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05.24.93 Volume 7 Number 21 et E NPE OW SW E.G Ley bak MACINTOSH MANAGERS Ofoto Accurate desktop color loser to reality Presenter Professional Modeler app first rate, but renderer app needs work Coolscan, mirae35 Comparison of two low-cost slide scanners SMOIAD See Page 67 Our annual survey of largest Mac sites details purchase plans This year’s MacWEEK 200, our fifth annual study of the largest Mac-using sites in the United States and Canada, found that managers have decided that processing power and portability are key to their enterprises. Making their way through the maze of new Mac models, man- agers have come down solidly on the high end. Quadra and Centris machines make up 46 percent of all the Macs the sites surveyed plan to purchase. Those models account for 34 percent of planned purchases ‘among the colleges and universities ‘on the Education 50, MacWEEK’s. third annual survey of the top Mac- using educational institutions. What companies are making all these purchases? Eastman Kodak Co., which placed No. 1 last year, did so again this year, proving its ‘ongoing commitment to Mac tech- nology. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor topped our Education 50 list. To find out which models the top sites have installed, what theyre planning to buy and the creative ways in which they're using Mac technology to solve business prob- | lems, see Page 41. Vendors draw up standard for sharing pen-based data By Nathalie Welch Atlanta — An alliance of vendors, including Apple, Microsoft Corp., General Magic Inc., Lotus Develop- ment Corp. and GO Corp., will ink a new page in pen-based computing at Comdex/Spring 93 here this week. The partners, led by | GO PenPoint applica- tion developer Slate Corp., have spent sever- Meets deGning! a ¢ standard, called Jot 1.0, for sharing pen-generated data across both pen-enabled and tradi- tional computer platforms. Jot is a new data format for the “digital ink” created when a user writes on a computer with an electronic pen. Jot will let users share handwritten notes, signa- tures and drawings on platforms ranging from handhelds to main- frames — even if the platform can- not generate its own ink or recog- nize handwriting. Jot will store informa- tion, such as the type of pen tip used, the color of the ink and the angles used to write, in such a way that an application unfamiliar with a particu- lar property can ignore it. If a system or application under- stands ink, it could take scribbles recorded on another platform and convert them to text locally. Apple said it has not determined in what products it will implement See Jot, Page 147 Apple lightens price. Centris 610, PB 165c, Duo 210 get discounts By Jon Swartz Cupertino, Calif. — In an effort to stimulate sales of slow-moving models and keep pace with PC com- petitors, Apple last week informed dealers that it is trimming prices on a variety of Macs. The dealer price cuts — from 8 percent to 16 percent on machines from the Macintosh Color Classic to the PowerBook 165c — are expected to be a precursor to official retail cuts next month. Apple often cuts the price it charges resellers Tech Analysis AppleScript could bring Apple events into mainstream By Raines Cohen San Francisco — More than two years after the release of System 7, one of its most powerful technolo- gies — Apple events — remains misunderstood, underappreciated and rarely supported. But with the emergence of AppleScript, the company’s new Apple-events-based scripting system, more users and programmers may soon be using the technology to integrate and cus- tomize applications. Apple events lets programs com- municate behind the scenes with others by way of a System 7 facility See Apple events, Page 146 COND CLASS Open Sesame! summons agents fo automate tasks By April Streeter Cambridge, Mass. — It can’t bring you coffee or clean off your desk, but an intelligent-agent pro- gram now under development for the Macintosh can learn to do rou- tine desktop tasks. Charles River Analytics Inc. will take the wraps off Open Sesame!, agent software that runs in the back- ground on System 7 Macs at Mac- Mac agent automates routine Agent observes Agent asks: user constantly copetiey ne pe ter SI trash? Observation world Expo in Boston this August. The program, expected to cost about $100, observes repetitive pat- terns in opening and closing files and applications, arranging desktop windows, and emptying the Trash. Open Sesame! will learn selected actions supported in System 7’s core, required and Finder suites of Apple events. After observing an See Open Sesame!, Page 148 sks User instructs Agent empties agent:"Yes, Trash empty Trash — automatically five minutes _ according to user after file is instructions. dropped.” Automation of sluggish models prior to announcing new list prices. At the same time, Apple told dealers it is slashing list prices for two printers. The Personal Laser- Writer NTR has been cut 29 per- cent, to $1,179 from $1,649, and the Apple Color Printer has been shaved 29 percent, to $1,659 from $2,349 (see chart, Page 148). The prices below are approximations: > PowerBook 165c. Apple's color notebook took the biggest dealer price cut — $500, or 16 per- cent — to $2,650. The passive- matrix model has recorded sluggish | sales since it became widely avail- | able in March. > Centris 610. Dealer prices on all four models were reduced by about $150, or 7 percent to 10 percent. The 4/80 configuration now costs dealers $1,325; the 4/80 with Ethernet is $1,400; the 8/230 is $1,850; and the | 8/230 with CD-ROM is $2,150. > Color Classic. Apple has | See Price cuts, Page 148 | HP color inkjet earns ifs stripes By Steve Hannaford Over the years, Hewlett-Packard Co. has perfected its inkjet-printer technology, and the company’s | black-and-white and color models have gained a reputation for relia- bility, affordability and ease of use. Now HP has lined up yet another well-made, reasonably priced desk- top printer: the HP DeskJet 1200C/PS, a 300-dpi, letter-size, color inkjet device that features Adobe PostScript Level 2 and offers extensive networking options. We looked at a prerelease version of the DeskJet 1200C/PS; while all the features in the product were not accessible, we got a very good picture of the printer’s usefulness in a busi- ness environment. 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The QuickDraw printer folds up to 1.9 by 12.2 by 8.5 inches, slightly larger than a PowerBook, and weighs 4 pounds without a power supply, sources said. Itruns ona rechargeable Support still high o By Leonard Heymann Mason, Ohio — MaclS last week disclosed its latest Apple wish list, which, based on past history, will help shape Apple’s agenda for the coming year. Support heads the list of priori- ties, based on a membership vote of MaclS (Managing Apple Comput- ers in Information Systems). Half of the top 10 list is new, reflecting the fact that Apple recently delivered several products that were high on last year’s list, including the Apple Workgroup Server 95 and support for SNMP (Simple Network Man- agement Protocol). > Support. At MacIS’ recent con- ference in San Antonio, Apple briefed the group on an extensive help-desk support program due later this year. Now the Mac managers want to be sure the company delivers the goods. “The old issue was, ‘Tell us what you're going to do, and now it’s ‘Deliver what you promised,’ ” said Brian Comnes, manager of informa- tion systems at DHL Airways Inc. of Redwood City, Calif, and MaclS MaclS top 10 wish list “Wasn’ta top 10 issue. nickel-cadmium battery or an AC adapter, both of which will ship with the device. The Portable StyleWriter can reportedly output about 30 pages ona single charge. A battery charger will be included, anda 50-sheet paper feeder will be offered as an option. Sources said the printer, which has a Centronics parallel interface, will ship with a parallel-to-serial converter cable and driver from GDT Softworks Inc. of Burnaby, British Columbia. Apple and GDT declined to comment. 0 n MaclS wish list director in charge of voting on the list. > Security. Network and hard- ware security were combined for the first time, pushing the issue to No. 2 onthe priorities list. > PowerPC. Macl$ wants Apple to release more information on its PowerPC strategy, including com- paring it to Intel Corp.'s Pentium microprocessor and the Microsoft Windows NT operating system. > AOCE. The group is seeking more information on the AOCE (Apple Open Collaboration Envi- ronment) and wants to ensure cross- platform support. > VITAL. MaclS asked Apple to offer an electronic VITAL guide and form a consortium to back the architecture. > DAL. Some 30 improvements to the Data Access Language were requested, including _ providing more support for Windows and binary large objects. > ARA. MaclS urged Apple to rebundle the AppleTalk Remote Access client with PowerBooks, a move that is expected this summer; develop an Apple-logo mul- tiline ARA server; and improve dial-in security. > Improve Mac OS. The group urged Apple to providea protected memory mode, better error messages and a “mini” System 7, among other enhancements. > Bug database. Com- nes said MacIS wants Apple toacknowledge that bugs do occur in system software and to provide an Apple- Link database of bugs with expected resolution dates. > Software licensing. MacIS urged Apple to offer a more flexible licens- ing program in more dis- tribution channels. 