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m x x ° z= a = ‘Lo0z. ‘008u. “OWIN! 6693 ‘SOVIN SM4N © GOd! Z SANNL! ¢ ONILNNOISV © Sdil Ohd IND TWh oes! y *) Reviewed: Apple's digital music for the ear and the eye Issue Selector Playlists Favorites >| Monday Morning Party Mix Road Trip Top 5 Break-Up Songs Workout Tunes © 7 pages of Mac 0S X trouble-shooting tips ¢ Mac accounting software on test © Apple iTunes 2 ¢ KPT 7 reviewed © How-to: Final Cut Pro 2 www.macworld.co.uk read me first “iPod and iTunes are so simple even Wurzels fans can use them” Simon Jary editor-in-chief With iPod and iEverything, Apple is oiling the wheels for our transition to Mac OS X. The iCarrot and the stuck n October Macworld UK reader poll (1,600 votes) (www.maeworld.co.uk/polls) found that 74 per cent of readers were planning to or had already switched to Apple's next-generation operating system, Mac OS X. Apple CEO Steve Jobs was reported to be delighted. And so he should be — his company has bet big time on OS X's success. As much as we love them for their comfortable familiarity, pre-X operating systems (System 7, 0S 8, 0S 9) are antiquated in the extreme. We moan about application crashes and how much time and effort is wasted in restarting the whole system, and yet many of us are plain scared to move to a more modern OS that has built-in defences to protect us from such disasters. OS X can run most of the apps we use today, but only in its Classic mode — which lacks the robust strengths that the Unix-based OS is built for. Optimized (or Carbonized) programs are slowly being released, so our excuses not to upgrade are diminished day by day. The big two Mac apps — Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress — will be Carbonized in 2002; indeed | expect an OS X-ready Photoshop very early next year. Other programs, such as Illustrator, InDesign, and FreeHand, are already Carbonized for OS X. As soon as your favourite applications are Carbonized, there's really no excuse to hang about in the digital limbo of OS 9 Clearly, Apple knows that many of its customers won't upgrade until well after they're able to. Fear of change is a powerful brake on evolution. And the company has pledged to support these users with occasional updates to Mac OS 9. It would be stupid to scare these people into the arms of Microsoft's Windows by effectively closing down OS 9 in order to push OS X down nervous user's throats. If OS X seems daunting and unwelcome, a switch to Windows XP may perversely appear a safer bet. I'm sure that Apple is under no illusions that inducing change can provoke peculiar reactions. The company could easily send its loyal customers spinning out of its orbit into alien arms. Strangers often appear kinder than weirded-out friends. Whether you knew it or not, Mac OS 9 was the first step we took to switching to X. OS 9 is a limbo land of opportunities to tempt us into change. That much was clear when the first major 9 upgrade (the free OS 9.1 download) subtly but radically altered our Macs’ file structures. Suddenly, our programs were shunted into a hitherto unknown ‘Applications (Mac OS 9) folder. That parenthesis suggested a future ‘Applications (Mac OS ?)’ ‘And, over the past two years, Apple has fostered a plan that seduces with gifts. OS 9 has brought us free stuff aplenty: iTools (the best thing to come out of Apple since 1984), with its free Internet storage space and pre- constructed Web sites; iMovie, a video editor that's as easy to use as it is sophisticated; iTunes, digital music that’s so simple even Wurzels fans can use it; and iDVD, which makes home video cassettes appear as old hat as flipbooks. 0.0K in int None of this free stuff works with pre-OS 9 systems. Because they're free, we really can’t complain. And Apple knows we'll be tempted by even more iGoodies. Hence, Apple's iPod. It’s a fantastic leap forward for digital-music aficionados — all these guys want is more capacity and faster delivery. iPod delivers both. it's expensive ~ but the tantalizing notion of untouchable benefits may be enough to open our eyes to the possibilities of change. The iPod is also symptomatic of PC companies looking for alternative revenue streams. Just as Sony is making headway in the PC market, both OS giants Microsoft and Apple are trying to muscle into Sony's — hence, Microsoft's Xbox (Sony's PlayStation), and Apple's iPod (Walkman), iPod requires iTunes 2, which, in turn, demands at least 0S 9.2.1. With each step we draw closer to OS X. And the closer we get - the more times we get used to change — the shorter our eventual jump to OS X. What was once a leap now seems the next inevitable bound. iDVD 2 won't work on anything but OS X 10.1. Neither will Microsoft's Office v. X, nor many new applications in the days ahead. Apple will keep dangling iCarrots in front of us until the last user bites. This may seem cynical. It might smack of bribery. But who cares? If you're determined not to move with the times, why be envious of those who do? ‘Apple has played this game before, and with success. All Macs after the iMac didn’t just look different, they thought different, too — with powerful G3 and Ga chips in every model thereafter. Nowadays many applications require at least a PowerPC G3 processor. Most games demand you have an OpenGL-supporting video card. Suddenly, your pre- G3 Mac is left out in the cold when it comes to using the latest apps or playing the hottest games. And it’s not just software that makes us upgrade our Macs. Peripherals post-iMac required USB or FireWire. Even older G3s — if beige — were left standing idle. Apple pushed us into the modern world, and while we may feel aggrieved at the shove, it's obvious that we were moved in the right direction. As OS 9 increasingly becomes the bridge between the old world and new, we feel ourselves almost helpless in defending our aged and fragile home. Digging our feet in now is just prolonging the inevitable. It's time to change, but it’s not going to be an easy ride. Thankfully, many braver souls have paved the way for us — bearing the brunt of a fraught introduction: Even if the move to Mac OS X scares you right now, at least admit that it will be a positive and decisive step into the modern world. Mac users have always taken a different route than the rest, and we're proud that Apple is in the vanguard of personal computing. We don't like being pushed around, but we should be happy that at least Apple is gilding the path to a better tomorrow. MW m (www. macworld.co.uk/forum). Contents COVER STORIES @ NEW MACS ) £699 iMAC; 667MHz POWERBOOK; iBOOK a | 58 iPod and iTunes 2 Apple has released a digital-music player that uploads tunes 30 times faster than the competition. It works with the company’s updated iTunes 2 software. 1,000 songs in your pocket menu Mac OS X first aid * 7 pages of Mac 0S X— trouble-shootin ; ; + Mac accounting 84 Mac OS X first aid nan Ge ~ Your first port of call when * Apple iTunes . cK Taacewad troubleshooting Mac OS X. * How-to: Final Cut Pro 2 MacFixit’s Ted Landau presents 7 pages of tips and advice on Apple’s new operating system. KAe Final Cut Pro 2 h Bret pe The Mac does count J: 93 MacExpo Guide 1 (@) 8 Final Cut Pro 5 9 New Macs tested 147 Accounts EXCLUSIVE: 12 pages If you've outgrown MACWORLD LAB: When it comes to from Macworld’s iMovie, it’s time to get 667MHz PowerBook accounting, Macs official Show Guide to know its big brother, 500MHz iBook match PCs anytime. to MacExpo 2001. Final Cut Pro 2. 600MHz iBook page 8 (bp) CONTACT @ Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary editor@macworld.co.uk Deputy Editor David Fanning davidf@macworid co.uk News Editor Jonathan Evans news @macwerld co.uk News Reporter Dominique Fidéle Managing Editor Chief Sub-Editor Woody Phillips wwoody(@macworl Art Editor James Walker james_walter@n Art Director Managing Editor/Online CD Editor Vic Lennard US Editor Rick LePage Contributing editors David Pogue, Deke McClelland, Franklin Tessler, Bruce Fraser, Christopher Breen, Matthew Bath, Peter Cohen, ‘Adam C Engst, jim Heid, ‘Andy thnatko, David Blatner. 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Macworld Contents NEWS @ = ; Apple unveils new portables: 550MHz & 667MHz G4 PowerBooks; 600MHz iBooks iMac prices slashed Apple turns up volume with digital iPod iTunes 2 Apple financial results Advances in G3 and G4 chips New Mac servers Macworld Lab: multiprocessing tests FileMaker Adobe InCopy OS X & iDisk security = Games news Business News PRODUCT NEWS @ 4 5 SmartDisk HP printers Formac flat panel New Books Canon power pics Xerox Phaser 5400 HP photosmart 318 Apple updates OPINIONS @ 6 Simon Jary We're all edging closer to Mac OS X. Get used to it. 53 David Fanning Windows XP is nearly as good as the Mac. Nearly. ay 55 Michael Prochak Celebrating email’s 30th birthday. 21 @) Andy thnatko Meet Darwin, the mystery guest at the OS X party. Pocket bummer ‘Smartbisk's VST FireWire portable CO-RW. 187 BUYER'S GUIDE @ @ @ © 8 © 188-191 Buying a Mac Macworld’s advice for readers buying a Power Mac G4, iMac, iBook or PowerBook G4. Includes UK’s only benchmark scores updated every month. 193-199 Star Ratings A full listing of our acclaimed product reviews and group tests for the previous 12 months, with features index and detailed buying advice. 175 Shopping Advice on buying from mail-order companies. Plus 8 pages of dealer ads. CO.UK | Forte information asi hap SECRETS Secret service Flash hoardings Ww wins wwe 158 Secrets: Mac OS X Be prepared, OS X can open Macs up to attack. Colour difference 16 1 Secrets: Print publishing Converting RGB to CMYK can be a mistake. Sheet'aime 165 Secrets: Web publishing Cascading Style Sheets make design easy. Q&A/tips 171 Q&A/tips Expert tips and reader queries answered, including: bootable CDs. 1 53 Missing Manual Adding animation to Dreamweaver 4. EVERY ISSUE @ 12 Letters Win a copy of Aladdin's Stuffit Deluxe 6.5. ” Salien lien Nations Alice AO=¢ 1 5 CD contents From weirdy games to accounting. We've got it all. 1 06 Competition Win Microsoft Office v. X. 208 Apple Reseller Guide UK Apple dealers listed. 1 68 Subscriptions Get a free copy of Real World Photoshop 6 with 13 issues of Macworld. 204. Internet directory Domain-name registration, hosting and support. 206 Training Mac-skill courses. 58 59 63 64 65 65 66 66 69 70 70 71 72 73 75 76 76 78 REVIEWS @ 2a Apple iPod; Apple iTunes 2 New Apple PowerBook G4s; new iBooks Retro AS-1 2.1 synth emulator Corel Graphics Suite 10 KPT Effects Photoshop plug-ins Auto FX DreamSuite Photoshop plug-ins Canon $6300 A3 inkjet Ice Warrior 60GB FireWire Drive; HighFly 80GB FireWire Drive FilmBox 3.005 X Aladdin Stuffit Deluxe 6.5 ComicBase 6.0 FilmMaker 4 2400 Pro ConceptDraw Professional Rough Guide to the Internet; Rough Guide Website Directory Route 66: 2001-2002, various versions InFocus LP630 projector Microsoft Outlook 2001 nik Sharpener Pro Photoshop plug-in Digital Performer 3 MACWORLD GAMERS’ CLUB: 80 81 82 Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen Fly Il Alien Vs Predator cc: Macworld letters ‘Subject: PC World of Mac | have never had a lot of faith in PC World. Not since they placed Macs out of the way in a dusty corner of the store. However, a few weeks ago I ventured to the store after trying without success to buy a new laser printer from a well-known Mac retailer. | stood in the middle of the printer section and shouted: “Does anyone want to sell me a printer?”. Immediately, a gentleman came to sell mea printer, and answered all my questions with conviction and authority. Then he carried the printer to the checkout for me. I'd like to congratulate the Selly Oak, Birmingham branch of PC World, and in particular Steve Robinson who helped me out. Andy Frizzell Subject: Cost conscious I read Jonny Evans’ news article in Macworld’s October 2001 issue. He reported Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ statement that: “We don’t plan to launch any new hardware in Paris this year.” On the basis of this, | went out and bought a SOOMHz PowerBook G4, firmly believing no new PowerBook was due to be launched this year. Even the dealers knew nothing about any new machine. Just two weeks later | hear of the new 667MHz PowerBook with AirPort card included, double the memory, and, worst of all, a completely new architecture. Plus it has a 16MB video card and larger hard drive. | approached Apple to see if they would do anything. Apple refused. I'm in the media business and use a number of Macs. This event will definitely force me to review our policy with regard to buying Apple’s products in future. 