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Alter pad and brand rames ae Yaderars of ther respective ower. Choose 23 at www.macworld.com/getinfo OPINION 14 89 From the Editor's Desk JASON SNELL Consider the filmless past, present, and future. Feedback Readers respond. Ihnatko ANDY IHNATKO The metallic look of Panther’s Finder troubles Andy. MAC BEAT Macromedia MX 2004, font-software makers feact to Apple's Font Book, Kensington’s WiFi Finder, Anark Studio comes to the Mac, Roxio Toast 6, Microsoft's new Office bundles, and an interview with Adobe's Russell Brown. SECKET® 80 82 86 Make Your Mac Faster ANTON LINECKER Don’t let speed envy get you down. With just ten minutes and our step-by-step guide, you can pump new life into your aging G4. Supercharge Safari ADAM C. ENGST Get the low-down on Apple’s Web browser. Fix Those Fonts STEVE WERNER Go beyond font-handling basics to repair corrupted fonts, resolve system font conflicts, and prevent application crashes. Mac 911 CHRISTOPHER BREEN We've got solutions to your Mac problems: font smoothing, picture cropping, HyperCard stack conversion, clock clicking, enhancing CDs, mail forwarding, and stubborn mailing. Macworld | a STOS PHO Witenes On the Cover Photos by Andy Katz E photrstaton by Cates | by Stephen Sugg 4 MACWORLD October 2003 COVER STORY 55 Hot Shots Now that you've taken your photos, our digital-photography experts help you improve, print, and manage your images. Plus: our favorite digital cameras, photo printers, and online photo services, FEATURES Tame Your Brain KIRK McELHEARN Ideas that are organized make the biggest impact, whether you're writing a report, putting together your family history, or developing a blog. We look at four tools that help you get your thoughts in order. Canon www.macworld.com ILVVJ Disk-repair utility $8883 DiskWarrior 3.0 Keyboard-automating software 8ESE QuicKeys X2 1.4GHz processor upgrades $888 Giga Designs G-celerator GC5B-1400-D2/A 1.4GHz $888 Other World Computing Mercury Extreme G4/1.4- 1.467GHz §8B PowerLogix Powerforce G4 Series 100 1.4GHz $$8F Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz Server-administration tool $666 iTools7 Image-rescaling plug-ins $88 Genuine Fractals PrintPro 3.0 $968) pxl SmartScale This Month in Digital Cameras $68 Canon PowerShot GS $$$ Minolta Dimage Xt $$$} Olympus C-740 Ultra Zoom $$$} Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1 $$$} Sony Cyber-shot DSC-V1 Analog-to-digital converter $88! Apogee Mini-Me Wide-format ink-jet printer $$$) Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 120nr Disc-production hardware $8$% Bravo Disc Publisher Charting tool $88 DeltaGraph 5.0.2 Speech-recognition program $$; iListen 1.6.1 Reviews in Brief Clone’X , ContentBarrier 10.0.1, EarthDesk 2.0, iView Media, ‘SketchUp 3.0, To the Trash 1.1 Hot Products The best recently reviewed Mac products. The Game Room PETER COHEN Pound the green as Tiger Woods, dodge bullets while carrying ut secret missions, or stump your brain in a new puzzle game. Mac Gems DAN FRAKES This month's gems provide shortcuts for viewing images, working with PDFs, browsing iChat logs, and more. www.macworld.com October 2003 MACWORLD 5 Macs and PCs have never been so compatible. Microsoft® Office v. X lets Mac users effortlessly open, edit, and save any Office file, to make working with PCs a breeze. Complete with easy-to-use, exclusive Mac tools that simplify complex tasks. And it's built for Mac OS X, so it's the most reliable, easygoing Office yet. www.officeformac.com to download a free 30-day trial of Office v. X today. I BY SVEN WIEDER FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK BY JASON SNELL The Filmless Present THOSE OF US IN THE COMPUTER-MAGAZINE BUSINESS HAVE been trumpeting the coming digital-photography revolution for longer than most revolutions last. Why, on my bookshelf right now is a November 1995 copy of MacUser that declares, “Digital photography holds out the promise of a filmless future!” Of course, MacUser’s top-rated consumer camera back then was a $1,000 Kodak camera with a resolution of less than four-tenths of a megapixel, no zoom, no focus, and no white balance. (You could buy a 4-megapixel camera back then for a mere $28,000.) Needless to say, the filmless future promised in that issue was still a long way off. But in the past couple of years, the digital revolu- tion has quietly overtaken the strongholds of the once-dominant film—transforming today’s world into a largely filmless one, especially when it comes to home use. With today’s high-resolution, relatively low-cost, multiple-feature digital cameras—not to mention the extensive array of photo printers and online photo-printing services—ir’s easier than ever before to join the digital ranks. Almost everywhere I go, whether it’s a friend’s wedding or a MacMania cruise, I'm surrounded by digital cameras. But if you’re just snapping shots, importing them into iPhoto, and printing them, you're missing out on one of digital photography’s greatest benefits: the ability to improve your shots before you print them. That's the focus of our cover story this month. In “Hot Shots” (page 55), a team of digital-photo experts shows you how to make weak shots better—and good shots great. For those of you who are still pondering whether to get a digital camera, or ready for a new model, we've also listed a few of our favorites, as well as our top picks in the world of photo printers. Not everyone wants to spend time and effort on producing their own digital prints—I don’t. Last year, I ordered dozens of prints from 12 online photo- printing services (see “Turn Pixels into Prints,” June © 2002). This month, our editorial staff—led by Kelly Lunsford and Terri Stone—repeated that process, testing 14 services. When all the prints had arrived, we threw a photo-viewing party and judged the results (see “Fit to Print?”). We hope we’ve saved you from tedious trial and error in your search for the best printing service. Truly Inspirational A few years ago, I heard a professional Web designer express her utter devotion to a peculiar little product: wowzmacworld.com a flowcharting utility designed for teachers and stu- dents, featuring plenty of tools for adding stars, dogs, globes, and other silly images to diagrams. That was my introduction to Inspiration Software's $69 Inspi- ration, a fantastic program that helps kids learn visu- ally—and allows more than a few adults to organize their ideas in unique ways. Although Inspiration Soft- ware is committed to education (the company says that Inspiration is for “students grade 6 to adult”), plenty of other types of professionals make use of the program's easy-to-use diagramming features. All of us could stand to be better organized, and that’s especially true when it comes to putting ideas together in a cohesive way, whether it’s for a presen- tation, a speech, or a Web-site design. If you've never used Mac software to help with that process, you're missing out on a wealth of inter- esting tools and techniques, as our story “Tame Your Brain” (page 70) reveals. Tools such as Inspiration are visual wonders, but if you prefer to go the tradi- tional route, there are also sev- eral interesting outline-generating programs out there, including The Omni Group's OmniOutliner. You owe it to yourself—and your creativity—to check out these tools and see whether they can help you improve the work you do. High-resolution, low- cost cameras make it easy to go digital. Fit to Print? Mac- world editors (from left to right: Terri Stone, Kelly Lunsford, and Sue Voelkel) judge pho- tographs from online services, for our digital- photography super- guide. Send comments on these or any other Mac topics to jason_snell@macworld.com, or stop by our online | Have you made the move to digital photography? Got a favorite method for organizing your thoughts? forums, at wwwmacworld.com. 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MARK KIPPERMAN (es) ja FEEDBACK Changing Our Tune After our July 2003 cover story on the iTunes Music Store, we have something in com- mon with a Top 40 FM station: our request line is open. Readers have been flooding us with suggestions on how to improve some of the online music service's false notes—everything from search features to selection. Not that we're surprised: Mac users have always marched to the beat of a different drummer. Even when they sing the praises of something—whether it's iTunes 4 or our feature on Weblogging—they want to find ways to make it even better. That certainly strikes a chord with us. Blog In, Blog On, Blog Out AARON GARETH PEABODY ies] Since “Behind the Music” (July 2003) made downloading music from the iTunes Music Store look so simple, I signed right up. You forgot to mention, though, that/a high-speed Internet connection is almost mandatory. I downloaded a five-minut track (the allegro from “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”) over my dial-up connection. It took 20 minutes, I could have driven Borders and bought the album in that time. JEFF BALKE irs] Regarding “12 Things We Want in the iTunes Music Store,” I'd like to suggest a 13th: searching by musician, ok producer, and engineer. Because these individuals are often hired to work great recordings in a similar genre, this would be a great way to find new music, iTunes Tune-up DUANE WILLIAMS ies] I greatly enjoyed Scot Hacker's “Put Weblogs to Work” (July 2003), but I felt that many features that set LiveJournal apart from the other blog packages were left out. No mention was made of the fact that you can create different page styles that allow pages to be imported into other sites in a variety of manners. While the article talked about multiple authors and the community aspects of a robust comment system, nothing was said about LiveJournal’s Communities feature, which allows multiple users to partici- pate in a group rather than in one per- son’s journal. In the “Build a Better Weblog” sidebar, a very valid point was made about the public nature of most Weblog systems, but