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Mac Explosion: 15 New Systems for Home and Business, Page 38 we... 1996 | Everything you need to si eed in print and on the Web ® Top Internet Publishing Tools How to Keep Your Web Site Hot Print Publishing's Next Steps $4.95 CANADA $5.95 | | | | oN "70989"37772 | Internet or just publish a Personal web page with tools you already know how to use. These additions to Microsoft Excel 5.0 and Word 6.0 easily turn your documents into Unlock the power of the Internet with this awesome browser. Small. fast, and de signed for the Mac. Internet Explorer supports a rich multt- media experience and is easy to set up and use. The excitement of the World Wide Web awaits you. — Everything to gain. m 7.5 Update 2.0 from Apple Now you can get the most from your Mac with Apple's. free update for System 7.5 users: This update will improve overall Stability and performance and, it you use Virtual Memory on your PowerMac; start your applications up to four times faster tnan before: Upd are still running Word 6.0 M you — you will definitely want to | upgrade your software to this much improved version. | Word 6.0.14, introduced last | fall, enhances performance _ and stability, your boot time and word counts, improves font han dling and much, much more. Speeds up Now you can dow iload Microsoft's Internet Tools and discover the new Internet capabilities of your Mac. Free Micro: oft’s continued commitment to the Mac me browsing, creating and accomplishing more than ever before. To obtain your Internet Tools, and the System 7.5 Update 2.0, piease visit /iwww.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 4 Special offer on RAM from Kin, Technology call 800-469-6520 Dept. Mc Micresoftt WHERE DO YOU WANT 10 GO TODA’ *Conneet time charges may apply {© 1996 Microsoft Corporation, All rights reserved.Microsoft end Where do you want to go today? are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark and ‘Mac and PowerMac are trademarks of Apple Computer, inc. Illustration: Frank Kozik NOW THE FASTEST DESKTOP PC ON THE PLANET IS A MAC OS" SYSTEM. THE POWERTOWER™ PRO 225 MHz. SIX PCI SLOTS. INTERLEAVED MEMORY. DUAL FAST SCSI. 8X CD-ROM Pe 188 Pema 1500/180 Power 9500/180 Powertewes Fo 25 20 Pre 180 Paar 9500/1850 | “THE POWERTOWER PRO SERIES SOARS ABOVE ALL MAC RIVALS....MAC POWERUSERS WILL SOON BECOME POWER COMPUTING USERS IN DROVES” — MacWEEK Macazint 7.22.96 We're fighting to put the MacOS on top! We love the Mac, just like you. In fact, most of us here at Power Computing have spent our lives working for and with Apple Computer - engineering the Macintosh systems you've “HANG ON TO YOUR HAT...POWER COMPUTING WIDENS THE GAP. THE NEW POWERTOWER PRO BOASTS FIRST POWERPC 604E AT UP TO 225MHz" — Macwono Macaze SEPT ‘96 worked and lived with since 1984. Power Computing’s goal is 444464¢ simple: provide the Mac market with more choice, MacWeek power and performance. Take our Powerlower Pro series featuring the new PowerPC 604e RISC processor. It's not only the fastest and most expandable Mac OS system ever, it’s also faster than any Intel Pentium or Pentium Pro S6G88 system on the market. LABS Custom configuration anyway you want it. Power builds every system exactly to your specs. Need more RAM or a larger hard drive? Want internal RAID or AV options? Not a problem - we'll build and ship it directly to your door. That's the way we do business - direct, from the factory, just like Dell and Gateway. Order direct from the manufacturer & save. And best of all, you'll save time and lots of money going direct. Give us a call, and let us help you configure your dream system. © PowerGomputing 800-410-7693 Apple, Moinosh snd Mac ere registered redemerks, andthe MacOS lg nares ere the preperty oftheir respective holders. Prices ond specfcat atk of Apple Compute Inc. PowerTower and FoweiCenter ere registered trademarks of Fower Computing Corporation, Al other brend ond/er product In the US only ond are subject to change wi a Circle 161 on reader service card 134 38 40 44 51 4 October 1996 Features Make Telecommuting a Reality BY JAMES A MARTIN Ride your Mac to work, What you need to make your telecommute hassle-free. Telecommuters' first step—taming the telephone. News The Mac Speed Race Intensifies New systems from Apple, Power Computing, DayStar, and Umax bring swifter processing to both business and consumer users. Modems in the Fast Lane ‘The Infobahn gets a new speed limit, thanks to the latest modem standard. Special Report A New Spin for 3-D Graphics Apple, Fractal, Specular, and the latest in 3-D a unvei ae are, New Products Macworld highlights the best Expo debuts, MACWORLD OCTOBER cWorik 104 122 153 $9 9% The Information Rush FEATURES Energize Your Web Site sY MEL BECKMAN Give your visitors what they want and they'll keep coming back for more. Learn the top techniques for keeping your site current. Web Authoring's New Tools BY MEL BECKMAN From sim- ple text editors to full-blown document converters, Macworld handpicks the best tools for build- ing your Web site. Should You Fire Your Service Bureau? BY PETER M STOLLER WITH JEFF sacitotto Affordable _pre- press hardware is as close as your top, but is it time for you to the leap? Macworld weighs and rewards of in-house prepress. Best Buys in Optical Drives BY MATTHEW Leeos Gigs to go: Content creators demand portable storage for massive files. Macworld Lab tests 13 options. SECRETS NetSmart BY CAMERON croTTY Live audio and video—it’s the next best thing to being there. 27 254 160 163 Macworld taste-tests, three Java develop- ment tools, page 54. OPINION State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO Keepacool head amid the information rush. Viewpoint sy Joe scHuttz The Inter- net—revolution or reformation? MEDIA Publishing Workshop BY DAVID BLATNER ‘Tired of halftones? Take a look at the ben- efits of stochastic screening. Special Report Copyright and the Visual Arts By MARJORIE BAER Unautho- rized copying is easier than ever, but it’s still not legal. Learn your liabilities. 54 56 57 58 59 60 68 70 72 80 Power Computing sprints onto the consumer track with the 240MHz PowerBase, page 38. 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Tips, tricks, Graphics Workshop sy catHy ages Colorize your black-and-white photographs in Photoshop. ON THE COVER Mlastration by Nick Fain; photography by Paul Franz-Moore and FPG, 14 61 62 63 66 75 77 79 82 84 86 88 89 93 Reviews kk*k/7.3 Stuffit Deluxe 4.0 Compression utility ***/5.8 LaserWriter 12/640 PS Monochrome laser printer ****/7.6 PowerTower Pro 180; *&**/7.7 PowerTower Pro 200; *&**/7.9 PowerTower Pro 225; ***/6.8 SuperMac S900L High-performance systems compared HKHK/B.2 Stylist 1.0 Illustrator plug-in *x/3.9 Faxstf 3.2 Fax software kk */7.5 form-Z RendetZone 2.8 3-D form synthesizer kK K/B.5 HSM ToolKit Storage-management software ***/6.5 LAN Commander Network-management software ***/6.7 GlobalTransfer File-transfer utility kk K/8.8 Sculpt 2.0 Real-time molecular simulator **#*/8.0 VIP-BASIC 2.0 Programming language **/3.5 Quest for Fame Game 9% */7.1 Wing Commander IV Game Star Ratings §Macworld's ratings for hundreds of hardware and software products at a glance. 