5 Popovic Subject: Worthless vouchers Why does Apple include software “upgrade” vouchers with its computers, but have restrictions on their use? | bought my iMac last September with Mac OS 9.1 on it. A few months after this, to my annoyance, Apple released the next generation of iMac with faster processors, CD-RW drives and Mac OS X. Apart from having to spend £200 on an external FireWire CD-RW, | would like to upgrade to OS X with the use of my software-update vouchers. Ihave been told that I can’t because my machine didn't have 5 X installed when | bought it. I wouldn't mind buying 0S X for a reduced cost, but | begrudge having to pay almost £100 for it. | wouldn't expect to use vouchers several upgrades later, but | only want to go from 9.1 to 10. Barry Sampson Subject: DVD waste Ihave recently installed OS X 10.0.4 into my Power Mac G4. After spending a few days familiarizing myself with the new system, and generally feeling fairly happy with my new surroundings, | decided to watch a DVDs. To my amazement | found the latest DVD player only supported G4 Power Macs with AGP graphics cards. Wondering where | could find the PCI- supporting software | went to the Apple Support Discussion area, to find there's no support for the PCI Gas and Apple is not planning to release software for them either. If Apple keeps this up, it'll lose the love many have for it stu Calder Your Star Letter wins a copy of Stufflt Deluxe 6.5 We reward this month's best readers’ letters with a copy of Stuffit Deluxe 6.5. Write to: Letters, Macworld, 99 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X BUT. Or email \etters@macworld.co.uk. Please provide full name and contact details. inating insig gy the fa’ Microsoft Macintosh transition in the Subject: Salesmen must learn While in the computer department of a store in Edinburgh, | overheard a woman tell the salesman that she fancies buying a Mac “but a lot my friends use Microsoft and I've heard there are problems”. “That's true. We've got a good selection of Windows computers,” replied the salesman. Listening to him trying to sell her a Windows box, | started to get a bit Victor Meldrew. | picked up a copy of Microsoft Office: Mac and went over to her. Like something out of a 60s’ soap powder advert, | said: “This, will solve your problem!” She looked at him, and asked him if this would work with a Mac. “Oh yes, that'll work.” She was still not sure, so | chucked in a bit about Microsoft having shares in Apple. As | walked off, she was looking at Macs again. Don McClymont Subject: Missed offer Please note that the URL listed on the back of your Mac OS X free booklet with last month's Macworld (November 2001) does not work. Bit of a useless 1.0K ninth ees na offer If you can’t see what the offer is. John Gridley MW: Apologies for that error. We printed the correct URL on page 62 of that issue, alongside the book review. In case you missed it, here it is again: www.it-minds.com/goto/vqsguides Subject: Developer, developer Something occurred to me while perusing your review of OS X 10.1. While | appreciate the more integrated feel of OS X, is Apple trying to put major Apple developers out of business? 1. They've included a development environment, which while good for creating more Apple applications, surely is going to reduce RealBasic’s and Metrowerks’ business? 2. It has included CD-writing and an MP3 software as standard. While they're not as fully featured as others, surely most people will stick with them rather than buying others. I know it’s actually quite a large bonus for users, but Apple should take not care to alienate smaller developers who filled gaps in older versions of the OS. Chris Ward line Foun (www.macworld.co.ul ExP0 2001 Cover CD Two top playable game-demos head up a full CD this month, ably supported by Ritz Accounting trial and the latest MAI N ITEMS ConceptDraw Pro demo. Shareware, updaters, utilities & games Vic Lennard opens the folders on our CD... American McGee's Alice c “ , Playable demo . ConceptDraw Pro Domo version dist Ritz 2001 Alien Nations demo Alien Nations combines the complexity of a god-game with the linear progression of real-time strategy. Your objective is to make your civilization the best on the planet by conducting research, trading and diplomacy. It's easy to get into, making it ideal for both beginners and experienced players. This single campaign demo allows you to play as the Pimmons, one of the three different nations from the full version Requires a 266MHz Power Mac with 140MB available RAM (or Virtual Memory turned on). American McGee’s Alice demo A strangely familiar yet utterly wicked adventure. Upon her return to Wonderland, Alice barely recognizes the befouled setting. Equipped with courage and a lethal array of mischievous toys, she must penetrate the stronghold of her enemies and put the wicked Queen of Hearts in her place. Fantastic 3D action based on enhanced Quake Ill technology. Play the first part of the game with the demo. Requires a 400MHz G3 or better, Mac OS 8.6 or later, 3D video card with 8MB RAM, and 148MB available RAM. Ritz Accounting & Payroll trials Ritz 2000 consists of a core accounting product that includes sales, purchase and nominal ledgers plus invoicer. Optional features include job costing, stock control, order and sales processing, multi-currency and cost centre analysis. Payroll has everything OXP Maven demo Astand-alone utility that scans QuarkxPress documents for more ConceptDraw Pro demo ConceptDraw Professional satisfies the demanding diagramming you need to run your payroll operation, and complies with DSS and Inland Revenue requirements. Check the Read Me files for trial periods after which products must be registered. than 70 kinds of potential problems that may occur at print time such as RGB images, suppressed items, spot colours and excessive scaling. Other features include batch processing, collect for output, and Autofix. The demo version has limitations to. the number of items reported or collected. needs of software and database developers, Web designers, architects and scientists. The demo is Save and Export disabled, and places some standard text over printouts. Requires a Power Mac running Mac OS 8.6 or higher, and 32MB available RAM. page 16 The CD-ROM on the cover of Macworld is supplied as is, subject to the following terms and conditions. The CD-ROMs provided as a free 9 Macworld for their personal use, and may nat be resold or copied for distribution. The publisher shall have no liability n for any losses or damage arising from using cover-CD software — or fr taking advice from Macworld’ CD trouble shooting point-of-contact — including any loss of profit, damage to equipment or data, interruption of business, or any other damage, direct or accidental. It's strongly recommended that you back-up any programs or data on your hard disk before installing any cover-CD software. if problems occur, itis most likely to be a result of an incompatibility or conflict with other software on your system. Macworld cannot be held responsible for discontinued offers. This does not affect your statutory rights Cover CD EXPO 2001 Before you start working your way through the software on our CD, go to the System Utilities folder and make sure you install the following: INSTALL © Acrobat Reader 5 Install this version tobe able to read many © Stufflt & RealPlayer Version 60.1 of Stflt Expander and DropStutis 1 System tools & ATM Lite ‘The CD also caries the atest version of InternetConfig, © QuickTime 4.1.2 ‘Some programs require QuickTime 4.1.2. This can be ofthe onscreen manuals. included as isthe installer for RealPlayer 8. Undip 5.32 and ATM 462 (equied for Suitcase) rom wuwapple.com/quct INSIDE MACWORLD @ & EjectDisk 3.2 w MediaPro 1.2 Retro AS-1 2.1.2 Cellsynth 1.5 Software synthesizer with real-time functions and direct-to-disk recording Eject any removable media from your computer with the touch of a key, Easy and fast way to view, organize and present the growing number of media Pro software synthesizer using new DSP technology. Recreate the sounds of from the humble floppy to the latest DVD. Shareware. Shareware. Fetch 4.0.1 MP3 Rage 3.8 User-friendly Mac Collection of tools for FTP client that allows point-8-click, drag-8- drop file transfers over a TCP/IP network. Shareware, OS X HEAVEN @ Qi OS X Heaven ~ your monthly one-stop shop for the latest OS X-specific software. Utilities, demos, shareware and games — OS X Heaven features the best Carbonized goodies for the Mac’s new OS. This month 20, demos and shareware programs include JPEGDeux, the native version of the ever-popular JPEGView, MP3 Rage 3.8, the do-it-all MPEG utility, and Jedit 409EX, a comprehensive OS X text editor. Useful utilities include dmgmaker, InternetTime, MenuCalendar 1.1, SuperGetinfo 1.0.2 and VMometer. There are also a couple of Carbonized games: Awale X, a great version of the classic African beads game, and Marblex, a must:play for all gamers. files on your disks, from photos to sound files. MP3 enthusiasts. Search for and download MP3s, edit 1D3 tags, export files to AIFF format and more. Shareware. all the classic analogue synthesizers. Demo. and including... Arkaos VJ 2.1.1, BrickHouse, Discalog 1.21, DreamSuite, Firewalkx, Language Assistant 2.5, Microsoft Outlook 2001, MTFMult for OS X, Who's There? for Mac OS X. SERIOUS SOFTWARE incuces @ Shareware. CD CATALOGUE @ ® Courtesy of Mark Pirr’s superb DiskTracker program, Macworld brings you a searchable catalogue of all our CDs from 1997 to 2001 — almost 244,000 files! This will grow month by month to allow you to find any file you want, without wearing out your CD-ROM drive. The latest version of DiskTracker (2.1.1) is also included — don't forget to register if you find our library useful Sharpener Pro! vie) Atomik 2.0 demo ; Atomik enables you to extract Hs * content from QuarkXPress documents as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format in the most efficient way, and to enhance that XML with metadata (descriptive data that describes the content of the document). Re-purpose content from print publications for use in electronic publishing without cut-&-pasting from QuarkXPress. The demo randomly scrambles some of the content in the exported XML, allowing you to assess Atomik right through to the final output stage from QuarkXPress. Requires QuarkXPress 4.03 or later, and Mac OS 8.5 — 9.2. XChange International Corner XChange International, which specializes in QuarkXPress XTensions and plug-ins for Photoshop, Acrobat & InDesign, highlights products each month with demo versions available for you on the cover CD. Create professional drop shadows in QuarkXPress with ShadowCaster, and set ads and tables with ease using the Multi Style I! XTension. For Photoshop, there's nik Sharpener Pro (in Inside Macworld/Reviews) for pro image sharpening. For Acrobat, there’s Quite A Box of Tricks, a high-powered collection of post- production PDF utilities. Finally, check out FlightCheck Classic's new features. Visit www.xchangeuk.com for more info. page 18 Cover CD EXPO 2001 FAULTY COVER CD-ROM? @® +if your cover discis broken and you want a replacement CD, please contact ¢ Kelly Crowley, on 020 7831 9252, or email at kelly_crowley@macworld.co.uk +if your cover CD doesn't seem to work as it should, please check you have read all the instructions on the cover dise pages carefully fst. fit still doesn't work, then please email Woody Phillips at woody@macworld.co.uk. GAMES WORLD @ Ci Imp Fodder Imp Fodder pits legions of tiny demons in titanic battles of wits and sorcery over a variety of terrains. It will have you and your friends bent on obliterating each other in a non-stop series of intense arcade-style battles. Imp Fodder features OpenGL graphics, deformable 3D terrains and harmless devastation that will have you laughing and crying as your imps either clean-up the enemy, or slowly dwindle away in the ensuing firefights. So sit back, relax, and let the fireballs fly! Requires a G3 or better, Mac OS 8.1, OpenGL 1.1.1 or later, and 16MB available RAM. ATi Rage Pro 128 or better recommended. also on THE cD @ QB COMMS & INTERNET AddressBook 4.2.6.3 Eight programs. ‘A-Dock 2.5 DownloadWizard 1.1 Alarm Clock Pro 3.8.1 DupliMizer 2.3 BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 HTML-Optimizer 5.5.2 Mail Forward 1.4 XML Tools 2.3.1 ATPM 7.10 FONTS Extension Overload 5.9.2 FontViewer 1.4 LandscapeCale 1.1.1 Mini FV 1.2 plus six utilities for developers BTV Pro 5.1.1 GRAPHICS Coo! Unmount Volume 2.0, Five applications including: SOUND © MWSIC Desktop Resotter 2.7.1 Designer Sextet Five programs including: DupFinder Carbon 1.2.1 ‘Amazing Slow Downer 1.11 File Freak 3.5 File Hider 2.1 FloatingNotes 1.0.2 iKeopor 1.2 MovieDumper Notebook 2.1 Etchelon Macdoodle 2.3, Quit cm 22 India Ink 1.6 Sweet MIDI Player 1.0.3 ToxFinder 1.71 SolarCell 1.3 WhiteCap 4.1 teow uTumies mus Three items including: Five categories with IeonizerPro 1.6.1 25 useful tools for leonCalculator 1.0.5, your Mac including: Our Top 10 Shareware Games folder has a heavy strategy content this month. There's 3D Sokoban 2, an excellent upgrade from the original version, AllOut, a fiendish new click- &-clear game, and CanYouFindit, a spot the differences pastime. Plunk! 