NOVEMBER 2001

MICROSOFT OFFICE X FIRST LOOK AT NEW FEATURES MAC OS X 10.1 • OFFICE DIGITAL CAMERAS • FILM SCANNERS ILLUSTRATOR 10 • COLOUR MANAGEMENT

MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS OS X 10.1 The real deal World’s best operating system

• Digital cameras on test • Adobe Illustrator 10 preview • Expert Dreamweaver tips • Film scanners reviewed • Maya • Adobe InDesign 2 • Macworld Gamers’ Club read me first Simon Jary Hooray! A workable version editor-in-chief of Mac OS X is finally with us. But it’s been a long time coming…

The wait of the world

uch has been written about Apple’s almost getting the ultra-modern operating system to run laughably exhaustive and ultimately abortive Photoshop, XPress and Duke Nukem. We, the users, attempts to update its Mac operating system demanded it – and so must take some of the blame for the M during the 1990s. After several expensive long delay between Apple buying NeXT and actually shipping failures, Apple poured all its efforts into a do-or-die project X 10.1. Another massive hurdle for Tevanian’s team was called Copland. It died, and Apple had to buy a company making the Intel-based NeXT technologies run on PowerPC. called NeXT that had something at least approaching a We didn’t want to ditch our Macs for Pentium PCs, did we? usable and modern operating system. The delay hurt many of the early (high) hopes for the As you’ll read all over this issue, Apple now has a capable rejuvenated, modernized Apple. At the time of the NeXT successor to the Mac OS that has been a great friend to us buy, the Mac had a larger market share than Windows NT. since 1984 – if you count as a friend something that has “We’re going to go out the door next year with a product witnessed more crashes than Murray Walker. There have that may very well be a higher volume than Windows NT, been numerous updates (System 7, OS 8/9, etc), but no because we have the Mac market to sell it to,”Tevanian told dramatic rewriting of the old code in over 15 years. The first his interviewers back at the start of ’97. release of Aqua-hued Mac OS X provided that rewrite – but Asked whether Apple would soon surpass Microsoft, it missed too many features and ran far-too slow for most of Avie got a little too excited: “Absolutely. We’re already ahead us to contemplate ditching the aged, but at least familiar, of them. We have a product today. It just becomes execution platinum-coloured OS. Mac OS X 10.1 isn’t perfect, but it’s for us. We’ve got to take all these things, put them into the less imperfect for today’s world than even Mac OS 9.2.1. products, and get them out there for the users.” With Mac OS X 10.1, Apple at last has the holy grail that Avie wasn’t wrong. Apple would have the superior it bought NeXT for in the first place. Strangely, the news of product. It’s just that the taking, putting, and “getting them OS X 10.1 coincides with a rumour that its chief engineer, out there for users” took one hell of a lot longer than he, or Avie Tevanian, is to quit Apple. This made me re-read some anyone at Apple, expected. “We should old interviews that Avie gave just before joining Apple in It’s highly unlikely that Apple would have crushed have a fully February 1997 as senior vice president of software Microsoft even if OS X – with all its powerful and robust engineering, reporting directly to CEO Steve Jobs. At the Unix plumbing below the easy-to-use, attractive Aqua user- functioning time, he was vice president of engineering at NeXT, interface – had shipped within days of the NeXT buy-out. reporting directly to its then CEO… Steve Jobs. Apple has a long history of possessing the superior product, system that Tevanian first came to prominence at Carnegie Mellon but nearly as long a history of ending up in second place. customers University in Pittsburgh, where he was a principal designer Despite the good news that, after nearly five years of and engineer of the Mach operating system, upon which waiting (not including Copland), OS X 10.1 is here, we’re not can use and NeXTStep – and therefore Mac OS X – is based. So, Avie’s home yet. All those early adopters who have been working deploy in 12 been with the core of OS X since its very beginning. with OS X 10-10.0.4 since March, will have to wait a little Of course, Mac OS X is not just Tevanian’s work. There are longer before they get their hands on the latest version. As months time” scores of PhD-wielding software engineers working on the posts on Macworld’s online forum suggest, not many people – Mac OS X Unix-based operating system at any one time, but it’s are able to get their hands on the free update CDs from probably true that there’s no engineer more indispensable Apple resellers. They have to splash out another £15 creator, Avie to its intricate technologies than Avie. (handling and shipping costs, you understand) for a special Tevanian In an interview in January 1997 – just before Apple’s CD, and that could take a couple of weeks to reach them. acquisition of NeXT was completed – Tevanian said he More significantly, the full power of OS X won’t be (January, expected “a fully functioning system customers can use and realized until major Mac software apps are optimized for it. deploy” in 12 months time. Taking version X 10.1 as The number of optimized (‘Carbonized’) programs is ahem… 1997) something that customers can “use and deploy”, that 12 certainly growing, but without an OS X-native Photoshop or months stretched to an incredible 56! You don’t have to be a XPress, many Mac professionals will defer switching. The mathematical genius like Avie to call that “late”. wait goes on. Adobe may release a Carbonized Photoshop at Avie wished it could be even sooner: “Software projects January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. But the wait will are very difficult to get done sooner than you project. The be longer for Quark to pull its finger out, as the first version challenge is always to not have them take longer. We have a of XPress 5.0 will be for OS 9 and not OS X. good track record at NeXT at being close to our predictions. We’ve waited so long for this new version of the Mac OS I’m confident we can do it.” that a few more months shouldn’t upset us greatly. It will be It’s not really Avie’s fault. The biggest hurdle was the a shame if, having succeeded in his quest, Avie Tevanian level of backward compatibility with current Mac OS apps. really is to quit Apple, but his legacy will likely be with us for Many of those lost 44 months must have been spent the next 20 years… and then some after that… MW

6 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Join in the live IT debates on Macworld Online Forum (www.macworld.co.uk/forum). NOVEMBER 2001 Contents COVER STORIES

PREVIEW! Office v. X 87 Mac OS X has its first killer app, with Microsoft updating its market-leading business, software suite. Macworld takes you on an executive tour of the new features and amazing new look.

REVIEW! Mac OS X 10.1 80 It’s clean, mean and on the scene. Macworld reviews the faster, more stable, latest, ready-to-use version of Apple’s next-generation operating system.

93 Digital cameras 70 Illustrator 10 64 Film scanners 131 Missing Manual TEST CENTRE: Designers will adore MACWORLD LAB: Expert advice for Macworld picks the the latest version We compare seven Dreamweaver users. best high-resolution of Adobe’s pro drawing film scanners to digital cameras, from tool, now ready for Mac see which is best 3 to 5 megapixels. OS X, and looking great. for your varied needs. page 8

Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 7 CONTACT Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Deputy Editor David Fanning Macworld www.macworld.co.uk NOVEMBER 2001 Contents [email protected] News Editor Jonathan Evans [email protected] News Reporter Dominique Fidéle [email protected] NEWS HOW TO SECRETS REVIEWS Managing Editor Sean Ashcroft [email protected] Apple ships Mac OS X 10.1 Chief Sub-Editor Woody Phillips 22 [email protected] Microsoft shows off Office v. 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times have I phoned my ISP? Once, to find out when it will have Star Letter: iMacs high max 24/7 unlimited Internet access for £15. Did I have to reinstall Mac OS hanks for “Rev up your iMac”. It got me going 9? No. Did I phone Apple Technical T on a problem that, as an owner of a 1999 support? Yep, to see if they could iMac, I thought was going to be resolved only replace the Apple-logo stickers by purchasing a brand-new Power Mac G4. Apple has always told that my daughter lost. Is Apple in us that 128MB RAM is tops. Forget it. I am writing this from a Subject: No more freedom financial trouble? No. Is my Mac 233MHz Rev B machine that boasts 512MB of RAM thanks to If the US is to be (rightly) unreliable? No. Macworld and users on the www.apple.com discussion forum. castigated over Echelon [much Oh, to be a PC user: it’s all But neither your feature nor the contributors to the Apple Web rumoured, multi-government problems, problems, problems… site answered all my questions, so the following may be of help: secretive Internet surveillance John Zeleznjak 1 You can upgrade a Rev B to 512MB RAM. project], and the European 2 SODIMMS purchased from www.crucial.com/uk are low Parliament is recommending Subject: Apple of my ire profile, and will fit either upper or lower slots. So, at current the encryption of all email, could I am in the process of buying a low memory prices, go for it! we please draw its attention to Power Mac G4 build-to-order 3 Provided that you take the basic precautions regarding static, the UK’s draconian RIP legislation computer through a third-party the most challenging part of upgrading the lower RAM slot is – or am I liable to be charged dealer. At the time of placing the getting the the cage off the daughter board. Instructions about for drawing attention to its order, Apple quoted a build-time adding RAM are in Help, and www.theimac.com/ram provides help existence? of 21-31 days. This seemed on accessing the lower slot (ignore the advice about maximum Ted Treen excessive – but I went ahead RAM, though). with the order, anyway. Go for the upgrade that Apple always told you wasn’t possible! Subject: iMac DVD/CD-RW mystery With the 31 days nearly up, Rohan Barnett Well, we didn’t get an LCD iMac, I telephoned my dealer to get and maybe we won’t for a while. a progress report. Imagine my But as your comment on page anger and surprise when he I dumped BT, and now MW: Macworld aims to support as 75 of September’s Macworld told me that, on chasing Apple subscribe to Tiscali. Its un- many of its readers as possible, shows us, most people want for a firm delivery date for my metered evening/weekend tariff and obviously includes mainly functionality as well as style computer, he was told: “It will is currently £2 cheaper than BT new software. Older Macs will from their computers. Maybe take as long as it takes. If you Internet. Even better, however, it need to be updated to run some extra processing speed is better don’t like that, perhaps you’d does not disconnect subscribers of this software, and some very than a larger monitor, after all. like to cancel the order.” automatically every two hours, old models won’t be able to One huge disappointment is Just who the hell does Apple so big file downloads are quite run some programs at all. Many this: where is the combo DVD- think it is? It has a monopoly on possible. Oh, joy! games, as you point out, are ROM/CD-RW drive in the iMac? If the supply of Macs. Its arrogance Nick Kurn based on the OpenGL 3D-graphics it can be fitted into the iBook, why seems to know no boundaries! standard, and so require up-to- the hell not the iMac? It needn’t I have been using Macs for Subject: Disc rage date system software (hence your mean a huge price increase either; almost ten years, both in work As a Power Mac G3 and 7600 user, need for OpenGLLibrary). Macs the difference between the DVD and at home, and I have never I am tired of being unable to use running older operating systems combo iBook and the CD-RW come as close as I have today to software provided on the free CD do not support OpenGL, and may model is just £170 (excluding switching to another platform and that comes with Macworld. The also require more modern video VAT). Above all, it doesn’t require another computer manufacturer. latest edition has a tank game cards to properly run the latest any hardware redesign. Well done, Apple! that I am unable to use because games. In the CD pages, we point David Shaw John Wilson of the absence of ‘gllibrary’. Your out the minimum specifications technical people told me to go to that featured software requires. Subject: Glad to be Mac Subject: Beastly BT the Apple Web site, to download We can’t not include the latest Whenever I read the national Tim Smith’s comments in the the software, but warned software because some readers newspapers, I come across the PC October issue of Macworld me that it was difficult to find. use older, non-upgraded Macs problem pages, and feel so sorry made for interesting reading. It is, in fact, impossible to find. – that clearly wouldn’t be fair on for Windows users. They seem to I lost a total of seven days Why put this software on the majority of readers who own have nothing but problems: can’t Internet access through BT the disc if it is unlikely that many more modern Macs. But we do get my email; can’t get my Internet at the beginning of readers will be unable to make strive to include much software scanner to work; numerous this year, and, in trying to get the use of it? Selling more magazines that will run on older Macs, and viruses; have to reinstall Windows problem sorted out, I discovered is obviously your aim, but this we believe every CD brings a (not easy or quick). Then it dawns that BT gives nothing but is surely misrepresentation. wealth of content to any reader on me, I have a Mac. How many aggravation, aggression and lies. Pete Hardy whose Mac has a CD drive. MW

12 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Join in the live IT debates on Macworld Online Forum (www.macworld.co.uk/forum). Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Cover CD This month’s cover CD features demos of two of the hottest games to hit the Mac in ages, 30-day trials of Corel KnockOut and Nisus Writer, plus all the latest demos, shareware and updaters. Over to Vic “Predator” Lennard… MAIN ITEMS

Aliens vs. Predator demo Chase, hide or advance in the most nightmarish, chillingly detailed futuristic environment your mind could ever imagine. Choose to be a Colonial Marine, a Predator or an Alien as you make your way through horrifyingly suspenseful environments. One wrong move turns you from hunter into prey. The demo allows you to play part of the game and includes the highly atmospheric optional music files. Requires a minimum of a 233MHz G3 running Mac OS 8.6 with OpenGL and 32MB available RAM.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 demo Ollie, grind and skate the way you always knew you could in the ultimate extreme sport experience. Go head-to-head on terrain that would make even a novice skater drool! The demo allows you to play an unlimited number of two- minute skate sessions. Requires a minimum of a 233MHz G3 running Mac OS 8.6, OpenGL and 32MB available RAM.

XChange International Corner XChange International, which Corel KnockOut 1.5 specializes in QuarkXPress XTensions 30-day trial and plug-ins for Photoshop, Mask images that were once Acrobat & InDesign, highlights thought to be impossible products each month with demonstration to mask successfully. For versions available for you on the cover CD. imagery such as fine wisps DreamSuite, a visual-effects application and of hair, blurred or out-of- plug-in for Photoshop, has just been released focus edges, and other and provides useful photo-realistic visual transparent or translucent imaging solutions to give design projects extra objects, Corel KnockOut 1.5 Nisus Writer 6.0.2 trial impact. Also included are three utilities for produces seamless A complete multilingual writing QuarkXPress. FontXpress enables you to collect composite images that solution, offering a unique, creative all fonts required for output automatically preserve the fine details. experience, unmatched by any other word while Imposer 2 provides a simple-but-effective Use it as a complement processor. Outstanding features include imposition in 2-up and 4-up configurations to Photoshop and achieve unparalleled find-&-replace, unlimited from a single QuarkXPress document. Finally, superior masking results. undos, non-contiguous selection, MathMagic brings a fully-featured equation The fully functional customizable keyboard menu equivalents, editor to QuarkXPress. trial includes tutorials, but complete graphics creation and a powerful Visit www.xchangeuk.com for more info. times out after 30 days. macro language. Thirty-day trial. page 16

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Before you start working your way through the software on our CD, INSTALL go to the System Utilities folder and make sure you install the following:

■ Acrobat Reader 5 ■ StuffIt & RealPlayer ■ System tools & ATM Lite ■ QuickTime 4.1.2 Install this version to be able to read many Version 6.0.1 of StuffIt Expander and DropStuff is The CD also carries the latest version of InternetConfig, Some programs require QuickTime 4.1.2. This can be of the on-screen manuals. included as is the installer for RealPlayer 8. UnZip 5.32 and ATM 4.6.2 (required for Suitcase). downloaded from www.apple.com/quicktime/download.

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ComicBase 6 DragThing 4.1 PrintToPDF DreamSuite Professional inventory Application dock designed Printer driver that creates Features 18 premium system with search feature to tidy up the icons littering PDF files from within your visual effects providing for comic-book collections. your desktop. Same version applications. Includes a photo-realistic results. Creates price labels and runs in Classic mode or hot link feature for URLs. Demo. a wide variety of reports. native under Mac OS X. Shareware. Demo. Shareware. plus… CD CATALOGUE Contacts NavBar Builder 1.0 Astrologyk 3.0; Powerful yet simple-to-use Easy way to create ChaosMaster 1.2.1 demo; Courtesy of Mark Pirri’s superb DiskTracker contact-management navigation bars for Web DocuSlim 2.1.4 demo; program, Macworld brings you a searchable system with mail-merge sites – just select the style FaxExpress network trial; catalogue of all our CDs from 1997 to and output capability and how many buttons. mysql 3.23.41; 2001 – over 240,000 files! This will for letters, faxes and Classic and Carbon On Guard 3.3.5 trial; grow month by month to allow you emails. Demo. versions. Shareware. Pseudo 1.0.1; threads 2.3.4. to find any file you want, without wearing out your CD-ROM drive. The latest version of DiskTracker (2.1.1) is also included – don’t forget to OS X HEAVEN SERIOUS SOFTWARE includes register if you find our library useful.

OS X Heaven – your monthly one-stop Effects Packs 1-3 trials T-RackS 24 demo shop for the latest OS X-specific software. Effects Packs 1-3 offer a total of Built with actual physical models Utilities, demos, shareware and games 30 video effects and transitions of tube circuitry, T-RackS 24 – OS X Heaven features the best Carbonized including video noise, jittery TV, scoreboard, offers a complete workstation made of four goodies for the Mac’s new OS. texturizer, invert HSV, strobe, filter factory, discrete processors: a state-of-the-art six This month 20 demos and shareware fractal images and six Hollywood-style band parametric EQ, a classic stereo tube utilities include Iconographer 2.1, the compositing tools. They work with any compressor/leveller, a multiband master excellent icon editor, now running native video-editing application that supports stereo limiter, and a soft-clipping output under Mac OS X, uCalendar 2.5, a QuickTime video effects on Mac OS 8/9 stage. It can vastly enhance mix frequencies scheduling calendar with reminders, and Mac OS X, include Movie Player Pro, and broaden the stereo image as well as Audiocorder 3.1.0 for sound recording, and QuickTime Player Pro, Final Cut and boost or precisely level the dynamic range. Classic Menu that puts the multi-coloured Adobe Premiere. All this, while adding the beautiful warmth Apple logo back in the top left corner. Nice! All three packs are shareware, and are and space of the tube-devices it emulates. There are also five Carbonized games fully functional for 45 days. However, the The demo cannot process and adds including Mike’s Marbles, tetris with a trial versions lack AltiVec support – without random white noise to the master. Suggested difference, Mike’s Cards, with its many which the effects run much slower on system: 233MHz or faster PPC604e, G3/G4 variants, and ZedNought. G4-based computers. PowerPC with 64MB available RAM.

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16 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 FAULTY COVER CD-ROM? •If your cover disc is broken and you want a replacement CD, please contact Cover CD Kelly Crowley, on 020 7831 9252, or email at [email protected]. •If your cover CD doesn’t seem to work as it should, please check you have read all the instructions on the cover disc pages carefully first. If it still NOVEMBER 2001 doesn’t work, then please email Woody Phillips at [email protected].

GAMES WORLD DEMOS & GAMES

This month, our Top 10 Shareware Games ELM demo folder has a nice mix of new games and English League Manager (ELM) is latest versions. For the strategy fiends a soccer-management game in among you there’s DeadEnd 3D 1.0.1, a which the aim is to lead your team to the sokoban-style pushing game, SillyBalls 1.0, a League Championship and both FA Cup nice play on the old wooden tilting puzzle, and League Cup victories within the same and two minesweeper-style games in season. Play takes place in the English Demineur 1.5 and Minez 1.0. football league, with an option being to If card games are your poison, there’s manage as a player/manager. A Farewell to Kings 2.0.1, a solitaire card You can play this unregistered version for game that’ll keep you going for hours. as long as you wish but it allows you to only And for those of you who want the latest manage one club (Barnsley) and to play the versions of your favourites we’ve got first 50 days of a season. The full version Mike’s Cards 1.8a, David’s BackGammon 4.2, allows unlimited match play, saving of Mike’s Marbles 1.1a, Colibricks 1.3.2 and games, and incorporates a database editor MacSnake 1.7.1. for updating teams and players. Additionally, (Top row) A Farewell to Kings & SillyBalls the full version also allows you to play The (Middle) Colibricks Manager’s Game and to load custom games. (Bottom) DeadEnd 3D ALSO ON THE CD DON’T MISS…

COMMS & INTERNET INFO UTILITIES textSOAP 3.0.4 ■ Cool Extras Nine programs including: Nine categories with Tiff-Sight 1.2 FloatingNotes HTML Optimizer 5.5 36 useful tools for your Thermograph 1.3.4 Permanently visible notes HTML OptimizerPlus 3.5 Mac including: UTC Display Virtual Desktop 1.9.5 NotifyMail 4.1.0 24u SimpleDialog Plug-In ZipIt 2.1 A-Dock 2.4.1 More desktop space EDUCATION AddressBook 4.2.6.2 UPDATERS Latest icons Language Assistant 2.5 ATPM 7.09 Applimac Clean Text 2.1 This month’s dedicated Over 50 new goodies! QuickTTest 1.8 CuliDataBase 5.9 ClickCopy 1.0.1 updaters folder includes Extension Overload 5.9.1 Codec Calculator Lite over 30MB of patches ■ Mac ISP FONTS plus eight utilities for CoolCam 2.0 to bring many popular Access offers from AppleOnline & Moose Internet Services. developers CurrencyJuggler 2.0.1 applications bang File Buddy 6.1.3 up-to-date, including: ■ MATHS & SCIENCE File Freak 3.4 APS PowerTools 6.4.2a Netscape/Internet Explorer Five items including: FileGeek 3.2.1 CatDV 2.0.1 Complete packages for Netscape 6 (with 6.01 update) and IE 5. FreeSpace 1.5.2 CinéWave Ghost Menu 1.1.0 DiskWarrior Exten 2.1.1 ■ Plus… Jon’s 9.2 mods FILTERiT 4.0.1E … many thanks to Simon Youngjohns for our CD icons. FontBuddy 2.2 nQuick 2.1 FlightCheck Classic 4.2 FontCat1.3.6 ramBunctious 1.6.2 FlightCheck Collect 4.2 Search & Rescue 3.0.1 IomegaWare 3.0.4 GRAPHICS Atomic Mac 5.2 ShadowKeys 1.2.1 ISD Storage Driver 3.0.2 SHAREWARE Five applications including: earthbrowser 1.5.4 Macally iShock 2.0.5 Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. Compositor 1.9.5 MacDraft 5.0.4 It makes fitting your needs easier, as you can try before you PhotoGrid 2.11 SOUND & MUSIC Nisus Writer 6.0.2 buy. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee – if you Five programs including: Norton AntiVirus 5-7 (9/01) don’t use the product, you don’t pay for it. If you try a Shareware ICON UTILITIES Amazing Slow Downer 1.10 Virex (4/9/01) program and continue using it, you are expected to register. IconCalculator 1.0.4 Audiocorder 3.1.0 VirusBarrier (9/01) Support shareware authors so that they continue to provide Iconographer 2.1 MP3 Strip 1.3.2 SwitchBack 3.4.1 VSE Search Engines 9/01 high-quality programs for the Mac. page 20

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20 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Macworld News Excited Apple unveils OS X upgrade

the menu that pops up. To have applications behave in this way, developers need only implement an API that Apple is offering that can OS X 10.1 release add this feature to any application. OS X 10.1’s AppleScript support has been improved. Sal Soghoian, Apple product manager for AppleScript, explained: “Using a number of industry standards, the is Apple watershed company extended AppleScript’s simple commands to Internet sites that host Web services. When a user pple made all its product creates an AppleScript command, the announcements at Seybold, operating system then wraps that in A after it cancelled its European XML (Extensible Markup Language) Apple Expo in Paris following the and sends it out on the Internet.” September 11 terrorist attacks He added: “A Web service takes on New York and Washington DC. that request and returns an XML- Excusing the move, Jobs said: based response, such as a description “We’re sorry to disappoint our of weather conditions. This then users and developers, but their appears on the user’s desktop.” safety is our primary concern.” OS X 10.1 is the first major OS X 10.1 is the first major desktop operating system to ship Live! Later upgrade to Apple’s next-generation, with access to a range of Web Apple has rescheduled its Unix-based operating system. Jobs services built-in. QuickTime Live! Conference, told Seybold: “This is the mainstream Bereskin told Macworld: “This catalogue. “Now is the time next three months.” which was planned to release. We’re halfway through the is real. It’s a technology that you can for scripting on Mac,” he said.” One of those core applications is take place October 8-11 transition. OS X 10.1 is incredibly fast, put in the hands of people to create Microsoft Office v.X, which ships in in Beverly Hills, California. includes a refined Aqua interface, has real solutions.” Music to our ears November (see page 87). Jobs told ‘’Mac OS X 10.1 It’s a major event for unrivalled support for more digital Apple discussed a brand-new, As reported in Macworld last month, Seybold: “I think Microsoft could Apple and the QuickTime devices than any other operating powerful product – AppleScript OS X 10.1 also bangs the drum for end up being the poster boy for was code- developer community, at system on the planet, and, Studio, that will be available by musicians. Apple claims the updated what an OS X app should look like. named Puma which Apple frequently best of all, the upgrade is free.” the end of the year. This combines OS provides “the most advanced The upgrade is available now. launches QuickTime Jobs went on to praise Apple’s ‘OS X 10.1 is fast, has a refined Aqua AppleScript with Apple’s IDE audio architecture delivering high- Existing OS X customers will be able because it’s updates. The show OS development team. “Most interface... and, best of all, it’s free.” (Integrated Development resolution 32-bit/96kHz audio, to upgrade for free at participating usually features keynote programmers go on vacation after Environment) Tools Project Builder multi-channel support, low-latency authorized Apple resellers. The deal one fast cat.’ speeches, conferences and a major release,” said Jobs, “but Avie Apple CEO, Steve Jobs and Interface Builder. “This makes performance, and built-in MIDI”. is part of Apple’s Instant Up-To-Date Apple vice product showcases. The Tevanian and his team have kept AppleScript a peer of Java and A flood of application offer, which runs until October 31, postponement is a reaction working to improve Mac OS X.” Objective C,” said Soghoian. announcements took place or while stocks last. president, Phil to September’s terrorist Jobs said Mac OS X has now Scripters can create professional at Seybold, indicating that the UK users will also be able to Schiller attacks in the US. Phil already received one major update and other senior Apple figures cameras. Apple’s own iTunes and scripts that take advantage of applications for OS X are reaching upgrade through Apple’s Mac OS Schiller, Apple’s vice – before Windows XP even ships. demonstrated Mac OS X 10.1 iMovie 2 now come on the OS X 10.1 everything AppleScript offers: critical mass. Until now, many Up-To-Date programme, for a president of worldwide OS X 10.1 is a performance- (and OS X Server 10.1), iDVD 2, CD, rather than being free downloads. end-users get an Aqua interface Macintosh users have been waiting shipping and handling fee of £14.95. product marketing, orientated upgrade, and Apple claims AppleScript Studio, and Microsoft’s Performance on mixed networks to run the script. for optimized applications to reach Users updating will receive a said: “Many QuickTime applications will launch up to three Office v.X. iDVD 2 ships in November. has been improved by 10.1, with Soghoian demonstrated a OS X before migrating. CD copy of OS X 10.1, updated developers and customers times faster than in version 10.0.4. “Mac OS X 10.1 was code-named the introduction of new networking complex script, built with AppleScript Jobs said: “There are already 1,500 developer tools, and an additional asked us to reschedule Aqua menus and window re-sizing Puma because it’s one fast cat,” protocols. It will now link up to Studio, in which the script pulled data applications shipping for OS X, and CD containing Mac OS 9.2.1. Mac QuickTime Live to a less are both up to 500 per cent faster, quipped Schiller. virtually any network, Apple claims. from FileMaker Pro and placed it into more of the ones we use every day OS X 10.1 costs £99 (inc VAT). MW stressful time.” and file copying is twice as fast as 10.1 also sees an improved iDisk Adobe InDesign, creating a real-estate are going to ship OS X-native in the Jonny Evans and David Read The event will now be before. Expo follow-through and more print drivers built-in for held from February 10-14, Jobs was joined on stage by The update implements all the many inkjet and PostScript printers 2002 at the same venue. Apple vice president of worldwide advances demonstrated at July’s New from manufacturers including HP, marketing, Phil Schiller. Schiller York Macworld Expo. The Dock can Canon, Epson, Lexmark and Xerox. be repositioned to the bottom, left Other performance boosts come Big hitters queue-up for UK show or right-hand sides of the screen. The from an updated OpenGL, and top Menu bar now offers swift access support for NVidia’s GeForce 3, dobe will exhibit at MacExpo and software solutions, including Mac With the cancellation of Apple Expo to volume level and display controls, and ColorSync 4.0. A 2001, the independently OS X 10.1. The company plans to bring Paris, the show becomes Europe’s only and date and time. File-extension Ken Bereskin, Apple’s director organized event for the UK’s Mac its Solutions Theatre to the event, and general-interest Mac event. Microsoft management has seen significant of Mac OS product marketing, community. to run a seminars programme. will be there to preview Microsoft improvement, and the OS will demonstrated at Seybold how Adobe will show products including Adobe’s incoming UK and Ireland Office v. X for Mac (see page 87). now both play and author DVDs. application icons in the Dock can InDesign 2.0 and Illustrator 10 (see marketing director, Mark Floisand told MacExpo 2001 organizers have The upgrade furthers Apple’s be used in 10.1 to control specific page 28). The company has booked Macworld: “It’s great that Apple’s released an extra 3,000 free tickets Queue wait vision of the Mac as the hub of a applications: users can now control the stand vacated by Quark, which attending the show. They must be (www.macexpo.co.uk). The event runs from Seybold show-goers “digital lifestyle”. On this theme, iTunes, for example, without running withdrew from the event last month. there for a reason. November 22-24 at Islington’s Business queue for Apple OS X 10.1 introduces Image Capture, the application. This is done by Apple, Epson, HP and Macromedia "Adobe is delighted to be exhibiting Design Centre in London N1. appear in the Expo issue, on sale from CEO Steve Jobs’ an application that downloads and clicking the iTunes Dock icon and have also booked space. In the largest at MacExpo. We're looking forward to a The MacExpo 2001 show guide will November 8. keynote speech. enhances images from most digital selecting the desired command from space, Apple will exhibit its hardware strong show." be produced by Macworld. It will Jonny Evans

22 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 For the information as it happens visit Macworld Online Daily News (www.macworld.co.uk) Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 23 Macworld News Quark top brass outline company’s publishing vision

Quark rides XPress train

uark luminaries, Jurgen Kurz and Brett Mueller, outlined the Q company’s vision of publishing at Seybold, and walked show-goers through a beta of QuarkXPress 5.0, the update to its industry-standard DTP application. Breaking with tradition, Quark released a beta version of QuarkXPress 5.0 (for US systems) in the days before the event. International-English betas will be made available “when our engineers judge the software stable enough for ‘XPress 5.0 will beta testing”, a Quark representative give better told Macworld. The beta is available for download from Quark’s US Web tools for print site (www.quark.com). and familiar Kurz, Quark vice president of Class act product management, said: “I’ve Seybold show-goers in the Apple Classroom experiment with new OS-X-based applications, which tools for Web’ talked to people all over the world did not include QuarkXPress. about the issues facing publishing. – Jurgen Kurz, The key issue is profitability. Quark vice Advertising rates are down by up export text and graphics to a Flash to 70 per cent, publishers are not file. The goal is media independence. president of launching new publications, and You can move from print to other product are mostly focusing on their primary media without adding staff.” publications and cash cows. Now In a dig at Adobe, Kurz said: management is the time to re-use content, and “We’re increasing the number of Quark’s strategy is to provide the standards supported by XPress, and ability to re-purpose content are not tied to any specific standards. automatically.” a variety of formats and media. This is our strength over Adobe.” He stressed the same message “XPress 5.0 will gives better tools Quark sources have already when he spoke with Macworld at for print, and familiar tools for Web,” confirmed that XPress 5.5 – a Mac OS Total Publishing (September 2001 said Kurz. X-native version – is in development. issue), saying many publications Mueller, senior product manager Kurz ended the keynote by have fewer people and are requiring for desktop products, confirmed the reminding his Seybold audience more from existing staff members. main targets for XPress 5.0 to be that XPress is 20 years old. One of the key goals of productivity and efficiency. “While we’re not public company, QuarkXPress 5.0 is to provide familiar we’re extremely healthy, and will be tools to enable designers to create, Independence aim around in another 20 years.” MW Suitcase 10 manage and deliver content across Mueller said: “The final version will David Read packs X punch Extensis is to release a Mac OS X upgrade for Suitcase Seybold takes up Paris slack 10 on November 19. The update to the font- ith the cancellation of Apple Expo Paris, Seybold ■ Wacom Europe released Mac OS X 10.1 beta drivers management application W Seminars San Francisco 2001 became the main (version 4.70-7) for its graphics tablets. These are available will be free to registered Apple-related event for September. Most companies for download. P&L Software announced Mesa 3.0.4, an upgrade owners of Suitcase 10 from with new or updated products chose to announce these to its Mac OS X spreadsheet software that can generate reports, the Extensis Web site. at the same time as Apple Expo would have taken place. and import Mesa 2 files from the NeXTStep and OpenStep (www.extensis.com). ■ Following its keynote speech, Apple released the platforms. Extensis general AppleWorks 6.2.1 updater for Mac OS X 10.1 users. Canto’s announcements included Cumulus 5 Enterprise manager Craig Keudell This adds performance and compatibility enhancements Edition for Mac OS X, and Idee’s Espion Visual Search, which said: “Extensis is committed to the application. Installation requires the OS X 10.1 and performs searches within Cumulus catalogues. to being the leading font- AppleWorks 6.2 update be installed. (www.apple.com/appleworks) Palm, meanwhile, revealed that it plans to complete its management provider for ■ Roxio released Toast 5 Titanium for Mac OS X Preview 2, Palm Desktop application for Mac OS X by the end of the year. OS X. Suitcase users will the second public-beta version of its industry-standard Adobe also came in for a great deal of support at Seybold, benefit from OS X’s direct CD/DVD-authoring solution. This beta requires OS X 10.1, with many companies announcing plans to release plug-ins for support for OpenType and and is available only to registered users of Toast 5 Titanium. InDesign 2.0 (see page 28). MW TrueType fonts.” MW

