-panel monitors on your desktop: the price. Many basic 15inch TFT displays have dropped in price to between $500 and $600, but that will edge up somewhat as you add more features (the DVI connector, for example, or multimedia features like speakers or USB connections). You can look at it this way, though: you can still get two small TFT monitors for the same price— if not less—than one big-honkin' CRT. and they' ll flt on your desktop more easfly. Here are a few flat panels we've had in the lab lately. This is by no means a full roundup —we'll actually be doing a fuU lab test on flat-panel displays next issue,

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To make finer adjustments, add markers to your timeline using the on-screen button. or a menu selection. Once a marker is placed on-screen, it can be moved around by sliding it along the timeline. It would be nice if you could delete these markers by dragging them off the screen, but it's not that simple. There are a couple of options, however. The first is to go to the Marker Settings menu command under Timeline, select the time of the marker, then delete it. The other is to select the marker, then press the key/command combination appropriate to your OS: Option+mouse click in Mac

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be limited to using soundtracks in a proprietary format. Although users can import Bleu in MP3 and other audio formats, they don't beneht from the Sound Blocks technology. Ideally, the company should eventually include a tool that allows users to import their own soundtracks and have the program break them into Sound Blocks for easy manipulation. This is a worthwhile purchase for anyone doing video at the professional level, but the purchase price makes it more of a stretch for users who are just playing around with iMovie at home. CI

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Ccnrinued from page 40 card. Though its cards used to be commonly found in home desktop PCs several years back, more recent Matrox

cardshavedegnitely had more ofa focus on the business desktop.

The company, headquartered in Montreal, is justly famous for intmduc-

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A quick look at the benchmarking scores reveals Matrox's current strengths and weaknesses in the world of graphics. As a business d esktop s o l ution, the Millennium G550 comes through nicely, with very solid results. As a 3D gaming card, it's not well-suited, but complaining about that would be missing the point — Matrox has never emphasized its gaming performance, focussing instead on its suitability for general home and business desktop use. Fmm that ~ it ex cels. It has both DVI and VGA connectors onboard and mmes with a DVI-to-VGA dongle. so you can use two VGA monitors. It also comes with a VGI-to-S-Video/mmposite adapter, if you want to use a television as yow semndary display (or output to a

it's something it continues to concentrate on today. While the Matrox cards you' ll Und at retail are for the most part business-oriented, keep your eyes open: it has just announced the Parhelia-5I2 graphics technology, the Urst 5I2-bit GPU. From a quick look at its specs, it appears poised to make a serious splash, and could help Matrox regain its solid position in the gaming market. It will also support triple-head mode (three monitors), which is the 6rst step towards "surround gaming."

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user. First, you can set up your multiple displays (at present, a maximum of two per card, using a combination of DVI and VGA connectors; you can use three if one of those is the S-Video out connector, though that one will only duplicate one of the proper monitor outputs). The nView technology also allows you to con6gure up to 32 virtual desktops and switch between them. The most useful of the new features

Once again, Matrox's packaging is impressively compact. something the other manufacturers could learn I'rom.

The price point is also very impressive, at under $200. Sure, it ain't so hot at games, but if you' re not interested in them, why pay extra for that capability? Special note to Linux fans: this card was the only one featuring Linux drivers out of the box.

for many users will be window transparency —when you drag a window across your Windows desktop, that window wiU be transparent until you release the mouse button, which not only aUows you to align windows, it means you «an Continuedon page 45

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graphs. The Geporce4 comes in two major fiavours right now: Ti and MX. MX is the

lower-end version and is based on the older and slower GeForce2 hardware. It typically only allows you multi-display capability using one monitor and one SVideo output. The Ti series (short for Titanium) is much more powerful. and most ofthe cards we've seen letyou do multi-monitor configurations right out of the box. We'vechosen to look at the Ti cards'this month for that reason.

score, too. The card features the standard outputs on Ti-level cards: DVI, VGA, and SVideo out. The package ships with a DVI-to-VGA/DVI dongle (though you can only use one of the outputs on the donge at a time) and an S-Video-tocomposite adapter for use with older video technology. The software bundle includes AsusDVD 2000, Aquanox,

Midnight GT. and more. If you' re looking for something that' s nearly as powerful but not quite as expensive, you may want to cast your gaze on the Asus V8440, which uses the Ti 4400 GPU but otherwise has the same features. The scores were close, but the V8440 will be available for around $450, a good savings.

