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PowerBook Duo Page 29 03.18.96 The Newsweekly for Macintosh Managers MAE flowers: | Version 3.0 is faster, better By Mark Hall While Microsoft Windows gets most of the attention in Apple’s cross-platform strategy, the Mac- intosh Application Environment for Unix may be making the most money. And a new version should pour even more change into Apple’s coffers. Apple’s cmulator for running Mac software under Unix will turn 3.0 later this year. The company is also considering dipping into Win- dows NT’s expanding pockets by | porting the Macintosh Application Environment, or MAE, to Mi- crosoft Corp.’s platform. The feature set for MAE 3.0 is virtually complete, according to Jeff Roberts, Apple MAE product marketing manager, although a beta version remains months away. The next release will sell for $549, with upgrades costing $199 See MAE, Page 78 Apple plots 1996 CPU paths PPC 604e engine to drive Macs LERP spec to take the low road By Joanna Pearlstein Apple’s CPU plans for the rest of 1996 include the first PowerPC Platform Macintosh, multi- processor machines and making the PowerPC 604e chip standard equipment across-the-board. In November Apple will intro- NAME duce its first PowerPC Platform, or PPCP, Macintosh with the debut of a system code-named Orient Express. According to sources, Orient Express will use a 166-MHz PowerPC 604e. Al- though exact pricing and configu- See 604e, Page 76 TYPE SPEED CONFIG. PRICE PPCP Orient Express 166 MHz 16/1.2/CDL2 $2,700 Multiprocessor 8500 Two 200 MHz 16/4/CD/L2 $6,500 9500 Two 200 MHz 16/4/CD/L2 $6,500 Speed bump 7200 166 MHz 16/1.2/CD/L2_ $2,400 7600 180 MHz 16/2/CD/L2 $3,100 8500 200 MHz 16/4/CD/L2 $5,400 i 9500 200 MHz 16/4/CD/L2 $5,500 % VOLUME 10 NuMBER 11 By David Morgenstern Apple hopes clone makers will extend the Mac’s reach by LERPs and bounds. Sources said the company may offer its licensees the Low End Reference Plat- form, a new Mac logic board de- sign that will incorporate many Intel-standard PC components. The low-cost platform builds on concepts outlined in the PowerPC Platform (PPCP), which give computer manufac- turers a greater range of industry- standard components on which to base their Low End Reference Platform, or LERP, designs will differ from PPCP in that LERP-based com- puters will run only the Mac OS, sources said. ems. However, LERP is reportedly based on Apple's first PCI Performa logic- board (see 12.04.95, Page 1). A Coding Java is a grind with Sun JDK, Symantec Caffeine By Stephan Somogyi Hot on the heels of Nat- ural Intelligence Inc.’s beta release of Roaster 1.1 come two Mac-based Java development tools from Sun Microsystems Inc. and Symantec Corp. We tested both beta releases and, like Roaster, found them promising but not quite there yet. Sun’s Version 1.0 Beta 1 of its Java Development Kit (JDK) for Mac has been greeted with enthu siasm by the Java-deprived Mac | populace. But the JDK alone is | not going to slake the thirst of NEWSPAPER §S EC OND those wanting to do seri- ous Java development on their Macs. Symantec’s Caffeine builds on top of Sun’s JDK to offer a complete environment, more though not quite up to the level of Roaster. Sun's JDK is critical because it’s the reference of correctness against which other Java tools will be mea- sured. The JDK, which runs on both 680x0 and Power Macs, con sists of three main parts: the javac compiler, the Applet Viewer and See Java, Page 78 cLASS By Joanna Pearlstein There’s good news and bad news about Apple’s GeoPort. In April the first ISDN GeoPort adapter will hit the streets, but last month Apple cut short its efforts to make the high-speed serial port tech- nology a cross-platform standard. Next month — Sat- Sagem, an ISDN and videoconferencing card vendor, will ship the Sagem-Planet ISDN GeoPort Adapter (SPIGA), an_ external pod for ISDN, or Inte- grated Services Digital Network In February Apple withdrew from Versit, a consortium of tech- nology giants hoping to use GeoPort technol- GeoPort gets up to speed with 28.8 update, ISDN ogy to integrate computers and telephones. As a result of Apple's withdrawal, Versit has announced that it has quit work on its GeoPort spec- ifications, explaining that Apple has ceased pushing GeoPort as See GeoPort, Page 76 While it may not be much to look at, Sat- Sagem’s ISDN pod will be the first product to bring 128-Kbps speeds to the GeoPort. standard LERP design will pro- vide either a PowerPC 603e, 603ev or 604e processor; a PS/2 keyboard port; at least one 7-inch PCI slot; ADB, LocalTalk, Geo- Port and SCSI connectors; and an Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drive interface. LERP systems will initially run System 7.5.x. In addition, LERP-based logic boards will not require many of the Apple custom application- specific integrated circuits found in current clone designs or speci- fied in Apple’s upcoming PCI Performas, sources said. For ex- ample, a LERP Mac will use See LERP, Page 76 Truevision brings down video prices By Kelly Ryer As digital video prices continue to fall, Truevision last week shipped | the PCI-based Targa 1000, a on of its Targa 2000 video-digitizing board. “The competition is just crazy right now,” said Ed Bucking- ham, a research analyst at Inter- national Data Corp. of Framing- ham, Mass. “Truevision’s got a name out there; they're well- recognized on the high end. [The Targa 1000] will be great for people doing corporate presenta- tions and training videos. It will probably spill over into the home market, too: People say; ‘I’m using it at work, why can’tI use it at home?’” The $3,295 Targa 1000 has a capture rate within Adobe Pre- miere of 160 Kbytes per frame and supports 16-bit audio at 44.1 | and 48 kHz. 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See Solutions, Page 41. Consider the options: Three PC Cards for PowerBook 190 and 5300 users have varying degrees of success. See Reviews, Page 35. AOL and CompuServe join with Netscape, Microsoft and AT&T to increase their | appeal. See Gateways, Page 18. ALSO 27 Letters 29 REVIEWS New PowerBook Duo 2300c solid but lacks imagination * Macromedia Extreme 3D moves to multimedia * OS update breathes new life into PowerBook 5300c ® Drive update Intuit QuickBooks Pro 4.0 ¢ Forum 41 SOLUTIONS With OPI servers, users are getting a performance boost and improved work flow. DEPARTMENTS & OPINION 26 Editorial 26 Second Decade 41 MacInTouch 78 StockWatch 82 Mac The Knife 27 Mac Manager INSIDE 45 Mail Order 59 MarketPlace 80 Advertiser Index 80 Product Index Budweiser is the King of Beers, and the Wintel standard rules desktop computing. Kind of makes sense when you look at it that way, doesn’t it? The Macintosh is, per- haps, the Anchor Steam or Sam Adams of personal computers, but the platform plans Apple has brewing may attract many more Joe Six-packs. This week's details on the second genera- tion of speed bumps for the PCI Power Macs are heartening. The revelation of a Low-end Reference Platform (LERP) project is ter- rific news, if Apple doesn’t screw it up. And, although it’s not to everyone's taste, Version 3.0 of Macintosh Application Environment (MAE) should expand Apple’s influence over the stout imbibers of things Unix. Taken together, these three initiatives should greatly improve the range of the Mac OS and greatly improve Apple’s appeal to more com- puter buyers. Apple's apparent decision to base its mainstream Power Mac line on the PowerPC 604e MACWEEK INSIDER STEPHEN HOWARD Quaffing with Apple chip is bold, The 604e’s high clock rates look good to customers, and its variety of clock multipliers will give clone makers flexibility. The first round of PCI speed bumps will keep Apple competitive on the crude-but- influential basis of clock rates by increasing the Power Mac 9500 and 8500 to 150 MHz (see 03.11.96, Page 1). Smarty-pants buyers may turn up their noses at judging a com- puter merely by its clock, but that number is almost everyone's starting point for eval- uating systems. (Olde English 800 and 166- MHz Pentiums are popular for a reason.) Intel Corp. has been beating the PowerPC troika for too long on this score, That's not going to change soon enough, but by next winter Apple will need 200-MHz systems to at- tract the public’s attention. By using the 604e chip, Apple and its cloners will also be able to deliver systems at a variety of prices. They'll keep clock rates high and pinch pennies on the rest of the motherboard by using slower logic chips and less expensive components — just like they do in the Wintel world. Apple's plans to sell Power Macs in the $7,000 range will provide a richer choice for those who want balanced, optimum performance; but there will also be less-expensive 200-MHz systems for the Bud crowd. That tastes great. On the other hand, the market thirsts for something a little less filling. That's where LERP comes in. Apple should be able to achieve economy by mixing Intel-standard components with a PowerPC CPU. (If it can’t, then the PowerPC Platform, or PPCP, ini- s+ tiative may also be seri- ously flawed.) I think it makes sense for Apple to try and get the benefits of PPCP. without waiting for the whole multiple op- erating system story to work itself out in 1997. When it does, the company will