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What makes a supercomputer “super” is its ability to execute at least one billion floating-point operations per second. It is a staggering measure of speed known as a“gigaflop’ The new Power Mac’ G4 is the first personal computer in the world to achieve this level of performance. The secret of this stunning speed is the new G4 ith ite Vi ; ine What makes a supercomputer ‘super"is processor with its Velocity Engine the heart of Vere nant aie A est ihe ? floating point operations per second. asupercomputer miniaturized onto asliver of tiketenew Power Mac G4 silicon. Applications that tap the Velocity Engine’s power typically run twice as fast as they do on the fastest Pentium I[I-based PCs: Common Photoshop tasks, for example, run twice as fast. And using a set of Intel’s own tests, the 500MHz G4 chip was 294 times einen the beartofa rae yacnet | as fast as the 600MHz Pentium III processor. Chances are, you've never even heard of a gigaflop before. But very soon you won't be able to live without at least one on your desk. For more information and complete specifications, visit us at www.apple.com. G. Think different: ‘in CPLand Potash ets: © 1999 Apple Compute, Inc Al rights reserved. The Apple ag sa regisered ademar an Paver Mac, Tink diferent and Veloly gine ar trademarks of apple Computer, In. MAC DRIVERS ADDICTED TO SPEED! Ready For A Better And Faster DVD-RAM Drive Or Greater Performance From Your Zip™, Jaz™, Syquest™, MO Or Hard Drive? Leave Time And Hassle In The Dust With SAI’s Secret Stash Of TuneUp Tools. DVD-RAM TuneUp supports all DVD-RAM drives and comes equipped with the powerful Universal Disk Format — the key format and file system that enables DVD to be the true standard in the new era of digital convergence. SAI’s UDF file system allows you to read and write to DVD-RAM disks in both UDF and HFS+ and gives you a “finder like” interface for “drag and drop” file conversion. 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BY DAVID REYNOLDS it Conquers All The G4, that is. The successor to the venerable G3 has made it onto the motherboard of your favorite computer platform. We go through this redesigned Mac bit by bit to tell you what the G4—and its Pentium-crushing Velocity Engine—can do for you. BY DAVID REYNOLDS ANALize Your Mac: 20 Tips That Mac of yours is a heaping stew of extensions, files, and aliases. It's time to clean up messy Bessy, and we've got 20 terrific tips for tightening, trimming, and organizing that bloated, sloppy Mac. BY KEVIN SAVETZ ‘ Ultimate Cyberspud Tired of sitting home on Saturday night staring at your desktop pattern, hoping it will change? We could tell you to get a life, but instead we'll show you how to take advantage of the best Web media out there. BY DAVID REYNOLDS Get Textural with the Add Noise Filter Need wood grain? Mud? Water? Mimic these spiffy textures in less than 5 minutes using nothing but the standard filters that come with Photoshop. BY DAVID REYNOLDS Save Your Old Data with EtherTalk Floppies are dead, says Steve Jobs. Guess he doesn't have a ton of files to transfer to a brand- new iMac. If you do, check out our guide to setting up an Ethernet network. BY BUZ ZOLLER Make Microsoft Word Usable Bloated, confusing, annoying—adjectives often applied to Microsoft Word. Not after we're through customizing if, though. BY DAVID REYNOLDS NOV/99 _MacADDICT 5 every month Editor’s Note Oooo...the G4! Now that’s progress! Letters {s there a sane person among you? We're really starting to doubt it. Get Info Mac OS 9! G4s! Apple finally sues iMac ripoffs! Plus instant messaging insanity, the truth behind flaky USB devices, and a chance to win an iMac loaded with games! 30 Scrapbook If you've never been to a Steve Jobs keynote speech and bathed in his glorious reality-distortion field, here’s your chance. We call out all the interesting tidbits you might find at a typical Jobs-athon and tell you what each one means. 58 Reviews We feast our eyes on the Wired 4DVD home theater kit, take a look at the {x3D Dual Monitor card, and try to find fault with two USB floppy drives. Our reviewers also pick apart updates to Photoshop, Poser, TechTool Pro, DiskLock, and Spell Catcher—woohoo! PowerPlay MacAddict takes an exclusive first look at Madden NFL 2000, the long- awaited sports game from Electronic Arts and Aspyr Media, and it looks brutally good. Plus we get the scoop on Leggo My Myth and give you some Age of Empires cheats. And we're looking for a few good screenshots. Ask Us You ask and sometimes we answer. This month learn how to strip ad banners out of Sherlock, add serial ports to your blue-and-white G3, and upgrade that PowerBook 3400. - Shutdown Chorties, laughs, and guffaws—if you're looking for these, you might want to check out the new Eddie Izzard comedy special on HBO. 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Rock on, Max! = be @ Strata MediaPaint 1.1.2 Full Version a 5 Become that special effects wizard you always thought you could be but were too poor to “3 hope for. Well, folks, no more excuses! We're giving you the full version of this baby, which wa: 75 will allow you to paint effects or illustrations right on your video without fear of destroying the NY 2 original. Bring life to all those horrid family vacation videos—watch Dad spew smoke and fire 2, eet as he screams at you, see Aunt Edna’s bubbling bouffant rise to the occasion, or make 25 Mother Nature strike your whiny brother with a mighty bolt. You can even paint the town red if Dave’s steady ientil diet sure you so desire—only your imagination limits the possibilities. caused quite an explosion in Ne Goofy Golf Deluxe Demo What happens when the world of miniature golf and Gumby collide? You get this entertaining claymation odyssey, which plays through 54 holes of wacky fun (in the full version). This animated mini golf simulation gives you control of your swing and direction, and will have you putting around one of the most unique courses ever. Plus it’s got enough obstacles such as frogs, pinball bumpers, dragons, and windmills to really tee you off! @ Studio Artist 1.0 Demo Oooooh...ahhhhh! Repeat it with me, ‘cuz this is what you'll be uttering when you fire up this way-Cool artsy-fartsy program. This paint-synthesizing, drawing, and image- and video- processing package uses intelligent assisted drawing technology that will have you churning out amazing eye candy in no time—even if you lack drawing skills. Paint artistic impressions of your photos with complete control by merely scrawling with your mouse or graphics pen, fet your brush ooze organic wet paints that mix and smear, even create stunning video effects with autorotoscoping. In a nutshell, all we can say is “Wow!” He was once a fittle blue-and-yellow bait of clay... Ch-ch-ch-changes! Okay, this month’s staff video is short and sweet—mainly because there were so many megabytes of stuff we felt compelled to give away that we just plain ran out of disc space. Anyway, meet the newest faces joining our whacked-out cast in this month’s staff video. Take your frustrations out on your mousepad, and out pops art! 10 MacADDICT NOv/99 Thank God, he can still scan. ScanWise’ software Only $129* www.agfahome.com AG FA ‘hao MSRP 6/00. 1990 Aafe Corporation. AGIA andthe Ate rors ae reltere racemara of Agfa Gaveert AG “editor’s note Can we put my picture in that cool new flat panel? Come on...pleeeease... MacAddict staff, and ¥’m feeling nostalgic. 1 started about six months after Steve Jobs rejoined Apple, and about three days before Apple announced its purchase of Power Computing. It was kind of a bleak time, but back in those days I was so excited about my new job I didn’t even notice. ‘That first week, I wrote a Web rant about how Steve Jobs would save Apple. I think I got close to 200 emails in response, most telling me what an idiot I was, and explaining that I should really do some research and think things through before babbling like a lobotomized chimp into the ether. One guy even asked me to remember how VHS killed Betamax (even though Betamax was supposedly the better technology), and claimed that Apple had only weeks left. He suggested I enjoy my new job while it lasted. Ouch. Well, zoom forward to the present, and lo and behold, I was right (I’m such a re ‘so far at MacAddict? genius!). I just returned from the announcement of the G4s, and it’s clear Apple is wreaking havoc on the entire computer industry. I keep thinking that after seeing Steve Jobs speak a dozen times and sitting through half as many surprise announcements, at some point I'll get numb. Nope. I want a G4. I want one of those new 24-inch flat-panel displays. I stormed out of the announcement ready to pick a fight with the first Wintel dork I could find. Bring ’em on! Macs rule! | The G4 again gives a huge technical edge to Apple. With the new Velocity Engine, the processor is exponentially faster than the Pentium III and even the G3. | That's pretty important. The G4 should shore up high-power publishing and graph- ics users, and it adds a depth Apple needs to keep. We have style, and with the G4 we also maintain substance. What tired old PC maker can compete with us now? ‘They've got a whole industry to work on this stuff and they're getting kicked in the teeth. Consider this a somewhat immodest little celebration of just how right I was Q. What's the strangest thing you've es back in those first weeks. So far at MacAddict? i t's been exactly two years since I joined the New Cast Of course, in those two years quite a bit has changed at MacAddict. I won't bore you with all the details here (again), but I would like to take a minute to introduce you to a few new staff members. The first one is Ian Sammis, our new associate edi- tor. Ian comes to MacAddict from Cal Tech in LA, where he was a physics grad stu- | PN dent studying the sun (that’s the one in the sky, not the one in Palo Alto). Let’s just say he’s smart, After a heated discussion about