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= DIGITAL HUB EXPLOSION \ | 20GB iPod and Smart Cell Phones Join the Mac Family www.macworld.com The Mac Product Experts September 2002 as id X Plus | Office Power Tips | DVD Studio Pro | 0S X-Windows d ibility | Color Laser Printers $666 eMAC The All-in-One G4 Is Apple's 9 ) Greatest Value Yet, page 34 i Ul ee apple.com/xserve Presenting Xserve, one of the fastest 1U servers on Earth. Featuring the exceptional performance of dual 1GHz PowerPC G4 processors, each with 2MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) L3 cache. Best-in-class storage, with up t0480GB on four hot-plug ATA/100 drives. And best- in-class networking capabilities with standard dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. Xserve also comes with UNIX-based Mac OS X Server software (with an unlimited client license), making it ideal for providing file and print services, mail and web services, streaming digital media and for running database applications. Xserve is also perfect for computational clustering and 1/0 ¢ intensive applications like digital video, high-resolution digital imagery and managing large scientific datasets. And, thanks IMand ©2002 Aiple Computer, Inc.All rights reserved. Porsche isa registered trademark of Dr. ing, b.c. F Porsche AG. *Restrictions. The new Apple Xserve. twin-turbo power plant. We have this. to aconvenient visual feedback system, you can monitor the performance of an entire rack with just a glance. Or, keep an eye on Xserve from virtually anywhere with Apple's next-generation remote management tools. Plus, you can swap parts and replace components at will without tools and get instant help with 4-hour onsite response and 24/7 technical support with AppleCare” Xserve also provides out-of- the-box support for Mac, Windows, UNIX and Linux clients, three PCI slots (two of which are 64-bit, 66MHz), software RAID mirroring and striping, a VGA graphics card, two USB ports and a host of other features that are far too numerous to list here. Apple Xserve. Take a look under the hood at apple.com/xserve. 2ply: For terms and conditions associated with te AppleCare Premium Service and Support Plan, visit wiew apple com/supportiproducts. a J 1 for Mac. y We Have no idea. Introducing Microsoft® Entourage”™X, just part of the completely redesigned Office v.X for Mac. With the new Office, you'll get the most native Mac version ever. It's brimming with the fresh Aqua interface. And it’s fully compatible with other versions of Office. Inside, a powerful addition, Entourage, tightly integrates e-mail with a radically improved Calendar and Address Book. So now, no matter Office: mac where you find Office, you'll always find a perfect fit. microsoft.com/mac 4 » ra 2 3 | N | (6) N September 2002 www.macworld.com From the Editor's Desk RICK LEPAGE Should Apple charge for a service that was free? £ 18 Feedback Readers respond. | ite Haale FEATU RES Andy has a fresh list of demands. 58 Put Office X to Work pes B EAT NAN BARBER, Tt ST, AND TOM NEGRINO Do you use any he applications in Microsoft Office v. X? Then All the news from Macworld Expo, copyright take a look at our expert advice—tips, tricks, and shortcuts that will help laws and Mac users, antitheft software, Adobe you get more done in less time. Premiere 6.5, and an interview with Adobe's . . . Harold Grey on OpenType. 70 Dig Deeper with DVD Studio Pro JIM HEID S E % R ETS It’s time to go beyond iDVD for creating your professional DVDs, but the step to Apple's DVD Studio Pro isn't an easy one. Our resident DVD expert 76 Fine-tune Your Tablet explains what Apple's user guide doesn't—how to get the most out of this CHER THREINEN-PENDARVIS powerful ane complex ogre: Customize your graphics tablet and digitally re-create the look of traditional painting tools, 78 — Digital Brushstrokes TERRI STONE Follow a digital artist and illustrator through her process, from pencil sketch to final artwork. 80 Final Cut Pro Audio MICHAEL WOHL Use Final Cut Pro to sweeten your video's sound. 84 Make Peace with PCs JOHN RIZZO Learn how to coexist with Windows PCs. 88 Mac911 CHRISTOPHER BREEN Get good results from an Epson printer, discover | why fonts may not print correctly, duplicate OS 9's Desktop Printer, solve an AppleTalk printing error, open a SuperDrive drawer, optimize hard drives inexpensively, and move TV to DVD. On the Cover Photoshop artist, Stephen Sugg. Photograph courtesy of Apple Computer 4.| MACWORLD | September 2002 - worwemacworld.com REVIEWS 34 Desktop system seat $688 Apple eMac 36 Group scheduling software ae Meetingmaker 7.1 37 Mathematics software $899) CalculationCenter 2 38 Color laser printers $88 Brother HL-4000CN $888 Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 4600 $88 Lexmark C750n $88 Minolta-QMS Magicolor 3100DN 8% Xerox Phaser 6200N 40 Professional video-capture cards $646; AJA Video Systems Kona SD $868! Aurora Video Systems IgniterRT $686 Digital Voodoo D1 64AV $8$% Pinnacle Systems CinéWave Classic 41 Web-searching utility = $8$3 Gemini UDS 1.1.6 | 42 Database-app-development tool aa bobs Omnis Studio 3.1 —- 43 Analog-to-digital video converter $$$; Canopus ADVC-100 43 Disk-cleanup utility $84 Spring Cleaning 5.0 44 Drawing program i: $83 iDraw 1.1.1 46 Terminal-emulation software $8$; CelView 3.0.1 $8$! PowerTerm 1.0 47 Presentation software $63 ConceptDraw Presenter 1.0.1 48 VR-object—creation software ___ 84 Spinimage DV Pro 49 Reviews in Brief File Buddy 7.1, MacBreakz 3.2, Pluggo 3.0.3, ScatterLight Lenses, and Typeset 1.1.1 51 The Game Room PETER COHEN From rogue cops to medieval castles, and from adults to kids, we've got the game world covered. yernwmacwvorld.com | September 2002 | MACWORLD | 5 EYE-PC There’s a Xerox network printer that the page at a stunning 22 ppm. With Xerox color, details pop and get noticed. ‘he Xerox while, but speeds out your first color page in just 13 seconds. LY Phaser* 7700 tabloid color laser printer will surprise you in prints up to fy 17 full-bleed, with 1200 dpi for the photographi countless ways. It not only prints 22 ppm, color or black & color quality you and your clients demand. And PhaserMatch’ © 2002 XEROX CORPORATION. ai nghts“ast-vea. 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And with a complete line of DVDR DVD formats, each offering 4.7 GB of space, we can help you transfer or store anything off your hard drive—even full-length videos. So if mammoth capacity, quick access rates and bulletproof reliability sound like the solution to your storage problems, we suggest you log onto www.memorex.com. Because Memorex DVD is—you guessed it—BIG. OVD+ReWritable 4, 7G8/120 0iv4 Is it live or is it Memorex?™ ©2002 Memorex Products, Inc. FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK BY |RICK LEPAGE Assessing nasty, mix of rumor, informed speculation, and wish- ful thinking—doled out in roughly equal measures— marks the weeks that lead up to each event. Then Apple makes its pronouncements, at which point the preshow hype dissolves, and most of the Mac com- munity goes about its business until the next show. This time around, Apple threw everyone a curveball. As I write this column, Steve Jobs’s Macworld Expo New York keynote is just a few hours old. As you'll notice in this month's Mac Beat, he didn’t show off the usual bounty of hardware and peripherals, but there were plenty of announcements, including the new 17- inch flat-panel iMac, OS X 10.2 (which we covered in detail last month), a 20GB iPod, new and updated “j-apps,” and dramatic changes to iTools. It’s this last item—iTools being replaced in Sep- tember by a $100-per-year service called Mac—that had people frothing online after the show. After all, Apple had pitched iTools’ free e-mail accounts, Web hosting, and online storage as additional benefits for Mac owners. But now Apple is taking it all away, and the grum- bling has begun. Forget that the company is adding more storage space (and features such as password- protected partitions) to your iDisk, backup and virus software, and more. Apple is enraging people by fore- ing them to pay for something they used to get for free (though I truly believe that Apple’s blanket upgrade charge of $129 won't help accelrate Mac OS X development). While I’m sure it will engender lots of hate mail, 1 have to say I’m on Apple’s side here—albeit with a few reservations (and suggestions). Who Said the Internet Was Free? If the past five years of boom and bust have taught us anything, it’s that the Internet isn’t really free. Many of the sites we go to regularly are labors of love, but their operators often struggle to make enough money to offset hosting charges or get some small compensation for the time they take to fill their pages. And Apple is no different—it can’t run a business while giving everything away for free. Well over a year ago, the company made a decision: to gain new Are For-Pay Internet Services a Good Idea for Apple? Mac MANY OF US WHO LIVE IN THE MAC UNIVERSE SEE OUR year bisected by two weeks of Sturm und Drang, better known as Macworld Expo New York and Macworld Expo San Francisco. A frothy, and sometimes customers and to get owners of older Macs to upgrade, it needed to offer a suite of free apps that would distinguish the Mac platform from the others. And the company has succeeded; there’s no way Microsoft can claim that a Windows XP machine offers all the out-of-the-box functionality a new iMac does. And that’s without using the .Mac ser- vice—your digital-hub apps will continue to work just fine without it, thank you very much. Developers definitely aren’t happy with this strat- egy, but I haven't heard a lot of users complain about iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, or the rest of the digital-hub suite—and those who do complain go out and buy good, extra-functionality apps such as iView Media- Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Audion, and others. Getting People Into .Mac I said that I understand—and agree with—the .Mac plan, but my biggest concern is that Apple won't get enough people to try the service and experience its utility. The $50 upgrade for existing iTools users will help, but that opportunity expires on September 30, and I fear that the lingering anger over having Web pages deleted and mail accounts automatically shuttered will beget only more bad will (and few membership sign-ups after the deadline). You can get a free, 60-day trial to many of -Mac’s services, but it would be nicer if Apple gave OS X 10.2 purchasers some period of free .Mac access. I'd also like to see Apple keep some free services in its portfolio—Web-based e-mail, for example—so that Mac customers still have some options, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN.com keep this as part of their offer- ings, and it would be good for Apple to do the same. We've watched Apple struggle during the past decade to fight the Microsoft Windows juggernaut, and iTools was a good idea that helped—for a time. Is -Mac the answer? It’s worth a try, but only time will tell if it adds to Apple’s bottom line or becomes just another Web service that thought it could. © 1s Mac for you, or would you just as soon use your ISP’s service? Let me know what you think—good or I'm on Apple's side— albeit with reservations. bad—about Mac, Macworld, or anything else Mac-elated, Drop me an e-mail, at rick_lepage@macworld com, of join in the discussion forums at www.macworld.com. I'd love to hear from you. PHOTOGRAPH BY BETTINA SALOMON {_worwmacwortdcom_| September 2002_| MACWORLD | 11 I want it. I need it. Now What? «macware authorized reseller EPSON’ IAN GUN SONY. Rely on Mac Warehouse for the latest and greatest new products from all the top manufacturers. 