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GET THE MOST OUT OF OFFICE 2001 CTMUETs A better magazine. 808 Sar | ALSO INSIDE Control Lego Robots With Your Mac iy Cupertino Travel Tips iy =-_- 2: Megastorage iS CMP3 Players Tested Xpert tips Learn to Install, = Customize, § Troubleshoot, 7 as andEven = an Hack 0S X f p\ Jt Wid ” The Xtras eal — oo iBook The Public Beta— Xpanded Should You Get it? me What Works and What Doesn't PLUS Tons of Power User Tips THIS ISSUE GOES TO 11! MM Office: mac | 2001 {© 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserve. Microsoft Is @ registred trademark of Microsoft Corporati inthe United States and/or other countries. Apple, Mac, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of pole Computer, Inc CanoScan D660U Scanner CanoScan N656U Scanner Peripheral CanoScan N1220U Scanner Take a quick look around. You'll find a Mac® compatible Canon peripheral for just about any purpose you could imagine. 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Is badly congested. in the first place. : Or suffers from hardware headaches. Fortunately, So to keep your Mac out of the infirmary, there’s a simple remedy for such ailments... here’s our diagnosis: Take the all-in-one cure, Norton SystemWorks™ for Macintosh*® Norton SystemWorks for Macintosh. You'll find Norton SystemWorks gives your entire Macintosh __it over the counter at your nearest software a complete check-up. Then, cures what ails it. store, or visit www.symantec.com/mac. Plus, it inoculates your computer against ‘Compatible with Mac O/S 8.1 or greater. {pt and te Sai oan Sed aden of Sym Coptn Noon ystems tema of San Capron. and Macintosh are registered lrademarks of Apple Compute, Inc. Copyright © 2000 Symantec Corporation. Al righs reserved No.52 December 2000 Volume 5 _ Issue 12 highlights 28 Mac OS X If you’re pondering whether or not 2 to install the OS X Public Beta—or you already have and it’s driving you slightly insane—fret not, our technical gurus are here to help. From a tour of the interface to a look at compatibility issues to advice on installation, we give you the definitive counsel you need for navigating the world of beta. by David Reynolds and lan Sammis Mac OS X Public Beta ‘You beta bet your life. 44 Microsoft Office 2001: The Abridged Manuals Microsoft has just released the very slick new Office 2001, but there’s one problem: It comes without a manual. Microsoft thinks it’s easier to rely on the in-program Office Assistant for help. We think we’d rather get our eyes gouged out with hot pokers. That’s why we put together our own abridged manual for Office 2001—we hope it will save you from a lot of pain. by Maria Langer 55 Let's Go Cupertino! When the Let’s Go! team put together its set of travel guides to the most amazing places on Earth, it made one big oversight: Cupertino, California, headquarters of Apple Computer and home to the best damn strip malls 2001: A Space Office Odyssey. this side of the Mississippi. Come explore this charming town and find out about the city behind our favorite computer company. by Narasu Rebbapragada My. other scooter’s a Harley. 86 Hack Your A few months back, we lamented that Lego’s robot- building kits don’t come with Mac software. We were wrong. Here’s how to launch a legion of small, easily .. dismantled attack drones. Haldar it by David Reynolds is plays one on T.V. Anew system makes for all- new hacks, and we couldn’t wait till next year to lay some ‘on you. Here are the basics of mucking around inside OS. X’s application bundles. by lan Sammis My god, it’s full of...hey, is anything in here? MacAddict Statement of Ownership Post Office Notice: Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation for Periodicals class privieges as required by 39 USC3685: 1. Tile of Publication: MacAddict 2. Publication No. 1088-548X 3. Date o Filing: 10/1/00 4 Frequency of Issue: Monthly 5. Number of issues published annually: 12 6. Annual subscrition price: $39.90 7. 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AfterY2K and The Joy of Tech Comic Collection After you’ve pulled the broken joystick loose from your twitchy fingers, | settle back and spend your Sunday momingswith two of the Intemet’s i most popular comic strips, AfterY2K and The Joy of Tech. Nitrozac and Snaggy of Geekculture.com have put together a package for you from their wacky site—exclusively on this month’s CD. What a great Christmas gift this issue will make! Drop Drawers for OS X Getting used to the navigation of a new OS takes practice and patience. What we need are nifty utilities that can make the switch much easier (and more fun!). The terrifically titled Drop Drawers adds tabs to your OSX desktop. It’s half Apple Menu, half Launcher, all improvement. Who would have thought that such simple idea could make a world of difference? You OS X Public Beta newbies will love this little utility. MacAddict Menu Matiness Once again, the miracle-workers of Freeverse come through with a utility that can solve one of life’s most difficult questions: “What do | want for iunch?” This is the killer app of the year, folks. Version 2 sports new features not found in many programs, including images of the MacAddict staff munching on their favorite foods. Forget the rest, Menu Madness is here at last. What a way to end a great Year—here’s The Bist! Maybe we should stick to Myst. Atier Yaka aiun ai roenmes ouniems sneer fe TOM Tue Sem BAM We couldn't do a centerfold, but we've got the next best thing. Nitrozac brings us a selection of comics from Geekculture.com. Okay, it’s nota staff video per se, but we want to give our iMovie contest winners, | Jef Etters and ‘Aaron McBride, some of the limelight. Sit back and enjoy this month's staff movie: Why Cats Hate Mice. ‘We love the efforts of developers to make OS X act as friendly as OS 9. AMacAddict Exclusive! Menu Madness will solve life’s problems and Provide hours of fun. [Lescol 8) MacAdaict|DEC/00 X : Download the Tools. Mixrnan'Studia: Download the Tracks. MixmanSingles- Upload your creations. My Mibazzene ey Minman is @ product division of Beatnik Ine. earors noie Dazed, confused, and just plain old wrong. very year the MacAddict staff = gathers among the empty Mac husks, piles of technical manuals, and boxes stuffed with oversized scanners that clutter our editorial offices, and we try to predict what the next 12 months have in store for Apple, the Mac, and the magazine. In the January issue, I'll let you know what we come up with for 2002, but this month | wanted to take a moment to check our scorecard from last year. Keep in mind that at the time we were speculating, it was the close of 1999, the artist known as Prince was still known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, generators and canned food were all the rage, and the fastest Macs only went to 450MHz (take that, Gordon Moorel). Here’s a selection of our January 2000 predictions, and how they fared. G4s will find their way into PowerBooks. Sadly, no. Don’t we feel like suckers! We'll see snap-on color schemes for Macs. Yup..It’s like buying a whole new Mac—a lot like that, in fact. iBook fashion spreads will dominate Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Details, and Vanity Fair. Did you see the October cover of Playboy? Steve Jobs will push his luck too far with some grand scheme, prompting those inside Apple to say, “Oh, yeah—that’s why we fired him the first time.” He's still duping Apple’s board. Mac OS 9.1 will ship. Halfway right—9.04 shipped. Mac OS X will ship. It will be totally unlike the current Mac OS and will cause panic and confusion—but it will rock! I guess a public beta doesn’t count, but you’re confused and panicked, aren’t you? The Department of Justice will split up Microsoft. This did in fact happen, although it hasn’t yet...um, happened. It’s not Vogue, but close enough. GAs will reach 700MHz Well, they will someday... Pentiums will reach 1GHz. Yup. Wireless networking will blossom as Apple introduces FireWire-less connectivity. | think the awkward wording of this one saved us. 10} MacAddict) DEC/00 * Crayola will introduce Bondi blue to its Our beardless leader! The AMD Athalon will be faster in every way than the Pentium, but it still won’t unseat Intel, I think these chips are about the same, but it’s really far too boring an issue to follow. Logicware will change its name to Vaporware. As far as | can tell, this is true. Find out for yourself at www.logicware.com. crayon colors, and Apple will thank it with a massive lawsuit. Crayola is one of the few people Apple didn’t sue last year. Pokémon will go the way of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and pet rocks). | don’t know, Did pet rocks have a hit summer movie? Tin foil will be big. Itwasn't. ‘Steve Jobs will legalize marijuana at Apple. What were we smoking? Disney will purchase both Apple and Pixar. See above answer. Neither browser will ship a version 6. Two points! DSL and cable modems will be everywhere. Do you have one yet? Larry Ellison will make more than 15 completely bizarre comments. | didn’t hear them personally, but I’m sure he did. Hacking of DVD movies will increase, yielding a vast illegal movie market on the internet. | just paid full price for the special edition of Spinal Tap. Dave and Ian will make incredibly geeky references to obscure parts of the Mac OS. You should hear them. It just doesn’t end. Mac-related memory from last year? A. Making my first iMovie. Q. What's your least fond Mac-related memory from last year? A, Getting the reader feedback on my first iMovie. Lighten up, cheapskates. If you want a real movie, go spend $3 and rent one! j David Ross ‘Art Director, usionist (Q. What's your fondest Mac- related memory SA fromlastyear? ‘A. It's a toss-up between getting my ‘new G4 at work, and the discovery of Macster. Ah, my plate is full, brother. Q. What's your least fond Mac-related memory from last year? A. Looking back and seeing all that | missed of life because | was playing f**ing Unreal Toumament. » }] Christopher's. Imlay ") Associate Art Director, ded woekie Q. What’s your fondest Mac- related memory from last year? A. When lan demonstrated Castle Wolfenstein in OS X while playing high- energy techno music, which somehow changed the entire visual experience of the game. There’s something about combining neon-blue walls, poorly animated German shepherds, and 120-bpm techno music. Sue me—it just worked. Q. What's your least fond Mac-related memory from lastyear? A. The time | was playing Unreal Tournament at my friend’s house over a LAN, and his English bulldog, Sumo, curled up under my desk and puked on my feet. Stinky! "HOUSTON... “THE iR@T Has LANDED.” THE FASTEST WEB CAM ON EARTH Orange Micro is first to market with the iBOT, a FireWire-based desktop video camera. iBOT harnesses the speed and power of FireWire unmatched by the slower USB-based web cams. In fact, the inexpensive iBOT uses the same IEEE 1394 technology built into pricey DV camcorders costing over 7 times as much. Orange Micro’s iBOT is the desktop video camera for the rest of us, iQ i providing crisp, clear video at a price you can afford. 