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After days of downloading tunes from Apple’s iTunes Music Settings
Store—and running up our company credit card—we report Backlight
on iTunes 4, the new iPods, and Apple’s foray into the
music biz. by the MacAddict staff
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Who says you can’t get somethin’ for nothin’? Not us.
We combed the Web and found the 100 best things that
zero money can buy. by David Weiss
32 The Hulk
) In our exclusive interview, the magicians at
- Industrial Light + Magic talk about how one
s little computer (the Mac) helped create one
massive superhero. by Kris Fong
39 Inside the
17-Inch PowerBook
We open up the world’s largest laptop and show you the deep, dark innards of this
industrial-design wonder. by Niko Coucouvanis
how to
58 Ask Us
Turn printing into an AirPort
Extreme sport, make those cute In the April issue,
little URL icons, access Hotmail we showed you
from Apple Mail, and run Software howto create a
Update from the Terminal. Video CD. Now we
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60 Digitize Vinyl and
Audiocassettes
We bought Black Sabbath’s
Paranoid LP years ago—must we
now buy its digital equivalent just
to stick it on our
iPod? Not if we
do the digitizing
ourselves.
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8 Editors’ Page
There’s more to Apple’s new music service than simply
downloading tunes into iTunes.
10 Get Info
Apple busts out three new pro video apps; Palm takes
pictures; Painter turns (version) 8. Plus, get your red-hot
EverQuest tips right here.
41 Reviews
44 15GB iPod MP3 player
45 20-Inch Cinema Display LCD monitor
54 d2 DVD-RW FireWire 400 DVD-RW drive
50 Enigmo 11 3D puzzle game
55 FireWire Dino FireWire 400 hub
46 1956 Photo Printer six-color inkjet printer
48 InTools 1.0 Adobe InDesign plug-ins
54 iPod Armor iPod case
52 Mac FlipAlbum 3 photo-presentation software
49 Master of Orion 3 strategy game
53 Mercury Elite Pro FireWire 800 hard drive
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50 PowerWave USB audio interface and amplifier
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51 Xenotex 2 Photoshop plug-in suite
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> SHUT DOWN FROM THE TERMINAL
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ifyou're not already logged in as toot,
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the appropriate scene numbers on,
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numbers to your SVCD
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Super Video CD,” p64
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Mo’ Music
The iTunes Music Store is changing my life.
Right before Steve Jobs announced Apple's new
iTunes Music Store to the assembled media
horde, the PA in the auditorium was playing,
fittingly enough, Bob Dylan’s “The Times They
Are A-Changin’.”
They certainly are. The music biz will never
be the same.
I've only spent a few hours exploring the Music
Store, but despite its faults and limitations, it
is, IMHO, the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread. See
“Listen Up!” on page 16 for the official MacAddict
take on the Store and its offerings—oh, and check
out our review of the new iPod on page 44.
Then download a free copy of iTunes 4, sign yourself up for a Music Store
account, and stroll up and down the aisles of the Store. You'll find that it
provides not only a convenient way to buy music, but also a great way to
waste inordinate amounts of time enjoyably.
Want to compare different versions of old standards? Easy. Ask iTunes’
Power Search to look for “Over the Rainbow,” and you can listen to 34
different 30-second snippets, including versions by Kathie Lee Gifford,
Louis Prima, and Placido Domingo. Gershwin’s “Summertime”? There are 67
versions—make sure to note the subtle differences between the styles of Kiri
Te Kanawa and Rick Nelson.
Another highly entertaining time-waster is browsing your coworkers’
playlists. iTunes is Rendezvous-aware, so if anyone on your network enables
Share My Music in iTunes’ Sharing preferences pane, his or her entire
iTunes Library—or just the playlists that person wants to make public—will
automatically show up in your iTunes Source window.
Without this handy feature, | wouldn’t have known that MacAddict editor
Narasu Rebbapragada is a fan of both Slayer and Johnny Cash. And | might
never have discovered Dirt Bike Annie.
Or learned that Art Director Chris Imlay is heavily into both 1960s French.
pop and the Flaming Lips. Or, for that matter, my coworkers might never have
discovered my Zappa addiction. They might even come to share my affection
for Syrian dance-party tunes.
One thing’s for sure, though: Thanks to the iTunes Music Store, we’re
all being exposed to far more music than we were a week ago. And that’s
mighty, mighty cool.
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MUSIC YOU WON'T FIND IN THE ITUNES MUSIC STORE
Q: Whai will pe
they browse your iTun
Narasu Rebbapragada DoA ovEEN
What will people learn about you when they
browse your ITunes library?
That have an incurable weakness for bouncy
Latin pop music.
Niko Coucouvanis Enemmicist
What.will people learn aboet you when they
browse your ITunes library?
That 'm generally antisocial, Now go away.
But not too far,
Kris Fong cast.i80N MAIDEN
What will people tearm about you when they
browse your iTunes brary?
Probably that 'm a metal head at heart—! keep
the really incriminating stu well hidden,
Cathy Lu PEARL Jamicist
‘What wilt people learn about you when they
browse your iTunes library?
That's asad statement of how stuck tam
inthe 1980s and early 1990s,
Jenifer Morgan PRESiOgNy, DR. TEETH FAN CLUB
‘What wil people fearn about you when they
browse your,Tunes library?
‘That The Muppet Movie stil has a place in my life.
{'m still!ooking for that Rainbow Connection,
Chris Imlay Touchy ARTSY GUY
‘What will people learn about you when they
browse your ITunes library?
That | am an intolerable bastard. That the music
[like is a8 annoying as 1am,
[There's anew member oie Maco Brotherhood. Meet Assistant At j
Director Peter Maishutz, formerly of BusinessWeek and the Brtish-American
Chamber of Commerce. But don't let his stuffy credentials fool you—he fits |
right in with our loony crew: He's equally insane. j
Peter Marshutz ANOTHER TOUCHY ARTSY GUY
What will peopie learn about you when they
browse your ITunes library?
''m slim, trim, and tough—able to manage many lists and tasks
‘while on the go, never tipping, skipping, or missing a beat.
Max pissiMULaTionistT
‘What will people learn about you when they
TZ 4 © browse your MTunes library? ?
NS 4 That have never, ever usad Napster, LimeWire,
‘or Drumbeat to download free music tom the Web.
‘And that 'm a pathological lar.
Although 200,000 tunes may sound like a lot, there’s far more music notin the Music Store
than in it. Here are a couple of other sources worth checking out.
The Shaggs National Cleveland-Style Lookout Records Digital Droo
www.shaggs.com Polka Hall of Fame www.lookoutrecords.com www.digitaldroo.com
Astonishing. indescribable. They www.clevelandstyle.com Some bands don't have major This one's simply a shameless
were either primitive geniuses or The music of my people—a true contracts because they're not plug for a‘riend. Digital Droo
simply very, very bad. If you've gem. Seriously. | mean, where else good enough. Others don't (aka former MacAddict editor
never heard “My Pal Foot Foot” ‘can you find the lyricsto “Ej, Prijateli” because they prefer to remain ‘Andrew Tokuda) hasn't made it
or “Philosophy of the World,” by Loize Sak, or the insightful independent, Lookcut Records big yet, but he will...oh, he will.
you owe it to yourself to meetthe biographies of Jack "The Buddy is home to more than 100 of the Listen to his stuff now so you can
band Frank Zappa called “better Rich of Polkas” Tady and Frank latter—OK, and also a couple of one day say “I knew him when.”
than the Beatles.” “america's Polka King” Yankovic? the former.
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Compositing and effects program Shake 3
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February 2003 was a huge deal. Essentially,
Shake is the industry-standard compositing
and effects program used on major motion
pictures such as Lord of the Rings. (See
“Star Users” for more on Apple’s celeb
clientele.) It can do anything from adding
backgrounds and computer-generated
characters to moving video, removing flaws,
and fixing color—all to make movies look
spectacular yet realistic.
Rendering video with special effects
takes a lot of processing power, so the
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still support Irix (from Silicon Graphics)
and Linux platforms; however, Shake 3’s
bundled Qmaster rendering-management
software for Mac OS X only and has been
specially configured to boost the rendering
speed of Power Mac G4 and Xserve clusters.
It should be available in June 2003.
Maybe Jobs's own Pixar
Studio can join us on the
Mac side.
‘SCREENSHOTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF APPLE
Final Cut Pro 4 gets new audio and
video boosts.
DVD Siudio Pro 2
And for those crafting DVDs, Apple
has revamped DVD Studio Pro 2
(recently reduced to $499 from $999,
www.apple.com) with more of those
loveable (and customizable) background
templates. The new Menu Editor lets you
do more interface work within the app.
itself with tools for designing text, buttons,
and menus. Plus, context-sensitive drop
palettes let you more easily create new
tracks, link to tracks, make slide shows,
and manage chapter indexes—all without
having to make repetitive forays inta
menus. The newly designed track editor,
based on Final Cut Pro’s timeline, lets you
work with up to eight video angles, eight
audio tracks, and 32 subtitles. DVD Studio
Pro also includes the Compressor batch-
transcoding tool. DVD Studio Pro 2 is due
out in August 2003.
Now that these new pro apps—when
added to Power Mac 64, Xserve, and Mac
OS X systems—have completed Apple’s
comprehensive high-end video system,
maybe Steve Jabs’s own Pixar Studio
(rumored to run on Linux and Silicon
Graphics workstations) can join us over on
the Mac side—NR
Ti ossace ol
DVD Studio Pro 2 gets new backgrounds.
