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Women's SIG Kathleen Charters (410) 730-4658 C COPYRIGHT 1999, by W AP, Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. User groups may reprint without prior permission any portion of the contents herein, provided proper author, title, and publication credits are given, except in cases where the author has reserved copyright permission. In these cases, the author should be contacted directly. Please send a copy of the article as printed to Washington Apple Pi; 12022 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852. 4 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 politics of the issue, why someone at Apple should realize that they have been here before, and hope that what Deja Vu All Over Again ever it is that started this gets corrected expeditiously. A Commercial Announcement HE MACINTOSH com Last month I told you that the Now that I have your attention, a munity seems quite pleased with computer industry, the peripherals brief aside for a public service an t itself. The tangy colored iMacs are industry, and even the Federal Com nouncement- you know, like one of selling well as is the blue and white munications Commission had signed those never-ending appeals from your mini-tower G3. Those two and a on to this protocol as the way to move public television channel. couple more which will join them vast amounts of data. But a wrinkle Washington Apple Pi really asks shortly are known in the trade as has appeared. Intel, one of the signa but two things of you each year: renew transparent Macs. Lots of people are tory companies for the IEEE standard, your membership and vote in the an noticing that Macintosh products are has announced that it and seven other nual election for officers and directors. also the computer of choice on both companies are cooperating on a USB We fantasize that you will do more than the tube and the silver screen. How 2.0 specification aimed at creating a that, like tell others about us, but that is they appear in those two places is a faster version of the Universal Serial all we really ask of you. story for another time. Bus. This new implementation of USB The reality is that thousands be What is bothering me in all this is designed to reach the "full range" long, but few participate. We place a good news is a small, but important, of PC peripherals, hard drives, video ballot in each Journal, but only around3% undercurrent of discontent that is cameras, high resolution scanners, etc. are returned-ballots, not magazines! moving through a segment of the com In plain English, USB 2.0 is being de Please do me a BIG favor. Let me puter community that I believe affects veloped as a replacement for 1394 know that you are alive by mailing the Apple, and thus us. It has to do with which itself is just beginning to gain ballot located in the center of the one of the new input-output method market share. magazine to the address on the enve ologies found in the mini-tower G3 I believe this move is cause for lope. It would be nice if you voted for and soon in the rest of the line. It is some concern and think you should some of the folks who are willing to the replacement for SCSI called by know about it. What follows is not a spend a year keeping this place mov Apple FireWire (a proprietary name technical treatise as to why FireWire ing forward. I really don't care who claimed by Apple) and known in the is better or worse than the proposed you vote for, or if you live in Chicago, rest of the industry as IEEE 1394. new USB 2.0. I am more interested in how often. If trying to get you to vote May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 5 IT is a stretch, maybe getting you to at and reread one sentence: " ...Broad peripherals available for it. Without least return the ballot with a nice note deployment requires reasonable li broad industry support for 1394 as a penned to it has some chance. censing terms around this technology general-purpose bus, it becomes an All I ask is that you remove the for it to be accepted and deployed by other ADB-a bus for Macintosh-only ballot and envelope and write some the ind us try... ". Gee, to whom might peripherals. High royalties and the thing--anything-- on it. For example: he be referring? Mr. Gelsinger raised possibility of cheaper, well-promoted if you have ever used one of our elec the problem of 1394 royalties, but alternatives are leaving developers tronic services or ever visited our web never mentions Apple Computer-the skittish about 1394. Apple can't toler page, write "Hello Lauri" on the bal inventor of 1394 and the collector of ate such a position. The company is lot. Lauri Zeman is the lady who the royalties. finally working its way out of making keeps the little penguins in line who I see a parallel between the history computers where standard computer make all that work. You can write of the Apple Data Bus (ADB) and the hardware doesn't work. "Hello Kathryn." She is the editor of current dust-up over Fire Wire. That's The solution Apple found to its this magazine that you are reading the deja thing I mentioned earlier. QuickTnne 3 licensing fees may prove and gets nothing but busted deadlines. ADB is a proprietary system devel a model for avoiding another Now go to the centerfold of this oped in house by Apple to provide a cliffhanger. Apple changed those re magazine. Do it! My story about uniform, powered, interface though quirements when developers moved FireWire will wait...... which to attach devices such as mice, to investigate other multimedia tech keyboards, adaptive firmware and nologies to avoid what they consid Ah, I see you are back lightpens and stuff. Unfortunately, ered exorbitant fees and annoying on This is not an insignificant shift by ADB was "not invented here" and screen advertisements. That could be Intel and its partners. Intel and comes with royalty fees for its use. The the model for recovering from this bad Microsoft have been saying USB for Universal Serial Bus is a royalty free news story. low-impact peripherals, 1394 for more interface. Intel has said: " .. mem Now you know what I want to demanding devices for several years bers of the core promoters group [of say. What say you? Did you do as I now. To quote Intel: "USB and IEEE USB 2.0] do not intend to charge roy requested? Do you have your ballot 1394 are complementary technologies alties for essential patents required to in hand? Please do it now. Don't wait that will provide low-cost and high implement the specification." The for someone else. Do you part to get performance connectivity options to IEEE 1394 implementation of Apple's us above 3%. We get there one ballot makers of peripherals." Microsoft is FireWire contains certain chips and at a time. Please ... equally clear: "The IEEE 1394 high processes that are proprietary to Apple -- Lorin speed serial bus complements USB .. and for which Apple wants some ." USB for lower-impact devices and money for each use of same. Opps. P.S. Don't forget to mail it. • FireWire for the most high-perfor Now the amount that Apple mance devices has been the plan for wants from each user is in dispute. at least two years, and was openly dis There are claims that the fees are all Index to Advertisers cussed long before that. Then some over the landscape, depending on how thing happened. willing you were back then to chip in A Computerist ...... 8 Here is what Pat Gelsinger, Intel some bucks to help fund the develop vice president and Desktop Products ment of Fire Wire when it was a gleam Bethesda Computers ...... C2 Group general manager said recently: in some engineer's eye. As a result, ClarisWorks UG ...... C2 "In the area of consumer electronics, there are two movements afoot. One we believe 1394 has a role ... in the group of enterprising programmers is MacUpgrades ...... C4 area of audio or visual high perfor trying to write around the Apple pro mance devices . . . . Broad deployment prietary code. Another approach is TCS ...... 5 requires reasonable licensing terms that being persued by Intel. Uptime ...... 19 around this technology for it to be ac I am concerned that if 1394 be cepted and deployed by the industry. comes a "niche" for consumer elec Pi Fillings-Goes to School ...... C3 In that sense, we're very happy with tronics devices, Apple is in trouble. the progress that's been made recently Transparent Macintosh's depends on WAP Garage Sale ...... 1 announced. And we're looking for FireWire. Professional users will find WAP Please Vote ...... 9 ward to seeing those licensing discus little in FireWire to interest them if sions complete .. . " there are no hard disks, scanners, WAP General Meeting ...... 21 Opps, skip all the verbal padding RAID systems, and other high-end 6 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 rr to purchase a computer, equipment that has knowledge to impart and years of life still in it. Why can't Wash ington Apple Pi organize such an ef A Hundred Apple lls fort? We can. We did. And this is the story of what happened. by Lorin Evans In The Beginning What started out two years ago as We took a hundred Apple Ils Isn't It A Shame a small scale redistribution of un And then we said "Hey, listen" VERY DAY YOU and I wanted computers from member "We're gonna help out some kids today" make decisions to discard func families to area religious institutions, "Because we know what they're missin' " tioning devices for all sorts of shelters, and local families grew into E an acceptance by WAP of whole col So we gathered our members up reasons. Oftentimes I wonder if there lections of Apple II series computers, And a great big task began isn't some way to pass on older, but workable devices to others. Lots of or peripherals and software from area We refurbished ccmputers for ageneration ganizations run thrift shops that take schools. Word of mouth recommen that's had none in donations and sell them. But who dations just could not relocate that Whoa-oh-oh, yes we did operates a collection, refurbishment, many units. and redistribution operation that We began to search for school sys With just a hundred Apple Ils charges nothing? tems that would be interested in these We made their lives more interestin' The office at Washington Apple Pi machines and would use them if avail And they'll return to them every day gets calls all the time from families and able. We found three schools in way south Virginia who accepted our of For a creative world to enter in schools that are bailing out of Apple II and Macintosh equipment that no fer. We placed 15 Apple II set-ups And they'll remember them every night each in two public and one charter For the new ideas that make them feel school. But still we searched for a way bright to donate a seriously large block of And we did it all with just a hundred "What started out two computers in one area. Apple Ils years ago as a small scale Yes we did, whoa-oh, yes we did West Virginia Calls redistribution of unwanted We offered 50 machines to the state Now can't cha just see them a-walkin' computers from member of West Virginia. Senator Robert C. Byrd and his staff helped us find the 'round and 'round families to area religious people within the state government Samplin' the software they just found institutions, shelters, and who might be willing to take them. Doin' just what they should do The Department ofEducation was not To make their creative dreams come true local families grew into an interested for the public schools, but They'll enter a whole new world acceptance by WAP of the state was interested in them for another program. West Virginia has a Where those Apple Ils just glow whole collections of Apple We created a haven where some great new state-wide Head Start style program thinkin' can grow II series computers, pe which has no funding for computers. The director at each site was notified Whoa-oh -oh, yes we did ripherals and software of our offer, and wow! When we With just a hundred Apple Ils from area schools." stopped taking calls, we were looking at requests totaling over 200 computer FADE sets. Washington Apple Pi has never People, let me tell ya what we did longer serves their needs. It seems a worked through that size of a place With just a hundred Apple IIs• shame to us that these very functional ment. But, we were willing to try. machines might end up in a landfill or languish in some thrift shop. There Our Leaming Curve must be a way to pass on to a new gen We knew what had to happen if eration of people who cannot afford this was to be something other than a May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 7 IT shift of tonnage from one location to ing your Apple II or Macintosh com ware, manuals, and all those boxes of another. Too often we have visited puter, we tell you to bring everything: pin-fed paper you gave us once upon schools where well meaning compa computer, cables, software, manuals, a time. nies have donated their surplus com etc. We don't promise that your com Then you get a big truck, or in our puters in the name of education, or a puter, as delivered, Will be found in case one large trailer and a truck. Add tax write-off, or being socially respon some school. Depending on lots of one expert in packing theatrical road sible. Unfortunately, in way too many variables, we can usually make two shows to place all that stuff in each cases, none of that occurred. The schools working units out of every three do vehicle in such a fashion that the loads found themselves with inoperable and nated. That is because the Pi does not won't shift and break something, and cannibalized machines; they had no donate crippled units, or ones missing you are ready to travel-to educational software to run on them; hardware, or software. We don't even Ronceverte. Don't worry, they are not and no one to tell them what to do to donate computers missing keycaps! convinced you are coming. After all, make "it" happen. If there is no money An Apple II or Macintosh donated to they have been promised things before for the computers, where do people an organization in the name of the that never appeared; why should we think the money is coming from to pay members of Washington Apple Pi is be different? Well, we are! And, once for acquisition of the missing parts, soft complete down to the introductory they got over the shock of hearing ware or basic training. We have seen disks that came with that computer piles of 2, 3, and 486 machines languish period. WAP is not in the tonnage for those reasons. shifting business. "This extensive under- But, to assemble just 130 complete Not on Our Watch sets means acquiring dozens more for taking, while well worth When you call the Pi office offer- parts, stumbling over all of them until all sets are complete and then it, was not without costs. delivering all that equipment Think of the project as a damage free. And this time, the address is not down the street milk stool. Two of the from us, or around the bend. It We service is 13 different locations in West legs: need and assets are Virginia. Fortunately, three in abundance. It is the Macintosh schools elected to come to our c Computers offices to pick up their alloca third leg, support re 0 tions. In addition, there is one M DC public school that is getting sources to make it hap a set. pen, that is the hardest p We got the heads of the other West Virginia day care fa to assemble." u 24 cilities to agree to meet us at a T HOURS central location - the town of Ronceverte. See if you can find E ON it. I'll give you a hint. Think of from our office manager that we R a nice place to hide Congress would be arriving on a certain date, CALL in case of a nuclear war and arrangements were made for the other I you are in the general area, sort day care providers to pick up their s of. share of the equipment. Well, let's see. To get ready, Tn1 you first apply many volunteer Over The Blue Ridge hours into testing and repair The trip itself was uneventful. We ing all that stuff. Then you try waved at the tall spire atop the Home to figure out how to crate 100 stead (hint, hint), chugged up moun (703) 569-5584 Apple Ile and Ile computers, tain roads, and raced down the other 105 monitors, 125 disk drives, sides until we arrived at the turnoff to A COl\IPUTERIST, LTD 40 printers, cables, cords, joy the town of Ronceverte. We discov sticks, instruction kits, soft- ered that there are two clues about liv- 8 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 rr ing this far out. The bigger the Wal take another project on this scale. Mart, the smaller the community. We Grants, a different working relationship saw two "Super" Wal-Marts located at "Your support of among the three component donors- two different intersections, neither of recipients-and ourselves, or additional which looked like it needed a cross Washington Apple Pi outside support, will make it possible ing guard. The second clue was when has brought new life for me to again tell ya what we did with we stopped at a local drug store for a another "a hundred Apple Ils." drink. The sign on the door read: to those venerable "Please Do Not Carry A Gun In Here". Cast of Characters Oh, and the drug store is next to Blue computers and the These are the people and institu Grass Gas. They sell LP gas in large opportunity for a new tions who gave equipment and time cylinders. to made this possible: The day care center that hosted us generation of kids to was located on the main street of the Schools town of Ronceverte. Main street runs experience the power Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School for four blocks. One side is a branch to be their best." Children's Learning Center off the main CSX line. There is a clas Grace Episcopal School sical 1900s station and a long passen Gunston Hall Elementary School ger platform, but passenger trains Norwood School stopped coming too many years ago. Oneness School Now all that rumbles along Main from realizing that you could control Our Lady of Lourdes School Street are unitary coal trains. Across that character on the screen by mov St. Agnes & St. Peters Schools from the tracks are the shops of ing the control stick. It is OK to smile Ronceverte. You will find two barber - because now you know what we People shops, a "collectibles" store, a cabinet saw in the faces of children and maybe Senator Robert C. Byrd maker in the former corner Rexall just a touch of how they felt. Carol Dunn, assistant to Senator Drug Store [the classic caticorner Are you getting some sense of the Byrd Rexall sign still hangs there], a bar, and pleasure you brought these kids? Brenda Williams, West Virginia De the day care center. The other stores Good. Just because you can afford a partment of Education are vacant. The center staff is long on more sophisticated computer, does not desire and short on equipment. You diminish the capabilities of your older For Washington Apple Pl and your neighbors throw away more equipment - especially in the hands Boris Levine kids stuff than this center has for assets. of kids who would not otherwise have Jay Thal The very few folks who walked by that opportunity. Your support of John Ruffatto stared as we unloaded the 100 comput Washington Apple Pi has brought new Herbert Block ers, monitors, disk drives, and accesso life to those venerable computers and Karen and Ed Escalante ries. The sight was as unreal to them as the opportunity for a new generation Dave Ottalini it was for the kids inside who also could of kids to experience the power to be Steve Fink not believe what was happening. The their best. Good for you! PatFauquet younger ones picked up on the excite Dale Smith ment that emanated from the older chil L'Addltlon ScottPoit dren. This extensive undertaking, while Kristen Dunn-Thomason We set-up two computers: one well worth it, was not without costs. All the families who donated their with a Broderbund program called Think of the project as a milk stool. Apple II computers, printers, and soft Play Room for the younger children, Two of the legs: need and assets are in ware and one called Think Quick from the abundance. It is the third leg, support Learning Company on the other. It resources to make it happen, that is the was not long before it was SRO beside hardest to assemble. This project con *Title: A Hundred Pounds Of Clay each of the strangers who brought all sumed scarce Washington Apple Pi Original lyrics©, 1961 by: Bob Elgin, this stuff to their daytime home. Just resources: considerable volunteer Luther Dixon, and Kay Roger think back to the first time you held a time, lots of storage space, and scarce joystick, much less mastered it. Re dollars. Newsourcesforthatthirdleg member again the pleasure you got need to be found if we are to under- May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 9 re and off with preferences, of course, . J"'. and you are prompted to fill in the data for auto-fill the first time you fill in a form. Any time you fill in a form February 1999 field, the browser will suggest an auto fill as soon as it recognizes a saved General Meeting Report string. Since I fill out lots of forms when begging vendors to come and by Don Essick, Vice President, Macintosh speak to us, I liked this feature. Your mileage may vary. Another favorite feature of UR FEATURED guest browser is better. In the early days of Internet Explorer 4.5 is the ability to this month is Microsoft CorpQr the Internet, most of us browsed text go to a site and download its contents O ation of Redmond, Washing files that had imbedded hypertext into a "Web Archive". This is a great ton. I'm sure you've heard of them. links. These links showed up in bold feature for anyone who has a Adam Carroll, Business Manager of the or a different color, and placing the PowerBook and travels frequently. Macintosh Business Unit and Omar cursor on your terminal over the link Instead of watching Armageddon on Shahine of the Macintosh Development and hitting enter (this was on a VAX, your DVD, you can surf the net from team in Cupertino came to give us the no mouse!) moved you to another your airplane seat. Just set the site to rundown on Internet Explorer 4.5 for page. With the advent of modern save in a web archive before you go to Macintosh, Outlook Express 4.5 for browsers, with graphics, JAVA, Flash, bed and let the pages download to Macintosh and Mactopia, Microsoft's etc. it now takes almost 3 minutes to your hard drive. Next day on the web site devoted to things Macintosh. load most pages with a 33.SK modem. plane, select offline browsing from the The meeting started as usual with Is this better? Could it be we have FILE menu and surf's up! the Question and Answer session, gotten carried away by the fluff at the The Page Holder feature is one I hosted by Pi Secretary and Macintosh expense of the content? didn't appreciate at first, but have guru Lawrence Charters. The Q&A Right away, you notice that come to appreciate more and more. was followed by a quick business Internet Explorer 4.5 is a little differ Ever go to a web site that has a big meeting at which the bylaw changes ent. Down the left side of the screen page of links to follow for more infor and upcoming Pi elections were dis are four tabs, Favorites, History, mation. Just drag that page into the cussed. Lawrence then played an in Search and Page Holder. This is one page holder and you can follow the teresting Star Wars QuickTime movie of my favorite features of Internet Ex links without flipping back and forth that explained what may really have plorer 4.5. Clicking on any one of these between pages. happened at Tatooine. tabs will slide your active page to the The Search tab opens up a stan I must confess, that I've been us right and open up a frame with your dard search dialog and gives a list of ing Internet Explorer 4.5 for some time selection in it. If you visit a site that results from one of the popular search now. I took the chance and got the you think you'd like to return to fre engines. You are given a default en Beta early on. There are some things I quently, you simply select Favorites gine and can change it if you like. like about Internet Explorer 4.5 and from the menu bar and click "add to There is also a link in the upper right some things I like about that other favorites" and there it is. Click on the corner to Sherlock. One suspects that browser. Anyway, Adam did a fan favorite and there you are. History this will be more tightly integrated in tastic job of showing us some of the remembers where you've been. The the future. One comment, my experi great new features in Internet Explorer list is divided up into folders for to ence is that using Sherlock and 4.5. In fact, Internet Explorer 4.5 has day, yesterday, Tuesday, etc. and you Internet Explorer 4.5 together causes gotten quite a few accolades in the can control the number of links saved occasional crashes. I think this may browser wars. Internet Explorer 4.5 in the preferences. . be because of some problem such as won the "Best of Show" at the recent Ever tired of typing the same stuff init conflicts or something, because I MacWorld in San Francisco. over and over again? Internet Ex haven't heard many complaints from By now, most of us have experi plorer 4.5 will now auto-complete in other users. enced an Internet browser. Some of formation it recognizes in URLs and By far my favorite feature is the us are old enough to remember when forms fields. In addition it as a forms "shrink pages to fit" feature when interacting with computers meant auto complete feature which will fill printing. Very often, I would print punched cards and listings printed on in most common forms for you auto pages only to have information I an impact printer. Believe me, a matically. You can turn this feature on needed truncated off the right side of 10 Washington Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 a page, or two pages would print with Following his demo, Adam bravely and since she is so very nice to me and only the navigation bar or other useless opened up the floor to questions from misses most meetings by manning the data on the second page. Now you can the audience. For the first time in my table in the lobby, I couldn't refuse. preview what will print and Internet tenure doing these programs, someone Thanks to Adam Carroll and Explorer 4.5 will automatically try to who couldn't attend the meeting even Omar Shahine for visiting us from the shrink the page to fit on your printed e-mailed in a question. The questions left coast. It really shows that vendors page. This feature alone is worth the were many and varied. One of the top are serious about the Mac and about price, (oh yeah, its free!, I forgot.) ics which I had expected did come up. user groups to have them put up the On to Outlook Express 4.5. I must Office for the Mac does not have a ver resources to send two people to demo admit I have tried this program and sion of Access (a database package) nor a product that they give away! Yes, I didn't like it. Not because it didn't does one appear to be on the horizon. know Mr. Gates can afford it, but I ap work well or because it had some in It appears that FileMaker Pro has this preciate it anyway. herent flaw; it just wasn't what I was market on the Mac. Next month, Pi President Lorin used to. Long ago, I worked for a com Due to a shipping problem, the an Evans will give his annual Fireside pany in Cambridge, Massachusetts ticipated CD-ROMs of Internet Ex Chat. No hints yet on what the topic which was an e-mail pioneer. They plorer 4.5 and Outlook Express 4.5 did will be. Also Tom Witte, Pi Board were close neighbors of Bolt, Beranek not arrive in time for the meeting. Member and QuickTime author will and Newman, the company that de Adam did promise to make sure we host QuickTime Follies. Examples of veloped the Internet for DARPA. Well, got several hundred copies to give his work creating the Pi Birthday I got used to a certain way of handling away at next month's meeting. He QuickTime Movie and other ex my e-mail and Outlook does things a did, however, bring lots of goodies to amples from Pi members and other bit differently. Some people actually give away including four copies of Of sources. Word has it that Adobe is like eating raw fish, too. It's a matter fice 98 for the Macintosh and 50 coming in April, but I don't have a of taste. To be honest, I tried Outlook Mactopia T-shirts, plus other stuff. Beth, topic from them yet either. See you Express 4.5 again and liked it better, our office manager begged for one of next month! • but I still haven't switched. My com the copies of Office 98 for the Pi Office pany recently switched our e-mail to Outlook, so I will be forced to use it at work. Maybe this will be the push I need to give this program a fair shake. Another "feature" is the ability to Internet Service Charges: create and read HTML mail. Once again my e-mail prejudice is showing, A Misunderstanding but getting fancy-shmancy e-mail is not on my hot list. Just plain text is fine by me. I could be wrong. An other feature which may get me to News reports of a Federal Communications Commission ruling sparked a tidal wave of switch to Outlook Express 4.5 is that it computer user concerns in late 1998 and early 1999. Some news services, and many handles newsgroups as well as e-mail. Internet users, misunderstood what the FCC was doing, and flooded the FCC, members Finally, Adam gave us a look at of Congress, and Internet news groups with protests. Pi member Paul Gerstenbluth Mactopia, Microsoft's web site devoted passed on the following letter of interest from Representative Bob Weygand, member of to things Macintosh. It is very conve Congress from Rhode Island's 2nd District. nient having it all in one place at last, but personally, I find the "cartoonish" look off-putting. I'ts bad enough that BOBWEYGAND the dark side still thinks that the Congress of the United States Macintosh is just one step better than a House of Representatives Game Boy! Having a site which looks February 5, 1999 like Wylie Coyote and Beep-Beep are soon to appear doesn't make things Thank you for writing to me with your objections about the possible levying of much better. Once again, it's a matter charges against consumers for each time they access the Internet. I appreciate of taste, but none of the other Microsoft you contacting my office to voice your opinion. pages have this childish look. Over 50 million Americans use the Internet whether it be for business, May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 11 TC educational or recreational pur poses From the boardroom to the classroom, the Internet has become a powerful new resource for infor mation. March 1999 General You will be pleased to know that the reports of a per-minute usage Meeting Report charge on consumer access to Internet Service Providers (ISP) are By Don Essick, Vice President, Macintosh Programs erroneous. The Federal Communi cations Commission (FCC) has no intention of assessing a tax on UE TO A confluence of cir during the Super Bowl later that Internet traffic or of making any cumstances, the topic for this month. changes in the ways consumers ob Dmeeting was in flux to the last Next we got a look at the tain and pay for access to the minute. In the final week before the meet Lucasarts trailer for the upcoming Internet. ing, it turned into the annual WAP "Star Wars, Episode 1, The Phantom This misunderstanding arose QuickTime Festival. Last month, I had Menace" motion picture, due to be re due to an FCC proceeding dealing asked Tom Witte to explain tRe process leased this summer. This is one of the with carrier to carrier payments, or he used to create the WAP 20 Anniver most frequently downloaded large "reciprocal compensation." This sary QuickTime movie. I had also files on the Internet. I'm sure it has compensation is paid between tele planned for Pi President, Lorin Evans to increased the downloads of phone companies for the use of the give his annual State of the Pi and Fire QuickTime too. Following this we local phone network and is not side Chat. Well, there was so much inter were treated to the obligatory system paid by Internet users. There is de est in things QuickTime that Lorin was crash which seems to accompany most bate about whether local calls to pushed aside until another day. live demonstrations. Internet Service Providers are sub The meeting started as usual with the Next, Pi Member Dennis Dimick ject to reciprocal compensation, Question and Answer session, hosted as demonstrated creating a QuickTrme and this matter is currently being usual by Pi Secretary and Macintosh slide show from a folder of images. If reviewed by the FCC. The manner Guru, Lawrence Charters. As usual the you have QuickTime 3.0 you can do in which consumers pay for Internet questions were wide ranging and the an this by simply creating a folder con access is neither before the FCC nor swers informative to all. A very interest taining the images you want with se Congress and there are no plans to ing discussion on clean installs and the quentially numbered names. You then change the current payment system. necessity of re-installing applications was select "Open Image Sequence" from In fact, a local phone company can very informative. the File menu and you're off. not adjust their local rates to include Tom Witte then took the stage to be QuickTime will ask you for a frame an Internet surcharge without ap gin the program. Tom explained that rate and create a sequencer application proval from state regulatory com QuickTune is not your normal Macintosh to show your images. If you want to missions. The FCC has also already application or file format; rather it is an create a self-contained QuickTime stated that ISP traffic should be ex Information Architecture that describes a movie, you must export it as such. empt from interstate or long distance QuickTime object. Most of us think of This will convert the original image to access charges. QuickTime as a method of playing movie a compressed QuickTime file format Again, let me assure you that clips on our Macs, but that is just the using one of the many QuickTime the FCC has no plans to charge or MoviePlayer application. QuickTune is "codecs." to allow phone carriers to levy a really the architecture that allows A codec is an encoderI decoder usage fee on Internet users. I hope MoviePlayer to display a QuickTune ob application that compresses your raw that this answers your questions. I ject as a movie on our screen. video and/ or audio to make it take up will continue to monitor all legis The first QuickTime clip shown was less space. It does this using math lation regarding this new technol the HAL 9000 Year 2000 commercia~ ematical formulas that determine ogy and will keep your views in which Steve Jobs introduced at the Janu which parts of the picture are "redun mind should the House of Repre ary MacWorld in San Francisco. I think dant" or can be derived from adjacent sentatives consider such legisla this was the first full-scale commercial pixels. It then throws this information tion. Again, thank you for writing. ever produced for the Internet. It was so away and replaces it with a "key" that Sincerely, popular that it was transferred to video can be filled in dynamically when the BobWeygand and Apple paid the going rate to show it movie is played. There are several Member of Congress 12 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 codecs in the QuickTime arsenal. You options to your liking and save your and Outlook 3.5 as promised. These might want to experiment with them rendered object. were available at the check-in table in to see which ones give you acceptable The meeting closed, as usual with the lobby. 