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hardware and software prod-
ucts with a single purpose in
mind—to help readers make
the best possible buying deci-
sions. Even so, we're constant-
ly asked what software we use
ourselves. So I finally decided
to try to answer this question.
This turns out to be no
trivial Macworld is not an especially
large company, but its 100-plus employ-
ees operate in different departments such
as editorial, design, circulation, ad sales,
and production—each with a different set
of requirements. Fortunately for me, our
information-services department was just
completing an audit of software and hard-
ware and was able to provide me with
recent profiles of every staffer’s hard
and a tally of the most frequently used
applications. Even a cursory look at this
data showed me that Macworld’s staff uses
far too many products to list or even cat-
egorize, so this month I focus on just a few
of the major categories of applications
that account for most of our day-to-day
work. (I’ll talk about utilities, system
enhancements, and the fun stuff in a
future column.)
More than just what people use, I
wanted to know how they fee/ about the
software they use, so I informally polled
the entire company. My query netted a
boatload of comments. After poring over
disk profiles and reading everyone’s com-
ments, I was struck by the individuality of
computer use. That means you should
take the following comments with a large
grain of salt. Though thought-provok-
ing, these individual remarks are highly
subjective and not intended as advice.
‘They reflect the feelings of users at Mac-
world. Only our published reviews provide
our thorough and systematic assessment
of a program’s strengths and weaknesses.
War of the Words
‘The arrival of Microsoft Word 6 sparked
a lot of commotion around here. Just as it
dominates the marketplace, so Word is
the dominant word processing program at
STATE OF THE MAC
BY ADRIAN MELLO
Software That We Use
What’s inside Macworld’s Macs—and why
Macworld. With software, our staff typi-
cally upgrades versions quickly to take
advantage of the latest features and to
avoid the confusion created by varied file
formats. But early adopters of Word 6
warned their colleagues this was a prod-
uct over the edge. After more people had
a chance to try out the new version, the
most common reaction was to stick with
Word 5. Some people upgraded anyway
to take advantage of Word 6’s advanced
features: as one contributing editor put
it, “I need character styles, revision track-
ing, annotation, and scripting, and I need
them badly. This program has the fea-
tures I’ve been clamoring for, for years!”
Word 5 holdouts complained bitterly
when they received files in Word 6 for-
mat. Not only could they not read the
files, but they “would not be upgrading
anytime soon.” Even after the speed
improvements in version 6.0.1, one edi-
tor wrote, “Out of principle and anger,
I’m still not using Word 6. I love the
auto-bullet and auto-numbering and
auto-spelling-correction features in
Word 6, but I’ll try to get these else-
where rather than use this product.”
Quite a few users decided the time
had come to investigate alternatives.
Some settled on WordPerfect, Nisus, or
WriteNow (causing those who had long
ago abandoned Word in favor of these
products to smile smugly). Others looked
around but ended up back with Word 5.1.
“After the hellacious experience with
Word 6.0, I tried WordPerfect 3.1, but
it’s not as well implemented as Word,”
one editor said. She was particularly dis-
satisfied with WordPerfect’s styles.
Database Dilemmas
In the database-management arena, the
main conflict we see is between Claris
FileMaker’s ease of use and Microsoft
FoxPro’s unique relational powers, which
exact a toll of complexity. This comment,
from a member of our editorial produc-
tion department, is fairly typical: “Fox-
Pro is our de facto corporate standard, but
Tuse FileMaker wherever possible since I
can hack it myself.” Over the years Mac-
world has used a number of relational
database programs, but no
one, not even our pro-
grammers, has ever really
been satisfied with them.
Some time ago we
switched from 4D to Fox-
Pro. Now nearly half the
Macworld staff uses FoxPro,
but no one says anything
nice about it. Some were
downright disdainful: “I
use FoxPro only for our
one relational database and
it’s a dog: it crashes a lot,
it has lots of glitches in
display, and it is awk-
wardly designed for user
interactions.”
