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FASTER NEW POWERBOOKS AND iBOOKS (li APPLE’S PORTABLES GAIN PROCESSOR = AND BURNING SPEED BUT DROP IN PRICE © sane aCW0 The Mac Product Experts www.macworld.com | July 2004 GET YOURSELF CONNECTED HOME NETWORKING GUIDE | 3 | THE BASICS STAYING SAFE Everything You Need — Protect Your Data from to Know to Get Started Snoops and Thieves i Ve GOOD GEAR HOW IT WORKS | pou) | How to Choose 5 Great Reasons to Build a Home Network \, eUUbbes the Best Equipment D CY ee THE Powe oF MD TO GET YOUR GARAGEBAND TANI | GROOVE ON, p. 75 “The biggest advance in computing in recent years.’ — 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.” oe — Peter Lewis, Fortune; 10/27/03 "To say that the latest and greatest G5 screams does a disservice to the word. | can say flatly that if you have been waiting for the G5 to update your aging Power SSS Macs, you need wait no longer. It will chew through any processor-intensive task you throw its way.” — Ken Mingis, Computerworld “After two weeks with a dual processor 2GHz Power Mac G5, it’s the fastest Mac I've ever used in my entire life, and not by a small margin, either. Id call it wicked ae fast, but that wouldn't even come close to doing it justice. It was astonishing.” ~ Bob Levitus, in the Houston Chronicle “The Power Mac G5 shatters the long- a standing limits of expectation imposed by Intel and Microsoft.” — Tom Yager, InfoWorld “With the Power Mac G5, the increase in speed is three-fold 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 “|wasn't prepared for the truly overwhelming performance of my new dual 2 GHz G5. The combo of this amazing hardware and OS 10.3 [Panther] adds up to a work platform that is not only astounding in its power but also in the joy that it brings to the user—just for the quality of work life that it offers those of us who spend hours and hours in front of our machines.’ —Pat Metheny, Musician “Itis a leap of not only faith, but over tall buildings ina single bound. The G5 is so revolutionary, it almost cannot be thought of as simply a better Macintosh, or as a trump card over the hand dealt to us by the Wintel world. This changes everything; the Power Mac G5 is really in a class by itself.” — George Tomlin, Digital Output “Having Apple Computer's new Power Mac G5 around the office is like having a superhero assistant. Ifyou’ve got lots of graphics or video heavy-lifting to do all at once, it’s amazing.” —Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News July 2004 OPINION incorporating MacUser acwor www.macworld.com From the Editor's Desk JASON SNELL Those much-hyped Internet-enabled fefrigerators haven't arrived yet, but home networking is bringing out the best in other devices. 14 Feedback Readers respond. MAC BEAT Microsoft Office 2004—new features, and the Mac version versus the Windows version; Apple's laptop upgrades; the end of Symantec's Norton Utilities for the Mac; the future of Palm OS; iTunes 4.5; a Macworld guide to Serial ATA; Alton Brown's 20th anniversary Apple Macaroni and Cheese tecipe; and Apple's video-editing releases, ‘On the Cover Photo-ilustration by Peter Belanger 2 MACWORLD July 2004 80 MOBILE MAC The Virtual CD Subscribers now have free access to the contents of the CD-ROM that comes with newsstand copies of Macworld. To view the contents of the CD, go to the following URL (broadband internet recommended): bhttp://cd.macworld.com/2004/07/ frosty-mouse REVIEWS 34 Laptop computers §84$E 12-inch PowerBook G4/1.33GHz SuperDrive $888 15-inch PowerBook G4/1.33GHz $848 15-inch PowerBook G4/1.5GHz $888 17-inch PowerBook G4/1.5GHz 36 Music-scoring applications $668 Finale 2004 Pili Sibelius 3. 1 38 39 _ 9498 Trilogy 40 40 41 HH etome 46 $865 You Synchronize 2.0 USB 2.0-FireWire 400 combo cards $$6) logear GUF202 $$ Koutech Systems 7002 $8863 Orange Micro OrangeCombo 4 StarTech CB2U2F Sound-module applications $968) BFD Compression software $446 Stuffit Deluxe 8 Download manager BBS Spe Speed | Download 2 File-transfer package ee Tokens 1. 1 1 Synchronization software Data-visualization program 864 IDLO Audiovisual-networking hardware Digital-video recorder #996 EyeTV 200 G5 hard drive $98: GSJam ni 46 Network MP3 player $$ HomePod 49 The Game Room PETER COHEN Escape boredom with Tron 2.0, Journey to Wild Divine, or Rally Shift. We also have a first look at Blizzard's new MMORPG, World of Warcraft. 54 Mac Gems DAN FRAKES Replace the Finder, view more-accurate folder sizes, tead text on screen in columns, monitor who's connected to your Mac, customize iCal's colors, and turn your Mac into a sophisticated timer. ‘www.macworld.com COVER STORY SECRETS Get Connected JEFFERY BATTERSBY If you have two or more computers, a printer, and a high-speed Internet connection, you need a home network. We'll show you how to choose the gear and the setup that are right for your home, and how to protect your new network from prying eyes. 34 REVIEWS 56_GET CONNECTED ‘www.macworld.com HANDS ON Put Panther on Your Server MARK H. ANBINDER With our step-by-step guide, you can install Panther Server in your small workgroup or lab environment, 73 WORKING MAC Back Up to Stay Ahead ADAM C. ENGST Check out our guide to backing up your data. And we've got extra tips for Panther users. 76 DIGITAL HUB Of Macs and MIDI CHRISTOPHER BREEN Once you understand MIDI, you can use it to expand GarageBand's repertoire. CREATE Colorful Photoshop DEKE McCLELLAND Save time and explore new illustration possibilities by coloring scanned artwork in Adobe Photoshop. 80 MOBILE MAC .Mac Travel Tips KIRK McELHEARN .Mac will seem like a bargain once you know how it can keep your contacts, e-mail, calendars, and files accessible but safe—no matter where you are. 82 GEEK FACTOR Inside OS X Packages TED LANDAU Mac OS X packages contain keys you can use to unlock otherwise hidden capabilities in your OS. 84 88 HELP DESK Mac OS X Hints ROB GRIFFITHS Search for related Mail messages, close minimized windows from the Dock, test your passwords’ strength, and a lot more. Mac 911 CHRISTOPHER BREEN Learn more about sharing: share contact informa- tion with Word documents, Address Book birthdays with iCal, an old iPod with a new Mac, and more. BACK PAGE 116 Hot Stuff Check out our editors’ favorite developments of the month. July 2004 MACWORLD. 3 QidT eOaEE ES = — on = - - OMG ies coe 8 bow, MONG MM Kk ke ow te a. " yen e map “The 9900 isthe photo printer ha ig dieam of Seriously. Between borderless printin up to 13" x 19" and up to 4800 x 2400 color dpi resolution* with droplets only 2 picoliters in size, the i9900.is sure to win the affection of digital: cameras. And photographers. And why not? The 19900 is the first printer of its pedigree to Offer additional red and green ChromaPLUS inks, fora total of 8 individual ink tanks. Which makes for a broader color spectrum and more faithful outputs. And isn’t that what everyone really wants in a printer? To learn more about the new 9900, log onto www.usa.canon.com/consumer, or call us at 1-800-OK-CANON. KNOW HOW* ‘* Resolution may vary based on printer driver s of $800 x 1200 dpi used af tha bottom edge o to change without notice. 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See more at: macromedia.com/go/dwupdated wre ig Factory Refurbs Something to smile about... — Small Dog ( ~ x) Elecironics | PORTRAIT BY SVEN WEDERHOLT FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK BY JASON SNELL Net Results YOU KNOW YOU’VE BEEN WORKING AT A MAGAZINE FOR A long time when you see the same story come around for a third time. And if you’ve been a Macworld reader for at least six years, you, too, may find that the topic of this month’s cover story—home network- ing—is somewhat familiar (“Get Connected,” page 56). In the past six years, we’ve done two feature stories on setting up networking equipment in your home. But each time we visit this topic, the networking land- scape is dramatically different from the time before. People once set up networks in their homes only if they had two Macs and wanted to share a printer or move files between their systems. But always-on broadband Internet access is reaching more people— certainly more than half of Macworld’s readers have it, and that number is growing at a remarkable rate. Apple’s introduction of AirPort has revolutionized— and complicated—home networking even more. If These Devices Could Talk ‘The latest factor pushing people to consider wiring their homes is a proliferation of network- and Internet- enabled devices. For years, futurists flogged the fanci- ful concept of an Internet-connected refrigerator that could order your groceries when you ran low. Right idea, wrong appliance. The newest networked devices aren't refrigerators; they're digital-video recorders, networked music players, and devices that let you bring videos and photos from your Mac and display them on your TV set, These devices don’t rely on wacky home- built networking protocols; they use standard Internet networking. And they don’t use weird wireless tech- nologies—they involve nothing more complicated than AirPort or Bluetooth. But taking advantage of these devices—and the even cooler ones that will inevitably follow them— still requires an active computer network. Busir have experts who set up networks properly and make sure they run efficiently. But at home, there’s no net- work administrator or IT manager—except for you. Suddenly, innocent civilians are being confronted with terms—such as router, switch, and NAT—that they could once ignore without consequence. If you don’t know these terms nowadays, though, you'll never be able to telecommute from your backyard, pipe your iTunes library into your home stereo, or program your TiVo from a thousand miles away (all things I’ve done myself). This month’s cover story can make you more com- fortable with home networking. We've defined the dif- www.macworld.com