MacWorld 8703 March 1987

Owe March 1987 $3.95 The Macintosh"Magazine Canada $4.95 Borland software: technically superior ideKick: The Desktop Organizer, Release 2.0 Thousands of users already know that SideKick is the most complete and comprehensive collection of desk accessories available. Well, with Release 2.0, the best just got better. We've just added two powerful high-performance tools to SideKick. We've added Outlook: The Outliner and MacPlan: The Spread- sheet. They work in perfect harmony with each other and while you run other programs! MacPlan does both spreadsheets and business graphs. Paste them into your Outlook files and generate professional reports. SideKick: The Desktop Organizer, Release 2.0 now includes @ Outlook: The | PhoneLog Outliner & Analog clock ®& MacPlan:The 4 Alarm system Spreadsheet {Calculator & Mini word &% Report processor generator ® Calendar @ Telecommunications (new version now supports XModem file transfer protocol) Upgrade Now! if you are one of the thousands of SideKick users, just send us your original master disk back with a check for $34.95, and we'll rush you a brand new SideKick, Release 2.0, complete with manual. ‘introductory offer expires July 1, 1987 Outlook: The Outliner @ /t's the desk accessory with more power than a stand-alone outliner @ A great desktop publishing tool, Outlook lets you incorporate both text and graphics into your outlines @ Works hand-in-hand with MacPlan @ Allows you to work on several outlines at the same time MacPlan: The Spreadsheet g Integrates spreadsheets and graphs @ Does both formulas and straight numbers @ Graph types include bar charts, stacked bar charts, pie charts and line graphs @ Includes 12 ready-to-use templates free! @ Pastes graphics and data right into Outlook creating professional memos and reports, complete with headers and footers, in a snap System requirements: Macintosh 512K or Macintosh Plus with ane disk drive. © The Reflex: %= w”™ are so many critics praising Reflex? Because Reflex is the high-perfor- mance relational database manager that every Mac user has been waiting for. Its simple spreadsheet approach makes calculations a snap. And creating database designs, forms, and reports is as easy as drawing them on your screen. Reflex lets you organize, analyze and report information faster than ever before. Reflex is the full-featured database manager that everyone who manages mailing lists, customer files, budgets and almost any other set of business numbers needs today. Whatever business you're in, whatever you manage, you need Reflex: The Database Manager. Reflex: The Database Manager— 1986 MacUser Editor’s Choice Award ‘System requirements: ‘Macintosh 512K or Macintosh Plus with one disk drive. ‘Second external drive recommended. ‘ee, SideKick and Turbo Pascal are registered trademarks of Botsnd Intemational, ne. 0 Boland Analytica, Inc. Macintash is» wademark of ‘Melntosh Laboratory, Inc. and is icensed to Apple Computer, nc. BM is 2 ‘registered trademark of Internavonal Business Machines Corp Copyright 1987 Berland international 21-1096 Innovative, and easy to use only $99.95" The Critics’ Choice && With 49 arithmetic, text and Statistical functions . . . can handle business and Snoiocering calcula- tions that would stump most data managers. MacWorld .. can be used quickly and easily even by someone who has never heard of a relational database. It is a good buy for its quality, not just its price. MacUser . . a powerful relational database... uses a visual approach to informa- tion management that makes this power easy to manage. InfoWorld .....a combination of power and flexibility that distinguishes it from any other product we've seen. Esther Dyson, Release 1.0 33 What more can we say? if you use a Mac, get Reflex: The Database Manager. “Introductory offer expires July 1, 1987 M52 urbo Pascal: The fastest, most efficient and easy-to- use Pascal compiler! Compiled source code races from Turbo Pascal at the astonishing rate of more than 12,000 lines per minute. Anything less than Turbo Pascal is an exercise in slow motion. You can expect what only Borland delivers: Quality, Speed, Power and Price. Turbo Pascal at a glance & Compilation speed of greater than 12,000 lines per minute @& “Unit” structure lets you create programs in modular form & Multiple editing windows—up to 8 at the same time @ Options include compiling to disk or memory, or compile and run ™@ No need to switch between programs to compile or run a program & Streamlined development and debugging @™ Compatible with Hierarchical File System @ Compatible with Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Pascal (with minor changes) @ Ability to define default volume and folder names used in compiler directives © Search and Change features in the editor speed up and simplify