24 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 For the information as it happens visit Macworld Online Daily News (www.macworld.co.uk) Which G4 is faster: 867MHz G4 or 800MHz DP? Macworld News G4 power points

pple’s dual-processor advantage over the single- 800MHz Quicksilver chip G4 is in encoding MP3s A Power Mac G4 is the via Apple’s own iTunes. In fastest Adobe Photoshop Macworld tests, we found it LAB TEST workstation ever, according to be 27 per cent faster than to Macworld Lab tests. But the top-end G4, and nearly Cinema 4D XL, two is the performance tests prove 57 per cent faster than the definitely better than one. that it is still eclipsed by its old 733MHz G4 Power Mac. You can’t complain about single-867MHz chip sibling However, the 867MHz 70 per cent performance at non-multiprocessing- G4 Power Mac is 6 per cent boosts when it most counts. optimized tasks. faster overall than the two- But the single-chip 867MHz Several major processor 800MHz Power Power Mac is faster on applications – such as Mac, and actually beats general tasks, as well as Photoshop and Cinema 4D the DP model in tasks £700 cheaper! XL – are optimized to take that are not optimized If you’re thinking of advantage of Macs bearing for multiprocessing. In switching to Mac OS X more than one processor. these cases (for example, within the lifetime of your The 800MHz DP is up to Photoshop’s RGB-to-CMYK new Power Mac, you should 66 per cent faster than conversion), it’s a straight definitely consider the DP the 867MHz Power Mac 867MHz vs 800MHz contest. model, as the more modern on certain Photoshop So, is it worth having OS X takes advantage of and Cinema 4D tasks. more than one processor in both processors for faster Macworld Lab tests also your Power Mac? If you’re a performance, even on non- proved that the DP holds an heavy user of Photoshop or optimized applications. MW

Dual processor: faster for optimized apps only

Best results in test. Cinema 4D XL 7.1 iTunes Quake III (1.29f) Speedmark 2.1 Photoshop 6.0.1 (results in seconds) (minutes : seconds) (minutes : seconds) (frames per second)

Mac model Overall score Gaussian Blur 10 RGB to CMYK Render MP3 encode Normal Power Mac G4/800 DP 203 3 14 5:11 37 94.6 Power Mac G4/867 215 5 12 8:53 47 107.1 Power Mac G4/733 183 5 15 10:33 58 77.6 Power Mac G4/533 DP 176 3 25 6:52 52 72.8 Longer is best Shorter is best Shorter is best Shorter is best Shorter is best Longer is best

Speedmark 2.1 scores are relative to those of an iMac 350MHz (1999), which is assigned a score of 100. Photoshop and iTunes scores are in seconds. Cinema 4D XL scores are in minutes:seconds. Quake scores are in frames per second. We tested the reference systems with 256MB of RAM, a default system-disk cache,and virtual memory enabled except for Photoshop. The G4/867 shipped with Mac OS 9.2, and the G4/800DP with Mac OS 9.2.1. The G4/533MP and G4/733 were tested with Mac OS 9.1. We set displays to 1,024-x-768-pixel resolution and 24-bit colour. Photoshop tasks used a 50MB file. Photoshop's memory partition was set to 150MB and History set to minumum. Cinema 4D XL rendered a model at a resolution of 640-x-480 pixels with oversampling set to 4 by 4. We tested MP3 encoding with an audio-CD track that was 9 minutes and 25 seconds long, and converted it using the Better Quality setting of 160Kbps in iTunes 1.1 from the hardrive. We tested Quake 3 v1.29f at a resolution of 640-x-480 pixels, with graphics set to Normal. For more information on Speedmark, visit www.macworld.com/speedmark. – Macworld Lab testing by Ulyssis Bravo

OS X Server software. and integrates new updates Mac OS X Server is the only to various constituent elements 10.1 Server switch server platform that lets Mac, of the package – including Windows, Linux and Unix users Apache, Samba and a new pple has introduced a multiprocessing 533MHz G4) have share files and printers out of release of QuickTime Streaming A new Power Mac G4 Server, been withdrawn from Apple Stores the box. OS X Server features Server, version 3.0.2. replacing its previous range in the UK, Europe and US. QuickTime Streaming Server The Mac OS X Server v10.1 of three models with a single The 733MHz G4 Server offers and WebObjects 5 deployment software upgrade package is 733MHz G4 processor. Apple has 256K of L2 cache, 256MB RAM, software, as well as open available from Apple (0800 039 also updated Mac OS X Server to 80GB hard drive, CD-RW drive, and services for secure, dynamic pages. 1010), costing £14.95. Mac OS X version 10.1, bringing all the speed NVidia GeForce2 MX graphics card. The 10.1 upgrade adds RAID Server 10.1 costs £680 for an and performance improvements A SCSI card is also available with support to Apple’s Unix-based unlimited number of users. The of OS X 10.1 to its server-software the package for an extra £40. The server product. It introduces ten-client version can be updated product. All previously available 733MHz G4 Server costs £1,999 enhancements to NetBoot to support unlimited clients servers (including the (ex. VAT), and also ships with Mac and Macintosh Manager 2.1, for £340. MW

Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 27 Macworld News Adobe enters OS X fray, with Illustrator and InDesign

remain editable. Adobe admitted that this feature “may” appear in future versions of Photoshop. Carbon copies make mark Additional features in Illustrator 10 include enhanced support for dobe is bringing Mac OS X Macromedia Flash, Scaleable Vector compatibility to its product Graphics (SVG) import and export, A line, with the announcement the ability to apply special effects of Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2.0. – such as drop shadows – to SVG Bettina Glennoy, product files, a photo-realistic lens-flare tool, manager for Adobe’s graphics the ability to preserve layers and solutions in Europe, told Macworld: improved asset-management tools. “We have always had a very strong Illustrator 10 needs a G3 or G4 commitment to the Mac market, processor, 128MB RAM, and supports and our products have a very Mac OS 9.1, 9.2.1 and OS X. It ships Design for life strong Mac following.” at the end of the year, and costs Adobe’s perspective on the The two Carbonized updates £295 (ex VAT). Upgrading from changing face of publishing reinforce Adobe’s vision of network earlier versions costs £110. is reflected in Illustrator 10’s publishing, in which publishers built-in Web capabilities, have to create or design content DTP X which help designers – rather only once – and software does Adobe’s second major release – than technicians – become the donkey work of repurposing InDesign 2.0 – is a major update more involved in Web design. it for consumption in all formats, to the desktop-publishing application. capacity to darken, lighten and new print-features. These include: including paper, online, handheld Transparency effects It supports both Mac OS 9.1 and change the colour saturation the ability to save PostScript files devices, and XML-supported InDesign 2.0’s Transparency tool means transparency settings from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Mac OS X. Like Illustrator, the product of objects, just like Photoshop. directly from the print dialogue box; devices. Quark and Macromedia are maintained. is built to integrate with Adobe’s The application is also able improved routes to easy printing of are also developing similar portfolio of creative products. to import and export transparent master pages and thumbnails; and publishing solutions. InDesign 2.0 offers built-in support Acrobat 5.0 PDF files. the ability to specify bleeds separately Illustrator 10 supports OS X and Layers support, new tools that for a range of publishing mediums, InDesign 2.0 offers a suite of for each side of a document. natively, meaning designers will make lines, arcs, grids, and complex including Web, PDF and eBooks. table-building tools that turn tab- InDesign 2.0 can export Acrobat enjoy performance boosts and groups of objects easy to draw for Adobe spokesman David Evans delimited text from most sources – PDF format. Its XML support has multiprocessing support. It also Web authors. Illustrator 10 also told Macworld: “Adobe aims to including Word and Excel files – into been improved, so enabling the offers a host of workflow-improving supports a new technology: dynamic provide a Swiss Army knife toolkit tables. It also supports linked text- repurposing of legacy documents features. data-driven graphics. This means for DTP.” frames, for laying out continuous and the building of templates. Illustrator 10’s “wow-factor” Illustrator 10 maintains the Web that when repeated graphics need Evans claims Adobe has added tables over multiple pages. Designers InDesign 2.0 can import XML feature is Symbolism. This lets capabilities introduced in version 9. It be changed only once, because the 800 new features, and that the now get column width, row height, documents into Structure View, designers clone images and spray improves these by adding Web-object graphic will be updated automatically application now has 17 of the top and colour-fill controls in a single and this content can then be Adobe Studio them across their design. Designers slicing technologies that help create across the site. 20 features most wanted in a DTP DTP package. drag-&-dropped onto frames to goes to beta get to choose how many times the graphically rich Web sites, by splitting A new design tool called Live application by QuarkXPress users. Version 2.0 offers superior layout as pages. InDesign 2.0 should images repeat, and these can be spun, design into chunks that fit together Distortion can bend, stretch and One of these – transparency – printing controls, with an intuitive cost £450 (ex VAT) on its release in Adobe has announced a beta resized, or scrunched, and the opacity to achieve the overall effect. A result twist text, graphics and images in applies transparency settings to user-interface that gives feedback the first quarter of 2002. MW version of Adobe Studio, the adjusted. This feature is ideal for of this is smaller file sizes, making “any way imaginable”, Adobe claims. text, graphics and images in a few about what print settings are Jonny Evans online collaborative service simulating items such as foliage sites more bandwidth-friendly. It offers live enveloping, warping and steps. InDesign features a variety enabled. It no longer requires Adobe’s ■ There’s a in-depth preview for Web creatives. It offers or clouds. Version 10 also includes Symbols, distortion. These distorted elements of blending modes, including the PostScript printer driver, and offers of Adobe Illustrator 10 on page 70. galleries of work, articles, tutorials, and Adobe Xchange, via which creatives can browse and swap design and production Deneba previews Canvas 8 Professional tools, including templates and stock art. It also eneba Software has released a special Mac OS X public Deneba launched its first products for Mac 15 years ago, features an ePortfolios D preview version of its graphics and illustration application, with utilities including Spelling Coach and a version of Sticky Notes. service, and a variety Canvas 8 Professional. Rob Crawford, the senior software engineer leading the Canvas 8 of resources to help The version – for early adopters of OS X – will also support OS X project, said that Canvas 8’s user interface has been optimized designers find work, Mac OS 9.x on its release later this autumn. for Aqua and has “numerous new time-saving features”. print and publishing Canvas is an all-in-one graphics composition and desktop- He added: “OS X's protected memory has allowed us to develop resources online. publishing tool. Version 8 contains many enhancements and a robust product that can easily handle the largest graphic files.” Adobe also debuted features, including vector- and raster-sequence recording, that Canvas 8 contains an updated PDF-export filter that its image-server software can create set styles and actions that can be applied to graphics. supports full data-stream compression, direct embedding of solution, AlterCast, at PostScript and TrueType fonts, hypertext links, and transitions. Seybold. This manages Automation bonus The application will support peer-to-peer file sharing, digital images, optimizes Sequences now make it possible to automate most processes, with so Canvas users will be able to share images on private networks files for delivery to Web- users able to record the steps taken in creating an image. Canvas as well as over the Internet. enabled devices, and can also supports AppleScript, ColorSync and QuickTime. Other handy Menandez said: “We’re sold on peer-to-peer. We think it’s also generate customized new features include customizable Web-image slicing, and the the next step in the business of moving images around, and graphics for certain Web ability to export directly to Flash. believe this will be a major productivity enhancement for end-users.” Canvassing opinion sites. It costs $7,500 per Manny Menendez, Deneba's president, said: “The idea is No UK price is currently available. (Version 6 costs £395.) MW Canvas 8 Professional offers improved colour management, and user, AlterCast ships in the to repurpose the product into the Web-creation environment.” Jonny Evans floating menus that offer control over font-alignment and curves. US and Europe next year.

28 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 For the information as it happens visit Macworld Online Daily News (www.macworld.co.uk) Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 29 Macworld News Corel bundles key graphics-apps for OS X

Corel gets Suite on X

orel Graphics Suite 10 for Mac is now available. The C application is Corel’s OS X- compatible collection of creative applications. It contains the long- awaited CorelDraw 10 vector- illustration package, Corel Photo-Paint 10 for image editing and painting, and the new vector-animation title, Corel Rave. The Suite ships with a cast of supporting utilities: CorelTrace 10, a bitmap-to-vector tracing utility that converts scanned or manually created bitmaps into vector images; a font- management utility, Font Reserve; and Canto Cumulus Desktop LE 5.0 – a media asset-management system. Three plug-ins are also included: KPT FraxFlame, KPT ShapeShifter, and KPT Smoothie. A library containing 2,000 clip-art images, over 500 Wacom unveils photos and 2,000 TrueType and Type 1 fonts comes in the box. pen TFT-screen “Continuing our aggressive QuickTime 5 is also supported. Features trader Wacom’s new interactive- release schedule for Mac OS X, Greg Wood, Corel’s UK PR Graphics Suite 10 uses the Web Image pen and TFT display, the we are pleased to debut Corel manager, said: “This is one of five Optimizer (above) across its component Cintiq 15X, was one of the Graphics Suite10 and bring the full new products for Mac OS X from applications to help users get the most Mac-related highlights at power of our graphics technology Corel this year, and is solid proof from Web images, and also includes an September’s International to this exciting new OS,” said Ian of our commitment to Macintosh interactive Drop Shadow Broadcasting Convention LeGrow, executive vice-president users all over the world.” tool (left) that can apply (IBC) in Amsterdam. of creative products at Corel. Corel’s Graphics Suite offers predefined or user-created The Cintiq 15X consists wide PDF support. Users can add settings. of a 15-inch TFT active- Tools sharpened crop marks, file information, and matrix LCD screen with All the suite’s drawing tools have registration marks, as well as a pressure-sensitive pen been made easier to use, Corel any type of file to a PDF. Adobe developed to work directly claims. There’s more control Acrobat 5.0’s transparency feature on the display’s screen. over textures, fills and outlines, is also supported, so transparent The pen offers 512 levels and a new Mirror fill option objects can be published within a of pressure. The Cintiq 15X that creates tiles out of any fill. PDF without needing to save these can be connected to digital Features supported across the as bitmaps. Fonts can be included a built-in preflighting engine and DVI graphics cards and Suite include an Aqua user interface, within PDF documents, or exported a real-time print-preview feature, analogue VGA graphic context-sensitive property bars, and as curves. PDFs built within the Suite for pre-checking changes. adaptors. It features both support for Photoshop, Illustrator, support hyperlinks. PDF support also The suite costs £399 (inc VAT). The USB and serial interfaces, Painter, FreeHand, PDF, Flash, extends to the creation of basic job upgrade price for users of CorelDraw and works with Mac OS X. SVG and EPS files. ICC (International tickets – CorelDraw10 will create 6 and CorelDraw 8 for Macintosh is The Cintiq ships at the end Color Consortium) colour profiles these to contain key information. £199 (including VAT). MW of October and costs £1,195. are supported with ColorSync, and The collection also offers Jonny Evans

Procreate spawns Effects orel subsidiary Procreate has launched are nine tools in KPT Effects, including: Pyramid CKPT Effects at Seybold in San Francisco. KPT Paint, which separates an image into colour regions; effects is a collection of nine Photoshop-compatible Lightning (right), which creates realistic lightning plug-in effects for digital images. KPT Effects effects; and Fluid, which liquefies images; and Hyper grew from the Kai’s Power Tools Effects series for Tiling, which offers geometric-shape options. The Photoshop, originally developed by Kai Krause, and collection runs on Mac OS 8.6 or later, Mac OS X. KPT sold to Corel by MetaCreations early in 2000. There Effects costs £149 (inc VAT). MW

30 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 For the information as it happens visit Macworld Online Daily News (www.macworld.co.uk) Macworld News Cheaper screens spark new ‘flat iMac’ speculation Developer 5.5 is Carbonized for top-end use Macworld News

LCD prices plunge to new low

he price of LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors continues T to tumble. Bob Raikes, senior analyst at monitor-market research specialist JPA Europe, said: “Three months ago we thought prices had stabilized, but they continue to fall.” The price-fall is driving increased Hand in hand sales, with LCD-monitor shipments Wholly owned Apple subsidiary FileMaker has fully implemented Mac OS X's Aqua user interface within FileMaker Developer 5.5. Its Script Debugger interface (left) is used to test database more than doubling since last year – scripts; the Database Design Report (middle) checks for orphaned links and redundant legacy objects; the Developer Tool (right) offers developers flexibility as they craft solutions. reaching 2.9 million units worldwide Docklands’ in the second quarter of 2001. Other monitor-market experts digital double warn that the market remains Digital Solutions and complex and volatile. Bryan Norris, the Digital Camera Show senior partner at Bryan Norris Corporate hospitality kick-off at the ExCeL centre Associates, said: “No one knows in London’s Docklands, what’s going to happen. On one hand, ileMaker has released FileMaker and document the entire structure bundled within the application. from November 27-29. some manufacturers are saying that Developer 5.5 for corporate of a database. Such reports These include sample code, and Digital Solutions is prices will continue to fall, but others F and independent FileMaker are date- and time-stamped for are intended to offer developers dedicated to digital print warn they may rise, because Samsung developers and database archiving and verification purposes. guidelines for the creation of and workflows. The show says they should.” administrators. FileMaker Pro plug-ins.

attracted over 7,000 visitors Samsung recently announced EUROPE OF JPA COURTESY The application includes the Follow the script The company has also added

last year. Based on the plans to reduce its production Flat-screen free fall ATA full functionality of FileMaker 5.5, The Script Debugger tests all support for Merant 3.5, Merant 3.7, D success of that show, output of LCD screens, and other The above graph shows the average street-price including Mac OS X compatibility. database scripts, allowing developers Oracle, Microsoft SQL Sever and Text the Digital Camera show manufacturers have followed suit for 15-inch LCD screens in Europe over the past year. Additional features include: database to check through each script, line Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is the first event in the UK in a drive to become profitable. Apple has already responded to this trend by moving design reporting; script debugging; by line. The developer tools have drivers. A number of Web standards dedicated to the digital- "All five major Taiwanese LCD its entire monitor range to flat panels. developer tools; plug-in samples; also been updated to help build are also supported, including XML camera market. screen manufacturers are losing updated drivers; and improved stand-alone database applications and JDBC. Russell Peacock, event more money than they predicted," support for XML and other standards. and ecommerce Web sites. They However, ODBC Import, Toolbars, Palm launches organizer, said: “The Digital Norris confirmed. – were on show. Although not so investment last year, which has The Database Design Report offer a variety of cutomization tools, and FileMaker Mobile – for PDA 33MHz m125 Solutions show has proved Rumours predicting that Apple widely known in Europe's markets, meant over-capacity this year. feature lets developers check for including those designed to rename connectivity – are not yet supported so successful that it seemed would announce a flat-panel iMac the appearance of such products at “We expect prices to continue orphan links and redundant legacy database filenames while preserving under Mac OS X. FileMaker Palm has launched the Palm natural for us to expand at Macworld Expo New York proved the show is held by many as a sign to drop in Europe up to Christmas objects in databases. Reports can be links to files and scripts. Developer 5.5 is £429 (inc VAT). MW m125, its successor to the and dedicate an entire show false. Further prices cuts are likely of things to come. at least, although the rate of price viewed in database or XML formats, Three new plug-in samples are Jonny Evans m105 handheld introduced to digital photography.” to spark a fresh round of flat-screen “It wouldn’t surprise me if drop won’t be nearly as fast as it earlier this year. Admission to both iMac rumours. Apple released such a product, was in the first half of the year.” The m125 features shows is free, and More grist for the rumour Norris said. “There were 15-inch Norris said: “Prices probably Motorola’s Dragonball registration can be made mill was provided by the massive screens everywhere at Computex.” haven’t quite stabilized yet, but VZ 33MHz processor, the online (www.digitalcamera Computex Expo in Taipei, Taiwan, Of flat-panel price fluctuations, if price drops continue, they’ll be Handspring in Visor double fastest available for PDAs show.com), or by calling at which a profusion of all-in-one Raikes said: “The current drop in at a much slower rate.” MW (personal digital assistants) 01491 614 447. MW PCs – integrating 15-inch LCD screens pricing is the result of too much Jonny Evans and Martyn Williams andspring has added two new running Palm OS. For the Hmodels to its range of PDAs. The first time in the entry-level Visor Neo costs £169 and ships with products it runs Palm OS 8MB of memory. It comes in red or 4.0. It ships with 8MB RAM. Apple adds VRAM to iMac blue casings. The Visor Pro costs It features two £269 and features 16MB memory, expansion-card slots: pple has upgraded its entry-level iMac model 512K L2 cache at 200MHz. It is available only in an a rechargeable lithium-ion battery for Secure Digital and A available to UK markets. The company has Indigo-coloured case. The entry-level iMac comes and a silver casing. It replaces the MultiMediaCard cards. upgraded the graphics card that ships with the with iTunes, iMovie 2, AppleWorks 6, Nanosaur, Visor Deluxe. Dual slots were previously £799 (inc. VAT) model, replacing the 8MB ATI Bugdom and Cro-Mag Rally. Both models have a Springboard only on the m500 series. Rage 128 Pro graphics card with a 16MB Rage ■ Apple has released its English-language iMac expansion slot, and the company The PDA ships 128 Ultra. The extra dedicated video RAM (VRAM) Power Management Update 1.1. The update is has also launched a 16MB back-up with a USB cradle, and a should benefit graphics pros, although it’s Mac for iMacs announced in February and July 2001, module. The models use Motorola’s stand-alone HotSync USB gamers who are most likely to appreciate the extra at the Macworld Expos in Tokyo and New York Dragonball VZ processor, and offer vice president of product marketing cable is also available. video performance. respectively. The update is for those who switch backlit monochrome screens, for Handspring. Additional transfer methods This 500MHz G3 iMac features a CD-ROM off their iMac to conserve energy. When the iMac supporting four-bit greyscale. The products come as Handspring include infrared and, in drive, 20GB hard drive, 64MB of RAM, dual is turned off, it uses its internal PRAM battery to “Visor Pro delivers the performance and Palm face stiff competition the pipeline, a Bluetooth FireWire and USB ports, a built-in 56K modem remember the date, time and other Control Panel that power-users and business from handheld-market newcomers New faces wireless card, which Palm and 10/100Base-T Ethernet. The UK model offers settings. The update means a powered-down iMac professionals need. Visor Neo is fully – Compaq, Sharp and Sony. Toshiba Handspring has shipped the Visor plans to ship “before the 256K L2 cache at 500MHz – better than the US’s retains these settings for longer. MW expandable and runs as fast as our and NEC also plan to debut on the Pro (above, left) and the Visor end of the year”. The m125 high-end products,” said Joe Sipher, Japanese PDA market. MW Neo range of PDAs (above). costs £199. MW

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X: a developers’ dream

S X developers are embracing the newly launched Mac OS X O 10.1, Apple’s first major update to its next-generation Unix-based operating system. Key software developers are shipping major applications to the platform. Adobe has shipped Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2.0 (see page 28), while Microsoft Office, Macromedia FreeHand, FileMaker and Maya have also moved to OS X. Macworld spoke with a number of influential and experienced OS X developers about Mac OS X. Wil Shipley, the co-founder of OmniGroup, developer of OmniWeb, said: “It has great support for 3D graphics with an improved implementation of OpenGL, and fast, effective Virtual Memory that works.” On the CD He added: “Games will run faster. suite of digital production-tools order for developers to focus on They won’t lock up the machine interoperating within the OS X applications. ■ DragThing 4.1 has been if they crash. Sound will be better, environment to deliver incredible “It’s a rapid prototype released by TLA Systems. and more games will appear faster, performance to users. development environment in which It’s a dock that tidies up because it’s so easy to port. It took Dr Leigh Smith, author of to build usable software quickly. It desktops by dragging us just one man-month to port MusicKit, told Macworld: “I think means reusable components that applications and documents Giants to OS X.” you’ll start to see standard apps work without knowing how they into it. It’s Carbonized for Shipley also praised Cocoa: “Once adopting more game-like, immersive work. It is the developers’ black box. Mac OS X, and will run a programmer has used Cocoa, there’s interfaces. “If you find a bug, you can fix it on earlier OSes if CarbonLib never any question about what the – and submit the fix. You get peer is installed. New features future of programming will be. Cocoa Streamline promise review. This differentiates Apple from include enhanced visuals offers a new way of approaching “OS X offers a degree of integration Microsoft, the queen of proprietary and the ability to draw programming. You can create the and interoperability that can worms.” textures in the dock’s basic shell of a program in minutes, streamline workflow, save reinvention MusicKit’s Smith warns Mac OS X background. The application and start painting in features. It and promote better programming,” users not to expect a tidal wave of supports long filenames offers programmers the chance to said Smith. But he warns: “Apple software: “No new developers will and costs $25. experiment. It’s every programmer’s faces bugbears it inherited with the write for a platform that constitutes www.dragthing.com dream. We find it makes NeXT management team: Perception, five per cent of the market. They ■ Astrologyk 3.0 is the programming ten times faster. marketing, and promotion.” will port only Windows applications first-available astrological He believes Apple’s developer- to Mac OS if enough of a market solution for Mac OS X. Mac-market bonanza tools need polishing, pointing to tools appears. It offers an improved “A lot of developers are going to be featured in OpenStep: “Project Builder interpretation system, and able to survive solely from the Mac needs a class browser, and the Help Marketing a must supports a wider range of market. Macs are now of interest to application needs to support more “There isn’t much point trumpeting astrological source-data. a whole lot more people. OS X is rock- than one window. Interface Builder better technology if through bad It costs $29, and $19 to solid. It’s also more programmable, needs to be able to pin windows marketing and poor positioning, upgrade from previous and can be used as a server. It also to stay above all others while no one uses it.” versions. has a garden of software available application windows are being But Shipley – who developed for www.astrologyk.com from the Linux community.” created. NeXT – sees a bright future for Apple, ■ RealMac Software has Francois Gariepy, Toon Boom “Apple must not drop the ball OS X and its users: “Mac OS X is the released NavBar Builder Internet strategy vice president, for one second. It must ensure that beginning of a huge journey for all 1.0, its navigation-bar sees great potential in OS X: “It’s thread priorities are able to be set Mac users. We’re all incredibly excited creation tool that works clean, fast, and easy to use. It could for real-time services, so developers because we’ve worked for 12 years with Mac OS X and 9.x. completely corner the creative, media can focus on performance in their to make sure this would happen. We It’s an easy-to-use solution and design markets. Its cutting-edge applications.” always believed that once we got a for creating navigation architecture is probably the best Andrew Stone, designer and large audience we could change the bars for Web sites. The foundation for professional and publisher of Stone Design Studio, a face of computing forever.” $15 software offers pre-set industrial-class digital media collection of design applications for “The revolution has finally designs and live previews. production applications. OS X, praises Apple’s engineers, who started,” he proclaimed. MW www.realmacs.co.uk “I see a seamlessly integrated have designed the low-level code in Jonny Evans

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Myth III turns back the clock

yth III: The Wolf Age will be on the shelves this M November. Developed by Mumbo Jumbo and published by MacSoft, Myth III features 25 single- player levels and a multiplayer mode. Andrew Meggs, lead programmer at Mumbo Jumbo, told Macworld: “We’ve got the best OpenGL pipeline I’ve ever seen, and I’ve worked on ports of games using all three Quake engines.” In the game, Connacht the Wolf has been declared the first Emperor of human lands. The action is set 1,000 years before the Fallen Lords – the original Myth release. Myth III sees the world on the brink of destruction, with fearsome non-human races having hunted humanity to near extinction. To Battle of wits conquer these enemies, players must Myth III’s demanding strategy-gameplay pits players against marauding masses of enemy races. cast spells, collect items and build devices. They must also win battles, Deathmatch. The game features using strategy to overcome 3D terrain and characters, as well overwhelming odds. as special effects. These include This real-time strategy game puts vegetation that sways in the wind, players in command of small squads weather conditions and war-scarred of archers and warriors. The task is terrain. to make the squads work together to Available from Softline (01883 Valley good overcome an increasingly demanding versions, online and network 745 111) in mid-November, Myth III The Welsh league is a new series of challenges. multiplayer games are supported, and costs £39.99 (including VAT). Both feature of Championship Myth III introduces a selection of a number of multiplayer game-types Mac and PC versions will be released Manager 2001-2. new enemies, including black-magic are also included. These include: simultaneously. MW Ghol priests. As with previous Carnage, Flag and Ball, and Dominique Fidéle Time to give it 1,000 per cent Sheep: souped tup for ewe Championship Manager 2001-2 – the third version eral Interactive’s Sheep for of the football-management F the Mac is available now. sim – is now available. The game revolves around sheep Players still have to that were sent across the galaxy endure the pressure-cooker from star system Ovis Aries to demands of real-life study Earth’s habitat. managers – from selecting Sadly, the dim creatures the squad, motivating the forgot their mission and became team, and keeping the board domesticated by man. When sweet – but 2001-2 does their ancestors come to bring offer new features. them home, the sheep must be Fresh challenges for guided through seven worlds the new season include an – complete with electric fences, upgraded Database Editor. and combine-harvesters. Sheep Statistics can be modified, for the Mac costs £29.99. so team squads can be ■ Feral Interactive has also updated: you can even revealed that it is not developing add yourself to a team. Mac-only features for the The Database Editor has to forthcoming Mac port of hit be downloaded from Feral title, Black & White. MW (www.feral.co.uk). Feral, www.feral.co.uk Championship Manager 2001-2 costs £29. MW

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Tech firms show heart

pple has joined with other major US technology companies to help the victims and families affected Business A by the terrorist attacks of September 11. Apple changed the front page of its Web site, so that it bore briefs a single Red Cross, and the message: “Our thoughts ■ Akamai Technologies (of are dedicated to those affected by the tragic events which Apple is a stockholder) this week.” Apple is encouraging visitors to donate to is “deeply saddened” by the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org) to help finance the death of Danny Lewin, the rescue and relief attempts. The company also gave the company’s co-founder and $1 million to the bereaved families of rescue workers, chief technology officer. Lewin and offered an iBook to each such family with children. was on-board one of the Microsoft offered $5 million to the September 11 sympathy and Web links to a variety of relief-aid American Airlines flights that Fund (http://september11fund.org), a group established to organizations in response to the tragedy. was crashed into the World respond to the immediate and longer-term needs of the Thursby Software gave all profits from online sales Trade Center. He was 31, and is victims, their families, and those communities affected by between September 12-21 – $30,000 – to the Red Cross survived by a wife and two sons. the events. The company offered an additional $5 million appeal, while Aladdin Systems donated a dollar from all ■ Apple is proposing to settle a in technical services and software. The company’s Web online sales over a 30-day period to the same fund. MCF class-action lawsuit filed due to site was changed to deliver a message urging visitors to Software is also donating profits generated by online sales DVD-playback issues in early US contribute to the American Liberty Partnership, which of its products. models of Apple iMac DV, iMac had raised around $100 million at the time of writing. DV SE and Power Mac G4 Adobe urged its customers to “support disaster relief ‘Something positive’ computers. Those effected may efforts”, directing customers to Web site www.helping.org, Thursby Software president, William Thursby, said: “I’m receive a free CD-ROM upgrade, which raised $7.3 million to help. Macromedia and Quark glad we were able to do something positive. It is extremely and discounts on software and posted similar messages of sympathy and support, important that the families and rescuers get the resources hardware. and also asked visitors to contribute to relief agencies. they need, and we are impressed with the efforts of the ■ Apple has entered a strategic Corel, meanwhile, suggested that its Web-site Red Cross, both nationally and locally to make sure that alliance with Navarre Distribution visitors contribute to the Canadian Red Cross, which happens.” Services to supply third-party also sent staff to the World Trade Center rescue operation. The American Red Cross gave an initial $100 million Mac software to Apple’s retail Online retail to help fund rescue and relief work within days of the stores and its Web site in North giant, Amazon.com incident. Four million North Americans gave blood. And America. is collecting global business gave money and time as it expressed its ■ Adobe’s third-quarter donations from site anger at the attacks, which eclipsed economic decline. revenues for 2001 were $292.1 visitors, amassing Thursby said: “I have been touched by the outpouring million, compared to $328.9 $6,801,008 for the of support from our customers, not only in America but million in the third quarter American Red Cross around the world. We received letters from several of our of 2000, and $344.1 million in the two weeks international customers thanking us for allowing them in the second quarter of 2001. after the attack. to assist America and the American Red Cross in this ■ US computer companies are Most companies way. United we stand.” likely to struggle until 2003, in with a major online The International Red Cross also distributes food-aid in the wake of weakening consumer presence posted Afghanistan. MW and corporate spending and the messages of Jonny Evans terrorist attacks in New York, claims Prudential Securities analyst Kimberly Alexy. ■ Palm lost 47 per cent revenue in the third quarter, compared Corel in profits hat-trick to the same quarter 2000. It reported $214.3 million revenues, orel returned a profitable third quarter 2001, its third John Blaine, chief financial officer at Corel, said: “These for a net loss of $38.7 million. C successive profitable quarter since its corporate results indicate our financially disciplined approach is working.” ■ Lernout and Hauspie Speech restructure earlier this year. Derek Burney, president and CEO of Corel Corporation, Products has won a nine-month The company has refocused on graphics and creative added: “When we announced our new corporate strategy last extension of its bankruptcy products, launching a spin-off brand, called Procreate. Corel January, I stated that we would be profitable again by the third protection period from the has launched a series of new products for the Mac in recent quarter of this fiscal year. We have delivered on that promise.” Belgian courts. months, including Bryce 5, Painter 7, KnockOut 1.5, Corel ■ Saudi billionaire Prince Graphics Suite for Mac, and KPT Effects. It’s also working with Commitment Alwaleed bin Talal is retaining Microsoft to offer services as part of Microsoft’s .NET strategy. Burney added: “As we’ve demonstrated over the past three his $314 million of Apple stock. Revenues for the quarter were $34.2 million, compared quarters, we’re determined to fulfil our commitments to ■ IT analyst International to $36.4 million for the same quarter last year. Net income shareholders and customers. This quarter, we released four Data Corporation predicts that was $500,000, compared to a net loss of $10.7 million in new products, introduced a new line of professional creative worldwide PC-shipments will the year-ago quarter. Corel accrued a net income of $2.3 applications for Mac OS X, and announced our plans to acquire fall this year by 1.6 per cent, million in its second quarter, and $3.4 million in the year so far. Micrografx and SoftQuad.” MW to 129.6 million units.