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tor support within the Windows DSes since Windows 98, there wasn't a wide variety of consumer-level multi-display cards available. The first company to start pushing "dual-head" displ ays in this segment was Canada's own MatroxGraphics, with the G200 series of cards. Thesecardsallowed you to hook up two VGA displays, and fea-

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We' re rarely disappointed when we get to look at Asus Ipaphics cards, and this card doesn't break that trend. This purple card features the powerful Ti 4600 GPU, and comes with i28 M B of onboerd memory. Compared to heatsinks found on some of the other Ti 4600 boards, the one included here is fairly restrained. with a compact design and a fish painted on the top. That didn't stop the card fmm turning in the best desktop application 'numbers and e reasonably good 3D

All's Radeon VE. Though the Radeon VE wasn't the fastest-performing 3D card, it

displays. Some cards running nVidia graphics proces sorsfeatured both connectors,but it was an eithe%r choice, and if you plugged a monitor into both, it would defaul tto only one ofthem. The double-

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At the beginning of 2002, nVidia finally introduced multi-monitor support in its GeForce4 hneup, which meant you no

longerhad to choose between gaming performance and multi-monitor capability.The only catch:you had to pay forthe

privilege. The highest-end GeForce4 cards with multi-monitor support am still between $400 and$600 in a lot of cases, whichis not exactly spare change. —Seen Canuthers leadtek card gave us the best 3D performance of the bunch, and the desktop application side was right up there, too. The card comes with DVI and VGA connectorson board, aswellas S-Video out. While there are S-Video, composite

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large Excel files, which areeasier to view minutes working with a dual-display setupto seejusthow big a productivity benefit the setup can offer. By thesame token, there are advan-

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From:Micro5tsr international wwwmsicomputertom Eslimstedprice: 5550 The GeForce4 Ti 4600 solution from MSI caught our attention for a few reasons: first of which was the design of the heatsink, which spreads out around the fan in a spiral pattern. It also has an excefient software bundle, but probably the biggest plus is its lower price, despite afi of its added features. The 12S MB card comes with the usual GeForce4 Ti features: DVI and VGA conne«tore, plus a DVI-to-VGA dongle so you can use the card with two VGA monitors. Even better, it features both video input and output when you attach

a special connector that adds both SVideo and composite input and output. Though the card didn't turn in the highest scores in 3D, it was within a whisper of the top spot, and the application benchmarking was also very solid. One thing MSI is good at with recent graphics card packages is the software bundle and this card is no exception: in addition to the drivers. it comes with a number of g ames (No On e Lives Forever, Aquanox, Sacrifice.and a 7-in-I demo disk), the MSI DVD player soft-. ware, WinProducer WinCoder, and the WinCoder Professional User's Pack, both for use with the video input component. With the lower price and all the features included in this box, the MSI G4Ti4600 is probably the best buy in this batch of GeForce4 Ti cards.

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paththat isas obstruction-free as possible,and try to stick with the same GPU manufacturer — the card manufacturer shouldn' t be too big an issue as long as the GPU's drivers are compatible. You s hould, for example, be able to do upgradesmoothly from an Asus GeForce2 to a Leadtek GeForces, though we'd recommend updatingto the newest nVidia drivers first. Ifyou want to move from one manufacturer to the other, you should consider a clean instail of your operating system to eliminate the possibility of compatibility errors along the way. It means having to reinstall your applications and putting your data back into the right place, but it

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S erver ($1,215) and project Web Access (a Web-based portal), all of which are s u pposed to "work in unison to provide a s calable, customizable solution for e n terprise project management." Gal ati says project 2002 is designed for three types of customers. The first is a pr ofessional project manager who wants the best tool available for planning, managing, and team collaboration. These users don't straY from the ProdContinued on page 53

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"Themediahasgonefrom unrealisticoptimismto unrealistic pess imism" about technology,Carroll says. "It' slikea hangover— you wentto aparty,youdid alot of silly things,andyou don't

pretty harsh, Carroll thinks it has resulted in a more supportable climate for the companies that remain in the game. "The idiots have left the building," Carroll jokes. The companies with real products and real customers are still in business and many are learning to use the Internet cost-emciently, for tasks it is suited to. According to Carroll, these viable usesof the Internet indude customer support; competitive b usiness i ntelligence; research and knowledge management; streamlining «ost structures in ordering, inventory, and sales; businesscommuni«ations, coUaboration, and mobile work; employee education and t raining; recruiting; and marketing and merchan-

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The dlfference between shopping and buying is one way to understand what the Internet is good for, he says. "People are going to shop on the Web, to more efliciently find something that they may then want to buy in the real world. For example, I went online to find some summer camps for the kids. I quickly found five good ones, and then contacted them for more information, which

allowed me to make a final decision. The Internet is perfect for that." According to Carroll, any size business can make inexpensive yet smart use of the Internet. "How a small business can

What i s Smart Toronto? mart Toronto (wrmsJnatsoronto.a) is a member-run organization that allows indi-

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technologypolicy andlegislation. SmartToronto charges a fee fi ar membership based on the size ofthe company or organization, and offersregular seminarsand events to allow members to meet and to have access to industry experts and government representatives. Otherorganizations thatexistto promote the more effective use oftechnology and developbusinessto business,businessto government,oreducationalorsocialagency

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he believes that reason will triumph over "old fogsy politicians" and litigious copyright lawyers to eventuaay create a more flexible and affordable Web-based channel for music to reach the fans without shortchanging the creative artists. The current structure —where corporations enforce high monopoly prices and dictate that consumers must buy many song tracks they don't want in order to get the couple they do want, while passing only a tiny percentage of gross revenues along to the artistsmakes no senseaccording to the logic of the Internet age. Carroll believes much of the confusion over the Internet's potential versus its current reality is simply a result of its