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FOR SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: Call (toll-free) 888-771-6222. THAT’S GOOD ADVICE The weather service that issues severe weather warnings hates windows. | was. watching the Weather Channel, and a severe weather warning popped up, saying people should get indoors and stay away from windows. Just wanted to let you know that the Weather Channel supports Macs!—Russ Calkins OK, WE WERE HARSH The overall impression you give of Freeway 3 (Reviews, Sep/oo, p70) is off the mark. You give your cons—though they're correct—too much weight for Freeway’s target audience (designers). You also failed to mention the program’s many new features and improvements. Freeway has always targeted designers who don’t see the world as a mass of code, Personally, | do see the world as code, but for Web design I’d rather use Freeway than any other product anyway. —Joe Muscara 14| MacAdcict [PECs ‘00 Now that’s a bright outlook. SOMEONE REVOKE THAT POETIC LICENSE | can’t believe the number of people in the Mac community who require surgery to remove their undergarments from their collective cracks over the new color of the iBooks. C’mon, people, you act as if you wouldn’t look at the cure for cancer if someone scrawled it in red crayon on a piece of cardboard once used as a vagrant’s shelter. The lime iBook is, dare | say it, radical! Blowing the dust off a long-lost eighties expression, | must say that | can’t help but jones for a new iBook. —Chris Baxter GIVING A NEW MEANING TO FOREIGN AID | represent a group of five or six enthusiastic gamers here in Guatemala. We were wondering if you could send us some games because the stores here only sell PC games and for outrageous prices, and we don’t have a lot of cash. The exchange rate is eight to one or something crazy like that. We have iMacs, 7200/75, 7500/100s,and G3s. We would really like Rainbow Six, Unreal Tournament, Descent 3, and Total Annihilation Gold. We will receive all games with enthusiasm. eff, Willy, and friends MO BETA Today, Apple announced the public beta of OSX. This is a noteworthy day in the hearts of all Mac addicts. Some may fear OS X's ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID “THE FILTH AND THE FURBIE" ROSS arrival and its ability to render anything beneath a G3 obsolete ("’m ignoring upgrade cards for the purpose of this example). Others will hail it as the day Apple once more provided us with a modem operating system. It’s all hogwash. The truth of the matter is that Apple has given us the ability to put Winblows back in diapers. “The Gates Brigade” will fight, but in the end we shall triumph.—Agent Mosquito MAD MACS Okay, sure, talk about the G4 cube and the new G4 towers—sure, they kick ass, but what ever happened to the iBook? Obviously you've forgotten about the new iBook upgrades. In your October review of Diablo II, you said you tested Diablo I! ona iBook just to see how it would play with the It was not a tough choice to figure out what to take to my island paradise (Cozumel, Mexico).—Robert B. Lovato minimum requirements. | own an iBook SE and Diablo Il, and | have never had a single glitch in gameplay. Not only that, but the iBook has never failed me—not once. So next time you want to say something about the iBook, get your facts straight! The iBook is a true road warrior, with better battery life than the PowerBook. Let’s hear it for the little guy!—Jeremiah Brower LAY OFF THE ACID You know, I’ve always wondered where the heck. iMacs would come from if money grew on trees. | figured a tree ora bush is just overrated. Maybe ina gigantic flowerpot? But most ofall, what if some guy (like the Gregor Mendel of Apple) created a weird hybrid?! Well, this is my MacFlower: a G4 Cube and Tower and iMac hybrid. —E. Stockhausen MAXIMUM G3 \tooka look at the October issue of your sister publication, Maximum PC. It has a one- page humor article on alternative uses for Apple’s G4 Cube, a machine none of the multitude of PC clone manufacturers had the imagination or engineering know-how to. build. Yet the screen molding of the laptop Which is more frightening, the letter or the picture? Now we know what it takes to get.a flurry of obnoxiously funny letters—just print an egregious typo. As you already figured out, Aspyt’s The Sims (Reviews, Oct/oo, p50) does not cost $2,495. The game’s suggested retail price is $49.95. Sorry if you already sold your kidney on eBay.—Ed. : The Sims ‘COMPANY: Aspyr Media | | CONTACT: 628-212-7797 0c 512-708-8100, | toy cx | 5a Sac, PowerBook 63, PowerNtac | Don't you have someone who reviews your typos, or are they stoned, too?—Bim Lioyd depicted on the cover obviously belongs to an Apple Macintosh PowerBook G3. In the similar photo on page 41, you can even see the white Macintosh PowerBook G3 name and the multicolored Apple logo under the screen! Does Maximum PC produce its magazine on Macs, too?—Burt Reich Yes, it’s true. We hoped no one would notice the Mac’s subtle curves—but you did, and here Maximum PC stands, guilty as charged. Maximum PC is indeed designed on Macs. —Maximum PC Editor in Chief, Jon Phillips ee ue OH, WHAT THE HELL... lam sure you are swamped with everything X, and you probably can’t do much with this due to copyright laws—but when | saw it, | did think Star Trek had jumped on the X bandwagon.—Ben Mitchell X marks the Spock. DON’T WORRY—IMPOTENT PEOPLE CAN LEAD FULL LIVES lve been reading the mag and feverishly loading my iMac’s DV SE hard drive with The Disc every month since March 2000. Imagine my feelings of inadequacy—impotency, even—when | saw the prices and specs on the new line of iMac DV SEs: 100MHz faster and a 17GB larger hard drive, all for the same price. Ah, the pain of ecstasy and haste. —Evan Jones WE WERE HOPING At that price, you'd think you'd at least get to watch ’em pee! —D. Gilvezan UM, PLUM-CAKE...AN HOUR OF THERAPY COSTS ONLY $100 Um, sugar-cookies...you might wanna check the price on The Sims again...$2,495? Huh? Ye gods, | could buy a live human being for that price! (Granted, | doubt | could get a good one for that...prob’ly some syphilitic, crab-infested hussy with no teeth and an (Q of 12. Oh, wait...that would be my ex’s new girlfriend. Never mind,)—Regina HIT ME, BABY, ONE MORE TIME | just installed Dreamweaver 3 in less time than it took Britney Spears to reach the second verse of “Oops!...! Did It Again.” | love my G3. (Oh, and you should cancel out the Britney thing with the fact that the rest of my playlist includes 3 Doors Down, Bon Jovi, Mark Snow, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the HampsterDance techno remix.)—Rainee Scott JUST ONE PROBLEM... One reader suggested recently that lan Sammis ride a skateboard down that curvy hill in San Francisco, stand on his head, eat a Twinkie, and play Myth on an iMac (Letters, Aug/oo, p14). | have tried to fulfill one of those requests in the Photoshop-enhanced pic | am sending with this letter. Enjoy! —Jammer Hermann Jan could be Dave Reynolds's stunt double! WELL, THEY SAY YOU DON’T NEED BOTH KIDNEYS Hmm. It seems a copy of The Sims will set me back $2,495. Kidneys go for that much on eBay, right? | could also hock a retina and get my friend a copy for his birthday.—J. Claydon NO #%@%, SHERLOCK Luckily, | found a fantastic deal on The Sims. I saved over $2,445 or about 98 percent just by going to www.aspyr.com. Heck, if you search really carefully (maybe with Sherlock |I), maybe you can find deals like this, tool—Tim Breen Listen Tony, the price is so high because a bunch of the boxes must have fallen off of a truck somewhere...Met with an unfortunate accident, started sleeping with the fishys, wearing cement...oh, forget it! DEC/00 MacAdaict 15 eT INIO Qel the Proletariat since 1996, : Aah! IMy Eyes! It Burns! New iBooks sport FireWire, DVD, and retina-burning color fter more than a year without any A significant internal changes, Apple finally gave the iBooks a much- needed performance boost this past September, upping processing power and video performance as well as adding two external ports. And what would an Apple hardware rev be without a few new, attention-grabbing colors? Apple tossed in a few of those as well. On the specs front, these new iBooks are finally living up to their potential as fully equipped, low-cost Mac laptops. Each iBook now ships with a FireWire port to compliment the USB port, giving this model (like every other modern Mac) the ability to add a high-performance external hard drive, CD bumer, or DV camera. Additionally, Apple has finally modernized the iBook’s graphics system, giving the plucky portable a Rage 128 Mobility graphics controller and 8MB of VRAM—enough for today’s demanding games. All iBooks now ship with a 10GB Ultra ATA hard drive—a nice improvement from the anemic 3GB drive that shipped with the first iBook models. And finally, the iBook now offers composite video output. > ince current printing mechanisms fail to show key lime accurately, we've asked MacAddict staffers to describe it in their own words. DAVID: It looks like an internally lit lime creamsicle. | want one. IAN: It looks like the color you see when you stop staring at the sun. CATHY: It’s like the color of the radioactive goop that’s always seeping out of people’s brains in sci-fi movies. It definitely doesn’t look edible, 16| MacAddict| DEC/00 In the current lineup, more than a paint job separates the iBook Special Edition from the plain ol’ iBook—unlike the previous iBook collection. For starters, a bigger gap in processing power now separates the standard iBook and the SE version— 366MHz and 466MIz respectively (the previous line clocked in at 300MHz and 366MHz). The other big difference is that the Special Edition iBooks now come equipped with a DVD-ROM drive and DVD video playback. The bare-bones iBook has dropped slightly in price from $1,599 to $1,499, while the bells-and-whistles iBook SE holds steady at $1,799. As for the iBook’s color schemes, Apple still offers three choices, but you won't find tangerine or blueberry among them. Apple has kept graphite as a choice for iBook SE models. The two new color schemes are indigo (borrowed from the iMac), which Apple offers as a color option for base-model iBooks, and an all-new (and absolutely shocking) key lime color, offered as an option for both the plain-Jane iBook and the SE. We contacted Dave Russell, Apple’s director of product marketing for consumer mobile products, to ask him just why Apple went with such a bright color, and he informed us that Apple always likes to have one outlandish motif in its consumer product lines. Originally, this was tangerine in the iBook line, but key lime is now the saucy option. Russell assured us that Apple is not cavalier or random about putting new colors on its products. “When we come up with a color, we go through many, many, many iterations to get it right,” he said. Unfortunately, neither RGB displays nor moder printing press can accurately reproduce key lime in all its eye-blistering glory, so you'll have to hop on down to your local Apple retailer to understand just how, um...intense this color is. One hint—key lime glows under a black light. We’re not kidding.