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Epson’s perfect Match Wacom ships Epson’s PhotoPC 2100Z 2.3-megapixel digital- camera features Epson’s Print Image Matching next-gen tablet Technology, which the company claims acom has announced Intuos2, offers improved its second generation of imaging, colour balance. It’s W professional graphics-tablets. a USB-connectable unit, and There are five sizes of tablet – A6, A5, A4, supports CompactFlash for A4 oversize and A3. Eight different input data storage. Pricing has devices are also available. yet to be announced. The Intuos2 2D mouse has been Epson, 0800 220 456 overhauled. Each A5 and A6 tablet ships with a 2,540dpi cordless, ball-free three- Contacts targets marketers button mouse with a finger-wheel for Cruse Control has launched its scrolling through pages. A 4D mouse Contacts management system. is also available, with more buttons The software stores and an optional lens cursor for accuracy. customized contact- All input devices are customizable, and information. It sends Wacom’s driver software can be configured letters and faxes, stores to recognize a number of different devices, notes, telephone messages remembering individual user and mouse and pen, and Corel Painter Classic. Colour correction and can run mail merges. application settings for each device. The oversized-A4 option costs £405, and Wacom has ergonomically Contacts costs £249 per user, Both mouse speed and acceleration ships with Painter and the 4D Mouse and redesigned the input devices for and ships with FileMaker Pro 5.5. are controllable, and the solution offers Grip Pen. The regular-sized A4 option ships the Intuos2 range, and the tablets’ Cruse Control, 01923 842 295 absolute positioning. Also new in Intuos2 with Painter, mouse and pen, and costs colour has been changed to deep www.crusecontrol.com is a split tablet mode – users can employ £365. The A5 tablet includes Painter, purple. The input devices are the main tablet area for detailed work, a mouse and pen, and costs £255. accurate to within 0.25mm, and USB reaches out and navigate the screen via the second The smallest tablet in the range, the can detect up to 1,024 levels of Gefen has launched the Ex-Tend-It smaller area on the tablet. A6, ships with the same and costs £140. pressure. The Intuos2 Grip Pen USB-400, a solution that extends A number of other input devices are CAD versions of the larger tablets are has a wider grip. Its weight has the reach of USB cables from also available, including an airbrush pen, also available; the A3 costs £540 and also been adjusted for “comfort 17 to 330feet. It does so by inking pen and stroke pen. Pricing for the A4 oversize costs £405 – these ship and increased control”. It hosts combining a remote four-port these devices has not yet been announced. with a lens cursor, but not Corel Painter a programmable double-sided USB hub and an extension The Intuos2 A3 graphics tablet costs Classic. switch and a pressure-sensitive into one device. Ex-Tend-It £600, and ships with the top-of-the-range Computers Unlimited, 020 8200 8282 tip and eraser. USB-400 costs $499 online. Geffen, www.gefen.net.

Print to PDF USB 2.0 drive ships PrintToPDF is a Macintosh printer driver that creates PDF files. Maxtor has launched the first USB 2.0 external hard-drive, the Maxtor It can create PDF Personal Storage 3000LE. The 40GB unit costs £169, and operates at bookmarks for section 5,400rpm. 40GB will hold up to 40 hours of uncompressed digital-video. and subsection headings, At almost 480Mbps, USB 2.0 offers 40-times faster transfer speeds and URLs can be converted than the USB 1.1. The standard is backwards compatible, and will work into hotlinks. Version 2.2.5 with USB 1.1-enabled Macs. Adaptec and Keyspan both offer PCI-based fixes bugs. It costs $20. solutions that can add USB 2.0 connectivity to Macs (from around £50), www.jwwalker.com and a variety of USB 2.0 solutions are currently reaching market. Maxtor, 01923 712 448 Flash USB Drive price cut USB Innovation has cut prices across its Flash USB Drive range. Classic cars Prices for the data-storage device Heritage Image Partnership has start at £42 for the 16MB, down added the Motoring Picture Library from £54; the 32MB version now of the National Motor Museum to costs £57, reduced from £80; the its image range. The institution’s 64MB has been reduced by £44 to picture collection has been £94; the 128MB drive costs £170, digitized, and is available online down £97; the 256MB drive costs (www.heritage-images.com). Images £247, down from £550; and the cost between £35 and £5,000, 512MB unit costs £468, down depending on use. from £931. Heritage Image, 020 7929 5581 USB Innovations, 01494 794 974

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Apple updates 3D app’s new model Apple has released Network HP all-in-one is a 3D application Carrara CarbonLib 1.4, a software has had a face-lift, and is library that improves now called Carrara Studio 1.1 functionality for (£299). Since Eovia acquired Carbon-based the application from applications on mono media powerhouse MetaCreations, it has worked Mac OS 8.6, all to improve the 3D solution, it OS 9.x releases Formac in P has announced the PSC 950 function and will claims. New features include a and Mac OS X. This combination fax, copier, scanner, print activity and collection of 25 third-party plug- is also included within boon H photo-card reader and printer. confirmation ins – including new renderers, the Mac OS 9.2.1 updater. It 22-inch move The inkjet PSC 950 will print in colour- reports. such as Cartoon. Also included improves the performance of Formac has launched a 22-inch rother has launched a series photo mode at 1,200dpi, or in text mode The is a collection of pre-built models, Carbonized applications running CRT monitor – which has a 20- of mono laser-printers, the at 600dpi. It offers 12 pages per minute solution will to allow instant scene making. in the Classic environment of inch viewable area – the ProNitron B HL-1440, HL-1450 and the The £254 HL-1450 (ppm) in black-and-white, or 10ppm in print a contact Gomark, 020 7731 7930 OS X, as well as under earlier 22/800u. HL-1470N (right). Each USB printer has a standard memory of colour. sheet with operating systems. The flat-screen CRT monitor delivers up to 14ppm (pages per minute) 8MB, which is expandable to 36MB. USB connected, the device will print thumbnail Four busses turn up integrates DiamondTron technology, See also page 80 for OS X at resolutions of 1,200-x-600dpi, and The £339 HL-1470N features on a wide variety of media, including HP’s versions of Lindy has introduced its bus- and offers an ultra fine 0.24mm 10.1. Visit www.macworld.co.uk/updates includes a 250-sheet universal paper 10/100BaseT Ethernet connectivity. own T-shirt transfer and poster paper. images direct powered four-port USB hub for aperture-grille with a horizontal for more information. cassette and manual-feed paper slot. Otherwise its features are identical to It scans at a resolution of 600-x-1,200 from a camera’s Macs and PCs. The small unit frequency of 31-121KHz. The £220 HL-1440 has 2MB memory, those of the HL-1450, though this unit pixels in optical mode, which HP claims media card, has a built-in cable. Its power- It integrates a self-powered (it supports management feature permits Third-party updates USB hub with three down and one expandable to 34MB. An optional lower ships with network print-management equates to up to 9,600dpi in enhanced APS Powertools 6.4.2a upstream ports, and hosts an on- paper tray supplies up to an extra 250 software. mode. It ships with optical character CompactFlash, users to distribute some or all This upgrade to the screen control system featuring sheets. Brother, 0845 606 0626 recognition (OCR) software, and offers SmartCards and of the available power to any of Mac drive-management icon-based control panels. It also 8-bit colour depth in black-&-white, or Sony Memory Stick). the ports, so it will drive devices utility fixes a has front-panel button controls. The 36-bit in colour. It can also print specific that need more number monitor costs £639 and ships with As a copier, this unit offers speeds up images from the card. Form and multi-function power, so long as of issues, a three-year on-site warranty. to 12ppm in black-&-white, or 9ppm in Neither function requires the machine HP’s latest all-in-one, like Epson’s total power for including Formac, 020 8533 4040 Epson’s scanner colour. It will run off up to 99 copies from be connected to a Mac – users simply Stylus Photo 895, doesn’t need all connected correcting one original at a time, and can reduce and mark up the contact sheet with a dark a Mac to print. Solid-state media devices does not operation under enlarge by 25-400 per cent. pen, feed the sheet into the scanner and – such as CompactFlash cards exceed that available from the Mac OS 9.x on reaches Perfection The flatbed-fax feature delivers fax the printer does the rest. The unit will also – can be plugged into the Macs USB port. It’s a USB 1.1 older Macs. It also transmissions at six seconds per page act as a card reader to transfer image data device, and images printed. device, costing £14. fixes an error that let Epson is shipping the Perfection 2450 Photo scanner, which using its built-in 14.4kbps fax modem. to the Mac. It costs £246. Lindy, 01642 754 000. some password-protected offers a resolution of 2,400-x-4,800dpi with a colour depth of It has 60 speed dials, an automatic-redial Hewlett-Packard, 08705 474 747 volumes be mounted without 48bits. It integrates a multifunctional smart panel, that can be What a CAD a password. USB operation configured to scan images straight to Epson’s Photo Sharing ADW Software’s Pythagoras is (particularly with Toast) Web site. Other controls include a programmable QuickStart a modern CAD program specially has also been improved. button and intelligent Smart Panel interface Camedia’s in hand designed for topographical CatDV 2.0.1 for one-touch scanning. applications, such as land CatDV, the cross-platform video- The scanner integrates a technology called “On-Chip Olympus has launched the palm-sized surveying, road design and clip management utility from Microlens” that improves image quality by enhancing light. four-megapixel Camedia C-40ZOOM. city planning. It offers custom Square Box Systems receives The scanner is equipped with USB 2.0 and FireWire ports. The device measures 87-x-68.5-x-43.5mm tools for these tasks, with the a number of performance A 4-x-9-inch transparency adaptor is built-in. The scanner ships with Adobe and weighs 190g. The camera offers a 2.8x manufacturers calling it a “user- improvements such as better Photoshop Elements software. No price is available yet. optical and 2.5x digital zoom, and costs £577. friendly solution”. Pythagoras XL QuickTime compatibility, and a Epson, 0800 220 546 Features include automatic and Basic System costs £1,595. variety of bug fixes within this programmable shooting modes, with manually ADW Software, www.Pythagoras.net update. It has also received adjustable lighting controls. The noise reduction a number of cosmetic fixes feature compares images against a black Iiyama’s Vision when running under Mac OS X. LaCie drives DVD onward background to identify and remove all noise Iiyama has launched its 17-inch DiskWarrior LaCie has announced its DVD-RAM/R accepted in an image. The camera can also recalculate DiamondTron Vision Master Pro The Mac disk-repair utility drive with FireWire Interface. The by most image data to make larger image sizes – the 413 at a price of £185. Adjustable has been updated to become drive combines DVD-R and DVD- CD formats, unit can increase the resolution to 3,200-x- brightness (Optimum Picture compatible with Mac OS 9.2.1. RAM capabilities into a single unit including 2,400 pixels. Quality) settings help It fixes a problem in which the with a data-transfer rate of up to CD-ROM It uses a SmartMedia card for image storage, the monitor deliver application would not load when 22.16Mbps. and audio and has a built-in adjustable flash. better-quality the Mac started up in OS 9.2.1. The transfer speed is also CDs. It offers Other features include the capture of up to playback of DVD FlightCheck Classic influenced by the type of media data seek 161 seconds of motion in QuickTime format. It movies. The & Classic Collect 4.2 used – it transfers data at up to times for DVD-RAM of Abstract vision can automatically monitor has a Markzware’s stand-alone 11.08Mbps when using 4.7GB DVD-R 75ms and 65ms for DVD-R, DVD- Driven Digital Vision has launched an image collection called Infinity. This is a download images to 0.25 dot pitch, pre-flighting application media, and 22.16Mbps with random- ROM or CD media. Available now, Like the SuperDrive in Apple’s series of Photoshop layered images produced by respected digital artists. the Mac over USB. and has a maximum family gets a maintenance access 4.7GB DVD-RAM media. the £478 drive automatically detects G4 PowerMacs, the LaCie DVD- The collection is entirely abstract, and each image can be repurposed for Olympus’ Camedia resolution of 1,600-x-1,200 release which adds pop-up In addition to writing and reading the system interface and configures RAM/R can read and write different needs – saving design studios time and money, Digital Vision C-40ZOOM pixels at 75KHz. It offers dual- menu “views” to the main 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 4.7GB and 9.4GB the connection, so it mounts as soon DVDs, as well as burn CDs. claims. Featured artists include Rod Steele, James Widegren and Jens supports Mac OS video inputs and carries a three- window, and adds FlightCheck DVD-RAM media, LaCie’s DVD- as it is plugged in to a FireWire port. Karlsson. Digital Vision’s Infinity collection costs £599. 8.6 or later. year on-site warranty. Icons to the Help menu. RAM/R drive reads from discs LaCie, 020 7872 8000 Digital Vision, 020 7378 5500 Olympus, 0800 072 0070 Iiyama, 01438 745 482

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Motorola is readying super-fast G5 chips, but will the future for Macs be that different?

Gigs beckon

t seems like only yesterday that Apple announced latest workstation processor, the Itanium, weighs in at the Power Mac G4 – the desktop super-computer. In an unimpressive 800MHz – less megahertz than the top fact, it was two years ago and, in that time, it’s gone Macs. The reason for the low megahertz is that Intel has I through some notable changes since its first reduced the number of pipelines used in the processor incarnation. However, the heart of these machines – the from 20 in the Pentium 4, down to 10 in the Itanium. actual PowerPC G4 processor has not changed So, by the beginning of next year Apple could well be drastically in this this time (apart from a series of speed- readying computers based on the G5 processor. The bumps that have seen it go from 350MHz to 867MHz). speeds should be in excess of 1GHz, maybe even as In the same time, Pentium processors have also much as 1.6GHz, while Intel’s fancy Itanium chips would tripled in speed, topping out at today’s 2GHz. These GHz still be languishing in the sub-gigahertz woods. Wintel machines sound faster, but are in fact slower – a Of course, Mac people know MHz is an unreliable fact Apple has been highlighting by beating the measure of speed – but many PC users won’t. However, ‘The upper “megahertz myth” drum. However, if the rumour mill is when they’re told that their 2.2GHz Pentium 4 is slower right, Apple won’t have to bother doing this much than an 800Mhz Itanium the word should soon spread. limits of longer. This is because the next generation of PowerPC So, Apple’s G5 range will be boast new chip the G5 will processors from Motorola – the PowerPC 8500, or G5 technology, but how will the company innovate with processor – will mean significant speed increases for regards to the machines’ guts and appearance? reach 2GHz Apple, and, therefore, for all of us. I’d like to see AirPort become a standard feature fully and above, built-in to all Macs, even desktop models. While USB 2 is Speed-road insight unlikely to ever eclipse FireWire for video connectivity, it which should The Motorola road-map offers some insight into what may have its uses for other hardware. More to the point, give Intel we can expect. Initial G5 speeds will start at 800MHz, I don’t want to listen to any more PC weenies banging though some sources say that these will be used in on about how great it is. something embedded computing systems rather than Macs. The In a similar vein, BlueTooth is another wireless to consider.’ upper limits of the G5 will surpass 2GHz, which should technology that PC folk have been harping on about give Intel something to consider. Currently, speeds of recently. This allows you to connect at high speeds to 1.6GHz are being achieved in Motorola’s labs. other BlueTooth devices at relatively short range. This So how is Motorola getting this big speed increase? may be handy for digital-camera downloads, but I don’t Well, one thing that’s helping is the 0.13-micron see it being an essential for some time yet. However, if technology being used. This means that the chips Apple wants to be at the centre of the digital hub, then microscopic wires are thinner than ever before, making it will have to factor-in BlueTooth eventually. the chip cooler, and therefore allowing for faster speeds. Another difference is the number of pipeline stages RAM raiding used – up from seven to ten. As Jon Rubinstein Currently, the most RAM you can cram into a G4 is demonstrated at the New York Macworld Expo, the 1.5GB, which amazingly costs under £200 (visit more pipeline stages you have, the slower the speed – www.crucial.com/uk). It’s likely that the next generation of even though it means you can chalk-up more MHz. So, Macs could handle up to 16GB of RAM, which should be while we’ll be seeing more MHz with the G5, the more than enough for most. And, if hard-disk capacity benchmark results may not be as impressive as the continues to increase at the current rate, it doesn’t seem numbers. unreasonable to expect to see 100GB drives being the Even with the new 0.13-micron process, the standard entry-level capacity before long. additional MHz will generate more heat than previous So there you have it – everything will be faster, just chips. Motorola will deal with this by using SOI (Silicon- like it was last year, the year before, and the year before on-Insulator) technology. SOI adds a thin layer of glass that. Just as unsurprising is that people who like Macs between the chip transistors and the underlying silicon. will continue to like Macs, while PC weenies will still This insulation reduces any electrical leakage that can love their PCs. The only difference is, the Mac degrade performance. community will no longer have to continue explaining Curiously, while Motorola gets ready to break the why their “slower” processors are faster. The G5 – and, gigahertz barrier, Intel is heading the other way. The ironically, Intel’s Itanium – will do that for us. MW

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Immune system?

here’s a small blue plate on my back door that says: In addition to the maelstrom of junk messages slowing “Anyone caught here at night will be found here in down Internet access, it can also overwrite critical Microsoft the morning.” It was put there by a biker friend years Windows system files. Due to the many different ways it T ago as a sort of angelic joke, and I’ve never seen any can spread, all Windows users can be infected with the reason to remove it. Living, as I do – too far up a mile-and-a- worm. Nimda changes the Web content to attack Microsoft half unmade track in the wilds of Sussex, surrounded by Internet Explorer browsers visiting the site. Once successful, atavistic technology – nobody without a four-wheel drive it will start a second life as an email-based worm, spreading comes anywhere near this place unless they’re lost, or to address-book contacts. It then also seriously invited. And with the front door effectively barricaded with compromises the security of the client machine. guitars and PA speakers, security has never been anything to be nervous about. Spreading infection But security, like most things in life, is relative. And while Scanning activity thus far indicates that this could be I never really got on with my relatives, like most people heavier than the July activity of Code Red, and Computer ‘Smugness round the world, security, personal and otherwise, has Associates has said that 10 to 20 large multinational- has gone out suddenly become something we all might need to start companies are infected, though the total infection level is taking a bit more seriously. Even for a generation bred on unclear. By now, infected computers could be in the tens of of fashion, the finest CGI and digital special-effects, watching what thousands. At its peak, Code Red infected several hundred and if things we’d normally expect from an horrific and relentless thousand computers. disaster movie unfolding in real-life – and in real-time – is a It would seem that the new worm could take the same turn ugly, haunting and deeply disturbing distortion of what normally number of computers infected by Code Red and do far more nothing passes for comfortable, complacent reality. damage. Despite the worm’s threat, it still spreads through known security holes – particularly in Microsoft systems – will Red menace and relies on computer administrators who have been lax in guarantee Exactly a week after the attacks on New York and updating their systems. Reports suggest that the worm Washington DC, a new virus-like attack struck large tries to wriggle in through 16 known vulnerabilities in immunity companies, and its rapid spread threatened to slow the Microsoft’s IIS, including the security hole left in some forever.’ Internet to a crawl. US Attorney General John Ashcroft computers by the “Code Red II” worm, which followed Code warned that the computer outbreak could become worse Red in August. than the “Code Red” worm that appeared last summer. The FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Centre Although Ashcroft said there is no evidence linking the warned that a hacker group called the “Dispatchers” said it worm to the terrorist attacks, this malicious software would attack “communications and finance program, known as W32-Nimda, is complex and designed infrastructures”. Strangely enough, the Dispatchers have to spread to people who open infected email or visit also recently defaced Middle Eastern Web sites in an infected Web sites. The worm apparently generates apparent retaliation for the terrorist attacks, so its difficult excessive traffic on the Web, creating a treacle effect, and to figure out precisely where they’re coming from. As usual, users end up thinking the Internet has simply gone down. the Macintosh community has been relatively unaffected, The worm can spread in many different ways, although apart from occasional difficulties getting onto sites it tends to infect Web sites running Microsoft’s Internet operationally locked into the Microsoft monopoly. Information Services software, just as the recent “Code Red” As Macintosh users, we’re a pretty secure lot. We’ve got worm did. Once a Web site is infected, any Web user the coolest kit in the world. We’ve got processors that run accessing it can get the worm. Once one computer on a rings round anything Intel can cobble together. Very few company network is infected, it can also travel across the viruses ever attack Mac systems. We can even run nearly all network to attack others. Together, this can cause an entire of that disease-ridden Microsoft software currently corporate network to be infected if even a single worker polluting the market… if we really want to. But out there in visits an infected site. More worrying is the fact that it can the really wired world, security remains relative and we’re send itself through an email attachment. The sender just a small feature of a much larger and significant picture. address is faked, and may be a well-known address. Smugness has gone out of fashion and if, or when, that Researchers have said they aren’t sure how the address is picture turns ugly, nothing – least of all a Macintosh logo or generated but the attachment may be named even a small blue plaque on your backdoor – will guarantee “README.EXE.” immunity forever. MW

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aya is an important release three-button mice, Alias ships such High-end 3D for OS X in particular and the an input device with Maya. M Mac in general. It’s a high-end Scenes are displayed using OpenGL, 3D animation program of considerable and, thanks to Apple’s native support for Maya 3.5 for proportions that represents the Mac’s it and Maya’s speed, the displays are fast. Mac OS X coming of age in 3D. It’s big – not just in Even using a humble ATI Rage card, we Publisher: Alias|Wavefront terms of disk space (a full install takes could navigate complex scenes quickly, 00800 4125 4125 280MB), rather it’s the most complex though a faster card such as an ATI www.aliaswavefront.com program ever made available for the Mac. Radeon or NVidia GeForce will be better. Pros: Impressive NURBS Maya has an estimated 25 million lines Working with objects in the modelling; world-class of code, and can boast some of the most Perspective view is fluid, thanks to on-screen dynamics simulation; powerful 3D tools available. In its short manipulators that let you move, scale and extremely versatile and history, it has become the standard by rotate objects or their components using customizable; excellent which all other high-end 3D programs are any axis. You can also use ‘virtual sliders’ animation toolset, including judged. It’s no wonder that companies such by selecting an attribute in the Channel Box non-linear editor. as ILM and Pixar use Maya for much of and dragging with the middle mouse button Cons: Paint Effects and their computer graphics and effects work. to change its value interactively. rendering can be slow; limited Installing Maya is pretty simple, but it Polygon modelling is good, though it’s AltiVec and multiprocessing does require you to log-in to Mac OS X as not as fluid and direct as in apps such as support now; very expensive. ‘root’, the system super-user – something the much cheaper LightWave (version 7 Price: £6,360 excluding VAT. Apple doesn’t encourage. This is necessary will be reviewed in our next issue). There’s Buy before December 31, and you get 12-months’ free for the installation of the Flexlm licensing also no Subdivision Surfaces in this version. support and upgrades. software that protects Maya against piracy. of a cube’s shader node (a shader defines Do know much about geometry However, NURBS modelling is extremely Min specs: 450MHz or above Thankfully, there’s no dongle involved; all the material properties of an object when Artisan geometry paint-script allows you good, with the system supporting trims, G4; three-button mouse; Mac you need to do is email your computer’s it is rendered) to the y translation output to paint objects onto surfaces. Notice, fillets, bevelling, surface blending and OS X Release 10.0.4; ATI Rage Ethernet hardware address to Alias, which of a sphere’s transform node. As you move the cones always lie perpendicular stitching, and other high-end features. 128, Radeon or NVidia generates a licence-file for your machine. the sphere in the y axis, the cube becomes to the undulating surface. When creating a 3D character, you can GeForce2 graphics card; Once that step is complete, Maya redder. This is a very simple example, construct it out of many different ‘patches’. 256MB of RAM minimum can be launched. For more on X’s but the principle can be applied to This is often the only way to create such a (512MB recommended). root, see Mac OS X Secrets, page 139. much more complex systems, too. remove geometry, and still be able to edit shape using NURBS, an inherent limitation. Star Rating: ★★★★★/9.3 After a few moments the main interface the source curves. Pretty impressive stuff. Maya’s Global Stitch tool allows you to bind appears, replete in full Aqua livery. This X model There are a lot of other interesting the patches together at their edges to form link attributes together, causing one to though it can take time to get great results With blends like these is clearly not a hacked-together port, with The main interface consists of a large interface devices that Maya has in order to a continuous surface. The tool prevents the drive the other. The Set Driven Key feature – which many may find surprising for such Blend Shapes let you do morphing care taken to get the aesthetics of the user- OpenGL viewport sandwiched between maximize productivity and workflow. Each patches from splitting when the character lets you do this quite simply, and can be an esteemed package. Maya has always using sliders to control the weight interface right. And there’s phenomenal rows of tools at the top and a timeline at pane can be changed to display any of the is animated and deformed. used, for example, to link the rotation of been criticized for having a less-than- of each morph on the base object. power beneath that cool Aqua exterior. the bottom. To the right is the Channel Box, other Maya panels, such as the Render a character’s knee joint to the motion of excellent renderer, which is part of the The way Maya works internally is an important part of the interface that lists view, Outliner or Graph Editor, and you can Artisan artist a group of points on the character’s thigh. reason that Alias announced that it will part of the reason why it is so powerful. the keyable attributes for a selected object. choose to divide the display into different Another tool in Maya’s arsenal is Artisan. As the knee bends the thigh muscles bulge. try to link Maya with Mental Images’ Over sphere Basically, everything in Maya is a ‘Node’, It also displays the steps in an object’s layouts – such as two views stacked, or side- Artisan technology lets you paint onto The point here is that the bulging will occur acclaimed rendering solution, Mental Ray. Maya's Dynamics are vastly and these nodes have inputs and outputs – Constriction History, and this is the by-side, two views over one etc. Tapping objects to perform an operation. Painting every time the knee joint is moved, reducing Availability of Mental Ray for the Mac is superior to most other systems. also known as attributes – that can be second powerful aspect of Maya. the space bar with the mouse over any of textures is one obvious use, but you can the amount of work an animator has to do. uncertain, though. The main problem with Here, a collection of rigid and connected together. You don’t ever have to With History enabled, all the modelling the panes expands it to fill the workspace paint other things too. The Sculpt Paint tool To further refine the animation process Maya’s renderer is that it can be very slow, soft body spheres are connected deal with nodes directly if you don’t want steps taken to create an object are – a great way to focus on a particular task. uses Artisan to sculpt geometry. You can the Trax editor provides nonlinear animation especially when using raytracing. It’s not using springs, a hinge and a pin to, but because you can, there’s a great stored in a list. When you click on one If you hold the space-bar down, take a simple NURBS or Polygon plane, capabilities, allowing animators to blend disastrous, but for the price you’d expect constraint. They all move and deal of flexibility for power-users to tap of them in the Channel Box it unfurls to however, something different happens; and use a brush to interactively ‘paint’ between multiple layers of animations better. AltiVec optimization should ease this collide in real time under the into. An example of working with nodes display any associated attributes – allowing the Hot Box pops up. This consists of a few a landscape with hills and valleys, on a single character. Transitions between bottleneck in future Mac versions, we hope. forces of the springs and gravity. would be connecting the red colour-input you to make changes to them, or even rows of menus and four regions like those or to mould a character’s face, or the clips merge one sequence smoothly Despite the rendering problems, there to delete the step entirely. It provides of a compass. These let you access the add dents in objects. A Script Paint tool into another, and you can easily reuse are plenty of redeeming features. The a nonlinear undo – but it’s more usual menus in Maya right beneath your lets you use any MEL script (Maya’s built-in sequences, change their timing, or loop Dynamics system is just about the best than that because you can change the mouse, but the regions pop-up further scripting language) to modify the tool. them simply by dragging the clip in the money can buy. Maya was used to create history, not simply take steps backwards. arranges menus in a radial array. By default, A quick visit to a Maya resources site, and Trax editor. There’s no need to animate the realistic pod-race sequence in Star Wars For modelling, History is crucial. You they display interface-related tools, but we downloaded the GeometryPaint script an entire sequence from start to end; it Episode 1. The crashes in which pod can use curves to create a profile, extrude, can be customized to display whatever which allows you to paint objects on to can be built-up from a pre-saved library engines were seen disintegrating into or sweep it along a curve rail to create a 3D commands you like. the surface of another. This could be used of poses and actions that an animator thousands of pieces were created using surface, but you can also go back to change The theory is that, as you use Maya, to paint a forest of trees on the landscape, (or teams of animators) create. Maya’s rigid-body dynamics and collisions. the shape of the original curves to modify you forget to look where the commands or stubble on a character’s face. Using the system is actually quite easy. You the 3D shape. This is a feature that’s are, and instead rely on ‘muscle memory’ Once objects are created, it’s on to Mental render simply define the objects that you want to been available in numerous 3D programs to find them. This is great in theory, but the the task of animating them. Maya offers a Creating materials is another of Maya’s be dynamic, add forces and constraints, and on the Mac for a while – such as Cinema display tends to take far too long to pop-up, wide choice of animation possibilities, from strengths. You can build ‘shading networks’ let the system go. The impressive thing is 4D XL and SolidThinking – but Maya takes so you end up watching it anyway. There standard motion-keyframing to dynamics by linking different shaders and textures the speed with which the dynamics are this concept much further. You can move are also other menus that pop-up called the and blend shapes – a kind of morphing. together using the graphical Hypershade calculated, even on a relatively ponderous the points that make-up the 3D surface, Marking Menus, and these can be accessed The keyframing tools are impressive. You panel. The Interactive Photorealistc 450MHz G4. You can also create soft-body and still be able to tweak the curves without the Hot Box, by holding a modifier can create keyframes to transform objects, Renderer allows artists to see the results dynamics to simulate deforming surfaces without loosing those surface edits. key and clicking. Speaking of clicking, and use the Graph Editor to fine-tune the of changes to materials and lighting as such as cloth, rubber, jelly, and flesh. You can also deform the 3D object using Maya absolutely requires the use of a motion using simple function curves. To they are made on a near-final-quality some of Maya’s tools, add geometry, three-button mouse. As Mac OS X supports speed the process of animation, you can render. Final rendering quality is very good, continues page 59

