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Simply drag and drop interface elements while REALbasic handles the details. You concentrate on what makes your stuff great — your ideas! Complex problems shouldn't require complex solutions. The answer is REALbasic. @ REALbasic3.5 Download a free demo. www.realbasic.com conien No. 62 October 2001 Volume 6 Issue 10 highlights A better machine. A better magazine. how to Ifyou liked Blue Dalmatian... well, you’re out of luck. Apple’s latest—the chic new G4, patternless iMacs, a refined Mac OSX, anda less-rigid iDVD—all pack incredible power under the slickest exteriors to date. by Rik Myslewski and fan Sammis 66 Plot a Density Graph in Excel The simplest and often most useful 2D chart type imagin- able, the density plot, some- how got left out of Excel. Here’s how to make ‘em anyway. by lan Sammis SoCal's latest disaster: acne. 68 Avoid the Terminal Heigh-ho Quicksilver! 26 150 Shareware Gems Are you about, oh, $600 short on the price of Photoshop? Do you cringe at handing over $450 to Microsoft? Then check out our picks for the top 150 shareware and freeware apps. From the most popular gems to a few diamonds in the rough, here are the best that practically no money can buy. by Kevin Savetz 38 Renewing the Faith There was a time when Mac lovers would rather eat soap than say anything positive about the Evil Empire. Well, no more. Microsoft has transformed itself from the dross of the Mac community into a top Mac developer. Here’s the inside scoop on how one small yet passionate group of Mac fanatics turned it all around. by Cathy Lu This month's cover photo was taken by Arnold Tiosejo (left), assisted by Jun Nagaoka (right). in Mac OS X if leaming how to use Mac OS X's Unix-based command-line interface sounds like as much fun as listening to rabid PC types try to explain that daft “Windows trapped in other Windows” concept, here’s some good news: You almost never actually have to use the Terminal. Here’s how to master OS X geekery without leaving the comfort of the GUI. The evil psychedelic larva by lan Sammis. had to be stopped. Sucrets: now in orange, lime, and grape. 72 Trace Photos with Illustrator If you’ve ever wondered how to accomplish thase little sketches that often show up next to our “Staff Rants,” here’s your chance to find out. Our former art director took some time out of his new (ifno less debauched) life in Japan to tell us how to sketch photos in Illustrator. by David Ross Get your claws off of me... Hey, it’s Digital Droo-cillal REPRINTS For reprints, contact RMS at 717-399-1900. Volume 6, Issue 10 ‘MacAdalct ((SSN 1088-548) [s published monthly by Imagine Media, inc. 150 North Hil Dr, Erfahane, CA 94005, USA. Periodical-class postage paid af CA, and a: mailing offices, nd jon is handled by Curls Circulation Co, Basic subscription rates: one year (12 issues + 12.CD-ROMS) US. $38.90, Canada $43.95, US, propaid funds only. 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Poe shares her Pro Tools secrets. Apple’s finances need a little perspective. Plus, what happens when the power goes out, and one not-so-little Mac book. 18 Scraphook Are you the type type? Explore the nuances of the most tantalizing typefaces. 42 Reviews Trick or treat—given the choice, we'll be greedy and take the latter. Check out the latest apps and appliances: Bryce 5, the Power Mac G4 867MHz, Tomb Raider Chronicles, Nikon Coolpix 995, Absynth, Cinema 4D XL 7, Boa FireWire CD-RW, Tropico, three flat-panel LCD monitors, Pong, and more. Tricks and treats indeed! 64 Powerplay-—— Between Alice and WingNuts, it was tough to tear ourselves away from the fun long enough to actually write this month’s section! We’ve also got some of the details on ATi’s new drooler, the Radeon 8500. 76 Ask Us Our resident Mad Texan, Buz Zoller, serves up his usual mix of tips, tricks, and geek wisdom. This time we've got the scoop on Virtual Private Networks, Mac OS X on 9500s, and restraining the Chooser’s overenthusiasm. Bad chimpanzee! (Or should that be “Bad pundit”? | can never remember.) Let’s dance to the jolly light of the M4402 power supply. His RAM is real, but he is not. fF ai Gecis Canvas Select Mowe Shap wavercoio] | dance to live. | five to dance. Wai, I'm breaking up. Gee your hair smells terrific. The prom wasn’t going weil for poor Alice. Ws Rik, the accident-prone EICl ‘C'mon people, no heavy breathing ‘on the Quicksliver! Gall, could we make it without you? No. a | MacAddict | oct/o1 PUBUSHER Don Kimenker EDITOR IN CHIEF Rik Mystewski EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR Jenifer Norgan SENIOR EDITORS Cathy Lu (features), ‘arasu Rebbapragada (news), lan Sarmmis (technology), ASSOCIATE EDITOR Kis Fong (reviews) THE CD PERSON Andrew Tokuda WEBMONSTER Niko Coucouvanis, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ral Anzovin, Steven Arzovie, Josepit O. 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Having been around since Truman—and no, | don’t mean the Jim Carrey character— gives mea certain perspective. Some history: | fell in love with the Mac after spending a long night and early moming playing with MacPaint on a 128K back |n 1984. As the Mac went through its tumultuous early years, | followed its every rise and fall with elation or despalr. Finally, | realized the Mac was an idea so good, and so beloved by legions of devoted followers like myself, that it was certain to survive and thrive. My early crush mellowed into a lifelong partnership. From then on, the fluctuations in Apple’s fortunes no longer bothered me— hell, | lived through Sculley, Spindler, and Amelio, not to mention the Two Mikes (Markula and Scott) and of course Jean- Louis the gasman. Apple’s history is littered with broken careers, but the Mac lives on, stronger than ever. It’s that powerful. It’s that important. Apple’s history is littered with broken careers, but the Mac lives on, stronger than ever. Looked at from a long-term perspective, today is a fabulous time to be a member of the Mac faithful. Some of us grumbled this summer when Steve made no earth- shaking announcements at his Expo keynote—but, for criminy sakes (that’s old-guy speak for %$#@)), look at all that Apple has pumped out this year: an operating system that ieapfrogs the competition’s next release, a stunning line of truly droolworthy laptops, new G4s faster than a Congressman’ flip-flop, and 6|MacAddict |OCT/O1 } Rik’s current main squeeze is his beloved TiBook. His 17 previous Macs are jealous. an iMac line that’s...well, kinda sorta better than before. Oh, and then there’s the itrio; iMovie, iTunes, and iDVD. Sure, we have quibbles galore. And sure, it’s our job here at MacAddict to point them out, whether they're major (at release, Mac OS X was as buggy as a two-dollar-per- night hotel room in Managua, and the iMac is getting mighty long in the tooth) or minor (iTunes still doesn’t have an equalizer like its genetic precursor, Soundjam, and many of iDVD’s oh-so-cutesy themes seem to be made of cheese). But compared to the days when a boxy beige 128K Mac with a 400K floppy retailed for $2,495, I'll take today, thank you. And the Mac Is not the only success story I’ve enjoyed over the years. From my former perch at the late, lamented MacUser, | also watched MacAddict grow as founding editor in chief Cheryl England, my predecessors Robert Capps and David Reynolds, and a take-no-prisoners staff of brilliant fanatics built this magazine into a powerhouse of insider intelligence, inspired irreverence, and indispensable independence. MacAddict has been a good read since page one of issue one—and now we're gaing to make it even better. But don’t worry for an instant that your favorite Mac mag will lose its inimitable spirit. Even we old folks like to have fun. So keep reading. And if you have any ideas, complaints, suggestions—or even reminiscences—I can be reached at rik@macaddict.com. Hope to hear from you.—Rik Myslewski Very Senior Graduate Student Q. What invention changed your life? A. Tylenol. Absolutely the best performance- enhancing drug on the market—it’ll let you work right through exhaustion headaches, minor injuries, and the usual wear and tear that klutzes like me fend to incur more frequently than not. Q. Has maturity broughtyou wisdom? A, Given that | have neither, | can’t really say. Leslie Brown Option Command Q. What invention changed your life? A. Multiangle, multiversion Criterion-style music DVDs with bonus remixes and altemate versions of videos from Germany. Whoever came up with this idea must have been thinking of me. Q. Has maturity brought you wisdom? A. I'm wise enough to take very good care of my toys. Chris Imlay Senior Aestheditor Q. What invention changed your life? A. | knowl'm supposed to say the cotton gin...or according to James Burke, the Roman army’s method of combat formation, but I’m going to have to go with the invention of The Joke. Q. Has maturity brought you wisdom? A. Very little—but on a silver platter. “Coriolis books helped me become the brains and the eye candy.” —Bubba IT Professional You too can build a solid foundation by expanding your Mac knowledge with these essential Coriolis technology references. Then, express your artistic side (like Bubba did with his tattoos) to create compelling graphics or Web sites with Coriolis creative books. Telephone: 480.483.0192 « Toll-free: 800.410.0192 » In Canada: 905.477.0722 www.coriolis.com wherever superior technical books are sold Fry's * MicroCenter « Digital Guru Books-A-Million « Amazon.com * Fatbrain.com ©2001 The Coriolis Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Inciting nearly all ofthe = — 150 shareware gems in our feature story (see page 26)! = The Phat Disc ° Snapz Pro X 1.0 Shareware © You early adopters can go on about the perfection of Apple’s Mac OS X when it first hit the streets, but you can’t say the same about the built-in screen-capture application. Now there is an OS X-native version of Ambrosia’s Snapz Pro utility. It offers even more functionality than its Mac OS 9 counterpart, and it’s optimized for the G4’s Velocity Engine for added speed. | ® Tomb Raider Chronicles Demo | | Lara’s back! Wait, haven’t we said that before? In Tomb Raider Chronicles, olor change: {none BB riete: Cat | | Lara Croft’s friends gather after her memorial to reminisce about the heroine’s order: (none uatny: | norma“ | | little-known past exploits. As Lara, you will relive the stories, uncovering secrets | | Camera mode: aD Framerate: (0 | Mac avéte rack © Microphone track while kicking an arse or two in the process. Like a never-ending story, the memory of Lara lives on. Freeway 2.0.3 LE Free | Now there is an easy way to create Web pages, and we’re not talking about | | hand-coding HTML in SimpleText, either! With Freeway 2.0.3 LE, you have the | tools to create your Web pages using an intuitive page-layout interface—for | | | free! But don’t settle for the free version’s limited features—check out the \ | | Thank the gods—Snapz Pro has arrived for Mac OS X. Freeway 3.0 demo, also included on The Disc, and see how far you can take your imagination. Video Funhouse 1.1 Shareware | This is for the kooky lot in the audience. Invite a few friends over, plug a DV camcorder into your Mac, and fire up Video Funhouse. Can’t find a camival near you? This is the next best thing. Distort video in real time. Pinch, swirl, wave, and ripple to your heart’s content. Cotton candy not included. You can’t touch Jotie, but the real Lara Croft is 2 in your hands, | macumentary-mwny2001.mov \ No road maps required—with Freeway, your Every month we'll Web site will be cruising in the fast lane, have bonus materials on The Disc for you to check out. This Month October Nitrozac comics; “Best of Mac "Bert's Unix tutorial A few attendees from the 2001 Macworld Expo in New York part 1; Inside offer some words of wisdom in a special Macumentary put Microsoft video. For a good time, take @ poke at your own face. ‘together by Adam Tinkoff. 