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in an eMate 300 from Apple!| A better machine. A better magazine. > 4 New Power Macs! Faster! Cheaper! Better! > New! PowerBook 3400 240MHz 603e AND a CD-ROM! > System 7.6 Hidden features revealed! le < 26/udvV al we J FA IF 4 Upgrade Your Mac tl RE maa ‘6 = What’s in,store for the ac OS » How Steve 20 Supernad Reviews! Jobs’,software will help modernize the Mac What it does to make your Mac even better! j * $7.99 U.S./$8.99 CANADA 010965 - 7ASS y Ms $ C"www.macaddict.com A Ores egal ANd Le CAMERA N G Yo u Ne Ee Eb) TO UN LB A Ss H THAT MOA Be PeoM PoE Fee OU S A Rete ST Wile at VAS ie Ne 640 x 480 Resolution, 24.Bit Color 1,8" Color LCD Screen ae I Se a ae Le ay Bo: ie i a The new Mac OS 76. Now, wherever your mind goes your computer will follow even faster Enhance your performance on your Mac OS c 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 OpenDoc com- 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 a ingly affordable Mac OS 7.6 at your local Apple software your applications up to 40% faster, and your “Print” -_ 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 www.apple.com. ew. In Canada please call 1-800-361-6075 ext. 260, «speeds compared to System All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Macintosh, OpenDoc andl Quid ter 84 printing softwar, Cyberdog & OpenDoc for Power PC only. © 1996 Cars Corporation re registered trademarks and Cyberdog isa trademark of Apple Compute, lc. ‘Yup, your Mac’s heart {beats fast and wide. 38 Rhapsody: The Soul of the Machine Apple bought NeXT. Steve Jobs is back. What the heck does it all mean? Here’s where to find out more about the future of the Mac. BY DAVID REYNOLDS ji } a ADDICT 48 Unlock Bryce’s Hidden Secrets We probably shouldn't let you in on these five tricks—after all, it's hard enough to stay away from Bryce 2 as it is. But here they are—five secrets that will keep your creative juices flowing. BY STEVEN ANZOVIN AND RAF ANZOVIN 52 Power Lunch Apple is hosting a soiree at the fanciest restaurant in town and the PowerBook 3400, a mondoMHz 603e chip addition to the Mac lineup is topping the menu. BY NIKKI ECHLER Whatia view! Steve and Raf recreate the ordinary vista seen from thelt . living room in Ambarst, Mass 58 This Old Mac Who knew? The Mac II was the first Mac that you could easily open up in order to access the mother- board, memory, and all sorts of other bits of silicon and wire. Here’s what you can do to revive it. BY T. KELLEY BOYLAN how to 64 Work With OpenDoc Parts and containers and stationary and editors and viewers got you down? Cheer up, Bucky, here’s our hands-on guide to using OpenDoc. 68 Speed Web Access Take advantage of the bits of wisdom we've collected over the past few months to make your Web site faster, snazzier, and all-around better. Mmmm. Finger-lickin’ goad! Just wait for dessert! “Te Mac OS 18 A vAUANT Sout, IT FIGHTS cOURAGEOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRYSIDE, BRINGING Joy TO THE PEOPLE AND MAKING THee uves Berrer..." ‘There's life lett in that old Mae {i yet. Find out what you can do to keep this Mac alive and kicking, The Next Appia was itosigned by associate art director Adam Vaiiderhoot and rendered by Olivier Walfson, | | eee eee | Better not shine a light down that crevasse, buddy. every month Editor’s Note Big Man Bill buys us, Mac addicts fight back. . just read it. Letters More wacky correspondence from our wacky (but Mac-literate) readers. Get Info New Macs! New clones! A new version of QuickTime! Not to mention the scoop on DVD and a contest for winning an eMate 300. Cravings Six super-sexy somethings that you can actually own, for your very own super self. Reviews What a month! PageMaker 6.5, Extreme 3D 2.0, Claris Home Page 2.0, Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.0, Poser 2.0, Command & Conquer, ATI Xclaim VR—and that’s not all! Ask Us Making aliases without appending the word alias, transferring desktop patterns between Macs, how to help the Mac cause, and more. PowerPlay Get the inside scoop on Bungie’s hot new real-time tactical game, Myth. Shut Down Screwball happenings—and not a single April Fools’ joke in the bunch. the diss €3 1 4 Scads of great demos, shareware, and freeware, stunning videos, awesome music, a hidden contest, throbbing eggs, and more. And, hooray, hooray, you can now pick any browser to access the Web from The Disc. http://www.macaddict.com 24 Trying to find your way around the Big Apple’s Web site? The company’s online branch may have gone to seed, but our guide helps you get to the core. 4 MacADDICT Cheryl England E Judy Lewenthal ATE EDITORS Nikki Echler, David Reynolds, afel, Danie! Drew Turner (reviews) CD-ROM: Thomas Hale (director, development), Waule Albright (CD-ROM editor) NLIN 2 Mark Simmons INTRIBUTING EDF Raf Anzovin, Steven Anzovin, Joseph 0. Holmes, Ross Scott Rubin FREELANCE EDITOR Laura Fredrickson Ken Bousquet z: RECTOR Adam Vanderhoot DESIGNERS Gloria Orbegozo, Amy Yep PRODUCTION Pr RECTOR Richard Lesovay AD R Ken Brandow ADVERTISING Fi Patricia Neuray A A André Lengyel John Singer R Christina Sorrentino INT MANAGER Mary Lachapelie: ‘OR Jana Massey. CIRCULATION EV IRECTOR Bruce Eldridge MANAGER Thea Selby I YST Terry Lawson 36R Donna Badgett ANT Gail Egbert imagine Publishing, Inc. RESIDENT Chris Anderson ICE JENTICIRCULATION. He EP Li XC 3) Jonathan Simpson-Bint CE PRESIDENT/CFO. Tom Valentino NE | 1S: DEV AENT i Mary Hoppin: ‘ Volume 2, Issue 3 MacADDICT (SSN 1088 s publish Ne, Brisbane Hey Cheryl, 3) how do you “pop” a Poptart? Just wore dein; b) wo're not up to anything. You're just paranokd, Kon & Adam rock. Ban, got away from our stuf alroadly. Vert tly ree Sofiware! The “Scanning QS” NNN ee Award-Winning RECORE OCR . ° . Fila i Now You Can Scan Direct to Any Application ile litle =eeaaaeares Drag & Drop files from [tel tat mew Toots “Lounen windows sal Pte aa ml In Tray & stack them in % ecseee : folders. Type notes & <a B| [FR | (lee RK highlight important info. |enmmmma ae — = atten ET [al [ales Dal] else 1s] Teel | . OCR It! eo a F| | Scan Direct! Rie : Ca ecipes el Scan to any application for ick Once to scan it convert your images to = ane? Py ae Grad & text. No more retyping! take E-mail! ase Print/Copy It! =| Add Your Apps! War Turn your scanner into Plug-in your favorite a copy machine! Just Macintosh applications! Add multiple applications Drag & Drop to print or make a copy of the a like MS Word, Excel, scanned image. =I dy "(= Adobe Photoshop, fl ° $ : | Presto! Forms, etc. Fax If E-Mail It Drag & Drop It! And More! Turn your scanner into a stand-alone fax machine. Once you scan, you can send Drag & Drop documents to the offers Built-in OCR & your image via electronic mail applications you use most! Just File Search by date, without leaving your application! add them to the Launcher Bar. annotation or keyword. [sisi Scan your pages straight to your fax modem! Presto! PageManager LE lets you have one-button scanning, printing, faxing, copying, editing, & OCR with any Photoshop Plug- in or Twain compliant scanner. Has this happened to you: You spend $500 for great new software, but it doesn’t work with your scanner? So you spend $400 for a new scanner, and now it doesn’t work with your software? We know your concerns. That’s why Presto! PageManager LE, the “Scanning OS”, adds scanning abilities to any Mac application. No hassles, no worries. Presto! PageManager LE * There is a non-refundable $5 (US) or $10 (Int'l) shipping/handling charge. Outside US call 510-252-0267. Please have your Visa, Mastercard, or American Express card ready ‘when you call. CD-ROM format. Limited edition only. Information and prices subject to change without notice. © 1996 NewSof, Inc. NewSoft, Presto!, & Magic Within are trademarks of NewSoR, Ine. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies. All rights reserved, Presto! PageManager adds value to your scanner or digital camera! Call today for your virtually free software, for only... 14” Soft) When you're good, you're good, When you're too good, you're bought. ’m afraid we have a bit of bad news. This is the last issue of MacAddict as you know it. Before you go dashing off to write us a nasty letter, let us explain. It's not that we weren’t doing a good job or that you weren't happy with us. On the contrary, we were doing too well. So well, in fact, that old Billy Boy started to get really nervous about MacAddict. Well, not about MacAddict per se, but about the fact that there’s a large group of people dedicated to the Mac and to Apple—and not to Windows and Microsoft. So, Bill, of course, set upon stomping out the resis- tance. What does Bill do best? Why, he buys things! Bill made our parent company, Imagine Publishing, an offer it couldn’t refuse. We're talking Big Bucks here. And this being a ’90s corporation, we sold out. (A special note to those of you who suggested that we were secretly working for Bill because we put Internet Explorer on ‘The Disc: You were right!) Naturally, now that our souls belong to Bill (oops, Mr. Gates, sir) we're going to tweak the focus of the magazine just a tad. Starting next issue, we're changing our name to WinAddict, we're going to run lots of articles that, say, compare word proces- sors or tell you how to perform SQL queries with your company database, and we're going to introduce a whole slew of bugs in The Disc. We'll also have to tone down our covers and dry up our humor. Expect