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DEPENDABLE DIGITAL” AN We're in your corner. Ril G (0) [il 4 Image Communication Choose 4 at wow macwodd comvgetinto TEMBER 2002 WEB POWER: Waewaryd FEEDBACK Perfect Prints, a e | | FOCUS ON VIDEOEY Picture Perfect? BARNEY GREINKE Bi T enjoyed “Turn Pixels into Prints” June 2002). One glaring omission for expert users, however, was a mention of the color- management issues involved in digital Many online photo services do not recognize embedded profiles in images; their equipment simply ignores the profiles. Most of these services use Fuji machines, which are fairly close to sRGB in color space, to produce prints. Anyone wishing to use one of these services to make prints should keep the images in the sRGB space. Uploading images with other profiles will likely result in odd color shifts, which are particularly noticeable in skin tones. MARSTON GOULD 8 You left out one online print vendor: NikonNet. Last fall, I tested NikonNer against Ofoto and Shutterfly and found that NikonNet had truer, better-quality prints. Perhaps of almost equal value, NikonNet is packed full of wonderful suggestions on getting the most from your digital camera. GoLive Going-Over ANDREW KATOR ie] T agree with your GoLive 6.0 review June 2002), but with a caveat: GoLive 6.0 is great for creating new sites from scratch but not for working with sites created in GoLive 5.0. Version 6.0 can’t effectively import sites created in GoLive 5.0, especially those with Dynamic Link. In speaking to Adobe, I was told not to import an entire GoLive 5.0 site, and instead to import the root site folder. If Ido that, I lose all of the features that make GoLive good for professional site manage- ment, such as components, stationeries, designs, and libraries. The only way I could 18 | MACWORLD | September 2002 | A Costly Lesson There was a lesson on every page of our June 2002 issue—everything from the best online photo service to how to build your own Mac-powered Lego monster. So what did we learn? We learned that when it comes to opinions about software, no one comes close to matching the insight of Mac users. We learned that it's probably not a good idea to dismiss OS X critics as “geezers" anyway. And if we ever try to have another cruel laugh at the expense of the Canadian dollar, we'll get the conversion rate right. We've learned our lesson the hard way. © get the site into GoLive 6.0 was to redo the entire site, creating all-new pages using the same graphics that were in the old site. Then, all Dynamic Link (now Content) had to be re-created. For a completed Web site that took 500 hours to create, upgrading to GoLive 6.0 and importing the site took an additional 120 hours. Here’s away to more easily import a site from GoLive 5.0, without baving to re-create the site: Open the site and select Dynamic Con- tent in the Site Settings dialog box. Typically, it shows ASP/FScript as the only scripting language; this is a bug. Enter ASP/VBScript as a scripting language in that area and delete ASP/JScript. The site gets rewritten, and the pages will work.—Glenn Fleishman Burnt Up over Toast BOB CRUMMETT ies One might think Toast with Jam is a great update to Jam (Reviews, June 2002), but the truth is, there is no upgrade path for pre- vious Jam users. Roxio has left them out in the cold. Jam was previously sold as a stand-alone product, but the current upgrade path is only from Toast Titanium. If I have to buy a full retail package, I'll be sure to reevaluate, and I'll probably lean toward the other products available for commercial audio production. Roxio is offering a discount program for regis- tered Jam users. Call 866/280-7694 for details —Ed. RAID Assayed MICHAEL CRITZ ies} While I found Kristina De Nike's review of ATA/133 PCI RAID cards enlightening (une 2002), she should have mentioned —not unless you want a lot of mail, that software RAIDs created by Mac OS X's Disk Utility are not compatible with Mac OS 9. The OS 9 software RAIDs cre- ated by SoftRAID and Hard Disk Speed Tools are also not compatible with OS X. (Though the article doesn’t specifically mention it, OS 9's Drive Setup cannot for- mat software RAIDs,) Surely many users | still occasionally switch between OS X and OS 9. Ifusers need their software RAIDs to work in both OSs, they can purchase ATTO’s $99 ExpressStripe, which provides OS X-native RAID support and bench- marking that’s compatible with OS 9. A Difficult Path BENSON LEE ies} 1 wied following David Blatner’s direc- tions in “Master Photoshop's Vectors” (Secrets, May 2002) by copying and pasting a logo from Illustrator 10 to Photoshop 6. Photoshop isn’t giving me the option to paste the artwork as a path. It creates another layer and pastes the copied vec- tors as a bitmap image in one step. In Illustrator 10, you have to open Preferences and turn on the option to copy AICB data to the clipboard. Otherwise, Photoshop can see only the pixels, not the paths—David Blatner Geezers Fire Back TIM SEMPLE Ley! A letter from 17-year-old Chris Laughlin called those of us who are critical of OS X “old geezers who don’t like the new tech- nology” (Feedback, June 2002). I have issues of Macworld older than he is, not to mention Macs. I've used the latest and fastest Macs since 1984. I’ve also used Maes in my busi- ness since 1991, but when Apple introduces an OS that brings my productivity to a ewewmacworld.com | The missing piece of the Mac OS X puzzle Introducing Drive 10 version 1.1. Optimizes and defragments your Mac OS X drives and much more. 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If I were 17 and my only need for a computer were to watch movies, play games, and have a desktop that was pretty eye candy, the Mac would be great. But the old geezers who have been loyal Mac users for more than 20 years deserve technol- ogy that works. NELL ALEXANDER Es} Perhaps as Chris Laughlin “ripens,” he will become less bigoted toward old geezers. However, I do agree with his very positive opinion of OS X. But then, what would a 74- year-old geezer know? Megahertz Matters | NOAH LIVINGSTON SS I found “Apollo on the Rise” (Mac Beat, June 2002) interest- ing. David Read writes that we can expect “the gap between the PowerPC and its rivals to at least close this year.” How the heck does he figure this, when earlier he states that “Apollo could reach a clock speed of 1.3GHz”? The Pentium 4 will be at 3GHz by the end of the year. I think that unless Apple introduces at least a 2GHz Mac by year’s end, it will have seri- ous trouble. Or maybe not—if it can create a computer that performs as well as a high-end PC, you won't hear me com- plaining, even if it has a clock speed of 600MHz. A Not-So-Cheap Joke CARL BLESCH In “What's Hot” (Mac Beat, June 2002), you note that the iMac’s price increase of $100 can’t be all that bad since “that’s only, like, $48 Canadian.” I sure hope you didn’t use that expen- sive iMac to do your currency conversion. On my last trip across the border, I had to fork over more like $150 Canadian to buy $100 U.S. Enough to drive you loonie, eh? Several readers pointed out that Jokes about currency disparities are ‘much funnier when you use the correct conversion rate.—Ed. © Post comments on our forums (www.macworld.com); send them by mail, to (2) Letters, Macworld, 501 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107; or send them electronically, to letters@ macworld.com, Include a return address and day- time phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can’t respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters and posts. All published letters and forum comments become the property of Macworld, “Change Comes from Within" (Mac Beat, July 2002) listed an incorrect price for the Apple DVI-to-ADC Adapter. It sells for $149, GlobalSync® (available on Diamond Pro 2070°8), which eliminates distortion In our review of FireWire hard drives (“Room to Grow,” July 2002), the photo (on page 73) of the QPS Que M3 120GB FireWire Drive appears on the left, and the Acomdata 120GB External FireWire Hard Drive is on the right. In our review of Retrospect Backup 5.0 (Reviews, July 2002), we stated, incorrectly, that Retrospect Express can restore documents only to the hard drive of the Mac running Express. In fact, Retrospect Express can restore backed-up files to any new hard drive or new computer (not only to the hard drive they came from). The actual limitation is that Express cannot restore files to a network-mounted volume. caused by the earth's magnetic field tighter focus and clarity So start seeing what you've only imagined. Get complete details on the 19" Diamond Pro 93058 (18" viewable), 22" Diamond Pro 207058 (20" viewable) and SpectraView color calibration system at necmitsubishi.com/diamondpro. RGB accurate color weww.macworld.com rt i 3 5) g g 2 z September 10-14. WITH A 17-INCH DISPLAY, THE FLAT-PANEL iMAC GOES WIDE | When the flat-panel iMac was introduced in January, its floating- flat-panel design made one fact abundantly clear: unlike the orig- inal iMac, encased in a rigid plas- tic shell that limited changes to its basic design, this new model would be much easier for Apple to upgrade and modify. Going Wide It took only half a year for the promise of that design to be ful- WHATS NEXT If it’s September, this must be Apple Expo Paris. The trade show runs filled, in the form of a new, $1,999 iMac with a 17-inch screen (in place of the 15-inch, 1,024-by-768- pixel display at the end of the older iMac’ stainless-steel neck). In response to the popularity of the wide-screen aspect ratio in the PowerBook G4 and Apple Cinema Display, and to the ever-increasing need for more screen real estate, this new iMac offers a striking flat- screen display with a 1,440-by-900- pixel resolution—which Apple says is the equivalent of a 19-inch CRT monitor. It’s dramatically more screen space than the 15-inch model iMac offers, and it even improves on the gorgeous 1,280- by-854 screen of the latest Tita- nium PowerBook Gé4s. It has slightly fewer pixels than Apple’s 17-inch Apple Studio Display, which costs $999. An upgraded graphics chip set drives this high-resolution display. While the 15-inch iMacs are powered by Nvidia’s GeForce2 MX, this new iMac — has the impressive force of Nvidia’s GeForce4 MX and 32MB of DDR SDRAM behind it. In terms of dimensions, this new iMac is slightly bigger and heavier than the 15-inch model: it’s 1.6 inches wider, and at 22.8 pounds, it’s a little more than half a pound heavier. Still, it comes in at half the weight of Apple’s other consumer desktop offering, the eMac. iMac Hits the Big Screen Power and Price Inside the iMac’s white dome base, the 17-inch model is largely the same as the top-of-the-line 15-inch model. That's not necessarily a bad thing—Apple says that 50 percent of its iMac sales have been of the most expensive model, the one with the DVD-writing SuperDrive. Like that model, this iMac has an 800MHz G4 processor, a standard allotment of 256MB of RAM, included Apple Pro Speakers, and the SuperDrive. But Apple has upgraded this iMac's storage capac- ity, equipping it with an 80GB hard drive. The top 15-inch model has a 60GB hard drive. Meanwhile, that 15-inch iMac has returned to its introductory price: $1,799, After the iMac was introduced, Apple raised the price by $100, citing a sharp spike in the cost of flat-panel displays (the other two iMac configurations remain at their post-hike prices). Now that high-end iMac is back where it started, filling one of six slots (seven if you count the $799 G3 iMac, which was still on Apple’s price lists at press time) in the rapidly expanding Macintosh line of consumer-oriented desktop computers (see “The Consumer Mac Family”), Shopping Decisions So which iMac model is right for you? If you’re someone who uses applications with lots of floating palettes, you may find that the once mighty 1,024-by-768 reso- lution feels a bit cramped under wwwmacworld.com | Apple's Quiet Updates The flat-panel iMac might have been the flashiest product to come out of July's Macworld Conference & Expo, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have focused the bulk of his keynote speech on OS X's upcoming Jaguar update and the new iCal and iSync applications. But those weren't the only product announcements to come out of the event. With little fan- fare and no public announcement, Apple has added a new configuration to its eMac desk- top line for consumers and updated its iDVD application. The eMac (see Reviews, elsewhere in this issue) is now available with a CD-RW/DVD-R Combo drive, as well as with a CD-RW drive. All other specifications for this eMac remain the same—a 700MHz G4 processor, 128MB of memory, and a 40GB hard drive—no mat- ter which optical drive you choose. The Combo-drive eMac sells for $1,199, $100 more than the CD-RW configuration. This isn't the first time Apple has introduced a low-key change to its eMac offerings. Origi- nally introduced last spring as a desktop option solely for Apple’s education customers (see “Head of the Class,” Mac Beat, July 2002), the company quietly announced in June that it would offer an eMac configuration for consumers. The eMacs for the education market are also available with either a CD-RW drive ($1,049 for individual educators and students) or a Combo drive ($1,149). And Apple has rolled out an update to its free DVD-creation program, iDVD. Version 2.1 adds DVD-ROM data support, enhancements to the buning process, and AppleScript support, which allows you to automate the creation of DVDs by linking iDVD to other scriptable pro- grams. A companion collection of Apple-authored scripts (downloadable from www.apple.com/ applescript/idvd) includes iDVD Companion, which brings additional features to the program. Included are scripts for generating iDVD projects from folders full of media files, transferring iPhoto images to iDVD slide shows, and adding audio from iTunes playlists—PHIuP MICHAELS OS X. A wider, larger screen can feel quite freeing—but it will also set you back $2,000. Still, the high- end iMac offers a set of features that we'd once considered solely part of Apple’s professional Power Mac line—including FireWire, the SuperDrive, a speedy G4 proces- sor, powerful video processors, and an all-digital display. If you don’t need to add PCI cards and aren’t one to spend a lot of time upgrad- ing and expanding your Mac, the iMac makes a remarkable worksta- tion for graphics, publishing, and video tasks—not to mention every- day computing. The 15-inch models are, of course, more reasonably priced. But the eMac, which is slightly faster than the low-end G4 iMac and costs $300 less, makes the iMac story more about style than about substance. After all, if you can buy an eMac with a DVD- playing, CD-writing Combo drive for $1,199, the best reason to buy a comparable iMac for $400 more is because the light, airy, flat-panel- based iMac is indisputably more attractive and flexible than the 50- pound slab that is the eMac. Gamers, however, will find the new high-end iMac and its GeForce4 graphics chip quite appealing. The only downside? The iMac’s lack of PCI slots means that when a new latest-and- greatest video chip set appears, upgrades will be out of the ques- tion. But until then, the new 17- inch iMac will be to gamers what it will be to many Mac fans: i putably impressive.—JASON SNELL. ONLINE SERVICE GOES FROM FREE TO FEE | iTools Is Out, Mac Is In When Apple unveiled its iTools Internet services more than two years ago, the company promoted its free offerings as an opportunity for Mac users to take full advantage of the Internet. Indeed, millions of Mac users have done just that; Apple says that the number of iTools subscribers doubled—to24 | SF WWAC million—in the past year. el But even as the number of iTools subscribers climbed, Apple’s Internet services were undergoing changes. Its KidSafe Internet-filtering software was discontinued, as was iReviews, a Web-site-review ser- vice that was launched concurrently with iTools and offered some privileges to iTools subscribers. Now iTools itself is disappearing, to be replaced at the end of September with Apple’s new .Mac service— and this time, if you want any part of what Apple has to offer, you're going to have to pay. Mac users who want a mac.com e-mail account or who want to post iPhoto pictures on an Apple-hosted Web page will be charged $100, the price of an annual subscription to .Mac services. Existing iTools sub- scribers who sign up for .Mac before September 30 will | pay $50 for the first year of service (.Mac subscribers will be able to add 10 additional mac.com addresses for $10 each per year). Apple points out that other companies that once offered free services such as e-mail accounts and online storage have been forced to start charging subscribers— or have gone out of business altogether. Apple insists that .Mac subscribers will get plenty for their membership fee. The revised online service includes several familiar iTools features, such as mac.com ¢-mail (which includes 15MB of IMAP/POP mail storage), LOOMB of iDisk Internet storage now built into the OS X Finder and accessible even from Windows and Linux computers, and the HomePage Web-site-creation tool. Additions in .Mac include McAfee'’s Virex antivirus software and Backup, an Apple-created tool that lets users archive data to iDisk, CDs, or DVDs. But Apple expects that the capabilities of its .Mac services will increase once OS X 10.2 ships. The com- MODEL DISPLAY STORAGE OPTICALDRIVE — GRAPHICS CHIP PRICE pany’s soon-to-be-released iCal program will allow V7-inch LD 80GB SuperDrive GeForces MX -Mac subscribers to publish and update calendars to 2 cD 60GB SuperDrive GeForce? MX the Web, so family members and colleagues can keep 4068 Con Career hae track of events. Another service, -Mac slides, lets Sahar ee OS X 10.2 users turn sets of photos into dynamic <a ee screen savers others can access. —— 4068 ___ Combo _ eed Whether that’s enough to convince Mac users to Wiech CRT_40GB___ CD-RW GeForce MX pay $100 per year for some services they used to enjoy | 15h CA —_-« AGE. Rage 128 for free remains to be seen.—PHILIP MICHAELS Lwewwmacworld.com | __ _ September 2002_| MACWORLD | 23 | | iPOD AVAILABLE IN 20GB SIZE, WINDOWS VERSION | Apple s Triple Play | When the original iPod debuted last fall, Mac users mar- veled at its then staggering 5GB of storage capacity. But less than a year later, Apple has quad- rupled the iPod's maximum capacity, introducing a 20GB ede! of the popular MP3 player. The company is now offering three ver- sions of the physically slender iPod: the 5GB model (now priced $100 less, at $299); an updated, streamlined 10GB ver- sion ($399); and a 20GB monster ($499). Although only the SGB iPod's price has changed, the two larger-capacity models have been updated. The 10GB version is slightly thinner than the SGB iPod, and the 20GB model is slightly larger and heavier than the original. Both have a no- moving-parts, touch-sensitive scroll wheel and a door that protects the iPods Fire- Wire port. Both the 10GB and 20GB versions also come with new, smaller head- phones, a clip-on remote for controlling volume and tracks, and a protective case with belt clip. (The new carrying case and headphone-remote combo are also avail- Apple's Musical Trio MODEL _ SIZE (in inches) 58 iPOD 4.0 by 2.4 by 0.78 65 4.0 by 2.4 by 0.72 65 4.0 by 2.4 by 0.84 “2 MAC OS X GETS REAL | __WEIGHT (in ounces) _ FIREWIRE PORT COVER able separately—each costs $39.) The updated iPod models should be shipping by the time you read this. Apple has also updated the iPod's soft- ware with several new features, many borrowed from the newly updated iTunes. ‘The iPod can now organize songs by genre or composer, as well as by title, artist, album, or playlist. It can also keep track of how many times you play a song, and it can take advantage of iTunes’ new Smart Playlists and Sound Check features (see “Keep Rockin’”). The iPod's