Our shared FoxPro
database inspired a long
soliloquy from an adminis-
trative assistant: “I characterize my rela-
tionship with FoxPro as a dysfunctional
one. While I need to access FoxPro for
numerous tasks, I find myself yelling over
a coworker’s cube partition for informa-
tion rather than looking it up in the data-
base. It demands that I quit other run-
ning operations to give it breathing room
and yet it still insists on wigging out, giv-
ing me error messages and forcing me to
quit and restart. . .. On the other hand, it
gives my system a sort of humanity and
continues
MACWORLD September 1995 19
STATE OF THE MAC
gives me a scapegoat for my mistakes.” An
editor viewed his problems with Mac-
world’s FoxPro database less personally: “I
need a relational database, and this is the
one our programmer chose. Note that the
end user and the programmer are not the
same person, so when the database
doesn’t work quite the way I want it to,
changes take longer to implement.”
He’s right to draw that distinction.
Moreover, you can’t compare FoxPro and
FileMaker directly, because only the for-
mer is relational. I think what our users
respond to in FileMaker is that it embod-
ies the Mac’s native virtues of approacha-
bility and elegance. It’s one of Macworld’s
real workhorses, and most of the people
who use it adore it. One advertising sales-
person called it her “lifeline. We've real-
ly put this database to the test and we’re
pretty darn happy with it, though I wish
it could do groovy things like autodial and
fax.” An editor commented, “With some
of the whizzes we have at Macworld, we
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can get FileMaker to do almost every-
thing a relational database can do.” He
looks forward to the release of a relation-
al version of FileMaker—and he’s keep-
ing his fingers crossed. Balancing usabili-
ty and power is an especially daunting
challenge for databases.
Laying It All Out
Like most businesses, Macworld relies on
core productivity applications like word
processors, database managers, and
spreadsheets (we couldn’t live without
Excel—end of story). But as a magazine
publisher, we really take page-layout soft-
ware through its paces. At one time we
relied solely on Aldus PageMaker. Grad-
ually we switched to QuarkXPress for
some of the more design-intensive lay-
outs, and now the magazine is designed
entirely in QuarkXPress. Yet PageMaker
still has its partisans, people who respect
its elegant interface, ease of learning, and
excellent customer support. We use it for
some relatively simple jobs such as in-
house communications and invitations,
and some staff members choose it for per-
sonal projects.
Still, when it comes to our demanding
design and prepress work, QuarkXPress
has won more hearts at Macworld. One
designer commented, “By comparison,
to me PageMaker seems clunky, tedious,
and illogical. Quark’s measurement pal-
ette tells you what’s what when you
arrange a section. You can organize mul-
tiple columns of type quickly and easily,
trusting the program to line everything
up for you. With PageMaker you have to
painstakingly direct each one to its posi-
tion and then hope it doesn’t move when
you're not looking.” Another designer
id QuarkXPr many commands and
controls, such as type rotation and arbi-
trary line widths, eliminate the need for
workarounds.
Finding That Sweet Spot
‘This exercise really brings home how
hard developers must work to figure out
when users will willingly pay the price for
additional features and when they won’t.
As customers, this is not our problem; we
have a right to demand products that
meet our needs. And though to develop-
ers we users may seem a fickle bunch, we
genuinely admire programs that make
sensible design trade-offs.
Still, as customers we should be care-
ful not to expect a program to do things
its developers never intended. This is the
standard to which Macworld holds its
reviewers. It’s worth noting that most of
the programs mentioned in this column
received four stars in Macworld reviews.
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NE FACTOR THAT YOU DIDN'T
mention in “Quad-Speed CD-
ROM Drives” (June 1995) is audio com-
patibility. As an owner of both an Apple-
CD 150 and an APS T3501 (4x)—as well
as being a shareware author of audio-CD
software (Audio Strip GH)—I know that
there are significant differences in audio
control quality between these drives.
Apple drives ship with the AppleCD
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gram that allows, among other things,
saving track titles and programmatic
playback. The APS drive comes with a
much more limited player, it does not
support a smooth fast-forward mode, its
driver is not 100 percent compatible with
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directly from an audio CD as you can
with recent Apple drives.
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with the T3501 as a CD-ROM reader
and with APS as a company. I am just
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might consider when choosing between
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third-party drive.