3 NOAA "Turning the results for your purpose. If you use the door prize drawing. We gave Tides" CD-ROMS (your tax dollars at Sorenson, be sure that you are send away 2 copies of Live Stage courtesy work at http://www.noaa.gov/) and ing the file to someone who has a of Totally Hip (http: I I several books on 058 and other things PowerMac and QuickTime 3.0. The www.totallyhip.com/) and Tom Macintosh by various authors and Sorenson codec is licensed with Berens, one copy of Media Cleaner Pro publishers. QuickTime 3.0 and is not public do courtesy of Terran Interactive (b!ij;ti. Next Month: Adobe, topic yet to be main like many of the others and will Iwww.terran.com/) ., a copy of Claris announced. In May we hope to have only run on a PowerMac. Impact courtesy of Claris Corporation Apple Computer and MacOS 8.6 and Dennis then presented a and Microsoft Office and Mactopia possibly their new Multimedia offering, QuickTime slide show he created for mouse pads and t-shirts courtesy of FinalCut. In June, we take a break for his family. This production was cre Microsoft Corporation who also sent the semi-annual computer show and ated using Adobe Premiere to inte free CD-ROMs of Internet Explorer 3.5 sale. See you next month. • grate pictures and sound and to edit effects. The image pan and zoom fil ter was especially effective in prevent ing the images from seeming static. It was a beautiful movie with excellent sound and made me want to go out and get an AV capable Mac and the software to do the same thing. Following Dennis, Tom Berens Board of Directors Notes gave us a quick demo of LiveStage from Totally Hip. LiveStage is an ap February 10, 1999 plication that allows you to create QuickTime animations with scripts to [Note: these are preliminary, as the Board New Business make them interactive. There was a had not approved the minutes as of this The Office Manager reported to bee that followed the cursor, a "Con writing. Also, these are not the full min the Board that she was almost out of centration" game and an iMac utes; those may be found on the Washing Pi Fillings CD-ROMs and suggested memory game. All very small appli ton Apple Pi bulletin board, the TCS, in that the board authorize either a reprint cations using QuickTrme "sprites" and File Transfer Area 5.J ing of version 4 or preparation of a re scripts. Demo disks were available and vised version. There was some discus two copies were given away as door Directors Present: Neil Laubenthal, sion regarding the cost effectiveness of prizes. David Harris, Lou Dunham, Dave a new version; after some cliscu$ion the thTom Witte then closed with the Weikert, Lorin Evans, Don Essick, board approved by consensus the 20 Anniversary movie production Dale Smith, and Pat Fauquet. preparation of a new version. demonstration. Tom took us through Directors Absent: Tom Witte, Ellen The board approved the member the process of selecting clips, pasting Baniszewski, Dave Ottalini, Mary ship of the Election Committee: them together, creating a background Keene, Blake Lange, Lawrence Char Jonathan Bernstein (chair), Alden and mask and assembling all of the ters, J. David Mudd Bestul, Alvin Auerbach, and Anson parts to create the final product. Dur Geiger. ing this process he also demonstrated The meeting was called to order at 7:37 The board approved the member Media Cleaner Pro by Terran Interac p.m. All members present were ob ship of the Election Challenge Com tive. This is a utility that provides served to be eating Oatmeal Raisin mittee: Henry Ware. complete sets of media options for cre cookies with the exception of Don There being no further business, ating QuickTime objects. Just select Essick. Don was eating grapes. the meeting was adjourned at 8:15 CD-ROM and all of the different The minutes of the previous board p.m. • QuickTrme options generally used for meeting were approved as submitted. CD-ROM production are set (similar [Note: the March 10, 1999 Board of Di to a style sheet in a word processor.) Old Business rectors meeting was cancelled due to con You can then fine-tune these pre-set There was not old business to discuss. cerns about the weather.] May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 13 IT At the crest of the third millennium Low-Cost Y2K Solution By now you have probably read that Macintosh computers do not have a Year 2000 problem. But Washington Apple Pi does. As a non-profit corporation, the Pi needs to have managers and leaders that reflect the needs of the user group. With the next term of our Board of Directors set to begin in June, 1999, the Pi needs several things from our members: (1) your ballots, indicating your choices for leadership positions, (2) your ballots to validate the election (if we don't get enough, we need to do it over again at great cost), (3) your enthusiasm, participation and ideas expressed through our meetings, tutorials, Journal articles, telecommunications services and other activities, and recruitment of new members. But right now we need your ballots. So track down the ballot at the center of the magazine, fill it out, and mail it in so that it is received no later than May 28, 1999. Our computers might make it into the new year without any help, but the Pi needs your ballot to help guide us on our way. As Y2K solutions go, it is cheap and easy. 14 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 signers that enabl~d me to put in an organized hour-estimate breakdown the following Monday at work." Graphic Arts SIG Meetings March Seventeen members came out to by Blake Lange the round table discussion on logo de sign at the March metting. Attending were Ed Escalante, Arthur Holland, February graphics element, but my work looked Ronald I. Bloch, Harald Holland, Ann WENTY-FIVE members nothing like what I had seen. Aiken, Stuart Bonwit, Attila Horvath, "One woman shared that some Karen Klein, Carol Sky, Blake Lange, cam~ out to the round table dis Tcussion of brochure production at times she takes a walk outside the of John W. Laughlin, Ann Lesnik, Helen Dilley Barsalou, Bob Russell, Bob the February meeting. Attending were fice and brings in a leaf or weed from Ed Escalante, Ray Duke, Diana Buell, outdoors, and scans it, and uses it in Everett, Jennifer Williams, and Sonny Carol S. Cable, Marcia Marks, Karen the brochure. I brought in a practical Tohan. There was a brief intermission Howe, Karen Klein, Valerie Burghardt, problem of estimating the time needed Carol Sky, Russell Kirsch, Blake Lange, from design to print of a project, and when Stuart Bonwit showed off his Etana Finkler, Robert Allen, Elfi Zuc got some great advice from several de- latest multimedia project. chetto, Helen Dilley Barsalou, Mary Keene, Esta Gladstone,. Charles A. James, Charlie Romero, Bob Russell, Bob Everett, George L. Venable, Jen nifer Williams, Barbara Valakas, and Sonny Tohan. Etana Finkler said, "The February Graphics SIG's topic was brochures, and was extremely helpful to me in a practical way, since I am somewhat a novice at brochure creation, having designed less than 30 brochures. Mem bers brought in a variety of styles of work and shared a variety of experi ences. We talked about how and where to get ideas. "Someone shared this approxi Figure 1. George Venable at the February meeting. mate quote from Picasso, 'A good art ist borrows; a great artist steals.' By hearing that other artists sit down with Art Source Books, art magazines, etc., before they begin their design, it vali dated my taking the time to do that as well. We discussed the ethics of 'steal ing ideas,' and talked about how the fi nal product you create really can wind up with 'inspiration' rather than some thing 'stolen;'-that others ideas just help expand your material in different directions.. . sort of like pushing you past that blank white page. I found that to be true, when I was looking at how circles had been used in a magazine ad, and then I used circles and arcs as a Figure 2. Two members having a discussion after the Februan; meeting. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 I "I brought in a practical problem of estimating the time needed from design to print of a project, and got some great advice from several designers that enabled me to put in an organized hour- estimate breakdown the following Monday Figure 3. Attila Horvath speaking at the March meeting. at work." Schedule The schedule for the Graphic Arts SIG over the next several months is Saturdays May 8, June 1, and July 10.. Each meeting will be from lO:OOam to Noon. The rule of thumb, in case you want to figure out when there will be a meeting, is that the meetings are scheduled the second Saturday of each month except when the Washington Apple Pi has a major activity sched uled for that day. "'2~nn ual ~~ Directions l'7s; MP LY Mac Business Solutions is located o SWIM at 9057 Gaither Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877. The phone number is 301-330-4074. From Interstate 270 and Shady Grove Road go East two lights, make a left onto Gaither Road, then almost immediately tum into the second entrance on the rightFrom the Shady Grove Metro stop it is just a short taxi ride. • NATIONAL WOMEN'S SAILING ASSOCIATION Four logos by Ann Aiken. 16 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 rr when transferring GEDCOM files created by a non-Mac machine. "For those members February Genealogy Names were placed in fields SIG Meeting where they did not belong. Each name using photo albums has to be transferred individually to or storing photos in THE MEETING was held on the proper field. There does not seem other ways, please February 9, 1999 beginning at about to be a way to do a "batch fix." It was remember to use suggested that the problem be posed 10 am in the Training Room at the archival quality Washington Apple Pi Office. There to Reunion by email or posted on their were about a dozen members in at Web site. papers, albums, tendance. Esta Goldstein gave a dem Some additions to the Reunion 6 boxes, etc. for stor onstration on using a scanner and program were demonstrated. Under age and protection." bringing the image into PhotoShop for the TREE, command, there is a com editing. The scanner software is used mand that will move the "boxes" to capture the image, and it is then away from the page breaks. Also, pic of Reunion 6 is expected to meet sent to the PhotoShop program for tures can now be put into the family with the SIG at its regular May editing- changing size, cropping, group sheet. meeting. Your will recall that he pre brightness levels, etc. The final image In the general discussion, it was sented Reunion 5 to the Pi General can then be saved in a variety of for noted that Personal Ancestral File Meeting last July. Since then an up mats depending on the future format (PAF} does not seem to be available for graded version has been released for Gpeg, tiff, gif, pict, etc.). If saved with Macs although it was available in the this Cadillac of Macintosh genealogy a title of May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 rr with one comment from someone in the back about haying once bought February StockSIG Meeting something like that and had a carload March StockSIG· Meeting of plywood delivered to him! by Morris Pelham Then Dave Weikert took the floor, by Morris Pelham and told us all about making money with. Apple Computer stock. my usual informa Dave brought us copies of pages I BROUGHT FOR OUR MARCH meeting I tion on the Dow stocks to our Febru from Yahoo!Finance with charts of brought my 1994and1995 Dow stock ary meeting, but I also brought a hand Apple stock prices over 3 months and 2 years, told us about his sources of portfolio results, and Mark brought out showing the 52-week high price the 1999 information. of each Dow stock for 1997 and for information, told us where the iMac will be built, and got into a discussion From the 1994 portfolio, Merck 1998. Wal-Mart had the biggest in was the best performer. I bought it at of cash on hand, revenues, and profits crease, from 41 and 15/16 in 1997 to 34, and then the price went down and in comparison with Gateway and 82 and 3/4in1998or197%, but IBM I had the chance to buy a second time Compaq. was second at 167% and Merck was at 29 and 3/4. As of March 1, 1999 it third at 149%. Wal-Mart has never Then Dave told us his sell target had split once and paid a dividend for been in our Beating the Dow portfo for the stock is still $50, and it still five years and was trading at 82. So I lios because it's dividend yield has hasn't quite got there, but it is close. calculate the "cash back" at $34,354, never been high enough, but both IBM So close. Tantalizingly close. It goes or 538.89% of the"cash in" which was and Merck have been. For those of us up, it goes down, it goes up again he $6,375. who keep the stocks we buy, IBM and hopes ... From the 1995 portfolio, GE was Merck have been big winners. By now it was well past 10 PM, the best performer. I bought it at 54, it Mark Pankin brought both his one of our later meetings, so I began then split, and now trades at 100 and 1998 and 1999 Beating the Dow Strat to put away the chairs and turn out 5 /16. Including the dividends I cal egies and passed around copies. the lights and people began to take the culate the "cash back" at $20,615.50, Mark's 1998 Portfolio included hint and move toward the door, still or 381.77% of the "cash in" which was DuPont, EastKodak, GenMotors, talking ... $5400. IntPaper, and Philip Morris. At year If you have any questions or com To me it looks like holding these end that portfolio was up 9.4%, less ments on this column or others of Dow stocks for a period of years pro duces the best results. than the Dow at 16.1 %, less than the mine, they are welcome on our TCS, Mark Pankin thinks differently. S&P 500 at 26.7% and less than the on the StockSIG Online board. He brought in a "Summary of Annual NASDAQ at 39.6%. StockSIG meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM in the WAP Average Price Changes of Beating the Mark's 1999 Portfolio includes Dow Strategies and Market Aver Caterpillar, DuPont, Goodyear, MMM, office. You are welcome to come and express your views. • ages." This handout looks at 13 dif and Philip Morris. So far it's down, ferent ways to apply our Beating the but the year is young. Dow strategy and compares those to We had a good discussion of all how the Dow itself has done, the S&P our Dow stock portfolios, and com "We had a good 500, the NYSE Composite, and the parisons with other choices, until discussion of all our NASDAQ since 1971. Basically Mark someone suggested we had "beaten finds that our Beating the Dow hasn't them to death." Dow stock portfo since 1994. We moved on to a discussion of lios, and compari So Mark is looking for other ways LEAPS, that is long term options on to outperform, and showed us his op the Dow stocks. Mark has been buy sons with other tion strategies. These involve using ing and selling these, in search of choices, until some long-term options on the Dow stocks, larger profits than our Beating the one suggested we and so far look promising. If you want Dow Strategy, and it is working. Mark to see the details, come to the meeting. showed us how, with five pages of had 'beaten them to StockSIG meets the 2nd Thursday handouts. death.'" of each month at 7:30 PM in the WAP We had a good discussion again, office. • 18 Washingt6n Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I mouse are cute, but like others I found the round mouse hard to orient, and, since I often use my computer in the dark (except for illumination from the On the Bleeding Edge monitor), using the black-keyed USB keyboard full time was less than sat by David L. Harris isfactory. So there was a lot of key board and monitor switching until I got another ADB cable. I also had to use the monitor with the Performa to the next Wednesday (as promised by get anything off of my many floppy 1987 I started with a Mac Plus. disks before I could Ethernet their files That was replaced in August 1994 Apple) and the next entry on the UPS site confirmed its delivery. Nothing in to the G3. More cable swapping. Not Lby a refurbished Performa 475, in a desirable chore, what with my bad between. recent times operating with System back, and all the connections being on 7.5.5 and a 730 MB hard drive. You The G3 is a mini-tower, and is larger and heavier than I had pictured. the backs of the Performa and G3 (un could not say I have been on the cut like the side connections on the iMac). ting edge of technology. But I got into Ihad trouble finding a place foritwith my limited available space. Of course, I mentioned above that the G3 my head, with encouragement from lacks serial ports. I was fortunate to fellow Pi members and a recent gen I did find a place! It sits beside my 14" NEC monitor which is still sitting on get a Keyspan USB-to-serial adaptor eral meeting with Apple, to buy a new (they were in short supply, given all Blue & White G3. This is one of the top the Performa. I had to find a way to transfer files from the Performa to the other G3 and iMac owners trying new Macs lacking some old familiar to get them), which has two serial technologies such as a floppy drive, the G3-remember, no floppy, no Zip serial ports (for printers, modems, and drive (for now). Obtaining an such) and SCSI ports. (New technolo Ethernet card for the Performa, I gies include USB and FireWire.) In spent a couple of days learning addition, it came with MacOS 8.5.1. So the basics of networking, which the transition promised to be an ad I've never had to master before. venture. Would I bleed? Here is what The built-in AppleGuide helped happened. here, as did the written manual Join Uptime's team I ordered the low-end 300 MHz for the Performa, which contains of dedicated and G3 via telephone on a Tuesday. I had much more help than manuals do professional Mac planned to order it with an optional these days. I bought a lOBase-T lovers as we serve added SCSI card, so I could run my Ethernet hub and connected the the technology old SCSI peripherals (scanner and Zip Performa to the G3 (which has needs of busi- drive) and maybe add an internal SCSI 10/lOOBase-Tbuilt in). Once I had nesses throughout metropolitan hard drive. Apple said no, that SCSI made the connection, I could be- Washington, DC. Send us an e-mail cards were not immediately available, gin to transfer files from Performa describing yourself and what you and that I could not order one and to G3. Since I have only one moni- want to do every day. Then tell us wait. I did not avoid sales tax, either; tor, this required booting the about your professional qualifica Apple adds your local tax to the bill. ~erforma without monitor, using tions, specifically your experience To cut costs I had it shipped via its ADB keyboard to shut it down helping people with technology and ground. When the G3 shipped I got a properly when done (with the troubleshooting Macs in a networked confirming e-mail from Apple telling keyboard power key and then the environment. me when it would arrive. Later I ob Return key). Although the G3 can tained a UPS tracking number, and also use an ADB keyboard, and I Send your e-mails to: tracked its travels on the UPS Web site had a spare bought for $5 at the [email protected] May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 19 ports, one for printer and the other for modem. I checked first to make sure it was compatible with my external US Robotics modem and HP DeskWriter 550C printer. The adaptor plugs into one of the two USB ports on the back of the G3, and comes with software (on a CD; the G3 has a fast CD drive built in) to set it up. I found setup quite easy for both printer and modem access. After getting most of the older (of ten shareware) software and files that I wanted transferred from the Performa to the new G3, I started see ing how much of it would work in the transition from System 7.5.5 to OS 8.5.1, with the added factor of a multi gigabyte hard drive formatted as HFS+. I went to the Version Tracker Web site 20 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 General Meeting Northern Virginia Comm. College May 15,1999 Community & Cultural Center Aud. Ballots due 8333 Little River Turnpike May 28,1999 Annandale, VA Getting to NoVa: take Exit 6 West Garage Sale ontoVA236 June 5, 1999 Little River Turnpike) May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 I from a PC-savvy person at work I much harder to get that to work. I ten takes seconds instead of the min learned that the second drive had to could not even successfully open utes I am used to seeing. Applications be configured as a "slave" to the first TextBridge: it hung at the registration such as Adobe Acrobat Reader now act one's "master." Both were set as mas screen, giving no choice but a forced decently. (Scrolling a pdf document on ters from the factory. Changing the reboot of the G3. Using Extensions the Performa involved a frustrating IBM drive to a slave was a matter of Manager to turn off all extensions wait until the screen re-drew.) Al removing one easily-accessible jumper didn't help. But holding down the though Web communications are no and moving it to a new location on the shift key at startup seems to have dis faster, being limited by the modem drive-after going to IBM's Web site abled more stuff, and I could then speed, window re-draws and other to find out what jumpers were what. I launch TextBridge. Of course, with no operations that involve only the local installed OS 8.5.1 from the CD that extensions it couldn't see the scanner. computer are much faster, giving the comes with the G3, then Finder-cop Finally, after three tries, TextBridge's experience of a faster Web. ied everything from my first drive registration screen gives you the op My Performa was maxed out with (named "Azul y Blanco") to my sec tion of getting rid of the registration 36 MB of RAM and 1 MB of video ond (named"Azul Grande"). After the screen forever. After that, I could RAM. The G3 comes with 64 and 16. first copy, I use Personal Backup to launch TextBridge with extensions on, For now 64 MB of RAM seems quite automatically back up only files which and it finally found the scanner. adequate; maybe Apple is now ship have changed; unlike some other rela ping systems with enough RAM to tively low-cost software such as Ret start. With 16 MB of VRAM I can see rospect Express it supports backing up "millions" of colors instead of "thou onto hard drives. Routine backups "Having to reinstall a sands" on my 14" monitor set for 640 now take only seconds. number of applica x 480 pixels, and with a refresh rate of 72 cps. The monitor view with my old Orange Micro tions, I was obliged system seemed quite good, but the The Orange Micro Grappler 930U to collect in one place new one is better. The increased re SCSI card finally arrived. Installation fresh rate eJiminates all traces of inside the G3 was a breeze, but remov all the software flicker: the picture is rock-steady. ing all the external cables and reinstall registration numbers In addition I can now use things ing them, plus new ones, was not. My such as Sherlock to search, QuickTrme aching back! from old invoices, 3.0 for movies, recent versions of Although my G3 did not come letters, and cards. If I RealAudio, and all the goodies that with an internal Zip drive, Iomega require the latest OS. As with my Mac software is included. As soon as I con had kept this record Plus before it, I loved my Performa, nected my external Zip drive to the updated as I went and it gave ine years of faithful ser SCSI card and inserted a Zip disk, vice. I didn't miss too much what I there it was on the Desktop. along it would have didn't have. But now processes which It wasn't so easy with my UMAX saved time." took time on the Performa are almost Astra 610S (SCSI) scanner. The instantaneous. I wouldn't want to re VistaScan software simply would not turn to the past. see the scanner, although SCSIProbe Not everything that comes as stan 1.5 said it was there, on bus 1. Evi The results: was it worth it? dard with OS 8.5.1 is perfect. On my dently VistaScan was only looking on Yes! My old Performa had a CPU Performa I had several utilities that I bus 0. A trip to the Orange Micro Web running at 25 MHz. My G3 runs at 300 liked. One was part of the CETools site 22 Washington Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 I cation Switcher does the same thing for open applications, but I found it not as convenient as HoverBar. Any application, file, or folder can be added to HoverBar's bar, whether it Software Review: is in use or not, and launched or opened with a click. The bar can be set Fonf ReseNe to "grow" to the left or right. It can be hidden using Command-Esc. And by by Paul Chernoff holding down the Option key while © 1999, Paul J. Chernoff switching applications, all others can be hidden. Apple's Application Switcher operates to hide the applica Font Reserve by DiamondSoft. $99, dis Font Reserve offers features unavailable tion switched from, but it doesn't hide counts for multiple licenses. http:// from its competitors. www.diamondsoft.com I them all unless you click several times. While evaluating font manage So I've installed the latest version ment software for the production de (1.3.1) of HoverBar. It seems to work. UNDREDS OF fonts. partment at The Washingtonian, I estab However, as with my old system it Thousands of fonts. Millions lished the following criteria; I wanted shows icons for background processes H and billions and trillions of the ability to that I don't really need to see, and fonts. Font Reserve provides the abil- there are more of them (Folder Ac ity to easily activate and deactivate • activate and deactivate fonts tions, for instance) than of old. fonts as they are needed, but it goes whenever I want; beyond Suitcase and Adobe Type Man • search for fonts based on a vari Summary ager Deluxe by providing more font ety of criteria including name, family, The new, "Blue & White" G3s management tools. It is based on a so and foundry; come with new technology, and the phisticated database with individual absence of several pieces of old tech typefaces rather than font suitcases, • automatically activate fonts in nology built in. For someone new to which makes it a powerful tool for QuarkXPress documents, even if they the Macintosh this would not be a graphic artists and service bureaus. are used in embedded EPS graphics; major problem: they would just buy While those who do not need Font • easily duplicate font setups on peripherals that would utilize the new Reserve's sophistication might be bet multiple computers; technologies such as USB scanners, ter off with other, simpler interfaces, printers, modems, etc. For someone who has a number of "legacy" periph erals and doesn't want to replace them immediately, adaptors and plug-in cards must be added. In a short time this too will not be a problem, but when the G3s were introduced these were in short (or no) supply. In my case it did cause a bit of bleeding, as well as requiring an outlay of several hundred more dollars. But this really is an astonishingly fast and capable machine. Things that used to take many minutes, such as software instal lations, rebuilding the Desktop file, and so on, now take a few seconds or minutes at most. The Web is faster; AOL is faster. Everything is faster. I am only beginning to take advantage of its abilities. I hope to continue doing so for a number of years. • Figure 1 - Font Reserve Browser May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 23 I play. You can also decide appreciate that Font Reserve does allow if you wish to view fonts you to create your own font suitcases [§] Colllln by their PostScript or (see below) and to view by suitcase. 91Wlltr!Wes------~ Aollvotlon menu names. (See Figure Font Reserve allows you to take advan lii!Clas ti ocmtd 2.) tage of its abilities while working in a Add"'9fonts lii!f... manner similar to that of Suitcase. 0 fDll) Three Views of Fonts Sets ml lii!f"'*I You can view the 0...... 1 ... ~ 0 llm Ckckslm fonts in three different You can organization your fonts ways: by font, by family, into sets. Sets make it convenient to or and by suitcase. I often ganize your fonts by to project, client, view by family since it is or any other criteria. A font can be a a logical unit; font fami member of none, one, or more sets. lies often have easy-to You can activate or deactivate entire read names - Adobe sets at a time. In Suitcase and Adobe Caslon makes more Type Manager Deluxe, suitcases go into Figure 2 - Font Reserve Preferences column settings sense to me than sets. In Font Reserve, individual fonts ACaslon. A family might go into sets, which is a more flexible method. • easily add fonts at any time and be split across multiple suitcases, and be able to track newly added fonts; since I allow Font Reserve to set up my All fonts in a set can be activated suitcase structure - read about the or deactivated in one action, and sets • help identify problems including Vault below - its suitcases do not al can be placed within other sets. The corrupted fonts and orphaned out ways make sense to me. If a font is in Browser's upper window pane dis lines. active, a white dot will appear to its plays sets and fonts (see Figure 1). As left; if temporarily active, a blue dot; with the fonts pane, you can see if a set's fonts are active or inactive or a It's the Database Stupid if permanently open, a black circle. If combination of the two. Figure 4 Most sophisticated database a family or suitcase holds both active Font Reserve gains its power and flexibility from its font oriented da tabase. While it can manage font Kind l!l!llt. l!l!llt. suitcases like its competitors, it is de ~ l!l!llt. ~ ~ 0 Aactwn-Bold PSP~ 0 0 I> (dJ AKhon signed to work with individual type ~ I> a AKhon 0 ~ ~lon-Altsold PSP~ 0 I> a -CUlon 0 I> (dJ ,,_ CUlon faces. It provides font information, 0 ~ ACaslon-Altsoldlt•lio PSP~ • I> a • I> (dJ such as family and foundry. 