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SONnien [ NO. 50 | OCTOBER 2000 | VOLUME 5 | ISSUE 10 | highlights how to 28 Resistance is : 70 Play Override Futile with Overdrive Get an eyeful of Apple's We mix a cool new latest hardware—including controller with an old-time the 8-inch, give-that-thing-to- favorite game and—after me-now Cube; a far iess the inadvertent addition of fruity iMac line; and the new, Chemical X (well, actually wrist-friendly optical mouse. an intentional use of USB We've got more specs, pics, Overdrive) —we're all set to | and charts than you can blast some renegades. | shake a stick at. by lan Sammis by The MacAddict Staff 74 Stitch Scans | 36 Picture Perfect with Photoshop Trying to scan record albums, book covers, and farm animals often produces results that look like a patchwork quilt—each section tends to have its own (unfortunately) unique look. Here’s how to put the pieces back together. by Joseph 0. 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OCT/00 | MacAaccict!5 conien every month 10 Editor’s Note Rob gets secrets piped into him from the CIA through a transmitter located within a gold filling in one of his upper molars. See what he has learned this month. 14 Letters You said it, we printed it. Let’s just say we're both to blame. 16 Get Info ——____ Microsoft is chipping away at the new Mac Office suite, and has got it pretty nicely polished. Also on offer: our usual rounds of neat shareware, droolworthy hardware, and Mac-incompatible gizmos we managed to get working anyway. 26 Scrapbook Without even the benefit of formaldehyde, we eviscerate an iBook to see how all those tiny parts fit together. Thank goodness for macro lenses! ‘JUST ONE MORE, and Deus 48 Reviews © will run lke a charm, The game fest is under way with Diablo Il, The Sims, and Deus Ex. We scrutinize Canon's itsy-bitsy CanoScan N656U and Umax's 42-bit consumer scanner, the Astra 3400. 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DITCH THE 3D GUNS, ’cuz this is the game that will stand the test of time. ociober’s high-calorie picks Mia 2: Romaine’s New Hat Demo Aw. Isn't she cute? It’s a story and an interactive, educational adventure rolled into a beautifully rendered 2-CD set, Call it edutainment at its best. Little Mia lost her mom’s gorgeous hat and it’s up to you to help her find it or earn Sparklies so she can buy a new one! This game is made for children ages 5 to 11, but grownups will find Mia 2 fun, charming, and educational, too! @ Crystal Caliburn Demo 3D Shooter? No way! Interactive adventure? Shyah, right! We're going old school, baby! You gotta love the classics. Crystal Caliburn is a best-selling pinball title, designed and developed in Japan. It received high praise from the New York Times, and has won many prizes and awards all over the world, including the Best Simulation award from the Software Publishers’ Association. 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HireKnowledge’ Specialized Staffing Solutions Baltimore * Boston * Chicago * Dallas * New York ® Philadelphia * Providence * San Francisco ® St. Louis © Washington, DC Ors How Bungie, the Xbox, and the G4 Cube Control Your Future. ast month in my editorial, I rambled through a slightly overstated eulogy to Bungie Software—makers of the hit Macintosh games Marathon and Myth. At that time, Microsoft had just acquired Bungie, and I predicted that the gaming company was probably going to leave the Mac for greener pastures, The course of events sorely dated my editorial by the time it reached your hands. At Macworld Expo New York in July, Steve Jobs made the announcement that Bungie’s new game Halo would in fact be coming to the Mac, You cheered. I slapped my forehead and screamed, “D'oh!” ‘The future arrival of Halo on the Mac is, of course, good news. The announcement got me thinking about the Xbox, however, and while I was sitting there pondering Microsoft's upcom- ing gaming console, Steve Jobs pulled back the cover on the new Power Mac G4 Cube. I imme- diately saw a parallel between the two devices. Boxes and Cubes What these two, seemingly unrelated platforms have in common is this: They both take small steps toward entirely new roles for computers. Former Bungie vice president Peter Tamte elo- quently summed up this sentiment in a recent interview I did with him (see “Bounce Back,” p68). He pointed out that Apple is one of the few companies to realize that the average per- son encounters some real, physical obstacles in using a computer. Tamte offered Palm's PDAs as an example of a platform that has thrived simply because it got the ergonomic aspect of usage right. Both the Xbox and the Cube likewise address physical hurdles that stand in the way of computing ease. ROB REALLY NEEDS a new ed note picture. could theoretically send and receive email, or download MP3s to play via your home stereo. Apple’s Answer Apple, on the other hand, is approaching the physical limitations of computing from the opposite direction. It is making machines with so much personality, so much physical appeal, that you will feel comfortable putting them into situations where you would never have imag- ined a Mac before. A computer that oozes wires and takes up tons of space always reminds you of work, so you instinctively keep it tucked away in your office. But what if Apple made a machine so small, uncluttered, and appealing to the eye that you wanted to keep it on your kitchen counter so you could check online recipes while making dinner? The Cube is still too expensive for such purposes, and other (\ Staff Rants) Managing Editor Q. What shape would you like your next computer to be? A. Atuby-red, life- size MIG-17, only with radar, I'd simulate flight from application to application, crashing my system only when I messed up a landing, Q. In the future, where don't you want computers? A. Computers, like telephones, should never be next to a toilet, Associate Editor Q. What shape would you like your next computer to be? A. Well, a sphere would be a bad idea, unless i cut a circular hole in my desk in which it could sit...so proba- bly another Platonic solid. I think I'd go for a regular icosahedron, so I could paint numbers on it when it became obsolete and use it as a 420. Q. In the future, where don'tyou want computers? A. In my underwear, in my food, and on my belt, in that order. .. the average person encounters some real, physical obstacles in using a computer. limitations prohibit using it next to your T microwave—but the compact box represents a significant step toward expansion of use. As you look over Apple’s newest hardware offerings (see “Resistance is Futile,” p28), you Digital Media Editor Q. What shape would Microsoft, like Sony, is trying to transition the computer out of the office and into the liv- ing room. With the Xbox, Microsoft is making — systems will always play a part in the Mac, but compactness) —hooked up a device which users will lean back and enjoy _as we integrate computers into more and more to a 22-inch Cinema display. rather than sit forward and work at. The Xbox areas of our lives, we're going to face bigger, Q. In the future, where don't you want is a gaming console, just like those Nintendo, not strictly technological issues. When you computers? Sony, and Sega make—but at heart it's also a look at the Cube, think about Palm PDAs and A. For decency’s sake, F'll refrain from computer. It can surf the Internet and play the Xbox—and realize that Apple has already answering that question, DVDs. In the future, Microsoft's living-room toy 10| MacAddict|OCT/00 may feel the temptation to complain about missing PCI slots, absent audio ports, and other shortcomings—but don’t lose sight of the Cube’s real value. Clock speed and cache taken our beloved Mac one step further. you like your next computer to be? A. Small, flat, and the size of a credit card (like asl co SOMETIMES BUSINESS IS ABOUT MOVING PRODUCT. SOMETIMES IT’S ABOUT MOVING THE CROWD. From the warehouse district to Wall Street, more professionals trust Imation™ CDs. Why? Probably because of Imation’s nearly 50-year history in managing and storing data. In fact, all of our products are tested to exacting standards to withstand even the toughest environmental conditions. But then, our quality testing and customer ¢ reputation have always been second to none. No matter what shape your business te yu can count on Imation as a devoted leader in breaking n¢ in technology solutions. 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I was disappointed. —Nick Bu TLIG (Roce Site —© 14| MacAadict | OCT/00 THE COMPETITION is toast. ARE YOU RELATED TO IAN SAMMIS? It concerns me that the image on the front of the OS X box is a set of gears meshed to form the letter S. In real life, if the first gear were to turn clockwise, any other gear would have to turn against the adjacent gear, causing a grinding of teeth on a biblical scale! The startup screen for ClarisWorks 4 shows a sim- ilar nonworkable gear train. C’mon, whoever turns out this artwork, think! The Mac com- munity knows that the Mac works. Why not show the same consideration for how you present it to the public? I feel better now. —Dave Hanson YOU MIGHT NOT BE OK JUST YET I just want to thank you all at MacAddict for saving my almost lost soul. Thank you for showing me the light—and I am dead seri- ous when I say this, too. Oh, and uh...does Max need a friend? And where does Max live? And is Max real or is he just a cartoon? —Amir MikHak BUT WE LIKE BAGELS! Has anyone else noticed the eerie visual sim- ilarity between the G4 Cube and a toaster? Could it be mere coincidence? A new ad campaign (‘The power to toast the competi- tion,” “The greatest thing since sliced bread”)? Or simply a side effect of using fanless convection cooling with a processor that churns out a gigaflop per second? —Marr Jounson Ross PRETTY SKETCHY Thank you very much for your tutorial on how to use the color-dodge feature of Adobe Photoshop to create images resembling pencil sketches (“Sketch with Photoshop,” Feb/00, p74). I took a picture of my G4, scanned it in along with pencil strokes, and then sketched it in Photoshop.