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4 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 rr and control over the environmental system in our wing of the building. And, in the near future, our spaces will be remodeled and expanded. Report to the Choir Needless to say, new environs have stimulated our thinking about our by Lorin Evans operations. Here are some ofthings we want to try.
The Office ELCOME TO the new Closer to h ome, we finally We want you to take advantage year. Interesting times are unloaded our exorbitant rent and oft he free and abundant parking, to Win store for those of us who moved into some neat new digs. come and visit the office. To that use computers for work and Now we can concentrate on doing end, we h ave change d our pleasure. We will discover whether what user groups do best: helping operating hours. Instead of being true happiness can be found in a people get the most out of their open for little units of time five second generation Power PC. We computer investment. Let me tell days a week, we have shifted to may finally learn what Intel will do you what else is in store for us. being open three days a week for with all those arithmetically the whole day. You can now challenged Pentium chips. We may Shaking the Legacy visit or call the office Monday, learn whether Steve Jobs and Bill Unfortunately we still have Wednesday or Friday between Gates find harmony in their joint some recovering to do from the years 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM. We software venture. Nationally, for of debilitating rent payments we continue to offer technical the first time in 40 years, we will had to absorb. We want to do that suppor t Tuesday evenings from watch both houses ofCongress under within our existing fee structure. 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM and Saturday the control of one party (of two Do you realize that basic WAP dues from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. We minds). We will find more of the have not been increased since 1987? hope these hours will be more Congress available on line. Federal You ought to come and visit our useful to you. and Independent agencies will new playhouse. We have one-third We moved to more spacious wrestle with whether to charge for more room for two-thirds the rent. quarters to accommodate the the information they put on line. Thrown into this bargain are lots of increased demand for a wider range Promises, promises. parking spaces, ground floor access, of class offerings and meeting space.
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January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 5 rr This is an opportunity for YOU to We could go for a dues increase. articles than before, while get involved in YOUR user group. But instead, why not find a way to continuing the traditional We have requests for a series of get you the information you want, material you have come to classes ranging from a general but in a way which lowers the cost of expect. Look at the first couple introduction to "works" style production. Why not put more of new issues and let me know applications, to low cost desktop pages and content into each how you feel about them. To keep publishing, to classes that would magazine and produce it on a you posted on events during the help fledgling Internet surfers bimonthly basis. That would allow intervening months, we are steady their boards. The old office us to continue to provide the same looking into a newsletter of some layout did not allow for high quality material while type which will update the calendar simultaneous classes and meetings. eliminating the high cost of events and schedule of classes. But here we can. components of monthly production. Special Disk Offers And while on the subject of So, we are going to try a different Another new area of support meetings, once a month your Board that the Pi is offering to members is of Directors meets to discuss where special disk offers. Members with we are headed, how we should get ''We want you to Macs should have received a flyer there, and who will help make it in the mail for disks from our happen. I would love to have you, as take advantage of the shareware library. More often these a member of the Pi, come and free and abundant days we are asked to produce special participate. There is no monopoly series of shareware: for teachers, on wisdom. We meet the second parking, to come and for Internet surfers, or for games Wednesday of every month at 7:00 visit the office. 1b junkies. Other series are created to pm. Where? In the new offices, of support the theme of a monthly course. that end, we have meeting or a show to which we have changed our been invited. In addition, the The Journal software industry provides us with Let's look at the Journal. For operating hours. updates to their commercial the last two years, the Journal has Instead of being open programs. We want all of this won national recognition as the best material to be available to those of magazine produced by a user group, for little units of time you who do not live in the greater and we want to keep it that way. We five days a week, we Washington area. Thus, the special spend almost $7000 per month mail offers. Ifyou have a need for a producing the Journal. Members have shifted to being group ofsoftware, please let us know and advertisers help offset that cost; open three days a and we will explore developing a set the later through advertising and to incorporate your theme. the former through dues. week for the whole Unfortunately, retail merchants in day. You can now visit The Bulletin Board (TCS) the Washington regional market Electronic infobabble is where have not done well against the stiff or call the office so much ofwhat we do is happening. competition from the national mega Monday, Wednesday There is thought to be an insatiable store chains that moved into this appetite for information services area. As a result, advertising or Friday between and we intend to do our best to revenues have declined. It is not 10:00 AM & 6:00 PM." satisfy some of it. We now give fair for us to continue to shift funds every renewing and all new to cover the cost of the Journal at members a password on the TCS. the expense of the other member While the freebie is only 15 minutes activities we operate. In addition to publication schedule. Beginning per day, we find that members try it the continued disappearance of with this issue, we will increase - and many get hooked. Over half advertisers, we face a 14% increase the number of pages from 80 to of our members subscribe to either in postage and expect another ofthe 96, reduce the white space by a the TCS Standard or Premium yearly increases in production cost bunch, and give you more content Services. Many ofthese subscribers from our printer which, historically, per issue. We want to include are using Standard Services (2 we absorb. more "how to" and "hands on" hours per day on line), but over 30
6 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 rr percent of our TCS subscribers have Premium Service (2. 112 hours per Call o'reilly day and Internet E-mail). Five years ago our electronic bul 703·538·4990 computer letin board consisted of eight 2400 to reserve your • baud lines run, via an assortment of space services software patches, on a CORVUS net work. The TCS Committee could see that this electronic balancing act Training for you ... could not be sustained and offered little opportunity for growth. They Service for your f\!laci ntosh decided to replace that collection of software with a complete rewrite of Courses every month: the operating system and, atthe same Which Mac should I buy? Be sure to ask for your time, acquire more modern and reli A basic survey of lhe Mac produa line. We cover new and used WAP Member Discount! able hardware. They wanted to in Macs, PowerMacs, modems, printers, and more. (WAP Price: S25; 2 hows) O'Reilly Computer corporate high speed modems, bring Services Is located in in outside sources ofinformation, and Macintosh Orientation Falls Church, Virginia, Designed for new Mac owners and users, this course teaches }'OU allow for a larger base of files from to get the most out of the flexible Macintosh system. Also covers close to the Beltway and basic setup and maintenance Route 50. which you could draw. The Board of (WAP Price: S90; 6.0 hours; Includes 1be little .Mac Book ) Directors approved the concept and Telecommunications Free parking available. fund raising plan drawn up by the Learn to use the WAP TCS, America Online, eWorld, and get a Day and evening classes. TCS Committee. As a result, the glimpse of the Internet. Modem setup, telecomm, and downloading strategies are featured. Contact us via a-Mail at Board-two years ago - asked mem (WAP Members only; U7.50; indudcs Gulde tolhe TCS). [email protected]. bers who use the electronic bulletin All courses include take-home info and a disk with board to donate to an improvement shareware files. fund which would purchase the equip ment necessary to make that hap creased confidence of our members. cess it through a local Internet ser pen. Many of you came through in a The first-time user and the experi vice provider, and avail themselves most generous fashion. We were able enced traveler find a uniformly high of our files and technical assistance. to acquire a large Mac as a file server, level of quality services at an afford We are also well placed to provide high speed modems for our lines and able price. We also know that there tutorials that can make the journey Apple IIGS computers as inputs to are some things we can do within the less arduous. Such an undertaking the system. We now have that equip moderate price range to provide ad requires a mix of special pieces of ment on line. When you call the high ditional services. software and is very hardware inten side, 10 lines with US Robotics Cou You often hear the linking of sive; but it is achievable. We are rier 14.4 modems await you. On the information sources and services de exploring ways for the Pi to make low speed side, a similar compliment scribed as an information superhigh this happen for you. Stay tuned. of equipment awaits your call. The way. I would tell you that a more apt board can now store two gigabytes of description would be a country road. And in Conclusion ... files and downloads. For those with Ifyou know the route, fine; ifnot, you Well,thosearesomeofthethings Premium Service, world-wide are pretty much left to find your own we are going to do, or are exploring Internet E-mail service is available. way. the possibility of doing, this year. I Why not position ourselves as a cannot promise that each will suc Now What low cost provider of, and educator ceed. A user group is a people inten What is the role of a user group about, world-wide information ser sive operation. More volunteers bulletin board in the larger world of vices? There is no reason why we means more initiatives undertaken. AOL, CompuServe and eWorld? We cannot offer some form of access to The converse is also true. But the Pi are not in a position to compete with the Internet so that you can browse has been known for its willingness to those providers, nor should we. Our world-wide without having to pay big venture into the uncertain, and this electronic bulletin board is a low cost, time for the experience. Such a ser year will be no exception. Besides, user friendly, introduction to the vice would also allow members far we can take some comfort in world of electronic communications. removed from the greater Washing knowing that at least when we It is designed to grow with the in- ton area to sign-up for the TCS, ac- use our Macs, l+l = 2. •
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 7 rr Corvus Omninet network over six years. Programmers and other crazed individuals came and went Fifteen Years in the Making: during this period, and each lent his or her special talents to create or enhance a particular portion of the The TCS Goes Multimedia, system. At the risk of my accidentally leaving someone out, Using Internet Protocols I'd like to call attention to the talented efforts of Barry Fox, Dave © 1994 by Jon C. Thomason and the TCS Committee Harvey, Harvey Kaye, George Kinal, Bill Logan, Rich Mlodoch, David Page, Lou Pastura, Eric Rall, Paul Schlosser, Nancy Seferian, Dale SERS OF THE WAP Eager Beginnings Smith, Mike Ungerman, Tom Vier, TCS bulletin board system WAP's first system operator was Rick Zeman, and
8 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 -- rr And in that position, he orchestrated service including Internet a renovation project to create a New electronic mail among other new TCS. Paul, the rest ofthe Crew, and features. MAC REPAIR CENTER I had long held a grand vision for what the TCS would become some Checkpoint day, and we carefully planned out As you11 recall, now, what how we would get there. we've accomplished so far is step Dupont The first step in our plan one ofwhat we'd imagined years ri involved simply replicating what the ago. We've made a successful (., ~~~puters old TCS already did, plus a few transition from that TCS to one O basic enhancements, on a 1990's based on 90's technology, hardware and software platform. retaining those features that 1761 S Street, NW That was the tricky part, as writing users have always enjoyed while Washington, DC a bulletin board system from scratch eliminating the 1981 software 202-232-6363 wasn't anything any of us had done base that kept the TCS from Computers • Monitors • Printers before. But the Crew, under Paul's really shining a decade or two direction and with plenty of input later. And in the process, we from other TCS users, charted out just happened to throw in some MAC REPAIRS how we wanted the TCS to act, and extra goodies above what we to the best I could achieve those had before: we went from 9600 MAC UPGRADES goals I wrote the software. Everyone bps to 14400 bps, from 140 megs had different ideas about exactly of downloadable files to two and MAC PARTS& how the TCS should work, but Paul a half gigabytes, to electronic moderated discussion and brought mail via the Internet, and many ACCESSORIES forth consensus with uncanny more subtle advances. On-Site and In-House Repairs ability. New Committee members According to the TCS Service Contracts Available who contributed theirtalents during Committee calendar, then, this Paul's term as TCSO include is nirvana. We're able to stand Special Discounts for W .A.Pi Members Lawrence Charters, Ken De Vito, on firm ground and look into the Lauri Rohn, Dave Weitzberg, and future, ratherthanjustkeeping Geraldine Wright. up our delicate juggling act ofseveral outlined its goals for the next level This Crew, with Paul's direction, years ago. And theman who's largely of TCS service, and we presented kept the old TCS running while responsible for getting us here, has those goals to the WAP Board of handling hardware acquisitions, really earned himself a break. Paul Directors in December. In brief, software/service licenses, and a joined the Crew for the same reason having accomplished the short-term $10Kfundraisingdrivetomakesure we all did: to play with toys, and he's goals that TCS members asked us I had all the equipment I kept asking selflessly left that opportunity to for when we began the renovation, for. This was absolutely vital for me the rest of the Crew and myself for we are now ready to accomplish the as I sat in my little room and played nearly four years. Now it's my turn, long-term goals as well. These with my little toys, trying to I guess, to take our vision and do my include a powerful, easy-to-use implement a system that we could part of the overseeing in order to let graphical user interface for browsing all proudly identify as a popular the TCS reach fruition as a user the TCS, participating in the service ofWashingtonApple Pi. The group project. In the December 1994 message base and downloading files. rebuilt TCS went online in meeting of the WAP Board of Faster downloads, even September, 1993, and has since seen Directors, I was appointed the new downloading in the background unprecedented use and popularity. TCSO, succeeding but not replacing while reading messages, and By the following April, usage had Paul after his nearly four years of perhaps online chat. Robust and grown and changed so much that dedicated service with that title. full-featured electronic mail with TCS service was divided into three attachments, and a straightforward, different options: free "Limited" Looking Ahead mouse-driven message editor. service, familiar"Standard" service, So where do we go from here? You may be surprised to hear and value-packed "Premium" Well, the TCS Committee has this, but all of those features are
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 9 rr easily attainable with the TCS as service in its present form and will contact me on the TCS. Ifyou aren't it's been written. The last major add not only a graphical user able to help now, but you're upgrade took us two years or so to interface but some manner of live interested in the additional services, implement; this current project will action access to Internet services please let us know so that we can take only a fraction of that time. such as the World Wide Web, gopher, gauge the level of interest, which And most importantly for any self and FI'P. Before we get too far ahead will help us to choose the most respecting computer users group: of ourselves, however, the appropriate equipment for the it'll be a whole lot of fun! Committee's first priority is to demand placed on it. I'm the TCSO, now, and I have enhance our existing e-mail and As should be apparent, I'm very some very big shoes to fill. I also feel Usenet service. For this we have an enthusiastic about the opportunities a responsibility to take a step back immediate need for a Quadra with available to WAP right now for its from my prior intimacy with the NuBus slots which, if we can't find cutting-edge additions to the TCS. underlying software of the TCS. To one to be donated as a whole, we'll And again I feel that Paul Schlosser properly oversee the next project I'll need to fund through donations. should be applauded for his need to assume a perspective outside phenomenal personal contributions that of being the sole architect. I'll to the TCS and to his friends on the still be tightening up the existing Crew during his term as TCSO. I'm software to be more solid and "The new project is encouraged by the fact that Paul maintenance-free, but for the new an addition to what isn't going anywhere, that his project I intend to be one ofa team of wisdom and his guidance will be people working to build the new we already offer, available when I so desperately need additions. and will require it. I hope that I can return the favor The Committee's vision, as he's given me, providing an outlined together by the entire TCS additional funding environment in which he's able to Committee and several TCS play with cool high-tech toys as much members and members of the WAP to implement. It as he'd like. Most of all I intend to Board of Directors, is clear. It will include the see our vision through to its goal: a provides for scalability to support stunning new graphics-based TCS the changing needs of our service in its with Internet access for a reasonable membership, and it offers a number present form and price. We've come this far, and with of new ways in which motivated your help there's no end to where we members can become involved. It will add not only a can go from here. • also contains several options and graphical user opportunities for more creativity down the road. The TCS was never interface but some intended to be the domain ofa small manner of live Jon C. Thomason was group of volunteers with one appointed WAP Tele programmer-it was intended to be action access to communications System a lively and educational group project of Washington Apple Pi as a Internet services OperatorinDecember, while whole. Fora while, the Crew needed such as the World serving his second year on to tighten up the TCS and be more the board ofdirectors. During deliberate about its direction, but Wide Web, gopher, the day Jon works as an now that it's resurfaced as a and FTP." undergraduate Computer stronger, more open and standards Science student at the based system, we should start University of Maryland in playing with it again. If you'd like to help, you can mail a check in any amount to College Park, and as an How to Get There Washington Apple Pi, A'ITN: TCS intern specializing in the The new project is an addition Improvement Fund, 12022 Internet and the World Wide to what we already offer, and will Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Web for the U.S. National require additional funding to Maryland 20852. Or if you'd like to Ocean Service. implement. It will include the get involved in the project, you can
10 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 rr Coming Events: PowerMac Programming Is '' . sues-February 1st-by Lan r .. ! '<"" , .r ' I guage Systems Corp. Come and . ;'' c ; ' $ by John Barnes see how their FORTRAN and T PA , .-.) I-·· ------_y -~~ Pascal language compilers work N NOVEMBER 2ND on Apple's new generation ma to have Macintosh & 0 1994 Cal Simone ofMain Event chines. software took an enthusiastic group Other topics that have been PC Wmdows skills! ofSIG members and guests through suggested for the coming months the 65 new features in Macintosh include: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ System 7 .5. Many of these have • SmallTalk implications for programmers and e are seeking highly-skilled other power users. The session lasted • AppleScriptforthe Common W computer graphic artists, desktop until nearly 11 pm. Person publishers, illustrators and presentation On December 7th we had an open • Object-Oriented Program specialists for temporary, temp-to forum that explored the various en ming Demystified perm and permanent positions in the vironments for programming the • Mac Consulting for Fun and Macintosh to produce "shrink Metro area. You must have extensive Profit wrapable" applications. MPW, knowledge and work experience in one or THINK, and Metrowerks were We need volunteers or com more of the following: touched on briefly. The discussion mercial contacts who can make • PAGE LAYOUT AND COMPOSITION was aimed at getting a handle on the presentations on the above top things a person needs to do in order to ics or any others that might be • PRODUCTION (SHORT & LONG get a start in serious programming. of interest. DOCUMENTS) The group is also considering On January 4th Jon Thomason • GRAPHIC DESIGN & CONCEPTION described the Metrowerks Code adding another session each • TECHNICAL OR CREATIVE ILLUSTRATION Warrior environment. This environ month for "breakout" work on ment offers opportunities for Power topics of current interest. We • PRESENT ATIONs/ PROPOSALS PC developers as well as 68k pro are thinking of small projects • TYPOGRAPHY, COLOR SEPARATIONS & that might run for several grammers. At the end of the meeting OUTPUT DEVICES Jon introduced some of the folks to months and that would require some ofthe programming approaches some homework and prepara Applicants must be proficient on Macintosh that might be used in the future evo tion. lution of the Pi TCS. Look for news of SIG activi and/or PC Windows and be an ADVANCED Pi members who are not yet fa ties in Conference 3, Board 3 USER of two or more of the following miliar with the Mac Programmers' (Programming Languages) on programs: SIG should be aware that it is a fine the TCS. Notices are also posted forum for sharing experiences about to the Usenet QUARKXPRESS CORELDRAWJ Mac Programming. Everyone is comp.sys.mac.programmers PAGEMAKER POWERPOINT welcome, from novices to pros. The news feed and to the Pi area on ILLUSTRATOR VENTURA digitalN ation. SIG's theme is "Empowerment INTERLEAF PERSUASION through Programming," an allusion We are rebuilding our mail to the Holy Grail of Programming ing list. People who want no FRAMEMAKER PHOTOS HOP that holds that folks who know how tices of SIG meetings sent to FREEHAND WORD them on the infrequent occa to program their computers are the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ones who are in the best position to sions when these are mailed use them effectively. should contact John Barnes at Meetings are held on the first 301-652-0667. A voice mail mes Personnel~ Wednesday ofeach and every month sage is enough to get your name Desktop in the Pi's classroom space. Meet added to the list. • ings start at 7 :30 pm and usually Call 1-800-622-TEMP$ run until around 10 pm.
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 11 re right way. . . Then talk turned to the Fidelity Select project. Peter Hui, Bo.b Pallaron and Mark Pankin passed by Morris Pelham by Morris Pelham around copies of their work. Mark's most recent research looks into the WELL STOCKSIG has used 00PS! Our December meeting , d . ' question,"Whatistheresultofdoing our new office twice now an its this for different periods of time and was on the second Thursday, as getting better every time. This time starting at different dates?" For usual. Unfortunately the Calendar there was a new floodlight outside example, suppose you had put money in the December Journal showed it the outside door with a motion sensor into this project just before the crash on the 15th, which is the third on it. When I drove up in my car a of 1987? If you had followed the Thursday. We put notices on the really bright light went on before I strategy for only one year, you might TCS and at the office, but if you even stopped. Mine was the second have lost 30% to 40% of your were waiting for us and cursing in car to arrive, but I drove right up to investment. But, starting at the same the dark and cold of the parking lot the door we use and so I was the one time, ifyou had followed the strategy on the 15th, we apologize. to discover the new light. Very nice. for two years your loss would have The good news is, our new office Including some late arrivals, been 10% or so. If you had followed continues to improve. This time we there were about twice as many of us the strategy for three years your losses had lights all the way from the at the November meeting as there would have turned to profits. Mark outside door in to the meeting room were in October so we had to empty and didn't even need our flashlights. brought five different gra~hs to pass and pull over a second table and some around showing all of this and we At the meeting Bob Pallaron, more chairs. There is a third table we talked about it for quite some time. MarkPankin and I all passed around can go and get if we have to. To me the most interesting graph copies of our current projects for The best thing about our showed that ifyou put your money in everyone to see and comment on. November meeting was that nearly for just the minimum five weeks and We had a good discussion as usual. everybody brought several copies ofa then took it out, you lost money just We talked about brokerages, trading current project to pass around for about as often as you made any. One techniques, and software packag~s everyone to see. This works really of the classic rules of successful as well as trading results so far this well right now because we don't yet investing has always been "Let your year. I think I'll write about our have the equipment set up to use or to winners run" and it remains true trading results next month. demonstrate how we compute things. today. One of the keys to Mark's StockSIG meets the 2nd Even one of our newcomers brought success with his strategy has been Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM an Excel printout and passed it staying with a fund as long as it around. It helped us to see what he remains in the top half of the group. was trying to do and several people Finally, let me repeat, it's a ~eally offered some advice. good idea to bring several. copies of A QUICKTIME Special Stan Larsen told us how he the project you are working on to Interest Group (QT SIG) meeting updates several portfolios using StockSIG. You can show what you was held at the new Washington America Online for less than two are trying to do, you can ask for Apple Pi office on Thursday evening, minutes per day. I asked him to advice, you can compare your results Oct. 27, 1994. Stuart Bonwit showed bring in his modem and hard drive with someone else ifyou want. I find his General Lavine animation in and show us how it works, so we may that it really helps me organize my progress and demonstrated some have to put the club's Mac Ilci to work thoughts and get myself a really clear animation applications. He also again soon. idea of what I want to do if I task showed some video taped Of course we talked about our myself to show it to someone else. animations he made previously on beating the Dow project, and we still Just put your name on your printout, are. Stan Larsen, Bob Pallaron, Mark an Atari computer. Tom Witte givemeonecopy,andtell.meatthe~ discussed using HyperCard for Pankinandl all passed around copies of the meeting ifyou want some time. multimedia. Bruce O'Leary showed to discuss. It's eye-opening to see StockSIG meets the 2nd and discussed the making of his how many different ways we use the Thursday of each month at 7:30 PM multimedia "portfolio," (resume!). same ( Excel ) software to keep track at the WAP office. Dennis Dimick's multimedia demo ofbowwe'redoingon the same project. StockSIG wishes everyone a tape was shown and discussed. Obviously, there is no one and only profitable new year. Happy 1995! •
12 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 rr Stuart first gave a brief run Northern Virginia Community a reasonable QuickTime production through on his Quadra 660AV of College. solution for people with Mac-Ils or Macromedia's Swivel 3D modelling The films included "EnRoute," non-AV Quadras with fullsize and animation software: how shapes an essay about the process of NuBus slots. are created from primitive forms traveling, and "Peru: Voyage to a Tom gave a quick look at Apple's and how models are manipulated in State ofMind," an essay contrasting QT and HyperCard (HC) stacks three dimensional space. Key the beauty and poverty ofPeru. Both which let you use the power of QT frames and in-betweening used still photos originally taken on within HC. This lets you compress (tweening) were shown. Using a Kodachrome film and scanned to pictures in various QT compressors new segment not yet included in his Kodak's digital archiving system, and/or display them in HC. The HC General Lavine animation, he PhotoCD. stacks also provide xcmds showed how the animation Dennis used Adobe Systems' (commands) to record and edit video information is converted to a PICS QuickTime editing program, input. file by Swivel 3D and then into a Premiere, to produce the EnRoute If interest in HyperCard QuickTime movie by Movie Player. segment. EnRoute included the warrants, it could be the core of the With the help ofDigitTrax sound special effects of pans and zooms next QT SIG meeting. editing software and a printed score across still photos to create the Bruce showed a QuickTime of Debussey's General Lavine, feeling of motion. He used Passport movie called "All About Bruce". It Stuart showed how he times each Producer, a multimedia integration was an attempt to put together a note down to the frame. This timing program, to do the Peru film, which jazzy resume using QuickTime as is used to determine the number of received a first place documentary the medium, ratherthan paper. The frames for each movement in the award in April at the Sumeria programs he used to create it were: animation. QuickTime Festival in San Adobe Premiere 2. 0, Adobe The editing of the animation Francisco. Music for both films came Photoshop 2.5.1, Adobe Illustrator was demonstrated using from compact disks. The audio files 5, and MacroMedia's SoundEdit VideoVision's QuickFlix. The were converted to QuickTime format Pro. The movie runs about 1:36. software has three windows: 1) the using an Apple CD300 drive and Using CompactPro, the movie fits movie Player; 2) the Storyboard; and QuickTime 1.6.1. (segmented) on two High Density 3) the picture and sound "tracks" A third film, "Papou Boat Ride," floppies. Bruce believes it is just Time View. The Storyboard looks was a home movie of a family boat under 4MB uncompressed. The like a slide editing tray. The first rideontheChesapeakeBaylastsummer movie was created on his Quadra frame of each animation segment is using original Hi-8 video source 650, which has 16MB RAM, 2MB shown. These segments can be moved material. HeusedPremieretocapture VRAM (for thousands of color), a around just like slides. When a new segments from videotape, and editing 230MB hard drive, and the Apple segment is loaded, it can be inserted included cross dissolves and titling. 300i CD-ROM. The jazz track was into the Storyboard. Sound track Dennis used SuperMac's (now captured from a CD direct to the segments can be loaded into the Time Radius) QuickTime digitizing board, hard drive. A clip from "Apocalypse View and moved about to improve Spigot II Tape, to capture video and Now" at the very beginning of the synch with the animation. The new print to videotape. He used his movie came from a LaserDisc of the animation and sound segments of accelerated Mac IIci to produce these movie. The LaserDisk player was General Lavine were added to the films at 15 frames per second (half hooked up to his stereo system. The previously shown animation. ofnormal TV rates). Original screen stereo was then connected to his Then, using the VCR and TV size was 320x240 pixels (one-quarter Quadra, using the microphone port, Tom Witte brought in, Stuart the size of TV.) Spigot II Tape capturing the sound direct to disk. showed several animations he made interpolates data and zooms the The movie runs at 20 frames per in years past on an Atari computer. images to full TV screen size when second. Dennis's demo QuickTime printing to videotape. Well ... multimedia fans: if you videotape was shown and discussed. He reported that image quality would like to have another QT The VHS tape contained two short from Spigot II Tape is good for SIG meeting scheduled, please movies made from still photos and presentations and multimedia leave a message on the TCS another from home video. Dennis production, but isn't suited for Conference 3, Board 20 (C3.B20) previously showed these films at broadcast. However, at street price Mac Multimedia. • the September General Meeting at of about $650, Spigot II Tape can be
