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What Every Mac Wants for Christmas

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JANUARY2004

N0.89-V0LUME9«ISSUE1

a better machine, a better magazine.

t^o

20 Twenty
of Macintosh

It’s been 20 wild and wonderful— though at times worrying-
years since Apple introduced the original Mac. Join us for a
whirlwind tour of the last two decades, by Emory Christensen

35 Mac ^^

Smackdosvn!

What happens when you m G5 againsjlha high-end Pentium 4?
You’re about to find out. by ^Hfl^siewski

40 Panther: Worth

Every Penny

Get this; Not only is Panther worth $129— it actually
will end up savingyou money in the long run. Find out
how as we show you around Apple’s new operating
system, by Deborah Shadovitz

howto

66 Ask Us

Find out how to move your Home
directory to an external drive, what
makes AppleWorks slow down, why
Apple Mail prints so damn small, how
to tap the magic behind Safari’s tabbed
browsing, and much more.

68 Build Your Own
Music Maker

Pianos, guitars, drums— even violins and
bagpipes. Why buy these instruments
when you can play ’em for free? We show
you how to build a software keyboard
to play music. (Sorry— we can’t promise
you groupies.) by Erick Tejkowski

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72 Play Hidden Unix Games
and Other Oddities

Tell your boss or mate you’re
studying Mac OS X’s Unix-
kernel underbelly. What they
don’t need to know is that
you’re really calling up OS X’s
secret stash of classic games,
by Ian Harris

Pong, or the world’s
easiest Tetris clone?

74 Make Widgets with
Konfabulator

If you love desktop toys and
gadgets, you know about
Konfabulator. if you don’t,
you’re going to wish you
had known about it a lot
sooner. The real fun, though,
lies in rolling your own
Konfabulator Widgets,
by johnathon Williams

Sunny, with
a chance of
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January 2004 MacAddIct 05

CONTENTS . :

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every menth

10 Editors’ Page

Somebody helped you become a Mac addict. Thank them.

12 Get Info

Woz*s world: Apple’s cofounder talks to us about Macs, Mac
OS X, and Steve Jobs. Also, the scoop on Unreal Tournament
2004, a chic Bluetooth cell phone, what’s inside Virginia
Tech’s G5 supercomputer, and why you should care about
iTunes for Windows.

47 Reviews

52 Canvas 9 Professional Edition graphics suite

59 Chronoscan book-cataloging system

56 EiuraSO digital video camcorder
58 iTrIp FM transmitter for iPod

58 Media Reader for iPod portable media-card reader
61 Memory Mini Mouse input device/USB drive

54 Neverwinter Nights roie-playing game

55 PyroDV Drive DV-capturing hard drive

60 Quicken 2004 financial- management software

57 Rio Cali flash-based MP3 player

51 Soundtrack music-composition software

61 Store ’n’ Go USB 2.0 flash drive

48 Studio MX 2004 Web-development suite

58 Voice Recorder microphone for iPod
58 VS4121 speaker set

57 Wireless InteliiMouse Explorer mouse
60 Wireless Optical Desktop keyboard and mouse

62 The Hot List

If the editors of MacAddict went shopping,
this is what we’d buy.

QUICK TIPS

FROM THIS MONTH’S ISSUE

♦ CUT CORNERS IN PHOTOSHOP

To quickly change the brush size In
Photoshop, use the left-bracket key
([) to make the brush smaller and the
right-bracket key (]) to make it bigger.

| ¥rom Ask Us, p66.

♦ CONTROL MAIL’S PRINT SIZE

When printing from Apple’s Mail
program, make the email window
larger to print the message larger, and
vice versa. From Ask Us, p67.

♦ GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC

Use iTunes Music Store
gift certificates to give
your friends $20 to $200
toward the purchase
of new tunes. Hopefully they’ll
reciprocate. From Get Info, pl4.

♦ DISABLE FONTS IN PANTHER

Panther’s Font Book not only lets you
install fonts but also disable them. Just
select a font and then click the Disable
button. From “Panther: Worth Every
Penny,” p40.

♦ GIVE YOUR IPOD A BREAK

Awesome as the iPod is, there’s a time
and a place for everything— and your
sweaty, pounding-
the-treadmill hand
Is no place for such a
refined and expensive
piece of hardware. Get
a more-rugged MP3
player for working out.

From Reviews, p57.

94 Log Out

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Passionate readers weigh in on left-wing
tendencies, Christian sensibilities, the
MacScan scandal, and the sex appeal
of aluminum.

95 Contest

Win one of HP’s gorgeous see-through
vertical scanners.

96 Shut Down

A new iPod accessory brings new
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EDITORIAL

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SENIOR EDITORS Narasu Rebbapragada (news), Kris Fong
ASSOCIATE EDITOR NIko Coucouvanis (reviews)
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Helmut Kobler, Frank O’Connor, Angus Piildean, Ian Sammis,
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ART

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ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Peter Marshutz
CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER Nathan Wilson
PHOTOGRAPHER Mark Madeo
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For All You Do...

Thanks for all the help.

This month, the Mac turns 20— and so does the
dedicated community of Mac addicts that has grown
up with it. This anniversary is the perfect time for
each of us to thank the generous folks who guided
us to the Macintosh way. Til start.

My Mac life began a few days before the first Mac
was announced. Larry Shaw, an electronics genius
and coworker at the Exploratorium— a museum of
science and art In San Francisco— somehow got his
hands on a schematic drawing of the Mac. Together
with the Exploratorium’s computer guru, Ron
Hipschman, we pored over that document like it was
the map to our future— which, in my case, it was.

From the Exploratorium, I moved on to MacUser magazine, where Jeff
Pittelkau and Stephan Somogyi patiently led me from Ignorance to true Mac
enlightenment. 1 still remember the happy day when Jeff officially pronounced
me a geek. I had arrived.

At MacUser, I established friendships with members of the Mac vendor
community such as Karl Seppala of Sonnet Technologies and Mike Mihalik of
LaCie, who to this day are willing to drop whatever they’re doing and explain
some arcane hardware intricacy to me.

And, of course, there are the gazillion Apple folks whoVe helped me out
over the years. Among them are Nathalie Welch at Apple PR, who actually
answers my voicemails; Frank Casanova, the QuickTime wizard who once
got me stumbling drunk in Tokyo’s Roppongi nightlife district; and the most
unflappable human being on the planet, Keri Walker, head of Apple’s Product
Review Loan Program.

My thanks also to dedicated Mac civilians such as Lorene Romero, Stephen
Henry, Jim Dickenson, Deborah Ramos, Paul Cornwall, and Susan Curry
of California’s North Coast Mac Users Group; Tom Santos and Fred Ihde of
Macadam, San Francisco’s most entertaining Mac store; and John Andrews of
Happy Mac (our town’s friendliest mom ’n’ pop Mac repair shop), who lent us
Macs forthis month’s celebration of the Mac’s 20th birthday (see page 20).

And then there are all of you readers. I’ve learned a ton from your ideas and
your questions, and I hope that more often than not you’ve seen your ideas
brought to life and your questions answered within these pages. After all the
Mac community has done for me, it’s the least i can do to reciprocate.

Enjoy,

K*

comingsoon :februaiy2004

Our editors fill you in on what they’re preparing for the next Issue of MocAddict

staff rants

Q: Who had the greatest influence on
your Mac life?

Jenifer Morgan lioness of Seville
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life?

The Bishop, CA, Lions Club. A generous schoiarship
from the Lions Ciub aiiowed me to purchase my first
Mac. it introduced me to opera (Bugs Bunny’s rendition
of The Barber of Seville was my startup chime),
and — more Importantly — impressed a “totally hot" guy In my dorm.

H Peter Marshutz downwardly mobile

Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life?
The person who first introduced me to a Mac was my
mother. I started playing around on her work machine
and ended up with a new career.

H Cathy Lu rebel without a klez

Who had the greatest Influence on your Mac life?
The good people at Yack.com and the loser who wrote
the Worm virus had the biggest Influence. After using a
PC at Yack.com for a year— and having my hard drive
wiped clean by a virus— I learned how superior Macs are.

NIko Coucouvanis aimless drifter
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life?
That’d be a fellow by the name of Duke Nukem. He
helped me forget about all my flesh-and-blood friends,
and find fun and companionship— and yes, even
comfort— In the solitary glow of a 14-Inch Apple Multiscan display.

Narasu Rebbapragada indebted
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life?
My parents. They bought me my first computer,
an Apple II plus, and later, a Mac SE. Technically, I
purchased my LC II— but I sent the bill to my parents.

Mark Rosenthal marquis de Albany
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life?

In descending order: C. D. ROM, E. L. Fudge, T. S. Eliot
P. B. Jay, P. T. Barnum, K. C. and the Sunshine Band, I.
P. Freeley, Fred Sanford, C. S. Lewis, I. M. Kneady, E. B,
White, T. J. Maxx, B. A. Hero, L. A. Pant, M. T. Head. 0. 1. Lostit, R. U.
TIgllsch, S. S. Titanic, N. A. Bind, and lastly, T. V. Gyde.

Kris Fong former computerphobe,

NOW MAC ADVOCATE

Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life?
Former MacAddlct editor Andrew Tokuda (aka Digital
Droo) was my band-mate and convinced me to buy a
Mac because they were the best for recording music. He then shoved
copies of MacAddlct In my face to show me all the cool things I could
do with It— and how weird magazine editors can be.

Max OVERDRESSED SEVEN-YEAR-OLD

Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life?

Not just In my Mac life but In my entire life, that would
be Adam Vanderhoof, a former assistant art director at
MacAddlct who brought me to life in September of 1996

FEATURES: Ultimate
Hardware Guide
We'll bring you an In-depth look at
how to get the most from Adobe’s
new Creative Suite. Plus, which G5
should you buy? Is a G4 enough for
what you need? How can you get the
most hardware bang for your buck?
And how do you upgrade and repair
these bad boys? It’s all in our ultimate
hardware guide.— Cafby

HOWTO; Pimp Out Your Mac
We can’t wait to see Nlko's latest
case-mod project; He’ll show you
how to pimp out your Mac. We’ll also
show you how to use the Terminal
to troubleshoot troubles instead of
relying on unpredictable disk utilities.
Plus; another lesson in REALbasic
programming.— /^r/s

REVIEWS: Adobe Creative Suite
Creative? Sweet! That’s right; Adobe’s
family of 800-pound graphics gorillas.
Creative Suite, is on deck, along with
Poser, which does one of the few
things Adobe’s CS doesn’t; character
modeling and animation. Plus, oUr
gadgeteers are toting around the
latest handhelds from Palm and
Handspring.— A//ko

NEWS; People, Products,
and Media Cards
We’re scouring the world for new
gadgets, new games, and new newsy
tidbits. You’ll meet the latest and
greatest people and products from the
Mac community, and that media-card
round-up we promised you last month
finally will spring to life In February.
—Narasu

10 MacAidlct January 2004

Heard any good music lately?

The PowerWave USB Audio Interface
& Desktop Amplifier is a powerful and
extremely flexible computer audio tool.
With it you can record any mic or line
Input into your computer. Record your
entire album collection to make CDs
or MP3s. Hook-up a mic and musical
instrument and turn your computer
into a recording studio.

But PowerWave is also an integrated
desktop amplifier. Use it to connect any
set of home speakers to your computer.
PowerWave makes a great compact amp
for your MP3 player. It even enables the
use of Apple Pro Speakers™ with any
USB enabled computer. Flexible input
exceptional output and amplifier power
in one beautiful device -PowerWave.

