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You drag TL WM I] f Words tables I You tun ‘ty a i D Charts graphics E Microsoft Excel calculations A S_ In your Word document. From one program B You turn And drop them E G& Make something. G Your Word document O I A Into another N Into a PowerPoint” H Make anything. T Presentation. E Instantly. Phar ; 0 This is you. Working. You see everything D F 0 Come together. . Seamlessl i Seamlessly. Micresoft [Dien 00 vou want 10 co room] Edit 5 Ri ' PowerCurve 601/120 Starter PowerCurve 601/120 Hot Pick PowerWave 604/120 Starter tor’s Havel & comtz PowerPC™ 601+ 120MHz PowerPC™ 601+ 120MHz PowerPC” 604 F ; 8MB RAM (256MB Max RAM) 8MB RAM (256MB Max RAM) 16MB RAM (512MB Max RAM) i peel deg Tao Optional Level 2 Cache (1MB Max) Optional Level 2 Cache (1MB Max) Optional 256K, 512K, or 1MB Cache recommend that you take a 850MB 11ms SCSI Hard Drive 850MB 11ms SCSI Hard Drive 1,0GB 11ms SCSI Hard Drive serious look at what Power 3 Fast PCI Expansion Slots Quad-Speed (4X) CD-ROM Drive Quad-Speed (4X) CD-ROM Drive Computing has to offer.” Built-in Ethernet (10Base-T & AAU!) 3 Fast PCI Expansion Slots 3 Fast PCI Expansion Slots Maclser- Aug 95 Built-in Graphics w/1MB VRAM. Built-in Ethernet (10Base-T & AAU!) 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Aug 95 256K Level 2 Cache (1MB Max) 256K Level 2 Cache (1MB Max) 512K Level 2 Cache (1MB Max) ‘a - 1,0GB 11ms SCSI Hard Drive 1.0GB 11ms SCSI Hard Drive 1.0GB 11ms SCSI Hard Drive ees dee Quad-Speed (4X) CD-ROM Drive 14 inch .28 DP Monitor 14 inch 28 DP Monitor avctots PowerMac counterparts 3 Fast PCI Expansion Slots Quad-Speed (4X) CD-ROM Drive Quad-Speed (4X) CD-ROM Drive for speed and compatibility Built-in Ethernet (10Base-T & AAU!) 3 Fast PCI Expansion Slots 3 Fast PCI Expansion Slots and are every bit as good 64-bit PCI Graphics w/2MB VRAM Built-in Ethernet (10Base-T & AAU!) Built-in Ethernet (10Base-T & AAU!) i as a dyed-in-the-wool Extended Keyboard & Mouse 64-bit PCI Graphics w/2MB VRAM 64-bit PCI Graphics w/2MB VRAM * Macintosh.” Tower Configuration Tower Configuration Infoworld: June 95 Extended Keyboard & Mouse Extended Keyboard & Mouse $3699 $4299 $4799 “With an experienced staff recruited from Dell, APS, and Apple, Power Computing has designed a robust support syste! 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Circle 161 on reader service card Macworld 94 102 4 April 1996 Features Internet Essentials Get On the Web BY MEL BECKMAN You don’t have to be a Unix-head to build your own Internet server, Mac- world Lab compares solutions for a Mac-based server and proves the Mac is definitely a contender when it comes to the Web. Internet Essentials Stay On the Web BY MATTHEW HAWN From small office to big business, every- one’s getting on the Net—what about you? Practical advice on how to integrate the Internet with your business, plus a list of ten essentials to keep your site active and profitable. aN i GIF giving, in NetSmart, page 121. The Right Tools for the Job BY ROBERT C ECKHARDT Sometimes it’s not what Mac you have, but what you have in it, We comb through scores of utilities to come up with a winning com- bination of productivity tools. MACWORLD 38 40 41 46 48 THE MACINTOSH® AUTHORITY APRIL 1996 News News Flash Shakeup at Apple Spindler makes way for a new CEO. Coming Attractions Exciting Copland features and interface refinements previewed at Expo sneak peek. Internet Watch Server security * Try out the latest browsers, and more. Special Report Which Port Will It Be? Firewire, GeoPort, or USB. Macworld Exclusive Quark's Dilemma Product and personnel problems nag the page-layout giant. ‘Adobe Illustrator 6.0: what's new, what's not— reviewed, page 54. 19 27 33 252 KY OCR miniscanner, reviewed, page 75. oe Opinion Letters State of the Mac 8Y ADRIAN MELLO Apple: Sur- vival guide for a new era. The Desktop Critic sy pavip PoGuE Eight ways to make a million, Viewpoint ay sTeveN Levy A visit from our favorite iconoclast. 115 121 125 128 130 ‘The PowerCurve 601/120—Macworld Lab-tested and reviewed, page 57. Secrets Comedy of Errors BY JOSEPH SCHORR Plain- English translations of the Mac’s error messages. Quick Tips BY LON POOLE and shortcuts. Tips, tricks, NetSmart BY CAMERON CRoTTY The hows and whys of encoding elec- tronic files. Media Sounding Good By JIM HEID ‘Tips on how to get the best multimedia sound. Publishing Workshop BY DAVID BLATNER Clipalittle here, crop a little there. Graphics Workshop gy caTHy ages Get the most out of customized brushes. ON THE CovER Photograph by Kevin Candland: sereen image by FPG 133 155 159 Buyers’ Tools Affordable Color Printers BY PETER M STOLLER The proof is in the printing—Mac- world Lab tests six ink-jet print- ers designed for small offices, with surprising results. Consumer Advocate BY HOWARD BALDWIN Howto choose the right Mac for you. Star Ratings Macworld’s ratings for hundreds of hardware and software prod- ucts at a glance. 4 Down the CD-ROM road with DVD, page 45. ‘Ae 1996 Vohene 13, Mamber Mac SSN 0781-9617 9 sb hed meni by acne Comments ne Krad Beet ces 401 Sten, San Fanenco, CA 9407, 415,282.05, Sn 303/04. 1465,Sutrgrion aes ae S201 es, $6DYo 38 es, onal postage ASST pet eh posta for Cana and Meno ears A846 pet yea fot postage oa ther counts Scand tla ponage pat Sn rac, Cable and at abn ang otces Pontmaier: Send abs change to Maw PO Boe 54522, Reviews 54 ##kx/7.1 Adobe Illustrator 6.0 Illustration program 56 *kk*/8.2 FileMaker Pro 3.0 Relational database 57 xkx*x/75 PowerCurve 601/120 Desktop system 58 *&%%/5.9 PowerBook Duo 2300c ‘Subnotebook 59 %«k/6.3 Adobe PhotoDeluxe Image-editing package 60° **%/5.0 QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card; ‘*/1.9 Yar Screamer Accelerator cards 61 x*xx*xx/8.9 Retrospect 3.0; Retrospect Remote 3.0 Backup utility 62 *x/6.3 QuickStream/3; kK */3,.2 TribeLink2 Remote-access servers 63 *#*&k*x*/8.0 CommuniGate Client/server messaging software 64 **/3.7 Biz Card Manager; *k/3.7 Biz Card Reader; **/3,8 VIP Scan Business card scanners 66 *x*x/7.1 Kiplinger TaxCut; ekk*/8.6 MacinTax Deluxe; ***/5.2 Personal Tax Edge. Tax software 67 %*/4.0 ProView 1.1; **/3.5 Mediagniigen 1.0.1 Multimedia authoring software 69 *kkx/3.9 KPT Final Effects 3.0 After Effects plug-ins 69 **x/6.5 Movie Cleaner Pro 1.1.4 ie QuickTime-compression utility 70 *kx*x/7.5 Hitachi StudioPad Graphics tablet 70 **x/5.0 MailKeeper 1.0.2 Online information database 72 *kk/8,5 Descent 1.0 Adventure game : 72 *&k*k/7.4 Spreadware Statisti Menu 4 Statistics software 75 **x/6.9 Mac IRISPen Pen OCR scanner 75 %*/4.9 STIP Professional 2.1 Multimedia authoring tool 77 *&kx/5.9 Sony PC Cam Desktop video camera 77 *x/3,.0 Indexicon 1.0 Indexing program for Word 6 78 *kkx/8.6 The Cartoon Guide to Physics Educational CD-ROM. 80 *k%*x/8.8 In the 1st Degree Interactive adventure game 82 *%/4.4 MapLinx 3.0 Mapping software. 