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Letters
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we show you how to get your own @mac-addict.com email address.
Cravings
A power strip to kill for, the most amazing digital camera, a stylish PIM,
a monster mail client, and multimedia speakers that will get you booted
from your home—t’s all cool drool gear.
Reviews
Photoshop 5.0 is out, and we put it through the wringer to see what
would squeeze out. Ewww! We also beat on Animation:Master 98,
GoLive CyberStudio 3.0, Stylus Photo EX, Diablo, Cubase VST, and two
Mactell video cards.
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Games on the Mac are coming back! We have previews of seven
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AUG/98 MacADDICT 9
EXPERIENCE PAYS OFF: THE 3X ZOOM.
And we've had more than enough experience, 78 years
MEGA PIXELS
Mega is an understatement. The CCD resolution on the
to be exact, to make it all worthwhile. With an insis- D-600L is an astounding 1.4 million pixels, creating
tence on superior optics, an obsession with design images at 1280 x 1024 pixel resolutions, Speaking of
and size, a never-ending search for the optimum © images, the D-600L uses a high-quality progressive scan
in effortlessness as well as ergonomics, it’s little CCD that captures the entire image in a single pass.
Your computer,
wonder that Olympus has pushed the 35mm envelope as Meaning you get what you should get: the highest-
our camera and
far as we have. And now all that know-how and wizardry undid otware. quality film-like images without any annoying ghosting
has been poured into our D-600L digital camera. Yes, it Now orp, enlarge, or color bias traits that often appear in competitive
‘enhance, retouch,
looks like a 35mm and feels like a 35mm. And often acts sensor technologies.
have fun,
like one, too.
The new 3x zoom lens is razor-sharp, seven
element Olympus all glass aspherical, F2.8,
autofocus, with macro. The equivalent 35mm
zoom focal length: 36mm to 110mm.
Some other distinctions: a mere 16,5
ounces in weight; center weighted metering
as well as spot metering for difficult lighting
conditions; dioptric viewfinder correction; +/- 3
step exposure correction; a four mode auto flash
with red-eye reduction.
THE DIGITAL CAMERA
REDEFINED.
Actual dimensions of the D-600L
are 4.5" (w) x 3.25" (h) x 5.1").
So it's easy to carry around,
SHOOT TILL YOU DROP
Shoot, shoot, shoot. There are absolutely no restrictions on the
number of photos you capture with our camera. The removable
4 megabyte SmartMedia” card gives you up to 49 standard quality
images. Simply download the images from the card to your
computer by means of the serial cable or the optional PCMCIA
and 3.5” floppy disk adapters. Or you can insert a new SmartMedia
card anytime and keep on shooting.
THE TTL IS VIP
A Very Important Part. It’s a Through The Lens single lens reflex
viewfinder so you're shooting photos as if you were looking
through a 35mm SLR camera. Crisp, exact, infinitely
superior images can be expected. In addition,
there’s a high definition LCD screen that
you can use for reviewing, deleting or
tagging images for printing.
A DIRECT CONNECTION
Finally, digital independence! Now
you can connect the D-600L, or any
Olympus digital camera, directly to our P-300
yo ms
Personal Photo Printer. In just minutes you’ll i, Ge
be able to print photo quality images directly from
the camera.
A FEW NOTABLES ‘Connect the camera to our
Note: our more affordable D-SOOL also has a S00 pier and presto
i Get the photo you want,
3X zoom lens with an equivalent 35mm focal yen you want t
length of 50mm to 150mm and a resolution of 1024 x 768.
Note: in the last year, Olympus digital cameras have won more
awards than any other digital cameras, Journalists and industry
experts are already hailing our new D-600L and D-500L as
benchmarks in performance and design.
Note: you can see for yourself how rich and sharp the images from
our digital camera really are. Just visit us at www.olympus.com,
Or call us at 1-800-622-6372. We’ll be pleased to answer all
your questions.
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Ir’s BEEN
REAL.
Apple execs suck the fun out of the Apple campus.
stand that. Remember, this is the company
that brought us Glarus (complete with offi-
cial tech notes), Area 51 as a location in the
Newton OS, and the infamous Sosumi system
beep. This sense is still alive in such prod-
ucts as the iMac, and the upcoming Allegro
system software release is rumored to have a
new Appearance Manager,
the sole purpose of
which is to let users
change how their Macs
look. Let’s hope the
= All occurrences of the words
phat, frag, freakin’ awe-
some, tweak, kick ass, lus-
cious, sexy, and drool are
hereby banned. We will no
longer use adjectives of any
kind. The page space that they
1 some ways, it’s like going
from the magical land of Oz
back to Kansas. After liv-
ing in a Technicolor wonder-
land complete with two-
dimensional representations of
arguably the company’s most sig-
nificant contribution to the world of occupied cost the company
operating systems, the entire Apple ;; too much money.
campus seems to be waking up from = Official editorial dress code will consist
its head-trauma—induced of black shirts (which was already our
dream to find itself back in unofficial code, but we figured it should
a
a sepia world. be official), More than three violations somberness that has
Hot on the heels of the will result in mandatory turtlenecks and — descended over certain parts
NeXT acquisition a year anda chinos for all. of Cupertino leaves the Mac
half ago, we visited the NeXT = On the MacAddict Web site, only earth untouched —David Reynolds
It is important that Apple
offices in Redwood City to find
out what the deal meant for be rotated on a strict three-day
the Mac. During that time, schedule.
‘we got a glimpse into the stylish Max’s name will be changed to
NeXT headquarters. Sleek, dark, and Walter. Do not call him Walt.
replete with edges, those offices were
chic to a fault. And the bathrooms...well, we
‘won't go too far into that, except to say that
they, too, fit in with the classy interior,
For the sarcasm-impaired, this
is a joke, Unfortunately, what's
happening at Apple is not. Oh
Since coming to Apple, Jobs has bus- sure, the company has had back-
ied himself remaking the company’s to-back profitable quarters, the
image, trying to hold on to the best of 4, Stock price is up, the product
the brand while jettisoning the out- ~S lines are amazingly cool (and
dated and useless detritus of 20 § * ~ cheap), market share is climbing,
years of business. Apparently, that ~~ and realistic (and awesome) system-
includes the familiar six-color logo and __ software plans are in place, but the
the icon garden, both hopelessly mired company seems to have lost its sense
in the past. They're just too darned fun, _of humor. Now I’m not suggesting that
* and we can’t have that! Apple sacrifice these real—and des-
' — Being the Apple followers that we perately needed—business accom-
are, we've decided to follow suit. Starting _ plishments for the sake of some fiber-
immediately, the following changes will take glass sculptures, but it is important
place in the pages of MacAddict: that Apple remain a sometimes-goofy
place for its talented employees to
work and play, a place where folks
still create balls made
from name tag stickers
given to visitors.
This sense of
fun was what
brought many
«= We will be moving to a black-and-white
format to make a clean break with the
gaudy colors of past issues. The logo will
be a translucent gray we're calling
“Hail.”
remain a sometimes-goofy a ia e
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place for its talented melas ie
portant that
employees to work and play. Apple under-
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Radio Day:
the recent debut of
Imagine Radio—and, inci-
dentally, the MacAddict
Hour—we've been having a ton of fun
talking on the fadio. We've even
Started hearing from readers-turned-
listeners who have taken the time to
install the Imagine Radio player arid
check out our show. Since you're a
pretty sharp bunch out there, we'd like
to hear from you about topics for the
radio show. Is there a Mac addict
you'd like to suggest we talk to for his
of her exemplary service to the Mac
cause? fs there a company we should
prank call? Do you have a vexing
question about your Mac you'd like to
have addressed on the air?
If so, send us email at macaddict@
imagineradio.com. We'll be doing
Some new and exciting things on the
radio, and we want you to-be a part of
it. Send in your ideas, and you may
hear them on the air. Hey, we may even
give you a call and let you clutter the
wires with your own brand of Mac
vision, To check out Imagine Radio,
point your browser ‘to http://www
<imagineradio.com, Or you can check
‘out our old MacAddict Hour shows at
http://www.macaddict.com/radio/radio
shtml, where we archive them all in
QuickTime format. You may even want
to look at last month’s CD-ROM for
some archived shows.
