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This latest version of Windows dis- tinguishes itself mostly by in- corporating into personal com- puters features that are now more than ten years old, so it’s not the technological threat to the Mac that disturbs me. It’s the media’s apparent willingness to set aside all cri cal discernment just to join the party. Everyone knows that Microsoft has the means to prime the wheels of com- merce, but take a look at some of the peo- ple who've jumped on its marketing band- wagon. When the Rolling Stones agreed to sell the rights to “Start Me Up” for the Windows 95 ad campaign’s theme song— something the Stones have never been willing to do before—I had to wonder, was it just for the money? And what about the venerable Times of London? It per- mitted an advertiser to sponsor an entire issue—much to the chagrin of its editors. But you should expect better from any type of media that calls itself a jour- nalistic enterprise. To serve the interests of their readers and viewers, who rely on the media to help them make serious choices, journalists must maintain strict standards of independence and objecti ty. Marketing and entertainment values so dominate contemporary media that con- sumers must constantly question them. Objective: Objectivity Macworld is committed to providing our readers with trustworthy information on products for the Mac. In addition to pro- tecting consumers’ interests, we believe that objective criticism helps improve the products and companies that serve the marketplace, and so we go to great lengths to assure that what you read on our pages is accurate and unbiased. Our writers are among the most qualified and experienced reviewers in the business. The Maeworld Lab doesn’t depend sole- ly on lab simulations and abstract bench- it goes the extra mile to test prod- STATE OF THE MAC BY ADRIAN MELLO Reader’s Bill of Rights Taking a stand on ethics in media ucts with real-world applications so you get a more accurate picture of how prod- ucts will perform on the job, As a result, we're recognized for our strict, but fair, ratings. And though we try to avoid mis- takes, when we do err we correct the record as quickly as we can by printing a correction in our Letters section. Conflicts of Interest We hear back from our readers that they appreciate our accurate and dependable product reviews. What they don’t gener- ally know about, however, are the safe- guards we take to ensure our objectivity. It’s no secret that without ads, no com- puter magazine could afford to publish its editorial content. These ads usually promote the same kind of products we write about in our editorial pages. With- out precautions, there’s a danger that the editorial content could be influenced by the magazine’s advertising interests. Readers have a right to ask publications what steps are taken to protect objectivity. Macworld maintains absolute editori- al independence from advertisers, gov- ernment, and any other outside sources that might seek to influence editorial content. We do not allow a company’s decision to buy (or not buy) ads in our magazine to influence how, or whether, we write about its products, Bringing a magazine to the newsstand is a complicated affair, involving not only authors and editors, but also people in design, production, advertising, promo- tion, and so on, Still, Macworld maintains a clear differentiation between editorial employees and those engaged in other publishing activities—a distinction not all computer publications observe. For example, some magazines’ editors accom- pany ad-sales staff on calls to vendors. Sometimes these magazines justify it as a way to help vendors understand the magazine’s editorial position, but there’s a subtext to such sales calls: a company that buys advertising space under such circumstances can expect coverage in the publication. Macworld’s editors don’t go on sales calls. Period. Similarly, salespeople do not mediate complaints about editorial content. For example, if a compa- ny has a complaint about a review of its products, it must deal directly with the editor; the ad sales repre- sentative is notallowed to get involved. Stocks and Bounds People are often astonished to learn that Macworld’s editors are forbidden to buy or sell shares in any of the companies that we cover (owning them through mutual funds or blind trusts is permitted). Don’t think we're not envi- ous, too, when we stand by and watch events such as the meteoric ascent of Netscape’s stock. Insider trad- ing—buying or selling securities based on confidential information that does not belong to the trader—is, of course, illegal; but does it follow that computer journal- ists should not own stock in technology companies? Not all publications share our viewpoint, but because Macworld’s pub- lished opinions directly affect the market value of technology stocks, we believe our trading in these stocks would be unethi- continues MACWORLD November 1995 19 STATE OF THE MAC Besides, it’s hard to objectively evaluate products in which you have a financial interest. Another potential trouble spot is computer journalists who work as paid consultants