MacWorld 8906 June 1989

62 NEW PRODUCTS: PAGE 193 © 22 PRODUCT REVIEWS: PAGE 148 o The Mac in me How Hottywooo WORKS WITH THE Macivtostwoy PAGES 108 & 116 f y "y 1, " a 10! Gives 10 Buyin a Database: fim DSEvenepRopucts COMPARED i Database SHowDown: # Ture Top CONTENDERS Maxine IBM Work A, Pe mci rr ror Your Mac he — ‘a New: HyperCaro & : SuperCarp a 2 pa 2! Forheavy users of Anyone can create without having to worry about tabs Documents 10,000 pages and longer won’ intimidate Word. And Word Count ‘And you'l always fied the thesaurus boasts 220,000 of them. ‘gives authors an exact count of characters, words, lines and paragraphs. Our formuda typesetting feature can handle symbols and notations so Absolute positioning of graphics and text is the absolute best if youre ‘you technical writers won't have to rely ona typesetier. involved with page layout, The text wraps around any object as You type. Anew Word. Microsoft. Word The expression that you cant please all of the people all of the time just got redefined. In developing Microsoft® Word version 4.0, we took input from the over 400,000 Word users who made Word the best-selling Macintosh? product in history. Added startling, cutting- edge technology. And the result is a gracious, easy-to-use word processing program with features as dynamic and diverse as its users. Unleash those features, and you push the envelope of word processing. You can set up tables automatically, without worrying about tabs. Reformat an entire document with one command. And choose from four editing views—including one that shows you exactly what your document looks like, so you can organize and revise your docu- ments without any guesswork. What’ more, Word is completely custom- ©1988 Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft and the ‘SuperPaint by Sticon Beach Software a tradem at wit all mae se ko ancl (S00) 1-126, Dep. 172 izable—any command can be placed on any menu or assigned any keyboard command. And, software fans, the best-selling word processing program for the Macintosh now comes with the best-selling paint — and draw program for the Mac- intosh—SuperPaint by Silicon Beach Software’ And keep in mind Microsoft Word is ma of an entire line of Microsoft products that work seamlessly together, so you can do more with your Macintosh. Microsoft Word 4.0 can emphasize, articu- late, clarify and organize your words. In fact, practically the only thing it cant do is think for you. Yet. © Making it all make sense: MACWORLD Realistic loking imoges, hike this ‘camera ond these fromes from Tin Toy, the Oscar-winning onimeted short, con snow be done on « Mac (see Art Best, p- 39). To learn more about Mcintosh ‘nition, turn top. 108. To fad out show the Mocs becoming storia the fm industry, s00 p. 116. DEPARTMENTS How to Contact Macworld. 10 Reprints, subscriptions, Macworld on microfilm, editorial contacts. Commentary /Jerry Borrell... 19 Guy Kawasaki's irreverent depiction of the Mac software industry. Letters... ArtBect.. 39 By Deborab Branscum/The genesis of our cover. The Iconoclast... eens re A By Steven Levy/David Bohrman was just another newshound, until he discovered HyperCard. Conspicuous Consumer... 57 ByDeborab Branscum/How to find a good dealer. State of the Mac........ Bz By Thom Hogan/Three ways you can expand your Mac II's memory. Late-breaking news. Macworld News... 83 The Macintosh” Magazine June 1989 New Products... : 193 ‘A quick look at new Macintosh hard- ware, software, and accessories. HOW TO/QuickTips.......... ce 2TT By Lon Poole/Centering objects in PageMaker, using MultiFinder with IMB RAM, filling complex objects in Cricket Draw, and more. HOW TO/Getting Started with Typography.........219 By Jim Heid/Techniques for making your docu- ments look professional. HOW TO/Insights on Word 4.0.............000.0000...233, By Michael Sloan/Tips on Word's new features. Updates............ +243 The latest software upgrade news. Where toBuy.... 251 Contact information for products in this issue. Best-Sellers. .288 | Sharing Supercomputer Power Parallel processing for any Mac on a network. ml Museum. Macs HyperCard stacks give art new meaning. _ tl Oh-la-la Online Design and factory auto- mation for the rag trade. I The Network Is the News A network linking two halls and three states, @ Grophics Lumenory High-end paint and animation. Color Printing Takes Off New ways to print color. @ 32-bit Color Boards Video boards for Color QuickDraw. 1 Why Wait for the Apple Laptop? An SE/30 laptop for today. _ New Network Technology Wireless networks operate on the FM band, i Newlighton Data Erasable optical disks. il Mac Video Paving the way for the full- motion video workstation. @ Sharing the Printer Wealth Macs use printers designed for IBM PCs. MACWORLD © JUNE 1989 a aN PO Ss <a We put Panorama, File, ond FileMoker FEATURES eoicraer cima ‘the winning database, see p. 133. Move Itt 108 By Stuart Cudlitz/Create and play M: inimation in 2-D, 3-D, and HyperCard. A roundup of the latest animation software for the Mac. Star Quality... Roe Bs eu By Stuart Cudlitz/‘The Ma 10 filmmaking «is a featured player in independent production 's being used in storyboarding, special effects, composite photography breaks companies. How cl editing. ‘On Beyond HyperCard....... era. acl 26 suzanne Stefanac/HyperCard is no longer alone in its field. Two new products, SuperCard and Plus, create their own stacks, complete with color and multiple, resizable windows. r. Sent) Fees cigaenl daiaee apart from a poor one? Choosing an Organi: By David Pogue/ Here ome surefire tips for finding a quality database that’s y to use. Database Showdown, * Bre 133 By David Pogue/Three of the top file managers—Panorama, Microsoft File, and FileMaker—battle their way through a true-to-life application, ‘Making IBM Work for Your Mac..........-..0ss..0 1B By Dave Kostur The Mac mal reat connections with the IBM mainframe world. The animated Macintosh—you can make grophics come to life with o wide RE VIEWS range of animation softwore, p. 108. Wingz 1.0. 148 Interfax 12/48 166 Spreadsheet with 3-D graphics. Fax modem with data modem. ‘Aldus FreeHand 2.0 : 150 Mean 18 Ultimate Golf and Professional illustration program. World Class Leader Board. 168 Eran Chit! oie 152 TWO golf games challenge M Golf Thermal-transfer color printer. Vorloge ¥.0:., 1.2 sus tae accmngaresenecl ZO. . 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Piease allow CouPaNT [4 weeks for delivery, § lusea Macintosh 3 1BM ADDRESS: ery, PC computer (Check B appropriate boxfes)) awe a PHONE MACWORLD © JUNE 1989 Editor-in-Chief Jerry Borrell EDITORIAL Executive Editor David Ushijima Managing Editor Charles Barrett Senior Editor/ Features Adrian Mello Editorial Manager Jone Lagas Assoclate Editor/ Departments Deborch Branscum Associate Edttor/ Features Joe Matazzoni Associate Editor/News Tom Moran Associate Editor/News Dan Littman Associate Editor/ Reviews Carol Person As.octate Editor! Features Cheryl Spencer Associate Editor/Features Suzanne Stefanac East Coast Editor/Features Brita Meng Senior Production Editor Wis A. Camus Senior Copy Editor Ruth Henrich Assistant Editors Cathy E. Abes, Mark Hurlow, Mary Margaret Lewis, Liza Weiman Production Editor Annie Jenkel Copy Editors Marjorie Baer, Emily Bower, Felicity O’Meara, Katherine L. Ulrich Assistant Production Editor Barbara Tannenbaum Editorial Assistant Pamela T. Creighton Editorial Administrative Assistants Joyee C. Ripp, Lyn Taylor Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief lisa Barshay Editorial Intern Wendy Monroe Contributing Editors Nancy E. Dunn, Robert C. Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Danny Goodman, Rob Hahn, Jim Heid, Dave Kosiur, Steven Levy, Lon Poole, Charles Seiter, Franklin Tessler, Bruce F. Webster ART ano DESIGN Designer Dennis McLeod Associate Art Director Joanne Hoffman Assistant Art Director Nancy Paynter Senior Design Associates Leslie Barton, ‘Andrew Faulkner, Ame Hurty Design Associates Martha Katt, Hae Yuon Kim PRODUCTION Senior Production Manager Anne Foley Assistant Production Manager Claudia Dawn Smukler Advertising Billing Coordinator So Fong Yip Advertising Traffic Coordinator Annette Garcia President and Publisher Macworld Communications James E. Martin Assistant to the President Susan Miller Publisher’ ment can be found on page 10. Overhaul. How to give Ethernet a run for the money. Some people may think the way to rev up a LocalTalk network is to rip the whole thing out, lay some heavy cable, and send your computers out for an Ethernet implant. Spending big Time to complete the Infonetics Standard | bucks in the process. Officetes: sults ona ined network, TOPS suggests a less traumatic alternative: FlashBox, ‘ple the fast and easy LocalTalk upgrade. Does sec. | Ethertalk For just $189 per node, FlashBox delivers fully 80% West) | of Ethernet performance for just 20% of the cost. How? —J | By turning your LocalTalk network into a high-speed freeway Source Infoneties.ine_| moving data at FlashTalk rates of 770 Kbps. Installation won't slow you down either. FlashBox plugs right into the back of your Mac and runs over your existing twisted-pair wire. It's 100% compatible with your current applications. It communicates at FlashTalk rates with PCs using TOPS FlashCard. And, unlike Ethernet, it lets you continue printing to your LaserWriter® without buying a costly gateway. Best of all, FlashBox is available now. So stop by your nearest TOPS dealer and find out how to rev up your network without over- "3 hauling your budget. Or call the TOPS Division of Sun Microsystems at 1-800-445-TOPS, extension 107 (from outside the U.S. and when you need connections. Canada, call 1-415-769-8700, ext. 107). Eo cL Actsogtumanee ex nstat.ny a enn oh ty La Ferber a pee = seit ets agree Peon Ces ocnest caaee| C= Using FlashBox with bridges, gateways, or other AppleTal-only devices ‘may require network reconfiguration or the addition of repeating devices. Copyright €1989 Sun Microsystems, Inc, Time (seconds) WE PUT PERSONAL SCANNING WITHIN YOUR REACH. Announcing LightningScan, the new hand-held scanner for Macintosh. From Thunderware. Now one quick pass is all you need to scan any image up to four inches wide. With resolution settings up to 400 dots per inch, LightningScan™ makes almost any scanning job easier to handle. And because LightningScan is controlled by the software that helped make ThunderScan® famous, you have the powerful tools you need to enhance and edit your images. As for graphics compatibility, you name it: from PageMaker® and Illustrator™ to ImageStudio™ and Digital Darkroom." At its suggested retail price of $549, LightningScan makes the benefits of personal scanning very easy to grasp. MACWORLD Associate Publisher Steven J. Rosenfield w MARKETING ANDADVERTISING Director of Advertising Sales Patricia Navone (415/243-0505) Senior Account Manager! No. California (San Francisco) Penny Rigby (415/243-0505) No. California (San Jose) Cherie Lo France (415/243-0505) Northwest Regina T. 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Spence Accounting Manager Pat Murphy Employee Relations Manager Shelly Ginenthal Information Systems Manager Wolter J. Clegg Founding Editor Andrew Fluegelman 1943-1985 ~ SYMANTEC UTILITIES PROTECTS SMART PEOPLE AGAINST HARD DISK CRASHES THE SAME WAY AIR BAGS PROTECT DUMMIES. “SUM, or to be more precise, Symantec Utilities Sor Macintosh, is the slickest and most important set of utilities you can get for your Mac. To have a hard disk and not have SUM 1s sheer folly.” Steven Bobker, Chief Scientist, MacUser Magazine, 9/88, 5 Mice, Highest Possible Rating Strong language. But well founded. Because in addition to six other indispensable utilities, SUM fea- tures Guardian, the ultimate software for protecting your SEVEN INDISPENSABLE HARD DISK UTILITIES: Guardian—protects and restores hard disk data and deleted fi Clinic”—easy-to-use troubleshooting interface. Restores hard disk data incase youhave a crash before you can install Guardian. Virus Protection — Brotecs systems against “viruses.” HD TimeU/p"— optimizes hard disks. Symantec Tools—views and edits data and resource forks of a file or volume in HEX or ASCII. @uickCopy”—makes fast floppy copies. HD Partition — separates hard disks into separate volumes which can be encrypted. Mac’s hard disk before a crash. Like an air bag, Guardian stays out of sight, loading automatically every time you turn on your Mac. It protects invisibly by updating a “map” of your hard disk data. So that, ina crash, your data is safe. Because Guardian uses the “map” to locate itand recover it. In minutes. Smart Mac users who want complete, yet effortless protection for their hard disk data should follow Steven Bobker’s advice and “Get SUM.” Today. See your dealer or order today: (800) 228-4122 Ext. 675G SYMANTEC. symantec corporation, 10201 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014. 408253-9600. MacZap owners call 408/446-9994 fo alow cost uperade. HD TuseU'p, QuickCopy, and Disk Clinic are all trademarks of Symantec Corporation. Other Products are trademarks oftheir respective holders. © 1988 Symantec Corporation Circle 237 on reader service card b ant. If your monitor isn’t sharp, even the best ideas look fuzzy. That's why you need to look into ColorMax and Silver View for your Mac II and PageView for your Mac SE. The new line of monitors from Sigma Designs. Designed for engineering workstations, our 19” ColorMax delivers 16.8 million colors with knife-edge definition. Which means your blueprints will now be a lot more than just blue. For art directors and designers, the 21” flat-screen SilverView extends your range with an exact scale two-page Spread. And your palette with the entire gray scale's 256 different shades. So you 'll never have to leave anything to tion again. Priced less than $1000, our PageView 15” flat-screen mitor is clearly one of the most remarkable bargains a this industry. 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Direct (by mail) to; Writer’s Guidelines, Editorial Dept. June 1989, Volume 6, Number 6 “Macworld (ssn 0741-8647) is published. monthly by IDG Communications, Ine, $01 Second Steet San Francisco, CA 94107. Subscription rates are $30 for 12 sues, $60 for 2 sacs, nd $90 for 36 issues. Foreign orders must be prepaid {a US. funds with addional postage. Add $16 per year from Canada and Mexico: aad 516 per year for surface mail or $95 per year for airmail from all other ‘countries POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Macworld P.O. Box $4529, Boulder, CO 0323-4529, For dealer inquiries, cll 890/621-5461, in California ‘890/521-8455. Eaioral and business fics: 501 Second St, San Francisco, CA ‘publication of IDG Communications, Inc. Macworld is an in Sependent journal not sffilated with Apple Computer, Inc. APPLE, the APPLE LOGO, MAC, MACINTOSH, and MACWORLD ate registered trademarks and [MACLETTER is. trademirk of Apple Compute, lnc. Printed in the United States ‘of America, Copyright 1989 IDG Communications, Inc.All rights reserved. “Mactcrldis a member of DG Communications, the world's largest publisher of ‘computer elated information. IDG Communications publishes over 80 com: ‘iter publication in more than 28 major countries Fourteen milion people read ‘ne oF more IDG Communications publications each month. PRESENTING THE WRITEMOVE PORTABLE PRINTER. Most printers are sentenced by theirown sheer bulk to lifelong con- finement on a desktop. Butnow GCCTechnologies“has created a printer for the Macintosh® with considerably more freedom than that. Its called WriteMove™: the “biggest printer ever to come in an incredibly small package. WriteMove weighs a scant three pounds. It measures just2’«612” x1034” (Any smaller and you couldnt get the paper i Butits the only ink jet printer of any size that gives you almost unlim- ited freedom to reduce and enlarge type anddocuments Because its the only one with outline fonts—imag- ing software that provides function- ality otherwise available only with laser printers. As a result, you can use Write- Move to compose documents with word processing software like Micro- soft® Word, or desktop publishing programs like PageMaker.