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Volume 13, Number 3 L ul \, March 1991
Taxes and The
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reviews, 58 © Number Squares (review), * Audubon Wildlife Adventures: Whales (review),
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Tax ae 71
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SIGs and Slices
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General Information
Taxes and the Home Business
by Janet Attard/ When and what can
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Exploring Typefaces —1
by Frank Potter/ Some of the
available from Adobe : Adobe
Garamond, Utopia and Janson
Macintosh Articles
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by Paul Schlosser New Apple news and
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March 1991 .
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Letter to the editor
Tam writing in response to your
comment in the January 1991 edition
of the Journal of Washington Apple Pi
regarding an artide I authored
(“Lessons of a New Mac Owner”) in
the November 1990 Journal. In no
a ae tends to confuse more than enlighten. manner did I imply, or intend to
again, anc fe lects it: three— . foe oes imply, that Computer Age’s technical
count ‘em, three—artides about income a es rope es eee pies Steed:
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subject butstll one that does oooupy 2 echans even some of the artistic insights _| have referred over adozen people to
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parts of the year. Like around now. [ie after’ Titres Resor abcl Fl tveticas Dealer). And most of them, induding
Those ofyou who have home offices, and an interesting lifeit can be. myself, purchased Macs from
or are thinking about home offices, or are é a Computer Age. I have found that
thinking that you would like to think seinen lb fore pees hardware technical
about home offices one of these days, will i Se call head support staff is quite knowledgeable,
want to check outthe informatvearide HETYPCaEES you mighetellthe editor | sh sales staff can quote pris for
beginning on page 12, entided “Taxesand Tye var ag eae Neench | vatious computer configurations very
the Home Business.” Taken with thanks a nee ne ee ier quickly. While the people at Com-
from the BMUG Newsletter, ittells about SUSE sn gi Oe wy, _ | puter Ageare strong on hardware and
some of the pitfills and rewards of prises and tis might be one oftham. We | pricing, they are weak on specific
operating a business from your home and impale scimentinthiewayunles | sof¥are questions, I have had several
has several useful indicators about how to P isliac ae Cie Soa Apple system software and Hypercard
about justifying all the money that “ Pe we S&B | questions improperly answered by
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some other people think you waste on Ged nearand ifeenta a Computer Age sales reps. But they
your computers. As the author points out, Gentian be elie acd were honest mistakes, and no harm
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Other artes tell about the perennial go wype. Candor sae pets to business to them. And I apologize to
favorite MadnTax, and of some shareware Pa ee hat the any Pi members and the people at
templates for the Apple, and perhaps yy mein oe en be somewhat Computer Age if they misinterpreted
even for the Mac. So, if you haven’t yet dene ince soiiocal ical the content of my article. Asa dosing
gotten around to it, this may help to i gh ee feel thought for Pi members, most
concentrate your minds on the prospect. fae 6 hewamned, and then we companies that advertise in the Journal
and encourage you to get to it. At least it bee be enlightened, infemedand are reputable businesses. So, when
did us. wd aed, planning your next Apple-related
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Typeface series Sup Joumal.
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newsletter library. As you may or may
not know, WAP has an extensive
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We could use your help in getting
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your interested in helping us get them
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QUE CORPORATION
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Que is offering a 35% discount
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STUFFIT DELUXE AND
SHORTCUT by Aladdin Systems,
Inc.
Aladdin Systems, Inc. is offering a
special price on the following:
Stuffit Deluxe $55
Shortcut $45
Stuffit Deluxe and Shortcut
$90
Stuffit is a file compression (and
decompression) program which is very
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“unstuffs” downloaded files from
bulletin boards, helps you save on on-
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reduces electronic-mail traffic.
Shortcut allows you to instantly locate
files and handle other file management
from within any application.
To take advantage of these prices,
you can charge it by phone by calling
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money order to:
Aladdin Systems, Inc.
Deer Park Center, Suite 23A-
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Aptos, CA 95003-4723
(That is the complete address,
there is no street name)
They did not indicate any type of
“limited time offer”, however the free
glow-in-the-dark Magic Menu decoder
rings are only available while supplies
last.
FLUENT LASER FONT
LIBRARY by Casady & Greene, Inc.
Casady 8& Greene has a new font
a - the Fluent Laser Font
ia They have upgraded 21
volumes of their Postscript fonts to
Type 1/ATM compatible, then they
repackaged them into a7 disk set,
version 4.0 with 79 typefaces retailing
at $179.95 (collectively, these same
fonts were $1900 two months ago).
Call Casady & Greene and ask for
the Mac User Group Library Special
and you can purchase the Library for
$129 plus $5 shipping. The purchase
also entitles you to a 6-month free
subscription to Publish Magazine and
a 50% discount on their new fonts,
volumes 23-34, after the registration
card has been sent to Casady &
Greene.
‘This is a limited time offer, and it
expires on March 31, 1991. To order,
call (800) 359-4920 and be sure to tell
them where you saw this!
ADOBE TECHNOLOGY
CONFERENCE
On April 4, 1991, at the McLean
Hilton, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia,
Adobe will be hosting the first Adobe
Technology Conference for the
Washington DC area. They would
like to invite the WAP members to
join them for the day to meeting with
key product managers form Adobe’s
corporate offices. There will be also be
members of Adobe’s Application
Division who will be demonstrating
Adobe's latest application products.
Each member who attends the
Sancta eet ery eeonc ok
Adobe’s software products that
demonstrates the power of PostScript.
In addition, they will be holding
product raffles. Call 1-800-745-5189
to RSVP.
Washington Apple Pi Journal
March 1991
President’s Lair
Audit Committee. Frank Zappacosta
and Ann Eason have been working
diligently for the past 3 months
reviewing WAP’s financial records,
This has really been a Herculean task.
In order to understand just how
monumental this job is, you need to
sop and think about the history of our
lub.
Over twelve years ago, Washing-
ton Apple Pi was founded by about
dozen individuals interested in learning
more about their new Apple IIs.
Meetings were informal and held in a
back room at Computer Etc. Dues
consisted of people pitching in for the
cost of postcards. This major user
group literally started out in a shoebox.
As Apple prospered and grew, so did
‘WAP. The membership grew faster
by Eric Rall
than the formal procedures. Today,
Washington Apple Pi is a major
national Apple User Group with a
large and diverse membership. Some of
our business practices need changing to
address the needs of a membership that
has outgrown their shoebox.
Lonly digressed to give you a
some perspective of the amount of
work involved in going through twelve
years worth of shoeboxes. Every single
member of this club owes Frank and
Ann thanks. These two professional
accountants have given hundreds of
hours of their time freely and gener-
ously to your club. Ann is now busy
working (it’s tax time.) Frank is
finishing up the work to present to the
board of directors and then he will be
busy with the tax season. If you're so
inclined, drop a note to the Pi office
thanking them. They deserve it.
Apple II+ Help Needed. The
Montgomery Primary Achievement
Center (MPAC) is a school for
mentally retarded children who need
your help. For years, they have been
using Apple II+s. MPAC is in needs
volunteers to help with some minor
repairs of these computers. Some of
the repairs are as simple as swapping a
bad keyboard or disk drive. MPAC is
also in need of equipment donations.
If you have any Apple I+ systems or
components in need of a good home,
please think about making a tax
deductible donation to MPAC. For
those of you kind enough to help this
worthy cause, please contact Bob
Shaffer at (301) 384-3724.
Volunteers needed!!! !!!!
Have you have always wanted to
but you:
a) Are not a computer scientist.
b) Can’t make a large commit-
ment.
c) Don’t know how to make the
time available.
d) All of the above.
Then your opportunity to help
has arrived. This job is easy and fun.
Mixbusiness withipleauce- When
you come to the Washington
Convention Center to check out the
goodies at FOSE (March x to y)
come early or stay later and help at
the WA P booth.
Volunteers are needed to:
Man booth from 9 to 3,
March 5 & 6 (- 1 to 2 hours)
Set up/Take down booth,
March 4 8¢ 7 (- 3 hours)
Set-up and take-down is only
slightly strenuous. It means helping me
move the WAP booth, three comput-
ers and some boxes of old Journals
from the office to/from the convention
center. Manning (or womaning) the
booth means passing out memberships
forms and WAP Journals. Sometimes
you try to answering peoples’ questions
or point to the help section of Journal
if you don’t know the answer. For your
effort you get a good feeling for doing
good; you get to meet many of old/
new members to the Pi and an
exhibitors badge to FOSI. (There will
always be a least another person at the
booth so fear not being stuck).