alteration of routines &% Unlimited use of available Macintosh” memory “Units” included to call all the routines provided by Macintosh Toolbox Turbo Pascal: Truly compatible, easy-to-use Turbo Pascal is compatible with your Mac's Hierarchical File System, Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Pascal, and Inside Macintosh. You're in familiar territory, but going a lot faster. Circle 381 on reader service card The Critics’ Choice £6 Turbo Pascal is the true winner in the stand- alone Macintosh development environments . . Turbo Pascal provides ease of use, extremely fast compilations, excellent documentation, great support and a company that is well known in the industry. To end it off, you get all of this for the |__| paltry price of $99! Now isn’t that a reason to get moving with Turbo? Robert Forras, MacTimes Turbo Pascal is already an industry standard in the |_| 18M-compatible world and we're very excited to see Borfand International's new commitment to provide this and other modestly-priced, high-quality software for the Macintosh computer. John Sculley, Apple Computer, inc. 99 System requirements: ‘Macintosh 512K or Macintosh Plus with one disk drive. (The ‘complete Turbo Pascal package, including compiter and editor, ‘occupies only 50K of memory.) “introductory offer expires July 1, 1987 MACWORLD March 1987 The Macintosh"Magazine Departments: 89 Macworld News 13 Mac Bulletin "= Scaling the Great Wall Apple MACWORLD Late-breaking news. scouts out the world’s biggest market 21 David Bunnell = The World's Fastest PC The Prodigy 55 4 clocks in against Compaq's 386. etters = The Surge in Mac Accounting A 53 Commentaryferry Borrell flurry of high-end accounting releases. 58 Contributors Notes Plus, reports on WorksPlus Spell, Onis Cher 63. Steven Levy new hard disks, PageMaker templates, fun with fractals, and more. Beck Tech's MacMovies makes animation ac- 81 Macworld Phone Survey cessible. See p. 104 for Got any gripes, plaudits, or ideas about our critical reaction. the Mac or our magazine? Well, we're (Photograph by David listening... 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Sandberg-Diment says ‘‘MacPascal alone might be reason enough for the college-bound science or engineering major to purchase”’ a Mac. The product becomes a standard in university com- puter science courses. Users are enthu- siastic. But in time they demand even more from THINK. AUGUST 1986. (Boston, Massa- chusetts.. THINK introduces Light- speed Pascal at MacWorld Expo. It is a breakthrough. It utilizes new compiling and linking technology previously avail- able only with THINK’s Lightspeed C. But it goes even further. Like Macintosh Pascal, it provides the same ability to look inside a program, but without the need for an interpreter. It offers blinding speed and the ability to build large pro- grams. The response is overwhelming. In the first two weeks THINK sells thousands. Lightspeed Pascal marks a turning point in programming the Mac. It has all the features that made Macintosh Pascal astandard. And much more. Now users can create real standalone “‘double- clickable” applications and desk acces- sories. THINK creates a new future for Macintosh programmers. Lightspeed Pascal is priced at $125. It is not copy-protected. The package includes a 600-page manual with ex- tensive index. It provides complete Toolbox/OS support. It is compatible with Macintosh Pascal and Lisa Pascal. The future is here. Order Lightspeed Pascal now. Please send me Lightspeed Pascal today. Enclosed is $ for copies. ($125/copy) NAME TLE COMPANY ADDRESS city STATE ZIP PHONE ACCT? CMC CIVISA CLAMEX CICHECKENCLOSED EXP, DATE SIGNATURE Mail to: TrTINK Technologies, 420 Bedford Street, Lexington, MA 02173. Or call 617-863-5595 Lightspeed Pascalis a trademark of THINK Technologies, Inc, Macintosh is a trademark of Macintosh Laboratory, Inc. and is used by Apple Computer, Inc. with its express permission. Circle 96 on reader service card Martha Pease Vice President Dir. of Marketing Jay Morrison Ghn Halleran Laurie Brandalise Group Product Sup Group Product lanager Associate a Doan dé Sosa Ae Product ASsoc.Product Michael Baldwin Director of | Advertising Services Ami Green anager Ad Services Ann Behnke Manager M Manager 3 6. Manager Ad Services Ad Services Ad Services folly Gleason i Rich Mironov Ad Services Associate Associate Coordinator Ad Services INTRODUCING APPLESHARE. THE FREEDOM OF You've heard the talk about the INFORMATION ACT. future of personal computing, Every time you create a docu- ment, AppleShare lets you decide how (or if) its to be shared. Thanks to AppleShare access About how Desktop Communi- cations will change the way we work together. Let us share important docu- ments. And allow us instant access not only to information, but to each other. Well, enough