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66(-) 6, 97, 98, 99.” Damn. | had so hoped
it'd run into triple digits. “Niko, do you
have any more?”
“Oh, yeah. Under my desk.”
“Cool,” thought I. “100, 101...108,
109.” Final count: 109 boxes on the floor,
containing products either waiting for
testing or just tested—and | only counted
the boxes on our floor. If | were to add the
wall of software looming over Kris, Niko’s
projects in our test lab, and the gaggle of
goodies crowding my own cube...well, I'd
probably still be counting.
We test a lot of products here at
MacAddict. We have to. Our sacred duty
is to help you get the most out of your
Mac—advising you about the right software
and hardware is a big part of that mission.
And it’s not always easy.
Just ask Niko, the guy in charge of
our reviews. He'll tell you how nothing
ever works exactly as advertised. How
companies promise their software will be
available Tuesday, but neglect to tell you
they meant the Tuesday after next. And how
RANTS bo
no matter how many carefully developed
tests you run, it’s the one you didn’t run
that would’ve uncovered a product’s
hidden brilliance or Achilles’ heel.
Orask Cathy, Kris, Narasu, Jen, Chris,
or Leslie. About game controllers that are
out of control. About digital cameras we
want to love, but that disappoint us—and
manufacturers who can’t (or won’t) tell us
why. About game testing, which often turns
from fun to frustration after hours of trying
to get past a certain level—is it we who are
dumb, orisit the game?
Orask Kristina De Nike—a freelance
expert who's testing 18 printers for an
upcoming feature. Ask her about the
Zen-like trance induced by printing a
total of 1,152 test pages.
Orask me. After testing thousands
of products over the past 14 years, I’ve
got plenty of stories to tell. Want to hear
the one about the hard drive that caught
fire? The printer that vibrated so badly
it destroyed a test bench? Or the time!
tested 300 children’s educational-software
the most infuriating thing a
bout te
you have any product-testing horror sto
packages? How
endearing is
Reader Rabbit
after 300'cutesy-
wootsie bunny-
wunnies and
doggie-woggies
have romped
across your
retinas? !wanted After hours of hard-drive
to grab my widdle testing, Rik Myslewski
shotgun-wotgun _ 2ttains nirvana,
and blast his sorry assie-wassie, that’s how
endearing.
But we keep at it. Products misbehave,
we figure out why, and we warn you.
Products amaze us, and we share the good
news. And we keep studying, debating,
questioning—learning everything we must
know to ensure our testing is thorough,
accurate, and useful. After all, you paid
good money for this copy of MacAddict; you
deserve not just good information, but also
good advice—and that’s what we’re here
for.—Rik Myslewski
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Narasu Rebbapragada
Deadiiner
What's the most infuriating
thing about testing?
Mtest a product fora week, 2
take pages of notes, andthen a
have to boil down my incisive insights to a
‘measly $00 words when ail Niko has room
foris a half-page review.
Do you have any product-testing
horror stories?
‘There was the time that | tested the Sharp
LL-T1820 18.1-inch LCD display. All the
documentation was in Japanese, so | didn't
discover that it could swivel from landscape
to portrait mode until after the review went
to press. Oops...
Chris Imlay
Licensed Gameologist
What's the most infuriating
thing about testing?
Testing a modern game on
an old Mac. The plodding
framerate makes It look
more like a slide show than a game.
Do you have any product-testing
horror stories?
ested a FireWire CD burner that arced
and fried the FireWire bus controller on
my Mac's motherboard. Welding with
FireWire! | never took that shop class in
high school.
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Niko Coucouvanis
Counterindoctrinator
‘What's the most infuriating
thing about testing?
Tm always scared I'l miss
something—like how well
that USB printer works when
attached to a Performa 520 (running
System 7.6) via a SCSI-USB adapter.
Really, | lose sleep over that.
Do you have any product-testing
hortot stort
Ittruly sucks when a company bugs
Us to review its latest beta or ctherwise
incomplete or vaporous product when it,
knows we don't review anything until it’s
ready for mass consumption.
denifer Morgan
Driving Miss Crazy
What's the most infuriating
thing about testing?
{t's that slow and painful
bludgeoning to death of
optimism and enthusiasm
when you can't get gamepad drivers to
work properly.
Do you have any product-testing
horror stories?
Let's just say that I remember thinking
it was easier to lean how to land an
aitplane in real life than in a sim—though
admittedly not as fun to crash,
Kris Fong
Pillar of Procrastination
What's the most infuriating
thing about testing?
‘Sometimes just gett
actual testing part—t've gotten
products without the necessary
power cords, drivers, or software;
received Windows versions of software;
and received stuff that was DOA.
Do you have any product-testing
horror stories:
A certain PR person called me, everyone
on staff, and the Powers That Be to
bitch about a rating | gave a company's
product—and it was a one-rung-short-of-
the-top-of-the-ladder rating. Go figure,
Leslie Osborn
Ozilla
What’s the most infuriating
thing about testing?
It'sthe feeling like there's
homework to do—even
though I'm amped up about
trying out something new. Must be the
bratty schoolkid in me.
Do you have any product-testing
horror stories?
One time, | was realy enjoying testing
a product and...they asked for it back!
Nooocoooo!
Cathy Lu
Town Crier
What's the most infuriating
thing about testing?
When the product doesn’t
work as advertised, !
experience feelings of
insecurity, wondering if i's my fault and
not the product's. Come to think of it,
this is probably why I'm in therapy.
Do you have any product-testing
horror stories?
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saying it was great if you had huge
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the news of the month in bite-size chunks
IBM CHIP
TEMPTS APPLE
New PowerPC 970 to Kick Motorola’s Butt
new chip from IBM could put an
is end to Apple’s long relationship
with Motorola. Scheduled to go into
production in the second half of 2003,
IBM’s PowerPC 970 microprocessor should
be fast enough to blow the proverbial roof
off Motorola’s existing flagship CPU, used
in the current dual-everything Power Macs.
Motorola has been the sole supplier of
top-end Apple microprocessors since 1984,
Although Appie’s not talking—and who can
blame the company, since it needs to keep
selling Motorola MPC7455-equipped Power
Macs in the foreseeable future—we would
not be surprised if an BM PowerPC 970—
equipped Mac shared the stage with Steve at
the San Francisco Expo in january 2004.
The first PowerPC 970s are scheduled
to clock in at 1.4GHz and 1.8GHz, along
The 970’s frontside bus
can handle data nearly five
times as fast as the Motorola
MPC7455’s frontside bus.
with a laptop-capable version running at
1.2GHz. While 1.8GHz may not sound like
much compared to 3GHz Intel chips, the
PowerPC 970 will put each and every one
of those clock cycles to good use. It will, for
example, fetch twice as many instructions
per cycle as Motorola’s MPC7455 and
feed them into a highly optimized set of
12 execution units—the parts of the chip
where the work gets done, The complexity
of these units and how they receive data is
one reason why the PowerPC 970 contains
52 million transistors. (Motorola's MPC7455
has only 33 million.) Even with all those
transistors, however, the PowerPC 970
is a power miser. At 42 watts it compares
favorably with the MPC7455’s 30W, and its
1.2GHz version soaks up only a teensy-
weensy 19W—good news for laptop lovers.
Among the PowerPC 970’s execution
units is an S'MD (single instruction,
multiple data) vector engine that speaks
12 MacAddict February 2003
the same language and accomplishes the
same tasks as the unit in the MPC7455,
Motorola’s AltiVec. Also known as the
Velocity Engine, this lil’ puppy helps Macs.
kick serious media and Photoshop hiney.
The PowerPC 970’s SIMD unit, projected
to max out at around 14.4 gigaflops, is
theoretically faster than the current AltiVec
engine, which Apple says can achieve
“a theoretical peak performance of 5.3
gigaflops.” (A gigaflop is 1 billion floating-
point operations per second; a floating-
point operation is mathematical mojo that
computes real numbers within finite, preset
limits of precision—but you already knew
that.) Plus, the PowerPC 970’s SIMD unit
shouldn’t require developers to rewrite their
apps to run on it, and that’s a very big deal.
Also impressive is the speed of the
PowerPC 970’s frontside bus—the path
through which the chip communicates
with the system in which itis installed.