ferent types of networks and demystified some of the terminology that was once locked behind heavy metal doors in the world’s server closets but has now been unleashed on users like you and me. A Network of Networks Of course, the growth of network technologies isn’t something that affects us only when we're at home. I now tote an iSight camera with me whenever I go on a business trip. The hotels I stay in tend to offer broad- band Internet access, and with the iSight, I can see and talk to my wife and daughter back home. At Macworld, we're using iChat and iSights all the time, to connect far-flung editors and writers with the mother ship. Text chats help us share information when a phone call is too much trouble and e-mail isn’t immediate enough. Where will it end? There’s no way to tell, at least not until our next cover story on the subject, when the networking landscape shifts again. But I’m not anx- iously awaiting the day when I can exchange instant messages with my Internet-enabled refrigerator. [| OUT THIS MACWORLD ‘We write a lot of stories about hardware and software, But never before has the hardware been a green Pyrex casserole dish and the software been three kinds of cheese, a bunch of pasta, and a pile of Fuji apples. As part of our continuing celebration, in the pages of Mac Beat, of the Mac's 20th anniversary, we asked Food Network host Alton Brown to whip us Up a recipe. He's a big Mac fan, so he graciously provided one (see page 28)—and then the hard part began, Editor in Chief Jason Snell was volunteered to test Brown's “Apple Macaroni and Cheese.” And although he failed on his first try, he got it right on the second, Then came the real trick: making and baking it a third time, this one for photographer Peter Belanger's camera (left). It's safe to say that Belanger proba- bly has a lot more experience preparing photographs than side dishes, but unlike our intrepid editor in “chef,” he got Brown's tasty recipe right the first time. ] How are you staying connected? Drop me a line—over someone else's network or one you set up on your own—at jason_snell@macworld.com, or visit www.macworld.comv/forums. July 2004 MACWORLD 9 Don't miss out on this special offer! We'll rush you your first issue, and you'll | receive 10 FREE downloadable Macworld Power Guides instantly. No need to pay now! We'll send you an invoice for only $19.97, that’s 79% off the cover price. Subscribe today and you'll get a Bonus CD-ROM with your paid order. Only Macworld combines objective product testing with 20 years of market experience to give readers the perspective, advice, and inspiration to get the most out of their Mac. 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You'll instantly be brought back to the point where you left your presentation, still in full-screen mode. This is one more feature that makes Windows users’ jaws drop. HILLARY JOHNSON (e| T love the fact that I can just use the Script menu and make my own Apple menu, as outlined by Rob Griffiths. But after I cre- ate my own Scripts folder in my user’s Library folder, I seem to get the spinning wheel whenever I click on the Script menu in the menu bar, I have to log out and log back in to make it go away. I had to take my customized Scripts folder out of the Library folder just so I could access the Script menu again. What gives? It’s possible that you've added too many items to your Script menu. The Script menu must scan the contents of every included folder and subfolder, which can take a long time if there are hundreds of included files. As I cautioned in the tip, you should limit your Script menu to the documents and applications that you use most often.—Rob Griffiths 14 MACWORLD July 2008 FEEDBACK Tips Accepted Whom should you tip? Food servers, cab drivers, and—unless you want to end up looking like someone who belongs in a Flock of Seagulls tribute band—anyone who cuts your hair. But after the April 2004 issue featuring Panther pointers, some readers think Macworld editors also need tips—but not of the monetary variety (although that isn't an unwelcome idea). Readers want to share their suggestions on how to get the most from a Mac. And if there's one tip we can offer you, it's that you'll never go wrong listening to Mac lovers talk about what they know best. MICHAEL D. MORTILLA es) ‘To switch between programs in OS X (10.3) you can indeed press #-tab, as Rob Grif fiths writes. What he didn’t mention is that you can continue to hold the 3 key, release the tab key, and then press the Q key to quit the highlighted application. The screen dis- play of running applications remains active. ‘Then (while continuing to hold the 3% key) you can press tab to move to another appli- cation and use the Q key to quit that one. ‘That way, you can quit several applications in one shot, If you have lots of programs running and pass the one you want, con- tinue to hold the 3 key and press the tilde (~) key: You'll be able to select the running programs in reverse order. Quicken versus Moneydance ANDY PASTUSZAK Es] I was deeply disappointed by Macworld’s roundup of personal finance software (Reviews, April 2004). Quicken has a long- time bug that many users have seen often: a failure to properly reconcile accounts. 1 often reconcile accounts and find myself off by one or two cents or some other small amount, If I clear the Reconcile window and start over again, things balance. This is a sad behavior from the Mac’s “preeminent personal financial program,” as you call it. I switched to Moneydance a number of years ago, and I find Jeffery Battersby’s review to be a bit uninformed. There are indeed default categories in Moneydance; they are called accounts. Battersby failed to mention that Moneydance supports direct download of transactions from within the software, the way that Quicken does. MICHAEL CZEISZPERGER S ‘As someone who paid for both Quicken 2002 and Moneydance, I can’t understand Jeffery Battersby’s attitude toward the lat- ter, Features that I could never get to work in Quicken worked the first time in Mon- eydance. I had no end of trouble with Quicken, and each problem resulted in a $49 support call that never fixed the prob- lem. Everything worked flawlessly in Mon- eydance. The one question I had about Moneydance was answered through e-mail, for free. In the end, I spend much less time doing finances with Moneydance than I ever did with Quicken. Moneydance’s rating resulted not from any lack of accounting capability, but from signifi- cant and reproducible interface bugs that marred the usability of the program and that were acknowledged by the developer at the time of the review, These issues appear to have been corrected in the version released in April 2004.—Feffery Battersby RICK GRANBERRY. es} In your reviews, one aspect of software often ignored is longevity. This has been especially important to me in regard to personal finance software for searching for expenses, even far in the past. Sometimes it’s helpful to look up the repair history of appliances or to track utility costs over long time spans. I think I gota bargain back in 1992 when I bought Andrew Tobias’s Man- aging Your Money, because I still open those files. I probably wouldn’t be able to do so ifI didn’tuse the same program today (admittedly in Classic mode). ARUNA HARDER (QUICKEN MAC PRODUCT MANAGER, INTUIT) & I was thrilled to see Quicken 2004 rated as the top choice in your Mac financial soft- ware roundup. More important, I wanted to let your readers know that we followed up on the issue Jeffery Battersby brought to our attention regarding miscalculated capi- tal gains on stocks sold short. A patch waww.macworld.com release that came out in February fixed that issue. The patch is available at www.intuit com/support/quicken/updates/qkn_updates _mac2004.hmnl. Serving Notice JEFF MAO In his roundup of e-mail servers (Reviews, April 2004), Michael Genrich states that you could buy the unlimited-client version of Apple’s Mac OS X Server 10.3 for $999. But the ten-client version of OS X Server ($499) doesn’t refer to mail accounts or concurrent mail sessions. The ten-client or unlimited-client aspect of the Server edi- tion refers to the number of concurrent Apple Filing Protocol connections. So even if you need AFP, if you don’t anticipate more than ten concurrent sessions, you could still have hundreds of accounts on the server. If you need e-mail and/or Web ser- vices, the ten-client version will do just fine. MICHAEL SHAFAE & review seems to treat virus and antispam controls as extras that can be overlooked. When you consider the costs of antispam and antivirus software, Mac OS X Server seems like a much better bargain. SCOTT MELENDEZ B While I realize your primary goal is to review Mac products, leaving out coverage of enterprise or server products that may not run on OS X but can have OS X clients seems to solidify the perception of the Mac as a niche player. I noticed this with your OS X-only mail-server review. Pm sure you realize 95 percent of corporate America uses Exchange or Domino as back-end mail servers. Macworld should review these products. Although they’re not OS X prod- ucts, they do have Mac clients. Reviewing the server and client for their features and functionality would be very useful. A Wireless Vision JEFF PIOTROWSKI Tis utter madness to place an e-mail server online that doesn’t have strict antivirus, antispam, and practical access control. Your wwnw.macworld.com I was in awe after reading “I Spy with iSight” (Geek Factor, April 2004). Two big thumbs-up to Evological Software and ______JULY 2004 FEEDBACK Bensoftware for thinking outside the box for the iSight’s use. To think even further outside the box, I think Apple should develop a wireless version of iSight (be it AirPort- or Bluetooth-based) to break free from having to hardwire this camera to a host or remote computer. Mac users could then carry the camera around at functions (within 150 feet of the host computer) without worrying about whether someone is going to trip over any cables. Whether it’s for a family reunion where you can introduce people over the Internet to relatives who were unable to attend, or for changing camera angles so would-be criminals don’t always know where you've placed your home surveillance camera, a wireless remote iSight camera would be a technology many Mac users would love. Better Secure Than Sorry RICK OBERNDORF Es} “Laptop Lockdown” (Mobile Mac, April 2004) was great. I have a couple of suggestions. While password-protected continues Sie Priz Training CO Take the Wacom Photo Challenae today and well sond-vou a free copy of the new featuring digit Seott Kelby 2 < Visit... | h ww W-TabletPhotoFun.co July2004 MACWORLD. 