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‘There are no dots! No dots! No dots on the
spine. January issue—no dots! Okay, I gotta
calm down now, They're just dots. But
they're not there on the spine of the January
issue! They're always on the spine! Ahhhh!
Why aren't there dots? It’s a contest, isn’t it?
You wanted to see who would notice the
change, didn’t you, and give whoever
noticed a prize, right? And the prize would
be a brand-new 300MHz G3, wouldn't it? 1
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Right? Or am I just delusional?
— DANIEL “G3-FREAKING ADDICTED” HaMmcTON
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were requisitioned to add to the over 55,000
pixels that were needed to create Steve Jobs
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It’s either a symptom of my advancing age or
of my Mac addiction, but I found the Apple
Studio Display as sexy as the model displayed
on it. Unfortunately, however, your trotting
out of this salacious photograph was unac-
companied by a price, leaving me with a
question: Am I going to have to knock over a
bank to get one, or just stand outside the post
office on the day the little old ladies get their
pensions and mug a couple? Please advise.
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HERE’s A TISSUE
‘When Steve Jobs first took over Apple, { knew
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he have to take away the sacred icons? Those
14 MacADDICT AUG/98
icons are the very heart and soul of Apple,
and without them Apple’s just another dumb
company (kind of like Microsoft). Now, if
you'll excuse me, I need to go cry,
—Robert Goonwin
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WHERE’s Our
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While looking through the games available
on one of your early CDs, I came across Star
Fighters 1.01, which I liked, and I paid the
shareware fee for it. Later, I received an
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We are currently making several more
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that you have an excellent magazine, and
keep up the excellent work. We sure
will.
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HEEERE’s MAXIE
On a morbid note, on page 94 of
the October 1997 issue of
MacAddict, the Hot Tip starts out
with “Yo ho ho and a bottle of
redrum.” I noticed that “redrum”
spelled backwards is “murder.”
Considering what alcohol does to
you, that sounds accurate. Or is it
a subliminal message? Does it
reflect a darker side of Max?
Also—lI've been meaning to write you
about this, call me a procrastinator—how
dare you “Unlock Bryce’s Hidden Secrets”
(April/97, p48)?
—Bnyce “WeEP-A-L0” ‘TAENZER
YES
Don’t you guys think I’m strange?
Nick HANCE
You’RE WELCOME,
Bran4pon
I was initially elated to see my letter published
in my favorite mag, but my emotions quickly
changed when I saw that you spelled my name
Brando instead of Brandon. My immediate
response was to sue for slander and for the
defacing of private property; however, as I was
dialing my lawyer, an epiphany hit me. I
should be thanking you. You could have
defaced my name (changing it to Bran4don)
as you did that poor old Ch4ris guy's, and
made me and my reputation the object of pub-
lic humiliation. ‘Thank you,
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C’mon, guys, get serious. This is the second
review I’ve read that essentially says,
“Microsoft Word 98 is so much better than
Word 6, it must be phenomenal!” So it’s very
good—lots of bells and whistles. However, it
needs 11MB of RAM, 60MB to 70MB of hard
disk space, and a 120MHz machine to
run—which excludes all first-generation
Power PCs, And the cost—a mere $200 to
upgrade? For a guy like me who has suc-
cessfully avoided buying big-bucks applica-
tions, it would mean an outlay of $400. For
a word processor? For $400 I can add a
whole barrel of RAM. For $400 I can get a
couple of scanners, a new ink-jet printer, or
four copies of Claris Works.
—Bu Eprick
TaLk TO Our Lawyers
I hope you have good liability insurance,
because otherwise MacAddict is finished.
You see, I checked my mail on the way to my
finals. Big mistake. There was your Power-
Book G3 issue, with the sexiest Book ever on ©
the cover. I'll read it in the exam room! I :
drove so fast you wouldn't believe it, But my
professor wouldn’t hear of it. 1 had to go
through a whole three hours of having the
unopened Macdddict by my side. 1 know—
Till read it as I drive home! For once, all the
lights had to be green. Well, people read on
the freeway, I can read in the city. Check out -
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well, more time to read. That screen reaily is
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You'll pay for this, MacAddict. Don’t think
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Thave a confession. I work for an auto dealer,
and our stock arrives on a local freight truck.
It always seems to have a load of the new G3s
on it, headed for one of our local schools.
Well, I've been trying to bribe and trick the dri-
ver so I can get that load of computer. Don’t get
me wrong. I’m not looking to sell them. I just
want to snuggle with them, turn them on, play
with them. Is that so wrong?
—ERIC ScHWARZKOPF
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In the June issue of MacAddic?, Brice Rolston
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time my precious 'zine comes.” In response,
here’s a thought: Look at your old issues.
Geez, this new guy comes and everybody staris
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right away. How do you think he feels? He has
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| New chip technology better than MIX, Olestra
ure, it sounds like MMX, but it
goes so much deeper: Motorola
has announced plans to add a
new execution module to
upcoming PowerPC chips. This new mod-
ule, called AltiVec, will speed up future
PowerPC chips by crunching certain kinds
of data structures, Like MMX, AltiVec will
accelerate processes involving images,
video, and speech processing; unlike MMX,
AltiVec can also quicken other data-
processing functions such as those used in
Internet routers and IP telephony gateways.
Itworks like this: Most microprocessors
these days have two execution units—an
integer unit and a floating-point unit. (It was
the lack of an FPU that crippled some Mac
models—namely those with a 6810040
processor.) AltiVec adds a third execution
unit—called a vector unit—to the PowerPC
chip. This vector unit will be dedicated to
processing certain types of information, giv-
ing a speed boost of 2 to 30 times for cer-
tain operations.
A couple of factors make the AltiVec
technology scream. First, the vector-execu-
tion unit can perform up to 16 operations
per clock cycle, and it can apply a single
instruction to several different chunks of
data, which essentially means that AltiVec
chips can do several things at once. Also, the
vector execution unit has a 128-bit data path
that allows the chip to sling data around
inside itself at amazing speeds. (Data access
Ne. NEXT STEP
to and from the chip is
still limited to 32-bit
widths). AltiVec
will be great at
doing data trans-
lation, such as
converting an
MPEG-2 stream
from a DVD
player into a
form that a dis-
play can use.
Such conversions
should see up to a
30-fold speed increase.
All of this speed doesn’t
come for free, though. Developers
will have to rewrite their applications to take
advantage of an AltiVec-enabled chip. This
isn't as bad as it sounds, however. First,
when Apple rewrites parts of the Mac OS to
take advantage of AltiVec, applications that
use those parts of the Mac OS should get
acceleration automatically. For example, if
an application uses QuickTime, and Quick-
Time has been updated for AltiVec, that
application should get a boost without a
rewrite. Meirowerks has also pledged to
include AltiVec instructions in its compilers,
which means that it may take just a recom-
pile by developers to produce an AltiVec-
aware application,
Before you get your shorts in a bunch
waiting for these new chips, relax: AltiVec-
every hard work’ by talented inlet some mighty impressive cooling
logy—intel will have its own answer te AltiVec. Code-named Katmai, the new Intel
chip should be faster when it comes to certain multimedia functions such as video, 3D
graphics, and speech recognition. As was the case with MMX, developers must support the 70
_ new processor instructions present in Katmai to get the speed boost. The chip, which will run
}00MHz, is due out during the first half of 1992—about the same time the first AltiVeo-
_ based PowerPC chips should hit the market—DR t
46 MacADDICT AUG/98
enabled processors won’t make it to the
Macintosh until sometime in the first half of
1999. At the Worldwide Developer Confer-
ence in May, Apple announced that it will
include AltiVec-enabled PowerPC chips in
future Macs.—DR
Iustration by Bil Schwartz
Microsoft Deathwatch
| Prospects dim for beleaguered software maker
he following tidbits have been culled
from actual recent news stories about
Microsoft, and they have been given that
special MacAddict spin. One might almost think
from reading the following that Microsoft is
headed for some serious trouble down the line.
1 Computer makers are defecting: In a stunning
blow to Microsoft's Internet-domination strategy,
both NEC and Gateway are preconfiguring PCs
with Netscape Communicator instead of Microsoft
Internet Explorer. These companies join ranks
with Hewlett-Packard, Sony, and Fujitsu.
1 Windows 98 sales are expected to be disap-
pointing: A recent study from International Data
Corporation says that sales of Windows 98, when
it is released, may lag by as much as 35 percent.