The $70’s frontside bus can handie data
ata fuli 6.4 GBps, nearly five times as
fast as the Motorola MPC7455’s 1.3-
GBps frontside bus. The PowerPC 970
accomplishes this feat by double-pumping
its 450MUz frontside bus, enabling itto
take full advantage of the DDR (double
data rate) SDRAM in Apple’s top-end Power
Macs. Right now, Motorola’s MPC7455 is
stuck with a bottleneck-inducing 133MHz
non—DDR-capable frontside bus (see “The
New Power Macs: Inside and Out,” Nov/02,
p20), which hampers performance.
The PowerPC 970 is a 64-bit chip; the
MPC7455—and, for that matier, Intel’s
Pentium 4—is only 32 bit. Although
developers will need to rewrite software
to take full advantage of 64-bit power,
David T. Wang of Real World Technologies
(http://realworldtech.com) says that it
would bea relatively easy task to update
OS X to run on the PowerPC 970, and that
the modifications made to the OS would
enable existing 32-bit apps to run “ina
seamless fashion”—more good news—
while developers are upgrading their apps
to run in full 64-bit mode. One immediate
and somewhat mind-boggling benefit of
the 970's 64-bit architecture is that it will
be able to address 4 terabytes (trillions
of bytes) of RAM. Start saving up your
pennies.—Rik Myslewski
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF IBM
48° APPLEHASIREACHED ITS GOAL
& OF OPENING 50.U.S. APPLE
SE, RETAIL STORES IN 2002.
ANIMAL BYPRODUCTS
Mixing Pets and Peripherals
fyou’re tired of the sterile white-and-Titanium color scheme Apple’s doling out these days,
answer the call of the wild with these animal-oriented USB and FireWire products.—NR
COLBY T-REX>
KidzMouse, www.kidzmouse.com, $29.95
No wonder evolution got the best of this
little bugger. This USB mouse is no match
for the ferocious FireDino (See right), but
the kids will like it.
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a This charming little <FIREDINO
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Eovia Introduces Carrara 3D Basics for Beginners
F ollowing in the footsteps of Alias|Wavefront (www.aliaswavefront.com), which
released a free Personal Learning Edition of its Maya software, Eovia (www.eovia.com)
is offering a low-cost version of its Carrara Studio 2 ($399) 3D graphics application. Called
Carrara 3D Basics, this $99 software lets you build and model 3D objects and includes
Spline modeling, Metaball modeling, and Terrain modeling. It includes texture and shading
features, special effects, animation, and three rendering engines.
It doesn’t, however, offer some of Carrara Studio 2’s high-end features, such as OpenGL
support for faster speeds, a physics engine for animation calculations, bones for advanced
character animation, and a vertex modeler. It also limits you to an output size of 1,280 by
1,024 pixels and simpler file formats such as GIF, BMP, and JPEG for rendering.
Mac users new to 3D graphics probably won’t miss these features, and the price makes =
Carrara 3D Basics a reasonable introduction to the often price-prohibitive world of 3D.-NR__ Give this man a bone.
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63-inch Plasma Display +
Samsung * www.samsungusa.com/plasma * $17,995 (street)
his is the most monitor we’ve ever come across. The 63-inch, glass-screened Samsung
PPM63H1 shows stunning video in multiple aspect ratios (including 4:3 and 16:9) and
comes with a 10x zoom for enlarging part of the screen. With Component, S-Video, and RGB
inputs, it plugs into your Mac and your TV, assuming you haven’t hocked them to afford the
price of plasma.—NR
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o you miss the feel of vinyl 45s—or are you too young to know what that even means?
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NEW STUFF
DIRECTOR MX
Macromedia, www.macromedia.com,
price not yet available
Available: December 2002
The newest version of Macromedia's
high-end tool for interactive content
creation ditches OS 9 and runs in 0S
Xonly. New features:include control
over Flash objects via Lingo (Director's
programming language), better overall
Flash integration, a new debugging window
(a boon for programmers), support for MX
tontent in the Shockwave Player, and the
addition of the Object Inspector that you
see in all other Macromedia NIX products.
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This popular small-business application
now offers a multiuser mode, in which
users on any platform can access
AccountEdge accounts served from an
OS X machine. Version 3 also includes
new features for tracking inventory and
business categories, as well as support
for vCards.
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This all-in-one black beast includes an
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163
INTHE STUDIO
SELLING THE SOPRANOS
Video Production Company Creates Killer Ads for America’s Favorite Killers
hree wise guys re
a are responsible Perception’s
forluring eal Werner,
7 aniel Gonzalez,
thousands of innocent
people into the mob.
Television’s version of
the mob, that is.
They are the
founders of Perception
(www.perceptv.com),
a New York City-based
design, editing,
and special-effects
company that created
the commercials for last
fall’s season premiere
of HBO hit television
series The Sopranos,
now inits fourth year.
Perception’s editorial
director Brendan Werner,
design director Jeremy
Lasky, and effects
director Daniel Gonzalez
were colleagues at
the broadcast studio
division of R/Greenberg Associates
(www.iga.com). The three decided they
wanted more control over their work, so in
March 2002 they started Perception.
Since then, Perception has created
the opening tities for an eight-part ESPN
(leftto right) are
mobster ads.
and Jeremy Lasky
Ll
the men behind the
AA
Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects. It’s a
strategy that’s paying off.
“The technology really has caught up
ina lot cf ways,” says Lasky. “And with
the economic times, it’s all led to this
streamlined model—creating a product that
virtually matches [the work of] higher-end
While many postproduction houses are heavily invested
in high-end systems, Perception is doing the same work
using your basic desktop Mac.
series called StreetBall that aired last fall,
produced a pair of Sony Music spots for
Icelandic rap-rock group Quarashi, and
landed the Sopranos gig for HBO. That
series of about 35 Sopranos spots (called
“The Year to Watch”) inundated television
airwaves last fall on major networks.
Perception’s philosophy is simple: Do it
cheap, but make it look expensive. While
many postproduction houses are heavily
invested in high-end video-editing hardware
by Avid and special-effects systems such
as Discreet’s Flame and Inferno products,
\@&. ONTHE | Perception is doing the
4) DISC} same work using your
porcenton none nea. | Dasic desktop Mac and
HBO Sopranos ads software like Apple Final
16 MacAddict February 2003
shops at a much lower price.”
Take the spots Perception did for HBO,
which had no shortage of cool graphics
and effects. “They involved panels wiping
into the frame, and each panel revealed
acharacter from The Sopranos—just little
slivers of faces and eyes looking out at
the viewer, [little by litte] building up
excitement [until you see] the Sopranos
logo. We really wanted to build it like a
movie trailer and hock you in,” says Lasky.
To start, HBO gave the guys Iliustrator
logos of network and cable providers and
DigiBeta tapes containing Sopranos, HBO,
and Cinemax video footage. Perception
built the commercials from there. Gonzalez
played producer; Lasky generated the
type, logo, and other graphic etements in
Illustrator and then married the graphics to
the video clips in After Effects; and Werner
edited the spot in Final Cut Pro,
Given the project’s tight time frame, the
Web came in handy. Instead of transporting
tapes by overnight courier, Perception
took each day’s work, compressed it in
Discreet Cleaner ($599, www.discreet.com),
and uploaded it to a site where HBO
could view the ad in progress. “That way,
everyone who needed to see it around the
world could view it that night or the next
morning,” says Werner.
ifthe Perception team members have
any gripes about their Mac-based editing
system, it’s the rendering speeds. Mac
speeds aren’t quite as fast as those of
higher-end systems, although rendering is
about two times faster in Mac OSX than in
Mac OS 9 on their dual-gig Power Mac G4s.
But speed is about their only complaint.
“The technology’s there,” says Gonzalez.
“It’s just the talent that needs to be able to
control and use the vision they had on these
higher-end machines to bring it down to
the desktop level, to the Mac level, and still
make it look like [it was done on] an Inferno
ora Flame.”—Cathy Lu
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BEI i | N D BARS animation, and a Final Cut Pro compositing trick to do it.
E ) erception’s HBO spots included a cool transition effect in
which bars of moving video, revealing the different Sopranos
characters, glided in from the top and bottom of the screen.
Here’s how Perception used two video clips, a black-and-white
Here’s the bottom layer of video before the transition started. Bada bing! Here’s the top layer of video showed through the
One consisted of footage leading into the
| Lasky first created three movies in After Effects. 2 Werner brought all three movies
transition. A second movie, which formed the crux
of the transition
effect, was
a black-
and-white
animation with
moving bars.