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Powerlower Pro features an upgradeable CPU - “POWER COMPUTING’S NEW PoweRTOWER Pro "King future REDEFINES SPEED...POWER WIDENS THE GAP.” — Macwonto Macazint, SEPT, 1996 upgrades @ snap. POWERTOWER - THE MOST AFFORDABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS. The PowerTower is a sheer workhorse the pundits are quickly recognizing as the next logical step beyond Apple's Power Macintosh. Just compare the overall performance, speed and price. MW Powerlowers possess considerable processor speeds, plenty of RAM and VRAM, a large Mac OS L2 cache & a valuable software bundle, And of course, we'll configure your 4004 MacWoek Powerlower exaclly the way you want - delivering it direct from our factory to your door. ey “IF YOU REQUIRE MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE, NO CURRENT APPLE SYSTEM CAN TOUCH THE POWERTOWERS.” — MAcWEEK Macazine $4944 POWERCENTER™ - FINALLY, POWERPC 604 PERFORMANCE FOR THE MASSES. For many, the best place to start is with a PowerCenter. Power Computing’s mid-range systems are hardly basic. In fact, they blow competing high-end systems out of the water. PowerCenters ship with 150 and 132MHz software bundle make the PowerCenter the obvious choice for small-office, home-office, enterprise and graphics users. “PERFORMANCE AND PRICE COMBINE TO MAKE THE POWERCENTER THE MOST SENSIBLE CHOICE FOR BUSINESS 7 AND GRAPHICS.” — sticwonn Macazint, Joy, 1996 MESES Apple, Macintosh ond Mac are registered rodemark, ond the Mec ‘and/or product nomes are the property 0 heir respective holders, ark of Apple Compute, Ine. PowerTower ond PowerCenter ere registered trademarks of Pewer Computing Cerpootien. All ether brond ions are valid inthe U.S. only ond ore subject to change without notice. POWERTOWER PRO: THE FASTEST, MOST EXPANDABLE MAC OS SYSTEM TT PowerTower Pro 225 Storter Powerlower Pro 200 Storter Powerlower Pro 180 Starter 225MHz PowerPC 604e Processor ‘200MHz PowerPC 604e Processor 180MHz PowerPC 604e Processor “16 MB RAM (1 GB Max) +268 7200 RPM AY Hord Drive “8X CO-ROM Drive “1 MB Lovel 2 Cache “INS Twin Turbo 128M graphics accelerator with MB VRAM +6 PCI Exponsion Slots “Interleaved Memory +4 Drive Boys Duol (Fost 10 MB/Sec) SCSI ~Connectx Speed Doubler ~Exended Keyboard and Mouse ‘Add Sony 20° Tniron 20st S1795 “16 MB RAM (1 GB Mx) 2.68 7200 RPM AV Hard Drive *8K CO-ROM Drive “1MB Level 2 Cache “IMS Twin Turbo 128M graphics accelerator with BMB VRAM +6 PCI Expansion Slots “Interleaved Memory +9 Drive Boys “Duol (Fost 10 MB/Sec) SCSI ~Connectx Speed Doubler “Extended Keyboord and Mouse Aad Sony 20” Tinton 20s $1795 “16 MB RAM (1 GB Max) 2.68 7200 RPM AY Hard Drive *8K CO-ROM Drive 1 “IMB Level 2 Cache } a “INS Twin Turbo 128M graphics accelerator with 8MB VRAM +6 PC Expansion Slots I D -Interleaved Memory +9 Drive Boys “Duo! (Fost 10 MB/Sec) SCSI ~Connectx Speed Doubler “Extended Keyboord and Mouse “hdd Sony 17 Tiitron 17st 875 POWERTOWER: AFFORDABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE MAC OS SYSTEMS Powerlower 2000 Starter 200MHz PowerPC 604e Processor PowerTower 1800 Starter Powerfower 166 Starter 180MHz PowerPC 604e Processor 166 MHz PowerPC 604 Processor +16 MB RAM (512 MB Max) +268 7200 RPM AY Copoble Hard Drive 8x CO-ROM Drive “512K Level 2 Cache +2. MB VRAM On-Boord (4 MB Max) +3 PCI Expansion Slots “Connect Speed Doubler MiniTower Enclosure Extended Keyboard ond Mouse +d Sony 17° Trinitron V7sfil 875 “Add lomego Joz 1 GB Drive ‘395 More POWERCENTER: THE MOST AFFORDABLE 604s YOU CAN BUY PowerCenter 150 Office 150 MHz PowerPC 604 Processor 32. 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We've also enhanced Now Super Boomerang™ to make it easier for you to work with files— Once you start just resize the Open using this pack- 5 and Save dialogs to age, you'll wonder| se longer file ists how you ever got | and sort files in the along without it, | fer that’s most Mas Home Journal, |_ Useful t0 you. pew 120 When using Now ShortCuts* you can duplicate, compress, archive, lock and share your files with one mouse click. And NowTabs," the compo- nent which gives you a quick-access tab bar at the bottom of your screen, also gives you a direct link to our 24-hour help desk for Now Utilities tips and solutions. = ag! Now Utilities 6.5 continues to improve your Mac with other enhancements to Now FolderMenus"* Now AutoType!” Now QuickFiles,” and Now Sctapbook” And of course, these : time-saving functions all begin with the new Now Startup Manager. Ir offers superior auto- matic conflict resolu- tion, as well asacom- [J plete online and down- [giana Jor only loadable extensions and conflicts database $55. 00 for up-to-the-minute information. It manages third-party plug- ins from Netscape, Adobe, and others and even imports your old Conflict Catcher sets automatically for an easy s itch. Not only is Now Startup Manager 7.0 included in Now Utilities 6.5, bur it’s available as a stand- alone product as well. Vi: http://www.nowutilities.com and try Now Utilities 6.5 and Now Startup Manager 7.0 for yourself. Before long, everyone will be talking about them, £01986 Now Software, Inc. and Now Us. The ‘Now Software lgo, Now Startup Manager, Now ‘S_ division for Now Urilities within Now Software. This allows us to increase our resources and add more ‘Super Boomerang. Now Tabs, Now FolderMenus, improvements and updates to our programs, including 24-hour desktop support and free monthly updates via e-mail. Now Scrapbook, Now AutoType, Now ShoCuts and Now Uilities ar tademarksof Now Software, Toc. Al ights reserve. Thin-party ademas are -vident in our award-winning products, and this continued success has created an entire At Now Ut “re committed to delivering outstanding products which maximize your Mac productivity. For more information about Version 6.5 or Now Utilities, visit our web site at Rae EOD property of ther respective holders. Circle 56 on reader service card cowvon stupte Guided System Tours | ENJOYED READING JOSEPH SCHORR'S “quick cures for chronic System bloat” (Secrets, July 1996). But I must take excep- tion to the advice on removing the Ap- ple Guide extension from your System Folder. More and more applications are shipping with Apple Guides, and they are well worth checking out. Even an experienced user needs a quick refresher occasionally. After installing System 7.5 Update 2.0, Tcouldn’t hear any music when I used AppleCD Audio Player. I fiddled with the Sound control panel with no luck. When T took a peek at the Apple Guide, it took me straight back to the obscure Options button I had overlooked in my first trip to the Sound control panel. I fixed my problem in two minutes. Dump some of the Apple Guides from your System Folder if you wish, but keep the Apple Guide extension. It is sure to come in handy. Karyn VoLpsTap Rochester, New York Honk if You Love Apple Te CHEERS FOR DAVID POGUE'S snappy answers to all that anti-Mac hysteria (The Desktop Critic, July 1996). However, if I'm going to clip Mr. Pogue’s article, the last place it needs to be is on my own refrigerator. Preaching to the choir is what got Apple in trouble in the first place. We should be shouting our counter- points from the highest rooftop, as should Dr. Amelio and his “humbler, smarter” Apple Computer. Ante Virati Farmington, Connecticut