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Letthe | confusion stop here. BY DAVID REYNOLDS AND IAN SAMMIS | MAYBE NOW WE'LL KNOW : * ona Sc, what the heck Dave and | tan are talking about. | 36 Secrets of the Mac Pros | Electronic music master Moby (tight), poster artist Frank Kozik, design | guru Roger Black, and | six other leading Mac | pros spill the secrets of their success. Find out | how they do it. | BY CATHY LU AND | ROBERT CAPPS FLOATING HAND: $50. The stunned admiration of the Mac world? Priceless, 82 Reflect upon Photoshop Learn to fake a reflection ‘on your favorite photo. Now that’s a mouthful. BY CHRIS VANDERHOOF IF YOU SEE two of these, | | | you're deeply disturbed. 86 Ignore Apple's iMovie Advice Apple's stated system requirements for iMovie translate roughly to “buy a new Mac.” Surprised? No? Here's how to ignore that advice safely. 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We also look back at eight months of iBorg madness, consider ‘the current state of WebObjects and QuickTime, and provide our very own TELAT, HE ALREADY TRIED THROWING it against a wall to see if it would stick... PUBLISHER Peter Hirschfeld EDITOR INCHIEF Robert Capps EDITORIAL. EXECUTIVE EDITOR David Reynolds (technology) MANAGING EDITOR Jenifer Morgan SENIOR EDITOR Cathy Lu (features) ASSOCIATE EDITORS Narasu Rehbaprayada (reviews), Jan Sammis iDIGITAL MEDIA EDITOR Ktis Fong CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Raf Anzovin, Steven Anzovin, Joseph 0, Holmes, Buz Zoller ART ART DIPECTOR David Ross ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Christopher Imlay CONTRIBUTING DESIGNERS Chris Vandethoof, Gevin Shaw CREATIVE DIRECTOR Wayne Allen MACADDICT.COM PRODUCER Niko Coucouvanis CONTENT EDITOR Rich Pizor PRODUCTION PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Richard Lesovoy PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Hans Hunt ADVERTISING ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Don Kimenker REGIONAL AD MANAGERS Michelle Paredes SR. ACCOUNTS MANAGER, DIRECT SALES Ana Epstein 26 Scrapbook This month, we step back in history with our trade show button retrospective and show you some of the best Mac slogans ever pinned to a T-shirt, jacket, or knapsack. 62 Reviews Power to the people! Write your own apps with REALbasic, master your music with T-RackS 1.1.2, and win beaucoup bucks in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, 2nd Edition. Pius, get the 411 on the |-JAM portable MP3 player, Epson PhotoPC 30002 digital camera, Virtual PC 3.0 with Red Hat Linux, Hard Disk Toolkit 4.0, and more. 80 Powerplay It's our annual rundown of game announcements and goings-on from the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Find out what games are coming to the Mac just for your sweaty little hands. We certainly can't wait! 98 Ask Us Smackin’ you with technical info and answers until you call us “daddy.” 128 Shut Down And Bingo was his game-o. Don’t worry—it just goes downhill from here. Downhill all the way to laughs, that is! 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Whether you're cursed with a newbie handicap or have been sprouting 3D-rendered tree rings for years, this easy-to-use package provides all the tools you need to build, animate, and render anything you can imagine. Create your absolute dream date, walk on the wild side of your own prehistoric universe, or design and animate your own cool fantasy creature and impress George Lucas. What's on your mind? @ Last Call Demo We know you can pound ‘em down, but can you mix them? We're not talking about the kind of mixing that'll leave you plastered to the ground, praying to the ol’ porcelain god! We're talking rea/ bartending. This animated bartending simulation puts you behind a fully stocked bar, tending to customers and mixing drink orders to earn tips. Not alcohol-savvy? Better break out that recipe book, quick. Timeliness and friendliness will get you far—incompetence may get you eighty-sixed! iG) Mike’s Edge 1.0 IN LAST CALL, YOU PLAY a ReGaisr aun Abracadabra... shazam! Make backgrounds, foregrounds, or any grounds making great drinks, flirting, and pulling in the disappear in the blink of an eye. This cool masking tool can pull any big tips before your shift is up. subject matter out of the picture, creating masks you can slip into other photos, videos, or Web pages. So you like that picture of yourself, but not with your ugly ex bouncing up and down like a monkey by your side? Remove yourself from the scene of the crime with this tool and drop yourself into a different background in any image-editing program. @ Z-Write 1.0.1 Your story line, character sketches, and scenarios may be all over the place, but your pages don’t have to be. This nonlinear word processing i 2 application allows writers to scrawl their ideas and prose in any order WEASEL ANY SUBJECT out of its and still keep the documents together as one file without endless background in a great disappearing act. scrolling up and down pages. Great for those scatterbrains whose = eS thoughts and ideas flip-flop from one idea to the next, or for the rest of us who appreciate a better-t filo -out text editor. ‘The Pros.mov ORANGE YOU GLAD we're giving you Strata for free! mate -cuune: nay set oe rerrocs na grat anppearng eo) MUSIC, MOVIES, MACS, AND MAYHEM! Meet the nine Mac pros we ‘tracked down for our special issue. ‘They walk! They talk! And they rock! Tapp tren emia To prwcate 3 mach ater Wout set NOW IF ONLY we can get it to invent everything, too. 8) MacAadict | AUG/00. 2 eoe sr & 2 Creation is the easy part... Keeping oth under control is anothe er story. _ i W wl i w ™ | Mac NTERACTIVE Maxis" is a brond ASIP NR ————— un ‘of Electronic Arts™ Authorid Electronic Arts™ 000 Electronic Arts Inc. The Sims, SimCity, Maxis, and the Mi are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts in the U.S. and/or other countries. All rights reserved. The Aspyr Media logo is trademark of Aspyr Media, Inc. The teractive logo is a trademark of Westlake Interactive, Inc. istered trademark and the MacOS logo is a trademerk of Apple Computer, Inc. All ofner trademarks are the property of thelr Ors NOTE Oh my goal What the heck did you do to MacAddict?! ell, boys and girls, you’re now gazing upon the fruits of quite a bit of labor on the part of MacAddict’s art staif. Over the last several months, we revisited the layout of our beloved magazine and decided it was time to spruce things up a bit. It has, after all, been four years since we originally put together the look and feel of this magazine, and while we're ahead of our time, we're not ¢hat ahead of our time. Now, I realize that the modifications we've made to our interior design may have a few of you alittle panicked. It shouldn't, though. MacAddict is still MacAddict. We're not getting serious, backing off, changing subjects, or toning down. Just io make sure we're staying true to our orig- inal purpose, I dusted off my copy of MacAddict issue 1 and reread Cheryl England’s original Editor's Note, in which she laid out exactly where MacAddict stood. While a few things have changed (we're not that into OpenDoc and Performas any- WSs, Staff Rants Jenifer Morgan memory? A. Editing our July Calendar feature— specifically, round 24 at 3 am, a. Ifyou were aac, which model would you be? A. I'd be an iMac DV SE because I have audio-syne problems. more), the fundamental elements of the magazine JUST A SQUIRREL lookin’ for a nut... are indeed the same now as they were back then. To reassure you, I’ll list what I consider to be the three pillars of the MacAddict philosophy: At its heart, MacAddict is a how-to magazine. We view the Mac as an iibertool. We ‘will always dedicate ourselves to showing you how to do cool stuff, tweak old machines and software for better performance, and take your Mac use one step further. In that vein, we try to make our techniques and ideas as accessible as possible—whether by putting the tools you need on The Disc or on the Web site, or by writing in easy-to-understand, layperson’s terms, But just because MacAddict magazine is fun and easy to understand, don’t make the mistake of thinking we lack tech savvy. We build robots, stream video, trick out LCs with butane torches and hydraulics, generate fake IDs, and overclock G4 proces- sors. We're badasses, and we do it all so we can show you how to do it, too. © MacAddict is a graphical magazine, Someone at Xerox PARC came up with the notion that a command line is a very difficult way to navigate through a computer. The Mac built on that idea, developing the current graphical user interface you know and love. We at MacAddict likewise feel that strict arrangement of text in columns fails to provide a sufficient interface for navigat- We‘re not getting ing through a how-to or conveying the feel of a cool new serious, backing off, product, MacAddict is designed from the ground up to “ : show rather than tell. Most often the best way to explain changing subjects, an idea or technique is with graphics, or toning down. © MacAddict is for people who are passionate 9 about their Macs. A very enthusiastic community has grown around the Mac platform. We cater to that com- munity. We throw ourselves into our Macs and into our magazine with hopes that you will get to know us, know that we love our Macs, and feel like a part of our family. We answer your questions, read your letters, and participate in the forums at MacAddict.com, because the Mac community plays a big part in who we are and what we do. Cheryl mentioned each of these things in the first-ever editor’s address to MacAddict readers. I, as the newest editor, feel that these fundamentals form the foundation of our magazine. We show you how to do cool stuff with your Mac, we teach you things visually, and we embrace you as a community. Changing colors or logos or typefaces doesn’t alter our goals, and it won't diminish what MacAddict has to offer. Our hope is that our new design will enhance our offerings. Keeping our fundamentals and you, the readers—the most important element of MacAddict—in clear view, we will continue to deliver all the things you love. And the magazine will look better, too. 10 iMagaagicr AUG/00 lan Sammis iBorg Procrastination Editor a. ee Macaddict memory) A. Wow... eas been a good year. The impromptu game of office baseball that broke out the other day (complete with foam ball and base paths about two feet long) ‘was pretty cool, though. Q. Ifyou were aMac, which model would you be? ‘A. Mac Iii. The thing was the standard ‘Macintosh workhorse machine for more than three years. Allowing for the fact that ‘it came out in late 1989, it was great. Narasul Rebbapragatia Q. What's your fondest MacAddict memory? AA. When I telefragged Rob in Unreal Tournament and he ended up in little bloody pieces all over the floor. Oops, did I say that out loud? Q. If you were a Mac, which model would you be? A. I'd be the Mac SE/30. I think that’s the one a French foreign exchange student used to make my first fake ID. SELF PORTRAIT BY NARASU REBBAPRAGADA Upgrade to new Toast"4 Deluxe and burn music, multimedia and data CDs. It opens a world of possibilities far beyond the software that came with your CD-Recorder. Now with new PhotoRelay” software you can view, sort and organize your photos, illustrations, scanned images, movies, sounds, and fonts in cus- tomized media catalogs. You can also 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 clicks from old recordings— your music is reborn in stunning digital quality. Get new Toast 4» = Deluxe and satisfy all your burning desires. Available from your retailer or contact us at: www.adaptec.com/toastsw4 or 1-800-442-7274. 