Athird movie
contained the
transition effect.
(converted to QuickTime) into
Final Cut Pro. He placed the
first movie on the bottom layer of
the timeline, the black-and-white
animation on the middle layer, and the
second movie on the top layer. Werner
used Final Cut’s razorblade tool to slice
the top layer’s movie clip. This ensured
that only the beginning partion of the fee
clip, which overlapped with the middle Werner imported the three movies
fooladevolcee ahiloel “epurek ana. Wie bare animation layer, would become part of that formed the effect into three
after transition. formed the crux of the transition effect. the composite (see step 3).
To composite or combine
3 the layers in Fina! Cut Pro,
Werner clicked the top
layer and selected Travel Matte-
Luma (Modify » Composite
Mode > Travel Matte), which
used the luminance values from
the layer beneath (the black-
and-white animation) to set the
transparency for the top layer’s
moving video. Once Werner
composited the layers, footage
from the top layer showed
through the black part of the
middle animation layer, while
footage from the bottom layer
showed through the white part.
layers in Final Cut Pro.
Werner Control-clicked the top layer
of the timeline to access the Travel
Matte-Luma effect from the contextual
menu. Then he composited the three
layers of video so that the top layer,
which appears here in yellow, took the
shape of the animated bars.
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Score a lot of
points. Break
‘Aspyr, www.aspyr.com,
$39.99 (expected price)
Available: December 2002
TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER 3
HITS THE MAC
Game 3 from the Hawk Empire
‘ony Hawk hits the Mac one more time with the third installment in the
megapopular skateboarding series. Playing the ultrarealistic Tony Hawk’s Pro
Skater 3 is as exciting as actually being in the park. Like previous versions, Pro
Skater 3 includes 12 pro skater characters, a character editor, and multiplayer
support. It also offers brand-new tricks, ten very large and realistic levels, greatly
improved graphics, and three new team games: Capture the Flag, Control the Zone,
and Keep Away.—Bryan Chaffin
HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC
IVMAKES MACDEBUT ogaiecsicc
Popular RPG Brings You Monsters and Magic | $4835,
art turn-based strategy game and part role-playing game
(RPG), Heroes of Might and Magic is one of the strongest franchises in
gaming, and 3D0 is at long last bringing this title to Mac OS X and earlier (Classic
and OS X). With a 3/4 top-down
perspective, the game puts you
in charge of up to eight armies
on a campaign to topple an evil,
immortal king. New creatures,
new magic, and a new engine with
multiplayer capabilities are just
some of the enhancements version
IV brings to this popular title.
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GAMING FOR DOLLARS
Mystery Game Offers Cash Prizes
B e the first to discover a secret bank account
and walk away with at least $62,500 in real-
world money. MindQuest has put up $250,000 in
prize money for TerraQuest, a spy-thriller scavenger
hunt. MindQuest is adding 10 percent of all game
sales to the prize fund so that the winnings grow
throughout this interactive
online game, which runs in Mac
OS Xand earlier.
In each of the game’s first
five stages, a $25,000 prize is up for grabs. In
addition, ten finalists will compete for the grand
prize. The winner will take 50 percent of the prize
fund, while nine runners-up split the rest.
Good luck, and happy hunting.—BC
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$25 fo $100
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It looks like an Ikea catalog, but
It’s really TerraQuest’s interface.
WWIIONLINE: MAC EDITION
Fight WWII with a Few Thousand of Your
Closest Friends (or Enemies)
here’s nothing like dogfighting in a World War
Il fighter plane, especially In OSX. Cornered
Rat Software and Strategy First make that
happen with WWII Online: Mac Edition. This OS X
massively multiplayer online (MMO) game features
an enormous map of Europe, realistic planes and
controls, and an in-game career-path system. You
can also fight from a ground vehicle or even slog it
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new Mac version
also includes
a foldout map
of the theater
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THEY WANT YOU
Intuit and H&R Block Release 2002
Tax Software Products
hile it’s not the sexiest subject, it’s one that every adult
(anarchists excluded) has to tackle. It’s tax time, and two
companies are vine for your tax software doilars.—NR
Intuit TurboTax
$49.95, www.turbotax.com
Available: December 2002
Mac OS X: Runs natively (except for
some tutorial videos)
Web Filing: Yes, via Turbotax.com
What's New from Last Year:
* TurboTax analyzes your 2001 tax return to streamline and tailor
the 2002 interview questionnaire to your needs.
An expected 70 payroll providers allow you to download your W2
information directly into TurboTax.
* New tools like Retirement Forecaster and Cost/Basis Stock
Calculator help with the investment portions of your tax return.
* Electronically send your completed return to a human tax adviser
for feedback. Costs range from $39.95 to $59.95.
H & R Block TaxCut Platinum
$39.95, www.taxcut.com
Available: December 2002
Mac OS uns natively
Web Filing: Yes, via Taxcut.com
What's New from Last Year:
© New interview assistants tailor the questionnaire to your needs.
You get free access (via a rebate) to an H&R Block tax adviser for
questions on one topic ($19.95 per additional topic).
© You can install H&R Block Tax Cut on multiple home computers.
* You can import last year’s TurboTax data.
¢ Fora base $79 ($89 after Apri! 1, 2003), you can work online with
an H&R Block professional, who actually does the return for you.
SHAREWARE PICK OF THE MONTH
ATOMIC MAC
Black Cat Systems * www.blackcatsystems.com * $24.99
Awe Mac is a periodic table of the elements that packs more punch
than a can of weapons-grade plutonium. The table’s color-coding helps
you see the mass, electronegativity, and other aspects of elements. Clicking
an element brings up a window with a host of data such as density and
boiling point. Tabs on the element's window—including Isotope, Shells, and
Spectrum—provide its molecular structure (with a graphic),
BI Se Cl visible line spectrum, and other fascinating tidbits. If you’re
at all interested in chemistry or physics, you'll want this
= app.—Andrew Tokuda
BACK TO
THE FUTURE
Futuristic Thriller Inspires Vintage Mac Mod
Ae Leman’s
creation is 1 percent
inspiration and 99 percent
perspiration. Inspired by
the futuristic Orwellian
thriller Brazil (directed
by Terry Gilliam), the
self-described “fearless
tinkerer” created the
ElectriClerk—a Mac-driven
typewriter made from
a Mac SE/30, a couple
of antique Underwood
typewriters, and some
vintage mechanical parts.
Among the feats he
performed with this
vintage Mac mod was using the typewriter’s keys to press the
corresponding letter on an Apple extended keyboard. Leman
accomplished this by removing the tops of the keyboard keys
and attaching the typewriter keys to the Mac keyboard’s topless
nubs—even figuring out a way to match the typewriter’s chrome
Return lever to the Enter key.
Leman removed the CRT from the Mac SE/30’s case and
affixed the guts of the system to a foundation made of industrial
surplus material. He finished up the look with old radio tubes
and defunct telephone equipment, and wired the computer’s
speaker into a WWII surplus army microphone assembly. For
more detailed information
on the ElectriClerk, visit
Leman’s ElectriClerk page
(www.ahleman.com
/ElectriClerk.html).—NR
2
Keyboard gets a new meaning.
This Mac SE/30-driven
futuristic typewriter was
inspired by Terry Gilliam’s
Orwellian sci-fi thriller Brazil.
The color coding in State View tells you which elements
are solid, liquid, or gas at a given temperature.
February 2003 MacAddict 19
WHAT WERE THE BEST
PRODUCTS OF 2002?
THE WORST? THE
MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS? THE BIGGEST
DISAPPOINTMENTS?
WE MACADDICT
EDITORS DID OUR
RESEARCH, MADE OUR &
ARGUMENTS, RESISTED |
BACKSTAGE LOBBYING, ‘¥
AND VOTED. HERE'S
WHAT WE DECIDED.
‘or those star-struck
F rerio of the oh-
so-elegant flat-panel
iMac G4 and the powerful Mac
OS 16.2 (aka Jaguar), 2002
was the best of times. It was
the worst of times, however,
ifyou’re one of the many
who righteously inveigled
against—or pathetically
whined about, depending on
‘one’s point of view—Apple’s
decision to convert its free
Mac.com email and iTools Web
services into $99 per year .Mac
subscriptions.
