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an | really be writing this
ness, that whatever fluctuations
in the market might come, the
ved itself a
consumer
e iMac and the
, and the high-end mar-
ket, with the G4Q—and that soon
Apple would be able to tie them
both together with a robu:
easy-to-use, modern
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make any major
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percent nose
dive in one day.
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that its profits for the
latest quarter were not
going to meet Wall Street's
projections.
Let me stress this point:
Apple didn't say it was going
to lose money; it just said it wasn't
going to make as much money as
everyone thought.
And in that moment, the sky started
to fall.
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finally trash that template, dusting it off again.
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Although it would be hard to tell based on some of
the predictions of Apple’s demise (see “Don't Panic
APPLE'S RECENT
STOCK SLIDE
Is A STUMB
Reason No. 3”), Apple wasn't
the only Big Tech firm to get
slammed in September. A num-
ber of hardware companies got
ered, including the un-
sinkable Intel, which dropped
from about $85 at the beginning
of the month to $40 by the end
of the quarter. It was a bad
month for hardware. The antici-
pated surge in education sales
didn't materialize, and the aver-
age consumer, so overburdened
with debt and the sheer exhaus-
tion that can be brought about
only by unchecked avarice, took
a break when the analysts pre-
dicted they'd be spending.
And, in case no one noticed,
the entire tech sector has been
bleeding for months now. Even
Microsoft has been hemorrhag-
ing. Last I checked, Microsoft
stock was Selling for just a little
more than $50, down from
about $120 at the beginning of
the year.
Don’t Panic Reason No. 2: This
Is Not Amelio’s Apple
Despite what some are saying,
there are almost no similarities
between Steve Jobs's Apple and
Amelio’s Apple just three years
ago. For example, using indus-
try standard calculations, Apple
stock is currently trading at less
than a third of its intrinsic
value. (Want to see for yourself?
Use the stock-evaluator function
of Quicken.com.) The company's
debt:equity ratio is the lowest it's been in four
years—it was at it’s highest under Amelio's stew-
ardship—and by every measure of growth, Apple is
performing at or above industry standard.
continues
Sounds like a company on the brink to me.
Don’t Panic Reason No. 3: Read with a Grain of Salt
I know this is going to sound a little paranoid, but
there are some journalists who have been just waiting
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for Apple to stumble.
This may come as a surprise to
you, but Apple is not the most
beloved of technology firms in the
media corps. The reasons for this
animosity are complex and long-
standing, but the result is that some
folks in the mainstream media would
like nothing better than to stick the
knife in, given a chance.
Now, | also believe these folks
are in the minority. But combine
these with those journalists who
remember John Sculley's Apple,
when they wrote glowing reports on
technology promise after technology
promise (remember the Newton?),
only to feel like they'd been had.
You'll get the sense that there is an
undercurrent of distrust when it
comes to Things Apple—and per-
haps a tendency to be a bit quick
on the panic button when anything
negative happens.
Don’t Panic Reason No. 4: There
Are Quick Fixes
Apple is no longer in the computer
business; it’s in the style business. It
has successfully managed to become
the Gap of technology. And the prob-
lem with the style business is that
nothing tanks worse than last season's
fashion.
The iMac, for all its innovations,
is three years old. And no matter
how refined the latest design, in
today’s style-conscious marketplace
that's too old. It's time for Apple to
come up with something new for
consumers. Before you say it: the
Cube's not it.
Get something new out for con-
sumers, update the PowerBook line
(the latest iBooks make it really
apparent how badly Apple's high-
end portables need an update), get
the Cube down to a more reasonable
price, and you've got what amounts
to anice, quick fix.
It's true that, in the long run,
Apple will need to expand its prod-
uct line into new spaces to continue
growing. I'm hoping Apple will apply
what it's learned about style, func-
tionality and ease-of-use to a new
line of wireless Internet devices,
preferably with a partner in the cell
phone business. The possibilities
boggle the mind. But then again,
my cell phone is practically grafted
to my ear,
Don’t Panic Reason No. 5: It’s Just
Too Soon.
This point is so important, it's worth
repeating: Apple is still making
money. It's got money in the bank, its
stock is hugely undervalued, and it
still builds some of the most desir-
able products in computerdom. It's
simply too soon to consider the com-
pany’s latest results anything more
than a stumble. And let's face it, the
company's got a lot on its plate: the
first major OS transition since the
Mac shipped, the G4 in need of
more megahertz or a worthy succes-
sor, a much more complex product
line, and a marketplace with a seri-
ous case of attention deficit disorder.
That's a lot to juggle. It only makes
sense that we'd see a few missteps.
But one soft quarter is not a disaster.
Let's give Apple at least until next
summer. If OS X hasn't shipped, if the
company hasn't made some signifi-
cant updates to the product line, if
developers haven't signed up for the
new OS, and if Apple hasn't at least
given some indication of new direc-
tions for the future, well, maybe then
it'll be time to worry. m
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Feedback
CHANGE
WPS SCARY, IT'S EXCITING,
Loose Change
expensive products.
You mentioned that some readers
thought reading Macworld was like
doing homework. | can't afford to
waste hundreds of dollars on bad
products; I need details and com-
parisons. In other words, | have to
do the homework before | make a
purchase, to learn all I can. It's too
bad that Macworld will no longer
be my tutor,
Erin Doak
Denver, Colorado
s a longtime reader of Macworld,
I think the recent redesign is
great. | especially enjoyed the
interviews with Roger Ebert, Thomas
Dolby ("Change," September 2000),
and Douglas Adams (Buzz, Septem-
ber 2000). I am a fan of all three and
hope that you continue to include
more real-life articles about famous
Mac users describing how they use
their Macs
Nate Benditzson
Chicago, Illinois
For many years I've subscribed to Macworld and
found your reviews to be informative and helpful in
making purchasing decisions. But your current one-
column reviews are mostly worthless, especially for
No End to Trend
{ter reading Thomas Dolby's
thoughts ("Change," Septem-
ber 2000), I think the music
industry is scared of losing control
of the pipelines between artists
and audiences, and that it's suing
Napster to slow down this process.