6a @ SATISFY ALL YOUR : BURNING DESIRES. a eS Delivering the promise of a digital world.™* she Msp: agin Tous: CD Spa Dito and Poe a sare decd ws yu pang rsh wc eliers You never cease to amaze us. Really. ] | a A | WRITE TO US: MacAddfct, 150 North | TALK TO Us and other Mac addicts at ittpy/Awww smacaddict -Pomicebate. | Hill Dr, Brisbane, CA 94005, - or email to letters@macaddict.com. | FOR CD PROBLEMS: Go to http// | support.imaginemedia.com. | FOR SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: | Call (toll-free) 888-771-6222. HEY IAN, WE’VE GOT AN IDEA... You folks are demented! Who gives you the tight to use marshmallows as a too] to express your sick minds? Have y'all been drinking bong water or something? Your movie this month (Jun/00) is another sick attempt at producing a marshmallow horror flick. It doesn’t sell. Here isan idea: Talk Ian Sammis into standing on his cartoon is much cheaper. ees JAN, casualty insurance on a nkie an head while riding a skateboard down that really fou might crooked street in San Francisco, eating a i ‘Twinkie, and playing Myth on an iMac, Much more interesting, don’t you think? —Tony McDerworr BOW-WOW Macs rule, your magazine rules, the Letters sec- tion has some funny letters, but I have one major issue: Doesn't anyone who has a Mac own a dog, snake, goldfish, or any pet other than a cat? C'mon! At least one letter every month is about Mac addicts and their cats—can't they get a more, uh...manly (or womanly) pet—a nice big pit bull, ashark, or maybe just an innocent hamster? I hap- pen to have a pet dog and a snake, and while they don’t sit on my computer monitor or jump on the keyboard and mess up my work, they are still my loving, faithful companions. Think Different—get a dog!—tosti SoroxIN THANKS FOR THE TIP Iwas reading in the June issue about using glass cleaner and a lint-free cloth to enhance a scan. My suggestion is to use a coffee filter, as they usu- ally do not leave any lint —Jox Nisxnapa WE KILLED BUGS WITH OUR ISSUE, TOO I just wanted to say thank you for putting out a very informative issue this month (Jun/00). I've ye ecco Aes | | managed to fix a lot of bugs on my Mac, and J made it run a little faster, too —-JErr MUELIER ’ MICROSOFT DOES ALL SORTS OF STUFF BACKWARD Tm not sure how many Web sites the fol- lowing technique applies to, but it sure as heck works at Apple.com. If you're watching a QuickTime commercial and click the Back button on your Microsoft Intellimouse, the movie you're viewing will play backward. The audio is only semi-backward, but i's still pretty cool. Also, witen checking out a QTVR, click- ing the back button will rotate the VR to the left, while clicking the forward button will rotate it to the right. Yet another use for the handiest mouse ever!—Jonamuan CrayDon WHAT’S UP, DOCK? In your June 2000 issue, you featured all sorts of how-tos. One of these was to make your applica- tion switcher look and function more like the OS X Dock. Well, I checked out the program you sug- gested, and I was pretty pleased—until I did some searching around and found A-Dock (http// jerome foucher.free.ft/ADock html). It attaches an application switcher at the bottom of the screen (Jes, you can move it if you desire), but the best partis that the switcher expands! It’s just like the Dock, except that you always see a little icon telling you the name of the current application. You can also customize it with one of three included skins, or make your own according to the instructions. ‘The only bad news is that it’s $5 shareware, but for all the Aqua-siyle goodness it sports, it's worth the money—Coun Drea IT’S NOT FOR EVERYBODY Eyer since the beginning, I've been an avid reader of MacAddict magazine, which at first seemed innovative compared to more boring publications such as Macworld. But lately I’ve found the content a whole bunch of useless garbage. As a seasoned Mac user, I've found myself alienated from MacAddict’s targeted readership, which seems to consist of newbies and intermediate Mac users. The content fea- tured in the past few issues contains nothing I can't find for free on the Internet, and 1 no longer find the tutorials and tips useful. Even though 1 do enjoy the humor, you guys have overdone yourselves now and the magazine seems like a joke in itself. Since your target audi- ence doesn't seem to include me, I don’t think MacAddict will miss my membership. Nor will I miss reading a magazine that has no real ‘content, —Anrtiony Wut 3 : ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID *STRU Man, J have to agree with those attentive readers who say your magazine has become uninforma- tive. Why, I only counted 70-plus informative articles in the June/00 issue. You people are really slacking off. Stop making your magazine so fun and entertaining. I want to see the next issue fun-free, ad-free, humor-free, and with 112 pages chock-full of Apple Tech Info Library arti- cles, While you're at it, replace those staff videos with a nice hour-long PowerPoint presentation. ‘What are you all thinking?)—Tuomas Hupson I can't wait until my subscription to MacAddict expires. Every month when the new issue arrives, | open it and play the CD, hoping—nay, praying—that I will find something, anything, worth reading or using. Alas, I never do. In fact, itseems to get worse. The attempts at humor are pathetic, the Letters section is impossibly dorky, and the information is usually out of date. —Wittam Manicer Tam an avid MacAddict reader, and I have something to say bout the recently enlight- ened PC user and the disillusioned reader's let- ter Jjun/00, p14): First ofall, although I know very well that PCs are glorified tin cans of junk, I have occasionally (in dentists’ offices) read. samples of PC magazines such as PC World. 1 know what the PC guy was saying—PC mags are so boring! Not only that, they cover the simplest tasks, proving that PC users are not only robotic, humorless drones, but also hope- Jessly backward! On the other hand, I actually read MAD Magazine, so I find the second letter untrue. You deliver great, useful tips while still manag- ing to be funny. Some other people have said that you should keep MAD-style elements out, but] disagree. PC World is a good example of a humorless computer magazine. Macworld is, too. Keep it up!—Drew Levirr THEY'LL BOUNCE BACK Have you people gone mad? Your June 2000 issue has—I shudder to say it—no Bungie ad on the back! I know we're nearing the new mil- Jennium and things are going to change, but I really expected better of professional journal- ists. What, is one of the writers feeling scorned because Konoko wasn’t answering his or her love letters? (She hasn't writer back to me, either.) ANDREW FRATICELLL It's true. Our June issue was the first in MacAddict history that didn’t feature a Bungie ad on the back. This is because, for the first time since we launched MacAddict, Bungie doesn’t have a game to promote. We're sad too, but fear not. Halo is gonna rock!—Ep, KEEP WATCH ON THEM FOR US T have some inside info on Peeps... I work in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. ‘That's where the headquarters of JustBorn is. JustBorn makes Peeps! | always suspected something creepy was going on in that building. It looks like a hospital. Creepy, huh? T'll do my part to stop the production of those evil Peeps things. You get that damn iBorg to work right— “by the time you read this” (yeah, sure). Jason THACKER SEE ME SELLOUT? SeeMeBuyMe seems like a sellout and makes me wonder how independent the articles are. It's like advertising within an article —Bruce VAN METER It is too bad that with the SeeMeBuyMe tags, you have joined the ranks of fashion magazines in the gray area between content and catalog. —SaraH BEckLeY KRAMER SeeMeBuyMe is intended as a service for our readers, not as a source of revenue, Please let us know if you have similar concerns about our intentions, or if, conversely, you value SeeMeBuyMe as a service —Ep. HE’S A BRITTLE GUY Shame on you! in the June 2000 Get Info sec- tion, I spotted poor little injured Max. He had a cast on his right foot! You let those Maximum PC people get him, didn’t you? I hope you're taking good care of him now. —Kari Jo Wantace WE FORGOT In Get Info (June/00, p18), an article called “Graphite vs. Athlon Grudge Match” con- cluded that the G4 is better if you remember to up Photoshop’s memory partition, I assume you mean assigning more memory to Photoshop than the default amount shown in the Get Info window. Since this was the key item you performed to improve Photoshop performance substan- tially, don’t you think it would have been nice to tell your readers what memory allocation you made?—Srive Larrman Yup. Our bad. To adjust an application's memory assignmeni, select that applica- tion and choose Get Info from the File menu, Under the memory settings, increase the number in the Preferred Size field. We set ours to 250MB.—Eo. SPEED THRILLS I read with great interest the article in the June 2000 issue comparing a 64/500 with the AMD Athlon 1GHz, I recently purchased a 64/350 with 192MB of RAM and an ATI 128 video card, and I am surprised at how fast this com- puter really is. I also recently built a PC with an AMD Athlon 700 overclocked to 735MHz, 128MB of RAM, 4 Maxtor 10GB 7,200-rpm. hard drive, and a Voodoo3 3000 video card. I use both computers, and the G4 actually seems a bit faster. Apple should change how it rates machines. Someone sees 350MHz or 400MHz and thinks, ‘That's not so fast.” But as your article confirms, they really are just as fast or faster than a compa- rable PC at double the processor speed. | have been using Macs for 10 years, and the G4 is the first one I can say is truly fast—Joun Ares WE HAVEN'T, EITHER We were repairing a G3 server in our shop, and [logged on just as another tech working on the server changed the settings. I got this message: a “Oslo Middle G3 Server via AppleTatk” server. You will no longer be disconnected from the file I'M SURE we can fix that. Iwas glad I was no longer going to be dis- connected! I've never seen this message before!