MacWorld9608August1996

The Most Mac Products Reviewed Anywhere TT NXN\NUTHU svcTTIULUT] MNNUNINLITAA THE MACGINTOSH® AUTHORITY [} Breakthr ugh mf \ NK ‘we | | AN JN. ] ry y. ad ~ ia / x \ 17] = S WY, <a AN ys ae : <—— TZ j 1 | N f | ' t z —-+ Also in This Issue Best Mac. | Web Sites We Set up shop on the Internet of just publish a personal web page with tovis you already know how to use. These additions to Microsoft Excel 5.0 and Word 6.0 eaiily turn your documents irito HTML with just a few clicks. ico Unlock the power of the Internet with this awesome browser. Small, fast. and de- signed for tne Mac. internet Mac Explorer supports 4 rich multi- media experience and is easy to set up and use. The excitement of the World Wide Web awaits you Everything to gain. Now you can get the most from your Mac with Appie's free update for System 7.5 users. This update will improve overall Stability and performance and, if | you use Virtual Memory on your — PowerMac; Start your applications up to four times faster than before 1a Update are still running Word 6.0 you will definitely want to | Upgrade your software to this much improved version. | Word 6.0.1a, introduced last fall, enhances performance and stability, speeds up — your boot time and word counts, improves font han- Now you can download Microsoft's Internet Tools and discover the new Internet capabilities of your Mac. Free Microsoft's continued commitment to the Mac means you'll be browsing, cr ating, and accomplishing more than ever before. To obtain your internet Tools, and n 7.5 Update 2.0, please visit //www.microsoft.com/macoffice/ Or to order a free Microsoft Empowerment Pack for the Mac, which includes a CD ROM with the software listed above plus a special offer on RAM from Kingston, Technology call 800:469-6520 Dept. MCA Micresoftt WHERE DO YO! WANT TO GO TODAYE *Connect time charges may apply. ‘© 1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Microsoft and Where do you want f0 go today? are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark and Mac and PowerMac are trademarks of Apple Computer, In. AT SOME POINT, PEOPLE COMPARING US POWER COMPUTING POWERCENTER 120 POWERPC 604 PROCESSOR 120MHZ 1 GB HARD DRIVE 4X CD-ROM DRIVE 24 MB RAM 512K LEVEL 2 CACHE 15” SONY 15SF TRINITRON MONITOR ACCELERATED ONBOARD VIDEO GLOBAL VILLAGE 28.8 PLATINUM MODEM EXTENDED KEYBOARD & MOUSE MICROSOFT OFFICE 4.2.1 APPLE INTERNET CONNECTION KIT NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AND CLARIS EMAILER LITE $1,200 IN ADDITIONAL BUNDLED SOFTWARE PERSONAL CONFIGURATIONS 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE $2895 APPLE POWERMAC 7600 POWERPC 604 PROCESSOR 120MHZ 1 GB HARD DRIVE 4X CD-ROM DRIVE 16 MB RAM ‘256K LEVEL 2 CACHE $2995 MORE AND MORE MAC USERS ARE TURNING TO POWER COMPUTING CORPORATION FOR MAC OS COMPATIBLES AND HERE'S WHY: Power Computing’s award-winning Mac OS systems are not only better ond faster than their Apple counterparts, but choosing Power Computing is actually ‘a smarter choice. Why? For the first time in history, you can actually customize the Moc OS system you wont - fo meet the specs you need - all direct from “POWER COMPUTING HAS FIELDED SOME KILLER MACHINES. ‘APPLE WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO CATCH-UP.” — Mace Musas Jor, 1996 the manufacturer. And at radically affordable prices. That means you can gel o state-of-the-art PowerPC 604 PowerCenter system instead of an underpowered Performa.” So give us a call and let us help you configure the exac system of your dreams - and find out why everyone is raving about Power Computing. “THEY MIGHT AS WELL HAVE COME FROM APPLE - ‘THE PERFORMANCE AND COMPATIBILITY ARE THAT GOOD.” = Macwon Masur ) PowerComputing PowerTower “180 Storter PowerCenter 150 Storter Configure PowerCenter 132 Storter 180MHz PowerPC 604 Processor 1SOMHz PowerPC 604 Processor 132MHz PowerPC 604 Processor +16 MB RAM (256 MB Max) 2B 7200 RPM AV Hard Drive Quod Speed (4x) CD-ROM Drive *5IQK Level 2 Cache +7 MB VRAM On-Board (4 MB Max) ~3 PCI Expansion Slots +Connectix Speed Doubler *Minitower Enclosure “Extended Keyboard and Mouse $1200 in Bundled Software ‘Add Macromedia Bundle S795 ‘Add Sony 20° Tintron 2OSFII $2099 “16 MB RAM (256 MB Max) “1.68 Hrd Drive -Qvod Speed (4x) CO-ROM Drive “512K Level 2 Cache +1 MB VRAM On-Board (4 MB Max) “3 PC Expansion Slots “Desktop Enclosure -Extended Keyboard and Mouse $1200 in Bundled Software ‘Add Macromedia Bundle S795 Add Internal lomega Zip Drive $159 “Add Sony 15° Tinian 158K $499 1 MB YRAM OnBoard (4 MB Max) “3 PCL Expansion Slots ~Desktop Enclosure “Extended Keyboard ond Mouse $1200 in Bundled Software “Add Internal lomega Zip Drive $159 “16 MB RAM (256 MB Max) +1 GB Hord Drive Quad-Speed (4x) CO-ROM Drive “512K Level 2 Cache ‘Add 28.8 Modem & Internet Kit $195 ‘Add Sony 15° Trinitron 15SK $499 sof Pores Computing any way you want Macworid THE MACINTOSH® AUTHORITY AUGUST 1996 100 112 Features The Mac's 3-D Edge gy sim HEID Macworld Lab puts QuickDraw 3D through its paces to discover whether Apple’s promising new 3-D technology has hit its stride. Multimedia Options Multiply ay sim HEID Macworld high- lights ten multimedia authoring programs and picks the best pa ages for a variety of interactive projects. The Best Mac Web Sites BY HOWARD BALOWIN Mac- world’s pick of the top Mac- oriented Web sites around, plus advice on how to find even more. News 38 The CAD Shake-Up With AutoCAD gone, who will lead the CAD market? 39 Adobe's Internet Strategy New products and technologies meant to take Adobe—and users—to the next level in publishing, Sneak Peek 44 Tomorrow's Applications Today Hands on with CorelDraw 6.0 * QuarkImmedia * Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0 49 New Products Our resident multimedia guru’s guide to the best in today’s multimedia packages, page 100. 