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4 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 to whether it is a product company (buy something that requires negli gible tech or warranty support, use it until it drops and return to the mar Not Lawrence's MacWorld ket for another) or a consumer com pany (in which case there is an obli gation for more hands-on contact and after market support-or there won't F YOU FOLLOW the financial new DAPs need a support structure be another sale to these folks.) Obvi numbers for Apple you know that to help them with their new iThing; ously, I see Apple as the latter with I Steve Jobs and his management and (2) the existing base of owners follow-on obligations. I don't see team have undone much of what was needs something warm and fuzzy to Apple as being of one mind on this crippling the company. He found which they can relate when their Macs critical question-which may help ex good people looking for someone to give them the cold shoulder. Apple plain why Apple is so inconsistent in point the way, marshaled the needs to find a way to accommodate its support for owners. company's assets, and made things these needs without spending an in A look at the data that is collected happen for Apple. Steve found a ordinate amount of money. in Cupertino about new owners re vastly improved manufacturing and I believe Apple's "business veals that many of the folks buying inventory management infrastructure model" in place today to provide that iThings are not the Twenty-something which he put to good use. He support reflects an ambivalence people folklore would have us believe changed advertising agencies along within senior management. This is not are the majority of the purchasers. It with the tone and theme of the cor a bottom up story where I bemoan the also turns out that when Mr. and Ms. porate message. The rest you know. paucity of user group support to America walk out of a retail store with Now, Apple has time to look Macintosh owners. This is a top down their iDevice, they walk out alone. I'll around at the odds and ends that es story wherein I make the case that elaborate in a minute. The impression caped the initial housecleaning and only a change in the attitude of senior fostered by the marketing and adver address some corporate orphans that management at Apple will undo the tising departments that the only dif are still wandering around the cam sorry state of its after sales support. I ference between an iMac and a toaster pus. My favorite orphan, and the rea believe there are people at Apple who is the size of the openings on the top son for this column, are the very real are aware of how much more effec is proving to be illusory to these new problems of the thousands of Dis tive support could be under a differ owners. You and I know the toaster placed Apple Persons (OAP) on this ent model from the one used today. analogy is rubbish; now new owners planet who own a Macintosh. These Come with me and I will show you. also know it. There isn't a bootable DAPs are hungry for two things: (1) Apple has to make a decision as interactive tutorial CD or even a gen-
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 5 re eral purpose instruction booklet in for the company. It takes training to in the section of the orchestra where the iBox for the literate to peruse. help them become competent to an the user group instruments are lo Even toasters have some printed in swer a question. That training is fur cated. Those tools are being misused structions. ther complicated by the reality that at best; more often are not even in the new owners are more likely than not equation. The orchestra leaders at Welcome Home iMac to be older and first time owners of a Apple do not trust us; I once used the Mr. and Ms. America arrive home computer, or cross-overs from the term margainalized to describe it. with their shiny new iThing. The dark-side of computing with all that Surely there are examples of con family believes that it bought the bizarre reasoning to unlearn. It is turn sumer industries that have a positive right box and, by extension, attached ing out to be expensive to service these relationship with their customers that themselves to a user friendly com callers-to provide the after sales sup could serve as a model for Apple to pany. But that "friendly" company port a progressive consumer products consider. After all, ~s far as I, and too has no one near this family to pro company needs to offer if it wants to many others are concerned, the cur vide the most mundane assistance. build customer loyalty. And, in case rent paradigm at Apple for corpo The dealer either is long distance or you are wondering where Apple fits rate/ consumer relations might be finds that basic hand-holding eats described as bipolar. You are going prodigious amounts of time-which "A look at the data that to have a hard time convincing me it does. They are now alone with that existing owners of Macintosh their purchase. If only they had pur is collected in computers are not fertile ground from chased a PC, mom or dad could take Cupertino about new which to obtain grass-roots assistance it in to work and have the company owners reveals that for new Mac owners vice some pricey IT tell them what to do, or fix it. The 800 technical support line. reservoir of good will begins to leak. many of the folks Well, my resourceful family has buying iThings are not Are You A Ford? found a not-so-cheap source of sup the Twenty-something So I hoofed it off to visit some of port. The closest thing there is to an the local Volvo dealers in the greater Apple "safety net" is for the family people folklore would Washington, DC area to talk to them to call 800/500-7078. There used to have us believe are the about their relations with customers. be local dealers, but you already majority of the purchas Wow, I could not believe what I saw know that story. That safety net is and heard. Volvo wants you to be there for at least one year on a new ers. It also turns out pleased with your purchase and to iProd uct. Calling the 800 number is that when Mr. and Ms. buy another one some day. Clearly good for anything from the most America walk out of a Volvo and its dealers see value in mundane questions to explaining maintaining a positive relationship why smoke is rising from inside their retail store with their with you after the sale, and the Volvo new iDevice. Apple is getting lots of iDevice, they walk car club is part of that picture. One of calls; like how to connect the key out alone." the dealers suggested I go visit a board, and where in the box is the Harley-Davidson store and learn desktop. It is the stuff you would ex in customer satisfaction, look at the about Harley Owner's Groups pect to learn in our "Introduction to September, 1999 issue of Consumer (HOGS). I was about to experience a the Mac" classes. Decent bucks and Reports. Apple didn't do so well. Cor completely different dynamics from lots of hours are being expended in porate representatives claim to want the dysfunctional one in which we Austin, Texas (the home of tech sup to become Number One in a couple of exist. port) to answer these new owners. years. So, what kind of tools is Apple Apple even brought technical sup going to have to bring to bear to make VislHng The Byteless port back inside the company in or this promise come true? All of them. Just look at typical H-D show der to improve the quality of that Apple, Inc. is like an orchestra. It room; this isn't what your dad re support. Now, when you call, you are can play "chopsticks" or Chopin. No members fondly. New and used talking to a real Apple employee. management in these lean-mean times sales, service, accessories and cloth But, a call to find the desktop costs can afford to disregard a major com ing in a wide, spacious and inviting about as much as one that concludes ponent of its orchestra. If it does, the atmosphere. Existing owners are as the hard drive has died. price to be paid by the other instru welcome in the store to browse and There is no discount to Apple be ments will not be insignificant. Given smooze as a newbie. And, should cause those teletechs work directly where I sit, I am particularly interested you buy a bike, you do not ride out of
6 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 rr the dealership alone! You are given a the Harley owners with whom I met one-year membership in the corpo to discuss their relationship with "The difference between rate Harley Owners Group (HOG). Harley-Davidson and their dealer has the way Harley or Most dealers sponsor a local chapter NO parallel, nothing comparable Volvo treats an owner which you are encouraged to join. You what-so-ever, within Apple Com are [pardon the expression] consid puter, Inc. and that of Apple is so ered family and treated as such. Af The difference between the way different ... " ter the sale, a relationship begins in Harley or Volvo treats an owner and which at least two parties, H-D and that of Apple is so different as to call the pieces that collectively are: post the dealer have clear incentives to see into question someone's business sales support, user groups, and the nurtured. The growth in that relation model. I don't want to hear that au new boutique stores [that "may" ship is propelled by the corporate of tomobiles, motorcycles and comput come to be] that should not be dis fice responsible for owner group re ers require different treatments for counted. In plain English, anyone lations which is not a part of the com their owners -that's happy crap. proposing anything short of this is pany tasked with selling bikes. And don't give me some jazz about it rearranging those famous deck chairs H-D provides incentives to the being the fault of the user group. You or about to apply Bondo to a rusting dealer to maintain that relationship, happen to belong to a very functional fender. The attitude that radiates from and the dealer has its own incentives group. Our relations with you and corporate Apple concerning its cus to add to those so as to keep the cus with our regional dealers is similar to tomer base and the few organizations tomer and the owners group healthy the H-D and Volvo models. that are trying to hold that base to and functional. The Owner's Group When you call Washington Apple gether is antithetical to any kind of a is a separate entity within the com Pi during office hours, a real human bottom up restructuring. Arrogance is pany with its own measure of value answers the phone. We produce CDs what it reflects and ignorance is what added creativeness to bring to the and classes for you and offer them to it masks. Apple, Inc. is neither rich Harley bottom line. What a contrast other user groups at a serious dis enough, nor so in control of its mar to what we endure! It can't be that count. Our monthly meetings and ket share, as to afford to maintain its only user groups can see this mix: garage sales are family affairs. Our palpable disdain for customers. state-of-the-art computers, peripher relationship begins when your plastic als and complimenting accessories in clears. It is fulfilled when you say Holistic Music an attractive retail setting, coupled "Thanks" for something we did for Earlier I described Apple as an or with a user group community encour you or when we can say "Thanks" to chestra. Right now, the conductors aged to support Apple and its retail you for something you did for another seem oblivious of the discordant notes ers for the mutual benefits all derive. member of the Mac comm unity, and out-of-tune instruments found in Just to be clear on one thing: I am whether or not that person is a Pi the retail, support, and user group not advocating that Apple create a member. It is the look on the faces of sections of that orchestra. The result national Macintosh Users Group. I school kids who are on the receiving is some sections of the Apple Orches want, instead, to focus on the most end of one our refurbished computer tra working harder to overcome the basic difference between Volvo and donations. Contrast that with what I limitations placed on others. But, Harley-Davidson on the one hand found when I visited with several there are some new managers within and Apple on the other. In two of the groups while traveling on the West Apple who, if given the charter, can three, there is a realization by senior Coast. Sure there is a difference in take this out-of-tune problem to a new management that these companies scale; but that is not the measure that home, to a place where a different are consumer companies; there is no leaves me shaking. Their survival value structure is used to measure ambivalence! Once you buy their model is akin to what probably saved worth. In such a setting the synergy product, you are [again, forgive me] the small town of Oberammergau to Apple from developing a new mix family. Look at the corporate charter from the plague in 1633. The Clois of retail shops, national service and for the office charged with responsi ters established during the so called support, and user groups providing bility for consumer rapport: is it sell "Dark Ages" fit that model equally grass roots assistance should be ob ing more product [Apple], or to in well. vious. A more functional cross-cul volve the already sold into the com So, I vote for a top down change tural relationship will be fostered, the munity of owners [H-D and Volvo]? in the relationship among Apple, its Fat Lady will sing, and I can find a I don't own a Harley and have no customers and the too few function new topic on which to write. Forget plans to purchase one. But, the infec ing user groups left out here. There is a coat of paint. tious enthusiasm that radiated from a synergy to be found in harnessing -Lorin
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this was the Boy Scout Law. This was followed by a brief discussion on whether this was also the Girl Scout Law. President Lorin Evans con cluded the subject was being beat to death, so the conversation turned to ... Board of Directors Notes The December Garage Sale is this Saturday, and all Board members are strongly encouraged to attend and December 8, 1999 Meeting help out. Based on the number of phone calls and a flood of hits on the Web site, the event should be well at [Note: these are not the full minutes manager also be trustworthy, loyal, tended. of the Board of Directors; those may helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obe Steve Kiepe moved that the meet be found on the Washington Apple Pi dient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean ing be adjourned, with a second by bulletin board, the TCS, in File Trans and reverent was met with general Dale Smith. The fleeing horde ap fer Area 5.] approval until someone pointed out proved the idea at 8:59 p.m. •
Directors Present: Lawrence Char ters, John Barnes, Dave Ottalini, Brian Mason, Dave Weikert, Don Essick, Steve Kiepe, David Harris, Dale Board of Directors Notes Smith, Mary Keene, Pat Fauquet, Lou Dunham, Lorin Evans January 12, 2000 Meeting Directors Absent: none [Note: the Board had not approved the lar, the Garage Sale was compared HE BOARD was produc minutes of this meeting as of this writ with results of three prior sales. There tively engaged in brochure fold ing. Full minutes of the Board of Direc were two items of particular note: (1) ing until the meeting was called tors meetings may be found on the Wash winter events tend to generate more to order at 7:50 p.m. Then they con ington Apple Pi bulletin board, the TCS, participation (from members and visi tinued to fold some more. The min in File Transfer Area 5.] tors) than summer events [barring utes of the previous meeting were ac extreme weather]; and (2) expenses cepted without much in the way of Directors Present: Lawrence Char have skyrocketed as volunteer help comment beyond a grunt or two, and ters, John Barnes, Brian Mason, Pat has declined. One thing that hasn' t the gentle rustle of paper. Fauquet, Dale Smith, Lou Dunham, changed is the enthusiasm and appre David Harris, Don Essick, Steven ciation of the membership for the Old Business Kiepe, Mary Keene, Lorin Evans, Garage Sale. There was an extended discus Dave Ottalini Given these findings, combined sion of how to define the job of Wash Directors Absent: Dave Weikert with projected staffing changes, the ington Apple Pi office manager, and future of the Garage Sale requires far what characteristics we want in the AN unusual use of the third more volunteer effort. While volun person who fills this role. Narrowly erson, President Lorin Evans pro teers for the event are plentiful, a defined, the office manager follows claimed, "Painfully late, he calls standing committee should do the established procedures to process the meeting to order," at 7:58 p.m. planning and coordination of the membership applications, renewals, Lorin excused his tardiness by ex event, not the single-person Pi staff. and inquiries; handles "retail" sales plaining that he was still on West More attention should be paid to find of club materials; conducts routine Coast time, having just arrived from ing inexpensive venues, planning and bank transactions, and similar cleri BWI and MacWorld San Francisco. staffing complimentary activities, cal and office management functions. The minutes were approved via the finding less expensive furnishings, In reality, the current office manager usual lack of complaint. collecting donated items for door does much, much more. prizes, coordinating and creating ad In listing "musts" for the office Old Business vertising, and in general performing manager, the Board came up with lots The Board looked at the results of useful work. of them. A suggestion that the office the December Garage Sale. In particu- By the close of the next Board
8 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 TC meeting, the Board must approve the electio~ rule~ and timeline of the May 2.000 P1 election, and appoint an Elec t10n Committee and Election Chal lenge Committee. January General New Business Meeting Notes Lorin Evans and Pat Fauquet both attended MacWorld San Francisco. By Steven Kiepe, Vice Presidents Lorin and Pat described an event at for Macintosh Programs tended by 85,000 happy Mac users over four days, filled with lots of new exciting products and services. ' OLD AND BITTER Microsoft Macintosh Product After spending several hours winds, with high temperatures Managers Glenn Myers and Irving with Apple officials at several events below 30 degrees awaited our Kwong blew into town on the heels Lorin came away with the impressio~ C of a major cold front but brought visitors from Redmond, Washington that Apple has next to no interest in for the January general meeting. A plenty of good cheer and more than a user groups. As he put it, they see user somewhat reduced size throng of f~w outstand~g door prizes. They groups as increasingly irrelevant, pro hearty individuals gathered this kicked off their presentation with a viding nothing of value to Apple's frosty morning to preview the next rundown on Microsoft's recent an bottom line. genera ti on of internet tools, nouncements at MacWorld San Fran . Lorin also talked about changes Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5, and cisco. Of much interest to the crowd m Apple support policies. After suf Outlook Express 5. The crowd was well was the acknowledgement that fering withering criticism in the press rewarded for their willingness to ven Microsoft is working hard on the se for their poor telephone support, they ture into the cold and it appears that quel to the highly lauded Office 98. talked about scrapping the current a new "fastest gun" is about to debut This still unnamed new version will system and revamping it with a cen in the browser world. be .compatible with "legacy" tr.alized support facility with much Macintosh operating systems includ- higher .visibility within the company. Apple is also planning on selling CD ROM-based training on servicing Macs, with a Kaplan-style test forcer tification. Notably, certification will mean you are"ce rtified" to work with Macs, but not "authorized," autho rized service will still be restricted to businesses with Apple contracts for sales and service. Pat agreed with much of what Lorin said, but emphasized new pro grams, new hardware and new ser vices. She was impressed with the bustling, enthusiastic crowds of MacWorld San Francisco, simulta neously more laid back but more fired up than the MacWorld New York crowd. She reported that the enthusi asm wasn't limited to just show visi tors; all the vendors seemed equally ecstatic. The meeting was adjourned at 9:23 p.m. •
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space bar and views can be set up to reveal only read, unread or "threaded" messages (those that have been replied to or for warded). A dynamic history is created between messages, re vealing message threads and creating a link between them. The resizable preview pane has most of the same features available in the larger message viewing window including autotext cleanup and font size adjustment (to get rid of the strange char acters and out of alignment formatting that often result when .....~.. ft .. .. ,,.- messages are captured and resent). ...ft.... ,;t. Not only is Outlook Express 5 a great email and news applica •... • - tion, it also has a built in address book with multiple fields that ,....• A.. .~.. _.., .... can be customized to hold extensive amounts of information on • -" each individual record. This data could include birthdays and other major events, and up to 16 phone numbers and 13 email --· addresses per record. The application is also smart enough to only display the fields that have data entered. While the program still lacks some of the functionality of the Win dows version of Microsoft Outlook, the gap has been closed greatly. The second application in this one two punch is Internet Explorer 5, to be released in late February or early March. It looks like a sure winner and even Netscape diehards came away impressed. With an extremely customizable interface, it can be con figured to display web pages at the Windows standard 96 dot per inch (dpi) display or the Macintosh 's de fault 72 dpi. This feature ensures that web pages optimized for Windows and using small fonts will still be leg ible on the Mac. Additionally, the im proved rendering engine significantly accelerates the speed at which web pages are displayed on the Macintosh. Many specialized functions are built into Internet Explorer 5. An in telligent search function accesses multiple search engines. There is a ing OS 9 and will be closely followed 5 for Macintosh. print preview feature to ensure that by a OS X native version soon after Users of older versions of Outlook the web page you want is what you'll the latter makes its debut. More de Express will be very comfortable with actually print. There is even a built-in tails on these new versions will be the with the latest version's interface. auction tracker function for all of you posted on the Microsoft website, as Immediately noticeable are new but electronic auctioneer addicts! they become available. ton icons on the tool bar, designed by After fielding more than two The core of the meeting was fo the Icon Factory. A new "flag" fea hours of demonstra.tion and ques cused on demonstrating Microsoft's ture allows the user to annotate mail tions, it was time to start winding new internet tools, the recently re of interest for later follow-up. Mes down the meeting. Glenn and Irving leased Outlook Express 5 and the sages can be scrolled through and se brought a generous selection of prizes soon to be available Internet Explorer quentially paged by depressing the for the raffle, and with odds better
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In Memoriam Harold Herman Greene
In the January /February Journal, I wrote that the antitrust action that split the American Telephone and Telegraph Company into regional operating companies (Baby Bells) and a different AT&T, was an important milestone in what we today call the telecommunications revolution. If we did not know it then; we sure do now. I wrote about the judge, Harold Greene, who presided over both the antitrust case and all the follow-on litigation that continued for years af terwards. That case was not his life's work. Lawyer Harold Greene was instrumental in the formulation of the civil rights leg islation of the 1960s. He worked for vthen-Attorney Gen eral Robert Kennedy and is considered one of the principal legal architects of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the Vot ing Rights Act of 1965 that helped redress serious societal than 1 in 7 of coming away a winner, there were a lot inequities in the United States. He was one of the first law of happy people! yers to staff the new civil rights division of the Justice De A large selection of reference manuals were partment where he become head of the research and ap passed out including copies ofClaris Works 5 Compen peals division. President Johnson appointed him to the Dis dium to Clifton Bailey, Tom Culbert and Larry trict of Columbia Superior Court in 1965. He rose to be its Schwartz, PageMaker for Macintosh to Ken Clare, chief judge. He became a much admired jurist and com Photoshop 5 to Bob Mulligan, and PageMaker 6.5 to Wil passionate believer in due process. It was in his court that liam Hark. Quite a few folks ended up sporting the aftermath of the riots that broke out in Washington as a Microsoft Outlook Express T-shirts including Jamie reaction to the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther MacDonald, Rob Clark, Al Lubarsky, Ken Lutterman, Jan Bailey and G. LeBon. The big winners of the King, Jr. played out. He insisted that each case brought be morning included Jim Diamond, winner of GDT's fore his court be heard individually. He was appointed by PowerPrint USB, and three very lucky winners of President Carter to the U.S. District Court where one of the Microsoft Office Gold Edition for Macintosh: Charlie first cases assigned to him was the antitrust action brought Cooke, Ned Spencer and Ron Green. by the Justice Department against AT&T. Judge Greene said he found himself trying to reconcile Future general meeting topics: the position of Justice and AT&T. Justice argued that AT&T February 26th - Asante on home and office network was using the profits from its monopoly over local telephone ing, and 3dfx, developers of the new Voodoo 4 and 5 service to subsidize long-distance rates, thus suppressing graphic acceleration cards. competition. AT&T and most of the public argued that Ma March 25th - Corel will present Print Office, a blend Bell was a model of efficient and dependable service for of page layout, office form and letter templates, and which a break-up would bring about major market turmoil. general correspondence tools, and Derek Mihoka of Gemulators, Inc will d emonstrate his amazing The trial absorbed 11 months of Greene's time. He is quoted Gemulator, a hardware and software solution that as once saying that the natural monopoly of telephone poles allows Macintosh applications to be run on WINTEL and copper wire could not last in a microwave era. He re based machines. tired from the bench in 1998. April 22"d - Adobe In-Design, the new heavy Judge Greene passed away January 29 at his home in a weight champion in the desktop publishing arena . suburb of Washington, DC at the age of 76. He asked that we remember him for the whole body of his judicial work • and not just the case involving AT&T. That is not a problem for me. -Lorin
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ing this situation, but because the per sonal computer had reached a stage where the people who knew how to run "warehouse" type stores had be Counterpoint come interested in this market. Apple didn't create CompUSA, Dear Readers, WalMart, Frye's or any of the other Typically I receive short notes from members commenting on articles in the places where customers were begin ]our~al. ~st month, however, two items elicited strong comments: the articles con ning to buy personal computers. We cernm? "';!tcrosoft and the Dep~rtme~t ofJustice, and the President's column "Beyond knew that the absence of Apple prod the Pazl. I offer for your conszderatzon a counterpoint to Lorin's column on the state ucts in these high-visibility outlets of Apple retailing. could further limit their ability to at -The Editor tract new customers. As you know, convincing someone who is currently using Windows (and has an invest lation between the percentage of com EAR EDITOR, ment in hardware, software. and puter stores authorized to sell Apple I have just about calmed learning on that platform) to switch and Apple's percentage of computers D down after reading the edito to the Mac is significantly more diffi sold was not just a coincidence, but rial in the January /February Journal cult than convincing someone to con perhaps implied a relationship. This called "Beyond the Pail." If you are sider a Mac as their first computer. "revelation" precipitated authoriza interested, I have a few comments "Unsaid is that Apple is 'encour tion of thousands of computer stores as one Mac shareholder to another: aging' its retailers to change from re to sell Apple-as well as the strategy Lorin wrote in the part called lying on retail sales to one where ser to authorize the national chains. "Moo Juice":"Apple thinks their soft vice, training and network installa "It further complicated their lives ware updates are another untapped tions and support provide the dollars by the discount formula for them to cash cow." Hardly a flattering char to keep the business alive." The only qualify for the lower prices Apple acterization, but yes Apple has de computers currently being sold by charged national chains." Call me cided to sell the Mac OS rather than resellers that have large enough mar crazy, but I don't know of any manu continuing to give it away. You still gins to support the old model where facturer of any product (hardware or get one free when you buy hardware, the dealer made his profit on the hard software} who doesn't set their whole but "significant releases" are docu ware and "gave away" service and sale price based on volume. Does this mented, packaged and priced as if support are no-name clone PCs. IBM, mean that smaller stores pay higher they had some value (call them crazy}. Compaq, and HP (not to mention Dell prices than Walmart and Sears? Ab In the part called "Anatomy of a and Gateway) all have "razor thin" solutely. This is one reason smaller Dying Breed," he wrote: "The net margins. stores grow (or merge} into larger work of independent retail stores sell IBM moved from a "bundled" chains. ing Apple Computer equipment is a model for selling their mainframes to "Apple's Marketing Department shell of its former self. Apple under an "unbundled" model where you blew off the complaints; dealers either cut our local dealers in the 80's when paid for support and service in 1970. walked or quit. The retail market for it refused to allow them to sell the I know because I worked for IBM back the Macintosh has never been the lower-cost Performa Mac computers then. I have always told dealers that same." First, since I lived through that found in national chains." Revision they should rejoice when someone era, I assure you that Apple did NOT ist history, at best. Were there buys their computer from the lowest precipitate the evolution of the per Performa models available only at the cost alternative and then brings it to sonal computer market - they did, national chains? Yes. Did Apple refuse them for support and service. These however anticipate it. For several to allow "our local dealers" to sell are the highest-profit parts of the years, Apple told its dealers that they Performas? No. dealer's business (no inventory, no should decide whether they wanted Regardless, this is NOT the rea floorplan, no interest, no commis to be high-volume or value-add deal son why the number of independent sions). ers, and that trying to be both would retail stores selling Apple hardware What too few of them have not be a viable model as the market is "a shell of its former self'. In the learned is that the "customer for life" changed. We described trying to dark years at Apple when "market approach to selling works here just as straddle this divide as the "valley of share" was the holy grail of market well as it does for automobiles. If you ing, someone decided that the corre- death". Not because Apple was creat-
12 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 rr focus on the customer, not the sale and oping a company-owned chain of re pair is arguably more important to the spend some of your marketing dol tail stores, modeled after the ones they customer than typical desktop sys lars on customer retention instead of operate in Australia." Check your tems. The goal is better customer sat new customer acquisition, your cus facts. Apple doesn't "own" these isfaction - and faster attention to po tomer base becomes one of your larg stores. What Apple has done is to tential problems which might need est assets. work with locals to create an "Apple engineering changes. "Apple once offered what was branded" retail chain. This has been "You, the person looking for a called price protection to a retail shop. done largely in countries where their new computer are attracted by the If Apple dropped the retail price on a entry into existing (if any) computer lower national's price, blow off their product, the dealer who had un stores was considered nearly impos crappy service knowing that you can opened stock could either return the sible. go to the local independent, but won't higher priced items for a credit, or The plan presented to Apple deal give him the retail sales business to receive a credit on future purchases." ers, VARs and Solution Experts at save a nickel. Good reasoning. What First, Apple does not set (or drop) re their recent meeting in San Francisco is the message from your decision for tail prices. Apple sets the price at will encourage dealers to embrace a independents?" Well-said. Apple is which it sells to the distributor or new standard of retail branding (in doing everything they can to make dealer. This price certainly influences cluding signage, display and mer the users' experience as good as pos the retail price, but does not set it. As chandising) which will be supported sible. From the design of the user in for price protection, most hard-goods by the Apple Corporate efforts to terface to the availability of machines manufacturers have some type of build the brand. to the attention to quality of service price protection. This is a requirement "Fortunately, there is a strong na provided by Apple dealers. Apple if you want your dealers to stock in tion-wide supply of parts to support doesn't decide what is important to ventory. The down-side to having a these new orphans and knowledge on the customer - the customer decides multi-tier distribution model is that how to repair them." Really? These by his willingness to pay for it. Apple when you introduce new models, the machines are "orphans" only in the depends on customer feedback to value of this inventory is instantly less sense that Apple has decided that they understand what these things are. (sometimes significantly). cannot be included in an AppleCare Based on the last two years, Steve There are two choices for the contract. Apple, like all manufactur has demonstrated an uncanny under manufacturer: take back the inventory ers, is required by law to stock service standing of what is important to and redistribute it (adding 2x ship parts for machines "during their use Apple customers. He has made some ping cost to the cost of goods sold - ful life". This means that this nation unpopular decisions and effectively AND probably reducing the whole wide supply of parts is in fact main "fired" some of Apple's customers·as sale price to move the now less-than tained by Apple. AppleCare is like well as some of their resellers and dis current hardware); or give the dealer insurance: Apple is betting that the tributors. holding the inventory some credit average cost of machine repairs will Hard to argue with the results, (also reducing the cost of goods sold) not exceed the cost of AppleCare; the however: Apple is in better shape fi to allow him to sell the product at a AppleCare purchaser is betting that nancially than any time in the last 5 lower price. the machine will require more repairs. years; the Macintosh product line is In today's economy most hard The older the hardware, the higher once again viewed as innovative and ware manufacturers have recognized the risk - also, the larger the pool of "leading edge design"; the iMac and this as a highly inefficient procedure insured, the lower the risk. iBook are bringing significant new which also wreaks havoc on their "How does the dealer establish a users to the platform; developers are financials. Especially when product relationship with you for support if returning with excitement; Apple cycles are shorter than ever and the the computer is serviced directly by stock (remember that I started this as speed of Apple's distribution system Apple?" The same way he does if the a message from one shareholder to is better than ever. In a perfect world, computer is manufactured by Apple: another) hit an all-time high this the dealer should have only one day by facilitating the transaction - as a week. of inventory (whatever that is for him) customer service. This is NOT a trend. Being a computer dealer is a very on hand. This reduces his overhead The only products treated this way are difficult occupation. I am intimately AND the amount of inventory "in the PowerBooks and iBooks. Have you acquainted with the problems they channel". ever been inside one of these? Apple's face. It must not be an impossible task, "There is a strong belief in the re reasoning is that portable systems are since so many people choose it. There tail community that Apple is devel- difficult to repair - and their rapid re- are still a number of Apple-only deal-
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 13 IT ers - who are much happier today than two years ago. I would not pre "Ed Jordan announc~d that sume to tell one of them how to run he and Mary are expecting his business - and hope they won't tell Minutes, Genealogy SIG, me how to run mine. 11Jan2000 to move .... They will have For the 5 years I was in private three months to move after practice as a consultant, I declined every opportunity to make money on THE MEET a suitable place is offered. the sale of software or hardware - be ING con vened at the Many of the duties he now lieving that it represented a confli~t of interests, since my customers paid scheduled performs for the SIG will time, 10 AM, me consulting fees to recommend, have to be taken on by other install and maintain their hardware on January and software. Many of the consultants eleventh, in members if the SIG is to the WAP I work with today have this same continue. " opinion. classroom with six members present. When I purchase hardware and Ed Jordan announced that he and software for personal use, I use all Mary are expecting to move to a re last year he was show~ photocop!es available resources to make an in tirement community in Kennett of immigrant ship manifests for ships formed choice, pay the lowest price Square, PA, right alongside of arriving in Philadelphia in the 1700s. and attain the earliest possible deliv Longwood Gardens. They will have Comparing the handwriting of the ery. Sometimes this means overnight three months to move after a suitable passengers, he could see that an an delivery from a web or catalog dealer. place is offered. Many of the duties cestor had arrived twice, two years Many times it means patronizing my he now performs for the SIG will have apart. He was told that many immi local stores. to be taken on by other members if grants, once settled ~own, ~eturned Who gives me more "customer the SIG is to continue. Ed pointed out to their home countnes to brmg back satisfaction"? Since all these sources that the Pi Directors, the Journal Edi fiancees or wives and friends. are focused only on price and avail tor and Beth at the WAP office need a The general discussion moved on ability, it varys from one occ~ion to single point of contact, or possibly co to the PC application Family Tree another. Interestingly, I get email from chairs, for all SIG matters including Maker as an important resource. Al MacZone, Amazon and Garden.com scheduling a meeting place, publica though not Mac compatible, it can.be recommending new purchases and tion of the minutes in the Journal and accessed through Virtual PC, which highlighting special offers! When I responding to general inquiries. The now costs $170.00. It has many com visit Amazon.com, they "recognize" Genealogy SIG should also continue prehensive CDs of names compiled me and make suggestions based on to have a name or names listed under from public records. They usually lack my previous purchases! Isn't it inter 'SIG Chairs' in the Journal. details and sources, and ;many of the esting that none of my local stores Karen Kyte passed around two references are unpublished. Another seem to be looking beyond the sale? I copies of magazines she picked up at good resource is a magazine which receive "flyers", but nothing specifi Borders Books: 'Family History costs $50.00 per year available from cally addressing my interests. Monthly' and 'Family Chronicle' from www.Ancestry.com. Thanks for reading- I wanted you England. The latter has an article on Ed Jordan was in England in 1997 to know that I do read your editori using computers in its Jan-Feb issue. with a group of cousins looking at old als, even though I seldom respond In a journal or magazine on New church records held by Shire Record like this (probably just as well). England genealogy there was ~.ad Offices. He found the English to be for a CD set containing three million very helpful, and the group was able [name withheld by request] names of immigrants from 1538 to to request photocopies of original 1940 showing all the source informa records, including wills, that had not tion.' Unfortunately, one cannot find yet been microfilmed. On a separate all of the sources, and many ports of trip to Eastern Maine he found a arrival are not covered for all years. tombstone with the names of a man's There was discussion of whether a two wives. In researching an ances few members should share the $60.00 tor named Buker, which turned out cost of this set. Alex Maish noted that to be Bowker, he was planning to re-
14 Washington Apple Pl Journal March I April 2000 rr view land records to determine who were the abutters to land owned by his ancestor. Another attendee's FBI friend helped him when the number of land record leads got to be too large. Genealogy Schedule The friend systematically eliminated most of the leads, selecting the most improbable ones, and removing them.11 HE GENEALOGY SIG meets regularly on the second Tuesday A new member, Halle Cauthen, every month except July and August. All meetings are held from 10:00 AM who works in video public access, has to approximately noon in the Tutorial Room at the Pi Office in Rockville. found that the Census is not as reli- Topics and agendas are announced ahead of time whenever possible on able as he had hoped. At first, he as- the Pi electronic calendars posted on the TCS and the Explorer Service. They sumed that if a fact was written down are also published in the Pi Journal when time permits . it was correct. Then, in looking for Evening or weekend meetings of the SIG have been suggested by some. A facts about a great grandfather, he volunteer is needed to initiate such meetings. found where the first names of a fa ther and his son were reversed. He SIG Topics and Agendas later got a name and a birth date for Prior meetings have covered such topics as the use of U.S. Census records his ancestor, but the birth date was a for genealogical research, Civil War military and pension records, demonstra wild guess made at the time of death. tion of members' favorite Internet sites for genealogy research, research at the He also learned that the name being DAR Library, resources of the Kensington LDS Family History Center, services researched, Doss, was a nickname and materials of the National Genealogical Society Library, and a presentation used so extensively that few of his by Frank Leister whose company created and produces the genealogy soft contemporaries knew that his legal ware "Reunion." name was Dawson. Halle has found Other meetings have been devoted to informal discussions of the use of that trying to find maiden names is the TCS, scanners and topics of concern to attendees, including discussion of difficult. Using the web site members' experience with "Reunion" and other genealogical software. 'www.myancestors.com,' he posted The SIG topics have covered both how to do genealogy research and how the facts about an illegitimate wife to use computers in such research. By general agreement more emphasis is and mother and got a flock of E-mails currently being placed on using Macintosh computers to record genealogical in return. When he found incompat data as opposed to seeking genealogical information through computer sources. ible dates in a handwritten record, he Special emphasis is placed on "Reunion" since it is the most widely used soft used Photoshop to enlarge the image ware by SIG members. of a handwritten date until he could see the correct date. Bulletin Board Frank Leister, the author of the Conference 2, Board 12, on the TCS was established as the Pi Genealogy popular application 'Reunion for Board at the request of the SIG. Macintosh,' has indicated that he would return to speak to us again if Upcoming Agendas asked. Ed Jordan suggested that who Besides general discussion, a presentation on scanners and genealogy is ever wanted to work on some future planned, and hopefully, Frank Lesiter will return in the spring • agendas invite him for a date in the spring which would make Frank Leister's attendance just a year after Upcoming Meetings his first visit to the Genealogy SIG. March Meeting Submitted by Alex Maish "The Use Of a Personal Web Page In Genealogy Research" will be the pri mary topic. A new SIG member who has successfully used this technique will lead off the discussion.