for software and hardware companies or who write manuals or pro- motional materials—not an uncommon practice. Should a journalist review a company’s products and then receive pay- ment from the same company for other work? Should readers have to wonder whether reviewers are beholden to prod- uct manufacturers? We think not, and our authors do not review products from companies they work for. Thave no idea why anyone would care what kind of long-d dice Bergen uses or why Robert Urich favors a particular variety of dog food, but we're accustomed to entertainers’ hocking products. Journalists shouldn’t do this. We rely on their unbiased exper- tise to help us make informed choices, and hu tuple SoftBourid wate? 2004 Imagine the meeting where you all have the same vision, the same objectives, and the same notes. SoftBoard only looks and feels like an ordinary whiteboard. Whatever you create on a SoftBoard® appears instantly on your Macintosh® or Windows®-based PC. Once it's there, you can save it, print it, cut and paste it, e-mail it, fax it, even network it to multiple sites. From personal to conference room sizes, wall or cubicle mount, table top, or mobile, there's a SoftBoard to fit your needs. 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Ads also may not emulate Macworld’s typefaces or design, and our editorial designers can’t work on them. Have you ever read a review in a mag- azine or newspaper, and then looked across the page and seen an ad promoting the same product? Makes you wonder about the relationship between the two, doesn’t it? Again, we don’t think you should have to wonder. Macworld doesn’t permit product ads to appear adjacent to editorial coverage of the same products, Now and then we run into potential conflicts of interest that are difficult to avoid. For example, our parent company also owns a book-publishing company called IDG Books Worldwide, and we occasionally write about IDG books we think our readers might find interesting. We strive to give all books the same fair treatment, but even so, we think you have a right to know up front about our rela- tionship to IDG Books Worldwide. Making the Tough Calls As much as we value our reputation, occa- sionally our ethics require us to make painful choices. This issue marks Guy Kawasaki's last column for Macworld. For over two years Guy’s irreverent wit has been a source of delight for our readers, Guy has always been a Mac partisan, stemming from his days as the most note- worthy of the Mac’s early evangelists. Now the old warrior is rejoining the fray asan Apple Fellow, again to champion the Macintosh cause. This is good news for Apple and the Mac, butit means Macworld and Guy must now part company. Consumers need to know what kind of commitment they can expect from those who purport to provide them with independent and objective information. We believe Macworld’s editorial practices serve our readers well. 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First, the talks between IBM and Radius indi- cate that even small companies can become big players by leveraging the manufacturing and distribution facilities of larger firms. Second, Apple appears to be using Power Computing as a conduit for porting its technology to other clone makers such as Olivetti. This strategy allows Apple to off-load much of the bur- den of transferring its specialized know- how to other licensees. ‘Third, by design and not by chance, Apple’s pro-cloning factions came out on top in Apple’s latest reorganization. Finally, Apple (along with TBM) remains online with CHRP (Com- mon Hardware Reference Platform), which would allow an unlimited number of players to jump into the Mac cloning business without wasting months negoti- ating contracts with timid Apple bureau- crats who have little experience in or, it seems, inclination toward finalizing cloning licenses. Joe Demetrius Greensboro, North Carolina OUR STATE OF THE MAC EDITORIAL. and Charles Piller’s feature are both great! As you know, I fully agree with the position Macworld has taken and appreci- 1 SOS: ate Macworld’s strong stand on the impor- tance of licensing to Apple and the over- all Macintosh community, as well as the need for a sense of urgency, Radius has been virtually 100 percent Mac-focused for its entire nine-year his~ tory. Licensing has kept us, as a third- party developer, from taking our tech- nology to the Windows platform. Now, as a licensed system vendor, we are very excited about the prospects for a larger and more diverse Macintosh market. ‘The only thing I would add to your editorial is, Support the current licensees and ensure their success, It will be difficult for others to follow if the pioneers die on the trail. Radius has lined up an impres- sive list of partners to back our efforts, but as Mr. Piller correctly points out, success cannot be achieved without the proper level of support from Apple. ‘Thanks for boldly taking a stand on an issue fundamental to all of us for suc- cess in the Macintosh market. Charles Berger Chairman and CEO, Radius Sunnyvale, California clier's What's a Gamer to Do? OU CAN PLAY THAT ON A MAC?" IN the August issue (News) very