Glenn R. Howes
via the Internet
According to APS, choppy fast-forward operation
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Still a Happy Mac
DRIAN MELLO WAS A BIT PREMA-
ture in writing the obituary for the
happy-Mac icon (State of the Mac, June
1995). The new Mac OS logo only comes
on after the start-up sequence begins, in
place of the “Welcome to Macintosh”
message. The happy Mac appears where
it always has—when the Mac recognizes
a start-up disk. And until Apple rewrites
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Robert Vasquez
via America Online
Our Sacrilege Is Showing
N DAVID POGUE'S JUNE 1995 DESKTOP
Critic article, “Your Roots Are Show-
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LDS Church, referring to it as the
“Church of Latter-Day Saints.” The
proper name is The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. While this is
a minor issue or nonissue to some, I
would think your otherwise excellent
publication would be more careful than
that. David also referred to this church as
a “company” when he stated they asked
that Personal Ancestral File not be
included in the article.
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via the Internet
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i] N A RESPONSE TO A LETTER UNDER
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in the June 1995 issue, you recommend
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convention is not enforced and often not
followed, but it doesn’t help if the idea of
it being OK to not give your address is
spread by a popular magazine.
Thomas Reed
via the Internet
Maeworld Myopia
ACWORLD! SURELY YOU ARE JOK-
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far the most pleasant. Picking hardware
based on these pictures alone, one would
pick the product that produced the mid-
dle picture, but you chose the one on the
left. Not trusting my own judgment, I
asked my wife the same question. Answer:
the middle picture.
Perhaps you mislabeled the pictures?
Charles Hussey
via the Internet
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and smoother shapes, especially in the shadows.
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26 September 1995 MACWORLD
LETTERS
The system bus speed of the Power
Macintosh 5200/75 LC was incorrectly
listed in News (“The Sleekest Desktop
Mac Yet,” June 1995). The 5200/75
LC’s system bus runs at 37.5MHz.
The $39 price listed for Netscape
Navigator doesn’t include a printed man-
ual; the price with this manual is $59
(Reviews, May 1995).
= Personal Backup, which ships
with lomega’s Zip drives, is published by
SunStar, not Highwire as reported
(Reviews, July 1995).
= The correct phone number for
Quark is 303/894-8888 (Graphics
news, August 1995).
= = To connect two notebook comput-
ers via modem, the correct communica-
tions string for (dial) is ATD, not ADA
(PowerBook Notes, August 1995).
= We mistakenly reported the latest
Microsoft Office upgrade as 4.3.1; the
current version is 4.2.1 (“Micre
Up Office,” News, August 1995.
= The correct phone number for
Gold Disk’s VideoDirector 1.5 is 408/
982-0200 (Reviews, June 1995).
These differences are clearer in the original samples
than they appear in the magazine. That said, both
printers earned the Editors’ Choice designation, and
there's always room for individual preference —Ed
A Call to Clone Makers
ILL SOMEBODY PL MAKE A
Ww Mac keyboard with a pointing stic
milar to those common on MS-DOS
laptops? Personally, I find this configura-
tion (with a pencil-eraser-size joystic!
located between the G and H s)
ergonomically superior to even the
PowerBook’s touch pad. This is a great
example of an opportunity for clone mak-
ers to distinguish themselves by offering
alternative solutions.
One final request: make an ADB
desktop version, too, so we touch typists
can enjoy the benefits at home or in the
office, as well as on the road!
Phil Natividad
via the Internet
Canadian Costs
JUST THOUGHT I'D LET YoU KNOW
that your $18 U.S. postage surcharge
(or whatever it is) on Canadian subscrip-
tions makes the cost (nearly $50 Canadi-
an) prohibitive for those of us with limit-
ed budgets. Until you stop charging that
ridiculous amount of money, I’ll be forced
to buy only the odd issue or two, Don’t
bother telling me it’s for S&H, because I
subscribe to a couple of other U.S. mag-
azines (larger than yours and shipped via
first-class mail) that only charge around
$6 for S&H to Canada.
Another thing I have been wonder-
ing is when you people are going to set
up a Web page like MacUser’s and
MacWeek’s, with some articles and the
table of contents from the print edition
of Macworld.
Mike Schwartz
via the Internet
Macworld's home page debuts at the Macworld
Expo in Boston. Give it a whirl—http://www
amacworld.com,
Our Canadian subscribers pay higher rates for
two reasons: postage and exchange rates. The sub-
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approximately Can$50, as you point out.
Why $18 a year for postage? We don't have
enough Canadian subscribers to qualify for a cheap
er postal rate, nor do we have a Macworld Canada
publication to help us keep costs down.—Ed.
