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Solving Workplace Hazards
N HIS ARTICLE ON REPETITIVE
strain injuries (“Occupational Ha:
ards,” November 1998), Dr. Franklin }
‘Tessler didn’t mention a simple and effec-
tive strategy to prevent repetitive strain
injury while greatly improving your pro-
ductivity: learn to type using the Dvorak
keyboard layout. Usually all you have to
dois select the Dvorak layout in your key-
board control panel, and then get an inex-
pensive typing program that includes
Dvorak, such as Typing Tutor 7 by David-
son. The standard QWERTY keyboard
reminds me of Microsoft's operating sys-
tem: omnipresent, painful to use, and
designed to slow you down. You can learn
more about Dvorak by contacting Dvorak
International, at dvorakint@aol.com or
www.dvorakint.org.
Jim Lavurenzano, M.D.
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Some computer users do find the Dvorak layout
less stressful and faster than the conventional
QWERTY arrangement. You can download sev-
eral alternative Dvorak keyboard layouts for
the Mac from Apple's Web site, at wiw.apple
.com/education/k 1 2/disability/shareware
html—Franklin N. Tessler, M.D.
WAS DISAPPOINTED IN DR. s
ler’s article. I’m sure his advice about
avoiding wrist damage is sound. However,
his advice about monitor placement,
although it is what's often quoted, is incor-
rect for baby boomers and older people
who are now wearing progressive lenses or
bifocals in their glasses. These lenses are
designed for looking down at close things.
For all of us who wear these glasses, a
monitor positioned with the top edge at
eye level is certain to produce neck dis-
comfort. For us, a monitor needs to be
recessed into the desk, preferably at a tilt,
with the bottom edge of the monitor no
higher than the desktop. An article deal-
ing with recessed-monitor desks would be
appreciated by our aging workforce.
Hattie J. Davis, O.D
Westminster, Maryland
As an aging baby boomer who also wears pro-
gressive lenses, I find that the middle facal zone
is ideal for reading my monitor, zbich is posi-
tioned with its top at eye level. For those who pre-
fer the alternative positions Dr: Davis describes,
LCD panels offer far more flexibility than bulky
1 T-inch or larger monitors. —E.N.T.
Talking Back for the Mac
AVID POGUE'S COLUMN *sP!
Impediments,” on the state of voice-
recognition software in the Mac world,
was very revealing (The Desktop Critic,
November 1998). He tells of a software
developer who would already have cre-
ated a voice product for the Mac except
that he was fearful Apple would undercut
him. This reminds me of how Apple
treated the clone manufacturers, who
made a huge commitment to support the
Macintosh, only to have Apple pull the
rug right out from under them.
Meanwhile, Pogue says, Dragon Nat-
urallySpeaking for the PC is selling
250,000 copies a month. I wonder how
many of those buyers are people like me,
longtime Mac users with a repetitive
strain injury who were forced to switch
platforms. That's a lot of Mac users and
yet another missed opportunity for Apple.
MICHAEL BaBcock
Oakland, California
Irksome OS 8.5
D AVID POGUE'S UNCRITICAL RAVE
about Mac OS 8.5 touches on all of
its admittedly fine improvements, but his
article is no more critical or balanced
than the average car-magazine article
(Mac OS 8.5,” November 1998). The
beast is a memory hog, and one simple
sentence could have been added to
the skimpy paper manual that would
have made life so much less maddening
to those of us not tethered to Ethernet
backbones: “You must load Open Trans-
port, and all of its blubber, before either
Sherlock or OS Help will work.”
I applaud Apple’s new directions and
innovations, but the rats who screw up the
details are still around. Maybe Apple
should thicken the “manual” by another
20 pages for those of us unwilling to sur-
render 25MB of RAM just to make
mandatory features work.
Parrick CoLLins
San Francisco, California
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LETTERS
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esterday, w:
installing it, and read the fine print of the
fine print: “Apple PC Compatibility
Cards are not supported.” Ouct
Trun my consulting engineering pra
tice off my Power Mac 7200 with an
Apple PC Card. T only use the PC Card
for items that “industry demands”—for
example, I have to is
ACad LT format. It works great. So
although I do 80 percent of my work on
the Mac side, I cannot get along without
the 20 percent on the PC side.
I'm sure I’m not the only engineer or
architect in this situation, If Apple were
to update the PC Compatibility Card
drivers, there would be a lot of very grate-
ful professional Mac users. If the PC
Cards are not going to run on the Mac,
many of us may have to take a different
fork in the platform road, against our pref-
erence. (Virtual PC isn’tan option—a new
Wintel machine is far more attractive if it
comes to that.) How about reconsidering
that support issue, Apple?
Ray NELSON
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Faxstf Downgrade?
HAVE BEEN AN ADDICT OF FAXSTE
(Reviews, November 1998) for quite a
while, to the point that because of the
quality of transmitted documents I per-
suaded my worldwide clientele to accept
these faxes as solid legal documents. But
that was version 3.2.5.
Iam thoroughly disappointed with
the new version, Faxstf Pro 5.0. The
phone book doesn’t automatically trans-
fer over (what were they thinking?), and
the log doesn’t, either; the soft
doesn’t facilitate ten-digit dialing; the
visual quality is lower; the gray-scale
quality is less clear; and the OCR utility
is totally gone.
I found Faxstf to be a lifesaver sever-
al times, and now it’s gone. I have since
switched back to 3.2.5 and have made
angements to return Pro 5.0, but Fam
waiting to see what the manufacturer is
going to do—maybe get wise and fix it all
with an update. I am also looking for
another application that’s more up-to-
date and has the quality and user inter-
face one would expect these d
M.G
Littleton, Colorado
MANELIS
s on the brink of
7 OUR REVIEW OF PAXSTF MISSED A
serious bug, maybe because your
reviewer never tried sending a fax over
. The program has a nice feature of
automatically adding country codes for
overseas calls when you specify the desti-
nation country. Unfortunately, the phone
book loses that information, and the next
time you try faxing to that destination, it
thinks the destination is in the United
States. Well, most of the time. Once it
reset a British destination to Albania.
Jere Ween
Newton, Massachusetts
For Want of Good Storage
JOUR ARTICLE “GIGS TO GO"
(November 1998) gives the good
advice to keep a safe backup of the ba
up of magnetic media, But what about
the drive’ reliability?
five (!) LGB Jaz drives in less than wo
suffered the lost data,
headaches, countless wasted hours, and
many damaged disks caused by the
drives’ mechanical failures. ‘The aceom-
modating customer-service reps of
Tomega cannot make up for a techno-
logy that doesn’t work.
REINHARD SOKOL
Providence, Rhode Island
T've gone through
years, and
HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH ‘THE
focus of “Gigs to Go.” Magnetic
storage technology is still in its infancy
and has quite a way to go before it
reaches either the speed of a real SCSI
hard disk or the archival cost, reliabil-
ity, and portability of CD-Recordable
technology.
As you noted, CD-R costs only 0.3
cents a megabyte, plus it can be dropped
ten feet without damaging the data,
taped to a computer screen for a week
and still retain its data, survive the win-
ters of Siberia and the summers of the
Amazon, and live in an environment as
dusty as a wood mill. In addition to its
durability, the CD media can be read by
any PC or Mac built since 1994, with-
out additional hardware needed for
recovery or transfer of the information.
I recommend CD-R to all my clients,
and they all agree there is no better
backup medium.
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Keeping Games in Hand
N YOUR RECENT FEATURE ON
joysticks and game pads (“Take Con-
trol,” November 1998), you omitted a
great product, the ChoiceStick Mark V by
Kernel Productions (www.kernel.com).