Lellers WELCOMED POGUE'S ENCOURAGING comments regarding the future of the Mae, but he’s off base when he compares automobile manufacturers to computer companies. Unlike computer users, many dwellers on this planet purchase automo- biles for their snob appeal. An expensive automobile may be shown off and is regarded as an indicator of the owner's status in our society. When was the last time you heard of a Sun workstation being installed in a private home to impress the neighbors? Puiip Sebastopol, California BAUMEISTER THANK your"cLIP- Numbers Nobody Knows” not only boosted my belief in Apple, but provided some much needed material with which to effectively silence the Mac-is-dead crowd. ‘To paraphrase Mark ‘Twain, reports of Apple’s death are indeed great- ly exaggerated. I'll be posting this article in the school staff room, Ronert PELLETIER ‘Toronto, Ontario, Canada S.A NEW APPLE SOFTWARE DEVEL- ~ \ oper, I have to constantly defend my platform to PC users. I’m glad some- body’s finally given me some ammunition. PUILLIP Gittis Natchitoches, Louisiana \ | ANY THANKS AND MUCH APPRECIA- ..) 4 tion to David Pogue. I’m in the mil- itary, which means nothing but PCs at work and die-hard users with their own DOS boxes at home. | photocopied the column and gave it to my PC-biased friend. For days he put off reading it and continued to make ridiculous statements about Apple’s demise, even showing me an early February issue of a popular news- magazine claiming that Apple was now owned by Sun Microsystems (I guess he didn’t notice the generous use of words like alleged, perbaps, and maybe throughout the article). I was sitting at my desk when he tossed the copy of David Pogue's arti- cle on my keyboard and simply said, “I stand corrected.” Josrrn L. PueNre Winter Harbor, Maine Valued Dusty Tomes \ COUPLE OF DAYS AGO WHILE CLEAN- 4 \ ing my room I found a box with all of the manuals, brochures, and magazines for my Atari 800XL. Sure brought back great memories, and it reminded me how far computers have advanced since my first program hack in glorious Atari BASIC. I still have the computer and its continues www.macworld.com October 1996 19 “Productivity has never been more fun.” —Steve Mouzon You want drawings that look like the ones you've always done by hand better. Exquisitely detailed. Perfect arrows. Crisp lines. Or maybe a squiggly sketch. You don't want it to look like it was done on a computer. PowerCADD lets you draw like that, and it doesn't get in your way. Draw floor plans. Machinery. Charts. Sketch a bush. Doodle a cloud. A flower. You can draw anything PowerCADD. And it's easy. with Tum your genius loose. Put some fun back into your life. Order PowerCADD. Call 910-299-4843 In Canada: 204-453-8111 ENGINEERED SOFTWARE hitp:// www.engsw.com Fax: 910-852-2067 Circle 12 on reader service card 20 October 1996 MACWORLD LETTERS co © The maker of the Internet remote pic- gust 1996 Table of Contents is Diba. bug in Stuffit 4.0 (Consumer Advocate, September 1996) exists in machines running System 7.5.3. The correct telephone num ¢ is 612/483-3338 (“Desk tured in the A. ilable online as freew (Reviews, June 1996). The circuitry on the Motorola and IBM 604e and 603e PowerPC chips be 0.35 microns wide (“The PowerPC’s New Heights,” News, July 1996). The correct bus speed for the Po’ Computing Por rr is 6OME The correct price for the Editors Choice Business User er Computing is $3678 (“The x Speed Champs,” July 1996). The capacity of Microrech’s Blue Storm 2000, with the Conner CFP 2107S mechanism, is 2.1GB (“Gigabyte Hard Dri June 1996). The correct telephone number for Insider Software is 619/6 (“Tame Those Unruly Fonts,” News, July 1996). component pieces stored s y so I can show it to my children one day. As I sat mulling over the catalogs, manuals, and magazines, I found the brochure (mint condition) from 1984 for the original Macintosh computer. I'm glad I kept that brochure; it’s a historical little advertisement. It heralded the end of home computing as I knew it. I feel very comfortable with Apple's. immediate future, but in 12 years, when I pull m: Power Mac out of the attic and blow away the dust, I wonder how and with what Pll send someone else a message about what i Mac. ANDREW S fly awa DeNean Atlanta, Georgia You Can Look It Up | (M FINDING FT MORE, AND MORE DIFFI- cult to keep up with all the acronyms used to express technology, products, and conventions of the computer industry. Tt would be nice to have a ready reference list containing these cryptic expressions and a brief explanation of each. Can you recommend a source listing such infor- mation with periodic updates? Ranpy Vania Griffith, Indiana computer reference is Alan Freed- man's The Computer Glossary: The Gom- plete Hlustrated Desk Reference, seventh edi~ tion ($24.95, $39.95 with disk; 1994, AMACOM, 518/891-1500). You could also do al :b search on computer reference: I came up with some interesting-looking sites like A Beginner's Web Glossary (hup://www.ewru edu/help/webglossary.heml), Babel (www access.diges.net/~ikind/babel96b.html), the ILC Glossary (heep://wwwanatisse.nev/files/ glossary.html), and Eric Tittley’s Reference Sites (http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~ctittley/ references.html), as zeell as a listing of Japan- ese restaurants, the Orange County Online page, and Eric Matbiasen’s résum T'U stick with the book.—Ed, Herding Bulls and Bears T'S BECOMING CLEAR ‘THAT IT'S A desert out there in terms of Mac soft- ware for investors and stock tracking. Can you shed any light on my search, which has to date been unfruitful Ganny GALLAGHER Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Trendsetter Software (714/547-3005; hetp:// members.aol.com/trndsetter/www), Dow Jones & vor Soft ware (310/410-9527), and Reality Technologies (215/387-6055) all hai related software packages for the Mac—Ed. ¢ investor- and stock- Macworld: We're Everywhere |) ECENTLY, | POSTED A MESSAGE TO PUthe comp.sys.mac-portables newsgroup inquiring about what modem to get for my PowerBook. Imagine my surprise when among the messages I received I found one from Maczorld contributor Gene Steinberg, offering advice hased on his own experi- ence. His concise and informative input on the matter greatly clarified things for me, especially given the complexities of PowerBook 5300 nowadays. continues Take Your computer and DRAM, SRAM, and VRAM from Viking Components--the most economical way to add speed, power and efficiency to your computer system. For maximum performance with word processing, graphics, and surfing the world wide web, simply “RAM it,” with memory upgrades from Viking Components. Call 1-888-4-VIKING toll-free for the Viking dealer nearest you. 11 Columbia, Laguna Hills, CA 92656 © Tel: 714-643-7255 * www.vikingmem.com Circle 233 on reader service card see yourself for who you really are, A.DIA.M: At Home www.adam.com '1-800-408-ADAM On reader service cart LETTERS It’s a refreshing thing to know that Macworld doesn’t exist in an ivory tower, and that your reviewers live in the real world and contribute to the global Mac- intosh community. Gene and the other helpful folks in the online world definite- ly deserve a pat on the back. Tan Wu MENG Singapore Did We Say That? OMEONE TELL TIM WARNER