—DR IBook iBook Special Edition 366MHz G3. AB6MHz G3. 64MB of RAM 64MB of RAM 10GB hard drive 10GB hard drive CD-ROM DVD-ROM. USB port USB port FireWire port FireWire port Audio/video out port Audio/video out port 10/100Base-T Ethernet 10/100Base-T Ethemet 8MB VRAM 8MB VRAM Rage 128 Mobility Rage 128 Mobility graphics card graphics card Indigo, key lime Graphite, key lime Starting price: Starting price: $1,499 $1,799 Radeon Is Comin’ to Town fter teasing us with previews (and well after 3dfx shipped its Mac-compatible Voodoo cards), ATI’s new Radeon graphics chip is finally showing up in new Macs. Ifyou’re so inclined, you can add the new superchip as a build-to-order option for your Power Mac G4 desktop or G4 Cube, but it’ll cost you an extra $100. Radeon is the successor to Rage 128, standard in new Macs since the introduction of the blue-and- white G3 tower in January 1998. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF APPLE COMPUTER, INC. Five things not to port to OS X hen we got our hands on the Mac OS X Public Beta, we initially thought we'd like to see everything from the current Mac OS ported to X. On reflection, though, we realized that we'd be just as happy to leave some programs behind. Here are five candidates for our “Please Abandon the Macintosh Platform” campaign.—/S Windows Media Player (Microsoft) Microsoft's port of the Windows Media Player has been halfhearted at best—before the recent release of Media Player 7 beta, the app sported the rather alarming version number: 6.3,00.0404b2. The player works well enough for Microsoft to claim that its asfand asx Streams are cross-platform, but not well enough so that any sober Macintosh user would describe using it asa pleasant experience. This should really be a QuickTime codec (though that’s as probable as one of us inadvertently falling into a sewer in.a freak Quantum tunneling incident). Speed Racer | A look at the ports of tomorrow Star Trek: Starship Creator (Simon & Schuster Interactive) Granted, carbonizing Star Trek: Starship Creator—along with its sequels, Star Trek: Starship Creator ll (The Wrath of HyperCard) and Star Trek: Starship Creator Ill (Please God Not Again)—would let you swap the game into the background while your ship ever so: slowly plods its way from destination to destination. Still, we’d rather not bother. WordPerfect (Corel) Fora few years, the drama of Corel’s endless indecision about the fate of WordPerfect for the Mac gripped us. Then we became just mildly interested. By now, the situation resembles a bad dinner-theater production of Hamlet, with Corel continuing to ponder WordPerfect’s skull. We'd almost rather do without WordPerfect permanently than suffer through a few more years of hearing variations on the theme “We're trying to decide what to do with WordPerfect for Mac.” Norton FileSaver (Symantec) Norton Utilities is an outstanding package, but it’s got a deadly downside—FileSaver. This utility takes so long to do its indexing that every Mac user we know turns the thing off lest he or she go mad with frustration. While we’re looking forward to most of Symantec’s products coming to OS X, we'd be happy if FileSaver faded into the past. The MacAddict Tour (Imagine Media) Our CD tour has become really, really dated, It has got to go. Look for a new one in the next few months, To be or not to be, that was the question— five friggin’ years ago. It's dead already. Let's give ita nice burial and move on. hen Apple unleashed FireWire and USB on an unsuspecting Mac community and then proceeded to phase out SCSI in favor of Ultra ATA for internal hard disk connections, it sent outa decisive signal that it intended to stick to industry-standard bus systems. This move made it easier for developers of digital cameras, scanners, hard disks, and portable music players to make cross- platform devices. It also made it easier to predict what the Mac will get next—we can just watch the progress of those buses in the larger PC market. While we can never be certain if or when wily Apple will implement such bandwidth boosters (after all, we're still waiting for ATA/100), the various standards implementors are rewving all of these connection concoctions. Serial ATA, USB 2, and the next rev of FireWire are just a hop, skip, and jump away. Here’s how they stack up against Apple’s current offerings, third-party SCSI options, and each other.—RC ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF XPLANE.coM DEC/00 | MacAdaict | 17 ger in firoolworthy There’s almost enough room for all of Adobe GoLive’s palettes. Xerox Phaser 790DP Xerox | www.xerox.com | $7,199 here are times when size matters—and some of them we can even print in a family magazine. Sure, an Epson 740i meets the average consumer's printing needs, but then a Honda Civic meets the average consumer's driving needs—and that hasn’t hurt Range Rover sales. There are times when you just need a printer with some serious muscle, like the ability to make double-sided 13a by 18, 600-dpi color laser prints at 6 pages per minute. Then there’s the possibi that you might also want that printer to have a 6GB hard drive, so when it’s don with its color run, it can whip through spooled black-and-white pages ata blistering 26 pages per minute (that’s 1 page every 2.3 seconds). If that’s the kind of performance you're looking for, the Xerox Phaser 790DP is your printer.—/S PDP-502MX Pioneer | www.pioneerusa.com | $19,995 fyou’re cursing your spoiled neighbor who managed to score one of Apple’s mind-blowing 22-inch Cinema Displays, why not sell your car (and possibly a reproductive organ) and show him or her up by purchasing a 50-inch Pioneer Plasma Display? Pioneer’s top-of-the-line model, the PDP- 502Mx, boasts better sharpness, brightness, and contrast than previous plasma displays; offers a true theater-style 16:9 aspect ratio; and is only four inches thick. In addition to handling your Mac’s input, the PDP-502MX accepts signals ranging from current TV, VCR, and DVD players right on up to HDTV. If you like your displays big, your wallet empty, and your friends flabbergasted, this is one way to accomplish all three goals.—RC Four trays of ae Ppaper-pumping power. A veritable feast of Mac-flavored goodies from Apple’s Tech Info Library (http://til.info.apple.com) * Don’t use the Apple Hardware Test CD. that ships with new iMacs while you have a mouse plugged directly into your iMac’s USB port, * Apple has issued a tech note defining beta software as “software that is in the last stages of testing.” 18 | MecAcdict DEC/00 ‘* Mac OS 9 lets you use removable media (uch asa Zip, Jaz, or Orb cartridge) for virtual memory. * FireWire-based iBooks and PowerBooks wake from sleep when you attach a USB device, whether you have the portable open orclosed. * To find an Apple Authorized Senvice Provider, call 800-538-9696 in the United States or 800-665-2775 in Canada. * Ifa program won't launch when you're using Mac OS 9, try changing the system font to Chicago—a small number of apps won't run unless you do this.—DR PHOTOGRAPH BY AARON LAUER PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF XEROX Illustration never looked so good. Eye-catching illustration, isn’t it? 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Canvas, Sprtefffects and Spiteloyers are trademarks of Deneb Systems, Inc. For more information send email to soles@deneba.com. * 40 le foots cvcilable in Canvas 7 Professional Editon ony. get in New for the Mac Yuletide software offerings s you'd expect during the holiday season, major software vendors are eee busily slipping into their big red sults and BEdt6on long white beards, preparing to slide down TheDis. the chimney this winter with a slew of software revisions. Here are a few highlights to watch for.—/S TIFFany3 Caffeine Software, www.caffeinesoft.com $333 ($555 for professional version) Available now TiFFany3 is an unusual but powerful OS X-native bitmap editor that lies somewhere in the space between the $35, GraphicConverter (www.lemkesoft.com) and the ubiquitous Photoshop. While the $333 version is a solid image editor, the truly special features belong to the professional version. One such goody is a graphical scripting language, which lets you create composite actions (similar to filters) and brush them onto an image. BBEdit 6 Bare Bones Software, www.barebones.com $119 Available now BBEdit holds an unlikely position as a text editor with legions of devoted fans. Its sixth major release adds Unicode (a standard system for displaying international text), syntax checking for several major markup languages, a plug-in syntax- coloring architecture, and improved AppleScript support, Cleaner 5 Terran Interactive, www.terran-int.com $599 Available now Besides trimming “Media” and “Pro” from the name, Terran Interactive (iowa subsidiary of Media 100) has added a pile of new features to its venerable QuickTime processing utility in version 5. Cleaner now comes with MotoDV, a consumer video app from Digital Origin (also a Media 100—owned company). The combination lets you drag video directly from a DV camera into Cleaner’s interface. In addition, Cleaner boasts support for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, files over 2GB, and both processors in dual- processor PowerMacs. 