PowerWave ^99

USB Audio Interface & Amplifier

iCurve

PowerBook & iBook Stand

• Raises laptop screen to the perfect height

• Creates room on the desktop for an
external keyboard and mouse

• Keeps laptop cool with max air circulation

iTrip

FM Transmitter for iPod

• Play your iPod's music through any empty
FM radio station from 87.9 to 107.9

• iPod powered - no battery necessary

• Fits snug to top of iPod - no messy cables

PowerMate

USB MultiMedia Controller Knob

• Now in Brushed Aluminum and Black

• Great control for iTunes or IMovie

• Programmable for any application

• Replaces repetitive keystrokes

GRIFFIN TECHNOLOGY

www.griffintechnology.com

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A Nostalgic Stroll with the Cofounder of Apple Computer

by Narasu Rebbapragada

W hen we first asked Steve
Wozniak for an interview,
he politely blew us off. At
the time, the cofounder of
Apple Computer was sitting in his private
box at the Shoreline Amphitheater in
Mountain View, California, listening to a
Neil Young concert. His eyes, however,
were focused on the game of Tetris he
was playing on his Nintendo Game Boy
(original edition).

We approached him again afterthe
show at the VIP bar, where he was
giving test rides on a Segway Human
Transporter (he owns nine of them).
Again, we didn’t get the interview,
though we did slalom nicely through
a set of orange cones.

The playful, tech-obsessed

entrepreneur finally acquiesced to
an interview at the offices of his new
start-up, Wheels of Zeus— check the
acronym— which is set to launch a new
wireless-tracking technology. Sitting
behind a IGHz 17-inch PowerBook, he
spoke candidly about the Mac, Steve
Jobs, and a prank call to the Pope.

ON THE MAC

How many Macs have you
used in your lifetime?

I don’t know, 200.

What’s your favorite
Mac of all time?

The [PowerBook] Duo 230, the first
color one. It’s just small enough and
light enough to carry anywhere, and

12 MacAWlct January 2004

PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF WHEELS OF ZEUS EXCEPT WOZ WITH HUMMER, BY ALAN LUCKOW

Goes

anywhere

it can plug into the Internet so easily.
Second to that would probably be the
whole Titanium [PowerBook] series for
looks and portability. It worked really
well for me, but I don’t recommend it to
anyone. It gets too easily scratched. 1
think the aluminum PowerBook is a lot
better, but it’s not the machine you fall
in love with, it’s just the perfect good
PowerBook that doesn’t get hurt.

Is there any Mac you thought was a
real dud?

Some Performas seemed to me like they
wouldn’t interest me, so I might call
them duds.

Which Mac was the most
technologically important?
Something around the Mac Plus orthe
Mac SE, where we had the SuperDrives
in them. {No, Woz \sn*t crazy: The
1.44MB floppy drive in the Mac SE was
named the SuperDrive.—Ed.) I think from
that day on, my computer life was better.

What’s the best computer Apple
ever made?

I still think the [Power Mac] 8500 was
the best computer Apple ever made. It
just kept lasting and lasting and working
and working.

What do you think of Mac OS X?

I use OS X and I trust it, but I never got
back to the same levels of satisfaction,
ease of use, and shortcut workarounds
that I had with Mac OS 9.

ON STEVE JOBS

When did you meet Steve jobs?

We were introduced by a mutual friend,
who lived a few houses down from me
in Sunnyvale. I had actually designed
a little computer in 1970— five years
before the Altair [8800] build-it-yourself
kit computers— with a friend a few
houses down. My friend said, “I’ve
got to call Steve Jobs over because
you two have something in common:
You’re interested in electronics and
you both are kind of pranksters,” so he
introduced us. That was Bill Fernandez.
He was Apple’s third employee. His
mother is [Apple’s Chief Software

continued on p.l4

FACTS

ABOUT
WOZ

STOPPED ON SECWAY

Last summer, a motorcycle cop told
Woz he couldn’t continue to ride
across San Francisco’s Golden Gate
Bridge on a Segway.

DIAL-A-JOKE PIONEER

Woz says he started the first
telephone dial-a-joke service in the
San Francisco Bay Area. One of the
numbers he used was 255-6666,
which is one of the reasons the
Apple was priced at $666.66.

BACKINTHEU.S.S.R.

Woz says he funded the first
televised satellite broadcast
between the Soviet Union and the
United States in the early 1980s.

BLACKLISTED

Woz had been in Nintendo Power
Magazine's High Score section so
many times with his Tetris high
score, that the magazine refused to
print his name again— so he sent it
in spelled backwards.

FAVORITE SONG

Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer.”

WHY iTUNES DEMOS FEATURE
SO MUCH BOB DYLAN

When jobs and Wozniak started
Apple, they decided Bob Dylan
wrote some of the most important
music of their generation.

FAVORITE MOVIE

It’s a toss-up between The Matrix
and The Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers.

EMAIL PREFERENCE

Woz prefers Eudora to Mail because
of its programmable button bar
and AppleScriptability.

GET INFO

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continued from p.l3

Technology Officer] Avie Tevanian's
secretary. (Bambi Fernandez currently
supports Software Engineering Vice
President Bud Tribble and Senior Vice
President Bertrand Serlet, in addition
to Tevanion—Ed.)

What is Jobs like?

He always seems to make the most
sense. He’s clearly thought out. He’s
looking at the things that are important
and not shadowed by all sorts of little
tidbits that aren’t as important.

APPLE LAUNCHES iTUNES
FOR WINDOWS

Top 10 Reasons Why Mac Users Should Care

H ere’s why you Mac addicts should care that Apple announced iTunes and
iTunes Music Store for Windows 2000 and Windows XP in October 2003.

MacAddict editors got to see the live Sarah McLachlan concert that
culminated the special event (and you should be happy for us).

0 U2’s Bono, live from Dublin on iChat AV, spewed accolades about iTunes
and said, “That’s why I’m here to kiss corporate ass.”

ON THE POPE

Is it true that you phoned the Pope?
It was my junior year of college at
Berkeley. Steve and I had stumbled
on howto build little blue boxes [tone
generators that enabled free— and
illegal— phone calls], so we could kind
of start dialing all over the world....

I called Italy and asked for the Rome
operator and asked for the Vatican
operator and got there. I said, “This is
Henry Kissinger and I’d like to speak to
the Pope. I’m with Richard Nixon. We’re
at the summit in Moscow.”...They put
on the bishop who was going to be a
translator and he said he had just talked
to Henry Kissinger. Oops.

So you did this with Steve Jobs?
Yeah, he’d just drive up from Los Altos
and visit the dorm room.

ON ITUNES

What do you think has been
the most significant recent
Apple technology?
iTunes really did it well. iPhoto is equally
significant but I hold something against
It. It threw away all my photos once.

What about the iTunes Music Store?
It’s very well done but totally misses
the mark for me. I write down everyday
between 1 and 10 songs and I’ve got
to find these songs. There are only
two songs that I heard on the radio
that I found on Apple’s store. One was
Donovan’s “Catch the Wind” and one
was Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sit Down Young
Stranger.” I think it’s a good direction.
[Music] is a big part of your life. I believe
In the digital hub representation of what
we’re using the computer for.

0 Bono renamed himself IBono for the day.

0 Your PC friends can use iTunes Music Store gift certificates to give you $20
to $200 toward the purchase of new tunes. (So can your Mac friends.)

0 Ditto on the Allowance feature for gifting you $20 to $200 monthly.

0 The chanceto nab the PC market gave Apple the incentive to bump up
music content to 400,000 tunes, sign 200 independent labels to contribute
music, and strike a deal with Audible.com for exclusive rights to 5,000
audio books.

0 It gives the 25 million AOL users a reason to live, and the chance to buy
iTunes Music Store tunes ’n’ books directly from the AOL Music page.

0 You can watch your Coke-or-die friends dry heave while buying bottles of
Pepsi for the 1 in 3 chance of winning a free song on iTunes Music Store.
(Apple and Pepsi struck a deal where Pepsi is giving away 100 million
iTunes songs on the inside of bottle caps.)

0 Users can kiss Microsoft’s proprietary WMA format goodbye. Now that they
can freely burn Apple ITunes high-quality AAC format, they don’t need it.

O Because now that Apple makes PC software, it’s safe to go to Hell. It has
finally frozen over.

Yes, this is iTunes for Windows. Yes, you should give a damn.

14 MacAddict January 2004

WHAT'S INSIDE A
SUPERCOMPUTER?

Tech Tidbits on the Virginia Tech G5 Cluster

A S we reported last month {Get Info, Dec/03, pl3),
Virginia Tech has built the largest-ever Mac-based
supercomputer cluster out of 1,100 Dual 2GHz Power
Mac G5s, each with 4GB of RAM. Here are some little-
known facts about what it took to build it.— A/a/? Graham

INSIDE THE G5 SUPERCOMPUTER

4.4TB RAM-thaTs 37,795,712,205 times more than
the original Mac (See “A Celebration: 20 Years of
Macintosh,” p20.)

176TB disk space-that’s 12,094,627,906 times
more than the original Mac
17.6 trillion operations per second theoretical
peak performance

CHA-CHING

^ The total budget was $5.2 million.

^ The total cost of the G5s was nearly $2.75 million—
that’s $2,493 per Mac. (They must have gotten a
discount for foregoing 1,100 mice and keyboards.)

CONSTRUCTION

The cluster took eight weeks to build.

^ Engineers spent more than six weeks on software.
Over 150 volunteers helped unload and rack the G5s.

HOT, HOT, HOT

The Liebert’s Extreme Density rack-mounted
air-cooling system uses 1,000 pounds of R-134a
refrigerant for efficient cooling.

^ An addition cooling system pumps 1,500 gallons of
chilled water per minute to cool down the heated air
generated by the Liebert system.

POWER

^ The cluster and its cooling system uses 1.5 megawatts
of power— that’s enough to power 3,000 homes.

^ Each machine will peak at 725W.

The total cluster peaks at more than 800 kW at
full load.

WEIGHT

The G5s alone weigh more than 22 tons. Add the
racks to which they’re mounted and the rack-
mounted cooling system, and the cluster weighs in
at more than 36 tons— that’s equal to more than 200
Shaquille O’Neals.

CABLES

^ The cluster uses over four miles of Infiniband cables
and over five miles of Cat 5e Ethernet cables.

Carries

anything.

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DROOLWORTHY

Sexy Stuff We Can’t Wait to Get Our Mitts On

in Style

Hitch your iPod to Altec Lansing's
inMotion Portable iPod Speakers ($149,
www.store.apple.com), currently available
only at Apple Stores. This battery-powered
system charges your iPod either via its
dock or its FireWire connector, allows you
to sync data with your Mac, and uses the
iPod's alarm (if enabled) to double as an
alarm clock.

Listen

4- Phone
in Style

Sony Ericsson’s Z600 (price TBA,
www.sonyericsson.com) is a
tri-band GSM/GPRS phone with
stylish snap-on covers. Take photos
with its built-in digital camera, and
then wirelessly send them to your
Mac via Bluetooth. Musicians in the
house will like the Z600’s four-track
music creation tool for composing
polyphonic ringtones. The Z600
should be out by the end of the 2003.

16 MacAidIct January 2004

SPEAKER PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MAOEO PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF SONY ERICSSON

NEW stuff

Fits

everyone

NEW PROSUMER CAMCORDER

What It Is; This upgrade to the popular Sony VX2000
improves shot quality in low light and offers better color
fidelity, 16:9 widescreen recording, as well as 12x
optical and 48x digital zooms.

Why lt*s cool: This high-end prosumer camera is buff
enough to shoot your next Sundance sleeper.

NEW INKJET INKS

What it is: Pantone is launching a series of ink cartridges,
paper, and drivers based on its industry-leading color
definition system. The products will initially work with
a handful of professional and prosumer desktop Epson
printers, with support for more Epson and non-Epson
printers to follow in 2004. Epson is not selling, endorsing,
or supporting the Pantone inks as of press time.

Why It’s cool: Pantone is attempting to break the
monopoly printer companies have on high-priced inks.
Epson and others are sure to balk.

MP3 PLAYER UNDER $50

What it Is: These USB flash drives double as MP3 players.
They support MP3 (and WMA) files and come with a five-
preset EQ. Mac users can transfer music to and from the
player by dragging and dropping tunes in the Finder. The
SAIOO doesn’t support iTunes.