face an onslaught of low-priced PPCP competition. What gives me a headache is the possi- bility that the company plans to sell this Macintosh Lite mostly to overseas OEMs. Drink deep, Apple! If you're going into the motherboard business, then you won't protect yourself or anyone else by not push- ing LERP in all markets. It seems to me By next winter _ Apple will need 200-MHz systems to attract attention. we've been down this road before, and we've got a Lilliputian Mac clone market to show for it. Atthe opposite end of the bar sits MAE. This Mac-on-Unix software is a nifty solu- tion to the lack of productivity software on technical workstations. Apple deserves credit for staying with this product and doing what the company does so rarely: plugging holes and making the software better with each release. I raise my glass to the team, and, in the ancient tradition of drinking partners, I have some free advice: Create a Performa MAE. If the whole point of the product is to give the Unix proletariat access to less expen- sive, better appfications, then why not bun- dle some of those programs? I think $750 sounds reasonable for MAE with ClarisWorks, FileMaker Pro, Adobe Persuasion, and Now Contact and Up-to- Date. Not all Unix users want to brew their own Mac. 0 * Stephen Howard is executive editor/reviews and ‘features. He welcomes feedback and free beer at stephen_howard @zd.com. MacWEEK (ISSN 0892-81 18) is published weekly, with the exception of Jan. 1, July 1, Sept. 2, and Dec. 23 and 30, by Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. Single-copy price, including postage: $6. One-year subscription rate: US., $125; Canada/Mexico, U.S. $225; International, U.S. $350 (airmail). All orders must be prepaid, Direct subscription inquiries to Customer Service Department, MacWEEK, do JCI, P.O. Box 10634, Riverton, N.J. 08076-0634; (609) 786-8230. Changes of address require that a new application be filled out completely and include both new and old addresses. Allow four to six weeks for processing. 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The on- demand backlight uses technology similar to Timex Corp.'s Indiglo wristwatch light to de- liver a greenish glow when the 130’s power switch is held down. Backlighting can be toggled on and off manually or can be set to shut off after a preset amount of time. According to Apple, using the backlight full time cuts bat- tery life 50 percent. Under what Apple calls normal use, where backlighting is on 10 percent of the time, battery life drops about 7 percent. The new display also has a non- reflective coating that Apple said By James Staten Pippin, the low-cost Internet and CD-ROM Mac clone, will ship in Japan this week and is moving closer to its U.S. debut. Bandai Digital Entertainment Inc. will unveil the device in the United States on May 15 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles; sources said it will ship in the United States in September. U.S. pricing is ex- pected to hover around $650, comparable to the Japanese price. Sources said Pippin Atworld Player is the likely U.S. title. Pippin, which uses a standard television set as its monitor, will be powered by a 66-MHz PowerPC 603 processor and in- clude a quadruple-speed CD- ROM drive, 5 Mbytes of RAM (expandable to 13 Mbytes), and 1 Mbyte of video RAM. It will come bundled with a 19.2-Kbps New Newton glows in dark GGIAMPIERO BENVENUTI The MessagePad 130 adds an on-demand backlight that produces a greenish glow. cuts glare and increases screen life. The other major difference between the 120 and 130 is an extra 512 Kbytes of static RAM, bringing the 130’s internal RAM to 2.5 Mbytes. The extra RAM is for operating system and applica- tion processes. The 130 will ship in early April. For more information call (800) 462-4396 in the United States; (800) 263-3394 in Canada. modem, at least four CD-ROM titles and an account with an as- yet-unsigned Internet service provider. Instead of a keyboard, Pippin will have a boomerang-shaped controller, featuring a game-style direction pad, six buttons and a Bandai’s Pippin, now available in Japan, comes with a boomerang-shaped controller. Apple outputs new color peripherals - By Matthew Rothenberg Apple last week pumped up its color-inkjet offerings, shipped a new flatbed scanner and rolled out an EtherTalk adapter for its entire StyleWriter line. > The Color StyleWriter 2500, priced at $380, replaces Apple's $429 Color StyleWriter 2400 and outputs 720 dpi in color, twice the color resolution of the 2400. The device is based on a Canon engine that prints 5 pages per minute in black and white and a CMYK page in about one minute, 20 sec- onds. It accommodates separate CMY and black ink cartridges and includes a serial interface and a 100-sheet multipurpose tray. A LocalTalk interface costs $105. > The Color StyleWriter 1500, also based on a Canon engine, prints 720 and 360 dpi, respec- tively, for black and white and color. The $280 device accommo- dates a single CMYK or black cartridge. The printer comes with a serial interface and a 100- sheet multipurpose tray. > The StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter, priced at $189, includes 10BASE T and 10BASE 2 con- nectors and connects to the serial port. The adapter works with both new printers as well as older StyleWriters. > The Apple Color OneScan- Pippin specs set, due in U.S. by fall trackball. Expansion options in- clude two ADB ports, two serial ports and a bottom-mounted PCI-compatible bus. Pippin lacks a hard drive, in- | stead providing 128 Kbytes of flash RAM. An optional Floppy Dock Station will provide addi- tional space. A subset of the Mac OS will be included on each Pippin CD-ROM title. Bandai said it ex- pects as many as 200 U.S. companies to build titles for the platform. The company has 450 devel- opers in Japan. Bandai Digital Enter- tainment Inc., the U.S. subsidi of Bandai Ltd. Co., of La Mirada, Calif., can be reached at (310) 404-1600; fax (310) (04-1900. ner 600/27, which carries a street price of less than $600, captures nine bits each of RGB informa- tion per pixel in a single pass. It offers an optical resolution of 300 by 600 dpi, which can be interpo- lated up to 2,400 by 2,400 dpi, Apple said. Fixes in works for drive bug By David Morgenstern SCSI utility developers offered quick fixes for problems identi- fied last week by drive vendor APS Technologies Inc. The issue can lead to data and directory corruption, the company said. Kansas City, Mo.-based APS said the problem can occur when some third-party drivers are used with drives that have built-in RAM caches. Many recently re- leased SCSI and Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drives use hardware caches to improve performance; however, drives are often shipped with the write-cache disabled. Several third-party formatting utilities let users enable the write-back cache. According to Tom Beardmore, APS technical resource manager, the cache occasionally is not cleared fully by drivers at shut- down, when the system sleeps via Apple’s Energy Saver control The SCSI-2 device has a scan- ning area of 8.5 by 11.5 inches. The Color OneScanner 600/27 ships with an Adobe Photoshop plug-in and Version 3.0 of TextBridge, Xerox Imaging Systems Inc.'s OCR software. A 20-sheet auto- matic document feeder is $350. panel or when a power failure oc- curs. Data left in the cache is not written to the drive and can lead to file and directory errors. “Most caches don’t flush unless specifically told to,” said Vinnie Moscaritolo, an engineer with Apple’s developer support services. Apple's drivers correctly synchro- nize caches, Moscaritolo said. Both Apple and Quantum Corp. of Milpitas, Calif, are preparing technical documents | for developers on correct han- dling of drive caches. Moscaritolo advised users to update both third-party and Apple drivers to the latest versions for all the drives on a system. “That's the bottom line,” he said. APS, CharisMac Engineering Inc. and FWB Inc. said they ex- pected to post updaters to on-line services last week. Several other third-party formatter vendors said they are investigating the issue. 0 Users who want to run Windows NT on their Macs can turn to Or- ange Micro Inc., which is shipping a Windows NT software package for its OrangePC cards. The $385 Windows NT for Macintosh in- cludes Orange Micro's ORANGE MICRO DOES WINDOWS NT software and a copy of Windows NT. The product works in con- junction with Orange Micro’s OrangePC cards, which use a 486 co- processor to run the Mac OS and other operating systems — in- cluding Windows 3.1, Windows 95, OS/2, DOS and now Windows NT— simultaneously (see 09.25.95, Page 6). Pricing for OrangePC cards starts at $740. The company said it will ship PCI versions of the OrangePC cards next month. Orange Micro Inc. of Anaheim, Calif., can be reached at (714) 779- 2772; fax (714) 779-9332; sales@orangemicro.com; http:// orangemicro.inter.net/orangemicro/. — By Joanna Pearlstein Puzzled by how to speed up your network? Put it all together with Faralion Fast Ethernet! Fast Ethernet gives you 10 times the bandwidth of 1OMb Ethernet, to support the higher volumes of traffic on your network today. It’s what you need for high-bandwidth applications like multimedia, prepress, graphic arts, computer-aided design, and imaging. 