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MOVE YOUR VHS HOME MOVIES ' = STORE, ENHANCE, AND ARCHIVE YOUR | VIDEOS \ wi TH OUR eTEP-6) Y-! STEP Sols) p.68 acwor www.maeworld.com | June 2004 The Mac Product Experts DIGITAL MUSIC SUPERGUIDE GET BIG, STRONG SOUND— EVEN FROM AN iPOD MINI CHOOSE THE BEST iPOD CAR ATTACHMENTS LEARN TO RIP YOUR CDS THE RIGHT WAY TRICK OUT iTUNES WITH GREAT EXTRAS MASTER THE iTUNES MUSIC STORE “The biggest advance in computing in recent yea Se ~Peter Lewis, Fortune “One thing that’s for sure is that the G5 is the biggest advance in computing in recent’years, and not just because it is the first personal computer to use a 64-bit desktop processor.” ~ Peter Lewis, Fortune, 10/27/03 “The G5 is amazing. At Pixel Magic, we take advantage of its high-speed data transfer, ultrafast render speeds SS and screen refresh ability, with a Unix-based OS that does not get bogged down! Bring on those big files!” ~ Ray McIntyre Jr., Pixel Magic \ “With the G5 I'm no longer faster than my computer.” ~ Brian Lockwood, Director/Editor “The combination of the G5 and Mac OS X Panther is awinner.| opened more than 50 windows on the dual 2GHz G5 and saw no sign of slowdown. Under Final Cut Pro, no matter what | did, the system would keep up.” ~ Marcello Pereira, RES “We push deadlines to the nth, nth, nth degree; it would be difficult to do without this type of technology. We're still discovering all the things the G5 and Final Cut Pro can do.” ~Rick Blue, Editor, Scrubs “With the Power Mac G5, the increase in speed is threefold over the old machine. Especially in my line of work, this means more rendered scenes in the same amount of time, more freedom to try different versions, or simply a chance to go home before midnight.” ~Thomas Tannenberger, Look Effects “Having Apple Computer's new Power Mac G5 around the office is like having a superhero assistant. If you've got lots of graphics or video heavy-lifting to do all at once, it’s amazing.” —Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News “I've been driving Final Cut Pro on my lab’s Power Mac G5 and marveling at what this platform can doin realtime.” - Tom Yager, InfoWorld © 2004 Microsoft Corpor Lio | ae of cosof Cperation nthe nd/or othe | | | } | 4 @a@eofefrr* Explore your buttoned-up alter ego. While you may not look forward to expenses, presentations, and memos, the other you eats ‘em for breakfast. Microsoft® Office 2004 for Mac has clever new time~ saving features that let you ~ strike that the other you = = ohurn ‘out stunning documents. A smarteg Your potential. r passion.” enourage UMM word YS sce! Office: mac 2004 June 2004 www.macworld.com | REVIEWS 32 MP3 players | $$$: First International Digital irock 860 | $8 PoGo Products AudioRave E i $88 Rio Cali g | $845 Rio Chiba OPINION From the Editor's Desk JASON SNELL The Mac and the Mac community continue leading the way. And Macworld readers can battle it out with me, Halo-style. 16 Feedback Readers respond. 20 Software activation, Dreamweaver MX 2004 update, Adobe After Effects 6.5, 0S X's Spoken Interface, dotPhoto, 1984’s other debuts, and how a restaurant-kitchen designer uses the Mac, 32. REVIEWS 68 FROM VHS TO DVD The Virtual CD Subscribers now have free access to the contents of the CD-ROM that comes + ‘with newsstand copies of Macworld. To view ©) 01 the Cover the contents of the CD, go to the following fa Photography by URL (broadband Internet recommended): Peter Belanger http://cd.macworld,com/2004/06/boots-hats Pon. 4 MACWORLD June 2004 36 4 42 B 44 46 46 47 47 48 1 56 $868 Rio Fuse $$$ SmartDisk Rover mie TOK Mojo 128F Remote desktop application jimbuktu Pro 7.0 Color laser printers $$$ Brother HL-2700CN $$$ Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 3500n $$$) Konica Minolta magicolor 2350en GSH) Lexmark C510n $864 Oki Data C5300N $$$} Xerox Phaser 8400/8 Desktop computer Piiie Power Mac G5/dual-1.8GHz Backup software $94) Retrospect 6.0 Desktop publishing plug-ins $$% Adobe PageMaker Plug-in Pack FireWire analog-to-DV converters $69) ADS Technologies Pyro A/V Link $948) Canopus ADVC5S $899! Datavideo DAC-100 $468) Miglia Technology Director's Cut Take 2 Font utility $$$! Font Doctor 6 Large-format ink-jet printer $$$} Epson Stylus Pro 4000 External storage drive _$FHHE LaCie Bigger Disk Graphics tablet and pen $$$} Wacom Graphire3 6x8 Design package $894 The Print Shop Mac OS X Edition 1.0 The Game Room PETER COHEN Get ready to hit the road—and kick some PC derriere—with Unreal Tournament 2004. We also review The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and a new collection of word puzzles. Plus, check out our first look at the upcoming Call of Duty. Mac Gems DAN FRAKES Add functionality to Safari and Mail, tweak OS X's built-in faxing capabilities, create and manage your to-do lists, quickly access preference panes, and turn your iPod into a PDA. wowwmacworld.com COVER STORY SECRETS Digital Music Superguide CHRISTOPHER BREEN AND MICHAEL GOWAN Digital music, especially when it meets up with iTunes and the iPod, has changed the way we listen to our favorite artists. Our experts tell you everything you need to know about ripping and organizing your music; mastering the iTunes Music Store; playing digital music from your Mac, iPod, or stereo; and using GarageBand to create perfectly timed sound- tracks for your iMovies. FEATURE 68 From VHS to DVD JIM HEID Don't let your old home movies deteriorate into oblivion. We'll show you how to transfer footage from aging VHS tapes to your Mac; enhance it with sound, pictures, and some editing finesse; and then publish it to a DVD for all to see. 58 DIGITAL MUSIC SUPERGUIDE woww.macworld.com WORKING MAC Protect Data in Panther KIRK McELHEARN Use OS X's Keychain and encrypted disk images to safeguard the sensitive information on your Mac. 78 80 DIGITAL HUB Shoot Action Like a Pro DERRICK STORY Motion is one of the hardest things for home moviemakers to get right. Learn how to hold the shot, and your filming will complement the action around you, not make your viewers seasick. CREATE Web-Site Lockdown TOM NEGRINO With a combination of Macromedia Dreamweaver and Contribute, Web designers can hand over Tepetitive maintenance to clients without losing control of a site’s important visual elements. 82 MOBILE MAC Highway Fidelity FRANKLIN N. TESSLER Don’t drive another mile without your music, Whether it's satellite radio, MP3 CDs, or iPods, we tell you how to set up the best system for you. 86 GEEK FACTOR iChat with Your TV ANDY IHNATKO With Apple’s iChat, the iSight, and an Apple- Script, you can activate a video chat on a remote Mac. Whether you use that for something useful is up to you. 88 90 HELP DESK Mac OS X Hints ROB GRIFFITHS Create read-only archives in Mail, prevent accidental window closings, show your mood in iChat, change iCal's display, view a desktop and menu-bar clock, and disable disk-image verification. Mac 911 CHRISTOPHER BREEN Outwit AOL, install large applications without a DVD drive, move your Home folder, rotate cockeyed movies, and plug in multiple iPods to one Mac. BACK PAGE 120 Hot Stuff Check out our editors’ favorite developments of the month. June 2004 MACWORLD 5 OPTICS » MEGA PIXEL CCD C| & A DIGIC DV PRINT & SHARE. Let’s start with the first thing you should know. DV Photo Plus refers to the four key technologies that give you both premium- quality video and photos from a single camcorder. And assuming that’s not everything you wanted to know, here’s the rest. GENUINE CANON OPTICS All Canon Mini DV camcorders feature high-precision lenses designed specifically for camcorder use. But did you know that each of our camcorders has a unique lens that matches its CCD for optimum quality? Or that our camcorder lenses are made with the same expertise used to create lenses for professional photographic cameras and broadcast TV cameras? That’s surely worth knowing. Especially since your fabulous home videos will undoubtedly be broadcast to your friends and family during holidays and get-togethers. MEGAPIXEL CCD IMAGE SENSOR No matter what you’re shooting, you'll get crisp images with life-like detail because of this Megapixel CCD. First it captures the image. Then it registers it. And then OPTICAL IAnaGe STABILIZER the image processor converts the pixels into both great video and great photos. Now, on to the brains of the operation. DIGIC DV IMAGE PROCESSOR DIGIC DV is your camcorder’s digital brain; you'll find one in every Canon Mini DV camcorder. This exclusive image processor captures accurate color for both video and digital photos. And like the human brain, DIGIC DV will help a9, " sa you take better pictures by heightening the emotion in everything you shoot. (Colors become more vibrant, light more dramatic, and the color spectrum wider.) And, since video and digital photos have different color requirements, DIGIC DV uses two different color techniques to maximize video quality ona TV and optimize photo quality on a computer screen. You didn’t know that now, did you? PRINT AND SHARE Print and Share makes it easy to print photos directly to a printer or to transfer images onto your computer. Simply connect the camcorder to any Canon printer or PictBridge compatible printer, select an image and voila: you can print it for your family and friends. It’s almost like having your own private photo lab. digital REVOLUTIONIZED video m we REVOLUTIONIZED digital” Choose 23 at www.macworld.comigetinfo SO THERE YOU HAVE IT Everything you’ve always wanted to know about DV Photo Plus. Not just video and photos, the best of both. Canon know row: ©2008 canon UA. Ine. Canon and Canon Know How are reitere, trademarks and “digital evolutionized video, we revolutionized digital” DIGIC Dy and DV PhotoPlus are trademarks Of Canon Ine, Mac andthe Mae loge are trademarks of Apple Computer, nc registered Inthe U.S. {and other countries. Microsott, Windows, and the Windows logo are trademarks or vegisiered trademarks of tcrosolt Corporation fn the US and/or other eauntaies Te Designed fr Windows X® logo refers to the digital camcorders and their divers only. Printers sold separately Viewstreen images and printer output image are simulate, | i! 