0 im News 4 a2 22 28 28 36 36 Al Motorola puts chips on new hardware Development under way on low-power version of the “040 and microprocessors for CD-Is and Magic Cap. Fifth Generation unveils newest generation of utils CopyDoubler, SuperLaserSpool and Fastback Express get upgrades. LabVIEW to move up to 3.0 National Instruments update simplifies cross-platform porting and adds new instruments and tools. Gateways Miramar lets Mac and Windows users become peers Personal Maclan Connect works like System 7 file sharing, Mac networks get Help! from Teknosys Administrators can detect software problems on client Macs. GA Specular to lower price of 3-D $200 Infini-D LogoMotion extrudes type, graphics into 3-D; saves animations as QuickTime movies. Autologic, Optronics take imagesetter to 4,000 dpi New models hook to fast PostScript RIPs with EtherTalk connections. BusinessWatch Aldus to acquire After Hours Software Purchase of Touchbase Pro, Datebook Pro bolster consumer line. Dealers unfazed by Apple’s move to mail order Small business will be added to catalog mailing lst but resellers say it’s helped them Special Report MacWEEK 200: The results are in The fifth annual MacWEEK 200 examines the installed base, purchase plans and particular interests of the top 200 Mac-using sites in the United States and Canada. We also look at the issues concerning the top sites on the Education 50 list. VOL.7 NO.21 ia 62 62 63 63 67 67 74 83 88 88 150 92 97 126 MacWEEK 05.24.93 Editorial Quadras have nowhere to go. Commentary/Jean-Louis Gassée ‘A Blockbuster of an idea for the software industry. Letters The accurate costs of looking good in print. Mac Manager/Don Crabb Columnist joins forces with the Intel revolution. Reviews In living color Ofoto 2.0 strives for accurate color scanning. VIDI Presenter Pro has model 3-D applications But weaker animator renders it uneven. Low-cost slide scanners get the picture Nikon Coolscan and Santos mira®35 produce high-quality scans for low-end users. ProductWatch In focus: Photo CD players With Photo CD drives proliferating, buying decisions will be made based on options available. MacInTouch/Ric Ford Tuning up QuickTime 1.6 and Sound Manager 3.0. Ask David Ramsey More adjustments for monitor mavens. Mac the Knife The overlooked lesson in GM's Magic Cap interface Is the 3-D metaphor a step toward virtual reality? 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News Chips announced for CD-I, PDAs By Henry Norr Scottsdale, Ariz.— Motorola Inc. last week announced a new low- power version of the 68040, plus specialized microprocessors for per- sonal intelligent communicators and for Compact Disc-Interactive entertainment systems. ‘The announcement came at a briefing for press and analysts here, where a division of Ford Motor Co. also endorsed the PowerPC (see story below). > The low-power 040, official- ly called the 68040V, will answer the prayers of those who have hoped for 040 performance in a PowerBook, but not for nearly a year: Volume pro- duction is not expected to ship until the second quarter of 1994. Like the 68L.C040 used in the Centris 610, the 040V will provide all features of full 040s excepta floating- point math unit. The chip will be offered in 25- and 33-MHz versions. Yet the new ’040V, which will be based on 0.5-micron process tech- nology, consumes 40 percent to 60 percent less current than existing versions of the 040, according to Motorola. It runs on 3.3-volt By the end of the decade, the PowerPC could be a fixture on the nation’s highways as well as its desktops. In the latest endorsement of the new RISC processor, the Ford Electronics Division of Ford Motor Co. announced at a briefing in Scottsdale, Ariz., last week that it intends to build PowerPC-based microcontrollers into future ver- sions of its Electronic Engine Con- trol modules. The device could also be adapted for other functions, such as voice control and navigation sys- tems, a spokesman said. Ford and Motorola will collabo- rate on the development of the microcontroller, the _ first announced embedded application for the RISC architecture being developed jointly by Motorola Inc., IBM Corp. and Apple. Ford had previously announced its intention to use Motorola’s original 88000 RISC processor for the project. PowerPC-equipped _ vehicles MACWEEK 05.24.93 power, compared with the 5-volt power required for current "040s; in full operation at 33 MHz, it uses only 1.5 watts, a sixth of the power dissipation of the original version of the processor. Power-management functions are built-in, including an instruction that shuts down all active circuits. The company did not announce pricing, but Jack Browne, vice presi- dent and director of marketing for Motorola’s High Performance Microprocessor Division, said prices should be similar to those of current ’040s. In quantities of 1,000, those processors now sell for $245 at 25 MHz, $290 at 33 MHz and $393 at 40 MHz. > The personal communicator chip, called the 68349 or Dragon I, was designed specifically to run Magic Cap, General Magic Inc.’s “communicating applications plat- form.” It is expected to make its first appearance coupled with a propri- etary chip called the Astro in a “per- sonal intelligent communicator” to be released later this year by Motoro- la’s Paging and Wireless Data Group (see MacWEEK, Feb. 8). Motorola said the chip, which has a power-dissipation rating of only 300 milliwatts, is also suitable for use in personal digital assistants or other communications devices. Ford Motor to use PowerPC-based microcontrollers for engine control won't start shipping until about 1997 or 1998, a Ford official said. Eventually, all Ford cars will incor- porate at least one PowerPC-based controller and more likely sev- eral, according to Brian Wilkie, vice president and general man- ager of Motorola's Advanced Microcontroller Division. Motorola projects that annual production of PowerPCs will reach nearly 18 million units by 1997, according to Phil Pompa, director of marketing for the company’s RISC Microprocessor Division. He also said more operating sys- tems are likely to be available on the PowerPC than on any other microprocessor; a slide he dis- played showed not only the four systems already announced for the platform — PowerOpen, Taligent, Solaris and the Mac operating sys- tem — but also Microsoft Win- dows NT; IBM’s OS/2; Novell Inc.’s NetWare; and Unix System V, Release 4. — By Henry Norr Motorola posts processor plans The core of the integrated micro- processor is a full 32-bit, 68000- derived central processor supple- mented bya configurable instruction cache and data memory; other built- in features include a high-speed direct memory access controller and a dual-channel serial communi- cations port. Samples of both 5- and 3.3-volt implementations running at 16 and 25 MHzare available now, according to Motorola; volume shipments are expected in the fourth quarter. Prices will start at $28.20 for the 16-MHz version in quantities of 10,000. > The CD-I chip, called the 68341, is intended for use in home- entertainment and educational sys- tems and other low-cost, low-power applications, the company said. Vol- ume shipments of 3.3- and 5-volt ver- sions running at 16 and 25 MHz are expected in the fourth quarter. Browne, whose group is responsi- ble for all of Motorola’s 680x0-based products, said the company will also offer embedded controllers based on the ’040V and the 68060, an addition to the family that is expected to ship in volume in about a year. Although it will offer about three times the performance of a 25-MHz 040 while drawing only a fraction of the power, the 060 may never appear in Macs; by the time it ships, Apple will already have begun its transition to the PowerPC, and the improved 603 and 604 versions of that chip will be just over the horizon. Browne said, however, that he still hopes to persuade Apple to leave room for the ’060’s 10 additional pins when it develops low-power ’040V-based systems. That way, Apple would leave itself a high- performance hedge in case the tran- sition to RISC proves problematic. 0 = Fastback Express =| Fifth Genera- FASTBACK EXPRESS --~.*| nial will get anew ry fans Files interface in the (ees eer Express ver- sion, which aap ieee hides much = backup com- 7 a} plexity from the user. isk Type Standort Meciatesh BhoacomaoeeaaeA a quit ] Options | [etre ectur B} Fifth Generation announces a new generation of utilities By Robert Hess Baton Rouge, La. — Fifth Gener- ation Systems Inc. rolled out new versions of several of its Mac utilities last week. > CopyDoubler 2.0, to be released this week, will let users copy in the background, queue up multiple jobs and schedule copy operations for later execution. The Fast Replace feature has been improved and can be combined with the scheduling feature to pro- vide a basic file-synchronization system, the company said. The new version gives users the option of having the Finder, rather than CopyDoubler, perform a par- ticular copy operation — to bypassa CopyDoubler queue, for example. Version 2.0 also offers control over compression and decompression of files during copying if Fifth Genera- tion’s AutoDoubler is installed. Verification of copied files has been expanded to include all media, including file servers. Upgrades to the $59.95 product are $14.95. > Fastback Express, the compa- InForms Filler coming to Mac By Lisa Picarille Orem, Utah — WordPerfect Corp. is readying a Mac version of the Filler portion of InForms, its electronic forms package. With InForms Filler, due in July for Windows and late this year for the Mac and Unix, users will be able to enter data, perform database queries and access supported databases but neither alter nor create forms. Once forms have been completed, they can be routed using WordPerfect Office 4.0, Lotus Development Corp.’s cc:Mail or Microsoft Mail. A gateway to read Lotus Notes databases is also included. A$495 Designer module, due in July for Windows, will let users cre- ate forms that include objects such as entry fields, buttons, check boxes and tables and link them to a variety of databases, including Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server, Borland Inter- national Inc.’s Paradox and dBASE, Oracle, and Sybase. InForms Designer for the Mac is planned but not yet under develop- ment, WordPerfect said. The Filler is $199 with documen- tation and $149 without documen- tation. Concurrent-user licenses range from $495 for a five-pack to $6,995 for 100 users. WordPerfect Corp. is at 1555 N. Technology Way, Orem, Utah 84057-2399. Phone (801) 225- 5000; fax (801) 228-5077. ny’s $99 backup utility, next month will be updated to Version 2.0. The utility can now copy files in Finder formatas well as the proprietary com- pressed format used in the original release. The new version introduces “self-extracting backups”; users can now create backups that can be restored even when the user doesn’t have the FastBack software. The program will give AutoDoubler owners