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Made for my Mac. 5 | a z September 2000 Opinion 11 The Vision Thing ANDREW GORE How to build a better Macworld. 25 Feedback Readers respond. 127 The Game Room ANDY IHNATKO Don't call them my favorites, but these are www.macworld.com (or were) some cool games. 200 The Desktop Critic The Micro- Sieean bie eniytie. CHANGE. IT’S SCARY. beginning. Buzz 28 Douglas Adams, Microsoft Office 2001, iFilm, Rio 600, and Mac OS X. 70 Reconcilable Differences 80 Doctor Your Digital Images DEKE McCLELLAND When your digital camera gives you lemons, make lemonade. From desktop video and the wired life to 86 Turn Your MP3s into Audio CDs OS X—voll can nevedo things you never JONATHAN SEFF No portable MP3 player? You can still liberate those tunes from your Mac. 40 88 Simultaneous Surfing JOHN RIZZO Share one DSL connection among several Macs. thought possible with your Mac. Find out what industry insiders have to say about the top 10 trends affecting Mac users. Macworld.com 93 Mac 911 CHRISTOPHER BREEN Welcome to Macworld’s new forum for answering reader questions and sharing tips. Our redesigned Web site features Macworld’s top 10 trends in more depth—with commentary, instructional advice, and resource guides based on each topic—plus more than 40 new subject- Buzz based archive pages! The portable MP3 player gets stylish with the Rio 600. 34 4 September 2000 www.macworld.com Macworl CHANGE Reviews Capture every last detail with these three- megapixel cameras. On the Cover: Photograph by Mark Johann Welcome Macworld has a whole new look! Take a guided tour of the past and the present with Editor in Chief Andrew Gore. Reconcilable Differences JEFFREY ZELDMAN Web images and text sometimes display differently on Macs and Windows PCs. 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Through the past two years, we've worked hard not only to update the magazine's look but also to modify its structure to better serve you. You see, we're really inter- ested in you—so much so, we study you on a regular basis. From surveys, focus groups, and electronic feedback, we have a pretty good sense of who you are, why you use a Mac, and what you like—and don't like— about this publication. In general, you seem pretty happy with Macworld. This magazine enjoys some of the highest subscription-renewal rates and has some of the longest-standing subscriptions in the business. In studies, you've used words such as reli- able, credible, comprehensive, and objective to describe us. Unfortunately, another description occasionally came up: reading Macworld is “like doing homework.” Yes, the con- ANDREW GORE Reinventing Macworld THE MAC WORLD Is CHANGING, AND SO IS MAcwWoRLD. AND THAT'S tent is there—but getting to it can be a trial. And while there was once a time when part of the joy of reading Macworld was setting aside a few hours in the evening to leisurely read the magazine from cover to cover, none of us seem to have that much time these days. That's why we've added more than a fresh new look: for example, a consolidated how-to section, now with a stan- dardized step-by-step layout— a very clear way of communicat- ing instructional information. And while our reviews continue to provide the accuracy you've come to depend on, we've added new ways for you to get a quick grasp on the pros and cons of every product we examine. We're also striving to bring a more personal tone to Macworld—that of a knowl- edgeable friend, not a lecturing professor. The Ever Changing Mac The Mac has changed to meet your changing needs, 1993's Apple is long dead, and new products such as the iMac and iBook have introduced a new sense of style to computing. But while we may be a bit dazzled by the pretty colors and translucent plastic, let's not forget the power that lives inside that candy-coated shell. Suddenly, even iMac users have access to technologies such as FireWire, DVD, digital video, AirPort wire- less networking, and high-speed Internet access. It's all there for the taking—if you know how. continues www.macworld.com September 2000 11 We're all bom NEED The Met@bou s0eGARDS Ue tie Fastest 6-3 and 6-4 procegaors, oiving UOU all Ghe speed and BOWER UOUP PeSOUrcE- hry apolation cement WALZ Tupba-charging Your Vintage Mac With @ MeG@box doeGARD is EXOBDDIONAlY GOBU- EFreDhive. G0 the MOst UU OF Ghe Cools wou trust UWDOUG Taking @ Bib in Che Dank aceount. ww, The Mei@bou d0EGARD i6 designed Oo oivE vou Gon Derrarmance Without AFFEGDING abaniliby. You OED Dovel conbrol in even he moat Gemanding sustem enviranments. See us at Macworld Expo N Booth #872 87 on card or go to www.macworld.com/getinfo Telling you about a computer's specifications is no longer enough The days when we could just splash a number followed by “Megahertz!” on our covers and still satisfy readers are gone. Why? Because all Macs sold today are incredibly fast and powerful, and even the newest, fastest Macs are only incrementally faster than what came before them. What matters today is getting the most out of that Mac. This is not to say that Macworld is only now focusing on great how- to articles. We've always had great instructional material in the maga- zine—scattered across our Secrets and Create sections and in our fea- tures. But with this issue, we're col- lecting that content in one place, the new How-to section. There you'll find feature stories, step-by-step arti- cles, and our new Mac 9] trouble- shooting column—all geared to help you get the most out of your Mac and the programs you run on it. The Changing Face of News Another major change in this issue is the departure of Macworld's News section, replaced with a new section called Buzz. In a world where the Internet dominates, it's impossible for a monthly print magazine—especially one with a readership as tech-sawy as Macworld’s—to cover breaking news in a relevant manner. Enter Buzz, which still provides news and information about the Mac but does so with style and humor. We're hope- ful that Buzz will inform you about the most important topics in the Mac world but will also entertain you and remind you why you're a Mac user. We've also tried to reintegrate some of the elements of MacUser 12 September 2000 www.macworld.com that were lost when that magazine merged with Macworld in 1997 Former Help Folder author Christopher Breen is now at the helm of Mac 911, our new trouble- shooting and tips column. And with this issue we also welcome former MacUser columnist Andy Ihnatko back to the fold; Andy will be writing our monthly entertainment and gaming column, The Game Room. And, of course, Macworld's redesign wouldn't be complete without the complete overhaul of our Web site. The new Macworld .com is reorganized so that no mat- ter what subject you're interested in, you can find what Macworld has to say about it—and you can even weigh in with your own opinion. Sure, it all starts in Cupertino. But Apple gives you only the hammer—it's up to Macworld to show you the things you can build with that tool and point to the nails and wood you'll need to complete your projects. So, by all means, go back to exploring this new, more accessible, more useful Macworld. 