electromagnetic fields he walloped me at Quake III, his wit nth the G4 | dad Ter he pas he air teh \ Our second addition comes in the form of an art director we also maintain named David Ross. He founded his own clothing company— substance i) a skate-type brand named Blunt. In addition to laying down Q. What's the strangest thing you've witnessed SS See some jaw-dropping illustrations, David constantly litters our So farat MacAddict? office with strange little counterculture stickers. He can’t beat me at Quake II, but ie Dave Reynolds convinced me that since he’s an artist that’s OK. At least he tries. Perhaps he can be trained... You'll see his style really start to come through in our pages beginning with the January 2000 issue. Lenvy our new employees. They get to start here when Apple’s on the upswing. I wonder what they'll have to say two years from now. 12 MacADDICT NOV/99 de nove ile era ee esa Gladaplee Available at: CompUSA - Fry's Electronics Micro Center - J&R Computer World loo YOUR CD-RECORDER PSOME NEW TRICKS. New Toast” 4 Deluxe opens a world of possibilities far beyond the software that came with your CD-Recorder. Now you can pull MP3 files from the Internet, as well as favorites from LPs and cassettes, to create your own compilation CDs. New CD Spin Doctor” software removes hisses, pops and [Now Toast 4 Deluxe, Only 499% clicks from old recordings—your music is [_ With $20 Upgrade $ reborn in stunning digital quality. | R EBATE OFFER 79 | And new PhotoRelay” software lets you | view, sort and organize your photos, illustrations, scanned images, movies, sounds, and fonts in customized media catalogs. Upgrade to Toast 4 Deluxe. It will be your CD-Recorder’s best friend. For details on the Toast 4 Deluxe Rebate Offer, see your retail store or contact us at: http://cdr.adaptec.com/matoastd or 1-800-442-7274 x1354. * letters Freaks, Geeks, and neat Tweaks. Well, at Least Freaks and Geeks. GET ON, GET ACTIVE. Talk to us and other Mac addicts at the Web site. This Month WRITE TO US: MacAddict, 150 North Hill Dr, Brisbane, CA 94005, or email to letters@macaddict.com. FOR GD PROBLEMS: Go to htip:// support.imaginemedia.com. FOR SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: Call (toll-free) 888-771-6222. THat WouLp EXpPLain THE Horns on His Heap I was exploring the Seti@home Web site (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) the other day and thought it would be fun to enter some of the MacAddict workers’ progress. To my surprise, when I entered David Reynolds's MacAddict address it came up with three units completed but he hasn't joined any groups. Shame on David for not joining the MacAddict group! Where's his support for our glorious magazine? Maybe he's a spy secretly sent by the PC folk to see what the conniving genius Mac addicts are up to. Keep him in sight. Keep your friends close and your enemies close-—Louts Just Don't Pay tt BACKWARDS If you're looking for a good laugh, try play- ing the final MacAddict Hour (on CD #29) in fast forward. Wher Nikki laughs, it is really funny!! Try it!—Amanpa Dutton Recently Sighted M we decided to see if the remaining Mac guts would still work. We set it all up on the counter, Plugged it in, and gingerly flipped the switch. The Mae started up perfectly, and you could even play the Puzzle!—MartHEw JOHNSON PS. You know how everyone always tells you not to touch the CRT because it continues to hold charge for a long time after the Mac's shut down? They're telling the truth... y friend Mike Weber got ahold of an old Mac 512, and he and | decided to make a MacQuarium out of it. When finished, 14 MacADDICT NOV/S9 goh*@! s& On, Crap Congrats on your three years MacAddict, but remember that it's not just adults who read your magazine. Kids, like myself, also enjoy it. I found a four-letter word that starts with "sh" and ends with "it" on page 39 of your April issue (number 5 in the area "Top 10 things said about Steve Jobs").—Darren Russeu Try GETTING A NEwTon You think the Palm Pilot is cool? Try pointing your Palm at a cell phone, checking your email, the weather, and the television sched- ule, then downloading a copy of Jared for the Newton. Can't do it? Get a Newton! —BEen "PROUD OWNER OF 12 Macs, 3 NEWTONS, AND 1 Apps II¢s (SicNED By Woz)" Kaur Ed Note—Don't try this at home...he ain't CALL THE CEO Union! ‘Apple only pays Steve Jobs a dollar a year? 1 always thought it was 2 joke, but when read- ing the history on hitp://www.apple-history .com it said Jobs got paid only a dollar a year too, IS THIS TRUE? Don't they at least have to pay 5 dollars an hour? I know he's filthy rich but can companies get away with that?—SrepHEN YIKES I recently finished a tattoo that I have been getting on my arm over the past three years. I thought that you guys would like to see... —Dante W. Fatxowski ‘TATOO DONE BY CLAY at Alien Art Guild, Savannah, GA. I'm with Yum My friends and J are going to Macworld San Francisco in 2000, and we're making some awesome Apple outfits so we stand out a little. We all need some sort of saying to paint on the butt of our pants. My friends already have "iCandy" and "Yum" but I'm completely stumped. Have any sug- gestions?—Marr CHARPENTIER No Step 3? As a Mac addict for the last nine years, I generally love your magazine and the fierce, Mac-supportive stance it takes. lustration by David Ross Get the Winning Edge. From QuickTime’ video to PowerPC G4, XLR8' products lead the pack in every category. Right out of the gate, it may look like the field is full MACh Carrier's G3/G4 patent- of speed and expansion options. Looks can be pending upgradeable upgrade deceiving. When it’s down to a photo finish, technology was selected as | Macworld’s “Best of Show” and as Photoshop User's “Hot Pick.” XLR8 products win the race, We push the edge when it comes to innovation so you get the “best of the best” for your Mac®, That’s why industry experts are awarding top honors to our patent-pending G3/G4 Carrier Upgrade “Buy it!"— MacFuture to turn the iMac into a true media machine. These | Technology™ and InterView"— the first USB product InterView™ w/VideoShop 45 for USB and PCI has been listed products earn blue ribbon status by delivering the as the perfect choice to deliver winner's edge, right out of the box. | QuickTime video, and the XLR8, tools to perform and create... on your Mac. u “1999 Best Product of the Year" by Mac Home Journal. ws ERE = MELB OR 888XLR8TOR © www.xir8.com Interex, Inc. * 8447 E. 35th St. N. © Wichita, KS 67226 * 316-636-5544 * 316-636-4639 fax ‘Other brand and product names ae trademarks or reistere! trademarks of thelr respective holders. Product specications subject to change without notice. ©1996 Interex, Inc. Occasionally, though, there's a bonehead moment like Joseph Holmes's comments about AOL in his September 1999 How To (page 72) which consists of three pages of directions describing how to manage your email from anywhere. Holmes writes “.travel-friendly Internet providers like AOL...well, they suck.” Hmmm...yeah, AOL sucks $00000 bad that to send and receive your AOL email from any Internet- connected computer (even ones without AOL software) you have to log on to the Internet, go to http://www.aol.com/net- mail/home.html, and...oh...that's it. That's all you have to do! You don't have to follow with three pages of directions! Yeah, that really sucks big time. —Perer LairD Tread your article "How To Manage Your Email From Anywhere" in the September 1999 issue (page 72). The author sug- gested that the user should remember 5 details: ie. user id, POP address, SMPT address, reply-to address and password. I find that it is really cumbersome to do especially when one is configuring the above settings. May I suggest that readers use http://www.thatweb.com, where you only need to have a user id and password to read/send email. This nifty program works for ISP-based as well as Web-based emails —Witson Lim Just finished reading your article "How To Manage Your EMail From Anywhere" (issue 37) and couldn't believe you WHAT, no fuzzy dice? neglected to mention one of the easiest ways to check your mail while away from home. Yahoo (as well as other similar Web sites) have a function where you can check your POP mail right through the Web. In Yahoo's case, you sign up for your free Yahoo account, and once you're in your mailbox, there's an option to Check 16 MacADDICT NOV/99 External Mail and a procedure which guides you through all the steps.—Davip But THey Gave Us So Mucu Money! HOW COULD YOU?!?!7!7! YOU...YOU... YOU..........MAC TRAITORS! YOU LET MICROSOFT SPONSOR THE CD!! IT’S PROBABLY CHOCK FULL OF VIRUSES THAT ‘TRY TO INSTALL WINDOWS! I'M VERY dis- appointed in all of you! Spank all of your hands. I'll forgive you all this one time! But NEVER, EVER do that again! BAD! —Kace No Kuro THE Mac JUNKIE How ABOUT MAKING A CaTopotamus? I did it! I'm the king of the wooorrrld! I overclocked my iMac! So long, 233 MHz, hello trail-blazing 266! I risked disaster re-soldering a microscopic resistor on the backside of the CPU daughterboard, but it was worth it! Seti@home units now finish 20% faster! Next on the list, I'll turn my beagle into a greyhound. Or perhaps brain surgery. I can do anything!—Ty.er West Easy Now, Starsky Here’s a picture of my Power Mac 7300/200 with a customized exterior paint job complete with racing stripes, inspired by your February 1999 article on painting your computer, I choose red and black because these colors are the heat. Notice the well-placed, chrome-painted power button and CD tray front.