If you can help please let me
(Tom Witte) know at (703) 683-5871.
The more that sign up the merrier it
will be. If you can’t help out but make
it to FOSE stop by and say Hi.
Also, Let me know if you want me
to answer the mail to the convention
people or have you done that? We
need the same stuff as last time (power,
table, chairs [2] and rug). Also, it
would be very nice if we could get a
pass to get by union workers that move
equipment into convention center (we
had trouble last year - they wanted big
bucks to let us bring booth into center
last year. We were luck to find kind
foreman that let us sneak in)
March 1991
Washington Apple Pi Journal
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BoD Minutes
NOVEMBER
The WAP Board of Directors met
on Thursday, November 8, 1990.
Officers and Directors in atten-
dance included Eric Rall, Bob Shaffer,
David Wood, Dave Harvey, Dana
Schwartz, Mary Hockmeyer, Bernie
Urban, Dave Weikert, Ed Myerson,
Manny DeVera, Dale Smith and Tom
Vier (phone).
Members and guests included
Nancy Pochepko, Greg Pochepko,
Frank Potter and Priscilla Myerson.
The Board:
* Voted to bring the Seven Hills
Software Partners program more
closely under the supervision of the
WAP office, specifically where the
purchase of Seven Hills software is
concerned.
* Elected Manny DeVera and
Dale Smith to the Board, replacing
Dick Byrd and Chris Bastian, who
resigned.
* Voted a new reimbursement
policy on outlays by members.
* Discussed indirect costs to the
club associated with the TCS.
* Discussed the status of the
Group Purchase Program.
DECEMBER
The WAP Board of Directors met
on Thursday, December 14, 1990.
Officers and Directors in atten-
dance included Eric Rall, Bob Shaffer,
David Wood, David Ottalini, Dave
Harvey, Dana Schwartz, Mary
Hockmeyer, Bernie Urban, Dave
Weikert, Ed Myerson and Tom Vier
(phone).
Members and guests included
Nancy Pochepko, Bill Campbell,
Frank Potter and Priscilla Myerson.
The Board:
* Approved the minutes of the
October 11, 1990 meeting as cor-
rected.
* Discussed recent discrepancies
concerning meeting dates in the
Journal, including the December
Garage Sale.
* Elected Board Member Bernie
Urban as Vice President for Commu-
nity Affairs.
* Heard that the clubs finances
have improved, in part thanks to Eric
Rall for helping collect some outstand-
ing advertising bills.
* Discussed problems with BOD
members (specifically David Morgan-
stein and Lee Raesly) who have not
attended Board meetings on a regular
basis.
* Discussed the responsibilities of
the Vice President for Apple II and
Vice President for Macintosh.
* Discussed a letter sent by an
unknown person to Journal advertisers
under false pretenses and using falsified
WAP letterhead. The letter, among
other things, suggested that WAP
membership was falling and that
advertisers should seek a “modifica-
tion” in their rates. Eric Rall told the
Board he would send a letter to the
Journal advertisers correcting misrepre-
sentations made in the letter about
WAP. It was also proposed that the
fake letter be turned over to the Postal
Inspector.
* Discussed problems that
developed with a private effort for a
group purchase of Apple computers.
* Voted to begin efforts at
increasing contact with local Apple
dealers, the first step being a commit-
tee made up of Manny DeVera, Bernie
Urban and Harvey Kaye
* Discussed the status of the WAP
Group Purchase program. The
committee working on improving
dealer relations was asked to look at the
Group Purchase program as well.
* Discussed ways to increase
membership and improve communica-
tion to WAP members. Dave Outalini
agreed to submit a proposal for a three
month trial membership for purchasers
of Apple Computers from local
dealers.
* Discussed problems with the
Desk Top Publishing SIG. DTP SIG
members will be invited to the January
meeting to discuss how to deal with
the problems.
JANUARY
The WAP Board of Directors met
on Thursday, January 10, 1991.
Officers and Directors in atten-
dance included Eric Rall, Bob Shaffer
(phone), David Wood, Dave Harvey,
Dana Schwartz, Mary Hockmeyer,
Bernie Urban, Dave Weikert, Ed
Myerson (phone), Bill Campbell, Lee
Raesly, Dale Smith and Tom Vier
(phone).
Members and guests included
Paul Schlosser, Nancy Pochepko, Greg
Pochepko, Frank Potter, Bob Platt and
Priscilla Myerson.
The Board:
* Elected Bill Campbell as
Director At Large to replace David
Morganstein, who resigned.
* Discussed the WAP’s GENIE
On-line accounts and their use by
‘WAP members
for downloading public domain
material.
* Declined to reinstate Bob Platt’s
membership in WAP by a vote of 5 to
5, with two abstentions.
* Held an executive session.
Washington Apple Pi Journal
March 1991
by Gary Hayman
We started off our new year with a
meeting at our high-tech conference
room at the National Institute of
Health. Even this large room is starting
to become a little crowded due to the
increased attendance at our meetings.
Gary Hayman announced that the
SIG is now over 100 strong.
The meeting schedule for 1991
was posted. In March, May, July,
September and November we will be
meeting at the NIH, Building 31,
Wing C, 6th Floor, Conference Room
9, at 7:00pm. During the alternate
months, February, April, June, August,
October and December, we will meet
at the Dolley Madison Library,
McLean Virginia at 7:00pm. Since
locations and even dates may change,
Gary stated that it is best to check with
him at 301-345-3230 for up to date
details. Gary stated that if you can sign
on to the TCS where there are meeting
announcements on the ‘IIGS Misc’
Board; and if you read the entire
bulletin of that board you will see the
yearly schedule which will be updated
on a regular basis.
Dan Slaven went hi-tech on us
and brought in his HP Paint Jet and
TI Micro Laser - PS35 printers. The
HP, which runs about $1000 is
capable of printing color graphics with
its spray jet features - albeit slowly. The
TI Micro Laser, a slight bit more
expensive running around $1580,
produces crisp laser copies using 35
built in fonts. Both printers were
hooked up through an AppleTalk
network.
Dan exhibited the easy to replace
color paint head for the HP and the
paper carrier of the TI. The TI can
handle paper stock of up to 65 lbs.
Without a hitch, the HP pro-
duced a color rendition of a tiger’s face
which was passed around. To save
time, Dan had prepared a three ring
notebook that contained many
samples with a description of the
settings to produce them. He uses this
a guide when at home, but it was very
informative to the attending SIG
members.
Try as he would, he could not get
the TI to work properly, At first we
thought it was a problem of compat-
ibility with the IIGS that was being
used (it wasn’t his own), or even the
wiring jungle that was connecting the
devices. We then suspected
AppleWorks GS what was intended to
be used to create the text to be used by
the printer. Later, after some experi-
mentation at home, Dan discovered
that it was a problem with the
AppleTalk driver which became
corrupted. He assures us that the
AWGS - TI combination works now
and he would be willing to demon-
strate it at the next meeting.
While Dan was working on his
equipment, we defaulted into one of
the best Question and Answers sessions
that we have had. In the board room
atmosphere of our meeting place, we
had many intelligent questions and
answers. We ran the gamut from hard
drive choices, drive interfaces, doing
backups and restores, accelerator
options, and problems that individuals
encountered, to questions about
individual programs. It was a very
strong learning situation and I believe
that all who attended profited from
what was discussed. The dialogue
alone was worth attending the meeting
for. Kim Brennan, Gary Hayman and
others provided some important input.
Dave Harvey passed around the new
Apple II Guide for all to see, stating
that it was available at the WAP office
for $5 (street price $19.95).
The next meeting, February 25th
(may have already passed by the time
this appears in the Journal) will
concern designing your own home via
computer and maybe Dan again.
Hope to see you at our Virginia
meeting site.
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intosh & PC Users
March 1991
Washington Apple Pi Journal
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Taxes and the Home
Business
Ifyou use your Macintosh in a home-
based business, the next few weeks
could find you wishing your marvelous
money-making machine came factory
equipped with one extra manual from
Apple Computer: A Macintosh Users’
Guide to Keeping the Tax Collector at
Yes, it’s income tax time again. If
you do your own taxes, and work for
yourself part-or full-time, you'll soon
be digging through business .receipts,
records and tax regulations looking for
ways to keep as much money as
possible out of the tax collector's
outstretched hand.