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David Pogue did an admirable job of navigating many of the land mines of myth and misinformation that have dotted the Mac speech landscape for years. I was especially glad to see fair coverage of Mac- Speech and its ListenDo application. I've been using PlainTalk, com- bined with AppleScript, on my trusty Power Mac 7300/180 for years, to give my mouse (and my right wrist) a rest from many repetitive tasks. It's also downright enjoyable to control your Mac with spoken commands, espe- cially when your friends are watching! So thanks to David Pogue for extolling the virtues of speech tech- nology on the Mac. I plan to get one of the software packages this year, but for now, it’s great to start up my Mac and, even if I'm down the hall or in the kitchen, hear “Kathy” say, “Speakable Items is ready!" Hunt Sidway Louisville, Kentucky ye am using a new ViaVoice my IBM speech program. It works quite well as you can see by the water. I think you for an Fiat's Stanton article that made by the Senate in. Thanks again Mac World. Graham Davis Milford. Michigan I'm happy two here that you are using ViaVoice sucks S fully. J myself use beach-recognition software for Windows, which is at least a genera- tion a head of Max. Queerly, speech recognition is the technology of today and 2 Maura!—David Pogue Power to the PowerBook or the past month, I've used my PowerBook 2000 (Reviews, June 2000) daily; it’s fast, quiet, and attractive. But why has no one noticed the absurdity of the AC adapter? The round power adapter may be striking to look at, but it's cumbersome, annoyingly large, and a bit heavy. The adapter is also differ- ent from every other PowerBook adapter Apple has used, forcing me to lug around the proprietary cord wherever I go or risk becoming power-less. Bill White Goffstown, New Hampshire Only the connector on the end of the cable that goes from the AC outlet to the power adapier has changed. The plug that goes into the back of the PowerBook has remained unchanged for several years, which means you can use power cords from discon- tinued PowerBook models on Apple's latest portables —Ed. Sure It’s Secure aeworld has taken an over- simplified “Chicken Little” approach to Internet and com- puter security, and I'm disappointed, The latest example is your review of DoorStop Personal (June 2000) Mel Beckman made a blanket state- ment that I find untrue: “If you're using a continuous connection, you continues wvew.macworld.com September 2000 25 rt need a firewall—it's simply not optional in today’s dangerous Internet environment.” Mac OS users have always had excellent security right out of the box, not only because Apple chooses not to ship Mac OS with IP File Sharing (in OS 9) or Personal Web Sharing enabled, but also because the OS has no command-line access. There are definitely good uses for firewall products such as DoorStop Personal, but your review barely touches on one of them—controlling access according to client IP address. Readers should understand that running a server is always a security risk, and they need information to decide for themselves whether a util- ity is worth its cost. Pete Gontier Los Angeles, California Think the Third Little Pig and his brick house, not Chicken Little. Many hacker attacks have nothing to do with careless configuration. Hackers The Feedhag Thave a comment about the cover of the June issue: too much magenta. This is an unintended side effect of digitally “fixing” dogs —Ed. Thave a Macintosh 6100/60 AV pur- chased in 1994, and there was not even a mention of options for NuBus Macs in “Bridge the Gap” (June 2000). I guess this means there are no options, but couldn't you at least tell us that? Not even Evel Knievel would dare to bridge that gap.—Ed. exploit operating-system bugs that lie outside the direct control of end users. Some loopholes, such as the Mac OS 9.0 TCP/IP bug (fixed in January's Open Transport 2.6 update), let hackers coerce an Internet-connected computer into attacking innocent third parties. A firewall prevents arbitrary network traffic from reaching the operating system, drastically reducing the pos- sibility that a hacker can exploit soft- ware flaws.—Mel Beckman Gap in the Bridge ust thought I should mention that the “Port Authority” sidebar in “Bridge the Gap” (June 2000) contains a possible error. | think the labels are flipped on the serial (DB9) and serial (mini-DIN 8) ports. Jonadab J. Torres Patterson, New York You're absolutely right. Regrettably, the captions got switched during our editorial process.—Ed. ViaVoice is typing words without my saying anything. The house is empty and no radio or television is tumed on. If it types “Get out of the house!” I'd take the advice.—Ed. Town a Mac Ilsi, and the hard drive has crashed. How large a replace- ment can I get, and where? As a tule, the older the hardware, the bigger it is. For serious size, consider a drive from the 1970s. An IBM model from 1974 should be roughly the size of your house.—Ed. 26 September 2000 www.macworld. com ‘ve just finished reading "Bridge the Gap.” and | have a question. The author mentions that a USB connection is slower than a SCSI connection: 1.5 MBps. Later, the author reports the data-transfer rate to be 12 Mbps. Which is correct? J. A. Clark Grand Island, Nebraska There are 8 bits in a byte; therefore, a USB connection’s speed can be described as either 12 Mbps or 1.5 MBps.—Ed. Forgetting the Little People hanks to Jeff Carlson for criticiz- ing Palm's poor Mac support in his Palm Illc review (Reviews, June 2000). I love my Palm, but dang it, Palm Computing should treat us loyal Mac users better. 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All prices listed in U.S. dollars, Offer good in the United States and Can: THE RoaAD TO OS X: CARBON DATING a @ News, Views, & Chatter from the World of Macs hen OS X finally arrives, you might think it's time to put Apple's new operating system to the test. But hold your horses; until the programs you use are updated to run natively in OS X, they'll behave no differently than they do on your Mac today. An informal survey of key Mac developers indicates that most are finding it easy to make their applications run in the OS X program- ming environment, known as Carbon. The biggest challenge: waiting for Apple to advance its own OS X work and pass the latest information on to them. “We just watch what Apple's doing very closely and try to react as quickly as we can,” says Brian Yoder, product architect for EarthLink (800/395-8425, www.earthlink.net), Many of the developers we contacted, including EarthLink, praised Apple for the support it has shown developers. But the lack of a firm release date from Apple has made it hard for develop- ers to set their own schedules. Still, software makers say they're excited by the prospect of retooling applications to take full advantage of a state-of-the-art Mac OS's abilities. And with the release of a preview version in May, applications that haven't yet become OS X-savvy are closing the gap quickly, At 28 September 2000 www.macworld.com “WE JUST WATCH what Apple’s doing very closely and try to react as quickly as we can.” —Brian Yoder, EarthLink FileMaker (800/325-2747, www filemaker.com), for example, Devel- opment Manager Ken Walters says that programmers got “about 90 per- cent" of FileMaker Pro up and run- ning within two weeks of receiving the latest developer preview of OS X. OS X-native applications such as FileMaker Pro will sport OS X's dis- tinctive Aqua interface. If a program crashes, OS X-sawvy apps will be insulated. And this new generation of apps take advantage of OS X's modern memory management, so you'll no longer need to fiddle with a program's memory partition if it needs more room. So when OS X arrives, you might want to celebrate. But if you're a hard-core user of a particular program, you should hold off on the funny hats and noise- makers until that app is as ready for OS X as you are.