—Jon INGRAM Steve Joss Is A Goop SPEAKER While looking at past magazine reviews of speakers for the iMac, I've noticed that they have all had one thing in common: the speak- ers suck. And I have to agree. They're sound is no good, It seems all that the manufacturers concentrated on was looks. But I actually found some Labtec LCS-1040 speakers that ‘you won't find advertised for the iMac. In fact, they're not even supposed to be compatible with the iMac. But with just a regular audio- out cable, you can hook them up. Now, when you get these speakers, you'll notice that the label says USB and Windows only Ignore that. It's not true. When you get them out of the box, hook up the left speaker to the Left Audio Out port. Then, take an audio-out cable and plag that into the Input port. Then hook the cable up to the audio-out port on your iMac—the one with the little speaker with the sound waves coming out of it. That's it. Ignore the USB cable. It's not needed. These speakers aren't bad, and they are not all that expensive, I think they're great for the iMac. — Patrick Jonnson-WHITTY It’s a HaRLey AND irs LOUD Upon viewing the latest Staff Video, I couldn't help but wonder what type of motorcycle Dave rides (the leather jacket and helmet gave it away!). I can't really picture him as a Harley guy, but with the facial hair and coonskin cap—hmmm. Please enlighten your readers. —TRENT SNOWBARGER, GALVA KS. Try Finp By Date! ‘The Find By Content feature of Sherlock could be hazardous to a relationship! My partner was asleep in the other room so I gingerly did a search for my name on the PowerBook G3 using the Find By Content feature of Sherlock. I found out ¥ was being cheated on! I found some emails referring to it. This has, in turn, caused me to be very afraid of indexing my own hard drive. I mean, most of us have some pretty personal stuff on our machines, right? Now people can find out anything if the file con- tains the text they are searching for. Let this be a warning!—Dy.an Drazen, NYC Ox, But Now He’. Get Spam In the September 1999 issue, page 73, I noticed that Bilbo Baggins is registered @thehill net. It should be @theshire.net or @hobbiton.net, or more accurately @bagend.net——Mr. TOLKIEN We’tt Make a Note OF THAT think all you high tech gurus have missed one big improvement made to the Apple 17” monitor. Yes, it is probably technically better than the old beige units, but the best part is that the new ones have a shiny glossy surface ‘so now my post-it notes stay stuck to the front. ‘Technology marches on.—Srivs LAWLER AVERY potent image. Wuat WouLp Freup Say? I couldn't help but notice how two of the greatest tools of creation looked so much alike. It was really hard to find a way to talk to others about this subject without being viewed as a freak. So I made a image of it—MartHew Fouzy YEAH, BUT WHAT ABOUT JASON O'Grapy? “| ATE TOO MANY rocket pops!” Our Blue and White Prison Guy can beat the crap out of your old Beige Prison Guy!—Joun Knasick THANKS I bought a brand-new, 300 MHz G3 in April, and tricked it out with everything. Now, mere months later, the new G4s come out! It’s not fair! Oh well. I'll just go back to playing Q3 Test and leave you guys alone.—Marr Smrra Div You Meer Him on THE Disc? Yesterday I was looking around on your October 1997 CD and I found an interesting little novelty program named “Jared.” When 1 heard the song, I thought, “Hey! I’ve heard this song before some- where!” So I looked in the October 1997 issue and found out that it was a Guatemalan folk song. The strange thing is, I received your Introducing the amazing VST FireWire Hard Drive Simply amazing, They're designed for those who want the most convenient, light- weight, small and durable hard drives on the market. 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Shela-Ugh is a city here in Guatemala, and I just hap- pened to visit it a few days ago. Yet another strange thing is, when I moved here, I met a kid named Jared (who now happens to be my best friend). Pretty strange, huh? —AnDy A. No Wart, B Which scenario would be more lucrative for a software/hardware developer: a, Printing a message like “Doesn’t work on a Mac” on software/hardware product packages, and having to answer thousands upon thousands of emails/letters from Mac users that want your product, but cannot get it cause it’s “PC only.” b. Hiring good Mac programmers/devel- opers to make quality products for poten- tially millions of Mac users—users who will pay you for the products! —Ginny Lyon BRIGHT IDEA I read about your hack for the 63 mouse—putting an LED in there to make it glow. I decided to make the Apple logo on the front of my 63 tower glow. It didn’t take too long. I had to remove the front cover, then I just measured where the apple was and drilled a hole. I decided an ‘STARE INTO the logo... LED wasn’t bright enough for this thing, so used a 1.5 volt light bulb (painted red), plugged to two D-cell batteries and just set the battery case on top of the CD-ROM drive —Joun GaLz 18 MacADDICT NOV/99 Harp as Lents? I think I have completely become a Mac addict. After waking up two days ago, I started brushing my teeth. It was then that I noticed that without thinking, I had picked out a Bondi Blue toothbrush at the store. After that, 1 got dressed. I had to pick something out quickly. With a swift movement of my hand, I had picked out a Mac OS 8.5 shirt. I went through the day feeling good, wearing my Mac OS 8.5 T- shirt and my iMac toothbrush in my pocket (just in case if I had garlic or something). I received comments all day about my breath, and some people were asking about my OS 8.5 shirt. I persuaded 3 peo- ple in 2 hours to get a new blue-and-white G3. But something was still missing, so I’m now going to order my first MacAddict hat. Apple rocks!—Bryan Garren. Umunn...BuNny Pops My big boss (the guy who signs my checks) is the director of marketing for Intel! He made up the Intel bunnies! If I lock him in the walk-in freezer of my store next time he comes by, how much do you think Apple will reimburse me for my efforts?—Curis "001984" Rueret Wry Dip You Try THat? OK, I can't figure this one out. ‘ype “13thfloor” into the address bar of your browser (tried both Netscape and IE 4.0) and after a few seconds you are redirected to...the Mother Ship! That's right...Apple's home page. Am I the first one to notice this? Surely not!—Jzrrrey P. Davis ‘You Missep Ih, AnD it Was Goop T've waited two years for the continuation of the funny QuickTime movie with the dog. I want to know when you are going to make a sequel to “Windows World.” —Paut THORNBILL { Tank Pm OFFENDED When I opened my September issue of MacAddict, everything seemed normal. 1 looked at page 6 and started to read the masthead. I usually never look at this, but this time I did. There beside “Editor,” Prison Guy was printed—Robert Capps, I mean! 1 screamed. Then I turned to page 12. Abbhhhbhhhhhhhhhhht I saw Prison Guy's ugly face in Editor's Note, And his face inside a PowerBook? A PowerBook is portable. Prison Guy is the least portable person I know!—ByOrw Gunnarsson Ger Ir Au Our Hey y'all! First comment (insert “Rock Me, Amadeus” by Falco here): Your new Web site rocks! The layout is cool, and dare I say it, I was getting tired of the lime green (don’t hurt me!). Next comment: Bye, Mark! Your stuff was cool. I noticed he wore a Happy Noodle Boy shirt in the staff vid (“Say it with me and wiggle! Peas, peas, peas, peas! Look! David Hasselhoff can fly!”). Please keep us all updated as to what ventures he may go into. Finally, as an avid (read: rabid) otaku (read; anime fan), I am really psyched about the upcoming release of Oni, but I have one suggestion to make of the gods at Bungie. Please, please, please make the cut scenes in spoken Japanese dialogue and throw English subtitles under it! This will make the game like a fan-sub, and only about 5,000 timies cooler (than an already awe- some game). Anyway, thanks for the rant room, keep up the kickass work! —BILL “ANIFREAK” ANDERSON YEAH, We WENT To PrEscHOOL Too OK, first day of school, real boring, you must do this and you can’t do that...cover your book. So I’m thinking, how I can cover my book with an iMac poster, and T’'m not too happy, because thin printer paper taped together isn’t going to do. The bell rings, and on my way out, guess what made my day—iBook book covers! Finally my prayers have been answered. I don't know if Apple has been doing this for a while, but this was the first time I saw them (my school is a PeeCee school). Now I need an iMac, G4, and PowerBook cover to complete the product lineup. And maybe some software such as QuickTime, Mac OS, Apple Works, and more! I’m so happy.—STEPHEN Are You THERE? It’s Me, MARGARET This is God speaking. You will do as I say...buy Josh Hague of Langley, British Columbia, a new Macintosh G4. The tower will suffice. A monitor would be nice as well. For doing this you will receive good fortune—Gop It Was a REFLEX I was backstage after the Duran Duran show in Concord, California, last night, and a fan had this exchange with Nick, who is the keyboard player and has a PowerBook with his samples connected to his keyboards (sometimes he hooks up a Web cam as well): w Ranked TOP 1% of 1998 Software f FAN; “That is a nice computer you use onstage.” NICK: “My computer?” Macworld FAN: “Yes, you have a Macintosh.” $6665 NICK: “Oh, yeah, I hate f#@*%$g PCs!” And that was that —Don Kruse You Know You're a Mac Appict WHEN... or less! available everywhere .you dig through two bags of trash (mostly moidy Cheez-Its) to find the Disc your mom threw away—Rosert "THE Eco" Goonwin .»you tuck in your Mac before you put it to sleep.—Jerr MELROsE «all your friends are mad at you because they chipped their teeth at your Halloween party “bobbing for Apples.” —Troy Moss Sometimes bad things do happen to good computers. Your screen ..you use Sherlock to index and search your HD for any file freezes. (Along with the blood in your containing the words “PC, Microsoft, or Bill Gates" and use veins.) Or your 6-months-and-almost- command-delete to purge your machine of such malignant dis- done project Is accidentally thrown out with the trash. (Hello?) Or files are mysteriously “corrupted.” | just don't have the time to reconstruct my «you pick out a college based on their platform of choice. Go docs, files, bookmarks, fonts, preferences, Gophers! !!!!