MacWorld 9209 September 1992

i nn THE CREATION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL UNDERCLASS IN AMERICA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS— HOW WE ABANDONED OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE Introducin ing Races E day, becau: spreadsheet We've been making Microsoft’ Excel for the Mac’ since 1985. Which is probably why we've gotten pretty good at making both routine and complex spreadsheet tasks easy to do. Take our new Microsoft Excel 4.0. We've added floating Toolbars. Including six new ones which sensibly relate to a set of tasks, such as charting. You can move them around, resize them, and cus- tomize them easily. With Drag and Drop, you can “grab” a piece of information with your mouse and drop it wherever you‘d like to see it on-screen. Noneed to cut-and-paste. Be L Autofill intel- SLV/ j ligently helps you 2| EXCEL [iiss] iis) asa a worksheet. Type JAN ina cell, enna for instance, and Wizard buttons make eet gasp. Autofill enters FEB, MAR-~as many months as you need. And meet Wizards, step-by-step guides that walk you through complex tasks. The CrosstabWizard, for example, creates summary tables from a database for you: it prompts you, takes the infor- mation you give it, and creates a cross- tab. It’s that easy. For a $99 upgrade, call us at (800) 541-1261, Dept. B36, by Sept. 30, 1992. And discover one of the reasons that the older you get, the smarter you get. Microsoft Making it easier The gallery of 90 chart types includes new rota “Only for reseed ser of Microsoft Escefr the Macintos plus fright and applicable sales ax. ©1992 Microsoft Corporation. Ad rights reserved. Printed in the USA. Ofer good ony the 0 United States. he 80 United States, cal (800) 5411261, Depa xcel 4.0, It's the smartest e it wasnt born yesterday. aimee ae ua B D charts, along with surface, radar and picture charts. With the help of the ChartWizard, you can look like you were born making charts. red om. Macintosh and Mac are rite Made for Macs. Not only are the new FG series of monitors made specifically for Apple Computers, we also make many other Apple compatible peripherals, from CD-ROM devices to a full line of printers. f NEC and Radius have designed a display Presenting NEC’s 15", 17” and 21" MultiSync’ FG™ display systems*—a colorful combination of our award-winning monitor technology and a display interface card designed specially for NEC FG monitors by Radius” Multiple viewing modes give you more flexibility than you’ve ever had before and allow you to use all your applications more effectively. For instance, condensed modes let you increase resolution and desktop size. So you can display more on-screen information and do everything from putting two documents side by side, for easy cutting and pasting, to displaying more cells in your spread sheets. There’s also a 72 DPI mode which gives you a WYSIWYG view of your final output. While expanded modes let you enlarge images and get a closer look at your work. Computers and Communications esate om re MVEA system that will make you open wide and say ahhh. But the best part is, as you change applications, you can switch to any of these modes on the fly. Right from the control panel. You don’t even have to restart the computer. Our MultiSync FG monitors also feature FullScan™ capability, for edge-to-edge images. 15° Munisyoe And our exclusive AccuColor™ Control System agarine, your printed output. The MacFG™ Board is NuBus™ compatible and includes QuickDraw™ acceleration. And it’s available in two versions. The MacFG 8X supports 8-bit color and the MacFG 24X supports 24-bit color. So take a look at these display systems. We’re sure lets you adjust your on-screen color to match you'll see things our way. For more information, call 1-800-NEC-INFO. (In Canada, 1-800-343-4418.) Or for information via fax, call 1-800-366-0476, request #62234. Because “is the way you want to go. Circle 68 on reader service card COMMENTS MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1992 SPECIAL ISSUE Personal Gomputers in Education For the last decade, America has invested heavily in programs to place personal com- BB puters in schools. We report on what our nation has accomplished so far and where we're headed. The prognosis: not encouraging. Commentary/Jerry Borrell Congress and the Bush administration are at loggerheads over who'll take the lead in putting personal computers to work in the classroom. Conspicuous Consumer BY DEBORAH BRANSCUM What has kept computers from being integrated in public schools? Inadequate support, training, research, money, and will. Separate Realities BY CHARLES PILLER The failure of U.S. public schools to arm students with . computing skills means many may never effectively compete in our technological world. Page 218 The Official Word BY MORTON KONDRACKE Our government's education policy claims to promote computer literacy— but do the results back up the rhetoric? The World View... IBT BY JEAN CASSAGNE AND TORU I1YOSHI! ‘Though they face similar obstacles to implement com- puter-based learning, some countries are moving ahead of the United States—as these'special reports from France and Japan show. _ FEATURES Personal Printers........... oe BY JIMHEID Macworld Lab tests 23 models in the under-$3000 range. Anievigas I , Beyond Words U HUE: BY DEKE McCLELLAND Today’s word processors must do more than i just the basics, so we tested seven programs to see how well they handle a variety On the Cover of sophisticated tasks. A STUDENT SLUMPS OVER A BROKEN COMPUTER— AVICTIM OF OUR The Bigger Picture... TECHNOLOGICAL " sociery? oun SPECIAL. | BY GREGORY MacNICOL Macworld Lab tests 26 large-screen monitors— ERE R EE Seni: from 16 to 21 inches—to find the best of the biggest. ERS AND EDUCATION | “ ‘ EEINS On PAGE 25, | Understanding Multiple Masters... Fea ee BY ERFERT FENTON A close-up look at Adobe’s new flexible-font tech- : nology—how it works, who should use it, and why it’s important. REVIEWS 272 WriteNow 3.0 Low-end word processor 273 AutoDoubler 1.0.7; More Disk Space 1.1 ‘Automatic file-compression utilities 274 StyleWriter Ink-jet printer 274 Outbound Notebook System 2030S Notebook computer 276 Ray Dream Designer 2.02 3-D imaging software 285 Components 1.0 Accounting software 287 Floptica; Floptical 5020FL; Infinity Floptical 21MB High-capacity floppy disk drives 288 LZR 1560; RealTech Laser 400 Tabloid-size laser printers 290 Notebook Display Adapter External-monitor support for PowerBooks: 292 Prince of Persia Arcade adventure game 292 CameraMan 1.0 Screen recorder 294 Timeslips Ill 2.1 Time-billing utility 294 4-D Boxing 1.0 Arcade game 297 Bar Code Pro 1.0 Bar-coding software 297 Nikon LS-3510AF 35mm film scanner 299 Capitalist Pig Business simulation game 299 nuBase Pro 1.5 Relational database 310 NetMounter 1.00 NetWare file access 310 AgentDA 2.0 Calendar program 312 EndNote Plus 1.2 Footnote bibliography/ database program 312 Time Treks 1.0 Educational history game Page 185 314 The Secret of Monkey Island 1.0 Adventure game 314 Blade 1.1 Martial-arts game 316 Freedom 120 Battery-powered hard drive 316 Perspective 1.5 Business data sets 318 Audioshop 1.0 Sound manipulation and audio CD control 318 Cathy; The Far Side; Ran- dom House Word-A-Day Daily planners and calendars 322 Surgeon 3, The Brain Medical simulation game 322 Correct Writing 2.0 Online style reference 324 Cyberblast 2.01 Arcade game 324 MacPalette II 2.2 Color printer driver for ImageWaiter Il DEPARTMENTS 1s How to Contact Macworld 21 MacBulletin 41 Letters 69 Art Beat BY CATHY ABES 7s The Iconoclast BY STEVEN LEVY ‘Talkin’ Macintosh blues 93 Updates 101 Lab Notes BY TIM WARNER 169 Verbatim An interview with Eric Harslem, vice president of desktop computing at Apple 1385 News BY DAN LITTMAN AND TOM MORAN The Desktop Critic By DAVID PocuE PowerBook peripherals New Products How To/Quick Tips BY LON POOLE 359 How To/(etting Started BY JIM HEID QuickTime 367 How To/Insights BY HELMUT KOBLER ClarisWorks 373 Where to Buy aa2 Best-Sellers 32 xy 33 w 34! a Septem 19, ohare? 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And its powerful control panel lets you select prese ig i peeds COMMENTARY Americas Shame: How Weve Abandoned Que Childrens future WILL THEY BE ABLE TO COMPETE BY JERRY BORRELL Questions about education are as perva- sive as our national doubts about the ef- fective use of tax dollars. Education is discussed endlessly: its cost; its effective- ness; its lack of effectiveness; how we measure effectiveness; what we should teach; what we should not teach; teach- ers; equality of education. We as a na- tion spend a great deal of money on education. Primary and secondary edu- cation is the singular experience of life in America, perhaps the experience that most unifies and defines our national persona. Early in his administration, George Bush, the self-declared education presi- dent, raised great hopes for improve- ment in education. Last year President Bush introduced America 2000, a pro- posal to revitalize the education process in this country. It includes $535 million to be invested in 535 schools, one in each congressional district, with a goal of redesigning the educational process from the ground up. Two years later the result is nil. The Senate introduced S.2, a bill providing $800 million and ad- dressing many of the same goals as America 2000. The Bush administration and the Senate are unable to reach an agreement on how to proceed. The dis- cussions about education will have to continue after the election. Adding to the broad national dis- course on education, Macworld sheds light on a growing national embarrass- ment: our record of implementing per- sonal computers in primary and second- ary schools. To be certain, everyone can point to glowing examples of success— star schools or demonstration centers where the best equipment, teachers, and other resources are brought to bear. Government officials like to point out that foreign governments look to pouc mius America for leadership in the use of computers. Sadly, our overall record on com- puter implementation in schools is per- haps most appropriately compared to “Both [parties] seize upon this issue in an effort to secure political advantages for their party... preventing improvement and creating a stalemate.” CONGRESSMAN GEORGE BROWN, D-CALIF. the mismanagement of savings and loans associations over the last decade. No wonder government officials, school ad- ministrators, and legislators prefer to cite their public exhortations rather than the realities. Statistics Lie DURING THE LATE WINTER OF THIS year several editors and I sat around a IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD? table, talking, arguing, looking at the re- sults of a month’s research on this topic. We debated whether we should invest more effort developing a story on how America is using personal computers in schools. Department of Education sta- tistics told us that America made signi- ficant progress toward introducing personal computers in primary and sec- ondary schools during the 1980s, that more than 50 percent of all children in grades 1 through 8 use computers at school. Personal computer