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Using Artisan, you can paint soft body Effects work is possible, but trying to create ‘weights’ to control their effect. A cape can the rich, complex renders we have seen be made into a soft body so that it blows this technology produce bogged down the in the wind; to prevent it simply flying off, machine to the point of being unusable. you paint zero weight where it attaches to a character’s neck. The cape then flaps away Macworld’s buying advice while maintaining its attachment location. Despite a few interface glitches, Maya Robust and easy-to-use joints, IK remains a breathtakingly powerful 3D and deformers for animating characters, system – and the Mac will be all the better cluster animation for animating surface for it. The only major concern is the £6,360 points, and Blend Shapes all contribute price tag. You’ll also have to pay a regular to Maya’s animation power. Blend Shapes support fee, to entitle you to upgrades that are essentially morph targets, making Alias produces every six to eight months. them ideal for facial animation. The bottom line, though, is that Maya Using a slider-based interface, you will not be the ideal solution for everyone, can blend many different targets to produce but its appearance on OS X should help to varied facial expressions. boost the Mac’s popularity in 3D graphics. One let-down was Paint Effects, Maya’s For those who desire the utmost power and unique system for creating dense, dynamic flexibility to create anything from film and effects such as grass, foliage, electric TV effects and dynamic simulations, to sparks, and such. We’ve seen it on PC games and high-end character animation, iRobot systems, and it’s very impressive – but on Maya for OS X is difficult to beat. Maya has excellent animation-editing tools. Here, the Graph Editor is being used our Mac it was extremely slow. Simple Paint Simon Danaher to control the Robot's foot steps.

nlike most inkjet printers, consistency and accuracy. It has a six-ink HP’s Designjet 10ps is produced system using dye-based inks. This enables U specifically for graphic designers. it to print 90 per cent of Pantone spot It’s the entry point in a range that also colours. It can also emulate different includes the Designjet 20ps and (from printing presses, such as EuroScale, January 2002) 50ps. Compared to other SWOP, DIC and TOYO. There is also inkjets, the Designjet 10ps might seem a support for ICC profiles and ColorSync little steep at £708. However, the Designjet colour management. is not your average inkjet. It’s a genuine HP has made a point of saying colour-proofing device, along the lines how fast this printer is, and, under the of the Epson Color Proofer (£3,495), right circumstances, it is. However, the but a lot cheaper. fact that your own machine is acting as It can do most of what the Epson the RIP means that its speed is determined can do, but there’s a big difference. by the performance of your Mac. Even a Unlike the Epson, the Designjet doesn’t fast machine (such as my 466MHz Power Cromalin-quality print have a hardware RIP (Raster Image Mac G4) took over ten minutes to process works out so much Processor). This means that print a single page. Once the processing is cheaper than constantly speeds are slower with the Designjet, finished, the actual printing is pretty coughing-up for expensive cromalins. at least with the entry-level Designjet 10. quick. This is due to a half-inch print The unit price is certainly amazing and Most graphics and page-layout swath that can cover more paper in a single the quality impressive – but the speed Colour proofer applications use Adobe’s PostScript pass than the smaller consumer models. many designers yearn for simply isn’t there. technology, a more memory-efficient way Image quality is excellent. The same The £1,236 Designjet 20ps offers Designjet 10ps to describe graphics than standard bitmap quality can be achieved with some networking for workgroups (plus a second Manufacturer: HP images. Inkjet printers print bitmap images, consumer inkjets, but the crucial difference 250-sheet paper tray), but still requires a www.hp.com/uk so a PostScript translation needs to be is that this printer prints genuine PostScript dedicated Mac to act as a RIP. Distributor: RES made. Laser printers use internal PostScript images with highly accurate colour You could use any USB Mac – for 0118 989 9450 RIPs, and the Epson Color Proofer uses an reproduction. instance, an iMac of any age – to power Pros: Top-quality budget external Fiery RIP. The HP Designjet 10ps The average inkjet can’t do that, and the RIP, but remember that the faster the proofing for designers. Cons: No hardware RIP, so uses your Mac to do this image processing, that’s the reason that graphic designers Mac, the speedier the RIP. The 50ps it ties up your machine while which means PostScript printing, but usually have to shell-out cash for expensive features an even more sophisticated RIP printing, or requires separate slower performance. While printing, Cromalins. The Designjet also has a duplex made by Heidelberg. For more information Macintosh. you may as well go and make a cup of (double-sided printing) unit attached on the 20ps and 50ps Designjets, see Price: £708 excluding VAT. tea while your Mac is busy RIPing images. for accurate booklet proofing. News, Macworld, October 2001. Min specs: USB. Apart from the cheaper (the Fiery on its If you are using Mac OS X, you’ll What this printer needs is a hardware Star Rating: ★★★★/8.5 own costs £1,295) but slower RIP solution, have to wait until early next year for native RIP, but that would boost the price to the Designjet is impressive. It has A3+ drivers for the Designjet. Until then, you something closer to the Epson Color paper capability, so you can print a double- need Mac OS 8.5.1 or better, or you’ll Proofer. You’ll save yourself £3,000 by page spread with full bleed, registration have to print from X’s Classic mode. buying this instead of the Epson proofer and crop marks. and RIP, but the Designjet 10ps isn’t a The point of a proofer is to achieve Macworld’s buying advice good choice for anybody in a hurry who accurate colour, and the Designjet The Designjet 10ps is ideal as a personal doesn’t have a speedy Mac to spare. has a few tricks up its sleeve for colour printer for a single designer. The cost per David Fanning

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ommotion began life as a proprietary Effects and retouching compositing and rotoscoping tool C used in-house at ILM (a famous Commotion effects facility on the West coast of America owned by George Lucas). It was created by Pro 4.0 digital-effects guru and programmer Scott Publisher: Pinnacle Systems 01895 424 228 Squires. Commotion eventually became a www.pinnaclesys.com commercial Mac product produced by Puffin Pros: Smooth workflow; Designs. A few versions ago it was bought excellent compositing by the big video-solutions company Pinnacle features. Systems, and it’s now available for both Cons: Full benefit requires Mac and Windows PCs. It comes in two vast quantities of RAM; OS X versions, Standard and Pro; and it’s the support not yet available. latter we have on test here. Min specs: PowerPC; OS 8.6 Commotion Pro is a complete effects or later; 128MB of application RAM. and retouching tool for anyone working with Price: Commotion Pro 4 is moving images, and version 4.0 adds some £699; Commotion 4 is £375. decent – though not world-shattering – Both excluding VAT. new features. The most interesting aspect Star Rating: ★★★★/8.9 of Commotion, though, is its steady migration into the territory of digital effects and Familiar face multilayered compositing, a stronghold of The Commotion interface is friendly and intuitive, and looks a lot like Adobe After Effects. However, Adobe After Effects. Commotion has a solid if has far-superior retouching and matte-creation tools. toolset for creating mattes and compositing footage, and it can also perform some sophisticated video-painting that After changes to it back in Photoshop. You have Where Commotion excels, though, is in Effects cannot. It has a comprehensive to close all the layers relating to the file in cleaning, retouching and stabilizing footage. set of natural-media brushes for just such Commotion (or save them as new footage It includes tools for removing wires from a purpose, and a friendly, intuitive interface. files), and resave and re-import – which effects shots, creating composites, and has Until version 3.0, it didn’t have layers is a real pain, and limits the claimed some advanced chromakeying. Its matte – so it was not really a threat to Adobe’s integration between the two programs. tools are exemplary, and for blue (green/red, big effects package. Since then, Commotion etc) screen work there’s little that can touch has become more and more like After Layering it on it. The Pro version includes the world-class Effects; it even looks like it with it’s However, Commotion has its own layer Primatte Keyer for extracting a subject Project window and layered timeline. grouping system that allows you to create from any colour background, and Composite New to version 4.0 is the ability to nested compositions just like you can in Wizard filters – for refining mattes and import layered Photoshop files. These files After Effects. It uses folders to group layers, suppressing colour spill – result in perfect retain layer-blending modes, masks and so you can more easily manage a multi- mattes, even from less than perfect footage. transparency. You begin with a Photoshop layered composite, and you can add a single Commotion has some excellent features image file, then bring it into Commotion matte, effects or colour adjustments to a for effects work, such as the Image Lounge to add animated effects. Adjustment group folder. You can also export a layer or plug-ins. These include the True Camera Good on the tracks layers don’t come in, since Commotion a group of layers as a separate file that can Blur filter that can accurately recreate the Commotion’s 2D motion tracking doesn’t have them, but layer masks can be be re-imported and used again in different iris artefacts of a camera-lens system, and is very good. It enables you problematic too. Any of the other Photoshop projects. This also allows you to create Real Shadow that can create a realistic to Stabilize shaky footage, 6.0 layer features such as Folders, Layer libraries of animations or effects settings graduated shadow at any angle – essential or to flawlessly composite Styles will also be discarded or imported by exporting single layers – a handy feature. for compositing green/blue screen elements a 3D element into a moving as blank layers, but live text will at least Time remapping is another new feature. onto backgrounds. The Average Frames background plate. The red line come in as a rendered text-layer. A problem It allows you to stretch a clip so that a command that can create a high-quality still represents the motion of the we found is that, with a Photoshop file 100-frame sequence can span 200 frames, image from video or film footage (as long as chimney that’s being tracked. imported into Commotion, you can’t save or, conversely, shrink it to 50 frames. there is no movement in the shot). To prevent stuttery clips, new frames Commotion has become ever more are created by blending existing ones. reliant on fast hardware. You need bucket Clips can be stretched to any value, loads of RAM, and if you try to use it on not just double or half the original length. anything but the fastest, most capacious When viewing your clips – stretched or Mac it can become leaden. This is not so otherwise – Commotion uses RAM to play much of a problem these days with memory them back in real time. To maximize speed, being dirt cheap, and G4 towers capable of you should try to load only as many frames containing 1.5GB of the stuff. as will fit in available RAM. You can access frames beyond your RAM capacity, but Macworld’s buying advice Commotion will start spooling frames Creating sophisticated and seamless to and from the hard disk, slowing things composites and retouching is Commotion’s down. When working with multiple layers, primary purpose, and it does so brilliantly. things get even more complicated, since If you tend towards the effects and 3D side, Commotion must render the composite and then After Effects or Discreet’s Effect* may load frames to RAM to maintain real-time be a better option – but for dealing with playback. With many layers and effects, real footage, there’s little to beat it. it can get very slow. Simon Danaher

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hile rummaging through System management your System Folder, you have W undoubtedly discovered that Chaos Master your hard drive is crammed with what appear to be unnecessary files. Wouldn’t 1.2 it be wonderful if there were a utility that Publisher: Casady & Greene www.casadyg.com could help you cull those dispensable Distributor: Softline documents and applications? Two utilities – 01883 745 111 Casady & Greene’s Chaos Master 1.2.1 and Pros: Finds duplicate and Aladdin Systems’ Spring Cleaning 4.0 – extraneous files; helps locate provide a measure of help, though they online updates. lack the means to make intelligent choices Cons: Can’t distinguish about which files should go and which Bring out your dead these files aren’t exact duplicates and that between necessary and should stay. Chaos Master helps you avoid problems with Guessing game unnecessary files; poor out-of-date applications and control panels Care to take a stab at which of these Mac OS X filtering; limited options. Min specs: PowerPC; Something in common via the VersionTracker.com Web site. files are disposable? Mac OS 8.1-9.x Both Chaos Master and Spring Cleaning Price: £59.99 including VAT. scour your Mac’s hard drive for duplicate Star Rating: ★★★/5.6 files, unattached aliases, empty folders, Spring ahead you should be careful about discarding orphaned preferences, and Internet cache Spring Cleaning is the more thorough of the them, unwary users could easily jettison Spring files. In addition, each allows you to two programs. In our tests, Chaos Master important files. This thoroughness might uninstall applications and their associated was unable to find a duplicate copy of be less problematic if Spring Cleaning Cleaning 4.0 files, and to slim extraneous code from SimpleText that Spring Cleaning had no offered more-comprehensive filtering. Publisher: Aladdin Systems “fat” applications – those that include trouble locating. Spring Cleaning also Alas, its filters are too broad. For example, www.aladdinsys.com both PowerPC and 680x0 code. unearthed a greater variety of Internet the MailCleaner module lets you filter Distributor: Softline Pros: Finds duplicate and The two programs aren’t identical, cache files. And it offers far more options attachments only by date and name. The extraneous files; helpful however. Aside from being the only one that for dealing with files once you’ve found ability to exclude attachments by size and iClean utility; multiple options. runs natively in Mac OS X, Spring Cleaning them – you can launch them, trash them, origin would also be helpful. Chaos Master’s Cons: Can’t distinguish has two features Chaos Master doesn’t: a or move or duplicate them to a folder or filters are no better, offering just a couple between necessary and MailCleaner module that lets you remove a StuffIt archive, and you can undo some of options. unnecessary files; poor attachments from Eudora, Outlook Express, of these actions with Spring Cleaning’s filtering. and Entourage email archives; and iClean, Restore command. With Chaos Master, you Macworld’s Buying Advice Min specs: PowerPC; a useful utility (also sold separately) that can only launch, trash, or move files, and Spring Cleaning is more useful than Chaos Mac OS 8.1 or higher. lets you selectively remove Web cookies the program lacks a Restore command. Master, thanks to its ability to search Price: £49.99 including VAT. Star Rating: ★★★/6.3 and delete Internet history files. But only But Spring Cleaning can be too more carefully and extensively, particularly Chaos Master can check the version number thorough. When looking for duplicates, for among Internet cache files. Used carelessly, of your applications and control panels instance, it lists not only real duplicates but however, either utility is more hindrance and provide links to online updates also files that simply have the same name. than help. – see “Bring out your dead”, above. While the program clearly indicates that Christopher Breen

he release of version Mac OS X 10.1 Like Mac OS X for Dummies (reviewed, Reference book (see pages 80-85) and major August 2001), Maria Langer’s Mac OS X: T applications optimized for it (such Visual Quickstart Guide is a great help for Mac OS X: as Microsoft’s Office v.X, see pages 87-91) experienced Mac users and novices alike. are sure to increase the swelling ranks of Both books cover much the same ground, Visual users for Apple’s next-generation operating but Langer’s has many more screenshots, Quickstart system. Some of these people will be and is less chatty. experienced Macintosh users; others The 250-page Visual Quickstart Guide will be newcomers to personal computing. book takes a step-by-step approach, using Publisher: Peachpit Press While Mac OS X has many navigational screenshots to guide your every mouse roll www.peachpit.com ISBN: ISBN: 0-201-70900-7 strengths that OS 9 can only dream of, old and keyboard tap. Areas covered include: Pros: Concise explanations Mac hands are going to take time to get OS X setup; Finder basics; file management; backed-up by visuals. used to the new ways. Almost immediately, Finder techniques, applications; printing; Cons: Maybe a little too you miss the functionality of the old Apple Internet; Sherlock; and System Preferences. matter of fact. and Applications menus, and rail against There are quick tips all along the you through plugging in a printer before Price: £13.99 the Dock. To start with, many will get lost journey to enlightenment, as well as a explaining OS X’s Print Center, for example ★★★★ Star Rating: /8.5 in the new Finder views. And, as anyone decent section on Apple’s iTunes. Nowhere – and makes a few jokes along the way, the who’s kept up to date with Photoshop or near enough space is given to Apple’s Visual Quickstart Guide calmly shows you Office will tell you, learning new shortcuts excellent iTools – although the Dummies exactly what each stage of the OS X makes you curse your own fingers. book is equally brief on this important part process looks like, and explains your of Macintosh computing. options concisely. With both at your side, you’ll quickly get to grips with Apple’s new Read our sample chapter of Mac OS X: Visual Quickstart Guide, included as Macworld’s buying advice operating system – and more easily jump a free booklet with this issue of Macworld. A 25% discount is available to If you’re fearful of making the move to into a safer, more modern world of personal Macworld readers; go to www.it-minds.com/goto/vqsguides for full details. OS X, get both books. Where Dummies computing. Apologies for the incorrect URL on the back of the booklet. goes into more general details – it talks Simon Jary

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latbed scanners do a great job on Film scanners prints and other paper-based art, Film scanners compared and a decent job on medium- or large- F COMPANY PRODUCT NAME STAR RATING PRICE (inc. VAT) CONTACT RESOLUTION INTERFACE PROS CONS format film. But if you want to scan 35mm CanoScan (pixels per inch) or APS film (and wind-up with a print that’s ★★★ FS4000US bigger than a postage stamp), you need a Canon CanoScan /6.8 £699 0121 680 8062 4,000 USB, SCSI Least expensive in its class. Rudimentary software; slow Manufacturer: Canon film scanner. The good news is that film FS4000US www.canon.co.uk ★★★ Star Rating: /6.8 scanners have never been more affordable. Microtek ArtixScan 4000t ★★★★/8.1 £699 01782 753 300 4,000 SCSI Includes calibration target Expensive; grainy results from colour Macworld Lab rounded up seven www.microtekeurope.co.uk and profiling software. negatives. ArtixScan 35mm film scanners, all priced below Minolta Dimage Scan ★★★/6.8 £379 01908 200 400 2,438 USB Inexpensive; good results Lowest resolution; limited dynamic range; 4000t £1,300 (including VAT), and put them Dual II AF-282OU www.dimage.minolta.com with colour negatives. rudimentary software. through their paces. Although we were Manufacturer: Microtek Minolta Dimage Scan ★★★★/8.4 £849 01908 200 400 2,820 SCSI Excellent results with colour negatives. Rudimentary software. Star Rating: ★★★★/8.1 impressed by the scanners’ quality, Elite F-2900 www.dimage.minolta.com we found significant differences in cost, Dimage resolution, dynamic range, speed, and the Nikon Coolscan IV ED ★★★★/8.1 £659 020 8541 4440 2,900 USB Very good software; Needs multipass scanning to usability of their accompanying software. www.nikon.co.uk automatic dust and scratch removal. obtain best results, hence slow. Scan Dual II The scanners fall into two classes: the Nikon Super Coolscan ★★★★/8.5 £1,299 020 8541 4440 4,000 FireWire Very good software; Needs multipass scanning to obtain AF-282OU Canon CanoScan FS4000US, the Microtek 4000ED www.nikon.co.uk automatic dust and scratch removal; best results, hence slow. Manufacturer: Minolta ArtixScan 4000t, the Nikon Super Coolscan good dynamic range. Star Rating: ★★★/6.8 4000ED, and the Polaroid SprintScan 4000 Polaroid SprintScan 4000 ★★★★/8.9 £599 01582 632 000 4,000 SCSI Excellent software; Grainy scans from colour negatives. all offer 4,000-pixels-per-inch (ppi) Editors’ Choice www.polaroidwork.com speedy; excellent results from positives. Dimage Scan resolution; the others – the 2,438-ppi Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-282OU, Elite F-2900 the 2,820-ppi Minolta Dimage Scan Elite Manufacturer: Minolta F-2900, and the 2,900-ppi Nikon Coolscan Macworld’s buying advice negatives, comes with excellent software, which slows scanning to a crawl. Finally, Star Rating: ★★★★/8.4 IV ED – capture fewer pixels. All the high- We found that the Super Coolscan, depends on the scanning options chosen. It’s difficult to pick a clear winner from and is reasonably priced. Our runner-up if you scan negatives rather than positives, resolution scanners have SCSI interfaces, for which Nikon claims a dMax of 4.2, did Of the high-resolution scanners, the this very capable bunch, but we declare is the Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED; the Minolta Dimage Scan Elite F-2900 Coolscan except the Super Coolscan, which is a poorer job of pulling detail out of shadow CanoScan was considerably slower than the Polaroid SprintScan 4000 the all-around it produces excellent scans, even with does a great job – without making IV ED FireWire-only; the CanoScan has both SCSI areas than the more conservatively rated the others when connected via SCSI, and champ – it’s fast, produces excellent results damaged originals – but only when you jump through hoops. Manufacturer: Nikon and USB. Alone among the lower-resolution scanners when used in single-pass mode. even slower when connected through USB. from positives and decent results from you use the multipass scanning feature, Bruce Fraser Star Rating: ★★★★/8.1 scanners, the Dimage Scan Elite has a The only way we could get the Super The SprintScan was consistently the fastest SCSI interface; the Dimage Scan Dual Coolscan to live up to its dMax claim was when we enabled colour management Super and the Coolscan are USB-only. to enable the 16x multiscanning option in all the scanners, but the Super Coolscan Just two of the scanners we tested (which averages 16 separate scans, and took the lead when we disabled colour compact, active area of 127.6-x-92.8mm, Coolscan were compatible with Mac OS X. The hence takes 16 times longer than a single management. Graphics tablet/input device which was fine for my needs. 4000ED Dimage Scan Dual did fine in OS X’s pass) and to turn off both autoexposure Of the lower-resolution scanners, the Some of the greatest improvements in Manufacturer: Nikon Classic mode, as did the CanoScan and colour management. Nikon Coolscan was the fastest on 24-bit Graphire2 are to be found in the software Star Rating: ★★★★/8.5 (when we selected its USB port). The ArtixScan pulled the most detail scans, while the Dimage Scan Elite was Graphire2 driver, now at version 4.6. This controls Manufacturer: Wacom www.wacomeurope.com from the shadows, but it also introduced the fastest on high-bit scans. The Dimage Distributor: Computers Unlimited mouse speed – but in this version, Wacom SprintScan The sharper image a lot of noise. The SprintScan produced Scan Dual lagged behind both, despite 020 8200 8282 has introduced controls for acceleration We found that the 4,000-ppi scanners the best detail with the least noise, and capturing fewer pixels. Pros: Easy to use and to set-up; highly that get you around the desktop faster 4000 captured more detail than the lower- both Minolta scanners yielded decent accurate; application-specific settings than ever. Each device can be configured Manufacturer: Polaroid resolution models, rather than simply shadow detail, despite their more Controlling behaviour feature is valuable. separately for different applications, Star Rating: ★★★★/8.9 creating a larger file, but we also found that conservative ratings. The Coolscan and the All the scanners tested have decent drivers, Cons: Using three buttons can be a little so I was able to get the necessary control they were merciless regarding flaws in the CanoScan both lost detail in the darkest but Nikon and Polaroid share the award awkward for a hardened Macintosh user; as I whacked the Web and ran effects original images – chromatic aberrations in areas, rendering them as almost solid black. for most-improved software. NikonScan 3.0, the rocking switch on the pen is awkward in Adobe Photoshop. Once the controls for the dexterously-challenged. lenses and softness due to camera shake which drives both Nikon scanners, is so are customized, they change to match Min specs: USB are much more obvious at high resolutions. Negative findings much better than its predecessor that it’s Price: £64 excluding VAT. whichever application is open. The Super Coolscan produced sharper scans We were a little surprised that the Minolta barely recognizable. Star Rating: ★★★★/8.3 The three-button mouse has been given than the ArtixScan and SprintScan, and the scanners did by far the best job with colour Polaroid still bundles the idiosyncratic a redesign; it’s now more attractive to look CanoScan was the least sharp (though the negative film. The Nikon scanners blew PolaColor Insight, but now it also includes at, as well as comfortable to use than its LAB TEST differences were slight). out the highlights to solid white, as did the the very capable Silverfast plug-in from predecessor. It’s also slightly heavier, which We found surprisingly little difference CanoScan. The SprintScan and ArtixScan Lasersoft. acom has updated its makes it more controllable than before. in the amount of detail revealed by the preserved both highlights and shadows Microtek has also improved its plug-in Graphire tablet with the The pen is also easier to grip, and feels so you could end up losing mouse 2,438-ppi Dimage Scan Dual and the but got grainier results than the Minoltas. driver to fully support ColorSync, and it W launch of Graphire2, the slightly more robust and controllable than control. Graphire2 offers a rougher surface, 2,900-ppi Coolscan. The Dimage Scan Elite We still haven’t seen a scanner that can offers a complete set of tools for tweaking second generation of its popular consumer its predecessor. The side-mounted button, so control is much better than before. produced scans that were slightly sharper produce good results from colour negatives scans. The software from Minolta and mouse and pen set. Graphire2 consists of however, is a trap for clumsy fingers. As than those from the other lower-resolution automatically. If you’re prepared to do some Canon is more rudimentary. a battery-free cordless mouse, a pressure- the owner of a full set of ten thumbs, I’d Macworld’s buying advice scanners, but we had to look very fine-tuning, you can get decent results from Both Nikon scanners include Digital sensitive pen, and a graphics tablet about recommend the pen for use within certain This is an excellent alternative to an hard to find the differences here, too. colour negatives using any of the scanners ICE3, a system for detecting and removing the size of a conventional mouse mat applications, but not necessarily as a basic old-style puck mouse. The tablet sits on Vendor claims about dynamic range except the CanoScan. However, you’ll find surface defects. The software does an that connects to the Mac via USB. desktop navigation tool. More dextrous a 2.5-metre USB cable – so it has better – the range of tones a scanner can capture, that you have a lot less work to do with amazing job of eliminating dust and Unlike the original Graphire, it’s colleagues may disagree. The tablet ships reach than Apple’s optical Pro Mouse. from light to dark – can be hard to judge, the Minolta scanners than with the others. scratches, though it lengthens scanning only available in a steel-blue colour. with a detachable pen-stand, which I found It’s not just a mouse either; the pen works because there’s no universally accepted times considerably, and softens the image As with the original Graphire, the a little flimsy, and eventually stopped using. very well for creative graphics applications method of measurement. Speed bumps somewhat. If you always scan pristine tablet boasts a resolution of 1,000dpi, using The tablet has a lift-up transparent and games – hardcore gamers will benefit Most specifications give a maximum Comparing scanner speeds is tricky, both film in a clean room, ICE3 has little electromagnetic resonance based on radio cover – under which photos can be placed from its precise control, though I tend density (dMax), but they don’t quantify because the scanners don’t all capture the to offer you. If you deal with a lot of waves to identify the tool’s position on the for tracing. This cover has been improved. to use the mouse more frequently. the amount of noise present. same number of pixels, and because speed old, damaged originals, it’s a lifesaver. tablet’s surface. It also has a useful, but The original version was a little too smooth, Jonny Evans

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Hardware audio sampler on the tiny displays found on hardware samplers, you have the advantage of on-screen editing plus waveform editing. Emagic Xtreme The EXS24 can be opened in up to 16 Audio Instrument objects in Logic Audio – if you Sampler EXS24 have enough RAM. I allocated 128MB to Publisher: Emagic www.emagic.de Logic Audio, for example. Each instance Distributor: Sound Technology 01462 480 000 of the EXS24 offers up to 64 mono or Pros: Allows you to play music- and sound- stereo voices. How many you can actually effects samples digitally at the highest play at once depends on the CPU speed quality from your computer using Emagic and availability. software. The EXS24 also provides high-quality Cons: You need lots of RAM and a fast digital playback at up to 24-bit and 96KHz. – ideally dual-processor – computer for The audio quality you achieve in practice best results. will depend on the quality of your D/A To achieve the best results with the Music plugging Min specs: Emagic Logic Audio/MicroLogic converters when playing back, and your EXS24 you not only need the fastest dual- The plug-in window available AV 4.0 or higher; PowerPC 604; Mac OS 8.6 or later (USB requires Mac OS 9.0.4); A/D converters when recording new processor CPU, but also lots – and I mean for each instance of the EXS24 128MB RAM. samples. The user-interface is clear lots – of RAM. To get the maximum number gives access to all of the EXS24’s Price: £259 including VAT. and straightforward – in contrast to of voices to play, for example, you need to synthesizer parameters. Here Star Rating: ★★★★/8.2 many hardware samplers that are far load samples in 32-bit floating format into you can alter filter settings more ‘fiddly’ to use. RAM – and 24-bit 96kHz samples (if you and envelopes, offset pitches The supplied sample library is fine, use these) are going to use up even more of samples, set up portamento but does not compete with the many memory. effects, and so forth. You can he EXS24 sampler delivers everything libraries available from third-parties in change this window to a Controls you would expect from a hardware various formats. Fortunately, the EXS24 can Macworld’s buying advice view using a flip menu in the T sampler – at much less cost if you read and convert Akai-format samples using Compared with the cost of buying a upper window area. This view already own a suitable computer and audio the Akai Convert feature in the Instrument hardware sampler with similar capabilities, lists all the parameters, and lets card. Your computer’s CPU provides the Editor. Support for other formats is promised the EXS24 looks like a bargain. However, you adjust them using sliders number-crunching, and your audio card soon. You can load in samples using the don’t forget the cost of the computer, or by typing numbers – or, in handles the audio input and output. EXS24 Instrument Editor. Here you arrange audio card and converters that you need some cases, using pop-up menus. A major advantage is the seamless way your samples into Zones (keygroups), to run the software. You could easily spend in which the sampler integrates into your and combine these into Groups so £4,000, or more, for the highest-quality kit. sequencing software. Instead of editing you can velocity-switch or layer sounds. Mike Collins

support this. It also works with ASIO Hardware audio sampler cards, ReWire, MAS 2.0, DirectIO and DirectConnect – providing excellent integration with Cubase VST, Logic Audio, Unity DS-1 v.2.1 Digital Performer and Pro Tools. Publisher: BitHeadz www.bitheadz.com Distributor: Unity Audio 01440 785 843 Pros: Very useable sample library provided; Mixed up excellent support for other sample library Once the audio from the synthesizer is formats. brought into the sequencer, you can apply Cons: Can be fiddly to set up; uses a lot of effects, record the audio, and automate windows. the mixdown. Record to disk ‘live’ or from Min specs: PowerPC 604; Mac OS 8.1; a sequencer, or play the Unity DS-1 ‘live’ 300MB free space on hard disk. or from your sequencer. Price: £305 excluding VAT. Using a MIDI controller such as the Star Rating: ★★★/6.6 Phat.Boy, you can even control the synth parameters in real time. However, installation is rather fiddly, he Unity DS-1 – one of the first with several extra files needed to configure software samplers developed for for OMS and for the different sequencers. Macworld’s buying advice Unity at one T the Mac – has been updated to The Unity DS-1 Keyboard lets you The Unity DS-1 offers integration with a The Unity DS-1 Editor lets version 2.1. Over 300MB of sounds is conveniently check that everything is wider range of software than most of its you modify the factory sounds, provided to get you started, and the Unity working OK, so you get instant gratification competitors, such as the E-Magic EXS24 or create sounds using two DS-1 can read Akai, SampleCell, Sound by simply opening the Unity DS-1 MIDI (see review above), and has comprehensive oscillators and two filters. Apply Designer II, AIFF, Wave, and other formats Processor to play sounds from your external editing, processing and mixing features. EQ, delay, chorus and distortion – providing excellent compatibility with MIDI controller. On the downside, the sheer number of effects using insert effects, and existing sample libraries. Here, you can access the installed windows, and the way the software is split two global effects let you add Version 2.1 has support for sounds, set-up splits or layers, and use into several separate applications, makes overall reverbs and delays. The multiprocessor Macs with AltiVec G4 the arpeggiator. installation something of a pain, and Unity DS-1 has up to 256 stereo- optimization, along with many other You can play sounds using the Unity operation somewhat less than instant. voice polyphony. The Engine enhancements – including the ability to DS-1 Mixer, which lets you monitor audio Technically, it performs well and sounds supports up to 96KHz sample rate, work as an RTAS plug-in within Pro Tools, activity on all channels and control the good, and the price is fair. with 32-bit internal processing. or as a VST plug-in in applications that global-effects processors. Mike Collins Save as 8-, 16-, or 24-bit files.