—Ateso RoTTENBERG: financials, reports, and e-mail. Do you? aesul hotmail suddenly boots your e-mail account because it's micro_oftsucks@hotmail.com!—Justin WaTeRs a riv ‘@ .»@ Cab driver asks “Where do you want to go today?” and immediately get out of the cab and run away.—Erics Fasricius wi ¢ Ss ..your girlfriend is coming over so you clean your desktop. 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Apple Brings Out the Big Gun | Steve Jobs introduces OS 9, G4 computers in his Seybold keynote hen we heard that Steve Jobs was going to keynote Seybold a mere two months after Macworld Expo, we had a bad feeling that it'd be a pretty dull affair. After all, the Expo brought a slew of new products—between Quicktime TV, Bungie's Halo demonstration, and the new iBook, we thought Apple had pretty much shot its wad of interesting announcements until next January. Fortunately, we were dead wrong. Apple's announcements a few months ago aimed at the consumer market; at Seybold, Jobs brought out the big guns to recapture the pro- fessionals who strayed from the Mac during the lean years. Between Mac OS 9 and the spectacular new Power Mac G4 (It Conquers All, this issue, p40), this will be a good autumn for Mac fans, and a long, hard winter for folks trying to put off that next purchase. Summer Hd eee TOO MANY OS FEATURES At first, Jobs mostly recapitulated his Mac- world Expo keynote, leaving us wondering if the most interesting news item of the day was to be the thickening of Jobs's beard. Just as we were slipping into unconsciousness, Jobs abruptly moved to the good stuff. He described OS 9, shipping in October, as an “Internet copilot” (finally retiring the old “a new Mac for only $99” shtick), and men- tioned that it had over 50 new features. Of these, he singled out several for special attention. He had described some features previously, but there were a few surprises. One of the coolest new features of OS 9 is its multiuser support. Anyone who has ever shared a Mac with spouses, children, room- mates, siblings, or other such pests knows the frustration of finding preferences changed and files moved about. With OS 9, different users can coexist on the same ATHICKLY BEARDED JOBS, scheming Apple's assault on the high-end desktop market. a Apple, “Motorola buy more than eel million in stock WwW: all know what hap- pens when you've got _ more than you need to pay Baby Chick Cat MOTOROLA BUYS METROWERKS OUTRIGHT: $95 MILLION, the rent—you go on a shop- ping spree. The temptation was finally too much for Apple and Motorola to resist—com- bined, they're in the midst of splurging several hundred milion dollars. Here's the run- ning tab of what the two com- panies have spent on their shopping expeditions JIS $12.5 MILLION. Apple, with QuickTime 4, finally has an Internet streaming solution worthy of the name. Akamai Technologies (http:/Avww.akamai.com) maintains an international network of servers, as well as software that _-foutes connection atten; wearby, lightly loaded server, Apple saw the possibilities Akami’s system could : |to QuickTime 4 and decided to buy the network—or at least 5 percent of it. The combo of streaming Quick- ‘Time and Akamal’s network is, of course, called Quick- > pen ANIMALS ARE MEANT TO GIVE SOME SENSE OF SCALE, BUT DO NOT PRECISELY REPRESENT. RELATIVE PROPORTIONS. REPEAT TO YOURSELF, “IT'S JUST A SHOW, | SHOULD REALLY JUST RELAX” 20 MacADDICT NOV/99 APPLE BUYS 5 PERCENT OF AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES: As Motorola's PowerPC processors increase in complexity (with the AltiVec unit onthe G4, for example), compiler writers face the increasingly difficult task of supporting the new chips. Motorola decided to deal with the problem by creating its own in-house compiler vendor. Rather than starting from scratch, however, it decided to just snatch up Metrowerks, the predominant Macintosh compiler. The buyout should work out well for Mac developers—it gives Metrowerks greater resources, a tight focus on the PowerPC, and early access to new Motorola chip designs. aps machine, each having access to only a subset of the system’s files and a select set of prefer- ences. As a cool, gee-whiz twist on the usual user name and password scheme, users can lock their account with voice-print recogni- tion; this requires them to speak a short phrase to get access to their Mac. Other new features clearly represent part of Apple's move to give Macs connected over ‘TCPAP some of the cool abilities AppleTalk net- works have offered for years. File sharing and network browsing will be possible over TCP/IP in 0S 9, bringing the ability to use the Chooser to access files even on the remotest Macs. In an even cooler development, AppleScripts will be able to issue remote commands to machines anywhere over the Internet, Ludicrous Speed Jobs showed off the iBook again, revealing that it had drawn over 140,000 preorders by late August. That number is especially dramatic when one considers that the machine had not yet become available for orders in Japan, a longtime Apple stronghold. A few more techni- cal details were forthcoming; users can roam. from station to station, with all communications safeguarded by a 40-bit encryption scheme. Jobs finished off with the highlights: the Power Mac G4 and Apple Cinema display. We give you a full look at these beauties in this issue; suffice it to say, these machines are amazing. In demo after demo, the things chewed up everything thrown their way—they even made the G3s look stately, while the Pen- tium Ils were simply and very obviously out- matched. The next few months should be great fun for Mac addicts everywhere—JS. Apple’s Expensive New Suits | Apple fires barrage of lawsuits at the iMac clones WW iMac imitations showed up at PC. Expo in late June, we knew Apple's hyper cease-and-desist legal team would soon bare its fangs. We weren't disappoint- ed. The official reaction came in July as Apple's lawyers sank their teeth in, filing com- plaints against the two iMac-like PC boxes. The E-Power (http://www.futurepowerusa .com/products/epowerhtml) is by far the more blatant ripoff. The machine has a very familiar teardrop shape, and even ships in five colors with sus- pect names: ruby, topaz, amethyst, emerald, and sap- phire. Apple took less than a QS <* week to file suit against Future Power and Daewoo (htip:/www 'TDIDN'TTAKE §=— “trademark dilution” (reduc- .daewoo.com)—respectively, the LONGfor Apple ing the value of Apple’s trade- USS. distributor andthe manufacturer ‘0file lawsuits == mark designs by copying of the E-Power—accusing them of porte) them), as this does not require lool 8S. pilfering Apple's designs. The eOne, marketed by eMachines, (http://www.e4me.com) in the United States and Sotec Company (http://www,sotec.co,jp) in Japan, isn’t quite as outrageous a ripoff. The general look is very similar (blue-and- white color scheme, handle on the back, and so on), but the designers appear to have put a modicum of thought into making the Cow Dog APPLE AUTHORIZES THE APPLE INVESTS IN SAMSUNG BUYBACK OF ITS OWN STOCK: UP TO SEMICONDUCTOR: $100 MILLION. $500 MILLION. In easily the largest With the recent surge in the popularity transaction, Apple is planning to buy back up. of flat-panel displays, supplies of active fo $500 milion of its own stock over the ‘matrix LCD screens have gotten tight, = ‘Course of the next year, Apple believes that Concerned that such a shortage would its stock is currently a good investment; if interfere with production of products: the stock value continues to increase, Apple ‘such as the iBook, Apple invested $100 ‘million in Samsung, which Samsung in tum invested in increased production capacity for the screens. can later reissue the shares at the new, higher price to reclaim its money. Uy elements. In the past, fi Chanel has won legal protection for its dis- s tinctive bottles and ojul 306 machine look a tiny bit unlike the iMac, Nonetheless, the machines are similar enough for Apple to file a suit against both Sotec and eMachines. Apple's case depends upon a nebulous area of trade- mark law that allows companies to protect stylistic design National Geographic for its unique cover design. Apple is likely to accuse the companies of that consumers actually mis- take the PCs for iMacs. Under trade- mark law, if Apple can prove that the public at large associates two-toned teardrop-shaped computers with Apple (which shouldn't be terribly difficult), the folks building these iMac clones will soon need the services of a few good case designers.—/S Brachiosaurus BILL GATES’ NET WORTH—$51 BILLION. To put all these numbers in perspective, Bill Gates’s net worth was estimated at $51 billion dollars in 1998. To have the correct height ratio relative to the cow, this brachiosaurus would have to stand nearly seven pages tall. NOV/99 MacADDICT 21 | NSPIRING. ww — ; ‘ 61999 Adobe Systemslincor are trade 4 ‘tation ullameonper suscjot lobortis ns! u \consoquat. Quis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in tpat. 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It also means you can now end up with an unwanted “companion” who puts you on his or her buddy list and waits for you to go online—just like a buck under a deer blind. Right now, if you install Netscape Commu- nicator on your Mac, you'll get a new icon on the right side of your menu bar—it looks like a little yellow person carrying a purple triangle. From that menu, you can sign on to the Instant Messaging service, which gives you access to chats and instant messages from other AOL and Netscape users. You don’t have to have 24 MacADDICT NOV/99 an America Online account to get an AOL Instant Mes- senger account, but heaven help you if you pick a common user name—you'll never be able to sign up. If you just want to get rid of the darned icon, open your Extensions Manager and turn off the AIM Menu extension. Of course—as is usually the case when it comes to cool inventions that people want to use and that somebody else invented— Microsoft wants a piece of the action. Since July, Microsoft has been fighting a battle with America Online, trying to get AOL to stop blocking messages from Microsoft and Yahoo's instant-messaging software, MSN Messenger. For once, it’s nice to see the Red- mond giant on the outside looking in. Don’t count on it lasting long, though—Microsoft has a way of crashing parties to which it wasn't invited. We don’t have an opinion about Yahoo yet—DR New for the Mac Stui Artist Synthetik Software; $295 fhttp://www.synthetik.com Studio Artist made quite a splash at the summer SIGGRAPH conven- tion—people swamped the Synthetik booth throughout the event. If you use the software, you'll see why. Studio Artist is easily the most impres- sive piece of graphics software to turn up in quite some time. It combines natural media, vector graphics, mor- phing, and visual models into a pro- gram unique in its feature set and abilities. 