‘This is an adapter that allows you to use
any Sega Genesis, Atari, Sony PlaySta-
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your Macintosh. It greatly increases the
number of controller choices available to
Mac game fans.
ScoTT Atwood
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We indeed wanted to add the ChoiceStick to our
roundup, but alas, it was not available to test at
the time we wrote the article. —Ed.
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The Vision Thing
by Andrew Gore
LOOKING BACK (AND FORWARD) TO THE MAC'S FUTURE
RITICIZING SCIENCE
fiction is something of a
spectator sport here at
Macworld. Many an im-
promptu review of the
previous evening’s televi-
sion has been presented
for the edification of
fellow editors, whether
they want to hear it or not. And, of
course, that includes the obligatory
heated argument over differences so
minute you couldn’t view them through
an electron microscope.
Even though I’m a die-hard Star Trek
fan, [simply can’t stomach any TV show—
or movie, for that matter—that attempts to
deal with time travel. With the possible
exception of William Shatner himself, time
travel has got to be the most contrived of
all sci-fi contrivances.
And yet, here Iam, wishing for a time
machine of my very own. No, I’m not
wishing I could go back to an earlier day
and convince a much more callow Steve
Jobs that licensing the Mac OS would be
a good idea—that would be way too pre-
dictable. No, I’d travel back in time
almost exactly one year to Macworld
Expo ’98 in San Francisco so I could give
a shockingly accurate forecast of the Mac
world in 1998.
Look Back
Can you imagine people’s reactions when
I let the iMac out of the bag, a full five
months before its debut is fated to stun
the world? I could take the veil off the OS
named X and explain that it, not Rhap-
sody, will be the fuel that will power the
Mac of the Future. I could also let slip
that Apple will close the year with con-
secutive profitable quarters that will
make even the most dedicated disbeliev-
ers on Wall Street bow down before its
shares. Time travel: the ultimate form of
insider trading!
T could predict, with unfailing accu-
racy, that Mac gaming will return with a
vengeance as the Macintosh again be-
comes a player in the consumer market. I
wonder what the Macintosh community
of a year ago would have thought of the
idea of mobs of people queuing up to buy
a Macintosh as if it were a Powerball lot-
tery ticket. Perhaps they would think me
mad—there’s another sci-fi cliché for you.
But as the year wore on and my predic-
tions came true, perhaps they would
remember that crazy editor in chief who
foresaw the stellar 12 months that was
before them and would let him out of his
padded basement cell. Or perhaps they’d
be too busy basking in the glow of one of
the most successful years in the history of
the Mac platform.
Look Forward
But wait! If I have a Wayback machine,
why not just flip the switch to Wayfor-
ward and head for the first Macworld
Expo of the new millennium, San Fran-
cisco, the year 2000? I can grab the last
12 months’ worth of Macworld for some
quiet reading on the ride back to 1999,
When I get here, I can write a column
foretelling what the year has in store. A
new line of desktop Macs won't surprise
anyone—you can read about those on the
Web. But maybe my prediction that Mac
OS X will ship pretty close to on-time—
and certainly during 1999—will raise an
eyebrow or two. And just think of the facial
convulsions when I prognosticate that Mac
OS X will be a huge hit and will see
unheard-of adoption rates for a totally new
OS, as Mac users finally get to see the real
power of the G3 processor unleashed by X.
I can also speak coyly of the midyear
arrival of an iMac that runs on batteries.
This portable for consumers will have
many of the values we’ve come to expect
of its deskbound sibling: a breakthrough
design, a reasonable price, and a few sur-
prises up its eMate-like sleeve. That the
iMac will continue to be a winner seems a
given, but a whole line of iMacs? It seems
only logical for Apple to create
consumer systems with a variety
of shapes, sizes, and feature sets.
And then, of course, I'll
have to issue a few somber
warnings. Beware the Ides of
Gates—that sort of thing. One
thing I'll be sure to tell my
readers is that although 1998
was a year of surprise victories,
1999 will be trench warfare
for Apple. Everyone will be
watching Apple, and many will
be imitating the company’s
best moves, trying to one-up
them. Expect to see a lot of
Windows-based iMac knock-
offs and maybe a few Power-
Book clones as well. And
third-party developers will continue to
have their Mac loyalties tested.
Of course, all of this is just idle spec-
ulation, because, as I said at the begin-
ning of the column, the notion of time
travel is absurd. But you have to admit,
that’s just the kind of thing I’d be likely to
say if I had indeed gotten hold of a time
machine, isn’t it? m
Although Andy already knows what
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RAGE 128 POWERS NEW
LINE OF 2-D AND 3-D
ACCELERATOR BOARDS
by Stephen Beale
TI Technologies
(905/882-2600, www
.atitech.com), whose
Rage II and Rage Pro
chips drive the dis-
plays in Apple’s G3 Macs, has
developed a faster processor
for a new generation of
graphics accelerators. ‘The
Rage 128 features an internal
128-bit data path, compared
with the 64-bit path in earlier
Rage chips, along with other
performance enhancements.
ATI plans to offer two
versions of the chip, one for
its own accelerator cards, and
the other for system mother-
boards. The former features a
128-bit path to video mem-
ory, while the latter uses a 64-
bit external path.
The Rage 128 is a complex
piece of engineering, packing
8 million transistors, compared
with about 3 million in the
Rage Pro. The Rage 128
incorporates a 250MHz. digi-
tal-to-analog converter (DAC),
which produces the signals that
drive the display. Earlier Rage
chips lacked an integrated
DAC, which then had to be
implemented as a separate
piece of silicon.
Faster 3-D
The chip features several
enhancements designed to
accelerate 3-D-graphics per-
formance, including 32-bit
Z-buffering and single-pass
multitexturing. ATI has also
added support for Open GL
1.2, a set of standard 3-D-
graphics routines that is g:
ing favor among software
developers. Because the Open
GL operations are encoded
ATl Launches Next-Generation Graphics Chip
on the chip, software that
supports the standard should
run much faster on systems
equipped with the Rage 128.
Another new feature, four-tap
filtering, offers smoother inter-
polation of QuickTime movies
that have been enlarged from
their original size.
ATI plans to use the chip in
three new graphics accelerator
cards: the Nexus 128, Xclaim
VR 128, and Rage Orion. The
company has also introduced
the Xclim 3D Plus, a $179
board—featuring the older
Rage LT Pro chip—designed
for use with digital flat-panel
displays (see “LCD Monitors
Get Bigger and Cheaper,” else-
where in this section).
The $299 Nexus 128, the
successor to the $599 Nexus
GA, features 32MB of mem-
ory and a maximum full-color
continues
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3-D resolution of 1,920 by
1,200 pixels. The Nexus GA,
by comparison, offered 8MB
of RAM and a maximum 3-D
resolution of 1,024 by 768 pix:
els. The new board also adds
QuickTime acceleration,
which was previously :
in other ATT graphics
but not in the Nexus GA.
The Nexus GA used an
external DAC and _ costly
Windows RAM. ATI says the
performance improvements
in the new chip allowed its
engineers to replace the Win-
dows RAM with less-expen-
sive synchronous RAM.
The $229 Xclaim VR 128
features 16MB of SDRAM,
offering a maximum full-color
2-D resolution of 1,600 by
1,200 pixels and a maximum
3-D resolution of 1,280 by
1,024 pixels. The price in-
cludes ATT’s Xclaim TV, a TV.
tuner that works with the
board’s video-in port. By
comparison, the $399 Xclaim
VR sported just 8MB of
memory and lacked the bun-
dled tuner.
able
ards
Targeting the Voodoo
‘The Rage Orion board, which
is targeted at Mac gamers,
will compete with Micro
Conversions’ Game Wizard.