future editorials to concentrate on Apple’s dismal future. We'll change our mascot Max’s name to Windy and we'll even try to con- vince you that Bill Gates is super-cool. Bill made our parent com- pany, Imagine Publishing, an offer it couldn't refuse. We're talking Big Bucks here. 6 MacADDICT Except for Kathy Tafel, the only one among us who has any morals whatsoever, the rest of the MacAddict team is sticking with the new maga- zine. As I type this, David is busy learning the joys of device drivers as he tries to install a video card into his Windows PC, Judy is wandering around chanting repeatedly, “It’s the words that count, not the platform.” Nikki and Dan are trying to figure out how they can get raises out of all of this, and Mark and Wade are already deep into the guts of DOS. “Screw icons,” says Mark, “I’m sick of making them anyway.” Adds Wade, “Tt's about time everyone around here had to memorize a bunch of inane commands. Real men work harder, not smarter.” Naturally, Ken and Adam will continue to produce the magazine on Macs, No art department in the world uses Windows-based PCs to do design and page layout—not the one at PC World, not the one at PC Computing, not the one at PC Magazine, and not even the one at boot. April fools! (Ha!) Did we get you? Microsoft didn’t really buy MacAddict. But the scary thing is that it could just like it could buy any number of companies or products. And it’s only when you envision how a large corporation’s actions might affect you—and how helpless you might be to stop it—can you begin to understand why Microsoft evokes such strong passion in Mac addicts. But, we're not helpless. There’s a strong, smart, and very vocal contin- gent of Mac enthusiasts (you) out there, and as long as that continues, the Mac is not going to die, nor is MacAddict going away. So keep up the good work because when Apple delivers its kick-butt operating sys- tem, Rhapsody, on time next year, it will be we Mac addicts who have the last laugh. And that’s no April fool’s joke. —Cheryl England Updaters: The Mac is back, a disc error, and how to reach us ere are a couple of things you should note from our past issues: Easy Web Publishing! Drag & Drop “Foolproof Web Design” MACWORL Frame It! —————__ « File Edit Align Font Size Style Special to Create Your Own Home Page “Elegant Interface” Deutsch Point & click to select & size frames. Drag & drop to put | | sete) EB) Sela] Boe) Vacation English Espafiol Frangais content into frames. <Japanese> Picture It! Drag & drop images from Presto! PageManager or Netscape Navigator™. - [ty Web St, Summer Veaion Page I My Summer Vacation: Copy/Paste It! - Copy & paste text fr¢ Macintosh application. — Drag & drop QuickTim: ‘This summer we took a 2-week vacation. We found a small restaurant in the middle of nowhere that makes great margaritas. Click here t0 see our home UNS] ~<t- videos & sound cli} sd into your web document watch them play online. Browse It! Edit & browse HTML pages ~ | on your hard disk or network. Drag & Drop Links! Make a link by dragging & dropping a file icon. Has this happened to you? You have a great idea for your own web page, but you don’t know where to begin? Or you've started writing HTML for your page, but your tags are just not doing what they're supposed to? Presto! 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Navigator™™ is a trademark of Netscape Corporation. All rights reserved. The creative process has always been a mystery to some. To others, it’s a way of life. For them, we offer the $900. A computer designed specifically to meet the needs of the creative professional. The $900’s advanced architecture combines high performance and expandability with the familiarity of the MacOS . With worry-free service (standard 3 day on-site warranty) and at a price that can’t be beat, the S900 is setting new standards for an old pursuit: Art. SUPERMaC ®eeee#eee8 6 Computers that Work the Way You Do. e e ® © Standard Interleaved Memory Every $900 comes standard with interleaved memory for workstation-quality 128-bit access memory and best system performance. Others only provide 64-bit access memory. @———_ Advanced Scalable Processor Design (AS.P..) This modular configuration allows easy upgradeability to add or change CPUs a desired. Coss less ond is more flexible, e allowing your system to grow as you do. oO _UMAX PC-to-P CI Bridge The $900 allows bust communication @ between all PCI slots, no matter where devices are inserted, for greater expandability and easy set up. * Ultimate Expandability * Totally Upgradeable * Advanced Design ee le SuperMac C600 SuperMac 1700 ~~ Superttac $900 . “he BAA @ fied EOE or vist our web site @ hip//www supermac.com (© 1996 All rights reserved. SuperMac is licensed exclusively to UMAX Computer Corporation.» 47470 Seabridge Dr. Fremont CA 94588. Tel: (800) 252-8629. Fax: (510) 628-7350 aig i 2 This Month We love your stories, your comments, your jokes. We only wish we had more space to praise, and sensitive criticism. Write to us at: MacDudes, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, to <letters@macaddict. com>. For CD-ROM GET ON, GET ACTIVE. Talk 7 Subscription queries, please call our cus- to us and tomer service department at 415-468-2500. talk to other MacAddicts on the On, GREAT Web site. Your little thumbs up guy looks a lot RECENTLY, like Ross Perot. —Neu. GtESMANN Not only am I a techno-geek, Mac-Freek, but I am also a Bio-geek. I couldn't help but notice that you are using a cockroach as an runall of your marriage proposals, indulgent. Suite 40, Brisbane, CA 94005, or send e-mail CP" picture of some true bugs for your bug icon. We write. You read. You write. We answer. What a wonderful relationship. rats! They are wonderful, fabulous, fantastico animals! Actually, they are so wonderful that they whoop hamsters’ butts just as much as the Mac whoops the PC. —Sara User No! No! Nor Tart! Ifyou guys name one more CD MacAddict, I may be forced to kill you. . .. Those of us who use disk catalogers are going to come to your house, tie you down, and make you watch as we slowly erase every one of your preference files. —Parrick KeLty Geez, okay, we give. Starting this month, we're giving each disc its own special name. Now stop complaining. Ou, You WANT INFORMATION? First, I would like to say pneumonoultra- mircroscopicsiulicovalcanoconiosis, but I icon for a bug. BBBZZZ, wrong answer. Just for the record, true bugs are the order can't...it hurts too much. Second, I would Cockroaches are not bugs, they are orthopter- ans, the same order as grasshoppers and crickets. I would suggest, to be biologically correct, that you cruise through the Peterson Field Guide—Insects or surf the Net for an insect page (there are several) and find a IGHTED War Is Het Tired of the Mac-bashing he’s been exposed to recently, Daniel Miller dreamed up this image of a lone Mac beating back the enemy. Although we doubt you'll actually catch this battle in your neigh- borhood anytime soon, it is kind of nice to imagine a world where the tough-guy Mac is a hero. Daniel brought his vision to life with Fractal Design's Ray Dream Studio and Adobe Photo- shop. It will soon be posted on a Ray Dream users forum at <http:// www.dram.org/ rd/rdnewsub/ 4 htmi>. QDINUMBERED Bi aap NON UOTMATCHED! 10 MacADDICT hemiptera. I have a few suggestions of bugs you might want to find: stink bug, assassin bug, and ambush bug. I know these particular bugs won't be as familiar to people as a cockroach, but I think their names are quite fitting for your purpose. —KevIN JOHNSON YES Have I been in the “Letters” section yet? —Ep Brown, BouncBrook, IL Tam about to buy one of those sexy little Performa 6400s. Three weeks after I get it, is there going to be something better that I will wish I had waited for? —Amy Swiri You know the little icons of a disc that say “Find A Demo of...on The Disc”? Well, could put one next to a picture of the new PowerBook 1400 and include a demo model with my next issue? —SEAN SULLIVAN You're in luck! Check out page 261 You MEAN THERE Are More oF You? This is in response to Paul’s letter about how he thinks he likes rats. Paul! You are one of us! Come to us! We will clone, as a band of rat lovers should! It is OK to have a liking for like to enquire about your “MacAddict World News” article (Jan/97, p61). Under Marketing Genius, are we suppo to be able to read this, or are we just goi to have to wait to get Hancock's telepathi powers, or did you forget to put the pic behind the text box? Enquiring minds —D. Byron TeIcHRoEw Oops! Here you go: “eMacs will make sig- nificant inroads into China with Motorola clones and the new Apple input solution. eApple will let all schools upgrade to TCP 2.0.6 for free. ¢People in Obio will quit calling Macs “Apples.” °The PowerPC Platform (PPGP) acronym will be dropped in favor of the steadfast CHRP. *Power Computing will release a popular coffee- table book of its ad campaign.” want to know! I like the way you predicted Gil Amelio would be on the cover of Forbes. So...can you tell me when my back-ordered Performa 6400 will arrive? —Bruce Doig Geez, we're not God. THe Way We Wene_... My most memorable Apple surprise hap- pened over three years ago when I bought a Performa 550 (big mistake). I finally got around to filling in the registration card a few days later and after cringing in preparation to lick that disgusting glue seal, I was pleasantly shocked at the sweet taste of apples. How ironic that one of Apple Computer's most bril- liant actions was putting apple-flavored glue on the seal of a Performa registration card. —Kais ‘33MHz 030° THoLe THE Nose Knows I just received the January 97 issue and it doesn’t SMELL like the other ones. Did they run out of Downy fabric soft- ener? —Cosert ENDERS mal Get this—you're right about i the smell. Seems they aswel switched to the unscented Downy! (Yes, we’re serious.) Nutcases! Hee, hee...hello there, MacAddict gurus...here I am, in a dark cor- ner, the light from my 14-inch Apple monitor glaring upon my face’s features. . .I have been here for a month now...my December issue, well...hee, hee... .it never came. My only con- tact to the outside world... my trusty Quadra. My only sustenance... pages from PC maga- zines (the ink, ever so tasty)...and a hose connected to an outside faucet. Aye, the cor- ner is dark and cold...but so is life without MacAddict...hee, hee. ..no reviews, no con- tests, no free CD... my life is but a hole. ..the day my January issue arrives will be my YOU KNOW YOU'RE A MAC ADDICT WHEN: ...you find yourself shopping for a VCR that understands AppleScript. —Bryan CHEUNG ..