Why It’s cool: You can’t beat the price— let’s hope it’s a
quality product.

BRIGHT LIGHT! BRIGHT LIGHT!

What it Is: With eight white-light LEDs, two brightness
settings, and a flexible neck, this USB light shines bright.
Why It’s cool; We’re suckers for gadgets— especially ones
that can light up those dark ports under your desk.

FTP BY EMAIL

What It Is: Creo’s Token system lets you use email to
share large files that would normally require upload to an
FTP site. Token Creator bundles files and sends them as
an email that’s only a few kilobytes in size (a token). The
email recipient uses the free Token Redeemer to open the
Token, which then grabs the files from your hard drive.
Why It’s cool: It’s the cheapy way to send big files without
setting up an FTP server. Creo also offers a server edition.

CHEAP INKJET

What It is: This low-priced USB inkjet prints at an
optimized 5760 by 1440 dpi, has four individual ink
cartridges, and prints standard business paper sizes as
well as 8-by-lO-inch and 4-by-6-inch photo sizes. Only
the 4-by-6-inch size has a borderless option.

Why it’s cool: Although Epson’s Stylus C44 is about $20
cheaper, it doesn’t have the Stylus C64’s individual ink
cartridges or borderless 4-by-6-inch printing.

$3,000 street

Available: December 2003

Sony

www.sony.com

$251 to $605 (starter kit),
$63 to $100 (individual ink
cartridges)

Available: November 2003
Pantone

www.pantone.com

$49 (64MB), $79.99
(128MB), $TBA (256MB)
Available: November 2003
Auvi

www.auviwor1d.com

$49 (single user), $595

(server edition)
Available: Now
Creo

www.creo.com

$59

Available: Now
Epson America
www.epson.com

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THE SCOOP: UNREAL
TOURNAMENT 2004

Straight from the

Mouths of Developers c -

HOVEKRAfTS These skfm the ground,
Rre lasers, and have rotors that work
like human-munchtng lawnmowers*
Death from above* These
can also hover, just at a higher altitude*
AfffllORED lAlfICS When you absolutely
must dear everyone fn the room.

JEEFS For the Halo fans:

There’s room for a gunner (on the
back), a passenger, and a driver.
MOU BfTEQ aUK TURRETS
These keep the kids off your lawn.
SPACESHIPS For assault maps with
deep-space dogfightlng*

T his third incarnation of the famous
first-person shooter series adds
a new game mode called Onslaught,
plus enhanced weapons and kick-ass
vehicles, while reviving the original
game's Assault mode and sniper rifle.
We talked to MacSoft's Al Schilling
and Epic Games* Ryan Gordon forthe
scoop.— A//?

Describe Onslaught.

AS: (n Onslaught, there are two bases
separated by multiple nodes, which are
connected by lines that change color.

If your team controls two adjoining
nodes, the line changes to your team's
color. You work your way across
the map to get a node of your color
connected to the enemy base, [which
you then] attack and destroy to win the
game. By nature, Onslaught requires
very large maps. You may respawn a
fair distance from where the action
Is. This is where the new vehicles
come into play. They get you back to
the action quickly and with a lot of
firepower. (See “Killer Vehicles," right.)

What’s new in multiplayer?

AS: Onslaught and the return of
Assault [game mode], which was
absent from UT 2003 but makes a
triumphant return in UT 2004.

Unreal Tournament 2004’s got new
weapons, new vehicles, a new game
model, and did we mention new vehicles?

flying over your head. Plus, there are
new weapons that alter the strategy.
You can leave spider mines in strategic
places that will ambush a player when
he stumbles upon them.

What’s new in weapons?

AS: UT 2004 adds dual assault rifles
along with redone weapon models.

Is there a level editor in the Mac
version?

AS: No. {That*s not what we wanted to
hear, AL—Ed.)

What kind of Mac will we need?

RG: This time around, the CPU is
going to be more important than the
video card, since the vehicle physics
are computationally expensive. The
graphics aren't going to take such
a dramatic leap forward as they did
between UTl and UT2003 (translation:
The faster your Mac, the better —Ed.).

Unreal Tournament 2004's new
wheels make for a deadly joyride.

How is gameplay different
in UT2004?

RG: If you’re playing Onslaught or
Assault, you need to take into account
that your opponent can be coming

Freeze or i'll shoot! I’ll shoot anyway.

at you with anything from an assault
rifle to an armored tank. Instead of
running toward you, they might be

KILLER VEHICLES

Unreal

Tournament 2004

MacSott

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18 MacAddIct January 2004

SHAREWARE PICK OF THE

BACK UP TO YOUR
CAMCORDER

DV Backup

D V Backup turns your digital camcorder (DV or Digitals)
into an affordable tape backup system, letting you
archive up to 15GB of data onto a single one-hour DV tape.

Just drag your files or folders to DV Backup's Table Of Contents
window and choose how much error protection and data compression
you want. Through the magic of FireWire, DV Backup controls your
camcorder's buttons to make automatic backups .—An drew Tokuda

FIVE TIPS FOR USING
FINAL SCRATCH

From International Mega-DJ Paul Van Dyk

T oyko. London. New York. Ibiza. Miami. One of the best-known Djs the world over,
Paul Van Dyk, has gone digital. He spins electronic dance music using a 1.24GHz
PowerBook G4 with Final Scratch and Logic Audio. Here's how this Mac addict uses Final
Scratch to get big sound in the world's biggest clubs.— A//?

THE SPICED- UP SYSTEM

Van Dyk Installed a 60GB hard drive on his PowerBook G4 and carries an external 80GB
FireWire with additional music on it. On average, he brings about 40GB of music to a set.

/ ON THE

DISC

DV Backup 1.1.4

Create compressed
backups and store
them to tape.

Introducing
the Memorex
ThumbDrive.

A whole new
way to carry
your files.

Whether you're looking for performance
or style, the Memorex ThumbDrive® wins

THE ORGANIZED VIRTUAL RECORD BOX

When a Dj is spinning live, finding records fast is everything,
Rather than sort through hundreds of cryptically
named files. Van Dyk uses Final Scratch's virtual
Record Boxes to organize tracks by style. **\ have
one box where I put new things, then 1 have one
box with a few classics," says Van Dyk, who uses
nine virtual record boxes.

NO ON MP3

Regarding MP3s, Van Dyk says, “I think the sound
is pretty shady.” Digital audio that sounds good
on your home stereo can sound like crap on the
mammoth sound systems in clubs.

DJ Paul Van Dyk
reveals five tips on
spinning digitally
with a PowerBook
and Final Scratch.

YES ON HI-RES AIFF

Van Dyk “spins" high-quality 16-bit or 24-bit
AIFF files from his hard drive during live shows.
When he finds CD tracks he likes, he rips them
to his hard drive and remasters them so the
music sounds even richer.

/I

CDS BUY TIME

Rewiring a D] booth for Final Scratch can take f
time at first, so Van Dyk starts his sets out with
CDs to make time for connecting everything.

hands down. Incredibly small and durable,
this beautifully sculpted drive represents
the very best of Flash technology. With
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ON THE

DISC

Mactracker 2.0.6

From amazing products to ones that never
should have seen the light of day, raging
successes to near-death experiences, the
last 20 years have been a long and
joyous— and bumpy— ride. J

BY Emory Christensen

Mac photography by Mark Madeo

W hen did the first CD player arrive in the ^
U.S. of A.? What year did digital cell
phones grace our shores? How long ago ^H
did the first kernels of microwave popcorn
torment hapless coworkers with their seductiv^
scent? You probably don’t know— though
Jeopardy \mk\QS will immediately answer 198M
1990, and 1946, respectively. But it doesn’t
matter. Although all of these were technologies
revolutions at the time, they quickly became
relatively mundane commodities.

The Macintosh is different. Mavbe it’s the :■
convoluted corporate soap opera behind the Jj|
computer. Orlerhaps it’s a subliminal commas
in the Mac staKup30uncl.^Lwhatev^rJh^ 9
reason, the Mac has carved a special place 9
for itself in pop culture. And in our hearts. 9
And now the Mac has turned 20— almost M
old enough to drink without a fake ID. To . m
celebrate, we put together a visual history of 1
the Mac, commemorating both good times and J
bad— and there have been plenty of both. For j
many of you Mac addicts, here’s a trip down M
memory (or amnesia) lane. For the rest of you, 1
here’s the low-down on the up-and-down, |
often-insane history of the world’s greatest ^

personal computer.

A CELEBRATION

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20 MacvAddIct January 2004

January 2004 MacAJdIct 21

O n January 24, 1984, Apple gave birth to the Mac— and to a
20-year legacy of making the best damned personal computers
on the planet. The Mac and its killer graphical user interface— or
GUI, pronounced "gooey "—grew out of a previous
Apple computer named the Lisa, which was the Mac
equivalent of the older, uglier, unmarried sibling
nobody likes to talk about. Steve Jobs borrowed
(some nonbelievers would say stole] concepts such
as the GUI and the mouse from the Xerox PARC
research facility's visionary Alto computer. These
concepts ended up in the failed Lisa project— and
then in the Macintosh.

And like any family— especially one with a precocious child— Apple
had its share of dysfunctional fun. During the run-up to the Mac's
unveiling. Jobs enticed John Sculley to leave Pepsi-Cola and become
Apple's president and CEO (big mistake, Steve]. Sculley and Jobs

clashed almost immediately. Rumor has it that Jobs thought Sculley
didn't understand the computer industry, and that Sculley thought
Jobs was a loose cannon— turns out they were both right. The

fallout? Apple's board sided with Sculley, and Jobs
left Apple in mid-1985 to start another computer
company called NeXT. And you thought yourfamily
get-togethers were interesting.

In the end, however, things didn't turn out so pretty
for Sculley. In 1985, he presided over large layoffs
(over 1,000 employees] and oversaw the company's
first quarterly loss. He also signed an ill-conceived
deal with Bill Gates in which he licensed the Mac's look
and feel for Windows 1.0. Unfortunately, a clause in the contract
also gave Microsoft the go-ahead to use pretty much any look-and-
feel elements in all of its future programs, later scuttling an Apple
copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft. Damn.

:2004

THE MAC THAT SAYS IT ALL

iNacintosh [1984 to 1985)

I Apple introduced the world to the original
k Macintosh (now known as the Mac 128K)

■ during the famous 1984 Super Bowl

■ commercial directed by Ridley Scott that

H featured a woman in running shorts smashing
K a Big Brotheresque control screen with a
sledgehammer. The Mac 128K featured an
8MHz Motorola 68000 processor, a 512-
by-342-pixel monochrome display, and
^ then-revolutionary 3.5-inch 400K disk
■| drive— and don't laugh: That was 40K more
storage than the then-de rigueur 5.25-
inch floppies. But what made the original
. Mac truly revolutionary was its graphical
user interface and its mouse.

Why It Mattered: This was the machine
that started it all, the mother of all Macs.
Hp Some of its design concepts— such as the
niouse and the graphical user interface—
■P are present in every personal computer sold
” today. Properly sealed, the 128K case still
makes a great fish tank.

PATRICK STEWART PHOTOGRAPH ©COR8IS KIRA, JOBS AND SCUUEY PHOTOGRAPH ©ED KASHl/CORBIS

I SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS

Macintosh Plus (1986 to 1990)

The Mac Plus was the first expandable
Mac. You could stuff it with up to 4MB
of RAM (hey, it was 1986— give ’em a
break), and it was the first Mac to feature
a SCSI port. No Apple Desktop Bus

THE WORLD OF TECUNOIOGV

THE WORLD

Old You Know?

Steve Jobs flew a skull-and-crossbones
flag over the Macintosh project
building— a symbol of a rebellion againsi
the idea that computers were only for the
technically savvy. As jobs
said at the time: “It’s bettei
to be a pirate than [to] join
W the Navy."