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"Until Ave yearsago, it was considered rude to do businesson theWeb.It'lltake another five, 10 or 20 years to begin tosee whatthe Internet is really destined to be." According to Carroll, there is a lot of mythology about the Internet that needs to be dispelled in order to think dearly about what it can do in the future. For one thing, e-business has been hyped as easy to do. "It's not," he says. "There are lots of disasters: most IT projects are unsuccessful, late, or abandonecL"

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Finally, the third group of core customers Microsoft is targeting with this release is exe«utives who need a highlevel view of their organization's project portfolio and the ability to analyze that data easily. Project Web Access is made for t his group. To access Microsoft Project information, these users need a $275 Microsoft Project Server Client Access license rather than a full version of Project. Galati says managers with a Project Web Access licence will be able to look at portfolio and resource management, real-time reporting, and scenario analysis, which allows them to create "what if?" scenarios for projects. If there was one tool in this entire offering that really appeals to the small business or company. it would probably be the help tool «SUed Project Guide, which is supposed to help business managers dynamically plan, track, and manage schedules and resources. Galati explains that it lets users create proje«t templates, and includes some "canned" templates for common

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doccunents you work on. If you remember that you worked on a Word document last Wednesday but can't remember what it was, the Journal can tell you.

The Journal is set up. by defirult, to record some items automatically. It can also be customized to record more items and items for select contacts. In essence, you tell it what to do and it chugs along in the backgmund. recording information even when you' re not running Outlook In this situation, Journal data is stored in a 6le that updates Outlook the next time it's launched. This can take some time if there has been a lot of activity recorded, so there may be a slight delay on start-up.

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choosing View, Current View, then selecting an option. The By Type option shows Journal entries in a timeline view and gmuped by the type of entry — you' ll see records of emails, Office fiies, and more listed here. Choose the By Contact view to see the entries listed by the Contact they rdate to. While these two are the most useful, you can also use the By Category view to see the items grouped by categories you' veassignecLPhone Calls view shows the phone calls you' ve logged, and the last Seven Days and Entry List views are simple table views with each entry listed in a row under a series of column headings such as Entry Type, Subject, Start, and Duration.

You can change the look of any of these views by choosing View, Current View, then Customize Current View. Hereyou can add or remove fi eldsfrom the view, and change the sort order and the grouping of items. You can also change the way the data is formatted. When viewing your Journal, doubledick any of the items to look at them. Depending on how the Journal is set up, double-clicking an item may open a Journal dialogue with the item attached or the item itself. If it opens the former, you simply double-click the attachment icon to view the original document. If this is an Office file, for example. the

is currently recording and to vary these, c hoose Tools, O ptions, t hen t h e Preferences tab (Journal tab in Outlook 97), and click the Journal Options buttotx Here you can see the items that are cur-

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with a tick mark against them. You can also the Ofilce programs from which items are being recordeck Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word will appear here, as well as programs like Visio if you have them instaUed. Records of when you worked on these 6les will be kept in the Outlook Journal even if you move or delete files. If this is the case, you won't be able to open them from the Journal, but a record of 6le names, original locations, and time spent working on them will be kept. The list in the top-right of the dialogue displays the contacts from your default contacts folder. You can select any or afi of these to track, too. You can't sperify different items for dilferent contacts though, and whatever items are selected in the top-left window will be those that are recorded for afi contacts. Once this dialogue is set up, the items you' ve indicated will be recorded even when Outlook isn't open.

appropriate Olfice program will open and the document will open for you to view it or work on it. When viewing the Journal in any of the timeline views, the Standard Toogmr will display the buttons you more typically assodate with the Calendar; Go To Today, Day, Week, and Month. Click any of these buttons to vary the amount of the timeline that is visible —click Day. for example, to view today's entries only, or click Week to show seven days at a time. In any of these views, you can also click the Preview Pane button on the Advanced toolbar to view the contents of any Journal entry you select in the timeline or table view in a resizable window at the foot of the screen.

Manual jaumaling In addition to having Outlook automaticafiy record items, you can add items to the Journal manually. For example, you can record items for contacts that can' t be added automatically, such as items Continued on page 58

Atnomafic joumaling Many actions can be added to the Journal automatically and to see what the Journal

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messages.and incoming phone calls. One way to do this is from the Journal itself: open the Journal tool and choose

File then New Journal Entry (or Actions then New Journal Entry). The Journal

Entry dialogue will open and you can type the journal details, including a descriptive subject and notes in the text area. You can select an entry type from the drop-down list of types, choose a Contact (or two) related to the item, and

assign it to any of your categories. One use for this tool is to record the time and details of unscheduled meetings or other tasks—use these as a record of the meeting and use the time details

for billing purposes if you account to yow clients for the time spent on the phone to them or on their behalf. In this situation, open the Journal Entry dialogue and choose Meeting from the Entry type list. Click the Start Timer button when the meeting begins and

take notesduring it using the text areaon the screen. When the meeting is over, click the Pause Timer button and save your entry —that's au there is to it. You can print your Journal entry so you have

a paper copyfor your dient ale.

