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Now, wherever your mind goes your computer will follow even faster Sie: FRET ae ee ae ue The job of a great operating system is to get out of the way. To let can open PC files (including Windows 95 files) without the applica- you fashion ideas, unencumbered by process. Nothing does that _ tions in which they were created. Mac OS 7.6 also makes the job better than Mac® OS 7.6. It not only raises ‘intuitive’ to new _installation of an operating system simpler than it has ever been: and exciting heights, it’s also a major advance in the ease with in just a few steps you'll have access to QuickTime® applications, which powerful new functions can be deployed on your desktop. Apple® Open Transport, the OpenDoc” program, Cyberdog™ Now you can bring live web pages into your OpenDoccom- —_ software’. . . all the latest advances from Apple. patible documents and have them automatically updated, New Enrich your ideas by enhancing your computer. Buy the pleas- virtual memory management allows you to launch r) ingly affordable Mac OS 7.6 at your local Apple software your applications up to 40% faster, and your “Print” Pang reseller or call 1-800-482-6376 ext. 1421. For more commands will execute up to 35% faster” And you information, visit us on the web at wwwapple.com. . A In Canada please call 1-800-361-6075 ext, 260. ssp omare to Spe 75 Laser 4 pring oon, Cyberog & Open Powe FC ons © 199 Claris Corporation, {i ights Reserved, Apple, th Ape log, Ma, Macinosh, OpenDoe nd QuickTime ar regteed dears and Cerda ademck of Apple Compe Ine San Francisco to Boston in 1,509 milliseconds! What's with all the traffic? ame* ‘We don't think this is exactly what it ‘means to be a multitasking modem. Rollin’, rollin’, rollin, keep that data movin’. MARCH 1997 highlights 34 Hopping Online You've heard about this Internet thing, and you're curious. But you're also intimidated by the new-fangled jargon. Here’s everything you need to know to get connected without a glitch. BY DAVID REYNOLDS 40 Now That You’re Wired... Getting connected is only the start of your Internet journey. Now it’s time to set up browsers and e-mail software, and figure out what’s up with newsgroups, and... Eek! Use our detailed guide to set up your system flawlessly. BY JOSEPH O. HOLMES 52 Teach Your Old Modem New Tricks Better than stupid printer tricks. Make your modem be quiet, dial numbers reliably, and perform other little-known tricks. BY KEVIN M. SAVETZ 58 This Old Mac Part Two in our series on how to squeeze more use out of older Macs. This month we revamp the SE/30. BY T. KELLEY BOYLAN 88 Use AppleScript Everyone in Hollywood has a script. Our tutorial will snow you how to make an AppleScript for your Mac that will actually see production. BY KATHY TAFEL 94 Make a Custom Palette Well, shoot. Mac and PC browsers can display only 216 colors correctly. Use DeBabelizer to set up a custom 216-color palette and then convert numerous Web graphics to it at once. Silly Wabbit, a watched packet never boils! There's life left in that old $SE/30 yet. Find out what you can do to keep this Mac alive and kicking. Cover image produced by ‘Tom White, the proud new father of twin Rats 81/110 computers, every month 10 102 120 the disc 14 Editor’s Note The verdict is in—Be is out, and Next is next. Letters You know, they just keep coming. What's up with that? Get Info Hot news, cool contests, and a couple of surprises as well. Cravings Need it. Want it. Got-to-have-it gizmos. (Did we say we like them, too?) Reviews Nisus Writer 5, Digital Harbor's Wav, Fractal Design Expression, Adobe Acrobat 3.0, a passel o’ personal information managers, Farallon’s Netopia ISDN Modem, Apple’s eMate 300, and more, more, more. Ask Us How Easy Open works, a simple way to open read-only TeachText files by dragging them onto Word, everything you need to know about 32-bit addressing, and other handy dandy tips. PowerPlay We talk with Inverse Ink and find out how it’s planning to make comic books cult classics on CD. Shut Down Wit and humor on the same page each and every month. Yo! Here's your source for more than 30 online utilities. Plus check out our usual assortment of hot shareware, System software, and working demos. For your older Mac, some blanc et noir games. Don’t forget to click around—find the hot spot and enter to win Klondike Gold. http://www.macaddict.com 23 Now that the new and improved MacAddict Web site is more than just a gleam in our eye and a scribble on a napkin (or two), we take you on a quick tour. We show you where to find the latest news, how the sections are organized, and what on earth the just-added Clubhouse holds. 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CD-ROM format. Limited edition only. Information and prices subject to change without notice. © 1996 NewSof,, Inc. NewSoft, Presto!, & Magic Within are trademarks of NewSoft Inc. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies. All rights reserved. 7) Your next Mac OS might just be the NextStep OS. Is that a good thing? thas been a year since Gil Amelio tock the helm of Apple Computer, bound and determined to turn around the troubled company. During that year, Amelio has returned Apple to profitability, reorganized, hired new top managers, and above all, closed 1996 with one of those big bangs that is literally heard around the world—he bought Next, the company run by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In the deal, he got the NextStep operating system, the com- pany’s employees (includ- ing several very talented engineers), and, of course, Steve Jobs. Well, hallelujah! Actually, I wish I could be that happy about the acquisition. Instead, I’m optimistic. There’s a lot that’s good about this deal. Apple was critically late with System 8, the version of System software that was slated to introduce important technological changes. Now, with the acquisition of NextStep, Ellen Hancock, Apple's chief technology officer, estimates that the company will be able to produce a merged Mac OS/NextStep system that incorporates many critical technologies sometime in 1997 (we'd bet that means late 1997). With NextStep, Apple gains much of the technology it was trying to develop in-house. Key among those technologies is virtual memory that works, pre-emptive multitask- ing, and protected memory. With pre-emptive multitasking, the System will let you do two or more things at once——for example, play a QuickTime movie while printing—and neither operation will slow down noticeably. With protected memory, your Mac should crash far less often, even if you do install Microsoft Office, Netscape Navigator, q <i Without the $400 million deal, Steve Jobs would have taken Next public. This ain’t charity work for him. 6 MacADDICT and Now Utilities. In addition, other NextStep advantages (such as support for Java and an object- oriented development environment) are being touted as excellent tools to get corpora- tions more aligned with the Mac. Indeed, NextStep’s greatest success is in the corporate arena, particularly within financial services companies. Java will enable intranets, and objects will allow corporations to easily create custom applications. These benefits may be enough to allow Apple to, worst case, hold on to the corporate accounts that it does have or, best case, actually become a viable force in corporations. What worries me, however, is that it is unclear how much of a Mac addict Hancock, a 28-year veteran of IBM, is—or can learn to be. For example, in a press conference late last year, Hancock would not commit to supporting either QuickDraw or QuickTime in this new system. NextStep uses Display PostScript to show images onscreen, unlike the Mac's QuickDraw standard. While Display PostScript is a more widely accepted standard than is QuickDraw, it can be a slow, bulky resource hog. Then, of course, there’s the compatibility issue—an issue that’s central in determining Apple's success with its OS strategy. According to Hancock, the first version of the new OS will run on all currently shipping Macs. But is there a Pentium in the Mac’s future? After all, that’s what NextStep runs on. No one at Apple has said. Note, however, that just because the new OS will run on newer model Macs doesn’t mean your applications will run on the new OS. No currently shipping applications will run on the first version of the Mac OS/NextStep system. True backward compatibility likely won't happen until 1998—and if Apple doesn’t ensure that current applications can run on the new system soon after its introduction, well, the company is basically shooting the Mac in the head. But wait! Apple has Steve Jobs, doesn’t it? And he reports directly to Gil Extra Macs? nan, sorry Amelio, just as Hancock does, doesn’t he? ‘The Mac will sill be the Mac, only better, right? How much Jobs will influence the direction of the Mac OS is unclear. Next was struggling when Jobs decided to sell. Without the $400 million deal, Jobs would have taken Next public in order to raise money. This ain’t charity work for Jobs. And Amelio is in no hurry to make a big deal out of Jobs’ return. In fact, it has been made very clear that Jobs is only a part-time consultant, not a full-time employee, nor in any way is he heading up technology and development, Why? The simple fact that if Wall Street thought for one minute that Jobs was back in full force at Apple, Apple’s stock would plummet. Wall Street doesn’t like visionaries—it likes managers. What's going to happen? Hopefully, Hancock and Amelio will be smart enough to use what's good in NextStep while maintaining backward compatibility with current Mac applications and keeping a Mac-like interface and some of the proven technologies, such as QuickTime, that have kept Apple strong. Hopefully, Amelio will remain focused on smart results, and not be distracted by minor technologies or issues. One thing we'll say for sure, though, Amelio sure knows how to start a new year. We'll attend his parties any time. —Cheryl England Easy Web Publishing! Drag Frame It! Point & click to select & size frames. Drag & drop to put content into frames. Picture It! Drag & drop images from Presto! PageManager or Netscape Navigator™. Copy/Paste It! ——_ Copy & paste text from any Macintosh application. Video It! 