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ocuSlim is the panacea for all Image optimizer production departments. It checks D a QuarkXPress document and automatically processes its images in DocuSlim Photoshop via the dedicated Image Robot 2.1.4 plug-in and action set. Excess areas are Publisher: Gluon www.gluon.com cropped, images are resized and replaced Distributor: XChange at 100 per cent, and turned or skewed to 020 7588 5588 be re-imported at zero rotation. It can even Pros: Optimizes images, convert RGB images to CMYK, flip LZW hugely reducing their file sizes; easy to use. compression for TIFFs, and resample Cons: A few quirks. to a set resolution. Price: £129; Docuslim The main processing dialog now Enhanced, £229. Both prices offers control over each individual process, exclude VAT. including colour-space change to greyscale, Min specs: QuarkXPress 4.04 the ability to ignore master-page items, and or later; Adobe Photoshop 5.0 whether to process the current page, spread or later. or full document. Files in a particular folder Star Rating: ★★★★/8.7 can be ignored; as can images whose resolutions fall outside a range. Pasteboard items can be deleted automatically. DocuSlim never overwrites existing Another useful Enhanced facility is that Macworld’s buying advice files, renaming the optimized images and of processing each instance of an image. DocuSlim is a lifesaver. Projects that would resulting XPress document. It used to be A magazine might use a large version of usually have to be burnt to CD and posted awkward to pick out optimized versions an image in a feature and a thumbnail can be reduced in size and sent by ISDN in a folder full of images, but v.2 lets you of it on the contents pages. Each is or even as an emailed attachment – I’ve save all new images to a specific folder. handled as though it was a different image, seen a 120MB A2 poster reduced to 12MB! Small is best (above, right) The settings can be saved as a preset. labelling the optimized versions differently. DocuSlim now recognizes non- DocuSlim’s Job List lets you turn The Enhanced version of DocuSlim And with the direct connection into Photoshop images, and visually shows off any individual images you takes the process a stage further. The file Photoshop, DocuSlim can also make use which file is currently being optimized. It want left untouched (such as format for all images can be set to TIFF of other action sets. Call up a Photoshop has a few quirks; the estimated disk-image a high-resolution logo) and lists or EPS, though care has to be taken when plug-in and use an effect on all selected size after optimization is sometimes way all processes that will take place. working with colourized greyscale TIFFs. images. There’s even a facility to create out, and it occasionally messes up text This six-page brochure reduced These lose their colouring when converted low-resolution versions of images for runarounds, but all-in-all it’s a superb from 146MB to just 39MB to EPS, and yet still appear to be coloured use with OPI software or Gluon’s own utility and thoroughly recommended. – easily ISDNable... in QuarkXPress. ArtSwapper application. Vic Lennard

axExpress is the only device- Fax Selector Control Panel and using Fax software independent networkable fax the normal print commands from an F software for the Mac, requiring application’s menu bar. just a Class 2 fax modem. It offers the Version 6 retains the basic functionality, FaxExpress kind of features expected from standard concentrating instead on improving the Network 6.0.1 fax software, including being able to user-friendliness of the system. The main Publisher: Glenwarne fax pictures as pseudo-greyscales rather fax dialogues have been redesigned for 01628 667 702 than black blocks, the flexibility to create ease-of-use and include a small status-box www.faxexpress.co.uk a fax from almost any application and detailing the number of pages and when Pros: Easy to set up and use; send it to a group of people if needed, the fax will be sent. The phonebook has small memory requirement; and decent quality printouts. some new facilities, including multiple very reliable; useful new features. Basic installation is simple enough. destinations, and there’s a stand-alone Cons: Bitmapped printouts The server hosts the main FaxExpress Server phonebook editor that allows entries to be unless all fonts are accessible application and FaxViewer (which controls changed without having to access them via by the server. all received and sent faxes). Each client has FaxExpress dialogs. Cover pages, previously Price: Server pack, £75; a Fax Chooser item plus three applications: rather rough-&-ready, can now be multi- 3-user pack, £175; FaxViewer, FaxStatus and FastFax. The latter page and can include graphics, a scanned for FaxSTF and FaxExpress, and the ability 5-user, £225; 10-user, £400; is used to send a quick fax from the desktop signature, different typefaces, and the to open faxes from Global Village and 25-user, £700; 50-user, – essentially a cover sheet without an ability to recall the last message. Aside FaxSTF programs. £1,200 (all excluding VAT). attachment – while FaxStatus is similar from the last facility, these have also Min specs: System 7.1 to Mac OS 9.2 to the Mac’s PrintMonitor, allowing you been extended to the FastFax application. Macworld’s buying advice Star Rating: ★★★★/8.5 to control the fax queue. Communication FaxViewer has been substantially FaxExpress is easy to use and almost bomb- between server and clients is through enhanced. Text and ‘stickies’ can be proof. Being QuickDraw-based, it relies on FaxMessenger, a Startup Items application. added to received faxes with additional having each document’s fonts accessible by Sign of the times Once installed, the initial set-up highlighting tools and a new archiving the server (and at least ATM Light installed New features include the is equally straightforward. Each client system. On the server side, the Log File now for font smoothing), resulting in impressive ability to include graphics and connects to the server via the Chooser and records both incoming and outgoing faxes, print quality at the receiving end. If you a scanned signature as part shares the various cover-page designs and and the first page of a sent fax can be want a reliable networked fax-system, of the cover page, and to phonebooks. Sending a fax is then as easy printed with the date and time overprinted. look no further. FaxExpress delivers. recall the last message. as holding down a hot key set via the Quick Other new features include de-installers Vic Lennard

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ot long after the release of arch- Symbolic gesture Beta preview rival Macromedia’s FreeHand 10 You wait ages for a symbols feature, and then N (Macworld, January 2001) comes a dozen turn up at the same time. Working Illustrator 10 an upgrade to Adobe’s vector-drawing with Illustrator symbols is more than a Publisher: Adobe package Illustrator 10. Both are memory-efficient workflow feature – it’s 020 8606 4001 conspicuously ‘Carbonized’ to run natively great fun. www.adobe.co.uk under Mac OS X. We took a closer look at a Pros: Powerful symbols late beta of the new version of Illustrator, to rotate. This could be handy when exporting feature and toolset; excellent see whether Adobe’s first-ever commercial artwork to a package like LiveMotion or envelope distortion; supports OS X application really chops the Dijon. After Effects, where you can animate the scripting and variable data. Cons: Flash export options We discovered a delicious clutch of new flares over the top of other graphics without remain limited; no support for tools, improved Web-related functions, and loss of quality. multiple pages. an excellent implementation of envelopes, The principal new Web feature here is Min specs: PowerPC G3; Mac symbols and other features that the automated image-slicing. So while you can OS 9.1/9.2 or X.1; 128MB program had lacked for way too long. now prepare image slices using the pizza- RAM; 180MB free disk space. Illustrator lets you draw pictures with cutter tool first seen in Photoshop 6.0, you Price: £329 excluding VAT; bézier vector tools, while incorporating can even more easily let Illustrator do all upgrade from previous bitmap graphics in your artwork; you can the work for you. Just select your artwork versions £115; upgrade for even apply plug-in filter effects to either. or an isolated group and tell Illustrator to Photoshop, InDesign and PageMaker users £205; Over the years, Illustrator has accumulated slice it up; you can of course customise the competitive upgrade from a vast quantity of additional tools and number and size of the slices as preferred. CorelDraw or FreeHand £205. special functions, from freeform calligraphic Slice of life The clever aspect is that nothing is actually and scribbling tools to graphs and charts. As well as tracing up Web slice outlines, Illustrator can manage slices sliced until you export the artwork, while Popular features in recent releases have on an object basis, automatically re-mapping the boundaries as you edit artwork. the slice boundaries themselves conform included a graphic paintbrush, Smart Guides logically rather than arbitrarily to the vector that provide on-the-fly snap-to guides for shapes that make up the graphics. This such things as diagonals and tangents, feature in Illustrator 9 was the introduction Styles palette. All these tools are pressure- means you can carry on drawing and and the unique Gradient Mesh that allows of PostScript-clean transparency that far sensitive if you have a Wacom tablet, editing on the page, even moving sliced you to fill an object with a multidirectional surpasses transparency features in any although we were able to test this only objects around, and let the program mix of colour gradients, and adjust the other vector package, except perhaps under Mac OS 9.1; Wacom’s long-promised re-map the slices automatically in real time. Compound shapes are now fully editable, transitions with vector handles. The killer Deneba Canvas. Mac OS X drivers hadn’t been released Unfortunately, Adobe hasn’t taken the finally putting the old one-way-trip If we had to pick the killer feature in at the time of writing (see News, page 24). opportunity to boost its Flash animation Pathfinder tools out to pasture for good. Illustrator 10, it would be the new concept Symbolism in Illustrator 10 represents export feature meaningfully, except to You can create complex objects, including of ‘symbolism’. Symbols in any other a classic example of Adobe belatedly fill a few glaring gaps left in Illustrator 9, masks and clipping paths, by compounding drawing package are quite plain: you create catching up with other vector-art packages, such as the ability to loop a frame a number of simple shapes, but still be able a graphic, copy it to a library palette, then only to overtake and leave the competition sequence. That said, it works nicely with the to move and manipulate the component drag multiple copies back onto your artwork choking in its exhaust. Symbols palette, in that repeated objects shapes individually, or re-release them as required. This keeps your artwork A number of other new tools make based on symbols are filtered to the Flash from the compound altogether. compact in terms of file size, since each their debut on the Illustrator toolbar, file – making the file smaller. Adobe pays Another issue worth noting is that instance of the graphic is just a virtual ranging from clever items to others we’ll more attention to the rich-media SVG format certain parts of the program feel more placeholder to the original symbol. It also be charitable enough to call ‘interesting’. In it has championed for the past few years. responsive than they used to, such as lets you edit or entirely replace that original the former category, you can now draw fast You can open native SVG graphics back screen refresh with the graphic paintbrush, in order to update all linked instances precision curves with an Arc tool – just like into Illustrator for re-editing and re-scripting. although it’s difficult to know if this throughout your artwork automatically. you can in Canvas – along with straight-line amounts to a significant performance segments and instant grids; both Script righting improvement. Symbol city rectangular and polar. Another tool we liked In the area of scripting, Illustrator 10 Adobe software devotees should also be In addition to a Symbols palette, Illustrator was the Magic Wand. Instead of selecting turns out to be an unexpectedly versatile cheered to find that Illustrator 10 continues (Above) A lens-flare tool in an illustration (Below) You can select objects with packs into the upgrade eight new symbol- areas based on similar colour values – as product. It is now fully JavaScriptable and to work happily with its sibling packages, package – daft or inspired? This flare similar fills, strokes and opacity settings related tools that no one else has thought a Magic Wand normally does in a paint AppleScriptable, making it one of the most and, in some cases, better than before. You remains a vector, so can be animated with a single click using the new Magic of. Not content with letting you drag-&-drop package – Illustrator’s Magic Wand selects script-customizable professional graphics can rely upon layers, masks, transparency, when exporting artwork to LiveMotion, Wand tool. It’s handy for highlighting symbols into artwork, or even using symbols objects based on similar attributes. Choose apps since the release of CorelDraw 8 on and so on to be maintained when After Effects, and so on. partially hidden objects, too. Envelope distortion (above) for loading the graphic paintbrush, Adobe which attributes to seek out (fill, stroke, the PC. More interesting still is the way you transferring native files to and from An envelope is a bounding box around a selected graphic or group: by reshaping takes the placeholder concept and turns weight, opacity and blending mode in any can attach external data links to graphics Photoshop 6.0. Similarly, the new slicing the envelope, you distort everything inside it in unison. The best Illustrator could it into (would you believe) something fun. combination), determine tolerance values themselves. You can mark up objects feature works particularly well when come up with in the past was the limited Free Transform tool, or you could buy First off is a Sprayer tool for pouring for each, and just click on an object on in artwork to depend upon entries in sending artwork directly to GoLive 5.0. some third-party plug-in envelopes. But with Illustrator 10, a proper set of envelope multiples of your selected symbol onto the the page. Any objects that match are then a database, then dynamically produce The one key issue that Illustrator 10 has features has at last been built into the program, and it’s implemented really well. page as a randomized group. You can then highlighted immediately. You could, for multiple variable copies in an automated failed to address is the limitation of its single- As with FreeHand, for example, you can select some objects and apply one of drag with the Shifter to nudge them around, example, locate all items containing the process. For example, a Web page can page methodology. For some designers, a range of preset envelope shapes (arc, fish-eye, flag, and so on), each with its own the Scruncher to pull them closer together, same gradient fill, and then ensure they prompt a visitor for their name and favourite this is a restriction decisive enough to stop dialog window and adjustment sliders. Alternatively, you can apply a Mesh Warp the Sizer to grow and shrink them, and the conform to the same linear rotation. colour. Once entered, this data can be fed them switching from a multi-page illustration that drops not just a bounding box around the selected shapes, but a grid of vector Spinner to rotate them. These tools work On the (ahem) ‘interesting’ side of through an Illustrator-prepared document package such as FreeHand, CorelDraw, handles over the top as well – similar to the grid used in a Gradient Mesh. You can like brushes, affecting only the symbols things, Illustrator 10 introduces a Flare tool. to deliver back an SVG movie that contains Canvas, or indeed just about anything else then distort the interior of the selection independently from the outer envelope. within the group that you actually drag over. It creates lens flares as vector objects and the visitor’s name in the colour he chose. on the market. But existing users will adore Another approach again is to draw a custom vector shape, and then apply it instantly Then you can start playing with the Stainer as such, can’t compete with lens flares in You can now apply live filter effects to what the upgrade brings, and the Mac OS X as an envelope to any selection. An especially nice touch with Illustrator 10 envelopes to re-colour them, the Screener to apply photo-editing packages despite some good SVG objects such as soft drop-shadows, edition looks and runs beautifully. is that bitmap images contained within the selection distort along with everything transparency, and the amazing Styler to anti-alias and fuzzing effects. On the other and this includes text and variable data. That’s not bad for a beta version else. If you’re using a vector shape as a mask over a bitmap, for example text with a gradually apply a different appearance to hand, being vector-based, the flares created Beyond these important new features – we can’t wait to see the real thing. texture fill, you choose whether or not the bitmap remains flat or distorts accordingly. the symbolism based on selections in the are easy to move, resize, re-colour and are a list of smaller improvements. Richard Boardman

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cigar-export business) or create a custom Tropical dictator sim game island of your own – determining its altitude, waterline, distribution of Tropico vegetation and minerals, and population. Publisher: Feral Interactive You can also customize your personality www.feral.co.uk as a ruler, assigning yourself positive traits Distributor: Softline 01883 745 111 (hardworking, a man of the people) and Pros: Lots of detail to keep armchair negative traits (alcoholic, flatulent). These dictators happy; tons of replay value, traits will affect everything from how the due to built-in and custom scenarios. average José on the street sees you to how Cons: Big and complicated maps slow it down; crashes sometimes. adept you are at foreign policy. As in the Min specs: Mac OS 8.6 or later, case of flatulence, say, a trait can even including OS X. affect how much your palace guards are Price: £39.99 including VAT. paid to protect you. Star Rating: ★★★★/8.6 Despite such omnipotence over your environment, you’re no Svengali – you don’t directly control what your Tropicans think and do. But you can certainly influence t’s no wonder so-called god games are them through your actions (or inaction, so very popular – they let you control as the case may be). Fail to build housing, than squalid shacks. You’ll need to build Benevolent dictatorship Ientire worlds and huge populations of schools, or clinics for your populace, for them schools, universities, power plants, In Tropico, you must provide for people (or creatures) according to your every example, and you risk the wrath of socialist and better sources of entertainment. You your people by building farms, whim. I admit, some of my darkest hours factions. Place too heavy an emphasis may even want to consider underwriting schools, industry, and more. as the reigning dictator of the game Tropico on industrial or commercial development the development of hotels, spas, and resort were dominated by dreams of total control. without taking steps to beautify Tropico locations to bring in tourist dollars. Cast as El Presidente of a small Caribbean and reduce pollution, and you’ll incite Of course, you don’t have to go the Cover CD 2 nation, I found the illusion of omnipotence environmentalists to rally against you. humanitarian route, and for some, this is going to my head. Fail to build and maintain a strong military what makes Tropico so appealing. You can Tropico is the latest title from PopTop presence, and you may be ousted by a exploit almost every element of Tropico for Software (makers of Railroad Tycoon II), junta. Meanwhile, you must try to balance your personal interest. You can divert money and it’s published by MacSoft. It’s a real- effective relationships with the outside to a private Swiss bank account. You can time strategy game with a 3D isometric world, keeping both los yanquis and keep the population under your thumb by view (or three-quarters perspective). los comunistas at bay. imposing martial law and issuing draconian Of course as El Presidente, you edicts that make it dangerous for the Banana republic don’t necessarily have to play by the rules. average ciudadano de Tropico to step Tropico puts an interesting twist on the god- Heck, you can make the rules. If the people out of line. In Tropico, it’s all up to you. You can play the 200MB game genre. Rather than having you act as demand an election, do you have to listen Games as complex as Tropico can be Tropico tutorial right now – a deity or an industrial tycoon, you’re the to them? No! At least, not for a while. And intimidating for first-time players. The many install it from our 2nd CD! dictator of a banana republic. No, not the even when you do grant one, you can hire tasks to perform and factors to observe can chain of clothing stores, silly – this banana a team of “specialists” to make sure the overwhelm. PopTop strongly recommends republic is an island in the Caribbean. election results are in your favour. Having that first-time players utilize the built-in As Tropico emerges from colonial obscurity trouble with a particular insurgent who tutorial, and I heartily agree. You can after World War II, your puppet regime threatens the stability of your regime? play the tutorial for free with the 200MB must stay in power through means You can make the insurgent disappear, demo that’s on this month’s second CD. – democratic or fascistic – you choose. but you’ll have to pay for it (and the Tropico also comes with a well-written What makes Tropico different from respect you lose will be damaging). manual that thoroughly explains the game’s so many other simulation games is that, If you’re serious about making Tropico major elements, and provides helpful tables in addition to influencing economics and a better place to live, invest extensively explaining how it works. planning infrastructure, you must manage in improvements to the tiny country’s Another suggestion for first-time the political process of your country. Getting infrastructure. You’ll need to plant crops Tropico dictators is to play your first games your country running is only one problem that can be sold or turned into lucrative in Sandbox mode. You create a custom you’ll face as El Presidente – keeping export goods, such as rum and cigars. scenario by lowering the political difficulty it running is another issue entirely. Exploit local resources, such as mines. to virtually nil and providing yourself with In Tropico, you can either use a series As Tropico’s citizens grow more unlimited funds. This way, you can of preset scenarios with specific goals sophisticated, they’ll expect more from you. familiarize yourself with the mechanics of (guaranteeing fair elections while They’ll want better pay. They’ll want to live the game and learn what works and what maintaining power, or undercutting Cuba’s in houses and apartment buildings rather doesn’t. If not for Tropico’s Sandbox mode, continues page 74

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I’d never have found out how lucrative OpenGL-compatible video card, you’ll get ¡Viva Tropico! a rum distillery can be or how long smoother graphics and richer colours. But Every so often, I find a game that I fear it can take one to turn a profit. if you don’t have a video card that can run I’ll have to delete from my hard drive, Tropico is MacSoft’s first game to Tropico in hardware mode, game play isn’t lest I suffer a major productivity hit. I ship with Mac OS X support – it’s been diminished with the software renderer. lost hours playing, oblivious to the outside Carbonized, and it worked adequately Tropico has no online-play component, world as I tended carefully to mi país, mi on my G4/500 running Mac OS X 10.0.4. but that’s a minor shortcoming. The game Tropico. If you’re a fan of sim games, you Tropico supports hardware-based is fully absorbing, and it’s a lot of fun should definitely plan a vacation to Tropico. graphics acceleration, so if you have an – even without death matches. Peter Cohen

t’s a world where good and evil D&D adventure sometimes merge to grey. It’s the world I of Baldur’s Gate II, successor to its eponymous prequel. Built to integrate the Baldur’s Gate rules of the hugely successful Advanced II: Shadows Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D) role-playing of Amn game universe, the action extends over four CDs – each packed with challenges Publisher: MacPlay set in beautifully rendered landscapes. www.macplay.com Baldur’s Gate I was a five-CD sword-&- Distributor: Softline sorcery marathon that took more hours to 01883 745 111 play than it takes to read Lord of the Rings. Pros: An obsessive title with a Gamers explored every rich nook and cranny rich, engaging story line that of the super-evolved gaming universe, teasingly unfolds like a digesting every aspect of the compelling favourite book; beautiful playing environments. storyline that cast them, with a chosen Cons: Not a game to dip into. group of NPCs (Non-Player Characters), Min specs: 233MHz G3 as the heroes out to save the good folk or faster; 128MB RAM; of the Sword Coast. Mac OS 8.6 or later. You choose your hero’s race – human, Price: £39.99 including VAT. elf, half-elf, dwarf, gnome, etc. You also ★★★★ Star Rating: /8.3 get to choose your character’s profession Carry on sword & sorcery – magician, fighter or cleric, thief or ranger, You now get to carry multiple gems in a gem bag, and multiple scrolls in a scrolls bag paladin, druid or, for non-human races, – this goes some of the way to overcoming the 20-object limit for carried objects in the game. a combination of them all. You choose whether you’re a good, evil, chaotic, neutral or law-abiding soul? Then the game begins. fantasy. Using the Gameranger service to vicious battle-hardened wizards, and It’s the smooth game-play, compelling (www.gameranger.com), Web-savvy hostile hobgoblins to frightening, extremely story line and real sense of identification Mac gamers can team-up to face powerful dragons. You will (eventually) with the characters that made the original challenges, including warring dragons defeat them all, but (to my cost) I learned Baldur’s Gate one of the most successful and mages of infernal power. the vital importance of saving the game. games around. The game-play is very similar to the The game’s world is huge – a vast The central proposition of Baldur’s precursor. The player interface has been continent that you must explore inch by Gate II is that evil lurks within – players given an overhaul, but the controls are for inch. You’ll find friends, enemies and pick decide whether to indulge themselves the most part identical. There’s a new race up clues and quests that will eventually in it, or, by abnegation of the dark side, (Half-Orc), and weapon proficiencies are help you make sense of it all. The game’s transform themselves into the heroes of this more challenging, with more expertise built into chapters, which offers some Top Ten UK Games far-flung outpost of fantastic imagination. categories and fighting styles added. structure and helps boost a feeling of 1 Escape from Monkey It’s a world of intrigue. Gate II lets The interactions between non-player progress as you play it. You’ll need that Island you import characters created in the first characters are relatively amusing – though – an average game of Baldur’s Gate 2 Tomb Raider: title, so players can use familiar characters I tended to find their stock reactions took approximately 100 hours, The Trilogy to explore the action. somewhat uninspiring. Baldur’s Gate II and its successor promises the same. 3 The Sims House Party Players awake caged in a dark, filthy, implements an artificial intelligence in the On the negative side – changing the 4 Tropico unfamiliar place. With a little help, they NPCs, so you can see romance bloom and CDs can be a pain. Now and then it would 5 Tony Hawk’s escape their cage, meet old friends a strife break out within your party – an be nice to take a shortcut to where you Pro Skater 2 nd begin the long, bloody and dangerous entirely new dimension to game play. When need to go, rather than walking across 6 American McGee’s struggle to free themselves from their gaol. a character’s script reacts to an event, you’ll all the terrain. Alice It’s a tough struggle, but the game encounter some amusing happenings – 7 Summoner designers deliver you the action within a sadly not always at the right time. Macworld’s buying advice 8 Tomb Raider Chronicles beautifully rendered playing environment. It’s not all fighting and NPC interaction. Baldur’s gate II is an excellent slice of 9 Baldur’s Gate Tales This version supports an 800-x-600-pixel It’s also got a little touch of magic – well, fantasy action that lovingly recreates the of the Sword Coast resolution, offers a full-screen mode, and a lot of magic actually; everyone you meet rules of AD&D. It’s beautiful to look at with 10 Diablo II Lord supports 3D acceleration. An outstanding seems able to cast a spell. This game is a challenging, complex story line. The title of Destruction new feature is its support for multiplayer unrivalled for the length and breadth of is equally as addictive as its precursor, and gaming over the Web – up to six players spells available for use for all classes. not recommended for gamers with social List supplied by Softline can explore Amn together in a myth-&- It’s also unrivalled for its choice of lives or children. mayhem virtual-friend orgy of digital enemies – from tiny, relatively soft Kobolds Jonny Evans

74 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Search Macworld’s Reviews database online (www.macworld.co.uk), updated throughout the month OS X comes off operating table

Mac OS X 10.1 is clean, mean – and on the scene. By Jason Snell

he Mac community has been buzzing about Mac and waited for that future to arrive. With Apple’s newly

OS X for years. But even Apple admits that all of released Mac OS X 10.1, the future is finally here. Armed T Mac OS X’s incarnations – from last year’s Public with improved reliability, dramatic speed boosts, several Beta to this spring’s first “final” release – were fit only for interface improvements, and a clutch of native software,

those wishing to explore and exploit the new features of this new release is the first version of Mac OS X that’s truly

its Unix-based operating system. For these early adopters, ready for general use.

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80 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Search Macworld’s Reviews database online (www.macworld.co.uk), updated throughout the month Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 81 The reality is, the first release of Mac OS x really wasn’t will be forced to find other fully cooked (see “Are You Ready for OS X?”, June 2001 ways of providing quick access Macworld). It was slow, lacked software and hardware to their software’s features. compatibility, and omitted countless features that users of While Apple won’t let Mac OS 9 had taken for granted. Mac OS X 10.1 goes a long those developers have access way toward addressing all of those problems. And while to the menu bar, they can use a this version still isn’t a feature-for-feature match for Mac quick-access alternative: the OS 9, it’s no longer a step back. Instead, it combines much Dock. Developers can create of Mac OS 9’s functionality with improvements that make items that sit in the Dock and upgrading to Mac OS X a serious possibility for even the provide users with a set of most dyed-in-the-wool Classic Mac OS enthusiast. commands when they control- click on that item’s icon. For Speed boost instance, a Mac OS X-savvy Apple says that OS X users’ most-requested feature wasn’t version of Palm Desktop could some whizzy new interface addition or networking utility, have an icon in the Dock that, but pure performance. The fact is, the first version of OS X when control-clicked, would reveal the current day’s The right note was slow. Launching applications took longer than in OS 9, appointments and to-dos, as well as shortcuts to iTunes, which is now a standard and the Finder was especially sluggish. Anyone who tried launching the full Palm Desktop application or making a part of Mac OS X, offers a to resize a Finder window in OS X 10.0 – only to watch as quick appointment – just as in the Mac OS 9 menu bar. contextual menu in the Dock the OS struggled (and usually failed) to keep up with the Dock tweaks The biggest change to the Mac interface that indicates the title and speed of your mouse – will know what we mean. in OS X was the addition of the Dock, a strip of icons that artist of the currently-playing But Apple says version 10.1 is “all about performance” displays running applications and minimized windows track, and gives you pause – and it shows. The Finder is now quick to respond to clicks, while also being a launcher for commonly-used items. The and next/previous track double-clicks, and drags – in many cases, faster than OS 9. OS X 10.1 Dock offers a few twists: You can now move the controls straight from the Dock. Menus drop from the menu bar with a speed far greater Dock from its standard position at the bottom of the than they did in version 10.0. And copying a moderately- screen to either the left or the right. sized folder happens in a blink of an eye. Apple now offers two options for the “minimize” effect Launching applications is also much faster. With a used when you move a window into the Dock or remove it couple of applications running, a new app launches in a from there. In addition to the over-acclaimed Genie Effect, single “bounce” of the program’s icon in the Dock. The there’s now the much faster and less gaudy Scale Effect, more programs running, the longer it takes to launch a which shrinks down the window (without any processor- new one, but application launching is no longer the trial it intensive warping effect) on its way to the Dock. was in the initial release of Mac OS X. Another tweak to the Dock actually alters an interface Drawing 3D graphics on the screen gets a big boost in quirk that’s been with the Mac since it was first version 10.1. Apple says that the speed of graphics drawn introduced: namely, the mixed metaphor that is the Trash. via OpenGL have increased by 20 per cent in this release. In Logically, when you toss a document into the Trash you addition, OS X 10.1 offers native support of the GeForce3 expect to throw it away. But does it really make sense, acceleration card. especially for novice users, that a disk can be ejected by According to Apple, every dimension of the OS X has dragging it to the trash? Many of us can report stories of been modified to improve performance. Its engineers terrified new users who were worried that any disk they improved the OS’s virtual-memory system, file system, dragged to the trash would be erased. graphics subsystems, and made many small speed In OS X 10.1, the Trash icon transforms itself based on improvements. The result is a system that feels eminently context. If you drag a document into the Trash, it remains usable – a big change from the hair-tearing experience the trash. If you drag a removable disk, it turns into an Eject that was using version 10.0 on a G3 system. icon. And if you drag a CD-R that’s destined to be burned with OS X’s new data CD-burning features (see below), it Interface modifications turns into a Burn icon. Giving Mac OS X a speed boost may have been Apple’s Preference order In the first release of Mac OS X, Apple primary focus, but Mac OS X 10.1 also features a host of replaced Control Panels with System Preferences interface changes. Some are productivity-boosting new application, a multi-paned preferences window with additions, while others are tweaks to some poorly- different preference items to click on. For users still trying thought-out features from OS X’s first release. to adapt to life without Control Panels, the sea of icons Preferred choice Quick access In the original release of Mac OS X, many within System Preferences was especially confusing. With OS X 10.1, Apple has common system-preferences were hidden in the recesses A few preferences behind those icons have also tried to clean up the System of the System Preferences application. In 10.1, Apple has changed. For example, Desktop Pictures now allows you to Preferences application, dividing brought control over many of these preferences to the select from a row of thumbnails from any chosen folder. If preference icons into four forefront, by adding them to a series of icon menus in the you want to enable or disable any of 10.1’s new menu bar categories: Personal, Hardware, right corner of the Mac OS menu bar. icons, this can be done from within the relevant Internet & Network, and System. This new method lets you view a portable Mac’s battery preferences panels. For status, set your system volume, monitor AirPort signal example, there’s a new option strength and choose AirPort servers, and modify display in the Displays preference and networking settings – options that could be controlled panel called “Show displays in with similar ease from Mac OS 9’s Control Strip. menu bar.” Even the clock in the top-right corner is now a drop- Improved access There’s down menu – if you pull it down, you can see today’s full one new preference panel in day, date and time, and have quick access to clock settings OS X 10.1: Universal Access. and the Date & Time preference panel. Like the Easy Access tool found In Mac OS 9 and earlier, third-party software developers in the Classic Mac OS, could add similar icons to the Mac menu bar, but in Mac OS Universal Access serves those X menu bar items are limited to those provided by Apple who have difficulty using mice for controlling system preferences. The developers of or keyboards. From the Carbonized versions of OS 9 software that modified the Keyboard tab, you can turn on menu bar – Palm Desktop and Timbuktu Pro, for example – continues page 84