the option of using that pro- gram’s compression engine in lieu of FastBack compression. Upgrades are $29. > DiskLock PB, a $59 subset of the company’s DiskLock security software, is aimed at PowerBook users. It secures a disk on sleep, shut- down and restart. Because DiskLock PB is installed at the SCSI driver level, it, unlike other utilities, cannot be defeated by starting up with a flop- py, Fifth Generation said. > MacPak 1.0 isa $149 collection that contains AutoDoubler; Copy- Doubler 1.0; FastBack Express; Disk- Lock PB; an application launcher called Launch Pad; and the desk accessories from the now-discontin- ued File Director package, including DiskTools and PhonePad DAs. > SuperLaserSpool, the com- pany’s $149 print spooler, this month was upgraded to Version 3.1. ‘The update improves memory management. Users can spool to multiple disks, and PowerBook users can print to disk, then spool to a printer at a later time. Upgrades are $15.95. In other news, the company announced a $129 bundle of its $89.95 AutoDoubler 2.0 and $79.95 DiskDoubler 3.7.7. The bundle is available through Sept. 30. Fifth Generation is also offering a trade-in that lets users of competing products buy its $149 Public Utili- ties for $59 through Sept. 30. Fifth Generation is at 10049 N. Rieger Road, Baton Rouge, La. 70809. Phone (504) 291-7221 or (800) 873-4384; fax (504) 295-3628.0 Looks like } their very 0 The new generation HP LaserJet 4M printer. At last. An HP laser printer built specifically for the Mac—the new LaserJet 4M. A laser printer with everything Mac users need. From built-in PostScript™ Level 2 software from Adobe™ to stand- ard LocalTalk and optional EtherTalk. = a = = ras} The finest print quality in its class. Thanks to HP’s microfine toner, Resolution Enhancement technol- ogy, and advanced engine designed expressly for 600 x 600 dpi, the LaserJet 4M printer delivers the finest print quality of any 600- Tun Bt dpi machine available. tae" And with a new RISC Mans processor and 6 MB of standard memory accel- erating formatting and I/O speeds, complex PostScript and graphics files are rendered faster and more clearly than ever before. Greater flexibility. The HP LaserJet 4M printer also sets new standards in versatility, with a wide range of typefaces and two integrated paper trays. True 600 dpi Smoother jagged edges, thanks to HP'S exclusive Resolution Enhancement technology. Microfine toner makes 600-dpi cutput look even sharper. 36 PostScript Type | typefaces for Mac and PC PostScript language users, 35 Intelifont and 10 TrueType typefaces for PC users pro- duce abroad range of docu- ment styles. (©1993 Hewlett-Packard Company PE12354 * Suggested U.S. list price. **In Canada call 1-800-387-3867, Ext. 7340. Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions, tTo have a LaserJet 4M printer data sheet sent immediately via fax machine, call 1-800-964-1667 from your touch-tone phone. As well as 300 i 600 i the options E: of a 500- eee sheet tray pee and power Four times the dos fr better resostion, envelope feeder. And it’s designed to be shared simultaneously by PCs and Macs. Automatic language switching between PCL 5 and PostScript, and 3 hot I/Os give mixed environments greater flexibility. Without compromise to either. Of course, with the HP LaserJet 4M printer, you'll enjoy HP’s renowned quality and reliability. All for only $2,399* So call 1-800- LASERJET (1-800-527-3753) Ext. 7340** for print samplet and comparison disk. Or visit your nearest authorized HP dealer. ae HEWLETT 48 PACKARD News MACWEEK 05.24.93 LabVIEW gets slew of new features Code now 80 percent platform-independent By Raines Cohen Austin, Texas — National Instru- ments Corp. this week will announce an upgrade to LabVIEW, its multi- platform graphical programming environment for laboratory systems. LabVIEW 3.0, due in July, will provide Mac users with enhance- ments already included in the Win- dows and Sun versions, as well as several new features. » Cross-platform _ porting. LabVIEW-based applications can now move among platforms with little or no modification. National Instruments said 80 percent of the program’s code is platform- independent. > Measurement-based virtual instruments (VIs). New VIs mimic traditional frequency-analysis instru- ments and offer new display options and conversions. > Testing tools. National Instruments provides source code that users can customize to create automated test suites for LabVIEW applications. > New charting. Version 3.0 can create intensity charts and graphs that show 3-D values as colors. > Simpler language. Lab- VIEW’s programming language now supports local variables, occur- rence functions and physical units. LabVIEW will remain $1,995 for Macs and Windows and $3,995 for the Sun version in single-user licenses. “We do a lot of data acquisition,” said Dennis Erickson, senior elec- tronics engineer with the Bonneville Power Administration’s Ross com- plex in Vancouver, Wash. Erickson, who beta tested both the Macintosh and Windows versions of LabVIEW 3.0, said, “I’ve got to rewrite an awful lot of acquisition code [to use Lab- VIEW 3.0], but it ments this week will also announce LabVIEW Application Builder, a $995 program that converts Lab- ‘VIEW programs into stand-alone applications. Users who want to sell the programs they create must pay a license fee to National Instruments. Also slated for introduction this week is LabVIEW Run-Time Sys- tem, a $495 application that runs LabVIEW programs but lacks development tools. National Instruments Corp. is at 6504 Bridge Point Parkway, Austin, Texas 78730-5039. Phone (512) 794-0100 or (800) 433-3488; fax (512) 794-8411.0 will be worthwhile because there are a Jot ofnew things [the upgrade] will let me do.” On the other hand, Erickson crit- icized the “lowest common denomi- nator” multiplat- form interface in Version 3.0. “I miss the floating palette and easier naviga- tion,” he said. “The extra steps [Version 3.0] requires disap- point me a lot.” National Instru- LabVIEW 3.0 from National Instruments includes new, sim- pler data-graphing virtual instruments. It can create intensity charts and graphs that show 3-D valves as colors. INT Tia uel | WP Faster ElSToolKit 2.1 has new tutorial, templates By Raines Cohen Wilmington Del. — Micro- Strategy Inc. last week shipped a new version of EISToolKit, an application development environ- ment for client-server executive information systems and decision support systems. For the record ‘The May 17 issue reported that InterCon Systems Corp. said it will bundle InterSLIP with all its products. The company now says InterSLIP will be bundled only with TCP/Connect II. A May 17 story on Comstock Inc.’s Stock Photography on CD-ROM incorrectly implied that only thumbnail images are available on the disc. The CD- ROM includes full-size TIFF images. The May 3 issue gave an incorrect fax number for SoftArc Inc. The correct fax number is (416) 754-1856. EISToolKit 2.1 is based on Informix Software Inc.’s Wingz spreadsheet application for the Mac, Windows, and now the Sun Open Look and Motif Unix graphical interfaces. It lets users combine pre- sentation graphics, database connec- tivity and spreadsheet modeling tools with a programming language. A point-and-click SQL generator provides access to more than 50 rela~ tional and nonrelational databases. Version 2.1 includes enhanced documentation with a new tutorial that takes users through the process of creating applications with the system. The company said the new ver- sion runs much faster than before, especially when parsing database queries and drawing windows. Users can copy several new graphical templates in the package for use in their own applications, The new version will be compati- ble with Wingz 2.0, which is due by early next month for Windows and later this year for the Macin- tosh. Wingz 2.0 will add improved array handling and a tighter link with Informix host databases. The EISToolKit designer ver- sion, which can create applications, is priced at $1,995; the user version sells in a 10-pack for $7,995. Cur- rent users can upgrade free. MicroStrategy Inc. is at 1 Com- merce Center, Wilmington, Del. 19801. Phone (302) 427-8800 or (800) 927-1868; fax (302) 427-8810. 0 ETike_Fait_Leed_ Reports Weer S| Sales Naviga- tion from R.M. Dudley helps users compile and track infor- mation about potential customers. id (lient-server app helps smooth sales and marketing operations By Kirsten L, Parkinson Burlingame, Calif. — A new client-server application from R.M. Dudley Corp. aims to help compa- nies streamline their sales and mar- keting operations. Sales Navigation, based on ACI US Inc.’s 4th Dimension database, lets users collect and store informa- tion about potential customers, fol- low up leads, and distribute product information. Features include: > Discovery. Sales Navigation has a customized set of questions designed to help users gather infor- mation about potential customers. Users compile information gathered through direct mailings or telemar- keting and then enter it into the cen- tral database. > Contact management. The program can store multiple contacts for a single company and classify them by the role they will play in purchasing decisions and the type of product information they will need. The contact screen also includes follow-up activities and qualifica- tion information, such as where the lead is in the sales cycle. > Follow-up. Based on a cus- tomized sales strategy, Sales Naviga- tion automatically reminds users of follow-up calls to make and letters to send out each day. Once a lead has all the relevant information and is defi- nitely interested in the product, the compiled information can be on to salespeople for the final sale. Other Sales Navigation features include report options and multiple levels of password protection. “Our specialized network ‘super- servers are a highly complex technical product, which needs a lot of educa- tion of users and preusers,” said Debi Thomas, manager of NetFrame Sys- tems Inc.’s customer information center in Milpitas, Calif. “I take raw leads, process them through [Sales Navigation], determine a need for our product and educate the people. Because of the software, I’m able to handle 600 or 700 people myself. It also shortens our sales cycle and helps us come up with new leads.” Prices for Sales Navigation soft- ware range from $30,000 to $60,000. Configuration and customization are extra. For example, a $30,000 system includes the server application, a five- user license, and a limited amount of consulting and configuration. RM. Dudley Corp. is at 1799 Old Bayshore Highway, Suite 200, Burlingame, Calif. 