84 %**/6.5 theFONDIer 4.0.1 Font utility MACWORLD April 1996 5 When it comes t MacUser magazine recently put some of the leading multi- media monitors through their paces. They performed lab tests on image and sound quality. ‘They stared at test documents, line art and scanned images. They played their favorite CD's at various levels. They fiddled with knobs and on-screen (2 nt Horse Sst controls. And they researched street prices and warranties. After all the results were in, the ViewSonic 17GA 16.0" viewable) PerfectSound™ multimedia monitor was singled out as the “Best Buy.” No wonder. An entirely new technology creates the ultimate screen image — maximum LLL MacUser™ Rated, December 1995 rating multimedia monitors, resolution of 1,280 x 1,024, And the 17GA is so attractively refresh rales as high as priced, it’ like getting the 160Hz, and razor sharp Weteigee 7élimedia feature screen definition. era a Sor free. Several And listen to this. High secemnen isas Competitive models fidelity speakers are integrated cast as much but are not into the monitor bezel so the even multimedia monitors. full, rich stereo sound envelopes Rather than toot our own you. To quote a satisfied horn, perhaps we should refer customer, “It rocks, man!” you to MacUser magazine: mice are nice but checks are better. “A real multimedia bargain,” they said, “the ViewSonic 17GA offers solid image quality, warm colors, fine-sounding audio and a slew of easy- to-use on-screen controls.” So when you're ready to buy, remember this: Many 17" (various viewable) multi- media monitors come +/OUTSTANDING © /ACCEPTABLE -/POOR RATING PRODUCT PRICE SUPPORT IMAGE ‘SOUND QUALITY QUALITY 5A re Areal multimedia bargain, the ViewSonic 17GA (estimated street price, $850) offers solid image quality, warm colors, fine-sound- BEST BUY ing audio, and a slew of easy-to-use on-sreen controls —all at a competitive price. The stylish case will also make you the envy of your office mates. $444 Apple Apple Vision 1710AV Zz = + + $48) IBM 17S/S = id ®. + 444: Nokia 4470 . * + = $44; Panasonic PanaMedia17 = @ + . © 44% Philips 178 . iM ° = 44; Philips Briliance 15A © = © = Circle 59 on reader service card with mice, bul only the ViewSonic 17GA has been selected as MacUser magazines “Best Buy.” AnthroCarts! AnthroCarts are so flexible. You have dozens of shapes and sizes » to choose, plus over 50 accessories to configure your cart exactly the way you want. { And they have a Lifetime Warranty! Made of steel and high density particle board, these AnthroCarts are as tough as nails. j See them all in our catalog, then call us direct to order. We'll ship to you the very next business day! < —. 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His statement: “The article did state that Copland will require controller chips found on Power Mac computers but not Power- PC upgrade cards. However, Copland will not be available for at least a year and feature sets and operating requirements are subject to change. Apple, too, has a lot of PowerPC upgrade cards in the field. It is certainly in their interest to broaden the list of supported Macs!” I'm writing to ask if Macworld could publish more details on this important issue. There must be many users of PowerPC-upgraded Macs who don’t want to be excluded from enjoying the benefits of Copland. Gary SHACKELFORD via the Internet According to Apple's OS technologies depart- ment, Copland will not run on PowerPC- upgraded 680X0 Macs or 500-series Power- Books, whether the upgrade cards were purchased from Apple or DayStar. 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Bon HEFFNER vite the Internet NHIS REVIEW OF DOMARK SOFTWARE'S Out of the Sun (January 1996), Mel Beckman waxed enthusiastic about the game’s historical accuracy. I am wary of his enthusiasm, though, because accord- ing to the graphic accompanying the review, the people at Domark Software (and evidently Mel) don’t know that the B-25 Mitchell was a product of North American Aviation, not Martin Aircraft. Marun Aircraft produced the B-26 Marauder, another twin-engine medium bomber of the era. Gary K. MCCoRMICK San Jose, California Ouch! We stand corrected.—Ed. S$ ALWAYS, I ENJOY YOUR MAGAZINE 4-4 for all the information it provides, both fun and business-related. I am still only part way through the January issue, but I thought you might want to know about a game site you did not mention in “Game On” (Macworld Online, January 1996). Why pay $9.95 per month to Out- land, fanatic backgammon players, when you can play for free via FIBS (First Inter- net Backgammon Server)? The interface is a little bare, and the screen constantly scrolls as players log in and out, start and finish games and matches, and so on, but I have found it addicting enough to make do. For those of us who are not into supergraphic, joystick-slammin’ action stuff, it is a blast. I have played against folks in Germany, Italy, and Greece, as well as throughout the United States. If only I could find some interest- ed flesh-and-blood types to start a local club, maybe I could get off FIBS and get back to work! ADAM Tyson via the Internet continues MACWORLD April 1996 19 EXPANDS YOUR ILLUSTRATOR AND FREEHAND PALETTES Warp Frame ShadowLand and more! *..a wonderful callecto the kind of product every graphic art shoud keep clse a hand. Wook t HIKK/B5 1.800.472.9025 Mention Dept. 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If the command-line interface distresses you ton much, download Paul Ferguson's MacFIBS 2.0.3 graphical front end from frp://fep.best.com/ pub/fergy.