With new Internet-based tech-
nology, middlemen can be eliminated
and the prices consumers pay for
music can be reduced. However, a
fair solution for compensating artists
for the use of their intellectual prop-
erty is needed. Perhaps finding a way
to degrade the sound quality of work
that does not come from a properly
authorized source will make music
piracy go by the wayside.
via the Internet
Riding on the Freeway
our review of Freeway 3.0 disap-
pointed me (Reviews, Septem-
ber 2000), For Freeway's target
audience—designers—your “cons,”
although correct, are weighted
with too much importance,
Even for those of us who are
more technically inclined, Freeway
gives access to just about any cus-
tomization of HTML that a user may
desire. We've found that we can
always do what we need with the
program—JavaScript, forms, File-
Maker databases, and more—and
the Freeway actions automate much
of the process. | see the world as
code, but I'd rather use Freeway for
Web design than anything else.
Joe Muscara
Houston, Texas
There is a significant difference
between Freeway’s ability to open a
dialog box so you can add snippeis
of HTML or other code to a page,
and other programs’ ability to open
@ window and let you review and edit
the underlying code for the whole
page. Freeway is a good product for
people who don't need full code
access. People who do need that
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should be aware that Freeway isn't
designed for them.—Tom Negrino
Running a Tab
ou described “OS 9's tab menus”
(“Change,” September 2000),
but I cannot find this feature on
my computer, Is it a shareware tool or
an OS 9 feature?
Jason Connor
Richmond, Washington
Bruce Tognazzini was referring to the
tabs you can get if you drag a folder
window to the bottom of your screen.
The tabbed window in the screen
shot that accompanied Tognazzini's
essay was James Thomson's share-
ware DragThing, available at www
dragthing.com.—Ed.
What Mac Is That?
ooking carefully at all of Mac-
world’s former covers ("Welcome,”
September 2000), I wondered
what kind of Mac was featured on the
September 1996 cover. | don't recall
ever seeing it for sale.
Jonathan Daley
Medina, Ohio
That was a Power Macintosh prototype,
created by Macworld and Frogdesign,
that existed only on paper—Ed.
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lished letters become the property of Macworld.
The price for QuickTime Pro (Reviews, October
2000) is $30.
Current versions of Hard Disk Toolkit (Reviews,
September 2000) do support HFS+ volumes.
Our revised rating of the product is $$$. m
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Feedhag
Glub, glub, glub. No, that’s not
the sound of the Titanic sinking—
it’s our Feedback editor's mailbox
taking on water under the weight
of all the mail we got about
Macworld's redesign.
When you get thousands of let-
ters, e-mail messages, and online
forum posts, it’s tough to distill the
responses, but Feedbag is up to
the challenge. “I don’t want to be
entertained,” wrote reader Steve
Katz, “at least not in the Jerry
Springer sense of the word.” Well,
great. Now what do we do with
our January cover story, “Two-tim-
ing PowerBook Users and the G4-
owning Bikers Who Love Them’?
Reacting to a Macworld.com
story about the U.S. Navy switch-
ing to Windows 2000 for its new
shipboard computer systems, one
wag noted, “Why do you think
military intelligence is an oxy-
moron?” More troubling was a
report from an Australian reader
about his country’s navy: “They're
working on a highly expensive
submarine project which has pro-
duced subs with the same level of
stealth as Metallica.” You mean
the subs are calling press confer-
ences and demanding the shut-
down of Napster, too? Bummer.
But how do those of us not
aboard U.S. Navy vessels make
clear our undying love of the Mac?
An anonymous reader suggests
wearing graphite ribbons on every
lapel, “to spotlight the plight of
Mac users everywhere.” Instead,
perhaps it’s time to don a navy-
blue ribbon—for all our sailors
who go to sea with their lives in the
hands of Bill Gates and a boatload
of Windows support technicians.
Be glad, then, that you use a
Mac—or at least that you use Mac.
OS 9. Macworld reader Jane
reports that she “nearly lost it”
when an Apple representative told
her that Mac OS X will make the
Mac experience more like “the
way PC users are used to work-
ing.” Ahoy, matey! Cap’n Jobs
would like a few words with you
down by the brig.
If we are truly destined to
evolve into PC users, perhaps
Apple will one day place a second
mouse button underneath that
opposable thumb. This would
please a reader by the name of
“Bababooey,” who is so frustrated
with Apple's insistence that two-
button mice are confusing, he’s
ready to throw a barrel of Apple
Pro Mice out of the nearest port-
hole: “If Apple is really making
Macs for people that stupid, why
don’t they include drool bibs?”
Maybe with version 2.0,
Bababooey.
But let’s get back to that
redesign. Jonathan Foerster may
have summarized reader senti-
ment best: “Keep this up, and |
might start wallpapering my house
with your magazine.” So long as
it's not the bathroom, we'll accept
the compliment.
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Mean Green Machine
he new colors are what catch the
eye—the striking deep blue of indi-
go, the pulsating Day-Glo green of
key lime. But the real significance of
Apple's new line of iBooks is beneath
the surface.
When it debuted in the summer
of 1999, the iBook quickly got a
News,
Views, and
Chatter from
the World of
Macs
reputation for being
more dazzling
than dutiful. The
original iBook
featured only
32MB of RAM,
making that model
prone to crashes.
Something Old, Something New
controller with 8MB of SDRAM
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26 December 2000 www.macworld.com
Apple doubled the
iBook’s RAM this past
spring. And the latest revi-
sions continue to bolster
the laptop's power (see
“Something Old, Some-
thing New”).
The standard iBook
configuration now includes
a 366MHz G3 processor,
64MB of RAM, and 10GB
of storage. The iBook
Special Edition is even
faster, now with a 466MHz
G8 processor.
Gamers have plenty to
love about the new iBooks.
Apple has replaced the ATI
Rage Mobility graphics
controller with a Rage 128
Mobility chip set—the
same graphics processor
that ships in PowerBooks.
Just as important, Apple
has added a FireWire port,
a composite video-out port,
and iMovie 2 to the new
iBooks. Find a DV cam-
corder that costs less than
$1,000, and you've got a
sub-$3,000 portable movie-
making kit.
Not bad for a machine
that just a while ago was
getting by largely on
looks.—PHILIP MICHAELS
STORAGE
Surprise
Oh That other hardware upgrade.
WM hoc vemancees
about it, but the company has also boosted
the hard drive capacity of its PowerBooks.
The 400MHz G3 PowerBook has an
expanded hard drive capacity of 10GB,
up from 6GB. Storage on the 500MHz G3
model jumps to 20GB, from 12GB. And the
laptops ship with iMovie 2 installed.
The storage upgrades haven't affected
prices: the 400MHz PowerBook still sells for
$2,499, the 500MHz version for $3,499.