—Copy MILLER ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID *_~ I HOW WALL Street Journal. THAT’S USING THE OL’ NOGGIN Sheesh, some people are already griping about the Next...er...Apple G4 Cube. They say it’s too expensive and not expandable enough, and they question the wisdom of putting out a product with no definable tar- get market. Whine, whine, whine. One can hardly accuse Apple's G4 Cube of lacking versatility. In fact, here are some other purposes it can serve that I bet even Apple didn’t think of © Tissue box. Soap dish. Wheel chock. Book ends (requires two). Egg slicer (use the grate on top). Impress your PC friends by showing them how convenient it is to have to flip over your computer to plug any device into it. © Just add a bulb and a shade, and you have a new lamp. Cat food dish (turn it upside down). Doorstop. Rubik's cube for clueless people. Hower vase. Replacement for the Cable Ace award. Shoeshine stand for people with small feet. © Penholder for those pens with the really huge feathers on them, © Window prop for a hot summer day. © Buya bunch and stack ‘em up like giant overpriced Legos. ‘That should help Apple sell ‘em! —Natnan Strum YOU'RE A LOON I noticed that if you look cross-eyed at Mac Dance Web site (http:/Avww.themacmind .com/macdance), as if looking at a magic-eye picture, one iMac in the seventh row appears to pop forward and an iBook appears to fall backward. If you cross your eyes in the oppo- site direction, this motion reverses. I was won- dering if anyone else had noticed this or if ?’m just crazy—Eric STEINLAUE BEEEHAAAVE! I was a PC pusher for years, doing meaning- less tasks on a meaningless machine, but I have seen the light. My boyfriend introduced me to my first Macintosh. At first I was shy, an Apple virgin-—I really didn’t know how to get my Mac to its full potential. I saw a copy of MacAddict at my boyfriend’s shop, and I secretly stole it and subscribed. Your maga- zine taught me how to handle my 64 and to get the best out of it, and now, I’m proud to say, I’m a Mac hussy!—Lynn Estrapa eee ee ee eeee | WHY, THANKS! I haye read every issue of MacAddict from cover to cover since the first one. I must say that the August issue was the most interest- ing yet. Outstanding job, MacAddict—keep up the great work!—Rapy MayNaRD The August issue of MacAddict really rocked—it alone was worth the price of my next renewal! I especially valued the “Mac OS X Geek-English Dictionary” (p28); thanks for a boatload of useful information. —Jerry Martin Wow, I just got the August issue, and I'm totally blown away. Between the OS X dictio- nary and “Secrets of the Pros,” this is easily the best, most informative issue to come from you guys in a very long time.—Justin Sevaxts THINK OF THEM AS INSANELY.245 FAST Steve Jobs said the new multiprocessor Power Mac G4s are “wicked fast,” and I was hoping you guys could clear up just how fast that means, In terms of “insanely fast,” just how fast are these new wicked-fast machines?—-Jim Ropovicu You Know You're a Mac Addict When... ..you check under your seat after the Macworld Expo keynote for a free opti- cal mouse tickel—and you're watching the live Webcast at home.—Stay Futton. $0 THAT'S what they mean by ; “swims with the fishes,” you build a MacQuarium just so you can get in the magazine. —Mike ano Karty Durkee you think the X-Men movie is about the Mac OS developers.—Kevin Sawick .«¥0U finally break down and set your home page to the PowerBook listings on eBay.—Dawiet Tomasch 3.5" MO, Zip”, Jaz™,Orb Drive 3.5" Harddrive CardBus Introducing 2nd Wave's Fireline FireWire peripherals for your Mac +2.6" Hard drive + 3.5" Hard drive +3.5"M0O, Zip™, Jaz™, Orb Drive “+ CardBus - FireWire for PowerBook + PCI card - FireWire for G3/G4 Creative Macintosh Solutions by ADBee SCUSBee USBeenus SerialBee PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF MIGROSOFT er INTO A droolworthy product with a section wrapped around it. Office 2001: A Mac Odyssey Microsoft Shows Off New Mac Suite $ part of its continuing commu- because 2001 uses the nity service work to make up for Appearance Manager for its unleashing Word 6 on an unsus- windows instead of rolling pecting Mac community, Micro- _ its own, Office finally works soft has once again retooled its Macintosh properly with extensions version of Office and is almost ready to launch _ such as Kaleidoscope. Office 2001 for the Mac (no, that’s not a Not all of the changes typo—they’re shipping Office 2001 in 2000). _ in Office lie in the software The new Office contains updated and itself, however. Microsoft revamped versions of the standard Office has redesigned the prod- fare—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—as well _uct’s packaging, putting the as a whole new application: Entourage. CD in a hard-shell, round, plas- Think of the new Entourage application as tic case that you can use to a hybrid of Outlook Express and the old Claris hold other CDs. Like the iMac Organizer—not only does it handle email and that inspired it, the case is a newsgroups, it also includes a complete _ little funky, but it’s pretty cool once address book, calendar, and task list. Benefit- you get used to it. The product has ing Palm users, Entourage will synchronize also received a whole new logo: with your Palm-based handhelds for easy Instead of the somewhat long- upkeep of contact and calendar information. winded “Microsoft Office 2001 Mac- Office 2001 integrates Entourage throughout —_intosh Edition,” Microsoft has a more concise the suite, allowing you to perform tasks such “Office:mac” logo. The name isn’t just sim- as auto filling Entourage contacts into your _ pler—it actually fits on the tiny new box—DR Word documents. As for the more traditional Office applica- | === Entourage Se tions, Microsoft has added a slew of new fea- _|[felnev -| © tink =] est Gperint “Sj peiete [eisend & Rective Categories ~ Q, Find | [HF] Tovey Ee vi ILLUSTRATION BY NATHAN JUREVICIUS TENTACLES sold separately. tures, improved integration, and best of all, | Foider List Calendar made the apps more Mac-like, All new tidings & inbow (1) [2] [Today (Friday, July 28, 2000) df sume a i uly in Office 2001 include an improved Format- hs Onion Mery A ieatarei aa Ts ting Palette (the floating window that contains = ee AE aA in poh Hasse 7090 (20S most of the formatting commands); restruc- WB Dsleced rome @ Tasks Toe: fe tured template and clip-art galleries with hun- Address Book 232627282930 «E28 dreds of new choices; and a smaller, less HB Calendar | sath 3031 annoying hipedal Mac in the Help window. The i EE 9 Monday Tuestey Wednesday ‘Custom Views increased Macishness of Office 2001 comes AF ae from a number of minor but cumulatively |] 8 cudora tmport significant improvements—the toolbars are anncotteacess) smaller and less overwhelming, the status bar ~ eee no longer blocks tabbed windows 40 44 42 in the Finder, and there b ee satel : is improved QuickTime S ttai971 and Drag and Drop ALTHOUGH {T RESEMBLES > support. In addition, OFRCEMAG Outlook Express, Entourage 3 ENPECTED RELEASE: October is so much more. It handles THE NEW GOK PRICING: Microsoft will announce full and upgrade pricing atthe contacts, tasks, and DOUBLES as a CD product's introduction, but if you buy Microsoft Office 98 between calendar items, plus it Sasa. Wo hope you! July 19 and October 19, 2000, you can get a free upgrade to Office | | Svichronizes with your gin eal a 2001 (you'll have to pay the $7.50 shipping charge, though). Palm. Who says Microsoft lals, though! can’t write great software? 16 | MacAdaict) oct/oo0 PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CRERTIVE This Just In: 1) eee add this amendment to his infamous law: Just when you've finished spending your money to accessorize in existing iMac colors, Apple will introduce better ones. A very unscientific poll revealed that some manufacturers will add the new sage, ruby, indigo and ‘snow hues to existing product lineups, Others won't. But no matter—this past summer's Macworld Fruit Sill in Season | Expo proved that the original five fruit flavors are still going strong. Here are 2 few examples —NR DC 240 iZeom Kodak 800-508-1531, httpy/Awww.kodak.com $549.00 $129.00 http:/www.elight-usa.com iCradle MacMate 877-734-3778, slight httpy/www.macmateproducts.com Artemide $24.99 631-694-9292, PoriStation Xircom ‘Clock 805-376-9300, Contour Design http:/Avww.xircom.com 603-893-4556, $79.00 and up hittp:/www.coniourdesign.com $19.95 . More Music haa Two new MP3 players offer heaps o’ storage Adding Nodes ith or without Napster, the MP3 craze isn't likely to die anytime soon. | Two G45 not enough? Try 16! After a long year of legally encoding songs from your CD collection (yeah, that's if), those tiny little Compact Flash or SmartMedia cards in your portable MP3 players become more confining than a compact car on a group date. Fortunately, the usual players in the MP3 business are working out devices that can assuage (for a time) your storage craving. Creative Labs (http:/Avww.creative.com), fresh from its “Mac users have money, too!” revelation last year, is planning to ship a new version of its NOMAD MP3 player, the NOMAD Jukebox, late this summer. This $499 device uses an internal 6GB hard drive to store a whopping 20 hours of music. I-JAM Multimedia (http:/Avwwijamworld.com) has taken a different approach—if you've gota CD-R drive, you can burn a data CD full of MP3 files, place it in the $129 J]-828 Compact Disc player, and listen to around 10 hours of music. Both of these new devices have their downsides. Because the new devices use more traditional storage formats, they're potentially much more susceptible to jarring than their predeces- sors. Moreover, a hard drive crash in the Jukebox could wipe out a Jot of music, Still, if the repeti- tion of the same MP3 tracks is beginning to get on your nerves, one of these devices might be the way to g0.—iS. AGB HARD DRIVE LETS the NOMAD jukebox live up to its name. ‘hile dual processors may: sound impres- Tesuits for a fraction of the cost of at ‘Supercomputer. Moreover, as “When a supercomputer becor - What do you do with it? Give PHOToGAReN BY IAN SANE OCT/00| Mac Addict | 17 gef info Shareware Pick of the Month B: Bird has come up with a useful share- aD ware utility for digital video aficionados: | area, | BIV Eait, a $25 widget that lets you view and 404 | capture video from any Mac-compatible video source, as well as edit, play back, compress, and export video. BTV Edit also has a nifty feature called frame averaging that can clean | | up still video shots by averaging out noise Sane Tanematiea ay occa it i | same coue LJ BTV Ecit ieee a [Sepinten’s Corner: | Chatting with the Mac over several frames—quite handy for low- light situations. Plus, BTV Edit offers Apple- Script support and even handles channel changing on ixMicro’s ixTV and TurboTV tele- vision tuner cards. You'll need Mac OS 8 and QuickTime 3.0 or later to use BIV Edit, but if you're playing with DV, you probably have the right equipment already—DR {BB capture movie. iru Screen mode. VIDEO CAPTURE, on the cheap-BTV Edit does a lot for $25. Controller Conundrum So many ways to control a game ith the advent of USB, Mac gamers suddenly have dozens of options available to us in the way of controllers. Here are three of the more unusual ones—/S ‘SAITEK CYBORG 30 GOLD httpy/www.seitek.com PRICE: $49.95 SRP CONTROLS: 4 arialog axes, 10 buttons WHAT'S STRANGE: This erector-set of a joystick will appeal to IKEA fans and lafties—with the included Allen wrench, you can reconfigure it for teft-handed use. GRAVIS XTERMINATOR DUAL CONTROL httpy/www.gravis.com PRICE: $49.99 ESP CONTROLS: 5 analog axes, 9 buttons. WHAT'S STRANGE: The base is designed to sit on your knees, so you can use both hands. 