—Ed. QuickTake Retake N YOUR DIGITAL CAMERAS REVIE! (January 1996), Deke McClelland says. “You should avoid quarter-screen pho- tos—one image contains 77,000 pixels, less than half the number used to print the yellow F at the beginning of this article.” That may be true if the F Deke was refer- ring to was printed on a 600-dpi printer. At screen resolution, it would have taken up, at most, 1024 pixels—the same size as an icon (32 by 32 pixels). And a 320 by 240 “quarter-screen” image is a lot bigger, at screen resolution, than an icon. SIMON RINGS MUTI via the Internet That yellow F, as printed in the magazine, mea- sured 15 points tall by 12 wide, and was print ed at 2400 dpi. As a result, it contained around 200,000 pixels, more than 250 percent as many asa quarter-screen image. Quarter-screen images are far too small for printing purposes; even if you don't notice the graininess, jagged edges, and soft focus that comes with low resolution, ‘you can rest assured some of your readers will. Quarter-screen digital-camera pictures are also ill-suited to screen display, since the compression is more obvious on screen than it is in print. If you shoot your pictures at maximum resolution and resample them do pression becomes almost invisib Why | Love Apple \ ITH THE HIGH-PR! mercials and magazine blitzes cur- rently going on between Macintosh and Microsoft's Windows 95, I found this sim- ple diagram on ease of use to be the Last Word! I recently received my free copy of The Merchant: Hassle-free Shopping on CD-ROM. When I opened the pack- aging, I found the following instructions quite humorous. How do | get started? For Windows Users: I. From the Program Manager, choose Run from the file menu. 2. 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I climbed the spiral staircase and entered the blackness to face the monochrome, LCD screen of a PC, with “Please wait, ROM BIOS is booting up” on the screen. ‘The singing rocks in front of the mu- seum captured my attention longer than either of these two attempts at multimedia. THOMAS MICHAEL BROOKS via the Internet The Quadra 630 Question AM LOOKING FOR A DOS CARD FOR MY Quadra 630. I checked with Reply and they said Apple provides this solution. I called Apple and was told to check with Reply. What's the deal? Do you know who is making the DOS card? I'd appre- ciate any information about who is mak- inga DOS card and if it can be purchased. JACKIE MCCARTNEY via the Internet You've been led on a wild goose chase, I’m afraid. Neither Apple nor Reply—nor any other third- party vendor for that matter—makes a DOS card for the Quadra 630 because of its LC Il]-style PDS slot. Owners of a Performa/LC 410-series, 550-series, or 570-series Mac are in the same predicament. Your only option is a soft- ware solution like Insignia Solutions’ SoftWin- dows 1.0 (2.0 won't run on 680X0 Macs) or Farallon Computing’s Timbuktu.—Ed. FTER READING NEW PRODUCTS (ANU- ary 1996), I called Apple to get a re~ lease date on the Quadra 630-to—Performa 6300 upgrade. The guy I spoke to at Apple said it didn’t exist and eluded my attempts to get information on this or any future upgrades. But he did slam Macworld for printing the announcement. What's up with these guys? Do you know the truth about this on-again, off-again upgrade? Bos OLson via the Internet Sometimes customer service is the last to know. The motherboard upgrade to take a Per- 22 April 1996 MACWORLD forma/Quadra 630, 5200, and 6200 to a 100MHz PowerPC Performa 6300 was expect ed to begin shipping in January.—Ed. Join One, Join All R ARDING YOUR CONSPICUOUS UConsumer column in the January 1996 issue, I disagree that users are better off joining a local user group instead of one of the national giants—BMUG and BCS*Mac in particular. While it’s true that the local groups offer more to people in their immediate geographical areas, national ones still offer ail users information opportuni- ties beyond those any local group could hope to offer. BMUG% excellent BBS is on the Internet; through using it, I’ve been able to avoid ever calling for com- mercial technical help. Its help lines are available by phone. It maintains an enor- mous shareware library, creates its own CD-ROMS, and sells both its own and other computer books at a discount. Finally, its formidable newsletter is a pow- erful influence on the computer industry. It’s not either/or; both large and local user groups have something to offer anyone. Betsy RAMBERG via the Internet CAPrice | N RESPONSE TO THE LETTER ADMON- _ ishing Guy Kawasaki for his criticism of those who type E-mail in all caps (Let- ters, January 1996), I offer the following: dearsir:iamsorrythatyoudisagreewith guykawasaki’sremarksaboutfolkswhotype inallcaps.however, yourexcuseofsaving yourselffromearpaltunnelsyndromeis ludicrous.isavedawholelotofkeystrokesin thismessage,butitsureishardtoread! CHARLES REEVES, JR. via the Internet Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 Sec~ San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442- 0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), MCI Mail (294-8078), America Online (keyword Macworld), AppleLink (Macworld1), or via the Inter- net (letters@macworld com), Include return address and ond St, daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can’t respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters. 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Forget the oper- atic media pundits pre- dicting Apple's immi- nent implosion. Apple isa strong business with tremendous assets, and the Mac isn’t going to die anytime soon, if ever. Beyond the hype, though, the com- pany must make fundamental changes in the way it does business. Because Apple has not been successful in solving its problems, I’ve developed an action plan for a new board of directors, a would-be buyer, or even the current leadership. Apple’s real problems have little to do with products or balance sheets; Apple’s real problems stem from the epic levels of incompetence and indecision displayed by a core of inept leadership and bloated layers of self-serving managers. The Mac is an unbelievably great computer. Apple is an unbelievably rugged company. Ap- ple’s leadership is just plain unbelievable. Let me make this very clear: Apple must act. Empty press releases, feel-good advertisements like those it ran in the New York Times, and speeches that repackage old dogma don’t solve anything. Such sparent moves are particularly dam- aging now that Apples management has once again proven itself so willing to dodge, rather than solve, crucial issues. Make Up Your Mind Apple's biggest problem is that it is spread too thin. Years of greed have saddled the company with the dual burden of driving the Mac Operating System forward and selling enough computers to maintain the Mac’s market share. There’s a joke that illustrates