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 13 rr PostScript fonts, or everyday fonts and a more expansive desktop publishing set. Mac programmers will November Meeting appreciate another neat trick: Conflict Catcher can tell you what by Lawrence I. Charters programming calls are "trapped" by a program. This is particularly useful when you are trying to speed up a program to make it Power y MOTHER has a friend, problem goes away" or "add Macintosh compatible, or when you a Texan, who has little extensions until the problem crops are trying to a void using M tolerance for people who up." Conflict Catcher can also create programming calls that are already complain when they get what they links between known incompatible in use. (Jon Thomason has an request. He sums it up with dark extensions, such as Adobe Type extensive review ofConflict Catcher East Texas humor: "They'd complain Reunion and Now's WYSIWYG II in the December 1994 Journal , if they was hung with a new rope." Menus. "Trapped by Natives!" pp. 12-15.) In November, we provided lots Conflict Catcher has a couple Terry briefly mentioned Snap of new rope for a hanging, and got other neat tricks, too. Ofmost use is Mail, C&G's clever and inexpensive complaints, anyway. A long the ability to "turn off" fonts in peer to peer E-mail package, and anticipated Internet demonstration, System 7 .1 and up, handy if you did a mad dash through several by Internet Information Services, have software (meaning Microsoft games. He also distributed several Inc. (IIS), didn't meet with Office) which objects to "too many hundred special offers, in several expectations. Some people wanted fonts," or if you want to maintain flavors, for virtually the entire line a ''how to connect" session, some separate sets of TrueType and of Casady & Greene products, and people wanted to buy a connection gave away dozens of demo disks package, some people wanted to plus a large box full of complete packages. learn how to log on to public access "Held December 10, Internet channels. On the bright side, we also had the Garage Sale saw Crisis of Differing a demonstration of some Expectations inexpensive Casady & Greene the triumph and the Chris Clark, of Internet software, by C&G president Terry tragedy of grass-roots Information Services (118), was not Kunysz. Aside from some as polished in his presentation. In grumblings that he talks too fast, capitalism: joyous fact, the first 15 minutes of his everyone seem to like his demonstration was spent reading presentation. And yet-there were spouses and loved his notes out loud. One not terribly complaints that we gave away too ones reclaiming their charitable wag said it looked like a many drawing prizes at the end of "high school book report." the meeting! basements, closets When he did get to his presentation, he did exactly as I Fun and Conflicts and garages from the asked: he demonstrated Mosaic and Terry's chiefgoodie was Conflict clutches of discarded the World Wide Web using a fast Catcher II, a comprehensive utility modem and an ordinary voice phone for isolating and managing technology; and line. Unfortunately, he used a seven extension conflicts, with a few extras year old Mac II rather than a more thrown in. Conflict Catcher uses a depressed technophiles modern, faster Macintosh, and his configuration ofthe connection made clever scheme to systematically thwarted in their plans disable extensions until it isolates it slower than it could have been. likely suspects. While it still requires to pick up a Power Mac On the other hand, he was factual, restarting, the process is he was accurate, and he knew what considerably faster than the old for $100 or so." he was talking about-all of which manual "pull things out until the are big pluses when you are
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discussing something as r ~ File Edit Uiew Go Bookmarks Options Directory Th.u 16 46 ~ ~ '11 ., over-hyped as the Internet. But some people '·.• ·.~4....• •..••.• "'."tl:·» ... ·.·.··.• 1 didn't want to see Mosaic, they wanted to see how to - connect to a command line interface (something I have no intention ofever doing at a General Meeting). Others didn't Factbook want to see a demo, they wanted to buy something, like a subscription to an on Internet service provider. Chris was selling something-custom Intelligence designed World Wide Web servers, company "Internet presence" and similar services - but what he was offering was either more, or less, than what most people wanted. The World Wide Web Home Page of the Central Intelligence Agency, as viewed with By far the vast Netscape. Netscape, Mosaic, MacWeb and similar HTML (HyperText Markup majority in the audience Language) "browsers" are the so-called "killer applications" of the Internet. They seemed to want a tutorial. allow you to view and transfer information without knowing any complex commands, In fact, so many people and allow the user to move from computer to computer without any knowledge ofhow wanted a tutorial that the computer is set up, where it is located, or even what country it resides in. Washington Apple Pi is planning on offering Internet classes, though obviously UNIX and Windows machines. For technophiles thwarted in their plans not at General Meetings. One of the more information contact Chris at to pick up a Power Mac for $100 or so. more interesting complaints about (301) 340-1761 or via E-mail at I've been to half a dozen garage the meeting was that so many [email protected]. You can also check out sales now, and have always been questions were being asked that "I their Web page at http:// impressed at the wide range of, ah, really wasn't certain what the www.iis.com/. stuff? being offered for sale. But this presentation was about." time the contrast was exceptional: So, to review: Chris' company December Non-Meeting while there were dozens of Mac Ils will custom design a World Wide There was no meeting in and LCs and PowerBooks and such, Web (Mosaic/Netscape/whatever) December; instead, there was the there were also computers older server for your company, mid-winter edition of the Pi's than many of the shoppers. Not organization, or agency, or set up a Computer Garage Sale, featuring adolescent shoppers, either: company E-mail system, or set up a hundreds of people shopping for computers older than some of the company file transfer presence on bargains, gossip and information. adult shoppers. And people bought the Internet, or - basically do Held December 10, the Garage Sale them. anything you want for a corporate saw the triumph and the tragedy of New feature: a "computer "presence" on the Internet. Based grass-roots capitalism: joyous checkup" table was inaugurated so on what I saw, they are quite spouses and loved ones reclaiming that computer users could bring in knowledgeable and capable and, their basements, closets and garages their machines and see if they were unlike most such companies, seem from the clutches of discarded in good working health. This proved to know how Macs work as well as technology; and depressed more popular than expected; the
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 rr Medical Informatics) Applications ballcap: Reuel will demonstrate Cochrane Medical House Call: NYMUG Mac Fair T-shirt: Robert !!REPAIRS!! Interactive Home Pagelsen Medical Guide and MacWorld DC T-shirt: Joe Swick Apple/Mac/I*M Motherboard Repairs Symptom Analysis. MacWorld Press T-shirt: Richard from $45.00 + S&H After taking care of Edelson Apple/Mac/I*M Power Supply Repairs your physical health, APS SCSI Sentry T-shirt: Robert from $45.00 + S&H Apple/Mac/I*M Drive Repairs Intuit will take care Fetterolf from $45.00 + S&H of your financial Microsoft Office briefcase: John Apple/Mac/l*M Monitor Repairs health with Quicken E. Christensen from $60.00 + S&H 5.0 and MacinTax BMUG CD-ROM: Clark C. Snead, Apple/Mac/I*M Keyboard Repairs 1994. [Note: at the Robert L. Shaffer, Frank Potter from $12.50 + S&H time this was La Cie SilverLining: Tom Bryan Apple/Mac/I*M Upgrades scheduled, Intuit was Casady & Greene T-shirt: Sara Available! one of the few Torrence, Prince Williams, companies not owned Larry Ichter Used Apple/Mac/I*M CPUs, Disk Drives, Monitors, by Microsoft or Crystal Crazy (Casady & Greene): Keyboards available for resale Symantec.] Clinton H. Schemmer, Glenda Feb. 25, 1995: the K. Finey Warranties to one year on most repairs! incomparable Marc Glider 4.0 (Casady & Greene): Same day turnaround on most repairs! Canter will be William R. Jensen, Sharron Arminius showing "Meet Cochran, Wjlliam T. Wydro, 8519 Orchard Avenue MediaBand." Marc Walter A. Romanek, David R.P. Merchantville NJ 08109 Canter founded Gibson (609) 662-3420 MacroMedia, the Glider 4.0, Glider Pro for original "multimedia" Windows (Casady & Greene): computer company, David Waldman. and this latest Glider Pro (Casady & Greene): table was busy from shortly before venture is an "interactive music John J. Ruffolo, Joe Morey the official opening until 12 :30 p.m., video," a term which doesn't do it Conflict Catcher II (Casady & without a break, and a short recess justice. Greene): Russell H. Strange, to get something to drink resulted In conjunction with the meeting, John A. Fridinger in a new line being formed - a line Pi members are invited to submit Snap Mail 5-pack (Casady & that didn't disappear until the QuickTime clips and digital art to Greene): Washington Apple Pi Garage Sale closed. be shown at the start ofthe meeting. office Several people turned away We don't want people to think Apple Macintosh Ilci: courtesy ratherthan wait, so, next time, we'll "multimedia"isstrictlya WestCoast Falcon Microsystems try to have more computer gurus on phenomenon. Apple Macintosh II: courtesy hand to look at machines. There Mar. 25, 1995: vendor to be Internet Information Services, also seemed to be a fairly constant named later. Inc. need for just general question and Apr. 22, 1995: vendor to be Proxima Ovation LCD projector: answer support, so we'll plan for named later. courtesy Proxima Corporation that, too. May 27, 1995: vendor to be Setup and worrying: Chris Clark named later, plus three first-round (llS), Terry Kunysz (Casady & 1995 Meeting Dates draft picks (barring a strike, of Greene), Tom Witte, Bill Wydro General Meetings for 1995 are course). Question & Answer Help: Tom scheduled for the following dates Witte (all the fourth Saturday of the Drawing winners month). Mark your electric PC World mouse pad: Jamie calendars. Gorman Send meeting comments to: Jan. 28, 1995: Ami (Applied Microsoft Macintosh [email protected]. •
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the built-in notepad but with several enhancements. 'Replaceholders' are really nice and used extensively by the Letter Express application. They allow you to reference fields in the Names [First], review by Jeff Loving [Last], [Company], etc; Personal data [MyN ame], [MyCompany], etc; and Date!I'ime information. Using replaceholders results in easily 0 YOU HATE the on how you customize the snippets, personalized notes. Almost every process of writing letters but expect to use about 75K, adding LExpress document should take D or memos from start to up to a total ofnearly 350K ofRAM! advantage of replaceholders. finish? Letter Express, a Newton application from PenMagic, may be The disks also contain a Replaceholders are limited to the answer to your problem. Reg&Win app for registering a accessing fields in the Names and Since its introduction, Letter Express user, along with Personal soups. Why not extend this handwriting recognition accuracy several unrelated demonstration functionality to allow access to any and speed have been a packages. field ofany soup? I guess PenMagic disappointment on the Newton. LExpress should probably be figured this feature would not be This weakness prevents users from installed on a Card. LESnips must needed by the average user. being able to quickly create complete be installed in the same place as documents ready to fax or email. At LExpress. Ifyouhavemultiplecards LExpress provides three least until Letter Express appeared and want to use LEKeybrd with buttons 'New', 'Snippets' and the on the scene. other applications, Pen Magic 'LE keyboard' icon. Tapping the Letter Express relies upon the recommends that you install this 'New' button creates a new LExpress fact that many notes; especially app on Internal. document. When creating a new those often used in the business document, you can tap 'To' to select world, follow well-defined formats. Unfortunately, my humble MP100 anyone in the Names file. LExpress The typical "thank you", contains only a modest lMB RAM can use email or fax information "congratulations", or "let's meet card and I soon found myself once the note is ready to again soon" type letters are a few removing books and applications to automatically create a formatted examples. Letter Express provides make room for Letter Express. I see routing slip. templates called snippets and a 2MB Flash card coming my way allows you to easily customize and in the near future. Additionally, I Letter Express Snippets personalize their use. experienced occasional restarts while Tapping the 'Snippets' icon al using the program, possibly due to lows you to retrieve any of the nu SoftwareMedia and low heapspace. merous Pen Magic-provided snip Packaging pets. They cover a wide range of Pen Magic provides Letter Ease of Use topic categories-Private, Blank Express on both Windows and Like many Newton applications, Documents, Openings, Closing, Macintosh diskettes. As Newton most features of Letter Express can Acknowledgement, Apology, Com packages go, Letter Express is be learned simply by using the plaints, Congratulations, Following downright massive. Letter Express application. Other than some one up, Goodwill, Introduction, Invita consists of three components, page i pop-ups, there is no on-line tion, Miscellaneous, Request, Sched LExpress, LESnips, and help. Letter Express comes with an ule, and Thank you. You can create LEKeybrd. excellent32 page user manual which new or edit existing categories. In explains all features. dividual snippets are found within The LExpress and LEKeybrd a category, some having more ex applications require 199K and 74K Software Review ample snippets than others. respectively. LESnips is not an You can write a LExpress note application but a package ofsnippets LExpress Application and save it as a snippet. Or the which can be edited. Its size depends LExpress looks and acts like
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 N snippet can be written on a PC or access a special character such as ';' Unfortunately LExpress documents Mac and transferred to the Newton '.' ':' . A nice addition to the '[/,oater' are not visible to the built-in notepad (see below). would be a customizable popup to nor vice versa. You can move back access frequently used special and forth between LExpress Pen Magic provides a large number characters. documents within a folder via scroll of categories and snippets. arrows. Traversing from one category to The main LE Keyboard provides Normal functions such as Mail, another can be slow. access to the Quick list. Favorite Fax, Print, Beam, Delete, etc are phrases can be added to the Quick found under the Action Button. One The LEKeybrd Application list simply by selecting text from caveat-you cannot beam a LExpress Tapping the 'Keyboard' icon any application and then tapping note to another Newton unless the brings up the main LE keyboard. the 'Quick list' icon to save the receiver also has the Letter Express This keyboard provides several phrase. application resident. features such as: You can easily convert a Quick list cannot save the following LExpress note into a snippet by • Direct access to Styles, which as favorite phrases-drawings, non- tapping the 'Copy as Snippet' can be applied to selected text selection under the Action button. • Ability to select all text in the One note about deleting Quick note "Like many Newton list Favorite Phrases-you do this • Page break insertion applications, most by scrubbing them out of the scroll • Bullet or Number selected features of Letter list. There is no Action delete paragraphs function as with LExpress Express can be documents or snippets. • Cleanup text facility learned simply by • Access to Quick List LExpress is a big application and ReplaceHolders or Favorite using the takes time to initialize whenever you Phrases application. Other need to use it. A 'hide' feature similar • Tab all selected text than some one page i to 'Notion' would be a welcome • Center all selected text pop-ups, there is no addition. • Access to other specialized on-line help. Letter Using Letter Express via keyboards Express comes with Assist -Keyboard aligned in alpha Letter Express adds the key betic sequence an excellent 32 page word 'write' to the verbs handled by -Special punctuation charac user manual which the Assist function. You can initiate ters explains all Letter Express simply by typing -Numeric and monetary key features." 'write
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Letter Express will address a blank between the two applications when LEKeybd note to Jeff Superstar without doing transfers. Provides alternative keyboards inserting the 'Superstar' snippet. Pro: Direct access to styles, select 'Write jeff superstar superstar' will Pen Magic provides a separate all & Quicklists. Special work but seems a little conceited. user manual for Letter Express character keyboards, draggable Link. The application comes on and can be minimized to floater, Newton Connectivity Kit either a Mac or Windows PC available with any application. NCK can be used to back up diskette. Con: No popup available from both LExpress documents and minimized keyboard. snippets to a Mac or Windows PC. Summary Within NCK, Letter Express An important point is that the LE Snippets documents or snippets can be application is expressly not a word Provides re-usable notes or even created or edited and then synced processor for the Newton. In fact, whole documents reducing back to the Newton. the LE Keyboard and snippets not handwriting needed to produce Although you can create your withstanding, Letter Express really business-quality letters own full-fledged snippets directly is not much better than the built-in Pro: Letter Express comes with on the Newton, I found the process notepad for document creation. In many pre-packaged snippets too slow and frustrating. As you other words, don't plan on using it covering several areas of would expect, it's much faster and to write your thesis. correspondence. U sercan create easier to create or edit LExpress LEKeybrd is valuable by itself new or edit existing categories documents on a PC or Mac. and it would be nice if you could and snippets. purchase it separately. Actually I Con: Only available to Letter NCK is mind numbingly slow wish that the built-in notepad could Express application. synchronizing data but that's not be completely swapped out in favor Letter Express's fault. of LExpress, LESnips, and LELink LEkeybrd. This would provide the Pro: Fast, easy way to edit/retrieve Letter Express Link Newton with a better notepad while snippets or archive LExpress Pen Magic also sells an optional saving RAM and heapspace in the documents on Mac/Windows PC package called Letter Express Link. bargain. Con: Additional cost, Link use This application provides an For mobile users needing the limited to LExpress documents alternative to NCK for Mac/PC <-> ability to create polished notes but not integrated into the LExpress connectivity. Letter quickly, Letter Express provides a Letter Express application. • Express Link consists of a Mac or nice solution. Simple and powerful Windows PC program and a Newton at the same time, Letter Express is application. also Assist and NCK aware. Those The PC portion can be used to users needing faster Mac/PC maintain LExpress documents or connectivity will want to look at Vendor and Product snippets. Link on the Newton can getting Letter Express Link. Information connect via serial cable, Localtalk (Mac-only), or modem to either Pros & Cons Letter Express retrieve snippets or send documents PenMagic Software Inc up to the Mac/PC for archival. Letter Express Phone: (604) 988-9982 Transfer between the Mac/PC and Essentially a replacement for (604) 988-0035 Newton occurs much more quickly the built-in notepad. than using NCK. Pro: Nice use of [ReplaceHolders], Retail Price $69.95 access to LE keyboard and Letter ExpressLink$29.95 You cannot directly transfer a Snippets, NCK integration. document from the Mac I PC -> Con: No hide option. RAM usage Product also reviewed in Newton nor send a Newton snippet (about 200K). Slow to initialize IN Magazine Sept/Oct 94 to the Mac/PC using Link. Link and soup operations (snippet pl8,19 cannot be initiated from LExpress. traversal) depending on the Pen Computing Nov 94 p40 You have to switch back and forth number of snippets.
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 19 -:'"'""'"'" can be associated with a given day, but aren't assigned any specific times. To-Do items appear in the list with a check box in front ofthem Aldus DateBook & that can be used to indicate the item's current status such as pend TouchBase Pro Bundle ing (blank box), in-progress (grey checkmark), and completed (black checkmark). Pending or in-progress A Personal Information To-Dos can be configured to carry forward to the next day until com Management System pleted. Memos can be used like Post It notes to record general notes, by Walter Forlini ideas, or lists. Memos are not as signed any specific time and are not carried forward to next day. They appear in the list with a "push pin" HE ALDUS DateBook & for To-Dos and Memos. Along the next to them. ouchBase Pro Bundle is made bottom of the page is a (moveable) Creating a new item is a simple up of two separate and distinct palette for selecting from the many process. Just press NEW on the software packages that work well different view options. calendar palette (or select NEW when used individually, but together DateBook Pro Events items are EVENT from the Calendar Menu) form a nearly seamless personal used for keeping track of anything to display an Item Detail dialog box information manager package. that can be associated with a spe (Figure 2). The dialog includes a Installing is a simple process. cific start and end time such as pop-up menu for selecting the type The Bundle comes on two high den meetings, appointments, classes, of item (Event, To-Do, or Memo) to sity diskettes (SOOK disks are avail and sessions. They appear in the be entered and then adjusts its con able via a toll free number). The daily list with a small clock by them. tents accordingly. Event items can installer creates two new folders on To-Do items are used for keeping be assigned start and end times by the hard drive taking up 3.2 MB of track of tasks or small projects that dragging the cursor or a time bar. space. Also installed are three sys tem extensions and a program in s Fiie Edit Cn lendnr Uiew list Tools the Apple Menu folder. I nu DateBook Pro Sund& The first application included is DateBook Pro. DateBook Pro is a business and personal time man 9 10 11 ~ 12 13 ~ 14 ager that allows one to keep track of .JLA.ui,..,.,uy 1"tay?>1y Ji'AaM1l$lci appointments and dates; maintain 1>1r To-Do lists; organize and track 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 projects; generate reminder memos; t ~ ~ 11. ... la ~·' ··· 8;30 IH lotl:ff 7:30 :tHTlwatN and print schedules, reports, and Ifill.I!! Cats(111i.a1 calendars in a variety of formats. 22 24 26 Starting DateBook brings up a 23 ~ 25 ~ 21 I ':00111110\'1 Jt 11y P1y full screen calendar page view ofthe 11-"tMayhtty current month with the current day highlighted (Figure 1). Days with a 29 a 30 a events have a bit of the event de scription displayed in them, much Bttmuda YlrluelRealtyTrip like one uses a regular calendar. To the right, appear two scrolling sec~ tions, one for Events as well as one Figure 1
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Apple Pi Meeting editor is included as well as several icons). Banners can be defined to ._IJ_ a_n_u_a-'r y;o.._28....;,_1_9_9_5 __•_.I IE uent ·I spread across several days or Summary : .~P.P.1.~ ..f>.i ..t).~~.t .!~.'l ...... months with colors and fonts that Description: Washington Apple Pi General Meeting. At NVCC in can be customized. The Quarter view (9 Annandale, VA. Meeting starts at 9 :00, demos around displays a quarter year showing up 9:30. to thirteen weeks and spanning month breaks. Week view displays start : .~.:.9.9... A. .t)...... Keywords: ~Pr_o_je_ct_: __~ End : .U. ..:~.9 ... A..t) ... I._M _e_eun_ ....g ..__ __ ..._,I ._IN _on_e____ ..._.I the seven days of a single week in a D Alarm : text format listing them in two col Attach... Duration : .?.:~.9...... Recurring : ~ Yes ~ umns; similar to a pocket planner. The starting day is user-definable. '--_N_e_w_~J ( TouchB ase J [ill!] Ca nce l J ([ Saue The Multi-Day view also displays one week, but shows it in a tradi Figure 2 tional linear format, as if it were pulled straight from the monthly s File Edit Contacts list Tools calendar. Items are listed below the I Somple Contocts day heading. The Day view displays ./ Proferrod listing jvork i all Events, To-Dos and Memos for a -B' single day and includes a progress ! ~AldusConsumorOivision Ttchnic•ISuppcirt (619)658-0111 5120Shorth¥n P1"'t s.. Oit90, CA 92122 j (619)6~ j (} Ad•m \linkbowtr \linkbowtr COP'4>Utt (703) 55:1-6000 5330 Ois•sttr P1.. t Sprin
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 as start time, end time, duration, menu bar, you can: set a free stand date, and overdue). The resulting ing alarm (independent of any cal list can be sorted by up to three endar item); create a new Event, "The best feature of fields in ascending or descending To-Do or Memo; set the Alarm Sta TouchBase is its order (selected for each sort field). tus; and launch DateBook Pro or Searches can be saved as a custom Mini DateBook Pro. ability to search ized list available in the List menu. Mini DateBook Pro is an appli Several predefined lists are included cation that allows access to your and/or sort a con- such as Today's appointments, To cal endar wit hout launching Dos in a specific Project, and To-Dos DateBook Pro. This is useful for tact database using which occur in the next thirty days. accessing your calendar while in a variety of user DateBook Pro allows the user to another application or when low access many of its features without mem ory u se is critical. Mini defined criteria. actually running the full applica DateBook Pro allows creation ofnew tion. The DateBook Pro Extension Events and viewing of the calendar Sorts can be per- adds a DateBook Pro menu to your (a single day at a time). menu bar (System 7 or System 61 In addition to standard print formed on up to MultiFinder required). Using the ing, calendars can also be printed in three fields."
Adam Winkbower
Adam Yinkbower Phone (703) 555-6000 a variety of user defined formats \l'inkbower Computer Systems, Inc. including Wall Charts. Printing op 5330 Disaster Place Phone 1 (703) 555-6000 tions are included for printing cal Springfield, VA 22310 Phone 2 Un listed FAX(703) 555-8774 endars in a form to fit most popular personal planners (i.e.: Day-Timer or Day Runner) using Avery or De "V (l General luxe pre-punched/pre-perforated Salutation 0 Marked paper. Name Adam \l'inkbower York (703) 555-6000 While using DateBook, I en Company \l'inkbower Computer Systems, Inc Home Unlisted countered a minor problem dealing Title President For Life Fax (703) 555-8774 with events that take a full day (midnight to midnight), those that "V ~ Address~s run overnight, and those that end at York 5330 Disaster Place Home Th~ \l'inkbower Estate exactly midnight. Scheduling such 1234 \l'inkbower Terr ace events returns an "Invalid Time City Springfield City Alexandria Entered" error. The workaround is State/Z!iP VA ~ 22310 State/ZIP VA ~ 22310 to schedule events to end at 11:59 Country USA Countr!Ji USA pm. Not a big problem, but inconve nient and not completely intuitive. ~ () Custom Fields Other than this, I found DateBook Pro a pleasure to use every day. ~ Q Notes TouchBase Pro ~ Calendar Items Search not performed ~ The second program included in the bundle is TouchBase Pro. TouchBase Pro is more than just an electronic address book; it is a "con tact database." Nice features include a variety of search methods to find New Saue Contact 3 of 24 contacts, printing addresses on en velopes or labels, creating fax cover Figure 4 sheets, and printing contact reports
22 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 or address books. The included basic search criteria; a status list scending order. Different list views FastLetter editor allows creation of ing the number of selected records can be created once and named for personalized letters providing a and the total records in the data quick use at any time using the preaddressed and dated shell of a base; and buttons for modifying ex Custom List Editor (Figure 5). A letter with only the body needing to isting or adding new contacts (Fig simple search can be easily made be filled in using the built-in text ure 3). using pop-up lists for field name editor. When installed with Pressingthe New button, brings and operation (e.g., >, <,=).A com DateBook Pro, the user can switch up a new contact entry window. The pound search can make use of"and" back and forth between the two ap standard data entry fields are in as well as "or" logic to create highly plications and move contact infor cluded for name and address, as specialized lists of contacts. Each mation into DateBook Pro to create well as, entry areas for custom items, custom-defined list can include op calendar items. notes, DateBook entries, and at tions for sorting and viewing by The first running ofTouchBase tached documents. Any or all ofthese checking the appropriate box. By Pro brings up a new file dialog box. areas can be collapsed to save screen defining several compound lists, a You can name your contact file and space but remain available for view list based on any desired search, declare it as being a Single-User or ing with a single mouse click (Fig sort, and view criteria can be rap Multi-User file. Multi-User files are ure 4). idly accessed with a single menu sharable over a network and use The best feature of TouchBase selection. I found this a very power less memory while Single-User files is its ability to search and/or sort a ful and useful feature in that it are smaller and can be accessed contact database using a variety of allowed me to make a single contact faster. Subsequent starting brings user-defined criteria. Sorts can be database containing all my personal up a contact list. Alphabet Index performed on up to three fields. All and business contacts. If I need to Tabs allow jumping to any entries fields in the database are quickly see a list of friends who own or use beginning with the selected letter. selected using pop-up lists and two computers, I simply make a menu There is a pop-up for using other radio buttons for ascending or de- selection and a display containing
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January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 just the person's name and use of"Drag and Drop" (the required System Requirements: Macintosh model appears. For the system extension is included for DateBook Pro: Mac Plus or bet holiday season, I've created a cus those running System 7 versions ter with minimum 2 megabytes tom list to select and view just the prior to 7.5). Using Drag and Drop, RAM, 2 MB free space on hard names of those expecting greeting one can drag a contact from a drive and system software 6.07 cards. For dealing with businesses, TouchBase Pro window and drop it or later (System 7 required for a custom· list displays only perti onto a date in DateBook Pro. integration with TouchBase nent business address information. DateBook Pro will automatically Pro). Another custom list displays just create a new To-Do item containing names and birthdays in date order. information on the selected contact TouchBase Pro: Mac Plus or better Using custom lists and views are and Contact Pro will create a new with minimum 2 megabytes great because you can select just entry in the DateBook area of the RAM, 2 MB free space on hard those records pertaining to the in selected contact's contact entry win drive and system software 6.07 formation you desire and then dis dow. Up to eight contacts can be or later (System 7 required for play only the needed fields.No need attached to a single DateBook item. integration with DateBook Pro). to scroll past several fields of home By creating calendar items in this address information when looking way, information on all participants Personal observation through a business listing, or trudg in a meeting is available without requirements: ing through addresses and phone opening TouchBase. DateBook Pro requires at least numbers while trying to find out A combination User's Guide is BOOK of free RAM and TouchBase who has a birthday in February. included containing both DateBook Pro requires lOOOK free RAM. Run Although TouchBase Pro is a Pro and TouchBase Pro manuals. ning both together will require a very capable contact manager, it The manual is well organized and system with a minimum 4 mega has some minor inconveniences. I informative. bytes RAM installed. Larger calen did not like the inability to fully Aldus maintains an 800 phone dars and contact databases will re customize the contact data entry number for Customer Service to or quire more available RAM. Perfor screen (some may prefer not to have der upgrades and request informa mance was slow, but still useful on business information in their per tion on other products. Technical a Classic system; memory was tight. sonal contact file). TouchBase al Support Technicians are available lows the user to create a preference for questions, as are an automated Testing Environment: to bypass that field when tabbing and fax support system; unfortu The Aldus DateBook Pro and through the entry screen, but some nately, these calls require a toll call. TouchBase Pro Bundle was tested may wish it not to be displayed at In summary, DateBook Pro and on a Macintosh PowerBook Duo 270c all. TouchBase Pro are both very nice 12/240, in color, running System TouchBase also has a specific products. DateBook is a very ca 7 .5. Basic usability was also tested menu selection providing the abil pable personal calendar and on a Macintosh Classic 4/40, in black ity to export your contact list to a scheduler. TouchBase Pro is a very and white, running System 7.0 and Sharp Wizard through a serial con good contact manager. The two pro a PowerBook 100 8/40, in black and nection, but it does not support grams, working together, form a white, under System 7 .1. • Apple's Newton MessagePad-a complete, easy-to-use, personal in serious drawback for me. At the formation manager. other end, Apple's Newton Connec tion Kit allows for import and ex Aldus Corporation About the author: port ofD~teBook Pro calendars, but Consumer Division Walter Forlini is a civilian program does not yet support TouchBase Pro 5120 Shoreham Drive mer for the U.S. Army. Though he contact lists, so the process of get San Diego, CA 92122-5926 finds working in an MS-DOS only ting names to move between Phone: (619) 558-6000 environment depressing, he survives TouchBase and the Newton requires by reminding his coworkers at every some special skill. Pricing: Retail price: $129.95 (in Pro opportunity that Mac users are do Bundle or $79.95 each for ing things Windows users only Using TouchBase Pro and TouchBase Pro and DateBook dream about. DateBook Pro Together Pro). Street price: $79.95 (in Pro TouchBase and DateBookmake Bundle or $49.95 each).
24 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 To generate content for Living Album, you need PhotoCD disks (and a compatible CD-ROM drive,) a flatbed or slide scanner, a still Living Album: Still Photos digital camera such as Apple's QuickTake 100, or another source Via Quicklime Movies of PICT format graphics files like a clip-art collection. Ifyou have none of these but do By Dennis R. Dimick have a QuickTime video digitizing ©1994 for The Washington Apple Pi Journal board such as a VideoSpigot, you can generate still video frames or movies that can be cataloged and IVING ALBUM creates photos you have already put into shown by Living Album. electronic photo albums by digital form. It also creates visual With a retail price of $130, and using Apple's QuickTime thumbnail and limited keyword a street price of about $80, Living arcHitecture, an extension to system indices of those movies so you can Album is not expensive. But you will software that allows you to combine recall specific pictures. This multi soon find the cost of creating digital photos, sound, animation, graphics talented program also lets you record image files and finding storage space and video into movies. and play sound annotations for photos, for them quickly outweighing the This program from Quick Media and you can present slide shows of price of the program. Labs creates its movies using still pictures archived on album pages.
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Description Claudia plays a flute on a sunny day in the living room . •a I October1993 • Kim's photo a I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I a I ID:lm!IEEDl~...... rmllil'° • •••••••I I I I I I I I I The Main Screen: Living Album greets with a "roll offilm" metaphor, complete with film frames and sprocket holes. Navigational and help buttons abound. Living Album lets you store and index images already digitized, like those found on Photo CD's. You can archive up to 36 images per album page.