8 alae Pa New adventure system, exclusive aircraft, and more! Perfect for beginners and experts! !MacSoft Tell us how you really feel. WRITE TO US: MacAdaict, 150 North Hill Dr, Brisbane, CA 94005 or letters@macaddict.com. FOR CD PROBLEMS: Go to https/secure.imaginemedia.com/disc. FOR SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: Call (tol-free) 888-771-6222. THE APPLE OF OUR A.I. My wife and | saw the movie A./. last night. In one of the later scenes, the boy David is walking through his creator's office. Lo and behold, what appears in the background? An iSub—a generous shot of it, | might add. It goes to show that outrageous speaker designs for today’s Mac fit right into tomorrow's world.—Miles Wurster NO | was reading the article “Why the Cube Won’t Sell” (Get info, Aug/o1, p12), and | couldn’t help but notice that you stated it competes “squarely” with the iMac family. Was the pun intended?—Ben ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID ROSS Retrofitting. HIDDEN VALUE BRANCH I have to agree with Dave Reynolds about Tools (Editor's Note, Aug/o1, p8)—iTools is useful. A recent motorcycle accident left me pretty banged up, and the most irritating part was the damage to my left hand and particularly my shattered left index finger. Enter iTools and the absurdly easy manner in which it lets you make a Web page full of photos. | could do it al on my iBook with my right hand! Kudos to Apple for once again giving me a tool | didn’t even know | needed.—Peter L. Wargo OUR AIM IS TO OBFUSCATE | just got the August issue and noticed “The Obscure Joke Reference” in Shut Down (p96). | read this before | read the rest of the page. I’ve loved the writing style of your publication for some time, but this “Obscure Joke Reference” thing is big! Being a 27-year-old movie-loving Mac nerd, | get about 95 percent of your in-jokes. However, this guide would be a great way to introduce newbies to our culture.—Paul Threat SEXY, SEXIST, OR JUST PLAIN MISSED SARCASM? Averitable hat trick of sexist exploits has tuined the August 2001 issue for me. “E3 Booth-Babe Trading Cards” (Get Info, p13) is insulting on too many levels to even list here. In your illustration of an Ask Us question (p72), two women are visibly bored listening to Mac trivia, while the boys are entranced. The grand finale is “The Joy of Tech” (Shutdown, p96), which suggests that women are good targets for surreptitious ogling. For the love of God or Goddess, please make it stop.—Sarah Beckley Thanks for the note. We'll be on a closer lookout for sexist innuendo in future issues; however, both Woody Woodpecker and the Viking boys are deeply insulted that you don’t consider them babes worth ogling.—Ed. ANONYMOUS ANDREW? Hal I’m using your own information against youl Thanks to your article “10 Things You Don’t Know How to Do and Probably Shouldn't,” detailing how to send anonymous email Apr/o1, p26), you'll never know who sent this.—Andrew Oates MAKE LOVE, NOT BUGS | just had to say that | loved the August cover, the one with all the bugs on it. That was cool. It made me wanna squish them just like the guy on the cover. Yeah. | wanna do that. —Ed Larkins, Mac extremist THAT’S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN Thank you for covering Mac OS Xin a recent issue (“Brave New World,” Jun/o1, p24). It helped confirm what | had already decided— | want nothing to do with that operating system. My hope is that Mac OS X will fade away or die a sudden death. My fears are that manufacturers will neglect previous operating systems in favor of Mac OS X and that MacAddict magazine will do the same. —Mike Bush Never fear, Mike, we're all about the Mac experience, not just the Mac operating system. Now, where is that Mac OS 6.0.7 tips story! was working on?—Ed. WANT ANYTHING ELSE? HOW ABOUT OUR FIRSTBORN? How sweet itis! Your article “How to Install the X Window System” (Aug/01, p64) put me in serious heaven. Now may | request that you finish the job by doing two more articles—one on installing Gnome and Enlightenment, and another on installing KDE and Konqueror. Of course, you'll put all the necessary software ‘on The Disc. It would be great if you could publish these articles in a three-part series. Ifyou decide anytime soon to do this, please give me a heads up.—The Tiger ANOTHER REBEL VICTORY | finally got the courage to crack the case of my Motorola StarMax Mac clone and start playing. Well, something went terribly wrong in the process, so | put it under my desk for another day. Miraculously, your August issue showed up with the answer. “Problem 10: Deathintosh” (p22) sounded like my situation, so | tried your solution and it worked! My Mac is back and better than ever.—jim Brown DROO’S TOUR DATES The best track on The Disc in July 2001 was Digital Droo’s (Andrew Tokuda’s) rave music on the staff video. Awesome. How about featuring him in a MacAddict tour? —Ken Alan A CLUNKY ACROBAT? Freakin’ Awful is how | would describe both the reviewer and the review of Adobe’s Acrobat 5.0 (Reviews, Aug/01, p38). First of all, Acrobat 5.0 eliminates a major set of features present in version 4.0—specifically Paper Capture (which creates text-searchable scanned documents). Instead, you have to email your scanned documents to a service for capture. So much for privacy and confidentiality in any legal matter! Plus, Acrobat is now slower than dirt. And | thought Microsoft Office sucked. Adobe just one-upped Redmond.—Bob Burk SQUASHED BUGS 101 | teach an elective Mac-repair class to a dozen 13-year-olds. We complete every service from RAM upgrades to motherboard replacements. Your article, “50 Biggest Mac Problems” (Aug/01, p20), could serve as a textbook for my class. Anyone with experience knows how to solve Mac problems, but it is a big challenge to teach kids a careers worth of tips fast so they can start repairing Macs.—Dave Traversi ASK, AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE Where is the Carbon version of the Disc? | don’t want to use Mac OS 9 anymore.—AndyB. A Carbon version of The Tour on The Disc first appeared in our September 2001 fifth- anniversary issue.—Ed. Tana] Pani Fic Ges Camas eae Sages Wndon a get info | Start spreading the news... Around the Big Apple The Brighter Moments of Macworld Expo New York earts sighed and heads drooped at Steve Jobs’s he keynote address, which was lackluster compared to previous years’ kick-offs. Still, more than 64,000 people attended July 2001 Macworld Expo in New York City, an increase of about 4,000 attendees, according to stats. Mac fans tried out products and technologies from more than 270 “other” companies in attendance, and we eventually saw some smiles— thus proving that Macworld Expo in the Big Apple consists of more than, well, the big Apple.—NR’ Office 10 for Mac OS X (Microsoft, www.microsott.com/mae, price TBA) In the grandiose style befitting a software behemoth, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit general manager Kevin Browne (see p38 for his portrait) unveiled Office 10 for Mac OS X. Taking advantage of Mac OS X’s Quariz Drawing Layer, Excel charts can now include beautiful antialiased graphics and use true transparency. PowerPoint offers better animation, and Word has new text-formatting features. Microsoft also demonstrated Windows Media Player for Mac OS X and announced MSN Messenger 2.0, also carbonized. Word to your palettes, which are now transparent PowerMate (Griffin Technology, www.griffintechnology.com, $45) Everyone could use one of these. The PowerMate is officially a USB audio controller, which you can use to control the volume on your Mac or within your audio apps. Unofficially, however, you can program the PowerMate to become @ power button, game controller, or miniature time travel machine. This eerie, blue glowing device is as cute as a button. MacAddict’s We wouldn't be a serious media outfit if w Extremely Unofficial Expo Awards - best and wor: 01. After all, you wouldn't wn untainted opinion, would you? our unsol gpinion on t York City's Macworld Expo want to form your 12) asec? | Paint a la 80's MTV. Painter 7 (Procreate, www.procreate.com, $479) A carefully disguised Corel came to New York to show off Procreate, a line of products that includes former Metacreations products Painter and KPT, as well as Knockout. Painter 7, available for both the classic Mac OS and Mac OSX, provides artists with hundreds of brushes to simulate paint styles like watercolor and thick, gooey ink. Painter 7 also includes improved text tools, perspective grids, and increased compatibility with Photoshop. The new Painter looks impressive, and we hope the revamped Corel has learned from past Mac-tastrophies (think the disappearance of WordPerfect). New versions of KPT and Knockout are scheduled for release this fall, and a new version of CorelDraw is due out later this year. Squeeze (Sorenson Media, www.sorenson.com, price TBA) Between high-end Sorenson compression products and the QuickTime option you find in iMovie, lies Squeeze, a new mid-level compression app aimed at Web video professionals. It will offer the Sorenson Video 3 and MPEG-4 video codecs, as wellas the Qualcomm PureVoice, QDesign Music 2, Fraunhofer MP3, and IMA 4 audio codecs. Its simple, one-window interface will appeal to beginners, while experts will want to tap into the advanced controls. Squeeze will be available in the fourth quarter of 2001. ___ Sorenson Squeeze st Anticlimactic Moment: the Keynote Address e Jobs could have explained the actual news in about half an hour, instead he padded the two-hour long addi congratulatory clapping, an lemic diatribe on the Me; Myth, and a faltering digital camera demo JBuilder 5S for Mac OS X (Borland, www.borland.com, price TBA) F Java developers will jump for joy at the news that Borland is closer to bringing JBuilder 5 to Mac OSX. JBuilder 5 is the popular Java 2 Standard Edition development environment for Web, XML and database applications. Borland announced availability of a beta version at Apple WWDC conference in May and expects to make a final version available later this year. The eensy, weensy flash drive is smalt enough to crawl up the waterspout. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF SONNET Piccolo (Sonnet Technologies, www.sonnettech.com, $99.95 to $599.95) Jumping on the bandwagon to make things teeny and tiny, Sonnet Technologies announced Piccolo, a thumb-sized USB storage device you can plug into any cross-platform USB-equipped computer. The Piccolo comes in 32MB to 256MB sizes, and all but the largest size should ship by the time you read this. As usual, size has its price, so If you're into Java2, this one’s for you. Mae 3D: The Comeliack Kid ovia’s Carrarra don't lose these little buggers. (See bottom left) is just one of several Quicken 2002 Deluxe for Mac programs that mark a Ae ey (Intuit www.quicken2002.com/mac, $59.95) resurgence of 3D apps ae i ice Bean counting just gota little bit more exciting. Intuit announced that forthe Mac at all een a it would build the new version of this popular financial software for levels of expertise. 