Users who demand massive amounts
of storage can plunk down an extra $500
for Apple’s build-to-order model, which
boasts 30GB of hard drive capacity and an
extra battery and AC adapter—for those
times you and your PowerBook are circum-
navigating the globe, apparently.
Plenty of differences remain between
the two product lines. PowerBooks have
extra USB and FireWire ports, as well as
more L2 cache space. They have 14.1-inch
TFT XGA displays, compared with 12.1-inch
TFT SVGA displays on the iBooks. And the
500MHz PowerBook comes with twice the
memory—128MB—of the top-of-the-line
iBook.—Puil
HAELS
Mac StTurr
The Whole
Picture
You're back from the deep-
sea fishing trip with digital-
camera photos of you
battling that 35-inch striped
bass. But forcing everyone
to crowd around your 17-
inch monitor to see the pic-
tures doesn't adequately
convey the drama. Enter
FotoShow from Iomega
(800-697-8833, www
-iomega.com). After plug-
ging into your Mac via
USB, FotoShow works as a’
Zip 250 drive. Just drag
JPEGs off your desktop for
easy storage. But FotoShow
2
really shines when you can
hook it up with a TV to dis-
play images in full-screen
splendor. FotoShow lets you
crop and rotate photos,
build slide shows, and
remove red-eye with its
built-in PicturelQ software
The drive, which costs less
than $300, gets your point
across—at business or at
home—especially to friends
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stories.—ANTON LINECKER
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27
Finally, there’s the Finder. Yo! Apple!
Mac users like the old Finder. We like spring-
loaded folders. We like being able to make
Finder windows really skinny. We don’t like
BETA BLUES
acres of screen real estate being gobbled up
by eye candy. The new Finder is vastly less
efficient than its predecessor. Fix it.
Are there things I like about Mac OS X?
Yeah. The font oh
up on built-i
I've been using
for the past 48
OS X public beta
rs—about 24 more
than I needed to decide that I'd wait nel is cool. Two thumbs
until the real OS
The first thing |
lation was turn off
mice. Ang'the force-quit feature is
handy. As for the rest, I'll
ors. Blue buttons don’t serve judgment until a final version
bother me, but | thought fl
might stop that annoying throb!
when they’re highlighted, It didn’t.
I'm clinging to the hope that
comes out.—HENRY BORTMAN
CooL STUFF
“Dethrobber” will be an option in
the final release.
Tolga cuanto, The Spy Camera Who
Word document on my ink-jet printer.
Novean de; You bead Wor ne Elessle | | Ml If James Bond ever needed a video
GppAnd ny printer: 16 a'USB bririter, ove e camera—say to tape a surprise birth-
There’s no USB-printer support in the
day party for Blofeld at S.PE.C.T.R.E. head-
quarters—then Q would hand him the
Elura 2MC from Canon (800/828-
4040, www.canondy.com). The size of
a wallet, this 14-ounce MiniDV ultra-
compact wonder fits in a tuxedo
pocket. It has pro-
gressive scan
recording for
improved video
quality. A Multi-
MediaCard slot
lets you store
Classic environment.
This floors me. After two years of
telling everyone to junk their old
Macs, junk their serial peripherals,
and jump on the USB bandwagon,
Apple has the nerve to come out
with an OS that doesn’t support
USB printers!
Since when does beta mean
“basic functionality is missing, but
we're going to ship it anyway
because we told you we'd have it out
in September and we wanted to
make a big splash in Paris’”? top-secret
Then there's networking. images. Each
8MB card holds
Remember Open Transport?
60 high-quality or
105 normal resolution pictures. The 10x
optical/40x digital zoom, image stabilizer,
and improved low-light recording make recon-
naissance missions a breeze. And after a day on Her
Majesty's secret service, everything downloads to a Mac
via FireWire. The only thing that's not small is the Elura
2MC’'s price tag—$1,799. So try to return the equipment this
time, 007.—ANTON LINECKER
It lets you change your net-
work configuration on-the-
fly, great for PowerBooks or
for when your DSL line dies.
It’s not in the OS X beta. Every
time you change your network
setup, you have to restart. Another
step backward.
28 December 2000 www.macworld.com
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Medicine For Your Mac
Nothing can ruin your day faster than a sick and ailing
computer. And while Macintosh is one of the most reliable
computers in the world, sometimes things can go wrong.
That's why we invented TechTool Pro. TechTool Pro is
the super-utility that can find and isolate almost any
problem on your computer. No other utility in the world
comes even close to covering as many aspects of your
Macintosh as does TechTool Pro.
But diagnosing computer maladies is only half the battle.
Besides repairing drives, recovering data and checking
the health of your Macintosh components, TechTool Pro
can now help protect you against virus problems and
software conflicts. TechTool Pro can also keep your Mac
running at its peak between problems. The program
optimizes your disk drive to make your computer run
faster and more efficiently. Our RAM panel even allows
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you to see the inner configuration of your memory
without needing to open the case.
Do all these features make TechTool Pro complicated to
use? Not at all. The MultiTester feature allows you to give
your computer a full checkup with one click of your
mouse. TechTool Pro even creates graphic, easy-to-read
and understand reports. Now you can know the state of
your computer without having a degree in computer
science.
Every day, more and more Macintosh professionals are
choosing TechTool over other system utilities. In fact,
even Apple Computer includes TechTool Deluxe with
every copy of their AppleCare™ Protection Plan. Simply
put, TechTool Pro 3 is the most complete and powerful
troubleshooting and repair utility available for your
computer. Why would you settle for anything less?