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Fax: (510) 623.7350 This Month Reading the mail is now among our favorite things to do. We love your stories, ‘your comments, your jokes. We only wish we had more space to run all of your responses. We also love the marriage proposals and will gladly accept indulgent praise and sensitive crit- icism. Write to us at: MacDudes, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, GET ON, GET ACTIVE. Talk eisaer Brisbane, CA 94005, or send e-mail MacAddicts £0 </etters@macaddict. com>. For oie. CD-ROM or subscription queries, Web site. please call our customer service department at 415-468-4869. TaLk To Me, Basy Sometimes I talk to my Mac. —Ban Kantor SIGHTED Y. _RECENTL Oh no.... Help me. I think I’m slowly becoming an addict... [usually work on my Mac in preparation for the next day’s activities, However, a few days ago, I started up my machine and just played around...opening windows...clos- ing windows...opening.... I also spent time shuffling folders around, using “Get Info” to see how much memory each application was using, and perusing file after file... What did I accomplish? Well, technically nothing.... OK...1 admit it...gosh darn it. I just enjoy my machine. How many Windows users can honestly say they enjoy their machines enough to conduct the activities noted above? —Mantin SARKAR Boy, We BLew It There MUST be some mistake! I was able to “remove” this month’s CD-ROM from its sleeve—WITHOUT TEARING THE CARDBOARD! This has GOT to stop! If such “looseness” continues, why, CDs will be slipping out at Biron recor Mi Hey, Jer-—tI need your Mac. As seen on TV... Kenny Kramer, the real-life inspiration for the wacky Cosmo Kramer on “Seinfeld,” sports a Power Mac of his own. When he’s not making grand entrances, Kenny can he spotted giving tours of New York sites featured in the Thursday night sitcom. Let's hope he has better luck with elec- trical gadgets than does his television persona. (We always ‘knew that the Mac was the best window to the soul of humor.) 10 MacADDICT Other folks might say, “get a life.” But we love the time you spend with us. incredibly inopportune and embarrassing moments. And it goes without saying that your more unscrupulous readers will be sticking them 4, brazenly into their CD-ROM drives with a casual flick of the wrist. 4 Please, please, @ PLEASE... get some = control over your sleeve manufacturer. =" Get out your calipers and micrometers, and let's get these tolerances down tighter! After all, if we REALLY want to see what's on the CD, we ought to have TO WORK FOR IT, to prove we're worthy... —SuawN “RustyBEar” SMITH Hey, watch it or we'll glue the CDs in next time. You AGain? Last J left you, I told you that I had been sent back to the streets due to my incompat- ibility with the office/PC geek environment, so here’s something that happened today. As I was sitting down to eat my lunch (a healthy serving of the four food groups: burgers, fries, milkshake, and cookies), I was set upon by a gaggle...now there’s a strange word, gaggle.. .gagglegagglegagele....er, sorry. So I was set upon by a gaggle of PC Vampire/Zombies who commenced to try to hypnotize me by spewing forth vile PC data as to why the PC is better than the Mac. (Obviously, their zombie-ism has destroyed all common sense, along with good fashion sense.) Luckily, I always carry a copy of “MacAddict,” which I quickly rolled into a cylindrical weapon and began to swat away at these creatures, while simultaneously chant- ing, “LEAPPAY ACMAY ESRULAY,” as I was taught by an ancient band of Mac monks while traveling through Asia, but that’s another lie... .er...story. So I’m beating away at these creatures as I'm heading toward my Mac Mobile (actually, it's just my bike, but the story sounds better if 1 say Mac Mobile), knocking them down left and right, leaving the Mark of Apple on their ugly yuppie faces ...actually, this is where the story ends, since this is when building security asked me to quit swatting at the yuppies that were having lunch and told me that I would be forcibly removed if I didn't settle down. As always, Apple rules, PC stands for Pathetic Computer, and IBM stands for It Bites My...(you fill in the blank). —Reupen Reynoso Wuat? No! Will you buy me a PowerTower Pro 225 and a PowerBook 1400? —Perer pr BLANC By the way, I need my own Mac. Could you send me a 7600/132? Any dual-scan monitor will do. —Cray ANDRES have a Performa 630CD, and I can’t run any of the cool, phat graphics programs on it (or any of the cool, phat games). So I was wondering if, uh, maybe you guys could, like, give me, uh, that PowerTower Pro 225 that you tested (Jan/97, p64). —Nick ELPRIN (Mac-Boy), SAN FRANcIsco, CA We Won’t Give In Tm holding your mascot Max hostage, and unless you print this letter, I'll make him use my Dad’s Windoze com- puter! Have A Nice Day. —Terrorist Patrick Patrick, we're a bit worried about you. + Do your parents ~ know you do this sort of thing? MacDoacy ‘What craziness is this? Since when are Mac owners cat lovers (“Letters,” Nov/96)? I happen to know the IBM PC (and its clones) are the cat lovers’ machine of choice! Mac own- ers are dog owners, as my master will tell you (('m typing this for him, as he is a terrible speller). Dogs are by far smarter than cats. (Jeez, look at how that cat spelled “subscrip- tion” and I rest my case). —Nico Destier (Guosnnc For Dan Destisr), Reskpa, CA A quick poll of the “MacAddict” team shows that we have five people who favor dogs heavily, two who favor cats, three who adore both, and one (Mark Simmons) who prefers cuttlefish. We have no idea what this means. Eat Soup Since I am a lonely guy, I need some good reading material during my lunch hour, and of course “MacAddict” is the perfect solution. However, I frequently need both hands for my Roquefort cheeseburger or sushi, and must come up with innovative mag- azine placement techniques to make sure that the article I’m reading sits open and legible in front of me without getting splashed with ketchup or wasabi. Therefore, please follow these simple page-layout guidelines for lonely guys: In the first half of the magazine, print articles on right-hand pages, so I can fold the left-hand pages underneath the heavier bulk of the magazine. Conversely, in the second half, print articles on left-hand pages. ‘This will ensure that I'll be able to immerse myself in “MacAddict” without having to anchor floating pages to the table with salt shakers, Snapple bottles, or stray mayonnaise packets. —J.S. Penner, New York, NY You Love Us :-) just wanted to say how much I love your magazine. Every time I take an issue into the bathroom with me, I come out with a red ring imprinted around my butt. Keep up the great work! —Crris Hammtron, Mission Vigyo, CA. I really, really hate flies dancing around me. I ALWAYS grab a magazine or newspaper and chase the fly down and end its life. The other night I was reading “MacAddict” in bed. when there was a fly buzzing around me. I had the urge to kill but couldn't stand the thought of rolling up this beautiful maga- zine 1 have learned to love so mach. It was a good thing that I found a copy of the MacWarehouse catalog under my bed.... No way. No fly mess on this MacAddict’s “MacAddict"! —Hone P Tsai, Arcata, CA You Harte Us :-( I had to make the big decision last January—Zip or EZ. I, too, was taken in by all the glitz and glamour that Iomega put out about its Zip drive. All the salesmen at the computer stores said Zip was king. They didn’t even recognize the EZ drive's exis- tence. Well, 11 months later J’m glad J didn’t get sucked up into all the hype. I use my EZ drive every day as a second hard drive. And I can, thanks to the drive being twice as fast as the Zip, holding 35MB more per disk, and automatically mounting at startup. If you feel the need to buy something because everyone else has, and you only feel secure in baying a product that receives heavy advertising bud- gets, the Zip is your product. And for that matter, you probably have a PC anyway, so good luck, As for me, I’ll stick with the some- times overlooked but still beiter products: my Pretty Darn Smart Tips FROM OUR AWESOME READERS Here’s a tip for cataloging the contents of the MacAddict discs: Use the Findlt cataloging program (which is part of lomega’s Zip Utilities 4.3) to work around this dilemma. Go into your Preferences folder in your ‘System Folder and locate a folder called Findit’s Library co. This folder contains a file for every volume that Findit has cataloged. Tell Findlt to cata- log a MacAddict disc. When it is done, look for The Disc’s catalog file in the Findit’s Library <o folder and change its name from MacAddict to MacAddict Jan97 or whatever you like. The next time you look at your catalog, it will refer to that disc as MacAddict Jan97. There is one drawback: When you are looking through your catalog for a disc and you want to launch a program from that disc, it will ask you to insert a disc called MacAddict Jan97. But when you put in the appropriate disc, your Mac will complain that you have hot inserted the correct disc because the actual name of that disc is MacAddict, not MacAddict Jan97. Press the Cancel button to get back to normal. Now you know which disc to insert to launch the program you wanted. —Davin ReoMin Thanks also to George W. Craig of Dalton, GA, for the same tip. In November 1996's “Ask Us” (p103), someone asked how to silence the startup and restart chime on the Mac. You suggested that he either disconnect the speaker or plug in a 3.5mm phone jack. Both of