NEW STUFF
TIVOFORMAC
$99 Available: Now
jwww.tivo.com
Now TiVo Serles2 subscribers can use
their TVs to view photos and listen to
music stored on their Macs. The new
TiVo Home Media Option connects
TiVo Digital Video Records to wired and
wireless Mac networks and remotely
schedules same-day TV shows.
YOUR INTERNET RADIOSTATION
starts at $4,95 permonth | Available: Now
www.live365.com
With the Studio365-Live for Mac app,
you can upload your MP3s and iTunes
playlists to the Live365 network and
broadcast them to Live365 listeners.
The Intro Broadcasting Package ($4.95)
gets you 100MB of server space. The
Premium Broadcasting Package ($14.95
per month) adds live broadcasting.
The Pro Broadcasting
Package ($75 per
month and up) is for
commercial use.
(ypise
StudioSB3-Live demo
IGHZUPGRADE CARD
$699.95 | Available: Now
www.sonnettech.com
Sonnet unleashes a new 1GHz upgrade
card for Macs with ZIF processor
sockets. That means beige Power Mac
G3s, although upgrades for Blue-and-
White G3s and PC! graphics G4s are
expected soon.
INKJET MULTIFUNCTION PRINTER
$299.99 Available: Now.
www.brother.com
The latest multifunction printer comes
with a four-color inkjet printer, 600-
by-2,400-dpi color flatbed scanner,
fax machine, and built-in answering
machine. Plus it prints directly from
popular digital-camera media formats
such as CompactFlash, SmartMedia,
and Sony Memory Stick.
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GET INFO
the news of the month in bite-size chunks
«Palm Camera
Palm Zire 71
ames Bond would love the Palm Zire
71 ($299, www.palm.com), a PDA with
a spylike built-in digital camera. Just slide
the device open, and the Zire 71 turns into
a camera that can take up to 640-by-480-
pixel pictures. The Zire 71 also plays MP3,
Real Audio, Aubible content, and videos via
the included Kinoma Player—CL
Canon Optura 20 DV
ith its Super Night and Low Light modes,
Canon’s new sub-$1,000 video camera
($999, www.canondv.com) lets you lurk
in the dark taking all sorts of video and
adding digital effects such as wipes, fades,
black-and-white tone, and sepia color. The
camera also doubles as a 1.33-megapixel
still camera with a 16x optical zoom lens
and MMC and SD card slots for storing your
pictures—NR
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‘PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF PALM
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CANON
GET INFO |S
SHAREWARE PICK OF THE MONTH
iBEEZZ
Olivier Delécluse +
http://ibeezz.reboute.net * $10
magine waking up each morning to a QuickTime
movie of birds tweeting, traffic beeping, or your
boss screaming. Whatever your pleasure, iBeeZz can
help you out by scheduling what time your Mac starts
up, shuts down, restarts, sleeps, and wakes up. This
Mac OS X Cocoa app can launch files, applications,
and AppleScripts, so you can turn your Mac into an
alarm clock and let it conduct other time-consuming
tasks unattended—Andrew Tokuda
(a
— as)
iBeeZz tells your Mac when to turn on, turn off, go to
sleep, and wake up.
© cen ow er far ranges.
WHAT'S NEW
IN PAINTERS
Corel Adds More Fine-Art Features
orel’s Painter 8 ($299, www.corel.com/painter),
due out in May 2003, adds more natural-media
tools for fine artists who paint and draw on the Mac. Its
new Mixer palette lets you swoosh together colors as
you would on a traditional paint palette, A new Brush
creator comptements the 400 brushes Corel already
The new Mixer
palette offers an
Intuitive way
to mix colors.
gives you. The Sketch effect converts photos to line drawings, and the
Digital Water Color feature gives you watercolor powers. Corel also revamped
Painter’s interface, upped support for Photoshop files, and added a Tracker
palette for remembering recently used brushes.—NR
ON THE
A# DISC
‘1BeeZ2 1.5
Corel’s Painter 8 is one’of the most comprehensive painting apps around.
NEWS OF THE MONTH
AFLOPPY NEWMAC CLONE APPLE STORE CHECK .MAC ;
DISK RAID Enterprising engineer John INJAPAN -FROMWAP-
Mac users do the darndest Fraser plans to produce a Mac Bloomberg and Nikkei English A company called WAPMac
things. Daniel Blade Olson clone that’s come to be known News report that Apple will be (www. wapmac.com) is |
used a Bondi Blue iMac
(updated to 500MHz), five:
connected 1X USB floppy
disks, and Mac OS X’s Disk
Utility to create a floppy
disk RAID with a whole
3.9MB of storage space.
Check out his work at
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com
/fdd_raid.htm.
as the iBox, an economically
priced box that doesn’t include
_ an LCD screen and is priced
opening its first official Apple
Store in Tokyo later this year in
the chic Ginza shopping district.
offering a service that allows
you to check your.Mac mail
account on your WAP- enabled
mobile phone. Go to htty vn
wapmac. com/mac usin; your
mobile phone’s browserto sign
up. Checking your mail is free.
Sending it costs a one-t -time-
only $15.
duly 2003 MacAddict “13
14 <j GETINFO
the news of the month in bite-size chunks
NEW TO
EVERQUEST?
Tips on Surviving the Mania
verQuest, the PC’s massively popular massively
multiplayer online role-playing game, is coming to
the Mac. If you’re nervous about playing alongside rabid
EverQuest veterans, heed the following advice of the Mac
port’s lead programmer Westlake
Interactive President Glenda
Adams, who’s spent the iast year
playing the game.—CL
EverQuest
Sony Online Entertainment
www.everquest.com
Price TBD
Available: Summer 2003
Beasts abound in the wide worlds of EverQuest. Team up with
other players to defeat the real bad-asses.
Do Your Chores Pick Your Beast Battles Run Away Be Antisocial
Right off the bat, you'll be
given a task (say, takinga
letter to the guild). Take care
of the job at hand, rather
than wandering around
exploring the world, because
accomplishing the task will
usually yield you your first
weapon or spell.
Fighting monsters and other
beasts is inevitable, so when
you see a monster, click on it
and then press the C key to
consider it, This tells you how
difficult your fight will be and
how well you'll probably fare,
The difficulty levels are color-
coded—beginners should
avoid yellows and reds.
Ifyou didn’t listen to our
warning about difficult
monsters, here’s a bail-out:
Run to another zone.
Monsters won't follow you
from zone to zone, so you
can save yourself.
\fyou’re not into the
collaborative aspects of
EverQuest, you can get by
on your own—at least fora
while—by choosing to play as
a druid. Druids can cast spells
and control animals, which
can be summoned to do your
fighting while you cast spells.
Druids also possess the Spirit
of the Wolf spell (SOW in chat
lingo) for faster running.
BETTER THAN
KNIGHT RIDER
Supercar Goes Spy Hunting
SpyHunter, a remake of the 1980s classic arcade hit, speeds
to the Mac with guns blazing. in this game, you fight an
evil megalomaniac corporation with the aid of a high-tech,
high-speed vehicle called the G-6155 Interceptor, which morphs
from a car into a motorcycle, jet ski, or speedboat—depending
on your terrain. Blow away enemy cars, boats, and helicopters
using offensive (machine guns) and defensive (oil and smoke)
weapons, and of course, your trusty weapons van. As of press
time, no online or multiplayer details had been released.—MO
BloodRayne’s rated O.
That's Type O.
SpyHunter
Aspyr
www.aspyr.com
$29.99
‘Avaliable: Now
BLOODRAYNE: ACTION,
ADVENTURE, BLOOD
Vampire Vixen Sinks Her Teeth into Mac OS X
In this gothic third-person action shooter, you play Agent
BloodRayne, a sexy half-breed vampiress on a mission to
stop Nazis from dabbling in the occult.
BloodRayne ; 4
Aspyr ee Your main weapons for dismembering your
ee wo on foes are scythelike blades attached to
Available: Now Your arms. Submachine guns, pistols, and
harpoon-style knives also come in handy.
Agent BloodRayne enjoys inhuman agility, superspeed,
enhanced vision, and bullet-time slow-mo speed (a la Max
Payne). She also feeds on blood, which (naturally) gives her
tibervampire abilities. —Matt Osborn
Make David
Hasselhoff proud.
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Special Report: Appie’s New Music Strategy
Apple has always been at the
forefront of innovation. But now it’s
done something no one thought
possible: loosened up the stodgy
music industry.
ison
16 MacAddict July 2003
by the MacAddict staff
year ago, it seemed unlikely that the music industry and computer users could
ever coexist. But with its new music service, Apple has shown that it can keep
both record companies and music consumers happy.
First, Apple got what Steve Jobs calls the “Big Five” record labels on its side:
BMG, EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner. Then it built an absolutely killer online store
that’s beautifully integrated with the new iTunes 4. Finally, it struck the right balance
between consumers and uptight music companies, charging only 99 cents a track but
limiting the buyer's ability to pirate. To sweeten the deal, Apple tweaked the iPods that'll
carry all those tunes, making them thinner, lighter, and more droolworthy than ever.