new Extras menu provides | access to contacts, calendars synced from | Apple's new iCal app (see “Apple Makes a Digital Hubbub”), a clock, and the iPod’s previously hidden Breakout game. | You can also now play audio books and radio broadcasts purchased from Audible .com—the iPod will even remember where you are in an Audible.com program | when you sync it to or from iTunes. | And if you've lorded your iPod over | your Windows-using friends, it may be | time to clam up. Apple is making Windows | editions of the MP3 player. They'll cost the same as their Mac siblings and come | in the same capacities, and they’ll be | compatible with PCs running Windows ME, 2000, and XP—JONATHAN SEFF | | PRICE No Yes Yes MACWORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO: BEST OF SHOW At each Macworld Conference & Expo trade show, the editors of Macworld magazine and | MacCentral.com evaluate the many new hardware and software products that debut at the event, and they select the most excit- ing ones to receive Best of Show honors. jecause these awards are based on note- worthiness and interest at the show, final versions of some winning products have not yet been released. Here are the winners | from July's Macworld Conference & Expo in New York: * @last Software (303/245-0086, www -Sketch3d.com): SketchUp * 21st Century Media (818/762-6264, www .2\stcentury.com): cast:stream * Blizzard Entertainment (800/953-7669, www.blizzard.com): WarCraft Ill: Reign of Chaos. %* Detto Technologies (425/746-0110, www.detto.com): Move2Mac Discreet (800/869-3504, www.discreet .com): Cleaner 6 | El Gato Software (408/317-1740, www .elgato,com); EyeTV Digital Video Recorder %* Epson (800/873-7766, www.epson.com): Stylus Color 960 printer GameRanger (www.gameranger.com): GameRanger 3.0 GeeThree (650/328-8092, www.geethree com): Slick Volumes 3 and 4 M-Audio (800/969-6434, www.midiman snet); Sonica NEC-Mitsubishi (888/632-6487, www <necmitsubishi.com): MultiSync FP2141SB and Diamond Pro DP2070SB monitors Sonnet Technologies (949/587-3500, www .sonnettech.com):; Crescendo/WS G4/500 and Encore/ST G4/800 and G4/1GHz upgrade cards * * * * * OS X-Native Multimedia Player Final Any OS X user who's spent a good deal of time surfing the Web has run into a downside of using Apple's latest and great- est OS: streaming audio and video links that require RealNetworks’ RealPlayer | (800/444-8011, www.real.com). Since Apple shipped OS X last year, the multi- media player has run only in the new OS's Classic mode. Happily, the days of clicking on video links only to realize that you need to start Classic are over. The Os 24 | MACWORLD | September 2002 | X-only RealOne Player has at last arrived. “The Velocity Engine and the quality of the Mac's hardware architecture allowed us to deliver the smoothest AV playback on any platform,” RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser told Macworld. As for his company’s delay in coming to OS X, Glaser said that late last year he made the decision to set his Mac engineers on developing a native version. And egged on by Steve Jobs, who poatanteed a spot in the Macworld Expo y Arrives keynote address if RealOne Player for OS X was finished in time for the July trade show, RealNetworks has delivered. But while RealOne Player is now in beta for the Mac, RealNetworks’ RealOne SuperPass subscription service won't be Mac-compatible until later this summer, when Mac users will finally be able to check out programming from CNN, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball, and more.—JASON SNELL _|_vewwmacwarld.com INSIDE iTUNES 3_ | | ISYNC, iCAL EXPAND MAC CONNECTIVITY | Keep Rockin’ It’s difficult not to call iTunes 2 a success—Apple says that in the music-playing software's 18 months of existence, it has dis- tributed 14 million copies. With the release of iTunes 3, it’s time to restart the count. Running only on OS X, this minor update adds several new features that improve the cus- tomizability of your personal music library. You can now rate individual tracks in your collec- tion on a scale from zero to five, and the program tracks the num- ber of times you listen to each song. That information is more than just trivia: it becomes quite useful when you're using another iTunes 3 feature—Smart Playlists. With Smart Playlists, you can set up playlists that contain rules, rather than songs. The rules work a lot like those in an e-mail program: Smart Playlists will automatically fill up with tracks that match the rules you set (for example, only rock songs from the 1980s). And as with the Make Playlist feature in iTunes’ pre- decessor, SoundJam MP, you can even create a playlist that contains arandom collection of songs of any running time or file size. Smart Playlists even carry over to your iPod when you synchronize it with your Mac. Another new feature, Sound Check, analyzes your sound files and adjusts volume accordingly, saving you the trouble of having to constantly fiddle with your volume controls when a quiet song fades out and a noisy one fades in. And people who aren’t as inter- ested in music can now listen to many books, magazines, and radio programs through iTunes. You can download content from Audible.com—which publishes audio books, radio programs, and other spoken-word material—to iTunes and play it on your Mac or iPod.—JONATHAN SEFF wwwmacworld.com Apple Makes a Digital Hubbub | Apple's digital-hub strategy centers on connecting Macs to various portable digital devices—something Apple calls “Mac to mobile.” The catch is synchronizing the data on your Mac with PDAs, cell phones, and other digital gadgets. ‘To that end, Apple is introduc- ing two new apps—iCal and iSync—that it contends will tackle the challenge of controlling data across multiple devices. These calendaring and synchronization applications, which require Mac OS X 10.2, will be available as free downloads in September. Synchronicity Apple has high hopes for iSync, the first utility to appear in the “j-apps” product line. iSync is an all-purpose synchronization tool that syncs Macs with mobile devices. Through Apple’s .Mac you cansynchronizecon- or via Apple's new .Mac services; | services, subscribers will also be tact and calendar data coworkers, family members, and | able to synchronize data between between a Macand a Blue- friends can then subscribe to | different Macs. tooth-enabled phone, such that calendar—viewing (but not | iSyne works with Palms and _ asthis Sony Ericsson model, editing) it through their own the iPod—allowing iCal calen- dars and Address Book contact lists to flow | freely between your Mac and those devices. | But perhaps the most intriguing addition to the digital-hub product family is a new breed of cellular phone. The latest generation of cellular phones offer wireless networking via Bluetooth MAC OS X 10.2 UPDATE DUE AUGUST 24 | Connected With iSync, (see “Bluetooth Breaks Through,” August 2002), built-in calendars and contact managers, and the ability to synchronize data with other devices. iSync can work with such phones to wirelessly synchronize your Mac’s calen- dar and contact information with your phone. Mark Your Calendars Apple's iCal displays multiple calendars in a single window and puts an Aqua spin on the stan- dard calendar interface: color- coded rectangles track different appointments and tasks on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. iCal features built-in Internet sharing, allowing users to share calendars over the Web. A Pub- lish Calendar panel lets you pub- lish a calendar on a Web server copies of iCal. | Other iCal features include built-in to-do- list management, event notification via e-mail or via text messaging to a mobile phone or pager, the ability to send standards-based e-mail invitations to events, and a search tool for finding events, tasks, or names entered into iCal.—PHILIP MICHAELS You've already heard about the features of OS X's new version (see “Mac OS X Evolves,” August 2002). But now the update has a formal name, a price, a release date— and a cute package. Due August 24, Mac OS X 10.2 will | offer an enhanced Finder, the new iChat | application, and updated versions of Mail | and Sherlock. It will also feature several | new technologies, including Inkwell hand- | writing recognition, Rendezvous ad hoc | networking, and Quartz Extreme accel- | erated graphics. | And Apple has apparently become enam- | ored with version 10.2's Jaguar code-name, Jaguar Unleashed: Mac OS X 10.2 Arrives which has been integrated into the final product's logo. The shipping version's box is labeled “Version 10.2 Jaguar,” and it features the familiar X logo covered in a furry, spot- ted wildcat pattern instead of the usual blue. Apple has also cleared up a mystery sur- rounding the OS X update—what this ver- sion will cost. While version 10.1 was available for only $20 (shipping and han- dling), version 10.2 will cost $129. Apple says that users who purchased a Mac run- ning OS X 10.1 between mid-July and ver- sion 10.2’s ship date will be able to upgrade to the new version for the $20 shipping- and-handling cost.—JASON SNELL September 2002 | MACWORLD | 25 DIGITAL COPYING TECHNOLOGY COMES UNDER FIRE—HOW IT COULD AFFECT YOU _| iPod, Therefore iSteal? > Next time you're standing in front of a mirror, take a long look at the face you see. Maybe even turn your head to the side and imagine a block of mug-shot numbers hang- ing around your neck—because that’s how some in the entertain- ment industry see you: guilty of what the hit summer movie Minor- ity Report might call a precrime. You own all the tools necessary to com- mit an act of thievery, and whether you know it or not, you're going to steal music. The media companies are out to stop you. iMac, PowerBook, iPod, Super- Drive, CD-RW drive, cable modem, DSL—name your favorite piece of Apple’s digital hub, and chances are, you've come face-to- face with the entertainment indus- try’s greatest fear: perfect digital copies of its copyrighted material. “Digital technology,” says the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) Cary Sherman, “opens up all sorts of opportunities for new delivery options. But it also opens up the threat of uncontrolled piracy.” The fact is, it's become very easy to make and disseminate perfect copies of digital media, and companies such as Sony and Disney are afraid that instead of buying their ente: ment, you're simply going to steal it. \ Apple Accused Who’ responsible for your newly acquired taste for a life of crime? According to the entertainment industry, it’s Apple. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in February 2002, Disney CEO Michael Eisner said Apple’s “Rip, Mix, Burn” ads sug- gested “that [you] can create a theft if you buy this computer.” Nonsense, says Apple, pointing to the “don’t steal music” message wrapped around just about every piece of its hardware that can make digital copies. “If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own,” Steve Jobs told the Hall Street Journal—a position that seems obvious to any- one with an MP3 player, but one that the entertainment industry plans on fighting tooth and nail. ‘To stem the tide of stolen music, record labels have begun copy- protecting CDs so that they can’t be played, much less copied, on your Mac (see “Copy Protection: The Day The Music Died?”). And they promise that more copy- protected discs are on the way. Tim O'Reilly, president of O'Reilly Pub- lishing, thinks copy protection is a huge mistake that will result in even fewer music sales. “The software industry faces exactly the same con- ditions the entertainment industry fears will destroy its markets,” he says. “What's more, copy protection was widely explored by software companies in the 1980s, and what they learned was that consumers avoided copy-protected products.” All's Fair ‘Two legal points lie at the heart of this debate. The first is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)—enacted in 1998 to prohibit decrypting copy-pro- tected materials. The second is the Fair Use Doctrine—which is the portion of the Copyright Act that allows you to make legitimate copies of copyrighted materials for Copy Protection: The Day the Music Died? As methods for digitally producing—and reproducing—music proliferate, some in the music industry are trying to prevent computer users from passing around music files. Some Mac users have run afoul of Key2Audio, which pre- vents would-be listeners from playing a CD on a personal computer. Sony Audio uses the technology, currently being tested in Europe, to add extra data to music discs, rendering them incomprehensible to a typical computer's CD-ROM drive. For some Mac-using music-lovers, the frustration of not being able to play J to tha L-O! was compounded by discovering that the disc— which a Mac can’t read—can also prohibit a Mac from rebooting properly. (Apple's Knowledge Base offers a quick fix: if the Mac lacks a manual eject button on the CD drive, users can try of a number of alternate methods of prying loose the unreadable disc, including rebooting the Mac while holding down the mouse key, and resorting to the paper-clip-in-the-manual-eject- hole trick.) At press time, Sony planned to release a newer version of its copy-protection technology in the United States—this one permitting discs to be read, but not copied, on computers. While that may soothe some Mac users, the inability to copy the music they own is unlikely to have them whistling a happy tune.—usa SCHMEISER _26 | MACWORLD | September 2002 | veewemacworld.com | your personal, noncommercial use (see “Rip. Mix. Burn, Steal?” Mac Beat, October 2001). Historically, the Fair Use Doctrine has allowed consumers to “time-shift” content—for example, recording a TV show on a VCR so they can watch it later. While it hasn’t yet been tested in the courts, “space- shifting”—moving content you own to your preferred listening platform, such as downloading songs from a CD you've bought into iTunes and trans- ferring them to an iPod—is expected to be allowed as well. And therein lies the rub. The lan- guage of the DMCA is open-ended and impacts everything from hard- ware, such as ReplayTV and TiVo video recorders, to streaming Internet radio stations. The way the current DMCA law is written, if you circum- vent copy protection on a CD you own, it’s a crime—even if you're just moving it to your iPod. It doesn’t mat- ter that you have no criminal intent or that the act of circumvention is as easy as rubbing a magic marker around the edge of a CD. What's Ahead So how can you keep the DMCA out of your computer? The answer might seem unbelievably obvious: Don’t steal music. Stealing simply bolsters the argument that allowing digital media to be copied leads to illegal distribu- tion. Also, write, call, or e-mail your representatives in Congress, asking them to support any legislation that would limit the scope of the DMCA, and to uphold space-shifting as a legit- imate aspect of the Fair Use Doctrine. Finally, let the entertainment compa- nies know that if they limit your ability to legally use their products in any way you choose, you'll find other spend your money. ays to Otherwise, the only tune your iPod will be laying may be a swan | More Info: www.macworld.com/2002/09/macbeat! copy.html Macworld.com offers troubleshooting tips for freeing unreadable discs from your Mac, as well as the latest news on copy- protection technology. www.macworld.com SHARPER IMAGES FOR DIGITAL CAMERAS? _| Power to the Pixel Hardware maker Foveon (877/436-8366, www.foveon.com) hopes to shake up the digital-camera market with a chip designed to produce sharper digital photos that have better color rendition than today’s cameras provide—and offered at a similar price. Most digital cameras capture images to sensors based on either CCD (charge- coupled device) or CMOS (com- plementary metal oxide semicon- ductor) chips. Over the years, these technologies have proven themselves in terms of cost effectiveness and performance. Current CCD and CMOS image sensors capture only one color—red, green, or blue—per pixel, using a mosaic of adjacent pixels to blend the data and build the com- posite RGB image your camera captures. Foveon claims this mechanism produces color artifacts and images that lack sharp- ness, With Foveon’s X3 image sensor, based on CMOS technology, every pixel reads red, green, and blue color data on its own, building a composite image without having SOFTWARE TRACKS MISSING MACS _| Look Sharp The X3 image sensor captures all color data on a single pixel. to interpolate colors from adjacent cells. The first camera to, use the X3 sensor will be the SD9, from Sigma (631/585-1144, www-sigmaphoto.com). This 3.5-megapixel digital camera will compete with the Canon EOS D60 and Nikon D100 (see “In Focus,” Mac Beat, June 2002) for the attention—and dollars—of the advanced amateur photogra- phers known as prosumers. The SD9 is ten- tatively scheduled to ship in August, at an estimated street price of $2,300. As for the X3 image sensor, Foveon expects the chip to make its way into other cameras, and even video cameras, by year's end.—RICK LEPAGE Dude, Where's My Mac? The same quality that attracts consumers to Mac laptops—all that power in a compact and portable package—also appeals to computer thieves. Rather than resigning yourself to never seeing your pilfered laptop again, you can take a bite out of crime in a number of ways. At least one report making the rounds on the Internet tells of a Mac user employing Netopia’s (800/485-5741, www.netopia.com) Timbuktu remote-control software and a carefully placed AppleScript to erase sensitive data on the hard drive and later trace the physical location of a stolen iMac. For Mac owners look- ing for a less labor-intensive way to find a lifted laptop, there’s PC PhoneHome from Brigadoon Software (845/624- 0909, www.brigadoonsoftware.com). The $30 program, which cannot be easily detected or uninstalled, transmits a “stealth” e-mail to a predetermined address whenever it senses that your Mac is plugged into a different TP address. (A free version of the utility is also available, but unlike the $30 pro version, it won't withstand reformatting.) Don’t be fooled by its seemingly PC-centric name—PC Phone- Home works on Macs running OS 8.6 and later, including OS X. As portable as Mac lap- tops may be, with PC PhoneHome, they're never out of reach.—LISA SCHMEISER Tavs CORURN September 2002 _ MACWORLD | 27 AYEAR AFTER BIG iBOOK PURCHASE, HENRICO COUNTY LOOKS AHEAD | DIGITAL-VIDEO RECORDER COMES TO THE MAC_| Laptop Learning Curve When the Henrico County, Virginia, school district placed an $18.6 million order for 23,000 iBooks in May 2001, the size and scope of the purchase garnered headlines. Over the course of the 2001-2002 school year, Henrico County’s computer purchase continued to make news—and not all of it welcome. After discovering that students had accessed the Internet for personal use during school hours, the school district set up guide- lines, in October 2001, that prohibited activities such as sending e-mail and instant messages from the iBook and file sharing with- out teacher approval. The following February, Henrico made news again as the district recalled the laptops for maintenance, scrubbing the computers of file-sharing programs and other soft- ware deemed disruptive to the educational experience. “We definitely have had to navigate in a goldfish bowl,” Henrico County school district supervisor Mark Edwards says. But despite all the external scrutiny, Edwards believes the past school year has been a good one. “We are more enthusiastic than ever about implementing one-on- one technology with the students,” Edwards says. “This will be the future of public education.” The future, Edwards contends, depends on the migration from standard classroom materials to digital texts that can be either sup- plemented with multimedia or updated to include current events. “A lot of school systems have been plagued with a culture of preparing students for a world that no longer exists. We're prepar- ing students for a world of information. This will give students a tremendous advantage,” Edwards says. It also gives them an opportunity to confront some of the chal- lenges of that new world of information. In addition to discovering exactly what kind of file sharing works in a classroom environment, Edwards notes, the school district has also wrestled with the ques- tion of how to define computer-assisted collaboration versus pla- giarism. “It’s really a balancing act,” he adds. Edwards stresses that 99 percent of the students with iBooks during the 2001-2002 school year “have demonstrated appropriate care and use of the computers.” And the few who made headlines for inappropriate computer use weren't even the toughest of Hen- rico’s iBook challenges. “Our biggest challenge and toughest hurdle has been the relia- bility of our network,” Edwards says. Apple has offered technical assistance all year to address that problem. Henrico plans to roll out iBooks on schedule, with middle-school students and staff receiving theirs this fall —LIsA SCHMEISER iBook Smart High school stu- dents and teach- ers in Henrico County, Virginia, began using iBooks in class last year. The program will expand to middle schools this fall. 28 | MACWORLD September 2002 “When Macs Meet TiVo Sure, you can use your Mac to edit digital videos and assign every song in your CD collection to various playlists. But Apple's vision of the Mac asa centerpiece of the digital lifestyle go will never be fulfilled until you’re able to record Friends reruns on your computer and watch them whenever you want. Stepping up to fill this need is El Gato Software (408/317- 1740, www.elgato.com), maker of the EyeTV digital-video recorder. Think of the $199 EyeTV as the Mac equivalent of TiVo and ReplayTV personal video recorders—or rather the equivalent of Windows-only products from SnapStream Media and InterVideo. Connected to your Mac (via USB) and your cable receiver, the EyeTV box encodes an incoming cable signal in the MPEG-1 format, for live viewing on your computer in a resizable window. EyeTV’ OS X-only software lets you pause live TV, record television programs onto your | hard drive, and record one program while you're watching another. The interface resembles a TV remote control—with | buttons for slow motion, instant replay, and jumping ahead by | 30 seconds (coincidentally, the same length as many commer- cials), so the latest misadventures of Chandler and Joey need never be more than a mouse click away.