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The SCSI device comes bun- dled with Visioneer Inc.’s Paper- Port software for OCR conversion and management of scanned doc- uments. It also includes Omni- Page Lite, the low-end version of Caere Corp.’s OCR package, and Adobe Photoshop LE, the limited version of Adobe Systems Inc.'s image-editing software. In addi- tion, the ScanJet 4p ships with PictureScan 2.0, HP’s own scan- automation utility, and HP Jet Copy, which adds copying ca- pabilities to the scanner. Users can buy a 50-page auto- matic document feeder for $559. > Microtek last week took the wraps off the ScanMaker E6, a 30-bit-color scanner that is an- slated to ship this month for $599. According to Micro- tek, the new device has an optical resolution of 600 by 1,200 dpi, which can be interpolated to 4,800 dpi. It offers an imaging area of 8.5 by 3.5 inches. TI Maker E6 capture bits each of RGB infor- mation per pixel in a single pass. It can scan a full-color, 5-by-7-inch, 300-dpi image in about 38 seconds, Hewlett-Packard said. The ScanMaker E6 includes a SCSI-2 interface and features a black-masked lid designed to min- imize external light contamina- tion. It ships with Microtek’s Scan- Wizard scanning utility, which offers full-page previews as well as a variety of image and color con- trols. It also comes standard with Caere Corp.'s OmniPage Direct OCR software and MicroFrontier Inc.’s Color It! 3.0 painting pro- gram. A $799 Pro version of the scanner includes Version 2.1 of Live Picture Inc.’s Live Picture image-editing application. A transparency adapter and a 10-sheet automatic document feeder are priced at $299 and $199, respectively. > UMAX of Fremont, Calif., PowerBook 500 notebooks gain Newer PPC upgrade By Joanna Pearlstein Bringing the PowerPC chip to PowerBook 500 owners, Newer Technology Inc. recently shipped its NUpowr PowerPC upgrade The daughtercard upgrade places a 117-MHz PowerPC 603¢ processor in PowerBook 500 se- ries laptops. Newer said the NUpowr comes in three configu- rations with varying amounts of installed RAM: a $670 bare board | with no additional memory, and For the record In the 03.04.96 Solutions (Page 37), Paul Sereiko was incor- rectly identified as an Apple spokesman. Serciko is vice president of corporate mar- keting with SystemSoft Corp. of Natick, Mass. 4- and 8-Mbyte versions, which carry street prices of $875 and $1,070, respectively. Newer said it will pay users $80 for the 68L.C040 processors that the upgrade replaces. The NUpowr requires Revi- sion C of the PCMCIA Expan- sion Module for the PowerBook 500 series, as well as the Power- Book system software update (see 01.15.96, Page 1), which comes with the kit. Connectix Corp.'s Speed Doubler is also bundled with the cards. “T have seen a real performance increase,” said NUpowr owner Dan Flynn, chief operating offi- cer at Pioneer Balloon Co. in Wi- chita, Kan. Newer Technology Inc. of Wi- chita, Kan., is at (316) 685-4904 or (800) 678-3726; fax (316) 685- 9368; sales@newertech.com; http: //www.newertech.com. [ Hitting the streets for less than $500, the Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4p can capture legal- size color images in a single pass. this month will reportedly intro- duce the Vista-S6e, a low-end bundle of its Vista-S6 model that sources said will carry a street price of about $400. According to sources, the Vista-S6e will be based on the same 300-by-600-dpi engine as the Vista-S6 LE and Pro, the other two models in the line. Like the other scanners, it will offer an interpolated resolution of 4,800 dpi and a SCSI-2 interface. Sources said the new package will ship with Wordlinx, ( software from UMAX subsidiary Maxsoft-Ocron Inc. of Taipei, Taiwan, and Color It!. UMAX declined to comment on the reports. Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., can be reached at (800) 5538; httpv/www.hp.com. Microtek Lab Inc. of Redondo Beach, Calif., can be reached at (310) 297-5000 or (800) 654-4160; fax (310) 297-5050; http://www. mteklab.com. 0 CoStar labels via HyperCard CoStar Corp. this week will offer users HyperCard external com- mands for its pint-sized Label- Writer XL and LabelWriter XL Plus thermal printers. The $99 software boosts pro- ductivity by letting users print labels within a stack without changing the Chooser printer settings for attached page print- ers, the company said. The software lets users adjust text position, fonts, type size and styles as well as spool jobs and print in the background. Exter- nal commands for ACI US Inc.’s 4th Dimension and Blyth Soft- ware Inc.'s Omnis 7 cost $99 each. CoStar Corp. of Greenwich, Conn,, can be reached at (203) 661- 9700 or (800) 426-7827; fax (203) 661-1540; macdev@costar.com. | Features stapler, copier options By David Morgenstern QMS Inc. last week introduced a speedy new entry in the competi- tive market for workgroup print- ers. The QMS 2425 Print System offers users a plethora of paper- handling options, including du- plexing, collation and stapling. Based ona ne’ MIPS 64-bit RI 600-dpi Canon tabloid-size en- gine, the 2425 Print S\ puts up to 24 letter-siz minute. QMS said the printer pro- vides two to three times the output speeds of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $4,899 LaserJet 5Si MX (see 11.06.95, Page 1). A $5,499 entry-level model with 8 Mbytes of RAM provides 600- and 300-dpi resolu- tion to letter- and tabloid-size pages, re- spectively. The $6,999 2425Ex comes with 24 Mbytes of RAM and an internal 256-Mbyte hard. drive that outputs 600 dpi at tabloid size. With 20 Mbytes of RAM, both models can print 1,200-dpiletter-size pages; they can output high-resolution tabloid- size pages with 36 Mbytes installed. A $599 tin Balleisen ystems Inc. this month released Adobe File Utilities, a new suite of cross-platform appli- cations for converting, viewing and comparing documents. Starting at $149 for a single- user CD-ROM, the suite includes three programs previously of- | fered as stand-alone products from Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Mastersoft Inc.: Word for Word, DocuComp and Viewer. Word for Word is a cross- platform conversion utility for Mac, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, DOS and Unix platforms. The program supports about 250 file formats, including GIF, TIFF and HTML, as well as formats for WordPerfect, Microsoft Word and Excel, Adobe said. QMS workgroup printer outputs speedy 24 ppm duplexing option requires twice the memory for each page size; the printer supports up to 128 Mbytes of RAM. The 2425 comes standard with QMS’ PostScript Level 2, HP PCL 5e and HP-GL emulations and 40 Type | fonts. It ships with SCSI, parallel and multiprotocol Ethernet interfaces. The printer supports a wide range of paper-handling options: a $599 envelope feeder, a $1,299 2,000-sheet input deck and a $1,499 2,000-sheet, stacker-stapler, which is due in the summer. It comes standard with a 100-sheet and two 500- sheet input trays; it has both 100- and 500-sheet output trays. In ad- dition, it supports a $1,999 Crown Copy 300-dpi copier add-on. QMS Inc. of Mobile, Ala., can be reached at (334) 633-4300 or (800) 523-2696; http!//www.qms.com. three-bin The flexible QMS 2425 comes with Laser- Writer and QuickDraw GX drivers, which sup- port booklet printi Adobe CD tests utility waters DocuComp compares two ver- sions of a document and marks text that has been added, deleted or edited. The suite offers Mac, Win- dows and Windows 95 versions. The Mac version currently sup- ports ASCII, Word and Word- Pe t file formats. Viewer handles a variety of graphics file formats. It currently | supports Windows; a Mac ver- sion is due by year-end. Users of Mastersoft’s stand- alone utilities can upgrade to the Adobe CD-ROM for $39.95; a five-user license is $379, Adobe Systems Inc. of Moun- tain View, Calif., can be reached at (415) 961-4400 or (800) 624- 6107; fax (415) 961-3769; http: //www.adobe.com. () Chances are we've helped your business. (Even if you've never owned a Macintosh.) Back in 1984, a young company named Apple Computer did a rather remarkable thing. It introduced a newway of computing. A new way of getting things done. A new way named Macintosh? Sure, personal computers had been around for awhile, But never before had one computer so completely, so instantly, changed the land- scape of the possible. Making the extraordinary ordinary. In the 12 years since, Apple’ innovations have continued to redefine what people can do with a personal computer. They've also found their way into some of our competitors’ PCs and operating systems. For example, the plug-and-play technology we brought to market in 1987 is just now becoming a reality for other PC makers. Macintosh was one of the first affordable desktop computers to employ powerful RISC- based microprocessors. (Were now working on the fourth-generation PowerPC” RISC chip.) And were still the only company in the world making a computer that (= runs both the Mac” 0S and Windows® As a result of these Apple innova- tions, ordinary people can sit down at all kinds of PCs and actually get some work ore fan ae Oe peg tha a done. Of course, if they sit down at a eee Denar ype were pioneered by Apple. Macintosh, they