Search Macworld’s Reviews database online (www.macworld.co.uk), updated throughout the month Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 83 the ability to enter in a especially among Web designers, is WebDAV, which uses sequence of modifier keys as Web-server technology to create file-sharing connections True names, and other dangers a key combination. with less overhead than traditional networking protocols. From the Mouse tab, you It’s been in products such Adobe GoLive and Macromedia erhaps the biggest change to the traditional Mac way of doing things in can enable a feature that lets Dreamweaver for a while, and Mac OS X offered some Mac OS X is how the OS handles file names. With OS X 10.1, Apple has you use the numbers on the support for it. But in 10.1 Apple has converted its entire P begun to encourage file compatibility between Macs and PCs running keypad to control the cursor. iTools file-sharing service to the new protocol. When you Windows by adopting – if not quite embracing – the three-letter filename Or you can eliminate the connect to iTools in OS X 10.1, you’re using WebDAV. Looks familiar extension that’s been attached to PC files since the dawn of DOS. need for a mouse altogether Because WebDAV is based on Web technology, it works OS X 10.1’s DVD player has a new remote-control palette that closely by using the Keyboard like a Web server: connections are made only when data approximates a consumer DVD player’s remote, including arrow buttons. Brave New.world preferences panel (or by needs to be passed back and forth. That’s in contrast to old- Of course, exchanging emails with Wintel-using friends, or if working in an pressing Ctrl-F1) to turn on style networking protocols, that required a constantly open changes until you’re ready to burn. When choosing “Burn” office that’s got a mixed network of Macs and PCs, you’ll already receive Full Keyboard Access. This connection, and an ongoing dialogue between the server from the Finder toolbar, or dragging the disc to the Trash – files with names such as “Report.doc”. Mac OS X 10.1 tries to shield users Time and a place feature lets allows control of the menu bar, Dock, windows, and the client. The result should be more-reliable network which automatically transforms into a Burn icon – the data from the ugly file-name extensions of the Windows world, while at the same Even the clock in the top-right toolbars, and palettes entirely via the keyboard. connections and no more “server has disconnected” in the temporary directory is burned to the disc. Voila – time encouraging Macintosh users to create files in the same way that corner is now a drop-down Logging in Unlike Mac OS 9, which offers the Multiple warnings following a period of disuse. Another bonus will you’ve burned a disc from the Finder. Windows users do. Confusing? It sure is – and it’s got the potential for some menu in OS X 10.1 – when Users feature as an option for shared Macs, in Mac OS X, be compatibility with a range of servers, especially Web Camera-friendly Mac OS X’s support for digital interface confusion that Macintosh users have never seen before. But before pulled down, you can see everybody must log-in as a user. Apple’s just managed to servers commonly accessed by Web-site designers. cameras is better than ever. 10.1’s Image Capture you judge Apple for this feature, here’s how it works: today’s full day, date and time, hide this fact by having the system automatically create a New in this version of OS X is support for an old application supports the Picture Transfer Protocol – an By default, the Mac OS X 10.1 Finder hides file extensions from users. and have quick access to clock user when you install OS X, and then automatically log you standard: AppleTalk connections to Apple Filing Protocol emerging standard for communicating between camera That means that while you might look in a folder and see a Microsoft Word settings and the Date & Time in when you boot up. This setting can be changed via the servers. If you’ve got an existing Apple file-server running and computer. Plug-in a camera, and pictures will be document called “letter”, in reality the filename may be “letter.doc”. Apple preference panel. Login preference panel. on an AppleTalk network, OS X 10.1 is as compatible as Mac automatically transferred to a destination of your choice. has also made it possible for developers to append file extensions to While single-user Macs never have to see any login OS 9 has always been. Also, 10.1’s printing support is filenames, so if you choose to save a document as “report”, it may say options, users of shared Macs aren’t so lucky. In OS X 10.0, improved, bringing it up to parity with the features of the The last word “report” in the Finder, but the real name on the hard drive is “report.rtf”. users had to type in a user name and password in order to Classic’s LaserWriter 8, and adding automatic support for Mac OS X can’t succeed on its own. As good as Classic Apple’s rationale is that, while customers have no interest in seeing log-in to the system. With OS X 10.1, however, Apple has various printers, including non-Apple laser printers. mode is at running non-native software, people want to three-letter file extensions, they’re still necessary for complete compatibility made OS X’s login panel as flexible as Mac OS 9’s: by Finally, AppleScript support is dramatically improved in run OS X apps on OS X. For OS X to succeed, the core with Windows PCs. This is because, unlike Macs, PCs rely on those default, the login window now displays a list of available OS X 10.1, especially when it comes to creating scripts that software must be there. The good news is, the release of extensions to tell what type a file is, and which application it should use to users to choose from. You can even set up icons for take advantage of networking. Scripts can now control version 10.1 is a watershed event for OS X software open it. Microsoft, by the way, has hidden those extensions from its users individual users, a la Multiple Users – just visit the Identity applications on remote Macs via a network – a feature that development. The system has been so improved that since the days of Windows 95. It’s a good idea, but many Macintosh users pane of the Users preference panel. OS 9 has, but OS X lacked – and can take advantage of the several developers are making 10.1 a requirement for their will find it unsettling that, for the first time, what you see in the Finder isn’t On-screen controls In the original version of Mac OS X, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to easily access data software – the biggest example being Microsoft Office v. X. what’s on your hard drive. Fortunately, Apple has provided an option in hardware controls including the brightness and volume stored on remote XML-based database servers. With OS X 10.1, Apple’s new operating system has left Finder Preferences called “Always show file extensions”. This ensures that controls on Mac laptops’ function keys – didn’t work the world of theory and guesswork behind. With its host of what you see is what you get. There is also the option to show or hide properly. That’s changed in 10.1, in which brightness and A better digital hub performance and usability improvements – and thanks to extensions on individual files by choosing Show Info (⌘-I) from the File volume adjustments work just as they did in OS 9. When In January, Steve Jobs first talked of his vision of the Mac as more native software arriving by the day – OS X is about to menu and selecting “Hide extension” from the Name & Extension panel. you change brightness or volume, a semi-transparent icon a “digital hub”– as the nerve centre of a collection of digital move to centre stage. After years of waiting, version 10.1 appears, giving feedback about settings. devices, from cameras to hand-held computers to finally makes Mac OS X ready for prime time. MW What type am I? Other choices This version also gives back users a consumer audio and video devices. Not surprisingly, Mac In addition, OS X 10.1 is much more savvy about using filename extensions number of interface choice once offered in the Classic Mac OS X 10.1 offers several new and improved features that tie than the Classic Mac OS ever was, even with the help of the PC Exchange OS. Via an option in the General preferences panel, you can in with the Apple CEO’s strategy. Major update to Apple’s next-generation operating system control panel. Files sent from Wintel machines rather than Macs will often choose whether window scroll bars have double-headed DVD arrives One of the glaring omissions in the first lack the hidden Mac “type” and “creator” codes – the longtime Mac- arrows or single arrows at the top and bottom. From the release of Mac OS X was support for DVD video playback. equivalent to the PC three-letter extension – needed for Macs to recognize same panel, you can define how many recent documents But 10.1 includes the DVD Player 3.0 application, and the Mac OS X 10.1 file-kinds and what application should be used to open them. The OS X 10.1 and applications appear in the Recent Items submenu of result is a DVD viewing experience that’s as good, if not Publisher: Apple 0800 039 1010 www.apple.com/uk Finder, however, can determine a file’s type based on its name, and treat it the Apple menu – a feature from Mac OS 9’s Apple Menu better, than in Mac OS 9. A preference decides how the Pros: Faster, cleaner interface; adds a ton of features missing in just as it would a native Mac document. The end result: the Excel file Options control panel. You can also choose at which point- player behaves when you insert a disc. the initial release. “spreadsheet.xls” you get from a PC user will show up in the Finder as an size the system should begin automatic anti-aliasing text. Playing DVDs shows off the power and multithreaded Cons: Not all developers have caught up yet. Excel file, icon and all. nature of Mac OS X. When we played a movie on a Power Min specs: Any G3 or G4, except the original G3 PowerBook; For file extensions that could be owned by more than one application – OS X gets connected Mac G4 800MHz DP, we were able to drag the movie 128MB RAM; 3D Acceleration (ATI Rage 128 or later). let’s say text files, which could be opened by TextEdit or BBEdit or even With Mac OS X, Apple has attempted to make an operating window around the screen freely, without any apparent Price: £99 including VAT; upgrade CD, £14.95. Microsoft Word – OS X users can use the Finder to define what program system that’s a good cross-platform partner for Windows dropping of frames. On a 500MHz iBook, that didn’t work – Star Rating: ★★★★/8.8 takes precedence. Choose Show Info for a document of that type, select PCs. From file names to networking, Mac OS X has been but we were able to do work in other applications while Open with application, and pick the application that should own it. Pressing made much more PC-friendly on several fronts. the movie played in a background window without any aving used Mac OS X since its introduction, I’m blasé the Change All button will make sure that every file that has that extension File names Apple has changed the way the Mac hiccups or hesitation in either the DVD player or the Habout its jerky window resizing, its CD-RW incompatibility, will be opened by the application you chose. handles the names of files. Now, the OS X is much more applications we were using. OS X 10.1 doesn’t include its lack of DVD playback, and its average printing performance. This new system makes it easier for regular Mac users to take control of savvy about how Windows-style file-name extensions (like software for encoding and burning DVD video discs, but OS X 10.1 has reminded me how great the Mac can be. files. A power user might have been able to tell you the creator code for “.doc”) are handled, and can even hide those extensions Apple’s new iDVD 2 – which should be available by Window resizing is now zippy, CD-R burns are flawless, BBEdit – and what shareware app he or she recommended you use to from in the Finder (see “True names, and other dangers”). November – requires 10.1 to run. That means users of and DVD playback is perfect. While the whole feel is zippier, modify your SimpleText file so it would open in BBEdit. But now, any user In addition to those changes, OS X 10.1 can now handle SuperDrive-equipped Power Macs will be able to use iDVD the speed increase is most noticeable in the interface. If can change the program that owns a file via the Show Info command. MW long file-names, such as those found in Windows since the 2.0 and OS X 10.1 to burn DVD video discs in a flash. you’re looking for speed boosts in data processing – working advent of Windows 95. In version 10.0, files could have Data burning Although OS X 10.0 didn’t support the with filters, or compression, for example – then you’ll be names as long as 255 characters, but the Finder couldn’t burning of CD media, it allowed users to burn audio CDs disappointed. In many cases, applications run slower in display them. With 10.1, the Finder can display file names via iTunes. However, burning data CDs was still out of the OS X than in OS 9. However, as developers gain more Name game on two lines when in Icon mode, making it much easier to question. 10.1 changes that equation by adding built-in experience of 10.1, this should improve. Mac OS X 10.1 introduces recognize files with extremely long names. support for burning data-discs – either CD-Rs or, on What makes 10.1 a must-have upgrade is the applications a strange quirk to the Finder: Network friendly OS X 10.1 has got a much better SuperDrive models, 4.7GB DVD-R discs. When you insert a it’s attracting to the OS. Software houses are queueing up with multiple files with the demeanour when it comes to dealing with Windows file- disc, a dialog box appears, asking you to choose the format to ship major titles to the OS. Adobe has already shipped same name but different servers, too. Included as part of OS X 10.1 is an SMB (Server for the disc. Then an icon appears on the desktop, Illustrator 10 and InDesign 2.0 (see News, page 28). This extensions, you may end Message Block) client, meaning that Macs can now representing the new disc. You can copy files to the disc, is the upgrade that should make those cautious Mac OS 9 up with a folder full of files connect to PC servers without the help of an add-on such and even make modifications to files on the disc – OS X users take that leap of faith. Come on in. The water’s fine. MW that appear to have the as Thursby Software’s Dave. actually creates a temporary directory elsewhere that David Fanning same name. A method of sharing files that’s growing in popularity, contains the contents of your disc, and allows for limitless

84 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Search Macworld’s Reviews database online (www.macworld.co.uk), updated throughout the month Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 85 Smart Office With Microsoft Office v.X, Mac OS X has its first killer app. By Tom Negrino

xcept for a few risk-takers, most of us don’t rut of OS 9. Thousands of us rely on Word, Excel, Entourage

welcome major change. We need convincing or PowerPoint, and now those applications run natively on E evidence that we’ll benefit by leaving our Mac OS X. In fact, you can’t get the new versions any other comfortable ruts. This is especially true when the change way. Unlike some programs that work in both Mac OS 9

involves something we use everyday, something that our and OS X, this new version of Office runs only in the latest

livelihoods depend on – such as our operating systems and version, OS X 10.1 (see page 80). In a very real sense, the

software programs. With its release of Office v.X, arrival of Office v.X legitimizes OS X.

ILLUSTRATION: GEORGINA WEBB ILLUSTRATION: Microsoft may have given Mac users a reason to leave the continues page 88

Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 87 names are prioritized, migrating to the top of the list. If you accumulate too many names, you can clear the list, or even turn it off altogether. Email movies You can now copy formatted text, pictures, and even QuickTime movies, from other applications and paste them into an email message without losing the formatting. As one example, an estate agent could drag a Word brochure for a property, including JPEG-formatted photos, into the body of an email message for a prospective buyer, rather than enclosing the brochure as an attachment. Because many people, especially AOL and Windows users, have difficulty dealing with attachments, this addition could smooth the communication process. Manage passwords New support for the Mac OS X Keychain means that you can let the system manage the Transparently obvious Two beta Xs In preparing this first look, we used a beta by a dialog box that must be dismissed before you can passwords for all of your mail accounts, without storing Mac OS X’s Quartz graphics layer copy of Office v.X on a pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.1. continue. If you’re in PowerPoint when your Entourage them in Entourage (and therefore leaving your email allowed Microsoft to engineer Since both products were weeks from completion, there calendar demands your attention, for example, you can vulnerable to anyone who wanders by your desk). Office X to display graphics that was no way to make a solid performance judgment. But take care of it right away. Custom views If you’re organizing your life in previously would have had to with that caveat, we can still report that the responsive Quartz transparency Taking advantage of yet-more Entourage, you need tools that help you see just the have been created in a program feel of the Office applications was impressive; the new Mac OS X technology, Office v.X now uses the Quartz information that’s relevant. Each of the task areas now such as Adobe Photoshop. programs launched quickly, and most operations were on a graphics layer for its drawing tools, allowing anti-aliased have dedicated Custom Views that let you show selected Nowhere is this seen better than par with the same action in Office 2001 under Mac OS 9.1. and transparent graphic objects (see “Transparently data, eg, Mail Received Today, or Events Due in the Next in Excel. On the left is an Excel obvious”). Transparency may not sound like much, but it Week. You can create and save your own Custom Views, (if you’re online and have the new MSN Messenger 2.1 for Entourage’s new look graph produced in Excel 2001. Different, yet familiar can make a big difference in your documents. For instance, slicing and dicing your data in almost unlimited ways. For Mac OS X installed). MSN Messenger works with Office Entourage X now sports six On the right, the same graph With every upgrade, the first question most people ask is transparent elements in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel example, if you assign a common category to all of the Notifications to display .NET Alerts, a new service that lets navigation buttons that let you as produced in Excel X – note the “What’s new?” For Office v.X, there are two seemingly charts can help you present your data more clearly. items associated with a particular project, a Custom View live information from the MSN Web site, such as stock switch between the program’s transparency that lets you see one contradictory answers: “Everything,” and “Not that much.” Even though Quartz-driven transparency is a Mac OS X- can show you everything about that project, including price changes, pop up on your desktop. email and PIM functions. set of information directly through Yet both answers are correct. only feature for Office, documents with transparent contacts, email, appointments, tasks, notes, and all of the Room for improvement Entourage X’s personal another. The smooth, anti-aliased Mountains of code To run natively under Mac OS X, objects are still readable in older Mac and Windows files you create to support the project. information manager features have a way to go before text is another real benefit of developers must rewrite large portions of their versions of Office. These applications display the New way to notify Because Mac OS X doesn’t allow they can go head-to-head with PowerOn Software’s Now Mac OS X. applications, especially if they want to take full advantage transparent parts of the graphics as dithered patterns, and extensions, the new Office Notifications application takes Up-to-Date and Contact (see Macworld October 2001’s CD of the Aqua interface. It can take months to port one you can’t edit the transparency level. over the job of popping up and alerting users when for a free, fully working version of Now Up-to-Date and application using Apple’s Carbon application programming Easy on the eyes A large part of updating Office’s Entourage reminders come due (see “Tell me about it”). Contact 3.8.3, upgradeable to the latest version for just interfaces (APIs); all the underlying code that makes the interface required creating 700 new icons and changing Mike Connolly, Microsoft’s group program manager, notes £39). Entourage is still only single-user, so you can’t share program work needs revising, and every dialog box, 800 dialog boxes. Toolbars and their icons are bigger, more that Entourage v.X’s database is always running in the your calendar with co-workers. toolbar, and window needs tweaking to look right under colourful and more detailed, making them easier to background, even when no Office applications are running. You can assign priorities to tasks, but not to events. And Calendar evolution Aqua. understand – and nicer to look at, too. “And unlike Office 2001,” Connolly says, “there’s no when you complete tasks, they disappear from the Tasks No part of Entourage X has Microsoft developers had to port 25 million lines of Scroll and click Thanks to the built-in support in Mac performance hit on the active application, even when the Pane next to the calendar, rather than being shown with changed more than the Calendar Office code to Mac OS X. Microsoft Office v.X consists of the OS X 10.1, the Office v.X applications are able to use some database is doing intensive operations, like searching strikethrough, as in the Tasks area. Most annoyingly, view. Besides the central view four main applications, plus six ancillary programs (Clip features in third-party mice and keyboards. Mice with through mail messages.” because Palm hasn’t completed creating native Mac OS X (which can switch between Daily, Gallery, Database Daemon, Equations Editor, Graph, Office scroll wheels and two buttons work; clicking the right (Connolly heads up the program management team for conduits, you can’t synchronize Entourage to your Palm Weekly, or Monthly panes), the Notifications, and Organization Chart), plus dozens of button is the same as Control-clicking, giving you easy the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit, where the group handheld. Microsoft promises to make a free update Tasks pane and the thumbnail other files, such as shared libraries. Rewriting all that code access to contextual menus. manages the design usability and user interface projects.) available for downloading when Palm gets its act together. months have been rearranged required a mammoth programming effort that’s lasted Besides Entourage events, Office Notifications alerts for better visibility. more than a year – for more on Microsoft’s busy Macintosh Entourage X you that a friend is available for instant messaging continues page 90 Business Unit, see the sidebar “Inside Microsoft’s From a user-interface standpoint, Entourage 2001, Office Macintosh Business Unit”. Much of that struggle went into 2001’s big addition, wasn’t much more than a buffed-up Carbonization, rather than into new features. So although Outlook Express 5. Personal information manager features practically all of Office has changed under the hood, what – the enhanced address book, calendar, tasks, and notes – you’ll mostly see is the new Aqua paint job. were clearly shoehorned into Outlook Express’ aged That’s not to say that there haven’t been any new interface. No longer; Microsoft sent Entourage X to its features added to Office. Entourage X leads the pack with a interface mechanics for an extensive overhaul (see significant facelift, and Word X has a few nice additions. “Entourage’s new look”). Tell me about it Microsoft gave Excel X and PowerPoint X comparatively Easier to switch Besides the Aqua look, you’ll find big The new Office Notifications shows you one or more alerts from short shrift in this revision. buttons that switch between Email, Address Book, Entourage in one well-behaved window – no more modal dialog Calendar, Notes, and Tasks, plus the vastly improved boxes in the Mac OS X era. All-over aquafication Custom Views (more on that later). For the keyboard All of the programs have been revised to follow the Aqua oriented, each task area has a keyboard shortcut for quick user-interface guidelines, which adds a beautiful new look switching. but may cause experienced users some confusion and At-a-glance improvements In the calendar, events re-adjustment. For example, Word’s Replace command has spanning multiple days now show as banners in the always been ⌘-H, but Aqua reserves that keystroke for calendar, rather than as a string of repeated events (see hiding the current application. So Word v.X now uses “Calendar evolution”). Colour-coded days indicate ⌘-Shift-H for Replace. workdays and weekends, and you can display a task list A change of sheets Office now uses Aqua’s ‘sheets’ for next to the calendar. New buttons in the toolbar toggle saving files; sheets are special dialog boxes that slide down between Month, Week, and Day views. from the title bar of a document window (see “Fitted Address additions When you address a new email sheet”). With sheets, you never lose track of which window message, a list of recently used addresses pops up, in a dialog applies to. And because sheets are attached to the addition to the usual address lookup as you type. These document, rather than the application, you’re freed from recently used addresses appear regardless of whether an annoying Mac OS 9 trait: being stuck in an application they’re in your Address Book, and the most-often used

88 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 Search Macworld’s Reviews database online (www.macworld.co.uk), updated throughout the month Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 89 Word X The most useful new feature in Word is noncontiguous Inside Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit text selection, which allows you to select one or more separate blocks of text in one operation: Select the first icrosoft: It’s a word that you products market, and brought Internet block of text, hold down the Command key, then select the can say to 20 different Mac Explorer and Outlook Express to the next block (see “Across words”). Word applies your next M users and get as many different business unit. There was a time when operation to all of the selected text. Let’s say you’re responses. Recently, I had the Microsoft would have a technology formatting a report with headings at the start of each opportunity to visit the staff at that I couldn’t even hope to offer my section. You can scroll through the document, selecting Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit customers on the Mac. Now, I look at each heading as you go, then apply a style with one click. (MacBU) in Redmond, near Seattle. the MacBU as having a mission to look Noncontiguous selection also allows you to pick and What I found was a group of people at everything that Microsoft is choose parts of your document for tasks such as spell dedicated to Apple and to developing building. We need to make sure we checking; you can spell-check the body of a report without the best Mac products in the market. understand what the Mac customer slogging laboriously through that table of names and Despite what many people may wants, what services they want, and addresses in the middle of the report. think, the group at the MacBU are not then be able to provide those to Clear the decks One long-overdue new feature is the Windows users forced to grudgingly them.” ability to clear all formatting of a selection, which resets write code for the Mac. In fact, the The release of Office v.X will give the selection to the default style for that paragraph. programmers at the unit don’t write Mac OS X validation in the business any Windows code at all. Technologies world; there is no doubt about that. If Excel X at Microsoft are shared between the business owners and educational Although there aren’t a lot of new features in Excel, the Windows and Mac product groups, institutions are going to be cross- program feels surprisingly fresh, again thanks to Quartz but that makes sense – we all benefit platform, they need assurances that and Aqua. Text and numbers in cells seem crisp and easier from shared technology. files can be accessed from both to read, and improved shading in the row and column bars Until 1997, when the MacBU was platforms – Microsoft brings that to make it more obvious which cell is selected. When you edit formed, approximately 80 per cent of the table for Apple, much the same a cell, it appears to lift a bit above the rest of the worksheet all code was shared between the Mac way Adobe Photoshop will bring – a drop shadow that makes it abundantly clear which cell Excel gets obvious and Windows programming teams. validation for OS X to the graphics you’re working on. (See “Excel gets obvious.”) Excel uses Aqua graphics to improve how it shows you which cell When the teams reached the 80 per market. Custom shortcuts For hardcore users, the most useful is active, with better row and column bar shading, and by appearing cent mark, specialized development addition to Excel X will be customizable keyboard to lift the cell being edited above the worksheet. groups would finish the code for their No Apple rival shortcuts. Just as in Word, you can add, reassign, or remove selected platform. The MacBU has become more keyboard shortcuts. If you’ve been using Excel for several This development strategy lead to outspoken over the past year, as the Across words versions, this will be especially welcome, since Office 2001 What does it need, what will it cost? the release of products like Office 4.x. group becomes more confident in its Word’s non-contiguous text selection is in action here, as is a special animation in the Drawing toolbar re-mapped many long-standing shortcuts, such as ⌘-B to A full installation of Office v.X will require about 200MB of The people at the MacBU share the products. The message in May of this (also available in the Formatting Palette), which looks much like the Dock’s Genie effect. blank out a cell’s contents. Excel’s keyboard customization disk space. Thanks to Mac OS X’s intelligent memory feelings of many Mac users who say year to people who think the company allows long-time users to restore those old, familiar key management, there’s no need to muck about with this was not a good product. is a rival to Apple, was very simple – shortcuts. application memory settings, as was sometimes the case “Office 4.2 was a bad product for get over it. At Macworld Expo New Transparent charts When you generate charts in Excel, with Office 2001; as long as you have at least 128MB our customers – it almost killed York, during his keynote address, you can now set the transparency of individual bars, of RAM, Office v.X should run fine. You will need to run Mac Microsoft on the Mac,” Kevin Browne, Browne asked the crowd to let them Fitted sheets columns, or other chart components. For example, in 3D OS X 10.1 – Office v.X requires it. OS X 10.1 costs £99 the general manager and a founding know if there are things they didn’t like Mac OS X does away with unnecessary dialog boxes that used to clutter up the old Mac desktop. The best way charts, you can make the front-most elements translucent, (including VAT). If you’re already running OS X, an upgrade member of the Macintosh Business and to tell others if they did like it. it does this is with ‘sheets’, which unfurl from a document’s title bar rather than appearing as separate boxes so you can still see information in the rest of the chart. And Dd costs £14.95 (shipping and handling) from Apple. Unit, told me in an interview on the “With Office 2001, Internet in the centre of the screen. because of Quartz anti-aliasing, jagged chart lines are a Cost of admission Office v.X will sell for £429 (inc. VAT; Microsoft campus. “We’re still Explorer 5 and Outlook Express 5 my thing of the past. £365 ex. VAT) when it is available in November. The recovering in many ways; recovering contention is our Mac apps are among Data recovery Excel now has an AutoRecover feature upgrade price is £229 (£195 ex. VAT). our reputation, recovering the trust the best Mac apps there are,” Browne that automatically saves a snapshot of your worksheets at From one standpoint these upgrades aren’t cheap, level customers have with us.” told me. “If there’s something missing timed intervals you set. If Excel crashes and you haven’t considering the relative paucity of new features. You’ll But Browne thinks Microsoft has in our products, I want to know about saved for a while, the AutoRecover data allows all or part of need to balance that against the many benefits of running shown its commitment to Apple and it. But what I have a hard time with is your unsaved work to return when you reopen your native Mac OS X applications (see page 80). Mac users over the years. After re- when people use opinions that were document. Then make sure to save the document again, OS 9 support The Office 2001 package will remain evaluating the failure of Office 4.x, formed or facts that were in evidence and fast! available for users of Mac OS 9 and earlier, but it has been Microsoft decided to spin-off the Mac five years ago to talk about what we placed into “maintenance mode.” Updates, if any, will be group into its own business. Since the are doing with our products today.” PowerPoint X bug fixes and changes needed to maintain compatibility formation of the MacBU the group has In fact, two of the full-time Like the rest of Office, PowerPoint lets you set the with possible future Classic Mac OS releases. But any released Office 98, Office 2001, employees at the MacBU are product transparency of drawing objects or pictures, and it uses significant Office development will occur on OS X. Internet Explorer 5, Outlook Express 5 planners. They collect research data on Quartz’s text manipulation and layout abilities to anti- and Outlook for Mac. The release of what Mac customers want – this alias text on your slides, making for clearer presentations. The last word Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac brought information is relayed to the rest of the The whole package New to PowerPoint are The initial release of Mac OS X was embraced by early with it many improvements for team, who then decide if it can be PowerPoint Packages. A Package gathers your presentation adopters and the curious – but for most of us, it didn’t Macintosh users, including many Mac- implemented in a future version. and any linked files into one folder, which you can then improve the way we work over Mac OS 9 – quite the first features and greater compatibility The MacBU has shown resolve to burn to a CD or email to a colleague. opposite, in fact. with its Windows counterpart. deliver quality products over the last Comprehensive QuickTime PowerPoint 2001 intro- But the one-two productivity punch of Mac OS X 10.1 Microsoft was also one of the first few years, and has done so in the face duced the ability to turn presentations into QuickTime and Office v.X can’t be ignored, nor can Microsoft’s companies to pledge support for OS X, of criticism from the very users it tries movies, but the movies were more limited than the commitment to OS X. If you use Office and you’ve been telling customers that Office would be to support. Remember, programs such original presentation, lacking interactive features such as sitting on the fence wondering whether you should move coming to the new operating system. as Word were available on the Mac hyperlinks and slide transitions. PowerPoint v.X’s movies to Mac OS X, Office v.X is a good reason to make the leap But it isn’t stopping there – the MacBU with a Graphical User Interface before now look and act more like the presentation running and hit the ground running. MW is continually looking at new becoming available on Windows. inside PowerPoint, so presentations that you save as technologies and features it can offer “What people should know is, I QuickTime movies and put on the Web or distribute on CD Contributing editor Tom Negrino is the author of Microsoft Macintosh users. have 160 full time people – they are will display all of your presenting genius. You’ll also find Office v.X for Macs for Dummies (Hungry Minds, 2002), “The original mission of the MacBU Mac fans and they build Mac apps,” support for the TV-style transition effects built into and Microsoft Office v.X Inside Out (Microsoft Press, 2002). was to bring a version of Office to the Browne said. QuickTime, such as cross fades and circle wipes, in addition Mac. Then we merged the Internet Jim Dalrymple to PowerPoint’s slide transitions set. For more on Mac OS X 10.1, see pages 80-85.

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Epson PhotoPC 3100z FujiFilm 6800Zoom FujiFilm 6900Zoom Kodak EasyShare DX3900 Zoom Nikon Coolpix 995 Olympus Camedia C-4040Zoom The PhotoPC 3100z is Epson’s only digital This camera’s Super CCD makes for Like the 6800Zoom, the 6900Zoom shares Of all the cameras on test, the EasyShare The Coolpix 995 is the latest in a long line This is a compact model whose traditional camera. It’s easy to use and has some excellent-quality images. It’s lighter the same Super CCD – but that’s about DX3900 is the most consumer-friendly. of cameras from Nikon that uses the twist- looks mask a number of high-tech imaginative features, such as a panoramic and cheaper than the 6900Zoom it. The 6900 has many more professional It features a special camera dock that’s in-the-middle design. I’ve never been a fan innovations. One is a noise-reduction stitching tool. This allows you to take (right) but offers less zoom. The features, including a hot shoe for external used to transfer images to a computer. of this, because, far from adding to the feature, which means every picture taken seamless panorama shots, by displaying 6800 offers an easy-to-use interface. flash, different exposure modes, and Placing the camera in the dock and camera’s capabilities, it feels like weirdness is followed by a second reference-image a ghost image with which to line-up It even says hello when you start it up. a 6x optical zoom lens. The images pressing a button is all you have to do to for weirdness’s sake. However, the quality that is captured with the shutter closed. the next shot. The 3100z also benefits It has the usual LCD viewfinder, but produced by the Fujifilm cameras are retrieve images. Having a dock means you of the camera is undeniable. Its Nikkor The noise of the second picture is used buying advice from Epson being a top photo-printer also a smaller navigation LCD screen in of excellent quality. The Super CCD don’t need to balance the camera while glass lens has much to do with the to map and remove the noise from the manufacturer, as it offers features that the middle of the controls. This helps the technology offers a possible 6-megapixel transferring images. Why don’t more CoolPix’s image quality. Nikon is a noted first. It’s dead clever and works very well. “co-operate” with its printers. For example, user get the most from the surrounding output from the 3.3-megapixel CCD. camera manufacturers use a similar manufacturer of cameras and lenses, and However, the Camedia’s non- the 3100z has the same colour profiles controls when setting up for the shot. It FujiFilm claims that this is achieved by the system? Hooking cameras to computers that experience gives the company a head rechargeable lithium ion cells may not as Epson’s printers, helping to preserve allows for buttons to do different things unique octagonal-pixel shape on its CCDs, via FireWire or USB can cause a tangle. start on other manufacturers. The CoolPix suit everybody. They cost £10 per cell, colour accuracy between camera and in different modes – and is controllable and it is unlike conventional interpolation The EasyShare is a basic camera that’s offers full shutter and aperture control, and, although they last for months rather printer. The 3100z also offers voice and with your thumb. The 6800Zoom is a seen in most other cameras. FujiFilm also capable of producing high-quality images. which gives it a professional feel. than hours, the expense mounts up video functions. Features for higher-end neat and well-designed package. Even claims its interpolation is better than It lacks professional-level features, but, in The Auto Focus feature is also capable over time. We liked the convenience use include a hot shoe for external flash, though the 6800Zoom is designed by regular interpolation – however, it’s still essence, this is its point: Kodak’s idea is to in conditions that cause problems for other the batteries offer, but recognize that and an adaptor for lenses. Porche, it’s not the prettiest on test. merely interpolation. keep things simple. cameras, such as low light. this won’t be to everyone’s taste.

