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HOLMES 5 62 6a GraphicConverter Make the move to the new Mac OS Extended Format and save tons of hard drive space! It’s the refreshing way to reformat. Fun & Games Game junkies—get a grip on your joysticks and find out what it takes to bring the fiercest, fastest, bone-crunchingest games to the Mac. Add Tables to Your Web Pages Take advantage of your word processor's built-in macro capabilities to make easy-to-update Web site tables, and then sit back and whistle while it works. Disk Images Do you think disk images are just those funky files that Apple ships its software updates in? Think again. They're great for backups, installations, and other useful—and even legal—tasks. Editor’s Note Apple's hot new hardware lineup proves the company is heeding its own advice, Letters It must still be spring, because strange love is in the air. Get Info Apple’s future keeps getting brighter, especially when we put on our prognostication caps. Also, a sneak peek at Adobe Photoshop 5.0. 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It lets you keep track of any number of Internet configu- rations—handy when you need to get at that vital email message and you don’t want to go through half an hour of reconfiguring your email client. imHolePunch YEAH, IT’S ULTIMATELY USELESS, but, as far as office supply simulations go, this one has it all. After all, what other hole punch is there that keeps track of both presses and holes punched? That's right. None. WHEN YOU'RE DONE, the puzzle shouid look like this. Can you do it? 6 MacADDICT JUNE/98 the disc highlights QuickTime 3.0 After months of waiting, it’s finally here—the premier personal computer media player, bar none, You'll find QuickTime 3.0 on The Disc, and if you want to upgrade to the professional version, it's as easy as visiting Apple’s Web site with your credit card. Once you've paid, you'll get a code to unlock your copy of QuickTime. 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JUNE/98 MacADDICT 9 1 Apple's latest hardware offerings are also its most important. une marks a first for us at MacAddict. We put hardware on our cover—the new PowerBook G3 and the Apple Studio Display. This wasn’t a decision we made lightly, because—let’s face it—how interest- ing is it to look at a computer case? In this instance, though, the new PowerBook G3 and the Apple Studio Display are worthy of our cover. Not only are they way cool pieces of bona fide six-color good- ness, but they’re prime examples of why Apple’s future is getting brighter. Apple is thinking differ- ent, designing different, and inno- vating again. Everyone here is drooling over the flat-panel Apple Studio Display. Weighing in at one-tenth | | the mass of your average 17-inch monitor, the Studio Display is light, crisp, clear, and cool. And its stand, with a little hydraulic lift assist, is of the same kind of plastic that made the eMate such an attention-getter. The shocker is that this display is spifly and competitively priced. While the new Apple display is cool, the real bombshell here is the new build-to-order PowerBook G3. This is the single most impor- tant Mac to come out of Cupertino since the introduction of the Power Macintosh—more important than the 8600/9600 line, the PowerBook 1400 or 3400, and even the orig- inal build-to-order desktop G3 line that shipped last year. Here are four reasons why the PowerBook G3 is so important for Apple: There’s no Wintel equivalent. No matter how much you're willing to pay, you'll never be able to buy a Windows Not only are they way cool pieces of bona fide six-color goodness, but they're prime examples of why Apple's future is getting brighter. 10 MacADDICT JUNE/98 laptop that runs as fast as one of the new G3 PowerBooks. It’s undeniably cool. Apple has put a lot of effort into the design of these PowerBooks. When you see one, you want to pick it up and hold it, and not just because you know what’s inside. The industrial design is stunning and will pay off. It’s affordable— with quality. Get this—you can buy one of these new PowerBooks for around $2,300. This in itself is great news, but what's even better is that the cheapest G3 PowerBook will have the same chassis, motherboard, and base components as the most expensive model. It appeals toa non-Mac crowd. Whether you're an Apple person or a Wintel user, it’s still cool to walk around with a PowerBook. The industrial design, low price, and high power of the new G3 PowerBooks are going to make it cooler still. Expect to see people who are not otherwise Apple- friendly buying these new ‘Books. Its refreshing to see stunning new products come out of Apple. Gil Amelio said the right words a couple of years back when he promised to simplify the Apple product line, but nothing hap- pened. Things haye changed, and Apple currently has two product lines: the PowerBook G3 and the Power Macintosh G3. There are tens of thousands of variations on these themes, but only two lines. ‘This means lower cost and higher quality. The best part of it is that Apple has made the transition to lower-priced in- dustry-standard components without sac- rificing style. The flat-panel display and the PowerBook G3 designs are the most MacAddict bids farewell to Kathy Tafel amazing to come out of Apple in years. Don’t expect these to be the last, either. —David Reynolds his month marks the final issue fot senior editor Kathy Tafel. She's been at MacAddict since the beginning, and her days at Imagine Media stretch back to before MacAddict’s existence, when she Served as Webmaster and CD-ROM editor for The Net, Three years at a single workplace is a long time these days, especially in the high- tech arena. Lest you think Kathy Jost faith in the Macintosh, don’t worry. Kathy started her new job at Apple Computer in mid-April. She won't be doing deep cover for us, despite what we thought was a generous offer of $37 and_an inflatable flying toaster from Berkeley Systems. Hey, it’s all we Had at the time, even after pilfering the Diet Coke fund, She does, how- ever, promise to stay in touch and continue working to further the Macintosh cause. Rumor has it that Kathy was responsible for MacAddict's very name, having had a conversation with Imagine Media's président and CEO Chris Anderson—all in some unnamed San Francisco pub—where she suggested the magazine's moniker. Although the name sounded a little strange at first, it quickly became apparent that it {ft the maga- zing, and our readers—people who. jove the Mac. We'll miss Kathy——her creativity, her technical knowledge, her sense of. humor, and her Myth prowess. (in Case you hadn't heard, she won Bungie's Valentine’s Day Massacre.) We also wish her weil in her new job. So, good luck, Kathy! Oh, and when you run into Steve on campus, tell him to give us a ring. For some reason, he hasn't been returning our calls. Hmm. You've probably heard about the new HFS+ filing system that Apple released with System 8.1. This long awaited update now allows your current hard drive to hold a lot more data than before. Most of your files will now become smaller too. But what if something goes wrong with your HFS+ formatted drive? You'll need TechTool Pro. TechTool Pro is the only program available that can correctly repair and recover HFS+ drives. Besides the important drive repair and recovery functions we've added to version 2, you'll also get TechTool Pro’s large arsenal of diagnostic tests. 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For more information about TechTool Pro 2, call us at the number below or visit our web site. Once you're equipped with TechTool Pro, you'll see that there will be no need to cry over spilt milk. TechTool is a registered trademark of MicroMat Computer Systems Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. letters letters Spring is still in the air with tales of strange love. This Month WRITE TO US: MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Suite 40, Bris- bane, CA 94005, or email to letters Try CHEWING witH Your Moutu CLosep I thought you should know that I found a major bug in Apple’s moni- tors—all of them. To test your moni- @macaddict .com. FOR CD PROB- or, you will need some Corn Flakes. LEMS: Go to bttp:// support Just sit in front of your Mac screen at a GET ON, GET .imagine-inc.com. FOR SUBSGRIP- distance of 10 feet. Active. Tak JON QUERIES: Please call (toll- Put some Corn Flakes in your tous and to /"#¢) 888-771-6222. mouth. Eat them, and while you eat, other Mac Co look at the screen. Saw that? It's the same addicts at INSIDER THE thing with some cookies. I’m trying with tteWetsie, EDITOR FLOGGED the PCs I have here at the office—'ll In the Cravings section of your fine keep you informed. —M. Muniz Nero magazine (April/98, p24) the blu- Venom Anti-Theft Device is shown lodged into the floppy drive of an IBM ThinkPad (with the ever lovely Windows 95 operating system). What were you thinking? Please send me a brand-new PowerBook G3 for noticing this major error in your magazine. —RoB “OVERADDICTED” CHARLTON Try DayLicHt Savines TIME I have been at the edge of my seat about upgrading from 7.6.1 to 8.1, even though I can’t figure out how to update to the insanely great HES+ thing. But] have seen one slight, maybe mediocre, well, definitely ludicrous drawback. My first file copy was a 36.5MB folder from an EZ230 cartridge, which scheduled itself for 1,193,047 hours. Now, my first impression was that one million and some-odd hours wasn’t reeeeally all that much time, but I worked out the numbers and came up with this: 12 MacADDICT JUNE/98 I actually have a better chance of seeing Halley's comet again than I do of outliving this copy process. Any suggestions? —Brando Garz. He Put a Gun to Our Heaps I was reading the April MacAddict maga- zine, looking over each page carefully. And there he was in Get Info: Max with a huge tank! How could you have a serial killer as a mascot?