18 \ MacAddict i OCT/00 (WICROSOFT FREESTYLE PRO hitp:/Awww.microsoft.com PRICE: $54.95 SRP } CONTROLS: 3 anaiog axes, 10 buttons. WHAT'S STRANGE: You control this one by tilting it. Untess you have a very good sense of what's level, you'll find gentle motions difficult to execute. PHOTOGRAPHS ON FIGHT BY AARON LAUER, ON LEFT BY AN SAMMIS pple’s speech recognition software has been an on-again, off-again proposition since the company first introduced this feature ‘with the AV Quadras back in 1993. In 05 9. it's on again, if only as an optional install. Ina cool twist, though, you can now use speech recognition from within AppleScript, through a program called Speech Listener. If you don't have speech recognition on your system already, you can add it by clicking ‘the Customize button in the Mac 0S install program that appears just before you actually Install the system software. Make sure that ‘only the check box for English Speech Recognition is enecked. Click Install, and after festarting you'll have speech recognition functionality, along with an application called Speech Listener. Speech Listener does just that, and lets you add “listen for” commands jo AppleScripts. The little script below uses “listen for” to ask whether or not you're tired. Aword of warming: Apple's speech recognition software has earned a reputation for flakiness over the last seven years, and its OS 9 incarnation appears to continue the tradition. If you encounter crashes, unstoppable Apple- Scripts, or the like, we will simply disavow all know\- edge of your actions, That jottie Said, if you're feeling brave, ftp have a good timel—1s Saget ~Speech Listener is an application provided by ~Apple to let you listen for speech tell application “Speech Listener the ‘Listen for® command listens for yeu to say one of the words in the list it first says the prompt ~siring ("Are you sleepy?" in this case) ¥sten for {"yes’, “no"} with - prompt "Are you sleepy?” —the result is currently in resutlets move it fo ~thestatement for safekeeping copy the result to thestatement “now we just need to find out which wes said! if thestatement = "yes" then say “Take a nap!" else if thestatement = “no* then say “Great! Would you like a nice game of chess?" end if end tell HERE'S A LITTLE SCRIPT that will ask if you're tired, Illustration never looked so good. Eye-catching illustration, isn’t it? And yes, despite the glistening highlights, the realistic textures, the subtle shading, and the soft airbrushed effects, this is a completely vector illustration. And it’s only possible with Canvas 7. Match pinpoint precision with painterly strokes through Canvas 7's exclusive Sprite technology. Blur vector lines, paint transparency effects, apply image filter plug-ins to vectors, text and images. It's hard to believe that you can draw like this — nevermind in one, attractively priced program. When you're done, prepare your creative visions for print or web with an incredible array of over 40 file format filters.” Feast your eyes on Canvas 7 today, and get a whole new outlook on illustration software, Now available in Professional and Standard Editions. Get Canvas 7 d today for as tiie) I low as ‘95! : www.deneba.com/macaddict 800.7DENEBA ee CANVAS” No comparison. 5 ee : Ae | 4 & & ws B® & mm @ © 2000 Denebo Sofware. This od was created using nothing but Deneba Canvos 7. Canvas, Spiteffects and SpriteLayers are trademarks of Geneba Systems, Inc. For more information ssnd email to soles@deneba.com, * 40 file formots avolleble in Convas 7 Profesional Edition only, get info Ghosts of Antitrust Past—and Future Trickier monopolies, these days peeding tickets and parking fines aside, justice can be a beautiful thing, Especially when the target of that justice is the company we love to hate: Microsoft. But besides the tingly pleasure that we derive from seeing Bill Gates get nailed, we're also watching antitrust history in the making. Although it’s tempting to think that Microsoft is simply joining the ranks of some of history's most infamous monop- olies—Standard Oil, American Tobacco, and the like—there’s much mote to it than that. In bringing new life to the Microsoft Deathwatch, the government is defining whal it means to be a monopoly in the era of technology companies. During the Standard Oil and American Tobac- co era, the sign of a monopoly was price-fixing, and breaking up those companies was a rela- tively simple matter of dividing up the monopoly to create smaller competing companies. The Microsoft case, though, has opened up the possi- bility that monopolies can constrain technologi- cal advances in an industry—a much more diffi- cult standard to gauge than simple price-fixing. According to Dan Wall, chair of the antitrust department at Latham & Watkins in San Francis- co, the Microsoft case morphed from a simple case about Microsoft's battle to oust rival browser Netscape into a broader case about Microsoft's attempt to hold on to its Windows monopoly—a no-no, according to the Depart- ment of Justice. Ed LaRose, an attorney in the antitrust trade regulation area at Trenam. Kemker in Tampa, Florida, believes that the case hinges upon how the government should apply established antitrust laws: "I think the challenge nowadays, especially in ‘the Microsoft case, is how you apply those rules to a new industry, one that is...based a lot on ideas and less on hard assets." As we go to press, it's not clear which court will hear Microsoft's appeal. The Supreme Court, when it reconvenes in October, will decide whether it will hear the case. If it rejects the case, Microsoft will head back to the Court of Appeals. Once the justice system works out the venue, Microsoft will have at least one more chance to argue that it doesn't deserve the penalty meted out to the great monopolies of the past. Regard- less of the eventual outcome, though, we'll cer- tainly be following the procéedings with at least a slightly vindictive interest —CZ 20) MacAdaict) OCT/00 | SAME LAWS, but much trickier monopalies. ILLUSTRATION GY NATHAN JURE The Microsoft Antitrust Countdown JULY 1994 False Promises: JULY 1995 Famous Last Words SPRING 1996 Threats AUGUST 1996 Netscape Steps In ‘SEPTEMBER 1996 Reading Material DECEMBER 1996 T0. JANUARY 1897 Oops OCTOBER 1997 Not the Brightest Move DECEMBER 1997 Direct Orders ‘APRIL. 1998 Go Janet, Go Janet AUGUST 1998 Gates on Film OCTOBER 1986 The Start FEBRUARY 1999 "The Finish NOVEMBER 1999 ts That All? ‘APRIL 2000. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ‘JUNE 2000 Movin’ On Up OCTOBER 2000 To Hear or Not to Hear 2000? Resolution Microsoft agrees in a consent decree to separate Internet Explorer from Windows. Bill Gates says to Intel execs: “This antitrust thing will blow over. We haven't changed our business practices at all.” Microsoft accuses Compag of promoting Netscape and threatens to cancel Compag's license to sell Windows. The famous Netscape white paper, accusing Microsoft of antitrust actions, reaches the Justice Department. ‘The government starts requesting Microsoft documents. A Microsoft executive sends an email saying that Windows integration is a must in winning the browser war. The Department of Justice says Microsoft Violated the 1994 consent decree and forced computer companies to integrate Internet Explorer with Windows. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without internet Explorer. Janet Reno authorizes a federal antitrust suit. Bi Gates undergoes videotape depositions. ‘The antitrust trial opens. The main phase of the trial ends. Judge Jackson issues a finding of fact that says Microsoft used its power to stifle innovation, reduce competition, and hurt consumers. Judge Jackson rules that Microsoft violated antitrust law. The Department of Justice proposes breaking the company in two. Judge Jackson approves the breakup proposal. The case heads for the ‘Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will reconvene and rule on whether it will hear the case. Itthe Supreme Court refuses to hear it, Microsoft will head hack to the Court of Appeals. Remember that the AT&T antitrust case spanned 8 years, and the IBM antitrust case dragged on for so ‘ong (more than 12 years) that the government no longer considered IBM a monopoly by the time the trial ended. This thing is far from over. mf) ; <5 without the ov Sized price! XANTE’s XANTE’s Accel-a-Writer3N Accel-a-Writer 3G starting at Starting at °1695 °2795 t’s hard to make a whiteboard exciting, but Virtual Ink has done the trick with Mimio, a device that digitizes what you draw and puts it on your Mac. Just attach the folding capture arm to the whiteboard, plug it into your Mac, and then outfit your dry-erase markers with the included jackets to get started. Just think of the possibilities—teachers, home office folks, and artists will love it! Mimio has a host of even cooler tricks up its sleeve—many more than we can fit here. Check out the Web site for more details —DR pings The ATEN UC-232 USB-RS232C Serial Converter ay you've got an old medem, a serial-based graphics tablet, or any other moldering serial hardware—you’re probably in the market for a serial converter. If a PC-using friend offered you an ATEN UC-232 USB-RS232C adapter (http:/Avwwaten.com, $79 SRP), of if you just found one for cheap at a garage sale, what could it do for you? Get it. ‘up and running, and it gives you just what you need, without even requiring the usual modem cable—the UC-232 ends with a standard 25-pin connector. But like so many other things in life, this adapter doesn’t come with Macintosh drivers. ‘When the company told us that no drivers are available, we took a peek at the adapter in the Devices And Volumes panel of the Apple System Profiler (if you hayen’t played with ’, _ the Profiler before, look for it in your Apple menu). Sure enough, ATEN doesn’t actually make the chip Set its converter uses— / the device identified PP. itself as coming from * Future Technology Devices "International Limited. A quick trip to that company’s Web page (http://vww.fidi.co.uk) revealed a set of alpha drivers for the Mac OS. We installed these, and promptly found ~ ourselves able to use the serial port converter—/S, » <> alia PHOTOGRAPH BY AARON LAUER 22 MacAdaict OCT/O0 { Mimio Virtual Ink http://www.mimio.com } $499 THIS HANDY FOLDOUT module attaches to your whiteboard, and poof! Anything you draw on the board gets digitized on your Mac. How to Remove QuickTime here are times when your QuickTime installation—due to disk Corruption, mischievous toddlers with an urge to demonstrate their hand-eye-system files-Trash coordination, or those little green men that no one can see but you—degrades to the point where you just want to remove it all and start over again. Here's how to wipe QuickTime from your drive. Run the QuickTime installer. Click Continue, and the usual software license will appear. Read it (or ignore it), then click Accept. You should now be at a screen labeled Choose Installation Type. Select Custom Installation, click the Continue button, then click another Continue button in the next dialog box that pops up, which warns you that no other programs can run while the installer does its stuff, In the pop-up menu at the top of the next window, choose the Uninstall option at the bottom of the menu. Click the Uninstall button in the lower-right comer. The installer will dutifully remove QuickTime from your system. You may get an error message saying that It could not delete some files and/or foiders because they were in use. That's OK—you can empty the Trash the next time you restart your Mac. Finally, open the Extensions folder inside the System Folder and remove the Sound Manager extension. Your uninstall is now complete, but you should reinstall QuickTime 4 (or an older version) because some programs need the Sound Manager and may crash if i's missing. This pearl of wisdom came from Appie’s Tech Info Library at http://tilinfo.apple.com. Visit it today for tons of useful tips and tricks—DR iroolworthy PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF VRTUAL INK ADVERTISEMENT Need more muscle for your Mac? Tired of this? Don't take it anymore! Don't he bullied by resource hungry applications, Show “em who's boss with real processing muscle! Take on those power sapping files with a two fisted punch! Make your computer work for you! This is your chance fo fake control of your own destiny! Stop waifing for things to happen. Get more done faster! Seriously, if you are ready to enter the world of big-time processing power, we've got just the upgrade for you! See what the joeCARD can do for you! 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Thanks to all those who entered!—JS : OR N pe is MARTY KNUTSON’S SUPERMAX gives BS = Max considerably more power than he g actually wields around here. ~ iy ae ase ART LUM’S ESCHER-INSPIRED PAIR of Maxes bore the caption: “Max tries to clone himself. What a rascal!” THE WINNING ENTRY—we felt that Mr. Planamento’s minimalist style accurately captured Max's general look. JEFF GREENLAND AND STEVE CRISPINI independently arrived at very similar concepts for Max. Thumbnail Sharpening A Tip to Spiff Up Your Sites hen you create thumbnails for your Web page, you probably just shrink your images in Photoshop. ‘There's a better. way, though—first blur the full image (select Blur or Blur More from the Filter menu), then shrink it to thumbnail size using the Image Size item from the Image menu. Final- Jy, apply a sharpen filter to the thumbnail. (For large numbers of thumbnails, automate the process using Photoshop's Actions fea- ture.) This does a much better job of pre- serving detail than simply shrinking the orig- | THI SHOT, minimized simply using image BY BLURRING FIRST and sharpening inal would do—joH size, is somewhat blurry and indistinct. later, we get a much sharper thumbnail. Fy _ : Fa & At Mac Addict} oct/oo cDSeex for Digital Image Management Supports over AU image viewing agisit 83,2 Photog, at its very = - __best ps ~ ACD 2 PO Box 36, Saanichton, BC, V8M 203 _ ~ Mac wri. ACDSYSTEMS.comi/ma —5:.:005795203 F:.s00.8132207 : ma | Download ACDSee For Mac trial version at | k sCraqp A dark Journey into the IBook’s iNside the iBook by David Reynolds year ago this summer, Apple‘rtroduced the iBook. To wish it a happy first birthday, we decided to delve into th eek innards and show you what makes it tick. | cemmrsliitrimncieete eee ERM AirPort Connector ID, Please This small metal end plugs Into an BORER card, ‘Book's which sits under the wire bail and rests on the We Ea til meal ray above —the one just below the Apple address (a permanent, hard- logo on the display. (We've removed the tray to Here's a sight iBook owners have to Coded network address) appears show the RAM slot below.) face sooner or later: the iBook's RAM here for your easy reference— expansion slot. You should fil this 7 {_ Not that you'l ever need it. with another RAM card as soon {| as possible. Thige Gigs of Storage The IDE hard drive sits in a metal cage, waiting for an upgrade to a more roomy—and reasonable—hard drive. \ Lots of warnings accompany this ‘ \ : i e he alr \ | The iBook’s keyboard connects to the motherboard just Biea, ("case you don't know how to install gadget, just in case you were thirking Sty ge cat an art Vihiioet ed an AirPort card, you'llind instructions about making additions yourself. remove the keyboard, this is where you can gently Brinted In petrogiyph form on top of ie ad detach it, Careful, though—those wires are fragile. the OD-ROM drive. agi ce 7 N24 iss is J es Py 26) MacAdaict | oct/00 PHOTOGRAPH BY AARON LAUER Our family has expanded! We are introducing three new ways ¢ to upgrade your Macintosh. Try our Tempo” Ultra ATA66 PCI host ss adapter card, our new 400 MHz PowerBook® processor upgrade, “i and our Tango” USB/FireWire® PCI combo card. Depend on Sonnet for simply fast Macintosh® enhancement products. To learn more, call 1-800-786-6260 or visit our website at: www.sonnettech.com/ma fONNSS SIMPLY FAST Resistance is Futile You WILE | love Apple's | hew desktops by The MacAdict Statt | Photography by Aaron Lauer 28| MacAddict| OCT/00 ‘very Mac addict knows that what makes Apple computers different from PC hordes is the fact that they have...well, personality, The original Mac was the first computer that you could actually carry with you. It delivered the accessible, powerful Mac graphical interface—and in an industry marred by esoteric conflicts, techno-babble, and obscure line commands, the original Mac was one of the few computers that people actually enjoyed using. The inventors of the Mac loved their creation, and the people who used Macs cherished them. For awhile there, however, Apple teetered on losing the intangible personality of the Mac. The product line had become nothing short of baffling. Utterly random numbers such as 1400, 6116, and 8500 described distinct Mac models. To understand . Which machine was right for you, you had to digest information about three processors; understand the relative merits of Nubus, PDS, PCI, and Comm slots; and decide between SCSI and IDE bus systems. In a quest to maintain isolated internal innovations ata PC-industry pace, Apple lost its bearings. The Mac was becoming a machine that Apple's engineers, designers, and programmers squabbled over and that users didn’t understand. The personality is back. Apple’s head-turning new desktop line has all the pizzazz and simple elegance of the original Mac if not more. With smooth surfaces, elegant colors, and intricately matching components, these clutter-reducing, space-saving, drool-inducing machines are once again the products for passionate people, for those who want more than a mere office tool. With stunning attention to deiail and a big-picture approach, Apple is once again making computers deserving of your adoration. Flip through the next few pages at your pocketbook’s own risk, ’cuz you wll want one of these new Macs when you're through. 2 oct/00 |MacAddict 29 Power Mac? new Power Mac G4 Cube because of its looks, power, and quiet elegance, but we like it because of the vast volume of jokes to which it lends itself. Borg collective jabs, anyone? Snickers about Steve Jobs reviving the NeXT cube? How about an elaborate toaster comparison? Or our personal favorite: a quip about its resemblance to a box of Kleenex, which you might need after you first get your hands on the Cube. Wisecracks aside, probably the first response you have to Apple's graphite-and-transparent supercomputer is to wonder, “Is it for me?” At $1,799 for the low-end model, Apple dropped the small polyhedron (9.8 inches tall by 7.7 inches wide by 7.7 inches deep, at 14 pounds) smack in the middle of the 4 price range. Our best answer to your question is that if you're already mumbling, “Man, I gotta get one of those things,” under your breath, you know the answer. If you need PCI slots, or just want a second processor for beating on Photoshop, you should opt for a G4 tower, But the Cube’s small footprint, quiet demeanor, and silky-smooth, futuristic looks make it delectable for anyone who wants a really attractive, space-saving computer with a bit more power and screen flexibility than an iMac— complete with a DVD-ROM drive that pops discs in and out of the top. Here’s a tour of Apple's little giant. Get ready to start mopping up the drool. p erhaps you like Apple's compact, transparent, potent Ethernet } | ‘The standard Cube comes with W 10/100Base-T Ethernet, but you | can upscale to gigabit Ethernet through the Apple Store. | Reset Switches We wish you didn't need to know where the reset switches are, but when you have to force your machine to restart, you'll appreciate these guys. USB becomes all the more critical on the Cube, as Apple has ditched the audio-in and audio-out ports, The Cube comes with the Harman/Kardon USB speakers, but it you ‘want to do any recording, from a new alert ‘sound to a hit song, you'll need some sort of USB or FireWire audio-in device. FireWire With the requisite two FireWire ports, the Cube easily connects to scanners, CD-ROM bumers, and FireWire-equipped DV cameras for video editing in iMovie 2 (which comes free with the Cube). 