usage is said to be roughly equivalent among schools regardless of the ethnic composition, in- come level, or geographic location of the school. Remarkable findings. Too remarkable. “Even if there were one computer per classroom,” says Herb Lin of the National Academy of Sciences, “that’s less than two minutes per student for a one-hour class.” Insufficient for any meaningful training. So we decided to look further, to visit schools across America, to talk with policymakers in Washington, and to talk with professional associations for teach- ers and educational administrators. What we found is a false dependence on statistical anal nd a reality so dis- couraging that it made us question how this situation has remained unremarked on for so long. Antiquated computers; unused computers; computers used for games and not for teaching; schools and teachers unprepared to use computers that they own; mismanaged or misdi- rected policies; and unknown hundreds of millions of dollars spent over the last decade for little return. America Lacks Direction THE EDUCATION ISSUE, LIKE MOST issues of its scope, centers on Washing- continues MACWORLD September 1992 25 Mathematics Visualized. Solved. Problems | Theorist mathematical notebooks with real symbolic equations, Theorist® is an interactive symbolic math and graphing program with a graphical user interface that makes mathematics easy-to-use, It is powerful enough for the advanced scientist, engineer, and educator, yet intuitive enough for the beginning student. “[Theorist] is without question the easiest symbolic math program (o use. ... In terms of interface design, Theorist is the best Macintosh symbolic math program... For mainstream science and engineering practice, Theorist will likely be the program that finally brings the advantages of symbolic computation to the average Macintosh user.” MacWorld magazine, May 1990 — Five mice review, MacUser magazine, June 1990, RS 98 84 “Theorist... surpasses the highly rated Mathematica. interface and execu- tion.” — MacUser magazine, Editor's Choice Award, Best Math Program of 1989. 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While the federal government does not control the budget or curriculum of public schools, it does have a powerful impact on public schools for two rea- sons. First, funds allocated by dozens of federal programs require that states match federal spending on specific pro- grams and meet federal requirements that funds be allocated in certain ways. Second, the federal government shows leadership by initiating programs, pro- mulgating budgets and legislation, and making policy that sets the course for how education in the United States is conducted. Policy development with regard to computer usage has a long history. The debates in Washington over the last three years about technology in educa- tion (including computers) are hardly new. The call for an Office of Education Research and Improvement (OERI) within the Department of Education, for example, is tragically like the never- implemented National Institute of In- structional Technology (NIIT) pro- posed by Congress in 1979. Both sets of proposals noted the need for a specific body within the federal government to coordinate and oversee the use of tech- “Even if there were one computer per classroom, that’s less than two minutes per student fora one-hour class."—HER@ LIN, SENIOR STAFF OFFICER, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES nology in education, the development of instructional materials and demonstra- tion projects, the need to provide teacher training, and the need to involve private industry in the effort to improve education. Ten years have passed since Con- AMERICA HAS SLIPPED ANOTHER NOTCH LOWER ON THE RANKS OF GLOBAL ECONOMIES BECAUSE OF, AMONG OTHER THINGS, ITS EDUCATION BASE a) gress first introduced legislation to ac- complish what current legislative efforts propose. Earlier proposals failed. The current proposals are doomed as well— by budget constraints, by election fever, by partisan politics, and by what most Americans increasingly think of as inef- fective federal government. Congress- man George Brown, D-Calif. at 14 terms one of our most experienced legis- lators and one of the key developers of policy on technology in education, says that “both [parties] seize upon this issue in an effort to secure political advantages for their party... prevent- ing improvement and creat- ing a stalemate.” Little im- provement is likely. Meanwhile we will spend hundreds of millions (perhaps billions in the near future) on computers and technology in education without effectively address- ing problems that were first identified more than a de- cade ago. Have We Abandoned Our Children's Future? WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT our children’s future these days: about how we are mortgaging their future with our national debt; about the fact that they will be asked to bear the burden of Social Security for an aging population; about how our chil- dren will inherit a destroyed environ- ment; and about their need to lower their expectations of the American continues End users circle 104 on reader service card Dealers circle 105 on reader service card System 7 Savvy Equations Made Easy! Expressionist 3.0's new customizable palette. It may be customized vertically or horizontally. The mi t complete and equation editor ever! 