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Just mail your photo along with your name, address, and telephone number to: Show Your Love Contest, c/o MacAd- dict Editor, 150 North Hill Dr,, Bris- bane, CA, 94005. We'll pick a winner and announce who the lucky superfan is in our January 2000 issue. Five runners-up will also get copies of Mad- den NFL 2000 for the Mac. Remember that these photos will appear in the magazine, so the more embarrass- ing and ridiculous they are, the better. Good luck!i—rC 4 fr WE'LL SLIP YOU the rest of Aspyr’s games as well. Rakin’ In the Dough | Getting rich on Apple’s stock? Depends on when you invested... n August 12, Apple's stock price sold—or more often, didn’t sell—for an _ only invested a tad earlier. To rub things in, reached $60 for the first time since abysmal $13 per share. The sudden increase _ we've created a table showing just how rich 1993—a milestone in Apple’s recent mete- has caused a great deal of speculation about (or poor) you'd be if you bought 100 shares oric rise. Only a few years ago Apple's stock the money folks would have made if they'd —_at various times in the past—/S IF YOU HAD INVESTED in Apple at the right time you'd have made a nice pile o’ money—but a badly timed buy would have left you waiting for a payoff. % An investor who bought 100 shares in March 1991 would be $800 in the hole. 26 MacADDICT NOV/99 _ Just because you bought a new Mac doesn't mean you have to end your relationship with your old PC-printer. HAVE 10 BE INSTEAD, GET POWERPRINT.° 1M fF OWAVE To pick up PowerPrint, visit major retailers in the U.S. and Canada, call 888.428.2633 or visit us online at www.infowave.com NETWORK AND SERIAL VERSIONS ALSO AVAILABLE. PowerPrint is award-winning software that connects serial and USB port Mac users to virtually any PC-compatible printer on the market. Inkjets, laser printers, specialty printers — including the printer you already own. PowerPrint’s unique cable and software solution allows you to use any printer, anywhere. PowerPrint. Because a goad printer is a terrible thing to waste. get info USB Madness | Is your USB chain behaving oddly? pple’s decision to adopt USB has resulted in an avalanche of Mac-compatible USB devices in the last year. By the time you read this, more than 300 Mac-compatible USB peripherals will be available. As with any new standard, though, a number of mysterious bugs have been reported, from drivers not loading when they should to USB chains van- ishing when PowerBooks awake from sleep. In an effort to track down the causes of USB madness, we spoke with representatives of Keyspan (http://www.key- span.com). Keyspan makes a variety of USB devices, including one of the only USB PCI cards currently on the market. The company has isolated three strains of USB madness: 1. Immature behavior Apple’s USB drivers are still quite new, as is the technology, but Keyspan described Apple’s drivers as “excellent,” commenting that Apple’s USB team has done a “far better and quicker job than Microsoft's.” Apple has been moving quickly to improve its USB drivers—the original version that shipped with the iMac did little more than drive the keyboard and mouse. The current version, 1.2, fully supports the USB standard and provides a number of “class libraries,” which provide generic drivers for certain types of devices. Version 1.3, currently in beta, continues to add features and squash bugs. 2. Culture Shock The success of the iMac has caused a host of traditionally PC-based. hardware vendors to rush the production of Mac versions of their devices. In some instances, companies have gone to market with- out adequately debugging their Mac driver code. In this case, there's only one real cure for USB madness—getting the offending companies to revise their drivers, 3. Shim Bypass Syndrome Many USB devices exist primarily to provide other types of ports (serial, parallel, ADB, and so on). These devices work by inserting shims into Apple's drivers to divert calls to the USB device. Unfor- tunately, some applications attempt to interface directly with the hardware, bypassing both Apple’s driver and the shim. The result? A dysfunctional device. So what’s the prognosis for your oddly behaving USB chain? Apple’s drivers are maturing at a ferocious clip, so the first disease is curing itself. The problems due to third parties are trickier, but as long as the iMac remains a popular machine, the vendors have a sharp incentive to fix any problems that arise. With any luck, USB madness will soon be a thing of the past —/S 28 MacADDICT NOV/99 What you’ll need mA regular 10BaseT Ethernet cable mWire cutter Utility knife ™Black electrical tape Cut the 10BaseT Ethernet cable. 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All other product, font andi company names an logos are trademarks oF registered trademarks of their respective companies. ‘www.corel.com Anatomy of a Keynote by David Reynolds F° ‘the benefit of those who haven't been to a gripping iCEO keynote, we've constructed a photomontage—complete with callouts—of a Steve Jobs keynote address, so that you, too, can know what goes on inside. Tokenism On each stage, there has to be a jab at the Wintel world—typically the fastest Wintel device avallable for purchase, which the latest Mac will trounce. The new look Apple knows branding and marketing, and puts it up relentlessly at keynotes. The new monochrome apple is promi- nent, as is the slogan du jour—eerily reminiscent of Big Brother, but brilliant nonetheless, Presentation slides typically appear on the center screen. ‘once the show gets under way—along with every commercial Apple has made since Steve's return. More branding Ambience is important, so the dead-person advertise- ment of the month is put up on a big banner to float at the sides of the audito- rium. No, Yoko isn't dead. Over here Seats go fast at the keynote, so folks drape handbags, coats, and steel-jawed leg traps on Seats to save them. Once they've located an empty seat, they coax friends over to fill it. Sit down, already! 30 MacADDICT NOV/99 Standing dominos When things get exciting onstage, ‘some members of the audience invariably stand up to get a better Jook—which forces everyone behind them to stand up, too. The lineup Several Macs (and a couple of PCs) are lined up onstage, ready for the various presenters to use in demos. Apple’s Phil Schiller usually runs through a Sherlock demo on one of them, repeating “It’s like a whole new Mac for $99” over and over. Foam...edge Like a gopher’s shadow, Jobs’ beard signals the style of announcements he’s making. Here, the iCEO is sans stub- ble, so that signals a professional-level announcement: ‘the Power Mac G3 tower, in this case. This summer, a’ hairy Jobs announced the iBook, a consumer device. What happens when he announces both consumer and pro items together? Armageddon. At least on his face. Drink and be merry Several beverages sit Neck and neck Eschewing a traditional shirt collar—ong a standard in the business world—Jobs on the stark black prefers a turtleneck-style podium at every shirt to do his presenting. keynote, ready for He must own tons of them. thirsty presenters to ‘swill, Usually, it's two bottles of Evian The clicker spring water. In this of power case, one bottle of Inbis righthand, Jobs hoids Spina water and the all-powerful clicker: three bottles of an a fatio-davice that controls unidentified water- the giant slide show taking Dene de place behind him. AS as consumption. 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Mac cana © 109 Cope on oh ee oe ene Freie fe pote ompanyrames 2 ages dena ered adr oe eset cpa This advertisement was designed and created using award-winning Corel graphics software. res oo rates 0: of Aol Caputo. fo and Go further” alt.ware BY DAVID REYNOLDS an, do we have a sweet deal for you! You won't believe your luck at having picked up this particular issue of Mac- Addict—not that each one isn't incredibly great—but this issue has several full commercial software packages that, put together, comprise a complete set of alternatives for most of the stuff you do on your Mac. That's right, through the diligent work of Kris Fong, our disc editor, and the good will of several software companies, we're offering you a com- Software plete word processor, video editor, and 3D application as well as an image-editing applica- tion—all just for the price of this magazine. Plus, we'll point you to the best alternatives for spreadsheets, Web site creation, and audio work. Didn't we tell you it was a sweet deal? So why do it? Let's face it—choice is good. Otherwise, we're left with market-dominating behemoths that own entire categories. Sometimes that dom- com plex ination is a benevolent one, providing decent products, but sometimes it visits horrors upon us, such as Microsoft got you Word 6. So read on, install from the CD, and enjoy. industrial down? Have we got a deal 32 ee ILLUSTRATIONS BY PRICE: Free (on our CD)! CONTACT: Nisus Software (800-890-3030, http://www.nisus.com) REQUIREMENTS: System 7 or later, 4MB of RAM for 680X0 version, 8MB