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Design Web sites that work anywhere Macworld MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS OCTOBER 2000 PHOTOSHOP SPECIAL MACS • • PHOTOSHOP MULTIPROCESSING HIGH-END SCANNERS • EMAIL MASTERCLASS • SEYBOLD Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk 2XG4 Photoshop POWER! power user Version 6.0 secrets Making the ultimate Photoshop Mac Email masterclass How to write more effectively Top scanners rated Adobe GoLive 5.0 Reviewed and rated read me first Simon Jary Apple’s HomePage iTool is the company’s editor-in-chief real ace in the pack for beating Microsoft to new customers. But who’s heard of it? For the rest of us ack in the early 1980s, the head of the Apple’s super wireless-networking technology. In fact, Macintosh-development team and co-founder Apple’s killer blow to Windows is given hardly any of Apple Computer (now company CEO) publicity outside of the pages of Macworld and B Steve Jobs said that the “insanely great” Apple’s own Web site. The best thing Apple has done Mac was going to “put a dent in the universe”. for years is iTools. However, until recently, the only thing it put a dent in Not all of iTools is wonderful. KidSafe is too US- was your wallet. The sound bite that really caught the centric. And Mac.com – the free email name – is not public’s attention was meant specifically for them and as free as Microsoft’s Hotmail, requiring that you sign not just for journalists. The Mac, the world was told, up with an Internet Service Provider. was the computer “for the rest of us”. But the remaining two iTools are the best things Apple’s earlier Apple II PC was phenomenally since the CD drive (another Apple-first for PCs). If your successful because it wasn’t aimed solely at computer Mac runs OS 9, you can have 20MB of free disk space geeks. It was the original computer “for the rest of us”, on Apple’s servers courtesy of iDisk. And with that free and, as a result, reigned as the number-one-selling disk space you can quickly build HomePage Web sites PC for an amazing six years. without ever having to know what either the ‘H’, ‘T’, “Apple’s killer The Mac was “for the rest of us” for several ‘M’, or ‘L’stand for in HTML. reasons. It sported the first mainstream graphical Desktop video will be a huge seller for Apple. But blow to user interface of folders, windows and icons. It was right now, more people want to build their own Web Windows is the first mass-produced PC to use a mouse rather sites. Not all these people know that that’s what they than fiddly cursor keys. And its classic lift-me-up, all- want to do, but, believe me, they do as soon as they given hardly in-one design made other PCs look like they belonged see how easy using HomePage and iDisk really is. any publicity in the science lab, not the home study or office. They’d run a mile from cascading style sheets, frames But, whatever your anti-Windows quibbles, there’s and BBEdit, but they’d just adore HomePage. outside of no doubt that – at least in the minds of the ‘rest of Even though I know the basics of HTML and can Macworld and the rest of us’ – Apple has been caught at least in use Adobe’s GoLive and Macromedia’s Dreamweaver terms of user interface and mouse usage. And only Web editors, I’ve created several Web sites for friends its own Web in the last couple of years has Apple reclaimed its using HomePage. Because Apple has kept so quiet industrial design crown, following strongly from about its Web-creating wonders, everybody thinks site” its iMac translucent plastics. that I am an absolute expert at this stuff. Anybody The iMac was Steve Jobs’ first proper new Mac who’s taken a look at my own HTML-crafted Web site since he returned to head the company in 1997. It is (the shamefully neglected www.jary.com) will tell you not his vision to re-make the Mac – leave that to the that I am no Web expert. forthcoming Mac OS X. The iMac and G4 Cube are But to most people, my friends’ wedding site the new computers for “the rest of us” – the many (http://homepage.mac.com/benfall/PhotoAlbum.html) looks millions of consumers who are still considering buying professionally designed. The wow-factor in sending a personal computer but haven’t yet taken the plunge. someone a URL of your own good-looking HomePage Steve knows that nice-looking plastics and cute Web site is quite amazing. And if more people were