—PHILIP MICHAELS PHOTO BY SUZANNE ROADY [AND BRENT WARD FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (JOBS) NLUSTRATION BY HARRY CAMPBELL; PHOTOS AY ED CALDWELL (AME THE Roap TO OS X APRIL 1991 Apple CEO a John Sculley demon- strates Pink—Apple’s The Lon and pee to IBM. . . OCTOBER 1991 IBM teams up with Apple to Winding Road vce: venture that will com- plete Pink. If the news that Apple is getting MARCH 1994 Apple announces the Copland OS. Due in 1995, it will you muttering “We'll see,” we feature octive assis- ever closer to releasing OS X has can understand your skepticism. fates uliitasking, ond memory protection. An even more advanced a cutting-edge version has been a OS, Gershwin, will fol- low in 1996. Replacing the original Mac OS with long proce’s, full of more twists of AUGUST 1994 New CEO Michael Spindler code names than a CIA operation. says Copland will arrive And with OS X set to cross the 76 JANUARY 1995 Mac enthusiasts gloat fully—early next year, it's impor- Microsoft, delays tant to remember how we've WiinceWs 75j;c0d gods of karma siroke their chins and toke note. JUNE 1995 Copland user interface makes its first public oppeorance. fate than a Dickens novel and more finish line—finally, probably, hope- arrived at where we are today. More than 200 developers have signed on to deliver products for Mac OS X. Apple has singled out 16 for their efforts. Think of these companies as fashion trendsetters for OS X. Here's hoping that they arrive at the release date dressed to the nines and not wearing powder-blue tuxedos.—PHILIP MICHAELS ADOBE SYSTEMS ‘ALIAS/WAVEFRONT AVID CANON DANTZ DIGIDESIGN DISNEY INTERACTIVE EARTHLINK EPSON FILEMAKER HEWLETT-PACKARD IBM MACROMEDIA MICROSOFT PALM SUN MICROSYSTEMS SEPTEMBER 1995 Police drummer Stewart Copeland turns 43. NOVEMBER 1995, Copland beta goes out 10 50 key developers. NOVEMBER 1995, Copland’s launch deloyed until 1997. DECEMBER 1995 Long forgotten Taligent becomes o wholly owned subsidiary of IBM. It's never heard from again, may 1996 Adeveloper release of Copland is expeded by summer. But the final version has been pushed back to mid-1997, May 1996 New CEO Gil Amelio says Apple will ship Copland piecemeal JUNE 1996 Douglos Coupland releases the poperback edition of Microserts, a story ‘bout computer pro= grammers searching for their purpose in life, JULY 1996 George Gershwin died 59 years cago this month. Doubiers of coincidence shrug and eagerly await the new OS. AUGUST 1996 Chief Technology Officer Ellen Hancock kills Copland and Gershwin. SEPTEMBER 1996 Happy 44th birthdoy, Stewart Copeland! DECEMBER 1996 Apple s0ys its new OS, Rhapiody, will ship to developers in the third quaiter of 1997. MARCH 1997 Amelio culs jobs. JULY 1997 New interim CEO Steve Jobs cus out Amelio. AUGUST 1997 Moc OS 8 ships without the preemptive multitasking, From Top: Apple CEOs Sculley, Spindler, Amelio, and Jobs rewritten microkernel, or protected memory slated for Copland AUGUST 1997 The motion picture Cop Lond debuts to mixed reviews OCTOBER 1997 Developers get a copy of Rhapsody. MAY 1998 Apple changes the name of the OS to OS X. SEPTEMBER 1998 Copland may be long forgotten, but Stewart Copeland? Not as he turns 46, that’s for sure! OCTOBER'1999 As OS idebuts, Apple delays the.OS X releose to eorly 2000, JANUARY 2000 Jobs unveils Aqua and delays the OS X launch until summer. may 2000 Apple plons ‘a public beta of OSX” for summer. Shipment slips to early 2000. | More Info: www.apple.com/macosx Need more OS X info? Go straight to the horse’s mouth—the Web page Apple created to handle OS X queries. www.maeworld.com September 2000 29 Ir THEY USED MACs... 931, 53 years before introduction of the Moc. FAVORITE HARDWARE: Power Mac 7300 with o 400MHz G4 upgrade cord. FAVORITE APPLICATION: SoundJam MP tured up really loud. MOST LIKELY TO: Crack open the com- puter ond replace the ROM with a new model mode from 0 wax cylinder. WHAT HE SAYS: “Invention is 1 percent inspiration and 99 per- cent perspiration.”—Sounds like o man who tried using Word 6. @ AMELIA EARHART DIED: 1937, 39 years before the founding of Apple. FAVORITE HARDWARE: Tongerine 64MB iBook, for its rugged case and portability on those long transatlantic flights. FAVORITE APPLICATION: X-Plane. MOST LIKELY TO: Install DeLorme Eorthmate GPS Receiver and Sireet Ailas 6.0 bundle before ill-fated flight around the world, WHAT SHE SAYS: “Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace with yourself."— And $179.95 is the price of that Eorthmate and Street Atlas bundle, @ PABLO PICASSO = . DIED: 1973, 11 years before installation of agical History Tour rack megrseenatd Those who fail to learn from history must be doomed to make Apple's “Think Blueberry iMac DV during Blue Period. Strawberry iMac during Rose Period. FAVORITE APPLICATION: Carrara 1.0, no!—as you might Different” ads. The award-winning commercials imply that the likes of Jackie suspect—Painter, MOST LIKELY TO: Custom- Robinson and Albert Einstein would have been card-carrying Mac users—a design his own iCards using scenes from Guernico. WHAT HE SAYS: “Painting is stronger neat trick, since most of the folks in the company’s ads had shuffled off this mor- than me; it makes me do what it wants."— tal coil by the time the Mac debuted. But what if a rip in the time-space contin- Nowadays they say the same thing about uum allowed us to hand out new iBooks to Mohandas Gandhi and Miles Davis? Microsoft Some interesting tech-support calls, to say the least—PHILIP MICHAELS Ciick HERE But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct One movie features seven elderly people living together Real World-style. Another recaps the entire plot of Star Wars in eight minutes. It's not a film festival gone crazy; it's what you'll find at iFilm. With iMovie widely available, iFilm is the per- fect destination for Mac users itching to make masterpieces. Besides a multiplex full of flicks, iFilm offers news and interviews. You can even submit your own Best Picture contender. But don't send that movie of your family vacation, Hitchcock. This isn't America’s Funniest Home Videos.