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Macworld APRIL 2000 Macworld APRIL 2000 5 Contacts MISSION-CRITICAL MAC TRICKS + FREE BOOK! 65 GREAT MAC TIPS MACWORLD MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS W I N APRIL 2000 a n i M a c lo ! ad re ed wa with soft NEW MACS NEW MACS • MAC OS 9 SECRETS OS 9 SECRETS MAC Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk • COLOUR INK-JETS INK-JETS COLOUR New Macs 500MHz Power Mac, iBook SE, 500MHz PowerBook reviewed • and rated here! SHAREWARE SHAREWARE Ink-jet tests • VOICE RECOGNITION RECOGNITION VOICE Photo-quality printers MIDI Mac music Make No. 1 hits on your iMac • MIDI MUSIC Voice recognition Speak and your Mac types! Woz speaks Apple legend: interview read me first MACWORLD Simon Jary, editor-in-chief n last month’s issue I prophesied the imminent cull of several Macintosh After platinum, what did Apple think legacy zombies – the Apple Menu, Scrapbook, Stickies and Chooser, it could offer us? Now we know. Apple’s I to name just a few of the apparently doomed.Their nemesis, Apple’s platinum is followed by Aqua – the forthcoming next-generation operating system, Mac OS X, was unveiled software equivalent of the iMac’s Tokyo’s Macworld at January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. All we had to go on was a translucent tasty plastics. 15-minute demo, a half-hour interview with the OS X product manager, Last month, I waved goodbye Expo delivered the and some screenshots posted on Apple’s Web site. to the Chooser and various 71 This month we got our hands on a Developer Release version of the members of the OS living modernized operating system, and its fancy new-look Aqua interface. Loading dead. I received quite a hardware that the San it onto a labs G3 Power Mac was nerve wracking – would we ever be able to few emails blasting me use the blue-&-white Mac again? – but pretty uneventful. After installation, for my flippant attitude Francisco Expo had we crossed our fingers and clicked Restart, which isn’t as easy as it sounds… to Stickies – Apple’s virtual Mac OS X was alive, and our relationship to the Mac user-interface would Post-It notes. I find them irritating; never be the same again. Read our special preview of Mac OS X, from page 71. others believe them a greater technology than promised. We test the new Less than two years ago, we got our first glimpse of the iMac. Apple had OpenGL and QuickTime rolled into one. Breathe easy, Stickie lickies, done it again, surprising everyone with knockout design and a return to its Apple preserves these yellow devils in Mac OS X. machines – the lightning- simple philosophy of creating a computer “for the rest of us”. Almost ignoring The Chooser does indeed die – it’s time now to enter the PrintCenter the massed monopolists of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, Intel’s for all your output needs. Key Caps becomes the Keyboard. Puzzle purists Pentium processors, and countless beige-box manufacturers, Apple had will die – no mere sliding blocks or jigsaw for OS X, there’s a complete chess quick 500MHz G4 Power Mac, the reached out to millions of consumers too afraid to buy into the personal- game nestled in this OS X Developer Release.The scientific Calculator is the computer revolution – reached out, held their hand, and pushed them gently best-looking thing in all of OS X.The Scrapbook is scrapped; and I’ve only stylish iBook SE, and the FireWire- to their nearest computer store. just noticed that the Note Pad got scribbled out in Mac OS 9. The iMac sold by the million, and it was swiftly followed by colourful What OS X does for the Mac is erase all that ancient legacy code that made friendly 500MHZ PowerBook. Power Macs, funky iBooks, and, er, the black PowerBook. Apple’s marketshare adding bright new technologies almost impossible.You can’t see many of its rose steeply. Shareholders and customers alike rejoiced at the near-miraculous new features, but, unlike the skips to OS 8 and OS 9, there are real technology saving of the entire company from the brink of a widely tipped demise. leaps at play underneath Aqua’s fancy button bubbles. So excited were we at the success of Steve Jobs’ daring rescue mission that Changing to OS X is going to hurt.We’re all going to be