* And then silently print them outat192-DPlreso- iis In other words, you get much are waders ard ihe GCC Tech higher print quality than the Image- Writer*ll, for not much more money. Which could bring a whole new meaning tothe phrase’ freedom of the press.” ‘To exercise that freedom, see your authorized GCC Technologies dealer fora WriteMove demon- stration. For the one nearest you, call (617) 890-0880* IN == TECHNOLOGIES natkol GCC Te ‘Corp Sugges INTRODUCING THE MOST INGENIOUS PORTABLE PRINTER SINCE THE PENCIL. WriteMove Homable Fenter P| erate Circle 177 on reader service card THE ROFFMANN LSE RADIUS HARDWARE. THE BEST WAY TO MAXIMIZE YOUR SOFTWARE. QuarkStyle, PageMaker, Excel, Illustrator, MultiFinder, and 4th Dimension. The second generation of Macintosh software is here now. The third generation is already beginning to arrive. Your Macintosh SE alone cant keep pace with the ever increasing sophistication of Macintosh software. Butit can with a pro- ductivity system from Radius. Totally compatible with your Macintosh SE, from aaa its aesthetics to its electronics, theres a Radius System designed for your reriae lar working style. Our Document Processing System con- sists of a 640 x 864 pixel Radius Full Page Display” that lets you work on a virtually paper-like 84""x 11" page. Then we add our Radius Accelerator 16" and quadruple the speed of all of your Macintosh applications from Ready, Set, Go! to HyperCard. Our Professional Publishing System fea- tures a 1152x864 pixel Radius Two Page Display." Now youre working right across a double page spread or a full-scale B size drawing. Then we add our Radius Accelerator 25" and youre working at six times the speed of a Macintosh SE. ©1989 Rais Inc Rais, the Ras logo, Radius Fd age Dshlay Radin Two Page Dispos Rad Which means our Accelerator 25 has you roaring along faster than a Macintosh II. For Engineering and Design and intensive number crunching, we add something even a bit more powerful: the MC68881 mathematical coprocessor. Ttaces floating point computations at one hundred times the speed of your Macintosh SE.Combined with the immense canvas of the Two Page Display and the speed of the Accelerator 25, it takes you to the very limits of programs like Excel and MacDraft. Both Radius Accelerators offer our innova- tive MagicBus” which allows you to configure your Macintosh with either our Full Page Display or Two Page Display. So, you can complete your Radius System all at once or add the components one ata time. To see the most powerful and sophisti- cated Macintosh software run at its full potential ona Macintosh SE, try a hands-on demonstration of the Radius System that fits your personal working environment. Call 1-800-527-1950 ext. 84 for a brochure and name of your nearest Radius Authorized Dealer. And get the most out of your Macintosh SE and its software. Today. And tomorrow. radus Intelligent Hardware™ juare and MagieBus are trademarks of Radixs Inc No other hard drive stacks up to Jasmine. Year after year, Jasmine has set the standards by which other hard disk drives are compared, Now, in 1989, we've raised those stan- dards. With a new series of DirectDrives™ that are more reliable, affordable, and technologically advanced than ever. DitectOrve 20 cece DirectDrive40 ............ DirectDrive80 ............ DirectDrive100 ........ DirectDrive140 ........... DirectDrive300 .......... Of course, while continually pushing the boundaries of technology, we've never forgotten that there are some things tech- nology alone can't provide. Like the joy of spending not a penny more than necessary to acquire the very best. Or the satisfaction of owning a hard-working, reliable piece of hardware. Or the feeling of confidence that comes from dealing with a company dedicated to customer service. So it’s only to be expected that this new series of external hard disk drives gives you more than more megabytes for your money. With each 1989 DirectDrive you also receive our exclusive, 30-day money-back guarantee and no-nonsense, two-year warranty, But that’s not all. Jasmine DirectDrives come bundled with over $500 worth of the most advanced utility software avail- able—absolutely free. Including Symantec™ Utilities for Macintosh, which lets you recover data from a mistakenly-initialized hard disk. Redux™ from Microseeds, perhaps the easiest, most powerful way to back up your data, DriveWare™ and DEScryptor,* our comprehensive operating and proprietary encryption tools: Plus DemoWare™ and over SMB of Public Domain and Shareware software. To order a new DirectDrive call 1-800-347-3228 in the US. or 4 1-415-282-1111 worldwide. Our knowledgeable staff is ready to answer your Jasmine questions Monday through Friday from 8 am to 6 pm (Pacific Standard Time). MasterCard, Visa, or American Express cheerfully accepted. 1-800 -347.- 42 28 (©1989 smio tng In 1790 my Se San Fano CA24 Poe 1-221 FI. 6181625 Die Drier DESerpr and Demo ae tradename Teche ln, “DES iced wil aks nl Syramec™ liso Mansy Syne y cree Circle 21 on reader service card MAC BULLETIN INDUSTRY NOTES Hard-Driving Lawsuits Disk drive maker Jasmine Technologies ‘has sued one current and several former Jasmine executives and Rodime, Inc, charging that they conspired to lower the price of Jasmine stock to set the company up for a takeover. Jasmine, already embroiled in other lawsuits, aimed to have firm and compelling evidence of a conspiracy. Novell to Acquire Excelan Local area network vendor Novell, the developer of NetWare, has agreed to ‘acquire Excelan in a stock swop valued at roughly $170 million. Excelan's Kinetics division leads the AppleTalk-to-Ethernet market with its FastPath 4 gateway. Networkers Collaborate Novell and Sun Microsystems plan to integrate Sun’s TOPS and NFS protocols to provide connectivity between Novell's NetWare, TOPS, and ONC/NFS networks. TOPS already allows Macintoshes and 1BM PGs to shore the same network, and Novell last year announced support for Macs on its popular NetWare LAN. Microsoft Profits Down? ‘Microsoft Corporation reported that delays in shipping new versions of its word processors for the Mac ond IBM PC would cause third-quarter earnings to be lower this year than in 1988. The surprise announcement sent its stock price down—along with chairman Bill, Gates’s net worth. Ashton-Tate Falls Short Ashton-Tate reported a decline of 16.8 percent in pretax income, though its net income for the year rose 10.9 percent. Ashton-Tate expects unusual marketing and sales costs to reduce earnings in the first half of the current fiscal year. o Apple Releases Color QvickDraw Apple will offer Mac owners a free upgrade that provides a standard way of displaying and saving 24- and 32-bit color graphics images. The Color Extensions release of QuickDraw consists of three files that work with System versions 6.0.3 or later. Contained in the release are a new Monitor CDEV that simplifies installing multiplemontor systems, a new Color PICT file format that further compresses color files, and r new routines that correctly translate color files to shades’of gray. The new Color QuickDraw will display 0 24-bit color image correctly on a 1-, 2-, 4-, 8:, 16; 24+, or 32-bit color or monochrome graphics-display system. Images created on a 24-bit color system can be dithered to provide an excellent likeness when displayed on a color or monochrome display using eight bits or fewer. Apple will also ship a new version of the LaserWriter driver, version 6.0. The laserWriter toad properly prints color PostScript output when working with color PostScript printers such as the QMS ColorScript 100 or Tektronix’ color PostScript pines. Color inages are printed as halftone grayscale images on a blackand-white PostScript laser printer. : Screamer in the Wings—5OMHz 68030 A 50MHz version of a 68030 microprocessor that will provide up te 12 MIPS of compute power Was recently announced by Motorola's Microprocessor Products Group. The CPU's clock rate makes it faster than any available CISC or RISC processor, Motorola said. The new chip, which uses 1-micron fabrication technology, is already available in samples and is scheduled to ship in production quantities in the third quarter of 1989. Apple Wins Round One in Lawsuit In March, Apple won a crucial pretrial ruling in its lawsuit against Microsoft and HewlettPackard to protect the look-and-feel of Apple's Macintosh from imitators, In the ruling, Judge William Schwarzer said Micro- | softs 1985 licensing agreement with Apple did not completely cover the products challenged by the suit, notably Microsoft Windows version 2.03. HewlettPackard's NewWave operating environment, which. | functions in conjunction with Windows, employs some concepts strikingly similar to the Macintosh desktop. With the ruling out of the way, lawyers for Microsoft and HP lawyers will challenge Apple's copyrights head on, claiming the Mac look-and-feel deserves no legal protection since its concepts were 2 devel oped elsewhere, mainly at Xerox’ «Corporation. New Excel Version to Adc Microsoft Corporation expecis to ship in early May ils latest Exeel for the Mac, version 2.2. we new program will address MB of RAM, versus 1MB for the current version. It will also support 256 fonts per worksheet in six styles per font, and will offer variable