talk. AppleShare™ is here today. individuals, at three different levels: a folder and 3) make changes. And each folder will contain the most recent versions of the work within. Because the system is constantly updating itself. ALL TOGETHER NOW. Apple Desktop Communications can do wonders for produc- tivity, beyond merely sharing folders. Using a program like InBox, one person can easily send electronic mail to anyone on the network. Or just as easily, to a pre-defined list of people. And these messages can include complete documents, such as those created by All for one and one for all. With the AppleShare system, the workeroup’s documents are yours for the asking. Its a new file-serving system designed to build on the power of the AppleTalk® network. So each person can share information with other indi- viduals, groups of people or everyone Microsoft Word or Excel. in the organization. With this new power, Apple But what truly revolutionary Desktop Publishing becomes a whole is how it works—just like a Macintosh™ — new ballgame. 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You can bring others into the group, via AppleTalk cabling, phone lines or fiber optic cabling, Link a number of workgroups together with options like Hayes InterBridge. Or, with FastPath and EtherSC, even tie the whole company together on Ethernet cabling. The full power of Apple Desktop Communications can be yours today. And to get going, theres only one thing you have to do. With Apple Desktop Communications, you can share information amongst a group of computers, including even those of the MS-DOS vartely. Start communicating: Call 800-538-9696, Ext. 700, for the name ofa participating 4, Apple dealer near you. The power tobe yourbest: © 1987 Apple Computer Inc Apple, the Apple logo, Appletell and Laser Writer cae registered trademarks of Aypte Computer, Inc. AopleSbare and Macintash are trademarks of Apple Computer, put a document into a folder, and its INTRODUCING available on the network. Instantly. ‘THE APPLETALK PC CARD. In fact, to use AppleShare, you Now you can communicate need only a fleeting familiarity with with other forms of intelligent life. two of the most basic Macintosh skills. Just plug our PC Card into Pointing. And clicking. an MS-DOS-based computer, and it Inc, Microsoft isa registered | trademark of Microsoft Corporation, InBax and InBax PC ave trademarks of Think Technologies, Ine. Hayes i a registered trademark and InterBridge ‘sa trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. Ethernet isa trademark: of Nera Corporation. FastPeth and EtberSC are trademarks of Kinetics, Inc. The Evolution Of Data Storage. SCSI. Small Computer System Interface For Fast Data Transfer And Plug 'n Play Installation. Tape “Disk? Fast 20 MB Tape Drive Can Be Used For Hard Disk Backup Or Direct Read And Write. 256K Cache. AST's Exclusive Memory Cache Provides A RAM-Fast Buffer To Tape. In The Beginning...there were floppy disk drives. They were slow. Then came Winchester hard disks that plugged into a Macintosh™ serial or floppy port. These offered increased storage but were still slow. And Then One Day... someone invented SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), a much faster inter- face than floppy or serial ports. And suddenly, hard disks were more than just lots of storage. They were fast. Hard disks became very popular. But a new problem arose. Disk crashes. Though infrequent, crashes were very traumatic. Thus It Came To Be... tape backup was developed. And it was good. Data stored on a hard disk could now be “backed up” onto a tape cartridge and stored. In the eventuality of a crash, data could then be restored to the hard disk. The trauma was over. Tape backup was slow, however, and the engineers at AST Research could not rest, They labored to create a better hard disk/tape backup sys- of toil they developed a 256K Cache and a Tape Motion Optimizer Algorithm. Innovations so unique, patents were applied for* An Unprecedented Advance... the Cache was a RAM buffer into which files could be moved for back- up to tape. The computer would then be freed up. Work could con- tinue while backup was occurring! And, yes, it was even user friendly. And, if the hard disk should need maintenance, the tape could be used like a floppy diskette — written to directly via the fast 256K RAM Cache. The system was complete! The tem. And, thus, after many months AST-2000™ was born, red and AST-2000 trademarks of AST Research, Ine, Apple registered trademark of Melntosh Laboratory, Inc dto Apple Computer. Inc., and used 1, Copyright © 1986 AST Research, 1c. All rights reserved. Hard Disk. 20 Mega- bytes (MB) Of Fast-Access Data Storage. AST Quality. Over 160,000,000 Read And Write Tests Performed On Each Unit. AST-2000: The Pinnacle of Data Storage Evolution. The AST- 