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> L a, j | £ With David Pogue's Expert Advice, iT hw = You Can Help Your Friends Make tJ : the Move to Mac, page 56 www.macworld.com The Mac Product Experts January 2003 POW PLAY 1GHz PowerBook G4; New iBooks for $999 SWEET HARMONY Pro Audio Finally Arrives on Mac OS X iflt Deluxe 7 Reviewed GAME HALL OF FAME The Year's Best Mac Games If you get one of these, Import pictures from your digital camera in a snap, then use iPhoto* lo organize them, print them, email them or enjoy them ina shunning slideshow right on your Mac Import digital video from your camcorder, then use iMovie to create a professional-looking home movie, complete with cross-dissolres, titles and a soundtrack, Create the ultimate digital music library in Tunes: Then burn your own custom CDs. Or get an iPod and travel anywhere with up to 4,000 songs in your pockel. With iMac’ SuperDrive and iDVD softwares its easy fo burn custom DVDs that play your movies and photo slideshows on almost any DVD player. ‘Seeded ony, Regt congpaile id party peripherals, TM ane ©2002 Ape Compe: Dn, Al rights reserve fber trademarks are Ibe property of thee eset beers youll need one of these. Digital cameras will be one of the hottest gifts this year. And the new iMactis designed to make the most of them. Just plug your camera into your iMac and your pictures will appear on the screen in seconds. Then you can easily save, organize and share them in some pretty amazing ways. OPINION | From the Editor's Desk | RICK LEPAGE | Mac OS X audio comes to the forefront. 12 Feedback Readers respond. Ihnatko ANDY IHNATKO Welcome to Macintosh, switchers! — BEAT 1GHz PowerBooks and $999 iBooks, IBM's PowerPC 970, Macromedia Director MX, 200GB Hard Drives, “Switch” parodies, Watson, Charis- | 56 mac's FireDino hub, and an interview with Real Software's Lorin Rivers. SECRETS _ 70 Soup Up Your PowerBook | 62 | CHRISTOPHER BREEN | | Our guide will help you bring your original or Titanium PowerBook up to snuff. | 20 46 74 Dreamweaver Templates DAVID SAWYER McFARLAND Use Dreamweaver's template features to design | an easy-to-t -update site-navigati 1 system. 76 Presentation Power Tips FRANKLIN N. TESSLER Make PowerPoint presentations look great whether they're played on a Mac or a Windows PC. | 80 Recycle Old Macs LISA SCHMEISER Don't relegate yesterday's hardware to the landfill: Our alternatives will leave your conscience clear. 82 — Outwit Printing Problems DEKE McCLELLAND Solve printing problems in Illustrator 10, with these expert tips. | 84 Mac 911 CHRISTOPHER BREEN Check out our workarounds for Apple's OS and applications: alternative spelling checkers, moving contacts to and from Address Book, making Ink work, running two versions of iTunes, and more. On the Cover Photography by Stan Musilek; Photoshop artist, Stephen Sugg » January 2003 www.macworld.com Macworld's 2002 Game Hall of Fame PETER COHEN Our annual roundup of the brightest stars in the Mac gaming firmament is So grab your joysticks and game pads and start playing. PC to Mac DAVID POGUE Whether you're a recent convert to the Mac or are helping someone who is, this road map for switchers will guide you on your journey—and help you avoid any pitfalls along the way. OS X in Tune CHRISTOPHER BREEN With OS X—Jaguar, in particular—Apple has changed the way you and your Mac create music. 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Tellee 877-266-6202 International Company ©2002 Herman FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Is OS X Music Creation Finally Catching Up? . BY | RICK LEPAGE Sights and Sounds AS MAC OS X HAS EVOLVED, SO HAS THE PRODUCTIVITY OF most people using it. A lot of the business and creative applications we depend upon are now OS X native—the big exception being QuarkXPress, of course. And plenty of cool utilities and applica- tions—from small developers, shareware authors, and big software companies—keep popping up. But this doesn’t mean that Apple can rest; there are still quite a few areas in the OS that need improve- ment. For example, although OS X 10.2’ overhauled scanner and printer support will make it easier for developers to publish complete drivers, it’s slow going. Many people remain mired in OS 9, waiting until all the holes are filled (and waiting until they've accumu- lated the money that upgrading everything will take). This month, Contributing Editor Christopher Breen sheds some light on another place where OS X has been incomplete: the creation of music and audio. The Mac has a tradition of being the leading plat- form for the creation of digital media, but the Win- dows market caught up long ago in the music and audio race. As is the case with so many other tech- nologies and OS X, Apple is working hard to regain the lead. In “OS X in Tune,” Chris shows us the new support Apple has built for audio and MIDI. He also provides a look at available audio products—and a glimpse of what’s coming in the near future. The Switch Is On Right now, Apple is going out of its way to woo Win- dows users—its “Switch” ad campaign is the most prominent marketing blitz from the company in a while. Abouta third of the Mac users I’ve spoken with about the documentary-style TV ads think they're stupid, but I think they're more effective than the past few ad campaigns. ‘The ads were successful enough to get under Micro- soft’ skin. In a classic bonehead move, Microsoft posted an ad about an alleged Mac-to-PC switcher on a Win- dows XP promotional site—and then promptly pulled the ad, admitting that the switcher was in facta paid free- lancer (for more, see http://maccentral.macworld.com/ news/0210/15.switch.php). Lots of companies make mistakes like this, and some of them even get caught. ‘This time, Microsoft had its hands in the cookie jar. So is the “Switch” campaign working? There’s no way for me to tell for sure, but I ave seen more Apple hardware being used around me. I fly quite often, and on recent flights, the number of open Titanium Power- Books and iBooks has been higher than the number of open PC laptops. On a flight just a few weeks ago, there were two people using iPod for Windows within five rows of me (as well as a convert who said he was going to buy one when he got off the plane). When I surf the Net or work at one of the growing number of coffee shops or airport lounges with public wireless access, there are always many new Mac laptops. Plenty of the people I see are longtime Mac users, but I've talked with enough folks to know that there have been quite a few switchers in the past year. Our old friend David Pogue once again appears in our pages this month, with a look at what people switching from Windows to Mac need to know, includ- ing helpful tips that will ease the transition. If you’re a recent convert, “PC to Mac” should help; if you’re a Mac veteran and you know someone who's beginning his Mac journey, pass the article along—it will be a useful road map. I’m glad that Apple is working to pull in users from the Dark Side, but I worry that the company isn’t focusing on those of us who've been with the Mac for a long time. Apple should be able to send out multiple messages to different audiences, and many of the Mac faithful still need to be convinced to move to OS X. No number of “Switch” ads will do that—unless they start featur- ing OS 9 users who have switched to OS X. Even More Cameras Last May in our Reviews section, we introduced a digital-camera column written by Jeff Keller, editor of the Digital Camera Resource Page (www.dcresource .com). This month, Jeff's column has been redesigned to showcase more cameras and to provide a quick look at each camera's key characteristics. Every month, a new group of cameras is announced, and each is aimed at a different category of user. We hope the new format will make it easier for you to find the.cameras you're interested in, so that when you're ready to buy (or upgrade), you'll have the information you need, 1) With OS X, Apple is working hard to regain the lead in the audio race. | Let me know what you think about these topics, Macworld in general, or anything else related to the Mac. Drop me an e-mail, at rick_lepage@macworld.com, or join in the discussion forums at www.macworld.com. ‘PHOTOGRAPH BY BETTINA SALOMGN {wventanncnorie owt? ee | tanuay 2003 | macworo | 7 | MACWORLD Unleash e power of VectorWorks 10 Get ready to shift your business into high gear VectorWorks 10. The basics just got better: We' made dramatic improvements in fundamental drawing efficiency. Maneuver through deadline congestion: We've added features that help you work ‘aster with fewer mouse clicks, and enhanced the -ompatibility with other CAD/CAM programs. 