THAT A micron is a millionth of a meter, not a millionth of an inch (“The PowerPC’s New Heights,” News, July 1996). Ropery Levirz Hartford, Connecticut More Details, Please REALLY ENJOYED JULY'’S PUBLISHING Workshop, “Faster Printing through Font Downloading” I have been trying to figure out how to attach a hard drive toa printer and what types of fonts to down- load onto the drive. Would you describe those details in more depth? Gary BERNSTEIN Urbana, Ulinois The procedure is really quite simple. You just attach a hard drive to the printer via a normal SCSI connection and then, using Apple Laser~ Writer Utility, Apple Printer Utility, or Adobe Downloader; format the drive. (Note that this process is distinct from the formatting you'd per- ‘form on your Mac's internal or external hard Finally, download fonts to the newly for- id. drive. matted drive, using the same utility. —E. PopupFolder Moves Again JUST CAME ACROSS THE LETTER NOT: ing that PopupFolder is no longer being published by Inline Software (“Ever-Growing Utility Belt,” Letters, July 1996). Iam pleased to inform you that ASD Software has now acquired the rights to publish this award-winning product. Interested readers can try it out by downloading a fully functional demo of PopupFolder from our Web site, http://wwz.asdsoft.com. Wes Wasson ASD Sortware Montelair, California Attention, Macworld Shoppers PROPOS OF YOUR ARTICLI Modems” in the July 1996 issue, we would like your readers to know about Zoom’s popular V34C PC Card fax modem. The Model 521 Zoom/PCM- CIA FaxModem V.34C-Mac is designed for both land-line and cellular data and fax communications on the Macintosh platform. It is Macintosh PowerBook Qualified, with a list price of $269. In addition, 2 telephone-specific cellular activation kit is available direct from Zoom for $59. LeoNaRD A. PHiniips Zoom Telepbonics Boston, Massachusetts “The Littlest Web Server” EGARDING FRED KRUGHOFP’S LET- ter, “The Littlest Web Server” (Let- ters, July 1996): I don’t know about any- body else out there, but I didn’t know it was possible to run a server using standard phone lines and fast modems. T'd be very interested in finding out more about how this works—like, where do you start? P. haps some kind soul (maybe Fred Krug- hoff himself) could I Ww more details, particularly about the very careful setup required. Perer MILLARD ‘mail me with a f London, England It is indeed possible, but the performance is so slow that few people consider it a viable option. If this is the route you choose, your best bet is to contact Interaet service providers and compare costs for unlimited connect time, registering a domain name, and various other items associat- ed with operating a site (costs can mount up). Alternatively, some people bring their servers directly to the ISP, which avoids connection com- plications and generally gives far better perfor- mance-—Ed. ™ Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 $ vin fax, 415/442- ond St., San Francisco, 0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), MCI Mail (244- Macworld), AppleLi ink Gtacweridt or va.the Incr a Online (keyword net (letters@marzeorld.com). Include return address and ch eserve the right to edit ll letters. All pub- wwe can’t respond personally to lished letters become the property of Macworld. COMPETITIVE UPGRADE WHICH PICTURE’S PRETTIER? “Canvas 5 adds a host of new Capabilities that make il far more than the solid illustration player WHAT itis today. For WW a about $600, you WAAAY " ASMA, et many of the AWLAARS. . 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Com- puters were enabling peo- ple to produce and distrib- ute information at an unprecedented rate, issuing reams that no one could possibly assimilate. And that was before the World Wide Web. Now we swim in oceans of digitally pro- duced data, with new oceans being creat- ed weekly, all in a perpetual process of metamorphosis. Compared with the plethora of outposts ¢ re popping up in cyberspace, the original harbingers of information overload—desktop publish- ing, broadcast, E-mail, and so. on—now seem positively innocuous. Now, before you accuse me of a lack of journalistic perspective, let me assure you that yes, I do recognize that this con- dition does not affect all of humankind— not yet. But as members of the comput- i we've all become familiar with feeling simultaneously fa cinated and overwhelmed by the on- slaught of content. It’s bad enough for in- formation consumers, who must struggle to figure out how to parcel out their valu- able time to the multitude of media sources vying for their attention. Infor- mation producers must in addition con- stantly stay abreast of the technological changes that affect bow they compete for that treasured resource—an audien Whether you identify principally with the producers or the consumers of infor- mation, this special issue of Macworld pro- vides a guide to some of the tools and tac- tics you'll need to make wise decisions as you run headlong into the waves. An Embarrassment of Riches If you're an information producer, you now have more ways than ever before to make your message heard. You can choose among brochures, magazines, catalogs, E-mail, television, radio, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and nete; to name just some of the options. That's the good news. The explosion of media types and venues for deploying them ups the ante, creating an even faster-paced, more demanding, more competitive environment. That's the challenge. Information producers must somehow get today’s message out and simultaneously acquire and master newly emerging technologies. In this issue we investigate a broad array of content-creation tools, from multimedia authoring software to drum scanners, In Reviews alone we evaluate 13 new products that exemplify the diverse choices available for creating and manag- ing content—XPress-to-H'TML conver- sion utilities, Java development tools, 3-D graphics tools, a dye-sublimation printer, a database publishing utility for the Web, and so on. And to help you cope with the ever-increasing demand for fast, reliable, portable storage thatall this creative activ- ity produces, Macworld Lab evaluates the “Best Buys in Optical Drives.” While the new kids on the block— interactive multimedia and the World by Adrian Mello FOR PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS Wide Web—are atcracting the limelight at the moment, desktop publishing and color prepress quietly continue to occupy a huge portion of the professional Mac market. In this more mature market seg- ment, tasks that used to be relegated to consultants and contractors with special- ized expertise have begun to move in- house, particularly where ongoing proj- cets require regular updating. In “Should You Fire Your Service Bureau?” Macworld helps you evaluate whether it’s time for you to bring your prepress work into your office, It's not a decision to take lightly. Mixed Media Choosing any one medium and becom- ing proficient in it is tough enough. ‘Today, information producers work increasingly in multiple media, which requires not only that they acquire profes- sional-level skills in several types but also that they learn how to integrate converging media. For example, you