15 JULY 2004 FEEDBACK _ accounts are a good idea, a thief could easily bypass the protection by starting up with a CD-ROM and holding down the C key. To prevent this, the user should invoke Apple’s Open Firmware Password utility. This will require a password for starting up the computer when holding down the option, C, or T keys, keeping all but the most dedicated hacker from breaking into your computer. The article also describes putting labels on the out- side of your computer and making a “dummy” guest user account in which to place recovery information. In addition to these steps, the owner can edit the file Aqua Blue.jpg in the folder Hard Drive: Library: Desktop Pictures to put recov- ery information on the screen back- ground used on the login page. ADAM GROSSWIRTH {es Jason Cook writes, “Since the Kensing- ize slot is a widely used standard in > world, too, you can often find party cables that cost less.” Be care- ful—I put a non-Kensington cable lock on my brand-new iBook last year, and then I couldn't get it out. The locking www.|nsideMacRadio.com mechanism—which flipped up, unlike Kensington’s, which turns—got itself stuck inside the iBook’s case and was dig- ging into the plastic there. Fortunately, I had only been testing the cable and hadn’t actually locked it to anything, so I was able to take the whole thing in to a dealer, where—after I showed several forms of proof of ownership—they took the case apart to remove the cable. | See an Angry Reader... BRYAN THOMPSON Es] Iwas very surprised and dismayed to see you employ the services of an astrologer and a psychic in “Future Fortunes” (Mac Beat, February 2004). I'd be much more likely to take seriously a prediction by Adam C. Engst than one by any psychic. I'm offended by the implication that a Mac-using psychic’s predictions should be taken seriously. This deals in the realm of the spiritual, not the scientific, and has no place in Macworld. The psychic warned us you would feel this way.—Ed, 16 MACWORLD July 2004 © Post comments on our forums (www -macworld.com); send them by mail to (=) Letters, Macworld, 501 Second Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107; or send them by e-mail to letters@macworld.com. Include a return address and daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail we feceive, we can’t respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters and posts. All published letters and forum comments become the property of Macworld. CORRECTIONS Due to an editing error, our April 2004 review of personal finance packages stated that Moneydance 2003 lacks predefined accounts. In fact, Moneydance ships with an extensive set of predefined accounts. In “Focus on the iPod” (May 2004), a tip on creating smart playlists based on song lyrics was incorrect. In fact, when you paste text into the Comments field of an iTunes song, only a por- tion of that text will be retained. Our tip works only if you pull keywords from a song's lyrics, NOVEMBER 7-14, 2004 wwwmacworld.com You listen to your iPod every day, Now your iPod can listen to you. The creators of iTrip now introduce the Griffin iTalk iPod Voice Recorder. Plug iTalk into your iPod and record thoughts, ideas or meetings with its Play back your voice memos or music through iTalk's built-in speaker. You can even connect a separate mic or your headphones into iTalk. So talk high quality built-in microphone. all you want, iPod will listen. Turns iPod into a full function voice recorder Internal microphone and laptop quality speaker Connect external microphone or headphones Automatic Level Control for perfect recordings FM Transmitter for iPod + Play your iPod's music wirelessly in your as , car or through your stereo at home tip + Uses any empty FM station from 87.7 to 107.9 - switchable from the iPod itself + iPod powered & earth friendly - no batteries needed or wasted ever + Fits beautifully to top of iPod - no messy cables to get in the way a a “XX USB External Sound Card + Adds superior quality audio recording & . $3999 ps y I CUI playback to any Mac via USB PowerBook & iBook Stand + Raises notebook screen to eye level - + Works great with GarageBand & iMovie no more sore neck from looking down Xe iH * Creates room on the desktop for your favorite USB keyboard and mouse - wireless versions work great $3999 =e e + Includes everything needed to record albums and tapes to make MP3s & CDs + Keeps your notebook running cool Another great idea from (GRIFFIN \ (and loud fans off) with 360° airflow i learn more at www.griffintechnology.com CONTENT oday’s business and technical writers demand sophisticated shortage of products to choose from, many require a lot of technical know-how and even coding experience. Writers are finding that the tools are taking them away from what they do best. And what they do best is create great content—because ‘that’s what pays the bills, not coding. That's also why the team at Rascal Software saw a need for an authoring tool designed by authors, not engineers or developers. The result is Veredus, an advanced, XML-based authoring tool which features a single, fully integrated editor for all output formats with no need for third-party software. With the intro- duction of Veredus 2.0, Rascal Software extends these benefits to a broader audi. ence, including Macintosh users and those who need a powerful workgroup authoring and publishing solution. The intuitive, easy-to-use Veredus inter- face lets authors publish everything from short documents to multivolume books in CMT Toney r= Compete LEFT: You can predefine builds in multiple formats including AppleHelp, and display the finished project in the corresponding Help Viewer. TOP: A single fully-integrated editor with floating panes for all output formats. { awide variety of formats including Microsoft® { Virginia O'Connor, Lead Documentation | HTMLHelp, WinHelp, Adobe® PDF™, Post- authoring tools. While there is no Script®, and others. Where applicable, the out- put conforms to W3C standards. Through the full-featured editor, authors can easily add special content types such as alerts, and spe- cial online Help features such as text popups. | Authors can create document variants with {simple or complex conditions. The Project Navigator provides power- ful document management capabilities which allow authors to create topics, organize project hierarchy, merge projects and indexes, and even reuse content from ‘one project in another project. Authors can import legacy online Help projects or Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker® documents with unprecedented ease. The format and characteristics of the project output are completely configurable through the Veredus interface. Veredus Saves Time and Money Customers quickly see a great improve- ment in efficiency once they start using } Expert at XAware, a Colorado Springs- based data integration company. Over the last couple of years, XAware has added several new developers, each contribut- ing to the workload of the documentation team. But O'Connor says that she hasn't had to add any new writers, thanks in | large measure to the tremendous efficien- | cies she realized with Veredus. “The real time savings we get from Veredus is perfect for our kind of environ- | ment, where we have very aggressive | product schedules with frequent { advance that all changes will be made | Veredus. Among these real-world users is ! | changes,” says O'Connor. “Veredus makes it so easy to import other docu- ments and build as many conditions as you want. When we run a spell check | across an entire repository, we know in to the entire repository.” Writers at XAware now save even more time with the advanced editing features in Veredus. “We don't re-edit | anything that hasn't changed—just the new material,” O'Connor says. KING Native XML Storage In Veredus 2.0, all content is stored in XML. The software creates output from source files by applying XSL transforma- tions to them. The XML is fully W3C com- pliant and can be used by any XML tool. Support for API Documentation With Veredus 2.0, authors can create API documentation projects from Java files or type libraries. Veredus imports the components and sub-components from the source code to build the documenta- tion outline. Authors can add details and update the project with each new release of the source code. Veredus 2.0 Features and Functions = Platform independent—available on Mac OS® X, Intel-based Linux, and Microsoft Windows operating systems mw A highly intuitive and easy-to-use interface im One-click generation of HTML Help, Microsoft Help 2, Apple Help, WinHelp, Veredus Web Help, Sun JavaHelp™, Oracle Help for Java, PDF, and PostScript output @ Effortless importing of legacy content m Support for Unicode = Conditional text im Project and index merging Ability to single source content for customized printing, Web portals, or a variety of Help formats im Easy customization of style sheets to meet the standards of individual authors mA Workgroup module for cross-platform collaborative writing = Built-in table