can build 3-D graphics. Use virtual reality in very real ways. Videoconference across continents. Collaborate with colleagues on the far side of the corporate campus. Build interactive sites on the WorldWide Web. And more. That’ the Mac advantage. People do know the difference. ‘Today, 56 million people do their work the Macintosh way. Some in school. Some at home. And, when you look at the numbers from recent studies, quite a few in business. We command a 47% share of the US. commercial publishing market. And 76.2% of the color pre-press market. And though our dominance in graphics-related businesses may not shock you, consider this: we have a 50% share of the chemical, pharma- ceutical, biotechnology, scientific and engineering computing markets. And then, there’ the fact that Macintosh brand loyalty is the highest of any PC in the world: 90% of Macintosh customers buy a Mac the next time around. Which leads people like Andrew Laham, MIS Director at the law firm Fleming, Hovenkamp & Grayson, to say, “7here would be a major crisis if we had to do without Macs. In fact, there would be an open revolt.” Indeed, if the mail we've received lately is any indication, more than a few CFOs out there would revolt, too, if their companies didnt use Macintosh computers. Z “NASA saved $800,000 a year on maintenance alone 7 when we replaced their legacy system with a Macintosh \ system” says Steve Monteith, a member of the Research Triangle Institute’TechTracS Team. } And ifyou replace a Windows system with a Mac? According J, to arecent study by the Gartner Group, technical support costs for Macintosh tend to be 25% lower than support costs for Windows"* Even PC World magazine ranked Apple as one of the best for reli- ability and service among all makers of personal computers. See the future. Turn on a Mac. As they say, you can't simply rest on your laurels. So what’ next? Let’s start with Copland, our upcoming operating system: Copland won't just change the look of the Macintosh desktop; it will incorporate an entirely new technology called OpenDoc’ that will change the way you think about computers. (Sound like hype? Check out /2foWorld—they named OpenDoc the winner of the 1995 Landmark Technology Award.) And then there are the 53 new software patents we were awarded in 1995, patents on everything from wireless communication, power man- agement and manufacturing systems to data encoding, data compression and encryption. Thats more than enough innovation to bring another generation, or three, of intelligent business tools to market. The kinds of tools that keep your productivity up. Your costs down. The kinds of tools that keep your people motivated to push the limits.’To chal- lenge the unknown. 1d discover the unexpected. And bring it to market. You know, the same things we keep doing with Macintosh. Year after year. ~ Apple http://always. apple.com “The Power Maint 6100/66 DOS Compatible runs be Mac OS and Windows 3:1.“ receiv a copy ofthe Gartner Group stuty Tica Suppor Cass Dual- Platform Computing Environments cal! 800 232-9335. ‘Dont lok for afroducl named Caplan at your local rele ts only «4cnde name for our soon-to-be. released operating system. Substation for claims made in this ad on fle with Apple Computer Inc. ©1996 Apple Compute, In. Al righis reserved spp, te Apple logo, Macintst, QpenDoc and Paver Main arereiered trademarks of Ape Computer Ic. Mac is «trademark of pple Compute, nc. Power? a trademark of indernational Business Machines Corporation, used under license throm. All Macintosh computers ar designed o be accesible fo ndvxduals with csabiity learn more (US. ons), call 800-600-7808 or TTY 800-755-0601 PAGE 8 Ni Ews 03.18.96 MACWEEK Pair ship 2.6GB MO drives Seagate jumps By David Morgenstern Plasmon Data Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc. are entering the market with 2.6-Gbyte magneto-optical drives and jukeboxes. The drives use new ISO-standard 2.6- Gbyte media as well as older 1.3-Gbyte and 650-Mbyte 5.25-inch cartridges. We Have Stock For Immediate Shipment $ 1GB * 5400 RPM Winche: Drive ‘ate up to 5.5 MB id Photoshop lome 12ms Transfer For Pre-Press For Macintosh Includes Cartridge Internal - $54 Include al i) y External - $595. Built in a ProMax Cabinet With Built-In Power Supply 1 GB Carts - $109 2 GB Jaz Array - $1295 4 GB Jaz Array - $2395 Fast/Wide SCS! Host Adapters For Video Editing Optional ProMax Offers Wide Disk Arrays From 2 to 96 GB Compatible Wi Vision, Targa2000, and Media 1 2«Recorder + 4* Reader External With Toast Pro. | S995 Internal With Toast Pro. += S895 Combo CD-R + Jaz 1495 Premium CD-R Media Low as $729 Call For Information or to Place Order We Ship FedExpress ¢ Credit Cards Accepted 16 Technology Drive - #106 ¢ Irvine, CA 92718 Sony in April will ship two branded drives based on its SMO-F541 OEM mech- anism. Both drives have spindle speeds of 3,600 rpm and offer a sustained data trans- fer rate of 4 Mbytes per second. The $2,440 CMO-RS540-10 model uses a 1-Mbyte RAM | buffer, and the $3,070 CMO-R540-40 k 4-Mbyte buffer. Both drives use § technology, which redui head movement and boosts performance, Sony said. Plasmon’s recently released $1,899 Chee tah and $2,575 Cheetah Plus MO drives are based on MOST mechanisms. The Cheetah has a 1,900-rpm spindle speed and a sus tained data transfer rate of 2.1 Mbytes per second, Plasmon said. The Cheetah Plus has a spindle speed of 3,600 rpm and a sustained data transfer rate of 4 Mbytes per second. The drives come with Software Archi- tects Inc.'s FormatterOne Pro storage soft- ware and DOS Mounter file-exchange utility. Internal versions of both drives cost $100 less than the external models. In addition, Plasmon this month re- lea with capacities from 52 to 670 Gbytes A $7,995 entry-level jukebox holds 20 car- tridges and uses a single drive and picker. A high-end configuration with 258 slots, two pickersand a pair of drives is $53,000; the de- vice supports up to six drive mechanisms. While not bundled with Mac software, the jukeboxes are compatible with driver software from MacPeak and Software Ar- chitects, Plasmon said. In other news, Plasmon recently offered pre-press users a 45-day test drive of its PD/ CD drive, which handles both quadruple- speed CD-ROMs and 650-Mbyte Phase- change Dual cartridges. During the promo- tion, the drive is priced at $551 and a 10-pack of media is $590, Further information on the offer is available at (800) 445-9400, Ext. 3002. Sony Electronics Inc. of San Jose, Calif, is at (408) 432-1600 or (800) 352-7669; http:// cons3.sel.sony.com/SEL/cepg/index.html. Plasmon Data Inc. of San Jose, Calif., can be reached at (408) 474-0100 or (800) 445-9400; fax (408) 474-0111. ed a line of Cheetah MO jukeboxes | drive to 23GB By David Morgenstern gate Technology Inc. recently took the wraps off its Elite 23, a single drive with a capacity of 23 ( tes The highest-capacity member of the Elite OEM line, video applications, is expected to be re imed at server and digital in the third quarter, according to the § Valley, Calif.-based company. Although final pricing is not set, Seagate said it expects ) and $4,400. The mechanism will offer an average the drive to cost between $4,2' seek time of 13 milliseconds and provide sustained data transfer rates of 8 to 12 Mbytes per second, Seagate said. The 14- platter drive us tem that improves sustained data perfor- mance by reducing the need for thermal recalibration. The Elite 23 will have a 5,600-rpm spindle speed and use a 2-Mbyte adaptive cache. The forthcoming drive will include either Fibre in embeddet Servo sys- Channel Arbitrated Loop or eight- or 16-bit Ultra Si i According to the company, the new Elite will have an MTBF (mean time be- tween failure) of 800,000 hours, In drives with F second quarter, SI interfac Adition, eagate will release OEM st ATA-2 interfaces in the Seagate's forthcoming Elite 23 packs 23 | Gbytes on 14 platters stacked like flapjacks. MicroNet DataDock spans platforms By David Morgenstern MicroNet Technology Inc. this month will improve cross-platform support for its DataDock modular storage system and de- liver two new drives. The company is slated to release new DataDock file-transfer software for Mac, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Unix plat- forms. hard drive modules and other removable he software will let users mount media regardless of format. The new ver- sion will handle file-name conversion au- id. A DataDock purchased with the software will cost $930; current users can upgrade for $195. In other news, MicroNet will offer DDram, a new RAM-based solid-state drive module for DataDock 5. tomatically, MicroNet s: 5 systems, The 5.25-inch unit will sport capacities ranging from 192 to 832 Mbytes. Although 1 pricing is not set, MicroNet expects the RAM drive to cost about $100 per megabyte. The module will offer an average access time of 0.02 milliseconds and a sustained data transfer rate of 40 Mbytes per second with the company’s 16-bit Ultra SCSI PCI card, MicroNet said. The company will also release a 2.6-Gbyte The $2,995 SB- TMO-2600 offers average read and write magneto-optical drive. data transfer rates of 3.3 and 1.6 Mbytes per second, respectively. It has an average access time of 39 milliseconds, MicroNet said. MicroNet