—PHILIP MICHAELS ee Yewry | MACS ATWORK | ‘New Paper, New OS Back in April 2002, the New York Sun became one of the first major daily newspapers to debut in the new century. And the first issue to roll off the presses bore another distinction: it was produced on this century's first major new OS, Mac OS X. The Sun’s editors produce the newspaper exclusively in OS X, using Microsoft Office v. X, Adobe Illustrator, Fetch Softworks Fetch, and Extensis Suitcase. In fact, after upgrad- ing recently to Adobe Photoshop 7.0, they use only one non-OS X app—QuarkXPress. | “Itwas weird at first, with the multiple desktops and | Home,” says Anthony Smith, Sux design director. “But then I got accustomed, discovered its elegance and simplicity, and now I couldn't go back.” The Sun chose OS X for its stability, says the paper's tech- nology consultant, Michael Elias of Treespan. “It offered us superior Unix-based administrative tools,” Elias says. “Darwin helped us cater to a more sophisticated, advanced user. We liked that the applications were truly threaded, eliminating system lockups familiar to previous versions of the Mac OS,” Naturally, OS X hasn’t been a completely trouble-free experience for the newspaper. “We recently had a connectiy- ity issue where user connections would just terminate at will for no apparent reason,” Elias adds. “The flexibility of the Unix shell allowed us to monitor packet traffic and notice zone updates weren't occurring, letting us troubleshoot the issue and arrive at a quick resolution.”—MATHEW HONAN waww.macworld.com PRO FILE_| Q&A WITH HAROLD GREY FOR WEB SERVICE, IMAGE EDITING IS EVERYTHING | TYPESETTERS Adobe's announcement this spring that it would be converting its Type Library fonts into the OpenType format didn’t produce banner headlines. But for designers, the move to a simple, single-file, cross-platform format is revolutionary. OpenType, which contains all outline, metric, and bitmap data, promises to bring ease of use and a unified font format to layout and design. Macworld talked to Harold Grey, Adobe's group product manager for type, about the reasons behind the move.—anoREW SHALAT AT A GLANCE | HAROLD GREY | Group Product Manager for Type, Adobe MAC: 800MHz Power Mac G4 SOFTWARE: Microsoft Office, Qualcomm Eudora Pro j You're converting the Adobe library to OpenType, but will PostScript and TrueType versions remain available? We will continue to make PostScript Type versions of the fonts available via our Web site, but at some time in the future we'll probably stop selling the Type 1 versions. We'll continue to sup- port the Type 1 versions in our applications and our technolo- gies, but we want to migrate customers to the OpenType format. Why? ‘Type | served us really well for 15 years and was the foot sol- dier in the desktop-publishing revolution. But it was a little limiting, because the format was somewhat static. It didn’t take into account the need to extend the capabilities of the font for- mat. Because of the extensible nature of OpenType, we can add additional tables to the font files [as needed]. That wasn’t pos- sible with Type 1 fonts. For example, with embedding permis- sions, we have permission within the font. With Type | fonts, that concept wasn’t even fully realized. What does “embedding permissions” mean? Font foundries can set a level of embedding that they want to allow for their fonts—no embedding; allow preview and print embedding; editable embedding, which embeds the font in the file and lets the end user who receives the file modify the con- tent and structure of the document; or installable embedding. Do most applications support OpenType fonts? Applications like QuarkXPress using ATM Light can read OpenType fonts. But the one thing they won't have access to is the additional glyphs in the OpenType Professional fonts; the application will need to add OpenType support. You do see this support in InDesign 2, where there is a pop-out menu under the Character palette. The Character palette has an OpenType menu where you can turn on these features with glyph variants. www.macworld.com/2002/09/macbeat/grey.html | Harold Grey outlines what OpenType will mean for designers in | Macworld’s online interview. | PLUG-IN TAKES PHOTOSHOP EFFECTS BEYOND LAYERS | Photo Finishers For the amateur shutterbug with neither the time nor the inclina- | tion to master a powerful image-editing application such as Adobe Photoshop, the complex edits required to turn a simple photo into a memorable gift can be daunting. But just as your friendly neigh- borhood film developer saves you the trouble of building your own private darkroom, Image-Edit & Art (www.image-edit.com) pro- vides photo restoration and editing services via the Web, for folks | who'd rather not do it themselves. While applications such as Apple’s iPhoto offer some editing features, Image Edit & Art boasts a full range of capabilities—everything from color correction to | removing extraneous people. But it’s the premium services that really give a complete picture of what Image-Edit & Art has to | offer. The Web-based service can restore old photographs, digitally | hand-color images, create caricatures based on your photos, or | produce a Hollywood-style glamour shot (as pictured below). Prices range from $10 to $35 for basic procedures and $25 to $50 for premium services; faster delivery costs extra. That's not an insignificant chunk of change, but for people who'd rather not spend time tinkering with image-editing software, it could be money well spent—PHILIP MICHAELS The Power of the Pen Adobe Photoshop filters traditionally affect a selected area or layer. | But Wacom Technology (800/922-9348, www.wacom.com) and nik multimedia (619/725-3150, www.nikmultimedia.com) are teaming up to create a new approach to filters. The resultispenPalette,a | Photoshop plug-in that lets you use a pressure-sensitive pen to | apply effects with varying intensity to any part of an image. | This plug-in resides not in the Filters menu, but in the Auto- | mate submenu of Photoshop's File menu. After choosing an effect | from a palette, you can paint that effect using any of Photoshop's brushes, erase portions of it, cancel it, or apply it. | ‘The $100 package—free to anyone who's bought Intuos2 and Cintiq products since February 1, and $50 for those who bought any Wacom product before then—includes effects for amplifying warm or cool tones, adding color, softening, increasing or decreas- ing noise, and altering contrast. Should you crave additional effects, you can buy a variety of nik multimedia’s Photoshop filters. All are compatible with penPalette, which works with the OS X-native version (but not the OS 9 version) of Adobe Photoshop 7.0. The penPalette plug-in works with a mouse or a Wacom product, but not with any other pressure-sensitive tablet. Wacom wants to | reserve this new approach for its own customers.—DAVID WEISS www.macworld.com _September 2002 | MACWORLD | 29 | (Mac! ADOBE'S VIDEO-EDITING APP COMES TO MACOS X_| Premiere Event Imagine watching a trailer for a film you can’t wait to see, only to learn that the movie isn’t due to hit theaters for another year. That's what Adobe Premiere fans have had to endure. More than a year before Adobe (800/833-6687, www.adobe .com) delivered a finished product, it was showing off its digital-video-editing program running in OS X. With Premiere 6.5, the wait is over. The program now runs in OS X and continues to run in OS 9.1. But Premiere 6.5 also supports real-time previews of every effect, filter, and transi- tion—similar to what Avid Xpress DV 3.5 offers and actually more complete than what Apple’s Final Cut Pro 3 offers. Even Mac users with G3-powered computers can take advan- tage of Premiere’s real-time feature, although Adobe recom- mends using a G4 processor. If the real-time preview is too much for your CPU to handle, Premiere dynamically reduces frames and enters a draft mode to preserve real-time playback. Also new in Premiere 6.5 is Adobe Title Designer, for cre- ating broadcast-quality title sequences. It includes more than 300 templates for making still layouts, rolls, and crawls. Title Designer offers typographic control over kerning and out- lines, as well as the ability to map textures onto text, control transparencies, and apply multicolor gradients. Premiere has always had tight integration with other Adobe products, but this version works smoothly with Apple software, too. As with Final Cut Pro 3, you can export chapter and com- pression markers along with your Premiere 6.5 projects when saving out to MPEG-2 for use with Apple's DVD Studio Pro. | Premiere 6.5 comes with five new After Effects plug-ins— | Blend, Channel Blur, Directional Blur, Ramp, and Lighting— pushing the number of included plug-ins to more than 30. Also included is SparkLE, from TC Works—a two-track audio editor with support for VST plug-ins and ASIO hardware. Expected to ship in August, Premiere 6.5 costs $549; exist- ing users can upgrade for $149.—JONATHAN SEFF | Bring the Noise In Premiere 6.5, look for new audio-sweetening tools from | TC Works and an updated version of SmartSound Quicktracks. 