0 ACaslon-Altlt•lio -'tt'oodTypo -o.r- Gi PSP~ I> -o.r- • I> Sons 11'1 a (dJ - A single Macintosh can have mul • 0 Gi ACaslon-AllRf9UIW PSP~ 0 I> ra Mobt 24 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I E!IB alias method and the font many fonts into a single suitcase. The 25 Items, I.7 GB rnlleble is not on the local hard Vault segregates these fonts in a logi Otte Modified A disk, you will be cal manner. ~ PSMM Wed,Jon 13, 1999 prompted to log onto the I find that I prefer using the Vault ~ ll PS Oulllnt Wed, Jon 13, 1999 v ll PS Pair Wed, Jon 13, 1999 appropriate file server or method for the fonts owned by my ~ ll Mobe S>tttems Thu, Jon 14, 1999 insert the proper disk or employer and the alias method for ~ ll Aqfe Wed, Jon 13, 1999 CD-ROM. Anyone wish fonts supplied by our advertisers. The v Cl Bltstrum Wed, Jon 13, 1999 Vault method makes it easier to repli v ll Btrnherd Modern Wed, Jon 13, 1999 ing to control suitcase ~ ll 003.001 Wed, Jon 13, 1999 name and composition cate font databases from one computer .... i:i 2.0-1.0 Wed, Jon 13, 1999 should use this method. to another without resorting to putting Todey, 12:44 PM fonts on a file server. The alias method & BernhModBTBol Frl, Mey2, 1997, The Vault is perfect for any fonts supplied to us & BtrnhModBTRom- The other method is -- by advertisers since these sit on our to allow Font Reserve to file server and are removed from the store fonts in its Vault. Figure 5 - The Vault as viewed through the Finder database at the end of the month. The Vault is a series of Using Font Reserve Despite its sophistication Font Re 0 I> ll -,,_Fonts S.t serve is easy to use. It can do the basics 0 I> Cl non-Fonts S.t of turning fonts on and off, but its ad • V aCl. ou.tc> May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 I v --= Auto-activation handy in assembly fonts to send with Font Reserve offers font auto your document to a typesetter. If you activation. If you open a docu drag the QuarkXPress set to the Jump to the first font ment using a font that is not ac Macintosh desktop, a copy of all suit tive, Font Reserve can turn it on cases and PostScript outlines will be whose name starts with: in many cases. Since applica created. (See Figure 6.) tions use different methods of Two additional features are of lgara I accessing fonts, auto-activation note. The XTension allows you to cre will not work with every appli ate a new set based on the fonts used Cancel Jump · ]) cation. In addition, since most in a document from within I f. applications cannot update QuarkXPress. If you are designing a their font menu if fonts are acti new publication and want to easily vated while the application is activate the fonts you use in the future, Figure 7 - Jump to the first font dialog box open, the font will display prop the Font Reserve XTension makes it foundrg Si face allows erly in the opened document, easy. The XTension also adds the ca XO you to select but the font will not show up in the pability of collecting the fonts for a Xl an individual font menu. service bureau. fdit fillers... The Browser will create a special One disadvantage of the Font Re fdit Quick filer_ Xf font as op posed to forc set of auto-activated fonts. This is use serve XTension is that it does not check ./ Sbo11 System fonts ing you to se ful in identifying fonts that you might for font usage when you print a docu ./ ftdiue folts frequently use but do not have set to ment. This is a problem if you import DapUcBte fond ID's lect an entire DapUcBte PS font names suitcase. be permanently active. EPS files into a QuarkXPress docu In uaun There is one A problem I encountered with ment, and they require different fonts. liSt ftdded fonts exception to auto-activation is that it slowed down The only work-around solution for Orpllan Bitmaps my computer too much. My computer version 2.02 is to close and reopen the Orpllan DutUnes the suitcase D11111ed bg Defaull rule: if Font would seem to freeze whenever I document. DiamondSoft is working PostScript Onlg Reserve is set to changed applications and auto-activa on a new version of the XTension that TrueTgpe Doig open copies of tion was on. I suspect that this is be will activate required fonts whenever Figure 8 - Filter menu fonts, it can cause I normally have 452 fonts open. EPS graphics are placed in a QuarkXPress document. open up an in QuarkXPress XTension dividual font without opening other While I don't use Font Reserve's Ownership members of its suitcase. The drawback normal auto-activate feature, I do use One font characteristic you can is that it takes longer to open copies its QuarkXPress XTension. This apply is font ownership. This adds an of fonts. But using font copies rather XTension will automatically activate optional additional layer of organiza than the actual fonts yields other ad any font used in a QuarkXPress 3.32 or tion. If you need to make it clear that vantages. The original font files are 4.x document when the document is you or a client owns a font, you can protected against corruption, fonts opened, including fonts required by designate its owner. Or you might shared on a file server will be accessed embedded EPS files. I find that the want to indicate if a particular depart more efficiently, and fonts on a CD XTension activates the required fonts ment or your entire company has the ROM will be temporarily copied to the over 95% of the time. I have not been rights to use a font. For example, The hard disk, allowing you to remove the able to establish a reason why the Washingtonian, Inc. has a site license CD-ROM from your computer. XTension sometimes fails to automati to many fonts, but the production de cally activate a document's font. partment has purchased additional All fonts be fonts for constructing ads. It is impor ing used in tant that the editorial part of the office QuarkXPress never uses these fonts. Ownership can documents will be used to track who is allowed to use show up as a spe particular fonts. cial set, even if Finding fonts some of the fonts When your fonts number in the are already open. hundreds or thousands, it can be dif This can be very Figure 9-Filter dialog box ficult to find what you want. Font Re- 26 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I a font owned by a specific client. All prised by the number of problems en are possible in Font Reserve. (See Fig countered. The manual provides good INdlnt ronts ure 9.) r1111 filH------. guidance on what to do about identi ~ 0 llove Ill• Utal fied font problems. O Copg Into Utd Adding fonts to the Font Reserve da , e I.Hit! II plice tabase Viewing fonts [Xpert Optltas------. Adding fonts to the Font Reserve A designer often wants to look at O fldd temponrilJ database is as simple as dragging and fonts before activating them. Font Re O Deectlvlle II temp ectlftfonts O flc:tlvllle 1d4ldflnts temporerltl dropping. Just take the folder holding serve provides three different OWllmlllp------"t----. your fonts and drag it either onto one customizable on screen views of fonts fldd ewnershlp; I PeutJ. dleraoll I of the supplied applets and on the and has the ability to print a variety Q mike this the prtm111 owner Browser's set or fonts window panes. of specimen pages. You can preview a Unless you change the preferences, font as a single sentence, as a para you will be asked if you want to move graph, or as a waterfall showing the the fonts to the Vault, copy the fonts, font at various sizes. You can change or leave the fonts in place and add the text for single and paragraph Figure 10- Import Preferences their alias' to the database. Other op views and adjust the font sizes for all tions include assigning font owner previews. (See Figure 11.) serve makes it easy to search for fonts, ship and activation. You can even tem Font Reserve provides 10 different even if you are unsure of their names. porarily add a font to the database so specimen templates, and you can The Browser offers a number of ways that it will be removed when you shut modify them or create your own. of finding fonts. down your Macintosh. (See Figure 10.) Font collection The difference between dragging The first way is by name. You can Font Reserve makes it easy to col the folder to the Browser's set or fonts start typing in the Browser, and a dia lect fonts to send with a file to a ser window panes is that the former will log box will appear that offers to take vice bureau. You can drag a set, fam create sets that match the suitcase or you to the first font that matches what ily, suitcase, or individual font from ganization and the latter will just im you type. But if you don't know the the Browser to the desktop. Font Re port the fonts without creating any sets. beginning of the font's name, there are serve will copy the selected fonts as a I like the flexibility the import op other options. (See Figure 7.) single suitcase, with any accompany tions provided. I find that when I im The Browser's filter ability makes ing PostScript fonts. it easy to find fonts. Anuinber of stan port fonts. I tend to change the options dard filters are provided, such as ac based on use. Sometimes I put fonts AppleScript tive fonts, orphan bitmaps, and in the Vault; other times it makes sense Font Reserve is AppleScriptable but PostScript fonts. The filters reduce the to leave them in place. not recordable. This is because you size of the font list. The Browser also Perhaps the most important fea script the Font Reserve application, provides ways to create your own fil ture of the import process is error which is a faceless database pro ters. (See Figure 8.) checking. Font Reserve creates a log of gram, and not the Font Reserve You can create new filters to use every problem encountered. This in Browser. Unfortunately, AppleScript once or add to the Filter menu. Select cludes corrupted fonts, duplicate documentation is minimal, consisting Edit Filters ... or Edit Quick Filter. The fonts, and orphaned bitmaps. When I of two sample scripts. While it appears former allows you to edit the filter imported my office's fonts, I was sur- to be highly scriptable I did not have menu, while the latter instantly ap plies the filter criteria. The filter edi tor is similar to the Macintosh's Find El utility. You can create multiple search criteria, and all columns can be the basis of a Filter. If you know that you want a Garamond font but don't know its exact name, you can create a Filter for all fonts that have Garamond in their name. Or you might want to look through all Grotesque Sans fonts and look for the one that best meets your needs. Or you might want to look for Figure 11 - Preview May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 time to learn how to do it. More docu PowerMac, depending on whether if Support mentation would be appreciated. virtual memory is on or off. But addi DiamondSoft provides support tional RAM is required by the MacOS through phone, e-mail, and its web Replication if you activate many fonts, and the site. I sent e-mail to their technical sup When dealing with 50 Browser prefers to use 2-4MB when it port staff and they responded within Macintoshes, I need a font solution is open. a few hours. When I had problems that minimizes my labor in keeping all Font Reserve has a solid design, but with the Font Reserve XTension 2.01 font setups identical. Font Reserve pro it still needs some work on implemen they e-mailed me a beta of version vides three ways to help. The first is tation. It takes longer for Font Reserve 2.02, which solved the problem. While the ability to copy the font database to activate fonts than a beta of Suitcase they could not solve my problem of from one computer to another. This 8. Adding fonts to its database also activating fonts in EPS files as they are not only transfers fonts but also the requires you to wait but this is partly imported into QuarkXPress docu sets and ones designated as perma due to its error checking procedures. ments, they were quick to give me an nently active. Auto font activation still needs estimate on when a new version AppleScript, while it has a steep work. The XTension works the vast should be available. learning curve, provides a way to up majority of the time but not always. Their web site support is not so date the Font Reserve database. You can Regular font activation does not work good. They have some tech support use write AppleScripts to change its in all applications, but this is partly discussion groups on their site but configuration and add and remove most questions appear to remain un fonts. answered. Maybe their response rate The last tool to discuss is the abil was better than it looked, but some ity to export and import sets. While "Font Reserve gains discussion threads were broken, and an exported set does not hold the ac the slow speed of their web site dis tual fonts, if you import a set and have its power and flexibil couraged me from exploring the dis the required fonts, you can easily du ity from its font cussion groups. plicate the way in which Font Reserve oriented database. organizes fonts on different comput ers. If Font Reserve is set up using the While it can manage Pricing and Availability alias method, font sets can be easily font suitcases like its Font Reserve 2.02 is listed at $99 per moved to other font databases, ensur competitors, it is copy, but discounts of up to 35% are ing that fonts are organized in a con available for multiple licenses. Font Re sistent manner. designed to work serve can be purchased from major mail with individual type- order and Internet Mac software web All is Not Rosy faces. It provides font sites or directly from DiamondSoft. Turning automatic activation on Upgrades from Font Reserve 1.x, includ can corrupt the Database Prefs file. If information, such as ing copies bundled with CoralDraw, are this file is corrupted, the Macintosh family and foundry." $65. If you purchase directly from will crash on bootup. This happened DiamondSoft, you can download the to me twice in two weeks. It took me software from their ·web site and still an hour when this happened the first receive the CD-ROM and manuals, due to the variety of ways that differ time to determine the problem. Font which include Bitstream fonts. ent applications work with fonts. Reserve needs to better handle cor Finally, Font Reserve uses a serial rupted prefs. This problem does not number-based copy protection Try Before You Buy occur with the Font Reserve XTension. scheme. If you do not enter its serial DiamondSoft allows you to Font Reserve demands megabytes number, it will work in demo mode. download the entire copy of Font Re of RAM. Graphics professionals prob As a Macintosh manager, my biggest serve from their web site, including the ably have adequate RAM on their complaint about serial numbers is the XTension and the manuals. Until you computers, but PowerMac 6100s with need to find them every time I set up enter the serial number the database only 16MB RAM will definitely have a computer. Fortunately, will be limited to tracking 100 fonts. problems. DiamondSoft recommends DiamondSoft sells multipacks that All other features are available. This reserving 6MB of RAM for Font Re allow multiple copies to share the is a great way to test Font Reserve for serve. The Font Reserve application, same serial number. suitability and any possible software which is constantly running, wants 4- conflicts. 6MB of RAM by default on a 28 Washington Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 I "Font Reserve provides the ability to easily activate and deactivate Fonts: A Quick Overview fonts as they are needed, but it goes beyond © 1999 Lawrence I. Charters Suitcase and Adobe Type Manager Deluxe by HEN THE Macintosh simple Macintosh now seemed to be beset by all kinds of font confusion. providing more font was introduced in January W1984, the first thing users no New York looked much like Trmes management tools." tic~d were the fonts. Prior to the Palatino, Bookman and New Cenrur; Macintosh, computers generally dis Schoolbook. Are they really that much played everything on screen in a different? Conclusions single, monospaced font. In contrast, ability to find cor /1 Font Reserve's most of the Macintosh city" fonts Similar But Not Same rupted fonts and its database make it (Athens, Chicago, Geneva, London, In a word, yes, they are quite dif a t~ue. font management program. New York, San Francisco, Venice) were ferent. New York was designed to look While 1t has a few problems, it is a proportionally spaced fonts, and only good on the Mac's screen, and is too stable product that does what it states one - Monaco - was a monospaced large when printed on paper. it does. While its interface is more font. Almost overnight, the Macintosh Bookman, New Century Schoolbook, complicated than those of Adobe Type became a darling of amateur typogra Palatino and Trmes are all serif fonts, or it also Manager Deluxe Suitcase 3, phers, and hundreds of shareware but they look quite different if you does more. It provides more than one fonts sprang into being. look at the details. Since literate read way to deal with fonts that meets the A couple years later Apple intro ers read by shape, rather than letter needs of different users: duced PostScript printing with the by-letter, even subtle changes in the The font management software LaserWriter, and typography really shape of characters can create a radi mar~et is once again heating up. By took off. The LaserWriter was capable cally different look. the time you read this Adobe Type Man of. reproducing commercial-quality ~ere are many different ways to ger 3.5 and Suitcase 8 should be avail printing, and the original "city" fonts classify fonts, but the most basic clas a?le. B~th products promise to pro were banished, replaced by Avant sifications are serif (letters have slight vide stiff competition to Font Reserve Garde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, projections at the end of strokes) and and Suitcase 8 is will have some nice New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, sans serif (letters don't have anything new features. But Font Reserve's data Symbol, Trmes, and Zapf Chancery. on the end of the strokes). Generally base distinguishes from its competi Progress, however, often has ca speaking, sans serif fonts are good for tors for those Macintosh users who sualties, as it did this time: the very headlines, signage (traffic signs are need to constantly activate and deac tivate fonts on a frequent basis. System Requirements: 68040 or Monospaced: Courier PowerPC processor, MacOS 7.5 or later, including MacOS 8, 8.1, and 8.5. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 6MB RAM recommended. • Paul Chernoff spends his days writing databases at The Washingtonian when not busy helping people with QuarkXPress fixing network problems, working on th; Proportionally Spaced: Times Internet, or taking care of the servers. He is lucky to be doing most ofhis work on a Mac. At home, he balances time between IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Mac and family. He can be reached at [email protected]. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 29 rr always sans serif), and anything but Dingbats, some long passages of text. Serif fonts, on times called "oma ITC Bookman light the other hand, are ideal for body men ts," are fonts copy; virtually all books, magazines that are not letters or Washington Apple Pi and newspapers are printed in serif standard type but, fonts. rather, pictures of Apple Garamond Once you master differentiating some sort. The most between serif and sans serif fonts, popular dingbat Washington Apple Pi you'll soon realize that, while most font is probably fonts fit in one or the other classifica Zapf Dingbats, New Century Schoolbook tion, some don't. The five biggest ex though the Win ceptions are: script, casual, decorative dows Wingdings Washington Apple Pi (or novelty), grunge and dingbat fonts. and original Script fonts, as the name suggests, are Macintosh "city" Palatine evocative of formal hand-written fontsCairoandMo- lAT. h• t A } p· script, only written by a perfect mas bilearealsodingbat vvas mg on pp e 1 ter penman. They are sometimes used fonts. Since dingbats Ti mes in advertising, and frequently used on are not letters, you wedding invitations. Because they are can't use them for W: h• A } p• harder to read than serif or sans serif text; instead, they as 1ngton pp e 1 fonts, they should not be used for body are used to empha- copy, unless you really don't want size the text (such as people think the "extra" fonts take up people to read your text. the various bullets in Zapf Dingbats) memory (not really) or extra disk Casual fonts are similar to script or illustrate something (such as the space (they do take up disk space, but fonts, but not as precise and regular. map symbols in Carta). huge disk drives are very inexpen A fairly recent innovation, casual fonts sive). It can be very frustrating, trying are designed to look as if they were Essential Fonts to find out why someone's computer handwritten. They are sometimes Macintosh computers are easy to isn't working properly, only to dis used in advertising (to give an ad or customize, but one distressing way to cover the cause is a font thrown away letter a "personal" look), and often "customize" your Macintosh is to as "unnecessary." used by individuals who want to write throw away critical fonts. Every letters on a computer but make the Macintosh needs three fonts to oper Recommendations printed version look more intimate. ate: Chicago, Geneva and Monaco. 'fypography is a subject as broad Well-designed casual fonts are de These three fonts are used in menus, and as deep as you wish to make it. signed to be highly readable, but you file names and listings. Mac OS 8.5 There are countless books on the sub still probably wouldn't want to use adds some additional menu fonts: ject, and entire magazines devoted to one to publish a book. Charcoal, Capitals, Gadget, Sand, the subject. But here are some easy Decorative fonts tend to be harder Techno and Textile. guidelines to good typography: to read, but reflect the old tradition of Those with PostScript printers lettering as art and decoration. Aside also need to retain several fonts that • Don't write in "City" fonts, from advertising and informal display are built-in to virtually all PostScript such as Chicago, Geneva, Monaco, signage, decorative fonts should be printers: Avant Garde, Bookman, Cou New York, etc. These were de avoided. Grunge fonts, a fairly recent rier, Helvetica, New Century School signed for use on a 1984 innovation, are "anti-fonts;" irregular book, Palatino, Symbol, Tunes, Zapf Macintosh using a 1984-vintage lettering designed to impart an im Chancery and Zapf Dingbats. Adobe ImageWriter I dot-matrix printer. pression of rebellion, alienation or Type Manager (ATM) adds two fonts Unless you are still ,using this com sometimes an anti-technology look. of its own that don't show up in any bination, move on to something While Wired magazine seems to be on-screen menu listing: Adobe Sans more advanced. fond of grunge fonts, generally speak MM and Adobe Serif MM. These two •Don't write anything in New ing they have no real purpose outside fonts are used to "fake" missing fonts York. Many people like New York of rare use in advertising and signage, in certain cases. because of the large size on screen, such as, possibly, an advertisement for Be very careful about throwing but when it is printed on paper it a riot or a grunge rock concert. away "unnecessary" fonts. Many looks ungainly and way too large. 30 Washington Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 If you want to increase the size of Notes text on screen, Microsoft Word 98, The accompa Serif: ITC Bookman medium Corel WordPerfect 3.5, and nying illustrations AppleWorks/ClarisWorks 5.0 allow were all created Washington Apple E you to increase the size of the using PostScript manuscript image on screen with fonts, mostly from Sans-Serif: ITC Avant Guard Gothic out increasing the printed font Adobe's collec size. tions but also Washington Apple Pi •Don't' write anything in Cou from other Sans-Serif: Helvetica rier. Courier was designed for use sources. Some on an IBM typewriter, probably notes about a few before you were born. Because it of the fonts: Washington Apple Pi is a monospaced font, your eye must travel farther to read a given • Russell Ob- • Rage Italic, from the Swedish com piece of text than the same text lique was created by Pi member Karen pany Esselte Letraset, is another nice written in a proportionally spaced Ackoff. This casual (or informal) font script font. For many years this was font. Aside from columns of num is patterned after her father's precise, used in the logo for the San Diego bers, Courier should be avoided. careful style, used for documenting Macintosh User Group magazine, Re technical drawings. She noted that sources. It is available from Interna •Use your computer as a com "you might notice if you look carefully, tional Typeface Corporation (ITC), puter, not a typewriter. Terminal that the tops of strokes show a slight http: //www.itcfonts.com/ punctuation - periods, exclama increase in width ... this actually stems • Times, one of the most widely tion points, and question marks from the fact that when I first wrote used fonts in the world, was created should be followed by one space, out the alphabet by hand, I was using for the body text of The Times of Lon not two. In fact, nothing should be a Rapidograph technical pen that don. All PostScript printers include followed by two spaces. Line leaked. So each stroke started off with Trmes as a standard font, and a vari things up with tabs or tables, not a slight flooding of ink, hence the ant, Times Roman, is the default font spaces. On the Macintosh, spaces slight thickening at the beginning of on all non-PostScript laser printers by are proportional, too, and not al each stroke." (This probably won't Hewlett-Packard and Canon. ways the same width. show up in the Journal reproduction, • Electroharmonix is part of a huge but it adds a slight calligraphic flair •Experiment with your printer. collection of PostScript fonts created when you use it for a letter.) It is li Try printing text in different col by Ray Larabie. They are all free, pro censed by Adobe through Alphabets vided you don't bug him with any ors, even if it only has black ink Inc. You can find the relevant Adobe or toner. Try printing text in dif questions about them. H you look care Web page at: http: II ferent sizes, with different fonts. fully, you can find this font used on www.adobe.com/type/browser IP I the Pi's Web site, http: II Learn what looks best with your p 449.html particular mix of printer and com www.wap.org/ • Apple Garamond is the"corporate puter. • New Century Schoolbook, one of typeface" of Apple Computer. It is a the fonts built in to virtually all •Generally speaking, use no slightly modified version of Garamond PostScript printers, has been until re more than two fonts in any given Condensed, created by Bitstream for cently, the standard body text font for publication. If you mixed too Apple. For an example of Apple the Washington Apple Pi Journal. many font styles in a paper, bro Garamond, just look at the name of chure, or flyer, it tends to look your computer on the front of your Mac Resources more like a ransom note than a (assuming, of course, you have an Fonts play a large role in the professional-looking paper, bro Apple Macintosh and not a clone). Macintosh world. H you want to know chure or flyer. (In the early days Garamond Condensed is available from more about them, run out and get a of the Macintosh, most Mac user Adobe, and with it you can do a very copy of Robin Williams' bg8k, How to group newsletters looked like ran good job of faking Apple's "corporate Boss Your Fonts Around, 2 ed. Sub som notes, with dozens of typeface." titled, "A primer on font technology typestyles thrown together.) • Reporter Two, available from and font management on the Adobe, is a very bold script font used Macintosh," this richly illustrated, lit for several years in Washington Apple erately written book will tell you vir- Pi Garage Sale flyers. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 31 tually everything there is to know Type Book, Peachpit Press, 1998, 239 pages, $24.95 d about using fonts on a Macintosh. Robin Williams, How to Boss Your Fonts Around, 2n ed., Peachpit Press, 1998, Robin covers the various types of 188 pages, $16.95 Macintosh fonts (bitmapped, TrueType, PostScript), details how to properly install and maintain font col lections, and covers a huge range of Script: Boulevard freeware, shareware and commercial font utilities. An extensive (32-page) glossary translates font terminology 00tMhin~ton @Appte c[}Ji into something non-specialists can un Script: Reporter Two derstand; even the glossary is illus trated. Just as well written and illus u~'•fto-. /1pple ~i trated, but with a different focus, is Script: Rage Italic Robin Williams' The Non-Designers Type Book. Covering both Macs and Windows machines, this book is a w~~?l companion to her superb The Non Script: Mistral Designer's Design Book, aimed at help ing non-specialists create snappy looking, professional documents w~~AukP~ through intelligent typography. Seri-pt: rf'c Zapt'Chancery Though it is a book an "average" user will find quite enjoyable and useful, the world would be a much better 'Wasfiington .fllppfe Pi place if some professional designers Script: Nupital Scnpt would also read it ... Given the shocking number of people who still write everything in Washin!Jlon 7/ppfe ~· Courier (or Monaco, or Chicago), and Casual: Russell Oblique still put two spaces after a period Gust like they were taught in typing class, thousands of years ago), there is still a Washington Apple Pi vast audience for one of Robin's first Decorative: Electroharmonix books, The Mac is not a typewriter. Pub lished in 1990, this slender volume of fers simple, expert advice on how to wa~111n~-ton A~~i:=c ~1 type your thoughts into a state-of-the Decorative: Toolbox art Macintosh without it looking like something produced on a battered Smith-Corona manual typewriter. WAS-ttlN(jTGN APPL~ Pl Grunge: Eraser Dust A note to potential quibblers: l.Jzwrence Charters does know the difference between a font, a typeface, and a letterform, but ~AS·HiMbTOM APPL£ Pi decided to use the generic Macintosh term, Dingbat: ITC Zapf Dingbats ''font," rather than devote this entire ar ticle to explaining the differences. *O•**•*TO X:XOe• Robin Williams, The Mac is not a type * Dingbat: Carta writer, Peachpit Press, 1990, 72 pages, $9.95 Robin Williams, The Non-Designer's +$-~J,CJ$i@O *OD* V 32 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I vided the software tools to capture video, and to assemble and edit mov ies via QuickTrme. The Spigot II card provided hardware support to bring Adobe Premiere 5 video signals into the Mac and out to TV and VCR. The Trials of Being New People were amazed these mov ies were made on a computer, let alone a Mac Ilci. I was. Though these rough By Dennis R. Dimick hewn flicks were really quarter-screen playing at a half-speed 15 frames per second, they dazzled mostly because REMIERE 5 has the mak and poor implementation. It is pos they existed at all. ings of a great software pro sible now to say that Premiere 5.1 The years since have seen P.gram. As the first program to use shows promise. QuickTt.me, Adobe Premiere has since become the leading full-featured Now Premiering movie-editing program on the My first Macintosh. It has been a pivotal cre movie-making ative tool of mine for nearly six years. experience began The most recent prior revision, with Premiere 3.0 Premiere 4.2, proved itself a solid ed in 1993 on a Mac iting platform that offers amazing cre Ilci with ative options for making QuickTt.me QuickTime 1.6 Sy1t1m 85.1. vS.1 movies. If someone said I could use and Sigma De only one program, my choice would s i g n S I Adobef) Premiere·s.1 be Premiere 4.2. "MovieMovie" Pr09'.,,.,w,g T HM Ttr'tH Crotty. Sytv• Fr.ancoec.r. ltrry lOUt'ts, Ndc ScNolC As a result, my expectations have card. A year later T....tc:-..&- c...... _...,_c..,...._ l'\1o""4wn..• Q.ot.,. v_.._. SuperMac's Cop)'rilllt 1991-1998 Adobe Syst OM1 hcwponled. M ritf>ls r eserved. Adobe ,.,...,_, 11 . rt9iJtr.d been pretty high for the latest 5.0 re 11"-...nt of Adobe SyslOMI k>t..,,...