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Our children will be ill-equipped to compete in a global economy in which computer skills are required. The oral and written records of leadership in Washington are good. But the facts and reality are some- how... different. All of the right words are spoken, sensitivity is expressed to- ward minorities, sympathy shown to the economically disadvantaged, _well- thought-out policies are articulated. Well-meaning academics and industry experts are invited to write position pa- pers and address congressional hearings. People work hard in Washington, not- withstanding the stereotype. But gov- ernment has become so unmanageable and intangible that known solutions es- cape our grasp like fluid seeping be- tween the fingers. Technology in education has been a prominent topic. In the 1960s the dis- cussion centered on use of general tech- nology, like television, in schools, By the 1970s computers were the primary focus. Today the topic has shifted to the need to connect schools via networks. There may be no better example of the prob- lems of federal leadership than our cover topic. After two decades of discussion in Washington about the role of technol- ogy in education, what we find is a mish- mash of policy, disarray in the class- room, hordes of sagacious pundits, and disingenuous politicians. Enough to alert the studious observer that there is a discouraging story to be told on how “If you go toa typical school, you'll see that we're hardly using [computers] at all. We're good at innovation, but where we fall down is [implementation].”—LINDA ROBERTS, PROJECT DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT'S STUDY POWER ON American schools are not using personal computers. Despite good intentions, the best in- GEORGE BUSH, THE SELF-DECLARED EDUCATION PRESIDENT, RAISED GREAT HOPES. TWO YEARS LATER THE RESULT IS NIL. formation, and the hopes of planners, we have at most established demonstration centers for what might be. Linda Rob- erts, project director of the Office of Technology Assessment’s (OTA) land- mark study Power On, confirms this. “We have demonstrations of what’s pos- sible, but if you go to a typical school, you will see that we’re hardly using [computers] at all. We're good at inno- vation, but where we fall down is [imple- mentation] because we are not a con- trolled education system, like foreign educational systems. There is no similar use and implementation of technology here?” And now we're focusing on how to network the nation’s schools as if we had implemented some coherent plan over the last 20 years; as if there were some vast system of well-instituted programs that will benefit from net- work communications. The truth is that we are groping toward another ill-defined approach to the implemen- tation of technology in the hope that the next effort will be the one that brings order from chaos. Teachers are caught in the middle. A sad irony of this issue is that those most able to make improve- ments, the teachers, are the least empowered to make changes. Teachers worry about having current text- books, about achieving measurable gains in stu- dents’ test results, about the high ratio of students per teacher, about giving trou- bled students more attention, about the need to use their personal time to grade continues You'll love it for the MACWORLD EXxposirioN. Visit PLI at the World Trade Center, Boston August 4-7, 1992 MiniArray 800M but you'll buy it for the RICE 800-288-8754 Peripheral Land Incorporated * 47421 Bayside Parkway ° Fremont, CA 510-657-2211 or Fax 510-683-9713 94538 If you work with graphics applications, multimedia, databases or any large file, you know the frustration of waiting. Waiting while the hard drive reads, waiting while it writes, waiting for just about anything involving the hard drive. PLI has the solution. It’s called the MiniArray. 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OPCODE YSTEMS NE abian Wey (Polo Alto, CA, 94306 le 280 on reader service card Dealers circle 285 on reader service card 30 September 1992 MACWORLD COMMENTARY papers or tests, and about their dwin- dling earning power. “Even when per- sonal computers exist, they are used for rote tasks like spelling or sentence-struc ture study, not creatively,” says Con- gresswoman Joan Kelly Horn, D-Mo., a former teacher at preschool and college levels. Horn is working informally to pro- vide computer training for teachers in teacher-training colleges in the hope that this will predispose them to use the technology that some schools can pro- vide. Like many of the legislators I met with, Horn decries the current balanced budget efforts, which “make it easier to go to war than to invest in the nation.” She reflects upon the worthy goals of the “education president” and upon America 2000, but wonders when such ideas will receive legislative support or funding. What's the Prognosis? No Change WASHINGTON IS A CITY OF COMPET- ing agenda items. Education is one agenda item that, together with health care, military spending, Social Security, the economy, and crime, makes up the substance of our popular media. Topics of debate on the evening news. Front- page news. Political issues. Budgetary is- sues, Allocate millions for an important idea in one area, and millions have to be cut elsewhere. Sometimes it becomes clear that these issues are tied to- gether—as in the case of the recent study issued by the World Economic Forum stating that America has slipped another notch lower in the ranks of glo- bal economies. America, the study states, HORN, D-MO. has become fifth in the world’s compet- ing economies because of, among other things, its education base. We struggle with this thought, after years of hearing about a return to ac- “Our current balanced budget efforts make it easier to go to war than to invest in the nation.”