Apple says it wants you to love music again. With the introduction of the iTunes Music
The iTunes Music Store has exclusive Web pages, tracks, and videos
foe surdd i
Store, an updated iTunes, and better-than-ever iPods, it may have succeeded.
iTunes Music Store
nan effort to obsolete illegal file-swapping services like
LimeWire, Drumbeat, and the Mac-unfriendly Kazaa, Apple
has thrown its hat into the music-delivery biz. Built into the
new iTunes 4, the iTunes Music Store lets you buy individual
songs and whole albums, a feat that could drive the drive to
Tower Records into obsolescence.
from artists like U2 and Alicia Keys.
Through licensing arrangements with the Big Five (Steve
Jobs has said that music from independent labels will come
later), the iTunes Music Store launched on April 28, 2003,
with 200,000 tracks. Individual 128-Kbps AAC-encoded
songs go for 99 cents a track. (AAC is an MPEG-4 format
that compresses files so they’re smaller than MP3s while
maintaining excellent sound quality.) Albums cost $10 and
up. Apple’s one-click buying scheme means that the music
you buy downloads instantly into a Purchased Music playlist,
along with a thumbnail of the album cover.
ia
In your iTunes Preferences, you
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WHAT YOU CAN AND
CAN’T DO
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while legitimate, subscription-
| based services like Pressplay
(www.pressplay.com) and Rhapsody
(www.listen.com) have yet to really
take off. The Music Store, on the
other hand, is an instant success—
can choose to share your music
with others on your network.
visitors downloaded over 1 million
tunes in its first week of existence.
Apple puts limits on what you can do with purchased music,
but the restrictions are light—and they make sense. You're free
to burn tracks to CD as long as you change your playlist every
ten burns. You can download your music onto an unlimited
number of iPods and onto three authorized Macs. Ifyou get a
new Mac, you can move the authorization to the new machine.
MINGLING WITH RENDEZVOUS
People using iTunes 4 on the same IP network can listen
to each other’s music with the app’s new built-in support
for Rendezvous, Apple's technology that allows devices to
automatically discover each other. All you have to do is go
to iTunes Preferences, choose Sharing, and pick whether to
share your whole library or just selected playlists. If they like
what they see, Mac OS X users on the same network can
listen to your streamed music (via the iTunes Source pane).
Oh, and the key word here is streamed, not downioaded—
that would be illegal.
“1 can mix and match the songs | like and
feel that I’m giving back to the artist.”
—dJosh Groban, opera vocalist
Now here’s something Apple neglected to mention: To
stream music purchased from Apple, you have to give people
authorization (and you're only allowed three). Plus, you have
to give them the password to your iTunes store account—make
sure these are trustworthy friends.
The iTunes Music Store offers a motley assortment of tracks.
ANEW WAY TO SEARCH
In addition to seamless integration with iTunes 4, another nice
feature of the Music Store is its browsability. You can search
for music by song, album, artist, or genre. The browse feature,
July 2003 MacAddict 17
The Music Store lets you browse music titles by category.
which lets you look for music by genre in a column view, is
great if you don’t know exactly what you're looking for. Also,
you can play a 30-second preview of any tune just by double-
clicking the song title.
While we dig the service—its ease of navigation, quick
download times, and 99-cent price tags—we did find some
stuff to complain about. First, you can’t find everything the
way you could with Napster (see “What Does 200,000 Songs
Mean?” below). Plus, the service offers only a partial number
of tracks from many albums, and some artists (such as
Madonna) are absent altogether.
New IP
cording to Steve Jobs, Apple has sold 700,000 iPods.
A IFyou're already the proud owner of one, we're sorry,
because the new iPods are so cool that you'll want to
upgrade immediately (see our review on p44). And this is why.
More capacity The new iPod comes in three models:
10GB, 15GB, and 30GB models (previously 5GB, 10GB, and
20GB). According to Apple, 30GB equates to 7,500 songs—
more ifall you listen to is punk.
Lighter and thinner form factor The 10GB and 15GB
models measure .62 inches thin and weigh 5.6 ounces light
(and we thought our original 1-inch-thick iPods were small).
The 30GB iPod is .73 inches thick and weighs 6.2 ounces—
unfortunately, hard drive space does have its price.
“With the new technology, what is really Browse
happening is that the need for physical
inventory is being quickly eliminated.” q Extras
—Seal, rock artist | Settings
Of course, the Music Store is brand new. Apple says it BAS
will keep adding songs, as well as release a Windows version
by the end of the year. Apple now treads where countless
others flounder. Hopefully, its unique position—its ability
to control the tunes, the software, and the hardware—is a
winning combination.
What Does 200,000 Songs Mean’
While it sounds like a lot, a collection of 200,000 songs isn’t all that vast when you consider the
number of songs out there, each with 50 renditions—plus remixes, remasters, live versions, acoustic
versions...you get the picture. We put the variety of the iTunes Music Store’s offerings to the test—to do
that, MacAddict staff members searched for artists and songs in our own favorite genres of music.
Classical Jazz World Other
If you’re shopping for classical Shopping for jazzis a Ifyour taste inworld music To sample the offerings in the
music, the iTunes Music Store crapshoot—with emphasis on tuns to the slick, smooth, and gloriously vagyé genre of Other,
won't tempt you to reschedule
your next trip to Tower Records,
The selection is sparse: There's
only one version of Beethoven's
“Flr Elise,” for example, and
neither Debussy’s string quartet
nor Ravel’s blatant rip-off of it
are available. Also, the per-song.
pricing structure doesn’t make
sense. Want to pay 99 cents
for the 39-second “Procession
of the Wise Elder” movement
from Stravinsky's Le Sacre du
Printemps? Didn’t think so.
18 MacAddict July 2003
the word crap. Five Kenny G
albums, no Anthony Braxton.
Three Richard Elliot albums,
no Rova Saxophone Quartet.
To be fair, Archie Shepp
and Kenny Garrett are well
represented.’Sun Ra even
makes a brief appearance. But
still...24 versions of “Georgia
‘on My Mind” not including Ray
Charles’s?
commercial, you'll fitd a good.....wessearched the Store for the
selection, from Youssou N’Dour
to Sheila Chandra“interesting,
if not arresting. If you're looking
for less-homogenized sounds,
you're in for a letdown: no
Fayrouz, no Lado—not even
Ray Budzilek and His Cleveland
All Stars, fer chrissake. On the
bright side, King Sunny Ade’s
up there, and we're spared from
Zamfir, King of the Pan Flute.
kind of junk we used to look for
on Napster (uit, we mean the
kind of junk others found on
Napster). Soundtrack from the
original King Kong? Nada. The
Unseen’s cover of “Beat It”?
Nope. The Eric Cartman remix
of “Smack My Bitch Up?” Um,
no. But there’s hope. Bowie’s
elusive “The Man Who Sold the
World” is there, as is U2’s first
(and last decent) LP, Boy.
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF APPLE
iPOD STATS
Model Number of Songs itHolds What It Comes With Price
10GB | 2,500 (128-Kbps AAC Earbuds, power adapter, FireWire cabl $299
format, 4-minute songs) __| four-pin-to-six-pin FireWire adapter
4568 | 3,700 Earbuds, power adapter, FireWire cable, | $399
four-pin-to-six-pin FireWire adapter,
dock, carrying case, wired remote
30GB } 7,500 Earbuds, power adapter, FireWire cable, | $499
four-pin-to-six-pin FireWire adapter,
dock, carrying case, wired remote
Solid-state buttons You'll notice right away that the
controls are located in a new place—above the scroll wheei.
But what you can’t tell from the pictures is that the buttons are
now solid state (meaning no moving parts) just like the scroll
wheel Apple introduced in the last generation of iPods.
Backlighting Not only
does the screen have
backlighting, but also the
buttons light up red when
backlighting is activated.
Speaking of which, to turn it on
you just hold down the Menu
button for a couple of seconds
or select Backlight from the new
Main Menu (more on that later).
Bock While the new iPods still connect via FireWire, they
now sport a dock connector instead of a FireWire port. You
can plug the included cable into the connector on the bottom
of the iPod, or into the new iPod dock. The dock also features
a line-out port so you can hook it up to a stereo. Plus, there’s
more good news for Windoze users: A $19 cable set will sync
your iPod to your computer via USB 2.0
On-The-Go playlists You can now build a playlist on
your iPod. Just highlight a song, album, playlist, or whatever—
then press and hold the Select button to make that item
appearin a playlist called On-The-Go.
Personalized main menu You can also personalize
your main menu. Simply go to Settings » Main Menu, and
toggle different options, such as Artist, Songs, and Contacts,
onand off.
AAC decoding The new iPods support AAC decoding,
which you need to play music purchased from the iTunes
Music Store. Those of you with older iPods can playAAC
files as well. Just update your iPod software to version 1.3
(available from www.apple.com).
Alarm clock and games The new iPod can wake you
up and entertain you even better than previous models. It has
an alarm clock that beeps or plays a selected playlist, and it
includes two new games: Solitaire and Parachute.
The MacAddict editors are learning all kinds of blackmail-worthy
‘Info about what kinds of dorky music their coworkers like,
Alternative
and Hard Rock
The Store features a decent
selection of bands, including
where-are-they-now fogies like
Depeche Mode, the
8-52’s, and Silverchair;
Billboard chartsters like
U2, Nirvana, and No Doubt;
and recent artists such as
Audioslave, Disturbed, and the
Vines. Heck, we've gotta give
Apple props for including some
obscure stuff like Blue Murder
and Ednaswap. Who’s absent?
Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, and
Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Teen
Ourresearcher—an.
authentic 15-year-old
girl—claims that the
selection is erratic, but
overall it's a great way to
waste (uh, invest) Dad’s
money. Ja Rule, Coldplay,
Eminem, System ofa
Down, and Nelly are
allavailable, as are 50
Cent, Avril Lavigne, and
Good Charlotte. Our
opinionated expert was
also pleased to see a total
lack of Justin Timberlake.
Classic Rock
The Music Store offers
a wide variety of songs
from many of the greats,
from Eric Clapton to the
Eagles, Van Morrison
to Steve Winwood.
However, a number of
notables are missing:
Queen, the Rolling
Stones, Creedence
Clearwater Revival, the
Gratefui Dead, and—
gasp—the Beatles.
Indie
To look up how well indie artists are
represented, we checked out the Music
Store’s Alternative genre—the closest we
could come to indie. Unfortunately, we
found out that Alternative is an alternative
to...well, not much. Here’s a sampling:
Hootie & The Blowfish, Pearl jam, Tori Amos,
Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, Iron Maiden, and
Dwight Yoakam. Art Director Chris Imlay
says that if he’d stocked any of these in the
Alternative section of the record store he
used to work for, he’d have been fired. Still,
Alternative is a good place to check out
new stuff from former Indie stalwarts who
made the jump to major labels, such as the
Flaming Lips or Built To Spill.
July 2003 MacAddict 19
Enhance your Mac—and your life—
without spending a cent.
yBisé
‘100 Best Freebies URLs,
Asteroid Storm 1.2.1,
Blues Music 1.2, Carbon
Copy Cloner 2.1.6,
Clutter 1.0611, Flaming
Pear Freebies 1.6, Font
Explorer 1.0, IX Screen
Effets 1.2, Lite Office
41.6, Sick Samp
SplrographX 1.0, Splat
1.0 demo, TinkerToo!
2.32, and Xinema 1.0.3,
Like a kid in a candy store, youre surrounded by tempting goodies every
time you venture onto the Web. A ton of them are free. And free is good.
The problem is that scads of those freebies aren't worth downloading.
ere are a precious few, however, that can change your life for the better.
So how do you sort through this barrage of no-cost offerings?
Easy. You let us do it for you. Our expert team of picky penny-pinchers
scoured the Web far and wide to bring you 100 free apps, add-ons,
and services—each of them a treat, each of them tested and certified
compatible with Mac OS 10.
Oh, and by the way, our definition of “free” includes donationware—
freeware created by folks who will accept any monetary appreciation you'd
care to shower upon them out of the goodness of your heart. We didn’t,
however, include shareware, which the authors expect you to pay for. (And
remember: Not paying for shareware is double-ptus uncool.)
With a Mac and a Web connection, the world is your digital oyster. So
without further ado, here’s the official MacAddict guide to the best 100
things out there waiting for you—all for the low, low price of zip, zilch,
zero, nada.
by David Weiss
Customization
MAC OS X THEME CHANGER
Duality
http://conundrumsoft.com
Max Themes is another good themes site. The Mac OS 9 Platinum
theme will take you back to the good ol” days when you were young
and innocent, and the Windows XP theme will probably tick you
off. Finally, Pillowtalk-Sky is a purplish, candylike theme that will
appeal to the bubblegum set.
DESKTOP PICTURES
Apple doesn’t encourage people to tinker with the look and feel
of Mac OS X. But that didn’t stop the Conundrumsoft folks from
creating Duality, a utility that lets you replace your user interface
with alternative themes.
Themes alter the look of windows, menus, icons, cursors,
progress bars, and such. Duality makes it simple to switch from one
theme to another, and to easily return to your original look, keeping
a backup and offering a restore feature. Each time you launch
no-cost Duality, however, you have to deal with a pop-up window
asking you to upgrade to a Pro version—for a fee, natch.
[se Duality ~ Theme Settings
‘Advanced Settings
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MACOS X THEMES
AquaWorld
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Pillowtalk-Sky
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/tlee/res/themes. htm
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‘Once you've installed Duality, you can download and use a stunning
variety of Mac OS X themes. We recommend the site AquaWorld,
which offers subtle and classy themes—if you're into subtle and
classy. For example, the Underling theme turns your close, minimize,
and maximize buttons into suns and moons, and ClearAqua makes
your menus and title bars transparent.
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your windows and menu bar.
Press Plus
WwWW.pressplus.com/content/wallpaper
About This Particular Macintosh
www.atpm.com/5.11/desktop-pictures.shtml
Digital Blasphemy
www. digitalblasphemy.com
Starfishx
http://nomepage.mac.com/mscott/starfishx/starfishx.ttml
Sometimes called wallpaper by folks on other platforms, desktop
pictures are the ultimate way to make your Mac your own. Any image
file that fits your screen’s resolution will work as a desktop picture,
but if you need help, the Web is there for you.
At Press Plus you can find stock photos of beaches, sunsets, and
other natural surroundings, offered in resolutions of 1024 by 768,
and 800 by 600 dpi. Similarly, at About This Particular Macintosh,
you'll find 1024-by-768-dpi shots of the Bahamas, Niagara Falls,
and other places you wish you were. Digital Blasphemy has images
that verge on the phantasmagoric. Some images are free, and some
require membership.
StarfishX
generates random
desktop patterns
based on parameters
you set, such as
screen size, color
palette, and tiling
style. It takes a few
minutes to do its
work, but when it’s
done it immediately
applies the new
pattern to your
desktop. It also saves
the pattern, should
you want to switch
back to it after using a
different one.
ICONS
The Icon Factory
www.iconfactory,com
pic2icon
‘www.sugarcubesoftware.com
Fase Eat Window
StarfishX whips up its own desktop images based
on parameters you set.
When it comes to customizing your Mac, there’s nothing like new
icons. Just select a hard disk, folder, or file, then press Command-l,
select the icon, and paste another icon right over it.
The Icon Factory has dozens of cool icons arranged on
weil-organized pages. Check out Xtra Drives, a set of Mac OS X hard-
drive icons that’ll deck out your disks in jaguar fur, cowhide, and other
wacky textures (blame Apple for starting this animal-fur trend).
There are dozens of utilities to create your own icons, most of
which cost at least a little money. But here’s a tip: Create your own
icon using Photoshop or another graphics tool, then convertit to an
icon using pic2icon, which creates 128 by 128 Mac OS X icons from
any image or folder of images.
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> customization continued...
SCREENSAVERS
Steve Dekorte’s ScreenSavers
www.dekorte,com/Software/OSX/ScreenSavers
iX Screen Effects
http://illumineX.com/software/index.html
Fluid ScreenEffects
www.concepthouse.com/products/Fluid
SETI@home
www.setiathome, ssl, berkeley.edu/download. html
xbMovieMaker
http://perso.club-internet.fr/bgaufier/downloads.html
No, you don’t need a screensaver anymore; CRTs don't get burned by
static images like they did when screensavers were first invented. But
they’re still fun.
One good place to find cool screensavers is Steve Dekorte’s site.
Our favorites include SkyFly, which shows a 3D landscape of grassy
hills you can fly through with paper airplanes, and NeHe Particles, a
shimmering, fairy-dust-like cloud of swirls.
Many of IllumineX’s iX Screen Effects are geometric—reminiscent
of screensavers of yesteryear—and include a (now retro) zooming-
through-space screensaver that used to be all the rage. The
ix Xirtam screensaver shows a Matrix-style shower of flickering.
green ASCII characters.
‘One awesome screensaver is Fluid, which slowly drowns your
screen in liquid until it becomes a slowly undulating pool that’s so
mesmerizing you won't want to get back to work. See if that excuse
flies with your boss.
SETI@home's main function is to aid in the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). When your Mac is idle, it contacts
the SETI project headquarters for a chunk of data to crunch, processes
the data, then passes back the results. SETI hopes it’s only a matter of
time before “hello, earthlings” appears in the sea of background noise.
Want to create your own screensaver? Download xbMovieMaker,
and convert any QuickTime movie into a screensaver.
Design Tools
FONT UTILITY
Font Explorer
hhttp://pages.infinit.net/trottier/fexpl.htm!
Apple’s Key Caps utility shows you a map of your keyboard and
how the characters change when you press modifying keys—but to
find out the key combinations
for more-rare characters, you
must resort to trial and error.
Also, Key Caps can’t tell you
how to make the accent in
café—very inconvenient if you
;] fun a French bistro.
So use Font Explorer
instead. Ina single window,
Font Explorer shows you all of
a font’s characters, including
punctuation, accents, and
special characters. Just click
acharacter, and Font Explorer
tells you the magic key combo.
that creates it—even those
pesky accents.
Font Explorer turns a font into a
creative palette.
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HIGH-END 3D APP
Maya Personal Learning Edition
www.aliaswavefront.com
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Mayais a 3D authoring
tool with highly
sophisticated animation
skills. How sophisticated?
You've probably seen a
few of the movies in which
this app has starred:
Spider-Man, Lord of the
Rings, and Shrek.
Now here’s the cool
part: You can check
out this $1,999 tool for
free! just download the
Personal Learning Edition,
which includes extensive training materials. The Learning Edition
really is just for learning, though; saved files show watermarks, and
the file format isn’t compatible with pro production software.
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Maya Learning Edition is 3D boot camp.