1.5.2 is one for the whole family while Shapes 1! 1.1 will appeal to the Tetris fans. Finally, Traffic 1.0 is a nice conversion of the Rush Hour game. On the arcade front, there's Sky Traveler 1.2, a nice timewaster for the kids. And there's always space for the latest version of the evergreen David's BackGammon 4.2.1. Like card games? Then enjoy Alan's Euchre 1.2 and the latest incarnation of the grandaddy of them all — Klondike 7.7.1. (Top row) 3D Sokoban 2: CanYourindlt (Middle) Allout (Bottom) Traftic DON'T MISS... @ TieaSiice' 2:2 © Cool Extras TouchCMM 1.1 Long Info CMM Calendar 2.5.1 Read Mac 0S X's 256-character file names in oe the Classic environment. This month's dedicated Latest ions we ters folder include: ¥ pes anchea Over 120 ofthe latest < over 35MB of patches : ‘= — to bring many popular pixel gems. applications bang Mac ISP up-to-date, including: . wavaie ‘Access offers from AppleOnline & Moose Internet Services. Conflict Catcher 8.1 CyberGauge 3.2 © Netscape/Internet Explorer Digital Performer 3.01 Complete packages for Netscape 6 (with 6.01 update) and IE 5. FlightCheck Classic 4.21 FILTERIT 4.0.1 ™ Plus. LaCie Updater 6.4.3, . many thanks to Simon Youngjohns for our CD icons. MOTU Audio System 2.33 NotBarrier Updater 2.1 Nisus Writer 6.0.3 rs ‘Norton AntiVirus 5-7 (10/01) SHAREWARE RE Office 2001 Security U vee Presa e2 It makes fiting your needs easier, as you can ty before you Retrospect 4.3 Driver Update | wy shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee —if you Virex (10/01) don’t use the product, you don't pay for it f you try a Shareware VirusBarrier (10/01) program and continue using it, you are expected to register. VSE Search Engines 10/01 Support shareware authors so that they continue to provide WaveBurner Pro 2.1 high-quality programs for the Mac. Macworld News © PowerBook 64 up to Apple boosts performance with updated portable line PlayStation 2 emulator for Mac planned French developer is running The Grinch Project, an attempt to create a PlayStation 2 emulator for the Mac. David Allouch hopes to reach an agreement with Sony and Apple that would permit him to release the emulation product in 2002. He told MacEvangelist: “Our module-based emulation can be used to emulate anything, and we have generated a lot of interest.” Sony has strongly defended against developers attempting to create emulation solutions that bring its games titles to other platforms. Sony and Connectix battled in the courts for two years as Sony struggled to defend its brand. The two companies eventually agreed a development deal under which they are working together on emulation technologies. Allouch claims that his solution has been created without breaching any patents. His solution will require additional hardware for the Mac, and relies on Mac OS X, which he considers a “really good OS for emulation". MW ortable power up is the clarion P call of Apple's product message this month, as the company introduces its autumn collection of significantly faster PowerBooks and iBooks. PowerBooks get faster processors (up to 500 and 667MHz), larger hard drives and improved high-speed graphics. iBooks also get faster processors (500 or 600MHz), more hard-drive space, RAM and a variety of other improvements. Apple's focus on portables reflects the sales success of PowerBooks and iBooks this year (see pages 28-29) It’s an aggressive move by the company to stimulate sales by beefing up two of the most successful products its introduced this year. In another market-stimulating move, Apple has made substantial discounts on iMac prices (see page 23), with generous discounts too on other products in its range. The company has also introduced its revolutionary digital device, iPod — another strategic move to stimulate sales in the currently depressed IT market (full details on pages 24-27). Introducing the improved PowerBook, Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior director of hardware product marketing, said: “We've made the fastest portable in the world even faster.” PowerBook line manager Sandy Green put forward another insight into Apple's plans: “For us on the PowerBook side, it's about performance; we wanted to ensure we bought extra performance to the line. It will be tremendous for our customers, especially those working with Photoshop. They can take advantage of Velocity Engine and go where they thought they couldn't go before with a portable system.” iBook success story Apple shifted 251,000 iBooks in its last quarter. Now the company hopes “Our Photoshop test came out 48% faster than on the 1GHz PIll Dell laptop” - Sandy Green, Apple PowerBook manager to drive sales even higher, with faster G3 processors working at up to 600MHz, a new system bus speed of up to 100MHz, larger hard drives and 128MB RAM pre-installed as standard across the range. Pricing starts at £1,099 (including VAT). Dave Russell, director of iBook product marketing, explained the impact of the bus-speed increase: “We saw a ten per cent performance boost across the board just going to the 100MHz bus, we're really excited about the performance enhancements to the iBook. We think this will maintain iBook's incredible momentum since we introduced it in May.” “The iBook is Apple's best-selling portable ever,” said Joswiak: “Now with more speed, more storage and more memory, they are incredible value.” The top of the range DVD- ROM/CD-RW combination drive- enabled iBook has had £100 lopped of its price — it now costs £1,499, {C0.UK For the information asi happens vist Macworld Online Dally News (www.macworld.co. 66/MHz and All models ship with Mac OS X 10.1 and Mac OS 9.2.1 pre-installed, with 0S 9.2.1 as the default start-up system. iBooks ship with either S0OMHz or 600MHz G3 processors. The 600MHz model includes a 100MHz system bus, as opposed to the 500's 66MHz bus. All iBooks offer either a 15 or 20GB hard drive. CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or DVD-ROM/CD-RW “Combo” drive models are available. Other features include a 12.1-inch screen, 256K L2 cache, and graphics support from the ATI Rage Mobility 128 graphics controller with 8MB. RAM and AGP 2X. iBook has dual USB ports, a FireWire port, VGA out and composite video connectivity, with built-in 56K modems, microphones and stereo speakers. They also support 10/100BaseT Ethernet. Three models are available from resellers, with a 600MHz, 15GB CD-RW version available only from the Apple Store for £1,429. The iBook SOOMHz has a suggested retail price of £1,099 (inc. VAT), with a 15GB Ultra ATA hard drive and CD-ROM drive. The iBook 600MtHz sells at a suggested retail price of £1,299, with a 15GB Ultra ATA hard drive and DVD-ROM drive. With a DVD- ROM/CD-RW “Combo” drive, the iBook 600MHz with a 20GB Ultra ATA hard drive costs £1,499 Gigabit PowerBooks The new PowerBook G4s are available in SSOMHz and 667MHz models. The 667MHz PowerBook has a new system bus running at 133MHz (previously 100MHz). The 5S0MHz model maintains the previous 100MHz system bus. Both models offer built-in Gigabit Ethernet networking. 256K of L2 cache (at full processor speed) is also installed. 74% plan Mac OS X switch ; Q early three quarters of Macworld readers believe Mac OS X 10.1 will make them switch from OS 9. 11 per cent of readers were unsure, and just 14 per cent were unwilling to move. 1,624 votes were cast in the October poll I've already switched. It's so much better than pre-OS X. Change Luddites, or drag Apple down!” said one OS X convert. Gigabit Ethernet; iBooks improved Graphics support has been improved with the addition of the ATI Mobility Radeon AGP 4X graphics card, which offers 16MB Double Data Rate (DDR) dedicated video RAM. “We went to 16MB across the board on video memory. It’s something our customers have been looking for and we wanted to make sure we delivered to them,” Green said. “it will be great when they are working in graphics programs, but also when they are taking a break and playing games. We've doubled the frame-rates we saw previously — up to 45 frames per second playing Quake” Maximum hard-drive size reaches 48GB in the new configuration, and there's a choice of slot-loading DVD- ROM or CD-RW drives. Both Mac OS X 10.1 and Mac OS 9.2.1 are pre- installed on the new pro-portables, with Mac 0S 9.2.1 as the default start-up system. Drives hard to hear The higher-capacity drives come equipped with what Apple described as Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB). This feature helps reduce the noise a drive makes during normal operation. “FDB means the drives are going to run very, very quietly,” said Green. “This is something we had the opportunity to take advantage of and we wanted to bring it to our PowerBook customers. Screen size remains at 15.2-inches. The 30GB 667MHz model comes with 256MB RAM and an AirPort Card pre-installed, and costs £2,199 (excluding VAT). The £1,599 20GB 550MHz model offers 128MB RAM and is AirPort-ready. Both offer VGA and S-video connectivity. “We worked very hard to make sure we improved our AirPort range, making it even better than before. One of the things we did a little bit Apple's distribution did receive criticism: ” | went to buy 10.1 on its Saturday release, but it had sold out by lunchtime. Why should | bother if Apple can’t get enough stock into shops?” asked one frustrated reader. Most ‘No’ voters will migrate when crucial applications are Carbonized. “I'ma graphic designer. | can’t upgrade to OS X until Photoshop, w “We saw a 10% performance boost across the board” — Dave Russell, director Quark and others run on it properly,” said a ‘No’ voter. It’s more than an OS, observed one reader: “I don't run a Mac just to run an OS. When my apps work under X, then I'll switch.” The poll suggests Macworld readers will support Apple's next generation operating-system plans, and will move en-masse soon. of iBook marketir differently in the new PowerBook line versus previous generations of PowerBook and iBook is work with antenna. We have significantly increased the AirPort range,” Green confirmed. During the launch event, Apple's PowerBook team ran a 667MHz PowerBook against a Dell 1.13GHz Pentium III notebook. Both computers were tested using Photoshop and the PowerBook came out on top, according to Apple. “Our Photoshop test came out 48 per cent faster than on the Dell laptop. That's something we were really pleased to see,” Green said. “We think customers are going to be very, very excited about the performance they are getting.” MW Jonny Evans, Jim Dalrymple w.macworld.co.uk/poll & RAM doubled Apple UK has a “double the pre-installed RAM” offer for new PowerBooks purchased from the Apple Store or authorized resellers. Customers buying a 550MHz or 667MHz PowerBook G4 between October 16 and