accu- rately outlines the state of Mac gaming and its current problems. I find the atti- tude of David Swofford (media relations manager of Origin) quite representative of the PC gaming establishment’s opinion in deciding whether or not to develop for the Mac. Game developers are under- standably hesitant about committing resources without first testing the waters. The trouble with this thinking, however, is that they are using Super Wing Com- mander as their test ground, thinking that if this title doesn’t do well, why should they bother with others? Unfortunately, the logic is faulty. Porting a year-old game and expecting Mac gamers to jump is ridiculous, espe- cially when quality games like Marathon and Dark Forces are here now. The for- mer game shows that a Mac-only devel- opment company can be a success, and the latter that a PC company can make a Mac product and be well received. My advice to Origin and other game devel- opers is, if you want to test the Mac waters, concurrently develop Mac and PC versions of a game so we don’t feel like we're getting leftovers. The PowerPC offers an incredible platform for game development, but Mac gamers are not desperate—we will zot buy a game for the sake of buying. Convince us. Produce a quality product and the sales will come in droves—just ask Bungie Software or LucasArts! Adam Newman via CompuServe We Know What You Mean COULD REALLY RELATE TO GUY Kawasaki’s column in August (Wise Guy). T was once installing a 12-dise CD changer and deck in my car when I inad- continues MACWORLD November 1995 29 | 2.27 85 28.85 5.49 18.12 38.25 3.87 7.87 “Test conducted on « Power Macintosh 8100/100AV for PowerCADD 2.0 and a Macintosh Quadra 630 for PowerDraw versions M_A D Macworld October 1995 * .PowerCADD's greatest benefit is speed..." “PowerCADD does the best job of harnessing the Power Mac’s capabilities I've seen.” tett MacUser October 1995 .,.PowerCADD’s programmability ond extensibility may make PowerCADD a better choice than high-end CAD programs.” MacWEEK July 10, 1995 “1.4 MB (PowerCADD) file on the Power Mac updated more than two times faster on the Power Macintosh (redraw sped of ive second)” InfoWorld July 24, 1995 “PowerCADD 2.0 boosts faster redraw mes, faster eliting and processing speeds, improved layer contr, enhanced ‘editing commands, and « redesigned interface.” Ac) a ENGINEERED SOFTWARE™ Call 910-299-4843 Fax 910-852-2067 In Canada 204-453-8111 Circle 12 on reader service card 30 November 1995 MACWORLD LETTERS = Conflict Catcher 3.0.2 (“System 7.5.2 Fixes,” News, October 1995) can be downloaded for free from AOL, | eWorld, and CompuServe (casady). Reg- istered users with a Power Mac 7200, 7500, 8500, 9500, or System 7.5.2 can get a set of 3.0.2 disks and manual for Sree; otherwise they're $15. Quark’s phone number was listed incorrectly and should be 303/894-8888. a Sonnet Technologies and Dynamic Engineering offer PowerPC upgrade the Duo 280/280c and the 500-series PowerBooks (PowerBook Notes, Sep- tember 1995). a Several errors appeared in “The Split-Personality Mac” (September 1995). Personal MacLAN Connect won't work with Windows 95 (a Windows 95 version of Personal MacLAN Connect is scheduled to ship in September). The Power Mac logo in the “Software Options for Windows on a Mac” table should be next to SoftWindows 1.0 and 2.0 for Power Macintosh, not next to SoftWindows 1.0 for Performa and Tim- buktu Pro 1.04 for Macintosh. On a Power Mac 7100/80, SoftWin- dows 2.0 runs at less than 25MHz 486SX speeds. vertently shorted out the stereo, The very first thing that popped into my head was, Hey, no big deal, just undo. Wouldn’t that be nice? Two months later the CD changer wouldn’t eject the cartridge. I tried every- thing to get it out. After close inspection Trealized there was a tiny hole below the cartridge door the size of a paper-clip tip. Naw, [ thought, it couldn’t be that simple. Sure enough, I pushed a paper clip into the hole and out came my cartridge. So I guess thinking with a Mac frame of mind has its ups and downs. Joe Krout via America Online Dear What? T HE “PICKING NITS” LETTER IN August’s Letters reminded me of an incident that happened not too long ago. I was consulting with a new computer user and had brought a file compressed with Now Utilities. While the file decom- pressed, I explained that I had to do this because the file was too big to fit on a floppy and QuickFiler let me squeeze more data onto the disk, but that we had to decompress it before she could use it. About halfway through the process, she pointed at the message on screen and said, “But why do they call it dear chiving?” Matthew Strange via the Internet Black and White HANK YOU FOR YOUR AR’ about digitizing video (“Advancec AV Options,” August 1995). Believe it or not, though, some of us are interested in digitizing only black-and-white video. Does this less-demanding requirement significantly change the assessment of the Apple and Radius products reviewed? T have looked everywhere for a dis- cussion—nay, the merest mention of this topic—and have not found one. John Soros via the Internet We haven't tested video products in black-and- white. For more information, try the Video Interest Group (Video Sig) on America Online.