Technology Inc. of Irvine, Calif., is at (714) 453-6100; fax (714) 453- 6101; http://www.micronet.com | $2,159; it comes with Astarte GmbH’s STORAGE BEAT FWB unleashes HSM. FWB Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif. recently shipped its HSM ToolKit, which offers entry-level hierarchical stor- age management for Macs. The $79 software lets users of individual Macs and AppleShare servers transfer files automatically to a removable-media drive. The software sets rules for the movement of files to and from the external drive; users can also set “anchors” to selected applica tions and files so they always stay on the pri- mary hard drive (see 09.11.95, Page 6) In other news, FWB recently trimmed the cost of its hammerCD-R 4x CD- Recordable authoring system. Previously $3,099, the drive has a new price tag of Toast CD-ROM Pro authoring software. Phone (415) 833-4616; fax (415) 833-4655; sales@fwb.com; http://www.fwb.com: Procom cuts CD-R costs. Procom Tech- nology Inc. of Irvine, Calif, recently low- ered prices of its CD-R drives by up to 50 percent. Formerly $3,865, Procom’s quadruple-speed recorder is now $1,699; the 2x version is $999, down from $1,375. The drives do not come with authoring software, but Procom offers Optical Media Interna- | tional’s Quick TOPiX software for $249. Phone (714) 852-1000 or (800) 800-8600; fax (714) 852-1221; http//www.procom.com. Hard-rocking SCSI. Granite Digital of Union City, Calif., recently filled out its SCSI accessory lines with models sporting MicroD connectors. Providing active termination and line-diagnostic display, Granite’s SCSIVue terminator is now available with 50- or 68-pin MicroD connectors that cost $79 and $99, respec tively. New 3-foot SCSI Vue cables with both a 25-pin Mz and a 50-pin Mi crol) plug are $69 each. Phone (510) 471 6442; fax (510) 471-6267. By David Morgenstern There’s a world of information at your fingertips, and until now, no easy way to control it. Your Internet world — that personal collection of sites that defines who you are and what matters to you. With WebArranger™, you can capture, organize and control your Internet world. : N > 4 WebArranger works hand in hand with your Web browser and other Internet applications. Its agent technology checks important web sites or pages and notifies you of changes. 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PaGE 12 Graphics Applications © Publishing ¢ Multimedia Avid video card joins PCI throng MCXpress will work with high-end line By Carolyn Said Boarding the crowded PCI bus, Avid Technology Inc. this week will launch MCXpress, a digital video-editing system for Power Macintosh and Windows NT machines. MCXpress, due to ship in April, is based on a single PCI card. It will replace the company’s .$7,995 Media Suite Pro product, which used four NuBus cards. Unlike Media Suite Pro, MCXpress will be fully compati- ble with Avid’s higher-end Media Composer line, which sells for $30,000 to $100,000. Avid said users will be able to start a project in MCXpress, for example, then seamlessly transfer it to Media Composer to add real-time ef- fects. MCXpress will also come with a QuickTime compressor- decompressor, allowing users to employ QuickTime effects pack- ages, such as Adobe After Effects. The product will display 60-field, 732-by-486-pixelim- ages, making it suitable for broadcast applications, Avid said. Other features will include real- time audio equalization, four audio tracks, edit-decision-list support, batch digitizing and media management. MCXpress’ four video tracks will allow the system to offer built-in composit- ing, Avid said. The MCXpress software and PCI board will be $14,995; the software alone will be $6,995. Avid will also offer a $29,995 turnkey system that packages the hardware and software with a Power Mac 8500 sporting 48 Mbytes of RAM, a 1-Gbyte hard drive and a 17-inch monitor. Owners of Media Suite Pro will be able to buy MCXpress soft- ware and hardware for $5,000. The company is also planning an April debut for PCI versions of its Media Composer line. Avid Technology Inc. of Tewksbury, Mass.,can be reached at (508) 640-6789 or (800) 949- 2843; fax (508) 640-1366. 0 Chip sparks controversy for QuickDraw 3D cards By Kelly Ryer The QuickDraw 3D accelerator race has just begun, but already controversy is surrounding some of the underlying technology. The Glint 300SX chip, from San Jose, Calif.-based 3Dlabs Inc., is being used in boards from at least two manufacturers, but report- edly its performance with texture mapping is not ideal. YARC Systems Corp. of New- bury Park, Calif., which in Octo- ber released the Glint-based Screamer board, withdrew it from the market in February. Meanwhile, Newer Technologies is readying a board based on the same Glint chip. YARC cited several problems with the $995 Screamer, but mostly pointed to the board’s poor handling of textures in QuickDraw 3D, “It just didn’t handle texture mapping well,” said YARC CEO Trevor Mar- shall. “It wasn’t performance you should expect from a | YARC board.” Neil Trevett, 3Dlabs vice president of marketing, said: “The chip’s original market was CAD on the PC. The Mac market is different — people focus on animation and au- thoring, and that means tex- tures. [The 300SX] was never See 3-D cards, Page 16 Kodak, Epson, NewGen prep big inkjets By Matthew Rothenberg Output vendors have big things in store for Mac users in the mar- ket for oversize color. Eastman Kodak Co., Epson America Inc. and NewGen Sys- tems Corp. all unveiled large- format inkjet printers in February. > Epson unveiled the Stylus 1500, a $995 color inkjet with a maximum printing area of 13.6 by 21.78 inches. The CMYK printer offers a maximum resolution of 720 by 720 dpi and accommodates | 17-by-22-inch cut sheets or contin- uous forms measuring up to 16 inches wide. The printer ships standard with a bidirectional par- allel interface; LocalTalk or Ether- net interfaces can be bought for $149 or $499, respectively. The Sty- lus 1500 includes a 100-sheet input tray and a 30-sheet output tray. > Kodak announced plans to deliver the Kodak Digital Science 1000 PS in the second quarter for $12,995. The printer will be based on Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Design- Jet 755CM (see 09.25.95, Page 14). The device will combine the 755CM’s engine with Kodak Pre- cision Software. It will use CMYK ink cartridges and output 300-dpi PostScript images ranging from 8.5 by 11 inches to 3 by 9 feet on roll-fed coated paper or film. It will be able to print a 2-by-3-foot color print in 8 to 37 minutes. The 1000 PS will include Post- See Inkjets, Page 16 03.18.96 MACWEEK Point-S apps target pre-press market By Kristin Balleisen Point-S Inc., creator of Adobe PressWise, in February nounced two new offerings for the high-end pre-press market. ImagePoint 1.1, available for $595, is the first retail version of the company’s print-automation soft- ware. The product was previously available only through OEMs. The company said the software lets users drag and drop any continuous-tone image into a “hot” folder that monitors and prints the file to any PostScript device; this method lets users bypass printing from an image-editing or page- layout program, the company said. Users can “gang process” up to 144 images per page for scatter proofing or print images one at a time; the software lets users define three independent output configu- rations, Point-S said. ImagePoint lets users print jobs to three output devices simultaneously. ImagePoint lets users label each an- CMYK Squared will let pre- press users im- prove the ac- curacy of their color output by building their own four-color process-tint charts. image for identification. Users can also add crop and registration marks within the application. Point-S said ImagePoint 1.1 supports PostScript Level 2 in RIP separations as well as Luminous Corp.’s Color Central Open Pre- press Interface image-replacement servers. It supports TIFF, Desktop Color Separation, EPS and Scitex CT file formats. The company said a limited edition of ImagePoint 1.1 will be bundled with Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc.’s FirstLook proofer. Point-S also announced plans to deliver CMYK Squared 2.0 in the second quarter. The $119 software package will let users build cus- tomized process-color charts. Aimed at the on-demand print- ing market, CMYK Squared 2.0 will add custom page footers, which can include EPS graphics, a slug line and automatic page numbering, the company said. See Point-S, Page 16 By Kelly Ryer Just when you think all graphics applications must fi- nally be Power Mac-native, along comes another one: StrataType 3d goes native, drops price can import or extrude vector graphics in PICT or EPS StrataType 3d 2.5. Besides bringing its 3-D type program up to RISC speeds, Strata Inc. has cut the price of the soft- ware by almost two-thirds. StrataType 3d 2.5 is available now for $49, down from $149 for previous versions. Besides the native code and the price cut, the new version is iden- tical to its predecessors, Strata said. StrataType 3d lets users turn 2-D text into 3-D type. In addition, users StrataT ype 3d has gone native for one-third the price. format into 3-D forms. Once the text is three-dimensional, users can add beveled edges, apply lighting effects and textures, and bend or stretch the type. StrataType 3d’s alpha-channel support lets users composite their 3-D text with graphics in image-editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Fractal Design Corp.'s Painter. Strata Inc. of St. George, Utah, can be reached at (801) 628-5218 or (800) 678-7282; fax (801) 628-9756; http:/www.strata3D.com. Genesis MP. “My Link to Profits in Publishing” John Lund TeamDigital Genesis MP boosts productivity at Leo Burnett, Forbes, R.R. Donnelly, Disney, and others... Head-to-head tests show the Genesis MP faster than expensive systems from Sun and SGI! New titles for imaging, t : ‘ like John Lund need video editing and 3D effects” esis MP- the ultimate build the Genesis MP item for Mac OS advantage... fessionals... Genesis MP puts you on the é > q : n ition after leading edge...ahead of your competition! jon, Genesis MP rules! 