The $229 board featur
32MB of memory and am
imum full-color resolution of
1,900 by 1,280 pixels.
ATT claims that the Rage
128 offers game performance
comparable to that of 3Dfx’s
Voodoo 2 chip, which powers
the Game Wizard and numer-
ous PC graphics boards, ATI
is also positioning the R:
128 against 3Dfx’s new
doo Banshee chip, which offers
2-D and 3-D acceleration; the
Voodoo 2 is limited to boost-
ing 3-D game performance
The Xclaim 3D Plus—
the only new board to feature
an older ATI chip—will
power digital flat-panel dis-
plays as well as analog CRT
or LCD monitors.
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the translucent-blue iMac look. Red and amber versions are
also available.—MACWORLD STAFF
Electric Image
Enters the
Mainstream
VENDOR UNVEILS FIRST
CONSUMER PRODUCT
by Stephen Beale
lectric Tmage (EI;
888/736-3371, www
.electricimage.com),
best known as a devel-
oper of high-end 3-D
software for film and TV
production, is making a big
move for the mass market
with a new, $149 modeling
and animation program. The
company, fresh from its
recent merger with Play, has
also announced an upgrade
of its flagship Electriclmage
MACWORLD
)
modeler
Amorphium The $149
modeling program, Amorphi-
such Met
Creations products
as Kai’s SuperGoo
and Bryce 3D. In-
stead of using wire-
frame models, the
program presents a
lump of virtual clay
you can reshape
using a variety of
tools and filter
potter’-wheel option
lets you use the tools
as the model is spin-
ning. Simple paint-on mask-
ing tools let you confine mod-
ifications to certain parts of
the object.
‘As you mold the model,
you can paint directly on its
surface or apply textures, You
can also use textures to deform
the surface. Once you've fin-
ished the model, the program
imple Quick-
Time animations in a Com-
poser window. You can ani-
mate an object’s movement
and shape transformations,
but you cannot animate multi-
ple objects in a single movie—
though movies can include
any number of still 3-D ob-
jects. Backgrounds and smoke
and fog effects can also be
added. The program’s speedy
rendering engine is based on
the one in EIAS.
In addition to creating
models within the program,
you can also import and
export them in DXF or other
3-D formats. However, the
program does not support
Apple's 3Dmf format.
The New El Electric
Image has also announced
version 2.9 of EIAS, its high-
end rendering and animation
program. The upgrade
first. to include
Image’s new modeler; prev
ous versions required aru
use modelers from other com-
panies. EIAS 2.9 also lets you
preview texture may other
much requested feature. But
the biggest news about the
be its price. Pre-
‘Amorphium, new from Electric Image, lets you
create models from lumps of virtual clay.
two versions of EIAS, a $2,995
broadcast edition and a $7,495
film version, With EIAS 2.9,
the company will offer a single
$2,295 package that incorpo-
rates both editions plus the
modeler. EI also plans to offer
a five-pack education bundle
for $900.
In April 1998, EI an-
nounced its merger with Play,
a developer of PC-based
3-D-graphics products. El,
now a division of Play, will use
the latter's distribution chan-
nels to sell the new software,
New Tools for
Multimedia
Developers
DIRECTOR 7 UNVEILED AS
A NEW RIVAL EMERGES
by Stephen Beale
hen Quark pulled
the plug on_ its
Mtropolis — soft-
ware last March,
Macromedia Dir-
ector—already the dominant
multimedia-authoring pack-
age—had the market pretty
much to itself. Now, as
Macromedia (415/252-2000,
www.macromedia.com)
releases Director 7, the pro-
gram faces a potential new
rival from a company co-
founded by two former Apple
executive: company,
Tribeworks (415/732-7004,
www.tribeworks.com), has
developed an authoring pro-
gram called iShell that lets
producers create complex
multimedia presentations
using a visual interface.
Director on the Web
Director 7 continues Macro-
media's strategy of positioning
its applications as Web pro-
duction tools. The upgrade
incorporates Shockwave 7, a
new version of Macromedia
Web-based multimedia format
that improves streaming capa-
bilities and automatic:
updates the Shockwave players
on client machines. The up-
grade also lets you export vee-
tor animations in the Flash 3
format, which now supports
transparency. New HTML
features let you create Web
pages that trigger multimedia
actions, such as animating a
headline, when the user clicks
on a hyperlink.
‘The upgrade also features
enhancements to the Lingo
scripting language, along with
new onion-skinning and
alpha-channel functions.
Director 7 is offered as part
of the $999 Director 7 Shock-
wave Internet Studio, which
also includes Fireworks for
Web-graphics production and
Bias Peak LE for sound editing.
Out of Its Shell ‘Tribe-
works is a new company co-
founded by Patrick Soquet,
developer of Apple Media
‘Tool, and Duncan Kennedy,
formerly the Quick’Time
product marketing manager
for Apple. The vendor's iShell
software suite consisting of
iShell Editor, the main author-
ing tool; iShell Runtime,
which permits playback of
iShell presentations; and a
software develop-
er’s kit, which lets
you create iShell
plug-ins. You can
deploy iShell pre-
sentations on the
Web, but the com-
pany expects that
users will employ
the software pri-
marily to. produce
CD-ROM
software’s visual
containers to
elements. You can
assign behaviors to a contain-
er by dragging them from a
list. Presentations created
with the program can retrieve
media elements from local
storage devices, either
through a local-area network
or over the Internet.
The company has chosen
an unusual strategy for market-
ing the software. Instead of
offering iShell as a product,
Tribeworks is selling $2,000
annual subscriptions that in-
clude upgrades, technical as
tance, and marketing support.
G3 Upgrades
for G3 Macs
FAST NEW PROCESSOR
UPGRADES ACCELERATE
EARLY G3 MODELS
by Allyson Bates
veryone wants more
speed, even owners of
rly G3 Power Macs.
A new batch of proces-
sor-upgrade cards
promises performance boosts
for G3 running at 233MHz,
266MHz, 300MHz, 333MHz,
and 366MHz.
PowerJolt OverDrive up-
grade cards, from Mactell
(512/323-6000, www.mactell
-com), are available in
ea
(n)
300MHz, 333MHz, 366MHz,
and 400MHz versions with
several cache options. Prices
range from $795 to $1,595.
The Maxpowr line of
CPU upgrades, from Newer
Technology (316/943-0222,
www.newertech.com), now
includes 333MHz, 366MHz,
and 400MHz cards for G3
Power Macs. Newer also plans
to offer, by the time you read
this, CPU upgrades for older
continues
Product
It's Back! Kai's Power Tools,
which launched a revolution in
Adobe Photoshop plug-ins, is
back. Kai's Power Tools 5, $199
from MetaCreations (805/566-
6200, www.metacreations.com),
lets you create a wide range of
special effects from within Photo-
shop. You can use KPT FiberOptix
to create furry text or shag carpet;
KPT Blur for zoom, spin, and
blur effects; and KPT FraxPlorer for
new fractal styles. You can also
create objects with reflective glass
edges or explode an image into
thousands of spheres.
Optimal HTML BBEdit 5.0,
the latest edition of Bare Bones
Software's (781/687-0700, www.
‘barebones.com) text and HTML
editor, features a more accurate
HTML syntax checker, along with
Tag Maker and Edit Tag com-
mands that prevent you from
inserting incorrect code, The $119
program (upgrade, $39) also strips
white space and unneeded text
from HTML code and includes an
SGML parser that lets you write
and validate XML tags.