—Ed. Dealing with DOS Disks J IM HEID'S INFORMATIVE ARTICLE ON DOS disks (Working Smart, August 1995) omitted one additional fact to keep in mind: a formatted double-density disk holds up to 800K worth of Mac but formats to only 720K in DOS, High-den- sity disks provide 1.44MB of storage capacity for both operating systems. Chris Bastian via the Internet Hands Ahoy! AVID POGUE'S PIECE ON THE JOYS of voice dictation rightly points out the value and increasing maturity of a new technology (The Desktop Critic, August 1995), In his case it was a replacement for the keyboard, at which he had apparently injured his arms. My concern is that Pogue said noth- ing about what he did to remove the cause of his injury. In my work doing ergonom- ic consultations, I see much misuse of the keyboard. People are stretching or claw~ ing the fingers, bending the wrists in all directions, hitting the keys with extreme force, and typing in postures that put extra strain on tissues and the body in general. 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People could probably return to their keyboards for a lot less money and headaches by using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. Every new typist, like my daughters in elementary school, should be offered the Simplified alternative. Dvorak, however, found out that it is hard to teach new tricks to lazy dogs or even quick brown foxes, Fortunately, the computer keyboard allows us to be of both persuasions, QWERTY and Dvo- rak, though monogamously so. Simple, inexpensive modifications can make your computer dual-capable. Overlay keyboard stickers with the Dyorak and QWERTY keyboard visible in different colors and sizes can be purchased at minimal expense from Hooleon, among others. For more information, contact Dyorak Internation- al, a nonprofit, international organiza- tion dedicated to promoting the Dvorak layout, at dvorakint@aol.com. William Grassie via America Online Tough Times for Pioneers AM WRITING IN RESPONSE TO JIM Heid’s “First of a New Breed” in the August issue. Heid concludes his article by espousing the plight of the first- generation Power Macintosh users. I agree that first-generation pioneers, as Mr. Heid calls them, should not be left out on a limb without any of the “en- hancements” prevalent in second-genera- tion Power Macs. Many loyal Macintosh users have spent their money in good faith and in confidence by purchasing the original Power Macintosh model line. Why doesn’t Apple return the favor and offer the system enhancements of 7.5.2 to these buyers? I think Apple should seri ously consider making system software improvements readily available to those who truly support Apple and the Power Macintosh. Brian Bray Porterville, California 32 November 1995 MACWORLD Little Orphan Anarchie J OANNA PEARLSTEIN'S REVIEW OF Snatcher 1.0 (August 1995) surprised me, She leaves the impression that Snatcher and Fetch are the only afford- able Macintosh FTP (file-transfer proto- col) clients. Anarchie 1.5 isa terrific, well- supported, $10 shareware FTP client by Peter Lewi In addition to supporting multiple, simultaneous connections and file trans- fers, Anarchie has the ability to browse while downloading, and it offers useful scripting features like those in Snatcher; Anarchie also comes with an excellent Apple Guide, houses a terrific interface, and supports powerful Archie searches of the Internet. Best of all, free upgrades appear frequently on the Internet. Thave never used Snatcher, but I was once a frequent user of Fetch, Anarchie is simply much, much better, I encourage Macworld editors and readers to strongly consider it when looking for affordable, powerful FTP clients for the Macintosh. Jeremy Smith via the Internet We could have mentioned Anarchie and its agreeably excellent features, but its support of the Archie pro- tocol differentiates it from Fetch and Snatcher. We don't ike to compare guavas and grapes. For further discussion of FTP software, see “Make the Right Connection,” in the October 1995 issue —Ed Fish On Y WIFE AND I WERE RELAXING ON the beach at Boca Grande recent- ly, watching 60 entry boats compete in the world’s richest Tarpon Tournament. Scanning the field with my binoculars, I spied the Wise Guy! Could it be that your Mr. Kawasaki was away from his desk long enough to compete for the $100,000 first prize? A faithful reader of his Wise Guy column, I was wondering how he was going to explain this absence from his newfound responsibilities at Apple. Larry Lessard Englewood, Florida Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 Sec- ond St., San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442- 0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), ‘MCI Mail (294-8078), America Online (Macworld), eWorld (Macworld), AppleLink (Macworld1), or via the Intemet (letters@macworld.com). Include return address and daytime phone number. 