—CONGRESSWOMAN JOAN KELLY BY THE YEAR 2000 WE MAY CREATE A SCHISM IN AMERICAN SOCIETY BETWEEN HAVE AND HAVE-NOT GRADUATES OF OUR OWN SCHOOL SYSTEMS countability in education, of a return to focusing on basic skills and a subsequent rise in test scores. As a country we spend more money per student than does any other country in the world. (It is inter- esting to note that when viewed from the perspective of spending based on our gross national product, we rank much lower—Ilth in the world.) Yet we are told that education, part of the founda- tion of our society, is one reason why our economy is falling behind the rest of the world. Unfortunately, after five months of study, we have no answers and there is no outlook for improvement in sight. If George Bush is reelected in November, and if there is another Democratic Con- gress, the partisan dickering over policy and policy implementation is going to continue. Each year, more mil- lions will be spent acquiring computers for schools. Each year sparkling new programs and demonstrations will ap- pear. And America will march into the future with- out adequate planning, ef- fective implementation, or a national agenda, while other countries such as Japan and France implement well-co- ordinated policies. By the year 2000 we may create a schism in American society between have and have-not graduates from our own school systems. If computers are not successfully and widely inte- grated into primary and secondary edu- cation, our society will stratify into those with the knowledge to succeed and those who cannot. m Triple Crown Winner. 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And itwil belp you gre wit the Future as new technology innovations come along If the first seven reasons didnt convince you to upgrade, just ask the three million Macintosh users who have already discovered the power of System 7" Call us at Welll give you the name of an Apple soft- ware reseller near you. And you'll discover the power of System 7, The power to be your best? (©1592 Cpe: nl ig rope he Ta, Neb ad Th pr bY bs ira aemark of de mputne.QiToe end 9 SEPTEMBER 1992 Everything in One N A RECENT REVIEW OF INTE- grated programs, Tom Negrino rates ClarisWorks as the best (in a close tie) mail merge program (“All-in-One Pro- grams,” June 1992). On first glance, ClarisWorks would seem to have a ca- pable enough merge facility. And for someone sending form letters to multiple recipients, this is true. But most small businesses have a greater need to send merged documents to a single recipient. All day long I send faxes, invoices, and letters. I need the abil- ity to do a “one-off” merge easily. With Microsoft Works, one merely selects the database record to merge, and opens the merge document. With ClarisWorks, to merge from a single record, one must first select that record, then choose Hide Unselected, then choose Mail Merge, then select the database to merge from, then print. Not fun. Jeff Kreines Coosada, Alabama LIKE YOUR MAGAZINE A LOT AND would like to say keep up the good work. In all the reviews for integrated software such as GreatWorks, Works, and so on, I’ve not seen anyone mention what a good deal they are for the new Macin- tosh owner who may not be able to afford cach of the single programs. Buying one of these packages is a lot cheaper than buying each of the modules separately. Andrew Manteuffel Duluth, Minnesota Cooking Classic HIS LETTER IS FROM A HAPPY MAC Classic user who has installed a Har- ris Laboratories Classic Performer. In “The Need for Speed” (June 1992), you make a cursory remark that the Harris Performer is the only accelerator that does not exceed the Classic II in speed. ‘The Harris Performer cost me $245, took about 30 minutes to install, and ef- fectively doubled my speed. That is a handsome boost for the price. This little Mac Classic with its Harris Performer may not smoke, but it sure is cooking here in North Carolina. Robert Simons Fayetteville, North Carolina Additional Resources ENJOYED THE JUNE ISSUE OF Macworld, and 1 found Deborah Branscum’s “Special Interests” column especially interesting (Conspicuous Con- sumer). | would, however, like to know how to get ThePage publication. No phone number or address was mentioned for this. Tommy Rupinski New York, New York We apologize for the omission. Readers may reach PageWorks, the publisher of ThePage, at 312/348- 1200, fax 312/404-0717.—Ed. re) UR MEMBERS WISH TO THANK Deborah Branscum for mentioning our group’s newsletter, FutBits, in her June column, There are some corrections that need to be noted: Our membership. dues are now $35 per year, and that is a family rate. Also, our current address is P.O. Box 7188, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-7118. More information may be obtained at our number, 805/484-9205. Nessa Memberg CVMUG Thousand Oaks, California WAS INTRIGUED TO READ BOTH Jerry Borrell’s Commentary and Deborah Branscum’s Conspicuous Con- sumer column (June 1992). After all, ev- eryone is seemingly interested in more information about the Mac, and what bet- ter way to get it than electronically? continues Organize your PowerBook. Organize Yourself. Introducing the DayMaker™ Travel Case Bundle. * The DayMaker Travel Case: Custom designed for the PowerBook”. Lets you use your PowerBook without having to take it out of the case. 