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Package Different
Like a bubblegum plastic case. With
movie's young thug _its smoky gray
who ditches his color, the package
leather jacket for (designed by
fancier duds so he Landor Associates)
can woo the prom resembles a hol- Office-n
queen, Microsoft lowed-out hockey ' Ice: mae
wants to change puck (so that's
its image with Mac where Apple un-
users. That means loaded those roly-
new logos, new poly mice). The
advertising material, idea, says Microsoft
and—in the case of | Mac Unit Product
Office 2001—new Manager Irving
packaging. Instead Kwong, is to provide ner, but it is also
of packaging the “a case that is as reusable.” True Microsoft label is
software suite in an stylish as the enough, the Office removable, in
oversize box, Micro- Macintosh. Not only 2001 package can case you're wary
soft put Office 2001 does the new pack- _—_ double as a home of shilling for The
inside a rounded aging present for your favorite Man.—PHILIP MICHAELS
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Macking Out
Your Mac
So you've been dying to house that old Power Mac 7600 in a vintage Zenith radio
from the 1940s? Hey, who hasn't? Or maybe you took a look at the beat-up Mac
SE sitting in the deeper recesses of your closet and thought, “If only | knew how to
encase it in Mega Blocks.” Join the club, pal. Applefritter.com can tell you how to
build the customized Mac of your dreams. The site, a virtual museum for Mac
aficionados, features classic, prototype, and limited-edition Macs, such as the
Macintosh TV and the Power Express—a G3 machine with six PCI slots. But its
main draws are the tricked-out custom builds that, should you try to duplicate
them, will void your warranty faster than you can say, “Wozniak wept.” Undaunted,
Applefritter posts build notes and photographs for the brave of heart so that you,
too, can have a G3 stuffed with Christmas tree lights. Even if you're not the fear-
less type, the site's still worth checking out for the Darth Maul PowerBook, which
all the kids will want this holiday season.—MATHEW HONAN
www.Applefrittercom
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EDWARD CALDWELL
Pro FILE
Documentary
Discount
Q&A with Jon Else
Jon Else became a documentary filmmaker to tell stories.
But lately, the director of Cadillac Desert and The Day
After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
finds himself spending less time behind the camera. Else
sent out 310 funding proposals before he had enough
money to produce Cadillac Desert, a film about water in
the American West. “More and more of us have found our-
selves having to spend more and more time raising
money," Else says. “It's a lousy waste of our time." Else
hopes technology will set him free. He teaches documen-
tary filmmaking at the University of California at Berkeley's
Graduate School of Journalism. The focus: low-budget
filmmaking. The tools: cameras and editing applications
available to Mac users.—ANTON LINECKER
Q: Is making a documentary now easier or harder
than 20 years ago?
A: lt was a lot easier to raise money 20 years ago, but
mechanically it was more difficult. The fact of the matter
is that Avid and Final Cut Pro editing is vastly more
transparent and flexible than the old film-style editing,
And let’s not even talk about the nightmare of tape-to-
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“We see the technology
as just a way of getting
the door open.”
tape editing, the real dark
continent of editing,
Q: How are new technolo-
gies affecting documentary
filmmaking?
A: We see the technology as
just a way of getting the door
open to less-expensive ways
to make some documentaries.
It’s not rocket science. Every
year we get smaller cameras
that take better pictures.
We're approaching a point
where even small-format
video, when viewed on televi-
sion, approaches the quality
of 16mm or Super 16. These
can be consumer cameras
that sell for $1,000 up to
low-end professional cameras
that go for $10,000 to
$15,000. It
used to be
an Avid sys-
tem cost
$120,000.
Now a com-
plete Final Cut
Pro system will
run you about
$4,000. There are
still some things
that the Avid can do
that Final Cut can’t, but
there’s about 80 percent to
90 percent of an Avid’s capa-
bilities that Final Cut can.
Q: What is an essential
equipment package for
today’s low-budget docu-
mentary producer?
A: The consumer cameras
are starting to get so good,
you can get anything pretty
much for $1,000 and up. In
the program at Berkeley we
use PD100s, PD150s,
VX1000s—the Sony stuff—
and also the Canon XL1,
which has become a real
workhorse, and the GL1,
which is a little less expen-
sive. Any of these consumer-
prosumer cameras will make
astonishing pictures. Then,
you need a good external
microphone.
You may have to
spend a thousand bucks for
that. And finally, you need
something to edit on. We're
going to go with Final Cut
Pro because we're working in
a professional world.... So
how much is that? Six grand
for everything?
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Different” posters featuring Jerry Lewis.
3. Intel recalls faulty 1.13GHz Pentium III chip.
On the bright side, anyone adversely affected gets a free
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MAC BATTLE PLAN
he Chinese use the same charac-
ter for the word crisis as they do
for opportunity. Corel has had
enough of the former and would like
more of the latter.
But Corel hopes to convince Mac
users uneasy about its purchase of
Painter, Bryce, KPT, and KPT Vector
Effects that it means business, “We
want to make sure people see us as
a company with a reputation for
strong Mac products,” says Corel
spokeswoman Meredith Dundas.
That's a tall order, given Corel's
shaky Mac track record, But the
company is trying to back up the
talk. It released Bryce 4.1, adding
new mapping modes. Painter 6.1
should be out by late fall.
“They prove to users we're
strong, we're working with the Mac,
you can trust us,” Dundas says.
Mac users may not be as encour-
aged by Corel’s decision to release
CorelDraw 10 for the Mac in early
2001 while already shipping the
Windows version. The company has
its reasons—the next Mac will be OS
X-savvy, so Corel can’t release the
product until a final version of the
operating system is ready. But Mac
enthusiasts take it personally when
they have to wait for a product that
Window users already have.
Corel also plans major revisions
of each of its graphics programs—
including the former MetaCreations
products—for spring of 2001.
That certainly gives Corel the
opportunity to redeem itself in the
eyes of Mac users. Now all it has to
do is deliver.—PHILIP MICHAELS
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lt
or years, Mac fans have
petitioned Apple for a mod-
ern operating system: not just
more spaghetti code piled on top
of the ancient Mac OS foundation,
but something state-of-the-art and
rock solid. We've wanted the stabil-
ity of Unix and the good looks of
a Macintosh.
Be careful what you wish for.
Apple's new operating system, Mac
OS X, is all that. But OS X is unlike
any other operating system in Mac-
intosh history, and in its current
condition, it requires a great deal
of tolerance from the Mac faithful.
Although Apple won't release it in
final form until spring of 2001, it's
now available as a beta (the final \
stage of development before a prod- SS
uct's release) for you to try.
Running a prerelease OS is like
rafting down an uncharted river or
hiking through the back country—
there's no telling what danger lurks
around the next bend. Running the
OS X beta has its upsides, however—
including a sneak peek at an operat-
ing system that will soon radically
reshape your Mac experience.
If you're just catching on to
this phenomenon, see “Mac OS X
Unveiled!" (March 2000) and “X
Arrives” (Buzz, November 3000) for
overviews of the OS. If you're itching
to get your hands on the real thing,
you can order the $29.95 Mac OS ©
X-beta CD-ROM from http://store
.apple.com. But read this two-part
article before the package arrives.
We'll show you how to prepare for
and install the beta, minimize risks,
and navigate the unfamiliar territory.