5 MacOS9and MacOS [°="yegeerteeteste =| | Strata SD a: New features (Strata, wwrw.trata.com, free to $895) include expanded Back with a new open source-style business model, Strata was ability to download data from financial showing off its Strata 3D line-up, which it is close to Carbonization. The company is focusing on Web markets, targeting graphic firms (Such as Fidelity designers who want to make 3D elements for rich media. Its free and TD Waterhouse), timed-out demo, called Strata 3Dbase, is one of the easiest ways and a Capital ee er for newcomers to explore the world of 3D. Gains Estimator. ov fe we tet eer =| animation Master 9 Sexy, isn tit? [== Sr __ mas (Hash, www.hash.com, $299) Carrara Studio (Eovia, www.carrara.com, $400) Eovia adopted the former Metacreations orphan and re-released Carrara Studio with a slew of bug fixes, 25 new plug-ins, and a free version of Amapi version 5. The application is aimed at the serious hobbyist or Gea designer looking for an affordable way to create Ea animation. Hash demonstrated Animation Master version 8.5 at Macworld Expo, and Animation Master 9 should be available by the time you read this. Aimed at hobbyists, the program lets beginners experiment with features like object modeling, inverse kinematics, ray-tracing, and image mapping. LightWave (Newtek, www.newtek.com, $2,495) (For more Aheavy-hitting 3D company, Newtek announced Mac OS X information on compatibility for its current 3D product Lightwave 6.5. Lightwave 3D graphic has already been used in movie favorites like Charlie’s Angels, apps, see How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and X-Men, and it’s about “Mac 3D: The $5,000 less than Alias|Wavefront’s Maya. Comeback Kid,” right.) Maya for Mac OS X (Alias | Wavefront, www.aliaswavefront.com, $7,500) Despite its More than one year after Alias|Wavefront announced its intent to slightly foreign interface, Carrara bring Maya to Mac OSX, we're still waiting. The company announced at Macworld Expo that this Hollywood-level product is one of your (used in Final Fantasy and Star Wars: Episode /) will be available easiest “ins” to September 25 and will include Maya’s latest rendering technology. the 3D world. Best T-shirt: .sit Happens Aladdin Software takes the prize with this humorous T-shirt slogan, We'll refer you to those two kind words if you start complaining that the shirt doesn’t fit. Coolest Concept: the P5 Glove The last time a glove was so cool, Michael singing “Beat It.” Scheduled for rel device (for Mac OS X only) will let gamers Jackson was ase In late fall, this use hand gestures to control movement in 3D games. OCT/01 | MacAddict | 1. eS ee ear amil iroolworthy Up-and-Coming Stuff We Can’‘t Wait to Get Our Mitts On FireFl SmartDisk | www.smartdisk.com | $399.95 a 00 bad the Coors Brewing Company nabbed the Silver Bullet motto, 3 because SmartDisk could have used it to describe their ultrathin, 3 supershiny 5GB FireFly FireWire drive. Only 4 inches long and .5 inch thick, & ~ this bus-powered beauty should be available in October 2001.—NR- : The highly ES portable FireFly 8 is perfect for you if i you just can’t be a your 1,000 MP3 files. —_ The Scope Bugs are ugly when 5 = magnified to 50 = USB Microscope times thet si. E Bodelin | www.bodelin.com |$199.99 : 2 hile it’s about as attractive as an Epilady, this gadget is pretty cool. This handheld USB microscope lets you snap still images and time-lapse movies at 50X magnification. \t comes with a standard meee tripod mount and backlighting for easy viewing—perfect for examining live insects, dead bodies, and other objects we haven’t thought of yet—NR 5% Comparing Apples to Apples | interpreting Apple’s Third-Quarter Finanoial Results pple announced a $61 tailfon BroHt orks 200% Thing | Last Year This Year fiscal third quarter. This news is Mark McGwire | His batting average was .305. It dropped to .205. good given this year’s turbulent economic climate, but it’s not as Christina Aguilera | She won a Grammy for She was nominated for Best Latin good as the $200 million profit Best New Artist. Pop Album, but she lost. of last year’s fiscal third quarter. Apple CFO Fred Anderson may Yahoo j Yahoo posted second-quarter net This year that figure is down to $182 be dismayed by the 70 percent revenues of $273 million. million. reduction in profits from last year, but he shouldn't fret— ABottle of | If you broke the seal «the goo’s no good. It has a 1-year Apple is in good company. Here Molasses | at this time last year. shelf-life. are some other things that are good, but not as good as they The President | Who won? By how much? Who voted? At least we have one. were last year.—-NR FY id The “Old Dog, New Trick” Award: Most Effective Marketing: MacAddiet s Corel aka Procreate procreate. a Rear Projection Smart Board Extremely Unofficial The electronic whiteboard thing is not so new, but hosted a you'd never know scrawling your notes on the hoard and then moving ni orel reinvented its Expo Awards them M4) pias Poe’s Tools fter her first album, Hello, went gold, Atlantic recording artist Poe set out to make a record that, in her words, “could only be created on a computer.” Armed with a Power Mac 9600 and a Pro Tools system, she emerged two years later with Haunted, a critically acclaimed album that includes the hit single “Hey Pretty.” MacAddict caught up with Poe (on tour with Depeche Mode) to discover how she mixed music with voice to create that haunting sound.—Michele Stotz MacAddict: Why did you decide to use a Power PC 9600? Poe: With six PCI slots, it was the best choice at the time. | want a G4. now because FireWire makes the process so much easier. | also need cheaper drives since I’m undergoing an archiving process with files spread out over 15 drives, One bad SCSI cable, and you’re dead. MacAddict: What are your favorite plug-ins and tools? Poe: | love the Renaissance compressors and EQs [Waves’ Renaissance Collection TDM 3.2] for the warmth they bring to digital sound, although | think the DSPider TDM 1.3 is probably my favorite plug-in for all its distortions and delays. | used it to create the crazy, filtery sound of the drums at the end of “Wild” [on Haunted]. Another incredible tool is my Aardvark. It’s an external universal time-code generator that syncs all your machines. Some people say your interface makes a big difference in the final product, but this little Aardvark made a bigger contribution than anything. BOOKreview MacAddict: Did you use any special tools to record your voice? Poe: \t’s good to run your voice through something when you're going into the computer. | rented a really old Neve sidecar [a radio EQ] to soften the sound, in addition to using an Empirical Labs Distressor EL8 compressor and a Focusrite EQ. In the computer, the sky was the limit because | would record endless tracks and use plug-ins to find bizarre harmonies. For instance, with WaveMechanics’ PitchBlender, | could just type in, “Track these four bars with a minor seventh on top of them,” and instantaneously hear the results. There are things on the record that sound like strings or guitar, and it’s actually my voice. MacAddict: Do you have any advice for our readers? Poe: The computer is going to play back to you exactly what you put in it. It’s tempting to say, “Oh, | have all these plug-ins, |’ll fix everything later,” but it’s very time consuming to fix audio that doesn’t sound great, and it’s not always possible. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF POE x Poe and ProTools are a pretty combination. A Few of Her Favorite Things Hardware + Power Macintosh 9600/350, Mac OS 9, 128MB of RAM, internal 4GB drive, external chassis with two MIX cards and “tons of DSP” * Two DigiDesign 888 | 2410 Precision 24-Bit Multi-Channel Audio Interface consoles ($3,695 each, www.digidesign.com) + Aardvark TimeSync Il ($1,295, www.aardvark-pro.com) + Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor ($1,449, www.empiricallabs, com/distress. htm) + Digidesign Focusrite ISA 110 Mic Preamp and EQ ($2,000) + Neve sidecar, echoplex, wah pedal, sansamp Software Favorites + Emagic’s Logic Audio Platinum 4.7 ($799, www.emagic.de) «Propellerhead Software’s ReCycle 2.0 ($179, www,propellerieads.se) '* Waves’ Renaissance Collection ($600, www.waves.com) * DUY’s DSPider ($1,195, www.duy.com) + Wave Mechanics’ PitchBlender ($495 as part of SoundBlender package, www.wavemechanics.com) The Little Mac Book, seventh edition. By Robin Williams, Peachpit Press, $19.99 A 448 pages, The Little Mac Book by Robin Wi is not exactly little. This useful beginner's guide, updated for Mac OS 9.1—not OS X!—contains he! sections on the basics of Mac hardware and the Mac 0S. The book cavers everything from how to use a mouse to understanding hardware specifications as well as information on the Finder, System Folder, and control panels. Williams presents this information clearly and without a hint of condescension, pairing thorough explanations with helpful images from the desktop. Best ofall, quizzes follow each chapter to make sure you're up to speed before you move ahead. While we’ve long since moved beyond beginner siatus, this book found a nice, not-so-little place on our bookshelf.—Whitney Hess melon The protic Robin Williams strikes again. Most Obvious No Show: Adobe Adobe had nary a booth nor meeting room at Ma ly, the company said The Crying “Wolf!” Award: Quark With Quark Xpress 5 in perpetual beta, Quark’s product manager Brett Mueller announced grand plans for a arbonized Mac OS X version. We'll believe it when we it—and even then, we might not believe it. OCT/01 | MacAdaict| 15 | get Info c 500 VA Back-UPS Pro USB (American Power Conversion, www.apcc.com, $179.99 SRP) The Back-UPS Pro USB features seven surge-protected outlets (four include battery backup), a two-year warrantee, an automatic self-test feature, and software for performing an unattended and controlled shut down of your Mac during a prolonged power Jilice Boxes Battery Back-ups Save Your Butt ‘PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION When the Power Goes Out outage (requires a USB port and Mac OS 9.0.4 or later). 0 power? No problem! With an “ Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), vA ) you can protect your Mac duting unexpected 650VA Regulator Pro Gold USB brownouts, blackouts, and power surges. (Belkin, www.belkin.com, $179.95 SRP) Agood UPS includes surge protection, a This unit includes eight surge-protected g filter to protect against electrical noise outlets (four with battery backup); z (generated by other equipment), anda 40Base-T Network surge protection with 5 back-up power supply consisting of one or built-in splitter to protect multiple devices, E more rechargeable batteries. When a two-year warranty; and software for E shopping around, check the UPS’s (Volt- safe, unattended shut down {requires a = Amps) rating. Typically, the higherthe VA _—_USB port and Mac 0S 9.0.4 or later). : rating, the greater the electrical load the UPS supports, and the longer the runtime on battery power. Here are three devices geared towards ‘small or home offices. Each one includes automatic voltage regulation (to prevent battery drain during a brownout), user replaceable batteries, and phone line surge protection. They also have indicators that telt you when the UPS is on-battery, when the device is overloaded, and when you need to replace the battery.—Steve Becker A Beta Way to Club Aspiring Artists Gain Airtime with Airport Powerware 5115 500 VA (Powerware, www.powerware.com, $300 SRP) This model includes four surge-protected outlets (all with battery backup); surge protection for a 10Base-T network; reduced battery recharge time; a 60-day, money-back guarantee; and a 10-year prorated warranty. Techno-geeks might appreciate this model’s pure sine ‘wave output. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF POWERWARE he glowing Apple logos on G3 extensive catalog of submitted art PowerBooks seem strangely at home and, with the help of AppleScript, amidst lounge chairs, red curtains, and allows a live VJ to manipulate mood- loud music. Add to the surreal mixtwo enhancing images on two large < jarge projection screens, a dance floor,and screens. Musicians use their own, bat a fully stocked bar, and you've got Club equipment to blast tunes from their Ed Beta—a lounge-bar in the beachside hard drives for a room full of people. Hy neighborhood of St. Kilda in Melbourne, Jay Discount is one such musician, H Australia. Every Thursday night, the hip Aclassically trained pianist from New g and tech-hungry converge here to see York City, he spent one night cranking iS Mac-toting digital artists show their stuff. out improvised tunes over a loop 2 Artists simply show up with alaptop or _ using Propellerhead Software's Ciub-goers with laptops and Airport cards sit, sip, and surf. removable media and upload their work Reason on a new iBook—a loaner via Airport or Ethemet to Club Beta’s G4. from his day job. has to worry about commercial reality, server. The club also has a lightening-fast Club Beta is the brainchild of VJ whether their bosses like their work or not. ADSL line for artists wishing to submit work | Aqueous, aka Robin Macpherson. He They just do it for the sake of the art.” ‘over the Net. believes the club’s interactive environment Club Beta invites interest and art Retrieve, a local database and Web- will help artists show off their work. from all over the world. To find out more, development company, built the “It’s [Club Beta is] supported entirely by email beta@ishappening.com or visit Filemaker/Lasso database that holds an the participants,” says Aqueous. “No one www.clubbeta.com.—jon Southurst MacAddict’s Ts #oratio Alger award: Freeverse Software The People’s Award: Toon Boom Studio seme i Quirky shareware developer Freeverse Software = F Long providing animation to the stars, toon Boom Extremely Unofficial — is joining the ranks of mainstream retailing. This = a | a | Technologies releases Toon Boom Studio, with an fall, Aspyr Media will release iPuppet Classic igs interface now so intuitive that even the masses can Expo Awards cards, aboxed cb of Freeverse card games. produce stellar animations. 16/ eae | oa : UP TO 20GB OF SPACE ON REMOVABLE DISKS The new Peerless™ system is the affordable, flexible way to add extra space. It’s fast, with transfer rates up to 15MB per second. It’s reliable, featuring shock resistant, sealed disks. And it’s fully modular and compatible with USB and FireWire™ interfaces. Is it any wonder it’s called Peerless? Copyright © 2003 lomega Corporation. All rights reserved. To LEARN More Asout PEERLESS DRIVES AND Disks CONTACT US OR VISIT WWW.IOMEGA.COM. The company that practically invented removable digital storage has done it again—in a very big way. Introducing Peerless” the groundbreaking storage solution from lomega®. This sleek magnetic drive is super-fast, with transfer rates up to 15 MB/sec (with FireWire"). Compact and portable, the disk slides into a base station only slightly larger than the disk itself. In fact, the wnole system fits in the palm of your hand. And Peerless is the first, true high-capacity removable storage medium with cartridges available in 10 or 20 Gigabyte configurations. That’s right. Gigabytes. Adding extra space has never been easier. Peerless offers modular interchangeable connectivity, $0 you can switch between FireWire’ and USB computer interfaces. And Peerless is tough. A built-in shock-absorption system protects against drops up to 30 inches—just in case. Plus, it features an exclusive design that keeps the read/write heads secure from crashes and sealed away from dust and other contamination. With Peerless, you can back up an entire com- puter on a single disk. It's powerful enough to store all your files, fast enough to run applications straight from the drive, and versatile enough to go anywhere you do. And with up to 20GB on each disk, it has the capacity you want, plus the flexibility to expand easily and affordably. Basically, Peerless offers all the space you need in one incredible, compact drive. It’s the next big thing in removable digital storage. Would you expect anything less from lomega? Peerless™ is compact (the entire drive fits in your hand), and tough, with builtin shock absorbers. Peerless offers interchangeable 1068 oF 20GB disks—there’s always room to grow. Read/write heads are integrated into each fully sealed Peerless disk, drastically reducing the risk of contamination, With its high transfer rate, Peerless is fast enough to run programs directly from its drive. The Peerless drive supports modular connectivity—you can switch between FireWire* and USB interfaces. To LEARN MORE ABOUT PEERLESS DRIVES AND DISKS CONTACT US OR VISIT WWW.IOMEGA.COM. sCcrda Explaining the arcane. Tyne Talk by Narasu Rebbapragada ith a plethora of fonts at our fingertips, it’s easy to forget orto blend harmoniously in smaller body type. Here’s the skinny on that typography’s really a fine art. A type designer what's in a typeface so you can get the most out of your type hand-crafts each letter to shine on its own in large display type design—or at least sound smart ata cocktail party. Fonts Versus Typefaces Most people confuse these two terms. A font is a set of characters in a particular weight and style. A typeface is a family of fonts. For example, Helvetica Condensed Bold is a particular font within the Helvetica typeface. X-Height The x-height is the distance between the baseline and the mean line in a letter—in other words, the height of the lowercase letter x. | X-heights vary from one typeface to another. As a general rule, typefaces with larger Ascender The portion of a character ‘that rises above the x-height is the ascender. x-heights are easier to read at small sizes. Cap Height | The cap height is the a | height of a capital > ae | letter in a given font. PR L! fh ---_ The mean line marks the ight of all lowercase letters. Leading se The space (measured in points) from baseline to baseline between lines of type is called the leading. The leading for the word “darfly” is 95 points. Descender The portion of a character [SSE a | that dips below the baseline Baseline is the descender. The baseline is the invisible line on which type rests. | Ligatures | In the days of letterpress printing, when letters were cast on Point Size | individual pieces of metal for typesetting, certain letter pairs—such Font sizes are measured in points. | as fi, ff, ficouldn’t be kerned closely enough on two separate A single point is about 1/72nd of ote alag | pieces of metal, so they were designed as one character on a an inch. The font you're reading AN single piece of metal. These combined characters are /gatures. now is.8-point Swiss721 Keming changes the space between Today, only professional-level fonts include all the ligatures for Condensed. The words “Barney” {wo dndvldual eters, Partieularly when a certain typeface. However, the keyboard combinations Shift- and “the” are in 55-point Helvetica you're deating with large type sizes, Option-5 and Shift-Option-6 yield fi and fi, accordingly. Condensed, while the word “Barfly” the spacing between letters can look uneven. You can adjust this with kerning, but take care not to overdo ityou'll end up with uncomfortably tight spacing or character groupings ‘that don’t seem natural to the eye. Tracking alters the space between letters in a larger string of text, such as 4 paragraph. Don’t overtrack or the words will look crunched or spaced out and will tire readers’ eyes. is in 118-point Caslon Regular. Sans Serif Serif Fonis like Helvetica and Serifs are the hats, or strokes, that adorn the Arial have no serifs, so tips of letters, Serifs are useful for setting large they're Called sans serif amounts of small text (as in a book or magazine fonts. These are often used article) because they guide the reader’s eye from for display type, such as word to word. Times New Roman is a typical tities and headlines, Serif font, commonly used in newspapers. pst ea | 9 sleek & Sleek new designs. jaa cs el ae Smooth, upgraded OS X. ih allel etree iCatching iMacs and iDVD 2. ‘cso Purse-shaped iBooks and Darth Awesome low prices. i ae es aoe a Life is good. gtateeonteds 2 | Mesa) |Gey/0) by Rik Myslewski and | phetegraphy by Ar Atemperamental Mac OS X? Help is on the way. Version 10.1 promises to be faster, smoother, and light on bugs. (Too bad we might get charged $20 for the privilege of upgrading, according to Steve.) Apple has even made the already elegant PowerMac Gg slicker, eliminating unnecessary design geegaws and sticking with a color scheme infinitely less distracting to design professionals than the original—and very bright—blue-and-white tower. This elegance is uplifting, but it’s just icing: on the rich devil’s food cake that constitutes today’s Macs. The power inside is what counts—and there's plenty of it ta be had for mare-than-reasonable prices. Mac OS X Is driving this revolution. it requires more oomph than previous Mac OSs— and it knows how to take advantage of that oomph. Apple’s providing the right hardware, Starting with a $999 500MHz iMac and topping out with a “I gotta get me one of these!” Sammis $3,499 800MHz Dual-processor Gg beastie fine-tuned for Mac OSX’s multiprocessor smarts. What’s more, Mac OSX is enabling a new class of more-powerful, more-elegant applications, from Apple’s own iDVD 2 toa slew of cool stuff from hard-working developers, big and small. These apps will transform what it means to be a Mac addict. We have seen the future, and it works. And when it doesn’t, it won’t bring down your whole freakin’ Mac anymore, ocr/at |Moceees 2h Inside the New 867MHz Power Mac G4 he more things stay the same, the more they change. The new Power Mac Gqs, code-named Quicksilver, still use top-of-the- line PowerPC G4 processors—but now these are zippier, with larger performance-enhancing caches. Multiprocessor capability remains— but now there’s an OS that takes advantage of it. Four PC! slots temain—but now they're faster than ever. The nVidia GeForce2 MX graphics cards and SuperDrive CD/DVD burners are still available—but nowthey’re bundled together on midrange systems. And the back panel still sports one gigabit-Ethernet and two USB and FireWire ports—but now...uh, well, not everything has improved, SuperDrive Apple remains mum about the SuperDrive’s parentage, but it’s gotta be a Pioneer DVR-103 (also known as the DVR-AQ3). No other drive currently writes DVD-R discs at 2X, reads DVDs at 4X, writes CD-R discs at 8X, writes CD-RW discs at 4X, and reads CDs at 24x. interrupt Button If you're a programmer, don't throw away that paper clip— Speaker Ss you'll need it to press the redesigned interrupt (aka It may look like a new speaker, but it’s programmer's) button, which dumps you into your debugger. not. Only the enclosure design is new. Rap Sheet Apple offers each of its new systems in three configurations. In the spirit of pure, unadulterated greed, we also shopped the company’s store and assembled our own price-is-no-object dream machines. Power Mac G4 Good Better Best Maxed-Out Visa Card The new faster, cheaper Processor 733MHz G4 867MHz G4 ‘800MHz Dual-processor G4 800MHz Dual-processor G4 Power Mac G4s include RAM. 128MB PC138 SDRAM | 128MBPC133 SDRAM | 256MB PC133 SDRAM 1.5GB PC133 SDRAM 1O/100/1,000BaseT = = L3cache | None 2MB Dual 2MB Dual 2MB Taare ae Hard Drive | 4068, 5,400 mm 608, 7,200 rpm 80GB, 7,200 rem 3x72GB Ultra 160 SCSI, 10,000 rpm andtwo FireWire ports, Plcal rive | CD-RW CD-RW/DVD-R SuperDrive | CD-RW/DVD-R SuperDrive | CD-RW/DVD-R SuperDrive and speaker and Graphics wWidia GeForce2 MX nVidia GeForce2 MX nVidia GeForce2 MX TwinView | nVidia GeForce3 headphone ports—but Extras None None None Zip 250, Pro Speakers, no audio-in Jack. AirPort Network Price $1,699 $2,499 $3,499 $9,156 iMac Each iMac includes aCD- Processor | 500MHz G3 600MHz G3 700MEz G3 700MHz G3 RW drive, 10/100Base-T RAM 128MB PC100 SDRAM | 256MBPC100SDRAM —_ 256MB PC100 SDRAM 512MB PC100 SDRAM epee Hard Drive | 20GB, 5,400 rpm 40GB, 5,400 rpm 60GB, 5,400 rpm 6068, 5,400 pm ei awe FireWire ports, Colors Indigo, Snow Graphite, Snow Graphite, Snow Graphite, Snow and an ATI Rage 128 Extras None None None Sub, AirPort Network Uttra graphics card. Price $999 $1,299 $1,499 $2,156 nVidia GeForce2 MX Chock-full of graphics goodness, this zesty display card speeds 2D and 3D images and improves the look of DVD. playback. And since it offloads graphics processing from the CPU, it also makes your overall Mac experience snappier. ‘800MHz Dual-processor G4s include TwinView capability, which doubles graphics RAM and offers one VGA port and ‘one ADC connector for dual- monitor support (just make ‘sure you have one of each type ‘of monitor). If you want top gaming performance, Apple will build you a G4 with nVidia’s: GeForce3 card—for a few dollars more, natch. Processor Heat Sink Apple won't confirm or deny it, but we're willing to bet Steve Jobs's life that the PowerPC processor nestled beneath this ‘massive heat sink is Motorola's top-of-the line MPC7450 Gde. After all, it's the only PowerPC with the 256K on-chip cache Apple touts in each of its new pro systems. At a hefty 14 watts, the MPC7450 Gde requires a beefier power supply PCI Slots than its predecessors and an Apple has tweaked You can stock the three DIMM. Caches improved cooling scheme to four full-length, Slots with up to 1.5GB of All three configurations include on-chip L1 and 12 caches of 64K avoid meltdown. 