How fruitful your efforts will be
depends largely on three things:
* How careful you've been about
keeping records all year
* How diligent you've been about
paying estimated income tax
* How much you know about the
tax laws governing your business
Tm the data manager and head
sysop of the Home Office/Small
Business (HOSB) RoundTable on the
GEnie service from General Electric
Information Services. In talking to
people who are starting or running
home-based businesses, I often
discover they either aren’t aware of all
the tax regulations that affect them or
they have misconceptions about some
of them.
Since I happen to be a Macintosh
user who’s gotten a lot of help from
experienced Mac users on GEnie and
in my local user group, I’ve put
together information that answers
some of the questions home-based.
business owners frequently ask. I hope
by Janet Attard
(reprinted from BMUG Newsletter)
the information will help other
Macintosh users reduce the taxes on
their home-based business income and.
avoid penalties for noncompliance
with the tax laws.
Ts It a Business?
For IRS purposes, a business is an
activity that you engage in for profit.
You do not haye to work full time for
yourself to be in business. Neither do
you need to use a business name, have
a separate business checking account
(though that’s advisable), or even have
a permanent office. Thus moonlight-
ing and part-time self-employment are
considered businesses, too, if there is a
profit motive.
If you are the only owner of the
business, and it is not incorporated, the
IRS considers you a “sole proprietor”
and requires you to report your
business income and expenses on
Schedule C (Form 1040) Profit or Loss
from Business. The total profit or loss
calculated on Schedule C must be
recorded on line 12 of your 1040
form, and the Schedule C form must
be included in the tax return you mail
to the IRS.
If you operate more than one
business as a sole proprietor, you must
file a separate Schedule C for each and
include all of them with your 1040.
Failure to do so may result in penalties.
The Hobby Trap
If your income-producing activity
is one the IRS might consider a
“pleasurable” pursuit, rather than a
business, and if you're losing money at
it, watch out! Be meticulous about
keeping records of everything you do.
The reason is that hobby income
is taxable, but deductions for hobby-
related expenses are not considered
business deductions and are limited to
the amount of income from the
hobby. Furthermore, any allowable
deduction cannot be taken on
Schedule C; instead the deduction
must be declared a miscellaneous
expense on Form 1040A. Only that
portion of the allowable hobby expense
that exceeds 2% of adjusted gross
income is deductible.
What criteria does the IRS use to
distinguish businesses from income-
producing hobbies? Profit and profit
motive. The basic rule of thumb is if
you have shown a profit in three of the
last five years including the current
year, the IRS will presume the activity
is a business. Businesses involved with
race horses have to show a profit in
two of the last seven years.
Tf you fail the three out of five year
test, the IRS may look at other factors
to determine if the activity is being
carried out with a profit intent or just
for pleasure. These other factors
include:
¢ Whether you carry out the activity in
a business-like manner
* How much time/effort is spent
(especially if the activity has little
recreational or entertainment
value)
* Your expertise in the activity
Whether the losses are due to
circumstances beyond your
control
+ Whether you change your methods
of operation to attempt to
improve the profitability of the
activity and
¢ Whether you depend on income
from the activity for your liveli-
hood.
Income and Social Security
Taxes to Pay
The net income from business
activities (what’s left after expenses) is
subject to:
* Federal income tax
Washington Apple Pi Journal
March 1991
* Social Security Self Employment tax
° Additional state and local income
taxes, where applicable.
Your social security tax liability
must be calculated on Schedule SE, the
Social Security Self-Employment Tax
form, which must also he included
with your personal return. If your net
business income was under $400 in
1989, you do not have to pay social
security tax.
For 1989, the social security Self:
Employment tax rate is 1 3.02% on
the first $48,000 of combined wages
and self-employment income (income
from any salaried job plus net income
from self-employment). Spouses filing
joint returns are each subject to the
$48,000 maximum for the purposes of
this tax.
Example: In 1989 you were a
salaried employee of the Buyit Sales
Corporation and earned $38,500.
Nights and weekends you worked as a
self-employed consultant, setting up
desktop publishing systems for local
newspapers and graphic design houses,
and cleared an additional $25,000 after
expenses, putting your total income for
the year at $63,500. Since you pay
social security tax on only the first
$48,000 of income, social security tax
would be due on only the first $9,500
of your self employment net income
(the $48,000 maximum minus your
$38,500 income from the salaried job).
Ifyou file a joint return, and your
spouse brought in an additional net
income of $43,000 through his or her
self-employment efforts, your spouse’s
full $43 ,000 would be subject to the
self employment tax, since it is under
the individual $48,000 maximum.
Estimated Tax
Asa sole proprietor, you're
expected lo make estimated tax
payments four times during the tax
year if you will owe more than $500 in
combined income tax and self
employment tax at the end of the year.
Estimates get done and submitted
on Form 1040ES, which is simple to
complete, and is available from any
local IRS office. Estimated taxes are
normally paid on April 15, June 15,
September 15, and January 15.
Tf you normally receive a large
income tax refund due to
overwithholding from a salaried job,
the refund can be applied toward your
self-employment tax liability, thus
reducing the dollar amount of your
quarterly estimated payments.
After allowing for any excess
withholding, the amount to be paid
each quarter is equal to one-fourth of
the lesser of the following two
amounts::
1) 100 percent or your actual 1988
tax, or
2) 90 percent of anticipated 1989
tax bill.
Caution: The IRS doesn’t like to
he kept waiting for money. It expects
you to pay estimated taxes on time
throughout the year, not in for lump
sum at year end or with your return.
The IRS can impose penalties for
underpayment in any quarter as well as
for underpayment for the entire year.
Using Deductions and
Depreciation to Lower Income
Out of ignorance or fear of audit,
many home-based business owners pay
more tax than they should because
they don’t take all the deductions they
are entitled to.
While it would be impossible to
list and adequately explain all the legal
deductions a home-based business
might be entitled to, here are some
suggestions that may help you reduce
the taxes you pay on self-employment
income.
The IRS requires you to keep
complete and accurate records of all
business transactions, as well as
“timely” logs of things like automobile
usage, travel expenses, and computer
usage if you use your computer
partially for business and partially for
personal use . If you get audited and
don’t have records and receipts to
ptove your deductions, many if not all
could be disallowed and you could be
hit with penalties and interest charges
for back taxes owed.
Record Every Expense You
Incur
Owners of home-based businesses
often don’t bother saving receipts or
recording expenses for “little” things
like pencils picked up at the supermar-
ket, mileage for a trip to the post
office, business-related magazines
picked up on the newsstands, etc.
‘Why? “It’s too much trouble,” or “It
doesn’t make any real difference
anyway.,” are the usual reasons I’m
given.
While it is true those insignificant
expenses don’t amount to much,
individually, when you add them up
over a year’s time they can add up toa
substantial sum. If you’re in the 28%
tax bracket and have $1,000 in
“insignificant” expenses (and records to
prove them), your income tax savings
on that $1,000 would be $280. You'd
also save another $130 on your social
security (self-employment) tax.
The Home Office Deduction
Weigh the merits of taking the
hate office deletion iF you qualify
for it ., The home office deduction is
usually a number of deductions. When
you check off the home office deduc-
tion box on Schedule C, you are
entitled to deduct a portion of your
heating and lighting costs, water costs,
garbage disposal costs, and certain
repairs. You may also deduct a
percentage of real estate taxes and
mortgage interest, as well as a sum for
depreciation (eg. ,ifyou use 10% of
your hoine in business, you can deduct
10% of real estate taxes and mortgage
interest.) While you have to reduce the
deduction for these items on 1040A by
the amount you have claimed on
Schedule C, the deduction is worth
more on Schedule C because it reduces
the amount of income subject to social
security tax.
It is widely thought that taking
the home office deduction increases
the chance your return will be audited.
While this is probably true, checking
off the home office deduction box,
(please turn to page 83)
March 1991
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This column will look at the art and
artists of Washington Apple Pi and
the techniques and tools used to
create the art.