row heights to suit different size fonts. Users can create warm links with Word 4.0 to create tables in Word from data in a spreadsheet. At press time the company expected the product to retail for $395 to new buyers. Upgrades wil cost $99 but will be free 6 those who purchased Excel 1.5 offer April 1, 1989. Anti-Viral Search and Destroy Symantec Corporation has announced SAM (Symantec Antivirus for Macintosh) a utlity that automatically detects and destroys viruses on hard disks and floppies. Slated to ship on May Ist, SAM is effective against the nVIR, Scores, INIT29, ANTI, and Hpat viruses, the company said. The program, which retails for $99.95, automatically scans floppy disks when you insert them. For more information, call Symantec at 415/964-6300. (continues) MACWORLD © JUNE 1989 15 v mmm MAC BULLEN eee INDUSTRY NOTES Aldus Posts Record Profit Aldus Corporation announced 1988 revenues of $79 million, an increase of 100 percent over 1987 figures; net income increased by 87 percent. The company attributed the suc- ess fo continued strong sales of PageMaker for the Mac and IBM PC and the release of Aldus Persuasion and Aldus FreeHand. Hughes to Buy Sytek Hughes Aircraft Company agreed to acquire Sytek, a LAN vendor that is among the com- ponies supporting the Open Link Interface. Through OLI, a LAN can support TC/PIP, OSI, and AppleTalk through a network server. CASE Software Promotes Portability Codetheck, a $295 tool just announced for computer-aided software design in all major languages, analyzes code for maintain- ability, style, and portability among MS- DOS, 05/2, UNIX, VMS, and Macintosh environments, From Abraxas Software, 503/244-5253, Power Up Buys FastForms Power Up Software Corporation of Son Mateo, California, formerly known as Channelmark Corporation, recently acquired the product FastForms from the Shana Corp- oration, of Edmonton, Alberta. Expect increased distribution of FastForms in the United States and a major new release of the product by the end of this year. VDT Report NoRod Corporation, a company that makes radiation-blocking devices, has published a report about the legal ramifications of VOT health hazards. The company, prepared the report for the Workers’ Compensation and Employers’ Liability Law Committee of the American Bar Association. For copies, con- tact NoRad Corp., 1549 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401; 213/395-0800. Letraset Buys Fred Letraset USA bought rights to market the Fred Font Machine font-design program from AB Vista Company. Letraset will re- nome Fred and integrate it into the com- pony’s line of graphic-design products for the Mac before Fred is released this summer. New ImageWriter LQs for Old Responding to criticism from customers, Apple Computer has introduced a quieter model of the ImageWriter LQ that also improves printing at the top and bottom of the page. The company offets free upgrades to people who purchased the 27-pin, $1399 dot matrix printer between August 11, 1987, and March 7, 1989. The improved ImageWriter |Q also includes ImageWriter LQ Printer Driver version 2.0 and a HyperCard help stack. RasterOps Ships Color Board for SE/30 RasterOps Corporation has begun shipping the ColorBoard 108+/SE/30, a color video board for the Macintosh SE/30. The board generaies up to 256 colors or shades of gray on 19-inch, 16:inch, or 13- inch monitors. Users can select from resolutions of 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, or 640 by 480, all at the standard 72 dots per inch. The board offers panning and zooming in hardware, and supports an enlarged panning area, equal in size to.a 19-inch monitor, for 13-inch and 16-incli displays. It operates in 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-bit mode. The retail price of the ColorBoard 108+/SE/30 is $1895. For more information, call RasterOps at 408/ 446-4090, New EO Drive The GS6000 rewritable, erasable optical (EO) drive from Macsetra Technologies International was demonstrated at Seybold Seminars in San Francisco, Designed for higirend corporote publishing, the GS6000 uses cache RAM and high-performance driver software to increase speed significantly (Macsetra says that the GS6000's seek, read, and write speed is comparable to that of a regular hard disk}. The 600MB removable cartridges for the drive cost $249 each; the GS6000 itself lists at $4995. For more information, contact Macselra Technologies at 306/955-0002. Dove Lowers RAM Prices Dove Computer reduced the price of its Mac SIMM memory upgrades in March due to a recent drop in cost of DRAM chips. At press time, Dove's suggested retail price for its 2B upgrade, MacSnap 2S, is $729; the 4MB MacSnap 4S is $1459; the 8MB MacSnap 8S is $2919. Contact Dove Computer at 919/763-7918. Animation-Development Tool Responding to requests from users of HyperAnimator, Bright Star Technology has announced SuperAnima- for, a color-animation-development tool based on Silicon Beach Software's SuperCard. Developers will be able to create talking-head characters using the 256 colors available in SuperCard; SuperAnimator will also offer enhanced capabilities for synchronizing lip movements with digitized sound. SuperAnimator is scheduled for release in August; for more information, call Bright Stor at 206/885-5446. Apple Slashes Prices in UK, Asia Citing the need to fit Macintosh Ilex computers into price ranges for the existing Macs, Apple Europe and Apple Far East lowered prices. In the United Kingdom, reductions—of up to 24 percent—concentrated on the entire Mac Il family. A basic Mac II with 1MB of RAM and a 40MB hard disk now costs £3295 ($5655), compared with its previous price of £4095 ($7028); the topoftheline Mac Ilk 4/80 was lowered to £4720 ($8101) from £6195 ($10,633). In Asia, price reductions of more than 20 percent were announced for the Mac SE and IIx. An SE with two 800K drives now costs $2700; the price of a Mac SE with a 20MB hard disk is $3169. Similar configurations in the States are listed at $3169 and $3769, respectively. In the United States no price- reduction announcements were made after the Mac llex's introduction. Conon Adopts PostScript Canon, the Japanese maker of engines for many popular laser printers including Apple's laserWriter, has licensed Adobe Systems’ PostScript interpreter for use with ils printers. Canon has not yet announced prod- ucts that will include PostScript. Canon had been developing products based on PostScript interpreters from other sources, specifically Phoenix Technclogies’ Phoenix Page software, which works with the Bitstream type library but not Adobe's PostScript fonts. MACWORLD © JUNE 1989 v2400- The $19.32 Modem. Now everyone on even the biggest Macintosh speaker It also displays a modem front-panel icon, with network can have the power of modem communication ‘LED’ status lights, in your Mac’s menu bar. for less per Mac than the cost of a box of floppy disks. 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Macintosh and Local Til e without notice trademarks of Apple Computer Prices and specifi Circle 145 on reader service card The Macintosh Way Or, How Guy Kawasaki come to write a book of vast import by Jerry Borrell Quotations from chairman COMMENTARY he inside story is that Bill Campbell had to promise Ashion-Tate $500,000 in co-marketing funds to finish dBASE Mac. When Ashton-Tate fi- nally shipped, a year later than promised to Apple, it still had the gall to demand the $500,000. Apple eventually settled the matter by giving Ashton-Tate some Macin- tosh II’s. BASE Mac was the best database money could buy. —Guy Kawasaki, The Macintosh Way Last March Business Week magazine pub- lished an article entitled “Is the Computer Business Maturing?” Its premise: that the computer market’s growth rates are slow- ing. But midway through the article I found the buried lead of the piece—“Soft- ware is the major stumbling block.” At about the same time, I began read- ing the manuscript of Guy Kawasaki's forthcoming book, The Macintosh Way (Scott, Foresman & Company). The presi- dent of Acius (and former Apple evangel- ist) has produced an irreverent, acerbic, and all-too-rarely attempted look in the mirror for the software industry. Jean- Louis Gassée says in the foreword, “The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense this book is not. The Macintosh Way is the take-no-prisoners guide to guerrilla marketing warfare.” I smiled a lot as read, and occasion- ally laughed aloud, and then realized that Kawasaki's