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Apple Specialist FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK BY JASON SNELL Sound and Vision AS APPLE RIDES A WAVE OF SUCCESS WITH THE iPOD AND iTunes, numerous industry pundits are questioning the company’s loyalty to its Mac product line. After all, the thinking goes, if the iPod and iTunes are so popular with Windows users, why should Apple waste its time catering to the comparatively minus- cule Mac market? ‘That way of thinking is crazy: you can’t ignore the fact that Apple makes about 90 percent of its money from its sales of Mac-related products. But even if Apple is destined to bring innovative digital enter- tainment products to the masses, regardle: platform they’re using, the Mac—and Mac remain a vital part of that destiny. Follow Our Lead Mac users defy convention. We care about com- puter design and computer interfaces in ways that PC users clearly don’t, and we're generally willing to spend more money for our computers to get a high-quality product. But take those traits one step further: Mac users can visualize ways that technol- ogy can change our lives. And we have courage enough to take risks, in terms of time, money, and the frustration of living on the cutting edge, so we can be among the first to have our lives changed by groundbreaking innovations, ‘Twenty years ago, Mac users chose the ease of use of a graphical, mouse-driven interface over the PC's complexity. But more recently, we've embraced digital video editing, digital photography, DVD ere- ation, and digital music. We didn’t blink at convert- ing our CD collections to MP3s, and now we're eagerly buying digital music downloads. The Digital Generation ‘Take a few pages from my own life. Shortly after the release of Movie, I boughta digital camcorder. On my return from a trip to Europe, I edited several hours of footage into a 30-minute feature and used iDVD to burn it to a DVD. A week before my daughter's birth, I bought a digital camera and, with the help of iPhoto, churned out a Web site full of photos of the new baby. And today, my daughter's collection of children’s music is stored in MP3 format. ‘The worlds of digital video and audio are changing ata rapid pace, so with this issue, we're tackling both topics in major ways. In Christopher Breen and 2 Michael Gowan’s “Digital Music Superguide” (page 58), you'll read about integrating your music and wowmacworld.com your Mac—from buying high-quality speakers to choosing the best method for converting your CDs to MP3 format. And in Jim Heid’s “From VHS to DVD” (page 68), you'll get step-by-step instructions on how to convert your old analog videotapes (not to mention old film reels) to digital format and get them onto DVDs. I’ve got some personal experience with that one, too: Not too long ago, I transferred a series of videos my friends and I had made back in 1985 onto DVD. ‘The videotape had noticeably degraded in the inter- vening years, and I know that if I had let it sit for much longer, that valuable keepsake of my youth would have evaporated forever. Now it’s on digital tape and DVD, and it’s safe for my daughter to roll her eyes at when she gets older. If you’ve got old video treasures la guishing on VHS, take Jim Heid’s advice and save them while you still can. {7} T MACWORLD.CO Since | picked up a copy of MacSoft's Halo ($$#48; February 2004) a few months ago, \'ve been spending too much time playing the game with other people via the Internet, It's taken me back to my days at MacUser, when a few of us would stay after work and wait out horrendous traffic jams by playing Halo’s direct ancestor, Marathon. Just as playing against talented human strangers beats fighting computer opponents, playing against people you know trumps any battle you might have with someone you run into randomly on the Internet. And that’s why | took to Macworld.com’s forums (www. <macworld.com/forums) to round up a group of Macworld readers for a few. games of Halo. We've had a great deal of fun with it, and | hope the members of Macworld's online community will use our forums not only to get to know each other better, but also to stoke their com~ petitive urges. Who knows? That guy car- tying the enemy flag into your base might just be Macworld's editor in chief. Got an interesting way you've taken advantage of Apple's innovations? Enjoy firing Halo's Fuel Rod Gun at coworkers? Send your comments to me at jason_snell@macworld.com, or join in the conversation at ‘www.macworld.com/forums. 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Add the revolutionary Avid Mojo Digital Nonlinear Accelerator” (Avid DNA™) hardware for simultaneous, render-free video and effects to monitor and tape. Avid Xpress Pro with Avid Mojo We've created a monster. wwuw.avid.com Choose 39 at www.macworld.comigetinfo Sathcns ny Tei, 2 Tin ey iy ae fastistous! ares bec 1 eccean pean Pe fete! ete at aes Bvt Hae be Soran oS Office Politics DEREK COLLINS S| Since Mac OS X came out, I’ve been working hard to avoid Microsoft products. My main problem is organizing all the e-mails, documents, and to-do lists that come with editing a quarterly newsletter, I have not found a good product that will do that for me—until now. With Office 2004 (“Office 2004: First Look,” March 2004), it looks as though Microsoft understands projects and that project managers need to have information cross-linked and easily accessible. I guess I may have to consider switching back. BILL STEINBICKER ry} No doubt Entourage’s new Project Cen- ter will make some people, including me, very happy. Yet I’m leery that this may be complicated automation that usurps still more user control, What Entourage needs is user-friendly simplification, For example, creating folders and categories to group e-mail addresses should be more intuitive, similar to creating folders to store messages. And Entourage should offer more options for putting hyperlinks into e-mail letters. Apple's Expo Examined STEVE KOHLMAN =| ‘Too bad that Apple was so shortsighted on the price of the new iPod mini (“Center of Attention,” March 2004). Why would T pay $250 for a device that holds only 1,000 songs when, for another $50, I can buy the 15GB iPod, which holds more than three times as many songs? Apple is going to have a lot of iPod minis lying around. Apple, which reported 100,000 preorders of the iPod mini, might disagree with you.—Ed. 16 MACWORLD June 2004 Dispensers of Wisdom With a March 2004 issue devoted to the new hardware and software announced at Macworld Expo, Macworld readers saw plenty of contenders for the title of coolest new product at the Mac trade show, Reader Jon Spangler's choice: the optical-sensor paper-towel dispensers at Moscone Center. They “worked equally well for PC, Mac, Unix, and Linux users, and booted up automatically, And using these hands-free out- put devices required no new hardware or software updates.” Our readers always have a unique perspective on something—even when it's paper-towel dispensers, GALE WELLS. S T really enjoyed Jonathan Seff’s article on GarageBand. It points out just how easy GarageBand is to use. I would have added how well it runs with Digidesign’s Mbox, as well as how to create loops in Reason 5. And let’s not forget how easy it is to sweeten GarageBand in Pro Tools. GarageBand i is the perfect sketchpad for any musician or music lover. JOHN TENWOLDE Ee iPhoto 4 is a step backward, if not two steps. After upgrading, I could not believe how slowly iPhoto ran. Screen redraw is slow to the point where it’s almost painful to wait. If three photos are on screen and one is highlighted, that photo will not become clear. When I select one of the other photos, it gets blurry and then the others become clear. In iPhoto 2, I could fill my screen with three images; I can do that in iPhoto 4, but] cannot place them edge to edge; they are also not as large as they were in iPhoto 2. Wireless Mouse Tales NANCY NANGERONI 2 While I was pleased to see a roundup of wireless input devices (Reviews, March 2004), I was disappointed that it didn’t address make-or-break battery issues more fully. Unanswered questions include battery life and of battery replace- ment. For any cordless device, battery life and renewal is a crucial factor in its over- all ease of use. Too much computer tech- nology becomes trash after a too-short life; let’s encourage more environmental responsibility and product longevity. WILLIAM H. SHEPHERD Es Tve been using my Belkin Bluetooth Wireless Optical Mouse for almost two months now, and found your review lack- ing. While it took several tries to estab- lish a pairing, the mouse now works fine. ‘The thumb button does not work as advertised, but it can be set in System Preferences to operate Exposé instead. ‘The mouse is strictly for those willing to use rechargeable batteries—it’s a big fat power hog. But since a Bluetooth multi- button mouse with a scroll wheel is a rar- ity, your readers may find ict worth a second look, Here's to the Hub BARRY JAY LEVINE ie] Jim Heid states that you need Quick- ‘Time Player Pro to remove extra audio from an iTunes file (“Record Streaming Audio,” Digital Hub, March 2004). Actu- ally, once you've set the start and stop times in the Info box, just select the file in the iTunes Library window and then select Convert Selection To MP3, This will eliminate the extraneous audio com- pletely, as it duplicates the original MP3. Or if you'd prefer to trim an MP3 file rather than reencode it, there’s Deep- Niner’s MP3Trimmer ($5; www.deep niner.net/mp3trimmer) If you've recorded directly into MP3 or AA using the Convert command means compressing the audio twice, thereby compromising sound quality considerably. In these cases, you should avoid using the Convert command.