April Meeting To Be Announced: see the Pi electronic calendar and the Genealogy Board on the TCS on Conference 2, Board 12.
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Graphic Arts SIG Report, January Meeting SlideShoWJi PRINT l ~G 011 OCMAtJO by Blake Lange
AVING TAKEN a break in the ideal form for prepress for some December we met in January projects. H where I made a presentation on With the expansion of purpose Adobe Acrobat, a program I have has also come an expansion of fea been studying lately. tures. Originally created with the in I started out my presentation by tent of making electronic documents showing off PDF files I had done of available retaining the National Voter Registration Act 1!18 (NVRA) form. One was prepared for all the citizens to print on their laser print graphic wn ng. u co or rapping, an essen ra s ep m ers. The second was prepared for design of high quality print production has remained a prepress use. It is going to be made the origi mystery to most computer nal, pdf users. Built into the available to professional printers rna files now PostScript language are around the country in the near future. Ve)( can be the tools needed to create The file contains pages for each spot Sto color. The pages are extra large to much printed color separations more in (such as those used in make room for crop marks. Because the teractive dciktop presentations). the NVRA now requires universities Mis to give out this form we at the FEC with the Add to this the introduc rEUPfCJllE tion of the Display !in had to have a way of getting it to hun u s e r . a There are 1su TRAPPING, PC. 41 dreds of printers at low cost. This e need is the reason I have explored the buttons, capabilities of Adobe Acrobat. annota Rather than try to report on what tions , I said at the meeting in this story I will book ..' just discuss some of the highlights of mark s, the program. sounds, Acrobat files serve many pur poses. The portable document format (pdf) was developed by Adobe as a way of sharing files with others even though they may not have the same program or even the same type of computer. Now, in addition to repub lishing documents developed for print, Acrobat is used for publishing documents on the web and on CD ROM that will never be printed. It is also an inexpensive way of making design projects available for review during the production process. It is
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Washington Apple Pi Computer Summer Camp 2000 When: The Summer Camp is a two week computer camp for teenagers. The session will be held from Monday, July 24 through August 4. Camp is from 9:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. (Monday -Friday)
Lunch each day will be from Noon till 12:45 p.m. Students are responsible for bringing their own lunch or bringing money to purchase lunch from a delivery restaurant.
Fees: $300.00 for each week of camp, or $600.00 for each two week session of camp
To Register: write to Pat Fauquet ([email protected])
Short Overview: This is a hands-on, technobabble-lite camp. Each camper will: t'c Brush-up on Macintosh skills t'c Master advanced user techniques t'c Learn to use video, sound, graphic equipment and related applications t'c Master applications for developing web pages t'c Design, build, and manage an appealing personal page on the Internet t'c Learn Sherlock search technology for home and school use t'c Learn how to network computers t'c Learn to operate a Macintosh in a multi-platform environment
The final web page design will be posted to the Washington Apple Pi web site for 30 days so everyone can see what you have created.
Commercial applications that will be used during the session: t'c Macintosh Operating System 9 t'c AppleWorks t'c Adobe PhotoDeluxe t'c Adobe PageMill t'c Adobe Photoshop t'c QuickTime 4.0 t'c Claris Home Page 3.0 t'c Adobe GoLive 4.0 t'c MovieWorks t'c Netscape Navigator t'c Internet Explorer
Summary: This is a great camp for any teen who wants to really make the family Macintosh work at home, school, and on the Internet. It is an intensive, fun-paced course that is packed with information presented in as non-technical a fashion as possible. When you are done with the WAP Summer Camp, you will be able to take on almost any computer-related project with confidence and succeed - maybe, even get better grades!
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and may omit frames. After the direc tor approves these scenes, they are entered for the first time on the Web. Scenes on the Web in ruff stage are Warner Brothers Scene Preview labeled "(Ruff Animation (r)." Next comes the clean up stage where im Technical Paper Review age quality is improved and missing frames are created and inserted. These scenes are labeled "Clean Up Anima by Stuart Bonwit tion (c)." After clean up animation is approved, the scene goes into the fi nal color stage involving many de ~HE SMPTE (Society of Mo- latest stage are stored on tape. How partments to insure that colors are 1 ~on Picture and Television Engi- ever, this data is not available to the correct and consistent. This stage is neers) Journal for October 1999 large staff working with non-worksta labeled "Final Animation (f)." has a fascinating piece entitled tion computers. So, "software was de So far, this review has covered the "Implementation of Intranet Scene veloped to automatically generate first two pages of the paper. Twelve Preview for Feature Animation," by QuickTime movies and to create pages follow going into infinite detail Leonard J. Reder and Gene Takahashi. HTML (HyperText Markup Lan on how the HTML and the web pages It describes a system with which ev guage) pages for accessing them... The are created, and describing flow charts ery member of the team producing a software ran automatically every of the updating process and network feature animation from top manage night and made updates to the web configuration. Suggested enhance ment down to the lowliest pages while generating new ments of the system include streaming inbetweener can have access to re QuickTime files for scenes that had rather than downloading scenes and view any scene in the feature in its lat changed." It even generated an e-mail the addition of serving automatically est stage of development. The scenes message addressed to the whole team assembled sequences of scenes. are stored as QuickTime video clips each morning notifying them exactly Being in the middle of making my and are available through a Netscape which scenes had been changed. own homegrown animation, I felt a browser on the Warner Bros. Intranet The generated QuickTime mov close kinship to the folks at Warner and viewed mostly on Macs. That ies are created in two resolutions (both Bros. whom I have never met! • Intranet is cyberspace within Warner less than the final): low resolution Bros. behind a very thick firewall. 320x240 pixel frames compressed Each scene may be in any stage with the Apple Video codec (coder/ of development: story reel of sketches; decoder) Gust the way I do it!); and Machine (CPU)/ Download speed mechanical tests (for example, cam higher resolution 720x540 pixel JPEG Network connection: (Kbyteslsec}: era moves); ruff (their consistent spell compressed. "The 720x540 format is ing of rough); clean up; and final D-1 video compatible resolution used SGI (Silicon Graphics, 1966 (color) animation. A scene is de in desktop nonlinear editing sys Inc.) R4400 MIPS 250 scribed as a continuous "take" with tems." (Note: D-1 is a standard digi MHz)/ATM out switching camera position; cam tal format used by television program era and lens moves are OK within a producers.) The user can choose be Windows NT PC 1179 "scene." When any person on the tween resolution and download time. (Pentium II 133 MHz)/ team accesses a scene, its stage of de All scene resolutions are recorded at 10baseT velopment is dearly stated in a sub the standard motion picture 24 frames title within the frame with the date per second. Macintosh 9600 496 and time of the latest update. A per The download speeds were indi (PowerPC 350 MHz)/ son working on a particular scene cated in table below (not all listed here): 10base T may want to see the scenes immedi The process starts with a story ately preceding and following his/her reel of sketches that are locked after Next Step PC (Pentium 373 own to insure continuity. approval of the director. Temporary 11133MHz)/10baseT The final animation is stored as or final dialog is added. The reel is individual high resolution TIFF then broken down into individual Macintosh 7500 154 frames on magnetic tape for transfer scenes. The ruff stage of each scene (PowerPC 100 MHz)/ to film. During the course of the film's results from a series of drawings by 10baseT development all the scenes in their animators either by hand or computer
20 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 are apparently supposed to be hard to read.
Some people take the idea of "el Font of Wisdom egance" a bit too far, and use calli graphic fonts to "add style." Calli © 2000 Lawrence I. Charters graphic fonts are definitely elegant, subtly suggesting days of yore when ACINTOSH computers all text was written by hand have been with us for a long Olfactory Outlet using quills: M time, but most people still The Pet Exorcist don't know how to use them prop- Figure 3 (see this column, below) erly. Not just a few, mind you, but: Home Dentistry Warehouse Before you write some most. One Hour Lobbyist thing in a calligraphic font (in As proof, just look at almost any this case Nuptial Script), there thing written by Mac users over the Instant Friends are a few things to keep in past decade and a half. Given that the Tombs tones To Go mind. First, writing with Macintosh almost single handed Yesterday's Kitty Litter quills is hard on geese. Sec (neat trick for a limbless computer) ond, calligraphic fonts are revolutionized the world of typeset hard to read. While it might ting, it is shocking to see how many ile and colorless. Another problem be fine for a once-in-a-lifetime event, letters, memos, reports, and other bits with Courier (and all other like a marriage, for lesser purposes it and pieces of text produced on such monospaced fonts) is that it is harder is exasperating. Roughly once a week, marvelous machines look like they to read: the eye has to travel the same a letter or a flyer arrives in the mail were produced on: typewriters. distance for thin letters, such as j, as for wide ones, such as w. This makes While this aberration is most pro 7Jog r:Slo66er Candies nounced in and around Washington, it more tiring to read things written DC (where "innovation" often means in Courier, as the eyes must travel far 'Xon.-7/lco£oh"c 9/oor Coverings getting rid of the new and going back ther and work harder. to the old), this blight is present al Listing the stores in Palatino, a Conlainer in a 23ox most everywhere. Hardly a day goes popular serif font, adds an almost in- 23ed& !Palernily by without a church flyer or some stant elegance: other organization brochure falling 9ruilcde 7Jisposal out of the mail, printed in several dif Figure 2 Jlim '!A? Qis Cuslodj !A?esofulion ferent sizes of Courier, a monospaced font invented for the IBM Selectric .7£e 9as£Lon !JJ(orgue typewriter (in 1961). Or entire letters Slightly Green Lobster written in Chicago, a font designed Dial-a-Politician (in 1983) specifically for the Mac's Coffee Stains: Near Antiques written entirely in calligraphic menus, and nothing else. Yes, You Can Eat That Exotic Foods fonts (note: usually more than one). These are quickly dis So, as an intellectual exercise, let Tot City: Deductions to Go us consider a brand-new shopping patched to the recycle bin, un mall that wants to promote its stable Thesaurus Assistance read. of upscale stores for the discriminat Debriefing: Underwear for Presenters This does not, of course, ing shopper. Here is how the federal m~an that everything should be written in Palatino and government would list the stores, us Palatino, by the way, is the font ing Courier, of course: other serif fonts. Traffic signs, for ex used for body text in the Washington ample, are always written in sans Apple Pi Journal. If you take a look Figure 1 (see top of next column) serif fonts: they have simple mes through your home, you'll soon dis sages, and want to make their point cover that virtually every book, maga quickly and emphatically. In our up While there is nothing wrong zine, and newspaper uses a serif type scale mall, the mall directory would with such a list, it tends to look ster- for body text. Government reports, of be a good place to have a sans-serif course, usually use Courier, since they font, such as Optima:
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Figure 4 mon corporate paraphernalia - should exhibit some creativity. Budget Lurker Keep in mind, too, that most of the printed world is still black and Rent-a-Kid VCR Programming white. A recent flyer, announcing the retirement of a coworker, was printed in six different colors, with six differ Celebrity Kleenex Trading Company ent sizes of type. Six different colors and sizes of Courier. Head-on-a-Platter Just Desserts Wouldn't it have been easier to read (and photocopied much better) Squat: the Short and Fat Store to write it in a careful mix of serif and Books On Tape Bookmarks sans-serif fonts? Further reading Tomorrow's Castoffs and Sundries Almost every issue of the Wash ington Apple Pi Journal lists the pro grams, hardware and fonts used to construct the Journal, usually on page Optima, and other sans-serif Figure 5 fonts, should not be overused. Some Web sites, for example, use sans-serif SURGEON GENERALS'S WARNING: SMOKING CAUSES LUNG CANCER fonts for everything because it looks HEART DISEASE. EMPHYSEMA. AND MAY COMPLICATE PREGNANCY different. Unfortunately, it doesn't look different if overused; it is the contrast with serif type that makes it look dif Insurance contracts, credit card applications and other forms use a 3. Flip back a few pages and take a ferent. look. Then see if you can figure out An important point to consider: similar tactic, making sure to obscure the parts they really don't want you why we made these choices. Then tell while very small children might read us; we crave reassurance. to read by writing them in tiny, sans letter-by-letter, literate readers read by An introduction to fonts was pub serif type, all in upper case letters. the shapes of words. Serif fonts, such lished in the during the 1900s, "Combat typography" must be a re Journal as Times (the most popular font in the "Fonts: An Overview," Washington world), Palatino, and Garamond (all quired course in marketing programs. But our upscale shopping mall Apple Pi Journal, pp. 29-32, May /June Apple advertising is done in 1999. This covers such topics as the Garamond), are easier to read in small doesn't want to drive customers away. Instead, we want to invite them differences between serif, sans-serif, sizes. The serifs at the end of strokes calligraphic and other kinds of fonts. in to spend money, and one of the ~ake the letters more distinctive, giv If you are a new Macintosh user least expensive ways to do this is I mg the words more of a shape. Using or a veteran Macintosh user, or you through good use of typography. proper capitalization also gives the have never, ever used a Macintosh Good places for distinctive typogra words more shape. take a look at Robin Williams' Th; To illustrate this, consider the phy are the signs above the store en trances: Little Mac Book. Now in its sixth edi worst abuse of typography in the 20th tion, this is the best computer book century: the Surgeon General's warn Figure 6 (see upper page 22) yet written: it presents a mass of tech ing on packs of cigarettes. Ordered to nical information in a non-technical put the warning on all cigarette pack Good typography, of course, non-threatening fashion, with subtle: ages, the tobacco companies decided splendid illustrations. There is an en to comply in such a way as make the shouldn't be limited to mall directo ries or store entrances. While the body tire chapter devoted to fonts that warning all but unreadable. The quite frankly, doesn't touch on any of warning was reproduced in a san text of brochures, leaflets, flyers, busi ness letters and such should aim for the topics covered here. But she does serif font, all upper-case, with a heavy tell you how your Mac uses fonts, as border and unnecessary lines thrown effortless clarity, the name of the busi ness - reproduced on those same well as thousands of other useful in, thwarting any attempt to "read by things. shape:" items, plus business cards, bumper stickers, coffee mugs and other com- Most personal computer users
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0 Decorator ~ Punctuation fr Robin Williams, The Little Mac Book, 1 VAG Rounded Bold, Zapf Dingbats 6 h ed., Peachpit Press, 1999, 445 pages, $19.95 Robin Williams, The Mac is not a type PUPIL PIUCIHG writer, Peachpit Press, 1990, 72 pages, WUCH VOU'V{ PUHCTUMD .rfUIJT~IHG U~ $9.95 ITC Anna Robin Williams, The Non-Designer's Type Book, Peachpit Press, 1998, 239 8Q"IJ.£_T: pages, $24.95 The l!lho:r't and Fa't l!l'to:re Robin Williams, How to Boss Your Madrone Fonts Around, 2nd ed., Peachpit Press, 1998, 188 pages, $16.95 FRuiTcAkE DisposAl WE doN'T ASk, NEiT~ER s~ould you Peignot Demi
CONTAINER In a Box Russell Square don't really understand how to even ...------type on a modern computer, much less a Macintosh. Common punctua tion, tabs, margins and other essen tials baffle them (and it shows). Robin Williams addressed these concerns in her first book, The Macintosh is not a typewriter, an excellent, slender vol ume just as valuable today as it was a decade ago. If you've mastered the lessons of these books, you are ready for some heavy-duty typography, which Robin Williams covers in two more books, How to Boss Your Fonts Around, 2nd ed., and The Non-Designer's Type Book. The first discusses font management on • the Macintosh: what fonts are, how they work, how they are stored. The • second discusses typography as an Caution! aesthetic as well as an applied art I stop for red lights form, with outstanding examples of how to look sharp using nothing more than tasteful typography (and talent). You might ask: haven't other people written books about fonts and typography? Certainly. They just © 1999 Charles Stancil aren't as good. •
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 ries, I believe it. The clip art and fonts are already pre-selected and they do a pretty fair job, ranging from comic to more prqfessional work. If the pre-built templates aren't Nova Development's quite what you're looking for, it is very easy to add clip art from an in Print Explosion ~lud~d selection of over 50,000 graph ics clips, 1,200 photos and 1,000 fine By Steven Kiepe art images. The included graphic arts clips are in fully scalable proprietary vector format, currently exclusive to Print Explosion. The photos and fine art VERY ONCE in a very great images are in more familiar raster for The first step in creating a new while . a program comes along 1:1asterpiece is the project type selec mats. Of course, the program also al . that is so feature filled, solidly lows the import of your own TIFF, EPS, tion. The user can pick from general Ewritten and fairly priced that you PICT, GIF and JPEG graphics. Even have to question why other software categories including cards, signs and posters, banners, certificates, calen more impressive is the built in support vendors can't compete. Nova for Twain-compliant scanners. dars, labels, letterhead, invitations Development's home craft-graphic and many more. Once a general cat The Print Explosion clip art selec program Print Explosion is one such tion is fairly typical of what you find egor~ is chosen, another menu opens application. Designed to empower on the market; a significant percent up with a host of pre-built templates, co~puter novices with the ability to ready for immediate use. Nova De age of it is made up of caricatures, quickl~ and easily create greeting usually humorous, with a smaller per velopment states that there are more cards, signs, banners, calendars, busi centage more "professional" in na than 4,000 professionally crafted tem ness cards and more, it has broken the ture. The included photographs and code on how to be both powerful and plates ready to use and after having scrolled through a few of the catego- fine art images are generally land user friendly. Print Explosion is scapes and plants with a handful of brought to us by the same folks who package some of the most popular ,.. oil Fllc E~ View Insert Font Sfyle Object Arrange Window Help b~dles of computerized graphic art clips, Art Explosion. iDl~l~I ~00 ' ?Kl!b'.~lrml · P I I I B l~l~1~1:§1~ For those of you who have al ready dabbled with other seemingly CH,oos.e·a Greeting Car'd related products such as Sierra's Print r ca t egorles: (Front· A~tist f?r Windows and Mac, you Blanks might disregard Print Explosion as just Blanks -M I another in a series of inexpensive ap Anniversary plications for home use. Don't make Birthday, I that assumption until you take a look Business ,__ Cheer Up ~ a~ t~e ~r?duct. True, there are many Christmas ... s1m1lanties between Print Explosion and other products oriented toward Lewouts: Child, Tell the Tooth the novice computer user. It has a co-Worker, Bouquet simple interface, comes with thou co-Worker, Champ sands of pre-constructed templates CD::Worlcer,Aowers &Swirls for cards, banners and the like, and is Co-Worker, Group Huddle Co-Worker, Memo bundled with a fairly significant col Co-Worker, No Day Off lection of clip art and fonts. Addition co-Worker, Tears !lf Joy ' s.s trl:x e.s tn. ally, Print Explosion has features that Cousin, Style Points .._ Crept Up on You ~ w~ul~ normally require separate ap phcahons costing potentially hun dreds of more dollars. I Cancer) I < Back I ij Finish d
24 Washington Apple Pi Journal Marc h I April 2000 3"5~="- --~ Print Graphics Catalog S:: s±± ±#*ra=t gram is the ability to create special text shape effects, similar to that found in ca t egory t o Prl n:t p11ge Pre vi ew [I Prt_nt lJ programs like Adobe's Type Twister. ~Accents Business(r - (i I> ll, Alphobtts Print Explosion's type shifting capa ll,Nn..-lcano !iii bilities far surpass Type Twister's and I> Cl Animlls .... ~~ .-,.p~ ·, don't require cutting and pasting the I> ll, Archltf<>turt w ·1 tf finished product from a separate ap I> Cl Art & o.,1gn I> ll, Bocl
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26 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 From Fetch to Portfolio Portfolio originally appeared in 1991 as Aldus Fetch from the Seattle firm that created PageMaker. About Extensis Portfolio and four years ago Extensis Software bought Fetch from Adobe Systems CD-ROMs after Adobe bought Aldus. Extensis began an aggressive program of up grading and strengthening this single user image cataloger. Portfolio has Keeping Your Digital Images now become a versatile cross-plat form client-server suite of tools for managing graphics fi les. Organized Despite its strength as an enter prise tool, Portfolio also retains sim © By Dennis R. Dimick plicity as a stand-alone program for single users. The current version 4.1 has become quite popular for organiz ERHAPS YOU have a new digi that writes once to a blank CD. CD ing photographs, clip art, tal camera, and you've been RW lets you rewrite data to CD-ROM QuarkXpress documents, QuickTime Pshooting nearly anything that format compatible optical disks.) movies, sounds and other digital moves. Yo u've accumulated hun- If you combine Portfolio's graph graphics files. dreds of digital picture files on your ics cataloging and database prowess A new slide show feature in 4.1 hard drive. Friends and relatives en with the archiving role of a CD-R or allows you to sequence and rearrange joy receiving your e-mailed picture CD-RW drive, you've taken a big step the order of photos in a catalog on the files, and perhaps some digital images towards taking control of an ever-ex fly for presentation as an on-screen grace your web site. panding image and graphics file col slide show. Further, once you create a Alas, you're having a hard time lection. remembering where you put the files for those great digital pictures of last summer's camping trip, and your D source snow 012000.fdb - 2 E!l El computer hard drive that used to l !cit~mm 1 I~ li9~f..QI lifl• l=lfil seem so big is nearly jammed full with Filename File Size Last Modified Fi le Tvpe Mao Volume picture files. MVC-063X.JPG 13SK 1/20/009:27:08" TEXT Media Files If this description fits you, it MVC- 073X.JPG 167K 1/20/0010:59:16 TEXT Media Files M\IC- 057X.JPG 144K 1 /20/00 9 :25 :44 " TEXT Media Filts might be time to consider your own M\IC-085X .JPG 103K 1/20 /00 11 :16:20 TEXT Media Files "digital asset management" strategy: M\IC- 103X .JPG 123K 1/20/0011 :38 :04 JPEG Media Files an image-cataloging program and a HVC- 062X.JPG 18 1K 1 /20 /00 9 :26 :54 TOO Medi~ FllH MVC- 072X.JPO 148K 1 /20/00 10 :58 :00 TEXT Media Files drive that lets you create your own M\IC- 080X.JPG 148K 1 /20/00 11 :06:34 TEXT Media Flies CD-ROMs. M\IC-077X.JPG 176K 1 /20/00 11 :04 :32 TEXT Media Files One cataloging program I've ... is fo und useful and easy to use Port 9 of44 • 1lJjf folio 4.1 from Extensis Software of M\IC-062X.JPO 1 .... Portland, Oregon. A graphics data base program, Portfolio can help you organize, manage, and access your burgeoning graphics file collection. A CD-R or CD-RW drive com bined with disk writing software such as Adaptec's Toast will let you create Thumbnail Keywords Description your own CD-ROMs to archive and A Graphics Database: Portfolio provides extensive database and search tools for your backup picture files and other files. graphics catalogs. You can create database field types to your liking, and you can also (CD-Recordable is an older format search for images based on a specific quality to automatically create custom galleries.
Marc h I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 QuarkXPress docu ments with images in them you can use AppleScript to have Portfolio automati cally catalog all image files in the Xpress documents. Portfolio will create catalogs that you can make available for viewing from web servers via any Web browser. Apple's drag-and drop technology plays a central role in Portfolio's utility. Be sides catalog creation, you can drag images from Portfolio cata logs for placement into QuarkXpress and PageMaker docu ments. You can drag images from Portfolio catalogs to create cus tom folders of images for later processing. You can drag images from Portfolio cata logs onto an alias for an imaging program like Photoshop, and Portfolio's Galleries: Extensis Portfolio, a graphics cataloging and database program, allows you to create all selected source subsets of master catalogs. The smaller window at right contains an edited selection of images. This images will open for "gallen/' as it is called, can then be shown as a slide show using your Mac's screen or a digital projector. editing. master catalog of images, you can im catalog window. Portfolio will auto A New Portfolio's Coming mediately build custom "galleries" of matically create a database of all im As I was writing in early Febru selected images or illustrations from ages, cataloging them by filename, file ary, Extensis announced a version 5.0 the master catalog to present as slide type, file size, and modification date. of Portfolio for release this spring. shows for specific clients or projects. Portfolio will create thumbnail images Portfolio 5 will allow cataloging and Extensis also offers a free Portfo for most files depending on their type. viewing of all pages in multiple-page lio Browser program that lets you You can view catalogs via a win PowerPoint, QuarkXpress and Adobe share cataloged images with others. dow of thumbnail images, as a list of Acrobat documents. You'll be able to You can, for example, create a cata database information, or as a single search for images across multiple loged collection of images or graph record with thumbnail and relevant da Portfolio catalogs, even those catalogs ics files with Portfolio, and place the tabase information. You can customize located on web sites. Portfolio 5 also files and catalog on a CD-ROM fo r database fields and keywords at will, will allow you to take image catalogs viewing along with Portfolio Browser. and it's possible to set up your own set and save them to QuickTime movie of keywords that most closely reflect format. You can then, for example, Creating Your Image Catalogs your personal work or preferences. add a sound track with voice-over To create a catalog, drag a folder This only begins to describe what narration or music to your slide of graphics files into an open Portfolio Portfolio can do. If you have shows.
28 Washington Apple Pi Journal March / April 2000 Stay on the Path Adaptec Toast"" Despite Portfolio's benefits, keep 3.5.7 in mind it requires persistent logical pathnames for catalogs. If you build a catalog on a hard drive volume named "My Pictures", and then cre Mac Fil•s & Fold• rs _ ate a CD-ROM with that same Port folio catalog and the source images on Data: snow 012000 Data ... it, be sure to name the CD-ROM "My 31.4 MB CD- ROM Pictures." If you don't, each time you 100 Files / 2 Folders try to access the images represented in the catalog, Portfolio will ask you Total: 03:38:47 to insert the "My Pictures" source ------disk. CD R•cord•r ------""7 Sony CDU926S There are benefits to this. You can Search SCSI Bus 2, ID 6 also save your images to a variety of [ CD-ROMs or other disks and create a Portfolio catalog file of those disks Check Speed ... Write CO ... where only the catalog file resides on your hard drive. If there's an image you seek later, Portfolio will prompt Toasting Data: If you combine Extensis Portfolio with a CD-R or CD-RW drive and you to insert the source disk by name Adaptec's Toa st, yo11 can keep your expanding image collections under control. Toast is to retrieve the source image. an easy to 11se disk writing software for creating your own CD-ROMs.
About CD-R and CD-RW range, and all come bundled with disk Pi member Dennis Dimick has an idea These optical disks are becoming writing software. My favorite is an how to organize his digital picture quite popular as an archival medium. outstanding disk writing program files, but he's still trying to find the If you are a photographer, graphic called Toast, now published by time and energy to organize thou designer, or anyone who create a lot Adaptec. sands of boxes of Kodachrome slides of graphics files, these CD-Rand CD Like Portfolio, Toast lets you stored in his basement. He can be RW drives that create CD-ROMs are "drag and drop" data files into the reached via email: [email protected]. nearly mandatory as a way to man program window and the software age and store your image files. Be does the rest when creating your ar Extensis Portfolio 4.1 yond this, these drives are an ideal chival CD-ROMs. Vendors now sell Mac OS 7.5.3 - 9.0 backup medium for any type of data. CD-R and CD-RW drives in SCSI, Power PC Required Disks hold anywhere from 650 to USB and even FireWire models. 6MB Application RAM Needed 700 MB of data each, and CD-R and Street Price About $190 CD-RW drives are now offered by The Key is Keeping Track Extensis Corporation many vendors. Just a year or so ago I Whether you have a digital cam 1800 SW First Avenue got blank stares from a Comp USA era, a film scanner, or you' re a graphic Portland, Oregon 97201 store clerk when I sought to buy blank designer who creates projects from Phone 503-274-2020 CD-R disks, but they are available at image editing or page layout pro Web: www.extensis.com most all computer and office supply grams, you're an obvious candidate stores today. Recently I saw an office for a program like Extensis Portfolio. Adaptec Toast supply store selling CD-R blanks for 69 You don't have to buy to try, as a fully Usually Bundled with CD-R and cents each when bought in batches of functional 30-day demo version of CD-RW Drives 100. Portfolio is available from Extensis' Available Separately for $99 fram If you seek to buy a drive, check website at www.extensis.com. www.adaptec.com the various Mac mail order catalogs Combine this powerful catalog 691 South Milpitas Blvd. or the web site (www.apstech.com) of ing program with Adaptec's Toast Milpitas, CA 95035 long-time Mac vendor APS Technolo and a CD-R or CD-RW drive and Phone 408-945-8600 gies of Kansas City. It's always pos you'll have in place the basic tools to sible to get a decent quality CD-R or organize and archive your own li CD-RW drive in the $300 to $350 brary of graphics files. •
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 29 do be sure to get a look at the widest possible range of products. This is an extremely competitive business.