com- ments on the Macin- tosh software indus- try reflect the issues raised in the Busi- ness Week article and in a recently pub- Guy lished book called Fumbling the Fu- ture: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer, by Douglas K. Smith and Robert C. Alexander (William Morrow and Company, 1988). The book, which might as easily be entitled “How Xerox Lost the Photocopier Market,” is a litany of the woes suffered by Xerox, one of America’s fastest-growing MACWORLD © JUNE 1989 companies in the 1960s, and an ac- count of its lost bid for technical leadership. I found two passages par- ticularly telling. The first deals with Xerox's failure to build a midline copier to compete with IBM and Kodak. “Originally conceived in 1972,” write Smith and Alexander, “the project stalled repeatedly while marketing and finance people debated its features and economics.” The all-but-completed. project was killed, finally, in 1977, when it was too late to compete. The second passage may be too familiar to some companies. “It took one hundred eighty signatures on a product specification. Be- cause the corporate staff had to sign off on everything, no single individual made a decision. Everyone was safe.” Kawasaki tells insider stories that are hauntingly similar to some themes in the Xerox book. But the message I received from The Macintosh Way is more hopeful. The book could be seen as an attempt to prevent a reenactment of Xerox’s lost op- portunities. Kawasaki raises issues through the saga of small Macintosh software com- panies that ask these days whether there is a place for them in the new scheme of things. Can they compete given the high cost of development, marketing, and support? Can they interpret all of the emanations from Cupertino? And even if they are successful, they wonder how they can afford to develop their next product. This raises for users the question I so often ask here—When I invest my money in a Macintosh, have I made the right decision? The concerns of small software devel- opers about larger software companies are also expressed in Kawasaki’s book. Big companies design software by com- mittee. They do not innovate, they make decisions based on spreadsheet analysis, they acquire technology rather than de- velop new products, they move slowly, they have long-term corporate goals in sight (or, alternatively, they have quarterly financial goals in sight), and they absorb Apple resources that might be dedicated (continues) more usefully to small, innovative devel- opers. Here is Kawasaki again, on the all-important process by which Apple decides whom to seed with prototype equipment. According to Kawasaki, the first developers to get the prototypes are “the companies that don’t matter. Unfortu- nately, some prototypes go to the big- name MS-DOS com- panies because Ap- Baby boomers ple thinks that they give Macintosh credi- are now attuned bility. These units are wasted.Pearlsbefore fo the rules of swine. All booster, no payload.Fortunately, business, Who is these companies can be counted on one going fo make hand.” One must recog- fhe next strate- nize that Microsoft, Claris, and Aldus gle product? dominate the Macin- tosh software industry, but there are other perspectives. Each of the industry leaders has sucha large installed product base that they tend to shape and define the Mac in- dustry. There are some products from the big three that we all love to hate, but they're so important that even Apple has on occasion deferred to their decisions. “The only company that came close to successfully threatening Apple is Micro- soft,” writes Kawasaki. “In 1986 Bill Gates told Apple that he would consider stop- ping Macintosh development if Apple pursued a copyright infringement suit against Microsoft.' Apple backed down because of the importance of Word and Excel to Macintosh. Temporarily, anyway. There is no doubt that Bill Gates can produce testosterone, and that’s another reason that Microsoft is such a great company.” As many have come to recognize in the aftermath of Claris’s founding, and Apple's subsequent lawsuit against both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Apple probably came away from the face-off Ka- wasaki mentions determined to remedy "Mawoscki uses footnotes throughout his text as a place for his choicest remarks. This one: “A copyright infringement suit is a way to create confusion in a marketplace until your engineering staff can get its act together.” COMMENTARY the situation—that is, having to face the reality that Microsoft could wield so much influence. In March, a federal judge found that Apple’s suit against Microsoft for copyright infringement had merit and could proceed. In light of that ruling, Apple’s planners are beginning to look prescient. Kawasaki’s book is timely for two reasons. First, it is interesting to see some- one write a book on the Mac environment from the inside. Second, industry analysts and the media are cranking up toward some dire predictions for the computer software industry at large, and the Macin- tosh could be in for a share of this. Business Week's cover article on the computer business—rife with quotations from sagacious analysts, pundits, and gurus—is actually a well-written and well- researched piece. But the predictions in- cluded are all a little too pat, too predict- able. I could have taken much of the same analysis and written a piece with an en- tirely different slant, entitled “Where Are the New Ideas?” And that, I think, and not the fact, as the article points out, that “the business that made folk heroes of baby boomers named Steve Jobs, Mitch Kapor, and Bill Gates is approaching middle age,” is at the heart of the issues faced by the software industry. OK, so those baby boomers are all more attuned now to the rules of politics, big business, and large bottom lines. My article would focus on who is going to make the next strategic product, like page composition software. Still, I don’t write for an audience looking for tips on keeping their stock investments in the right place. Kawasaki addresses the crux of the matter in his chapter on Jean-Louis Gassée when he advises software developers on how to interact with the president of Apple’s Products Division. Gassée “uses metaphors—especially sexual and mili- tary ones. . . . Describe your product as a ‘beautiful woman going to war’ and he'll give you anything you want.” Kawasaki is saying that people who really make a difference in shaping the future of per- sonal computing understand products that are important. He is pointing out that important software is easily recognized, if not understood, by each of us. MACWORLD © JUNE 1989 Remember the feeling you had when you first started up PageMaker? You really had the power to fundamentally change your life, or at least the way you work. Word processors did that for many of us a decade ago, but there were a lot of prod- ucts and machines involved. There was not sucha sharp distinction between Then and Now with word processing as there was with desktop publishing. The Macintosh Way has, in an indirect way, a great deal to do with preserving the spirit of the Macintosh environment. It is this that permeates the book, not, as I sus- pected, self-promotion (which does not). Kawasaki is not even above taking a shot at himself. While giving advice on public relations he notes, “an agency can pro- “The Macintosh vide valuable services like providing a san- Way indirectly ity check on your marketing and con- has a great deal trolling your ego (a full-time job for our fo do with agency).” Kawasaki's book _ preserving the comes at a Critical time for Apple. As spirit of the Mac we look out at the next two years and environment see a solid progres- sion of products—a transportable model, enhanced versions of 68030-based Macin- toshes, Ethernet speeds over LocalTalk— product plans are being finished and decisions made that will shape the com- pany over the next ten years. Apple is poised to introduce several products—32-bit QuickDraw, outline fonts, HyperTalk in system software, and more— that will raise a host of issues for users and third-party developers alike. Even more important questions are being asked about Apple's future. One example: Is Quick- Draw the imaging model that will carry Apple into the 1990s? Butit is not a company’s ability to raise the issues or recognize its shortcomings that count. Fumbling the Future makes it amply clear that Xerox was aware of the problems it faced. Rather, it is the spirit of people such as Kawasaki that imbues a company with the strength to deal with its future. 