-you realize your Macintosh is worth more than your Toyota Celica. —Michetue Fierrz, Waskincron, DC ...the highway patrol stops you because your rear window is completely obstructed by all the Apple stickers from all of your Mac purchases. —Ros & Penny ... you find that the picture you took of your son at his computer has him framed out of the photo. —Bansara J. Link ...you say to your spouse: “Help me load the INITS and CDEVs into the van.” —Apam NELSON GoRDON awakening. ..but until then...hee, hee...the dark seems awfully nice. —Ryan BrvELs, FROM THE CORNER My CD-ROM IS CRACKED! The perky pick-me-up icons aren’t there! The secret contest spot, the cool shareware, the neato icon picture in the window, THEY ARE GONE! ALL GONE! WHAT SHALL I DO?! I waited by the mailbox all week when the mail came to see if the mag was here yet, and when it finally arrived, I looked it over: the magazine, the CD...OH NO! It’s cracked! WHAT SHALL I DO! My life as I know it is over! AHHHHH! HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME —Joun Wits, San Disco, CA THANKS FOR THE TIP I came across a newspaper article from The Columbian that made me smile and I think that you will appreciate it. The article talks about a woman who was sent to a state hospital for evaluation after she had been charged with attempting to stab her husband to death. (Obviously this is not the part that made me smile.) When deputies were called to the scene she threatened to kill one of them, then later told him that the secret of life “was the legalization of marijuana and the use of Macintosh computers.” Perhaps this is what Apple has been waiting for: an ad campaign promoting Macs as the secret of life, although I don’t think the connection with drugs would go down very well. —Janz LeonarD Man, oh man! Whatever you do, don’t eat something greasy...and then decide to read your MacAddict. Ink smears like Tammy Faye’s eye makeup. I just smeared page 8 of the January issue. Oh well, nothing better to gripe about at 2:02 a.m. —Laura, New York, NY Cope Name: CLEVER I went to Best Buy yesterday (the place that has the largest selection of Macs in my neigh- borhood) and found the Performa 6400/200 unlocked so I opened the At Ease Setup control panel and found that the password was “family- macintosh.” I checked at other computer stores and found that the password was the same. Knowing this, you can add your own access name at your favorite store (none of the salespeople know anything about the Macs anyway). —JONATHAN BRINGHURST, SECANE, PA SPEED PERSONIFIED M:: megahertz is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, even your lightning-fast Power Mac™ system still makes you do all of the same tedious stuff that slows you down. You know ... menus ... dialog boxes ... passwords ... Chooser. You get the point. QuicKeys” 3.5 supercharges your personal clock speed with its FR easy, on-the-fly N automation power. It screams through your routine dialogs, page setups, passwords, and everything else ... automatically and on demand across your entire Mac” OS environment. Accelerate your personal productivity with QuicKeys! ¢ Order Today! CE Software, Inc. = 800-523-7638 ce software Program QK 2161 eorss. (©1997 CE Software, Inc. CE Software, the CE Software logo are trademarks and QuicKeys is Best Sroystoradtcorark of CE Sofware, ne All other brand or product names are trademarks Personal orvedlsteredracemartsof tar respective nalers. Utility Multi- medial CREATE YOUR SOUNDTRACKS WITH SmartSound™ FOR MULTIMEDIA See for yourself why MacUser says: “SmartSound is billed as ‘the absolute easiest way to create customized professional soundtracks.’ Believe it.” Bob LeVitus MacUser Lit CHECK QUT OUR DEMO. ON THE MACADDICT CD “For beginners and pros alike, it's a quick, easy and fascinating way to produce custom music for multimedia.” on David Rubin MacAddict (800) 454-1900 From Sonic Desktop Software The Soundtrack Company www.sonicdesktop.com (818) 718-9999 He’s Gor A Point (At Last) Is one’s ability to use a Mac a measure of one’s intelligence? I think it is. Example, my 4- year-old nephew is able to identify the SCSI ports, knows what a hard drive is, and knows how to run certain apps on my Mac. Most importantly, he knows how to scream, very loudly, “Long live Apple! Long live the Mac!”, though I don’t know where he learned this. My 2-year-old niece is learning how to use my Mac, she can say “SCSI,” “Cyberdog,” “MacAddict,” “Apple rules,” and she runs away from my sister whenever she wants to teach her how to use the PC. Now, these are signs, as any child psych will tell you, of very advanced intelligence (obviously, they take after their uncle...heh, heh). Anywho, on the other end is this scum-sucking yuppie who accosted me while I was reading your mag. Seems his ex-wife thought it would be nice if his daughter, who is about six, had a com- puter. So she buys a Mac and has it delivered to the scum’s house BUT WITHOUT SOMEONE TO HELP SET IT UP! (Dramatic music here.) He spends the weekend trying to figure out what goes where. After numerous calls to Apple tech support, which at times he found quite stimulating, he finally gave up and left to drink with his buddies. So, Monday he spots me reading MacAddict and offers me $50 an hour to install his Mac. I'm thinking, I'll take my time and throw all this mumbo jumbo at him and walk away with $200. But when we get to his house, the computer is up and run- ning. He can’t figure out what happened, until his daughter comes downstairs and says that Mom dropped her off after school, she found the Mac and didn’t think he'd mind if she set Coverups Un, Oops nthe February disc, we included a font called Smoothplate after getting permission from the author to use it. Problem is, the author had downloaded the font from the Internet, tweaked it slightly, and then reposted it. Bigger problem is, the font that was on the Internet appears to be a pirated version of Emigre Graphics’ Template Gothic. If you like Smoothplate/ Template Gothic and want to continue using it, then please do the right thing and pur- chase the font from Emigre (916-451-4344, <hitp://www.emigre.com>). it up. He stood there with this stupid look on his face as she went on to explain how she helped her teacher set up some Macs at school, and how fun and easy a Mac is to use, and how she wants to be a graphic designer when she grows up, which is what I think made him pass out. So I gave her a few Apple stickers, taught her the “Long live Apple! Long live the Mac!” battle cry, and walked out of the house, perhaps not $200 richer, but damn proud that children are still our greatest resource. LONG LIVE APPLE! LONG LIVE THE MAC! —Reupen E. ReyNoso Oy! Sucu a Dea! Here is another copy of our program Multimedia Guitar: Guitar Shop Volume 1. Now the pressure is on! I've sent you two copies, and I’m only asking for one review! What a bargain! —James C. Companato, RED Door Inreractive, St. CHARLES, MO James, we'll review it just as soon as we find a guitar-playing Mac addict who can write. Now where'd we put Lyle’s number? M ood Covers. After placing the 1400 ‘on your lap, the cover turns a color that reflects your state of mind. Each color ‘suggests a certain type of program to run. This could also tie in with the Labels Control panel. For example: GREEN: Crank out a spreadsheet. RED: Check for errors in the spreadsheet. BLUE: Type love letter to significant other. GRAY: Get lost! You're a Windoze user... Airbag Covers: | read about a guy who ran over his laptop with a truck. Dream Covers: activated in sleep mode. Ever wonder what your Mac is up to when it’s suspended? Will Work for Food Covers: may be necessary after blowing your life savings on that snazzy active- matrix model. Hot Plate Covers: to grill that Cuban ‘sandwich you've been thinking about since 9:30 this morning. The AC adapter may be needed for this one. Folder Bay - Simple-to-use, easily acces sible tert controls are located here. You an also add you own project Folders! 