Nikon CoolPix 950-Nice Things I like I was not disappointed when I Enough Pictures started playing with the thing after getting it home. Review by John Barnes The first thing I like about this gadget is its nice output. Figure 1 is a side-by side comparison of a picture taken with the Nikon and one taken UST AFTER Christmas I sim shooting. The claim that one can pro with a Kodak DC50. The latter cam ply had to drop in on my local pro duce attractive 8 x 10 prints with an era is representative of the previous fessional photo supply house to ink jet device turns out to be fully sup generation of digital cameras. The Pi 1see w hat the "megapixel" buzz in ported. The choice of this particular web site offers a color version of this digital still cameras was all about. I model of this particular brand was illustration that probably has a lot fully expected to hear the "not yet conditioned to some extent by media more detail. ready for prime time" comments that hype, but I excluded all models that Secondly, the camera has every they had given me in the past. Or lacked an optical finder. LCD finders feature that one would expect in a maybe they would have something do not do the job for me out of doors. high-end 35 mm SLR camera. This good but I would find the price too The idea of additional optical flexibil flexibility in adapting to different situ high. In any case I was skeptical and I ity through interchangeable lenses ations is very important to me. The thought I had conditioned myself not has some allure. The CoolPix 950 is little lens cap with its built-in attach to leap at the new technology. priced at the high end of its class, but ment point is kind of cute, too. I used Well, I wound up subjecting my not outrageously so. a cable tie to secure it around the cam credit card to another bloodletting on It takes only a little imagination era strap. the altar of bleeding edge technology. to find innumerable uses for one of The next thing I like is the ease My purchase of a Nikon CoolPix these cameras. There are plenty of with which the photo files can be 950 camera at a competitive price has choices for those who want to shop handled. The proprietary photo for put a new spark into my home snap feature sets and pricing. However, do mats that had to be converted to more not rely on the magazine articles, and general formats have been replaced by on-the-fly compression to files s tored on flash memory. When it comes time to work with the images the computer treats the flash memory just like a removable disk drive.Just take the little flash memory card out of the camera, slip it into a suitable adapter, plug the package into the PCMCIA slot, and drag and drop. Users who lack a PCMCIA slot can use Nikon-supplied software to achieve the same effect through a serial connection to the camera. I have not yet tried this approach be cause I am concerned about battery life. This simplicity in handling im ages is a terrific boon for newsletter editors, Web authors, parents, and Figure 1 - The little widget shown here is part of a materials science experiment. The other animal lovers. These folks can left view was taken with my Nikon Coo/Pix 950, the one on the right with a Kodak shoot their favorite subjects until the DCSO. Note the improved sharpness and tonal range in the left hand image.
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plied as Acrobat Reader Things I don't like files on a CD-ROM. I Complexity is probably a price also scanned in the we have to pay for power in a small "QuickStart" card so package. In any case this gadget is that I would not lose it. plenty complex. Figure 2 is a scan The documentation is from the quickstart card showing the clear and readable. various features, buttons, and con However, as w ill be trols. Figure 3 is a guide to the infor noted below, the system mation that is presented on the LCD is complicated enough viewfinder / playback screen. Let's so that the user will use just say that this all takes some get the manuals early and ting used to. Users should devote a often. I found that some fair amount of spare time to fiddling features were covered in with the various modes and controls yet a third document, a in order to get a better idea of what 30 page "Pocket Guide" suits them. There is provision for sav I decided to scan this in ing customized parameter sets for as well, just so that I particular shooting situations. would not lose it. Selecting modes of operation can The chief enabling get pretty convoluted. Some settings technology of the are controlled from a menu that is 8 Autofocus lamp Gi) LCD monitor 0 Voowftnder eyOj)ioco G Eyolet for camorn strap megapixel revolution as about as hard to use as the one on a Ci> Flnsh·ready lamp @i> Command dial seen in the CoolPix and VCR. Others are selected by turning CD) Vrdao cabto connector •Lens others of its ilk is JPEG a tiny wheel while mashing down on $ Powor jack for oplionnt AC f9 Viowfindor adaptor compression. The a tiny button. I wonder who designs @) BullHn flash $ MOdodiat CoolPix offers three these things. Maybe it's the Finnish fiD Rrid·eye reductiOn lamp Shutter·rc!oaso buuon $ ~ Pliotocell pixel counts, each with guy who uses a cell phone to buy soft Control panel G> 0 Connoctor lor exlomat flash three different compres drinks. Is there a market for an infra 49 Senat <>11ble connector G Dic;>:c: ruf,'1.l!:tmon\ dial sion ratios, for a total of red link that would let us read the MONITOR button (pre$$ 0nt0 G fl!) Tripod sed
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 31 These costs will partly reduce the sav this is the lack of a backup storage me ings from not having to develop and dium for the pictures. A theft or acci Wiii i Bleed Less if I wait? digitize film. Will I need an AC dent would result in the loss of all of Most of us find it galling to learn adapter? I'm put off by Nikon's price, our snapshots, not just those that hap that our latest high tech toy became but I may have to bite the bullet. Ju pen to be in the camera or the gadget obsolete soon after we unpacked it. I dicious use of the "Monitor" button bag. With film the loss is limited to a suspect that this is doubly the case to turn off the LCD display amelio day or two's shooting at most (unless with digital cameras, still or video. On rates things a little bit. The flash uses our suitcases get totally lost). the other hand one needs to get a few quite a lot of juice as well. Paper photo albums remain things done. The answer is to learn to The price of converter lenses easier to work with than the digital love your purchases until they really seems rather high. I see no immedi ones, although viewing applications do show their age. Perhaps if you act ate need for them, but it is nice to are improving rapidly. On the other quickly enough you can get some know that they are there if I need hand, the ability to crop digital pho money for the old stuff at a Pi sale. them. The optical built-in zoom range tos and compensate for some expo I have not attempted to spell out supposedly corresponds to a 35 to 115 sure defects is a huge plus. all of the ways that this camera could mm zoom lens on a 35 mm SLR. I Consumables costs for digital print be used. I know that I personally have might be happier with 28 to 100. ing are not negligible, but it certainly lots of projects that will benefit from The built-in flash is kind of is a lot cheaper to make a 5 x 7 or 8 x this camera, and I think it will be a lot weeny. There is provision for 10 print that way. Modern photo of fun to share my work with my synching to beefier flash units. Most quality papers help a lot in this regard. friends and family. • of these are at least as bulky as the The bottom line is that I will prob CoolPix itself. If one wants to light up ably use the Nikon for most shooting the scene one needs a place to store in those places where I have easy ac all of those joules. cess to my laptop I wonder about the funky twist computer. On foreign to-shoot design. This certainly de trips of any conse Icons in the LCD monitor (A-REC/M-REC) creases the required storage space. It quence I will take also gives added flexibility for some along the film camera, •••••Jli W\L.= TX1.25 0.7mE9~ 8 kinds of shooting. However, one does either as a secondary 0 c:Je wonder if the joint between the two camera or as the pri fa 0 ID APRll. 8 parts of the camera could be a weak mary when I leave my ee r1 ~• • AE-L H L ~ G> point. laptop at home. • WB-L ~=,u ~ • In my youth I El>MS VGA0 Will this be your only camera? spent a lot of time in The last time my wife and I trav darkrooms with : iJ~ 1fJO F4.1~2.0~ G eled abroad we shot twenty 20 expo smelly chemicals, e • en>• m sure rolls of 35 mm film, for a total of bulky machines, and e Usor set number Q) Number o! exposures romalning 8 Zoom indicator G Exposure compensation about 400 frames. Perhaps a third of delicate media to cre 8 Oigilal zoom G Apetturo {f number) these were "keepers." A single 64 MB ate a very modest out e Focus mocte/manuaJ focus G) Shutter speed distance flash memory card would, therefore, put of mostly undis G Exposure modo 8 "Dato not ser Indicator hold all of our good snapshots at a tinguished photo G Metering rnodo • Flashmodo (§) Muftl·shot modo resolution that is adequate for our graphs. The newer Battery indlCOIOI' 8 €D Best·shot modo purposes. digital technologies • Cunont folder f» Whito-balanee lock The cost, with batteries, would be give me better prints 0 Whito balaneo program ~ Aulo-oxposuro lock Senaitivlly comparable to what we spent on de and better creative Cl!> 0 Lons c:onvertor settings 4D Brigh!nessfcontrasl veloping, printing, and digitizing control over the im Osuttumer CD lrnage slle e Auto-oxposure target (spot those 20 rolls. Add in the fact that the ages that I make. I Cl) Image quatily metoring) CoolPix 950 is a lot less bulky than a cannot yet rival Ansel standard 35 mm SLR and the idea of Adams with big, dra Figure 3 - Information presented on the monitor dis using such a camera as one's main ma tic, needle sharp play. Nearly every conceivable tidbit about the expo photo device becomes quite attrac prints, but I can learn sure can be read out here. The data is superimposed on tive. a lot with the tools I the image in playback mode. It can be suppressed by a The biggest single drawback to have. single push of the "monitor" button.
32 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 Klayman's basic idea, patenting them, and licensing them like mad. Focus. for automotive audio, compensates for door placement of speakers by A Pi Labs Special Report "raising" the soundstage psychoacoustically. TruSurround of fers Dolby Pro Logic surround decod That WOW Thing You Do ing for home theater systems using only two speakers - we've heard it, by Jerry Kindall and yes, it really does sound like sounds are coming from behind you. SRS Headphone adjusts the sound you From Simple Sound to brass at Hughes (the executives, not get when listening through head Enveloping Magic the section in the company orchestra) phones and "moves" it outside your RS LABS [1] fascinates us. Not to realize they had something really head. Circle Surround is a surround as an investment, mind you-a interesting on their hands. In addition encoding technology that encodes look at the company's stock his to the jaw-dropping 30 stereo effect five discrete audio channels into one, S Klayman' s gizmo provided, they dis tory [2] shows a steady downward similar in concept to Dolby's tech trend since the initial public offering covered it also made speaker place nologies. VIP specially processes about three years ago, saved only by ment in a room almost irrelevant - voice signals to improve their intelli a recent upturn. No, we like SRS Labs you could hear a decent stereo image gibility under poor conditions. because the company's technology for no matter regardless of your location TruBass enhances the presence of bass enhancing stereo audio is way cool - or the speakers' location. Hughes without making it sound overly that is, it works. quickly gave Klayman a lab and a "boomy." There's no doubt the com When we first heard of SRS, well staff, patented the technology, chris pany has been busy finding acousti over five years ago, this stereo-en tened it the "Sound Retrieval Sys cal problems that can be solved by hancing coolness belonged to Hughes tem," and released a little box with the SRS. They even filed a patent [3] last Aircraft. Arnold Klayman, a Hughes technology that you could add to any week on Internet" audio broadcasting engineers, had invented technology hi-fi system. It created quite a stir in technologies" employing their tech that employed what acoustic wonks audiophile circles - when you could nology. call "head-related transfer functions" find it, that is. As it turns out, Hughes Other companies have explored (HRTFs) to improve audio reproduc is pretty good at making planes but the world of psychoacoustics, too, in tion. The basic idea is that the posi lousy at marketing hi-fi equipment. cluding Spatializer, QSound, and Ar tion of your ears on your head and Although the company intended to boretum. The first two license technol the shape of your outer ear (known use the technology in their planes' ogy to professional and consumer as the pinna) have a tremendous im audio systems, they never did. The electronics manufacturers (Apple li pact on the way your brain deter company eventually lost interest in censed Spatializer technology some mines the spatial location of sound - Klayman' s work and went back to just time ago for use in Game Sprockets) yet the way sound is ordinarily re making planes. and the latter makes software such as corded and reproduced takes none of SRS Labs is basically Klayman the free Realizer plug-in for this into account (except for special and a few investors who banded to SoundJam MP. "binaural" recordings, which are cre gether to wrest the technology patents It goes without saying that most ated with microphones in the ears of from Hughes and actually do some computer speakers are pretty crapu a dummy head - we swear we are not thing with them. At first, SRS was to lent, even the US$200-range ones. But making this up - and which produce be a technology development com while their frequency response is usu a startling sense of realism when pany that made money through li ally bad, they have an advantage over played back over headphones, but do censing. One of the company's inves more traditional listening environ not work well with regular speakers.) tors founded a separate company ments when it comes to stereo imag Using HRTFs, Klayman invented a called NuReality to manufacture SRS ing: they're used for what audio pros gadget accounting for many of these products, and many well-known elec refer to as "near-field monitoring." effects, albeit approximately, when tronics companies - including Sony, The speakers are positioned only a playing back normal stereo audio Pioneer, and Apple - did in fact license few feet from the listener, the listener material through ordinary speakers. the technology. Meanwhile, the com is usually equidistant from both All it took was one listen for the pany kept inventing new ways to use speakers ("in the sweet spot"), and the
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 33 I listening volume is low enough that size and form factor as the Vivid, NuReality box in the first place. reflections from rear and side walls about six inches wide, four inches The WOW Thing Box version of don't muddy the sound. With MP3 deep, and an inch thick, or 15.2cm by SRS is even better than the original. gaining in popularity, people are lis 10.lcm by 2.Scm) on the Mac. We assume the SRS engineers used tening to music on computers more And what can we say but... WOW! their knowledge of the typical com than ever before - we won't even Configuration is extremely puter sound system to further refine mention games, and they can really simple. Start some music, engage the the basic SRS effect. Your speakers es benefit from enhanced stereo. power, and switch the WOW proces sentially disappear; every sound you In short, the time was ripe for sor into the circuit (there's a bypass hear comes from a precise location in someone to address the inherent limi switch). Adjust the WOW knob until a semicircular soundstage that ex tations of computer audio with a so you say "Wow," tum up the TruBass tends beyond your speakers. The ef lution targeted specifically toward control until you say "Wow" again, fect was even more pronounced than typical listening situations: lousy and you're done - except for listening with the Vivid, yet just as natural speakers and near-field listening. to all your favorite MP3s, games, and sounding (though we would have NuReality closed up shop some time CDs through the thing for the next doubted that possibility before we ago, so SRS Labs stepped up to the four hours with your mouth gaping heard it). We actually did a double plate with the aptly-named WOW slackly. take the first time an AOL Instant Thing Box. "WOW Thing" is a free We used a pair of Aiwa SC-A78s Message came in: it literally sounded plug-in for WinAmp (a Windows like it was coming from the middle of MP3 player); "WOW Thing Box" is a the monitor, since the notification hardware device that works with any "When we first heard sound is monophonic. That was far computer with miniature stereo jack, of SRS, well over five more precise placement than we ever including most Macs. If your Mac has got. with the Vivid, although part of line-level RCA outputs, you'll need a years ago, this stereo- that could be because the Vivid uses little Radio Shack- style adapter. The enhancing coolness two knobs to control the SRS effect US$30 (plus US$8 shipping in the US) belonged to Hughes while the WOW Thing uses only one, WOW Thing Box is even translucent making it a bit more difficult to set up blue, so it's obvious that SRS Labs Aircraft. Arnold to match the WOW Thing Box. We was thinking of Apple's recent multi Klayman, a Hughes were also surprised that we had to hued creations. engineers, had in tum down the treble a little using the It's certainly nice to be thought equalizer; the WOW process really of, even if you have to pay nearly vented technology brings out cymbals and other high US$40 to get what Windows users get that employed what frequency sounds. for free. But let's be realistic - there's acoustic wonks call Almost as amazing as the WOW no single dominant MP3 player for process is TruBass, also included on the Mac like there is for Windows, 'head-related transfer the WOW Thing Box. Even though and of the four main ones, only functions' " ... the bass on these speakers was al SoundJam MP supports audio pro ready pretty good, the WOW Thing cessing plug-ins anyway. Although considerably fattened it without mak Casady & Greene could probably use powered speakers on our test ma ing it sound boomy. Again, we're not it as a selling point for SoundJam, chine. They're not sold as computer sure how this particular voodoo they already have Realizer. So, as Mac speakers, but they wiped the floor works, but we now hear low notes users are used to doing, we shelled with all the Cambridge and Bose com we've never heard before on these out some coin, but we get a box that puter speakers we tried at twice their speakers - clearly, and without au works for much more than MP3 play US$99 price. Although they're not small dible strain from the speakers. It ac back. We went whole hog with WOW like a satellite-and-subwoofer system, tually sounds better to tum down the thing - we sold a NuReality Vivid 30 they're certainly not desk hogs. They subwoofer a little and crank up the Theater box, removing it from a main aren't bass-shy, either, with a surpris TruBass knob some more. entertainment system and replacing ingly powerful little subwoofer built Quite literally every piece of it with the pocket-size NuReality into the left speaker. The treble is a little source material we tried exhibited an Vivid 30 Plus that had been enhanc weak, but a spare graphic equalizer immediate and dramatic improve ing sound on the test Macintosh com fixed that problem. They also have ment from when piped through the puter. We then installed the WOW QSound 's Virtual Stereo processor, WOW Thing. Music - from blues to Thing Box (which is exactly the same which convinced us to hook up the jazz to rock to classical - sounded sim-
34 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 ply fantastic. It was like replacing the speakers with much larger and more expensive ones. (The effect also works w ith headphones, and the WOW Thing Box has a convenient head MacTicker Reviewed phone jack on i ~s side.) We fired up a couple of recent game demos to see © 2000 Lawrence I. Charters how they worked, and we think we can safely say that gamers will be very, very pleased, especially with ICKER TAPE is inexorably emerged from glass-domed devices. what TruBass does for explosion ied to images of wealth in the Post-Depression movies showed an sounds. You will probably want United States. Old pre-Depres guished industry giants examining somewhat lower WOW settings for T: less satisfactory tapes. Ticker tape pa sion movies showed smug industry music than for games, however. giants examining ticker tape as it rades are granted to war heroes, as- Can you tell we're in love with this Thing? The only catch is that you need external speakers - the sound comes from your Macintosh through the WOW Thing Box and on to the ~a speakers, and there's no way to send Tickerbanner: MacTicker's main display is the ticker itself a banner nmning the sound back to your computer 's in across the screen at a user-selectable position and speed. Depending on the size ternal speakers. (There's only so much of the screen and what else you might be doing, this can be a huge dis traction those internal beasties can do, any or, on a large screen, a ven; subtle reminder that there is life out there, b~ond way, even in the new iMacs with your monitor. It is also a great way to impress your coworkers, even if you Harman Kardon speaker enclosures.) don't own a dime of stock. Comments such as "Wow! It looks like a bad day for But if you're a serious gamer or mu margin buyers in postindustrial extractive mutuals" will impress almost any sic lover, you probably already have one, as long as they don't ask you what that is supposed to mean. external speakers. If you do, you want Ill " I c t Inc ········· l!ll!l 0 i'i•i•iiii:il'miH:lilii A-rlca 0.11 .. .. :ii'iiiiiiii'i"ill!IB a WOW Thing Box. Currrnt 11 !> As far as we're concerned, all AAPL Chan9<" t '4 1 3/1(1 •.: .i; -·; & • Te•ay such people should have one. It truly 112 3/16 PrtvlousClou 1103116 (Jpt\• 20:16 on 12/0311999 ~lZ:..11.:!'..J sl Upd>\• 20:16 on 12/03/1999 ~ lZ:..11.:!'..J index_netscape.html>. And be sure to tell them you use a Macintosh! •
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-- -· .... - .. :::-=:-:.: 3 Stocks ..,,.;;~:_._ -·- -..- mi El being a scrolling electronic ticker at the top or bottom of the screen. Color "MacTicker is a small pro New Stock ) [ Delete I I l coding (using user-definable colors) gram that allows an Internet -1 rilCo~Namt J_~mbol v allows you to tell at a glance if things fil fil Aladdin Systems lnc. ALHI ... 1--1 are going well or badly on Wall Street. connected Macintosh to fi1 fi1 America Online AOL fil fil Apple Computer lnc_ AAPL You can add or delete stocks quite reach out and grab slightly fil fil ATI TechnologiH ATY easily, attending only to those stocks liJ !if Cyberlan Outpost COOL of personal interest. Alerts can be set delayed stock market infor- liJ lif Cisco lnc _ csco to trigger if the stock changes by a fil !if EBay lnc. EBAY mation. This information can fi1 !if rntel INTC user-specified amount. If you want liJ lif Microsoft HSFT more information about a stock, just be displayed in a number of liJ liJ Motorola HOT double-click on the symbol as it scrolls user-customizable ways, the '-;- by and a box with more details pops up. From here, you can even launch a most useful being a scrolling rlookup) I Cancel J (I OK I) Web browser and go directly to a Web electronic ticker at the top or ~ page filled with almost everything you could want to know about that bottom of the screen. Color Configurestocks: A preference window stock, including recent wire service allows you to specify what stocks coding (using user-definable postings. . MacTicker will track, and what symbol Installation is a breeze. MacTzcker colors) allows you to tell at a will be used for those stocks. Aladdin Sys can be purchased and downloaded glance if things are going well tems provides a number of stocks as de directly from Aladdin Systems' Web faults (note the heavy technology slant), site, in a purely electronic transaction. or badly on Wall Street." and thoughtfully provides their own Or (for more money) they lightly-traded stock as one of the options. can mail you a CD-ROM Adding stocks is quite easy, and the (which also includes demo Lookup option assists in looking up stock versions of Aladdin's other information on select Web sites. programs). Aside from de fining your own personal Proxy Authorization .. · · tronauts, and victorious sports teams. 1 preferences, there is almost ! Electronic ticker tapes, created with nothing you need to do to llser Name I I· I tens of thousands of lights, are a vir get MacTicker going - pro tual hallmark of New York City, ap Password l l 1 vided you have an active -·---- .... ______., ______; pearing on buildings in Times Square Internet connection. DefaultReportView ______, and at Times Square wannabes scat Running on a blue-and tered around the city. white Power Macintosh G3, I Stocks I> Symbol Q Name All that and more can be yours MacTicker is unobtrusive. I Funds Q Symbol f) Name with MacTicker, an electronic ticker Tucked down on the bottom Indexes G Symbol I) Name tape from Aladdin Systems, best edge of a 17-inch monitor, it known for their Stuffit compression was out of sight and out of package. MacTicker doesn't provide mind. The 2.8 megabytes of wealth and celebrity, of course, but memory it uses by default iiL_E_n_a-bl_e_T-ra-d-in_g_S_it-e~~~~~~~~l-,1 you can use it without the expense of were not missed (this par replacirig all those light bulbs in the ticular machine had 192 moving billboards, or constantly re megabytes of RAM). No D Advanced Settings cycling miles of paper tape. measurements were taken to D Close Connection After Updates MacTicker is a small program that see if it slowed the perfor allows an Internet-connected mance of the machine, ( Apply J ( cancel J ([ OK )J Macintosh to reach out and grab mostly because it didn't in slightly delayed stock market infor terfere with anything at all mation. This information can be dis Preferencesadvanced: The advanced prefe~enc~s allow so: why bother? These re you to set such items as proxy authorization (for played in a number of user sults would differ, of course, firewalls, not corporate boardroom battles), as well customizable ways, the most useful on a slower machine with as specify a site for on-line trading.
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less memory and, in particular, a As far as electronic toys go, smaller monitor. MacTicker is a winner. MacTicker, like several other re : Ii) Price Alerts------~ cent Aladdin products, will notify I Alert On I +Percent Change i ¢ J you of updates as they are available. I Change I10.00 . I On the plus side, it always asks if you want to update, rather than going L~~~~-~lor c=--;J_liJ 8~~-~---- out and updating itself without your liJ Idle Alerts------~ consent. On the minus side, the only I@> Last Update O Last Trade update attempted during the period i After( 1 hour l ~) of review (updating from MacTicker 1.6 to 1.6.2) resulted in a machine lockup: after agreeing to download l~~;~~~=~~--~;~~:__ _ the update, MacTicker launched the i-· ~~;:c;.-cnk~;---OHide Rep~rts---i browser, the browser went to ~·······-·-······--···------··-·····-·-·-·-·------·-·-····-~-----J Aladdin's update page, and promptly froze the machine. This ex ercise was repeated a couple times I Apply l ( Cancel ) II OK n until eventually downloading the update "manually" by simply Preferencesalerts: MacTickler can be set to alert launching the browser (without you to drastic changes in stock price, with the MacTicker's aid) and grab- definition of"drastic," the color of the alert, and bing the update. any special formatting (blinking, bold, under MacTicker's only real line, italic) all under user control. constraint is, of course, the Preferen.c~~ need for an active Internet
Appurance connection. While it does work just fine over a dial Ticker Speed [ Medium :=::====~ up account, it works best, of Ticker Direction I Rlghtto Left course, over a full-time Canadian ~~~~;;;g:r..:J Ticker Position I Bottom Internet connection. Natu- Update I smlnutes .: Li) ....._~=====.;::~ ,__ Ticker Window I No ____Frame rally, it is also much more []Always force detailed update 0 FloatTlcker Above AppllcatJans interesting when the stock ~liitMutuol Funds r: Dlsplay ______·-·-- market is actually open; on lif Stock Symbol Ii) Current Price L Update I 2 hours Lil D Stock Name Ii) Price Change weekends and holidays, 1 0 Trade Volume Ii) Percent Change MacTicker doesn't do much. r liJ Indexes --- 1 j Quote Style I Mixed (Exchange) I ~ I Even if you are not a 1 _update I. 5 minutes J ,_ TexL__ ·---··-·--- hard-core speculator, 1 Font I Geneva ! ~] Size I 14 !~ MacTicker is worth the I Gaining ~ Unchanged ~ [ money simply for its enter I Losing [!!) 8aclcground • 1 tainment value. You can, for l... ···-·-········-·--····-·--·-····--··.... ·-···------·-·· .. --·---·-·-·..J example, use it as a news I Apply I I cancel ) ~ OK fl source: track a couple dozen ( ApP!Y ) ( cance1llJ OK Q interesting stocks, wait for Preferencesappearance: There are many dif some interesting changes in Preferencessource: MacTicker does not, of ferent options for determining how MacTicker their value, and then, with course, create the information it displays. displays on the screen. As it ships, MacTicker a few clicks, you can be at a Instead, it goes out and periodically sucks the comes with a thoughifully-selected series of Web page, discovering that information off well-known Web sites. You defaults, but ifyou really do want it to stream the company in question can specify where it goes for this information. across the top of your screen at breakneck won or lost a lawsuit, was Keep in mind, however, that all stock Web screen, directly on top of anything else you purchased or is purchasing site postings are deliberately delayed, so in are doing, displayed in garnish neon colors, someone else, or their latest formation displayed on your screen will al yes, you can do that. product is a success or a di ways be 15 minutes or more out of date. saster.
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6. They would give me a one month trial and return my month's charge if I couldn't make it work. 7. The cost is $49.00/mo. EXPRESSNET, High 8. They do not support Macintosh. If you are a novice like I am you will need a little help. Speed Web Access This article should provide it. To me, PPP was something I used to do in the snow when I was a kid. Frankly, I still don't know what it means, but I do know how to use it - Through Cable TV now. I got my help from friends on the Pi TCS, a bit at a Montgomery time. In the beginning I didn't even know what to ask. When I got answers I didn't know what they were talking about. So, there was a lot of back and forth on it. As a re by Joe Belotte sult I promised that I would put it all together for any one else who might like to follow.