these solu- tions will work, but there is an even easier way. If you are running a Mac with an external monitor, all you have to do is turn off the monitor and then turn on your Mac. After a minute or so, you can turn your monitor back on. That is how | get around the problem with my Performa 6115CD. —Micuaet Buren Lisa HANSEN Apps: | have a pair of headphones plugged into the speaker jack on my PowerMac 7208. | don't disturb my roommates when | play really loud games into the wee hours! MacADDICT 11 —-s Mac and my EZ drive. —Brert THiEss We acknowledge that the EZ drive has advantages over the Zip. But Syquest was late to market with the RZ and has, in the past, alienated customers by producing far too many products with far too many cartridge incompatibilities. The Zip was a breath of fresh air and earned our loyalty. Bit, PLEASE 1 wanna be just like Bill Gates. I want to rip off the Mac OS, call it my own, fill it full of bugs, and make sure everyone in the world has to buy it while I laugh at how stupid they are. —ADOLFO PAINCHAUD, QUEBEC, CANADA Sorry, Pa I have some questions that have been haunting me for years. First, why is there Braille on drive-up teller machines? Second, if a tree fell in the woods and it hit a mime, would the mime make a sound? Third, what Ou SHoort! In your “Sex Sells” list (Dec/96, p6), you state that Logometion is made by Strata. When | read this, | literally had a heart attack (I'm only 14)! Logomotion is made by the awesome guys at Specular International, not Strata! —Martin Pata. “He's right, Martha. How'd that happen?” “T don’t have a ding dang clue, Henry.” In the December 1996 “Ask Us” (p106), someone asked if a Mac \si could be used as an external hard drive. Mr. Linzmayer said no. But if you connect it to another Mac using a serial cable and turn on File Sharing, you have your external drive right there. —Cuartes Wyatt (Note: You'll get LocalTalk speeds while using the hard drive.) On the January Disc, we published some Christmas icons without fully crediting the designer, Mary Lee Seward. Mary Lee wrote in to tell us more about herself: “I am 72 years old. | hadn't touched a computer until several years ago when | brought one home...from Sears, no less! | have been dabbling in art all my life, and the icon creations just came naturally. | love to do them. | have four grown sons, who live all over the country and the world! We are all online, including several grandchildren. My Mac has opened up a whole new world for me.” 42 MacADDICT exactly is that stuff in Twinkies? Please help me. I haven't slept in three years. —Dan Norp Nearly every installer hangs my beloved Duo 280. But if Cheryl England will bear my children, maybe we can work something out. ... —CuRIs SmowyK Do We Know You? I am honored that you would like to do a multipage article on me in your next issue. If you need any infor- mation about my early years, feel free to contact me via e-mail. —BEN MAHLER PS. Have your people call my people and we'll eat my people. —Curis Howarp, Leanper, TX Cur Tuat Out As a stand-up comedian, I travel some 32 weeks a year, which means my PowerBook and I fly on many airplanes, which also means we pass through a lot of X-ray machines and metal detectors. In this age of particularly tight security, it is imperative that you watch what you say, especially when you are at this juncture of your air-travel day. One early morning, a fellow comedian (and an even bigger Mac Head than I) and 1 were flying to a new city, and of course we had to go through the security area, and of course they asked us both to open our carry- on luggage and turn on our PowerBooks. Well, when I awoke mine, to my surprise, 1 had an error message. Not thinking, I said to my buddy, “I have a bomb!” To which he said, or shail I say repeated in an even louder voice, “You what? You have a bomb!” Now T'm not sure if the security guy was a PC guy, let alone a computer guy. Let's just say there was a little extra explaining to do that particular morning. —Gary BriGHTwEL, Who do you guys think you are? A couple of comedians or something? Bioopy MEsses I have a story for you. ‘Kay, this can’t really compare to blowing hot coffee out your nose, but, well, ‘kay, I’m sitting in bed, reading your December issue, with a loose tooth. So I'm kinda jiggling it with my tongue. I start reading those awards, and I get to the sound award. I get to the second runner-up. Nothing unusual about it, or so it You KNOW YOU'RE A MacAbbict WHEN YOU WAKE UP WITH THE Mac START UP CHIMES RINGING IN YOUR HEAD. —Perer L. Bower seems... 1 begin reading, “We've secretly replaced Bob’s Macintosh with Windows 95.” I laugh a little. I get to Bob’s response, “What the hell is this crap?” 1 BURST out laughing. While reading, I had been playing with my tooth. BAM! My tooth goes CRUNCH, and I've got a mouth full of blood and a tooth that’s not attached to anything in my mouth. THE PAIN! I'd sue you if this wasn’t such a great mag. —SNaru 1am so poor that I donated plasma to get enough money to start a subscription with you guys. —NicHOLAS Sky Hopkins ERIOUS TUFF Are we going to see the rest of WindowsWorld (The Disc, Now/96)? —Sreven CLAFLINE Raf Anzovin, the 14-year-old genius who created WindowsWorld, bas been a bit busy lately, what with his college 3D class, his writing contributions for us, school, the holidays, and, ob yes, being a kid. But we hope he'll have time to create more animations for The Disc soon! In the November 1996 issue (“Harmony,” p27), you write, “First comes a fall release of System 7.5.4, which brings improved perfor- mance and reliability.” But System 7.5.5 has been available for several weeks now. What gives? —Nare Loonryer It was August when we wrote the article. At that time, Apple had not committed to an exact release date for the new system and the company was still calling it System 7.5.4. By the time you read the November issue, the new System had been released and renamed System 7.5.5. Be sure to check our Web site for updates to articles. For the longest time, I couldn’t get the 1984 commercial by Apple. I think it would be a good file to distribute to your subscribers. You can find it at <ftp://emedia.apple.com/ pub/>. I would of course get permission to distribute it first! —Curms Joes Well, beck, Curtis. That’s the problem. We don’t yet have permission from Apple to distribute it. Seems there are all sorts of actors’ fees and other odd stuff involved. We're still working on it, though. EPSON PhotoPC 500 Digital Camera Casio QV30 Digital Camera PHotoPC soo “Tt? y@ THE New Epson® PHOTOPC™ 500 DicitaL CAMERA WiTH SUPERIOR IMAGE QUALITY. Roses are red, violets are blue, but only if you take their picture with the EPSON PhotoPC 500. The digital camera with 640x480 pixel j Tesolution that gives you the most lifelike pictures around. It's got all the reduction flash to its optional lenses and filters. But comes to digital photography, a camera by any other name just isn't as good. For more information, visit www.epson.com to download some sample images, or call 1-800-GO-EPSON and ask for operator 3015. YOU’VE GOT TO SEE IT IN GBRITZ CAMERA CENTERS —_Stot price may vary. for retail sale, No spe Te en ae ec THIS ISSUE : Jump to this screen to find Programs and files mentioned in the magazine. Whenever you see a disc icon in print, you'll know to come here on the CD. Take a tour through Step On Nil, Over the Reich, Stay Tooned, and Zone Raiders! We provide links to vendor Web sites, too. SHAREWARE j Here you'll find enough shareware and freeware to satisty even the most demanding hard disk’s appetite. Come here to turn your machine into a big Mac! Your special connection to the MacAddict Web site. This helpful screen is available on all five major screens. All controls are carefully explained. Use this handy jumping point to get to any other Screen on The Disc. ore and more renovation is under way behind the scenes. This month we offer improve- ments in the Shareware section and promise an even better feature next month. (We'd 1. Pop The Disc into your | tell you what it is now, but then we'd CD-ROM drive. ‘Any Mac can access the shareware, demos, and have to kill you.) In any case, this 2. Double-click the Start Here | System software from the Finder. Accessing the full month's disc offers more connectivity icon for your System. | CD-ROM interface requires 12MB of real RAM with tools than you could ever possibly 3. Have fun! | System 7.1 or earlier; 16MB of real RAM with System need, as well as plenty of games for 7.5 of later. older Macs. —Kathy Tafel 14 MacADDICT lo find immecfate informa- tion from our sponsors, go to the Index (Option-click on any help screen). Or you can wait until you see a message from a sponsor in the lower-ight-hand corner of the main screen. Clicking on the message causes a TV screen to slide down from the top of the page, showcasing more information. Sponsors can also be accessed from the main window in the Finder. AOL MOL 800-827-6964 Ittp:/werwaol.com ‘America Online offers access to the world of online news and information, Interactive maga- zines, finance, entertainment, ‘email, free software, shopping, and more. With a point and a lick, you can explore the vast resources ofthe Internet. Sign on and receive 15 free hours. Bungle—Marathon infinity 800-295-0060 hitp:/Aww.oungie.com Marathon Infinity contains Blood Tides of Lh'owon, a brand-new, 30-level scenario; Forge, Bungie's own powerful Map Editor; and Anvil, a single tool for easy modification of shapes, sounds, and physios models. Earthlink—Totalaccess 200-096-8425 http:/Awwearthlink net TotalAccess is Earthlink's complete software and Internet ‘connection package. tt includes Netscape Navigator, an award- winning Internet access software, and everything needed to register for complete Intemet access in fewer than five minutes, After the $25 setup fee, unlimited access is provided for $19.95 per month, "Round-the-clock tech