may need to create a booklet to market a family of products and then redeploy much of its content to the company Web site. Your vice president of sales might also ask you to use the same visuals and text ina multimedia presenta- tion that can run off of a Pow- erBook. Repurposing is the order of the da ‘The power and versatility of digital media make this a fascinating field in which to work. In the midst of repurposing and recasting content in dif- ferent forms, however, it is easy to over- look one of the great hazards of using these powerful creative tools—the in- creased risk of copyright infringement. “Copyright and the Visual Arts,” a spe- cial report in the Media section, provides a primer on what you need to know to continues www.macworld.com October 1996 27 STATE OF THE MAC avoid infringing copyright when working with digital media. The Blurring of Boundaries ‘Time was when the lines between infor- mation producers and information con- sumers were pretty tidy: you were either creative artist or audience, writer or read- er, publisher or subscriber. Now that almost anyone can become an informa- tion producer simply by setting up a home page and posting it on a server, the lines are not so clear, And in the long run that’s probably a healthy development. The ability to publish on the Web, posting new material quickly and byp: ing the complications of physical distrib- ution, has radically redefined production cycles for information producers, This has many implications for production tools, but more fundamentally it raises the expectations of information consumers. Because the Web is a truly live medium, visitors to your pages expect them to look SPSS Got answers to tough questions using in- depth statistics! Use 60+ statistics trom basics such as counts and crosstabs to more sophisticated statistics including factor, regression and logistic regression. 6.1 for the Macintosh* Real Stats. Real Easy% Get fast, Nexiblo data management! The spreadsheot-style Data Editor makes ent 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! Work faster with an all ew Macintosh interface! 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Macworld Expo, the Information Rush Incarnate This issue goes to press on the eve of the annual Macworld Expo in Boston. At Macworld we prepare for these events like Marines getting ready to hit the beaches because they are one way for us to stay abreast of the information rush so we can bring the news fresh to you. Even for seasoned campaigners, walk- ing intoa Macworld Expo can be an over- powering experience. There are so many products it’s hard to know where to look. In two separate conference centers, com- panies line the aisles—phalanxes of ven- dors displaying the latest wares. Many vendors time their big product introduc- tions especially for the shows, so there’s a Jot of clamor—one company competing to outperform the next with flashy multi- media demonstrations that visually and aurally assault the droves roaming the halls. Some booths are truly resplendent, with large platform structures of Plexi- glas, metal, and wood containing internal meeting rooms. 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According to an Apple programmer I know, even today the new OS's final look, feel, and feature lists are still up for discussion. In other words, there’s still time to pro- pose new features—which is exactly what T have in mind. Here are one man’s ideas, duly stuffed into the Suggestion Box. Title-Bar Renaming You're hard at work on some document. You decide to rename it. Whatdo you do? Sure: you use the Save As command, type a new name, return to the Finder, find the original document, throw it aw C’mon—life’s too short! T want to click in the tide bar of my document window and type a new name. How clean! How easy! 38-Tab to Switch Programs here are very few things Windows has that System 7.5 needs. One of them hap- pens to be a keystroke to switch among several running programs. Instead of hav- ing to mouse up to the Application menu when we want to switch from, say, Quick- en to ClarisWorks, as we do today, imag- ine being able to press #-tab. ‘To see exactly how terrific this feature is, get Program Switcher (shareware avail- able at bttp://www.macworld.com). While your thumb sits on the 3 key, each time you press the tab key the name of the next open application appears in the middle of the screen. When the program you want is named, you release the keys—and you're there. Drag and Drop to the Apple Menu ‘Think how carefree life would be if you could install an alias of something in your Apple menu simply by dragging its icon onto the menu's Apple logo. OF course, we'll need some equally convenient method of dragging things off the Apple menu, but I'll leave that up to Apple. Sticky Menus We like the way our Mac menus work, snapping up unless you continuously grip them with the mouse button. But Win- dows fans are used to menus that drop down when clicked—and stay down until you click a choice, So let's please every- one: Apple should write a Menus control panel. Tt would let you specify how your menus should behave. If ever there were a prescription for a mass exodus to the Mac from Windows, this has got to be it. Move to Trash Command T wanta keystroke, such as #-T, to move a highlighted icon to the Trash. What a blessing to PowerBook users! What a gift to efficiency nuts! What a concept! Move a File without Copying It I get at least one E-mail a week from a new Macintosh user asking: “When I drag a file from my hard drive toa backup disk, it copies the original file. How: do I move it?” I sheepishly explain that you can’t; you must (1) copy the file, then (2) delete the original. Here’s the brilliant idea: Let us hold down a key—the underused control key, say—while dragging an icon to a new disk; instead of copying, it would move the file and delete the copy on the original d More Drag and Drop Few of System 7.5’s offerings are more delightful than Macintosh drag and drop, the feature that lets you slide graphics, text, and sounds from one window into another. Drag text from a Stickies note into SimpleText. Drag a list of files you've found with the Find File command into Clar- sWorks. And if you’re really bored—drag a Desktop Pat- tern into your Jigsaw Puzzle for hours of mind-numbing fun. But the drag-and-drop ries didn’t visit all of System 7.5's components during the night. You still can’t drag numbers to or from the Cal- culator, nor a picture into the Map, nor a printer icon from the Chooser onto the desktop, Just about everything in life would be improved by D&D: after finding some elusive symbol in the Key Caps desk accessory, you should be able to drag it into your word processor. And while drag-and-drop-enabling the rest of the desk accessories, Apple should spruce up the elderly Calculator in other ways, too, How about a CE (Clear Last Entry) button, or even a “paper tape” feature, so we wouldn't have to start over when we made a mistake? Solving the Big “Where Am I?" Millions of new Macintosh users eventu- ally get zapped by “out of memory” mes- ges because they don’t understand a sim- continues sa www-macworld.com October 1996 33 THE DESKTOP CRITIC ple fact: Closing all the windows doesn't mean you've