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Based on the all-in-one Performa 5200 de- sign, the 5300's built-in multimedia technologies include a video-out connector, a video-capture card, a TV tuner, and 16-bit stereo sound-in and -out ports. Because it uses the relatively slow PowerPC 603e, the 5300/100 should be about as fast as a 601-based Power Mac 6100/66. If you don’t have a student or an educator in your household, don’t despair. LC models tend to show up as Performas a few months later at Sears, Circuit City, and other retailers. Cyber Copyrights Urged The Clinton administration recommends changes to bring copyright law in line with current technology. A presidential study group, in a report titled /nte//ectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure, says “the nation's growing computer communications system would not flourish without safeguards against theft.” The report recommends classifying electronic transmissions of documents and other materials as copies, thus including them under copyright law. Also recommended: prohibiting the manufacture or distri- bution of any device that would circumvent electronic tags used to protect copyrights on networks. More Merger Mania Maybe we sound like we're repeating ourselves, but there are more mergers of note. This continues the trend toward consolidation in the computer industry. Macromedia of San Francisco, owner of the pop- ular FreeHand, a design and illustration tool for the Mac- intosh and Windows, will acquire Fauve Software of San Francisco. Fauve is the developer of xRes, a full-featured image-editing application for Mac and Windows PCs The deal is a stock swap valued at $14 million. By the time you read this, Broderbund Software of Novato, California, and The Learning Company of Fremont, California, will in all likelihood have merged. Broderbund develops Mac and Windows software titles for homes, schools, and small businesses. It is best known for its immensely popular Carmen Sandiego series of educational programs. The Learning Company publish- es educational titles for both platforms. Under the merg- er agreement, expected to be completed by the end of October, The Learning Company will continue to oper- ate under its name as a wholly owned subsidiary. Brader- bund paid the equivalent of $440 million in stock. Dayna Communications of Salt Lake City, a lead- ing maker of Macintosh Ethernet adapters, has sold its remote-access products group to Ascend Communica- tions of Alameda, California. Dayna says the sale, for an undisclosed amount, will allow it to concentrate on the Macintosh LAN market. The remote-access group makes DaynaLink, a PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) fax modem-based server for Apple Remote Access clients. Companies Unmerged Boca Research of Boca Raton, Florida, has abandoned its plan (reported in MacBulletin, September 1995) to buy Hayes Micro- computer Products, of Atlanta. Hayes, once the leading computer-modem maker, has been operating in Chap- ter 11 bankruptcy since November 1994. The deal would have created the third-largest modem manufacturer. Boca Research says it stopped negotiations when it heard that Dennis Hayes, the company’s founder, chief exec- utive, and largest shareholder, was continuing to talk to other suitors. Hayes confirms that he is talking to other suitors but says he's still willing to negotiate with Boca. m MACWORLD November 1995 37 IN THIS ISSUE ‘ow’s the Macintosh far- ing in the hottest new computer trend—online ser- vices and the Internet? Recent surveys and market reports show it’s doing well. The Mac’s share of the personal computer market is typically estimated at 8.1 per- cent by International Data Corporation, but the numbers shake out differently if you break down the market by application. In desktop pub- lishing and multimedia devel- opment, for example, the Mac has far more than 10 percent. On the three major online ser- vices, the Mac’s share varies considerably (see the chart “Mac’s Online Presence,” on page 43). CompuServe says 16 percent of its members use Macs, 76 percent use PCs, and 8 percent use a terminal inter- face. Prodigy reports only 5 percent using Macs. America Online (AOL) does not quote its platform breakdown, but knowledgeable people esti- mate 25 percent Macs and 75 percent PCs; in its 1994 annu- al report, AOL listed 28 per- cent Macs, 72 percent PCs. ‘The origin of these differences is largely historical. Prodigy is partly owned by IBM and has promoted itself more heavily 38 p- 39 Ceneca's New Web Tools p. 40 PowerPC PowerBook Add-Ons p. 41 Apple Hedges OS Bets p- 42 V.34 Modems p. 45 Windows NT Outperforms Power Macintosh p. 132 What's Ahead for Adobe? p. 138 FileMaker Pro Gets Relational p. 152 Mac as Internet Server The Mae’s (Bigger) Share Online mpuServe to the PC side of the market; its software has probably been the least Mac-like of all com- mercial programs. AOL start- ed out as AppleLink Personal Edition, a joint project of Apple and Quantum. Apple sold its interest to Quantum, which renamed the service. For the big three services, the overall shares work out to 16.4 percent for the Mac, 80.9 per- cent for the PC, and 3 percent for others, adjusted for the rel- November 1995 MACWORLD ative number of subscribers. As for the Internet, gradu- ate student Jim Pitkow, of the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center (GVU) at the Georgia Institute of Tech- nology, has conducted three widely publicized surveys of World Wide Web users. The Web is the hottest area on the Internet because it has inter- active graphics and sound; older areas, such as news- groups and Gopher sites, z operate with a text interface only. The GVU April 1995 questionnaire yielded 13,006 responses. From the stand- point of platform count, the GVU survey was distorted by two factors. First, 3532 responses came from Prodigy subscribers because the survey appeared on Prodigy’s Web home page. At the time, Prodigy offered Web access only to its Windows sub- scribers, so naturally the Prodigy responses reflected a Windows bias. Without the Prodigy data, the Mac share goes up to 36 percent versus 63 percent for PCs, This high proportion for the Mac was driven in part by several online Mac publications and news- groups that urged Mac users to fill out the questionnaire. The PC-based online publi- cations did not do the same; in any event they don’t have the wide readership or clout of the Mac publications. Com- puter Intelligence InfoCorp surveyed 10,700 personal com- puter users and found that 18 percent of Mac users had Internet access compared with about 9 percent of PC users. ‘There’s another way to get platform statistics: When someone browses a Web site and downloads files, the Web server can identify the type of browser used and usually the platform. The eclectic Asylum home page draws 21 percent Macs; home pages produced by Point of Presence in Seattle for various commer- cial clients draw 19 percent Macs. On the Web server side—computers used to sup- ply information to the Web— Macs have a strong position, with a 20.8 percent share, according to the GVU survey; Unix remains the leader for servers, while Windows has been off to a slow start. Overall, the figures show that Macs are used for the major commercial online ser- vices at about twice the pro- portion of their installed base. And a higher proportion of Macs browse the Internet than visit the commercial services. As Internet services have added graphics and multi- media, the Mac has become the platform of choice for many software developers. Internet tools have been avail- able on the Mac for years; a full set of tools for Windows arrived only this year. Apple has responded to the Mac’s popularity on the Internet by offering Macs packaged as Web servers and developing Internet links for its forth- coming OpenDoc shared-tool system.—CARY LU A Preview ol Ceneca’s Hot Web Tools — BREAKS NEW GROUND IN ONLINE PUBLISHING E veryone wants to be on the Web, but no one yet has a really good way to get there. Companies like Adobe and Quark are stumbling over themselyes to adapt their products to handle HTML (HyperText Markup Lan- guage), but their solutions have been filters and plug-ins that don’t really address the needs of this new medium. The pages that are created by these standard _ pro- grams are large- ly static, forcing the Web’s round peg into print’s square hole. Enter Ceneca Communications (415/842-6810), a start-up run by escapees from the Taligent project at Apple. They've built a pair of Web authoring tools from the ground up, tailoring the fea tures to the needs of the medi- um. PageMill is the basic pro- gram that allows WYSIWYG creation of Web pages, out- putting standard HTML files that will run on any Web sery- er. SiteMill includes all the features of PageMill and adds Web site-management tools. Maeworld took a look at an early release of these tools, and we’re cautiously opti- mistic about what has been called the PageMaker of the nineties. Using a simple Macintosh interface and saving files to a local hard drive, PageMill enables authors to create ind vidual pages, forms, and clic! able images in an environ- ment that hides the HTML tags that have discouraged designers and nontechnical authors. PageMill’s features are as easy to use as a word processor’s, and the program turns out clean and efficient HTML that follows the 2.0 HTML standard set by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Ceneca says that the next version will support the 3.0 HTML. standard, including tables and other refinements. PageMill offers drag-and-drop image place- ment from various sources (even the Clipboard) and changes PICT files to the standard interlaced GIF for- mat, including support for transparent GIF files. While PageMill handles placement and image linking nicely, would-be Web masters still need to work with a sepa- Ceneca's new PageMill and SiteMill, are being called the PageMaker of the 1990s. rate image-editing tool, Photo- shop or DeBabelizer, to re- duce files to sizes that are standard on the Web. Writing individual HTML, pages is only the first step in creating a Web site, and peo- ple running commercial sites will want the management tools that SiteMill adds to PageMill. Managing a Web site’s multiple pages and myr- iad links to and from those a nightmare. Broken ks and missing pages have to be painstakingly repaired one link at a time. SiteMill addresses these problems by creating a minidatabase of the site. The structure of your Web site appears as a window