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HOW TO SET UP YOUR OWN MAC HOME MUSIC STUDIO Macworld MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS AUGUST AUGUST 2000 ULTIMATE IMAC • MAC HOME MUSIC ULTIMATE STUDIO • YOURSELF PROTECT ONLINE • ESSENTIALS PALM Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk Ultimate iMac Best DV, photo, business, games, Net Mac extras Online protection How to beat Big Brother Dreamweaver tips Save time with templates Palm essentials 15 top programs Style XPress Word import guide read me first AUGUST 2000 Contents Simon Jary Apple must remember that 51 per cent COVER STORIES editor-in-chief of its software-downloading customers don’t reside in North America We’re down loads n iMac-owning friend recently bought an instil confidence that computing really can be Iomega ZipCD drive for burning CDs. Despite “for the rest of us”. Every iMac advert has emphasized Iomega’s easy-to-use but very silly software- how simple it is to use an Apple computer. Ultimate iMac A installation user interface, he just couldn’t It’s no good making the iMac easy to configure 64 Turn your iMac into a get Toast to see his new drive. After some basic if the software situation is so knotty. Last year, I powerhouse, whether OS-tweaking I did what I should have done right defended Apple’s decision to drop a few UK-English for the Internet, graphics, at the start – looked at the product box. There, spellings in its interface menus and control panels. in black-&-white were the damning words Apple convinced me that these linguistic lapses would gaming or business. “Requires Mac OS 8.6 or later”. enable us Brits, Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans to As the iMac was still running OS 8.5.1, I began the get the most up-to-date versions of the Mac OS at arduous task of downloading 8.6 from Apple’s Web virtually the same time as the Yanks and Cannucks. site. At a whopping 35MB, this took over two and a The all-important dictionaries remained true to half hours. And then it wouldn’t install because the UK English, so even the loss of the Wastebasket iMac’s firmware needed updating. First, I downloaded was easy to put behind us. the North-American iMac firmware (700K) by mistake But take a look at Apple’s Software Downloads – no go. So, then I downloaded the 1MB International- page on its Web site, and you’ll notice that we English version. After sticking the necessary paperclip haven’t got much back for our spelling sacrifice. into the little-known programmer’s button hole It took well over a month after the North-American- during a restart, I went back to the hefty 8.6 updater. English version of ColorSync for us to get an Three hours after beginning this whole sorry International-English version. process, I was met with a dialogue box that told We’ve also had readers complaining that they me that it was again no go. The International-English can’t use certain game demos and applications Mac OS 8.6 updater refused to go anywhere near because their pre-OS 9 Macs don’t have OpenGL the older British-English 8.5.1 system. installed. You guessed it – Apple’s downloads page It was stalemate for my stalled mate, who was left has OpenGL for North-American-English only, which Online protection with just two options – one of them illegal. He could has been available since November 1999. 85 Keep your Internet personal ‘borrow’ a friend’s Mac OS 8.6 CD, or he’d need to fork The same goes for Apple’s wonderful iMovie information secure, and your out £79 for an OS 9 CD. We should all attempt to keep software. How we cheered when Apple showed some Mac hacker-proof. up with Apple’s system software. And £79 isn’t so adventurously different thinking by offering iMovie as much to splash out every year to do so, is it? a free download to all of its FireWire-using customers. Well, yes, it is. We’d all be horrified if we had to How we groaned when only the North-American update our fridge, washing machine or toaster every version actually appeared. And that was way back 12 months. While a computer is something altogether in April, when Kevin Keegan was still a national hero. more complex than the average kitchen appliance, It’s really not good enough for Apple to tell UK it mustn’t be forgotten that Apple is marketing its users (and every other nation on Earth, bar those on consumer iMacs in much the same way that Hotpoint, the same continent as Steve Jobs) not to install the AEG and Philips try to flog us their white goods. US updates when there is no alternative for playing An iMac is purchased, set up in minutes and then many games and using modern 3D applications. becomes a pretty part of our home furnishing. Yet, Apple