30 | MacAddict | OcT/00 Speakers A pair of clear, plastic orbs of sound accompany every Cube sold. Built by Harman/Kardon, which also gave us the iSub, these USB all-digital balls provide the only sound coming from the Cube. Handle Just push down on this bar and the Cube’s handle pops up, allowing you to pull out the core. You can easily secure this handle with a Kensington lock to prevent unrequested upgrades. Modem Every Cube gets its own 56-kbps modem. Power To save space, Apple moved the power supply outside the Power Mac Cube, as in ‘the PowerBooks. Apple Display Connector and VGA port Apple’s all-new monitor connection system means you don’t need a power cord for your new Apple-manufactured display. But it also means you need a port like this one. Luckity the Cube also has a VGA port for those of us with older monitors. RAM Processor Thanks to the elegant pullout design, you can easily A 450MHz G4 provides the brains behind the Cube, but upgrade the Cube's standard but somewhat meager power Zealots can go up to 500MHz through the Apple 64MB of RAM to 1.5GB. Store. The processor comes on a standard daughtercar¢—we don’t want to be the first to attempt an upgrade, though. Heat Sink Apple hardware VP Jon Rubinstein told us you “start with the heat sink and go from there.” The fanless cube Is essentially a computer wrapped around a sizable heat sink, Hard Drive The Cube features an Ultra ATA/66 hard drive. The standard size is 20GB. but you PCI Slots? Nope, lo second monitors, superfast SCSI, or PCl-based TY can go up to 40GB at the Apple Store. ‘tuners for this puppy. AirPort Every cube comes ready for AirPort. Ceramic disks on the Graphics sides of the box inductively couple to the core’s AirPort A special (shortened) Rage 128 Pro graphics card fills the Cube’s 2X AGP slot. 3dfx has announced that the company wil also support the new Apple Display Connector, but there’s no word yet on the compatibility of Display Connector cards with the Cube. antenna, amplifying the signal. oth standard Power Mac G4 Cube configurations come with 10/100Base-T Ethernet, a 56-kbps modem, an ATT Rage 128 Pro graphics card, a slot-loading DVD-ROM, and a pair of crystal-clear Harman/Kardon orb-shaped USB speakers. Mode} _450MHz Power Mac G4 Cube S00MHz Power Mac G4 Cube* Price FEES $2,299 Processor Bicss\eliifnralc7} 500MHz G4 Huw 64M (expandable to 1.5GB) a (expandable to 1.5GB) OcT/00 | MacAdaict |31 You can’t see them, but believe us, there's two processors in this thing. ‘Power Mac MP i i i ot quite as overhauled as the iMacs or as | N shocking as the Cube, the love-handled tower Power Mac G4 nevertheless also got a bit of attention in Apple’s latest round of updates. The biggest boon is, of course, the addition of a second G4 processor in the 450MHz and 500MHz models at no extra cost. The other major addition is an across- the-board jump to gigabit Ethernet. While it certainly sounds impressive to have two G4 processors at your fingertips, the reality of current More G4s ‘he new standard configurations for the Power Mac G4 tower all include an AI Rage 128 Pro graphics card, a 56-kbps built-in modem, Ultra ATA/66 hard disks, and gigabit Mac multiprocessing is a bit less thrilling. To start with, only a few programs currently take advantage of multiprocessing—Adobe Photoshop and Casady & Greene's SoundJam are the most notable. Sure, the ability to encode CDs to MP3 faster than your CD-ROM drive can deliver the information may seem enticing, but the G4’s new multi- processing capability doesn’t provide the versatility one might expect. Owners of dual-processor Maes will really start to see the power of these machines after Mac OS X arrives in public eta this September. Apple’s new operating system will use multiple processors intuitively (for more, see “All about Multiprocessing,” below). Ethernet, Also note thai none of these configurations comes with a built-in Zip drive. Additional build-to-order options include a Zip drive ($80) and an Ultra SCSI PCI card ($49). Model _400MHz Power Mac Hard Drive Fapaues) reo eo | orth Power Mac Price Processors RAM a rey Power Mac Ithough you'd think two G4 processors would make a Mac run twice as fast, that’s not necessarily the case. To give you the complete scoop on multiprocessing computers, here’s the Macdddict list of frequently asked questions—and answers—about multiprocessing. What programs run faster on a multiprocessor Mac? When it comes to multiprocessing, you can divide programs into three calegories: single-threaded, multithreaded, and multiprocessor-aware. Single-threaded programs (usually games) can only perform one task at a time—that is, they run in a single thread. They will not run any faster under two processors in eitlier Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X. Multithreaded applications can perform several tasks at once. They split their tasks into several threads, which the computer runs simultaneously. Most Mac apps these days are multithreaded. Mac OS 9 can’t move these separate threads onto different processors, but if programmers Carbonize apps (make them Mac OS X-native), Mac OS X will know how to spin off the threads onto the least busy processor. « Multiprocessor-aware applications, specifically written to use multiple processors, know how to divide up tasks and hand them to the least busy processor. These apps (assuming they're Carbonized) will run faster under both Mac 0S 9 and Mac 0S X. That list includes Photoshop, SoundJam, and, 32 MacAdaict OCT/00 believe it or not, ColorSync, which uses multiple processors to process matching algorithms. How much of a speed boost will | see? In ahest-case scenario (say, a multiprocessor G4 running Photoshop), you'll probably see about an 80 percent speedup. With other apps, you might see a boost anywhere from 0 percent (in MP-unaware applications) on up—stopping short of 100 percent. The reason multiprocessor-aware applications can’t get a 100 percent speed increase is that the system needs some overhead for coordinating processor activity. Is a G4 with two processors faster than a 1GHz Pentium tl? Yes—but only under special circumstances, such as when you're running a program that understands multiple processors and takes advantage of AlliVec (for instance, Photoshop). Otherwise, you probably won't see any speedup, simply because the app isn’t making full use ofthe second processor. Under Mac 08 X, though, that will change—the system takes charge of using all the processors as efficiently as possible. Then a dual-processor 64 under Mac OS X will probably run faster than a 1GHz Pentium under a greater variety of circumstances. Are these Apple's first multiprocessor machines? Nope. Back in 1996, Apple released the Power Macintosh 9500/180MP, which had two 180MHz 604e processors. ‘COURTESY OF APPLE COMPUTER, NC. Ontical Mouse is an eerie sight in the dark with its dim red light gleaming S hipping with every new desktop Mac, Apple's optical mouse through the translucent casing. With optical tracking, a tiny al camera images a red LED (light-emitting diode), illuminating the Move over intellimouse Explorer—Apple’s new optical mouse is surface directly below the mouse. A DSP (Digital Signal Processor) Iranslucent and glows red. then compares each frame to the previous frame, and figures out in which direction the mouse is moving. The two frames must have mouse’s entire top surface, except for two dimples on the sides that appreciable overlap—whip the mouse along faster than 14 inches per _allow you to lift the mouse. A wheel on the bottom sets the amount of second, and the cursor flies off randomly. The “button” consists of the __ force necessary to generate a click. Alone, the optical mouse costs $59. Extended Keyboard = 108 keys, but no Power button. ~ e knew it had to happen one day: Our little iMac keyboards have finally grown up (sniff). Apple Extended Keyboard fans, rejoice—the new keyboard has a full-size inverted T including cursor keys, all six special buttons (including Forward Delete and End), and a full row of F1 to F15 function keys. Apple has also added four new buttons that allow you to control volume up, volume down, mute, and CD ejection from your keyboard. The keyboard has one notable absence, though—this is the first Apple keyboard since the Macintosh Il that lacks a Power key. Instead, Apple has moved the Power button to the monitor The new keyboards come standard with the entire new desktop line, but you can buy it separately for $59 from the Apple store. _ gm New Monitors Appie seems to love the retrofuturistic TV took. fyou bought a Mac just before Apple’s recent Macworld Expo announcements, you may want to sit down before you read this. As it turns out, you'll need to buy a new Mac or graphics card (not available yet) to use any of Apple’s new displays. Apple has scratched the standard 15-pin VGA monitor connectors in favor of the custom Apple Display Connector (ADC), which carries video, power, and USB in one cable. Unfortunately, at the moment there’s no way (short of a hack) to hook one of these new beauties to an older Mac without replacing your graphics card (3dfx has already announced plans for ADC support). ‘The new line includes a 17-inch CRT-based Apple Studio Display, a 15-inch LCD Studio Display, and a new version of Apple’s holy-crap-I-never-imagined-a-flat- screen-that-big 22-inch Cinema Display. Now based on Mitsubishi's Diamondtron technology, the CRT provides a clean, ruler-flat screen; as before, it uses ColorSync to maintain color accuracy as the phosphors age. The two LCD screens resemble their previous incarnations, ‘OM 'uaunatiog stadt 40 AsALuNOo Monitor Marness All Apple displays come with a two-port USB hub and an ADC connector. Model 17-inch Apple Studio Display 15-inch flat-panel Apple Studio Display Apple Cinema Display Price G0) $999 $3,999 Sic 17-inch diagonal 15-inch diagonal 22-inch diagonal aE 16-inch diagonal 15-inch diagonal 22-inch diagonal Ce Mitsubishi Diamondtron Flat-panel LCD Flat-panel LCD “oes Maximum Resolution icles 1,024 by 768 1,600 by 1,024 OCT/00 | MacAddict|33 _iMac nits second anniversary, the iMac line went from yummy to smart. No longer can you get the fruity mélange of colors known as blueberry, lime, grape, tangerine, and strawberry. Instead, Apple opted for the classier graphite route with the fall L.L. Bean—esque hues of indigo, ruby, sage, and snow (just make sure you don’t use your snow iMac before Memorial Day). The graphite DV Special Edition remains intact as part of the iMac line. If colors don’t turn you on, perhaps the new pricing will. Apple has upped the iterations of the machine from three to four (now featuring an iMac DV+ category), and has dropped its plain old entry-level iMac to $799—the lowest price ever for an Apple desktop computer. That means you can get iMacs all around for every kid, parent, and pet in the family without breaking the bank. Now hat is cool. CCOURTESY OF APPLE COMPUTER, INO. Sa SON Click your ruby iMac three : ‘ a src" The Best Video for the Buck place like home.” nan effort to