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Macuser 9504 April 1995.Pdf APRIL 95 3.0 Processors / Accounting Packages ClarisWorks High-Resolution Laser Printers / Word / $3.95 APRIL 1995 FIRST MAC CLONES HOT NEW MACS (That Don’t Come From Apple) PLUS Word 6.0 Showdown Which Word Processor Is the Right One for You? New Net Traveler Your Monthly Guide to the Internet Hot Reviews Quicken 5.0 ClarisWorks 3.0 Star Trek CD-ROM CONTENTS APRIL 1995 / VOLUME 11 NUMBER 4 41/ The MessagePad 120: one of three REVIEWS & QUICK CLICKS new Newtons. Epson Stylus Color and Tektronix Phaser Polaroid SprintScan 35 The speedy 140 Two affordable color inkjet printers Polaroid SprintScan 35 scans slides and take aim at home users as well as business film at a higher resolution than its more buyers. / 45 expensive competition. / 66 Epson ES-1200C and PixelCraft Pro MapInfo 3.0 Sporting a revamped Imager 4000 Buyers can choose between interface and more-powerful analytical two scanners that deliver professional- tools, MapInfo shines at making sense of quality color without costing an arm and a geographical data. / 67 leg. / 51 Connectix QuickCam It’s cute, NEW ON THE MENU Visioneer PaperPort Reading documents it’s cool, and it captures video at electronically reaches new levels of a bargain price. / 69 PowerPC Pippin Apple’s multimedia elegance and convenience with this $399 CD-ROM player. / ZMac Utility of the scanner. / 56 Art Explorer and Flying Colors When Month E-mail-address translator. / crayons don’t cut it, computer art New PDAs From Apple and Sony. / programs may. / 69 Word 6 Fix Microsoft offers free patch. / Plus Macintosh price index. / 29 Grammatik 6 Passive constructions are activated by this grammar guide. / 70 COLUMNS HP OfficeJet All-in-one fax/printer/copier combo saves desktop space. / 71 Letters Readers welcome new Web site, clamor for clones, and pepper Dr. Power 56 / A scanner that can win the paper chase. Cartoon History of the Universe History Mac. / 11 comes alive in an animated interactive ClarisWorks 3.0 Offering cross-platform adventure through time. / 72 Maggie Canon Keep the clone fires compatibility and a new reduced price, burning. / 19 this integrated program is still the cream theTypeBook Catalog your fonts in style of the crop. / 60 sheets — automatically. / 72 Andy Ihnatko If you can’t beat ’em . / 23 Blueprint 5 New tools and Power Mac Star Trek: The Next Generation support distinguish this 2-D-CAD program Interactive Technical Manual Beam up John C. Dvorak Apple’s bold new plan. for architects. / 61 to the first QuickTime virtual-reality / 180 product. / 73 NewGen Chromax New dye-sub printer Product Index / 143 teams excellent color quality with speed ultraSHIELD 2.5 Rock-solid security at an affordable price. / 73 Advertiser Index / 146 and sophisticated color-management tools. / 62 Marketplace / 154 Adobe Acrobat 2.0 Freely distributed reader makes your portable Acrobat On the cover / 63 / $3.95 documents even more portable. / APRIL 1995 The Radius TM D O R VideoVision N B O A FIRST Helix Express 3.0 Along with its faster Workstation. MAC CLONES speed, this iconic relational-database HOT NEW MACS 64 (That Don’t Come Cover photo / program now supports Apple events. / From Apple) PLUS Fred Stimson Word 6.0 Showdown Which Word Processor Is the Right One for You? Quicken 5.0 A favorite personal-finance New Net Traveler Your Monthly Guide to the Internet Hot Reviews program adds nifty shortcuts, a spruced- Quicken 5.0 ClarisWorks 3.0 Star Trek CD-ROM up interface, and a financial calendar. / 65 73 / Your Mac beams you to the Enterprise bridge. COVER STORY The Shape of DESKTOP Macs to Come PUBLISHING / 100 Graphics How-To Customize Painter’s The first Mac clones have brushes to react spontaneously and been announced, but achieve a natural watercolor look. / 103 they’re probably Expert Tips Understanding and applying only the beginning. color theory to get the results you need. MAC OS COMPUTERS are no longer an / 106 Apple exclusive. The first Mac clones, from Radius and Power Computing, prove that NETWORKING / 108 at least two companies are betting there’s room for more machines that run Mac software. One’s designed a Network Help How to make Internet files high-end video-editing workstation; the other wants to sell mail- readable, solve order Power Macs. Each is revolutionary. BY HENRY BORTMAN / 29 AppleShare gleaning glitches, and FEATURES improve Ethernet performance. Fine Print / 110 ZD CAN YOU BYPASS the service Mac to PC From Newtons to LABS bureau and still get the professional PowerBooks, Apple may be losing its print quality you need? MacUser Labs puts five edge in mobile computing. / 112 high-resolution 1,200-dpi PostScript printers through a series of real-life tests to see whether the latest high-end offerings measure up to HANDS ON / 114 imagesetters. BY HENRY BORTMAN / 75 System 7.5 Finder Secrets Undocumented tips and secret tricks can make your move War of the Words up more satisfying. / 114 ZD IS IT TIME TO SWITCH? Microsoft Word, for years the premier Mobile Mac PowerBook LABS word-processing software package, meets up with four noteworthy Word 6 tricks. / 117 challengers to the throne. And the winner is .... Net Traveler Jammin’ BY CONNIE GUGLIELMO / 84 on the Net. / 119 Help Folder Answers to all your questions. Taking Care of Business Plus hot tips on your favorite programs. SMASHING THE MYTH that the / 120 Mac can’t do accounting: We found versatile, powerful Mac accounting software designed for every type of business imaginable. Here are the pros and cons, the strengths and the weaknesses of 21 accounting packages. BY CHERYL ENGLAND / 92 How to Reach Us Subscription problems? Call 800-627-2247. THE EDITORS of MacUser want to hear from MacUser, P.O. Box 56986, Boulder, CO 80322- you. Send questions, tips, complaints, or com- 6986. Second-class postage paid at New York, pliments to MacUser, 950 Tower Lane, 18th NY 10016, and at other mailing offices. Floor, Foster City, CA 94404. 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