30 | MACWORLO | September 2002 PRODUCT SEPTEMBER 2002} FATTY Corel's Name Game “What's in a name?” isn't a rhetorical question at Corel (800/772- | 6735, www.corel.com). Last year, the Canadian software maker spun off new divisions called Procreate and Deep White. Now the changing monikers have hit the product level: the latest version of Corel's collection of graphics programs has gotten a name change, from Corel Graphics Suite to CorelDraw Graphics Suite, The new name emphasizes the suite’s drawing and page-layout program, CorelDraw. Not coinci- dentally, that's where most of the new features in CorelDraw | Graphics Suite 11 are. Two new | brushes, Smudge and Roughen, push and pull existing vector shapes. These brushes respond to pressure, tilt, and bearing. Three new drawing tools—Three- Point Ellipse, Rectangle, and Curve—quickly create and angle vector shapes. CorelDraw also features a new Polyline freehand- drawing tool, as well as a new Pen tool that, according to Corel, will give you greater control than simpler Bézier tools. Both CorelDraw 11 and Corel RAVE 2 (another app in the suite) include symbols—objects you reuse in a document to reduce the size of PDF, SVG, and SWF files. Corel Photo-Paint 11, an image editor, features a refined inter- face. It also adds tools for red-eye removal and cutout masking— | the latter is based on the more | sophisticated Procreate applica- tion, Knockout. Unlike version 10 of the suite, which came out on Windows almost a year before it was | available to Mac users, this ver- ‘ous version for $249.—reRrR! STONE sion is shipping on both plat- forms at the same time. CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11, which should be shipping by the time you read this, sells for $529. You can upgrade from the previ- Displays ‘A15-inch flat-panel moni- tor from Hitachi America (800/441-4832, www i :hitachidisplays.com): The (CML152 ($449 for ivory; $459 for black) fea- ‘tures a full 15-inch viewing area and a native resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels. It connects to any Ma‘ VG Two LCD monitors from NEC-Mitsubishi (888/632-6487, www.necmitsubishi.com): ‘The MultiSync LCD1920NX ($1,299) is a 19-inch flat-panel display. The MultiSync LCD1700NX ($749) is a 17-inch flat-panel display. Both monitors have an effective resolution of 1,280 by 1,024 pixel Four LCD monitors from Sony (888/595- 8246, wwwsonystyle.co y's X series of LCDs includes the 20-inch SDM-X202 ($2,000), the 18-inch SOM-X82 ($1,100), the 17-inch SDM-X72 ($900), and the 15- inch SDM-XS2 ($550). All four include built- in stereo speakers, a DVI-D cable, and an internal power supply. The X82 and X52 should be available by the time you read this. The X72 and X202 are set to ship in August and September, respectively Input ices An optical trackball from Logitech (800/ 231-7717, wwwalogitech.com): The Cordless Optical TrackMan ($70) is a finger-operated trackball that combines optical and cordless technology. The AA battery-powered device features a scroll wheel, a drag-lock button, and thumb- operated forward and back buttons for faster Internet navigation. Storage Devices A FireWire-based CD-RW drive from EZQuest (714/694-0031, www.ezq.com): ‘The Boa 48x12x48x FireWire CD-RW drive ($219) sports a 2MB buffer and buf- fer-underrun technology. It comes bundled with CharisMac’s Discribe software. |_wenmcamacworld.com_ System Hardware A port replicator from Keyspan (510/222- 0131, wwwkeyspan.com): The Mini Port Replicator ($79) combines a USB serial adapter, USB parallel print adapter, and two-port USB hub in a bus-powered device intended for laptop users. Audio Software Deck 3.5, from Bias (800/775-2427, www -bias-inc.com): The multitrack digital-audio ‘workstation adds OS X support, OMF file importing, and 5.1 channel surround mix- ing ($399; upgrades, free if you bought Deck 3.0 after October 1, 2001, and $149 if you bought Deck 3.0 before). Reason 2.0, from Propellerhead Software ((46] 8 556 08 400, wwwwpropelletheads .com): The updated virtual music studio adds OS X support. It also runs in OS 9. Other additions include a detachable sequencer, the NN-XT Advanced Sampler, and a poly- phonic Granitable synthesizer ($399; upgrade, $89). Graphics Software Photoshop Elements 2.0, from Adobe (800/833-6687, www.adobe.com): The image-editing tool adds a wizard for com- mon correction tasks and includes the paint engine and paintbrushes introduced yn Fichasho 0 epee 905), Productivity Software Readiris Pro 7, from Image Recognition Integrated Systems (561/395-7831, ww Jrisusa.com): The optical character recogni- tion software now runs in OS X, in addition to OS 9. The latest version features a new OCR engine, extensive PDF support, auto- ‘matic page-orientation detection, and digital ‘camera image recognition ($100). Six Degrees, from Creo (604/451-2700, wwew.creo.com): The e-mail-driven pro- ductivity tool automatically connects and displays related e-mail messages, files, and contacts on the desktop. It runs in OS X ($99). TimeSlice 2.5, from Casady & Greene (800/ 359-4920, www.casadyg.com): The time- tracking and billing program has a new invoicing capability for printing invoices and tracking applications. TimeSlice runs on OS 8.6 and higher, including OS X ($60; upgrade, $30), Science/Engineering Software JMP 5, from JMP (877/594-6567, www .jmpdiscovery.com): The statistical analy- sis software, which runs on OS 8.6 and higher, including 0S X, features customiza- tion capabilities, more platforms, and more ways to access data ($995; academic institutions, $450; upgrades, $395 for JMP 4.users, $195 for academic institutions), Acquisitions The purchase of three multimedia software companies by Apple (800/692-7753, www apple.com): With the purchase of Prismo Graphics, which develops motion graphics for broadcast- and digital-video projects, Apple obtains Prismo’s DVFonts technol- ogy and its India Titler Pro software for creating animated titles. Apple also bought cinema-compositing-software maker Sili- con Grail, including its Rayz and Chalice product lines. And Apple bought Emagic, the makers of Logic music-production too!s.—COMPILED BY PHILIP MICHAELS PALM-SIZED SPEAKER LETS YOUR MUSIC BE HEARD | Audio to Go Thanks to the iPod, your favorite tunes—as much as 20GB of them— are never more than an arm’s length away. Unfortunately, if you want \— anyone else to listen in on your music, you'd better have a stereo system and a set of speakers within reach, too—unless you have the Olympia Soundbug, from Wave Industries (888/ 890-8983, www.soundbug-us.com). While adapter cables or transmitters such as First International Digital’s Rock 300W (see “Do Touch That Dial,” Mac Beat, June 2002) connect your iPod to a nearby stereo, the palm-size Soundbug is a speaker that suctions to any flat surface, providing a portable way to share audio in an 8-ounce package. The $50 Soundbug connects to any audio source via a standard 44-inch minijack plug. For a louder, more-robust sound, hook two Soundbugs together for stereo output. You mustn't expect stellar sound from the Sound- bug, but with a set of three AAA batteries, it'll provide four hours of audio. And when you're on the go and want to share your tunes, that’s all you can ask for—JONATHAN SEFF wwnmacworld.com Mac OS X Updates powered by Ze versiontracker "com Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Scripting plug-in 1.0.2 WHAT'S _ HOT | A Quick Look at Automates reptve tasks and key worklows | the World af Tech Apache 2.0.39 1. Real Networks ships Open-source Web server software RealOne Player for OS X. Apple AppleScript X 1.8.3 | The company knew it had to System scripting utility — —" | put out something for OS X Apple Repair Privileges 1.0 | after Rob Glaser woke up Restores privileges to default setting | one moming and found the ae — — screen of a decapitated fla- etonner ee panel iMac in his bed. Photoshop plug-in performs density masking | ‘ Canon PowerShot ImageBrowser X 2.3 ane bevialeaitcad a 3 ‘Adds support for various Canon digital cameras | ote — ing scale for ranking your CD Session Burner 1.0 music. Rumor has it that the Burns muitiple CD-R sessions ret version of OVO wil CE QuickMail Pro 3.1p2 include a commentary track Client component for e-mail system from Roger Ebert, panning all CopyPastex 1.4 you mories Communicates with pre-OS X version of multiple dipboard | 3. Apple's profit falls as editing app vs demand for PCs slumps. FinkCommander 0.3.1 | Tospurmare sales, Apple GUI front end for Fink software packaging system launches controversial “Switch a7 = —~ | faster, damn it” ad campaign. Bug fixes for Web browser 4, Microsoft worries that Pietro Apple isn’t doing enough Optimizes Internet connections | Prrabandria sited a = Jicrosoft officials offer sug- praia tte Hotline, OpenNap, and Gnutella ee apctenbscaberd ‘downloads i : | helps increase OS market — = | share? An illegal monopoly.” Kensington MouseWorks 2.0 ade System- preferences integration for mice and trackball software LiteSwitchX 1.0.1 Enhanced keyboard-application switcher | Logitech Control Center 1.0b23 Beta release of USB mouse and keyboard drivers Lyrictracker Client 3.1 | Tool searches database of more than 20,000 song texts MAPublisher 5.0 GIS and cartographic plug-in tools for Adobe illustrator Mathematica 4.2 Enhances features in math solving, visualization, and | programming app Microsoft internet Explorer 5.2 Adds S support for Quartz text smoothing to browser MS-MPEG4v1 Decoder 2.0 MS-MPEG4v1 video codec for QuickTime 6 NikonView 5.1.1 Driver software for most CoolPix cameras OmniOutliner 2.0.2 Outlining and organizational tool WeatherPop Advance 1.2b Displays weather conditions in the menu bar Unity Session 3.0.3 Audio synthesizer and sampling environment URL Manager Pro 3.0 Extensive bookmark manager for browsers ¢ and other current updates, visit: macworld.com/subject/updates. | September 2002 macwoR | 34 TEONS: WWW.ANDYIMARTIN.UK.COM Macworld Conference & Expo. 