of contents and index generation = Automatic conversion of graphics into standard formats Veredus” 2.0 Delivers Single Sourcing With The Power of XML. INTERVIEW Rob Frankland, President and founder of Rascal Software What is the core value proposition for authors using Veredus 2.0? Veredus 2.0 has been built from the ground up to deliver true single-sourcing capability. A lot of products claim to offer this, but it was our design from the start. We looked at the work styles and habits of technical writers and built the product accordingly. As a result, it helps get the work done faster, and time means money. You claim Veredus 2.0 actually boosts authors’ productivity. How, specifically? In at least a couple of ways. Veredus 2.0 greatly facilitates the reuse of content, so more material actually gets reused and doesn’t have to be recreated. In general, the product just makes everything in the content-creation process simpler, and therefore faster. Rascal seems to be broadening its customer base with this latest release. What new audiences are you reaching out to? We are certainly reaching out to the Mac community, which never had a tool to do online Help. And for those many people who document APIs, our big push in the API area will be welcome news. What feedback have you received from early users of Veredus 2.0? The most consistent validation we get goes like this: “Yeah, this really does work!” We've built in capabilities for our users that give them high-quality print and greater control over fonts, spi g, and so on. They tell us we have the best range of output formats available in any tool, and a great print solution. Can users try before they buy? In Q3, Mac and PC users can go to our site and sign up for a 15-day free trial offer. What can your customers expect in terms of future enhancements to this authoring tool? Soon we will offer an SVG editor. And later this year we're going to add a tool that will make it easier than ever to review HTML content without having to print pages. | think that’s going to be very well received. >> For more information on how Veredus 2.0 can help you transform, format, and render content on the fly, click now aa on www.rascalsoftware.com. H SOFTWARE| WHAT'S NEW WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE WHAT'S HOT COMPARING OFFICE 2004 FOR MAC WITH ITS WINDOWS COUNTERPART Office versus Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit kicked off 2004 by unveiling new features ina planned update to the Mac version of Office, and the company has barely broken stride since, In the months leading up to the May release of Office 2004, Microsoft (www.microsoft.com/mac) has talked up a steady stream of enhance- ments to its productivity suite (see “Office Additions”)—in press releases, discus- sions with journalists, and even videos posted on its Web site. users: Microsoft made little noise about new features, largely because that update didn’t come loaded with cool new tricks. Compare that fanfare with last year’s release of Office 2003 for Windows ‘The differing approaches to promoting Office updates have a lot to do with marketing strategy—Microsoft shaped last year’s Windows release to emphasize group productivity. But the approaches also reveal how Microsoft regards its two Office suites, which share a name but often have different focal points and capabilities. Prepping PowerPoint Presenter Tools, a feature that was already available in the Windows version of Power- Point, is new for Mac users. Group Think Take Office 2003 for Win- dows. ‘To sell corporations on OFFICE’S CENTER PIECE Office upgrading, Microsoft touted the merits of enterprise-wide savings of time and money. Office 2003 for Windows introduced new XML. features that let users of the Profes- sional Enterprise or the Professional version create forms that hook infor- mation from backroom databases to applications like PowerPoint and Excel; these features allowed entire workgroups to use up-to-date information in presentations and financial reports. In sharp contrast, Office 2004 for Mac concentrates almost exclusively on individual productivity improve- ments. For instance, the only new XML capability Mac users will find is in Excel, which now lets you share XML files. It’s no secret that Mac users prod software vendors to keep boosting ease of use. But Microsoft also knows how to sell. The Mac market's many professionals running their own busi- nesses would have no reason to Back when Microsoft first began taking the wraps off Office 2004, Macworld had an early preview of the announced new features (see “Office 2004: First Look,” March 2004). Just in case the finer points of Project Center, the Notebook Layout view, and other Office addi ns have faded from memory, here's a quick recap of some features of this latest version of Office —PHIuip MICHAELS > rastenpe ‘Layout View: Aimed at note-takers, - Word a tool lets users type notes in outline form, fas key information, and embed audio streams of meetings or lectures in a document. 20 MACWORLD July 2004 waww.macworld.com VIRTUALLY SHIPPING Office 2004 for Mac began shipping in May, so some eager Mac users may already have the updated productivity suite up and running—unless they want the Professional Edition. That ver- sion, which includes all four Office applications along with the latest version of Virtual PC with Windows XP Professional, is delayed while Microsoft resolves a compatibility problem between Virtual PC and the Power Mac G5 (see "VPC DOA?" Mac Beat, November 2003). Microsoft expects to resolve that problem with version 7 of Virtual PC, in the months following the Office launch; look for Office 2004 Professional Edition to appear then. Office 2004 Standard Edition costs $399; upgrades from Office v. X, Office 2001, or Office 98 are $239. The Professional Edition sells for $499 (upgrade, $329), while the Student and Teacher Edi- tion, which lets users install the suite on as many as three Macs, costs $149.—PHILIP MICHAELS. upgrade if the additions to Office 2004 for Mac were all about groupware. only twist, you can run the presentation- practice tool at any time; Windows users need to be connected to a projector. A new Office for Mac feature called Reference Tools lets Mac users search for a word’ definition, look up aterm on Encarta Online, or do an MSN Web search without losing sight of the document in use; it mimics a similar capabil- ity, called Research Pane, that debuted in Office 2003 for Windows. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in Office 2004 have the same file formats as their Office 2003 for Windows counter- parts. But a new Compatibility Report fea- ture will give Office 2004 for Mac users warnings about glitches that can arise when you send files to Windows users or people using older versions of Office for Mac. For example, if you send a Power- Point file that includes a graphic with a transparency, Office 2004 will warn you that the Windows version doesn’t support transparency.—LAURIANNE McLAUGHLIN Double Features Microsoft may market its two Office versions in dif- ferent ways. But if you stack Office 2004 for Mac’s features next to those in the most recent Windows update, you'll see some signifi- cant similarities and very few copycat changes. Outlook 2003—the e-mail and personal information management program in Office for Windows—has a new interface, new organizational tricks, and ways to automatically route e-mails into storage folders. All these capabilities resemble fea- tures that Mac users will see in Office 2004's new Project Center, inside Entou- rage. Entourage’s new vertical, three-pane view looks a lot like Outlook 2003's three- pane view, and both Outlook 2003 and Entourage boast improved junk-mail pro- tection. But Project Center, a star compo- nent of Office 2004 and one developed specifically for Mac users, has no direct equivalent in Office 2003 for Windows. ‘Word 2003 for Windows’ only big change was the Reading Lay- out view, which displays docu- ments in a booklike way. Users of Office 2004 for Mac won’t see this view, but they gain the unique Notebook Layout view for note-taking. Mac users will also see improved change-tracking fea tures that are similar to those that Win- dows users enjoy but that have Mac-like interfaces. (And only Mac users can use MSN Messenger 4.0 to instant-message a colleague right from a Word Track Changes comment balloon.) Office 2004 adopts Presenter Tools, a PowerPoint feature already available on the Windows side. However, in a Mac- [ose = A Different Track Word's updated Track Changes feature has some elements of the Windows version. ‘wwrw.macworld.com Office Additions Examining the Windows version of Office next to its Mac counterpart may give Mac users a good idea of what's missing and what—we hope—might appear in future releases. But in the near term, Mac users are more con- cerned with what's new in this version. Managed Expectations Project Center remains Office 2004's leading data-management feature (see “Office's Center Piece”), but it's hardly the only such addition. Entourage now sports a three-column view, with the read- ing pane relocated from under the mes- sage list to its immediate right. Microsoft claims that the new view displays as much as 40 percent more of each mes- ‘sage on screen. Another feature promises to show you /ess information—Entourage sports stronger junk-mail controls based ‘on an updated detection algorithm. PowerPoint has a data-management feature of its own: Presenter Tools. This presentation-management tool displays the current slide, the upcoming slide, and presentation thumbnails. It also fea- tures an on-screen clock that lets you time your presentations, Creative Additions Excel users can create charts directly from the formatting palette, which also offers the ability to add titles and labels to charts, Excel used to support only 30 colors—now charts can use the entire color spectrum. Smart Buttons now appear in Word and Excel, allowing users to create, edit, and display data with ease. Say you're typing a Word document and the program autocor- rects a word you don't want changed—in Word 2004, a Smart Button appears that lets you decline the correction. Frank Exchanges On the data-sharing front, Microsoft tin- kered with Word's Track Changes feature. Deletions and comments now appear in color-coded bubbles on the right side of a document. A dotted line connects the change in the document to the bubble on the right. The bubble also contains a check-mark button (which you click on to accept the change) and an X button (to teject the change). And in a long-awaited change for Mac users, Office 2004 now supports long file names —PHILIP MICHAELS July 2004 MACWORLD. 