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Osher strait ta speech, we ard editing aunt, justifc ‘component technology and WAV, if you need extra text-handling Features, simply plug them in later. *WAV installs complete with OpenDoc, Cyberdog (Net Browser, E-mail, ‘Net Search, CyberButton, Net Management), C100” Components LEX! & C-TextBox, and Apple Live Objects Essentials (QuickTime” Viewer, Image Viewer, 3DMF Viewer, Apple Draw, Apple Audio). Freakin’ Awesome attr Coie (amponent io Graton Desktop” a1 All other vademarsorvadeames ae te prop sro: BH ral menay on 16 B fret mene af) MacOS versan 75 ot, Openboc 10 include full tabs, eclored text, search and replace, AppleGuide help, text ‘and full line-spacing, Most peogle only use about 3% of the textediting Features Found in their traditional word processors, Now, you no Tanger need to lug around all that stuf! 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You'll be automagically trans- ported to a hidden area of The Disc. When you solve the puzzle, the CD-ROM will give you a code. You Have a Problem? hat! You need help? Well, if your superphat disc is mangled, warped, broken, or oth- emise disturbed, you can get a replacement from Imagine’s cus- tomer service. We've set up a spe- cial page on our Web site where you can order one <http://www. macaddict.com/info/service. html>, or you can call them directly at 415-468-2500. If you can't install anything, or get disk errors, do the same. If you have another problem with The Disc, please stop by Enter this code on the Web site for your chance to win Digital Lab. Find out all about this spiffy program in Kidz Stuff (p80) <http://www.macaddict.com/ cdrom> before you send us e-mail. If there isn’t a solution there, then please let us know about it at <cdrom@ macaddict.com>. If you're having problems with System software, we recom- mend calling the good folks at 800-SOS-APPL. 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Bring yours home on a Sony. www.sony.com/technology SONY the disc his month we bring you more than 20 terrific 1 demos ranging from games ! to Live Objects to kids’ stuff. See movies, build a home : space, and feed your head with recreational software. Remember, demos are not the full product. Many fea- tures from the program are disabled: Image-editing pro- | grams usually add a water- mark to the screen image, ' and games generally allow you into only a few levels. 1, Drawing Discoveries Start your with Brainstorm’s Drawing Dis- coveries. This wonderful pro- gram shows kids step-by-step how to draw various animals tour animations. who live in Africa. This demo ! gently guides children through the process, encouraging them with a warm, motherly voice that they can draw a lion in any way they like, This Mac addict was able to follow along with the directions on the left-hand side and produce (on the right-hand side), for the first time in her life, some- thing that indeed resembled a mighty feline. throughout the tutorial are factoids about the animals. For instance, did you know that lions’ manes grow darker with age? Note: You may need 18 MacADDICT Interspersed : to inspect your monitor for fin- gerprints after using Drawing Discoveries. The instructor en- courages using fingers as a guide for making curves. 2. The Tick This interactive demo of Inverse | Ink’s Tick vs. the Uncommon Cold includes two pages from the CD-ROM. Click on each | panel to activate the digitized | movie from the TV show. When ! you see a Tick cursor in a | panel, click to find hidden. u 3. Myth Bungie's carnage is not for everyone, and Myth is particularly graphic. But for the brave of heart who can stom- ach—no, really enjoy— the digital gore, our Myth preview is sure to please. First read our interview with developer Jason Jones in | “PowerPlay.” Then pop in } The Disc to browse a slide | show and three QuickTime ! movies. No, it’s not an inter- active demo—you want | them to finish the game first, | don't you? 1 4. SmartSound This freakin’ awesome pro- gram composes sequences of digital audio suitable for use in multimedia produc- tions, Web pages, and just about any other place you need a beat. The Maestro feature interviews you to determine your require- ments, then composes a piece. You can tweak the tunes in the editor. No music reading, perfect pitch, or mix- ing savvy required. 5. We packed The Disc with many other fine demonstration products. You'll find them through the Finder, not the MacAddict disc interface, Just double-click the Demos folder in the main window to be blown away. Kids, don't miss Sierra On-Line’s Dr. Brain, in which you must guide a beaver through building a dam while navi- gating around logs and turtles, and avoiding a nasty guy with an evil laugh destroys your work. who. e want to hear from W::: Submit your tunes to be included as a soundtrack on The Disc. See your name in lights by sending your recordings and a photo (in any digital format—no tape cassettes, please) to: Music Mavens, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Suite 40, Brisbane, CA 94005. If we 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 from scratch and haven't yet published. You will retain all rights to your work and just give us per- mission to use it on The Disc. Your music, of course, must be made on a Mac! ill Groesbeck of Billings, Montana, decoded January’s CD- ROM contest. Bill was over- joyed to win Opcode’s Musicshop 2.0 with a MIDI translator. Hopefully tuning up his musical skills will keep him warm: It was 70 degrees below zero (with wind chill) when Bill found out that was the winner. Bill: Remember to keep your Mac nice and toasty warm, or the electrons will all con- geal together. Turn to page 15 for this month’s contest. Digital Images In. Panasonic Introduces TruPhoto™, the digital photo printer. The new Panasonic TruPhoto printer creates real photographs from your PC or Macintosh® computer. Input an image into your computer from photo CDs, floppy discs, digital cameras, the Internet or scanners. Use your graphics program to manipulate the image, then TruPhoto will print out a bright, brilliant 3"x 5" glossy photograph. TruPhoto uses no toner or ink; it produces real photos on Thermo-Autochrome paper. MGI PhotoSuite™ for TruPhoto is included, so you can use your computer to retouch, crop and fix your photographs. And even create special effects, baseball cards, birthday cards, calendars and more. There are lots of ways to get digital images into your computer, but to get real photographs out, you need TruPhoto from Panasonic. Panasonic’ Interactive Media www.truphoto.com © 1996 Panasonic Interactive Media Company. All rights reserved. TruPhoto is a trademark of Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. (MGI PhotoSuite is a registered trademark of MGI Software Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ° & 3 0 = ~ ind all kinds of spiffy beerware, e-mailware, and postcardware in this section of The Disc. We contin- ually strive to make the MacAddict disc reflect what you, the viewing public, want. This month some shareware isn’t even in an installer! Please send your sug- gestions for the MacAddict superphat disc to <cdrom@ macaddict.com>. FUN AND Bunny Killer & Ld If those bunnies on the main screen are just a little too sac- charin-sweet for you, then KILL THEM! Bunny Killer has a very simple Twenty bunnies hop across the screen. Your cursor becomes a cross hair, and clicking on a bunny kills it. Cartoon violence is funny, but interface. remember kids, killing real rabbits is sick and mean. 20 MacADDICT a= CED) Formerly known as WebCenter, Quid Pro Quo 1.0 is an alterna- the high-priced commercial Web servers for the Mac. Quid Pro Quo provides Open Transport native performance and multi- tive to relatively few, threaded management of connections, which makes it capable of handling tens of thousands of hits in a day. Quid Pro Quo fully supports all of the WebStar conventions for CGI handling and password access. To features, it provides server- side includes—to automatically insert the current date and time, round out its ‘in the Preferences for example—and memory- | based file caching to speed | access for clients. You can even drop in WebStar-compatible plug-ins! —WA HAREWARE ELECTIONS ScriptSynch ScriptSynch is a shareware extension that synchronizes application launches. When an application is launched, Netscape Navigator for example, ScriptSynch | [eierereater tell application to ai can be configured to launch a CLimax's. window, which second program for you, | can appear and disappear at such as your favorite bookmark | the touch of a key, floats above utility or a Web page analyzer. | all other windows. This is done by placing the | A application you want launched | SCriptMenu by ScriptSynch (or an alias { ScriptMenu is an underpro- of it) into the ScriptSynch | moted, yet very useful, Apple Aliases folder, which is placed | utility that places an iconic folder | menu next to the Guide and when ScriptSynch is installed. | Application menus. Although Although ScriptSynch was orig- | scripts can be stored any- inally intended to be used with | where, such as in the Launcher AppleScript applets (hence the | Items for access via the name ScriptSynch), it can be | Launcher, scripts can be written used to open any file, folder, | and stored in a special Scripts alias, or application. | folder within the System Folder | for instant access from the | Script Menu from within any | application. —Stefan Anthony Hi ye] Paley elcome back to MacAddict’s serial- ization of David Pogue's Silicon Valley thriller. Find part two of Hard Drive in Not only can ScriptSynch also launch applications when an application quits, it is polite enough to quit the application it launched when the first appli- §) cation quits. the Finder at the root level of The Disc, in which our CLimax feisty heroine, Ellen, gloats CLimax is a unique utility that offers the graphical Mac OS a powerful command-line inter- face (CLI) that can directly con- trol the Mac with AppleScript (see the AppleScript how-to in our April issue, p88, to learn more about AppleScript). Through its floating window, CLImax can send AppleScript commands to applications, target background applica- tions for scripting events, and give you an easy way to switch applications. about 50 percent college discounts on Macintoshes. Ahh, those were the days. ‘A UEW YORK TIMES MUTAALE BOOK. 