If you’re serious about learning Apple history, vlsitwww.apple-history.com, which
includes a capsule chronicle of Apple’s corporate shenanigans, along with specs for
every Mac ever built. Also check out the cavalcade of Macs in Mactracker, which you
can find on this month’s Disc or at www.mactracker.ca.

H«iiiti»hll(1907tol990)

While the original Mac was criticized for
its lack of expandability, the Macintosh
il kicked serious expansion butt, with
six NuBus expansion slots and eight
RAM slots (for up to 20MB of RAM).

The Macintosh II featured a 16MHz
68020 processor (with optional math
coprocessor), plus it was the first
Mac able to display color— and it was
those color capabilities more than its
expandability that made it the cool kid
on the block.

THE STINKER

Macintosh Office
(1985 in theory)

Uh, it seemed like a good idea at the
time. Create a system that included
networking, a laser printer, and a file
server, and then package it for office use.
What could go wrong? First, the file server
never shipped. Second, the commercial
to promote the product was a stinker:
Called Lemmings, it featured a line of
blindfolded
businesspeople
marching off a
cliff. Likening
potential
customers
to suicidal
mammals
probably wasn’t
the best sales

Macintosh system software
progressed from System 1.0 to
System 4.2 during this time.

-> Microsoft, an early and active
Macintosh software developer (among
otherthings), released Word, Chart,
and BASIC forthe Mac in 1984. It
released Excel In 1985, to the
excitement of spreadsheet
junkies everywhere.

^ In late 1985, Sculley signed
an agreement with Microsoft
to allow Mac technology to be
used in Windows 1.0, which
was a steaming pile of goat
custards compared to the Mac’s
system software.

in 1987, HyperCard (Apple’s
stack-based programming

utility) made its way onto the scene,
allowing your average joe to create
powerful applications without having
to learn Pascal. Classic example: the
exploration game, Myst.

In 1987, Steve Jobs bought Pixar
for $10 million from George Lucas. Not
a bad investment In retrospect.

Cyan’s Myst

IBM was pushing Its own personal
computers (which debuted in 1981),
spurred in part by the success of the
Apple II. In 1980, believe it or not,
Apple held 50 percent of the personal
computer market.

Grolier’s Electronic Encyclopedia,
the first general-interest CD-ROM,
appeared In 1985. The encyclopedia,
at nine million words, took up only 12
percent of the CD’s available space.

In 1986, the first RISC-based
(reduced instruction set computing)
workstations found their way out of

Capt. Picard

In 1984, doctors transplanted a
baboon heart into 15-day-old Baby Fae,
extending her life by only 21 days.

Space shuttle Challenger exploded
shortly after liftoff in early 1986. The
Chernobyl nuclear power plant
exploded just a few months later.

Star Trek: The Next
Generation debuted in 1987.

•> 1988 was a sad year for
physics geeks, and not just
because of their lack of dating
options; Richard Feynman,

RlSCchii

IBM’s labs and into the market. (RISC is
the power behind PowerPC chips.)

■> Intel Introduced the 32-bit 80386
processor in 1986.

•> In 1988, a worm written by 23-year-
old Robert Morris infected ARPANET—
the precursor to today’s Internet. Can’t
blame Microsoft security holes for
that— at least not with a straight face.

renowned physics lecturer and
raconteur, died.

This may (or may not) make you feel
old: Today’s college freshmen were born
during this era.

January 2004 MacAddIct 23

The original Macintosh shipped with 128KB of RAM (that’s right, KB not MB), which was mighty slim even by 1984 standards. The Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 ships
with 512MB of memory— the equivalent of 524,288KB. Amount of increase: 4,096 times greater. Wowzers!

i98Jii

THE HRST GOLDEN AGE

A fter a legendary labor and birthr

Apple— and the Mac— entered its first
golden age, still high off the Mac ll's
success and buoyed by the introduction of
the dismal Windows 1 .0. Apple also played a
vital role in launching the desktop publishing
revolution with the LaserWriter— and a little
help from Aldus PageMaker. Now anyone
could cram 23 flashy fonts onto a garage-sale
flyer and print out a hundred copies. During
this period Apple produced some legendary
Macs, while the rest of the computer industry
struggled to keep up. Apple was living a
sweet, sweet dream.

But by 1991, Apple found itself facing a
powerful group of competing technologies and
business realities. The company (with Sculley
still at the helm] faced a market increasingly
dominated by PC clones, and Microsoft made
things worse by releasing Windows 3.0 on
May 22, 1990. Sure, Windows 3.0 sucked in
comparison to die Mac OS (still does], but it
was usable— and more importantly, it ran on
a variety of hardware. Apple, on the other
hand, was the only company making Macs,
which reinforced its reputation for not
playing nicely with the rest of the computing
world. Apple's opportunity to dominate the
computer market had passed, and Microsoft,
IBM, and an army of clones would eventually
push the Mac's market share to single-digit
percentages. The suits had overtaken the
Apple rebels.

Despite its troubles at the end of this
golden age, Apple made some smart
decisions. Apple teamed up with IBM and
Motorola to form the AIM alliance (Apple,
IBM, and Motorola]. One mission of AIM was
to produce RISC chips powerful enough to eat
the competition for breakfast— with room for
coffee and a hagel. This alliance went on to
produce the PowerPC processor line, which
is still going strong today; The G5 is the
fifth-generation chip in that family.

THEMACTHATSAYSITAa

Macintosh SE/30 (1989 to 1990)

Here’s the workhorse of the original all-in-one Macs. Equipped with a
68030 processor, the SE/30 was the first compact Mac with an expansion
slot and a built-in hard drive, and the first to support more than 4MB of
RAM. Although touted as a 32-bit computer, the SE/30 ROMs were
not 32-bit c/eon—that is, they still used some 24-bit code and required
a software patch to be fully 32- bit compliant and thus access more
than 8MB of RAM. With the patch, the SE/30 could access up to
I2SMBofRAM.

-’f i^jttered: The SE/30 represented Apple at its best. During these
years, Apple produced some of the most innovative, long-lasting, and
well-designed machines it ever created. Even today the SE/30 can pull its
weight; With the proper Ethernet expansion card and the right flavor of
Unix or Linux (such as NetBSD, Debian Linux, or MacMinix], an SE/30 is
still a capable small-scale Web server. Long-time Mac heads get a little

misty-eyed when the SE/30 is mentioned. Sniff.

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THEKEEPERS

Macintosh llci (1989 to 1993)

The lid was a fast, expandable, color-
capable Mac— and the first 32-bit clean
Mac. It also had an optional 32K L2
cache for added oomph. In a Mac II first,
the llci featured
: onboard video.
;Whi!e snappy, this
feature gobbled
up valuable RAM

and cramped the llci*s

performance. Still, because of
its solid design and expandability, the
llci became a publishing-house fixture,
providing long and loyal service.

PowerBook 170 (1991 to 19921

The 170 was one of the first three
PowerBooks Apple introduced. Where
Apple got it all wrong with the Portable
(see below), it got just about everything
right with the PowerBooks. This was
apparent especially in the keyboards
(set back so as to provide a wrist rest)
and built-in trackballs^features not
found in PL competitors.

At $4,600, the 170 was # 5
king of the original !

line and featured an ■

active-matrix display,
a 25MHz Motorola
68030 processor,

THESTINKER

Macintosh Portable (1989 to 1991)

This was Apple’s first— and worst-
attempt at a portable Mac. Nicknamed
the Luggable, the Portable cost $6,500,
wasn’t expandable, was based on a
wimpy 8MHz 68000 processor (five
years old and counting at the time), and
weighed nearly 16 pounds. You would
have been better off carrying an SE/30
and finding an outlet— at 19.5 pounds,
it didn’t weigh much more. Also, the
Luggable’s screen wasn’t backlit, so you
needed eagle eyes. Needless to say, the
Macintosh Portable didn’t go far— quite
literally, since
could hardly
‘ r-BKm lift it— but it did

blaze the trail for

the PowerBook
line.

SOFTWARE OEVELOPMENTS

In 1989, NeXT (with Steve Jobs at
the helm) showed off its new operating
system, NeXTStep, which would
eventually become the heart of Mac
OSX.

SimCitymade
its first appearance
in 1989— and the
world lost a year of
productivity.

In 1990, Adobe
shipped Photoshop
1.0 for the Mac.

Apple released
System 7 in 1990

in answer to Windows 3.0. System 7
featured a new interface, introduced

TrueType fonts, and used full-time
multitasking— finally, it could run
several programs at once, at all times.
-> In 1991, Apple worked with IBM
on the Pink project,
a Mac-like operating
system designed
to run on both Macs
and PCs. The object-
oriented Pink was spun
off asTaligent in 1992,
where it morphed
into a set of object-
oriented programming
City frameworks. In 1998,

IBM reabsorbed the
technology, using it in a variety of
developer tools.

THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY

^ In 1989, Motorola announced the
68040 microprocessor (which didn’t
ship until 1990)— the last in the 680x0
processor line.

' Time and Warner Brothers merged
in 1989. The company would later
merge with AOL and Netscape.

Also in 1989, Drs. Pons and
Fleischmann trumped up cold fusion.

In 1990, NASA sent the Hubble
space telescope into orbit.

Also in 1990, the first Web browser
(called WorldWideWeb) appeared— no
porn sites yet, though.

THE WORLD

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989,
and by 1991 the Soviet Union had
largely collapsed.

Dances With l44?/ves— released in
1990— proved that Kevin Costner could
carry a nonbaseball acting role. Bearing
his butt didn’t hurt the movie either.

^ Pete Rose was
banned from baseball
in 1991 for gambling on
games as the otherwise-
great game turned 100.

The first Gulf War
erupted In early 1991.

In 1991, scientists launched the
Biosphere II research facility— the biggest
missed opportunity fora reality-TV show.

Did You Know?

Rumor has it that Apple named the system
sound Sosumi (which first appeared in
System 7) for a potential lawsuit. Apple
Records (the Beatles* record label) sued
Apple Computer for bundling a microphone
with the Mac llsi and LC, and thereby-
according to the litigious Brits— turning
Apple Computer into a “music production
company” and infringing on Apple Records’
name. Apple Records accepted a $27 million
settlement to drop the case.

QaiiifAM During this time, TV made two of its most

vviilTBIu Il66w Ill6 dlilipSOriS important pop-culture contributions: the phrase
"D’oh!” and a show about nothing. The Simpsons debuted in 1989 after a couple of years as
a series of shorts on the Tracy Ullman Show. A year later, The Seinfeld Chronicles—iBter just
5e/n/e/d— aired. People never looked at a donut or ordered their soup quite the same way again.

January 2004 Mac>4ddict 25

The original Mac shipped with a 400KB floppy-disk drive. The Dual 2GHz Power
Mac ships with a 160GB hard drive. Amount of increase: 471,859 times larger.

IU«

Hi}

CRACKS & FOUNDATION

T he squeamish among you may want to consider skipping ahead
a few pages, because this era ain't pretty. Apple entered a
troubled time in which it negated every killer product (such
as the Power Macintosh 8100] with several crappy Performas
sold through Sears. Performas were meant to be
low-cost home multimedia Macs, and in 1995, Apple
introduced more than 30 different models in a
run-up to the Great Death Spiral of 1996.

Like those Performas, CEO John Sculley was
not performing well. In mid-1993, Apple's board
relieved him of his position, installing Michael
Spindler (Apple's COO at the time] as the company's
new head. Unfortunately, Spindler fared no better.

Although he shepherded Apple through the transition from 680x0
to PowerPC processors (keeping Apple in the performance game],
he also took the bold (but tardy] plunge into licensing the Mac OS to
clone makers. In 1995, Power Computing released the first official

Mac clones— the Power line— and other clonemakers, such as Umax,
Motorola, and DayStar, soon followed. Unfortunately, the clones
ended up siphoning sales from Apple instead of increasing the Mac's
market share. Bad plan.