Art: Babies (below ), Idaho Seal
(right), Bridge (opposite above left),
Stat Factory ( opposite below left),
and Ex Boss (opposite right).
Tools: Mac IIcx, Radius Pivot
display, PageMaker, Freehand,
Illustrator, and a transparency.
Artist: Todd Wallace created this art
for various projects he has produced
over the last three years. Most of his
graphic skills were picked up while
doodling in class, both in high school
and college. Although he majored in
psychology, Todd has found almost
all of his employment in layout and
graphic design, and now produces
three newsletters a month, along with
slide shows, exhibits, and technical
illustrations. Todd’s first illustrations
were produced out of necessity:
wlll, by Nancy Seferian
“Although we had Macs at my first
job, we had no clip art, and I was tired
of using only pullquotes and black
rectangles to break up the text.” He is
presently Desktop Publisher at Wade
Miller Associates, and when he has
time, does free-lance on the side.
Procedures: “My favorite jobs let me
create something completely from
scratch, like I did for a baby an-
nouncement for a woman in our
office. First, I did a pencil sketch of
some babies bouncing around off the
walls, and when I had a pretty good
idea how I wanted them to look, I
redid them in Freehand. The biggest
baby was the first; the rest of them are
rotated and scaled copies. The bounce
lines were added with the bezier-curve
point tools, along with the ground.
Although I used to use the
freehand drawing tool in Freehand, I
find now that specifying each point as
a corner point, tangent point, or curve
point gives me much more control
Babies
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Idaho Seal
over the final shapes.”
“Idaho Seal was done by starting
with black outlines of the objects
within the circle, and adding white
polygons on top of the outlines to
form the figures. After the pictures
were done, the text was added
around the circle with Freehand’s
join tool, joining the text to half-
circles above and below the inner
circle. I find that this technique can
be used to make clip art that would
not otherwise be available.
“OF course, this is the Golden
Gate bridge in San Francisco, there
are all kinds of clip art available
because it is such a popular graphic
image. But I was really going for a
woodblock print kind of look for the
brochure we were producing, so
instead of using the more precise
bezier-curve tools, I used the free-
hand tool in Illustrator to get a less
accurate but more human kind of
picture. Again, though, the bridge is
basically a black outline laid down
first with lots of white polygons put
down on top.
“T created the Stat Factory logo
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for John O'Reilly, a fellow Washing-
ton Apple Pi member, for his
rotisserie-league baseball statistics
service. I started with the idea of a
baseball diamond, thickened the
basepaths and disconnected them
from the bases with white space, and
added the text in the infield. Each
letter in the text was custom-made,
because I wanted a very distinctive,
unique look for John. I did the
drawing of an old boss for some ex-
Lan
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Ex Boss
co-workers who wanted to give him a
joke promotional piece with his To submit art by mail, send it to
picture in it. Although it’s a good Nancy Seferian
likeness, my ex-boss doesn’t like it 1425 Foxhall Road, NW
very much, so he gets alot of reprints | balers ele
i ii o submit art me 7m to the
sad anonyme Hotes wich his face TCS, dial (301) 986-8085. At
the Main Menu select (F) for
BS File Transfer Area. Then choose
area 24 for Journal Submissions,
and upload.
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Exploring
Typefaces—1
This issue inaugurates a series of
articles on digital fonts, intended to
give members and computer users
some insights into the sometimes
bewildering and rapidly increasing
numbers of typefaces available to us
today.
Ina sense, it was necessary to
experience the desktop publishing
revolution for this largely arcane area
to become relevant to most of us. If
you wanted a letterhead or business
card, you went to your local printer,
looked at what was on their list of
available fonts, picked one and went
away—you had done about what you
could to involve yourself in the
decisionmaking process.
No longer. Digital type compa-
nies have mushroomed, as have the
choices that they offer. Companies like
Adobe Systems, Bitstream, Casaday
and Greene and others now provide
options that seem almost infinite, at
prices that range from nothing at all, in
the case of freeware, to not very much,
in the case of shareware, to somewhat
more, in the case of commercial
typeface houses. Some of them seem
quite expensive until you begin to
calculate the unit cost of a letter or
article, and then add in the always-
difficult-to-assess-factor of the quality
of the product.
Adobe Systems, Incorporated is
one of the most respected of the
commercial typeface houses, and their
products are ubiquitous in the world of
digital type. The PostScript capabilities
that they have designed and that Apple
has incorporated into most of their
Laser Writers have enabled amateur
and professional publishers to flood the
Western World with words and prose
which, while it may or may not make
much sense, at least looks as though it
by Frank Potter
was produced by a printing press.
Adobe is cooperating with the
Journal in producing this series. Each
month we will offer for our readers an
inside look at several typefaces, with
examples of what you can expect to see
in text that uses them, with notes
about the history of each of these,
where we can dig that information up.
Those of you who don’t save old
Journals (if, of course, there are any
such unlikely readers) may want to dip
the series and save it in a file for use at
a time when you have your very own
laser printer and are looking for the
perfect font for a particular job. As
laser prices drop, that time may be
approaching rapidly.
This month’s selections
We have three typefaces for your
review this month— all of them, as it
happens, serif fonts. The first of these,
Adobe Garamond, you are already
familiar with, because it’s the typeface
used to produce the Journal for the last
several months. It, like the second,
Utopia, is one of the typefaces created
by Adobe as Adobe Originals—not
derived directly from a preexisting
typeface and supplemented with a
number of extra features. The third is
Janson, an elegant creation that has
been around for many years and is a
favorite of Jim Donnelly.
Adobe Garamond
“Garamond?” is a typeface that has
been around for some time. Adobe has
five—count ‘em, five—different
versions of Garamond in its repertoire,
and each of them is different. Other
typeface houses have their own
versions as well.
Adobe Garamond was created by
Robert Slimbach, who went back to
early examples of Claude Garamond’s
(or Garamont's) work. Adobe tells us
that many of the Garamonds seen
today are derived from versions of his
work—copies of copies, so to speak.
He took a full year to produce this
typeface, calling upon the work of a
French typographer, Robert Granjon,
to serve as the basis for the italics used
to complement the roman, or stan-
dard, characters.
Asa complement to the Adobe
Garamond family (roman),
italic semibold italic, bold and bold
italic), Adobe packages an additional
set of fonts that are derived from it: the
Expert set. This set includes Old Style
(lowercase) letters, small capitals,
fractions, superior and inferior figures
(used to create other fractions, or
letters used in other languages as
abbreviations) and an expanded set of
ligatures. About this last, most of the
laser fonts typically used in desktop can
combine letters, such as fi and fl; other
ligatures can be created than these,
such as ff, ffi and ffl.
The Adobe Garamond Expert
collection includes figures in the
normal weights (regular, italic, etc.)
and also contains Titling Caps that are
slightly lighter than the standard, and
more suited for display in large sizes,
and Alternate Regular and Italic
characters with uppercase and lower-
case letters with elegant leaders and
tails (known as swash characters).
There is a lot here, and the
collection deserves more space than we
could give it. Notice the relative height
of the ascenders and descenders,
compared to the x-height of the
lowercase alphabet. This, in turn,
seems to make it easier to create lines
of type with less leading than might
otherwise be necessary to keep one’s
eye on the proper line. At least that’s
the way it look to us.
Utopia
Also designed by Robert
Slimbach, the Utopia typeface is
distinctly different. In many respects, it
seems much more modern than Adobe
Garamond. The font designers call
attention to “the flattened points of the
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A, V, W, v and w, the two heavy
verticals in the U, the streamlined
diagonals of the K, and the surprisingly
classical tail of the J. The semi-
triangular ball-terminals of the a, ¢, f, r
and y are also new, along with the
roman details to some cursive letters,
such as the beginning serifs of the », x,
yand z, and the spur on the 4.”
Discriminating readers will note
(and if you are reading this, you are by
definition discriminating) the larger x-
height of the typeface. Overall, it seems
a stronger, and perhaps somewhat less
elegant typeface than Adobe
Garamond, although many will prefer
it—perhaps for this reason.
The Utopia Collection has seven
different formats: regular, italic,
semibold, semibold italic, bold, bold
italic and black. Like the preceding, it
is accompanied by an Expert Collec-
tion in those same versions, together
with a set of Titling Caps and some
ornaments, or printers’ dingbats.