64-bit, 33MHz PCI PC133 SDRAM, which OS X and 256K, respectively. The 867MHz and 800MHz Dual-processor slots to achieve knows how to use wisely. versions also add 2MB of high-speed L3 backside cache for each faster throughput. RAMs cheap. Buy tons. processor. The result? Whoa, these puppies are fast. Putting the Hurt to Hertz he next time your Wintel-loving friends boast that their PCs blaze along at 1.7GHz, don’t succumb to clock envy. Remind them instead that a CPU’s megahertz or gigahertz rating—the speed at which its internal clock moves chunks of data around its silicon innards—is as much a matter of marketing as of microprocessor design. They may think you’re peeling sour grapes, but it’s true. Broadly speaking, chip designers have two choices: They can either build a chip that accomplishes a lot of complex, time- consuming tasks in a few steps, or they can divide the same amount of work into many smaller steps. The G4 takes the first course; the Pentium 4 takes the second. The Pentium 4 can perform each step—or clock cycle—more quickly because it does less in each step. The kicker is that it actually requires a faster clock speed than a G4 to perform the same amount of work. We're willing to bet that Intel’s decision to go the small-step, fast-step route was influenced in no small part by a marketing department that wanted to trumpet “gazillions of gigahertz!” to an unsuspecting public that thinks a faster clock automatically means faster performance. Don’t get us wrong—the Pentium 4 is a decent chip, but that’s not just because of its clock speed. For a more in- depth (eka geekier) explanation of the megahertz gap, visit http://arstechnica.com/cpu/o1q2/p4andg4e/p4andgqe-1.html. ocr/or ae as Columns as Icons as List Clean-Up Arrange by Name Hide Toolbar Customize Toolbar... Show Status Bar 8B Show View Options 38} &@ Now ‘Til Forever @ Round & Round ff Into My Arms, @ Heaven @ Follow Me @ Romeo & Juliet |__ Let Me Be The O rooo zion View o ey, Back Burn Applications (HE Desktop » Documents & Library MailAccounts = Movies DB untitled document = Save as: Path Where: Documents re } laa) {Ff Save image Preview ry @- Movies oS 4) 11:23 AM ao A | iDisk Computer Home Applications My Project iQ Cinema Display.mov {gS PowerBook G4,.mov i Pro Mouse.mov Vo Om ap Kind: Movie Size: 4.3 MB Modified: 1/1/01 Duration: 00°30 (- Documents Library Movies Music Pictures Public Sites vvvvvvve Show in Finder (24 MacAdaict OCT/O1 Dimensions: 480 x 360 OS X With Mac 0S 10.1, Apple Gives Us a Real Operating System Grows Up 1. Speed First and foremost, Mac OS 10.1 is a zippier system, thank god. Apple's sped up everything ‘from how fast menus display to how quickly applications launch. Window resizing is ‘snappier, too. 2. Hardware Support | 0S 10.1 is exactly what hardware vendors have been waiting for. The new system provides low-level support for a wide range of devices, including pressure-sensitive tablets, tape drives, and SCSI, IDE, and RAID controllers. © Movaite Dock ‘You can now place the Dock on the left or right | side of the screen instead of at the bottom, | ifyou choose. (You can—just trust us.) Qscale Etfect | While the Genie window-minimizing effect— | which sucks a window into the Dock like a genie | into a bottle—is very cool, it’s also expensive in terms of system resources, particulary for those of us without the G4’s Velocity Engine. in OS 10.1, you'll find alongside Genie the much simpler Scale effect, which simply shrinks the window as it approaches the Dock. @ ata co Burning While you've had the option to burn music CDs in Mac OS 10.0 via Tunes for some time, Mac OS 10.1 gives you the ability to burn data CDs directly from the Finder. 6. Networking Protocols Unlike Mac OS 10.0, which had problems connecting to AppleTalk networks, Mac OS 10.1 supports just about every networking protocol we've heard about in the last five years. Besides AppleTalk (which you can now browse and connect to freely), OS 10.1 doesn't even blink when confronted with ‘SMB (aka Windows networks), WebDAV, or NFS file systems. fthe redundantly named Mac OS X 10.1, which Apple will release “sometime in September,” lives up to demonstrations at Macworld Expo in July, it will be the first version of Mac OS X that doesn’t leave users slapping their foreheads in bewilderment at its sometimes strange, often poky behavior. Here’s what’s coming: Qcieverer iDisk The iDisk (which, we admit, we unfairly tossed ‘out along with the iReview and iCard bathwater when we first heard about it) has gotten ‘smarter—it now works with WebDAV so you can ‘stay connected even if you're behind a firewall. Oresizabie Columns In column view, you can now resize individual columns at willt—you don’t have to stretch your windows to Timbuktu before seeing all of the columns in the view. 9, Quicker OpenGL Granted, this could probably go into the Speed Category, but it’s significant enough for gamers to warrant a separate mention: OS 10.1 should be much speedier when it comes to OpenGL- based 3D. 10. Souped-Up AppleScript Under OS 10.1, AppleScript should lose that ‘squeaky, not-quite-ready-for-prime-time feel it had under the first versions of Mac 0S X. Along with what Apple somewhat mysteriously terms: “substantial improvements” (we're hoping that's code for “we finally finished it"), Apple has added the ability to make SOAP arid XML-RPC calls via AppleScript (if you're ints Web-based applications, you're now salivating). QMenu-Bar controis Apple is trying to reduce Dock clutter in OS 10.1 by moving several accessories into the right side of the menu bar. Once you install OS 10.1, you will find sound, AirPort, modem status, and a few other control-strip alumni next to the clock. If that seems a bit cluttered, keep in mind that you ean save space by shrinking the clock to a tiny analog model. 12. DVD Playback Originally promised a few months ago, DVD playback finally makes it into Apple's good graces, Better late than never. iDVD, Take Two he successor to Apple’s supersimple DVD-creation tool is the cleverly named iDVD 2. Available in September as a $19.95 upgrade for iDVD owners, iDVD 2 primarily offers a facelift that will give your DVDs a slightly less templated look. The feature that made Steve Jobs giddy in his Macworld Expo keynote is the ability to add full-motion videos to buttons or backgrounds (a very cool feature, we'll grant). Other enhancements include new themes such as parchment, claim check (as in a travel theme), and—who could have guessed—brushed metal. iDVD 2 also offers animated backgrounds with that special (some might say cheesy) Apple look and feel. A welcome addition is the ability to move buttons wherever you want as opposed to being locked in to preset button configurations. Another change is a capacity increase from 60 to 90 minutes. One last thing: If you’re not running Mac OS 20.1, leave your dreams of homemade, brushed-metal-themed DVDs behind. iDVD 2 requires the latest Apple OS as well as a SuperDrive- equipped Power Mac G4. Anything less, and you’ll have to make do with the original iDVD or—gasp—Video CDs.—CL en ye TRAVEL PACKAGES Imagine that the background and the pictures in the menus are moving. OK, now you've got the gist of what iDVD 2 is all about. Rik Mystewski and lan Sammis can’t wait to sink their teeth Into the new 8ooMHz Dual-processor G4. oct/01 | Mecagcicr (2s : Ey H id 5 8 H 2 3 Mac 0S X compatible. On The Disc. by Kevin Savetz Mustration by Roger Reerworth “a software. Hundreds of dedicated Mac developers have lovingly crafted a veritable treasure trove of shareware and freeware gems— ‘some as finely faceted and perfectly polished as any commercial app. The difference? Shareware and freeware come cheap—and you get that warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you’re helping someone pay their rent rather than boosting the value of some megacorporation’s stock. We rounded up 150 of the top shareware and freeware applications in the Mac universe. If an app cost more than $100 or came in a box, we excluded it. (Hey, we had to draw the line somewhere.) We then grouped our favorites into a dozen categories and divided each category into two parts: “Must- Have” (apps that belong on every hard drive), and “Worth a Try” (other great software you should at least take for a spin). One last thing: Freeware, as its name implies, doesn’t cost a dime, but shareware is another story. These apps represent the blood, sweat, and tears of unselfish, passionate Mac fanatics—if you use their software, pay the fee. Otherwise, may the ghost of the Sad Mac haunt your dreams. y ou don’t have to spend big bucks for great OCT/01| MacAdaict|27 | Productivity. tion’t have to rely on Microsoft Office to get your work sone. Must-Have Worth a Try Free Nisus Writer Nisus Software, free, www.nisus.com/products/nisuswriter/free Budget icWord Free Nisus Writer—no, that’s not a leftist bumper sticker, it’s the name of the freebie little Ron Hooper, free, Panergy, $19.95, brother of the commercial Nisus Writer 6, a full-featured word processor that includes http://budgetsupport www.icword.com ©) powerful macros, tables, unlimited undos, and even basic desktop-publishing tools. shome.att.net © View and print Ifyou only need the basics, download Free Nisus Compact, a 1.1MB streamlined version Print checks, balance Microsoft Word files— of the product. your checkbook, and without Word. monitor your budget. StickyBrain Chronos, $59.99 or $64.95 (depending on different bundles and options), PeopleBook ‘www.chronosnet.com €3 ©) PowerTicker Amar Sagoo, $20, StickyBrain puts your pad of Post-Its to shame and thoroughly humiliates the Mac OS’s Galleon Software, http://nomepage Stickies. These desktop notes can include text, URLs, graphics, sounds, or any other type $29.95, www.galleon .Mac.com/asagoo of information. Features include to-do lists, contacts, alarms, encryption, anda password- _.com/powerticker /peoplebook @ management feature. Display the latest This cool address stock market info book can print ProjectPlanner Midius, $35, a a aT ona scrolling ticker. address labels and www.arctaedius.com/ProjectPlanner €3 @) = dial your phone. ProjectPlanner creates schedules for =!) | InfoManager complex projects. It builds easy-to-read =|| 3 | MacEase, $49.95, WhizGraph Ganit charts (timelines that can span days, ar a TE | download from DeepGreen Solutions, months, or years) to help keep your project _|fi=—tss=— = www.kagi.com $45, on track. Ifyou need to manage a group of {fi = | Faas /macease © www.deepgreen.de @) folks who are contributing to the same fe | Clip info from any This data-analysis and project, just save your schedule in HTML SLE, see application and graphing software is and post it to a Web site. Miss deadlines in style with ProjectPlanner, arrange Itin powerful enough for tidy notes. science and easy Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe Systems, free, enough for business. www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.him! €3 © MacDICT ifthere’s one piece of software that’s as essential to your workday as a browser, it’s Navdeep Bains, free, Sum-it Adobe Acrobat Reader. PDF files are nearly as ubiquitous as email, and Acrobat Reader www.bainsware.com Hekkelman is the de facto standard for viewing them. If you're going to print large PDF files in /macdict © Programmatuur, $20, Mac OS 9.x, however, make sure you give Acrobat Reader enough memory to work with. Look up words froma www.hekkelman.com variety of online /sum-it.ntml @ VNCThing Purple Shark Software, free, www.webthing.net/vncthing €3 reference resources. Crunch any numbers Control another computer—Mac, Windows, or Unix—from your Mac with this Virtual with this simple, Network Computing client. VNC (www.uk.research.att.com/vno) is a remote display NotePad Deluxe scriptable system that allows you to access any computer (as long as it’s running the VNC server) Ibrium HB, $25, spreadsheet. over a LAN or the Intemet. Free VNCThing is more stable than the official VNC client, and www.ibrium.se€3 ©) it works with Mac OS X. /npdmain.htmt Calendar2000 Ahandy notepad WinderModsen, $25, BBEdit Lite Bare Bones Software, free, wwv.barebones.com/products/bbedit_lite,htm! €3 G) with encryption, a www.wundermoosen BBEdit Lite is a powerful text editor that boasts potent search-and-replace tools and Spelling checker, .com/wmCalendar2000 multiple clipboards and also has the ability to manipulate huge files. BBEdit Lite’s manual —_ and a sorting tool. shim & © devotes 35 pages to the program’s powerful search-and-replace functions—read this stuff, Julian, Gregorian, it’s worth your time—which include both simple wild-card searches and powerful Unix- eFax Jewish, Islamic, and style regular-expression searches. eFax.com, free, lunar calendars—plus www.efax.com aplanner. Excalibur Rick Zaccone and Robert Gottshall, free, Receive faxes and ‘www.eg.bucknell,edu/~excalibr/excaliburhtm! A freeware spelling checker, Excalibur can check text files, the clipboard’s contents, and voice-mailmessages Customer in your email box. Tracker Kevin VanStrien, $23, documents formatted with the Latex Medical Records wwwsolarsite typesetting language. It also works with Pacific Cargo, $5, .com/kvs G) BBEdit, MT-Newswatcher, and many other download from www Track the time you programs. You get a 160,000-word English c filemakershareware spend on projects dictionary, and you can download many Excalibur: a free spelling checker that won't com © © and generate all- technical and foreign-language dictionaries keep you up at knight. (Yes, we already Track your family’s important invoices. A free from the Web site. slapped ourselves.) medical history—yes, separate Mac OSX including shots. version is available. Al Mac ncaeCcl/o) Graphics Don't wart to dig deep into your wallet for Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia FreeHand? Read! on. Must-Have GraphicConverter Lemke Software, $35, www.graphicconverter.net €) © An amazingly versatile graphics tool, GraphicConverter can ‘open and edit 145 types of graphics files, including the most obscure formats. Its bateh-conversion tools let you convert and tweak a hard drive full of images in one fell swoop—for example, crop and sharpen 1,000 images, then reduce each to thumbnail size and save them all in PNG format. Print2PDF James W. Walker, $20, www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html ©) While Print2PDF doesn't offer every function of Adobe Acrobat {you can’t embed fonts or password-protect your documents), it does allow you to create PDF files without investing hundreds of dollars. Take a moment to explore Print2PDF’s preferences screen, which offers many options you might otherwise miss, such as the ability to add watermarks to PDF files. Plug-ins from Flaming Pear Flaming Pear Software, $15 to $30 per plug-in, $40 to $49 for bundles, www.flamingpear.com @) ‘We can’t pick just one— each Photoshop plug-in from Flaming Pear is cooler than the last. Design a planet with LunarCell or create splashy water effects with Flood. The Ornament plug-in offers an unusual (and cheap!) way to create panoramic pictures. Coolness factor? Off the charts. You can do terraforming on a badget with Flaming Pear’s LunarCell. CorelDraw 8 Limited Edition Corel, free, www.corel.com/draw8mac_le/product_info.htm A light version of CorelDraw 8, this package includes both CorelDraw LE (for vector illustration and page layout) and Corel Photo-Paint LE (for image editing and painting). This app is more than powerful enough for those of us who don’t get paid to work with graphics. AppliMac Slide Show OneApp Software, $25, www.applimac.com/ss @) This slide-show and presentation tool organizes multimedia files, QuickTime movies, sounds, and images, and supports a wide variety of image and audio formats, including QuickTime and MP3. You can even save presentations as stand-alone applications—for example, you can distribute that business presentation ona self-running CD-ROM. Honor J-Lo with AppliMac Slide ‘Show. Why? Um, we're not sure. Worth a Try Snapz Pro Ambrosia Software, $40, www.ambrosiasw.com Jutiliies/snapzpro €) © Ifyou need to take screenshots, Snapz Pro is the bomb. PhotoGIF BoxTop Sottware, $69.95, www.boxtopsoft.com /photogif.htmt Create tiny, high-quality GIF files with this Photoshop plug-in. ProJPEG BoxTop Software, $49.95, www.boxtopsoft.com /projpeg.htmt What PhotoGIF does for GIFs, ProJPEG does for JPEGs. JPEG View Aaron Giles, free, download from www.mac.org /graphics/pegview @) Serves up images in JPEG, PICT, GIF, and other common file formats. Painting Sarwat Khan, $20, http://sarwat.net/painting @) Asimple, powerful image editor with tablet support and easy color management. Cameraid Juri Munkki, $15, www.cameraid.com G) Transfer photos from your camera, then view, rotate, and name them. Icon Machine Uncommonplace, $25, hitp://uncommonplace.com /sharewate/iconmachine.him! €3 G) Create 16-by-12-pixel miniatures or huge 128-pixel Mac OS X icons. PixelToy LairWare Software, $15, www.lairware.com/pixeltoy €3 G) Watch hypnotic patterns pulse to PixelToy adds a new level to your Grateful Dead CDs (as if you need it). Rainbow Painter Norbyte, $25, www.rainbowpainter.com ©) This image editor includes layers, channels, and filter effects. Warning: Rainbow Painter's colorful scrollbars may cause blindness. Kids Animation Maker Voget Selbach Enterprises, $18, Wwww.vse-online.com /kids-animation-maker © Easy-to-use graphics program lets kids create simple animations. ImageViewer PlatoGrande Software, $30, www.imageviewer.com €3 G) Use batch-processing tools to rotate, rename, and scale digital images. ImageBuddy KepMad Systems, $15, www.kepmad.com & © Rotate, crop, mask, and lay out your photos for printing. Stop wasting expensive glossy paper— use ImageBuddy first, Mike’s Edge Mike Sedore, $10, $79 for the Pro version, www.mikesedore.com/mikeedge.htm! ©) Create image masks for the Web or in PostScript. Ptah Thoth Software, $15, www.thothsw.con/utilities/index.htm! €3 Text, images, movies, and sound files—this program opens and plays them all. HexaSuper2 Shusaku, $54, www.shusaku.co.jp/hexa © Make 3D objects from 2D illustrations and photographs. ocT/o1 | Mev acee |P* Sgan8 Utilities Your Mac’s a powerful beas\—hend it to your will with one of these gems. Worth a Try Must-Have Extension Overload Teng Chou Ming and Peter Hardman, $20, www.extensionoverload.com @) Not only can you manage extensions, control panels, Control Strip modules, and contextual menus with Extension Overload, but you also get detailed descriptions on each doodad’s purpose. Font-management tools also allow you to install, remove, and preview fonts. Too bad Mac OSX doesn’t have an equivalent Library Overload app—yet. A Better Finder Frank Reiff Shareware, $9.95 to $14.95 each or $44.95 for all four, www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderSeries ©) The well-named suite of tools, A Better Finder, improves how you work with files in the Mac OS's Finder. Select adds criteria-based file searching that’s more powerful than Sherlock's. For example, you can find files using wild cards or Unix-style regular expressions, such as find all files with 10- character names that include two Qs in a row. Rename makes it easy to— guess what?—rename many files at once, and other tools let you display and change file attributes, creator apps, and types. Version Master Symmetry Software, free, www.versionmaster.com Version Master lets you know when upgrades are available for all of your software. Unlike the Software Updates control panel that came with your Mac, which is \imited to Apple-approved applications, Version Master will report on the vast majority of Mac software. A $19.95 subscription adds version notes, hot links to software updaters, and other nifty features. VSE My Privacy Voget Selbach Enterprises, $19.95, www.vse-online.com/my-privacy ©) My Privacy is an encrypted information manager for passwords, bank-account information, credit-card numbers, software serial numbers, and other RSS SE personal data. Copy ee ened online passwords to the ar Epa clipboard with a click, feissseas untae and you'll never have to prea ee type (or remember) a password again, | Never lose track of a ||| Case J Cae 9) password again. DiskTracker Portents, $30, www.disktracker.com (2) DiskTracker catalogs your CD-ROMs, Zips, and floppies, and can find files anywhere, even on a disk you no longer have mounted on your Mac. Not only does it help with your hard-drive housekeeping, but it also prints custom disk labels. You’ve just run out of excuses for lost documents. TechTool Lite Micromat, free, www.micromat.com © TechTool Lite is a necessity for basic troubleshooting. This essentials-only version of Micromat’s beefier TechTool Pro can zap your Mac’s PRAM, delete and rebuild desktop files, and analyze your file system for hidden damage. Desktop Resetter No-U-Turn Software, $10, www goddfaddasoft.com/resetter Restore the arrangement of your desktop items when resolution switching moves them. Scrap-It Pro John V. Holder, $20, www northcoast.com/—~jvholder This scrapbook’s view and search features put Apple’s Scrapbook to shame, See all your bits and pieces at once in Scrap-It Pro's gallery view. Synchronize Qdea, $29.95, www.qdea.com © Automatically back up your data to removable media or iDisks, or sync files with another Mac. MyBattery Jeremy Kezer, $10, www.kezernet /mybattery.htmi G) This utility monitors your laptop’s battery much more accurately than Apple’s built-in software. Mi. Everything Horst Prolow, free, www.overnet.de/hhp/mie Mount SCSI volumes, inspect disk partitions, and enable drives without rebooting. iDiskMounter Christian Vick, suggested fee of $5, www.cooc.de/softies /idiskmounter Stuffit Expander Aladdin Systems, free, www.aladdinsys.com/expander € ©) Mount iDisk without typing a There are must-have apps, and then there are you’d-be-crazy-not-to-have- them apps—Stuffit Expander falls into the latter category. This essential utility will open up all those SIT, ZIP, GZ, and other compressed files you downloaded from the Internet. i MacAddict | OCT/O1 password, and suppress that annoying time-out message. Tildes and umlauts and accents, oh my! Doublet Scan Hyperbolic