—Dr. Dante Tice Why CopLanp Was Late I ran across something interesting on page 22 of the April issue. Apparently Apple CFO Fred Anderson’s calendar has 365 days in each week, Is this a standard Apple calendar? So when Apple says, “The next upgrade will be out in two weeks,” is that in our weeks or in Apple weeks? There must be some mis- communication at Apple. A fine magazine such as MacAddict would never let a typo like that through (unless, of course, one of the proofreaders was caught up in a Myth game).—Tonp C. CHERYL 2, Davin 0 Cheryl, what have you done? Who cares if you get more money? Now I don’t get to admire your cute little face every time my precious ‘zine comes! Not to offend the New Guy, but, he’s not nearly as nice to look at as you (at least from a guy's standpoint!) Can you possibly—oh, I don’t know—“acciden- tally” mess up so they just have to demote you back down to that lower position? At least that way you get a picture of yourself in the magazine for all to see!—Brice ROLSTON How could you do this to us loyal Mac addicts? Cheryl England’s adorable face replaced by a grizzled stub! Say it ain’t so, will ya? Did you think we buy MacAddict for the magazine? No! It was to see Cheryl! Bring her back!—Sueuy F SPRING Is IN THE AIR I just watched Triumph of the Nerds in my grad class and fell in love with the aura that surrounds Steve Jobs whenever he smiles. His whole face radiates a kind of electric zeal that sucks my breath away. Even on video, you can feel his presence. It was freaky, kind of like sensing God in a church or something. I have two questions about my new reve- lation: (1) Is this what it means to be a true Mac addict? (2) Where can I obtain a poster like the full-length one of Steve holding the “baby” Mac ? ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM VANDERHOOF Well, actually, I have a few more questions: (3) Do you think this is the real thing, or just infatuation? (4) Uh, is Steve married? ;) I don’t want his money; I would just like to sit across from him at a table in real life and have him smile at me for a while —Terri “ARmwuy” T've heard of falling in love on your com- puter, and I've heard of falling in love with your computer, but falling in love with an ani- mated computer? Well, it happened. I’m in love with Max, the office assistant in Microsoft Office 98. I know, I know, it’s from. that guy’s software monopoly, but he’s so cute! He’s got more life in him than all of my ex-lovers combined (and none of them can do a split 4 la James Brown or turn them- selves into a Rubik’s Cube). My friends were worried about a mixed marriage, but from what I hear, some women have learned to love their machines more than they love their mates. But that’s a letter for a completely dif- ferent kind of magazine. You're all invited to the wedding. We're registered at “aaoge sjoys uaaNs a1 UT UMOYs se yuaUTUONAUA uTa}sAs ayIsoddo ayy 0} Ms APULIsUT NOs pure MopuTM joysdeug ayy UT yoIP ysn{ -sjeazaqu snonunuoo ye JuAUMIONAUD wWaysKs punoIByDeq aYp Jo ,s}0ysdeus,, payepdn spuas AtjeaqeuTOME ‘SatsMpxd >ge8ueIG we’ .»-your yearbook quote is “Think Different.” —Dan Ricciarot = g Z 2 & » 38 _ tonaue Dg 3 CompUSA.—Crciry WALKER ¢ ‘ H = Iwas reading my favorite source of infor- 1 4 | mation, MacAddict, when I first saw your : ff Hi mascot. His bald head and his, well, bald AH A head—I knew it was love at first sight. Max, : |Fein Ws um, well, if you aren’t with anyone right now, inet: fe: at Twas wondering if you might maybe want to, | lz you know, kinda go on a...you know. . date? 2 It is OK if you say no. I am getting used to the rejections. I'll understand. I just wanted to tell you how I really felt about you. I'll love you J always!—Carrie Rotston THaT CHEATING PIECE OF $1*%& When my MacAddict arrived in the mailbox today, I noticed that there were crumbs all | Bid over it, Was the postal worker enjoying a iste ty Chips Ahoy? However, I found when I opened 2 the sealed plastic that the crumbs were not on. E = the outside, but inside! Magazine and CD were u ; covered with crumbs—is Max dating the 5 , Keebler Elf/—Mecan Lynct Iv’s aBout TIME Boy . : Eg 3 op . a 1 mont lyin the maui! 3 3 olan ze zt: Co ow g 9 EiaatgsgleneERRgie 3 9 a eee BRS 5eES Soe 2 == > 3 ose raza 38208 z You Know You'Re A a SRECFRES CEP go 258) Mac Appict WHEN... 32 nes st azS oo4 Reesesks my ..,.you code-name your children before they are g ase a 8a PER A ae Eee ae T-) born, @ 3 PaeSees@eseas zene —Curis Twaros s 9 ee TRDEES EEL ae ®, Q 3 POOP EESE CHEERS OS253 ic a 8 aes Bea Jeb hE gee 28 Seixgangdeees gazas AM oS és : : A tearful look back at the turbulent and hair-raising year to come. Apple Stock’s Wild Ride | MacAddict predicts continued rise in profits and stock price s we write this in late March, numerous stories are surfac- ing about an Apple turn- around. Mostly, they focus on Apple’s stock prices and speculation about a new CEO, profits, and an insanely great new product. We do our share of speculat- ing, trying to figure out if Steve Jobs's facial hair has anything to do with Apple’s stock, or whether Wall Street likes the toasted bunny ads. We've followed our interest in Apple’s stock price to its logical conclusion—we’re going to play stock analyst, complete with a chart. Since our crystal ball is in the shop, we had to resort to increasingly hypothetical events that may or may not be related to reality—straight from the events that actual- ly happened during the first quarter to the wild predictions that follow. One thing is certain, though: our speculation shows that Apple is coming back with some stunning announcements, profits, and a surprise turn on the store-within-a-store concept. If you're interested in serious report- ing about Apple stock, don’t read this. Go to AAPL Investors at http://www -macevolution.com/aapl.html instead. Real Stock Tidbits pple’s stock price has nearly A= in the first three jonths of 1998, from 13.125 on December 31, 1997, to 26.25 on April 6, 1998. This doesn’t seem to be part of a spike, as the increase occurred steadily between mid- February and late March. Investors are reacting well to profits, great new products, and Steve Jobs's perceived leadership. Contrast this with Compaq's performance. The course is clear All our predictions are 100 percent accurate. The so-called mainstream press may try to tell you otherwise; they may even call us “misleading,” or “libelous,” or “legally insane.” But who are you going to believe, us or the people who bring you the news only after it happens? | t-tay New PowerBooks available. ae | 11-Mar Apple airs Toasted | ‘7-May Microsoft licences Bunnies ad. | ‘12-Mar Apple tumaround ‘QuickTime for ts set-top | boxes for just $50,000 (plus ‘$500 milion to keep the stories start to appear. deal a secret) — 17-MMar At Seybold Semi- 11-May WWDC: Jobs . | nars keynote, Jobs announces that ‘2-Jan ABC says it's a good (clean-shaven) demos ‘Rhapsody will run on time to buy Apple stock. ‘400MHz G3. Potato chips as well ‘as on Pentiums and G-Jan At Macworld Expo go: &-Feb Apple airs Snailium ad. '30-Mar Apple board stops ET | css. keynote, Jobs (with beard) "S pressuring Jobs about CEO | announces $45 milion prof. 10-Feb Apple kills Newton. po 3 i ee, See i g) 22-Aee Apple shareholders | ea a ‘sumer Release ships with to drop interim from his tts, s nearly transparent blue box. i | 14 MacADDICT JUNE/98 New Adobe Tools | Photoshop and Premiere Turn 5 A dobe Systems is back on the prowl with new revs of Photoshop and Premiere. The company recently packed a bunch of computer industry reporters (and what an ugly bunch of surly freaks were we) ihe into a small room on the Adobe campus and showed off the goods. SHOP there are a couple of finallys ! in in Photoshop 5: Finally the program lets you shipping ar manipulate, edit, add special effects to, and ; s reedit text; finally the program lets you undo [Fj more than one step. The latter works especially |B] Ei eve 4 well wth a History Palette tha allows you tolook =p == it at every tweak and twirl you forced upon your [=] e al g poor image and go back to any step along the eI set way. Other perks include the ability to add spot (=; color channels, far too many RGB choices, and a crazy new 3D Transform plug that lets you rotate an image's perspective. PHOTOSHOP’S History Palette lets you look at everything you've done to an image and return to any step. EMIEFE For starters, Premiere 5 makes sense. The whole interface has been revamped. The clutter is gone, the windows and timeline are straightforward, and it’s gen- erally a lot more intuitive. Other news for this rev: 3-point editing for automat- ic spacing of clips to holes, a transition palette for easier drag-and-drop fades and cuts, new (and, in theory, easier) keyboard shortcuts, and—after only five versions—scrolling credits —RC Look for Premiare 5 as soon as you're done reading this and Photoshop sometime in June or July. J circle 17-Aug Press reports claim }y that Steve Jobs (with s beard) will become Appie's E permanent CEO. 8 g 26-Aug Steve Jobs (clean- = @ shaven) denies he will 5 become permanent CEO. 5 31-Aug Apple's Smooshed Budweiser Frog comimer- £ lal airs, meets warmer 4-Det in Russia, Apps Sere ong Sees a 12-0ct Apple introduces within a store within a store néw consumer device on within a store, *Golumbus” Day, : 22-Sep Apple ships Allegro at 11:59 p.m. on the last 15-Oct Apple earnings day of summer. release: $1.2 billion profit {$1.7 billon for the year). 