20} MacAddict| DEC/00 Making Stuff Work by Bad Any Means Necessai The Commodore 64 T is month we'd like to take ou back to the days of big hair, leg warmers, and the Commodore 64—one of the many personal computers that vied for dominance before the desktop wars locked into a Mac-versus-Windows showdown. Break open that closet, vacuum up that dust, and you might well find one of these old jewels. And ifyou don’t find it buried in that — "machine has pile of “Baby on Board” signs and Knight Rider collectible glasses, you _'@Ss RAM than can always pick one up on the Internet for about $15, amodern This whole How do we get a Commadore to work with the Mac? The easiest way ‘gital camera, is to route the video and audio from the Commodore 64 directly into the Mac. Several companies make USB-based video grabbers, which work A well for this task—we used an XLR8 Interview 2.0 (www.xlr8.com, ainaaeel $79.99) to bring our Commodore video in. Foraudio, you'llneeda Mac onthe bisa with a microphone input (no Cubes allowed) and a RCA-to-*/,-inch- minijack converter to connect the C64’s audio cables (see Ask Us, this issue, p96, for directions). When you get everything plugged in, you’re good to go. There's another way to go retro. If you’re not too worried about compatibility with all those funky old hardware devices, you can use emulation to run the Commodore ‘on the Mac, in the same way that Virtual PC and SoftWindows run a PC directly on the Mac platform. The shareware program Power64 (www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger /Power64/Power64.html, $25 shareware) emulates a Commodore 64 nicely.—/S Scripter’s Corner Raising the undead finder - ome folks detest at first sight the Mac OS X Public Beta’s new Desktop application. Although you can launch Classic (and with ityour older OS 9 applications), the Finder itself never launches—you have to use the new Desktop application to browse through your files and launch applications. ‘There are very good reasons not to use the old Finder—it can mulch OSX applications faster than that 1988 disk utility you can’t quite bring yourself to throw away. Duplicate an OS X application with the Classic Finder, and you get a defective clone that looks like the original but crashes immediately when you try to run it. Unless you want to see how badly you can screw things up, this is a technique you should probably skip. If fear of evil clones doesn’t put you off, you can revive the Finder, thanks to the pervasiveness of AppleScript in Mac OSX. First start up your old Script Editor (the one from your Mac OS 9 days, not the new OS X-savwy one in the OS X Applications folder). Run the following script: tell app "Finder" open the item "volume name" of the desktop end tell This launches the old Mac OS 9 Finder and opens the volume whose name you enter in the script (where you see volume name). Now you can browse around in the old Finder! Remember, though, that you really shouldn’t be doing this—we take no "responsibility for any problems you encounter asa result—/S- PHOTOGRAPH BY WB. JONES <nser ELPA 4 CIVILIZATION on MacSuft PRODUCTS RANGE FROM EVERYONE vo MATURE |) | 4 | ACTIV: aes We're sending you ten bucks for taking home games we've developed with big names like Hasbro and Tom Clancy. Choose from a hit list of 15 great MacSoft titles (see selection at left). You get to shoot things up, rev things up, blow things up or think things up and you get a ten dollar check for doing it. You want the details? Sure you do. Just go to your favorite software retailer and look for the MacSoft $10 Rebate. get info Shareware Pick of the Month | LunarCell ieee $20 url: wwwflamingpeacom | n the mood to create a world, but don’t want to take the time to ascend Ay to the Godhead? The good folks at Flaming Pear have got you covered in the form of a Photoshop plug-in: LunarCell. With this plug-in, you can create Lunarten _reatistic planets in Photoshop by tweaking geological features, climate, onthe Disc. atmosphere, and cloud cover. If you're a real cloud snob, you can download actual satellite cloud images to wrap around your planets. Plus, you can randomize the plug-in’s settings for some wild planetary bodies. Bryce users will find this tool especially useful for creating alien skies.—DR Bae Dhemew tan ste Cities mee. By tweaking the sliders, buttons, and knobs in the LunarCell filter window, you can create realistic—or fantastic—worlds inside Photoshop. Dream Buntles Better than beer and pretzels veryone likes free stuff—especially around the holidays. Software and hardware manufacturers are hoping to cash in on freebie junkies by bundling their products with free merchandise. The problem is that everyone’s bundling the same things. How many copies of PhotoDeluxe, clip art, or OCR software do you really need? Not ones to point out a problem without offering a solution, we came up with some bundles we'd like to see.—NR We'd buy... anif it came bundled a Palm m100 with a USB connection. a Sony VAIO Music Clip with Mac compatibility. aPC with a G4 Cube. a ‘key lime iBook with sunglasses. Fireworks3Dreamweaverd Studio with a shorter name. Office 2001 without the Office Assistant. a digital camera with photography skills. an HP Deskjet ‘with cables ([s that so much to ask?): 22| MacAddict| DEC/00 Eight tips for better movie rendel clip starts playing. Render Bender ‘ith 20 seconds of raw video occt disk space, any Mac-| -based me distribute carefully crafted QuickTime videos beyond the two-foot radius around his or her monitor must com terms with modern compression technology. And\ while navigating video and audio codecs (compressor decompressor algorithms) requires mucking with a whole lot of mathematical mumbo-jumbo, getting the right render is often more an art than a science. To help you — achieve the perfect balance of audio quality, video quality, and file size, we went to the experts at Media 100 (www.mediaioo.com)to glean some insight for faster, better, leaner video. Here are a few tips.—NR if your audio consists of just a speaking: voice, you~ can minimize file size by using Qualcomm PureVoice audio compression. " Ifyou're distributing video via the Web, you should consider how long your viewers will have to wait - before they can view your downloaded movie. Follow this formula: [(data rate of the clip / data rate ofuser's connection) — 1] x duration of the clip “Ifyou plan to distribute your movi ' Apple's iTools Web site, make sure you've — __ set your Image resolution to 240 by 180° to” match Tools” configuration. {fyou're distributing your movie via CD-ROM, consider the speeds of viewers’ computers. If they have fast systems, use Sorenson Video compression and QDesign audio compression. For users with slower computers, use Sorenson Video with a resolution of 320 by 240 and a data rate of 150 KBps. For audio, use an IMA 4:1 audio at 22KHz or 44KHz. Keep in mind that higher data rates require faster systems. For a fast-motion video (such as a soccer game) with a low data rate (40 KBps), use H.263 compression instead of Sorenson. as For viewing on older Macs such as Quadras, use the caste ves compressor F with IMA for audis. : ° Design Music) offers oe I-lev pression options. iFyou don't, you can try “MediaCleaner EZ for free at www. icanstream.com /download/catalog.html. Flatbed Color Flatbed Laser Multi-Function Multi-Function — / As Low as $499 As Low as $699 Laser Multi-Function As Low as $399 — Multi-Function As Low as $299 Machines That Do Everything. Affordable Multi-Function Center® Models—one less thing you'll have to wait for, thanks to our Mac compatible MFCs. Fact is, we’ve developed some . very smart all-in-one solutions. That's right, all-in-one, y Rie as in printing, copying, scanning and even faxing—all ete in one compact unit. Plus, your MFC is available in zippy 12 page per minute laser, color inkjet, For Macl lit 1es | I lat flatbed and sheet-fed models. 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Once snapped, photos ccan easily download to your Mac or even beam to other handhelds, i —VisorPhone é $299 SRP (includes activation charge) from = ero (wwwhandspring.corn) Deine Rosetta Read-Me Miriam: $199 SRP (32MB version), $259 SRP (64MB version) from InnoGear (wwwinrogearcom) ‘AMac version ofthis MPS player, 00k reader, and image viewer should be available by te time you read this (or very shorty thereafter). t comes in oe or graphite to avoid any major color-clashing faux pas. coolest Handspring add-ons to show you just how vogue your handheld can be.—CL The Geode $249 SRP from GeoDiscovery (www.geodiscovery.com) This Global Postioning System device uses maps and other location-specific information on your Handspring to help you keep rack of exactly where you ae. ft should be available in stores now. ‘Build a Better Countdown The best translation wins a Canon scanner he new 128-bit icons that ship with Mac OS X are incredibly detailed—almost too detailed. The icon for the Dock’s late- breaking news read-me file (which contains last-minute notes from EN Hillel Apple) offers some tantalizingly indecipherable lines of text. So we're letilal posing a challenge to our readers: Decipher the text in the read-me icon and winva Canon ‘scanner. Take a page from: Blade Runner—use your Mac's software to enhance the icon’s image (we've included an enlarged TIFF on The Disc foryour viewing pleasure). Since we don’t have a definitive answer to what this Afand aaa thee thes direea Syed & fhe Peeeeegrete oft @ cide tye che etlirar apppacar ed woby reed ia boaters beroeed text actually says, we'll choose Gs omar aamenion wee toured test | the most accurate (and ‘hetero po wee. entertaining) translation as our winner. Email your translations to contest@macaddict.com, with the subject line “Mac OS. X Read Me,” by December 31, Sat wx mad beret mandi ihe fend feet k eceet fe rece tobe reske tres age id 2000.—DR 24. MacAdadict DEC/00 REALbasic contest winners = ackin July, we offered REALbasic coders a shot at ® _immortality—we'd place the best three New Year's Countdown programs we received by August 31,2000,0n Find these The Disc, ready for the coming apocalypse. (2001 fs the true __wiening start of the millennium.) Here are the winners.