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I did the clean install of OS 9, transferred my extensions, rebuilt the desktop, and then did a clean reinstall of 10.2. My problems were solved—a major thank-you. BILL YERMAL. jes} While I appreciate what Apple has done in creating a new operating system to help secure the future of our beloved Mac platform, I don’t think I've seen a lot of honest analysis of OS X. Jaguar may be a boon to developers, software manufacturers, and programmers, but over the last six months, I've seen very little that has made me more productive. While changes in transparency, pulsat- ing buttons, drop shadows, spinning beach balls, and shiny lollipops may make for a pretty interface, my experi- ence on a S00MHz dual-processor G4 has included slower start-ups, sluggish dialog boxes, and general performance decreases in every OS X-native program T have used. RANDALL WARD. ies] I just finished upgrading my 500MHz G4 desktop to OS X 10.2, and I have to say that all the whining should stop now. Istarted using Macs at System 7 and used Jaguar: The Cat's Meow? It's not like Macworld readers to act as if the cat had their tongues. So when we ran a seven-page review of Jaguar in our October 2002 issue, we expected to hear from Mac users about the OS X 10.2 update. And sure enough, the fur was soon flying—many readers declared Jaguar the best of its breed, while others greeted its release with the usual round of catcalls. Throw in some catty comments about everything from Jaguar's price to Macworld’s OS X e-mail guide, and it's clear that, for this month at least, Macworld has not gone to the dogs. ©) both the OS X beta and OS X 10.1 exten- sively. Jaguar is unbelievably killer! The speed increases alone have done it for me, but all the changes in the Finder are the icing on the cake. I can finally see and enjoy all the work that has gone into OS X, and my G4 feels at least 200MHz faster. KEN ZAKOVICH ies] I installed Jaguar two days before I received your magazine. What a mistake. Yes, Jaguar is much faster in all aspects. Yes, it brought back many of my favorite key commands and pop-up folders. But QuarkXPress 5.01 running in Classic lit- erally sank this incredible update. Now I've got myself into a quagmire that involves QuarkXPress unexpectedly quit- ting when I save or print, as well as prob- lems with XPress image and photo redrawing. I’m still perplexed about how to group my fonts in XPress without ‘Type Reunion X. I've got scroll-itis from my font list. To try to remedy the prob- lem, our agency upgraded to Suitcase 10, which does not have a grouping feature. However, I do have to commend Suitcase as a beautiful font-management program. How can Adobe translate its entire slew of apps into flawless OS X workhorses while Quark can’t seem to get out of the starting gate? DARYL SHIELDS es] I enjoyed your article on Jaguar, but I found your recommendation about run- ning it on a G4-powered Mac a bit mis- leading. I recently bought a G3 iBook to accompany my Power Mac. I've noticed speed enhancements and faster boot times with the iBook. It should be noted that G3 users, as well as G4 users, may benefit from Jaguar. MARK WOODS I like the fact that OS X now has native Windows support. But what about those of us who have to connect to Windows machines using Novell networking pro- tocols? The only program I know of that allows Macs to network using Novell’s protocols is NetWare Client, now owned by Prosoft Engineering. This still oper- ates only in OS X’s Classic mode, limit- ing the usefulness of a new Mac in a Novell environment. Woods's letter arrived just before Prosoft’s autumn release of NetWare Client for Mac OS X—IP Edition (www.prosofteng.com), which will allow OS X clients to connect to NetWare 5 and 6 servers.—Ed. Put On a Happy Face JOHN-ROBERT LA PORTA ies} After reading “What Else Is in Jaguar,” in your October OS X 10.2 feature, I noticed that you hadn't discovered an extremely subtle nicety that I like to see when I start up my Mac. Upon reaching the blue OS X start-up screen, if you look where the text and bar appear, you'll notice that the first text displayed is “Welcome to Macintosh.” For years now, I’ve been waiting to see those words again when I turn on my com- puter. Sadly, Jaguar seems to have replaced the smiling Mac that used to display on start-up with a white Apple logo. Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything. ANDY MEADOWS ie] Honestly, I don’t miss that happy Mac face. I never saw much of it in the first place. Since OS X, I've hardly ever had to reboot my machine. It just runs. I close the lid and open it back up several times a day. I travel 42 | macwoRLD | January 2003 wewnwmacworld.com with it, never shutting it down, and it always picks up right where I left off. No, this system isn’t flawless, but I used to reboot my Mac two or three times a day. ‘These days, even though I’m on my Mac 12 to 16 hours a day, it never fails me. The smiling face is still there every time I boot my Mac. It’s just not reflected back by my start-up screen anymore. Jaguars, Priced to Move GEORGE A. JEDENOFF = I share Rick LePage’s concern about the cost of upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2 (“Paying the Piper,” From the Editor's Desk, October 2002). I recently installed OS X, and I feel that the upgrade should be available to me, and to everyone else in this category, for no more than $20 to $40. SCOTT STECKLY i=] Apple has trained many of its customers to expect things for free—iApps, iTools, OS updates, and so on. People are so used to getting everything for free that they throw up their hands and go on a rampage when HAVE FUN WITH YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOS For just $99, the Graphire2® gives you the control you need to quickly and easily edit your digital photos. 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What SSL, SSH, and VPN do is encrypt the entire data exchange—including the password and the e-mail message itself—between the sender’s mail client and e-mail server. But when that message goes from mail -yourserver-com to mail.myserver.com, itis no longer encrypted and travels the Internet as plain text. If, as the recipient, I'm using a mail client with SSL (or SSH tunneling or VPN), that message is encrypted in the exchange between my mail client and my server. If I’m not, the message and my password will travel in plain-text for- mat between the server and the mail client. The important part—the password SHE’LL LOVE HOW YOU CAPTURED THE MOMEN FEEDBACK exchange between the sender's e-mail client and mail.yourserver.com—is entirely encrypted. The article suggests that the entire message from the sender's com- puter and mail client is encrypted until it reaches my in-box. This is simply untrue. You're right—while the article stressed that SSH, SSL, and VPN secure only the connec- tion between an individual computer's e-mail program and a server (or a network, in the case of VPN), the message is decrypted at the mail server or network boundary. Only sepa- rately encrypting the contents of an e-mail message can protect it completely on the jaur- ney from sender to recipient. The revived MacPGP software for OS X, from PGP (866/ TAT-5483, www.pgp.com), will allow this kind of security using public-key cryptogra- phy.—Glenn Fleishman | Don’t Panic TOM FELEDY ie] Stephan Somogyi is the first writer to dis- cuss the unusual installation of kernel continues PATENTED PEN , Pressure-sensitive for control, with | a built-in eraser for easy fixes. There's no cord to tangle, no batteries to buy — ever. And it works with any software a mouse will. CORDLESS MOUSE '0 ball to clean, no cord to tangle. And no. batteries to buy — ever. 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Then I found a tech article at Apple’s Web site that suggested, among other things, removing any third-party start-up files. So I removed the three start- up files mentioned in the review. All of a sudden, my PowerBook worked again. Thanks for confirming my suspicions about Norton's flaky software. VAN E, MATTHEWS Stephan Somogyi’s left something very important out of the last paragraph in his informative review of Norton System- Works 2.0—that the system requirements for Mac OS X exclude beige G3s. I just bought SystemWorks for repairing OS 8.6 and 9. I have OS X 10.1.5 on my 300MHz beige G3, and SystemWorks 2.0 will not | recognize it. If you need to repair OS X on a beige G3, you might try DiskWarrior, which Alsoft claims can repair OS X, or | Micromat’s Drive 10, which will work on a beige G3 running OS X. Drivers Wanted CHRIS FENNER (Es) In “Parts Is Parts” (Mac 911, October 2002), Mac user Kevin Cook indicates that Epson hasn't yet provided an OS X driver for the Epson Stylus Photo 1200. Kevin has probably been looking at Epson’s OS X support page, which isn’t entirely accu- rate. I’d been waiting for the same driver, but I happened to stumble upon it in an obvious yet frequently overlooked place. Follow the links to the list of drivers for Epson's entire printer line, and click on the Stylus Photo 1200: Abracadabra! There's the OS X driver. I have been using my printer in OS X for at least a month now without any problems. E-mail Call JAMES PLATT ies} T’m disappointed that you rated Sono Soft- ware’s Musashi so poorly in “Mac OS X E-mail Guide” (October 2002). I wonder how you missed the fact that Musashi has Sherlock-like searching with the ability to use multiple terms, including existing fil- ters, and to limit searches to specific boxes. Musashi’s multiple-user feature is more advanced than others’ and will even pass- word-protect already-downloaded mail from other users. I see full support of HTML e-mail as a security risk, particu- larly with clients that make it hard to delete a message without viewing it, such as Net- scape. Musashi can display an HTML mes- sage’s plain-text content, and you can extract the HTML as an attachment and open it with a Web browser to see the rest. Musashi may have poor documentation, but it’s very intuitive to use and the easiest mul- tiple-user environment to set up. There’s no question that Musashi is a decent e-mail program with interesting features, But mutltiple-user features are less interesting in OS X, where most e-mail programs simply inherit the ability to support multiple users from the operating system. As far as the security risk of HTML mail goes, that’s something users must decide for themselves.