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From the Roman numeral in its name to its
Aqua interface, Mac OS X requires you to think
very different. But thinking different doesn't
mean throwing caution to the winds. For the
best beta experience, you'll need to prep
your Mac with certain hardware and software,
; install the beta in the proper way and place,
and understand the new configuration options.
Check Your Supplies
Apple is taking a huge gamble by releasing OS X to the
public before it's done. If the beta is a bug-ridden turkey,
Apple could lose the consumer confidence it has recap-
tured since Steve Jobs's return to the helm. So it's a safe bet
that Apple's software engineers have been working overtime
to make the OS X beta as stable and reliable as possible.
But before you reach for your credit card, make sure
your hardware is up to the job. The OS X beta won't run
on all Macs, and it has hefty system requirements. (See
“The Right Stuff” for a hardware checklist.) Once you've
1) met those criteria, you should take the following simple
~ steps to forestall problems.
Don't Install the Beta on a Mac You Can't Live
Without
and data, reformatting and restoring a hard drive can
take hours. It's also important to remember that many
peripheral devices—including USB printers and remov-
Even if you have backups of your applications
able media drives—won't work under OS X until vendors
release new drivers for them.
Back Up Your Hard Drive before You Install the Beta
And do it again frequently thereafter. Don't assume that
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your existing backups are intact—test
them to make sure that files weren't
corrupted during backup. If you have
Dantz Retrospect (925/253-3000,
www.dantz.com), you can use that
program's Verify function to check the
integrity of your backups. (See “Be
Safe, Not Sorry,” February 1999, for
backup strategies.)
Install Mac OS 9 If you want to
use your current applications in OS X's
Classic environment, you must have
OS 9 installed. Classic is incompatible
with previous versions of Mac OS.
Protect Your Files Although you
can install the OS X beta on the same
hard drive as Mac OS 9, shielding
your files by installing the beta on
its own hard drive helps ensure their
safety (though the beta can't boot
from an external FireWire drive). If
your computer goes south, you'll be
less likely to lose valuable data. (If
Back up your
hard drive before you
install the OS X
beta—and frequently
thereafter.
you have a G3 or G4 Power Mac
with two ATA drives, you have to
install the beta on the master drive.)
Partition Your Drive
have a second drive, use Apple's
If you don't
It offers mostly straightforward options
but adds a few new wrinkles.
Configure Your Network With
OS X's Setup Assistant you can con-
figure your Mac for Internet access
via modem, local area network, cable
modem, or DSL (Digital Subscriber
Line). It's a good idea to open your
Mac OS 9 TCP/IP control panel
account. If you don't want’ totybe
your user name and password every
time you start OS X, you can specify a
default account using the Regirr panel
under System Preferences (see “Mak-
ing OS X More Familiar," How-to, else-
where in this issue).
Setup Assistant applies your set-
tings. Once you restart, you're feady
Drive Setup feature to create a sepa-
rate partition for OS X on your disk.
Note that Drive Setup can't partition
a drive without reformatting it first.
Map Your Route
You've backed up and prepared
your hard drive, and you're holding
the beta CD in your hand. It's time
to install.
Start with C Insert the CD and
restart while holding down the C key.
Your Mac will restart from the CD, and
the installer will run automatically.
(The spinning, colored CD cursor
indicates that OS X is loading.)
Pick a Drive When the installer
prompts you, choose a destination
hard drive or volume for OS X. You'll
have the option of reformatting the
OS X disk in the Mac OS Extended
(HFS+) or the Unix File System (UFS)
format. Although the beta works with
either one, only Mac OS Extended
drives show up on a Mac OS 9 desk-
top, so that's the best option for most
users. (If you're installing OS X on the
same volume as OS 9, don't reformat;
if you do, you'll have to restore all
your current files and folders.) When
the installation finishes, the installer
restarts your Mac
Step on the Trail
The first thing you'll notice after Mac
OS X starts is the revamped Setup
Assistant. Although it resembles its
Mac OS 9 counterpart, the OS X ver-
sion lets you configure more settings
and write down your settings before
rebooting into Mac OS X, so you'll
have them handy when you get to Pore
to begin exploring the OS X beta.
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Set Up E-mail ‘
Email Settings dialog box lets you
The Configure
enter account information for the
Mac OS X beta’s e-mail client
Unlike
OS 9's optional Multiple Users feature,
Define User Accounts
Mac OS X's requires that you specify
at least one password-protected user
Here’s what you'll need to run
the Mac OS X beta:
© An iMac, or any Power Mac or
PowerBook with a G3 or G4
processor, except the original
PowerBook G3 (the limited-release
model that came before the Wall Street
models). Apple hasn’t committed to
supporting other PowerPC-based Macs,
including those with third-party G3 or G4
processor cards.
© Internal video or an Apple-supplied video card from IXMicro or ATI
If you have more than one monitor connected to your Mac, disconnect
the second one before you install the beta.
© At least 128MB of memory. (You might get by with less, but you
probably won't be able to run your current OS 9 applications.)
© 1.5GB of free disk space. If you can spare the room, setting aside
another gigabyte or two for applications and documents is a good idea.
© Firmware updates for your Mac and other hardware. Some people
report they can't run the beta without those updates. Look for the latest
installers and instructions on Apple’s support site (www.apple.com/
support). Updates may cause their own problems, so give yourself time
to recover before you go to the next step in the installation process.
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Once you've installed the beta, it's time to take
your first steps into the future of the Mac. Just
make sure you walk in with your eyes open.
The Mac OS X beta is visually stunning, power-
ful, and stable in situations that would have
qigrashed previous operating systems. But it also
lacks a long list of beloved Mac OS features,
including the Apple menu, the Application
\ »amenu, the Control Strip, pop-up windows, the
Soros
‘Encrypt command, the Put Away command,
, Launcher, and several useful control panels.
Even Windows’ desktop is closer to the tradi-
tional Mac OS desktop than Mac OS X's.
The cheat sheet “Where'd Everybody Go?”
will help you find the missing elements (or their
ih eplacements) as you navigate through the
beta. For a more in-depth guide to its geography,
including the folder structure, the Finder,
Classic, and brand-new applications, read on.