Janson
The December 1990 column by
Jim Donnelly was, for the most part, a
paean to Nicolas Jenson, a fifteenth-
century typographer who left a large
shadow that persists to current times.
Some have concluded that this
typeface was actually created by an
associate of his, Nicholas Kis—not
having been around at the time, we are
in no position to resolve the dispute.
This again is a typeface created for
text. It comes in four flavors: roman
(which seems to be a term used
interchangeably with regular for
reasons that escape me but about
which I may ultimately be in a position
to offer some enlightenment) italic,
bold and bold italic
‘Why Adobe called it Janson,
instead of Jenson is not entirely clear to
me. Of course in those days, people
tended to be much more casual about
spelling than they are nowadays, but
this may not be the whole answer
either. Here again, further information
may eventually be forthcoming.
Stay tuned to this space for further
developments. Next month, if all goes
well, we will unveil Adobe Caslon,
Benguiat and an interesting new, non-
traditional typeface called Tekton. &
Dypographical miscellany
Some misconceptions, arcana and ambiguities might perhaps be
clarified before we launch ourselves into the sea of type. First, most of
us, and I include myself, misuse the term “font,” using it in place of
the more appropriate term “typeface,” which describes a family of
type. The Journal is printed in Adobe Garamond, with a point size
of 10.5 and a leading of 11.5 (described in the trade as “10.5/11.5”
or “10.5 on 11.5.” The headings are in the same typeface, but are a
different size, italicized and bolded and therefore they are a different
font altogether—12/14, as it happens.
The size of a font is measured, not by the “x-height” of the letters
in it (from the top to the bottom of a lower-case “x”), but from the
top of the ascenders to the bottom of the descenders (from the top of
the lower-case “b” to the bottom of the lower-case “y”). Thus, as you
will see, there are some great variations between typefaces (and fonts,
for that matter) for type which exactly the same size. Some of it is
harder to read, and some less so.
Typefaces can be subdivided in a number of ways, but the
categories that most find useful typically divide themselves into serif
Sonts, like this one; sans serif fonts, like Helvetica, which are
Srequently used, as here, for headlines and captions; and display fonts,
whose function is apparent from its name. Some additionally identify
a smaller group of “ornamental fonts,” although others find this
additional distinction not especially useful.
Text is most frequently printed in serif fonts. Most students of
the art (and believe me, it is exactly that) have concluded, sometimes
after exhaustive and exhausting research, that serif fonts are easier to
read on a printed page. Certainly our preference, which is why, dear
reader, you are seeing this message in Adobe Garamond, and not in
Avante Garde.
The quality of the output device will have a strong impact on
the precision and the readability of the type on the page. LaserWriters
are considered to be “low-end” printers, with a resolution of 300 dots
per inch (dpi). Electronic imagesetters, such as the Linotronic which
produces the copy that is used to produce the Journal, can go as high
as 4,000 dpi which, you will have to admit, is pretty darn small. In
fact the delicacy of the Linotronic output used to produce this page is
not wholly apparent, due to the relatively low quality (and low cost,
we quickly add) of the paper used to produce this publication. Some
typefaces have been designed specifically to be used on low-end
printers; these do not rely heavily on fine lines and delicate curves.
It is just as true here as it is elsewhere—you get what you pay
for. There ismore than a small amount of personal taste involved in
selecting typeface favorites, and it is our intention to provide a range
of alternatives for your review.
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ABCDEFabcdef—Garamond semibold
ABCDEFabcdef—Garamond semibold italic
ABCDEFabcdef—Garamond bold
ABCDEFabcdef—Garamond bold italic
ABCDEF—Garamond Titling
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falling down a very deep well. 10/12 stopping herself before she found herself
falling down a very deep well. 10/14
like a tunnel for some way, and then
dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that
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Utopia
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xyZ1234567890(48/50) |
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ABCDEFabcdef—Utopia semibold
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ABCDEFabcdef—Utopia bold
ABCDEFabcdef—Utopia bold italic
ABCDEFabcdef— Utopia black
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There was nothing so VERY
remarkable in that; nor did Alice
think it so VERY much out of the
way to hear the Rabbit say to itself,
7 4 dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”
(when she thought it over afterwards,
it occurred to her that she ought to
have wondered at this, but at the
time it all seemed quite natural); but
when the Rabbit actually TOOK A
WATCH OUT OF ITS WAIST-
COAT- POCKET, and looked at it,
and then hurried on, Alice started to
her feet, for it flashed across her
mind that she had never before see a
rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket,
or a watch to take out of it, and
burning with Saris, she ran across
the field after it, and fortunately was
just in time to see it pop down a large
rabbit-hole under the hedge. 10/10
There was nothing so VERY
remarkable in that; nor did Alice
think it so VERY much out of the
way to hear the Rabbit say to itself,
‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’
(when she thought it over afterwards,
it occurred to her that she ought to
have wondered at this, but at the
time it all seemed quite natural); but
when the Rabbit actually TOOK A
WATCH OUT OF ITS WAIST-
COAT- POCKET, and looked at it,
and then hurried on, Alice started to
her feet, for it flashed across her
mind that she had never before see a
rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket,
or a watch to take out of it, and
burning with curiosity, she ran across
the field after it, and fortunately was
just in time to see it pop down a large
rabbit-hole under the hedge. 10/12
There was nothing so VERY.
remarkable in that; nor did Alice
think it so VERY much out of the
way to hear the Rabbit say to itself,
‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’
(when she thought it over afterwards,
it occurred to her that she ought to
have wondered at this, but at the
time it all seemed quite natural); but
when the Rabbit actually TOOK A
WATCH OUT OF ITS WAIST-
COAT- POCKET, and looked at it,
and then hurried on, Alice started to
her feet, for it flashed across her
mind that she had never before see a
rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket,
or a watch to take out of it, and
burning with curiosity, she ran across
the field after it, and fortunately was
just in time to see it pop down a large
rabbit-hole under the hedge. 10/14
Washington Apple Pi Journal
March 1991
It’s Virus Time!!
Even MacNovices are bound to run
into an occasional problem with a
computer virus. The bad news is: there
are plenty of viruses out there, and
they seem to spread easily. The good
news is: because Mac viruses have now
been around for a few years, several
programmers have come up with
excellent, low-cost, easy-to-use defense
and cure mechanisms.
This won’t be a primer on viruses,
but it'll offer you enough information
to help you should you need to
combat one, or wish to defend against
them.
Essentially, a computer virus is a
computer program someone's written
with malicious intent. Sometimes, the
viruses interfere relatively harmlessly
with your work. They cause messages
to pop up unexpectedly, or cause your
cursor to behave strangely. At worst,
however, a virus program can damage
your files and even the basic system
software which operates your Mac. No
heed to speculate on why some
programmers create these demons.
Fact is, they do.
The most important fact about
viruses is that they spread. Inserting an
infected disk into your computer can
almost instantly convey the virus to
software on your hard disk drive, or on
one of your other floppy disks. From
there, the virus can simply perform its
devious business, or it can spread still
farther, creating a more serious
infection.
Because viruses can spread on
floppy disks, a few simple rules of “safe
computing” can help you avoid
infections:
° Know your computing partners.
Exchange files (spreadsheets,
databases, word processing
by Ralph J. Begleiter
documents, etc.) with associates at
work whom you know to be
practicioners of safe computing. If
they keep their disks “clean,”
yours will be, too.
* Lock your “master” disks. A virus
cannot infect a locked disk. Don’t
let your original program disks
become infected. Lock them
before using them in your Mac.
¢ Be alert to unusual behavior by your
Mac. This is a broad rule. Watch
for cursors acting strangely. Be
aware if your System Disk
suddenly “fills up” with invisible
data. Be alert to frequent system
“crashes.” These are just some of
the symptoms of a virus.
¢ When you suspect a virus, take
action. Don’t wait until you’ve
allowed the virus to spread further
‘on your computer, or to someone
else’s. Use one of the many
capable virus-control programs to
eradicate your Mac's illness.
¢ Ifyou confirm a virus, alert your
associates to whom you might
have “contributed” the virus. Tell
them about the symptoms you've
observed, about the kinds of files
which were affected, and about
what steps you took to successfully
cure your computer.
* To be especially safe, install an anti-
viral program on your Mac. This
will go a long way to preventing
re-infection, even if it doesn’t
catch everything.