19 27 33 244 Adobe's World Wide Web strategy, in News, page 39. Opinion Letters State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO aim at the Internet. Apple takes The Desktop Critic BY DAVID POGUE names gone wild. Product Viewpoint BY SPIKE GILLESPIE an E-mail-order bride. Tales of ‘A sub-$500 Internet- surfing remote control from Oracle, in News, page 125 131 135 138 140 Arun to the client side in Media, page 135. Call it an armadillo, not a mouse—this thing shrinks to fit. News, page 40. Secrets Clip and Save (Time, Keystrokes . . .) BY JoserH scHorr Novelty or clever System feature? Drag- and-drop clipping files. Quick Tips By LOW PooLE and shortcuts. Tips, tricks, NetSmart BY MATTHEW HAWN Con- structing personal Web pages. Media Server-Friendly Image Maps BY JIM HEID ke a load off your Web server with client-side maps. Publishing Workshop BY DAVID BLATNER How to really use indents. Graphics Workshop sy catHy ases Designing graphics with the WWW in mind. IDG 143 MW 147 151 14 Buyers’ Tools Tape-Backup Systems BY DAN LITTMAN Macworld Lab burns through 17 tape sys- tems to find the best in high- capacity backup. Consumer Advocate BY GEOFF DUNCAN Choosing a Mac-savvy Internet service provider. Star Ratings Macworld’s ratings for hundreds of hardware and software prod- ucts at a glance. How to Contact Macworld Got gigs to go before you sleep? Back up with the latest tape drives, compared and rated in Buyers’ Tools, page 143. ON THE Cover Miuseration by Javier Roca 52 54 65 69 m1 73 75 76 78 83 86 Reviews **#K/7.8 Polaroid PDC-2000° Digital camera 5 4&&/7.2 Nupowr for Power-- Book 500 Series; ***K/7.6 PowerBook 500, PowerPC Upgrade PowerBook 500-series PowerPC. upgrades compared ***/6.9 Cumulus 2.5; 13.7 Tropix 2.0 image databases compared **K/5.3 UniQorn 1.01 Page-layout application **x/6.4 Now Utilities 6.0 ‘System-enhancing utilities collection HKKKITI. Bryce 2 Photo-realistic 3-D landscape tool *KkK/E.9 Peak 1.02 Audio editing and processing. **K/5.3 Adobe File Utilities 1.0 Document utilities for Macs and PCs ****/7.0 In Control 4.0; **KK/TA WebArranger2.0 internet-savvy personal information managers compared *k*K/7.2 TeleFinder 5.0 Net-aware bulletin board software *KKK/77 LabView 4.0 Lab instrumentation and data- acquisition software *&*&x/5.1 NewsHopper 1.2. Usenet news reader **X/6.4 PowerBuilder 4.0 for Macintosh Client/server development tool **/4.0 WorldWrite 3.0 Word processor ***/5.3 A Little Kidmusic; *%/4. Juilliard Music Adventure ‘Music education software compared *HK/5.2 LanCD 3.2 Cross-platform network access: software kie&k*/7.0 MessagePad 130 Personal digital assistant *A*K/8.4 WillMaker 6.0 Easy-to-understand legal guide to writing wills ***/6.8 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: CD-ROM teference guide **&x/6.9 Dramatica Writer's Dream Kit 1.7 Fiction-writing assistant *&KK/T.A College Advisor Web-based college search guide *k**/8.3 Final Effects AP Video effects plug-ins for Adobe Premiere **x/6.9 KPT Cool Effects Photoshop and Photo Deluxe filter collection *&&*x/7.2. Connections Adventure and puzzle game. MACWORLD August 1996 5 INTRODUCING THE FASTEST MacOS SYSTEM EVER MADE. POWERTOWER 604/180mnz STARTING AT JUST $4195 Power Computing has designed the world’s fastest MacOS system - again. Based on the PowerPC 604 running at a blazing 180 or 166MHz, PowerTower is more than 20% faster and more than 20% less expensive than even the fastest Apple - the PowerMac 9500/150. Power Computing’s new Powerlower is the highest-performing, most reliable Mac OS system available today for serious power users. PowerTower 180AV System NEW! 18OMHz PowerPC 604 Processor 32 MB RAM (256 MB Max) +2.GB 7200 RPM AV Hord Drive “omega 1 GB Jaz Removable w/Cartridge Quad-Speed (4x) CD-ROM Drive *512K Level 2 Coche +2 MB VRAM On-Boord (4 MB Max) *Miro DC-20 Full Screen, Full Motion S¥ideo In/Out PCI Video Cord w/Adobe Premiere LE ~Connectix Speed Doubler *Mini-Tower Enclosure “Extended Keyboard ond Mouse +$1200 in Bundled Software $5495 Powerlower 180 Hol Pick 1BOMHz PowerPC 604 Processor +32 MB RAM (256 MB Max) +268 7200 RPM AY Hard Drive “Quod Speed (4x) CD-ROM Drive *512K Level 2 Coche “IMS Twin Turbo 128M Grophics Acclerotor with 4MB VRAM (12-bit) ~Connectx Speed Doubler -MiniTower Enlosure “Extended Keyboord ond Mouse +1200 in Bundled Software “2B VRAM On Boord (4 MB Max) $4995 Pa 3 PCL Exponsion Slots ll aya Powerlower 166 Storter 166MHz PowerPC 604 Processor “16 MB RAM (256 MB Max) 2.68 7200 RPH Ai Hard Drive Quod Speed (4x) CO-ROM Drive 512K Level 2 Coche +2 MB YRAM On Boord (4 MB Max) “3 PCI Expansion Slots Connectt Speed Dovbler -MiniTower Enclosure Extended Keyboard ond Mouse $1200 in Bundled Software Add Internal omega Zip Drive S1S9 fo Add Sony 17° Tiitron stl $979 | 3 — $3795 eee MORE THAN $1200 OF FREE SOFTWARE BUNDLED WITH EVERY POWERTOWER AND POWERCENTER SYSTEM INCLUDING: MacOS 7.5.3 » FWB Hard Disk Toolkit PE » FWB CD-ROM Toolkit » Claris Works Grolier’s Encyclopedia = Now Utilities + Now Contact « Now Up-to-Date = Nisus Writer « Intuit’s Quicken SE America Online « Compuserve * Launch CD = 250 Bitstream Fonts « US CD Atlos » World CD Atlas « The Animals CD-ROM + Connectix Speed Doubler (PowerTower only) 4004 att! MacWeek ee MW ESSER na AND THE MOST AFFORDABLE 604 SYSTEM EVER SOLD. POWERCENTER 604/120mxz foe PORLISMING CHAPHLES | tone | | meas | om | Prenton 128 | Poowtne 100 | Sad hot Sa er a | | ¥ Don’t even think about PowerPC 601 systems. Now for the first time, PowerPC 604 Mac OS systems ore f available to everyone - all at a price starting well below $2,000. PowerCenter features the 604 PowerPC : running at 150, 132 and 120MHz delivering the performance and value demanded by the small-office, home-office, enterprise and graphics user. Configure it any way you want PowerCenter 150 Storter PowerCenter 132 Starter 1S0MHz PowerPC 604 Processor 132MHz PowerPC 604 Processor +16 MB RAM (256 MB Max) +16 MB RAM (256 MB Max) 1 GB Hord Drive “1.68 Hord Drive *Quod-Speed (4x) CO-ROM Drive Quod Speed (4x) CO-ROM Drive “512K Level 2 Cache “512K Level 2 Cache +1 MB VRAM OnBoard (4 MB Max) “1 MB VRAM OnBoord (4 MB Max) I +3 PCI Expansion Slots “3 PCL Expansion Slots -Desktop Enclosure <Desktop Enclosure Extended Keyboard ond Mouse “Extended Keyboord and Mouse +$|200 in Bundled Software +$|200 in Bundled Softwore I Add Macromedia Bundle $795 E& Add 28.8 Modem & Internet Kit S195. | Add Internal lomega Zip Orie S39 —— Add Internol lomega Zip Drive S159 7 +d Sony 15° Trinitron 5x $499 Add Sony 15” Trinitron ISsx $499 ) PowerComputing or Apple, Macintosh and Mac ae registred trademarks, and the MacOS logo iso trademark of Apple Cmmpuer ec. PowerTower and PewerCene Corperatian. All eher brand onder product names ore the prepety ofthis respecive elders. Prices ond specicai fs co tagstred trademarks of Pewer Computing valid in the US. only ond ore subject to change without notice. Circle 151 onreader service card August aster Juggler Pro hrowing every font into the System folder slows down you and your Mac, You have to put up with long font menus, slow appli- ation launching, and a bloated System folder. Your Mac can only handle 128 font suitcases so if you have a large font library, you're forced to quit all your open applications and drag fonts in and out of your System folder, Get