29-Sep In a serious setback for Microsoft, the Justice Ee Lola ey ell pel cho oe Department bars Bill Gates pute Bama ie a Jobs (clean-shaven) parecer ae atthe con. 0PS—OPening and closing / rte a el ee w summer YoU PUL Scary Withes! acy Stove Jobs (clear- noses and demon noms on eure! shaven) announces that he 15-Jul Apple earnings: is “seriously considering” release: $500 million. profit. ‘accepting permanent CEO position, 40 sa $70 Ba sp QS It’s very likely this stuff will happen. Q4i Practically for certain this stufi might happen. JUNE/98 MacADDICT 15 get info AOF4 # 43, 508 tit” ell, not in programming lore, anyway. Our February contest asked you to figure out what the heck the symbols on Bob Hanson's license plate mean. We received hundreds of geeky and not so geeky answers. Here are some of the (wrong) guesses—names withheld to protect the innocent. *A9F4 means 1964. A being the 1st letter of the alphabet & F being the 6th. 1964 is Steve Jobs's birth year? *In Myth, the 9 Avatar and 4 of the fallen lords, *The 9 translates to a G, and the 4 trans- Jates to an A. Put them together with the other two real letters and you have AGFA, a company that makes scanners and other high-end video/publishing products. *Read it out loud: A - 9- F - 4, A- nine - Ef - four, Cay - nine - Hef - fer, Canine-Heifer, DOGCOW!!!! Now for the correct answer: A9F4 is the _ExitToShell A-trap on 68K machines. Seeing as how all programmers can’t help being smart alecks, since they're so smart anyway, we received tons of sassy replies: —Why anyone would pick the ExitToShell A-Trap is beyond me. | somewhat prefer 0xA861. Somewhat descriptive of my life at least. —Running out of gas? Need to pee? Shall we _ExitToShell? —Perhaps he is trying to absolve himself of culpability should he be involved in an accident. —Leonard Rosenthal now uses “You've got a SmartFriend in Pennsylvania” as his signature instead of A9F4, —t’s an advertisement for Shell gasoline stations. —This must be the car he uses to go to the beach! —Anybody (and | mean anybody) that could answer this question off the top of their heads certainly doesn't need anoth- er copy of CodeWarrior. We picked Dan Neuman of Orleans, Ontario, out of our digital hat. Believe it or not, Dan didn’t have CodeWarrior. So there!—KT The Non-Designer’s Web Book santa qabin witiars 16 MacADDICT JUNE/98 Authors: Robin Williams and John Tollett Publisher: Peachpit Press Contact: 800-283-9444 or 510-548-4393, http://www.peachpit.com Price: $29.95 This absolutely fabulous tome of information will teach you everything you need to know about making a well- designed Web site. If you're a print designer moving to the Web, the book explains how to make your designs work in a different medium, and how to deal with the technical issues of that medium. If you're a techie who can code HTML in your sleep but wouldn't know how to get the leading out if it killed you, The Non-Design- er’s Web Book will show you how to make a function- al site a beautiful one. Two thumbs way, way up!—KT Number of times Mac OS 8.1 update was downloaded from Apple’s Web site in its frst four days of availabilty: 112,000 Percentage of U.S. homes with personal computers at the end of 1997, accord- ing to Computer Intelligence: 45 Approximate number of possible Power Mac G3 configurations as of March 17, according to Apple: 20,000 Precise number of possible Power Mac G3 configurations as of March 17, according to MacAddict online editor Mark Simmons: 85,248* FOCUS ON: US & THEM! Percentage of Mac business software sold through mail order in the second half of 1997, according to Adobe: 84 Percentage of Windows business soft- ware sold through mail order during this period, according to Adobe: 15 Average selling price of an Apple com- puter in the last calendar quarter of 1997: $2,400 Average selling price of a Gateway 2000 computer in the last calendar quarter of 1997: $2,326 Average selling price of a Compaq com- puter as of January 1998: $1,330 Apple’s gross margin in the last calen- dar quarter of 1997: 22.4% Gateway 2000's gross margin in the last calendar quarter of 1997: 18.0% Compaq’s gross margin in the last cal- endar quarter of 1997: 27.5% Intel's gross margin in the last calendar quarter of 1997: 59% * Thanks to reader Tim Rosencrans for the math check! ‘Sources may be found at the MacAddict ‘Web site. MS lard Disk ToolKit 2.5 low Shipping! i We've upgraded to 0 MacOS 8.0! And now U ox the boss wants stronger security, crisis control, and assurance that our data is safe. But wait... Thanks to FWB’s new Hard Disk ToolKit 2.5, | don’t have to worry about poor disk drive performance or compatibility issues! And, | get master password protection, bullet-proof encryption, S.M.A.R.T. support, a bootable crisis CD-ROM and Morell! (CYBERIANTTINES 1-800-248-0800 — www.outpost.com 1-800-255-6227 1-800-800-2222 FWB I'll call 1-800-581-4392 and upgrade today! software “1 in Storage Management. © 1998, FWB Software, LLC, FWB and Hard Disk ToolKic are registered tsademal trademarks are property oftheir respective ownens, All sights reserved. Specificai facOS are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. and may be rejstered in certain jurisdictions. All other | The alpha and omega of Mac gadgets, gewgaws, and gizmos — Th B | t's a strict edict, but a fair one—no more than three remote controls in a dwelling, or e@ a the locusts shall descend. OK, so your great-aunt was a bit eccentric, some might Teen eve" say crazy, but her edicts came straight from the source—or so she said. Problem is, she didn't have a home theater. Sometimes you just need more than three remotes. But what to do about the locusts? Sheil out $6,700 for The Ball from Adcom. This home theater remote control central consists of a preamplifier; a five-channel, THX-certified power amplifier; a Dolby Digital channel decoder, and an infrared-learning remote mod- ule; and it’s controllable via a three-button remote control with a built-in radio frequency trackball. The on-screen con- THE ULTIMATE REMOTE CONTROL trol panel lets you switch between media sources (digital satellite, DVD, laser disc, audio CD, or any other source), adjust vol- ume, lights, and surround sound, or control multiple VCRs. All you need to supply is the video sources, the speakers, and a television. By the way, rumor has it that The Ball is built around a Power Macintosh. To satisfy both your great-aunt and your media jones, call Adcom at 732- 390-1130 or go to hitp://www.adcorn.com. up down tuner DAT bedroom tall started after that 96-hour Mythathon you piayed last weekend, and now you've changed. Over and over throughout the day, you can't get the songs out of your head. At night, the haunting melodies keep you awake. THE FALLEN LORDS Even your dog won't come near you—he’s whining and , ‘snarling in the corer. It's all due to those songs, those love- ly, amazing songs that you heard over and over while play- ing without sleep. Now you can show MUSIC TO SLAUGHTER BY the world what truly great music is with the soundtrack of Myth: The Fallen Lords. For a mere $9.95, this CD delivers 30 minutes of music by the O'Donnell-Salvatori duo, Just think: 19 tracks of Myth, and you don't even have to be at your Mac to enjoy. them. To get your copy (and win back your dog's trust), go to the Bungie store at http://www.bungie.com, or call 800- 296-0600 or 312-563-6200. SOUNDTRACK 18 MacADDICT JUNE/98 ScanMaker X6 Microtek Lab s game shows go, the pitch is wacky: with $500, bring back the best passel of high tech equipment—and be creative. You've chosen to do a digital collage, but how do you buy a great scanner and still have money left over for cables, a power strip, and a’ printer? With the ScanMaker X6, your budget woés' are over=+ SCANS THAT WON'T EMPTY YOUR BANK ACCOUNT — and you may have a shot at meeting Pat Sajak. For a mere $179 (yes, that's right), the ScanMaker X6 has a lettérsize: flatbed scanning area, and brings in its images in 36-bit color and at an optieal'résolu= tion of 600 by 1200 dpi. And, with its software bundle consisting of Kai’s PhotoSoap, Caere’OmniPage LE, and Microtek's ScanSuite and ScanWizard, you won't have to worry about buying software for the big competition. Besides, the great purple-and-off-white case will look great on TV. To find out more, call Microtek Lab at 800-654- 4160 or 310-297-5000, or go to http://www.microtekusa.com. Advanced Stick-lt Right Great Gizmos CD Labeling System & ‘ou've never labeled your CD-Rs. There’s something com- forting about all those shiny CD-R media you've burned. All / las of that beautiful green and bronze—why, it’s enough to make you cry. { Especially when you're looking for that backup of your novel, and you realize it's on one of several hundred discs. Suddenly, all those blank, shiny plastic media lose their appeal. ~ Learn from your mistakes and ALABEL FOR EVERYTHING pick up the Advanced Stick-It Right CD Labeling System. With this $39.95 device, a printer, and some sticky labels, you can create your own disc labels. The included CD-ROM has label templates for several Mac pro- grams, so label creation is easy. After you find your manuscript, contact Great Gizmos at 888-339-1506 or go to http://www.greatgizmos.com and give up your fascination with ail things shiny. RunWay Kensington Technology Group just because of that one little incident involving an overstuffed PowerBook case exploding on that 737, the feds won't let you board a plane unless you get a new case. The good folks at Kensington have come to your rescue with the RunWay. For only $99.95, the leather RunWay can hold your PowerBook and lots of other stuff. It has room for a cell phone, disks, pens, and business cards on the front, and AN ELEGANT PORTABLE ‘BOOK CASE =a place for full-length files, newspapers, and magazines for those long, annoying flights. Combine that with a comfortable shoulder strap and industrial-style rivets, and you have something you'd be proud to show that snotty inspector. To find out more, call 800-535-4242 or 650-572-2700, or go to http:/Awww.kensington.com. JUNE/98 MacADDICT 19 PANE SPRINGFIELD) es Krasty?s Rind of Town! Welcome to Springfield! Enter a navigable 3D world of all things Simpsons. Go along with Homer as he stocks up on Duff Beer and Jerky King at the Kwik-E-Mart. Play games at the Noiseland Arcade or watch a flick at the Aztec Theatre. 