actually quit a program. When we close all the windows, we need a visual cue to let us know thar we're still in a program. We shouldn't be left staring at the Finder desktop Sure, sure, the power user knows to look in the Application menu to see which program has a check mark beside its name—but who on earth would figure that out instinctively? Maybe the new system software should put the name of Consumer Information Catalog the current program somewhere on the title bar, or at the bottom of the screen. The Personal-Info Database Enough with typing our names and s! Global Village, America On- y other Web p: c products insist that we type in our names, addresses, and phone num- bers when first using the software. What a colossal duplication of effort! Here's the solution; OS 8 should The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread No matter how you slice it, our free Consumer Infor- mation Catalog is great food for thought. The Catalog dishes up more than 200 free and low-cost government booklets on subjects you can really sink your | teeth into — such as staying healthy, eating right, finding a job, getting federal benefits, using credit, buying a home, helping your kids, taking care of your car, and much, much more. e, and dozens of To get your free copy, send your name and address to: Consumer Information Center Department GT a ——— Pueblo, Colorado 81009 A public service of this publication and the Consumer Information Center of the U.S. General Services Administration 34 October 1996 MACWORLD include a contro! panel that stores our personal-contact info. Once. Thereafter, Copland-sawvy programs could retrieve all that info automatically (after we say OK, of course), saving us miles of typing. Auto-Deleting Aliases Th was one of Apple’s greatest hits, But despite their overall high 1Q—work- ing even after the original file is renamed or moved, for example—aliases are still stupid in one regard. If you delete the original file, the orphaned alias hangs around, broken, meaningless, and sad. Fix this one, Apple, and you'll win thousands of converts on the spot. Macintosh Click and Type This one will strike you as bizarre, but try to imagine it. Suppose you could click anywhere on the desktop and just start typing. When you're finished, you'd have a little clipping file, ready for dropping into a folder, dragging into a document, or just leaving out for later reading. You could click and type while on the phone, for example, when somebody starts rattling off a phone number. You could make notes to yourself while down- loading a file in the background, You could keep to-do lists, phone numbers, and book ideas right on the desktop! And beginners would love it—no more (1) launch program, (2) type, (3) save, and (4) hope to remember where you saved. The Upshot Copland was named after Aaron Copland, the American orches most famous music suggested the majesty of the American landscape. (This may 1 composer whose come as news to the people who send E-mail to me spelling it Copeland, Cop- Land, and Copplund.) It exciting that Apple names its core software projects after American com- posers. Clearly, Apple understands the similarities between software and music, Both are created by few but enjoyed by the masses, demand inspiration and per- spiration, and require hundreds of tiny good ideas to make a masterpiece. Here's to 1997, when we'll find out what kind of tune Apple's been humming to itself. m DAVID POGUE, a former Broadway conductor and sofiware-design consultant, weore Macs for Dum- mies, currently in its fourth edition (IDG Banks we Mac baok for five Worldwide, 1996), the best-se vears straight. The pent Pe TMG e.Y ene the sword, but the Scanner blows them both away. 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See how the COMPANY el Ff Xerox color family meets your needs; visit our Web site at Regal and http://www.xerox.com. Or call 1-800-ASK-XEROX, ext. 486. 4 E ROX Majestik Xerox Color. The Color Of Business. Circle 100 on reader service card OCTOBER 1996 systems | iu . q b 4 ,' ABU | 7 y 15 New Mac Systems: The Race Intensifies APPLE PLAYS CATCH-UP; POWER COMPUTING ACCELERATES LOW END Only yesterday, it by Galen Gruman seems, vendors tore up their lineup: I PO ! introduced a series of faster Macs. It’s happened again. On the heels of Power Computing’: 225MHz Pow- erTower Pro, introduced on July 22 (see “Power Ci ing Widens the Gap,” N September 1996, and Re: elsewhere in this issue), Apple has increased the speed of its Power Macs and, working with DayStar Digital, has introduced its first multi- processor Mac, the Power Mac 9500/180MP. And Power Computing has upped the ante in the consumer market, with a new line of fast, Per- forma-like systems. New Business Lineup Apple (408/996-1010, ttp:/Avwrw.info apple.com) has increased the speeds of its 7600, 8500, and 9500, whose speeds it had in- creased once before in late May: The three-PClI-slot 7600 now runs at 132MHz instead of 120MHz. A base model 7600/132 costs $2999. id 38 October 1996 Power Computing has introduced the PowerBase (left) and he three-PCI-slot 8500 now comes in two models, one that runs at 1SOMHz and another that runs at 180MHz. The 180MHz model uses the new PowerPC 604e, which runs gahertz for megahertz, than the regular 604 used in the slower mod- els. A base model 8500/150 costs $3599, while the base 8500/180 costs $4499. * The slot 9500 faster, 1 MACWORLD also comes in two models; one runs at 200MHz and one has two 180MHz CPUs, making it Apple’s first- multiprocessing Macintosh. Both 9500 mod- els use the new 604e CPU. ‘The base 9500/180MP costs $5699, while the base 9500/ 200 costs $4899. Apple is also selling an $899 180MHz 604e CPU card that works in any Power Mac 7500, 7600, 8500, or 9500. a new PowerTower. (Newer Technology [316/ 943-0222, http:/Avww.newertech com) plans to ship an $885 180MHz card and a $1075 200MHz card in September.) And Apple is now putting 8x CD-ROM drives in all new Power Macs. As previously announced, Power Computing (512/388- 6886, bttp://www.powerce.com) is shipping the 180MHz, 200MHz, and 225MHz six- PCI-slot PowerTower Pros; the 166MHz and 180M three-PCI-slot PowerTowers; and the three-slot 132MHz and 150MHz PowerCenters. Power Computing has also added a new 200MHz Power- Tower, using the 604; upgraded the 180MHz Pow- erTower to the 604e; and dis- continued the 120MHz Pow- erCenter, The Power Com- puting systems, except for the Power'Tower Pro series, use 4x CD-ROM drives. Umax Computer (510/ 226-6886, bttp://wwie.supermac com) has announced a 200MHz 604e-based_ version of its SuperMac $900 that should ship in September. Umax will also have 166MHz and 180MHz upgrade cards for current owners and may ship versions of the S900 at one or both of those speeds. ‘The company plans to of- fer the J700, a desktop-case version of its SuperMac line that will likely run at 1S0MHz. and have four PCI slots (one taken by a video card with 2MB of VRAM), three internal drive bays, an 8x CD-ROM drive, and one CPU slot. Pricing was unavailable at press time. New Multiprocessor Lineup Apple’s new 9500/180MP uses DayStar’s new dual-processor card, the nPower 360+. And DayStar Digital (770/967- 2077, bttp://www.daystar.com) is making the $1499 card avail- able to