That's the Stuff Are garbled
e-mail attachments ruining your
productivity? Stuffit Deluxe 5.0,
Aladdin Systems’ (831/761-6200,
www.aladdinsys.com) upgrade to
its $79.95 compression software,
adds Microsoft Outlook Express
and Bare Bones’ Mailsmith to the
e-mail programs it supports. The
upgrade also offers better com-
pression and smoother cross-plat-
form file exchanges than before.
continues
Photoshop Fix Adobe Sys-
tems (408/536-6000, www.adobe
.com) has released a free update to
Adobe Photoshop that addresses
two major complaints: color man-
agement and text kerning. Photo-
shop 5.0.2,
Adobe's Web site, changes the
working color-space default from
available from
sRGB to None. (Previously, Photo-
shop 5.0's default settings convert-
ed images to sRGB when you
‘opened them.) A new Color Man-
agement Assistant helps you set
color preferences when you first
launch the update. The update
also fixes kerning and tracking
problems in version 5.0's Text tool.
Get the Edge MagicMask
2.0, an upgrade to the $99.95
Adobe Photoshop plug-in from
‘Chroma Graphics (650/685-6800,
www.chromagraphics.com), now
lets you convert masks and selec-
tions into straight-line clipping
paths for easier printing. The new
version also offers presets for com-
mon color-range masking and
blue-screen knockouts and gives
added control over color settings.
SyQuest Closes Its Doors
SyQuest Technology, maker of
the SyJet and SparQ removable-
media devices, has shut down
and filed for bankruptcy due to
low sales and share value. The
move followed major layoffs in
August 1998. The 16-year-old
company’s 44MB and 88MB car-
tridges once represented the
standard for removable storage in
the Mac market—eDITED BY
MICHAEL GOWAN
Power Macs, including the
7000, 8000, and 9000 series
and for models from popular
clone vendors, _ including
Power Computing, Motorola,
and APS Technologies.
PowerLogix (512/795-
2978, www.powerlogix.com)
offers 333MHz, 366MHz, and
400MHzz upgrade cards with
various cache speeds. Their
prices range from $1,099
to $1,599, Sonnet Technolo-
gies (949/261-2800, www
.sonnettech.com) has an-
nounced three upgrade
in its Crescendo G3 series,
running at 333 MHz, 366MHz,
and 400MHz. Prices begin
at $1,099.
XLR8 (316/636-5544,
www.rlr8.com) is offering a
400MHz, $1,899 version of its
Mach Speed G3 CPU upgrade
card for Power Macs. The
company says the card. will
work in the Power Mac 7300,
7500, 8500, 8600, 9500, and
9600, as well as most Power
Computing models and Umax
Computer's SuperMac $900
and J700 lines. XLR8 also
offers a 333MHz version and
intends to have a 366MHz ver-
sion by the time you read this.
LCD Monitors
Get Bigger
and Cheaper
VIEWSONIC, PRINCETON
UNVEIL 18-INCH MODELS
by Michael Gowan
he future of LCD
monitors—bigger
screens, better images,
and lower prices—
fast becoming a reality.
Among the newest models, the
18.1-inch DPP 800, from
Princeton Graphic Systems
(714/751-8405, www.prgr
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Flat Is Fabulous
LCD MONITORS MAY BE GETTING ALL THE ATTENTION,
but there's still plenty of life left in the trusty old CRT. The
19-inch Diamond Pro 900u, from Mitsubishi (714/220-
2500, www.mitsubishi-display.com), features a distortion
free flat screen, thanks to the company’s Natural Flat tech-
nology, which compensates for the concave effect found in
other flat-screen CRTs. The $799 monitor, with an 18-inch
viewable area, has a maximum resolution of 1,600 by 1,200
pixels and includes a four-port USB hub,—MICHAEL GOWAN
.com), features an_ all-digital
interface, while the 18.1-inch
VG180, from ViewSonic (909/
869-7976, www.viewsonic
.com), sports an under-$2,800
street price.
Princeton Goes Digital
Princeton's $3,499, 18.1-inch
DPP 800, scheduled to ship in
January, 1999, offers 1,280-by-
1,024-pixel resolution and
includes a USB hub. It joins
two new inch LCD moni-
tors from Princeton, the $1,039
DPP 550 and the $1,099 DPP
560, which are scheduled to
ship by the time you read this.
Both 15-inch models offer
1,024-by-768-pixel resolution;
the DPP 560 can pivot to por-
trait or landscape mode.
All three Princeton dis-
plays use Digital Panel
technology—which does not
require the analog-to-digital
converters found in other LCD
monitors—for improved image
clarity. The displays come with
ATT’s Xclaim 3D Plus graphics
cards (see “ATI Launches
Next-Generation Graphic
Chip,” elsewhere in this sec-
tion). The monitors won't work
with your Mac’ built-in video.
ViewSonic Goes Big ‘The
18.1-inch VG180, from
ViewSonic, lacks Princeton’s
digital interface but sells for a
street price of $2,795. The
monitor offer: maximum
resolution of 1,280 by 1,024
pixels. The price does not
include a graphics card, but
the di will work with
your Mac’ built-in video.
ViewSonic product man-
ager Mark Gersh says the
VG180 is the first in a family
creen LCD moni-
‘onic plans to offer.
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SIX NEW CAMERAS EACH
CAPTURE 1.3 MILLION
PIXELS OR MORE
OMPETITION IN THE DIGITAL-
camera market is heating to a boil.
While companies such as Kodak,
Nikon, and Olympus focus on
quality and innovation, others are
more interested in simply meeting a
demand. This may explain why Toshiba,
Ricoh, and Casio—hardly big names in
camera circles—are the first to offer
megapixel devices for less than $500.
But for $499, you shouldn’t expect
impeccable image quality. Of the three, the
Toshiba PDR-ML fares best. Lil
$799 MX-700—which relies on the same
CCD, lens, and internal hardware—the
PDR-M1I captures fine details that hold up
well to Adobe Photoshop’ Unsharp Mask.
The downside is that the colors often
appear faded, with a yellow cast. The softer
images from Ricoh’s RDC-4200 tend to
drift toward blue, with exaggerated contrast
between light and dark. The Ricoh camera
s problems with blown highlights, so
that sunny skies almost always turn white.
The worst photos come from the Casio
QV-5000SX. The blurry focus, gummy
edges, and severe purple cast of its images
challenge the skills of even the most accom-
plished imaging technicians.
One step up from the PDR-M1 is
Agfa’s ePhoto 1680. Although the com-
pany states that the camera has resolu-
tions of up to 1,600 by 1,200 pixels—
Megapixel Cameras
l—this is a function
Phe 1680's
those in
and it like-
960 pixels. Fortu-
pas with
neatly 2 million in
of software interpolation,
CCD is actually the same si
the nd Ricoh models
ii ptures 1,280 b
ated, but without
the yellow cast. The bad news is the $899
asking price, nearly twice that of the
Toshiba PDR-M1.
Kodak’s $999 DC260, even in dif-
fused or overcast lighting, delivers vivid,
accurate colors with rich sculptural details
Cast of Colors”). And unlike the
, it earns its higher price by supply-
han any other c
(see
Agfi
ing more pix
the roundup.
mera in
Storage and Connectivity
Most of these cameras store images on
wafer-thin SmartMedia cards. The Fuji
and Toshiba models are the most flexible,
accepting 3.3V and older SV cards; the
Agfa and Ricoh accept the 3.3V variety
only. But whereas the Agfa, Ricoh, and
‘Toshiba models ship with 4MB cards, the
Fuji includes only a skimpy 2MB card.