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PROTECTION wiTH REMOTE UPDATING! ‘Ai rode cre ore rodeos or rgitered demora of tir rvpedive holders, Meco in USA & Circle 95 on reader service card 42 September 1992 MACWORLD LETTERS CORRE The correct phone number for Coral Re- search is 702/588-9690; the cor- rect number for ASD Software is 714/624-2594 (Reviews, July 1992). Charlene Anderson-Shea is a Honolulu- based graphic and textile designer (“Home-Office How-To,” July 1992). Connectix Corporation’s Compact Vir- tual is not included free with NewL.ife Computer Corporation’s 16MHz and 25MHz; accelerators (“The Need for Speed,” June 1992); separate versions of the ac- celerators cost about $100 more than the versions listed in “Accel- erator Details Unfortunately, these two columns were disappointing in that neither specifi- cally mentioned TidBits, the two-year- old, free electronic newsletter. It’s true that TidBits does not have the electronic sex appeal Borrell ascribes to future elec- tronic magazines, but for the moment, too many people and businesses use clunky 2400-bps modems. We intentionally limit TidBits to straight text so that it can eas- ily traverse any network anywhere in the world. Borrell does understand many of the advantages of electronic publishing, despite the expensive high-end networks and machines necessary for his imagined electronic magazines. Electronic publish- ing is fast, wastes virtually no natural re- sources, and can be more focused than traditional publishing. Adam Engst Editor, TidBits Redmond, Washington TidBits can be found in the Macintosh Hardware file libraries on America Online, in the Newsletters folder in the User Groups folder on AppleLink, in the MacClub Magazines library (#8) on CompuServe, and via E-mail to info@tidbits.halcyon.com on Inter- net—Ed. Mathematical Minds A SA LAB TECHNICIAN AND MAC tosh user, I’ve followed Macworld’s features on math, statistics, and scientific uses of the Macintosh—what few there are—with great interest. I must differ with Charles Seiter on a statement he made about MathCAD (“Mathematics Analy- sis,” June 1992). The integration of text, equations, and charts in MathCAD is more than nice, it’s vital in today’s work environment. On the other hand, only the PC Windows and workstation versions of MathCAD have presentation-quality out- put. I can get far better graphs from KaleidaGraph 2.0 and publication-level equations from Expressionist 2 Soft has let MathCAD for the Macintosh languish as the company’s other improve. With all the Macs I see scientists and engineers use on television and in maga- zines, I can’t help but wonder why tech- nical applications for the Mac get so little attention from Macworld and from Apple Computer. Sure, DTP and multimedia will have some use in labs, as networking already does, but for research and educa- tion alike the coverage and attention is seriously low by comparison. ‘Joel Alvin Christine Tyrone, Pennsylvania Artists, Not Typesetters COULD ALMOST HEAR THE GROANS of graphic artists everywhere as I read Sanjay Sakhuja’s dictum “You need to de- velop skills that parallel those of the craftspeople in traditional prepress work” (“Correct Color,” May 1992). Over the last few years, graphic designers have been asked not only to keep up with their own demanding profession, but to become computer experts and typesetters as well. It’s time to draw the line. Stripping is an exacting craft and it varies from shop to shop. Designers try- ing to save time and money can easily end up doing just the opposite. Stripping func- tions applied incorrectly are worse than none at all. Printers and prepress shops can and should maintain responsibility for pre- press functions by adopting the new des! top tools. After all, the same tools that are now available to designers are just as ilable to prepress shops willing to adapt and update. Jonathan Ford Richmond, Virginia More on Input XCEPTION TO FRANKLIN N. Tessler’s comments in “Input Altern: s” (June 1992), My Felix is indispens able. It turns what would otherwise be a chore into a pleasure, and has cured my carpal tunnel syndrome. I have been wait- ing for a fair evaluation to introduce oth- ers to the wonderful world of Felix, but er’s article certainly is not it. Willam Bandes El Cajon, California continues The shortest distance between a Macintosh and a PC. DOS files on Macintosh. Vow yu can work with files stored on 3.3- or 3.25-inch DOS and Microsoft Windows ‘formatted floppies. Just pop the dis in your Apple" Superdrte® dish drive or com- patible floppy disk drive.thbe ‘Macintash desktop dsp dls’ icon aulomatical (5.25 inch disks require a Ibirdparty drive.) Macintosh ease of use. Content of 05 disks are dis played in a window on the Mac ‘destop just like any Macintosh disk, Files and subdirectories appear as standard Mac docu- ‘ments and folders. Open, save, rename, move, copy or delele ‘hem. You can even jormat DOs Hopp disks. Double-click and go. The customizable control panel lets you create links between Then, spy double-click on le files icon to launch the appl ‘cation, (A DOS Lotus 12:3 fle launches Lotus 123 fo Macintosh, for example.) aPC compatible and the Apple Mecca Unlimited exchanges, lh Macintosh P Exchange, ‘any DOS file ca be brought into any Macintosh application which reads that DOS files format in fact, files created by ‘DovWindows applications tke Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or Aldus PageMaker convert inslanlly to their Macintosh counterparts, Likewise, Mac Jiles can be saved o 008 disks for use with compatible DOMWincows applications. Apple Utilities for Macintosh Finally, moving files between a Mac’ and a PC is as easy as moving them between two Macintosh’ computers. So if you'd like the name of an Apple