—PHILIP MICHAELS 30 September 2000 www.macworld.com ILLUSTRATION BY TIM BOWER Maya z z Q g Grama x 2 Coo. STuFF DIGITAL CAMERA Il: THE SEQUEL for the Mac Sur Ht’s nota lunch meeting at Spago that’s exciting indy directors. li’s a camera—the DCR-VX2000 from Sony (800/222-7669, www .sel.sony.com). This $3,000 mini- DV camcorder packs plenty of wallop for aspiring filmmakers with visions of Ben Hur but bud- gets more like The Blair Witch Project's. The VX2000 boasts a ‘Super SteadyShot Digits! Handycam redesigned 3-CCD pickup chip set—the signal-processing chips that bolster camera resolution— and a 58mm aspherical lens, which sharpens focus. When you consider its 200,000-color pixel LCD display and FireWire con- nectivity, the VX2000 seems to do everything—except maybe write your script,—ANTON LINECKER STILL LOOKING FOR LOVE Microsoft's Mac Valentine Mac users enjoy a love-hate relationship with Micro- soft—in which love is defined as “resigned tolerance” and hate as “lava-hot rancor fueled by the fire of a thou- sand buming suns.” Microsoft keeps trying to win Mac hearts, adding goodies to its flagship products. Case in point: the Office 2001 upgrade. Mac users may never embrace Microsoft ... but at least they'll have a lot of new Office tools for writing angry letters to Redmond. m Entourage 2001, a new personal information manager application for Office, combines email, calendaring, contact management, and a task manager. m Project Gallery offers customiz- able document templates for Microsoft Office applications to help users get started faster. Don't need the templates? Office lets you turn off the feature. m Formatting Palette centralizes Office formatting tools on a single window to simplify common tasks. m Image Effects adds builtin tools for importing and editing graphics and pictures in Office documents. § PowerPoint Movies lets you save files as QuickTime movies, and the telooled PowerPoint allows you to incorporate QuickTime transitions into presentations.—PHILIP MICHAELS www.maecworld.com September 2000 31 32 September 2000 www.macworld.com In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deep Thought, a “stupendous supercomputer the size of a city block,” requires 7.5 million years to answer “the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.” The answer—42—is pretty close to the number of Macs author Douglas Adams has owned. Adams uses his Macs to experiment with interactive fic- tion and online games. Presumably, his Macs are a bit speedier than Deep Thought.—ADELIA CELLINI WEIRD STUFF Pro FILE Macs, the Universe, and Everything Q&A with DOUGLAS ADAMS Q: Just how many Macs do you currently use? A: My main ones are a PowerBook and a G4 with a Cinema Display. | have an embarrassingly large num- ber of old Macs: some iMacs, a blue-and-white G3. My oldest Mac these days is a 20th Anniversary Mac, which | want to set up for Internet radio. Q: Which piece of Mac- related paraphernalia can’t you do without? A: The Cinema Display. It is a stupendous piece of kit. | use Final Draft and Inspir- ation a lot. And Microsoft Word, | suppose. Also, iMovie has been a bit of a revelation for me, and I'm working my way up the nurs- ery slopes of Final Cut Pro. I Shall Call It Mini-Me Shrink an iMac's size by a factor of 15 and its function- ality by a factor of a few thousand, and what do you have? 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SMALLER, FASTER, CHEAPER THE NEW MAC OS THE PERSONAL IMAGING REVOLUTION P. 52 THE MUSIC REVOLUTION PP. SOFTWARE, REINVENTED P. 56 THE DIGITAL VIDEO REVOLUTION THE NETWORKED WORLD P.6 THE WIRED LIFE P62 www.macworld.com/2000/09/features/trends Get started with all these trends at Macworld.com. by Bruce Tognazzini ac users are in for a big change. OS X her- alds a new era in the Macintosh user experi- ence—an era where the Mac is more power- ful and reliable than ever before. At the same time, the operating system's flashy new Aqua interface, along with the increasing number of tools that let you change the very underpinnings of the OS, may threaten the Mac's hallmark simplicity. The Way We Were No Mac user would feel any confusion seated in front of a 1984 Macintosh running System 1.0, but most would be surprised at just how primitive the operating system was. Apple hadn't yet even thought of much of what we take for granted on today’s Macintosh. In those early days, you could open . ey INTERFACE | the Apple Human Interface Group, a couple of UC Berkeley kids took the bus down to Apple to show the core Mac team a Mac Plus running MacWrite. We were not impressed. We'd seen MacWrite before. But when they shrank the MacWrite window that filled the screen, suddenly we could see the Finder running beneath. Apple's best and brightest gawked, gasped, and then broke into excited chatter. We'd never thought of such a grand illusion. When the two students returned to Berkeley late that afternoon, it was in the back of a stretch limo, and today’s MultiFinder was born. The Way We Are Since that leap, many new objects and behaviors have slowly built up on the Mac— from hierarchical, pop-up, and tab menus to drag and only one application—including the Finder—at a time, Even as memory increased, tight integration of appli- cations with each other and with the Finder remained elusive. Our sole tool was the Switcher. This illusion, developed by Andy Hertzfeld, switched between appli- cations by sliding the current one off to the left as the new one slid onto the screen from the right. You could get to any open application by sliding, but only one application at a time appeared on screen. Then, one fateful day in 1985, shortly after I founded drop—giving us what has been, until now, the simplest, most powerful human-computer interaction system ever made. But now progress more often responds to Microsoft, rather than the other way around. Even today, the company lags in such critical areas as uninstalling applications and memory management. Mac OS X could accelerate the Mac well beyond the reach of its competition once more. It corrects the single biggest interface problem Mac users have faced from day one: lack of reliability. Apple has, over the 42 September 2000 www.macworld.com years, given users tools to deal with crashing applica- tions (such as pressing 3-option-esc). However, the proper cure is to eliminate the problem in the first place. That's what OS X does. But under OS X. will this reliable computer still really be a Mac? What Makes a Mac a Mac? ith the Mac, you have always had the power W to move around and organize applications and documents in your own virtual space, maintaining a neat or cluttered workspace, as is your habit. Other desktop systems, from Windows to Unix, have depended more on abstraction, forcing users to remember the location of objects in complex hierarchies. In theory, all of this reduced clutter, but it really only moved the clut- ter from the visible desktop to the back of your mind. Since most of us work better with visible clutter than with rote memorization, our efficiency drops. Taking Away Control Early releases of OS X threatened to follow the same path, with the Trash Can and all other standard desktop objects thrown into the Dock, where they randomly bounced about as new windows and applications opened. In the last six months, much has turned around, with beta versions of the new OS becoming progressively more Mac-like. OS X is still missing some important objects, most notably OS 9's tab menus—capable of holding hun- dreds of clearly labeled items—at the bottom of the screen. The Dock, containing perhaps 20 or 30 icons, has replaced these. It is beautiful to behold, but a drop in bottom-edge storage by several hundred items repre- sents a significant backward step. In 1985, after a year of finding that pretty but unla- beled icons confused customers, the Apple human inter- face group took on the motto “A word is worth a thousand pictures.” This still holds