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 albums, as it makes a Quick'I'ime movie of a series of still photos while creating each new album page. Unfortunately an album page is limited to an arbitrary 36 images (same as on a roll offilm, ) and there's no automatic method ofcreating new album pages if you have more than 36 pictures to catalog. If you have a PhotoCD with 100 images on it, you'll have to create separate folders of no more than 36 pictures each. Since you can't do this on a read-only Photo CD, you'll have to copy images to your hard drive before creating a catalog. This aside, disk storage requirements for source images indexed by Living Album can add up. The manual says Living Album needs 15MB space for each page of An Album Page: Ample white space can surround images on a Living Album 36 images. It's possible to create page. Navigational controls for mouing through album pages are in the lower corners. LivingAlbum lets you share movies in Quick Time format on fioppy disks. pages using a "compact" option, but I found space savings small. Also, it will take time to import a "roll" of Greetings From a Roll of Film mouse pointer passes over, and online Living Album greets with an help essentially duplicates the images into Living Album-four interface modeled after a roll of 35- program manual. minutes were required to create a mm film, replete with film frames Once you've created an album 36-frame album page of 384 x 256 and sprocket holes. Small page, it's possible to print a single pixel (BASE/4) PhotoCD images thumbnail-sized images reside image or a whole page of images, using a fast (40MHz) 68040 within each film frame, and each complete with descriptions you've processor. (Comparing CPU roll represents an album page. You entered. You can also save performance, for example, a Mac can create many pages of36-frames individual images to disk, or export with 16MHz 68030 processor should each as part of an album file. the text descriptions you've written take 15 to 20 minutes to import and Screen icons and extensive on for each photo. create the same album page and its screen and online help guide you Quick'I'ime movie of still photos.) through procedures. Icons include Living Album's Workings The easiest method for storing those for thumbnail or large size By using Quick'I'ime's Photo photo files is by saving just the photo viewing, one for revealing JPE G "codec" (compressor QuickTime movie of each album information about a page of photos, decompressor,) Living Album uses page on disk. This takes about lMB and one for finding photos based on compressed copies of image source per album page, but images are only text attributes you've entered in a files for each entry on an album screen (72dpi) resolution. It's this freeform database. You can view page. Original files are untouched, Quick'I'ime movie file of an album any page in your album file via an and Living Album creates links to page that you can give to friends on integral pop-up menu. those pictures or movie files for floppy disk. A player program for A second set of icons displays viewing or when video is played. If Living Album comes with it, but it's text information about specific photos, you want to view the original photo not really needed as long as your shows or plays photos or Quick'I'ime or movie you will have to store it on computer-owning friends have video files indexed to Living Album's your hard drive or make the PhotoCD Apple's Movie Player (or Simple pages, or allows you to record or play or CD-ROM disk available online. Player) application installed. sounds for an individual item on a Living Album requires minimum page. An on-screen help system shows 8MB installed RAM if you plan to Rolling With The Interface each button's function when the import images and create your own The main interface, though cute at first meeting, doesn't wear well for
26 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 me. My main complaint is fixed size need image editing, QuickTime thumbnail photos too small to see editing, or sophisticated image Just for Comparison: well. The cliche "roll offilm" interface database talents, these are all intrudes after while, and it would beyond Living Album's reach. $99 Alternatives help if users could vary thumbnail So you understand media costs size and how thumbnail photos are required to feed Living Album, Maybe your interestS already displayed on an album page. scanning 100 slides or negatives to tend toward image editing, The background for slide show a PhotoCD costs about $150-$200 cataloging, or QuickTime movies comes in two sizes, and this these days, easily twice the street editing. You might consider one makes it hard to frame photos price of Living Album. This doesn't of these other programs all without creating randomly-sized include the original cost of buying costing less than $100 each. All white backgrounds. Living Album or processing film. three are readily available from is supposed to be a "photo scrapbook" All in all, Living Album is a good the major Mac mail order metaphor, but if I'm creating a program if you're just starting out houses. scrapbook page ofseveral horizontal with Mac graphics and want to share 384 x 256 pixel size photos from some photos in QuickTime format If you want to create image PhotoCD, I'd like to customize via floppy disk. Beware, storage catalogs and edit, crop, and background size to create a balanced requirements can grow fast if you retouch photos for use in page "frame" around pictures. A way to choose to create albums and also store layout, graphics or multimedia customize background color would source images on your hard disk. programs, try Apple Computer's also help, as not all photo scrapbooks If Quick Media Labs improves new PhotoFlash 2.0 at $99. This need be on bright white paper. flexibility of Living Album by versatile cataloging and image The two album page sizes for allowing greater variation in editing program is PowerMac displaying photo movies are based thumbnail photo size, display style, native and also supports the on 13-or 9-inch monitors. The larger and album page size, the program industry-standard Adobe size is 632 x 445 pixels, and the would be easier to use and could Photoshop Plug-In format for smaller (for computers such as the also produce still-photo movies with acquire, filter, and export. Color Classic or 12-inch monitors,) more visual appeal. Version 1.0 is is based on 516 x 370 pixel size. an inexpensive way to start Unless you presize and crop photos managing, showing, andsharingyour If you're looking to create to fit these dimensions, your shows PhotoCD, PICT or QuickTime files. graphics databases of your will have a rough look with random images, take a look at Aldus borders surrounding. Living Album (Adobe) Fetch 1.2 single user Quick Media Labs version. At $99 it will let you Where Living Album Stands 100 Saratoga Avenue, Suite 320 create image databases and slide I found Living Album stable Santa Clara, CA 95051 shows (of many file types) that under System 7 .5, and only once did Phone(408)749-9200 are linkable to (for use by) a strange crash occur, an error Fax (408) 257-9554 programs like Aldus Pagemaker message telling me Living Album and Persuasion, QuarkXPress, quit because my Mac didn't have a System Requirements: and Microsoft PowerPoint. floating-point. math co-processor QuickTime capable (68020 installed. (It does.) processor or greater) color If you're interested in editing Living Album tries to do several Macintosh with System 7 .0 or Quick.Time movies (with still things, some successfully. If you later, 5MB Ram installed to view photos and video) that include want to put still photos in sequential photos, 8MB RAM installed to transitions and some special order in QuickTime movies, Living create album pages. • effects, editable soundtracks Album does the trick. Living Album and titling, check out Video can also play QuickTime video, and When not helping raise a family, Fusion's (now Radius) also has some limited database Dennis Dimick tries to learn about QuickFlix. Its street price is also abilities for creating photo captions. the emerging field ofdigital imaging, about $99, and in version 1.1.1 The program comes with a small QuickTime, and multimedia. He it too is PowerMac native. manual, an ample supply of sample lives in Arlington, VA, and besides files, and electronic guidance at the TCS can be reached via Internet -Dennis Dimick every turn to help you along. Ifyou e-mail: [email protected]
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 vices" from the Go To menu while online takes you to a free area (your time there is not counted) which The Official America Online® contains a number of useful ser vices. Among other things there are for Macintosh™ Membership several free message boards (Mem bers Helping Members) that seem Kit & Tour Guide little communities in themselves. Here is a money-saving hint: ac cessing the "Directory of Services" by David L. Harris from the Member Services area is free, while getting there from the Go To menu or by using the key HE QUESTION is, do for some time. I assumed I knew the word "services" is not. (Keywords you need this book? Does service fairly well. After all, it takes are a little like "go" words on someone already on America the average Mac user only a few CompuServe: they are shortcuts to 11 travelling directly to AOL areas. Online (AOL) need this book? If a minutes .... I did find the book to be friend is contemplating joining humorously and well written (and The book contains a list of them.) America Online, does she need this illustrated), a thorough introduc The author shows how to use the book? For as AOL President Steve tion to an online service for a first free area to practice some AOL skills Case says in his Foreword, America timer -and with a number of tips and meet a few people. Online software is so friendly that useful for even a long time user who The largest of AOL's Depart "people are usually up and running thinks he knows it all. ments is Computing & Software. It with America Online in less than 15 The book starts with a descrip contains a beginners' forum, the minutes." But as he also says, "we tion of what an online service is - Industry Connection (a lot of com still have a problem: once you're its hardware, its software, both in panies are represented on AOL), connected, what do you do?" AOL's computers and on yours, the forums for many computer interest This book, which describes AOL content and resources of the ser groups, and, ofcourse, SOFI'WARE and its Mac software version 2.5, is vice, and the idea of the community for downloading. The book describes in its second edition, has over 500 of people it comprises. Installing how to find files, get file descrip pages, retails for $27 .95, and comes the AOL software and connecting tions, upload, and download. There with a disk containing AOL soft for the first time is clearly described are over 60,000 files (in all areas) on ware and 20 free hours of connect in Chapter 2. It was brought home AOL. Downloads are easy; no pro time(fornewusersonly)whichrnust to me how user-friendly AOL is com tocol selection is needed, inter be used during the first 30 days pared to older online services, and rupted transfers may be resumed after signing on. Since the AOL soft how consciously this was planned where they left off, and compressed ware and ten free hours of connect by AOL. Little setup of the commu files are automatically decom time are available to anyone free, nications software is required (noth pressed upon signoff. Most files to this amounts to another ten hours, ing about 8-n-1-but do have your be downloaded have been uploaded a $19.90 savings at the standard credit card information at hand!). by AOL members; all files are tested monthly rate. The book cover says Since AOL has over a million sub for viruses by the staff before being that a Mac Plus or greater with scribers, your name is probably al made available. Many graphics files 1200 K free memory, at least Sys ready taken, so the author looks are now provided with miniature tem 6.0.5, and a Hayes-compatible ahead and advises having useful previews online and viewing dur modem are required. However, the screen names in mind rather than ing downloading if desired. included disk is a 1.4 MB high accept the AOL computers' sugges News, financial information (in density disk, which a Mac Plus can tions, which may be something like cluding the ability to buy and sell not read, and I believe a hard disk is "TomLi5437." stocks), sports, weather, and enter required. The author, Tom Lichty, a Getting help is the next part of tainment feature prominently on writer and educator, does state that the book. The AOL software has a AOL. Many newsmagazines and he uses a Plus to connect to AOL. Help section which can be accessed newspapers are there, including I have been a subscriber to AOL online or off. Mousing"Member Ser- TIME, The New York Times, Scien tific American,. Macworld, WIRED,
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Chicago Tribune, etc. Movie, book, sent via AOL too; this is one of the work! Computer software for learn music, video, and product reviews few services that incurs an extra ing is discussed and some is avail abound. There are several colum charge. Internet newsgroups (of able for downloading. Unexpected nists and even cartoonists online. which many are available) are items can be found in Education: for All these areas are discussed in some briefly discussed, as are using Go instance, in the book (page 360) detail in the book. pher and WAIS searches. Ftp is a part of a KGB report is shown that The EAASY SABRE centralized service begun after the book was details shortcomings in the construc travel-reservation service gateway published. tion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. has been given a graphical interface A Kids Only area is available - The report is dated February 21, on AOL, the only one ofits kind, the and Parental Control options. The 1979; the Chernobyl accident took book says. A~toVantage auto buy Education area serves teachers, stu place on April 26, 1986. It is part of ing information and service has not, dents, parents and others with a a Library ofCongress exhibit online. and it costs $49 per year extra. The Career Center, National Geo Marketplace is to buy and sell. There author thinks it will save you much graphic, NPR, CNN, C-SPAN, Li is a classified ads section; I sold my more than that on a purchase. brary of Congress Online, ImageWriter II there after getting Each online service has its own char no takers on the TCS. acter. CompuServe, for instance, is An entire chapter is devoted to excellent for research in its many FlashSessions and the Download databases; America Online has a "I assumed I knew Manager. There is no AOL equiva more informal, people-oriented feel. the service fairly lent to CompuServe's Navigator, "Handles" to identify you instead of which can automate reading forum names are common here. (They're well. After all, it messages and getting downloads not allowed on CompuServe.) The takes the average (and save connect-time fees), but e author promotes the various forms mail can be sent and retrieved, and of "chat" which are to be found in Mac user only a few files downloaded rapidly using AOL's many "rooms," in order to minutes .... I did FlashSessions, which can be sched meet people. I suspect this activity uled attended or unattended. Doing could be quite time (and money) find the book to be so requires entry of your password consuming. humorously and on disk, but it is possible to specify Clubs and Interests are another that it can be used for FlashSessions AOL Department, the gateway to well written (and only, so if an unauthorized person everything from astronomy to wine. illustrated), a thor got access to your Mac only the Each area has discussion boards relatively inexpensive and databases of searchable infor ough introduction to FlashSessions could be conducted mation; many have downloadable an online service for without your approval. (I suspect files. that a skilled hacker could find the The Internet area of AOL is a first timer -and password on the disk and use it for discussed rather briefly. This is with a number of unlimited sessions, though.) partly because AOL is a gateway to The book ends with a list of the Internet, which is not really tips useful for even keywords, Command-key equiva part of AOL, and because the a long time user lents, more specialized information Internet services are still under for customizing your use of the soft development and are changing rap who thinks he ware, a glossary, and index. idly. Sending e-mail via the Internet knows it all." An item the book does not ad is as simple as sending to other AOL dress: AOL has grown so fast that it subscribers: all that is needed is the is having overload problems. One address. Text in mail to other AOL often gets, after seeing a spinning Mac users can be formatted (font, Smithsonian Online, the Electronic beachball for some time, the infa style, color, etc.), and files attached University Network with nearly 100 mous message "For some reason the to mail. Attached files can be com undergraduate courses that earn host is not responding. Please con pressed with the AOL software; no college credit. References to colleges tinue" but you usually cannot con additional programs are necessary. and financial resources are found tinue, or even log off correctly, since Faxes and printed US mail can be here, as well as help for doing home- the host does not respond. I hope
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 29 this problem will be solved. To round out this review, here are a few tips I found in the book: 1. E-mail distribution lists can be American Heritage Dictionary: set up in the Address Book. (p. 97). Helping Students Learn 2. Reading articles and message boards is one of the most time by Emory Roth II consuming activities on AOL. To save money, use Logs while E AMERICAN Heritage a couple of words into WordHunter, reading them (p. 167) or use tionary has been a winner in and AHED shows them all words in Save, and then read offiine. r grade 6-12 lab. This lab is which both their search words ap 3. To stop the scrolling of a long open to students who come on release pear in the definitions. Looking up article that you decide you don't from class or from study to carry out POLITICS and STRUGGLE led one want, use Command-period (p. all sorts of projects and assignments. student to the word UNDERDOG, a 170). I like the disk-based version because thesis word he found appropriate for I can put it on every machine, so there the suffrage movement. 4. Start up other software on your is no tracking where the CDs have One drawback to AHED is that it computer before signing on to gone to, and it's right there when can't be accessed from directly within AOL; then use it for other tasks students need to use it or are bored a word processor. It has taken some while downloading. and want to explore. It would be nice students a while to discover that it is (Multitasking cannot be done if it talked like the CD-based dictio there, and others forget to make use within AOL itself.) naries, but that would require too ofit. It also uses up considerable hard 5. For a break from the ordinary, much memory, I'm sure. I happily drive space. The Deluxe Edition is take a look at Pictures of the accept that limitation for the conve over 13 megs. We use the smaller World (p. 248), Hatrack River nience of having it always handy. edition which serves our purposes (p. 349), or the Online Home Two ofour teachers assign "THE and uses less than half the space. Companion in the Mac graphics SIS" papers in which students must Space is the cost one pays for quality area (p. 139). respond to material studied or read whether in an online or paper dictio by finding a word that sums up their nary. understanding of the issue. For in One other minor flaw is that Conclusion stance, after studying the suffrage sometimes students close the search I found this book to be clearly movement, a student might select the window. All one needs to do to get it written and thorough in its expla word TENACITY to describe his per back is to select OPEN from the file nations. There are hints and ser ception of what happened. The stu menu, but often students fail to think vices mentioned that are ofinterest dent would then define TENACITY of this. This is, indeed, a minor flaw to all but the most experienced and use it to explain all the events which they get over with repeated present users of AOL - but they studied. use. could not easily make use of the 20 AHED helps them, first because Finally, one feature of the dictio free hours of connect time. I think it iS handy and quick. We have put it nary that students appreciate most is the book would be ideal for any Mac on the APPLE MENU of our Macs. that it is forgiving of spelling errors. user new to online services and who They also like having both dictionary Misspell a word, and AHED offers a is interested in AOL. • and thesaurus in one place. As they list of alternates. Then the student look up words, with a quick double double clicks on the one he/she wants The Official America click, they can get the definitions of and it appears. Online® for Macintosh™ any words in the definition they don't · All in all, this is an excellent Membership Kit & Tour understand, and then they can quickly utility that could well be put on every Guide jump back to the word they were school computer and, with little in by Tom Lichty studying. struction, could arouse students' cu Ventana Press They are also beginning to dis riosity about the English language. I ISBN: 1-56604-127-9 cover the WordHunter feature. If award itfour-and-a-halfLRS's. When $27.95 they are not sure of the exact word my students can reach it from within that describes their idea, they can put ClarisWorks, I'll give it the full five.•
30 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 Macintosh Tutorials The Macintosh introductory tutorials are a three-part introductory series de Macintosh Tutorials signed for beginning users or those desir ing to brush up on their skills. The pri mary focus of these courses will be on the System, Desktop, Icons, Windows, and OLUNTEERS AND INSTRUCTORS-You basic concepts in System 7, but System 6 \ T hangers-on are welcome and encouraged V can't have training without teachers. If you have exper to participate. Their issues and concerns tise in any subject useful to Mac or Apple users, please consider will be addressed. Please try to take all three parts; this is the most beneficial teaching. Instructors have an opportunity to work with students in arrangement. small groups and informal settings. The teaching process is truly rewarding. Besides the spiritual and intellectual, rewards also -Introduction to Macintosh, Part 1 (Course #M021395 for Feb.) include compensation; you will be paid. We especially need someone (Course #M031395 for Mar.) who can offer training on the Internet. Call me if there is a subject You should go through the Guided Tour that you are qualified to teach. disk that comes with your computer or system upgrade kit before you come to I am very pleased with the response to our requests for volun class. You'll learn: how to safely turn teers. We have a very bright and enthusiastic group of volunteers your Macintosh on and off; what the basic working to bring you the best possible classes and programs. We dos and don'ts are; how to understand common Macintosh terminology found in encourage and welcome additional support for the training program. manuals and other documentation; and Graphic designers, desktop publishers and illustrators-we could use how the basic components of your your help in promoting our programs with brochures and fliers. For Macintosh system, hardware and soft ware work. You'll also learn why the further information call Beth Medlin at the Pi office, 301-984-0300.
• Class Size: Class size is class is scheduled. The only Some Specifics limited to 6 students per class. exception to this is a cancella tion due to illness. • Where: Unless otherwise • Bring my computer? All stated, all tutorials sponsored classes are taught seminar-style February or March Tutorials by Washington Apple Pi are with the instructor using a com are the 4 basic ones. If given at the office located at puter and an overhead display. taking more than one or 12022 Parklawn Drive, We encourage students who the whole series, try to take Rockville, Maryland. wish hands-on training to bring them in the same month. their computers. • When: unless otherwise -Intro to Mac 1 2113/95 stated, all tutorials are three •Instructor Cancellation: If or3/13/95 hours in length and begin at a class is cancelled by the in (M021395)or(M031395) 7:00 P.M. on the date listed. structor, all students will be -Intro to Mac 2 2/20/95 The office building is secured notified of the cancellation. or3/20/95 at6:00P.M.. Please check your home answer (M022095)or(M032095) ing machine ifyou have not given -Intro to Mac 3 2/27/95 • Fees: $25.00 per class for a work number for notification. or3/27/95 members and $35 per class for (l.\1:022795)or(M032795) non-members. Pre-registration • Student Cancellation: A -Maintaining the Mac cancellation must be received and payment must be made to 2/22/95 or 3/22/95 by the office 72 hours before a hold a seat. (l.\1:022295)or(M032295)
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 31 Macintosh user interface is consis Macintosh, hard disk drive, start Weekly Telecom Tutorials tent across all applications and how up disk, and an unformatted DSDD this makes learning and using soft 800k disk. ware easier. Date: Date: February 27, THE RECENTLY started weekly Materials required: Your 19957-lOpm telecom tutorials will be continuing Macintosh, HD drive, start-up disk, or March 27, 1995 7-10 pm. on Fridays evenings, 7 PM to 10 andanunformattedDSDD800kdisk. PM-call for location. These Date: February 13, 1995 7-10 pm Maintaining Your Macintosh introductory telecom classes are or March 13, 1995 7-10 pm. (Course #M022295 for February) intended to help people learn basic (Course M032295 for March) telecom skills. Introduction to the Macintosh, Part How to maintain and trouble The first two Fridays ofeach month II (Course #M022095 for February) shoot your Mac. Topics will in are for people who have had little or (Course #M032095 for March) clude: organizing and managing no prior experience using modems. Part II will continue the explora your hard disk; backing up and The latter two (or three) Fridays of tion of the basic components ofyour back-up strategies, archiving, the month will be for people who Macintosh system, hardware and disk formatting, defrag already have some telecom software. You'll learn more of the mentation and optimization; experience. dos and don'ts; the finer points of managing start-up resources (in The classes themselves will be the Menu Bar, Error Messages, Dia cluding System 7 extensions or taught on the club's Mac Ilci or log Boxes, Icons, Folders, Keyboard System 6 INITs); avoiding con Performa computers. To sign up for Shortcuts, Scrapbook and Clipboard flicts and incompatibilities; vi one of these classes, send $25 to the will be discussed. You'll learn the rus protection; memory manage club's office. (The fee for non-members basics ofinstalling software, as well ment; upgrading or replacing the is $35.) Class size is limited to six as about the Chooser, peripheral operating system; system en persons. devices, and how they are connected hancements; customizing soft The instructor for these classes is to the Macintosh. ware installation; cleaning your Phil Shapiro. For questions about Materials required: Your mouse; and Macintosh "house the classes, please call Phil at: (202) Macintosh, hard disk drive, start keeping" philosophies. 686-5465(homeJoffice),orcontacthim up disk, and an unformatted DSDD Date: Date: February 22, via Internet electronic mail at: 800k disk. 19957-lOpm [email protected] Date: February 20, 1995 7-10 pm or March 22, 1995 7-10 pm. Incidentally, supplementary or March 20, 1995 7-10 pm. telecom information and programs will be provided on Macintosh disks. Introduction to the Macintosh, Part Students interested in obtaining Ill (Course #M022795 for Febru these supplementary materials are ary) (Course #M032795 for March) urged to bring a five formatted Part III will follow up the con cepts in Parts I and II. You will learn more advanced Macintosh skills and terminology about the OtherEducationalOpportunffies system software and using, install -Desktop Publishing & -Greentalt Systems Inc., 610 ing, and updating system files; Graphics tutorials are given Herndon Parkway, Suite 900, about managing memory, hard disk by Clock.face & Creole Commu Herndon, VA 22070. Call 703- space, fonts, sounds and other re nications Inc. Please contact 471-6842. sources, the Apple menu, aliases, Manolo Almagro at 301-718- -Berkeley Computer Train· launching applications, inter-appli 0612 for details. cation communications (Publish ing, 1800 Diagonal Rd., Ste. 240, and Subscribe), and Balloon Help. Alexandria, VA 22314. Call 703- -Prince George's Commu 548-9471.. You'll also learn about how to buy nityCollege Centerfor Busi· hardware and software, how to up ness Training, 301 Largo Rd., -Micro Center Training, 3089 grade, and what kinds of software Largo, MD 20772-2199. Call Nutley Street, Fairfax, VA 22031. are available for your Macintosh. 301-322-0726. Call 703-204-8409. Materials required: Your
32 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 Macintosh disks (either high density or double-density) to the Notice: Several WAP DC classes. Washington residents have been talking about setting up "DC Slice" Important note: These classes Independent Writ WAP meetings someplace in are purposely set up to be ers will hold a one the District. Ifyou're interested unstructured. During any given in joining in (and/or have class, the instructor will try to day Home Office suggestions for a suitable answer specific questions that Technology Con meeting place), kindly call Phil students bring to the class. The Shapiro, (202) 686-5465. aim is not to teach any one particular communications ference, Saturday, Internet: [email protected] program, bulletin board, or I'd like to see meetings take information service-but rather, February 25, at place in the computer lab of a to help WAP members develop the University private school in the District, general tele-communications but there might be other locales skills that can then be applied Club, 1135 16th that work as well. in using any communications program, bulletin board, or Street, N. W. Call information service. 202-347-4973 for Elections are Apple II telecom questions coming• up will be entertained as well, time more information permitting. • soon. Please and fee schedule. get your nominations to the Secretary.
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34 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 This column looks at the art and himself at the top of his field. His their as an artist (specifically an artists ofthe Washington Apple work has been featured twice in information graphics specialist) do Pi and the techniques and tools Aluds magazine. He received his ing snapshots, maps, and occasional used to create the art. Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in 1982 a feature. It was here that he got from the Virginia Commonwealth his first experience doing informa Artist Information: One could say University (VCU) majoring in Com tion graphics. In 1986 he started t hat Dale Glasgow ha d just the munica tions Arts and Design. his own business using a Mac Plus. right combination of capability and While at school he worked at the His first big client was National ambition to take advantage of be Richmond News Leader doing art Geographic, which started him out ing at the right place at the right projects. In September Of 1982 USA with momentum. In 1988 he went time with. Specializing in informa Today opened for business and in to work for U.S. News for six tion graphics Dale has established April of 1983 Dale started work months as a staff chief illustrator,
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 35 a position that was to be part time dye sub 11 x 17", 1 GB Micronet Dale started his career as an air but soon turned into full time. Array, and his program of choice is brush illustrator. Doing that type Meanwhile, he kept his private Aldus Freehand. of work is so much easier now. business going. During that time When using the air brush he would he learned the ins and outs of maga Dale does almost all of his work have to render an illustration re zine production. using Aldus Freehand. He origi peatedly. Now making changes can nally used Freehand because in the be done in a fraction of the time. As Tools: He has pretty much the lat early days it was superior to Adobe a result of his early orientation est and the best. A Quadra 950, a Illustrator for a number ofreasons, Dale's style is that of air brush art Power PC 6100, SelectPress GCC primarily because of text on a curve, ists. Dale considers it important for Laser printer, Tektronix Phaser 480 graduated fills and layers. an artist to have his own style. As
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36 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 a result he never uses clip art. In ing an increasing body of work. Some clients still ask for the USA stead, whenever he does any par Because he does this borrowing be Today style when working with ticular item he saves it as file orga tween projects often h e renders him. When working with a client nized by area. For example, he has even the smallest object within the he usually provides ideas, followed several different files on skies. In art in great detail. by half a dozen choices in the rough, the future whenever he does a piece His work has developed quite a often followed with many rounds of of art that requires the use of sky bit beyond the simple info-graphics approval, with the final product of he would go into his inventory and that are in USA Today but there is choice being computer files. Dale use what he has if he can. So his no question that widely known style doesn't have to deal with prepress, process of illustration accelerates and his experience with it have Cromalins and negatives, and that with time because he is accumulat- helped him establish his business. type of printing concern, when he
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January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 37 provides files to the client. He is now in the process ofexpanding his work into the area of multimedia. The monthly newsletter has a rather bold design, suitable for the FAX medium. Except for the logo the artwork is mostly black and white line art which is appropriate for the low resolution (200 dpi). Small pieces of clip art and font dingbats provide visual relief with the text flowing around it. The use of two standard columns and one narrower bold column of marginal notes on every pages creates a pleasing and strong identity.
38 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 well written and quite thorough. The manual gives an overview of the boat and its components as well as their functions and how they are Sailing Master: So You applied in the program. There are also sections covering sailing tactics, Wanna Be a Sailor the race course, and racing rules. The manual will give sailing novices review by Glenn Paterson some insight to the sport without being too much like a textbook.
Starboard Ho! F YOU'VE EVER fancied strategic than action oriented and Once you're ready to begin, you yourself sailing a boat in the is quite entertaining. choose the settings for the race in I next America's Cup or you just the Settings Window (Figure 1). You can't wait until the weekend to get Sailing 101 Sailing Master is more than have control over the type ofcourse, back out on the bay, then Sailing the length of the course, number of Master deserves a spin around the just a racing game, it also serves as a learning aid for sailing novices to boats racing, skill level, and some lake. options to help you out until you get Sailing Master (Version 1.1) learn the ropes (or should I say sheets). In fact, one appendix more experience controlling the from Starboard Software is a boat. Game play in Sailing Master sailboat racing simulation that pits describes how to use the program in conjunction with an introductory depends on what skill level you you against up to three other boats choose and the options you set. On on Olympic or windward/leeward sailing textbook. As far as manuals go, the Sailing Master manual is the easier levels, with the computer courses. The game play is more controlling the trim (Autotrim) and
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The Settings Windows lets you set all the options for the race.
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 39 1 0 33 PM ID 1J ~ .,
Figure 2. The Race Screen shows the all the race action. From here you can see your boat in relation to the others, the pushbutton controls, a stern view the shows the boat angle and sail trim, a course view that shows the course and wind patterns, and numeric readouts that show boat and wind speed. adjusting the heel of the boat you never really need to be paying depending on which way the wind is (Autoheel), all you have to do is not attention to two windows blowing and the display in the run aground and you will fare well. simultaneously. What you have to cockpit interface will change As you increase your skill level, the master is sailing the boat. depending on if your boat is in a computer boats get better and you Your mastery oft he boat is where starboard or port tack. Both have to be quicker with the controls you will prove your seaworthiness. interfaces offer good control of the to avoid capsizing your boat in strong You can concentrate on strategy and boat, but the pushbutton interface winds (ifyou turned offtheAutoheel tactics by letting the computer handle is definitely the easier of the two. feature). By adjusting the options, the sails and the angle of the boat, Also, you can use the keyboard to you can find a suitable level to but what fun would that be? control the tiller while you use the provide a challenge without being The program offers two methods mouse for other controls. Using both too difficult or easy. ofcon trolling your boat: pushbutton the keyboard and the mouse seems to Once the race begins, there are or cockpitinterface. The pushbutton be the best technique to use regardless five windows that display the race interface, shown in the bottom right of the interface you choose. action and allow you to sail the boat of Figure 2, lets you click buttons to (Figure 2). These windows display control the boat. The cockpit Gameplay your boat from different angles, lake interface gives you the view of the Strategy plays a big factor in conditions, boatspeed, wind controls as if you are actually sitting the game as you maneuver your strength, wind direction, and race in the cockpit of the boat and you boat around the course, avoiding information. To be successful, you use the mouse to move the tiller in the competition as well as the definitely need to learn what each and out and trim the sails. The occasional row bqat or two. But it is window tells you but fortunately, results of moving the tiller change much more than just monitoring
40 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 the changing wind conditions and paying attention to puffs and lulls on the lake, as you try to avoid bad air zones behind you opponents or Writing Coach blanket your opponents. However, you must heed the rules and by Paul Chernoff warnings or you will find yourself "doing your circles." While the game does not specifically support more than one VERSTAREATapieceof Reader-Centered player racing head to head, it does paper, unabletowritethefirst Writing Process provide a Time Trial feature which Eword? Or have problems or The reader-centered writing process lets you race the same course with ganizing your thoughts in a logical idea is based on research into what the same weather conditions order? Or have people misunder makes good writers good. Good separately and then compare the stand your memos? Or are you just times. Or you could use this feature frightened of writing altogether? If to hone your own skills. so, Writing Coach can help you write The game ran smoothly on better and more easily. ''Writing Coach several machines without What it is and is not encountering any conflicts or teaches better and crashes. The only thing to note is Writing Coach will help you easier writing. Its that sounds cause temporary pauses write better. It provides tools and in the program on slower machines techniques to make writing easier content is similar (like a Mac Ilsi). It is not a major and to help you overcome writer's to writing books problem and does not really take block and be organized. It is a away from the game, but it is worth cheerleader aimed at helping you but its templates mentioning. Turning off sound overcome your anxieties about are in the alleviates the jerkiness but the writing. sounds are what alerts you to wind Writing Coach will not write computer and not shifts and the competitor's tacks. for you. It will not check your Another solution is to set the game grammar or your spelling. So what on paper." to black and white since color is not type of computer program is it? It's as important to game play. not a computer program at all. Overall, Sailing Master is a Writing Coach is a program of writers do the following according great diversion to quench your writing. If you use the worksheets to page 1-1 of the User's Guide: and outlines provided and take the yearnings until the next regatta and • They break their writing tasks advice in the user's guide and for the novices, an excellent way to into bite-sized pieces and try to practice, you should become a better get your feet wet without getting do one thing at a time your feet (or more) wet. • writer. Or at least learn to not dread the writing task. • They let their creative side brainstorm and write first, and Writing Coach Overview Starboard Software then bring in the critical side for Box 130014 Writing Coach teaches better revising and editing. Ann Arbor, MI 48113 and easier writing. Its content is • They use writing as a way to (313) 662-4393 similar to writing books but its discover ideas, not just express templates are in the computer and them. System Requirements: not on paper. They think about their reader's System 6.0.x or later The main philosophies of • needs and interests, and try to lMBRAM Writing Coach are: (1) a reader meet them. 1 MB on hard disk centered writing process, (2) • They focus on clearly Price: needing to write in order to write, and (3) the notion that you, the communicating one thing at $65.00 (list price) time. $42.00 (street/mail order price) writer, are in charge.
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 41 • They give their writing a simple worksheets and outlines, the who hesitate on seeing a blank sheet structure. worksheets and outlines reinforce will start writing if they are the guide's lessons and put its advice answering questions or following You Need to Write in into your writing. The guide provides instructions. Some ofthe worksheets Order to Write techniques for better writing. You are very simple, such as the Start writing as soon as possible. can read it while work on a paper or "freewriting" brainstormer which Just put your thoughts on paper on the metro during your daily advises you to write for a set time and work on organization and commute. It is helpful whether or without stopping. Other worksheets editing later. There are two main not you write with a computer. are more complex and include reasons for this approach: The worksheets and outlines are specific questions about your word-processing documents. The subject. 1) As mentioned above, writing is documents are divided into The worksheets also provide a way to discover ideas. The brainstormers, integrated focus by encouraging you to work on more time you spend "thinking" worksheets, organizers, outlines the task at hand and to not be critical without writing, the harder you (academic/general, business/ of your writing until you have will find it to come up with ideas technical and letters/memos), reader discovered your main points. and put them on paper. analysis, revising and editing, The User's Guide suggests using 2) The best way to overcome writer's block exercises, and writer's specific combinations ofworksheets anxiety about writing is to write, notebook. Each is designed for such as Brainstormer(s) + a Reader even if you throw away what different types of writing and Analysis Worksheet+ an Organizer you start with. different stages of the writing or a Reader Analysis Worksheet + process. The brainstormers are an outline from the Outline Bank. You (the Writer) are in Charge designed to get you started writing Installation and Operation Writing Coach never claims to a piece while the reader analysis Guide 8c Tutorial hold the "silver bullet" for writing. worksheets get you thinking about Itencouragesyoutoexperimentand your audience. The files are in The Installation guide is slim tells you that there is no one right System 7's stationery format so you for good reason; you just need to way to write. You, the writer, are in won't accidentally write over one drag the appropriate files to your charge. (they will appear as regular files hard disk. The Writing Coach software consists of templates User's Guide. Worksheets and under System 6). Outlines The worksheets make it easier written with the major word to write by presenting you with a processing programs. Just find the While you could just read the non-blank sheet of paper. People right folder with the files in the User's Guide and ignore the appropriate word processor format (Microsoft Word 3, Word 5.1, Writing Coach Mac Master ClarisWorks 2 or 37 items 1 .3 MB in disk 22K available WordPerfect) and drag it to your Size Kind i Label hard disk. That's 'w'riting Coach -Claris 'w' ... folder A it. The files are ~ all stationery so Writing Coach -Word 3.0 folder if you are using 'w'riting Coach -'w'ordPer ... folder System 7 you w o n t Writing Coach -'w'ord 5.1 folder accidentally save ~ About Writing Coach 2K 'w'ord document over a template. To make D Brainstormers folder life easier you ~ Analogies 5K 'w'ord document ~ Writing Coach suggests that .0 A. • • _,,, • ...__ Jc '{!ii- System 7 users place an alias of
42 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 the folder holding all of the tap half of the split screen and a I do have a few minor complaints templates in the Apple Menu. blank window in the bottom half. about Writing Coach. The box could Specific setup instructions are The questions and prompts are kept have been smaller. Over one-half of provided for Word 5.1, ClarisWorks separate from your writing so you its contents is filler. However, the 2, and WordPerfect 2.1 & 3. can print the document with or box is smaller than that of many There is a brief tutorial to without the questions and prompts. software packages. I would have familiarize you with Writing Coach's I used Writing Coach with both liked it better if it took advantage of basic concepts. It has you use various ClarisWorks 3 and Word 5.1. I Word's outlining abilities. And its templates to write a letter to the greatly preferred Word because of choice of 14 point Times Roman is editor. The tutorial provides you its hidden text feature, which ugly on the screen, even with Adobe with an understanding of Writing allowed me to make the prompts Type Manager. I have converted my Coach's approach. My only appear and disappear and have my templates to 12 point Palatino, complaint about the tutorial is that response to each prompt directly which is easier to read on the I had trouble finding some of the appear under the prompt. computer screen. templates mentioned. Writing Coach also provides Writing Coach is no magic fix to documents in Word 3 format so you writing. If you don't try to write it Quick Guide to can open them if you use a word can't help you. So until someone Writing Coach processor not mentioned above. invents the perfect word-processing The Quick Guide is Macintosh Most modern word processing software to write papers for us, we specific. The first page covers the programs can read Word 3 will need to do the real work main points for better writing. The documents. Ifyou are still using the ourselves. • second page suggests how to use the original MacWrite or a word templates according to your goals. processor that cannot open any of The third page lists all of the the files, you should either not buy outlines. The fourth page provides this program or buy a program to word-processor - specific translate the enclosed files to text instructions. or your favorite format. The Quick Guide is handy in getting started once you have read Conclusions the User's Guide. In particular, the A thumbs up for Writing Coach list of worksheets and outlines and its computer format. The main makes it easier to find a good advantage is that you can write starting point. directly on the template. If I had a paper template, I would have to Writing Coach Supports photocopy the pages or re-copy the Different Word Processors template as I write. And with the While Writing Coach uses computer, I don't have to squeeze similar templates for each word my words to fit a confined space. processor, use does vary a little The disadvantage to the computer according to the word processor's templates is that you are restricted characteristics. With Word, all to using them with a computer, but prompts are in "hidden text" format you could always print them out if so you can easily hide and reveal the you want to use them on the subway prompts. You are also provided with or when the electricity is off. instructions for customizing Word Writing Coach does not cover to make it easy to hide/reveal new ground as much as present invisible text. WordPerfect macros writing tips in a new way. Its lessons are provided for removing the are the same as in those books I prompts, but once removed they are have read on writing and in college lost from the document forever. classes. Being able to start with a ClarisWorks has documents open document with some instructions in a split-screen arrangement with on it helps me start writing. the questions and prompts on the
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 43 (imitate) the Mac interface in an almost slavish manner. Everyone uses programs such as Excel and Word. Now ifyou could Word 6.0: Who Loves Va, somehow make Word run lousy on the Mac - but not lousy enough to lose ALL your business - while Baby? making it run smoothly in Windows what message are you sending in by Neil Shapiro (76703,401) the long-term. Maybe the message is: Look at all those potential (c) Copyright 1994 by MCU Inc. Windows customers! But, you know, although I am not going to completely discount this "The following is copyright (c) 1994 I'll admit that the first thought I scenario I think I've realized at least by MCU Inc. All Rights Reserved. had was that this might be a what is going on. It's a case of Reprinted here with permission. carefully orchestrated attack on the misplaced love - not by Mr. Gates This article appeared in the Macintosh by Bill Gates who but by Apple. MAUG(R) Newsletter on seemingly has little cause to love I owe this insight to an article in CompuServe. When on the the Mac - or Apple. After all, the this month's SCIENTIFIC CompuServe network use the two companies have met each other AMERICAN Magazine. In an article command GO MAUG to read the in court more times then two prize on page 130 of the October '94 issue Newsletter area as well as to visit fighters on the club circuit. is an article entitled "OpenDoc: IBM the many Macintosh-oriented MAUG Forums." and Apple's Pitfall for mega "It's sort of the way applications" that suddenly can make clear - in a way I don't think that if left unchecked the piece's aut~or could have HERE'SBEENabitofa intended - what in the world the firestorm online contingent on in growth New York problem is with not only Microsoft the release of Microsoft's new 11 and Philadelphia and Word 6.0 but so much else that is Word 6.0 for the Mac. Comments going a little sour with the Mac. have ranged from what could Boston could all grow charitably be described as into one another in a murderous to simply confused. Too Many Ingredients Everyone agrees that the program bleak, unlivable Blade The article basically makes the point that Apple's OpenDoc system is not anywhere near being Maclike Runner scenario of ifyou define "Maclike" as "simple to will help to solve "creeping use." scifi future noir." featurism" in mega-applications like Word. In other words the kitchen Was It A Salvo? sink syndrome which Word 6.0 Never have two companies ever suffers so much from - ofa trillion, Over on the Macintosh had less reason to like each other Applications Forum (GO MA CAP) I tiny features all adding up to one nor more public reason to pretend hard-to-learn, hard-to-use, read numerous threads from people that they do. who were calling the new Word 6.0 hard-to-love monster program. But ifBill Gates wants to kill off OpenDoc will of course be a set everything from a memory hog to the last computer around that far worse. It looked like some of public standards made available doesn't run a MS-terious operating to all by a partnership company of far-fetched best-case fantasy of the System, then releasing a dog on the Word Perfect Company might Apple and IBM's. IfOpenDoc works Mac that's a pedigreed pooch on a then both the Mac and IBM will be actually be coming true. PC could be a way to do that. After Had Microsoft actually shot able to orchestrate smaller programs all, it is becoming clearer these days to work all together so that you might themselves in the foot, and why or that the PC world's Windows how? not need (pay attention here) to have applications sincerely flatter just one big program to do it all.