December 31, 2001 receive double the standard RAM pre-installed. This means the 667MHz PowerBook will ship with 512MB of RAM, the 550MHz PowerBook with 256MB of RAM; standard RAM is 256MB and 128MB respectively. cd Entry-level iMac now costs just £699 (inc. VAT) © | Macworld News Apple cuts £100 pple has slashed £100 A off the cost of all iMacs, except the top-of-the range 700MHz model. The price cuts mirror statements made by chief financial officer, Fred Anderson during Apple's fourth quarter financial results meeting (see pages 28 and 29). He promised increased marketing spend and special offers over the coming months. The company is also pushing iMac sales by introducing the ‘Digital Memories’ promotion. With immediate effect, customers buying a CD-RW slot-loading iMac between October 16 and December 31, 2001 can buy an HP Photosmart 318 2.3-megapixel digital camera foras little as £1 Ton down The £100 discount means the entry- level, Indigo S0OMHz CD-ROM iMac with 64MB of RAM now costs £699, (including VAT), rather than £799, The SOOMHz CD-RW iMac with 128MB RAM drops £100 to £899, and is available in Indigo and Snow. The CD-RW 600MHz iMac with 256MB of RAM — and available in Graphite and Snow ~ falls to £1,099. The top of the range TOOMHz iMac price remains unchanged at £1,299. Each of the four iMac models has a built-in 15-inch display with 1,024-x-768 resolution. Standard for all iMacs are: two FireWire and USB ports; built-in 10/100BaseT Ethernet; built-in 56K modem; all-digital Harman-Kardon sound system; support for optional AirPort wireless networking; and a software bundle offering iTunes, iMovie 2, AppleWorks, QuickTime, Palm Desktop, FAXstf, and the usual Internet and email applications. All iMacs ship with a 16MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra graphics card and a 15-inch display. Each has a 256K L2 cache. Free digital camera To take advantage of the ‘Digital ‘Memories’ promotion, customers should purchase iMacs from either the online Apple Store or participating authorized resellers. If purchased at the Apple Store, the camera ships with the order for a nominal £1. If purchased at a reseller, customers must download and fill in a coupon to take advantage of the offer, and pay a shipping and handling fee of £15. Apple's iMac software offer, which applies to all CD-RW iMac purchases (in other words, all but the entry-level iMag), has also been extended. Due to end in September, the offer now closes December 31. Customers get the standard software package, as well as extra titles, including: Tomb Raider, The Last Revelation; Escape From Monkey Island; and Sim City 3000. Reference titles include: Route 66 Europe 2000; Encyclopaedia of Science; and Ultralingua language- dictionary. Edutainment titles in the package include Adiboo Environment, Star Wards Pit Droids and Talk Now (French tuition). What isn’t clear is just how long the current crop of iMacs will be available for. The price drops have off iMac price inspired the usual speculation that they presage the release of a revised iMac range. Others suggest the generous discount could simply be shrewd marketing aiming to raise sales during the crucial Christmas shopping season. The company has also fixed new prices for its Power Mac Ga speakers, DVD-R media (see below), and iBook AV cable. Apple's G4 speakers now cost £41 (all prices include VAT) — down from £46. However, an iBook AV cable has climbed slightly in price to £18, from £15. MW Snap up an iMac Until the end of the year, all single purchases of CO-RW iMacs allow the buyer to claim an HP Photosmart 318 digital camera, iDVD 2 ‘in Novembe pple will ship iDVD 2 for Mac OS X 10.1 this month. Announcing the upgrade in July, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the software would create DVDs to rival those from the Hollywood studios. With iDVD (and a DVD-R SuperDrive), users can create discs that work in standard domestic DVD players. iDVD 2 will ship with the 867MHz and dual-B00MHz G4 Power Macs. iDVD 2 offers new motion-video and sound menus. Other improvements include new themes, soundtracks in slide shows, background encoding, free positioning of buttons and support for 90-minute DVDs. It supports drag-f-drop, and title screens. iDVD 2 runs on Mac OS X 10.1, and will be available as a £15 upgrade to iDVD users. It requires a Power Mac G4 with built-in DVD-R SuperDrive. It doesn’t work with external DVD-R drives. For more on iDVD 2, see Macworld, September 2001. Apple has dropped the price of its DVD-R five-pack media from £41 (inc. VAT) to £23.50. MW y News (www. macworld, co.uk) ple’s iPod sets portable digital music on FireWire pple has leapt into the A consumer device market by releasing iPod — a breakthrough” £349 digital-music player that’s capable of storing up to 1,000 songs on its pocket-sized, 6.5-ounce, 5GB hard drive. iPod will be launched for sale in the UK for the first time at London’s MacExpo 2001 (see page 93) on November 22. “No one has really found the recipe yet for digital music”, said Apple CEO Steve Jobs as he introduced tat Apple's HQ in Cupertino, California “Not only will we find the recipe, we think the Apple brand is great for this”, Jobs affirmed Pop don't skip The 5GB hard drive contained within the device is just 1.8-inches across. The size of a deck of cards (see actual- size photo opposite), iPod stores digital tunes at various bit rates, including 160Kbps (bits per second), approaching CD-quality sound iPod has up to 20 minutes of shock protection (thanks to a whopping 32MB of memory cache) for non-stop playback when running, cycling, or negotiating London's transport system during rush hour. iPod skip protection works by preloading up to 20 minutes of music into the cache at a time, playing music from the cache rather than hard drive so music won't stop. iPod plays music in the popular ‘Mp3, MP3 VBR (variable bit rate), AIFF and WAV formats and can support MP3 bit rates up to 320Kbps. Its upgradeable firmware enables support of future audio formats. For CD-quality sound, iPod is equipped with a high-output 60mW amplifier that delivers 20 to 20,000 Hz frequency response for deep bass and crystal-clear treble. iPod's earbud-style headphones are built with neodymium magnets for enhanced frequency response and high-fidelity sound. “To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum Online music state pple's decision to release iPod is well timed, as the music industry and partners gear-up to launch their own subscription-based online music services. Critics condemn the business for its late arrival on the scene, while praising companies like Napster and MP3.com for getting the Internet onto the industry's agenda, EMI Recorded Music senior vice president of new media, Jay Samit sums up: “Our strategy at EMI is to make buying music as easy as stealing it, and stealing it a hell of a lot harder.”. On behalf of its members (the big music conglomerates) the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) bought Napster and MP3.com to their knees over the issue of copyright abuse. With the litigation covered by the dust of history, music's going online Superstar Madonna defended Napster to Rolling Stone magazine: “Napster could be a great way for people to hear your music who wouldn't have the chance to hear it on the radio,” she said. Subscription-based music download services from Pressplay and MusicNet are now preparing to launch. Backed by music's biggest names these will offer tracks and albums for download for a fee. A joint venture of RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI, MusicNet offers a subs-based digital music-download service, and streams from three of the five major recording labels through RealNetworks, AOL and Napster. Pressplay was formed by Vivendi Universal and Sony Music Entertainment, and has reciprocal deals with others to offer content from them. of play post-Napster Napster too is preparing to launch its own subscription-based online service. In July, a former Bertelsmann executive took over as Napster's CEO. Bertelsmann will integrate Napster's Web infrastructure — except for peer-to-peer file sharing — into its BeMusic division, which includes many music and entertainment properties, such as CD- NOW. Bertelsmann has been involved in Napster since extending a loan to the lawsuit-battered company last year. To avoid cumbersome licensing negotiations, US record labels and music publishers reached an agreement in October that will allow record companies to automatically license works for online music services without having to clear songs with individual publishers. Jonny Evans (www.macworld.co. iPod ‘30 times faster than USB-based players’ leap when it comes to music. And iPod fits in your pocket. It's never before been possible,” said Jobs. Easy to use The device has a 160-x-128-pixel high-resolution display, with a white LED backlight. This has been designed to give clear visibility in daylight as well as low-light conditions, and offers access to track and artist information, and a range of on-screen controls. With customary design flair, Apple's made its consumer product easy to use. iPod's finger-controlled rotating scroll-wheel accesses the entire music collection by playlists, artists or songs The scroll-wheel features automatic acceleration when scrolling through long lists so you can find music in seconds. The crossfader automatically fades between songs. It’s got customizable settings such as shuffle, repeat, startup volume, sleep timer and menus in multiple languages including English, French, German and Japanese. iPod can display song data in any of these languages, enabling users to mix and match songs from all over the world iPod ships with an iTunes 2 CD, earbud-style headphones, a 2-metre FireWire cable and a FireWire- based power adaptor. In the US, the company is offering a 90-day limited warranty with the product. iTunes 2 integration iPod's Auto-Sync feature automatically downloads iTunes songs and playlists into the iPod, and keeps them up to date whenever it's plugged (via FireWire) into the Mac. “With iPod, Apple has invented a whole new category of digital-music player that lets you put your entire music collection in your pocket and listen to it wherever you go,” said Jobs. “Listening to music will never be the same again.” Jobs showed iTunes launching automatically when iPod is plugged into a Mac. Songs and playlists are downloaded to the device automatically. “There's been anything like this before. And | don’t think there’s another company that could do this. To bring everything under one roof together — to be able to create a product like this,” said Jobs The device does not use a digital- rights management scheme. When it auto-syncs to iTunes 2, it can only connect to one copy of iTunes 2 on one Mac. However, the Mac iPod sees as its hub can be changed, and its also possible to load and unload MP3s manually, though a note on the packaging warns: “Don't steal music’. Flaming fast FireWire The product offers up to ten hours playback from its lithium-polymer battery. This battery will recharge itself directly from the Mac using the FireWire cable. The FireWire adaptor, which ships with the product, lets users recharge their device from any mains power source. The battery will fast-charge to 80 per cent capacity in an hour, and to full capacity in three hours. Apple claims that iPod's built-in FireWire port lets you download an entire CD into iPod in less than 10 seconds and 1,000 songs in less than 10 minutes — 30 times faster than USB-based MP3 players. The hard drive can also be used as an external FireWire drive for storing presentations, images or any other file, just by enabling FireWire disk mode on the device. In this mode, iPod can be used as a system disc to start up problem Macs, though, tellingly, Apple does not support this feature. Apple's vision drives industry Apple's strategy is focusing on its solutions as the hub for “the digital lifestyle”. Jobs first delivered his vision of the digital hub at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. As the PC industry looked forward to a year of turmoil, Jobs said: “We don't think the PC is waning. We believe it is evolving.” It’s an idea that's being picked up by other manufacturers. Online investors magazine, Smartmoney.com sees iPod as a significant “glimpse into the tactics computer makers are beginning to employ as demand for their core products wanes" Compag launched its iPaq Music Center in June. it includes a modem and hard drive and has been developed to add functionality to home stereo-systems. Hewlett- Packard also announced a similar product — this time integrating CD-R called the Digital Home Entertainment Center. Microsoft's recently launched Windows XP also implements many multimedia features and applications that echo Jobs’ vision, Eleven months since San Francisco, and Apple's visionary digital hub products include iTunes, iDVD and iMovie, as well as its desktop and laptop computers. Jobs reinforced Apple's commitment to the digital dream: “We believe the Mac can become | Playli ists } | Monday Morr Party Mix Road Trip iPod: actual size shown above Capacity: 5GB hard disk drive. Holds up to 1,000 songs in 160Kbps MP3 format. Height: 102mm (4.02 inches). 