•ted. P•ltnl Ptfldio9. lease. Nearly every review in the Mac Spigot II Tape http //WVY -.Com press since 5.0's arrival last spring card replaced made me believe the new Premiere's MovieMovie in Greetings: Premiere 5.1 shows you this screen at launch. If you greatness was akin to that of sliced my setup. Pre get hold of Premiere 5.0, go to Adobe's website and get the free bread. miere 3.0 pro- update file. The updated 5.1 is more stable and useful. Perhaps these reviewers got a dif ferent program than the one I bought. Equalize Maybe their candor was tempered by having received a free review copy, or 60Hz: 150Hz: 400Hz: 1000Hz: 2400 Hz: 6000 Hz: 15000Hz: their publication got loads of adver tising money from Adobe. I paid $190 LI D Li D Li Li Li for my upgrade to 5.0 from 4.2. Premiere 5.0 was rewritten from the ground up, and it has performed like a program released before it was l ready. One must assume marketing schedules and quarterly NASDAQ stock market revenue reporting de T T mands drove timing on the new 5.0 version release, not whether Premiere Flat J D Preview sound ( Cancel ) (( OK D 5.0 was fit. Adobe Systems last fall released a Audio Tools: Premiere 5 offers an array of audio tools including the new "Equalize" free Premiere 5.1 update that has im Jilter that lets you customize the tonal range ofan audio track. Premiere supports up to proved on the instability, slowness, 99 separate audio tracks in a movie. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 33 QuickTime, Premiere and hardware improve. After the Mac Ilci there was a Start (BJ End PowerMac 8500 with built in AV capture. Later a Left: LJ Width: I 1200 I Left: ~ Width:~ miroMotion DC-20 M JPEG compression capture Top:LJ Height~ Top:~ Height~ card was added to the 8500. (BJ Ease In (BJ Ease Out Now my movie machine is a closeout-priced PowerMac 9600 /350 with a Media lOOqx card and QuickTrme 3.0. In today's market of blue and white PowerMac 400 MHz G3 towers, my hardware is nowhere state of-the-art, but video qual ity from the Media lOOqx card is beautiful. Th.is setup OK is stable, and it's pretty fast for most tasks. Premiere 42 Pan and Zoom: Premiere's Image Pan filter allows you to create motion across still images. You on my 9600 is whip-fast, assign start and end framing on the image and Premiere will create all the intermediate framing. Premiere 5.1 on this setup is not so fast. At least 5.1 doesn't crash as much as 5.0 did. randomly destroy projects, at least the whole project timeline, even on a Even with its limitations, Premiere most of the time. Just assure that your small computer screen. 4.2 has been a reliable tool for produc Mac and video capture card's drivers There's compatibility with ing short-form QuickTrme-based digi are supported by this latest Premiere PhotoShop filter plug-ins, a host of tal movies. It has anomalies, such as release. If, for example, you are plan new audio filters and effects, and an the not insignificant failure to main ning to use cards such as the improved ability to manage, sort, and tain lip-synch on audio over time. miroMotion DC-20 or older Radius or search on project source clips in mul When Adobe announced Premiere 5.0 TrueVision Targa cards, you will be out tiple "bins." Premiere 5 finally offers last year with promise of true audio of luck. Check Adobe's web site scrollable text in title windows and sync and improved "professional in www.adobe.com for specific informa offers "keyframeable" effects that you terface," I rushed in for an early up tion on whether Premiere 5.1 will can vary repeatedly within a single grade. Fools sometimes do that. work with your hardware setup. transition or filtered clip. The Alas, I spent more time restarting keyframe effects feature alone is worth my Mac than using Premiere 5.0. I The Promise of 5.0 the price of the upgrade. could rarely get Premiere 5.0 to launch, The allure of Premiere 5.0 compels This shopping list of 5.0 enhance as it would repeatedly freeze when with sleek and simplified on-screen ments alone would provide a formi trying to load the "zigzag" filter plug presence akin to what one might find dable challenge for engineers design in at startup. Simple editing actions in a more expensive professional " ed ing an upgrade, let alone a complete such as adding transitions were gla iting bay," at least that's what the mar program rewrite. The superficial and cial. keting materials call it. Premiere's got interface improvements are wonder Rather than spend all my effort a new monitor window that allows ful. coaxing Premiere 5.0 to run, it was easy multiple source clip viewing, New clip bins offer improved data time to return to the stability and pro editing, and project previews all in management, and it's easy to sort and ductivity of Premiere 4.2. Projects were one. There's an enhanced timeline con filter by many parameters besides produced swiftly and with little prob struction window that lets you hide or time-code. The new look is elegant, lem. lock tracks. A navigator palette like and Premiere 5.0 offers a "three-point" Since the Premiere 5.1 arrived, it's those found in PhotoShop and illus editing metaphor that means you can possible to use 5.1 without fear it will trator makes for easy movement along edit a clip to a length so to fit an exist- 34 Washington Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 I ing hole in the project timeline. Pre freezes for no apparent reason while use of disk management utilities to miere also supports "Control Key creating preview files. This all while assure system order. Desktop Menu" options available I'm using latest version Media lOOqx Since Premiere 4.2 allows me to since Mac OS 8.0. This new feature drivers, a simplified Mac OS 8.1 with capture at will, it's possible to use Pre enhances editing speed by simplifying hardly any extensions, and a rigorous miere 4.2 for video capture and follow navigation and tool choice. Though Premiere 5.0 released months after QuickTime 3.0 it was only compatible with it, and did not specifically support any of QuickTime's new features. Audio rl ListView [ OK compression options that QuickTime r- Fields ------, I has supported for years were still lack IBJ Name IBJ Audio Usage ing, and none of the transition effects Cancel or video filters supported inside 0Date IB1 Duration QuickTrme 3.0 were recognized. D File Path 0Timecode Premiere 5.1 now supports several QuickTime-based audio compression D Log Comment D Reel Name codecs on export, but we still await a IBJ Media Type IBJ!Comment promised plug-in from Adobe for sup Video Info DILabel 1 port of QuickTrme 3.0' s many internal IBJ transitions and video effects such as IB1 Audio Info DI "Aged Film." ======: IB1 Video Usage OIL------' 5.1 's Fulfillment Regardless of support for features [ Sorting in QuickTrme, stability and speed re Sort by: [Name main my main concerns about Pre miere 5. I've constantly struggled with 5.l's video capture fragility; a chal lenge Premiere 4.2 handles like a rock. Assigning Qualities: You can customize the information presented in the Project Win Sequential video captures in 5.1 have dow with these options in the Project Window setup screen. These additions make crashed my Mac, and the program Premiere's data management tools more powerfuJ. 8 items I Name I Media Type I Duration I from Coolscan Bin from Mavica Bin from Photo CD Bin from still video Bin 11-..'!""!1~- Songbird Audio 03;43;06 title 1 Still Image 00;00;01 640 x 48.. . title2 Still Image 00; 00;01 640 x 48. . . Universal Counting Leader Movie 00;11;00 640 x 480 22KHz - 8 Bit - ... Data Management: Premiere now offers detailed options for assembling media files into projects. You can store source material in different "Bins," according to media type or personal preference. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 35 I [] --- = Timelinef ®I v Video1A Transition Video 18 ~l I> Audio1 11 1> Audio 2 11 1> Audio 3 Bins • 20 Sec... • Improved Timeline: Premiere's main window for assembling video, pictures, titles, and audio into a movie has been given new features and options. This is where you sequence your movie in time and add transitions and filters. It's possible to have up to 99 video tracks. with 5.1 to edit. Those who don't have preview files in advance, you can print stability and swiftness as "features"? a 4.2 copy of Premiere available might movies directly to tape from the Have we (long past) reached a not be so sanguine. (Like some did with project timeline, or write a final movie point with software where new fea Microsoft Word 6.0, perhaps you could file to disk as quickly as your Mac and tures are added for the sake of cycli buy Premiere 5, then try calling Adobe hard drives are able. cal upgrade income and an implied to request a downgrade to the previous Alas, Premiere 5.0 failed to use pre requirement we buy a new computer version. You can claim your Mac is too view files when writing out final movie each year just to stay where we were slow, or something akin to that.) files, and a task that previously took a speed-wise? Premiere 5.1 finally offers the core few minutes could take hours. Thank audio compression tools QuickTune fully Adobe's engineers fixed this de Challenge for the New has offered for years. Now you can sign oversight with Premiere 5.1. It's possible to say Premiere 5.1 is export a Quicklime movie from Pre a good program that offers potential miere 5.1 using various audio com Not So Fast and leave it at that. The rub comes for pression schemes as IMA 4:1, and the As faster computers let us do those who don't have access to an older new Quicklime 3.0 codecs Qdesign things faster, software engineers write Premiere to compensate for Premiere S's Music, and QualComm PureVoice . in more features so we can do things shortcomings. These people want to Premiere 5.1 also fixes a design not possible before. Computers slow start making QuickTune movies now, shortcoming in Premiere 5.0 that deals down because they're asked to do and Adobe Premiere 5.1 is what they with using preview files from disk to more at once. This repeating cycle has must buy if they want Premiere. make final movies. During the editing become a cyclical market mantra: com Once there were more editing pro process, Premiere creates many files on puters speed up, software gets bigger grams in the Macintosh market, but disk containing compiled transitions, with more features, and computers mergers and acquisitions on the cor audio effects, fades, filter effects and the slow down. porate side have left Adobe Premiere like. During playback from timeline This holds for Adobe Premiere 5.1 as the de-facto leader for the Mac. Premiere calls on these previews to and its forebears. Productivity must be (Strata sells VideoShop, but for all its show you in real time how your movie examined in more than one way, and quirks Premiere is the better program. looks as you edit and play back. as we move ahead we've got to be will If you're into the new DV format, ed Premiere 4.2 (and earlier versions) ing to take a step back. Are more fea iting choices from Radius and others use these preview files when writing tures better when programs run at half are also available.) out a final movie file. If you properly the speed as before? Why don't the At heart Premiere is a wonderful configure preferences and compile software program marketers also tout piece of software. The feature set is 36 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I amazing. I've now produced sev eral movies with Premiere 5.1, and can say it has an elegant feel. It still runs slowly on my Mac, especially as projects get complex, and 5.1 Poser3 still fails much too often to be by Stuart Bonwit called reliable. If you haven't used Premiere before and can find a discount OSER 3 IS a posing and anima but 1.5 MB to Poser and found I priced new copy of Premiere 4.2, tion program for human and animal couldn't open WordPerfect to write the consider that. The older version P.figures . It has come a long way since I review as I went along. I dropped the has shortcomings, but if you want reviewed Poser 1.0 in the May /June 1996 allocation down to 45 MB. to start in QuickTrme editing, 4.2 issue of the Pi Journal. Poser 1.0 did not do Opening Poser brings the intro title appeals. Premiere 5.x may have its animation and the figures ported to an ani page very artistically enhanced with bugs squashed by the time you are mation program could only be animated dissolving titles. Then the Workspace ready to move up. there. Poser 3.0 figures can be animated in appears, Fig. 1. It doesn't surprise you Let's hope Adobe is working Poser 3.0 and can be ported to Ray Dream that it occupies the entire screen be on a Premiere 5.2. I'm not looking Studio 5, a modeling and animation pro cause you just read that in the User for new features, just a stable and gram, and retain their animated features. Guide Overview (didn't you?). You fast program where the offered Both Poser and Ray Dream are products of don't even see the menu bar; however, features work reliably. I'd love to Meta Creations. you can bring it into view by moving say Premiere 5.1 is the best Pre Amazingly realistic figures can be cre the cursor above the Workspace. miere yet, but for now my vote still ated and manipulated in Poser 3.0. Instal All the Workspace feature titles goes to Premiere 4.2. • lation is a snap, as one would expect on a are in a dull gray until the cursor Mac. The first thing the manual tells you touches them. Then they light up Pi member Dennis Dimick pur to do is to increase the memory allocation bright white. In Fig. 1 the cursor is on sues QuickTime as a hobby. He has as much as possible. Use of virtual the title "Editing Tools" seen lit up at written for The Journal on graphics memory is recommended. I allocated all the top center of the figure. The and multimedia subjects since 1992 and can be reached via email: [email protected]. Adobe Premiere 5.1 Adobe Systems, Inc. 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110 Retail Price $895 Upgrades $199 www.adobe.com Requires a PowerPC Macintosh Mac OS 7.5.5 or later Premiere 5.1 requires QuickTrme 3.02 48 MB or more application RAM recommended Large capacity disk drive or RAID array 24'bit colorc display adapter Compatible QuickTnne cap ture card drivers required. Figure 1. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 37 lected. It can be manipulated by drag ging in the figure or by the Parameter Dials at the right which give very pre cise control. The temptation to play with the controls (before reading the manual!!) is overwhelming! The Tutorial is straightforward and easy but it is laden with "land . mines," tempting options that lead you astray. The human male figure in Fig. 1 is the default figure. During the course of the Tutorial, I wound up with Fig. 2 Posed Figure/Dog. The posed figure, the "Business Man," is Figure 2. Figure 5. one of many available the Poser library. The library is available by clicking the handle at the extreme right of Fig. 1. The library also has several animals. In posing the man I changed the angles of both thighs and shins and both feet. I changed the "poses" of the hands selecting from the library of hands. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 show the basic hand, a fist, and the OK sign. However, the hands can be modified by changing the angles of each of the joints on ev ery finger and thumb to create any desired gesture. (What this will do to make the ballerina's gestures more Figure 3. Figure 6. graceful is almost unbelievable!) The thing that really bowled me over was Poser's facility with facial ex pressions. Fig. 6 is a close-up of the ba sic Business Man's face with one of many "hairs" from the library. I changed the color of the hair from the original green to a dark brown. I found how to do it with the help files. I'm sure later in the Tutorial this will be ex plained. Fig. 7 Wmk and Fig. 8 Horror are two of many expressions in the li brary. And it is possible to create an in finite variety of expressions by manipu lating the eyes, eyebrows, lips, mouth, tongue, etc. There is also a library of fa Figure 4. Figure 7. cial expressions corresponding to pho controls for three lights are seen in the plus complete control of X Y Z posi nemes, i.e. basic speech sounds. Fig. 9 -upper left. The center light is bright tion and 3D rotation. In the lower left shows the man saying, "O." (This will shining from the upper left which you are the display styles ranging all the come in very handy for my animation can confirm by looking at the figure way from block outline through sev of the opera diva singing an aria.) in the center. The camera controls are eral wire frames to increasing quali Fig. 10, Head (Parameter) Dials 1, at the left. There is a choice of preset ties of rendering. Below the figure you shows facial expressions that can be camera angles and shooting distances may see that the Chest has been se- manipulated, but I could not see any dials to move the head. When the de- 38 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I dials and the head motion dials. I (32 recommended) scrapped my e-mail letter! • 16-bit color display (24-bit I have gone through twenty of the recommended) forty pages of the formal Tutorial. How • CD-ROM drive ever, I've glanced through and made frequent references to many of the sub • 80 MB hard disk space minimum sequent 130 pages, nine chapters, to get (Same CD works with Wintel ma a fair idea of what's possible - and that chines.) includes a lot! My next step is to pro Poser 3 is a product of: duce an animation with synchronized MetaCreations Corporation voice sound, both speech and singing. 6303 Carpinteria Avenue One of the things deep into those chap Carpinteria, California 93013 USA ters is the method of synchronizing ani Technical Support: mation to sound. This can all be done Figure 8. Phone: 408-430-4200 in Poser without resorting to Adobe Pre Fax: 408-438-9672 miere. Wow! Can't wait! Web: http:/ I On the advice of MetaCreations www.metacreations.com Technical Support, I downloaded an List price: $199. upgrade, additional plug- ins, and the Poser Ad- vanced Techniques Manual (how much more advanced can they be?) from MetaCrations' Web t ,,,( '"·'l'' 0.000 /Wnnd {' 0.000 site. These make it pos llllTITTTTilll ; rnnmmrn sible to exchange models S1111/c 0.000 l.llr1111 l /' 0.000 and animations complete ll llTITTTTITll mmmn111 with key frames between /"m~nr 0 .000 \I nrry Ui::/11 0.000 Poser 3 and lflllTITTTTill rmmmrnr MetaCreations' Ray Dream .\/1111 /!i () 0.000 II '11 rr_r l. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 39 rr I : • ~ ~ • surviving crystal set user in existence! ·' , ~ • '. , I P7. Well, about 40 years ago I bought a small crystal set for $1. It had a small Best of the TCS earphone and a wire with an alligator clip attached which you clamped to a compiled and edited by John Ludwigson good ground. I usually used the dialer 11 stop" on a telephone, but water pipes and lightning rods worked well, too. I believe it was the first way I listened to Felix Grant's /1 Album Sound" show IMAX in the Schoolsl The Lone Ranger Rides Againl on WMAL, which made me a jazz Technology marches on, and no One of the greatest of all shows on radio where faster than in the nation's pub or TV was The Lone Ranger, starring lover for life. lic schools, if you believe everything Clayton Moore as the Masked Man and Jay PB. you read. Herewith some (tongue in Silverheels as Tonto. The Lone Ranger's >I thought I was the only surviv cheek) textual criticism. hearty "Hi Yo Silver.... Awaaaay!" still ech ing crystal set user in existence! oes in the memories of those of us privileged Nope. I have one too ... not as good as the amazing set I once cobbled to SERVER. The Sunday to have heard or seen that e-play. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear gether with a single transistor as an Washington Post has an ar amplifier, and tuned by a variable con ticle on the front page of the as some Pi-sters take their childhoods out for a a romp ..... denser rather than by scraping a con Metro section that compares the tact over the coil. The one on my second grade classes at a public dresser [now] is a kit, but it still amazes school and a /1 charter" school, both Pl. Sixty-six years ago tomorrow Ganu ary 30) the Lone Ranger was first broad me to listen to it. .. like magic, sound ~ Anac?stia. The article is fairly cast on radio. appears from the ether! mterestmg, and I was enjoying The Lone Listener Rides Again! Hi reading it until I got to the state Yo Germanium, AWAY!!! ment that the charter school plans P2. >Sixty-six years ago tomorrow Ganu to give the kids "IMAX" comput ary 30) the Lone Ranger was first broad cast on radio. P~. _>Hey, I thought I was the only sur ers to use at home. Sigh. Appar v1vmg crystal set user in existence! ently, neither the author nor his Silver, his horse, wasn't broadcast for a couple more years, mostly due to size. Tsk, Tsk. I wasn't even born back editor knows anything about com when [PS] was listening to his crystal puters. And a nice little plug for P4. >Sixty-six years ago tomorrow Ganu set, but I did the same thing ca.1960. Apple was lost in the process. It was great, because the signal was Besides, how are those kids ary 30) the Lone Ranger was first broadcast on radio. weak enough that I could listen in bed going to fit a SO-foot tall IMAX without any noise escaping to warn screen into their homes.... ? No doubt The Big Broadcast, Ed Walker's old-time radio show, will have others that I was not sleeping, as I was supposed to be. And it didn't need Analyst. >how are those kids go some commemoration. Maybe even the original episode, if it is still available. batteries! About as close as you can ing to fit a SO-foot tall IMAX screen get to something for nothing. :) into their homes... This is always an interesting show. Sun day nights, 7-10 pm. Dramas, like the An IMAX projector is about the P9. Me too. I made a bunch of differ size and weight of a VW bug. It Lone Ranger, tend to come on starting around 8 or 8:30. WAMU, 88.5 FM. ent models - my favorite was one that should fit in most homes, if you used a blue blade double edge razor take out a wall first. PS. I fondly remember listening to the blade and the lead from a pencil. Analyst 2. Did you ever get a Lone Ranger on my crystal radio here in Alexandria, Va. and getting the signal P6. Well, greetings to all the crystal set closeup look at an IMAX projector ers. I must admit that, as a when-in in action? It's a fascinating gadget from the very powerful station in Denver, Co. (That was about 1949 or doubt-throw-it-out type person, I did with the film lying flat on platters not save my crystal sets. and an ingenious method of"float 19SO.) ;-))) ing" a long section of film to reduce PlO. To all old techies. I had a crystal tension as it goes through the gate. P6. Wow! Hey, I thought I was the only set that I used to listen to late at night (continued page 63) 40 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 Hotline-The hotline service is only for members of wAP. Please do not call after 9:30 pm or before 8:00 am. 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Snowberger 410-757-4656 Contact Managers Now Contact/UTD Guy Durant 202-575-0414 Epson Printers Mort Greene 703-522-8743 Database File Maker Pro Ron Evry 703-490-1534 General Bill Waring 410-647-5605 Database Filemaker Pro Harold Polk 301-662-6399 General Bob Wilbur 703-426-0556 Data.base Filemaker Pro KenDeVlto 703-960-0786 General RickShaddock 202-321-2110 Database FoxPro Dave Jernigan 54(}822-5137 Graphics Print Shop (before 9 PM) Harvey Levin 301-299-9380 Database Helix Joan Jernigan 540-822-5137 Graphics Print Shop (before 9 PM) Bob Wilbur 703-426-0556 Database Herix Express Guy Durant 202-575-0414 Hard Drives Mort Greene 703-522-8743 Database MS-File Guy Durant 202-575-0414 Hardware Dick Nugent 703-425-1056 Database FileMaker Pro RonEvry 703-490-1534 Hypermedia Hyperstud!o Elizabeth Mangan 703-7S0-2710 Database Pro-Cite Bob Sherman 305-944-2111 Laser Printing Dave Weikert 301-963-0063 Databases Panorama Dave Jernigan 540-822-5137 Operating Systems (before 9 PM) Bob Wnbur 703-426-0556 Database General Joan Jernigan 540-822-5137 Operating Systems (before 9 PM) Blake Lange 301-942-9180 Desk Top Pub. PageMaker Joan Jernigan 540-822-5137 Word Processing Apple Works II (before 9 PM) Mort Greene 703-522-8743 Desk Top Pub. PageMaker RonEvry 703-490-1534 Word Processing AppleWriter Eric Grupp 410-315-8331 Desk Top Pub. QuarkXpress Allan Griff 301-654-1515 Word Processing Paul Schlosser 301-831·9166 DeSkTop Pub. 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Prompt Character 46 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 Searching with Sherlock AppleWorks (a.k.a ClarlsWorks) for AppleWorks for the Experienced System 8.5 introduced Macintosh the Experienced User User Workshop users to a new "find file" application In this class we will take Call Office for Dates (Pat Fauquet) called Sherlock. This class will cover AppleWorks to a new level! Learn how all three of Sherlock's search options. to make easy outlines, lists, and check In the "Find File" portion we will off charts. Make great slide shows and Networking· cover search strategies to not only find presentations right in AppleWorks. files but also as an aid to cleaning up Learn how to dress up charts and Networking for the Home and Small your hard drive and System Folder. In graphs, how to make specialized dic Office the Find by Content section we will tionaries, and how to have Do you have two Macintoshes discuss indexing of your hard drive to AppleWorks read to you! Learn the and one printer-or two printers and make these searches faster and how to secrets of stationary files, how to make one Macintosh-or maybe even more? structure searches to find what you your own AppleWorks libraries store Come learn the possibilities of think you have: In the Search Internet not only pictures, but also frequently fered by the Macintosh platform to section we will cover Sherlock search used text strings. Learn how to write share not only printers, but also files plug-ins and how to use and manage personalized form letters and how to and even modems. Learn about the them. Learn how to save searches and do special layouts for newsletters. built in networking software in every when to use Sherlock instead of Many of the projects included will be Macintosh and various hardware and Internet search engines. Prerequisite: using the capabilities of ClarisWorks software options available to do even A good working knowledge of the 4.0 and AppleWorks 5.0 Students will more. This class will cover AppleTalk Mac OS and its interface. The price is receive templates, stationary files and and PhoneNet connectors, AB switch $35 ($50 for non members). handouts to take home. If you have boxes, serial port expanders, USB Searching with Sherlock any feature of the program that you ports and hubs, ethernet, cards, and 5/5/99from1 pm -4 pm (Pat Fauquet) would like covered in particular, transceivers. Hubs, router and servers 6/18/99 from 1 pm - 4 pm (Pat please mention it when you sign up. will also be discussed. Fauquet) Prerequisite: Introduction to Learn how to install network ca AppleWorks or a good knowledge of bling without tearing down all the the basics of AppleWorks and its in walls and learn how to determine · i~P~~~t~•~·· terface. The price is $35 ($50 for non what kind of cable to buy and how to Introduction to AppleWorks (a.k.a members). put the connectors on the cables. ClarisWorks) AppleWorks for the Experienced In addition to talking about wires This class will introduce the stu User and hardware choices we will also dis dent to the integrated software pack 5114199from1 pm -4pm (Pat Fauquet) cuss sharing files and applications be age, AppleWorks. The course will be 6/9/99 from 1 pm - 4pm (Pat Fauquet) tween two or more computers and gin with an introduction to the funda printers. Prerequisite: A good work mentals of the AppleWorks environ AppleWorks (a.k.a ClarisWorks) for ing knowledge of the Mac OS and its ment: the window layout, the help the Experienced User Workshop interface. The price is $35 ($50 for non menu, and the universal commands. This class is for those who have members). Each of the six modules (Text, Draw, some experience with AppleWorks Networking for the Home and Paint, Spreadsheet, Database, and and are interested in asking questions Small Office Communications) will be treated sepa and having specific problems dis Call Office for Dates (Pat Fauquet) rately but the emphasis will be on text cussed. The class will be a questions and draw documents. The course will and answer format. You should bring lntemet, Telecomml1nicaHons conclude with an examination of some along on floppy a sample of things basic integrated applications. Prereq with which you need help. The idea Introduction to the lntemet uisite: Introduction to the Macintosh being that you can work on a project This two session class is an intro or a good knowledge of the Mac OS while the instructor is helping another duction to the Internet. The browser and its interface. The price is $35 ($50 with one that does not interest you. screen and the functions of the vari for nonmembers). Prerequisite: Introduction to ous buttons will be discussed. The Introduction to AppleWorks AppleWorks or a good knowledge of user will learn how to personalize the 5/13/99 from 1 pm - 4 pm the basics of AppleWorks and its in browser window to meet visual and (Pat Fauquet) terface. The price is $35 ($50 for non screen needs. Internet addresses and 6/9/99 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm (Pat members). error messages will be explained. Fauquet) May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 47 I Search engines and directories will be Students are invited to bring their order lunch in. It is suggested that a discussed and explored. Students will own CPU to work on if they so desire. good follow-on class would be Graph learn about bookmarks and how to Do not bring any cables, power cords, ics and Sound for My Web Page. Pre manage and share them with others. keyboards or monitors. If they wish to requisite: Introduction to the They will learn how to download pic test their modem connection, bring the Macintosh or a good knowledge of the tures and files and how to use them modem, modem cable and modem Mac OS and its interface. The price is on their computer. This will include power supply. The price is $35 ($50 for $70 ($100 for non members). how to install downloaded software non members). Web Page Workshop and to use it. Computer viruses and Take Control of Your Internet 5/27/99 from 9:30 am • 4 pm methods of avoiding them will also be Connection (Pat Fauquet) discussed. Student will learn how to 6/18/99 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm 6/24/99 from 9:30 am - 4 pm print information and save files from (Pat Fauquet) (Pat Fauquet) the Internet, both with and without pictures. This class is appropriate for Leam to Use the TCS (the Pl's leg Graphics and Sound for My Web all users of the Internet including endary bullettn board) Page America Online customers. Prerequi Learn how to use ZTerm (a tele In this all-day workshop students site: Introduction to the Macintosh or communications program) or Nifty will learn how to make and prepare a good knowledge of the Mac OS and Telnet; to log on to the TCS. Learn to backgrounds, clip art, buttons, rules, its interface. The price is $70 for both send and receive Internet e-mail, to dividers and animations for web parts ($100 for non members). navigate around the TCS' s conference pages. They will learn about the GIF, Introduction to the Internet system, read and enter messages to it JPEG and PNG formats and when to 5/6/99 and 5/7/99 from 1 pm - 4 pm and how download files from the Files use them. In the sound portion of the (Pat Fauquet) Library. Prerequisite: Introduction to class students will learn how to record 6/10/99 and 6/11/99 1 pm - 4 pm the Macintosh or a good knowledge and edit sound files to prepare them (Pat Fauquet) of the Mac OS and its interface. The for adding to a web page. Copyright price is $35 ($50 for nonmembers). issues will be discussed. Students will Take Control of Your Internet Con Learn to Use the TCS (the Pi's be introduced to the use of scanners necflon legendary bulletin board) and digital cameras. Bring several Are you tired of having to call Call Office for Dates photos for scanning and a CD or tape your Internet company for advice, for music and sound effects. If you only to reach a technician who has . :·:}'/el:> .Pflg.e Pe.