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While that Mac is a remarkable value in terms of speed and power, it can’t match the low price or rugged con- struction that made the original iMac a hit with schools and Mac users on tight budgets. With the introduction of the eMac, Apple has created a fitting successor to the iMac that started it all. ATour of the eMac On the outside, the eMac looks remarkably like the original iMac. Like its progenitor, it’s a single unit encased in molded plastic, with a screen arid optical drive in front and ports on the right side. Its large front face tapers to a rounded backside. However, this silver-and-white 50-pound hunk of computer (without a carrying handle like the original iMac’s) does offer several variations on the all-in- one theme. The most impressive change is in the display, a 17-inch flat- screen CRT. This display puts the ones in the old iMacs to shame: it’s bright, extremely sharp, and free of flicker, even at its top reso- lution of 1,280 by 960. The larger display makes the eMac’ front a sheer wall, rather than a curved face (as on the original iMac), but the system’s overall dimensions are almost exactly the same. The eMac’s all-in-one design does create one difficulty: like the iMac, the eMac tends to sit a bit low on a desk. Apple offers a $59 clear plastic stand that raises the eMac’s height by about 4 inches and allows you to tilt and rotate it. It’s probably a good _investment—unless you're a kid or a fairly small adult, you'll need a relatively high desktop or this stand to get the eMac’s display up to a com- fortable viewing height. Below the display are stereo speakers with optional snap-on grilles to protect them from poking fingers—good news for teachers. Apple claims that these speakers are much better than the original iMac’s, but in our tests they sounded only slightly louder than a Flower Power iMac’, albeit with better range and fuller bass. Between the two speakers is the eMac’s optical drive. Previ- ously, only the education-model eMac could be outfitted with a CD-writing, DVD-reading Combo drive, but at press time, Apple made the Combo drive available to consumers via the Apple Web site. The eMac’s AirPort card slot also lies behind the CD-RW drive door. To add an AirPort card, you must unscrew two Phillips screws to remove the 34 | MACWORLD | September 2002 vewweracworld.com_ 34 Desktop system Apple eMac 36 Group-scheduling software Meetingrnaker 7.1 Mathematics software CakculationCenter 2 38 Color laser printers Brother HL-4000CN, Hewlett-Packard Color Laserlet 4600, Lexmark C750n, Minolta-QMS Magicolor 31000N, Xerox Phaser 6200N x 40. Professional video-capture cards AJA Video Systems Kona SD, Aurora Video Systems IgniterRT, Digital Voodoo D1 G4AV, Pinnacle Systems CinéWave Classic 41 Web-searching utility Gemini UDS 1.1.6 42 Database-app-development tool ‘Omnis Studlo 3.1 43. Analog-to-digital video converter ‘Canopus ADVC-100 43° Disk-cleanup utility Spring Cleaning 5.0 44 Drawing program iDraw 11.41 46 Terminal-emulation software CelView 3.0.1, PowerTerm 1.0 47 Presentation software ConceptDraw Presenter 1.0.1 48 VR-object-creation software Spinimage DV Pro 49. Reviews in Brief File Buddy 7.1, MacBreak2 3.2, Pluggo 3.03, ScatterLight Lenses, and Typeset 1.1.1 51 The Game Room Max Payne, lla in The Sunny Valley Fal, Stronghold, Jewelfoy, High Score! The tustrated History of Eretronic Games OUTSTANDING: 8888 VERY GOOD: $8$$ GOOD: 6% FLAWED: 6% UNACCEPTABLE: $ One eMac, Iwo Worlds Apple originally announced the eMac as a product it would sell only to the education market (see Mac Beat, July 2002), but after a few weeks of com- plaints from other Mac fans, Apple reversed this decision and offered a version for regular consumers, However, in terms of features and price, there are still lear differences between the education and consumer editions of the eMac. Traditionally, education customers have gotten better deals from Apple than noneducation buyers have—and that's true of the eMac. In this case, non- education buyers also don’t get the preconfiguration options that education customers do—for example, a model without a modem. Here's a quick look at the differences between the various models, all of which offer a 700MHz G4 processor, 128MB of RAM, and a 40GB hard drive. AVAILABLE TO Consumers PRICE Education Education _OPTICAL DRIVE MODEM * The lower price is for educational institutions. The higher pice is for individuals affllated with edu- cational institutions. plastic door in front of the Air- Port slot (this design is meant to discourage theft of AirPort cards in education environ- ments). Apple also provides both machine-readable bar codes and human-readable printouts of the eMac’ serial number and Ether- net ID on the drive door—a convenient location for which eMac network administrators will be grateful. Along the eMac’ right side is a row of ports: three USB, two Fire- Pi: The eM ver Speedmark 3.1 Wire, one 56K modem, and one 10/100BaseT Ethernet. Its mini- VGA port (like the one on the iMac and iBook) accepts Apple's optional $19 VGA adapter, allow- ing video mirroring on an exter- nal monitor or projector, The eMac’s side panel also offers one microphone jack and one head- phone jack—down from the two headphone jacks included on the front of the original iMac. When Apple released the sec- ond generation of CRT-based iMacs, it made a big deal of the air-cooling technology in those models, which required no fan. The extra heat generat- ed by the eMac’s G4 processor, however, has necessitated the addition of a cooling fan. This machine is quiet, but it’s defi- nitely not silent. The eMac comes with 128MB of RAM—which we found a little scant when it came to run- ning OS X—but you can expand this to 1GB, via two 168-pin DIMM slots that are located beneath a panel on the eMac’s underside. Unscrewing the panel was relatively easy and provided clear access to the two RAM slots, but a glance inside also suggested that upgrading any other part of the eMac would be a harrowing experi- ence, as it is with the earlier CRT iMacs. Power on the Inside The iMac has always repre- sented the low end of Apple’s desktop computer line. As such, it has lower processor speeds than professional desktop sys- tems, and the G4 processor never did appear in the original iMac form factor. Nobody will ever confuse an eMac with a 1GHz dual-processor Power ‘Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 iMovie 2.1.1 iTunes 2.0.3 Quake Ill v1.30b1 me OVERALL SCORE ‘Apple eMac 700 5 Apple iMac 63/700 _ Apple iMac G4700 RENDER MP3 ENCODE BEST RESULTS IN’ BOLD. REFERENCE SYSTEMS IN ITALICS. Speedmark scores are relative to those of a SOOMHz iMac (Flower Power), which is assigned a score of 100. Photoshop, iMovie, and iTunes scores are in sec- nds. Quake scores are in frames per second. We tested each system with Mac OS X 10.1.2 installed and 256MB of RAM, We set displays to 1,024-by-768- pixel resolution and 24-bit color. For the Photoshop Suite test (which runs in OS X’s Classic environment), we upgraded the systems to S12MB of RAM; the test is a set of five scripted tasks using a 5OMB file. We set Photoshop's memory partition to 200MB and History to Minimum. We tested MP3 encoding with ‘an audio-CD track that was 9 minutes and 25 seconds long, converting it from the hard drive using iTunes’ Better Quality setting. We tested Quake lil at a res- lution of 640 by 480 pixels with Graphics set to Normal, For more information on Speedmark, visit www.macworld,com/speedmark—acwonuo LAS TESTING BY JAMES GALBRATH Mac, but with its 700MHz G4 processor, 100MHz system bus, and 40GB hard drive, it per- forms admirably. In Macworld Lab tests, we found that the eMac was, except in our Quake III test, slightly faster than the $1,399 flat-panel 700MHz G4 iMac (see “The eMac Takes the Silver”). And as you might expect, the eMac blew the CRT-based 700MHz G3 iMac out of the water in all of our tests—especially with data-intensive multimedia tasks that take advantage of the G4’s Velocity Engine subprocessor. Likewise, our Quake III test showed that the eMac’s Nvidia GeForce2 MX graphics card can handle complex 3-D screen rendering with ease. Macworld’s Buying Advice The eMac provides what origi- nal iMac buyers have wanted all along: a fast, low-cost com- puter in a rugged enclosure. Its 700MHz G4 processor makes it more suitable for graphics and video work than any of the G3 iMacs, but its hardware is not easily upgradable. If you are looking for the elegant design of the flat-panel iMac Apple announced in January, you won't find it in the eMac. But with its beautiful flat CRT display, sur- prising speed (for an entry-level Mac), and remarkable value, the eMac is the natural successor to one of Apple’s most successful products of all time. 0 RATING: 686% PROS: Slightly faster overall than a 7OOMHz G4 iMac; bright, big CRT display; robust design. CONS: Sits a bit low on a desk; limited upgrade options. PRICE: $1,099 OS COMPATIBILITY: Mac OS 9, Mac OS X COMPANY: Apple Computer, 800/538-9696, www.apple.com |_www.macworld.com | September 2002 | MACWORLD | 35 | REVIEWS> MEETINGMAKER 7.1 Automated Group-Scheduling Package Adds 0S X- Based Server and Java Client BY JEFFERY BATTERSBY The value of a group-scheduling package can be difficult to grasp—until you’re on the los- ing end of a double-booked con- ference room. Meetingmaker’s self-titled Meetingmaker 7.1 promises to keep your calendar in order. This client/server- based program is designed to manage a variety of scheduling needs, from selecting meeting locations and borrowing a video projector to coordinating CEOs’ and sales managers’ appoint- ment books. Version 7.1 adds an OS X- based server and client, user- defined time zones, contact management, and real-time messaging to its existing fea~ tures. The program continues to make group scheduling a snap, leaving you time to focus on your meetings’ content. Thousands Served This latest version of Meeting- maker Server runs on OS X, Linux, Solaris, and all current Windows-based PCs and servers. To test Meetingmaker’s capa- bilities, we set up two servers (one running OS X and the other running Windows 2000) and OS 9, OS X, Windows, and Java clients. It took only a matter of minutes to install the applica- tion, create a server, and get it ready to add users. (Whether you're a novice or an expert, set- ting up a Meetingmaker server is a no-brainer.) Before you can use Mecting- maker, you need to use the Meetingmaker Admin tool to create users, meeting locations, and resources—such as video projectors and amplifiers. This management utility runs in all the same OSs. The company claims that the interface looks exactly the same on every plat- form; via the interface, you are able to manage a server running on Windows, Linux, Solaris, or OS X. Creating new users was easy and intuitive, but using the Admin tool to create meeting locations and resources was confusing. For example, when we created a record for an overhead projector, we were required to provide a first and last name, as well as a sign-in name and password. The same was true when we created a new location. In either case, it would be l