a grip on your fonts. Restore speed, convenience and control with MasterJuggler Pro. MasterJuggler Pro upgrades your Mac’s font handling capabilities It gives you access to your entire font library and you can store your fonts anywhere. You can even share fonts over a network, Font sets allow you to group fonts by client, job, project or any other category. You can open and close fonts, or sets of fonts, on the fly as you need them without quitting all your open applications. Drag and drop support lets you open and close fonts from the desktop. Using just the fonts you need makes your font menus shorter and your applications start noticeably faster. Complete Fant, Management MasterJuggler is the professional's choice and was picked as the pre- ferred font manager by Macworld (5/95), MacUser (8/95) and Adobe Magazine (3/95). In addition to basic font management it also checks your fonts for corruption as they're opened so they'll never crash your Mac again. It checks for missing printer fonts to avoid the “jaggies.” Font number conflicts are automatically resolved so the right font is always displayed, “Font gathering” copies the screen and printer fonts you need to send to a service bureau. Advanced font and sound compression saves valuable disk space, And you can print samples of your fonts in their typeface to create a type reference book, Reliability & Compatibility That's Unmatched MasterJuggler has the reputation for solid performance on all Macs including the PCI Macs, The new MasterJuggler Pro. gives you the benefit of Power Mac native tech- nology and is fully compatible with all Macs, ‘all major desktop publishing and graphics software, and all font formats including QuickDraw GX, Grab a copy today and take control of your fonts! Circle 140 on reader service card 1996 MACWORLD Macworld a} yn Sanderson, Colin ¢ somnt Shu CHIEF OFERATING OFFICER Stephen Daniels BUSINESS MARAGIR Lisa Buckingharn FINANCIAL ANALYST Fs de Feminis DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES Shelly Ginenthal HMPLOvEE RELATIONS MANAGIE Marisa Chow NETWORK MANAGER Walter J. 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I was working long-dis- tance witha client ona lengthy document tyle num- ‘The client said, “Take a look at pai graph 244.32.5.” whipped open the Find command, entered the paragraph num- ber, clicked on OK, and then . . . beep! Word 6 no longer searches for its own automatic numbers. I had to scroll through a 400-page document for 5 min- utes, at the end of which my client was mighty annoyed! DovuGias L LIEBERMANN Minois Heloise @Home | N “HOME OFF! JEPRINT” (MAY 1996), James A. Martin: mentions neslips for recording time and expens- es on projects. 've been using a much cheaper alternative in my consulting busi- ness for several years now. Tim 1.3.4 (S40; Maui Software, 808/573-0011) has many advanced features, and there's a fully functioning demo available online. Mr. Modesitt of Maui Software is a dedi- cated Mac developer who keeps making his applications better and better, | PeTer FLeck | Minneapolis, Minnesota Readers interested in TimeSlice can download the program from Maui Software’ Web page Cheep://vwwaloha.net/~mauisw/) or Mac- world Online (http://www.macworld.com or keyword Macworld on America Online). Maui it 3, a less ‘for $25, as well Laker Pro and ClarisWorks templates to as File organize exported data, Bath TimeSlice and TimeTracker come in German, French, Swedish, and Norwegian versions, 100 —Ed. Tales from the Encrypt NGE presented in “Civil Rights Activists Say, niff This!” (Viewpoint, May 1996), but asa resident of Italy and a Macintosh user, T have to report that using Zimmerman’s exceptior neither as easy nor as your concluding pi use a “corrected” version of PGP— powerful than the U.S.-Canada ver- sion, but still potently impenetrable. S ond, learning PGP for Mac requires almostas much work as doing brute-force yption, and I admit defeat there. Rumor persists of a user’s manual for ntosh, but I haven’t been able to Wi hile I like the idea of nuisance encryption, Iam unable to practice it, and have reluctantly dumped PGP into the untouchable vastness of the Trash, Rowert D, GCALLanan Montanare di Gortona, Italy the bipartis ommunications Re- form Act. And she is correct that we all need to take action against this kind of intrusion into our lives by government. But her suggestion that we encrypt our messages is almost like giving up, and only finding a way to live with such bad legislation, Instead, we need to protest at the voting booth. GrorGe Rets Santa Ana, California COULDN'T AGREE MORE WITH DENI | Caruso—everything should be en- crypted. 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I hope computer users as a group develop the political savvy and the cohesiveness necessary to accomplish this. Patrick L. Litty Colorado Springs, Colorado The Trouble with Netscape AM TYPING THIS MESSAGE IN THE VERY E-mail interface described in your review of Netscape Navigator 2.0 (May 1996), and it most certainly does support quoting E-mail in replies. In fact, there are two ways you can do this: (1) at the top of the window that comes up after click- ing the To: Mail button are five buttons— Send Now, Quote, Attach, Address (book), and Stop; and (2) it is possible to quote original messages by default by checking a box in the Composition sec- tion of Mail and News Preferences. Curis HANSEN via the Internet A sour THE USENET NEWS-READER L\ interface in Navigator 2.0, its unnec- essarily complicated, yes, but once prop- erly configured it works like a charm. You have to see it to believe the speed—it's faster than any other news reader. KrisHna MOHAN Valsyn North, Trinidad, West Indies FOUND MATTHEW HAWN’S REVIEW OF Netscape 2.0 overgenerous. I’ve been using Netscape since its initial version and I consider 2.0 the worst one yet. I like the idea of an all-in-one browser/news-read- er/E-mail program, but this new Net- scape is not it. I even downloaded Micro- soft’s Internet Explorer in an attempt to end my suffering. What we need is a lean, mean browsing machine—not an over- weight, underfeatured, unreliable one. CLINTON KRENBRENK Saint Albert, Alberta, Canada Naser 2.0 IS INNOVATIVE, NO LN question about it. The problem is that Netscape is pushing the envelope on sexy stuff, like JavaScript and plug-ins, while ignoring more basic issues like sta- bility and HTML compliance (there are any number of useful, standard HTML tags that Navigator does not support and that the company has evidently promised will remain unsupported). 