0 EVERYONE PROMISES TO TAKE FULLADVANTAGE OF THE NEW MACINTOSH. WEGIVEIL TO YOU A® ° Quartet ies) y cond che President « sn che Employer The Secon nd Quarter of 1990 58” Articulate Desig! strengthen mg its position & the eee jn market 9, CO aunications in the Bay Are® Remuee significant event was the com pletion of nes jarions With ebels anew football giculate the Oaklan will have Ar thal » complete eam imag! franchises eagns reate For the club— 108 units tickets a Tmarkerine ace Te $5 million © sign work 1" of Operation by Div ision vices G capital C pl Hol sine i Bremen A es. + * The world of Macintosh word processing just gota lot more sophisticated. And a lot simpler. 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Compared head to head, FreeHand 2.0 would win hands down. This article will serve to keep Adobe executives happy when it's the gang at Aldus who should be wearing the championship belt. Peter P. Beach Newburyport, Massachusetts An Unfair Match Finally someone had the guts to publicly say which program is better: FreeHand or Illustra- tor 88, For a long time I was a diehard FreeHand advocate. After overcoming that initial barrier, I began working with Illustrator 88, but I found the lack of easy integration be- tween the two very disappoint- ing. Unfortunately, your article came out right before the re- lease of FreeHand 2.0. You should have waited until this release so that each program © LETTERS would have been on the same level. I think you might have counted out FreeHand before it even stepped into the ring. Chris Hyatt Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ws unfortunate that we weren't able to match up Illustrator 88 with the new version of FreeHand, but our editorial schedule did not permit us to wait for its release, However, we were able fo preview FreeHand's new features in the sidebar 1o the article. Check the Reviews section in this. issue for a review of FreeHand 2.0.—Ed. The Economics of Apple’s Price Hike David Bunnell hits the nail on the head when he takes Apple's management to task for the recent price hike [“The Great Price Hike,” February 1989], but he mistakenly places some of the blame on investment bankers and the market sys- tem. As a professor of finance who frequently consults with investment banks, I think Bun- nell should place all the blame where it belongs—on John Sculley and his colleagues. Competition in the market- place, more than “Apple culture,” provides users with the hope that disasters such as the price hike will not be repeated. If Apple destroys its rela- tionship with its customers, expected future profits are sure to fall, bringing Apple's stock (continues) MACWORLD © JUNE 1989 Corrections A production error necessitates several corrections in the “Vital Statistics” table (“Picturing Statistics,” April 1989). Stat- View SE+Graphics ($399.95), Stat View II ($495), and Stat- View 512+ offer the following tests: Friedman, Wald-Wolfo- wilz, Mann-Whitney U, Kolmo- gorov-Smirnov, Wilcoxon signed-rank, Kruskal-Wallis, Sheffé, Pearson, and moving average; they do not offer McNemar and Cochran Q tests. Exstatix offers Friedman, McNemar, and Cochran Q, but not Wald-Wolfowitz. Data Desk Professional does not offer Wald-Wolfowitz, Mann- Whitney U, Kolmogorov- Smirnov, Wilcoxon signed- rank, or Kruskal-Wallis tests. MacMainFrame (Reviews, February 1989) is Mac-to- mainframe hardware made by Avatar Corporation, 65 South St., Hopkinton, MA 01748, 800/289-2526, ext. 27. The correct phone number Jor DataPak Software (New Products, April 1989), maker of Printer Interface II, is 800/327-6703. Storage Dimensions (408/879-0300) manufactures WORM drives as well as hard drives ranging in capacity Jrom 45MB to 630MB (Com- mentary, April 1989). DPI offers a $269 upgrade Jor the SE, not the Mac Plus (Commentary, April 1989). 7 = SE 7] ER Sem price down with them. When Bunnell says that supply and demand works for ordinary companies, but not for Apple, he's wrong. What is demanded and supplied is not hardware but a relationship to provide com- puting services. If Apple is un- willing to develop lasting rela- tionships with its customers by offering a continuing stream of improved products at competi- tive prices, then IBM, DEC, Sun, or Hewlett-Packard will. The market will see to that. Bradford Cornell Los Angeles, California Betrayed by Apple I completely agree with David Bunnell that Apple is pricing the little guy out of the market. After a long struggle, I con- vinced my company to buy INTRODUCING SYMANTEC ANTIVIRUS Macintoshes. Thinking I could take some of my work home, I priced an SE for myself and discovered I cannot afford one, let alone a decent printer. I feel Apple has betrayed both the individual user and small com- panies who have grown accus- tomed to the Mac's user friend- liness. You can bet when our company expands its computer network and I look for a ter- minal for my home, we won't be looking toward Cupertino. Jeff Widmer Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania It Can't Be That Fast Somebody's just a tad fuzzy minded. In Bruce Webster's article on the Next computer (“What's Next?” January 1989], he says that the refresh rate is 68kHz.” That's just not con- ceivable, technically. Perhaps a minor attack of innumeracy? Nicholas Bodley Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts It should have been 68Hz, not 68kHz—Ed. A Different Vision of Color Separation I work with Scitex America’s Mac-based design system, Vi- sionary, and I've been listening to the concems of designers for the last eight months. Most designers have little or no de- sire to learn the finer points of prepress production. They don’t think in CMYK; they think in Pantone. I can see hosts of commercial printers tearing their hair out as they start get- ting separations from people who have read Steve Roth's article, “Color Separation plained” [February 1989], and now “know all they need to know” about prepress, What designers want is a way to cre- ate fast, multiple iterations of their color pages that they can output to high resolution films. They want more control over the finished product, but they don’t want to take responsibil- ity for the final output. So why not let them do what they do best, and leave the mechanics of the printing process to the printers and the prepress peo- ple. They can work hand in hand with designers—if only the designers will let them. And the Mac is the perfect tool to allow this cooperation, if it is recognized for what it is. I love my Mac. But it isn’t an Imager, and it never will be. Laura Wamelink Scitex America Bedford, Massachusetts Protect yourself with SAM. SAM is the only ci) FOR MACINTOSH (SAM). A virus. It sneaks in on a floppy, by see or over your network. At first, you see nothin maybe a few glitches. Thenit spreads, rey Mt tn in every file, in every folder. Destroying ieplaceable data. Permanently. Left unchecked, it could ruin all of your hard disk data. And shut down an entire network. virus protection that scans every floppy yy you iasect, t's and every file you get electronically. It's the only way to eliminate viruses before they enter your system. Before they can do any harm. SAM destroys the nVir, Scores, Hpat, INIT 29, and ANTI viruses. And with an advanced scanning algorithm that detects software variations, it keeps new, unnamed viruses from sneaking in. SAM checks SYMANTEC. Symantec Corporation, 10201 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014. 408/253-9600. At Macworld we frequently separate Mac graphics ‘on a Linotronic. Our designers love the short turnaround time; our praduction department takes the “responsibility’—jost like they used to. And color correspondence is good. The point is, ‘Mac separations are the only way most people can separate Macintosh graphics. Most of your ‘comments apply to the separation of color photo- graphs, which—os the article points out—is a new and perilous technology — Ed. Dot versus Line Resolution In Bruce Webster's review of the Apple Scanner [Reviews, February 1989], he says, “The top resolution is 300 dpi—fine if you're using a LaserWriter, but not so fine if your destina- tion is a 600 (or 1200) dpi typesetting system.” Macworld has performed a valuable ser- vice in imparting the some- times painful lesson that printer dot resolution is not the same as halftone line resolution. You can't get 300-dpi line resolution on a LaserWriter (53 is the de- fault), nor even on a Linotronic. Webster may know the differ- ence, but his comments are misleading at best, as they seem to imply a line resolution of 300 for halftones. Cleve Callison Winston-Salem, North Carolina Conflict of Interest? You are to be commended for informing your readers that David Pogue became a paid consultant for Coda Music Soft- ware after writing his review of Finale, which appeared in your February 1989 issue. But to me this still represents a clear conflict of interest. Denis Winier Conway, Arkansas |, t00, was pleased that the editors printed my disclosure statement. Rest assured that the review was based solely on the program’s strengths and weaknesses and had nothing to do with any anticipation of employment. In any event, my future reviews for Macworld will not include music soffwore.