1.8mm (2.43 inches). : 19.9mm (0.78 inches) Weight: 185g (6.5 ounces}. Audio: Up to 20 minutes of skip protection. Frequency response: Audio formats supported: MP3 (up to 320Kbps), MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR), WAV, AIFF Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats. Headphones: Earbud-style headphones with 18-mm drivers using Neodymium transducer magnets. Input and output: FireWire port; 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack. isplay: 2-inch (diagonal) liquid the centre of your digital lifestyle. We're being surrounded by these amazing digital devices these days.” “But there's never been a device built to take advantage of our digital ning > Top 5 Break-Up Songs Workout Tunes co) crystal display with white LED backlight; 160-x-128-pixel resolution, 0.24-mm dot pitch. Included accessories: iPod earbud- style headphones; FireWire cable (2m); power adaptor; CD-ROM with iTunes 2 software and electronic documentation, Getting Started guide; 90-day limited warranty. Battery: Built-in rechargeable lithium polymer battery; 10 hours playtime when fully charged via FireWire connector to Mac system or power adaptor. Charge time: Fast — up to 1 hour (charges to 80 per cent of battery capacity; Full-charge time: up to three hours. Minimum specs: Mac with builtin FireWire port; Mac OS 9.2.1 (or later) or Mac OS X v10.1 (or later); iTunes 2. continues page 27 iPod requires newly upgraded iTunes 2 @ continued from page 25 applications — what if there was? So we decided to do it,” he said “Why music? Well, we love music, and it's always good to do something you love.” Jobs looked at the market Apple's getting into: “Music is part of everyone's life. It's a large target market. It knows no boundaries, and there's no market leader.” Industry reaction NPD analyst Stephen Baker believes the home-entertainment business Apple is aiming for will be the “it” market of the future. It's also a sign of the increasing convergence between various forms of home entertainment, computing and the Internet, he said Praise for iPod came from Susan Kevorkian, an analyst with IDC: “This definitely raises the bar in portable- music devices in terms of industrial design and capacity.” Baker warns that consumer- electronics products, while attractive because they offer better profit margins, also have longer life spans than PCs. However, the manner in which the digital lifestyle will evolve is open to question, and companies hoping to seize a slice of that market must risk much in developing products to fill needs that consumers haven't recognized. Mac-only for now In future, Apple expects to offer a version of iPod for Windows users, but right now the company is focused ‘on its Macintosh customers, said Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of worldwide product marketing. “When we get a little spare time, we'll look at taking it to Windows. We know the experience won't be as good, but we'll probably look at that down the road,” he said Market reaction is positive “They won't be able to build enough of these things,” said Rob Enderle, research fellow of Giga Information Group. “Apple will probably struggle to manufacture enough of the devices to meet demand this holiday season”, he said Jonny Evans, Jim Dalrymple and Jason Shell contributed to this report. Ss) | Macworld News iTunes 2 answers user music wishes pple has upgraded its iTunes digital-music software. A iTunes 2 adds three of the features most requested by users - the capacity to burn MP3 CDs, an equaliser and a cross-fader. An MP3 CD holds up to ten hours of music ~ over 150 songs. Standard audio CDs are limited to 74 minutes of music. iTunes 2 supports 320Kbps encoding ~ MP3's highest compression setting, though its default setting is 160Kbps. iTunes 2 keeps all the features that made iTunes so popular that it was distributed six million times, according to Apple. It rips MP3s; accesses Internet radio stations; browses music collections by artist list, album or genre; searches; creates play lists; and burns CDs. iTunes 2's CD-burning feature is twice as fast as its been before, according to Apple. The Sound Enhancer makes for richer audio playback, while the 10-band equaliser (with 22 presets) optimizes playback. The fader is for smooth transitions between songs, and makes for smoother playback of tunes mixed from different albums. iTunes 2 now features unicode support for Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters ~ even in the same interface. iTunes 2 is available as a free download (www.apple.com/uk) from early November, and ships as standard with new Mac systems and iPods. It requires Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS X 10.1 or later. mW Download new iTunes visualizations and full-screen modes. O'Meara’s work forms | ndependently developed visualizations for iTunes are beginning to appear. David H Goeb software (DHB) used Apple's iTunes Visual plug- ins software development kit (SDK) to create his own visualizations. DHB's BlueStarWarp 1.0.4 visualization (pictured above) features a diorama of stars and a space warp that moves to the music. It supports up to 128 user-created presets. FlowerPowerFlow is also available offering flowery iMac-inspired sequences of dancing flowers. FreeFireBird 1.0.6 has avian-themed sequences. DarkSosiaBay gives UK |For the information as it happens a static viewpoint as sound waves glide by. It contains 30 built-in presets and supports 128 user-defined presets. Available from: http://members home.net/peagreen/dhg_plugins htm G-Force 2.1.2 is another freeware collection of iTunes visualizations from Andy O'Meara. These act as screensavers accepting audio from external sources using the Mac's audio input. It features thousands of effects, and works with iTunes, Winamp, Sonique, Audion, SoundJam and Echo. WhiteCap 4.1.2 a, wire-frame based visualization, features over 130 special effects in both window the core of some of Apple's own iTunes visualizations. www Hi Also of interest to music buffs, Analogue Ripper 1.0 - $19.95 shareware — is available now. This records analogue sounds if the sound source is connected to a Mac, so vinyl and cassettes can be converted to CD or MP3. Features include editing and playback tools to fragment sound- files into smaller tracks that can then be saved to disc or sent directly to an MP3 encoder. http://homepages.which.net/~imann/TAR/Ripperhtm Macworld News | @& Profitable quarter, but Apple loses $25m as IT Apple upbeat on financial future pple returned a net profit of A $66 million for the fourth quarter (Q4) ended September 29, 2001 — delivering a loss of $25 million on the year's business. The year's results reflect the worsening economy and Apple's disastrous first quarter in which the company lost a massive $195 million. This was attributed to the first impact of the recession. Apple has consistently returned profitable quarters since Q1, helped in part by strong sales of G4 PowerBooks and iBooks. Apple CEO Steve Jobs (pictured) said: “Apple accomplished a lot in 2000. It gained market share in education, launched Mac OS X, released the stunningly fast Mac OS X 10.1 update, and opened the first Apple retail stores.” Apple's chief financial officer Fred Anderson said: “We're pleased to have delivered solid results while maintaining lean channel inventories in a very challenging environment. Given the uncertain global political environment and weak economy, Gross margins were 30.1 per cent this quarter; they stood at 25.1 per cent in the previous quarter. Savings came from decreased prices of key components, including LCD displays and RAM modules. we are targeting December quarter revenues of at least $1.4 billion,” he revealed. Apple shifted 850,000 Macs worldwide during Q4, for a grand total of 3,087,000 Mac sales globally during the entire financial year. Apple sold 32 per cent more iBooks worldwide in its fourth quarter compared to its third Power Mac sales grew 10 per cent. Conversely, iMac sales shrank 4 per cent, with PowerBook sales declining 46 per cent during Q4. iBook has captured the consumer zeitgeist, with 251,000 iBooks sold during the quarter. Apple's consumer portables’ success contrasts with the fading glory of the iMac, with 294,000, shipments. 248,000 G4 Power Macs and 57,000 PowerBook Gas also shipped in the quarter. Education re-learnt Apple has regained ground lost during its damaging US educational sales team reorganization last year. In the past quarter, it tripled iBook shipments to the US education sector. IDC declared the company to hold 18.2 per cent of the US education market for portables in 2000. Jobs rejoiced: “iBook sales to education tripled last quarter, further strengthening Apple's position as the leader in education portables. Despite cautious expectations for the next quarter, Apple’s corporate balance sheets remain strong with $4.3 billion in cash and short-term investments Districts, schools and administrators, along with teachers, students and parents really love the iBook.” Recognition Apple's had a great year for recognition. Most recently UK PC title Personal Computer World voted the PowerBook Gé to be the Best Notebook Computer of 2001. Its editors said: “Apple's G4 PowerBook (CPU sales by product in thousands} pple had a strong year for a company caught up in such difficult market conditions. The three graphs below (CPU sales revenue (in milion) illustrate this, demonstrating that the company has successfully managed to maintain growth in unit sales and revenues Fist Second. Third_——‘Fourth quarter quarter quarter quarter & Poach St the information as it hap throughout the year, following its loss- making first quarter. The cost of sales has also been managed successfully. ‘quarter quarter quarter ad Online aly News (www.macworld.co is without doubt the best-looking notebook available today; but it’s the technology that really impressed.” Four Rave Awards came from Wired magazine, three from Business Week, and three more from the D&AD. The prestigious US Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded a 2001 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award to the company to recognize FireWire's “material impact on the television industry” Research and development Apple believes it can “innovate its way” out of recession. Research and development spending increased 13 per cent year-on-year. Discussing Apple's financial quarter, Anderson said: “Over the next year we'll be introducing some truly great hardware and software as, Apple leads the transition to a digital lifestyle.” Despite a depressed market and a commitment to R&D, the company successfully attained margins of 30 per cent, reduced operating expenses and exercised iron control of its inventory levels. The migration to Mac OS X 10.1 is also gaining power, as key applications begin arriving on the Unix-based desktop. Retail Mac 43 per cent of Apple's revenue during the quarter came from the online Apple Store In an attempt to increase its customer base, Apple opened retail outlets across the US in upmarket, strategically chosen high-traffic locations. 