Get Out Your Compass
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Vi { folder structure. What lies behind Mac OS X's pretty
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face is Unix, plain and simple. Your Mac’s default name
is “localhost,” and the System folder contains folders
called Administration, Applications,
Documentation, and Library. Poke
around, and you'll find files with
names such as BSD.pkg and apache
.conf.bak
New Survival Tools For the time
being, don't knock yourself out try-
ing to decipher the functions of
these files and folders. Instead, get
acquainted with the new Go menu
or the Finder tool bar (see "The Big
Picture”), both of which give you
direct access to the folders you
Behind OS X's
pretty face is Unix,
plain and simple.
really care about: Applications,
where you'll find most of your Mac
OS X programs, and Documents,
where Mac OS X programs deposit
your work (unless you direct them to
a different folder via the Save com-
mand). Both of these folders are
buried deep in the nested mass of
Unix folders, but you can summon
them easily from the Go menu.
To preserve your sanity, consider
putting aliases of your Mac OS 9
applications into this Applications
folder, too, so you won't have to
go foraging every time you need
one of your older programs.
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Window Confusion
The first thing you'll notice is that Finder windows don't
work quite like they used to. For example, double-clicking
on a folder or disk doesn't open a new window. Instead,
you'll see one big window at all times. Every time you
double-click on a disk
or folder, its contents
will replace whatever
was previously visible
in the window. Click
on the Back button just
below the title bar (or
press $-B) to return
to the previous view, In other words, the Mac OS X Finder
works like a Web browser for your hard drive. Unlike a
ye ‘browser, though, it has no Forward button.
If you need to open two windows at once (to move or
copy icons, for example), you have several options. You
)\ can use the File menu's New Finder Window command to
create a second window, option-double-click a disk or
folder to open it in an independent window, or choose
the Column View option (see “Column View"). To learn
Woy to make every double-click produce a new
ity and features as Cocoa or Car-
bonized programs; if a Classic pro-
gram crashes, your entire Mac OS 9
bubble may burst. But even then,
you don't have to restart the machine;
Mac OS X soldiers on.
Take a Long Launch To enter
the Mac OS 9 world, just double-
click on the icon of one of your older
programs. Unfortunately, launching
a Classic application takes just as
long as booting up a Mac OS 9
machine—because that is, in effect,
what you're doing. But you'll proba-
bly have to wait only once a day;
after you've created the Mac OS 9
world, you can leave it running.
If a Classic
program crashes,
your entire
Mac OS 9 bubble
may burst.
At that point, using the Classic
environment to run OS 9-compatible
programs isn't bad. For the most part,
programs launch and work as they
always have: mostly at full speed and
window, see “Making OS X More Familiar,” How-
to, elsewhere in this issue.
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bee ces: {gna You get the best Mac OS X experience by using
Qui cornmands. ‘ programs written for Mac OS X (termed Cocoa)
lhe upper right or adapted to it (called Carbonized). Only these
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Column View The new Column View
speeds up folder navigation, makes it
easier to see where you are in the folder
hierarchy, and cuts down on the time
you spend opening and closing folders.
It even displays movies and pictures right
in the Finder.
largely unaffected by your Mac OS X
programs in the background. You will
have to make some adjustments: Mac
OS 9 programs communicate with
your Mac circuitry via Mac OS X, so
you'll have to do without your AirPort
card and USB printer (see “Mac OS
Lab Notebook," www.macworld.com/
2000/09/13/lab.himl for more infor-
mation. Mundane tasks such as scroll-
ing in graphic-heavy documents can
be slow and jerky. Otherwise, Apple's
clever engineering lets us have our
OS cake and older software too.
Grab Bag of Apps
As OS X makes its way onto the
world’s Macs, the biggest disappoint-
ment for users will be the lack of
OS X-ready programs. But Apple
soothes the ache by including some
free applications with a standard OS
X installation. Many OS X-compatible
versions of the old standbys are there
(Microsoft Internet Explorer 5,
Calculator, QuickTime Player, Key
Caps, Sherlock, and Stickies, for
example). The Mac OS X beta also
comes with a chess game; a basic
HTML editor; a couple of simple
graphics programs; and utilities for
capturing screen images, “pinging”
your network, monitoring your laptop
battery, and more.
Incomplete Survival Tools The
meatiest new programs include
Address Book (a system-wide con-
tact manager), Music Player (see
“Music in X"), and Mail. But they're
limited by an ivory-tower design atti-
tude. For example, while Address
Book is smoothly integrated with the
Mail program, you can't import
or export names and addresses.
Music Player lacks some features
of AppleCD Audio Player; the pro-
gram can't import CD titles and
track names, nor can it use the
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Where'd Everybody Go?
For a Mac user, using Mac OS X is like coming home from a trip to discover that your spouse hos com-
pletely redecorated your house. Here are some hints on where to find the features you once knew. Apple
has moved or replaced some; the company may yet restore those that are missing,
MAC OS 9 FEATURE
WHERE IT 1S IN THE MAC OS X BETA
‘About This Computer
‘Missing. To find out your system software version, choose About This
Mac from the Desktop menu. For memory stats on running programs,
420 to Process Viewer (Applications: Utilities)
‘Appearance conirol panel
Missing. To apply a picture to your desktop, choose Desktop & Dock
Preferences from the Desktop menu and then click on the Desktop tab,
Apple DYD Player
Missing.
Apple menu ‘Missing, The Dock has some items that were once in the Apple menu,
cand dragging items into the Dock is like adding items fo the Apple menu.
AppleCD Audio Player Replaced by Music Player.
Balloon help Eliminated.
Chooser for deskiop printers
Now called Print Center (Applications: Utilities),
3E-shift-3 (fo fake screenshots)
Replaced. Open the Grab application (Applications: Utilities), go to the
File menu, and choose fo make your screenshot a Selection (#-shift-A),
a Window (88-shift-W), a Screen (88-2), or a Timed Screen (38-shift-Z).
Collapse box
Eliminated,
38-drag (to scroll windows)
Replaced by option-drag.
Control panels
Found by clicking on System Preferences in the Dock (some conirol
panels are absent from the beta).
Desktop clippings
Missing. You can stil create deskop clippings in the Classic environ-
ment, but OS X programs can't accept them.
Disk First Aid
Now called Disk Uility (Applications: Uiilifes).
Disk icons
Removables such as CDs and Zip disks can show up on the desktop. To
learn how to put a hard drive alias'on the desktop, see “Making OS X
‘More Familiar,” How-to, elsewhere in this issue.
Draggable window edges
You can drag from the top edge but not the sides.
Drive Setup Incorporated into the Mac OS X Installer.
Encrypt command Missing.