—Jim Heid Mystifying Mythology DAVID KATSAROS ies) Peter Cohen's calling Age of Mythology a “flawless Mac conversion” (The Game Room, March 2004) is a bit of a stretch, There’ misinformation in the system requirements printed on the box, which say womnumacworld.com it will run on a 450MHz processor with 16MB—it won’t even run on a 600MHz with 16MB. There are also system freezes during play. No problem, MacSoft says- just turn off one of the processors before you play. This game shows some great potential but needs work, and MacSoft needs to be more honest in the way it ma kets its product. MacSoft tells me this problem is not endemic to all dual-processor Macs but only a small percentage of customer systems. The company has since released an update that fixes the problem.—Peter Coben Book ‘em, Macworld PAUL CALAMAI i) In “Develop Safari’s Power” (Geek Factor, March 2004), Dori Smith recommends using BBEdit or TextEdit to write book- marklets code, copy the code, and paste it into Safari's address bar, and then dragging the corresponding globe icon into Safari’s address bar, A faster mply writing the code di ’s address bar, thus avoiding the copy is part photo quiz and part survey. Ht gives vs a feel for what you're doing with digital photos and tt aves ‘you a chawee to have some un, win prizes, and learn a tew photo tricks. www.macworld.com and paste steps. Here’s another book- marklet your readers might appreciate: javascript: location. href="mailto SUBJECT='+document .title+' &BODY="+ escape(location.href) This script opens a new e-mail message window, places the URL of the Web page you're browsing in the message’s body, and places the Web page’ title in the mes- sage’s Subject line. I find this easier than using the Services: Mail: Send ‘To proce- dure when I want to point someone to an interesting Web page I’ve found. perience scripters, typing directly in s address bar is definitely But for those with little or no scripting experience, ty, ing the code in a text editor makes it much eas~ ier to debug code because you can see all of it at a glance (as opposed to the few characters that appear in an address bar). The suggested book- marklet looks handy; one enhancement that might make it even more useful would be to add +'\r'+window.getSelection() to the end. This would add any text you've selected on the Web page to the body of the e-mail, so the recipient would know a little more about the ree~ ommended page.—Dori Smith Priz JUNE 2004 FEEDBACK Hotspot Insecurities KURT WIMMER ies} “Hop on a Hotspot” (Mobile Mac, March 2004) spotted—sorry—a number of impor- tant issues, but I was disappointed by its lax attitude toward security. Sure, if a stranger shares music files using your AirPort, you're unlikely to be tagged for it. But as Internet lawyer, I’ve seen tougher cases. Suppose that stranger hacks into a compa- ny’s Web site. Whose IP address has been left behind? Yours. You’ll eventually be able to prove that your computers didn’t that site, but only after the police’s forensic types have crawled carefully through all your computers. It’s a nice legal theory to think “I’m an ISP,” but don’t ask me to be the test case. My security’s turned on. an Hewlett-Packard Responds HUGH AMICK (VICE PRESIDENT, MAC-CON NECT MARKETING, HEWLETT-PACKARD) _ [2 A Macworld reader expressed concern about the HP Designjet 120nr’s Mac OS X support (Feedback, January 2004). We continues Take the Wacom Photo Challenge today and well sew vou a free copy of the new featuring digit Soott Kelby 2 Visit WWW-TabletPhotoFun com June 2004 MACWORLD. 17 JUNE 2004 FEEDBACK — = = would like an opportunity to shed some light on the matter. Shortly after the intro- duction of the HP Designjet 120n/120nr, we released the HP PostScript RIP 3.1, which supports Mac OS X 10.2, followed by an enhanced version, RIP 3.2, in December 2003. In addition, HP has been providing the non-PostScript raster driver for Mac OS X 10.2, and it includes support for the new OS X 10.3. Recently, HP has also successfully tested RIP 3.2 with OS X 10.3, Customers can currently request a free, updated CD that now includes Panther support through HP support channels. Look for the details on www.designjet hp.com. Regarding RagTime BOB HORST (PRESIDENT, COMGRAFIX) =) We appreciate Galen Gruman’s review of RagTime 5.6 (April 2004); however, there are some errors and omissions that should be pointed out. The review claims there was no printed documentation; two copies of the full RagTime package with docu- mentation were sent to Macworld but were apparently not forwarded. Gruman wrote conference 8-12 AUGUSR2004 exhibition 10-12 AUGUST 2004 SIGGRAPH2004 that he wished “there had been a keyboard shortcut for importing text and images.” Any menu command can be given a short- cut by adding it in a menu item, He also wrote, “You can’t create multiple text boxes on a page and link text between them.” There is a tool in RagTime that allows you to do this quite easily. RagTime has the largest AppleScript dictionary of any Mac program. The edu- cation and nonprofit price is $95, A non- commercial-use version of RagTime Solo is available for free. First Steps, an inter- active tutorial, was created with RagTime. Gruman never contacted Rag Time with questions or requests for support. ‘The questions were asked after the review was published. RagTime has received many favorable reviews; for links to them, see www.comgrafix.com/ragtimereviews.html. Iwas wrong to say that you can’t link text boxes on the same page. I should have said that it can be hard to do, The product provides two linking tools; only one works for flowing text. I stand by my criticism that there is no shortcut for import- ing text and images; permitting users to create AppleScripts to access common ta: inade- ses are fasci Creation Reconnection Interaction Return on Investment Your Self Move the fact that there! quate. It’s true that users can buy copies with printed documentation, but users who choose to download the software get PDF documentation that is difficult to follow and not very useful. I did try to resolve the text-flow issue with tech support but I did not use my real name, to avoid special treatment.—Galen Gruman © 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 Teceive, we can’t respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters and posts. 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Switching over the software from his old machine, Coles went to install QuarkXPress 6. The program displayed a message saying that Coles had exceeded the number of installations allowed. The same thing happened when he tried to reinstall Macromedia's MX 2004 suite. Coles ran into a roadblock thrown up by software activation, a feature that developers are increasingly adding to their programs, Activation is an antipiracy tool that prevents users from installing software on unautho- rized systems. While developers see activation as an easy solution to the very real problem of software pir some users are put off by what they view as an intrusive and burdensome addition to their applications. “These software companies are not my business part- ners; they are my vendors,” says Coles, who wa blocked by activation features because he didn’t deactivate the pro- grams before switching computers. “I should not have to ask permission to reinstall the softwar All about Activation Activation is a familiar con- cept in the Windows world, where it’s featured in Microsoft’s Windows XP and Office XP, among other software. But activation is only now coming to promi- nent Mac programs. Quark (www.quark.com) added an activation system for single June 2004 copies of QuarkXPress 6, its page- layout application. Macromedia (www.macromedia.com) now includes activation features in its MX 2004 products and in Contribute 2. MYOB (www.myob.com/us) requires that users authenticate AccountEdge annually, to make sure they’re legiti- mate owners of the software. Software developers have a clear motivation for making sure >) that people using their prod- WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE WHAT'S HOT ucts paid for licenses. The Business Software Alliance (BSA), an industry trade association, contends that the lion’s share of the $13 billion that software publishers lose each year to piracy comes from workplace over- installation—putting copies of a pro- gram on more computers than the license allows. By linking a copy of a program to a specific computer, soft- ware activation puts the brakes on that practice, “Activation ensures the software re using is licensed and zed,” says Bob Kruger, the BSA% vice president of enforcement. “Tr can deter casual copying with © little impact on legitimate use and legitimate customers.” “Reduced pir to invest in product devel- Quark’s director of commu- nications. “And that’s where we want to spend our energies.” Here’s how activation works with QuarkXPress 6: When you install the software, it pulls the ID numbers of your Mac com- ponents, such as the hard drive and the RAM, to create identification. Quark stresses