13 are open at the time of writing, with 25 promised by year's end, However, where the company originally predicted its stores would break even by December, it now warns of a slight loss, due to weakened consumer confidence. Third-party software sales in-store have been better than predicted, motivating Apple to double (to 600) the number of third-party titles available in its stores. The retail stores have enjoyed higher than expected sales of pro systems, Anderson confirmed “The stores appeal to both consumers and professionals,” he said. Reaction and future Reaction to Apple's announcements was optimistic, given the malaise surrounding IT. Forbes.com columnist Arik Hesseldah| observed: “At $16.99 a share (closing price, October 17), Apple is only 37 per cent off its 52- week high. Compare that with the anad performance of PC companies like Compaq, which is off 69 per cent from its high; and Gateway, off 90 per cent. Dell has done better, off less than 30 per cent from its most recent high.” Many analysts revised downward their predicted earnings per share for Apple's stock. Despite this, the majority of analysts believe Apple's stock is worth hanging on to, with some recommending investors buy while the market's low. Needham and Co. analyst Charles Wolf said: “Apple continues to be profitable and to earn operating returns on capital that far exceed its cost in by far the worst downturn to have hit the industry in 20 years.” An unnamed Goldman Sachs analyst told AFX news: “Apple is not immune from industry weakness, but management has executed very well and delivered solid, profitable results. We continue to believe the stock is attractive,” he said. The future remains cloudy for business globally. Anderson remarked: “Given the turbulent world, visibility for the upcoming quarter is not good.” The company offered no guidance for its next financial year because of global market uncertainty, but did warn that market hurts; education success and iBook sales light way forward profits for the new quarter could fail to meet expectations. Anderson told analysts that PowerBook sales should perk up a little, and iBook sales should remain strong. The company expects iMac and Power Mac sales to remain consistent with Q4 sales patterns. “Looking forward, we think the second half of the fiscal year should be a little better than the next six months," he said “Our own internal planning is consistent with that outlook.” He also promised more advertising and special promotions over the next three months MW Jonny Evans, Dennis Sellers Processor technologies looking good for Apple S) | Macworld News G3 and BM announced a major upgrade | to its 750 line of G3 processors at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, the 750FX PowerPC processor — which runs at between 700MHz and 1GHz, and holds a 512K on-die L2 cache. The improved G3 uses IBM's advanced 0.13-micron copper process that exploits Silicon On Insulator (SO!) and a technology called SiLK low-K dielectric. IBM's new offering is its highest-performing PowerPC, because it harnesses these new innovations. SOI reduces power consumption, as does SiLK low-K. The 0.13 micron copper delivers 3.6W of power at 800MHz, substantially lower than equivalent processors. Double-decker bus Compared to previous versions of the 750 (the 750CX and 750Cxe), the new processor offers double the L2 cache. It also supports double the peak bus speed, maintaining 200MHz at peak performance levels. The bus is more efficient, delivering 25 per cent greater bandwidth on the bus Apple employs the 750CX and 750Cxe within its iMac and iBook lines. If the 7SOFX is chosen for future iterations of these, iBooks and iMacs stand to benefit from much faster processor speeds and noticeable improvements in system performance ~ albeit on non-Velocity Engine- enabled G3 processors Apple hasn't yet disclosed if it plans to make use of IBM's microprocessor solution. Motorola has also been working hard, reports claim. Online IT news Web site The Register has been tracking the company's progress with its GS chip. G5 ‘blistering’ The G5 - Motorola's PowerPC 8500 —is moving steadily closer to release, The Register reports. This chip is the next major revision of the PowerPC architecture. Features include a new internal bus structure, a longer, ten-stage instruction pipeline, and redesigned math-processing units. The chip will be made available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Like IBM's G3, the G5 will use 0.13 micron SOI technology. The Register believes the processor (at 1.4GHz) pulls 26W of power in use — 9W more than the current Ga (at 533MH2), though some rumour sites suggest a future refinement could fix this. Tests promise blistering performance from Motorola's new offering, soaring ahead of that of Intel's 2GHz Pentium 4, Tests by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) show the 1.6GHz G5 returning a Specint2000 score of 1,340 and a SpecFP2000 score of 1,359 compared with the 656 and 714 scores (respectively) of the 2GHz Pentium 4. SPEC is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high- performance computers. It bodes well for Apple's future, promising Macs at speeds of 1GHz and beyond — the closing of the Gigahertz Gap. Given the PowerPC G4 head for gigahertz performance advantages explained by Apple vice president of hardware engineering Jon Rubinstein at New York's Macworld Expo in July; and successful product development under Motorola and IBM's belt; Apple could seize the performance crown from the competition. Exceeding expectations It’s widely believed that Apple will make use of Motorola's newest processors in future builds of its professional desktop Macs. An unexpected bonus for Apple in recent months is that the Ga processor inside Power Macs today has already exceeded Motorola's speed expectations. Motorola's European marketing communications manager confirmed that the Ga processor currently used in Power Macs could, in theory, be produced at speeds exceeding 1GHz —in excess of Motorola's expectations for the architecture. Jonny Evans New multiprocessor servers pple has added two fast 800MHz multiprocessing servers to its range, complementing the 733MHz single processor server introduced last month. The multiprocessing servers boast faster processors and symmetric multiprocessing — a feature built into Mac OS X Server. Symmetric- multiprocessing support means servers are able to do twice the work at the same time. They ship with Mac OS X Server J20.K | For the information as it happens pre-installed, offer 256K L2 cache and 3MB L3 cache per processor. Each system contains a CD-RW drive, NVidia GeForce2 MX graphics cards, Gigabit Ethernet, and the usual USB and FireWire ports. The mid-range multiprocessing system ships with 256MB of RAM and an Ultra ATA 80GB hard drive. The top-of-the-range system in the UK comes with 1GB of RAM, two 36GB Ultra160 dual-channel SCSI hard drives, and a dual-channel SCSI card. The dual-channel SCS! drive runs at 10,000rpm. It will read and write data at higher speeds than ATA drives, supporting data-transfer speeds of up to 160MB per second. With the dual channel SCSI card, external SCSI devices can be connected to the SCSI bus without affecting the performance of the drives. The mid-range Server costs £2,799. The top of the range model is £3,749. MW Macworld News | ©@ HP masterminds Mac-friendly wireless printing On the CD MP3 Rage 3.8 ($25) lets you organize and edit MP3 files. With it, you can edit MP3 tags and file information, catalogue MP3 files, and locate tracks by genre, title or other criteria in a folder or disk. It has searching abilities too — using Napster or Gnutella. MP3s can be analysed and adjusted to play at the same volume levels, exported to AIFE format for burning onto CDs, and more. It also plays MP3s. The application runs on Mac OS X, 8 and 9. www.chaoticsoftware.com I Arkaos has released Visualizer 1.5, a free plug-in for iTunes, SoundJam 2.x and Audion 2.x. ArKaos offers a selection of on-screen visualizations, coming with 11 pre-loaded files. More are available for download from the company Web site. Optimized for Velocity Engine/AltiVec, this version runs on Mac OS X. www.arkaos.net 1 iView Media Pro manages media assets on disks, servers and CDs. It enables images to be viewed, plays back movies, compares fonts, prints reports, runs slide shows, and publishes Internet galleries. It will also create catalogues of your entire media assets. This runs on Mac OS X and OS 8.5, or later. A single user license is $55. www.iview-multimedia.com AirPort printer take-of ewlett-Packard (08705 474 H 747) scores an industry first this month, announcing a product that lets Macintosh users print wirelessly over AirPort networks. ‘The wp110 wireless print server is Wii certified, so it will work with other 802.11b wireless local area network (LAN) products. 802.1b is the name for the standard employed by Apple in its AirPort range. In great secrecy, HP has been demonstrating pre-production prototypes of the wp110 to key journalists since the beginning of the year. Ports of cool The device, which is both Classic and Mac OS X compatible, hooks up to your HP printer using the parallel port — which is fine, as it connects to the Mac wirelessly over the 11Mbs AirPort network. This also leaves the printer's USB port free for connection toa stationary Mac, if necessary. Mac users may print wirelessly from distances of up to 30 metres. Security is provided by the server's capacity to send print jobs over the network while employing the 40-bit WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) standard Set up is easy via an install wizard. tt also contains an embedded Web server, so the printer may be managed and configured remotely over AirPort using a standard Web browser. Hewlett-Packard has given the wp110 the benefit of a little future proofing, adding a dose of flash memory tothe product for future software upgrades. Dimensions are 180-x-137- x-36mm, and it weighs 300g. The product is scheduled to ship November 15. MW Handspring’s Palm mobile Treo duo H andspring has unveiled a fresh product line, Treo, that integrates a Palm OS PDA with a mobile phone. Treo ships in the first quarter of 2002, and has a windowed flip-up cover in which the window is the size of the 4-bit, greyscale display. Two models have already been announced: Treo 180, which uses a small keyboard for data entry; and the 180G, which employs Palm's Graffiti handwriting recognition technology. Mark Dadger, Handspring product manager, said: “We feel strongly that the keyboard adds advantages for integrating the device with cell phone capabilities,” he said. “On the other hand, we realize that people like Graffiti.” “We've gone pretty far out of our way to make sure these phones are usable with one hand,” Dadger affirmed, Both devices will be enabled for wireless communication using GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), and the software lets users upgrade to GPRS (General Packet Radio Services) services in the future, Dadger said. The product also integrates a dual-band GSM radio. In the future, Handspring will also release software to let users check email from ISPs, and a version with a colour display. Blazer browser The Treo offers a series of on-screen features, including a 50- number memory, phone keypad, address book, Short Messaging Service and an integrated PDA Web browser called Blazer. It also offers an IR port The Treo is powered by a 33MHz Motorola DragonBall VZ processor, contains 16MB RAM, and holds a battery offering up to two and a half hours of talk time, or 60 hours in standby. The Treo will cost approximately £415 when it ships. In the US the unit costs $399 — the disparity is due to Handspring having not yet made an outside-US deal with a mobile phone operator to sell the device attached to a network. When a deal is made in the UK, the purchase price should drop, reflecting a subsidy payment from the mobile network operator. MW infomation as it bapens vist MacwordOnine Day News (www.macworld.co.uk) News | @ Working together n Mac 0S 9, MP applications | it their tasks between two processors. But most apps run on only one processor, and the OS has no way to divert