By late 1995, Apple started the most disastrous
plunge in its history. It couldn't build Macs fast enough
(by mid-1995, the company had over $1 billion in back
orders]— and if you can't build 'em, you can't sell 'em.
Apple was also pushing low-margin Performas over
mid-range Power Macs, so it made very little money
on the computers that it could build.

In August of 1995, Microsoft released Windows
95, which still sucked, but (unfortunately for Apple]
sucked less than Windows 3.1. Although Windows 95 was still not
on par with System 7.5 in terms of ease-of-use, the general public
considered it good enough. Apple's operating-system advantage
was gone.

Perforaio (320CD (1995 to 1997)

The Performa 6320CD was the last in a litter of doggies 6200 and 6300 models had several problems, including
that exposed Apple’s inability to impose sanity on its g flaky motherboard and bad ROMs. This tragic era

product line. It was one of a baker’s dozen of Performa ended with the Performa 6360, which had a redesigned

6200 3nd 6300 rnodBls r6l6dS6d in 1995, Gsch moth 6 rbo 3 rd with PCI slots.

differentiated only by hard-drive size and minor speed why It Mattered: The Performa 6320C0 was symbolic

bumps. Early 6200s were based on a 75MHz PowerPC of Apple’s strategic boo-boo: emphasizing volume
603 processor— the slowest 603-based Mac ever. The over margins. The 6320CD also characterized Apple’s

6260CD, 6290CD, 6300CD, and 6310CD each had a Byzantine product names, which confused the hell out

lOOMHz 603e; the 6320CD ran at 120MHz. The Performa of even the most devoted Mac addicts.

janMary 2004

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THE KEEPER

Power Macintosh 8100
(1994 to 1995)

One of the three first* generation Power
Macs (which included the 6100 and
7100), the 8100 was based on the
PowerPC 601— the first Macs that used
the new RISC-based
PowerPC chip. These
Macs represented a huge,
3nd sometimes painful,
transition. Because the
chip was so different from
previous 680x0 chips,
older software had to run
in an emulation mode,
which sometimes made
it run slower than it would on
older machines. Once developers made
their software PowerPC-native, however, it
screamed. The PowerPC line is still going
strong, G5 stands for generation five; the
PowerPC 601 was the first-generation
design and could be called the Gl.

THE STINKERS

Macintosh TV (1993 to 19941

The Macintosh TV was one of the oddest
Macs ever sold— and one of the few
all-black Macs Apple ever produced. The
Macintosh TV— essentially a black LC
520— had one standout feature: It came
cable-ready with a built-in TV-tuner card.
As it turned out, people weren’t ready to
watch TV on a Mac, and Apple sold few
Macintosh TVs— only 10,000 were built.

Newton (1993 to 1998)

Newton was Apple’s first ^attempt at a
PDA. Main problem: Its handwriting
recognition was abysmal. So bad,
in fact, that it was lampooned in
Doonesbury— and in an episode of The
SimpsonSy the Newton misinterpreted
“beat up Martin” as “eat up .
Martha.” Newton signified
the shortsightedness of "

Apple’s management, -

which pushed the device
into the world before f

it was ready. Had it I

waited until it fixed the ’ '

Newton’s problems, , ^

Apple may have been
at the forefront of the PDA
market from the beginning.

SOFTlilARE DEVELOPMENTS

Although released years earlier in
1990, System 7 continued to dominate.
The only major change was the jump
from System 7.1 to System 7.5 in
1994, which added features such as
WIndowShade and Stickles. It was also
the first Mac OS distributed on CD-ROM
as well as floppy disks.

^ In 1993, Apple introduced eWorld—
Its AOL-like online services. eWorld
garnered a loyal-but-small following.

Apple announced the Copland project
in 1994. Intended as a middle ground
between System 7 and a fully modern
operating system, Copland never made
it out of the lab. Parts of it, though, such

A Tribute to eWorld

as a redesigned Finder, the HFS Extended
(aka HFS-h) file system, and Open
Transport, made it into Mac OS 8 and later.

In 1995, Sun Microsystems
announced the Java programming
language— not an Apple innovation,
but near and dear to the hearts of Mac
OS X developers.

THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY

The Information Superhighway
concept entered public consciousness
in 1993— for better or worse-
appearing on the April
12, 1993, cover of Time
as “The Info Highway.”

Al Gore got credit for
popularizing the phrase
in a September 1994
speech— but not for
inventing the Internet
(which he never claimed he did,
by the way).

Microsoft released Windows NT
(version 3.1) in 1993, which ran on

Microsoft Bob

several different processors including
(until 1996) the PowerPC,

Microsoft released Windows 95
on August 24, 1995— to
the public chuckling (and
private horror) of the
Mac faithful.

Microsoft Bob,
a graphical desktop
replacement intended for
computer newbies that,
for example, replaced your standard
desktop with an image of a living room,
showed up in 1995. Bob promptly
flopped and slunk back under a rock.

THE WDRLD

Michael Jordan

Michael jordan
retired from the NBA
in 1993— for the |

first time— to start a
baseball career with
the Chicago White
Sox. He played with
their Class AA team, the Birmingham
Barons, but ended up returning to the
Bulls in 1995.

In 1994, the blood on George
Lucas’s contract with the Devil finally
dried, and he began writing the Star
Wars prequels.

Bill Watterson stopped penning

Calvin and Hobbes in 1995. No one
could get out of bed the next day.

The Chunnel (connecting England
and France) opened In 1994.

Did You Know?

The Power Mac 7100 had three code names.
1) Carl Sagan— but when Sagan protested,
it became 2) BHA (butt-head astronomer).
When Sagan threatened to sue over BHA,
it became 3) LAW (lawyers are wimps, or
so the story goes). The suit did go to court,
where judge Lourdes G. Baird sagely pointed
out that “figurative language militates
against implying an assertion of fact,”
and that the term butt-head was
“undefined.” (Shut up, Beavis!)

Rnftia ftf tho RnWliminrHc Just before the 1994 winter Olympics, skater Nancy
DUlltC III UIC DUUyi|UUi Kerrigan got clubbed on the knee. Police arrested
rival Tonya Harding’s bodyguarcl, Shawn Eric Eckardt (among others). That same year, The
Bodyguard won the Grammy for Album of the Year. Which was the greater crime? We’re not sure.

January 2004 MacAddict 27

The clock speed of the original Macintosh was 8MHz. The Power Mac G5 clocks in at 2GHz— and that’s just one of the two chips in that machine.
Amount of increase: 250 times faster— that’s the difference between walking and breaking the sound barrier.

WANDERING Si DESERT

T hese were the times that tried Mac fans' souls, if you stuck with
Apple through these years, you deserve a medal.

First, there was a major change in management. Gil Amelio,
previously CEO of National Semiconductor, replaced
Spindler, who resigned under pressure in early 1996.

Unfortunately, Amelio didn't prove to be the savior
that the Mac faithful hoped he would be. During the
next year, Amelio presided over more than a billion
dollars in losses and eroding confidence in Apple's
survival. This downward spiral, during which many
Mac users dabbled with the dark side by trying a PC,
hit its lowest point in January 1997 at Macworld
Expo San Francisco.

In what we here at MacAddia call "The Keynote from Hell," Amelio
appeared to have skipped his meds that woeful morn, rambling on
for a surreal hour and a half and calling Muhammad Ali and other

celebrities up onstage. Mac loyalists in attendance collectively buried
their heads in their hands, sure that Apple was doomed. But there was
one bright spot; Steve Jobs appeared onstage and demoed Rhapsody,
which was supposed to be the next generation of the
Macintosh operating system [a fusion of Mac OS and
NeXT's operating-system technology}. Jobs had
rejoined Apple as an advisor after Apple purchased
NeXT on December 20, 1996.

On July 9, 1997, Amelio and his chief technology
officer, Ellen Hancock, resigned from Apple. Jobs took
over, ended the licensing of the Mac OS [effectively
ending the clone era and bringing those revenues back
to Apple], and announced a partnership with Microsoft
in which the Redmond behemoth invested in Apple and continued to
develop Microsoft Office. This move boosted investor confidence and
helped Apple survive its toughest time.

28 Mac . / JanLfary 2004

PowerBook 5300 (1995 to 1996]

, Yes, the PotwerBook 5300 appeared just before this era,
t but it perfectly represents the darkest days of Apple,
k Based on the PowerPC 603 chip, the PowerBook 5300
K was the first PowerBook to use a PowerPC— and it ran
K at a then-respectable lOOMHz. But it also had some
HL real problems. For one, an inordinate number of them
Vk shipped dead on arrival. Users also reported problems
with display hinges and power adapters. But the
kicker was that the 5300’s battery had a defect: In
Vk rare cases, the battery could theoretically explode
and catch fire. While Apple still insists that
never actually happened, the poor 5300
became the butt of jokes that
persisted for years.

' '■ The PowerBook

riag K' 5300 was the most

infamous PowerBook
ever because of its
theoretically incendiary
battery, which hurt Apple's
reputation for quality products at a time
when the company needed consumer confidence most.
Ironically, the symbolism was alt too real: At this time, Apple
as a company was also on the verge of bursting into flames.

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SQFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS

THE KEEPER

Power Macintosh 9500
(1995 to 1997)

The first versions of this Mac debuted in 1995, but the
bulk of its life was in 1996.. Built on a PowerPC 60A
processor, the PowerMac 9500 could use up to 1.5GB
of RAM and had six PCI slots (the first Mac with PCI
slots, along with the PowerMac 8500). Along with the
9500’s successor (the 9600), this was the last time
any Mac would have that many slots. The 9500 even
came in a couple of multiprocessor
models— the first multiprocessor
Macs that Apple made. What
didn*t impress, however, was the
9500*s case design. Installing RAM
and other components required
removing the motherboard from
the case— an arduous process that
often spilled blood.

THE STINKERS

Pippin (1996 to 1998)

The Pippin, a project that first started under Spindler,
was Apple’s attempt to build a consumer gaming
console and WebTV-like device. It finally saw the light
of day underthe name @World (or(§)Mark, in Japan).
Users could play games, use a somewhat limited
selection of Mac software, and browse the Web on
theIrTVs using a scaled-down version of the Mac OS.
Unfortunately, text rendering on TVs was bad, game
selection was even worse, and the @World cost a
hefty $599. In the end, the Pippin lived a short and
unhappy life, selling less than 12,000 units in the
U.S. before being liquidated in 1998.

Apple’s online eWorld service
went dark in 1996, forcing 147,500
members into the real world.

Apple released both System 7.6
and Mac OS 8 in 1997. While 7.6
was a much-needed cleanup, Mac
OS 8— which only ran on PowerPC-
based Macs— contained significant
new features such as an Internet
setup assistant, improved list
views, and a threaded Finder that
allowed simultaneous file copying.

In 1993, Apple began touting
OpenDoc technology— a scheme
to make documents, instead of
applications, the focus of your

Blizzard's Diablo

work— as the future of software
development. The developer world
yawned and continued to work
on applications. OpenDoc did,
however, produce Apple’s first
Web browser, CyberDog.

Blizzard unleashed the RPG
Diablo on the world in 1996.

THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY

Scientists cloned Dolly the
sheep in July of 1996, who— or is it
which?— lived until February of 2003.
^ In 1996, IBM
supercomputer
Deep Blue wiped the
chess board with
Garry Kasparov.

Windows NT4,

Microsoft’s server- level
operating system, debuted
in 1996.

In 1996, the long-anticipated
digital-media revolution started
turning out products people

actually used, such as the first
DVD players. Also, MP3-based
music began its meteoric
rise as the future of music
distribution.

^ A 1997 analysis of Martian
meteorites hinted at life on
Mars. The Mars Pathfinder
probe cruised around in search
of E.T. but came up empty.

^ M ac Ad dfct\N as founded in
1996 at a time when many said
we were insane for starting a new
Mac magazine. Maybe we were.
Maybe we still are.