—Mark Hernpow PEEPS WENCH? Iwas willing to sit still for the murder of the Peeps wench (does that make me an accessory?), but what have you done with Kris Fong? The only rea- son I bought your magazine (well, the main rea- son after I crashed a hard drive with one of your cheesy upgrades) was to hear the smooth, Zen- calm, very soothing voice of Fong occasionally on the staff video. And now she’s gone. What have you done with her?—Q. Borsa Check the masthead.—Ep. You Know You're a Mac Addict When... | ..you feel a sense of peace parking your car in lots labeled G3 or G4, and you drive right past lots named P2 or P3.—Jason T. Yow you hase your self-esteem on Apple’s stock price —GartH Hansen ..you say “Let’s rock like it’s halftime 1984.”—AnoREW SHERIDA you tie up company bandwidth by downloading QuickTime for Windows to the Wintel machine they force you to use, just so Steve can announce record download numbers at the next Macworld Expo.—Hamisk BLAIR AUG/00 [Magadcer 15 erlers WARNING: USE AOL AT YOUR OWN RISK Jan Sammis's “Share a Single Network Connec- tion across Multiple Macs” (June/00, p41) sounded good for connecting my G3 and iMac, as I had already connected them via the built-in Ethernet. The firewall option was the clincher. 1 thought it would be so simple. After download- ing the 21-day trial of IPNetRouter from The Disc, { decided Yd be thorough and get the full documentation suggested in the Read Me file. I was just about ready to begin installing TPNetRouter when my eye caught the 22nd of 25 FAQs. It asked: “Can I dial into AOL and use IPNetRouter to route to my private LAN?” The answer: “No, IPNetRouter supports standard OT/PPP negotiation. AOL 5.0 and earlier uses a proprietary implementation of PPP to negotiate connectivity to AOL's servers. Consider getting a service provider that uses industry standard | connectivity if you would like to use | PNetRouter.” One would think Sammis could have included the phrase “except for AOL” somewhere in his article. 1 spent two full days becoming educated about IPNetRouter, only to- realize that my system won't work with it. Since | AOL is the largest portal to the Internet, three little words does not seem like too much to ask. —James BaRgick apologize for the confusion. Before I stopped | using AOL, I managed to route an AOL con- nection, despite the FAQ comment (which I simply didn’t seel). I may have gotten lucky, though—your mileage may vary.—IS WE JUST USE A TEDDY BEAR Your “MacAddict Super Product Slugfest” | comparison (May/00) between cable modems and DSL is off base. Any computer on a dedi- cated network connection, even DSL, is vulner- able to security breaches, and all of them | should run a firewall. My cable modem rou- tinely delivers between 3 and 8 Mbps, and with a $79 copy of NetBarrier, I can sleep soundly at night—MICHAEL GIBBS While lagree that any dedicated network con- nection is a security risk, cable modems come with an additional risk in that others in the same node of your cable network can see your Mac via AppleTalk. In either case, you're right: Folks should invest in some kind of fire- wall with a DSL or cable-modem connection, whether that’s a software solution, like the one you suggest, or a hardware router firewall such as the MacSense XRouter—-DR "SCOTT AOSE shows oft his allegiance , BRUSHED-METAL BLUES Steve Jobs is scaring me. What the heck is he thinking with AppleWorks 6, QuickTime, and Sherlock? He's designing like he's friggin’ five years old. The industrial design and interface R&D guys should be rounded up and shot. ?'m not looking for cute girly things. Aqua is great for the toylike iMacs and iBooks of first-time computer users, but can you see anybody with any computer knowledge whatsoever using it? I can just see the guys at Skywalker Ranch using hockey-puck rainbow mice and flying, fruit-col- ored, dysfunctional dialog boxes. —Don LAVELLE HEY YOURSELF! J was sitting around, pondering the imminent breakup of Microsoft, and I noticed that my 64/500 was trying to get my attention! { know, I thought it was odd too, but I think it really does like me! Here’s the picture —Wavne RUGENSTEIN WE CAN SUE YOU NOW The April issue of MacAddict inspired me. Using the “Hack Your Mac 2000” article (p24) and my trusty scanner, I came up with this startup screen for my Mac clone —Tom Ouva pull my hair out trying to find good Mac games. 1 can just go to the local Wal-Mart and pick up whatever Sony has to offer. The only drawback is that it only runs PlayStation games written and distributed in North America—therefore PlayStation discs written for Europe and Japan won't work. Then again, since I’m neither European nor Japanese, I guess that really doesn’t matter, does it?—Brian DELLINGER IAN KNOWS WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT I benefited from the “How to Build an MP3 Player in REALbasic’ article (May/00, p68). Tm not a programmer, but I’ve tried to study and earn REALbasic. I found the step-by-step directions clear, the code helpful, and the time I spent on the project worthwhile. As a result, I have a betier understanding of properties, list boxes, and what you can accomplish with the software.—Joux Fostay [DS Terrell Smith, Tuesday, ILOVEYOU virus tor Macintas 1 2500 am t: TLOUEVOU virus for Macintosh Congratulations HIE sou nov have. te ILOVEVOU virus for tacintesh | This virus works on the honour susten. you vitt nave te do the fettouing:~ 1) Fleate ranonty alate gone of te {L148 in yor Syaten Folder 2 Forvard thie enatt to other Mae users OH, NO! We caught the Mac love virus! Mac OS NOW ALL YOU NEED to do is send a check to the artist. BUT WHAT ABOUT UNREAL? For the last several years (well, since the early days of Mac gaming), everybody has constantly bitched about the availability (or lack thereof) of games for the Mac OS. Since I ordered Connectix’s Virtual Gaming Station for my 333MHz iMac, my bitch- ing days are over. For a measly 20 bucks, my iMac now runs every PlayStation game I’ve ever bought. My performance has been 99 percent glitch-free, the graphics are superb, and saving games is a breeze. Connectix has given Mac gamers the ultimate gaming solution. Now I no longer have to WE DON’T KNOW Did anyone else notice that the rocket pack in Unreal Tournament looks a lot like the You've Got Pictures icon on the America Online 5.0 welcome screen? Of course, why am I on AOL when there's so much fragging to be done? —Steve “Toy” Zoni YES, WINDOWS IS OUTDATED AND BORING | Not all of Microsoft’s products stink—a select few are quite good. The new Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac, as well as Outlook Express 5 with 128-bit encryption, are examples. Not many browsers can say the Macintosh version totally Kills the Windows version. Internet Explorer 5 makes the Windows version seem outdated and really boring —Curis Dave. D’OH T feel it is necessary to tell you about a mistake in your review of Appleworks 6 (Jun/00, p68). You said the text-wrapping ability was new. However, I have been successfully using that feature since ver- sion 4, and even then it worked remarkably well. Please be more careful—a feature may not neces- sarily be new just because you have recently dis- covered it —Davip STEWART Indeed, this was a mistake, and I apologize. Chalk it up to temporary insanity. It does not change our rating, bowever—IS “Ken SeeQ D flor » Digital Image Manvigital In inna _ at its very a best pe et 19a9 g eT INTO New Macs, new apps, and new addictions, Mac OS X Sighted Again A Glimpse of the Mac’s Future uring the annual Apple devel- oper get-together this May at the WorldWide Developer Confer- ence, Steve Jobs showed off the latest version of Apple’s forthcoming iiber operating system, Mac OS X, hipping the gathered masses to new features, promised applications, and a revised release sched- ule. Without showing off any groundbreak- ing new features, Jobs demonstrated that Apple’s engineers have come a long way since the Mac OS X preview in January. Perhaps the most impressively souped- up part of the new system is Mac OS X’s revamped OpenGL support. Although OpenGL isn’t new to the Mac, this version is special. It looks great, meshes well with the rest of the system, and sports impressive performance for a developer build. Jobs’s demo showed a live update of a PDF com- posite on a spinning OpenGL bottle, This new bit of wizardry wowed the crowd and demonstrated just how well Mac OS X fuses with OpenGL. The unoptimized OpenGL drivers perform impressively, too, squeez- ing 57 fps out of Quake 11—just wait until Apple fine-tunes that. This level of OpenGL support in Mac OS X should make devel- opers of games and 3D apps plenty happy to see OS X ship. Among ihe other improvements are a more Mac-like Finder and a refined Dock. The new Finder makes the Desktop in 0S X ee eee +B) oO Eke Clean Up Drange by Name Hide oaks show View Options 3) The Interface what's new and notable. Contains menu commands for the currently active app. B: The Apple in the center of the menu bar disappears when menus expand far to the right to cover it. C: Applications get shunted to the left side of the Dock to keep things tidy. D: Documents gel shunted to the right side of the Dock to keep things tidy. background, The last preview of Mac OS X placed the Dock icons on enlarged ti F: This thin white line separates applications from documents in the Dock, Apple’s done some tweaking of OS X's user interface since we first showed it off in the March 2000 issue (“Apple's Revolutionary New OS X,” Mar/00, p27). Here’s a look at A: The Apple menu has gone away to make room for the new application menu, which enough E: When you magnily items in the Dock, the icons enlarge without any surrounding iles. ap = = tb ey Borg Timeline | ey November 1999—an ioses interest roje in Borg. Rob threatens lan. lan t regains interest in Borg. 18| MacAdaict} AUG/00 os tL As we write this, MacAddict’s first attempt at a mobile robot, the iBorg, continues to suffer from poor engineering, time shortages, and a variety of other problems. To give you a feeling for the history of the project, here’s a timeline from its start through the first half of this year—/S January 2000—Pubtication of initial [Borg article. New iBook arrives, along with new control mechanism. Senet more like the current one; in previous incarnations of OS X, the new Desktop housed only aliases, The much-hyped and berated Dock now handles aliases (instead of actual files), and it also iries to elimi- nate confusion by separating applications