@ In the ongoing saga of antitrust litigation,
Microsoft is currently under fire from the U.S.
Department of Justice and the attorneys general
of 20 states for anticompetitive practices. U.S.
district judge Thomas Penfield Jackson handed
Icon Garden
down a trial date of September 8
for antitrust litigation, which is
coming much faster than the
wretched software giant would
have preferred. Microsoft dodged
a potentially fatal bullet in this rul-
ing when the government chose
not to seek to block Windows 98
sales during that time.
I In a delay of Microsoft's flagship
products, Office 98—its premier
business software—shipped first
for the rival Macintosh platform,
with the Windows version still in
development. This is a surprise, considering that
Microsoft develops both versions. Some analysts
claim this delay points to a reluctance to support
the Windows platform with vital software titles.
@ Microsoft suffered 2 15 percent drop in
stock price: After peaking at nearly 100 in late
April, the troubled company is trading at
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500 has outperformed Microsoft stock over the
last three months.
With news stories like this, it's a wonder
Microsoft still enjoys a warm spot in the hearts
of computer users. Oh, wait—I'm sorry. 1 was
thinking of Apple —DR
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Out to Pasture
ong the destination
[i camera-toting
Apple pilgrims, the
famed icon lawn featured
fiberglass representations
of the original Macintosh
icons—including Clarus
the Dogcow. But that’s all
changed. In an effort to
update the company's
image, Apple has removed
the icons from the lawn,
leaving nothing but yellow grass
where these monuments to the
greatest user-interface revolution
once stood. No one knows what will
spring up in their place, but it’s
almost certain something will. As
part of its deal with the city of
Cupertino, Apple has agreed to a
Perhaps when
Jobs saw that
the hands on
this watch were
not moving, he
decided it was
time to reboot.
Clarus used to graze on fresh Kentucky bluegrass
while safe between the pencil and the paint
bucket (the green it is
n edge-on in this image).
Although no one
knows the fate of the
icons on the Caffé
Macs sign, it should
be noted that a new
public display of art in that space—
in which role the icon garden
served until recently. Here's our
photo salute to the dear departed
icon garden. For your own Web-
based tour, go to http://icongarden.
jory.org. It includes several photos
and a QuickTime VR panorama. It's
better than being there, because—
well, at least there are icons in the
VR panorama—DR
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(You can also choose domain
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that when you can have a
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Show your true Mac colors:
all six, of course—by choosing
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+ longlivethemac.com
* loveamac.com
* mac-addict.com
If you prefer, you can choose
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+ divefreak.com
* hosedown.com
* pleasedontspamme.com
* yourbidding.com
Signing up for your Imagine
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you have to do is go to http
/Ierww.imaginemail.com. The ac-
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means you can check it from any
computer with access to the
Web—convenient for those who
change jobs often or are leaving
school and want a permanent
email address. Imagine Mail also
comes with an address book, the
ability to send certain kinds of
attachments, a vacation reply,
email signatures, address block-
ing, and the ability to check other
POP-based email accounts.
So what's the catch? There
are a couple. First, the service
needs to set cookies on your
Mac to work properly, so if you
have cookies disabled, you may
not be able to use an Imagine
mail account. Second, the ser-
vice is entirely supported by
advertising, so you'll see an ad in
a browser frame while you
access your email, Third, you'll
also need a JavaScript-capable
browser for the frames version. A
nonframes version is available,
which you can use if you live
behind a firewall —DR
AUG/98 MacADDICT 17
get info
The Shape’s the Thing
No longer will Mac addicts bleed in six colors
© much for the rainbow-colored Apple.
Ss that the multihued look was a bit
passé, Steve
Jobs in a recent inter-
view hinted that the
six-color Apple logo is
‘on the way out, to be
colored past. “We're trying to focus on the
shape,” she said. “That's what we think is the
identifying item.”
A monochrome mark isn’t
necessarily a new thing for
Apple. Depending on the situ-
ation, the logo has previously 2
replaced by mono- been rendered in solid black, &
chrome ‘Apple logos red, ot white. On new prod- 3
bearing the same ucts, we'll see more of the =
shape. same type of treatment £
Apple spokes-
woman Rona Hamil-
ton confirmed that the
company is moving
we've seen on the new
PowerBook G3 line, with its
two-inch ice-white crystal logo,
or on the iMac, with its similar-
away from its six- ly styled Bondi Blue logo—DR
Kaleidoscope 2.0
The world's favorite window hack goes public beta
h sure, we promised this to you a
couple of months ago, but due to
circumstances beyond our con-
trol (and a bout of intense weekend
therapy), we've been unable to get our
K2 preview out—until.now. On May 28,
the good folks who make Kaleidoscope
released a public beta of the amazing
Kaleidoscope 2.0.
What’s New in K2
‘© New control panel with new options
* New windowing engine that allows for fea-
tures such as irregular window shapes
© Menus that look much better and are
more detailed
Burt
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CHECK OUT THE IRREGULAR window shape. This isn't an easy
trick to pull off, but Kaleidoscope does it with grace—and all of
the controls even work properly!
Kaleidoscope 2.0 is available at http:/Avww
-kaleidoscope.net, where you'll also find lots of
Kaleidoscope 2.0—compatible schemes. For those
© Patches to the Appear
ance Manager for more
complete conversion of you who use Kaleidoscope already, version 2.0
* Tons of other improve- can use schemes made for Kaleidoscope 1.x. Oh,
ments and be sure to spend the $20 to register your copy
after you download it —DR
Under Kaleidoscope 2.0,
menus are significantly
enhanced. The new
backgrounds and dividers
show up, and the menu
background virtual-memory
bug has been fixed!
Pop-up window tabs have been reshaped to match
other Kaleidoscope elements. Tabs can now have
irregular shapes, just like other kinds of windows.
18 MacADDICT AUG/98
Average number of users logged
‘on to AOL at 9 p.m. each Friday
during February 1998: 600,000
Average number of viewers tuned
into MTV at 9 p.m. each Friday
during February 1998: 500,000
Number of Mac OS 8 packages
sold as of May 1998: 2.2 million
Estimated Mac OS 8 installed
base as of May 1998: 3.5 million
Rank of QuickTime among the
most widely owned Windows.
software products, according to
Media Metrix: 8
Total amount Umax expects to
lose on its SuperMac clone
program: $33 to $36 million
Amount Motorola wrote off in
terminating its StarMax clone
program: $95 million
FOCUS ON: AMBULANCE
CHASING!
Amount for which thwarted Mac
clone maker Panorama Designs
is suing Motorola: $13.5 million
Total amount for which defunct
clone maker PowerTools is suing
Apple and UMAX: $350 million
Amount for which defunct chip.
maker Exponential Technologies
is suing Apple: $500 million
Amount for which patent
huckster Imatec is suing Apple:
$1.1 billion
FOCUS ON: POWERBOOKS
IN EXTREMIS!
Maximum number of months for
which a PowerBook battery can
be left in storage and still be
rechargeable: 12
Minimum operating temperature
for a PowerBook: 10°C
Maximum operating altitude for a
PowerBook: 10,000 feet
Minimum recommended clear-
ance between PowerBook key-
board and display (if on): 1 inch
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builtin cable manager, which lets you put all those cables into
the surge protector according to color codes. Call 800-272-2366
or 319-263-8144 for more information, or visit http://catalog.
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Consultant 2
if you think personal information managers are use-
less, well, you're probably right. Who wants to be
organized and efficient? Disorganization brings spontaneity into our
lives. But if you want to organize your life and look stylish, get
Consultant 2. This full-featured, Mac-only PIM organizes schedules,
contacts, and communication. It also allows you to view information
according to day, multiday, week, month, year, list, Gantt chart, journal,
and memo views. We especially love a couple of outstanding features:
The appearance-savvy GU! allows you to select different textures z
including wood, parchment, brick, i Soe aia.