94010. Phone (415) 697-1650; fax (415) 697-1816.0 Freeware program BBEdit going commercial By Henry Norr Natick, Mass. — BBEdit, a free- ware text editor with special features for developers, is going commercial. Rich Siegel, the program’s author, this month announced BBEdit 2.5, a much enhanced version that lists for $99, as well as BBEdit Lite, a stripped-down version that will remain free. Version 2.5 allows direct integra- tion with Symantec Corp.’s new Symantec C++ and Think C 6.0 development tools for the Mac, as well as with other Think tools. BBEdit can, for example, inform the Think Project Manager via Apple events when a file is changed, and it enables users to initiate compiles and runs without leaving the editor. In addition to several new text- manipulation options and enhance- ments to other features, Version 2.5 also includes a new disk browser. With support for XTND now inte- grated into the program’s Open dia- Jog, users can preview any file that can be translated on any mounted volume. BBEdit 2.5 is available for $49 to users of previous versions and own- ers of Think C or Pascal, Apple’s Macintosh Programmer’s Work- shop, Nisus Software _ Inc.’s QUED/M, Baseline Publishing Inc.'s Vantage, and the shareware editor Alpha. BBEdit Lite, which lacks XTND support and several developer- oriented features, is available free from on-line services or on disk from Siegel for $5. Lite users can upgrade to Version 2.5 for $49. Rich Siegel is at 1 Larkspur Way, No. 4, Natick, Mass. 01760. 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That may reduce the paper, but it sure doesn’t eliminate much work. That's why we created Sonar Image, the profes- sional retriever that lets you work with the actual words in your documents, not just pictures of pages. Sonar Image scans pages and then the computer handles the real work. Usin, Optical Character Recognition we “read your documents into text that can be searched using any word or phrase. Sonar Image also saves a high resolution replica of your document so accompanying graphics and handwriting are retained. And because Sonar Image uses true professional text retrieval technology, you can search documents using phonetic sound-alikes, synonyms, proximity, Booleans and more at speeds exceeding 10,000 pages per second. Call or fax for a brochure explaining Sonar Image along with information on our family of products for professional text retrieval and index generation. Y Vranas SYSTEMS 804-739-3200 FAX (804) 739-8376 to their Macs. Each Expander in turn can sup- port as many as seven peripheral devices, including hard drives, CD-ROM drives and removable-media drives. The SCSI Expander handles the addi- tional drives by reading each peripheral’s logical unit number, which is part of the SCSI specification. Each device is then identified by the Expander’s SCSI ID and its own ID, which acts as a subaddress. Other features of the SCSI Expander include active SCSI termination, staggered device spin- up and edge-to-edge parity support. The SCSI Expander comes either as an exter- nal device or as an internal 3.5-inch device. Prices for the SCSI Expander range from $995 to $1,195, depending on SCSI configu- ration. Differential and single-ended versions are available; differential SCSI features reduce noise on the SCSI bus and support cable lengths up to 81 feet. ATTO Technology Inc. is at Baird Research Park, 1576 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, N.Y. 14228. Phone (716) 688-4259; fax (716) 636-3630. 0 New Windows player runs Director 3.1 files San Francisco — Users can run Macrome- dia Director 3.1 productions on IBM PCs and compatibles with a Windows player released this month. Macromedia Inc. is offering Director 3.1 Player for Windows for $995. The pack- age lets developers translate, play and distrib- ute Mac-created productions under Windows 3.1. It comes with a Mac-to-PC conversion utility and a PC runtime module. The previous release of the player, Version 1.2, supported files created with Director 3.0 but not 3.1. In addition to solving that problem, the new player adds support for QuickTime and Microsoft Corp.’s Video for Windows. It uses Windows Media Control Interface to control external devices. Player upgrades are $199 or free to users who purchased Version 1.2 this year. Macromedia said it is also offering a $15 bug-fix upgrade to the Mac version of the Director 3.1 application. Macromedia Inc. is at 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, Calif. 94103. Phone (415) 442- 0200; fax (415) 442-0190. 5 Macromedia’s Director 3.1 Player for Windows package converts Macintosh-created productions and plays them on Windows machines. By Neil McManus Santa Monica, Calif. — MacToolkit next month will post a new idea processor that uses the metaphor of index cards on a cork board for organizing ideas. Priced at $299, Corkboard is designed for writers who want to organize notes into out- lines, finished reports or screenplays. Users enter notes, pictures and QuickTime movies into on-screen index cards that can be grouped into card files. When a user double- clicks on a card file, the program displays the cards on a cork-board window, where they can be arranged by categories. The cork-board window offers free- form, vertical and horizontal displays. Users can change text, styles and color on cards and edit and delete them at any time. Cards can be grouped into hierarchies; when a card is moved, its subordinates move with it. Users can change a cork board’s back- ground pattern or zoom out on a cork board to show more cards. In addition, users can display Corkbourd sample’ their cards in an outline view. Cards can be edited and rearranged in outlines, and users can show or hide card detail. The program offers a print- preview mode that lets users make layout modifications. MacToolkit said a free upgrade to Corkboard due this summer will add databaselike find, sort, search and select controls. Corkboard can export cards and outlines to text files or to Final Draft 2.0, MacToolkit’s fe $349 scriptwriting program. MacToolkit’s Corkboard lets users organize notes on index cards ona cork board. Users can change text, styles and color on cards and group them into card files along the bottom of the screen. -! MacToolkit is at 1234 Sixth St, Suite 204, Santa Monica, Calif. 90401. Phone (310) 395- 4242; fax (310) 393-7747..0 Radius program offers on-site replacement Worry Free warranty promises 24-hour service By Neil McManus San Jose, Calif. — Starting this week Radius Inc. will send representatives to customer sites to pick up and replace defective hardware. ‘The Radius Worry Free warranty program promises to provide on-site equipment replacement within 24 hours of a customer's initial service call. For example, ifa user calls customer sup- port to report a defective monitor, the com- pany will immediately send a replacement monitor by overnight delivery, according to Ken Williams, Radius vice president of cus- tomer service. A Radius representative will call the user to make an appointment for the next day to install the new monitor and box and remove the defective unit. “Our customers have told us that they need replacement equipment right away instead of waiting three or four days to get it through a dealer,” Williams said. “This program will get their equipment up and running fast, and they won’t have to call a chiropractor after trying to move a monitor.” Radius is implementing the Worry Free program immediately in the United States. It will be extended to Canada and Mexico this summer, Williams said. Most Radius monitors, graphics cards and accelerator boards carry a one-year warran- ty. Radius is considering another program that will let users purchase extensions to product warranties in one-year increments, Williams said. 0 Orchestra monitors available Fontana, Calif. — Hoping that users will like the sound ofits latest offerings, Orchestra MultiSystems Inc. is now selling two new monitors previously available only to OEM customers. Orchestra’s Brass series contains two Mac- compatible color monitors, the $545 15-inch French Horn and the $945 17-inch Tuba. Orchestra said it will offer versions of the two monitors that conform to Swedish safety stan- dards for extremely low frequency and very low frequency emissions. Prices have not been set. Both monitors support resolutions from 640 by 480 pixels to 1,280 by 1,024 pixels. Screen-refresh rates range from 70 Hz to 72 Hz. Both displays offer tilt-and-swivel bases and non-Sony-built Trinitron flat screens with a dot pitch of 0.28 millimeters. Front- panel digital controls give users access to image and screen adjustments. Orchestra MultiSystems Inc. is at 10881 Business Drive, Fontana, Calif. 92335. Phone (909) 357-6869; fax (909) 357-6876. ' RasterOps Gray Scale Big Deal: °RasterOps 21" Monochrome/Gray Scale Monitor °Clearvue/GSXL News M2) WACWEEK 05.24.93 MPW 3.3 released through APDA By Raines Cohen Cupertino, Calif. — Apple this month shipped an update to its Mac software- development environment, Macintosh Pro- | grammer’s Workshop. MPW 3.3, distributed widely in prerelease form over the past year, is now officially released through APDA, Apple’ developer- tools marketing arm. New features in the multilingual environment include: Incremental linker. The new version can build programs much faster than before by relinking only changed portions of code rather than entire projects ata time. Improved documentation. The manuals have been rewritten and now include a step-by- step tutorial with hands-on examples. > Distributed processing. ‘Two new appli- cations in the environment, ToolServer and SourceServer, use custom Apple events to trig- ger scripts and tools on MPW running in the background on multiple Macs. Developers can distribute slow tasks among multiple Macs. Interface enhancements. The Projec- tor project-management and source-code GET THE POWER COPYING POWER. PRINTING: SCANNING POWER. GET THE ig? POWER TO PUT ON PAPER WHAT YOU CREATE ON THE POWER TO § THE POWER TO PRINT IN 24-BiT COLOR. AT 400 DPI. FOUR COLOR PROCESS WITH 256 GRADATIONS PER COLOR. IN WINDOWS"AND MACINTOSH: TO CREATE HIGH-QUALITY COLOR DOCUMENTS TO ||GET YOU THE PROMOTION. THE POWER TO WIN THE NEW PIECE OF BUSINESS. THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA BEHIND THE CANON cJ10 WITH OPTIONAL CONNECTIVITY. TO GIVE YOU HIGH-QUALITY YOU THE POWER OF COLOR. FOR ANY SIZE BUSINESS. 