44 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 In support of this, the article ALWAYS have had such granted -the ability to easily share quotes David Fisher ofthe National functionality from day one of the information and procedures across Institute of Standards as Mac's introduction. The problem the boundaries of common breathlessly (well, I assumed was that Steve Jobs and others at interfaces. They have no breathlessly) that, "Ifmy company Apple tried to tie their star to appreciation for such a thing and is expert in sophisticated spelling Microsoft and Bill Gates (from the they never will. checking, with OpenDoc I could sell very first press conference when For Apple to now cooperate with a product that does only that. Gates was on the stage with Jobs) IBM to produce Apple/IBM OpenDoc Currently I am out of business without assuring first that Microsoft is not only playing into Microsoft's unless I can also build an entire shared the vision. Sure, OpenDoc hands but into big blue hands as word processor." will make programs such as well. Zowie. Thunder 7 easier to write but the What we are seeing today in It was like someone turned on a point is if Apple had pushed Word 6.0 is the final result of years light in a dark room. Does anyone programs that loved the Mac of ignoring, fighting against and else notice that this does not make interface from the gitgo we wouldn't generally considering to be a great deal of sense for us Mac'ers be facing what we are today. second-class the Macintosh dream. regardless of how sensible it is for a Remember when the Macintosh For there was such a dream once, PC'er? Does anyone else notice how came out that people were just there still is, there could be a it explains Word 6 and the thumb of amazed that suddenly you didn't stronger one tomorrow. In Word 6.0, Microsoft pressing down on us all? need to buy Lotus 1-2-3 to have Microsoft has taken the Let me explain ... I can do it in one word processing, a spreadsheet and development of software from the word and a numeral: telecom that all worked together. introduction of the Macintosh full "Thunder 7." The Mac's ability to cut-and-paste circle. They have returned Thunder 7 is a program from between applications, the Mac's completely and perhaps irrevocably Baseline Inc. by one Evan Gross ability to first use desk accessories to the mindset ofproducing software who is one ofbestMac programmers and then any small applications all solutions where a person only owns around. Thunder 7 is a standalone working together gave the lie to the one or two packages that do it all - spelling checker that I and many concept of integrated software as a much, much, much more all then other authors tend to use instead of must-have. any one user will need; far, far, far the spelling checkers built into word Have you seen how Word 6.0 is more expensively then any one user processors. now packaged as part of the really should have to spend; and Thunder 7 is exactly the sort of Microsoft Office? In a way we are without the pizazz, the beauty, the lean-mean-interfaceable program seeing in software the growth of versatility and the customization that the Mac was meant to run. It is three or four applications to that single, small applications exactly the kind of program that a gargantuan proportions so that they provide. Mac owner instantly twigs onto and are growing all into one another. Apple could do a lot for IBM, for that an IBM PC owner looks at and It's sort of the way that if left Microsoft and for others by says "huh?" unchecked in growth New York and continuing their plans for OpenDoc, Thunder 7 is a program that as Philadelphia and Boston could all continuing their alliances with far as Apple seems to be concerned grow into one another in a bleak, companies based on the size of the hardly even exists. Thunder 7 is a unlivable Blade Runner scenario of company. Apple could do a lot for program that gives the lie to scifi future noir. Apple and for us by standing back, OpenDoc, that reveals that Apple Apple needs to realize that looking at Word 6.0 and asking doesn't know who loves them and companies like Microsoft are out to themselves - Is this really a who doesn't even understand them, serve the IBM PC user. They, as a Macintosh program? Is THIS what and a program the idea of which is bottom-line consideration, must try we hoped the Macintosh would the key to Apple's future and to the to put together software that appeals become? downfall of Goliath entities like to the mind-set of their main Then, let them seek out the Microsoft Word 6.0. audience. smaller companies, the companies OpenDoc is an idea whose time Microsoft's main audience is that still know how to dream. has come - for the IBM PC not for predominantly PC people who have Let the dreamers awake - and the Macintosh, because we never really had what we take for let them program. •
January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 45 the background. This is particu larly handy if you are looking for a particular file. It permits you to check to see if this is it, so you can Retrieve ltl abort the search before its conclu sion. When you go to peek, the words your are searching for ap by Claris pear highlighted. Throughout the search a note at by Emory Roth II the top of the Retrieve It! window tells which of the volumes is cur rently being searched. I let this vides easy access to 15 Boolean search run to conclusion. It took 9 y NEW RETRIEVER minutes on my Quadra 630 for Re has just barked at me. No, search operators. Click on an op erator and a short explanation of trieve It! to search the contents of M I haven't replaced the 11,062 files, 548 megabytes of data. family dog. She is still sleeping how it works appears at the bottom of the Retrieve IT! window. Click It found 42 files containing the lazily in front of the wood stove. phrase "Tech Team." When the Instead, the bark came from my com on it twice and the operator is added to your search phrase. search was done, another button puter to alert me that Retrieve It!, a opens any file into it's application. When I had configured the file search utility from Claris, has One minor drawback is that this just completed the search I initiated. search, I clicked the START button and sent Retrieve It! off in search of OPEN command does not work ifthe My computer system has grown application is already open; a note over the years and currently in appears directing you to open the file ''This career decision cludes three hard drives formatted from within the application. This into four volumes that can hold means that a speedy and means navigating menus to some something above a gig and half of reliable utility that can remote location on your hard drive. data. With the continuing drop in search those drives, not One more command permits you the price ofhard drives, I don't plan only by for the items to move the file instantly to the to do any more file storage on dis included in Apple's desktop, so trashing of unwanted kettes. Diskettes are not cost-effec system 7, but by the text files is made easy. This would be tive, and I prefer the cyber-clutter handier as a button. Such trashing of my hard drives to the material in those files or the applications that created could be made even easier with a clutter of floppies flopping every button that instantly moved the file where. This career decision means them, is increasingly useful for getting at what to the trash. There are undoubtedly that a speedy and reliable utility other such refinements that could that can search those drives, not I have." be added to Retrieve It!, but its only by for the items included in all files on all my drives containing simplicity and ease make it well Apple's system 7, but by the text in worth having for those who are ex those files or the applications that the phrase "Tech Team." The Re trieve It! thermometer immediately panding their hard drive real estate. created them, is increasingly use Although it comes with documenta ful for getting at what I have. Re began to show progress by coloring with red. As files were found, they tion, most people will find it only trieve It! accomplishes this task useful for gathering a few ofthe finer admirably adding significantly to were instantly sorted in the man ner I selected (by date, name, kind, points of the program. Oh yes, the Apple's FIND capabilities while Retrieve It! installation automati brushingoutsomeofitsknotty lumps. or order found) and I could, as the search continued, click on any to get cally puts Retrieve It! in the Apple Before beginning the search, I Menu, right where I want it. • set a few simple drop-down menus a map to each found file's location. I to look for data files only, and no could also change the order in which I wanted the files listed or click on a Retrieve ltl limit on modification date. I told it Claris Corporation to ignore case, and I chose not to button that let me "peek" at the contents of any file while the search 5201 Patrick Henry Drive direct the search to particular drives Santa Clara, CA 95052 or folders. The menu bar also pro- continued, momentarily slowed, in
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50 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 Quick Reference Sheet for the Telecommunications System Here's a list of commands which may be helpful to you when on the TCS.
-TCS Phone Numbers ..... Purge Temporary File .... Prompt Character January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 51 rr with an adult learner, Stephon Gray, who has been hired full-time to help coordinate use of the resources at CALICO DC. Adult literacy special ist Paula Johnson Williams will Computer Assisted Literacy serve as the Project Coordinator. I, Center of DC (CALICO DC): An Introduction myself, have been hired part-time to assist with technical support for CALICO DC. by Phil Shapiro Marcia Harrington, the direc tor of the Adult Basic Education (ABE) office at MLK, got the ball rolling for this computer lab about two years. Her grant proposal to NE OF THE MOST forms. Currently the lab has two the U.S. Department of Education uplifting uses of personal Apple Ile computers, two Laser 128 was accepted in May, 1994. (A copy computers is their use (Apple Ile compatible computers), of the full grant proposal can be 0 one Quadra 605, a Performa 475 with adult learners. Just as com found on the Miscellaneous Text puters can ignite the imaginations with CD-ROM drive, and a Hewlett file library of the TCS-the club's of students in K-12 classrooms, so Packard 540 DeskWriter printer. electronic bulletin board system. too can they grab the attention of The software selection includes edu This proposal gives a lot of useful adult learners. Computers allow cational programs designed for information about CALICO DC's adult learners to seize control of schools, as well as educational soft mission and purpose.) their own learning, giving them the ware designed specifically for adult In the past few years other li- tools to expand their mind in a so learners. brary systems around the country cially non-judgmental setting. Com have been setting up similar com puters also give adult learners the puter labs for adult learners. Since capability of exercising their cre "One exciting aspect the ABE office at MLK serves as a ative imagination in mind-enrich of CALICO DC is its central information clearinghouse ing ways. for literacy providers in the Wash To further explore how comput affiliation with a ington DC metropolitan area, it ers can best be used in literacy in was felt that the ABE office would struction, the Martin Luther King national organization, be an appropriate locale to set up Memorial Library in Washington Playing To Win, that an adult literacy computer lab. DC set up an adult literacy com One exciting aspect of CALICO puter lab, "CALICO DC," in early is supporting "com DC is its affiliation with a national 1995. The lab will give literacy stu munity access com organization, Playing To Win, that dents and literacy providers in the is supporting "community access greater metropolitan area a chance puting" in cities computing" in cities around the to "test-drive" educational software around the country." country. Founded in 1980 by former in a non-sales setting. Literacy pro New York City teacher Antonia viders who are interested in incor (Toni) Stone, Playing To Win has porating technology into their in successfully set up public access struction can use the MLK lab to How CALICO DC Will Operate computer labs in Harlem, New York make informed decisions about what The computers and software at and Somerville, Massachusetts technology they themselves might CALICO DC will be made available (right outside of Boston). Two years want to acquire. to the several dozen literacy pro ago Playing To Win was given a Since Apple II and Macintosh vider organizations in the Wash grant from the National Science computers comprise the majority of ington DC metropolitan area. In Foundation to promote the develop computers used in education today, terested organizations will be able ment of further "community com it was felt that the MLK literacy lab to make appointments to visit the puting'' centers. Today, Playing To should have a strong representa lab with small groups ofadult learn Win is affiliated with over 35 such tion of these two computer plat- ers. The lab itself will be staffed centers around the country. Toni 52 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 TC Stone, herself, recently was recog tern to call in.) Since digitalNation own small contributions to the field. nized with a prestigious award from allows e-mail to be sent with "at Computer Professionals for Social tached files," CALICO DC can eas Recommended Reading: Responsibility. This award recog ily send and receive files with any Persons interested in learning nized her tireless work to further one who has an account on more about computer-assisted lit the "computer equity" cause. digitalNation. CALICO DC can also eracy instruction might enjoy read Interestingly enough, Playing send and receive e-mail with any ing the recent book: Keystrokes to To Win (PTW) will be holding its one on the Internet. The Internet Literacy, authored by Antonia national conference in Washington address for Paula Johnson Williams Stone. This book contains reams of DC this summer, on June 2 and 3, at is: [email protected] ideas for using basic computer the Capital Children's Museum in (Please make note of the underline equipment with adult learners. The downtown DC. The Capital characters and period after the let book is available from Playing To Children's Museum has been a long ter "j".) Win. The organization's postal and time affiliate of PTW and has been e-mail address are: doing some immensely interesting (My own Internet address is: "community access" projects in their [email protected]). Playing To Win Network "Future Lab." The modem phone number for Education Development Center 55 Chapel St. Volunteering Opportunities for Newton, MA 02158 WAPMembers "The lab will give lit (617) 969-7101, ext. 2727 WAP members interested in eracy students and (617) 969-4902 (fax) supporting CALICO DC can pro Internet: [email protected] vide assistance in countless differ literacy providers in the ent ways. Technical support is al greater metropolitan Also, if you'd like to stay in ways useful and needed. The lab area a chance to "test formed on general literacy news and may need help in installing extra drive" educational soft happenings, Chip Carlin, Director RAM, or in troubleshooting hard ware in a non-sales of Technology for Literacy Volun ware problems that may arise. If teers of America, New York State, you'd like to offer your assistance, setting. Literacy provid maintains an interesting online list. please contact either Paula Johnson ers who are interested Chip can be reached at: Williams or myself. in incorporating technol [email protected] Help is also needed for "volun ogy into their instruc This list typically distributes teer trainers," to help local literacy tion can use the MLK three or four e-mail messages per providers and students get up to speed week. (i.e. No "e-mail tidal wave" in using the Apple Ils and Macs. If lab to make informed concerns.) I find Chip's list to be a you'd like to teach a class in "Intro to decisions about what great way to stay informed on lit the Macintosh" or ''Intro to the Apple technology they them eracy news and happenings. II," we'd love to hear from you. Cur selves might want to rentlythe lab owns acopyofMicrosoft acquire." [The author works as a freelance Works and ClarisWorks on the Macs, writer and educational computing and AppleWorks for the Apple lls. consultant. He can be reached at: For persons who find it difficult (202) 686-5465, or via Internet e to travel to downtown DC, "remote digitalNation is 703-642-0453. mail at: [email protected]] volunteering" opportunities will also be available. CALICO DC has set Conclusion Addendum: If any WAP members up an account on the digitalNation There's a lot of excitement at have accommodations at their house electronic bulletin board. the Martin Luther King Memorial for members of Playing To Win at digitalNation, sponsored by the library now that CALICO DC has tending the PTW national confer community-minded folks at Com been set up. The whole field of com ence in early June, please give me a puter Services Group, Inc., allows puter-assisted literacy instruction call (or contact PTW directly). Also, anyone to set up a a free account. is so new that it is eminently ripe for copies of the PTW Network News (You need to have a Mac Plus (or exploration and experimentation. letter are available for WAP mem higher) or a Windows computer sys- Perhaps CALICO DC can make its bers to peruse at the WAP office. • January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 the Logo environment, "errors ben efit us because they lead us to study what happened, to understand what went wrong, and, through under standing, to fix it." Rediscovering an Over the three years, Logo had become that old friend you think of Old Friend often and mean to contact-if you only had the time. It wasn't until I by Mark Osborne attended a lecture by Seymour Papert at the National Science Foun dation in April of 1994 that I real ized how much my old friend Logo EVEN YEARS AGO I sat but none of these topped Logo in had grown and matured. The new in a small room at Capital Chil frequency of use by myself and visi est version of Logo called dren Museum. It was stacked tors to the lab. Microworlds contains a paint pro Swith boxes, various science materi In 1991, when I became a gram similar to KidPix, word pro als and a computer that had the teacher in the Museum's Options cessing capabilities, HyperCard-like Logo programming language loaded School program, I stopped using buttons and much more. on its hard disk. For several days, Logo and computers in general ex No longer do you have to pro I sat with a reference book and cept for word processing on the gram every tree and hill. You can learned to use Logo. I reveled at Macintosh. Ayear later, I was back paint them on and then program being able to draw a square and in the museum as an Operations small pictures to walk, fly or run then turn that square into a swirl manager, a position with no oppor across your landscape. Buttons can ing geometric design. I pulled any tunity to use Logo. In 1993, Future be programmed to make the pic willing (or unwilling) staff mem Center became part of the Playing tures talk, sing or move faster. A bers into that dusty room to wit To Win Network and there was few days after the lecture, I felt a ness my creations. Most people much emphasis put on tools soft wave of nostalgia; I was eager to were polite and pleasantly acknowl ware. This, coupled with the startup revisit Logo in Future Center. Un edged the work. Others, not famil of the new program in Future Cen fortunately, the demand of projects iar with computers, were often be ter, pushed Logo still farther into already begun pulled my attention wildered or mildly amused by my the background. At the same time, away from Logo once again. On enthusiasm. Soon after "master some people felt Logo was passe and Saturday, April 30 an event took ing" Logo, I started two write down had not kept up with advancements place that propelled me to bring and experiment with activity ideas. in computer hardware and software. Logo back to life in Future Center. These turned into lesson plans, Others felt that computer pro Seymour Papert was gracious which evolved into Logo workshops, gramming was suited to a very spe enough to hold a two-day workshop which blossomed into a full course cific learning style and shouldn't be for staff of The National Learning of study for children. I read forced on every child. With more Center and several District of Co Mindstorms and became an avid and more sophisticated paint, mu lumbia public school teachers. We fan of Seymour Papert, the bril sic, design and multimedia tools, huddled around one computer that liant developer and chiefproponent Logo seemed too time-consuming was able to use Logo Microworlds of Logo. I bought Logo activity and inappropriate to the kinds of and hung on Seymour's every word. books, scoured magazines for activ computer-related projects that were He engaged us in a dialogue focused ity ideas and attended workshops becoming popular. Nonetheless, on Logo and other topics such as the and seminars to learn the latest Logo remained in FutureCenter, al state of education today. On the about using videodisc players, scan beit kept in the familiar Logo Writer second day, we all worked with an ners and Lego with Logo. All this activity box. What kept it in the lab older version of Logo, LogoWriter. time, I was also using paint pro and in my mind was the philosophy During a brief introduction, grams, word processors, databases of "debugging" championed by Seymour showed us a dozen com and other types of software includ Seymour Papert in his book mands with which to begin using ing other programming languages, Mindstorms. In it he states that in Logo. At the same time, he mod- 54 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 elled how to introduce Logo to chil ply because times and tech dren and explained powerful ideas nology have changed doesn't like recursion and self-reflection mean they should be made to which are integral to the use of "retire". After all, rubber balls, Logo. We got started and soon, frisbees and kites are still everyone was off on his/her own okay. project. Some chose to use refer ence books and others attempted [Mark Osborne has been the complicated procedures such as director of the Future Center cubes and spirals, one of the hard at the Capital Children's Mu est. Just as I had done some seven seum since 1987. The Play years earlier, the teachers, all of ingto Win network mentioned them using Logo for the first time, in this article is a collection of reveled at being able to draw a community computer centers square and then turn that square in various cities around the into a swirling geometric design. country. The original Harlem, Reeling with excitement, they New York, Playing to Win stopped passersby to witness their community computer center Affordable creations. Everyone left that after was founded in 1983 by noon energized and full of ideas Antonia (Toni) Stone. In Oc Desktop Publishing about how they could best use Logo tober, 1994, Stone was hon It; Graphic Design in their classrooms. ored with a prestigious award Promotional Brochures • Catalogs Ad Layout & Design • 171's What surprised me most was by Computer Professionals for Resumes • Newsletters that it wasn't the new and improved Social Responsibility for her Word Processing • Computer Illustrations Logo that excited everyone (al work furthering computer and Greencastle Graphics though I'm sure it would have given technology access issues.] Nancy Seferian enough computers), but rather the Logo that I had used for years with For those who might be (202) 333-5244 kids. I learned that as an "old friend" interested, a 1991 article 1425 Foxhall Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007 of Logo, it's my job to keep the en about the Harlem Playing to Call now for a free, no obligation, consultation or estimate. ergy of those workshop experiences Win center can be found on the seum, can also serve as "remote alive and to pass along activities Miscelleneous files board ofthe TCS. volunteers" to help answer ques from the past to a new corps of In chatting with Mark Osborne tions as they arise. teachers eager to try new things in last month, I found out that he would their classrooms. Logo and I have a really love to see some Mac volun lot of catching up to do now that it's teers lending an occasional hand at Mark Osborne can be reached via e back as an equal among the word the museum's Future Center. Folks mail at: [email protected] processors, spreadsheets and data who are able to diagnose and fix bases that have held my attention Mac hardware problems (mostly Capital Children's Museum for so long. Plusses and SEs) are also much 800 Third Street NE An interesting postscript to this needed. As many WAP members Washington, DC 20002 story is that as I rediscover Logo, might know, the Capital Children's 202/675-4167 • other "old" programs pop up in the Museum is a simply magical place. software bins, the storeroom or from Besides serving as an exemplary some forgotten subdirectory on a children's museum for out of town hard disk. These programs have visitors, the musem also plays a been afforded a special place in Fu crucial educational role in the inner ture Center now. No, they usually city. don't have the greatest graphics, stereo sound or much complexity, Note: WAP members interested in but at one time, they educated, en volunteering, but who find it hard tertained or assisted someone. Sim- to travel into the children's mu- January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 55 tivities on the calendar. In getting used to the new Drag and Drop functionality I found that a Sched uled transaction couldn't be dragged Quicken 5: Worth directly from one day on the calen dar to another. Instead, I had to the Wait open the transaction list for the given day, and then drag the trans by Gary Franz action to another day. Once I discov ered this, things went smoothly, but finding this took longer than I liked. Minor problems aside, the Cal YWIFE AND I bought I started testing out the new fea endar feature is one of the most our Macintosh in late J anu tures. I couldn't open the Quicken helpful of the new features. Being M ary of 1994, and with it Help file, and an error message came able to see all of the month's "regu we bought ClarisWorks, MaclnTax, up, tellingmethatQuickencouldn't lar" expenses is immensely helpful and Quicken 4. Of the three, I have find the CONNECT.SCR file when in planning purchases. The Calen used Quicken 4 the most and I have I tried to use the new Quicken dar can also remind you of upcom fallen in love with it. I went from a Quotes feature, which downloads ing bills or simply enter them auto spreadsheet on a Brother word pro stock quotes from CompuServe or a matically. cessor to this behemoth of financial 900 service. The problems stopped Entering transactions, which organization and I felt like a kid in QuickFill helps immensely with, is a candy store! I could create graphs, "Once I actually re usually the most time consuming get quick reports on all of the cat ceived Quicken 5, task. QuickFill is a feature that egories we spend money on, and remembers transactions you've en more. I was thrilled. I felt a little wary tered and fills them in as you type After about six months, the fan about abandoning the the first few letters of a transac fare and dazzle wore off, and I was program I had come tion. The new changes to QuickFill finding ways to use Quicken more make it easier to enter dates, let efficiently, helping me to cut back to know and love, ting you now just type the day, on my daily usage times. I read up fearing that the instead of the month and the day. here, explored there, and found ways changes would be too The new QuickFill also gives you to do what I needed to do more the ability to edit the list of trans quickly and easily. great. To my relief, actions, making it easier to cus A couple ofmonths later, we got installation was pain tomize frequent transactions so an offer in the mail for the new less, and transferring only a single change to the amount version of Quicken! Once again, I column needs to be made instead of was thrilled. "There's more?!" I my old data file was as having to type in the description, thought to myself. I was filled with easy as double-clicking amount, category and so on. excitement, my mind racing at the the icon." Also helpful in entering trans thoughts ofall ofthe possibilities the actions is the new QuickMath fea new features presented. I was hun ture, which enables you to add fig gry to dive in to this latest version once I quit and relaunched the pro ures right in the amount column, and see what it really had to offer. gram, but my fears about the new simply by typing a function (+,-,*,or hanging about Once I actually received changes were still !) after the amount. Adding or sub Quicken 5, I felt a little wary about me like cobwebs. tracting tax, or adding separate abandoning the program I had come Getting used to some ofthe new items on a receipt (for labeling un to know and love, fearing that the features was also a little trying at derthe samecategory)is much faster changes would be too great. To my times. The new Calendar feature than using a separate desk acces relief, installation was painless, and makes it possible to schedule trans sory, or - gasp!- a real calculator. transferring my old data file was as actions that happen regularly, like Another time saver is the im easy as double-clicking the icon. paychecks and utility bills, and then proved Reconcile feature, making Some quirks did arise, however, as see all of the month's financial ac- 56 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 reconciling accounts with bank or credit card statements faster and clearer. The addition of the lconbar has also been helpful in getting around Quicken 5. Being one to forget Com Take Advantage of mand-Key links too easily, I found the customizable Iconbar extremely those Fonts! helpful in accessing the menu func tions, as well as the account regis by Ralph J. Begleiter ters. Quicken 5 also allows you to customize the key combinations as well, so everything can be just a couple of keys away. ONGTHEMOSTdisap "Palatino" for a formal appearance, Quicken 5's Achilles heel is ointing observations I have or "Courier" if you insist on making speed: the new version is noticeably ade when reviewingthe work your pages look like they were pro slower than Version 4. Searches, of new Macintosh owners is the lim duced on a typewriter. "Palatino" while more complete and oftentimes ited creativity and personality they makes nice headlines. And easier to use, take 3 to 4 seconds impart to their word processing docu "Helvetica" looks great in italics. longer than before. This may not ments. NearlymostMacNovice docu But take a look at some of the seem like much, but as data files get ments you see are created in the other fonts available on WAP disks bigger, searches take longer, and Mac's "Geneva" font, a simple, clear or in software stores. There are many can reach times of 10-12 seconds. typestyle to which most MacNovices collections. Some mail order firms Still sound silly? I guess it feels like 'default" in their initial documents. offer packages of hundreds of fonts asking someone a question like, "Do (When printed on a laser printer, for less than $50. Among them, you'll you have a penny?" and waiting ten "Geneva" becomes "Helvetica," be certainly find a font to fit your per seconds for them to answer. cause laser fonts are somewhat dif sonality. One of the new features that I ferent from the fonts your Mac sys Some of the most functional font have yet to get into is the Tax plan tem uses to look best on your screen.) collections are available as shareware ner, which enables you to link your Many novice Macintosh users de from Washington Apple Pi. categories to Tax items, and uses fault to the "Geneva" font because To help you select a font that's those links to help estimate your their Mac automatically chooses it in right for you, don't hesitate to experi taxes and compare multiple tax sce the absence ofany other instructions. ment. Create a document in which narios. Youcouldcompareyourjoint Other users are aware they can you deliberately mix a wide variety of tax return to married filing sepa change fonts, but are too timid to try fonts. Create a paragraph for each rately returns, or see if it would be it. Still others are daunted by the different font. (A few words are sim beneficial to itemize deductions. somewhat intimidating process of ply not enough to make an intelligent All in all, the new features and installing new fonts in their System. choice.) Select each paragraph (by time saving improvements make up Perhaps the saddest cases are those draggingthroughitwithyourmouse); for the slowdown, making Version 5 MacNovices who have recently parted then choose a font to apply to that a worthwhile purchase or upgrade. ways with other computer systems paragraph from the font menu. I use it every day, and I'm always which simply don't make a variety of Choose several different sizes for each happy to see the latest tip from the typestyles available as easily as the of your choices. new QuickTips feature, which gives Mac does. Now print the document on the random usage tips and ideas, and You're using a Mac now ... liber printeryou use regularly. Ifit'sadot can be set to pop up each time Quicken ate yourself from the typestyles cho matrix printer, use a good ribbon 5 is started. Quicken 5 has made the sen by a computer manufacturer! (not necessarily a brand new ribbon). task of seeing where all of the money Choose a typestyle ("font" in Mac Print everything twice: once in the goes, and where it will go, not only lingo) which expresses your own style, "faster" mode and once in the "best" easier, but even a bit fun. or which represents the tone of the mode. document you're writing. Gary Franz Even the Mac's basic selection of continued page 75 MacCircles • fonts offers plenty of variety. Try January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 beats accurately to within a frame for synchronizing to the animation. Installation of Premiere either with the supplied five high density floppy disks or CD-ROM is explained Adobe Premiere 4.0 very clearly in the Getting Started manual. I used the CD-ROM, by Stuart Bonwit making installation extremely easy with a few mouse clicks in the right places. The process involves transferring 242 items to the hard disk, resulting in an increase of7.9 BROAD BRUSH VideoFusion's QuickFlix for editing, MB in the hard disk storage. DOBE PREMIERE 4.0 is playing,andoutputingtovideotape. ndeed a "premiere" package Premiere's principle use, as I Details for the professional producer see it, is in capturing video and A tutorial, Chapter 1 in the 331- ofmovies for broadcast, film, or CD audio clips, producing video and page User Guide, is straight ROMs. The casual/hobbyist video sound effects, editing, and recording forward, and easy to understand maker will enjoy the myriad ofeffects and playing back the finished and follow. Executing the tutorial available ifhe or she is satisfied with product. It has superb capabilities produces a movie made from an image size less than full screen. for this, provided that the input and supplied video and audio clips and This obstacle may be overcome by output channels have the requisite illustrates: editing; transition effects adding third party hardware just as speed. The requirements for speed between video clips; modification of the professionals do. increase rapidly with increased color, brightness, and contrast; and Without the added hardware to image size (resolution) and color adding sound and titles. The Screen capture (digitize) full broadcast depth (number of colors). NTSC Shot shows the status of the quality video (NTSC in the U.S.), I broadcast quality video requires full completed tutorial project. was limited to capturing video in screen images (640x480 resolution) The Construction Window in the small video windows and at less at 30 frames per second with millions Screen Shot is used to assemble the than 30 frames per second. For of colors (24-bit color). VHS quality movie. Video clips are inserted into many applications, particularly for requires the same, but could get by Video Track A in the order required. interactive CD-ROMs, this is with only thousands of colors. The For video effects transitions a clip is adequate. Capturing video is done unmodified Quadra 660AV and inserted into Video Track B with an by compressing the input video many other Macintoshes do not have overlap of the transition time stream. The Quadra 660AV the speed without third party desired. A transition is chosen from