If you want to add time to an entry later on, you can open the entry and click the Start Timer button again —this will start the timer running and the time will be added to what was already remrded tbr • this item —click Pause Timer, Save, then Close to savethe new time to the entry. Another way to create aJournal entry is

using dragand drop. Simply pick up any Outlook item (an email message or

appointment, for example) and drop it onto the Journal folder in your Folders Continued onpage 60

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adds. "They were more diversified and fiexible and could provide what people werelooking for— which were realand useful businesssolutions."

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back &om the fiim makers. "This allows us to do high-quality film work without having to be in Los Angeles."

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media companieswere doing goodwork beforethe bubble and there are new media companies out there that are continuing to do good work and are growing and building the industry even now after the bubble." Toronto-based Ddvinia Inc. released its third annual Interactive Media Pmducers Survey and found that the estimated grossrevenues for the interactive media industry in Canada for 2000 came to $1.8 billion, a three percent increase over 1999. And, despite recent

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One of the centre's recent eiforts to bring Canadian new media companies closer together and to raise their profile was its sponsorship of the Canadian New Media Awards, held in late May. Sixty individuals and companies from across Canada were nominated in 12 categories. Some of the companies nominated for company of the yearwere Halifax-based Collideascope Digital Productions, a convergence and interactive television production company; Calgary-based Critical Mass, a developer of interactive products; and Vancouver-based Radical Entertainment, a developer of interactive entertainment. JamieBrown. partner and chiefexecutive of Winnipeg-based Frantic Films says he is Battered to be nominated in the new media visionary category and thathiscompany was recognized forthe visual effects work it has done for television, conunerdals, and film. Some of the company's most recent visual effects work was for the movie Swordfish. Currently, it is working on the visual eifects for the X-Men movie sequeL Brown adds that what makes hiscompany unique is that it has developed a secureWeb sitewheremovie makers can go to view the daily rushes and the effects work being done for them by

made up of a lot of smaller playerswho tend to be "less supportive of initiatives and otherprograms that can help them." LVNMCs Brown says that the centre will soon begin rolling out several new initiatives that will see it become more 6nancially independent and l essToronto-centric in an elfort to play a greater role acrossCanada. The centre wants to help coordinate the various new media organizations and support groups across the country in order to give the industry a more focused voice and help them make better use of the financial and technical

problems in the economy,some00 percent of the nearly 300 Canadian new media companies surveyed said they achievedmore than $100,000 in revenue and employee pmductivity. Many of the companies had also made significant inroads into the United States, and about one quarter reported that they had forged significant international alliances that helped them open broader markets. Adam Forman, president and chief executive oi6cer of Delvinia. says that what the dot-corn bubble burst and technology sector crash really did wasremove the companies that did not have sound business models and/or had a very poor understanding of what Canadian customers wanted in new media.

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can only bebene6dal. "I'm a big fan of networking and I'm on the board of a lot of organizations that help promote and advocate our business," Brown continues. "And I'm more than happy to support any new initiative that helps promote new media in Canada." The LVNMC was launched in 2001 as a non-pro6t business and marketing hub that offered a variety of teduucal and business support services to new media companies in Toronto. It was started after aTorontoNew Medio Works study' by PricewaterhouseCoopers IIP estimated that the dty could be losing as much as $3 billion in new media revenue due to a lack of coordination and cooperation between the nearly 400 new media companies in and around Toronto. Some ofthe servicesthe centre created to tackle this problem included meeting and event faciTities: accessto a virtual business network Web site; production of executive seminars and work-

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board, which follows shortly after the P4PB, omits the RAID, but adds both Ethernet and PireWire ports. The P4PB Pro is also expected to fofiow, which will increase the number of USB ports to 10, add Ethernet, and one extra PCI slot. A future chipset, dubbed P4X600, is currently on the drawing board. and wfi) be an interim step between Via's current generation of DDR-compatible boards and the motherboards that will support the forthcoming DDR 2 specification.

tria D processorslaps up In addition to chipset,Via also continues to market its own C3 processor, a CPU that builds on the technology Via acquired when it swa))owed up Cyrix. It is a low-power processor designed less

market. The processor is currently available at speeds up to 933 MHz, with I GHz and LI GHz models expected to follow very soon. The next-generation version of the C3, codenamed Nehemiah, is expected out in the third quarter of 2002, and is currently predicte d to range between 1.2 GHz and 1.5 GHL One of the key selling points of the C3 is the fact that it uses the Socket 370 interface, which makes it compatible with a good chunk of the motherboards currently being used for Ca)aron or Pentium III processors. This will become even more important in the immediate future as Intel transitions its Celeron line to the Socket 478 form factor (the same interface it uses for Pentium 4). This means people with older motherboards may find that the C3 provides a much quicker and less costly upgrade path when the old pmcessor just doesn't cut it ally more. As with earlier versions of the processor. the C3 stressesLevel-1 over level-2 cache(128KB of Level-i,64KB of LevelContinued on page67

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newer Celerons already ran on a 100 MHz bus, and this new speed is reafiy just 100 MHz quad-pumped). This Celeron will cost US$83 in 1,000-unit quantities. A slower version, at 1.4 GHz, is also being introduced. but this one is designed to run on a 100 MHz bus and features a 0.13-micron manuhcturing pmcess. For that reason, the 1.4 GHz costs a bit more, at US$89 in quantities of 1,000, but the move to the smauer pmcess should actually boost the speed somewhat and make the processor run cooler.