and documents on the left and right sides of the Dock, respectively, separating the two regions with a white line. The improved Dock shows that Apple is listen- ing to what people had to say about the first incarnation of the Dock and that the company is willing to do something about it. Expect more changes to the Dock before 8 X ships. The Applications The list of Mac OS X-native applications is getting longer, too. Internet Explorer 5 is now up and running on Mac OS X, as is an initial version of Adobe InDesign. One surprising (and welcome) addition to the Mac OS X developer list is Alias Wave- front’s Maya, a kick-butt 3D modeling and animation tool. Maya has handled anima- tion duties in films such as The Matrix, Stuart Little, and Star Wars: The Phan- tom Menace. Besides Microsoft, Adobe, and Alias Wavefront, the list of Mac OS X— committed developers includes Canon, Dantz, Digidesign, EarthLink, Epson, File- Maker, Hewlett-Packard, id Software, Macromedia, and Palm. The Schedule Hand-wringing and liberal interpretations of the words optional install aside, Mac OS X is largely on track. Back in January, Jobs announced an aggressive release schedule for Mac OS X: a final release of the OS this summer, with the system prein- stalled on all new Macs by January 2001. Apple has reduced the summer release to a public beta, although Jobs hinted that the change is merely semantic. Either way, delaying the “final release” until the start of next year gives us the best of both worlds. Enthusiasts can start using the new system this summer, but Apple and third-party developers will have an extra six montks to polish and fine-tune their products for the official release. Mac OS X has the makings of a power user's operating system that will appeal to newbies as well. It will be stable, respon- sive, and offer killer high-end applications (such as Maya and Apache)—and it should be pretty, too. Look forward to this drool- worthy release. If you can’t wait to find out more, check out this month’s article on Mac OS X (“The Mac OS X Geek~English Dictionary,” p28).—-DR QuiekTime Engults MPEGS Apple Throws a Few More Codecs into its Multimedia Stew few months back, a sharp debate broke out on Slashdot (the Nirvana of nerd-dom) over the relative merits of the MPEG and Sorenson video compression standards. Apple has apparently decided to end the argument the same Way it settled the AVI versus Cinepak controversy a few years back: by including both in the next version of QuickTime. Bue out “this summer” (Apple’s favorite term for an arbitrary period of time between one | month and half @ year), QuickTime will add support for both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. Besides featuring a few more PEGs, the new ‘QuickTime will also support Flash 4 (up from Flash 3) and cubic QTYR scenes (unlike the older panoramas, these allow you to took straight up and. down as well as side to side). It will also include a Velocity Engine-enhanced audio encoder licensed from QDesign (hitp:/www.qdesign.com), designed to compress audio into QDesign’s streaming- optimized proprietary audio format-—IS WebObjects Sheds $49,301 Apple’s Application Server Suddenly Sells at Consumer Prices hen Apple bought NeXT in late 1996, it acquired a company that had spent nearly a decade searching for a way to turn the technical skills of its staff into cash. After NeXT failed to make a prof- it on either hardware or operating system sales, its second-to-last, nearly best hope (besides getting bought by Apple for $400 million) was WebObjects, a development tool that links databases and Web servers to create complex sites like the Apple Store (http://www apple.com/store). Until this spring, Apple kept WebObjects in a holding pattern, effectively continuing NeXT’s strategy of selling a few licenses for an exceedingly high price (a full WebObjects deployment license went for $50,000). Apple has apparently decided to get aggressive with WebObjects. On May 15, Apple dropped the price by nearly two orders of magni- tude, to $699. By lowering the price, Apple has turned what had been a product aimed almost entirely at large organizations into one available to high-end consumers (at $699, WebObjects is only a bit more expensive than Photoshop and is cheaper than Macromedia Director). Moreover, taken together with the revision of Mac OS X Server (to version 1.2) and Apple’s recent “SciTech Road Show,” Apple appears to be trying to move beyond the consumer base that has anchored its comeback so far and regain the sort of broad industry position it held before the collapse in the mid '90s—iS February 2000—lan loses interest in (Borg. Rob threatens lan. lan regains interest in iBorg. April 2000—ian loses interest in iBorg. Rob threatens lan. lan regains interest in iBorg. lan fixes iBorg camera glitch. AUG/O0! Mac Acaict!19. ow that Apple’s started to release information on Mac OS . = A Field Guide 0 Aqua X, we can finally bring you some details on the rich vari- ety of GUI elements that populate its new landscape. Here’s a A Spotter’s Guide for Human Interface Watchers | guide for enthusiasts 15 & DR Where: [ Documents za PUSH BUTTON WE CAUGHT THIS SAVE POP-UP BUTTON THE QUIESCENT LOOK (praepilatus detrudo) BUTTON inthe middie of | | (2raenllatus surprisius) of this Aqua Pop-Up Function: Causes an action to occur. | a courtship display— Function: Provides alist of choices in} Button is a pose— Size: The Aqua Push Button is 20 pivels | note tho rich blue color, | | 2S! space. i were you to clickit, it high, and has a lozenge shape caused by Size: The Aqua Pop-Up Button is ‘would abruptly grow. 14-pixel, rounded borders on either side. pixels high and sports 9-pixel spacers on Flock Behavior: Vertically stacked buttons typically separate either side of the button text with a 21-pixel- themselves by 10 pixels, while horizontal lists of buttons tend to wide, double-arrow attachment on the right side. Flock Behavior: When stacked vertically, Aqua Pop-Up Buttons will maintain a 10-pixel space between individuals. Defensive Behavior: Pop-Up Buttons use their ability to maintain 12-pixel distances, Mating Behavior: Push Buttons occasionally pulse from their usual gray color into a deep blue. We assume this is a courtship ritual. inflate from a relatively small 20-pixel height to much larger sizes Habitat: Dialog to discourage predators. They typically demonstrate this behavior when clicked. boxes, sheets, and I Habitat: Sheets, other contral-tich environments, dialog boxes, and other habitats where controls are typically present. @ Favorites f Save image Preview ; ] = ] i le f Computer) Home CHECK BOX THE COMMON (squaricus checkoboxi) CHECK BOX, in its Apps Function: Provides a way to choose one flashy, checked BEVEL BUTTON THIS FLOCK OF ‘of more options in a smal, tidy space. i (praepilatus softii) BEVELED BUTTONS Size: The Aqua Check Box button is 18 by | #PRParance. Function: Causes an action to ocour: | as chosen a Finder 18 pixels. Provides a much bigger target than a. window for its nests. Flock Behavior: When found in vertical groups, Check Boxes Push Button. have a 7-pixel space between them, When found with text labels, the Size: Aqua Bevel Buttons vary in size, but label will stand off to the left by 8 pixels. none are smaller than 20 by 20 pixels. Camouflage: The Check Box has two appearances—the Flock Behavior: While Bevel Buttons can be social, they more obvious checked appearance draws attention away from other aiways maintain a 6-pixel distance from each other. Check Boxes, and the less obvious unchecked appearance blends in Size: Bevel Buttons can have one of three height settings, but most with surroundings, breeders of captive specimens choose the smallest setting. Habitat: Sheets, Habitat: dialog boxes, and other) = Finder windows. habitats where controls are typically present. 20! MacAdaict! AUG/00 Cee aa Behaviors f0 Wateh For Window Layering Unlike traditional Mac OS windows, Mac OS X windows don’t come in layers. Clicking a win- dow wil! bring it to the front—all other windows stay in the background, even those that belong to the same application. Sheets Mac OS X sports a new type of dialog box called a ‘Sheet that drops out of another window's title bar, like this Save As box. Sheets clarify the relationship. between dialog boxes and their associated windows— otherwise you might find it difficuit to figure out which window a given Save As box refers to, now that the boxes don’t keep you from using other windows while they're in place! THIS SAVE AS BOX is probably the most common example of a ‘sheet. Note that the sheet’s background is slighily transparent. Lucida Grande ‘Mac OS X uses a new font called Lucide Grande for its window titles, controls, and menu items. As of press time, Lucida is the one true font—Apple’s made no mention of any ability to change the system font. New Command Shortcuts ; C Apple has declared two command-key combinations off limits to anything but the system under X: and SCS} CD-RW ari G #lllly & selillu Supports QPS Que! USB CD-R\ Command-H is a shortcut for Command-M is 2 shortcut for Hide This Application, Minimize Window (in other words, toss the frontmost window inio the Dock). Where Apple Fears to Tread We Rush In to Peek at Apple’s Appearance Schedule fier making big noises about the Internet, international markets, and the gaming market, Apple disappeared from Internet World, the United Kingdom’s Apple Expo 2000 in London, and the Electronic Entertainment Expo gaming trade show. However, the company did actually follow through on its DV squawking—it put on quite a show at April’s National Association of Broadcasters convention. 