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Windows © “95 CD-ROM ed& I-4WES°7 and © 185 Tueniete Centar Fx fim Corpration, A RightsReserved, “Tuetieth Center Fo.” “Fox.” ané “The X-lles" aud tir assucated yes are the property of TmentiethCeatug fox fim Corporation. Al Rights Reserve ‘ books Apple can offer such awesome prices because it has fundamentally changed the way that it designs and manufactures its hardware. In the January issue (Jan/98, p40), we showed you the Power Macintosh G3's Gossamer motherboard, which is flexible enough to serve in the current lineup of desktop e Ody machines, in the new aikin- books for veryb ‘ones, and as a high-end work- station. With that much volume ona single design, Apple can drop its prices. Likewise, Apple has revamped the PowerBook’s moth- erboard. As with the desktop machines, the same logic board drives every PowerBook G3, from the low end to the top of the line. Everybody gets the same gorgeous enclo- sure. And, as with the Power Macintosh G3's, you can design your own configuration, then build it to order via Apple's online store. The more you spend, the more you'll get. Shown here is the 13-inch display, but the machine is designed to hold both 12- and 14-inch displays as well. With 2MB or 4MB of VRAM, the PowerBook G3 supports millions of colors on an external monitor and on either the 13- or 14-inch built-in screens. That the enclosure is designed to hold all three display sizes shows how well Apple's industrial design team thought out every detail. Inside, PowerBook owners will finally get the same power as they do ina desktop—and then some. The PowerBook G3's system bus is actually faster, at 83MHz, than the Power Macintosh G3’s. These high bus speeds and the 1MB backside cache make the 250MHz and 292MHz PowerPC G3 PowerBooks rival the performance of a desktop. Opting for the 233MHz chip reduces price and perfor- mance—with the slower chip you get a slower bus speed, at 66MHz, and no backside cache. Nevertheless, over the entire range, the PowerBook G3 beats out comparably priced Pentium notebooks, and should even zoom past Intel's new Deschutes processor. Standard on all PowerBooks are Ethernet (Ru-45), VGA video out (mirror), and a 20x CD- ROM drive. The two hot-swappable expansion bays can hold any combination of battery, floppy, CD-ROM, or third-party storage product, such as a hard drive or Zip drive. Apple skimped a little to hit the sub-$2,500 price point on its minimum configuration, but all you're really missing out on is a floppy drive. The rest of the lineup is more than reasonable. Turn the page to see the exquisite details of the PowerBook G3. BUY ANY of these machines at http://www.apple. com/store/. Od Aa ae by kathy tafel = __ PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON LAUER JUNE/98 MacADDICT 23 ». arrorVak Apple describes the PowerBook G3 as a “union of fashion and technology” where the form “accentuates” function. Icons depicting the various ports are visible not only from the back, as with past models, but also from the top. The curvy lines continue along the top and bottom in plastic; the interior is metal sprayed with paintto provide a soft-touch grip. A large crystal Apple 5 focuses attention to the middle. * OVAL JUNE/98 24 MacADDIC: Levers along the front of the machine release storage devices or batteries from expansion bays. Pressing buttons hidden by the bays pops up the keyboard, offering access to the interior. The PowerPC G3. chip, its backside cache, and RAM slots are on one card that plugs into the motherboard. The scissor-technology keyboard's arrow keys are an inverted T. Embedded function keys offer such niceties as a number pad, as well as home and end navigation keys. 12.1-inch Through its online store, Apple will offer the PowerBook based on display size. From there, the company will offer Good, Better, and Mo’ Better configurations as follows. Each can be fully customized, 14.1-inch 13.3-inch 233MH2/32MB SDRAM/2MB SGRAM/2GB hard drive/$2,299 233MHz/32MB SDRAM/4MB SGRAM/2GB hard drive/floppy/$2,999 233MHz/32MB SDRAM/2MB ‘SGRAM/2GB hard drive/floppy/56K 250MHz/1MB level 2 backside cache/32MB SDRAM/4MB SGRAM/4GB hard drive/fleppy/56K modeny/$3,899 ‘250MHz/1MB level 2 backside cache/32MB SDRAM/2MB SGRAM/2GB hard drive/floppy/S6K modem/$2,979 Mo’ Better 292MHz/1MB level 2 backside cache/64MB SDRAM/4MB SGRAM/4GB hard drive/floppy/56K modenv$4,599 's in three flavors 233MHz/32MB SDRAM/4MB SGRAM/2GB hard drive/floppy/$3,499 ‘250MHz/1MB level 2 backside cache/32MB SDRAM/4MB SGRAM/4GB hard drive/floppy/56K modeny/$4,399 292MHz/1MB level 2 backside cache/64MB SDRAM/4MB SGRAM/8GB. hard drive/floppy/56K modem/$5,599 JUNE/98 MacADDICT 25 APPLE STUDIO DISPLAY Drool. Every aspect of Apple's newest display seduces us into sheer desire. As with the PowerBook G3, the Apple Studio Display blends design and technology into an unrivaled masterpiece. The flat-panel display plugs into any graphics card and offers resolutions of 1024 by 768 on a 15.1-inch screen, compara- ble to a 17-inch cathode-ray- tube monitor. However, the screen has twice the lumi- nance, twice the sharpness, and twice the contrast of a CRT display—plus, it's flicker free. Using a flat panel instead of a CRT makes the unit much smaller: it's only 9 inches deep and weighs a mere 12 pounds. The Monitors control panel is accessible at the touch of a button and offers an easy way to adjust screen place- ment and other settings such as resolution. Apple's. display dithers pixels down to a resolution of 640 by 480. From the cutting- edge use of technology to the stunning design, the Apple Studio Display de- lights and amazes. The Apple Studio Display’s design is inex- orably intertwined with its functionality. Its base coniains a guide for huh? POWER MACINTOSH G3/300MHZ Think simple. Apple has nearly finished phas- ing out the multitudes of different desktop lines. The introduction of the Power Mac- intosh G3 (which, by the way, now costs ‘several hundred dollars less) eliminated the 7X00 and 8X00 lines. The all-in-one Macintosh to the right replaces the 5X00. The Power Macintosh G3/300MHz—also built around the Gossamer board—aims to replace the 9X00. Debuting in April at $4,899, the Power Macintosh G3/300MHz is a new stan- dard configuration of the G3 line and 26 MacADDICT JUNE/98 Note: Most of the time, we Photoshop the image onto the monitor’s screen. Not so with the Studio Display— this image was on screen when photographed. Sweet, the apple studio display blends desig unrivaled m ships chockdull of high-end goodies. Atits heart is Motorola's new PowerPC G3 chip clocked at 300MHz, with 1MB of backside cache running at 150MHz. Those speeds produce a machine that is 10 percent (floating point) to 20 percent (integer) faster than a 266MHz-based system— and it kicks ass over comparably priced Pentium II boxes. The G3/S00MHz fills almost every slot avail- able in the minitower enclosure with high-perfor- mance gear designed to make graphics profes- sionals giddy. A generous 128MB of RAM will get anyone started—and the machine will take a maximum of 384MB. Right out of the box, it is set to support a dual-monitor setup. Use the moth- erboard’s video controller and 6MB of SGRAM to n and into an cables and holds the display on a spring- loaded arm. Only one pound of pressure is needed to raise or lower the display. The swivel head tilts both vertically and horizontally. Along the bottom, two ADB ports provide for multiple devices, and plastic nubs make a nifty rest to hide away a keyboard. The screen can be detached from the base and held with a handle, or placed in a portrait stand. A door along the left side hides ports for S-Video, composite video, stereo in, and audio out. The unit can switch from displaying Mac video to showing a digital camera’s images—the recessed buttons along the bottom of the screen pro- vide control over power, video source, and set- tings. And the entire enclosure just looks cool; it's curvy, ele- gant, and com- posed of the same trans- lucent plastic as the eMate. power a 17-inch monitor for palettes, and the 128-bit ix3D Ultimate Rez PCI card with 8MB of RAM to drive a 20-inch or larger beast for dis- playing huge images. Once you're set to save those images, the G3/300MHz will save time with a 2x4GB striped hard disk array. (The Ultra Wide SCSI controller for this fills the second PCI slot.) Striping the drives creates a virtual 8GB drive that is faster because the data is saved to and read from both drives at the same time. But if you're working off a file server, the 10/100BaseT Fast Ethernet card in the last PCI slot will speed your file transfers, too. A 24x CD-ROM drive (or optional DVD-ROM) and a floppy drive round out the expansion POWER MACINTOSH G3 ALL-IN-ONE Previous educational models didn't offer as much muscle as the desktop line did—to get the lowest possible price, Apple used less- expensive parts. With the flexible Gossamer motherboard at the heart of the hardware line, Apple can offer the power of the third- generation PowerPC to a greater audience, this new OR design houses a 15-inch monitor, but the overall feel is