provides several compression hardware. the Transitions window and is algorithms. Some guidance in I create my animations at inserted in the transition Video choosing one is given in the 512x384 resolution (nearly full Track T. Clips for superimposition Premiere's User Guide. However, screen) in either 256 or thousands are inserted into Video Track Sl the actual choice requires of colors at 15 frames per second. where the title "Rings!" can be seen. considerable experimenting and is Since the images are already in the Multiple superimpositions are quite dependent on the video computer, I do not have to capture possible. The level bar under the content. them from an external source. title controls fading. It has been set I am a casual/hobbyist video Therefore, the animations are not to fade the title in at the start. maker and have been making affected by the video capture speed Audio clips are inserted into Audio computer animations for several limitations mentioned above. Tracks A and B. The level bar under years. My current computer, a I have liked everything I have Audio Track A shows the audio being Quadra 660AV, has no added video tried so far on Premiere. One faded out at the end of the movie. hardware and is unmodified except particular feature that is essential Audio Track X is used for audio for RAM expansion to 24 MB. for my animation work is the audio effects such as mixing. The Previous to using Premiere, my Clip Window. This provides a application has capacity for 99 video Macintosh experience has been with waveform monitor for the audio and audio tracks. Macromedia's Swivel 3D for signal. Sliding the curser along the A dazzling array of 61 video modelling and animating and with track permits timing of musical effects Transitions is available. A 58 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 few are seen in the Transition selecting the entire movie) can be the Make menu, can be played with window. When the window is active, previewed in the Preview window any application that plays as shown in the Screen Shot, all the at normal speed with sound. The QuickTime movies. Movie Player transition icons are continuously Export/Print To Video command plays the finished 1.6 MB Tutorial animated showing just what the under the File menu displays the Project movie smoothly from the transitions looks like! movie in the center of the monitor Quadra 660AV's internal hard disk. Powerful tools are available for screen with a black surround for I was disappointed not to be previewing a movie under transferring the finished movie to able to get a screen shot from the construction. The black down arrow video tape. In Print To Video the Print to Video display because seen in the time line can be dragged movie can be shown in its original Premiere's Print to Video appears across the time line to display the resolution rather than in the not programmed to display still movie in the Preview window in (default) reduced resolution of the frames. This was the only either direction at any speed and Preview screen. This is really the disappointment I have had so far can stop to display any frame. Any only way to see the movie "properly!" with Premiere. The Movie Analysis portion of the movie selectable by The finished movie, made with feature, which gives all the details the control bar at the top of the the Make Movie command under of the construction of a movie, is Construction Window (shown ,.. , 9 File Edit Project Make Clip Windows A T B s Movie 1 Duration : 0 :00 :02 :2 1 160 x 120 A Starting at : 0 :00 :00 :00 Ending at : 0 :00 :02 :21 Transitions Cursor at : 0 :00 :01 :03 Additiue Dissolue Project: Tutorial -----=------r--i A Image A fades into image B. 5 items Band Slide Image B slides over Image A in horizonta 1 or vertica1 bars. II II Band Wipe Spotlight 9 Twirl9 Image B is revealed under Image A by A 00:02:21 A00 :02:14 horizonta 1 or vertica1 bars. Barn Doors Image B is revealed under Image A from the center outwards. Center Merge Image A splits into 4 parts and slides to the center to revea 1 image B. January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 59 somewhat pessimistic, in my opm1on. It over sky the limit!. emphasises frames dropped during capturing. One animation video captured from tape had no dropped Conclusion frames according to QuickFlix's Movie Get Info. Yet, For the serious video movie maker Adobe Premiere Premiere announced, "This movie appears to have is certainly a valuable application to have and I strongly DROPPED FRAMES," and had a long listing of frame recommend it. groupings each with the number offrames and duration. The package includes: -A 13-page "Getting Started" manual Other Features -A 331-page "User Guide" The Tutorial occupies Chapter 1, 24 pages, in the -Quick reference cards listing all keys and tools. User Guide. The next nine chapters, occupying 270 -Five high density disks with over 6 MB of material pages, cover instructions for the many specific -Two CD-ROMs with over 1000 MB of material capabilities of Premiere. After completing the tutorial, -Premiere may be installed from eitherthe high density I made an animated title superimposed over a video disks or the CD-ROMs clip. I also experimented with the Filter and Motion -The five disks and the CD-ROMs have: effects. The instructions for these and for the multitude -The Adobe Premiere application in three versions for: ofvariations are clear and detailed. The only time I had -The Macintosh 680x0 series any trouble was when I did not follow the instructions! -The Power Macintosh for which it is accelerated The many Filters allow a wide variety of video -Both for easy transporting between systems effects. Some that I particularly like are: Camera Blur QuickTime 2.0 (out of focus effect); Lens Flare (as if looking into a Adobe Type Manager plus a collection of fonts bright light); Pointilize (like a pointilist painting); -Sample files. Replicate (multiple images of selected clip); and Zig The two CD-ROMs have, in addition; Zag (includes water ripples). The interesting thing -Several "plug-in filter models" about lens flare is that it is used as an "artistic" effect -Stock video, still pictures, and sound in the modern cinema. However, in the Golden Age it -Interactive animated tutorials was avoided like the plague with the use of elaborate -Interactive video art piece with a tutorial showing barn doors for lights and the camera lens. The Motion how it was made effect allows a clip to be moved about the screen with user -Adobe Acrobat for viewing online and third party defined paths, speeds, and distortion. Premiere allows documentation the user to create his/her own Filter and Motion effects. -On-line documentation includingthe entire User Guide It was all great fun and I would like to have tried -Tryout versions of other Adobe applications. everything! But, going through the chapters in detail (Get that CD-ROM drive. See what you're missing!) would probably take months. However, the best way to learn is to create a project and make it as sophisticated System requirements: (read: complicated) as one can. -Macintosh 68020 processor or higher with 4 MB of Some intriguing Premiere capabilities include RAM or Power Macintosh with 6 MB of RAM creating: story boards; edit decision lists; freeze frames ----80 MB hard drive and time lapse; overlays; split screens; Chroma key -QuickTime vl.6 or higher effects; and 360-degree movies for showing from five -Apple System Software v7 or higher. projectors. Some of the capabilities require Adobe System recommendations: Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop for creating and -Macintosh 68040 or Power Macintosh manipulating graphics. Edit decision lists created in -16 MB of RAM for full screen video Premiere may be exported to post-production house -500 MB hard drive for full screen video editing suites for final editing of a project in film or video -Video digitizing board that produces QuickTime movies for theatrical release or network broadcast. One thing -Color monitor with 24-bit video display card that impressed me with the professional level ofPremiere -CD-ROM drive. is the inclusion of a simulated video waveform monitor Adobe Premiere 4.0 is a product of and vector scope. These instruments are found only in Adobe Systems Incorporated television broadcast and post-production facilities. They 1585 Charleston Road, P.O. Box 7900 are now available to anyone with Premiere. Mountain View CA 94039-7900 Appendix A covers video basics; Appendix B covers 415-961-4100 creating your own transitions and filters, making the List price: $795. • 60 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 $10.00 "CheapColor2" ImageWriter II printing utility for the past couple of months with very good results. This utility converts Pict images Cheap Printing into images using the eight original quickdraw colors. A four color ribbon allows the ImageWriter to then print lmageWriter II Tips an accurate representation of the image using those eight colors. Some by Michael T. Porter of the complex images I've printed have required me to set the preferred size in the get info box as high as THOUGHYOUrarelysee options, best, faster and draft. The 3500k, so make sure you've got it advertised anymore, the best option prints at 144 dpi and the enough memory. I use Thorsten ImageWriter II printer is other two options print with Lemke's excellent shareware still sold and supported by Apple. I correspondingly lower quality program, "Graphics Converter v personally wouldn't pay the going output. I keep two ribbons on hand, 2.0", to convert GIF and JPEG retail price ofabout $285.00 though. one black and one color. For text images to Pict format for printing At that price you might as well only documents I use a black ribbon with CheapColor2. A no cost consider an inkjet printer. Keep your since it seems to produce a darker alternative of course is to convert eyes peeled for bargains such as the black than does the four color ribbon. them to Pict form by taking a two new IWII printers I saw for sale I get my ribbons by mail from snapshot of the screen but you'll at December's garage sale for Educational Resources Inc. for just then print the entire screen $185.00 each with full warranties. $2.00 for black and $5.00 for color including the menu bar. I've seen many used ImageWriters ribbons plus 5% s&h. I normally get At the garage sale I got lucky in excellent condition for sale as low two to three month's use out of a and found SuperLaserSpool for the ribbon, making my cost per page incredible price of $2.00. I believe much lower than an inkjet printer. this sold for about $70.00 a couple of "At the garage sale I got When I first got the printer ,I years ago. It allows background lucky and found was disappointed to find that my printing with all Apple printers. It's SuperLaserSpool for the color clip art images printed in black nice to be able to use my Mac now while a lengthy printingjob is being incredible price of $2.00. and white as well as the coloring pictures my daughter made with a taken care of. Keep your eyes peeled, I believe this sold for couple of her programs. I bought I'm sure there are more copies out about $70.00 a couple of her KidPix and we were pleasantly there. I have found an years ago. It allows surprised to find that we were finally incompatibility between background printing printing in full color! I stayed up SuperLaserSpool(SLS) and until three in the morning drawing CheapColor2 but that's easily with all Apple printers. rectified by turning SLS offwith the It's nice to be able to use and printing pictures of very good quality. Even after all the kid's Laser Queue DA when printing with my Mac now while a programs I've bought since, I still CheapColor2. No restart is lengthy printing job is consider it one of the best. As far as necessary to toggle the Laser Queue being taken care of." clip art is concerned, I now buy DA off and on. Clickart byT/Maker which contains I think my ImageWriter II can what they call "The Trade Secret". be a very useful printer for several as $100.00. I've had no problems You choose the format, EPS, Pict, more years with some of the great with mine which I bought used a Adobe Illustrator'88 or Print Shop programs I've been lucky enough to year ago. A reputable seller won't Deluxe and it converts the art for find. Educational Resources can be have any qualms about you. I use the Pict format which I reached at (800) 624-2926. guaranteeing the printer for at least import into ClarisWorks documents CheapColor2 and Graphics 15 days. and they print in beautiful color. Converter v.2.0 are available for The IWII has three print quality I've been using Jeff Skaitsis' download on the TCS. Happy bargain hunting! • January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 61 Director. (Director is the leading Mac multimedia authoring program available today. It works on a frames-per-second metaphor, and Passport Producer Pro: Fast offers extensive interactivity using a programming language called Lingo. Street price for Version 4.0 is Multimedia Authoring about $800.) © Dennis R. Dimick Squeaky Wheels Get Grease In hopes of effecting change, I wrote Passport Designs with my ASY TO LEARN and use. to Producer Pro. (My original copy concerns about the program's That's what comes to mind when of Producer cost less than $100 performance, also pointing out that I think of Passport Producer from MacConnection in summer most Mac users without corporate EPro, at least from this multimedia 1993.) Despite a low introductory purchasing budgets probably neophyte's point-of-view. How so? cost, my initial experience with couldn't consider Producer Pro until It only took about four hours to put Producer Pro 1.0 was a bit of a its street price was competitive with together a working version of my struggle. Random crashes, slow file Macromedia Director. first project after installing the loading times, glacial QuickTime To Passport's great credit, they program. export, and erratic behavior were responded quickly with pre-release First introduced in late 1992, all regular companions. It was a versions of an improved Producer Passport Producer originally was constant cha llenge getting Pro 1.1. Speed and stability were positioned as a media integration Producer Pro 1.0 to work reliably vastly improved, and I was able to preseritation program that allowed on my accelerated Macintosh Ilci. prototype and produce projects you to assemble in time-based Regardless ofhow much I didn't without tearing my hair out. presentations a variety of media pay, software should work as types such as sound, pictures, touted, especially a high-dollar Producer Pro Revised: animations, text, MIDI a nd multimedia authoring program Solid, Cheaper QuickTime movies. Producer's hoping to contend in a field Early in 1994 when Passport "time-based" metaphor uses an icon dominated by Ma cromedia Designs shipped version 1.1.1, this style interface that allows you to assemble projects by dragging icons onto the timecard or "Cue Sheet." Late in 1993 Passport Designs 1.1.1 ofHalfMoon Bay, CA, re-christened the program "Passport Producer Pro," dramatically raised the price to $1495, and added a slew of new features to make it a powerful multimedia development tool. These included interactivity, AppleScript Real-Time Production support, expanded device control, for Interactive Media "" QuickTime video capture and movie export, and a player program that Yritten blJ Glenn Ru eh le allowed distribution of projects Machine Control blJ JeffrelJ R . Mossberg Designed blJ Dave Kusek, Lowell levinger (albeit with hefty distribution and Glenn Ru ehle royalties to Passport.) © 1992-1994 Passport Designs, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Price of Progress Did I pay nearly $1500 for Greetings: The splash screen calls Producer Pro "Real-Time Production for ProducerPro?No,registeredowners Interactive Media." Producer Pro is a second generation program, following of Producer received $15 upgrades "Passport Producer,'' which was introduced in 1992. 62 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 improved program came with a lower price, $995. (I've seen it in mail-order catalogs for about $720, even cheaper than Director.) In addition to two CD-ROMs of clip media, Passport also bundled a runtime player with the program, and use fees for player distribution were eliminated. (When v.1.0 of the programcost$1495, the player came 00 :00 :04 .50 for an extra fee, and you paid oo :oo :~ .oo royal ties on each copy of your 00 :00 :05.50 presentation distributed.) 00 :00 :06 .00 V. 1.1.1 works reliably, and has 00 :00 :06.50 proven a versatile and powerful 00 :00 :07 .00 media integration program, at least 00 :00 :07 .50 for me. You will need a formidable 00 :00:08.00 hardware setup, as Passport 00 :00 :08. 50 recommends a Quadra with 12MB 00 :00 :09. 00 of RAM. (My experience showed 20MB RAM inadequate some days.) These requirements are up from an 8MB Mac IIci for the initial version Producer's Cue Sheet: The main window is the Cue Sheet. Timing goes along of Producer. the left, tracks and channels across the top. Thr~e cue types from my Peru project are shown. Audio and picture tracks are in tracks one and two, and Assembling a Project track three shows text cues with start and stop times at the edge ofeach box. '!'op When working with Producer, left is the timing counter, which shows current cursor position, ~nd top right you are faced with a table-type (or is the transport, with buttons to move you through the production. You drag icons from the two Cue Palettes, at right, onto the Cue Sheet to add content to spreadsheet-like) window called a your production or to add control elements. Cue Sheet. Times run down the left side, channels or tracks for media run across the top. You add a media icon within each cue. You can, for time code. "cue" to your project by dragging an example, see the waveforms of an Producer Pro has QuickTime icon from the "Cue Palette" to a audio cue, edit its start and stop video and audio capture tools built place in a track at a specific time. points, and also control the level of in. I was able to easily grab The number oftracks is limited only audio at any point. QuickTime movies with sound, and by the ability ofyour hardware setup capture quality was limited only by to handle them, and it's possible to Media Ins and Outs the strength ofmy QuickTime video have many layers of information of Producer Pro can control several capture board. Video editing with any media type playing at once. external devices without requiring simple cuts and several transitions You can import a variety of programming. You can, for example, is available, but if you seek complex media types including animation control external CD-ROM players, transitions within QuickTime, you (PICS,) pictures and graphics (PICT and Producer supports a variety of may need a dedicated QuickTime and TIFF,) sounds (AIFF, MIDI and video machine controls including editor such as VideoFusion or Adobe Compact Disk RedBook,) and you Sony VISCA, Pioneer LaserDisk, Premiere. can create or import text, and play Videomedia VLAN, or ARTI. In If you choose, it's also possible QuickTime movies. It's easy to addition to QuickTime, timing to export a complete Producer change the track location, timing or synchronization is based on SMPTE production to videotape using the duration of each "cue" by dragging (Society of Motion Picture and "Print to Video" command if you the cue box or its length on the cue Television Engineers) time code, have the necessary video-out sheet. It's also possible to see the with 1/100 second accuracy, and hardware installed. contents of a cue by clicking on an Producer Pro will read and write January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 63 journey to rural Andean Peru, and The project's length was dictated was a combination of about 30 by the length of the music, which "Producer Pro has photographs, titles, and music. This was imported (using Producer) as a QuickTime video project was quite primitive by QuickTime movie sound file from a contemporary interactive compact disk audio track via and audio capture production standards, and probably QuickTime 1.6.l and an Apple tools built in. I was didn't even need a heavyweight CD300 drive. You can also use program like Producer Pro. Producer to record sounds either able to easily grab But the pictures were big (PICT from on-board audio inputs ofrecent QuickTime movies images in Indexed Color from Macs, or from high-quality 16-bit PhotoCD at 768x512 pixels, 380K audio capture boards. with sound, and each,) and audio came from a Once my project was completed, capture quality compact disk (25 MB file size in 16- I was able to export it as a QuickTime bit 44 KHz stereo.) Moving this movie, or Media Player file, at 30 was limited only by amount of data through my frames per second with a 640x430 the strength of my computer was pushing it to say the screen size. It only took a couple of least, but it succeeded most days. hours to render the whole 1 7MB QuickTime video Assembling the elements and project on my Mac using animation capture board." roughing out my project was very compression. easy, and this is one of Producer Pro's great strengths. Most of my Instant Playback During QuickTime to Go original production time was spent Authoring A wonderful feature ofProducer tweaking PhotoCD files for on Producer Pro allows you to allows export to QuickTime, so screen display and converting them "proof," or playback productions as anyone with a QuickTime capable from PICT to Indexed color to reduce you work on them, as files don't Mac can see your Producer file size and allow smoother need compiling first. (Programs like productions in movie form. You also playback. Adobe Premiere require you to can export part of a production as a QuickTime movie, and use it as a "Cue" in part of a larger interactive Producer project. The stand alone runtime "Media Player" that now comes bundled uses QuickTime movies together with a player file and the Media Player program to allow interactivity. You can, for example, add buttons that work within an exported player production to start, stop, return to beginning, or jump (branch) to alternative presentations or sections based on a user's response or interests. Media Player files run on any QuickTime capable Mac, and Passport also has produced a Windows player so Mac-authored files can play on Windows machines. The Stage: By using stage editing tools, it's easy to place text and other elements exactly where you want them. Tool palettes shown include the type A First Project style palette, at right, and the stage palette. Stage palette includes tools for My first project was a alignment and positioning ofcues, transparency, paths in and out, cue editing, documentary essay based on a cue setup, actions, borders, and links to other cues. 64 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 compile movies before you can Picture Setup: Default preview them, and this can be a lengthy process, measured in hours depending on the speed ofyour Mac.) 181 Center on Stage D Fill Stage Successful instant playback will Duration[!!] seconds require a very fast Mac with accelerated video card, a fast hard Transition In ../None drive, and lots of RAM. (There are reasons why Quadra 800s and Transition Out , Straight Wipe 840AVs are used at trade shows to Diagonal Wipe make programs look good during Path In Circular Wipe the demos.) Path Out Iris Out I found the instant playback a Iris In very useful feature when assembling Ink Mode a production, as it allowed me to check relative timing of music and titling with images without compiling the whole project. If ® Producer Edi Horizontal Strips timing was a bit off, it took only a O Other Rpplic Uertical Strips few seconds to make changes and Dissolue play back the modified presentation. There's More Here D Don't er Zoom Other production tools in (Reduce Fade Producer Pro include path-based (Action ... (eorde·r ... object animation, background J J Rate ••• gradient generation, anti-aliased text and drop shadows, borders for "------any object, and more than 40 Picture Cue Defaults: This dialog box shows default attributes you can transitions and special effects. Each set for pictures. Similar defaults can be set for most cue (content) types. In of these features could be described addition to transitions (here set as curtains open for transition in,) you can at length. set paths, ink mode or transparency, create links to external editing Despite the extensive library of programs, set actions once a cue appears, and create default borders. transitions, Producer Pro does not include a simple "fade to black or my experience, and this puts QuickTime and the limited of data white" as an option for cues. I tried Producer more on a par with handing abilities of most 680x0 to create a project with the look of a Premiere in this respect. Macs. slide show, and my closest option Even then, cross-dissolve Producer also allows you to link ended up being a transition that transitions, for example, are data to external programs to edit cue looked like curtains opening as each transfer intensive, and can create files during production. Producer picture came on. QuickTime files of enormous size. will, for example, link to Adobe It is possible to create My project's final size was 17MB Photoshop or any graphics program transitions such as cross-dissolves with curtain transitions, but a test so it automatically opens ifyou need (using fine dissolve out and in for production with the same cue to edit a PICT file while working in cues on adjacent tracks,) but they elements using created cross Producer Pro. You're only limited are nearly impossible to preview in dissolve transitions created a file by the amount ofinstalled RAM, for real time as the computer is trying nearly lOOMB in size, too big to fit example, if you want to open to show two graphics files in the on a SyQuest 44MB cartridge. It Producer and Photoshop at the same same place on screen choked my Mac at nearly every time. simultaneously. The effect and transition, with dropped frames and quality of some transitions can only choppy audio. This is not a problem Is Producer Pro for You? be assessed after the project is with Producer Pro, it's a challenge of Ifmultimedia production is your compiled to QuickTime, at least in business, you probably know about January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 i-1 ~ or have bought Producer Pro. Passport·Producer Pro Suffice to say, Producer can be Version 1.1.1 very useful, as Passport describes Retail Price $995 it as a tool for video pre-production Passport Designs Inc. and delivery, special events 100 Stone Pine Road presentations, information kiosks ' Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 computer-based training, and CD- Phone: 415-726-0280 ROM authoring. Passport has America Online: Passport been offering competitive "upgrades" to Producer Pro for $495 if you already own Adobe Premiere or Macromedia Director. Dennis Dimick's QuickTime movie Ifyou're a multimedia neophyte, "Peru: Voyage to a State of Mind," Producer Pro is a pretty hefty set was created with Passport Producer of tools with price to match, and if Pro. It received a first place award you have ambitious goals, in the documentary category at the Producer Pro may be the tool you 1994 Sumeria International need. Ifyou're not sure where you QuickTime Film Festival in San want to go with multimedia Francisco. Professionally, he works production, you might consider a as a photo editor at National less costly program to get your Geographic Magazine in feet wet. Washington, DC. His Internet e-mail Some lower-cost alternatives address is: [email protected] • include Gold Disk's Astound MovieWorks 2.0 from Interactiv~ Solutions, Vividus Cinemation, or Editor's Note: The following Macromedia's Action. None of was announced after this these "time-based" or "frame article was written. based" programs match the In late November, 1994, capabilities of Producer Pro, but Passport Designs announced neither do they carry the price. it was halting further Other options include Apple's development of Passport HyperCard 2.2 and SuperCard 1. 7 (an updated version just released Producer Pro. A report in the from Allegiant.) Both are powerful Nov. 28, issue ofMacWeek authoring tools designed on a "card said the firm was A Computerist ...... 66 based" metaphor, but you will need discontinuing the program AllNet Service Center ...... 95 to develop some programming because "the market for expertise to take advantage of their Arminius ...... 16 multimedia authoring tools features. hasn't developed as quickly Desktop Personnel ...... 11 The original version ofProducer as we expected," according to Dupont Computers ...... 9 1.0 was still recently being sold for David Kusek, Passport about $100 to educational chairman and founder. "The Greencastle Graphics ...... 55 customers, and if you qualify, this hardware requirements for may fit your needs. But the original Mac Upgrades ...... C4 (multimedia authoring) are Producer doesn't include Nisus ...... 1 interactivity, QuickTime export just too steep for a really video capture or export, or the broad market acceptance of o'reilly computer services ...... 7 cross~ platform Media Player. these products." Passport Publishers Service Bureau .. C3 plans to provide technical support for Producer Pro until TCS ...... 5 the end of 1995 66 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 into a mail management scheme. See sidebar.) How Does It Work? Mailing Lists: Mailing lists are automatically run from a server, and may or may A Lazy Way onto the Internet not have a human being screening the mail. What happens is this: by Terry Wilson Someone sends a message to the list. The server intercepts it and shoots it back over the Internet to everyone on the list. (Some lists (Although I follow AOL procedures ber the name of the discussion or collect a day's worth of mail, bundle for joining Mailing Lists, this ar where to find-it comes to you. it up, and send it to the subscribers ticle is also for members of as a single digest-like several Compuserve, Genie, Delphi, A Thousand Topics pieces of mail stuffed in one enve Prodigy, and those with a direct America Online has a Mailing lope.) You read the messages at your Internet connection.) List area with descriptions of over a leisure, and if you want to put your thousand lists. Although you won't two cents in, you can respond to the 0 MUCH information; so find everything you search for, list by replying just as you would to little time. Accessing the chances are very good that you'll any other e-mail. Internet is all the rage these find something that interests you. Sdays. Newsgroups, also called Here are examples of lists you can What Goes On There? Internet News, are lively places to join-some offbeat, some main Since a mailing list is a continu read discussions on any number of stream: PHOT0-3D, ORIGAMI, ously evolving stream of mail, top topics. They're similar to the dis THUNDERBIRD, MACAV-L, ics change just as they do in ordi cussion folders on a bulletin board, WHITEWATER, SOFTWARE EN nary conversation. Once you join a except that they are frequented by TREPRENEURS, AIRPLANE list, give it a few weeks to percolate, anyone hooked up to the Internet. CLUBS, TWINS, PETBUNNY, and you'll see that the discussion But, like discussion folders on AOL, XPRESS-LIST, T-ZONE, TEDDY covers a wide range. if you only browse them occasion BEARS. After you've eavesdropped for a ally, there can be simply too many I searched on a few topics that week or so, send out a message postings to digest at one time. personally interest me, and got 1ucky introducing yourself. Mailing lists There is a no fuss-no muss al by actually finding them. For in are a great way to meet new people ternative that gives you a specific stance, the first list I got on was who share your interests. Each post topic, wide-ranging contributors, Doublereed-L, a list for oboe and ing contains the e-mail address of and a daily fix that comes to you bassoon players. I happen to be an the person who posted, so you can automatically-a Mailing List. oboist, so this was a good find. Two contact them privately. One thing Because a Mailing List runs on months ago, I found 'rocks-and-fos you need to be aware of though, is simple e-mail, if you can send and sils', and recently receive e-mail through the Internet, 'Rockhounds' also you can join a Mailing List. Then showed up. I'm you can follow a thread in easily vaguely inter digestible portions, adding to it if ested in caving, so 0 About the Internet Center 0 Uhat i• the Internet? If you can imagine you wish. you do automatic mail MailGattVl\j tJ Zen & the Art of Internet runs (called Flashsessions on AOL), my surprise find CJ EI ec. Fronti er Foundot ion ing'Caver Digest.' D CoSlf you won't be wasting valuable online D UIred Magazine Now I'm on all c:J nae Co••unicot ion$ Foru• time reading your messages; and Moflln9 t:J PC Co••unicot ions Foru• you can reply at your leisure, tak four lists, and am Litts D Internet Meooage Board ing time to compose your response. guaranteed to get Once you get signed up, it's a no mail daily. (This brainer. You won't have to remem- has also forced me January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 Getting On What do I do with all this mail?!?! Putting your name on a mailing list can be confusing and foreign the first time around, but it's really not To handle the continuous flow of e-mail coming into my mailbox, hard to follow the instructions in I devised the following scheme to archive it. Somewhere along the line, get Richard A. Bray's Text Streamer ($10) from your favorite cluded with a list's description. Basically, there are two e-mail shareware source (PMUG, AOL, etc.). addresses associated with mailing 1. Make folders (in the AOL folder) for each of the lists. lists. One is the address of the list 2. Instead of reading your mail online, run Flashsessions so you itself, which busily receives and can read your messages offline at no charge. sends mail to keep the list hum ~· Offiine, choose Read Incoming Mail. Read each message, reply ming. It looks like 'T 1fyou want, then decide whether or not it's a keeper. [email protected].' 4. If you don't want to archive a message, delete it now. The other address is the ad dress ofthe processor, an automated 5. Save the good ones (an ordinary command-Sin AOL) as text into program that handles requests. Its the appropriate folder. The default name will be the subject fuie of name may look like the messag~very handy. When you save a message the mail '[email protected]', window turns into an editable text document. This is a 'good time '[email protected]' or to scissor out the header material at the end. ' T Z 0 N E 6. Select the original piece of mail from the Incoming Mail list and [email protected]' delete it. This keeps your mailbox clean, and speeds the opening of To subscribe, you send a mes Read Incoming Mail. sage to the processor asking to be 7. Ifyou h~ppen to get mail while online, read it quickly, and ifit's added to the list. Normally, the pro worth saving, Save the mail then and there following the above cessor is automated, and under procedure. If not, just leave it alone; it will disappear on its. own. stands only specific commands like 8. When your folders start to get cluttered with small text files, use 'SUBSCRIBE T-ZONE,' so be sure Text Streamer to package them up into one large text file. Text to follow the instructions in the de Streamer is a drag-and-drop program-just select the files and scription file and use exact addresses plop them onto the Text Streamer icon. and names·. Shortly thereafter, you should 9. Clean up the combined files a bit and print them out for real world receive some confirmation from the hard-copy reference. Now you can trash original text file.