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You can tear off any cam so it sits ‘on your desktop, updating market's daily all by itself. STOCK CAM. Get the fascinating blow-by- blow of the stock happenings. Yawn, Sony v. Connectix Update na sharp blow to Sony’s legal fight against Virtual Game Station, Connectix’s Playsta- 3Com hitp://www.paim.com | $449 tion emulator, United States District Court Judge Charles Legge dismissed seven of Sony's original nine complaints against the emulator maker. The dismissal came in a summary judgment from the bench that ended Sony’s copyright and trademark claims against Con- nectix. Charges of patent violations, trade N 22| MacAdaict| AUG/00 ow here’s a peripheral straight out of science fiction. The Picza PIX-4 scanner scans 3D objects, creating wire-frame models that you can use in 3D modeling software on your Mac. It’s limited to scanning fairly small objecis (just a few inches in size), but it hasa resolution of down to 50 microns. Keen! The Picza is limited to a serial interface at the moment, so if you have a USB- based Mac, you’ll have to invest in a serial-to-USB converter as well—DR secret violations, and unfair competition are” still pending. The judge: vacated the original July 12 trial date, If you haven’t been following Virtual Game Station’s tortuous history, Connectix first released it in January last year. Sony quickly filed a nine-count suit against Connectix, alleging trademark, copyright, and trade secret violations as well as unfair competition. The suit led to an injunction that prevented Connec- tix from shipping any copies of Virtual Game Station for most of 1999. The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the injunction on appeal in a ruling that declared Connectix’s actions protected fair use. Virtual Game Station returned to the market immedi- ately following the February 10 ruling. Sony filed new charges of patent infringement at that time —IS bat hoa bare mt nee SONGS SIMPLY TASTE It’s about speed and agility. Simply add a Sonnet processor upgrade card to your Power Macintosh or PowerBook and leave the competition in your wake.Whenever speed is a factor, more people depend on Sonnet. You should too. For more information, call us at 1-949-261-2800 or visit our website at: www.sonnettechnologies.com Visit us at MacWorld New York July 19-21, Booth # 1707 get info Predictions for the Expo We Attempt Psychic Presentism ongtime MacAddict readers often comment on the long (usually more than a month) delay between reality and our news cover- age. In an attempt to shorten the lag, we've decided to use our best psychic powers to bring you Macworld Expo news (or the Macworld Conference & Expo, as its crack marketing team has dubbed it) as it happens. Here are out futuristic...es...presentistic predictions. et the end of Steve Jobs’s keynote, the audience at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center will spontaneously and inexplicably burst into song, specifically the “Hallelujah” chorus of Handel's Messiah. Developers will sing bass, the press will sing tenor, casual attendees will take on the alto part, and Apple employees themselves will star as sopranos. A videographer will film the musical miracle on a DV camera and edit it in iMovie. The preview will be available exclu- sively through Apple’s QuickTime site-—NR The air conditioning in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center will break down, New York City will see record-high temperatures and humidity the week of Macworld, and Steve Jobs will still be wearing a black turtleneck and jeans. —CL Preparing for the An Apple PR representative will spontaneously burst into flame when just one more attendee says “Mac OS Ex” instead of “Mac OS Ten.”"—DR Steve Jobs action figures will be the hot-ticket item of the Expo, and Phil Schiller will add another inch to his mullet —RC Jonathan Ive will appear onstage to announce the new porcelain-and-hardwood Macintosh cases, available in teak, walnut, mahogany, oak, and cherry. He’ll then spend the next 15 minutes arguing that the new iBook cases look nothing whatsoever like toilet bow! lids is ILLUSTRATION BY S.BaITT Things to Do Before the Party Ends s of press time, Napster—the Robin Hood of digital music— will stand trial for copyright infringement. With big-name artists like Metallica and Dr, Dre ordering Napster to ban fans who distribute their music illegally, users are downloading tunes by the drive load in case the free MP3 party abruptly ends. Here’s our list of steps you can take to cover yourself should Napster, Macster, and Rapster go down. * Download all the show tunes you can find. You never know. Someday you might need them, and you definitely don’t want to pay for them. Ditto for ditties by Hanson and the BeeGees. © Download dead people’s music. Jim Morrison's not going to techinfotidhit ‘opefutly, you've never heard a series of beeps when starting up your New World-based Mac (those are the translucent ones, for the non-Applish speaking)—but if you have, you know it means something is terribly wrong. Often the beeps are the last thing your Mac does before it Just stares blankly at you. You can do something, though. Count the number of beeps—you can translate that number inte one of five Death of Napster sue you from six feet under Paris (although DCC Compact Classics at http://deccompaciclassics.com might!) © Live dangerously. Download Puff Daddy's music. With so many artists sampled in those tracks, the group’ll have to fight for the right to sue you. Of course, that could backfire and they could all stand in line to sue you. Escape. Move to the Cayman Islands and resume your illegal activity, It’s worked for high-profile bankers, lawyers, and the mob. © if you can't beat ’em, join ’em. Start a band (preferably one with antiestablishment overtones), have a friend swap your music, and sue Napster yourseli—NR What Tho. se Nasty Beep: S Cries for help on your Mac's part. Here's how they break down. In any case, when you hear these beeps, you Should probably contact your authorized Apple service station for more help. You’ find all this info and much at Startup Mean more at Apple's Tech Info Library (http:/tiLinfo. apple.com) —DR coe moeeimeros [eee Tee Reeemeer 1 No RAM installed or detected Ditto 2 | Incompatible RAM installed Ditto 3} No RAM banks passed memory tests No good RAM banks 4 Bad ROM checksum No good boot images in boot ROM or bad system configuration block 5 Bad checksum for ROM boot block Processor not usable my) MacAddict} AUG/0O Y/ho says you can’t take your office with you on vacation? With VST's line of portable USB, FireWire® (IEEE 1394) and laptop aes: peripherals, you can get away from the office this summer without missing a beat. VST's portable USB products, such as the CD-R/W Drive and the Tri-Media Reader, provide a convenient way for you to easily back-up and transfer your data. If you'r looking for a faster storage solution, VST’s FireWire Hard Drives and Zip Drives are perfect for quick data transfer and even storing digital video files. 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All other trademarks are property of other respective holders. lomega patents protected by patent Microsoft® Mac applications pending in the US and other countries. Apple, Macintosh, Window$98 the Mac OS logo, PowerBook, and iBook are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. SuperDisk is a trademark of Imation Corporation. SmartDisk Personal Storage Systems form of buttons with sharp pins on the back. A blast from the past in the’ Bountiful Buttons by David Reynolds | ae reader Alejandro Andreatta sent us a collection of pins compiled from the past 14 Macworld Expo shows, and it brought back so many memories for us that we thought we'd share themn— afier drying the tears, of course. the annoying click Although it’s not strictly a button, this clicker from lomega was sufficiently annoying in 1998 to burn a place in the memory of anyone who had to listen to its incessant noise. Although this button doesn't have anything to do with the Mac universe, we liked its locks. It's about the cheese, after all. ‘The slogan probably should have said “| bought it” to have guaranteed the Newton's ‘success on its release in 1993. B.A.: Before Adobe Back when Aldus was stil around in 1993, they used a jolly multicolored too! palette pin to promote PageMaker 5.9. 26) MacAddict | AUG/00 brief look at megaheriz In 1996 and '97, Exponential promised to ship its 583MHz PowerPC-compatible microprocessor—that is, before Apple pulled the plug on the operation. After three years, we still haven't hit 533MHz, although the G4s are a lot faster at 500MHz than Exponential’s chip would have been at 533MHz. in 1995, e+ World was stil around, and Apple had printed e*World stickers to promote the company's @ online service. The sticker lasted longer than the service—e * World started in | 1994 and went dark in 1996. SACIWAGIUGS As part of the campaign to promote ‘System 7 in 1992, Apple created seven different buttons proclaiming feasons to get psyched about ‘We're not sure where this button came from or what it refers to, but the message is apt for developers today: Carbonize or die! (Any 720 players out there?) PHOTOGRAPH BY AARON LAUER OU_-ARE V | YOU ARE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BIG HOUSE AND A’ BIG HOUSE IN MALIBU: e YOU ARE THE FASTEST DRIVER | THE ENTIRE CRIMINAL COMMUN Film your own classic 70’s car chase Surveillance. Tailing. Deliveries. Getaway through real pedestrians, No tracks, Just 4 sprawling urban using incredible Director-Mode. Heists. And serious 70's muscle cars. traffic signals, traffic...and cops! downtowns from NY to San Fran. “A HiGH SPEED THRILL RIDE!” a NEwsweek Driver ©1999 Infogrames, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Created by Reflections Interactive Limited, an infogrames. Inc. ‘studio. Published : Lit Cie by: Geseibacg eal! and the: paneer es ae Esl ol ete interactive Limited, nfogrames Inc and te Infogrames logo are trademarks of Infogrames. Inc. * wwwawizarcworks.com/macsofty ‘Al oer. trademarks are the property oftheir respective companies. THE MAC C X GEEK — A Journey to the | S ike a highly anticipated blockbuster movie, Mac OS X will hit this summer—in public beta format. After five years of fits and starts, Apple has finished the under- pinnings of an entirely new operating system and is busily putting the finishing touches on its Brave New World. According to Steve Jobs, in a speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference last May, Mac OS X is to software what the current model lineup is to hardware-—a com- pletely revolutionary change in the way we compute. Mac OS X will put the cosmic powers of Unix into the hands of everyday Mac users, and it won't confound them with arcane commands and a spit-and-baling-wire user inter- Onl Me 4+! 