Apple’s unrealistic ambitions: What company does Apple think it’s most like—Microsoft, IBM, or Novell? An- swer: All of the above. Apple must decide what its funda- mental business is. The sheer breadth of Apple’s endeavors prevents it from focus- ing its efforts. Apple must develop lead- ership and discipline: it must both play hard in businesses where it can make money, and learn how and when to stay the course with developing technologies. Further, by insisting on having all the markets all to itself, Apple has steadily alienated potential strategic partners. Rather than acting like a selfish child, clutching its toys to its breast, Apple must learn to work and play with others. Apple should maintain a portfolio of businesses, but each discrete unit should be organized and scaled in a way that makes sense, Within Apple, Claris is a good example of this. Claris is treated as a truly separate division; it remains focused on being a successful software company and is doing quite well. Apple should cut loose projects and divisions that aren’t central to the company’s core vision, and work toward organizing other key parts of its business—computers, imaging hardware, Newton, and eventu- ally, system software—as separate divi- sions. The result will be a set of linked enterprises that are better motivated, more effective, more decisive, and more accountable for their decisions. INEPT CHIEFS ARE DISCONNECTED FROM REALITY Build Premium Products Apple should focus on selling better-out- fitted, better-quality Macs and leave low- cost, low-profit Macs to manufacturers set up to fight price wars. When Apple tries to compete solely on price, its mar- gins aren't high enough to cover its re- search and development costs and remain profitable. However, Apple has shown time and time again that it can make bet- ter, more interesting products than other computer makers, and sell those products ata premium, But Apple cannot just hike up the prices and ignore offering competitive values as it did several years ago. Neither should it abandon the home and educa- tion markets. Doing so would only dam- age the Mac’s presence in these markets, which is not in Apple’s long-term interests. Of course, Apple’s focus- ing on premium computers requires that there be a strong clone presence to maintain the Mac market's critical mass. Which leads to... Let Clones Happen Apple absolutely, without fail, must become serious about licensing the Mac OS, Not licensing the Mac OS early enough is the company’s worst strategic mistake of all time, and its continued failure to license broadly only perpetu- ates this bad situation. Since announcing licensing plans in late 1994, Apple has effectively turned away every major computer company that has shown interest. Apple’s current halfhearted licensing measures are nearly worthless, It will take a number of large-scale computer manu- facturers to establish broad support for the Mac platform and grow its market share, and it’s unlikely that major com- continues MACWORLD April 1996 27 STATE OF THE MAC puter companies will license the Mac OS if they can only make low-cost Macs. They will want to compete with full prod- uct lines, enabling them to make better margins on their own premium comput- ers. Apple must show that it is willing to enter into this kind of an agreement with a large-scale manufacturing company. completely dependent on hardware sales. In the long run, Apple needs to make a larger percentage of its revenues off its software business. As soon as possible, the system soft- ware group must be organized as a stand- alone division whose revenue depends solely on licensing the Mac OS. This move will result in several quarters of red ink. But it will make the system software group accountable to the market rather than to other Apple divisions, Eventu- Leverage Your Assets Apple's best competitive asset is software expertise, but its revenues are almost The mobile SoftBoard mode! 208 Imagine the meeting where you all have the same vision, the same objectives, and the same notes. MICROFIELO SoftBoard only looks and feels like an ordinary whiteboard. 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As much as recent events point to significant prob- lems, it’s absurd to think that they mean Apple is going out of business. Apple is selling record numbers of computers—over a million Power Macs in the last three months of 1995. The Mac is extremely successful and has tremen- dous customer loyalty in a number of key markets, and Apple has one of the best- recognized brands in the world and vir- tually no debt. These aren’t signs of a company going down the tubes. But the constant funeral preparations by critics are a sign that Apple is doing a poor job managing the public’s understanding of the company’s state of affairs. The danger is that the constant doomsaying could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Poten- tial customers hearing only about Apple’s troubles may be chased away. Once Apple defines a clear and sensi- ble strategy, the company really needs someone at the executive level who can help customers, investors, business part- ners, and employees understand how Apple management will restore order and move forward. Don't Talk. Act. The success of the plan I’ve outlined depends on one more essential element: if Apple’s current board and management are to remain at all (and this is a dubious choice at best), they must stop believing their own hype. These spin doctors have failed mis- erably in convincing the outside world of the company’s health, but they have succeeded horrifically in convincing themselves that their occasional success- es have been the results of sound plan- ning and good management, rather than the fruit of rare and unpredictable flash- es of competence. Miracles don’t last forever. Apple must outline a plan for a real licensing effort and restructuring its business. It must communicate that plan quickly and clearly. 