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and two USB ports, a CD-ROM drive for installing software updates, and two 64bit 66 MHz PCI slots. The four drives and two fans in the XServe are all hot swappable without the need to shut down the server, and the server's hardware can be monitored remotely over TCP/IP u sing i n cluded O S X Administration Tools. AB this power fits in an industry standard I U r ack mount enclosure4.3x44.7x71 cm (1.7x17.6x28 in.). A

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total of 84 processors at 630 gigaflops and up to 20 TB of storage. On hand for the XServe announcement, software

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NetRatings media research analyst Charles Buchwalter. "The downward trend during the past year has been reversed in just threeshort months." The 10companies showing the fastest online ad growth are blue-chippers like ColumbiaHouse, which upped its count 89 percentsince January to 330 unique ads in April, NetRatings said. No.2 Nestle USA'sad-buy rate has risen 67 percent so far this year, ahead of 60 percent increases recorded by the U.S.

governm ent and USA Networks. Then come ri vals Microsoft and Oracle, at 55 percent each. Top 10 online ad buyerscombined fora 55 per cent increase compared to 33 percent overaiL Tenth-ranked 6eneral Motors bought the most online ads— 638— in ApriL GM and other large, traditional companies like Coca-Cola are experimenting with rich-media Internet advertising, including ads that float, walk or other-

wise move across computer screens, Nielsen Netgatings reported May 1. In terms of online ad dogars, predictions for 2002 genemlly point toward a recovery from 2001's dismal performance. A study report by Emarketer and Forbes.corn in April said online advertising revenue will rise 11 percent from USS7.3 biUion in 2001 to US$8.1 billion

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keywords to single images, for example "family-kids-birthday." In addition to

iphoto's titling capabilities, assigning keywords gives you the flexibility to easily search your images as your library grows. Another method for organization is to create sets of albums in the left pane of the iPhoto window using simple

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everyday digital photography tasks can require cobbling together a variety of over-mmplicated commercial software that often don't integrate well with other tools, or with the hardware they run on. In trying to tackle this. Apple has developed iPhoto — an application whose g oes is t o m ake i t easy fo r I o e Ordinaryman to import, organize, edit, and share photos using any one of dozens

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m nversion.and red-eye correction. If you find any of these basic tools limiting, iPhoto won't fence you in. Simply go to the preferences dialogue and sdect yow favourite image-editing application. I personally love using Photoshop, but it isoverkill for most of what I want to do with a digital camera image. Instead, I like to use a freeware OS X application &om Caffeine Software (www.rageine50(tcom) called Pixe)NHMce. It uses a really cool split-pane disp)sy technique for beforeand-after comparisons of image manipulations, It's particularly handy for doing colour corrections. The Book function is iPhoto's best feature. In order to utiTize it you must first create an album that will define the book's content. From a pop-up menu you can choose from half-a-dozen proContinued onpage 82

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fessionally designed book layouts for your photographs. The layout includes a afi eld beneath each photo where you can add your own text to tell a story. Once you've completed your layout, you can click on iPhoto's Share button to complete your order. You' ll be routed to Apple's servers to fill out an order form.

tally &om any audio CD. Also, with a few clicks you can easily

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Served by another great piece of Mac-compati ble software called iview MediaPro (www.wiew-multimedia.corn). A single-user licence costs 05$65, and afree, time-limited trial version of the software is available at iView'5 Ieb site.I soon plan to putthis softwarethrough its pacesin a photo lab setting, I' ll be able to report on MediaPro'scapabilities in the nearfuture.

sixes on one sheet of paper — more com-

monly known as picture packages. Until Apple decides to implement this feature, you can fill the gap with a US$25 shareware utility from Electric Fish (wwwelw?fidish.com) called PhotoPress. A 30-day download trial version is also available.

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if you don't like the defaults Apple has provided. you can fi netuneyourme dium of output using an Export function. The only glanng onusslon I see m iPhoto is the facility to easily backup your photo library onto various media As a matter of Pi«t, Apple should add a button

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button as a reminder to the consumer who is not familiar with the remote pos-

sibility of corrupting or losing data to be vigilant. With the market Apple is targeting, the sudden disappearance of a good portion of important memories would not be a good exercise in public relations. As an aside, when I demonstrate iPhoto to family, friends, and acquaintances it never fails to amaze the audi-

ence. For the casual or amateur digital photographer, it comes very close to heing the per&et software companion for your digital camera and Mac.Ci Peter Milbum is scoasalliat with Bite Systems

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reliable and simple to use. In fact, easeof use seems to be the company's mantra thesedays, and its latest off ering, the

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sit uated above the playing field announcingthe name ofthe game. I still had the original sign for my arcade box, so with that in hand, I visited

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purchase a monitor separately. From whatI've seen,most people

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marquee. Rememberto geta smaU switch to turn the fluorescent backlight for the marquee on andoffseparately from the other components. In our arcade boxes one power