true. Unfortunately, the labels for Dock icons don't appear until the mouse passes over them. A user looking for one of six Word documents must scrub the mouse back and forth along the length of the Dock until a particular label appears. Introducing Abstraction The Mac has held the advantage for years with its spatially oriented file system. OS X's new File Browser instead brings the power of Web browsers to the local desktop. Unfortunately, the Web and your desktop are not the same thing. On the Web, you typically search through millions of Web sites with billions of pages for something you didn't make yourself. A search through your personal machine is quite different—usually you're looking through a smaller number of files created by or collected and organized by you. Perhaps the File Browser will find its niche in local area networks, where users may need to traverse large numbers of documents they haven't personally created or collected. However, if 1 know Mac users, they want to organize their lives in their own ways. The Perils of Customization S X's interface isn't the only issue at hand. So, oO too, is its profound gift for customization. Cus- tomization can give us the power to make our comput- ers look and act the way we want. But we need look no further than Windows to see how it can be misused. Skin Deep For several years now, Macintosh users have had the ability to customize their Macs, but only at a superficial level. For example, Skins are special files www.maeworld.com September 2000 43 os _ £ ‘ f % Z Ss _ a ; n E wot OF i eS yPeRRHeE The Present The Mac's free-form Finder and clearly labeled interface have been its hallmarks. kat ioe eo ry rary A 6 Can The Future From the Dock to the File Browser, Mac OS X's new interface calls into question what makes a Mac a Mac. that can change the Finder or an application's color scheme and general appearance. Some skins are beau- tiful, some are hideous, but the most damage they can do is to aesthetics. A few other programs, such as QuicKeys and AppleScript, let us go further to automate particular sequences of events, but we still can't radi- cally change what applications or the OS can do. OS X provides the hooks that allow third-party developers to affect the user experience profoundly. In the future, you will have direct access all the way down to the Unix Console window (a scary sight indeed) — and you will discover scores of freeware and shareware widgets that change the very underpinnings of the OS and applications. Instead of getting a new skin that makes your system look like the latest and greatest Linux interface, for example, you'll probably actually get the latest and greatest Linux interface. The first addenda to the interface to appear will likely erase any perceived strayings from the path of the True Mac in the new OS X interface. This task behind them, the Mac community will start “improving” the interface. Some improvements will be cute but inconsequential. Some will seriously erode the user experience. Others will be as wonderful and astonishing as MultiFinder. With luck, Apple will once again employ a few late-afternoon limos, gathering the coolest ideas into the fold. Keeping It Simple Some wonder if the age of simplicity has passed Apple by. How can an OS as pow- erful as X possibly regain the sleek elegance of the Apple of old (no matter how flashy the demos)? The simple truth is that an interface is only as sleek as its OS is powerful. The Palm Pilot works because the interface with its relatively limited universe of functionality sits on a computer with significantly more power and storage than even the original Mac. OS X has the horsepower to command and control a far larger universe of activities than we have ever seen on personal computers. Does Apple still have the talent and the drive to achieve that ultimate simplicity? Will it go down the garden path trod by Microsoft, Sun, and others, build- ing tractors for the masses? Or will OS X live up to its demos and mature into a slippery new sports car? Whether we end up with a Caterpillar or a Porsche, the next year should be an exciting ride. BRUCE TOGNAZZINI was Apple employee 66. He pub- lishes the software design Webzine AskTog.com. More Info: www.macworld.com/2000/09/ features/evolution www.macspeedzone.com/frames/theXfiles.html Is Mac OS X evolution or devolution? Share your thoughts with the rest of the Mac community on these forums. 44 September 2000 www.macworld.com Call us today to reserve your free trial! Trial hotine: 888.552.2114 www.zapbcs.com/macworld Stay on schedule with [jobworks] [jobworks] ~ helps you keep Our dynamic work process manager your jobs organized. [jobworks] integrates employees, customers analyzes kes. You and suppliers, creates work procedures, monitors deadline: and helps to prevent mi processes, warns about bottlenecks get a complete overview of a job's status at any time. 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In all that time, a geologic age in the computing world, the personal computer has been the only way to do most digital tasks — from word processing and play- ing games to going online. But the personal computer is an overburdened beast, asked to do so many tasks that it often does them poorly. It's still a relatively expensive purchase, and—even in the case of the Mac—is often needlessly com- plicated and unreliable. The Post-PC Era So the tectonic plates have now begun to move in earnest under the hardware world, and we have entered the post-PC era: the era of the information appliance, a specialized com- puter optimized and tailored to do a limited number of digital tasks—very well, very simply, and very inexpen- sively. The industry is unleashing an abundance of new digital devices—wired and wireless, handheld and sta- tionary—to complement the personal computer, and in some scenarios, to replace it. Because of their simplicity and cost, these devices will help bring the Internet to the 50 percent of U.S. households that Forrester Research predicts still won't have Internet access in 2001. But they'll go way beyond that. People with Macs and other PCs will also own one or more appliances to perform various tasks better. Not Another Newton ing heard such predictions before. After all, the prophe- Mac veterans will recall hav- sied Newton revolution never happened. The Pippin and the eMate, which were supposed to replace PCs in some homes and schools, flopped. Even the Palm Pilot and the Sony PlayStation haven't knocked off the PC. This time, however, it’s different, and the key to that | difference is the Internet. The Internet changes every- thing. Increasingly, people focus on what's online, not on which kind of box gets them there. Most people still think of the Internet as a spe- cific service you access from a PC. But the Internet is des- tined to become more like the electrical grid—it'll be every- where, all around us, pump- ing out content, commerce, and entertainment from sock- ets all over the place to a wide variety of devices The Future Is Now You can already buy things such as the $449 Palm VII, which receives Internet content wire- lessly, or the $99 i-Opener, nothing more than a browser and an e-mail client in a sleek hardware container. This | summer, America Online will roll out AOL TV, which will | not only let