support is provided via an 800 number. Europa Software—Web Quick http://www eurcpasoftware.com Frustrated by Bookmarks? Web Quick tracks every page you visit and automatically orga- nizes them by site, It lets you create custom Topios and keeps them all at your fingertips with handy pop-up menus. Web Quick even converts exist Ing Bookmarks. No wonder “MacWEEK" called it “the first Web utlty that is essential"! MacSoft—Prime Target Mac 800-229.2714 ‘A powerful senator it brutally murdered while working late in her Washington, D.C., office. Now you must solve the mystery ‘of her death in this action- packed, 3D shoot-em-up. Prime Target thrusts you into the most dynamic Mac gaming world ever. Blood spatters on the wall, Glass shatters in your face, And the interactive mystery challenges your intellect as you hunt the senator's Killers in Washington's, corridors of power. ‘Sonic Desktop Solutions— SmaptSound™ For Multimedia 800-454-1900 http:/iwww.sonicdesktop.com Now you can quickly create music or sound effects cus- tomized to your exact specifica- tions. This revolutionary new software makes the job easy while always giving you profes- sional results. Try the demo on the enclosed CD and you'll see why SmarSound™ is the Absolute Easiest Way To Create Customized Professional Quality Soundtracks, ‘UMAX—SuperMac $900 Ui 888-232. UM http:/www.supermac.com ‘The SuperMac $900 system was specifically designed with fhigh-end functionality to meet the needs of creative design and production professionals. We kept all the best things you like— the familiarity and ease of use of the Mac OS end compatibility with all your favorite software. ‘And we wrapped it all up with the raw power of a 604 PCI-based design and delivered it at a price that can't be beat. Many unique features of the new S800 were designed to eliminate perfor mance bottlenecks that have ong troubled the market Prove you're a gold digger to win Klondike Gold! astardly Tom Hale ‘scrambled a poor |] bunny into 16 pieces! The nerve of some people. Help put the bunny back together again. When you pop in the CD-ROM, look for a secret hot spot. You'll be automagi- cally transported to a hidden area of You ww: You need help? if your super-phat disc is mangled, warped, broken, or otherwise disturbed, you can geta replacement from iMAGINE’s customer service. We've set up a special page on our Web site, <http://www.macaddict.com/info/ service.html>, where you can order one, cr you can call them directly at 415-468-4869. If you can't install anything, or get disk errors, do the same. If you have a different problem with The Disc, please stop by <http:/www.macaddict. com/cdrom> before you send us e-mail. If you don’t find a solution there, please let us know about it at <letters@macaddict.com>. If you're having a problem with System soft- ware, we recommend calling the good folks at St B15: The Disc. When you Solve the puzzle, the CD-ROM. will give you a code, Enter this code on the Web site for your chance to win a copy of Klondike Gold from DNA Multimedia—it comes with its own pan, Good luck! even 800-SOS-APPL. They'll be more than happy to help you. And if you are having trouble with one of the programs on The Disc, please be sure to read the accompanying Read Me file for contact info. To make it easier for you to find help for the programs on our disc, we've conveniently added e-mail and Web contacts in the Shareware and This Issue sections. Whenever you click on install, you'll find the following helpful dialog: Shareware Warning TE you encounter any problems with the Sharewate you are about fo install, please contact the following company below: irvays Softvaré, PO Box 1123, Boorag 4, AUSTRALIA, Support @stairways.com.au (email) MacADDICT 15 OSIP euR ITAL CAMERA NG pe ker A) Nis Boe Es ai), TSC 7 eng Be MAD, BMP ts |, abil Oe UI S ete ACS oT WEL STi Ee esis 40 x 480 Resolution, 24-Bit Color 1,8" Color LCD Screen > | a ui i § i u i i : u 4 or rw are simblated. #5 a tadenark of Apple Computer ie. Corprator Moe rr a 3 C) = — 18 MacADDICT | » pane are versions of commercial products that are not fully functional. Play them directly from The Disc, or copy them to your hard disk. This month we bring you a plethora of children’s software demos. To escape out of a dema, hit- ting command-period usually returns you to our application. 1. Over the Reich For those of you who like both vintage carnage and avia- tion, it’s time to rejoice. Avalon Hill's Over the Reich lets you step back 50 years into the air war waged over Europe during World War Il. Command planes. for the Royal Air Force, the U.S. Air Corps, or the Luftwaffe in this turn-based strategy game. You can join dogfights, strafe ground targets, dnd even play against others over the Internet. If you really enjoy the game, play for another tour of duty and help the side of your choice win (or at least not lose) the war. 2. Stay Tooned Toons have escaped the television and taken over your building. What can you do? Play a plethora of games, that’s what. The full version of Stay Tooned features more than 30 games—such as Make Way for the Highway and Kartoon Kombat, plus spiffily implemented 3D ! games that you play while | wearing some pretty goofy | glasses—and more than 50 apartments to enter, where you'll be visited by cartoon characters who will subject you to their particularly *tooney brand of humor. Loads of fun guaranteed. 3. Step On It! 4. Zone Raiders If you loved that ’73 Chevy Impala and thought it would be cool to mount, oh, say, a laser and a machine gun on it, then, ‘oh yeah, make it hover instead of roll, and then take it on a track and shoot things... Zone Raiders from Virgin Interactive is right up your fire-blazing alley. Race around a track rendered with 3D texture maps (similar to Havoc) and blow things up as you zoom on by. Zone Raiders also allows for network play by up to four people, so you can take a shot at your friends with- out getting a set of shiny police cuffs. 5. Also on the Disc are a couple of demos for If you couldn't get enough of Donkey Kong, if you played Lode Runner until : your fingers bled, or if you dropped more than a few quarters on the arcade classic Lode Runner, then you might be interested in Step On It! This platform-type game combines elements from all these games and adds strategy, to boot. Create and destroy bricks, climb around, avoid mon- sters, figure out more than 100 levels, and generally get hooked on the newest offer- ing from Casady & Greene. the younger Mac addicts in the crowd. The Living Books sampler and the Toyland preview will entertain the tykes until you scream for control of your Mac. In addition, you'll find many demos of producis reviewed in this issue of “MacAddict.” ~—David Reynolds be included as a soundtrack on The Disc! | See your name in lights | and multimedia splendor } ] | ubmit your tunes to | by sending your record- ings and a photo (in any digital format—no tape cassettes, please) to: Music Mavens, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005. Itwe fj like it, we'll use it on a future disc. Please do not send us the theme to “The Simpsons"! All recordings must be your own original material, which you made ff from scratch and haven't yet published. You will retain all rights to your work | and just give us permission to use it on The Disc. Your music, of course, must be made ona Mac! | ] ill Calabrses of Ludlow, Vermont, decoded December 1996's | CD-ROM contest (“the disc,” p16). Bill will be | happily click-clacking away on his new TrackBoard, courtesy of Datadesk. Turn back to page 15 to read about your chance to ie Klondike Gold. You like feta cheese? We like feta cheese. You like rockabilly? We like rockabilly. You like Egyptian art from the 5th century BC? It’s kind of eerie how much we have in common. ‘Want to untangle the web and make it more like you? We thought so. That's why we created the most personal, hassle-free Internet service around. And besides Internet access, we offer hundreds of our own special features. Like our convenient navigation tools, They make it really easy to point and click wherever you want to go, We even made it surprisingly affordable. We think you'll like Prodigy Internet™ even more than feta cheese. And we'll give you one free* month of unlimited use to make sure you do, 1-800-PRODIGY (776-3449)x3393 / www.prodigy.com $19.95/month for unlimited hours or $9.95/month for 10 hours? prodigy == ® make it yours. ‘Limit one free trial per individual. Valid credit card required. Additional charges may apply for certain features. Phone company charges not included. Supplemental access charges may apply. To avoid being charged your first monthly fee, simply cancel your membership before your free one month trial ends. tFor Basic 10 Plan and Unlimited Plan pricing aiter your one month trial, refer to the online Member Services or Help sites. Offer subject to change without notice. Prodigy internet and the Prodigy internet Jogo are trademarks of Prodigy Services Corporation. ©1996 Prodigy Services Corporation. All rights reserved. 