My own recent experience might
be instructive. One of my Macs
recently contracted a virus known as
“WDEF.” Fortunately, it’s a relatively
harmless virus, and relatively easy to
eradicate. But while my computer was
infected, I experienced frequent system
“crashes,” and some of my hard disk
partitions inexplicably became “full,”
causing programs to crash and
occasionally preventing me from
working.
By the way, it’s not really impor-
tant to MacNovices why viruses have
names like “WDEF.” But if you want
to know, it’s because they often carry
out their “infections” by attaching
themselves (attaching their computer
“program”) to your Macintosh files in
a way similar to other, legitimate
“attachments,” called “resources.” For
example, when Apple revises your
System File, it often simply takes the
old System program and attaches a
new “patch” (not unlike a “band-aid”)
to fix a bug or change the way
something is done on your Mac. These
“patches” are attached to your System
file invisibly as “PT'CH” “resources,”
which your Mac notices every time
you start up your computer. That’s the
way the viruses work, too. The
“attach” themselves to other programs
and then are “noticed” ever time you
use your Mac.
The WDEF virus “attaches” itself
to one of the files which is present on
every Macintosh disk: the “Desktop”
file. This file is invisible to most users,
so the WDEF virus is likewise
invisible.
But WDEF’s method of infection
also makes it easy to kill. Trashing the
Desktop file and building a new one
on an infected disk will get rid of the
WDEF virus. (Rebuilding a Desktop
file occurs invisibly, too. You can do it
by holding down the COMMAND
and OPTION keys while you insert
any floppy disk or while you start up
from any hard disk drive. Your Mac
will ask you if you “really want to
rebuild the Desktop file,” noting that
“this could take a few minutes.”
Actually it takes only a short time, and
is almost completely innocuous. (Your
only “loss” will be any comments
you've written in the Get Info box for
any file.)
There’s even a freeware “fix” for
the WDEF virus, called “Eradicate Em
1.0 (by Dave Platt; based on Eradica-
tor! 1.2 by Guy Fiems, Riccardo Ettore
and Luc Wets). This simple program
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sits in your System Folder quietly,
waiting for a disk to be inserted in your
Mac. When it “sees” a disk coming, it
scans the Desktop file for the WDEF
virus. If WDEF is present, Eradicate
Em signals the user (with two beeps)
and automatically rebuilds the
Desktop file. If the disk is locked
(preventing rebuilding), Eradicate Em
automatically ejects the disk immedi-
ately after signalling the user.
Simple,elegant WDEF prevention.
Another simple and amsll
program (available free with CE
Software products) is called Vaccine.
Like Eradicate Em, Vaccine is poised
in the System Folder, alert to any
unsual attempts by software to modify
other programs or your system
software. Vaccine alerts the user if such
an attempt is being made.
There are other programs similar
to these. Washington Apple Pi’s virus
control shareware disks are full of
excellent programs.
Two major programs available in
this way are Virus Detective© by
Jeffrey S. Shulman (P.O. Box 1218,
Morgantown WV 26507-1218) and
Disinfectant© by Northwestern
University (John Norstad; Academic
Computing & Network Sciences;
Northwestern University; 2129
Sheridan Road; Evanston, IL 60208).
Shulman charges a nominal shareware
fee for his excellent program. In return,
users receive periodic updates, includ-
ing instructions for updating to protect
against new viruses. Disinfectant is also
updated periodically, usually through
on-line bulletin boards or through user
groups such as WAP.
And there’s a major commercial
program called “Symmantec Antivirus
for the Mac” (“SAM”). It’s a well-
designed program combining an
efficient “prevention” module which is
ever vigilant while you're using your
computer and a separate utility for
“treating” viruses once your Mac
contracts them. SAM allows a great
deal of user adjustment to accommo-
date to individual working habits. For
instance, you can instruct SAM to
screen every disk automatically upon
insertion. Or you can tell it to screen
disks only on your instruction.
Likewise, you can have SAM warn you
every time there’s an unsual attempt to
modify your software, or you can teach
SAM to ignore certain repetitive,
acceptable modifications so it doesn’t
interrupt your work for “false alarms.”
To avoid hours of frustration and
possibly permanent damage to some of
your files, take steps now to immunize
your Mac against computer viruses and
to impliment your own “safe comput-
ing” habits.
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ware review
Disk Doubler
It is a fact of computer life that no
matter how much space you have on a
hard drive, you will always need
something bigger. Though the size of
hard drives has increased greatly, the
number and size of the applications
that go on them have also increased. In
an attempt to solve this problem,
Salient has just released version 3.1 of
their compression utility, Disk
Doubler.
Disk Doubler comes in a fairly
simple package, with a small instruc-
tion booklet and a single 800K disk.
Getting started involves two basic
steps. The INIT program is first
copied into the system folder and then
the main application is copied
someplace on the hard disk. After
rebooting the computer, Disk Doubler
will automatically install itself Your
only task is to identify the location of
the main application the first time you
actually use its features.
Items can be compressed or
expanded from the desktop by
selecting the file or folder to compress
(or expand) and choosing the appro-
priate item from the “DD” menu that
the INIT installs on the system menu.
This menu also includes commands to
join several files into one large group or
to split a large file into smaller chunks,
ideal for preparing it for transport on
floppy disks. A “File Info” option is
also available that provides information
similar to the “Get Info” item in the
Finder’s “File” menu.
While this is nice, and can save a
significant amount of disk space, it
would be extremely inconvenient to
manually process all your files, even if
you limit compression/expansion to
those that are used only occasionally.
Instead, the INIT patches the
Macintosh’s file opening routines so
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that whenever a file is opened from a
dialog or executed from the desktop, it
is automatically expanded to full size
before it is used. The INIT will then
re-compress any expanded files after
you quit the application that expanded
them, though you can set it so
expanded files will be left expanded.
While the speed cost for the compres-
sion benefit could prove too great for
frequently used applications, it works
just fine on things you only use once in
awhile.
There two limitations to this
process though. Any programs, such as
Studio/8, that pre-scan a file to deter-
mine its contents cannot do their scan on
the compressed file. Also, files that are
opened indirectly, such as the many forms
used by MacInTax, will not be expanded
since they are opened from outside the
SFGetFile dialog.
Older versions of Disk Doubler had
used a special file icon to represent the
compressed file that made viewing your
hard disk very confusing since all the icons
looked the same. The new version uses a
much better approach and shows the
original icon, with the letters DD printed
in the lower left comer. Thus the
compressed desktop still looks nice.
Disk Doubler also contains code
necessary to read and re-pack files stuffed
by the Stuffit and Packlt utilities, though
translating them appears one way, and
you should take care here.
Salient includes a freely distributable
expand-only version of the program, to
allow you to send compressed files to
others who don’t own the full package.
Obviously the main program and INIT
are NOT freely distributable, only the
limited version.
Files can be compressed in either of
two manners, optimized for size or speed,
with the inherent tradeoffs. This does
bring up the main problem with the
program: Compressing and expanding
files takes a noticeable amount of time
and can be annoying for frequently
accessed files. When and where it is useful
will depend on how much ofa delay you
can handle,
The manual is short, but effectively
documents all the available options and
many potential problems you could run
into while using the program. The
program disk also has several utilities to
exploit the features of Disk Doubler from
within programming languages, as well as
the files necessary to use it with
QuickKey.
I did find that OnCue could not
launch applications in its usual fashion
since it could no longer find them. But
since I only compressed applications I use
occasionally, I can live with taking them
off the OnCue launch menu.
On the whole, Disk Doubler is a
sharp little package. It is well integrated in
to the Macintosh environment and does
not appear to conflict with anything I
could find. Ifyou would like to squeeze
more space out of an existing drive, this is
a program worth considering,
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Sony Announces Mac Video
Controller
Sony has announced “VBOX”, a small
paperback—book—sized controller
that will enable Macintosh users to
remotely control most Sony video
products. Any Sony products with a
“LANC’ port are can be controlled in
this manner. Sony products that
include this port are 8mm camcorders,
VHS and Beta video recorders and
laserdisc players. Sony will eventually
publish the LANC specifications, so
that other manufacturers can take
advantage of them. When Apple
releases the driver for VBOX, users will
be able to control video equipment
much the same way they now control
printers and disk drives, printing to
and retrieving data from video sources.