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The gradient wipe transition creates a gradual dissolve using a gradient band that progressesacmss the original image and reveals the new one. It takes any of the fofiowing attributes: duration, enabled, GradientSize, motion, and the Javagcript property wipeStyle. The duration attribute sets the time value for the transition, specified in sec-

onds and milliseconds (0.0000). The enabled attribute is a standard attribute common to most 6lters and transitions, and is "on" by default. even when not specified. The Gradientgize attribute sets the value for the gradient wipe, ranging &om 0.0 to l. If set to 0.5, the gradient wipe covers 50 percent of the object during the wipe. The wipegtyle property works in con-

junction with motion; wipeStyle indir cates whether the gradient moves hprizontafiy (0) or vertically ( I), and motion can be set to either forward or reverse,To see this at work, replace the filter statement in the transitionSpace object with thefoUowing piece ofcode: filtetprogid:DXlmageTransform.Microsoft.Wipe(Gra dientsilo<f.s, vvipestyl~, motioxoforward) Another type of wipe transition can be created by using the RadialWipe fdter. which reveals the content of a new object using an efi«ct similar to a windshield wiperblade or the sweeping hand of a clock. The RadialWtpe filter has the following attributes: duration, enabled, and wipeStyle (the 6rst two of which have already been covered). In this «ase, wipeStyle is an attribute instead of a property, presumably because it takes a different set of values: clock, wedge, and radial. The clock value creates asweeping wipe like the hands of a clock, wedge sweeps around the centre from both directions starting &om the top, and radial sweeps from the top to the left side. anchoredin the upper leftcorner.To see the clock transition in effect, replace the filter statement in the transitionSpace object with this piece of code: sitarprogittDXtmageTransform.Miaosoftgadia)Wip e(uipestyle=clodi) The Strips 6lter creates a saw-toothed type of wipe.Strips can take on any of three attributes: duration, enabled, and motion. The motion attribute takes on a different set of values from those of GradientWipe. These values are: leftdown, leftup, rightdown, and rightup. To see the Strips transition in action, insert the following code in place of the filter statement in the transitionSpace object: gltenprogkf:DXlmageTranslorm.Miaosoftstdps(dur ation=s,motion=rightdown) This produces a saw-toothed wipe leading &om the top-left corner to the bottom right.

Randomdissolves There are two types of randomized transitions available: RandomBars and RandomDissolve. Both are pretty selfdescriptive: RandomBars reveals the new content by exposing random lines of pixels, and RandomDissolve reveals new content by exposing random pixds over the object. RandomBars can take the duration, enabled. and orientation attribute while RandomDissolve only

c ONLINE gl CON N E C T ED N takes d u ration and en abled. RandomBars' orientation attribute can take one of two values: horizontal and verticaL To se e t h e tr ansition e ffect RandomBars causes, insert this code and replace the previous filter code segment in the transitionSpaceobject:

wipe, try out the following piece of code in place of the 61ter statement in the transitionSpace object with this piece of code filter:progid:DXlmsgeTransform.Microsoft iris(iiis5tyf a=olde,motion=out)

The Spiral filter reveals a new object using a spiral motion. The Spiral fdter can take on any of the following fow attributes: duration, enabled, gridSizeX, and gridSizeY. The two unique attributes here are gridSizeX and gridSizeY, which determine the size of the grid columns to be used for the spiral, ranging from 0 to 100. The larger the value set for each of these, the smaller the size of the "block" the leads the spiral efiect. The following code, inserted in the place of the filter statement in the transitionSpaceobject creates a relatively 6ne spiral effect:

gfterpiogid:DXfmsgeTie nsfoim.Mictosoft.Raadomg ais(oiimtagotvaterficsf) To see what RandomDissolve does, insert this piece of code instead: filtetpiogid:DXlmsgeTransfoun.Miciosof(.RandomD issolve(dutaiion=0.75)

Shn~hNing Nnnsgions There are a number of transitions that allow you to set spe«i6c shapes, such as the Iris and Spiral. If you are looking for a transition like the effectsused in the opening credits of a JamesBond film, the Iris filter is for you. The Iris 6lter can take the following attributes: duration, enabled, irisStyle, and motion. The only new aunbute here is irisStyle, which can take any one of six shape values: diamond, circle. cross,plus. square, and star. Motion takes the values out or in. If you want a JamesBond-like

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take one of three attributes: bide, push, or spin. The hide value stretchesnew content over the old from left to right; push stretchesnew content "in" while squeezing old content "out" from left to right, much like the efFect of a rotating cube; and spin stretches the new content over the old from the centre outwards. To see the Stretch transition filter in action, insert the

followingpieceof codeyou know where: gfterpiugid:DNmsgeTrsnsform.Microsoft5tretch(sir elch5tyle=spin) The Slide Ster works by "sliding" new content into place. This Ster has four attributes: bands, duration, enabled, and slideStyle. The two unique attributes here are bands and slideStyle. The attribute bands works by setting a numerical value for the number of strips the new content is divided into during the transition, and slideStyle takes values similar to those of the Stretch 6)ter: hide, push, and swap. The hide value slidesbands of the old content out, exposing the new content; push slides bands of new content in, pushing the old out; and swapslides in alternating bands of newcontent while sliding out the old. To see this in action, try out the following piece of code in the usual place: filter:progid:DXfmsgeTtsnsform.Mic(050(1.Slide(slid