Extensions Eliminated.
File Sharing In the Sharing window (click on System Preferences in the Dock),
Fonts folder Now found in the Library folder (System: Library), but you can no longer
double-click on a font file fo see what the font looks like,
Get Info Now called Show Inspector (under the File menu).
Graphic Calculator Missing.
Key Caps, Calculator Now in the Applications folder.
Keychain Access control panel
Now in the Utilities folder.
Multiple Users control panel
Now in the Utilities folder.
Pop-up windows Eliminated,
Preferences folder Nonexistent as we know it.
Resiart commond Hidden unless you press the option key before opening the Special menu.
Quit command
Now in the Applications folder.
Scrapbook, Note Pad Missing.
Script Editor Now in the Utiliies folder.
Sherlock Now on the Dock.
Sorfing iriangle Double-click on the column heading (such as Name) fo sort a list view.
Shutdown Items Missing.
‘Simple Finder Eliminated.
‘SimpleSound ‘Missing.
ipleText Now called TextEdit, located in the Applications folder.
Stortup items Click on System Preferences (on the Dock), click on Login, and then
click on Add under the Login Items tab.
Stickies In the Applications folder,
TCP/IP. AppleTalk Click on System Preferences (on the Dock), and then click on Network.
Note that the AppleTalk default is inactive.
Web Sharing control panel
lick on System Preferences and then on Sharing, Turn on FIP access
for each item you want fo share; then enable it using Show Inspector.
Zoom box
Now the green dot in the upper left corner of a window.
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If you’re planning to install the Mac OS X beta for day-to-day use,
expect a dose of disorientation. You're installing the beta because you
can't wait to live in the Aquafied world of Mac OS X, right? It ain‘t
gonna happen. In fact, you'll probably spend most of your time in the
Classic environment, which looks and behaves pretty much like Mac
OS 9—though everything runs slower in Classic than it does in true OS
9. (See the results of Macworld Lab’s tests at www.macworld.com/2000/
09/13/lab.html.) And a lot of things don't work.
At best, you'll get bounced back and forth a lot between Mac OS X
proper and Classic, because few popular apps will be Carbonized—
rewritten to take advantage of OS X—until well into the beta period. See
www.versiontracker.com for a constantly updated list of Carbonized apps.
In the meantime, here are a few pointers to help you survive the ride.
Networking No matter how you configure your network settings in
Mac OS 9, Mac OS X will override them with its own settings when
Classic starts up. Mac OS 9’s networking software, Open Transport, is
disabled by OS X. Location Manager may appear to be active in the
Classic environment, but it doesn’t work. Likewise, you can't use OS 9’s
Remote Access control panel to make a dial-up connection to the
Internet. You have to use OS X's PPP Connect application. And AirPort
isn’t supported in OS X beta, period.
Fonts Mac OS X and the Classic environment don’t share a com-
mon set of fonts. Your Classic apps will have access to all the fonts you
had installed in Mac OS 9, but your Mac OS X apps won't, unless you
also install them in the OS X Fonts folder (System: Library: Fonts).
Extensions and Control Panels They're not accessible in Mac
OS X, and they don’t all work when you run Classic apps. Before start-
ing up Classic for the first time, you'll probably want to turn off all third-
party extensions and control panels, leaving active only those that were
installed on your computer as part of Mac OS 9. Once you get Classic
working properly this way, you can start adding back your favorite exten-
sions, checking each one to see if it behaves itself in the Classic world.
Peripherals Printers, scanners, mice, and other peripheral devices
communicate with your computer through bits of software known as
drivers. Well, guess what? Mac OS 9 drivers don’t work under Mac
OS X, so peripherals need all-new drivers for OS X. Many of these
aren't ready. Apple provides some generic drivers for devices such as
laser printers, mice, and keyboards, but you'll probably have to wait
awhile to use all of the features of all of your peripherals with OS X.
Most notably, the Mac OS X beta won't let you print fo USB printers
from Classic applications.
Don't be disheartened. The OS 9-to-OS X transition is going to be a
bit rocky. As long as you're prepared for a bit of bizarre behavior, you'll
do fine HENRY BORTMAN
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The Mail program is a slightly
better bet. Thanks to OS X's refined
text-smoothing technology, your mes-
sages look as though they've been.
typeset by somebody-with a lot of
class (even when the contents come
from spammers with lousy spelling).
The program offers multiple mail-
boxes, HTML formatting, and in-
window viewing of picture attach-
ments. But there's no mail filtering,
and once again, Mail can't import
anything (such as messages) from
other e-mail programs’
In short, Mac OS X°
undled
programs seem to be interim soft-
ware, designed to help you hobble®
through some semblance of a daily
Mac work routine while the world
awaits the arrival of Mac OS X-sawvy
third-party software.
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Music in X Apple has finally made a
pocket-size gadget—too bad it’s only on
the screen. The new Music Player program
lets you build playlists of MP3 files or audio
CDs. Once you've set up your playlist, you
can hide the track list. 6
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Throughout your Mac OS X-beta experience, remember
that you're working with a prototype, complete with a
sobering list of half-finished features. For example, you
have to restart the computer after every change to
your networking settings; as noted earlier, you can't use
your AirPort card; and the Classic environment somehow
manages to forget all your preference settings (such as
your Conflict Catcher serial number). Apple intends to
fix all of these problems in the true Mac OS X, which it
promises to release before July 2001. It also hopes to
gifeduce the RAM requirement to 64MB.
Other feature chasms, however, cannot be spanned
by Apple alone. For example, thousands of people won't
\. seriously consider buying Mac OS X until Microsoft com-
| mits to releasing a Mac OS X version of Microsoft Office.
\' Nye “Then there's the matter of device drivers: the software you
Sy ‘ t Woes need to operate your ink-jet printer, non-Apple mouse,
\.5 eS )e «handhelds, and other add-on gadgets simply isn't avail-
_)\. able yet. We don't know when—or ifmanufacturers will
‘write updated driver software. Until they do, you'll have
to do without those devices.
The Last Word If you can survive the bugs and
\glitches that come with any beta-test experience, you
may start seeing the Mac OS X beta’s potential. For
example, Mac OS X laptops wake from sleep almost
instantly. And although the operating system's under-
¥eoginx silying Unix engine may strike fear into the hearts of
(‘ 7 novices, intermediate and expert Mac fans may rejoice
PC at its power. Using a few two-letter commands, you can
use the included Terminal program to perform powerful,
instantaneous operations, such as renaming, moving,
or deleting huge numbers of files at once.