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Let DayStar’s Genesis MP be the life preserver for your bottom line. http:// day Star.COM /fast.htm! ra estate ‘ Mac’ OS =: DAYSTAR D ©1996 DayStar Digital and TeamDigital, 5556 Atlanta Hwy., Flowery Branch, GA 30542, 770-967-2077, Fax: 770-967-3018 PAGE 14 GA- 03.18.96 MACWEEK Tailor GX lets users alter PostScript files By Kristin Balleisen A new Mac import from European devel- oper FirstClass NV promises to make ma- nipulating PostScript files a little easier with the help of QuickDraw GX. Tailor GX for the Macintosh is a $495 visual PostScript editor based on FirstClass’ INTEGRATE MACINTOSHES are e Naa! SGI /|IP Server to the Macs... product for NeXT workstations. The soft- ware lets users edit any PostScript graphic in either a preview or wireframe mode According to the Zwijnaarde, Belgium- based company, Tailor accepts PostScript or EPS files from almost any source and lets users make last-minute changes to page elements without returning to the original application. Users can save images as PostScript, EPS or Illustrator 3 graphics, the company said. [Re 2 I Te] 71 Tost Tailor GX lets users examine, reposition and edit any graphical element in a PostScript page. Tailor features path-editing tools that let users change outlines, edit masks and con- vert text toa path. The application’s graph- ics inspector lets use ily change colors, fonts and line thickness; users can also s lect, move, rotate and scale objects, the company said. The software can modify the color of any object; it recogni ind id. In ad- modifies spot colors, FirstClass dition, users can alter the placement of bit- mapped images within an EPS file. A document inspector detects PostScript errors so users can correct them. The current version does not support printing, however. The product requires System 7.5 or higher as well as Quick Draw GX 1.1.2; the company said it is developing a version of the PostScript editor that is not based on QuickDraw GX, although it declined to provide details. In North America, Tailor is distributed by EnFocus Software Inc. of Denver, which can be reached at (303) 861-2395 or (888) 363-6287; fax (303) 861-2393; info@enfoc s.com. 1 Polaroid sprints into midrange By Kri: Polaroid Electronic Imaging Systems last week announced a new midrange addition to its film-scanner lineup. The SprintScan 45 will ship this spring for $9,995, the company said. It will be able to scan positives, negatives and transparencies measuring from 35mm to 4 by 5 inches. The SprintScan 45 will use a third-party trilinear CCD (charge-coupled device) array to capture 12 bits each of RGB information per pixel in a single pass. It will feature a maximum optical res- olution of 2,000 by 4,000 dpi; via in- terpolation, the scanner will be able to | capture 4,000 by 4,000 dpi, Polaroid said. It will also feature a density range of 3.4. The SprintScan 45 will be able to scan a 2,000-dpi, 4-by-5 inch image in less than five minutes, Polaroid said. The SCS ¢ will come with a scanning plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. It will also ship with four- and one-up 35mm, 6 4-by-5-inch holders. dev Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., | can be reached at (617) 386-2000 or (800) 816-2611; fax (617) 386-9339; http://www. polaroid.com. Projector brightens Sharp lineup Sharp Electronics Corp. in February un- veiled a bright new addition to its LCD projector line. The XG-E630U, slated to ship this month for less than $5,000, is based on a new 6.4-inch, 24-bit-color TFT (thin-film transistor) active-matrix LCD panel witha resolution of 640 by 480 pixels. The device includes a 330-watt metal- halide lamp. According to Sharp, the pro- jector’s design lets it output 300 lumens to project images up to 150 inches, measured diagonally. The XG-E630U supports NTSC, PAL. (European) and SECAM (French) video andards. It handles composite and ideo, VGA, compressed Super VGA, and Mac signals. The projector includes a 5-watt amplifier and stereo speakers and will ship with a res 13,8 by 8.3 by 5 pound Sharp Electronics Corp. of Mahwah, NJ., can be reached at (201) 529-8731; fax (201) 529-9636; proled@sharpsec.com. 5 Focus on color: Sharp's XG-E630U projector uses a custom LCD panel that boosts the de- vice's projection capabilities to 300 lumens. by-6 and 6-by-7-centimeter, and | business clip art with Crip ART BEAT Strength in numbers. Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based * Nova Development : by Corp. has launched Art Explosion 40,000, a five CD-ROM set that includes 40,000 royalty-free images for $89.95. Browser applications are in- cluded. Phone (818) 591-9600 or (800) 395-6682; fax (818) 591-8885. Ahill of beans. Screen Beans from A. Bit Better Corp. of Los Altos, Calif., comprises three collections of generalized human figures. Each of the more than 300 images is about 2 Kbytes in size. Each collection is $24.95, and all three are $59.95, Phone (415) 948-4766; fax (415) 917-0151; beans@bitbetter.com. Ring in the old. Olde Worlde Orna- ments I is the latest offering from Aridi Computer Graphics Inc. The ninth clip-art CD- ROM from the Dallas- based company costs $149 and contains 300 designs grouped into six categories. Phone (214) 404-9171; fax (214) 404-9172. Clip-art clippings. Calgary, Alberta- based Image Club Graphics Inc. has re- leased a host of new collections. Sketches On the Town, Businessville, Sketches Around the World and Schoolsville are $99 cach. The two-volume Hoopla! Cuts and Hoopla! Splash dise costs $179. Plastic ‘Thought Inc. of Edmonton, Al- berta, has introduced its 3d-Active 3-D clip-art CD-ROM for $79.95. The 54 mod- els are in 3DMF (3-D metafile format) and DXF (Drawing Interchange File) formats. The Art Center of Baxter, lowa, has a library of 50,000 images on 10 unlockable CD-ROMs for $129.95. Each image is $5.95; 25 free images are included. — By Kelly Ryer OUR QUALITY SPEAKS VOLUMES New Nikon Coolscan’ll. High-speed 35mm scans at an affordable price. COOLSCAN Il SUPER COOLSCAN’ For LOW-Volume For HiGH-Volume Applications Applications Coolscan II features precision autofocus and high- and razor sharp definition that has become synonymous speed 8-bit digital signal processing for fast single- with all Nikon scanners. pass scanning. This affordable personal scanner will produce high-quality, professional results for For high-volume professional scanning, Nikon Super the home-office. It provides 2,700 dpi color scans Coolscan provides 12-bit processing, 40-second* scan from full-frame 35mm slides and negatives in just times and the optional SF-100 Auto Slide Feeder for 80 seconds.* unattended scanning of up to 50 slides Coolscan II, like in sequence. Super Coolscan, features LED illumi- nation and Nikon Scan software for comprehensive con- trol and ease of use. But most importantly, you get the excep- tional color fidelity, superb shadow detail To find out more about the Coolscan family of quality 35mm slide scanners, new Coolscan II, Super Coolscan and Coolscan, call 1-800-52 NIKON or (516) 547-4355. Scanned on Coolscan IL ELECTRONIC IMAGING Speeds can be faster or slower depending on system configuration. ©1996 Nikon Inc cE 2 ON [TORS COLE PAGE 16 03.18.96 MACWEEK Adobe withdraws updater By James Staten Adobe Systems Inc. apparently jumped the gun this month when it shipped an update to PageMill, the company’s HTML editor. Adobe announced last week that it has pulled the PageMill 1.0.1 updater from its POWERSHOP servers because it failed to correct a bug that corrupts files. Kevin Wandryk, Adobe director of business development for Internet products, said the bug affects only users of 680x0-based Macs. A corrected updater, Version 1.0.2, should be available on-line this week. Image Processing Acceleratio For The Next Generation ()) eRWARD The Fastest Acceleration Solution Available For Adobe Photoshop ee 2. Award winning PowerShop— accelerates: ju) ¢ Adobe Photoshop functions 1000% over the fastest Mac. ¢ Kodak digital cameras up to 8 times. om Y Ifyou're a service bureau, digital photographer, or graphic artist involved in serious imaging in Adobe Photoshop, your time is MONEY. Don't spend it watching the progress bar! PowerShop utilizes the power of not two, not four, but 64 processors working in parallel to provide blazing Photoshop performance. Just ask Ed