—Adam C. Engst The School of Hard Knocks CARL WALTHER [Es Macworld reader Jason Brabander com- pletely missed the boat in his criticism of the eMac (Feedback, October 2002). He complained about its weight, which is one of the things that make the eMac desirable for classroom use. You have no idea what it’s like to see a laptop go flying off a desk because kids were not paying attention. A 50-pound computer stays put. And most schools want CRTS. You may be surprised to learn that many students read their com- puter screens with their fingers (often not clean). With a CRT, spraying glass cleaner and wiping with a towel at the end of the day takes care of it. Try that on an LCD. Gefen Responds HAGA GEFEN (GEFEN, INC.) iE) Gefen was pleased to see a review of its ex-tend-it VGA-to-ADC conversion box | in Macworld’s October 2002 issue (Reviews in Brief). However, we'd like to clarify some of the product’s capabilities for your readers. Gefen’s VGA-to-ADC conversion box enables the connection of any VGA- equipped computer to Apple’s flat-panel displays, resulting in an outstanding reproduction of high-resolution graphics. | Your review concluded that while the product worked well, it did not support multiple resolutions. The reason for this | is that Apple flat-panel displays are digi- | tal-only monitors; they work correctly only in the monitor’s native resolution. While some G4 video graphics cards | do support “scaling” resolutions, external scalers typically cost between $2,000 and $5,000 each, far above the price of our product. You also failed to note the reason we created the product, which was intro- duced almost a year before your review appeared. Before the release of the PowerBook G4 with DVI output, there was simply no way to connect any Apple flat-panel display to a PowerBook G4 or any other VGA-equipped computer. Gefen offered the only solution: our VGA-to-ADC conversion box. Should your readers have additional questions about Gefen’s products and | future developments, they can e-mail us | directly, at gsinfo@gefen.com. © Post comments on our forums (www smacworld.com); send them by mail to {© Letters, Macworld, 501 Second Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107; or send them by e-mail to letters@macworld.com. Include a return address and daytime phone number, Due to the high volume of mail Teceived, 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. CORRECTIONS In our review of Maclournal 2.1 (Reviews in Brief, November 2002), we printed an incorrect mouse rating. The product's correct rating is $963. In our review of FireWire CD-RW drives (December 2002), we printed an incorrect price for the LaCie 48x12x48 d2 CD-RW drive. 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It’s personal. ‘ The Maxtor OneTouch” Drive Maxtor Personal Storage” 5000DV For offers and demo: www.MaxtorOneTouch.com/mw What drives you?~ Available at CompUSA, Staples, MicroCenter, Fry's Electronics, J&R ComputerWorld, B&H, Buy.com, CDW, ‘Microwarehouse, Computers 4 Sure, and PC Connection. For PC & Mac. FireWire & USB 2.0 compatibility. WHAT'S NEXT |The Consumer Elec- | (COURTESY OF APPLE 0: ‘tronics Show usu- ally doesn't garner much attention from Mac users. But the trade show, running January 9-12 in Las Vegas, figures to introduce plenty of digital devices with Mac-market appeal. } GIGAHERTZ PROCESSOR AND SUPERDRIVE TAKE CENTER STAGE IN POWERBOOK UPDATE One for the Books Wich each successive upgrade, Apple's PowerBooks move closer to narrowing the performance gap between portable Macs and their deskbound brethren. Just this spring, Apple fitted its professional laptops with a faster system bus and Level 3 (L3) cache to help PowerBooks act more like Power Macs. Thanks to those perfor- mance gains, tasks that used to be chained to desktops—editing digi- tal video, for example—can now go on the road. And increasingly, Mac users can opt for laptops as their primary computers. But even with the leaps in port- able Macs, Power Macs maintained superiority in a few key areas, including processor speed and DVD-burning capabilities. If you {46 | MACWORLD January 2003 wanted a computer equipped with both a processor that hit the giga- hertz mark and an optical drive that burned DVDs, you pretty much had to restrict yourself to a Power Mac. A PowerBook just didn’t fit the bill. Or at least, it didn’t used to. After Apple’ latest round of updates to its PowerBook line—highlighted by the addition of a faster G4 processor topping out at 1GHz, and a slot- loading DVD burner—the number of differences between Apple's top- of-the-line desktops and laptops has shrunk by two. Gigahertz Matters Most Mac users will immediately notice the latest PowerBooks’ greater clock speed—and that’s understandable, since the high- end model is the first Apple laptop to reach the gigahertz milestone. In addition to the 1GHz Power- Book G4, a model powered by an 867MHz G4 processor is also available. Previously, the Power- Book came with either an 800- MHz or 667MHz chip. But the new PowerBooks retain an important addition from those earlier models: L3 cache with IMB of DDR (double data rate) RAM. L3 cache offers quick access to data en route to the processor. Meanwhile, DDR memory pushes data through on both the rise and fall of the clock signal. The result is an overall performance boost, even for a machine that’s powered by a 1GHz processor. Inside the updated PowerBooks is an entirely new graphics proces- sor—the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, similar to the graphics chip found in Apple’s two high-end desktop models. With as much as 64MB of dedicated DDR video SDRAM (32MB in the 867MHz configuration), the ATT graphics chip provides serious graphics and 3-D performance for video pros and gamers alike. The 867MHz PowerBook G4 features 256MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive. The GHz model ships with 512MB of mem- ory and 60GB of storage space; it also features a preinstalled Air- Port card for wireless networking. (The 867MHz, configuration is AirPort ready, with integrated antennas but an empty card slot.) Both PowerBook models can be upgraded to include 1GB of RAM. Burning Desires While the 867MHz PowerBook G¢4 includes a DVD-ROM/CD- RW Combo as its optical-drive option, the 1GHz version features a SuperDrive that reads and writes both CDs and DVDs, making it the first Apple portable to feature this capability. Adding a Super- Drive to the PowerBook presented Apple with the dual challenge of obtaining an optical drive small |_wwwmacworld.com | APPLE CUTS PRICES, ADDS FEATURES IN UPDATED iBOOK More Bang, Less Bucks For years, Mac fans waited for the price of a Mac to drop below the psycho- logical barrier of $1,000. That barrier was broken long ago, but with Apple's latest iBook revision, Mac users can finally boast that an Apple laptop is available for the magic price of $999, And that laptop also happens to run at 700MHz. More important for anyone in need of an affordable laptop, Apple didn’t strip away features as it slashed prices. Instead, the company boosted the processor speed on all three iBook configurations and upgraded the graphics controller—two moves that could bolster the appeal of a machine that accounted for 22 percent of Apple's hardware sales in 2002. iBooks remain, along with the $799 CRT iMac, the last Apple systems to use the older G3 processor, But that processor has gotten a 100MHz speed boost: the iBook now comes in 800MHz and 700MHz versions, The G3 pro- cessor in the updated iBook continues to feature the 512K of on-chip Level 2 cache introduced in the previous revision (see “The iBook Caches Up,” Mac Beat, July 2002), The ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processor introduced in the iBook is gone, replaced by the more powerful ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, That's the By the Book HARD OPTICAL VIDEO PROCESSOR/ MODEL PRICE MEMORY DRIVE DRIVE MEMORY DISPLAY 9 128MB 20GB CD-ROM ATI MobilityRadeon 12.1 = ee 7500/16MB is inches _ 128MB 30GB Combo ATI Mobility Radeon 12.1 00s inchs $1,599 256MB 30GB Combo ATI MobilityRadeon 14.1 =a 7500/32MB same graphics accelerator formerly used by Apple's PowerBooks, The graphics processor in two iBook configurations now features 32MB of dedicated video memory—up from 16MB in the last revision—and AGP 2x support. (The graphics processor in the base model still comes with 16MB of RAM.) With the improved graphics controller, the iBook can take advantage of Quartz Extreme, a feature introduced in Jaguar that lessens the burden on the Mac's processor by using the graphics engine to perform screen calculations for improved performance, The $999 iBook comes with a 700MHz G3 processor, 128MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 12.1-inch active-matrix TFT display, The $1,299 iBook features a 12.1-inch screen, an 800MHz G3 processor, 128MB of RAM, 30GB of storage space, and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo drive, The top-of-the-line $1,599 iBook has a 14,1-inch screen, an 800OMHz G3 processor, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, and e Combo drive. A custom-built option for the 14.1-inch iBook includes a 40GB hard drive and 640MB of memory for an extra $250.—PHiUP MICHAELS enough to fit into the PowerBook’ ultra- slim design and making it a slot-loading drive to meet customer demand. There's no doubt that to get a Super- Drive that met the battery demands of a portable while fitting within the Power- Book's dimensions, some changes to the optical drive had to be made. The Power- Book's SuperDrive burns DVDs at Lx, compared with 2x on the SuperDrives in Apple’s desktop models. (Speeds for read- ing DVDs and reading and writing CDs are identical to those of the SuperDrives in Power Macs.) That means it will take about an hour to burn an hour's worth of DVD video on a SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook, compared with about 30 minutes on a Power Mac. Still, Apple Power Users MODEL PRICE PROCESSOR SPEED MEMORY contends that the MPEG-2 encoding capabilities in the 1GHz PowerBook G4 will exceed what you'll find in Sony and Toshiba portables equipped with DVD burners. But you probably won't want to burn a DVD on a PowerBook that isn’t plugged in, because of the time and power required for the job. Priced to Move Apple introduced one other change in this round of PowerBook updates: the price. Previously, the top-of-the-line model—an 800MHz PowerBook G4 with 512MB of RAM, 40GB of storage, and a Combo drive—cost $3,199. The new high-end configuration, with its faster processor, bigger hard drive, HARD DRIVE SYSTEM BUS 13 CACHE and DVD-burning capabilities, costs $2,999—a $200 drop. The new 867MHz configuration also sells for $200 less than its 667 MHz counterpart, at $2,299. Both PowerBook ver ould be available by the time you read this. ‘The update to the PowerBook line will keep the desktop-versus-laptop debate as lively as ever (see “Power Users” for a product-line