20 MacADDICT He We've cleaned | au lup even more of our act. The MacAddict installers on The Disc now come sans splash screen. And they install software in their own folder, not 40 levels deep! The interface on The Disc is different as well. It looks much more like the This Issue section. | A pop-up menu now switches you among soft- ware categories, and when you first reach the Shareware every piece of shareware is listed in one big list. If you ! have more suggestions for the MacAddict super-phat ! disc, send them on over to <cdrom@macaddict.com> ColorFall ColorFall is a Tetrisish game that is not quite as frenzied. All you need to do is drop the squares down and try to get four blocks of the same color in a row or a block. Although is hardly ever a chance of los- ing, we find it hard to stop playing. And it even works on a Mac Plus! there page, | H Create freakin’ awesome ‘ electronic business cards with this easy-to-use pro- | gram. Simply add a picture on the left and your contact information on the right. Save the document in ePress and { out pops an eCard that any- with e-mail and phone con- H | Disc is a MacAddict eCard | tact information. mee [Roe | Tattletale! You weren't supposed to tell that human out there that I’m a text file created by R¥ch. Snitch. See if | ever tell you anything again. (Snitch adds more info to the standard Get Info win- dow. You can change creator and file types, too.) ‘one can double-click to get | your vitals. Included on The | MOR Deconstructing Installers People have reported hav- ing problems updating their System to version 7.5.5. Avoid them by following these steps: 4. Make a backup copy of everything you hold dear. 2. Use the original System 7.5.x insteller that came with your Mac. When you get to the screen with the Easy instal! but- ton on it, press command-Shift- K and click the Clean Install radio button. Click the default button, which now reads Clean Install. Restart your Mac when the installation Is finished. 3. Now run the System 7.5 Update 2.0 installer from the MacAddict disc. When that one’s finished, restart your Mac. 4, Finally, run the System 7.5.5 Update installer from our disc. When it’s finished, restart your Mac and you're done. (Third time's a chime, er, charm!) To restore your System to its original glory, you will need to rescue any third-party exten- sions, control panels, or special folders from your old System Folder (the Finder has renamed your old System Folder Previous System Folder) and put them in the new System Folder. Now is also a good time to go through your old Preferences folder and throw away preferences from applica- tions you no longer use. To be safe, keep anything you don't recognize. Put everything you save into your new System Folder’s Preferences folder. If you use Qualcomm’s Eudora, make sure you move the Eudora folder located at the root level of the old System Folder into your new System Folder. This folder contains all of your Eudera mail and account settings. Keep your old System Folder around for a few days to ensure you've rescued every- thing important. When you are sure you have everything you need, you can trash it. —Wade Albright Bn DF fyou didn't happen to | buy a hard drive from | I} APS Technologies in 1993, you missed out on ff | 2 bundled book. Fear not, “MacAddict” come to your | We have a serialization of | David Pogue’s Silicon | | Valley thriller. In this tale | will rescue. of high-tech hi-jinks, a | virus is implanted in | next-generation speech- | | recognition software. | I] Find part one of “Hard f J Drive” in the Finder at the | root level of The Disc. | A YUEW YORK-TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF PIE YEAR “GIVES NEW MEANING TO THE TERM, (eal itect eke werd aNowey ._ DAVID POGUE <om AAPL com ‘ VER The strategy game that redefines Macintosh gaming. NOW AVAILABLE IN STORES EVERYWHERE. OVER A MILLION UNITS SOLD WGRLO-WIDE. “Cw 40 missions 2 Dozens of close-ups CO-ROMs ‘ and action movies Westwood www.westwood.com ‘Command & Conquer is a registered trademark of Westwood Studios, Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark and Power Macintosh isa trademark of Apple Computers, inc. © 1995, 1996 Westwood Studios, Inc. Al rghts reserved, rn 2 i} ® & = hroughout this sweet- smelling bundle of meaty Macintosh information, you'll see a funny-looking circular icon filled with whooshy spirals. That icon means that you can find spectacular software on The Disc that's related to the words you read. As you flip through the Reviews section, chances are this icon refers to a product demo. Articles in the How To section usually are accompanied by a demo of the software mentioned and sample documents. To get the software off The Disc and onto your Mac, go to the This Issue section on The Disc. The dial on the left side of this page switches between Highlights and Every Month (just like the Table of Contents a few pages back). To turn the dial clockwise, click on the right side of the dial (and vice versa to go the other way). The middle column lists the article titles. Clicking on one of the articles flips up, in the right column, a list of software to install. Click on the name of a piece of software to get its description. GET INFO Book Cover NSELZ, SS x ee (f With this PowerBook 1400 BookCover (designed by Adam | Vanderhoof, our esteemed | associate art director), you'll be busy as a bee in no time! 22 MacADDICT internet Crash Course On The Disc is all the soft- ware you need to keep yourself from getting run over by the Mack truck on this month's cover. In addition to the software mentioned in our 23-page Internet Survival Guide starting ‘on page 34, you'll find dozens of other networthy software. | Anarchie (Tass foot Anarchie Th prorat teu Thanks to ad a ee Stairways Shareware (1959-56 Prtic Levis Sure, this program's earliest incarnation enabled you to ‘search the Internet for informa- tion. Nowadays, people mostly use it to transfer files via FTP to and from servers, Pull down the About box from the Apple menu to find this nifty dialog. Yup— Anarchie logs where you've gone, whether you've been naughty or nice, and gives you a tating based on how many files you've downloaded. This Mac addict is a Net Destroyer. What are you? | What Route How do you get to be a Net Destroyer? By sending and receiving network packets. This Mac addict has no clue what a packet is (although she will, once she reads the Survival Guide), but she does vos know, thanks to What Route, that it took eight jumps for a query to travel from her Mac to the Gundam Anime server. NetBots Once the charm of this new- fangled Internet thing wears off, gathering information can be a tedious chore. What you really need is an intelligent agent that can read your mind’s cravings and feed you just what you want to know. It would be even more useful if it picked out stuff you | didn't even know about. Too bad it doesn't exist yet. We fig- ure you'll need to wait until the next millennium, at least. In the meantime, use NetBots to query certain servers to see if they'll return a search string. Isn't emerging technology fun? Weather Watcher 11:00 #6 PST on Doe 13, 1996 = OGe S) mes L320 Contig j = lve You probably have the win- dow closed so you don't get any screen glare, right? And you've been surfing the Net for so long you don't even know what month it is. Don't fret. You still don’t have to go outside, Use Weather Watcher to check the weather without opening the curtains. (And yes, it really is mostly sunny and 58 degrees here in beautiful San Francisco in the middle of winter.) This Old Mac here Your mature Mac can play games, too. Just don’t expect anything very graphically intense. Click the arrows in the Movement window to move through Scarab of Ra's maze. EVERY MONTH How to Use AppleScript The friendly folks at Gryphon Software let us put a special ver- sion of their demo on The Disc. Unlike the standard demo, this version is scriptable. We also included the Animation scripts that come with the full version. To follow along with the article, you'll also need the sample script. Our new CD-ROM editor, Wade Albright, made a spiffy installer that installs the demo and the script for it, or just the soript if you own Gryphon Bricks. Way to go, Wade! the web site I the space of the last couple of issues, the new and improved MacAddict Web site has gone from a lofty concept—napkin doodles, in the most literal sense—to a firm reality, a fact of nature as solid and irrefutable as the very rock itself. Now that we're no longer talking utter vapor- ware, it's time for an updated Web site tour. From the Top To begin at the beguine, you'll find the splash screen, the top level of the MacAddict Web site. At this writing, it's redecorated for the holiday season. To reduce the bewilder- ment for first-time visitors, we streamlined the opening screen. As well as the list of sections to the left, we high- light the latest news through- out the site, the latest print issue, and our collection of help resources (or FAQAddict, if you will). Unless you have a burning problem or question, or you want the scoop on the new issue, you'll probably want to start with the main What's New page. This page lists the erery seams? | eee ‘ing tacos latest changes, and news blurbs from the six topical sections, making it a great way to catch up on what has transpired since your last visit. Each blurb includes a pointer back to the appropriate topic. Pick Your Topic OK, so what's the deal with these topics? Most of the topic descrip- tions should be brutally self- explanatory: The Arts section covers graphics, publishing, multimedia, and other forms of creative expression; Games is the obvious; Net deals with Internet client software and publishing tools; and Tools surveys cus- tomization and maintenance tools for the proverbial “power user.” Clubhouse, the term we're using at press time, is a bit more vaguely defined. It Apple watching, commentary about the state of the Macintosh, and general Mac community- oriented stuff. The iconic Max is waving an Apple flag, in case you're curious. Last, About Us offers infor- mation about the Web site, the magazine, the CD-ROM, the staff, and whatnot. You'll find ample pointers to most of the really important elements of this section in other parts of the site. Once you pick your topic of interest... wettest includes additions, | | add new fea- | ones, and so constants include pointers to “MacAddict” articles and a collection of product and company links. The latter includes information on the latest updates and new products, another favorite feature of the old site. Each section has its own special features. As you can see, the Net section currently sports a Favorite Links listing; by the time you read this, the section may well have swelled to include