ERE IS YET another article on Cable Internet. Here is what you do Yet another spin off from Don Essick's article in H the March/ April Pi Journal. Thanks, Don. It's hard 1. Call CTVM and sign up for ExpressNet service. There to believe time goes so fast. will be no installation charge (and no installation). And What if you want high-speed access in Bethesda, Mont they will give you the modem free. (Of course you have to gomery county, etc and the DSL lines won't reach your return it some day.) When you sign up you will agree on a home? If, by chance, you are a newcomer like me, and don't screen name and password. They are case sensitive. know the difference between PPP and Remote Access or LAN and TCP /IP, it could be a little difficult. It was for When talking with the ExpressNet representative, be very me. But with the help of my Apple Pi friends I braved not sure he or she writes down the same screen name and pass only my own complete lack of knowledge and experience word you do, exactly. They botched my password and it but also CTVM, Cable TV Montgomery, which, inciden took quite a while to figure out what the problem was. tally does not support the Macintosh platform. All I needed to know was the phone number of Cable They will also give you several sheets of instructions tell TV Montgomery and the phone number for the Apple Pi ing you how to set up - provided you are using Win bulletin board. I didn't even know what PPP or TCP /IP dows 95 or 98. Remember, they do not support Macs. Do was, and in the process of getting on I accumulated 21 not toss the instructions. Although they are not for you, pages of notes, mostly explanations I got from Pi mem you will find several important clues there. bers over the TCS. If I can do it anybody can! Actually, it is very simple 2. With your current ISP go to http:l/www.sustworks.com - once you understand the instructions. and get an application called IPNetRouter. It is approxi Why would you want to get on high-speed cable? Well, mately $89. You will use this, along with Remote Access only you know the answer to that. (PPP) and TCP /IP to handle your connections. IPNetRouter Why would you want ExpressNet? Probably, only if is a piece of software that does a whole lot of things. For you live in Bethesda and can't get DSL. one, it gets your Mac to access the internet via both mo But ExpressNet really isn't all that bad. dem and cable simultaneously. Here is what I found out from CTVM (Cable TV Mont gomery): 3. Make sure your regular modem is working and con nected to a phone line. 1. They do not support the Macintosh. 2. They use a one-way cable set-up, uploads go out via 4. Using a splitter and extra cable wire, connect a line from modem and downloads come in on cable. your TV cable system to your cable modem. 3. There is software that can handle that on my Mac, but 5. Connect an Ethernet wire between the cable modem and 4. They do not support the Macintosh. your Mac Ethernet port. When you connect the power 5. If I could figure out how to get on myself they will be source to the cable modem it will initialize itself. glad to take my money,
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6. Install IPNetRouter. Don't open it yet. Again, choose "Configurations" from the File Menu and There are a lot of instructions that come with IPNetRouter make sure "IPNetRouter'' is hilited. and with the CTVM package. You can read it all if you want to, and I hope you will not get as confused as I did, Now duplicate it. (There is a Duplicate button.) but the following instructions below should be all you Now rename the duplicate "EtherRouter." really need. Click the Make Active button. You are back in the TCP /IP window. 7. Set up the Remote Access (or PPP) Control Panel, en tering the information given to you by ExpressNet. In the "Connect via" popup menu, select "Ethernet." In the "Configure" popup menu, select "Manually." Button: Registered User Name: the screen name you chose. In the "IP Address" box, type "10.0.0.1" Password: the password you chose. This is an example. The exact number is supplied in Save password -> check. page 2 of the ExpressNet instructions under "Add and Number: the phone number they gave you, 301.296.0001 Configure the TCP /IP Protocol." step 3d. This is an example. The exact phone number will be found in the ExpressNet instructions under "Add Dial In the "Subnet mask" box, type "255.255.255.240" Up Networking Connection", Step ld. This is an example. The exact number is also supplied in page 2 of the ExpressNet instructions under "Add and 8. Next, set up TCP /IP Control Panel. This is a little more Configure the TCP /IP Protocol." step 3d. complicated. The IPNetRouter instructions on the web The Router Address is left empty. give you a lot of information, which I found somewhat The Name server addr., according to ExpressNet: confusing. Here is the Reader's Digest version: 208.193.112.3 208.193.112.4 Open the TCP /IP Control Panel. Under the File menu, choose Configurations. I found this in the ExpressNet instructions under "Trouble The active configuration will be highlighted. (If not, se Shooting Tips" Step 5g on page 4. Check to see if your lect it. It is the one in the brackets in the title bar of the instructions are the same. TCP /IP window.) Click "Options" and click" Active." Be sure "Load only Rename it "IPNetRouter." (There is a Rename button.) when needed" is not checked. Then click "Okay." Make sure it is highlighted and click "Make Active." Close or Quit TCP /IP and save. Here is the way it should be configured: Connect via: PPP Now launch IPNetRouter. Configure: Using PPP Server IP Address:
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 39 I to figure out what I was doing wrong before I learned that resetting the modem is the very first thing to try if you are having trouble. ExpressNet does not support Click City Macintosh. However, there were friendly and helpful people who were very willing to do what they could. The Good, the Weird, One service technician didn't seem to even know what a Macintosh com and the Vague But True puter was. But, another, although hard to get hold of, runs a Mac at home, and helped me through several problems. Sharing by denizens of the Pi's Telecom http: I I members.aol.com I At one point, in order to get me munications System is by no means lim darlingal9 I ritz.html back on line, the technician had to fix a ited to matters technical: frivolity often problem by giving me a fixed address. runs high, as evidenced by the jambalaya a few Fishydances, not to mention I don't know what it means, but it of URLs contributed for the edification, frogs, lobsters, turtles worked. Keep that in mind just in case. entertainment, and sometimes bewilder http:/ /www.fishydance.com/ I made some comparisons be ment of all. Whatever the subject, some surfin.htm tween my cable connection through one on the TCS is sure to find it fascinat http:/ /www.angelfire.com/in/ ExpressNet and my wife's iMac con ing and be eager to share that enthusiasm mypics/frog.html nection through AOL. Downloads with others. One enterprising editor col http:/ /members.aol.com/ were very, very fast. A file that took lected a bunch ofthese contributions, and pinkbreez/ lobster.html nine minutes through AOL took 23 we offer them here for the delectation of http:/ /members.aol.com/ seconds through Expressnet, approxi all. Enjoy! darlingal9 I turtle.html mately 27 times faster. Surfing, however, is a little differ the Hampster Dance redone in a mi ent, it is faster, but not that much Crazy Dancin' Feet . .. nor key with a sour nonconformist faster. A great deal of time is wasted http: I /blackandcravey.com/ surfing when "waiting for reply". NLESS YOU have no web /hamster.html When you get a reply it comes in friends with e-mail ad quick. Large, complicated pages dresses, chances are you've at or with genetically altered hamsters, · download very fast. However, wait U least heard of the Hampster [sic] or hamsters in a shooting gallery ing for them to start loading seems to Dance http:/ I take about as long as with the AOL http://www.hampsterdance.com/ www.roadrunnerlOO.freeserve.co.uk/ connection. gmhamster I ausndgmdance.htm Surfing through the same path of As often happens on the Web, some http://www.newgrounds.com/ 32 links, with AOL it took 832 sec thing this silly just had to be (a) an assassin/hamster I onds, and with ExpressNet it took 345 overnight success and (b) imitated a seconds, not quite three times faster. zillion times over. There was the Jesus But none of them tops my new favor With AOL the average was 26 seconds Dance, and then a few others, and ite per jump, and with ExpressNet it was now they've become an art form of http:/ /www.startext.net/homes/ 11 seconds per jump. their own. There are web rings of chrisl/bunny.htm I spent an enormous amount of them, and collections, and
40 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 Christmas Recipes This site offers a narrative summary and key facts for http:/ /www.christmasrecipe.com/ each of the more than 750 special exhibitions held from 1941through1997. Gingerbread Lane http: I I www.nga.gov I past/ pastexhibits.htm http:/ /www.gingerbreadlane.com/ Cora: Computer Science Research Paper Search Vegetarian Visitors can conduct keyword searches over the partial http: I I members.tripod.com/vegholiday I index.html text of some 50,000 Postscript-formated computer science research papers. New Years http://www.cora.justresearch.com/ http:/ I food.epicurious.com/ e_eating/ e04_newyears/ main.html Translation Resources Glossary of cigar terms? Danish-Japanese dictionary? White House Recipes Collection of Cree language lessons? It's all here: an im http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP /First_Lady I pressive and actively maintained collection of tools for html/Recipes.html translation professionals. http:/ /www.xlation.com/
Turn of the Century Make the Dirt Fly! This overview of the creation of the Panama Canal is a NOAA's Top Weather, Water and Climate Events of the great online version of an exhibition at the Smithsonian 20th Century Institution libraries. http: I /www.noaanews.noaa.gov I stories/ s334.htm http:/ /www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Make-the-Dirt Fly I index.html Readings on the Millenium Whenever problem http: I I test.nasw.org/lists/nasw-talk/hyper I Web Tutorial index.html http:/ /www.zdnet.com/products/garage/html/ webpagelOl I Millenium in the Salt Lake City Tribune http:/ /www.sltrib.com/1999/Dec/12301999/ Basics of HTML nation_w /13830.htm http:/ I www.cnet.com/ Content/Features/Howto /Ba sics I ssOl .html
Arts and Sciences Eight Minute Primer http:/ /web66.coled.umn.edu/Cookbook/Win95/ Grim Grimm Stories HTML/MinutePrimer.html National Geographic presents this site that will read you a bedtime story, although these unexpurgated Grimm Introduction to HTML Brother's Fairy Tales from a 1914 translation are not ex By Eric Meyer at Case Western Reserve University actly soothing. The twelve tales here are full of wicked step http://wwwcwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html mothers, hungry wolves, bewitched wild beasts, and all manner of spells and curses. [You'll need RealPlayer for Tutorial for Frontpage and Powerpoint this.] http:/ /www.microsoft.com/ education/kl2/learn.htm http: I /www.nationalgeographic.com/ grimm/ Internet Detective Tutorial on using the web Sea Slug Forum http:/ I sosig.ac.uk/ desire/ internet-detective.html From the Australian Museum the recently redesigned Sea Slug Forum (maintained by Dr. Bill Rudman) offers Used books information on nudibranchs and related sea slugs such as http: I I www.bibliofind.com bubble-shells, sea hares, and side-gilled slugs. http: I I www.austmus.gov.au/ seaslugs/ GravenStein Apple Users Group Humor Magazine .http: I /www.iscweb.com/ gsaug/Editors/ National Gallery of Art Past Exhibitions NL.Humor.pdf
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Internet Resources Newsletter The December 1999 issue of Internet Re sources Newsletter, the free Web resource for academics, students, engineers, scien tists, and social scientists Learning to Network http:/ /www.hw.ac.uk/libwww /irn/ irn63 I irn63.html With the AirPort Clip Art Review By Edgar Durbin http://www.webplaces.com/html/ clipart.htm 'M NOT sure how this started. I was probably stampeded by the great American Christmas Buying Rush, but there was also the more Biblical Resources I specific Apple iBook marketing effort and multiple newspaper and For scholars and students in religious magazine articles about instant Internet access via DSL. There were also studies, an all-in-one resource site, designed days when I woke up to the 6 AM radio news and heard about something and maintained by Dr. Mark Goodacre of that wasn't covered in the newspapers we read later at the breakfast table. the University of Birmingham, creator of Finally, almost no news was available in any newspaper about the the New Testament Gateway. America's Cup Trials, while there is an excellent web site on that event http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/ (www.louisvuittoncup.com). goodacre/ multibib.htm As a result of all this, in December instead of buying Christmas pre sents for anyone else, I was buying an iBook and an AirPort for me. I American Mile Markers visited one local store, but they didn't have the AirPort, and the iBooks Photographer Matt Frondorf spent six they had came only with Mac OS 8.6. By ordering online from days driving across the country from New www.apple.com, I got the iBook, the AirPort, and Mac OS 9. I selected York City to San Francisco with a camera the cheapest shipping method, and waited a little more than a week for hooked to his car's odometer, automatically UPS to deliver my two packages. snapping a picture from the passenger side After unpacking the equipment, the first capability I wanted was to every mile along the way, totaling 3,304 access the Internet from the breakfast table or from anywhere else in the photos. house. Then I would try to access files off my Quadra 800 upstairs from http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/ the iBook. Instant Internet access via DSL was postponed until a later features/ onTheRoad/home/index.shtml time. First I had to make the iBook and AirPort work. I made a list of my TCS Explorer settings, reading values off the PPP Salty and Wet and TCP /IP control panels and off the browser preferences on my Quadra Try these three links for everything you 800 (See chart next page). ever dreamed of wanting to know about the With these data in hand, I plugged a phone line into the iBook and oceans, and for a wonderful collection of launched the Internet Setup Assistant on the iBook. The Assistant enters photographs you can grab (all in the public data in the right places in Remote Access (the Mac OS 9 dialup software domain) and use, as long as you credit that has replaced FreePPP and PPP) and in TCP /IP. You can't count on NOAA. your browser getting the right settings though, since the manufacturers http:/ /www.education.noaa.gov I of the browsers want you to go to their corporate sites. You may have to http:/ /www.photolib.noaa.gov I manually set your home page, news and search preferences; otherwise http:/ /www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov I they will be set to some Apple, Microsoft or Netscape corporate addresses. pgalleryI pgallery.html After running Internet Setup Assistant, and successfully connecting to TCS Explorer, I was ready to set up the AirPort, using the AirPort Setup And, for your shopping pleasure, we offer Assistant. http: I I www.mvpstore.com/ catalog/ I disconnected the phone line from the iBook and plugged it into the Product.asp?PXC=l&PXS=4&PXP=589 RJ-11 jack on the AirPort Base Station. I plugged in the power cord from the AirPort power brick, then launched AirPort Setup Assistant, which where you will find a set of three action took my Internet settings from Remote Access and TCP /IP and entered figures. And who are these three plastic su them into the AirPort modem settings. I was prompted to enter a name permen? (All male?) They're Microsoft Net and a password for a "network," meaning the AirPort Base Station. I work Professionals! Get a set of three for named mine Dulles. When the Setup Assistant finished, it connected to $5.00. • the Internet. When I started my browser, it connected to TCS Explorer. To
42 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 word (for called AirPort, can be started off the PPP settings Dulles, not Control Strip, to monitor signal Name first.last [Suubstitute for the strength at the iBook from the Base your first and last names] TCS), and Station. after giving My next job was to connect my Password [Can leave ablank or fill in] it there is a Quadra 800 to the AirPort net 30-second work. I had to buy a Farallon Number 1-301-984-4980 [For non delay, while AAUI adaptor, since the Ethernet Marylanders] the Base port on the Quadra is not an RJ- Station mo 45, such as the Base Station and the Use protocol PPP dem con iBook have. The adapter comes nects to with an Ethernet patch cable, but Connect automatically when wap.org.At I also had to buy a crossover cable, launching a TCP/IP application Yes this point, I which is something different. They can launch are made of the same sort of wire Allow error checking and m y and have the same RJ-45 plugs, but compression on modem Yes browser have different pin connections, as and go explained at http:// Use TCP header compression Yes about my www.farallon.com I support I business. technotes/gen/TEC 012.html. You Connect via command line host No I can read the pros and cons of cross can leave over cables on the TCS Conference TCP/IP settings AirPort On 3 Board 2 and in a good article on Connect via PPP all the time, the Electric Pi at http:// Configure Using PPP Server eliminating www.wap.org/journal I one of these networkingmadesimple.html. The Name server address 205.177.49.200 steps, but alternative is to use patch cables 205.177 .25.9 without from the Base Station and from the writing a AAUI adapter to an Ethernet hub. Browser settings script the Not having a hub (yet) I plugged Home page http:Uwww.wap.org/explorerhome.html process to the crossover cable into the Base Sta Incoming (POP) mail server mailroom.wap.org connect to tion. I opened the TCP /IP control the Internet panel on the Quadra and from the Outgoing (SMTP} mail server smtp. wap.org is a couple File menu selected Configurations. of steps I duplicated a configuration, then re News server news.wap.org longer than named it Dulles. Then I made Dulles connecting the active configuration, and from via my the Dulles window I selected Con shut down, you just close the iBook, Quadra 800 modem, since on the nect via: Ethernet and Configure: and it goes to sleep. The default set older machine I just launch the Using DHCP Server. I then closed ting is to disconnect after 10 minutes browser and the connection is made the window and saved this new con of inactivity. automatically by PPP. The extra step figuration. As long as I have con Waking up the iBook takes about in the AirPort process provides pass nected to Dulles with the iBook, 20 seconds. (It takes 3 minutes for my word security, so that anyone with an when I launch a browser on the Quadra to turn on.) Though the desk AirPort card in their laptop cannot Quadra, it shares the connection to top appears, if you click on the Con connect to my network. No, I don't wap.org with the iBook. That is, I can trol Strip or try to launch an applica believe there is another AirPort laptop browse at the same time from the tion, there is not an immediate re within 150 feet of my Base Station, but iBook or the Quadra. I don't claim sponse. I just click on the Control Strip if there were ... Transmissions between this is often useful, but I can. and wait for it to spring open. I then my iBook and the Base Station are The more pressing reason for click on the red AirPort icon on the encrypted by default. This and other plugging the Quadra into the Base Control Strip, and when it opens, I settings made by the Setup Assistant Station is to allow me to pass files turn the AirPort On and then select can be changed manually, using between the iBook and Quadra. Cur Dulles. I am prompted for my pass- AirPort Utility. Another application, rently, I have no USB devices, so the
March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 43 I only routes into the iBook are via e-mail or file sharing via AirPort (or web sharing, perhaps, but I haven' t investigated that yet). So far, I've found file sharing to be cumbersome. First, I must open the AppleTalk control panel on the Quadra and select Connect via: Ethernet. That breaks the connection Because It's There: to my Hewlett Packard LaserJet printer, which is inconve nient. On the iBook in AppleTalk I select Connect via: AirPort . Linux on Virtual PC No problem there. Back on the Quadra, in the File Sharing control panel I tum File Sharing On and designate the fold © 2000 Washington Apple Pi Labs ers or disks to share, allow guest sharing, enter user names, passwords, etc. Then on the iBook I launch Chooser, select Apple Share in the left side, and click on the folder or disk on the ASHINGTON Apple Pi Labs has always en Quadra that I have designated to be shareable. I am prompted oyed challenges. From the very beginning, when for usemame and password, or enter guest, and finally the ever that was, we strove to do the impossible, folder or disk icon appears on the iBook desktop. W the improbable, and sometimes the clearly silly. When The iBook was my introduction to Sherlock, since I have we first got our hands on a gigabyte hard drive, for ex been running Mac OS 8.1 on my Quadra. I have been very ample, we immediately plugged it into a Macintosh IIfx pleased with this application, which resides on my iBook and (at that time, the file server for the Pi's bulletin board, accesses search engines that have supplied plug-ins to oper the TCS), and set virtual memory to a full billion bytes. ate with it. You can select whether or not to search at Alta Then, flush with all this imitation memory, we launched, Vista, Excite, c I Net, Direct Hit, GoTo, HotBot, Infoseek, simultaneously, every single application we could find, LookSmart, and Lycos search engines. Other sites are build even going so far as to install an extra 20 or 30 so we ing Sherlock plugins, which you will be able to download to could have them all running at once. lengthen this list. Sherlock retrieves and lists pages found by It was grand and glorious, a prime example of con those web search engines, in relevance order. A preview win spicuous computing. It was also painfully slow and, dow shows a few lines of information about the selected docu admittedly, without a readily identifiable purpose, par ment. You can drag a document from the Sherlock window ticularly when we ran out of applications before using and drop it into your browser window, to see the whole page. up more than a third of the memory. So: why? The beauty of Sherlock is that you mostly bypass the ads Why would anyone in their right mind want to in- that fill up your screen if you use the search engines your self. There is a small window below the preview window 8 with ads, presumably from the search engine whose docu ment is currently selected. Again, your iBook comes with some Microsoft bias built in, so if you just double click on a b b ..,,... _...,._...,,., EIJI document in the Sherlock window, you are apt to launch '"'~ ... ~•·JO ,., ~ ,..,... Explorer, even if you already have launched Netscape. ""''•-.! '"° i ll •)'4 $-a)O "'' .._... , I a1'j t 11\o\Q V '4 ... Other software that came with the iBook is AppleWorks, I «)i m ""1 which is a pleasant surprise. I hadn't counted on that, but it '(0"
.. ",,'~ is nice to have something besides Microsoft apps, whose com "' plexity I have to cope with at work. So far, all I've tried is the word processor. I could wish for tables, but I don't plan to even try to move Word and Excel onto the iBook. The iBook screen has fewer pixels than I am used to, 800x600 vice the 1152x870 on the monitor I use with my Bo•• Quadra. That's half as many pixels. The iBook also is not as fast as I'd expected. The Quadra has a 33 MHz 68040 proces sor, while the iBook has a 300 MHz G3 processor. It doesn't seem 10 times faster, though, and there are delays, perhaps The advanced partitioning options of the OpenLin11x 2.3 in while it is waking up or reconnecting. staller were used to create several partitions in Virtual PC I guess the next thing to do is to buy an Ethernet hub and 3.0. This is not for the faint of heart (and, in fact, this parti adapters to connect my printers to Ethernet, so that all my tioning attempt proved to be unsuccessful). Note the Virtual computers can send them jobs directly, without file sharing. PC icons at the bottom of the screen, used for changing the That is for another article, though. • screen size and accessing various types of media.
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a packaged" versions of Linux. So on a frozen January morn ing, with the entire East Coast shut down by a surprise blizzard, Washington Apple Pi Labs attempted something S1u11 you probably don't want to ever do yourself.
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ftul°""llC: l""'l•ll l.Dodl"9 default oodill.,; · Plug'• rl•!I ....ugu,..llo. ••.••••••••••••.•••• !:OU~------···•·•····· ·· · · ······· ·· ····· · tulip .•••.•••••• . •.•••..•••••••.••••.••..•••• ,...,.,..t _ toul....,I ••••••• • •• • • • •••••• • ••.•••••• ' ' ···················· ...... During the installation process, the installer checks out the (emu "'•'""" ~l"" Clleclhlg I llC-S!f'l""'°,...,,.,...uoc ••••••••••••••••· • ••••••• lated) hardware to see what "devices" are available. A device, in "IMUrt 1119 loco I fllC- "It was grand and glorious, a prime example of conspicuous computing. It was also pain fully slow and, admittedly, without a readily identifiable purpose, particularly when we ran out of applications before using up more Once Linux has initialized and you've signed on, you have the than a third of the memory. So: why?" option of opening up a terminal window (tty console) and try ing out the famou s, easy to understand UNIX CU (command line interface). Marc h I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 45 8 Pentium computer. Next, the default Windows operating system was blown away. Next, the Linux installer applica tion was fired up from CD-ROM, and Linux was installed. Caldera· And installed. And installed. (It takes a while.) caldera OpenLlnux [rzeman-vpc] Many hours later, we had reached a conclusion: yes, you can run Virtual PC 3.0 and, within Virtual PC, fully install and operate Linux. If you wish, you can even run l'I one of the Windows-like graphical interfaces to Linux on your emulated Pentium running on your Power Macintosh, .. complete with network services. Of course, it redefines the ~ :: '"·· ----~ word "slow," but it does work. It is also a safer way to spend your time than climbing nearly six miles into the sky without oxygen. Why do this? Because it's there. • 8:26 Every time you boot, you are presented with a graphical dialog box asking for name and password. Note the pop-up menu in the lower left offering you a choice ofint erface types. If you select KDE (which stands for "K Desktop Environment") when you first log in, you are presented with this cheery graphi cal user interface, patterned after the browser mode ofMicrosoft Windows 98. Thu s, after hours of work, you can stand proud, knowing that you have a UNIX emulation of Windows 98 run ning on an emulated PC running on a Macintosh. The "K" in KDE, by the way, apparently stands for nothing other than the letter between "]" and "L." While not directly related to this project, this window shows a "good use" for a Linux machine: CD-ROMs saved as Linux disk images, mounted under Linux and shared over a network via netatalk so they can appear - and be used - on a Macintosh desktop. 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Purge Temporary File ...... Public Library ...... Prompt Character backwards-compatible with your ex isting configurations. Feel free to tweak your settings if you'd like, or not. Either way, have fun! I;+ I Best of the TCS [Somewhat later, a typically informative exchange took place on an all-too-famil compiled and edited by John Ludwigson iar topic: "can't connect".] Pi-ster 1: Might the authentication Under the Hood, or autosensing to work, and you can server be whacked again? The mo minimize it by switching from the dems answer and connect, but "au What Makes the TCS connection script to PPP authoriza thentication failed" is where things Run .... tion.) If this paragraph doesn't make end. (as of 4:41 PM, Tuesday, Decem Poke a Penguin and, often, out pours all complete sense to you already, my ber 14, 1999) I'll check some more sorts offtm and useful information about advice is that you continue with your here, but if history is a guide.... how things work. At the Pi, the inner working system as is and only maybe Sorry about the bad news! most sanctum is the TCS room, or closet return to the issue the next time you as it is sometimes irreverently (but accu reinstall Mac OS. There's no shame in Pi-ster 2: Same problem: 12/14/1999 rately) known. Within its air-conditioned sticking with what works. @5:02PM confines, the Penguin crew labors might ily to head off potential problems and solve Improvement Two: E-mail Ad Pi-ster 3: Same problem here, I sup those that pop up and bite us. Here's a dresses-We're going to go ahead and pose, although I was on a Windows peek behind the veil. First, the news .... drop the "tcs" from our e-mail ad machine and anything is possible. I dresses, and let everyone use ran the script, was told it was "veri fying user name and password," and ENGUIN Alpha: To avoid "@wap.org" if they're so inclined. then received the message "unable to sudden support headaches, this "@tcs.wap.org" will continue to work, establish a connection." announcement is going out here so you don't need to run out and no P tify all your correspondents. But we first for those of you who stay tuned Pi-ster 4: Probably the same problem in. We've been able to change a couple just like the shorter addresses, they' re but with the AirPort I am working things about TCS Explorer to make easier to remember, and the reasons blind. 12/14/99@ 6:11pm. them easier to use, without requiring for keeping tcs.wap.org separate be any changes for those of you who are hind the scenes are no longer signifi Penguin Alpha > Might the authen already up and running. cant. tication server be whacked again? Improvement One: The PPP Connec Any mail sent to you @wap.org now Actually the authentication server tion Process-The dial-up equipment shows up the exact same place as arty hasn't been whacked for quite some can now autosense PPP vs command mail sent to you @tcs.wap.org, and time now. In case it gets confused, it line calls, and we've configured it to you pick it up the same way. No dif quits, and a watchdog process picks do so. This means you can optionally ferences. it up within a few seconds and gets tum off "connect to a command-line authentication up and running again. host" in your PPP (or Remote Access) If you decide to take advantage of (Plus it maintains a log file of this be settings. And new members no longer your "@wap.org" address in your own e-mail program, the only change havior, and it sends me an immediate have to be walked through locating e-mail notification.) and importing the connection script. you should make is in the "Return Address" field. All other settings - However, for the dial-up controller to If you decide to switch off "connect SMTP and POP servers, POP ac see the authentication server (or for to a command-line host" in the con counts ... they shouldn't change. the rest of the world to see wap.org trol panel, you might be able to shave in general), the firewall has to be up off as much as a second or two of the Reiteration: Nothing Needs Done On Your Side-These are two simple us and alert and routing packets to the process of connecting to TCS Explorer. right places. Every now and again our (There's a brief delay in order for ability improvements that we think people will enjoy, but they're both firewall is getting overwhelmed and 52 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 I confused, and requiring attention. don't help explain what's going on, is cleared, so that anything chicken and as they age in the system they littlish now says "[see msg #NNNN In nearly all cases, when this has hap drown out the explanations and ac for the solution]" at the end? Some pened it's caused sporadic behavior tually cause confusion - but for that people have trouble following mes - some large percentage of packets period of time (an hour? several?) be sage threads, so Examine Replies isn't (maybe 40% or so) get dropped. fore I get things under control I un going to find their answer. Things keep running, in general, but derstand that they provide comfort to sometimes it takes several calls before interested persons in an "it's not just I know, what a grouch. :} But these are dial-up goes through completely. And me" sorta way. Makes sense. Still, the things that go through my mind DNS lookup can take extra long, and then they sit there - and some 60%, while driving from state to state to web pages come up with most of their 80%, whatever of the people who read deal with issues like this. I thought I'd images missing, that sorta thing - them are not affected by the problem, at least let people know the patterns I large scale but not complete packet see, and ask for understanding. loss. It took me a while to experiment with this (it doesn't happen often Pi-ster 5: >I don't know what to pro enough to be able to really try the "I am interested in pose about this other than to thank the sorts of things I'd want to try to iso person who first points out something late the trigger circumstances), but getting a cable mo I've gotten to where I can now catch dem, once they are this problem soon after it happens, Don't know or understand all the and restart the firewall from home. available in my area. I magic you perform to accomplish was wondering, what you do on the TCS but, since in This time around the circumstances one instance you're able to generate a were new. The firewall had com however, what kind of email notification of a problem, is it pletely frozen, with the test light on. security issues there possible to have a automatic TCS No response to anyone, either from posting be generated and posted on here or presumably from home. This are (if any). Would I this Board? It could say something is a behavior we'd thankfully not yet need to do something like "A problem occurred with the ever seen. widget Mac and interrupted email along the lines of service, it has now been resolved." And somewhat to my embarrass establishing a ment, it must've happened just before Penguin Alpha:> Don't know or un I walked out the door to the Pi office. firewall? And how derstand all the magic you perform I showed up at 3:30 to meet with would I do this?" to accomplish .... someone and help with a non-TCS project, and that person wasn't here. Not a bad thought, but I'm unclear on So I checked the boards for anything what we'd gain from the work. Once requiring my attention, and then I I have enough data on a problem to stepped out for dinner and a bit of and thus they see the opposite effect: be able to catch it while it's happen shopping. When I got back at 5:45 I "maybe there's something wrong that ing and trigger an automatic correc got your message, investigated, and I'm not seeing". And "maybe that's tion, the problem no longer affects got things working just before 6pm. responsible for the 404 errors I keep TCS Explorers. Every ISP does this: March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 53 ing a message there saying "I see it - RADIUS recovered from crash at Thu of it, is more WATFIV FORTRAN than gimme half an hour to get to Rockville Dec 916:07:58EST1999 BASIC. Be sure to stack your punch and see what I can surmise." But in cards neatly. general when a problem requires that So, whenever possible I prefer to fo kind of attention, there's no way for cus my attention on making problems Wiz: >It's 1963 and I need to know me to post a notice and no way for not happen in the first place. If that the FORM of the gosub statement in you to receive it until it's all past tense. isn't possible, or doesn't yet seem BASIC. In general, I think I've been pretty possible given the available informa good at explaining the past tense stuff. tion, I aim toward prompt notification BASIC was 1970, wasn't it? And I'm of the authorities (usually me) for the not sure what you mean by "FORM" If what you're asking is merely a cu dual purposes of data collection and but the exact syntax will vary by dia riosity issue, I can show you the com rapid recovery. lect. For example, Applesoft BASIC plete set of logs from when the RA and Apple Integer BASIC are both DIUS authorization/ authentication I see value in spelling out what's hap strictly line-numbered dialects. So a server process has crashed. I caution pening, including big picture context GOSUB statement has a single nu you again: this log's only valid use is and small picture experiments, and in meric argument which is evaluated as in looking for patterns. Off-the-shelf answering people's many follow-up the line number of the next statement software fails sometimes, and this log questions and suggestions. But when to be executed. shows us only the automatic correc it gets down to it, it's better to do these tions thereof. (The watchdog process things during times when there isn't In Applesoft BASIC this argument checks once a minute to see if RA an immediate crisis demanding my must be a constant number (go DIUS is running, and corrects it and attention. And of course, when there Microsoft), so the statement takes the logs a message when it's not.) isn't an immediate crisis, I also like to form "GOSUB 50" or similar. In the focus my attention on new develop earlier Integer BASIC it's the result of RADIUS recovered from crash at Mon ments and forward-looking changes a numeric expression, so it can be Oct 11 03:57:00 EDT 1999 - both as a personal preference and something like "GOSUB A* 1000" RADIUS recovered from crash at Wed as my hunch as to what's better for and evaluate to 1000, 2000, 3000 ... Oct 2019:57:01EDT1999 the Pi in the long run. RADIUS recovered from crash at Thu More recent dialects encourage the Oct 21 05:01:00 EDT 1999 GOSUB use of alphanumeric labels in addition RADIUS recovered from crash at Fri Among those who worship at the Church to or in lieu of line numbers. So the Oct 2910:41:00EDT1999.... 