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great content and information available online,but not at the risk of alienating users. Young insists his company strives for the proper balance. "It is important to think of the end user," he said. "We are trying to promote productsand buiid brands, but we know we mustbe considerate." Klipmart "auto-embeds" TV ads into

Group (www.yankeetroup.com), said online

pageson the Internet.The video ads are

advertising is in the middle of what he calls an oexperimentai time," when advertisers try to figure out what works and what doesn' t. "Clearly, the banner didn't work," said Lancast er, who serves in the Internet businessstrategies sector ofthe Yankee Group. "Advertisers are trying anything to get people' s attention, and some of these things are intrusive." When an online ad features music, speech or sound effects, the "noise is

"playerless," meaning they are not dependenton the surfer having a media player installed on his or her computer. When someone visits a site with an embedded ad, Klipmart's software automatical ly detects the connection speed the person hasand servesthe appropriate version of streaming video. The company's advertisers include Miramax,Lion's Gate, Coca-Cola and the Diamond Trading Company, formerly known as Degeers Diamonds. Klipmart usestheTV spotsforthese companies and putsthem online. "We use a tried and true medium —televisio n— and bring thatto the Internet," said Young."But we factor in user initia-

BOSTON,Mass.— Surfi ng the Web can be so much work these days—pop-up ads and animated graphics are beginning to obscure content. In some cases, clicking a button closes

the ad, but in other cases readers must simply wait until the pitch is complete

not always welcome—especially by those who have headphoneson, Lancaster said. He obser ved thatsome advertisements do notgive people a choice. "One ofthe greatassetsofthe Internet is users have complete control over everythingthey see and do.Ifyou force things intotheirfaces,sites thatdepend on traffic or subscription revenue risk losing them," he said. Gillette made a splash recently when an ad for it s new razor appeared on Maxirngnline. Virtual "shaving cream" appeared to coverthe entire page, which was then removed by an animated razor. Maximgnline has animated ads from several advertisers —including Cingular, Nissanand the U.S. Army— that pop up on nearly every page as a user clicks throughthe site. ,Other examples of this trend include Nike' sshoe ads,which impose themselves on some pages at ESPN.corn, and PopSecretpopcorn ads with noisy, popping

kernels ofcorn atInstyle.corn. Chris Young, the chief executive officer

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ing if the honour system is going to work online, " said SteveVonder Haar,an analyst with Interactive Media Strategies in

Arlington, Texas. Because the track is an unencrypted MP3. it will be possible for listeners to burn the song onto a CD and transfer it to portable players. And, like CD tracks that easily can be converted to MP3 6Ies, the song inevitably will End its way onto the numerous illicit Ble-sharing networks. Jonathan Lamy, spokesman for the R ecording Industry Association o f

loadable MP3 song up for sale on the

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The song is available for download for US$0.99 at a number of VUNet USA sites, incl u din g MP3. corn, Rollingstone.corn, GetMusic.corn and MP4.corn. The 30,000 subscribers to the Emusic MP3 service also will be able to buy and download the tune. "This is a case of the music labels see-

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giving digital music fans asimple way to collect and enjoy this previously unreleased new song." GartnerG2 music industry analysts P.J. McNeely said the move is one other

labels probably will watch closely. But it' s also an experiment, McNeely said, that was very late in coming. Napster, the notorious MP3 swapping service that set the music industry on its ear only to be later sued into submission, launched the MP3-download phenomenon in late I999. "Unfortunately," McNeely said, "we didn't see this like two years aga The labels are slow to embrace new distribution channels and marketing methods. The fact [that j this technology isn't new points at the lack of speed with which the labels have been moving." Nonetheless, McNeely saluted the

move as at least a step in the right direction I'o r the music industry. "It's good news," he said. "Hopefully the rest of the labels are taking note, and have plans to do the same in the near term." Brad Hill, a digital-music industry observer and author of a forthcoming book, TheDigital SongStream, expressed doubts about the way Maverick Records is approaching its MP3 experiment

"The overriding principle here," Hill said, "is that they' re trying to sell a CD on the basis of a single. That's what bothers me the most, The fact that they're even charging for the single makes it worse in my mind." Indeed, Maverick and VUNet USA used space in their pressrelease to promo'te Cookie: Th e A n thropologicci Mixtcpe, Ndegeocello's latest CD, which is due out in early June. The first single

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"The overriding principle here," Hill said, "is that

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charging for the single makes it worse in my mind." Hill said that, despite what he considersthe companies'market faux pas,the mere fact that a label Anally has set at least one track free onto the Internet is at least marginally a good sign. sl'm glad to see that," Hill said. "But it seems like such a tiny incremental release. Honestly, I'd just like to see something more bold. As far as the major labels are concerned and as far as the RIAA is concerned, they view the situation as panic in the streets—a collapsing industry. Something like this, which really just supports older analogue mar-