that it isn’t collecting any per- 4 doing is creating a unique ‘Turpin says. That activates your copy of QuarkXPress; wawwemacworld.com y allows us opment,” adds Glen Turpin, sonal information: “All we’re number of a unique system,” if you move your software to ILLUSTRATION By LUBA LUKOVA Please activate your copy QuarkXPress 6.0. You can run the full version of QuarkXPress 6.0 for another 5 day(s) without activation. At the end of that time, it will revert | toa demo version until you activate your product. How would you like to activate? Over the Internet (preferred method) © Over the telephone | (ep) Cc For more information see the ( Quark Privacy Poli | Take the experience of | Yvonne Walker, a certified | MYOB consultant who saw a client reject AccountEdge » | because of the program's | authentication requirements. | The client expressed concerns about privacy and being locked out of his own files. Ready, Set, Activate To combat piracy, Quark requires that XPress 6.0 users activate their copies of the soft- ware @. The company says that this one-time process takes just a few ‘minutes via the Internet ©, another system, you'll have to reactivate QuarkXPress. Adobe takes a similar approach for the Windows version of Photoshop CS: when a user registers the program, Adobe logs Photoshop's serial number and a randomly generated machine- identifying number. “Our secondary objective is to combat piracy,” says Drew McManus, director of worldwide anti- piracy for Adobe, “Our first is that the honest customer isn’t hassled by the pro- gram.” (While Photoshop for Windows is Adobe’s only product that currently features activation, the company plans to introduce it to other programs and plat- forms in the near future.) MYOB features a slightly different process; after a year, AccountEdge prompts you to verify your company information. You have a 30-day grace period to authenticate with MYOB; after that, you won't be able to update informa- tion in your files until you complete the process, though you can still view and print information. Customer Complaints But activation doesn’t always work as smoothly as advertised. A year ago, Intuit added activation features to its TurboTax software for the 2002 tax year (but not to the Mac version). After customer com- plaints, Intuit dropped activation from the 2003 version of its TurboTax line. Consumer concerns over activation generally cover two areas—privacy and ease of use. Software users are uneasy with anything that even hints of exposing their personal data to someone else. And they're even less enthusiastic about a feature that could infringe upon their fair-use rights to a product they paid for. wnnw.macworld.com —— MYOB stresses that its authentication method doesn’t intrude upon pri- vate data. “We're not interested in anything more than a match between a serial num- ber and a company’s name,” says Cynthia Mackewicz, MYOB’s gen- eral manager. The company claims that it gives plenty of advance notice when authentication is required, to avoid lock-outs. “We're trying to make this a very user-friendly experience,” Mackewicz adds, Some consumer advocates see acti tion driving a wedge between companies and consumers. “Ultimately, the busi- ness decision for [software companies] is whether this extra protection is worth the inconvenience to customers, driving them to other, better alternatives,” says Wendy Seltzer, staff attorney for the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), a digital-rights group. Getting It Right ‘The BSAs Kruger concedes that some software makers have stumbled when adding activation to their products. “You always have to have missteps for others who come afterward to get it right,” he says. “But I absolutely believe our com- panies are committed to getting it right.” Quark, for example, recently released an update to QuarkXPress that includes improvements to its activation feature. Originally, users could not copy and paste the lengthy activation code Quark sent them onto the software’s activation screen; with QuarkXPress 6.1, they can. The update also lets users reactivate XPress over the telephone, instead of just online. “We realize there is a balance between protecting our intellectual property and not wanting to inconvenience users,” Quark’s Turpin says. ‘The willingness of developers to improve upon activation features should offer some comfort to users, especially since it looks as though activation will be around for a while—or at least until soft- ware pirates figure out a way around it. So how do companies implement it properly? The EFF’s Seltzer would like to see companies spell out and stick to clear privacy guidelines while adopting features that continue to give users a ange of rights. Many of those sugges~ tions are endorsed by the BSA (see “Practices Make Perfect”). “As long as companies respect the interests of the end users, the [activation] technology can coexist alongside a very positive end-user experience,” Kruger sayS.—PHILIP MICHAELS Additional Reporting by Jeffery Battersby Practices Make Perfect While software developers must figure out how to include activation features in their products, the Business Software Alliance offers a list of best practices, Available at ‘www.bsa.org/usa/antipiracy/Product-Activation.cfm, the list covers the following areas: > Privacy: Activation shouldn't collect personally identifiable data without users’ knowledge and should follow applicable data-protection laws, > Ease of Use: Activation shouldn't be burdensome to the end user and should, ideally, be limited to a one-time process per machine. > Full Disclosure: Software makers should clearly explain the activation process, including what data is collected and how it's transmitted, to users. > Suppo! ‘tion questions. > Securit : Users should have access to documentation and tech support to help with activa- Activation methods should protect stored and transmitted activation data. > Speed: Activation should be taken care of as quickly as possible. > User Control: Activation should allow users to easily move programs to a new or upgraded computer in whatever way is authorized by the software licensing agreement. June 2004 MACWORLD 21 JUNE 2004 MAC BEAT _ ADOBE UNVEILS AFTER EFFECTS 6.5 CREATIVE BEAT Still in the Picture Video may have killed the radio star, as the Buggles once sang, but on the Mac, the success of Apple's digital-video apps has helped kill Mac versions of Adobe's video software. In a little more than a year, Adobe (www.adobe.com) has dropped Mac support for Premiere while killing a Mac ver- sion of Encore DVD before ever releasing it (see “No Adobe, No Problem?" Mac Beat, June 2003), cit- ing the dominant position enjoyed by Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro on the Mac. But when it comes to After Effects, Adobe isn’t backing away from the Mac. The latest update to the motion-graphics, com- positing, and visual-effects tool has a host of new fea- tures that boost speed and productivity, including enhanced support for PowerPC GS processors. While After Effects has offered RAM previews. of real-time playback, version 6.5 adds disk caching as well. That, coupled with better OpenGL support, should make for faster previews. After Effects 6.5 has more than 60 new effects, including Particle World, Light Burst, and Ay Toner, as well as the Cycore FX bundle. The update, set to ship before the end of June, includes Synthetic Aperture’s Color Finesse— normally a $595 plug-in—for improved color correction. The program's Clone Tool adds user- definable presets while the Advanced Clone Tool now lets you see source and target at the same time, After Effects’ Eraser tools have greater control and flexibility. Among text features, After Effects includes more than 250 new text-animation presets for quickly switching between animation options. Anew Effects & Presets palette lets you save effects, transformations, expressions, and text- as-animation presets—a real time-saver if you use the same settings again and again. In addition to the $699 Standard edition, After Effects 6.5 is available in a $999 Profes- sional edition, (You can upgrade to either from version 6.0 for $99.) The Professional version includes enhancements to motion tracking for improved accuracy and new scripting support for automating commands, which speeds up repetitive tasks, It also has Add Grain, Match Grain, and Remove Grain effects for making video look more like film and for matching grain among various film stocks.— JONATHAN SEFF MACROMEDIA UPDATE PROMISES IMPROVEMENTS Sweeter Dreams Nobody likes hearing criticism—especially software makers when it comes to the usabil- ity of their products. But that’s largely what Macromedia (www.macromedia.com) heard last fall after it released Dreamweaver MX 2004 (861; January 2004). Many Mac users found the new version of the Web-design and -development software wanting; some people even questioned Macromedia’s commitment to the Mac. But Macromedia hopes to answer those complaints with a SSS os Back in Time The Dreamweaver update restores the Timelines feature. Dreamweaver 7.0.1 update aimed at bolstering stability and performance. Many basic tasks—such as launch- ing the program, switching between documents, and editing inside com- plex nested tables—are noticeably faster; the update also improves find- and-replace, CSS editing and render- ing, and FTP performance. Version 7.0.1 fixes a slew of bugs, more than any previous update to the program, according to Dreamweaver'’s product manager Jen Taylor. That's good news for Panther users who can’t use the eye-dropper tool in MX 2004 and who struggle with a disappear- ing Insert bar and Property Inspector. The Timelines feature also returns in 7.0.1. And Macromedia hopes that Mac users’ goodwill returns with it—DAVID SAWYER McFARLAND. 