2000 combines a 20 MB Winchester hard disk, 20 MB Tape, 256K Cache and SCSI connector. It is the ultimate data storage system for your Apple® Macintosh Plus. Contact your nearest AST- authorized Apple Products Dealer today! Or send the coupon to AST Research, Inc., 2121 Alton Avenue, Irvine, CA 92714-4992. Phone: (714) 553-0340. BBS: (714) 660-9175 FAX: (714) 660-8063. | Name. | Tue. | Company | Address. State_Zip. ie Telephone. Send to: AST Research, Inc., 2121 Alton Avenue, Irvine, | CA 92714-4992, Atin: Apple Enhancement Products Group {__Macwontd 387 * RESEARCH INC, The Desktop Publishing Revolution Continues. AST Research Announces The AST TurboScan™ It’s the perfect addition to your Macintosh™ desk- top publishing system. AST TurboScan optically scans and digitizes photographs, artwork, handwriting, text...anything that can be rendered on paper. It allows you to incorporate such images into newsletters, reports, letters, artwork...any type of document. A Revolution In Resolution! AST TurboScan's 300 dots-per-inch (dpi) resolution matches your Laser- Writer's® dpi for opti- mal visual clarity. So you can scan and print at near half-tone quality. And we've included AST TurboScan Utility™ software to let you enlarge, reduce and merge scanned images AST and the AST logo registered trademarks and TurboSean and TurboScan Utility trademarks of AST R Inc. Apple and LaserWriter registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh trademark of Melntost i Inc, licensed ta Apple Computer, Inc.. and used with the express permission of the owner Copyright ©1986 AST Research, Inc, All rights reserved. with text and other graphics. You can scan in either of three modes: Line Art Mode for images that are black and white without shading; Halftone Mode for pho- tographs and other images with contin- uous shading; and, Mixed Mode for a combination of Line Art and Halftone modes. There's also resolution, contrast, bright- ness and gray scale controls. And advanced data compression reduces scanning time and saves disk storage. AST-— Leading The Revolution! At AST we're in the vanguard of creating new solutions. And AST TurboScan is just one of the many quality products we offer to improve oratory, or enhance the performance of your Apple® computer. Contact your nearest AST- authorized Apple Products Dealer today! Or send the coupon to AST Research, Inc., 2121 Alton Ave., Irvine, CA 92714-4992. Phone: (714) 553-0340. BBS: (714) 660-9175. FAX: (714) 660-8063 Name. Title Ea a Tae aE Ca | Gy) et ise 27a Telephone. Send to: AST Research, Inc., 2121 Alton. | Ave., Irvine, CA 92714-4992, Attn: Apple Enhancement Products Group g RESEARCH INC. MacUser Magazine just confirmed what every user of MORE 4 thes at knew... MORE is the 1986 Product of theYear To find out why, call 1-800-822-3700, In California call 1-800-443-4310. ¢f LIVING VIDEOTEXT Software that people really use 2432 Charleston Road, Mountain View, CA 94043 415-964-6300 more. MORE, ThinkTank 512, ThinkTank 128, and ThinkTank ate trademarks rv service card VideoWorks > Macromind of Chicago has bought back the rights to develop new versions of its. original programs MusicWorks, VideoWorks, and M.D. Lead- ing the way is VideoWorks In- teractive, which offers a new concept in programming using icons, animation, and a real- time procedural language. Vid- eoWorks Interactive's pro- gramming capabilities range from interactive presentations and courseware to market re- search tools and video games, Macromind will also offer Vid- eoWorks If, an improved ver- sion of the original, and MUD. H, which will include the air- brush as a desk accessory (as seen in GraphicWorks and ComicWorks). The airbrush can be installed in Fud/Paint and other paint programs. Spin- naker Software continues sell- ing the original versions of M.U.D. and VideoWorks. Mac- romind will provide upgrade credit for all previous owners of its products. Micro Planner Project Exchange Micro Planning Software, International, has released two new products to complement Micro Planner, its sophisti- cated project management ap- plication, Micro Planner Proj- ect Plotter allows you to plot network logic diagrams and/or resource or cost histograms on multicolor pen plotters. Micra Planner Project Exchange provides for easy exchange and manipulation of information. between projects, other ap- plications, and other comput- ers, The software lets users convert MacProject files into, Micro Planner files, merge separate projects into larger projects, break large projects: into smaller projects, import and export files to and from mini and mainframe applica- | tions, and swap files between Micro Planner on 1BM PCs or compatibles and Micro Plan- ner on the Mac. Both products retail for $100. The Seven-Digit Mac Apple expects to have rolled the one-millionth