—IS "he Di The Disc. LED Head Neil:Cox ventured farthest from our sample code—bypassing the ball drop, he implemented a nifty LED display. Neil kindly supplied source code, so load up The Disc and take a look! Snap, Crackle, Pop An entrant from contestant Eric Richard created the most gorgeous fireworks we’ve seen from a BASIC program, and offered Halloween and New Year's tweaks—beautifully done. Screen Saver Suite Katherine Tattersall created a set of five clever countdown screen savers. A Rate The Timer option in the control panel lets you assign the program any of MacAddict’s four ratings. 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To buy or for more information, go to www.connectix.com or call 1-800-395-1804 ‘© Copyright Connectix Corporation. Connectix and Connectix Virtual PC are trademarks of Connectix Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders. this page “Section.* Maybe we should call Will the Real PowerBook G3 Please Stand Up? by Robert Capps mong the cornerstones of Apple’s current Steve Jobs—fueled renaissance is the improved Mac nomenclature. Apple no longer forces us to contend with random numbers and esoteric titles to identify a specific Mac model. These days, Macs are broken down into five basic categories: PowerBook, iBook, iMac, PowerMac, and PowerMac Cube. This system is simple enough Numero Uno The original PowerBook G3 was introduced in November of 1997 along with the first (beige) G3 desktops. Its form factor was the same as the PowerBook 3400, and it was the first Power PC-based PowerBook that wasn't handicapped with a low-energy processor. Its specs include a 250MHz G3, a 12.1- inch active-matrix display, built-in 10Base-T Ethernet, and a 33.6-Kbps modem. Weighing in at 7.5 pounds, this beast originally set its owners back $5,700. This PowerBook " has the distinction of being \W the only Apple-built G3 Mac that will not run OS X. Finally FireWire The most current PowerBook G3 rev is the least different from the one produced immediately before it, and is most easily identified by its dual FireWire ports. Pumped with a Rage Mobility 128 graphics chip, and either a 450MHz or 500MHz processor, the price nevertheless stayed about the same as the Bronze version, Hopefully this will be the last PowerBook G3—we expect the next major upgrade of the product to be titled PowerBook G4. 26) MacAaddict | DEC/00 for any joker with an AOL account to grasp, but has Apple taken its base naming philosophy a tad too far? Grasping the intricate nuances of these categories makes quantum mechanics seem like basic arithmetic. To give you an idea of just how befuddling identification can be, let’s look at the four different Macs that all carry the name Macintosh PowerBook G3. Phat Stuff Announced in May of 1998, Apple offered the second incarnation of the PowerBook G3 with your choice of a 12.1-inch passive matrix, 13.3-inch active matrix, or the now-standard 14.1-inch active-matrix display. Processor speed options included 233MHz, 250MHz, or 292MHz and the ’Book ranged in price from $2,979 to $5,599. The most distinctive aspects of these PowerBooks compared with their future brethren are their thicker design and a second PC card slot. These were also the first Macs to offer DVD- ROM drives as a configuration option. The Bronze Age For the third Mac dubbed “PowerBook G3, Apple slimmed down on a lot—on PC card slots, overall thickness, and the machine's weight, for its fatter predecessor, offering either a 333MHz or 400MHz processor, and the lone 14.1-inch ‘few pounds, costing between $2,499 and $3,577 depending upon configuration. Three other outwardly noticeable changes to this PowerBook, which Apple named Bronze, were the addition of USB, a lighted Apple logo on the cover indicating on/off status, and a light-brown (Bronze) keyboard. Starters. This ‘Book came out about a year after active-matrix screen option. Its price also shed a Jenny Craig before and after. PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON LAUER, SONNSS SIMPLY F457 Don't let another opportunity fly by. Add a Sonnet processor card to your Power Macintosh or PowerBook and instantly work faster. Depend on Sonnet for simply fast upgrade products. To learn more, call 1-800-786-6260. or visit our website at: www.sonnettech.com/ma_ oO For more coverage ‘ot Mac 0S X Pubic Beta, visit our dicated 05 X Web site at ‘wwgumacadictcom macasy. There, oe find information about which thir party companies are planting Carbon upgrades, and you can als hit our Aiscusson tard for hp wit instalation and troubleshosting, OS X: bigger and beta than we ever dreamed ith the release of Mac OS X Public Beta, Apple broke a ten-year losing streak in the operating system development department. Pink, Copland, Gershwin, Rhapsody—they’re all code names for never-released operating systems meant to replace the original Mac OS. Although bits and pieces of these would-be Apple saviors have made their way into our current Mac OS, it wasn’t until Mac OS X Public Beta arrived on the scene in September 2000 that a truly new, truly modern operating system graced the Mac. Before you dive headfirst into this strange and wonderful new world, remember that Mac OS X is Still a beta. It’s not finished, and that means some features will change and others won’t work. In fact, Apple decided to release a beta in the first place to garner feedback from the people who will actually be using the product. If you want to tell Apple what's right—or wrong—with Mac OS X, visit www.appie.com/macosx. They'll be happy to hear from you. If you’ve already bought and installed the OS X Public Beta, consider this your essential guide to navigating X. If you’re still on the fence about whether you want to turn your world upside-down, maybe we can help you decide. And if you don’t plan on worrying about OS X until the final version leaves Apple’s front door next year, consider this a sneak peek at your future Mac experience. Because whether you install it tomorrow, in three months, or in two years, one thing is certain: OS X is the future of the Mac. ee System Requirements To run Mac OS X Public Beta, you need quite a bit of power and a relatively recent machine, including: Any Power Mac G4 * Any Power Mac G3 ‘Any PowerBook G3 except the original Any iMac Any iBook In addition, your system will need: * Aminimum of 128MB of RAM + Internal video or an Apple-supplied ixMicro or ATI video card * Aminimum of 1.5GB of free disk space * Mac OS 9 or later fae eal arse Mac OSX Public Beta ata Glance COST: $29.95 WHERE TO BUY: The Apple Store (http://store.apple.com) TIMELINE: Apple plans to release Mac OS X 1.0 in early 2001. The OS X Public Beta times out on May 15, at which point it'll stop booting. This won't affect any of your data; it just requires that you install either the full version of Mac OS X or an older version of the Mac OS to restore functionality to your Mac. SSS Table of Contents * Installation sess PAGE 30 * Is OS X Public Beta for You?..............PAGES1 + The New Look... PAGE 32 * The Desktop Application sesseesPAGE 82 * System Preferences ...PAGE 35 * The Dock..... «PAGE 37 + Using the Included Software.............. PAGE 38 * Memories of OSs PEGE iter ayers es PAGE 39 « Hardware & Software Compatibility..............PAGE40 * Troubleshooting .........PAGE 42 DEC/00 | MacAdaict |29 — efore you get started using B Mac OS X Public Beta, you'll have to install it—but be warned, this process is not for the timid. First of all, if you haven’t upgraded to Mac OS 9 yet, it's finally time to bite the bullet because without Mac OS 9, you won't be able to run the vast majority of your existing Software under X. Also, since Mac OS ' Xis still in beta, you'll almost certainly want to install it onto a drive ora Say farewell—this will be your last look at Mac OS for some time. partition you won't be horrified to lose (see “How to Partition Your Hard 80.98 {).9sxxposed : Drive,” left)—that way if something How to Partition Your Drive goes terribly wrong you're less likely to lose important data. Partitioning a drive is a fairly scary t process, since it involves deleting all of the data on the drive and starting from STEP ONE ‘scratch. Here’s how to partition your drive, STEP 1 Back up your drive thoroughly to any removable media (Zip, Jaz, CD, DVD-RAM, FireWire drive, DAT tapes, whatever). Partitioning a drive is a specific type of reformatting—you'll be wiping out all of your data in the process. STEP 2 Boot from a system CD and tun Drive Setup, which you should find in your system disc’s Utilities folder. STEP 3 Click to highlight the drive you want to repartition, then click Initialize. STEP 4 Click Custom Setup and choose the number of partitions you want to create from the Partitioning Scheme pop-up menu. Set this to at least two—you'll want one for Mac OS X and one for your older data. STEP 5 Set the sizes of the partitions by dragging the line in the Volumes diagram. For OS X, we recommend between 2 and 8GB for each partition. Choose Mac OS Extended from the } Type pop-up menu. Click OK. STEP 6 Before you click Initialize, reconcile yourself with the fact that you're about to wipe out all of your data (this is a last-minute sanity check to make sure you realize what Initialize really means). Drive Setup will go to work for a few seconds, then all of your new partitions should appear as empty drives on your desktop. || Saying Farewell _to Mac OS 9... When you get that shiny new OS X Public Beta CD in the mail, you might be tempted to shove itimmediately into your drive, run the installer, and go. Resist this temptation. Remember, this isn’t an ordinary, run-of- the-mill beta program we’re talking about here. This is a beta of an operating system— it’s potentially as dangerous as a circular saw that has had all of those pesky guards, along with most of the insulation on the wiring, removed. If you’re careful, you’ll have a lot of fun with the beta—but you don’t | teally want to entrust all of your precious | data to the new OS. Here are the ground rules: You can install e OS X on an internal drive in any G3 or G4, with ' _ the sole exception of the first-generation PowerBook G3 (any PowerBook bought before May 1998). If the intemal drive is IDE, the | drive must be a master (ID number o in Drive | | Setup—ifyou’ve never installed extra drives in | your Mac, your main hard drive will be ID 0), + nota slave (ID 1 in Drive Setup). Ifyou’re ona beige G3, OS X installation must fall within the | first 8GB of drive space on the IDE drive. If | your main drive is biggerthan 8GB, you __ should repartition it and create an 8GB | Partition atthe start of the volume to hold OS _ -X. You can also install Mac OS X ona SCSI drive connected to an older Mac’s built-in 30 |MacAdaict | DEC/00 SCSI port, but not an extemal FireWire drive since there’s no OS X support yet for booting from FireWire drives. Third-party SCSI cards will not necessarily work—you should check the manufacturer's Web site for the latest information on OS X compatibility. Make sure your SCSI chains are terminated properly—OS Xis touchier about SCSI termination than traditional Mac OS variants are. Before you install Mac OS\X, it’s a good idea to install Mac OS 9 onto an empty partition. OS X supports older software by running Mac OS 9 on a virtual machine (it'll create something that Mac OS 9 will thinkis a piece of Macintosh hardware), giving the older software a nice, familiar environment in which to run. Trying to use your current System Folder (with the host of extensions, device drivers, and control panels that your aunt gave you) is usually a bad idea—you’ll be much better off with a default Mac OS 9 installation. On “New World” machines (basically, those introduced during or after 1998), you can install Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 on the same partition (but we recommend setting up a brand new partition for this endeavor). On beige G3s, Apple warns against doing that, so you should use separate partitions. Beyond the basics, simple prudence suggests that you back up everything thoroughly before firing up the OS X Public Beta. When beta applications go bad, they usually don’t cause much trouble, but when an operating system fails, you're often talking total loss of data. At least two MacAddict editors have had to do fult formats and reinstallations due to beta troubles. Be careful out there! When you’ve finished prepping your system, pop in the OS X PB CD, and double- click the file titled Install Mac OS X to launch the program. Click Continue, and Mac OS X will reboot from the CD. Say goodbye to your ald Mac OS—ifall goes weil, you'll see it next when you're running a Classic app in OSX! STEP TWO Welcome, Mac OS X! When the machine finishes rebooting, you'll be staring at Mac OS X for the first time. The installer will walk you through the usual steps, which you'll probably recognize from previous Mac OS installations. If you usually ae) satin vol xa eMac 8 Xa. | ate 74h Sk paeegeforte Tae bee son (sen Deion fesincan pe arg 2 GED Important reduc er raretrerti wc snr om ‘ten ie | fice |nestartoMAcosxArTIRUSNGAMACOSSCD | | | Watch out! Drives that just won't work for this installation (slave drives, for example) will appear in this list, and you can waste a lot of time waiting while Mac OS X fails to install properly. click your way blindly past read-me files, try to overcome that habit for this installation— Mac OS X contains outré gotchas and strange behaviors with which you’ll want to familiarize yourself. This read-me document contains all kinds of information about the beta operating system that you’re about to install, and it’s pretty important that you at least skim what's here. Once you get past the read-me, you'll see the inevitable license agreement—a less interesting document, unless you're curious to see how Apple can use even stronger don’t-blame-us legalese than its usual “under no circumstances, including negligence, shall Apple be liable.” (Didn’t know about that one? Read the old license agreement—it has some gems!) STEP THREE Even if you sleep through the safety instructions on airplane trips, do look at this read-me file. It lists more gotchas than an ad for an Alien sequel. Now we get to the interesting parts. Choose the partition where you want to install Mac OS X—the installer shows all available partitions, and it includes the size of the drive, but not the amount of free space left. You don’t need to say good-bye to the data in this partition—Mac OS X will install over an existing partition without erasing it (the installer will shove its contents into a folder labeled Mac OS 9, which you can later locate in the Finder). Just choose a simple install (you won’t see any benefit from a custom install—OS X has only a few separate components, and you'll need all of them), go grab a mocha, then reboot. The process should take about ten minutes or so, which is surprisingly fast for the kind of installation that’s taking place. Is OSX Public Beta for You? At this point, you're probably looking for the answer to a single question: Should | buy and install Mac OS X Public Beta? To help you out, we've created this flowchart, which offers some hints as to whether you've got a personality and lifestyle suited to working with a beta operating system. My computer isa serious ‘work machi pe | primarily use my computer as a server. xf ‘An AppleTalk Server? i: Although OS X is still in beta, it’s still a better TCP/IP server than Mac OS at Its best. Get the public beta. Ihave an Setting Up the Assistant Next is the Setup Assistant, which does exactly the same thing se as in previous Mac OS versions, taking you through the frobnmessenee configuration steps when you fire up a new operating system for the first time. The Keyboard panel is straightforward; just choose your preferred keyboard type and move on. The User Account panel is more interesting. Mac OS X is a multiple-user operating system right down to its very core. Mac OS X has ordinary users, who can run applications and use files, and administrators, who can affect the entire system and change the network settings. The upshot is that you must take great care not to forget your password in an OS X system (we suggest writing it down ina secure spot)—especially considering the existence of another identity called the root user. This third type, also called a superuser, can do whatever he or she likes with any file. The system treats the superuser roughly the same way the previous Mac OS treated anyone sitting behind the keyboard: “Delete the extensions folder? Well, OK... suppose you know ..” When you create your first account, the password you enter gets assigned to the root user. To do anything even potentially powerful (or stupid), you must log in what you’re doin; as root, so don’t forget that password! The rest of the Setup Assistant is fairly sedate. Finish entering the requested information, then click Restart to boot into Mac OS X for your first real run. Whatever you do, don’t forget the password you enter here! If your machine has a DNS name, enter it in the Host Name field. If it doesn't (or if you've never heard of DNS outside the context of the numbers you type in the DNS server field), just leave this blank. unfortunate tendency to kick, punch, and shoot at things when they don’t behave the way | expect. ste Primarily as a front end for my Linux box. i When wiite-on-black text appears on my (suddenly locked-up) user interface, announcing a kernel panic, my reaction is: Aaaarrrghl! Hold off on OS X for the moment; itll be more stable in the future. Don't install OS X Public Beta on any system you depend upon to make a living. Please don’t feed the glitches to your client's files. Hold off on OS X for now; AppleTalk ‘support isn’t quite done yet. Hold off on OS X for ‘now—i'l only enrage you. Put the ‘$30 toward your next anger-management session, Run to the Apple Store (in the virtual sense) and buy the Public Beta. You'll be in heaven. You're a natural-born beta tester, Get the Public Beta. DEC/00 | MacAddict|31 qua, the new user interface Apple announced way back at the start of the year, is finally available to the Rest of Us (that’s anyone other than developers). Using Aqua is an interesting experience—this strange, blue-hued creation draws elements from both Mac OS and NeXTStep. Follow along as we take you through some of the more prominent features of Mac OS X’s user interface. You can access your ‘System Preferences window from the Desktop menu, located fl e904 where you previously found the Apple menu. Hide Desktop Hide Others, Show All ‘Apple System Profiler Assistant Disk Copy Grab Help Viewer Installer What we once knew as the Finder is officially called the Desktop application—but is still Jabeled Finder. Huh? Keychain Access = Print Center Netinfoltanager Multiple Users Script Editor Processviewer THE DESKTOP APPLICATION Mac OS X’s Desktop application (accessible by clicking the Mac OS face on the left side of the Dock) is the replacement for the familiar Finder. Although the Desktop app (at least in its current beta form) is in some ways more primitive than what it replaces (it isn’t fully multithreaded yet, so opening a full folder can tie up the app for several seconds), it’s a fine effort, with room to grow. Here’s a tour. Navigating the Desktop Application instars The Apsiler The toolbar at the top of the Desktop application window gives you quick access folders, volumes, contains all of your —_ Every user has a to some of the places you'll be going most frequently under Mac OS X; a back or even apps and applications, ff you Docs folder for button to retrace your steps if you wander into a dark and forbidding part of the files in Favorites. put them there. keeping—well, file system; and buttons for switching between the three available views. documents. ece Finder, 2aee | i | users | sel 2 = — Computer is where EveryuserhasaHome The back button This bar fets you move to any In tears yo joie fait fe buttons let you view your drives (and your folder, which houses all__returns you to the of the folders that enclose the © check out other your Desktop apps in icon, Network) reside. personal files. last folder selected. current file or folder. people’s folders. fist, or column format. Icomputert y Home 6.6 GB availab e f =m) 32) MacAdaict| DEC/00 Three Views 6050 Finder 4 ICON VIEW Only two differences really exist between the Icon view in Mac OS X and in earlier OS versions: icon size options |e and background options. You can now size icons, making { ry @ them anywhere from 16 by 16 pixels (the small size in the ‘Addressook Calculator Classic = previous Mac OS) to 128 by 128 pixels (equivalent to @ ie = 1/12 of the entire screen on the original Macintosh). You Clock GrabBag Internet Explorer can also set the background of each window to any color, fel or even use a picture (choose light, unsaturated colors, L} a S as Mac OS X uses black text for file names against even keg io cape aad —s the darkest backgrounds). You can access these settings & =] Gaal ‘tes by going to the View menu and selecting View Options. Pt os hee uciine Never aaa You can easily customize your Icon view in View Options. 