REAL PRODUC
REAL RATINGS
Reviews you can trust: Macworld rates only final shipping products, not prototypes. What we review is what you can actually buy.
OUTSTANDING: $8068
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Kodak's DC260 uses a removable
8MB CompactFlash card, thicker than
the SmartMedia but more resilient as
well. The Casio QV-5000SX features
8MB of hardwired memory.
‘These days, removable storage also
translates to faster downloading. If your
computer includes a PC Card reader—as
most PowerBooks do—you can purchase
a SmartMedia or CompactFlash adapter
for about $100. You remove the card from
the camera, stick it in the adapter, and slide
the adapter into the computer's PC Card
slot. Copying 8MB of images takes about
se the card and you're ready
for more. By contrast, your only option
with the Casio is to connect it to your
M s port and wait about
20 minutes to copy 8MB of images—and
that’s when the gods are smiling. More
often, Casio's transfer utility has problems
finding the camera—this happened every
time we tried to download images.
In an about-face, the DC260 is the
only camera we've used that cannot
shuttle images directly to the Mac, by ser-
ial cable or otherwise. Kodak forces you
to use a PC Card adapter, which you must
purchase separately. If you don’t have one,
your only option is to cable the DC260
to a PC. Kodak is currently beta-testing
software that permits iMac owners to
download images via a USB cable.
Batteries, Zoom, and Other Finery
‘The Agfa, Kodak, and Ricoh models pro-
vide continuous 3X optical zooms so you
close in on your subject. (The others
offer fake “digital” zooms, which merely
enlarge pi: The Kodak DC260 lets
you preview the zoom via either an
optical or an LCD
viewfinder; the ePhoto
1680 and RDC-4200
lack optical viewfinders
and force you to use the
power-hungry LCD.
Thankfully, Agfa
bundles rechargeable
batteries to feed the
LCD and provides an
enhanced night view for
shooting in low light;
Ricoh does neither.
If bells and whistles
appeal to you, the
DC260 is too sexy for
its lens cap. It’s the only
under-$1,000 model
we've seen that permits
timed exposures (up to
4 seconds), time-lapse
photography, and user-
defined scripts.
Macworld's Buying Advice
Now that Agfa has remedied the software
problems that plagued the ePhoto 1280,
the 1680’s simple controls, above-average
image quality, and optical zoom make it
an attractive camera. But if the $899 price
scares you away, get Toshiba's PDR-M1.
For $400 less than you pay for the Agfa,
you sacrifice zoom and rechargeable bat-
but gain a few thousand pixels.
For imaging professionals, Kodak's
DC260 deserves a long look. Its superb
photographs and wide range of controls
will satisfy you for years to come. But it
suffers from odd flaws. You have to wait
several seconds for the DC260 to turn on
or off (despite a recent firmware upgrade),
‘A Cast of Colors When shooting under cloud cover, the cameras reveal
their casts, from slightly yellow (the Fuji and Toshiba models), to distinctly
blue (Ricoh), to as purple as an overripe grape (Casio). The Agfa captures
fairly accurate but drab colors. Only the Kodak DC260 delivers the scene in
all its glory, with obvious color distinction between building and sky.
and it has difficulty tracking the number
of images left to shoot. And in the random-
contradictions department, the DC260 is
the only camera so far that’s compatible
with the iMac, making ita high-end device
for a low-end market.
If we had to recommend just one
under-$1,000 camera, it would continue to
be the $#$¢% Olympus D-600L (see
“Focus On,” October 1998), which has a
unique SLR viewfinder and first-rate image
quality, even if it does capture fewer pixels
than the DC260. But for those whose main
concern is image quality—and who have a
PowerBook and a PC Card reader—the
DC260 is a serious contender, clearly one
of the very best.—peke mccLeLtand
Digital Cameras: More Pixels for the Money
‘Company Agta Casio Fuji Kodak Ricoh Toshiba
Product ePhoto 1680 Qv-50005x X-700 C260 ROC-4200 PDR-M1
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CCD resolution (in pixels) 41.3 million 4.3 million 15 milion 4.6 million 13 milion 4.5 milion
‘Maximum image size (in pixels) 1,280 x 960 41.280 x 960, 4,280 x 1,024 4,536 1,024 1,280 x 960 1,280 x 1,024
Default memory 4MB 8MB MB 8MB ame ane.
Storage capacity (in images) 6to 12 16 to57 2to11 141032 610.23 5to22
at maximum image size
Optical-zoom function yes 0 no. 0 yes (Gx) yes (3X) no
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[ Reviews
Painter 5.5 Web Edition
NATURAL-MEDIA PAINTING TOOL GETS NEW WEB DESIGN FEATURES
ON’T BE CONFUSED BY THE
name. There is no “non-Web edi
tion” of MetaCreations Painter 5.5
Web Edition. Instead, this is an
upgrade to MetaCreations Painter
5.0, the popular natural-media painting
program. Though most of the upgrade’s
new features are Web specific, longtime
users will be glad to see a new editable
text function and support for Adobe
Photoshop 5’s layers complementing
Painter's existing array of painting tools.
It Slices! It Dices! It Juliennes!
Painter 5.5 sports the same interface as
version 5, a somewhat palette-heavy,
complicated affair that more or le:
chops a graphic into segments you can
reassemble in an HTML table. Slicing
typically makes images download faster,
particularly if only one slice is changing
from page to page.
You define slices in the Image Slicer
floater by placing and dragging horizon-
tal and vertical rules over your image. In
addition to specifying file names and
URLs for each slice, you can also define
separate compression settings, allowing
you to choose the best compression
options for individual segments.
When you export a sliced image,
Painter automatically creates a separate
document for each slice, as well as an
HTML file that reassembles the image:
into a table.
Because slicing
is implemented as a
plug-in floater, you
don’t have to flat-
ten your image, so
you can slice while
preserving all of
your separate lay-
ers. However, we'd
like to see a pre-
view window that
shows the effects of
different compres-
sion settings.
Rollovers
Slice That Button The Image Slicer floater in Painter 5.5 Web Edition lets
you create JavaScript rollover effects
ceeds in organizing the program's many
tools and variants. Painter also makes
extensive use of floaters, similar to layers
in Photoshop. However, unlike Photo-
shop layers, floaters can be different sizes
and can function as plug-in utilities as
well as image repositories.
Painter's tool set is both a strength
and a weakness. No other product comes
close to offering the sophistication and
power of Painter's brushes and tools, but
the sheer number of options makes this a
program that can take a while to learn.
Still, the results are worth the effort.
Painter 5.5 adds a new Image Slicer
plug-in floater that performs automatic
slicing on any document. Web slicing
32 February 1999 MACWORLD
‘The Image Slicer
also lets you create
JavaScript rollover
effects in which buttons appear in differ-
ent states depending on mouse actions
(see “Slice That Button”). You generate
rollovers by creating floaters for each but-
ton state and then slicing your image so
that each button goes on its own slice.
Once this is done, you can modify each
floater to create the look you want for a
particular state. When you're finished,
you export the JavaScript code needed to
create the rollover effects; you must
export each button state separately.
This method feels a bit clunky, but it
works and it forces you to keep your doc-
ument organized into layers with differ-
ent buttons and states, making it easy to
edit your work later.