A Call for Programmers
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my surprise, I found an incredible piece of
software on my Windows desktop. WiVik
is completely configurable keyboard soft-
ware—everything from keyboard shape to
number of and arrangement of keys. I
simply read the manual and re-created
Screentyper on my PC. Unfortunately,
Windows will never equal the Macintosh
OS. Even though I can use the same key-
board layout on the two platforms, I am
twice as productive on my Mac IIci as I
am on my PC.
So what does this all mean? Bluntly, I
ask for your help, not only for myself, but
also for thousands of individuals trapped
in the same predicament, I’m searching
fora Mac programmer to create a piece of
software similar to Screentyper for the
newer Macs and Systems, with updates
for Copland, Gershwin, and beyond. I
would even settle for a System 7-com-
patible likeness of Screentyper. I'm pre-
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going rate, whatever it is.
One day, when my schooling is fin-
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ware for the Mac myself, and have it bun-
dled with Mac system software. But that’s
another story.
Shannon Hollen
via the Internet
‘Anyone interested in learning more about hardware
and software solutions for disabled computer users
can call the Alliance for Technology Access
(800/455-7970). More resources are listed in “Real
Problems, Real Solutions” (PC World, November
1994).—Ed.
Hot-Site Backup
| JUST FINISHED READING “SUCCESSFUL
Workgroup Backup” (May 1995).
Thank you for a very informative exami-
nation of backup hardware, software, and
procedures for preserving data integrity
Macworld always seems to present instruc
tive articles decoding the arcane termi-
nology that is pervasive in information
technology vernacular. The only item I
would add to your backup article is a dis-
cussion about off-site “hot sites” for
restoring computer operations in the
event of a catastrophic disaster. This
should be able to load backup media and
restore users to normal working condi-
tions. Such a plan is necessary in time-
sensitive operations like customer service
or order entry [not to mention publish-
ing—Ed.]. There are third-party compa-
nies available that specialize in providing
hot-site contingency hardware.
Thanks again for your fine article.
Dave Owen
via America Online
28 September 1995 MACWORLD
Too Many Tool Bars
JUST INSTALLED THE NEW VERSION
of Microsoft Word. Just for the hell of
it, I opened all the tool bars. Remember
that Word 15 spoof you ran a while
back (The Desktop Critic, February 1994)
that was all tool bars with a postage-
stamp-size work area? Word 6 just
made ita reality.
Luckily, you can turn them off.
Keith Buglewicz
via America Online
Both the picture and the column are available for
download in the “Mentioned in Macworld” software
library on America Online —Ed.
Flying-Toaster Alert
i MIGHT BE ‘THE ONLY COMPUTER GEEK
religiously devoted to watching Bever-
ly Hills 90210 (along with my girlfriend,
who got me hooked), but here’s an inter-
esting observation I made upon watching
the latest episodes. . . . After Dark, the
Microsoft Word of screen savers, seems
to be the name of the local hangout for
the kids of Beverly Hills. Plus, on the
door of the club and all along the inside
walls are the famous flying toasters. It
appears Berkeley Systems is indeed ready
for prime time.
Dave Salvador
via the Internet
Nice try, blaming your girlfriend. Macworld editors,
fingers on the electronic pulse of America, noticed
the flying toasters scattered around our second-
favorite teens’ late-night hangout some time ago
We've also noticed that Melrose Place resident
Billy insists on using a PowerBook as his desktop
machine at the office, but we digress. Berkeley
Systems spokesperson Monica Granados says the
entire crew of 90210 are After Dark fans and origi-
nally approached Berkeley Systems for permis
sion to use the famed winged toasters and screen-
saver name, She says After Dark has also made
appearances on The X-Files and Murphy Brown.
Hey! Captain Janeway and crew could run into
aliens piloting flying toasters on the far side of the
galaxy... Ed. m
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IBM Nixes Mac Clone After lengthy delib-
erations, IBM has decided not to license today’s Mac-
intosh hardware design and Operating System. Gary
Griffiths, director of business development for IBM's
Power Personal Systems, told Macworld that the mar-
keting and sales-channel efforts would be too great to
justify building an IBM-branded Mac clone prior to the
release of the Mac OS on the converged hardware ref-
erence platform (CHRP). Apple expects to ship CHRP-
based Power Macs in late 1996 or early 1997. IBM
recently indicated that it intends to offer the Mac OS as
an option on CHRP-based machines.