of RAM for PowerPC version A look at the interface WRITER 4.1. riting a personal rant is bound to be one of the first things W: you'll do with your Mac—after all, we're still a semi- literate society (at least until Ross Perot’s Reform Party comes to power). Enter Nisus Writer, which is a fantastic alternative to Microsoft Word for a lot of reasons: It’s not from Microsoft, it's not Word, and oh yeah, it’s a great word processor—especially for those who need to create long documents or work in multiple languages. Despite its power (which includes extensive indexing, voice annota- tions, and macros), it also has a teeny footprint (it takes up only a few megabytes of RAM and less than 10MB of hard drive space). Com- pare that to Word—which is PowerPC only, needs at least 6MB of RAM to work (though it prefers 12MB of RAM), and takes up a little over 5MB of RAM for the application alone. Throw in the support files for Office 98, and the total jumps to ten times that. BBS SSS Se8s eo. INFORMATION— This information bar contains | i LERS—Nisus Writer features EI Asian Axt Wee such details as the current page he bo’ Hats ou ruete th fe (© Doxii-clck bare to deploy Whe Headee Footer window. number, current time, battery i 4 st iu oe Ie ban i onl Cer arg ge alae, power (if you're using a Power- i eh ia ae ae ie ee 4 a Book), and how much free ig ie ( i ing a xv a: memory remains. ing 7 Is), pa eo eaumy my af (for including voice annotations in your documents). @ = So ee = ‘OUT—This button ae, cy fen elie opens the layout window, FSI pele ie cod fakin nso Slaten in which you can preview . aomaneonagtl 4 Meyeolipovetemeamgrcegad ett forwuin mau Cn tn he Ca how the document will IT SCREEN—Just click Ceontw ase redpitel — murAste el nde pein erochet Chess print, adjust margins, and drag, and the screen EI feo he ee Seven ee ated and so on. splits between two 4] Rian Mole tof Renatyonss en A views, either horizontally fr] inset tg Fonz isp otmaine Some or vertically. 4 eee gO axe fooarot pat o eel mt te 4 Seger the foe gooey be er gtenor ent ti Wee ragae ee en | BESS. o ne @.... left button gives you the full page view, the center button shows headers and footers, and the right button displays footnotes. .... CONTROLS—The five buttons here control whether the vertical ruler, ruler changes, and invisible characters (such as spaces and tabs) are shown, whether headers and footers are marked, and which of the ten Nisus clipboards is in use. = BBEdit WORD ALTERNATIVES f you can’t stand Microsoft Word one more minute—and really, who could blame you if that were the case—check out these less painful alternatives. i m FullWrite o ™ Mariner Write ($119, Bare Bones Software, 781-687-0700, http:/Awww.barebones.com) While not strictly a word processor, BBEdit is a cool tool for handling text. It comes in two flavors—BBEdit Lite, which is free, and BBEdit, which costs $119. BBEdit takes up very little space | (under two megs), and it can do amazing | things | with text (powerful searching, HTML tools, and so on), It's especially useful for Webmasters, but it also works for writing regular text. ($99, Akimbo Software, fee incense .com) Another full-featured alternative to Word, FullWrite includes support for tables, glossaries, two-page editing, print merge, multiple dictionaries and thesauri, footnotes and endnotes, and multiple languages. ($69.95, Mariner Software, 900/656-5443 or 502-222-6695, http://vww.marinersoft.com) This space-saving processor is AppleScript savvy; handles graphics, tables, and style sheets; speaks multiple languages; and much more. All this at a price so sweet it'll give you a toothache. NOV/99 MacADDICT 33 DIGITAL DARKROOM Price: Free (on our CD)! Contact: MicroFrontier (800-388-8109 or 515-225-9800, http://www.microfrontier.com) Requirements: 68020 or later, System 7 or later, 3MB of RAM, 30MB hard drive space is a faked photo, right?), but who wants to spend hundreds of dollars for a copy of Pho- toshop to do it? Unless your objective is to impress Yevgeny Primakov, you don’t have to waste the money. Instead, just fire up a copy of Digital Darkroom. i Although it's not meant for prepress work (it’s limited to just RGB and gray-scale color), GRAPHIC ALTERN ATIVES Digital Darkroom does a great job at almost everything else. It's got a solid set of tools for i WEAN y AL selection, painting, and other tricks; it accepts third-party Photoshop filters; and it allows mul- Pp ‘pushers and bit flingers tiple undos. Digital Darkroom also features an AutoMagic menu that includes functions to d rather carve their art from improve your photo's quality (including contrast adjustments, red-eye removal, and scratch wood blocks using only their teeth removal), plus a couple of simple tools to extrude items and add drop shadows for easy Web t ly on the corporate coldness button creation. If you want info on an image’s download size for Web optimization, Digital of popular Adobe products can get Darkroom can do that, too. es eee A look at the interface LECTION ~ DOCUMENT (Cocune ‘OOLS—Four basic (OOLS—Four INFORMATION—Up remie shareware bitmap graphics selection tools—the basic image top, three important ‘and just because it's shareware marquee tool, the crop tools—arrow, bits of information Ht lacks power. Besides sport- tool, the lasso tool, eyedropper, appear: the image’s @ of image-editing tools, and the magic hand, and size in kilobytes, its GraphicConverter can open over 100 file wand—tet you select | magnifier—make dimensions in any types, export 40 | file types, do batch pro- portions of your image — manipulating the number of units (the "cessing, present a slide show of images, with ease. The mar- overall image default is pixels), bring | home the bacon, and fry it up in the quee tool can be easy. and the image's S ure, it's great fun to paste yourself into a picture of Boris Yeltsin's cabinet meeting (that INFORMATION— Tells you stuff about the selected tool, includ- ing its position on the ‘screen, the size of the selection, the distance in a line from the selection, and the angle of that line. pan. It also ‘includes an image browser to let either square or oval color space (RGB or you: Rane through the contents of a folder. (you set this through gray scale)—as if ‘the Options button). you couldn't tell from looking. = === wid jpeg S= ly la waik 190x 74 Pixels 7 y) © ats ¥o71 fo Oo Mac scene comes decked out in a wild g interface (there's nothing like it). Once you get used to its funky look and feel, you'll find nent of penernl tools under opment has been pretty rapid to 's( definitely ‘worth a try, but brace: _hitp://sarwat.net shareware image-editing ey @ mean punch in an ele- 24 -w |jaafedl 4 Ie LOR JAGNIFICATION (Gdn TOOLS—Here's (Ouse AREA— Be SWATCHES—The FORMATION— here you get creative. These ind, of course, Le ru Pee Ce, slider and color The current magnifi- eight tools—pencil, eraser, ‘the image itself iy . 2 swatches let you cation ratio, as well paintbrush, rubber stamp, line, appears here select any number —_as tools to increase paint bucket, gradient, and on the canvas. of colors to use on —or decrease that text—are where you get into the image. ratio, appear here. the nitty-gritty of adding and removing pixels. I'S ABOUT CHOICE, MANS . THEM SPOON-FEED YOU THEI@ COMPETITION- Price: Free (on our CD)! Contact: Strata (435-628-5218, http:/Avww.strata.com) Requirements: Color-capable Macintosh, minimum of 4MB of free RAM (more than 8MB recom- mended), System 7 or later, QuickTime 2.0 or later, QuickTime-compatible AV card or any AV Macin- tosh required for video capture Adobe are jostling for position to make sure that they’re the ones who own it. There are alternatives, however, to both Premiere and Final Cut Pro, just in case you don’t own a beefy new G3 and don’t have several hundred dollars to throw around. Thanks to Strata, we've included a full version of one such alternative on our CD—Strata VideoShop 3.0, VideoShop has a full host of features with support for multiple video clips, audio clips, MIDI clips, and titling. It comes with several transition and effects types, and it includes the ability to manipulate audio tracks. Once you've done all the editing, you can print the production back to video, taking away a tape of your efforts. And all this for—what’s that? Free? Cool. A look at the interface \NVAS—Here's where the movie magic takes place— or at least where you can see it taking place. Y« we've all been told that desktop video is the Next Big Thing, and both Apple and LDER WINDOW—It you can drag onto the Tecan Vonimer ina. Onrtet ton Bij MES aC aa (mers 7 Eat be A a 5 & WINDOW—If you've ever done analog video production, the VICE CONTROL—IE y og window will look familiar. It keeps track of various clips in CRUSHING TRIPE! ‘can contain video clips, audio clips, or just about anything DONT LET aem'ye works jus! a Finder window, and it timeline. OLUMES WINDOW—Any mounted volumes ‘show up in this window, You can cruise through them looking for clips to use in your production just as you would in the Finder. RECORDING WINDOW—This is where you record your video by setting up the capture location and grabbing clips. ‘LING WINDOW—When you want to add text to your video—and you will—you'll do it in the titling window. It works a lot like a word processor—just click and start typing. _ SEQUENCER—Here's where you assemble ideo clips, audio clips, MIDI clips, and titles into a full-fledged production. You'll do the bulk of your creative work here, adjusting levels, edit points, and other settings. jou have a deck that can communicate via the Visca or Sony Serial protocol, you can control it from the production, including in and out points and total duration. this window to make capturing clips even easier. VRE Ce ee = QuickEditor ™ MovieWorks ($35, Mathias Tschopp, http://wild.ch ($100, Interactive Solutions, http:// ‘/quickeditor) Don't let the low price fool www.movieworks.com) This commercial you—QuickEditor’s no lightweight. Features package