more fun and more STIONA because cost savings are built into the entire manufacturing model. The all-in-one has the primo power of a Gossamer motherboard, a PowerPC G3 chip at 233MHz or 266MHz, 512K 2:1 backside cache, a 66MHz system bus, and 32MB of SDRAM. With the core hardware already designed, Apple focused on the exterior. The first PowerPC all-in-one looked like a monitor with a CD-ROM drive stuck to the bottom. This new organic design houses a 15-inch monitor, but the overall feel is more fun and more func- tional. Intended for the edu- cation market, the machine has two headphone jacks on the front so kids can share it. PMGSAIO SELECTIONS /4GB hard drive/24x CD-ROM/AV card/ bays, leaving just one internal 5.25- inch bay open. And therein lies the rub. The Power Macintosh G3/300Mtz is indeed a high- end workstation that will do its job and do it better than any previous model has. However, the design pushes the limits of Gossamer’s flexibility. If you want to add any other PCI card—Apple’s new Firewire digital-video-editing kit, for instance— you'll have to buy a PCI breakout box and take out one of the preinstalled cards to make room for the breakout box’s PCI interface card. You can then put the card you removed in the breakout box. That's not such a big deal—since a /AV card/$1,699. ip drive/$1,999 workaround does exist. But if you're one of the customers who needs more than 384MB, Apple really doesn't have an answer for you, except to purchase the 256MB RAM SO-DIMMs, which will be available shortly. That will raise the maxi- mum to 768MB, but each 256MB SO- DIMM will cost twice as much as what you pay for four 64MB DIMMS. This is our only real criticism of the new offering, and fortunately this limitation doesn't affect the large majority of Apple’s cus- tomer base. The cost savings Apple gains by using the same motherboard in the entire desktop line will help keep the company profitable. In back, a clever drawer eases access to the memory and PCI slots (the PCI slots can hold 7-Inch cards, but not full-size ones), as well as drive bays. As with all new Apple hardware, the all-in- one is available through Apple's online store. However, that part of the store is available only to Apple's direct education market. As an individ- ual, you won't be able to buy the all-in-one. The three preset choices offer baselines from which to customize via Apple's build-to-order factory. Options include 4GB or 6GB hard drives, 64MB or 96MB of SDRAM, 100BaseT Fast Ethernet, and a 100MB SCSI Zip drive. The all-in-one is enough to make you wish you were a kid again. Kathy Tafel almost regrets buying herself that Power Macintash G3 desktop for Christmas. Almost. JUNE/98 MacADDICT 27 @ by Jason D. 0’Grady am } Illustration by Gordon Studer : it) Whether you’re OUTWARD BOUND E or BUSINESS TRIPPING, here’s what you'll need for your PowerBook to TRAVEL RIGHT. B booking QCP-820 CDMA DIGITAL/ANALOG CELLULAR PHONE-DATA ON THE GO FAX/MODEM PC CARD- Qualcomm -Phone: $169 (street) (requires activation) -PC Card: $299 (street) - 800-238-3672, http://Mww.qualcomm.com/edma/phones/ Ditch your cellular and dump the pager, everyone who's anyone has already gone digital. Digital phones blaze beyond the bare minimum of standard telephone service by offering call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding, text pages, email, news updates, and more. Adding a PC Card connection to your digital dialer ensures that you can connect to the Internet from anywhere—try that with your analog cellular telephone, VST EXPANSION BAY ZIP DRIVE-Vst Technologies $289 508-263-9700, https/awuvsitech £om Oe is a must for making backups and ‘showing off power presentations loaded with large graphics, anima: tions, and video clips. If you havea é ‘PowerBook 1400, 3400, or GS, you’ want to check out the VST expansion bay Zip drive, which allows you ua : archive up to 400MB of data per cart es (even more with compression). The ay Bae ships with & ‘bootable Mac OS 8 pencys on can bail you out if you hose your hard your next business trip. {REZ BOS MERA IB 2088) ci a ae \ " Car rez. CO, aonoral® i 1500. es Wide’ 2400, Sr ideo. The Hat caps er Books re9 at Nec qieo eo e pal-S2° O24 devil 7 apps, ates atiows Mot its ve video © sn DUS: Tyg perce, sore S Vgook's SY, epand 1 fing sot 28 MacADDICT JUNEAS 2 DELORME TRIPMATE GPS NAVIGATOR - DeLorme +$159.99 (street), includes Street Atlas software bundle+800- 452-5931, http://mww.delorme.com Don't get lost, get the DeLorme Tripmate, Attach the yellow pod to your PowerBook's serial port and track es ‘your travels on the Street Atlas USA 4.0 interactive map software. The Tripmate synchronizes your location with the map (as long as you're not going to Area 51) by tracking 24 low-orbit, govern- ment-owned satellites. Unfortunately, tracking down: classified American military bases is still a job for enemy intelligence. ~ TRIP OUT WITH YOUR TRIPMATE 4. Plug the GPS receiver into your serial port. 2. Stick the GPS receiver on your dash. 3, Launch the Street Atlas USA 4.0 application. 4, Enter your current location. 5. Voila! Instant mapping that will follow you anywhere. ey 3702, http:/www.tindelectroni ics.com ( ) jets in the sky and o} the road. End DC power adapter (oes both. It ca a a ede is the publisher of O’Grady’s PowerPage (http://agrady.com), a daily publication with a biting view of the mobile technology landscape. The PowerPage has had over 4 million visitors since it launched in December 1995. JUNE/98 MacADDICT 29 id > ere at MacAddict, it’s a daily ritual to gather . \ internet Got You Down? around the warm glow of the Pivot monitor in Ld the late afternoon and catch up with our . favorite busybodies, Ann Landers (http://www. Email Got You Puzzled? creators.com/lifestyle/landers/lan.asp) and Ld Dear Abby (http://www.uexpress.com/ups/ abby/). Wade lights his pipe, Nikki pulls out her knit- 3 | ting, Rob serves scones and tea, and we all smile and god knowingly as Mark reads aloud the silly letters and the wise replies. As longtime readers of Abby and Ann, we’ve been trying for several years now to track down persistent by Joseph 0. Holmes Illustrations by Jack Gallagher @ rumors that the two aren’t actually twins, as they’ve always asserted. Finally, last month, we received an anonymous phone call from an old friend, who casual- ly mentioned that he grew up with Pauline and Eppie Friedman—Abby and Ann’s real names—in Sioux City, lowa, back in the thirties. We asked him about the rumors. “It’s true,” he confirmed. “They aren’t twins at all—they’re triplets!” Yes, the famous sisters have a brother named Loomis, born just 16 minutes after the girls, and as luck would have it, the boy—actually an old man now— shares his sisters’ world-famous knack for telling oth- ers what to do. But whereas Ann and Abby dispense sage advice on marital woes, telephone etiquette, and which way to mount the toilet-paper roll (over the top!), it turns out Loomis comes equipped to share his exper- tise on email woes, Internet faxing, and which way to mount that PlainTalk microphone (toward your face!). We contacted Loomis by Internet telephone at his current home, in a magnificent stateroom on James Cameron’s abandoned floating Titanic set (you probably wouldn’t have guessed they had T1 access in there!). As a tribute to the family tradition he agreed to answer some questions from troubled MacAddict readers. Breaking Up over the Phone...Bill Dear Loomis, I live on a houseboat off the coast of Antarctica, but my friends and family all live in Cleveland. My phone bills are outrageous. If this keeps up | may have to trade in my house- boat for a dinghy. What's up with Internet phones? Do they work? Will I save money? Losing It Long Distance Dear Losing It, Like push technology, videoconferencing, and David Caruso, Internet telephone failed to live up to its enormous hype. A couple of years ago it was the Next Really Cool Thing. Today it’s faded to near-obscurity. In theory, it’s wonderful. Make your usual PPP Internet connection—a local call—fire up Internet telephone software, and talk with a friend as far away as the other side of the world. That's in theory. Before you tell AT&T to take the proverbial hike, you might want to check out the reality of using the Internet as your long-distance provider. ‘The hard truth is that you get what you pay for in sound quality. On the best days, a 28.8- Kbps Internet phone connection is almost as good as a poor cell-phone connection. On a bad day, your conyersation will consist of, “What? Are you there? Hello? Hello?’ You shouid also be aware that open standards for the Internet are still evolving, so you and the person you're calling may have to use exactly the same brand of software. And, finally, tim- ing is everything. Unless you sit by your Mac all day with an open Internet connection, you'll have to make arrangements ahead of time to place the call. But if ten cents a minute is just ten cents too much to pay for long distance, here are three of the best ways to reach out and victu- ally touch someone. Smart shoppers will download a demo of each and try before buying. Here’s how to get started. Netscape Conference Price-cutting patriots who believe that free is the only way to be will dig Netscape Con- ference (http://Avww.netscape.com), which comes bundled with Netscape Communicator 4 or later. Conference is not only free, it also has a large installed base and will handle cross-platform calls. Unfortunately, it’s limited to one-to-one calls and requires an enormous 10MB download. Step 1. Before you make your first call, fillin all the information in the Business Card, in Conference’s Preferences dialog. Then check the box List My Name In Phonebook in the Net- work Preferences and verify that the friends you want to call also have listed their names. SS Step 1. Again, prearrange a time to talk and agree on a registered user’s Pub (public con- ference room); they're numbered 2 through 5. When you're ready to make your call, click the Pub button on the ClearPhone Controls palette and select the agreed-upon Pub. Enter formation you wnt eters recive Name nat [ozeps0-Hotaes [éeaostencom Step 2, Prearrange a call date so you're both ‘online with Conference launched at the same time. When the time comes, plug your friend’s email address into Conference's text box and click Dial. SS Netscape Conterence Sa) Video Send: 0 Sample Rate: 5 Khz. Preference Shortcuts 4 —— (jaca 24 (DD _Wes Phonebook. [i Aairess Book Engineering Consulting’s ClearPhone ClearPhone (http:/Avww.clearphone.com) will cost you $80 ($70 for additional copies), but it takes advantage of QuickTime 3.0 to produce a much crisper sound. It's also Mac-only, which means you won't be able to call your PC-using cousins, Not that you’d really want to. Step 2. Select your friend's name in the list of users and click the Call Active User button. You'll hear a pseudo-tinging sound; then, if all goes well, your friend’s voice will boom over your Mac's speaker, , {[ call Active(e) User J PUB Voice Recorder: JUNE/98 MacADDICT 31 VocalTec’s Internet Phone Internet Phone (http:/Ayvww.vocaltec.com/ mac/web/mac.htm) costs $50 for the first two licenses, a good deal if you want a copy for you and a friend, and if you're willing to put up with sound quality that isn’t quite as good as ClearPhone’s. But Internet Phone is cross- platform. ..in more ways than one. Not only does Internet Phone allow you to call some- one with a PC from your Mac, but version Users in @ Archenzo Q jamesoal Q magwrite Step 2. Select your @ eva friend’s name in the Users list and click the Call button. You'll hear the pseudo-ringing tone; when your friend answers, a cute little ani- mated cartoon figure will i Internet Telephone Tips W Turn off AppleTalk, virtual memory, and anything in the background, especially other Internet tasks like download- ing files, appear in the Iphone F window to illustrate the |; Call early in the morning or Jate at night to avoid Internet connection. Say hit 3.5 also supports computer- to-telephone connections. Step 1. Arrange a time to talk with your friend and agree on a name for a private Chat Room. lick Internet Phone's Private button and type in the Chat Room name that you agreed on. An URL in Every Port Dear Loomis, Every day I come across URLs for Web sites and newsgroups that I want to:check out, Pret- ty soon, though, my sticky notes are blowing around the room like autumn leaves. My lover is a neat freak and can’t stand the mess. He's threatened to break up with me unless I get my URIs together. What can I do? Please advise. URL Crazy Dear URL Crazy, Don't get mad, get organized! It’s normal to want to experience a lot of URIs, but you shouldn't let your Internet addiction break up a healthy, happy real-life relationship—many of us only dream of finding love outside the chat rooms. So before your lover leaves you, get a grip with the following tips. A good habit to get into is launching a URL when you come across it. Start with IcEtBe, a free extension bundled with Internet Config (ftp:/Aip.share.com/internet-configuration/). Once you've installed it, you can command- click any highlighted URL in most applications to retrieve the page or file immediately with the appropriate Internet application. Alternately, Apple Internet Address Detectors (which you 32 MacADDICT JUNE/98 can find on The Disc) perform the same trick plus many more by adding some URL tasks to Mac OS 8's contextual menus, though they're not quite as fast as IcEtKe. Finally, you can always drag an FTP or URL onto your browser window for immediate gratification. If you can’t drop everything to visit a site right then and there, collect the URL as text for later viewing. One way is to set up a folder on your desktop and drag URLs from the applica- tion onto the folder icon, creating a collection of clippings. Later, drag the clippings onto your browser window—lInternet Explorer or Netscape Navigator versions 4 or later only. congestion. @ Turn off external speakers and wear headphones. @ Keep your expectations low—the typical three-to- five-second delay makes Internet telephone sound more like CB radio. Ifyou plan on keeping the URLs forever, or at least for a really long time, you can add the pages to your browser's bookmarks for quick reference later. When you're viewing a page you want to bookmark, press command-D or double-click on Netscape’s Bookmark icon (in Internet Explorer, click on the Add button, which is displayed when you choose Compati- ble Plus as the toolbar style in Preferences). If you come across a URL as you’re browsing, you can also save it as a bookmark by clicking on the hyperlink, holding down the mouse, and selecting Add to Bookmarks from the pop-up menu, ’s From: Harry A db @ Dear Joe Holmes, t wanted to let yo i dol there, check out my o If you are so incl ine Netscape:¥ Bask Forward Reload Home http :/ Aaeww macaddict. iG Netsite: < inkPad™ === Ej If you're looking for a tidier a He solution, you might prefer to leave | 6 items, 4 unused your Note Pad open in the back- | 73 Ho ground and drag URIs into it. Bet- | 3 Papic’s Homepage a ter yet, use LinkPad (http://www. F ditty panic.comVinkpad/), a fancier |) sip http://www.uni-ball.co.uk/ freeware alternative to Note Pad. | Drag and drop URLs onto the open || ME http://www streamland.comé LinkPad window, which keeps |] 4 si ij ors a Hee & http:/ Awww audible.com/ |_| launched and prevents you from |} <A http://www.reinformation.co... [=| dropping a URL right into the mid- 7 dle of another URL. \ Bookmark Managers Of course, for a small fee, third-party book- mark managers make it easy to do all that and more. A good bookmark manager does things no browser can match. WebQuick’s ($40, Europa Software, http: /kwww.europasoftware.com) universal menu lets you add new bookmarks, organize them into custom submenus, and search through recently visited sites. This handy extension-based utility even pops up 2 list of favorite sites right under your mouse pointer while you're browsing. DragNet ($40, TikiSofi, http:/Avwwtikisoft .com/dragnet.html), which is shown below, and URL Manager Pro ($25 Alco Blom, ftp://ftp.url- manager.com) add extras like verification of URIs and duplicate deletion. Each is a stand- alone application with lots of sorting and searching power features. [CD SES Meaarines & Publications Sss= 5 el el aa ELE ae | Dear Loomis, across the country next month for our annual pilgrimage to the Delta, Ohio, Chicken Festival. ‘They claim it’s the best chicken in the nation. Personally, I pre- fer the Colonel’s extra crispy recipe, but no one ever listens to me! Anyway, can you tell me how Kean check my email and “.» wy favorite Web sites while I'm on the road? Tripping Out Dear Tripping Out, You don’t have to*be the victim of your parent's fowl play. Just because you're cooped up inthe Midwest doesn’t mean you can’t conneét to the Internet. A short-term solution to your travel dilemma is to ask your local provider for an 800 number for tational access. If it has one, it'll probably cost $4 to $6 af hour, roughly 7 to 10 cents per minute. Or you could just’suck it up and make the long-distance call to your regular home provider from the road, A few min- utes a day for a long weekend will cost only » a couple of dollars. ae If you travel often, you Might consider switching to a national provider with local connections across the country. For starters, look up Mecklermedia’s massive list of Internet service providers (http://thelist internet.com) and the sublist of toll-free providers (http://thelist.internet.com/ areacode/800.htmi). @ompuServe and America Online @so.,have local dial-up numbers all over the country, America On- line lets you check your AOF mail, but Com- puServe’s connection is 2 regular PPP con- nection, so you cap check the mail on your ‘own Internet sefvice provider. Connect to CompuServe, but use your ISP’s email POP and SMTP settings in your email client. PowerBook Less Ifyou find yourself up a creek without your PowerBook, there are other ways to get online. Pick up a copy of Cybercafes: A Worldwide Guide for Travelers, by Cyberkath ($10, Publishers Group West) for a directory of cafes with Internet access. You can expect to pay $10 per hour and there’s no guarantee you'll find Macs on the menu, but desperate times call for desper- My parents are dragging me, ate measures. You should also check out the local library—a good solution in towns like Delta, Ohio, that are 408 small to have a cybercafe. If udon't feel like hunting down an Internet Cafe to check your email, you can “call a service that will read your messages over the phone, Check out the CompuServe Communications Card (http://www -compuservé .cém), which costs 25 cents aminute, or Premiere Worldiink’s Platinum Service, 800-609-2030, (http://www -premtek.com), which is $19.95 a month. Travel Tips tm Before leaving on your trip, get your des- tination’s local connection number and make a quick long-distance modem con- nection, It's worth a couple of quarters to work out the problems ahead of time. m Ask about your hotel’s phone charges. Many hotels charge’ a dollar or more for toll-free” 800-number calls..Explain your circumstances to the hotel management and ask them to waive the feesiduring your stay. Set your PowerBook's email client prefer- ences so that it doesn’t delete messages on your server. (There's literally a box to check.) When you're home at your desktop’ Mac, collect your emfilagain and archive it with the rest of your fail. @ At the airport, don’t worry about the X-ray machine. The danger there isn’t from X rays, it’s from a thief who may filch your computer bag at the far side of the machine while you’re emptying your pockets. To pro- téct yourself from airport con artists (and we don’t mean the food vendors), pack your portable in a nondescript bag that doesn’t look like obvious laptop luggage and be waryof any confusion at ihe safety checkpoin” If you’ve got a‘stopover in an airport, check along the floor for the power outlets the cleaning crew uses. A nearby seat will let you play Myth and recharge your batteries at the same time. ™ Before you leave home, tape your busi- ness card—or a white card with your name, address, and phone number—onto your PowerBook’s AC adapter. You’d be sur- ‘ptised at the number of adapters you can find in a hotel’s lost and found. Speaking of which, when you do discover you've left your adapter behind, head for the lost and found to borrow one” JUNE/98 MacADDICT 33 Rumor Consumer Hard Up = lor Soft News Dear Loomis, Yesterday I heard | 2. a friend that the entire cast of Baywatch had upgraded to Newton MessagePads and that Tim Allen’is on the shortlist for Apple CEO. Can any of these things be true? But more important, how can I get a daily dose of this kind of insanely base- Jess rumor? 