—David Pogue. An Oval Peg in a Round Hole Your article “Beyond Word Processing” in the February 1989 issue classifies our prod- ucts Sonar and Sonar Profes- sional as tools used to search a small number of documents on an occasional basis. This was, in effect, trying to squeeze an oval peg into a round hole. Both Sonar and Sonar Profes- sional are aimed at the person doing frequent searches involv- ing vast amounts of fairly static information, not small amounts of volatile information. There are also two features of our product Roundup not mentioned in the article. Ver- sion 3 can search virtually any file type, even if it’s not direct- ly supported, and it can move a found file to and from the desktop for easy access. Philip Van Cleave Vinginia Systems Midlothian, Virginia Shareware Has Its Price In your February 1989 issue [‘Beyond Word Processing’), a table lists software, publisher, and price. The shareware program F1F4 has no price listed, furthering the false impression that shareware is free. If it’s free, it's public domain; if it’s shareware, then pay fair. So what's the price? Tony Vazquez Brooklyn, New York (continues) WHAT A VIRUS ATTACK COULD DO TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM. every floppy, and every bit on your hard disk or file server. It's total protection against known and new viruses. From the people who brought you Symantec Utilities for Macintosh (SUM). Virus attacks are serious, so get serious about protection. Put SAM’s unparalleled virus prevention, detection and elimination power between you and attacking viruses. Do it today. Because without SAM, See Your Dealer, Call for Our Free “Virus Crisis” Educational Pamphlet, or Order Now for Only $99.95 on Our 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee, (800) 228-4122 Ext. 640G your system is in grave danger. 29 ‘Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh and SAM are trademarks of Symantee Corporation © 1989 Symantec Corporation Circle 96 on reader service card 2a FastTrack Schedule™ 1.02 The Gantt chart scheduling program that replaces DRAW programs and CPM programs for creating Gantt charts quickly and easily. FastTrack Schedule™ allows you to draw charts like these right on screen. Your scale may be viewed in hours, days, weeks, months, quarters, years, or generic units; you may compress your colorful multi-level schedules as summaries; create your own palette of start points, end points, bars, and milestones; paste wrap-around text and graphics anywhere. You're in charge! Call your local dealer or call us directly at (800) 346-9413 or (301) 428-3694. Lists for $195. AEC Management Systems, inc. + (301) 428-3694 cs) ——$—<—— es FIF4 contains no documentation or dialog box that asks for payment. We should have listed it as freeware —Ed. Not a Grammar Checker In your article about word processing tools for the Mac [*Beyond Word Processing”), you reviewed our product, MacProof, as a grammar checker. We have never advertised it as a grammar checker, only as a style, me- chanics, and usage checker. Grammar checking is a so- phisticated process encom- passing parsing techniques and grammar that requires more RAM and disk storage than the basic Mac provides. We are currently working on solving the memory and parsing problems so that such capabilities might be imple- mented in later versions. Susan Osberg Lexpertise Salt Lake City, Utab Give Me MacMoney Alan Slay does readers a dis- service when he pays scant attention to MacMoney 3.0 {‘Mac-sumizing Your Money,” February 1989], and then only to point out a weakness that doesn't exist. He’s wrong when he says the program has no shortcut like the one in Dollars and Sense for entering category names. Typing the first char- acter or characters of any cate- gory and pressing $-F inserts the first of your preestablished categories beginning with those characters. No need to type the whole name. Repeat- ing the command inserts the next item that matches. You can also use this enhanced search process in the Names box of any transaction. Other companies would be smart to use MacMoney as an ease-of- use standard in developing their programs. Frances Cherman Santa Cruz, California Mac-sumizing and Minimizing As a licensed user of both MacMoney and Managing Your Money, I've found that MacMoney minimizes the data entry required for rou- tine transactions but is very poor when it comes to ease of reporting and getting use- ful information about one’s finances. Though Managing Your Money requires a little more data entry, it’s infinite- ly more flexible for report- ing, budget building, and maintaining transactions. These are precisely the types of strengths and weaknesses your articles should point out. Charles D. Eckerson Raleigh, North Carolina MacDraw I Update Recently Claris shipped a free updated version of MacDraw II (.0v4) whose purpose was to provide better ImageWriter II printing of MacDraw II graph- ics and to provide better WYSIWYG between the Mac screen and the actual printed image. In the process of updating, the printing of rotated text by the Apple IISC Laser Printer was affected. Once text is tilted from the hor- izontal plane, it is bitmapped by the IISC printer and printed accordingly. Claris suggested using the earlier version of Mac- Draw II (.0v1) for all rotated text activities. 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Circle 346 on reader service card *Partial list mn LETTERS eee MacDraw II graphics. Donald Fucci Athens, Obio ‘According to Steve Pollock, MacDraw product manager, the LaserWriter IISC printer driver provides different internal options, including a highest qualty option (which des not alow the user fo set certain Page Setup options) and a default quality option. Due to many user requests to select these options, MacDraw Il 1.0v4 uses the default quoly option, Claris is considering making this user-selectable in the future —d, Getting the Fax Straight I would like to clez few inconsistenc Kosiur's article on fax transmis- Not Ready for Prime Time,” March 1989] and his BackFax review [Reviews, same issue]. The table on page 141 lists several programs as having background operation, but some offer this only under sion [*Mz tations you've ever seen MultiFinder—virtually useless ona 1MB Mac. Of the f: programs available today, ours and Abaton’s are the only ones able to perform background operation under the Finder. You go on to say that ackFax cannot automatically ign cover pages (it does) but that it does have polling capabilit it doesn’t yet). Finally, you state that Back- Fax ifficult to recommend . . if you're shopping for a fax system for the first time.” What do you mean by “first time”? Who has the money for a sec- ond time? Thomas K. Zeller Solutions International Williston, Vermont We meant to say that BackFax does not allow you to assign different cover pages to the same fox addressed to various individuals, Compatibility? Total. Mac Il. IBM® PC. popue graphics software. Plus every MATRIX film recorder, thermal printer and presentation system. And if you've been printing on a laser printer or a plotter, you can output to a ProColor just as easily. All for about six grand. BackFox is the program Apple should have released with its AppleFax Modem. Those still shopping for a fax modem should be aware that other hardware/software packages offer the proper functionality. However, if you've already purchased an AppleFax Modem, you'll need fo buy BackFax to get the most out of it —Ed. APDA Updates We appreciate Macworld's coverage of changes in APDA and other development-orient- ed topics (Macworld News, April 1989) but would like to clear up a few inaccuracies. C++ is not yet available from APDA, not even in beta form. When it is, it will be posted in AppleLink and the APDAlog. MacApp 2.0 is currently avail- able in beta only. SADE 1.0 is shipping as part of the MPW bundles and is also sold sepa- rately for $75. It is not part of the base MPW Development How do we do it? Easily. We've been atit along time. Ask anyone who uses our recorders. Such as Allstate. AT&T. Lotus Development Corp. And GM. They're pretty smart cookies themselves. Guess it takes one to know one. MAGA — EDITORS] CHOICE Paex Environment product (though Projector is). APDA’s GEnie ELOPER3. Apple Computer Cupertino, California We printed the information Apple provided us at the time; some of it has changed since then ond may have changed again by the tim you read this. Readers shold check with APDA for updates onthe availabilty ofthese producs—Ed, 2) eee cece cer cccce Letters should be mailed to Letters, Macworld, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe (70370,702) or MCI Mail (addressed to Mocworld). Include a return address. Due to the high volume of mail received, we regret that we're unable to respond per- sonally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all leters. 