The truth—as usual—lies
somewhere in the middle. As
we write this in early December
2002, we look back at a year
that provided both “Oh,
man!” excitement and “Aw,
man!” disappointment, all
taking place during a long and
grinding slowdown of the entire
information economy.
But pecuniary instability
didn’t stop us intrepid
by Righteous Rik and the MacAddict editors from having
ie : opinions on every product,
MacAadaict Stafftones every pronouncement, and
every event of 2002. You may
agree with our opinions. You
may not. It was a tough job, but
), somebody had to do it.
ON THE
pBidé
toe
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PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MADEO.
he year Fed with abang. On
January 7, Apple announced the
14-inch iBook, introduced iPhoto,
and unveiled what turned out to be
its most important hardware rollout
of the year: the flat-panel iMac G4,
our honoree for Best Hardware.
of 2002. Only the introduction of
the Xserve in May came close to
having the impact of the iMac G4.
(One additional note on the Xserve:
Itwins our Loudest Mac award,
although the “Wind Tunnel” Power
Mac introduced in August certainly
gives it a run for its money.)
Two other events marked 2002’s
San Francisco Expo: The first,
our winner for Most Annoying
Rescheduling was Steve jobs’s
moving of his keynote from Tuesday
to Monday morning, which made
thousands of travelers scramble
to change their plans. We didn’t
know it at the time, but Apple
moved the speech because Time
magazine featured the iMac on
the cover of that Monday’s edition.
Time waits for no man—not evan
Steve. The second event inspired
our Best Hype Management award
(See p23): the seven-day buildup
of teaser ads on Apple's Web site,
leading up to the iMac’s unveiling.
These ads may have been cornball,
but they did their job.
A few weeks after the San
Francisco Expo, Apple made its
Least Exciting Announcement
of the year: The dual-processor
Power Mac line finally “broke the
gigahertz barrier”—well, reached it,
at least. With Intel-based machines
steaming along at well over 2GHz,
and with the Mac cognoscenti
fully aware that indeed megahertz
don’t matter, the response to
the dual 1GHz Power Mac was a
resounding yawn.
rage
‘AF
vi OF ‘
Flat-Screen iMac G4
Ithough everyone at Steve Jobs’s January 7
Mac Expo keynote knew a flat-panel iMac
was on the menu, none of us was prepared
for the apparition that arose from beneath the
stage after the Apple CEO’s familiar “And one
more thing...”
With the introduction of the flat-screen
iMac G4, Apple again accomplished what it
had done when it launched the first Mac in
January 1984, the PowerBook 170 in October
1991, and the original iMac in May 1998. It
redefined personal computing, leapfrogged its
competition, and inspired a host of imitators. There’s
no doubt in our minds that the flat-screen iMac G4
richly deserves the honor of Best Hardware of 2002.
Company: Apple
Contact: 800-692-7753,
www.apple.com.
Price: $1,199 to $1,999
Reviewed: May/02, p46;
Nov/02, p53
Company; Wave industries
Contact: 503-736-2570,
wivw.soundbug-us.com
Price: $49.95
Reviewed: Sep/02, p55
Soundbug
he idea of this gadget is that
you're supposed to fasten it to
a smooth, flat surface, transforming
that surface into the equivalent of a speaker. We tried—and
tried, and tried, and tried—to get it to work effectively, but failed miserably.
The Soundbug simply sounds—and received a rating of—lousy.
In Design 2.
ith the possible exceptions of
Microsoft Office and Adobe
Photoshop, no application started 2002
more firmly ensconced in its market niche
than QuarkXPress.
What a difference a year makes. Adobe
InDesign 2.0, the first viable alternative to
QuarkXPress, offers a hdst of features and
capabilities (like transparency and optical
kerning) that make the switch not only
pleasant, but also a wise business and creative decision. Systems
And then there’s OS X support. Quark recently hinted eae i
that it may delay the release of QuarkXPress 6.0—which Sw adeho om
will almost certainly be its first 0S X-compatible version— _ price: $699
until March 2003 at the earliest. Reviewed:
So, as we here at MacAddict complete our own transition _May/02, p50
from QuarkXPress to InDesign 2.0—a remarkably smooth
one, we might add—we enthusiastically declare Adobe InDesign 2.0 to be
the Best Software of 2002.
ORST SOFTWARI
Beach Head 2002
espite the fact that we really wanted to give this dubious
distinction to the unrelentingly crappy game Survivor
by MacSoft (Apr/02, p55), we were
disappointed to discover that the latter
masterwork shipped in late 2001, making
it ineligible for this honor. No matter.
The banal Beach Head 2002 is every bit
as moronic. Oh, and it’s spelled wrong.
Company: MacSoft
Contact: 800-229-2714,
wwv.Wizworks.com/macsott
Price: $19.95
Reviewed: Oot/02, p54
February 2003 MacAddict 21
pple’s performance at the year’s
July Expo in New York was
equally yawn-inducing—although
the Best Apple Store did open
during the show in New York’s
SOHO district. In his keynote, Steve
rehashed Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar),
which he had already presented
at May’s Worldwide Developers
Conference. To be fair, iCal, iSync,
iChat, Sherlock 3, and Quartz
Extreme are seriously cool, and
Rendezvous is the hands-down
winner of our Most Underrated
Technology award. Still, Jaguar
and its spiffy new beach ball—
winner of our Best Eye Candy
award—weren’t enough to relieve
our disappointment at not getting
an upgrade to the Power Mac line,
During Jobs’s New York keynote, he
also introduced iTunes 3—one of our
choices for Best Apple App (it ties
with Jaguar’s Mail 1.2)—as well as
the 17-inch iMac and the iPod 20GB,
winner of Best Audio Product. Neat
stuff, but hardly earth-shattering.
In fact, two other Apple
announcements caused the biggest
buzz at the New York Expo. The first
wins our Let ’Em Eat Cake award:
Apple’s assumption that folks who
had recently paid for OS X would
be more than happy to fork out
another $129 for Jaguar. The second
was even more inflammatory, and
wins our Most Controversial Apple
Decision honor: Apple announced
that it was rolling Mac.com and
iools into its new .Mac Web service,
and that it would no longer be free,
but instead would cost $99 per year.
Some Mac addicts felt betrayed—
many people thought Steve had
promised free Mac.com accounts
forever when he first announced
them in January 2000. Still others
thought .Mac was a smart—and
‘ps Getting
lkOn!
iPod 20GB
S ure, the iPod is a consumer MP3 player
and not one of the host of powerful Mac
products for audio pros, but, hey, it’s the
freakin’ (Pod! This revolutionary cigarette-pack—size device
got a nice boost in the summer of 2002 with more storage,
a new solid-state scroll wheel, a handy remote, and a nifty
case. What’s more, it’s giving record execs the heebie-
jeebies—and that we can all feel good about, right?
Roxio Toast with Jam 5
($189.95; www.roxio.com; Sep/02, p49)
This industry-standard CD- and DVD-burning
software now has audio-track management,
editing, and special effects.
22 MacAddict February 2003
Company: Apple
Contact: 800-692-7753,
www.apple.com
Price: $499
Reviewed: Nov/02, p45
oe
Digidesign Mbox @e
(8495; www.digidesign.com;
May/02, p59)
Any traveling—or low- 3
budget—musician will
appreciate this hardware-
software bundle. z
A Case for the Digidesign Mbox
Senior Editor Kris Fong
The original iPod was awesome, but giving top
honors to the 20GB version Is like rewarding Anna
Nicole Smith for being more, uh, capacious this
year than fast. The Mbox puts a Pro Tools system
into the hands of Mac musicians for under $500.
DIGITAL CAN
C-4000 Zoom
fyou’ve been waiting for a high-quality
4-megapixel camera to break the $500
barrier, wait no more—it’s time to add an
Olympus C-4000 Zoom to your Visa bill. Not only does it combine
great image quality with point-and-shoot simplicity, it also
provides a wealth of pro-level manual controls for the day when
you finally catch up to its smarts.
IERS-
RUNNERS-UP
Minolta DiMage 7i
($999; www.minoltausa.com;
Dec/02, p44)
Fast, sharp, versatile,
and well-built, this
5-megapixel camera has a whopping 7x optical zoom
and all the bells and whistles you need.