ORGANIZE YOURSELF AND LOOK GOOD. — shimmer, and so on—think customiza-
tion, And a smart feature understands and interprets what
you type. For example, if you type, “Meet Steve Jobs tomorrow at noon regarding pro-
«) posal,” Consultant schedules the appointment and links his contact information. Drawing
Chronos
lees nisielsele
on Apple's speech technology, Consultant can read your schedule to you. You can also
launch your email client or Web browser directly from the PIM, and in the office you can
share Consultant data files over a network. Finally, Consultant offers a built-in word
FIND A processor that generates reports, mail merges, envelopes, faxes, and labels, as well as a
DEMO of MiniConsultant utility that allows you to schedule appointments and access contacts
Consultant quickly in one window. Call 801-550-9337 for more information, or download Consultant
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hat do you get when you add a pinch of power to an email
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Who said no one writes software for the Mac? Moreover, |} ===
PowerMail isn't just software—its intuitive, easy-to-use interface
gels with the Mac GUI for a consistent user experience.
PowerMail 2.0 boasts some awesome features: It supports multi-
ple emai! accounts and POP3 and IMAP4 protocols (the latter aero az
allows users to ES=EM —==
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imports and exports messages from Eudora; boasts quality filters
for mail management and automatic archiving; works with Mac OS 8 or later; provides drag-and-drop functionality;
and does all this in 71 languages, including Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, and Nepali. What else? PowerMail “
sports high-speed archiving and retrieval, thanks to its integration of Apple's Information Access Toolkit (also known © PowerMail
as V-Twin). In fact, PowerMail was a runner-up in the category “Best Apple Technology Adoption” at the Apple
Design Awards for Macintosh developers. Trés cool. PowerMail 2.0 is available for $49. For more information, check
‘out http://www.ctmdev.com, where you can download the application, or call 800-424-9933.—JH
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cone-type drivers and 1.5-
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volume controls, ail from your desktop. Rockin’! Your coworkers will hate
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AUG/98 MacADDICT 24
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You know you’re a Mac addict when you name your a
baby Max (poor girl), remove all
the windows from your house, and
write love letters to your sweet-
heart using AppleScript. Right?
W ron g. In order to qualify as a card-carrying As a service to you, our readers, we pulled together a
Mac addict, you need to be armed with more than just a group of seasoned Mac pros, gave them a case of Moun-
collection of clever phrases and cute puns. You've got to tain Dew and a crisp fiver h!), and challenged them
know the Mac cold, cruise the Finder like a locked missile, to reveal their secrets, What they came up with was a fully
tweak your software until it screams, and keep your hard- loaded arsenal of more than 250 tricks, pointers, and
ware humming smoothly. handy how-to’s on everything from graphics to games.
No longer so certain of your Mac addict status? We’ll So, you can either continue to just dream in six colors,
show you how to coax the most from your Mac with top- or you can take our advice and make the most of your wak-
notch tips culled from our first ever MacAddict Tip-Off: ing hours. We know what a real Mac addict would do.
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Now that you’ve got down
the moves, it's time to put
them to the test. These are
great sets of keyboard com-
mand combinations that will
be sure to speed up your
work, Remember, you can
often type these really fast in
succession—bang, bang,
bang—without waiting for the
actions to catch up with you.
RENE
MASTERING THE
MOUSE-FREE
FINDER
If i's speed you're after, quit
mousing around your Finder
and let your fingers do the walk-
ing. We double-dog dare you to
run your Mac all day without
touching the mouse. Sure, it’s a
snap in an application like
Microsoft Word, where you can
perform every action—-even
menu selections—from the key-
board. But by making use of lit-
tle-known key combinations,
you can actually do a serious
amount of work in the Finder,
too, without ever lifting a fin-
ger...off the keys, that is. So lose
the mouse, limber up your dig-
its, and show that Finder exactly
who’s boss,
SLEEP, RESTART, SHUT DOWN
Press
f-} ie (| for sleep,
(a) 4 for restart,
+
for shut down
(40 for cr|)
PBT RICKS
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"FRONT:
‘ Command-Shift-up arrow (selects the desktop, if the icon is
' on the desktop)
+ MITRAGH EVERY FILE IX AN OPEN FOLDER:
i 1. Command-A (selects all)
| 2, Command-Delete (moves to Trash)
\ MBCHANGE THE RAM ALLOCATION FOR A SELECTED APPLICATION:
Command-| (does a Get info)
Tab, Tab (selects Preferred Size text box)
Type the new RAM partition.
Command-W (closes Get Info window)
Command-O or Command-down arrow (launches app)
ME RETRIEVE FILES FROM THE TRASH:
Command-Shift-up arrow (selects desktop)
Type tra (selects Trash).
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WiSelect icons on the desktop or in an active window:
‘Type the first few letters of an icon name to select that specific
icon—for example, Qui for Quicken.
Or.
EJ io move from icon to icon alphabetically
(2-4 to move backward).
This will select any visible icon in expanded folder lists.
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SPILLED A STIGKY SODA ON YOUR KEYBOARD? NEVER FEAR! JUST PRESS
COMMAND-OPTION-R-C TO CLEANSE THE COLA FROM YOUR KEYS.
8, Command-O or Command-down arrow (opens Trash win-
dow)
4, Type the first few letters of the file name (selects the file).
5. Command (puts away)
6. Command-W (closes Trash)
BEEJECT A REMOVABLE DISK:
1. Command-Shift-up arrow (selects desktop)
2. Type the first few letters of the disk’s icon name (selects the
disk).
3, Command-E (ejects the disk)
MBEOOPY THE NAMES OF ALL THE 1GONS IN A WINDOW OR ON THE DESKTOP:
1, Command-A (selects all)
Command-O to open your hard drive window.
3. Select the folder by typing the first few jetters of its name.
4. Press Command-Option-O to open the folder and close
the hard drive window.
§, Select the next folder by typing the first few letters in its
name. Then press Command-Option-O to open the folder
and close the parent folder window.
6. When you reach the file, select it by typing the first few let-
ters, then press Command-Option-O to launch the applica-
tion and close the folder window.
BBALTERNATIVE METHOD TO LAUNCH AN AFP THAT [S SEVERAL FOLDERS DEEP;
1, Press Command-F to open Find.
2. Command-C (copies all) 2. Type unique letters in the application's name and press
ABMLAUNCH AN APPLICATION THAT'S LOCATED SEVERAL FOLDERS DEEP: Return.
1, Command-Shift-up arrow (selects desktop) ' 3, Select the file in the upper panel using the arrow keys.
9, Type the first few letters of the hard drive's name and press | 4, Press Command-Shift-O to open the file.
OPEN, CLOSE, LAUNCH
Hl Open or launch a selected icon:
(Ele) also closes the parent winiou).
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Or.
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any given direction.
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desktop:
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Migject and unmount a selected volume:
Tr: (i Change a selected icon's name:
Type the new icon name,|
' TIME: Don’t just dump the 30-
| item “Uncle Bill’s Deep-Fried
; Extension Pack” into your Sys-
IEDISK CACHE: Under Mac OS | tem Folder all at once. Drop
7.x, set your disk cache to the ' each greasy morsel in one at a
lowest possible setting to save ! time, restart, and see if there
RAM. Setting it higher doesn’t | are any problems. If not, drop
help your Mac’s speed much. _{ the next one in, and so on,
MEDISK CACHE: Under Mac OS : MINVEST IN EXTENSION SOFT-
turn forthe ect selector cote
PRPS OE
8, set your disk cache to 32K for 1 WARE: Although the Extensions
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have. Although you lose some | 0S is good, it doesn’t do every-
available RAM to the disk cache, | thing. Our favorite is Casady &
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bit as a result. Itnot only handles extensions, it
WEVIRTUAL MEMORY: Under H checks for conflicts and can be
memory unless you really need | Photoshop plug-ins and contex-
the RAM. Your Mac will be { tual menu items.
WIVIRTUAL MEMORY: Under opinion, not everyone has moved to Mac OS 8. For those of
Mac OS 8.x, turn on virtual you with Mac OS 7.x E
Ss
will take less RAM, they'll | MICOLOR DEPTH: Set this to Mj Contextual Menus,
launch faster, and your system : 256 colors (8-bit color) to [@ install PowerMenu 2.2.1
‘0 convert evervthing it draws to power of Contextual Menus to Mac OS 7.x. Find PowerMenu at
EXTENSIONS 56 colors anyway. Make life [jij http:/Avww.kagi.com/authors/marka.
easier for your Finder.