offers a ton of features for creating include over 100 transitions and filters, a interactive movies. Aimed at the novice, great titling tool (for adding text to videos), it covers video editing, sound editing, and a simple, scalable interface. painting, animation, and more, for an unbelievable price. m Play It Cool ae ($15, Russell Clarke, http;//www.kagi.cor twe/pic,html) Although its video-editing capabilities are limited to basic cut, copy, and paste functions, Play It Cool is one smooth, fast QuickTime-based movie- playing application. Bonus feature: It creates self-playing movies that don’t require any sort of movie player application. NOV/98 MacADDICT 35 PRICE: $99 (free with purchase of a new iMac) ‘CONTACT: Apple Computer, 800-795-1000, httpy/www.apple.com REQUIREMENTS: 68020 or faster, System 7.0.1 or later, 8IMB of RAM FIGHT ometimes you do a lot of hard work and don't get a lick of credit. AppleWorks, TE ROE Ss. Claris Works, is a perfect example of that in the software world, and it PADDY-O! - doesn't even get bitter or resentful about it. AppleWorks is the ultimate alterna- tive—it's six tools in one application, and it's more powerful than you might think. It includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, a paint program, a draw pro- gram, and a communication program. While some of the tools are not quite up to doing high-end work (the paint portion of AppleWorks isn't likely to replace Photo- shop anytime soon), others (such as the database and word processing portions) are quite good. Best of all, it ships with every iMac, so millions of Mac owners already have it—and if you don't, it's one of the best bargains in software. alt.ware ‘New Document . AppleWorks melee Start a new document in AppleWorks, and you'll get your choice of what part of [A Word Processing EI AppleWorks you want to work in. Simply choose one from the list and go for it. ree Giciseainw oscinane I spreadsheet [6 atabase 9 Communications HH Q Use Assistant or Stationery a It's a word processor AppleWorks has a full-featured word processor built right in—one that has a fully Configurable button bar (which can also go away), the ability to import graphics (for basic page layout), and basic HTML support (including hyperlinks inside AppleWorks documents). Although AppleWorks can’t save documents in Word 98 - format, it can save them as Word 4 documents, which is good enough—whether we like it or not, some interplay with Microsoft Word is important. 70 No, it’s a spreadsheet Okay, it's tough to get too excited about a spreadsheet (unless you're some sort of number-loving weirdo), but there's no denying that they're useful beasts. While AppleWorks may not have the billions of features that make Excel a favorite among corporate folks, it does have everything you need for basic spreadsheet work, including a decent graphic function. SROs SSISOSSOSE [@ Tite Fait Format Layout organize Window @ Help = === Simpsons Guide (DB) = Jimbo Jones 281 Bvergreen Terece Springfield Wait—it's a database ‘000 21255-1212 Peeeeyl) The AppleWorks database section looks—and works—an awful lot like File- Maker, which isn’t surprising when you consider their common roots. If it’s hard to get excited about a spreadsheet, then it must be even harder to get excited about a database, right? Wrong. The AppleWorks database has all kinds of applications, from tracking your MP3 collection, to keeping your checkbook in order, to organizing your enemies list—hey, that list can get pretty long, and it's important to know where to concentrate your efforts. You can also beautify your databases by adding artwork into the layout. Smooth! 36 MacADDICT NOV/99 THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! 1 WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS AFFRONTERY! I'm sorry, it's a paint program Those who remember the original MacPaint from a /oooong time ago will notice that AppleWorks retains a few items from this application, but it can now do so much more. The tool palette works like your standard paint program, letting you choose from a number of basic shape tools to start drawing, AppleWorks isn’t limited to black and white (as its predecessor was)—instead, you can choose from any number of colors, patterns, and even gradients. Besides laying down colored shapes (including basic Bézier shapes), AppleWorks also has decent selection tools {a lasso and magic wand), plus broad coloring tools (including a paintbrush, bucket, and spray can). Although it won't replace Photoshop, ‘AppleWorks is the perfect program for working up a quickie bitmapped image. ts) SE untitled a) Uh, my mistake, it's a draw program This is the flip side to the AppleWorks paint program. Instead of laying down bitmapped swatches on a canvas, the draw portion of AppleWorks. lays down editable shapes you can move in front of and behind each other—just as in the old MacDraw. Although it doesn’t have the same range Pheoe = y, Macon edo ofan (co igure), the Berio iocis re ao0d | enough for most nonprofessional needs. Plus, if you find the draw tools too | limiting, you can insert a box into the drawing, where you can use Apple- | sae. Works’ paint tools to make a masterpiece. Sona | La (a [@)c0000 twins z 5 | Yeah, yeah, it's a communications program, too | || if AppleWorks has a vestigial flipper, the communications pack- | || ageis it. Although it's not nearly as useful in these days of the | Internet as it used to be, there’s nothing like a good old commu- | nications package to set up a direct serial connection between 3] | || two computers—either via modem or across some other serial | | ENE [Displays the Send Fie dakg box interface (including a cable or even infrared). There are some times when there’s just no substitute for a terminal application, and AppleWorks satisfies even that need. NOV/99 MacADDICT 37 WAIT, THERE'S MORE! ton of other apps out there A=: the brand-name stuff will do the same job for a frac- tion of the cost. We've listed a few of them below. Of course, we'll inevitably fail to mention some very cool pro- grams, so we apologize in advance to anyone we've left out. Please don't write us nasty letters. Alpha 7.2 2 ($30, http://www.alpha.olm.net) Sure, BB- Edit has a reputation in the Mac commu- nity as the best HTML editor, hands-down, but there are other HTML editors worth mentioning. One is Alpha, a high-powered text editor that uses Tel scripting, is incred- ibly customizable, and can interact with Internet applications (for example, Eudo- ta for sending and receiving email and Archie for remote file editing). Very cool BBEdit alternative. 38 MacADDICT NOV/99 Style Master 1.3 ($29, http://www.westciv.com/style_master) For those looking to integrate the next generation of Web technology into their sites, Style Master offers an easy way to apply and edit Cascading Style Sheets. It features point-and-click editing, a CSS ref- erence, and live previewing of pages, and it can open other style sheets, no matter where they were created. Page Spinner 2.1 ($24.95, http://www.optima-system.com /pagespinner) This inexpensive alternative to other Web site creation utilities has a plethora of features to get your site looking great. It lets you create pages in two-byte languages, does tag balancing, allows pre- views in multiple browsers, and even has an extension for CSS. One great feature for novice Webmasters is an_ interactive AppleGuide file to walk you through creat- ing your own pages. It’s even scriptable via AppleScript! GIFBuilder (free, http://iawww.epfl.ch/Staff/Yves.Piguet/ clip2gif-home/GifBuilder.html) GIFBuilder is a scriptable utility with one purpose in life: to collect images and build animated GIFs out of them. Sure, that doesn't seem like much, but sometimes it’s the little things that count. For those wanting to put a little animation on their site, GIFBuilder is worth a look. PlayerPro 5.3 ($69, http://www.quadmation.com/pphome .htm) PlayerPro combines several sound tools in one: player, editor, and compos- er. Besides opening just about any audio format, PlayerPro can handle 16-bit 44KHz stereo audio, it supports MIDI hardware, it has a nifty oscilloscope, and it even has a music list. PlayerPro also generates MOD files, popular in game development, plus it has a built-in com- poser for those who want to score their own compositions. Sound Sculptor II 2.4.1 ($30, http://hometown.aol.com/sculptorii /index.html) Primarily a sound editor with ‘overdubbing capabilities, Sound Sculptor Il handles eight tracks of stereo sound with pan and volume control. It also records either mono or stereo sound with input gain control. SoundSculptor also features a track mixer (with tons of controls), a variable- speed shuttle, and lots of effects to apply to your mixes. Virtual Drummer 4.0.2 (free, http://www.virtualdrummer.com) Virtual Drummer uses QuickTime drum tracks to let you sequence your own drum solos. When you edit drum songs, Virtual Drummer applies the updates immediately. Practice features let you get your chops in order, and you can import and export MIDI files—and even export your songs as AIFF files. Melody Assistant 3.4 (615, http: /ww.myriac-online.com/melody.htm) Melody Assistant makes the task of compos- ing music easy with a built-in score editor, a digital instrument database, a digital sound editor, and tablature and chord diagrams for you guitar players out there. And, God help us, you can use Melody Assistant to make MIDI-based Karaoke files. Mariner LE 3.14 ($30, http:/Awww.marinersoft.com) Sure, you can use the tremendous power of Excel to keep track of your cat food expenses, but is that really necessary? Not if you check out Mariner LE 3.14. This little spreadsheet runs on 1.5MB of RAM and only takes up 2.3MB ‘on your hard drive, but it doesn’t lack power. It has a full range of functions, a workbook- like layer capability, and simple but robust charting. What it doesn’t have is an annoying take-over-the-whole-screen mentality. ‘Sum-It 1.0.4 ($20, http://www.hekkelman.com/sum-it-mac -html) Sum-lt bills itself as “a simple Mac spreadsheet that is powerful, fast, and easy to use.” Sum-lt lives up to that billing, requiring a Mac Plus or later and System 7 or later to run, and using only 512K of memory. It's tiny, but it has a big heart, and it’s perfect for basic spreadsheet functions. It's also scriptable and it can import and export data from other financial applications. David Reynolds enjoys opening applications with BBEdit. Custom Web design. Full-time Internet access. Web site hosting. E-commerce solutions. you thought we were just another ISP. Introducing MindSpring Biz. Everything you need to help your small business profit from the Internet, in one convenient place. We offer direct, full-time, reliable connections to the Internet. With around-the-clock customer support, network monitoring and more. 