more special features. The exact lineup will be in a state of flux for the foreseeable future, as we tures, reorga- nize existing forth, Watch the main What's New page for the latest twists and turns on SSeceeeee this front. Fase Ragin sonra neon tre write to your addle brained online editor at <webmas- ter@macad dict.com> and Eermcenememmns, your feedback eset = will be duly - have -% : filed, Sites Within Sites } sorted, cataloged, Each topic is subdivided | and archived in a into pages. Every section has | manner akin to a What’s New page, for a H the Ark of the general introduction to the | Covenant at the section and what has been ; end of the first transpiring in the world at H Indiana Jones large. This is where to find the | movie. ! latest news and links. Other | —Mark Simmons | > ince we removed our fake browser and replaced it with one that | could actually follow | links, we’ve made special § pyramid-powered links to | the MacAddict Web site. | Come here for the latest | Apple news, updated soft- | ware, and a sneak preview of next month's issue. — _ TOLD YOU SO... get info its NUpowr 1400/200 “200MHz CPU + Cache” upgrade card, which, as you might | guess from the name, packs not only a | 200MHz 603e processor but also 128K of Level 2 cache on one card. (You'll get a speed boost from both the processor and the cache.) As long as you’re careful to ground yourself before touching any internal PowerBook parts, installation is a snap, literally—just unplug your old CPU card and slide in the new one. If you're a mobile presenter, the Power- Book 1400’s CD-ROM drive is a vital feature (now you can show off the MacAddict disc while on the road). Still, the Power- ©, you have a new Power- | Book 1400 doesn’t Book 1400, and you're 1 include any video-out loving the beautiful screen, / capability, so you can’t the CD-ROM, the sound. show off your multi- Still, you feel something’s missing. media wonder on a Maybe you want more speed, or you big screen. By the time want to hook up the "Book up to an you read this in early Ethernet network (for Marathon, of 1997, Apple should be course), or you want more storage. What are | producing an internal 8-bit video-out card your options? ($149 srp), and NewerTech should be One of the advantages of owning a long- | shipping a (yet-unnamed) 16-bit video-out anticipated product is that many third-party | card to solve this conundrum. Apple’s card vendors have had a good, long lead time in | will display 256 colors on a 17-inch moni- developing for your baby. NewerTech offers | tor; NewerTech’s will display millions of colors—thousands on a larger screen—and will also accelerate QuickTime playback. However, these cards fill the PowerBook 1400's single internal expansion slot, so you won't be able run an internal Ethernet card (such as | those from NewerTech, Dayna, and Farallon) at the same time. You'll have to use PC card Ethernet adapters such as those from Eiger Labs and Dayna. The PowerBook 1400's internal slot could accept a combo video- out/Ethernet card, but as of late December, no one had announced such a beast. ‘THE ULTIMATE UPGRADE for your PowerBook 1400 Is these lovely, custom-designed covers, available only on The Disc. Wear them proudly—they're exclusives! OK, we were a bit | early on some of our predictions for 1997 (Jan/p60), but at least we were right. Gil Amelio made the cover of “Forbes” (Dec. 16, 1996), and Apple licensed its logo to the Apple Cafes. 24 MacADDICT News, trends, and other very valuable information that you will want to know. UPGRADING THE PowerBook 1400 For storage freaks, VST offers hard drives, a 230MB removable magneto-optical (MO) drive, and a Zip drive for the expansion bay. (All devices for the 1400's expansion bays are sleep-swappable—that is, you can put your computer into Sleep mode, rather than having to shut down, before swapping drives.) Fujitsu makes an external 230MB MO drive that con- nects to your PowerBook 1400 via a PC card. APS, La Cie, and other vendors plan to offer internal drives for the PowerBook 1400, but | as of late 96, no details were available. You may want to use these accessories for power- cord-enabled work, though, because they're more of a drain on your battery than the floppy drive, which, hard as it may be to believe, isn’t obsolete yet. —DDT CONTACT INFO: APS Technologies: 800-874-1354 Dayna Communications: 801-269-7200 Eiger Labs: 408-774-3456 Farallon Communications: 510-814-5100 Fujitsu Computer Products: 800-626-4686 La Cie: 503-520-9000 NewerTech: 800-678-3726 VST Technologies: 508-263-9700 BrinG Me tHe Grapuic THAT Goes PING! fou may be hearing the Web wise Yen you saying “ping” occasionally these days. No, they're not in need of a visit from the Maytag repairman—they’re probably talking about a lovely new graphics format called PNG. PNG, or Portable Network Graphics, | received a huge boost just a few weeks after its inception when Unisys and CompuServe gave the online world a little New Year's Day present in January 1995. Due to a patent that Unisys holds on the compression algorithm used in GIF (Graphics Inter- change Format), the companies decided to charge royalties on software used to create and display images in GIF. This created prob- lems because one of the most widely used graphics formats on the Web suddenly | became proprietary. | PNG was the response to the royalty | surprise. PNG (which is “legally unencum- | bered,” as the PNG specifications say) was | designed to replace GIF as a graphics speci- fication. PNG provides many of the features found in GIF—such as a 256-color palette, Photoshop 4.0 and FreeHand 7 will create PNG graphics. progressive display, transparency, and loss- less compression—and it adds some nifty features such as faster progressive display, gamma information, and file corruption detection. Greg Roelofs, who put up the PNG Home Page <http://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/ PNG>, points out that one of the best features of PNG will be the unambiguous pronunciation of the acronym. PNG is on its way to graphics programs, Adobe Photoshop 4.0 and FreeHand 7 are among the applications that will create PNG graphics. On the Web side, things aren’t happen- ing quite so quickly: NCSA MacMosaic supports PNG images; Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 should support the format when version 3.0 is released; and Netscape Naviga- tor will support them, too, but only through unofficial plug-ins (you'll find such a list if you follow the links from the PNG Home Page). As the limitations of the GIF standard start to show (and if royalty requests are ever pursued with more vigor), you'll see PNG popping up more frequently. —DR he part parade marches on as more Live The Part Parade We Have a Winner! In December, we asked you to match some icons found in the menu bar with the exten- sions, control panels, or System software that owns them (Get Info, “Eyeball the Icons,” p25). The prize? Sumeria’s series of OceanLife CDs. Although hundreds of you responded, the prize is awarded to only one person. That person, after hours of mind- melting thought and working through the thousands of permutations, managed to correctly match all 10 icons. The winner? David A. Steiner. Congratulations, David, on your brilliant matching skills, and your uncanny ability to be picked randomly. The icons with their correct names are shown below. i < 6 “eT 12S. 1. Apple 2. Application 3. Balloon Help 4. Conflict Catcher 5. Magic Menu 6. MS Office Manager @ * Gy) 7. Now Contact 8. OSA Menu 2 $5 as} 9. Quickeys 10. Web Quick 10,000-Foot Macs , Ly Geum DONT BE SCARED! noted that Mac product specifications warn about operating your Mac above 10,000 feet (Oct/96, p47). You've asked, curious readers that you are, “Why is that?” So we took your question to the good | folks at Apple. An Apple Tech Info Library article on operating a Power- Book at above 10,000 feet (they have amazing information in that library—<http://www.info. apple.com>) states, “On Power- Book computers, when altitude limits are exceeded, the princi- pal risks we haye observed include general operational | problems, hard drive problems, and even the possibility of the screen cracking.” Wow. OK, so why is that? The people we asked wouldn't go | into too much detail, but they did agree that the danger is more from temperature than from altitude. The higher you go, the colder it gets, and the more frag- ile and brittle components such as hard drives and displays get. Take heart, mountain Mac users—it’s not just your beloved platform that leans toward alti- tude sickness. A 10,000-foot max operation altitude and a 15,000-foot max storage altitude are pretty standard in the com- puter industry. Just remember | to keep your PowerBook warm when scaling Pike’s Peak to write up that report. —DR Objects and container applica- tions appear and the technology advances. Here’s a roundup of the latest OpenDoc acts: * Corda scores big—Corda ‘Technologies’ bundle of Live Objects (including C-Graph, C-Table, and C-TextBox) was the top ‘seller on CNET Direct's Buydirect.com site. And it's no wonder. This bundle sells foronly gett $29.99, and it gives you the power to create graphs, link them to great tables (or to data over the Internet), and annotate all of the above with bits of text. IBM comes through—Big Blue has been toiling tenaciously on OpenDoc for Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, and AIX. The company released OpenDoc 1.1 the Mac. This version also includes some interoperability between OpenDoc and OLE 2.0 parts. Way to go, IBM! © Cyberdog browser gets “fixed’—There’s a replacement browser coming for Cyberdog, although it is not from Netscape Cyberdog’s browser is ing “fixed.” (although Netscape remains committed to providing such a part). Nope, your favorite digital dog will get its new part from Apollo Technologies. Named InstantSpace, the browser will sport a new interface and drag- and-drop URLs, and it will sell for a paltry $39. The part was for those platforms, which is | scheduled for public beta in equivalent to OpenDoc 1.0.4 on | December. —DR MacADDICT 25 ‘hitp: dani Keyspan conti) $250 19 S350 {ep} scheduled to ship eady Uantiaryy The SX series allows your Mac to have more serial ports for con- necting more peripherals. Depending on the model, these PCI cards provide either two or four additional high-speed, 230Kbps serial ports. The cards provide standard AS-232/RS-422 connectivity through mini din-8 connectors. (Labtec: 360-896 /2000% ‘nup:livww adie com, $69.99 dstrorl)s: ‘schiedtules 26 Sil pony daduaryp A stand-alone subwoofer, the LCS-2408 works with nearly all amplified speakers. The com- pact subwoofer fits on a desktop and connects to speakers either with of without a subwoofer ‘output jack, The front panel sports a master volume control and bass adjustment. {Microsoht600-426-3400), Iipsyy-Mitrosott,. com. SAS (empyy ela available fof doywrtoad early Sabian, scheduled (stip March This Adobe PageMill competitor was designed to let you create and manage Web sites regard- fess of whether you know HTML. The cross-platform product ‘sports wizards and templates and lets you customize any part ofa site created with a wizard. You can even edit the HTML code that FrontPage creates. ‘Smart site management features include the ability to move pages to a new folder and have Front Page rename them and update the Jinks. 