22 August 1996 MACWORLD Is Navigator the best browser avail able? Probably. Is it top-quality software? No. Since Netscape has faced relatively little real competition in the browser wars, users must hold the company’s feet to the fire and demand better. Giving the product four stars is being a little too nice, and sending the wrong signal. Apam Rice Austin, Texas RedShift Redux JUST FINISHED READING YOUR REVIEW of RedShift 2 (May 1996). A not- so-obvious con is the lack of an Input New Objects Found feature, A recent example is comet Hyakutake. I wanted to use RedShift 2’s wonderful texture map- ping to create a movie of the comet’s path, only to find that RedShift doesn’t sup- port that feature. Maris’s tech support told me that because the database is on a CD-ROM, additions aren’t possible. Why? Voyager II by Carina, also on CD- ROM, allows Input New Objects Found, but Voyager II doesn’t have the texture- mapping capabilities of RedShift 2. I use both programs for astronomical applica- tions; both are excellent, but RedShift’s inability to add new objects should be taken into account when purchasing astronomical software. MichaeL E. Gaines Morris Plains, New Jersey Credit Where It's Due N ICE JOB ON YOUR REVIEW OF THE LN current crop of conjuring CDs (Reviews, May 1996). I just wanted to drop you a note to tell you that the uncredited ‘witty... likable . . . showman” perform- ing the effects on the Magic: An Insider's View CD-ROM is Mare DeSouza. Tracy Evans Missouri City, Texas Letters should be sent to Letters, Macwarld, 501 Sec ond St, San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442- 0766; o electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), MCI Mail (294-8078), America Online (keyword Macworld), AppleLink (Maczorldl), or yia the Inter- net (letters@macworld.com), Include return address and daytime phone number. 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Akin to a state-of- the-union speech, Amelio’s address out- lined Apple's technology plans for the coming year, to the people who need to implement them—Apple developers, both within the company and outside. No mere reor; anization, this is quite . From a public-rela- ndpoint, putting a vice president in charge of a division signals Wall Street analysts and Apple’s investors that the company is seriously focusing its efforts. From an internal, strategic point of view, the new division provides a focal point for Apple's many Internet projects. Amelio is taking a page from the book of one of the most successful computer com- panies in the business: Microsoft. Micro- soft might not always have the best tech- nology, but it always shows, convincingly and in great detail, how its products work together and how they fit into the mar- ketplace. Creating an Interner div gives Apple the same opportunity. What Apple Promises ‘Tesler says Apple's strategy will address accessing, creating, and delivering Inter- net content. The company’s goals are to make using the Internet easier and to make the Internet more media-rich. Apple is shipping Macs with at least 12MB of RAM, a 28.8-Kbps modem or on-board Ethernet (depending on the model), and Internet connection soft- ware—guaranteeing that with only a few clicks you can get on the Internet. In the longer term, Apple plans to integrate In- ternet services into the Mac OS using Java, Sun's popular development environ- ment for the Internet, and OpenDoc, Apple’s component architecture. At the heart of Apple’s Internet strat- egy is OpenDoc, potentially the compa ny’s most powerful lever. Components are key to creating the next generation of software, and Internet technology is OpenDoc’s best advertisement. “Open- Doc by itself is not enough,” Amelio said “We need to . . . marry it up with Ja Tesler said of Java, “We're going to put it everyplace,” including inside the Mac OS. The move toward adoption of Open- Doc to create major, mainstream desktop applications is still a trickle, but many developers are creating parts to display or work with Internet content. OpenDoc’s components technology allows every OpenDoc part to be used instantly with any OpenDoc app. Based on demos we've seen at Macworld, this works smoothly. Apple also promises to make the kind of mark on the Internet that it made on the desktop with the Mac OS. “Apple's mission has always been to make complex technology simple,” Amelio said at WWDC. “We did it with personal com- puters, and we're going to do it with the Internet. ... We want to seamlessly build the Internet right into the Mac OS, so you have this very agile connectivity between working locally and working on the Net and really don’t have to sweat the subtle differences. We don’t want you to have to log on. We just want it to be there.” rhere are precedents. From the beginning, Apple- Share client software and a Local'Talk connection shipped with all Macs (as did Personal File Sharing later), making it easy to connect to a network (much easier than for PC us- ers). Furthermore, Apple pio- neered the graphical browsing of network resources with the Chooser, a feat that has never been bested. One major com- plaint about the Internet is that it’s not easy to use—Apple could solve that problem. Playing to Its Strengths The second part of Apple's strategy is to extend its domi- nance in content creation to the Internet, The Web has pushed the Net into the graphical arena, where Apple excels. More specifically, Apple’s commit- ment to meld its QuickTime Media Layer—QuickTime, QuickTime VR, QuickDraw 3D, and QuickTime Confer- encing—with the Web and to deliver it simultaneously on Mac and Windows platforms would define a significant role continues MACWORLD August 1996 27 STATE OF THE MAC on the Internet. Just getting QuickTime into Web applications bodes well for Apple—QuickTime is the best technolo- s class, it has been leveraged well, and it has that Apple mystique. If the Mac is to remain the premier content-creation platform, the standards on which it depends must be ubiquitous on both the server and the client side. Apple must help the Web become even more media-rich while dealing with the limits of bandwidth. Here again, Amelio Order your call 1.800.387.9193 fax 1.403.261.7013 catalog: is focusing on a solid, existing market niche that Apple can fill. Even though one of Apple’ strengths is content creation, it competes with Net- scape and Microsoft for developers’ re~ sources. Apple needs third parties—like Adobe, which made Apple the dominant media-creation platform—to develop Internet applications that rely on its tech- nology and to help make the Mac