Company: Olympus
Contact: 800-347-4027,
www.olympus.com
Price: $499
Reviewed; Jan/03, p52
Olympus E-20N
($1,499 street price;
www.olympusamerica.com; Aug/02, p43)
This solidly built 5-megapixel
SLR isn’t for newbies—but if you
know what you're doing, it will
reward you handsomely.
. Company:
‘Adobe Systems
Contact:
800-833-6687,
www.adobe.com
Price: $699
Reviewed:
:) T "Wi AR
InDesign 2.0
ith its tight Photoshop and Illustrator integration, nifty
transparency capabilities, easy-as-pie table creation,
multiple undos, support for OpenType fonts, excellent typography
tools—oh, yes, and a little detail called OS X compatibility—Adobe
InDesign 2.0 is poised to become the publishing pro’s tool of choice.
Look out, QuarkXPress, Adobe is breathing down your neck.
‘May/02, p50
RUNNERS-UP
Macromedia Flash MX Adobe Photoshop 7 Adobe Photoshop
(8499; www.macromedia,com; Jul/02, p51) ($609; www.adobe.com; Jul/02, p46) Elements 2
Flash began as a simple
Web-animation tool. Nowit’s
Just getting this essential app
running on OS X was cool enough;
($99; www.adobe.com; Dec/02, p40)
Such a deal! If you don’t need all
essentially an app-development
environment in its own right.
adding a bunch of useful new
features was icing on the cake.
of Photoshop’s bells and whistles,
this full-featured app can save youa
steaming heap of dough.
marae
tas
Bore
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Associate Editor Niko C anis
Yeah, Adobe InDesign’s cool, but mostly
because its nemesis (QuarkXPress) sucks
so bad, But Adobe Photoshop Elements—
it’s 90 percent of Photoshop for only
46,25616 percent of the price. | mean, how
many people lay out magazines, anyway?
February 2003 MacAddict 23
possibly necessary—business
decision for tough times. We at
MacAddict are split—otherwise the
.Mac announcement would have
won the Worst Apple Decision
award, an honor that goes instead
to the announcement in September
that starting in January 2003, no
new Macs will be able to boot up
in OS 9. That’s just wrong—and
we’re unanimous.
fcourse, not everything in the
Mac community emanates
from Cupertino, and 2002 saw an
avalanche of award-winners from
the third-party developers and
manufacturers who live and die by
the Mac’s fortunes.
Proving that some developers still
dream big, the Best Microsoft Office
Competitor is ThinkFree’s Office 2,1
($49.95, www.thinkfree.com), a
low-cost suite of Microsoft Office—
compatible productivity apps. And
speaking of Microsoft, Biggest
Embarrassment honors go to that
company’s admission that it created
a fake takeoff on Apple’s successful
“switcher” ad campaign, written by
a public relations flack—even the
photo of this bogus switcher was
a fake.
We enthusiastically award
the Best Couch-Potato Toy to El
Gato Software’s EyeTV DV recorder
($199, www.elgato.com)—a
great excuse for popping another
brewski. The Best PDA Bargain
is inarguably the Palm Zire ($99,
www.palm.com), We also feel
compelled to award the Worst
Use of USB honor to SonicBlue’s
20GB Rio Riot digital-audio player
($349.99, www.sonicblue,com)—
let’s see, transferring 20GB of MP3s
at USB’s top rate of 1.5 MBps would
take, uh, forever?
Then there are the awards we
debated whether to call Better
Late Than Never or Better Never
Cinema HD Display
Ul the editors at MacAddict want one—
except Rik (see below), though you
know what a contrarian he can be. Yet only
Art Director Chris Imlay has one, So when
we walk past his desk, we're forced to gaze
upon the Cinema HD Display’s vast 1,920-by-1,200-pixel
acreage, admire its brightness and color fidelity, and hate
him from the depths of our petty, jealous souls.
Company: Apple
Contact: 800-692-7753,
www.apple.com
Price: $3,499
Reviewed: Aug/02, p40
Formac gallery 2010
($1,699; www.formac.com; Jan/03, p47)
This 20.1-inch, 1,600-by-1,200-pixel
display uses an advanced LCD technology
Sharp LL-T1820
($1,299; www.sharp-usa.com; Sep/02, p56)
This 18.1-inch, 1,280-by-1,024-
pixel LCD
that provides exceptional brightness and provides
excellent color uniformity. rich color,
and pivots
| A Case for the Formac gallery 2010
‘Sure, the Cinema HD Display is nice, but the 1,600-by-1,200-
pixel Formac gallery 2010 is just a bit brighter, just a bit faster,
just a bit smaller, and less than half the price. Buy two.
90 degrees
from portrait
to landscape
mode,
Company: Griffin Technology
PowerMate
S ometimes a product is so profoundly
cool that we don’t really care if it
actually does anything—which is what we
first thought when we saw the solidly built brushed-aluminum
body of the PowerMate, and watched as its base pulsed with blue
light. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that it’s also a
fully programmable, highly useful input device. Way cool.
Contact: 615-399-7000,
wwwgriffintechnology.com
Price: $45
Reviewed: Sep/02, p55
Microsoft Wireless
Optical Mouse Blue
($44.95; www.microsoft.com/hardware;
Jan/03, p56)
While it may not be the trickiest mouse in
Mac creation, this little three-button wireless
wonder has solid software and a nice price.
Kensington
StudioMouse
($59.99; www.kensington, com;
Ost/02, p54)
IFyou're a graphics professional, you
owe it to yourself to get this mouse—i
preprogrammed with your needs in mind.
24 MacAddit February 2003
; Company: Epson
lot PANTER Contact: 800-463-7766,
www.epson.com
Stylus Photo 2200 *:=
Reviewed: Oct/02, p42
e have a love-hate relationship with this large-
format, seven-color inkjet printer. We love its
astonishingly rich image quality, precise reproduction of dark
and shadowy detail, subtle gradations of color and saturation,
whisper-quiet operation, and versatile media handling. We
hate the fact that as of press time—three months after it first
went on sale—we still can’t find one anywhere to buy.
NINE
Canon i550
($150; 800-652-2666; www.usa.canon.com; to be featured in Mar/03)
Great photo detail, quickie print speeds, and
a decent price—you can’t go wrong with the
Canon 1550.
Brother HL-1870N
a
FireFly
t’s soooo cuuyute! Of course, looks alone are not a sufficient
reason to recommend a product, much less honor it as the best
storage device of 2002. But in the case of the Firefly, its good-
looking case houses a snappy, reliable 1.8-inch 5GB Toshiba hard
drive (the same drive that’s in the original iPod).
JN -UP
TDK VeloCD Maxtor Personal Storage
($269; www.tdk.com; Jul/02, p54) 5000XT
it’s not as fast as TDK’s insanely speedy ($399.95:
52X24X48xX internal CD-RW drive, but this www.maxtor.com;
24X10X40X FireWire drive is as solid as they F#/08, pé4)
This drive
come. Plus, it’s
got a cool blue “
lightthatfiashes
when thedevice [iM
is in use. Sweet.
provides
extraordinary 250GB capacity, and
adds the convenience of a One Touch
instant-backup button.
.
Flat-Panel iMac G4
t's fitting that Apple launched the flat-
panel iMac G4 during its “Think Different”
days and that the iMac remained its
flagship consumer-level Mac during the
“Switcher” campaign. Apple’s engineers
were clearly thinking quite differently when
they conceived of its design, and it has
compelled more than its share of peecee
owners to make the move up to Mac.
($699.99; www.brother.com; Aug/02, p45)
Despite all the digital-imaging rigmarole,
some people just want a fast, reliable,
networkable laser printer. Ifthat’s you, buy this one.
Company: SmartDisk
Contact: 941-436-2500,
www.smartdisk.com
Price: $199.99
Reviewed: Apr02, p51
ACase forthe Maxtor
Personal Storage SOOOXT
Execul Editor Cath
Heliocoo...250GB? Automatic
backup just by pressing a
button? FireWire and USB
2,0? How can the Maxtor drive
not be the best storage device
of the year? You guys are
knee-deep in Kool-Aid.