this would have been a perfect opportunity to talk about LiveJournal’s highly customizable system of access and levels of privacy. STEWART WOOD. (es) In his iTunes 4 review (“Behind the Music,” July 2003), Jonathan Seff lists as acon that iTunes 4 has “no visible differ- entiation of file types in library.” That is not true. Select View Options in the E menu, and click on Kind, > KEVIN JOHNSON. The way that iTunes accesses the CD is Database to retrieve song information great. However, the information is fr quently incorrect. You have to use an aw! ward method of clicking and then clickin again to edit artist, song-title, or gen: information. If you double-click too fa: the song plays. How about a usable ts! key and down and up arrows to moye through fields just as you would moye through fields in a database? or ata Fi 14 MACWORLD October 2003 I’m impressed—not just with the article, but also with Kung-Log’s Adriaan Tijsseling. After hours of not quite get- ting things right, I e-mailed Adriaan; within a couple of hours, he had replied. We to-and-fro’d several more times, and finally I was able to get the blog up and running. Since then I've been blogging my heart out. But get this—I hadn't even paid into Kung-Log. Adriaan puts it out there on an honor system. Needless to say, funds are going Adriaan’s way. Rendezvous with TiVo SANDER FEINBERG BS I enjoyed “All Roads Lead to Ren- dezvous” (July 2003). One clarification: although TiVo Desktop Software is a free download, it will work only if you buy the TiVo Media Option, which is a $99 one-time charge. I've been using TiVo Desktop since the day it was released, and it’s a terrific way to play your iTunes music on your home audio system, as well as view iPhoto images. Real Complaints MARK DAVIS By Andy Ihnatko’s RealBasic 5.0 review (july 2003) was very good, but I would like to point out a mistake. Ihnatko writes, “Experienced programmers who are comfortable with modern BASIC will discover that they can build Cocoa or Classic applications. . . .” RealBasic does not compile Cocoa applications. Real Software chose not to have Cocoa- application compiling because it wanted to also support compiling for Windows and OS 9, ERIC HARRIS-BRAUN. {es} Thnatko writes that “the most noticeable benefit of the reconstructed compiler and debugger is raw speed.” What a hoot! Compile times for RealBasic 5.0 are one, if not two, orders of magnitude slower than those of version 4.5, That was the main reason for Real Software’s very quick release of version 5.1—to get the compile speed down to something bearable, but it’s still slower than that of 4.5. The review doesn’t mention the other huge problem with 5.0: its bug- giness. I’m not writing this to dis Real- Basic, which is a wonderful development environment that is slowly but steadily getting to a place where it can seriously compete with professional development environments such as Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior. But I’m dismayed at the factual error. wrwmaciwvorld.com JACOB HAZELGROVE ES] Saying that the compiled applications are large is an understatement. I built a standard RealBasic application without modifying anything, and the build was 1.5MB, compared with a Cocoa app with 12 different interface controls compiled at 136K, Bouncing Falls Flat RICK LAW. ie] Regarding reader Will Herrmann’s sug- gestion of using Apple Mail’s Bounce To Sender feature for stopping spam (Feed- back, July 2003), that feature works only if the spammer has used a legitimate reply-to address. If not, then all you're doing is replying to a nonexistent e-mail address. More often than not, those reply-to addresses are bogus. Editors Made Easy MARK V. PARIS. J IT can’t argue with Jason Snell's $993 rat- ing of TextWrangler (Reviews, July 2003). After all, it’s an opinion, But my opinion differs. I looked at several text editors, free and otherwise, before deciding on TextWrangler. I find that its quite useful—able to open virtually any type of file, and not lacking in what I need. It doesn’t do everything BBEdit does, butit costs less. Considered for what itis, rather than what it’s not, TextWrangler is a fine choice. One-Trick Wonders KENNETH B. POVODATOR B ‘As a longtime Spell Catcher user, I eagerly awaited the release of Spell Catcher X. There are indeed short- comings in the program, such as the need to use International preferences to activate it. However, I find Charles Purdy’s criticism that Spell Catcher lacks a grammar checker (Reviews, June 2003) to be looking too hard for a negative comment, rather than a valid criticism. Do-everything programs are nice when they do everything and do it well, but single-purpose programs should not lose rating points simply because they focus on an identified single purpose—if they perform as advertised and intended. wwnnmacworld.com- State of Stats BARRY FASS-HOLMES es With all due respect to Charles Seiter, his $9995 rating of SPSS 11 (Reviews, June 2003) was far too generous. This prod- uct’s feature set may be broad, but ir’s slower to launch than any other program T've tried, and it has interface deficiencies and functionality defects. It also costs more than the competition. ColdFusion Getting Warmer? LARRY C. LYONS es Tony Cervo’s letter bemoaning the absence of ColdFusion MX for the Mac (Feedback, July 2003) is simply incorrect. A developer's version of ColdFusion MX for J2EE Servers has been available for OS X since early this year. Its true that Macromedia announced a Developer Edition of ColdFusion MX for PEE Application Servers in January 2003. But while that release lets you develop and test ColdFusion MX applications on OS X, you still need to deploy those apps on a Unix or Windows system.—Ed. Fax Checking PHILIP BALL Es} The problem of the cutoff pages on received faxes referred to in Jeffery Bat- tersby's review of Faxstf X Pro (July 2003) can be eliminated with a simple download from Smith Micro. A reception problem I've been experiencing with Faxstf X Pro is that the program will not receive the data from some faxes even though there is a connection. Smith Micro has told me that the problem is the result of a flaw with Apple’s built-in modem; the company is also making some changes to its software. KEN ZAKOVICH res] Why have you failed to mention the most obvious of cons for Faxstf X Pro—that it cannot send data via a network to a fax and requires a painfully old telephone jack for transmissions? Hang the DJ JASON ROSS S Gil Kaupp’s review of Native Instru- ments’ Traktor DJ Studio 2.03 is a bit ________ OCTOBER 2003 FEEDBACK weak (June 2003). How about addressing the application’s break from Mac OS interface guidelines or the file browser's clunkiness? Kaupp touches on this a bit by mentioning that the browser wasn’t compatible with one of his drives, burt even simple things such as scroll arrows are missing, making large lists of tracks very difficult to scroll through accurately. After reading your article, if I were looking to get into digital DJ'ing, I would seek out Traktor. Having bought and used the program myself, I have many more cautions to pass along to interested parties. Tipped Over ALAN BENEDICT ie In the Tip of the Month (Mac 911, July 2003), we are taught how to customize our calculators to display only the results field by editing the preference file in a text editor, This seems like a hard way to achieve a simple task. Couldn’t you just tell us to click on the little green button in the top left-hand corner of the calculator? Indeed—I passed along that reader tip because I thought an abbreviated calculator would be a fine thing to have at your disposal. Had the more obvious solution not escaped me— clicking on the green button causes the Cal- culator to display only the results field, even after you quit and relaunch the app— T could have used the space for something a little more worthwhile —Christopher Breen © Post comments on our forums (www -macworld.com); send them by mail to (2) 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 we receive, 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 af Macworld. CORRECTIONS The price of RealBasic 5.0 (Reviews, July 2003) changed after our issue went to press. 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Macromedia promises that Studio MX 2004 will sport interface enhancements and new features, and that its more tightly integrated applications will increase usability. Here's Macworld's initial look at two of Stu- dio MX's major components—Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004. Dreamweaver MX: Impress with CSS Tf you had three letters in which to sum up the changes in Dreamweaver MX, those letters would be C-S-S—as in Cas- cading Style Sheets. CSS is a simple markup protocol that lets designers specify the style of HTML elements. It separates the appearance of a Web page from the markup tags that specify the contents of the page. Dreamweaver MX 2004 features a design environment built around CSS. Because CSS is a browser- independent way of structuring design and content, Macromedia believes that it will allow Dreamweaver users to more easily create stable, cleanly coded sites that can be modified later with little effort. 