the pre- mier Web content-creation tool. The final part of Apple's strategy is wie hitp://www.adobe.com/imageclub/ Circle 50 on reader service card 28 August 1996 MACWORLD the server side, and although this has im- proved, it could be better. Apple has never really understood the demands of the high-performance server market. As a result, the Mac OS continues to fall short in performance and flexibility when stacked up against true, hard-core server operating systems like Unix and Windows NT. Tesler’s approach at WWDC was essentially to talk louder about Apple’s line of Internet servers, but this doesn’t address the real problems. Apple needs to talk smarter, not louder. Apple should give up high-end Mac OS server dreams, period. There is now and always will be a need for big, power- ful, networked boxes that hold and dis- tribute lots of data very quickly. There will always be big, powerful companies thar will enthusiastically bury Apple if it tries to compete in that market. Apple has the keys to its high-end server strategy in its hands: the AIX-based Network Servers 500/132 and 700/150. The company should license and sell NT on PowerPC alongside its Network Servers and work on what it knows best: desktop, peer-to- peer connectivity. Adding multitasking in Mac OS 8 (the official name for Copland) and increasing CPU speed via faster PowerPC chips will make the Mac desk- top powerful enough to act as a personal server. This exploits the Internet's strongest potential—people talking to people over a decent ed network. Again, Apple has the keys to this str: Apple has always been about making computing personal—it should not aban- don that vision. Tesler said Apple would integrate Web-server technology into the OS, and this is exactly the right thing to do. The Right Direction At the conference, Amelio announced that Apple has an Internet strategy, but it isn’t too far wrong to say that the Inter- net is Apple’s strategy, and it’s not a bad one. Internet users are screaming for a system that’s easier to use and carries rich- er media types than just text, and nobody is stronger than Apple in both those areas. Given the attention the Internet has received in the past year, it seems as if Apple is just now catching up with the Internet. But when you consider Apple’s strengths, you could say that the Internet is just now catching up with Apple. m Research by CAMERON CROTTY, ELIZ DOUGHERTY, and MATTHEW HAWN. Metdalools c Turn still penres ito images that Revolutionary floating user feel like liquid on your screen. _ interface is simple to use. 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Mac product names have his- torically reflected the Mac’s superiority. In the Windows world, for example, there seems to be a law that product names must contain inscrutable numbers, in- scrutable capitals, or both. The June 1996 Windows magazine, for example, reviews such products as ECCO Pro, pcAny- where32, dtSearch, Visio, and Corel- XARA—ahhh, poetry. For the Mac, on the other hand, we have great descrip- tive, evocative names like Photoshop, Spell Catcher, Panorama, LogoMotion, and Cyberdog (love that!), Clearly, this is a tradition worth keeping alive. Therefore, for the benefit of new companies that have been doing things like slapping Pro onto first-time program names, allow me to hint at a better nam- ing-and-numbering protocol. Adopt it, live long, and prosper. Dare to differ: Use spaces. If you have ever glanced at a Mac cata- log, you might have gotten the impres- sion that product-naming committees have broken spacebars. We've got Fol- derBolt, WordPerfect, and FastBack. MacLinkPlus, ‘TextureMaker, and even— get this—MyAdvancedLabelMaker. Would sales of such name-impaired software as CalendarMaker, VideoDirec- tor, or EmployeeManualMaker really suf- fer from the presence of spaces? I doubt it; such correctly spaced products as RAM Doubler, Speed Doubler, and Snap Mail seem to sell OK. Having once taken a course in Pascal programming, I think I know where this tradition came from. As I recall, you couldn't use spaces in your software instructions. Commands like ReadLn and GoTo roamed the earth. These ancient OneWord commands’ descendants linger even today—in Word 6 dialog boxes, for example, or in Internet addresses. Originally, then, someone probably thought it would be cute and different to name a computer program without spaces. Ironically, today you're distinctive if you don’t omit the spaces. Enough with the InterCaps. Of course, if you're going to leave out the spaces, you're going to need some means of indicating where one word ends and the next begins. The solution is Inter- Caps, where a letter in the middle of the name is capitalized. Apple is certainly guilty here—it can’t seem to name prod- ucts without a capital letter in the middle. AppleTalk. QuickTime. PowerBook. And now we're raising a generation of shift-key illiterates. Product-naming committees have InterCapped names that were originally single words—FreeHand and StoryBoard, for example. Software companies are now leaving lowercase letters that should be capped, as in the names xRes and theType- Book (ugh). And in day-to- day correspondence I’ve even seen some people mistakenly add InterCaps in names that don’t actually have them, like Macworld and Photoshop. If you'd like to see where the InterCappization of America is taking us, visit cyberspace. Hang around on America Online, and you'll meet teenagers who, in some weird mutation of InterCap anity, now tYPe EvERydAy e-mAiL meSSaGes IIKe tHiS. Pick a prefix besides Quick or Power. In the eighties, the hot suf- fix to indicate newness and improvedness was Plus. File- Maker Plus, Reflex Plus, Macintosh Plus. Today, it’s Quick or Power, Quick- Time, QuickTake, QuickDraw, Quick- Books, QuickCam, QuickMail. Power- Book, Power Mac, PowerCurve. Not to mention Power Translator, -Tools, -Merge, -Draw, -CADD, and -Print. Hey, amigos, let's move on. Quick and Power are so overused that they no longer have meaning. Not that they ever did— anyone who's tried to download Quick- Take photos into a Mac knows what a misnomer that one is. And now that the continues MACWORLD August 1996 33 THE DESKTOP CRITIC The Best and Worst Mac Product Names There's no televised special to accompa- ny the awarding of these honors, but somebody's got to do it The Five Best Names + TelePort (Global Village): A two-way pun, combining telephone with your modem port; the modem can be said to teleport you to another location. (One way puns, by contrast, aren't as satisfy- ing. For example, SitComm is