you fetch Web pages—it will also blend TV and the Intemet. You'll be able to send and receive e-mail and instant messages right from the TV screen. Microsoft has joined with a number of hardware makers to produce the Web Companion, a forthcoming $199 device that hosts the company’s MSN online ser- vice and through that service the entire Web and e-mail. (Microsoft has also quietly dropped any reference to the personal computer from its mission statement.) Several Forecast presentation O. Lunch w/ Lisa 1) Sales training : ad practice ae ft ' companies will soon be offering wireless Web pads, tablets you can carry around the house while browsing. Others are rolling out Internet-connected stereo components, and | don't mean just MP3 players. These full-fledged stereo components download, store, and play thousands of MP3 tunes (or other digital music files) and don't rely at all on a PC. You'll also see e-books that 46 September 2000 www.macworld.com CHa Wireless Data Fix? Strung out because you can’t get to your data? Don't sweat it— Merlin can help. : Merlin provides wireless data access F Oeeih through your Windows® (ie laptop or handheld computer. It allows you } to wirelessly send and a receive e-mail, visit the Internet and connect to corporate servers. That's right, no Wires— you canbe mobile and get all of ‘ the data you need. And, it's the most 4 affordable wide-area wireless PC card modem on the market. Get Merlin and get connected. E ee " 5 2 Nerlin™ = : ie me * Wireless PC Card NOVATEL WIRELESS 1-888-888-9231 Wireless Magic by Novatel www.novatelwireless.com/ad Circle 75 on card or go to www.macworld.com/getinfo WIRELESS DEVICES IN 199 7 MILLION. connect directly to the Net to download best-sellers, as well as a staggering number of telephone-based Internet access gadgets. You'll also be able to give a pic- ture frame to your Mom that taps into a custom Web site and downloads whatever pictures you want her to see. The PC's Place So how will this affect your relation- ship with your beloved Mac? Well, the Mac, and the PC in general, will still be the most versatile and complete Internet access device. And the Mac will remain the device of choice for content creation and for program- ming. In fact, at least in the short run, the appliance trend will enhance the Mac’s value for content creators. If you're doing Web authoring, you'll need the power of the Mac to repurpose your Web content for all these new platforms. But, over time, many typical online tasks will become speedier and easier on appliances, if only because you'll have the appliances closer at hand, in more rooms of your house and right in your pocket or purse. So hold on to your Macs. Ride the wave of OS X and whatever the Web dishes out for the computer. But be prepared for a whole new world of digital devices, a world that should be as exciting as the Mac itself. WALT MOSSBERG is the author of the widely read “Personal Technology” column in the Wall Street Journal. My, How You've Grown: Apple Computers through the Years 1984 Apple Ie Processor: 65C02, 1.4MHz. Hard Drive: None. RAM: 128K. 1984 Macintosh 128 Processor: 68000, 8MHz. Hard Drive: None. RAM: 128K. Price: $2,495. 1987 Macintosh It Processor: 68020, 16MH2. Hard Drive: 40MB SCSI. RAM: 1MB. Price: $5,498. 1994 Power Macintosh 6100/60 Price: $1,599. SMALLER, FASTER, CHEA NUMBER EXPECTED TO HAVE ACCESS TO WIRELESS DEVICES WITH INTERNET PER aa i by John Markoff little more than a decade ago, while I was on a visit to now long-since-failed supercomputer maker Kendall Square Research (KSR), it became clear to me that the world of computing had been turned completely upside down. KSR was one of a handful of computer companies emblematic of the “big iron” era of computing. A single computer could consume as much power as a small city and cost as much as $30 million. Computing tech- nology in that era trickled down from large military and corporate computing projects until—years later—it finally appeared in desktop personal computers. One look at the heart of the KSR machine, however, revealed a very different reality. The custom micro- processor at the heart of each of its dozens of comput- ing modules was manufactured in Japan—on the same production line that made the chips inside each $300 Sharp Wizard calculator and organizer. All of a sudden, technology was trickling up. The world of big comput- ing had started to become dependent on the infrastruc- ture developed for inexpensive consumer electronics. Desktop Supercomputers Today this inversion is the norm. Not long ago, for example, researchers at NASA Ames Research Center received their first order of MEGAN GREENE 48 September 2000 www.macworld.com Power Mac Gas, They quickly ported a number of scien- tific programs to the new machines to benchmark per- formance, They wanted to find out if the 128-bit-wide registers provided by the AltiVec extensions to the G4 chip would be useful for scientific calculations. What they found is that the $4,000 G4 easily matched the perform- ance of a $30 million 1985-vintage Cray II for raw com puting performance. In a decade and a half, the cost of processing had fallen almost four orders of magnitude. Of course, it doesn't stop there. With the advent later this year of the Sony PlayStation 2—the $300 gaming console that will have more power than today's Intel- based PCs—it will indeed be possible to make two unequivocal statements: First, in the future the cheapest computers will be the fastest. And second, the compa- nies that make the fastest computers will be the ones that make things to go under Christmas trees Moore's Law Hits Home he computing inversion is the logical conse- T quence of Moore's Law, By this time, many o! us are acquainted with the observation made by Intel's cofounder Gordon Moore in the mid-1960s: Every 18 months the number of transistors that can be etched on a given area of silicon doubles. This has meant that, with brutal efficiency, the cost of computing has continued to fall while power has increased. So brace yourself. In the short space of the next year, the processing power of a PowerPC Gé4 will more than double—an increase that will match the progress made in the last 20 years of computing. And the year after that, it will double again! My first computer, purchased in 1981, was an 8MHz IBM PC; almost two decades later I'm writ- ing this on a PowerBook G3 that has roughly 40 times its processing power. Next year the Mac | write with will almost certainly have twice as much speed, consume less power, cost less, and look better. New Power, New Possibilities What does the fact that processing power is heading into the stratosphere while costs dwindle imply? Historically it has meant that with remarkable regularity, Silicon Valley has spun off entire new industries with each stair step in processing power: digital watches, video games, personal comput- ers, the Internet, mobile phones, and PDAs. Not that it's predictable. What is perhaps most deli- cious about Moore's Law is the regularity with which the pundits and executive “visionaries” stumble in their pre- dictions about what the next big thing will be. In the early 1990s Silicon Valley bet big and guessed wrong on inter- active television, Several years later in The Road Ahead William Gates largely missed the rise