software reseller near you, call us at FEDUSEERCEEACOGRELS They'll tell you more about Macintosh PC Exchange and show you how to bring the Macintosh and PC worlds closer together. Aye compute A gts ee. the pa, tant Maint are red donna f as Depot Capoten cay Wend area LETTERS NPUT ALTERNATIVES” HAS AN ER- ror concerning Apple keyboards. You state that the Apple Extended Keyboard II has a “nonadjustable keyboard tilt.” Both of my Extended Keyboards very definitely do have provisions for adjusting the key- board tilt. Look for the sliding tab on the backside (not the bottom) of the keyboard. Move it back and forth and an adjustable support slides in and out of the keyboard body, changing its angle quite nicely. Dan Mitchell via America Online Yes, you're right. The latest models of the Extended Keyboard have an added adjustment feature, al- though the ones we examined were difficult to en- gage. Older models lack this feature —Ed. More Perfect Than Not N YOUR REVIEW OF WORDPERFECT 2.1, you quickly skim over some of the program’s powerful features and then pro- ceed to spend a third of the article com- plaining about the upgrade price (Reviews, June 1992). WordPerfect 2.1 has the features I ity with other platforms, and the ability to play QuickTime movies. ‘This is not to say the program is with- out its faults. One issue that you did not raise was the typing speed of the program. At times I notice a lag in the display of text on the screen of my Mac IIx. Henry Domke New Bloomfield, Missouri XPENSIVE UPGRADE PRICE?” THE regular upgrade to Word Perfect 2.1 is $89, or $39 without documentation; the competitive upgrade from Word is $139. Compared with the Word 5.0 upgrade price of $129, and no competitive upgrade option at all, what is Deke McClelland looking at? McClelland mentions that Word- Perfect 2.1 fails to have a New Folder but- ton in its Save dialog box. However, noth- ing is mentioned about Microsoft’s failure to incorporate some very important, re- quired System 7 features in Word. Tt would be nice if you would at least get WordPerfect’s telephone number cor- rect. The number should be in area code 801, not 901! Brian Marantz consider important: powerful and easy macros, complete graphics tools, friendly toll-free support, unmatched compatibil- Pal Springs, California Thanks for noting the error.—Ed. Wimpy’s Too Kind AVID POGUE'S ARTICLE IS VERY kind to Microsoft: he used the word wimpy when referring to Word 5.0’s the- saurus (The Desktop Critic, June 1992). I upgraded to Word 5.0 shortly after it was released and found out then that the the- saurus is just plain bad. I wrote to Mi- crosoft immediately, explaining that this thesaurus should be replaced, perhaps with Microlytics’ Word Finder Plus, as Pogue stated in the article. Cyrus Gordon Oakland, California Lefties Want Mouse WAS EAGER TO READ YOUR REVIEW of various input devices (Reviews, June 1992), since my Apple mouse has very high mileage and soon should be replaced. However, Teresa Nielsen Hayden made one remark that sent me flying off my chair. She said, referring to the Mouse- Man product, “Logitech thoughtfully of- fers both a right-hander’s and a left- hander’s mouse.” A similar comment appeared in another Mac magazine, too. This is not the case. They do not of- continues The AppleShare Print Servs Print Central the most flexible, complete network print server ot today. Whether you share one laser printer or a series of PostScript devices, Central is the product for you. Print Central provides the means for definin, eight Chooser selectable print queues. Queued jobs can quickly be prioritized or placed on hold, or sent to a different queue. Each queue can be sent to or several printers on a first available basis. Print Central print queues are never imagine never waiting for a printer again! Print Central maintains an accurate record of each job processed; the report printed in a variety of sorted formats. Security is an important aspect in a netwe any size. Print Central can ‘hide’ printers and the administrator can defin authorized ‘user list’. Included is the ability to either status or control the any Mac on the network (remote control). Print Central works with all applicati PostScript equipment including laser and color printers, imagesetters an recorders. Print Central is available from your local dealer or direct! Compumation. Stop waiting for your printers, stop your printers from waiting : next job. Call 1-800-SPOOLER for more information or to get your copy today! Working with scanned or high resolution images? Color Central is the OPI/DCS Image Print Server, an enhanced version of Print Central. Color Central permits you to place a low resolution image in a page layout, while the high resolution or separated version is stored at the print server. When the Mac prints to Color Central it is freed in seconds rather than the hours associated with printing high resolution graphics. When the job is sent to the printer, Color Central automatically inserts the images on the fly! Xpress (2 Pages) Runs on a Macintosh Printer Load Balancing Works with Large Graphics Authorized User List Remote Status & Control Configures Printer _ |Works with AppleShare 3.0 it should have heen fast & compatible... | 27% faster! = mes 12% faster! et ot ‘AppleShare doesn't work with Pagelaler! It should have been full featured... Print Central Apple PS v v Circle 65 on reader service card 44 September 1992 MACWORLD Well show you how to play the media better than Bush, ton and Perot put together. peasy t0.9eb rolling eo a Convert existing Tew dont ned extra hardare data into movies. to slarl working with ‘ : Convert olber file formats QuickTime. Simply drag the . f, (AIFF, P&CS, PICT, Scrapbook, QuickTime system extension A DOS image formats) lo into your System Folder. Now : QuickTime movies wilh the applications designed to S Movie Converter application. support QuickTime can work g Conirol frames per second, scilh digital video sequences, —_ compression scheme and animation movie, sound color depth, files and compressed images. 