indeed a blend of Stuffit and communications— but has nothing to do with TV shows.) + Cyberdog (Apple); It fetches on com- mand, just as the name implies. + PaperPort (Visioneer): Describes the gadget; nice alliteration. « CanOpener (Abbott): Another two- way pun, The program pries open any file, like a can opener, and the name speaks its motto: "I can open ‘er. + PageMiill, SiteMill (Adobe): Nice jux- taposition of the modern (Web pages, sites) with the traditional (mills). | can see the copycats now—RAMMiill, SpeedMill, SpreadSheetMill The Five Worst Names « Faxstf (STF Technologies): Meaning- less, and you can’t even pronounce it « WOW (CompuServe): A new online service, Cornball beyond belief. Gag me + FotoFun (Fargo): Terrific photo print- er, but would it have diminished Foto- Fun's appeal to spell the name right? + ScruTiny in the Great Round (Cal- liope): It's a CD-ROM, but you'd never know it. Not only conveys no informa- tion, but implies a double entendre. + Performa (Apple): True, focus groups have shown that consumers like names ending with a (to wit: Honda, Toyota Acura). But this one sounds like Sylvester Stallone trying to pronounce “Performer.” = - feeblest, cheapest Mac available is, in fact, a Power Mac, the Power prefix isn’t even serving its purpose of differentiation, also Gilbert & Sullivan, is somebody, then no one’s anybody.” e Vhen everyone We should keep an eye on the Dow- bler suffix, too. Ie also showing signs of Creeping Cliché Syndrome. After dou- bling our Disk, RAM, Speed, CPU, and Net, we don’t want to dilute that one into meaninglessness as well. Separate your company's name. Microsoft invented the practice of includ- ing the company’s name in each product title: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Exe Microsoft Works, and so on. 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That's how accustomed they are to using The mobile SoftBoard 1 the company names, Quark and Net- scape, to refer to the programs they use. One decimal point per number. Product names aren't the only things in chaos—version numbers need help, too. T mean, look at how software companies have fallen into numbering disarray: Apple uses the mathematically question- able ‘Two Decimal Points method (“S: tem 7.5.3”). Claris uses a v in place of the second decimal point; ClarisWorks is up Imagine the meeting where you all have the same vision, the same objectives, and the same notes. wie orievo SoftBoard only looks and feels like an ordinary whiteboard. Whatever you create on a SoftBoard® appears instantly on your Macintosh® or Windows®-based PC. Once it’s there, you can save it, print it, cut and paste it, e-mail it, fax it, even network it to multiple sites. 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Which is: a soft- ware revision made exclusively to kill bugs or for compatibility affects only the hun- dredths place—from version 2.01 to 2.02, for example. (Such an update should be free and available as an updater online.) Any revision that actually adds features changes the number’ tenths place (2.3 to 2.4). And if the rewrite is so dramatic that the document file format changes, the integer changes (5.0 to 6.0). Fortunately, most software companies do abide by the aforementioned, but undocumented, Scheme, Nonetheless, 1 have a concern about that second decimal point. What, exactly, is the point of that point? It’s a huge productivity killer: if we 23 million Mac fans each mention such a program once a day, and the extra syll ble takes a third ofa second to pronounce, we waste 11 people-weeks a year just speaking the superfluous decimal point. Why don’t we all agree to drop the point itself, and just say “System 7.53”? 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Circle 13 on reader service card 7 Vall science/engineering Mac CAD Does Fine without AutoCAD PC GIANT'S DEPARTURE LEAVES USERS, CAD DEVELOPERS UNFAZED by Charles Seiter Ithough the Power Mac is the cheapest workstation-level computer on the mar- ket, two major ven- dors—AutoDesk and Claris— recently dropped out of the hotly contested Macintosh CAD market, What happened to PC CAD powerhouse Auto- Desk? Is the Mac CAD mar- ket drying up, or is it merely a tough nut to crack? Macworld talked to CAD users and lead- ing CAD vendors to find out. AutoCAD's Tragic Tale The bombshell news hit last year, when AutoDesk, the largest PC CAD software ven- dor (selling nearly 240,000 units last year, more than the entire Mac CAD market), announced that it wouldn’t update AutoCAD to a Power Mac-ready Release 13. Although AutoCAD never reached AutoDesk’s ambitious (50 percent or more) market- share goals on the Mac, Power Macs still represent a much 38 August 1996 MACWORLD larger (70 percent) CAD mar- ket than specialized systems, such as those based on Digi- tal’s. Alpha processor, for which AutoCAD did develop Release 13. AutoDesk claims. it took nearly as many in- house programmers to sup- port the Mac version as it did Windows, and that the Mac sales didn’t provide enough return on the investment (after Release 12 came out, AutoCAD’s market share dropped from about 20 per- cent to about 15 percent). ‘Two main problems faced AutoCAD% assault on the Mac market. First, beyond its posi- tion as an industry standard, there wasn’t much to motivate CAD users to switch to Auto- CAD—most users complained about the slow performance of both releases 11 and 12. And while AutoCAD’ strength was in mechanical and engineer- ing design, it lacked architec- tural design features that had become favorites for Mac CAD users. Second, unlike, say, word processing or graphics soft- ware, adopting CAD software is a major commitment—a company typically spends much more on training than on the software itself. Auto- CAD was a relative latecomer pout Ross to the Mac market, and only 15 to 20 percent of Mac-based firms using CAD were willing to face the downtime associat- ed with a major changeover to AutoCAD. AutoDesk wasn't the only company having difficulty breaking the loyalty barrier in the Mac CAD market: disap- pointing sales forced Claris to abandon Claris CAD last year. They'd Rather Stay Put Historically, Macintosh repre- sentation in the various areas of mechanical engineering has been weak, but the Mac still has a big chunk (25 to 30 per- cent) of the architectural and design CAD market. Reports from the field indicate that most of these design houses are staying with the Mac. Macworld interviewed key people at several Mac-based design firms and found them indifferent to AutoDesk’s de- parture, and happy with both