18 MACWORLD October 2003 Designing in Style To that end, many of Dreamweaver MX 2004's design tools are aimed at helping users design and render CSS-based designs more precisely than they could with previous versions. A CSS Rule Inspector is now part of Dreamweaver’s ‘Tag Inspector; it lets you see which CSS rules apply to a given selection. You can also select <div> tags and other block- level elements in Dreamweaver’s Design view, and use the CSS Rule Inspector to modify properties. The CSS Panel has been enhanced to jump directly to style definitions within the code, so you can see where and how styles are defined. Anew CSS-based Text Property Inspec- tor lets you select CSS styles without switching modes, while new CSS-based Page Properties offer more-sophisticated control over pagewide properties such as headings and links. Dreamweaver MX 2004 also includes a dynamic cross-browser validation fea- ture that automatically checks tags and CSS rules for compatibility across mul- tiple browsers. You choose the browsers to validate, and Dreamweaver finds out whether your pages use tags or CSS con- structs that those browsers don’t support. Streamlined Approach Macromedia also looked for ways to make Dreamweaver more efficient. Improved table-editing tools let you see how resizing columns will affect code wowwmacworld.com Flash: Dynamic Duo Web developers awaiting a new version of Flash MX will have a decision to make when the updated vector-based ani- mation and interface-design tool arrives in September. Macromedia plans to offer two versions of Flash: a standard edition and a new professional edition aimed at application developers, video pros, and workgroups. Back to Basics Flash MX 2004 ($499; upgrade, $199), the basic edition, retains all the tools and features of the previous Flash release while adding new capabilities that make the program more flexible and easier to use. To help speed up redundant tasks, Flash MX 2004 includes templates for common projects such as interactive presentations, photo slide shows, and video pre- sentations. A new Timeline Effects feature lets you quickly apply timeline interactions such as Transform, Copy To Grid, Distribute Duplicate, Blur, Drop Shadow, and Explode with- out having to manually manipulate the keyframes. And you can use the new History panel to track all your actions and then selectively record groups of actions for later reuse. Taking a page from Dreamweaver’s book, Flash MX 2004 now includes Behaviors—precooked, customizable scripts that can automate useful actions, such as adding event handlers and con- trolling video and sound. A few Behaviors will ship with the soft- ware; you'll be able to download others from the Macromedia Exchange Web site. Other useful additions in the Flash update include Cascading Style Sheets support, direct support for importing PDF and Adobe Illustrator 10 files, and a full-featured spelling checker. For developers, Flash MX 2004 offers an updated scripting language, ActionScript 2.0, which supports object-oriented pro- gramming and is more standards-compliant—a change that should make it more accessible to experienced Java programmers. Going Pro In addition to all the features in the standard version, Flash MX Professional 2004 ($699; upgrade, $299) includes several new tools for experienced programmers. One of the biggest additions, a new forms-based authoring environment, helps Repeat After Me Flash MX 2004's new Timeline Effects feature, which includes actions such as Transform, lets you quickly execute repetitive tasks, you easily design and program complex Web applications in which the user navigates from one form to another. Flash MX Professional 2004 also introduces several new components that make it easier to connect to servers and retrieve data for dynamically generated content. Connector and Resolver components help monitor database changes; they ensure that updates are sent across the Web to the client effi- ciently, and that only changed records are updated. Developers creating content for devices such as PDAs and cell phones can take advantage of Flash’s built-in device emu- lators (which can identify potential compatibility issues and other problems), its tools for incorporating MIDI ring tones, and its library of design templates for common devices. Video professionals can use the QuickTime-to-FLV plug-in to export video directly from Avid Xpress, Apple’s Final Cut Pro, and similar programs. The software includes an improved video encoder and video-specific components that reduce the amount of scripting required. You can also take advantage of the new Flash Player 7 for enhanced playback, progressive downloads, and sup- port for FLV files, Flash’s native video format.—KELLY LUNSFORD structure. An updated insert bar takes As for integration with other tech- (Speaking of Fireworks, Macromedia up less space, giving you more work- nologies and products, Dreamweaver has also updated its Web-graphics soft- space; it also has a customizable Favor- lets you copy and paste from Micro- ware. Fireworks MX 2004 boasts signifi- ites area. And a streamlined file-editing process speeds up file downloads and replacements. Macromedia enhanced the find-and-replace feature to include full keyboard navigation, more search options, and the ability to save searches. The interface has been overhauled to provide more usable workspace and to show context and focus more clearly. The updated Dreamweaver also has a new Context menu, which appears when you right-click on selected code in Code view; you can use it to convert code into comments, to indent, to outdent, to uppercase tags, and more. wwwmacworld.com soft Word and Excel documents, and it preserves fonts, colors, and CSS styles. Dreamweaver MX 2004 also features full Unicode support, as well as Secure FTP support for fully encrypting all file transfers. And of course, there’s Dreamweaver'’s integration with other Macromedia products, whether it’s con- sistent interface elements across applica- tions, Macromedia Flash Elements support, or an integrated image-editing toolbar that uses built-in Fireworks technology to let you crop, resize, and make other minor edits without having to exit Dreamweaver. cant performance enhancements and a more intuitive user interface. New drawing tools introduced in this update include Smart Shapes, Replace Color, Red Eye Removal, and Motion Blur Live Effects. Fireworks also takes advantage of OS X’s Quartz graphics technology for improved text antialias- ing. The update sells for $299; existing users can upgrade for $149.) Dreamweaver MX 2004 is shipping as part of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 in September. It’s also available as a stand- alone application ($399; existing users can upgrade for $199)—PHILIP MICHAELS October 2003 MACWORLD. 19 BUY 1, GET “+ FREE” a *Purchase one full copy of TechTool® Pro 3 Drive 10™ and get a free upgrade to TechTool Pro 4 when it ships at the end of summer. The ultimate computer repair utility for the Macintosh Offer expires Oct 31, 2003 Only available on specially marked packages. Promotional offers cannot be combined. Void where prohibited. x TECHTOOL Peo {08d TOOLHAAL ~ AfiMicromat inc 800-829-6227 707-566-3831 info@micromatcom www.micromat.com ‘©2003 Micromat, Inc. All rights reserved. TechTool is a registered trademark of Micromat, Inc. Drive 10 is a trademark of Micromat, Inc. : Choose 37 macworld.com/getinfo FONT-SOFTWARE MAKERS REACT TO PANTHER’S BUILT-IN PROGRAM. A Font-Management Free-for-All? When Apple unleashes Panther later this year, the OS X 10.3 update will introduce a built-in font-management application called Font Book. If the addition of font- management capabilities to OS X sur- prises you, you're not alone. ———= = € et ABCDEFGHIKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ abedefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 New Font Face Apple's Font Book has taken font- management programmers by surprise. “We were completely taken off-guard,” says Mike Wong, product manager for Extensis Suitcase, which competes in a crowded field that includes DiamondSoft’s Font Reserve, Insider Software’s Font- Agent, and Alsoft’s newly OS X-compat- ible MasterJuggler. With each of these apps boasting its own devoted following, none of the developers are looking to sur- render any ground to Apple just yet. “From what I can see on Apple's Web site, Font Book doesn’t look to doa whole lot of what other font managers do, other than turn fonts on and turn them off,” Wong says. “So in the profes- sional space, we’re not too concerned.” Font Book Facts Font Book lives in the Applications folder; double-clicking on a font or font group on your hard drive will give you a preview window with a sample of the fonts’ glyphs. ‘The Install button moves the fonts to the appropriate fonts folder in your user folder’s Library folder. “One of the feature areas where we're not investing currently is the notion of activation,” says OS X product manager Ken Bereskin. Rather than use the terms activate and deactivate, Font Book will enable and disable your fonts. Autoactiva- tion is a key feature for professional font-management programs; Font Book's font-enabling procedure has been likened to a show-or-hide function, as opposed to actual acti- vation. If you quit Font Book, all the fonts you've enabled remain that way until you launch the program again to disable them. That puts limits on certain key aspects of other font utilities, particularly autoactivation. As Font Book cur- rently works (which could change between now and Panther’ release), when an application calls for a disabled font, a user must manually enable it. The More the Merrier? Even with a free font-management pro- gram built into OS X, third-party devel- opers still believe there’s a need for their products. Clifford Kaplan, Diamond- Soft’s director of sales for Font Reserve, contends that server-based management remains the bailiwick of programs such as Suitcase and Font Reserve. “The area where third parties con- tinue to play a very vital and important role is when you are providing fonts to multiple users in a workgroup setting,” Apple’s Bereskin concedes. But he adds, “There are many professionals that will be completely satisfied with what Font Book provides.” And developers don’t necessarily see Font Book’s arrival as a threat. “The more people understand about fonts, the better it becomes for us,” says Insider Software’s Bob Leeds.—ANDREW SHALAT Competitors Now Complements Font Book's impending arrival isn’t the only recent shake-up in the font world. Thanks to a merger, two longtime competitors in the font-management field will be joining forces—and product lines. Extensis—which was bought a year ago by Japan’s Celartem Technology—announced in June that it was purchasing DiamondSoft. For the near future, Extensis plans to continue selling Suitcase and Font Reserve as separate products. However, representatives of both companies have hinted at a single, unified product down the road.