1-800-OK-CANON. THE SCREEN. 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Applied Engineering this month shipped a 68030 accelerator/multifunction expansion card for Mac SEs. Applied said the ‘TransWarp 1300 boosts performance as much as 12 times faster than the standard SE. A 25-MHz model sells for an introductory price of $199. The company said the price will rise to $229 at an undetermined date. With an optional FPU (floating-point unit) the 25-MHz model costs $338. A40-MHz TransWarp 1300 is $279. With an FPU, it is $428; with a 128-Kbyte cache, $428; and with both cache and FPU, $577. The 40-MHz model has four SIMM slots that accept 1-, 2- and 4-Mbyte SIMMs. “The TransWarp 1300 also offers video expan- sion and Ethernet support. It comes with a MagicBus connector that supports Radius full- page and two-page displays. In late June, Applied will offer a video add-on card that sup- ports most full-page and two-page displays. An Ethernet adapter board and another that includes both Ethernet and expanded | video are also due in June. Pricing for all the expansion options has not been set. ‘The accelerator has a three-year warranty. Applied Engineering, a Research Corp., is at 3210 Beltline, Dallas, division of AE | ‘Texas 75234. Phone (214) 241-6060 or (800) | 554-6227; fax (214) 484-1365.0 Pro-Cite add-on upgraded By lan G. Jacobs Ann Arbor, Mich. — Personal Bibliograph- ic Software Inc. this month will ship an update to its data transfer programs that consolidates all of the modules, formerly sold separately, into a single package. Biblio-Link II, a companion to the compa- ny’ $395 Pro-Cite bibliographic formatter, does the work of all three previous Biblio- Links by importing data from searches on the Dialog, SilverPlatter and Medlars databases into Pro-Cite. Now users will be able to customize the pro- gram to analyze data from in-house databases. ‘The new version can also print reports of con- figuration file settings and an error log of problems it encounters while downloading. 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Manufactured under Patent License from Farallon Computing, Inc.All prices and items subject to change and availability News Offer digital controls to handle images By Nathalie Welch San Francisco — Two new large- screen color monitors are due to hit the market next month. > ViewSonic. Single Source Marketing will ship the 21-inch ViewSonic for $2,499. The flat, square-screen monitor has a dot pitch of 0.26 millimeters and supports resolutions ranging from 640 by 480 pixels with a 76- Hz screen refresh rate to 1,152 by 870 pixels with a 60-Hz screen refresh, The ViewSonic conforms to Swedish safety standards _ for extremely low frequency and very low frequency emissions, according to Single Source. > ViewMagic. A new player in the market, ETC Computer Inc., will ship its 17-inch, ViewMagic CA-1765 monitor for $1,199. MACWEEK 05.24.93 The flat, square-screen monitor has a dot pitch of 0.26 millimeters and supports resolutions ranging from 640 by 480 pixels with a 72-Hz screen refresh rate to 1,280 by 1,024 pixels with a 60-Hz screen refresh. ETC said the “smart” monitor automatically memorizes adjust- ments to user-definable settings for multimode video cards. Both monitors offer front-panel digital controls for image size and position, pincushion and degauss. Both displays offer tilt-and- swivel bases, nonglare screens, and compatibility with a variety of Apple and third-party graphics cards. Both displays require adapters, which are supplied by the manufacturers. Single Source Marketing is at 2550 Mesa Verde Drive E., Suite G, Costa Mesa, Calif. 92626. Phone (714) 545-1338; fax (714) 545-5371. ETC Computer Inc. is at 46711 Fremont Blvd., Fremont, Calif. 94538. Phone (510) 226-6250; fax (510) 226-6252.0 By lan G. Jacobs Lincoln, Neb. — HealthCare Communications Inc. last week shipped new versions of _ its MacHealth line of medical-office- manager programs that now allows medical practitioners to add clinical information, including charts and photos, to patient records. ‘The programs, DentalMac, Medi- Mac and ChiroMac, manage sched- uling, accounts receivable, electronic insurance processing and more. Some of the programs are also avail- able in high-end versions that sup- port image acquisition and voice- activated charting. ‘MacHealth Version 3.9 programs include a Patient Information Matrix, an electronic flow chart that can be used to monitor patient progress. A new tool, Patient Narrative, rapidly retrieves and inserts com- monly used text and graphics in the program’s new built-in word processor module with a medical spelling checker. “T often write letters to patients and keep a copy of [them] in their records,” said Anne Ephraim, a Single Source, ETCset to ship © MacHealth adds charts to — records large-screen color monitors MediMac F/X allows users to make Quick- Time movies from medical MediMac beta tester and office manager of Westchester Urological Associates of White Plains, N.Y. MediMacis priced at $4,295 fora single-user version and $5,895 for a network version. Prices vary for the other versions. HealthCare Communications also released a high-end version of Medi- Mac that can capture, record and enhance digitized images from radi- ographs, echocardiograms and other medical monitoring devices with video output and a QuickTime- compatible digitizer or a Kodak images and include them in patient records. Photo CD disc. MediMac F/X, sold only in a $7,495 multi-user net- worked system, includes an image editor that lets users annotate acquired images. ‘The F/X version includes a med- ications reference database of 3,000 FDA-approved substances that doc- tors can prescribe and track, plus an electronic insurance claims module. HealthCare Communications Inc. is at 300 S. 68th St., Suite 100, Lin- coln, Neb. 68505-5846. Phone (402) 489-0391 or (800) 888-4344; fax (402) 489-6411..0 MacWEEK readers are busy. Sure, you always make time to see the latest products at IF YOU'RE NOT IN BOSTON the industry shows, but it’s exhausting to Name A DA’ EARL wade through the crowds. It takes too much ¥ Y, time searching for someone who can answer Title IT WILL BE ee TO re) LATE system requirements, service availability, Company e ricing. Pag ; Address Or, there is MacWEEK’s annual MVB event in Boston. 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All prices and items subject to change and availabilty ICUS FOCUS News MACWEEK 05.24.93 Dynaware imports Japanese word processor, input app By Lisa Picarille Foster City, Calif, — Dynaware USA Inc. last month brought to the United States a WorldScript-compatible Japanese word processor and a Kanji Input Method extension. The word processor, called MacWORD 2.0, can arrange lines of characters vertically rather than horizontally as they are entered, to support the traditional Japanese character layout. (According to the company, Mac- WORD is the only program to do so.) ‘The $480 program offers features common to many word processing packages, including the capability to import charts and graphics as well as images in PICT and Encapsulated PostScript formats, and support for System 7’s publish and subscribe. MacWORD also offers layout and publishing features and can perform mail merges. The company both bundles with Mac- WORD and sells separately for $180 MacVJE y 1.0, an input method billed as an alternative to Apple’s Kotoeri. Famous Engineer draws new technical characters Richmond, Va. — From 13.14 to Yx2-Ily, users looking to get their chemical and mathematical formulas just right can turn to a new font from Famous Engineer Brand Software Co. FEBTechnical, available in TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats, provides more than 200 scientific characters. These include lowercase Greek letters; subscripts and super- scripts; common math symbols; chemical for- mula notation; graphing symbols; and engi- neering characters, such as vector notation and overbars. Users can also create any fraction using the typeface’s built-in fraction slash mark and superscript and subscript characters. FEBTechnical is priced at $59.95 ($49.95 through the end of July). Famous Engineer Brand Software Co. is at 4855 Finlay St., Richmond, Va. 23231. Phone (804) 222-2215; fax (804) 226-1934..0 Silentwriter rebate extended Boxborough, Mass. — NEC Technologies Inc. has announced that it will continue through the end of June its $250 rebate on four Silentwriter printer models. The printers included in the program, originally set to expire May 1, are the Model 95, 95fx, 97 and 97fx, priced at $1,320 to $1,850. The Silentwriters are all 300-dpi laser printers that automatically switch among LocalTalk, serial and parallel interfaces. The fx printers include a PostScript fax feature. NEC Technologies Inc. is at 1414 Massa- chusetts Ave., Boxborough, Mass. 01719- 2298. Phone (508) 264-8000 or (800) 388- 8888; fax (800) 366-0476.0 Like Kotoeri, MacVJE y lets users build kanji words by entering phonetic equivalents; it then looks up corresponding kanji words in a dictionary. Users can teach MacVJE y new words to expand its 120,000-word dictionary up to 170,000 words; Kotoeri’s dictionary is “This service, limited to less than 60,000 words. Users can choose whether menus appear in English or Japanese. Both require System 7.1 and the WorldScript II extension in the Japanese Language Kit. The programs are aimed at Japanese-speaking users in the United States, as well as U.S. companies that THIS SHOULD GIVE YOU OF WHy WE CREATED A! The image you see over there started out attached to the image you see over here. But as this document made its way down to the printer, the Macintosh it was created on recognized a small problem: 11x17 pages can’t fit through 8% x 11 printers. And so, out came the electronic scissors. Now, if you're like many Macintosh users, you know all about this routine. And you know how it feels to walk into a meeting with a layout that contains hours of blood, sweat and tears, and a fat strip of tape right down the middle. Enough said. Introducing the new by contract service providers is COMPAQ PAGEMARQ Laser Printers. A line of machines that can print 11x17 pages in a single pass. And because they come with up to three ssh poe a ye ene orn To Conk Conf ance Sper Ce arta OSE Con Compas Carton A igre need to create Japanese documents. Through the end of June, Dynaware is offering MacWORD 2.0 for $350. Users of other Mac-based Japanese word processors can get the program for $200. Dynaware USA’s parent company, Dyna- ware of Osaka, Japan, shipped MacWORD 2.0 in Japan in January. Dynaware USA Inc. is at 950 Tower Lane, Suite 1150, Foster City, Calif. 