Software, $25, www.hyperbolicsoftware.com © Delete space-wasting duplicate files—how many copies of SimpleText do you need? TransType FontLab, $49.95, www.tontiab .com/htmi/transtype.htmi @ Convert TrueType and Type 1 fonts from PC to Macintosh formats—and vice versa. Joliet Volume Access Thomas Tempelmann, free {as of press time), www.tempel.org/joliet () Enhance your Mac’s ability to read CD-ROMs created for Windows and other platforms. MacZip Dirk Haase, free, wwwsitec.net/maczip ©) Expand ZIP-format compressed files—or make your own. Cast Off MonkeyBread Software, $10, www smonkeybreadsoitware.com ©) Remove those unused preferences files cluttering your System Folder. SaveATree Michael S. Engber, free, download from http://hyperarchive.ics.mit.edu /MyperArchive/Archive/prn /save-a-tree-154,hox @) Lets you print on one page what would normally occupy two to four—but what you print ends up very, very small. PopChar Pro Uni Software Plus, $29, www.unisoft.co.at/preducts /popeharhtmi G) Choose oddball characters from a pop-up menu rather than typing oddball key combos. Mae 0S | | ane needs these training wheels, Must-Have OmniDiskSweeper The Omni Group, $15, www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper €9 G) OmniDiskSweeper builds a list of the largest files on your system— the selfish ones that are piggishly taking up all that precious disk space—and allows you to delete any you no longer need. It also tells you which files the operating system requires so you don’t accidentally delete essential resources. WordService Christian Grunenberg, free, http://home.arcor-online. scones iS (D) WordService adds features for working with text to alt Cocoa-created applications. Its abundant skills include sorting, changing case, statistics, encoding and decoding tabs, shifting text position, and inserting the date or time. It’s a time-saver. WordService adds text- manipulation functions to any OS X app. The Moose’s Apprentice WinderModsen, $15, ‘www.wundermoosen.com/wmTMA.htm €3 Edit, monitor, and restore Unix configuration files with this program’s friendly graphical interface—and without a degree in Unix system administration. If the changes don’t work properly, The Moose’s Apprentice will let you revert to a previous version of your configuration files. The program also monitors the state of config files and will warn you if a cracker surreptitiously tweaks them. Worth a Try Calindock Critical Matter, free, www.criticalmattercom €) © Add a monthiy calendar to your Dock—it’s simple, clean, and useful. AutoCompleter Catchy Software, $15, www.catchysoftware.com /autocompleter 9 @ This clever utility speeds your typing by autocompleting words in any Cocoa application. Unsupported UtilityX Ryan Rempel, free, http://eshop -Mmacsales.com/OSXCenter /ramework.cim?page =UnsupportedUtilityx.htm! © Old Mac? Won’t run X? Maybe you can change that with this sneaky installer. Space.dock Riley Lynch, free, http://space.sourceforge.net €3 G) Create virtual workspaces that expand your screen realestate, Cheaper than a new monitor. [ X Sounds free, Assist Peter Li, free, hitp://members.ozemail.com.au/~pli/x-assist €3 http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu You upgraded to Mac OSX, but you miss your favorite features from @ /SSAUER the classic Mac OS you've known and loved for years. X-Assist feels your pain—and can do something about it. This program adds an application switcher to the menu bar, provides a Control Strip—like plug-in architecture, and lets you add personal hierarchies of items to a Mac OS 9~style Apple menu. Thomas Wolfe was wrong— you can go home again. OmniWeb The Omni Group, $29.95, ‘www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb €9 © OmniWeb is a beautiful, polished Web browser designed exclusively for Mac OSX. The spiffy interface includes customizable toolbars. and drawers for bookmarks and site history. Even the dreaded smocthed-whether- you-like-it-or-not text looks way better than Intemet Explorer's. Appearing exclusively on Mac OS X—it’s OmaiWeb! E 2 iT [>} Spice up your OS X auditory experience with this bundle of 675 AlFF-format sounds. Fire epicware, free, www.epicware.com/fire.htm! €3 © This instant messaging client works with six chat services, including AOL, Yahoo, and IRC. Firewalk X Mike Vannorsdel, $12, www.users.qwest.net /~mvannorsdelfirewalkx €) © Use a graphical interface to configure and maintain OS X’s built-in firewall. ManThor Stefan Lange-Hegermann, free, www.blackmac.de/manthor €3 @ Get easy access to Unix’s built-in explanatory manual pages. MacJanitor Brian Hill, free, http://personalpages.tds.net /~brian_hill/macjanitor.htm! € © Do you turn off your system at night? Make OS X do its nightly maintenance tasks, such as deleting old eee log files, Of = during the day. | Grrr @onrssovons a oe ye NOW Mac OS X | rmnins snes oe S08 ties can do its nighttime dirty work any time. nt ans) are ne He ts) arse Alarm Clock Pro Koingo Software, $9.97, www.koingosw.com/products /alarm_ciock_pro.shimt €3 © Set up to five alarms, and even wake up to your favorite CD or MP3 tune. RBrowser Object Warehouse, free, www.rbrowser.com €9 View and edit files on your Mac and remote Unix systems using one Interface. Sharity Objective Development, $59, www.obdev.at/products/sharity €9 © Connect to Windows, Samba, AppleShare IP, and other popular file servers. Launcher Brian Hill, $15, http://personalpages.tds.net /~brian_hilauncherhtm! €3 © Aself-prociaimed shameless rip-off of the Launcher control panel in System 7 and MacOS 8. Classic Dockling Impulse Development, free, www.impulsedev.com €3 Start, stop, and monitor the Classic environment from the Dock. ‘TinkerTool Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme, free, www -bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.him! €39 © Customize your Mac with TinkerTool by activating hidden options Apple doesn’t want. you to find, including a desktop trash can anda font-smoothing control. OcT/01 | Mecadacr|3 fames Got time to waste? These gems are guaranteed ta reduce your productivity. Worth a Try Must-Have Tranquility TOworld, $24 per year, http://tqworid.com €9 © Come for the fascinating graphics, stay for the engaging puzzles. In Tranquility, you float through colorful 3D space looking fora spinner that will transport you to the next level. The game customizes challenges depending on your playing style. Tranquility requires an Internet connection while you play because the game’s online server handles personalized levels and scoring. Colibricks Michel Colman, $16, http://nav.to/cofibricks €9 © Colibricks offers a unique slant on the old ball-and-bricks gaming concept. Features include balls of varying sizes and true-to-life physics (larger balls are heavier). Bricks aren't limited to horizontal orientation—you’ll see them arranged in arches, spirals, and plenty of other intriguing patterns. Colibricks is like Breakout, only more fun. Ares Ambrosia Software, $25, www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ares Interstellar combat — is the game in Ares, a strategic war simulation. Use your ships to control and protect planets against a computer or human opponent. The game’s not easy, so start with the tutorial levels to learn controls and basic tactics, Play war games in deep space. MacMAME free, www.macmame.org €3 Play thousands of classic arcade games such as Defender, Mr. Do, and Out Run with this versatile emulator, accurate down to the last detail. The program is free, but you need to download game ROMs to use with it (@vailable at www.mame.dk and www.retrogames.com, among other places). Those ROMs ate copyrighted, so don’t download any if you plan on running for an elected office. Temple Tantrum Ground Zero Software, $18, www.templetantum.com ©) Ifthere’s a bit of Indiana Jones in you, you need Temple Tantrum. Search more than 100 levels for treasure in this arcade-type exploration game. If you manage to make it through those levels, the level editor lets you build your own. Grab the goodies white avoiding vile beasties. Sl MacAddict| OCT/01 GlTron Andreas Umbach, free, www.gltron.org Zoom around a 3D landscape in this modem interpretation of an eighties classic. ‘Twenty years before Pod Racing, there were Light Cycles. Tux Racer Sunspire Studios, free, www.tuxracer.com €3) © Race Tux the Penguin down icy mountains on his belly in this port ofa popular Linux game. Enigma Freeverse Software, $14.95, www.reeverse com/enigma € © This code-breaking puzzle game revives the tradition of Mastermind. Pac the Man McSebi, free, www.mesebide © Atrademark-infringement lawsuit waiting to happen, Pac the Man is a 25-level Pac-Man clone. Bushfire Strange Flavour, $3, www.strangeflavour.com €3 Fly your helicopter through the forest and extinguish fires in this 2D scrolling game. MacSolitaire pcv enr, free, www.pev-soft.com €3 © Play that classic time-waster, Solitaire, in this popular freeware adapiation. Apeiron Ambrosia Software, $15, www.ambrosiasw.com /gamesjapeiron ©) This fast and frenzied shoot- *em-up will remind old-timers of the classic Centipede. Escape Velocity ‘Ambrosia Software, $20, www.ambrosiasw.com/games/ev ) This game combines space combat, arcade, and interstellar trading in a universe Get your kicks with more than 100 worlds. TheCowCatchingGame Martin Wengenmayer, $10, htip://homepage.mac.com /mwengenm €3 @ Use your flying saucer to catch as many cows as you can in this OS X-only game. Sigma Chess Lite Ole Kjaer Christensen, free, www sigmachess.com /_download/download.ntmi © How about a nice game of chess? This game offers challenging play and graphics plug-ins. MacFIBS Paul D. Ferguson, $20 ($10 for those age 65 or older), www.fibs.com/mactibs ©) Play backgammon with thousands of online opponents via the First Internet Backgammon Server. Domitrix APO Games, $10, www-kagi.com/apo G) Link falling dominos in this addictive Tetris-like puzzle game. Weird Al’s Great Adventure FIDIM Interactive, free public beta, www.fidim.com/fidim/waga.html Help Weird Al Yankovic find his accordion and avoid the slime creature and the radioactive hamster. Nanosaur Pangea Software, $15, www.pangeasoft.net/nano Asa dinosaur, you run, shoot, and collect eggs to ensure the future of your species. Reckless Drivin’ Jonas Echterhoff, $12, reokless.x2.nu €9 © Drive through 2D levels and leave as much destruction in your wake as possible. on Route 66, a = CUSHOMIZERI DID rcrie-s oni, nut irate vee Must-Have Kaleidoscope Greg Landweber and Arlo Rose, $20, www.kaleidoscope.net @) Choose from a mammoth variety of schemes—plug-in modules that can change your Mac’s interface with chameleonlike ease. You can enjoy nonrectangular windows, cool transparency effects, and other whiz-bang interface tricks. Give your Mac a makeover with Kaleidoscope. USB Overdrive Alessandro Levi Montalcini, $20, www.ushoverdrive.com @) Customize the behavior of the buttons, wheels, and switches on your USB mice, trackballs, joysticks, and gamepads with USB Overdrive. Overdrive allows you to use any input device with any game, assign different behaviors to each button, and enable document scrolling ifyour device has a scroll wheel. DragThing James Thomson, $25, www.dragthing.com €) © DragThing adds a flexible dock to your desktop, handy for launching applications, opening folders, and jumping to Web pages. Each colorful dock can hold any number of tabbed pages. For easy access to a program, document, or folder, just drag it onto an empty space in the dock. DragThing adds a handy dock to your Mac OS X or pre—OS X desktop. Worth a Try Sound Shuffler No U-Turn Software, free, www.goddfaddasoft.com /shuttier © Randomize your Mac’s alert beep to add spice to the most frustrating error messages. FinderPop Turlough O'Connor, $8, www.inderpop.com @) Make the contextual menu a program