Dolly

20th Anmversary Nadiitosh (1997 to 1998)

This machine’s moniker actually referred to

THE WORLD

Apple’s 20th anniversary, not the Mac’s. The 20th
Anniversary Macintosh had TV and FM radio tuners
built in, a sound system designed by Bose, and
an LCD display. Many thought it visually stunning,
while others were just stunned, Taser-style.

Whether you thought it was cool or not, the biggest
problem was its price— it started at almost $10,000.
This price didn’t last long, though. By the end of its
life in 1998, it was selling for around $2,000. Yes,
the 20th Anniversary Macintosh still has Its fans.

but so does the AMC Pacer.

In 1996, Atlanta played host
to the Summer Olympics and a
fatal bombing.

years of British rule.

Comet Hale-Bopp made an
appearance in 1997.

The Coen brothers released
the film Fargo in 1996. The North
Dakota accent became infamous.

Independence Day, starring a
PowerBook 5300 and a president in
a flight suit, was the top-grossing
film of 1996. VHS copies of the
movie found their way underneath
Macworld Expo keynote seats in
January 1997 as door prizes.

Hong Kong returned to Chinese
control in 1997 after more than 150

Beavis and Butt- Head ended its run 0

llUlinCQQS QFIQ DQSlQruS MTV in 1997 and Sout/rPar/r debuted

Did You Know?

Power Computing developed an ad
campaign that featured a Sluggo-like
character saying, “Let's kick Intel’s

ass!” to announce
a 225MHz
Macintosh clone.

Deemed too
controversial— in
part because of a
threatened lawsuit
by Sluggo’s
lawyers— Power
Power Computing Computing

Poster shelved it.

Folks who were sick of “huhhuhhuh” didn’t know what they were in for until cries of
“They killed Kenny—you bastards!” rang through dorms and offices everywhere.

January 2004 MacAidict 29

The original Mac shipped with LocalTalk capabilities built in, which moved data at a glacial speed of 230 Kbps (kilobits per second).
The Power Mac G5 ships with Gigabit Ethernet— that is, 1,000 Mbps Ethernet. Amount of increase: 4,452 times faster.

B y 1998r the coals of Apple's return to greatness were beginning
to glow. Jobs turned losses into profits^ inspired his employees,
and slimmed down a bloated and confused product line. And
then there was Apple's ace in the hole, the product that brought Apple
back to prominence: the iMac, announced on May 6, 1998.

The other huge development during this period was the move
to Mac OS X. Thanks to the acquisition of NeXT, Apple not only
got Steve Jobs back into the fold, it also gained NeXT's NeXTStep
operating system and the engineers who worked on it. Those talented
folks helped build Mac OS X, which finally brought Apple's operating
system up to par with other modern OSs. Based on Unix and able
to run Mac OS 9 applications in its Classic environment, Mac OS X
allowed Apple to move to a next-generation OS while keeping the
transition as smooth as possible. The key: the Carbon API (application
program interface] set, which allowed Mac application developers to

30 MacAWIct January 2004

tweak— rather than rewrite— their code to get it to work in Mac OS X,
thus ensuring that developers were on board for the transition.

During this time, Apple took its new mantra— Think Different
(the ad campaign that began in 1997]— to heart. Apple was busy
reinventing itself as much more than a PC maker. First, the company
created its digital hub strategy, based on the idea that the Mac was at
the center of peripherals such as digital cameras, MP3 players, and
camcorders. This idea also drove Apple to develop iMovie, iT unes,
iDVD, and iPhoto— digital lifestyle applications that the PC industry
tried, and failed, to copy. Apple also created innovative industrial
design, producing hits such as the iMac, iBook, and failure-turned-
coilectible Power Mac G4 Cube.

Thanks to these efforts, Apple returned to profitability and
stability— and to Its rightful place as the top innovator in the
personal-computer industry.

THE KEEPERS

iBook (1999 to 2000)

The iBook was a portable version of
the iMac, and likewise came in blinding
colors. The case was durable and Apple
claimed that its Li-Ion battery could last
up to 6 hours. You had to do some pretty
serious power management (like not
turning It on) to get that much life out of
it, but it did last longer than PowerBooks
of the time. The iBook also came with
Ethernet-speed wireless networking
in the form ofAirPort,
which continues
■ - to revolutionize

connectivity. Critics
said that the IBook
^ ^ looked like a toilet

seat— probably
because it did.

BhK-aid-Uliiteli3(U99)

Another revolutionary design, the Blue-
and-White G3 used ATA hard drives
instead of SCSI— and while many Mac
folks still didn't trust ATA hard drives, the
decision to include them proved wiser
as ATA drive capacities grew and prices
plummeted. Like the iMac, the Blue-
and-White G3 featured USB Instead of
serial ports. This G3 was
also the first to feature
onboard FireWire, and it
had an elegant flip-down
door that inspires Power ;

Macs to this day. To
anyone who lost a finger .
installing RAM in a 9500, |
this design improvement
brought a tear to the eye.

THE STINKER

B4CHlw[20Nto2Ul)

Packed into a 10-by-8-by-8-inch
transparent cube, the G4 Cube featured
a PowerPC G4 running at 450 or 500MHz,
and since it was cooled by convection,
it ran silently. The optical drive was a
toaster-style, vertical slot-loading drive.
Unfortunately, Apple discontinued the
Cube a year after its Introduction. Why?
For one, the Cube did not have any real
expandability— there were no PCI or PC
card slots. But the real issue
was price— the Power Mac G4
J was just a better value than
: the Cube.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPHEHTS

The Mac OS moved from 8.5
to 10.2 during this time, which
was the Mac equivalent of trading
a 78 Toyota Celica for a late-
model Lamborghini— an especially
apt comparison, as the early
Iterations of OS X were as finicky
as an Italian sports car.

Apple released Mac OS 9 in 1999-
the last major version in the venerable
Classic Mac OS line.

Apple released a public beta of
Mac OS X In September 2000. It then
followed up with four major releases:
Mac OS X in March 2001, 10.1 in
September 2001, 10.2 Oaguar) in
September 2002, and 10.3 (Panther)
in October 2003.

Apple’s iPhoto

During this period, Apple released
IMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, and iDVD,
among other iApps.

Adobe released InDesign 1.0
in 1999, InDesign 2.0 In 2002, and
InDesign CS (effectively version 3) in
late 2003. Quark finally moved Xpress
from 4.0 to 5.0 in 2002 but waited
another year before adding Mac OS X
support in version 6.

THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY

ICANN (Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers) was
created to manage the Internet’s
domain names in 1998.

Windows 98, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP debuted in 1998, 2000,
and 2001, respectively.

Linux, an open-source Unix ^
derivative, gathered enough
momentum to Inspire IBM to sell
it with its servers.

The Ellis Island database

went live on the Web in 2001 (www
.ellisislandrecords.org), allowing people
to search fortheir Immigrant ancestors.

TiVo announced its
^ self-named digital video
recorders in late 1998.
The dot-com boom
became the dot-bomb bust
as investors remembered
In 2001 that businesses
actually need to make
a profit.

Pets.coin Sock
Puppet

THE WORLD

^ Mark McGwire broke Roger Marls’s
single-season home-run record in
1998 with 70 home runs. Barry Bonds
broke McGwire’s record in 2001 with
73 home runs.

Bob Barker taped the 5,000th
episode of The Price is Right In 1998.
^ Michael Jordan announced his
second retirement from basketball
in 1999.

In 1999, changed

action and science-fiction
films forever.

On January 1,

2001, Seattle’s
Magnuson park
played host to a
9-foot black monolith i
in honor of 2001: A
Space Odyssey. space odyssey

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Did You Know?

Easter eggs— once found throughout the
Mac’s operating system— became all
but extinct during this period as Apple
emphasized collaborative effort over
individual achievement.

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TU In the closingweeks of 1999, paranoiacs scrounged for
IlSCilliy nC6lS flSOiiiy l V food, water, and batteries In preparation for the loss of
all civilized society come 12:01 a.m., January 1, 2000. The next year, 16 contestants scrounged
for food, water, and batteries in a quest to win a million dollars on the island of Pulau Tiga when
Surv/Vor premiered on CBS. As it turns out, the St/rwVorfinale proved much less of a letdown.

January 2004 MacAddIct 31

32 Macy4ddlct January 2004

I t's an exciting [though somewhat scary] time
for Apple. Exciting in that Apple has its best
product line in its history, scary in that even
its mega-popular Switchers campaign hasn't
resulted in double-digit market share. Still, the
company is turning a profit, stabilizing its market
share, and performing more than respectably in
the laptop market.

Apple is also continuing to lead the industry in
innovation— the iPod and iT unes 4 Music Store
have revolutionized how music is distributed
and sold, and they provide a legal (and fun]
alternative to file-sharing networks. Jobs and
his talented team are still driving the company
forward, so expect many tasty things to come over
the next few years.

Power Hoc ts(zn3 to?)

This is the latest in the
long-lived Power Macintosh
line. Based on a 64-bit
microprocessor (the first
increase ofthis kind since
the late ’80s), the Power ■
Mac G5 uses a raft of new
technologies— AirPort
Extreme 802.11g wireless
networking, Serial ATA,
FireWire 800, USB 2.0,
and AGP 8x Pro, to name
just a few— in a cheese
grater-inspired case. This is
the future of the Macintosh,
at least for professionals.
Based on history, you
can expect that the G5
microprocessor will be inside
Macs for five years or more.

This is the

first major system overhaul
in years and introduces
many new technologies.

For example, the Dual 2GHz
^ , Power Mac G5 can address
up to 8GB of memory, has
' i dual IGHz front-side busses,
and shoves all of its input-
output mojo (including
FireWire 800, USB 2.0,
and optical audio) through
a pair of HyperTransport
I/O controllers for up to 3.2
GBps of throughput. It also
features a quiet case design
that keeps its processors
cool without causing
hearing loss.

THE KEEPERS

iPod(20a2-?l

We nearly crowned the iPod, and all it
represents, as this era’s Mac That Says
It All— even though it’s not a Mac. One
aspect of Apple’s contribution to the MP3
digital-music revolution, the iPod uses
FireWire to transfer files and charge its
battery, can hold thousands of songs
on a hard drive up
to 40GB, is small
enough to fit into
your pocket, and
beats the pants off
ofany other device
of its kind. But more
importantly, the
iPod represents a
new direction for
Apple: digital
entertainment.

With an iPod,
a computer (Mac
or PC), and the iTunes
Music Store, Apple now caters
to an entirely new base of customers
who can listen to and purchase music
and spoken-word audio in ways no one
imagined just a few years ago.

Flat-panel INac (2002-?)

Although the flat-panel iMac debuted
in 2002 (first by accident on a Canadian
Time Magazine Web site, just hours
before Steve jobs officially announced
the product), the latest iteration is the
best, with your choice of an adjustable
15-, 17-, or 20-inch screen. With built-
in Bluetooth and

AirPort Extreme,
the flat-panel
iMac only
needs power,
a keyboard,
and a ’

to do its job in style.
Like the Mac 128K, it
revolutionized the
look of the all-in-one
computer.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS

Safari— Apple’s second attempt at
a Web browser— debuted in January

2003. Microsoft
decided to
cease further
development
of Internet
Explorer for
Mac shortly
thereafter.

Apple Safari

Also in January, Apple released
Keynote, to the thankful sobbing of
PowerPoint users everywhere.

-> Apple released the ITunes Music
Store for the Mac in April and for
Windows in October.

In October, Apple released Mac
OS 10.3, aka Panther, featuring fast user
switching, Expose, Xll, and FreeBSD 5.

THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY

^ Former Vice President Al Gore
joined Apple’s board of directors.

The RIAA sued hundreds of peer-to-
peer music swappers in one of the least
even-handed corporate
shenanigans to date.

^ In August, Mars
made its closest
approach to Earth in
recorded human history.

China became the
third nation to send a
human into space with its launch of the
Shenzhou 5.