Dynamic Text
Because Web pages are constantly up-
dated, MetaCreations has added a
Dynamic Text tool, a plug-in floater that
lets you add editable text to your Painter
documents. You enter text in a dialog box
instead of typing directly in your image,
but the program updates the image in real
time, letting you see the effects of font,
color, tracking, translation, and leading
controls. The plug-in also lets you fill text
with a pattern and add automatic, editable
drop shadows.
Painter 5.5 can now automatically
create server- and client-side image maps
based on URLs attached to each floater.
You can also preserve layering in im-
ported Photoshop files, but the program
cannot export layered Photoshop files.
MetaCreations is touting several other
p features in Painter 5.5 that are actu-
holdovers from previous versions. For
mple, the Bevel World feature is great
for making buttons, and seamless texturing
is useful for creating backgrounds.
Ww
all
e
Macworld's Buying Advice
xcept for editable text, Painter 5.5 pro-
vides no new painting or image-editing
tools. It’s nice to have the new Web fea-
tures built into the program, particularly
since they let you preserve your in
layering. However, serious Web d
ers probably already have tools for per-
forming these tasks.
Ifyou do Web design and spend much
time in Painter, these additions are worth
the upgrade price. Other users might
want to wait for an upgrade with more
new painting features. Whatever you use
it for, Painter 5.5 Web Edition’s unique
tool set makes the program an impressive,
powerful image-creation utility.—sen tonc
RATING: $998 PROS: Image slicing lets you
preserve layering; separate compression for
each slice; strong painting tools; editable text.
CONS: No new painting tools; interface still com-
plicated. COMPANY: MetaCreations (805/566-
6200, www.metacreations.com). LIST PRICE:
$299 (upgrade from Painter 5, $79; from
Painter 4, $129).
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just about anyone.
Sony FD Trinitron displays
give you the tightest aperture grille
pitch (0.22mm) and the broadest
horizontal scan range available. Not
to mention USB peripheral ports
that make connections miraculously
simple. Call us perfectionists. But
when it comes to image perfor-
mance, no detail is too small.
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for minimized distortion and
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TIGHTEST APERTURE GRILLE Pitch
available (0.22mm across the
screen) for unprecedented
sharp and clear images.
DIGITAL MULTISCAN® TECHNOLOGY
for broadest horizontal scan
range and highest resolutions:
30-121kHz for resolutions up to
1800x1440 @ 80Hz (F500);
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up to 1600x1200 @ 85Hz (F400).
SMART CABLE DESIGN for shorter
display depth on desktop.
Unique DisplayMouse™ contro! for quick, smooth adjust-
‘ments of digital controls through comprehensive OSD.
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accurate focus throughout the
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GEOLOCK PLUS™ CIRCUITRY fOr)
improved color and brightness
uniformity.
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technology for one-touch instant
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[Reviews
Windows 98 Emulators
STILL A SLUGGISH PROPOSITION
IKE IT OR NOT, BECAUSE MUCH
of the software that’s available for
the PC lacks a Mac counterpart,
you occasionally need to turn to
Windows applications to get your
work done. But depending on the appli-
cation, you may be able to use a software
emulator running on your Mac rather
than having to use an actual PC.
Unfortunately, our lab testing made
one thing abundantly clear: if you need
to run resource-intensive Windows soft-
ware, emulators aren’t for you (see “Emu-
lation in the Slow Lane”). On a Power
Macintosh G3/300, Connectix’s Virtual
PC 2.1.1 and Insignia Solutions’ Soft-
Windows 98 5.0.4 delivered less than
one-fifth the performance of our baseline
system, a 300MHz Intel Celeron-based
PC. That said, both emulators are fast
enough and compatible enough for quick
forays into the Windows world.
Alike, Yet Different
Virtual PC and SoftWindows 98 are
philosophically identical: they re-create a
PC—including its CPU (an MMX-
equipped Pentium)—in software and then
run Windows and Windows software in
this simulated environment. And their
performance is remarkably similar: our
overall benchmark scores show a differ-
ence of just 5 percent between the two.
But running the emulators with appli-
cations that make heavier use of networks
points up some compatibility differences.
For example, SoftWindows 98 takes
advantage of the Mac’s built-in TCP/IP
networking, so you don't need to config-
ure a separate IP address for Windows.
More important, if your Mac is already
Windows ina Window Virtual PC’s window border
contains useful LED-fike activity indicators as well as
buttons for accessing often used features.
connected to the Internet via PPP, Soft-
Windows 98 uses that connection instead
of requiring you to create one from with-
in Windows—a feature you'll appreciate
when you're on the road.
The downside is that SoftWindows
98 is incompatible with some networking
software. Virtual PC had no compatibility
problems with the networking software
we tested, although it requires a second IP
address in addition to the one already
assigned to the Mac and can’t use an
extant Mac PPP connection.
Both emulators use large Mac files as
their virtual hard disks; both also have a
quick-launch feature that lets you put the
Windows environment to sleep and
reawaken it without having to go through
Emulation in the Slow Lane
Best result in red. Reference system in italics. Business Winstone 98
‘scores are absolute numbers.
Business Winstone 98
‘Connectix Virtual PC 2.1.1
Insignia Solutions SoftWindows 98 5.0.4
Intel Celeron-based 300MHz PC
Behind Our Tests
For more information on the ZD Benchmark Operation’s Business Winstone suite,
See _www.winstone.com.
For detailed information on our tests, see
\wwrw.macworld.com/tests/—Macworld Lab testing supervised by Jeffy Milstead
the full boot process, though Virtual PC’s
implementation of this feature is more
than twice as fast as SoftWindows 98's.
And although neither emulator has any
problem running a variety of basic Win-
dows software, contemporary games real-
ly want to run on actual PC hardware (see
The Game Room, January 1999).
Despite their similarities, the two
emulators differ in some significant ways.
Virtual PC has a much more polished user
interface, handy LED-style indicators
that show whether hard-disk or network
activity is going on, and many smaller
usability details (see “Windows in a Win-
dow”). In contrast, SoftWindows 98’s
interface offers so many configuration
options as to be daunting for the novice,
and its answer to the right mouse but-
ton—pressing the equal sign (=) key or
3¢-R—is a poor solution.
Macworld's Buying Advice
Windows 98 emulation is still a sluggish
proposition, but it’s fast enough for less
performance-critical applications. While
the emulators we tested perform similarly
and have remarkably comparable features,
SoftWindows 98 5.0.4's ability to use the
Mac’s PPP connection is particularly
compelling for mobile users. Virtual PC
2.1.1 is more compatible overall, has a
cleaner user interface, and offers a faster
quick-start mode. If you decide to use an
emulator, your decision will come down
to which is more important to you: Vir-
tual PC’s compatibility or SoftWindows
98's convenience.—sterHan somoGy!
SoftWindows 98 5.0.4
RATING: $§$¥2 PROS: Uses Mac TCP/IP net-
working; marginally faster than Virtual PC. CONS:
Rough interface; comparatively slow quick-start
feature; unsuitable for many games. COMPANY:
Insignia Solutions (510/360-3700, www.insignia
com). COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: $169.
Virtual PC 2.1.1
RATING: $§$'/: PROS: Useful I/O indicators;
clean interface; better compatibility with Windows
applications; fast quick-start feature. CONS:
Needs its own IP address; marginally slower than
‘SoftWindows 98. COMPANY: Connectix (650/
571-5100, www.connectix.com). COMPANY'S
ESTIMATED PRICE: $179.
www.macworld.com February 1999 37
| Reviews
Photoshop Plug-in Packages
PHOTOTOOLS 3.0 HITS THE WEB, XENOFEX GOES OUT OF THIS WORLD
OU NEED NIMBLE FEET TO
develop plug-ins for Adobe
Photoshop. Create a hot new
productivity tool or speci
effects filter, and something sim-
ilar is likely to appear in the host program.