21 JULY 2004 MAC BEAT. POWERBOOKS, iBOOKS GET FASTER CPUS Portable Power Play Processor speeds have shot up across the —— PowerBook — line, which used to top Se That’ now the low end of the PowerBook’s clock-speed spectrum, available in both 12-inch models and in the 15- inch PowerBook featuring a CD-RW and DVD-R Combo drive. The 15- inch model with a DVD-burning SuperDrive saw its processor speed jump to 1.5GHz, from 1.33GHz, as did the 17-inch PowerBook (see “Faster Crowd: New PowerBooks”). Other changes to the PowerBook line are also all about speed. The SuperDrive built into the 15-inch and 17-inch models burns DVDs at 4x, a boost from the 2x SuperDrive featured in previous versions. The 15-inch and 17-inch PowerBooks E With the latest updates to its line of laptops, Apple hopes to appeal to the inner speed demon of mobile Mac users. This bump up in processing power boosts the top speed of the PowerBook G4 to 1.5GHz and the top speed of the iBook to 1.2GHz. also get an improved graphics pro- cessor, the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 64MB of video memory. (1.5GHz PowerBook users can opt for 128MB, for an extra $50.) Every PowerBook now comes with built-in 54-Mbps AirPort Extreme wireless networking and a built- in Bluetooth module. Hard-drive || capacity on the two 12-inch models jumps to 60GB, from 40GB. All of the other specifi- cations, from the number and the variety of ports to the installed RAM, remain the same. Apple did make a few changes to PowerBook pric- ing. The SuperDrive-sport- ing 15-inch PowerBook now costs $2,499 instead of $2,599. And the PROCESSOR GRAPHICS CARD/ MEMORY 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 Nvidia GeForce FX G05200/64MB k 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 SuperDrive Nvidia GeForce FX G05200/64MB 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700/64MB 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700/64MB 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 ATI Mobility Radeon 9700/64MB PROCESSOR GRAPHICS CARD/ MEMORY 1GHz PowerPC G4 Combo drive ‘ATI Mobility Radeon 9200/32MB 1GH2 PowerPC G4 Combo ATI Mobility Radeon, 9200/32MB 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 ATI Mobility Radeon 9200/32MB 22 MACWORLD July 2004 17-inch model’s price has dropped $200, to $2,799 (see page 34 for our review of the new PowerBooks). The updated iBook line features more-modest changes, with Apple concentrating on boosting processor speeds. You'll no longer find an iBook with a clock speed measured in mega- hertz; the 12-inch and 14-inch mod- els both feature 1GHz Gé4 chips. The top-of-the-line 14-inch iBook now runs at 1.2GHz (see “The iBook’s Gigahertz Club” for more infor- ! mation). Every iBook model comes with a Combo drive as its stan- dard optical- drive option. How- ever, for the first time, iBook buyers can opt to add a Super- Drive to their laptop of choice; the 4x SuperDrive is a $200 add-on to either of the 14-inch iBooks.—PHILIP MICHAELS eMac Advance Apple's laptops aren't the only machines running faster these days. The company also upped the proces- sor speed of the eMac and dropped the price of the SuperDrive-equipped version of the all-in-one desktop. The new eMac sports a 1.25GHz Power- PC G4 processor—up from a 1GHz chip in the previous version. Apple also added faster memory (333MHz DDR RAM), faster graphics (ATI's Radeon 9200 graphics chip), and USB 2.0 connectivity. The eMac's motherboard speed is faster, too, jumping to 167MHz, from 133MHz. While the entry-level eMac—featuring a 1.25GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a Combo drive— remains at $799, Apple cut the price on its other eMac offering by $100. That model, featuring a DVD-burning Super- Drive, sells for $999.—JIm DALRYMPLE www.macworld.com (Cons BY PAUL MOWALT SYMAN MULTIMEDIA BEAT 3D Layer 1.0, from Digital Anar- chy (wwwdigitalanarchy.com): Plug-in for Adobe After Effects, Discreet Combustion, and Apple Final Cut Pro provides special effects that can be distorted, extruded, and modeled using 3-D meshes ($149), IVCD 2.0, from Mireth Technology (wwnw.mireth.com): VideoCD and ‘Super VideoCD authoring program ‘now lets you include menus and playlists in VCDs and offers a pre- view mode for encoded MPEG (530; upgrade, $15), Maya 6, from Alias (www .alias.com): 3-D-graphics and animation software has been converted to a Mach-O applica- tion, improving 0S X performance (61,999; upgrade, $899). Sonicfire Pro 3.2, from Smart- ‘Sound Software (www,smart sound.com): Update to sound- track-creation software features integration with Macromedia Flash and Avid ($299; upgrade from version 2.X, $79). X-Factor Unlimited, from Grid- Iron Software (www.gridiron xfactor.com): Adobe After Effects 66.5 plug-in improves preview and render speeds using a grid comput- ing network ($1,995).—cowtteo BY PHILIP MICHAELS BEAT FemLab 3,0a, from Comsol (www.comsol.com): Scientific modeling software adds support for OS X 10.3; the multiphysics modeling program also inte- grates with MathWorks Matlab (contact Comsol for pricing). Maple 9.5, from Maplesoft (www.maplesoft.com); Mathe- matical problem-solving, data- visualization, and technical authoring program adds new integrated algorithms for opti- mization problems, student multi- variate calculus package, an inte- tated dictionary of engineering and mathematical terms, and interface and performance improvements ($1,995; contact Maplesoft for upgrade pric- ing).—cOMPILED BY PHILIP MICHAELS wowew.macworld.com DISK-REPAIR ALTERNATIVES ABOUND Utilities Shut Down Norton Utilities has been part of Mac users’ tool kits for 15 years. But the ven- erable disk-repair and -optimization utility’ days on the Mac are numbered: Symantec (www.symantec.com) has announced that it’s dropping future devel- opment of both Utilities and Sys- temWorks, a system-repair suite centered around Utilities, for the Mac. Symantec said that it decided to drop the two Mac prod- ucts to focus on its line of Internet security utilities, which includes Nor- ton AntiVirus and Norton Personal Fire- wall. (The company will continue developing Sys- temWorks for Windows.) Utilities isn’t disappearing entirely— Symantec will provide tech support, over the phone, for Utilities 8.0 and System- Works 3.0 for one year after the company stops selling the programs, Both products remain on the market, and Symantec plans to sell both as long as there’s cus- tomer demand. Symantec plans to continue support- ing the current version of OS X 10.3, as well as any future updates to Panther, With both Utilities and SystemWorks supporting all current Mac hardware, Symantec says it will consider bootable CDs for future Apple hardware on a case-by-case basis. Once the preeminent utility of its kind, Norton Utilities exits the Mac market on a low note. “They haven’t made sub- stantial changes in years,” says David Shayer, a software engineer who worked on previous versions of Norton Utilities, Plenty of worth- while programs are ready to take Norton Utili- ties’ place. OS X includes Disk Utility, a built-in utility that includes disk repair among its many functions. Among third-party applications, Disk Warrior 3.0, from Alsoft (www.alsoft .com) tackles most of the system-repair and -optimization tasks handled by Nor- ton Utilities. Micromat (www.micromat .com) offers a pair of diagnostic and repair programs, ‘Tech Tool Pro 4.0 and Drive 10.—PHILIP MICHAELS INTEGO’S WARNING CREATES A STIR A Trojan among Us? Intego (www.intego.com) caused quite a stir in April, when the utility maker announced that its Virus- Barrier software's definitions had been updated to catch the first Trojan horse affecting Mac OS X users. Suddenly, Mac users were scrambling to update their existing software or buy new antiviral ‘tools—just what Intego’s PR folks had in mind. When the dust had settled, it became clear that Intego had overstated the risk to Mac users. The “MP3Concept” Trojan horse was in fact a harmless proof-of-concept file—an application masquerading as an MP3 file, It was created by programmer Bo Lindbergh to show that such an exploit was possible. Antivirus developer Symantec (www.symantec.com) quietly updated definitions for Norton AntiVirus for OS X as well, but made it clear in a statement that "this Trojan does not contain any malicious code" and that “it is not spreading and infecting Mac users." As of this writing, Apple had not addressed the vulnerability, other than to issue a statement saying that it was aware of the issue and “working proactively to investigate it.” But changes will be needed— one thing Apple could do is modify the Finder to show an application as such, even if its file extension is mp3 or the like. At press time, word was spreading of another Trojan horse, masquerading as a Web installer for a Microsoft Word 2004 preview release, that deletes the contents of a user's Home directory. This Trojan can’t replicate itself; a user must download and run the program.—MmaRK H. ANBINDER July 2004 MACWORLD. 