-TW processor that you have been put on the list, along with more informa tion about the list and some addi that normally, to send private e supplies, anecdotes, values of in tional subscriber options. Some lists mail, you have to consciously ad struments, and job openings. give you lots of options, depending dress your reply to the individual. Two similar-sounding lists will prob on how the 'owner,' a person who In most cases, the list is set up so ably be different. The rock-and-fos oversees the whole operation, that an automatic reply will send sil list is decidedly academic. About chooses to run the list. your post to the entire list. one out of three postings is really In three of my four lists, I elected Lists are also a great way to just a news release on some dino to have the list delivered in Digest keep in touch. I'm inactive as an saur dig or Bureau of Land Manage form: one mailingadaycontainingthat oboe player these days (blame the ment ruling. The rest are people day's postings. The rock-and-fossil Mac for that one!), so the double wanting to swap fossils or research list didn't offer a digest option, and reed list makes me feel somewhat ers needing technical information. everyday I get three or four separate connected, and has even inspired The Rockhound list, on the other pieces of e-mail instead. Digest or me to occasionally toot a little in the hand, is casual. Weekend hobbyists separate? It's a tossup. The digest privacy of my own home. Every day like myself get on and exchange tips form is neater, but with the individual there are four or five postings cover and suggestions for collecting sites, mail, I get a chance to weed out the ing a wide range of topics such as and ask questions geared more to messages I don't want to keep. suggestions for music, alternate fin the average rockbound. Another choice you're likely to gerings, where to buy reedmaking 68 Washington Apple Pi Journal Jan~ary I February 1995 p Internet Mallln Lists ,.,,,,,,~ifuifufrwr=E!li Save for reading later. Click the Search button to find lists. • Internet Mailing Lists Elections Double clicking a found list D Uhat Are Mal I Ing Lish? IQ D Finding a Mai I Ing List ~S.wch name will bring up a descrip D PI ease Read: Managing Your Mai I M1t1ln9Llsts are D Hom to Jo I n a L i st tion and instructions for join D Receiving Mai I froQ a List ing it. Some lists have exten D Post Ing Mai I lo a List • D Hom to Leave a List ~ sive information, some barely coming up ~ Compost Miil enough to get you started. In- Ke\j\olord: Moiling Lists voking Save will save the de- L ______.1!1_. scription to a text file for later soon. reference. If you want to sign encounter is to have the processor on then and there, there's a handy Please get send you a listing of all the list's Compose Mail icon here. subscribers. That was the first thing If you want a listing of all the I did with the double reed list, but it your lists that AOL catalogs (1060 the didn't turn up any long lost music day I looked), type 'list or contact' • pals. . (both words at the same time) in the nomina- A help file is generally avail search field and keep clicking the able, and finally, the most impor More button until they are all dis tant option you have is to tions to played. (It helps if you're signed on unsubscribe. at 9600 bps.) Then go to the File Although mailing lists are run the menu and choose Save Selected List by automated programs, the owners as Text. Now you can go offiine, ofthe lists are still real people; there alphabetize the list and peruse it at Secretary. fore lists may have varying features your leisure. Pick out a few, ~d get available. A list may come with clear, their descriptions when you sign on detailed instructions, with all mes later. sages screened before being posted; Another place to check out lists others may be at the total mercy of is 'bit.listserv.new-list' in AOL's machines, and their information files Newsgroups area. It collects infor can be sketchy and confusing to the mation on new, changed, and can internet novice. But don't let a bad celled listings. Save time by treat description file deter you; subscribe ing this list like the one above: let anyway-your fellow subscribers the entire listing come through, then define the personality of the list. save the selected list as text for later browsing offiine. Finding Lists You can always ask your friends A Concept That Works if they know of any mailing lists or The idea of an electronic mail Listservs (a term some people use) ing list is simple and elegant. En that you might be interested in. Now abling a group of people with a com that you know what mailing lists mon interest to freely pass mes are, keep an ear open when people sages among themselves all over ~he start bragging about their Internet world is really what the Information exploits, and you'll surely start to Superhighway is all about. • hear of some. Look around for listings oflists. On AOL, go to the Internet Connec ©1994 Terry Wilson. Reprinted from tion area and click on the Mailing PMUG Dialog, newsletter of the List icon. You'll find several intro Princeton Macintosh Users Group. ductory files you can read online, or January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 69 Washington Apple Pi General Meeting 4th Saturday, Jan. 28, 1995 • 9:00 a.m. Community & Cultural Center Northern VA Community College • 8333 Little River Turnpike Annandale, Virginia Jan.28,1995 Medical House Call Feh.25,J995 Interactive Home Medical Guide Marc~ M~WediaBand Intuit:• call office for MaclnTax, Quicken 5 name ofreplAcement meet ng topic There is abundant free parking adjacent to the Community & Cultural Center. Note: you must be present to win one of the drawing prizes.I No exceptions. 70 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 rr hance our ability to communicate, we change our human relationships, which in tum causes social trans formations great and small. The The Morino Institute power oftoday's new electronic com munications leads many people to introduction by Phil Shapiro believe that we are about to see social change as deep as any we have ever experienced. In fact, the social change has already started. It is evidenced by HE MORINO Institute Some Excerpts of Articles Pro the many business cards that now s a not-for-profit organization duced by the Morino Institute include electronic mail addresses; dedicated to helping individu by the many governments around als and communities work toward A New Age of Human the world which are galvanized be social change through the power of Communications hind projects like the information information and the potential ofelec Human communication is the superhighways; and by the growing tronic communications. The basis of social organization. It de number of magazines that are be Institute's work is to educate local termines how we learn, how we ing distributed through commercial communities in ways they can use share and how we work together. online services as well as the news information and electronic commu Practically speaking, it determines stand. The change has not only nications as a force for positive so what careers we can choose, with started, it is accelerating. As ofthis cial change-so that they can more what groups we will associate, and writing over 25,000 corporate, edu readily address community needs. how much an individual or commu cational and research networks are The Morino Foundation, a private nity can achieve. Our levels of in connecting millions of people foundation located in Great Falls, formation and knowledge also de through the Internet world-wide. VA, is a primary sponsor of the In termine those things; and we access Over 3000 academic journals are stitute. that knowledge and information available online, some of which are We will work in partnership with through communication. only available electronically. community members and other Today's new electronic commu The opportunity before us is to groups to: educate individuals and nications greatly enhances the po steer this change so that it helps communities about electronic com tential of our human communica people and communities solve the munications; explore the use ofelec tion and social networks. It enables social problems they face, and to do tronic communications for positive us to reach more people regardless so without creating new ones. We social change through collaborative oflocation, it brings us near-instan will focus our efforts on helping lo pilot and research projects; sponsor taneous access to volumes of infor cal communities reach, use and the work of outstanding individuals mation, it helps us work share knowledge more effectively committed to community service; collaboratively across great dis so that they can: and deliver news and information tances, it delivers messages any on the Institute's programs to sub time without disturbing our cur • help people understand the rel scribers and the general public. rent projects and it allows us to hold evance and harness the power conversations with countless num of information and electronic Contact: Morino Institute bers of people simultaneously. communications to improve 768 Walker Road, Suite 289 This is the power of electronic their lives and their communi Great Falls, VA 22066 communications today, while still ties Tel. (703) 759-0477 in its infancy. No one can foresee • stimulate economic growth by Fax (703) 759-9584 how it will eventually develop or helping individuals and busi Email: [email protected] exactly how it will affect society. nesses become more adaptive What we can predict is that since • improve the quality and avail the power of electronic communica ability of education for all ages tions is so great, its effects are going and levels of society to be dramatic. Whenever we en- January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 71 • helppeopleengageandimprove their government • assist the public and social sec tors to reach and engage the people they serve more effec ClarisDraw tively • improve access to and the qual review by Bob Rockefeller ity of health care information and services • advance the state of environ mental awareness, monitoring E'VE COME a long patterns, work with layers, and and protection way from good ol' Mac zoom. WDraw ! The chain ofupgrades Bezier curves are old and new. Knowledge As Opportunity to the Claris drawing program has There are still freehand objects, but Our progress as a people-as a lead through MacDraw II, MacDraw there is also something called a global community-has paralleled Pro, and has now reached "bezigon"-a shape with precise the evolution of our ability to com ClarisDraw (named so as to be plat curves that pass through control municate. Where there are open form neutral-can't run MacDraw points. These are very similar to communications and a free flow of on Windows, can you?). The result bezier curves in programs such as information, people's lives are gen is vintage Claris-a good basic fea Illustrator or FreeHand in that there erally made better. ture set that is smoothly imple are control points with control The real power ofelectronic com mented but perhaps not leading handles allowing very detailed con munications is people as the ulti edge. trol of the curve. mate source of knowledge-not the A variation on the old polygon physical mass of wires, nor the com The Old Stuff tools is the shape tool and the regu plex networks nor the vast data Most of the new program is eas lar polygon tool. The shape tool al bases of information. It is people ily recognized by users of the old. lows you to create a selection ofcom and their relationships, insights, The basic stuffis all here for a draw monly used shapes such as stars, spirit and expertise that are passed ing program-arcs, ovals, rect arrows, cubes, crosses, and from one person to another through angles, lines, polygons, and text. starbursts. The number of sides for those wires, networks and databases You can still change line styles, con creating regular polygons is set from that engender the magic of this in strain shapes, select fill colors and the layout menu (from 3 to 40 equal terconnected world. • sides), and then the tool makes the polygon. Gradient Editor The New Stuff Angle The most useful new ad ditions are the "smart" drawing features. These include Guideliner, PointGuide, connectors, re lationships, and the Info palette. Let's look at each. D Guideliner is a smart cursor tool that allows you Sweep ICircular- I to move or create objects in alignment with other ob Colors 12- I [hi 1• .. I jects. With Guideliner turned on you see guide points that highlight the ( Reuert ) ( Cancel ) U~(iiiiiiO;;;;;K --tJll centers, corners, and edges of other objects. No more 72 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 set up to the users preference. squinting, or zooming way in, to set __._ one item in line with another. The dashes dialog box provides iiDiir ·::.(Cob iiBii A similar drawing aid is the controls for the six customizable File Edit Yiev PointGuide; it helps you find pre dash patterns. All you do is drag the cise points on objects as you are solid and white space segments un ~ drawing or editing. Your pointer til you've got the pattern you want. will change shape when you posi Arrowheads are changed in a simi EJEj~ tion it over an object's comer, cen lar way, just drag out the arrow Comite ... ~ ter, endpoint, or the midpoint of an head outline to make the shape you object's boundary. This helps makes need. Dialog boxes are also available it very easy to connect one line to Compute ... Compute ... the end of another or place the cen for modifying colors (using the stan -- ter of a circle exactly on the end of a dard Apple color wheel), patterns, line. and· gradients. The gradient editor gives you control of gradient direc ~~Q a. The connector tools let you draw Compute ... Compute ... connecting lines from object to ob tion, distance, number of colors in ject that will stay attached as you the gradient, and sweep design (di move the objects. Connectors can rectional, circular, and shape fitting burst). be straight or right angled and make Com_.2.ute~~ ... Compute ... creating organizational charts or keeping related objects connected a Text ( Add )( Use )v breeze. There are quite a few text tools Relationships go beyond the fa now available in a drawing environ miliar aligning objects. We are all ment. the idea is to provide a single a match for Photoshop or Painter, used to aligning objects so their program for drawing, presentation, but they can get the job done if your tops are level or their left edges and basic page layout. Some key needs are modest. even. ClarisDraw goes beyond by text tools such as extensive leading You may remember that draw keeping those alignments even if control, tracking, and hyphenation ings are made ofobjects, while paint objects are edited, reshaped, or are missing. ings are made of individual pixels. moved. Once you've established a But there are many features pro Painting in a drawing will remind certain relationship, say bottom vided. Consider the selection-text you of a color version of MacPaint edges even, you can move one of the bound to curves, styles (but not real that works in paint frames within objects and the others will move styles that change text everywhere the drawing. It's all there-the lasso, with it to maintain the alignment. if the style is edited), alignment, pencil, brush, spray can, paint Wonderful! tabs, find and replace, spelling bucket, and eraser. A new one is the My favorite may be the Info checker, thesaurus, linked text magic wand, which selects all adja palette. This is a live window that frames, text wraps around graph cent pixels of the same color. updates its information as the se ics, an outliner, and even notes at Some image editing tools have lected object changes. It displays tached to the document. been added to the old MacPaint set. all of the dimensional information If you have used other Claris You can blend and tint colors as well related to an object, including the text programs such as MacWrite as lighten or darken the image. And length, width, and angle. But it Pro or ClarisWorks, these tools will several old special effects favorites does more than just display-you be very familiar as they are imple are there too-shearing, distorting, can edit the numbers, and the ob mented in almost the same ways. I flipping, rotating, and adding per ject will change in response. use ClarisWorks, and all the dialog spective. boxes, rulers, styles, and tab set Customizing tings work the way I'm used to. Other Goodies Many things can be customized ClarisDraw can be used to cre in ClarisDraw; some are to be ex Painting ate sliqe show; presentations. Each pected and others are a bonus. Col Don't all drawing programs al slide wprks like a layer and can be ors, patterns, gradients, arrow low you to paint too, these days? I arranged in whatever order you like. heads, and dashed lines can all be guess so, and ClarisDraw is no dif An extra icon appears in the control ferent. The tools for painting are not area ofthe window when slides are January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 73 Untitled 1 and zoom-to-area controls. There are a number of palettes in this program, as there are in most drawing programs, and they can get in the way. Just double-click the palette's title bar and it col lapses to show just the title bar. Double-click again and it's back. ~ ···· · ·········· · ·········· · ················ · · · ··II Another item in the tool area is a selection between drawing objects 0 ...... mm from their centers or from one cor ner. And an extra zoom control al lows you to zoom into an area that you define by dragging a marquee ·· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ····· ·- II over the area you need blown up. Documentation and Support 111!11 The documentation is thin and Layer 1 ..- re~ i es mostly on the extensive help system. The manual is just a little more than halfan inch thick! Maybe created. Clicking on this icon starts area of each design window. I'm from the old school, but I would the slide show; the show is con like to see a program of this power trolled by user preferences which User Interface Points and complexity provided with bet allow for fading from slide to slide, I must admit a bias toward the ter reference material. looping, automatic advancing, and Claris style of user interface. It is Technical support is free for 90 slide size. always clean and easy to use, yet days from your first call to the toll The standard Claris XTND sys powerful enough to get things done. call number. A toll-free number of tem for importing and exporting Some special points in the fe rs automated access to commonly files is used and is very well imple ClarisDraw interface are roll up asked questions. You can add sup mented. Many, many input file for palettes, draw from center or edge, port on a subscription basis for $129 mats are supported, including the standards of TIFF, EPSF, and PICT. You can export in PICT, CGM, EPSF, as well as the old MacDraw formats. Ifa nyone is still using it, ClarisDraw supports pub lish and subscribe. Need clip art? Well, OK, this package comes with ClarisArt, a collection of over 3,000 images in ClarisDraw and Clarisimpact li brary format. Did I mention librar ies? Well, they are there; a special window with a thumbnail view of each image that can be dragged • into a drawing-very handy for dealing with the huge ClarisArt collection. Need a drop shadow or an em bossing effect? No sweat-both are available as a button in the control 74 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 per year for individuals, and up to DA Mover can be confusing. Until $3,999 per year for in-house corpo System 7, the font installation pro ration support staffs. Pay-as-you MacNovice cess was never very "friendly." There go support is available for $2 per continued from page 57 are no icons involved in the Font/DA minute through 800 and 900 num Mover. Just a full-screen dialog box bers. which invites you to open the System Examine the printouts carefully. File in which you want to install or Conclusions Compare the attributes ofeach ofthe remove fonts, open the Font Files Taken as a whole, ClarisDraw fonts you've sampled. Does it print containing the fonts you want to use, is a smooth and powerful program, well? Is it easy to read? Is it too and move fonts between the System and it's PowerPC native. But "stuffy" or too informal? Is it "you?" File and the Font File. The Font/DA FreeHand and Illustrator are, too, Which size is right for your docu Mover displays a sample of any font and seem to perform faster with ments? you select so you can recall a font's complex drawings. The retail price A simple way to install (and re appearance. is $399 (who pays retail? move) fonts from your Mac's System Despite my warning, don't be dis MacWarehousewants $270). That's is to use one of the two commercially couraged. You really can't ''break" pretty high, but you get a lot for it. available font-and-desk accessory anything by experimenting. If you Freehand or Illustrator will set you handler programs-Suitcase or Font/ have to use System 6 and the Font/ back almost$400. But Canvas ($260 DA Juggler. These programs, once DA Mover, always work on a copy of from MacWarehouse) has always installedinyourSystemFolder, make your System File, not the original been this program's nemesis-while choosing new fonts truly a breeze. System File on your System Tools not as smooth, it's a strong competi Installation instructions included disk. That way, in case you do make tor. I'd give them both a look before with each ofthese programs are easy any mistakes, you can start fresh plunking down my cash. to follow. Once they're installed, you'll with a clean copy of your original rarely have to bother with any tricky System File. font installation again. Once you've installed the fonts by Bob Rockefeller These font-handler programs es you want (and all their sizes), restart ©1995, Savannah Macintosh Users sentially allow you to merely insert a your Mac using the newly modified Group disk containing any font (or desk System File. You'll see your new font accessory) and immediately use the choices appear under the font menus font (or DA) in any documents you of all your applications. ClarlsDraw create using any application program Remember that varyingthe fonts Claris Corporation (word processing, spreadsheet, data you use isn't just a "frill." It's a tool to 5201 Patrick Henry Drive base, graphics, etc.). Both of these make your documents more readable Box58168 programs allow you to use and dis and more representative ofyour own Santa Clara, CA 95052 card fonts at will, without ever mak style. Changing fonts is part of the Street price: $270 ing changes in the basic operating process ofcommunicatingyourideas. System File of your Mac. One more caveat: Don't overdo it. System requirements: Short of using one of these effi Convey your style through the font Macintosh Plus or better cient programs, you can install new you choose for a document; don't use Hard disk drive fonts directly into the Mac's System. a dozen styles through a dozen fonts 2MB RAM (4MB for System 7 If you're using System 7, drop font in a single document. Too many fonts or above, 8MB for Power icons onto your System Folder. Your can make a document look silly. They Macintosh) Mac will deposit them in the right make a document difficult to read. System 6.07 or later • place. They distract attention from the ideas Ifyou're still using an old version you're trying to convey. of System 6, use the Apple ''Font/DA Choose your fonts thoughtfully Mover'' included on your computer's and apply theni judiciously. You'll The article above is reprinted from "System Tools" disks. (The Font/DA gain new respect and individuality Mac Monitor, the newsletter ofThe Mover's icon looks like a moving van for your Macintosh-produced docu Savannah Macintosh Users Group. carrying the letter A.) ments.• Be forewarned: using the Font/ January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 75 hardly ever gives it a dirty look anymore when that crashing rush ofstatic interrupts her beauty sleep. She just peers out from behind Design Essentials squinted eyelids, or perhaps rubs up against me or my wife and purrs. review by Randy M. Zeitman Little did we know the animosity she truly harbored against our be loved SupraFAXModem. That is, until the day we returned home from work, eager to check our on ESIGN ESSENTIALS, duotones, tritones, and quadtones line mail, and found the modem no he first release in Adobe are just a sampling of the tech longer responded to our eager call. DPress's Professional Studio niques demystified. Charts show Here boy! C'mon! Fetch!! Techniques series, might be one of ing the effects of applying a combi Nothing. the best digital special effects book nation of Photoshop filters to an Then we took a closer look and on the market to date. image are also helpful. found the true culprit. The power In a nutshell, Design Essentials And not only does Design Es cord had been chewed straight provides step-by-step instructions to sentials show you how to create a through. All the while, Gracie, look reproduce a variety of traditional stereoscopic image, a pair of three ing innocent as the day she was photographic techniques in D glasses is included in the back of born, rubbed up against us and Photoshop. While several Illustrator the book! purred, "Look at me! Aren't I more effects are also detailed, particularly Considering that Design Essen fun to play with than a boring, bro the magic behind creating three-D tials is packed to the gills with infor ken ol' modem?" boxes, many effects described are di mation, in color no less, the $39.95 Her plan backfired, as this turn rectly available in Illustrator 5.5. isn't hard to take at all. Design of events sent us racing out to com Beautifully detailed sections on Essentials makes a great addition puter and electronics stores in impressionist effects, stippling, of any Photoshop users bookshelf. search of a replacement power sup posterizing, bleeding, textures, text ply. Do you know how much elec effects, translucent shapes, rustic Design Essentials, Adobe Press, tronic mail piles up in just one day effects, halftones, and even ISBN 0-672-48538-9 • when you subscribe to a few of the more prolific mailing lists? Let's just say that we'd be afraid our host server might explode from the strain if we didn't act fast. Besides, how . could my wife-without a modem and access to the America Online Cat and Mouse TV gossip conferences-find out the latest scoop on All My Children? With Modem The problem was, Supra, love 'em as we do, makes a custom 9-volt, 650 milliAmp power supply. Radio by Dave Kramer Shack, even with its masculine se lection of power electronics, only has 300-, 500- and 900 mA units. Note: The accompanying photo UR CAT, Gracie, has be Blast! Tech support, here I come. graph of Gracie the cat is ©1994 come accustomed to the Not so fast. The clerk at Radio Dave Kramer. It may be reprinted in sound our modem makes Shack ga.ve me some advice that I a non-profit paper or electronic pub O when it handshakes with a host thought I'd pass on, just in case you lication only if it accompanies this computer, be it our Internet pro have a jealous cat or troublesome article. vider, America Online; eWorld,· or rodent problem. To repair a severed SJAUG's own Appleline BBS. She 9-volt power cord, all you need is a 76 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 casing. One side likely will have a white stripe "She just peers to designate polarity. (If out from behind it doesn't, go ahead and call tech support. You squinted eyelids, don't want to risk reas or perhaps rubs sembling this thing backwards!) Twist the up against me or wire of the like ends to my wife and gether and then seal by wrapping the exposed purrs. copper with electrical Little did we tape. Then, tape both of the sealed ends together. know the ani Finally, loop the en mosity she truly tire reassembled cord as if you were starting to harbored tie a shoelace (you can against our be- check that you did it right by pulling both loved ends to see if the loose SupraFAXM:odem. knot you made prevents the patched area from That is, until the being tugged apart). day we returned There, plug it in and cross your fingers. Stan home from work, dard disclaimer: I in no eager to check way warrant this proce dure to work or not cause our on-line mail, damage to any or all of and found the your equipment, including unre lated appliances in the kitchen. In modem no other words, try this at your own longer re risk. But hey, it worked for me! We sponded to our were back on line in ten minutes. eager call." And, needless to say, we moved the modem off the floor and pulled ev ery single computer cable out of Gracie reach. roll of black electrical tape. Cost: 79 However, I did notice that our cents. frisky feline was looking funny at First, snip off the broken por the TV this morning. Gracie!! Get tion of the cord on both ends so you out of there! have full, untampered wire to work with. Next, pull apart each strand ©1994 Dave Kramer. Reprinted down the middle so you have two from the Candy Apple, newsletter separate wires on each end. With of the South Jersey Apple/Mac Us wire cutters or a razor blade, strip ers Group. back the plastic casing about one General feedback is welcomed via e half ofan inch to expose the copper. mail to: Take a close look at the plastic [email protected] -or- [email protected] • January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 77 rr propriate, and post public replies. Both questions and answers remain public for anyone to read. Throughout 1989 and 1990, pa trons' names (or user id's) were at A Patron's Perspective: tached to the questions that were posted. The answers given by librar Online Public Library ians were similarly attributed to the person answering the question. Given the great sensitivity that Reference Services librarians' usually accord to patrons by Phil Shapiro in other library matters, it seems sensible enough to accord them pri vacy in the questions they ask in a public setting. So within a year or two of starting this reference ser HE CLOSEST any human -nationwide. vice, both questions and responses eing can come to being omni Often these questions are an were posted anonymously. scient is to earn a living as a swered by hurried librarians jug r. gling between callers on multiple The prime benefit ofhaving ano reference librarian. Librarians nymity in an online reference ser make it their business to know phone lines, or juggling between vice is that the library patron is where information can be found. phone callers and in-person refer thereby freed to ask questions of a They are the quintessential "intelli ence inquiries. When library pa more sensitive nature. By estab gent agent," ready to offer expert trons are waiting on the phone, or lishing a procedure for questions to guidance to information seekers waiting in line at the reference desk, be posted anonymously, the con young and old. the natural inclination of a refer straining effect of social stigma is A hundred years ago, the only ence librarian is to try to provide effectively removed. There is an way to tap into the expertise of a the fastest answers to the most advantage, too, to the answering reference librarian was to physi people. librarian's online identity remain cally travel down to the library. In Unfortunately, fast answers do ing anonymous. Such anonymity the past fifty years, information not always turn out to be complete insulates librarians from possible seekers have had the choice of visit answers. And half-truths sometimes non-friendly follow-up e-mail by ing the library physically, or plac turn out to be, well, half true. patrons. ing a phone call to the reference desk. Today, a few pioneering li The Emergence of Online Public Expanding the Concept of brary systems are delivering refer Library Reference Service Ready-Reference Questions ence service right to the patron's The late 1980's saw the emer home computer-via online commu gence of a new type of public library Ready-reference questions are nication. reference service. The first public the type of factual reference ques library online reference service was tions that a librarian can look up in reference books or other informa The Limitations of In-Person offered via the Cleveland Freenet, tion resources readily at hand. One and Phone-Based starting in about 1989. Organized Reference Service by a consortium of public libraries of the most concise definitions of ready-reference service is provided According to Carol C. in the Cleveland area, the Cleve Henderson, Deputy Director of the land Metropolitan Area Library William A. Katz, in the book: "Intro Washington Office of the American System, this service invited any duction to Reference Service": Library Association, public librar Cleveland Freenet member to post "What is the name of the gover ians answered some 222 million ref "ready reference" questions in the nor ofAlaska? How long is the Ama zon River? erence questions in 1991. Given that library area of the freenet. there are 52 weeks in a year, that Reference librarians read these Who is the world's tallest per works out to be about 4 million ref questions, consult whatever infor son?" Here is the typical ready-ref erence questions answered per week mation sources they consider ap- erence or data query which requires only a single, usually uncomplicated, answer. 