Quark Delays Software Revisions By
the time you read this, Quark (303/894-8888) plans to
have released a free maintenance upgrade (version 3.32)
to QuarkXPress, available via online services.
But Quark will deliver several new programs
later than expected. QuarkXPosure, an image-manipu-
lation and -editing program jointly developed with Japan's
JVC, is now expected to ship around January 1996, not
August 1995. QuarkxPress 4.0 is likely to ship around
February 1996, not this fall. And the multimedia-authoring
adjunct to QuarkXPress, code-named Orion, is now
expected to ship around March 1996, not September
1995. The delays are due to changes in the prod-
ucts’ features and interfaces, as well as the integration
of PixelCraft's ColorAccess color-separation software
into QuarkXPosure. Quark would not confirm it, but it
seems likely that ColorAccess will find its way into Quark-
XPress 4.0, replacing the EfiColor software from Elec-
tronics for Imaging that is bundled with the current
QuarkxPress version.
Also expected to ship around QuarkXPress 4.0's
release are upgraded versions of two other programs:
Passport, a multilingual version of QuarkXPress aimed
a MacBulletin
at European users, and Quark Publishing System, a
QuarkxPress-based workflow-management system for
publishers. Orion and XPosure will be Power Mac-only
programs, while the others will be available for both
680X0 and Power Macs, as well as Windows.
More Mergers Several companies have
bought others, continuing a trend toward consolida-
tion in the computer industry. Adobe Systems, which
bought Aldus a year ago, has now purchased Frame
Technology for $500 million. Frame's key product is
FrameMaker, a multiplatform publishing program for
creating paper and online documentation.
Adaptec, the largest SCSI card maker in the PC
market, has bought Trillium, maker of well-regarded
(and widely bundled) Remus RAID software for Macs.
Boca Research has purchased Hayes Micro-
computer, the once-leading modem company that filed
for bankruptcy last year. Boca will keep the Hayes prod-
uct line as well as its Boca and Practical Peripherals lines.
After making an unwanted bid to buy Lotus
Development, IBM reached an agreement with Lotus
to acquire the software maker for $3.5 billion. Although
Lotus makes several applications, like the spreadsheet
1-2-3 and the word processor WordPro (formerly named
Ami Pro), IBM's interest was in Lotus’s Notes system
for exchanging mail, files, and electronic bulletin boards.
Notes’ closest competitor is Novell's GroupWise, which
has a similar client and server makeup.
Delrina has agreed to be acquired by Symantec,
the leading utilities company. Delrina dominates the Mac
and Windows markets with its Fax Pro and WinFax fax
software and with its FormFlow forms-design package.
As Symantec has grown through several acquisitions over
the last few years, it has cut back on developing new
utilities and productivity software for the Mac. m
MACWORLD September 1995 33
IN THIS ISSUE
EDITED BY TOM MORAN
p- 36 PCI Expansion Cards Arrive p. 36 New PowerPC Performas _p. 36 In-House Software Tools
p. 41 Multiprocessor Macs on the Horizon
P- 146 Client-Server Tools
Internet’s Next Big Step
@ hile Internet browsers
1 are becoming all the
rage, they have the same limi-
tations as most telecommuni-
cations technology: the con-
tent you browse—be it text
files, page layouts, spread-
sheets, presentations, or data-
bases—is separate from the
contents on your desktop.
Apple plans to use its forth-
coming OpenDoc technology
to change that, letting you
browse the World Wide
Web, send E-mail, or transfer
Internet files from within
OpenDoc-aware documents
and applications. A collection
of OpenDoc parts (Apple’s
terminology for components)
code-named CyberDog, lets
users create documents that
embed live links to almost any
Internet resource. (For details
on OpenDoc, see “OpenDoc
and OLE 2.0,” Macworld,
November 1994.)
For example, say that you
need to track the cost of pro-
ducing a breakfast cereal based
on the prices of wheat, tiny
marshmallows, and cardboard
boxes. Prices constantly
change, and you want to keep
your spreadsheet current with
the least amount of effort.