their platform and their cur- rent CAD software. Bradley Skaggs at the San Francisco office of Studios, an international architectural de- sign firm, has a typical story: “We switched to AutoCAD for a while because one major client insisted on it. It was too slow, and the staff was com- plaining. I can see why some mechanical engineers might like it, but we didn’t. When we had to decide between Auto- CAD as software and the Mac fas platform], we chose the Power Mac-ready version of Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD, and now are happily using it in our offices around the world. The Power Mac is a great, cheap CAD platform.” Picking Up the Pieces Not surprisingly, the remain- ing Mac CAD players welcome a less crowded playing field. Richard Diehl, president of Graphsoft (410/290-5114, bitp://www.graphsoft.com)— the current Mae CAD mar- ket-share leader, with possibly as much as 50 percent of the market—says the departure of AutoDesk is an opportunity for his firm. Graphsoft’s Mini- Cad 6 shipped several months ago in both Mac (see Reviews, March 1996) and Windows versions, and the company has been busy running demon- strations at mixed-platform design shops, particularly ar- chitectural firms, that refuse to junk their Macs in the wake of AutoCAD‘ disappearance. Diehl also notes that as Power Macs speed up, CAD vendors will concentrate on automating existing drafting and modeling functions rather than mere addition of new features. Instead of requiring users to do interactive model- ing in 3-D space, vendors are building considerable (and computationally — intensive) “intelligence” into their soft- ware to create 3-D models automatically from the 2-D drafting documents most engineers and architects were trained to draw. Laszlo Vespremi, director of product development at Graphisoft (415/737-8665, hutp://www.graphisoft.com), ArchiCAD’s maker, agrees with Diehl’s assessment. Both companies are planning soft- ware that will be able to gen- erate realistic 3-D walk- throughs, including textured surfaces, for buildings speci- fied mostly by traditional 2-D drafting CAD files. These applications will take advan- tage of the ultra high speed Power Macs expected to arrive later this year. “The big question,” Vespremi says, “is putting the new extra power to best use.” Most CAD vendors for Macs and PCs used to add features each year that made their soft- ware more comparable to the CAD programs that ran on the fastest. Unix workstations. Now, with the fastest Power continues on page 46 publishing Adobe's New Web Course COMPANY LOOKS TO INCREASE INTERACTIVITY ONLINE AND IN PRINT by Macworld Staff eeking to put its graph- ical imprint on the Web, Adobe Systems (415/961-4400, brtp:// wow.adobecom) is de- veloping technologies—includ- ing an interactive authoring tool and a Web version of Per- suasion—to make the Web a richer publishing medium. Web Graphics Go Hi-Fi A portable 2-D imaging stan- dard, code-named Bravo, will give developers an API for dis- playing, printing, and manag- ing high-res images, line art, and text for Web graphics. Adobe claims Bravo will offer film-level quality, along with the ability to display, save, replay, and print 2-D text and graphics—even on low- end Internet systems. Although based on Adobe's PostScript, Bravo isn’t tied to a specific font technology. It’s expected to be delivered on various platforms, including Windows, Mac, and Solaris. While Bravo is already used in Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and other Adobe products, Adobe's first new Bravo-based application, code- named Vertigo, is due next year. JavaSoft has announced its intent to use Bravo in a future implementation of Java. If Bravo is the imaging model, Vertigo is the player. By bringing interactivity to the Bravo/Java team, Vertigo will let content providers combine graphics, sound, and video. It promises to be the first authoring tool to link sophisticated animation and interactivity with Bravo's high-res graphics capabilities. Intranet Printing Last year printer companies began qui- etly adding Internet connec- tivity to their products. GCC ‘Technologies unveiled Web- Admin for its Elite XL laser; ‘Tektronix announced Phaser- Link for its color printers. Both ROM-based utilities let you choose, configure, and print to any Web-enhanced printer from a Web browser. At the next level is Adobe's PrintMill, due by year’s end. ¢ those utilities, Print- Mill installs on a Web server, making any network printer browser-accessible and elimi- nating the mishmash of driv- ers, Chooser setups, and Print Managers normally faced by multiplatform users. Also, Adobe and Micro- soft announced their intent to merge Type | PostScript with TrueType, creating a font format called OpenType for use on the Web and even- tually in printers. Presenting on the Web Finally, Adobe is developing a Web-based presentation tool. Code-named Web Presenter, it will let your presentations combine Web links, multi- media elements, photos, and illustrations. Reported by BARBARA ASSADI, LINDA COMER, and SUZANNE COURTEAU. MACWORLD August 1996 39 Natural Media Meets Vector Drawing FIRST FRUIT OF FRACTAL AND RAY DREAM UNION by Cathy Abes ot on the heels of their recent merger, Fractal ign (408/688 and Ray Dream are in- troducing their first offspring: an object-oriented illustration program that lets you draw with fluid, paintlike effects. With tools that parallel Fractal Design Expression lets you create vector-based art with paint-style brushstrokes, [ News Painter's, Fractal Design pression lets you create strokes—resolution-indepen- dent PostScript paths editable with standard drawing. tools such as frechand, Bézier-pen, polyline, and B-spline tools. And the transparency feature lets you layer strokes to en- ural-media look. Expression provides three kinds of strokes; Natural- Media strokes for creating paintlike effects; graphic ¢ ments (defined objects similar to clip art), and Multi-View strokes, which can combine the other two and be anin ed. More than 150 strokes and 200 graphic elements will ship with the program, Expression supports mul- tiple undos, layers, and pres- sure-sensitive tablets, It pro- vides Mac and Windows file compatibility; reads and writes Adobe Illustrator and Corel- Draw files; and exports to Adobe Photoshop 2.5, TIFF, x, EPS, AVI, and hance the n: pression will retail for $449 (street price will be under $300), $199 for owners of Painter or Ray Dream Studio. Incredible Shrinking Mouse MOVABLE SHELL ADAPTS TO FIT YOUR HAND We've seen them all—mice with ergonomically