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This beefed-up microprocessor boasts a massive speed increase thanks to what Apple has dubbed its Velocity Engine, or what Motorola calls AltiVec. Although the addition of the G4 is a major boon, it’s not the only improvement the desktop line sports, Apple has ] tweaked the motherboard for most of the G4 line, ) adding features such as a true Accelerated Graph- } ics Port and internal FireWire while doing away with ADB entirely, and packaged the system in an updated case—same shape, but now in graphite and silver. Plus, just to show that displays can be ’ cool, Apple announced the matching Cinema Dis- play, a mega-thin, 22-inch LCD. There’s no question that the G4 stomps Intel like Big- Y foot at an ant farm. But don’t take our word for »” it-intel’s own benchmarks show that the G4 is two to three times faster than the Pentium Ill. It’s so fast, in fact, that the U.S. government has classified the new G4-based Macs as supercomputers. There’s a lot to know about these screamers—from motherboard differences, to new graphics, to the new processor with the Velocity Engine. Here’s our very S§ own guided tour of the gray-and-white wonder. AT. A GLANCE E wae eulde® to ee = in Easy Bites SEER ] t | 400MHz | 450MHz | 500MHz & J i (C) 82sed on tho blue-and-white 63 b, The low end of the new motherboard design, the (This isthe hotest of the hot. Powered by the QW notherboard design, the 400MHz Power “aug _450MHz Ge features a bigger memory pipe-line, “Syag _very fastest processor of this racy bunch, the Macintosh stil packs quite a punch. AGP 2X graphics, a faster ATA bus. ‘S00MHz offers even more than the 450MHz version. ‘Processor: 400MHz G4 with 1MB of Processor: 450MHz G4with 1MBof Processor: SOOMHz G4 with 1MB of backside cache backside cache backside cache Memory: 64MB (1GB maximum) Memory: 128MB (1.5GB maximum) Memory: 256MB (1.5GB maximum) Memory bandwidth: 400 MBps Memory bandwidth: 800 MBps Memory bandwidth: 800 MBps Graphics: Rage 128 ina a special 66MHZ "Graphics: Rage 128 in an AGP 2X siot Graphics: Rage 128 in an AGP 2X slot PC! slot Drives: 20GB Ultra ATA/66 hard drive, DVD-ROM Drives: 27GB Uitra ATA/66 hard drive, DVD-RAM Drives: 10GB Ultra ATS hard drive, with DVD-Video playback, 100MB Zip drive with DVD-Video piayback, 100MB Zip Drive s Connectivity: 10/100BaseT Ethernet, tree Connectivity: 10/100BaseT Ethernet, three ‘Connectty: 40/4 O0BaseT Ethernet, FireWire ports (one internal), two USB ports FireWire ports (one intemal), two USB ports ‘two FireWire ports, two USB ports, (with individual controllers, allowing more USB” (with individual controllers, allowing more USB built-in 56-kops modem. devices and 24 Mbps worth of bandwidth), devices and 24 Mbps worth of bandwidth), Price: $1,599 56-kbps modem optional 56-kbps modem Price: $2,499 Price: $3,499 40 MacADDICT NOV/39 motherboards with the same name. The G4 comes in three speeds: 400MHz, 450MHz, and 500MHz. The 400MHz model is based on the older G3 motherboard but has a G4 chip in it, while the 450MHz and 500MHz models feature a slightly updated motherboard design. The major differences between the two motherboards are that the newer version has a bigger memory pipeline (for faster performance), AGP 2X graphics support (which speeds up certain graphics operations), AirPort wireless networking capabilities, a higher RAM limit, a faster ATA interface, two USB controllers (the G3’s two USB ports share a single controller), and an internal FireWire connector. Oh, and the new Cinema Display only works with the new motherboard design—it needs the AGP graphics to function properly. The 400MHz and 450MHz versions should be shipping when you read this—the 500MHz version is slated to ship in November. Here’s a look at the insides of the high-end Power Mac G4s. THE MOTHERBOARD T he Power Macintosh G4 line is really two different PCI slots—Like the older G3. Heat sink—Okay, so the G4 does AGP 2X slot—This slot, filled with an AT| Rage 128 card with motherboard, the new G4 moth- put out a little more heat than the 16MB of video memory, is a true AGP 2X slot. This lets the G4 handle erboard has three 66MHz PC! G3—{ust look at the size of that heat ‘texture maps with astonishing speed, and the Rage 128 AGP card can slots. Older 33MHz PC! cards sink. Still, it doesn't require a fan on drive the digital Cinema Display. AGP is especially good for 3D graph- ‘will work just fine in it, thanky- top of the processor (unlike a certain ics, so when combined with OpenGL, the new G4s should be mighty ouverymuch. Pentium), and Apple says it should be fast in the third dimension. As an added bonus, the AGP 2X slot should able to get the G4 into a PowerBook in be able to handle PC AGP graphics cards—provided that the manu- facturers write Mac drivers for them. USB—The new G4 has two 12Mb USB controllers instead of one, allowing each port to support 127 devices for a total of 254. The new G4 also supports bootable USB drives and USB audio devices (such as speakers and microphones). Internal FireWire connector—That's right. The new G4 motherboard features an internal FireWire connector to let you hook up FireWire Ey devices. Although there aren't any internal FireWire devices to speak of at the moment, we expect they will become more prevalent as the standard takes hold—and Apple will be ready. RAM slots—The G4 uses the same kind of RAM as the old G3, but it can handle more of it. You can stuff the four PC100 SDRAM slots with up to 1.5GB (yes, that’s gigabytes) of RAM. The machine can actually handle up to 2GB of RAM, but the Finder can only address up to 1.5GB, so you'd be wasting half a gig of RAM if you tried it. AirPort card slot—tf you're drooling over the Modem slot—The inter- prospect of fast wireless networking (especially if nal modem plugs into the you also plan to pick up an iBook), you can equip the motherboard here, and the new G4 with an AirPort wireless card (the same card phone jack pokes out the you'd use in an IBook). You'd panel back. Curiously, the better make that decision modem ships as a standard when you buy your new feature on the 450MHz G4, G4, however. Apple but it's optional on the 4 doesn't plan to offer ‘S00MHz G4, the ability to upgrade to AirPort later. The antennae tuck into the G4's front top handle. NOV/99 MacADDICT 41 THE VELOCITY ENGINE features something Apple has dubbed the Velocity Engine, formerly known as AltiVec. Because of the Power Macin- tosh G4’s ability to perform over one billion floating-point opera- tions per second, the U.S. government has classified it as a supercomputer, restricting its export—apparently because of security concerns centered on code-breaking. The Velocity Engine is also a big part of what gives the G4 its edge over the Pentium ill. So what is the Velocity Engine, anyway? It’s a special processing unit added on to the G4 processor to handle certain kinds of data—namely 3D graphics, images, video, and audio. The Velocity Engine speeds up certain operations significantly: A= from running at healthy speeds, the G4 from Motorola anywhere from 1.43 times to 14 times faster than a comparable PowerPC chip without the Velocity Engine. It does this by breaking the data into smaller chunks and processing those chunks in paralle|—that is, at the same time. This makes for mas- sive speed boosts in these areas. The one hitch is that applications require rewriting to get any benefit from the Velocity Engine, but such updates are already under way. Some of the applications that already support the Velocity Engine include Photoshop (with special plug-ins), Animation Stand, IDL (a tremendous scientific software package), and SoundJam MP. 3dfx has also announced that it will produce Mac products optimized for the Velocity Engine. Also on the list is Mac OS 9. Over the short run, the Velocity Engine resembles the original PowerPC transition—applications will run a little faster, and Velocity Engine-enabled applications will run a Jot faster. As more appli- cations become Velocity Engine-savvy, the Mac will rocket ahead of the PC pack. David Reynolds would not kill for a G4 (well, at least he woukin't kill anyone he knows), but he's willing to discuss other arrangements. How Much Butt Does a Velocity Engine Kick? Apple Cinema Display lhe new Apple Cinema Display is, quite | simply, the baddest flat-panel ever to hit the streets, This amazing 22-inch digital LCD monitor has the same viewable area as a 24-inch (!) display, and it handles a resolution of 1600 by 1024 pixels in beautiful, crisp color. This wide-aspect ratio isn’t just a random number. It matches the HDTV standard, and it's been pop- ping up in other monitors, such as Silicon Graphics's beauty. The translucent plastics match the G4's case, and the display features a spring-loaded stand in the back. Adjusting the screen angle is easy—just push forward or pull back on the top of the display (the spring-loaded arm handles the rest). Because it’s a digital display (as opposed to an analog one), the Cinema Display needs a ‘special interface with the video card, This means the Cinema Display works only with the Power Macintosh G4 wi