THUMBNAIL CREATOR
ThumbnailMaker
www.dekorte.com/Software/OSX/ThumbnailMaker
ThumbnailMaker couldn't be easier to use: Just drag images onto
ThumbnailMaker’s window and boom! Insta-thumbnail. You can
also set options like width and height, of course.
POSTSCRIPT INTERPRETER
MacGsView
www.cs,wisc.edu/—ghost/macos/index.ntm
Occasionally, even shareware powerhouse GraphicConverter ($35,
http://lemkesoft.com) needs a little help opening files, particularly
PostScript files from Quark, Illustrator, or inDesign. MacGSView
converts EPS and other PostScript files into the rasterized
information that GraphicConverter—or any other app that isn’t
PostScript-savvy—can understand.
ANIMATION TOOLS
MorphX
wwworcsoftware,com/~martin/Morph. html
Cartoon Editor
\www.personal.utulsa.edu/—~jeremy-wood/editor
‘Array
www.mediumk.com/array/index.html
What would it look like if you were to turn into an elk? We don’t
really want to know—but if we did, we'd use MorphX. Give this app
two images, and it will
create images showing
the metamorphosis
of one image into the
other. You can save your
morphed images as
QuickTime movies or as
a series of still frames.
Sure, you can create
vector animations
with Macromedia’s
Flash MX—but that’s
for pros (and rich
MerphX can turn a human into a line drawing in
five quick steps.
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people). For the dabblers—and
cheapskates—there's Cartoon
Editor. It’s got a humble-but-
serviceable set of drawing tools
and gradient effects, and it can
handle animation, which you can
save in QuickTime format.
Array helps you create any type
of animation you want—as long as
you want it rendered as Lite Brite
pegs. True, Lite Brite doesn’t have
the most photorealistic resolution,
but there’s a lot you can do with
it~create a scrolling text effect or a movie marquee, for example.
But please use this tool responsibly. We've seen a lot of bad Lite
Brite images in our day.
PHOTOSHOP ADD-ONS
Array says it with Lite Brite. And
nothing says classy like Lite Brite.
Flaming Pear Free Plugins
www. lamingpear.com/download. htm
Splat demo
wwwallenskin.com
‘Sue Chastain’s Photoshop Actions
http://graphicssoft. about.com/library/free/blfree_psactionst.htm
Plug-in filters add spice to Photoshop, but they often come at a price.
Not the Flaming Pear Free Plugins pack. This baby offers cool, quirky
effects like Ghost,
which turns a layer
into a monochrome,
transparent object
similar to colored
glass.
Alien Skin’s Splat
demo is a set of filters
you can use for free,
for 30 days. And in
those 30 days you can
doa lot of damage
with Splat, like using the Frame filter to create realistic frames and
mattes, or adding decorative edge effects with the Edges filter.
‘Sue Chastain, card-carrying member of the National Association
of Photoshop Professionals, has saved a few of her best moves
as Actions, which the likes of you and me can download and run.
Sue’s Action Set provides some wacky 3D effects with type, while
Sue’s Cartoon Actions offer some inventive ways to turn photos
into illustrations.
MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS ADD-ONS
Kaleidoscope I Color Glow
wwwmacromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm
Flaming Pear’s Ghost plug-in can turn rubber
duckies into ghost duckies.
Macromedia’s Exchange Web site
includes a great collection of inexpensive
and often free stuff from a large and
growing network of users and third-
party developers. Two of the great
finds on the Fireworks Exchange are
Kaleidoscope, which generates complex,
colorful gradient patterns you can
easily incorporate into your design as
backgrounds or design elements, and the
Color Glow effect, which turns up the heat
on selected colors in existing images.
Kaleidoscope is a Fireworks
add-on that puts swirling
colors in motion.
ONLINE 3D TEXT TOOL
‘Xara3D Sampler
www.wvebpagedesign.com.au/heading, html
Ifyou're looking for a way to
spruce up some boring ol’ text,
try turning it 3D, Just entera
word or phrase directly into
the Xara3D Sampler Web
‘Click on the image to save It
site, and then choose fonts,
With the full version of Xara 3D you can create
colors, and styles to create a including enimated 3 vs
ge the b d, texture and
3D version of your text. Xara3D
Sampler will even create a.png The Xara3D Sampler puts your message
file of your 3D text. into 3D.
IMAGE FINDER
Drag any volume or folder into Peeper, and it searches through
sub-folders, applications, and files, and digs out every (and we
mean every) graphic—including images, icons, cursors, and tools.
Click any image Peeper comes up with to get its file name, drag an
image out of Peeper to copy it, or double-click to open it.
FONTS, BACKGROUNDS, AND BUTTONS
Free Mac Fonts
www freemacfonts.com,
‘Adobe Euro fonts
www.adobe,com/type/eurofont.html
Peeper =
http://nomepage.mac.com/petite_abeille/Peeper
‘AAA Buttons
www.aaa-buttons.com.
AAA Backgrounds
www.aaa-backgrounds.com
Ambo Graphics
‘www.ambographics.com
There are hundreds, nay,
thousands of free fonts out
there, but some font sites
will bombard you with pop-
up ads before you get neara
single font, while others are
Mac-unfriendly. Never fear.
Free Mac Fonts shows you
previews of Mac fonts on its
very first page.
IFyou're using one of
your old, old favorite fonts
and you need to express a
price in Euros, you may find
that the font is Euroless. No
You can download any of these
problem—just download the backgrounds from Ambo Graphics for
free Euro fonts from Adobe.
You'll get a serif, sans serif,
monospaced, and bold Euro,
all of which are neutral enough to blend in with most body fonts.
There’s no paucity of free fonts, but there’s even less of a
shortage of free art on the Web—and most of it will make you
wince. There are a few sites, however, that offer slick images,
particularly for Web designers. At AAA Buttons, for example, you'll
find a whole lotta buttons, many created with Aqua in mind. AtAAA
Backgrounds, you'll find cool abstract designs, simple textures,
and faux effects, such as cloth. Ambo Graphics also has a great
selection of artistic backgrounds, buttons, and bars.
free—provided you use them on personal
Web sites.
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iStuff for (Apps
iMOVIE PLUG-IN
‘Slick Sampler
www.geethree.com
iMovie 3 comes with a variety of effects, but Gee Three’s Slick
Sampler adds even more transitions and filters to Apple’s DV-editing
app. Transitions include the ubiquitous Barn Door (creates the effect
ofan opening-and-closing door), Drip (which looks like dripping
paint), and four others.
Slick Sampler includes three filters. The Film Noise filter takes
your clean, smooth DV footage and makes it look as though it were
captured using an
old 8mm camera—
and it’s more
convincing than
iMovie’s Aged Film
effect. Solarize
blasts your clip
with extra light. X-
Ray doesn’t show
you the bones
inside of your
subjects, but it
does turn clips into
a spooky negative
monochrome.
Slick Sampler’s Burst transition puts more oomph
in your iMovies,
iTUNES PLUG-INS
Vortex
www.trinfinitysoftware,com/vortex.shtm|
Fielder
www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/fielderitunesplugin. html
" agar ea
The iTunes Visualizer does an excellent
| job at interpreting your music, but
sometimes you want something a
{little different. Vortex is a little more
geometric, a little more stately, and a lot
more subtle, using circles that change
in color, size, and position. Fielder will
appeal to your analytical side, displaying
a row oflines that represent your audio’s
Vortex gives iTunes tonal range. The length of each line
alternative swirls. represents the amplitude.
iCAL CALENDARS
Movie Calendar
www.apple.comn/ical/library
American Politics and Government Calendar
www.icalworld.com/gov.htm!
It's hard to keep track of everything in this crazy world; shared
iCal calendars can lend a hand. One of our favorites is the Movies
calendar, which advises you of upcoming movie release dates. You
might also want to raise your civic awareness by subscribing to the
American Politics and Government calendar, which will help you
keep your finger on the pulse of congressional happenings, as well
as remind you when it's time to vote. You do vote, don’t you?
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Sound Bytes
MP3 CUSTOMIZATION TOOL
Clutter
www.sprote.com/clutter
The extraordinarily cool Clutter looks up any CD from Amazon, finds
the coverimage, and makes an icon from that image that you can
stick on your desktop. When you double-click these icons, they play
the €D using iTunes (provided that album's in your iTunes library or
the CD Is in the drive).
‘Clutter file Fd View Control Window
Look up any album in Clutter (left) to clutter up your desktop.
MUSIC CREATION TOOL
Blues Music
http://homepage.mac.com/davidahmed/bluesMusic. htm!
ey
There’s no need for talent when
you have Blues Music. Just
choose one of three backgrounds
(12 Bar Blues, Shuffle, or Rock the
Blues), and you'll hear the bass
and drums. Then it’s up to you to
press the guitar-riff buttons to
produce a flawless—albeit cliché-
ridden—solo to soar above the
other instruments.
WAKER-UPPER
mp3 alarm clock
www.sugarcubesoftware.com
Blues Music helps you tell it like it is,
blues-style.
Why wake up to crappy talk
radio when you’ve got a
Mac full of MP3s? Use mp3
alarm clock to set as many
alarms as you want, using
as many MP3s as you want.
You can schedule different
alarms for each day and
there’s even a snooze
option for those of you who
sleep next to your Mac.
Waking up is hard to do,
even when it’s to your
favorite song.