is giving a very good impression of doing ten months later, the average iMac owner has to call absolutely nothing to help those 51 per cent of its in the editor of Macworld to take over his phone line customers who aren’t North American. Apple claims for three hours and stick a straightened-out paperclip that over half of its sales are from “overseas” – that in a strange place – only to find out that it’s going to is, outside the US. So, surely, it’s a highly risky strategy cost him the price of a EuroStar ticket just to get his to ignore over half of its customers and concentrate £229 CD burner working. on the 49 per cent of Macintosh users who live in 93 103 99 No one said computing is easy… Hang on, Apple the land of the free (download). told us exactly that. The Mac’s starting-up face Come on, Apple. Get to grips with the international Hands up Create: Print Create: Web Mac home music studio doesn’t wear glasses and a pocket protector. It’s a versions of your system software. Assign a couple The best 15 Palm Importing Word Web-site mastery 76 Turn your Mac into a recording smiling face that’s happy it doesn’t have to use either more engineers to this area of your business where software programs style-sheets into using Dreamweaver’s studio – without going broke. DOS or Windows. Macs don’t look like your average you’re clearly failing us. We’re losing our patience. reviewed. QuarkXPress. templates features. Includes software ratings. office computers. Both Apple’s software and hardware Soon, you’ll be losing customers. MW page 6 4 Macworld AUGUST 2000 Macworld AUGUST 2000 5 Macworld www.macworld.co.uk AUGUST 2000 Contents CONTACT NEWS CREATE REVIEWS Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Down in the dumps Apple Deputy Editor David Fanning [email protected] 18 fails to get its international News Editor Jonathan Evans software updates out on [email protected] time; Java Steve Jobs promises the Managing Editor Sean Ashcroft ‘best’ QuickTime movies to run on [email protected] RealPlayer; Office 2001 Microsoft Sub Editor Woody Phillips [email protected] shows off new Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Games Bungie bought- Editorial Co-ordinator Seth Havens [email protected] out by Bill Gates, and new games Quark and Adobe Art Editor James Walker revealed; clash with [email protected] new text tools; Total Publishing UK’s Art Director Mandie Johnson big print and Web show; Apple sales [email protected] are on the up; MacHack Software fest; 45 Managing Editor/Online Gillian Thompson Business Proxim acquires Farallon. [email protected] CD Editor Vic Lennard 44 Adobe Acrobat US Editor Andrew Gore Secrets: Actions Q&A/tips InProduction 1.0 Contributing editors David Pogue, Deke McClelland, PRODUCT NEWS 107 Folder actions can save 111 Secure passwords, remote 45 Stylus Photo 2000P Lon Poole, Michael Prochak, you time. Here’s how. access, window hiding, Joseph Schorr, Franklin Tessler, power key problems, 47 QuicKeys 5.0 Wacom tablet and wireless Bruce Fraser, Christopher Breen, AppleWorks, MP3 mouse FTP Client Pro 3.0 David Biedny, Matthew Bath, Fujifilm FinePix 40i playlists, InDesign… 35 Toshiba digital 49 EditDV 2.0 Jake Sargent, Peter Cohen, MP3 camera camera Stephen Beale. Power supply and audio EVERY MONTH 50 FileMaker 5 Developer amp Suitcase 9 Media 100 DVD production Visioneer Strobe Pro 52 InDesign 1.5 Group Advertising Manager Mustafa Mustafa scanner [email protected] NEW! Software update Letters First Contact Classic Foldover Bag Senior Sales Executive Dean Payn listings Swann FireWire card Epson 41 10 NEW! Readers write on David Fanning on the [email protected] Intellidge inks 500MHz and 400MHz 54 TombRaider IV: new iMacs, OS X and pain of tech patents. Sales Executive Eamon McHugh iMac accelerator cards CDs & Books The Last Revelation [email protected] Epson and Kodak digital cameras more. Star Letter wins Palm IIIc! Sales Executive David Parker Lexmark printers Spring Cleaning 3.5 Remote Access [email protected] 43 Iiyama 17-inch CRT display 54 Production Manager Sharon Bird Michael Prochak is [email protected] Web-radio ga-ga. Deputy Production Manager Richard Bailey [email protected] Subscriptions Production Assistant Sam French 96 [email protected] BUYER’S GUIDE Get Photovista free when Deputy Marketing Manager Jo Brown you order Macworld! [email protected] Direct Marketing Executive Jim Birch -117 Buying a Mac [email protected] Macworld’s advice for 110 Reader Offers Marketing Co-ordinator Kelly Crowley 115 readers buying a new iMac, iBook, Power Discounts on IDG Books 54 Terminus [email protected] Mac G4 and PowerBook.

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