The VBOX is expected to retail for
$250. One VBOX is required for each
device to be controlled, and up to
seven of them can be daisy—chained
together.
New Apple Printer Announced
Apple will soon be selling a new
“bubble-jet” printer, which will be
produced by Canon (Canon also
supplies Apple with laser printers). The
new printer is a modified version of
Canon’s “BJ10” printer (which Canon
currently sells for MS-DOS machines),
and will come equipped with outline
font technology. The print quality is
expected to be “nearly as good” as the
Laser Writer II NTX-J, and the printer
is expected to retail for approximately
$750.
AppleFax/BackFax Solutions
by Paul Schlosser
Do you own an AppleFax
modem? If you do, Apple will sell you
a copy of the $245 BackFax applica-
tion for $35. BackFax (from Solutions
Inc.) allows users to send and receive
faxes in the background, without
requiring them to give up use of their
machines. If you've already purchased
BackFax, Apple will send you a
coupon good for $75 off any other
Solutions Inc. product.
Electronic Mail News
Pacific Bell and Software Ventures
(publishers of MicroPhone II, the
popular telecomm program) have
teamed up to provide a user friendly
interface for Pac Bell’s new electronic
mail service. The new point-and-click
software will be based on MicroPhone
IP’s scripting language and will feature
an easy-to-use graphical interface.
Features will include an address book,
full screen editing, automatic file
transfers, session logging, color and
message management capabilities.
David S. Hindawi, president of
Software Ventures, believes it is the
most sophisticated front end to public
electronic mail on the market. “Users
no longer have to learn specific
electronic mail commands,” he says.
“Instead, they can interact with
intuitive graphical elements on the
screen. Even novices can be up and
running in a matter of minutes.”
Current MicroPhone II owners can
purchase the Pac Bell Connection
script for $25. The MicroPhone II/Pac
Bell script will be sold together for
$250, and a new, limited version called
“Personal MicroPhone” will sell for
$125. Personal MicroPhone comes
with the Pac Bell script but does not
allow the creation or modification of
other scripts.
Goodman Releases Utility for
Mac 512 Owners
Bill Goodman (the author of
Compactor, the popular file archive
utility) has released “CptExpand”, a
utility that will enable Mac 512K and.
512Ke users to unpack Compactor
format archives. The new utility
requires System 3.2, at least 205K of
free memory and the HFS file system.
Users without the HFS file system can
install the HD20 INIT to solve the
problem. CptExpand and the HD20
INIT are available for downloading on
the TCS.
Excel 3.0 Announced
Microsoft has announced version
3.0 of Excel, with more than 100 new
features. Among the new features are:
an Autosum button to extract the sum
of a row or column, an outliner, special
help screens for Lotus 1-2-3 users,
three dimensional graphs that can be
rotated on the screen, new drawing
tools and the use of the new Object
Linking and Embedding (OLE)
protocol. The OLE protocol allows
different applications to pass data back
and forth, and is relatively new to the
Macintosh world. One user com-
mented “It’s more graphical than any
other spreadsheet to date, the 3-D
graphics, the Autosum feature and the
outliner add great depth to the concept
of the spreadsheet.” Excel retails for
$495, upgrades from previous versions
are $50.
MacDraw Becomes MacDraw
Pro
Claris demonstrated MacDraw
Pro at the expo in San Francisco
recently, and hopes to actually ship this
new version by late spring 1991. Claris
is calling MacDraw Pro a “major
upgrade,” saying that it will now
support extensive use of color,
sophisticated text functions, and new
polygon and bezier curve tools. File
formats supported will be PICT,
PICT2, MacDraw II, EPSF, MacPaint
and color TIFF. MacDraw Pro will
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retail for $399, upgrades will be $99.
Apple Revenues Increase
Apple reports that net revenues
rose 12 percent and earnings are up 33
percent during the fiscal quarter that
ended 12/29/90 (compared to the
same quarter last year). John Sculley,
chairman and chief executive officer,
attributes the figures to strong product
demand. “The new products we
introduced this past quarter — the
Macintosh Classic, Macintosh IIsi, and
the Macintosh LC — have been
extremely well received.” He notes that
shipments of Macintosh computers are
up 50 percent during the first fiscal
quarter from the year-ago level. Net
revenues for the quarter were $1.676
billion, up from $1.493 billion a year
ago. International sales represent 45
percent of total revenues.
Campbell Resigns from Claris
Bill Campbell has been named
president and CEO of Go Corpora-
tion, after leaving a similar post at
Claris Corporation. Prior to joining
Claris, Campbell had been executive
vice president of Apple from 1984 to
1987. Go Corporation also announced
that it has licensed AppleTalk for its
new pen-based operating system,
PenPoint.
Apple Changes Distribution
Policy
Apple has moved to change its
distribution policy, saying it will add
consumer electronic stores to its mix of
distribution channels. Robert Puette,
president of Apple USA noted that the
new low-end Macintoshes have sold
more units in their first quarter than
the Mac Plus did in its best full year.
Distribution will be in three areas:
low-cost, high volume electronic and
warehouse type operations, computer
stores that sell to small and large
businesses, and value—added resellers
that provide custom integration and
consulting. The electronic and
warehouse type stores will still be
required to provide service, if only
minimal support. This change puts
Apple in a segment of the market that
is very competitive, and goes against
past and current policy. PC clone
manufacturers such as Packard Bell
and HeadStart have also targeted
electronic stores as distribution
channels, “Service today means taking
care of the hardware,” Puette said,
providing installation and repair
service. He contrasted service to
support, which he characterized as
providing software and operations
assistance. Macintoshes, Puette said,
would have an increasing amount of
built-in support, assisting users in
setup and initial use by using high-
quality documentation and a new
training disk included with every
system.
FreeHand 3.0 Announced
At the MacWorld Expo on
January 10, Aldus announced Free-
Hand 3.0, a new release of its design
and illustration program. New features
include on-screen colors, styles, layer
palettes that list the line and fill colors,
graphic styles, and layers that users
create in an illustration. Artists can use
any number of layers (limited only by
computer memory), which speeds up
any screen redrawing, and can help
focus on particular parts of an illustra-
tion, FreeHand 3.0 is said to offer
improved performance that makes the
program feel smoother, move faster,
and offer more precision than ever
before. FreeHand retails for $595,
upgrades will be $150.
New Ethernet Products From
Apple
Apple has announced new “plug
and play” Ethernet products that bring
ease of use and low cost to the
Macintosh world. The new products
are a Ethernet NB Card for NuBus-
based Mac II’s, a Ethernet LC Card for
the new Mac LC, and a Ethernet
Cabling System with media adapters
for connecting the cards to any
standard Ethernet. Apple reports that
third-party companies will be releasing
Ethernet solutions for the Mac Classic.
New Files on the TCS
if
‘The following files were uploaded
to the Macintosh File Transfer areas
on the TCS during the last thirty days.
This listing represents only a small
portion of the files available for
downloading. Call the Pi Office at
301-654-8060 for information on
signing on to the TCS.
File area 13 - Mac Fonts
045 CAROLESCHUNKS.S = Caps-only
Type 1 font
File area 14 - Mac Games
104 TOP10.CPT Letterman's Top 10
1987-90!