26 MacADDICT ollowing on the ¢ heels of our wildly Sa successful Hoojit | Contest (Now/96, p27), we've taken a picture| of another chunk of metal (sans paint). Unlike! the Hoojit, this Whatsit can be used with many a modern Mac. If the Whatsit to you is the same as the Whatsit is to us, then you'll have| a chance to} win this fabulous XClaim VR card, courtesy of ATI Technologies. This miracle of modern tech- nology speeds the display of 3D graphics and also digitizes QuickTime movies. Tell us what the Whaisit’s for, either on our Web site <http://www.macaddict.com> or send your answer to Whatsit to You, c/o MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA, 94005. A winner will be drawn from all correct entries on March 15. We'll announce the winner (and. reveal the true identity of the Whatsit) in an upcoming issue (we promise). —KT ‘ SLAP THIS BOARD in an ‘empty PCI slot and you'll have 3D acceleration and video capture. Crazy FOR Cocoa always seem to be off in their own worlds, just wait until they get ahold of Apple's object-based programming language, Cocoa. The preview version, currently available free for download at <http://cocoa.apple.com/ cocoa>, already has kids aged LIDS LL your will. Kids A SIMPLE ANIMATION that can use Cocoa any five-year-old can create. to create games, stories, and simulations by creating rules based on their characters’ relations to other objects in the world. Asmall control panel lets kids create charac- ters or objects; import art; paint or draw with a Mac-standard paint palette; add rules; play ani- five and up creating action- packed worlds with dropping bombs, floating flowers, and layers of ladders. Kids can embed these worlds into their Web pages mations; and sweep away mistakes. (what five-year-old doesn’t have one by Although it doesn’t take long for kids to now?) and share them with the world. figure out how to make a simple char- It used to be that kids learned to program by typing in the most basic of Basic com- mands to make their names repeat up and down the length of the screen. Now you don't even | have to be a C++ student to make characters, acter run and jump, more complicated procedures, such as creating a second appearance or deleting objects, may require parental assistance. By the time the final Java version is released in mid-’97, Apple hopes that Cocoa will be easy enough for kids to use all on their own. The sound, movement, and animations conform to tee ] ia > IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG to figure out how to make a | character jump. company is relying on third-party developers to create pre-made characters and worlds that kids can just plug in and put to work without having to put any major drawing skill into play. But even with the possibility of ticklish Elmo pre-fab plug- ins and Cocoa Barbie Townhouse backgrounds, Apple is hoping Cocoa will be used for educa- tional as well as recreational purposes. —VE fight and Magic,” GY GAME OF THE YEAR - computer Gaming world TAKE A his long-awaited sequel is a feature-by-feature enhancement of everything that made the original Heroes an all-time Macintosh sttaley classic. Scores of new hero ST AB AT and monster types, alliance formation for team play, enlarged combat maps, increased multi-player options, and a flexible “World Builder” module are THE Roy. AL just a few of the reasons why Heroes Il for Macintosh will be a prized addition to your CD-ROM treasure trove. Coming In March characters through over ® Team Pray: Multiple can form allianc 8 INTERNET READY netwo ho get info Apple’s Questions Answered pple’s new ad campaign poses the following questions and suggests that you can find the answers more efficiently if you use the computer that more teachers use. Using our Macs, we found, within a few hours, all but one answer. Special thanks to the “Encyclopedia Britannica” online. The folks at “ESPN Mag- azine” helped with the curve- ball answer just because they're great people. Why do we itch? Why are some people ticklish? Both questions deal with the largest organ on the human body—the skin. Most itching is caused by a histamine release in the epidermis (sometimes brought on by inflammation) and some researchers say that scratching relieves itching by damaging the nerves or interrupting the rhythm of nerve impulses. Tickling is a subthreshold sensation of pressure. Some people are more sensitive to this sensation than others. Why can’t you hear yourself snore? When you sleep, your brain filters out many sensations that it considers unimportant; otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to sleep. One of these sensations is sound. People can hear themselves snore, but typically, as soon as they hear the snores, they wake up and the snoring stops. What are stars made of? Stars are big balls made mostly of hydrogen, with some helium and a few other trace elements, At the center of a star, the pressures from gravity are so strong that hydrogen atoms fuse into helium atoms. This fusion releases a tremendous amount of energy. Why do stars stay in one place? Actually, they don’t. Stars move many miles per second relative to one another. They just look like they don’t move because the dis- tances between stars are so vast. Thousands of years ago, constellations looked different than they do today. How come fish don’t drown? Fish have organs called gills—which are like lungs in air-breathing animals—that extract oxygen from the water around them. With gills, fish breathe water instead of air. In a sense, they drown when in air, because their gills can’t extract oxygen from the air. What makes a curveball curve? When pitchers throw curveballs, they grip the ball along the seams and rotate their hand as they throw. As the ball spins, the friction of the seams rotat- ing against the air creates lift, and the ball curves. For right- handed pitchers, a curve ball curves down and to the left. For left-handed pitchers, it curves down and to the right. Are there zoos in Africa? Why, yes, there are. For example, the Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Tsimbazaza is in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Africa also has wildlife preserves, which are something like vast, outdoor zoos. What food group are cheese dogs in? Cheese dogs, if you include a bun, onions, and pickles, fall into all four food groups. The hot dog is in the meat group; the cheese is in the dairy group; the bun is in the cereal ODD THINGS TO KNOW and grain group; and the onions and pickles are in the fruits and vegetables group. When time began, how could they let everyone know? Western Union. Who puts the holes in Swiss cheese? A big guy named Sal. Actually, the holes in Swiss cheese form when the cheese is put through a secondary fermentation process, during which propionic acid bacteria in the cheese form bubbles of carbon dioxide over a period of three to six weeks. Why doesn’t the ocean freeze? Mostly because it isn’t cold enough. Parts of the ocean freeze, though. Near the North and South Poles, the water begins to freeze at a temperature of 28.7° F, forming pack ice and icebergs. More than 11,000,000 square miles of pack ice exist near the poles. Do reindeer get frostbite? They can, if it's cold and windy enough and they have part of their body exposed to the cold and wind. Reindeer are well protected from the cold, though, sporting a coarse coat with thick fur under- neath. They can also carry a lot of body fat to protect them. How come I don’t remember being born? Some theories say that memory is like other cognitive skills (such as language)in that it has to be developed over time, Newborn babies can't remember things seen more than a minute or two previously, but by the time they're a month old, they can remember things seen 24 hours earlier. Is hair any different from fur? Yes. Hair is a collection of individual strands that grow from hair follicles. Fur, on the other hand, is made of “ground” hair (which maintains body temperature) and “guard” hair (which protects the underlying fur and sheds moisture). So all fur is hair, but not all hair is fur. —DR Have You Played It Yet? Hection Eve, 2004 A.D. 