tasks to the second CPU. When one chip teaches the limits of its proce power, applications that are M optimized aren't able to send some of their work to the other chip, Work gets divided differently in OS X. The operating system can send different programs to different processors, splitting the work more efficiently. This doesn't translate to system performanc that's twi it would be with only one chip, but it do mean that one processor will reach its limit more slowly as other, non- MP-savvy programs are launched Some applications are OS X native and MP savvy. Quake Il is perhaps the best example of th (see “Twin engine”). Rather than having to work on just one processor while other program run on the other, Quake Ill can split its tasks up, sending the work of game play to both processors at once. Therefore, the operating system does not have to “assign” Quake to one processor or the other. Double up A number of major Mac applications have been written to take advantage of multiprocessing and run natively in OSX. And more are on the This list shows which Mi apps are Mac 0S X native: Activision Quake Ill ‘Adobe After Effects 5.0 ‘Adobe Photoshop 6.0 ‘Adobe Premiere 6.0 Alias|Wavefront Maya Apple AppleWorks 6.2 Apple Final Cut Pro 2.0 Apple iDVD 2.0 Apple iTunes 2 Maxon Cinema 4D XL 7.1 Media 100 Cleaner 5 NewTek LightWave 3D 7.0 Sorenson Video 3.0 en ) OSX adds multiprocessing power, so where's the apps? Still trouble for double very time a dual-processor Mac arrives on the scene - whether it’s the 1996 Power Macintosh 9500/180 MP or the Power Mac G4/S00 DP that appeared four years later — Mac users hail the advent of multiprocessing. But all dual- processor Macs have faced the same hurdle: users won't enjoy significant performance gains unless they're using applications specifically written to take advantage of multiprocessing. With Mac OS X, though, all of that should change. For the first time, there is a universal benefit for all Mac users who purchase a dual-processor machine: large parts of OS X have been designed to take advantage of multiple processors. Unlike previous versions of Mac OS, the new operating system divides various tasks between processors, whether applications are MP savvy or not (see “Working together” left), MP ready? A frequent question at Macworld’s forums is: Now that Mac OS X has arrived, should | run out and buy the dual-processor 800MHz G4? The answer is largely the same as it was a year ago — an unequivocal maybe, leaning toward yes. ‘Although numerous processor- intensive programs have been optimized for multiprocessing, most of these applications have yet to be Carbonized, let alone written in OS X's Cocoa programming application. Users running a multiprocessor- enabled application in OS X's Classic mode will see some benefit, though not the performance boost you could expect from an MP-savvy OS working in tandem with an MP-savy program. An MP-enabled application running in Classic on a dual-processor machine should be faster than the same program running on a single- processor Mac. But its performance will lag behind that of a dual- processor machine running OS 9. While the dual-processor Mac makes much more sense for someone who uses an MP-savvy, processor- intensive app that runs exclusively as an 0S X-native program, that’s not a universal experience. The dual-processor Mac isn't much more attractive now than it ever has been to a user running a non-MP application in Classic. It’s only slightly more appealing than it used to be for those who work mainly in MP-savvy apps that haven't been Carbonized ‘As more programs are Carbonized, the dual-processor Mac will become an increasingly attractive option Users who are making their Mac purchases with long-term use in mind and who place a premium on performance would be foolish not to consider a multiprocessor machine, because eventually every significant Mac application will switch to OS X. Even without these programs, though, dual-processor machines boast certain advantages. An MP system sports two cache buses and double the cache size of a single- processor Mac. it also boosts performance by efficiently running multiple apps at the same time. Mac users have heard about the wonders of multiprocessing for years. The arrival of OS X 10.1 may finally mark the beginning of MP's glory days, especially for high-end Mac users. But with more OS X-native and MP-enabled applications slated for the future — and multiprocessor machines with CPUs that top 800MHz sure to follow — it will take time before a majority of Mac users are seeing double. Matthew Honan Twin engine @ Best results in test. ‘Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 Mac 0S 9 Quake tl * Guassian Blur RGB to CMYK ** Unsharp mask Tunes 1.1.2 ‘Apple Power Macintosh G4/800 DP = = od SS = ‘Apple Power Macintosh G4/867 =——> SS — — ‘Mac 08 X ‘Apple Power Macintosh G4/800 DP « a ——— — | y ‘Apple Power Macintosh G4/867 == b i — * Running in 0S 9, Quake Il is not multiprocessing savvy. ** Non-MP-enabled filter. Photoshop 6.0.1 is not OS X native, so it was run in Classic mode. Macworld Lab testing by Ulyssis Bravo. Naciear el 00.mk orth infomation as it happens st Macworé Online Daily News (www.macworld.co.uk} Share and publish databases via the Internet FileMak ileMaker has released F FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited The application includes the full functionality of FileMaker 5.5 — including OS X compatibility, Aqua interface support, and ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) for exchanging data. Interface and data fields are customizable in FileMaker 5.5, which handles a variety of data records, including contacts, video, images, and graphics. The FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited package offers workgroups the tools they need to share and publish databases over the Web. Once in place, users can access the database using a Web browser. The Web-based databases are searchable, updateable and records can be added using a browser. The package contains the Database CGI, Web Server and FileMaker 5.5 application. Server selection FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited's Web Server Connector has been improved, so the FileMaker database can integrate with a wider selection of Web servers. This version also provides SSL (Secure Socket Layer) support. FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited may also be used with a wide variety e | Macworld News er's Unlimited Web of middleware applications, Gis and application servers for large-scale implementations. FileMaker claims that when databases are published on the Web they appear almost indistinguishable from their desktop-based cousins. The package has also been developed to make Web deployment of data as simple as possible. The built-in Web server helps make the process easier, the company claims. FileMaker Web Server Connector is a tool for Custom Web publishing that bridges the gap between FileMaker and robust Unix servers. This is how the application is able to take advantage of SSL and server-side security technologies. Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) are also supported. This version supports a record-by- record safety feature. This controls user access and usage of data, There's a number of access and security features on-board designed to make implementation of access restrictions as flexible as possible. With additional copies of FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited, it's possible to set up a RAIC (redundant array of inexpensive computers) and (ecinase Reports WW Datehase Design Revert use the FileMaker Web Server Connector to distribute request processing across multiple computers. Web-based remote administration is also supported. Macintosh system requirements for Mac OS X include 128MB of RAM and Mac OS X 10.0.4 or later. The application also supports Mac OS 8.1 to 9.1. FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited costs £799 (excluding VAT). Upgrading from a previous version costs £399. XPress 5.0 beta Quark has released a public beta of QuarkXPress Passport §.0 for its international users. The beta is available from www.quark.co.uk, and will be carried on next month's Macworld CD. Macworld News | @ Protect yourself from potential dangers On the CD Microsoft has released two security updates: one for PowerPoint and Excel 2001 for Mac; another for Internet Explorer 5.1. The first - Macro Vulnerability Security — on this month's cover CD. Itaddresses a vulnerability that permitted malicious code to run in Microsoft Excel 2001 or PowerPoint 2001 files without warning, potentially damaging data. Once installed, a warning appears when Excel or PowerPoint files containing macros are opened. Microsoft warns that PowerPoint 98 or 2001, Excel 98 and 2001 for Mac are vulnerable. Microsoft's Internet Explorer Security Update prevents Internet Explorer 5.1 automatically launching and running downloaded files. Available only through the Software Update feature of Mac OS X. X and iDisk security threats pple's shift to a Unix-based A Mac 0S X is not without pitfalls, as reports of two serious security threats emerge in recent weeks. A serious flaw offering root access to any user's Mac is one problem; another anomaly challenges iDisk security. iDisk is promoted as a secure repository for Macintosh user's files. However, Internet security expert OpenDoor Networks has exposed a weakness in the implementation of security. You've been DAV'd In OS X 10.1, Apple employs a modified form of the WebDAV protocol. Apple's technicians have engineered this to mount iDisk on Macs and PCs. This replaces Apple Filing Protocol, which Apple employed Hackers can track down GEORGINA WATSON iDisk or save it as a Favorite, to do this job until now. The security experts warn that in doing so, Apple has exposed iDisk users to danger: “WebDAV should not send passwords over the Internet, so it should be as secure as AFP. However, the implementation of WebDAV in Mac OS X 10.1 used with iDisk violates the WebDAV specification, and sends your password ina way that makes it easy for hackers passwords over the Internet, and effectively gain read-and-write access to an individual's iDisk. Selecting iDisk from the Go menu, or clicking on the iDisk icon in the Finder makes iDisk vulnerable, according to the report. It is recommended that iDisk should be connected in Mac OS X 10.1 by connecting to the server using the Go menu and entering the address afp://idisk.mac.com. Once logged The second vulnerability, which potentially gave unauthorized users “root” access to an OS X Mac was swiftly repaired by Apple. The company has released Apple Security Update 1.0 - available only through the Software Update feature of Mac OS X. Without the update, applications opened from the Recent Items folder could give root access without requesting an to discover,” states the report. Apple faces legal action over Mac Manager name and Cube failure pple faces two law suits filed in recent weeks. The first legal attack comes from ELS regarding rights to the name Mac Manager. The company claims Apple “wilfully infringed ELS’ trademark rights” by adopting a confusingly similar name for the same type of software. ELS has marketed a product of that name that provides data security and management capabilities for six years. Apple now distributes a technology of the same name for system administrators and workstation management. This provides a method for Mac administrators to configure and control Macs working on their networks. It was first introduced in January of 1999. Company president Mitchell Martin claims that Apple has “essentially put him out of business”, as his company is dealing with complaints from Apple's customers, and the existence of two products of the same name also confuses the market, reducing sales of ELS’ product line. in, users may make an alias of their administrator's password. The second lawsuit alleges that CEO Steve Jobs misled investors, overemphasizing products on launch in order to inflate the company's stock value. The suit, filed by members of the Hawaii Structural Iron Workers Pension Trust Fund, claims Jobs and Apple told investors