22 MACWORLD June 2008 ‘Amapi 7 Pro, from Eovia (www .eovia.com): 3-D-modeling soft- ware adds OpenGL-based real- time 3-D display ($799; upgrade from Amapi Designer 7, $329; from Amapi 6, $429), BabelColor, from The BabelColor Company (www.babelcolor.com): Software translates color coordi- nates between RGB spaces ($65). Box Editor, from Apago (www -apago.com); Adobe Acrobat plug-in uses new XML data format for easier exchange of data between publishers and advertisers ($29). GraphicConverter 5.0, from Lemke Software (www.lemkesoft .delen): Graphies-conversion software now supports lossless cropping of JPEGs and conversion to CMYK ($35; upgrade, free). Mover 5, from e-on software (wwnne-onsoftware,com): Ani- mation software for Vue d’Esprit and Vue Professional adds ability to import complete animations created with Poser 4 or 5 ($99; upgrade, free). ‘TransPoser, from Eovia (www .eovia.com); Plug-in imports animation created with Poser 4 or 5 into Carrara Studio 3 ($129)—comeiteo By PHILP MICHAELS PRODUCTIVITY BEAT Final Draft 7, from Final Draft (wwwfinaldraft.com): Word pro- cessor for screenwriting adds Panels System, for splitting the screen into separate panels ($229; upgrade, $89). QuicKeys X2 2.1, from CE Soft- ‘ware (www.cesoft.com): Automa- tion utility adds multistep function- ality for jumping to a particular step in a shortcut ($100; upgrade from version 2.0, free; from version 1.5, $20; from version 1.0, $35; from Classic version, $70). 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But that’s not to say dotPhoto is only for professional photographers. “We like to say that each person has at least 50 or 100 great photos inside of them,” says Samuel Kolodney, dot- Photo's vice president of marketing and development. Of the site’s 6,000 or so custom-pricing users, fewer than 1,000 are pros (that is, dot- Photo users who receive regular royalty checks). Clearly, dotPhoto is the great equalizer—it allows event photographers, newspapers (close to 300 use dotPhoto), and average Joes and Janes to show and sell their work. Here's how the service works; as a dotPhoto user, you upload your digital pictures to the site. You can then add watermarks and emove the ability to download preview images, and even set up a password for view- ing your albums, You set prices for APPLE ADDS SPOKEN INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY TO OS X Speaking of Access Mac users have never enjoyed many options when it comes to screen readers—applications that attempt to speak what's happening on screen so that users with visual impairments can navigate a computer's interface, And when Alva Access Group dropped support for its inLarge and OutSpoken readers last year, the list of options shrank even further. But now Apple plans to provide an option of its own, which will be incorporated into Mac 0S X, Called Spoken Interface, this new technology combines speech, audible cues, and key- board navigation to help blind users work more easily with OS X. With Spoken Interface, users can access the Dock, menu items, tool bars, palettes, and other on-screen objects; press buttons; activate sliders and check boxes; select radio buttons; and use all the other interface elements of OS X and its applications. Apple believes that Spoken Interface is more effective at addressing the needs of visually impaired users than a third-party screen reader, “Those apps have been after-the-fact solu- tions," says Mike Shebanek, Apple product manager for OS X. "They've always been bolted on to the operating system by third parties and have had to play catch-up when changes are made.” The technology uses a single set of key commands for a unified, consistent user inter- face, It also integrates with OS X's existing Universal Access features (see “Access Granted"). Spoken Interface will appear in the next major revision of OS X, but Mac users can preview it by filing out a form at wwwapple.com/accessibility/spokeninterface/questionnaire.htm|. The preview also features apps that have been enhanced for Spoken Interface, including Safari, Mail, TextEdit, and System Preferences—peTeR COHEN 24 MACWORLD June 2008 each print size; once your account hits a certain amount, dotPhoto sends out a check or makes an electronic fer to your bank account—after sub- tracting a 15 percent commission, a 3 percent credit-card fee, and a standard fee based on photo dotPhoto plans several enhance- ments, which should be in place by the time you read this. Right now, you can buy only prints from the dotPhoto wants to add templated licensing agreements to help us sell digi in different siz (a high- resolution image for use in a 100,000- subscriber magazine, for example). Stock-photo retailers such as Corbis already offer that capability. dotPhoto will also update its search engine to show every image that conforms to a search, not just the top 50 hits, Shop- pers will be able to vote on photos, so image rankings will change accord- ingly, All of the changes are aimed at helping you turn that hard drive full of photos into a wallet full of cash.—JONATHAN SE Access Granted These Universal Access features— accessible via System Preferences— already exist in OS X 10.3. > Black on White: This option increases a display’s contrast, for easier-to-read text. > Modifier Keys: If using a keyboard is difficult, you can press modifier keys (68, option, control, or shift) sequentially instead of simultaneously. > Mouse Alternatives: f you have dif- ficulties using @ mouse, Panther lets you move the cursor with the keyboard, > Screen Flashes: If your hearing is impaired, you can set your Mac's screen to flash, instead of beep, for alerts, > Speech: You can use speech recogni- tion to launch and control programs. > Zoom: This display option magnifies what's on your screen. wwwemacworld.com Industrial strength protection for industrial strength Mac users 4] Apple Xserve RAID ‘APC Smart-UPS 1000 AM 1U Every product carrying this mark has fied for use with InfraStruXure” architecture. 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FrameMaker, a linchpin application at shops that pub- lish long technical documents, is the latest Adobe Mac app to fall by the wayside. Adobe stopped offering techni- cal support for FrameMaker, for free or for a fee, in April. FrameMaker’s fate, while disappointing to its corps of devoted Mac users, is hardly surprising. The software giant hadn't issued a Mac update to FrameMaker since 2002. And that release, FrameMaker 7, ran only on the aging OS 9—not on OS X. EXAMINING 1984’S OTHER LANDMARKS Class of ’84 Sure, Apple made big news in 1984 when it launched the Macintosh. Tha mean everything else stood still as the first Macs began rolling out of Cy Plenty of other products, programs, and people got their start 20 years ago, But which ones. matched the Mac's staying power over the past two decades, and which like yesterday's Rubik's Cube? Here's a look at some other headline grabbers that made their debut alongside the Mac in 1984, and at how they've fared since then.—PHiuip MICHAELS Karl Matthews, group product manager, and Tony Yun, product manager, put the blame for the death on Frame- Maker's small Mac base. Without a market, Adobe execu- tives contend, it wasn’t good business for the company to continue developing the product, While Adobe offers an InDesign PageMaker Plug-in Pack as a way for displaced PageMaker users to migrate to InDesign CS (see our review of Adobe PageMaker Plug- in Pack, page 43), the company is mum on whether simi- lar plans are in the works to add FrameMaker functions to Adobe's remaining Mac page-layout program. With no other application quite like FrameMaker, fans of the late program hope that it lives on, even in such an altered form.—TERRI STONE Other Classmates These other products and developments grabbed head- lines in 1984, > IBM's PC Jr: Technically, 18M A = serie \ X it doesn’t ipertino, ‘ones faded from memory \\. but it didn’t ship until March \ 1984. IBM's attempt MIAMI VICE | to record and watch programming on | Title, sparking an unprecedented The Details: Ultrahip cop show thelr Macs. There's been no word yet | boom in the popularity of profes- to make the Computer For blends music, fashion, and morally | on whether Hollywood has crumbled | sional wrestling, ‘The Rest Of Us wound up ambiguous plot lines to wow | into ruin as a result. Mac Connection: Hogan wins being the Computer That Was a Discontinued A Year Later. \ audiences and inadver- tently spawn Don John- son’s singing career, ‘Mac Connection: } Detective Crockett’s pas- tel-hued fashions presage PG-13 RATING The Details: After the PG-rated Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins I! prove too vio- lent for some parents’ tastes, the ‘Some ———— st the the title on January 23. The next [PG=13]p, 4 Apple inves the Mac * Coincidence? Matera title, Hogan's first championship > Bell Labs’ megabit memory chip: The chip, the first to store 1 million bits of electronic data, quadrupled the capacity of existing memory chips. RAM capacity has climbed considerably since then, aying Power: After Andre Giant cheats Hogan of the | | DY theiMacscolorscheme | nr some bares Tastes reign ends in 1988. The same year, ~~ by more than a decade, | Motion Picture Association of Amer: | apple sues Microsoft, claiming the > Hew! . : ; tt-Packard’s Laserset: Staying Power: Vce petered | icacreates the PG-13 rating for fms | software giant cheated by sealing MRM SE ‘out after five years (1984 to 1989), | containing material shatnay