drive home the point that its _ full-screen video by increasing brightness up iMac line is a kick-ass consumer DV to three times and improving color satura- editing app, Apple offers what it calls tion. QuickTime 4.1.2, Apple DVD Player ‘Theater Mode in the new iMac line. Theater 2.2.1, and iMovie 2 automatically enable Mode is a Monitor control panel preference. Thealer Mode. Now, if only DY cameras When turned on, it enhances the quality of didn’t cost as much as the computer itself... What iMac Color Are You? icking the right color for a sweater or nail polish is dificult faux pas you'll live to regret, check out our chart. We've picked the enough, not to mention finding the iMac color that suits you best. _ best iMac colors for you based on your color type, as defined by Color After all, you wouldn’t want to buy the snow iMac and then discover 1 Associates (http:/Avww4ressingsmart.com), an international image that the white washes you out, So before you commit an iMac fashion and style consultant, Characteristics Color Type Your Best Colors Celebrities with Your Color Type © The iMac(s) for You Dark brown or black hair, ivory to Bright, bold, vibrant | Jacqueline Kennedy, Connie k olive to dark brown skin tones colors Chung, Ruth Bader Ginsberg A Golden blond to brown hair with Bright yet delicate} Hillary Clinton, Marilyn Monroe, golden highlights, ivory to dark colors Courtney Love brown skin with golden tones Blond to fairly dark brown hair and Toned-down, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jodie Foster, some redheads, ivory and pink subdued colors Jane Pauley beige to dark brown skin with pink tones Blond to black to red hair, ivory Contrast Slightly toned-down) Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Indigo, Graphite beige to golden beige to olive to colors Kathie Lee Gifford dark brown skin tones 34|MacAdaict|OCT/00 >» : Me =! “Ay =a — ay = The New iLineup Indigo, ruby, sage, graphite, snow...do you feel like you're buying a sweater? ll iMacs come with 10/160Base-T Ethernet, 56-kbps internal modem, an ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics card, Ultra ATA hard drives, and the new keyboard and optical mouse. All three DV editions come equipped with FireWire, the all-new iMovie 2, and VGA ports for video mirroring. Model iMac iMac DV iMac DV+ iMac DV Special Edition Price GRYAE) $999 $1,299 1,499 $ igs 300MHzG3_| 400MHz G3 450MHz G3 S00MHz G3 1 3 RAM Hard Drive co/ovD FireWire-Equipped AirPori-Ready Colors Gaile) digo and ruby adit ind sage } Graphite and snow iMovie 2: This Time, It's Personal ™ Movie isn't just for iMacs anymore—Apple has rewed its plucky which reduces sharpness; and Black And White for turning it into an old consumer DY app to version 2 and is now preinstalling it across the film-noir-style flick. Additionally, you can now restore trimmed clips; entire desktop line. The already spoiled owners of anew Macnot only _ adjust video color, contrast, and brightness; control the speed and get the program for free, but will also be the very first to get their hands direction of transitions; and preview clips through your DV camera as on iMovie 2, which features new audio and visual effects capabilities, a you can in Apple’s Final Cut Pro. refined interface, and a range of new editing features. Interface improvements inchide an expanded clip pale, which Among the additions to iMovie’s video editing repertoire are the lets you load as many video clips as you wish, as well as a better- ability to change the speed and integrated navigation system for direction of video clips and make flipping easily from the clip palette to them go faster, slower, or even play the Titles, Effects, Audio, and. in reverse, as well as the ability to ‘Transitions palettes. separate audio from video tracks Unfortunately, you can’t get iMovie for layered andio and video 2 for free via the Apple Web site, as interaction. That means you can with the original iMovie. Instead, the teplace the video in one section of Apple store will make it available for your movie with another clip while purchase and download for $49 maintaining the audio from the first starting in September. The video—creating a rich voice-over recommended system requirements effect ina scene. for iMovie 2 are a bit steep—a Other improvements to iMovie 300MHz or faster G3 or G4 processor, inclade new filters such as Sepia 64MB of RAM (128MB ‘Tone, which lends your video an. recommended), Mac 0S 9.0.4 or later, aged-photograph, light brown, QuickTime 4.1.2 or later, and, of monochromatic feel; Soft Focus, Agple’s iMovie 2 now features an unlimited clip shelf. course, a DV camcorder with FireWire. i is The MacAddict staff is currently resting comfortably in a hospital room. OCT/00 | MacAadict | 35 Create your own digital photo lab at home and start making perfect prints by David Reynolds illustration by Cherie Bender on’ttell anyone, but taking a photo is the easy part— getting it to look good is the real adventure in pain. If you go the digital route, digital cameras are prone to pixilation, shortened dynamic range, color shifts, and exposure problems. Even if you take pictures with a regular camera, you still have to scan the photo, which presents its own set of problems, as scanners often produce slightly muddy, somewhat blurry digital images. Throw in the variable of printing your photos on an inkjet, and you have a headache waiting to happen. But don’t despair just yet—there is hope. Printing your photographs at home on an inkjet can produce spectacular results— almost indistinguishable from 35mm prints—plus it gives you control over the final print. If you correct your photos’ flaws with image editing software and select the right printer and paper, you'll produce prints good enough to put one-hour photo shops six feet under. Well, OK, maybe they won't be that great—but foliowing these ‘steps will produce professional-looking results. 4 True Colors e'll assume you have the photos you ‘want to work on digitized and ready to go, whether you've taken them with a digital camera or scanned them in. Now you want fo use an image-retouching program to get your pictures primed for printing. Here we'll use Adobe Photoshop ($599, hitp:/Awww.adobe .com), although you can apply these tips to any good image-editing program. The first step toward crafting a perfect print is to tweak the color of your image. Although today’s digital cameras offer much better color reproduction, most digital photos can benefit from a little color tweaking. Scanners, too, can cause problems, adding an unwanted color shift (@ color cast) to scanned photos. Either way, the following method will give your photos better color. Just remember that color correction is more of an art than a science— sometimes it comes down to opening dialog boxes and playing with controls to see what looks best. If you're particularly interested in experimenting, you should use Photoshop’s Adjustment Layers function to put each of your changes on its own Jayer, leaving the original photo untouched in case you make a mistake or don’t like the results of your changes. STEPONE: Set Levels Although adjusting levels can only do so much, itcan bring a muddy. foreground to life (right). pen your image in Photoshop and O select Levels from the Adjust submenu in the Image menu. You'll get a dialog box where you can set and adjust your image’s black point, white point, and midtones. We'll set the black point first, then use the same technique to set the white point. Double-click the black evedropper (under the Auto button) to bring up the Color Picker window. Enter a low value in the R, G, and B boxes in the lower-right corner—we chose 5 because 0 looks too black, causing your printer to spit out a lot of ink. (This number sets the value of black; in this case we're setting it to a very, very dark gray). Click OK and, with the black eyedropper still selected, click the blackest part of the image. Photoshop will reset that pixel to the value you entered in the Color Picker, then bring the rest of the image in line with the new black point, properly adjusting darker colors and improving the image's contrast. ‘The Levels dialog box features three triangles—black, gray, and white—located on a slider along what looks like a cross- section of a mountain. By sliding these triangles back and forth, you can sometimes correct contrast problems in an image. The gray triangle in the center sets the image’s gamma, which is like the Continental Divide of digital images. Moving it to the left will lighten the midtones of the image, while moving it to the right will darken them. Once that’s done, continue with the white eyedropper: Double-click it; set the R, G, and B values to a number just under the maximum setting of 255 (we chose 250); close the Color Picker; then click the whitest part of the image with the eyedropper. This sets the pixel you just selected to white and Setting the black level adjusts darker colors and contrast—in this case, we're using a section of the black pants. adjusts the highlight colors accordingly. Of course, we ignored our own advice by setting our whites against the whitest part of the foreground. Because we shot this image under a canopy, the camera read the lighting outside the skating rink, making the image too dark. By selecting the whitest area inside the rink, we can adjust the white levels and light our subject properly. Of course, this makes the background a bit overexposed, but we decided that seeing our subject clearly was the more important consideration. We've chosen to set cur whites against the wall of the skating rink—this overexposes the background a bit, but puts our subject in a better light. POSES en NET - TSERURE oct/00 [eae ie 37 STEPTWO: Set Color Balance Although the cold weather added a bit of ‘| magenta to our subject's cheeks, they weren’t really this rosy. That's why we need to adjust the color balance (right). espite the improvement you get from D setting an image's black and white points, sometimes the color remains a bit off. That’s when it’s time to dig into the Color Balance dialog box. With your image open, select Color Balance from the Adjust submenu of the Image menu, Here you can adjust the amount of color in the shadows, the midtones (the midrange areas), and the ‘This particular image has a yellow cast in the highlights (the brightest areas) of your picture. highlights and a tad too much red and magenta in the midtones, To look for color casts, check the subject’s skin tones as well as any areas that should be white but aren't. To correct our color problems, we put a touch of green and cyan into the