23 JULY 2004 MAC BEAT = WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF MAC SUPPORT ON THE PDA? A Read on Palm ‘Things looked grim for PDA-loving Mac users at the PalmSource developers’ confer- ence in February. It was there that PalmSource—the company that develops and licenses both Palm OS and synchronization software—announced that its new Palm OS Cobalt operating system wouldn’t include native Mac support. Was this yet another high-profile developer abandoning the Mac, leaving Mac users high and dry? Not exactly. PalmSource may develop the Palm OS, but an entirely different company, PalmOne, makes the hardware. And PalmOne (www.palmone.com), whose products include Zire and Tungsten handhelds and ‘Treo smart phones, has no plans to turn its back on Mac users. “[We] plan to continue delivering solutions that meet [Mac users’] needs,” says Stéphane Maes, senior product line manager of handhelds. So where might these solutions come from? Mark/Space (www.markspace.com) offers The Missing Sync for Palm OS, which replaces the HotSync Manager software for Mac users and adds advanced features such as iPhoto and iTunes support, the ability to mount memory cards to the desktop, and Internet shar- ing. The company has already announced plans to release a new version of The Missing Syne that will support all current conduits for Cobalt-based handhelds. The big question, then, is whether Mac users will need to pony up additional money—The Missing Sync sells for $30 as a download and $40 on a CD—to get a hand- held that supports PC out of the box. “The fear [for Mac users] is that ‘T'l have to go buy something,” says Ken Freeman, senior product manager for The Missing Sync. Mark/Space has been in contact with several companies, and when Cobalt devices become available later this year, he says, “some licensees will include our software in the box.” (Asked whether PalmOne was considering such an option, Maes declined to com- ment on specifics but acknowledged it was an option.)—JONATHAN SEFF APPLE UPDATES iTUNES, ONLINE MUSIC STORE Not the Same Old Song-and-Dance Apple marked the first anniversary of the iTunes Music Store’s launch by updating the eponymous music jukebox application and adding new features to the online store. While bumping the number of comput- ers authorized to play songs bought at the iTunes store to five, from three, the update cuts the number of times you can bum a playlist to seven, from ten. Here are some of the other changes introduced in iTunes 4,5 and to the iTunes Music Store—JoNaTHAN SEFF > The new Apple Lossless Encoder imports music from CDs without any loss in quality and at roughly 50 to 60 percent of their original size. > Party Shuffle is a dynamic playlist that randomly shuffles songs from your library or other playlists while letting you add or delete songs at any time. available on the iTunes Music Store) for other users to rate and use when shopping. > Radio Charts tracks the most-played songs, from more than 1,200 radio sta- tions around the country, available at the iTunes Music Store. > a Music Video section features 72 music videos viewable from within iTunes, with > CD Insert Printing lets you print track list- links to the songs. ings for playlists usieg different templates. 5. « movie Trailers area tnchudes many of the movie previews featured on Apple's Quick- Time Web site. > iMix lets you publish your playlists (or rather, the songs in your playlists that are 24 MACWORLD July 2004 HARDWARE BEAT InFocus X2, from InFocus (wwrwinfocus.com): Digital pro jector features native SVGA teso- lution (5999). MFC-8440, MFC-8840D, and MFC-8840DN, from Brother Inter- national (www.brother.com): Three five-in-one flatbed laser multi- function printers feature faxing, laser printing, digital copying, and scanning (8440, $450; 8840D, $550; 8840DN, $650). Notevision XR-15, from Sharp Electronics (wwwwwesharplcd.com): Three-pound projector features native SVGA resolution ($1,299). Optura 30 and Optura 40, from Canon (wwwwuisa.canon.com): 2.2 megapixel camcorders both feature an RGB primary color filter and 16:9 wide-screen mode (Optura 30, $899; Optura 40, $999). WorkCentre M20/M20i, from Xerox (www.xerox.com): Desktop multifunction device comes in three configurations including CopyCentre C20, a stand-alone digital copier; WorkCentre M20, a digital copier and printer with color scanning capabilities; and WorkCentre M20i, which offers copying, printing, faxing and scanning (C20, $1,349; M20, $1,649; M20i, $2,199)—cowrteD BY PHILIP MICHAELS PRODUCTIVITY BEAT ConceptDraw MindMap 3.0, from Computer Systems Odessa (wwwuconceptdraw.com): Brain- storming tool adds an outline view, new user interface, and perfor- mance enhancements for working with large maps (Standard Edition: $99; upgrade, $39; Professional Edition: $149; upgrade, $49). DataWerkz 1.0, from Uwerkz (wwew.uwerkz.com): OS X app offers graphical user interface for creating and editing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases ($99). Six Degrees 2.0, from Creo (wwew.cteo.com): Updated ver- sion of e-mail, file, and contact- information search tool adds browser-based interface and new search features ($99) —cowitep BY PHIUP MICHAELS www.amacworld.com PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER BELANGER and knowledge more leading brat e right yple who at Witl jou re dedic designjet 30n1 AP JetDirect Pr 4 pl drop size e resistant quality prints’ hp desic La ay gle overt: G5; $40 alton fe reqted Oe ends on 8004 oc ile quai Lt "asd on Whe Imaging Reseach, INC testing sing he HP ik cates and HP Pei Ps Pa Cl Se hee Ge Core nr 1 en of te pods putas by foe era be ny varies eed oe roc and snk feng reused bot ont a Glngeg mote ont pos Gacntuaton, pata ine to product avalilty. Terie CDW cnet quarts tat wl be ole to ul astoners des The tsa anol oe eo be raed en gn Os "Receive a FREE S12MB RAM upgrade with he puchase te age, CB ns eto mle tte Photo ad Proaing Gloss manufac, not CDW. Al ping manufac price changes and eos in adertsements Al odes are su ‘Web Ste at COWam. Novice of ebjecton to and rejection of any adional oc dferent ems in any form delivered by cane is heey ven. © 2004 CDW Corporation, Choose 2 at www.macworld.com/getinfo JULY 2004 MAC BEAT : —— 26 MACWORLD July 2004 BEHIND THE G5’S NEW DRIVE TECHNOLOGY Killer Serial A little more than a year ago, Apple ushered in a new era of Mac computing: the Power Mac G5 introduced Mac users to a redesigned PowerPC processor. Almost lost in all the hoopla, however, was the Power Mac's switch in hard-drive technology, from Parallel ATA to Serial ATA, Mention hard-drive technology to all but the geekiest of Mac users, and you'll likely be rewarded with glassy stares, But don’t let that daunt you—the tangible benefits of the switch are enough to open anyone's eyes, Parallel ATA, or Advanced Technology Attachment (also known as PATA), became the standard alternative to SCSI hard drives on the Mac with 1999's debut of the blue-and-white Power Mac G3. It let Mac users take advantage of the inexpensive drives then available to PC users. In the ensu- ing years, ATA speeds have increased (Ultra ATA/133 provides a maximum of 133 MBps of bandwidth, though no Mac has shipped with an ATA controller faster than What Serial Offers Serial ATA (SATA) increases the band- width to 150 MBps. So Serial ATA builds in lots of headroom, which becomes important as ATA drive speeds inch closer to Parallel ATA’s maximum. ‘There are other benefits, such as Serial ATA’ new data and power cables for con- necting hard drives to the controller. Besides being smaller and easier to plug and unplug, they're thinner and easier to route through tight spaces inside your computer (and this allows for better air- flow and cooling). The cables can also stretch as far as a meter—more than twice the length of Parallel ATA cables—offer- ing more flexibility for drive placement. Because you can hot-plug the connectors, they don’t require that you shut down and restart your computer; this makes ATA RAID configu- rations easier to work with. The new Serial ATA cables also have a significant bonus: they improve data reliability. makes way for Serial ATA. Unlike Parallel ATA, which allows you to connect two drives per channel, Serial ATA permits only one. The downside to this setup is that each pair of drives shares the bandwidth available to that bus, and the drives require jumpers to set master and slave positions (or Cable Select mode, which designates the master and slave based on each drive's position along the cable). Serial ATA uses individual cables for each drive, so there’s no competition for bandwidth. You don’t have to mess with any jumper settings, either. Serial Installments Right now, the Power Mac G5 is the only Mac that features Serial ATA. But since another benefit of Serial ATA is its superior power management for drives, it's not hard to imagine that it will appear in future PowerBook designs. Meanwhile, owners of older PCI- based Macs don’t need to buy a new machine to reap the rewards of Serial ATA. Sonnet Technologies (www -sonnettech.com) sells the $100 Tempo Serial ATA PCI, which adds two Serial ATA channels to the interior of Macs as old as the Power Mac 4400, Performa 6400, and most of the Mac clon FirmTek (www.firmtek.com) sel SeriTek/1S2 Adapter for $70. Acard ‘Technology (www.acard.com) offers s eral adapters featuring different ports and configurations. All major hard-drive manufacturers now sell Serial ATA drives, which cost about as much as or slightly more than Parallel ATA drives. Since most hard drives ship without cables, and Serial ATA cards come with just one data cable, you'll probably need additional or different cables for data and power connections.