103 ANAGRAMM.CPT Generates
anagrams
File area 15 - Mac Graphs
088 ICOSOHED 3-d rep of icosohedron
087 CRYSTALS.CPT Demonstrates
growth of crystals
086 SPOCK.GIF The famous Mr. Spock
085 MANDEL.CPT Fantastic fractal
generator
File area 16 - Mac Hypercard
oe HC2BUGTX.SIT HC2 Buglist in text
file
093 SCRIPTIN.SIT Sm. stack - learn
about HC2 scripting
File area 17 - Mac Technotes
030 TIDBIT38.SIT Tech TidBITS for 28
Jan 1991
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column from 2/
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024 RESED.PRIM.CPT Beginners guide
to ResEdit
File area 18 - Mac Utilities
261 BINHQX.CPT DA to encode/decode
binary files
260 PHONEBOOK.SIT PhoneBook DA,
version 2.1.2
259 JUMP.START.SIT CDEV to specify
which APP's to launch
258 PRINTER.CLOCK Imagewriter print
control & Clock Set
257 RESBULK101.CPT Manipulate
resource attributes. v1.0.1
256 FAST.FIX.CPT Fixes problem w/Disk
Express-Speed Disk
254 SITDX201UP.SIT Stuffit Deluxe 2.0 -
> 2.0.1 upgrade
253 HAMRADIO.2 Ham Radio Computa-
tion Program
252 HD20.INIT HD20 INIT for the 512K/
CPT utility
251 SUN Compiled ZBASIC program-
Sunrise/Sunset
250 DB.S Compiled ZBASIC Decibel
Ratio’s
249 REMEMBER.SEA Remember v
2.1.1. Self-extractin ng
248 DEPTH.GAUGE.SIT Pixel-depth
oarerr, EXPAND.SEA Extract SIT files
on 512K & 512KE Mac's
246 CPT.EXPAND.SEA Extract CPT files
on 512K & 512KE Macs
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to TCS msgs offline
243 HEAPLIST.CPT Lists all heap info.
re UNZIP.CPT Extract MS-DOS PKZIP
les
241 BOOTMAN.SIT Edit/write boot blocks
to disk, v1.1
240 PIXEL.FLIP.CPT Change screen
depth fast and easy
239 BOASTER.CPT Display icons at
startup
238 OSCAR.CPT Oscar the grouch, trash
can replacement
237 CLONE.OFFLINE.1 Offline Reader for
Twilite Clone BBS
236 SAMPLER.SIT. Test DAs/fonts/
sounds/etc.
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MacSchedule Plus
Management with Bells and
Whistles
This shows some of MacSchedule
Plus’s bells and whistles better than I
can describe them, a picture being
worth at least 10,000 words in a
software review. MacSchedule makes
Gantt charts, or graphic timelines.
These charts—job bars going across a
by Deirdra McAfee
As you see, job bars and milestone
markers come in a range of sizes and
shapes, as do fills, the shaded parts of
job bars that show how things are
going relative to the schedule. The ad
said Fd create my first schedule
minutes after opening the program,
and I did. It was easy to figure out how
to use MacSchedule, although some
aspects of the interface seemed less
dated grid—are immediately under- than df i
standable, and MacSchedule includes ara Syren te spolcnton hos
tools that make such charts flexible a calendar with a toolbox in the corner
enough to map out the ftsand stars and blanks for headers, footers, the
of projects large and small. schedule title, and specific task titles.
MacSchedule Example Page 1
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(Jobs, bars, milestones, [J F MAM J JA SON DIJ FMA
and fills) This is the timeline
lrask titles go here Schedule bars go here
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custom symbols ——— lit
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You can fit up to 28 task rows and
17 columns on letter-size paper in the
portrait orientation, but actually the
size-limits for charts are quite generous:
you can tile schedules to make a wall-
chart up to 8’x 8’. You can specify, via
menus and pop-up menus, or using
the time-control arrows in the toolbox
margins, when your calendar should
start and whether you want it to be
quarterly, monthly, semi-monthly,
weekly, or daily. You can also make
fiscal-year calendars. (A big drawback,
however, is that you can’t specify in
the same way when the calendar
should end.)
The calendar—et’s start calling it
the schedule, even though it’s blank as
you begin—is a nice-looking and
legible gray grid.
You can date- and page-stamp it
or not, and you have various options
for designing the grid, too; you can set
MacSchedule to shade weekends, for
example, and also to shade individual
columns to show crucial dates or
holidays. You can adjust column
widths and you can also make the grid
invisible.
Asa freelance writer and editor, I
can use a scheduler; I usually have
three or four projects going, in various
stages of completion or chaos, and I
also use meetings and lunch dates to
rustle up business. But my work is
relatively uncomplicated; I research
and write, or I read and edit, and I
usually have just one deadline per
project to meet.
But I was also teaching English
composition at Virginia Common-
wealth University, and it occurred to
me that scheduling my students’
research papers would be a true test of
MacSchedule. I wanted students to
© write out topic proposals
write and show me their
tentative theses and conclusions
¢ bring in their notes and
bibliographies on notecards
submit rough drafts, first
drafts, and final drafts for grades
I wanted my class to begin this
paper on October 25 and to have final
drafts no later than December 11. The
completion of one phase directly
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affected the time available for the next, schedule if you don’t want a half-page
and individuals’ time problems could
affect each phase as well, a scheduling
situation known as dependencies
(sequenced tasks, completion of each
of which requires completion of its
predecessor). You can set up depen-
dencies in MacSchedule so that all
dependent steps in a schedule change
when the timing on the first one
changes.
This is a portion of the research-
paper schedule I came up with. It looks
good and it was pretty easy. The
toolbox includes, besides the familiar
arrow, line, and pencil tools (the pencil
tool here is the plan tool, and it’s what
draws those job bars across the grid;
after they're drawn, the arrow is how
they’re modified), and the big T (for
text) and big S (for spreadsheet), three
“status” tools: a pickaxe (for work); a
watch (for delays); and a banana peel
(for slips).
You use the work tool to fill in job
bars as the work progresses, and you
use the delay and slip tools to show
schedule snags graphically. Those
graphics, too, come in several options.
(Delays occur only at the beginning in
MacSchedule Plus; they are early as
well as late starts; slips are early or late
finishes.)
‘After I came up with the schedule,
my first problem was fitting everything
onto letter-size paper. MacSchedule
offers an awkward sizing arrangement.
Since you can specify a start date but
not an end date, you must size your
of glorified graph-paper surrounding
your schedule. And, although columns
are virtually unlimited, you can size
your schedule no fewer than fifteen
rows deep.
introduce rounding errors. This may
result in subtle changes to your
schedule’s display.”
But having all your job bars get off
by a day or two is more than a subtle
error if you're working with schedules.
1 found tinkering with this irritating
when I changed the timeline on this
schedule once or twice as I drafted; it
would be maddening if I had to do it
in connection with daily schedule
revisions. So I'd recommend that you
pick your timeline and stick with it,
and Mainstay recommends that you
change the start date and use the time-
control arrows to move the job bars
once you've made up your schedule.
On the plus side, the program's
great flexibility and well-thought-out
customizing options outweigh what
you can do to yourself if you fool with
the timeline after setting up the
schedule. Copying, cutting, pasting,
inserting, or deleting lines is a breeze.
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And even so, the sizing procedure
is quitky—still a few bugs here. So I
had to tinker a bit with sizing and
reductions to get my schedule in the
proportions and dimensions I wanted.
This is the main reason why it would
be good to be able to specify an ending
date instead of having to size to one.
I view my second problem as
potentially fatal if you do the intuitive
thing instead of reading the manual.
Changing the timeline, whether by
changing the start date or the incre-
ments the timeline covers, say from
monthly to quarterly, totally screws up
the job bars’ relation to time. The
user’s manual notes that “when the
scale is changed up and down,
calculations are made which could
This version supports color, for
example; a color-wheel appears in a
dialog box to let you choose colors for
the background, for the schedule
outline, for the grid (cells), objects
(dates, titles, notes, etc.), fills and slips
on job bars, and boxes (note boxes).
You can also add graphics into the
schedule’s title space and put text and
titles anywhere you want them, even
into the grid and onto the job bars, for
example. Such customized schedules
could be very useful in a presentation; I
made a very effective MacSchedule
overhead transparency showing my
students the dates and deadlines for
each part of the research paper.
You can also overlay milestones
on job bars. Let’s say you're building
something more complicated than a
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research paper—like, say, a house. You
could break the schedule down into
framing, plumbing, electrical, drywall,
etc., and each job bar could have a
milestone showing when you con-
tracted for materials, when they arrived
onsite, when each job was roughed in,
when finished, etc.; you could also
include delays, breaks, and slips.
I was supposed to review
MacSchedule 2.04 here; that’s what
the WAP sent me. While driving it,
though, I had some problems. When I
called Mainstay, MacSchedule’s
manufacturer, for tech support, they
answered the phone promptly and
courteously and then said, “Version
WHAT? Oh, that had lots of prob-
lems. But we fixed ’em all quite a while
ago. You can’t get that version any
more.”
When I told them I was a reviewer
with a deadline, they said if I could
send them proof they’d send me the
newest version, 2.5. I sent proof, but
they only sent me a demo disk back. A
second long-distance call to California
brought me the real thing, and, in fact,
more than I bargained for. Instead o
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