Lupo, president of Graphic Arts Associates, Inc. of Memphis. “After installing PowerShop, the progress bar literally disappeared on most compute intensive functions. I've seen a 75% increase in our imaging production, which gives us more time to be creative and get the job done ahead of schedule. My customers like that... I love it!” See what PowerShop can do for your next imaging project — visit our web site at http/Avww.asi.com, or call 1-800-482-6277 for more information. THE POWER OF 64 Adaptive Solutions’ 1400 N.W. Compton Drive * Suite 340 * Beaverton, Oregon U.S.A. 97006 PowerShop is a trademark of Adaptive Solutions, Inc. Adaptive Solutions is a registered trademark of ‘Adaptive Solutions, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners, Wandryk said the file-corruption bug may also be present in SiteMill. To stave off any problems, Adobe said, a patch for the company’s Web-site-administration tool is also in the works. “Even though the number of customers who called about the bug is relatively small, we decided to be proactive in pulling the updater and getting the second one up there as quickly as we can,” Wandryk said. Adobe Systems Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., can be reached at (415) 961-4400; fax (415) 961-3769; httpy//www.adobe.com. £1 Point-S In addition, the upgrade will let users export color swatches to Adobe Page- Maker and Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and Macromedia FreeHand. According to sources, an OEM version of the software will be bundled with East- man Kodak Co.’s DCP 9000 proofing sys- tem (see 10.16.95, Page 12). Users of the current version will be able to upgrade for $49.95. Founded in 1995, Point-S is a successor to Emulation Technologies Inc. of C! land, which developed the PressWise page-imposition software for Aldus Corp. of Seattle before that company was quired by Adobe Systems Inc. of Mountain View, Ca From Page 12 ne. of Cleveland can be reached at (206) 353-9266 or (800) 905-3339; fax (206) 513-0731; http://www.point-s.com; info@point-s.com. 0 3-D cards designed to support texture mapping.” Newer's RenderPix board, due in May for about $1,200, will use the Glint300SX. and the Glint Delta, a “setup processor” that assists the main chip by calculating the slope of triangles and converting floating- point operations to six-point math. Ac: cording to Newer, the board will be able to render 300,000 triangles per second. The RenderPix board will come with 2 Mbytes each of video RAM frame buffer and dynamic RAM local buffer. Optional daughtercards will increase both buffers to 8 Mbytes. Atlanta-based Mentor Software Inc. is building the RenderPix board for Newer. David Amis, Mentor president, said: “The problems with QuickDraw 3D texture mapping will be true with any 300SX board. Even the Delta won’t help.” Texture-hungry QuickDraw 3D users may find relief in the Glint 500TX, the next-generation chip from 3Dlabs. The chip, expected this spring, is specially de- signed to accelerate texture mapping. From Page 12 Newer is reportedly developing a new | QuickDraw 3D accelerator based on the 500TX. Sources said that board makers will be able to easily substitute the new chip for the 300SX. Newer Technology of Wichita, Kan., can be reached at (316) 685-4904 or (800) 678-3726; fax (316) 685-9368; hetp:// www.newertech.com. DeltaGraph 4.0 adds functions DeltaPoint Inc. this month will deliver a | new version of its charting and presenta- tion program. DeltaGraph 4.0 will feature a variety of new text- and graphics-handling tools, en- hanced analysis options, and greater inte- gration with other software packages. Version 4.0 of the $195 software package will let users rotate text 360 degrees, place grids over any 2-D data graph, zoom in to 400 percent and drag axes to any position. The new will also support broken-axis charts, draw. symbol charts version faster and let users import data directly into cells. It will feature 10 new chart types and process more than 30,000 rows of data. A new DesignScience Equation Editor will let users add mathematical formulas to charts. It will support Microsoft Excel 5.0. Upgrades to DeltaGraph 4.0 are $49.95 tousers of Version 3.5 and $79.95 to others. DeltaPoint Inc. of Monterey, Calif, can be reached at (408) 648-4000; fax (408) 648- 4020; http/www.deltapoint.com. Inkjets From Page 12 Script Level 2 and 39 Type I fonts. It will use a 16-MHz Intel 960iCF RISC chip and ship with 68 Mbytes of RAM for image processing as well asa 3-Mbyte buffer. The printer will come with HP’s multiprotocol JetDirect network interface card NewGen unveiled a 36-inch-wide digital proofing system, still unnamed, that the company said will ship in the second quarter for less than $40,000. The proofer will feature a CMYK inkjet printer with a resolution of 300 dpi and in- clude a stand-alone PostScript Level 2 RIP based on a Pentium PC. The RIP will inte- grate the company’s ChroMatch color- matching technology as well as its stochastic- screening algorithms. Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., can be reached at (716) 726-7260 or (800) 235-6325; http://www.kodak.com. Epson America Inc. of Torrance, Calif, can be reached at (310) 782-0770 or (800) 289-3776; fax (310) 782-5220. NewGen Systems Corp. of Costa Mesa, Calif., can be reached at (714) 641-8600; fax (714) 641-2800. 0 Epson’s Stylus 1500 can print CMYK images measuring up to 13.6 by 21.78 inches. We offer unsurpassed digital image quality. (And by the looks of it, quantity too.) The DCS 465 digital camera back is compatible with medium format cameras (HASSELBLAD, MAMIYA) and 4 x 5 view cameras, It offers 6 million pixel resolution, and works with professional flash systems. . = a~ The DC50 zoom camera is our newest point-and-shoot, It comes with three levels of image resolution, and a 3:1 200m lens. PCMCIA-ATA compatible card optional a The DCS 420 digital camera sports 1.5 million pixel resolution, Kodak didn’t start out with this many digital cameras. We started out with one. The first megapixel digital camera ever built, in 1986. and an initial continuous burst rate Since then, we’ve i seconde: The of 5 images in 2 perfect NIKON camera partner. made cameras for NASA, for professional photographers, for medical professionals, desktop publishers, and business people. And as we've created cameras to meet different needs, our digital camera family has grown. While Kodak Digital Science™ cameras vary from high-end to point-and-shoot, what they share are the very things that make them Kodak cameras. A commitment to preserve image quality through every stage of the digital process. And the technology to make it so. Technology including a sensor designed for computer images, not video output, that captures fine detail. A color filter array pattern that The EOS-DCS 5 digital camera works seamlessly with CANON auto focus lenses, offers 1.5 million pixel ontinuous burst rate of 10 images in just over 4 seconds. a~ resolution, and a cc v Kodak digital science~ ~ The DCS 460 digital camera offers 6 million pixel resolution, and a high sensitivity for shadow and derail, Our premier : holds images true to digital camera form while mini- mizing pixellation. A patent-pending compression algo- rithm, that prevents The DC40 camera offers a choice of snapshot and high-resolution pictures, data loss during 380,000 pixel images, 24-bit color, and a focus-free lens. Our most Su yee storage. And of course, Kodak’s color expertise, responsible for our rich, true, saturated palette. Together, this technology captures and protects images like no other single-shot digital camera, resulting in unsurpassed picture ic appears, the DC40 takes honors as easily as it takes pictures. quality that you can only get from Kodak. To find out more about our full line of Kodak Digital Science cameras, call us at 1-800-322-2177 ext. 602 in the United States, 1-800-465-6325 ext. 36100 in Canada. Or visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.kodak.com/ TAKE PICTURES. FURTHER. ‘© Eastman Kodak Company, 1996. Kodak, Digital Science and the ds monogram symbol are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company. | | | = Gateways PAGE 18 Networking © Operating Systems ® Databases INTERNET WHO? On-line service subscriptions reached nearly 15 million in 1995, up 87 percent from ‘94. — Simba Information Inc. 03.18.96 MACWEEK Motorola, Chase, RNS to chip in By Joanna Pearlstein This spring a field of ISDN offer- ings will blossom for Mac users. Chase Research Inc. and RNS, formerly a division of Rockwell In- ternational Corp., will make their debuts in the Mac market, while Motorola Inc.’s Information Sys- tems Group will add to its lineup. Chase Research Inc. in April will ship the $425 NetChaser, an external ISDN, or Integrated Ser- vices Digital Network, terminal adapter. This dual-channel exter- nal device provides throughput up to 128 Kbps. A built-in NTI lets users connect their terminal adapters directly to the wall out- let. Two analog POTS (plain old telephone service) jacks are also By Joanna Pearlstein Apple will expand support for ISDN connections in Apple Re- mote Access 2.1, due this summer. The 2.1 release (see 02.26.96, Page 16) will support ISDN, or Integrated Services Digital Net- work, connections