~e.lop~ent want to use these projects in an actual never seen a Mac. Are you fed up with web page, please sign up for Web Page being told that if you want to use the Web Page Workshop Workshop in addition to this class. If newest browser or the latest system Come design a web page! In this you have a external Zip drive, please software, they will not provide tech class students will be introduced to bring it and an empty Zip disk to class. nical support. Would you like to know HTML and how it works. They will If you have an internal Zip drive at what settings and numbers you need learn how to use Claris Home Page or home, please bring an empty Zip disk to know to keep your Internet connec Adobe PageMill or GoLive to class. This is an all day workshop. tion always working? CyberStudio Personal Edition to make Please bring a sack lunch or money to Come learn how the software that a series of linking web pages using order lunch in. Prerequisite: Introduc enables you to reach the Internet pre-made backgrounds, graphics, ani tion to the Macintosh or a good knowl works. Learn how to record the essen mations and sounds. They will learn edge of the Mac OS and its interface. tial numbers and settings. Then learn how to plan and organize their files The price is $70 ($100 for non mem how and where to find the latest for easy web page maintenance. They bers). browser and Internet software. Learn will learn about the principles of good Graphics and Sound for My about browser plug-ins and how to web page design. Their pages will be Web Page download and install them. Learn ready to upload to the web. If you have 5/28/99 from 9:30 am - 4 pm how to personalize your browser and a external Zip drive, please bring it (Pat Fauquet) mail software. Learn how to switch be and an empty Zip disk to class. If you tween Netscape and Microsoft have an internal Zip drive at home, Cpnsµm•r GrQphlcs Internet Explorer. Learn how to deal please bring an empty Zip disk to . ·do,d M.~ltlm~I~ with bookmark files and Internet ad class. This is an all day workshop. . . dress books. Please bring a sack lunch or money to lntroducHon to Graphics 48 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I Are you confused by graphic jar previous experience. orama or make QuickTime VR object? gon? Would you like to learn how to Creativity grows in a creative en Do you know what equipment you choose and use a scanner? Do you vironment. Come play with us. Each need and how to hook it up to your know the difference between draw class will be different based on the Mac to make all those things happen? and paint programs? Are you wonder needs and skills of the students. Re All these projects can be done with ing about digital cameras? Are you quests for specific content are invited. QuickTrme 3 Pro which is included in baffled by PICT, GIF, TIFF BMP, JPEG, When you register, tell us what you Macintosh OS 8.5 In this class we will and all those other graphic formats? want to learn, what software you want explore these projects, discuss what Would you like to learn how to send a to use and anything else you want to you need to do them, and show you picture by e-mail? Do you know what share. Prerequisite: Introduction to where to buy the missing parts with to do with pictures people send to the Macintosh or a good knowledge out spending a fortune. If you have a you? Would you like to learn how to of the Mac OS and its interface. The external Zip drive, please bring it and make your own Finder backgrounds price is $35 ($50 for non members). an empty Zip disk to class. If you have and icons? This is the class for you! We Computer Crafting Class an internal Zip drive at home, please will explore all these topics in nontech 6/1/99from1 pm - 4 pm (Mary Keene) bring an empty Zip disk to class. This nical language and show you how is an all day workshop. Please bring a make graphics work for you! Prereq Working with Quicklime 3 Pro sack lunch or money to order lunch uisite: Introduction to the Macintosh Have you ever wished you could in. Prerequisite: Introduction to the or a good knowledge of the Mac OS make a video from your computer in Macintosh or a good knowledge of the and its interface. The price is $35 ($50 stead of writing a report? Have you Mac OS and its interface. The price is for non members). ever wanted to add titles, credits and/ $70 ($100 for non members). Introduction to Graphics or a new sound track to your home Working with QuickTime 3 Pro 5/21/99 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm videos? Have you ever wanted to cut 6/30/99 9:30 am - 4 pm (Pat Fauquet) (Pat Fauquet) or mix your own audio tapes? Have you wanted to make your own lntroducflon to Adobe PhotoDeluxe Computer Crafting Class QuickTime movie, a QuickTime pan- This inexpensive program is fun An informal class in a flexible for mat to help students combine regular art and craft skills with their computer. This combination will open many new doors for some, and make life easier for others. This will not be a class to teach a specific skill, rather it will teach how to open your creative spirit. Stu dents are invited to bring clip art, graphic applications and projects to class. Instead of showing you new software you have to buy, this class is structured to help you get the best use out of software you own. Learn how to create stencils, tem plates, silk screens, sponge patterns, etc. Using new ink jet media you can • CIBSs SiZe:Cllllls BizeiS'Iimited Per class; · make elegant faux stained glass, per tos studerits sonalized gifts, animated greeting ' •.• ~c~~ can~llatio~ Ira cl~~ i,s~~ll~dbythe cards, elegant wall hangings, memory instructor' all ~tudentS willbe notified of~he canc~llation. books and quilts, jewelry, games, etc. Requirement for attendance: Please:chec~ your hom.e ~eringma,chine ify<>µ have not imagination or a desire to imagine. given· a W()~k n~~r for noiificatjon~ .. . · · . New crafters may attend to learn new • Stud~nt C&JlcellAtion.: A cmiceUatiOn, be re• computer tricks and experienced must crafters may attend to learn computer tricks. None of the classes require /;:"~:~~~;~~~~~~~fl~lll~ll~~·······~' May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 49 and easy to learn. It can be used to edit Scanners, digital cameras, a tripod and images for the web. It also can be used turntable, microphones, an AV Other to enhance digital photographs or Macintosh and VCR will be available Educational scanned images, make calendars, post for student use. Software such as ers, and cards. The only major draw Adobe PhotoDeluxe and PhotoShop, Opportunities back to the program is its poorly writ MovieWorks, QuickTrme movie, pan ten manual with lots of neat examples orama and VR author ware, audio ed • Apple Computer Inc., but few detailed instructions. In this iting and recording software, and Reston, VA. class students will learn how to use Internet authoring packages will be 703-264-5100 or this program to accomplish many available for student use. The instruc tasks that normally require Adobe tor will provide hands-on guidance. www.seminars.apple.com PhotoShop. Prerequisite: Introduction Students should bring photos or objects to the Macintosh or a good knowledge to scan, sounds or movies to digitize, • Mac Business Solutions of the Mac OS and its interface. The scripts to record, or projects in progress. 301-330-4074 price is $35 ($50 for non members). Since the end products may be too large Introduction to Adobe PhotoDeluxe to fit on a 3.5 disk, students are encour 6/16/99 from 9:30 am -12:30 pm aged to bring drives for removable me • Micro Center (Pat Fauquet) dia other than Zip drives. Two Zip 703-204-8400 drives will be available. Introduction to MovieWorks This workshop does not replace • Piwowar & Associates Many Washington Apple Pi mem introductory instruction in individual 202-223-6813 bers purchased MovieWorks at the software packages such as PhotoShop, November General Meeting. Come MovieWorks and PhotoDeluxe. The learn how this software works in a instructor will aid in accomplishing • Carol O'Connor hands-on session. We will make a projects, but will not be able cover in 703-430-5881 11 movie" that brings in several pic troductory material. The price is $35 (Photoshop Special Effects tures, adds titles, has narration and an ($50 for non members). animation and transitions between Graphic Hardware Workshop and Photoshop for Web pictures. We will then make 5/12/99 form 9:30 am - 12:30 pm (Pat Graphics) QuickTrme movies that can be played Fauquet) on a computer and over the Internet. The instructor will demonstrate how Macintosh or a good knowledge of the to digitize a movie on a computer with Mac OS and its interface. The price is a video capture card and how to $35 ($50 for non members). record from the computer to a VCR. Introduction to Quicken Introduction to Quicken We will discuss how to add video cap This course will be an introduc 5/2V99from1 pm -4pm (Pat Fauquet) ture and video out capabilities to your tion to the personal use of Quicken 7 6/16/99 from 1 pm - 4 pm computer. We will also discuss how to or 98, and will cover the following: En (Pat Fauquet) optimize your system to make the best tering Accounts, Use of QuickFill, Split possible movies with MovieWorks. Transactions, Categories, Writing Making Quicken Really Useful as Students are invited to bring their own Checks, Preferences, Passwords, Help, an Interface to Your Bank pictures to be put into their Reconciling Accounts, Reconciliation Instructor will go over online MovieWorks projects. If you own a Zip Report, Credit Card Accounts, Trans banking an 50 Washington Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 If you plan to use Citibank's ser ing and editing information in a data Pro and its interface. The price is $35 vice or some other financial institution base will also be covered. The differ ($50 for non members). (certain Credit Unions, for example) ences between the AppleWorks mod FileMaker Pro Clinic which have proprietary software, this ule and FileMaker Pro will be dis 5/19/99 from 1 pm - 4 pm class will be only of limited use, but cussed as well as when and how to (Pat Fauquet) may be helpful in understanding how migrate an existing database into these systems generally work, security FileMaker Pro. Prerequisite: Introduc Introduction to Spreadsheets issues, etc. Instructor has approxi tion to the Macintosh or a general This class will introduce basic mately one year experience with 3 dif knowledge of the Mac OS and its in spreadsheet concepts. Students will ferent banking institutions I services. terface. The price is $35 ($50 for non learn how to set up a spreadsheet, how Prerequisite: Students should at least members). to enter and edit numbers and words, be using Quicken to maintain a check Introduction to FileMaker Pro and/ how to enter basic formulas and make ing account register. A basic under or the AppleWorks Database basic charts and graphs. They will standing of Quicken and its basic ter Module learn how to sort data and how to minology. The price is $35 ($50 for non 5/19/99 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm print the whole spread sheet or only a members). (Pat Fauquet) portion of it. Students will use either Making Quicken Really Useful as an 6/22/99 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm the spreadsheet module of Interface to Your Bank - Call Office (Pat Fauquet) AppleWorks (ClarisWorks) or Excel. for Dates This class is not meant for persons ~ : .\;.;-.~~;· 1 :~::_: -, ~· ~'f: -< .. ;-,:: ~~;: : . FileMaker Pro Clinic who are intermediate or advanced This class is for those who have users. Prerequisite: Introduction to some experience with FileMaker Pro the Macintosh or a general knowledge ~]~~~~;;i and are interested in asking questions of the Mac OS and its interface. The Introduction to FileMaker Pro and/ and having specific problems dis price is $35 ($50 for non members). or the AppleWorks (a.k.a cussed. The class will be a questions Introduction to Spreadsheets ClarisWorks) Database Module and answer format. You should bring 5/5/99 from 1 pm - 4 pm (Pat Fauquet) This course covers what a data along on floppy a sample of things you base is, database terms, how to plan a would like help. Prerequisite: Intro .Prof.~lpnal. $rqpf\I~ anji database, and create database fields duction to FileMaker Pro or a good . .. . o•s~QP1 .~bti$hlog _: · · and layouts. Searching, sorting, print- knowledge of the basics of FileMaker ,' ' ~. ', ' '.T- .. ,·~·;,:_•r • ~~~·~::·.~:.j::<:~~;:~.::.~·::-::.,:.·· ~ ·, Please fill in the course number(s) of the class(es) that you wish to attend. Address------ Class #l ______City/StateJZip------ Class #2 ------Phone (day}~------(evening)------ Class #3 ______Member Number------ Non-member ----- Class #4 ______N umber of Classes--x Class Fee d>$--- = Total Fee $ -- D Check/Money Order D Credit Card Class #5 Card Number------Class #6______Card Expiration Signature------WAP Form #CL006 (mod. 7/90) . Mall r eglstratlon and paycnent to the above address. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 51 Adobe Photoshop Part 1 6/8/99 from 7 pm -10 pm Quark Xpress Clinic Learn the basic fundamentals of (Blake Lange) 6/23/99 6 pm - 9 pm (Paul Schlosser) Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used graphics program. Learn the Introduction to Adobe Illustrator Introduction to PageMaker proper way to configure the This course will cover the basics Using the basic commands, tolls, Photoshop preferences and how to use of vector graphics, drawing straight and palettes, you will import, format, the tool, info, channel and color pal lines, curves, and shapes, tracing im and position text and graphic elements ettes. Also learn how to use each of ages, using paint tools, working with needed to assemble a single-page, Photoshop's tools, create new docu layers, and creating and editing text. black and white flyer. This project will ments, define colors and manipulate Prerequisite: Introduction to the cover the following topics: Restoring text and images. Also covered will be Macintosh or a good knowledge of the defaultPageMakersettings.Changing the proper format to save your image Mac OS and its interface. The price is the view of a publication. Creating a in, and what compression will or $35 ($50 for non members). new publication. Opening an existing won't do to your image. Prerequisite: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator publication. Setting up the horizontal Introduction to the Macintosh or a 5/1V99 from 7 pm -10 pm and vertical rulers. Displaying and good knowledge of the Mac OS and (Blake Lange) hiding guides. Positioning the zero its interface. The price is $35 ($50 for point. Using the pointer tool, the text non members). Introduction to Quark XPress tool, and the zoom tool. Specifying Adobe Photoshop Part 1 Learn the basic fundamentals of multiple columns. Locking the guides. 5/5/99 from 6 pm - 9 pm Quark Xpress, the most widely used Creating, placing formatting, and po (Paul Schlosser) page layout program. Learn the sitioning text and graphic elements. 6/V99 from 6 pm - 9 pm proper way to configure the Xpress Creating a drop cap. Applying a tint (Paul Schlosser) preferences and how to use the tool, to text. Specifying a hanging indent. measurement, color and documents Creating ruler guides. Drawing circles, Adobe PhotoShop Part 2 palettes. You'll learn how to properly rectangles, and lines. Adjusting the Adobe Photoshop lets you isolate create new documents, define four stacking order of elements on the different parts of an image on layers. color process and spot colors, create page. Range kerning text. Using the Each layer can then be edited as dis master pages and manipulate text and Snap to Guides option. Prerequisite: crete artwork, allowing unlimited flex graphic objects. Learn how to correctly Introduction to the Macintosh or a ibility in composing and revising an use Xpress font and picture usage win good knowledge of the Mac OS and image. This lesson introduces creating dows and how to configure the docu its interface. The price is $35 ($50 for an image with layers, and covers the ment for the laser printer or high-reso non members). basics of the Layers palette and how lution imagesetter. Prerequisite: Intro Introduction to PageMaker to select, view, and reorder layers. The duction to the Macintosh or a good 6/22/99 7 pm - 10 pm (Blake Lange) concepts are fundamental for the use knowledge of the Mac OS and its in of Photoshop. In this lesson, you'll terface. The price is $35 ($50 for non PageMaker Clinic learn how to do the following: Orga members). This class is for those who have nize your artwork on layers. Create a Introduction to Quark XPress some experience with PageMaker and new layer. View and hide layers. Se 5/26/99 from 6 pm - 9 pm are interested in asking questions and lect layers. Remove artwork on layers. (Paul Schlosser) having specific problems discussed. Reorder layers to change the place The class will be a questions and an ment of artwork in the image. Apply Quark Xpress Clinic swer format and you should bring modes to layers to vary the effect of This class is for those who have along on floppy a sample of things for artwork on the layer. Link layers to some experience with Quark Xpress which you would like help. Prerequi affect them simultaneously. Apply a and are interested in asking questions site: Introduction to PageMaker or a gradient to a layer. Add text and layer and having specific problems dis good know ledge of the basics of effects to a layer. Save a copy of the cussed. The class will be a question PageMaker and its interface. The price file with the layers flattened. Prereq and answer format and you should is $35 ($50 for non members). uisite: Adobe PhotoShop Part 1 or a bring along on floppy a sample of PageMaker Clinic knowledge of the topics covered in things for which you would like help. Call Office for Dates • that class. The price is $35 ($50 for non Prerequisite: Introduction to Quark members). Xpress or a good knowledge of the Adobe PhotoShop Part 2 basics of Quark Xpress and its inter 5/18/99 from 7 pm -10 pm face. The price is $35 ($50 for non (Blake Lange) members). 52 Washington Apple Pl Journal Moy I June 1999 "I feel Grammarian has the power to Grammarian elevate the ordinary writer into a great ©1999 Mary Keene writer by offering options, suggestions INSTALLED Grammarian on ligerent or aggressive, or just enjoy let and opportunities for my Power Mac 6100 running OS ting you know they caught another I 8.1 and ran it without any prob mistake. Grammarian is not like any of the writer to expand lems. It was pretty intuitive to learn, those. It is gentle; more specifically, it his language skills and no weird stuff or complex things to re is pretty accurate and doesn't have a member, point and click. I liked it. It one-note theme. Some of the very early tailor his use of lan has a very comfortable way of letting grammar checkers could only check guage to target specific you know there are errors. I have used for passive or active verb use. That interest groups. " other grammar checkers that are bel- gets old fast. Initially, I didn't test any mode, a pleasant computer voice qui . Gr-Check: s.nple Document thing specific; I etly states the problem as soon as you Stvi.: I Convnon ,... , I0ptionsfr.\ IExi>~in 8 just installed it, type a grammatical error. It will per 15~ PaKtllltiOll Errw: DI AOt - • ce-ti set off restrictlw iaadlftan. activated it, and mit you to keep typing and is not a watched what significant distraction, especially if s ...t- : S11n_uttons: h appened. I had you work in a noisy environment. The It's an i nteractlve proofread! 09 ... II Correct I program,..r that checks for H ~ tried Grammarian silent mode can be used at intervals many types of errors. I Next ) previously by to proofread what has been written; downloading the alternatively, you can complete the demo version. document and proofread it all at once. ~ t-;- ,1 Done I The version I got You can also choose to have Grammar Do not 1ae • com1111 to set off restrictive modifiers. You have a clause that .. on the floppy dis ian pop up a message noting an error starts 'With a restrictive modifier ( th4t, 1r·hich, h"Mm,) and Is preceded by a comma. You should remove the comma. Restrictive modifiers are clauses that kette was the at the point of commission instead of are needed to make the meaning of the sentence clear. Example: Hif//4d4/J6/I same but gener or in addition to speaking the error. t//4t tr~ prNn. ated a strange re After I finished exploring the fea _,_,...... ~..,.... ,.., •. __ ...,,., , ...... ~.... ,... ,,.. ... ~ .. ,... _...... -...... __ , ...... __ ...... port: a punctua tures, I went back to investigate more Figure 1 tion error when I specifically the puzzling punctuation typed a period at error message and to select screen Gr-Check: ~Document the end of a sen shots to illustrate the features. Before Stvi.: Convnon tence. Since I was I got very far, I had an acute hardware 49'1 I l... l I0pt1onsl ... l IExp1~1nM PaKtultl.. Errw: A ll9phn sllMIW Cllllllld tllls COl8peand adjecttw. just perusing the problem that forced me to suspend software at this working with Grammarian for a while. s..t...... : S~utiou : point, I made a I had been using my scanner, The 'Well ,.l'done steak burned to ~ C01Tect I a crisp. A A note to come back PhotoShop 3.0 and Flashback to scan I Next ) for specific test some old family pictures for archiving. ing of this oddity Suddenly I got an urgent message that t-;- H... I Done t and continued my hard drive only had 796 K of stor playing with it. age space left! Moments before I had at A hyphen should connect tbis compound adjective. Acompound adjective consists of t'WO or mora 'Words thet ere combl ned to form e one-thoUQht A You can run least 100 MB; furthermore I couldn't use 1 1 1 modifier. If foll wed by a noun, the 'WOrds should be connected 'Withe hyphen Grammarian in ei the Finder, I couldn't shut down, I (i.e., trf!ll-doM, trf!ll-&"M#n). ther an interac couldn't do anything! I mention these Cliclcing on "Correct" corrects the problem by addi 09 a hyphen. ~ tive mode or a things only because this began a very ' "silent" mode. In weird two-week time frame, and I don't Figure 2 the interactive know if the one legitimate problem I May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 HFS+ and installed 8.5. Here is where a very ironic problem involving Gram 49~ Style: I Common i;:l l0ptions8 IExplainl•I marian occurred. Punctuation Error: A hgphen should connect this compound adjective. OS 8.5 problems I started with extensions off to in stall Grammarian after reformatting the hard drive. That went fine; Grammar ian informed me that the install was successful and it would like to be re started. Okay, I could do that-or could I? I experienced a rare startup ... Done J conflict. Since I had Conflict Catcher (CC) 8.04 installed and the only two A hgphen should connect this compound adjective. A compound adjective extensions enabled were CC 8.04 and consists of t\olo or more \olords that are combined to form a one-thought modifier. lffollo\oled by a noun , the \olords should be connected \olith a hyphen Grammarian (both Casady & Greene [C (i.e., h"ll11-dQne, h·>el1-cllosen) . & G] products}, it was an ironic "no brainer." Just to be sure, I ran the en Clicking on "Correct" corrects the problem by adding a hyphen. tire conflict test and sure enough, CC ... 8.04 agreed that Grammarian was the Figure 3 culprit. Okay, I'll just mosey on over to the TCS to look for an update. It was Saturday at noon, and the TCS was Grammar Check: Sample Document 1 still down for maintenance. What about the C & G web site? Remote 53~ Access (PPP) crashed and couldn't be Punctuation Error: Wonl(s) incorrectlg cepii111lizl:d. opened!?!? Huh? It had been working Persian Gulf just fine. I redid all the diagnostic tests Sentence : Suggestions : that I had done after the conflict prob ,...-.:=.~~~~~~--.-__.. The \olar in the P.ersian gulf ..... lem. Disk First Aid and Norton Disk \olas short. Doctor 4.01 still insisted none of their kids did anything wrong or broke any thing. Nothing else to do except trash the Remote Access preferences file and ... reinstall the TCS Explorer script; still didn't work. Remote Access was ac Word(s) incorrectlg capitalized. These are \o/Ords \olhich should al\olays be cessible but not responsive. It was capitalized (i.e., United states, £11rJlisli). Usually, the \olord(s) are proper pretty obvious that the script installa names. tion didn't connect all the pieces. Clicking on "Correct" corrects the problem by adding the proper form of After several more tries, I con ca pi tali zati on. firmed with some Pi members that ... despite the TCS still being down, Ex Figure 4 plorer was operative. I finally got a good script and connected online. C had with Grammarian was its fault, a "lost" disk space was caused by Flash & G had an update that would im wrong version problem, a system back saving a complete copy of every prove the 8.5 compatibility. Down problem that is mine alone, a "once in version of my scans and not in any loaded it with no problems, restarted a blue moon" problem (remember, this way related to Grammarian. As a re with extensions off to reinstall Gram is a blue moon month and a year when sult of the hard drive space prob marian (I had removed it after the con we have two blue moon months!}, a lems and the diagnostic work I had flict and during the TCS Explorer current version problem with OS 8.5 to do to uncover the source of this problem). Learning from experience, or something else entirely. problem,,! did a complete backup, I used the space bar to stop the restart Briefly, the problem I had with the wiped my drive, reformatted in with extensions on so I could tum off 54 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 Grammar Check: Sample Document I would need grammar checking. If you --:.- --;;=- have an application that is not Style: I Common l... t I Optionsl... , I ExplainS preconfigured, you can add that to the 64~ Squinting Modifier. Grammarian menu quite easily. Gram-· . marian can also check for many levels of grammar styles, chosen by the user Sentence: - Suggestions : to suit the particular style of writing His physician told him .... I, told him fr!fl.uentlv...... [ Correct ) frequentl g to exercise. t-- frequently told him I- of a document. For instance, you (( Next I would want a more formal style for ""' business correspondence than for a story about a little boy who lived on t--..... I--..... ( Done the Mississippi River and ran away I from home only to have a series of ad Squinting Modifier.s: .... ventures. Asquinting modifier is one that may modify either a precedi ng word or a One of the features I like in Gram following word. It squints at the words on its right and left, and leaves the marian is the mini editor window in reader confused. which it lists the errors found, the text Example: containing the error and an option to I . ... . - - \ ... correct the error in that window in ,.,._._ -"' ·· --·--··- "·'.,,, "'··-- J--- -···-"''·· ~ - -· ·-· ····-· -- stead of having to track down the sen Figure 5 tence yourself. This is especially use Grammar Check: Salnlile Document ful when you are using the ~ -= noninteractive (silent) mode ("Check m Style: I Common IS I Options[... , I ExplainS all Grammar," Figure 1) and proof 96~ Punctumon Error: Three digits should follw a comma. reading an entire document. Even bet ter is the fact that the "error" window is corrected and updated immediately, Sentence: -- Suggestions : = Grammarian retails for .... 1,( Correct I so you are sure the correction has been $79j95. t-- made. Included in the documentation ( Cancel ) for Grammarian are sample documents --c; for use as a tutorial. These documents t-..... ( 0one l 1: " Grammarian can be .... Three digits should follw a comma. When you use commas to make a large I-- number more readable, Grammar Coach expects to find exactly three numeric used with C & G's digits after each comma in the number. This message indicates you are missing a digit, or you have an extra digit in the nu mber. SpellCatcher for a thorough proofreading I--..... approach; but even Figure 6 though Grammarian is Grammarian until after I installed the chance to consult with C & G about not a spell checker, it update. That's when I realized I had what happened, I'll tell you the rest of to restart with the extensions off to the story. For now, I will report my catches many spelling install the update. Got the update in experience with Grammarian working related errors that are stalled and instead of the successful happily on OS al. installation message, I got an "error in made as a conse installation" message. Tried to unstuff Features the download and reinstall it only to Grammarian comes preconfigured quence of the wrong get the same error message. At this with many options set for the most word for the context." point, I cried "Uncle." Once I have a common software applications that May / June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 55 the changes that are made in the "sen tence" editor are held in RAM until Paste the changes to "Sample you either reach the end of a document Document"? or quit the sentence editor. At that time you will be asked if you want to write the corrections to the document. An affirmative response initiates a "save No ) [( Paste I to disk" function, thereby inscribing the changes in the document perma nently or until they are changed again Figure 7 (Figure 7). If you have a very large document with a lot of errors, it would Grammarian Writing Rules be a good idea to stop occasionally and protect the changes already made Current Writing Style: Common Writing .,____ _ from the computer poltergeists. Iii• Grammar Mechanics ••• I found the Grammarian writing !if• Phrase Usage ••• Ga' Antecedent Reference rules preference window rather inter D Bookish Phrases Ga' double reference esting (Figure 8). It made me realize Ga' Cliche Expressions Ga' lack of reference how much time has passed, as I saw Ga' Compound Words Ga' unclear reference phrases I have not seen in many years; Ga' Euphemisms Ga' Artiele-Noun Agreement : more importantly, I have not heard the D Expand Abbreviation Ga' article 'a' D Expand Contraction pleasantness of correctly spoken and D Extremely Formal Iii• Punctuation •.• written language for many years. I Ga' Faulty Phrases D Abbreviation expected wondered just how many people D Formal Phrases Ga' Balance out of order would remember some of these Ga' French Expression~ c;;;:r' Comma after dash phrases. Would there be enough to Ga' Generic Terms Ga' Comma & restrictive modifier prevent them (the phrases, not the D lnforma1 Phrases Ga' Comma splice people) from becoming anachro Ga' Latin Expressions Ga' Dashes nisms? I confess to finding a few D Statistics !if Spelling "modem" terms that stopped me in my tracks as I pondered them. I felt Save J ( Restore like I had been sleeping not for Rip Van Winkle's 100 years but definitely Figure 8 for 25 or more. were created with specific errors cho look to the correct spelling caused by Flexibility sen to demonstrate all of the errors that incorrect capitalization. While time The user has many levels of choice Grammarian can detect and analyze has taken its toll on my use of proper in fashioning the perfect voice for his I correctly. Notice the check mark in Fig English, I thought I had heard all of her writing. I was amazed at the care ure 2 in the "Sentence" window. This the forms of modifier that existed un the application's author had exercised shows the precise place of the error. til I saw the one illustrated in Figure to make this a fully personalized util In the "Correction" window, Grammar 5. Never before had I heard of a ity. Normally, utility applications don't ian cites the defining criteria for this "squinting modifier." I knew it as a offer a lot of choices. Everything is so error, explains the cure and offers to misplaced adverb, but I like "squint straightforward. Grammarian re do it for you in return for a "click." ing modifier" better. It immediately minded me of how flexibly inflexible Grammarian can be used with C engages my curiosity, making it more or inflexibly flexible language really is. & G's SpellCatcher for a thorough remarkable thus more In the process of musing on this, I ran proofreading approach; but even "rememberable." (Hey, if they can right into the visual epitome of what I though Grammarian is not a spell change the names and make up words, was thinking about; it was almost like checker, it catches many spelling-re so can I!) Jeffrey Robbins, the author, had read lated errors that are made as a conse Grammarian is certainly no shrink my mind and let me run right smack quence of the wrong word for the con ing violet; check out the shameless into the sound controls. I had been re text (Figure 3). Figure 4 shows the odd plug they sneak into Figure 6. All of flecting on all the choices that could 56 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 are given, you could Impression Sound For: write a "Concerto Overall, what parts of Grammar for Words" if you ian I used with OS 8.1, I really liked • Phrase Usage ... created a different the choices, explanations, and other features have the potential to release Wild Eep Volume: sound for each rule and polish creativity in writing. Indigo and remembered to make enough errors Whether it does or not will depend on Droplet that went uncor the writer's perspective. Does he see Quack rected to hear the the glass as half empty or half full? Simple Beep song (Figure 9). As One thing is sure: no one can honestly Phrase Usage if that were not say they were stuffed into a rigid Grammar Error enough, there is an grammatically correct mold, not when Punctuation Error other customizable they have this many choices to cus Soft Click menu box to create tomize Grammarian. 