of the Internet. Now the next big bet is on wireless handheld com- puting. But no one is certain how and when that world will emerge. If wireless does take off, it will happen because new systems that allow people to access the Internet by voice from their cell phones will expand the power of the Internet far beyond the 25 percent of Americans who are connected. Already, systems such as Tellme (www.tellme.com) in Silicon Valley are opening up the Internet to cell-phone users. Users can get news, receive driving instructions, and make restaurant reservations all by using voice with a remote computer system. But try to guess what's next? It's a fool's game. For, as remarkable as Moore's Law is, processing power is now actually the laggard compared with the accelerating power of both magnetic data storage and optical-fiber communications. Just one example: in 1981, a 1OMB hard drive cost approximately $1000. Now you can buy a !OGB drive for about $100. These technologies are now improving at a rate that makes Moore's Law seem pedes- trian, Put it all together, and the world as we know it is certain to be turned upside down again. JOHN MARKOFF is @ senior writer for the New York Times in San Francisco. He is a coauthor of Takedown (Warner Books, 1996). More Info: www.macworld.com/2000/09/ features/faster Go online for the most recent reviews of hard drives, upgrade cards, and more. wwew.macworld.com September 2000 49 "THE NEW MAC OS by Philip Michaels ou've been hearing about it for years now. Apple's next-generation operating system, OS X, is going to change the way you use your | Macintosh forever. At last, the Mac will have a fully modern operating system. Preemptive multitasking! Protected memory! Powerful | graphics! And a whole new set of souped-up applica- tions designed specifically to take advantage of OS X's improved speed and stability. “Great,” you say, “but I've heard all this before. Just | tell me when the OS will be ready.” “Soon,” Apple says. “How soon?” you say. “Very soon,” Apple says | Its easy to become jaded by the hype, but don't be too skeptical. OS X is just around the comer, and it will | radically affect your Mac experience. But things don't always go according to plan. Delays crop up. And when it comes to developing something as labor-intensive as an entirely new operating system, one delay can have a domino effect. Want to understand the tortuous process of produc- ing an entirely new OS? Think of your favorite child- hood board game. Do something good, and you get to jump ahead several spaces toward the finish line. Make a mistake, and you slide back to square one. The road | | 1908 Xwill work-nivch the same way. With that in mind, we proudly present the game Carbonland. Feel free to play it with family and friends | as you while away the next few months, waiting for Mac OS X to make its early 2001 shipping date. Carbonland was developed by Associate Editors PHILIP MICHAELS and MATHEW HONAN, and Editor in Chief | ANDREW GORE. | A More Info: www.macworld.com/2000/09/features/osx Get the most up-to-date information on OS X's world.com forums. Shrinkwrap version of OS X released Corbonized drivers not ready APN : Al Utilities, backup software (Dantz Retrospect) ready to go Printer, scanner makers to come out with beta drivers ‘Apple announces public beta for OS X Start: : Developer Preview 4 released |_| progress, and share your opinion of it in the Mac- | 50 September 2000 www.macworld.com SOMMUNICATIONS | CONSUMER ONLINE P’ € A Meg 1) Key applications such as Finish: Microsoft Office yet to be OS X preinstalled on carbonized Macs! Major Mac developers (FileMaker, Intuit) delay Mac OS X releases aN Multimedia applications (InDesign, Dreamweaver) won't be ready when OS X ships Internet applica- tions such as Explorer and Eudora ready to ship when OS X ships OS X public beta released Developers need I/O kit to start working on drivers Apple gets power management and file sharing to work in new OS Carbonlib 1.1 ships to developers Apple works to bundle Java 2 into OS X TEVANIAN TANGERINE & LISA LIME al BONDI BLUEBERRY é STEVE STRAWBERRY www.maeworld.com September 2000 51 P OF MORE THAN 60 PERCENT. —IDC by Deke McClelland y earliest experi- ence with a digi- tal camera was on a discount cruise bound from Miami to the Bahamas and back again. I might have looked like just another idiot in Bermuda shorts and a sunburn, but | was the only guy on the ship capturing 640-by-480-pixel images with the first full- color digital camera priced under $10,000, Apple's QuickTake 100 Sure, I had to dash back to my cabin every 16 pic- tures to download images via a slow serial connection, and my gray-scale PowerBook had too little memory to open so much as a single image. But who cared? This was 1994, a time when only the rich could afford desk- bound, flat-page scanners, yet | was armed with a device that let me set sail and scan the world Bye-bye Film As fortune would have it, | haven't developed so much as a single roll of film since. It wasn't that the QuickTake was so phenomenal—in truth, its poor framing and gummy focus made for some pretty rotten pictures, But the simple fact that | never again had to go all the way to a photo lab was reason enough for me. I took the pictures and reviewed my shots, and once I'd purchased some more RAM, | learned immediately from my mistakes. How could | help but be entranced? It seems I wasn't the only one. Despite the fact that 35mm film continues to offer better image quality—and may do so for a few years to come—the immediacy and flexibility digital photography affords have attracted buyers in droves. U.S. shipments of digital cameras dou- bled from 1997 to 1998, and tripled from 1998 to 1999. Film cameras remain substantially more popular, but if current trends continue, you'll have a hard time finding a consumer film camera by the end of this decade. THE PERSONAL IMAGING REVOLUTION | Olympus, the best-selling camera vendor worldwide, claims that thanks to its higher prices—a new digital camera costs on average $494, com- pared with less than $100 for a film camera—the company expects to earn more next year from digital cameras than from film models. As this continues, infrastructure for consumer- grade film will wither and die. Instant Gratification Even now, people can't resist the urge itize, With scanner prices dropping below $100—in some cases $30 or less after rebates—desktop scanners are becoming standard equipment in dens and basements across the country. Last year, consumer scanner sales reached 8.3 million units, compared with a scant | mil- lion just three years earlier. Only a few consumer-grade scanners can capture the full resolution of film, and almost none do a decent job of scanning 35mm slides, But for most folks, quality is quite beside the point. The attraction of electronic imaging is that it permits us to capture and share photographs without constraint. Who cares if the image exhibits compression arti- facts or measures the size of a postage stamp? For the first time in our lives, we can communicate visually to anyone on the planet with the event still fresh in our minds. With a simple JPEG file, we share an intimate vision of ourselves that often transcends the spoken or written word. By sharing what I see, I show who I am. Electronic imaging ensures that no experience in our lives escapes our ability to convey it to others. Recently, More Info: www.macworld.com/2000/09/ features/imaging Want to join the revolution? Go to Macworld.com for tips, techniques, and the most recent reviews of inexpensive color printers and digital cameras. 