94404. Phone (415) 349-5700; fax (415) 349-5879. 0 paper trays, these print- ers also let you switch between paper sizes without ever leaving your desk, So you don't have to pull one paper tray out and replace it with another, only to have your neighbor re- peat the process two minutes later. And for By Lisa Picarille as technical support and corporate help desks. requested. It adds an “uptime monitor,” which Clarify systems enhance controls for service, support statf San Jose, Calif. — Clarify Inc. has added new tools for managing service and support and extracting data to two applications in its Customer Service Management System. ‘The CSM system is aimed at organizations | that field multiple customer calls per day, such people whose design ambitions extend be- yond Helvetica Bold, PAGEMARQ Printers offer two ways to ex- pand your type library, eliminating the need to continually download from your Macintosh. You can add 1-and 2- MB Programmable Font Modules, and store as many as 40 additional fonts. Or you can add an internal 60-MB Hard Drive, and store every- thing from Avant Garde to Zapf Chancery—as many as 1,500 fonts. All of which print with amazing clarity thanks to the 800x400 dpi high-resolution mode—a feature that de- livers razor-sharp type and graphics as well as, smooth, high-definition gray scales. Of course, the new COMPAQ PAGEMARQ tegitered US, Patent and Trademark Office, PAGEMARQ and CompagCare ate trademar Product aamesmentaned bercia muy betralemarks andor registered adem he > ClearSupport gives technical-support personnel on-line access to a database of infor- mation and responses to previously diagnosed problems. Version 2.0 now lets users generate reports on the number of times a certain prob- lem or enhancement has been reported or |A PRETTY GOOD IDEA v 11X17 LASER PRINTER. Laser Printers are fully backed by CompaqCare, our extensive service and support program. A ypographer’ dream, these printers can store 1,500 fonts. Ofcourse, not all of us dream abou type. In which case, the 35 fonts that come standard are more than adequate. Which includes a one- year, on-site’ limited warranty as well as un- limited phone support. All at no additional Add an Internal FAX | and you can turn your Mac into a personal fax machine. One that will send and receive PostScript quality faxes in any size upto Ixl7. charge whatsoever. If you're interested in learning more, sim- ply call 1-800-345-1518 in either the United States or Canada. Well show you how LOMPAA to keep your big ideas in ‘one piece. At least until your client sees them. vmpaq Computer tive comptes, automatically alerts administrators or Clarify tech support before problems occur, and new facilities for tracking product serial numbers. Other enhancements include additional print- ing capabilities and a tutorial. > ClearQuality records product-defect fodem News MACWEEK 05.24.93 information. Version 2.0 lets users generate more-detailed defect reports, including the rate of fixing and other statistics on the amount and types of defects found. The update can also identify duplicate defects and includes printing and reporting enhancements. Both products now let managers easily define and change the system’s “business rules” to keep in step with an organization’s procedure changes, and track on-site time and expenses. Tn addition to client applications, such as ClearSupport and ClearQuality, CSM in- cludes Clarify Desktop, which provides a com- mon interface across Mac, Unix and Windows platforms with fa s for electronic-mail and automatic call distribution; and a server- based database for storing customer and prod- uct data. Upgrades to both applications are free. ClearSupport 2.0 costs $6,000 per concurrent user, and ClearQuality 2.0 is $4,000 per con- current user. Clarify Inc. is at 2702 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, Calif, 95134. Phone (408) 428-2000; fax (408) 428-0633.0 Registry upgrade fleshes out details in Mac app DB By lan G. Jacobs Bronxville, N.Y. — Mac Software Registry last month shipped an update to its database of Macintosh software that now tracks the ver- sion history of each listed program. The Mac Software Database, which requires Claris Corp.’s FileMaker Pro 2.0, lists more than 2,200 products from more than 800 companies, including updated con- | tact and compatibility information for each company and product. Version 3.1, which shipped last week, has a new format that shows for each product a table containing the version number, memo- ry, compatible system versions and Mac mod- els supported. The information in the data- base has been updated. Users can now log the serial numbers and number of copies licensed for each program, as well as which users have copies. The $199 price includes the database and three quarterly updates. Annual subscription renewals cost $129. Mac Software Registry is at PO. Box 925, Bronxville, N.Y. 10708-0925. Phone (914) 961-8743; fax (914) 793-6388. 0 Mac Software Registry’s Mac Software Database now tracks the version history of listed products, and it logs system and CPU compatibility. In a new, independent lab test, the 24-bit color graphics card most people think of as fastest, wasn't. Ingram Laboratories caivewat=-e TE 'This Independent Test mance test and found Radius’ p PrecisionColor 24X” was 19% faster overall than the Thunder/24* Doesnt Astonish You, That’ surprising, especially since the makers of Thunder/24 want you to e ost erence O pay $1,250 more for their card. PrecisionColor 24X isn’t just faster and less expensive. It’s also eave Ou un erstruc Ke available in 7" and 9" versions. So it will fit in all of Apple’s newly-announced systems, as well as current models. PRECISIONCOLOR 24x No wonder MacUser rated PrecisionColor 24X “Best Price/Performance.” And a rad 1S both MacWorld and Byte named it their “Readers’ Choice” Hydra QuickDraw Performance Test Overall Performance 3.50 3.00 250 2.00 150 100 SuperMac Thunder/24 SuperMac Thunder/24 0.50 Non-Accelerated 24-Bit Non-Accelerated 24-Bit 0.00 RT LL Macintosh? llci Quadra™ 950 Call us at 1-800-227-2795 Ext. 2A for your $100 rebate certificate, copies of the benchmarks and the name of your nearest Radius reseller. Or call 1-800-966-7360 to receive faxed information se seiSeseeeessecsiasscsats about our products. Get PrecisionColor 24X. Lightning fast performance. Priced to strike you ri ©1993 Radius Inc. Radius, the Radius logo and all Radius product names are trademarks of Radius Inc. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective holders. News MACWEEK 05.24.93 Law Office Manager 3.0 offers automated reminders, hot links By lan G. Jacobs Knowville, Tenn. — Avocat Systems Ltd. recently released a major upgrade to its legal case management software. Law Office Manager 3.0 adds Auto- matic Ticklers that notify lawyers of important filing and follow-up dates, Eile Edit Data Search Reports special which are set in place once an initial fil- ing date has been entered for a case. Version 3.0 allows hot links between a viewing icon and any document, mak- ing document management easier. zante A new Other-Parties feature lets Law Office Manager 3.0 features automated reminders at users store information on people relat- __ the bottom of the screen. The reminders are set in place ed only peripherally to a case. The program’s calendar can now export information to TimeSlips Corp.’s TimeSlips and to Essential Software Inc.’s Easy Alarms (see MacWEEK, Jan. 18). ‘The speed of the data-entry screens has been increased by 30 percent, according to Avocat, and 45 new entry fields have been added. The built-in word processor allows users to merge all information pertaining to a case from the program’s databases into a single document. Other new features include faster and when an initial filing date is entered for a case. more-accurate conflict checking and the capability to assign multiple people (for instance, an attorney, a paralegal and a staffer) to a particular matter. A single-user version is $899, a five-user pack is $1,495, and a 10-user pack is $2,195. Addi- tional users are $199 each, Upgrades are free. Avocat Systems Ltd. is at 1402 Riverview Tower, Knoxville, Tenn. 37902. Phone (615) 523-9270 or (800) 521-6588; fax (615) 637-8810. 