bana | the look-and-feel of the Mac's inter- oat y, sticking around longer than the Lisa |r for hiden under 13 | face, This is starting to get spooky. es0p ist the Laser (1983 to 1985), but not as long as | Mac Connection: Many feature | Jet featured 300-dpireso- - John Sculley (1983 to 1993) | fms, including some containing | ROGER CELEMENS lution and a $3,500 price. \ | material that may be inappropriate | The Details: The six-time Cy Young Between this and the Mac, \. SONY V. UNIVERSAL for children under 13, will be edited | Award winner makes his Major 1984 turned out to be a , pretty CITY STUDIOS with Final Cut Pro. League Baseball debut on May ee Viachor Gabssp RUG. The Details: The Supreme Court | Staying Power: Of the 25 high- 15, 1984, rules that Sony did not violate copy- Tight laws by selling VCRs that let users tape TV shows. Motion Picture Association of America president Jack Valenti comments: “The VCR is to the ‘American film producer and the American public as the Boston Stran- gleris to a woman home alone,” Mac Connection: Mr. Valenti, meet peer-to-peer file sharing. Staying Power: The VCR remains a staple of the American home-enter- tainment setup, with folks now able est-grossing films released in 2003, 13 carried PG-13 ratings. (The high- est-grossing G- rated movie? Find- | ing Nemo, from Steve Jobs's ‘other company.) HULKAMANIA |The Details: Hulk Hogan pins The tron Sheik to cap- ture the WWE Heavyweight Mac Connection: Clemens has spent the bulk of his career pitching in Boston and New York, both of which have > Cyberspace: The term, coined by William Gibson in his 1984 debut novel ‘Neuromancey, described "a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions ‘of legitimate operators, n every nation, children being taught mathematical hosted Macworld Expos. (Alas, by corer Renny tau iE ree ia there are no plans for a Mac- Gracin. Apa reaction ot data abstracted from the banks of every ‘world Expo Houston.) Staying Power: Twenty years later, The Rocket— like the Mac—is stil in the game. computer in the human system. Unthink- able complexity” Presumably, Gibson Was not envisioning AOL —eHu mcnAcls vwaww.macworld.com THE POWER IS NOW YOURS! INTRODUCING... 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Choose 37 at www.macworld.com/getinfo JUNE 2004 MAC BEAT ss ROCK BAND TAKES ITS MACS ON THE ROAD Macs Are Instrumental When Sune Wagner hits the road with his band, ‘The Raveonettes, one piece of equipment needs to accompany him everywhere—and it's not necessarily his guitar. Instead, Wagner's 15-inch PowerBook G4 is the most important thing he takes on the road. “The best thing is that | have it at all times,” the Raveonettes lead guitarist and singer says. Wagner's attitude is shared / by the rest of The Raveonettes, a Danish rock band that's devel- oping a following stateside. (The band's 2003 album, Chain Gang of Love, made Rolling Stone's year-end Top 50 list.) Bass player Sharin Foo owns a 12-inch 1GHz PowerBook G4. and a 40GB iPod, while drummer Jacob Hoyer jams on his 15-inch 867MHz PowerBook G4 and his 20GB iPod. To The Raveonettes, these Macs are as crucial to making music as any instrument. Wagner not only uses his PowerBook to create beats before perfor- mances, but also keeps it powered up on stage as the band plays, running a long Apple Pro Tools ses- sion with some backup beats, additional percus- sion, and harmony. The band records all its music via the Mac. Sometimes, Wagner seven moonlights as a DJ when he's ‘on tour, hooking up his iPod to a set of speakers to share a good \_mix of music. | "1hrun Pro Tools, and I'll put | insongs {the day before, and It edit a really good set with a nice flowing set and will import it as ‘one long DJ set into the iPod," he says. While he loses the spontaneity of live mixing, Wagner says it saves him from transport- ing boxes of records and CDs to parties. And for Wagner, that's reason enough to keep his Mac gadgetry within arm's reach, “| can’t really live without it," he says.—cyrUs FARIVAR Recipe for Success Mark Stech-Novak designs these kitchens with a Power Mac G3 and a G4. 28 MACWORLD KITCHEN DESIGNS COME TO LIFE ON G4 Cooking with Macs Mark Stech-Novak feels most comfortable when he’s whipping up a plate of wild salmon cured in Lapsang souchong tea. But when the 52-year-old former chef isn’t actually i the kitchen, he’s most likely designing one—on his Mac. Stech-Novak has been a part of the restaurant industry for more than 30 years, first as a restaurant apprentice in France and later as the executive chef at two San Francisco eateries, Seeking a change and dealing with a bad back, the Oakland, Califor- nia, resident put his culinary expertise to work as a designer. He has since designed kitchens for Wolfgang Puck, Jean- Louis Palladin, and Alain Ducasse. You can see his handi- work on the set of Iron Chef America. Stech-Novak cooks up kitchen designs for his clients on a dual-1.42GHz Power Mac G4 and a 400MHz blue-and-white G3. His software of choice includes Nemetschek’s Vector- Works CAD program (www.nemetschek.com) and Abyent’s Artlantis rendering tool (wwwabvent.com). Once he creates a design in VectorWorks, Stech-Novak imports it into Artlantis, which exports the design as a QuickTime VR file for a virtual walkthrough of the kitchen before any construction begins. Stech-Novak believes he’d have a harder time designing a kitchen with a PC. “I've been using a Mac since the early 1980s [and] once you get into it, you don’t feel like changing it,” he says. “[If you do change,] you're searching for some of the shortcuts that aren’t there.” Stech-Novak does own two PC laptops, which he uses for showing clients his creations. But he adds, “Would I design on [a PC]? Not on your life.’—CYRUS FARIVAR June 2004 STORAGE BEAT 40GB SimpleDrive, from SimpleTech (www.simpletech .com): External drive with USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 interfaces features a 7,200-rpm mechan- ism compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems ($500; USB 2.0-only, $470), ‘Alchemy FW 800 CB card, from Miglia Technology (www.miglia .com); FireWire 800 expansion card plugs into PC Card slot of a PowerBook G3 or Ga ($89). DRX-700UL, from Sony (www .Sonystyle.com): External DVD+R burner supports double- layer recording, allowing users to record up to four hours of MPEG-2 video on a single com- patible disk ($330), MacBurn, from macXware (www macxware.com): Program for burning data to CDs and DVDs and audio tracks to CDs supports MP3, MOV, WAV, AIFF, MPEG, and other file formats ($30)—com- PILED BY PHILIP MICHAELS MULTIMEDIA BEAT = CinéWave 4.5, from Pinnacle S ‘tems (www.pinnaclesys.com): tal-video-editing and —composit- ing system adds new real-time high-definition capabilities opti- mized for the Power Mac G5 and full support for RT Extreme (con- tact Pinnacle for standard pricing; upgrade, free from CinéWave 4, $295 from prior versions), DeckLink Extreme, from Blackmagic Design (wwwmblack magic-design.com); Uncom- pressed 10-bit PCI capture card includes SDI, analog component, NTSC, and PAL support ($895). Mayhem, from Audio Damage (wwwaudiodamage,com): Suite includes four VST audio plug- ins ($149). Traktor Final Scratch 1.5.1, from Stanton and Native Instruments (wwwfinalscratch.com); DJ soft- ware for mixing digital-music libraries adds optimization and stability improvements for 0S X 10.3 ($69; download, $49)—com- LED BY PHILP MICHAELS wowwmacworld.com ; ; $ Wyk The DYMO® eel i LabelWriter® printer ‘Ca gives you more time t eliminating the hassle a daflex® filing produ DYMO prints perfect labels in seconds. What's > Mac compatible, works with popular desktop software including Micrc k and print.” So if you need one label or 100, DYMO makes printing labels fast and easy. www.dymo.com o/ 2 Esselte cnc saves Yous Advertising Supplement Slam-Dun Richer Web publishing, an advanced new security system, and ease-of-use breakthroughs make FileMaker Pro 7 a must-buy upgrade o the basketball fan, a slam-dunk is a sure thing. In the database world, a slam-dunk product is one brimming with so many useful, accessible productivity features that buying it is just about a no-brainer. That neatly sums up the new FileMaker Pro 7. This latest upgrade of the database software of choice for millions of users worldwide is the easiest-to-use, most cus- tomizable ever. It is brimming with user- friendliness that enables powerful func- tionality. And FileMaker Pro 7 is packed with true business value that makes it a most compelling upgrade—a slam-dunk. With FileMaker Pro 7, users can store and manage almost unlimited amounts of data—an amazing 8 terabytes—in just about any format. Advanced security fea- tures make easy work of ensuring that the right people access the right data. Web pub- lishing capabilities make it quicker and easier than ever to work the Web by sharing business-critical data online. FileMaker Pro 7 sports superb new productivity features, like the ability to open multiple windows simultaneously to gain speedier access to information. FileMaker Pro 7 is highly customizable and is tuned to effortlessly manage a broad spectrum of data—and any file. The bottom line is that FileMaker Pro 7 makes it easier than ever to manage your information. The experience of early users of this exciting upgrade serves as an excla- mation point. “They've made it a lot easier to do the many different things we do with FileMaker)’ notes Alex Perilla, vice presi- dent of the Strategic Communications Group at the National Council of La Raza, “For example, the enhanced report-gener- Included among more than 100 new and enhanced features in FileMaker Pro 7 are the following: > > Vv Vv VY VYVYVY Import, store, and export any file: PDFs, photos, Microsoft Office documents, music files, and more Open multiple windows in the same database at the same time for unprecedented multitasking ‘Super-expanded 8-terabyte database storage; container fields can store up to 4 gigabytes and text fields up to 2 gigabytes Anew option lets you confirm data and layout changes before you commit them, ‘so you can experiment with new layouts New relational model to streamline the creation of simple and complex databases New relationships graph to link data between tables just by clicking and dragging Enhanced Web publishing capabilities, all with point-and-click ease Advanced security features using account names and passwords and simple assignment of custom privileges for any user Designed from the ground up for Mac OS X and Windows XP/2000 ee eran) Wy FileMaker oneal Pro7 FileMaker Pro 7 is the most important upgrade in FileMaker history. ating capabilities are tremendous. It used to take literally weeks to file financial reports. Now it is a matter of minutes, It's been absolutely eye-opening.” Leveraging the Web For Perilla and others, the Web enhance- ments to FileMaker Pro 7 are a major and welcomed addition. These new Web fea- tures include improved rendering, addi- tional controls, and 70 new Web scripts to boost overall usability and better sharing and collecting of data with remote users. Moreover, these remote users can access a FileMaker Pro 7 database directly through their Web browsers via a highly intuitive interface. “Publishing to the Web was taking a lot of development time)’ says Perilla, “It will take far less with FileMaker Pro 7, which to me holds great promise for reducing both the time and expense of Web publishing” Antonio Rodriguez, manager of technol- ogy at New York Cares, a nonprofit group, echoes this praise for FileMaker Pro 7’s Web functionality. The group makes extensive use of its Web site, including securely cap- turing information from the volunteers that are the lifeblood of New York Cares, “The Web publishing process has been greatly simplified. We no longer need middleware solutions to go between the Web and our databases. FileMaker Pro 7 takes a lot of stress off Web publishing.” Advanced Security System Of course, in all aspects of business com- puting today—from Web publishing to report generation to database manage- ment—security is of foremost importance. If customers have any doubts about the sanctity of the data you gather from them or about them, they just won't do business with you. For this reason, users are warmly embracing the enhanced, built-in security attributes of FileMaker Pro 7. The advanced security features of FileMaker Pro 7 secure the database with account names and passwords while allow- ing administrators to easily assign custom privileges to individuals or groups. For example, senior managers may gain access to all information in customer records, but salespersons can only access records on customers in their territories. Web publish- ers can use the security and user defini- tions from their desktop solutions, includ- ing record locking and other security fea- tures extended to Web users. So security levels that are set up at the desktop also apply when the database is shared with other FileMaker users or over the Web. The net result of these enhanced securi- ty features and functions is that all users can get just the information they need, but no more. 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Users can get exactly what th = — a eee ay (Gee GD) need, but no more. different kinds of files instead of storing them. The variety of files that can be imported, stored, and exported include: digital images and photos; movies; music; Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents; PDFs; and many others, Using an old version “Weneedadevelop- of FileMaker Pro? ment environment that Foy a jimited time, users is very flexible,’ Newell notes ‘With FieMaker of leaker Pro 6 Pro 7, that’s just what all the way back to we get. It's amazing the FileMaker Pro 2.1 way it handles all sorts of different data types Ti#¥ Uporadeta with such ease. And it FileMaker Pro 7 protects both the — fgy. only $149 (save $150 integrity of our data aa privacy of ff fullprice).*See patients.” www.filemaker.com/mwld2 Users also have the for details, option to confirm record and layout changes before they are actually saved. 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Flash- -Memory MP3 Players Portable Audio Players Offer Music to Go, on the Cheap BY MATHEW HONAN When Apple’s iPod burst onto the scene, many people who previously hadn't thought about buying an MP3 player snapped to attention. Flash-memory-based players had been fairly inexpensive but very frustrating to use with Macs. Now the hard-drive-based iPod and iPod mini are the best-selling MP3 players on the market. Given this new context, we decided it w: time to look at the alternatives, for people who are on a tight budget and who just want to use a player at the gym or during a commute, and not for storing a huge music collection. Rio's Chiba Flash-Memory MP3 Players Compared MOUSE 5 compat: BATTERY COMPANY DUCT. RATING PRICE (BILITY CONTACT Fe’ PROS Fstintematinal ook 860 9H 256MB, $150. 866/694-7625, 27:54 Best battery fe; well designed user Digital vwiwamyirock.com interface; included FM tuner. PoGo Products ae #98) 12aMB $100; 9X 866/367-7646, 7:06 _128MB player is inexpensive; plugs 256MB, $150 vwiwpogoproduct com clrectl into USB por. Rio #446 128MB, $130; 8004685846, 12:04 Great user interface; included FM tuner, 256M, $180 www tioaudiocom stopwatch, bet clip, and arm strap; Secure Digital expansion sot 1 Rio Th 800/468-5846, 13:50 Great user interface; included FM tuner vwwrioaudio.com and stopwatch; Secure Digital expansion Rio 4088 800/468-5846, 14:18 Great usr interface; excellent battery i wowwirioaudio.com life; smal; stopwatch, ‘SmartDisk eH 128MB, $100 9X 239/425-4000, 13:46 Plugs directly into USB port included : wwnsmartisk FM tuner and voice recorder. TOK pet $481 128MB, $160 800/835-8326, 8:30 €3 wie conedp3/ integration; induded FM tuner and voice += Editors’ Choice, “Battery life is in hoursiminutes, 32 MACWORLD June 2004 We tested seven flash- memory-based MP3 players: Rio's Fuse, Chiba, and Cali; Pogo Products’ AudioRave; T'DK’s Mojo 128F; First International Digital’s irock 860; and SmartDisk’s Rover. Most of these devices are designed exclusively as portable audio players and recorders, and all offer extra features, such as voice-recording functions, stopwatches, FM tuners, and equalizer presets. The PoGo AudioRave and the SmartDisk Rover are both marketed as thumbdrives (or tiny USB drives) with the added ability to play MP3s, Of these play- ers, the Rio Cali was the clear winner. Battery Life When you take your portable audio player out for a jog ora bike ride, you don’t want to outlast its batteries. None of these players comes with rechargeable batteries (though all will work with them), yet each device has enough bat- tery life for several outings. In our tests, we inserted fresh batteries, set the play- ers to repeat, and played music at maxi- mum volume until the batteries were exhausted. We tested each player twice and averaged the results. TDK's Mojo 128F Although all of the players fared well, the irock 860, which is the only player that uses a AA battery (the rest use one AAA battery), fared dramati- cally better than the rest, clocking 28 hours of play. The Fuse came in second, at more than 14 hours, and it was closely followed by the Chiba and the Rover, both of which than 14 hours. The Cali 12 hours, and the Mojo 128F and the AudioRave rounded out the pack, at 8.5 and 7 hours, respectively. Storage Capacity ‘The Chiba, Cali, and irock 860 are 256MB players; the rest of the players we tested are 128MB devices. Some of these players (including the Cali and the Chiba) are avail- able in multiple memory configurations. None will hold a full complement of songs—in other words, you can’t actually fit CONS recorder, Secure Digital expansion slot. ‘Causes occasional iTunes crashes; installa~ tion problems (company says these have been remedied) No iTunes compatibility, short batery life Slightly bulky. Slightly bulky. None significant. Confusing user interface; hard-to-use buttons; no 13 tag display; no iTunes compatibility : : Short battery ite; expensive for storage space. ‘wwrw.macworld.com 32 MP3 players First international Digital rock 860 38 Color laser printers 42 Backup software 46 Font utility Font Doctor 6 The Print Shop Mac OS X Edition Brother HL-2700CN Retrospect 6.0 51 The Game Room Lis Viana AusioRave Hewlett-Packard Color Laserlet_ «43 Desktop publishing plug-ins 46 Large-format ink-jet Unreal Toumament 2004, The bd hit 3500n PageMaker Plug-in Pack printer Lord of the Rings: The Return of fe tise Konica Minolta magicolor 2350en 44 FipeWire analog-to-DV Epson Stylus Pro 4000 the King, Super TextTwist, Super bs ficed Ae Lexmark C510n eanverisis 47 External storage drive WhatWord, and Call of Duty Oki Data C5300N LaCie Bigger Disk TDK Mojo 128F paandanele AADS Technologies Pyro AIV Link i 56 Mac Gems aa ible Canopus ADVCSS 47 Graphics tablet and pen —_FaxEmailHieler, iPod It, Mail 36 Remote desktop application 4 Desktop computer Datavideo DAC. 100 Wacom Graphire3 6x8 Enhancer, MenuPrefs, Safari Timbuktu Pro 7.0 128MB of MP3s on any of the 128MB play- ers—due to the software and settings that come installed on the players. However, these take up a negligible amount of space— less than IMB in most cases. For a sense of how this translates into actual music time, 128MB gives you enough storage for about 139 minutes of MP3s encoded at a bit rate of 128 Kbps, whereas you'll get about 279 minutes with 256MB of storage. That’s plenty of music to get you through a morn- ing jog and then some, but if you want to keep your entire music collection stored on your player, you'll prefer a larger-capacity, hard-drive-based player such as the iPod or the iPod mini. The storage capacity of the Chiba, Cali, and Mojo 128F can be expanded by adding a Secure Digital (SD) expansion card. This is an easy way to dramatically boost those players’ capacities; however, expansion cards are rather expensive. A 512MB memory card—the largest the Rios can hold—will set you back $150 to $200, At that price, the argument for buying an iPod or an iPod mini gets even stronger. Transfer Rate As we expected, transferring MP3s to these players took much more time than transfer- ring music files to an iPod, We transferred 122MB of MP3s (about three albums’ worth) to an iPod, which uses FireWire, and it took only 22 seconds. But transferring the same amount to the Fuse and the Audio- ave took a painful 5 minutes, and they’re just a small sample of the players we tested; all the flash players we tested transfer at USB 1.1 speeds. The much slower transfer rate is trade-off for the lower price you pay for a flash player, and it’s one to consider Rio's Cali woww.macworld.com Power Mac GS/dual-1.8GH2z Migla Technology Directors CutTake 2. 