52 September 2000 www.macworld.com when I e-mailed a sonogram of what promises to be my first son, the infinite potential of consumer imaging struck me. Here was a picture captured at great expense inside a human body, stored in who-knows-what format on some proprietary system. But because the doctor was able to print the image on photographic paper, I could scan it into my system and deliver it to friends and family just as if | had taken it myself The personal imaging revolution is by no means over. Companies have a way to go before they're through improving image quality, refining color accuracy, or intro- ducing technologies that inspire our imaginations and satisfy our wallets. But the most fundamenial rewards of digital imaging have already decorated our desktops. In the time it takes to blink, you can digitize an image ina format that's ready to print, post, or save for future use. No chemicals, no go-between—nothing stands between you and the perfect photograph but some free storage space and a set of functioning batteries. The world is truly your oyster; what you see is yours to keep. DEKE MCCLELLAND is the author of books including Real World Digital Photography (Peachpit Press, 1999). THOMAS DOLBY j THE MUSIC REVOLUTION USERS Interview by David Ferris lipping LPs, inserting 8-tracks, rewinding cas- settes—when it comes to enjoying music, all these actions now seem as outdated as mono sound Soon, even buying and listening to prerecorded CDs may well go the way of the dinosaur. Digital music files—you're probably familiar with MP3, the most common kind—have exploded in popularity recently. And as music lovers turn to the Internet, new services such as Napster (www.napster.com) and Gnutella (http://gnutella.wego.com) are letting them swap songs with people all over the globe. But that's not all. It's now possible to make music on your Mac for less money than ever before. We talked to Thomas Dolby—music pioneer, Beatnik.com founder, and Mac enthusiast—to see what the future holds. Q. How will MP3 and companies such as Napster change the music business? A. J think that companies like this are pushing the enve- lope, really redefining the whole music industry. They are moving at a much faster pace than the pillars of the music industry, and this has caused their legal prob- lems. There's a difference between pushing the enve- lope and stepping over the line I tend to side with the musicians who feel that Napster has crossed the line. I feel that it's my music, my ideas, and I think [Napster and MP3 are] going to be reined in. However, I think they have illustrated some pretty fundamental changes in that the fan should be paying for the intellectual property or copyright embodied in the song, not a piece of plastic in a box. As a musician, I've been saying for seven or eight years that the Internet eventually will revolutionize the way musicians live and the way the fans use music. The guys in the middle are going to need to redefine their roles—I see the record companies beginning to embrace the technology and actually fold it into the way they do business, although obviously they're very guard- ed about their legacy. They don’t want to give up the www-macworld.com September 2000 53 YOUNGER THAN 20 OWN A POR stranglehold they've had on the record industry. Q. So without that piece of plastic, how will people get their music? &.. I've bought six copies of [Pink Floyd's] Dark Side of the Moon over the years, but I don't happen to have a copy of it sitting where I am right now. I kind of like the idea that once I've paid for it, I have the right to dial it up. What I've paid for is the right to listen to that music—once, or twice, or for life. Q. When did you first start using Macs for music? A, In 1985 or ‘86 I got a 512K Mac with a basic MIDI sequencer—basically a word processor for musicians. From ‘85 on, it seemed there was always something bet- ter coming—a bigger screen or a faster drive or a bet- ter program. I started to realize, though, that twice the numbers doesn't exactly equal good. By the mid-]990s there was a plethora of choices for professionals and aspiring amateurs that was almost overwhelming. Today's Mac is a better machine than ever with syn- thetic music. Though the early Macs | had were good with MIDI, they were slow with audio waveform. The typical Mac today can crunch audio waveform almost in real time. You can do something on a Mac today that's no different from what you would do in a studio, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. You still need a studio—I wouldn't try to record a string quartet or a horn section on my Mac. You sometimes need a studio, a place with total iso- lation and no traffic noise, a place where the musicians can hang out while you twiddle with the knobs. But a lot of the time I used to spend in a studio | was just bent over a board twisting knobs. It's great that | can now do that in my guest house. I think many of the creative sources and tech- nologies we've been talking about will become native to the Mac. What really impresses me about Steve Jobs and his team at Apple is that they don't look down on the person who dreams of doing more with the computer. | mean, most people use their computers to do their taxes. But Apple knows they really want to be Herbie Hancock or, maybe, Thomas Dolby. They > DOES. —II understand amateur's desires. Q. How will music change now that young musicians can set up studios for just a few thousand dollars? A. I'm delighted that anyone can do it in a back room. When ! started out, you had to play the game. You had to get a record deal and get into a big studio if you wanted to get on the radio. No matter how talented you were, if you couldn't get the contract, you couldn't get near success, That it's changed is a very helpful thing. Because of the Internet, you have access to a whole set of tools and technologies and the opportunity to get your music out without going through A&R departments and record-store owners. I had very little luck with the industry at first, but I was able to produce music that people liked, and it got their attention. It's like an obstacle course that's designed to thwart you—I now believe those obstacles are gone. Anyone with talent can get their music out. Q. Technology has changed a lot since you last recorded. How will your experience be different the next time around? A. The idea of making an album seems rather quaint at this point. It could be Web-based or a live perform- ance or an installation. I believe I can connect with my fans and the music through the Web much better than by reading a royalty check or by following the Billboard charts. ] find it much more satisfying to get immediate feed- back from my fans rather than sit on an island some- where and read a review months later. More Info: www.macworld.com/2000/09/features/music Want to hear all that Thomas Dolby had say? Go to Macworld.com for a longer version of this interview. 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