0 keyboard shortcuts I will be very unhappy if I have QTone @>Sound or macros (Figure to choose between OS 8.5 and Gram 10). What else can marian because I feel Grammarian has they think of to add, the power to elevate the ordinary Cancel J (( I wondered. Then I writer into a great writer by offering I found it-statistics. options, suggestions and opportuni Figure 9a Everyone has to ties for the writer to expand his lan throw statistics into guage skills and tailor his use of lan everything possible. guage to target specific interest Sound For: But what do statistics groups. Based on C & G's history of • Phrase Usage ... really have to do solid software, I suspect the prob with grammar? lems I experience were unusual and Pitch: Timbre: Duration: Volume: Somebody some perhaps even limited to me. If my where at sometime discussions with them disclose any was so bored that he thing that will affect the quality I (yes, "he") created a have seen in Grammarian and in their table showing how other products, I will write a follow the words used in a up to this review. In the meantime, document would if you have OS 8.1 or lower installed, dictate what kind of download a demo copy of Grammar person would read ian from the C & G web site. While 0 0 0 0 that document. you're there, get a free copy of ~Tone Qsound Nothing about the art of writing, noth Cancel OK ing about how inter I ij DI esting the subject was, nothing about COMPUTER Figure 9b anything except counting and still be made for all the inflexibility of crunching numbers! CAMP English at times, and there in front of Remember all the songs that me was the perfect visual representa sound like they are over but there's tion of that thought-all of the "ther another brief coda? At the definitely coming this mometer" bar controls for sound ef last minute, Jeffrey throws in one last fects. Not only could you choose the customizable feature for "Advanced summer grammar rules you wanted to obey, Users." I'm not going to tell you what you could compose your own sounds it is. You have to find it for yourself. to WAP. to go with the mood of the document Here's a hint-power users will prob being written. With all the controls you ably love it. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 I and then analyzes the sentence by Grammarian Menu Keyboard-Shortcuts: looking at the relationships of actions 38- Command and the people or things that are in {r- Shift volved in those actions. 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Using state-of checker developed by Linguisoft dif the-art natural language processing fers from existing grammar check techniques, the grammar checker ers on the market in several ways. first builds a ·complete analysis Today, grammar checkers use a se- (parse) of the syntax of the sentence 58 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 use Is Serial Each USB connector has only four wires-two wires twisted together for data transfer, one for power to the de Universal Serial Bus (USB) Revisited vices, and one as an electrical ground. The serial design allows for thin wires, Technobabble Lite eliminating those nasty thick cables. The exact length of cables depends on the wiring used within them. Heavier d uty wires can hold an electrical You have those nice fat inflexible SCSI N THE March/ April Journal, I charge over greater distances with no cables, terminators, cable matching wrote about the Universal Serial distortions and therefore allow longer games and SCSI IDs to juggle. Don't I Bus (USB) and what Apple calls cables, but the faster data is trans forget that some devices like a higher Firewire*. Each is one the new meth ferred, the shorter the cable should be SCSI number than others, and that odologies to connect peripherals to before loss of signal becomes a prob there is no way to change devices what are now called transparent lem. A good rule of thumb is that no without shutting the whole contrap Macintosh computers; the collection single segment of cable should be tion down, reconfiguring, and coming consisting, at the moment, of the iMac longer than 5 meters. and the blue and white G3 mini-tower. up again. As we discussed last time, there has to be a better way to man By the time you read this, there could use Is Fast age the wide range of peripheral de be at least one more. I want to expand USB has two speed settings, low vices with which a modem Macintosh on the coverage of USB. What I will speed and full-speed. Low-speed is user works. do is summarize what was covered designed for low-bandwidth periph last time, delve a bit deeper into what erals like keyboards and mice and is In Search of a Rational is going on that you cannot see, and limited to 1.5 megabits per second. Transportation System touch on the new cabling that connects Thus, these lower-speed devices don't So why not build on something USB devices. Let's start by revisiting need twisted-pair wires for data trans like SCSI or the Apple Desktop Bus . the why of USB. fer or shielded wires; however, their (ADB) instead of inventing an entirely cable segments can't be as long as new standard? Put simply, the exist So Much To Attach twisted-pair, shielded, full-speed ing standards are not up to the task I asked our instructors to poll their cables. Too many low-speed devices for today's computers. It makes little students to see what it is that they at accessing the bus too often can de sense to stay with a connection system tach to a computer. Students in our grade overall performance, since the that only allows a small number of introductory classes have the standard electrical signals on such devices devices. A more global solution than attachments: modem, printer, key aren't as robust. So, the USB specifi the limited number of attachments board, mouse, maybe a ZIP drive. But, cation explicitly prohibits low-speed that can be made to either SCSI with from our upper level courses, the list stand-alone cables. Any extension its thick cables or the low bandwidth grew appreciably. To all the above, cable you find is suitable for either full of ADB is needed. Handing very high add a Jaz drive, a second hard drive, a speed or low-speed devices. The full bandwidth devices, like high-end digi scanner, an internal CD reader, a CD speed cables allow not only for stand tal cameras or super-fast hard drives, R burner, and a tablets. We have sev alone cables of varying lengths but for adds noticeable cost to a system eral members who use more than one faster transfers, up to a bus maximum mostly intended for low-band-width printer to proof a job. Add the inter of twelve megabits per second, or 1.5 devices like keyboards and mice, as nal floppy drive and you have periph megabytes per second-eight times well as for medium-bandwidth de erals attached to the internal and ex faster than the low-speed mode. ternal SCSI bus, two serial port con vices like floppy drives, and scanners. The ability to attach and remove de nections, several devices connected to Is Expandable vices while the computer is running, use the ADB port and one to the floppy USB providing a maximum of 127 plug-and-play, and reducing that nest connector. You are over the limit of peripherals per computer. Computers of cables round out the list of wants. seven devices for typical SCSI chain with slots can theoretically have mul Bundle these goals together and you filled your serial ports and have a load tiple USB host interfaces, a future de have the design criteria behind the Uni on your ADB line. velopment with interesting potential. versal Serial Bus. Let's poke around Now picture the tangle of wiring Unlike the older serial ports that sup that is flowing around your computer. inside USB to see how all this works. May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 59 I port a single device each, or the SCSI devices is almost trivial with USB. If software for the host (in this case, the style daisy-chain where adding or re you run out of attachment points, you USB Manager in the Mac OS) to load moving any device disrupts the entire get a hub and add more ports. If you drivers for newly-attached peripher bus, USB supports special devices fill those ports up, get more hubs. Two als as they're discovered, and option- called hubs that contain attachment ports allow more than two devices, . ally to unload those drivers when the points for other devices. Each hub can because some devices include func devices disappear. You don't have to provide connections for several other tionality as well as built-in hubs. The restart to load a driver for a new pe devices, including other hubs, until Apple USB Keyboard, for example, is ripheral, but you do need to have the you have enough attachment points to both a keyboard and a bus-powered driver installed before you plug in the connect everything you desire. hub with two attachment ports, one device. Like ADB, the USB carries enough of which is usually connected to the The electrical connections on USB power for some devices, though oth USB mouse. That leaves one port on are terminated on each cable and in ers may need more power than the bus the keyboard and one port on the com the devices, preventing any transmis provides. Each USB attachment port puter for other devices. (Be sure ml1 to sion problems and eliminating the on the computer has to provide 500 connect a bus-powered hub to the key burden of external terminators that milliamperes (mA) of current; each board, since the keyboard is already a have plagued SCSI devices for years. USB device must not count on receiv bus-powered hub.) Since the specification explicitly re ing more than 100 mA of power from quires devices to handle these situa the USB. Hubs themselves may either USe Configures Itself tions, and forces the host controller to draw power from the USB itself (a bus Devices on the USB are not only adapt to a changing bus, actual users powered hub), or they can be self easy to add, they're self-configuring. get real plug-and-play. You can create powered and plug into an electrical All devices are hot-swappable. Add a complex network of hubs and pe outlet. You may see the math already ing or removing any particular device ripherals at any time, and even unplug working here. Each attachment port doesn't affect any of the others, unless, the whole mess from the computer on the computer provides 100 mA for of course, you add or remove a hub, and plug it back in, and everything just a bus-powered hub and for each of but USB is ready for that as well. works. And you never fry anything. four ports attached to it. However, USB is a polled bus, meaning that How cool is that? each attachment point on such a bus every so many milliseconds, the host powered hub can draw a maximum controller (your Macintosh) asks each The Mechanicals-use Prevents of 100 mA because if all the devices attached device, including hubs, if Common Errors are active, that's all the power avail there's anything new to report. The USB may eliminate some of the able. If you tried to attach another bus devices can't initiate communications SCSI headaches like termination, but powered hub to the first bus-powered with the host; they must wait for the you're probably thinking you can hub, it wouldn't be able to draw host to poll them. If a device does not screw it up if you try hard enough. enough power to run any devices at respond after a specified time and for And you can-but you have to work tached to it, pretty much defeating the a given number of attempts, the host at it. What portions of USB aren't self point of adding a hub. accepts that the device has gone configuring are intentionally designed That's where self-powered hubs away-it's been unplugged or has lost to be difficult to do incorrectly. come in. A self-powered hub has to power or is otherwise no longer func For example, look at those USB provide the full 500 mA of power to tioning. Once the host knows this, it connectors on your iMac or transpar each of its attachment ports. Self-pow communicates through software that ent G3. Each connector is a small rect ered hubs can have as many attach the device is no longer available. Any angle with all four wires in a neat hori ment points as they wish; bus-pow new requests to that device are refused zontal line. But if you get a stand-alone ered hubs are limited to four ports with an appropriate error. There is no cable for connecting a hub to the com each because of the power require concept of an old device reappearing, puter, you'll notice the plug on the ments. Each attachment point on a though, so you can't unplug a device other end is different-it has the four self-powered hub is enough to drive a and plug it back in and expect every wires arranged as the four comers of bus-powered hub, so everything thing to stay unchanged. a rectangle. You can't plug that con works fine as long as you don't con You don't have to worry about nector into the computer, only into the nect one bus-powered hub directly to drivers, either, as long as they're in back of a hub or other device. The another bus-powered hub. stalled. Since USB explicitly allows de hub's"outgoing" connectors, for other Other than this minor power-re vices to appear and disappear at any devices, look just like the connectors lated problem, hooking up multiple time, the specification also forces the on the computer. 60 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I The designers did this on purpose. come with attached cables. And, while what's going on is likely to be a con The rectangular connector at the com it might not seem intuitive, the speci trol transfer. The results of a request puter with all four wires in a line is a fication also prohibits USB "exten are probably a different type of type A connector, and the squarish sion" cables-any cable with a type A transfer-a command to start scan connector with the four wires as cor or B plug on one end and a receptacle ning might be a control transfer, but ners of a rectangle is a type B connec of the same type on the other end. If the scanned image data would tor. There are plugs and receptacles for you had more than one such extension likely be a bulk transfer. both type A and type B. cable, you could easily (and without It may seem like deliberate con trying) create a single cable segment • Bulk transfers are irregularly occur fusion, but it's not. USB uses a "net longer than five meters, making any ring requests for data in large worked star" topology. This allows communications on the bus from that amounts that isn't time sensitive. any attachment point to be a hub of point downstream unreliable. While The data from a disk or scanner or fering multiple attachment points. If such cables may exist, you really, re digital camera just needs to get all the connectors were the same, it ally wants you to use hubs for that there; it's not important that the would be really easy in a complex USB purpose, not extension cables, espe data arrive in a few milliseconds. setup to accidentally connect the out cially if you are going to connect low Bulk transfers are for this 11 get it put ports on two hubs together, creat speed devices. there soon but don't stop the time ing a loop in the network that melts sensitive stuff" data. USB guaran the USB Manager's software-con tees the delivery of bulk data, as any trolled brain. Two different connectors "USB may elimi data packets with errors in them are prevent this. Every receptacle into retried if due to occasional failure. which you plug downstream devices nate some of the However, bulk transfers have no must be a type A receptacle and take SCSI headaches clike guarantees on bandwidth or la only type Aplugs-like the connectors tency, the time the. device spends on the computer or those on a hub. If termination, but waiting for available bus capacity. a cable is not permanently attached to Only full-speed devices may initiate a device, though, the upstream attach you're probably bulk transfers. ment point (where the device gets its data from) must be a type B receptacle thinking you can • Interrupt transfers are for small and accept only type B plugs. There's screw it up if you try amounts of data that don't occur nothing special about the cables elec 11 often" in bus terms (as in every mil trically, but.the design makes it physi hard enough. And lisecond) but need attention when cally impossible to create a loop on the they do happen. USB guarantees an network without working really hard you can-but you interrupt transfer will start within a at it. Many peripherals have perma have to work at it. " specified amount of time. Here is an nently attached cables, like the USB example. USB can transfer the data keyboard, eliminating another pos on an entire 1.4MB floppy in around sible way of muddling your bus topol one second, but no floppy drive in ogy. USB Handles Multiple Transfer Types existence can write an entire disk that These rules prohibit some cables USB includes four different, fast. If you press May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 61 USBlslsochronous velopers to pick their trade-offs, and Specifications. A class driver controls The fourth transfer type is also a to use multiple transfer types if nec all devices that adhere to a given class FireWire keywords-isochronous essary. USB requires that at least 10% specification. The available standards (pronounced /1 eye-SOCK- ruh-nuss"). of each one millisecond frame be re apply to those classes of devices al Isochronous most simply means served for control and bulk transfers, ready identified-the ones listed "time-dependent." An isochronous leaving plel'\ty of room for isochronous above as well as audio, monitor de bus, like USB or FireWll'e, guarantees and interrupt data while never shut vices, physical interface devices the delivery of data in a time-sensitive ting down the bus's ability to shut off even a bridge to lrDAinfrared devices. fashion. USB speakers are a great ex devices or keep lower-priority data The Mac OS's USB Manager includes ample of an isochronous transfer. As moving. class drivers for hubs and for human sound data is generated, it needs to get interface devices (HIDs). That's why to the speakers absolutely as fast as any HID that adheres to the published possible. If there's a half-second pause "Don't forget that standard is truly plug-and- play: the between packets every few seconds, some devices like a OS already has a driver for it. If that the audio is unusable and maddening. device supports individual features A live video camera has similar re higher SCSI number beyond the HID class specification quirements. Getting a bit more tech than others .... As that any Macintosh software wants to nical, an isochronous bus guarantees exploit, the manufacturer still needs to bandwidth-it promises that a device we discussed last write a device-specific driver so performing an approved isochronous time, there has to be a Macintosh software has a way to ac transfer can always transfer a given cess those features. number of bits every second. Unlike better way to manage bulk transfers that happen "when the wide range of Mac OS USB Is Evolving ever," or interrupt transfers that hap Fortunately, the Mac OS services pen immediately but are small, isoch peripheral devices for the Universal Serial Bus are grow ronous transfers can move large with which a modem ing rapidly. As the software evolves amounts of data on the bus immedi and more peripherals arrive, expect to ately. Macintosh user see more built-in class drivers. For ex The trade-off here is reliability. works." ample, if the Mac OS included a built USB specifically declares that any er in mass storage class driver, devices rors in isochronous data are not re like Zip drives or CD-ROM burners tried; they' re skipped and everyone would be truly plug-and-play and not moves along. There's no other good USB Handles Multtple require any kind of disk-based driver way to do it-if a video camera is Device Types at all. The number and scope of class streaming data across the bus, it can't USB helps organize the wide specifications for USB expand each "freeze" the image until the bus is world of devices through the notion month. Apple is unlikely to include ready to resolve errors, because the of device classes. Most devices, while every possible class driver with the image in front of the lens doesn't stop. unique in many ways, fit into broad OS, but even a few more could dra If the bus can't transfer the data in that categories-human interface devices, matically improve the user experi particular packet for any reason, the mass storage devices, printers, com enc~pecially for first-time Mac us packet is simply lost. Guaranteed data munication devices, power devices, ers. USB wants to be exactly where it transfers require bulk or interrupt and so forth. A "human interface de is-a low-cost, royalty-free, easy-to transfers. vice" could be a keyboard, a trackball, implement peripheral bus for any kind Isochronous data can be much a mouse, or a joystick. As different as of peripheral that doesn't need hard larger than interrupt data. Each isoch those devices are, they all share com disk speeds. • -Lorin Evans ronous data packet can transfer up to mon characteristics: the need for both 1023 bytes, compared to 64 in an in control and interrupt transfers, no We would like to thank the staff at MW], terrupt transfer packet. However, USB need for bulk or isochronous transfers, The Weekly Journal for Serious guarantees those 64-byte interrupt the potential need for country identi Macintosh 1m Users, for. permission to ex packets get there, and they' re retried fiers in case the input is language-spe cerpt portions of a much longer work for if they don't. There is no "perfect" cific (as with keyboards}, and so forth. this article. If this piece stimulated your transfer type in USB that guarantees The USB implementors have interest, please visit their web site at delivery of large quantities of time formed a Device Working Group to 62 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 TC came up our street. The horse did in mud of his basement, and used to tell deed know where to stop... in front of me about hucksters who sold all sorts Best of the TCS our house, for example. And in sum of things from pushcarts (including mer the milkman often let us kids have deviled crabs!). The hucksters would continued from page 40 a bit of ice. Wonderful! We could pat "sing out" about their wares, very the horse, too. much like the way stadium refresh The Lone Ranger Rides Again! ments vendors do. (continued) P2. >Ah, but the wagons I remember came up our street. PS. >getting milk fresh from the fac I'm younger than you are (your tory; ... PlO. To all old techies. I had a crystal Web site picture is useful!) and remem Neat! And were you the one to go set that I used to listen to late at night ber getting milk fresh from the fac'tory; out and fetch the supply? in my upstairs room in St. Joseph, MO. we lived too far from any town for I'll always remember the first time The year was about 1934. even a horse-drawn wagon. The first I had "real" milk fresh from the cow: I house I ever lived in had a dirt floor. had had no idea that milk came with PS. >one that used a blue blade double In short, what you are discussing so much cream on it! And that wasn't edge razor blade and the lead from a is not only a matter of time, but also any fancy producer cow, just a run-of pencil. wealth. the-pasture "old bossy" type cow! Once upon a time I had one of In my first full-time job as a those, too. A friend who was a radio Pl. >remember getting milk fresh from newsie, I was a small-town paper's ham showed me how, he had made the factory... farm reporter. One of our local success them in the Army in the South Pacific When I lived at my stories was a dairy farmer who real in WW II, so his buddies could listen grandmother's, we got our milk from ized that people were fed up with su to whatever was on the air. the cows across the street. The permarket milk. His principal prob But I've forgotten how to make Codlings, who lived there, had a barn lem thereafter was managing the traf them - how many turns on the coil, and cows, and supplied milk. They fic in his driveway as the city folk lined how to connect the blade and "crys walked the cows past the edge of town up to buy jugs of the real thing! tal" (pencil lead), etc. (I think the origi (not very far) to pasture each day. As for the milk wagon - I had nal used a toilet paper roll to wind the never thought of it as having anything coil on.) Do you remember the details, P4. >[fresh milk} to do with wealth (we didn't have or have the instructions saved some One of my family's stories has al much either), it was just the normal where? ways been that the neighbor who had way milk got delivered at that time One of these really ought to be in the property behind ours was pretty (the 1940s). Of course, I saw it through the Smithsonian History & Technol upset to hear that we were moving in, the eyes of a boy... but one who thought ogy museum! because it meant that she would no country folk were lucky: real cows! longer have room to graze her cow. fresh vegetables! creeks and pastures PS. >The year was about 1934. She had been using our little plot of to play in! water from a real pump! Wow! Old-timer... you sure got me land in addition to her own, but now Silly as it may seem to you, I still feel beat. I wasn't even born until four she would have to get rid of the cow. a good deal the same way. That job as years after that! (But I still remember What makes this an interesting anec a farm reporter was one of the best jobs horse-drawn milk wagons!) dote is that the house was (and is) in I ever had. New York City. P2. >my favorite was one that used a P9. >connect the blade and "crystal" blue blade double edge razor blade P7. >But I still remember horse-drawn (pencil lead) ... and the lead from a pencil. milk wagons! The reason I like the blue blade Ah, a military model. Yes, they are I was born in '51 and grew up in was its simplicity. No coil was needed. expensive, but so are the components. what's now known as "Potomac" (the You tuned it by moving the lead to address was Route 1, Rockville back different parts of blade. P2. >But I still remember horse-drawn then). The delivery vehicles burned > Do you rei;nember the details ... milk wagons! gasoline instead of oats, but we had urnmm. no. kind of... I do, too; I went to Lancaster, PA, separate ones for milk, eggs and even I think antenna went to screw that last year seltzer. My grandfather grew up in held blue blade to wood. Lead core Northeast (Washington, DC). He from pencil was wrapped in paper clip PS. Ah, but the wagons I remember helped to raise oysters in the soupy end, middle of paper clip was screwed May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 63 to board and end went to one line of Sailor 1: Having spent 20 years driv Digital 5.1 setup, you are in for an au earphone, other end of earphone went ing boats around ... you will find a dio treat... to ground. You tuned by moving lead lot of what Blind Man's Bluffcontains point to different parts of blade. fascinating reading ... but somewhat Sailor 3: >IMHO, the best story on life The part I am really fuzzy on is sensationalized. I've been involved in aboard submarines is "Das Boot", antenna/ ground. I may have them re a number of operations ... and read which translates to "The Boat" in versed. Also, it only worked on blue reports of a number of others; and it english... blades. The stainless steel blades isnt' quite as hairy as one might imag I agree; I have the director's cut would not work. ine from the book. It is fascinating but in tape format rather than DVD. I'd guess I got plans from Boys reading though, and gives a glimpse The whole thing is in German with En Life or Popular Science. (albeit a slightly inaccurate one) of life glish subtitles. It feels so real you can submerged. I found the description smell the stink. of what happened to the Scorpion in The following appeared on the Open Fo teresting reading ... but it draws a lot Sailor 1: >Das Boot rum board (C1 B28) in late December as of conclusions from precious little fact. Yup, one of the most realistic over the "Sailing Underwater" thread. The I guess it could have happened that all depictions of life at sea I've ever premise of the first paragraph seemed way (hot run/hot torpedo caused by read and the movie didn't hide the borne out as, one by one, the former un maintenance) but normally that main small size I cramped quarters like derwater sailors surfaced to add their tenance was performed closer to ar Hunt for Red October and the old John memories. rival at home port; not 6 or 8 days out Wayne submarine flicks did. It's set in as the Scorpion was when she went a different time though ... there is a Observer: A fair number of Pi-sters down. world of difference between the way seem to have some background in sub Despite all the efforts and money a diesel operated back in WWII and marines, and, by definition, members expended ... there isn't a real clear how a nuke works. Sometimes I think of a computer users' club are more-or picture of what exactly did happen. that they were better submarine driv less techno-nuts. Facts are few ... and you can draw ers back then ... unlimited amounts Now, therefore, I commend to any of several conclusions based on of endurance and high speed with your attention a new book: Blind how you interpret them and how you more modem SSN's tends to forgive a Man's Bluff, by Sherry Sontag and mix in knowledge of operating proce lot of mistakes. Christopher Drew, with Annette dures and CO tendencies; but we'll Lawrence Drew, published by Public never know for sure. Sailor 2: >A fair number of Pi-sters AffairsTM, a member of the Perseus Still a good read though, comes seem to have some background in sub Books Group. ISBN 1-891620-08-8. It's closer than almost anything I've read marines... "The untold story of American subma to giving the non-nuke a glimpse of Thanks for the book suggestion! rine espionage," according to the what it's like. Actually, my job was to _find_ jacket. submarines, and if necessary, turn I found it fascinating-so much so Sailor 2: IMHO, the best story on life them into scrap metal. that I've hardly emerged from my aboard submarines is "Das Boot", Oh, an update on a subject I chair for two days. Among other tales which translates to "The Boat" in En started a long time ago. The USS is that of the nuclear sub Halibut. In glish... Belknap CG-26. Unfortunately, the cluded in the goodies installed in the It is a movie based on the real-life Navy carried out their promise (to a boat's "Bat Cave" was a Univac 1124 events of a German U-Boat, stars massive amount of protest, from what intended to process all the intelligence Juergen Prochnow. I understand). They sunk her on Sep info this amazing spook sub was sup The DVD special edition is packed tember 24th, 1998. She is now a shel posed to gather. In a view of things to with deleted material, and is 209 min ter for homeless fishes :( come, the book observes: "There were utes long. It is also in Digital Dolby never-ending computer problems. The 5.1, and if you have this type of setup Sailor 3: >Included in the goodies in computer's 'Interleaf' operating sys at home, this is a _reference_ DVD for stalled in the boat's "Bat Cave" was a tem needed more than the computer's DD 5.1. You won't find many better... Univac 1124 .... 