— JONATHAN INPUT DEVICE BEAT Ge Easy Barcode Pen, from Easy Bar- code Technologies (wmmweasybar codetech.com): Pen-shaped USB scanner reads bar codes into any program and supports more than 15 bar-code symbologies ($265). ImageCaster 2.0, from Econ Technologies (www.econtech nologies.com); Web-cam software adds motion detection, Web-page templates, QuickTime movie com- position, and a secure FIP con- nection ($30; upgrade, free), Talk, from Griffin Technology (wnngriffintechnology.com): Voice recorder snaps on to the top of third-generation iPods to record 8kHz 16-bit mono WAV files ($40). iVeZeen 2,0, from Boinx Soft- ware (wwwboinx.com): Applica- tion for turning Web cams into camcorders (formerly known as iRecordNow) adds voice control, AppleScript support, and enhanced motion detection ($15), RemoteRemote 2, from Engi- neered Audio (www.engineered audio.com); Radio Frequency- based remote control works with iPods with dock connectors and iPod minis ($45).—compiten By PHIUP MICHAELS AirPort Extreme Base Station, from Apple (www.apple.com): New model of wireless network- ing hardware adds support for Power Over Ethernet ($249). NetWare Client for Mac OS X, from Prosoft Engineering (www -prosofteng.com): Client software for accessing a Novell network via IP adds support for files larger than 44GB on servers running NetWare 6 5P3 or late, (pricing starts at $149 for a single seat; upgrade, free). Super Cantenna, from Quicker- Tek (www.quickertek.com): 412dBi 2.4GHz directional antenna improves wireless network range ($70 to $150). USB Server, from Keyspan (wwwkeyspan.com): Server allows users to share USB printers and scanners across a network ($129).—comriteo BY PHILP MICHAELS ‘wwwmacworld.com PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE POWER IS NOW YOURS! INTRODUCING... TECHTOOL PRO VERSION 4 TechTool Pro includes S.M.A.R.T. testing, hardware tests, scheduling and alerts, performance tools, and more... even scavenges for files when all else fails! NEW FEATURE! eDrive a ® Hardware ‘ =e Run button will execute the selected Hat ‘selections by using the Hardware Tauts discl ow INSTANT, SAVINGS! 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Choose 37 at www.macworld.com/getinfo JULY 2004 MAC BEAT A SPECIAL 20TH-ANNIVERSARY RECIPE A Mac Fan’s Feast Finding an appropriate way to celebrate the Mac’s that’s worthy of the words 20th anniversary is a tricky business. Steve Jobs and Steve Apple and Muc. And we found Wozniak aren’t likely to respond to your RSVP just the man to do it—Alton requests. That Bondi-blue party hat you con- Brown, the host of the funny and structed is already beginning to lose its luster. educational Good Eats on Food Network, and a And bringing all your old Macs out of storage for a festive get-together doesn’t wind up being the swinging good time you imagined. Or so we've heard. But Macworld figured out the perfect way to commemorate 20 years of the Macintosh—create a dish Mac fan (see Hot Stuff; February 2004, or “Add Apples for Flavor,” Buzz, March 21, for more on Brown's love of the Mac). Brown put his culinary know-how to work, creating an original recipe: Apple Macaroni and Cheese. Now, it may be a little bit odd to open up Macworld 2 and see the word Apple next to macaroni instead of Mac- -+ intosh, But we've made and y cr APPLE MACARONI AND CHEESE i = 1 ta sted this recipe several = ' es. Bring 4 quarts of salted , ta a g, MAGS Ne er a een add pata and cook until ' it and we can vouch at i ‘45 ounces apple (10 ounces diced and S ounces yt Te ot aside, | the recipe’ tasty, sweet-and- 1 grated), Ful Braeburn, or Granny Smith in a large saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon of butter Add the savory combination of sautéed 8 ' 2"2 cups milk apples and sauté until they're just beginning shel + apples es Gorgonzola, Ched- z i id tender (4 to 5 minutes). Remove from pan and set aside. | dar, and Parmesan cheese. It’s = 1 ARG a CSE er parte saucepan, het the mik and apple cer an excellent side dish. 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Gradually addy) 1JF visit fine.macwor'd.co = fap eter teh oe eee aa a Gagonla cheese and stitocombine. | 0006to download a PDF of {ounces Chelar cheese grated vette apes and pene pasta \ the recipe or files for the Com- = ‘3 ounces Gorgonzola cheese, grated ‘Transfer to a buttered 13-by-9-inch glass bak- ' puter Cuisine Deluxe or = ' hese ing dish ard sprinkle the Parmesan cheese} Cookware recipe-organizer his Forel top Bake for 20 minutes orunibub> to eaine We've also got tips © “ bling. Ifthe dish isn't brown on top, tum thar willl ensure a dish so tasty = ' on the bret and brown for 2103 Minute et night oO" ¢ © 2004, Alton Brown, Serves 8 to 10 asa side dish, } even want to stop by for a & taste. JASON SNELL SYNCDEK KEEPS DATABASES IN SYNC Syncing Sensation FileMaker users turn to the database applica- tion for quick and easy access to everything from contact information to sales data. But when it’s time for mobile users to sync their data with the home office's database, File- Maker can be anything but quick and easy. SyneDek 5.0, from WorldSync (www .syncdek.com), tackles the problem of syn- chronizing far-flung FileMaker databases. The FileMaker add-on provides automated ‘two-way synchronization. Remote users can upload new information into FileMaker and receive changes from the main database, with SyncDek resolving any conflicting data. 28 MACWORLD July 2004 SyneDek emerged several years ago as a product developed for information-manage- ment consulting firm A. E. Wood & Erickson, which was looking for a way to let clients sync data between separate databases in multiple locations, even when the clients’ employees weren't on a network at the same time. These days, SyncDek helps a wide array of users. NASA and Lockheed Martin use it for manag- ing engineering reviews in four different coun- tries, the Atlanta Hawks and the Toronto Raptors rely on it for sharing scouting reports, and biotech firm Genentech uses it to collect market data from mobile account managers. Written in Java, SyncDek 5.0 uses XML for automated data exchange, which runs in the background of FileMaker (including the newly released FileMaker Pro 7). SyncDek 5.0 deployment licenses cost $849 for the Sync- Dek network engine and $249 for each SyncDek single-user engine. SyncDek Devel- oper Kit, which provides developer tools for creating demo engines, is available for $749; a SyncDek Starter Kit combining the developer tools with network and single-user engines is available for $1,499. (WorldSync is offering introductory prices on all SyncDek offerings through July 31,)—PHiuP MICHAELS wow.macworld.com It’s a CD/DVD label. 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JULY 2004 MAC BEAT __ = — — = : Motion Granted Apple's Motion fills the motion-graphics— MOTION, XSAN JOIN VIDEO-PRODUCTION LINEUP Video Plans in Motion Professional video users represent a prime target for Apple, which wants to sup- ply not only the hardware used in high-end video production but also the soft- ware. However, gaps that remain in Apple's video-production offerings prevent pros from relying entirely on Apple hardware and software. Apple recently unveiled a pair of new products that fill some of those holes and move video editing even closer to an all-Mac environment. Forward Motion Adobe After Effects (www.adobe .com; Standard version, $699; Profes- sional version, $999) and Discreet’s eee) software void in the company's high-end video-editing lineup. Combustion (www.discreet.com; $995) have been the main choices for Mac users interested in motion graphics, compositing, and visual effects. With the arrival of the $299 Motion, Apple has added its own offering to the mix. Motion animates text, graphics, and video; instantly previews multiple filters and particle effects; and fea- tures Behaviors—natural movement of type and graphics with effects such as gravity and wind that don’t require keyframes. A Dashboards interface provides you with contextual, semi- transparent floating palettes. And a Project Pane lets you view all layers, filters, Behaviors, masks, and objects simultaneously. Motion can also use Affect Effects format plug-ins. “Motion fits snugly between Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro,” says Rob Schoeben, Apple's vice president of applications marketing. “Someone can use Motion alone, but it arrives on the scene as a member of a family that work really well together.” Though Motion does many of the things that After Effects and Combus- tion do, its price and its simplified interface make it clear that the app isn’t meant to displace those products. Several Apple apps—namely, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro—have pushed Adobe to drop Mac support for some programs. But, in this first itera- tion at least, Motion doesn’t seem to be advanced enough to pose a similar threat to the established After Effects. Xsan Marks the Storage Spot Often, the biggest cost in a high-end video-editing environment comes The Rest of the Video Picture Motion and Xsan made flashy debuts at April's National Association of Broadcasters trade show. But Apple didn’t give short shrift to its pre-existing video-production offerings.—JoNaTHAN SEFF from the storage needed for the huge files used on a daily basis, and from the means of connecting users to that storage. Apple’s new Xsan is a Storage Area Network (SAN) file system aimed at users in video and other busi- nesses looking for high-speed access to centralized, shared data where even conventional Local Area Networks (LANs) might still be too slow. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system designed to work with Mac OS X. It provides multiple computers with concurrent file-level read and write access to shared volumes over Fibre Channel (a high-speed, high- bandwidth serial protocol), and it’s certified to work with Apple’s pro applications. As many as 64 users can simultaneously access a single storage volume using Xsan, which supports volumes (or files) as large as 16TB. Editors working on a video project concurrently or clusters that need fast access to large amounts of data require such capabilities. A beta version of Xsan is being seeded to qualified customers, Apple expects to roll out Xsan this fall for $999 per system, Although that may sound expensive, the closest competi- tor in price is Charismac’s Fibre- Share, which starts at $1,249 per seat. Other products, such as Com- mandSoft’s FibreJet and Studio Net- work Solutions’ SANmp, can cost even more.