design can’t win over everyone – especially in the face shown just how darn easy the whole process is, Apple of the steamrolling, if beige, Wintel platform. Like the would have a real winner on its hands. original Mac, his new Macs need that something extra Apple has recently made iDisk 300 per cent faster, to make them stand out from the PC crowd. and revamped HomePage to make it even easier to On top of the looks, that something extra that’s use and quicker to edit. Publicity? Zero. getting the entire Apple marketing fizz is desktop Apple must realize the true marketing worth of video. Nearly all of Apple’s TV ads make reference to HomePage. Microsoft has nothing to compare to the Mac’s superior consumer digital-video capabilities. iTools. And iTools does exactly what people want to There’s FireWire connectivity for high-speed links to do with a personal computer. The latest TVs let you quality digital camcorders, and bundled free iMovie 2 browse the Web. A PC should do more – letting you software that makes movie making something any join in the fun by creating your own Web pages. iTools one of us can do in our homes. lets “the rest of us” join in with the Net revolution. But, for me, Apple’s “something extra” “for the rest If everyone saw its powerful simplicity, maybe the of us” is not desktop video. It’s not even AirPort, Mac could still “put a dent in the universe”. MW 4 Macworld OCTOBER 2000 OCTOBER 2000 Contents COVER STORIES Photoshop 74 power user Adobe is set to release version 6.0 of the premier image-editing app – and Macworld has previewed the beta. We’ve also tested Apple’s latest multiprocess- ing G4 Power Macs and – with the added feature of Gigabit Ethernet raising network speeds by up to 300 per cent – Photoshop users can step on the juice. 76-77 82-83 86-87 89 48 113 Pro scanners GoLive 5.0 Secrets: email We assess and Adobe’s long- Compose email compare the latest awaited upgrade messages using the range of high-end boasts over 100 right information for scanners. new features. the right audience. page 6 Macworld OCTOBER 2000 5 CONTACT Macworld www.macworld.co.uk OCTOBER 2000 Contents Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Deputy Editor David Fanning [email protected] NEWS CREATE REVIEWS News Editor Jonathan Evans [email protected] News Reporter Dominique Fidéle Seybold: Mac OS X gets Paris [email protected] 18 launch Photoshop 6.0 a vector Managing Editor Sean Ashcroft [email protected] powerhouse FireWire tackles blazing SCSI Sub-Editor Woody Phillips Adobe sues Macromedia [email protected] SVG battles Flash XML Mac banking now Editorial Co-ordinator Seth Havens up-to-speed Motorola demos processor [email protected] power Music industry embraces Art Editor James Walker [email protected] QuickTime QuickTime 5.0 nears release Corel keeps Art Director Mandie Johnson Good news for Mac gamers [email protected] the Mac-faith New-look for Apple Managing Editor/Online Gillian Thompson Business news: Apple Create: Web Create: Graphics [email protected] tech-support shares boost; 3dfx, Nvidia shoot it out 97 Widen your audience 101 Photoshop techniques to CD Editor Vic Lennard by crafting Web sites improve results from any 57 US Editor Andrew Gore for all platforms. digital camera. Contributing editors David Pogue, Deke McClelland, 48 Adobe GoLive 5.0 Lon Poole, Michael Prochak, Joseph Schorr, Franklin Tessler, 51 SpringPort Modem Bruce Fraser, Christopher Breen, David Biedny, Matthew Bath, 53 Deus Ex Jake Sargent, Peter Cohen, DeskJet 930C M Series Stephen Beale. PRODUCT NEWS 54 Macromedia Flash 5 Group Advertising Manager Mustafa Mustafa [email protected] 57 SANcube 135GB Senior Sales Executive Dean Payn HP blitzes Mac printer market Picture this [email protected] Eyemodule Evergreen CD-RW Olympus The Olympus C-2100 Sales Executive Eamon McHugh 39 Create: Networking is first digital camera Q&A/tips [email protected] pro-digital camera New 58 Consumer scanners by the company 109 Share a single internet 119 XPress-fix for picture- ViewSonic monitors Epson’s product CanoScan N122OU, CanoScan N656U, Sales Executive David Parker to compensate connection between all [email protected] rollout usage problems; and CanoScan D660U, ScanJet 5370C, LaCie FireWire DVD-RAM for shake. the Macs in a house. Production Manager Sharon Bird Margi Display-To-Go card print Web pages. 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