54 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 RETURN without GOSUB in line 40 after the GOSUB, try inserting "25 Oops, you're right. end". I think my question should have been: 10 input a,b How does the subroutine know what >How does the subroutine know 20 gosub 30 the input and output variables are? 30 c=a/b 40 return Puzzler to Wiz: I see by our date 50 print a,b,c stamps that I sent my message 00:01:24 after you sent yours (on the "If you set up a net Does that mean it did line 30 twice? rash assumption that the clocks are work in your office, synchronized). My reply to I have a feeling I'm remembering (Greybeard) shows what I really you presumably know pieces of PLI and Fortran and trying wanted to know rather than what I everyone else on the to put them into BASIC, but thanks. asked. Thanks. network. They, pre Wiz: >Does that mean it did line 30 Please excuse the "1963!" I picked a sumably, share the twice? number out of a Recycle Bin (if you'll excuse the expression). same goals you do: I suspect it did. Again, I don't know success of your orga- what interpreter/ compiler you're us Puzzler: Or this one: ing, so I can't comment on its specific nization. (If they dialect. > 10 input a,b don't, they should >20 gosub40 > I have a feeling I'm remembering >30 print a,b,c become _former_ pieces of PLI and Fortran.... >40c=a/b coworkers.)" >50retum Wow! Beats me - I've never written a >run PL/l program, though I've had to ? 2,3 look through a couple to figure out 2 3 0.666667 why a server wasn't cooperating with RETURN without GOSUB in line 50 what the input and output variables some C libraries I was working on. are? Fortran's a little more familiar... but Wiz: >Please excuse the "1963!" I just a little. :} picked a number out of a Recycle Bin Traditionally, BASIC doesn't have lo cal variables. If A and B change val I started with BASIC on my own, Don't worry about that, I was just test ues in the middle of the subroutine, which seemed to be pretty much the ing my own knowledge. (The scary then return to the main program, A standard approach at the time. I was part is that I have a strong hunch and B in the main program will have taught Pascal in high school, picked BASIC was invented at Dartmouth in changed as well. (They're exactly the up assembler and C both somewhere 1970, only I have absolutely no idea same A and B, throughout the entire thereafter, then was taught C++ in why I think that, and I wasn't even program.) college. (Not counting the course that born then.) taught me Lisp, ML, and a bunch of Some of the newer dialects, those other theory languages I can't remem >Here's a (really) simple BASIC pro which support labeled procedures ber at all.) I still work with Applesoft gram. What's wrong? rather than straight line numbers, do BASIC on the TCS all the time, but boy support the concept of local variables, does Pascal look really foreign to me Trace through it, step by step. First passed parameters, and other manner nowadays ... you visit 10, then 20, which gosubs to of context and scope. I don't know the 30, then continues to 40, -then retums syntax of any of those dialects - Puzzler: Thanks for your comments. to complete the gosub on line 20, con they're all nonstandard extensions, tinues onward to 30, then to 40, then indispensably useful as they are ... I finally got my BASIC program to hits a second RETURN without a cor work the way I wanted - without responding second GOSUB, hence the Puzzler: >Trace through it, step by gosubs! - but with several for-next error. If you want the program to stop step .... statements. The program calculates March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 55 I the frame in a second video corre magazine, describing the program. Wizzer: >can the iBook connect to the sponding to one in a first video. A pair But he was so intent on writing, and Internet via the DSL modem .... of frames in the first video (live ac finishing, a program to automate tion) is known to match a pair in the keeping track of scores in his bowl These two angles are explicitly cov second (my animation). I pick an inter ing league that he let a half million ered in Apple's literature - yes you mediate frame in the first; the program dollars in sales accumulate in mail can do it. (There was some concern calculates the corresponding frame in bags in a spare bedroom. Learning early on that AppleTalk support the second. The frame times have to be how to solve some problems in his wouldn't make it into final release, converted from seconds:frame to bowling program was -why wasn't but apparently that's been resolved.) integer+decimal seconds for the inter this clear to EVERYONE!?! -way, way Your iBook is a full peer of your home polation and back again. more important than cashing those LAN, whether or not your LAN hap checks and making money. pens to contain a DSL bridge or router. . But, as someone on the TCS com mented in a similar situation, I could Online? Maybe! The part that I've been most interested have calculated all the intermediate (DSLs & Hackers ... ) in is whether this arrangement would frames I needed faster with a hand fast, Fast, Faster, FASTER ! ! Once mo allow the Hardware Access Point calculator than the time it took me to dems ran at 1200 baud (an arcane term ("Base Station") to provide shared get the BASIC program working! But, nobody could define), then 2400, then Internet access to the Quadra on that's not the point! 9600, 14,400, 28,000, ... 56,000 (sorta). ethernet. This one hasn't been explic Then things got out of hand: people dis itly covered in any documentation More than you wanted to know! covered digital subscriber lines (DSL), the I've seen online, and it might have to proper use of cable TV's coaxial cables, be answered in two parts: 1) when Wiz 2: You may have missed Wiz l's and lusted after optical fibers with using the built-in modem for dial-up point about the "END" line at the end throughput measured in Mega ... no, Internet, and 2) when using the built of the main program. Put your sub Giga ... no, Tera bytes per second! Here in ethernet for DSL or cable routing. routines after the END. At the end of with some first person accounts from the There's a success story for the first of each subroutine, put a RETURN. front lines of the information superhigh these on MaclnTouch, and the second way. may vary from service to service (be As your program encounters a cause both internal and external traf "GOSUB nnn" (presumably nnn will Enthusius: I want to have it all: an fic are using the same wire, and some be after the END) it will transfer con iBook, an AirPort, a DSL modem, and cable and DSL hookups are less than trol to line nnn (keeping a copy of the an ethernet network to which my gracious in this setup). line number with GOSUB). When a Quadra 800 connects. Is this feasible? RETURN is encountered, it goes back All the literature that I've read on If you don't care about Internet access to the line after the GOSUB. Your sub AirPort and iBook and DSL talks for the Quadra, you're golden - this routines may call other subroutines. about connecting the DSL modem to will work splendidly. If you do, and the ethemet port on AirPort and plug you have the means, I'd recommend Wiz 1: >More than you wanted to ging the phone line into the other port using a different means of sharing the know! on the DSL modem. This appears to connection. Specifically, plug the DSL leave no way to connect my Quadra bridge into a firewall or NAT router No, it sure wasn't- I've been eager 800. I'd like to have both a wireless (I recommend the SonicWall/10 as to hear where you were going with connection between the iBook and the reviewed in the Pi Journal a couple this! And as I've come to expect, I DSL ISP and access to the files on the months ago}, plug your hub into the wasn't disappointed ... Q800 for the iBook. I doubt that any private side of the firewall, and plug one is making wireless cards or an the Quadra and the Base Station into Greybeard: >But, that's not the point! tennas for Q800. If I connect the the hub. That way both your wireless AirPort ethernet port, the DSL mo and terrestrial traffic are protected Absolutely! dem, and the ethernet port on my from the raw DSL hookup. (He says, Q800 to an ethernet hub, will it work? looking at his own home firewall and True story: the guy who developed I.e. can the iBook connect to the seeing that some cornball keeps try dBASE (the first true programmable Internet via the DSL modem and can ing to contact his machines with mass-market relational database, back the iBook share files with the Q800? BackOrifice and PC Anywhere ... ) in the late 1970s) ran_one_ad in Byte 56 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 I And yes, I do realize I'm speaking gib to me or to my ISP. (And one could berish.:} " 'Encrypted' is a nice, substitute in a Quadra with two nebulous word. When ethernet cards and LocalTalk, run Enthusius: Many, many thanks. I'll IPNetRouter and LocalTalk Bridge, look into the solution you propose. you use Stuffit to and thus serve the same core func Sounds like this might give me some compress a file, you tions of the two devices I've men experience in Internet security that tioned above using one box.) Just so will be useful. are encrypting it. long as the only traffic going across Unfortunately, EVERY that last wire to the DSL bridge is in Webster: Haven't done too much re tended for public consumption - be search on this . . . but I think if the ONE ON YOUR cause it's going for a ride. DSL modem is also doing the routing SUBNET has the of packets for you then you can use Analysis-Now, a quick glance at the the Airport only for wireless stuff and SAME equipment to AirPort Base Station tells us that it not for the other features. The other decrypt your packets. only has that one single ethemet port. CPUs can be hooked up to the It can (still unconfirmed) happily per ethemet hub and (assuming File Shar So don't count on this. form address translation and routing ing is properly enabled on the 8600) For anything." between A) ethemet, B) wireless, and the iBook can log on to it. C) modem in any direction - but it can't isolate the personal traffic using Wizzer: >I think if the DSL modem is the private addresses from the public also doing the routing of packets for cally-assigned and often changing. traffic using the public address. At you then you can use the Airport only least not for any devices connected to for wireless stuff and not for the other Case Study-On my home network, the same ethemet LAN. That is, the features. as of a few days ago, I now have a DSL Base Station can act like IPNetRouter bridge. Attached to that bridge I have does with a single ethemet port, but Distinction-You can set up an ad a SonicWall/10, which is further con it can't act like IPNetRouter does with dress translating router on a single nected to an ethemet hub. Also on that multiple ethemet ports. Stands to rea segment, and you'll have packets go hub are several Macs of various vin son, port by port. ing across your LAN using both pub tage and a LocalTalk<-> Ethernet lic and private addresses. You may bridge. That LT<->ENbridge, signifi So it's likely you -can- use the Base have seen discussion of this in the cantly, also serves as a MacIP gateway. Station as your NAT [network ad IPNetRouter documentation: the result (I finally got that FastPath 5 working dress translation] router, but if you do is less secure, and less efficient with correctly, and I've retired the you won't do so as discreetly or as ethemet bandwidth, as each packet is PowerBook that was performing this securely as you would with a split effectively repeated back onto the line task.) What's a MacIP gateway? Well, network. You'd still want to look into with its addresses modified. for these purposes it's very similar to a firewall, or at least a two-port router an AirPort Base Station: it actually which is configured to only pass traf Now, if your DSL device is in fact a routes packets back and forth between fic back and forth for the one public router, it'll ignore all those packets ethemet and another medium, in this address that the Base Station uses to using private addresses, and it'll di case LocalTalk instead of wireless. talk to your ISP. rect only the public ones out the DSL. This will be the case most often in The key point here is that I can have Extra Credit-And for today's brain business lines with blocks of ad some pretty complex routing going teaser, consider this: that two-port dresses. on, and assign addresses however I router that you'd need for solving this wish across different network seg conundrum could in fact be another If your DSL device is merely a bridge, ments, while each bridge or router AirPort Base Station! How could this it'll indiscriminately shuffle traffic device handles the translations from be? The answer is written between the forward and back - as an extension one place to the other. Because only numerals below. of your home network into your ISP' s. packets intended for the public net This will be the case most often in resi work are showing up on the wire be 112t3 4t5a617k8s9 Otlo2 3t4h5e6 dential lines with just one or maybe a tween the firewall and the DSL 708S9LO 1v2i3a45e6t7h8e9r0nle2t handful of addresses, usually dynami- bridge, this doesn't cause any alarm 314t5 6t7a819k0sl 2t3o4 5t6h7e8 March / April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 57 I 9LOA1N2 3v4i5a6 7r8a9d0ilo channel with outgoing nonsense, in Secondly, would you have been af which case the denial of service affects fected? Let's look at the first one. Weird, huh? Cheers! you directly. None of the available devices or soft ware we've been discussing would Webster 2: I've been discussing this The other, unconfirmed but plausible, have blocked the amplification attack with my wife. She wants a laptop next could be used by someone to freeze up on its own. Not the SonicWall at one year and to be able to surf from the your Mac while you're connected to the extreme, and not IPNetRouter or a living room. I was thinking to put Internet. Both will be addressed in right Linux-based firewall at the other ex AirPort cards in the G4 (to be bought) and proper form with the next upcom treme. The fix needs to come from the and laptop, get the firewall unit that ing official update to Mac OS 9. affected systems themselves. the TCS uses (name slips my grasp for the moment}, and use that to share the The reason I bring this up is to dis Let's look at the second one. Any one IP address I get from Bell Atlan cuss the discovery of these weak firewall or address-translating router tic. The Firewall will sit between the nesses, as they hit the major Mac and will protect you from this by default. ADSL modem and the ethemet hub. Internet news sites at the same time But direct connections via modem, right around New Year's Day Y2K. If DSL, or cable modem will not. Not Another solution would be to put you're the network administrator for until Apple releases an official fix, that routing software on the G4 (assum your office, you should probably have is, and I hope they take enough time ing that it will route between the heard about these through CERT, or to address both issues and cause no Ethernet network and AirPort) but BugTraq, or Slashdot or something as new ones. that would not provide me with the part of your ongoing security aware firewall I would want if my G4 had ness. If you're at home using a Mac Note, by the way, that if you're using to be on all of the time so she could and a PPP, DSL, or cable connection IPNetRouter or similar on an affected use the laptop without going up 3 to the Internet then your situation is system then IPNetRouter won't be able flights to tum on the G4. probably a little different. Might your to help you from that. It'll protect only system or network be affected? How the private systems on the inside, but Wizzer: There've been two recent is should you respond to this news? the router system itself remains ex sues crop up with Open Transport posed to the elements. And if someone 2.5.2 (as it appears in Mac OS 9) and Well, first of all, Apple quickly pro can crash your IPNetRouter system, with Open Transport 2.5.1 (as it ap duced a fix for the first weakness, so then that denies service to the private pears in the special preinstalled ver the appropriate thing to do is to read systems behind it. sion of Mac OS 8.6 on iBooks, G4' s the accompanying nontechnical Read and such). Me and install the extension on any Enthusius II: I am interested in get of your Macs that run one of the af ting a cable modem, once they are One, confirmed by Apple and fected systems. (As a sidebar, there's available in my area. I was wonder promptly addressed by a some evidence and much speculation ing, however, what kind of security downloadable extension file 58 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 I $400, although competitors have re stalled Linux, discovered it isn't' good cently been advertised at $200 or so. for anything (not much productivity "Some versions of software or games) _except_ hacking, Mac OS, and most Webster 4: >I was wondering, how and Pandora's box is opened. ever, what kind of security issues versions of Win there are .... Macintosh users running System 7.X dows, can be through Mac OS 9.X are quite secure, (Webster 3) mentioned the "what to provided they take reasonable pre crashed remotely. do about it" stuff, so I'll focus on the cautions. First, file sharing and such issue itself: yes, there are security con is turned off by default. Don't tum it Just like that: I toss cerns. When you subscribe to DSL or on without a good reason. Second, you a hand grenade "cable modem" service, you are es always - always - set a non-blank sentially putting your home on a password in file sharing, even if you through the wire, "neighborhood" network subnet. Be never intend to share a thing. A non your system catches cause of the way TCP /IP addresses blank password is orders of magni are allocated, you can have no more tude harder to overcome than no it and crashes, and than 255 addresses on a subnet, and password at all. Third, if you do use you' re none the some of those addresses are lost for file sharing, tum off Guest access. wiser." reasons I won't address. So figure an efficient DSL or cable company will If and when you go shopping on the try to cram 250 or so subscribers on a Internet, use a 128-bit version of your home and their end of the network is subnet. browser. If and when a vendor asks encrypted. That would seem to go a for anything you consider confiden long way towards stopping anyone If you set up a network in your office, tial (anything _you_ consider confi on your subnet from peeking at your you presumably know everyone else dential, which may go well beyond data as it passes back and forth. on the network. They, presumably, your VISA number to include names share the same goals you do: success of kids, siblings, birthdays - anything) This particular brand cable modem of your organization. (If they don't, - make sure you are on a secure page. also is set up to block incoming pack they should become _former_ co (In Netscape, look for a dosed lock in ets that weren't requested by your workers.) the bottom left comer of the page.) machine, another step towards secu Don't send confidential information rity. But you probably don't know your via E-mail. DSL or cable neighbors. Not everyone Webster 4: "Encrypted" is a nice, in your neighborhood will be a sub This last one - confidential informa nebulous word. When you use Stuffit scriber, and the distribution of sub tion via E-mail - is the one most often to compress a file, you are encrypting scribers and non-subscribers is ran violated. E-mail is too convenient to it. Unfortunately, EVERYONE ON dom. So you are essentially allowing be paranoid about it. So be creative: YOUR SUBNET has the SAME equip a computer network in your home if you send your Aunt Joan some ment to decrypt your packets. So that is shared by anyone. The cable or piece of information that you consider don't count on this. For anything. DSL company presumably has secu confidential, send it in pieces. She rity measures installed at "network wants access to your Apple iDisk ac >This particular brand cable "mo central" to protect you, in some small count? Send the name in one message, dem" also is set up to block incoming measure, from the "outside." But the password in another. packets .... there really isn't any practical way to protect you from your neighbors. Are there really hackers out there? I Again, this is very easy to overcome get one to five attacks on my home - on the same subnet. Packet spoof For those running Windows, this is LAN every day, dutifully reported by ing is a bit difficult on different do bad. Windows has a huge mass of se my firewall. mains, but anyone can do it on the curity holes, and your average Win same subnet. The encryption and dows user, or even your average Win Webster 3: I just now remember be packet filtering, however, don't ad dows guru, has not a due how to plug ing told the cable "modems" our cable dress denial of service attacks at all, them. Add to this the occasional company sells provide encryption, which are the most frequent type of neighborhood hacker who has in- meaning everything between your hacker attacks. March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 59 Wizzer: >There are software stantly responds to those pings, pre Webster 4: >Are DSL & cable equally (IPNetRouter) and hardware (Sonic venting you from using your machine vulnerable? and others) firewalls. Recent [Pi]Jour for any other purpose. That's denial of nals have had articles on these. service: they prevent you from doing Both are pipes. In theory, a hacker could IPNetRouter is $90 shareware. whatever it is you want to do. attack a dial-up PPP link to Explorer, and give you grief that way. But it Running IPNetRouter on a Mac on an Wizzer: Some versions of Mac OS, doesn't give you many bonus points exposed network won't make that and most versions of Windows, can in the hacker world because (a) the link Mac any bit more secure than it was be crashed remotely. Just like that: I goes away when the user kills their without the software. So, to protect toss you a hand grenade through the modem and (b) the target on the other your Mac you'll need a separate de wire, your system catches it and end can't be too important because, if vice acting as a go-between from an crashes, and you're none the wiser. it was, it wouldn't be a PPP link. exposed network to a private net work. That's a firewall. And yes you Some versions of Mac OS will re Penetration is only an issue if you can build that device from a spare spond to a carefully-doctored small have something you want to protect, Quadra or something running packet on the way in by sending an like medical or legal records, propri IPNetRouter. innocuous large packet in response. etary company information, or some Given that your incoming pipe is usu thing that you can't do without, such Simply turning off Guest access can ally fatter than your outgoing pipe, I as financial records or the draft of be pretty effective. Slightly less effec can use this behavior to not only keep your Great American Novel. I don't tive with Mac OS 9; significantly less your machine occupied addressing think cable is "easier" to penetrate; effective with Mac OS X; absolutely my whims instead of yours, but to most of the anti-cable modem crowd begging for trouble with Windows. actually clog up your outgoing pipe is anti because they don't like cable to where you can no longer use it to TV firms; next to HMOs and law Enthusius III: I have a cable set-up, request pages or do anything normal. firms, they are the most despised or CTVM. It is one-way. The other way Worse, I can use the same behavior to ganizations in the US. is by phone line. My phone line is only make your machine flood somebody connected when I am doing some selse's incoming pipe which might be Penetration requires *work* and work thing on the web. I guess that hack smaller, like a modem. Now you' re is anti-hacker. In the" old days," hack ers can only send me stuff over the denying someone else service. ers would devote weeks to doing silly, cable but can't get anything back ex trivial things that people told them cept when I am actually on with the These are examples from a broad cat were impossible. But most of the phone line active. Am I right about egory of hacker attacks, differentiated "hackers" today are using programs that? If so, then I am guessing that my from the better-known system cracker written by others, and doing nothing door is open to hackers only a small infiltrations by giving them a collec more complex than pushing a button. part of the day. Is this at least partial tive name. Unless you want to read a These "hackers" are very good at *de security? shelf full of books on exactly how nying* service, or crashing machines; TCP /IP works at a sufficient level as they lack the skills or the work ethic What is this "denial of service?" to understand and anticipate the to actually break into anything. boundary conditions where its ambi Webster 4: >What is this "denial of guity can be turned against itself, suf Hacking has changed drastically since service?" fice it to say that people are still ex the days when Woz spent a couple ploring ways to misuse the system, months breaking the world record for Exactly what it sounds like. You want and you can be a victim or a pawn calculating e to the most decimal to watch old Superman reruns. Your without someone having to break into places- on an Apple Ile. Hackers to brother has the remote, and keeps flip your system or steal anything. day are more like the nihilists who ping it to a French language special on toss trash out of car windows and worms. That's denial of service. Enthusius V: Are DSL & cable equally spray paint racist slogans on vulnerable? I heard that cable was churches. The simplest denial of service attack: easier to penetrate. Appreciate it if some yahoo (in the Swiftian sense) sets you could elaborate on firewalls, or Frustrating vandals is always a plea up a machine to constantly ping your direct me to some info on it. sure. • IP address. So your computer con- 60 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 re "While it is not surprising that all the Surfer Beware Ill: sites collected personally identifiable information, Privacy Policies without it is worth noting that Privacy Protection there are many popular websites, such as December 1999 cnn.comand Electronic Privacy Information Center www.epic.org washingtonpost.com, March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 61 IT Privacy remains one of the great information was given, and whether rect personal information; 7) whether est concerns of online users and will the purposes for which information the use of personal information was become particularly acute as many will be used are specified. limited; and 8) whether the privacy users make their first foray into online Profile-based advertising, also policy specified all purposes for shopping this holiday season. (2) known as online profiling, is a tech which personal information would be While most online retailers agree that nique that marketers use to collect in used. We also investigated two other the protection of consumer privacy is formation about online behavior of questions - whether advertising net important for the future of electronic Internet users and to facilitate tar works were presenting banner ads on commerce, much debate has centered geted advertising. (6) Profile-based the sites' pages and whether a site on the appropriate approach to pro advertising could easily be consid used cookies. tecting consumer privacy online. ered a form of online surveillance. The complete results [questions Businesses in the United States have Profile-based advertising relies on asked and e.commerce company an generally said that industry self-regu "cookies," identifying tags that are swers] can be found at 62 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 lection of personal information before these programs. Membership in one question 'May we occasionally send allowing someone to enter." It appears of these programs does not assure you email promotions,' we keep you that commercial activity on the privacy protection for consumers, but up-to-date via email." J.Crew has an Internet is driving the increased col it is an indication of a company's will opt-out policy: "We occasionally make lection of personal data. ingness to develop a privacy policy our customer list available for one and to learn more about privacy is time use by a few carefully screened 2.2 Does the site have a llnk to a sues. firms - should you prefer not to get privacy policy on its homepage? We plan to evaluate the effective their mailings, please let us know." We noted whether a website dis ness of these programs in the coming Twenty-three sites solicited "opt played its privacy policy on its year. in" consent by consumers before a homepage. The homepage is often the company's subsequent collection and first page a user views when entering use of their personal information. a website, and the privacy policy "In this survey we should be easily accessible from this 2.6 Does the site allow access to location so that users will know how looked more closely view and correct personal infor their personal information will be at the adequacy of mation? used before they begin shopping for One of the long-standing goals of an item. privacy practices privacy protection is to ensure that Fifty-one sites provided a link to found on the 100 individuals are able to review the in the privacy policy on their homepage. formation about them that is collected Eighteen sites had no privacy policy. most popular shop by organizations. The purpose of this We gave sites that lacked a privacy ping websites as is to ensure that information is accu policy a rating of "NI A" (not appli rate and complete. It is also to allow cable) for the remainder of the survey listed by lOOhot.com, individuals to better assess the actual questions. We also gave "NI A" rat which tracks website data collection practices of the orga ings to EastBay because the site was nizations that collect personal infor continually busy, and when we finally popularity by the mation. gained access to the site, the page number of times In the access category, we deter where transactions are completed mined whether websites allowed con would not load. homepages are sumers to view and correct their per viewed in a sample of sonal information, including their 2.3 Does the site have a link to a name, mailing address, e-mail ad privacy policy on all pages col over 100,000 Internet dress, or telephone number. Many lecttng Pll? users worldwide." companies also collect more detailed We also observed whether a information, such as shopping pref website linked to its privacy policy on erences or purchase history, but do all pages that collect PII. It is impor 2.5 Does the site have an opt-in not make this information available tant for Internet users to know how (consent) for all collection and use to consumers. For example, eBay their personal information is used and of Pll? states in its privacy policy: "We auto to be able to quickly find the policy We also considered whether matically track certain information when they are asked to disclose per websites offered an opt-in policy. Such about you based upon your behavior sonal information. a policy would require a company to on our site. We use this information Thirty-five sites displayed a link gain consumer permission before any to do internal research on our users' on all pages that collect personal in collection or use of personal informa demographics, interests, and behav formation. tion. Opt-out policies, on the other ior to better understand and serve our hand, allow companies to make use users." Since many sites do not dis 2.4 Does the site belong to a in of information as they wish unless a close whether they store information dustry self-regulation program? consumer notifies the firm that they about customer behavior, however, We noted whether sites were part do not want their personal informa we did not evaluate access with re of an industry self-regulation pro tion collected or used. Consumers fa spect to such a criterion. gram, such as TRUSTe or the Better vor opt-in policies. By way of ex Thirty-two sites allowed users ac Business Bureau Online. Nineteen ample, CDUniverse has an opt-in cess to view and correct personal in sites in the survey were members of policy: "If you answered 'Yes' to the formation, such as mailing address, March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pl Journal 63 rr e-mail address, or telephone number. 2.8 Does the site specify the pur found. We also found a wide varia poses for all information collected? tion in whether or not privacy poli 2.7 Does the site limit use of the in We included the purpose specifi cies mentioned the presence of third formation to its original purpose? cation category to show whether sites party advertising. Some sites, such as We surveyed whether sites lim inform users of every way in which Ticketmaster Online, mention that ited the use of the personal informa their personal information will be online advertisers are operating, but tion to the transaction specified. This used. We believe that if a company mischaracterize what those advertis is important because most consumers fails to explain the reason that per ers do. For example, one company intuitively expect that personal infor sonal information is collected, con that does profile individuals - mation will be used for a limited pur sumers will be unable to make a Doubleclick-operates on the site, but pose. Companies should not use in meaningful decision about whether to the Ticketmaster privacy policy states: dividuals' personal information for provide personal information. Some "Your specific user habits within our purposes unnecessary to complete the sites declare that they reveal informa site will not be disclosed to any third original transaction. While the release tion to third parties but are then ex parties." Only one site, of non-personal aggregate or sum tremely vague in their explanation of Autobytel.com, mentions the adver mary information about customers how this information is subsequently tiser operating on its site by name, may not invade personal privacy, the used. For example, Garden.com states links to the advertiser's privacy policy, unrestricted use of in its privacy policy: "Garden.com and provides a way to opt-out of that personallyidentifiab le information may choose to share select informa advertising network. does. We noted that the privacy policy tion with [strategic business] partners In total, 35 sites allowed advertis of eToys demonstrated a strong com to enhance the customers' experience. ing by advertising networks and few mitment to limiting the use of cus Customers may choose at anytime to mentioned that such advertising was tomer information: "We do not sell, be removed from this list While taking place. rent, or loan any identifiable infor Garden.com only chooses reputable mation regarding our customers to strategic partners who adhere to simi 2.1 o Does the site utilize cookies? any third party. Any information lar policies we in no way are respon We also noted whether sites were you give us is held with the utmost sible for the actions or policies of these using cookies. Cookies can be used to care and security, and will not be partners." On the other hand, enhance online shopping by tracking used in ways to which you have not Bluemountain.com describes exactly a series of purchases by one customer consented." This could be in part what it will do with personal infor during a single visit to a website. because Congress enacted the mation: "When you send one of our Without cookies, it would be difficult, Childrens Online Privacy Protec greetings, we use the information you but not impossible, to store several tion Act of 1998 and created specific give us to customize the greeting with purchases in an electronic shopping privacy obligations for companies your name and the recipient's name cart and enable payment. Cookies that routinely interact with young and to deliver email notifications to also provide a technique for mer people. Lands' End, however, does you and the recipient." chants and advertises to track con not limit its use of personal infor Fifty-eight sites specified the pur sumer preferences and purposes over mation, as it states in its privacy poses for collection and use of per many visits to many different policy: "We do just one thing with sonal information. websites. It is this second use of cook the information you provide that you ies, sometimes referred to as "track may not expect. If you purchase a prod 2. 