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Such stories prove that the American success fable can happen—even today. Invent the right gadget, solve the right problem, fill the right niche, and the world will beat a path to your E-mail address, Look at ATM, or FileMaker, or RAM Doubler. You, too, like Bill Gates, can be worth $20 billion by age 35. In fact, I’m going to make it easy for you. I'll give you the ideas, All you have to do is be the first to produce and mar- ket these best-sellers-to-be. Selfless altru- ist that | am, [ask for nothing in return— except a handshake, a mention in the Read Me file, and 10 percent of the gross. Concatenator Pro Can somebody explain to me why Apple’s CD-ROM drive requires five extensions in your System Folder? Why Microsoft Word 6 needs six extensions just to run? You need three extensions for Quick- Time, seven for PowerTalk, eight for QuickDraw GX—and, incredibly, rwelve for Open ‘Transport! Why can’t programmers confine their start-up code to a single extension icon? I don’t care if it’s a 2MB icon—I just don’t want to have to turn twelve extensions on or off individually to disable some feature. That’s why Concatenator Pro will be a hit. It’s a simple drag-and-drop applica- tion: round up as many extension icons as you like, drop them onto the Concatena- tor Pro icon, and it spews out a single ex- tension icon that incorporates the code of all of the originals, How glorious: you'll have one icon for CD-ROM, one for file sharing, and so on. Troubleshooting and configuration will be so much easier! In the unlikely event that you need your original splintered constellation of extensions back, you can drag your con- catenated superextension icon onto Con- cat Pro’s icon again—and this time, it spits out the original batch. Uninstaller Plus For years, a program called Uninstaller has been a best-seller in the DOS/Win- dows world. But nobody wrote a Mac ver- sion. People said the Mac didn’t need it. To remove a program, you just drag it to the Trash—right? Not anymore. Today’s programs deposit their own proprietary junk into your Preferences, Extensions, Control Panels, Startup Items, and other folders. What we need is a quick, simple utility that clears out all that crud when we re- move the culprit program. Carpal Diem 1.0 Experts say that the keys to avoiding repetitive strain injuries (RSIs) are correct posture and regular breaks. But we all know that when you’re deep in that hypnotic Mac trance, sucked into some brainstorm or round of Myst, the real world evaporates, You're supposed to be thinking about ergonomics and rest breaks? Forget it. Enter Carpal Diem, a small but inge- nious control panel, It shows you graphi cally exactly how rotten your typing habits are, displayed as a time line (see “Carpal unnel Panel”)—because what matters isn’t how many hours a day you type, but how intensely you type. Better still, the program can display friendly reminders— not just every few minutes, as the share- ware program ‘TakeABreak does, but every few thousand keystrokes, which is what we really care about. It can also print out clever little reports that analyze your work habits and make suggestions. Alas, nobody will write this program. Some user would get wrist pain despite Carpal Diem’s advice, and the lawyers would descend like rain. www.pricedex.com You see these ads on TV all the time: “We will not be undersold!” “We'll beat any price!” “Pepto- Bismol, $1.95 this week only!” Half the time, though, I sus- pect we're being scammed. The advertiser knows we don’t have time to comparison shop for each little $1.95 item. We're helpless. Shoot, how would anyone know what Pepto-Bismol normally costs? The PriceDex Web page changes all that. Each week, this service accepts a modem dump from every retail store in your area. Each transmission contains that store's inventory and current price list. All you have to do is dial in and search for the item you want. Immedi- ately, you’re shown a list of local stores that carry it—and a graph of the various ee “www. pricedex”). “Aha,” you’re thinking, “but what store in its right mind would participate continues MACWORLD April 1996 33 i ‘The fun way to learn popular board games For Macintosh* and Windows" 3.1 ‘The fun way to learn popular card gam For Macintosh* and Windows® 3.1 Read, color and race to the ic with Blue Tortoi pi For Macintosh” and Windoy ‘The world’s leading photo CD-ROM collection From the akers of 3 CorelDRAW ne Core $3,000,000 World Design Contest September 95 to July 96) To receive a faxed copy ofthe rules and an entry form please cat 4-619-728-0826 ex 3080, Document # 1125. 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Customers came by the thousands, gobbling up VideoSpigot cards. So what did SuperMac do? It discon- tinued the VideoSpigot. Today, if you want to make Quick- Time movies, you have a handful of unappetizing options. Choice A: Buy a “pro” card in the $4000 range (like the KCC = One O tee I anes Oty Ewen O ream nraninn tome | o ‘You Kepirseaninate Tetey = @eeen One Carpal Tunnel Panel The Carpal Diem control pane! graphs your keyboard and mouse activity for the day. Truevision Targa-2000). Choice B: Buy a Quick-Cam for about $100—and live with its jerky, low-res, black-and-white movies. Choice C: Buy a new Mac that has built-in video inputs. But except for the Power Mac 8500, those Macs make QuickTime movies with a top speed of 15 frames per second—too jittery. Choice D: Ger a SpigotlI Tape, the VideoSpig- ot’s $800 descendant. But it, too, has essentially been abandoned—Radius has no plans to make it compatible with QuickTime 2.0 or System 7.5. Between $100 and $800, meanwhile, stretches a market niche screaming to be filled. What's wrong with these companies? Why don’t they reintroduce the plain old $300 Spigot? I say: If you build it, they will digitize. QuickTime Performer I'm astounded that nobody has thought of this: a music sequencing program that uses QuickTime 2's Musical Instruments as a synthesizer. For years, music recording programs like Mark of the Unicorn’s Performer and Opcode’s Vision required a MIDI syn- thesizer keyboard for playback, since the Mac could produce only four cheesy notes ata time. But then Apple licensed 30 real- istic instrument sounds from Roland, the synthesizer maker, and included them with QuickTime 2.0. With these Musical Instruments and the right software, your Mac can be a MIDI synthesizer. Some notation programs can use Musical Instruments. But the world still waits for a genuine, tape-recorder-like, music-recording program—a sequencer, as it’s known—thar's clever enough to use Musical Instruments. Such a program would bring cheap, high-quality music- making to schools worldwide, to Power- Book-porting presenters, and to music hobbyists everywhere. ExtensionsWorld Magazine A brand-new Power Mac 8500 comes with 120 extensions—right out of the box. continues SPSS 3.1 for the Macintos Real Stats. Real Easy Get answers to tough ‘questions using in- depth statistics! Use 60+ statistics from basics such as. counts and crosstabs to more sophisticated statistics including factor, regression and logistic regression. Get fost. flexible data =| management! ‘The spreadsheet-style Data Editor makes enter- ing, editing and manag- ing your data fast and easy using either values or value labels. And, you ‘can work with even your largest data files! a Work faster with an all new Macintosh interface! 