—ANDREW SHALAT wownw.macwarld.com OCTOBER 2003 MAC BEAT MULTIMEDIA “Hardware BEAT A high-end multimedia loudspeaker system from xhifi | (267/288-0199, www.xhifi,com):The Xducer 2.1 ($795) | isa wood-and-metal speaker set comprising two tall, slim satelite speakers with a frequency response up to 0k, and a cabinet with a 50-watt subwoofer ampli- fier and a 50-watt digital amplifier. .com): This loop-based music-composition program is | a stand-alone version of the tool included with Final Cut Pro 4. It lets you create royalty-free soundtracks | for video, DVD, and Web projects, Soundtrack includes | more than 4,000 instrument loop and sound effects, |_and it lets you import files in popular formats ($299). | ReMIDI 1.0, from Granted Software (www.grantedsw | .com):This OS X-only program enhances MIDI key- boards by changing notes into chords and chords into arpeggios or strums.A Chord Assistant includes 27 chords that can be triggered with one-finger chords or ‘easy chords. ReMIDI includes two Performance Assis- tants, the Arpeggiator and the Strummer ($15). Absynth 2.0, from Native Instruments (866/556- | 6487, www.native-instruments.com): This synthesizer is now also a sampler, includes more than 800 musical presets, and has a revised DSP core ($299; update, $69). | TL MasterMeter, from Trillium Lane Labs (www -tllabs.com): This oversampling peak meter for Digi- Design's Pro Tools lets you spot potential distortion | problems prior to burning CDs, It works only in OS X | and requires Pro Tools Mix/HD 6.0 or later ($199). Video FrameForge 3D Studio, Innoventive Software | (877/322-7733, www.frameforge3d.com): This 3-D storyboarding software for directors, filmmakers, and visual artists uses a virtual film set, with views from and control of individual cameras, Shots can be saved as slide shows, graphics, HTML pages, or Flash animations. The Mac version, for OS 9.1 and OS X, will ship by year’s end ($349). PFTrack 1.1, from The Pixel Farm (www.thepixelfarm co.uk): This 3-D camera match-moving application update enhances the program's calibration algorithms, improves matte-tool functionality, and adds distortion- correction features, as well as file export to Shake and other applications ($5,000; upgrade, free). Zoom & Pan 3.0, from Virtix (www.virtix.com): This | updated iMovie plug-in lets you zoom, pan, and rotate | both video and high-resolution still images. It now | works in iMovie 2 and 3, and it supports both 0S 9 { and X ($35; upgrade, free)—coMPiLeD BY JONATHAN SEFF ‘October 2003 MACWORLD. 21 CONS: WHNW.ANOYMARTINUK.COM OCTOBER 2003 MAC BEAT __ STORAGE SEALS Hard Drives set A dual USB 2.0/FireWire 800 desktop hard drive from FirewireDirect.com (512/302-0012, wwwufirewiredirect .comn):The StingRay 800 comes in 80GB ($235), 120GB. | ($255), 160GB ($315), 200GB ($365), and 250GB ($475) capacities, and it comes with a 7,200-rpm mech- ‘anism. A 320GB ($540) drive that operates at 5,400 rpm is also available, Optical Drives a DVD-burning external drives from EZQuest (888/898- 8380, www.ezq.com): The Boa FireWire and USB 2.0 4x DVD+RW/DVD-RW drives (both $299) are com- patible with DVD+RW, DVD-RW, and all CD media. Optical-drive upgrades from Other World Comput- ing (800/275-4576, www.macsales.com): The OWC SuperDrive ($380) reads CD-ROMs at 24x, writes CD-Rs at 16x, writes and rewrites CD-RWs at 4x, reads DVD-ROM at 8x, writes DVD-Rs at 1, and writes and rewrites DVD-RWs at 1x. The OWC Mercury Combo Drive ($200) features 24x CD- ROM reading, 8x CD-R writing, 8x CD-RW writing and rewriting, and 8x DVD-ROM reading, Both drives are intended for Titanium PowerBooks and G4 Cubes.—compico ay PrP muchaeis HANDHELD DEVICE DETECTS NEARBY WIRELESS NETWORKS Finding Wi-Fi Someday, connecting to the Internet when you're out and about may be as easy as flicking on an FM radio, thanks to a seamless network of wireless hotspots. But these days, finding an available net- work remains a hit-or-miss affair. The only way to be sure a network is within range is by opening your iBook or Power- Book and scanning for available signals— unless you turn to Kensington’s WiFi Finder (800/235-6708, www.kensington .com). The $30 handheld device promises to save a few steps by quickly detecting Wi-Fi—also known as 802.1 1—networks that are nearby. Push the WiFi Finder's lone button and wait a few seconds. If a wireless network is present, a set of green LEDs lights up to indicate the network's signal strength. If no network is available, one LED flashes red as the device continues scanning for two minutes before powering off. while built-in software filters the signals to detect AirPort (802.1 1b) and AirPort Extreme (802.1 1g) signals. That keeps competing signals from cordless phones, microwave ovens, and Bluetooth net- works from producing false results, Kensington says the device’s batter- ies—two type-2032 button cells—should last about a year depending on use; if they do conk out, you can easily swap in replacement batteries. A loop on the WiFi Finder lets you attach a lanyard or connect it to your computer bag. The device also has a keychain ring, which turns the WiFi Finder into an oversized The WiFi Finder's hardware searches for signals within the 2.4GHz band, keychain, as well as a divining rod for the wireless age.—JEFF CARLSON ETHICAL QUESTIONS ARISE OVER SURFING ON SOMEONE ELSE'S NETWORK IMAGING BEAT “Softw Image Processing _ ren Pheon, from Apago (www.apago.com): This image- conversion software, for OS X 10.2 and later, converts back and forth between file formats used for digital ad delivery, Features include the ability to set bleed, trim, and art boxes in PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3; crop- ping; image scaling, rotation, and compression; and ICC color matching ($99). | iMagine, from Yarra Valley Software (http://yvs .eu.com): This image-processing tool for OS X lets users automate workflow for 2-D graphics and digital-image file processing through Apple- Script ($50). m codak (wwwaast .com): This plug-in for 05 8.6 and later including OS X, provides automatic noise and grain reduction for | images. Is designed for Adobe Photoshop and Photo- shop Elements ($80).—cowett By PhP MICHAELS 22 MACWORLD October 2003 Whose Bandwidth Is It, Anyway? You've whipped out your WiFi Finder and discovered that a neighbor's wireless net- work is readily available, and you're tempted to surf on someone else’s DSL line. Do you sidle onto the network unannounced, or do you keep your PowerBook asleep because you're uncomfortable with the idea of using bandwidth your neighbor pays for? For a growing number of computer users, this is no longer a hypothetical situa- tion. As Wi-Fi devices, online Wi-Fi hotspot directories, and warchalking—the prac- tice of marking the location of wireless computer networks—become more common, so have debates about the ethics of borrowing bandwidth. For programmer Aaron Swartz, who maintains the FAQ list at www.warchalking -org, there’s not much of a dilemma. “I don’t think using an open access point is taking advantage of the owner,” Swartz says. “I’m using their access point because I believe they won’t mind and perhaps even encourage it.” But how do you know whether an owner minds? The most obvious option for owners who do mind is to close their networks to outside access—assuming, of course, that they know enough about networks to be able to do so. Not all open-network providers are aware that they’re supplying a public resource, says Scott Rafer, chairman of WiFinder (www.wifinder.com), which provides a directory of public wireless hotspots. And that lack of notification—or of an easy way for would-be warchalkers to ask whether they can use a network—is a growing problem in Wi-Fi networking, he adds. “Ethically, you shouldn't do it,” Rafer says. “But practically speaking, it file-sharing big.” Rafer thinks it’s up to the companies providing wireless services to educate con- sumers: “The companies need to learn how to handle that problem at the level of their subscribers.” Swartz doesn’t think there’s a problem at all; he says that warchalk- ing is merely a new form of being neighborly. “New technology shouldn’t make us lose our common sense,” Swartz says.—LISA SCHMEISER www.macworld.com RICK RONER The New LaCie Hard Drive, Design by F.A. Porsche your creative vision. ‘The LoGe logo is ¢ trademark of LoGie, Ud. ©2003 LeGe, Li All rights reserved. All ether products end company names are trademarks or registered 1 LACIE) DESIGN BY F-A-PORSCHE see the complete new line at www.lacie.com 003 MAC BEAT __ Macworld = GreativePro | BEST OF SHOW — Editors of Macworld and MacCentral.com selected | ‘the top products that debuted at July’s Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo in New York: > MasterJuggler 3 and DiskWarrior 3, from Alsoft (800/257-6381, wwwalsoft.com): Font-manage- ment app MasterJuggler goes OS X native ($90; upgrade, $50), The DiskWarrior update adds speed improvements ($80; upgrade, $40), > MEC Station, from Avias (www.iavias.com): This handheld device plays back MPEG files, Divx movies, and MP3 and WMA audio ($549). > The Print Shop, from Broderbund (800/395-0277, www.broderbund.com) and Software MacKiev (www.mackiev.com): This software helps you create greeting cards, CD labels, and other projects ($50). > Dialogue, from Dalim Software (www.dalim.com): This Internet-based soft-proofing too! is based on XML and Java2, (Contact Dalim for pricing.) > Perfection 3170 Photo, from Epson (800/463- 7766, www.epson.com): This scanner sports a 3,200-dpi optical resolution ($200). > Slick Volumes 5 and 6 and Sweet Multiport, | from GeeThree.com (650/328-2359, www.geethree .com);The two latest Slick collections of iMovie plug- ins correct color video, highlight moving objects, and add new titles (Volume 5, $50; Volume 6, $70), ‘Sweet Multiport converts the lower optical-drive bay ‘on a Power Mac G4 into an interface with two FireWire 400 