WEKEEP ONLY WHAT YOU: MIDON’I USE A DESKTOP PIC-
NEED: Although it’s tempting to ' TURE: The desktop picture WI
possible extension that ever ! cycles, so unless you're really [iM] Mlif you really want to play with fire, use the Wish | Were
existed, resist this urge, as it is | stuck on the picture, get rid of it. JJ control panel extension combo to change your Mac’s
choose your extensions wisely. !
Otherwise you'll run out of RAM !
and suffer intense extension |
conflicts—and your little toes |
‘ MDON’T OVERDO IT: Each {MM this and something goes wrong, You're on your own, bucko.
BADD EXTENSIONS ONE AT A ‘| font takes up memory, and the {i Find it at hitp:/Avww.macfixit.com.
fonts in your Fonts folder.
BECHOOSE OR LOSE: For sani- D KT REBUI ip
pick either PostScript or True- Mj Mi Want to rebuild your desktop completely with the
Type versions of your fonts, and
Open Stickies, type a little text into an empty Sticky, and
types of a font can be confusing. fj choose Export Text from the File menu. Save the file at
IBUSE A FONT MANAGEMENT
should ask you if you want to replace the current desktop
come to mind, These utilities Mj db. Click Replace. Quit Stickies and trash the desktop db
allow you to swap fonts in and
and it will do a complete rebuild of your desktop, a la
type is at hand without getting in Jf] TechTool. Or you could just use TechTool to do the same
each megabyte of memory you ! manager that ships with the Mac
the Finder will speed up quite a | Greene's Conflict Catcher 4.1.1,
Mac OS 7.x, turn off virtual ' used to manage such items as
more stable and will run faster, Contextual Menus without Mac OS 8—contrary to popular
memory. Your application: MONITO RS and a hankering for
will be more reliable. speed up the Finder, which has Jt brings some of the
download and use every single | sucks up RAM and processor
the fastest road to hell. Instead, | gestalt \D. This wili fool software installers (including system
t software installers) into thinking your Mac is something that
it's not. Youcan use Wish | Were to trick the Mac OS installer
into believing that your ilci is a Power Mac 9500. Warning:
We assume no responsibility for hosed hard drives if you do
will probably fall off, too.
Finder (and other applications)
have to keep track of each font.
Remember, the limit is 128
ty’s sake (and your printer's),
supersecret Stickies trick? Try Buz Zoller’s technique:
stick to that format. Having both
your hard drive’s root and name it desktop db. Your Mac
UTILITY: ATM and FontReserve
text file at your hard drive’s root level. Restart your Mac,
out on the fly, making sure your
the way. desktop rebuild (we've put TechTool on The Disc).
NETWORKING.
MESERVERS: When connecting : j
to a file server, don’t check the '
Connect Automatically box. In- |
stead, make aliases to frequently |
used servers, and double-click
‘Ghecke tems ( BB ywillbe opened at
‘System startup ime.
(ese | !
these. That way, your Mac won't
clog the network with unneces- |
sary “I’m here” messages.
MBFILE SHARING: Turn off File |
Sharing valess you need it. t
When it's on, it takes up CPU!
time for no reason if there’s no !
one there with whom you're}
sharing files.
INTERFAGE
WETURN OFF FOLDER SIZE
CALCULATION: This one wastes
a load of time, especially if you '
have folders with lots of stuff in !
them. Turn it off in the View |
Options dialog box. i
METURN OFF THE SHUTDOWN |
WARNING: One of the most:
annoying things after a crash is |
for your Mac to tell you that |
you turned off your Mac incor- |
H
rectly. Duh. ‘Turn this annoy-
ance off in the General Con-
trols control panel.
INCLEAN UP YOUR INTERFACE:
To hide the Finder automatically, !
uncheck Show Desktop When }
In Background in the General |
W THE RESULTING DIALOG BOX, UNCHECK THE OPTION “GRASH AT RANDOM.”
| HECOMMAND-CLICK: Do this on
Controls control panel. The
| Finder now hides when it’s in
the background. Neat!
LEARN THE
CLICKS
HOW TO FIND A WORD IN AN
INVISIBLE FILE
So you say this isn't useful, huh? Well, what if you once
made a file invisible (to hide it from certain prying eyes) and
you want to find it, but you can’t remember what you called
it or where it is? All you remember is that the words vorpal
raobit are somewhere in the file. What do you do? Why,
take advantage of Find File’s secret features, of course.
Here’s how:
| the name in a window's title bar
1 while in the Finder, and you'll get
a listing of where the window's
' folder is on your hard drive
WOPTION-DRAG: This makes levee ae
the Finder copy the item that fi | jiea
you're Option-dragging. It can Pets sr
also be used to move the Con- date modified
trol Strip tab around—even to san
the opposite side of the screen, ated
where it belongs. fo 2
HICOMMAND-DRAG: Use this Ee es
to move the tabs on tabbed win-
dows. Put a little space between
your tabs for an attractive desk-
top layout.
PERFORMANCE
AND MAINTENANGE
MIREBUILD YOUR DESKTOP:
We often forget to do this little
task, but it is an important part
of any maintenance routine.
Hold down the Command and
‘contain a
hame/icon tock
custom icon
visiotlity
START FIND FILE with Command-F. Hold down the Option key
and click on the Name pop-up menu. You'll see four new menu
Options at the bottom of the menu. Select Contents.
ind File
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Choices
Option keys while the Finder is
starting up, and you will be res ay
asked if 4 want to'rebuild the peer CLICK ON THE MORE CHOICES button,
ery : comments then Option-click on the Name pop-up
desktop. Go ahead and do it, but Jock attribute in th <s
remember to start up with exten- | flderatribue | men int seen ten ates
off for the best rebuild Le Select Visibility from the menu, and set
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MESET A START-UP DISK: If [MJ | contents epee
your Mac doesn’t have a start- ji namenan ect
up disk specified in its Startup Jj) ESET
Disk control panel, it takes
some time at startup to figure ij |El=== = =
out which disk to use. Give your Find items (Gan “Space” | 3} whose
Mac some direction by select-
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DRIVE: For the fastest possible (More choices] [Fewer choices} (cima)
performance, either use a com- —
SINCE YOU REMEMBER which hard drive contains the invisible
file, select that drive in the Find Items pop-up menu. Finding
things by content takes a /ong time, so do anything you can to
narrow the search and speed things up. Press Find—you're off!
mercial utility to defragment, or
copy the drive to a spare and
then copy the data back to the
original drive.
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PHOTOSHOP 4 OR A: ' aH and oe on the Laie
| a layer mask to see and wor
MEDRAG FROM ILLUSTRATOR H on the mask,
OR FREEHAND: Drag artwork ! | WARGET LAYERS: In the
from Illustrator or FreeHand | Move tool, hold down the Con-
directly into Photoshop and it | trol key and click with the
comes in on its own layer. Hold | mouse, A contextual menu
down the Shift key and the art | ‘ appears with the names of the
comes in centered on its own {as
layer. Hold down the Command |
key and it comes in as a path. |
WIHIDE PALETTES: Press the |
Tab key to hide all palettes. Press |
Shift-Tab to hide all palettes |
except the Toolbox. (This tip !
works for Illustrator, 100.) '
MEFILL WITH COLOR: Option- |
Delete fills with the foreground |
color. Command-Delete fills |
with the background color. |
Secret tip: Add the Shift key to }
either of those commands to fill |
as if Preserve Transparency is '
turned on.
MELAYER MASKS: Hold down
the Shift key and click on the
preview of a layer mask to dis-
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H the Command key and click 1 picture boxes, and then places
| the name of a layer, Secret 1 the copy directly underneath
{ tip: Command-click the name | the text. These picture boxes
{| ofa channel to make it a selec- ' are not part of the original text.
\ tion, Command-click the name ' secret tip: Hold down the
' of a path to make ita selection. | Option key as you choose Text
| Command-click the name of \To Box. This deletes the origi-
ta layer mask to make it a ‘nal text and pastes the convert-
H
! selection. ted text as an inline graphic.