0 MIFP app turns any PICT into a ScreenSavor Module works as an add-on to After Dark, Intermission By Henry Norr Portland, Ore. — ScreenSavor, a screen- saver module from MIFP Development, now lets users savor any PICT image from any mounted volume when their computers are idle. The $49.95 product, an add-on to Berkeley Systems Inc.’s After Dark or ICOM Simula- tions Inc’s Intermission, was originally designed to display high-resolution photo- graphic images distributed by MIFP as screen savers (see MacWEEK, Nov. 9, 1992). But Version 2.0.1, released last month, lets users select any PICT file for display during idle MIFP Development’s ScreenSavor lets users turn high-resolution photos into screen-saver images. Version 2.0.1 also lets users divide their screens among multiple images. time. In addition, the new version can display images stored on CD-ROMs, remote volumes or file servers; users need only to place an alias of the image in their ScreenSavor folder. Anew Collage mode lets users divide their sereen space among multiple images in a vari- ety of sizes; the full-screen and quartile options of the original version also remain available. Other enhancements in the upgrade include several new effects for transitions between images, including jigsaw, venetian- blind and wallpaper effects. Upgrades: are free to anyone who pur- chased ScreenSavor after Jan. 1; for others, the cost is $15. MIFP now offers more than 20 optional image sets, each containing a dozen 24-bit-color photographic images compressed via Quick- Time. Each is priced at $39.95. The two latest additions to the series are Fairways to Savor, a col- lection of aerial photos of golf courses, and Kittens on Vacation, a set of images of cats at various scenic locations. ScreenSavor 3.0, due next month, will not require After Dark or Intermission; in addition to the current add-on modules, the next version will include a stand-alone screen-saver application, accord- ing to MIFP. Upgrades from Ver- sion 2.0.1 will be free. MIEFP Development is at 7276 Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, Suite 187, Portland, Ore. 97225. Phone (503) 292-0362 or (800) 697-6437; fax (503) 292-0041. 0 New Poli (juaranteés Overnight Success, 1-YEAR Worry-FREE WARRANTY d e raqadus Radius products are engineered to never, ever fail. But should the impossible ever happen, we'll make it right, overnight. Just call our customer service department, (408) 434-1012 by 9:00 p.m. EST and we'll deliver a Radius replacement product to you overnight. Within hours after that, a Radius representative will also be there to pick up your failed product. If its a monitor we're replacing, our representative will even unpack and install it for you. You pay nothing extra for this extra service. That’s right, absolutely nothing. It’s all part of our new 1-year Worry-Free Warranty. Call 1-800-227-2795 Ext. 8A for more informa- tion about this great new service. Or to receive faxed information about our prod- ucts call 1-800-966-7360. Because we'll never let anything come between you and success. Guaranteed. (©1993 Radius Ine. Radius and the Radius logo are trademarks of Radius Inc File Edt View Mall Compose Text Tools Design Window Help Hae a Ara Wy F [By ue K ‘Workspace ‘Worldwide Discussion - Main View Main Topic @D Author Frank Bobson Date Composed: 03/31/93 12:08 PM Subject ‘Customer Request Category: Product Changes One of our largest distributors, Education Resources, Inc., wants to order 8,000 new globes (WOW). However, these globes must reflect the latest political boundaries in Eastem Europe. | understand that we have not yet updated our globes to meet these specifications. How fast can we tum this around to save this sale? I need an answer by this afternoon Ly < - eee + 7 = = an SICeIR This is James’ Notes desktop. He uses it to access information and work quickly The field rep in Texas is working on a request from a customer. But to make the with people in all departments to solve problems world-wide. James clicks on Sale, the product, in this case a globe, has to be changed to reflect the most the Worldwide Discussion application to catch up with important company news. up-to-date countries and borders. And evidently time is critical. The competi- The Smartlcons across the top make it even easier to work in Notes. tion must already be in there pitching. Lotus Notes - Update jompose pale Updated Boundaries of Eastern Europe 03/30/83 Nom Reading 7 March 30, 1993 03/30/93 423 Corver 20 030/33 eed Attached is a scanned image of the Eastern European map, aj Product Development as of March 30, 1993: Once he has the information, he clicks on the Engineering Change Order application After lunch he opens a document from Ellen, in product development, who has responded 5. to request specific product changes from the plant in North Reading. He links }, With the necessary changes, and scheduling information. The new art was scanned the supporting Newswire information to the E.C.0. It will be easily viewed with a directly through Lotus Notes: Document Imaging from the art department. James approves single click of a button. the art for manufacturing. How Lotus Notes Relea: Thousands of companies already know how variety of platforms. How he uses applications Lotus Notes helps them respond more quickly such as Account Tracking, Newswire, and and effectively to the demands of everyday Engineering Change Orders to get a new product business. Now Release 3 extends that power developed fast. And how he creates an informal to new dimensions. team spanning a range of departments to do it. Just watch how James Carlton, a new dis- With the new Release 3, Lotus’ Notes now trict manager at Global Publishing, uses Notes supports all the leading GUI platforms: Windows; Release 8 to solve a major global problem in 0S/2? UNIX;* even Macintosh’ short order. See how he uses information from Which means the award-winning workgroup on-site and remote locations. From both inside power of Lotus Notes’ is now readily available to the company and external sources. Across a help virtually all networked businesses improve **UNIX Server and Client available by year end 1998. In Canada, call 1-800-GO-LOTUS, ©1993 Lotus Development Corporation, 55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142. All rights reserved. Lotus, Lotus Notes and I-2-8 are registered trad = Lotus Notes File Edit View Mail Compose Text Tools Design Window Help Sea cea ys AeA oA Busia Customer Profile: Education Resources, Inc. CUSTOMER PROFILE Documents Author: Hattie Henderson Date Created: 01/21/93. Company Name: Education Resources, inc. Street Address: Pal - Phone Number: FAX Number. qe ‘Company Overview: {) Education Resources is the pastyear. Double-di SALES WKS He clicks on the Customer Tracking application to learn more about this customer. The profile includes an attached 1-2-3° spreadsheet. He double clicks the icon to open the spreadsheet and finds that Education Resources is a very large customer that pays its bills. File Edit View Mail Compose Text Tools Design Window Help i Warp ‘Workspace New Product Tracking - Mal ia ae See 01/13/82 Product Updates (Ellen Byron, 2 responses) 01/1592 Engineering and Design (Jim Menlo, 1 response) 03183 Reponsiveness to our Customers (Jemes Carfion) 05/18/92, New May VID JONES. 1 response) On the Product Tracking application, all departments involved have confirmed that they can meet the schedule. However, they've cautioned James to be careful about rushing schedules in the future. James uses the Discussion database to acknowledge their comments and thank them for their efforts. File Edit View Mail Compose Text Tools Design Window Help Z Aka 1317S 0 = B 7) Ue) ‘Workspace ‘Notes News - News by Dé mT Rapidly Chan 1720/93 ‘News tem: Border Changes in Mongolia. News tem: Why ls Always the North thet Invades the South? 01/18/93 Be NetNews tem Author: Rob Petty - New York Tribune ES News Date 03/1493 12:43 AM 01/13/93] Keywords: Newsletter Ne oi7ys: Ne Ne 0103/9: Ne 12/20/9% Ne The Rapidly Changing Map of Europe Summary: inthis aricie, Rob Petty of he New York Tribune discusses the politcal changes in Easter Europe. and theirimpact on US foreign policy and James’ next step is to click on the Newswire database for the most up-to-date ‘» Teport on precisely what geographical changes will have to be made on the new globe. And just how extensive they'll be. Lotus Notes - Response to “Customer Request" ‘Compose Tools Design Window fai Fastest turnaroun the competition Wanting to record and promote the team’s accomplishments, James puts together 8 ¢ 4 presentation for senior management in Freelance Graphics. Then he posts the presentation in the Presentation database so everyone can see how the team rearranged the world to save a big account. se 3 changed the world. their performance. By accelerating business processes and helping people work together more effectively than ever before. You'll find your favorite user-friendly features from other Lotus applications like SmartIcons” and a status bar make Notes even easier to use. Release 8 also features enhanced templates that are very easy to customize so you can build new appli- cations faster and more efficiently. But you don't have to change your world to get going on Notes. Now you can get everything you need in the Lotus Notes Starter Pack for just $995 (SRP). It includes one Notes Server for Windows and two Notes Clients for Windows. Plus more than 25 ready-to-use applications for business processes like account management, customer service and product development. For information call 1-800-828-7086, ext. 8884 or visit your Lotus Authorized Reseller or Lotus Business Partner. Visit usat Comdexin Ailanta, tu N tes Booth #W7222 O be) O tarks and Smartlcons is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. Windows i a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 08/2 isa registered trademark of IBM, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories, Inc, Macintosh i a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc Gateways MacLan Connect lets PCs share Mac files By April Streeter Santa Barbara, Calif. — Miramar Systems Inc. this week is shipping software that lets a Windows user become a peer on a Macintosh net- work, sharing files and printers. The $199 Personal MacLan Connect for Windows runs on Intel-standard 386 or 486 machines with Microsoft Windows 3.1. Win- dows users share files with Macs in a manner similar to that of two Macs using System 7’s file sharing. The Windows user selects specific directories to share and assigns pass- words to individuals or groups. Mul- tiple Macs can access the Maclan Connect Windows machine simul- taneously through their Choosers. MacLan Connect differs slightly from other peer-to-peer solutions such as Farallon Computing Inc.’s Timbuk- tu, which allows screen sharing and file exchange between one Mac and one Windows user ata time. Personal Macl.an Con- nect employs file-extension mapping to let Macintosh users view common appli- cation files with Mac-style icons and open them by double-clicking. A MacLan Connect Windows machine can make PostScript printers attached to it available to networked Mac users. The Windows machine functions as a print