32 kilobytes of memory to operate." This is an excellent movie that I I was involved in the conversion 1And they didn't even have Bill Gates highly recommend to anyone even of a Navy analog missile fire control to blame it on! remotely interested in the subject. system (Talos GMFCS) to an experi If you have DVD, and a full Dolby mental digital system in 1964. The ex- 64 Washington Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 perimental system used a Univac 18- der ... which was good enough with bit computer with 241< of memory. The the built in redundancy. production system, installed about 4 " ... the neighbor years later used a Univac 18-bit com who had the property Sailor 2: >Yes, but that was in our out puter with 40K of memory. Three cabi fit on the west coast and I have little nets (cpu, memory, tape) replaced the behind ours was knowledge about it. I did think Mother seven that the analog system took but pretty upset to hear Honey was a good technical outfit and two additonal cabinets were required that we were moving I am pleased to have been a part of it with the digital system to perform the for 15 years. analog to digital and digital to analog in, because it meant There were only two Mod-3's in conversion. that she would no existance. One in Honeywell's labs, longer have room to and the other was on the USS Belknap. Sailor 1: When my ship went through Being heavily modified by collision the shipyard in 85-86 we got the latest graze her cow. She with an aircraft carrier,. and nearly and greatest navigation system called had been using our destroyed (well, actually was de an ESGN. It is an inertial nav system little plot of land in stroyed - A Humpty Dumpty story but instead of having a gyro on bear with a happy ending) has a way of net ings to stabilize the measurement plat addition to her own, ting a ship some 'odd' equipment:) form it uses an electrically levitated but now she would ball spinning at around 250,000 rpm · have to get rid of the Sailor 2: >Obviously you never de or so. The whole thing was run by a ployed with a WLQ-4 Sea Nymph N single board computer with a cow. What makes this Suite if you had 100 percent uptime.... Motorola 68000 and 2 megs of RAM an interesting anec No, but what I did work with was on it. This thing was the single great dote is that the house the worlds largest, and most complex, est electronic device I ever had dur single-purpose electronic system. I ing my career at sea. It didn't have all was (and is) in New taught maintenance on it too:) the bells and whistles that the sonar, York City." That's why my brain is so full of fire control, and ESM systems did ... kibbles & bits:) but had bullet proof reliability and al ways knew where the ship was. I was Hey! I had 100% uptime on Sailor 1: We bubbleheads have to have continually amazed at how reliably it _both_ of the ships I was on! Left more smaller and complex systems you see worked in contrast to either the SINS/ time for waxing passageways and ... not as much space as a skimmer so DMINS it replaced or the much fan chipping slant-decks:( we have to be more efficient in our use cier sonar I fire control systems. of space. Sailor 2: Didn't you guys also do the Another thing that always struck Sailor 4: Glad to hear you liked the Mkl16 Mod 3 UWFCS? me as funny was that the active sonar ESGN. I worked for Honeywell from decibel output on a submarine was a 69-84 and was proud of the ESGN ef Sailor 4: Yes, but that was in our outfit bunch bigger than anything a surface fort. on the west coast and I have little sonar has ... and submarines almost knowledge about it. I did think Mother never use active sonar. I guess the re Sailor 1: Cool. I was on Guitarro (the Honey was a good technical outfit and duced cavitation due to higher water first 637 to get one ... we may have I am pleased to have been a part of it pressure was too much for the design even been the OPEVAL platform) and for 15 years. ers and all that audio power was in we had lots of factory types out back stalled despite practically no chance it then to visit ... can't remember your Sailor 1: >uptime would be used. face from back then though. I was the Obviously you never deployed Navigator at the time. with a WLQ-4 Sea Nymph N Suite if Sailor 5: >No, but what I did work you had 100 percent uptime. Good with was the world's largest, and most Sailor 2: >I was continually amazed at thing that damed thing had so many complex, single-purpose electronic how reliably it worked in contrast to redundant receivers, processors and system. either the SINS/DMINS it replaced or displays ... there were always broken You ran the phone company??? the much fancier sonar I fire control ones. It was cool when it worked; but (Or, for James Coburn fans, The Phone systems. was only at 100% capability 5% of the Company???) • time, ran around 90 or so the remain- May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 "Unlike Microsoft's Changing Faces: New Windows logo, the clone makers also liked the fact Mac Logos that the Mac OS logo By Lawrence I. Charters didn't have the name of another company greet CE UPON a time, when fact that the Mac OS logo didn't have ing the user at every boot. pple Computer, Inc., wanted the name of another company greet Everything was sunny ato turn the Macintosh into a ing the user at every boot. Everything ubiquitous, "generic" computer, the was sunny and bright. and bright." company created Mac OS. Since the Until Steve Jobs, a non-Apple very beginning, Macintosh operating employee, engineered a palace coup, systems were called "System toppled the Apple management, and somethingorother," but after System wiped out the Macintosh clone mar OS X," the latter - a variant of UNIX 7.5.3, Apple decided the operating sys ket. The "new" Apple quickly went - is not even remotely related to the tem should be known as Mac OS, and through several operating system former. a suitably generic logo, without the marketing schemes that made no Apparently Apple agrees, for in trademark apple and without any of sense to anyone outside of Apple. Fi early 1999 Apple released a set of new the usual Apple corporate colors, came nally, in 1998, Apple decided that the guidelines and licenses for developers: into being. future would bring two and a half The Mac OS logo was useful: for Apple operating systems: Mac OS, Out: the Mac OS logo the first time, Macintosh users had a Mac OS X [Ten], and Mac OS X Server name for their operating system. [the "half" part]. In: a simplified variant of the Macintosh clone makers liked the Mac OS, in the form of Mac OS 8, former logo, in both vertical and hori name and the logo, since the new op 8.1, 8.5 and 8.5.1, has proven to be a zontal versions, with just the word erating system put up a nice, friendly strong, resilient foundation for the "Mac." blue, black and white "splash screen" "new" Apple, fueling a wave of new The new guidelines even have featuring one, two or three smiling PowerBooks plus the colorful iMac diagrams showing how the new logo faces, depending on how you looked and "blue and white" Power Mac G3 can be placed on software packages. at it. Unlike Microsoft's Windows systems. Things got a bit more inter This ever so helpful document doesn't logo, the clone makers also liked the esting with the early 1999 release of even mention one big benefit: the new Mac OS X; despite the apparent simi logo can be used for either Mac OS or larity between "Mac OS" and "Mac for the new Mac OS X. Works best• with Mac0S8.5 Still in: while not authorized for hardware or software packaging, Apple does encourage developers, user groups and "partners" to use this logo on their Out: the beloved, friendly Mac OS logo. Web sites. 66 Washington Apple Pi Journal May / June 1999 Apple logo belongs to Apple, and can't be used by anyone else without Apple's permission. But "guidance" included with the legal lan guage suggests how devel Mac opers, user groups and "partners" can "enhance" their Web sites with a new, In: the new, simplified "Mac" nice, color banner showing logo, in convenient horizontal a Mac OS box, an Apple cor and vertical orientations. The porate apple, and the new logo retains the blue, phrase, "Works best with black and white coloring of the Mac OS 8.5." Mac Mac OS logo. Mac OS is d ead. Long live Mac OS. • opers, user groups and "partners" on About the same time, however, the use of logos on Web sites. The le Apple also released guidance to devel- gal elements remind all parties that the NETSCAPE TM ac iiInternet Explorer May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 I and has to be seen by five cabinet agencies. Let's further stipulate that the "originating entity" does not have to employ new technology or tech Close Encounters of the niques to make this process work. Today the agency that creates such Paperwork Kind a document (in WordPerfect for Win dows, perhaps) typically faxes the 15- by Tom Herlihy page item to the other five agencies to a fax machine that is designated as the "receipt point" for incoming docu MAGINE YOURSELF as a be- all too often. As helpful as the IRM ments of this type. This is actually very leaguered bureaucrat, awash in team may be, the cost and delays of common, accepted practice in federal I a sea of paper. Easy to do for many "big solutions" may discourage put agencies, but the unfortunate result is of us who toil for Uncle Sam. If this is ting the problem in professional that each receiving agency has to work your fate, rejoice, for the marvels of the hands. Or you may work for a small from the hardcopy that arrives at the Macintosh can set you free. group that has no IRM support group tray of the fax machine. Fortunately, Th.at is, the marvels of the Mac, at all. This is a situation that calls for solving this basic problem does not UserLand Frontier, Adobe Acrobat, self-help. require a change in practice by the Fetch, and a fax modem package such Wouldn't it be great if the steady originating entity. as Global Village Fax Center-all stream of documents you normally The "hands off" automation starts working together to spare you process in one way or another some exactly at this stage. Instead of using hardcopy document handling, filing, how magically appeared on a Web site a true fax machine to receive hardcopy and storage/retrieval problems. or agency server with no manual pro documents, you instead employ a The problem you face could be- cessing? You (and others) could view Mac, a fax modem, and the accompa them instantly from your desktop nying software to capture the incom (1) You work on agency machine, and then handle them elec ing facsimile to disk. Let's call this rulemaking and experience delays tronically-attaching them to e-mail "Machine 1" and declare that its en because many comments faxed in by with a standard form that seeks com tire job is to capture the fax and store the public take forever to appear in the ments, posting them to a dockets Web in on disk with a unique name (that's docket file of the rulemaking; site accessible to the public and your a job the fax modem software does fellow analysts, or simply forwarding easily). Already, you've got the docu (2) You "coordinate" legislative, them to an electronic storage point. ment in electronic form. regulatory, or other policy documents Moreover, depending on the form of You maintain a second Macintosh for a living, and staff shortages now handling you use (e-mail forwarding, on the office network to do all the seriously interfere with distribution of for example), it could automatically fancy work. Let's call it "Machine 2." multiple copies to multiple offices, generate a complete record of the This machine runs a set of programs some located blocks away in another document's disposition-a searchable and drivers to process the incoming building; or electronic log of office action-that is fax: created effortlessly as a by-product of (3) You are in charge of maintain circulation (1) Using the free AppleShare soft ing a central directory of "Departmen All this is in reach now, with ex ware available on every Mac, you tal Instructions" for a far-flung set of isting software applications (which are mount the·Machine 1 hard disk on regional entities, and a welter of dif even free in some cases). To demon Machine 2, so that it can copy over ferent word-processing formats com strate this new process dearly, let's each incoming fax as it arrives. plicates electronic posting unnecessar take a specific example from the fed ily. eral government-the policy clearance (2) Using the fax modem software of a legislative proposal that will be a second time (this time located on These are the types of headache sent to Congress after the agencies in Machine 2), you "print" out a copy of that try one's soul. These and many volved have reviewed and approved the fax-but in this situation you ac similar problems interfere with getting it. Let's imagine that the document is tually substitute Adobe Acrobat's the actual work accomplished, and yet 15 pages long, includes a descriptive "PDFWriter" software that produces they seem to become the central issue bar chart in the supporting analysis, a PDF (portable document format) file 68 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I on disk instead of sending the print to Machine 2. Also, Frontier easily -cause the Global Fax Center (or job to the printer. This is what you stores the creation date and time of comparable) software to open and want-the fax remains in electronic each new facsimile (as a so-called "per print the newly arrived fax (which cre form but it has now been transformed sistent value"), so that the program ates a PDF file in actuality) and save it into a universally available format that accurately "remembers" which files it to a location on disk where it can be is common on the web and elsewhere. has processed versus which ones have forwarded to other machines. come in since Frontier last quit. This is (3) Last, using AppleShare again valuable when you suffer interference -move the new PDF document to (qr Fetch if you are placing the com or worse on the network. a AppleShare server, or activate Fetch pleted PDF files on a UNIX Web site), To be fair, Frontier can't solve ab and FTP the PDF document to a UNIX you place each item in a directory on solutely every problem. For example, Website. another machine in the office (let's call the version of Global Fax software it "Machine 3"), and clean up before used is not "scriptable" by either Fron -remove the extraneous files cre the next processing round (deleting tier or AppleScript, so a $95 addition ated on Machine 2 during the produc extraneous files left on Machine 2, for called "Player" from Prefab software tion phase, to be ready for the next example). (http:/ /www.prefab.com/) is needed cycle. to work with Frontier and make vari Making all this happen automati ous menu choices to cause the fax soft Fetch is a very handy shareware cally is where UserLand Frontier (ver ware to go through its print cycle. tool, scriptable in either AppleScript sion 4.2.3 or 5.x) comes in. This is an or Frontier. Essentially, it puts a smooth amazing product, written and con user interface on the FTP (file transfer stantly improved by Dave Wmer and "Wouldn't it be protocol) UNIX capability to move Doug Baron. It is described in all its files between computers. In this case, wondrous detail and capability in great if the steady it allows a Mac shop to move files into Matt Neuberg's "Frontier: The Defini stream of documents a UNIX environment such as a Web tive Guide" (O'Reilly and Associates, site. As noted, moving files to a Mac 1998) (go to http:/ /www.oreilly.com/ you normally process server is extremely simple, using catalog/ frontier for a description of in one way or another AppleShare. the book). Although this scripting tool Here's the lowdown on Adobe Ac (really much more and dubbed by somehow magically robat. Acrobat is a very high-quality set Neuberg as the "Ultimate Macintosh appeared on a Web of programs that can do amazing Productivity Tool") has once again things-but what they boil down to at become a commercial product, a free, site or agency server the basic level is that they can create a totally capable version remains on the with no manual pro very faithful reproduction of almost web site as version 5.0.1. It has valu any document created by other soft able, comprehensive web-publishing cessing? You (and ware, and the resulting PDF file can capabilities that are in addition to the others) could view be read on any platform (Mac, Win powerful scripting capabilities used in dows, UNIX x-windows and probably the process described here. You can them instantly from others) with a free, universally avail look over Frontier and its many poten your desktop ma able "reader." The reader is now often tial uses at http:/ I found as a plug-in to popular web www.scripting.com/ frontiers I. chine ... " browsers-that is, shipped as a part As an aside, Apple's own of the browser so that PDF files are as AppleScript could probably substitute easily viewed and printed as JPEG, for Frontier, but so many needed ca Here are all the steps that Frontier GIF and HTML files. If you go to the pabilities are readily available in Fron undertakes automatically once a Internal Revenue Service's web site to tier that it looked like the far more ro minute: obtain tax forms, they are now in PDF bust scripting environment. Out of the format. At the Government Printing box, for example, it has a script that -test whether a new fax has ar Office Web site, enrolled bills being tests whether the "newest" fax file on rived on Machine 1 (and copy it over presented to the President for signa Machine 1 is still being captured (in to Machine 2 only after the fax trans ture are also in PDF format. Thus, you which case it leaves it alone), or mission is complete). can confidently expect users of the whether it is ready to be copied over documents you process to be able to May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 69 display and print them no matter what platform or word processor they use. Amazingly, PDF files can be smaller than the word processor files they were created from. You can obtain the Art Explosion 250,000 free Adobe Acrobat reader for any plat form at the following URL: review by Sylvia Rego http: I I www.adobe.com/ prodindex/ acrobat/readstep.html. Rating: 4.5 Clicks out of 5 The BOOK is also first-class. Pages Requirements: Macintosh with System are thin but avoid bleed-through of There are many refinements pos 7.0, but 7.5 is needed for the optional images while still being sturdy enough sible. To take one example, the Adobe Portfolio™ browser included for the to easily turn without any crumpling. Acrobat Pro. 3.x product (which is not 23CDs. After the User Manual pages, which are free, but in the $300 range) includes a Pros: Professional quality exceptionally helpful, the images are product called Distiller that directly and variety of images, range of top arranged in real-life categories and sub converts into PDF the postscript file ics, easy to locate and use. Very help heads within each format style. The that most word processors produce as ful manual. From line art through Web gray page beginning each section pro part of printing to a LaserWriter - graphics and animations. vides fast locating of a group. There is these are absolutely crystal-clear, high Cons: Photo section titles in an alphabetical index by image topic quality products. Thus, if you are han cryptic PC style, not Mac plain En which lists all pages for that item. dling large documents you would glish, with a single sample of each cat Images can be inserted directly, or rather not fax, or if you want beauti egory illustrated in the book. The you can use the includ~d Portfolio™ ful looking "Departmental Instruc 'crippled' version of Portfolio™ image browser. (Or ask me tions", you can process PostScript files browser is adequate but limited. 70 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 types of jobs. The user interface con sists of toolbars, "dockers" (windows that can either float or remain attached to the workspace borders), and "roll CorelDraw 8 ups" (floating windows used to assign object properties such as size and po Reviewed by Sara Gagan sition). The Property Bar changes as you switch from tool to tool. CorelDraw 8 for Power Macintosh (In have the same name but may perform Draw 8 features a very cool Drop stalled on a Power Mac 8600/250, the task in a different way." (p. 603.) Shadow function with which you can 64mbRAM) Because CorelDraw is a well-estab interactively create soft, transparent lished Windows application, I wonder your ship has come in (sic). Create tex tures, extrusions, transparencies, con RELDRAW 8 for Power if some of the peculiarities I find are the result of a Windows program be tours, special lenses, and more to your cintosh is a big, complex pro heart's content. Then, apply filters to gram that competes well with ing bent to fit the Mac environment. G pixelate, swirl, emboss, curl, distort, Macromedia Freehand 8.0.1 and pinch, blur, or sharpen your bitmap Adobe illustrator 8.0. It seems that you An Innovative Program image. Draw 8 includes many filters can accomplish almost anything with Just because something is unfa that would be recognized by CorelDraw 8 that you can with the miliar is no reason to discount its use PhotoShop users. other two (acknowledged leaders in fulness, however. CorelDraw 8 has a I absolutely love some of the the design industry). In fact, it does number of strengths from which the goodies bundled with CorelDraw 8. Its things that Freehand and illustrator other programs could learn. For in Commercial Printing Guide is loaded cannot do. So why am I not leaping to stance, it is as customizable in appear- with information useful for the non make the switch? professional and professional alike. As a professional graphic de This is a handy consolidation of infor signer, for years I have been steeped "It also comes with some mation you would otherwise have to in the ways of Freehand, illustrator, impressive libraries: a glean from numerous sources or learn PhotoShop, and Quark XPress. When the expensive way, through trial and you ar~ comfortable with the way separate CD includes error. It also comes with some impres something works, there is a natural 1,000 Type 1 and sive libraries: a separate CD includes reluctance to change. When I was first 1,000 Type 1 and TrueType Fonts, introduced to Quark, for example, I TrueType Fonts, 40,000 40,000 clipart images, and 1,000 high experienced major bouts of resistance clipart images, and 1,000 resolution photos. To manage all those marked by endless whining about fonts (and any others you might have "Quark quirks." Now, you could not high-resolution photos. on your computer), CorelDraw 8 pro pry it out of my computer. I rarely To manage all those fonts vides Font Reserve, a font manage complete a job without it. It is so much ment application. This data-base/ easier and faster just to work the way (and any others you browser combination does the job of we are used to, just having to deal with might have on your Suitcase or Masterjuggler, but in my those pesky upgrades now and then. opinion, does it much better. (Word of All this leads me to my major prob computer), CorelDraw warning: though you need to have lem with CorelDraw 8-it is unfamil 8 provides Font Reserve, some version of ATM installed, Font iar. From its weird little names for Reserve is not compatible with ATM common tools (like the "pick" tool in a font management Deluxe. It is recommended that ATM stead of the "selection" tool) to a seem application." Deluxe be replaced with the standard ~gly _e~cessive number of tool op version, available from Adobe.) tions, it JUSt seems foreign to me. May I quote the manual? ance as you could ever want. You can Practical Analysis (or) Exploring "Some tools in Adobe illustrator, change the way the default screen the Work Area Without Reading Macromedia Freehand, and looks, how and which tools appear on the Manual CorelDraw perform the same task but the toolbars, and where the palettes As a test of how intuitive the have a different name. Other tools are placed. You can even save and load customized arrangements for different CorelDraw 8 interface is, I decided to "noodle around" prior to doing the May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 71 I tutorial or even looking at the manual. instead of Freehand, but didn't get ity programs-than to plunge into the (Isn't this what most people do until very far. When I attempted to import expense, and perhaps overkill, of a they get frustrated?) Here are my ini the Illustrator paths, the (pointer) high-powered setup like PhotoShop tial impressions: loaded, but when I clicked to place and Illustrator or Freehand. The Page Size button is a nice fea them, nothing happened. This was CorelOraw's tainted reputation ture. It offers every format from "Al" probably a result of my lack of experi among service bureaus, which stems to "German Legal Fanfold" (whatever ence with the program, but I finally mainly from PostScript problems in that is). Of course, you can specify a had to give up due to time constraints. earlier versions, will be hard to eradi custom size as well. Ruler units run cate. Presumably these problems have from points to miles and kilometers. Service Bureaus/Print Shops been addressed in the latest version. (This is certainly very accommodat Let us assume that I had been Also, there are some new pre-press ing, but I wonder where I can find a successful in completing the job in features that will go a long way to print shop that will output a 12" x 1 CorelDraw instead of Freehand. What, head off errors introduced by the user. mile page... ) then, would have been my output op The "Prepare for Service Bureau" Wiz Some features seemed less tions? ard in CorelOraw 8 guides you friendly to me. At first glance, the tool I called several service bureaus through a series of steps to help en bar looked very foreign. It also took and print shops to check the viability sure that the files you send to the ser me longer than I would expect to fig of sending CorelDraw 8 files out for vice bureau are complete and properly ure out how the program manages lay pre-press. With one or two exceptions, set up for successful printing. ers. When the computer froze upon the results were not encouraging. One In summary, while I have gained saving my first masterpiece, I decided local printer suggested that I export a lot of respect for the capabilities of it was time for a tutorial. The tutorial any CorelDraw files in EPS format and CorelDraw 8 during this review pe itself seemed friendly enough until, place them in another program, such riod, it is highly unlikely that I will again, I tried to save. This happened as Quark, for final output. He expects make the switch myself. CorelDraw repeatedly, so I ran Conflict Catcher, slow acceptance of CorelOraw in the B's ability to create and edit bitmap but to no avail. The problem became professional design community, and images may put it ahead of Illustrator inexplicably intermittent after that, but does not plan to purchase it any time and Freehand in some respects, but I never did get through the whole tu soon. Another pre-press/imagesetter those who need a high-end bitmap torial without crashing. I assume this says he has never had a request to editor will most likely continue to use had something to do with my com work with CorelOraw for the Mac. PhotoShop, and until DRAW does ev puter set-up rather than the program. Unless it performs particular functions erything else "way better" than Illus The tutorial itself, I felt, should have way better than the standards [Free trator and Freehand, my guess is it will been a little more comprehensive. hand and Illustrator], he said, why face an uphill battle in the professional My practical test of CorelDraw 8 would anyone switch? design community. On the other hand, was to try to replicate a real life project I can certainly see where CorelDraw 8 done in Freehand. Originally I had cre The Outlook for the Mac would be an excellent ated a 4-color (CMYK) logo for a cli There are reasons why I think choice for many entering the design ent in PhotoShop, to be saved as a .tiff CorelDraw 8 will gain ground. For one field, depending on their ultimate us and imported into Quark for use in a thing, designers who work in a mixed age, as well as for the nonprofessional letterhead, business cards, note card, Windows/Mac environment might who wants a high-end multifaceted envelopes, etc. However, the client ret have need to exchange files and thus draw, paint, and 3-D program all roactively decided she wanted the en gain exposure in a "back door" sort of rolled into one, and who is willing to tire job done in three Pantone colors. way. They might then be drawn to the take the time to learn what this big, So, I exported the paths from strengths of CorelOraw as they be complex, and really quite amazing PhotoShop to IDustrator and opened come familiar with its interface and program can do. • them in Freehand. (I prefer working begin to use it in place of the old stan in Freehand). I filled the paths with the dards in some instances. People who From March 1999 The Pulp, newslet appropriate Pantone colors to com are starting out in desktop publishing ter of the Hartford User Group Ex plete the logo, then created the statio on the Mac might find it more conve change {CT). nery pieces, all in Freehand. (I later nient, and certainly less expensive, to had to recreate the job in Quark, but buy CorelOraw-which includes that's another story.) I tried to repli Photo Paint for bitmap editing, Dream cate this sequence using CorelDraw 8 30 for 30 modeling, and a host of util- 72 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 done at their site available to you. They use cookies to do this, but don't worry, they are just tracking what DoubleClick you've searched for in the past. Click Go and up pop some hits. The second hit looks interesting: "MS-DOS Parti tioning Summary." I read about the JUST FINISHED reading tells me). Any help or suggestions gracefully accepted and do keep up different DOS versions (and even Win ~o.ur :olumn of February 8 on par dows 95 and Windows 98) and how titiorung and would like to carry the good work. I they partition hard drives. At the top this further. My computer stated life in the summary of this article it has a as a 486 DX2 66 with 550 mb hard The Journal has the only serious com link to another article that tells me the drive. Subsequently it has been up puter page in the community. order in which driver letters are as graded to a 486/586133 with a 6.6gb Jim Wood signed. This is relevant to Jim's ques hard drive and 40 mb RAM. It also 5107 Talbot Place tion too. I click the Back button on my started out on Windows 3.11 and has Alexandria, VA 22304-2705 browser to get the list of hits again. been upgraded to Windows 98. It runs tel. 703 370-5977 Number 5 is a description of de beautifully and I can now do my work fault cluster sizes for FAT32. I'll check and run my grandchildren's Jim: Thanks for the complements, it out. Well it doesn't really tell me any ?ames.The problem is partitioning. It Dave and I are blushing. You know thing, but it does mention another ar 1s now partitioned into three equal Dave, we find out a lot of information ticle about the description of the FAT32 sections of about 2 gb, but I can only from the Knowledge Bases and Sup system. I'm intrigued, so I click on that access two of them. The program for port options on manufacturer*s web one. formating the new hard disk (Western sites. As much as people like to bash It tells me all about FAT32 file sys Digital EZ Drive 9.09) stipulates that Microsoft, I find the info contained in tems, which is kind of interesting. You Windows 3.11 cannot handle parti their support sections to be pretty can learn that the FAT32 system allows tions bigger than 2.2 gb while Win 98 good and thorough. I thought I would large partitions which is exactly what can handle (in this case) the full 6.6 gb. take this opporhmity to answer some Jim's looking for. Even more interest Because it is an upgrade, Windows 98 questions using the support options ing is a section that mentions how to requires that I install Windows 3.11 from Microsoft for Jim's question here. convert my existing partitions to before it will load (I tried just install I've included the text I used to search FAT32 under Windows 98. ing Windows 98, but no go). This re so you can see the results. This may quires that I partition the disk into help our readers when they get some What the article says to do is: three 2.2 gb sections. 