computer dummies we plum (and grape, blueberry and lime) forgot to take a longer look at our again: dissing the Dock, losing the Finder, vacant with View… But, when screens. Surrounded by pretty plastics, there it sat – the same old Macintosh you’ve finished banging your mouse against your screen, you might suddenly operating system we’d stared at since System 7. Mac OS 8 and all its siblings notice that when Internet Explorer crashed, the rest of your apps stayed intact; gave System 7 a minor makeover and a few tweaks, but the changes were that you can run more applications at the same time; and that Apple is about cosmetic. Status Quo changed more than the Mac OS in the last ten years. to release Power Macs with more than one G4 processor in them. You can tell when companies get desperate to add gloss to their products. Mac OS X is as up-to-date as the floppy-less iMac, the PowerBook’s FireWire, These days, students living between Ladbrokes and a brewery are offered the iBook’s wireless AirPort, and the Power Mac’s Velocity Engine. All these ‘Platinum’ credit cards.With OS 8, we were offered a ‘Platinum’ appearance things will become out of date themselves in a few years.Then, we’ll be quibbling again – how on earth can we survive without the Dock? MW COVER PHOTOGRAPHY:MIKE LAYE/ILLUSTRATOR JAMES WALKER JAMES PHOTOGRAPHY:MIKECOVER LAYE/ILLUSTRATOR for our menus, windows, icons and controls.We let ourselves be fooled. contents April 2000 76 85 99 117 121competition 76 135 WIN An iMac ready-loaded with PosterJet RIP software regulars I 71 New Macs tested 99 create graphics 8 How to contact Macworld Macworld has it covered Who’s who,and who’s won what. The style and speed of Apple’s Right environment 50-51 Macromedia Director 8 WebCam; Eudora Pro 4.31 new G4 Power Macs,PowerBook Adobe Calendar designer Charlie 115 Macworld subscriptions Shockwave Studio 59 Nikon D1 digital camera and iBook will have you drooling. Ward shares her secrets. Unbelievable value! Get a free copy of 52 Voice•Power Pro Series 3 Advanced English/Morse Painter Classic,worth £99,when you subscribe! 76 Mac OS 9 103 create print PREVIEW! ViaVoice 60 Panoscan Hints and tips to help you get the 139 Career Moves/Training Making the switch reviews Millennium 61 Kyocera PS 3750 printer most out of Apple’s latest OS. The pros and cons of using Job vacancies and training.Get it right. features 53 Dramatica Pro 4.0 63 MYOB Accounting/ Adobe InDesign. 85 Ink-jets 123 Reader Offers Plots Unlimited 1.04 Accounting Plus 107 create sound We rate and pace the latest Great offers on IDG Books and more… 55 DenebeCAD 2.0 Starry Night Backyard 3 colour ink-jets from Epson, A sound investment LuraWave; PhotoJazz 2 65-66 EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW! 71 Hewlett-Packard and Canon. Turning your Mac into a recording 125 Buyers’ Guide studio needn’t be hell. Mac system advice;Star Ratings;plus a full year’s index. 56 HomeConnect Digital Mac OS X opinions 93 Shareware 11 This month’s cover CD 5 read me first 111 create motion 142 Apple Reseller Guide We all use it,but where does the I I I Spare some change? A complete listing of Apple accredited in-depth stories incisiveness exclusive tests best shareware come from,and Take a Wrinkle 47 first contact Recording the new millennium, dealers for the whole of the UK. 16-19 Tokyo hardware roll-out 29 Mac PlayStation looms Net prospectors are what are the pit-falls? Mac OS X stealing your good name using QuickTime VR. 18 Toyko Macworld Expo 30 Milia games special An exclusive 49 prochak 21 USB 2.0 vs FireWire 32-33 Apple plans Mac junior? Give us our language back 117 secrets & q&a hands-on preview, news 210 desktop critic First aid page 65 23 Adobe sparks Web battle 35 Business News The folly of predicting the future Hints on Apple Help that even Mac 24 XPress 5.0 demo old-hands will appreciate. 26 Developers’ Mac-rush 37-44 PRODUCT NEWS 4 Macworld APRIL 2000 Macworld APRIL 2000 5 Contacts who... @ Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Macworld Deputy Editor David Fanning [email protected] News Editor Jonathan Evans [email protected] The ultimate reference guide and news Reporter Louise Banbury [email protected] source for the Macintosh market. 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