Nevertheless, there’s always room for
add-ons, see in the latest plug-ins
from Extensis and Alien Skin Software,
The big selling point in Extens
previous version of PhotoTools was the
PhotoText utility, which vastly improved
on Photoshop 4.0 text function, But with
the upgrade of the Text tool in Photo-
shop 5.0, Extensis dropped the plug-in,
replacing it with new modules that let you
create seamless tiles and custom bevel
shapes. Meanwhile, Alien Skin has.
responded to Photoshop 5.0 with a new
set of filters that let you add a variety of
special effects to your images.
Spin a New Tune
While it remains a good productivity tool
for almost any Photoshop user, PhotoTools
3.0 has a definite Web-ceniric flavor, One
major addition, PhotoTexture, lets you cre-
ate seamless tiles for Web-site backgrounds.
You can import and combine existing tex-
tures or create them from scratch, using a
basic set of painting tools and filters. As you
paint over the tile’s edge, the stroke auto-
matically continues on the opposite side of
the frame, making it easy to create seamless
textures, which otherwise require some
fancy Photoshop footwork. However, the
built-in texture-generating tools are rather
weak. Don’t expect to create the kinds of
natural, photo-realistic effects you can pro-
duce in Bryce 3D and Kai's Power ‘Tools
(both from MetaCreations).
PhotoGroove, the other major addi-
tion, lets you transform Photoshop selec-
tions into frames with custom-beveled
edges. You control the bevel shape by
dragging control points on a curve. You
can make the frame interior appear as
metal, plastic, or chrome, or let the
underlying image show through.
PhotoTools 3.0 also includes
upgraded versions of older plug-ins.
PhotoCastShadow, a handy drop-shadow
generator, can now create multiple shad-
ows from a single selection. You can set
38 February 1999 MACWORLD
each shadow’s light source, offset, color,
softness, noise, and opacity. PhotoButton,
which generates beveled buttons for Web
aeaeinke hed
Effects on the Go Seven Xenofex filters (clockwise from upper
right): Baked Earth, Lightning, Stain, Origami, Flag, Crumple, and
Electrify. The background was created in Extensis's PhotoTexture.
sites, now lets you add custom bevels, tex-
tures, and bump maps.
The other modules
unchanged: PhotoBars lets you set up cus
tom tool bars, PhotoGlow produces halos
around a selection, PhotoBevel applies
inner and outer bevels, and PhotoEm-
boss creates embossing and cutout effects.
‘The package also includes PhotoAnima-
tor ($6%; Reviews, October 1998), a GIF-
animation utility that Extensis formerly
offered as a $99 stand-alone product.
On the Wild
If PhotoTools aims at the Web designer,
Xenofex targets the special-effects wizard.
Developed as a complement to the com-
pany’s popular Eye Candy Photoshop-fil-
ter package, Xenofex features 16 new
effects plug-ins. Among our favorit
Flag ripples your selection; Crumple
wrinkles it; Origami makes it appear as
folded paper; Baked Earth places it on a
rough, cracked surface; and Television
adds static. Others include Stain, which
creates coffee-stain effects, and Stamper,
which fills the selection with copies of any
TIFF image (see “Effects on the Go”).
‘Two other plug-ins produce electrical
effects: Electrify causes glowing arcs to
radiate from your selection, and Light-
ning generates electrical bolts inside the
selected area.
Most of the plug-ins give you lots of
options for customizing the effects. For
example, Electrify lets you choose the arc
lengths, amount of branching,
and size and color of the glow,
and Flag lets you choose the
depth and strength of the rip-
ples. These options help you
avoid creating artwork with
exactly the same effects that
appear in someone else’s pieces.
‘The colorful Xenofex inter-
face resembles Eye Candy’s,
offering slider controls for most
functions and small preview
windows. PhotoTools uses a
more conventional Mac-like
interface, with tabbed palettes,
pop-up menus, and a preview
window that consumes nearly
half the screen. With both pro-
grams, you'll want a G3 Power Mac for
optimal performance. Most of the filters
ran fine on a 180MHz 603e system, but
some—especially the Twirl filter in Photo-
Texture—were sluggish.
Macworld’'s Buying Advice
The Photo'Tools 3.0 plug-ins are good
productivity boosters, especially if you're
a Web designer. Xenofex continues Alien
Skin’s tradition of creating plug-ins that
effectively mimic natural effects; most
designers will probably find at least a few
of them useful.—srepHen seace
PhotoTools 3.0
RATING: $$$# PROS: Effective tools for gen-
erating seamless tiles and beveled edges. CONS:
‘Slow; weak texture-generation tools. COMPANY:
Extensis (503/274-2020, www.extensis.com).
LIST PRICE: $149.95 (upgrade, $49.95).
Xenofex
RATING: 1 PROS: Natural-looking special
effects; lots of customization options, CONS:
Slow on older Power Macs. COMPANY: Alien
Skin Software (919/832-4124, www.alienskin
com). LIST PRICE: $129.
Media-Management Tools
MEDIA ORGANIZERS IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES
VEN THE MOST ORGANIZED
pack rats can’t possibly keep track
of all their multimedia file
when your work demands quick
access to graphics, movies, and
sound files, it’s time to invest in an asset-
management tool. Four such programs
cover the low and high ends of the mar-
ket—IMC Media Cataloger 2.0, Photo-
dex CompuPic 1.80, Canto Cumulus
Network 4.0, and Extensis Portfolio 4.0
—and you get what you pay for.
The fundamental purpose of these
programs is to create catalogs of images,
movies, and sounds. In addition, each
organizer accommodates thumbnail
images and preview functions. Except for
CompuPic, these applications allow you
to assign and search by keywords. Beyond
since you cannot easily sort cataloged
graphics, But you can view images in
slide-show format or tiled as a desktop
pattern, and it also offers batch conver-
sion to a limited number of file forr
Upper Management
‘Those who manage large amounts of
media should turn to Portfolio and Cumu-
lus, These programs can capably organize
and catalog multitudes of media files,
well as application-specific files. In addi-
tion to cataloging a greater variety of files
than the entry-level programs, these two
boast networking capabilities and cross-
platform support.
its name implies, Cumulus Network
4.0 isa client-server asset-management sys-
tem that includes Canto Cumulus Server
and five clients. The $2,495
price seems daunting, but the
program is intended for large
publishing, printing, and
graphic-design houses with ex-
tensive networks. This becomes
apparent when you discover
that, unlike many client-server
applications, it lets you log
on and administer the server
from any clientand any location
ona TCP/IP network—useful
for businesses that span mul-
Such a Drag To add assets easily in Cumulus Network, just drag
and drop them into catalogs.
these fundamentals, the more advanced—
and expensive—programs offer network
access to catalogs, the ability to drag and
drop assets into catalogs, scripting, and
support for a wide variety of file types.
Media Cataloger and CompuPic are inex-
pensive products that provide only basics.
Media Cataloger offers thumbnails, pre-
views, and keyword assignment and
searching. If you're an occasional
creator on a restricted budget, Med
aloger may be all you need. The program
can only catalog text, PICT, TIFF, EPS,
MacPaint, QuickTime, and SND files.
However, Media Cataloger is a better
choice than CompuPic. The latter's lack
of a Find feature severely hampers it,
tiple locations. And because
the server supports Cumulus’s
Windows 95 and NT and Unix
clients, you can administer from any com-
puter connected to your office.