5 Out of Touch in Ona Dear Out of Touch, ‘The Web is pretty much the world’s great- esi news and rumor machine, with reports ranging from the stolidly factual to the wildly fiction: Yeah, we know which end of that sf f interests you: Check outte follow- ing Web sites for all the Mac gossip that's fit (and sometimes unfit) to print. © Mac OS Rumors (http:/Avwwmacosrumors .com) covers al] the Apple hearsay, no mat- téthow far-fetched. It’s been the site to see ever since Steve Jobs plugged the nevis leaks at Apple and effectively driéd: up almost every other gossip sheet in print and on the Web. Now even Apple employees check Mac OS Rumors for sneak peeks at events to’come, m@ ThessaSource (http://www. thessasource.com) offers ru- mor-mongering with a hint of analysis. It can be useful when you're trying to make sense of. Apple's fluttering stock prices. @ Macintouch (htfp:/Awww. macintouch.com) is the rumor mill headed up by MacWeek columnist Ric Ford. Ford comes closest to supplying rumors that are on the verge of becoming real news, back- ing up his gossip with actu- al fact-checking and skepti- cism. Stévé Jobs even emailed him once, Oooh. ™ MacSurfer’s Headline News Gps” www.macsurfer.com) links you daily to almost every Mac-related news article in existence that day. Don’t be disappointed ifyou find real news stories instead of mere 34 MacADDICT JUNE/98 rumors. the fed life tales % be even more entertaining. W O'Grady PowerPage (http://ogrady.com/ defaultstm)dishes the dirt on PowerBooks both here and abroad. Not only is it the only site that covers the international Power- Book scene, but it's the only good source o cally whenever a subscribed site has changed. Perfect for rumor monitoring; here's how‘t@use it: Step 1. Visit your favorite rumor site and. select Subscribe from Explorer’s Favorites” ick the Customize button in the dialog box. coming models. ™ The Macintosh News Network (http:// wwywemacnn.com) mixes church and’ State by serving up a healthy amount of both news and gos- sip. If you're looking for an all-in-one solution, this is it,, for unauthorized ey up- iS) Subscribe to the site named below, or choose “Customize...” to create a customized subscription. ‘Mec 0S Rumors Gee) Ce (By the way, you had it backward. + Tim Allen uses a MessagePad. Apple an- nounced the appointment of the cast of Bay- watch to the position of. Apple CEO.) Subscribing to Gossip If you like your gossip fresh and first, use Tnternet rer 4.0 to subscribe to a Web site, and Explorer will notify you automati- ” notify you of new rumo: Step 2. Set ssi notification prefereriee8 in the Schedule dialog box—you can set it to in minutes of their posting. Ifyou can’t wait that long, manu- ally check for new rumors by selecting Update Subscriptions from the Favorites menu. [=A ino tor Mac 05 Ramorg Sana Linis\ (Sateen [asa Senence\ [Wait (Cn, prey acy ate etn ie eri, asrmiva ow oth ego ck (hetheeag bei toc he chet ar jo hs aes [BUse acustom schedule tor this site ‘Manuat updates only Re onk | © Check each time Exptorer is launched Qoveceevery [—_] (enters) Time Limes Geeatming [———] | | —. Brrom, sun Mon FaTue Wed GBTou BFA set en CD | The Netscape Alternative For a quick manual check using Netsc: Navigator, press command-B and select the rumof sites you've bookmarked. ‘Then select What's New from the View menu, click the Selected Bookmarks radio button, and click Start Checking, Navigator will tell you which sites have changed since your last visit. - Email for Dollars Dear Loomis, Ever since I won the lottery a few days ago, I've made hundreds of new friends. It’s so great! Peoplefiom all over the country have written to me with thoughtful suggestions on how I should manage all that money. Many have even offered to take over the hassle of investing it..'ve input all of my new friends’ contact info into my NoweContact file, but 1 have to copy email addresses every time I want to send a message from Claris Emailer. Isn't there an easier way? Ima Sucker Dear Ima, First, let’s tackle your money-managément problem, Few people know this about me, but besides being a senowned Internet advice columnist, I’ve also,dabbled in Financial Care Management for the Logically impaired. Tl call you sooa with a bank account number you caiiuse to store your winnings so they won't clutter up your existing accounts. In the meantime, use any of the following methods to email your friends with the great news that you've found a financial consultant. Absolute Now Contact © If you're using Now Contact 3.6.5, the pro- gram has a feature that may solve your whole problem. Step 1. Set Now Contact's: Internet Prefer- Step 2. Choose your contact in the Now Contact list and select Email from the Contact menu. Now Contact switches to your email application and creates a new «message, addressed to your chosen contact. ( cele RERER Findverine Window vetp v) When you're happy, clicl Vintage Emailer If you don’t feel like opening up Now Con- tact just to send email, you can import your email addresses into Claris Emailer, (Unfor- tunately, Eudora’ Pro has limited address import capabilities, and there's no simple way to add addresses from an application Step 1. Select the addresses you want to add to Emailer and choose Find Selected from Now Contact's Find menu. This will create a list of only your selected contacts. - Contact MIM define Window Help WS Find. Step 2. Select Export To Text File from the File: menu; in the dialog hox~that appears, check only the fields for first name, , lastname, and each custom field you uSe*t hold email addresses. (Strangely enough, Now Contact doesn’t have dedicated fields for email addresses. It puts the information in custom fields; you'll have to scroll to see the con- tents.) You should also*choose one more field, such as Company, which we'll put into Emailer's Description field. Export the file” Email ~ Claris “addicts using Claris Organizer and Claris Emailer 2.X should head over to Fog City (http://www.ogcity.com) and download a set of AppleScripts called Emailer- Organizer Scripts. These scripts include a couple that automate moving email-addresses between the two applications.. EXTRA! EXTRA! They're not obvious to the untrained eye, but some really useful Internet fea- tures were added to Now Contact in ver- “sion 3.6.5 (a free tbgrade to owners of version 3.6). Selec”any single contact mc then test out these neat tricks, hid- ulttthe Web Services submenu under the Contact menu: E-mail, Phone Number, Zip+4. Select one of these three choices and Now Contact will switch you to your favorite Web browser, take you to one of the free Web search sites, and look up your contact’s émail address, phone number, or zip code. Get Street Map. This choice switches to your favorite browser and then runs off t:@,special Infoseek mapping page that Ieraw a map’ showing exactly where your contact lives. One more click on the Web page will take you to a \ page where you can get driving'directions'es well, but at this point you'll have to type in the start- ing and destination addresses. * 9 import addresses: Now Contact Export S| (cen) finer} Step 3. In Claris Emailer choose Import Addresses~ from the File Menu. In the dialog that appears, .check to be sure the I Innore first record [DE] revoras or ‘You should change the Destination field only if aM of the addresses in your ‘import file are from 2 single destination, for example a corporate address book. fields line up properly, clicking, Preview Date i ‘Address Book Fields: a the right arrow to flip through’ | jews First Name the addresses. (If they don’t line | [Helms past Ban (pom ine jegoleicn | ESS Desoription rm the Now Contact export , operation again, this time rear- ranging the fields by dragging the entries in the exp alos) chrissiebunny@compuserve.com loutiesquirrel@providerx.net No Service Import. &¥ x Bey a 35 36 MacADDICT JUNE/98 Music to Browse By Dear Loomis, My soon-to-be-ex- brother dropped my boom box down the steps, and now I can’t lis- ten to my favorite radio stations while ’m browsing the Web. The silence is driving me crazy. P'y@heard that the Internet is alive with the sound of! ‘music. Is this true? Mad About Music > Dear Mad, +s Alive with the sound of nflisic? You don’t get out much, do you? Fortunately, you don’t really need to with all the latest and greatest tunes ~ streaming across the