Company: Apple
Contact:
800-692-7753,
www.apple.com
Price: $1,199 to
$1,999
Reviewed: May/02,
p46; Now/02, p53
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Apple Dual 1.25GHz Apple Xserve
Power Mac G4 ($2,999 to $7,199, www.apple.com; Nov/92, p43)
($3,299; www.apple.com; Dec/02, p41)
Okay, so it’s loud—but thanks to a
revamped system architecture, it’s also the
fastest thing ever to come out of Cupertino.
into ITin a big way.
Never thought you’d see an Apple
logo on arack mount in the server
closet, did you? Apple’s moving
February 2003 MacAddict 25
Than Late. In the software
category, QuarkXPress 5.0
($899, www.quark.com) gets the
former sobriquet; in the hardware
BEST UTILITY
VueScan
W e’re willing to bet that Ed Hamrick has
saved more than one scanner user from
either suicide or homicide. His VueScan driver
category, the lomega 750MB Zip software (up to version 7.5.62 at press (ee
FireWire external drive ($169.99, time) enables otherwise unsupported Hamrick Software
www.lomega.com) gets the scanners toworkinMacOS9andOS Contact:
latter one. X, and offers features absent from Mie aay Om
i Price: $40
Speaking of hardware-software
splits, Adobe Photoshop 7’s
miraculous healing brush wins
Most Welcome Feature: Software,
while the Most Welcome Feature:
Hardware award goes to the
headphone jack on the front of the
“Wind-Tunnel” Power Macs. Now wrangling, you’d be crazy not to have a copy of cord os
how’s about a FireWire port there, Conflict Catcher. It’s that good. ES oeien
Apple-onians? We do have these
the drivers provided by the scanner
manufacturers. Ed, you’re our hero.
Reviewed: Jul/02, p55
RUNNERS-UP
Casady & Greene Conflict Catcher 9.0 a
($59.95; www.casadyg.com; Jun/02, p52)
IFyou’re still mired in OS 9’s world of extension
Dantz Retrospect 5.0
RIN, | as | ANGER Y AS
Deen ere te
iPods and DV cameras, y’know?
Other awards include Best
Mac-First Game for Ambrosia
Software’s Escape Velocity: Nova
(849 to $799, www.dantz.com; Aug/02, p50)
No one ever said it was elegant, easy to use, or
anywhere near fun, but everyone knows it’s
SS aa
essential for backing up your precious data.
GeD_Bece bec es is fer
($30, www.ambrosiasw.com);
Most Cryptic and Hard-to-Decipher
Icons for Macromedia’s reworked
product line; Best Software Bundle
for Digidesign’s Digi 002 ($2,495,
www.digidesign.com), which
includes not only Pro Tools LE,
but also another $2,200 worth of
seriously cool plug-ins; and Best
Price Drop for Alias|Wavefront’s
(www.aliaswavefront.com)
reduction of 3D powerhouse Maya
from $7,500 to $1,999 (oooh,
almost an impulse buy).
Finally, the Sylvester Stallone
Prememorial Award for Successfully
and Effectively Milking a Great
Idea for an Enormously Long Time
goes to Aspyr (www.aspyr.com)
for The Sims series. This year saw
the release of The Sims Hot Date,
The Sims Vacation, and The Sims
Unleashed ($29.95 each), and we
can only hope that the future brings
The Sims Crack House, the Sims
Assisted Living Center, and The Sims
Interminably Long and Painfully
Boring School Concert Where All
Your Kid Does ts Sing One Lousy
Song in the Chorus Near the End.
With all that to look forward to,
2003 promises to be a very good
year indeed.
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instructions
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Jf “and it was, like,
j bieep-bleep,
| bleep-bleep,
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bleep-bleep-
bleep...and
I like to be
spending time
making pets
happy and
healthy.”
IE
Xpress DV and Combustion 2
sually a tie is a cop-out—but not
WW); in this case. Though these two
products are as different as night and
day, they’re both top-notch. Avid Xpress
DV goes beyond Apple’s Final Cut Pro
3 (and that’s saying something) to
provide customizable real-time effects
and color correction, and Combustion
2 provides paint, animation, and Combustion 2
3D-compositing capabilities that are Company: Discreet
nothing short of astonishing. By the way, Contact; 800-869-3504,
this category would have been aneven — WWw.disereet.com
tougher call had Final Cut Pro 3 shipped Boa eters 6
in 2002. But it didn’t (it shipped in
December 2001), so we're off the hook. Xpress DV
a Company: Avid Technology
R-UI 500-949-2843, www.avid.com
Apple DVD Studio Pro 1.5 Briceggice®
($995; www.apple.com; Set/02, p55) Revigee tans nas
Sure, iDVD is cool, but if you’re putting together a pro-level
DVD, you need a pro-level tool—tike DVD Studio Pro 1.5.
Wedal of Hoar: Allied Assaniband
WarCraft Ill: Reign of Chaos
gain, we have atie, and again, it’s because we couldn't
Medal of justify picking one over the other. In Medal of Honor,
Honor: Allied WWII isn’t about saving Private Ryan, it’s about saving your
Assault
own sorry ass. The game pits you against what seems like the
Pt fan entire Third Reich as you try to survive a series of life-or-death
contact: 888-212-7797, gee: 4 :
www.aspyr.com missions, including a harrowing landing on Omaha Beach.
Price: $49.98 Fans of Blizzard’s WarCraft and StarCraft games waited a
Reviewed: Oct/02, p43. long time for WarCraft Ili: Reign of Chaos, and the company
didn’t disappoint. The game is a big step up from its
~ predecessors, with improved resource management,
ba great sound and graphics, and a refined sense of humor.
WarCraft ill: |» £ ae
Reign of Chaos | 5
Reign of Chi ACase for Jet Knight : Jed Outcast
Cee eae cans a3 Trust me—the editors here are out of their gourds. I'll set you straight.
Gontagts piooe While Medal of Honor is essentially another iteration of the same old
www.blizzard.com ground every FPS has covered (we've already played WWII mods in
Prica: $59.99 Unreal Tournament), Jedi Knight ll takes the genre to the next step by
Reviewed: Dec/02, p48 adding a bevy of coo Force powers, which are much more of a thrill
than yet another set of new, uh, I mean old guns.
Aspyr Return to Castle MacSoft Max Payne Aspyr Jedi Knight II:
Wolfenstein ($49.95, www.wizworks.com Jedi Outcast
($49: com; /macsoft; Dec/02, p42) ($49.95; www.aspyc.com; Feb/03, p37)
Aug/02, p42) Life’s tough for Max—both This smart Star Wars shooter
In this addictive shooter, druggies and cops are on has enough fast-paced action
your job is to kill not just his tail. Good thing he has a to keep your adrenaline flowing and your
Nazis, but zombie Nazis in either way-cool slow-motion mode in trigger finger twitching.
single-player or multiplayer mode. which he can blast em.
February 2003 MacAddict 27
PROTECT,
Inside Mac OS X Server ,
If you're looking for serious advice about setting up a
serious server, look no further. Seriously, We walk you
through the ins and outs of Apple’s Mac OS X Server,
Jaguar edition. by Niko Coucouvanis
battle-tested networking power of Unix with the legendary
ease of use that makes Macs so darn lovable. Mac OSX
Server takes that equation to the next level, making network
management and system administration as easy as setting up
an iTunes playlist.
Great. But since all the networking power of OS X lurks inside
each and every copy of Jaguar, why shell out at least $370 more
for OS X Server?
It’s all about power, baby, power.
OS X's Directory Access and the Accounts and Sharing
preference panes work great for a few users (say, a family
ora small office), but getting a dozen users hooked up and
administering all of them can be a drag. That’s where OS X Server
comes in. it provides the tools to point-and-click your way to
big-time server management and network administration—tools
you can use directly on the server via an attached keyboard,
mouse, and monitor; remotely from a Mac or terminal in the next
room; or from across the continent over the Internet.
Here we provide you with a primer on OS X Server—how
to install it, set it up, manage users and
& ON THE | workgroups, and get your very own Web, mail,
PDISC) print, or FTP server up and running, Stil not
|CommunigatePro4.0-1
tial and Webalizer 2.01-03]
Yet heard Steve Jobs’s rap: Mac OS X combines the
ready to invest in OS X Server? No worries: We
also show how you can squeak by with just OS X.