Mars

Right in time for the holidays,
MacSoft released Halo, Bungle’s first-
person shooter. Halo started as a Mac
game, but Microsoft bought Bungle to
make games for its Xbox console.

THE WORLD

Although the film Finding Nemo,
produced by the Steve Jobs-owned
Pixar, was a money-making blockbuster,
sushi remained on the menu at Apple.

in February, space shuttle Columbia
broke up on reentry due to a missing
piece of insulation foam that fell off
during launch.

Arnold Schwarzenegger became
California governor in a recall election.
The rest of the country stifled chuckles.

Technology into the Future

The Mac has always been on the cutting
edge, showcasing new technologies
or popularizing existing technologies.
Here are some of the emerging
technologies to watch.

1 WIRELESS BROADBAND
Think Airport’s big? You ain’t seen
nothin’ yet. With the right antennas and
a clear line of sight, you can now use
Airport’s 802,11b technology to throw a
wireless link 20 miles. The implications
are staggering: With a few hundred
dollars of gear and the right landscape,
you can push a broadband link out to
areas that would otherwise not be able
to receive one— like that log cabin in
rural Kentucky you’ve had your eye on.

2 BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES
This year, the FCC is rolling out
the technology to provide DSL-class
connectivity over power lines In at
least a dozen pilot projects across the
country. Locations include Potomac,
Maryland; Manassas City, Virginia; and
Emmaus, Pennsylvania. The implication?
Broadband in every home that has
power lines. Finally, universal high-
speed access may become a reality.

3 HANDHELD VIDEO PLAYER
The rumor about that portable
video player keeps coming up— and
who wouldn’t want a handheld device
that could play downloaded movies?

Add a fast wireless connection for
broadcasting video and a FireWire port
for charging and connecting a video
camera, and we’d really have something.

4 SOCIAL SOFTWARE

Blogs, flash mobs, friend finders,
online multiplayer games— the advent of
the Internet means new ways for actual
human beings to interact and connect.
Telephone, schmelephone,

5 FUEL-CELL BATTERIES
Pop in a hydrogen or methane
cartridge and get several hours of
electricity. Fuel-cell batteries are
already in test labs and are on their way
to the laptop. The benefit? No more
5300-style accidents (although the
Hindenberg comes to mind), plus you
get longer hours of operation, a lighter
laptop, and drinkable water to boot.

Dilltf p--„^Despitetheprayersof millions of fans and TV executives, the cursed

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Series. The Red Sox’s curse originated when Babe Ruth’s contract was sold to the Yankees in 1920— the Sox haven’t won since. The Chicago Cubs*
curse dates back to 1945, when a tavern owner cast a hex on the team when he wasn’t allowed to bring his goat into Wrigley to watch the World
Series— the Cubs haven’t even been in a Series since. Looking into the future, we’re betting on the Sox— even Sammy and Dusty can’t overcome
bad goat juju.

Emory Christensen is a freelance technology writer who happens to have a Mac fetish. He’s coauthor of
lU a couple chapters in the upcoming Afac/ntos/r Bible, and he really likes the idea of the Macintosh IV.

January 2004 MacAddIct 33

The original Macintosh sold for $2,495. The Dual 2GHz PowerMac G5 sells for $2,999. Consideringthat$2,495 in 1984 dollars is equivalent to $4,447 in 2003 dollars,
the latest Power Mac is a bargain. Now you can justify buying two— the Power Mac G5 costs only 56 percent as much as the original!

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WHO’S KING OaiflE COMPUTING MLL, A DUAL 2^^kPOWER
MAC G5 OR A grf^HZ PENTIUM 4 P^ OUR EXPER^j^^T ’EM
Jp^OTH AND REVEAL TRUTH.

The v^jtd’s fastest personal compu^at. That’s what Steve Jobs
^Ttls the Power Mac G5— so it must be true, right?
m Maybe so. But we want^ proof. ^

Plus, th^Wintel-lovinggearheads at oursi^er publication, Maximum PC,
challenged us to a Mac versus PC smackdown. W^immediately accepted. After all,
we have ouiwride— and we believed that armed wBh a Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 we
/ could grind their puny 3.2GHz Pentium 4 PC into the dust.

So each editorial team pulled out its clipboards and gathered bang-for-the-buck
info. Then we grabbed our stopwatches; fired up iur respective machines; ran a
passel of benchmarks, real-world apps, and gaifies; and shared our results.

So, is Steve right? Yes. And no.

Read on.

by Rik Myslewski

January 2004 MacAldIct 3a

WHICH IS THE ^
BETTER BUY?

MACS GET KNOCKED FOR BEING EXPENSIVE,
BUT is THAT CRITICISM UNFAIR? YUP,

efs start with the obvious: Macs and PCs are different
animals. Very different. And both have their pros and
cons. W§Mac addicts^^r example, take justifiable pride in
our plifant Unix-ba^e^OS, seamless application integration,
an^dfhe exquisite eng|heering found in all Apple products.

PC weenies— uh, aficionados— point to their systems’ easy
expandability, oft-superior gaming performance, and heap of
Windows applications suitable for every occasion.

On the downside, we cop to limited video-card options, a
meager number of USB ports, and an embarrassingly short
one-year limited warranty. On the PC side, you find screaming-
loud cooling fans, uninspired industrial design and
engineering, and an OS that’s prone to
crashes and difficult to use.

Then there’s the matter of price.

Macs have long been criticized for
their high cost, and though they’re
currently more affordable than ever,
factors such as vicious competition,
a flood of cut-rate components, and
the screaming nose-dive in the PC
marketplace, have driven PC prices
even lower.

We assembled a quintet of kinda-
sorta-comparable PCs (see “You Get
What You Pay For,*’ below) from the build-

to-orderWeb pages of leading manufacturers, and compared
them to a kinda-sorta-similarly configured Dual 2GHz Power
Mac G5. Among our test models, the PowerMac was the most
expensive— and, in some cases, the most expensive by far.

But is the Mac’s premium price justified? The Dual 2GHz
Power Mac G5 is the only system on our list with lightening-
fast PCI-X slots, FireWire 800, the convenience of ADC— and, of
course, dual processors, since the Pentium 4 doesn’t support
multiprocessing. On the other hand, workstation-class PCs such
as the IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6230 have scads of USB ports
and PCI slots, enjoy three-year warranties, and can be fitted
with workstation-class video cards such as the nVidia Quadro
FX 1000. While the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 straddles the fence
between consumer- and workstation-class machines, the
best-performing card Apple offers for it is the decidedly
consumer-class ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Hardware to hardware,
the best bang for the buck is a tough call, though we have to
give the nod to the PC.

But hardware is only part of the story. The Power Mac G5
not only ships with Mac OS X, but it also comes with (take a
deep breath) iCal, iChat, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iSync, ITunes,
Address Book, Apple Developer Tools, Art Directors Toolkit,
FAXstf, GraphicConverter, Mail, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner,
QuickBooks, QuickTime, Safari, Sherlock, and more. And while
one could argue that some of those apps are free downloads
from the Apple Web site, in truth there ain’t nothin’ that’s
free— all of those “free” apps are subsidized by the extra cash
we pay for our Macs.

Considering its ease of maintenance, tightly integrated
software, precision engineering, and market-leading industrial
design, we think the Mac, as a complete hardware-software
package, is worth a few extra bucks.

You Get What You Pay For

We assembled five custom peecees, each powered by a top-of-the-line 3.2GHz Pentium 4, and equipped them
similarly to a Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5. Hardware to hardware, the Apple dualie was the most expensive.

Apple
Dual2GHz
Power Mac G5

Del)

Precision 360

Gateway

E-6100-C

hp Compaq d530
Convertible Minitower

hp workstation
xw4100

IBM 1

IntelliStation
MPro6230

Price as Configured

$3,549

$3,079

$2,519

$2,089

$3,318

$3,372

Processor lype

duallBM PowerPC 970

Intel Pentium 4

Intel Pentium 4

Intel Pentium 4

Intel Pentium 4

Intelpentium4

Processor Speed

dual 2GHz

3.2GHz

3.2GHz

3.2GHz

3.2GHz !

3.26Hz

Frontside Bus Speed

: dual IGHz

800MHz

800MHz

800MHz

800MHz !

800MHz

L2 Cache

two512K

512K

512K

512K

512K

512K

DDR SDRAM

1GB

1GB

1GB

1GB

1GB

1GB

Hard-Drive Type

7,200-rpm SATA 150

7,200-rpm SATA 150

7,200-rpm SATA 150

7,200-rpm ATA/100

7,200-rpm SATA 150

7.200- rpm SATA 150,

7. 200- rDfn ATA/100

Hard-Drive Capacity

160GB

120GB

160GB

160GB

160GB

160GB (two SOGB)

Opticai Drive

DVD-R/ROM,

CD-R/RW/ROM

DVO+R/RW/ROM,

CD-R/RW/ROM

is

DVD+R/RW/ROM,

CD-R/RW/ROM

DVD+RW/R/ROM,

CD-R/RW/ROM

DVD-RW/R/ROM/RAM,

CD-R/iW/ROM

Roppy Drive

no

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Video-Card Type

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

ATIFireGLXl

ATI Radeon 96006

nVidia GeForce FX

nVidia Quadro4980XGl

nVidia Quadro FX 1000

Video-Card RAM

128MB

128MB

128MB

128MB

128MB

128M6

Video-Card Ports

ADCandDVt

VGAandDVI

TVandDVI

VGAandS-Video

two VGA, two DVI, or
VGAandOVl

two DVI

AGPSiot

8x

8x

8x

8x

8x

8x

PCi Slots

none

five

five

five

five

five

PCI-X Slots

three

none

none

none

none

none

FireWire 400 Ports

two (one on front) 1

three (one on audio card)

one on audio card

none

three (one on front)

none

HreWire 800 Ports

one.

none

none

none

none

none

USB 1.1 Ports

two on keyboard

none

none

none

none

none

USB 2.0 Ports

three (one on front)

eight (two on front)

eight (two on front)

six

six (two on front)

six (two on front)

No-Cost Warranty

one-year limited

three-year limited*

three-year limited*

three-year limited*

three-year limited*

three-year limited*

*onsHe repair

January 2004

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WHICH IS THE
BETTER PERFORMER?

LIKE BEAUTY, PRIMO PERFORMANCE
IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.

ny discussion of performance understandably centers on
the heart of any Mac or PC: its processori-Although AMD
and Intel recently released new hot-rod processors (see “The
Bottom Line,” p38), Intel’s Pentium 4 (aka the P4) powers most
high-end PCs. With this in mind, we asked the tech wizards at
PC to build a test PC based on the fastest available
P4, clocked at3.2Gi^2.They equipped it with other components
compataW^ to thos^vih^ beefed-up Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5:
a 120G'^fe 7,200-rpm ^Irial ATA hard drive, 1GB of DDR SDRAM,
and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card— a hair over $2,100
worth of quality do-it-yourselfer components. We then ran an
assortment of application-benchmark tests, real-world apps,
and games on both the PC and the dualie.

APPLICATION BENCHMARKS

Application benchmarks are odd beasts. Ratherthan
measuring how an app performs in operations used in
real-world situations, these tests exercise a wide selection
of an application's capabilities without weighting the results
on whether those capabilities are frequently used or not.

For example, the Photoshop 7.0.1 ($609, www.adobe.com)
application benchmark developed by the geeks dX Maximum
PC runs each and every Photoshop filter (except for three
that froze the benchmark— go figure) one after another. Our
Photoshop tests, on the other hand (see “Photoshop 7.0.1,”
below), emphasize operations that are more-commonly used.
Our reasoning is that you are far more likely to use the Sharpen >
Unsharp Mask filter than you are to use the Sketch > Plaster
filter, so you’re more interested in how Photoshop performs
when you’re working with it. The Maximum PC editors argue
it’s fairer to treat each and every operation equally. We provide
both results: Pick the set you want to believe.