2liinn face. Mac OS X will be an elegant, powerful operating sys- tem that will appeal to beginners and power users alike. It won't just look different—it will be more responsive, more stable, and more stylish than any other operating sys- tem out there, and it will have better Internet integration to boot. Unfortunately for the average Mac citizen, Apple and the press have conducted most of the preliminary discus- sions about Mac OS X in a hazy technobabble language, tossing around words like Carbon, Cocoa, Mach, and BSD as if you should know what they mean. But it’s OK if you don’t get it—you're far from alone. Now, for the first time, we go below the surface of the candied OS X user interface ENGLISH DICTIONARY "andl How X Will Change Your Life lus! known as Aqua and translate portions of its technical schematics from a language known as Geekspeak into plain English. We'll give you the inside scoop on the defi- nitions of threads, tasks, and shells; tell you why you'll love protected memory; and describe what Carbon, Cocoa, and Classic will do to bring you new power while letting you run your current Mac OS applications without upgrading. All this, and we'll explain everything using words you've actually heard before, in a language you can understand. Also in this issue, find a much more visual Aqua guide in Get Info, p20, because when it comes to user interfaces, a picture is worth a thousand words. chs Ofust/dict hownmcaddict. AUG/00| MacAadaict} 29 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! Let's start with an overview of OS X and compare it to the current state of affairs on OS 9. It may help you to visualize each OS as tig a planet—a separate ecosystem capable of supporting life. Okay, maybe that won't actually help you, but it sounds kind of cool. 30| MacAdaict| AUG/00 ‘The World as We Know It The current Mac OS (versions 8.x and 9.x) is the world we're leav- ing behind. After many long years, it's become apparent that it’s just not the place it used to be, especially after we've taken a look at what some of the shinier, newer operating systems have to offer. The cur- rent Mac OS is missing well-defined layers that mind their own busi- ness, thus preventing crashes—the kind of structures you find in more modern operating systems, such as Linux and Windows NT. Instead, archaic things like extensions and QuickDraw, the graphics layer, permeate the entire Mac OS, all the way from the Finder's windows-and-folders surface to deep in the heart of the System's memory management. This is a dangerous position to be in. Engineers have patched the current Mac OS to do tasks it was never designed to handle (for instance, the original Mac OS supported eight colors and could only run one application at a time!) The result is a system that’s poorly suited for many tasks. For instance, itis difficult to write a Mac application (such as Photoshop or even Stuffit Expander) that doesn’t hog so much processing power that every other program on the machine stalls, Also, most Mac Internet servers are profoundly slow due to an aging Mac OS core that handles multitasking poorly, especially when the tasks are network requests. Even so, Apple engineers have done a remarkable job of keeping all of the OS's different components working together relatively smoothly for a long time. The New World Darwin {encompasses BSD and Mach) Metaphorically speaking, Mac 0S X is a geologist’s dream. Its well- defined layers work nicely together—only the parts that need to talk to each other can talk to each other, and they do so while minding their own business. This keeps Mac 0S X stable and makes it easier to swap out various parts of the operating system (such as the network- ing stack) when necessary. For example, the layer of Mac OS X that runs older Mac OS 9 applications needs to talk to the core of Mac OS X (for processes such as networking), but it can’t crash the core of the operating system. As a result, Mac OS X has greater stability over- all. Aqua, which also sticks to its own layer, wraps all of the other lay- ers up in one package. ‘Mac OS X has no application that overreaches its boundaries as the current Mac OS Finder does. Instead, the OS X Finder is an app like any other, It makes polite requests to lower layers of the operating system without brutally tunneling to the center to perform its tasks. The latter approach can cause instability or create problems with portions of the operating system that change from one revision to the next, THE MAG OS X GEEK — | Geekspeak: Mach 3.0 || English: \mak thré-d\ n: An operating system microkernel initially developed at Carnegie Mellon University, designed to provide operating systems with advanced memory management, interprocess com- munication, and thread-handling capabilities. THE CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURE Mac OS X Mach 3.0 Current Mac OS The bowels of the System File thread Geekspeak: thread English: \thred\ a: A single point of execution in a program such as an Internet Explorer download in progress. Geekspak: memory management English: \mem-cé ma-nij-mant\ n: The allocating of memory (real or virtual) to individual tasks. Mac OS memory management, although advanced for a personal computer in 1984, has become dated—it does not prevent applications from accessing memory that belongs to other applications or the system itself, and it makes receiving more memory for a running app difficult. Mach has neither of these prob- Jems, so it's impossible for programs running on OS X to bring down the entire operating system when they crash. Geekspeak: interprocess communication (Ipc) English: \in-tar-pri-ses ko-myii-na-ka-shan\ n: The passing of infor- mation from task to task. Mach makes IPC very, very fast by tying it to memory management—it can send messages by simply reassigning the memory that contains the message from one task to another, avoiding the slow memory copying necessary with the current Mac OS—or with other OSs, for that matter. Geekspeak: task English: \task\ n: A running application or server program. Geekspeak: scheduling English: \ske-jiil-a ng\ vt: The art of allocating time on the CPU—or | CPUs on a multiple-processor system—to the currently running threads. Mac OS initially provided only the simplest scheduling capa- bilities, and the requirement to maintain backward compatibility with older Mac OS software has put a limit on improvements since that time. Mac 0S X will have full preemptive multithreading and multi- tasking and will handle multiple processors smoothly, making it much more responsive than the current OS—with the added benefit of giv- ing Macs with multiple processors much more power under Mac OS X than under Mac 0S 9. WHAT ALL THIS MEANS The core of the current Mac OS is eas- ily the worst part of the system, making it very difficult to run servers or computationally intensive programs (such as 3D applications) with any degree of efficiency. Mach replaces this core and is one of the ENGLISH DICTIONARY most beautifully executed operating system cores in existence. It makes programs behave by controlling how much processor time they get, how much memory they receive, and what portions of the operating system they can alter, leading to better responsiveness and stability. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE With 0SX, you won't have to set mem- ory partitions for individual applicatioas—so we can all stop explain- | ing to neophyte Mac users why their lovely new systems with 256MB of RAM are crashing on out-of-memory errors. Poorly written pro- grams can’t destabilize the system or other applications, which means that Mac OS X will crash less and that one crashing application won't bring down the entire computer. Applications won't stall out other | apps; well-written multithreaded apps won't even stall themselves out, meaning that you won't have to spend precious minutes staring at Progress bars or the spinning wristwatch. There are some other advantages as well. ¢ Multiple Processors The current Mac OS can't easily take advantage of multiple processors—developers must specially pro- grain applications in order for them to detect and spawn threads onto additional processors. If they don’t, these additional processors sit idle. Mach, however, automatically assigns each thread to whatever processor is least busy at the moment, so a two-processor system will nearly always run much faster than a single-processor system—and not just when it's running specially written code. Multiple Operating Systems in Parallel Mach acts only as the inner core of the operating system, so it’s very easy to build dif- ferent, higher-level operating system components that all work in parallel on top of Mach. Mac OS X takes full advantage of this. Engineers have reworked portions of the current Mac OS to run above Mach, providing the Carbon (see “Carbon,” p33) subsystem | that runs in parallel with the original OpenStep calls (see “Cocca,” p33). This lets Apple provide a way for developers to port older applications easily without forcing the removal of some of the out- standing systems developed by NeXT. This means we'll get a rich assortment of software for OS X. Neatly all of the usual Mac OS developers will be able to move their software to the new system with ease, and a new pile of software originally developed for OpenStep and other Unix variants will also become available on Mac 0S X. | Geekspeak BSD 4.4 English: \bé-es-dé for-for\ n: An acronym for Berkeley Software Distribution 4.4, the latest version of the first nonproprietary Unix flavor. THE CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURE Mac OS X Current Mac OS BSD 4.4 CodeWarrior, good geek-toy shareware (such as \PNetMonitor), top Mac server programs (WebStar, NetPi Z, Eudora Internet Mail Server), Geekspeak: Unix English: \yii-niks\ n: A multiuser, multitasking operating system devel- oped by Bell Labs in the late 1960s, jargely used by university folks and server jockeys. Later, Unix split into many flavors, including BSD, Sun0S, and Linux, AUG/90| MacAadict!31 THE MAC OS X GEEK — ENGLISH DICTIONARY Geekspeak: shell English: \shel\ n: A text interface between users and the operating sys- tem in which users can enter powerful and arcane commands (such asa command that finds every occurrence of the word /emur in every document on the hard drive and dumps them into a new text docu- meni). The shell (or terminal) Jets you read a text file, compile an application, or even delete the contents of a hard drive. Because this raw power lurks beneath the surface of Mac OSX, you won't ever have | to use it unless you want to—Apple has promised to make everything Geekspeak: PDF possible in Mac OS X without making you “pop a shell.” Geekspeak: EGCS English: \egs\ n: An acronym for Enhanced Gnu Compiler System. EGCS is the standard compiler both BSD and Mac OS X use to build Unix applications irom easily downloadable source code. WHAT ALL THIS MEANS The BSD 4.4 Unix layer in Mac OS X means happy developers, lots and lots of geek toys, world-class server applications, and unlimited cosmic power for power users. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Don’tlet all the tech talk put you off— having a version of Unix hanging out under Mac OS X’s hood is a very good thing. Even if you don’t plan on getting your hands dirty in BSD, you'll benefit. Here’s how. + Happy Developers BSD 44 (andits compiler system, EGCS) will make Mac OS X a fantastic developer platform. As part of their education, most developers learn how to program using the BSD fla- vor of Unix, which means a large number of people who might never haye considered coding for the Mac OS before can write applications for Mac OS X via its BSD layer. Add to this BSD’s mature development tools, such as EGCS, and you have a dream come true for anyone who ‘wants to write Mac OS X applications. | Geekspeak: Quartz English: \kworts\ n: An advanced 2D graphics display system based on Adobe's PDF technology. THE CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURE Mac 0S X Quartz Current Mac 0S QuickDraw English: \pé-dé-ef\ n: An acronym for Portable Document Format. Adobe developed this technology to make electronic documents look exactly the same on all systems, Quartz uses PDF technology for its display. WHAT ALL THIS MEANS Mac 05 X will have kick-ass graphics (including great graphics effects) built in. Mac OS X-native applica- tions will have the ability to save documents as PD¥s for free. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Quartz is the window between Mac 0S | Xand you. It handles the drawing of every single pixel you see, from the lowliest window to the high-tech application dock. Quartz also makes the Aqua interface possible. It’s the engine behind the spifiy drop shadows, translucent menus, and every other graphic trick Aqua has to offer. Aliso wrapped up in Mac OS X's graphics layer is OpenGL (the killer 3D technology that powers the latest games and 3D model- ing software) and QuickTime. In fact, these two technologies are so tightly integrated that QuickTime image, movie, and audio file pre- views show up inside Mac OS X browser windows. By moying to the PDF-based Quartz from the antiquated | QuickDraw graphics system, Apple can offer some free whiz-bang ¢ Tons of Software Thanks to the killer programming tools | built for BSD, Mac OS X users will be able to do what Linux and BSD users have been doing for years—download and use the fons of pow- erful programs already available for BSD Unix. These are mostly power-user tools, such as server applications and scientific programs, but they include lots of interesting stuff, such as streaming MP3 servers, Web servers, and the like. Another benefit to having these | built-in application creation tools: Developers can build programs | from BSD source code they download from various archives—and often it requires very little tweaking. This should give us access to many of the specific-purpose applications (servers, numerical appli- cations, and so on) that we've never seen on the Mac before—which should officially silence those Mac foes who use the absence of such applications as an argument against our platform, © World-Class Server Applications BSD Unix is widely used in Internet servers, which means that the best server applications (such as the kick-butt Web server Apache and the cool Icecast MP3 streamer) already run on BSD. With a tiny bit of tinkering (most likely at the hands of the enthusiastic college students who compose a good part of the Mac shareware contingent), almost all of these applications will run in OS X’s BSD layer, making the Mac a killer system for serving Web pages, FIP sites, streaming audio—you name it. 32) MacAadict| AUG/00 graphics effects, such as transparency, drop shadows, antialiased vec- tor images, and painless production of PDF files, to all applications. | Also, you can easily map these PDF documents onto OpenGL objects. ‘This is especially important for the graphics crowd, which can now create spectacular graphics documents and save them as PDEs, an increasingly important format in the prepress world, Oh, and Apple doesn’t have to pay licensing fees for PDF as it does for PostScript, so the company can charge less for the system than for the PostScript- based Mac OS X Server (which costs $499). Geekspeak: Classic English: \kla-sik\ n: A virtual machine environment running an older version of Mac OS. Shims into Mach have replaced the current Mac OS hardware drivers. THE CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURE Mac 0S X Current Mac 0S Virtual PC, if there was a version that emulated a Mac The Classic environment Geekspeak: shim English: \shim\ n: A piece of code that looks like a hardware driver to higher-level software but passes the data it receives to some other device (often something quite different). A well-known example is the shim in ‘Mac 0S ROMS that makes the current USB keyboards look like ADB key- | boards to the Mac OS startup sequence, thus allowing you to use startup key combinations such as Command-Option-P-R to zap the PRAM. THE MAC 0S X GEEK ~ ENGLISH DICTIONARY WHAT ALL THIS MEANS With the entire operating system com- pletely overhauled, Apple has to provide a way for you to keep using your current software until you get a chance to buy apps written in Carbon or Cocoa (see “Carbon,” and “Cocoa,” this page). The company elected to emulate a Mac running OS 9 in software, thus letting you run existing code on your Mac—the process is similar to running Windows in Virtual PC, except that it's much faster and the program windows inte- grate nicely with Mac OS X windows. The upshot? The bulk of your exist- ing software will run in the new environment (with the exception of some games and utility software, which typically try to touch the hard- ware directly—a no-no in a well-structured operating system). Unfortunately, all of the problems associated with the current Mac 0S are still present in the Classic layer. For instance, you stil! need to set memory partitions, applications can stili crash one another, and so on. ‘The Classic layer can use the CPU without emulation or translation since it relies on the same processor as the rest of Mac OS X. Therefore, you won't see any real speed hit as you would with emulators like Connectix’s Virtual PC (http://www.connectix.com), which has to trans- late instructions for Intel processors into instructions the PowerPC CPU can understand, WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Classic lets you switch to Mac OS X gradually, much as the 680X0 emulation routines let Mac users buy early Power Macs without having to purchase entirely new software. The one caveat, and it’s a doozy, is that you can't use third-party hard- ware drivers in the Classic layer. Since Classic runs on a virtual machine, it can’t see the hardware directly. carbon (diamond structure) | Geekspeak: Carbon English: \kar-ban\ n: A collection of Application Programming Interface calls and shared libraries that lets applications written to the Carbon specification Tun in Classic Mac OS while getting all the benefits of Mac OS X. THE CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURE Current Mac 0S Macintosh Toolbox Mac OS X Carbon Geekspeak: Reentrant English: \ré-in-trant\ a: Programming code that can be invoked simul- taneously multiple times without crashing or corrupting data. Vital for any modern operating system that needs to perform lots of tasks at the same time without stalling. (The current Mac OS isn’t reentrant- capable—which is why a single sluggish Mac OS application can stall out everything else on the system.) WHAT ALL THIS MEANS Mac OS developers don't have to rewrite their programs entirely to get them to run under Mac OS X, thanks to Carbon. Instead, they will have to rewrite only 10 to 20 percent of the code, WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Carbon is the brilliant idea that will keep current Mac OS developers (such as Adobe, Macromedia, and Microsoft) happy. Because they only have to rewrite a small portion of each current application to make the apps Carbon-compliant (and Mac OS X-native), the major development houses are much more likely to make the changes and adopt this new operating system than ifthey had to rewrite the entire code, Carbon applications will be 100 percent PowerPC code and will run under earlier versions of Mac OS (versions 8.x and 9.x). They'll be more stable, more responsive, and able to grab more memory as needed without your having to lift a fin- ger. They'll also take on all of Aqua’s eye-candy characteristics. Expect to see a lot of Carbon in Mac OS X's early days. Geekspeak: Cocoa English: \ko-k6\ n: Collectively, the tools and interfaces (based on dynamic languages Objective-C and Java) that NeXT developed for graphical application develop- ment in its NextStep and OpenStep operating systems. THE CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURE Mac OS X Current Mac 0S Higher-level Mac OS APIs, or a framework such as Metrowerks PowerPlant Cocoa Geekspeak: Dynamic Language English; \di-na-mik lang-gwij\ n; A computer programming language that waits until code runs to create, type-check, bind, and link objects. This usually adds flexibility, making programs easier to write and maintain, at some performance cost. WHAT ALL THIS MEANS NeXT’s development environment has always been one of its strong points—indeed, rumor has it that a demonstration of Cocoa convinced Gil Amelio to buy NeXT back in late 1996. This should make application development under Mac OS X both easy and entertaining for developers. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE If the last decade has taught us any- thing, it’s that the one resource Apple simply cannot do without is the strong base of amateur and semiprofessional developers responsible for creating the vast majority of Mac shareware in existence. Cocoa should make these folks very happy—it lets a relative beginner quickly create a fairly impressive application. This means more and better shareware than we've ever seen before. Unlike the lower-level BSD layer, Cocoa is designed to work with the full graphical environ- ment of OS X, so the applications written for Cocoa will closely resem- ble the software we know and love on the Mac—and there'll be more of it available. Much more. Jan Sammis and David Reynolds are already drooling over Mac OS XI’s direct neural interface. 