comparison)—and the PowerBook price cut may swing the pen- dulum over to the portable side. Then again, Power Macs boast dual-processor configurations, DDR RAM for main memory, and multiple optical and hard- drive bays—things you won't find in any of Apple’s laptops. Of course, there's always the next update —PHILIP MICHAELS OPTICAL DRIVE VIDEO PROCESSOR. wowmacworld.com | January 2003 | MACW Tena paczKo IBM'S POWERPC 970 SEEMS IDEAL FOR THE MAC—WILL APPLE ADOPT IT? Coming Attraction? Pop open any Mac made in the past two years, and chances are you'll find a Power PC chip made by Motorola inside. But that could change, courtesy of a new proces- sor—recently unveiled by IBM— that may soon make its way to a Mac near you. Neither Apple nor IBM will comment on whether the chip, the PowerPC 970, is slated for Ma But industry analysts aren’t ne: so reticent, “They can’t say Apple, but we can—speculatively, of course,” said Microprocessor Report senior analyst Tom Halfhill shortly after the PowerPC 970s October introduction. Welcome to the Family The PowerPC 970 i anew family of proc IBM. Based on IBM’s Power4 ‘ors, the PowerPC 970 combines higher-end server features with a processor that’s compatible with current PowerPC instructions. The new processor is expected to operate at between 1.4GHz and 1.8GHz. The Motorola PowerPC proc: operates at 1.25GHz. The PowerPC 970's current design provides no connectors for L3 cache. But it has 512K of on-die L2 cache that will run at the same speed as the processor. Instead of L3 cache, the PowerPC 970 has a new memory-bus archi- tecture with a theoretical band- width of 7.2GB per second. Even with overhead, the actual peak memory bandwidth remains a impressive 6.4GB per second. ‘To further improve performance, IBM engineers tripled the Power- PC 970's processing pipeline. While some reduced-instruction- set purists question this move, both AMD and Intel have been able to substantially increase the frequency of their processors by increasing pipeline depth. Moreover, the PowerPC 970% pipeline is still shorter than many offerings from AMD and Intel. The PowerPC 970 is also IBM’s first PowerPC processor to include a Single Instruction Multiple ata (SIMD) unit. IBM's SIMD implementation uses the same 162 instructions as the AltiVec tech- nology built into Motorola’s G4 chips. This means that someone n using an AltiVec-enabled applica- tion, such as Adobe Photoshop, on a PowerPC 970-powered machine should see performance boosts sim- ilar to those that Mac users cur- rently enjoy with a G¢ processor. The 64-Bit Question The PowerPC 970 is scheduled to ship in the second half of 2003. At that time, the chip’s top clock speed of 1.8GHz would still leave Mac users with Wintel-inspired gigahertz envy. But Microproc Report editor Peter Glaskowsky notes that the PowerPC 970's performance would be only 20 to 30 percent behind the performance of AMD’ and Intel’s top offerings, putting Apple’s computers closer to their PC competition than they've been in years. Glaskowsky adds that with a machine powered by two PowerPC 970 processors, Apple could claim performance superiority with more legitimate y uses ‘suming, of course, that lopts the new chip. ally looking forward to Power Mac with a 970 kowsky says. “It’s been a few years since Apple has had a Mac that is competitive with the best you can get on the PC side.” Since the PowerPC 970 isa 64-bit processor, adopting the chip would require that Apple make small, low-level changes to Mac OS. However, the new processor can operate natively in a 32-bit mode, so if Apple does make those changes, all other 32-bit software should operate seamlessly. With 64-bit addressing, appli- cations may use more than 4GB of memory. Glaskowsky says that database programs commonly ben- efit from 64-bit addressing, which brings significant performance gains because it allows an entire database to be stored in memory, sai getting a in it,” GI wevowmacworld.com | rather than in an index. Since serv- ers would see big performance gains from that capability, analysts speculate that the likeliest desti- nation for the PowerPC 970 is Apple’s Xserve, especially given the company’s current interest in serv- ers running OS X. Further fueling speculation is the PowerPC 970's background as a Power4 server processor, along with a memory architecture and cache implemen- tation that lend themselves to mul- tiprocessor configurations. PowerPC 970 Inside? Glaskowsky says that if Apple decides to go with the PowerPC 970, it will also have to adopt IBM’s proprietary memory controller. While Apple typically builds its own memory controllers, this would not be a trivial task—the switch would amount to a “strate~ gic commitment” on Apple's part to use the new processor family, according to Glaskowsky. Adding the PowerPC 970 to Macs would also require a funda- mental change in the way Apple operates, Glaskowsky says, par- ticularly if the company hopes to attract big-name server clients. Developers of server software must know what hardware suppli- ers will be doing down the road. That's why both Intel and IBM provide strategic road maps—and Apple would have to do the same. “Tf Apple wants to be taken seri- ously by developers of server soft- ware, it’s going to have to publish its system road maps very far into the future,” Glaskowsky says. Of course, Mac users have dif- ferent concerns: when they pop open their computers in a few years, will they see a new proces- sor running the show? Because of the PowerPC 970’s inherent strengths, Glaskowsky sees Apple using it first in the Xserve and then in high-end desktop systems. But he adds that because of its expense, you shouldn't expect to see the PowerPC 970 in the iMac or portable lines—at least, not initially.—DAVID READ DEVELOPER REVEALS PLANS FOR NEXT VERSION OF INTERNET-SERVICES APP. What's Next for A year ago, Dan Wood was on top of the world. The president of Karelia Software (www.karelia.com), he had a potential hit on his hands with Watson, an innovative OS X-only application. Designed as a com- panion to Apple’s Sherlock, Watson helped users easily access a variety of Internet services; it made a splash at the January 2002 Maeworld Expo, and Wood became the poster boy for Cocoa, Apple's object- oriented programming environment. But Wood's elation turned out to be short lived. About five months after Expo, Apple Watson? performance and an expanded list of ser- vices, such as package tracking, television guides, and sports coverage. And more ser- vices will follow. While reluctant to disclose many details of forthcoming modules, Wood gave Macworld a peek at some features slated for Watson 2, due in early 2003. (At press time, Karelia had just released Watson 1.6, adding integration with Apple’s iCal, OS X’s Address Book, and El Gato Software's EyeTV.) 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Wood predicts that Watson users will also appreciate version 2's closer integration with stan- dard OS X applications: they'll be able to add automatic reminders for television shows to iCal, and The Game Is Afoot, Watson Undaunted by the release of Sher- lock 3, Karelia Software plans to release Watson 2 in the first part of 2003. It will feature better performance than earlier versions, drag contact information uncov- ered in a Phone Book search over to OS X's Address Book. announced that OS X 10.2’s Sherlock would have support for Internet services. The updated Sherlock 3 offers modules for ser- vices such as eBay auctions, flight informa- tion, movie listings, phone numbers, and stock quotes—exactly the same services found in Watson. ‘The Sherlock 3 changes have raised some eyebrows in the Mac community: some wonder whether the update was a natural evolution of a program or a wholesale appro- priation of features. Apple declines to com- ment on the For his part, Wood feels that “the similarities went too far.” Still, despite the brouhaha—or perhaps, in some part, because of it—Watson orders have continued to climb. In online discus- sions, users praise Watson for its speedier While Karelia has funded the development of Watson's current set of modules, interest in the program is growing among independent programmers and even in-house developers. Unlike Sherlock plug- ins, which require that a developer use a combination of scripting languages, Watson plug-ins are small Cocoa applications, easily crafted in a familiar programming environ- ment. This same architectural difference gives Watson the performance edge, accord- ing to Wood. Acknowledging the speculation about a Windows version, Wood admits that he’s seeking partners. However, he adds that there’s a big step from the possible to the probable: “Everything is a possibility, right? There could be an Amiga version. But there won't.” —DAVID MORGENSTERN | wownwmacworld.com_| January 2003 | MACWORLD | 19 ie MAC BEAT) JANUARY 2003 } PRODUCTIVITY BEAT _ Software Programming Revolution 2.0, from Runtime Revolution (wwnw.runrev com): The latest version of the cross-platform devel- ‘opment software, which runs on both the classic Mac OS and OS X, adds a Jaguar-friendly user interface, sup- port for XML, Unicode-text entry and editing, spread- sheet fields, and database access (Professional Edition, $995; Small Business Edition, $299; Student-Teacher Edition, $99). SuperCard 4.0, from Solutions Etcetera (530/644-7382, ‘www.solutionsetcetera.com); The updated application- authoring system adds OS X compatibility; it continues to run on OS 8.6 and higher. The update also breaks the 32- kilobyte limit for text fields and scripts, and it features simplified scripting for interface items in Aqua and Plat- inum ($179; upgrade, $129). .0, from Copernican Technologies (831/42! 1775, www.boswell.com): The archiving and organiza- tional tool for e-mail, Web clippings, research, and other text has a revised user interface and simplified technol- ogy. Version 3.0 runs on OS 8 and OS 9; it marks the final feature-set changes before the code conversion to an OS X-native version. Boswell 3.0 purchasers will be entitled to a free upgrade to the OS X version ($50; upgrade, free).