Mac off the assembly line by the be- ginning of March. Perhaps it will be gold plated or bronzed for posterity. Whatever the. case, the Mac is gaining on the IBM PC and compatibles mar- ket, and should continue to: multiply fruitfully, AppleTalk Star ® Farallon Computing of Berkeley has developed a con- troller and software for manag- ing large AppleTalk-compatible networks on ordinary phone lines. The PhoneNet Star- Controller allows fer star-con- figured networks with up to 12 branches. An add-on board and software provide the capability. to monitor and debug the net- work from a remote location. TrafficReporter, the software package, watches all conversa- tions berween nodes and keeps track of the size and number of packets sent, as well as errors between nodes. Mac Bulletin Farallon is also providing a repeater that will extend a net- work's connection capability beyond the current 3000 feet. The repeater will have an RS-423 port, which provides separate transmission and re- ception lines, allowing you to run AppleTalk through other media, such as infrared, miero- wave, laser, and fiber optic channels. The controller will sell for about $1000 and the software for $500. The repeater will sell for under $200. Laser Spooling > Think Technologies has published a LaserWriter spooler capable of spooling documents for existing and fu- ture versions of PageMaker. LaserSpeed works with all _ downloadable fonts and sells for $99 for a single Mac. The $499 LaserSpeed Office Pack includes five LaserSpeed disks and manuals, and it allows you to distribute disks freely to. ~ anyone hooked up to the LaserWriter. : SuperMac Technology has in- troduced StuperLaser Spool, ar upgrade of Super Spool for the ImageWriter, The program de- rives its speed from spooling QuickDraw rather than Post- Seript-interpreted code. As a re- Sult, the print management pro- cess—including the conversion of QuickDraw to PostSeript—- takes place in the background. The single-user version costs $149.95, and the multiuser ver- sion, which includes five disks and allows five people to spool concurrently, costs $395. Macworld. _MacNosy, Part II > Steve Jasik, author of the disassembler MacNosy, has in- troduced “The Debugger’, a window-based, high-level sym- bolic debugger. “The Debug- ger” features an intelligent “stack crawl” that can work its way out of ROM back to the user's program, and it has the ability to display system struc- tures in understandable for- mats. The $100 program is available through dealers or from the author. _IBM File Transfer Dayna Communications is now shipping its FT100 file- transfer unit, which translates files between IBM PCs and Macintoshes. The $595 FT100 is a 5-inch-wide unit that fits next to the Macintosh and includes a 54-inch PC drive, Mac soft- ware, and cables. The unit con- “ nects to the Mac's serial or SCSI port. For an additional $95, Dayna will also include a file- translation program developed _ by DataViz that preserves for- matting features, such as bold- face, underline, and tabs, when files are transferred. The pro- gram works with WordStar, MultiMate, Display Write, dBase Hand (1, and other popular PC software. Letraset Switches | B Onthe eve of the Mac- world Expo last January, Letra- set of Paramus, New Jersey, bought the rights to market Manhattan Graphics’ desktop (continwes) 13 Mac Bulletin publishing program ReadysSer- Go and dropped LetraPage (formerly MacPublisher). LetraPage will be released as MacPublisher IH by its devel- oper, Boston Publishing Sys- tems. Officially, Letraset made the switch because LetraPage. wasn't bug-free at Expo time. ‘The change was so abrupt that documents used in Letraset’s “ReadySetGo” Expo demon- Strations were cosmetically al- tered LetraPage/MacPublisher TIT layouts, New HyperDrives General Computer has in- troduced a conversion kit for $19.95 that lets you format a HyperDrive FX/20 for the Ap- ple I line of computers. The conversion, which is performed by HyperDrive dealers, also re- quires a SCSI port adapter from Apple. In addition, General — Computer now offers a 40- megabyte external hard disk, the HyperDrive EX/40 ($1995), which includes the same soft- ware and utilities as the $1199 FX/20, Desktop Presentations > Programs like MacDraw and More have proven the value of the Mac for producing visual aids for business presen- ations. Now, Forethought, In- corporated, has developed a new product especially for creating desktop presentations. The program—code-named Presenter—allows you to pro- duce overhead transparencies or 35mm slides with ease. The produet should be available this spring and will cost be- tween $295 and $395. In addition, Forethought has | teamed up with business forms publisher NEBS to create a package of business templates for its database FileMaker. The $69.95 package allows