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All you do is Command-click a selected URL in your Nisus Writer document and you're surfing! Nisus Writer Live Nisus Writer 5.0 is light years ahead of the competition. It's the first major word processor to be a Live Objects container. That means Nisus Writer 5.0 lets you easily add functionality by dragging and dropping Live Objects like graph and table editors right into your Nisus Writer docu- ments. I's as simple as adding graphics. Nisus Writer even comes with several @ of the hottest Live pir Objects available corde oraeh Multilingual Support With Nisus Writer and the appropriate Apple Tree Kit, you can type in non-Roman languages like Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and Persian. And Nisus Writer no longer requires a Language Key, so you can do without that pesky little dongle hanging off the back of your computer. 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Nisus is a registered trademark of Nisus Software Inc. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Nisus Software, Inc. - 107 S, Cedros Ave. - Solana Beach, CA 92075 (619) 481-1477, FAX (619) 481-6154 i sweet- hroughout this Macintosh information, you will 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 sec- tion, chances are this icon refers to a product demo. Articles section usually are accompanied by a demo of the software tioned and sam- ple 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-hand 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 the right- hand side of the dial (and vice versa to go the other way). in the How To The middle column lists the | article titles. Clicking an arti- cle title 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. HIGHLIG Turn to page 38 to find out what's NeXT for your operating system. Then, come back and slip in The Disc to dress up your Mac in black. Your sleek new 22 MacADDICT men- | bu, Anthony 2. Sazctons of Elenayt Crestions 702/458-0270 a] @ Enable Startup Animation @ Enable Ne#T Windows ei TrUE NeXT. You'll first need to change the way your windows look. 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Snapz Pro nifty utility — from Ambrosia greatly improves on the standard Command- Shift-3 screenshot capabili- MacOS 7.6 adds some more screenshot filters, you'll still need Snapz Pro if you want to save your images as any- thing other than PICTs. Since we here at MacAddict enjoy | helping others reach nirvana, | here's another koan for you. ! How do you take a screenshot | of a screenshot utility? ' Virtual Home ' Space Builder 1 Ly "] Woo Hoo! The Mac finally has an easy-to-use VRML space builder. Just make boxes, and then drag colors and textures ‘onto them. When you've made your home space, tell us about it! Use OpenDoc Every Live Object—and a few dead ones—you'll need to follow along with Dan Turner's OpenDoc tutorial. One caveat—if you need OpenDoc itself, you'll need to reach for last month's disc. EVERY MONTH Get Info What do you get when you cross people from MIT's Media Lab and the Rhode Island School of Design? Vibrating fruit! 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EarthLink Networks Inc. 3100 New York Drive, Pasadena, CA 91107 | the web site 0 = GS @ & J ontinuing our occasional Cz of Mac-oriented + surfing expeditions, we turn this month to the task of navigating the sprawling labyrinth of Web sites known as <http:// www.apple. com>. Having discussed the quest for soft- ware updates in some detail (see “The Web Site,” Dec/96, p22, and Feb/97, p26), we'll con- centrate here on information and helpful resources. Advice and Consent Having taken a fair amount of flak for the haphazard organi- zation of its Web presence, Apple has tried to arrange its sites in a somewhat logical fash- ion. The company's Web sites are grouped into seven broad categories, ranging from prod- uct info to tech support to cor- porate info. For an overview of the organization du jour, plus a powerful sitewide search engine, consult Apple's Findlt page—highly recommended as a bookmark. If you're fishing for informa- | tion ona specific topic, the Findlt page's search engine is a good place to start. If you're looking | for marketing information on a | 24 MacADDICT specific Apple product, see AppleFacts Online; the Mac OS Software & Hardware Guide, meanwhile, offers a searchable database of thousands of third-party products. For trouble- shooting help with an Apple product you already own, the famous Apple Tech Info Library awaits your command. Speaking of tech support, as we go to press, Apple just launched the promising Tech Support Online, a collection of answers to common questions, pointers to important software updates, and troubleshooting discussion forums. The discus- sion forums are populated by other users rather than by Apple employees, so you may not find answers for your more esoteric questions—you may have bet- ter luck with a Usenet posting. The Source | bought a occasions when Apple has just operating system, lost a couple hundred million bucks, or announced some vague strategic alliance that will yield dividends by the year 2015, you'll find the gory details at The Source. This collection of press releases and reference material provides everything you need to play armchair journalist. new ight Reading Once you've answered those burning questions, you can waste some more time browsing Apple's massive volumes of information. The Technology & Research pages will steer you to dedi- cated sites for most of Apple's snazzy technologies, from the QuickTime Media Layer to Internet technolo- gies to the Mac OS. Burrow around in here for a while, and you'll discover more about QuickDraw 3D than you ever hoped to know. For a morale boost, take a gander at the Why Macintosh? site. As well as facts, figures, inspirational stories, and other resources for the Mac advocate, you'll find information on ordering free Apple-branded merchan- dise with which to display Perhaps you came in search of hot news rather than tech support. On those your loyalty to the world. The adventurous Mac addict can geek out at Apple Developer World. Although most of this material will go ' over the heads of nonprogram- | mers, you'll be able to amaze | your friends and amuse your ' family after reading a few | issues of Apple Directions and | following it up with some | choice Technotes. | But don’t leave without visit- ! ing Dr. Gilbert Amelio: A Man, A Plan, A Canal—Panamal in | which Apple's fearless leader ' indulges in his love of palin- 1 dromes. —Mark Simmons | Win his month's disc is just full of surprises. On the Super-Special April Disc, you may select your very own browser (the one you use every day). 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DEMO of the To combat overly technology-enriched PowerBook pages from taking over the planet, Apple and 3400 on Sun Microsystems are jointly developing a The Disc. new technology, code-named Decaf™, which aims to calm the Java hysteria. Here's how it works. There are two parts to Decaf™: language and execution. Devel- opers can use the Decaf™ language to write platform-neutral code. It's so much ‘This means that they can : write their programs easier to convey once, and deliver them i ‘ on Macs, IBM clones, meaning without all those pixels moving around. and Unix boxes simulta- neously. One advantage to using Decaf™ over Java is that the code generated Decaf™ can do this because Decaf™ compilers generate bit code instead of byte code. Once the code is compiled, it’s time to execute the program. There are two ways STEVESAYS: FIGHTTHE POWER: WITH POWER JO THE CHT BACK FOR THE Wa 26 MacADDICT is one-eighth as big. | an easy-to-identity logo. To contrast the technol- ogy of Java, Decaf™’s steam has gone cold. to run aDecaf™ applet. Because Decaf™ is written to a “virtual machine,” you can use Apple's Mac OS Runtime for Decaf™ to interpret the applet, or you can deploy Metrowerks’ just-a-little-late compiler, which translates the virtual code to native code. Either way, Decaf™ promises to slow your machine to an acceptable crawl. ‘The response from Redmond was typi- cal. “Microsoft plans to embrace and extend this promising new Internet technology,” reads a recent press release. Further, Microsoft plans to make its own implemen- Trash, trends, dishwashers, King Kahng, and inside scoops you won't find anywhere else. tation of Decaf™ that is 50 percent slower and adds commands not available to other Decaf™ interpreters. Decaf™ for Windows 95 will, of course, be the sanctioned way to deliver Decaf™ applets, Apple and Sun implemented a 100 percent Decaf™ pro- gram to fight the insanity, Web designers are ecstatic at the announcement. “‘Shocked’ was so 1996,” complains an anonymous HTMLer, “I’m glad Apple is taking the lead in removing the com- plexity