—compiteD BY PHILIP MICHAELS STORAGE BEAT “Hardware External Drives USB flash: \-storage devices from Memorex orex (562/906 2800, ‘\Wwww.memorex.com): The USB ThumbDrive is a portable flash-storage device that fits on a keychain and plugs in to a USB port. It comes in 64MB ($60) and 128MB ($100) capacities. External hard drives from WiebeTech (316/744-8722, www .wiebetech.com): The SuperDesktopGB FireWire exter- nal drives now come in 180GB ($550) and 200GB ($600) capacities. The 7,200-rpm drives manage the larger capac- ity by offering ATA compatibility. They include improved PowerBridge bus-powering circuitry, eliminating the need for external power on most Macs, and come bundled with Mediafour's MacDrive 5, for transferring formatted files \ between Macs and PCs—cOMPILED BY PHILIP MICHAELS INTERNAL HARD DRIVES NOW TOP 200GB—AND WORK WITH YOUR MAC Supersizing Your Storage Tf you spend a lot of time creating movies with Apple’s authoring software—or per- forming any storage-intensive task, for that matter—you know that a hard drive can fill up faster than a theater on a summer blockbuster’s opening weekend. If a 60GB drive seems puny and even a 120GB drive leaves you with little room to spare, a new generation of hard drives with drastically larger capacities might fit the bill. Many hard-drive manufacturers are now offering jumbo-capacity IDE drives (see “Storage to Spare”). Western Digital’s WD Caviar hard-drive line now tops out at 200GB of storage. The standard version of this 7,200-rpm drive, nicknamed Drivezilla by the company, has 2MB of cache and sells for $379; a Special Edition version, featuring 8MB of cache, costs $20 more. Maxtor, the first company to produce a 160GB drive, followed Western Digital’s release with its competing Maxtor Ultra series—which includes a 200GB, 7,200- rpm drive with an 8MB buffer. While the Western Digital models have been ship- ping since fall of 2002, Maxtor's $399 drive should hit the market by the time you read this. (As this issue went to press, Maxtor announced a 250GB, 5,400-rpm drive priced at $400.) Meanwhile, IBM is enter- ing the jumbo-drive fray—albeit with product line that maxes out at 180GB: its 7,200-rpm Deskstar 180 GXP costs $360 and has 8MB of cache. ‘To allow for the huge capacities of their new drives, manufacturers have moved from traditional 28-bit addressing, which limits drive size to 137GB, to 48-bit addressing, which has the staggering the- oretical maximum size of 144 petabytes (a petabyte is one million gigabytes). But there’s a catch. The ATA/60 and ATA/100 connections used in today’s Macs support only 28-bit addressing. So before you rush to buy one of these drives for your Power Mac, you'll need to pick up an ATA/133 controller card (see Reviews, June contact 888/746-7426, wwwibm.com __ 800/262-9867, www.maxtorcom 949/672-7000, wwnwsvesterndigitalcom_ 2002, for our picks), which will add 48-bit addressing capability to your system. If your Mac doesn’t accept PCI cards, you could opt for an external FireWire solution. Other World Computing’s 200GB Mercury Pro FireWire drive ($499; 800/275-4576, www.macsales.com) is based on the Western Digital drive. Firewire- Direct sells a 160GB drive, the SlimLine Ultra IIT ($399; 512/302-0012, www .firewiredirect.com), based on Maxtor's 5,400-rpm DiamondMax Plus. (At press time, WiebeTech introduced a 200GB external drive; see “Storage Beat.”) You The' Western Dig gital WD | Caviar IDE drive can also outfit the new jumbo drives from Western Digital, Maxtor, and IBM with a FireWire enclosure—as long as the case includes an Oxford 911 chip that supports supersized drives. (The Oxford firmware upgrade technically provides only 32-bit addressing, but the four additional bits give them the headroom to accommodate the newer drives,) You can find suitable enclosures through Other World Com- puting, FirewireDirect, and Granite Digi- tal (510/471-6442, www.scsipro.com). Whatever option you choose, these bigger drives will expand your multimedia-packed Mac’s capacity beyond standing room only.—ANTON LINECKER “20068 _ = | 20 | MACWORLD | January 2003_| |_wwwmacworld.com MULTIMEDIA-AUTHORING APP GETS MACROMEDIA'S MX TREATMENT Director Takes Action Throughout 2002, Macromedia (800/ 470-7211, www.macromedia.com) rolled out updates to its Web-development tools—giving them a common interface and tighter integration—under the MX brand name. Now it’s Macromedia Director's turn to assume the MX label. Like other recent Macromedia updates, Director MX sports a familiar interface, with collapsible, dock- able panels. A unified Script And Debugging window lets users debug, browse, and edit scripts in one window—which displays variables whose values have changed in red, for immediate visual feedback. Director MX works seamlessly with other MX products, such as Flash. It imports Flash MX files, Message windows. Director MX also lets users create content that meets fed- eral accessibility guidelines such as Sec- tion 508 standards. For Mac users, Director gains more than an MX in its name. The latest version adds OS X compatibility, running exclu- sively on OS X 10.1 and higher, Playback ea and double-clicking on a SWF file launches Flash. Roundtrip editing lets users edit a SWF New Direction In Director MX, users can import Flash MX files and launch Flash by double-clicking on a SWF file. file, save it, and then bring it back into Director. The new version also provides control over Flash MX objects, with Lingo, Director's object-oriented scripting language. Power-tool additions to Director include an Object Inspector with data- browser functionality, as well as time- saving new buttons in the Script and of Director-created material still requires the Classic environment. Macromedia’s Shockwave Player 8.5.1 can show content created in Director MX. Director MX should begin shipping in mid-December, at a price of $1,199. Users of versions 8 and 8.5 can upgrade for $399,—PHILIP MICHAELS COMPANY'S LATEST OFFERING BRINGS TECH SUPPORT TO YOUR BROWSER Netopia’s eCare At Your Service Real-time collaboration via the Web may be cozily familiar on Windows, but Mac users can find themselves left out in the cold when browser clients don’t work with the platform. Netopia (510/814-5100, www.netopia.com) wants to ensure that all Web users are treated equally. eCare, the networking developer's browser-based technical- support software, enables live, on-demand online collaboration between an organiza- tion’s call centers or help desks and its customers, whether they’re using dial-up modems or DSL. And unlike online-conferencing products such as WebEx and Symantec's pcAnywhere, eCare has b een specifically designed for the Mac, with cus- tomized clients for OS 9 and OS X—it detects whether a customer is using a Mac or a PC and automatically offers the appropriate client-installation option. Netopia based eCare on its Timbuktu technology, for remote-control desktop access, and its eSite and eStore Web-enabled products. The eCare client won't take up much space; Netopia claims that, at 400K, it’s the slimmest remote-control client on the market. In-house licenses start at $50,000 for companies that want to host eCare. Businesses can also purchase eCare on a monthly subscription basis at a cost of $300 per support agent. For companies that want to serve all their customers, no matter which platform they're using, that may wind up being a small price to pay.—JILL ROTER INPUT-DEVICE BEAT A.USB hub from logear (866/946-4327, www.iogear.com): ‘The MicroHub ($15) is a four-port hub that measures 0.7 inches tall, 1.8 inches wide, and 2.5 inches long. Keyboards ‘A rack-mounting keyboard from Marathon Computer (800/832-6326, www.marathoncomputer.com): The RKeyboard ($100) is a USB keyboard, with a built-in touchpad, that was designed to be mounted in a rack. It measures 15,3 inches wide, 5.5 inches deep, and less than 1.6 inches high. Marathon also bundles the key- board with its RKey heavy-duty rack-mounting keyboard drawer ($375). Mice Two wireless mice from Kensington (800/235-6708, www.kensington.com): The Studio-Mouse Wireless ($90) features a touch-sensitive Scroll Sensor for scrolling up and down. The three-button mouse is powered by a rechargeable battery, and it comes with a recharging base for when it isn’t being used. The PocketMouse Pro Wireless ($50) is a wireless version of the PocketMouse Pro; instead of a retractable USB cord, it features a node for holding a stowaway USB receiver that provides wireless connectivity from as far as three feet away. Three mice from Microsoft (800/426-9400, wwnw.micro soft.com): The Optical Mouse Blue ($35) features an astral-blue finish and a wider scroll wheel. The Wireless Optical Mouse Blue ($45) offers wireless connectivity. The Notebook Optical Mouse ($35) is the first optical mouse designed specifically for laptops; it includes a red scroll wheel and side grips. Remote Controls A wireless presentation control from Interlink Electron- ics (805/484-8855, www.interlinkelectronics.com): With buttons for moving forward, moving backward, and hiding slides, the RemotePoint Navigator ($149) lets users control Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, It also features a laser pointer. The remote uses radio- frequency wireless technology, which allows it to work from as far as 50 feet away from a USB-equipped Mac running 0S 8 or higher, including OS X. Switches ee A device for sharing ADC-equipped displays between two Macs, from Dr, Bott (877/611-2688, www.drbott.com); The MoniSwitch ADC ($299) allows two computers with digital-video output to share an Apple flat-panel display with ADC (Apple Display Connector) connections. AKVM switch from Gefen (800/545-6900, www.gefen .com): The USB Switcher ($299) connects two comput- ers to a single analog monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It comes with two DVI-A/VGA cables, two USB cables, and a 12-volt power supply.