you to enter data into a series of pre- formatted FileMaker screens and then print information di- rectly onto NEBS's most popu- lar business forms. Run-Time Tempo Affinity MicroSystems has developed a run-time version of Tempo called Tempo/RT. The new macro program is de- signed for publishers who want to distribute software demos that will run themselves, or for value-added resellers who Create macros for customers, Tempo/RT allows you to en- crypt macros so you can pro- tect proprietary macros, In addition, Affinity is devel- oping a desk accessory that will provide a limited database and a voice recognition device that can trigger Tempo macros with asingle voice command, SuperPaint Scanners Touching up scanned im- ages is an application for which paint programs are ideally Suited. Silicon Beach Software, publisher of SuperPaini, has persuaded the major scanner manufacturers in the Macintosh market to make their products compatible with SuperPaint. Since 300-dpi documents can be edited from within the pro- gram, SuperPaini conveniently parallels the maximum resolu- tions of several scanners. Scan- her manufacturers, such as, Microtek, New Image Technolo- gies, Datacopy Corporation, DEST Corporation, and Kurz- weil, plan to modify their soft- ware so that scanned images can be saved in SuperPaint’s file format, allowing users to open files directly from within SuperPaint. In addition, some of these companies have agreed to bundle or resell Sze- perPaint with their scanners, More 1.1 Living Videotext has been shipping a new yersion of its popular outliner/desktop pre- sentation program, More. New features implemented at the re- quest of program users include a comprehensive Undo com- mand, the ability to mix type styles in an outline, multilevel bullet charts, the ability to modify default settings, and template enhancements, A free upgrade is available for regis- tered owners of More. Mac C Jr. Consulair has released Mac C Jr, anew C develop- ment system aimed at the uni- versity market and anyone interested in learning C pro- gramming on the Mac. The compiler is the same as the one in the $425 Mac C Toolkit de- velopment system, but the new package doesn't include the Toolkit’s library of routines. At $79.95, Mac C Jr. costs less than competitors like LightspeedC, and should attract student pro- grammers on a budget. Memory for Less B® MacMemory, one of the leading suppliers of memory upgrades for the Mac, is offer- ing a low-cost upgrade board for 128K and 512K Macs. The Max 2+ adds 1 megabyte, ex- pandable to 4 megabytes, of SIMM memory. The board also | includes a SCSI adapter and | MaxSave, RAM disk recoyery firmware. In addition, software runs about 30 percent faster than it would without the board, The 512K upgrade costs $399, the 128K upgrade $499. DiskEnsure > ALSoft, publisher of Disk- Express and MacExpress, has developed a backup utility program for hard disks called DiskEnsure, which provides a true incremental backup— replacing old versions of files with current ones. The $39.95 program also has a “disk re- juvenation” feature, which lets you automatically back up a drive, reinitialize it, and re- store it. Memorandum Target Software, publisher | of Voila and MacLightning, has introduced Memorandum, a desk accessory that allows you to attach “electronic Post-its” to any document. Memorandim is intended primarily for attach- ing notes to spreadsheet cells. Faster Networks > Although AppleTalk is adequate for many tasks, its current data-transfer rate is lim- ited to 234 kilobits per second, Kinetics, Incorporated, is de- veloping an Ethernet controller for the Mac Plus that will speed up AppleTalk networks, The Ether-SC increases transfer speeds by directly linking the Mac's SCSI port to Ethernet networks. Kinetics is working to ensure compatibility with fu- ture 68020-based Macs. GO 14 March 1987 See what you've been missing... Full page views of your documents, for example, Unobstructed displays of several windows simul- taneously. 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Try taking a Macintosh and MORE into your next meeting, Start with an outlined agenda, develop the issues into a group action plan. The participants—even those who don't use a computer—can direct the content and organization of the plan. Graphic Tree Charts and Bullet Charts help you present the impact of your decisions. At any point, you can review what's been accomplished. Everyone gets a uniform set of meeting notes, on disk or printed. This frees the par- ticipants from having to take detailed notes. Everyone knows what was decided, so next time you sit down there won't be a debate. Spreadsheets started a revolution for people who work with numbers, MORE is starting a revolution for people who spend time in meetings. 