QUARKXPRESS re aa
' CONVERT TEXT: Quark- 1 MESTICKY APPIY: Hold down
layers in the document. Choose | ' XPress 4 allows you to convert 1 the Option key as you click the
the layer you want to go to. | text into picture boxes. Select | Apply button. This turns the
Secret tip: Add the Option key ! the text and choose Style, then | button into a Sticky Apply that
and you can click on the art- “Text To Box. Similar to Create wal keep applying avtomat-
work to get the target layer. ' | Outlines or Convert To Paths in | ' ically. The Sticky Apply con-
MEBRUSHES: Use [ and } (the {vector programs, this action | tinues to work across all dia-
econ
PICK A LAYER, any layer.
left and right bracket keys) to ' copies the text, converts it to ' ' log boxes for the rest of the
loop through the choices in the | 4 ' Quark session. Hold down the
Brushes palette. Secret tip: This | | ee key again to unstick
works even if the palette is not iy @ ally q ' the button.
: visible, H | Sime INTO PICTURES:
TAKE ee YOUR MASK. MISELECT LAYER: Select All 1 | QuarkXPress 4 allows you to
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Halloween’s over, kid. (Command-A) makes a rectan- Pet ar | Ht ‘convert lines into picture
gular selection .of a layer. To | i?’ ‘boxes. For example, draw a
able the mask’s effects tem- | select just the shapes of the | THESE JELLY BEANS are pretty thick line and add an arrow to
porarily. Hold down the Option | images on a layer, hold down { as a picture box. | it, Choose Item, then Shape, fol-
HOW TO CAST A GIANT SHADOW
A picture-perfect Mac addict can mix and mingle a variety of graphics pro- ready to celebrate your artistic coming out, we'll help you refine your image
grams with the grace of a socialite at a debutante ball. If you don’tfeel quite —_with an all-purpose how-to that uses three programs at once.
Starting in your vector program (lllustrator Cut the large shadow, and then open a Paste the copied
or FreeHand), open a logo or convert text new Photoshop file. The goul will be the image as a set of
into paths. Duplicate the logo. Then scale and _ size of the copied = pixels on its own
layer. Set that layer to
preserve transparen-
ey, and then apply a
black-and-white gra-
dient across the
image.
skew the duplicate so it fooks like a image. Set this
large shadow. (If you 4 new document to
are in FreeHand, use wi, be slightly larger at
the 3D Rotation tool a resolution of 150
to give the logo per- pixels per inch in
spective.) = gray-scale mode.
DON'T POINT WITH YOUR KNIFE
TOOL 1 RUDE
» | PRINTING
} MEAVOID EXTRA CHARACTERS:
It Instead of using the space bar
! to make line spaces, use para-
|! graph formatting. Also, extra
|! eee returns add to the
ze and processing time.
' rie BOXES WITH BAGK-
THE SHORTEST WAY to a picture 16 ROUND NONE: Unless you
box is not a straight line. 1 Sea bie ie a
1 special effect, keep the ack-
lowed by the Bézier icon. This / ! ground color as 0% Black. It
converts the line to a shape. ! ' takes more time to process a
Then choose Item, Content, and ' file with Background None.
Picture. You can now import; MJROTATING AND SCALING
pictures into this picture box. i PLACED IMAGES: Avoid doing
DO THE MATH: You can ! transformations such as rota-
manipulate any number in the | tions and scaling in the page-
measurements palette or in any | layout program. Instead, go
dialog box by doing math. So if | back to the original problem
1 figure and do the
Gs [Vsce* [25 | exntxmaton tere
; !
ae ‘a DOES THE MATH $0 this instead of saving files as
youNtn bays to. | EPS with clipping paths—both
you want to make a 4-inch dia- | \ PageMaker .6.5 and Quark-
log box one-third its width, just » 1 XPress 4 can read the clipping
make the width field read 4/3 | paths in Photoshop documents
and press Return. You can even ' saved as TIFF files. This allows
mix math: To make a 4-inch | you to reduce file size,
box one-third the size and then : INIGENERAL STRETCHING EXER-
add 24 points, you would enter ' CISES: Dragging and dropping
the equation 4'3+24pt and! between documents usually
press Return. i bypasses the contents of the
MBINCREASE LINE WEIGHT: ! Clipboard. This is especially
Command-Option-Shift-> ' important when you’re working
(greater-than sign) increases ' in Photoshop, where you don’t
the stroke eset of aaa i went to waste your time copying
Command-Option-Shift-< (less- | and pasting.
than sign) decreases it. | MIANAS: You can force one
Tur off Preserve Transparency,
and then apply a Gaussian Blur as an EPS.
fo your
image
Flatten
the file ‘
and save j
it as a
TIFF.
Save the small logo
PON SAVE COMMANDS
If you're a long-term Illustrator user who upgraded to Iilus-
trator 7, the changes for many of the standard keyboard
‘Shortcuts may have frustrated you. Or perhaps you com-
pletely lost it the first time you went to ungroup and your
artwork disappeared. (Check out the changes in Ungroup
and Hide.) The following major commands were changed
from Illustrator 6 to Illustrator 7.
ILLUSTRATOR 6
Command-H
ILLUSTRATOR 7
Command-1
Actual Size
Fit In Window
Command-M. Command-0
Zoom In Command-] Command-+
Zoom Out Command-[ Command--
Artwork Mode
Command-E Command-Y
Preview Selection Command-Shift-Y
Hide Edges Commane-Shift-H Command-H
Hide Template Command-Shift-W none available
Command-Option-Y
Bring To Front Command-= Command-Shift-]
Send To Back Command-- Command-Shift-[
Ungroup Command-l Command-Shift-G
Make Mask
none available Command-7
Release Mask none available Command-Option-7
Release Compound Sommand-9
Hide
Show All
Hide Unselected
Command-Option-8
Command-U
Command-Shift-U
Command-3.
Command-4
Command-Option-3 Command-Option-U
Lock Command-1 Command-L
Unlock Command-Shift-L
Lock Unselected Command-Cption-1 — Command-Option-L.
Command-2
Average Command-L. Command-Option-J
Average And Join Command-Option-J — Command-Option-Shitt-J
Release Guides Command-6 Command-Option-5
Lock Guides
Command-7 Command-Option-;
In your page layout program (QuarkXPress or
PageMaker), import the large shadow TIFF, and
then place your text in front of it. (In QuarkXPress, set
the background color of the textbox to None.) Then
import the EPS image. (In
QuarkXPress, set that pic-
ture box for a background
color of None.) Adjust the
position of the front logo in
relationship to the back
shadow, and you're made in
the shade.
application to open another’s
files by dragging the file onto an
alias of the application. For
example, this forces Photoshop |
to open downloaded Web files,
and ¥reeHand to open Ilustra-
tor files.
ILLUSTRATOR 7
MISCROLL WITH THE HAND
TOOL: Using the Hand tool is
much faster than moving all the
way over to the scroll bars.
Pressing the spacebar gives you
the Hand tool, no matter what
tool you're in. However, if you |
are working in the Text tool,
pressing the spacebar will add
spaces to your text. In that case,
hold down the Command key,
telease the Command key. This
gives you the Hand tool without
adding spaces,
MENUDGING PATTERNS: You
can move, rotate, scale, reflect,
or skew patterns within an
object by holding down the
tilde (~) key while you move or
transform the object. To nudge
the pattern in small increments,
hold down the tilde key as you
press the up, down, left, or
right arrow keys.
HESTARS, POLYGONS, AND SPI-
RALS: Click the up or down
arrow keys as you draw a star,
polygon, or spiral to increase
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increase your star power.
or decrease the number of
sides or coils.
MBLOCK AND HIDE: Command-
U hides selected artwork. Com- |
mand-L locks selected artwork.
Secret tip: Command-Option-U |
add the spacebar, and then ;
‘the Freeform tool. Hold down
{the size of the effect.
the Knife tool and check
Closed Cut Paths in Knife
thides all the deselected art-
twork, Command-Option-L locks e
fall the deselected artwork. | ow ELSE Do YOU THINK the
WISELECT ALL IN A LAYER: | syiss make their cheese?
‘ Option-click the name of a
‘layer to select all the objects in
Hjust that layer. Secret tip:
' Option: \Shift-click to add all the
{objects i in another layer to the
{current selection. i
+ BBGRADIENTS: Hold down the !the Option key and drag on a
‘Option key as you drag a gradi- | {straight line segment to curve it.
‘ent color slider to duplicate that !
‘color along the gradient. Hold 1 ti
{down the Option key and drag +
Options. Then set the Knife to a
large width. The Knife will
work like an eraser, eating
away paths,
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{ MHSELECT UP IN A GROUP:
‘Select one point or object in a
| BISMUDGE TOOL: ‘To make a ‘group, and then press the tilde
'smudge that extends out from
ithe center of the object (like a
| key to select up the levels of the
group. Or you can use the com-
'slow), hold down the Option
they as you drag the Smudge
mand Edit, Select, Superselec
H ‘tool.