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Surprisingly, with ll its unparalleled power, MicroPhone II is simple to use. Menus, dialog boxes and on-screen controls are well organized and pleasant to look at. Its ‘‘outstanding’’ manual is easy to read, clearly laid out and contains a thorough index. Speed. Routinely clocked at 18,000 bits per second over ordinary telephone lines, MicroPhone II is the fastest telecom software around. Its file transfer protocols — X€MODEM, 1K XMODEM, YMODEM, YMODEM-G, Kermit and ZMODEM — are all optimized to make your files fly across the country or around the world. The intelligent ZMODEM negotiates the most treacherous channels of a packet-switched network and resumes broken transfers with no loss of data. Color options. MicroPhone II lets you assign color icons to your scripts, thus turning the icon bar, shown here, into your control panel. The icon bar can be scrolled, resized and placed vertically or horizontally anywhere on the screen, awaiting your next click. Choose icons from the large collection provided with the software, or create your own. Cruise control. Flexible scripting means that MicroPhone II can run on automatic while you’ re taking care of other important business. Whether collecting your electronic mail in the background, or calling Paris at midnight to transmit the daily sales report in French, the program is always at your service, saving you time and money. Reliability. Because Software Ventures’ engineers value your time on-line, they spend countless hours applying the most rigorous testing procedures to ensure that the program is crash-resistant. In the words of The Macintosh Buyer’s Guide, MicroPhone II is ‘‘the most reliable of all the telecom programs we tested.”” Test drive. Software Ventures so firmly believes in its superior technology that it gives you an unprecedented chance to test drive MicroPhone II for 30 days risk free. If for any reason you wish to return the program, you may do so for a full refund of your purchase price directly from Software Ventures — no questions asked. But enough talk. Start using MicroPhone II today and find out for yourself why Jim Seymour and John Dvorak are the great communicators. After all, having invested all this money in the best hardware in the world, don’t you deserve the best software? Jim Seymour: “« |. arguably the best communications software ever written.’’ John Dvorak: “.,. stunning. Fast, slick; it does everything except slice bread.’’ G S OnE eT ow VENT mA wale A. R MicroPhone is a trademark of Software Ventures Corporation. Copyright © 1989 Software Ventures Corporation. 2907 Claremont Avenue Berkeley California 94705 (415) 644-3232 Circle 48 on reader service card The essential Macintosh word processor. Like its phenomenally successful predecessor MacWrite’ ITs uncomplicated, graphic ‘and easy to understand. © 1989 Claris Corporation. All rights reserved 440 Cihde Avene, Mountain View, Calfornia 94043: 418-962-8946. Claris is a trademark and MacWnke isa registered trademark of Claris Corporation. Macintosh and HyperCard are Now has all the essentials. B/i/P/E/DI/L/T/D MacWrite II turns your writing into publishing. ‘MacWrite II gives you font control you ‘Mail merge makes it simple to send one With up to ten colunins, adjustable line spacing and ‘must see to believe (2 o 900 potnas). Plus foomotes personal letter to a million close friends. And create the ability to crop and scale graphics. that number themsebes. custom stationery templates to use over and over The only thing j Keep more than one document open. new HyperCard-style Claris Help feature is how Eddit and preview your pages before you print them. seldom youll need to use it ‘And import color graphics. Add frequently used styles to your menus and turn ‘on and off with keyboard commands. An amazingly fast 100,000-word dictionary checks and corrects your spelling A good leader must be a good communicator So MacWrite II reads and writes ina flash. MacWrite IT includes a desk-accessory thesaurus, too directly to all these word processing formats: Introducing MacWritell. ‘registered trademarks of Apple Computer Ine. For the name ofthe Claris dealer nearest you call 800-3CLARIS, ex. 600. By the way the upgrade is area! deal for MaeWrite owners. Call 800-S44.8554. In Canada, call 800-668-8948. Until now, Macintosh dot matrix printing has meant only two things: 9 pin, narrow. carriage output for about $600, or high quality, wide is, el i sy bat 4 ART BEAT by Deborah Branscum and stuck it up there; that’s the neat thing about Super- Paint,” Baldwin says. He used SuperPaint to create a black-and-white copy In this column we take a peek at the tools and the talent behind Macworld’s graphics and discuss the techniques that make them possible, of the illustration for each color and specified a CMYK Artist: Scott Baldwin's whimsi- (cyan, magenta, yellow, cal creations offer playful black) percentage for each commentary on the subjects file. Then Macworld sent the files to a local service they illustrate. The artist became a full-time illustrator in 1985 after concentrating on graphic design and art direction for rs five years. Tools: Mac Plus, video camera, monitor, MacVision digitizing hardware and soft- S. ware, and SuperPaint. How It Was Done: For our feature bureau, where they were on animation, Baldwin spent combined into one color one evening shaping clay image and transferred to a Scitex system that generated color separations for printing. creatures. He needed four hours to digitize the tableau six times as he moved the horse into different positions. About the cover: The illustration, He checked the composition based on a Mitchell N' using the monitor (which was camera, was modeled by connected to an inexpensive Thomas Williams of The security camera via an RF Analyti connector), digitized the im- (TASC) using Ali ages using MacVision, and software and TASC code that ved the files in Mac- creates an interface between Alias and PhotoRealistic Ren- Baldwin opened the files derMan software. The image in SuperPaint and spent an was then rendered and shad- additional four hours perfect- ed by Michael Malione of ing each image. Then he fine- Pixar using RenderMan. The tuned the sky. “With the lasso, film images were I just picked up a piece of the Tin Toy, Pixar's O: rock that looked like a cloud > movie orporation is modeling then sa Paint format. ed on winning animated shot. _ Take this simpletest to qualify fora greatdeal on MacWritell. Do you own Microsoft Word? Do you own Microsoft Works? Do you own Microsoft Write? Do you own FullWrite Professional? Do you own WriteNow? Do you own Word Perfect? Do you own MindWrite? Do you own any version of MacWrite’? a2) OOOOOOO HE a) If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you qualify (not exactly rocket science, was it?). And you can get MacWrite II (a $249 value) for only $75, or $65 for registered MacWrite 5.0 owners. To find out more, follow these simple steps: look at the number below, pick up your phone and dial. Trade-in hotline 800-544-8554. © 1989 Claris Corporation, 440 Clrde Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, 415-962-8946. 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