midtones (a setting of -10 for cyan and +10 for green does the trick) to counteract the red and magenta. We then added a little blue to the highlights to counterbalance a slight yellow tint in the ice. Adjusting color balance gets a bit tricky because there’s no real formula— it’s really about pleasing the eye. Just remember that you're using these controls to balance two colors; if you see too much of one, you can just move the slider away from that color to correct it. You can either enter numbers into the three color vector boxes, or adjust the sliders. Click OK, and keep checking your preview as you make adjustments until you attain a color that looks good to you. (olor Balance ——= — Color Balance ote ois [ mewn OIE cmon Paras aa ee } ‘ Pit ee) eed lee ao ok te | Sea and highlights, Blue i Yellow 23 Bue k pee | we can make ~ Tone Balance — Se the colors look | Q Shadows ® Mittones@ Hishlights: | Q Shadows © Midtones@ Highlights as close as | SbPreserve tuminosity | | BaPreserve Luminosity, possible to the = = original hues. For those of you used to converting your photos to CMYK to send to a four- Pp color press, leave the image in the RGB color space for home printing and let your printer's driver handle the conversion to CMYK. If you do the conversion in Photoshop, you may get an unwelcome color shift and muddy tones. The left is simulated RGB; the right is CMYK. Notice the difierence in color? Most inkjet printers de CMYK conversion without your help, so leave your image in RGB. 38) MacAddict) ‘OCT/00 ifyou’re having trouble determining exactly what's white and what's black, hold down the mouse button with the Levels eyedropper selected, and watch the Color dialog box. This box will show the R, G, and B color values of the pixel directly underneath your mouse, letting you clearly see where the whitest and blackest parts of your image fall. Watch the numbers as you move your mouse around— values of 0 are black, values of 255 are white. The three colors should have relatively close values—if one value is much higher or lower, that pixel has a color cast. You can see this color is approaching white except ithas a slight color cast. STEPTHREE: Set the Saturation More color saturation than the one on the left, making for a more realistic print. The difference is subtle, but noticeable fo a | trained eye. inally, you'll want fo set the color F saturation properly, Because for years consumers have been telling printer companies that they want photo prints with strikingly vivid color, some printer drivers will oversaturate an image to make that happen. You can use the following technique to desaturate the image a bit if your printer spits out photos that sacrifice realism for the sake of vibrant color. In our case, though, our image really is a bit undersaturated, so we want to correct this problem with the saturation control, Select Hue/Saturation from the Adjust to you. Remember that inkjet printers tend to oversaturate color a bit, so it’s best to err on the conservative side when you add saturation. You can also play around with Hue/Saturation >— s Edit: | Master 3 a jp een | Hue: | saturation: Saturation: co | Save... | oneness the Hue and Lightness controls if you want, but you may get muddy, off-color results, Most of the time it’s best to leave Hue and Lightness set to 0. submenu of the Image menu, and bring up (icolorize By adding more saturation, you can the Saturation level just a bit—we chose a Preview compensate somewhat for a lack of value of +10. Since there’s no easy rule of ca — ee color. Add foo much, though, and thumb for determining the best value, just tam ET the photo will start looking like a use your eye to figure out what looks right 1960s concert poster, The Bigger, the Better (@) ne of the most exciting possibilities—and Most common uses—of home photo printing is the ability to de standard enlargements without waiting for the photo lab to finish the job. Using standard 81/2-by-11- inch photo-quality glossy film, doing your own enlargements up to about 8 by 10 is relatively easy and will look fine with prints from 2- megapixel cameras. Beyond that, though, you'd better have a very high-resolution digital camera (or big scans), because you'll soon hit the resolution timit of all but the best digital cameras. To print fine photo enlargements, make sure your printer is clean and you're using the iest-quality glossy inkjet film you can buy. Paper really does make a difference, and you'll spend around $2 per sheet for high-quality inkjet photo film, Glossy film is generally higher quality than glossy paper, so go for that option when you see it. Beware, though: Printing on high-quality glossy film at high resolution will showcase the flaws in your digital images— such as JPEG compression artifacts and a ‘small dynamic range. To get around these Aroblems, avoid adjusting Jevels or sharpening your image too much. Or, better yet, always shoot at the highest possible resolution, using a lossless file format (such as TIFF) if your camera supports it. Here’s a rough look at your print size limits given the amount of data your camera can handle. These numbers are rough—we've used a print resolution of 160 dpi, which we find a bit low for our tastes. You can certainly attempt bigger prints than those we've listed here, but you may start to notice pixilation afong fine lines if you attempt to go much larger. Resolution 1 Megapixel Max. Print Size |6 by 8 inches 8 by 10 inches Opi 1,280 by 960 dpi 2 Megapixels | 1,600 by 1,200 dpi 3 Megapixels | 2,048 by 1,536 dpi | 10 by 13 inches o¢cT/00 | ee 39 Sharpen Those Pictures ne of the crowning achievements in image-editing software is its ability to sharpen slightly blurred images by making pixel boundaries in images more pronounced—especially important for scanned photos, which often come out a bit blurry. Don’t expect miracles, though. This technique won't make a blurry image crystal clear; it really works best for improving a good image, not fixing a bad one. We suggest using Unsharp Mask instead of the other sharpening filters because it gives you more control over how much sharpness you can apply and in what ways. Don’t let the name fool you; Unsharp Mask is a technique (taken from. film compositing) for sharpening the edges in an image. Simply select Unsharp Mask from the Sharpen submenu of the Filter menu, and you'll see a dialog box pop up with a few settings and a preview. Here we chose to enter an Amount of 75. percent (the amount of contrast the filter adds), a Radius of 1.0 (the distance from the pixel that Picky about Paper One thing you'll want to do in advance is stock up on paper for all the filter looks for information), and a Threshold of t (the amount of difference in color between pixels before you sharpen the image—a ‘Threshold of 0 sharpens all pixels, ignoring any differences). For best results, take a subtle, not drastic, approach to choosing your values. Too much sharpening will make JPEG artifacts—and any other imperfections—more visible. A few adjustments in Photoshop's Unsharp Mask dialog box can work wonders on details. Don’t oversharpen, though, or you'll bring out imperfections, such as JPEG artifacts. By keeping the Threshold number low but increasing the Amount and Radius numbers to insanely high values, you can get some interesting posterization effects, including cool exaggeration and saturation of certain colors. Sharpening can bring out fine details in an image, such as those in the net at left. 4 Preview Threshold: sie levels papers. The recently released Pictorico (htt www. pictorico .com) those images your printer’s going to start spewing out. The range of paper choices today lets you print anything from a quick-and-dirty proof, to a glossy enlargement, to a panoramic oversize print. Here’s some general advice for buying paper. * Take the print-proof approach. Buy cheap, low-grade photo paper (such as plain inkjet paper) for testing and printing one-offs, and preserve premium paper (such as photo-quality glossy film) for final prints. You'll save a little money that way. + Lean toward name brands. Although it feels sort of like a dirty trick, the best paper for your printer usually comes from the same folks who made it. However, it doesn’t hurt to try out some other a el OCT/00 line of photo-quality paper—especially the Hi-Gloss White Film works beautifully with several different photo printers. It’s ightfast, too, so your pictures will last longer. Basically, the higher the grade i paper, the better the print. You can also choose between several finishes, such as matte, canvas, glossy, and silk, among others. Make sure you use lightfast paper. Some brand-new papers (combined with new inks) make prints that can last as long as silver-halide photos—at least 15 years (a few companies tout even tonger lifespans). For more information on lightfastness and photo prints, visit the Wilhelm Imaging Research Web site (http://www.wilhelm-research.com) Picking the Right Printer few years, the quality and consistency of color you can get from a relatively inexpensive one these days will amaze you. Most decent photo-quality inkjet printers cost between $300 and $500 and are extremely easy to operate. While picking a prinfer is nota difficult feat, you should consider a few things before plunking down your credit card, * Resolution. While resolution isn’t everything, a higher aumber is better. This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, but a 1,200-dpi prinier will outperform a 300-dpi one every time. For home printing, you should pick a printer with a resolution of 1,000 dpi or higher; beyond that, resolution plays a decreasingly important role. | fyou haven’t looked at inkjet printers in a Keeping Although photo printers can produce beautiful work over the course of several consecutive prints, you're more likely to get killer results if you follow a killer maintenance routine. Here are five things you should do to make your printer function at the highest level. 