WEKEY INTO INSPECTOR PAN-
‘ELS: Command-single quote (") |
jumps to the first field in the 1
first visible Inspector palette.
‘Tab to get to the field you want
or use Command-single quote
again to jump to the next
‘ Inspector. Press Enter or
Return to apply whatever
changes you've made.
‘PAGEMAKER 6.5
MICOLOR FRAME CON-
TENTS: Click a frame
‘to select a Page- "i
Maker — frame
element. Then
click a color
vin the Color
palette to F
change the
background
color. Secret
the right arrow key to increase Hip: Command-
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' MIFREEFORM TOOL: Hold !
‘down the left arrow key to |
\decrease the size of the effect of |
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i Color palette to change the
‘(for example, a gray-scale
‘image) inside the frame ele-
{ment. Then click a color in the
1 ' object’s color.
) HMMISAVE ALL
‘OPEN DOGU- [News N |
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| dowa the Op- | Recent Publications» |
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' choose File,
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command bess eres =
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| MENTS: Hold |_EP°F*
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‘choose File jocument Setup.
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tate AN Louie
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'Command- pela
' Option-shift-¢ oF nothing.
! to add a new page immediately
' following the page on which
!you are currently working.
' IMPORT NATIVE ILLUSTRA-
| TOR FILES: Some people have
Mound that importing native
‘lustrator files into PageMaker
4 ‘6: 5 causes the file size to bloat.
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‘Add spot color names to pelette
(for correct spat separations)
(Oknclude spot color names
(spot colors converted to pracess for separations)
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Color depth: @256 colors O Millions of colors
| KEEP THE FILE, lose the fat.
Show Filter Preferences in
the Place Document
dialog box. Then set
the Preview Op-
tions filter for 72-
dpi resolution
and 256 colors.
This keeps the
file from explod-
ing in size when
you bring it in.
COLOR ME YELLOW.
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| connecting a keyboard, mouse, '
D0’S AND DON'TS : {or other cool hardware add- | H
MDo buy a dark-colored | { on...unless you have an iMac. |
monitor rather than a beige ! ‘The iMac replaced SCSI and |
box because they offer better ' ADB with USB, which is hot- |
contrast with the screen. Dark } pluggable, meaning you can |
borders around a monitor {connect USB devices without |
screen provide the visual effect 1 ! restarting your machine. SCSI |
of a brighter, sharper display, ' | and ADB both require you to!
and dark plastic won't yellow ' shut down your Mac.
with time the way light-colored ' WDo deploy 2 RAID (Redun- |
plastic will. ! dant Array of Independent |
HDo use a monitor hood to ‘ | Disks). If you own two or more '
maintain consistent screen | ‘ Jarge hard disks, stripe them '
color, Light changes in most ' into a RAID. You can do this |
rooms as the day wears on and | with software from companies |
as electrical lights fluctuate. such as Optima Technology or {
These subtle changes in light- | Adaptec. Your computer will |
ing can affect how you per- | see the hard disks as one and |
ceive the colors on the moni- } write to them simultaneously,
tor. Slapping a poo on your greatly speeding up throughput. |
ice con TROURLESHOGTING
these fluctuations ft a more |
stable color appearance.
WDo use your CD-ROM's ! Wilf your Mac crashes or acts !
built-in volume control to lis- ! weird for no apparent reason, | '
ten to music. If you pop the | i odds are your Parameter RAM | '
faceplate off your CD-ROM ' has turned to the dark side. | '
drive, you should find its ' When you can’t remember the '
native volume control dial and | ' key commands required to zap ! '
eadphone jack. From the | your PRAM back to the right !
Monitors and Sound control | ' side of the force, just think |
panel, select None for the | copper—a handy mnemonic |
sound-monitoring source. ! device that stands for Control- |
This makes your CD sound ! Option-P-R. Hold down these !
independent from your com- ' magic keys while rebooting, '
puter’s sound, Plug a pair of | ' until you hear the Mac's start- ;
headphones directly into the : 1 up chime five times.
CD-ROM drive and vary the ' Wf your hard drive or your '
volume of music while your ' CD-ROM drive mysteriously | !
computer chirps away at its ' disappears from your Mac’ |
own set amplitude. ' awareness, you might want to | '
Do buy lots of RAM. RAM is ' check to make sure that your '
your best friend. Figure out ' internal ribbon cables are still '
how much you can possibly | ' connected. Some Macs get a!
afford, and install slightly ; lot of shaking from fans, CD- }
more. Things will crash less, | ! ROM drives, and hard disks, | ‘
technologies you thought were | ! all of which can unseat ani
hoaxes (including, say, Real- \ internal drive chain. !
Audio) will work, and some ' WA bad motherboard battery |
applications will speed up. ! creates a constant state of con-
MDon't plug and unplug ; ' fusion (kind of like Alzhei- |
devices while your Mac is run- H mer’s for the PRAM) and!
ning. The Mac maintains a ' could cause your Mac to start !
steady flow of current through | ' up sometimes but not other \
most of its ports, so to avoid ! times. If this sounds like your |
shorting things out, always shut ; situation, try replacing your ;
down before connecting or dis- | motherboard battery.
1
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APPLY MAGADDIGT’S NEW SPF 15 SOREEN-
BLOCK LOTION 10 PREVENT SEVERE BURN-INS.
WM Don't use common electri-
cal devices to clean out your SPEED
Mac. You may think that you’re
lf you need extra processor
being clever when you use a
dust buster or hair drier to
blow out dust bunnies, but
you're building up a whole
bunch of static electricity
around components that don’t
like static electricity. Use either J speed and crave danger, the
compressed air or a special # mother of all bad ideas may
vacuum designed to clean elec- {MM be just the ticket for you. On
trical components, every Mac (and every comput-
M1%o fix SCSI problems, buy a MM er) is a clock chip that tells the
SCSI Sentry. APS Technologies fj machine how fast to go. Tell
(http://www.apstech.com) [MJ the clock to tick faster and the
sells a great device that will Mj whole machine speeds up.
So why not crank a mere
33MHz machine up to, say,
700,000 MHz? First of all, it
would glow white-hot and
suck the electricity out of every
building in a three-county
make your SCSI problems go
away. The SCSI Sentry and the
tadius. Second, not all chips
run well at high speeds, Or
the SCSI Sentry 1 monitor
your SCSI chain and fix errors
sometimes they run fast for a
while, only to crash with bus
as they occur.
Wi Make sure you assign dif-
ferent devices in a SCSI chain
errors, If you buy a clock-chip
accelerator and see strange
crashes and bus errors right
different numbers. Assigning
after installation, pull the chip
two the same number is a sure
way to halt your computer's
and send it back for a refund.
Clock chipping is not for
functionality and possibly even
the weak of heart, but if you
corrupt data.
Wif you have two Ethernet-
need the speed and have no
other alternatives you should
capable Macs and would
rather play networked, full-
check out Output Enabler at
(hitp://www.io.com/~oe/
screen Marathon than share a
Producis.html). A snap-on
‘printer, buy an Ethernet
cross-over cable. You can get
accelerator kit will cost you
from $10 to $80.
one for about five bucks at an
electronics store, and it will
give you Ethernet network
speed without the expense of
a hub.
WIf your hardware-expan-
sion plans mean that you will
have to buy external hard
drives, Iomega drives, and
CD-Rs because you don’t have
any free ports in your Mac,
save your money. Instead,
invest in an empty PC case and.
internal SCSI devices (which
are much cheaper) and build
your own SCSI device case. PC
boxes, which come complete
with a power supply and slots
for SCSI devices, cost around
$65. Just buy an internal SCSI
ribbon and an internal-to-
external port converter and
start saving.
AUG/98 MacADDICT 34
| ble- click them. Just drop your |
\ ‘ sound files (they can even be PC |
' | sounds) onto the utility and it
! wil convert them to SND format.