78 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 rr The requested information is For more difficult reference lenging questions about computers normally found without difficulty questions, patrons have been known or the Internet, assuming that since in standard reference works, rang to append a remark explaining the reference service is being pro ing from encyclopedias to almanacs that there is no particular urgency vided online, that the librarians pro to indices ... in getting an answer. Such appended viding the service would naturally The time it takes to answer these explanations help librarians pur be experts in matters involving com questions is usually no more than a sue more time-consuming efforts to puters or the Internet. While refer minute or two." p. 12. answer to the question. ence librarians are indeed pr.acti Online reference service ex It might be beneficial for future cally omniscient, no one can possi pands the concept of "ready-refer online services to have two different bly be an expert in all matters deal ence" in several ways. areas to post online reference ques ing with computers or the Internet. First, the librarian who re tions: One area for questions that To give an example of the types trieves the posted question is usu are "time dependent" and another of questions asked so far, here are ally working during an un-rushed area for questions that are "time several dozen representative ques period in the work day. Second, since independent." After all, there might tions and answers. These have been the patron is not waiting on the be cases where a patron might have captured from the online reference phone, or waiting in line at the ref a question that takes a few weeks of areas on the Cleveland Freenet and erence desk, the librarian has far follow-up research to track down an from CapAccess, the Washington DC more time to investigate possible answer. There are some truths that community information service. answers to the questions. cannot be called up instantly from Third, the librarian who re CD-ROM or online references. As "meteorologists" study weather, trieves the question has the oppor what word is used to refer to astrono tunity to consult with other librar The Type of Online Reference mers specializing in meteors? ians to brainstorm possible answers Questions That Have Been Asked to the posted question. These "group Reviewing all the references ** Answered by CAMLS LIBRAR consultations" can take place with questions that have been asked on IES (aa407) on Fri Mar 10 07:39:13 other librarians in the same build the various freenets reveals a wide 1989 ** ing, or with librarians around the breadth of subject matter. As you world- via the Internet. might expect, people ask questions According to the unabridged RAN A special reference library relating to their hobbies and interests. DOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF listserv (electronic mailing list) People also ask questions about THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 2nd called "Stumpers" exists for the sole matters ofVital importance in their ed. (1987), one who specializes in the purpose ofhaving librarians around lives. And some questions quite study of meteors is known as a "me the world pool their minds to an clearly are posted on a whim. Yet teoriticist." swer the most difficult reference the librarians who answer the ques questions submitted. tions make efforts to answer each Why do telephone keypads have their and every question completely. keys numbered from left to right, top The Time Frame for In some cases, patrons ask ques to bottom, in numerical order, while Responding to Questions tions that call for far more work calculation devices have their keys Most online reference services than would reasonably expected by numbered from left to right, bottom try to post answers to questions a ready-reference service. One such to top? within 48 hours of the question be example was a person who asked ing posted. Of course, when librar the librarian to post all the lyrics of ANSWERED BY CAMLS LIBRAR ians find access to the freenet or the Star Spangled Banner and IES community information service dif O'Canada. ficult (due to phone lines being busy The librarian who answered this Parallel evolution. The ten-key add or the system being down for main question politely pointed out that ing machine, introduced in 1914, is tenance), they are forced to exceed the question went beyond the envi descended from W.S. Burroughs 90- the self-imposed 48 hour time limit. sioned scope of the online reference key machine which established a For the most part, patrons are happy service, anp then cited books in highest number-on-top standard. to receive free online reference sup which the patron could find the com The touch-tone telephone was intro port even if it takes a few days to plete lyrics to these songs. duced in 1963 by the Bell System receive an answer to their question. Other patrons have posed chal- after decades of rotary phones had January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 79 rr Patrons with an interest in expand established an alphabetical link would be the wiser. ing their general knowledge of the with each number (ABC-2 , DEF-3 , Online reference service allows world could benefit from reading etc.). For the alphabet to read se for patrons to learn from each others' through a compilation ofseveral thou quentially (left to right, top to bot questions, and helps minimize the sand reference questions and an tom), the numbering system would problem ofhaving a paid information swers. have to follow suit. professional (the reference librarian) answer the same question posed by A high school student with a gen Awad, Elias Automatic Data Pro- many different patrons. eralized "thirst for knowledge" could cessing, 3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, 1973 Second, the online presentation make use ofthis knowledge-base as a of reference questions and answers jumping off point for further read Waterford, Van All About Tele- helps preserve a historical record of ings in areas of interest. phones Tab, 1978 thethoughtsonpeoples'minds. What Given that the average reference a treasure it would be to possess question and answer takes up less examples of the types of reference than five kilobytes of memory, that Onllne Reference Questions and questions that people asked librar means that you could fit 200 refer Answers as a Historical Record ians in 1895. Thanks to online refer ence questions and answers in each Oneofthegreatbenefits ofonline ence services, the historians of 2095 megabyte oflongterm storage. On a r~ference services is that both ques will have a record of the questions 500 megabyte CD-ROM disc, you tions and answers remain available people sought answers for in 1995. could fit 100,000 questions and an for anyone to read. Making both Third, online reference services swers-a sizable chunk of human questions and answers available for knowledge. ~an ~ea large help to students study anyone to read serves several paral mg library and information science. lel purposes. A professor teaching a reference ser Conclusion First, it allows the general pub vices class might even select some Online public library reference lic to gain a better sense ofthe type of actually-posed reference questions for services offer a public service that is questions that reference librarians inclusion on the final exam. What markedly more useful than in-per can help answer. Most library pa better source material to use than son or telephone-based reference ser trons have only a vague sense of the the actual questions posed by actual vices. The distinctive advantage of kind of question that reference li patrons? online public library reference ser brarians can help answer. By having Fourth, online reference services vice is that the public presentation of a chance to read other people's ques can help patrons develop greater skill questions and answers allows an ac tions (and the answers that were at asking reference questions. By cumulation of knowledge to take pro~ded)thegeneral public can quite reviewing existing questions and place. The answers that are given to easily become more informed users answers, patrons can gain a a better any particular question become an of library reference services. sense of how best to phrase their swers available to the public at large. In the past, reference library reference questions. Even poorly One side-benefit of online refer questions and answers remained phrased reference questions serve a ence services is that the public will muted whispers between librarian purpose: They can help patrons learn gain a deeper appreciation of useful and patron. Today, online communi how not to phrase their queries. ness of libraries and librarians. The cations allows those same questions Fifth, the record from online ref diverse array of questions that refer ~d answers to be broadcast globally erence services can be ofuse to librar ence librarians are able to answer (via the Internet) for all interest per ians in other cities. Once a question will remain on public view, both to sons to read and learn from. All the has been asked and answered, online day and tomorrow. while, the patron and librarian's reference service librarians can eas anonymity is preserved. ily copy and paste the given answer [The author takes a keen interest in The end result is that an accu to any other patron who asks the the ways in which information tech mulation of knowledge takes place. same question. Thus the answers nology can assist in the dissemina When reference services are offered given by one librarian in one city tion ofknowledge. He can be reached in-person or via phone, the only per becomes a ready-to-use resource for via Internet electronic mail at: son to benefit from the librarian's other librarians in other cities. [email protected]] knowledge base is the individual pa Sixth, the adcumulation of sev tron. It's conceivable that the same eral thousand reference questions This article is excerpted. The entire reference question could be asked and~swersisbeginningtoaddupto version may be found on the TCS twenty, fifty, or five hundred times aquas1-encyclopedicknowledge-base. under Miscellaneous Files. • by different patrons, and nobody 80 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 • 2&3 Procedure for Doing a Hard (or Deep) Format on a Profile Hard Disk November Using an Apple /// Apple I I Report by Tom Linders O. Prepare yourself by reading these by Joan Jernigan notes completely before doing ------1.anythin~ Turn offthe computer and the Profile OVEMBER SEEMS to 2. Move Profile l/F card to Slot 1 be the Internet month. The "There has been a 3. Remove four screws (brown) on the NApple II folks met at the Pi back ofthe Profile, and the three (silver) office on Nov. 19, and Ron Evry gave in the front on the bottom a dynamite demonstration ofUNIX, request for a demo 4. Lift lid on profile and be careful of telnetting, FTP'ing, gopher, etc. We on Time Out add- were using Virginia's Pen as the wires etc. gateway. VA Pen is a public ons and Macros. If 5. Disconnect L E D cable educator's network that is free to 6. Push down on all chips that you can any Virginia educator. Folks that you have this see. are not educators, and/or who don't expertise and would 7. Remove U25 install U25 A (the live in Virginia, have other masked R 0 M) ; install 2 pin jumper possibilities as a gateway. We be willing to share, discussed Capaccess, which is a 8. Boot the formatting disk and follow likely candidate, but is temporarily please let me know. I the instructions. Remember, when it not issuing new accounts. Phil says hit any key, always hit return (not Shapiro must have done too good a have an e-mail enter) job ·of spreading the word about 9. About halfway through the process Capaccess, and they are account on the TCS." you will be prompted to remove the undoubtedly experiencing a jumper, do it membership glut.. 10. When finished, turn off power and During the meeting, I observed try to trick the IRS with your tax reverse steps 1 thru 7. detailed notes being taken, and I return, they get even-Dave] Andy 12. With the l/F card in slot one do a suspect that the internet has some also promises a hardware demo, probably a video card. I am still high level format, using System new visitors today. James Irick, Utilities or a program of your choice. Andy & Aaron Wallo, Geraldine negotiating the meetings for Feb. Wright, Dick Fitzhugh, Milton through May. I expect to ask Ron 13. Sometimes a second time through Goldsamt, Dale Smith, John and Andy back for subsequent the hard formatting process is needed. Karpowicz, and the Jernigans were meetings. They bring a wealth of Dave Ottalini note: Unfortunately, there. There was a visitor,. whose knowledge to our group. the U25A (masked ROM) chip is not name I didn't get, but she had three There has been a request for a something that is readily available. In small children, and so didn't stay demo on Time Out add-ons and fact, except for Sun Remarketing and too long. Macros. If you have this expertise Bob Consorti, I don't know who else There will be no December and would be willing to share, please might have one (they're not selling), or meeting, except at the Garage Sale. let me know. I have .an e-mail the special formatting software David and I won't be able to be there account on the TCS. mentioned by Tom Linders for that because of a work-related conflict. Grace is hoping to get the matter. IF you have access to either, The January meeting will feature representative from MECC and would like to donate it to the Ill SIG, we would appreciate it. We are Andy Wallo showing us some neat (Minnesota Educational Computing also interested to see ifanyone still has tricks .with spreadsheets (just in Consortium) out for one of our meetings. • the many demo programs that were time for income tax). [No one should included on the Profiles when they werenew. • January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 81 92 files will be of the filetype you told FORK.SPLIT to make them. The sound information you want will be contained in the R .... file made from Playing I lgs Sounds on the resource fork. You are now ready to play the Your lie/lie sound. SOFTSOUND, the first pro gram I will describe, is a small ma chine language program which loads by Geraldine Wright in on page 3 of memory. To use it, BLOAD SOFTSOUND, then BLOAD the newly created sound file at address $4000, and call O YOU BECOME envi SOFTDAC SOFTSOUND at $378. The ous when a friend with a Ilgs Skunk Works Software Co. SOFTSOUND package comes with Dplays some really cool sound 4600 Swenson St., #163A an Applesoft program called on it? Well, don't be blue! Your Ile or Las Vegas, NV 89119 SOUND.EDITOR which demon IIc can now play many ofthese same strates the sound player and shows sounds, and you can literally steal To play a IIgs sound onyour Ile, you how to put it into your own your friend's thunder! you must first port it over to your Applesoft programs. Because the To port the Ilgs sounds to your Ile. Using a friend's IIgs, copy a sound files take up a lot ofdisc space IIe, only two small programs are sound file onto a disc. There are and a lot ofmemory, you will have to needed. First, you need a program several sounds right in the Sounds use them sparingly in your pro to convert the sound files from the folder under the System folder of grams. forked GSOS file format to a stan the boot volume, so you shouldn't SOUND.EDITOR allows you to dard binary file which ProDOS 8 have to hunt too hard for them. Be load up and play sounds of filetype can use. FORK.SPLIT is such a pro forewarned that ProDOS 8 cannot BIN or SND. It calls the SND filetype gram. It is available for download delete these sound files, since it can $DB, so this is the option you should from the TCS and I have also seen it not handle forked files. If the disc choose if you converted the sound in the Apple II libraries on GEnie. gets full, you will have to use a IIgs to files to SND filetype. I have tried The second thing you need is the delete the excess files. You may want converting the sound files to both actual sound player. Two programs to designate a disc for the sole pur BIN and SND filetypes, and I don't are found on the TCS file transfer pose oftransporting sound files from see any difference in the sounds pro areas, SOFTDAC and a llgs to your Ile. Also be forewarned duced when played by the SOFTSOUND. I have seen that sound files are big. Start with SOUND.EDITOR.Justchoosewhich SOFTDAC on GEnie, as well. Ifyou small ones to get your feet wet. A 3.5" filetype appeals to you and use it. find yourself without a modem, you drive comes in handy here. The second player program I can contact the authors directly. Once you have the. files on a foundisSOFTDAC.SOFTDACis The names and addresses follow: disc, run FORK.SPLIT on your Ile. written as a SYS file. In order to run It has a "point and shoot" file selec it, you need to call it from a shell FORl(..SPLIT tor, so you can easily choose the file that allows you to send a filename to R. Foi-reSt Hardman you want converted. It also allows it as it is called. The program author 57 Spindletop Lane you to specify the filetype of the uses the DAVEX shell. i have also Willingboro, NJ 08046-1416 resulting files. For this application, been able to call it from ProSel 8. you may choose either BIN or SND. Once you call SOFTDAC and send it SOFTSOUND FORK.SPLIT makes one file out of the name of the sound file, it loads Michael Mahon the data fork of the file, and titles the file and plays it. 1975 Adele Place the new file with the same name as I personally like SOFTSOUND San Jose, CA 95125 the old file, with a "D." appended to better than SOFTDAC. I believe it Internet: [email protected] the front. It makes a second file out produces better sounds. It also works of the resource fork, and titles it under BASIC.SYSTEM and is eas with the old file name with "R." ily integrated into Applesoft pro appended to the front. Both of these grams. On the other hand, it is lim- 82 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 92 ited to sounds of 21K or smaller. SOFTDAC can play much longer sounds because itload s the files into auxiliary SCSI Interface and the Apple II memory, and it can use the additional RAM on by Rick Zeman memory expansion boards. YOU will find that HE APPLE II computer does not DOS systems and now some Macintosh some sounds translate have a built-in mechanism to handle models. SAS! and IDE do not use SCSI better than others. Ex external devices that use the SCSI methodology or terminology. periment. Also, be (Small Computer System Interface) inter Ifyou have a Revision "A" or"B" ROM cause ofthe method by face. Ifyou wish to attach a hard drive, CD original SCSI card from Apple, you should which the sounds are ROM, scanner, tape back-up drives or even update the ROM chip to Revision "C". You produced, an 11 Khz some models oflaser printers to your Apple cannot use either "A" or "B" on a IIGS. carrier frequency is Ile or GS, you need to install a SCSI card. Here is why. If you drag your hard drive audible in softer por This article discusses some of the options icon to the trash, a Rev "A" and Rev "B" tions ofthe sound. This that are available to you to add this capabil sees that as a FORMAT instruction. Rev is slightly annoying, ity to your computer and how to work with "C" defines it as EJECT, which is what but it won't kill you. SCSI. happens when you drag a floppy icon to Finally, the au If you have an Apple Ile or Ile+, you the trash from a Unillisk 3.5, Apple 3.5 thors of both cannot add SCSI capability to your com drive, etc. The Rev "C" ROM adds other SOFTSOUND and puter. At one time Applied Ingenuity and features, particularly support forthe origi SOFTDAC are willing Chinook offered a SCSI drive that fit inside nal Apple CD-ROM (CD-SC) drive. A Re to make the source your computer in place of the 5.25" floppy vision "C" ROM chip is available from code fortheir programs drive. Today, there are hard drives that will Alltech Electronics. available, in case you connect to the external disk port of your The card is usually found in Slot 7, want to tweak. The computer, but they do not use the SCSI but can be installed in most any slot that source code for interface. Thus, you do not get a fast data accepts peripheral cards. It may not be SOFTDAC comes with transfer rate and they are expensive. inserted in Slot 3 of an Apple Ile; that is the package, and you A complete SCSI set-up requires an tied to the 80 col/64k auxiliary slot. can get the source code external device that uses the SCSI protocol for SOFTSOUND by to exchange information, a SCSI card, a • Establish an ID: Before you connect a sending a request to different ID number for each item on the SCSI device to your computer, you need to the author. SCSI bus or chain, termination power and give it a unique ID number between 0 and Now, let the voice termination. I use the terms 'bus' and 'chain' 7 so that the computer can identify itself of your Apple II be interchangeably to describe the system that and the other devices along the line. This heard! makes for a SCSI hook-up. number also determines the priority of the device sothatinformationcan be exchanged WHAT CARDS ARE AVAILABLE: There among the units on the chain. Apple rec Note on Author: are two series ofcards available from Apple ommends that the ID of the startup device Geraldine Wright, also (Apple SCSI [with different ROM series] (hard drive) be higher than that of any known as the and High-Speed SCSI), one from Sequen other device on the bus (usually 0) with the Apples oft-aholi c, tial Systems [RamFAST]; and a house computer being ID-7. The High-Speed SCSI ch airs the Program brand offered by Alltech Electronics. Oth Card comes preset with ID-7. That works mers' Interface SIG for ers were made by CMS and Chinook which best for most applications. You have ID-1 Apple II programmers, now can be found at flea markets, etc. There through ID-6 to assign to other devices. and is the board sysop are other interface methodologies such as (If you plan to use a scanner or for the Programming SAS! used by the Sider series and IDE which LaserWrit er IISC, you need to change the and Shells board on the is found in the Applied Engineering''Vulcan" ID-7 setting. See your manual for de Apple II Conference of and Applied Ingenuity "InnerDrive", MS/ tails.) theTCS. • January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 83 92 HOW TO SET A SCSI ID: See the HOW TO TERMINATE: Ifterm power is not produced by manual to set the ID on the SCSI • cable length: keep the total the drive, and returning it is not an card. For each external device, there length of the chain as short as pos option, you have to provide it. There should be a DIP switch, dial or push sible but no more than 15 feet (the are three way to do this: install a button set- on the back of the exter theoretical maximum). different SCSI card; provide active nal enclosure where you set the ID. • use of terminators: There termination power from an exter Oftentimes when a newer drive is are two different kinds of termina nal source; or modify your Apple retrofitted to an eXisting box, the tors in the world of Apple Ils. On a SCSI cards to provide this power. connector to the external selector will hard drive, you will find terminator The RAMFast SCSI card gener not fit onto the newer style ID pins. resistor packages on the controller ates termination power. It is avail In that case, you set the ID directly board attached to the harddrive(don't able from Sequential Systems. on the controller card of the drive. touch); andexternal terminators (the Two companies [APS Technolo On the controller c~d of a hard kind you will add- if needed). Two gies (SCSI Sentry) and Spin Periph drive, you should find three rows (2 terminators are required, one at each erals (SmartTerm)] sell active ter pins each) located near the 50-pin end ofthe chain (the Apple SCSI card minators which provide regulated SCSI connector. The pins are usually provides termination atits end). Nor power and active signal stability labeled AO, Al, andA2, or El, E2, and mally, the hard drive provides the along the chain. A device such as E3. You will need one to three shorting other, or you do. these can reduce the load on your jumpers. Radio Shack sells them (PN • term power: Somewhere power supply and optimize SCSI 276-1512A). (See figure below.) along the line power needs to be transmission conditions. provided to run the bus. It can ei The final option is to modify WHY TERMINATE: The short answer ther be generated by the computer whichever Apple SCSI card you have is because it is required to get the or supplied by the SCSI device from to provide termination power. bus to work. The long answer is that the voltage provided by the com • Ifyour card is under any war termination identifies to the com puter to power the drive. Neither ranty program, do not even think of puter where the chain begins and Apple II SCSI card provides this doing this. Otherwise, remember, ends and preserves high transition termination power. The original you are on your own. speeds ofsignals racing up and down Macintosh 128, 512, Plus, Portable, • skills/parts needed: you the chain. When properly placed, and PowerBook series computers need to be comfortable soldering terminators will clean-up the sig do not either. In each of those ma small, heat sensitive electronic com nal along the line as well as help chines, if the hard drive does not ponents. You need a 1N914 diode, provide a reasonable degree ofnoise have circuitry to supply termina tubing, a 15 watt soldering iron, immunity. tion power, you will not see the thin resin-core solder, heat sink and drive. The RamFAST SCSI card associated tools. generates ter • [Revision "C" graphic and mination power. text]: On the solder side ofthe card, The pins are arranged thusly: o o = A2/E3 If your drive is attach the 1N914 as follows: banded o o =Al/E2 new and the end to pin 24 of cable header and o o =AO/El SCSI card can- non-banded end to the front end of not see it, one C-16. Use tubing on leads to pre possibility is vent shorts! _____50-pin SCSI Connector___ _ that the hard • [High Speed SCSI graphic If you connect a drive does not and text]: On the solder side of the jumper across You get ID generate termi card, solder the banded end of1N914 nation power. to the bottom of Resistor Pack 2 nothing 0 Check with the (RP2). Solder the non-banded end AO/El 1 vendor. If the to the top of Ll. Note that the top of Al/E2 2 drive they sup Ll is a pad only. No leads run from AO/El & Al/E2 3 plied does not, Ll elsewhere on the card. A2/E3 4 return it and AO/El & A2/E3 5 specify one that COMMON SCSI CHAIN PROBLEMS: Al/E2 & A2/E3 6 does. Whenever working with a SCSI AO/El, Al/E2 & A2/E3 7 chain, shut-off power to the entire 84 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 • 2&3 chain before connecting or discon necting cables and devices. If some components are left on, it is possible for the electrical current to damage the equipment. Apple I I I DISK.ON.OFF by •No termination power • improper termination Using the Monitor • device on line and no driver available for the Apple II [non-SCSI by Tom Linders drive, CD-150 or CD-300, a SCSI printer w/o a driver written for it, RamFAST formatted drive and an CODES TO START THE DISKS RUNNING Apple SCSI card, etc.] • two devices with the same or AGREATWAYTOTURNONTHEDRIVESTOCLEANTHEHEADSOR out-of-range ID CHECK THE SPEED •bad cable(s)/terminators To get any of these codes to work you must be in the monitor. To get into You reduce the unknowns that the monitor type: can occur along a SCSI chain by (Control)+ (Open Apple)+ (Reset) and keep holding the first two down using only one brand for all parts of while releasing the reset key. That is, wait for the beep, and then release the chain: cables, type of connectors the Reset key and external devices. But in the real While you're there and before you begin the disk drive checks, try your world, that is not a realistic option. hand at the memory test: As soon as you add SCSI devices TYPE: from different vendors and use the F6E6G(RET) different grades of cables either sup . If all the crazy characters are followed by an 8 by 8 matrix of dots and plied by those vendors or low cost no disturbing messages, then things are OK. Let the test run twice, and house brands, and add an assort make sure that the Profile card is removed beforehand. Remove the card ment of adapters, you have a poten with power off, of course. tial for problems. This is largely After the warm up, let's do the disk drive tests ... why switching cables around and trying cables of different lengths INTERNAL DRIVE has solved many problems. In the .Dl COEA (RET)-This selects the internal drive end, a part of configuring SCSI pe ripherals always seems to come back COD4 (RET), COD2 (RET), CODO (RET) To turn the drive on type: COE9 (RET) to a bit of black magic. To turn the drive off type COES (RET) SCSI article sources EXTERNAL DRIVES -Information about RamFAST COEB (RET), COD5 (RET)-This selects the external drives and deselects the SCSI can be obtained from Sequen internal drive tial Systems (1-800-759-4549). -The Apple SCSI ROM "C" chip, .D2 COD2 (RET), CODl (RET) To turn the drive on type: COE9 (RET) High-Speed SCSI and house brand To turn the drive off type COE8 (RET) SCSI cards can be obtained from AlltechElectronics(619-724--2404). .D3 COD3 (RET), CODO (RET) To turn the drive on type:COE9 (RET) -The 1N914 can be obtained from To turn the drive off type:COE8 (RET) Newark Electronics or DigiKey .D4 COD3 (RET), CODl (RET) To turn the drive on type: COE9 (RET) from 800 directory. To turn the drive off type COES (RET) -SCSI Sentry is available fromAPS Easy isn't it. Technologies (800-677-3294) The basics for the above were found on page 12.10 of the Apple Ill -SmartTerm is available from Spin SERVICE REFERENCE MANUAL. A few minor changes were made and Peripherals (800-466-1200) • the whole thing translated into readable English (I hope) so that a nonn technonerd (or nerdette) could implement it. Thomas E. Linders 12604 Wardell Ct Saratoga, CA 95070 • January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 85 format for the Program Notes. I will publish future Program Notes in SimpleText format. Unlike TeachText, SimpleText supports the Macintosh Disketeria use of fonts and character styles and I think that styled text is much more readable for most of us. Since by Dave Weikert Apple now includes SimpleText with all new Macs, with the System 7 .1 Update 3.0 and with System 7.5, it seemed time to change. A New Year! us in this endeavor by letting us ll S THIS is written, the new know what you like and don't like New Disks .fl. year is nearly here. Along and what you need. Would you be We feature 17 disks this month with the new year comes changes to interested in a set of essential tools including an update of the WAP's hours of business and bi for new Mac users? Or System 6 or Disketeria Catalog, an Internet monthly publication of the Jour 7 Finder or desktop appearance Starter Kit addition to the Telecom nal-and we anticipate some excit enhancements? Or packages of munications disk series, additional ing changes to the TCS in the near popular sounds-say from Star Trek disks in the System Utilities series, future. The majority of these or 2001? Let us know-we will try to a new Troubleshooting disk series changes are about you getting more accommodate your requests. and five new Apple System Soft value from your membership. So it Our Application and Utilities ware disks. Individual disks are seems appropriate to entertain some Updater disks have also been big available for $4.00 each and $3.50 improvements to the Mac winners with you although we did for five or more. See the Disk Order Disketeria. The goals are similar not initially anticipate the demand Form and following paragraphs for more value for you. for this service. Maybe many of you the prices for sets. In the past year, almost all of our prefer to get your updates from a disks have included compressed files single source ratherthan from many Disketeria Catalog Update as well as a utility such as Stuffit different software publishers. Or Our Disketeria Catalog-in Easy Expander or Unstuffit to restore perhaps you did not know about the View viewer format-permits fast the files to their original size. The availability of an update until you browsing of the contents of our expansion utility takes about lOOK read it in the Disketeria Dispatch. Disketeria collection. You can search on each disk. To achieve more value In any case, we expect to continue to for specific file names or disk num we are going to eliminate the expan bring you updates to many of the bers. The three Easy View windows sion utility from most future disks. popular programs that you use. make it easy to see the overall orga Not to worry-if you do not have Starting on the first ofMarch, we nization of the Disketeria collection Stuffit Expander or Unstuffit, they will simplify our disk pricing. Single as well as see the detailed descrip are both available on either Mac Apple System Software disks are tions of the contents of each folder Disk #13.01 or#l6.16-andyou will currently sold at $1 less than single or archive. The catalog disk costs only have to buy them once. And we Disketeria disks. We are going to $4; you can trade in an older version will be able to add even more com increase this price to be the same as of the Disketeria Catalog disk for pressed program material to each for other disks. There will still be a the current version for $1 (plus post disk in that lOOK of saved space. discount for five or more disks and age if by mail). Our smaller focused collections of special prices for sets. System Soft disks have proven popular. We had ware orders received after 1 March Internet Starter Kit astounding success with both the should include the higher price Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. is Internet Starter Kit and the Mac you can save money by buying now pleased to bring you a three-disk set Troubleshooting disk sets as well as before the price increase. ofessential tools to help you ride the others we introduced earlier. We And last-the elimination of an surf onto the Internet. The disk set will continue trying to create sets annoyance for many and a confu is available for $10 at the office or that will be topical and that will sion for others. Yes, I am going to meeting; add $3 postage ifyou place solve your problems. You can help stop using the old Apple MacWrite your order by mail. 86 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 This collection is everything you Troubleshooting Tools Application Updaters need to get started on the Internet With guidance from our Telecom This month we revised seven disks except for MacTCP and an Internet munications System (TCS) Mac ex in the Mac Disk #26.:XX Updates service provider. MacTCP is in perts, I have assembled a four-disk series. This disk series-developed cluded with System 7.5 or on the collection of utilities and reference by Jon Hardis-have been a big hit disk that accompanies Adam C. material to help you troubleshoot with many of you. This collection Engst's excellent book about the problems on your Mac. These are includes 'patches' for many popular Internet-Internet Starter Kit for the programs that our TCS Gurus application and utility software Macintosh.-priced at about $30. use themselves or that they recom packages. This collection ofprograms was care mend that you use under their di New program updates to this se fully selected by Jon Thomason and rection. ries include HP DeskWriter Lawrence Charters. Our Mac experts on WAP's TCS Printer Driver 6.0, FullWrite support our members in many ways. 2.0.1, Claris FileMaker Pro to System Utilities One that has never ceased to amaze 2.1 v3, Central Point MacTools to I have added five disks to the me is their ability to troubleshoot 3.0d, RAM Doubler to 1.5.1 and System Utilities series this month. problems "from a distance"-usu OptiMem to l.5.6g. Check below The new disks are available indi ally without ever laying their eyes for which disks include the changes vidually or as a set for $15. The set or hand on the Mac in question. that you need. is listed under the Disketeria These Mac Mavens and Gurus usu ValuPaks category as System Utils ally ask you if you have performed Apple System Software 4 on the Order Form. If you pur some arcane function such as re There are five disks this month chase by mail, add $5 for shipping building the desktop or resetting which include updates to Apple Sys and handling. Parameter RAM (PRAM). Well, this tem Software. There are many goodies in this four disk collection of troubleshoot LaserWriter 8.2 -SOOK consists five-disk collection. My favorite is ing aids should help because some of two disks and updates the Malph, a program launch dock with of the tools force a rebuild of the LaserWriter driver software, adds a real neat look. It really makes the desktop or reset the PRAM. And all of the Apple PostScript printer System 7 .5 Launcher look sad. The others help you perform other documents (PPDs) and provides an first disk has all of the file expan troubleshooting and diagnostic func enhanced setup capability for sion and disk copy tools you are tions. PostScript 2 printers. likely to need-Compact Pro, The Troubleshooting Aids-Es Apple Display Software-SOOK DropStuff, Stuffit Expander, sentials disk contains the majority is a single disk which includes soft DiskCopy and ShrinkWrap. The last of the tools necessary to perform ware supporting Apple Color Sync disk contains the Darkside of the basic fault diagnosis. There is also and Multiple Scan monitors. Color Mac screen saver. DotM is an appli additional troubleshooting informa Sync profiles are provided for RGB, cation that takes very little room in tion that has been culled from the Multiple Scan 15, 17 and 20, RAM. And, unlike system exten Internet-these are the Frequently Performa, Performa Plus, Portable, sion based screen savers, there is AskedQuestions(FAQs). TheFAQs and Color Classic monitors. little chance that it will interfere and the answers will give you an GeoPort -1.44Mis a single disk with other programs. insight into a structured methodol for use with GeoPort equipped The most notable program addi ogy of diagnosing problems on your Macs-these include the Centris tion for those ofyou with Mac II, Ilx, Mac. We recommend that you read and Quadra 660AV and 840AV Ilcx and SE/30 computers is these first and follow their guid models. This disk includes the lat MODE32 7 .5. This extension ance. The additional disks provide est GeoPort software with perfor patches the code loaded from ROM tools to recover data from some file mance and compatibility enhance and permits you to extend usable types, profile your hardware and ments and FAX capability. memory beyond 8 Megs if you have software, test performance and op Express Modem Disk - 1.44M this memory installed. This is a eration or provide reference infor is one disk of updated software for mandatory addition for anybody mation. The setoffourdisksisavail PowerBooks and Duos equipped with the aforementioned Macs who able for $12 (plus $4 shipping and with Apple internal modems. wants to run System 7.5. Running handling if purchased by mail). [Hmm-wonder ifApple got it right System 7 .5 with the prior MODE32 this time?] Check below to see what can result in damaged files. models are supported by this disk. January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 87 About Shareware Requests MacPPP 2.0.1 f .sit By Merit Network INTERNET STARTER Krr Please honor authors' requests University of Michigan. You will use Eudora 1.4.3 f .sit By Steven Domer. for shareware fees if you decide to PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) to Powerful E-mail tool, using the POP3 connect to your Internet service add shareware programs to your and SMTP protocols to communicate provider via modem. PPP is an with your host E-mail system. software library. Shareware is a altemativetoSLIP.RequiresMacTCP. MacWAIS 1.29 f .sit By Microelectronics valuable distribution channel for InterSLIP 1.0.1 f .sit By InterCon and Computer Technology Corp. low cost software and it is impor Systems Corporation. You will use Information search and retrieval tant to encourage authors to use SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) to system for large quantities of this channel by paying them for connect to your Internet service information offered on the net in their efforts. provider via modem. SLIP is an centralized databases. Shareware - alternative to PPP. RequiresMacTCP. $35. DISK #00.01 - c 1 Frequently-Asked Questions /.sit: MAc D1sKETERIA CATALOG NewsWatcher 2.0b18 f .sit By John The most frequently asked questions Norstad. Uses the NNTP protocol to • • Extract Me First.sea • •: about the Mac and the Internet, direct let you browse, read and participate in When this file is copied over to to you from the Internet Usenet group discussions on Usenet bulletin a hard disk and double newsgroup comp.sys.mac.comm. clicked, it will automatically boards. extract the following two HowTolnstallMacTCP:Areallygreat DISK #13.09C- T helpfileongettingsetupandconnected 9 folders: INTERNET STARTER Krr Washington Apple Pi f: By Dave the first time. It was written by John Norstad, the Disinfectant guy. MosaicNetScape0.9b f .sit: By Mosaic Weikert. Just double click the Communications Corporation. Anarchie 1.4.0 .sit By Peter N. Lewis. • •Double Click Me• • file to read f Presents multimedia information tO Allows you to locate and retrieve files our Program Notes and infor you, cross-linked with other using the FTP and Archie protocols. It mation about WashingtonApple information on the Word Wide Web is AppleScriptable and drag-and-drop Pi, Ltd. and our Mac Disketeria. (WWW). This opens the Easy View and receives