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Newton MessagePad 2000 Apple Computer he power to change history—that would be a good campaign slogan for the MessagePad 2000. If Napoleon had just invested $1,000 worth of his hard-earned francs in a MessagePad, he might have written, “Don't invade Russia during the winter” on his to-do list. Einstein might have taken a voice note ot the grand unification theory that he instead scribbled illegibly in haste on a cocktail napkin, and Hannibal might have checked weather conditions in the Alps via the Web before trying to cross with several unruly elephants. The newest Newton boasts a blazing 161.9MHz StrongARM 110 microprocessor, SMB of RAM, and a voice notes, Internet access through TCP/IP and PPP proto- cols and a Web browser, two Type Il PC Card slots, an infrared port, and a host of other nifty features. Never fear, Hannibal. By April you should be able to take your MessagePad 2000 into -4° F climes and still expect to use it when the weather warms up. 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Once you know what software you need, how to install it, and how to configure it, you'll be staying up all night surfing the Web a bug on the instead of fearing it. windshield Of What You'll Need | To follow al this little ad , be si hi that big Mack pail! s little adventure, be sure you have . A modem (14.4Kbps or faster preferred) tr uck roarl ng u p An Internet service provider A TCP/IP software behind you on PPP software (on The Disc) For the best results, you should also have System the onramp. 7.5.5, at least 8MB of RAM (16MB for PowerPC users), and a 68030 or faster processor. (You can use 4 a Mac Plus running System 7.1 with 4MB of RAM, but By David Reyno Ids color graphics on the Web will dither to black and white, and besides, it'll be plenty slow.) When you look at it this way, it seems downright simple. And it is, until you start configuring things. That’s where we can help. SOFTWARE To OT or Not to oT ,. Macs need an extension to help One of the most important things to decide early on is them speak TCP/IP the language whether you'll use Open Transport or AppleTalk as your ai ba lutemel ie dition, they networking software. Open Transport is Apple's new net- need to be ‘ila ta oanett (ie working software for Macintoshes, and it is the successor fione tines to a server using PPP to AppleTalk. For some people, this decision makes itself. ut SLIP software. Open ‘Transport will run on only 68030 or faster proces- ‘ sors, so anyone with a 68020 or 68000 processor will have to use AppleTalk. PCI-based Macs can use only Open ‘Transport, so those folks also don’t have a choice. Anyone with a non-PCI-based Power Macintosh or an ’030- or '040-based Macintosh can run either [UL MYCel¥ yp) AppleTalk or Open Transport. By using Apple's Network Software Selector (qallable wih, ee Apple System software), non-PCI-based Macs (both Power and non-Power) can switch between Open Transport and AppleTalk. The table at right shows how it breaks down: Ilustration by Jack Mortensbak’ *Open Transport 68020 processor *Non-PCl-based Mac *Open Transport or classic AppleTalk with a 68030 or faster processor. *Mac with a 68000 or | *Classic AppleTalk INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER To get on the infobahn, you need an onramp. ‘When you sign up with an Internet service provider, or ISP, you'll get an account on its ‘server, which serves as your access point. ms HARDWARE This Is the easy part. All the hardware you need Is a Mac and a modem. HOPPING ONLINE When you put TCP/IP an ISP account, and the right hardware together, you're all set to join the cutting-edge wireheads on the Internet. MacADDICT 35 Select the type of IP address assignment here. NS an IP address class wasn’t provided. Type in the gateway address here. Enter the domain here. Enter the domain name server's IP ad here. (You may get a few of these.) WHAT’S IT DOMAIN NAME SERVER The server that compares IP addresses and domain names so that when you type “www.macaddict.com" you end up at the tight place. DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM A way to assign names to Internet addresses so that you can type “www.mac addict.com” instead of an IP address, GATEWAY A computer that connects two or more networks. MacTCP may ask you for a gateway address. IP ADDRESS This is like your Mac's phone number on the Internet, With the help of a subnet mask, it tells other computers what network, subnetwork, and node your Mac Is on. NET, SUBNET, AND NODE The three parts of an IP address. They narrow down an address to a specific node. The net indicates which network an address is part of, the subnet Indicates which subnetwork of that network, and the node indicates which specific node. The node itself is typically an institution with many com- puters, such as an Internet service provider, a local-area network, @ business, or a school. PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) A way to connect to the Internet via a modem, similar to SLIP. PPP is the de facto standard. SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) Another way to connect to the Internet via a modem, Fast going the way of the Beta video format. SUBNET MASK A filter that tells your Mac which parts ‘of the IP address are to be used to indicate a network and which ones are to be used to indicate a node. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol) The set of protocols that let computers of all persuasions communicate to each other via a Unix language. Standard Internet protocols. “Obtain Address: ~~ Routing Information: Gateway Address: Ni - © Manually | Select the IP address class here. Oserter | | LO Dynamically | | oe | Net Use this slider to select the subnet mask if —— Bits: 8 Class:(A_] Address: 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0 J Bioce fb] Dock | Subnet | Node o 24 DLock —__Domain Domain Name Server Information: IP Address Default | o MacTCP is the protocol for AppleTalk users. If you have a choice of networking software, we recommend Open Trans- port because it’s a little easier to set up, it's faster on Power Macs, it gives you more options (especially if you’re run- ning a non-PC] Mac), and it is the future of Mac networking. Open Transport still lets you switch to classic AppleTalk, which you might want to do if you run across communications software that makes specific System calls and won't work with Open Transport—a rare occurrence. Get version 1.1.2; it’s more stable than its predecessors. So why does it matter whether you run classic AppleTalk or Qpen Transport? Two reasons. One, TCP/IP software is different for AppleTalk than it is for Open Transport. ‘Iwo, you can use an Open Transport extension called OT/PPP (a faster, more reliable alterna- tive to MacPPP or FreePPP) to dial up your Internet service provider, or ISP. (More on OT/PPP and PPP in general later.) Speak Like A Native All computers on the Internet, be they Macintoshes, Unix variants, or Windows machines, speak TCP/IP. These are the protocols that determine how data are transferred from computer to com- puter. TCP/IP keeps the Internet from melting down into a digital Tower of Babel. In order to get your Mac on the Internet, you need to teach it to speak TCP/IP, and you do that through two control panels, one for classic AppleTalk and one for Open Transport. Apple’s network software installers should install these goodies for you; they may already be on your Mac. If you use classic AppleTalk, you must use the MacTCP control panel (which comes with System 7.5). If you use Open Transport, you must use the Open ‘Transport TCP/IP control panel. Once you have the right TCP/IP flavor, you'll need to configure it, and to do that, you'll have to play fill-in-the- blanks. Your ISP will provide you with the information you need to fill them in. Much of what you'll enter into the con- trol panels is the same for both MacTCP and TCP/IP, and much of it concerns where certain computers can be found on the Internet. Write down all the information your ISP gives you, because you'll need it. The first bit of information you'll need is your IP address. Think of your IP address as your Mac’s Internet phone number, It’s your machine’s network, subnetwork, and node location on the Internet—a 32-bit number usually expressed in dotted decimals. A what? Think of it as four numbers from one to 255 separated by decimals (example: 123.15.245,2). Good thing your Mac knows what to do with this. You'll also need to know if IP addresses are assigned manually or by a CHOOS! nderstanding how to make your U Mac speak Unix is only half the internet access struggle. Now that you're a TCP/IP whiz and can con- vert IP addresses from binary while eat- ing a dry peanut butter sandwich, you're faced with the task of selecting an Internet service provider (ISP) with which to communicate. There are two basic kinds of ISPs: nationwide and local. If you live in a metropolitan area, you'll have your choice of several ISPs, from small, inde- pendent providers to nationwide ISPs (such as EarthLink and MacConnect). If you live in a relatively rural area, your options are more limited. Although you an connect to a distant ISP this means long-distance phone calls that are prob- ably more expensive than what your ISP charges for Internet access. Local ISPs typically have much to offer. Because operations are based in your area, you can get help via a local phone call, and you can often even go into their offices to speak with an actual human being, which is sometimes worth a lot. Subscribers to local ISPs benefit from a sense of connectedness to their physical community. Nationwide ISPs can be a good deal a Ls OR FOE? if you can connect via a local call. Earthlink (at <http://www.earthlink. net>) offers unlimited Internet access for $19.95 per month, space for a Web. page, and 800-number access from anywhere in the continental United States (although this access will cost you). MacConnect bills itself as special- izing in Internet access for Mac users, and it offers unlimited accéss for $19.95 per month. MacConnect’s connections are all capable of 33.6Kbps, the company offers Mac-specific technical support, and subscribers get 5MB of Web site