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SOUND-FILE CONVERTER FINAL CUT PLUG-IN
SoundConverter Silk and Fog
‘wwi.dekorte.com/downloads. html www.chv-plugins.com
This simple app converts sound files to and from a good selection Silk and Fog are subtle
of formats, including WAY, AIFF, and SND. SoundConverter sports a effects that essentially
single window with a single menu that allows you to choose the file casta silky, blurry
type you want to convert to. Simple. Effective. shroud over your
selected clip. They offer
LIVE365 STREAMS no parameters—you get
Hawaiian Rainbow what you get—-but they
www.hawallanrainbow.com, might fit the bill for that
Dilbetiadl special shot. Silkuad fog create dreamy hee ravens cin
www.dublab.com/help.asp?bhop=1
FINAL CUT/AFTER EFFECTS FILTER
Attention Span Radio
worw.attentionspanradio.net
Cartooner
www. borisfx.com/download/cartooner_landing.php
Live365 is an Internet radio hub that expands your listening universe
way beyond iTunes radio stations. Simply sign up for a Live365 Cartooner isa
account (www.live365.com), and you can play any of its stations wild filter that
from within ITunes. Here are a few stations that got our toes tapping. _traces the basic
Hawaiian Rainbow brings you the lovely, lilting sound of the contours of your
islands, ranging from stirring instrumentals to downright kitschy scene using a
ballads. Too mellow? Try the glitzy, upbeat, ever-peppy sounds of thick bright tine.
dub. With Dubstream, you can create a club ambiance around your The result is a
Mac instantly. scene that looks
Attention Span Radio is your source for rollicking instrumental hand-animated. Cartooner provides an eres hand-drawn effect.
fusion. You can hear plenty of synth, crashing cymbals, elaborate
melodies, bass solos, and wanton experimentation. You can even
catch the occasional live recording mixed in with the studio sounds. Office Ga dg i
Video F/X PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGER
Palm Desktop
QUICKTIME UTILITY aaa Ea
Xinema | No, you don’t need a Palm handheld to use Palm Desktop, the
htip:/lighthead. sytes.net venerable PIM that Palm ported eons ago from Claris Organizer.
Although Palm Desktop is free, it’s no wimpy little utility. It’s a
You don’t need QuickTime Pro to play movies at full screen—not calendar, a to-do manager, and a contact database rolled into one.
when you have Xinema. While movies are playing, you can use a Palm Desktop lets you sort using your own categories, soyou can
small, floating transport choose to view, say, only your co-workers or your weekend buddies.
Cy control to pause, play, You can also quickly look up contacts from the Dock, and like any
es a or rewind. You canalso g00d life-organizer, you can set alarms for those pesky events you
a Samba.mov_ opt to hide this transport wish you could forget about (call dentist, pay taxes, attend mother-
peas eee: SA eonal and use keyboard in-law's Tupperware party).
commands instead. With
the keyboard, you can
Wi scale to fill screen
O00 do even more: Jump to
Ce specific frames, move
Using this simple app, you can get your forward or backward
QuickTime movies playing at full screen. frame by frame, or adjust
the volume.
DISK SPACE CALCULATOR | roar
Videotalc | reas @rieummscs
wwnifthensoft.com Pp 4 .
lfyou know how many seconds of digital video you can store ina
gigabyte of disk space, you’re smarter than we are. VideoCalc takes
care of the hard math—just enter the particulars about the size of
yourhard drive, and VideoCalc will figure out how much footage you
can bring in, Palm Desktop is 2 PIM that means business.
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DOCUMENT-READING UTILITY
Palm Reader
\WwWw.palmdigitalmedia.com
You also don’t need a Palm handheld to take advantage of Palm
Reader, which lets you view eBooks on your Mac (sorry—it doesn’t
tell fortunes). Pick a favorite font and text size, add bookmarks, and
take notes, The next time you take an interstate bus ride, download
a book or two to your laptop first.
FILESERVICE
AntiWordService
‘www.deven-technologies.com/freeware.html
Are you mad at Microsoft Word? So mad that you're just not going
to take it anymore? If you don’t feel like shouting out your window,
here’s another way to protest: Install AntiWordService in your
Library, and edit your Word files in any Cocoa-based text editor,
such as TextEdit.
BLUETOOTH REMOTE CONTROL
Romeo
www.irowan.com/arboreal
Here’s a little something for your fancy Bluetooth
phone and fancy Bluetooth Mac. Romeo lets you
control your Mac with your phone. You can move
the cursor and broadcast clicks (among other
maneuvers)—perfect for advancing Keynote
slides with your phone while leaving one hand
free for wild gesticulations.
DATABASE APP
Control your Mac with
your Bluetooth phone.
Little Office
wwwaimbri-online.com/LittleOffice
Ifyou have a small business, and you want a simple way to keep tabs
on your inventory, Little Office is a humble alternative to throwing
time and money into more-involved apps such as FileMaker Pro or
MySQL—just use its templates to keep track of orders, customers,
sales, and other such lucrative activities.
BIBLIOGRAPHY FORMATTER
Bibliographer
veww.stanford.edu/~tristanh
You're trying to pull together a bibliography, and you don’t remember
all the formatting rules. Thankfully, Bibliographer does. Just tell it
what kind of source you used (for example, book or magazine article),
enter the pertinent info (author, title, and so on), and Bibliographer
will format your entries appropriately.
japher Feed Wibograghy
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‘Sources for "Why Cals Meow"
Por Where he Sarat as at cats tty wie Cac Prose
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Tell Bibliographer the source
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CONTACT MANAGER
Sbook
www.sbook5.com
Sbook is a simple, small contact application. Its main strength is
its search function, which can quickly find any and all information
in any field of any record in its database. For example, if you don’t
remember the name of that guy from Apple you met, just type in
Apple, and Steve Jobs will pop to the top.
Communication
WEB-BASED FAX SERVICE
eFax
www.efax.com
“It's SMARTER than a machine
and EASY AS EMAIL...”
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LOCAL NETWORK MESSAGING APP
Shout
http://homepage.mae.com/nebagakid/software/shout/index. html
Phone, fax, email, paging...perhaps there aren’t enough ways to
bug people these days. Well, thanks to Shout, a Rendezvous-based
messenger, there’s one more. Run the server app on your Mac, and
send messages to anyone on your local network. To see the Shout
server's message, just run the client and subscribe to the service.
WEB MAIL
MyMacMait
‘www.mymacmail.com
TheCrazyOni
www.thecrazyones.com
Yes, it’s a crying shame that Mac.com email addresses are no longer
free. Luckily, you can still get the Mac back into your email address.
MyhacMail will assign you a yourname@mymacmail.com address,
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along with 10MB of mail storage space. Yes, you’re gonna get a few
ads here and there as you check your email, but the service keeps it
to minimum. For those with a bit more Mac fervor—“the misfits, the
rebels, the troublemakers”—you can get a thecrazyones.com email
address. TheCrazyOnes service will also give you 6MB of storage.
SCREEN-SPYING UTILITY
Spy
www.siivernetwork.net
Ifyou want to show someone what’s on your screen, you could
email them a screenshot—better yet, you could use Spy. All you do
is launch the Spy Server, press Stat, and you'll be assigned an IP
Address. Send someone that address and they can see your Screen
via a Web browser.
Utilities
SYSTEM COPYING UTILITY
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it’s a royal pain: Many crucial
files are invisible, making it
impossible to find everything
you need to move.
Enter Carbon Copy Cloner.
This sweet little app creates a
bootable copy of your system (you
can also use it to make regular ol’
non-bootable backups). Ithasa
clean, simple interface—all you do
is choose the source and target
disks. You can also tell Carbon
Carbon Copy Cloner creates a bootable Copy Cloner what to ignore, such
copy of your system in a jiffy. as files you’ve already backed up.
SYSTEM TWEAKER
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For those of you who don’t want to get your hands dirty hacking
Mac 0S X, TinkerTool isa great catch-all system-preference app for
making all sorts of miscellaneous OS X system adjustments,
Z With TinkerTool, you can
. aet
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it 2se 3. effect (a series of animated
dr FRY See black rectangles that appear
when you open a file), add
Quit to the Finder menu, and
QUARTZ EXTREME UTILITIES
Quartz Extreme Check
www.entrony.ch/software/macosx/#quartzextremecheck
PCI Extreme
http://pages.cthome.net/zacks
Ifyou've upgraded to jaguar, its Quartz Extreme graphics
acceleration feature may or may not be running. To find out, you
could check Apple’s site to see if your graphics card supports Quartz
Extreme, but the easiest way is to run Quartz Extreme Check, which
will just flat-out tell you if Quartz Extreme has kicked in or not.
According to Apple, Quartz Extreme only runs when you have an
AGP graphics card. But why listen to Apple? (We don’t, as evidenced
by our PowerBook autopsy, p39.) PC! Extreme will force a Mac with a
PCI Radeon card to use Quartz Extreme.
PASSWORD-MANAGEMENT APP
CiphSafe
www.withay.com/macosx/ciphsafe.htm!
Another day, another giant
password and user
name. CiphSafeis a
vault for all your secret
account information and
other stuff you don’t
want to write down—and
it’s much easier to use oo
than Appie’s Keychain. 2 a a
It can aiso generate CiphSafe restores password sanity—although
passwords for you, using you still have to remember the password to
good cypherpunk sense. launch CiphSafe.
ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE
You've heard it before, but we'll say it again: Dedicated hackers can
PGP Freeware
www.pgp.com/products/freeware.htm!
intercept and read any Web form, email, or other online missive.
