It’s Easy! How to Start Publishing on the World Wide Web – page 117 ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLISHING COMPANY / $3.95 OCTOBER 1995 OCTOBER POWER Four New Machines from $1,600 MACS FOREVER PLUS Get It in Color 18 Low-Cost Scanners From Dylan to da Vinci The 50 Hottest New CD-ROMs Shareware Bonanza 30 Great Programs You Can Download Today CONTENTS OCTOBER 1995 /VOLUME 11 NUMBER 10 30 / Apple’s new multimedia REVIEWS & QUICK CLICKS monitor. Apple Color StyleWriter 2400 and 2200 and HP DeskWriter 660C Three color inkjet printers feature excellent color at bargain prices. / 49 Microsoft Project 4.0 Microsoft pulls out all the stops to make project management accessible to almost anyone. / 52 Live Picture 2.0 Version 2 of this powerful image editor enhances core functionality while adding several significant features, NEW ON THE MENU including vector-based-path support and improved color controls. / 57 Multimedia Monitor Apple’s new PhotoFix This bargain-priced Photoshop AV./Windows AudioVision 17-inch 1710 alternative handles all the image-editing 95 Microsoft comes out swinging. / Clone basics — and comes with a cataloger to Watch IBM adopts Mac OS. / QuickDraw boot. / 60 3D The apps arrive. / ZMac Utility of the Month ScrapBoard. / 30 netOctopus Manage a network of Macs 49 / Three color inkjet printers that anyone and PCs with this multitasking IS tool, can afford. which works with AppleScript. / 65 COLUMNS PowerCADD 2.0 Programmable, extensible 2-D-drafting tool competes with high-end Letters Readers count down to System 8, CAD programs. / 66 trim System 7 fat, and reveal heretofore Microtech Blue New storage-system line features top-notch unknown copy-editing talents. / 13 engineering — albeit at top dollar. / 67 Maggie Canon The China syndrome. / 23 MATLAB A cumbersome programming environment and command-line interface hamper this tool for numerical Andy Ihnatko Andy’s annual fish fry. / 27 analysis and scientific visualization. / 68 Conflict Catcher 3.0 Find and resolve extension conflicts John C. Dvorak Clueless in New York. quickly and conveniently. / 69 / 218 Sculpt 3D 4.0 Pricey, powerful 3-D modeler now has a speedy How to Reach Us / 8 new rendering engine. / 70 SPSS 6.1 for the Macintosh Veteran full-featured statistical program has a new interface Product Index / 180 and supports multiple platforms. / 72 Advertiser Index / 184 Bansai MFX-1 Portable fax machine does double duty as a scanner. / 75 Strata MediaPaint Paint on top of your QuickTime movies to add animation or special Marketplace / 191 effects. / 76 MacAdministrator Keeping order in a shared-Mac environment is easy with this network-administration toolkit. / 77 On the cover / Visual Arranger Iconic approach makes music composition a snap. / 78 More-powerful InTouch 2.5 Easy-to-use address-book DA functions as an appointment Power Macs. calendar, to-do list, and contact log but is otherwise limited. / 81 Cover photo / Michael LaMotte Zonkers! Spiff up those icons, animate your cursors, colorize your menus, and more. / 83 Org Plus 2.0 Need a promotion? Org charts made easy. / 83 COVER STORY DTP & GRAPHICS / 114 Online Publishing Format POWER MACS your text with HTML to put yourself on the World Wide Web. / 117 The Sequel Graphics How-To Take an ordinary Second- APPLE’S NEW LINE of Power Macs is photograph, and turn it into a fairy-tale illustration. / 120 generation not only more powerful than ever Power Macs before — it also offers more than a few Expert Tips PostScript errors sport a technological surprises, including a new demystified. / 121 card-ready VRAM design, PCI bus, CD-quality quad-speed audio, Fast SCSI NETWORKING / 122 CD-ROM buses, and drives, and support for Net Tools Boost your graphics throughput breakneck telephony and with network-optimization techniques. / 125 speed. videoconferencing. BY KELLI WISETH / 84 Mac to PC Why a Power Mac may be the best Windows platform. / 129 FEATURES HANDS ON / 132 Low-Cost Color Scanners The 1995 MacUser RICH COLORS, natural flesh tones, and sharp focus: These are Shareware Awards the qualities we looked for when we rated 18 color scanners in We honor the the $350-to-$1,600 range. But we also factored in price, ease of use, makers of the 30 and tech support. BY ROMAN LOYOLA / 94 best shareware products. / 132 Mobile Mac PowerBook protection. / 137 Net Traveler Fun with filters. / 141 Help Folder Bob and Chris answer all your questions. / 142 Top Spins: 50 New CD-ROMs PERSONAL MAC / 146 YOU’LL LAUGH, YOU’LL CRY — but mostly you’ll thank us for wading through hundreds of CD-ROM titles to bring you the very Talk Like an Egyptian Learn to speak a best 50. BY NIKKI ECHLER AND REBECCA OLSON / 106 foreign language with your Mac by your side. / 146 Quick Labs The Two Dads Smart or smarmy, sweet or PROBLEM: WE JUST CAN’T KEEP UP with all the great sticky? Two dads make the call. / 147 products introduced each month. Solution: Quick Labs, a monthly bulletin of lab results on the latest printers, monitors, and The Game Room Gamey hardware. Plus: storage systems. / 112 Cheat Sheet. / 148 MacUser (ISSN 0884-0997) is published monthly by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, L.P., One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Editorial Offices: 950 Tower Lane, 18th Floor, Foster City, CA 94404. Telephone: 415-378-5600. U.S. subscription rates are $27 for 12 issues, $45 for 24 issues, and $62 for 36 issues. Additional postage for Canada: Add $16 per year to the U.S. rates for surface mail. Single-copy price is $3.95. Canadian GST registration #R-140496720. Canada Post International Publications Mail Product (Canadian Distribution) Sales Agreement No. 278521. 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