1. Treat photo paper like fine wine. Keep it in cool, dry, dark place. Moisture can Tuin photo paper quickly, and you're better off if you don't expose It to the elements in the first place. A resealable bag and a dark indoor cabinet should do the trick, nce you've chosen your printer and paper type, there's one other printerrelated item to which you need to pay attention—how you set up your This is where you choose the © Drop size. This is the flip side of resolution. Drop size measures the smallest ink drop a printer can produce, Smaller dots mean a printer can handle greater detail and better color reproduction. Although this information isn’t always easy to find in a printer’s specs, a drop size in the single-digit picoliter range is a good place to be. Inks. You might not always have a choice in what inks come with a printer, but you should make sure they are quick-drying and lightfast (which means prints won't fade as quickly in direct light). Although the printer's specs should comment on these issues, they may not—in that case, you should talk to a sales representative for answers. ur Printer in Prime Shap’ 2, Keep your printer clean. To avoid any banding, smudging, or other problems caused by a dirty printhead or paper path, clean your machine between prints. This usually means cleaning the printheads and running a cleaning sheet through the printer—methods can vary from one device to another, so check your documentation for more info. 3.Use fresh media. Although the effects are minimal, inks do age, so if you're outputting high-quality prints, start with a fresh cartridge. You're also less likely to. run out of ink that way, printer's driver software. Getting the driver settings right can make the difference between a good print and a great one. Here’s a look at the Epson Stylus Photo EX printer's driver © Number of ink colors. More is generally better, Some printers use five colors (cyan, light cyan, magenta, light magenta, and yellow) plus black to make prints, giving them a larger potential color palette to draw from than a printer with just three colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow) plus black. Also, a good photo printer should have the ability to use black ink for darker areas, which lets it do double-duty as a text printer. Print samples. Check out several print samples created with the highest-quality settings on the best paper available— preferably ones you actually witness coming out of the printer. It’s important to see what the printer can do before you lay down your hard-earned scratch, 4. Look, but don't touch. By touching t! surface of some photo-quality glossy flms, you'll leave some of your skin's oils on the paper, which may keep the ink from setting. Your best bet is to treat each sheet like a vinyl album (for those of you who remember what that is) and handle it only by the edges. 5. Give it time. When) your prints come out of the printer, lay them face up in a still, dust-free area to dry compietely. Although prints may look dry when they emerge, it doesn’t hurt to give them a little extra time. interface. Although you'll need to check the manual that came with your printer for specifics, you should get a good idea of what settings to look for based on this example. paper type you will be using. —- This pop-up menu controls the print resolution. 2 Print a This {ittle item—Super MicroWeave—usually stays unchecked unless you tell the printer you're using premium glossy paper. However, if you check this box, the feature will get rid of banding and make prints look even better—but it {Superfine 1490-3] $4 Hatroning OG) amas & GMcroweave super Wigh Speed [IFIP Horizontal fFinestnetalt |@ color Management Q color Adjustment — Epson's driver lets you tweak the color levels in the Orsneneses |] Qcolorsyne ink [ B oon Q Black Tone QNormat @ Hara p——| eee _|]-}—~up the contrast or simulate old oigital camera Correction Sharpness driver itself, but we chose to use Epson’s PhotoEnhance3 color management. These three choices fet you bump sepia-tone prints. A final bit of postprocessing— these two controls add extra /~ sharpness and correction pi Garin) (ee) Comey Cae | for some of the artifacts also increases the print time. introduced by digital cameras. David Reynolds hopes a certain collection of pictures involving LBJ and Gumby never get printed. Ever. 0cT/00 | MacAddict| | Al FIND ANARCHIE. = 3.7 Installer, Cache Killer Pro 4, Funk Monkey 1.1, HideFolders 22, MacWasher 1.02, QuickEncrypt 3.03, The Eraser Pro 2.6.0, The MacLocksmith 24.0, and Keep your personal files, A email, and Web surfing safe J from prying eyes or your Nac at ‘tpn. by Todd Stauffer macadict.com ‘debate, illustration by Robert Rose 42) MacAddict} oct/00 | fyou have a Mac at work, you've got a greater incentive to keep your job than the average Windows-using employee. Fair enough. But having that Mac on your desk might have its negative side, too. After all, you're more likely to want to run your fingers over its keyboard and fire it up for an Internet joyride. Or you might use its advanced graphics capabilities to lay out an anarchist newsletter after hours. And let’s face it: We all send the occasional personal email from our work accounts. The problem: Even if you've propped up your Mac with your favorite stuffed animals and plastered your personal wallpaper on the desktop, that Mac ain’t really yours. It’s the Boss’s—and the time you spend on that computer belongs to ‘the company. That means your supervisors have the right to scrutinize everything on your Mac—even the stuff that’s going to embarrass you. Are you willing to take the risk that your boss (or the evil subjects in the IT department) won't start lurking through your hard drive looking for evidence of anti-productivity? If you think you're completely safe, think again. Last December, the New York Times Company fired 23 employees for “jnappropriate” use of email. Earlier in 1999, brokerage house Edward Jones. fired 19 employees and disciplined 44 others for violating its email policy. And heck, we wonder if Bill Gates even uses email anymore after that little run-in with the Department of Justice. Now how much would you pay for a little protection? Fortunately, it won’t cost much. You can use Mac OS 9, shareware tools, and the Internet to keep your personal stuff personal on your Mac, regardless of who owns it. Then, with some well-placed compliments directed toward your Boss, you'll be happily employed for a while to come, Security i echnically, your company can page through the files on your Mac at any time, no q search warrant required, so >. the first step is to secure your files. The best way to do this is to use a program to encrypt them. Based on a password you create and some magic-like mathematics, an encryption program can garble a file beyond recognition. By entering the correct By password, you can e recover the file in full, Tf you have Mac OS 9, you can encrypt files using the Apple File Security application that’s included, free of charge. In addition, you can store the password in your Keychain so you can jast double-click to open your file whenever your Keychain is unlocked. If the Keychain is locked, unauthorized users cannot access the file. The downside to Apple File Security is that you can’t encrypt entire folders, only files. To encrypt with Mac 0S 9: 1. Drag the file you want to encrypt onto the Apple File Security icon, most likely located in the Security folder inside your Applications folder. (if you're 4 contextual-menu-type cat, you can instead Control-click the file’s icon and choose Encrypt.) 2. The computer will ask for a password, or “passphrase” (Apple’s way of encouraging you to use longer passwords). 3, Enter your passphrase twice and click Encrypt—if you want to add this password to your Keychain, make sure Add To Keychain is selected in the dialog. 4. Now, if you managed to type your password correctly twice, you'll see a cute little gold key on the file's icon indicating that it's encrypted. 5. To decrypt the file, just double-click its icon (which will also launch the document) or drag it to the Apple File Securify icon again, It will ask you for your passphrase unless your Keychain is already unlocked. Ifyou don’t have Mac OS 9 installed or you want more power and the ability to encrypt entire folders, check out QuickEncrypt, a shareware solution from Dejal Userware in New Zealand ($25, http://www.dejal.co.az). ItNo es were Dropped onthe Appication, atomnatiealy crypt or becryt Alles WItn the Foie FFoecuinens2” f fcr Ey | orm sewert 0 stander ft f [ese QuickEncrypt offers powerful encryption of files and folders. Beyond that, the program offers AppleScript integration and its own. automating system of Worksets. These are great tools for boss-proofing your Mac because they allow you to automate many different tasks in QuickEncrypt. For instance, you can have the program automatically encrypt all files in a given folder (or only new files) at a specific time, and you can decide where and how files are stored once encrypted. A cheaper solution is MacLocksmith ($10, http://ellowsoft. homepage.nu). This basic drag-and-drop application offers an efficient way to encrypt an individual file or folder with a password, and it cleans up after itself by deleting the original file. Kremlin ($30, hitp://yww.mach5.com) is another good security program, featuring high-end 160-bit encryption. It also has nice integration with the Finder by adding its own menu to the menubar of your Mac as well as popping up different options in your Mac's contextual menus (which you can access with a Control-click). It'll even securely delete your unencrypted originals, = Apple Fila Security = <@} “zoooFinances" Confirm your passphrase: (Add to Keychain OCT/00 | MacAdoaict| 43 {continued from p43) One utility that will encrypt—and that you might already have hanging out on your Mac— ‘is Aladdin’s DropStuff 5.x ($30, http://www aladdinsys.com). Simply double-click DropStuff, then choose Preferences from the File menu. Turn on the Encrypt Archive With Password option and the software will ask you for a password whenever you drag a file or folder to DropStuff to create an archive. As with Apple File Security, the resulting file is compressed, thus taking up less space on your hard drive. n addition to securing your files, you'll | want to hide them. In fact, you may elect to hide folders instead of encrypting them, since encrypting can be such a bore. Plus, the bulk of your files probably aren't really sensitive. You're just trying to hide games, game files, game levels, game editors, and articles about games, tight? (We know our readers.) So, here you are with all these games, er, decuments to hide. What to do? Hide the whole blasted folder. Actually, there’s an upside and a downside to hiding files, The upside is that it’s pretty easy to do, even without having to buy an expensive program—any Mac file or folder has a hidden resource that you can toggle with ResEdit or with a simple shareware program. The downside: It's also easy to defeat. Just check out your startup drive in BBEdit’s Open dialog box, for instance, and you'll see all sorts of folders and files “hidden” in the Finder. 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