that the G4 Cube and iMac computers would sell well, according to Bloomberg. The plaintiffs claim Apple announced lower-than-expected iMac sales and G4 Cube production problems — but did so after company executives sold 370,000 shares for $22million. This litigation has achieved class-action status for all investors who purchased shares July 19 and September 28, 2000. MW Peter Cohen et 0.0K For the information as it happe it Macworld Online Daily News (www.macworld.co.uk\ Latest, hottest Macintosh games news Land of the Giants iants: Citizen Kabuto — the first G major commercial title for Mac OS X only ~ has been released in the US. No UK release date has been set, according to distributor Softline (01883 745 111). Giants is a real-time 3D game, where creatures battle for dominance of a fragment of planet that's hurtling through space. Three races vie for supremacy: the giant Kabuto, the Sea Reapers, and Meccaryn. ‘We fear’, the Reapers Kabuto is a solitary giant who rules the land. He's a lonely figure, possessive of his home to the point of killing all intruders. Sea Reapers once ruled the island but fled in fear of Kabuto, who they had created to protect against alien attacks. Ultimately, he turned against his creators. The Meccaryn are five cockney space aliens: Baz, Tel, Reg, Gordon, and Bennett. An annual lads’ holiday on Planet Majorca sees them attacked and swallowed by a Giant “Gibbon” Fish. After escaping they stop to. make repairs on Kabuto's island. Mark Cottam, president of game publisher MacPlay, said “The talented engineers at Omni Group have implemented symmetric multiprocessing support into Giants, so the game takes advantage of this, feature when run on dual-processor Power Macs “Playing Giants on a dual-800MHz Power Mac G4 with Mac OS X and a GeForce3 graphics accelerator will be the best gaming experience one could enjoy on any platform,” he added. Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of worldwide developer relations, said: “MacPlay's Giants is Empire building, and magic ice adventure old has released Age of Empires Il: Gold Edition. The real-time strategy game runs on Mac OS X and 9. It spans 1,000 years from the fall of Rome to the Middle Ages. Players command one of 13 civilizations aiming for world domination. Civilizations are developed with historically based strengths and weaknesses. Vikings do well on water, but aren't so well adapted to land travel, for example, There are story-based campaigns, including William Wallace, Joan of ‘Arc and Genghis Khan. The William Wallace learning campaign for new users puts players in command of Scottish highlanders in a war against better-equipped English aggressors. The action starts after the fall of Rome, and players begin with a town centre, villagers and cavalry unit. New features include the option of negotiating victory through trade and diplomacy. A market-based economic UK |For the infomation as it happen system offers chances to buy and sell resources. Players must develop and research technologies. Over 100 technology nodes are available ~ and accomplishment in these can ease the path to victory. Maps are larger in this version allowing more options for extended multiplayer play. Age of Empires Il: Gold Edition for Macs costs £39.99. Monster Mac Icewind Dale (£39.99; Softline, 01883 745 111) ships in January from Interplay division, Black Line Studios. The title takes its name from Robert Salvatore's successful book trilogy of the same name. It's a dungeon adventure mainly, but also with landscapes, mountain passes and glacier caves to explore. Players collect magic items, and battle monsters as they struggle to survive. Icewind Dale employs BioWare's Infinity Engine, the same game engine as employed in Baldur's Gate © | Macworld News stunning in every way, and we are excited to have it as the first game exclusively for Mac OS X." The already available PC version was declared one of the top-five games of 2000 by Voodoo Extreme. It became Game Guru's Game of the Year and Action Game of the Year. No price is available at this time. MW On the CD Alien Nations comes from Shogo: Mobile ‘Armor Division publisher, Titan. It’s a real-time 3D strategy game similar to traditional “god” games. Organized into campaigns, players start with a nation and a tiny population. The challenge is to build a population sufficient to ward off hostile attacks from alien races. Races must gather resources, develop science, engage in trade, and communicate with each other. Multi-player network gaming is supported. Alien Nations requires a 266MHz or faster Power Mac, 96MB of RAM, and 200MB of virtual memory. A graphics card with 6MB of dedicated video RAM is recommended for best results. The full version ships in early November. MW UE 2001 Macworld News | € Business news for the Macintosh world Macromedia sues Adobe... again 1 Apple is applying Euro pricing for alts products inside the 12-country Euro-zone. It enters full circulation on January 1, 2002. 1 Philip Schiller, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, has resigned from US ISP EarthLink’s board of directors to focus on Apple. BE Motorola posted a net loss of $1.4 billion for the third quarter of 2001. Sales at $7.4 billion were 22 per cent lower than the same quarter last ye Sales totalled $22.68 billion in the first nine months of the year. 1 RAM manufacturers face lower than predicted sales in 2002, according to Dataquest. The industry is expected to shrink to $8.5 billion next year ~ from $31.5 billion in 2000. Third-largest manufacturer, Hynix Semiconductor, is on the verge of bankruptcy, reports claim. 1B Toast publisher Roxio exceeded second quarter 2002 expectations, with net revenues of $30.5 million ($2 milion income). This contrasts with a net income of $6.4 million in the year ago quarter. Lexmark reported a 5.9 por cont increase in 03 earnings, but still plans to cut 1,600 s fourth quarter. 100 has finalized the jon all cash sale of its stroaming-media software assets to Autodesk's Discreet division. Discreet is purchasing GineStream and Cleaner families of streaming-media products. 1] Macintosh reseller Micro Anvika will open a store in Selfridges Technology Hall on November 15. The full range of ‘Apple products will be available in the store, which is on the lower ground floor of the Oxford Street branch of Selfridges. 1 ATI Technologies has reported revenues for the fiscal year 2001 lining by 19.1 per cent to n, due to the global slowdown in PC sales. 1 Sales of personal computers continued their slide in the third quarter of 2001, with shipments falling 11.6 per cent year-on-year to 30.7 million units, according to researcher Dataquest. EXPO ISSUE 2001, and Adobe has heated up with Macromedia launching fresh legal action against its graphics and Web rival, claiming ownership of technologies employed in Adobe Photoshop and Golive. The suit (case number: C01-3940) alleges that Macromedia owns 1998-patented technology used in both Adobe applications. Macromedia acquired the patents from NetObjects during the summer. Us Patent number 5,845,299 relates to a draw-based editor for Web pages. The second (US Patent 5,911,145) relates to a hierarchical-structure editor for Web sites. Macromedia accuses Adobe of infringing the patents by: “Making, using, marketing, selling, reselling, offering for sale, and/or inducing others to use, software for creating and editing Web pages including, without limitation, Adobe Golive and Adobe Photoshop.” Photoshop is a crucial application for Adobe and the Mac industry. Its absence from the roster of currently available OS X applications is an excuse for many to delay their personal migration to Mac OS X. Macromedia is asking the court to prevent Adobe selling Photoshop, as well as demanding damages. T he year-long courtroom war between Macromedia Tit for tat Relations between the companies have become increasingly tense, with Adobe even promoting its open-source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format above Macromedia's Flash, the accepted industry standard for vector-graphics online. Responding to the charges, Adobe announced its belief that Macromedia's claims are “without merit” and that it plans to “defend itself vigorously” in the courts. Historically, Adobe filed its own suit against Macromedia in August, 2000, claiming Macromedia had infringed against a 1996 patent for “Tabbed Palettes”. Regarding this, Adobe president Bruce Chizen thundered: “Adobe will not be the research and development department for its competitors. Our patent and other aspects of our user interface are key to the user experience and functionality of our products; they are essential to Mygate casualty ong-established family-run Mac and PC reseller, Mygate Ltd, entered into receivership on Tuesday, October 2. The firm closed all its operations on that day. The company's assets, including its South-east London premises, customer database and trading name have been sold to Apple reseller Cancom by receivers Simon Michaels and David Gilbert of BDO Stoy Hayward. Cancom took-over UK reseller Multiple Zones last year. The Lee-based firm had accumulated debts to creditors in excess of £1 million. Insolvency assistant-manager for BDO Stoy Hayward, Mark Longbottom said: “The company went into receivership because it couldn't pay its debts.’ Receiver Simon Michaels said: “Mygate was forced into receivership due to the continued adverse effects of the economic downturn and pressure on margins in the IT sector, despite posting a turnover of £6m.” differentiate our products and brand from others.” Macromedia condemned this litigation as “without merit’, “invalid” and “unenforceable”. The court has not yet issued its own decision on the matter. Macromedia's response was to launch a counter suit in September 2000, alleging Adobe's infringement of several of Macromedia's patents. Macromedia wanted Adobe's use of these patents to be blocked, and an award of damages Macromedia recently announced its second quarter 2002 results. It noted revenues of $87.1 million — but a net loss of $3.3 million. This contrasts with revenues in the same period a year ago of $98 million, and a net income of $19.4 million. Protect and survive Macromedia CEO Rob Burgess discussed the “tough economic cycle,” and said his company remains excited about the future of the Web. The company anticipates third-quarter revenues to be flat to down 10 per cent. It’s engaged in reducing costs and hopes to return to, profitability next year. Macromedia has also adopted a stockholder rights plan, designed to protect the company against any “future unsolicited attempt” to acquire the company. The company said that this was not in response to any immediate threat. MW Jonny Evans of IT downturn It's the third casualty in Mac retail in recent years — Camelot ceased trading last summer, and Mac Supplies closed its doors last year. A former Mygate employee was shocked at the news, revealed to staff at the eleventh hour: “We were called into a meeting, and told that Mygate doesn’t exist anymore,” he said. Cancom is not responsible for furnishing unfulfilled orders taken by the now defunct company. Customers affected by this should contact the receivers. If they paid by credit-card, they can contact their credit-card company for a refund under the 1974 Consumer Credit Act Macworld is a member of the PPA's Mail Order Protection Scheme (MOPS), which offers limited protection for readers purchasing products in response to ads in the magazine. More details of this protection are on page 175. MW Dominique Fi (www.macworld.co.uk} SmartDisk off toa martDisk has launched its S new Firefly product family and updated its Titanium range of peripherals. FireFly is a credit-card-sized, 5GB FireWire-drive in a silver case. Its dimensions are 102-x-64-x-13mm. It offers data-transfer speeds of 12MB per second, and has been built for those who need durability and a compact design. The product draws power from the FireWire bus — SmartDisk claims the power drain is minimal. Firefly is hot-pluggable. Because the product flier implements the newest 12MBps FireWire bridge, ‘SmartDisk believes its drive is ideal for video. The FireFly can save five hours of