ports, USB, CompactFlash/MicroDrive, Memory Stick, and SD Card connectivity ($150). > RadioShark, from Griffin Technology (615/399-7000, wwwagriffintechnology.com): This fin-shaped appara- tus lets Mac users tune in AM/FM radio transmissions ‘and record broadcasts for later playback ($50). > JBL Encounter 5.1, from Harman Multimedia (877/ 266-6202, www.harman-multimedia.com): This sur- round speaker system, available in November, comes with five satellites and a subwoofer ($400). > HP Deskjet 5650, from Hewlett-Packard (800/752- 0900, www.hp.com): This color ink-jet printer prints as many as 21 black-and-white and 15 color pages per minute ($150). > C200 MFX and R200 MFX, from PowerFile (866/ 838-3669, www.powerfile.com): These optical stor- age libraries sport a 200-disc capacity (C200 MFX, $2,799; R200 MEX, $4,799). > DeltaGraph 5, from Red Rock Software (801/322- 4322, wwewredrocksw.com): This OS X-compatible technical graphing software lets users develop a range of 2-D and 3-D graphs ($299; upgrade, $199). > Disclabel 1.0, from SmileOnMyMac (www.dise label.com): Disclabel 1.0 makes CD and DVD labels—compiLeD BY PHILIP MICHAELS 24 MACWORLD October 2003 ENCLOSURES OFFER NETWORKING EQUIPMENT PROTECTION FROM A RAINY DAY Outdoor Networks: Gimme Shelter Many wireless networkers already bypass telephone and cable connections, opting to span the air with long-distance wireless links that connect homes, offices, and neighborhoods as far as 30 miles apart. All you need is a fair amount of technical know-how, some moxie, and enough patience to set up a network by trial and error. But a few new products make it much easier to build links that extend networking beyond the inside of your home. In addition to an outdoor antenna, you'll need a base station or wireless gateway that can stay outside, to prevent the rapid signal-strength loss that occurs in longer cables that connect wireless base stations to their antennas. And that equipment needs to be protected. MacWireless.com (510/848-7126, www.macwireless.com) sells a $100 AirPort Base Station enclosure, as well as a $90 Power- over-Ethernet kit for AirPort Extreme networks. (Power over Ethernet uses low-voltage DC power from Ethernet cables; it’s favored by many network designers because of the difficulty, expense, and danger of bringing 110-volt power to the great out- doors.) And a $30 lightning protector from HyperLink Tech- nologies (561/995-2256, www.hyperlinktech.com) is an excellent addition to any outdoor network. HyperLink also offers advanced enclosures and Power-over-Ethernet systems that cost slightly more overall but have better options for keeping the unit from overheating or freezing. D-Link (800/326-1688, www.dlink.com) has tried to take some of the pain out of spanning wireless distances by building a full standard setup that includes either the DWL-1700 AirPremier outdoor wireless access point or the DWL-1750 AirPremier outdoor wireless bridge, along with an enclosure, Power over Ethernet, lightning pro- tection, and full technical support. The only wrinkle: a $1,199 suggested retail price, not including antennas. Consider it an option if time is in short supply, and if moxie D-Link's AirPremier outdoor wireless access point can’t replace a setup that works the first time out—GLENN FLEISHMAN ISP ENCOURAGES SUBSCRIBERS TO SHARE WIRELESS CONNECTIONS Wireless Networking's Fair Share Maybe it’s the ease of setting up an AirPort network, but something about wireless networking brings out a per- son’s generous side. You want to share your Internet connection with others, whether it’s your next-door neighbor or anyone who happens to be sitting in the park across the street from your house. But while you may feel the giving spir- it, sharing Internet access with your friends and neighbors may cause your Internet service provider to give you the boot. Most ISPs have policies aimed at preventing you from sharing a connec- tion with people outside your home. Of course, ISPs worry that they’ll lose customers if people are sharing connec- tions—for example, if a half-dozen homes in a neighborhood share a single line instead of subscribing individually. But at least one ISP doesn’t mind if its users share and share alike. In fact, Seattle’s Speakeasy Networks (800/556- 5829, www.speakeasy.net)—which offers national DSL and T-1 service, as well as dial-up—actively encourages people to share its networks. Users can not only share with their neighbors and passers-by, but also become their own ISPs, charging other users a fee that Speakeasy collects and returns half of. The subscriber acts as a local administrator, providing sup- port for the network; Speakeasy provides e-mail and handles technical support. If Speakeasy isn’t your ISP, check with your provider to see whether it’s all right to share your wireless network. 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To enter: Visit http://promo.apec.com Key Cole n265y Call 888-289-APCC x4191 » Fax 401-788-2797 For international calls, please dial 401-789-0204 (©2003 American Power Conversion, All Tademarks are the propery of their owners. SU2ASEF-US + PowerFax< (B00) 247-FAXX # E-mail apcinfo@apce.com * 132 Feigrounds Road, West Kingston, Fl 02892 USA ‘Choose 73 at www.macworld.com/getinfo OCTOBER 2003 MAC BEAT TOAST UPDATE ADDS DVD-CREATION FEATURES, RENDEZVOUS SUPPORT PRO FILE | Q&A WITH RUSSELL BROWN Burning Sensation When it comes to CD and DVD burning, Roxio’s Toast (866/ 280-7694, www.roxio.com) is the reigning champ. And the ven- erable disc-burning application figures to tighten its hold on that title: Toast 6 Titanium, which runs on OS X 10.2 and later, ———— will be available in Septem- ber, for $100 (a mail-in rebate is available for regis- tered Toast 5 users). ‘Topping the list of new features in this update is the ability to create video and photo DVDs that include simple menus and buttons. This is a welcome addition for people who own external DVD burn- ers, which aren’t sup- ported by Apple’s iDVD app (but this feature won't give you the same level of sophisti- cation as iDVD's themes). The updated program can even create discs directly from your DV tapes. But if your Mac doesn’t have a DVD burner—or any burner at all—version 6 ToastAnywhere feature lets you take advantage of Apple’s zero-configuration Rendezvous networking technology, so you can burn to another Mac running Toast 6 on your network. ‘Toast can now compress files and folders as you burn them to disc; you can also choose password-protected 128-bit encryp- tion. And Propaganda Productions’ Déja Vu backup software is included, for Toast-integrated data backups. Other additions in version 6 include an improved user inter- face; the ability to work with any QuickTime-supported audio and video formats; an updated version of CD Spin Doctor, for digitizing and editing analog tapes and LPs; and the Motion Pic- tures feature, for creating photo slide shows that include panning and zooming, crossfades, and soundtracks.—JONATHAN SEFF 1 DVD, Too Toast 6 lets users with external DVD burners create video and photo DVDs. WINDOWS MULTIMEDIA-AUTHORING APP COMES TO THE MAC Director Competition For Mac users, there’s little debate about where to turn for multimedia authoring—Macromedia’s Director, which arrived on OS X last December. But a newcomer to the Mac platform hopes to change that, with an OS X-compatible authoring tool of its own that costs a little less than the $1,199 Director MX. Anark Studio 2, from Anark (866/705-1010, www.anark.com), was a Windows-only application; now Anark is releasing a Mac version that costs $995 and runs on OS X 10.2 and later. Anark Studio lets pro users combine 3-D, video, images, and audio to create interactive media. It performs advanced composit- ing, video mapping on 3-D objects, and OpenGL rendering. The program also offers full animation and object control via a drag- and-drop, timeline-based interface. Content can be delivered to OS X and Windows users as CD- or DVD-ROMs, 3-D screen- savers, videos, or Web content JONATHAN SEFF 26 MACWORLD October 2003 | about the Enterprise,” says Brown, pictured in costume.) But there's method | You're Adobe's creative director. But what do you really do? | and shape and color we want. Of course, there’s bad design | with any adoption of new tools, but good designers eventually force the bad stuff into the trash. CREATIVE PRO Russell Brown takes design and publishing software seriously. But that doesn’t mean Adobe's senior creative director takes himself seriously. He, after all, is an executive who attended an Adobe meeting on enterprise software dressed as Star Trek's Mr. Spock. ("| wanted to show them | knew something to this Mac user's madness—Brown believes that having fun is an integral part of the creative process, as he explains in this interview —TERRI STONE AT A GLANCE RUSSELL BROWN Senior Creative Director, Adobe MAC: 500MHz Power Mac G4; 800MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 My job is to motivate graphic designers, photographers, and artists to fall in love with Adobe applications so much that they buy them. I’m the candy-store attendant: I show it off in exciting ways they can’t resist. Designers tend to get so caught up in day-to-day jobs that they forget about creativity. You can’t always have fun at your job, so my goal is to bring fun back into it. If you work at a computer year after year, you can get bored. You need inspiration. You need zap. | inspire people to get crazy and be creative. Cre- ative minds learn best in a humor-filled environment. Cre- atives have a difficult time absorbing stale info. If you coat that info with humor, they don’t realize they’re being edu- cated. I go to special events and trade shows—Macworld, PhotoshopWorld, ADIM—and give a talk. What is ADIM? | Irs the Art Director’ Invitational Master class—you can __| read all about it at www.russellbrown.com—and I put all my energy into planning and staging it. It’s a once-a-year event [held in April this year] like no other conference. I want the unexpected. I