5 es i One-button Mew and edit The easiest way to get started with video, i movie recording. ee sound, and animation on your Macintosh. : Digitize video and sound Play, pause, fast-forward, , ‘easily wilh tbe Movie Recorder rewind and advance : ‘aplication. View what youre Srame by frame wit the i aa recorded, save itor ts it MoviePlayer application pe i out and try again. (Requires Copy video and animation 3 A : eg ee. | a video-capture card and clips, paste ers ogee, sound dizer) create your own movies, 3 i The Starter Kit, Compress |__TheStarterKit, PICT images. ‘cludes the sytem extension Shrink lem toa fraction of and Scrapbook, MoviePlaye, ‘heir original file size and Movie Recorder, Movie Con. save valuable space and certer ana Picture Compresor transmission time withthe applications. Plus QuickClps Pictere Compressor appiica- a CD-ROM dish with samples of fon. (Compressed files can movies and still color imeages be used automatically ‘and an electronic catalog of in any existing application a ane that support ‘Bat supports PICT files) J ‘QuickTie, Apple Utilities for Macintosh How well you communicate has never been more important. That's why Apple created QuickTime” The ability to paste digital video, animation and sound into your presentations as easily as pasting graphics into text. So if youtd like the name of an Apple software reseller near you, call us at They'll tell you more about the QuickTime Starter Kit and show you how to communicate your ideas more powerfully than ever. chine mus Mata camper a 600, BU er 6040 rear ies 4 rae of EULA AE Sper or fay ie. hand dk ee: 6 ero 6? er) ar ster (veri 20 te), el ae nln ye BO ‘deo come CDROM drs fr axes te st oh CDROM. C1992 se Ca, ne Al ri ree, eek a Maher are! modonak of oe Cage, bc. QuACge using, Sere an eo 7 are aon of Cp ie Ta crt ai pes LETTERS fer a left-handed version for the Mac, but do for the PC. If there are any lefties out there who would like to have a great prod- uct in a left-handed version, let’s see if we can get this product made! Maryann McCourt Pembroke, Massachusetts Our editors were shown both right- and left-handed versions of the MouseMan when Logitech visited our offices. However, Logitech currently has no plans to offera left-handed MouseMan forthe Mac. Read- ers may write to the MouseMan product manager: Vanessa Torres, Product Manager, Logitech, 6505 Kaiser Dr., Fremont, CA 94555,—Ed. Dubl-Clicking fj T SEEMS INCONCEIVABLE THAT A utility I depend on daily, Dubl-Click Software’s MenuFonts 4.0.1, should get such a negative review (Reviews, May 1992). Kurt Carlson describes a speed loss Isimply have not seen. I am probably op- erating faster thanks to the alphabetical font-selecting feature. The utility offers a broad array of features that the review la- beled “overkill.” Any options a program can offer to maximize performance with- out affecting ease of use should be called nothing less than wonderful. While I did experience a few of the buggy conflicts the reviewer mentioned, they have all been fixed with version 4.0.3. Taz Goldstein North Hollywood, California Junk Food ® EORGE BEEKMAN IN HIS REVIEW “= of Number Munchers (Reviews, June 1992) writes, “[it] is one of a trio of pro- grams that combine the thrill of arcade action with solid educational principles. The result: everybody wins.” I believe ev- erybody loses. The student loses because he or she is basically doing a sugarcoated version of drill and practice. Math facts are divorced from any context that would provide meaning for the student. ‘The parent or teacher loses because George’s high rating of the program may direct them away from programs that do provide math concepts in context. ‘The fun game aspect of this program loses because it is polluted by education. Imagine playing baseball and having to solve an algebra problem in order to pro- ceed to the next base. Max Schafer Los Angeles, California Not Happy with HardBall y N REFERENCE TO YOUR FOUR-STAR review of Accolade’s HardBall II (Re- views, May 1992): Are we talking about the same thing? You fail to mention, among other things: the interface is abys- mally un-Mac-like; the color version runs pathetically slow on an LC; the sound ef- fects are so primitive they sound like they were sampled from an early Nintendo game; it takes nothing less than three key- strokes (T’, then 3€-X, then $£-Q) just to quit the game; and saved games appear as generic documents on the desktop, so they cannot be opened except from with- in the program. Come on, guys. Iam tolerant of a few peculiarities in Mac games, but let’s save rave reviews for the ones that deserve it. Andrew Dawson Valley Village, California Leave Drives On HE QUESTION OF LEAVING A HARD drive powered on all the time versus turning it off when finished in order to save electricity is one that has confused many end users (Letters, June 1992). The continues business accounting those who don’t pee ultiLedger is the small business accounting (oe ‘for those who think ona slightly grander scale. Yes, it ins all of the major accounting functions (General er, AJR, A/P, and Inventory) plus many management ts in one int