2 Manage people and projects effectively. Managing people and projects can be very difficult. Some managers apply common sense, others learn by doing, others simply avoid the problem all together. 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The Better Software People 8821 Alcott St., Los Angeles, CA 90035 Circle 639 on reader service card 24 March 1987 David Bunnell As Ted Nelson likes to point out, he never reads a book straight through from the first page to the last. He starts in the middle, then flips to the end or the begin- ning, He claims that he retains more infor- mation that way. I've tried it myself, and I think it’s true, Hyperreading is not exactly an easy process to learn, For years, you've been a “Sequencer,” and suddenly you have to flip back and forth. It’s like learning to read all over again. Recently, we at PCW Communications took our first step in hyperpublishing when we used OWL Software's Guide pro- gram to produce an experimental hyper- text edition of parts of the January issue of Macworld on disk, as well as a similar hy- pertext issue of PC World. Guide, created by software entre- preneur Alan Boyd, ideal hypertext maker because it allows you to organize database information in a visual way. For umple, what appears on the Macworld editor's computer screen here can repre- sent the page as it will appear in Mac- world magazine—complete with actual photos, type fonts, and headlines. It can look like the real magazine will look. I hope that we will soon be able to put a whole year's worth—or even more—of a magazine onto a single CD ROM disk. The key to reading these giant issues will be Guide's hypertext method of accessing information. With its elegant design—you simply click mini-icons, or buttons, to obtain the information you want—readers will find ita much more friendly and intuitive way to search for information than the traditional method of keyword searches. Future hypermagazines will be much more impressive than these Macworld and PC World prototypes. First of all, it's obvious that simply providing translations of publications from paper to electronic form is not the op- timum use of this new medium, We are going to very quickly find ways to enhance xisting information. For example, a future hypertext issue of Macworld might contain useful data- bases such as directories of personal com- puter companies with their addresses and phone numbers, lists of computer stores and computer clubs, and so on. (continues) D ers. evelopment Say, for example, you have three possible solutions to the same problem. With Prototyper) you can quickly build all three. From menus, t buttons, to the shape of the cursor. Ina matter of hours, you're inter- acting with each of your options ~ as j they were real Macintosh applications Soon, you are able to decide on the best solution, Without writing a line of code, Without cracking open Inside Macintosh. Prototyper"™ saves your most precious resource ~ time. Before Prototyper'? it took months to produ a working user interface, New ideas often meant code was scrapped, Details you have to monitor when programming are managed for you by Prototyper’ Even mouse tracking an event loops are handled automatically So whether you're a sophisticated developer or new to programming, you'll be amazed at how Prototyper™ increases your productivity, SmethersBarnes For more information, call 1800-237: 361 I Oregon call 503-245-7270 Pyvtatuper aml the SinetlersBiarnes loge are tadenaaek of Sun tlunstian Mains sa foademanh Hen pple Conte, I Circle 438 on reader service card Desktop Publishing is one of today's most exciting computer applications. And PageMaker® has certainly been a major contributor to this revolution- ary technology. It has allowed the user to assemble newsletters, brochures, data sheets and the like of near type- PageMaker. set quality. Unfortunately, however, H PageMaker also provides the user Is for squares. with severe limitations on the speed and design of a page layout. The user is pretty much restricted to a rigid column format and rectangular images. While circular or irregular images may be incorporated into a layout, it is a painfully time-consum- ing task to run the copy around the image. So the final product lacks a truly professional look. PageMaker® is a registered trademark of Aldus Corporation. Target Software™ and Scoop™ are regintered trademarks of Target Software, Inc. MacPaint™ and MacDraw™ are rogiatered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. On the other hand, a Scoop™ layout More than that, Scoop lets you create would do credit to an outstanding and manipulate both the text and the graphics designer. Like PageMaker, graphics. Unlike PageMaker, there's Scoop enables the user to produce all kinds of documents at consid- erable savings. 