And though no encryption scheme is perfect, you can achieve
ciose-to-unbreakable email privacy via the free software provided
by PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Just encrypt a message and create
an unlocking code for your recipient; just don’t distribute this code
along with your top secret email. But you knew that. We hope.
FILE LAUNCHERS
Locator
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Rocket Launcher
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Finding files using Jaguar’s built-in
search is relatively quick, but the
Unix locate command is even quicker,
Locator puts an Aqua face on this
command, which makes it easy to
use as well as fast. Itneeds a little
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turn on a shadow around the
Dock, among other things.
You can also change the
system font, move the Dock
to the top of the screen, and
choose the Suck In window-
minimizing effect (a variation
TinkerTool is a great catch-all utility.
‘of the Genie effect).
time to buildadatabaseeveryso ‘Select the apps
often, though—so cut it some slack. you want to
Ifyou miss the ol’ application access from
menu from pre-OS X days, Rocket yourmenu bar
Launcher can help. It puts an app- (above), and
launching menu in your menubar, Rocket Launcher
even letting you pickthe apps you _will put them
want to appearthere. G’bye, Dock! _ there (right).
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> Utilities continued...
WEB-BASED STORAGE
Yahoo Briefcase
http://briefcase yahoo.com
Quite a few sites offer Internet storage, but our favorite is Yahoo
Briefcase. You can store up to 30MB in your Briefcase, and it’s both
fast and reliable.
FINDER UTILITY
Tree Size
www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware
{twould benice to know the size of all the folders nestled inside a
particular folder, rather than having to do a Command-| on every
single one. Well, that’s exactly what Tree Size does. Be warned,
though, the program is in German. If you don’t sprechen Sie
Deutsches, all youneed to Len is that clicking the active button will
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APP-OPENING APPLESCRIPT
Wipe Creator
www.scotlandsoftware.com/products/applescript/index. htm
It’s frustrating when the wrong application opens a file. Wipe
Creator ensures that files open in the appropriate default Mac OS X
application. For example, drop a JPEG created in GraphicConverter
onto this AppleScript and your image will open in Preview.
KEYBOARD LAYOUT CONFIGURATOR
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uControl
http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ucontral.html
aren’t satisfied with
anything—even their
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accomplish other
slick maneuvers of
this kind.
Remap your keys with uControl.
28 MacAddict July 2003
BENCHMARKING TOOL
Xbench
http://xvench.com
Xbench will measure CPU,
RAM, hard disk, and other
aspects of your Mac's
performance. If you're
curious how your Mac ee
stacks up against the other Cae)
zealous overclockers cut
there, you can compare your Xbench clocks your Mac so you can
results to postings on the back up your speed claims.
Xbench Web site.
Games
MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMING SERVICE
GameRanger
Arwread Test Bogert Test
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A DIsk Test
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SHOCKWAVE GAMES
Snow Craft
www.arcadepod.com/shockwave/gotogame.php?id=1898
Bookworm
www.shockwave.com/sw/content/bookworm
Gutterball 3D
www.shockwave.com/sw/content/gutterball
Shockwave is Macromedia’s technology for delivering multimedia
content aver the Web—aka supercool games! Many Shockwave
games are available for download (usually for a fee), but you can
Me
We killed Kenny! Snowballs become lethal weapons in Snow Craft.
play most of the same games online for free. Just be sure you've
got the Shockwave plug-in installed (www.macromedia.com
/software/shockwaveplayer).
In Snow Craft, two teams of kids who took like they stepped
right out of South Park battle it out with snowballs. Your goal: to
knock the other team
senseless before they
do the same to you.
It's a bit slow, even
with broadband,
but fun.
Bookworm is an
entertaining diversion
for word nerds. You
try to spell words by
connecting tiles—the
longer the word, the
higher the score.
Gutterbaltis
(surprise, surprise) a
bowling game, and it
get through the terrain, the higher your score.
In Asteroid Storm, you're on a space ship surrounded
by asteroids,
Sound familiar?
Asteroid Storm
isan homage
to Asteroids,
which addicted
a generation of
arcade-goers,
and it doesn’t
disappoint.
The graphics
and sounds are
impressive, and
the explosions
are rendered in
convincing detail.
Web
Paraphernalia
ONLINE BLOG CREATOR
Blogger
vwiww.blogger.com
Asteroids, anyone? Blast through rocks in this classic
space game.
Ifyou have something
to say to the world,
just sign up with
Blogger, choose from
a variety of templates
and formats, and post
messages via its Web
(oun seannanos (oom)
. effectively captures
the aspect of the
site. What you enter
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game where you fan the air in the hopes of directing the path of your
ball. Just move your mouse to slowly affect the ball’s trajectory. It’s
also worth checking out Gutterballl just for the good old-school funk
background music.
FREEWARE GAMES
3DBlur
http://home.fuse.net/obvious
Asteroid Storm
www.zerkonnen.com.
3DBlur is a flight sim—but
in this case, sim is short
for simple. You fly through
a naturalistic maze of
mountains and try not
to crash—but there’s
nothing realistic about
your aircraft. tt has one
gauge, which shows your
approximate position, and
a single means of control:
either your mouse or the
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WEB-HOSTING SERVICE
Mac Rules
www.macrules.com
Ifyou're looking fora piace to host your Web site, check out Mac
Rules, where you can pick up 10MB of server space. To qualify for
free hosting, however, you have to offer Mac-oriented content. If you
ever wanted to post your own product reviews, rave about the latest
gadgets, or rag on Apple’s management, this could be the digital
Fly through a canyon in 3DBlur—and try not
to hit anything, would ya?
arrow keys. Still, 3DBluris
addictive—the farther you
soapbox for you.
July 2003 MacAddict 29
BEST FREEBIE: 84 to 92
> Web Paraphernalia continued...
BROWSING UTILITY
NewsMac
http://users.aber.ac,uk/rlp9/newsmac/downloads.htm!
News Web sites can be
pretty distracting, what
with all the blinking
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displays headlines
and text, NewsMac is
much faster than any
NewsMac delivers just the facts.
usoFyne tells you the whole truth and
nothing but,
browser, and works
well even over dial-up.
WEB-DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
MySQL
www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-4.0,html
Dragon Web Surveys trial
http:/wmotion.com/dragon. html
Say you run a club for Mac fanatics. You don’t want to list all the
members of your club on a static Web page. Instead, you want
your members to be able to search for other members based ona
few criteria. What you need is MySQL, an ongoing, open-source
database that can help your Web site handle dynamic content,
Ifyou want to create a survey that tests potential members to
ensure that they’re fanatical enough for your club, check out the
Dragon Web Surveys trial, which (in conjunction with FileMaker Pro)
lets you create a Web survey that can receive up to 50 responses.
None of
the Above
EGO-BOOSTING WEB SITE
usoFyne
wwwusofyne.com
Ifyou’re feeling down, go.
fishing fora compliment
with usoFyne. Just fill outa
Web form with some basic
information about yourself, and
areal person emails you back
a usoFyne—a thoughtful (and
At uso ye wa baie at people a ul of SISOS LO LAU
cphephabegrndaiy BP) of compliments.
Be patient! It took about
two weeks forusto get a
response, but it was well
worth the wait, Here’s what usoFyne had to say to someone who
was recently laid off: “Whats up with that? Getting laid off—you,
of all people! You who are so hot and awesome and an important
part of the company....Despite your current problems, your amazing
awesomeness is full-time, forever...” We've never loved ourselves as
much as we do now.
soFye Isa prop-aivng, faery delivering service
‘sdminstered fee of charge.
30 MacAddict July 2003
WEB-BASED BULLETIN BOARD
www.craigslist.org
Many people know about Craigslist, the bulletin-board-style
site with job, for-sale, apartment, and other listings for over 20
cities. But no matter where you live, you can take advantage of the
Craigslist Forums. Ask for a book recommendation, get advice
on how to handle your tyrannical boss, or check out the Missed
Connections section, where people post romantic propositions like:
“Cute blonde on the StairMaster this afternoon at 24 Hour Fitness:
Want to meet for coffee?” Hey buddy, we hope it works out forya.
SPIROGRAPH CREATOR
SpirographXx
http://homepage.mao.cony/solidmag/spiro
Remember that spirograph-drawing gear set you had as a kid? Here’s
a digital version—only now you don’t have to worry about keeping
your penin the hole. Just play with different settings like color and
equation, and SpirographX will dutifully draw a spirograph image
(or animation, if you wish). You can even turn your animation into
a screensaver.
SpirographX nurtures your inner kindergartner.
EARTH AND SPACE
WeatherPop
www.glu.com/products/weatherpop/index.html
MoonDock
http://homepage.mac.com/garyemartin
Our Neighbors
htip://homepages tig.com.au/~cthulhu/sbe/index.html
WeatherPop shows the current temperature and a weather icon
(indicating sunny, partly cloudy, and so on) right in your menu bar.
The free version only includes U.S. cities covered by the National
Weather Service. MoonDock sits where you’d expect and gives
you a run-down of the moon’s phase, estimated surface visibility,
and other lunar info. Our Neighbors shows a 3D representation of
our sun and its 70 nearest neighboring stars, showing their names
and other information. You can rotate the model in all directions,
changing your view of the stars in relation to the sun.
2&260° * 4 CEP Fri2:05 PM
Keep tabs on the outside world with WeatherPop.
