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O Milagre Da Miniaturização Do G4 ANO 7 Nº75 2000 R$ 6,00 WWW.MACMANIA.COM.BR CUBO Mágico O milagre da miniaturização do G4 Tudo sobre os lançamentos da Macworld Nova York Sharewares que ensinam QuickTime Streaming Updates ou Upgrades? Os melhores sites de games Testamos a Nikon Coolpix 990 ISSN 1414-4395 As Cartas Não Mentem Get Info Editor: Heinar Maracy Errata xe a matéria que mais desejava desde quan- Tenho um PC, mas meu sonho de consumo Editores de Arte: No listão de assistências técnicas publicado do adquiri o meu iMac de 333 MHz (em é um Power Mac G4; por isso, de vez em Tony de Marco e Mario AV na Macmania 73, a informação de que a dezembro de 99): “Como conectar Mac no quando, dou umas espiadas na Macmania Conselho Editorial: Caio Barra Pixel, de Curitiba, cobraria R$ 25 para fazer PC”. Tudo esclarecido, exceto: como se faz (excelente publicação, linda e elegante Costa, Carlos Freitas, Jean Boëchat, orçamento está incorreta. Não cobramos para conectar os dois quando, um está no como os produtos Macintosh). Fiquei admi- Luciano Ramalho, Marco Fadiga, para fazer o orçamento. Gostaríamos de ver trabalho e o outro em casa? No trabalho, a rado ao saber que já existia o sistema do Mac Marcos Smirkoff, Muti Randolph, publicada essa correção, pois isso pode nos conexão com a Internet é full-time; assim, traduzido para o português. Para quem Oswaldo Bueno, Rainer Brockerhoff, influenciar negativamente. eu consigo baixar trailers de filmes e progra- folheia a revista, parece até que não existe o Ricardo Tannus Flavio A. Limberger mas grandes; se fosse feito em casa demo- sistema traduzido! E, realmente, a revista usa Gerência de Produção: Egly Dejulio Pixel Systems raria a noite toda. Em suma, gostaria de toda a terminologia da informática em Gerência Comercial: Francisco Zito Errata publicada. Desculpe o transtorno. saber como conectar o meu iMac de casa ao inglês. Também, por quase não existir pro- Contato: Kátia Regina Machado PC do trabalho, para que eu possa puxar gramas e jogos traduzidos, espanta ler toda a Ligando Mac no PC esses arquivos grandes. revista sem encontrar nenhuma manifesta- Assinaturas: S&A Marketing Direto e Sou novo assinante da revista; e, para a Fabricio Lima ção ou solicitação por traduções de produ- Editorial, Fone: 11-3641-1400 minha surpresa, percebi que a segunda edi- [email protected] tos para Macintosh. Gerência Administrativa: ção que recebi em minha casa (nº 73) trou- Você pode até ligar os dois usando um pro- Só pensarei em comprar um Macintosh Clécia de Paula grama como o Timbuktu, da Farallon; mas quando tiver certeza de que o sistema, pro- Fotógrafos: Andréx, Clicio, isso não vai eliminar o problema principal, gramas e jogos tenham plena tradução. J.C.França, Marcos Bianchi, que é a banda estreita da sua conexão em Luciano Ricardo Teles casa. Ou seja, mesmo que você mande os [email protected] Capa: Foto: Clicio arquivos quando está saindo do trabalho, Modelo: Paola Oliveira (Taxi) eles ainda vão continuar demorando a Vamos combinar uma coisa. Quando rece- Produtora: Gabriela Pinesso noite inteira para chegar ao seu iMac. O bermos aqui na redação uma caixa da Make-up: Denise Borro Índice melhor mesmo é você comprar um Zip Drive Apple com o Mac OS 9 em português – Redatores: Flávia D’Angelo, Márcio para cada um. “shrinkada” e etiquetada como se encontra Nigro, Sérgio Miranda numa plateleira de loja de software –, insta- Assistentes de Arte: Bruno Doiche, Ainda o português laremos o dito em uma das máquinas da Felipe Fatarelli, Marcio Shimabukuro 4 Cartas Sou fã desta conceituada revista de informá- redação. A partir daí, colocaremos todos os tica; por isso, discordo totalmente dos leito- termos do sistema em português, seguidos Revisor: Alessandro Lima Mac na Mídia res cariocas José Eduardo Gomes e Eduardo da tradução em inglês. Combinado? No Colaboradores: Ale Moraes, Bruno 8 Loyola (edição 73). A revista não é “coloniza- nosso entender, enquanto o sistema não esti- Mortara, Carlos Eduardo Witte, da” como querem os dois leitores. Graças a ver disponível para todo e qualquer usuá- Carlos Ximenes, Cláudia Tenório, 9 Humor: Hugo ela, tenho resolvido muitos problemas que rio, não adianta nada fomentarmos o seu Céllus, Daniel de Oliveira, David surgem, sem precisar pagar por visitas de uso. Esperamos que isso ocorra antes da che- Drew Zingg, Dimitri Lee, Douglas 12 Tid Bits técnicos. O “Mac OS em português” pode até gada do Mac OS X. Fernandes, Fabiana Caso, Fargas, rodar legal em algumas máquinas; mesmo Gian Andrea Zelada, Gil Barbara, J.C.França, João Velho, Luis Carlos Macworld NY 2000 assim, prefiro a versão original, ou seja, em Gosto não se discute 22 inglês. No