—JIM DALRYMPLE AND JONATHAN SEFF > Final Cut Pro HD The video-editing program received a new name, as well ‘as new features—Final Cut Pro HD adds support for the DVCPRO HD format. The application can capture that footage using FireWire 400 without any additional hardware. Final Cut Pro HD can play back four streams of native DVCPRO HD video and includes a Digital Cinema Desktop feature that lets you monitor SD and HD content on an Apple Cinema Display. The $999 application is a free upgrade for Final Cut Pro 4 users, > DVD Studio Pro 3 Just one year after the huge DVD Studio Pro 2 update, Apple upgraded its high-end DVD authoring program again. New to this release are Alpha Transitions and DTS 5.1 audio support—adding even more professional 30 MACWORLD july 2004 abilities—and a new Graphical View to help you keep track of large projects, With Compressor 1.2 and Final Cut Pro HD, DVD Studio Pro 3 can scan and encode HD content directly to MPEG-2, The new version, already shipping, costs $499; exist- ing users can upgrade for $199. > Shake 3.5 The updated compositing and special-effects tool for cinema and Video features new shape-based morphing and warping capabilites that rely on spline tools. Version 3,5 also improves Rendezvous networking and adds support for 16-bit RGB and 10-bit YUV QuickTime formats. Shake 3.5 is a $799 upgrade for Shake 3 users. Shake costs $2,999 for Mac 0S X (with unlimited render licenses) or $4,999 for Linux and Irix (with annual maintenance fees of $1,499). wovw.macworld.com Qo Saue GHe COLONY! You've built the perfect simulated life on earth. Now let’s see how you do with the rest of the galaxy. 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To find more about this exciting solution to boosting the effectiveness of teams of all sizes, visit www.filemaker.com/teamwork, PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER BELANGER OUTSTANDING: §666§ | VERY GOOD: itis | GOOD: $06 | FLAWED: + | UNACCEPTABLE: $ Reviews you can trust: Macworld rates only final shipping products, not prototypes. What we review is what you can actually buy. PowerBook G4s__ The Whole Line Sports Faster CPUs; AirPort Extreme Now Standard BY HENRY NORR The year 2003, which Steve Jobs dubbed “the Year of the Notebook,” brought big changes to Apple’s PowerBook line—the introduction of a 12-inch version, the tran- sition from titanium to aluminum, and the addition of AirPort Extreme, built-in Blue- tooth, FireWire 800 (in some models), and USB 2.0, among other enhancements. In contrast, 2004 is shaping up as a year of incremental improvements, at least judging by the first round of PowerBook updates. Instead of new designs or breakthrough technologies, Apple has delivered modest improvements in performance, made Air- Port Extreme standard in all configurations, and trimmed prices at the upper end of the line, And it appears—knock on wood—that the company has resolved the quality prob- lems (with screens and latches) that marred many of last year’s mobile Macs. Mightier Mite ‘The biggest changes are in the smallest and newest member of the PowerBook G4 fam- ily, the model with a 12-inch display. As before, it’s available in two standard config- urations: a $1,599 version with a Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) optical drive and a $1,799 ver- sion with a SuperDrive (DVD-R/ CD-RW). While we tested only the latter, both versions now have noticeably faster G4 processors (1.33GHz, up from 1GHz) and 50 percent more hard-drive capacity (60GB ‘Apple Computer ‘Apple Computer versus 40GB). While the amount of built-in memory hasn’t changed (it’s still 256MB standard), the bus it sits on is now faster (167MHz versus 133MHz). Video RAM has grown from 32MB to 64MB. And the Super- Drive can now burn DVDs at 4x, twice as fast as before. Most important, Apple’s AirPort Extreme (802.11g) wireless-networking card—previ- ously a $99 option in the 12-inch configura tions—is now standard equipment, along with Bluetooth, The smallest PowerBook still lacks some of its bigger siblings’ advanced features— FireWire 800, Gigabit Ethernet, a backlit keyboard, and a PC Card expansion slot. It also has an older, slower graphics chip (Nvidia’s GeForce FX Go5200), and with only one DIMM slot, maximum memory is limited to 1.25GB, compared with 2GB in the larger models. The 12-inch, tradition- ally proportioned screen obviously doesn’t pro- vide as much workspace as the wide-screen dis- plays on the bigger models, and cram- ming in 1,024 by 768 pixels makes everything look a little small. But if none of that bothers you—and Apple 15-inch PowerBook G4 (Os COMPAT- {BILITY CONTACT PROS for the average business traveler or student there’s no reason it should—there’s a lot to like about the new 12-inch PowerBook. When Apple introduced the first one, more than a year ago, it was noticeably slower than the 15- and 17-inch models of the time, but that performance gap has all but disappeared: the new 12-inch model is a genuine speedster (see the bench- mark chart), The machine’s compact design and rela- tive lightness (4.6 pounds) make it by far the most travel-friendly of the Power- Books. And with AirPort Extreme now built in, it’s a better value than ever. The 12-inch model’s battery life is also quite good: at the Automatic Energy Saver setting, we were able to listen to audio streamed from the Internet via AirPort Extreme for 3 hours and 35 minutes. As with the previous aluminum PowerBooks, AirPort reception is impressive: we man- aged to maintain a wire- less connection not only throughout a modest two- story house, but also across the street and almost two doors down the block—in all, nearly 120 feet from our Base Station. Is Bigger Better? For the larger PowerBooks, the latest update brings fewer enhancements, such as faster processors. The 15- inch Combo-drive configura- tion clocks at 1.33GHz, while the 15-inch SuperDrive model and the 17- inch model now speed along at 1.5GHz. That’s up from 1GHz, 1.25GHz, and _2GONS® 800/692-7753, Compact and elegant design; improved Small screen no PC Card slot. “Apple Computer Apple Computer 34 MACWORLD July 2004 worapple.com performance; AirPort Extreme and = ~s Bluetooth now standard; SuperDrive. F 800/692-7753, Large, wide screen; AirPort Extreme and ‘Big and a litle heavy for travel; meager www-applecom Bluetooth now standard; advanced 0 | memory forthe price. ee 800/692-7753, Large, wide screen; ample memory and Big and a litle heavy for travel; pricey wiwwapplecom hard-drive capacity; SuperDrive; advanced relative to Combo-crive version, p ed MO options; backlit keyboard. 800/692-7753, Enormous screen; ample memory and Too big anid heavy for comfonable travel. ‘whwapplecom hard-drive capacity; advanced 1/0 options; backlit keyboard; reduced price www.macworld.com 34 Laptop computers 38 USB-FireWire combo cards 40 Compression software 43 Data-visualization app 46 Network MP3 Player 12-inch PowerBook G4/1.33GHz with _jogear GUF202 Stuffit Deluxe 8 1DL6 HomePod SuperDrive Koutech Systems 7002 40 Download manager 44 Audiovisual-networking 49 The Game Room VS-inch PowerBook G4/1.33 GHz Orange Micro OrangeCambo Speed Download 2 hardware Close Combat; First to Fight, Rally 1S:inch PowerBook G4/1.5 GH StarTech CB2U2F 41 Flle-transfer package fyeHome Shift, The Journey to Wild Divine, 17-inch PowerBook G4/1.5 GHz 39 Sound-module apps Tokens 1 44 Digital-video recorder Tron 2.0, World of Warcraft 36 Music-scoring applications BD. 42 Synchronization software EyeTV 200 54 Mac Gems Finale 2004 Tilogy You Synchronize 46 G5 hard drive ‘AFS Monitor, CalculateSizeCMy, Sibelius 3.1 65.Jam Fob, iCalibrate, Path Finder, Totu, xSMB Speedmark 3.3 Cinema 4D XL8.5 iMovie 4.0 ‘Tunes 4.2 Adobe Photoshop CS Unreal Tournament <“” ‘12-inch PowerBook Ga/1.33GHz 15-inch PowerBook G4/1.33GHz 15-inch PowerBook G4/1,5GHz ‘17-inch PowerBook G4/1.5GHz 17-inch PowerBook G4/1.33GHz BEST RESULTS IN BOLD, REFERENCE SYSTEM IN ITALICS ‘This speed chart is abbreviated, lease see our Web sie (find.macworld.con/0019) forthe full PowerBook, speed-test results. Speedmark 3.3 scores are relative to those af a 1GHz eMac (G4), which RENDER AVERAGE signed a score of 100, Photoshop, Cinema 4D Xt, iMovie, and Tunes scores are in minutes:seconds. All systems were running Mac OS X 10.3.3 with 512MB of RAM. We tested MP3 encoding with an audio-CD track that was 45 minutes fong, converting it from the hard drive using iTunes‘ Better Quality setting We used Unreal Tournament’s Antalus Botmatch average frames-per-second score; we tested at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels, The Photoshop Suite testis a set of 14 scripted tasks using a SOMB file. Photoshop's memory was set to 75 percent and History Was set to Minimum, For more information on Speedmark 3.3, visit ynww.macworld,comy/speedmark—MAcWORLO LAB TESTING BY JAMES GALBRAITH AND EFF K, MUSTEAD 1.33GHz, respectively. Other enhance- ments include a new graphics chip—the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 64MB or, optionally, 128MB of video RAM—and 4x DVD burning (in only the SuperDrive- equipped models). In addition, AirPort Extreme is now built into both 15-inch models as well as the 17- inch; it used to be optional in the lesser 15- inch configuration. The backlit keyboard—which can really turn heads on red-eye flights—remains standard only in the top two configu- rations, the 17-inch and SuperDrive- equipped 15-inch m