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Each store's ‘name is a Web link to additional store information, start up, and almost four minutes to recover from a sj ‘That's why the PocketBoot is such a terrific gadget, It looks like case, connects to your SCST j tains about 2MB of RAM, enough room to store the information your Mac needs to start up: the routines, The Monitor that Shows You the Whole Dam Thing, diagonal, Pri ‘The Pivot 1700°has other 17" pae.atetls color monitors beat from top to bottom. It pivots from horizontal to vertical mode to give you the tallest, sharpest display you can get. Taller, even, than a 2I"monitor! And much more affordable. So now you can 5"x II" page without scrolling. read a full 85 Call us today or, if you prefer, e-mail us at pdlcalifcaol.com for the whole story. butpy/Awww portrait.com extensions, control panels, and so on. Withall of this stored on a glorified RAM your Mae will start up in about eight seconds. By my alculations, the PocketBoot will save the average Macintosh user about 35 hours each year of sitting there staring at the Mac OS logo. The Upshot Right there you've got enough great ideas to make eight millionaires—and I haven't even told you about the Modem Port Multiplier, the Word ‘Tool-Bar Eraser, or the Newton Home Entertainment Cen- ter Remote Control Kit. But if you play your c: should be able to follow the path of s made computer-industry entrepreneurs. before you. You'll experience the Five Phases of Ultimate Product Success: glowing reviews, acclaim on the Internet, blockbuster sales, enormous profits, and finally, buyout by Microsoft. m Contributing editor DAVID POGUE js the author of Mac FAQs [Frequently Asked Questions] (IDG Books Worldwide, 1995)—a book tha made hima millionaire overnight, when measured in pesos, This could be a best But it’s free. You can't buy the Consumer Information Catalog anywhere. But you can get it, free! 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After weeks of turmoil surrounding a [ $69 million loss be- cause of lower-than-expected margins during the Christmas buying season; after months of rumors about possible mergers with and buyouts by companies such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Sony, Fujitsu, Motorola, and Hewlett- Packard; and after a year of high-level executives’ (15 of 45 have left) and key engineers’ departing Apple for greener pastures, Apple’s board of directors took real action, On January 31, it fired Apple CEO Michael Spindler and demoted chairman of the board A. C, “Mike” Markku- la, Jr, a founder of the 20- year-old company, to vice chairman. The new leader, announced on February 2, is Gilbert Amelio, an Apple board member who is now presi dent, CEO, and chairman, which gives him unprecedent- 38 April 1996 MACWORLD ed power at Apple. Amelio had run National Semicon- ductor, a chip maker that he is credited with returning to profitability during a nearly five-year stint at the top. The board’s action was welcome after three weeks of bland statements about re- structuring Apple—something Apple has done once or twice a year for years, with little effect—and refocusing on the [ same key markets it has pur- sued for ten years. What Went Wrong Apple is the number three personal- computer maker in the Unit- ed States, with a worldwide market share of about 9.4 per- cent—and the only non-Win- dows company to have kept a steady market percentage despite continuing improve- ments in the Intel-Microsoft PC platform. Between Octo- ber 1 and December 31 alone, Apple sold more than | mil- lion Power Macintoshes. So why the financial shortfall? Because Apple, ing a parts shortage, shifted production to its lower-end Power Macs and Performas during the Christmas buying season. But it turned out that customers wanted higher- powered computers, and Macs like the 7500 were hard to get. Stuck with unsold Macs, Apple dropped prices, cutting its profit per system from 27 percent a year earlier to 15 percent this fall. That's less than PC clone maker Dell Computer—which — doesn’t design its operating system or motherboards—made. Apple’s mistake was sim- ple, but it was typical of the company’s woes under Spindler’s three-year reign. It has consistently miscalculated product development and manufacturing schedules, as well as customer demand. A$69 million loss is nota lot of money for a company with $1.1 billion in reserves; even with an expected $200 million loss in the fiscal quar- ter ending March 31, Apple is in no danger of collapse. (Although the company does have about $2 billion of un- sold parts in inventory.) But for industry and financial ana- lysts, the loss was one miscal- culation too many. Apple has also mi aged its technological devel- opment. Groups within the company battle for resources and management approval, rather than help make strate- gies work. At the same time, inde- pendent Mac developers have complained of Apple’s long- standing tendency to promote a new. technology—Quick- Draw GX, AppleScript, bal- loon help, Power'Talk, publish and subscribe, Taligent, ScriptX, and now perhaps OpenDoc—and then lose interest. Even when a tech- nology has promise, Apple relies on other companies to find a compelling use, rather than use its AppleSoft division to create an application that will make people want the technology, as Microsoft does with its programs to promote new Windows technologies. A Renewed Focus Apple says it will take several steps to refocus the company on man- MACWORLD EXCLUSIVE QUARK'S XPOSURE IS IN REAL TROUBLE, AND MAY NEVER SHIP. 1S QUARK'S DIVERSIFICATION EFFORT IN DOUBT? MACWORLD PRESENTS AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON PAGE 48 profitable and forward-look- ing areas. Before he was fired, pple CEO Spindler prom- ised “to fundamentally change our business model.” That effort is continuing. Among Apple’ intended actions: * Rely on clone makers to serve the home and small- office markets. * Spend less time on side projects and aim the compa- ny’s energies on key Mac strengths, such as publishing, the Internet, and education. However, the company is only beginning to reveal how it will substantively address its management problems and accomplish these goals. Accomplishing these ob- jectives will mean expanding Apple's clone-licensing effort. Apple's new CEO, Gilbert Amelio Ironically, this reverses Apple’s actions of 1995, in which it backpedaled on its initial promises to make the Mac OS license widely avail- able. This reliance on clone makers—and Apple will need continues on page 48 Record crowds at Macworld Expo came to see hundreds of products. Macworld Expo Delivers Hot Products WEALTH OF PRODUCTS DRAWS RECORD CROWD by James A. Martin utside it was cold, but it was piping hot inside. Despite Apple’s recent financial woes, the 1996 Maeworld Expo in San Francisco boast- ed nearly 70,000 attendees (a record that marked a 10 per- cent increase over last year) and more new Mac products introduced than ever before. Here are just a few products shown at Expo, not pre- viewed in previous issues, that caught our editors’ Fly Your Mac Flight-sim- ulator aficionados demand realism, and Flight Unlimited ($69.95) from Looking Glass ‘Technologies (617/441-3946) has realism to spare. You'd expect hours of meticulous work on perfecting the flight models of the aerobatic flying machines (including a sail- plane), but what you might not expect is the hyperreal treatment given to the exter- nal environment The Flight Unlimited artists did much of their development in an airplane, photographing terrain from two different altitudes. They then digitized the photos and mapped them onto a three- dimensional surface, to breathtaking effect. Looking pects Flight Unlimit- ed to be available in March. The Mercedes of Digital Cameras The screen is the star of the $1000 QV-30, the new digital camera from Casio Computer (201/361- 5400). The QV-30' 2.5-inch, active matrix, antiglare color display affords a better look at your subject (compared with a traditional viewfinder). And you can check out your digital snapshots on the spot, de! ing any unwanted images. The camera stores up to 96 JPEG-compressed photos in flash memory, which you can transfer toa Macintosh or di: continues IN THE NEWS Copland's New Features 40 Making the Web Secure 41 CHRP Prototype Shown 42 Corel Buys WordPerfect 42 Faster 46 Buses to Debut After a successful run on the PC, Logitech's TrackMan Live, TrackMan Marble, and Mouse- Man Cordless (clockwise from left) make their Mac debut. ion via the play on a televi included cables. Point Your Way Logitech (510/795-8500) introduced the $149 TrackMan Live, a remote, radio-controlled pointer for use up to 30 feet from a Mac; and the $39 ‘TrackMan Marble, a thumb- operated trackball that promises precise tracking with minimal finger move- ment. The company also unveiled Mac versions of its $89 MouseMan Cord] which transmits trac movement via radio frequen- cies rather than a cord. Visual Spreadsheets is powerful, but it can be a bear to use unless you're a trained professional. Building a spreadsheet with Keep It Simple Spreadsheet (KISS), from Casady & Greene (esti- mated price $129; 408/484- 9228, csy@casadyg.com), is a simple matter of dragging cells and mathematical opera- tors onto a blank worksheet and then connecting them with lines, as you would con- nect a flowchart. Simple relations between numbers are immediately obvious, and for the more advanced user, complicated formulas can be created and reduced to boxes with input and output registers. C: & Greene also include: by-step instructions, as well as templates for common calculations. 40 April 1996 MACWORLD / News Easier Paper Chase The office paper chase just got a little easier to manage, thanks to ePaper, a $169 full-bodied document-archiving and -management application from Second Glance Software (360/ 692-9241, info@secondglance .com). The program uses Xerox’s TextBridge 3.0 OCR technology to translate scanned documents into editable text; lets you quickly annotate files using electronic rubber stamps, sticky notes, and bookmarks; creates thumbnail information on every document for keyword and other searches; and works with Apple, Epson, Hewlett- Packard, and ‘TWAIN-com- patible scanners. Copland’s New Abilities NEW OS LETS YOU ORGANIZE FILES BY CONTENT by Galen Gruman pple has long prom- ised that the Mae will stant, wade be an active a: helping you through your data and make sense of it, not just serving as a repository for it, ‘The next major release of the Macintosh Operating S: code-named Copland and due out in late 1996 or early 1997, will move the Mac a larger One for Business, One for Pleasure Personal document scanners have taken desktops by storm, and the $429 ScanJet 4s, pictured here, is Hewlett-Packard’s (415/857-1501) entry. The 200-dpi gray-scale scanner comes with Visioneer's PaperPort 3.0 document-management software. For less text-intensive jobs, Storm Software's (415/ 691-6600, sales@stormsoft.com) $259 EasyPhoto scanner is a quick and easy way to scan in photographs. The 24-bit color scanner handles originals up to 5 by 7 inches, and comes with software for scanning, edit- ing, and displaying your images— CAMERON CROTTY re some of the new $s you can expect. View by Content A new technology tentatively called a view window lets you information based on your crit One v wowed the ria. y to use it that udience was Cop- land’s ability to find and orga- nize documents based on their content. You enter words you want Copland to find in docu- ments, and it then creates a window that contains all doc- uments with the words, along with a ranking of how clos the document fits your search request. For example, a docu- ment that uses the words fre- quently is judged to be more relevant to your request than a document that contains only one instance of the word, This feature also lets you select a document and have the Mac OS find documents with simi- lar content—no need for you to enter the search text. Apple will use this pat- tern-matching technology for more than document-content searches; the technology will also let users view all applica- tions installed on a system, or all files created by a specific user or modified after a tain date. You can save any view window and have it automati- cally