28 MacAddict February 2003
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MAC OS X SERVER
COMPANY Apple (800-795-1000 or 408-996-1010, www.apple.com)
PRICE $499 for ten-ciient license, $999 for unlimited-client license, $2,999 and up
for unlimited-client license and an Xserve
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS Power Mac G3 or G4, Power Mac G3 or G4 Server,
iMac, eMac, or Xserve; 128MB of RAM: 4GB of free disk space
INCLUDED SOFTWARE Mac OS X Server 10.2, WebObjects 5.1, Admin Tools,
Macintosh Manager 2, Mac OS X Deveioper Tools, NetBoot
Note that OS X Server won't run on a laptop; it wil happily lock up your PowerBook or
iBook requiring that you reformat the hard drive and install a supported Mac OS. But
although you can’t install OS X Server on your laptop, you can easily deputize your
‘trusty ‘Book as an administrator machine. The Admin Tools CD in the OS X Server
package installs the all-powerful server apps, which you can use from any Mac.
capable of running 0S 10.2.
TO SERVE AND PROTECT
MAC OS X SERVER BASICS
M ac OS X and OS X Server share the same Mac OS and Unix
parentage and bear more than a passing resemblance in
form and function. So what's the difference? One word (well,
two): power tools.
Both flavors of Mac OS X include proven Unix apps like the
Apache Web server, plus support for a veritable alphabet soup
of networking protocols (see “ABCs of Networking,” right).
The difference between plain vanilla OS X and OS X Server is.
that the latter provides friendly integrated apps (a la iTunes)
to tame these acronymical beasts. These are the apps you get
when you buy OS X Server:,
Open Directory Assistant Part of the proud family of Mac OS
Assistants, this one autolaunches after you finish with the OS X
Server Assistant. You can (and will) use this app again to setup
NetInfo or LDAPv3 directory domains and password servers on
the local server or to configure connections to remote directory
information—even Windows Active Directory domains.
Workgroup Manager Use this app to designate share points
and sharing protocols; create user, group, and computer
accounts; set access, mail, and print privileges for accounts;
and manage preferences for all of the above. (Good old
Macintosh Manager, which comes with OS X Server, handles
these chores for Mac OS 8 and OS 9 clients.)
Server Settings Your OS X Server service-control center,
Server Settings is where you start, stop, or tweak the
configurations of any service (Mail, Web, DNS, DHCP,
FTP, File, Print, and so on).
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Server Status Server Status displays hardware stats, software
logs, and usage information for every active service on every
connected server over which you have admin privileges. Server
Status is tightly integrated with Workgroup Manager, so you can
wield the iron fist of administration by clicking the Workgroup
Manager button in the Server Status window’s toolbar.
Server Monitor This
handy application
gives a status
report on your
Xserve (if you have
one), detailing
information such
as the server’s iP
address and 0S.
version, uptime,
serial number, and
power consumption.
Server Monitor also
‘Server Status is a geek’s delight—you
can view your CPU usage or network
traffic as a time chart!
ABCs of Networking
AFP Apple Filing Protocol, SMB server message block,
Mac 0S X's native Windows’ default
file-sharing protocol file-sharing protocol.
DHCP dynamic host
configuration proto
networking protocol that
temporarily assigns IP
addresses to computers
‘ona network. Secu
SSH secure shell,
a secure Unix protocol
for logging into a
remote machine
kets layer,
the standard protocol for
FIP file transfer protocol,
a ubiquitous Internet
file-sharing protocol.
securely sending data via
email or the Web.
WebDAV World Wide Web
NFS network file system, distribute joring and
a popular Unix-based versioning, a protocol that
file-sharing protocol. adds write privileges to
http, enabling collaboration
over the Internet.
Server Monitor
knows your Xserve
inside and out.
provides vital stats on the machine’s internal ambient and
Processor temperatures, as well as the status of the blowers
(fans) and hard drives, including whether you’ve got the
Xserve's Enclosure Intrusion (aka drive-bay lock) enabled.
Streaming Server Admin QuickTime Streaming Server is
part of the OS X Server installation, which is pretty cool
when you consider that just two years ago Apple was selling
it stand-alone for $499.
Now that you know what’s in the Mac OS X Server box, it’s
time to install it. If you bought an Xserve, OS X Server comes
preinstalled, so you can get right down to the business of
configuring the beast. If you’re upgrading or installing your first
version of OS X Server, it’s just like any other Mac OS install—
insert CD, start Mac from CD, follow onscreen prompts. The
server will restart after installation finishes.
If you've ever fired up a brand-new Mac or installed the Mac
OS, you know about the Setup Assistant—in an abbreviated
20-question session, it prompts you for relevant information as
it applies the necessary settings for the Mac and its network,
Internet, and printer connections. The OS X Server equivalent,
the Server Assistant, makes setup and configuration of your
server just as easy.
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MICROMANAGEMENT
MADE EASY
Sey up file sharing, mail, and print services on
a mixed-platform network used to be a system
administrator’s nightmare—but Server makes it easy.
Here we'll illustrate how to set up workgroups with an
example near and dear to our hearts,
Here at MacAddict, we’ve got editors and artists, each
with different needs. The art department needs access
to the color laser printer and doesn’t want to wade
through all the editors’ crap to find art files. Conversely,
we need to restrict the editors to the low-end printers
(lest they waste all the color laser printer’s toner on
party invitations...again) and grant them sole access
toa top-secret file server to keep sensitive articles in
progress away from the blabbermouth art staff. Yet
both groups need access to central items such as the
production schedule and the lunchroom menu.
OS X Server’s included Workgroup Manager makes it
easy to handle the drudgery of creating users, groups,
and share points (directories that can have multiple
users), and keeps all the mail and print settings, as well
as user and group preferences, within quick reach.
You can create all your user home directories right on
the network server or on any connected machine under
your administrative authority. Consider distributing user
home directories across multiple machines if you have
or anticipate having a lot of users—even a Dual 1GHz
Xserve on a fast network will feel the strain eventually.
If security is crucial, keep home directories on a server
in a locked room with no monitor or keyboard attached.
This paranoid move will prevent someone from booting
aclient machine from an OS X CD and having free reign
over it.
If security’s not crucial, you can fit several users’
home directories on a shared client machine. For
example, here at MacAddict Galactic Headquarters, we
keep common files on the server, and we all maintain
our own machines with local home directories. We can’t
have more than one user per Mac because we’re all
always here. We have no other lives. Sad, really.
Third-Party Power Tools
Here some other server admin tools to consider.
Tenon Intersystems iTools 6.5.7
($399, www.tenon.com)
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more than a decade, and its latest suite «
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or and multiprocessor aware, and p:
makes
iTools
vice, virtual hosts, Web-browser-based
all in a handy browser interface that lets you
from anywhere over the Internet.
Web server but replaces
Create New Users
The Setup Assistant created the first user for you. Use Workgroup
Manager to create more.
Open Workgroup Manager and connect to the server
by entering its IP address.
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the name and password,
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basic privileges, home =
directory, and mail and
print settings you want.
Save the record. i
pop-up menu at the bottom; this creates a template of common
3 Before adding more users, select Save Preset from the Presets
settings for the other new users.
Select the new
Dy rests created
in the Presets
menu and click the New
Record button. Enter a
username, password,
and any other specific
settings, like home
directory and mail and
print quotas. If you opt for
a local home directory (on |
the server), OS X Server t aed S
creates the directory and
subdirectories, and then sets access permissions for you.
You can repeat this process until you’ve got a roster full of users—and
remember, you can save multiple presets. Also, after you create users,
you can modify multiple accounts simultaneously by Command-clicking
their names in the list of users.
it. TheV ar plug-in architectu
extras like FTP, SSI, FastCGI, and WebDAV don’t require any
config-fite hacking—} d the plug-ins you want. Many services
run faster this way, partly because Webstar is multithreade
tly because of the server's
advanced caching system. The included 4D Mail server makes
this a robust and affordable alternati X Server
means server
Stalker Software CommuniGate Pro
($499 for 50-user license, www.stalker.com)
if you're serious about email, you'll find that OS X Server’s
lack of support for mailing lists and virtual domains, as well as
its limited SSL, just don’t cut it. CommuniGate Pro is the gold
standard for email on more than 25 different server platforms,
including OS X, OS X Serv and earlier.