up to 128 Kbps. Bug fixes and additional modem scripts will also be in- cluded in the release. According to Ravi Rishy- Maharaj, Apple product manager for connectivity and telephony, the current version of ARA can support ISDN speeds only up to 19.2 Kbps — about one-sixth of the 128-Kbps maximum speed most dual-channel ISDN termi- nal adapters can achieve. “The speed before depended to a great extent on the serial driver that ARA was working with,” said Rishy-Maharaj. “It was partially because we didn’t have modem scripts to support 28.8-Kbps connections. We just Spring bloom of ISDN cards provided for connecting §tele- phones, modems or fax machines to the device. RNS in April will introduce two as-yet-unnamed ISDN cards aimed at the pre-press market. Both products will be offered in PCI and NuBus flavors and are See ISDN, Page 22 Chase Research's NetChaser is an ISDN terminal adapter that supports connection speeds up to 128 Kbps. ARA 2.1 to support ISDN didn’t have the scripts done.” Support for 128-Kbps ISDN connections is also offered in Ver- sion 2.1 of the ARA MultiPort Server, which was released in February. Apple said ISDN sup- port would be added to the ARA Personal Server this summer. “What we've seen is an upsurge | in the marketplace [for] ISDN,” Rishy-Maharaj said. “Services are available at a low cost point, and our customers would like to lever- age that infrastructure.” Rishy-Maharaj noted that a bug in Open Transport 1.0x pre- vented ARA 2.x clients from using some network services. The problem has been addressed in Open Transport 1.1, which was recently released as part of System 7.5.3 (see 03.11.96, Page 14). Sources said Apple will add Point-to-Point Protocol support to ARA 3.0, reportedly due late this year or early next year. Apple de- clined to comment on ARA 3.0.0 Apple deals Netscape, Microsoft — token-ring PCI card Apple this month gave PCI Mac users a way to join token-ring networks with its PCI card for token-passing LANs. The $495 PCI card is based on IBM Corp.’s token-ring chip set and includes an autosensing fea- ture that detects whether the de- vice is connected to a 4- or 16- Mbps network. The card has a built-in connector for Type 3 ca- bling and an adapter for hooking up toa Type | network. Apple bundled System 7.5.3 and Open Transport with the card; both are required. The card also comes with PCI network- installer software. It is compatible with Power Mac 7500, 8500 and 9500 models but not the Power Mac 7200, ac- cording to Apple. Navigator tricks raise concerns feature called HTTP Cookie to the Mac. These two capabilities are at the heart of the controversy. JavaScripts can be sent to a browser whenever a particular page is requested. These scripts can perform a range of tasks from scrolling text to launching an applet. However, in between these mostly harmless functions are capabilities that By James Staten Is Big Brother watching your activity on the Inter- net? Two recently revealed capabilities of Net- scape Navigator 2.0 are raising concerns over Web browsing privacy. The latest version of Netscape Communica- tions Corp.’s Web browser adds JavaScript and a court on-line services By James Staten America Online Inc. and CompuServe Inc. are joining with Net- scape Communica- tions Corp., Micro- [ soft Corp. and AT&T Corp. to in- crease the appeal of their on-line offerings. AOL of Vienna, Va., last week licensed two Web browsers, Navigator from Mountain View, Calif.- based Netscape and Internet Explorer from Redmond, Wash- based Microsoft. Through a new version of the AOL client, mem- bers will be able to choose either tool as their default Internet browser instead of the browser currently bundled with the ser- vice. Version 3.0 of the Mac AOL, client, due this summer, will be the first to offer the choice Columbus, Ohio-based Compu- Serve said members of its Compu- Serve Information Service and SpryNet will be able to choose ei- ther application as their default in- tegrated browser, as well. Currently, CompuServe users See On-line, Page 20 some say border on inva- Cookie mon- ster: Webmas- ters like Andy Kington of Power Mac Pac can use Netscape’s HTTP Cookie function to store infor- mation in the client's Web browser such as user name and pass- word or a shopping list. sion of privacy. For example, several Webmasters have re- ported using JavaScript to retrieve a user's e-mail ad- dress, real name and infor- mation from the Netscape cache file, which docu- ments a user’s movements on the Web. 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PAGE 20 Gateways 03.18.96 MACWEEK Shiva diversifies remote-access offerings By Joanna Pearlstein Shiva Corp. this month expanded its re- mote-access offerings with a new server, ISDN modules and an update to its operat- ing system. The company last week shipped Web- Rover, a remote-access system designed for both intranet and Internet use. Starting at $5,999, the system includes a LanRover remote-access server, an Internet router and a security fire wall from Raptor Systems Inc. The LanRover provides dial-in and dial- out, analog, and ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) remote access functions. MacNFS" teaches your Macintosh and UNIX to share. Not long ago, Macintosh and UNIX machines were about as compatible as, well you know. Now, you can achieve true NFS connectivity with MacNFS from TSS. MacNFS lets users share information with multiple-vendored UNIX machines as if they were on a local Macintosh volume. + The only Open Transport Ready NFS client available + Shares data with UNIX, DOS, and Windows applications + The fastest and most reliable NFS client for the Macintosh + MacNKFS is as easy to use as AppleShare For an immediate NFS solution for your Macintosh, contact us today! Thursby Software Systems, Inc. 5840 West Interstate 20 « Arlington, TX 76017 U.S.A. Facsimile: (817) 561-2313 « Internet: sales@thursby.com * www: http://www.thursby.com MacOS ©1996 Thursby Software Systems, Inc. Mac and the Mac OS logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., used under license. yisx sy . ¢ Telephone: (817) 478-5070 It supports Internet Protocol, IPX and Apple Remote Access. WebRover’s Inter- net functionality comes from the included Shivalntegrator 200, a leased-line router that provides up to Tl, or 1.5-Mbps speeds. The included fire wall options from Raptor Systems of Waltham, Mass., offer z application-level filtering to prevent unau- thorized network access. Also last week Shiva shipped $729 Basic Rate Interface ISDN modules for the Lan- Rover/PLUS. These modules add ISDN compatibility to the LanRover/PLUS and support a variety of ISDN devices on the client side. By combining two B channels the modules can transmit data at speeds up to 128 Kbps. Finally, Shiva has released Version 4.0 of the operating system for it servers, ShivOS 4.0, which adds ISDN support; MultiLink Point-to-Point Protocol integration; en- hanced data compression; and Tariff Man- agement, a technology designed to mini- mize ISDN costs. Shiva Corp. of Bedford, Mass., can be reached at (617) 270-8300 or (800) 977- 4482; fax (508) 788-1539; sales@shiva.com; http/www.shiva.com. 3 On-line From Page 18 are free to choose any browser, since the MacCIM 2.x client does not provide an in- tegrated Web solution. However, Version 3.0, due this quarter, will allow users to in- stall a browser that can be accessed directly from within MacCIM. In return for these new deals, Netscape and Microsoft will form marketing part- nerships with the two services. AOL’s agreements give the on-line service company a prominent position on the Netscape Web site and an in-the- box position with Windows 95. Compu- Serve will be listed as one of the default Internet service providers in Netscape’s retail product, Navigator Personal Edi- tion. CompuServe will also be the only provider bundled with the international version of Navigator. Other financial, co-marketing and technology-sharing efforts were also part of the deals. AOL said that as part of its agreement with Microsoft, it will adopt ActiveX technologies, designed to bring animation, video and 3-D to the Internet. In turn, Microsoft will license the ART compression technologies from AOL sub- sidiary Johnson-Grace Co. Meanwhile, AOL signed a second agreement last week that will allow mem- bers of AT&T’s WorldNet Internet access service to sign on to AOL for a reduced rate. AOL did not disclose what the lower monthly fee will be; the WorldNet service should be available early this summer. CompuServe said it is also in talks with Basking Ridge, NJ.-based AT&T to bring WorldNet users onto its information service. “None of these are exclusive deals,” said Gene DeRose, president of Jupiter Com- munications Inc. of New York. “It has more to do with enabling options for users than anything else.” In related news, AOL announced that a new version of its Mac client will ship this spring. Version 2.7 will have an update to the current AOL Web browser developed by InterCon Systems Corp. of Herndon, Va. The browser will support HTML ta- bles and include a new, easier-to-use book- marks interface. 3) | It’s incredible what Specular products just might be the best-loved graphics software on the Macintosh. 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