9 Does the site allow proflle ing" or "profiling," that raises privacy uct from us, there is a chance that we based advertising to operate on concerns. will exchange your name with another their pages? While most privacy policies did company whose products and services Our research also examined pro note the use of cookies, at least one might interest you." This policy was file-based advertising by surfing with site that claimed not to utilize cook similar to many others that essentially a browser set to warn the user before ies was actually using them. It is pos tell customers personal information a cookie is sent. All cookies not com sible that additional sites were using will be widely used for whatever pur ing directly from the site that was be cookies in ways not detailed in their pose the company wishes. ing visited, but instead from an ad privacy policies. Macys.com's privacy Twenty companies appeared to vertiser, were noted. Since our search policy includes a mention of cookies: limit the use of personally identifiable did not visit all the pages within a "Although it is not used currently on information to those required for the single site, it is possible that more this website, Macys.com hopes to be transaction. advertisers were present than were gin using 'cookie' technology in the 64 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 IT future." In the course of purchasing viewing may quickly become incor privacy practices of the members of an item, Macys.com did in fact at porated into a detailed profile that the Direct Marketing Association in tempt to place cookies on the browser. will remain hidden from the con June 1998. It can be found at http:/ I Eighty-six of the sites surveyed sumer. www.epic.org/ reports I surfer used cookies. Two sites -- Tower On balance, we think that con beware2.html. Records and Kenneth Cole -- did not sumers are more at risk today than allow users to visit their sites without they were in 1997. The profiling is 2. Forrester Research conducted a sur generating cookies. more extensive and the marketing vey of 100,000 Internet users in Sep techniques are more intrusive. Ano tember 1999 and found that 67 per 2.11 Other Findings nymity, which remains crucial to pri cent were very or extremely con In our survey of the top 100 e vacy on the Internet, is being cerned about online privacy and an commerce sites, we found privacy squeezed out by the rise of electronic additional 24 percent were somewhat policies that were often confusing, in commerce. Industry backed self-regu concerned. complete and inconsistent. The wide lation has done little to protect online variation of these policies might frus privacy. We believe that legally en 3. A study conducted by the trate consumers who are trying to forceable standards are necessary to Georgetown Internet Privacy Policy determine which websites provide ensure compliance with Fair Informa Survey in January 1999 (http:/ I the best privacy protection. tion Practices. And new techniques www.msb.edu/ faculty I culnanm/ gippshome.html) found that less than 3. Conclusions 10 percent (32) of the 361 sites exam Taken as a whole, we found that "Cookies also provide a ined addressed the most basic privacy more sites are posting privacy poli technique for merchants principles. cies than did when we conducted the first formal review of website policies and advertises to track 4. http: I I lOOhot.com/help I in 1997. We have also seen the rise of consumer preferences methodology.html new associations to promote the de velopment of privacy policies and and purposes over 5. The most robust and comprehen encourage industry awareness of pri many visits to many sive set of Fair Information Practices vacy issues. But when we looked are described in the 1980 Organiza closely at these policies, we found that different websites. It is tion for Economic Co-operation and they typically lacked the necessary this second use of Development (OECD) Privacy Guide elements of Fair Information Practices lines. These can be found at http:/ I and were unlikely to provide mean cookies, sometimes www.oecd.org/ dsti/ sti/ it/ secur I ingful privacy protection for consum referred to as 'tracking' prod/PRIV-EN.HTM ers. The presence of a privacy policy, unfortunately, does not always ensure or 'profiling,' that raises 6. The National Telecommunications privacy protection. privacy concerns." and Information Administration At the same time, marketers are (NTIA) of the Department of Com using new and more sophisticated merce and the Federal Trade Commis techniques to track consumers on the for anonymity are necessary to pro sion recently held a workshop on this Internet. Profile-based advertising tect online privacy. Until such steps topic. EPIC filed a series of comments marks a sharp departure from tradi are taken, we have to repeat our ad that are available at http:/ I tional business practices which al vice for the third consecutive year - www.epic.org/privacy /internet/ lowed companies to advertise prod "Surfer Beware." • Online_Profiling_Workshop.PDF and ucts and services and still permit con http: I I www.epic.org/ privacy I sumers to retain some privacy. In the Footnotes i n t e r n e t I world of radio, television and print 1. "Surfer Beware: Personal Privacy profiling_reply_comment.PDF. advertising, for example, information and the Internet," conducted in 1997, flowed freely from businesses to con looked at the 100 most popular © 1999, The Electronic Privacy Infor sumers but little personally identifi websites. The report is available at mation Center, 666 Pennsylvania Ave, able information was ever collected. http:/ /www.epic.org/reports/ SE, Suite 301 Washington, D.C. 20003 In the online world, every consumer surfer-beware.html. "Surfer Beware II: March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 65 April Northern Virginia Comm. College Adobe Community & Cultural Center Aud. 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Prerequisite: Introduction to Macintosh Number of Sessions: Two Price: Standard Members: $70.00, As Macintosh Tutorials sociate Members: $100.00, Non-Mem bers: $100.00 Instructor: Pat Fauquet and Jim Ritz Evening Set 1 General Maclnto5h Clas5es · 5/1/00 and 5/8/00 6 pm - 9 pm Day Set 1 4/3/00 and 4/10/00 6 pm - 9 pm 3/7/00 and 3/9/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Day Set 1 Day Set 2 3/14/00 and 3/16/00 1 pm - 4 pm Introduction to Macintosh 3/21/00 and 3/23/00 9:30 am -12:30 pm DaySet2 This class is meant not only for DaySet3 4/11/00 and 4/13/00 1 pm - 4 pm the new user, but also for anyone who 4/3/00 and 4/5/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm DaySet3 wants to learn more about the basic Day Set4 5/9/00 and 5/11/00 1 pm - 4 pm operation of the Macintosh. This class 4/4/00 and 4/6/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm DaySet4 is also recommended for Macintosh Day Set 5 5/22/00 and 5/24/00 9:30 am -12:30 pm owners who are new to System 8.0 4/18/00 and 4/20/00 1 pm - 4 pm and above or those who have never Day Set 6 Advanced Macintosh really learned all the things that the 5/1/00 and 5/3/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Advanced Macintosh will follow Mac OS has to offer to the computer DaySet7 up on the concepts taught in Interme user. In addition to start up, sleep and 5/2/00 and 5/4/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm diate Macintosh. In this hands-on shutdown procedures, the student Day Set 8 class students will learn how to back will learn how a computer works and 5/16/00 and 5/18/00 1 pm - 4 pm up the essential data and settings files, common Macintosh terminology. The then how to install, update and up Finder and its basic operation will be Intermediate Macintosh grade system software. They will fully covered. This discussion will Intermediate Macintosh will fol learn the difference between clean include the menu bar, Apple menu low up on the concepts taught in In and dirty system installations and and the Application Switcher. Stu troduction to Macintosh. You will when to use them. They will learn dents will learn how to access and use learn more advanced Macintosh skills how to de-install software, manage the built-in help application on the and terminology including contextual system conflicts, and troubleshoot Macintosh. Error messages, dialog menus and advanced finder options, crashes. Software such as Norton ~oxes, ~cons, folders, and view op the custom installation of software Utilities, Tech Tool Pro, Conflict tions will be discussed. You will learn and updating software applications. Catcher, Spring Cleaning, and Disk the basics of word processing and text Students will learn about memory Warrior will be demonstrated and forma!ting. Copying, cutting, pasting, error messages and how to deal with used to fix computer problems. Hard draggmg and dropping will also be them. Hard drive organization, drive initialization, partitioning, covered. Basic system and mouse archiving and backup strategies will defragmentation and optimization maintenance will be included. The be discussed. An introduction to man with be discussed and demonstrated. fundamentals of searching for files aging system extensions and control Students are encouraged to bring will also be covered. You should re panels will be covered along with vi their CPU to use in class to actually view the programs Macintosh Basics rus protection, system enhancements troubleshoot and update their own and Mouse Basics prior to attending and Macintosh "housekeeping" phi computers. iMac owners should bring the class. losophies. Students will learn how to their computer, keyboard and mouse. Prerequisite: None. use Disk First Aid, how to deal with All others should bring only their Number of Sessions: Two. system crashes and what causes them. CP.U and modem. If students own Zip Price: Standard Members: $70.00, As They will also learn to use the new Dnves or Super Drives they should sociate Members: $100.00, Non-Mem Find program, Sherlock, to find files also bring them to back up important bers: $100.00 on the computer, to find text phrases data. All students are strongly encour Instructor: Pat Fauquet and Jim Ritz in saved data and to find items on the aged to complete both Introduction to Evening Set 1 Internet. All students are encouraged Macintosh and Intermediate 3/6/00 and 3/13/00 6 pm - 9 pm to take Introduction to the Macintosh Macintosh prior to enrolling in this Evening Set 2 March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 67 I class. bers: $100.00 ies, and content that you would like Prerequisite: Introduction to Instructor: Pat Fauquet and Jim Ritz to include on your Homepage. Macintosh and Intermediate Evening Set 1 Prerequisite: Apple iTools and Intro Macintosh 3/20/00 and 3/27/00 6 pm - 9 pm d uction to the Macintosh or a good Number of Sessions: Two Evening Set 2 knowledge of the Mac OS and its in Price: Standard Members: $70.00, 5/15/00 and 5/2'2/00 6 pm - 9 pm terface. Associate Members: $100.00, Non DaySetl Number of Sessions: One Members: $100.00 3/21/00 and 3/23/00 1 pm - 4 pm Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Instructor: Pat Fauquet and Jim Ritz Day Set 2 Associate Members: $50.00, Non Day Set 1 4/18/00 and 4/20/00 9:30 am -12:30 pm Members: $50.00 3/28/00 9:30 am - 4 pm Day Set3 Instructor: Pat Fauquet, Jim Ritz DaySet2 5/16/00 and 5/18/00 9:30 am -12:30 pm 4/10/00 1 pm - 4 pm 4/25/00 9:30 am - 4 pm 5/17/001 pm - 4 pm DaySet3 5/23/00 and 5/24/00 9:30 am -12:30 pm Introduction to the Internet This three hour class, intended for iVisit iMac (with *NEW* evening users of all Internet browsers, will in hours) troduce you to the World Wide Web. Take a working tour of the software *NEW* Apple ilools Learn what the various buttons on the included on the iMac. Apple Computer released a suite browser screen do. Learn to custom This two part, six hour class will of free Internet-based tools for MacOS ize the browser window to meet your introduce the various pieces of soft 9 users at MacWorld San Francisco visual needs. Learn how an Internet ware included with the iMac. Stu 2000. Since then, users have learned address works and how to deal with dents will learn how use the assistants how to access these tools even if you error messages that appear. You will and templates included with are not using OS 9. Come learn to set learn how to use Sherlock, search en Apple Works to perform tasks such as up and use these exciting tools to have gines, directories and metasearch sites writing a letter; making a computer a virtual hard drive that is accessible to find the information you seek. address book, flyer or certificate, and anywhere, make a home page with Learn how to capture pictures and printing an envelope. They will learn out any additional software, share text from the internet and how it print how to send and receive a fax from family photos and QuickTime mov web pages. This class is appropriate their iMac and begin using Quicken ies, send internet greeting cards, find for all users of the Internet including to balance their checkbook. They will great Internet sites, and even protect American Online customers. It is sug learn how to make a favorites list in children from questionable content. gested that all participants enroll in Internet Explorer, use the address This is an introductory three hour one of the e-mail courses to complete book and send a file to someone in class. their introduction to the Internet. Outlook Express. They will also learn Prerequisite: Introduction to the Prerequisite: Introduction to the how to edit a photo with Kai's Photo Macintosh or a good knowledge of Macintosh or a good knowledge of Soap, install and look up items in the the Mac OS and its interface. Num the Mac OS and its interface. Num World Book Encyclopedia and use the ber of Sessions: One ber of Sessions: One Williams-Sonoma cookbook. Students Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Price: Standard Members: $35.00, will also learn how to use Adobe Associate Members: $50.00, Non Associate Members: $50.00, Non PageMill 3 to make a personalized Members: $50.00 Members: $50.00 start page on their computer. Strate Instructor: Pat Fauquet, Jim Ritz Instructor: Pat Fauquet, Jim Ritz gies to win with Nanosaur and pro 3/8/00 1 pm - 4 pm 3/9/00 1 pm - 4 pm tect children with the EdView Internet 4/3/00 1 pm - 4 pm 4/10/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Safety kit will also be shown. New: 5/3/00 1 pm - 4 pm 5/8/00 1 pm - 4 pm This class now includes the new Kid Pix Deluxe, a children's graphics and *NEW* Make a HomePage with E-mail with Netscape Communi animation program. Apple ilools cator Prerequisite: Introduction to In this three hour class we will This class will deal specifically the Macintosh make and view home pages using e-mail application with Netscape Number of Sessions: Two Apple's new Homepage iTool. No Communicator. Students will learn Price: Standard Members: $70.00, As other software is needed for this how to send, receive, reply to and for sociate Members: $100.00, Non-Mem- project. Please bring pictures, mov- ward email. They will learn how to 68 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 save mail into folders, how to use and email. They will learn how to save Microsoft Word for Office 98 manage the address books and how mail into folders, how to use and This class will introduce the stu to send mail to groups of people. manage the address books and how dent to the fundamentals of the They will learn how to attach files to to send mail to groups of people. Microsoft Word for Office 98 word e-mail messages and how to deal with They will learn how to attach files to processing software package. The the attached files that they receive. e-mail messages and how to deal with course is designed for those with very Students will also learn where their the attached files that they receive. limited or no previous knowledge of email and address books are stored Students will also learn where their Word. Topics that will be covered in and how to back them up. email and address books are stored clude: reviewing the screen elements Prerequisite: Introduction to the and how to back them up. of a basic new Word document (the Macintosh or a good knowledge of Prerequisite: Introduction to the standard and formatting toolbars and the Mac OS and its interface. Num Macintosh or a good knowledge of the menu bar); setting default options ber of Sessions: One the Mac OS and its interface. Num such as spell checking and document Price: Standard Members: $35.00, ber of Sessions: One editing choices, default font selection Associate Members: $50.00, Non Price: Standard Members: $35.00, that are applied to a basic document; Members: $50.00 Associate Members: $50.00, Non creating, editing, saving and deleting Instructor: Pat Fauquet, Jim Ritz Members: $50.00 a simple Word document; using the 3/10/00 1 pm - 4 pm Instructor: Pat Fauquet, Jim Ritz on line help function; simple format 4/12/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm 3/10/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ting using tabs and setting margins; 5/10/00 1 pm - 4 pm 4/12/00 1 pm - 4 pm creating a simple table; and review 5/12/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ing pre-defined templates such as the E-mail with Microsoft Outlook Ex letter template that are included in press Downloading , Installing and Using Word. This class will deal specifically the Files and Software From the Prerequisite: Introduction to the e-mail application Microsoft Outlook lntemet and from CD's. Macintosh or a good knowledge of Express. Students will learn how to Learn how to find files and soft the Mac OS and its interface. send, receive, reply to and forward ware on the Internet. Learn how Number of Sessions: One email. They will learn how to save download them, how to install and Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As mail into folders, how to use and use them. Learn about Macintosh vi sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem manage the address books and how ruses, and how to combat them. This bers: $50.00. to send mail to groups of people. one Session class is intended for stu Instructor: Cordell Ratner They will learn how to attach files to dents who have completed Intro to 3/2/00 7 pm - 10 pm e-mail messages and how to deal with the Internet and an e-mail class and 4/6/00 7 pm - 10 pm the attached files that they receive. who want to learn more about the 5/4/00 7 pm - 10 pm Students will also learn where their various software resources that are email and address books are stored available on the Internet. These will Excel for Microsoft Office 98 and how to back them up. include software, fonts, Sherlock and This class will start by covering Prerequisite: Introduction to the contextual menu plug-ins, opening, saving and retrieving an Macintosh or a good knowledge of Applescripts, and system resources. Excel workbook, and then will discuss the Mac OS and its interface. Num Prerequisite: Introduction to the definitions of a workbook, a ber of Sessions: One Macintosh or a good knowledge of worksheet, and a cell. Next we will Price: Standard Members: $35.00, the Mac OS and its interface. Num review the objects on a typical Associate Members: $50.00, Non ber of Sessions: One worksheet screen including those Members: $50.00 Price: Standard Members: $35.00, items on the menu bar, the standard Instructor: Pat Fauquet, Jim Ritz Associate Members: $50.00, Non toolbar, and the status bar. The stu 3/29/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Members: $50.00 dent will then be assisted in creating 4/14/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Instructor: Pat Fauquet, Jim Ritz a simple Excel worksheet that will be 5/10/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm 3/29/00 1 pm - 4 pm used to teach the concepts of enter 4/14/00 1 pm - 4 pm ing, editing, formatting, and deleting E-mail with America Online 5/12/00 1 pm - 4 pm data (text, number, time, date, and This class will deal specifically the formula) in a cell, along with learn e-mail application with America .. ··· ,·::.:3;;;:f:.,;-';::,r:~(. :i}:,i,;:t~1@!i;:~: '.:'·:r:;;;;,~;: ing techniques on how to navigate Online. Students will learn how to ·'9'·t« Mlcrasoff.~ March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 69 I the student created worksheet will be Prerequisite: Introduction to the Apple Works. used are for: inserting and manipu Macintosh or a good knowledge of Prerequisite: Introduction to the lating rows and columns, creating the Mac OS and its interface. Num Macintosh or a good knowledge of basic formulas of addition, subtrac ber of Sessions: One the Mac OS and its interface. In addi tion, multiplication and division in a Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As tion Introduction to AppleWorks class worksheet using the function wizard, sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem or a good working knowledge of an adding comments to a cell, using the bers: $50.00. other word processing application is fill command to enter a data series, Instructor: Pat Fauquet and Jim Ritz suggested before attending this class. making the screen easier to view us 3/16/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Number of Sessions: One ing splitting and column header freez 4/6/00 1 pm - 4 pm Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As ing techniques, adding, deleting and 5/4/00 1 pm - 4 pm sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem naming worksheets within a work bers: $50.00. book, and creating headers and AppleWorks and Newsletters Instructor: Pat Fauquet footers printing of selected cells and Learn how to use the newsletter Attendance in an Introduction to an entire workbook. Finally, we will assistant in AppleWorks to easily pro AppleWorks class or a good working create basic charts using pie and bar duce newsletters for a variety of au knowledge of another word process charts as examples, and will wrap up diences. In this class participants will ing application is suggested before by discussing worksheet style tech produce a basic newsletter, then learn attending this class. niques along with reviewing the set how to use the Mac OS stationery pad 4/7/001 pm-4 pm of workbook options in the tools function to speed the production of menu. future newsletters. Basics of graphic AppleWorks (a.k.a. ClarisWorks) Prerequisite: Introduction to the design, layout, typography, writing Advanced Macintosh or a good knowledge of style and suggestions for economical In this class we will take the Mac OS and its interface, Num reproduction will also be covered. AppleWorks to a new level! Learn ber of Sessions: One. This class is not an introduction to how to make easy outlines, lists, and Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Associate Members: $50.00, Non ___ Some Specific$: · ··· ... .~.~ Members: $50.00. Instructor: Cordell Ratner c;j; ~e~j;'/JnJ~ O~~)J!~®, "1i1mtb~l$'$J).QI)SOJ;~ 3/16/00 7 pm - 10 pm :. ·by Washjn.gtort Apple ;Fi_ ~e-·giv~n,,:=S:tJh~, ofg~e· lo~ted at 4/20/00 7 pm - 10 pm 5/18/00 7 pm - 10 pm ,--~~~q~~·'¥~~~Wl11~~y~~~~A$liµ~~'.:~J~tlr::11:,jHi, · · .. _.. ;J• .. F~f!s::;$~9,l'et ~~ssJQ~~~~be~~~d:m~P. .P~~-~l~~~f()I"no~- Introduction to AppleWorks (a.k.a. ClarlsWorks) ·.~;;~;i~idlii'~~i;::~::e·· This class will introduce the stu dent to the integrated software pack :]I @a~f;;~i~e: G~~ss: $!~~Jf;Jimit¢9:~o q:.$tud~ts, p~r, da$~. age, Apple Works. The course will be . Y: . ··:;['.-'.'.:::· ,?+Fi:'' _,,',;:'?~i'.:';_:,<''jif . ; 'Uf:,;,·. './·i::-:> ;r;::';'< '. 1.< ... ' . gin with an introduction to the fun <• Instructor G~cell~tiOn:;Jf a ;·gass._~-~cari~~lled ,by the damentals of the AppleWorks envi :,jps.tt-u~P~~,:~µ ··srndeiit$.;wjUi~e .. nqfJfied~:gf ,ttu~?l~anc,e-JJation. rorunent: the window layout, the help :. Ple~se ch~ck y6lir :hori\~ ~Weri11g mac.hine .ifyoulw.ve.not menu, and the universal commands. :, given a· work nuttiber:fornofif:ication. ' . :. . '·.~; ·'':;· , Each of the six modules {Text, Draw, ,~~:~:', :~~:~· ···.;·,:.":·'_!~'·':: '.~~:::. ·:"_~1~:-~~=h;:~-:~;-~ ·)_:;J1*J::~~X~~:·~-~~i~ff:~~-j~:<. ;. :~:~~1~!? -~n· ·~, Paint, Spreadsheet, Database, and ·• ·.·• · received72 Communications) will be treated Student-.Cancellati;;rtiA·canc~llatfon'Il\ustl-ie separately but the emphasis will be · · i hou~s J?~fdt:e ili~t9fa$s'~~~;;~~~~lfa.tip.r(triay·§~:fu:a~e o~y on text and draw documents. The via telephone during qµ5ines~ho~s,Qr'1.a e~iJ. to theemail course will conclude with an exami ';;;addr~ss ·.. Pf:offic~@w~p~9rg.;;HJ'lw:'offi..f:~:·:does>:n<:>t. have ·an nation of some basic integrated appli answenngmachirte' :, 'ortly ~ ahhouncetµeJ;tt:~achine. cations. 70 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 I check-off charts. Make great slide Instructor: Pat Fauquet bling without tearing down all the shows and presentations right in Call office for dates walls and learn how to determine AppleWorks. Learn how to dress up what kind of cable to buy and how to charts and graphs, how to make spe Moving up to AppleWorks 6 put the connectors on the cables. cialized dictionaries, and how to have Come learn about the changes In addition to talking about wires AppleWorks read to you! Learn the and new features that are found in and hardware choices we will also secrets of stationary files, how to Apple Works 6. Learn how to use the discuss sharing files and applications make your own AppleWorks librar new buttons, menus and tools to pro between two or more computers and ies store not only pictures, but also duce word processed documents, da printers. frequently used text strings. Learn tabases, spreadsheets, graphics and Prerequisite: A good working knowl how to write personalized form let slideshows. Learn how to access the edge of the Mac OS and its interface. ters and how to do special layouts for templates and clip art installed with Number of Sessions: One newsletters. Many of the projects in the program and the array of addi Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As cluded will be using the capabilities tional items that will be available on sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem of ClarisWorks 4.0 and AppleWorks the internet. This class is intended for bers: $50.00. 5.0 Students will receive templates, those who have completed Introduc Instructor: Pat Fauquet stationary files and handouts to take tion to AppleWorks or who have a 3/1/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm home. If you have any feature of the good understanding of the previous 5/1/00 1 pm - 4 pm program that you would like covered versions. in particular, please mention it when Prerequisite: Introduction to you sign up. AppleWorks or previous experience Prerequisite: Introduction to with AppleWorks AppleWorks or a good knowledge of Number of Sessions: One the basics of AppleWorks and its in Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As *NEW* Adobe Golive terface. sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem Learn to use Adobe GoLive to create Number of Sessions: One bers: $50.00 web pages and sites. This software Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As Instructor: Pat Fauquet package allows pixel-level control of sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem 3/3/00 1 pm - 4 pm graphics and ease in adding bers: $50.00. 4/5/00 1 pm - 4 pm JavaScript actions. This class is in Instructor: Pat Fauquet tended for those who have completed 417/00 9:30 am -12:30 pm the "Web Page Workshop" and "Pre 5/5/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm paring Graphics for the Web" or their equivalents. It is an introductory AppleWorks (a.k.a. ClarlsWorks) Networking for the Home and course and is not intended for ad for the Experienced User Workshop Small Office vanced users of the program. This class is for those who have Do you have two Macintoshes Prerequisite: Web Page Workshop some experience with AppleWorks and one printer-or two printers and and Preparing Graphics for the Web and are interested in asking questions one Macintosh-or maybe even or a good knowledge of web site de and having specific problems dis more? velopment cussed. The class will be a questions Come learn the possibilities of Number of Sessions: Two. and answer format. You should bring fered by the Macintosh platform to Price: Standard Members: $70.00, As along on floppy a sample of things share not only printers, but also files sociate Members: $100.00, Non-Mem with which you need help. The idea and even modems. Learn about the bers: $100.00 being that you can work on a project built in networking software in every Instructor: Pat Fauquet while the instructor is helping another Macintosh and various hardware and 3/31/00 9:30 am - 4 pm with one that does not interest you. software options available to do even 4/27/00 9:30 am - 4 pm Prerequisite: Introduction to more. This class will cover AppleTalk 5/31/00 9:30 am - 4 pm Apple Works or a good knowledge of and PhoneNet connectors, AB switch the basics of AppleWorks and its in boxes, serial port expanders, USB • NEW* Preparing Graphics for the terface. ports and hubs, ethernet, cards, and Web Number of Sessions: One transceivers. Hubs, router and serv In this all-day workshop students Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As ers will also be discussed. will learn how to make and prepare sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem Learn how to install network ca- backgrounds, headlines, clip art, but- bers: $50.00. March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 71 I tons, rules, dividers and animations Macintosh or a good knowledge of file size so that you can send photos for web pages. They will also learn the Mac OS and its interface. via e-mail. how to construct graphic sets. These Number of Sessions: Two. Prerequisite: Introduction to the will be made using AppleWorks, Price: Standard Members: $70.00, As Macintosh or a good knowledge of GraphicConverter and Adobe sociate Members: $100.00, Non-Mem the Mac OS and its interface, Intro to PhotoDeluxe. Students will learn bers: $100.00 the Internet and an E-mail class. about the GIF, JPEG and PNG formats Instructor: Pat Fauquet Number of Sessions: One. and when to use them. If you want to 3/30/00 9:30 am - 4 pm Price: Standard Members: $35.00, use these projects in an actual web 4/24/00 9:30 am - 4 pm Associate Members: $50.00, Non page, please sign up for Web Page 5/30/00 9:30 am - 4 pm Members: $50.00. Workshop in addition to this class. If Instructor: Pat Fauquet you have a external Zip drive, please 4/19/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm bring it to class. If you have an inter nal Zip drive at home, please bring Introduction to Graphics an empty Zip disk to class. This is an Are you confused by graphic jar all day workshop. Please bring a sack gon? Would you like to learn how to lunch or money to order lunch in. Introduction to Scanners choose and use a scanner? Do you Prerequisite: Introduction to the This class will cover basic scan know the difference between draw Macintosh or a good knowledge of ner operation. Students will learn how and paint programs? Are you won the Mac OS and its interface. to scan photos and text. They will learn dering about digital cameras? Are you Number of Sessions: Two. how to adjust the scanner settings to baffled by PICT, GIF, TIFF BMP, JPEG, Price: Standard Members: $70.00, As produce better scan and how to pre and all those other graphic formats? sociate Members: $100.00, Non-Mem pare a photo file to attach it to an e-mail Would you like to learn how to send bers: $100.00 message. They will learn how to use a picture by e-mail? Do you know Instructor: Pat Fauquet scanned photos in text documents and what to do with pictures people send 4/28/00 9:30 am - 4 pm how to scan directly into applications to you? Would you like to learn how such as Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Kai's to make your own Finder back Web Page Workshop PhotoSoap. They will learn how to use grounds and icons? This is the class Come design a web page! In this OCR software to turned scanned text for you! We will explore all these top class students will be introduced to into a text file. ics in non-technical language and HTML and how it works. They will Prerequisite: Introduction to the show you how make graphics work learn how to use Claris Home Page Macintosh or a good knowledge of for you! or Adobe PageMill or GoLive the Mac OS and its interface, Introduc Prerequisite: Introduction to the CyberStudio Personal Edition to tion to the Internet and an E-mail Macintosh or a good knowledge of make a series of linking web pages class. the Mac OS and its interface, Num using pre-made backgrounds, graph Number of Sessions: One. ber of Sessions: One. ics, animations and sounds. They will Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Price: Standard Members: $35.00, learn how to plan and organize their Associate Members: $50.00, Non Associate Members: $50.00, Non files for easy web page maintenance. Members: $50.00. Members: $50.00. They will learn about the principles Instructor: Pat Fauquet Instructor: Pat Fauquet of good web page design. Their pages 3/8/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm 3/6/00 1 pm - 4 pm will be ready to upload to the web. If 4/19/00 1 pm - 4 pm 4/17/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm you have a external Zip drive, please 5/17/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm 5/15/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm bring it and an empty Zip disk to class. If you have an internal Zip drive Introduction to Digital Cameras Working with Quicklime Pro at home, please bring an empty Zip Learn how to use your digital Have you ever wished you could disk to class. This is an all day work camera to its best advantage. Learn make a video from your computer shop. Please bring a sack lunch or how to download photos you've instead of writing a report? Have you money to order lunch in. It is sug taken and how to bring them directly ever wanted to add titles, credits and/ gested that a good follow-on class into applications like Adobe or a new sound track to your home would be Graphics and Sound for My PhotoDeluxe and Kai's PhotoSoap. videos? Have you ever wanted to cut Web Page. Learn about cropping and improving or mix your own audio tapes? Have Prerequisite: Introduction to the image quality. Learn how to decrease you wanted to make your own 72 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 QuickTime movie, a QuickTime pan 4/17/001 pm -4 pm orama or make QuickTrme VR object? 5/15/00 1 pm - 4 pm Qth~r:Educational:· Do you know what equipment you .Opportunities· ;~.. E~~--;;~ ~~0-·.: ~ . need and how to hook it up to your Introduction to MovieWorks ~ v.....-~ Mac to make all those things happen? Many Washington Apple Pi ·:'.A!'P:l~,·c~m~~~e~ it,tc~;··i;:,_, .. " All these projects can be done with members purchased MovieWorks at ·R.eston, vA10~2~s109·0~ QuickTime 3 Pro which is included in the November General Meeting. www.semirl.a.rs.apple.c~. :· Macintosh OS 8.5 In this class we will Come learn how this software works explore these projects, discuss what in a hands-on Sessions. We will make you need to do them, and show you a "movie" that brings in several pic . :; ~cic ..B,usi1les.~.S.olutio1's ::·•· where to buy the missing parts with tures, adds titles, has narration and an h.:.i;.. ~_9".•,::_.iA."r.· ....3.u~.:.!f~_:.""'.~.:_'.:l·.?_ ..:.:_:. j4;:.~_._.:_~::;_"_•-.P.:c_· .. r ..• t·.· .•• c·o·• ._-·m•. . . . . ·. '.~·:_:. out spending a fortune. If you have a animation and transitions between Y.Yl:YU"Y• llW~l:: '_~.!':;[;:~[~< •. external Zip drive, please bring it and pictures. We will then make ~. ~ ~ . an empty Zip disk to class. If you have QuickTrme movies that can be played Micro Center 703-204-8400. , an internal Zip drive at home, please on a computer and over the Internet. bring an empty Zip disk to class. This The instructor will demonstrate how ,,,;~... ff~ : ~::, •• is an all day workshop. Please bring a to digitize a movie on a computer sack lunch or money to order lunch in. with a video capture card and how to ·':I•iwowar ·&tA.ssociat~2Qi-'.,, :: · Prerequisite: Introduction to the record from the computer to a VCR. Macintosh or a good knowledge of We will discuss how to add video cap the Mac OS and its interface, Intro to ture and video out capabilities to your ;~~~;~;~%:·~~-~~'<;,; the Internet and an E-mail class. computer. We will also discuss how ,::q@arol©-:~P~l'l~r·703-~~=<1'y'::: ,,, ·: Number of Sessions: Two to optimize your system to make the ~. s88i, grapw~ss®ao.~oJl:l.X ·; ·; ·• . Price: Standard Members: $70.00,As best possible movies with ;},•'. .. · sociate Members: $100.00, Non-Mem MovieWorks. Students are invited to bers: $100.00 bring their own pictures to be put into clip art, graphic applications and Instructor: Pat Fauquet their MovieWorks projects. If you projects to class. Instead of showing 3/2/00 9:30 am - 4 pm own a Zip drive or other large capac you new software you have to buy, 5/19/00 9:30 am - 4 pm ity storage device you may want to this class is structured to help you get bring it to take your project home. If the best use out of software you own. Introduction to Adobe PhotoDeluxe you do not own MovieWorks, infor Learn how to create stencils, tem This inexpensive program is fun mation will be provided on where to plates, silk screens, sponge patterns, and easy to learn. It can be used to obtain the software. etc. Using new ink jet media you can edit images for the web. It also can be Prerequisite: Introduction to the make elegant faux stained glass, per used to enhance digital photographs Macintosh or a good knowledge of sonalized gifts, animated greeting or scanned images, make calendars, the Mac OS and its interface. cards, elegant wall hangings, memory posters, and cards. The only major Number of Sessions: One. books and quilts, jewelry, games, etc. drawback to the program is its poorly Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Requirement for attendance: written manual with lots of neat ex Associate Members: $50.00, Non imagination or a desire to imagine. amples but few detailed instructions. Members: $50.00. New crafters may attend to learn new In this class students will learn how Instructor: Pat Fauquet computer tricks and experienced to use this program to accomplish 5/22/00 1 pm - 4 pm crafters may attend to learn computer many tasks that normally require tricks. None of the classes require pre Adobe PhotoShop. Computer Crafting Class vious experience. Prerequisite: Introduction to the An informal class in a flexible for Creativity grows in a creative en Macintosh or a good know ledge of mat to help students combine regu vironment. Come play with us. Each the Mac OS and its interface. lar art and craft skills with their com class will be different based on the Number of Sessions: One. puter. This combination will open needs and skills of the students .. Re Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As many new doors for some, and make quests for specific content are invited. sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem life easier for others. This will not be When you register, tell us what you bers: $50.00. a class to teach a specific skill, rather want to learn, what software you want Instructor: Pat Fauquet it will teach how to open your creative to use and anything else you want to 3/6/00 1 pm - 4 pm spirit. Students are invited to bring share. March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 73 I Prerequisite: Introduction to the are within the curriculum outlined FileMaker Pro. Macintosh or a good knowledge of the above. Bring your written questions. Prerequisite: Introduction to the Mac OS and its interface, Number of Prerequisite: Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of Sessions: One. Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface, Num Price: Standard Members: $35.00, As the Mac OS and its interface, Num ber of Sessions: One. sociate Members: $50.00, Non-Mem ber of Sessions: One. Price: Standard Members: $35.00, bers: $50.00. Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Associate Members: $50.00, Non Instructor: Mary Keene Associate Members: $50.00, Non Members: $50.00. Call Office for Dates Members: $50.00. Instructor: Pat Fauquet Instructor: Pat Fauquet 3/3/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm 3/1/00 1 pm - 4 pm 5/26/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Home and Small Business 5/5/00 1 pm - 4 pm Fl nanclal Management FileMaker Pro Clinic This class is for those who have Introduction to Quicken Databases and Spreadsheet some experience with FileMaker Pro This course will be an introduc Programs and are interested in asking questions tion to the personal use of Quicken 7 and having specific problems dis or 98, and will cover the following: En Introduction to FileMaker Pro and/ cussed. The class will be a questions tering Accounts, Use of QuickFill, Split or the AppleWorks (a.k.a. and answer format. You should bring Transactions, Categories, Writing ClarisWorks) Database Module along on floppy a sample of things Checks, Preferences, Passwords, Help, This course covers what a data you would like help. Reconciling Accounts, Reconciliation base is, database terms, how to plan a Prerequisite: Introduction to the Report, Credit Card Accounts, Trans database, and create database fields Macintosh or a good knowledge of ferring Money. and layouts. Searching, sorting, print the Mac OS and its interface. Num Students should have some famil ing and editing information in a da ber of Sessions: One. iarity with the program and made an tabase will also be covered. The dif Price: Standard Members: $35.00, attempt to use it before class. The class ferences between the AppleWorks Associate Members: $50.00, Non will be taught using Quicken 7 (not the module and FileMaker Pro will be Members: $50.00. deluxe version). The instructor will try discussed as well as when and how Instructor: Pat Fauquet to answer all questions as long as they to migrate an existing database into 5/26/00 1 pm - 4 pm Washington Apple Pl Washington Apple Pi 12022 Parklawn Drive Tutorial Registration Form Rockville,110 20852 301-984-0300 Please fill in the name(s) and date(s) of the class(es) that you wish to attend. Address ______Class #1 ------City /State/Zip ______Class #2 ------Phone (day) ______(evening)------Class #3 ------Member Number Non-member ______Number of Classes_ x Class Fee$ ___ =Total Fee$ ____ Class #4 ------ 0 Check/ Money Order 0 Visa/MasterCard Class #5 Card Number Class #6 ------Card Expiration Signature ______Mail registration and payment to the above address. 74 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 I Introduction to Spreadsheets Adobe PhotoShop Part 2 vectors, an approach to illustrating This class will introduce basic Adobe Photoshop lets you isolate many find counter-intuitive. This spreadsheet concepts. Students will different parts of an image on layers. class will start with creating anded learn how to set up a spreadsheet, how Each layer can then be edited as dis iting the simplest lines and curves and to enter and edit numbers and words, crete artwork, allowing unlimited build up to the creation of complex how to enter basic formulas and make flexibility in composing and revising illustrations. By the end of the class basic charts and graphs. They will learn an image. This lesson introduces cre you should feel comfortable editing how to sort data and how to print the ating an image with layers, and cov any illustration based on the Bezier whole spread sheet or only a portion ers the basics of the Layers palette and curve, for example, all clip art that has of it. Students will use either the how to select, view, and reorder lay the eps extension in its file name. This spreadsheet module of AppleWorks ers. The concepts are fundamental for class serves as both a good introduc (Claris Works) or Excel. This class is not the use of Photoshop. In this lesson, tion to the program and as a help for meant for persons who are intermedi you'll learn how to do the following: the more advanced user to become ate or advanced users. Organize your artwork on layers. Cre adept in its use. Prerequisite: Introduction to the ate a new layer. View and hide lay Prerequisite: Introduction to the Macintosh or a good knowledge of ers. Select layers. Remove artwork on Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Mac OS and its interface. layers. Reorder layers to· change the the Mac OS and its interface. Num Number of Sessions: One. placement of artwork in the image. ber of Sessions: One. Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Apply modes to layers to vary the ef Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Associate Members: $50.00, Non fect of artwork on the layer. Link lay Associate Members: $50.00, Non Members: $50.00. ers to affect them simultaneously. Ap Members: $50.00. Instructor: Pat Fauquet or Jim Ritz ply a gradient to a layer. Add text and Instructor: Blake Lange 4/13/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm layer effects to a layer. Save a copy of 4/25/00 7 pm - 10 pm 5/11/00 9:30 am - 12:30 pm the file with the layers flattened. Prerequisite: Introduction to the Introduction to Quark XPress Macintosh or a good knowledge of the Learn the basic fundamentals of Professional Graphics and. Mac OS and its interface, and Adobe Quark Xpress, the most widely used Desktop· Publishing PhotoShop Part 1 or a knowledge of the page layout program. Learn the topics covered in that class. proper way to configure the Xpress Adobe Photoshop Part 1 Number of Sessions: One. preferences and how to use the tool, Learn the basic fundamentals of Price: Standard Members: $35.00, measurement, color and documents Adobe Photoshop, the most widely Associate Members: $50.00, Non palettes. You'll learn how to properly used graphics program. Learn the Members: $50.00. create new documents, define four proper way to configure the Instructor: Blake Lange color process and spot colors, create Photoshop preferences and how to 3/7/00 7 pm - 10 pm master pages and manipulate text and use the tool, info, channel and color 4/11/00 7 pm - 10 pm graphic objects. Learn how to cor palettes. Also learn how to use each 5/9/00 7 pm - 10 pm rectly use Xpress font and picture us of Photoshop's tools, create new age windows and how to configure documents, define colors and ma Adobe Illustrator: Mastering the the document for the laser printer or nipulate text and images. Also cov Bezier Curve high-resolution imagesetter. ered will be the proper format to save Illustrator has become so feature Prerequisite: Introduction to the your image in, and what compression laden that current tutorials are just Macintosh or a good knowledge of will or won't do to your image. Pre overviews of the product; they do not the Mac OS and its interface. Num requisite: Introduction to the present the fundamental workings of ber of Sessions: One. Macintosh or a good knowledge of the program in depth. The Bezier Price: Standard Members: $35.00, the Mac OS and its interface. Num curve, otherwise known as a vector Associate Members: $50.00, Non ber of Sessions: One. graphic, is the primary building block Members: $50.00. Price: Standard Members: $35.00, of Illustrator (and many other draw Instructor: Paul Schlosser Associate Members: $50.00, Non ing programs). Mastering its use will 3/22/00 6 pm - 9 pm Members: $50.00. fundamentally change your view of 5/24/00 6 pm - 9 pm Instructor: Paul Schlosser the power of the program. The way 3/1/00 6 pm - 9 pm the Bezier curve works, however, may Quark Xpress Clinic 4/5/00 6 pm - 9 pm seem alien at first with its points and This class is for those who have 5/3/00 6 pm - 9 pm March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 75 some experience with Quark Xpress page, black and white flyer. This Associate Members: $50.00, Non and are interested in asking questions project will cover the following top Members: $50.00. and having specific problems dis ics: Restoring default PageMaker set Instructor: Blake Lange cussed. The class will be a question and tings. Changing the view of a publi 3/21100 7 pm - 10 pm answer format and you should bring cation. Creating a new publication. 5/23/00 7 pm - 10 pm along on floppy a sample of things for Opening an existing publication. Set which you would like help. Prerequi ting up the horizontal and vertical PageMaker Clinic site: Introduction to Quark Xpress or a rulers. Displaying and hiding guides. This class is for those who have good knowledge of the basics of Quark Positioning the zero point. Using the some experience with PageMaker and Xpress and its interface. The price is $35 pointer tool, the text tool, and the are interested in asking questions and ($50 for non members). zoom tool. Specifying multiple col having specific problems discussed. Prerequisite: Introduction to the umns. Locking the guides. Creating, The class will be a questions and an Macintosh or a good knowledge of the placing formatting, and positioning swer format and you should bring Mac OS and its interface, and a good text and graphic elements. Creating a along on floppy a sample of things for working knowledge of Quark Xpress drop cap. Applying a tint to text. which you would like help. Number of Sessions: One. Specifying a hanging indent. Creating Prerequisite: Introduction to the Price: Standard Members: $35.00, ruler guides. Drawing circles, rect Macintosh or a good knowledge of Associate Members: $50.00, Non angles, and lines. Adjusting the stack the Mac OS and its interface and In Members: $50.00, .Instructor: Paul ing order of elements on the page. troduction to PageMaker or a good Schlosser, Call office for dates Range kerning text. Using the Snap knowledge of the basics of to Guides option. PageMaker and its interface. Num Introduction to PageMaker Prerequisite: Introduction to the ber of Sessions: One. Using the basic commands, tolls, Macintosh or a good knowledge of Price: Standard Members: $35.00, and palettes, you will import, format, the Mac OS and its interface. Num Associate Members: $50.00, Non and position text and graphic ele ber of Sessions: One. Members: $50.00. Instructor: Blake ments needed to assemble a single- Price: Standard Members: $35.00, Lange, Call office for dates Compu~ A unique approach to distance learning. These 14-lesson courses feature up-to-the-minute techniques in th~ latest so~re. These lessons are HTML-based, which ~ns that all you need to view them is the CD-ROM and a Web browser1 such as Netscape, Internet Explorer or America Online. (Even view the lessons in an HTML-editor, like PageMill, GoLive, Front Page and others!) $29.95 Introduction to Computer Art per course Essential Adobe Photoshop Compete Curriculum 3D Design & Animation featuring Bryce $99.95 Web Design featuring Adobe PageMill Send orders to For complete details and order form visit: The Living Textbook P.O. Box 1240 ~b~k ._c~m Germantown MD 20875 Add $4.50 s&h per order For inquiries, email [email protected] • 76 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 Second Annual Washington Apple Pi MacWorld Bus Trip Thursday July 20, 2000 Bus Departs: 5:00 am Bus Returns: 12:00 to 12:30 am, Friday July 21 Meet at commuter lot at the corner of Rockville Pike and Montrose Road Cost: $60.00 cash or check, $62.00 Visa or MasterCard. Send the slip below with your check to: WAP MacWorld Trip 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Included: Bus fare, MacWorld Expo Ticket to the Exhibit Floor only (does not include workshop sessions), and Continental Breakfast on the bus. Reservation Deadline: June 1, 2000. Space is limited so reserve you seat NOW Additional Information: Pat Fauquet ([email protected]) or Mary Keene ([email protected]). The Washington Apple Pi bus trip to Mac World New York will take place on Thursday, July 20. The bus will depart from the commuter lot at the corner of Rockville Pike and Montrose Road in Rockville at 5:00 am. It will arrive at the Javits Center at approximately 10:00 am. The bus will depart Javits Center at 6:30 p.m. An in-route stop for dinner will be made about 1-1/2 hours later. The bus should return to Rockville between 12:00 and 12:30 a.m. on Friday, July 21. Travel will be in an air-conditioned bus with on-board restroom, VCR, and reclining seats. If accommodations for disabilities are needed, please call Pat Fauquet at 703 550 7423 as soon as possible. The price will be $60.00, including your admission to the MacWorld. A continental breakfast including juice will be served on the bus. No coffee will be available. A stop for dinner will be made at about 8:00 p.m. The cost of dinner meal is not included in your ticket. Name______Address City, State,-- ZIP------______---__--~_ Home Phone Work Phone Email ______Washington Apple Pi member? Yes __No __ __Here is my check. Please reserve seats on the bus for me at $60.00 each. __Here is my credit card information. Please reserve seats on the bus for me at $62.00 each. Name as it appears on card. ______MasterCard _Visa Card Card number Expires____ _ Marc h I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 77 VIC20. My first floppy drive was defi nitely a memorable moment. Any way, if you put the data tapes in the tape player they make a wacky sound DoubleClick that unfortunately DOESN'T help little Sammie G. sleep! I think everyone should have a CD-R or CD-RW. They are very use Dave and Derek: your drive onto CDs. Check for a pro ful. They can transport lots of infor y HP6460 computer gram by Adaptec mation. I've started making large ame with preinstaUed MS (www.adaptec.com) as one possibil Powerpoint presentations complete M Windows 98 and many ity (the Windows version is caUed EZ with video and sound that will easily other programs. It has a Floppy drive, CD Creator; the Mac version is Toast fit on a CD. This CD can act as a CD-ROM drive and a CD-Rewriteable 4.0). Most of these programs make it backup if your laptop blows up. Take drive. I'm having trouble with the easy too - literally just drag and drop them to another computer (make sure backup. It will back up to the floppy the files you want to backup. Each CD it has the same version of Powerpoint drive but it takes many floppies. Is holds a little more than 600 Mbs of or include the viewer), copy the CD there a way to back up to one of the information, so it will still take a few to the hard drive temporarily, run the CD drives? If so, how do I do it? If to do a complete backup if you have presentation, delete the files and be not, is there a better way? Thanks, a large hard drive. But the disks are gone. Lloyd cheap, they're available everywhere, We've also started using CDs to pro and they sure beat using floppies - vide sales literature. We create a pre DAVE: something I wouldn't even want to sentation in either Powerpoint or Happy New Year, Lloyd! Your think about in the 21st Century. Macromedia Flash and save it to CD. backup solution is already instaUed in Of course, I heard a rumor that Send it to a client and impress! Back your computer. It's that CD Derek was still using a cassette ma ups are great on CD. At the end of the Rewritable drive. Derek talked about chine from Radio Shack to do his year we copied all of our accounting them extensively in our December backups - something to wile away the information to CD and took it offsite 20th column but suffice it to say, that time while he holds little baby for storage. We now have a perma is your best answer for backing up Samantha in the middle of the night... nent record of our accounting data your hard drive. In the good old days, that we know we will be able to read you could actually consider doing DEREK: in any computer for a few years to floppy backups (I did many of them That is no rumor. I really DO have come. going back as far as my Apple I I l's a cassette drive. I've owned three over When it comes to backing up hard drive). But with floppies on the the years, one for my Sinclair ZX81 your information, here are the things waaaay out and hard drives hitting PC with it's whopping lK of RAM, to remember. One, most people don't the gigabyte range, you need some TRS-80 Model 1, and a Commodore do it. If you perform your backups thing more efficient - and some thing easier - to do your backups for you. If you didn't have a CD Rewritable drive, a DAT tape drive + presentation slides + designed for backups would also be a good choice, or an ORB 2+ gig . photo slides drive (for example). But your CD RW drive is your ticket to great $3 each • $2 dupes • $20 min. • 24 hours typical backups. All you need to do is -- pay upon receipt & deduct any rejects -- make sure you have the right soft ware. You mentioned that the 6460 Ellis M. Zacharias came with " many other pro 3300 North 7th Street grams." I suspect one of them will Broken Arrow, OK 74012-8200 allow you to make a backup of [email protected] • 918/355-3942 78 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 I you are ahead of the game. Next, make sure the backup is complete and ACTUALLY TEST IT! Actually restore a file to make sure it works. We find that many people (usually using automated tape backup software) aren't actually back ing up the data they think they are. The Toys of Tokyo Tape is the best media for backing up large amounts of data quickly, automatically, and inexpensively. CD is per fect for files that need to be moved or read on another ma chine. For businesses, we recommend BOTH tape and CD R or CD-RW. For home users, we recommend CD-R or CD HE APPLE product matrix lives in four boxes. RW. Why? We find that most home users don't use tape or consumers, there is the iMac and the iBook. For drives because they turn their PCs off and don't really ro T:the professionals, there is the G-series tower and the tate the tapes like they should. But the CDs are easy to use forever-named PowerBook G3. New products, whether and easy to backup. Businesses benefit from having tape all new or product improvements, get one of those names because of the reduced cost per megabyte and the ability to with some moniker attached to the end for differentia backup their entire systems overnight. In our office we have tion. For example, the PowerBook G3 has carried that a dedicated PC that performs tape backups. It has 3 tape generic name through too many different iterations, or backup drives (two 24GB and one 8GB tape drives in it.) We the iMac adds a "Special Edition" etc. also have two CD-Rs and one CD-RW drive that we use for The Tokyo MacWorld show was the right venue for lots of things. the unveiling of three changes to products in the matrix So Lloyd, get some blank CDs and start recording! and one important new offering that is getting little cov Dennis, our reader who had an earlier CD-R question, erage over here. Japan has been a large and loyal market sent us these comments: to Apple. Apple did the right thing by using that show Wow, you guys are fast! I never expected to see my ques for its announcements. The PowerMac G4 family saw a tion answered in print less than a week after submitting it, return to its original speed offerings. The long-rumored but there it was in yesterday's paper. Thanks for the quick update to the PowerBook line appeared, and Apple un response and for the very comprehensive answer. I will defi veiled both an update to the iBook, and a new "Special nitely take your advice and try the Ricoh Platinum CD-Rs. Edition" iBook akin to the popular iMac DV "Special Just for info, I have mostly been using the blue Verbatims Edition". The orphan, based on Western press coverage, you mentioned, and so far I haven't seen any compatibility was an announcement that Mac OS X will include six problems with them (although the drive that wrote them "highest-quality" Japanese fonts. That is no small accom doesn't seem to be able to copy them, but I think that's a plishment, and is due to some neat new methodologies different problem). Sorry, I'm pretty weak on Bing Crosby found within Mac 0 X. material. Those pre-1955 artists are even before my time! But thanks again. -Dennis (Optional, Anne:) Dave: Yah, yah- but Cosby was around long after 1955 ... "Two FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports remember that Christmas show with Sting? ml DoubleClick is reprinted by pennission of the Journal News- replace SCSI; thus the new moniker. papers. Dave Ottalini is on the Board of Directors of Wash ington Apple Pi, The Apple/Mac user group based in Gone is the ability to use a Rockville, MD. PowerBook as an external SCSI Derek Rowan is president of HLP Associates Inc. (www.hlp.net), a full-service computer network and hard drive; instead, you can use it Internet firm serving business headquartered in Falls Church, VA, and with offices in Washington, Baltimore and with your other FireWire computer New York City. as an external FireWire hard drive. Dave and Derek can be reached by email at [email protected]; by snail mail in care of The Journal, You can also can boot a PowerBook 6408 Edsall Road, Alexandria, VA 22312; or by fax at 803- 846-8366. While all questions and comments are welcome, from a FireWire device." we cannot promise individual responses. March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 79 PowerBook (FireWire) growing Japanese customer base. The last one was called the "The Power Macintosh Mac OS X will include six "highest "Bronze Keyboard" edition; now quality" Japanese fonts created for it meet "FireWire". It feature faster G4 processor configura by one of Japan's leading typography chips and Fire Wire ports, but no radi firms. cal new case design. The G3 proces tions return to what Typography in idiographic lan sor runs at 400MHz or SOOMHz. Add guages is extremely difficult. Most lots of backside cache and a lOOMHz Apple originally in operating systems aren't prepared to system bus and the top of the line deal with fonts of 3MB each or larger, should be 25% faster than the previ tended: 400MHz, and most text handling is still explic ous fastest PowerBook G3. itly designed for alphabetic text with Two FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports 450MHz, and SOOMHz. occasional application support for replace SCSI; thus the new moniker. ideographic languages in limited situ Gone is the ability to use a PowerBook In addition, these G4s ations. To give you a sense of scale, as an external SCSI hard drive; in each idiographic font is more than stead, you can use it with your other can be started from a seventy times as large as a standard FireWire computer as an external US English font. Mac OS X can takes Fire Wire hard drive. You can also can FireWire drive. Other full advantage of the Unicode stan boot a PowerBook from a FireWire dard that allocates two bytes of stor device. configuration details age for each "character," not the single byte of storage used by ASCII and PowerBook Trivia remain unchanged." most computer systems. Unicode The screen is the same 14.1-inch makes it just as easy to display ideo display. What is new is the chip pow graphic text as any other kind of text, ering it-the ATI RAGE Mobility 128. RAM and a 6GB hard drive. All other with full feature parity in all text han This is the latest iteration of the RAGE internal features are the same. Exter dling features. That opens a door for Mobility chip in the iBook. It supports nally, the new iBook "Special Edi significantly improved text in Japa two displays, and like the "Bronze" tion", like the iMac with the same nese, Chinese, and Korean systems. model, "FireWire" can drive an exter name, comes in a graphite-colored nal monitor in addition to the built enclosure. The iBook Special Edition Now What? in LCD screen. You can view a 21-inch features a 366MHz PowerPC G3 pro Apple is known to want to release monitor in millions of colors. cessor, which should make it about new products or freshen its existing A 6X DVD-ROM drive is stan 20% faster than the blueberry and tan line in a nine-ish month cycle. De dard and can play DVD-ROM, DVD gerine models. One wag we trust of pending on how you count, Tokyo Video, and DVD-RAM discs, plus fered that anyone who found the unveiled one new and two freshened CD-ROMs at up to 24X speed. You iBook just a little too slow or too ca products. On to New York. D.C. • can watch Rear Window, but you sual to use in their daily lives should won't be able to make your own; nei flip for the iBook Special Edition. ther FinalCut Pro nor iMovie is in We would like to thank the technical wiz cluded. The other built-in are pretty Power Macintosh G4 ards at MW], The Serious Journal for much the same. There are two Uni The Power Macintosh G4 proces Macintosh Userstm for their assistance in versal Serial Buses; thus, you can lis sor configurations return to what preparing this article. Sample copies of ten to digital audio on one, while us Apple originally intended: 400MHz, MW/ and subscription information are ing the other to do real work. The hot 450MHz, and SOOMHz. In addition, available at 80 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 I ANNOUNCEMENTS Please remember to i-Dte. Ballot will be in your next journal Computer Camp is coming. See page 19 for particulars. "We're going to Mac World again. Ad giving full information is on page 77. Bethesda Computers ..... C2 Pi Fillings v. 6 ClarisWorks UG ...... C2 list of contents & file descriptions Living Textbook ...... 76 MacUpgrades ...... C4 Apple System Updates and Express Modems • Apple Server Updates • USB Updates: Nordic Software ...... 1 • ATI Video Update 1.0 • USB Card Support 1.3.5 • Disk Tools • USB Mass Storage Support 1.3 TCS ...... 55 • DVDSWUpdate2.0 • Final Cut Pro 1.2.1 Blue G3 Updates Pi Fillings-The CD (#6) C3 • FireWire 2.2.2 • Firmware Update 1.1 • G4 ROM Update 1.8.1 • OS ROM Update 1.0 Slide presentations ...... 78 • Games Sprockets 1.7.3 • CD Update 2.0 • GV 56K Updaters • Ultra2 SCSI Firmware 1.1 WAP Election-Please • iMovie 1.0.1 Updater vote ...... 16 • Indo Video 5 iMac Updates • LocalTalk Bridge 2.1 • Firmware Update 1.2 WAP Computer Camp .... 19 • Modem Updater 1.3.5 • Update 1.1 • OS 9 Enhancements: • CD Update 2.0 WAP MacWorld Trip ...... 77 • Open Transport update 2.6 • iBook Battery Reset 2.0 •OS 9 Audio Update 1.2 • DVD ROM Update 1.0 WAP Map to Meeting ...... 66 •OS 9/Software Update 1.1 • Open Transport 2.6 (for OS • PB G3 Series Updates: 8.6) • Battery Reset 2.0 • iMac Troubleshooting Guide • PB G3 DVD-ROM Updater • PB G3 Series Modem 1.0.2 Third Party Updates • Runtime for Java 2.1.4 Applications • System 7.5.3 & 7.5.5 plus • AppleWorks 5.0.3 [convert •OT 1.1.2 & OT/PPP 1.0 ClarisWorks 5.x to • Apple Display vl.7.1 AppleWorks] • Apple Telecom for GeoPort •Creator 2.16 March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 81 I • DiskWarrior 1.1 •Iomega • Navigator 4.0.8 PPC • FileMaker Pro 5.0v2 •PACE • Fortify 2.2.2 • HD Toolkit 3.0.2 • SyQuest • NiftyTelnet 1.1 • NAV 5.0.3 •VST • Norton Utilities 4.0.3 & 5.0.2 •ORB • Less Essential - More Optional • Palm Pilot 2.5 plus accessories • AMPRadio • Quicken 98 RS & 2000 R2 USB TelePort Modem 1.0.2 • iCab • SoundJam MP 1.5 • Graphic Utilities • Stuffit Deluxe 5.1.5 Essential Utilities • GIF Converter 2.4.4 • TechTools Pro 2.5.3 • Adobe Acrobat Reader & • Graphic Converter 3.7.2 Search4.5 • JPEGView 3.3.1 Drivers • Adobe Type Mgr 4.5.2 • KeepMe OnLine Adaptors • Apple Disk Copy Utility 6.3.3 • MacWash 1.0 (Demo) •Griffin w I AppleScripts • Netscape History • Keyspan • Apple System Profiler 2.1.2 • Net-Print 8.1 • OrangeMicro • BBEdit Lite 4.6 • NoCookieV2 • Disinfectant 3.7.1 • Sherlock Plugins & Tester Cameras • WormScanner 2.3 • SoundApp 2.6.1 • Alaris • Agax 1.3 • URL Manager Pro 2.6 •Apple • MIME Decoder • ViaHTTP 1.7.3 • Cameraid • GURU2.8 • Web Devil4.6.1 • iRez • Aladdin Expander & DropStuff •Minolta 5.5 Apple @ The Flicks •Nikon • TechTool 1.1.9 • tank.mov •Olympus • PowerMac Emergency Handbook • hal04.mov • VideoCamWorks • Not So Essential Stuff Fun Diversions Input Devices • Apple Memory Guide 10-99 • Goofy Golf Deluze •Alps • DragThing 2.7 • Gravite 2.0 • Kensington • File Smiler 1.6.1 • Quarters • Keyspan • Greg's Browser 2.6.1 • Nanosaur Updater 1.1.9 • MacAlly • KeySwapper 1.1.1 •Microsoft • MagicBullets 2.0.1 New Member's Sampler • Wacom • Network Watching Tools • USB Overdrive • IPNet Monitor Loot for Little People • MacTCP Watcher 2.0 • Al's Coloring Book Printers • Mac TCP Tracer • Coloring Book •Apple • Trawl 1.0.2 •Fun Stuff •Epson • AGNetTools • KidCalc! • Hewlett-Packard • OTTools 1.1 • KidGrid •Lexmark • Prestissimo 1.0.1 •Match Card • EpsonShare Printer Sharing • PrintTo PDF 1.0.2 •Wack.It! • TapGuard 1.0.1 Scanners Loot for Teens •Apple Internet Essentials • Customize a Mac •Epson • Anarachie Pro 3.7 • Gopher Golf •Hewlett-Packard • Eudora Light 3.1.3 • MacChess • Microtek • Fetch 3.Q.3 • Pando Calendar •Nikon • Internet Config 2.0.2 • Short Circuit •UMAX • Mail Siphon 1.1 •Snood • MT-NewsWatcher 3.0 • Squark Storage • NetFinder 2.0.3 •World Maps •Imation • Netscape • X-Words 82 Washington Apple Pl Journal March I April 2000 I Minitower, or PM 6500 series). It is you don't need. Loot for Big People NOT for the iMac or B&W G3. Study • Runtime for Java 2.1.4: fixes two •Consult the ReadMe carefully. severe bugs that affected Java appli •Copy Paste • iMovie 1.0.1 Updater: converts cations, but not applets. • DayMap your installed iMovie 1.0 to the new System 7.5.5: •Euro to$ Converter and improved 1.0.1 version. • Mac System 7.5.3 plus updater 7.5.5. •Flash-It • Indo Video 5: QuickTime 3 or 4 • OT 1.1.2, the network and commu •Heritage PowerMac users can compress and nications system software for a Mac, •Hi's Universal Saver play back Intel Indeo Video 5 in and OT/PPP 1.0 which enables you • iStroke QuickTime files. to connect your computer to a remote • KeyStrokes • LocalTalk Bridge 2.1: is an unsup TCP /IP network [such as the • MacChart ported tool used to share LocalTalk Internet]. IF you are told you need • MiniAddress only devices, such as some them, here they are. •Office Pro LaserWriter pritners on an Ethernet Apple Telecom folder which includes •People Lister network. It is provided solely as a two versions of Apple Telecom soft • Simple Calendars convenience by Apple. ware: • Stock Trader • Modem Updater 1.3.5: updates the • Apple Telecom for GeoPort/Ex internal modem which came with the press Modems Apple Server Updates: Powerbook G3 Series or iMac com • Apple Telecom for Serial Modems • AppleShare Client 3.8.6 puter. • AppleDisplay Software vl.7.1. • AppleShare IP 6.3 • OpenGL 1.1.2: enables your com USB Updates: • Macintosh Manager 1.2.2 puter to display 3D graphics using ap • USB Card Support 1.3.5: software • Network Assistant 8.5 and 8.6 plications designed to take advantage extensions that provide support for •Remote Access 3.0.2 of OpenGL. USB adapters cards in PCI bus • ATI Video Update 1.0: improve 2D OS 9 Enhancements: or CardBus slots. and 3D acceleration for machines • Open Transport Update 2.6: Open • USB Mass Storage Support 1.3: with the ATI Rage 128 card or on Transport 2.6 addresses DHCP issues supports devices that meet the USB board ATI RAGE Pro chips. in Mac OS 9.0 and prevents Macintosh Mass Storage Class specification. • Disk Tools 7.6 & 8.5: if you have computers from being used in certain See the RedMe for details. lost yours, here are the replacements. types of Denial of Service (DoS) is Adaptors 7.6 contains images for 6800 series and sues. Check the ReadMe to see if this • Griffin PPC series; 8.5 is PPC only. update will work with your setup! • gPort Driver 1.1 • DVD SW Update 2.0: is a software • Audio Update 1.2: improves USB • iMate Driver 1.77 only DVD player. It is not compat audio support for Mac OS 9. • iMate Fiddler 1.51 ible with the DVD hardware found in •Software Update 1.1: will make it • Keyspan a G3, PB G3, or PM G4 (PCI graphics) faster for Apple to deliver software • USB Serial Adapter 1.7.2 series machine. updates to you via the Internet. • USB PDA Adapter 1.7.2 • Final Cut Pro 1.2.1: includes the PB G3 Series Updates: • USB Twin Serial Adapter 1.2 application update, FireWire 2.2.2, • Battery Reset 2.0: addresses a situ • Orange Micro - Grappler SCSI QuickTime FireWirer DV extensions ation that may occur with some Updater and the latest ATI drivers. You even PowerBook G3 Series and iBook com Cameras get the new .pdf users manual. puters in which the battery, while in • Alaris - QuickVideo weeCam & • FireWire 2.2.2: replacement driver the system, doesn't show up in the Users Guide for those with an incompatability that Control Strip, or a red X appears over • Apple prevents serial devices, like digital the battery icon in the menu bar. • PhotoFlash 2.0 and 2.0.1 cameras, from making an initial con • PB G3 DVD-ROM Updater: elimi • QuickTake 1.0 nection. nates a possible interuption during • Cameraid-vl.1.3 • Game Spockets 1.7.3: includes the system startup of a CD/DVD disc is • iRez complete set of draw, input, net and not in the drive and the drive tray is • v2.5F5 sound sprockets. closed. For bronze keyboard models • iVisit 2.2b2 • GV 56K Updaters: supports the in w/DVD. • ReelEyes 1.1.0 ternal modem in a G3 (Desktop or • PB G3 Series Modem 1.0.2: squashes lots of neat little features, • Minolta - QuickScan 35, v2.6E March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 83 I • Olympus-v3.0 and v3.l • VistaScan 3.6.1 aged system files. Freeware. • Nikon - Coolpix 950 [US and Eu Storage • Virus Protection: contains Disin rope] • Imation-SuperDisk 1.31 fectant 3.7.1, by John Norstad, the • VideoCamWorks - vl.0 • Iomega anti-virus utility for your Macintosh; Input Devices • 5.5.1 Agax 1.3; and WormScanner 2.3, a • Alps • IomegsWare 1.1.3 utility which scans for and deletes • Adjustable Mouse 1.01 • ORB-vl.26 known Autostart worm files. which • GlidePoint 1.12b • PACE Anti-Piracy - USB Enabler will also alert you to suspicious files. • GlidePoint Desktop 1.10 • SyQuest- Utilities 4.0.1 These three cover most problems a • GlidePoint Keyboard 1.03 • VST - Fire Wire 2.0.1 Mac person might encounter. If you • GlidePoint Portable 1.03 feel you need more comprehensive • Kensington USB TelePort Modem 1.0.2 protection, look into the commercial • MouseWorks 5.30 • This patch does not match the titles alternatives. Freeware. • MouseWorks 5.3.1 for the other folders; so it get its own. • PowerMac Emergency Handbook, • Keyspan by Apple Computer: It is in PDF for • Digital Media Remove 1.2 Essential Utilities mat • SX Pro Serial Card 1.3 • Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0.5: gives Not So Essential Utilities • MacAlly you access to documents in their origi • Apple Memory Guide, (10-9) by • iMouse/Ball pro nal forms, independent of computer Apple Computer: contains memory • PointDevice v3.1 platform. You can view, navigate, upgrade information for all • Microsoft - IntelliPoint print any Portable Document Format Macintosh computers and • USB - Overdrive 1.2 (PDF) file. LaserWriter printers. It is in PDF for • Wacom - Tablet 4.SOb 1 Also included is the new mat. Printers - visit each folder for a com Reader+Search engine. • DragThing 2.7, by James Thomson: plete listing • Adobe Type Mgr 4.5.2 is an application designed to tidy up • Apple-all • Apple Disk Copy 6.3.3: will mount the icons littering your desktop. • Epson - too many disk images on your desktop, make Shareware fee $20.00. • EpsonShare Printer Sharing, vl.5 exact copies of floppies from a disk • File Smiler 1.6.1: turns your files • Hewlett-Packard - all image, convert one format to another, and folders into Self-mounting Image • Lexmark - all and create a disk image from a files using Apple's Disk Copy 6.3. Scanners mounted volume or folder. Freeware. • Apple - v4.3 • Apple System Profiler 2.1.2, by • Finder Pop 1.8.1: is a control panel • Epson Apple Computer: learn what is in which extends the Mac OS 8 Finder's •Epson Scan! II, v2.61A side your Macintosh. contextual menus. It greatly simpli • Expression 636, ES-lOOOc, ES- • BBEdit Lite 4.6: the popular plain fies navigating around your hard 1200c, & Action Scanner II, v2.62A text and HTML editor. Freeware. drive. Shareware fee: $8.00. • Expression 636 - Blue G3, v3.20A • MIME Decoder: contains YA-De • Greg's Browser 2.6.1: Shareware fee • Expressio~ 836XL, vl.03E coder 2.4.1 and YA-Decoder 3.0.1: no $20.00. • EPTWN310: repairs a lockup on long will messages encoded in MIME • GURU 2.8, by Newer Technologies: PPCs with the Motorola 603 Base64 be a mystery. Drop that pesky is an application which provides you CPU chip file on the decoder and voila. with information concerning memory • Hewlett-Packard Shareware fee $15.00. upgrades for every model of • DeskScan II, v2.4 • Stuffit Drag and Drop (5.5 Series), Macintosh