! | MDigital audio comes in a vari-
ithe Mac startup sound is ;
burned into ROM, making it both
immutable and unmutable (ex-
cept by putting a dummy plug |
into the Mac’s audio out), but
you can record your own system.
beep. From your Apple menu,
Jaunch Sinaple Sound, and you'll
see the Alert Sounds window list-
ing the standard eeps and
quacks. Click the Add button
i Mac can’ vt play, and some Brian’s |
| Sound Tool won't recognize,
| Visit http://Awww-cs-students
' .stanford.edu/~franke
\ /soundapp/#information for the
latest version of Norman
| Franke’s SoundApp for drag- |
! and-drop conversion of all com-
; mon file formats, as well as
uncommon ones such as Psion |
' sound, Ircam, and Scream-
' Tracker 3 module,
! Hi Aucio distortion doesn’t have
| http:/Avww.virtualsoftware.com |
/softdisk/d10318/) is limited |
{ only by the RAM in your Mac. |
| ithe venerable Mac audio:
' Web site, pub/mac/sound (http: | i
' /roww.host ots.utexas.edu/mac H
' /pub-mac-sound.html), has }
' been offering the best of the best :
| of Mac audio shareware for '
' ' years. Here, all on one site, you !
' can find ConvertMachine 1.0.6, '
1 Digital Oscilloscope 2.1, Fre-{
1 quency Meter 1.0, MPEGAud |
' 1.0, NetDeck 1.0, Soundapp !
' 2.2.2, and SoundEffects 0.9.2. If!
' you dont insist on having the!
| absolute latest version of your |
| audio shareware, this isa handy |
' way to get it all at one place. |
{10 be a bad thing. Tom Erbe's | Wl Open the QuickTime Settings |
' classic shareware, SoundHack } control panel, click the button in!
' 0.881 (http://www.gmeb.fr | the window, and choose Auto- }
t ' /SoftwareCompetition/Sound | ! Play. Then click the Enable Audio | '
| Hack. html) does time stretch-
‘ing, pitch shifting, vocoding, |
t varispeed, spatializing,
| modulation, spectral mutation,
| noise reduction, spectral expan- |
' sion and compression, and even
' more. Confused? You won't be
| for long: SoundHack is a great |
1 way to tune up on audio basics. |
\ The program also plays most
' sound formats, records sounds
functions will stop while it plays, ' of any size, imports sound files
so keep it short and sweet. | from audio CDs, and converts
WUse Brian’s Sound Tool (ftp:// | sound file formats.
mirrors.aol.com/pub/mac ! Ml Rod Kennedy's SoundMa-
/sound/soundutil/brianssound ! chine 2.7,1, downloadable for |
tooll.3 sithgx) to make SND | $10 at htp://www.kagi.conyrod, |
files, which play when you dou- | plays native Mac audio as well as !
WORK TO THE SOUND of your
own beep.
and, in the window that opens,
record your sound via your ;
Mac’s PlainTalk microphone.
Save it, select it, and you have a
new system beep. All other Mac |
is popular for the Web. You can
play sounds backward, change
their speed, loop them, switch
formats, change sample rate,
and perform other tricks. Sound
Machine works with files of any
length and can play in the back-
ground while you work.
ring
sounds in the AU format, which '
' CD AutoPlay check box to hear '
' your new Hanson CD rock your !
Mac as soon as you pop it a
! Open the Apple CD Audio Player | |
| (under the Apple menu) to call | H
1 up controls that allow you to flip | i
' between tracks and pause. '
' MsurfSim, a $10 shareware |
| program at htip://members.aol |
H convcarlhuben, plays the sound | !
‘ of the ocean surf from your Mac. '
| MMake your own startup or !
shutdown sound by putting an !
| SND file in the startup or shut- !
| down folders. You'l still hear the 1 H
“phong” sound at startup, but!
\ your sound will play next. '
' Misample Editor (http://sol |
-ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/pages |
i /schools_online/using_audio |
! /sound_utilshtml) opens AIFE |
! SND, and compressed audio !
‘files, and records with the {
| PlainTalk Microphone. The cool |
' thing about Sample Editor is that |
1 it lets you see a graphic repre- '
' sentation of a sound, which you !
al
can 200m in or '
out and scroll |
FACE THE MUSIC with SoundMachine.
through. Sample i
Editor lets you!
I The Macintosh Simple Sound ' cut and paste different sounds |
recorder limits you to recording together, fade a sound in and |
10-second-long system sounds, | out, cross-fade two different j
but Sound Recorder ($9.95 at | sounds for a seamless audio |
splice, and manipulate sounds in
a number of other ways.
SAMPLE EDITOR opens your
eyes to the world of audio.
Wiicarn the difference between
AIFF and SND at Sound O Rama
(http://www.soundorama.com
/formats.html), where you'll find
explanations of all the most com-
monly used sound file formats.
Wi ifyou're bored with the music
in your games, or if your email
alert sounds too generic, you can
swap in more personalized
sounds with either of two share-
ware utilities. Agent Audio Pro
1.2. (http:/Avww.clixsounds.com
/products/agentaudio) allows
you to see and play sounds
embedded within your programs
or files and replace them with
your own sounds, Another utility,
Wired for Sound, ($14.95 at
http://www2.viaweb.com
/pittsburgh/wirforsoun. html)
features the Sound Stripping Util-
ity, which extracts sound files
from any file or program and
allows you to install a new one,
Wired for Sound also includes
over 500 16-bit stereo sounds
and phrases in more than 20
sound categories, including cars,
groans, planes, voices, and more.
MCheck out the Music and
Audio Connection (http://www
.musicandaudio.com) for three
programs that will turn you on
your ear. Ear Training 2.41
helps you practice identifying
note intervals, chords, and
scales. Ear Workout 3.1 pro-
vides workouts on recognizing
intervals, chords, and arpeg-
gios, and on singing intervals.
Grab Audio captures the audio
from an audio CD in the Mac
CD-ROM player and saves it in a
IF FILE SIZE 15 ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL, TRY QUICKTIME 3.0°S NEW NXVWL COMPRESSION,
YOUR AUDIO FILES WILL SHRINK 90 PERCENT WHEN NXVWL THROWS AWAY ALL THE VOWELS!
number of file formats. | MlFor professional recording
Wi QuickTime 3.0 supports just ; quality, bypass the PlainTalk sys-
about all the audio files in exis- | tem entirely and pick up a sound
tence, synchronizes audio and H card that accepts standard line-
video playback, and allows for ! level audio, Cards such as the
an unlimited number of audio | Audiomedia If from Digidesign
tracks. It also includes an ; (wwwdigidesign.com) or the
improved, software-based music | 1212 from Korg (www.korg
synthesizer equipped with a .com/sndak1.htm) offer RCA
quality set of sounds. You can ! jacks that accept standard plugs
cut and paste together videos ! and levels.
using sounds you've recorded
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with the shareware mentioned +
here to make your own Quick- !
‘Time movies complete with dia- '
logue, sound effects, and a
music background.
WAssign a sound to any: MMedia Cleaner Pro (http://
event—from key clicks to error | www.terran-int.com) optimizes
messages—using Bruce Tom-' and compresses QuickTime
lin’s SoundMaster (http/lones- | movies that are designed to
tar.texas .net.net/~btomlin ; play back on computers. Media
/soundmasterhtm!). The cur- | Cleaner works with any of the
rent version, 1.8.4, is not Mac ! standard QuickTime codecs,
OS 8-ready, but just means | such as Cinepak or Indeo, and
i
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it can’t assign sounds to window | can create RealVideo, RealAu-
zooming and Trash emptying. ; dio, VDOLive, and AIFF files.
WVisit Apple's Web site (http// | Media Cleaner has special fil-
www.apple.com/quicktime) to ' ters that preserve the quality of
see and download QuickTime | video files you compress, and it
extensions, plug-ins, and helper } offers time-saving features for
software such as MoviePlayer. | managing compression jobs.
MYou can find links to hun- ' Wi if you want to include Quick-
dreds of MIDI files of all kinds : Time videos on your Web site,
at All About Perth: Music & ! visit Apple’s Web site at http:
Iyrics (http:/Avww.wantree.com | /Avww.apple.com/quicktime for
-au/~marty/world/audio.htm ; handy how-to’s and instructions.
#music). Download a MIDI file | MHIf you have the QuickTime
and drop it onto the QuickTime ! plug-in in your Web browser
MoviePlayer. To play the Quick- ! but movies don’t play back
‘Time synthesizer in your Mac, | smoothly
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