that dis- plays your pages with pop-up menus of the links to and from each file. As you link pages within your site, that database stores the relative links, updat- ing them when you make continues In Briel CD-R Gets Simpler Optima Technology (714/476- 0515) has shipped the $1850 DisKovery 650CDR with CD-R Access software, which lets you add files to a recordable CD- ROM by dragging files to the CD's desktop icon—as if it were a floppy disk. Other CD-R soft- ware requires you to create a list of files and folders or to create a separate hard-disk partition that you then copy onto the recordable CD-ROM. To read the CD-ROMs, people need a special driver from Optima, available via online services for free or by disk for $19. © DayStar Pumps Up 9500's Not satisfied with the single puny processor in your new Power Mac 9500? Then step up to burly, four-processor power with DayStar’s (404/967- 2077) Genesis conversion kit. For roughly $10,000 (price not final at press time), you can take your 9500 to an authorized Genesis dealer who will pull your mother-board and internal drives, replace your PowerPC 604 CPU with a four-processor Genesis card, and slap the whole mess into a Genesis case with a beefed-up power supply. The upgrade comes with DayStar's multiprocessing software and Photo extensions to take advantage of the newfound power. © QuickTime 2.1 Music to Users’ Ears Listening to Internet sound files just got easier, thanks to the latest version of QuickTime (2.1) and Sound Manager (3.1), available as a package for $9.95 from Apple (408/996-1010). Users can now directly play WAV and AU files, and audio performance has been increased ‘on Power Macs, leaving more processor cycles for smoother video. QuickTime 2.1 also has goodies for developers, including a sprite toolbox and sprite track for easily adding character-based animations to movies. MACWORLD November 1995 39 | News changes and alerting you when there’s a problem. More important, you can drag and drop the elements in this window onto text or images to create links within the authoring environment. For sites larger than one or two pages, SiteMill should help solve many important site-management issucs. Remember that both products are in their first ver- sion. Also bear in mind that you'll still need to wrestle with an Internet server to put these pages on the Web. But Ceneca’s tools are miles bet- ter than any of the other Web authoring tools available, and the open standards strategy is good for the Web as a whole. Combine PageMill and Star- Nine’s WebStar server soft- ware, and the Mac is poised to take the lead in the fledgling Internet publishing world. It’s an auspicious beginning for this small start-up company. —MATTHEW HAWN Portable Drives Giel Faster MAGNETO-OPTICAL, RAID REPLACE TAPE, OPTICAL P repress artists and multi- media developers, our usual data-hogging suspects, often juggle two or more multigigabyte projects at once. In the past they had to shuffle jobs between expen- sive but speedy fixed-cap: hard drives and high-capacity but poky removable-media devices such as tape and opti- cal drives. Now a new gener- ation of drives aims to com- bine the speed of hard drives with the portability and expandability of removable storage in a single low-cost device. Pric 00, and the drives’ performance High-capacity removable media, like these Jaz-based drives from lomega, are becoming less expensive and faster. promises to meet the de- mands of almost all users, including demanding Photo- shop and video editors. Pinnacle Micro’s (714/ 727-3300) proprietary Apex 4.6GB magneto-optical drive has 17ms seek times and real-world data-transfer rates of up to 4.5 MBps. Most MO drives erase existing data and record new data in separate operations. Apex combines these two steps into one by direct- ly writing new data over old. Pinnacle says the perfor- mance gain and low price per megabyte justify the nonstandard format, and the company hopes to strike OEM deals that allow sec- ondary sources to develop. The Apex drive, which should be available by the time you read this, will cost $1695 with one 4.6GB car- tridge. Extra cartridges will cost about $200 each. Tomega (801/778-1000) crams 1GB into each 3.5-inch cartridge of its Jaz removable drive. The drive, built with a Winchester technology similar to that pioneered by SyQuest, delivers a 12ms seck time and sustained data-trans- fer rates of better than 3.5 AORERT PERRY, 40 SPECIA REPORT First Add-Ons to New PowerPC PowerBooks ‘The new PowerBook 5300, 2300, and 190 series give Mac notebooks a new level of expansion capability, and several companies have already announced expansion options for this latest generation of PowerBooks, (For details on the new PowerBooks themselves, see the feature “PowerPC Portables,” elsewhere in this issue.) You can expand the new PowerBooks in five ways, but not all models have each option: via PC Card slots (formerly PCMCIA slots); via an expan- sion bay similar to that in the PowerBook 500 series; via a new type of Processor Direct Slot (PDS) card; via a docking station; and via standard Mac ports such as serial and SCST. Because the PowerBooks are so new, many