10-PAGE MAC BUYERS’ GUIDE INSIDE MACWORLD MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS MAY 1999 MAY 10YEARS OF MACWORLD • C Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk 2CDs HOOSING YOUR PERFECT MAC • COLOUR LASERS • ADOBE INDESIGN LINUX • COLOUR PERFECT MAC YOUR HOOSING From SE to iMac Play the hottest Mac games 10yearsrollercoaster MAY 1999 £4.99 From System 6 to Mac OS X – Macworld UK was there on the front line read me first Simon Jary, editor-in-chief hat were you up to ten years ago? 1 Compression has come along way since DiskDoubler, but not far enough. Moaning about Thatcher? Waving With MBs expanding faster than bandwidth, we should reject the siren call of W Ronnie Reagan goodbye? Working on a Jaz drives and DVD-ROM. A smaller storage medium would compel us to find Mac that ran faster than 16MHz? You should be so new ways of working – I’m not demanding the bringing back of 800K floppies. lucky, lucky, lucky… Yes, 1989. It might have been No way. 1.4MB seems fairer to me. the end of the Eighties, but that was practically last 2 For all colour’s 24-bit beauty, we’re still plagued by Web-safe palettes century… It’s all millennium this and Y2K that, these days. Now we watch the and arcane colour-management protocols. Black-&-white maybe problematic, Dome go up, then we watched the wall come down.When revolution was on but greyscale’s rather graceful, don’t you think? the streets of Eastern Europe, we thought we witnessed the end of communism. 3 The same goes with sound and vision. QuickTime is just so much song Now we know how illusory that victory was, with state-run genocide in our and dance. Let’s hear it for silence, and jump up and down for stillness. faces night after night. A decade has passed but little has changed.We like 4 Let’s lose the Wastebasket. It’s a Trash can, a plastic rubbish bin,Top Cat’s to think the opposite of technology.What about the smart bombs and Stealth restaurant.Those kind of Yank-style wastebaskets cost a bloody fortune down fighters? How about those video links, and 3D news graphics? at Habitat. In the face of cheapo Wintel PCs, there’s an easy way to cut down Isn’t the digital world so much brighter than the old? Not really. It’s much costs on Macs. A small whicker bin for the Finder will do me just fine. the same stuff – a bit, literally, closer and cleaner. Ditto, computing today and 5 But is one Finder enough? What we need is a MultiFinder. ten years ago. From System 6 to Mac OS 8.6, we’ve got the same old thing with 6 I’ve had it with John Sculley.Vote Steve Jobs back as permanent Apple boss. new bells (MIDI files) and whistle (Appearance Themes). Our translucent blue- 7 Re-invent that sense of millennial optimism we had for multimedia. &-white Power Macs hum at 400MHz. Our 36GB hard drives hold hundreds of Remember when it appeared that MM was going to change all our lives? CDs-worth of MP3 audio files. And our in-trays are Outlook Express folders. Even a Flash fest doesn’t Shockwave us any more. Bring back the hope. The fall of the Berlin Wall and Kylie Minogue seem like history lessons 8 Is it a crime to want your Mac in any damn colour you fancy? No… so please – re-runs on Broadcast.com.The 14lb Mac Portable that looks like a Psion made tell me why the minimalists among us can’t buy one in a nice neutral beige? by Skoda – what a hoot! That Newton handwriting “translation” – give me a 9 Two of the best-known crimes of computing are RSI and digital dreadlines. break! Word 6’s menu mania – hold my sides, please! Started when word processors negated the need for real return keys, RSI and But all these hindsight hilarities paint a picture worthy of LetraStudio 1.0. WYSIWYG have done only harm to our tendons and tensions.Why not slow What is the iMac but a spray-painted Colour Classic with a funny, round down the work rate. A simple solution would be to return the Return. Slow mouse? USB for ADB. IDE for SCSI. CD for floppy. Big deal. £779? In 1989 a Mac down the links between outdated keyboards and outstanding output. Plus cost under a grand. It looked good, and you could do all kinds of consumer Replace ultra-fast USB with dawdling ADB links, and we’ll all feel a little better. stuff on it. Cool Power Mac G3? The IIcx didn’t look as dull as the competition 10 How about those Desktop Pictures? A witty way to say “This Mac’s mine” either – and it was easier to take apart than the DOS boxes, too. or today’s flying toasters? What did the Mac prove above all else? It’s nicer to Mac OS X promises much, as do Windows 2000, Linux, and Java-based work with black text on a white screen than green commands on a dark one. set-top boxes. But there are so many fundamentals that must make an So, go on, let’s bring back System 6. contents May 1999 COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE LAYE/ILLUSTRATION GRAHAME MURDOCH BY MIKE LAYE/ILLUSTRATION PHOTOGRAPHY COVER irrevocable paradigm leap first. Here’s my top ten for the next ten: Back to the future. Plus ca change, plus these changes, please. MW 91 96 109 118 143 secrets 58 funnel web pro 3.0 116 competition WIN 10 prizes up for grabs 76 Macworld’s 10 years regulars I Macworld has it covered media The times – have they a‘changed? 54 ADOBE GOLIVE 4.0 65 Wacom PL-400 127 create web 124-125 Macworld subscriptions 55 Dark Vengeance Hard Disk ToolKit 3.0 91 The DTP race is on Building sites Unbelievable value! Get a free copy of Art Master Cascading Style Sheets. 56 Fireworks 2 67 Connectix Virtual Get the low-down on Adobe’s potential Dabbler or Soap when you subscribe! 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