owners of Umax SuperMacs, Apple 8500's and 9500's, and most likely Power Computing Power Tower Pros (there was a question at dead- line of whether the Power- Tower Pros had_ sufficient power supplies and airflow), ‘The card replaces these Macs’ current CPU cards. DayStar says it is working with Umax on a $1000 multi- processor card for the Umax SuperMac $900%s second CPU slot. Such a card would have one CPU and work with the CPU already installed on the SuperMae system. DayStar is upgrading its line of Genesis MP systems: the $5499 MP 360+ will replace the MP 300 and have two 180MHz 604e's, while the $8499 MP 720+ will have four 180MHz 604e’s. DayStar will continue to sell the $6999 MP 600, which has four 150MHz 604s. The MP 528, which has continues on page 42 It's Raining Web Editors ENTRY-LEVEL HTML PUBLISHING TOOLS TO FLOOD THE MARKET by Cameron Crotty sst! Want to buy graphic HTML edi- tor? Just reach out your front door and_ pick one, because they're popping up like mushrooms after a summer rain. Adobe (415/961-4400, brip Ahwwi.adobe.com) is expected to ship new versions of Site- Mill and PageMill soon (see Internet Watch, News, July 1996), Meanwhile, Netscape is Mac Makers Bring More Speed to All {In August and September, the four Mac system makers—Apple, DayStar, Power Computing, and ‘Umax Computer—plan to deliver 15 new Macs, bringing greater speed to a wide range of users The results below show the performance of prototypes available in late lly. The Power Mac '9500/200's relatively slow performance is due mainly to the Power Mac’s slower video card, Longer bars are better, Results are times as fast as a Centris 650 (Centris 650 = 1.0), Products are listed from fastest overall to slowest overall. Overall Score For Professionals and Businesses PowerTower Pro 225 ———._———. 9.2 CPU-Intensive ee 9 FPU-Intensive 13.4 Disk-intensive en 35 Umax Super Mac S90 20/7)! i 25 12.0 3.0 Power Macintosh 9500/200° 77 $< 7§¢§< ———12} 2.9 Power Macintosh 8500/180° <7 =< ¢¢ ——10.3} a 2.4 Power Mac 9500/150 << 2 <5 ————§.) 2. Power Mac 7600/120 cx For Home and Small Offices 5) 5.3 om 66 25 Powertiase 240° == 7 —- J —§7 ——— 2.2 Perorma 640° ———_—_—_———— 56 56 2.1 _—— 2.6 PowerBase 200° —- ‘2 —- 2——77 ——_——21 Power8ase 180° ——____———§ —=—49 =—=—73} =— 20 "Prototype unit. For more information on our testing, see "The New Speed Champs,” Iuly 1996 —Macworld Lab testing supervised by Mark Hurlow and Chris Uiterwi)k well into late beta versions of Navigator Gold, which adds HTML editing tools to the popular browsing software (see Sneak Peek, News, Augu 1996). Earlier this summer, Claris announced Home Page (see Sneak Pe om tember 1996), w ed to ship by the end of August. ‘The German developer Gonet (http://www.gonet.de) offers golive, a $49 menu- based HTML editing pa similar to the tools from Ne scape and Claris. golive offers several twists and goodies, including frames support, an image-map editor, and a palette containing nontext objects you can drag and drop into a document. But the first version doesn’t support tabl and version 2 is not expected until January 1997. Akimbo Systems (800/ 375-6515, bttp://www.akimbo -com ), best known for its Full- Write word processor, is preparing to ship Globetrotter ($249), HTML layout soft- ware based on the idea that page designers should no more have to fiddle with HTML than illustrators should have to hand-tweak PostScript code, Globetrotter comes with the slew of features (tables, ) mes, no) and a couple of unique tricks. When Globe- trotter publishes a page with a table, the software creates HTML that approximates the design for browsers that don’t support tables, and includes code within the page to nego- tiate the appropriate tech level with the requesting browser. Graphical HTML editors may be a boon to users sud- denly expected to contribute to their company’s intranet. But for profe Web designers and site mat plethora of ingredients not necessarily make for a stew. One producer at a major media site notes, “All of these tools are focused on single- gers, a does continues www.macworld.com October 1996 39 design, but writing easy—putting to- gether a Web site is hard.” Creating even a modest Web site can be ama task, particularly if you update con- tent often, As a result, most major sit tempt: feed content into. or spin whole pages out of databases, Carl Stead- man, cofounder of the Suck com Web site, says the new graphic HTML editors may “lower the bar” for new users, but for now he says he will stick with flowing content into / News templates on Unix servers. However, there are glim- mers of hope for more de- manding site managers. At press time, HeyerTech (415, 8522, hip: heyertech.com) announced that it was shipping Webmaster Pro, a $499 si editing and management tool based on an object database and aimed at_ professional Webmasters with complex sites. For more information on high-end page-publishing tools, see “Web Authoring’s New Tools,” in this ue. Internet cCAMER ow croTtTy Flying FirstClass to the Net pity the group- ware vendor. Si up on IS direct ince intranets started popping ors’ radar scopes, groupware packages like Lotus Notes and SoftArc’s First- Class have become footnotes as corporations rush to implement electronic employee collaboration through the wonders of internal Web sites. This fall, Soft- Arc (905/415-7000, http://www.softarc.com) will answer the intranet call with FirstClass 4.0, a major revision of the E-mail/groupware product that allows core services to be ac- cessed through Inter- net protocols. While the FirstClass. server will be able to publish standard Web pages, any FirstClass content, such as conferences, will also be accessible to Web browsers or arty, Cowl 15,18 619 0784 rece Resour ter peer ‘ect Riscet sr ce i a om With FirstClass 4.0, users will be able to read conferences from standard Internet browsers. even standard Usenet (NNTP) news readers. Users will also be able to send and retrieve E-mail with SMTP and POP3 clients, and FirstClass 4.0 will i support MIME-compliant mes- sages and the LDAP directory protocol. Beyond broader Internet protocol support, FirstClass 4.0 will also sport new feat tures. Users will get improved document-editing tools that support hot links, embedded graphics, and tables. Syste m integrators and administra- tors will get a full programming environment based on BASIC. FirstClass 4.0 will scheduling features. 