—coMPiLeD BY PHILIP MICHAELS Hubs wwewmacworld.com Janvary 2003 | MACWORLD | 24 | (MAC BEAT [JANUARY 2003 )- iCURVE, LAPVANTAGE OFFER STYLE WITH COMFORT PRO FILE_| Q&A WITH LORIN RIVERS Laptops Make Their Stand Thanks to increased processing power and easy portability, Apple’s laptops may match the performance of a desktop machine, but they're still no match for the desk itself. Prolonged use of a laptop sitting flat on a desk can stir up a hornet's nest of ergonomic woes. A laptop stand can alleviate those problems, lifting the screen to eye level while freeing up desk space for an external keyboard. Two companies have come out with stands that provide functionality without ignoring form. Take the iCurve, from Griffin Technology (www.griffintechnology.com): “It’s something that complements the beauty of Apple laptops instead of embarrassing them,” says Andrew Green, Griffin's vice president of marketing, about the $40, rounded, clear plastic stand. Two acrylic prongs rise from the iCurve’s horse- shoe-shaped base to support any Apple lap- top. A keyboard tucks underneath the iCurve, keeping you at an ergonomically safe arm’s length from your screen. The Lapvantage Dome, from The Plasticsmith (800/394-3774, www.plasticsmith.com), offers many of the those features in a design immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with a flat-panel iMac. The $80 deluxe model lets you adjust for height and features a swiveling base; Plasticsmith also sells a $50 Lapvantage. No matter which stand you favor, both the iCurve and the Lapvantage offer the same message—lap- = top users should be able to work in style as The Lapvantage Dome well as comfort.—PHILIP MICHAELS UPDATED FONT EDITOR ADDS SUPPORT FOR JAGUAR, OPENTYPE FontLab’s X Experiment Graphics pros using Mac OS X have had to do without a native font editor for customizing existing fonts or designing new ones. But that’s about to change. After releasing an updated Windows version of its flagship font editor this past fall, FontLab is prepar- ing a Mac edition of FontLab 4.5 (877/366-8522, www.fontlab .com)—and this release will run natively in OS X 10.2. (FontLab 4.5 should be in beta testing by the time you read this.) Besides adding OS X 10.2 support, FontLab 4.5 will be able to produce new fonts and convert older ones into OpenType, the Unicode-based format created by Adobe and Microsoft to address the typographic and cross-platform shortcomings of the venerable ‘Type 1 and TrueType formats. FontLab 4.5 will also add support for Python—a scripting lan- guage well known in the type-design field—and a revamped user interface. The latter change tackles a long-standing criticism of FontLab—an intimidating and complex interface, especially com- pared with the look-and-feel of its main competition, Macromedia’s $349 Fontographer (which, as of press time, does not run on OS X). FontLab 4.5 will sell for $545, with upgrades from version 3.1— the last revision on the Mac side—priced at $199. Fontographer users can also switch to FontLab for $199.—TERRI STONE BACK TO BASICS Longtime Mac developers who've opted to come out with Windows versions of their products can usually count on some howls of protest from users who accuse the company of abandoning the Mac plat- form. That hasn't happened to Real Software, which announced in October that the next version of its RealBasic development software, due out in early 2003, would run on both Mac and Windows plat- forms, That doesn’t surprise Lorin Rivers, Real Software's vice presi- dent of marketing, who believes that a Windows version of RealBasic will make the Mac edition even stronger. He explained how in a recent interview with Macworld.—PHiLiP MICHAELS AT A GLANCE LORIN RIVERS Vice President of Marketing, Real Software MAC: 667MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 SOFTWARE: Omni Outliner, Creo Six Degrees Why are you adding Windows compatibility in the next ver- sion of RealBasic? The primary reason is because our customers asked us to do so, and they’ve been asking us to do that since we first released a version of RealBasic that compiled for Windows [in 1999 with RealBasic 2]. One of the challenges of doing cross-platform development is the debugging stage. Not having the debugger on the other platform, which would require that the whole [development environment] be over there, made it quite a bit more difficult to debug Windows apps. So that’s a big motiva- tion right there—we want to make the quality of Windows apps better, and we want to make it easier to do them well. Another reason our customers want RealBasic on Windows is because a lot of people use a Mac at home and a PC at work. It’s a lot eas- ier for them to use RealBasic in their jobs [if they] have a Win- dows version. You mentioned better-quality Windows apps. Can the same be said on the Mac side, that this move will result in better Mac apps? Treally think it will, because the Mac is so forgiving. Things that are technically incorrect, the Mac will just kind of deal with those and keep on going, even technically a bug or bad code or what have you. Windows, on the other hand, tends to be much less forgiving. As we're going along, doing the development in parallel, the alphas are coming out within min- utes of each other on Windows and on Mac. And the work that we're doing on the Windows [development environment] is making the Mac [version] better because we're having to fix things we didn’t even know were broken. They were fine on. the Mac but not fine on Windows. (Moe tnfor www.macworld.com/2003/01/macbeat/rivers/index.html In our online interview, Lorin Rivers talks in-depth about the new | compiler coming to RealBasic 5. 22) MACWORLD | January 2003 | |_www.maeworld.com | Even the best computer in the world can sometimes run into problems. That's why Micromat developed TechToo! Pro" and Drive 10™. TechTool Pro contains everything you'll need to diagnose and repair almost any problem that ails your Macintosh. Drive 10 offers you the most comprehensive drive repair and defrag utility native to Mac OS X. With tools like these, you'll be able to keep your computer out of the can for a long, long time. Learn more at www.micromat.com. Wimicromat inc. 800-829-6227 707-566-3831 info@micromat.com www.micromat.com ‘©2002 Micromat, Inc. All rights reserved. TechTool is a registered trademark of Micromat, Inc. Drive 10 is a trademark of Micromat, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. JANUARY 2003 PP ERUESENN CRYO PUBLISHING BEAT Software Plug-Ins ‘SkinnyEPS 2.0, from Ultimate Technographics (800/363- 3590, www.ultimate-tech.com): The Photoshop plug-in produces CMYK images that are an average of 15 times ‘smaller than normal EPS files. It requires OS X and Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or higher ($195). Productivity TextSpresso 2.0, from Taylor Design (wwwvutaylor-design .com);The updated text-processing utility now supports OS X while remaining backward-compatible with OS 8.6 and higher. TextSpresso uses filters to make text pulled from e-mails, Web sites, and a wide variety of applications more readable ($30; upgrade, free). Workflow ‘TruEdit 2.0, from Managing Editor, Inc. (800/638-3347, wwwmaned.com): The updated workflow-management program, which works in conjunction with Adobe InDe- sign 2.0 and InCopy 2.0, adds several new features, including metadata support, file previews, and a search engine. It runs in OS 9 and OS X ($249 per user; upgrades, free). —comPiteD BY TERRI STONE NETWORKING BEAT Hardware A dual-band wireless access point from Linksys (800/546- 5797, wwwulinksys.com); The Instant Wireless Dual- Band Wireless Access Point ($299) supports as many as THE READERS SPEAK: OS X ADOPTION SHOULD CONTINUE INTO NEW YEAR Year of the Jaguar? Apple hoped to enter 2003 with more than five million active OS X users. If the plans of participants in the Macworld Reader Panel pan out, you can expect that number to rise throughout the year. The survey of 937 Macworld readers, selected at random by market-research firm Karlin Associates, tackled a number of questions, including OS X adoption. Panelists were asked how much they used Apple’s new operating system in 2002 and how much they planned to rely on OS X in the coming year. Nearly three-fourths of the respon- dents—70 percent—said that they expect to use OS X either all or most of the time in 2003. That's up from 54 percent who reported using the new OS all or most of the time in 2002. More encour- aging to Apple, only 7 percent of the panelists don’t expect to use OS X in 2003, a steep drop from the 25 percent who didn’t use OS X in 2002. Not surprisingly, then, when asked to name the top issue facing Apple in 2003, 30 percent of the Macworld Reader Panel cited ongoing OS X migration— more than twice the percentage of the next most popular response. Responses were nearly evenly divided among the next four choices. New consumer elec- tronics devices and new i-apps each gar- nered support among 13 percent of our panelists. New desktops and laptops were both favored by 12 percent. As for the more immediate future, the Macworld Reader Panel has hardware on its mind. Asked which product they’d like to see introduced at January's Mac- world Conference & Expo in San Fran- cisco, 38 percent of our panelists cited new Macs, with 20 percent calling for upgraded desktops and 18 percent wish- ing for new laptop offerings. (After hard- ware, an Apple-branded PDA was the next most popular response, garnering support from 22 percent of our pan- elists.) And our survey took place just before Apple unveiled its new portable offerings, so the 18 percent hoping for updated PowerBooks and iBooks may have been satisfied before Expo even began.