In addition to the client-server pro-
grams, Cumulus Network includes freely
distributable browsers for the Mac and
Windows 95 and NT. The program is
also highly scriptable.
Less Costs Less
Although Cumulus Network 4.0 is a ter-
rific choice for asset management ina large,
mixed-platform environment, it may not
be the best solution for smaller companies.
‘The $200 Portfolio is scalable, meaning that
users with individual copies of the program
can operate on a peer-to-peer basis across a
network, rather than opt for Cumulus Net-
work's pricey client-server solution. In addi-
tion, Portfolio is faster than Cumulus in cer-
tain operations. When dragging 50 24-bit
‘TIFF images to both programs running on
a 266MHz Power Macintosh G3, we found
that Cumulus spent 1 minute, 33 seconds
creating the catalog, compared with the 15
seconds Portfolio took.
Although Portfolio may lack Cumu-
lus’s free browsers, Unix support, and level
of AppleScript support, it offers compre-
hensive asset management. In many cases
it’s also easier to use than Cumulus. For
example, publishing a catalog as a Web
page is very easy in Portfolio, while
Cumulus’s advanced Internet publishing
tools can be daunting for the uninitiated.
Macworld's Buying Advice
Home users who need to organize their
digital drawings and photographs may
find that Media Cataloger meets their
humble needs. But if you don’t want your
media in a muddle, a professional tool
such as Portfolio or Cumulus Network is
right for you. Cumulus takes the prize
for sheer power, thanks to its network,
searching, and scripting capabilities, butif
this is more kick than your assets need,
flip through Portfolio.—curistopHer Breen
CompuPic 1.80
RATING: §@ PROS: Slide-show feature; can
batch-convert; inexpensive. CONS: No search
function. COMPANY: Photodex (512/406-3020,
‘www.photodex.com). LIST PRICE: $40.
Cumulus Network 4.0
RATING: $§§$'2 PROS: Multiplatform; free
browsers; highly scriptable. CONS: Expensive: slow
catalog creation. COMPANY: Canto Software (415/
905-0300, wivw.canto.com), LIST PRICE: $2,495.
Media Cataloger 2.0
RATING: $$: PROS: Easy to use; inexpensive.
CONS: Limited file support. COMPANY: Inter-
active Media Corporation (650/948-0745, www.
imcinfo.com). LIST PRICE: $25.
Portfolio 4.0
RATING: $$$ PROS: Fast catalog creation;
easy to use; scalable networking. CONS: No
Included browsers or Unix support. COMPANY:
Extensis (503/274-2020, www.extensis.com).
LIST PRICE: $200.
www.macworld.com February 1999 39
| Reviews
AppleShare IP 6
INTRANET SERVER KEEPS GETTING BETTER
DMINISTRATORS WHO LIKED
AppleShare IP 5 are going to
love AppleShare IP 6. The new
version sports major improve-
ments such as Windows support,
‘TCP/IP printing, a revamped mail serv-
er, and a host of smaller but welcome
refinements. While AppleShare IP still
lacks some advanced features found in
specialized Internet/intranet server prod-
ucts, it proves a well-balanced and useful
suite—and a good value to boot.
Extended Service
AppleShare IP 6 runs on PowerPC Macs
equipped with 48MB of RAM and Mac OS
8.1 or later. Like version 5, it lets Mac
clients access files over either AppleTalk
or TCP/IP—a decided advantage over
Windows NT Server 4.0, which offers
only AppleTalk access for Mac clients.
Even better, TCP/IP significantly boosts
performance: testing revealed that Apple-
Share IP 6 over TCP/IP is more than twice
as fast as Windows NT Server 4.0 over
Apple'lalk (see “AppleShare Laps NT”).
‘To fit more seamlessly into mixed net-
works, AppleShare IP 6 also offers Server
Message Block (SMB) file sharing. Win-
dows clients can access the server native-
ly over TCP/IP, eliminating the need for
special AppleTalk software, and Apple-
Share IP servers appear in the Network
Neighborhood alongside their Windows
NT counterparts. Although this feature
isn’t perfect—file names are limited to 31
characters, for example—it’s still reliable,
easy to use, and extremely useful.
AppleShare IP 6 continues to support
FTP access to files, using the same secu-
rity permissions as the standard file serv-
er. Other file-sharing improvements
include account lockouts due to failed
log-in attempts, fixed-term accounts, and
the ability to resolve aliases via FTP.
(MAP) capabilities are impressive: users
with an IMAP client such as Microsoft’s
Outlook Express can keep their mail on
the server; organize it into folders; and
even perform fast, full-text searches that
use Apple’s V-Twin search technology.
The standard POP and SMTP mail
services now include simple antispam
tools, multiple domains, and scheduled
dial-up Internet connections.
AppleShare IP's traditionally weak
print services have also been improved:
version 6 supports both TCP/
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Talk, TCP/IP, FTP, and even SMB.
AppleShare IP's Web services are fast;
simple; and, with the addition of third-
party plug-ins, extensible—perfect for
typical intranet sites. Version 6 expands
Web capabilities by adding support for
W*API plug-ins, keep-alive connections,
and custom error pages. The Web engine
also shares the file server's permissions,
simplifying basic Web security.
But Wait, There's More
In addition to expanding AppleShare IP's
file and Web services, Apple has over-
hauled the mail-server engine. The mail
database stores messages only once, even
those with multiple recipients, resulting
in improved performance and reduced
storage requirements. And the server's
new Internet Message Access Protocol
AppleShare Laps NT
Best result in red. Reference systems in italics. All scores are in seconds,
50MB File Copy
‘Appleshare IP 6
‘AppleShare IP 5.0.2
Windows NT Server 4.0 —
Behind Our Tests We copied 2 50MB file from a cient to the test servers over a Fast Ethemet
network.
For detailed information on our configuration,
see www
-macworld.com/tests/—Macworld Lab testing supervised by Kristina DeNike
40 February 1999 MACWORLD
support for up to 30 printers.
AppleShare IP 6 still has
plenty of room for improve-
ment. It lacks advanced file-
sharing features, such as a centralized
accounts database, log-on scripts, and
multiple default FTP directories. Web-
masters will miss Secure Sockets Layer
support, virtual hosts, and an integrated
search engine. And the print server's
inability to support native Windows print-
ing and more-advanced print-queue man-
agement is disappointing. Even the instal-
lation and administration tools could use
work; more-comprehensive setup wizards
and a more consolidated administrative
console would be welcome.
Macworld's Buying Advice
AppleShare IP 6 is a good product made
better; its support for SMB, IMAP, and
W*API make it much more versatile
and well suited to cross-platform net-
works. It falls short of perfection, but
AppleShare IP is nonetheless an excel-
lent intranet solution for Mac-oriented
environments.—).w. pavis
RATING: $$$§ PROS: SMB, IMAP, and
\W"API support: TCP/IP printing, faster than Win-
dows NT Server 4.0. CONS: No native Windows
printing; disjointed administrative tools; no bun-
died Web-server plug-ins. COMPANY: Apple
‘Computer (408/996-1010, www.apple.com).
COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: 10 users,
$499; 50 users, $999; unlimited users, $1,499.
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Quarklmmedia 1.5
COMPLEX TOOL A MIXED BAG FOR CONTENT CREATORS
UARKXPRESS BECAME THE
leading page-layout program
through its combination of high-
powered tools aimed at publish-
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that the most effective interface for expe-
rienced users isn’t necessarily easy for
novices. QuarkImmedia, Quark’s attempt
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