server when it receives Mac print jobs. For networks that require a server, Miramar offers the $695 MacLan Connect Gold, which turns an IBM PC or compatible running Windows By Nathalie Welch Bellevue, Wash. — Saros Corp. this month opened its Mezzanine document-management system to Mac users. ‘Mezzanine 3.0, priced at $325 per workstation, lets Macs gain entry to a corporate repository via the Saros Software Development Kit for Macintosh. Saros said Mezzanine is the only product available that lets Macs access a cross-platform docu- ment-management system. Mezzanine offers version control and security for documents stored on one or more servers. Aimed at system integrators and value-added resellers, the Mac kit includes the Mezzanine application programming interface and its Apple-events suites. Apple’s Mac- TCP is also included to provide transport over TCP/IP networks. With the kit, developers can create application drivers that enable select- ed Mac applications to transparently access Mezzanine. Developers must choose Mac programs that have a macro language and the capability to trigger external events, such as HyperCard and Microsoft Excel. Files sent from the Mac and Saros kit brings cross-platform document management to the Mac stored on the Mezzanine server are encapsulated using the MacBinary standard, so both Finder and icon information are preserved. “First we built an Apple-events interface to Mezzanine so we could easily modify applications our clients are familiar with to access Mezzanine,” said Dan Bleeker, vice president of technology for system integrator Mosaic Technology Inc. of Redmond, Wash. ‘The upgrade also provides easier search procedures. Users can retrieve information based on _business- oriented classifiers rather than the traditional file system, which requires the precise location and name of each document to be retrieved. Mezzanine library services can now reside on NCR Corp.’s Unix platforms and Data General Corp.'s Aviion application servers, in addition to Banyan Systems Inc.’s Vines, Novell Inc.’s NetWare, Microsoft Corp.’s LAN Manager, IBM Corp.’s OS/2 LAN Server and Microsoft’s OS/2 SQL Servers. Saros Corp. is at 700 Plaza Cen- ter, 10900 N.E. Eighth St, Belle- vue, Wash. 98004. Phone (206) 646-1066; fax (206) 462-0879. 0 Miramar opens Macs to Windows MAG Miramar’s Personal MacLan Connect lets Windows users function as peers in Mac networks, whether AppleTalk, Ethernet or token-ring environments. into an AFP (AppleTalk Filing Proto- col) server. Miramar said the Personal version is targeted at small work- groups that may be part of a larger Novell NetWare LAN or other net- work system but also want to provide peer-to-peer services, “Tr’s an easy way for us to publish our PCs as nodes on the [AppleTalk] network,” said Steve Goeckler, senior programmer at The HyperMedia Group Inc. of Emeryville, Calif. “With [Farallon’s] PhoneNET PC we had one-way communications; now we've gotit two ways.” In addition to NetWare LANs, the software runs over networks based on Microsoft Corp.’s LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroups, Banyan Systems Inc.’s Vines, and IBM Corp’s OS/2 LAN Server. It sup- ports a variety of AppleTalk, Ether- net and token-ring adapter cards. Miramar Systems Inc. is at 121 Gray Ave., Suite 200B, Santa Bar- bara, Calif. 93101. Phone (805) 966-2432; fax (805) 964-1824. 5 Teknosys delivers Help! Network for remote software support By Leonard Heymann Tampa, Fla.— Mac managers will be able to dispense Help! without leaving their desks after Teknosys Inc. ships a network version of its diagnostic software this week. Help! Network functions much like its stand-alone sibling, analyzing networked Macs to detect software conflicts and offering solutions. The network version eliminates the need for administrators to visit each Mac to get a Help! report. Software extensions, known as probes, are installed on networked Macs to allow them to report to administrators. Help! Network’s administration application then analyzes each configuration using an expert system that contains a database of some 7,600 problems covering more than 3,000 third- party Mac products. The database identifies incorrectly installed files, extension conflicts, insufficient disk space and other problems. Besides reports on problems and solutions, configuration information tors keep track of inventory. A future version of the product, due later this year, will create global reports that assemble a software inventory from groups of computers. Like the stand-alone version, Help! Network includes a simula- tion feature that lets administrators test proposed system upgrades. Future updates of the program will also be able to fix such problems as changing the order extensions load at start-up, the company said. Help! Network costs $520 for a 25-user pack, $989 for 50 users and $1,656 for 100 users. ‘Teknosys offers two subscription plans to update the program’s knowledge base. A $149 quarterly subscription includes four updates per year, plus any program upgrades. A monthly subscription is $249. The company is offering the updates via a dial-in electronic bul- letin board, as well as via mail. Teknosys Inc. is at 3923 Coconut Palm Drive, Suite 111, Tampa, Fla. 33619. Phone (813) 620-3494; fax can be exported to help administra- (813) 620-4039. 0 {es soo Help! Network from Teknosys SS uses an expert BY carer totter sented Sronneleions ich ne cute shea tan baba system to [El ene ct ctr wh werent yey net detect prob- lems on users’ ‘ogra een id ker 10.3 ra ol Sn machines and 4 Ee ec erases Ga Comat aeteen sts erga, offers instruc- Scents Geta ew otuummet nc tions on how to i fix them. at ee SS ay 5 Riera harsa scr cee ay, Asanté adds line of low-cost Ethernet adapters By April Streeter San Jose, Calif. — Asanté Tech- nologies Inc. last week unveiled a new line of Ethernet adapters with fewer features and trimmer prices in a move to capture a larger share of the commodity Ethernet market. The new cards, dubbed Asanté- Lite, will be available next month for $189, which is $40 less than the company’s MacCon+ adapters. AsantéLite boards will differ from the MacCon+ cards in several ways: They will not include SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) agents; will carry only a three-year warranty rather than Asanté’s usual five-year policy; and will ship in unadorned, low-cost packaging. A NuBus AsantéLite card will be available for either 10BASE T, thin or thick network connections. AsantéLite boards for the Mac LC series’ processor direct slots are available only in 10BASE T or thin versions. According to Ron Volkmar, Asan- té vice president of sales and market- ing, the new line is in response to the commoditization of the Ethernet adapter market rather than specific price cuts by individual competitors. Volkmar said the cards will prob- ably erode MacCon+ sales some- what but are aimed at high-volume buyers who have little need for SNMP or retail-style packaging. SNMP support can be purchased separately from Asanté for $25. ‘Asanté Technologies Inc. is at 821 Fox Lane, San Jose, Calif. 95131. Phone (408) 435-8388 or (800) 662- 9686; fax (408) 432-7511.0 Only Asanté Puts The Power Of Ethernet In The Palm Of Your Hand. Presenting the world’s smallest and lightest SCSI-to- Ethernet adapter. Asanté™ is adding a whole new dimension to high-speed Ethernet® networking for the Macintosh®. Introducing the Mini EN/SC”, the smallest and lightest SCSI-to-Ethernet adapter you can get your hands on. Specially designed for the PowerBook® line, Asanté’s new Mini EN/SC is so small and light - a mere 6 ounces - that it’s a snap to carry. It’s also the perfect space-saving solution for desk- top Macs® without available slots for networking. For added flexibility, the Mini EN/SC comes with SCSI-to-Ethernet connecting cables for both PowerBooks and desktop Macs. Thin and 10BaseT Ethernet at your fingertips. The plug-and-play simplicity of the new Mini EN/SC makes it the easiest SCSI-to-Ethernet adapter to install, hands down. It’s a powerful solution that puts Thin and/or 10BaseT connectivity at your fingertips. Asanté also offers a 3-in-1 SCSI-to- pe al LJ Ethernet adapter, the EN/SC. The Mini EN/SC is thoroughly a ol ~ ” Og To find out how you can get your hands on the small- tested before shipping and comes backed by the same 5-year warranty and technical support as our other award-winning adapters. est and lightest SCSI-to-Ethernet adapter in the world, call Asanté today ee a 7" A S A N f; r extension 51. ALL THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS™ Resellers: Asanté products are available from Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Merisel and Gates F/A. Asanté Technologies, Inc., 821 Fox Lane, San Jose, CA 95131. Tel: (408) 435-8388. © 1993 Asanté Technologies, Inc. All brand names and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Gateways MACWEEK 05.24.93 PB users get HeadsUp personalized news By Nathalie Welch Cambridge, Mass. — Beginning next month PowerBook users will be able to receive a personalized daily news summary from Individual Inc. The HeadsUp news service will be offered to PowerBook users via Motorola Inc.’s Embarc wireless network and its NewsStream wireless data receiver. In addition, Individual this month began offering a fax version of HeadsUp. In September, HeadsUp will be available via AppleLink, sources said. Individual declined to comment. For $49.95 a month, subscribers will receive one- to two-page story synopses a day and will be able to download the full text of one story a month. Additional retrievals are $4.95 each. Motorola’s wireless paging kit for the Mac is $435, while the monthly fee to access | Embarcis $15. HeadsUp uses Individual’s text filtering and refining technology to create personal newspapers from more than 200 news sources based on subject areas a subscriber chooses froma list of more than 700 topics. Users can choose to have HeadsUp sum- maries dropped into their Lotus Notes applica- tion or delivered to a standard Class 2, Group 3 fax machine or computer-based fax package. The company also offers First!, its full text- only electronic newspaper, which carries an | average annual subscription rate of $8,000 and | is