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artist, he said. It is also a tentative attempt to use MP3s to tap into a new sourceofrevenue,by making people pay for the chance to hear a portion of a product that they would then have to pay (or again. in slightly different form, on CD. And, he said, if the song generates more interest among pirates than buyers, it will provide ammunition labels can use to justify their attempts to squeeze the peer-to-peer pipe shut, Yonder Hear indicated. "That's why it's a no-lose situation to try this on a very limited basis," he said. "If a lot of people come and buy it, then PT. Barnum was right. If they don' t come and buy,or ifonly a few copiesget sold and it starts showing up on all the various music file-sharing services, then the record industry can colleaively say, 'A-ha! I told you so!'s

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Kumasi to visit the university and found a computerlab with eight outdated computers shared by over 400 students," he says."I also satin on a second yearcomputerclass with 250 students without a

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in virtual worlds ly ShgrlggeMygfg rin Olorenshaw spends her days immersed in a world of hybrids. where completely different animals are combined into strange creatures with peculiar talents, forming armies with a vast array of Eghting tactics and defensive strategies. As a senior animator fo r R elic Entertainment. Olorenshaw has been working for years on the animals and characters in Impossible Creatures, a video game to be released by Microsoft later this year. The job requires a bit of a hybrid person, too, with skills in both technology and art, and the ability to negotiate between

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EO: No [laughs j. At Erst I didn't really know what I wanted to be after high

school. I was into dancing, and I was on the dance team —that took up a lot of my spare time as a kid gmwing up. So I knew I wanted to do something creative. but I wasn't swe what. I got into the business side of things and became an administrative assistant. I really liked computers — I found I could teach myself programs easily and I could understand them quite well. Basically, I knew I was doing well at that, but at the same time. I didn't like what I was doing — reports and letters and documents. So I just looked for something creative in a computer-related Beld. I was looking into multimedia and I'd came across animation and do well at it. I went to VFS [Vancouver

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classesasweg as swing and applet. We also advocated using Borland's IBuilder because of'its ability to automate codewriting. Most of the code in our sample program was automatically generated by Borland's JBuilder at startup and design of the applet screen. To igustrate this we have bolded the code that was handwritten, all of the rest —more than half — was Continued on page 103

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day. and if anything needs to be tended to. and then it depends on where you are in the project. Some days I'B be animating as day,doing character work or animating animals. Some days I' ll be in meetings afi day, trying to figure out design of tools that we may need. I work with the programmers to build these tools for aB the animators. Sometimes I'm researching. Some days it's afi of them. I have to go over people's work and make sure that what's happening and what's going in the game is actually final and ready to be checked oif the list.

I do scheduling work So it's a whole bunch of different little tasks throughout the day, that just kind of come at you. I probably leave work around six or seven on an average daysometimes you' re working till 10 or 1 1. TCP: How long do those busier periods usually last? EO:Depends on the project itself. This project that I' ve been on that's ending soon — I' ve been on it for three years. which is very long for the video game industry. And the first year was a lot of research and devdopment, and it was on and off, busy. slow. The year after that was

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Monthly there's a cycle — there's a milestone we have every month, and at the end of that milestone we have to ship a build of our game to the publisher. So we have to make sure the game's work-

wages are good too. That always helps. You'm having fun most of the tbne — I mean not as the time of course, but most of the time —and you' re paid wdL TCP: What do you like?east?

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that's on our schedule in the game, so about a week before that it gets busy and

can really stress you out. You have to really deal with stress levels quite wellyou have to know yourself, make sure

everyone stays, and dinner is bmught in. and it's long hours. And then after that you slow down a bit, and take a little bit of a break, and it ramps up again, so there's big cycles within the project and then little mini monthly ones.

you have a life outside of the industry.

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these programs and they show youwhat they have. We get new programs in and try them out. It's just consent research-

do something cool, and you just have alot

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more contml over what you' re doing. And it's quite fun. Everyone around you is around the same age level,

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thousands of tools at hand that you can use and make something really cool, and yet, you can only use five of them. So that's a challenge that's happening right now. and that will be going on for the next five or ) 0 years. TCPI Why are there iimilarions?

EOI It's just a function of video games in general, what people. what their system specs are, how much space they have, how much space you have to put on a CD. There's so much stuff in a

game—there's the environment, there' s the characters, the animation, the effects, and there's all the gameplay. And it all has to be optimized and fit, and there' s only certain things that you can do to actually have a good amount. Like animation, for instance—we animate ourcharacters.and then once we export them [fiom our 3D programj into the game using tools that all our programmers wrote, it optimizes all the bones in the character, so that it 'doesn't move the same as it used to in our program. It makes it cheaper, so that the file size is smaller, and it can all fit. And it can run on people's home computers, that aren't updated, say. so they don' t have as much RAM or something, so we have to kind of keep it in mind. It's PC games that are definitely like that —consoles are a bit difierent. TCP: When you're nor working. whar's your favourite way Io spendyour time? EOI I like to spend time with friends and family, and my cat (Iaughsj. I rofierblade and I snowboard, and I go to yoga as we)I, and just re)ax. I don't play video games outside of work. I'd like to sometimes but it's hard when you' re staring at a screen all day, to go home and watch Tkr or play games.C3

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