CyberDog will let you build a
document with embedded
34
Internet links that constantly
fetch and display the most
recent price information avail-
able from the Internet. Rather
than making you hunt down
the information yourself, Cy-
berDog gets it automatically.
Although OpenDoc ap-
pears to hold enormous
potential to change the every-
day experience of computing,
some early examples of Open-
Doc components—such as a
September 1995 MACWORLD
spelling checker that any ap-
plication could use—didn’t
really show anything revolu-
tionary. Instead, they were
small refinements to current
approaches. But CyberDog
really shows how OpenDoc
can help transform the com-
puting experience.
Tt aims to make using the
Internet as easy as launching
a Read Me file. And it aims
to make including Internet-
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based information and links in
an electronic document as easy
as including clip art.
For example, while a
teacher searches the Internet
for information about hurri-
canes, CyberDog’s Log part
could automatically track all
Internet sites that the teacher
accesses. Later, the teacher
could sort log files chronolog-
ically, alphabetically, or by
type of site.
DAVID KANE
The teacher could then
create a ClarisWorks docu-
ment about hurricanes that in
addition to text contains the
most recent satellite photo of
the Caribbean from a con-
stantly updated Web site, a
link toa Usenet weather news-
group, and links to appropri-
ate FTP sites. The satellite
picture would automatically
update, and clicking on the
links would let students con-
nect with the correct Internet
resource.
Building the Internet links
would take only a few simple
steps. For example, to build
the link to the weather news-
group, the teacher would cre-
ate a button in the Claris-
Works document by dragging
a button icon from an Open-
Doc button tool onto the hur-
ricane document. Then the
teacher would drag the icon
representing the URL (an
address to a Web page) for
that group from CyberDog’s
log onto the new button and
label the button Weather
Talk. The final document
could then be distributed to
and used by CyberDog-
equipped computers that
don’t have the teacher’s origi-
nal log file. Students who click
on that button would auto-
matically be brought to the
newsgroup without leaving
ClarisWorks.
In business use, after a ses-
sion of Net surfing you could
drag log files of ali relevant
Internet resources into a
CyberDog notebook file that
would look much like the
current Note Pad DA. A
long URL such as http://www
.unitedmedia.com/comics/
dilbert could be given a short-
er name such as Dilbert Site.
Double-clicking on
a notebook entry
would bring you
to that Internet
location, The text-
file-size notebooks
could be given to
other CyberDog
users, freeing users
from having to
hunt down the sites
you discovered.
Even more sim-
ply, log items could
be dragged onto the desktop
where they would appear as
standard file icons. A busy
executive, for example, could
have an icon that connects to
a Web page displaying the
latest baseball box scores or
stock prices.
Apple says CyberDog
doesn’t force new standards
or protocols on the Internet.
Instead, Apple wants to make
existing standards easier to
access. Therefore, Apple
plans CyberDog parts to sup-
port the Web, FTP, WAIS,
Gopher, and E-mail, along
with viewers for data types
such as GIF, JPEG, and
sound files. Apple hopes other
developers will build Open-
Doc parts to support other
capabilities or emerging tech-
nologies—such as MUDs
(multiuser documents), Adobe
Acrobat, or VRML (Virtual
Reality Modeling Language)
—that Apple’s CyberDog
collection won’t provide
support for.
But for CyberDog to
become more than a clever
alternative to existing Internet
tools such as Mosaic and
Sparkle, Apple needs third-
party developers to integrate
OpenDoc support into their
current and future productiv-
ity applications. And the en-
thusiastic reception of Cyber-
Dog at Apple’s recent devel-
opers conference may help
shift some companies from
merely announcing OpenDoc
support to actually shipping
OpenDoc software.
By bringing new capabili-
ties to Macintosh computing,
rather than just enhancing
existing capabilities, Cyber-
Dog shows the potential of
OpenDoc to change the way
pEeeigs eens
CyberDog will let you create hot links in documents
to resources on the Web, as this mockup shows.
users interact with and share
data. CyberDog gives devel-
opers and users a compelling
example of what OpenDoc
can do.—JiM FEELEY
A MOVE TO THE
MASS MARKET
Radius _ engi-
neers have been
burning the mid-
night oil, and by
the time you
read this the company expects
to be shipping its second
Power Macintosh clone,
dubbed the 81/110.