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This refugee from NeXT is functional—you can see ata glance the entire tree leading up to the directory in which you’re working. It’s easily the quickest way to skim a drive and remind yourself where you’ve put everything. @ © © Inspector: AddressBook Show: | General Information Kind: Application Size: Calculating Size Where: untitled/Applications/ Created: Wed, Sep 6, 2000, 8:12 PM Modified: Fri, Sep 1, 2000, 5:42 PM AddressBook the implementation doesn’t feel quite as finished as in OS 9. For instance, you can’t rename files, and the dates don’t do that nifty format-changing trick to fit column width. [ee 66 GB avalable, 17 tems (2 Applications ‘BAddressBook Bi Aladdin Bi coonieconverer (2 Ubrary {F Calculator A Apple System Profile Q revert (Mac 059 @ Classic (Gd Assistant ‘System © Clock i Console TB ola mac users i Grabsag Disk Copy [DF Internet Explorer & Disk Utility fe Wikey Caps © Grab Mall & Help Viewer E Music Player & instar PPP Connect #8 Keychain Access. % Preview i Multiple Users Bi Quicktime Player @ NetinfoManager & sherlock 5 Print Center @ Stickies I ProcessViewer 4 System Preferences 5) Script Editor 7 Textédit © Software Update a Terminal The Column view is new—and it's too cool to believe. The Inspector The familiar Get Info windows have disappeared. In their place you'll find Inspector, a feature that lets you change file and folder permissions, set memory allocation for Classic apps, choose whether some Carbon apps open in Classic or in the native environment, change which application opens certain files, and otherwise tinker with files. You never have more than a single Inspector open at once—as you click different files, the Inspector window updates dynamically. DEC/00 | MacAddlct| 33 File Locations One of the biggest differences between the traditional Mac OS and Mac OS Xis file locations. When you start up, the desktop is bare; all of the disks and mounted network servers sit in Computer, which behaves much like a folder or hard drive. Most disks behave as before (you can move just about anything to any location), but the startup disk has a different structure. Here's a look. 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Finder Window Options By default, double-clicking a folder in OS X opens a list of that folder’s contents in the same window rather than creating a new window. You can then use the back button to retum to the original window. (Don’t worry, Windows refugees—Apple didn’t go to the absurd lengths Microsoft did in emulating Web browsers; except for these two changes, Finder windows continue to behave as they always did.) This behavior parallels what used to happen when you held down the Option key while opening a folder. If you dislike this behavior, choose Dock & Desktop Preferences from the Desktop menu, click the Finder tab, and choose In A New Window to restore the traditional behavior. Holding You can make Mac OS X create allases for removable disks on the desktop. Removable Disks The desktop itself acts in much the same way as in previous versions—it can hold whatever you drag there. The big exception is disks—if you drag the icon fora disk to the desktop, an alias appears; by default, hard disks do not appear on the desktop. You can change this, though, by going to the Disks panel of the Dock & Desktop Preferences window and clicking Show Removable Disks (For Example, CDs) On The Desktop. 808 Hf you want to tweak how your desktop (the area behind your windows, not the Desktop application) looks and works, here's where you can do it, The Real Desktop In the Desktop panel of the Dock & Desktop Preferences window, you can set what picture appears on the desktop, how big the icons are, and whether they should stick to a grid or not. Fans of the Apple-provided desktop patterns are out of luck. You have just one desktop pattern—the default. Otherwise you have to scrounge up your own picture. [ 0s xxXposed down Option while you double-click a folder acts as a toggle, reversing whatever behavior you have selected. In the course of writing its new OS, Apple's engineers created a nice linguistic nightmare for those of us'who have to write about it. Follow the bouncing } terminology: The Desktop application has Finder windows, which float above the desktop area. The Finder windows, as ever, don’t actually find anything (that’s Sherlock's job), and the Dock & Desktop Preferences don't affect the Finder windows that belong to the Desktop application—they oniy affect the desktop itself. Want an aspirin? 34 | MacAdiaict| DEC/00 SYSTEM PREFERENCES The System Preferences application (available in the Applications folder) is Mac OS X’s answer to Control Panels. The System Preferences window is divided into a strip along the top that holds your favorite control panels, and a larger area in the bottom that displays the currently selected controls. By clicking Show All, you can see all of the contro! panels installed in your system. You can also Click Show All to see all 19 drag frequently used ones into the bar at System Preferences panels that the top. Here’s a closer look atsome of “me with OS X Public Beta. the more important—or intriguing— Preferences panels. ‘ystems Preferences - Date & Taye Date & Time The Date & Time panel has nearly the same functionality as its predecessor but boasts a snazzy new look. The biggest changes include the absence of formatting options (date and time formatting now appears in the International panel) and clock options (the clock no longer resides in the menu bar—it’s now an application you can update in the Dock). Like all panels that affect the system itself (as opposed to options that affect only a single user), the Date & Time panel is locked—someone with an administrator account must unlock the Ito provid : Dee See We know LA is another world, but does sim & @ G tori | weten ted ttre at {Date & Time Fie Zone Y Network Tiree “Chk your part of the word and hen chaove ie roe fom the pop-up Mer i Canada » Pacific fi it really have its own time zone? q The General panel lets you set some basic behaviors for the system. Don’t let the name mislead you—General is the successor to the Appearance control panel, not the old General Controls control panel. [soo System Preferences = General = 424 @ G@ ee esl Unless you take extraordinary Show ait | Menivrs Sound Network Starup isk u've got two choices steps (aka perform hacks), you fo 3 SSeS ee appearances: Blue and Graphite. only have six options for the ~ 2 calito SUS ielnes ek WOU ‘You can represent the application highlight color. EE Wobigh color (5 a "ag ‘menu by the current app’s name or Tor selected text and fists icon, (The application menu, which appears on the left side of the In NeXTStep, clicking in a scroll bar would jump to that point in the document, instead of to the ‘Show application in menu bar: © using the application name em {@ using the application icon menu bar, lets you set preferences, view About dialog boxes, and ‘quit applications.) next page, as in the traditional ~~ [———— cick in the seroll bar to: ® Jump to next page Mac 0S. Mac 0S X lets you © Scroll to here choose either option. Minimize: @ Double-click titfe bar to minimize windows ——f f- Ahhh...the familiar Window Shade option. ‘Byatem Preferences = international, Simply put, Mac OS X is leaps and bounds ahead of any other operating system when it comes to internationalization. A single application can store any number of languages for its interface, and, depending on who logs in, the system can switch to the appropriate language. Moreover, users can choose their own language, so a Francophone can log in and see the entire interface in French on the same system on which other users see the interface in English. The Intemational panel is the hub of all this multilingual power. Here users can specify their favorite key mappings; languages; scripts; and date, time, and number formats. The Unicode Hex Input keyboard mapping in particular is important—in the beta, it’s the only way to enter Greek characters and mathematical symbols. The international preferences panel is at the heart of the best global OS currently in existence. | - ol ® & Showa | Wonnars ewe aun Disk Py H Languages: “English ‘Brag languages imo your preferred: Frais ‘order for use in application menus and Deutsch — Script FEL SiS CY we ene ee one pa oe ‘These et on de cae canerion, oth eee DEC/00 MacAddict|35 Network The Network panel combines the old TCP/IP, AppleTalk, and Web Sharing control panels with a new window to create a single networking control center. Because the settings in this panel affect the entire computer, before you can change them you'll need to prove you're an administrator by clicking the Lock icon and entering your password. Everything in the TCP/IP subpanel [@ © ‘System Preferences ~ Network On the surface, the Services panel works just as it did in the looks like the old Web Sharing control traditional control panel, with one panel, but don’t be fooled—beneath exception: the new field for Host this panel's timid exterior lurks Name. If your computer hasa =—+ Apache, a powerful server that’s GEAR DNS name, enter Where. =, | nothing like Personal Web Sharing. DNS names aren't like AppleTalk i f names—you can'tenter arandom | t setting here and expect other ; Host Name: node-18-254 I ‘ machines on the network to pick it i ~~ if you're a home user with one up. Instead, whoever is running j { computer, you can safely ignore your DNS server has to set up the { i Netinfo, a cool technology Apple host names. (If you don’t have a 1 i found on a lower shelf in NeXT’s host name, no worries—just leave : ; i fridge. If you're a network this blank.) ‘DNS Addresses: [206.57.18.10 | Search Domains: imaginemedia.com | | | administrator, you'll Jove Netinfo— i Sees) | I | | | | itfets an entire network of The AppleTalk control panel is / i Soe machines share the same user exceedingly primitive—you can i Hardware Address: 00:30:65:46:ba:78 | | Information (ie, user names and make AppleTalk active or inactive = passwords) without requiring that and set your machine's AppleTalk ‘Glick the lock to prevern fonher changes: the administrator