designed contours, extra buttons, and even one with ears. But now there’s the Adjustable Mouse from Alps Electric (408/432-6000, http://www -alpsusa.com), with a movable shell that lets you alter its height and angle to fit small, medium, or large hands more comfortably. In addition to assigning single-button functions, you can also use the chording feature to assign any of nine preset opera- tions to any combination of buttons. For example, you might set the left and center buttons to perform the Copy function when they're pressed in unison. Available now for $40, the Adjustable Mouse comes with a six-foot cable and plugs into any ADB port. —CATHY ABES g i communications The Race for Bandwidth PHONE AND CABLE COMPANIES FIGHT AN UPHILL BATTLE by Cary Lu s demand for data bandwidth rises, the information supe highway’s infrastru ture is struggling to keep up. In an Internet-mad world where 28,8-Kbps mo- dems and even 128-Kbps ISDN lines no longer seem fast, both telephone and cable companies are racing to offer higher-speed data connec- tions. But despite all the hype you've been hearing, don’t expect to find a fast, cheap upstream from you to the phone company. Later ver- sions of ADSL should run at up to 6 Mbps downstream and 640 Kbps upstream. Phone versus Cable DSI. will compete with the much- ballyhooed cable modem the cable TV companies want to offer for Internet connections. A cable modem works very differently from a phone line. Instead of using a dedicated connection, all the cable sub- scribers in a region will share an Internet feed, occupying the equivalent of one cable televi~ i ch data packet will contain a user ID, and your cable modem will pick out only those packets addressed to you. ‘The system resembles a lo- cal area network, and many pro- posed cable modems use an Ethernet-like protocol. A major drawback is that today’s cables can carry only downstream d: for upstream data, you'll have to tie up a phone line, or the com- Comparing Data-Transfer Speeds Data speeds for present and forthcoming connections, in kilobits per second. 28.8-Kbps modem —|— sas Two-line ISDN 128.0 HSL = 384.0 ADSL 1. ADSL2 Cable modem* 5000.0 *Speed of cable modem depends on the cable system and the ‘number of users served at any given time, connection anytime soon. Within the next couple of years, phone companies plan to offer several kinds of DSL. (digital subscriber line) con- nections using the ordinary copper phone lines that al- ready run into your home or office. You'll even be able to make a voice call and a DSL connection simultaneously on the same line. High-bit-rate DSL (HDSL) will run at 384 Kbps bidirectionall n- metric DSL (ADSL) will in tially run at 1.544 Mbps down- stream from the phone com- pany to you, and 64 Kbps panies will have to build a wire- less radio network. Bandwidth Not Enough A\- though cable companies talk about 500-Kbps to 5-Mbps or n faster conne able modem subscriber y get only a fraction of that bandwidth. When fewer users ¢ logged on, more band- width may be available. But a faster final link doesn’t always mean faster performance. Data speeds— whether for DSL service or for cable modem—describe only the last downstream link to your computer. Actual data speed depends on many other factors, such as the servers and intermediate links. DSL, like your phone ser- vice, lets you switch between different providers. But since cable modems—like cable television—work only with data fed by the local cable company, they can’t offer that option, Cable companies can’t provide true switched opera- tion or upstream connection without replacing their pre- sent cables and electronics, a process that would take many years, if it is ever done. US West, one of the re- gional Bell companies, says it will provide DSL service in some cities next year and that by 1998 DSL will be widely available, with rates starting at about $35 per month for metered service. But because it needs high-quality, relati ly short wire runs, DSL won't be available in a i not reach 4 DSL Has the Edge Don't expect the cable TV companies to settle on a standard cable modem format in less than two years, because no one knows what will work with today’s myriad cable systems. There: fore, many companies are like- ly to use interim formats that may quickly vanish once a stan- dard finally emerges. For now, the phone com- panies appear better situated, since they can offer limited DSL services without rebuild- ing their networks, though widespread use of DSL will require newer switching equipment. Cable companies face greater obstacles, because their systems aren't designed for two-way transfer, and data customers are much more demanding than TV viewers. ‘The 6-Mbps data rates lat- er versions of ASDL promise should meet most users’ needs for some years to come. Then we'll stop complaining about slow modems and find other bottlenecks to gripe about. publishing Portable Docs Get a New Lease on Life THE NEW MISSION: CONTENT ON THE NET by James A. Martin end a formatted elec- tronic document to anyone anywhere and save untold dollars in network resources and storage—even reduce global warming. At least, that’s how portable-document: programs such as Adobe Acrobat (415/ 962-4400, betp://www.adobe .com) were touted in the early 1990s—only to fade from | of interest, But with the explosion of the Internet— and its cousin, the corporate intranet—there’s finally a strong argument for portable- document technology. Most vendors are poised to ¢ the Internet opportu- nity, but for some it might be too late. Here's where the four portable-document prod- ucts stand today, Acrobat Takes the Lead Thanks to marketing and name recognition, Acrobat made it through relatively thed, and now seems to be the dominant portable- document technology for Web content developers. The new version, 3.0, lets you view PDF files (Acrobat’s native format) within Net- scape Navigator 2.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Previously, you had to down- load a PDF file from a Web site, then launch Acrobat to read it. With 3.0, you merely click on a PDF file to down- load it within the browser's continues Real-Time Video Effects two hardware developers, Truevision and Scitex Digital Video, have jumped into the waters of dual-stream video, promising real-time creation of dissolves, wipes, and other transition effects. Most single-stream video systems make you wait for such effects to render. Truevision (408/562-4200, http://www.truevision com) has stuck two hardware codec chips on its Targa 2000 RTX, letting the PCI card play