—PHILIP MICHAELS http://www.macworld.com/2003/01/macbeat/ poll/index.htm! The Macworld Reader Panel issues its report card for Apple's 2002 product releases. Find out which new products made the grade at Macworld.com. 64 users, providing an advanced user-authentication fea- ture and encryption of up to 152 bits. It unites two access points for communication with both IEEE 802.11a and IEEE 802,11b wireless network devices in the 2.4GHz and SGHz bands, An eight-port copper gigabit Switch from Netgear (888/ 638-4327, wwwunetgearcom): The GS108 ($700) pro- vides eight 10/100/1000-Mbps auto-switching ports, each with Auto Uplink capability. Awireless-ready router from Actiontec Electronics (408/752-7700, www.actiontec.com): The Dual-Mode Wireless-Ready Cable/DSL Router ($100) lets multiple computers share high-speed Internet access. The router also enables multiple users to log on to America Online simultaneously via the same Internet connection. It offers two WAN ports and three LAN ports, with built-in firewall and 64- and 128-bit encryption.—comeieD BY tL ROTER All of the time 28% a% Most of the time 26% 28% Half of the time 6% 1% + Some of the time 8% 8% Rarely 1% 5% Never 25% 7% Don't know 0% 3% Total respondents: 937 [24 | Macworto | January 2003 | www.macworld.com | » = | we protect your world. r-CWIAC BEAT [JANUARY 2003 }—— PARODIES OF APPLE ADS ABOUND ONLINE The Ol’ Switcheroo MULTIMEDIA B F AT Irs too early to tell whether Apple's “Switch” ads—those ubiquitous TV spots in which | recent converts sing the Mac’s praises—will inspire others to jump to the Mac platform. Hardware |: the TV commercials have been a source of inspiration to at least one segment of the population—online animators, satirists, and other pranksters have flooded the Inter- A USB MID! keyboard from M-Audio (800/969-6434, net with “Switch” takeoffs. Here are a handful of parodies worthy of recognition. wert meatiio. com The Ra dike Midian Keystation Most Likely to be Served with a Cease-and-Desist Order Kevin Fox scores points for eee MON eine clce nase berd, | Passion with “Bait and Switch” (www.fury.com/article/1386,php), a sharp rant slam It’s compatible with both 05:9 and 0S X. ming Apple’s move from free iTools to subscription-based .Mac services. Still, don’t = = = __| expect Fox’s parody to earn | Software kudos from Cupertino. Audio | Best Shout-out to an Island | Cubase SX, from Steinberg (818/678-5100, wwwus | Nation Its probably safe to _steinberg,net): This version of the audio-MIDI sequencer | Say that Ubergeek’s Flash- is the frst from Steinberg to run natively in OS X. Fea- animated takeoff (www.uber tures include unlimited undos and redos, offline process | geek.tv/switchback) is the only history, and a 32-bit floating-point mixer with surround- | parody that incorporates para- sound mixing and panning controls ($799; upgrade from | sailing, iBooks, sadistic fathers, Cubase Audio VST/32, $149; from Cubase Score, $199, da esas teteodli oaks from Cubase Standard, $299; from Cubasis VST, $399). aes HEA et sf the Iceland Chamber of Com- Pro Tools 6.0, from Digidesign (650/731-6300, www eres vebudl .digidesign.com): This update adds OS X support to the Loa industry-standard music-production program that works Best Performance bya: Pre with Digidesign hardware, It will ship in early 2003 (pric- | mate Jason Gottlieb didn’t ing not set at press time). pick the star of his ad (http://_ Watching Big Brother William Levin's “Switch” parody marks Plug-ins homepages.nyu.edu/~jgg221), _ the return of this familiar face, from a 1984 Mac ad. Magic Bullet Suite 1.0 from The Orphanage (323/933. | Claymation chimp, asa subtle | 8262, wwotheorphanagecom):The suite isaseries of | dig at the intelligence of the average Windows user. “I tell people all the time when they Mac-only After Effects 5.5 plug-ins for converting high- are trying to figure out ideas to animate, ‘Do a monkey. People like monkeys,” Gottlieb quality digital video to 24 frames per second, making it | says. The NYU film student animated the chimp himself over a weekend and then edited | ook more like film footage (SD version, $995; HD ver- the spot with Final Cut Pro on a Power Mac G4. sion, $1,995). | Best 1980s Nostalgia Parody William Levin’s trilogy of “Switch” parodies (www.macboy Obercolor 1.0, from Frord Sofware (ifo@fnordvare | com) includes a spot that incorporates Big Brother from the 1984 ad that introduced the | eat ape aa sa npne tape cart be Macintosh. Levin, perhaps the only animator to get his start while stuck on jury duty, used Sy icc manager inate Uae being | Flash 5 and Iuscrator 10 to create the spots on an old Power Mac 8600/300. The other profes in projets tocease portable pugnis | 880 ads feature ill Gates and the annoying dimit who pitches Dell computers. Atthe | ptimtoed for Afr Effects 5.0 nd later (29) | Apple Store opening in New York, Levin showed an Apple executive a postcard of the Bill Video Gates ad. “He didn’t seem all that amused,” Levin says. “But he did confess, ‘Yeah, I've CatDV Pro 3.0, from Square Box Systems (sales@ seen this.’”—GREGG WRENN squarebox.co.uk, wwwsquarebox.co.uk): The updated | logging and cataloging tool for digital video is a multi a nkeluaiis batr0S Sand 05 ee | JAVASCRIPT BOOKMARKS CAN SPEED UP WEB SEARCHES | ‘on a network via a centralized server ($275; upgrade track of digital video clips, Clip data can also be shared Searching Beyond Google Hook CORDES S19 ee CARON SEER Google reigns as the king of search To make your own bookmark, create Panncincsdas on engines. Still, if you think that repeat- a bookmark in your browser with this: =. z . ~ | edly loading the home page is a royal javascript-void(q=prompt(‘Enter%20text Heat Ai arena eerie | pain, there are a couple of ways to per- - %0to%20search%20using%20Google.',")) Jukebox wil discontinue its Mae Radio MX sendce and | fF quicker Google searches. sf(qvoid(location.href="http/www.google | cease support of Macintosh software altogether. Music- | _ One of the best search-engine add-ons -com/search?client=googlet&q='+escape(q)) match, which makes the software induded with Apple's | involves nothing more complicated than You can also go to www.macworld.com/ iPod for Windows, will focus development on the Win- | a bookmarklet, or favelet: a bookmark writ- __-2003/01/macbeat/google/index.html for a dows platform. —cowsp by OuATHAN SEF ) ten in JavaScript and kept in a browser's link that you can drag into Internet Explor- Favorites bar. Clicking on that bookmark er’s Favorites bar. Other bookmarklets are displays a dialog box; just type your search available at www.bookmarklets.com and term and get the results from Google. www.favelets.com.—jJEFF CARLSON 26 | MACWORLD | January 2003 woww.macwo! COL SONY. OR ACCURACY THE DIFFERENCE IS WHITE & BLACK Setting red, green and blue accurately sounds simple enough. Yet creative professionals know how easily the process can go wrong. That's why you need Sony's new Artisan” Color Reference System. With one-touch calibration, Sony carefully sets and maintains not just white, but also black — providing the constant contrast ratio and neutral gray balance required for faithful color reproduction. That means Artisan displays are color-consistent, day-to-day. And multiple Artisan displays can be accurately matched, across the hall or across the country, for color proofing you can count on. Sony's Artisan Color Reference System is an integrated three-part solution. World-famous FD Trinitron® CRT technology, sophisticated software that adjusts internal electronics of the display itself and state-of-the-art colorimetric sensor, factory-tuned to Sony display phosphors. It’s a combination that achieves remarkable color precision with applications like Adobe” Photoshop® - an advantage ahead of its class. Sony Artisan Color Reference System. The difference is White and Black. |B Mac | Absolute Color Control. Absolutely Sony - For more information call 1-800-206-5363 or VISIT www. 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Users set up an account “INTERNET BEAT Internet Telephony Mac2Phone Basic and Mac2Phone Pro, from Nikotel (888/249-1010, www.nikotel.com): The two Internet tele- phony products use voice-over-IP to let users of OS X with the company, which then charges for calls placed sing the software. Charges vary based on location (Basic edition, free; Pro edition: $20), Videoconferencing SquidCam 1.1, from SquidSoft (720/747-1840, www "squidsoft.com): The videoconferencing application for 05 X extends videoconferencing and messaging capabil- ties to users who ar still dependent on dial-up modems, as opposed to higher-speed broadband Internet connec- tions. Version 1.1 also adds Video Answering Machine, which lets users record a custom video or audio greeting, and NetPhone support ($25 per-seat license), Utilities incompatibil Ballmer site more than ra ae —oarTe ——, “pietisig avout sofmare Z a collection of stack pho- tapered netOctopus 4.1.1 tographs and a Per script. Festeraicd Sx AD Hampel Con Network-management too! ‘ ASM 2.1b1 2, Apple balks at coming f OmniOutliner 2.1.1b1 ; to Macworld Expo when it | Cestomzable pp-switcher menu asin jnciased lapped corpeatniy Vox outings moves to Boston. IfApple | Photo to Movie 1.0. doesn’t attend, aKennedy | Bugdom 21.0.2 Movie-effects application for photos a Adventure-game sequel oo chosen at random will give | Ndventure-game sequ the Expo keynote address. Jaguar update for programming software 2. Apple releases Power- er SoundStudio 2.0.6 Books equipped with ‘Audio-recording and -diting tool | SuperDrives. Cocky Apple | Fang doves tse Ul ces ThinkFree Office 2.1 | designers vow to add DVD- | Drumbeat X 1.6 ‘Wort pecan wewncael ial | burning drives to Newton File-sharing and MP3 search tool ____ presentation suite handhelds by year's end. Epson TWAIN 5.7574 TransmitX20 4 Dell Computer begins | Scanner module for most Perfection scanners SFTP support for FIP client selling iPods. Inaconci- | Eudora 5.2b14 URL Manager Pro 3.0.1 iatory gesture, Steve Jobs E-mail-client beta Browser-bookmark manager calls Michael Dell and offers | Font Reserve 3.1.1 Fixes Adobe InDesign 2 plug: to “start selling some of ie Ee ‘Desktop component of TechTracker ur unk, ee \ HP DeskJet 2.0f XPostFacto 2.2.4 7 OSX printer drivers formostmodels__—__ OS X-instllaton tity for old Macs For these and other current updates, visit: www.macworld,com/subject/updates Macworld.com has the latest from VersionTracker.com, CHARISMAC LOOKS TO RULE DESKTOP WITH FIREDINO HUB All Hail the Lizard King >) The adjective ferocious is seldom used to describe computer peripherals, Charismac Engineering (530/885-4420, www.charismac.com) aims to change that, with FireDino, a four-port FireWire hub grafted into the back of an eight-inch-tall beast bearing a certain resemblance to a mon- strous thunder lizard that once menaced Tokyo. “We were talking about FireWire products, Fire- Wire drives, fire this and fire that, until someone joked about fire-breathing dragons,” says Tony —S Overbay, vice president of sales and marketing for Charismac. The $75 hub is FireWire- compliant, free of software drives, and completely bus-powered (although you can order an optional $10 power adapter). FireDino’s glow- ing red eyes let you know when it’s plugged in to a FireWire source—or when it’s plan- ning to go on another rampage across your desktop. Does Charismac have any plans for a USB version? Maybe, Overbay says. “A lot of people are asking for a counterpart USB hub,” he adds. “And we're always looking for innovative products that will stand out.” No word yet on whether that hub will take the form of Mothra.