Model PhotoPC 3100z Model 6800Zoom Model 6900Zoom Model EasyShare DX3900 Zoom Model Coolpix 995 Model Camedia C-4040Zoom Company URL www.epson.co.uk Company URL www.fujifilm.co.uk Company URL www.fujifilm.co.uk Company URL www.kodak.co.uk Company URL www.nikon.co.uk Company URL www.olympus.co.uk Aperture range f/2.0-2.5 Aperture range f/2.8-7 Aperture range f/2.8-11 Aperture range f/2.8 Aperture range f/2.6-5.1 Aperture range f/1.8-2.6 CCD: claimed/active 3.3/3.14 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 3.3/3.14 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 3.3/3.14 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 3.1/3.1 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 3.34/3.14 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 4.13/3.87 (megapixels) CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,160-x-1,440 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,272-x-1,704 Optical zoom/digital zoom 3x/2x Optical zoom 3x Optical zoom 6x Optical zoom/digital zoom 2x/3x Optical zoom 4x Optical zoom 3x specs Storage-media type CompactFlash Storage-media type SmartMedia Storage-media type SmartMedia Storage-media type CompactFlash Storage-media type CompactFlash Storage-media type SmartMedia Flash Built-in and hot shoe Flash Built-in Flash Built-in Flash Built-in Flash Built-in Flash Built-in Lens Epson Lens Super EBC Fujinon Lens Super EBC Fujinon Lens Kodak Ektanar Aspheric lens Lens Zoom Nikkor Lens Olympus SuperBright Zoom Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Bundled storage 16MB Bundled storage 16MB Bundled storage 16MB Bundled storage 8MB Bundled storage 16MB Bundled storage 16MB Power AA alkaline, or Ni-MH Power Rechargeable Power Rechargeable cell Power Ni-MH rechargeable batteries Power Rechargeable lithium-ion battery Power Lithium batteries Weight (grams) 368 Weight (grams) 265 Weight (grams) 410 Weight (grams) 225 Weight (grams) 390 Weight (grams) 320 Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Viewfinder 2-inch TFT Viewfinder 2-inch TFT Viewfinder 1.5-inch TFT Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Price (inc. VAT) £649 Price (inc. VAT) £699 Price (inc. VAT) £799 Price (inc. VAT) £449 Price (inc. VAT) £800 Price (inc. VAT) £799 Contact 0800 220 546 Contact 020 7586 1477 Contact 020 7586 1477 Contact 0870 243 270 Contact 020 8541 4440 Contact 0800 072 0070

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Product scores made lenses to focus light on the tiny CCD. low resolution one – because the former chip serve no useful purpose. Of course, this Bar-chart quality scores run But the downside with CMOS is expense. offers more available points of information. doesn’t stop camera manufacturers from A question of power from 0-10, and reflect specific The process creates image noise, so the A resolution of 300dpi is usually quoted quoting chip resolution rather than maximum aspects of performance. manufacturer has to ensure this noise as being the minimum for professional output-resolution. Hence models like the he downside to digital cameras is that precluding the need for charger packs. Star Rating is an overall score, doesn’t affect final image quality – passing publishing, so this is the figure we’ll take for Dimage 7 “has” a 5.2 megapixel resolution, T they’re hungry for power. None of the Olympus has taken a different tack, by encapsulating these individual the expense of this onto consumers. But CCD optimum output on inkjets. This means that, but in fact is a 4.95-megapixel model. This is solutions to this is perfect, but some are using non-rechargeable lithium Ion cells. scores, plus any other factors technology also offers advantages. Its small at 300dpi, a 3.2-megapixel camera would print the equivalent of a 21-inch monitor having a better than others. Its Camedia 4040 Zoom uses two of these relevant to your choice of form-factor means the technology allows an image at 174-x-131mm (6.8-x-5.12-inches). 20-inch viewable image. In the specifications The least palatable solution is cells – which have a remarkably long life purchase. for smaller cameras and higher resolutions. However, because inkjet printers are adept quoted in this feature, we state both actual disposable batteries. A better solution of months, rather than hours. Such battery at maintaining quality at resolutions as low and claimed resolutions, allowing you to is rechargeable batteries, but extra sets longevity is a real convenience, but the Resolution as 150dpi, it’s likely you can blow-up images compare them. are often needed because of limited downside is that they are £10 each – The most-quoted digital-camera specification from 3-megapixel models to A4 size with power-up time. One of the most popular adding to the long-term cost of the model. is resolution but, while being a good measure scant deterioration in image integrity. Storage solutions is the rechargeable cell. This is The best solution is carrying two of practical image print-size, high resolution There’s also a difference between the stated The cameras on test are all high-resolution a rechargeable single battery that holds a rechargeable batteries. This way, you’ll doesn’t guarantee high quality. It is, however, resolution of image-capturing chips and the models, and, as such, require hefty storage bigger charge than AA batteries. Many of always have power, but without the likely that an image taken on a high-resolution number of pixels actually used by the camera. solutions. There are three main types of these can be charged in the camera, expense of non-rechargeable batteries. model will be sharper than that captured on a This is because pixels around the edges of the continues page 97

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Ricoh RDC-i700 Sony DSC-S75 Toshiba PDR-M65 The Ricoh stands out from the other The DSC-S75 is a progression from last Compared to most of the other cameras cameras on test because it’s also a year’s DSC-S70, but remains a relatively tested, the Toshiba is childishly simple. buying advice personal-information manager and a mini- simple camera that sits between the It is a digital version of a point-&-click laptop. It has built-in memory, and slots for consumer and professional markets. camera. It lacks some of the advanced Compact Flash and a PC Card. This means It offers high-end features such as features that the other cameras boast, it offers a high storage capability plus the shutter and aperture priority, as well as but it requires less commitment from ability to take a modem card. Armed with a quality Vario Sonnar lens. This means the user. However, variable ISO sensitivity these, you can take a picture, edit it with that, with a little knowledge, anybody of 100, 200, or 400 – and macro focusing – the built-in software, plug the camera into will be able to achieve great images does give it some versatility. You should be a phone socket, and then email it around from this camera. able to get by with only passing references the world. It also caters for the gadget-conscious to the manual. The supplied 8MB The i700 is compact, but heavy. Its consumer, with its voice and video SmartMedia card is way too small for a 3.5-inch touch-sensitive LCD screen is capabilities. It even warns the user camera that‘s capable of producing high- massive by comparison with that offered if the lens cap has been left on. resolution images, so you’ll have to buy a by the other cameras, and it also lets the Because this is a Sony camera, it bigger card. And disappointingly, unlike user draw and navigate using a bundled uses the Memory Stick for storage. It Toshiba’s other cameras, it has no stylus pen. also allows for file transfer using USB. LCD-panel illumination.

Model RDC-i700 Model DSC-S75 CyberShot Model PDR-M65 Company URL www.ricoh-cameras.co.uk Company URL www.sony.co.uk Company URL www.toshiba.co.uk

Aperture range f/2.6-3.4 Aperture range f/2-2.5 Aperture range Unknown specs CCD: claimed/active 3.0/3.14 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 3.3/3.14 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 3.3/3.14 (megapixels) CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 Optical/digital zoom 3x/2.5x Optical zoom 3x Optical zoom/digital zoom 3x/2x Storage-media type Internal, CompactFlash & PC Card Storage-media type Memory Stick Storage-media type SmartMedia Flash Built-in Flash Built-in Flash Built-in Sea Lens Ricoh Lens Carl Zeiss Vario Sonnar Lens Toshiba Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Bundled storage 6MB internal Bundled storage 8MB Bundled storage 8MB Power Lithium Ion rechargeable cell Power Rechargeable infolithium cell Power AA Alkaline, or rechargeable Weight (grams) 450 Weight (grams) 316 Weight (grams) 285 Viewfinder 3.5-inch TFT Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Price (inc. VAT) £850 Price (inc. VAT) £700 Price (inc. VAT) £429 Contact 01782 753 300 Contact 08705 111 999 Contact 08704 424424

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storage for digital cameras: CompactFlash, Size Smart Media and Memory Stick (MS). MS is Camera bulk can be a key purchasing-factor exclusive to Sony; while CompactFlash is the for amateurs, most of whom prefer their Zoom with a view most widely used of the formats, and offers cameras to be pocket-sized. Just like heavy the most flexibility. There are two types of laptops, weighty cameras tend to get left in igital cameras can have two types CompactFlash cards: One and Two. Type One drawers. If you’re likely to get most use out of D of zoom – optical and digital. Optical cards are more common. However, type Two a compact, lightweight model, then buy one. is the traditional type, and uses moving cards – such as the IBM MicroDrive – have lenses. Digital enlarges pixels, in the capacities of up to 1GB. Video same way that scanners interpolate Because storage cards add to the price of Most of the cameras on test can capture images to give the appearance of higher cameras, manufacturers tend to skimp on short-span video clips. This is a consumer resolutions, but without adding any them. The largest bundled card is a measly feature that looks good. But, in truth, its information to image. If you want a 16MB. Fortunately, card prices are coming usefulness and practicality is limited. If you zoom facility, look for the model’s down, so it’s worth investing in extra capacity. want digital video, buy a digital camcorder. optical-zoom capability as a true Expect to pay around £1 per MB. guide of its capability. continues page 98

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HP Photosmart 715 Minolta Dimage 7 Canon EOS-D30 The HP Photosmart 715 is the company’s Of all models on test, the Dimage 7 offers The EOS-D30 is unlike the other cameras very latest digital-camera offering. This the highest resolution, clocking up 5.2 featured here. It’s a Digital SLR that buying advice is its first 3-megapixel model, and it megapixels. Its output, though, managed comes with all the features needed for boasts HP’s no-nonsense,straightforward a top figure of only 4.95 megapixels. It a professional photographer. The price approach that it takes to most of its has a 7x manual optical zoom, rather doesn’t include a lens, although Canon products. than the motorized zooms seen in the SLR-owning photographers may well be Like Epson, HP has a special other models. This gives it a traditional able to use a compatible one. The D30 is advantage in making digital cameras: feel, despite its high-tech nature. It comes compatible with a range of lenses from they are designed to compliment the with a 16MB CompactFlash card, which Canon. Check with Canon first. inkjet printers that are HP’s mainstay. is a tad stingy, considering that a single One of the D30’s main features is its The 715’s control interface is simple uncompressed image at maximum jumbo-sized CCD. The bigger pixels allow and friendly, meaning most users could resolution can take up to 13MB of this. more light to be recorded and, therefore, quite easily use it without needing to If you plan to use this camera for high- produce better images. It’s the larger resort to a manual. resolution images – which is its point, CCD that makes it possible to use lenses Even more striking than the after all – you’ll need to buy at least a designed for film cameras. 715’s elegant interface is its price: 64MB card, preferably larger. This camera should appeal to at only £349, it’s the most affordable The Dimage is complex camera, and professional photographers looking to 3-megapixel camera on test. This you’ll need to read the manual to get the take a first step into digital photography. represents remarkable value for money, best out of it. One feature I liked was a For people already using Canon EOS film being half the price of the equivalent special sensor that is triggered when cameras, the controls will be familiar. For Sony model. It may have a few less you look through the eyepiece, and novices, having so much control may be bells and whistles, but it does a fine which shuts down the LCD display daunting – but the same applies to job of taking pictures. – thus conserving power. equivalent film cameras.

Model Photosmart 715 Model Dimage 7 Model EOS-D30 Company URL www.hp.com/uk Company URL www.dimage.minolta.com Company URL www.canon.co.uk

Aperture range f/2.8-8.0 Aperture range f/2.8-3.5 Aperture range Lens sold separately specs CCD: claimed/active 3.3/3.14 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 5.2/4.95 (megapixels) CCD: claimed/active 3.25/3.1 (megapixels) CCD resolution (pixels) 2,048-x-1,536 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,568-x-1,928 CCD resolution (pixels) 2,160-x-1,440 Optical zoom/digital zoom 3x/2x Optical zoom/digital zoom 7x/2x Zoom Lens sold separately Storage-media type CompactFlash Storage-media type CompactFlash Storage-media type CompactFlash Flash Built-in Flash Built-in and hot shoe Flash Built-in and hot shoe Lens Seven-element lens Lens Minolta GT Lens Sold separately Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Connectivity USB Bundled storage 16MB Bundled storage 16MB Bundled storage 16MB Power AA alkaline Power AA alkaline or Ni-MH Power Rechargeable lithium-ion battery Weight (grams) 308 Weight (grams) 505 Weight (grams) 780 (not including lens) Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Viewfinder 1.8-inch TFT Price (inc. VAT) £349 Price (inc. VAT) £851 Price (inc. VAT) £2,585 Contact 08705 474 747 Contact 01908 200 400 Contact 0500 246 246

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Macworld’s buying advice of its 5.2-megapixel CCD. This makes it ideal If you’re a professional photographer, for printing outsized images. It also has a the Canon EOS-30 is your only real choice great zoom lens and lots of professional-level from those on test. If you’re already using features. a Canon SLR film-camera, there’s a good In the low-end category, the HP Photosmart chance you’ll be able to use some of the 715 wins out, thanks to its great value. lenses and flash equipment. Also worth a mention are the Olympus For mid-range users, either of the FujiFilm Camedia 4040 and Epson 3100z. Both perform models are excellent, capturing great images well and only just missed out on top spot. For and boasting plenty of extra features. But the the less technical user, either the Kodak, Sony Minolta Dimage 7 came out on top, by virtue or Toshiba offer quality and simplicity. MW

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Be a layer player Use Dreamweaver to animate layers and bring life to Web sites. By David Sawyer McFarland

he latest crop of Web browsers lets you move layers around the screen to produce exciting animated designs. Animation’s no drag T This kind of dynamic behaviour generally requires a deep knowledge of The easiest method of creating an animation simply requires you to drag a layer along JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets, as the route you want the animation to take. Dreamweaver can record this path and save well as the experience and patience to deal it as an animation. with the differences between the various browser brands. Fortunately, all of the required programming skill and Web development experience is built into Dreamweaver. With Dreamweaver’s Timeline tools, you can create elaborate animations, and even time-based actions like automated slide shows. Programming animation requires that you specify two things: movement and time. Imagine a ball moving across the screen; it takes the ball two seconds to travel from the left side to the right. A Web browser creates animation by drawing the ball in several different positions over several fractions of a second, so that you see the effect of smooth motion across the screen. Each of these drawings occurs in a moment of time, referred to as a frame. Playing around A Dreamweaver timeline can play back either when the page first loads, or when your visitor does something that you specify. For instance, you can add a button to a page that, when clicked, plays an animation on the screen. To create an animation, you’ll place a graphic into a layer, and then direct that layer to move around the Web page. Animating a layer involves some very border and drag around the page. A trail of sophisticated JavaScript programming code. grey dots follows the cursor, indicating the In fact, the code required to animate a layer path the animation will follow. can take up more lines than the actual HTML Dreamweaver doesn’t record the timing of the page. Trying to create such a program of your drag, just the path. You’ll specify the Because looping yourself could take weeks. But Dreamweaver speed of the animation later, as described in immediately jumps from can do it in seconds by recording the see “Animation’s no drag”. When you release TIP the end of the animation movement of your mouse as you drag the mouse, a dialog box appears. It tells you to the beginning, make sure whatever a layer around the window. that you can animate the following layer you’re animating starts and ends at To draw an animation on the screen, properties: Left, Top, Width, Height, Z-Index, roughly the same place on the page. select a layer to animate. Now choose Modify- and Visibility. In addition, you’re told that Otherwise, it will look as if the layer Timeline-Record Path of Layer; the Timelines Netscape Navigator 4 can’t animate the suddenly disappeared from one area panel appears, and Dreamweaver is ready to width and heights of layers. Click OK. A grey of the page and then reappeared record your animation. line appears across the document window, somewhere else. Grab the layer by its selection handle or continues page 132

For the latest daily news, hot reviews, buyers’ guide and special offers. Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 131 winding its way along the path you just Each of those animations would appear the layer onto a channel), key frames are the You don’t actually have created; and a line with a series of hollow in its own channel in the Timelines panel. only way to give the frame a movement path. to have any animation on dots appears in the now open Timelines While the number of frames in a channel Each animation begins life with two key Key movement TIP the page to take advantage panel, as shown in “Animation’s no drag”. determines the number of times the Web frames, one each for the animation’s beginning of the Behaviors channel. Say, for If you turn on the Autoplay box browser will move the layer, it doesn’t directly and ending positions. So far, the layer is in You can move any key frame by dragging it in the timeline. To make an animation run example, you want a new browser (shown in “Animation’s no drag”), your dictate the speed at which the animation the same position in both key frames; in longer, drag the last key frame to the right. This increases the total number of frames in window to appear exactly four seconds animation will play as soon as the page loads. plays. The speed is determined by the frame other words, it doesn’t go anywhere when the animation. It also spreads out any key frames within the animation bar, making the after a Web page loads – a delayed This is a common choice, since it plays your rate shown in the Fps (frames per second) the animation plays. overall animation slower. To only move the last key frame, and prevent Dreamweaver pop-up ad, perhaps. You’d just add an breathtaking animation immediately upon box. By default, the timeline’s frame rate is By adding and manipulating key frames, from redistributing other key frames, press option while dragging the end frame. Open Browser Window action to frame your visitor’s arrival. You can, however, start 15fps. The sample 40-frame animation in you can tell Dreamweaver where you want a 60 in the Behaviors channel, and then the animation by other means using the “Finding frames” would thus take about 3 layer to wind up at certain points in its motion; turn on the Autoplay checkbox in the Play Timeline behaviour. seconds to play back. If you decreased the the program automatically calculates the Timelines panel. In addition, if you want to repeat your speed to 8fps, the same animation would layer’s position in all of the intermediate animation over and over again, turn on take longer to play (around 5 seconds). frames, saving you endless tedium and grief. the Loop box. The lower the frame rate, the more the For example, on a brand-new animation At this point, you can press F12 to animation stutters; the higher the rate, the with only two key frames (beginning and preview your animation in a browser. You smoother the animation. While compared to ending positions), click the second key frame, can also preview it right in the document a feature film, which runs at 24fps, the default which selects the corresponding layer in the window using the Timelines panel (see rate Dreamweaver supplies may appear low. document window. Drag the layer to the spot “Finding frames”, below). Click the Rewind However, it’s wise to stick with the supplied on the page where you wish the animation button, and then click and hold the Forward 15fps; redrawing layers is a complex process to end and let go. Now when you play the button; Dreamweaver plays each frame of that requires a lot of power from the Web animation, the layer travels from its starting the animation. browser (and the computer it’s running on). position to the new ending location. Similarly, You can specify a higher frame rate, but a you can change the beginning position of Moving properties Web browser may not be able to obey. In the layer by selecting the first key frame Once you’ve added an animation to the order to draw each frame, it may need to and dragging the layer. timeline, you can edit many of the animation’s slow the animation down. Of course, you won’t get far in life just properties, such as its speed or movement. Dreamweaver automatically creates making your layers fly from point A to point The Timelines panel is the control a timeline when you animate a layer by B. If you add more key frames between the centre for your Dreamweaver animations recording its path. But you can also add starting and ending ones, you can define new (see “Finding frames”). Choose Window- a timeline manually by choosing Modify- spots for your layer-in-motion to hit at certain Timelines to open it, or press Shift-F9. Timeline-Add Timeline in the Timelines times. (In fact, when you create an animation The bottom half of the panel displays panel. A new timeline appears, to which by dragging a layer around the screen, numbered rows called channels, which denote you can add layers and create animations. Dreamweaver generates dozens of key individual layer animations. For example, in frames; see “Animation’s no drag.) “Key movement”, a single animation sits in Easy animation To manually add a key frame, click a channel 1; it’s the solid colour bar with a line There’s an Easy Way to animate a layer – just frame in the Timelines panel animation running through it (called the animation by dragging it. Unfortunately, at times, you’ll bar (one that’s not already a key frame). You’ll therefore make the layer disappear bar). The numbers along the top of those find the Easy Way to be less than accurate; When you click, the playback head (the (or reappear) on cue. Unfortunately, there is no rows indicate the frames; the animation drawing with a mouse is like using a bar red box that appears among the frame way to fade the layer out gradually; it’s either bar pictured here is 40 frames long. of soap to paint the Sistine Chapel. numbers) moves to the frame. visible or hidden. You can add multiple animations to a Fortunately, there’s also a more precise Now choose Modify-Timeline-Add To make a layer disappear and reappear timeline, too, so that two or more layers way: selecting a layer (or several) and choosing Keyframe. A hollow circle appears in the later in the animation, click a key frame and move simultaneously across the screen. Modify-Timeline-Add Object to Timeline. animation bar at the frame you selected. set Visibility to hidden; option-click consecutive When you add a layer, a new animation You can also press F6 to add a new frames to create a series of hidden key frames. bar appears in one of the channels of the key frame at the selected point in Change the last key frame to visible at the Timelines panel. The animation bar starts the animation bar. point when you want the frame to reappear. Finding frames out as a solid blue span of 15 frames (one Having created a new key frame, you’re Z-Index You can also change the stacking second) that contains the layer’s name and ready to specify the layer’s new position at order of the layer at a particular key frame. While working in Dreamweaver, you can view different frames of any timeline by using begins and ends with a white dot. To extend this point, confident that Dreamweaver will Click the key frame and use either the Property the Playback head and the arrow buttons. You can go to any point in the animation by the animation’s length, drag the white dot automatically regenerate its movement from inspector or Layers panel to set the layer’s dragging the Playback head left or right. The Current Frame box indicates which frame in frame 15 to the right. For example, if you the key frames before and after the one just Z-Index. you’re viewing. You can move forward or back one frame by clicking the right or left wanted to make a 10-second-long animation, added. Imagine a moon, for instance, flying arrows. Holding down either button plays the animation – either forward or in reverse. you’d drag the dot out to frame 150. around a planet. It moves from behind the Click the Rewind button to jump to the first frame in the timeline. You can also move the entire animation Location is key planet at first, orbits around the front of the bar by dragging the bar along the timeline Once you’ve created a new key frame, planet, and then eventually disappears back Timeline selector Rewind to start Previous frame Current frame Next frame – a useful tactic when you want to add a the corresponding layer is selected in the behind it. In this example, the planet would slight delay to an animation, or stagger several document window; you can then drag it to be in one layer, the moon in another. different animations in the same timeline. a new location. When you release the mouse, At first, the Z-Index of the planet would be For example, imagine you wanted to make two Dreamweaver redraws the grey path line to greater than that of the moon. After the moon snow flakes (two layers, each with an image of indicate the new path the animation follows, moves from behind the planet, you would add A quick way to add a layer a snowflake) appear at the top of the browser leading up to, and away from, your new key a key frame, and increase the moon’s Z-Index to the timeline is to drag window and float down the page; but you also frame. Similarly, you can adjust your moving so that it’s larger than the planet’s, putting TIP it from the document want the second snowflake to enter the scene layer’s position at any existing key frame the moon layer in front of the planet. window into one of the Layer channels about one second after the other. Drag the just by clicking the corresponding spot in After the moon crosses the face of the on the Timelines panel. animation bar with the second snowflake the timeline and then dragging the layer planet, you would add another key frame animation so it begins on frame 16, one on your screen. and set its Z-Index back to its original setting You can conserve a second after the first snowflake falls. But you can do more than change a – lower than, and behind, the planet. few precious calories by The white dots in the animation bar, called layer’s position at each key frame; you can also Width and height You can also change TIP option-clicking the frame key frames, are your main tool for controlling change other properties at each spot, like this: the dimensions of a layer at a key frame by you wish to turn into a key frame. The Animated layer Key frame Playback End of animation an animation. In fact, when you add a layer to Visibility Use the Property inspector to set changing the W and H fields in the Property cursor turns into a tiny hollow circle head (final key frame) the timeline by using the Modify-Timeline-Add the visibility property of a layer at a particular inspector. The effect is very interesting: not and instantly creates a new key frame. Object to Timeline command (or by dragging key frame. continues page 134

132 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 For the latest daily news, hot reviews, buyers’ guide and special offers. Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 133 behaviour into the Behaviors channel in the last frame of your animation (see “Good behaviour”, left). This behaviour Good behaviour causes the animation to return to the first frame in the timeline and play again. The Behaviors channel lets you add time-based behaviours to your page. Change the Suppose you want an alert box with the text in a layer every 10 seconds, for example, or write a new message to the Web word “Boom!” to appear at the instant when browsers’ status bar when an animation reaches its last frame. one animated layer touches another. All you’d have to do is select the frame where the two layers meet, and then add a Pop-up Message action to the Behaviors channel. To add a behaviour to the timeline, just click the relevant frame in the Behaviors channel of the Timelines panel – for example, the frame where two layers collide. (Click key frames in the animation bars below to see where the action is at any given frame, and then click in the Behaviors channel. The Behaviors channel doesn’t have key frames.) The frame in the Behaviors channel turns black to show it’s selected. Now open the Behaviors panel (Windows- Behaviors), click the + button, and choose a behaviour from the menu. For example, you could make a new browser window pop up by selecting the Open Browser Window only does the layer change size when it behaviour. reaches that key frame, but it automatically After you’ve added a behaviour to the and gradually changes size in each frame in channel, a dash appears in the frame, and the between. (Unfortunately, this feature doesn’t Behaviors panel lists the event (it should look work in Netscape Navigator 4 or any version something like this: onFrame36). Unlike a of Opera.) regular behaviour, you can’t select an event Once you create a key frame, you can yourself. The frame itself acts as the event; the move it in the timeline by dragging it (see action is triggered when the timeline reaches “Key movement”). This is how you control the specified frame. the pace of movement between key frames. You can move your newly created Frame The more frames between key frames, behaviour by dragging it left or right in the the slower the movement; fewer frames Behaviors channel, or remove it altogether means faster movement. by clicking its frame, clicking its name in For example, in “Key movement”, a the Behaviors panel, and then clicking the 25-frame animation of a leaf moving along – (minus) button in the Behaviors panel. a path has three key frames. The second key You can create several different animations frame is selected, showing that the leaf is only on one page, each on its own timeline and about halfway along the path (the grey line). As control them. For example, you might want you can see in the timeline, there are 19 frames to have a layer fly onto the page when your from the first key frame to the midpoint. visitor’s mouse moves over a navigational button, and off screen when the mouse moves Leaf through off the button. The fly-on, fly-off layer might There are only three frames, however, supply information about where the button from the second key frame until the final leads, or even contain a submenu of additional There’s more on layers in Dreamweaver 4: The Missing one. In other words, it takes about 20 frames buttons. Manual by David Sawyer McFarland (Pogue Press/O’Reilly; (a little over one second) for the leaf to travel To add an additional timeline, open the ISBN: 0-596-00081-2). This article is the first of a series of halfway along the path. The last half goes Timelines panel (Shift-F9); then choose Modify- Macworld extracts from the book, which costs £17.50 from much faster – only about four frames, or Timeline-Add Timeline. A timeline appears in all good booksellers. less than 1/4 second. the Timeline field in the upper left of the panel. Next month: more from In this example, the leaf will travel leisurely Dreamweaver proposes generic names like Dreamweaver 4: The Missing Manual. along the screen, until it reaches the midway Timeline1 and Timeline2, and so on; to provide mark in its path, and will then scream quickly a more recognizable name – fly or submenu1, to its destination. If you drag the middle for example – select the name of the timeline Timelines, frames, key frame to the centre of the animation from the menu in the Timelines panel. Choose key frames, and other bar, the leaf would travel at the same Modify-Timeline-Rename Timeline. A dialog TIP terms associated with speed throughout the animation. box appears; type the new name and click OK. Dreamweaver’s animation tools are Directly above the frame numbers that It’s best to name a timeline immediately not a part of HTML, JavaScript, or appear in the Timelines panel, you’ll find after creating it. If you change its name after CSS. There’s no tag called key frame another row of frames labelled B. It’s the applying Behaviors that control the timeline, and no JavaScript command called Behaviors channel. You can use this channel they won’t work. You’ll then need to edit each play. Dreamweaver’s Timelines panel to trigger a Dreamweaver Behavior at a Behavior to give it the timeline’s new name. and animation capabilities are the result particular frame in the timeline. In fact, If you decide you don’t want a timeline any of sophisticated programming on the you may have already used the B channel longer, you can delete it; select a timeline from part of the program’s engineers, and without even knowing it. When you turn the Timelines panel, and choose Modify- as such, are specific to Dreamweaver. on the Loop box in the Timelines panel, Timeline-Remove Timeline. (Doing so removes Dreamweaver inserts a Go To Timeline Frame all animations and actions in that timeline.) MW

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Getting to the root… Becoming a superuser can be dangerous. Check out Macword’s guide to the pitfalls. By David Hart

s far as the classic Mac OS is concerned, a user is a user is a user. But the Unix core of Mac OS X A introduces different user levels. At the top of the heap in every Unix system is a single, all-powerful superuser – also named root (after the topmost directory of the Unix file system). If you have root access, you have ultimate power: you can alter or delete any file or folder in that system. First, let’s back up for a minute. A user who is designated as an administrator can adjust system preferences (such as the network address), update the OS, and roam almost unhindered throughout that system. But sometimes, almost doesn’t cut it. For Unix omnipotence, you want to act as root. For example, you may want to adjust some settings that Apple put out of the reach of administrators – such as some system- configuration files or the built-in Apache Web server (see Mac OS X Secrets, September 2001). Or perhaps you want to install some the root account – is risky. To see where you The root of the matter Unix software before Aqua-friendly installers can do the most damage when you gain root By typing ls / at the command-line prompt, you can become available. Or maybe you just can’t access, enter this command in Terminal: ls /. see a list of the folders at your machine’s root level stand not having absolute control over your You’ll see the folders in the root directory of the (you can’t see them via the Finder), and change operating system. file system, including the same folders that you permissions using sudo. Whatever your reasons, root access see via the Finder: Applications, Library, System, is only a few short commands away. and Users. But you can also see directories Apple doesn’t tell you how to enable your that the Finder does not show, such as bin, root account in OS X – for good reason. As root, etc, and usr. As the superuser, you could you can delete your entire file system in fewer recklessly delete files in these hidden than ten keystrokes. And, logging in to your directories, unwittingly circumventing the file- root account opens up your system to the access permissions that would otherwise keep security vulnerability inherent in any Unix you from harming them. Damaging these files system. If someone cracks your root password, can wreak havoc with your system, potentially for example, your machine can be taken over even keeping it from booting up. And in Unix, remotely. If your root account is not enabled there is no undo command. in the first place – as in the default Mac OS X The Unix directive needed to execute installation – there’s a much smaller chance commands as root is sudo (pronounced of that happening. soo-doo), which stands for “superuser do”. (Type man sudo in the command line to read Root of attack more information about sudo.) To use sudo, you Some Mac users may think they need to enable must be logged in as an administrator their Mac OS X machine’s root account to do of the system. anything serious, but that’s just not true. We To execute a command as the superuser, will show you an alternative that allows you insert sudo and a space in the command line, to act as root while keeping your root account before the Unix command that you want to disabled, thus protecting against typical issue. For example, you can use this command network-based attacks. to make user jsmith the owner of the file

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Locked trash launches the Mac into “verbose” mode – a Player 5 when running OS X, which is included with mode that trails scads of commands that only OS X. If you use applications other than QuickTime Under the Classic Mac OS, you can trash locked a developer could love across your screen as Player that employ Theater Mode, Apple says you files in the Trash by holding down the Option key the Mac boots up. should open the Extensions Manager in the Classic and selecting Empty Trash from the Special menu. environment, disable the Theater Mode extension, This trick won’t work under OS X. To trash locked QuickTime clash and restart Classic. files under the new Mac OS, you must open the Trash, click the item you’d like to trash, press ⌘-I (Get Info), If you have a Mac that supports Theater Mode – A folder by another name and uncheck the Locked option. Once you’ve done so a software enhancement that increases brightness you can discard the file. and colour saturation in supported applications – If you rename OS X’s Utilities folder, you alter the and attempt to use Theater Mode in OS X’s Classic path name to that folder and therefore interrupt any Inside source environment, you may run into problems. Applications processes that require that path name. For example, such as QuickTime Player 4.1.2 that support Theater with this folder name changed, you can’t print because Those running OS X who want to know exactly Mode may cause other Classic applications to behave OS X expects Print Center to be inside a folder called what the Mac OS is doing while it boots can press oddly when Theater Mode is enabled. “Utilities”, and when it finds it isn’t, the process gives ⌘-V just after pressing the Power key. Doing so Therefore, Apple suggests that you use QuickTime up and refuses to print.

sudo chown jsmith test.html is the message of the day file in /etc/motd, When you invoke sudo, you’ll be asked which is accessible via the command for a password. Enter the password for your line. The message of the day appears when administrator account. Even though you’re a remote user logs in to your system from a already logged in as that user, you need terminal interface. By default, the Mac OS X to enter your password again (for security message of the day is “Welcome to Darwin!” reasons). Once you’ve done so, you have a To make that message a little more short time (five minutes by default) during exciting, you can edit /etc/motd with a which you can issue other commands using Unix editor such as pico or vi. The command sudo without having to re-enter a password. vi/etc/motd or pico /etc/motd will let you When issuing a series of commands as open the file only as read-only. However, if root, you might get tired of repeatedly entering you “sudo” the editing command, you’ll be sudo. Or perhaps you want to run a shell script able to save a more informative message, – a file that, when executed by root, issues such as “Welcome to Dave’s Mac OS X. a series of Unix commands. You can get The system will be down tomorrow for root access for as long as you like by invoking maintenance.” ‘If you have root sudo -s. To end a superuser session before the To edit the message of the day or other power goes to your head, type exit. Unix preferences files via TextEdit instead of access, you have Example: Run CGI sample scripts Now pico or vi, drag the TextEdit icon on top of the you’ll want to try out your superuser status. icon for the shareware application Pseudo ($15; ultimate power: Let’s say you want to run the two CGI scripts, personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/pseudo.html). printenv and test-cgi, that Apple includes Example: Install Unix software Finally, you can alter or with OS X for use with Apache. However, here’s a more complex situation: installing as installed, they don’t work because Unix software for which a complete, user- delete any file the file permissions are set incorrectly. friendly Aqua installer has not yet been To briefly explain, Apache is configured created. Perhaps you want to install the or folder in to run CGI scripts that are stored in the folder free MySQL database to go along with your /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables, as long Apache Web server. There isn’t a Mac OS X- that system.’ as the script files are marked as executable compiled version available for download from (the demo script files aren’t). To reset these the MySQL Web site, but a Web search turns permissions, issue the following consecutive up (among other choices) Marc Liyanage’s commands in Terminal: Web page (www.entropy.ch/software/macosx), cd /Library/WebServer/CGI- where you can download MySQL compiled Executables for Mac OS X. sudo chmod a+x printenv test- Without root access, it is impossible to cgi install this piece of software. An Aqua installer Assuming that you’ve turned Web sharing handles most of the dirty work, but the on via the Sharing panel of System Preferences, instructions do call for a handful of commands you can now run the two sample CGI scripts to be run with sudo. (The commands are listed by entering these URLs in your Web browser: on Liyanage’s Web page.) http://localhost/cgi- There is rarely a need, or a good reason, bin/printenv for OS X users – even those who have above- http://localhost/cgi-bin/test- average skills – to enable the root account. cgi In fact, there are excellent reasons not to Example: Edit message of the day You may enable it – especially since the sudo command also need to assume the mantle of superuser allows you to wield the power of root access to edit files in the usr, bin, etc, and other throughout your system. As our examples hidden directories, but you alter them at your demonstrate, sudo gives you the ability to own risk. When you’re ready to try it out, one configure (or confound) Mac OS X at its most file you can edit with some degree of abandon fundamental level. MW

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Colour complexity ColorSync can be a godsend, but its myriad files can cause confusion. By Bruce Fraser

rint professionals rely on ColorSync for accurate colour, but that doesn’t mean we like its complexity. Colour- P management menus crammed with head-scratching options such as Generic P22 1.8 Gamma Monitor aren’t user friendly. Although colour management may never be easy, you can weed out unnecessary profiles. ColorSync is the part of the Mac’s system software that addresses the problem of colour mismatches between different monitors, scanners, digital cameras, and printers. For example, when you send the same set of RGB values to several monitors, each one displays somewhat different colours. To compensate for differences between devices, you have to send the appropriate RGB or CMYK values to each device. That’s what ColorSync does – it changes the numbers in a file as it goes from one device to another.