run from machine uame. That's it, to machine, updating information. Login The vital new Login panel lets you set Mac OS X as a single-user system, bypassing the default multiple-user behavior. It has two panels: Login Items, which lets you specify what applications launch when you log in to your machine, and Login Window, which lets you specify a default user to log in when you turn on the computer. If you set a log-in user, the machine will behave a bit more like a traditional Macintosh—instead of presenting you with a log-in window at startup, your Mac will simply boot to the Desktop. If you’re a paranoid system administrator, an option under the Login Window tab can disable the Restart and Shut Down buttons, forcing people to log in (or pull the plug) if they want to reboot the machine. This prevents folks from easily rebooting into Mac OS 9 and defeating all of X’s security features. Whether you're a traditional Mac user or a system administrator, you'll dig the Login preferences panel. Thanks to the increased power of Mac OSX, the Sharing panel can now ‘open you up to a world of pain if you use it carelessly. Starting File Sharing is relatively innocuous—it just starts sharing users’ Public folders—but click Turn On Remote Telnet Access and the Mac’s vaunted unhackability will vanish faster than a pile of donuts at a Simpsons family reunion. Select Turn On FIP Access, and anyone who uncovers your password can play with your files at will. Be carefull If you’re safely hidden behind a firewall, though, you'll find these two tools phenomenally useful—Telnet lets you use your computer (or at least its Unix command line) from anywhere else on the network, while FTP access lets you use FTP clients like Interarchy or Fetch to trade files with any other computer that has an FTP client. Unless you know what you're doing, do not click the check boxes in this window. Consider yourself warned. zl Wee DEC/00 {© Disable Restart and Shut Down buttons | (Gj amen prot fr cna ‘GTurn on remote Telnet access Turn on FTP access Network identity: node-18-254 206.57.18,254 (cee ace pret oe ages Startup Disk This panel is your ticket back to traditional Mac land—you'll be using it if you decide you can’t take OS X anymore, or, more to the point, if you need to use your USB printer. Since OS X doesn’t currently support USB printing, the only way to use your printer is by booting to OS 9. Just click the lock, choose your disk, and reboot. System Preferences ~ Startup Disk a|™ A @ Show All | Monitors: ‘Sound ‘Network Startup Disk Select a Startup Disk: T { iF centers setentite i wnmeaniesty) —tteicensinos | (2) cick me tock te make changes = If you need to print and you've got a USB printer, you'll be seeing this window a lot! THE DOCK 806. [:es Xposed. The Name Game One of the stranger things that will require adjustment when you move to Mac OS X is the renaming of a number of familiar tools and concepts. Here are some WHAT IT WAS BEFORE Appearance control panel of the bigger changes. WHAT IT’S CALLED NOW General Preference panel _____ Control panels | Preference panels Finder | Desktop application Macintosh Toolbox | Carbon leTe, System error Kernel panic Preferences Get Info Divided into System pages Preferences and User New in Mac OS X, the Dock serves as Apple Menu, Application Switcher, and Control Strip all in one. (Of course, it doesn't do any of these things as well as the items it replaces, but that may be fixed with time.) Here's everything you need to know about the Dock. The Explorer application has shifted slightly higher than the rest of the icons because we're launching it. Mac OS X makes the program's icon bounce up and down in the Dock while the app Is in the process of launching. ‘When you mouse over an icon in the Dock, the icon enlarges (if you turn on magnification), and the name of the application appears. wo This springy at-sign (@) will bring you to the URL it bookmarks (in this case, Apple's OS X site). Just drag URLs to the Dock to add more. we oe The Desktop always holds down the left-hand side of the Dock, It should always be running, but if it somehow quits, you can restart it from here—just click the Mac face. Dock Preferences The Dock displays hoth currently running applications and those you want to be able to launch quickly. To distinguish ‘them, Mac OS X places a black triangle under running programs. This divider distinguishes apps, on the left, from documents and windows, on the right. You can also resize the Dock by dragging the line so it's longer or shorter. The Trash doesn’t live on the desktop anymore—now it anchors the right side of the Dock, Ifyou want to modify the Dock, select Dock & Desktop Preferences from the Desktop menu in the Desktop application (are you as tired of the word desktop as we are?), then click the Dock tab. Here are your options. This is almost equivalent to dragging the divider line to change the size of the Dock, except that you can choose a size that's too large to fit onscreen. If you go beyond what —~ can fit, the Dock will stop growing; but it will = aa enlarge when you remove Icons. ‘Small Large (A Magnification: — emer Click this box if you want the Dock to stay ae ae hidden except when you move the mouse to __] the bottom of the screen. This is useful if you find that the Dock gets in the way. Dock & Desktop Preferences @ Auto hide and show @ Animate opening applications ———~ uncheck this box to make them stay put. Magnification: Check the magnification box to make the icons change size as you mouse over them. The slider sets how large the icons become (if this size Is smaller than the Dock size, magnification won't ‘occur until the icons shrink to accommodate a large number of items). If the bouncing icons drive you crazy, DEC/00) MacAddict|37 Ithough Mac OS X Public Beta’s Classic layer lets you run the majority of your current apps with no problem, that doesn’t mean that you have to fire up the Classic environment to get work done. Here’s a look at what you can do with the programs that comes with OS X. Email Mail, a descendant of the original NeXT mail program, handles your basic email needs quite nicely: It has a slick interface, it handles multiple email accounts, and its icon in the Dock changes to show how many unread email messages are waiting in your mailbox. Word Processing TextEdit, OS X’s word processing program, has full font support, great type controls (including ligatures, font colors, line spacing, and kerning), a find-and-replace function, and even an interactive spelling checker. It’s SimpleText on steroids! pretest nelson passes | aaa | The Mail program may not have filters, but it will deliver your email without launching Classic. Web Browsing Ifyou’re in the mood to hit the Web, you can do so in style with the Carbonized version of Internet Explorer 5, which Microsoft has graciously provided in the Public Beta. This version is nearly the same as the non-Carbon version, with the exception that it can’t handle certain XML bits quite as well. Otherwise it’s a solid browser. When your plain-vanilla text editor can handle all this (along with ligatures, baseline control, and the like), you know you're in flavor country. Personal Information Manager OK, so it’s no Palm Desktop—but Apple’s AddressBook application lets you enter vital contact information (names, street addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses), and it also keeps track of the email addresses you've used in Mail so it can autocomplete them. Same Internet Explorer, fancy new OS underneath. 38] MacAdalct| DEC/00 Although AddressBook’s interface matches the Mail application’s, it's a little trickier, You'll have to do some experimenting to get it working smoothly. Music Players Apple includes two different ways to listen to your favorite tunes. First there’s the old standby, QuickTime, which handles MP3s and streaming audio from the Intemet. Then there’s ‘the new Music Player application, which can play both audio CDs and MP3s using a simple playlist. Between these two applications, Apple has your music needs covered. Now fere’s a minimalist interface we can live with. The Music Player can handle CDs and MP3s, plus it sports basic playlist control. Web Work Here’s where the included software in Mac OS X Public Beta shines. The basic Web page creation program, HTMLEdit, lets you pump out individual pages pretty quickly. As far as serving those Web pages goes, Mac OSX Public Beta ships with Apache (www.apache.org) and a built-in FTP server, so you're ready to rock right out of the box. == z oe oe) rud.cam It's not GoLive or Dreamweaver, but HTMLEdit will take care of most of your Web-page-building needs. Wasting Time Diablo || may give you a bigger and better gaming fix (it works fine in the Classic layer, by the way). Nevertheless, Chess is a passable 3D chess game that plays far better than we do. Arevised NeXT app, Chess lets you pit your wits against your Mac. Good luck—you're going to need it. Memories of OSs Past - ac OS X is a combination of two separate operating systems. The new system is effectively a merger between the Mac OS that we've been using since 1984 and NeXT's operating system (called, at various times, NeXTStep, OpenStep, and Mac OS X Server). To give you a sense of the 16 years of history that lie behind Mac OS X, take a look at this visual history. 1984 to 1991 System 1.0 to 6.0.8 1988 to 1996 NeXTStep 1.0 to 3.3 RUM ie cart Trew specrar The Macintosh” Finder DEC/00 | Mac Addict |39 NEXTSTEP AND OPENSTEP IMAGES COURTESY OF STONE DESIGN he biggest question regarding Mac OS X doesn’t concern the operating system itself, but rather what works with it. The novelty of the Dock wears off pretty quickly—what we want to know is whether the software and hardware we currently own will work in tandem with the new OS, and if so, how well. Apple knows this is a huge issue, and by the time you read this, you should find part of its Web site devoted to a list of the applications that work with Mac OS X (www.apple.com/macosx). WILL MY SOFTWARE WORK? The answer to this question is almost certainly yes. Apple has taken great care to make sure most applications that run in Mac OS 9 workin Mac OS X. The company’s engineers have done such an amazing job that we should shower them with praise and fruit baskets. The way Apple accomplished this compatibility feat was by creating the Classic layer: a program that runs the entire Mac OS 9 operating What Works We found the Cla