40 October 1996 MACWO also include calendaring and RLD Modem Speeds Edge Higher ITU RATIFIES 33.6-KBPS V.34 SPECIFICATION by Matt Clark or Internet jockeys with and short fuses comes a new speed limit on the info- bahn, 33.6 Kbps. ‘This ast March the International Union ratified wo new speeds for the V.34 protocol: 31.2 Kbps and 33.6 Kbps. Previously, V.34 topped out at 28.8 Kbps. Most modem vendors are calling this recent change the “new” V34, and if your existing modem is capable of exchang- ing data at 28.8 Kbps, you should be able to upgrade it. In most cases, upgrading to 33.6 is free. At press time, Supra, Hayes, and U.S. Robotics were offering free flash ROM upgrades for ing V.34 modem owners through the companies’ respective Web sites and BBSs. But don’t expect to be surfing the Web at 33.6 Kbps long connect time jecommunications g ny time soon, Previous Mac- reviews world Lab modem show that the devices their top- speed, primarily due to the current state of the telecom- munications infrastructure in a majority of U.S, cities. In the words of a telecommunica- tions company representati “The only way you're see a 33.6 connect rate on a regular basis is if you live in a condo within your local phone company switch.” The prima- ry benefit of the 33.6-Kbps connect upgrade is to fine-tune the V.34 specification, In a white paper (available at betp:/ .usr.com/business/3021 biml), U.S. Robotics says simply that “connections between two U.S. Robotics products run- ning the new software will consistently be from 2400 to 4800 bits per second faster than they were using the pre- vious version of sottware.” Power Computing's Notebook CLONE TO RUN MAC OS AND WINDOWS NT by Galen Gruman disappointing year for Macintosh notebook users may come to an end with a new alter- native to Apple's cur- rent lackluster PowerBook 5300 series. Power Computing (512/388-6886, bitp://aw' -powercc.com) is developing its own notebook that will run the Mae OS and Windows NT: The new system will be based on the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola, a standard that was finalized in July. Sketchy Details Power Com- puting would confirm only i intent to develop such a note- book, and said it hopes to announce them in January or February 1997; the company would not provide technical details, However, the system is likely to be based on 200MHz and faster PowerPC 603e CPUs. Power Computing has put together a notebook engincer- ing and design team, and is likely to partner with IBM or another in some capacity. The company has done so on other projects; for example, the new Power'Tower Pro chassis w with IBM, which will use the same chassis on its forthcom- ing Aptiva PCs, and Power Computing has worked with IBM to get faster versions of the PowerPC 604 and 604e in Power'Tower and Power- Tower Pro ) Apple's Notebook Plans Apple is also working on a new series of PowerBooks, includ- ing one subnotebook intended for the Asian market that’s being codeveloped with IBM. Apple halted shipment of the 5300's earlier this spring because of a series of technic: problems; the company plans to reintroduce the series start- ing in August. The Mac Rebom In separate news, Power Computing and Frogdesign have been di cussing the possibility of creat- ing actual Power Macs based on the Macworld/Frogdesign design featured in “The N intosh Reborn,” Macworld, September 1996, Power Computing’ engi- neers have said they could de~ sign such a system, and Frog- design is eager to de- sign a Macintosh for Apple or another Mac systems maker. Macworld maga- zine would have no role in the develop- ment of any such sys- tems, as we assigned all patent rights in the design to. Frogdesign in consideration of its design and modeling work on the proje tems, Publishing The Divided Market NEW SCANNERS TARGET A WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS by Stephen Beale ew scanners from Agfa and Umax show the technology moving in two directions: high- end and low-end. At the low end we hi SnapSean from Agfa (201/ 440-2500, http:/Avww.agfi.com), a 24-bit, 300-by-600-dpi color flatbed that will sell for an esti- mated street price of $390, Targeting home users, tures an 8.5-by-11.7-ineh scan area. Agfa’s StudioStar, aimed at office users, is a $1000, 30- bit color flatbed that features 600-by-1200-dpi resolution. Umax (510/651-9488, herp: umax.com) is aiming higher with its new Power- Look 2000 flatbed. The $5495 scanner, targeting —graphi artists who want to reduc their reliance on bureaus, captures slides, trans- parencies, and reflective copy at 36 bits per pixel and 1000- dpi optical resolution. The big selling point is a special ver- sion of Binuscan’s PhotoPer- fect software, which automati- cally color-corrects images. ve the service The PowerLook 2000 is bundled with a special version of Binuscan’s PhotoPerfect software. PageMill 2.0 Goes the Distance BY DEKE McCLELLAND Adobe PageMill (415/961-4400, http://www.adobe.com) was the first WYSIWYG HTML editor out the door. But Internet seniority and a quarter will buy you a jawbreaker. With PageMill 2.0, Adobe is acknowledging that you have to stay in front to stay on top. After a succession of delays, Adobe has created a tidy collection of page design tools that are at least as comprehensive as its competitors’, and frequently are easier to use. Filling In the Holes The $149 program addresses nearly all Of the first version’s obvious oversights, In addition to the line breaks offered by version 1, the new PageMill offers true HTML paragraph breaks. You can change the color of individual characters, right-align selected paragraphs, and flow text around a graphic. After specifying a base font size, you can incrementally increase and reduce it, as long as your browser supports Netscape’s HTML extensions, If you enter type in PageMilll, you'll appreciate the new spelling check and search functions, You can even search for graphics, aM sound, video, and other [imme media by dragging them aM directly into the Find field. New Design Options In addition to offering full support for HTML 3 tables, PageMill2 lets you copy and paste numerical Excel tables But PageMill’s real strength {sits ability to create graphic tables and DTP-style col- umns, Drop an object into a cell, and the table automat cally reformats to make everything fit. Frames are another welcome addition: the previously daunting task of switching HTML pages in and out of frames is now sur- prisingly easy. And unlike Claris Home Page, which requires you to pre- view frames in a browser, PageMiill lets you see what you're doing. Multimedia providers will appreciate PageMill’s ability to han- dle a wider range of animation and sound formats, as well as its sup- port for Navigator plug-ins, which makes it possible to embed Shock- wave objects, QuickTime movies, and PDF files. PageMiilis close to eliminating any need for HTML, but man- val markups aren't quite dead yet, since the beta we looked at stil didn't support underlined characters (other than hypertext) or blink- ing text. Luckily, PageMiill lets you view and edit HTML source code. ‘Other than the lack of a sophisticated library function, we found little to criticize. The Macintosh version is scheduled to ship by September, with a Windows release coming about a month later 2) pours > other Comact PageMill 2 lets you segment pages into independent frames, allowing viewers to scroll, as in the green frame at right, or disable scrolling, as in the purple frame. www.macworld.com October 1996 41 “NEW MAC SYSTEMS” continued from page 39 four 132MHz 604's, has been discontinued, DayStar will offer upgrades to current MP 300, MP 528, and MP 600 owners, DayStar also plans to ship the $9999 MP 800+, which will use four 200MHz 604e', in September, In Sep- tember or October, it plans to release a midsize tower version of its MP line, with fewer drive bays and DIMM slots. Like the current oversize tower, the midsize model will have PCI slots. New Consumer Lineup Hav- ing established itself as the purveyor of the fastest busi- ness Macs, Power Computing is trying to do the same in the consumer market. Its new PowerB