update with any new or changed documents the next time you open it, thanks to Copland’s multithreaded de- sign that allows powerful background processing. cer- Interface Refinements Copland will have refinements to the user interface through- out. One that drew audience applause was a subtle change to the Finder's file-view capa- bilities. Now, when a file name is too long to fit in the list view (view by name), the Finder just displays the first part of the name. If you have a long document name that ends with significant informa- tion, such as a revision num- ber or date, you can’t see that Copland, Vito Salvageio con- cedes that tod: tem Folder is a seein morass of files, extensions, and prefer ences that makes system man- ement and troubleshooting difficult. However, he notes that this restructuring may not make it into the first version of Copland. For Apple to meet its end-of-1996 release date, the company may have to pull Hind S ‘Ox serw to these doaurrents ‘cooking cuisine in 5 F Geco-Poman Art ana Food] a] Groece Diy Sierras n breve o P Pecoes and More Date: within Tastimonth [=] [Tocorare >) tie Leeson Rank Wort fant rd P rccaonearvieve Ch cocarents NNN ovtre cook ence A oacnceorceeetCikae G ceece ee ret imeawanineies Storey RENEE cheese Mae GP Eurcpean signts 1G tavel Felder Tae oma Gece The Copland OS will let you find and organize your data by its content. information. But Copland’s Finder shows part of the beginning of the file name and part of the end, so you have enough context to readi- ly tell file The | tomizable, so you can change the order of displayed infor- mation (for example, you might want the modification date—rather than System 7.5's default, the file size—to follow the file name). Cop- land lets you change the width of each piece of file informa- tion, as you can adjust most spreadsheets’ column widths, and it will even adjust charac- ter spacing to squeeze in as much text as it can. Restructured System Folder Apple also plans to restruc- ture the System Folder so that you can tell which extensions the system needs and how recent they are. Apple's prod- uct-marketing director for some features and. deliver them in 1997 as an upgrade, Custom Configurations Salvaggio also. demonstrated some previously announced features, including the ability to set up multiple users on one system, each with dif ent preferences and act capabilities. Salvaggio expects ls who need dif ent settings on their systems to use this feature as well, For » a notebook user ve one group of set- tings on the road, when serv- s is unnecessary, and a ferent group when plugged into the office network. You can sort of do this now by using System $ Extensions Mai different land, switching user Ses requires only a partial res which takes much less time. rt, Internet The Right Connection when it comes to serving up content on the Internet, Macs are second only to Unix boxes in popularity, and the latest release from StarNine, now a division of Quarterdeck (510/649-4949, info@starnine.com), should add to the Mac's momentum. The $1295 WebStar SSL Security Toolkit coexists with any other Web server, and handles clients that attempt a secure connection using Netscape’s SSL protocol, Early this year, StarNine is plan- ning more support for Web-based commerce, Its Business Toolkit will consist of a CGI script and a helper application to help Webmasters move information from HTML forms into processing applications (such as orders databases, credit card-checking software, or online-banking software). In other news, Intercon (703/709-5500, info@ intercon,com) has announced that version 1.1 of its $495 InterServer Publisher will be Open Transport-native, and that it will ship with Adobe Systems’ PageMill HTML authoring software. Intercon also announced a $295 domain-name server called InterServer DNS. New Browsing News Macintosh Net surfers should soon have more browser options. In the 3-D space, Virtus (919/467-9700, info@virtus .com) is shipping the $29 Voy- ager VRML 3-D helper application. You can download a trial version from http://www.virtus.com. And Microsoft (206/882-8080) recently released a beta of its Internet Explorer browser for the Mac, which should ship this spring. You can download a version from Attp://www.microsoft.com. (Microsoft also bought Ver- meer Technologies’ FrontPage Web-authoring software.) More Fetching Fetch For those of you not using your Web browser to download files from FTP serv- ers, version 3.0 of Fetch, by Jim Matthews, is available, New features for the latest version of the Macintosh FTP client include bookmark lists, plus support for System 7.5 drag and drop, multiple connections, and native Open Transport code. The single-user license fee for Fetch is $25; for more information, browse hitp://www.dartmouth,edu/ pages/softdev/fetch.html. MACWORLD April 1996 41 42 A Step Closer to CHRP for the first time, Apple has publicly shown the Mac OS running on an 18M. system. The IBM system—based on the PowerPC plat- form once known as CHRP and codeveloped by Apple, IBM, and Motorola—ran System 7.5 and several pro- grams, including Adobe Photoshop 3.05 and Microsoft Excel 5.0. Apple presented the system at the Demo 96 conference in late January. According to sources, engi- neers at Apple have resisted working on the CHRP proj- ect, and the demonstration was meant to make Apple management's commitment to the new platform clear. First Japanese Mac Clone sow that it hhas shipped its PowerWave and PowerCurve Mac clones, Power Computing is readying to enter the Japanese Mac market, which is Apple's second-largest market. Power Computing has opened an office in Tokyo and plans to launch a Japanese Mac-clone line later this year. StarGate’s Takeoff Delayed rower com- puting (512/258-1350) has delayed the release of its $249 StarGate riser card, which adds two NuBus slots to the company's PCI-based PowerWave and PowerCurve Mac clones. The company found some incompatibili- ties with some NuBus cards that slowed performance. Affected cards include the Radius Thunder IV GX. A fixed card is due out about the time you read this. Similarly, Second Wave's (512/329-9283) XPanse PN NuBus-to- PCI adapters do not well work with some NuBus cards, including FWB's SCSI accelerators. The Elephant-Size Fix 10 help powersook 5300, 2300, and 190 owners deal with a variety of prob- lems, Apple (408/996-1010) has released a software patch—a 14-disk replacement of