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Macuser 9511 November 1995.Pdf Kids’ Books on CD-ROM: The Great PC Babysitter Debate ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLISHING COMPANY / $3.95 NOVEMBER 1995 NOVEMBER PowerPCPowerPC NEW PowerBooks 3 Times as Fast Bigger, Better Screen Long-Life Battery Wireless Networking PLUS Windows 95 Will Your Connectivity Software Still Work? Ultrafast Internet Why You Need an ISDN Connection Now CONTENTS NOVEMBER 1995 / VOLUME 11 NUMBER 11 REVIEWS & QUICK CLICKS Apple Macintosh Performa 5215CD Affordable, versatile, and elegantly designed, Apple’s new home machine gets high marks. / 39 Authorware 3 Creating dynamic, interactive multimedia programs is easy with this versatile visual-programming tool. / 46 Personal MACLAN Connect 5.0 Peer-to-peer 30 / A low-cost ISDN networking program allows file and print Internet connection. sharing between Windows-based PCs and Macs, without a server. / 49 39 / The all-in-one Performa 5215CD. NEW ON THE MENU Fractal Design Poser Bringing life to your figure drawings is a snap with this digital drawing tool that lets you manipulate lifelike 3-D mannequins. / 50 Farallon Netopia Economical Internet. / ClarisWorks 4.0 Elegantly integrated jack-of-all-trades program delivers Power Computing PCI, multiprocessing almost everything you could possibly need. / 52 options. / QuickTime, PlainTalk New, improved, and native. / ZMac Utility SmartSketch This draw program introduces a new approach: no layers, of the Month T-Minus 10. / Plus no Bézier curves — just draw. / 54 Macintosh price index. / 30 Pioneer DRM-624X Cutting-edge six-disc CD-ROM changer teams speed with convenience. / 56 COLUMNS PixelPutty Solo Budget-priced 3-D modeler offers a powerful mix of modeling, rendering, Letters Readers wail on Windows, click on and animation tools in a single package. / 58 clones, and sass our two dads. / 13 Now Up-to-Date & Contact 3.5 Top-notch PIM Maggie Canon Guest columnist Pamela adds new QuickPads for quick and easy data Pfiffner examines Adobe’s strengths. / 21 entry. / 59 Andy Ihnatko 25 Out of the closet. / FrameMaker 5 Publishing powerhouse shines at John C. Dvorak Barbarians and Bill Gates. long documents and supports multiple platforms / 210 and AppleScript. / 60 How to Reach Us / 8 Ready,Set,Go! GX QuickDraw GX-supporting page-layout program lets you Product Index / 172 fiddle with your fonts. / 62 Advertiser Index / 176 KPT Vector Effects Kai’s newest offering lets you emboss, make shadows, warp objects, and create a slew of special effects swiftly and easily. / 65 Marketplace / 182 FaceSpan 2.0 This AppleScript interface-design tool puts the power of scripting within reach of many more users. / 67 Passage to Vietnam This CD-ROM pushes the state of the art with its exquisitely presented story of Vietnam. / 67 Tamron Digital Fotovix IIIS-D Unusual microscope-like Kids’ Books on CD-ROM: The Great PC Babysitter Debate On the cover / ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLISHING COMPANY / $3.95 Introducing the scanning device lets you quickly incorporate still-photo NOVEMBER 1995 PowerPC PowerBook 5300ce images into your multimedia presentations. / 68 NEW PowerBooks Skyline/Satellite 1.1 Protocol-savvy network analyzer 3 Times as Fast Cover photo / Bigger, Better 69 Screen Fred Stimson makes troubleshooting net problems easy — even for novices. / Long-Life Battery Wireless SCSIShare 71 Networking Share SCSI devices over an Ethernet network. / Screen image / PLUS Windows 95 Will Your Connectivity Software Still Work? KPT Bryce Desktop Labels Combination database and bar coder delivers the goods. / 71 Ultrafast Internet Why You Need an ISDN Connection Now Master Tracks Pro 6.0 Entry-level MIDI sequencing. / 73 COVER STORY POWER PC DTP & GRAPHICS / 108 Online Publishing Seven steps to creating your own World Wide Web page. / 111 Portables Graphics How-To Create a cool crossfade between two images by using this special Power Mac technique. / 114 PowerBooks feature an Expert Tips Tools and techniques for setting up a file-tracking system. / 117 array of technological NETWORKING / 118 delights and a competitive Net Tools Securing your price. net and your data is a must. Here’s how. / 121 Mac to PC A first look THE NEW GENERATION of PowerPC-based PowerBooks features a at Windows 95. / 123 modular design, new battery technology, full PC Card support, HANDS ON / 126 and wireless infrared communication. BY JIM SHATZ-AKIN / 74 The Universal In Box Is your e-mail out of FEATURES control? / 126 Photo Opportunities Mobile Mac Sneak peeks at new products for PowerPC PowerBooks. / 131 THE VISION of a filmless studio — with its attendant time, money, and environmental Net Traveler Doing business in the MUD. savings — is within sight. The vision is a little / 135 blurry, though, as our investigative report on the state of the art of digital cameras reveals. BY Help Folder Bob and Chris answer all your BRUCE FRASER WITH PETER ALAN GOULD AND questions. / 136 STEPHEN JOHNSON / 82 PERSONAL MAC / 140 ISDN: It Sounds Darn Nice Rock Around the Mac Rock and roll on the ISDN — IT’S SURPRISINGLY DOABLE NOW. Two to four times the Internet and on CD-ROM. / 140 throughput of today’s fastest modems, over existing phone lines: Here’s everything you need to know to make the move. BY HENRY NORR / 100 The Two Dads Does the Living Books series live up to its Quick Labs reputation? Two dads tell all. / 141 PROBLEM: WE JUST CAN’T KEEP UP with all the great products The Game Room Mental challenges introduced each month. Solution: Quick Labs, a monthly bulletin that range from meditative to reflex- of lab results on the latest printers, monitors, and storage systems. / 106 testing. Plus: Cheat Sheet. / 142 MacUser (ISSN 0884-0997) is published monthly by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, L.P., One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Editorial Offices: 950 Tower Lane, 18th Floor, Foster City, CA 94404. Telephone: 415-378-5600. U.S. subscription rates are $27 for 12 issues, $45 for 24 issues, and $62 for 36 issues. Additional postage for Canada: Add $16 per year to the U.S. rates for surface mail. Single-copy price is $3.95. Canadian GST registration #R-140496720. Canada Post International Publications Mail Product (Canadian Distribution) Sales Agreement No. 278521. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to MacUser, P.O. Box 56986, Boulder, CO 80322-6986. 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