raves all around. Requires viewer. MacTCP. Shareware - $10. JPEG View 3.3 f .sit: By Aaron Giles. Display or convert the graphics Easy View 2.50 f: By M. Akif Finger 1.5 f .sit By Peter N. Lewis. Lets retrieved from the Net. Postcardware Eyler. An application for intelli you look up information about a user -NO E-Mail. gent browsing of collections of on the Internet which that person or structured text files, large or their host system has provided using Sparkle 2.15 /.sit: By Maynard small. It allows very fast access the Finger protocol. Shareware - $10. Handley. Playback orconvertMPEGs, by recognizing the internal PICTs and QuickTime movies Mac TCP Watcher 1.12 f .sit By Peter structure. retrieved from the Net. N. Lewis. Helps you verify that your Files.txt, By Dave Weikert. A delimited connection is working properly, and Note-JPEG View, Sound Machine, text file ofall ofthe files included in our suggests corrections if not. Useful for Sparkle, Mac Weather and Mac Disketeria. It includes File Name, people with MacTCP configuration News Watcher are all applications used File Size, File Type, File Creator, problems, network problems, or the by Netscape and TurboGopher to Creation Date, Revision Date, and chronically curious. RequiresMacTCP. present data from different media. Folder and Disk Names. You should be able to import this list into your Maeweather 2.0.4 /.sit: By Chris DISK#16.16E-SU 16 favorite database for sorting and Kidwell (a Univ. ofMD student). Looks SYSTEM UTIUTIES selection and printing or into any word up current weather forecasts and CompactPro 1.50.sitByBill Goodman. processor that accepts large text files. displays them in a nice graphical way. Lets you reduce the size ofmany ofthe Shareware - $10. files on your computer by DISK #13.07C-T 7 NCSA Telnet2.6 f .sit: Allows you to log "compressing" the data in the files. INTERNET STARTER Krr into text-based services such as bulletin Also supports "archives" which are Stuffit Expander 3.5.2 Install: By boards, menu-driven services and collections offiles and folders combined Leonard Rosenthol. This is a must command-line shells. into a single unit. You can simplify the have'SwissArmy Knife' for expanding Sound Machine 2.1 /.sit By Rod storage of large amounts of data by archives. Decompress any Macintosh Kennedy. Used to play back or convert grouping related items into an archive. filecompressedwithStuffitorCompact sounds retrieved from the Net. Compact Pro User's Guide is in Pro packages or in BinHex 4.0 format. TurboGopher 1.0.7 /.sit: By the MacWrite format; other files are in If you have installed 'DropStuff with Minnesota Gopher Team. Provides an text format. Shareware -$26. Expander Enhancer' (on Disk 13.02) interface to the menu-based Disk Copy 6.0 f .sit: By Steve you will also be able to expand files information retrieval protocol known Christensen, Apple Computer, Inc. which were compressed on PCs and as Gopher. Mount or create disk images. Duplicate UNIX systems. Requires System 6.0.4 3.5" floppy disks from a single master or later. DISK#13.08C-T8 disk. Performs checksumming of the 88 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 master disk to assure a reliable AutoClock 1.4.4 f.sit By Jean-Pierre Shareware -$25. duplication. Copies SOOK Apple and Gachen. An application and a system DDE:xpand4.0.sit: By Lloyd Chambers 720K and 1440K MFM disk formats. extension that keeps your Macintosh's & Terry Morse, Salient Software, Inc. Requires a double sided disk drive. clock correct by calling any ofa number DiskDoubler is a commercial file DropStuff w/EE 8.5.1 Install.sit By of time servers (including one in compression program available forthe Leonard Rosenthal. Offers drag and Washington DC). For System 6.0.5 or Macintosh. DDExpand, which is drop compression and BinHexingwith later, including system 7.0. Changes provided free of charge to individuals, on-the-fly option switching. When used 1.4.4,Documentation 1.4.4andRead is an expand-only version of in conjunction with Stuffit Expander Me 1.4.4 are in TeachText format. DiskDoubler. It can expand most 3.5.1(Disk13.01), letsStuffitExpander Burn-It 1.0 f.sit By Mike Watson. DiskDoubler files, join split files and expand DOS and UNIX formats. Fat Overwrites the contents of a file with expand DiskDoublercombined files. It binary. Shareware - $80; $15 for zeroes and then deletes it. Drag and can also expand Stuftlt 1.5.1 andPacklt StuffitLite regi.strants; free for drop interface under System 7. Burn files. Stuf/it Deluxe/SITcomm owners. It 1.0 doc is in Word format; Burn-It Disk Charmer 2.2.1 f .sit By Fabrizio ShrinkWrap™ 1.1 f .sit By Chad 1.0 text is as indicated. Oddone. Locks out 'bad' sectors on Magendanz. Create and mount CatFinder 1.41 f .sit By Keith Turner. floppy disks. This is imperative if you multiple DiskCopy disk images. A utility to catalog the contents of all want to use disks with bad sectors Automatically compress and with Systems earlier than 7 .0 (down to decompress archived image files on 4.3). The program even has some utility the-flywithAladdin's StuftltEngine™. with System 7 and later as it locks out ShrinkWrap™ Read Me is in ''Washington bad sectors more efficiently than the SimpleText format. method Apple uses with System 7. Stumt Expander™ 3.5.1 Install: By Apple Pi, Ltd. is Disk Charmer docs is in SimpleText Leonard Rosenthal. This is a must format. Shareware -$10. have 'Swiss Army Knife' for expanding pleased to bring DiskDup+2.6af.sit: By Roger D. Bates. archives. Decompress any Macintosh you a three-disk A disk duplication program written to filecompressedwithStuffitorCompact automate as much as possible the Pro packages or in BinHex 4.0 format. set of essential sector-by-sector duplication ofa floppy If you have also installed 'DropStuff onto one or more duplicates. Performs with Expander Enhancer' (on Disk tools to help you sector duplication of either 400K to 13.02) you will also be able to expand SOOK floppies. Formats copies as single files which were compressed on PCs ride the surf or double sided.ReadMe-DiskDup+ and UNIX systems. StuffltExpander onto the is in TeachText format. Shareware Read Me is in text format. Requires $25. System 6.0.4 or later. Internet. The DiskLocker™ 1.2 f.sit: DISK#16.17E-SU 17 disk set is avail Easy Errors 1.1 f .sit By Dave Rubinic. 8YsTEM UTILITIES When you get an error number, type Alias Repointer 1.0 f .sit By Tony able for $10 at the number in, and the program Hatch. Automatically 'fixes' aliases to the office or displays (if available) the result code files that have been copied from one word and a longer description. Errors volume to another. Works one folder at meeting; add $3 Info is in text format. a time (and all folders inside that DISK#16.18E-SU 18 folder). Read Me is in text format. For postage if you 8YsTEM UTILITIES System 7.0 and later. Shareware - place your order eXpress 1.0.0 f.sit By Stephen Maas. $20. Allows you to access the Process menu Aliassistant 1.1 f .sit By Kevin Vail. by mail." (the one on the far right side of the Makes an alias of whatever you drop menu bar in System 7.x) from on it, and presents a standard Save anywhere on the screen. eXpress dialog to specify where to save the vl.O.O Documentation is in alias, and what to call it. Readme is in kinds of disks including floppies, hard SimpleTextformat. Scholarware; see TeachTextformat. For System 7.0 and drives and removables including CDs. documentation. · later. You can easily browse the catalog, FastFiler 1.1 f.sit By Ondrej BOjar. AliasZoo 2.0.5 f .sit: By CliffMcCollum. search for specific files by name and/or Lets you easily change the type and Manage aliases across multiple hard creator and create informative catalog creator of more that one file at once drives. Locate and delete or repair reports. CatFinderSharewareDoc and it also supports using "wildcards" aliases that no longer "point" to vl.4lis in double clickable DOCMaker '?'and '*'. Also can lock or unlock your anything. AliasZoo 2.0.5 ReadMe is format. Uses Apple Events under files and lock or unlock their names. in text format. For System 7.0 and System 7 and later to select and launch FastFiler ReadMe is in text format. later. Shareware -$15. files. Requires System 6.0.4 and later. Shareware - $2. January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 89 Fat Free 1.1.1 f .sit By Hubert Figuiere. dock for any application without For System 7.0 and later. Intended for 680x0 Mac users, it clutteringthedesktop. LaunchPad™ MODE32 v7.5 installer /.sit: By removes the Data Fork of a file with 3.0 Docs is in double clickable Postcard Connectrix. Corrects a problem on Mac both 680x0 and PowerPC code (i.e. the application format. For System 7.0 II, Ilx, Hex and SE/30 computer RO Ms. part containing datas and native and later. Shareware - $11. These ROMs are not 32-bit clean and PowerPC code) thus saving lot of disk Mac Identifier 1.1 f.sit By Maurice will not support System 7 32-bit space. Read Me First is in SimpleText Volaski. Designed for Mac purists who addressing thus limiting the amount format. don't feel comfortable with a Mac that of addressable memory to less than File Buddy 2.2 /.sit: By Lawrence doesn't know its own model designation advertised. MODE32 patches the Harris. A file utility to perform a wide or appearance, a condition that occurs system to correct the problem and give variety of 'Get Info' type file functions sometimes under System 7 .5 and 7. lP. you back the memory addressing you including creating custom icons, About Mac Identifier 1.1 is in thought you were buying. Required for aliases, file type, creator, etc. File SimpleText format. System 7.5; backward compatible to Buddy 2.2 Read Me is in SimpleText earlier System 7 versions. MODE32- format. For System 7.0 and later. lmportan t Instructions is in Shareware -$25. "Our Application SimpleText format. FileTyper4.l.2 f .sit By Daniel Azuma. Processing Plant 1.2 /.sit By Eric Performs a multitude of functions. and Utilities Updater Shepherd. Displays information about Changes document creator and file disks have also been the front most application, including typeand changes futderflags (invisible, the name ofthe application, its memory locked, etc.). MakeAutoTvper 4.1 f big winners with you partition size, and how much of that includesautilitytocreateAutoTypers although we did not partition is free. Processing Plant which change file types to those you ReadMe is in SimpleText format. specify. FileTyper Documentation initially anticipate the ProcessWatcher 2.0 f .sit: By Hugues includes word and text formats. Read demand for this ser Marty. Displays the running processes Me First! and 4.1.2 Installation Info on the Mac, local or remote machine, are in TeachText format. System 6 vice. Maybe many of and optionally more information. For and 7 versions. Shareware -$10. you prefer to get your System 7.0 and later. Will you ever Finder Info 1.1.1 f .sit By Adam R. read me? is in text format. Talcott. Another of those ubiquitous updates from a single RunTime 1.1 f .sit By Patrick applications to modify a document's source rather than Stadelmann. Gives you the total power finder information (type, creator and on time of your Mac (the total number Finder flags). About Finder Info is from many different of hours and minutes) that your Mac in text format. software publishers. has been turned on ever. This Folder Icon Cleaner 1.1.1 /.sit By information is kept in PRAM (battery Fabrizio Oddone. Lets you 'properly' Or perhaps you did not powered memory) and gets updated get rid of those space and time wasting know about the avail by the system every five minutes. custom icons, stuck right there on your Runtime 1.1 infosis in text format. folders. 'Properly' means deleting the ability of an update Set Startup 1.2 f .sit By Alessandro hidden icon file as well as deleting the until you read it in the Levi Montalcini. An alternative to icon resource. For System 7.0 and later. Apple's standard 'Startup Device' Shareware -$5. Disketeria Dispatch." control panel. Its main advantage is FrontDoor 1.1.5 f .sit By Brian K. that you can change your startup disk Jacobsen. Provides an easy way to even if the new one is not currently mount and log-on to all available Malph 2.3 f .sit: By Nitin Ganatra. An mounted on the desktop. Set Startup volumes on one or more preselected application launch dock that you use 1.2 docs is in text format. servers. Documentation is in Test or to switch between applications under SetupPartitions 1.0.4/.sit By Fabrizio Word formats. For System 7.0 and System 7 instead of pulling down the Oddone. Allows you to create multiple later. Shareware -$25. application menu. READMEis in text 'hard' Macintosh partitions on drives Kaput 2.1 f .sit ByCoconutlnfo. A simple format. formatted with Apple's HD SC Setup. password protection program that may MiniApps Pack 1.1 f .sit By Erik C. SetupPartitions docs is in SimpleText be easily bypassed by using a bootable Thauvin. A collection of mini format. Requires System 6.0.4or later. System disk. IMPORTANT Kapu applications that best reside in the Shareware-$10. Read Me First! is in TeachText Apple Menu Items or Startup folders. D1sK#16.19E-SU 19 format. Requires System 7 .0 or later The apps are EmptyTrash, and a 68020 or higher CPU. 8YSTE/;f UTILITIES FinderToFront, QuitAllApps, Speedometer 4.01 f .sit: By Scott Shareware - $10. QuitFinder, Restart, ShutDown, Sleep LaunchPad 3.0.3 f .sit: By J. S. Berfield. A system information and and VolumeUp & VolumeDown. performance testing program for the Greenfield. Creates a drag and drop MiniAppsPack (1.l)isin text format. 90 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 Macintosh family of computers. Unmountlt 1.0 f .sit By Jim Luther, An application that checks to see if a Various tests are available; the central Apple Computer, Inc. Lets you easily program is 32-bit clean. Shareware one is designed to give a performance unmount and eject sharable volumes $1. rating for the system as a whole. when Macintosh File Sharing is in Chiron 2.2 f .sit: By Robert Cummings. Intended to help you understand and use. Unmountlt Read Me is in A reference source for information on tune the performance ofyour computer SimpleText format. system error codes, viruses & Trojan and to give you some basis for Wake Up 1.3 f .sit: By Rickard Horses, Newton error codes, sad Mac comparing different systems. Andersson. Adds two features to your codes and crash recovery codes. Shareware -$80. screen saver: 1) the ability to use the Desktop Terminator 1.0 f.sit By SwitchBack 2.5 f.sit: By Glendower microphone to wake the screen saver Robert C. Best III. Provides a quick Software. This utility synchronizes from its sleep and 2) the ability to play and easy method to rebuild the desktop two folders, so that both folders have a user-selected sound when the screen files of mounted drives without a copy of the most recent version of saver wakes up from sleep. README restarting. Requires System 7 or later. their files. User's Guide (MWII) is WakeUp 1.3 is in SimpleText format. in MacWrite II format; other Disinfectant 3.5.sit: By John Norstad. For System 7.0and later.Shareware Check files for invalid resources. documents are in text format. -$5. Shareware -$80. Detects and repairs files infected by all Welcome 1.2.1 f.sit By Michael ofthe currently known viruses. Check System Dropper 1.0.sit By Ammon Carlton. Replace the Welcome to out the About Disinfectant under the Skidmore. Allows you to easily move Macintosh startup greeting by your Apple menu; it's a gas! Requires System and copy files into the different System own tailored message. Welcome Software 6.0 or later and Mac 512KE sub-folders based upon their file type. ReadMe is in SimpleText format. or later. ForSystem 7.0andlater.ReadMeis i0.9B5f.sit :BySeanTurrell.Converts Disk First Aid 7 .2.sit: By Apple in SimpleText format. Shareware - DiskCopy, DART, and Norton $5. Computer, Inc. Use to verify and/or Floppier images to DiskDup+ images. repair directory structure ofHFSdisks. theTypeBook v3.26s f.sit: By Jim Delta Image will also rename Volumes to be repaired cannot be the Lewis. Createandmaintaina typeface DiskDup+ images using the floppy boot volume. reference book (extremely popular in disk's name according specified Excel Charts f: These charts, in Excel the Graphics and Typesetting filename conventions. i industries). Helps people select spreadsheet format, contain useful Documentation is in SimpleText information on Mac memory typefaces by demonstrating the format. various artistic attributes ofeach face configurations and monitor and video on a printed page. tTB-Ref'Guide DISK#16.20E- SU 20 configurations. 3.2.txt and other documents are in 8YsTEM UTILITIES MacFAQf.sit: From thelntemetcomes text format. Compatible with System Dark Side of the Mac 4.0 f .sit: By this collection of Frequently Asked 7.0 and TrueType. Tom Dowdy. An application type Questions (FAQ) and their answers. TrashMan 4.0.5 f .sit: By Dan screen saver that does not 'patch' the This is an excellent starting point for Walkowski. Deletes files from your operating system. Runs in the troubleshooting your Mac and Mac trash after they have 'aged' beyond a background and has an expandable OS. setpoint that you specify, in days, set of 'blackouts' or 'Faders' to select SCSIProbe 3.5 f.sit: By Robert Polic. hours, and minutes. Works with all from. DarkSide Doc is in MacWrite Displays status ofSCSI drive in control mounted volumes, including Pro format.; Darkside Read.Me is in panel; mounts SCSI disks and disks AppleShare. TrashMan Emptier text format. For System 7.0 and later. that have been dragged to the trash. empties the trash of any volume that Also reads drive PROMs and reports DISK #20.01 - TS 1 back vendor, product and version is dropped on it, acting like a selective TROUBLESHOOTING AIDS· 'Empty Trash' command. TrashMan ESSENTIALS numbers. System 6 and 7 compatible. TecbTool 1.0.6.sit By Robert Sanders 4.0.5 Docs is in text format. For Apple HD SC Setup7.3.2.sit: By Apple and JeffBaudin. Rebuild the Desktop System 7 and later. Shareware - Computer, Inc. Use this application or zap the PRAM (Parameter RAM) $10. to update drivers on Apple branded the easy way with this simple utility. Type Fixer 1.0.2 f.sit By Eric Kidd. HDs and to reformat them when Also creates and prints a profile of Helps the Finder and Macintosh Easy necessary. Open locate a "creator" for files important System Information about BootMan I.I.sit By Bill Steinberg. Use your Mac. Read the included Help downloaded from non-Mac sources by this handy utility to set the System changing their type/creator. It uses dialog to see why you may want to do Heap Size, Maximum Number of this. file name extensions(*. txt) or the last Open Files and Maximum Number of word of a file's name to identify a Operating System Events. This is a DISK #20.02 - TS 2 common Mac application which can handy alternative to Heap Tool and TROUBLESHOOTING AIDS· be used to open files of that type. Heap Fixer. For System 6.0.8 and GooDIES Type Fixer Release Notes is in earlier. Data Fork Opener 1.0 f.sit By Joe SimpleText format. For System 7 .0 Zobkiw. Allows you to quickly open the and later. Shareware - $5. Check 32! f.sit: By Brandt Despain. January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 91 data fork of any file so that you may DISK #20.03 - TS 3 Shareware - $30. retrieve data in text format. Often TROUBLESHOOTING Ams· System Errors 7.0.1.sit By Pete Corlis. useful in retrieving text from GooDIES A stand-alone document which sets corrupted word processor or other data Mac Memory Guide 6th Edition.sit: out the host oferror codes which System files. For System 6 and 7. By Connectix Corp. An excellent 7 can generate. For System 7 and Desktop Reset 1.2 f.sit By Lloyd L. reference for Mac memory later. Chambers, Salient Software, Inc. configurations as well as descriptions TattleTech2.12f.sit By John Mancino. Forces the Finder to rebuild the of RAM, ROM, VRAM and virtual Collects very complete information desktop by deletingthe hidden desktop memory. about your computer and its system file. Can be used to correct the MacCheck 1.0.5 f .sit: By Apple related software. You may view corrupted desktop (missing files and Computer, Inc. A general purpose information on screen by category, folders) sometimes seen under System hardware and software testing and print it, write to a standard text file in 7. For System 6.0.x and System 7. profiling. The last version released by standard or a special Bug Report Disk Charmer 2.2.1 f .sit By Fabrizio Apple prior to their development and format, or output it in database Oddone. Locks out 'bad' sectors on marketing of Apple Personal readable format. Requires System 6.0.4 floppy disks. This is imperative ifyou Diagnostics. This is an unsupported and later; Mac Plus and later. want to use disks with bad sectors application. For System 7 and later. Shareware - $15 (level 1) or $30 with Systems earlier than 7.0 (down MacErrors 1.0 f .sit By Marty Wachter. (level 2). to 4.3). The program even has some Ever wondered what an "error type - Test Pattern Generator 1.0.6 f .sit By utility with System 7 and later as it 34" means? Well, now you can find out Larry Pina. Run this program after locks out bad sectors more efficiently using this handy utility. installing screen and memory than the method Apple uses with MacErrors.readme is in text format. upgrades to test screen alignment. System 7. Shareware -$10. RAM Check 2.0 /.sit: By ProVUE Shareware - $20. DiskRejuvenator 1.0 f .sit By Leonard Development. Tests RAM not DISK #26.07B Rosenthol. Fix some problems with otherwise occupied by booted System HP DESKWRITER PRINT disappearing HDs or custom icons (Systems 6.0.8 & earlier). DRWER6.0 replaced with generic icons. Restart SCSI Evaluator 1.07.sit By William A. Supersedes all previous Hewlett-Packard for changes to take effect. For System Long. Tests the performance of any 6.0.4 and later. DeskWriter print drivers. Includes Small Computer System Interface Apple's ColorSync. DisKeeper vl.9.sit By J. Geagan. A (SCSI) device. Tests include read and very handy disk management utility write seek times and data transfer DISK#26.11C that lists all files and possible file (Kbits/sec.) rate. Note the author's WORD PROCESSOR 2 anomalies such as identical files, files caution "Joy riding with SCSI Update WordPerfect 3.0 to 3.0p2. Also of zero length, empty folders, etc. You Evaluator can be dangerous!" includes converter between Mac WP also have the ability to move such files Shareware - $20. 3.0 and PC Word Perfect version 6 and to a DisKeeper Trash folder for later SIMMStack4.4.sit: By Apple Computer. two collections of WP macros. removal (or other operations). A HyperCard stack that provides the Update FullWrite from vl.5s or 1.6 to Easy Errors 1.1 f .sit By Dave Rubinic. SIMM (Single Inline Memory Module) version 1.7, Update FullWrite from When you get an error number, type configurations ofthe majority of Macs. version 2.0 to 2.0.1, Vantage to version the number in, and the program A logic board layout, memory 1.6.1, and Thunder 7 version 1.5 to displays (if available) the result code alternatives, memory speed and other version 1.5.4. word and a longer description. Errors pertinent data are shown for each DISK #26.12C Info is in text format. computer. Requires current version of FILEMAKER PRO Font/DA Mover 4.1.sit: By Apple HyperCard or HyperCard Player. Computer, Inc. Create suitcases and Update any version of Claris FileMaker move fonts and DAs from suitcase to DISK #20.04 - TS 4 Prosince2.0to2.lv3.MacIPX™allows suitcase. Reconciles font ID conflicts TROUBLESHOOTING Ams. operation on Novel Netware networks. when all fonts are moved into the GooDIES DISK #26.30D same suitcase. Speedometer 4.0.1 /.sit: By Scott MISCELLANEOUS UTIUTIES Berfield. A system information and GURU 1.0.lf.sit By Newer Technology. Update RAM Doubler to version 1.5.1 Test memory and show memory and performance testing program for the Macintosh family of computers. and add RAM Doubler Indicator other characteristics of different Mac 1.5.1; update any version ofOptiMem models. Various-tests are available; the central one is designed to give a performance since 1.4.1 to l.5.6g; update Conflict LaserWriter Utility7.6.2.sit: By Apple rating for the system as a whole. Catcher II to 2.1.2 and update Computer, Inc. Initialize the Intended to help you understand and SpeedDisk 3.0 to 3.1. LaserWriter printer HD and reset tune the performance ofyour computer SYSTEM SOFJWARE printer. Permits printer calibration and to give you some basis for LisERWRITER 8.2 INSTALL and configure communications on comparing different systems. supported printers. LaserWriter 8 Install allows you to install 92 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 the LaserWriter 8.2 driver and with Fax Cover 1.5.2, Sample and Adapter 1.4, My first fax, Serial associated files. This driver offers Standard;FaxExtension 1.5.5,Fax Extension 1.0 and Shared Library improved PostScript printing, Sender 1.5.5, Fax Terminal 1.5.5, Manager 1.1.2. advanced paper-handling capabilities, Fax Viewer 1.5.5 and My first fax. Fax Coyer Folder with Fax Cover 1.5.2, customizable printer resources that Express Modem Folder: Express Sample and Standard. support your printer's specific features Modem 1.5.5, Express Modem Tool and options, full support of PostScript l.5.5,PowerBook7.3.1,PowerBook SYSTEM SOFTWARE Level 1 and Level 2 and enhanced Setup 7.3.1 and System Enabler 131 DISPLAY SOFTWARE Printing and Page Setup options. 1.0.3. System software supporting Apple Color Printer descriptions are included for Sync and Multiple Scan monitors. all of Apple's current and past line of Modem Documents: AppleLink US * Read Me First *' Installer 3.4.3, PostScript printers. Access, Express Modem 144001.0, Multiple Scan Installer Script 1.2 Express Modem ARA 2.0 1.0, Disk 1 includes Installer 4.0.3, and Express Modem AT Cmds 1.5.2 and and SimpleText 1.1. Installer Script 1.0, PrintingTools Express Modem CCL 1.0. Display Software: Display Enabler 1.2, l.cmp, Read Me and TeachText 1.2. ColorSync™ 1.0.5, ColorSync™ Disk 2 includes Printing Tools 8YsTEM SOFTWARE System Profile 1.0.5,EnergySaver 2.cmp. GEoPoRT 1.2.2 1.1, LC Monitors Extension 7.5, Software for use with GeoPort equipped Monitors 7 .5 and QuadraMonitors SYSTEM SOFIWARE Macs-these include the Centris and Extension 7.5. EXPRESS MODEM 1.5.5 Quadra 660AV and 840AV models. ColorSyncTM Profiles: Apple 12'' RGB This disk covers PowerBooks 160, 165, This disk includes the latest GeoPort Standard, Apple 13" RGB 165c,180and180cwithintema1Apple software with performance and Standard, Apple 16'' RGB Page- 14.4 modem cards; Duo 210, 230, 250, compatibility enhancements and FAX White, Apple 16" RGB Standard, 270c, 280 and 280c with Duo 14.4 capability. Apple 21" RGB Page-White, Apple modems; PowerBook 520, 520c, 540 GeoPort™ ReadMe, Install 2l"RGBStandard,AppleMultiple and 540c with Express Modem II card GeoPort™ 1.2.2, Installer 3.4.4 and Scan 15, Apple Multiple Scan 17 - and LC 575 andMac630usingExpress SimpleText 1.1. 9300, Apple Multiple Scan 17 -D50, Fax/Modem. It also includes Quadra GeoPort™ Software: Fax Terminal 7.5 AppleMultipleScanl7-D65,Apple 660AV and 840AV and Power compatibility 1.0, AppleLink US Multiple Scan 20 - 9300, Apple Macintosh6100/60, 7100/66and8100/ Access, ASLM Resources 1.1.2, Multiple Scan 20 - D50, Apple 80 models with external GeoPort Express Modem 1.l.4, Express Multiple Scan 20 - D65, Apple Telecom Adapters. The Express Fax Modem ARA 2•0 1.0, Express PerformaDisplay,ApplePerforma software lets you send faxes with ModemATCmds,ExpressModem Plus Display, Mac Color Classic PowerBooksmodels'lOO, 140, 145and CCL l.l.4, Express Modem Tool Standard, Mac Color Display 170 equipped with PowerBoox Fax/ 1.l.4, Fax Extension 1.1.4, Fax Standard, Macintosh LC520 Data Modems. Sender 1.1.4, F ax T enmn· al 11.. 4 , Standard, PowerBook 165C Express Modem ReadMe 1.5.5, Fax Viewer 1.1.4, GeoPort™ Standard, PowerBook 180C Installer 3.4 and Installer Script Extension 1.2.1, GeoPort™ Standard and PowerBook 270C 1.5.5. Telecom 1.1.4, GeoPort™Telecom Standard (all vl.0.3 except Apple Express Fax Folder: Fax Cover Folder Multiple Scan 15). • Please write disk numbers on a separate sheet of paper and include them with your order. . . . Are you a member of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd.? Mail this form with your check to: . YIN If es member number . AU Disk Library, Washington Apple Pl payments ~~t be in U.S. funds drawn against U.S. 12022 Parklawn Drive Banking institutions. Non-members add $3.00 per Rockville, MD 20852 disk to listed_p_rices. #of disks Member Price Extended 3.5" Singles Name 4 or less@ $4.00 5 or more@ $3.50 - =sets (as marked $(above) Box Number, Apt., Suite 5.25" Singles 4 or less@ $2.00 5 or more@ $1.75 Street Address - sets (as marked $(above) +postage $1.00/disk City State Zip maxium $5.00 Day tele. Evening tele. January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 93 ~ Pi Library 8.llA-G 11 16.05E-SU 5 26.llC- Word Processor 2, 1 0.01 - C 01 Catalog 16.06E-SU 6 disk; $4 - 0.02 - C 02 Sampler INITs & cdevs 16.07E-SU 7 26.12C - Database, 1 disk; $4 - 9.0lC-1/C 1 16.08E-SU 8 26.13B-ClarisWorks/Quicken, 1 Anti-Virus Utilities 9.02C-l/C 2 16.09E-SU 9 disk; $4 1.0lG-AV 1 9.03C-l/C 3 16.lOE-SU 10 26.14A - Word, 1 disk; $4 1.02L-AV 2 9.04C-l/C 4 16.llE - SU 11 26.15A - Word Enhancements, 1 1.03L-AV 3 9.05C -1/C 5 16.12E -SU 12 disk; $4 9.06C-l/C 6 16.13E - SU 13 26.16A - Excel Enhancements, 1 Desk Accessories 9.07C-l/C 7 16.14E - SU 14 disk; $4 7 disk set; $21 9.08C-l/C 8 16.15E - SU 15 26.17A-Anti-Virus, 1 disk; $4 2.0lE-DAs 1 9.09C-l/C 9 16.16E- SU 16 26.18A -After Dark & Modules, 2.02E-DAs2 9.lOC -1/C 10 16.17E- SU 17 1 disk; $4 2.03E-DAs 3 9.llC -1/C 11 16.18E- SU 18 26.18-23A-After Dark Set, 6 2.04E-DAs4 9.12C -1/C 12 16.19E-SU 19 disk; $15 2.05E-DAs5 9.13C -1/C 13 16.20E - SU 20 26.25-27B - CP MacTools, 3 disk; 2.06E-DAs 6 9.14C -1/C 14 $12 2.07E-DAs 7 9.15C -1/C 15 Word Processing Utils 26.29A - Now Utilities, 1 disk; $4 9.16C -1/C 16 7 disk set; $21 26.30D - Miscel. Utilities, 1 disk; F Keys (Function Keys) 17.0lC-WP 1 $4 4.0lA-FKs 1 Paintings (MacPnt) 17.02C- WP 2 26.31/32A - Stuffit Deluxe, 2 4.02A-FKs2 _ 5 disk set; $15 17.03C-WP 3 disks; $8 11.01- p 1 17.04C-WP4 26.33A-DrawPro, Impact, ImageWriter Fonts 11.02-P 2 17.05C- WP 5 Frontier, 1 disk; $4 5.0lA-IW 1 11.03-P 3 17.06C- WP 6 5.02A-IW 2 11.04- p 4 17.07C- WP 7 Online Bible 5.03A-IW 3 11.05 - p 5 24 disk set; $50 5.04A-IW 4 Mac Troubleshooting Set 1, 6 disks; $15 Digitized Sounds 4 disk set; $12 Set 2, 7 disks; $15 PostScript Fonts _ 9 disk set; $27 20.01-TS 1 6.0lB-PS 1 Set 3, 6 disks; $15 12.0lB-S 1 20.02-TS 2 Set 4, 5 disks; $15 6.02B-PS2 12.02B-S 2 20.03-TS 3 6.03B-PS3 12.03B -S 3 20.04-TS4 Disketeria ValuPaks (t) 6.04B-PS4 12.04B-S 4 Best of Pi, 15 disks; $30 6.05B-PS5 12.05B-S 5 Fun & Games Series PostScript Fonts 1, 14 disks; $30 6.06B-PS6 12.06B-S 6 22.01- FIG 1 PostScript Fonts 2, 5 disks; $10 6.07B-PS 7 12.07B-S 7 22.02-F/G 2 TrueType Fonts 1, 9 disks; $20 6.08B-PS8 12.08B-S 8 22.03-F/G 3 TrueType Fonts 2, 4 disks; $10 6.09B-PS9 12.09B-S 9 22.04- F/G4 Internet Starter Kit, 3 disks; $10 6.lOB-PS 10 22.05-F/G5 Cale/Clock Utils 1, 5 disks; $15 6.llB-PS 11 Telecommunications 22.06-F/G6 Pers Mgt Utils 2, 5 disks; $15 6.12B -PS 12 13.0lC-T 1 22.07-F/G 7 System Utils 4, 5 disks; $15 6.13B-PS 13 13.02C-T2 22.08-F/G8 Fun/Games 1, 10 disks; $25 6.14B-PS 14 13.03C-T3 22.09-F/G9 Fun/Games 2, 10 disks; $25 (:j:) 6.15B-PS 15 13.04C-T 4 22.10 - F/G 10 6.16B- PS 16 13.05C-T 5 22.11 - F/G 11 (:j:) Apple System Software 6.17B-PS 17 13.06C-T6 22.12 - F/G 12 (:j:) _ HyperCard 2.0 - 5 disk set; $15 6.18B- PS 18 13.07C-T 7 22.13 - F/G 13 (:j:) 6.0.3 - 4 disks; $12 6.19B- PS 19 13.08C-T8 22.14 - F/G 14 (:j:) 6.0.5 - 4 disks; $12 13.09C-T 9 22.15-F/G 15 (:j:) 6.0.8 - 4 disks; $12 TrueType Fonts 22.16 - F/G 16 (:j:) 7.0 - 8 disks; $20 7.0lA-TT 1 Programmer/Hacker 22.17-F/G17 (:j:) 7.0.1- 6 disks; $20 (:j:) 7.02A-TT2 14.0lC-PH 1 22.18 - FIG 18 (:j:) 7n.0.1 Tune-Up $3 7.03A-TT3 14.02B-PH 2 22.19 - F/G 19 (:j:) 7.1 Sys Updater 3.0 - 2 disks; $6 7.04A-TT4 22.20 - F/G 20 (:j:) (:j:) 7.05A-TT5 Miscellaneous Utils 7.1 Sys Updater 3.0 (SOOK); $3 7.06A-TT6 15.0lC-MU 1 PowerBook/Duo Series QuickTime 1.6.2; $3 (:j:) 7.07A-TT7 15.02C-MU2 4 disk set; $12 LaserWrtr 8.2; $6 7.08A-TT8 15.03C-MU3 23.01-PB 1 Networkinstaller$3 7.09A-TT9 15.04C-MU 4 23.02-PB 2 TrueType;$6 7.lOA-TT 10 15.05C-MU 5 23.03-PB 3 Basic Con Set 1.1.1; $3 7.llA-Tr 11 15.06C-MU6 23.04-PB 4 Express Modem; $3 (:j:) 7.12A-TT 12 15.07C-MU 7 GeoPort; $3 ct> 7.13A-TT 13 15.08C-MU8 Update Series Display Software; $3 15.09C-MU9 26.01/02A- Photoshop, Graphics - CD ROM Setup; $3 15.lOC - MU 10 2 disks; $8 Comm 1 (CTB); $3 11 disk set; $33 15.llC - MU 11 26.03A - Photoshop Plug 8.0lA-G 1 AShare 4 Tune-Up; $3 15.12C - MU 12 Ins, 1 disk; $4 AtEase Updater 2.01 $3 8.02A- G 2 15.13C -MU 13 26.04A - Desktop 8.03A- G 3 StyleWriter II; $12 15.14C-MU 14 Publishing, 1 disk; $4 Ile Installer; $3 8.04A-G4 15.15C - MU 15 26.05A - QuarkXPress, 8.05A-G 5 Mon Energy Star; $3 1 disk; $4 LW Pro Tune-Up; $3 8.06A- G 6 System Utilities 26.07B - HP DeskWriter 8.07A-G 7 16.0lE-SU 1 6.0, 1 disk; $4 8.08A-G 8 16.02E-SU2 26.08/09B - Denaba 8.09A-G9 16.03E-SU 3 (t) all files compressed Canvas, 2 disks; $8 (:j:) on 1.44 Meg diskette 8.lOA-G 10 16.04E-SU 4 26.lOA - Word Processor 1, 1 disk; $4 94 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 Classified advertisements can be placed by mailing copy to the busi To be ponated ness office of Washington Apple Pi, Ltd., 12022 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852. Be sure to include your WAP membership -Free! Macintosh Plus with number and indicate area codes with your phone numbers. Ads must mouse and keyboard. Needs power be received by the ad copy due date listed in the calendar page for that supply and floppy repair. Call Paul month in order to be included in the appropriate issue. Any ads at 301-963-1816 postmarked after that time will be included at the discretion of the Mgcjntosh Software for Sale editor. Cost is $2.00/line (40 characters per line), maximum 12 lines. Members ofWashingtonApple Pi, Ltd., may place ads up to three lines -HyperCard FRT Shopping at no charge. The editor reserves the right to refuse any ads deemed Stack which compares air & grnd inappropriate. FRT pkg costs. It will provide fast, accurate, and easy bottom line FRT costs, with discounts and other Services Thunderworks and "Read it" OCR calculations for many carriers. Fly software $95. Call 301-898-3427 it for less! Save big bucks!!! 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Mac Lightning 3020 Wilson Blvd., Arlington~ VA, Tel: 703-527-4300 Scan 400 hand scanner, 400 dpi; January I February 1995 Washington Apple Pi Journal 95 Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. 12022 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852- "'Membership A~plication vf! ;!lea~f pr;int 09 type: 4, mi ------"j Pnone'W (H) _____ ---"'----',.--"--t. •· Address ...,....1~_.::_--"*:r.r.t___..:;!__:22.__ ___::!"--~-.l!...=---~-;;µ;;:..--..i2:- ~ *' i* Sp~psor' s Nam~ _..._~_..,...__.,,,.__....,.,_...... ,;,..,,,. Please answer a few questions for us regarding your computer use. Check the computers/equipment that you use on a regular basis. W AP has many Special Interest Groups (SI Gs and activities. 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(The list never )eaves the office and all mail i!Please enclo~'e pi:fotodbpy ~£ currertt stuaent ID. •' ings ar& supervised!by tll:e Pi staff:) Yel'r No H1 fi,* Access·to tjle TG'.S is,contingent on W AP }\aving a current home telephone number for tlie member. ,, @k ;aji 96 Washington Apple Pi Journal January I February 1995 Photo CD will change the way you capture and store color images. Photographic Qualio/ Images Forever. Good Better Our Kodak Photo CD scanner can scan Our Kodak Pro Photo CD scanner can about 100 images from 35mm slides or scan about 25 images from 35mm slides negatives onto a single Photo CD. Each or negatives or 2" x 2" and 4" x 5" trans image is stored at five resolutions. The parencies onto a single Pro Photo CD. highest resolution can produce a 7" x 10" The highest resolution can produce a color separation on a Postscript®image 14" x 20" color separation on a Post setter at 150 lpi. The cost per image is script®imagesetter at 150 lpi. The cost about $1.75 plus the price of the disc per image is less than $15 plus the price (under $10). of the disc (under $10). The Publishers Service Bureau 4300 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia • 703 824-8022 Washington Apple Pi, Ltd. 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville, MD 20852 Second Class January/February 1995 Postage rates paid at Rockville, MD The Fastest Personal PowarPC Computers Ever Made PowerMac 6100/66 PowerMac 7100/80 PowerMac 8100/100 PowerMac 8100/110 66mHz PowerPC 601 w/256K Cache 80mHz PowerPC 601 w/2S6K Cache lOOmHz PowerPC 601 w/256K Cache Ultra-High perfonnance desktop work Compact Desktop Chassis. Expandable 4-Slot Desktop Chassis. 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