The 81/110 is a stripped-
down version of Radius’s Sys-
tem 100—which is to say it’s
nearly identical to Apple’s
Power Macintosh 8100/110.
The 81/110 sports a 110MHz
PowerPC 601 CPU, three
NuBus slots, 16MB of RAM
(72-pin SIMMs), a 2GB hard
drive, built-in Ethernet via an
AAUI port, and a quad-speed
CD-ROM drive. The 81/110
will not come with a video card
in the PDS slot, so resellers
have the opportunity to cus-
tomize the system, presumably
with Radius components.
Radius (408/541-6100) expects
the 81/110 to carry a street
price of around $5600. Com-
pany executives have also hint-
ed that a version of the 81/110
using the Telecast profession-
al video system might be in the
works, but would not commit
to a time frame.
Radius’s executive suite
has also been busy: in June,
Radius announced an exclusive
two-year agreement with dis-
tribution-channel juggernaut
Ingram Micro. Ingram will dis-
tribute all of Radius’s CPUs
throughout North America.
Also, Radius will pay IBM
to manufacture motherboards
and complete systems for
Radius clones. This rela-
tionship in no way involves
IBM’s licensing the Mac OS
for IBM-branded clones.
—CAMERON CROTTY
MACWORLD
In Briel
Help for Mobius
Customers
Sonnet Technology (714/261-
2800) is supporting and selling an
accelerator card from the defunct
Mobius. Owners of the 40MHz
Speedster 040 card can call
Sonnet for technical support and
software upgrades. Sonnet will sell
Mobius's accelerator for the Mac
Il line for $399 and is shipping
an improved version of the card
with System 7.5 compatibility.
In an unusual display of cross-
hardware connectivity, Apple
joined IBM and AT&T at the
recent PC Expo to demonstrate
how Macs can link with tele-
phone switches from AT&T and
Siemens-Rolm, using the Versit
standard. Developers incorporat-
ing the standard into their appli-
cations will be able to route data
coming in through a telephone
‘switch to users’ computer screens
simultaneously with the call. For
instance, a caller's phone number
can be identified through caller-
ID technology, or when the caller
punches an account number on
the telephone keypad. That in
turn triggers a database search
of a customer account.
Internet “Decency”
Promoted
Abill passed by the Senate in June
would hold phone companies,
commercial online services, the
Internet, and bulletin board
services liable for obscene or
harassing content they transmit,
including E-mail, binary files, and
posted messages. At press time,
the House of Representatives
was considering a less severe bill.
Meanwhile, Microsoft,
Netscape Communications, and
Progressive Networks have
formed the Information Highway
Parental Empowerment Group
(IHPEG). The group aims to create
industrywide standards to let
parents prevent their children
from accessing certain materials
and to let content providers and
rating services assess material's
appropriateness.
September 1995 35
[ News
More Power
for Performas
APPLE ADDS TWO MODELS,
BEEFS UP THREE
With the mid-
July release of
two new Per-
formas, Apple
has begun the
serious transition of its home-
oriented Performa line from
680X0 to PowerPC CPUs.
The new all-in-one Performa
5200 and the flat, desktop Per-
forma 6200 join the previously
released Performa 6100 in the
Power Mac home family.
The Performa 5200 is the
same machine as the Power
Mac 5200 LC, introduced for
education buyers this spring
(see “The Sleekest Desktop
Mac Yet,” News, Macworld,
June 1995), while the 6200 is
the same product recently
released in Europe under the
The Performa 6200 joins the Power Mac family.
same name (see “Apple Unveils
Power Mac 6200 Series,”
MacBulletin, July 1995).
The 5200 series uses a
75MHz PowerPC 603 CPU
and has 8MB of RAM
(expandable to 64MB). The
5200CD model with an
800MB hard drive costs $2000,
while the 5215CD model with
a 1GB drive costs $2300. It
comes with a built-in monitor,
mouse, and standard
Apple keyboard.
‘The 6200 uses the
same motherboard as
the 5200 but comes in
a more traditional
desktop case, similar
to that of a Performa
630. There are five
models: the 6200CD
has 8MB of RAM, a
1GB hard drive, and a
15-inch monitor; the
6216CD is a 6200CD
without the monitor;
he 6220CD is a
6200CD with 16MB
of RAM and video-in
jacks, but no monitor; and the
6230CD is a 6220CD with an
MPEG card and a 15-inch
monitor. Prices range from
$2400 to $3000.