'This would be frustating problems and can't wait for no problem except that the BIOS will us to answer their questions in the 1. Click Start, point to Programs, point only allow five drives (telling one of paper. to Accessories, point to System Tools, them to be B drive does not work), So You have a couple of choices here. and then click Drive Converter in Win 3.11 I can have three partitions If you are still on Windows 98, you can (FAT32). and no CD drive or two partitions and try converting your existing partitions 2. Click Next. my CD. to the new FAT32. FAT32 is a system 3. Click the drive you want to convert If I could format the hard drive that allows more hard drive space to to the FAT32 file system, and then click and set go immediately into Win 98 I be used in a single partition. could have all my 6.6 GB on C. Is there Jim's first question is about parti Next. 4. Follow the instructions on the any way to go directly into Win 98 so I tioning and Windows 98 versus 3.11. screen. can have just one partition? If not, is I went to http:// there some way I can have a drives C, support.microsoft.com, clicked on Please note, that I HAVE NEVER D, & E plus F for my CD? My prefer Search Support. My search is about TRIED THIS! You MUST have a good ence would be to have three separate Windows 98 Gust pull down the menu backup that you can restore from in partitions, then I could have one for there and select Windows 98). I want case of disaster. DOS. My computer used to run sev to search by Keywords (the default), Another option (which you eral DOS based programs very well, then I type in "partitioning" (without wouldn't find on Microsoft's home but under Win 98 the simulated DOS the quotes.) One of the nice things page, but which I happen to know cannot provide sufficient memory (it about Microsoft's page is that it will keep the last 10 searches you have about is Partition Magic software from May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 73 Power Quest. We use that software be much need for computer colum back! So HFS+ is what you've got. here in our office and like it. We nists huh Dave? Going beyond Apple's site, I'll use haven't had any problems with it. the wonderful Sherlock Search Engine Back to Jim's second problem of DAVE that comes with OS 8.5. Sherlock can not having enough memory for a DOS SHHHlffi! It's our secret, Derek. ... search your choice of Internet sites si program under Windows 98. I go back Well OK, but only for this week's col multaneously, including the Apple to http://support.microsoft.com and umn. Technical Information Library!. The I search now for "increase memory for As long as we're talking about rub with doing it this way is that ''HFS" dos programs" (without the quotes). support, let's head our Mac users to can stand for lots of things (like Health The third hit is titled: How to Increase apple.com for Apple Computer's on and Family Services) so you'll have to Conventional Memory for MS-DOS line help. Goto apple.com/ support to weed through a few choices to find Based Programs. That looks good. start. Selections include the new Blue what you're looking for. Jim's final question is about in and White G3s, Powerbooks, iMacs, Here are some articles I found that stalling Windows 98 with the upgrade Older Macs, Mac OS and Server and are relevant to our search: copy, the short answer is you can't. Applications. From any of these HFS+ Survival Guide Since the upgrade costs less than the choices, you can head to the 14,000 http:/ I macworld.zdnet.com/pages/ full copy, they want to make sure you article Technical Information Library. april.98/Column.4241.html have the older copy installed and they Like Microsoft's technical information A review of HFS+ will "upgrade" it for you. files on the web, this is a great place to http:/ /www.chron.com/content/ It gives me lots of info on this sub get help or tips about anything Apple. chronicle I atchron/98/02/15 I ject (too much to reprint here.) If you scroll down to the bottom of the drmac.html Here is a listing of the URLs that page, there's a search window you can Upgrade your partitions from may help Jim and others. use as well. Most of the time, I head in HFS to HFS+ without reformatting Power Quest's Partition Magic that direction since it can save several using http://www.powerquest.com/prod mouseclicks getting through layers of PlusMaker uct/pm/PMdescription.html menu selections. http:/ /www.Alsoft.com/ For more info on FAT32, check out: Derek handled Jim's question Finally, another great source of http: I I support.microsoft.com/ sup about Windows Partitions and FAT 32, information on drive partitioning or port/kb/ articles/Q154/9 /97.asp so we'll take a simliar look at Apple's anything computer-related is your lo There is a good, albeit technical, answer to getting more out of hard cal User Group. Whether PC or Mac, article on the various forms of memory disk partitions. On this side of the PC these folks are a tremendous resource at: http:/ /support.microsoft.com/ world, it's called HFS+. So I'll search of information and help. Most impor support/kb I articles/Q37 /2/42.asp for that and see what we can come up tantly, there are members who have To increase the amount of DOS with. probably done what you need to do memory available One of the selections tells me and faced similar problems, so they http: I I support.microsoft.com/ sup HFS+ is called the "Extended File For know how to deal with them. The port/kb I articles I Q134/3 /99.asp mat" and was available starting with price for membership is small com Description of Default Cluster OS 8.1 (we're up to 8.5 and on the pared with the return. Sizes for FAT32 File System verge of 8.6). It will let me "dramati The biggest groups in the DC area http: I I support.microsoft.com/ sup cally increase the number and size of are: The Capitol PC Users Group at port/kb I articles I q192/3 /22.asp files" stored on my system. But (except http:/ I cpcug.org/ and (my favorite!) as noted below) you have to do a Washington Apple Pi at http:/ I MS-DOS Partitioning Sumary backup and then reformat (using www.wap.org. By the way, their lat http: I I support.microsoft.com/ sup Apple's Drive Setup Program) to get est CD - Pi Fillings V. 4.5 is out with port/kb I articles/ q69 /9 /12.asp the benefits of HFS+. tons of Mac OS upgrades, utilities and Heading over to the Mac OS Tech more - all for just $10.00 plus postage. Info on how MS-DOS and Wmdows nical Information Library at Info is on the web site or email to 95 assign drive letters: http: I I til.info.apple.com, I'll do an [email protected]. Check out their edu http: I I support.microsoft.com/ sup other search on HFS+ to find that there cation disk too. • port/kb I articles/Q51 /9 /78.asp are some 76 articles just on this item alone. You could also search on "Ex Of course, by giving away our tended File Format as an alternative Internet Searching Secrets, there won*t but as I discovered, nothing came 74 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I rated games are already available (wait till you see the new one from Lucas Arts based on Chapter 1 of the Star Wars saga). And with software More DoubleClick from Connectix, you can play almost any Playstation game. Emulation soft ware is also available to run Wmdows AR DOUBLECLICK, I/ system with 5 MB Profile. Dreams on your Mac - and thus, all the games are wonderful but usually only last so My mom and dad would~'t on that side of the PC puddle. With OS write this, so I'm going to wnte long as the next version of CPU or the USB port, you can connect a grow a does. Then you get to start all over it. I'll make it brief: What is your idea ing list of peripherals (like that sc?11- of a dream system? We're looking for again. ner and printer) including a growmg a new computer, and it has to be able Luckily, Danny, today's Macs and number of joysticks. You'll want to buy to do everything: high-performance PCs are not only fast and powerful, but a disk drive like the Imation games, Web design, word processing, can be updated and upgraded in so Superdrive or Zip Drive. financial records, DVD movies and many ways that it would take a book IF you can't wait, go with a cur to discuss everything. And remember games, great sound. I would say try rent iMac (the only thing it doesn't of to keep it under $10,000 but my par you're not just talking about the "com fer is a DVD drive at this point) or the ents would say it should be under puter" itself but the peripherals you Blue and White G3 and a good 15-17" $2,500. Thanks for your time - Danny will also need to complete your sys monitor but you'll end up paying tem. That includes a monitor, scanner somewhat more for it than the iMac. DAVE and printer, for example and could You can get a model built to order di Woah! Derek and I have been also include modem, tape backup, joy rect from Apple with a DVD drive if wondering when we'd get a question stick, digital camera, etc. that's what you need. Any of these like this. I know Derek still has that Given the money you're talking Macs are wonderful for doing web about, let me suggest you hold on a dream Radio Shack TRS-80 system he design (like FrontPage, GoLive and tad and wait for the Revision D iMac put together a few years ago. And I HomePage), word processing (Try still have (really) that dream Apple I that is expected out this summer. The Nissus Writer, Appleworks or Word word is, these all-in-one units will from the Office 98 suite). Quicken will DoubleClick is reprinted by per have a 300 mhz or faster processor, take care of your financial needs. DVD, 16" monitor, 56k modem, Rage mission ofthe Journal Newspapers Apple bundles a vast amount of soft Pro graphics, at least a 6 GB hard drive ware with each iMac which should Dave Ottalini is on the Board of Di and 32 mbs of memory (which is take care of just about everything you rectors of Washington Apple Pi, the upgradable). There's also comment need to do. Apple/Mac user group based in out there that Apple will bring back My only other suggestion would Rockville, Md. the so-called "mezzanine" slot that will be to upgrade your memory to at least Derek Rowan is president of HLP let you add additional functionality 64 or even 128K if you can afford it - Asociates Inc. (www.hlp.net), a full including even faster graphics cards, you'll be happy you did. etc. (these were removed from the Re service computer network and OK Derek - your turn to vision C units). This will only set you "Dreaaaaam; Dream, Dream" ... Internet firm serving businesses, back about $1299.00 - leaving you headquartered in Falls Church, Va., plenty to buy a scanner and photo Derek: Hmmm... You laugh, but I still and with offices in Washington, Bal quality printer. IF you play your cards do have a TRS Model 100 '1aptop" and timore and New York City. right, some vendors even bundle one a Sinclair ZX-81 lK computer as Dave and Derek can be reached of these peripherals with the com sembled in the early 80s. by e-mail at [email protected]; puter. Of course you'll get your choice Well, I'm going to be a little cyni by snail mail in care of The Journal, of 5 yummy colors. The iMacs offer cal. (Not really, it's just my job to give great sound but you can improve that 6408 Edsall Road, Alexandria, Va. both sides of a computer story... ) In with color-matched speakers from a 22312; or by fax at (703)-846-8366. stead of spending all of that money on number of vendors. a new PC, how about spending $599 While all questions and comments Given the popularity of the iMac, on one of the new E-Machines. The are welcome, we cannot promise many more games are being produced low cost PCs sweeping the nation. In individual responses. for the computer-most of the top- only 4 months of sales, E-Machines May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pl Journal 75 I have surpassed the market share of bring you more in line with your your column of March 29 answering Apple computer and are the 4th larg- $2,500. If anyone wants a system like my earlier questions on partitioning. est manuf ac turer o f persona1 compu t - thi s, give. me a ca11"' ... ..- ) I thought I would bring you up to date ers in the marketplace at only a little on what happened. I now have three over 1% behind IBM. They are the MORE COMMENTS FROM OUR fully functional partitions on my hard fastest growing personal computer READERS: drive of 2.2 GB each. However, I don't maker in history. Guys, know how. On Sunday I had drives A For $599 you get a 333MHz Thanks for your advice, and to through E. After your column, I con (Celeron based, but don't worry it is Harley for his comments on the prob verted my two accessible drives to the new Intel Celerons that are very lem with my system hanging up when FAT32 .. While checking MSD I noticed fast), 32MB of RAM (upgradeable), shutting down. Shortly after I E I now had a phantom drive F and a 4GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, ATI mailed you the problem stopped hap limit of drives through H! I went back Rage Pro Turbo Graphics card, Crys pening. I could not figure out what and ran FDISK which advised me that tal 3D audio card, keyboard, mouse, was different until I read Harley's Wm98 had a large disk management Windows 98, Microsoft Works, Floppy, comment. I do have Norton Utilities function. I decided not to go for one and a v.90 56K modem. Just add a 3.0 running in the background. Some big disk, as it advised some programs monitor and you're ready to rock. time recently I went to the web to would find this non-accessible. With Take the left over $9 ,200 and invest it. check for an update for NU and down FDISK I resurrected the unnamed par With the interest or dividends, you can loaded one. I do not recall the timing tition and named it E. I tried to for buy a new E-machine every year. You of the download and when I stopped mat it in FAT32 but the program said can't get that kind of computing hanging up, but it sure makes sense it could not access it. However, this upgradeability anywhere. This ma that NU was causing the problem. morning it was listed as already hav chine will really do everything you Thanks again. ing FAT32. Maybe FAT32 is magic. want and especially for Internet surf Joe Stehling MSD now advised my limit on drives ing and such it will be great (because Bowie is through I. Now I'll try your infor you have a fast modem.) Check 'em mation on increasing memory for DOS out at http:/ /www.e4me.com David & Derek, programs. Keep up the good work! If you absolutely have to have the Thank you for the information in Jim Wood • latest and greatest, consider a Pentium ill 500MHz. 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If May I June· 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 77 ~ •_' Don't Be An April Fool sign up for Washington Apple Pi Tutorials • Introduction to the Macintosh • Maintaining Your Macintosh • Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PageMaker • Introduction to the Internet • Web Page Authoring • EMail, News Groups, Chat, Web Browsers • Macromind Director • Microsoft Word Each 3-hour class is • Claris Works $35 for members • lnfini-D •Quicken $50 for others •AndMore To sign up call 301-984-0300 78 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 I-~ • I ~ , ";. , 'f_' shading of the text, allowing you to .. ·;~ ;,.. ·. ,., . ' . just skip over the portions that do not pertain to your situation. The Tax Forms Guide this year Professional Tax Preparation was 10 pages longer than last year, making it 310 pages long. Every year Software for the Apple II the Tax Forms Guide starts with a highlights of the changes over the pre by Brian Mason vious year. This section was two pages longer this year. This section gives you EXPECT THAT by now most also 44 different data entry worksheets an overview of what to look out for as of you have already turned in your to provide documented support for you prepare your return, areas where I tax forms. But if you haven't or you corresponding lines on the forms in- you can't rely on what you did last !leed to start thinking about next year, . eluding such things as Mortgage In year but must make decisions about I wou ld like to recommend a tax terest, Vehicle Expense, Personal Ca what to do this year. preparation software package for your sualty and Theft, and Estates and The Guide, as you can guess by consideration. I have been using this Trusts, just to mention four. Finally, its length, is very comprehensive. same program since at least 1987, there are 26 different prominent IRS Though Howardsoft never claims to though they have been in business worksheets built into the calculations be able to replace your accountant or since 1979. This software is called Tax that are not part of the printed return lawyer, there are often situations you Preparer, and is published by such as capital gain worksheets, Roth run across where the Guide will make HowardSoft. IRA contribution worksheet, and it clear what the implications might be Tax Preparer is not cheap. It cost Child's Investment Income worksheet, of taking one course of action rather $99 this year for the regular update. just to name three. While the 3.5" ver than another. An example of how However, as Ric Edelman, the finan sion includes all IRS forms, the limited Howardsoft incorporates IRS rules cial advisor, author of "The Truth version supports 21. For those of you into the software is indicated by this About Money" and host of the "Your who prepare other people's tax returns, example paragraph from the Guide. Money Matters" radio show on you can create up to 15 tax returns on Here the Guide is explaining how to WMAL said in another context, "You each of 99 separate "tax volumes". fill out line 5 of the 1099-DIV get what you pay for. Which are you The manual consists of two sec Worksheet 5 Investment expenses. going to put more confidence in, a tax tions, one that stays much the same This is the part of box 1 [on the IRS package for which you paid $25 or a from year-to-year, and one that you Form 1099-DIV] that you did not ac tax preparation service for which you replace every year. The later is the Tax tually receive but was used by the paid a couple hundred dollars." Forms Guide, which covers the cur payer to cover investment expenses. Basically the program runs on any rent version of all the IRS forms and You must pay tax on the full amount IBM compatible or Apple compatible how you are expected to complete in box 1. The investment expense is de machine, even those with 40 charac them. The former deals with the Tax ducted only as an itemized expense in ter-wide screens, 5.25" disk drives and Preparer program itself, which hasn't line 22 of Schedule A, which the soft as little as 64K of memory. So this changed much if at all over the years. ware ensures automatically. would include the Franklin 1000 and It contains an Introduction, which cov I received the Tax Forms Guide the 2000 series of computers. It will run ers initial installation instructions and first part of March with a revision of on a Macintosh only if you emulate the the installation instructions for prior the software. The flyer accompanying IBM or the Apple computers either year users, a Tutorial Guide, which the Guide stated, through hardware or software. helps cover some of the concepts of op We appreciate your patience with our For the Apple II, it comes on a 3.5" eration of the software, and an Oper delay in getting this manual to you. disk or on 5.25" disks with full features ating Guide, which give more detailed There were so many changes this year if you have a hard disk or 256K of instructions about how to work your that we had to delay our completion memory You can also get it with lim way through the program, nagivating of the manual in order to get the soft ited features if you simply have a 5.25" through the various screens and op ware to you in a timely manner.. .. We disk. The software supports 41 differ tions, and printing your tax returns. hope that you can appreciate the de ent IRS forms including Schedules A, The instructions for the Apple version mands on our time in automating the B, C, D, E, EIC, F, H, J, R, and SE. (See of the software are distinguished from three new forms we added, the numer accompanying screen shot.) There are the instructions for the IBM version by ous new calculations for new credits, new types of IRAs, new reporting of May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 79 capital gain disbibutions, etc. Bemle Jl The Rescue e:IB The late revision to the software was necessary because of the compli cated way the tax on IRA's is calcu Filenae Cfro• vol 91): nason-98 AUTO lated. The previous version of this e urn a o aan enu: year's update allowed you to start PREPARE 1848 Tax Returns 11ount you OUERPAID ...... I 21885. working on your return and included !SELECT For11 to Prepare 1999 es ti i.ated taxC 1848ES > 8 For11 1849 - Hain ForA ~ of abu est tax to preP.av 9 instructions on how to work around 1 Taxeayer Info 66a A11t want REFUHDED TO VOU .. I MBS. the problem that was fixed in the re 2 Filing Status1Exenps 3 Inme CLn7-9) "'ft!-ttl®'1fte10132 vision received in March. 4 II (19-18) c Type: Chkg Account ...... ? Yes 5 11 (19•22> Sun gs Account .•••. ? Ho Movement through the program 6 Ad.iushents (23-27> d Account nuitber ...... : is very simple since the program is 7 l I II (28•33) 0199 1578 5 8 Tax & Credits 67 Ritt APPLIED TO 1999 EST TAXI 9 text-based. Rather than using your 9 Credits motise to point and click, you simply 18 Other Taxes 1?IB'I OWE...... I 9 11 Pay11ents 69 Esth1ated tax penalty...... e press the appropriate navigation key. >12 Refund or Tax Due Extra line for personal 111e11os. 9 Escape backs you up through the [Press Esc to use above itenul menus, the arrow keys and/or the number keys move you into the Disk 8~ Full menus. If you forget what key to press, press the question mark, and a simple help line is displayed at the bottom of the screen. If you need to add up some fl§1 Video bltttar ta rul'lntng at 900d performitnca. figures on a line, enter the '+' key and the first number. This causes the cur Figure 1. Typical data input screen. Data is entered into the fo;n; on the ~ght. ~res~in? sor to remain on the same line. Then the Escape key activates the navigation area on the left. The r on the nght side indi press the operation you want to per cates that there is an IRS form available which can be used to generate the dollar amount form on the first number, '+', '-', '*', or to be entered on that line. '/'and then enter the second number, you have decided that this line per special tax fonts which the IRS will and the calculation is done for you. tains to your situation, and you have accept. I have never tried the copy There are basically two ways to supported the dollar figure that is au machine or laser printer options. I approach the IRS forms you need to tomatically transferred from the form have always just used my standard, fill out in the package. Either pick the or worksheet to the line on the origi every-day ImageWriter II. When you form you want to fill out and go di nating form. use this option, all of the forms are rectly to that form, or you can use the When it comes time to print out printed in a fashion acceptable to the 1040 Road Map. When you choose the your return, you have lots of choices. IRS, all in the correct order for submis later method, you are first presented The IRS has been very particular in the sion, except for the 1040 itself, which with the 1040 form. Some of the lines past about what they receive. You you have to fill out with good old pen have blocks at the end of the text. must either submit their official forms, and ink based on the facsimile 1040 These lines are automatically com or forms that look very much like their printed by the program. pleted by the program and are auto forms. In the days of dot-matrix print Installation on an Apple Ilgs is matically skipped as you move the ers, Howardsoft was one of the com simple. If you have a 3.5" disk drive, cursor down the page. To the far right panies that constantly worked with make a copy of the 3.5" disk that comes of some of the lines are 'w's' and 'r's'. the IRS to get them to accept com from Howardsoft, put the copy in your The 'w' indicates that there is a puter-printed forms. But they have disk drive, double click on the worksheet built into the software that always also offered the opportunity to TPSTARf.SYSTEM icon and begin. If you should complete to arrive at the use transparent overlay forms that you you have a hard drive, just create a correct dollar amount for the indicated can put on a photocopier together with folder to hold the files, copy all of the line. Pressing the 'i' key (for itemize) your printed output behind the over files from the3.S" floppy over to the folder takes you to that worksheet. The 'r' lay to make an acceptable photocopy except for the ProOOS application and indicates that an IRS form supports the reproduction of a completed form, the System folder, double click on the line. Again, you press the 'i' key to go which, once signed, the IRS would TPSTARf.SYSTEM icon and begin. to that form. Once a form or a accept. Finally, Howardsoft also al In subsequent years, when you re worksheet has been completed, the 'r' lows you to use laser printers with ceive your update disk, view the files and 'w' change to 'i's' so you know 80 Washington Apple Pi Journal May I June 1999 in order by date both in the folder on the hard drive and on the floppy disk. Based on the modification date, select the new files from the floppy and drag them over to the folder on the hard drive. The software includes a transla tion utility which takes the informa tion from the previous year's return and completes a great deal of the in formation required for the new year. This includes not only your personal information, but also information about your income and depreciable property. It advances your age and the age of your property by one year, etc., giving you a starting point for the completion of this year's return. The program also automatically figures the effect on this year's taxes of the previ ous year's activity. Just as one ex ample, if you are taking deductions for depreciation of business assets, the Figure 2. Screen shot of Tax Preparer running within Bernie II the Rescue on my program will figure out if there is any Power Mac. This shows the forms available to use within the program. The ones checked life left in the asset, and if there is, cal are the ones that currently have had data input. culate the depreciation that can be properly handle these issues. taken this year using the same criteria preparation package, so I do not know I will continue to use this excel as the previous year and any adjust how Howardsoft compares with, say, lent tax preparation software package ments that might be required as the MaclnTax. I have often wondered if as long as the company continues to result in a change in the tax law. you fed the same data to different tax make it. And now that I can emulate The challenge I took upon myself preparation packages, if there would the Apple II on my PowerMac, I would this year was to move the software off be significant differences among say there is an even longer life expect of my Apple IIgs, even though I didn' t them. I do trust Howardsoft, however: ancy for the software. ti really need to, and put it on my This is because of the completeness of PowerMac running Bernie II the Res the package, the documentation that Product Information cue, the Apple llgs emulator from F.E. not only comes with the package, but Name of Program: Tax Preparer Systems. I expected to get, and did that comes in the mail during the year, Name and address of Publisher: indeed get, a tremendous improve and the comprehensive way the com Howardsoft, 7852 Ivanhoe Av ment in the speed with which the in pany services its professional tax pre enue, La Jolla, CA 92037 Phone: 619 volved calculations are computed. Ev paring customers. 454-0121 ery time you complete a line, the form Howardsoft now has a very help E-Mail: www.howardsoft.com is recalculated, and any lines which re ful Internet site located at Minimum Platform: IBM PC or sult from automatic calculations are www.howardsoft.com. Here you will Apple II with 64K RAM and 5.25" completed. This process never took an not only find information about the disk drive. unreasonable length of time, but now company, but also helpful hints on Recommended Platform: IBM PC that I am emulating the Ilgs on my Mac, using the software, additional infor or Apple II with 256K RAM or the speed is greatly improved. mation about tax regulations, and hard drive and 3.25" disk drive To print using Bernie II The Rescue, links to the IRS and other sites pertain Price, Tax Preparer, regular edition, you need to go into Change Program ing to tax preparation. You can also first time purchasers: $295 Settings, Facsimile Printouts, and get receive customer support via email at Annual update cost, regular rid of the initial setup characters and the site. There are also Customer Ser edition: $99 plus $9 minimum change the no. of line feeds needed per vice Memos which explain in depth shipping. Other products also line to 0. certain difficult tax issues such as Roth available at additional cost. I have never used another tax IRAs, and how to use the software to May I June 1999 Washington Apple Pi Journal 81 rr A Web Site that Could Save DC Web Women Your Life: www.alldata.com Launched to by Paul Gerstenbluth ([email protected]) Provide Resources for Women Online 0 KILL THE sound, I put the dead plug jack into the audio sound onnector of my Mac Performa 6200 CD. It was no good waking people up T:at 3:30 A.M. I than turned on my Mac and four minutes later, I was on the HE THRIVING Internet Web. community previously known as T:DC Webgrrls announces today the You Got Troubles launch of a new women's Internet My car was acting obstinate and I just received a recall notice from Ford on group, DC Web Women. The group, my Mercury Sable. Also, I just received a detailed e-mail from my friend on the formerly affiliated with Webgrrls In Ford and Mercury Recalls. The 3.3 million cars recalled were 1986-1995 model ternational, created the new organiza year Taurus and Sable vehicles and 1988-1994 Continentals. tion to better serve the needs of its I was told that car owners were asked to bring their vehicles to dealers for growing local membership through a installation of new reinforcement plates, attaching bolts and plate nuts. The non-profit structure. repairs will be made for FREE. Since 1996, this community of I wondered if there were any more outstanding recall warrants on my car. women in new media has grown to nearly 1,500 members. "As more and Search Engines more professional women take their I typed in "Recall Cars auto Mercury Sable," using Alta Vista.com ~~ careers to the Internet, DC Web Jeves.com for my search engines. I was directed to Popular Mecharucs Women will be their voice, their Alidata.com web site. D9uble clicking on recall cars, I moved to 1992 and Mer- source for information and career cury Sable. . . . growth, and their vehicle for service The splash screen: Automotive Recalls and Technical Servtce Bulletins for in the DC community," says Jeanne 1992 Mercury Sable V6 provided by Alldata.com appeared. I moved ~own the Marshall, president of DC Web long list from Safety Recalls, Emission Recalls, General Recalls to Service Bulle Women. tins. The list was long with about one page per year of my car's age. In addition to continuing the In rapid fire order, I cashed in my Bank Certificate of Deposit and did some highly popular electronic mail list, serious car looking. I quickly bought a new car. DC Web Women will offer member services such as low cost, hands-on Tell a Friend workshops, networking events, and I mentioned the Alldata.com web site to my buddy, Chet. He checked out monthly meetings about Web-re his family's cars. In turn, Chet used the recall cars' print-outs as leverage to get lated topics such as web design us reimbursed on previous out-of-pocket repairs that were related to the car re ability issues and high-tech certifi calls notices. Also, he was able to receive discounts on the recall work men cations. tioned in the Service Bulletins from the car dealerships. The Outreach program will con My buddy, Chet told me Alldata.com web site saved him money and kept tinue to create partnerships in the his family alive. He avoided car accidents that could have been the results ~f community and seek to involve young recalls that were never received. Undelivered automobile recalls that were pi women in the technological revolu geon-hold in the Dead Letter Box. • tion. One of its biggest events, Take Our Daughters to the Net Day, held Paul Gerstenbluth is a Mac Computer consultant and management analyst in Rhode in conjunction with the Ms. Island. Foundation's Take Our Daughters to Work Day, provides an opportunity for young women to learn cyber-safety 82 Washingto n Apple Pl Journal May I June 1999 and build their first web page. The third annual Take Our Daughters to the Net Day will be held on Classified advertise11umts can be pl.aced by mailing copy to the business office of April 21, 1999, at several lo Washington Apple Pi, Ltd., 12022 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852. Be sure to cations around the region. include your WAP membership number and indicate area codes withyour phone numbers. 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