from the Internet.” Another designer confides, “It's so much easier to convey meaning without all those pixels moving around—and don’t tell anyone, but the X-Windows feel of Java is so ugly.” Ina related announcement, Metrowerks’ Greg Galanos promised that Codewarrior for Decaf™ will be in the next version of its flagship product, Codewarrior Gold. Galanos claimed that programs already written in the company’s object-oriented framework, PowerPlant, can be ported to Decaf™ twice as quickly. Apple promises that Decaf™ will work interchangeably with Live Objects, and the part that adds this functionality has been dubbed “Pinto beans.” In a MacAddict taste test, subjects were unable to tell the differ- ence between Java beans and Pinto beans. Missing PERFORMAS FouND ast Christmas, L Apple Computer sold 90,000 fewer Performas than expected, which contributed to the $120 million shortfall in the fourth quarter. We did WHERE, OH WHERE, COULD THEY BE? sexy 6400s. Looks like Maytag’s repairman will be a little less lonely as confused kids ask him where the dinosaurs are. some digging and found the awful truth: Those 90,000 potential Apple customers went into their local Sears hoping to get a powerful PowerPC processor. But they didn’t leave with one. The “helpful” sales- people heard the word Performa and pointed the hopeful parents toward the dis washer section, where the misguided shop- pers picked up Maytag Performas instead of ae MIGHTY MAYTAG CLEANS UP with consume confusion. Special thanks to reader Bryan Bland for cluing us into this scam. er PHREAKY PHONES @iimm> «0 | Win 3 orry, Ellen, we hate to tell you this, but, your janitor is a Mac addict. He sent us this System snippet from last quarter’s phone bill. Please don’t fire him. The nose knows! We've collected some of the sicker smells found in the Macintosh industry. Scratch the magazine to identify PACIFICESHELL the smell, then match the smell with its Ellen Hancock description. If your nose is better than your Apple Computer fellow Mac addicts’, you'll have a chance to “| 1 Infinite Loop win a superspiffy Surround-smell System. Cupertino, CA With this brand-new hardware, games using the Scent Sprocket will be able to add odors to their environments. 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It remains to be seen whether strategy (see “Rhapsody OS: The Soul | the rebellious Jolt and Twinkies of the Machine, p38), Apple chief technical | crowd will go along with the officer Ellen Hancock has mandated the fol- | scheme. We've already seen lowing dress code. Engineers T-shirts with this developing the Mac OS must Evangelists slogan: “Blue + wear blue Polo shirts; those Yellow = Monkey- working on Rhapsody must won't be the only puke Green.” —KT wear yellow. The lucky few working on the Mac OS Run- Ones in Polos. Lloyo Dance T: help Apple engineers remember | time for Java get to wear browser Hort. rs Apri, isnrr itt MacADDICT 27 get info News, trends, and other very valuable information that you will want to know, SPEED CAN KILL emember the Barry Levinson film Tin Men? Set in 1963, it was about, among other things, two home- siding salesmen’s obsession with the latest Cadillacs. More specifically, their tailfins: how high, how big. Well, it’s the ’90s, and we're well beyond all that. Now we're obsessed with important things like megahertz and Level 2 caches. Obligingly, Apple has rolled out its °97 models, which should all be available now, and mama, there are speed bumps and new THIS PHOTO IS NOT REVERSED: Just to be different, the Power Mac 4400 has its floppy drive on the left. features to warm the hearts of the most jaded computer cognoscenti. Apple seems to have heard both Henry David Thoreau and consumers alike crying “Simplify, simplify.” There are now only four Power Macintosh models—the Power Mac 4400, Power Mac 7300, Power Mac 8600, and Power Mac 9600—which replace all those that came before. Standing slightly on its own is the Power Mac 4400 (about $1,700). Previously available only in Europe, the Power Mac 4400 comes complete with a floppy drive on the left (must be a Euro’ thing), a 200MHz 603e 28 MacADDICT processor, 16MB of RAM, a 1.2GB hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM drive, two 12-inch PCI slots, built-in Ethernet, and 256K of L2 cache. The motherboard in this box is based on the Tanzania design, which Motorola co-developed with Apple for its StarMax line, so the processor isn’t upgradable. Due to the vagueries of devel- opment times, the Power Mac 4400 will ship with System 7.5.3 but will come with a_| coupon for a System upgrade for a nominal | fee. This model more or less replaces the Power Mac 7200—more, in that for a | price within $100 of the Power Mac 7200, you'll get a faster and more modern processor (603e rather than 601); less, in that you'll lose one PCI slot. Also, as of mid-January, the Power Mac 4400 came in $100 lower than its closest clone competitor, Power Computing’s to $900 less, and it bumps up against the specs of Power Computing’s PowerTower 180 and 200 (the PowerTowers have 512K of L2 cache that is upgradable, though) for about the same price. ‘The Power Mac 8600 keeps the composite ‘TWIN TOWERS: A new case, a new cause to love the Power Mac 8600 and 9600. and S-Video-in and -out PowerBase 200. Now we’re capabilities of the Power The rest of the Power Mac > Mac 8500 but comes in line, code-named Montana, ODSeSsed With —_thenewK2" case, shared use the same motherboards | a with the Power Mac 9600. (Tsunami) as the Power Macs. important things (Just to keep the two they replace (the 7600, 8500, and 9500) but add features, speed, and a new industrial design. The Power Mac 7300 takes the place of both the 7200 and 7600; it starts at about $2,300 for the 180MHz machine and goes up to $2,800 for the 200MHz screamer. The Power Mac 7300 uses a 604e processor and comes with 16 or 32MB of RAM (expandable to 256MB—the so-called powerhouse PCs will take only 80MB), a 2GB hard drive, built-in Ethernet, a 12X CD-ROM drive, three 12-inch PCI slots, and 256K of nonupgradable 12 cache. One feature that hasn’t crossed the bridge into 1997 is the Power Mac 7600's video-in capability, which was far surpassed by inex- pensive video boards such as ATI’s Xclaim VR, anyway. Otherwise, this unit gives you the power of the Power Mac 8500 for $700 like L2 caches and megahertz. straight: The 8600 has three PCI slots; the 9600 has six). This new design will thrill anyone who's been up to their elbows trying to install RAM. To get inside, you simply pop off one side of the case, lay the unit on its side, open two flip tabs, and up pivots everything—power supply and all— leaving as clear a path as one could wish to the motherboard. (The demonstration of | this feature received thunderous applause at the press preview.) In addition, the Power Mac 8600 has a 200MHz 604e processor, an internal 100MB Iomega Zip drive, and shares the other good specs of the Power Mac 7300. And how much would you expect to pay for this? How about $3,300 to $3,400? Motorola’s StarMax 4000/200 may edge out the Power Mac 8600 in price by $100 and offer five PCI slots, but you don’t get the Zip QUICKTIME VR 2.0 Aj ae LIKE HAVING EYES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD toiling ay to put more reality into creates QuickTime VR panoramas—see “Cravings,” p35; eVox Productions (<http:// www.vox.com>) is developing a collection of QIVR clip art called, wittily enough, Clip VR; and OLiVR (<http:/Anwwolivicom>), a new virtual reality. QuickTime VR 2.0 is the newest member of the QuickTime family. Retaining QTVR’s ability to “see” an area with a 360-degree view (as well as zoom in and out), Apple added the ability to include | company with new compression technology, 3D objects in scenes. You can zoom in and | has a way to progressively render QTVR scenes out on embedded objects, which now can be | so you can look around more quickly. —DR | set in motion. You also can add hot spots to | objects. Click on a hot spot, and QIVR can invoke an URL, for example. Version 2.0 also offers a new control bar and better compression using the QuickTime Media Layer. Apple made QuickTime VR 2.0 into an extension, which means that you can view QIVR files in most applications that support QuickTime, including the ubiquitous SimpleText. The best news about Quick- Time VR 2.0, however, is that it’s avail- able for download from Apple’s Web site. Check out <http://quicktimevr. apple.com> for the latest. QuickTime VR has made some new friends: BeHere (<http://www.behere. com>) released a camera that easily drive or the video capabilities, you sacrifice an upgradable processor, and you're limited to a maximum of 160MB of RAM. The King of K2, the Power Mac 9600, weighs in right around $4,000 (about $200 less than a Power Mac 9500 with no onboard video) and improves on the 8600 with a 4GB hard drive (though no Zip drive), 512K of L2 cache, three more PCI slots, and a new, 4MB IMS Twin Turbo 128 graphics card. There’s also the Power Mac 9600/200MP, which adds a second proces- sor to the motherboard and $900 to the bottom line. In mid-January, a similarly equipped 200MHz PowerTower Pro from Power Computing cost about the same as the single-processor Power Mac 9600. Perhaps the nicest feature of all these new Power Macs is the competitive pricing: The premium you once had to pay to get the cachet of the Apple brand seems to have shrunk. Consider that all these new Power Macs come with