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If you can organize words and pictures and and photos in hypertext publica- then imagine what you could do with hypervideo To start with, I'd love to store all my VCR movies on one giant hypervideo disk that might contain hundreds or even thou- sands of films. 1 could then hyperview anything I wanted from my film collection—say, battle scenes, love scenes, or comedy scenes. | could study the careers of favorite stars like Marilyn Monroe by selecting individual scenes in which they appeared, or replay- ing entire films, I could program my own anthologies. 1 would probably even be tempted to buy hypervideo anthologies compiled by noted film critics like Pauline Kael. This technology would create a whole new genre of film criticism. Asan extension of this single hyper- video concept, there would be a single de- vice in my home that would capture all the radio, television, and digital information signals (like computer programs broadcast on FM bandwidths) that are beamed to my antenna or satellite dish. All this data would be analyzed by an expert system custom-designed for me. This electronic genie would haye come to know me and my special interests over the years. In fact, it might even have helped to develop and shape my interests and sensibilities. 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If hypertext is going to effectively transform the way we structure and deliver information—if it really is the tool we need to help us deal with the massive amount of information that keeps doubling and trip- ling—then we'll definitely have to hone our hyperskills. D. W. Griffith influenced the entire film industry when he developed tech- niques such as his fade-out and fade-in edits to convey the passage of time in films like his classic Birth of a Nation. Prior to that, the film industry was a creative infant. The camera was used simply as a static re- cording device to capture stage plays on celluloid. Griffith's innovative techniques are to film what hypertext is to information. In fact, there is a close parallel between early motion pictures and the development of a new information medium. In its early days, film, too, was a completely new method for conveying information and entertainment. Similarly, hypertext is going to chal- lenge a new generation of publishers, film- makers, and broadcasters, Anyone and everyone who is involved in the informa- tion/communications business will have to become hyperliterate. The question is, how are we going to decide the standards of this new informa- tion medium? Who is going to set the trends? What technical information do we need to exchange in order to establish the ground rules? The hyperpublisher of tomorrow is going to need a wide variety of media skills—filmmaking, magazine publishing, news publishing, and database publishing, to name just a few. Meanwhile, we need a place or an or- ganization where people from all parts of the information industry can come to- gether to exchange ideas. The only such development on the horizon that I’m aware of is the new Infor- Software developer Sat Tara Singh Khalsa is creating the Information Institute, ‘the first interdisciplinary forum for all information tech- nologies.” The launch will be this year in Aspen mation Institute being created by Sat Tara Singh Khalsa, the American Sikh software wizard who founded Kriya Systems and created the best-selling Zping Tutor 3 program. According to Sat Tara, his nonprofit In- formation Institute is “the first interdisci- plinary forum for all information technolo- gies.” He plans to launch it this year in As- pen, Colorado, “We're seeing enormous communica- tions and information conglomerates being built up,” he says, “but there is no comfort- able fit between media. CBS, for example, has TY, radio, computer software, and books. But each is run as a separate en- tity. 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Prior to its demise, I noticed the left side of the cabinet felt feverish. ladded a Kensington System Saver Mac, which seemed to reduce the temperature. l encourage Macworld to keep a scorecard of reports about these failures. If analysis indicates the power supply has an Corrections Laser Quill, reviewed in the November 1986 Macworld, bas become Laser Author, available from FL.1., PO. Box 49, Ramsey, NJ 07446, 201/444-5700. To sign up electronically for GEnie Infor- mation Services (“The GEnie in the CRT,” Reviews, Macworld, November 1986), connect by modem at 800/638-8369, and then at the U# prompt enter the fol- lowing ID number and password: XJM11999, GENIE. Apple Smailtalk-80 comes in two ver- sions not mentioned in November's Where to Buy: version 0.2, which runs on a 512K Mac, and version 0.3, which re- quires at least 1 megabyte of memory. 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