The Mac OS X-beta experience is outward bound,
indeed. We have a lot to get used to—not only a
radical new operating system, but also a radical new
Apple. (When is the last time Apple invited feedback
on an upcoming product, let alone told us about one?)
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Now that we've actually seen Mac OS X in action, some
of the early design criticisms have
grown fainter—because in several
important areas, Mac OS X's differ-
ent ways of doing things are decid-
edly better ways.
One unanswered question is
whether software companies will vali-
date Mac OS X by releasing compat-
ible products. The beauty and power
Ets
The Mac OS X-beta
experience is outward
bound, indeed.
of Mac OS X is pointless if we spend
all day in the Mac OS 9-emulation
mode. It will take a group effort to
make this trek into the unknown a
successful journey. m
Contributing Editor FRANKLIN N.
TESSLER wrote “Install with Care.”
He has installed every version of the
Mac operating system—even the buggy
ones—since 1984. Contributing Editor
DAVID POGUE (www.davidpogue
.com) wrote “Explore with Care.” He
is the author of the upcoming Mac
OS X: The Missing Manual (Pogue
Press, 2000/2001).
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the latest news, and discuss the new
‘operating system with other Mac users.
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It's almost here—the time of year
when sleigh bells jingle, fires crackle,
and tinsel becomes scarcer than a
Macworld’s bug-free copy of Windows 2000. But if
the dread of long checkout lines and
an empty bank account has you feel-
ing less than cheerful this holiday sea-
son, Macworld can help. We'll show
j you how to avoid the crowds with five
fun holiday projects you can make at
home. And so your creations don't
resemble the lopsided clay angels you
gave your mother when you were
eight, we've included loads of tips and
techniques to ensure perfect results.
But in case you do feel like braving
the malls (online or off), we searched
through hundreds of products and
found seven gift ideas sure to please
every Mac user on your shopping list.
So stop fretting, pour yourself a nice
big cup of hot chocolate, and settle
back with Macworld’s fourth annual
photography by SCOTT PETERSON Holiday Gift Guide.
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5 FUN PROJECTS YOU CAN MAKE WITH YOUR MAC
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REMEMBER THE SENSE OF WONDER you felt as a kid during the holidays? Everything
seemed bright, warm, and infused with magic. Now that you're older, it can be hard to feel that
same awe amid the jostling elbows at crowded malls and the lackluster customer service of online
shopping. This year, recapture the holiday spirit by bringing back a childhood tradition: homemade
gifts. With a little imagination and your trusty Mac, you can create unique presents and decorations
to delight your family and friends—and have fun along the way. by KELLY LUNSFORD
MACWORLD’S HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
Seasonal Table Settings
Add a festive touch to your holiday-dinner fare this season with
personalized linens. Scan winter berries, ornaments, or even
strings of colored lights directly into your Mac; then combine them
in a graphics program to create your design. (For tips on scanning
3-D objects, see “Scan Anything,” How-to, elsewhere in this issue.)
Before you print your design onto iron-on transfer paper,
flip the image in your graphics program so it appears backward.
a Experiment to find the best temperature and pressure by first
ironing the design onto scrap fabric. When you're satisfied with
the results, transfer your image onto plain cloth napkins, table
runners, or place mats—Artist: AMY CONGER
TOOLBOX Gather up holiday objects for your design, a flatbed scanner
(see Reviews, elsewhere in this issue), image-editing software, a color ink-jet
printer, iron-on transfer paper, a clothes iron, and cloth table linens.
Now Playing
Share special moments with distant
friends and family by producing your
own home movies. Thanks to the
release of iMovie 2, Apple's $49 video-
editing software (www.apple.com), you
don't have to have a Hollywood budget
to produce enjoyable movies—com-
plete with a soundtrack and titles. (For
tips on preparing and exporting your
iMovies to the Web, a CD, or back onto
videotape, see “Wrap Up Your iMovie,”
How-to, elsewhere in this issue.)
Send your movie off in a CD jewel
case or VHS tape box you designed with
your image-editing program. Add a title,
cast list, and description of the movie—
even fake reviews from movie critics. You
can buy paper specially designed for
CD and tape cases at paper-supply
stores or from Web sites such as Neato
(www.neato.com).—Artists: ELEANOR
AND DAVID LEISHMAN
TOOLBOX You'll need a digital camcorder
(using an analog camcorder requires extra
equipment—see instructions at www
_macworld.com/2000/09/04/imovie
.himl) and Apple’s iMovie 2 software.
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TOOLBOX for
your box designs,
you'll need a graph-
ics program that can
position text upside
down, decorative
fonts, and a color
ink-jet printer. Also
collect a ruler, small
boxes, photo-quality
ink-jet paper, and
spray glue.
Creative Containers
You spent a lot of time searching for the perfect gift, so why not make the package
as special as what's inside? Place small presents in boxes printed with good tidings,
prayers, or photographs. You don't have to be a professional artist to create these simple
boxes. Here, text serves as the main design element. Some decorative fonts, such as
Webdings and Zapf Dingbats, even include stars, snowflakes, or other small illustrations
you can combine with text to add seasonal flavor. You can find scores of unusual fonts
on the Web (see “Batteries Not Included”).
Arrange the top and sides of your box lid in a graphics program such as CorelDraw
8 LE. Then print the design on glossy photo paper, cut it out, and glue it to your box. To
protect the surface and give the box a sheen, lightly brush varnish over the top and
sides.—Artist: KELLY LUNSFORD.
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MACWORLD’S HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE >
TOOLBOX for
this project you'll need
digital copies of family
photographs, Adobe
Photoshop (the $609
full version or $99
Limited Edition),
photo-quality ink-jet
paper, and a color
ink-jet printer.
Picture-Perfect Presents
Since calories don't count during the holiday season, it's the perfect time to share your
talent in the kitchen or garden. And instead of using plain jars or bottles, give your
famous homemade goodies the attractive and personal labeling they deserve—featur-
ing yours truly, of course.
For these projects, we used Adobe Photoshop LE’s Quick Mask tools to extract the
faces we wanted from the backgrounds we didn't. (For step-by-step instruction on
removing a photo's background in Photoshop, see "Get to the Good Stuff,” How-to, else-
where in this issue) Once you've separated the subject from the rest of the photo, you
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scanned backgrounds or in x
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Your holiday greetings will stand out from the crowd on
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