keyboards, Data Viz data translators, and the Apple Internet Connec- tion Kit, and you'll see that you certainly get more megabang for the buck than ever before. As for tailfins, well, you may have to add them on yourself. —DDT Clone Wars pple isn’t the only company introduc- ‘ing new models for 1997. While the clone makers aren't running about as fran- tically as the sorcerer’s apprentice, a few speed kicks, bundling, and—this will warm the hearts of the cheapskates among us— price cuts are near. Umax Computer's news is speed: 240MHz on a 604e chip. The $900/240 is basically the same as the $900/225 (Jan/97, p64), except that it comes with the E100 “Extended Perfor- § So 3 8 3B 2 Price cuts will warm the hearts of cheapskates Win an eMate 300 _ Our apologies to the adult Mac addicts who are pining away for this neatest of all gadgets. This month’s contest is open only to those 12 years of age and younger. To win Apple’s eMate 300, the first in a class of handheld mobile com- puters, tell us why you love the Mac. We'll judge the entries based on originality, humor, and practi- cality. Your entry must be 100 words or fewer (it may include pictures) and must be postmarked or e-mailed by April 15, 1997. We'll contact the winner and run results in a future issue. (We must be able to verify your age.) Send your best shot to our Web site at <http://www.macaddict.com> or to Way-Cool eMate, c/o MacAdaict, 150 North Hill Drive, Suite 40, Brisbane, CA 94005. includes a new flavor of PowerTower and lower prices. The flavor is the PowerTower Pro 250MP (the same ol’ PowerTower Pro. but with two chips) at $5,995, with a twin- 225MHz version running $4,995. Prices on the existing PowerTower Pro 225 dropped to $4,295, bundled with a huge software pack including Macromedia Director and the Be OS. For those with more modest needs and less patience, Power Computing has the QuickShip PowerBase package: the unchanged PowerBase 200 with 16MB of RAM, 256K of upgrad- able L2 cache, accelerated mance” Ultra SCSIEthemet everywhere. video, an 8X CD-ROM, card (previously a $500 a 1.2GB hard drive, a option) and is faster. It still comes with 15-inch monitor with speakers, a Global Vil- 32MB of RAM, a 2.1GB hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM drive, 512K of nonreplaceable Level 2 cache, and the 8MB IMS Twin Turbo graphics card. It should run just less than $5,000. The rest of the S900 line, and the J and G lines, remain unchanged. Power Computing's 1997 news lage 28.8Kbps external modem, and a whole lot of bundled software. For $1,995, this should get to your door 48 hours after you place your order. For $500 more, the package will include a 17-inch monitor, 32MB of RAM, and a 33.6Kbps Global Vil- lage external modem. —DDT MacADDICT 29 NEW (Casatly & Greene: 800-459-4920, ‘hitpy/mwi.casacya.com, $99.95 (SRP), iScheduled (o.ship before: April) Conflict Catcher 4, an award- winner before it even shipped, will manage plug-ins and filters for individual programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Netscape Navigator. The new version will also display more information about individual extensions and will automatically test for conflicts in the event of a crash. (Sav Sonware: 800-730-7854, ‘hitpa/wunvinowsoft,com, $69.95 (SAP), ‘scheduled to ship in February) Now Up-to-Date & Contact has added several one-click features: integration with e-mail (via Internet Config) so you can send e-mail to your contacts, complete with an e-mail history file; contact names merge with Microsoft Word 5, Word 6, or Corel WordPerfect documents; and access to the Web to get correct contact information (via Infoseek or one of its partners). MARTSOUND FOR Mt ‘Sonic Desktop; 800-459-1800, ‘hlip://iawy/-soniceiesktop.com, $179.95 ASHP), sciieclifed to ship fate February) SmartSound for Multimedia allows you to create full sound- tracks for your multimedia projects, and now, with version 1.5, it allows you to import QuickTime movies of any length, add a soundtrack with a single click, and re-export your movie complete with audio. SmartSound 1.5 also provides support for RealAudio, IMA compression, and automatic looping. 30 MacADDICT aat * a SCl =a = THE APPLE cLU © FAST ONE ¢ f a state highway patrol started a group = whose members could cruise the nation’s freeways as though they were on a German autobahn, without fear of getting a ticket, would the average lead-foot shell out an annual fee of $19.99 to put the pedal to the metal? Yep. With the Apple Club, Apple is hoping that speed freaks will pay that exact price for ultrafast connections to high-speed servers available only to dues-paying, password-protected club in fo 1. 566 UB PULLS A WAY AY WITH | mm! ) ) | updating software and detecting viruses; Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; and Arome’s Vegetarian Delights CD-ROM cookbook. But wait, before you get too excited, here’s what you don’t get when you sign up for the club. System upgrades, such as System 7.6, are not available through Software Central, the club members’ online warehouse of Mac goodies. You will still have to purchase all major members. This privileged pack can use its “diamond lane” access to more quickly download Apple System software utilities, updates, patches, and extensions, Members also receive electronic newsletters such as Information Alley and Guy Kawasaki’s & Member Services Evangelist, a monthly e-mail (confessional?) yyy warr? Join the Apple Club today for mediocre from Dr. Gil, special deals on Apple goods and services, a 60-day offer to buy AppleCare coverage at a 20 percent discount, a free CD- ROM, and their name tossed in a quarterly draw- ing for Apple hardware and ‘shirts. Sounds good on paper, but how does it work? Fire up Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later (you | can also use America Online version 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.1 or later, if that’s what you prefer) and join the club. We did. Curious to see Dissatisfied? whether the Apple Club really access to a meager collection of overpriced services, | System upgrades from a software reseller. If you're looking for Mac tech support, — in the Gaon ue won t get you any fast S- APPL for the ett to your more personal | problems. The Club Support branch of the Apple Club house only lets you e-mail Apple with ques- tions that relate to hardware or software sold through the Apple Club. At press time, however, the offered the speed and con- Want your money Apple Club had nothing on its venience promised in the brochures, we downloaded a back? No dice large file from the Apple Club site and then downloaded the same file from several of Apple’s mirrored FIP sites. Thrifty shoppers should note that at press time, some of Apple's public (translate: free) sites offered significantly faster download times than Apple's souped-up members-only servers. Both <ftp.info.apple.com> and <fip4.info.apple.com> downloaded QuickDraw 3D version 1.5 at about 30K per second, whereas the Apple Club crawled | in at around 24K per second. Apple also hopes to entice potential club members by giving a free CD-ROM simply for signing up. But instead of offering general- purpose CD-ROMs such as dictionaries, atlases, or encyclopedias, Apple provides members with an odd assortment of three titles that includes the Apple Club CD-ROM, which can be used for elves to sell. tisfied with the service? Want your money back? No dice. You can cancel your service (in fact, Apple holds the right to fold the service at | any time without refunding your cash), but once you've parted with your payment, you can kiss those bills goodbye. Theoretically, the Apple Club is a good idea—info addicts get fast access to the informa- | tion and supplies they need, as well as quick and convenient subscriptions to a slew of Apple press releases and newsletters. Unfortunately, the | Apple Club does not always offer faster service than what can be found at Apple’s public sites, prompting the age-old question, “Why pay more for less?” In other words, if you're not on a need-it-now basis, the overall benefits of this not- so-fast-access service are probably not worth your $20 donation to Apple’s bottom line. —NE Westwood www.westwood.com Command & Conquer isa registered trademark of Westwood Studios, Inc, Macintosh isa registred trademark and Power Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computers, Inc. © 1995, 1996 Westwood Studios, inc. A rights reserved VANISHING WONDERS sea b APPLE LEADS THE WAY VD-ROM is coming to desktop comput- ers, and Apple has made sure that it will be there on arrival. The DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) format has been talked about for a few years, but the first consumer DVD-ROM drives (similar to a CD-ROM drive) are just now on the market. Apple was the first vendor to show a prototype DVD-ROM drive running on a personal computer when it demonstrated a trial product, the Encyclopedia of World Heritage that Sumeria WATCH OUT FOR THAT RAY! Sumeria will bring DVD content to your Mac this spring. created from five of its natural- history products, at Comdex in late 1995. Apple has been working steadily on DVD tech- nology since then. Analysts predict that DVD- ROM drives will replace CD-ROM drives in a couple of years. Digital versatile discs look just like CD-ROMs but can hold much more data— currently up to 4GB of data (the specification allows for as | much as 17GB of data on a single disc). They can hold