93 to 100
KITCHEN TIMERS CIRCUS-CAREER STARTER
Fob Jugale
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Cuppa
www.wunderbear.com/cuppa ‘So you want to learn how to juggle.
Juggle shows very simple, clear
Have you ever animations of complex juggling patterns.
been so involved Even if you can’t immediately replicate
in getting that drop them using flaming torches or chain
shadow justright in saws, at least you can get an idea of what
Photoshop that you you need to work on.
accidentally burn
your dinner roast Juggle preps you for your next
beyond recognition? job interview.
You need Fob. Fob
isa kitchen timer WEB-BASED ALARM
for your Mac that Baisay Alan
counts down a set www. birthdayalerm.com
amount of time, then
chimes when it’s Ifyou're always forgetting your mom’s birthday, the Birthday Alarm
time to deal with the Web site can help get you out of hot water. Sign up, and it gives you
Fob will tell you when to check on your meat. Cuppa is more a link that you can email to those special somebodies so they can fill
culinary creations, specific: Itknows, in their vital info. Once their information is in the system, you'll get
how longto steep an auto-reminder a week before the big day.
various types of tea. A teacup icon bounces in your Dock, complete
with a spoon-clank sound, when your tea is ready to sip. DESKTOP CLOCK
Fuzzy Clock
BRAINSTORMING TOOLS ‘www.objectpark.org/FuzzyClock.html Pes |
Idea Knot i
www.StayAtPlay.com/ideaknot The problem with most digital clocks is that they’re so...accurate.
MyMind Atime of 11:56 doesn’t carry nearly as much meaning as ‘round
www.sebastian-krauss.de/software midnight. Fuzzy Clock addresses this problem by using terms such
as nearly, almost, and so on, to express the time. It can also tell you
(32%) & My Next Job You know you're a genius, the date, although that info is given precisely—you’ll see June 15
cee but to convince others of rather than “mid-June.”
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tio ike eats well organized. Idea Knot CONVERSION UTILITY
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bo sched aol and so on, and then export knows picas, leagues, calibers,
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snags in apps such as Keynote.
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Excellent! Where do sign? Tepresentation of that and has worked ata number of Mac publications. He’s
‘Yacrobat mumbo jumbo (below). downloaded so many free things from the Web that he dreams In RGB.
‘Wonder what the hours are?
July 2003 MacAddict 31
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK MADEO
ON THE
DISC
After Effects 6.5 tryout,
Painter 8 trial, Universe
‘5 demo, bonus articles,
plus a interview
with Jules Mann and
Wison Tang
92 MacAddict July 2003
by Kris Fong
er
Hulk
We reveal the secret design weapon that
propelled the Hulk from sketch to silver screen.
s a famous frog once said,
it’s not easy being green. It’s
also not easy being the guys
who had to choose the perfect
shade of green to cover literally one of
the biggest Marvel Comics superheroes
to come to the big screen. But that was
exactly the challenge facing art directors
Jules Mann and Wilson Tang at Lucas
Digital’s Industrial Light + Magic (LM).
Of course, the hero we’re talking
about is the Hulk, and the movie is
this summer’s much-anticipated The
Hulk, directed by Ang Lee and starring
Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly. Like
any Hollywood superhero movie,
The Hulk is full of flashy effects and
computer-generated graphics. And like
many Hollywood movies these days,
Macs played an integral part in the
production—this time in coming up with
the Hulk’s design as well as the movie’s
conceptual art and previsualization
sequences (computer-generating the
final Hulk was a job for SGI machines and
penguin boxes, aka Linux).
This spring, MacAddict visited
the award-winning visual effects
powerhouse ILM in San Rafael,
California. There we met up with Mann
and Tang to find out how they used Macs
to design the Hulk and establish the
movie’s scene sequences. A quick drive
north over the Golden Gate Bridge and
‘we were on our way to digital nirvana.
THE BEGINNING _
“The Incredible Hulk started —
life as aMarvel Comic _
haracter created by Stan
July 2003 MacAddict 33
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK MADEO
NAME GAME The Hulk's alter
ego is physicist Dr. Robert Bruce
Banner. He took the name David
Banner when The Incredible Hulk
came to TV. In the movie The Hulk, he's
‘once again known as Bruce Banner.
ILM art directors Wilson Tang (left) and
Jules Mann (right).
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
The following hardware and software
tools are indispensable to ILM art
directors Jules Mann and Wilson Tang.
*Power Mac G4, Mac OS 9 and OS X,
512MB of RAM, 40GB disk space
(www.apple.com)
*SGI monitors (www.sgi.com)
*Wacom Intuos 17-inch tablet
(www.wacom.com)
Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, and
Photoshop (www.adobe.com)
+Corel Painter (www.corel.com)
Electric Image (now part of Universe,
www.electricimage.com)
*ILM OpenEXR (www.openexr.net)
*NewTek LightWave 3D
(www.newtek.com)
*Nikon Coolpix 900
(www.nikonusa.com)
34 MacAddict July 2003
The Art-
Directing Duo
Strip-malt hell! Not exactly where we
envisioned the site of a premier visual
effects conglomerate—but that’s all we
could see while waiting for our visitors’
passes. But once we were granted access
and entered ILM’s magical kingdom,
we gawked as we strolled past Jurassic
Park trees, a carbonized Han Solo (not
the classic version), a Harry Potter 2
Quidditch matte painting (created ona
Mao), Darth Vader, the Energizer Bunny,
and even a few fruity iMacs on our way to
meet The Hulk’s two art directors.
Unfortunately, being art directors
at a prestigious company doesn’t
necessarily net you a lot of space. Mann
and Tang work together in cramped
quarters, surrounded by a menagerie
of ILM-created models and toys from
Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Star Trek,
Men in Black, and other blockbuster
films. A couple of G4s sit at their feet.
Though ILM upgraded all of its Macs to
OS Xin March this year, both Mann and
Tang are still holding out in OS 9. According
to Mann, “We have X, but we just rebel—
BEFORE Tang wanted to make the Hulk’s
eyes more realistic in this 3D render.
we don’t use it.” Tang adds, “We're not
leaving Photoshop 5.5.” When asked why
they won’t make the switch, Tang sums it
up best: “You're driving a classic car like
that and somebody says, ‘Here, take this
other steering wheel.” You don’t want it.
You know how to drive that car.”
Because The Hulk was such a large
project, ILM put two art directors on
the movie. Tang dealt with the Hulk as
a creature and actor, helping to define
his look, gestures, characteristics,
and movement. Mann was responsible
for integrating the Hulk within his
environment and defining his interaction
with the elements around him.
Concept to
Creature
The first challenge was to design the
Hulk’s physical being so that ILM’s
computer graphics team could bring the
character to 3D life. This process involved
deciding how big and brawny the Hulk
should be, what his features should look
like, and, of course, choosing the perfect
shade of green.
Work began with a sculpted model
of the Hulk (called a maquette) and
director Ang Lee’s casting of Eric Bana,
who plays the Hulk’s human alter ego,
Dr. Bruce Banner. Mann and Tang also
received pictures of Bana performing
different facial expressions (mostly
anger—the Hulk doesn’t exactly grin a
lot) as a reference so that the computer-
generated (CG) character's expressions
would bear some resemblance to Bana.
They also took digital photos of the
maquette, and brought those images
into Adobe Photoshop to experiment
AFTER Using Photoshop, Tang added a
shadow below the upper lid, gray and red
tones to the white of the eye, highlights
and sharpening to the bottom lid, and
reflection and color flecks in the Iris.
with different facial mutations.
Mann and Tang worked on much of
this developmental phase with Ang Lee
sitting alongside them. Mann gives props
to the Mac for making this process work.
“Because we are on a Mac, it’s somuch
faster than a lot of the SGI stuff because
we have Photoshop and a scanner and
a digital camera. We played with 50
different color palettes, taking elephant
skin and using Photoshop [to layer] it on
{the Hulk’s face], playing with his hair,
taking his facial features and actually
elongating his jaw and widening it.”
To establish the Hulk’s full-body
characteristics, they videotaped a body
builder—as Mann puts it, “a big, buff
guy”—to study his movement and apply it
to the Hulk’s design. But they didn’t want
to make the Hulk too human. As Mann
points out, “He’s a creature, and he’s
15 feet tall and green and a thousand
pounds, so there have to be some
cinematic things that plus it out—that
make it over the top, a little more comic
book-like.”
ILM’s team of 2D conceptual artists
created anatomical sketches of the Hulk
on paper. Mann and Tang sent these
sketches, along with their images and
some comic-book reference material, to
the CG modelers, who then sculpted the
Hulk into a rough 3D form. From these
renders, Tang and team defined the Hulk’s.
more-detailed characteristics—skin
textures, facial and body hair, and muscle
form, for example—using Photoshop to
illustrate ideas and insert corrections
‘onto the renders for the CG team.
Mann and Tang also began working on
incorporating the Hulk into the movie.
Using Photoshop (and sometimes Corel
Painter), they created drawings and
photorealistic images, called concept
art, to illustrate various story points.
For example, they showed how dirt
should appear on the Hulk’s skin,
developed landscape environments
around the Hulk, and even mapped out
the gradual disintegration of the Hulk’s
tattered trousers (Mann showed us his
own shorts, which they scanned in as
reference scrap material—no, he wasn’t
wearing them when he showed them to
us). All of this art went to the CG team,
whe integrated the Hulk animatically (in
animated 3D)
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