want everyone to loosen up. Watch the aver- age designer from, oh, Kansas City. He’ll say, “If Russ can be that crazy, I can be half as crazy,” and he’ll be the guy running around partially nude by the end of the conference. You've been at Adobe for nearly 19 years. How has the desktop-publishing industry changed in that time? Speed. Efficiency. Creativity. It’s best described by memory— imagine yourself doing something with 16MB of RAM. Today, T've got gigabytes. To believe that I could have gotten some- thing done with 16K—it seemed amazing then. There’s always some new twist or new technology so amazing we're trying to figure out how we lived without it. Think of graphic designers in the late seventies working with press type. How could we possibly have done that? Today we can have every font and size ‘wwewmacworld.com GARY YOUNG Randy likes the feel of Sa nd. Vv Suitcase X1 | wwwextensis.com/x1 ensis. (© 2003 Extensis, nc., a Celartem Company. Al rights reserved, Choose 50 at www.macworld.com/getinfo OCTOBER 2003 MAC BEAT Business = ‘Way 1.0, from Jumsoft (www.jumsoft.cor X-native business-document application includes templates for memos, letters, faxes, agendas, and other reports ($30). Development. CodeWarrior Development Studio 9.0, from Metro- werks (800/377-5416, wwwwmetrowerks,com) This ver- sion ofthe programming software runs on OS X but can build apps for 0S 9 and 0S X, as well as for Windows. Highlights include PowerPlant X (a C-+-+-based frame- work), improved editor features, and Objective-C sup- port ($399; license renewals, contact Metrowerks). Reference 7 i ? EndNote 7, from Thomson IS! ResearchSoft (800/722- 1227, wwwisiresearchsoft.com): This update lets users create a bibliography with topic headings, and it lets them insert figures or tables in a Microsoft Word docu- ‘ment ($330; upgrade, $100).—coMPiLeD BY PHIUP MICHAELS UPDATED MONEY-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ADDS iCAL INTEGRATION A New Day for Quicken Since Quicken’s 1988 Mac debut, the financial software from Intuit (800/952-2558, www.quicken2004.com) has focused on helping users manage their money. With this year’s update, Intuit wants to help Mac users manage their time, too. It has integrated Quicken with Apple’s iCal calendaring application. Quicken for Mac 2004 ($70, with a $20 mail-in rebate for registered users of earlier versions) lets users add transactions, such as upcoming payments or deposits, to an iCal calendar via a red-and-white iCal icon; click- ing on it launches the Apple application. iCal integration fea- tures are available only to Mac users running OS X 10.2.6 and later; however, Quicken 2004 is | | compatible with OS 9.2.2 and | @@ Cs” later for all other features. Time After Time A red-and-white iCal icon at the bottom These features include 25 new _ of Quicken 2004’s Scheduled Transactions window lets you performance indicators—up create iCal calendars for your Quicken data. from a dozen—for customizing ee ee oe portfolios, and the ability to retrieve news headlines about your holdings via Quicken .com. Quicken 2004 also introduces an Emergency Records Organizer, which stores financial, legal, and medical data in one location and lists the physical location of records such as insurance forms, wills, and other vital documents.—PHILIP MICHAELS sraz2io4 More than a magazine... discover Macworld on the Web! Reviews Macwi 28 MACWORLD October 2003 Macworld Product Finder Macworl.com orld reviews PLUS online-only content! MacCentral.com Stay informed with news & more! Buy with confidence! You'l find it all at wwwmacworld. com www.macworld.com A Love Story You were athacted to bis simplidty. His wok Youre dluays making excuses For him. | bot tine you gave FileMaker the bool? cldced debdbaes. ESTIMA! osHow §—§hSS 4th Dimension 2003 www.4D.com/switch | | | cisco for annual Seybold | prepare to microwave | Macs; instead, it will focus WHAT'S OCTOBER 2003 MAC BEAT | MICROSOFT ADDS PRO, STUDENT VERSIONS TO OFFICE OFFERINGS Three for All Students and teachers are getting a back-to-school break, courtesy of Microsoft (800/642-7676, www -microsoft.com). The software giant has released an academic version of its Office productivity suite; it’s priced ata third of the standard edition’s cost. Microsoft Office v. X Student and ‘Teacher Edition contains full versions of the four Office applications—Word, Excel, Entourage, and PowerPoint— for $149. Any family with a student or teacher can install it on as many as three Macs—essentially allowing that family to have three copies of Office for around $50 each, says Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit product manager Jessica Sommer. “Different cus- tomers need differ- ent things,” says Sommer, adding that the new Office offering matches an HOT A Quick Look at the World of Macs 1. BuyMusic.com chal- ; lenges the iTunes Music option already Store, but the service available to Win- features inconsistent | 4. . Th pricing and licensing» COWS users. The | limits. Another catch: the | *songs" forsale are actually | Student and ‘Teacher Edition is just one of three new Office versions. Mic- rosoft’s Office v. X Professional Edition ($499; b ery from Office 98 or later, $329) includes Office’s four apps and Virtual PC 6.1 (for Windows XP profession- al); it’s for Mac users who work in cross-platform environments. Version 6.1 of the emulation program doesn’t contain any new features; rather, the new version number reflects Micro- soft’s purchase of Virtual PC from Connectix (see “Emulation Sensa- tion,” Mac Beat, May 2003). There are no new features or addi- tional apps in Office v. X Standard Edition—which still includes Word, Excel, Entourage, and PowerPoint— but there is a new price. The Stan- dard Edition sells for $399, a $100 drop from the old price. Office 98 and 2001 users can upgrade for $239.—PHILIP MICHAELS NETWORKING | BEAT — A seven-port hub from D-Link (949/788-0805, www .dlink.com): The DFB-H7 QuickMedia USB 2.0/Fire- wire 7-Port Combo Hub ($50) combines four USB 2.0 and three FireWire ports, allowing users to con- nect to multiple peripherals, The hub is powered externally and supports overcurrent detection for any plugged-in device. Security, 3 = ee _ A portable USB-to-Ethernet VPN adapter from Linksys | (800/546-5797, www.linksys,com): The USBVPN1 adapter ($79) allows travelers and remote users to securely connect to local area networks via a broad- band connection while on the road. The adapter pro- vides a Stateful Packet Inspection firewall that protects the user from hacker attacks and supports Dynamic IP, Static IP, PPPoE, and PPTP connection methods. Hardware Hubs Software System Managem =e ‘Sysinfo 5.0, from MagniComp (866/300-3199, www -magnicomp.com); This updated application, which provides IT personnel with system information, adds 0S X support and remote access ($12 to $975 per host, depending on how many CPUs are in a sys- | tem)—compiten By PHILIP MICHAELS RETRACTABLE CABLES KEEP MOBILE USERS CONNECTED WITHOUT TANGLES karaoke versions performed | | by drunken businessmen, 2 Michael Jackson praises Apple's iTunes | Music Store. However, the endorsement lost a lot of ts impact after the pop star dangled his isook ‘over the railing of a hotel balcony. 3, Creative profession- als head to San Fran- Seminars. Meanwhile, not-terribly-creative non- professionals remain in parents’ basements and another burrito before tuning in Jerry Springer. ‘4. The San Jose Mercury News reports that Apple's “Switch” cam- paignhasfailedto | attract an influx of new users. To invigorate the campaign, Apple plans to stop showcasing people Who have switched to on particularly unattractive Windows users. 30 MACWORLD. October 2003 Retraction in Action Having spent far too much time untangling modem, Ethernet, and other cables that have formed large knots in my laptop bag, I appreciate retractable cables aimed at mobile computer users. It’s not exactly groundbreaking technology—your grandparents may have had a vacuum cleaner with a cord that worked similarly. Just pull the cable ends until they catch—the case that holds the cable winds up dangling in the middle—and either press a button or tug at the ends to snap them back into the case, with no tangles and no tears. Retractable FireWire, USB, Ethernet, and modem cords from Macally (www.macally.com) come in curvy white cases that fit in your } palm, match your iBook, and extend to 14 feet for the modem line ($14) and five feet for the others ($20 each). Belkin’s (www.belkin.com) USB ($25), Ethernet ($25), and modem ($20) cables are only slightly bulkier and, in the case of the USB and modem cords, shorter. Kensington’s (www -kensington.com) eight-foot modem ($12) and seven-foot Ethernet ($23) cables offer practical lengths and a | sleek, silvery design that keeps the retracted connectors neatly tucked away. Targus’s offerings won't win any beauty contests: its modem ($10 or $20), ISDN ($25), USB ($25), and FireWire ($30) cables have clunky black cases. But the retractable modem cord is a generous 20-feet long. And like Macally, Targus includes an adapter for different pin sizes with its FireWire and USB cables. Zip-Ling cables ($13 to $16), from Keyspan (www _keyspan.com), were the only ones besides Kensington’s modem cable that fit comfortably in my pocket. But such portability is not without its price—modem and Ethernet cables from Keyspan are only four feet long. Still, that’s four fewer feet of tangles and knots the next time I take my cables on the road—FRITH GOWAN ‘wwwumacworld.com RICK Ri2NER PUSH THE BUTTON. 3. Al other trademarks are the ‘OneTouch is an appropriate 4 red trademark and 1 bilion bytes. Total BACK UP YOUR MONSTER HIT. 1) yy = gs 2 y n 4 i2 ¥ } ve = a2 jana ¢ . 