digital video, computer data (like a So should you buy a DVD-ROM drive? That depends. If you're in the market for a CD-ROM drive, consider this: Toshiba’s DVD-ROM drive (which should be available when you read this) costs $350 and plays DVD video and audio, plus existing CD-ROMs and audio CDs, and has a 1,350K-per-second | transfer rate, which is faster than today's | CD-ROM drives. On the downside, the DVD format has some compatibility issues (most are of con- cern mainly to developers, not consumers). there’s not much DVD material available—yet. Digital Directory Assistance (800-284-8353, <http:/Avww.dda-inc.com>) will put all six of its PhoneDisc CDs, which list 112 million phone numbers, on a single DVD-ROM. Activision (310-473-9200, <http://www.activision. com>) has announced Spycraft: The Great Game and Muppet ‘Treasure Island for DVD-ROM; Sumeria (415-904-0800, <http://www.sumeria.com>), publisher of geography CD-ROMs, has completed the first of several DVD-ROM titles that provide exhaus- CD-ROM) and higher-than-CD-quality digital tive field guides to species of fish around the audio. Future versions (available after 1998) will be rewriteable and erasable. The drives run at a minimum of 10X (compared with a 1X minimum for CD-ROM drives), which allows high-quality video playback. DVD-ROM producers must ensure that their software works seamlessly with DVD hard- | world and to animals and plants of Africa. ware. DVD also faces the limitations in video The bottom line: If you’re looking for a performance. Currently, to play back MPEG | high-performance CD-ROM drive and you video from a Mac requires hardware (usually | have a thing for cutting-edge technology, go an expansion card) to decode the MPEG file. | for it. If you're a little more conservative, you MPEG cards do exist for certain Performas. | might be better off waiting a while and letting QuickTime, however, was just extended to | DVD grow up a bit. —DR handle MPEG-1, but Hollywood DVD producers are now starting to use MPEG-2, putting Apple slightly behind; you'll need a hardware add-on to see movies optimized for MPEG-2. DVD titles or CDs based |on MPEG-1 should display full- | screen video using the extended QuickTime on Macs with fast | processors. Hardware solutions, | however, will give you higher-quality | video than the QuickTime software solution.) Look for more MPEG content destined for Macs. Although you can play current CD-ROMs on your DVD-ROM drive, Put your fire extinguisher away. There's no need for panic. PowerBook 1400s that were manufactured on or before January 9, 1997, will give weird messages when disk utility programs such as Apple's Disk First Aid are in use, But rest assured, your data is not at risk. Because the problem is caused by a missing reference file, it's easy to cure. Simply go to <http://www.info.apple.com> or <http:/www.powerbook.apple.com> to down- load the PowerBook 1400 HD Updater. Users without Internet access can have the update sent to them by calling 800-SOS-APPL. —NE MAC IS BETTER THAN 32 MacADDICT BRING IN THE CLOWNS ow! We were overwhelmed by the response to our “hexpert” quiz found in January’s “Hack Your Mac” feature. We were inundated by hun- dreds of letters, both paper and electronic. We're still trying to figure out exactly why | this particular contest was so popular so we can do it again, but we think it’s a com- bination of having a really cool prize—Connectix’s Color QuickCam — with Videophone — software— “1 think I’m actually really needed was the secret code “clown around,” we loved Ric Bayless’ Goo'ed face and all the rest of your drawings of clowns. Gavin St. Ours of Boyds, Maryland, was the name drawn randomly from the hundreds of correct entries. Congratulations, Gavin! Oh, and private to Eric D.: Just how old do you think we are? Antonio B.: In the future, address your entry to the right people (us), otherwise and a puzzle that makes learning stuff by some company you think. As Linton Val- might call you a dock wrote, “I think Tm reading this magazine... “bright” reader. actually learning stuff by Brett M.: Thanks reading this magazine... pretty sneaky.” for the nifty pretty sneaky.” sticker. Greg H.: Some of you solved the —-Linton Valdock Cool postcard. puzzle the hard way. Multi- tasking Jay Toser was counting in hexadecimal on his fingers while cooking pancakes for his wife and actually wrote down the mapping of ASCII onto hex. I guess Jay doesn't have a CD- ROM drive, because the easiest way to trans- late the hex is to type it into a ResEdit file and watch the ASCII magically appear, as shown on page 42 of the article. Plenty of readers sent us the printouts from using this method. Although all we Gary T.: Nice packaging, but you're supposed to keep your MacAddict covers intact. Conan M.: We hope you get | paid for your illustrations. Unfortunately, you didn’t fare too well in | January's other contest, in which we asked | you to match Macdddict's staff with our hard disk names. We guess you just need a few more issues to get to know us better. Cheryl England calls her Mac Mr. Peabody because he’s the brains of the operation. Joodle Doodle was Judy Lewenthal’s childhood nickname. As Frank Echler (Nikki’s father) said, “I knew yours was Me, Myself, and Mine because you're so greedy and selfish.” David Reynolds has SoundMaster installed, and you can hear “I’m sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can’t do that” from his pal, Hal. Kathy's devilish Mephisto is short for MephisTAFELes. Dan “humanities degree from MIT” Turner is a big James Joyce fan, hence the partitioned Jim and Nora. New Mobile War Chronicle Gundam W fanatic Mark Simmons named his Mac after the evil organization OZ, whose members wear really cool outfits. Tom Hale now produces all of Imagine Publishing's CDs, so he named his The Mac so he wouldn't acciden- tally run Windows apps on it. Typography buff Ken Bousquet named his Mac after his favorite designer, Brit Neville Brody. And punster Adam Vanderhoof played on the remarkable similarity between MacAddict and MacAddam. Reader Scott Van Horn of Orinda, Cali- fornia, came closest, matching 6 out of 10 correctly. One other reader tied his score, but MacAddict’s random picker picked Scott. Mr. Van Horn will get no work done in the months to come as he battles the Orcs for the Dark Portal in Blizzard Entertain- ment's Warcraft Battlechest. —KT QUICKTIME 2.5 FOR (GASP!) WINDOWS The ven the most virulent anti-Mac troll | technical advances in QuickTime 2.5 ae allow that Video for Windows (the Wintel standard for movies) wasn't the greatest. This same troll never hesitated to install QuickTime for Windows 2.1.2 on a Pentium box, especially since almost all desirable games and applica- tions require it. Now Apple is moving fur- ther to cement this cross-platform stan- dard by developing QuickTime 2.5—the most current version available on the Mac—for Windows 95 and NT. The list of this endeavor’s endorses fills a page of single-typed text and includes major ven- dors such as Adobe, Bréderbund, and Macromedia. The ultimate goal is to make the QuickTime Media Layer the one true way to develop, distribute, and play mixed media such as video, audio, 3D graphics, and text. are legion, but one of the most interesting, as far as real-world consequences are concerned, is that QuickTime 2.5 for Win- dows will make QuickTime authoring viable on the PC. Previously, if a company wanted its PC product to work with Quick- Time, it took an enormous effort. The best example is how Adobe had to wrestle Premiere for the PC into shape. Now, all software makers will have to do is incor- porate QuickTime technology—something they’re well familiar with by now—to create applications that will churn out QuickTime products which will play con- sistently across multiple platforms. In a way, people will be producing not for a Windows, Mac, or Unix platform, but for a QuickTime platform. At first this may seem a blow against the Mac, but there are a number of ways this can actually strengthen Apple’s position. First, owning an industry standard never | hurt. Although the PC will become a viable authoring platform, it still won’t match the Mac in terms of power and true color. Sec- ond, QuickTime for the Mac will, at least for the foreseeable future, remain ahead of QuickTime for Windows in terms of fea- tures and functionality. Another interesting twist is QuickTime 2.5’s support for QuickDraw 3D and 3DMF files. There is no de facto 3D object stan- dard on the PC side—until now, perhaps. With the increasing importance of 3D in everything from educational applications to games (of course), and Strata, Specular International, Electric Image, and more | vendors adding 3DMF export to their pro- | grams, this could create a whole new | locked-in constituency for Apple. —DDT MacADDICT 33 Pinch yourself—they‘re not dreams, although they're awfully dreamy, cravings 0 you and your PowerBook ride in to clean up this one- See town, wah-hah, and nobody'd better stand in your way, or there'll be a bootup. That is, if you don’t lose your grip on your PowerBook 1400 while typing your cleanup plan, which can be especially challenging while cantering along on the back of a roan stallion and singing a Gene Autrey tune. Fear no more, cowboys and cowgirls. Help is here. For $79.95—a mere fistful of dollars—you can strap your "Book to your leg within easy reach for those high noon dates. 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