companies had not finalized prices or names as we went to press. November 1995 MACWORLD PC Card Options notebooks: All the full- have PC Card slo the new subnotebooks PC Cards designed for the 5300 and 190 should also work with a 500-series PowerBook that has Apple’s $220 PC Card expansion device. ¢ Farallon Computing (510/815-5100) will offer sev- eral Ethernet options via ‘Type IL PC Card cards, The Ether- ‘Wave PowerBook PC Card ($249), which can be daisy- chained, connects to any 10BaseT network or lets you create an ad hoc, hubless net- work by linking EtherWave adapters connected to Power- Books, Macs, PCs, and print- ers, The EtherMac Power- Book PC Card-TP 10BaseT adapter ($199) lets you con- nect a PowerBook to a hub- based network. The Ether- Mac PowerBook PC Card-C ($249) has 10BaseT and thin Ethernet connectors. All three cards support AppleTalk, ‘TCP/IP, SNMP, and IPX. * Dayna Communica- tions (801/269-7200) will of- fer an Ethernet card, a fax modem card, a card that com- bines Ethernet and a fax mo- dem, and a wireless LAN card in its CommuniCard line. The $199 Ethernet card has 10BaseT and thin Ethernet connectors; the combination card (price not set) adds a 14.4- or 28.8-Kbps fax mo- dem (prices are company esti- mates), The $550 wireless card uses a 1-inch-square antenna to communicate with Dayna- Comm Network Access Point transceivers for wireless Ether- Farallon's Ethemet card (top) and Megahertz's fax modem card work in the new PowerBooks. MBps. The company expects Jaz drives to be available by the time you read this for $500. Extra 1GB cartridges will cost about $100 when bought in groups of five. Need even higher perfor- mance? ProMax (714/727- 3977) has announced two RAID Level 0 arrays built around the Jaz drive. The 2GB $1295 PR2-2000 system combines two Jaz drives to deliver about 8MB of data per second when connected to a fast SCSI accelerator or to an 8100's dual SCSI ports. A 4GB four-drive system, the PR4-4000, will move 1OMB per second with an accelera- tor and will cost $2595. SyQuest (510/226-4000) says it plans to introduce a product similar to the Jaz in the first half of 1996. The company declined to offer specifics. Each company says it plans to offer even higher- capacity drives in the future. —JIM FEELEY Apple Hetiges Its OS Bets SYSTEM 7.5 IS READIED AS BACKUP TO COPLAND aced with likely delays in finishing the next-gener- ation Macintosh Operating System, code-named Cop- land, Apple is hedging its bets by porting System 7.5 to the new system platform, the Common Hardware Refer- ence Platform (CHRP), being jointly developed with IBM. CHRP systems will be able to run the Mac O$, OS/2, IBM’s AIX variant of Unix, and Microsoft’s Windows NT. Apple originally spoke only of having Copland as the Mac OS version planned for CHRP, but the company has designed its CHRP systems to work with Copland and Sys- tem 7.5 and is porting System 7.5 to the new platform at the THE AmMCoEx INDEX OF USED MACINTOSH PRICES for noncompact models. Average Monthly ‘Machine/RAM/Hard Drive Sale Price Change PowerBook 140/4MB/40MB $600 mero) PowerBook 165/4MB/80MB $1000 $25 PowerBook 180/4MB/80MB $1275 $25 PowerBook Duo 230/4MB/80MB $700 -350 Mac lIsi/3MB/40MB $275 $0 Mac ici/4MB/80MB $550 +$50 ‘Mac lifx/4MB/80MB $475 $0 Centris 650/8MB/230MB $1025 -$50 Quadra 800/8MB/230MB $1200 -$75 Quadra 900/8MB/160MB $1125 +$50 Power Mac 7100/66/8MB/350MB $1800 -$200 Power Mac 8100AV/8MB/500MB/CD $2800 $300 Index provided by the American Computer Exchange of Atlanta (800/786-0717). It reflects sales during week of August 20. Conligurationslaclide keyboard and exclude monitor and display board same time it is porting Cop- land, according to Jim Gable, Apple’s licensing director for CHRP. Although System 7.5 for CHRP has been in the works at Apple since CHRP was agreed to in November 1994, even IBM was unaware net access. The 14.4-Kbps fax modem card is $270, the 28,8- Kbps version is $415. * Newer Technology (316/685-4904) will offer sev- eral cards, including fax mo- dems (one model has a cellular plug-in for Motorola cellular phones), the EtherTech P10 10BaseT Ethernet card, and flash-memory cards (in vari- ous capacities up to 40MB). * National Instruments (512/794-0100) plans to make several PC Cards for data acquisition, so scientists and engineers using its LabView scientific-instrumentation software can gather results from test equipment in almost any location. © Quadrant International (610/964-7600) is offering a videoconferencing package that combines Intelligence at Large’s (215/387-6002) Being- There software and Quad- rant’s video-input PC Card hardware. The bundle should cost less than $700. A desktop Mac would need the $299 BeingThere software; a Quick— ‘Time 2.0-compatible video- capture device; and a network, Internet, or modem connec- tion to the other Macs and PowerBooks. * VST Power Systems (508/287-4600) will ship the $449 Airplex Mac 14.4-Kbps fax modem Type II card that can attach toa phone line’s RJ- 11 jack or make a wireless con- nection, via an included infra- red adapter, to a modem pod that attaches to the phone line. Using the $149 IR Base Trans- ceiver, you can use the modem wit