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Group Specs
Workgroup Manager makes it easy to regulate your
users’ access to directories, services, and system
resources. First you must designate the share point,
Click the Sharing icon and then the Ail tab to reveal a list of
server volumes, which you can navigate through to the folder
you want to share. Sweet! The
a directory on the server that authorized users can Groups folder is already designated
access remotely. If you create your home directories asa share point. You could make [iat Applications a:
on the server, they’ll appear in the Users folder—a any directory a share point, but 3 comet i 2:
predefined share point—unless you manually locate consolidating shared folders in |G Groups |
them someplace else. one accessible location makes the {osubrary i
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network more manageable, even in 1p sysem er
MacAddict’s tittle two-group outfit. ‘(atest » |
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Proceed to the Protocols pane to make sure
you're sharing the folder with AFP. You can
also tweak Windows, FTP, and NFS settings.
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Once you establish your share point, you can create the groups. Click
3 the Accounts icon. Click the tab with the groups icon and then the New
Record icon, and type in the group name—in our case, Art Staff (arts
for short). Click the
Add button to open
the list of users and
drag names you
want to include into | |. ===
the Members area— |
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the names to
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Click the Volumes tab. Pick Network as the Group Directory location,
Ave: enter the name of the server or click Select to pick it from a list.
Note that Workgroup Manager creates a path using the group’s short
name. It does the
same for new user
accounts if you set
them up to have
home directories
on the server, and
it even creates the
network directories
Workgroup Manager creates the directories
5 automatically, but for some reason Apple
decided to make it an overnight process.
Ifyou want to set up the directories immediately,
you can do so with one little Terminal command.
At the Terminal prompt, type the line
sudo /usr/sbin/CreateGroupFolder
and enter your password. Your humble author
is now locked out of the important art folders—
even though he just created the group.
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For simple Web serving, OS X Server may well be more than you pditcar cpl nis, [roapaRa raquireg oommend-
need. Both OS X Server and OS X regular-schmo edition come
preloaded with Apache, the most widely used Web server cut
there. On either system, you just turn it on. In OS X proper, you do WebDAV access, log archiving, and other services. But even in OS
so via Web sharing in the Sharing Preferences pane. In OSX Server, _X Server, you’ll eventually want to do something that isn’t available
Une hacking.
you go to the Internet pane of the Server Settings app and select via point-and-click, like customize your “404: Page Not Found”
Start Web Service. error message (see “Web Serving the Mac OS X Way,” p33) or
You can use Server Settings and Server Status to keep your analyze your access logs. This type of chicanery requires digging
Web server happy and well groomed—for the most part, anyway. into Apache's config file or installing third-party sottvale for log
Server Settings gives you easy control over SSL security, basic analysis (see “Check Your Logs,” p32).
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~ Mail
Like all of OS X Server’s core services, mail is a snap to manage. \n the
Server Settings app, click the Internet tab. If the Mail icon is flagged on,
click it and select Stop Mail Service fram the pop-up menu. Next, select
Configure Mail, and in the ensuing window, select the protocols you want
to use (SMTP, IMAP, POP3, or a combination thereof). Click the big Save
button to save your changes, then restart mail service in Server Settings.
You can set user- or group-specific settings in the Mail pane of Workgroup
Manager's Accounts screen.
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support mailing tists, virtual
domains, or SSL security via
POP or SMTP; if you need these
features or plan on supporting
more than a couple hundred
users, upgrade to a third-party
mail server (see “Third-Party Power Tools,” p30).
Auser’s long name (Joe Smith, for example) defines his mailbox, and
each user can have only one. Email addresses, however, are based on the
user’s short name, of which you can have 16 per user. Each of these 16.
virtual user names (jsmith, joe, smithy, stinky, and so on) gets an email
address, but all the mail goes into the main mailbox. You can set short
names in the user record in Workgroup Manager—just double-click in the
space below a virtual user name to add another one.
Mail service starts here in the Server
Settings app. Proceed to Workgroup
Manager to set user options and quotas.
Bonus! Your
main short name
is limited to 8
characters, but
the remaining
15 virtual user
names can
be up to 255
characters long.
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but
net/webalizer),
OS X Server S fli itch to cycle and archive these |
OS X users are on their own. Enter The Webalizer ( mrun
Print
Print service is another push-button affair in both OS
X and OS X Server. Server lets you set up multipie print
queues via Workgroup Manager, with individual quotas
per queue and per user. Terminal geeks can duplicate this
via the command line in OS X, but Print Center’s Stop Jobs
button (no, not Steve) is the next best thing.
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FTP and SSH
In OS X proper, you turn on these services in
System Preferences’ Sharing pane, and any further
configuration—access logging, anonymous access,
maximum simultaneous connections—is up to you and the
Terminal. OS X Server’s point-and-click configuration (aka
Server Settings) lets you set concurrent and anonymous
user limits, access logging, and authentication for FTP
service, but the only setting for SSH is on or off, via
Server Settings’ Configure Apple File Service window.
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secure SSH is strictly no-frills.
a free utility that not only manages your logs but breaks them down to the
—hits per page, per hour, even per country—and creates bar graphs
charts for the more general stats, such as total hits per day. Mac OS X
doesn’t do any of that, nor does it report referrer stats on the Web si
from which your visitors originate.
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digestible graphical chunks.
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Web Serving the Mac Os X Way
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services as its Server
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provide anywhere near ——
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monitoring, and
maintenance options.
Still, there are
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workarounds. Take OS
X’s Apache Web server,
for example: Once you
click Personal Web Sharing in the Sharing Preference pane, the rest
is up to you and Apache's config file. Following this example, you
can find and tweak all kinds of Apache settings.
Turning on services in Mac OS Xis a
piece of cake,
Remote Log-in
Apache is great as is—it’s preconfigured to find your Web
documents in the Library > WebServer » Documents folder and serve
them up as the root level of your Web site. It’s also preconfigured to
run Perl or CGI scripts if you want to host interactive widgets, such
as opinion polls or message boards, on your site. Ah, but it has so
much more to offer.
Tweaking Apache’s config file is the only way to modify a Web
server in OS X. Any modifications you make to the config file don’t
take effect until you restart the server. That’s no problem if the
machine is sitting on your desk—just uncheck and recheck the
Personal Web Sharing box in the Sharing Preferences pane—but you
can’t do that remotely. That’s what Remote Login (aka SSH) is for.
You can download an SSH client, but we feel tougher just using
OS X's Terminal. To log in to your server remotely, just type ssh
username@website.com, where username is your user name and
website.com is—you guessed it—the name of your Web site. If the
DNS gods aren’t smiling on you, you can use the IP address of
the server you’re trying to log in to, and type ssh username@ IP
address—this works provided you’ve enabled Remote Login. ignore
any gobbledygook about authenticity and RSA keys, enter your
password at the prompt, and you're in. Now you can bend Apache
to your will.
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The .shtml extension tells the server that a page uses an SSI
(server side include) directive to include a virtual link in the page,
which effectively sucks the contents of one file into another. You
can use this technique to stoke a Web page with up-to-the-minute
results from your site’s opinion poll or current news from
a headline-ticker service.
In its default state, Apache only recognizes HTML files. To enable
SSI, search for include and shtml in your httpd.conf file. This will
lead you to the appropriate sections in httpd.conf, where the basic
instructions should be enough to get you set up.
Find a Better “404 Error:
Page Not Found” Page
When you ask a Web server fora file it doesn’t have, it
returns some version of the all-too-familiar “404 Error:
Page Not Found” message. This is all well and good, but
the default error page is stark at best. Why not display
something more useful, like a site map or search page
where users can easily find what they’re looking for?
Enon: 404
You can make your 404
page a work of art—just
like this Dutch master
from 404lounge.net.
1 Use the Terminal to access the server with SSH. For
example, type ssh nikbot@ macadgict.com and
enter your password at the prompt, Also, you should
back up the file httpd.conf just in case. To do that, type
sudo cp /etc/httpd/httpd.conf /ete/httpd/
(space) httpd.canf.1. This tells the system to copy (cp) the
httpd.conf file in the /etc/httpd directory; sudo tells it you’re
authorized to act as superuser.
Open httpd.config To find the 404
a in your favorite text 3 section, press
editor—we used Control-W and enter
Pico, the bare-bones editor 404 at the Search prompt.
included with OS X. Type
sudo pico /etc/httpd/
(no space) httpd.conf.
Delete the pound sign (#) to uncomment the local
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