launcher, window-switching menu, and application switcher. AliasMenu Benoit Widemann, $25, www.widemann.net /aliasmenu-us.html © Add cute little icons to the menu bar for quick access to all of your apps. Default Folder St. Clair Software, $25, www.stelairsoft.com /DefaultFolder @) Set default save folders for each app and switch quickly between favorite doc folders. Sleeper St. Clair Software, $25, www.stelairsoft.com /Steeper © Fine-tune disk spin-down, monitor, and system- sleep settings—even ‘on older Macs. Icon Tools Riccisoft, $15, www.riccisoft.com Acontools © Create cool, customized desktop icons with Icon Tools—even if you don’t have any artistic talent. DeskPicture Peirce Software, $20, Www.peircesw.com /DeskPicture.htm! © Change your desktop image randomly or at set intervals. (ee vesieictere SB) Gia Q Cae) tie piste Doise-bases | Ei crop picture It's time to get serious about your desktop pictures. é Meat eattcl SRC CG ener: nrc Must- Have Earth Browser Lunar Software, $19.95, www.earthbrowser.com Astunning interactive globe, Earth Browser lets you view real-time cloud conditions and weather pattems, track earthquakes, and monitor volcanoes. See the locations and magnitudes of the latest significant earthquakes and volcanic activity worldwide. Click a volcano fo see pictures and information about it. As a bonus, the Webcam tool makes it easy to see live images of your favorite spots. Worth a Try The Atomic Mac Black Cat Systems, $25, www.blackcatsystems.com/software /atomic.html €3 © This periodic-table app serves up a graphical table, a molecular-weight calculator, and more. HM you don’t know your noble gases from your alkali metals, | you need The Atomic Mac. OzTeX Andrew Trevorrow, $30, www.trevorrow.com/oztex This Mac implementation of the TeX typesetting system excels at math typesetting. iUnit Black Cat Systems, $20, www.blackcatsystems.com/software/iunit.html [p) Convert 550 different units of measurement. How many millimeters in a parsec? 30,856,800,000,000,000,000. But you knew that alread PCalc is prettier and has more functionality than Apple’s ancient Calculator, don’t ya think? ly, didn’t you? PCalc 2.1 TLA Systems, $10, www.peale.com €3 G) Upgrade your calculator to PCalc, a beautiful and oh-so-functional calc tool. ctor Manas 33 [7 | | Ce emer TT SS Must-Have PixMachine Techsono Engineering, $40, www.techsono.com/pixmachinemac () Grab images, movies, and MP3s from Usenet automatically. Just plug in your favorite newsgroups (binary groups work best), and PixMachine will download all the graphics and movies it can find, piece them together, and create a nice index. Let it run while you sleep and you'll wake up to a bounty of multimedia goodness in Worth a Try URL Manager Pro Aico Blom, $25, www.url-manager.com €3 @) Arrange URLs, FIP sites, and email addresses, then access them from all of your Internet clients. (le Kevin's Wis Seas HB] the moming. The product includes L oe on & eS x Ey PixPlayer for k Name “| viewing and is “ ne managing pictures I> & vaity B eestnes, Handpicked arg and movies. B = te ecinToueh hal PixMachine Dea eas finds rare Honpornographic |rmress sree pictures on Usenet. iVisit Eyematic Interface, free, www.ivisit.com/download.htm It’s the videophone of the future—on your Mac today. iVisit allows you to chat with old friends or meet new people, chat room style. Ifyou have a video camera, you can let others see your pretty face—if not, paste in a still picture. A fast Intemet connection helps butisn’t mandatory. Interarchy Interarchy User Group, $35, www.interarchy.com €3 @) It slices, it dices! Not only is Interarchy a faboo FTP client, but it also includes diagnostic tools like ping, traceroute, and IP packet analysis. In addition, the program provides server functions including finger and network time protocol, and it allows remote execution of AppleScript commands via telnet. Outlook Express Microsott, tree, www.microsoft.com/mac @) We hear your cries of protest. Love Microsoft or hate it, you’ve gotta love the guys and gals at Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit—they create some great software. Outlook Express is a fantastic, fast, full-featured email client—and the price is right. > zee b Te De > CQ drop Basket URL Manager Pro lets you ‘organize bookmarks and share them between browsers. NiftyTeinet SSH Jonas Walldén, free, www.lysatorliu.se/~jonasw /treeware/niftyssh This telnet app supports secure shell (SSH) sessions, perfect for hacking the CIA or checking email. MT-NewsWatcher Simon Fraser, free, www.smitorg/minw ©) The quintessential Usenet newsreader supports filters and automatic binary-file decoding. iCab iCab Company, free beta version (release version will cost $29), wwwaicab.de This sleek, bloat-free browser is a great substitute for corpulent corporate ones. 1CQ ICQ, free, wwwicg.com €9 Enjoy real-time chat, exchange files, and send SMS (Short Messages System) messages to cell-phone users. ee i eT] iPNetRouter Sustainable Softworks, $89, www.sustworks.com ©) Share your Mac’s \nternet connection with other computers jf your Mac has two Ethernet ports, IPNetRouter ‘on your LAN—even can secure your Mac and all the other computers those evil PCs. ‘on your LAN. Audio... ot P. Diddy—you and your Mac can still jam, mix, dub, and sample, Must-Have Melody Assistant Myriad Software, $15, www.myriad-online.com €3 G) We know you're eager to put the finishing touches on that epic rock opera. You need Melody Assistant, which provides a score editor and printer, a digital sound editor, Worth a Try Amadeus II Martin Hairer, $25, www.unige.ch/math/folks/hairer /martin/Amad2.htm! © Create, manipulate, and analyze sounds. Includes support for MP3 and Authentic Sound Recorder InnerLoop Productions, $29.95, www.innerloop-prod.com /AS_Recorder.him! €3 © Record four direct-to-digital tracks, and other gadgets for your MiDI-compatible brain. Sing ther audio formats. then mix them and save it all in alongin Karaoke modeor ff AIFF format. let your Mac do the singing. AudioCorder Black Cat Systems, $20, www.blackcatsystems.com Mboom MeepMeep, $99, Transcribe your favorite tune /software/audiocorderhiml &3 © www.mboom.com @) or write your own with Melody This voice-activated recorder can This sequencer supports both Assistant's score editor. faq schedule recording sessions, like a loop-style and timeline-based VCR, and record phone calls. song arranging. 34 | MacAddict|Oct/01 Video Haven't hought a digital-video camera yet? Look at what you're missing. Must-Have QuickTime Pro Apple, $29.99, www.apple.com/quicktime/download €3 © Apple’s QuickTime Pro is probably the most essential application in any video maker's arsenal. With it, you can edit movies, add special effects and sound effects, create Intemet-ready audio and video, and even build 360-degree virtual-reality scenes. For more info on what you can do with QuickTime, see “20 QuickTime Tricks,” Sep/o1, p30. QuickEditor Mathias Tschopp, $35, www.wild.ch/quickeditor € © QuickEditor is a powerful QuickTime movie editor that includes titling, transitions, video effects, and sequence-grabbing tools. Digitize your movie (any video source will do, including a USB video camera), then putyour masterpiece together. Choose from more than 100 filters and scene-transition effects, then add titlesanda soundtrack. Edit movies | like a pro with QuickEditor. anion 22 Cheek: 0:92-08.00 |S Conpressoniteme rte Ops) $80 Heist 2 6) Duration: 02.28.98) Worth a Try VideoScope Evological, $30, ‘www.evological.com/videoscope.html €9 @) Perform real-time luminance and chrominance analysis for any video source. MacVCD Mireth Technology, $10, www.mireth.com/macved.htm! @ You don’t need a DVD-ROM drive to play Video CDs on your Mac—you just need this player. VideoFunhouse Chaotic Software, $24.95, www.chaoticsoftware.com €3 © ‘Twist, bulge, and squeeze a live video image for endless giggles. Create wild video effects with VideoFunhouse. DIPS verte Corporate Conspiracy may have silenced Napster, but MP3 rocks on. Must-Have Mint Audio Unsanity, $13, hitp://mint.unsanity.com €3 © This clever MP3 player won’t tax your Mac or clutter your desktop. The unobtrusive and LimeWire Lime Wire, free, www.limewire.com €9 ©) Search the peer-to-peer Gnutella collapsible interface sticks to the side of the kinds of files. screen, Control Strip fashion. Despite its small size, the program offers heavyweight features, Macast @soft, $24.95, including support for 30 audio formats, Internet streams, cross-fading, and skins. Pat www.macast.com @ Shoutcast and Icecast streams and audio CDs. You also can tweak its Worth a Try network for MP3s—plus many other In addition to MP3s, Macast can play Camaara) Comma) Grab the goods from the Gnutella network with LimeWire. Cupra 4 look with skins. vil as me] os | Audion Mint Audio proves that size doesn’t matter. Panic, $19.95 (player only) or $32.95 (player and encoder), iTunes Apple, free, www.apple.com/itunes €3. www.panic.com/audion €) @ Rip MP3s from CDs, search your entire music Play MP3s, CDs, and Intemet collection, and burn your own audio discs audio streams. Also includes, with this freebie from Apple. Or set off the a sound editor and two psychedelic visualizer in a dark room for hours encoding engines. of mindless, drug-free entertainment. Encode groovy new MP3s with Audion. cer)| Macao > Random but Cool... programs may not be indispensable, but they're too cool to ignore. Must-Have iCamMaster Catalunya Disseny Informatic, $20, www.icammaster.com €3 © This app makes it easy to view Webcams, monitoring thousands of real-time images from around the world. Put your favorite cam on the desktop and iCamMaster will periodically update it, or Tecord a Webcam’s output as a QuickTime movie. 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The project is a scientific experiment that uses Intemet-connected computers to monitor radio signals received by the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico. some of our ane N Info-Mac HyperArchi Although its text-only inte which, in fact, it does—don't of the Internet's larges hittp;//hyperarchive.tcs.mit. VersionTracker x Gawd, we love this site. {1 VersionTracker keeps ate tells you what's new in each versic ‘www.versionttacker Kevin Savetz has written about the Mac since 1992, and he’s been a shareware junkie for a lot longer. In the spirit of shareware, if you enjoyed this article, send him a dollar. %6 (Pei ey) Worth a Try Clear Skies Ruedi Schmid, $10, www.stargazersoft.com /clearskies.himl © Capture tonight's stars, constellations, and planets, then display them on your desktop. DeskBots Black Magik Software, $15, www.blackmagik.com/deskbots.html ©) Cut your productivity in half with DeskBots, a talking, wisecracking artificial friend. Holiday Lights Tiger Technologies, $19.95, www.tigertech.com/hlights.him! @) Adorn your screen with flashing. light bulbs—perfect for any holiday season. Your neighbors won't complain if you leave these Holiday Lights up until May. Window Monkey Tiger Technologies, $19.95, wwwaigertech.com/monkey.htm! @) Add background patterns, pictures, or textures to any window in the Finder. Gravité Sylvain Demongeot, free, www.wildbits.com/gravite Make objects you drag (such as Finder icons) obey the laws of gravity, inertia, and friction. a ee ®0n Gon fel Toagted by Caps Lock ¥ Dewvite. © 1999-2000, 8. Demeageot Gravité 2.02 i free. ene orevty exe ree Frcton A Fretin G4 Sounds (Free flight eT outity [i Solid Drag Watch out for falling icons when you have Gravité. WeatherCenter ‘Smashin Software, $10, www.smashin.com/WC ©) Monitor the current weather and get forecasts with this simple, customizable program. MyEyes Factor Software, $10, www .factor-software .com/myeyes.html Put this pair of customizable eyes in your menu bar—they’'ll follow your Ccursor’s every move.