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Share it.” A. |” READ filer 36 | MacAdaict | AUG/00 composer, a photo illustra- A tor, a Web design guru, two audio entrepreneurs, a musician, a poster artist, a Hollywood effects specialist, and a font designer. No, that’s not the name of ABC's newest sitcom; it’s a list of the people we spent the last few months badgering for informa- tion—about their careers, their vision, and their Macs—to pass along to you. Among them is the man who brought the San Francisco Symphony and Metallica together; a former art direc- tor for Rolling Stone and the New York Times, the guy who makes the girls inside Maxim look inhumanly beautiful; and a man who built a Star Destroyer’s docking bay in Star Wars by hand. These are the people behind the magic, and we've got the magic behind the people. um, Nine is at the peak of his respective industry, and each owes the Mac a certain amount of grat- itude for helping him get there. The com- puter of choice for creative professionals is an amazing tool in the hands of someone with talent and vision, so read on for insight, inspira- tion, or just to get some really cool tricks from the ultimate Mac pros. FE ach of our Magnificent... f the by Cathy Lu and Robert Capps photography by Rafael Fuchs ROGER BLACK, Web and print design guru THOMAS DOLBY ROBERTSON AND JOSH GABRIEL, music and sound innovators ANDREW COPPA, photo illustrator and retoucher MICHAEL KAMEN, film score composer FRANK KOZIK, poster artist CHANK DIESEL, font designer MOBY, musician ERIC CHAUVIN, special effects wiz AUG/00 | MacAddict |37 | Sites That Work FIND ADOBE ILLVSTRATOR 6.0 nite Roger Black print designer, Web guru, creative director of Circle.com MAG: PowerBook 3 (FireWire) APPS OF THE TRADE: Adobe illustrator and Photoshop (htt:/vwwadobe.com), ‘QuarkXPress {http://www.cuark.com), Netscape Catendar (htip:/Awww.netscape, com) CLAIM TO FAME: Art director for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and Newsweek; redesigned Men's Health, the New Republic, and the San Francisco Examiner; designed MSNBC.com, HBQ.com, Newsweek.com, and Barnesandnoble,com 1970s no one told him he wasn’t one, We'd say he’s in the clear— nobody is going to tell him he isn’t one now. The prolific Black has played art director at some of the biggest publications in the world, includ- ing Rolling Stone and the New York Times. He has worked as a redesign gun-forhire at other magazines and papers such as the Los Angeles Times and Fast Company, In the 1990s he brought his sizable reputation and finely honed design skills to bear on the World Wide Weh, setting the look for several prominent sites and releasing the book Web Sites That Work (Adobe Press, 1997), He has founded multiple design-related companies, two of which (Roger Black Inc. and Interactive Bureau) officially merged Q&A with Roger Black R oger Black jokes that he became an art director because in the early MacAddict: What are the different challenges of designing a maga- zine and designing a newspaper? Roger Black: Newspapers are much more [about] designing a system. You don’t really have that much hands-on detail control, You have to set up a number of methods or formats or techniques for putting out the pages in a hurry. That's very similar to Web sites. What we're designing is not a page; we’re designing a system so people can make a Web site that looks like it was designed. Newspaper work is pretty close to that, intellectually. 38 |MacAcaict) AUG/00 ay last year into Circle.com, a worldwide media company offering a complete range of Internet services, Black is currently the creative director of Circle .com, Black, who first ventured into publishing as an editor at a student magazine, focuses his design style on simplicity, ease of use, and editorial functionality, Among his top design rules in Web Sites That Work are “Make everything as big as possible” and “The first color is white, the second color is black, and the third color is red.” He avoids overloading readers, and he always puts content first. Convergence is a word Black uses often, implying the interconnected nature of content, design, marketing, focus, and engi- neering in a Web site. Though he’s convinced the Web still hasn’t found its way out of the dari ages, he’s optimistic for the future, MacAddict: What's different in magazine work? Roger Black: Magazine work is,..an art director's job, Newspapers are a designer's job, At 2 magazine, if it’s well done...you're ordering or creat- ing or editing the art in the publication, the illustrations, and the photog- raphy, People became very design-oriented in the '70s and '80s, and many Magazines now are not yery well art-directed, but they're beautifully designed, It’s as though they forget about the pictures. It's weird. Where I came from...the art directors were art editors. They helped develop or assign or choose the pictures. And that’s kind of a lost art. MacAddict: What made you want to design for the screen? Roger Black: think the transition had to do with already working on the screen, Once we got into desktop publishing, you really were imaging all of your stuff on a screen, Very often the scan looked better or the type with the very white background looked better than it did when it was printed....It had its own design artifact quality—so why not just give peo- ple that? Also 1, like many designers, have a certain wish that [I] had gotten info movies—editing sound or animation [or] photography...why not...design with that?... was at a Seybold conference six years ago in Boston, and John Gage from Sun was showing Mosaic....He was showing “The Web” with some live copy and some...pictures. And it was like, “‘Whoa!”. I'm [also] interested in the media aspects [of the Web] —live- ness, getting things out there....The Web... [is] instant. You just put it out there, and it’s done. MacAddict; As you made the transition to the Web, did you ever find yourself frustrated at all? In print you can run big photos. And ‘on the Web... Roger Black; Photos are horrible, yeah. In this stage of development the Internet is for transactions—whether for sales or for information. One- way media—broadcasting or publishing—is for storytelling. It may be that we ultimately get storytelling to work [on the Net} somehow, but at that point it would be a convergence situation. You're getting video on demand or whatever, but you're still in a passive mode....But the Web metaphor is really transactions....People want to find something out. They go there, they get it, they get out, And that’s a wonderful thing, It’s an amazing thing, MacAddict: What's your opinion of the design of most Web sites out there right now? Roger Black: \ think they'ze all pretty horrible. But then again, most of them are trapped in Windows. That, 1 think, is a disastrous thing for them. Most people cringe like a stray dog [does] when you [lunge] at it—that’s the basic human reaction to Windows. You open up the PC and you have the same cringe as the cowardly dog because it’s such a horrible thing. Even if you accept it, it reminds you of homework, it reminds you of work. Protect the Baseline ne of the biggest hurdles Roger Black and the design department at Circle.com have to tackle is making type sharp and readable on the Web. Circle.com was willing to share the following trick with us—always protect the baseline of type. If the baseline stays sharp, the text usually looks good as well. Here’s how. Type © Cutting and pasting from Adobe lilustrator is unpredictable—you often end up with muddled type. Remake type with Photo- shop’s type tool for GIFs and JPEGs. ®@ When making type in Photoshop, set your canvas to 100 percent magnification. If you zoom in or out, it can alter your type's baseline and make it fuzzy. ® Vary a type’s point size and see if it looks any better—sometimes going up or down a single point will make a huge difference. © Try sharpening your type with Photashop’s Unsharp Mask filter. Type TYPE created in Illustrator (top) is just slightly fuzzier than type created in Photoshop (bottom). ONE OF ROGER BLACK’S biggest Web endeavors was the look he gave the MSNBC.com site. MacAddict: Why do you think that Is? Roger Black: it’s the ghastly interface design, followed by the Microsoft hegemony coming through in the design....If you take Windows and then put [Internet Explorer] inside it, and then you get your Web site, you’re already lost in most cases. There are a lot of other frustrations [as well]. You have no control over typography, so the type is almost illegible. Yammering clients want to put more stuff on every page. So they resolve that by making the type so small only eight-year-olds can read it... think we have a long, long way to go. MacAddict: What are some design faux pas on the Web? Roger Black: ve already mentioned my number one pet peeve, which is the tininess of all the type....The second one [is that] nobody edits. There are a hundred things on every page. They put the banner ads on, and they all start twinkling 2t you—[it} drives you out of your mind. There is a kind of moronic sameness about all Web sites. Why is that? Why do they all look exactly alike now? I call it Yahoo-ization. MacAddict: What advice would you give to a print designer who’s stepping onto the Web? Roger Black: 1 think the main thing is pretty much to work as you would in print design. A good designer always focuses on the reader or the cus- tomer, the viewer, whatever the end user is....1 do not believe the techno- logical hurdles are that big....Most of the stuff we do on the Web is not particularly difficult. Almost anybody, particularly anvbody under 30 growing up in our society, has enough technological culture to work with it. Don’t get scared. It’s not that big a deal. Apropos Applications Re Black’s designers kindly shared with us some of the shareware apps they find indispensable. iView Multimedia (http://wwwv.iview-multimedia.com)—A tool for making slide shows. It can also easily export a foider of images into an HTML slide show. Snapz Pro (http:/Avww.AmbrosiaSW.com)—The premiere screen-shot app. Drop Rename (http://infomac.acornsw.com/infomac/_DISK_AND_FILE/DROP- RENAME-35 .HTML)—A utility for renaming batches of files. Makes changing groups of file names a snap. AUG/00 |MacAcolct 39 The Sound Masiers 0 MIXMAN mas Dolby t first glance, it may not seem obvious why Thomas Dolby Robertson and Josh A Gabriel are in business together, Dolby Roberison’s company, Beainik*, focuses on providing the tools to put sound on the Web sans download or buffering time. Gabriel’s company, Mixman, is in the business of empowering musicians and nonmusicians alike with song-mixing tools. But take a look at their pasts—and where they believe music technology is headed in the future—and it starts to make sense why their two companies merged last December, Both Dolby Robertson and Gabriel have been involved in the music and technology revolution since the 1980s; both have been pushing the limits of their Macs from day one—Dolby Robertson on a Classic, Gabriel on a Plus. Now their collective goal is to help millions of people experience music and sound via the Internet. Witness what they call eMixes, a fusion of the two technologies (http://www. beatnik.com/groovegrams/index -html), which allow any average tone-deaf Jill or Joe to remix tracks like Smash Mouth’s “All Star,” even Thomas Dolby Rohertson’s own “She Blinded Me with Science.” As both Dolby Rebertson and Gabriel tell it, the Internet is the last entertainment or multimedia experi- ence that Jacks an edifying sound experience, Their goal? To change that forever. Thomas Dolby Robertson wn Tmusician, founder of Beatnik Josh Gabriel oa. Musician, founder of Mixman MACS: Dolby Robertson: G3 PowerBook and Quadra 950; Gabriel: G3 PowerBook APPS OF THE TRADE: Dolby