computer, LaserWriter • PaperPort Viewer by Aladin Systems: contains the two printer and many Macintosh clones. • PictureScan tools you need to compress (stuff) a There is a memory integrity test to • ScanJet 140 and 150 file you wish to send to someone or check your RAM, a comprehensive • ScanJet Sp open (expand) a compressed file sent glossary, and other neat stuff. • Microtek - ScanWizard 3.24.3 to you. If you own Stufflt Deluxe, Freeeware. • Nikon - Scan 2.5 EN update 5.15 is here as well. Freeware. • HandyMan 2.0.6: allows for quick • UMAX • TechTool 1.1.9, by Micromat: is a and easy access to applications, Con • VistaScan 2.4.3 SCSI handy utility which can rebuild the trol Panels, etc vii the Control Strip. • VistaScan 3.5.1 SCSI desktop on your computer, zap the Sure beats navigating through a • VistaScan 3.5.1 USB paramater RAM, and test for dam- bunch of folders. Shareware fee 84 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 $15.00. gram. A .pdf manual is included. you decide. Shareware fee $30.00. • iSearch 1.21: lets you run literal text • Fetch 3.0.3: is another File Trans • Net-Print 8.1: allows you to print searches thru files, folder, disks, and fer Protocol (FTP) application. any highlighted text; from your CDs. Shareware fee $10.00. • Internet Config 2.0.2: is designed screen, from the web, from any • MacArmyKnife 1.6: It is meant to to make your life easier by reducing source. You can even take multiple be a "catch all" for mini-utilities and the number of times which you need chunks of text and print them on one things that other apps don't do. Give to enter your Internet preferences into sheet of paper. Shareware fee: $10.00. it a try; you might find something that the various preferences dialogs of all • Netscape History 3.0: is a utility for one of its utilities helps you. your Internet applications. Netscape (and Microsoft Internet Ex Shareware fee $20.00. • Mail Siphon 1.1: is a tool to man plorer) that lets you to browse off-line • MagicBullets, by Bill Karsh: is an age your mailbox. It makes it possible (not connected to the Internet) the last e-mail quoting and text styling tool. for you to junk mail you don't want Web pages visited with your browser. Building this CD would be a pill with without having to download the rest Images will be correctly shown, if they out it! Shareware fee is $5.00. of your mail. Great way to rid of un were loaded when the page was read •Network Watching Tools: exam solicited mail. Shareware fee is a from the net. Shareware fee $8.00. ine your connection to either an thankyou note, money, or chocolate. • NoCookieV2: allows you to dis AppleTalk or Ethernet network. Well worth it. and re-enable your cookie files. TRAWL for AppleTalk; MacTCP • MT-NewsWatcher 3.0: is an on line Freeware. Watcher; MacTCP Tracer; (Internet) news reader. Freeware. • Sherlock Stuff IPNetMonitor; and Net Tools for • NetFinder 2.0.3 • SoundApp 2.6.1: is a PPC freeware Ethernet networks. Shareware. •Netscape sound player and converter. It can • Prestissimo 1.5: is a Control Panel • Navigator 4.0.8 PPC [no built-in play and convert sound files from a for controlling all of the Mac OS 8.5 e-mail program] variety of computer platforms and in new features such as applications pal • Fortify 2.2.2 [adds 128-bit encryp many different formats. It can be used ette, keyboard shortcuts, and scroll tion to Netscape] with WWW browsers to play sounds. bar appearance. Freeware. • NiftyTelnet 1.1: is a fast telnet cli In addition, it supports Play Lists • PrintToPDF 1.0.2: PrintToPDF is a ent for the Internet. Freeware. which are lists of sound files that can shareware Macintosh printer driver Less Essential - More Optional be saved for later usage. Freeware. that creates PDF (Adobe Acrobat™) •AMP Radio 1.5: is the most fully • URL Manager Pro 2.6 files from within your application featured and easy to use Internet Au • ViaHTTP 1.7.3: lets you start an programs. You can create PDF book dio Receiver and MP3 player avail HTTP download, stop for some rea marks to your section and subsection able on any computer platform exist son, and resume it at another time. headings, and URLs will become hot ing today. That's what they asked This is slick and cheap. Save time and links. Shareware fee $20. me to write. Shareware fee: $10.00 line charges. Shareware fee $5.00. • TapGuard 1.0.1: trackpads are • Graphic Utilities • Web Devil 4.6.1: Web Devil is a tool handy, but if you tap it by accident, • GIF Converter 2.4.4 for downloading web pages and their the inserion point moves somewhere • Graphic Converter 3.7.2 associated images, textures, and links else. TapGuard fixes that problem. • JPEGView 3.3.1 quickly and easily. Give it a URL and Shareware fee $5.00. • iCab 1.8: is the sweatest, neatest, it will download all the items on the little browser out there. Still in beta, web page. It has an easy to use inter Internet Essentials but fun to try never-the-less. face, is scriptable and recordable, and • Anarchie Pro 3.7: is the only • KeepMe Online: ever experienced is fully multi-threaded so it won't hog Internet engine that is truely native to the annoyance of being disconnected the CPU. Version 4.6.1 is free; the full the Macintosh platform. It will give from the Internet by your ISP when featured version is $35.00. • you faster, easier and more powerful you've left your computer for a mo access to web & ftp sites than your ment? Not any more! Freeware. regular web browser. • MacWasher™ 1.0 Demo: is a very See ad for CD on •Eudora Light 3.1.3: is a standalone useful program for cleaning up the electronic mail (e-mail) program. If history of your activities on your com inside back cover. you use Netscape Navigator, which puter. MacWasher will automatically does not do e-mail, you need Eudora run in the background and clean up Light. If you use Netscape Commu whatever tracks you want removed, nicator, e-mail is built-into the pro- whenever you want; cache, cookies, Order today!! March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 85 TC 1999 Index of Journal Articles compiled by Bonnie Ashbaugh Great thanks go to Bonnie Ashbaugh for her patience and meticulousness in putting together this, and other journal indices. To understand the index note that it is organized by volume, issue number and by page. The articles are then divided into categories. These categories include: G=General interest; F=Feature; BR= Book review; SR=Software re view; HR=Hardware review; CDR=CD-ROM review. Author, (with NA=no attribution) and title of article are also included. Vol. Issue Cat. Title, page Author Subject 21 6 G The Making of a Problem, p. 5 Evans, Lorin Licensing Apple Computer, Inc. 21 6 G BOD August Meeting Notes, p. 7 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 6 G BOD September Meeting Notes, p. 7 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 6 G August General Meeting Report, p. 8 Kiepe, Steve General meetings WAP iBook 21 6 G September General Meeting Report, p. 12 Kiepe, Steve General meetings WAP Movie creation 21 6 G Holiday Gift Giving Opportunities, p. 14 NA WAP TCS Explorer Service 21 6 G Women's SIG September Meeting, p. 16 Cleveland, Marjorie SIGs/Slices Women's interests 21 6 G Old Apples for a New Generation, p. 16 Evans, Lorin Medlin, Beth WAP 21 6 G Genealogy SIG September Meeting, p. 17 Maish, Alex SIGs/Slices Genealogy 21 6 G Graphic Arts August and September SIG Meetings, p. 19 Lange, Blake SIGs/Slices Graphics 21 6 SR Adobe Acrobat Captures the Web, p. 23 Dimick, Dennis R. Desktop publishing Electronic documents PDF (Portable Document Format) 21 6 BR Spells for Wizards: A Review of Books, p. 27 Charters, Lawrence I. Web page design Repairing hardware T Troubleshooting 21 6 SR Starry Night Deluxe and Pro, p. 30 Harris, David L. Astronomy Planetarium programs 21 6 F Army Adopts Macintosh for World Wide Web, p.33 Dickey, Connie E. Security Military Global Hell 21 6 F Networking Made Simple: Ethernet Networking, p. 35 Charters, Lawrence I. Computer usage Techniques File sharing 21 6 SR Interface Hall of Shame: Quicklime 4.0 Player, p. 37 Hayes, Brian C. Multimedia 21 6 BR lightly Wrapped Expertise: A Review of Books, p. 40 Charters, Lawrence I. Word processing Desktop publishing Web page design 21 6 SR Adobe Acrobat 4: Second Look at the Electronic Publishing Future, p. 45 Gerstenbluth, Paul Electronic documents PDF (Portable Document Format) 21 6 G Best of the TCS, p. 52 Ludwigson, John (compiler) TCS 21 6 HR iBook: Vision in Blueberry, p. 67 Washington Apple Pi Labs Laptops 21 6 HR iBook Benchmarks, p. 71 Washington Apple Pi Labs Laptops 21 6 F Saga of a Mac Fan, p. 72 Cook, Ray Norton Utilities Norton AnbVirus Trouble shooting 21 6 SR FileMaker Pro DemystHied, p. 74 Ottalini, Dave Database File management 21 6 F DoubleClick-Sept. 20th, p. 76 Rowan, Derek Ottalini, Dave Q&A PowerBooks Partitioning 21 6 F DoubleClick-Sept. 27th, p. 77 Rowan, Derek Ottalini, Dave Q&A Word97 Excel 21 6 F DoubleClick-Oct. 4th, p. 78 Rowan, Derek Ottalini, Dave Q&A 21 6 SR Protecting Your Copyrighted Graphics, p. 85 Gerstenbluth, Paul Digimarc Watermarks 86 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 rr Vol. Issue Cat. Title, page Author Subject 21 6 G 1997 Index of Journal Articles, p. 86 Ashbaugh, Bonnie WAP Journal 21 6 F A Resource for AppleWorks Users, p. 91 Mason, Brian G. Apple II Word processing General-purpose applications 21 6 SR Updating ProSel, "Norton Utilitiesn for the Apple II, p. 91 Mason, Brian G. Troubleshooting Repairing hardware 21 5 G He's Not Happy.... , p. 5 Evans, Lorin Apple-related stuff 21 5 G BOD June Meeting Notes, p. 7 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 5 G BOD July Meeting Notes, p. 8 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 5 G July General Meeting Report, p. 9 Kiepe, Steven General meetings WAP 21 5 G WAP's MacFun Bus Goes to MacWorld, p. 10Keene, Mary WAP MacWorld '99 Apple Computer, Inc. 21 5 G Genealogy SIG June Meeting, p. 23 Rice, Charles Jordan, Mary SIGs/Slices Genealogy 21 5 G Graphic Arts SIG June and July Meeting, p. 25 Lange, Blake SIGs/Slices Graphics 21 5 G Guess the User Groups, p. 29 Ottalini, Dave User groups 21 5 F Surviving in a Cross Platform World, p. 30 Kiepe, Steve Microsoft Office 97 File conversion 21 5 F Maclips--1999, p. 34 Ottalini, Dave Computer usage, Techniques, Troubleshooting 21 5 F Ethernet Network for Two Macs, p. 35 Fox, Bill iMac Networking 21 5 G Error if the Month, p. 37 NA Mac OS X Server 21 5 SR Poser 4-lt Has Lots of New Abilities, p. 38 Bonwit, Stuart Animation Image creation Movie creation 21 5 SR When Your Zip Disk Takes Hike ... ARGHHH, p. 41 Smith, Dale DiskWarrior, Repairing hardware, Troubleshooting 21 5 F The Need for Speed: ComCast@Home and Cable Moderns, p. 43 Washington Apple Pi Labs Internet Comcast Cable moderns 21 5 G Meeting WAP Members, p. 46 Mobley, Jan WAP User groups 21 5 SR Starry Night Deluxe and the Tracking of Spacecraft, p. 52 Harris, David Astronomy Planetarium programs 21 5 G Best of the TCS, p. 61 Ludwigson, John (compiler and editor) TCS 21 5 G Time Travel and the Macintosh, p. 65 Washington Apple Pi Labs Y2K compliance 21 5 F SonicWall: Combating the Barbarians, p. 66 Washington Apple Pi Labs Internet Firewalls Security 21 5 F HyperCard: What Is It? Really, What Is It?, p. 70 Witte, Tom Programming 21 5 SR Eye Candy3.0:Tempting Desserts for Your Eyes, p. 71 Gerstenbluth, Paul Graphics Image creation Photoshop 21 5 CDR Mini-Review: Washington Apple Pi "Pi Fillingsn, p. 71 Aikens, Daria WAP Pi Fillings-The CD 21 5 G HyperStudio Mangement Changed, p. 74 Mason, Brian (compiler) Apple llGS Education 21 5 G Apple Computer Website Directory, p. 85 NA Apple Computer, Inc, World Wide Web (yNIW) 21 5 F Free Mac Tech Support for Everyone, p. 88 Conte, Russ Tech Exchange Apple Computer, Inc. Technical Information Library 21 5 SR Design Your Own Home, p. 89 Wilson, Dennis 3D modeling Archltectural design 21 5 F InkJet Printers, p. 90 Barnsley, Godfrey Printers 21 5 F Apple II Telecommunications, p. 92 Mason, Brian Apple II Telecommunications programs 21 4 G Another Order of Steak, Please, p. 5 Evans, Lorin User groups WAP 21 4 G BOD April Meeting Notes, p. 7 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 4 G BOD May Meeting Notes, p. 7 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 4 G April General Meeting Report, p. 8 Essick, Don General meetings WAP 21 4 G May General Meeting Report, p. 1O Essick, Don General meetings WAP 21 4 G Contents Pi Fillings-The CD (version 5), p. 11 NA Pi Fillings CD 21 4 G NMS: New Millennium Syndrome, p. 13 Charters, "Fred" Year 2000 21 4 G The 1999 Computer Camp at WAP, p. 14 NA Computer camp 21 4 G April Genealogy SIG Meeting, p. 16 Jordan, Ed SIGs/Slices Genealogy 21 4 G May Genealogy SIG Meeting, p. 17 Jordan, Ed SIGs/Slices Genealogy 21 4 G Graphic Arts SIG April &May Meettngs, p. 19 Lange, Blake SIGs/Slices Graphics 21 4 G Delmarva Slice Macintosh Users Group Established, p. 19 Wetzel, Sally SIGs/Slices March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 87 TC Vol. Issue Cat. Title, page Author Subject 21 4 G Women•s SIG May Meeting, p. 21 NA SIGs/Slices Women's interests 21 4 F Mac OS 8.6: Overview, p. 22 NA MacOS8.6 21 4 G Election Results, May 1999, p. 26 NA WAP 21 4 F Digital Edge: WWDC Wrap Up for Non-Programmers, p. 27 Sydow, Dan Parks WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) Mac OS 21 4 G Ask the Webmaster, p. 31 [email protected] TCS Explorer Service World Wide WebrNWW) 21 4 G Ask the Webmaster, p. 31 [email protected] TCS Explorer Service World Wide WebrNWW) 21 4 F The Art of Seeing: History, Culture and Digital Photography, p. 36 Covington, George A. Graphics Photograph manipulation 21 4 SR Review of Consultant: Personal Information Manager, p. 38 Tripp, Dick PIM (Personal Information Manager) 21 4 SR SETl@home, p. 41 Harris, David Astronomy Science 21 4 SR Acrobat 4.0: New Tricks are in Short Supply, p. 45 Dimick, Dennis R. PDF (Portable Document Format) Desktop publishing Web page design 21 4 F Configuring Date and lime Using Mac OS 8.5, p. 52 Washington Apple Pi Labs Mac OS 8.5 21 4 F Rayovac and Resource 800 to the Rescue, p. 62 Gerstenbluth, Paul Hardware Troubleshooting Clock battery 21 4 F Some lips for Using AOL in Paris, p. 62 Rook, Lisette America Online Online services 21 4 SR Review of TechTools Pro 2: The Best Cure for Your Sick MAc, p. 63 Gerstenbluth, Paul Troubleshooting Repairing hardware 21 4 F MoniSwltch Review: Update from the Manucfaturer, p. 64 Bott, Roderich Monitor switching 21 4 G Best of the TCS, p. 65 Ludwigson, John (compiler) TCS 21 4 G 1998 Index of Journal Articles, p. 69 Ashbaugh, Bonnie (compiler) WAP Journal 21 4 F Mac OS and Windows Evolutions: Leaming the Facts About Operating System Evolution, p. 83 Every, David K. Mac OS 21 4 CDR "Kindergarten Success Starter": A Review of "The Playroom" and "James Discovers Math", p. 88 Johnson, Ron Games Chi!dren•s interests Education 21 4 F Rights of Spring, p. 89 Gagliardi, Charles E-mail 21 4 G Highlights of Pi Fillings 5.0, p. 91 NA Pi Fillings CD 21 3 G Deja Vu All Over Again, p. 5 Evans, Lorin FireWire, IEEE 1394,USB (Universal Serial Bus) 21 3 G A Hundred Apple lls, p. 7 Evans, Lorin WAP Apple II 21 3 G February General Meeting Report, p. 10 Essick, Don General meetings WAP 21 3 G Internet Service Charges: A Misunderstanding, p. 11 Weygand, Bob Internet, Federal Communications Commission 21 3 G March General Meeting Report, p. 12 Essick, Don General meetings WAP 21 3 G BOD February Meeting Notes, p. 13 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 3 F On the Bleeding Edge, p. 19 Harris, David Power Macintosh G3 21 3 SR Software Review: Font Reserve, p. 23 Chernoff, Paul J. Font Reserve Fonts 21 3 F Fonts: A Quick Overview, p. 23 Charters, Lawrence I. Fonts 21 3 SR Adobe Premier 5: The Trials of Being New, p. 33 Dimick, Dennis R. Adobe Premier 5.1, Quicklime , Movie creation 21 3 SR Poser 3, p. 37 Bonwlt, Stuart Poser Image creation Animation 21 3 G Best of the TCS, p. 40 Ludwigson, John TCS 21 3 SR Grammarian, p. 53 Keene, Mary Grammarian, Word processing, Grammar checkers 21 3 F Universal Serial Bus (USB) Revisited: Technobabble Lite, p. 59 Evans, Lorin USB (Universal Serial Bus) 21 3 F Changing Faces: New Mac Logos, p. 66 Charters, Lawrence I. Mac OS Apple Computer, Inc. 88 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 rr Vol. Issue Cat. Title, page Author Subject 21 3 F Close Encounters of the Paperwork Kind, p. 68 Herlihy, Tom Programming Web page design Electronic documents 21 3 SR Art Explosion 250,000, p. 70 Rego, Sylvia Art Explosion 250,000 Graphics Photograph manipulation 21 3 SR CorelDraw 8, p. 71 Gagan, Sara CorelDraw 8 Desktop publishing Graphics 21 3 F DoubleClick, p. 73 Rowan, Derek Ottalini, Dave Q&A 21 3 F More DoubleClick, p. 75 Rowan, Derek Ottalini, Dave Q&A 21 3 F 3 Macs and a Printer, p. 76 Glidden, Matthew Networking Techniques 21 3 SR Professional Tax Preparation Software for the Apple II, p. 79 Mason, Brian Tax Preparer Tax preparation Apple II 21 3 G DC Web Women Launched to Provide Resources for Women Online, p. 82 NA Internet, Women's interests, World Wide Web ey.JWW) 21 3 G A Web Site That Could Save Your Life: www.alldata.com, p. 82 Gerstenbluth, Paul Internet, J\Litomobt1e recalls, World Wide Web rtNlW) 21 2 G A Leaming Curve, p. 5 Evans, Lorin Board of Directors WAP 21 2 G WAP By-Laws, p. 7 NA WAP By-Laws WAP 21 2 G Happy Birthday, Macintosh, p. 13 NA Macintosh 21 2 G BOD December Meeting Notes, p. 14 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 2 G BOD January Meeting Notes, p. 14 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 2 G January General Meeting Report, p. 16 Essick, Don General Meetings WAP 21 2 F January's Main Meeting (photos), p. 18 Dimick, Dennis R. General Meetings WAP 21 2 G Apple Visits Washington Apple Pi (photos), p. 19 NA General Meetings, WAP, Apple Computer, Inc. 21 2 G Graphic Arts SIG January Meeting, p. 20 Lange, Blake SIGs/Slices Graphics 21 2 G StockSIG December Meeting, p. 21 Pelham, Morris SIGs/Slices Stock market Investments 21 2 G Genealogy SIG December Meeting, p. 22 Jordan, Ed SIGs/Slices Genealogy 21 2 G Genealogy SIG January Meeting, p. 23 Jordan, Ed SIGs/Slices Genealogy 21 2 F History of a Shortcut: Why Do You Drag a Disk Image to the Trash?, p. 25 Every, David K. Disk images Floppy disks 21 2 SR Ray Dream Again, p. 27 Bonwlt, Stuart Ray Dream Studio 5 Animation 21 2 SR Electrttier and Tribeworks Arrive; Quicklime 4 and Final Cut Are Near, p. 29 Dimick, Dennis R. Quicklime Adobe Premier 5.1; Mer Effects 4.0 Movie creation 21 2 SR A Not So Impartial Review of Microsoft Internet 4.5, Macintosh Edition, p. 33 Lubarsky, Al Microsoft Internet 4.5 Web browsers 21 2 CDR The Complete National Geographic, p. 36 Barnes, John National Geographic CD-ROM sets 21 2 F Connecting Grief and Blue Macs, p. 39 Evans, Lorin iMac Power Macintosh G3 21 2 F High Speed Internet Access: ISDN, ADSL, or Cable?, p. 43 Essick, Don Cable modems ISDN ADSL 21 2 G Computer Camp, p. 46 NA Computer camp WAP 21 2 SR MoniSwltch: When You Have More Macs Than Sense, p. 59 Washington Apple Pi Labs MoniSwltch2 and 4 Monitor switching 21 2 HR iMac Benchmarks: Quick Comparisons, p. 59 Washington Apple Pi Labs iMac Benchmarks 21 2 F Leaming New Software - Goes to the Movies!, p. 64 Finkler, C. Etana MacAcademy Macromedia Director 6 MetaCreations Painter 4 21 2 G Best of the TCS, p. 66 Ludwigson, John TCS 21 2 F Graphic Design 102 for Anybody: Out of Memory Messages, p. 70 Keene, Mary Graphics 21 2 G Solving the Y2K Crisis on the Cheap, p. 77 Charters, Lawrence I. Year 2000 21 2 SR DoubleClick, p. 80 Rowan, Derek Ottalini, Dave Q&A iMac 21 2 F More DoubleC!ick, p. 81 Rowan, Derek Ottalini, Dave Q&A March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 89 IT Vol. Issue Cat. Title, page Author Subject 21 2 BR FileMaker Pro 4 Bible, p. 84 Gerstenbluth, Paul FileMaker Pro 4 Bible Books Databases 21 2 G Bundle Shareware with Every New Mac, p. 85 Shapiro, Phil Shareware 21 2 SR 3D Archltectural Drawings Art~ice DesignWorks, p. 86 Wilkins, David DesignWorks Architectural design 21 2 F Bruce Bittle on the "HAL Har, p. 87 Bittle, Bruce Computer technology 21 2 F Bargain Hunting on the Web for New and Used Mac Stuff, p. 89 Marten, Bryan Used computers Online shopping World Wide Web rNWW) 21 2 SR 3D Railroad: Concept and Design, p. 90 Coleman, W. Fred Jr. 3D Railroad Simulation Railroad scale modeling 21 2 F How to Identify Your llc's Model, p. 92 Buggie, Stephen Apple II 21 2 F Apple/// Q & A, p. 93 Glaser, Zhava Fabric, Eliott Apple/// 21 1 G Letter of Appreciation, p. 1 Urban, Gina Letter to editor WAP 21 1 G BOD October 1998 Meeting Notes, p. 5 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 1 G BOD November 1998 Meeting Notes, p. 6 NA Board of Directors WAP 21 1 G October General Meeting Report, p. 7 Essick, Don General Meetings WAP 21 1 G November General Meeting Report, p. 1O Essick, Don General Meetings WAP 21 1 G Genealogy SIG October/November Meeting, p. 14 Jordan, Ed SIGs/Slices Genealogy 21 1 F Anniversary meeting photos, p. 14 NA 20th anniversary meeting 21 1 G Graphic Arts SIG August-November Meetings, p. 17 Lange, Blake SIGs/Slices Graphics 21 1 F An Interview with Brian Mason-WAP Member at Large, p. 19 Seferian, Nancy Interview WAP 21 G Tuesday Night Technical Assistance, p. 22 Evans, Lorin Tuesday Night Clinic Repairing hardware WM' 21 SR A Compressed Tour of Stufflt 5.0, p. 24 NA Stufflt 5.0 Compression/decompression 21 F Y2K: It Is Not a Bug If It Was Deliberate, p. 27Charters, Lawrence I. Year 2000 21 SR iMac Review: Ifs a Mac, p. 28 Washington Apple Pi Labs iMac 21 F i Mac Memory Expansion: Do It Yourself?, p. 31 Washington Apple Pi Labs iMac 21 F Financing for the Future, p. 33 Marshall, Alice New enterprises Seed capital Investments 21 SR WebChecker and the Herding of URLs, p. 34 Harris, David World Wide Web rNWW) URL trackers Web page design 21 SR Hottest Downloads: Making Quoting Easy on theTCS , p. 37 Dunham, Lou TCS MagicBullets 21 SR Computer Games for the Deaf, p. 38 Kent, Shirley B. Games Assistive technology 21 F Floppy Disks Are Obsolete, p. 39 Ludwigson, John Floppy disks iMac 21 G Best of the TCS, p. 44 Ludwigson, John TCS 21 SR Aladdin Desktop Magician™, p. 59 Keene, Mary Aladcflll Desktop Magician™ File management 21 HR iMac Benchmarks: Quick Comparisons, p. 64 Washington Apple Pi Labs iMac Benchmarks 21 HR Washington Apple Pi Mac Bench Pro: Wall of Macs, p. 65 Washington Apple Pi Labs WAP benchmark system Benchmarks 21 F Leaming New Software -Back to School! a Continuing Saga, p. 69 Finkler, C. Etana Computer courses 21 F Digital Cameras, the Next Generation, p. 80 Cutler, Gar Digital cameras 21 HR My ALPS Model 4000 Printer/Scanner, p. 82 Wilmoth, Mical Printers/scanners 21 SR Design Your Own Home: But Use Your Common Sense, p. 83 Smith, Vernon W. Design Your Own Home 3D Walkaround Floorplan design 21 SR lmageReady: A Review, p. 85 DiBenedetto, Thomas I. lmageReady, Image creation, Electronic documents 21 F The Apple II Special Report: The Computer That Refuses to Die, p. 87 Evry, Ron Apple// 21 G Macintosh Disketeria, p. 90 Weikert, Dave Disk Library Floppy disks CD-ROM sets • 90 Washington Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 AppleWorks Mac is a bit more diffi cult. Start by creating a new database file. (Click on the database icon in the tool menu bar.) Create the fields that AppleWorks vs. AppleWorks will accept the database information. When finished, select Insert from the by Matthew Pearce, [email protected] File menu. Insert the text file you just created. AppleWorks Mac will display two boxes at the top of the screen. The COMMON question is lect the option to print to an ASCII left box displays the raw data in the "How can I transfer my old (text) file. Select the option "returns text file and the right box displays AppleWorks documents to at the end of paragraphs." Finally, what fields the data is mapped into. my new Macintosh?" One of the best provide a name for the file. If the mapping is wrong, you can exit, methods is to use AppleWorks To save a database document, use adjust your database accordingly and Macintosh. Although there are ver Apple-p to print, then select" create a import again. Be sure to use the scan sions of Apple Works that run on three new tables format." Press return. Se buttons to scan through the data and (four if you want to distinguish be lect "from the current layout." Press confirm the data is mapping correctly. tween the Apple IIGS and the 8 bit return. Give the new format a name To save a spreadsheet, hold down the Apple ][s) different hardware plat (the name doesn't matter as you will Apple key and press p. Select all and forms, the files are surprisingly com probably use it once). Press Apple-p press return. Save to a DIF file. When patible. The Macintosh used to test prompted for a DIF order, select col these transfers is running MacOS umns (rows will save your spreadsheet 7.6.1, has the PC link control panel "sideways") and press return. Type in installed and uses the Mac Link soft a filename and press return. ware installed by AppleWorks Mac "The transfer works To open the spreadsheet, start (5.03). both ways. Save an AppleWorks Mac. Click on Cancel. Pull Below is a list of AppleWorks files down the File menu and select Open. from the various platforms that AppleWorks Mac file to Double click on the file to open it. AppleWorks Mac can access. a PC disk (don't forget Apple Works GS: Word processor AppleWorks "Classic" (ProDOS 8 documents will transfer without any based AppleWorks for the Apple][ the .cwk suffix). Insert conversion. Insert the disk, start line) Version 3.0 and earlier: These the disk into the PC. Apple Works Macintosh, click on Can files can be imported into cel (you don't want to create a new AppleWorks Mac without conver Double click on My document), select Open from the File sion. If you have PC link installed, you Computer... " menu and open the file. do not need to save these files to a HFS Spreadsheet and database: Pull formatted disk. Place a write pro down the File menu and select Save tected disk (the Macintosh saves As. When the file dialog box opens, Finder files to the disk) into the click on the button marked" ASCII." Macintosh disk drive. Start again. Select print to an ASCII (text) Select the location to save and provide AppleWorks Mac and click on Can file on disk. Select tabs between cat a file name. Apple Works GS will save cel. Now select Open from the File egories and returns between records the database with tabs between fields menu and open the file you want to (almost any database program will and returns between records. Recover transfer. recognize this format). the database using the instructions for Version 4.x and later: Between ver The database file can be saved as AppleWorks Classic 4 and later. sion 3.0 and 4.0, Claris sold the rights a DIF file or a text file. Neither format - To recover a spreadsheet saved as to AppleWorks to a third party. To has an advantage for transferring to a text/ ASCII file, start AppleWorks make things worse, the file format AppleWorks Mac. Side note: by de Mac. Open a new spreadsheet file. changed with Apple Works Classic v. 4. fault, AppleWorks Mac will open a Select Insert from the File menu, then You will need to save the files as text text file as a word processing docu open the text file. and insert them into Apple Works Mac. ment and a DIF file as a spreadsheet Other AppleWorks GS formats: I To save a word processor docu document. haven't been able to convert these yet. ment, use Apple-p to print, then se- Reconstructing the database in Apple Works for Windows: Word pro- March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 91 "AppleWorks GS: Word processor documents will transfer without any Apple's Tech Exchange conversion. Insert the disk, start AppleWorks iMac Website: Extraordinairel Macintosh ... " by Beverly Smith cessing, spreadsheet, database and paint files transfer without having to DISCOVERED a website a "I have gone from a quiver do any conversions. Save the file with few months ago, "iMac Technical ing mass of FEAR of the a .cwk suffix (this is the default suffix I Exchange," which has been so for Claris Works). Insert the disk (PC helpful I'm thinking of marrying it. I computer to a person who link will allow your Macintosh to have gone from a quivering mass of knows very little, but now read/write PC disks) and double click FEAR of the computer to a person knows where to go for on the file icon. The first time you do who knows very little, but now this, a list of applications will appear. knows where to go for help. But seri help." Choose AppleWorks (it might be ously, folks, this website is one where can see why one would fall in love. called Claris Works) from the list. all those with an iMac actually HELP The site is divided into several sec The transfer works both ways. each other. tions and I cannot give them all, but Save an AppleWork s Mac file to a PC There are quite a few people there will try to list them as succinctly as I disk (don't forget the .cwk suffix). In who have real expertise. And when and can. sert the disk into the PC. Double click if there has not been a solution reached The website address begins with: on My Computer, double click on the or some detail left out, an Apple Tech http:/ /www.apple.com/support/ A: drive, double click on the file icon. steps in and completes the solution. That screen opens to a list of several Ok, so what about transferring files There is very little chit-chat, be choices: from AppleWorks Mac to cause it is stated quite clearly at the (1) G4, (2) iMac, (3) iBook, (4) AppleWorks Classic? This can be beginning that this is a site for help Laptop, (5) 05-9, (6) OX Server, (7) done in a limited fashion. Unfortu ing Apple people with their problems, Quicktime. nately, the Macintosh saves text files not a social club. I have seen instances There are troubleshooting links: as forked files (forked files have two of people coming on to badmouth 1- Getting Started, 2- Solving Prob pieces, a data fork and a resource poor service or a bad experience, and lems, 3- Tech Exchange, 4- Subscribe fork). One method of creating a "stan either there will be no response or that Then there is 5- Get Help which, dard" text (ProDOS cannot handle person will be reminded of the aim when clicked on, gives a long menu, forked files) file is to open the forked of the site-to HELP. 6- Connect to- (a long menu), 7- Up file using ShadowWrite or Hermes. At one point I noticed I had quite date my- (a long menu), 8- Service You can then save the file as text. a few questions stacking up there (as Info- (long menu), and 9- Select other There are 8 bit programs out there that anyone visiting the MACNJ Message support information- (long menu), can strip the da ta fork out of a Board can imagine), and sent a re plus a multi-lingual choice. Macintosh file. These options will be quest for a way to delete them, as I You, of course, need to go there covered in next month's article. didn't want to be greedy and take up and see how you want to use it, even The AppleWorks "family" of so much room. The responses I got (3 if you have an older Mac or Apple. products are highly compatible with or 4) were absolutely miraculous! The Good luck. I know you will enjoy each other. With little effort, you can tenor was that my problems were the this site, and get as much positive share files between an Apple ][, gold at the bottom of their panning feedback as I have gotten. • Macintosh and PC. • sieve. They loved to get my problems, because it helped them build up the From the November 1999 issue of From the December 1999 issue of Technical Library, which in turn saved MacNJ Window, newsletter of the GravenStein, newsletter of the them time when they referred ques Macintosh Association of Central GravenStein Apple Users Group. tions there for previous solutions. You New Jersey, 92 Washingto n Apple Pi Journal March I April 2000 trol window with a slider is at the top of all windows in all lessons. Push ing the slider is the easy way to move forward in a lesson or to return to an Mac Interface earlier portion of the lesson. The Introduction explains how to The Cool Way To Get Jump navigate through Maclnterface, reit erating the READ ME file. The first lesson, "Organizing your Started On Your Mac Hard Drive," teaches about drag and by Barbara Passman drop, sizing windows, and creating and renaming folders. "Saving and Organizing Files" continues showing ETER DE'ARMOND cre the hierarchical filing system and ted a CD for beginning to inter navigating through it. It shows how P:mediate Mac users to show how "I was interested in to save files in specific places and demonstrates using the Save Dia to use the capabilities which are built seeing what a CD into the Mac OS for greater efficiency logue box in applications, to create and functionality." Although there are tutorial of this sort folders and to save documents into a many great (third party) products out file folder of choice. The chapter also there" to" tweak some functions of the offers. It is inexpen shows how to put folders inside of folders. "Using Appearance Controls" Mac interface" says De' Armond, he sive, costing about decided to create a CD tool so that talks about how icons are arranged, many more persons could have the the same as a good how they can be sized and how to use same tutorials he has given to indi the Appearance Manager control viduals, teaching them how to use Mac book. The CD is panel to customize a Mac's aesthetic look. "Creating and Using Folder what comes 'Native' with the Mac. He as close to a one-to says that his work, "Maclnterface," is Tabs" follows next, showing how to a tool to encourage folks to custom one session from a make a folder become a tab at the bot ize their Mac. He bases his lessons on tom of the window and how to use OS 8.1 and 8.5. teacher as any tool this feature to advantage. In this chap ter, using aliases is explained and sug I was interested in seeing what a can be." CD tutorial of this sort offers. It is in gestions are made about naming the expensive, costing about the same as alias. "Customizing the Apple Menu" a good Mac book. The CD is as close fittingly comes next, showing a key to a one-to-one session from a teacher chapter and twelve succinct lessons. way in which the aliases are and can as any tool can be. Maclnterface While Mr. De'Armond teaches a les be used on the Mac. Two important teaches tried and true ideas to help a son, the user sees a desktop on which tips are given in this chapter; placing new or intermediate user understand the changes are made or things occur an alias of the hard drive and of the and use many features of the Mac; and exactly as the lesson describes. A les Apple Menu file itself in the Apple probably answers some of the ques son can be paused at any point so that Menu folder. tions a newer user is uncomfortable the user can go to his own desktop to Following chapters deal with about asking. It offers valuable les re-enact what was just taught. The more shortcuts to make Mac use more sons, helping Mac users avoid root di user can readily re-enter Maclnterface efficient and pleasant. "Using the Ap rectories and desktops cluttered with and replay the chapter to hear and see, plication Switcher" shows how to tear duplicate files, mysterious folders and once again, how things are done. The off and make a convenient palette the like. READ ME clearly explains and en from the standard Application De'Armond used MovieWorks courages the user to stop and start and Switcher in the upper right side of the (copyright 1999 by Interactive Solu practice along the way. The appear Menu bar. "Using the Control Strip" tions, Inc.) to create his animated ance of the Main Menu resembles a shows how to use the strip and the teaching application. The CD contains tape player, with pause, play, rewind parent control panel of the same a READ ME and the program consists and quit rectangular buttons along name. "Using Contextual Menus" of a Main Menu with an introductory the bottom of the window. Amini con- emphasizes the summarizing feature March I April 2000 Washington Apple Pi Journal 93 in Contextual Menus and introduces I would, therefore, like to give un end of the program, especially, need the Clipboard feature of the Mac, re qualified recommendation to practice pauses built in to enhance the iterating the cut and paste features of Maclnterface but I cannot do that. learning process. the OS. Despite all its good points, I This CD and application seek to "Using Sherlock" shows how to found the presentation boring and, meet the needs of someone who can search the Internet using the search therefore, hard to attend to its lessons. tum on and run her Mac but has a engine of the same name included in Mr. De' Armand's voice is pleasing poor grasp of the built-in capabilities Mac OS 8.5 and higher. "Finding Lost but his tone never varies. or features which can make working Files" shows how to search the Mac Maclnterface often seems no more with it easier and more fun. The CD hard drive. Several Find parameters than a recording of a book about the brings good lessons at a low cost to are mentioned and the Indexing fea Mac. Furthermore, he speaks quickly, this user. Despite the boring qualities ture, which affords Find by Content, it won't hurt anyone who tries it. All is introduced in this chapter. of us learn differently so the benefit "Navigating through Folders" is of Maclnterface will be variable. next, a meatier chapter than those pre Many, though not all users, will come ceding it. The little arrow tabs, to the "This CD and appli away with new skills, although it may left of a folder name, are pointed out. cation seek to meet take several times hearing the mate Similar tips given here include show rial to absorb the information in or ing how to view the contents of a the needs of someone der to use it. folder or window in various ways, by Maclnterface, copyright 1999, double clicking the column heading who can turn on and published by Peter De' Armond. The or using the inversion arrows. 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