mundo da informática, a língua Li na semana passada que, por conta das recla- Zardo, Luiz F. Dias, Marcello Gaú, inglesa é fundamental. mações dos consumidores, a Apple iria mudar Mario Jorge Passos, Maurício L. @Mac: Chega de pseudopuritanismo lusitano! o design dos mouses (apostando numa forma Sadicoff, Néria Dejulio, Renata 36 Aquino, Ricardo Cavallini, Ricardo Jogos online Antonio Costa oval) e aumentar o tamanho dos teclados. Já Serpa, Roberta Zouain, Roberto [email protected] que vocês têm contato direto com o usuário Conti, Rodrigo Martin, Tom B. 40 Help Apple, gostaria de saber se é verdade e se os Concordo com vocês em gênero, número e consumidores realmente não gostaram do Fotolitos: Postscript grau. Que me perdoem os “patriotas de design atual. Acho o mouse redondo confortá- Impressão: Vox Simpatips 42 plantão”, mas essa história de que “temos vel, prático e o tamanho do teclado ideal. Distribuição exclusiva para o Brasil: que valorizar a língua pátria” que “é uma Entendo que o tamanho reduzido teve o obje- Fernando Chinaglia Distribuidora 44 Transburti Network identidade nacional” é puro discurso dema- tivo de permitir um maior aproveitamento de S.A. – Rua Teodoro da Silva, 577 – gógico. O Márcio e o Mario responderam à espaço. Uso um PC no trabalho e um Mac em CEP 20560-000 – Rio de Janeiro/RJ – 48 Bê-A-Bá: altura às críticas. casa e não sinto nenhuma diferença no tecla- Fone: 21-879-7766 update ou upgrade Esli de Almeida Rocha do e no mouse do iMac. Escrevo textos enor- Opiniões emitidas em artigos assinados não [email protected] mes no meu “pequeno” teclado. E não me refletem a opinião da revista, podendo até venham com a resposta de que “gosto não se ser contrárias à mesma. 54 Sharewares da Hora Esta pequena nota é para expressar meu discute: se lamenta”. espanto com a total ignorância e falta de Tadeu 58 Test Drive: educação por parte de pelo menos um dos [email protected] Nikon Coolpix 990 escritores das cartas sobre “Mac OS em por- Gosto não se discute, já dizia a velhinha Find... tuguês”. Com certeza, se o nosso país fosse que comia tamancos. O mouse mudou para Macmania é uma publicação men- mais desenvolvido, notas como essas, melhor, independente se tem a forma de um 63 MacPRO sal da Editora Bookmakers Ltda. recheadas de palavrões e termos de baixo Phebo ou de um Palmolive. Rua Itatins, 95 – Aclimação nível, não existiriam. Essa reação é típica de CEP 01533-040 – São Paulo/SP 67 Resenha: alguns brasileiros que sob o lema de defen- Troca de HD Fone/fax: 11-253-0665 Livro: der sua nacionalidade, quando têm oportu- Sou um feliz proprietário de um iMac 233 nidade, são os primeiros a prejudicar seus bondi blue. É fato que o HD deste Mac é o Mande suas cartas, sugestões, 300 Superdicas dicas, dúvidas e reclamações para compatriotas. Compreendi perfeitamente o mesmo vendido em lojas tipo Santa os nossos emails: que foi colocado na edição 72 da Macmania Ifigênia... (IDE)? É possível colocar um novo Nisus Email [email protected] 68 sobre o Mac OS 9 em português, inclusive HD com maior capacidade sem criar novos [email protected] que a Apple brasileira está tendo uma certa problemas? [email protected] 70 Aladdin Tuner 3.0 dificuldade em fazer as traduções. Também tenho um raro Classic II em ótimo Glauco Gomez Jr. estado. Gostaria de montar uma pequena Macmania na Web: www.macmania.com.br 74 Ombudsmac [email protected] rede entre as duas máquinas; assim, o 4 As Cartas Não Mentem Classic funcionaria como um leitor de dis- caso (Performa 6200, 64 MB RAM, OS 8.6, quetes. Ouvi falar que isso é possível com GV 33600). A opção que funcionou foi – no um aparelho chamado “EtherTalk”. Onde eu painel “General” (figura 4) –, “Method: PPP” poderia procurar essa raridade? Alguém daí, Tamanho do OS e “Using: Apple Modem Tool”. Por isso, é me- por acaso, tem e quer se desfazer? Ou, de Olá... Estava dando uma olhada na Macmania 73, e no “About This Computer” lhor o usuário tentar um ou outro método. repente, algum leitor poderia me ajudar? da página 55 é mostrado o quanto de memória RAM cada programa ocupa. O Vale dizer que o SurfDoubler é muito práti- Luiz Miranda Mac OS está com 18.5 MB!? Eu também tenho o Mac Os 9.0.4 no meu iMac SE, co, mas um pouquinho temperamental. [email protected] mas consome 30 MB de RAM! 30 MB!!!! Restartando sem as extensões, fica, no Quando paguei a licença (US$ 39, viu?), O HD do iMac é um IDE ATA normal. Mas mínimo, com 21 MB... enviaram-me um suposto arquivo de regis- instalar um disco interno não é tão fácil Por que essa diferença? tro que substituiria o provisório. Fiz como quanto colocar memória. Vale a pena ir Caio Ferrari de Oliveira mandaram, e o troço parou de funcionar.
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