All the new Performas
include a quad-speed CD-
ROM drive, a 14.4-Kbps inter-
nal fax modem, and Performa
630-style video-in and com-
munication slots. Apple also
has a new Performa 6100
variant with a larger hard drive.
These new Performas sig-
nal the end of further 680X0-
based Performas, although
Apple continues to sell the Per-
forma 630 (now available in the
631CD model, which offers a
larger hard drive than the 630)
and has introduced the Per-
forma 640 DOS Compatible,
which is essentially the same
machine as the LC 630 DOS
Compatible released earlier this
spring.—MICHAEL FAINTER AND
GALEN GRUMAN
Who Needs
Vistal Basic?
FINALLY, MAC TOOLS TO
LET ANYONE PROGRAM
hen Windows users
can’t find software that
meets their specific business
needs, they can turn to tools
such as Microsoft’s Visual
SPECIAL REPORT
First Add-on Cards for the New PCI Macs
Macintosh professionals already have more PCI graphics and
SCSI accelerators to choose from than they ever did NuBus
accelerators, and in other product areas such as networking, dig-
ital video, and specialized cards, the number of PCI vendors
equals the number working in NuBus. Thanks in large part to
the influence of Windows developers in this market, PCI card
prices are also lower than NuBus card prices in many cases.
Graphics
* ATI Technologies offers two
graphics cards. The Xclaim
GA4MB supports 24-bit color
at resolutions up to 1152 by
870 pixels and 16-bit color at
1600 by 1200 pixels. The com-
pany also sells the Xclaim GA
2MB, which supports 24-bit
color at up to 832 by 624 pix-
els and 8-bit color at up to
1600 by 1200 pixels. A $249
memory module lets you
September 1995 MACWORLD
expand the 2MB card to 4MB.
‘The 4MB card costs $649, and
the 2MB card is $449. 905/
882-2600.
* Diamond Multimedia is
selling the $569 Mac Multi-
media Accelerator, which in-
cludes 4MB of VRAM and
supports 24-bit color at reso-
lutions up to 1152 by 870 pix-
els and 16-bit color at up to
1600 by 1200 pixels. The card
also offers QuickTime and
MPEG-1 software accelera-
tion and scaling. An optional
daughtercard (price not deter-
mined at press time) provides
hardware MPEG-1 decom-
pression, dual video windows,
and live video viewing from
NTSC or PAL sources. 408/
325-7000.
* EA Research plans two
graphics cards (as yet un-
named), both of which aim to
provide faster performance
than the Power Mac 9500's
built-in video. One card re-
leased in June, offers 4MB of
VRAM with a maxi-
mum 24-bit resolution
of 1152 by 870 pixels at
75Hz, and a maximum
16-bit resolution of
1600 by 1200, The
other card, available in
September, will in-
clude 8MB of VRAM
with a maximum 24-
bit resolution of 1600
by 1200 pixels at 75Hz. An
included daughtercard_ will
accelerate Photoshop, Quick-
Draw, and QuickDraw 3D
routines. Both cards will offer
energy-saving features and
will include ColorSyne 2.0.
The 4MB card will cost $695;
the price of the 8MB card
has not been decided. 510/
867-0697.
* Radius moves to PCI
with three graphics cards. The
ThunderColor 30 series cards
with the included 4-DSP Col-
orEngine daughtercard accel-
‘The Radius PrecisionColor 8/1600 costs $599.
Basic and build their own
applications. But Macintosh
users don’t enjoy an equivalent
broadly supported program-
ming tool; and Microsoft
doesn’t plan to port Visual
Basic to the Mac.
To break into the corpo-
rate mainstream, Apple must
ensure that businesses can find
cross-platform custom-applica-
tion-development tools that
run on Macs and Windows
computers. And those tools
must exceed the standard set by
Visual Basic—the program
often used to give desktop
machines access to a corpora-
tion’s crucial custom software.
That effort is finally start-
ing to happen: as Visual Basic
reaches the ripe old age of ver-
sion 4.0, Apple, IBM,
Novell, Oracle, Pow-
erSoft, and others are
developing new user-
programm
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