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Macworld MARCH 2000 3 Read Me First Simon Jary, Editor-In-Chief FREE! EVERY 1999 ISSUE OF MACWORLD HERE ON 2nd CD! MACWORLD MARCH 2000 MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS MAC OS X REVEALED MAC Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk • iBOOK TIPS • DIGITAL CAMERAS DIGITAL iTools reviewed Apple’s free Internet goodies • MACWORLD EXPO REPORTS EXPO REPORTS MACWORLD Aqua iBook expert tips The best Mac OS ever! Everything you need to know Digital cameras tested Cool new interface 11 two-megapixel beauties • Amazing features DREAMWEAVER 3 DREAMWEAVER Super-fast iBook Win one! Apple has finally revealed 68the progressive, new-look contents user interface that’ll complement its modern new operating system, Mac OS X. Feel the future of your Macintosh right now! March 2000 11 This month’s cover CDs 79 95 111 features 103 create PDF All in the past Archiving Macworld 1999. 85 107 create web regulars 68 Mac OS X 85 Snap decision Feel the width Seamless streaming media. We examine and assess An in-depth look at two- the features of Apple’s megapixel digital cameras. 111 create graphics much-anticipated new A new dimension operating system. 95 Dreamweaver 3 Using Photoshop in 3D work. We put the latest 117 secrets 79 iBook tips version of the Web-design Out of site... Getting the most from your powerhouse under the Managing Web-site passwords iBook when out and about. microscope. Macworld Contents continues page 5 Macworld MARCH 2000 3 read me first Simon Jary, editor-in-chief etting to know Mac OS X – with its Aqua interface full of pulsing be the end for the Calculator, Chooser, special effects – will take some time. It’ll take a lot longer than buying, Key Caps, Note Pad, Scrapbook and Stickies? G unpacking and setting up an iMac. It’ll take longer than installing Hell, even super-searcher new boy Sherlock a G4 upgrade in your old Power Mac; or even downloading QuickTime 4.1 doesn’t know where he’ll end up in Mac OS X. from the Web. Forget hardware problems, allen keys, and anti-shock bracelets. Conspiracy theorists, please note the picture It’s not the nuts and bolts that are screwy. It’s the software, stupid. of the Reichenbach Falls next to the Trash From this summer, we’re all going to have to make friends with the dynamic icon in the OS X screen on page 70… Dock, not feel sick at Apple’s magical Genie Effect, and learn to obey the new I like the Calculator, even if it isn’t perfect: it always hides traffic-light buttons. Just as we struggled with curious round mice and USB behind as many open windows as possible, and has no clear connections, so we must get comfortable with Apple’s new software surprises. key. But surely this maths mate will make it… It’s not all “Hello” and “Nice to meet you” with Mac OS X. It’s also time to The Chooser is another matter. I’ll be glad to see the back of wave goodbye to some trusty Mac stalwarts. Apple has not only run several this pompous player. It’s already taken a knock in Mac OS 8.5, thousand lines of ancient code out of town – it has also called in several key losing its network duties to the more desirable Network Browser. features, and handed them a long-overdue Power P45.There’s been tears in Now, we’ll likely see it give way on its unintuitive part in the printing process. the Apple labs, as heartbroken control panels, extensions and utilities file out I’ll also not miss the waste-of-space Note Pad and oh-so aptly named the door.There’s no room for deadwood in the shiny world of Mac OS X – let’s Scrapbook.The Dock’ll see off the Scrap. So it’s goodbye to the Teddy Bear, see which old functional friends are going to get the chop. pastel party-hat and Apple-branded Ferrari. It’s been a long time coming, One Mac interface element that Microsoft didn’t steal is the Apple menu – fellas. Don’t keep in touch. sticking it in Windows might have been a bit obvious even for the company’s How in the name of desk clutter did the Note Pad survive the arrival new chief software architect. Sitting proud at the far-left of the Mac’s top of the equally stupid but frankly yellow Stickies? This is one of those circular menubar. the Apple Menu has seen it all. It may have started out as a rather questions that, thank God, will disappear with the coming of X. anonymous black-&-white Apple, but it’s always been a great place to store Lots of Macworld readers were down in the dumps when Apple threw frequently used apps, Control Panels, Chooser and Scrapbook. out the UK’s very own Wastebasket. It didn’t take us long to get used to But Mac OS X’s bouncing bruiser – the all-singing, all-dancing Dock – has the bottom-right icon being renamed Trash – after all, it looked more like forced the Apple Menu right off the end of the menubar.The Apple Menu a trash-can than it ever did a wastebasket. So what have Mac OS X’s icon hasn’t just been Shut Down, it’s been Put Down. In honour of its long years designers come up with, just a few months later? A Trash icon that is a of software service, the Apple Menu has a monument on OS X’s lined menubar photo of a wastebasket.What do we think of that? Rubbish. – a central, blue Apple logo that’s pixel-pretty but essentially impotent. Mac OS X’s many advances will also see off several third-party favourites At the other end of the menubar, is the much-clicked Applications menu. – most noticeably on the font side: Adobe Type Manager,Type Reunion, Guess what, the dastardly Dock has punched that innocent icon off the shelf, Suitcase, et al. Apple now has its own anti-aliasing and grouping technologies, too. Mac OS X collects all your open apps and minimized documents in the although it won’t take long for others to find new fixes for font foibles. bottom-of-the-screen-hugging Dock. It might be painful – it might be sad – but we’ll soon have to bid farewell to Apple has ditched the old Parisian servants-live-at-the-top tradition for many aspects of the Mac OS that we’ve grown accustomed to. But, remember, a Victorian servants-live-in-the-basement way of working. Some interface there was only a very brief period of mourning when Mac OS 8.5 cut up the experts are disappointed that Apple didn’t site the Dock to one side of the once-fêted Jigsaw Puzzle, which itself had done in the older sliding-block screen, maybe even both. In a world where most documents are longer than puzzle.While we’ll live with the passing of this legion of legacy interface they are wide, vertical screen space is much more valuable than horizontal. zombies, I am absolutely sure that, with Mac OS X, Apple will bring us a new You might be wondering where the residents of the now-deceased Apple dysfunctional family of silly-named tools and equally useless desktop junk. Menu will be moving to. And this is where things become less clear. Could this And I’ll be first to welcome them all aboard. MW 110 online competition 48 121 competition 4th Dimension WIN! Standard Edition 6.5 an iBook 8 How to contact Macworld I Macworld has it covered In-depth stories I exclusive tests Who’s who,and who’s won what. 48-49 Apple’s iTools 18-19 New-look Mac OS 115 Macworld subscriptions Get a free copy of Painter Classic when you 50 QuickCam Pro 20 Apple’s Net strategy subscribe! IntelliMouse Explorer news 23 iMacs get speed-ramp 123 Reader Offers 53 Star Wars Episode 1 Racer 24 Apple logo redesigned 125 Expert Advice/Buyers’guide reviews Metro 5.0 26-27 Jobs in media spotlight Top Mac system advice;and buying advice. 53 Action Utilities 29 Apple boost for schools 129 Star Ratings/Buyers’guide 56 Pro Tools 5.0 Macworld’s product ratings;plus a full year’s index. 30-31 A history of the digital Tektronix Phaser 850 142 Reseller Guide Part 2: The Internet Complete listings of Apple-accredited dealers for the UK. 57 Civilization: Call to Power 33 Business News 145 Macworld Shopping 58 CBFW 2 34 Mac OS X: flash or trash? Consumer advice and mail-order ads. 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