—ANTON LINECKER : | downloading ($1,495)—comPiteD BY LISA SCHMEISER AlwaysOnline 3.0, from Rampell Software (www srampellsoft.com): The utility stops America Online and other modem-based Internet providers from logging users off due to inactivity. Version 3.0 runs in OS 9 and earlier; a separate $19 version runs on OS X ($19; upgrade, $14). Web Design MacASP 1.0, by Liane (wwwmacasp.com):The Common — Gateway Interface (CG!) tool allows Mac users to create dynamically generated Web sites, It runs on OS 8.6 and higher, inuding OS X. Although MacASP isn’t compatible with Microsoft's Active Server Pages, it does rely on script- ing for its features and supports AppleScript (free to $299). WebDesign 1.8, from Rage Software (www.ragesw.com): The updated Web-authoring tool can now use full PHP | syntax to edit PHP files, thus allowing users to update an entire Web site simply by adjusting one Include file ($30; upgrade, free), WebMerge 2.0, from Fourth World Media (323/225- 3717, wwr.fourthworld.com): The updated tool for generating dynamic Web sites from database or spread- sheet files works in OS 8 and higher, including OS X. The new version adds options for specifying how pages | are generated and supports more than a dozen new tags for assembling and linking Web content (single- | user license, $79). Web Publisher Pro, from Canto (415/703-9800, www .canto.com): The new application allows users to take the multimedia data archived in Canto’s Cumulus and publish them as Web catalogs. Web Publisher Pro uses Cumulus's format-conversion functions, so assets can be converted into other file formats, color spaces, and resolutions before {28 | MacworLD | January 2003 | wewwmacworld.com Good looking and smart? (You bet!) Gallery 2010 (Editors’ Choice, Seybold 2002) 20.1” LCD with MVA Premium technology! + UXGA resolution of 1,600 by 1,200. 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Almost two years to the day after | Apple released the beta of its Unix-based operating system, | Emagic (now owned by Apple) introduced Logic Platinum 5.3 for Mac OS X, the first profes- sional digital-audio-production application to work in the new OS. Of Logic’s chief competi- tors—Digidesign’s Pro Tools, MOTU’s Digital Performer, and Steinberg’s Cubase—only Cubase was OS X native at press time. The other two products should be OS X native by the fourth quarter of 2002. The OS X-native Logic (avail- able as an update on Emagic’s Web site) is great news for the | Mae and gives Logic users tem- | ‘pormy bragging rights, but ics still gearing up for prime time. Emagic’s subsequent release of an OS 9 version ensures that longtime Mac users—and those switching from Windows—will have a rich, full-featured pro- duction environment to work with as they migrate to OS X. (Although Emagic hasn’t made any announcements regarding further OS 9 development, it seems inevitable that the com- pany will concentrate on mov- ing to the new platform.) And you can move files easily between the two versions, which are similar except for some OS X- specific issues. | More Power, New Gear Logic Platinum 5.3, the fifth update to a massive 5.0 upgrade released in February 2002, adds minor tweaks and bug fixes to a | host of new features. A key to its power is the addition of AltiVec- based DSP optimization, which 32 | MACWORID January 2003 means that you can work with more simultaneous tracks and plug-ins on G4-based machines than you can on other Macs. Logic’s Audio Engine also has enables you to output master- ing-quality recordings: two per- sonal favorites are DeEsser, used to reduce harsh S sounds in vocals, and Multipressor, a highly customizable multiband compressor. And you can now monitor plug-ins on a track you're recording without affect- ing the sound that’s captured— from a musician's standpoint, you get to hear the sound you Hand Mixer Your Main Axe Logic’s Track Mixer mirrors a studio mixing console to let you record, as well as choose input sources, signal paths, and effects plug-ins. been significantly beefed up and can now handle 128 audio chan- nels, with 64 auxiliary channels for 128 stereo tracks; 15 inserts per track and bus; and 64 buses—enough signal-routing control to satisfy even a seasoned studio professional. New timesavi include the ability to control real-time track-based auto- mation within Logic’s main Arrange window—the old process of moving between windows was tedious, especially as tracks stacked up—and the addition of multiple undos and redos, which can be lifesavers. Logic’s new series of plug-ins want, and from an editor’s or producer's standpoint, you get a clean track for subsequent pro- cessing. This is invaluable. One more new feature merits mention: real-time sample-rate conversion, which lets you move high-resolution audio files between your desktop and your laptop and get excellent sound on either. Making Tracks While Logic Platinum 5.3 makes it easy to record your tracks, it’s a complicated program with enough power and control to allow you to express even your most complex sonic visions. You'll begin to appreciate what the phrase rough learning curve means as you work with the menus that appear in the editing windows. Be prepared to spend some quality time with the man- ual and the help section to get the most from your investment. Logic’ installation proces lows the standard double-click- and-choose-your-drive-or-par- tition method, but it’s followed by a bout with Emagic’s latest copy-protection system, which at best is a double-edged sword. It requires going back and forth via e-mail with Emagic for your XSKey Authorization number, and it requires that you use a small USB key, or dongle, for storing the access code, Since your authorization resides in the dongle, not in the computer, you can install Logic on any USB- enabled Mac and activate it by inserting the dongle. This is fine, but if you lose it, you'll be not only out of a dongle but also out the $349 it costs to replace it. After this hassle, though, it’s a pleasure to finally reach Logic’s home base, the straightforward Arrange window, where you can record audio and MIDI tracks quickly. (You can also import files—including Sound Designer I, AIFF and WAY, and standard MIDI files—that were recorded in another program.) If you've used a music sequencer, or even a VCR, the interface will be reas- suringly familiar. You can also record tracks in the Track Mixer window, where you can add any of Logic’s nearly 60 on-board plug-ins, either dur- ing the take or in subsequent editing, until you find the right sound. And as your track load increases, you can group tracks that you want to affect in the same way (with the same amount of reverb, for example) and apply the plug-in there; this will help reduce the load on your CPU as tracks mount up. fol- _wonezmacworld.com 32. Music-production 38 All-in-one backup system 41 6.1-megapixel SLR 44 Electronic encyclopedia application ABSplus camera Britannica 2003 Ultimate Logic Patinum 5.3 39. Speech-secognition Nikon D100 Reference Suite 33. 3-D-graphics package software 42. Network-troubleshooting 45. Compact DV camera Maya Complete 4.5 iisten 1.5 and -management program Panasonic PV-VM202 35. CRT-calibration system 40 Bibliography program LANsurveyor 7.0 45 Reviews in Brief Sony Atisan Color Reference EndNote 6 44 Removable-media ‘A New Kind of Science Explorer, System 41 Sound-output device storage Consistency 1.0 37 Compression utility M-Audio Sonica Zip 750MB FireWire External Stuffit Deluxe 7 Drive OUTSTANDING: $§$$$ VERY GOOD: $#$$ GOOD: $$$ FLAWED: $F XTime? ‘The release of Logic Platinum 5.3 for OS X is great news, and Logic users should download both the OS 9 and the OS X versions if they've moved to OS X. Emagic recommends that you install the program on the boot volume, but we ran it successfully across drives and partitions, The application didn’t crash during our testing, and it looks more attractive in Aqua. We got snappier response in OS X 10.2.1 than in 10.1.5, but track counts for both ran slightly behind OS 95. There's support for Apple's built-in Sound Input and Output and most of Emagic’s hardware, and many developers have released OS X-based driv- ers. (Our M-Audio Delta 1010LT audio card seamlessly routed MIDI and audio data.) While the OS X version is fine for moderate usage, you'll likely have to boot into OS 9 for final production. Logic for OS X is an unfinished product, missing a lot of OS and interapplication com- munication. And as of press time, there was no OS X-specific man- ual—a real pain. After an hour of frustration with Jaguar's new Audio MIDI Setup utility, a quick call to Emagic’s excellent tech support revealed that it isn’t sup- ported yet. (It should be noted that Apple doesn’t include a help section for the utility, either.) Unsupported formats and pro- tocols in version 5.3 include Rewire import and export