2. how you push it is up to you = Its your passion. Maxtor OneTouch ‘ito ove i oe ats: PUSH-BUTTON BACKUP! UP TO The next indie sensation. cal | 300 Save it. Store it. GB Back it up with a = push of the button. FireWire i USB 2.0 www.maxtor.com Maxtor’ What drives you” Available at CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, MicroCenter, BestBuy, J&R Computerworld and online at MacConnection.com, MacMall.com and MacWarehouse.com. | OUTSTANDING: #8806 | VERY GOOD: | | Lili GOOD: $06 FLAWED: J UNACCEPTABLE: 8 Reviews you can trust: Macworld rates only final shipping products, not prototypes. What we review is what you can actually buy. DiskWarrior 3.0 Repair Utility Does No Harm BY STEPHAN SOMOGYI Even a modern, memory-protected, and preemptively multitasking operating sys- tem such as Mac OS X can’t prevent bad things from happening to the data on your hard drive. And when an unfortunate event occurs—such as a kernel panic that forces you to reboot your machine without shutting down properly—you want a tool that can downgrade a major disaster to a mere inconvenience. DiskWarrior 3.0, the long-awaited OS X-native version of Alsoft’s disk utility, offers Jaguar users repair capabilities and maintenance fea- tures that will significantly reduce the likelihood and severity of many drive- related mishaps. DiskWarrior never harmed any of the volumes it worked on during our testing. This clearly Hippocratic utility does only good for your hard drive's health. DiskWarrior users pondering an upgrade to 3.0 should delay no further. Holistic Disk Repair DiskWarrior takes an iconoclastic approach to repairing hard drives, Rather than going through a checklist of prob- $F Alisoft DiskWarrior lems and fixing them one by one (as other disk utilities, such as Norton Disk Doctor, do), DiskWarrior gathers all the | available information about | files and folders on the volume; _| it then uses that information | to create a brand-new set of directory data. DiskWarrior compares the original volume to the freshly created directory and tells you if there are differ- ences. This holistic approach has proved itself many times over in DiskWarrior’s lifetime. DiskWarrior’s approach has one side effect worth mention- ing: if you rely on software automatically check all drives for hardware malfunction Check for malfunction: (Hourly) Notification Method: Oren ‘An alert will be presented on the screen whenever a malfunction of any attached hard dlak device Is | detected. Ok-mail Capplescript utilities to retrieve formerly deleted files, replacing a vol- ume’s directory with Disk- Warrior's freshly built one will scotch that ability. When rebuilding directories, Disk- Warrior also removes any rem- nants of information about previously deleted files. The converse is true in one situation: sometimes, a volume’s directory is so dam- aged that DiskWarrior has to build a new directory by piecing together a coherent whole from digital remains, so it may recover files, or their frag- = #F Alisoft DiskWarrior | Rebullding directory... | | Step 6: Constructing optimized replacement directory ments, that have been previ- ously deleted. DiskWarrior 2.1.1, version 3.0’s immediate predecessor, was compatible with OS X- formatted drives, but it didn’t run natively in OS X. Even worse, because OS X volumes 1 This disk is a Mac OS Extended disk. + This disk Is 55.89 GB In size, Advances ‘Device ID: disk2s2 Sectors: 117,210,168 1 Sector Size: 512 Bytes ‘+ Model: AAPL Target Disk Mode ‘This disk does appear on the desktop. ‘File System Type: HFS (Extended, Journalea) typically have many more fold- ers and files—most of them invisible to the casual user— DiskWarrior 2.1.1 could be excruciatingly slow. But ver- sion 3.0 eliminates both of | | these hurdles. DiskWarrior 3.0 is significantly faster than its ancestor, and it supports HFS, HFS+, and journaled HFS+ (Graph volumes. DiskWarrior 2 sup- ported journaled volumes but had the unfortunate side-effect Rebuild AWhole-Directory Approach Rather than running through a checklist of possible problems, DiskWarrior 3.0 rebuilds a volume’s directory to make sure no lingering problems remain. 32 MACWORLD October 2003 of disabling journaling after it had finished rebuilding the directory. ‘SMART Planning You can configure DiskWarrior 3.0 to ask a drive Whether everything's OK, and then have it alert you if all isn’t well In our testing, DiskWarrior 3.0 readily found and fixed mild directory problems such as improperly set custom icon bits and incor- rect volume bitmaps, and it even handled more-severe hardware-related problems with aplomb. One test disk developed bad sectors in the area occupied by the directory data, a fate that usually spells disaster. DiskWarrior took well over an hour to work its way through the damaged disk, but it did finish, and the newly generated directory allowed us to recover files from the drive. DiskWarrior 3.0 is leaps and bounds faster when rebuilding a directory on a drive with healthy hardware, but it also takes its time and doesn’t give up when confronted with hardware errors. This isa major benefit. SMART and Vigilant DiskWarrior 3.0 can now query a hard drive as to whether its hardware is hale and hearty. Most mainstream—not just server-grade— IDE drives sold over the last few years sup- port SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). SMART-savvy software can ask the drive whether every- thing is OK. A lot of errors can be an early warning of the impending demise of a drive’s hardware. Since DiskWarrior can’t fix hardware-related errors, SMART sup- port is a welcome and useful addition. You wawvemacworld.com 32 Disk-repair utility 36 Server-administration tool 41 Disc-production hardware 46 Hot Products 38 This Month DiskWartior 3,0 TToals 7 Bravo Disc Publisher The best recently reviewed Mac in Dlateal C 33 Keyboard-automating 37 Image-rescaling plug-ins 42 Visual charting tool products, in Digital Cameras We Genuine Fractals PrintPro 3.0, DeltaGraph 5.0.2 49 The Game Room predinneaie Gi QuicKeys X2 px! SmartScale 43 Speech-recognition program —_Enigmo, iLuminate, Snood v3, linolta Dit 34 1.4GHz processor upgrades 39 Analog-to-digital iisen 161 = ‘i SpyHunter, Tiger Woods PGA Olympus C-740 Ultra Zoom Giga Designs G-celerator GC5B-1400- converter 44 Reviews in Brief Tour 2003 Corie beet D/A 1.4GHz, Other World Computing Apogee Mini-Me Clone'X, ContentBatrier 10.0.1, arth- 120 Mac Gems ony Cybershot OSM Mercury Extreme G4/1.4-1,467GHz, PowerLogix PowerForce GA Series 100 1.4GHz, Sonnet Encore/ST 64/1.4GHz 40 Wide-format ink-jet Hewlett-Packard Designlet 120nr Desk 2.0, iView Media, SketchUp 3.0, To the Trash 1.1 Master, Pl can schedule DiskWarrior’s SMART query to run hourly, daily, or weekly it will zen even when DiskWarrior isn’t running. anything is amiss, DiskWartior will meaty the user via an on-screen or e-mail alert, or | it will launch an AppleScript to take a more- complex action such as logging an event in a database. One missing capability that was in DiskWarrior 2 is DiskShield, an extension that ran in OS 8.1 through 9.X. It made | sure directory data was written regularly. (If | a crash happened while directory data was waiting in RAM, your disk wouldn’t be able | to access some of the data it contained.) ‘The DiskShield extension could also detect | certain kinds of directory damage and | alert the user that it was time to run | DiskWarrior. Although the addition of | SMART support is welcome, we miss the | extension’s capabilities. DiskWarrior 3.0 comes on a bootable OS X CD. Unfortunately, due to Apple’s licensing restrictions, you can’t distribute a fully functional bootable CD with a Finder on it. Having a Finder available allowed DiskWarrior 2 users to directly compare old and new directories. With DiskWarrior 3.0, Alsoft worked around the Finder limitations by integrating a direc tory browser that displays a volume’s before and after states, thus letting you compare the two. While Alsoft’s browser does the job, it’s too bad that DiskWarrior’s develop- ers had to spend effort developing such a feature when the Finder would've been the ideal solution. Macworld’s Buying Advice DiskWarrior 3.0 is a tool that any serious Mac user—and certainly every IT admini trator—should have. Its performance is sig- nificantly better than its predecessor's, and the new SMART-based hard-drive monitor- ing can prevent data loss through early warn- ing. But unlike tools that focus solely on disaster recovery or prevention, DiskWarrior is also a useful maintenance tool that can provide you with peace of mind. RATING: $9962 PROS: Faster rebuilds; SMART support. CONS: Missing previously available DiskShield ‘extension capabilities. PRICE: $80 OS COMPATIBILITY: Mac OS X | COMPANY: Alsoft, 800/257-6381, www.alsoft.com | | wowwumacwvorld.com QuicKeys X2 Powerful Utility Rewards Effort with Timesaving Macros | BY FRANKLIN N. TESSLER Ever since the OS X-native QuicKeys X appeared almost two years ago, we've longed for the feature set of QuicKeys 5, which let us automate almost any task on a Mac run- ning OS 8.5 or 9, The Jaguar-compatible QuicKeys X 1.5.4 update brought a few wel- come improvements but fell short of the mark (¢$6%; June 2003). QuicKeys X2, which also requires Jaguar, offers even more ways to control your Mac, with an interface that’s more thoughtfully organized. ‘To tap into QuicKeys’ added power, though, you'll have to spend considerable time debugging and tweaking your shortcuts. SharingMenu BuddyPop, Logorrhea, Menu DF U, Quicklmage CM, new user modes, In the Simple Triggers mode, you can program a shortcut to activate only when you press a specified key or key combination, or when you select the short- cut by name from the QuicKeys menu, The Advanced Triggers mode adds more choices, including the ability to launch shortcuts at certain dates and times or a specified amount of time after QuicKeys launches. As before, you can define a shortcut’ seape, which determines the applications it will play in, (You can assign more than one scope to a shortcut, but only in the Advanced Triggers mode.) For the first time, QuicKeys lets you prevent a shortcut from functioning in certain programs. That’s helpful if you have a short- cut that checks your e-mail when you press F1 in any application, but you don’t want to acti- vate it if you accidentally hit the key while