48 Design package Extender, and ToDo X carefully. If you're always on the go and must be able to transfer music quickly, you'll probably be dissatisfied with one of these play- ers, And remember that because these players have lower capacities, you'll be transferring music to them more often than you would to an iPod or an iPod mini. PoGo Products’ Installation and iTunes AudioRave Out of the box, the Rio players work with iTunes, assuming you're using a recent ver- sion of the program, The Mojo 128F and the irock 860 are also iTunes-compatible, but you have to install the drivers from the CD, Installing the software for the Mojo went without a hitch, but we had problems running the installation CD accompanying the irock. Although we were able to install the drivers, we had to do so manually, cir- cumventing the installation program that shipped on the CD. First International Digital says it’s aware of the problem and no longer ships CDs with this bug. Neither the AudioRave nor the Rover is iTunes-compatible, although PoGo Prod- ucts says it hopes to add iTunes compatibil- ity in the future. Neither of these players requires any software installation. The Mojo 128F has the best iTunes compatibility of any of the MP3 players. It has more features that work while the player is connected to your iTunes library, with options for erasing tracks, updating the player's firmware, and adding or removing folders. Like the Mojo 128F, the Rio players show up in iTunes as playlists, so it’s easy to drag and drop files from your iTunes library to the attached device. The Rios do a better job of displaying track information— they list the full ID3 tag information (data stored in an MP3 file, including artist, song name, album title, genre, and more), whereas the Mojo 128F lists only song names. The irock 860 also shows up as a playlist in iTunes, but it crashed the program on tried to add and International Digital says this is due to iTunes’ inability to deal with long file names and certain character However, we used the same playlist for each player, and the irock was the only player ised iTunes to crash or freeze. In any se, it’s unreasonable to expect users to rename all the songs in a music library to get the songs to work with a specific player. We found it easier to add and delete songs via drag and drop, with the irock mounted as a removable disk, instead of doing it in iTunes. We vastly prefer players that work with iTunes, for several reasons. First, it’s easier ize music files within the iTunes ary itself than to hunt for them in the Finder, Second, when you drag and drop files to the ‘Trash from the Finder, they remain locally on your device until you empty the Trash. Because the Trash folder is hidden on removable devices, this can baffle first-time users and leave them wondering where all their drive space went. several occasions when we remove songs. F User Interface Rio released the first portable MP3 player on the market, and the company’s long expe- rience shows in its players’ user interfaces. Rio says it aims to produce a product that’s so easy to use, customers can throw away its instructions. We did, and we were able to operate the Rio players without a problem. An MP3 player is a consumer audio device and should be no more complicated to use than a portable CD player. We asked several average users to try out each player in this review without looking at any instructions. Everyone chose the Rios as the easiest to use. ‘These players have the best button placement, and they operate as users expect them to. continues June 2004 MACWORLD. 33 First International Digital's irock 860 ‘The Mojo 128F was another favorite among our testers. Although it doesn’t have as many fune- tions as the Rio players do, the Mojo 128F performed its tasks quite well, and our testers didn’t have problems accessing even some of its more-advanced features, such as equalizer settings. Like- wise, the irock 860 has a straightforward, easy-to-use interface, However, a couple of testers accidentally set the irock to FM Tuner mode and had trouble switching it back (to do this, you have to hold down the Menu button). We didn’t consider this a major problem, The AudioRave was also easy to use, but it wasn’t as intuitive as the others. ‘The Rover is the only player with a poor user interface. It doesn’t display ID3 tags; rather, the Rover displays the file names of songs being played. So if you have sev- eral songs with similar file nami often the case with songs from the same artist and album), finding the right one can be difficult. In addition, the Rover's Menu button, located on its side, is flimsy, sensi- tive, and very awkward to use. We also had a great deal of difficulty accessing menu functions and navigating between songs on this player. Most of these players have equalizer presets, typically programmed for a spe- cific genre of music (jazz, rock, vocals, and so on). The Mojo 128F has the most presets—seven—plus a user-configurable setting. The Rio players have six settings, as well as the ability to adjust bass and treble. The Rover and the irock 860 have five equalizer presets, while the AudioRave has none. Form Factor All of these players are quite compact, and any will work well for exercise. The Rio Fuse manages to pack Rio’s gold-standard user interface into a minuscule package—it will easily fit in the coin pocket of a pair of jeans. We also liked the irock 860, whose ability to hold a AA battery seems like 34 MACWORLD June 2004 sleight of hand. The Chiba and Cali have similar designs, but the Chiba is slightly squarer than the rounded Cali. We pre- ferred the Cali because it comes with an armband, which securely attaches it to your body. Extras All of these devices do more than just play MP3s. Our favorite extra feature is the built-in FM tuner, which is in all of the players except the Fuse and the AudioRave, ‘The FM tuner on the Rover, however, is built into the included headphones, which means that if you want to use a different pair than the ones that ship with the player, you lose this function, The Rover's FM tuner also requires an additional battery. Another feature we used extensively was the stopwatch built into all three Rio play- ers. For using an MP3 player while exercis- ing, we found the stopwatch with a lap timer to be a fantastic addition, The belt clip and armband that come with the Cali made it great for exercising, as did the belt clip for the irock 860. ‘The Mojo 128K and the Rover have built- in voice recorders. Although this seems to be a novelty, we could imagine several scenarios in which itcould be useful. Both players have sufficient audio quality for recording and playing back voice memos, but we wouldn't want to record music with either one. Since voice memos are recorded in WAV rather than in MP3 format, they take up more space, but not significantly more. A simple 30- second voice memo takes only about 128K of space in the Rover. ‘The Mojo 128F has two settings: the low-quality setting takes about 120K for 30 seconds; the high-quality uses 330KB. At these rates, even the high quality setting on the Mojo will allow more than three hours of voice recording time—plenty for 's or meetings. Mini Competition Although these players’ low prices and extra features may be attractive, none matches the Se ‘SmartDisk’s Rover value of the iPod mini (§§#$3; May 2004). And while some of the flash players are very good products, the only reason to purchase one is if you can’t justify spending $70 to $150 more for an iPod mini. If you can afford the mini, you'll get about 16 times the storage capacity, blazing fast FireWire transfer speeds, perfect ‘Tunes integration, rechargeable batteries, and the excellent iPod interface. The mini’s storage space translates to about 99 albums’ worth of MP3s (encoded at 128 Kbps), as opposed to about three or six albums on a flash player; its transfer rate is only seconds whereas a flash player's is minutes; its rechargeable Rio's Fuse battery will save money compared with replaceable batteries; and its intuitive inter- face means less hassle. The mini is a lot more for just a little more money, There's a perception that hard-drive based players such as the iPod are more eas- ily da