Web. Log onto M..1.’s list of RealAudio radio stations (hiipysvmbr.mit .edu/stations/bc.html) to see if*your favorite stations broadcast over the Net. Why not just fix the boom box? Because your radio probably can’t pick up Radio Russia (http://www.russianet.ru/rusradio/eindex <html), pirate “Rock, Reggae, Regional Mu- ym Nicaragua *(http://www.ibw.com.ni/ index.html), or the last indepen- dent free-form station, WEMU® (bup:/Avww. wimu.orp/ssaudionet.shtml), from East Orange, New Jersey. And the boom box definitely doesn’t tune in Imagine Radio (htp/Avww -imagineradio.com), which broadcasts the .MacAddict Hour, 60 minutes of talk radio host- ed by your very Owh MacAddict editors. RealPlayer: Brimful of Ashye To enjoy riost online music sites, you need to first download a copy of RealNetworks’ free RealAudio www .realaudio.com) plug-i Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. The player Jets you lis- ten to streaming audio as it’s dowhloaded. Make Your Own Music -For a more permanent solution, check out Liquid Audio (http://www.liquidaudio.com), 7) » which not only offers streaming audio, but also lets you,download individual, CD-quality tracks you can burn onto your own homemade CDs: or you've got the hardware to master a CD-ROM, just download the tunes you like—at about a dol Jar a pop—and then use the-liquid Audio soft- ware to burn your own compilation. You always wanted Pearl Jam and Cat Stevens on the same compilation, right? » Step 1. Download Liquid MusicPlayer. Later, when you try to download your first music track, you'll be taken automatically to a Web site where you'll have to register the player. ‘Though you must providé*eredit card infogit’s just for identification—theplayer is free. Liquid Andio uses your card number to create a soft- ware passkey (the company calls it a Passport), ‘which activates your player and keeps you from spreading copies of someone else’s music all over the ‘rier Web. E-Mail Address: [2ido@pobox. cow Bamodem rz Tacos Please netty me of Ligu Audio everts and updates GetLiguia MaaiePlaye, CD. Musie Tip If you use an email redirection service such as Pobox, enter your original ISP email address instead. The registration won't work -with a forwardin -type email address. % a Step Two. Next, head over to music Web sites like Musicmaker (http://www musicmaker.cor ¢ Music Boulevard (http://vww.musicblvd.com) to browse the selection of Liquid Audio tracks. (At Music Boulevard, all theé*Liquid Audio tracks appear under the brand name e-mod.) When you find an interesting track, click the Streaming Preview button to ‘sample itvia the Liquid Audic player Home, "Tinta Somiing ool Ea AOD (3 Dom Digit! Domnoed [IC (5, 27min DL, $359 Step Three. If you like what you hear, check the price, which is displayed right next to the Buy Download button. Click that button to start the purchase process. The Player will send you to the Web pages where you'll pay for the tracks, so have your credit card ready. Follow the screens to complete the purchase. Althéugh there aren’t any shipping charges, you'll prob- ably see a few cents added for tax« — l Streaming “Tt Into Something 6 | LIQUID AUDIO~ == j Ua ite Something Coot ier Nor © 1982 Noone/Remone. [ST Pieving at 20.6K Moder (Low) Toorte70:20 Step Four: At Music Boulevard’s Your Per- sonal Download Page, click the Download but- ton to take possession of your track. Two to four minutes of CD-quality music can mean a 4MB or 5MB download, so be prepared to wait at least a half hour for-your tune over a 28.8- Kbps connection. Its best to download during © off-hours—at midday, when the, met is especially busy, a track can easily} more than an hour. Step Five. Once'you have a good col- lection of tunes, select Edit Tracklist — from the Liquid Audio Player's Tracks menu, arrange your tracks the way you lik€Jand burn your CD. If you don't » have the hardware, you can still lis- ten to the tracks fromahard drive ) or Zip disk, though ‘heavy use of your Mac will interrupt the music. You can pay sites like Music Boule- D vaca to burn your tunes onto a CD” and ship them to you, but you can’t get ‘ho immediate satiation. ) Psycho Surfer with Connections Anxieties Dear Loomis, My therapist says I have multiple edt Alities. Although this has actually made my life more exciting in most cases (I can be a little bit country and a little bit rock ’n’ roll), it has made connecting to the Internet nearly impossible’ Jodi uses only AOL, Jim is com- mitted to CompuServe (still!), and Jackie, Jen- nifer, Julie, and'¥eff all insist on using different local providers. Thanks to them I’m having 4 sheck of a time changing settings, restarting, and logging on. Help! ‘Split Up over ISPs Dear Split Up, It sounds as if your problém would best be solved with some serious medication anda lit- tle time alone. In the meantime, you can choose among three easy ways to make switchi tween providers a breeze. We'll let yor onalities duke it out over which one fo use. Apple Location Manager Ifyou've upgraded to Mac OS 8.1, you can use Apple’s Location Manager (previously avail- able only on PowerBooks) to automate the ISP. switching process. You can use Location, Manager 2 on your desktop Mac to switch not only Internet providers, but also printers, sets of extensions (if you use Apple’s Extension Manager), and more. — Se ) ection Manone STS EH aloes for “Ramete cana” — | rp senperaten:inerport™ Finn congureton: Snr Box (cam Cay Create a new*Location for each of your providers by first selecting Nev Location from the File Menu. Then check the boxes next to AppleTalk & TCPAP and Remote Access. You need'orchange the TCP/IP control paneland the PPP control panel for each location, but Loca- tion Manager will iead you through the process. Once you have all’ your ISPs set up, just open the Location Manager control panel ané select your ISP. As the switch is made, Locatit Manager informs you of progress and notifies you about changes to settings. GearBox ¥ Ifyou’re not an OS 8.1 user, or ifyou like even more flexibility and power, Rockstar Studio’s GearBox (http://www.rockstar.com/gearbox shtml) lets you use a single menu to switch between providers. GearBox first leads you © through a onetime setup for every ISP you plan to use. Then, when you wanb to swap in and out of ISPs. you simply select'the ISP you want to hook up with from the GearBox panel's menu. GearBox changes all your set- tings in a few seconds. It even changes your browser's bookmarks for each Poe TOP/IP For a bit more work and a little less money, you can use the solution that’s built into the current versions of Apple’s TCP/IP and O1/PPP soft- ware. Starting with version 1,1, Apple's Open ‘Transport software makes it easy to reconfigure settings without restarting every time you change ISPs, although you do have to set tip a «configuration for each of your ISPs in both ~ ¥ Perce control panel epens, press com- *, mand-K or click Configurations from the File * mena, select the provider's ¢¢onfiguration, click: Make Active, and close the control panel. This operation changes important Internet settings—for 4n ce, Where your software looks for vita information. at's it—you're golden. TCPAP (interport) | ete Comngurations. | ‘Active configuration: Interport | Pepto irae al cutee] [OrxBex Conant | retera| [OPP emer Macro Tip Name each configuration with a unique letter. That way you can create a macro th: performs all of the above steps froin a single keystroke, accurately selecting any configura- tion after you type the letter. 4 Here, for example, is 2 OneClick (http:// © wwwwestcodesoft.com) script that switches our comfiguration to CompuServe (returns are shown as [return]): Opeh (FindFolder "ctr1") & “PPP” Wait (Process.Name = “PPP™) Type Command "Y Type “cLreturn]" (FindFolder "ctri") & jen "gCPgeP...” ype Command "k" x your TCP/IP and PPP control panels first. Input Type “c[return]" ie that information once, and after that, flipping™ Type Command "w" between providers merely Tequires you to : switch configurations in the following two con- trol panels. © Step 1. Open the PPP PPP (interpart PAP) control panel. Press command-k, select the igeoare provider’s configura- 2S Configurations == tion, and click Make Active. This operation just changed your PPP ‘settings—that is, who you're dialing and how you log on. Active configuration: Interport PAP itep 2. the PPP control panel still open, select TCP/IP from the PPP menu, When JUNE/98 MacADDICT 37 The Chick Isn’t into Email Dear Loomis, I love email (almost as much as my fiancée—in fact, that’s how I proposed!), but T’'ve got one stubborn friend who doesn’t even own a computer. Can you believe it? As a result, I can’t send her my email wedding invi- tation and I'm afraid she'll miss the entire cyberceremony! How can I convince the Lud- dite to join the 1990s? Anxious over Email Dear Anxious, Hold your horses. If you convince your friend to get a computer and an email account, guess who she'll blame when she’s deluged with obnoxious spam? Yeah, you! You'd better let her sign up when it’s her idea. But how's this for a solution: send her your wedding invitation—and other news— via email fax! (Although it’s unlikely that your technologically impaired friend has her own fax machine, we're assuming that she at least has access to one at work, unless of course she works for the Unabomber or the U.S. gov- ernment.) It’s a step or two more complicat- ed than plain old email, and it’s only worth the cash if yow send lots of long-distance faxes (otherwise, hey, your modem’s bundled fax software can do the job), but you still get to skip the trip to the post office. HT-Net (http:/Avww.htnet.net), an Internet fax ser- vice, costs $9.95 per month, 15¢ per page for in