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Macuser 9503 March 1995.Pdf INTERNET! FOUR EASY WAYS TO CUT ON-LINE COSTS – PAGE 127 / $3.95 MARCH 1995 THE BESTNEW 10 th PRODUCTS Annual Editors’ Choice Awards PLUS Laser Printers Should Your Next One Be Color? Top-Notch Charts 7 Packages That Can Make Your Data Sizzle Get Rich Quicker! Which Tax Software Delivers the Best Return — page 40 CONTENTS MARCH 1995 / VOLUME 11 NUMBER 3 REVIEWS & QUICK CLICKS MacTools Pro and Norton Utilities for Aquazone and Macintosh Two diagnosis and repair El-Fish Digital programs that promise to keep your hard desktop drive humming. / 37 aquariums are almost as much MacInTax and TaxCut Which tax software fun as the real 27 / Optical storage gives you the best return for your dollar? thing. / 63 double-hitter. / 40 HouseCall Take charge of your health Radius PhotoEngine The newest way to with this electronic medical-reference NEW ON THE MENU make Photoshop run faster — on Quadras program. / 63 and Power Macs. / 42 Power Macs Special Delivery 2.0 This entry-level More bang for the buck. / LaserMaster 64-MB SIMMs multimedia tool needs work. / 64 8100 RAM heaven. / DisplayMaker Technöggin PowerBook battery Professional recall. / Zmac Utility of the Month VirtualDisk Catalog your disks. / 65 Large-format SoundSmith. / Plus Macintosh price printer Living Album Virtual photo album lets you index. / 27 produces display electronic pictures and movies. stunning / 65 COLUMNS professional- quality signs, SAM Administrator Now net managers Letters The Word 6.0 debate rages, posters, and banners in a variety of sizes. can more easily distribute and update kids and MSTies speak out, and / 46 antivirus software. / 66 readers challenge Dr. Power Mac. / 11 Metrowerks CodeWarrior The premier Maggie Canon And the winner is . Power Mac development environment is a / 17 godsend for Power Mac developers. / 47 Andy Ihnatko Word 6: Time to ClarisDraw Targeted for beginners, switch. / 21 ClarisDraw 1.0 is versatile and easy to use. / 48 John C. Dvorak Speed is not enough. / 190 MovieWorks Making QuickTime-based Product Index / 153 presentations shouldn’t be this awkward. / 52 67 / Thai one on with all the right ingredients. Advertiser Index 156 / WordPerfect Envoy Portable-document Marketplace / 162 software features good support for Four Paws of Crab More than just annotating. / 54 delicious Thai recipes, this image-rich CD-ROM features a look at Thai culture. Agfa StudioScan II and UMAX Vista-S6 / 67 INTERNET! FOUR EASY WAYS TO CUT ON-LINE COSTS – PAGE 127 On the cover / More for less: two flatbed color scanners / $3.95 Hardware Product MARCH 1995 priced at under 1,000 bucks. / 56 Autoscore Pitch-to-MIDI converter THE of the Year: the transforms notes you sing or play into BESTNEW Power Mac 6100. 10 th PRODUCTS MIDI events. / 67 Annual Editors’ Choice Awards Cover photo / PLUS Laser Printers Should Your Next Giampiero Benvenuti One Be Color? Top-Notch Charts 7 Packages That Can Make Your Data Sizzle Get Rich Quicker! Which Tax Software Delivers the Best Return — page 40 SPECIAL REPORT DESKTOP The 10th Annual PUBLISHING / 106 Clip Art A collector’s guide to quirky clip- art and digital-photo Editors’ Choice Awards collections. / 109 MacUser’s annual salute to Graphics How-To the year’s best and brightest Unmasking mask Mac products and to the techniques. / 112 people behind them. Expert Tips Using OPI for swapping hi-res DESPITE SUCH MONUMENTAL CHALLENGES files. / 113 as a switch in CPUs, a dearth of development tools, and maturing markets, third-party NETWORKING / 114 developers pulled through once again with GRAPHICS OpenDoc a slew of spectacular products. Here are file The Internet Turn the finest achievements of 1994, and the CHARTS TEXT your Mac into an promising contenders for 1995. Internet server. / 117 BY THE EDITORS OF MACUSER / 71 Mac to PC Software bloat has got to go, and OpenDoc is paving the way. / 119 HANDS ON / 122 FEATURES Smart Money Mac Managing your money The Color-Laser Promise is easy with the right application. / 122 ZD Finally! Color laser Mobile Mac Workarounds for the LABS printers have arrived — PowerBook 500 series. but do they measure up? MacUser / 125 Labs puts three of the latest entrants Net Traveler Four through their paces to find out. ways to cut BY TONY BOJORQUEZ / 91 Internet costs. / 127 Help Folder Bob and Andy answer all of your questions. Plus Top of the Charts hot tips on your favorite programs. / 128 ZD Make your 125 / Open LABS numbers talk up and say “ahhh.” with a charting program. There are several to choose from, offering varying levels of complexity. Here we review seven. BY JOSEPH SCHORR / 98 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. Send electronic mail to [email protected] (Internet) or ZiffNet/Mac: MacUser On-Line 72511,422 (CIS). 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