zap- pingaliens in your favorite game. Also new to QuicKeys is a separate win- dow that lets you create and edit QuicKeys toolbars—application- eso wed Checks Ss $5.5 etn ZO ee 5 aia ere i specific palettes that let you activate shortcuts by clicking on buttons. Other good new features include options for verti- cally orienting your tool- bars, adjusting the size of button icons, and dis- playing shortcut names, Uncertain Shortcuts Simple shortcuts—max- imizing your word pro- cessor’s document win- dow when you press F3, for example—are as easy as ever to program. Hold Offf for Now Using QuicKeys’ new Wait option, we created a shortcut step that waits for a window ‘with Macworld in its title before recontinuing. A New Look QuicKeys’ revamped shortcut editor has a ton of enhancements that make the program more logical and less cumbersome. Instead of showing each step’s actions and triggers in separate tabs (as in the previous versior QuicKeys X2 displays both in a single dow. A slide-out pane on the right lists the shortcut’s steps, which you can rearrange by | dragging. (We thought that the dynamic resizing of the shortcut-editing window as we clicked on various steps was a bit annoying.) To make programming shortcut triggers less confusing for novices, QuicKeys has two ‘To automate a complex operation, however, you have to break it down into a series of steps that QuicKeys can emulate. Although that seems straightforward, the Mac isn’t always as pre- dictable as we'd like it to be. Say you want to create a multistep short- cut that launches Safari and logs in to an online discussion forum. If your Internet connection is slow, your browser may take several seconds to display the forum's login page. Previously, if QuicKeys couldn't find the not-yet-loaded fields, the shortcut would fail. But QuicKeys X2 offers a powerful option that forces a shortcut to wait until a specified window or button continues on page 35 October 2003. MACWORLD 33 REVIEWS G4 Processor Upgrades Four 1.4GHz Cards Offer a Timely Stopgap Measure BY KRISTINA DE NIKE Your old Mac is sitting there getting older and, if your mind isn’t deceiving you, slower. Apple’s Power Mac GS has arrived on the scene, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get more life out of your G4. If you have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics and later models), you can upgrade to a 1.4GHz G4 processor. We tested Giga Designs’ G-celerator GC5B-1400-D2/A, Other World Computing’s Mercury Extreme G4, PowerLogix’s PowerForce G4 Series 100, and Sonnet’s Encore/ST G4. A $600 investment will give you a Mac almost as fast as Apple's other G4 systems, and it could keep you satisfied for another six months to a year. Installation Installing an upgrade card is pretty easy, as long as you read the instructions and move carefully. Giga Designs’ documentation is nicely illustrated and easy to follow, as is OWCS. PowerLogix’s one page is brief, but it covers the basics. Sonnet’s manual is the most thorough, with installation illus- trations of all compatible systems; however, Four 1.4GHz Upgrade Cards Compared it doesn’t mention that the Apple System Profiler won't report the correct upgrade speed unless you install Sonnet’s free Son- net X Tune-Up software (available on the company’s Web site). To set the speed of the OWC and Giga Designs cards, you must configure jumpers, which can be tricky. If you set them incor- rectly, your upgrade will either run slower than it should or become unstable. Be sure to check the processor speed with the Apple System Profiler as soon as you install the upgrade so you can shut down the computer and reset the jumpers if necessary. If you use your computer at too high a speed, the pro- cessor can overheat and damage the upgrade or motherboard. Having control of the processor gives you the option of setting the jumpers for over- clocking. All these upgrade cards use Motorola 1.4GHz G4 chips, but OWC sets its card slightly faster, at 1.467GHz. Giga Designs tests its card at 1.5GHz, and it even tells you how to set the jumpers if you want to overclock. Slightly goosing the speed of the chip probably won't cause damage, but we don’t recommend it. Overclocking causes the chip to run hotter; over time, the heat may damage your processor, hard drive, or sub- systems. And you aren’t likely to notice an improvement after going from 1.4GHz to 1.5GHz. Sonnet sets bus speed for you—so you don't have to configure any annoying jumpers. But it doesn’t come with a heat sink or fan. You have to remove the heat sink that was attached to your original processor and attach it to the Encore card, While rein- stalling the old heat sink isn’t difficult, you may have problems down the road. The Sonnet upgrade card comes with a thin layer of a creamy heat-conducting sub- stance. Once the upgrade is installed and run- ning, the pad adheres to the heat sink, efficiently pulling heat off the processor and Mouse SYSTEM COMPANY PRODUCT RATING PRICE CONTACT COMPATIBILITY PROS CONS Giga G-celerator GCSB- #44} $559 510/919-1988, ‘AGP Graphics, Power Mac G4 Server, Copper heat sink. Must set jumpers. Designs -1400-D2/A 1.4GHz wwwgigadesigns.com Gigabit Ethemet Other World Mercury Extreme H8® = $590 800/275-4576, ‘AGP Graphics, Power Mac G4 Server, Efficient fan, Must set jumpers, Computing G4/1.4-1,467GH2 : ‘wwrw.macsales.com Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Quicksilver Lo é 2001, Quicksilver 2002 PowerLogix paar G4 “#488 $599 505/857-0353, AGP Graphics, Power Mac G4 Server, No jumpers; Difficult to fit screws _ Series 100 1.4GHz Nl www.powerlogix.com Gigabit Ethernet powerful fan. into heat sink, Sonnet Encore/ST #% © $600 949/587-3500, AGP Graphics, Power Mac G4 Server, No jumpers, Difficult to move after GaN.AGH2 ‘wwwsonnettech.com Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Quicksilver installation, : = 2001, Cube (with additional kit) All cards are compatible with Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. 4 Macworld a Speedmark 3.2 Adobe Photoshop7.0.1 iMovie 2.1.2 iTunes 3 Quake Il v1.30b5 Betis rest] OVERALL SCORE SUITE RENDER MP3 ENCODE FRAME RATE Apple Power Mac G4/500 (base) with Encore/ST G4/1.4GH2 with G-celerator GCSB-1400-D2/A 1.4GHz with Mercury Extreme G4/1.4-1.467GHz with PowerForce G4 Series 100 1.4GHz Apple eMac 1GHz Apple Power Mac G4/1GHz (DDR) >Better BEST RESULTS IN BOLD. REFERENCE SYSTEMS IN ITALICS. 7 ee ss <Better Speedmark 3.2 scores are relative to those of a 70OMH2 eNtac {with Mac OS X 10.2.1 Installed and 256MB of RAM), which is assigned a score of 100, Photoshop, iMovie, and iTunes scores are in minutes: seconds. Quake scores ae in frames per second. We tested each system with Mac OS X 10.2.6 instaled and 256MB of RAM. We set displays to 1,024-by-768-pixel resolution and 24-bit colo. 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 Il at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels with ‘graphics set to High Quality. For the Photoshop Suite tests, the desktop systems are upgraded to 512MB of RAM; ths suite is a set of 10 scripted tasks using a SOMB file. Photoshop's memory Was set to 100 per- Cent and History was set ta Minimum. For more information on Speedmark 3.2, visit wwww.macworld.com/speedmark—MACWORLO LAB TESTING BY KRISTINA DE NiKE 34 MACWORLD. October 2003 wwnw.mmacworld.com dissipating it. But if you need to reinstall the original processor or decide to move the upgrade to another computer, the thermal | paste pulls apart like peanut butter between | two slices of bread. The documentation doesn’t mention this, but you should go out | and buy a tube of thermal paste if you plan on moving the processor to another system. | ‘The PowerLogix card comes with its own heat sink and fan, and it doesn’t require that you set jumpers, But you do have to take the | fan off to install the card, and getting the screws in through the tall heat sink is a chal- | lenge. ‘To provide the additional power the large fan needs, you have to plug the fan into a drive power connector. (For more infor- mation on installing a CPU upgrade, see “Make Your Mac Faster,” page 76.) How Fast Is Fast? ‘The four cards were nearly identical to each other in terms of speed, and they all dramat- | ically improved the overall speed of our 500MHz Power Mac G4. The upgraded sys- tem was twice as fast as the original com- puter on processor-intensive tasks, such as rendering video in Apple’s iMovie 2.1.2. In fact, the G4 with any of the four upgrade cards was just barely slower than a 1GHz Quicksilver Power Mac. Our original G4 still had a slower graphics card, which made Quake painfully slow. It also had a slower hard drive. (But combined with a more pow- erful video card, such as ATT's $150 Radeon, it should provide better results.) The upgraded test system was a better overall performer than the current (IGHz) eMac. And unless you're a hard-core gamer, these upgrades are comperable to Apple’s current systems, and at around $600, they're also $200 cheaper than Apple's least expensive offering, the 1GHz eMac. The Sonnet and OWC cards work in a wider variety of systems than the PowerLogix and Giga Designs cards; the latter two cards are only for 00MHz-bus systems. For the same price, PowerLogix sells a PowerForce | G4 Series 133 1.4GHz card for Digital Audio and Quicksilver models. Giga Designs also has a $589 card for 133MHz systems. With the $60 Sonnet Cube Dealer Instal- lation Kit, Sonnet’s card will also work in a G4 Cube, Another option for Cube owners is PowerLogis’s $599 PowerForce G4 Series 100 for the Cube. Macworld’s Buying Advice Now is a great time to consider an upgrade card if you desperately need a new system but aren't ready to place an order for a Power Mac G5. Any of these four cards will rejuvenate your older computer, but the Sonnet card is a good choice only if you're sure you won't move it after installation. On the other hand, the OWC card works in the widest variety of systems and is relatively easy to move between | systems. 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