Painting by numbers find an alias in the Display Profiles folder, don’t Control ColorSync Profiles are data files that tell ColorSync what delete it, either – the Monitors control panel The ColorSync control panel tells you the file name of numbers each device needs to reproduce a uses these aliases. a profile when it differs from the internal, descriptive given colour. One good rule of thumb is that If you’re not sure whether you’ll need a name; this helps you identify unnecessary profiles you don’t need profiles describing devices you certain profile in the future, make a folder that clutter your system. don’t own or use. called Unused Profiles, which you can put To begin the clean-up, go to your System anywhere outside the ColorSync Profiles folder. Folder, open the ColorSync Profiles folder, and It’s not always easy to tell which profiles set it to List view. If your setup is typical, you you need. One complicating factor is that could have more than 100 unnecessary profiles profiles have two names. The external names, in the folder. Start by deleting recognizably or file names, are the ones you see in the Finder named profiles that you don’t need. when you open the ColorSync Profiles folder. Don’t own an Apple Color StyleWriter? Then The internal names, or descriptions, are the you can safely drag to the Trash not only Apple ones that appear in the ColorSync control Color SW Pro and Apple Color SW Pro SN, but panel and in the menus of applications also files such as Color SW 1500 Pattern, Color such as Adobe Photoshop. SW 1500 Scatter, Color SW 2000 Series Pattern, Apple-supplied profiles, such as Apple 13” and so on – all the way up to Color SW 2500 RGB Standard or Apple Multiple Scan 20 - D50, Scatter Best 2. Repeat the process with all use the same name in both cases, but many other profiles for devices you don’t own or use. profiles from other sources do not, and Don’t forget to look inside the Display sometimes the external and internal names are Profiles folder nested in the ColorSync Profiles different. For example, it’s not obvious that the folder. If you don’t own a PowerBook 540C, for profile that appears on menus as Epson Stylus example, you can get rid of PowerBook 540C Photo 1270 Premium Glossy Photo Paper is the Standard. Ditto for all the profiles for monitors profile that shows up in the ColorSync Profiles you don’t use, with a couple of exceptions. folder as SP1270 RC. ColorSync 3.x provides an Don’t delete Default Display Profile or Display easy way to discover which external profile Profile 256 – ColorSync needs these. corresponds to which menu entry. If you haven’t calibrated your monitor using A little-known feature of the ColorSync 3.x

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For the latest daily news, hot reviews, buyers’ guide and special offers. Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 143 Application profiles Many of the CMYK profiles that come with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator aren’t needed – for instance, the JapanStandard profile.

control panel is its ability to reveal the file you’ll have much shorter and more-relevant name of a profile when it differs from the profile menus. internal name. To see this in action, open the Adobe Photoshop 6 and Illustrator 9 ColorSync control panel, click on the Profiles offer another trick for simplifying colour tab, and choose Default Profiles For Documents management. You can set which profiles from the top menu in the dialog box. Four appear in the programs’ Color Settings menus appear: Default RGB, CMYK Default, dialog boxes when the Advanced option Grayscale Default, and Lab Profile. is not selected. RGB profiles Click on the Default RGB To limit these profiles, go to System Folder- menu to view RGB profiles on your system. Application Support-Adobe-Color-Profiles- When holding the cursor over a profile whose Recommended. Inside the Recommended file name differs from its internal name, a folder, you’ll see a list of eleven profiles. If help balloon appears that reads, “Note: The you’re a typical print publisher in the UK, file name of this profile is…” This reveals, for you probably have little use for Apple RGB example, that the profile that creates the (it’s based on the Apple 13-inch monitor), Kodak XLS 8300 Printer menu entry is actually or for the JapanStandard CMYK profile. Put xls830a7.pf. If you don’t own or use these them in an Unused Profiles folder so you’ll devices, you can find xls830a7.pf and still have them if you ever need them. ebug18a7.pf, and then discard them. If you want to use custom profiles with 3D space CMYK profiles Repeat the help-balloon Photoshop or Illustrator, you can move those The CMY (above) and RGB colour spaces (below) are process for the CMYK menu. Here you may into the Recommended folder so they will mathematical representations of colour, where all want to be slightly less ruthless: I recommend always show up in Color Settings. Although colours are located on a three-dimensional axis holding on to profiles for industry-standard these profiles are located in a folder for Adobe represented in cube-form. proofing systems such as Imation Matchprint applications, other applications can access or Fuji ColorArt, because even if you don’t own them as well. (The Photoshop and Illustrator Magenta them, you may wind up delivering a job to a installers automatically put an alias of the repro house that does. But unless you have, Recommended folder inside the ColorSync say, a QMS ColorScript 100 Model 30I, there’s Profiles folder, making the profiles available no point in keeping qms1030i.pf. Even if to any application that uses ColorSync.) your repro house uses one for proofing, it will The many differences between applications almost certainly have tweaked the profile to its still present plenty of opportunities for colour- own standards. (Don’t bother deleting Generic management confusion. And as applications Cyan CMYK, Generic RGB, Generic Lab, or Generic XYZ migrate to Mac OS X, there will likely be new – they’ll reappear when you restart.) colour-management wrinkles to smooth. But Greyscale and Lab profiles You probably in the meantime, if you rid yourself of the raft won’t have unmanageable numbers of these of useless profiles that come with applications Yellow profiles, but may well have duplicates, so take and OS upgrades, you’ll simplify colour time and weed them out. When you’re done, management. MW Colour spaces: the low-down colour space is a model of up to light reflected from an image’s surface. in print as process colours – this is four dimensions that represents Understanding the RGB colour space where the CMYK colour space comes in. A colour in intensity values. They is important to printing, because it is the The CMYK colour space consists of also specify how colour information digital colour-space used to represent on- Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, as primary is represented. screen documents that will end up in print. colours and red, green, and blue as The largest colour space is that of RGB colours are also known as luminous, secondary colours. In theory, the black the human eye. About half the size of or additive, colours. This is because black shouldn’t be needed, as an equal mix this colour space is the RGB space. Any is displayed on a TV or computer screen of C, M and Y gives black. However, colour expressed in RGB is a mixture of by removing all three sources of colour, when printed, the result is closer to three primary colours: red, green, and while white is displayed by adding dark brown. blue. All digital workflows make use of maximum amounts of all three colours. The CMYK colour space is subtractive this colour space. For example, scanners But because the range of RGB colours – if you start with white and subtract all read the amounts of red, green, and blue is vast, many of them are not achievable colours equally, you get black.

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Enjoy the views Web forums can attract new visitors to a site for little cost. By Lisa Schmeiser

ew Web sites come with a built-in strangers. The worst cases require collection of visitors. One way to an arbitrator – or even a bouncer. attract people to your site and keep Hosting a good bulletin board F them coming back is to create your requires a clear sense of the tone own online watering hole – a bulletin board. you’d like to promote. You should The technical barrier for visitors is low, and have plans in place for setting a lot of the Web’s best community spaces up and encouraging community centre on bulletin boards. Here’s how to standards – such as good spelling host your own. For starters, think about and grammar, and the exclusion whether you should host one. of profanity. Before you succumb to the lure of opening your site to lively community dialogue, ask Keeping on track yourself whether a bulletin board will add Before you install your bulletin board, to your site or overwhelm it. make sure you’ll have time to keep track If you’re running a Web site with frequent of it. To do it right, you’ll need to check or time-sensitive updates, it’s helpful to offer in on conversational threads regularly, a forum where your readers can comment including at night and on weekends. and query. For example, a Web site about You’ll also need a little help from your XML implementation has content that friends – find someone you can trust to keep changes often and focuses on resources; the forums running smoothly when you’re on the topic lends itself to extended discussion. vacation. For details on what to expect in your However, if you don’t update your site new role as moderator, ask forum hosts whose frequently – or don’t have content appropriate boards you admire how they’ve handled worst- for ongoing discussions – you may have case scenarios and how much time they spend difficulty nurturing a forum. moderating. One forum duty that took me by surprise Big personality was dealing with frequent new posters who Some online communities are famous for would barge in on a board I was moderating, raucous personalities, others for supportive or ignore the plentiful open discussions, and cerebral discussions. Before you put up a space post a deluge of questions other people had where people can post comments, think about already answered. I developed a deep reserve what kinds of discussions you want, and how of patience, and tried to teach other posting they will complement the rest of your site. members by example. I politely thanked For example, in Mighty Big TV’s forums users for their enthusiasm, redirected them (www.mightybigtv.com; motto: “Television to the forum thread that would answer their without pity”), the moderators keep the questions, and then closed the redundant discussions whip-smart and focused, with thread. well-placed quips. This conversational style Another forum duty every moderator matches the site’s editorial voice. has to face is restoring order when your visitors A bulletin board is like a cocktail party, argue viciously. In flame wars, bulletin-board and the moderator plays the role of the moderators often get strafed when they try to gracious host. It’s his or her job to circulate, intervene. Do you want to take the high road making sure that everyone’s engaged in an by engaging the poster off list, or invoke your interesting conversation and nobody’s trapped rank as the host and drop-kick him or her into next to the crab dip listening to an insulting the great beyond? boor or a tiresome bore. Anticipating difficult situations and Some parties run themselves, especially being prepared to spend time resolving if all the attendees know one other or them – sometimes at inconvenient have a common interest. Other parties moments – is part of a moderator’s role. need a few nudges, especially at the beginning Once you’ve settled on a strategy for

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For the latest daily news, hot reviews, buyers’ guide and special offers. Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 147 such as Infopop’s Ultimate Bulletin Board and Mac-friendly bulletin-board software Antone Roundy’s Threads. This type of program PRODUCT PUBLISHER PRICE PROS CONS ADVICE fosters a well-designed community space. Before you commit to any package, ask DiscussionApp 3.0 Server.com Free if you display Threaded interface lets you Offers limited options for Good choice if you want to yourself how much time you’re willing to spend (http://server.com Server.com ads display several conversations customizing and administering be able to modify your forum’s troubleshooting or programming your tool. You /communityapps simultaneously. the forum. interface without venturing into may be tempted to pick up a free forum script /discussionapp server or software administration. /index.html) and install it on your site, but if you’re not Lusenet Phil Greenspun Free Greenspun site hosts the bulletin You cede some control to Viable option for people who simply fond of debugging and troubleshooting, you’re (www.greenspun board, so you don’t have to the people running the tool. want to fill out a form and host a better off investing in software that doesn’t .com/bboard perform complex setup and no-frills, threaded discussion area. require you to be both forum moderator and /index.tcl) administrative tasks. system operator. Threads Antone Roundy $12 You can host and administer Requires you to do the A good combination interface Once you’ve set up the bulletin-board (www.mouken.com this software on a Mac, giving installation and troubleshooting. for those who want to have /threads/) control over the board. the option of viewing either software and everything’s in place, you need Customizable software offers threaded discussions or full to make sure that your Web site visitors are email notification and other user comments. aware of your forum. perks. Easy for visitors to use. You may need to modify the site’s design or Ultimate Infopop Starts at $99; Elegant and customizable You must have the time and The most hands-on and content to take advantage of your new bulletin Bulletin Board (www.infopop.com) depends on interface; setting up varied topics expertise it takes to configure professional of the applications level of customer and individual threads is easy. and administer a Web server here; an excellent tool for those board. This often entails adding a teaser support on your Mac. Expensive. who run vital bulletin boards. to your site’s pages – an element such as a provocative, prominently placed quotation that All prices exclude VAT. entices people to click on it and visit the forum. It’s hard to lure people to a bulletin board nurturing your online community, it’s time to if they don’t know it exists. Include links to begin implementing the bulletin board. Your the board in site-navigation tools, and add first step is to select a software package that hyperlinks in other appropriate places – such as will support the goals you just articulated. the top, middle, or bottom of articles, the index This is where form marries function; pages, or a “What’s New” section. You can also you want a bulletin-board format that’s use a juicy quote or question from the forum to appropriate for your content. For example, show that its topics fit in with the rest of the if you run a news Web site and want to site. This will help visitors make the shift from encourage instant input from users as they reading your site to participating in its forums. read and respond to articles, then you need Once you’ve arranged the furniture bulletin-board software that appends a and determined the topic of conversation in threaded discussion to each article. On the your virtual salon, you’re ready to throw open other hand, if your goal is to use your Web site its doors to the public. You’ll learn what the as a hub for online discussions, pick software people who use your site really think about its that lets you sort forum threads on pages content, and you’ll be party to some amusing separate from your other Web-site content, and informative conversations. MW Your tip of the month wins an hp deskjet 990cm We reward the tip of the month with an hp deskjet 990cm, worth £279. This graphite colour-printer offers amazing image quality and speed, and Q&A/tips is bursting with gadgetry and cool extras.

• FireWire boot • Keyboard shutdown • Missing drivers Q&A/tips Readers’ questions answered, and handy tips. By Christopher Breen

Delete Trash warning iMac, then press and hold the T key until you see a FireWire icon on the target Mac’s screen. As fancy-pantsy as I find Mac OS X, The icon for the target Mac’s internal hard-drive there’s one Classic Mac OS feature I should appear on the host Mac’s desktop. Once TIP desperately miss: the ability to turn you’re there, repair the drive with a troubleshooting off the Trash warning – you know, the message that utility or insert the iMac’s Software Install CD in indicates the number of items in the Trash and asks the host Mac’s CD-ROM drive and install a whole if you’re sure you want to empty it. OK, so maybe I new system on the iMac’s drive. like to live dangerously, but this warning annoys me. To exit TDM, drag the target Mac’s hard-disk Although I can’t turn off this warning for good, icon to the Trash and press the target Mac’s power I’m not completely without options. I can skirt it button. – as I did in other versions of the Mac OS – by holding down the option key while selecting the Eraser foot Empty Trash command from the Finder menu. The rubber feet on my PowerBook G4 External boot have fallen out. Rather than paying TIP Apple for replacements, my 12-year- I have an iMac DV with a broken CD-ROM old son, Gethin, suggested using a cut down end drive. But that’s not the problem – I’ve of a pencil eraser – it fits perfectly. With a small Q added an external USB CD-RW drive. The drop of super glue the rubber foot is replaced. difficulty is that my Mac won’t boot from the hard Gareth Jordan drive, and with no internal CD-ROM, I can’t boot from the iMac’s Restore CD. What can I do? Sherlock indexing Harold Landreth The secret to unraveling this mystery can I recently purchased an iMac, and shortly be found on the right side of your iMac thereafter indexed the drive with Sherlock. A – it’s the FireWire port. You’ll also need Q Since then I’ve installed two games, yet Language barrier a second Mac to get the job done. when I ask Sherlock to update the index, it tells To speed up indexing in Sherlock, simply switch off the For some time it’s been possible to mount me the process will take 12 hours. What can I languages you don’t plan to use. a PowerBook’s internal drive from another Mac do to speed things up? via SCSI using a protocol called Target Disk Mode Travis Rollman (TDM, formerly termed SCSI Disk Mode). TDM is I’d begin by not panicking. Clever as Sherlock now supported via FireWire as well, which allows may be, it’s not terribly good at deducing you to mount the hard drive of a “target” computer A how long it takes to index a drive when it (your iMac) on another FireWire-capable “host” first begins the process. If you were to sit with Mac. The target Mac must have shipped with a stopwatch in hand while Sherlock chugs through FireWire port (TDM doesn’t support add-on FireWire your drive, you’d find that its initial estimate is cards for the target computer – just for the host shockingly inaccurate. Mac). That’s not to suggest, however, that indexing To make this FireWire brand of TDM work, a drive is a brisk procedure. It isn’t, and because the Macs involved must meet a few additional of this, it’s best to begin the operation when you’ll requirements. The host Mac must be running be away from your Mac for a while – overnight, Mac OS 8.6 or later and FireWire 2.3.3 or later, for example. and your target iMac must have Firmware 2.4 You can automate the process by creating a or later. Here’s how to set it up. schedule. To do so, select Index from Sherlock’s First, remove any FireWire devices from Find menu and click on the Schedule button in the both computers before you start. With the target resulting dialog box. Select a convenient day and computer off (the host Mac can be turned on), time for indexing to begin, and leave your Mac on string a six-pin-to-six-pin FireWire cable (available during the appointed hour. from any good Mac mail-order house) between Bear in mind that you needn’t index your entire the target and the host Macs. Switch on the target continues page 154

For the latest daily news, hot reviews, buyers’ guide and special offers. Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 153 created. Open the Sound control panel and click on the Mute button – this silences the iMac. But there Tip of the month: Keyboard shutdown are still two other ways to make it speak. Let’s Explore Sherlock silence them as well. Open the Keyboard control panel, click on the On the new Apple Pro keyboards, Function Keys button in the resulting window, and You can add a Sherlock button to you can mimic the old power Congratulations deselect the Use F1 Through F15 As Hot Function your Internet Explorer 5 tool bar TIP button, by pressing control-eject. to James Relph, he wins Keys option. You’ve now disabled the Volume Up, TIP (View: Customize Toolbars), but Pressing control-apple-eject will restart the an hp deskjet 990cm printer. If you think Volume Down, and Mute buttons on your iMacs’ under Mac OS 9.1 it’s inactive. To make it active machine. you have a Tip of the month, send it to: keyboards. Open the Control Strip control panel you must replace the Sherlock 2 alias in the James Relph [email protected] and select the Hide Control Strip option. This Apple Menu Items folder with the actual prevents your students from using the Control Sherlock 2 application (found inside the Strip to jack up the iMacs’ volume. Applications folder at the root level of your hard When you’ve run through this rigmarole, drive). Internet Explorer Help incorrectly states drive. You can index a single file or folder by control- claims that if TCP/IP is set to Active and can’t log out of that user account (by selecting Logout that the Sherlock application gets placed in the clicking on that item in the Finder and choosing establish an Internet connection, a PowerBook from the Finder’s Special menu), and then log Apple Menu Items folder by default. Index Selection from the resulting contextual menu. may pause for as long as five minutes when it back in as the owner. Next, open the Multiple Steve Gier You can also select Preferences from Sherlock’s Edit tries to wake from sleep. If you’re thus afflicted, Users control panel and assign Limited privileges menu and elect to index items by label – only those Apple suggests that you set TCP/IP to Inactive to the user account you created. Finally, click documents with an orange label, for example. In the and select the Load Only When Needed option. on the Show Setup Details triangle, select same Preferences window, click on the Languages Mac OS X has its wake-from-sleep issues as the Privileges tab, and make sure that the user printers. For several months now I have had to button and switch off all languages except English well. There have been reports, for example, that doesn’t have access to the Control Panels folder. revert to OS 9.1 in order to print documents, which to further speed Sherlock’s indexing. having a Classic application at the forefront while What have you accomplished? Anyone using is a real pain. Perhaps Apple might include more putting your PowerBook to sleep can make the the account you just configured shouldn’t hear a printer drivers for some of us with the release of Express export device more difficult to rouse. peep out of that computer and, unless he or she OS X 10.1? The key to treating a soporific PowerBook circumvents Multiple Users, can’t restore sound Mike Crump Outlook Express doesn’t run on my Mac lies mostly in your powers of observation. If you’ve to the iMac. As you can probably see, this kind Most Epson printers, scanners and digital any longer, but I need the email it contains. recently changed something about your PowerBook of chicanery can serve any number of prohibitive cameras with built-in USB interfaces or Epson Q Is there any way to retrieve my messages? – say you installed new hardware or software – purposes. You can keep your kids from dimming A network interfaces will work in the Mac OS X Marty Harper and your portable pal refuses to leave its state of the iMacs’ screens, changing the screen resolution, Classic environment when using the latest Epson A good start would be trying to get Outlook slumber, try undoing your recent actions and see playing QuickTime movies, ect. With some careful drivers for Macintosh computers. Epson will produce Express up and running again by re-installing if the problem disappears. planning you can make your labful of iMacs just Mac OS X drivers for further products in the future. A it. However, if it’s reluctant to do the job no fun at all. When schedules are available they will be published even after the re-install and you need your email Noisy kids If that’s too much bother and your school at the ‘Download’ section at www.epson.co.uk/ right now, try this: go to www.eudora.com and has a reasonably meaty budget, install a more support/download/os_x_notice.htm download the latest version of Qualcomm’s Eudora. I teach a variety of computer skills in an robust security program intended for classroom When you first launch the program, it offers you the iMac-based lab. Although I’ve muted the use. With an application such as Power On iApp back-up opportunity to import mail from other email clients. Q sound on the iMacs, my students download Software’s On Guard (£40; Computers Unlimited, Choose Outlook Express from the pop-up menu in RealPlayer and play music during class. What can 020 8200 8282; www.poweronsoftware.com), Apple newest Power Macs – the the Import Mail dialog box, then click on OK. I do to keep the sound muted, short of removing you can determine what your students can and “QuickSilver” models – don’t include If Eudora’s already installed, you can import the iMacs’ speakers? can’t do with the lab’s iMacs – and you can TIP individual discs containing iMovie and your email by selecting the Import E-mail command Carrie Nichols configure the whole mess from a single iDVD. The only way to reinstall these applications is from Eudora’s File menu. Having been a teacher earlier in my life, I administrator’s computer. On Guard isn’t secure to run the Apple Software Restore disc. Regrettably, You can configure Eudora in three ways: understand how difficult it can be to restrain enough for government work, but for a supervised Apple Software Restore doesn’t allow you to pick Sponsored mode, where you get the full version A the youthful enthusiasm of your students – computer lab, it should do the job nicely. and choose which components you’d like to install. of the program for free, but have to look at some particularly when that energy drives them to blast Rather, it simply reinstalls everything. fairly unobtrusive advertisements; Paid mode, a full the latest adenoidal Atomic Kitten single from one Opening .doc files It might serve you well to burn backup copies version without ads; and Light mode, a free limited end of school to the other. Though I believe the of iMovie and iDVD onto CD-R discs (along with version without ads but offering fewer features. shortest route to a solution is to threaten the little If you cannot open a .doc email their support files). That way, should you lose Eudora is also available in a Mac OS X-native form. blighters with expulsion should more than the attachment you can change .doc them, you can restore just those applications. default alert sound emerge from the lab’s iMacs, TIP to .html and drop it onto Internet Dozy PowerBooks I understand that may not be an option. You ask in Explorer. You don’t keep the layout, but you can Portable sound iBook burn-out particular about shutting off sound on these iMacs, read, copy or print the main body of text. Recently, whenever I put my PowerBook to but the overarching question really is: how can I Max Hanuy If you mute the sound on your Apple appears to be a little fuzzy sleep, it refuses to wake up. What can I do? keep prying little hands and minds from screwing PowerBook G4, PowerBook G3 Series, on whether you can use an Q Zoe Sarantis around with system settings in a multi-computer AppleWorks updates TIP PowerBook (FireWire), Power Mac G4 TIP external monitor and keyboard We’ve seen this question a few times, environment? There are a couple of answers – one Cube, or iMac (Summer 2000) while running Mac with the new dual-USB iBook. An Apple tech and for good reason. PowerBooks can built-in and another available through a third party. If you have CarbonLib 1.3.1 or later OS X 10.0.4 and put that computer to sleep, you note reads: “You should not close the display A be devilishly difficult to awaken at times. I Let’s begin with the built-in solution. installed and extensions switched off, may notice that it’s back to its old noisy self lid of an iBook (Dual USB) computer while Macworld’s chief sub-editor Woody Phillips wish I could provide a single fix, but unfortunately With Mac OS 9, Apple introduced Multiple Users TIP the AppleWorks 6.2 Installer Update when awakened. using an external keyboard and monitor.” It and contributing editor Christopher Breen there appears to be no universal solution. Therefore, – a combination control panel and extension that will refuse to launch. To fix the problem restart with To put things right you must open System then goes on to say: “You cannot use the iBook answer readers’ questions and select reader- allow me to enumerate some of the usual suspects. allows a Mac’s administrator (the owner) to create extensions switched on and then run the installer. Preferences, click the Sound preference, and (Dual USB) computer with an external keyboard submitted tips for this column. Send your Start by examining your extensions, control individual user accounts on that computer and limit deselect and then reselect the mute option. and monitor.” question or tip (include your address and panels, and applications. For example, MenuFonts, what people using them can do. For example, you Missing drivers Regardless of whether you can or can’t use the phone number) to Q&A, Macworld, 99 a component of Extensis’s Suitcase, can create a can configure the lab’s iMacs so your students can Word file saving iBook with an external keyboard and monitor, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8UT. You conflict that disables a PowerBook G4’s keyboard use only AppleWorks. I have an Epson Photo 875 DC printer. When it’s a bad idea to try to attach these devices can also send an email, marked Q&A in when you awaken that PowerBook. Some users One of Multiple Users’ niftier features is I installed Mac OS X some months ago, the If you have File Sharing enabled and then close the iBook’s lid. If you close the the subject line, to [email protected]. have found that switching on the Control Strip its ability to bar access to control panels. This Q printer was not supported. I contacted Apple and attempt to save a Word 2001 lid with these devices attached, the iBook may We pay £25 for each tip published here. causes sleep problems in PowerBooks. And still is how we’ll mute your iMacs. First, create a new and was told to contact Epson on the matter. I did TIP document more than 60 times in a not go to sleep. And if it doesn’t go to sleep, it We cannot make personal replies, others claim that a PowerBook wakes more readily user account in the Multiple Users control panel this, and, to give Epson its due, received answers single session, you’ll receive a Disk Full error and will continue to produce heat. This heat, now so please do not include a stamped if you use the Special menu’s Sleep command rather and give that user Normal privileges – freedom to to all my enquiries. However, for all this, there is won’t be able to save your document to a local trapped beneath the closed lid of the iBook, addressed envelope. than just closing the notebook’s lid. TCP/IP can also do anything he or she wants on the iMac. Log out still no driver compatible with OS X for this printer disk. If File Sharing is disabled, you can save up could cook your portable pal. be a source of trouble for some PowerBooks. Apple of the owner account and log in as the user you just on Epson’s download page, nor for many of its older to 250 times before you receive this error. MW

154 Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 For the latest daily news, hot reviews, buyers’ guide and special offers. Macworld NOVEMBER 2001 155 Andy Ihnatko

Why can’t we look beyond visual interfaces, and unlock the Mac’s potential?

Speech impediment

f I live to be 100, I’ll never stop telling people that all really firing up an AppleScript with that exact title, which Randy Newman songs sound like toilet-paper jingles. opens all of the URLs within a Morning News folder. Similarly, when it comes to Mac OS X’s Aqua interface, I Speech is the most obvious unexploited resource in the I will never tire of asserting that the colours of a traffic user-interface world. IBM and MacSpeech have made great signal do not make a user think of closing, minimizing, and leaps with their speech products, but these products are still maximizing. Closing a window does not stop anything, and not much more than keyboard replacements. I’ve got a maximizing one doesn’t make anything go – and what’s so keyboard. What I want is a utility that can take a sentence ‘After 17 years cautious about putting a window into the Dock? like: “Convert that big manuscript I worked on last night to I do like Aqua. It prettified the Mac – all that on-screen HTML, and email it to Jason,” and turn it into the command: of experience shadowing, highlighting, melting, and throbbing make for “Look for a Word file larger than 20K, last modified yesterday as Macintosh an interface that’s easier to navigate. It’s a great face-lift. But after 5 p.m. If there’s only one, convert it to HTML, and if what if Apple went for more than a face-lift? there’s only one Jason in the address book, email it to him; users and Let me tell you about an idea I recently had. Like most of otherwise, ask me which Jason I mean.” And this is doable. developers, my ideas, it came to me while I was napping on my sofa and The success with which iListen and ViaVoice can turn voice avoiding work. While I napped and evaded, my G4 into text and the ease with which the Newton OS was able have we all Cube called out, telling me I had new mail. to parse complex commands prove it. agreed that Big deal. It happens all the time, now that my Internet Since 1984, the capabilities of personal computers have connection is on 24/7. This time, though – possibly owing to increased exponentially. But the interface itself hasn’t taken we got it my having had three sodas in the space of 40 minutes – my any significant steps forward – it still consists of an on- perfect the eyes were open: Wait, this just might be incredibly cool. I had screen pointer that acts on a collection of menus, windows, access to the G4 without physical proximity or any sort of and icons. Aqua is a highly valuable and experience- first time?’ device or accessory. I got information from it without having enriching face-lift – but it’s just a face-lift. After 17 years of to turn my head, even. experience as users and developers, have we all agreed that Why don’t we normally think of speech as a user we got it perfect the first time? Or have we simply grown interface? Because it involves no pointing devices or complacent and abandoned the quest for anything better? bouncing icons? Is that any excuse? That’s when my idea hit. The scariest notion is that little by little, Windows and As usual, it involved spending a lot of money. even Linux are starting to catch up to the Mac, at least in I came home with six omnidirectional microphones, a terms of the interface. I installed a beta of Windows XP the line-level amp, and a cheap mixer. Three or four missed other day, and my jaw dropped: at last, the GUI doesn’t look deadlines later, I had wired my entire office for sound. like someone designed it on an Etch A Sketch. Thank Through discreetly placed microphones, my G4 could receive heavens Microsoft stopped putting the year of release into voice input from anywhere in my big office-cum-den. the name. We currently go around spraying “Windows 98 = Now when my computer says: “You have new mail,” I can Mac OS ’90” on highway overpasses, but “Windows 2001 = reply, “Is it important?” And unless Mailsmith sees a Mac OS Early ’99” wouldn’t really have the same punch. message from someone I’ve designated Important, the G4 But for all its advances, even Windows XP boils down to advises me that I needn’t stir from my sofa. click, double-click, drag. As Macintosh users, we expect I enjoyed that so much that I expanded the system in more. We want to speak, acknowledge, walk away because both coverage and capability. I have another six mikes the Mac can take it from there. Or we want our screens to scattered across the house – in the kitchen, near my front resemble the flattened front of a virtual sphere that we can door, and in the TV room – and a couple dozen new scripts spin to reveal new views of the Internet, the file system, or that do things way more interesting than fool with my mail. the user experience. Changing the interface for change’s None of this is rocket science. sake is dippy. We see the result every time users running Mac It all exploits standard features of Mac OS 9. In fact, the OS X want to close a window but hesitate, momentarily lack of sophistication is my sole disappointment with this unsure if they’re choosing “stop using this window” or “I’m system. My Mac doesn’t actually parse these sentences. done; this window may now go.” When I awaken and groggily ask the PowerBook on my But it’s also true that the only difference between a rut nightstand to “get me the morning news”, I’m and a grave is their depth. MW

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