We also ran an application benchmark for Mathematica 5
($1,880, www.wolfram.com) developed by Stefan Steinhaus
(www.scientificweb.de/mathstef3.html), which the good
folks at Wolfram Research recommended as an especially
comprehensive test. In this test, the 3.2GHz Pentium 4-based
PC handily spanked the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5. Keep in
mind that Mathematica 5 has not yet been optimized for the
G5 processor— and programming techniques that work great
for the G4 can actually slow down a G5. The reasons why are
way too complicated to get into here, but if you’re looking for
an overview, check out the “Optimizing for the Power Mac

G5” article on Apple’s

Application Benchmarks

Mathematica 5.0

Photoshop 7.0.1

0 5 10 15 20

All times are in minutes. Shorter bars are better.

if you’re not scintillated by Deep Geek.

We also uncovered an odd behavior when running
the Mathematica 5 benchmark: Using CPU Monitor
(Applications > Utilities > CPU Monitor), we noticed
that the G5 processors neveroperated at full bore
simultaneously. In fact, if one processor was
running at 100 percent, the other was idle; if one
was at 60 percent, the other was at 40— the total
utilization added up to 100 percent, not the 200
percent we expected from an app designed to take
advantage of the Power Mac G5's dual processors.

A Wolfram spokesperson told us that the company
is planning to release an upgrade to Mathematica 5,
but that it doesn’t yet have a firm release date.

PHOTOSHOP 7.0.1

We left the rarified air of application benchmark
testing and entered the real world of Adobe
Photoshop 7.0.1. Using the same Photoshop Action
we used for last month’s review of the Dual 2GHz
Power Mac G5 (see Reviews, Dec/03, p50), we
ran this Action on the G5 and P4 machines, using
identical 25MB and 50MB PSD
files (see “The Fine Print,” p38,
for details on this and all other
tests). As we mentioned, our
test was designed to mimic real
work done by real people in the
real world. Turns out that the G5
is better tuned to reality than a
3.2GHz P4.

Photoshop 7.0.1

INDESIGN 2.0

For our next test, we fired up InDesign 2.0
($699, www.adobe.com) on both
platforms and exported a 16-page
magazine feature with a ton of
links into PDF format. In this
case, the Dual 2GHz Power Mac
G5 didn’t fare as well, but It was
close: The P4-based PC edged it
out by four seconds in tests that
took about a minute to perform.

50MB file

InPesipn 2.0

■ Export Complex PDF

0 25 50 75

All times are in seconds. Shorter bars are better.

Developer Connection
Web site: http://
developer.apple.com
/performance
/g5optimization.html.

Tip: Do not star/ reading
this if you’re sleepy ^and
have had a beer ortivo— /
it can be tough sledding

QUICKTIME PRO 6.3

We then switched over to QuickTime Pro 6.3
($29.99, www.apple.com), and exported a
2GB DV file into MOV format.

The G5 edged out the
P4, but again the difference
in speed was not great: The
P4-based PC was about 93
percent as fast as the Dual
2GHz PowerMac G5.

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of Mass Improvernent These
powerful apps manipiriate^
virgin image data as it’s
captured by a digital
camera’s CCD— that is, if that
camera is able to capture
images in RAW format, rather
than lower-quality, camera-processed JPEG files. We used Bibble
and MacBibble (both at version 3.1a) to batch-convert a load of
RAW images to TIFFs. The results prove Bibble Labs' claim that
MacBibble is “Mutlithreaded to be Super Fast on Duai CPU Mac
G4’s” extends to G5s as well. Who cares if their grammar and
spelling suck? Their software kicks.

COMPRESSOR VS. PROCODER 1.5

ForoQr last real-world test, we had to use different apps
on each platform since Apple’s Compressor video encoder
(bundled with Final Cut Pro 4 and DVD Studio Pro 2; $999 and
$499 respectively, vyww.apple.com) doesn’t run on a Wintel
box. Following Apple’s advice, and with the agreement of
our Maximum PC counterparts, we used ProCoder 1.5 ($499,
www.canopus.com) on the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 PC. In a quick-
and-dirty encoding of a 1GB DV file into MPEG-2, the two apps
performed essentially the same. When encoding the same file
at high-quality settings, however, the Dual 2GHz Power Mac
G5 smoked the P4-based
PC. Canopus, ProCoder’s
developer, claims that
their Mastering Quality
setting— which we used in
this test— produces higher-
quality MPEG-2 files than
Compressor’s High Quality
setting (its top setting).

Maybe so. Maybe not.

GAMES

just when we were feeling pretty darn good about the Dual 2GHz
Power Mac G5 versus the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 PC, we loaded up
Unreal Tournament 2003 ($49.99, www.macsoft.com). Quake
111: Arena ($49.99, www.idsoftware.com), and Star Wars jedi
Knight II: jedi Outcast ($49.99, www.aspyr.com), and ran some
framerate tests. Humility reasserted itself. Although the G5
and P4 pumped out identical framerates in Quake III: Arena,
the P4 soundly whupped the G5 in Jedi Knight II and thoroughly
embarrassed it in Unreal Tournament 2003. MacSoft and
Aspyr spokespersons reminded us that UT03 and Jedi Knight II

are optimized for the G4,
and that some of those
optimizations degrade G5
performance. The Aspyr
spokesperson said that
Jedi Knight II will soon be
optimized forthe G5, and
the MacSoft spokesperson
told us that Unreal
Tournament 2004 (see “The
Scoop: Unreal Tournament
2004,” pl8) will also be
optimized forthe G5— let’s
hope optimization is complete by the time UT04 ships
in early 2004.

THE BOTTOM LINE

I f you live and work in the real world, the Dual 2GHz Power Mac
G5 will help you get creative work done faster than a 3.2GHz
Pentium 4-based PC. If mere horsepower floats your boat, the
situation is murkier: In the application benchmark tests we ran,
the P4 handled the G5. Caveats, however, abound. First, the 65
is the new kid on the block. It’ll be a while before software is
optimized to take advantage of all its power, just as many apps
ran slower on the Pentium 4 when it first arrived on the scene
than they did on the Pentium 111— and it took nearly three years
for software developers to master all of the P4’s tricks.

But the Wintel world isn’t standing still, either. Although
we tested the G5 versus the most powerful widely available
microprocessor, the 3.2GHz Pentium 4, two new— and
may mac/70— chips have entered the fray since the G5 was
announced: the AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 and the Intel Pentium 4
Extreme Edition, which is essentially a slimmed-down server-
class Intel Xeon. At press time, no major PC manufacturer had
yet incorporated these chips Into their product lines, but when
Maximum PC ran these same tests on homebrew PC set-ups,
the G5 won on a few tests but overall came in third.

So, is the Dual 2GHz Power Mac 65 the world's fastest
personal computer? Sadly, there’s no irrefutable answer to that
question— it depends on what tests you’re running and how you
define personal computer. However, there’s no arguing the fact
that the G5 is one damn fast chip and that the Dual 2GHz Power
Mac G5 is one damn fast personal computer. The Mac be back.

Rik Myslewski, MacAddicVs editor in chief, was once forced to use
a PC at a now-failed dot-com. It wasn’t his fault. Forgive him.

The Fine Print

READ IT AND SLEEP: HERE’S HOW WE TESTED.

SYSTEMS: Both the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 and 3.2GHz Pentium 4-based PC were equipped
with 1GB OF0DR400 SDRAM in dual-channel mode and a Radeon 9800 Pro video card with 128MB
of DDR SDRAM. The Pentium 4-based PC was based on an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard
using the Intel 875P chip set and was running Windows XP Professional SPl. The Power Mac 65
was running Mac OS 10.2.7.

APPLICATION BENCHMARKS: The Mathematica 5 tests used the Stefan Steinhaus Benchmark
test (Version 4). The application-benchmark Photoshop 7.0.1 tests ran each bundled Photoshop
filter in order on a 2MB JPEG file. Three filters were excluded because they caused the benchmark
to hang during processing.

PHOTOSHOP 7.0.1; The real-world Photoshop 7.0.1 tests used 25MB and 50MB PSD files.
Photoshop's Cache level was set to 4, its Memory Usage was set to 100 percent in the Memory
& Image Cache Preference, and ail its History Options were unchecked. The Photoshop Action
consisted of the following steps: Gaussian Blur, 50 pixel radius; Revert; Gaussian Blur, 1-pixel
radius; Unsharp Mask, amount of 150 percent, 2-pixel radius, threshold of 0; Despeckle; Dust &

Scratches, 8-pixel radius, threshold of 0; Sharpen Edges; Rotate, 90 degrees clockwise; Mode
Change, RGB to CMYK; Resize, 150 percent, proportions constrained, bicubic interpolation; Save
As, TIFF, no compression.

INDESIGN 2.0; The InDesign 2.0 tests outputed to PDFusing an 18,5MB file with 28 linked files
totaiing 423MB.

QUICKTIME PRO 6.3; The QuickTime Pro 6,3 tests outputed a 2GB DV file to MOV.
BiBBLE/MACBIBBLE; The Bibble/MacBibble tests batch -converted a folder containing 85 Nikon
RAW .NEF files totaling 859MB to 16-blt TIFFs. Version 3.1a was used on both platforms.
COMPRESSOR VS. PROCODER 1.5; Both the Compressor and ProCoder 1.5 tests encoded a
1GB DV file to MPEG-2. In the High-Speed test, Compressor was set to Fast Encode in the Preset
menu and ProCoder was set to a Speed/Quallty Mode of High-Speed. In the High-Quality test,
compressorwas set to High Quality Encode in the Preset menu and ProCoder was set to a Speed/
Quality Mode of Mastering-Quality,

GAMES; Unreal Tournament 2003 was upgraded with the 2225.1 patch; the framerates cited
were reported by the application when running the Asbestos fly-by demo. The Quake III: Arena
tests cited the framerates as reported by the Four demo. Star Wars jedi Knight II; Jedi Outcast
framerates cited were obtained by a custom benchmark developed by Moxrmum PC.

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EVERY PENNY

Bummed that Apple wants you to shell out another $129 for the next
major version of Mac OS X? You’re not alone. Those loyal to OS X from the
beginning feel burned each year as Apple unveils— and charges a chunk
of change for— a new version of its operating system. If your gut reaction
is to say, “Screw Panther,” we don’t blame you.

But wait. What if we told you that Panther actually saves you money?

Think of it this way; Time is money. And since Panther’s all about
efficiency, performance, and making your life easier, in the end it can
save you a ton of time— and therefore a ton of cash.

Don’t believe us? Read on. We picked ten of our favorite Panther
timesaving features and clocked tasks that use them, comparing the
results to how long they took us in jaguar, and estimating just how much
time Panther will save us over a year. We discovered that not only is
Panther an impeccably designed OS that blows the fur off Jaguar, it’s
also a money-saver.

by Deborah Shadovitz

Better Finder Windows

OPEN A FINDER WINDOW, and you’re sure to notice
the new Sidebar, which replaces the Finder toolbar
and outdoes the (pretty useless) Favorites feature
from previous Mac OS X versions. No more starting at
the hard-drive root level and drilling down 20 million
(OK, four) levels to get to your Documents folder or
other favorite locale.

The Sidebar features all of your primary starting
points, such as your Applications and Home folders.
Choose which volumes appear by checking them
under Finder > Preferences > General. You can also
add any folder or app to the lower part of the Sidebar
either by dragging it there or by selecting it and
choosing File > Add To Sidebar. Of course, you can
remove items from the Sidebar by dragging them to
the Desktop and watching them go poof.

The rest of the Finder window looks the same as
it does in Jaguar, with the ability to set the view to
Icon, List, or Column. But now in Column view you
can resize columns individually so they each can be
a different width. Finally.

TIME SAVINGS

Using a highly technical empirical methodology-
watching our Mac’s clock— we determined that it takes
on average 6 seconds less to navigate to folders and
files In Panther than it does in jaguar. We access files,
say, 18 times a day, so we save about 108 seconds daily.

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IF JAGUAR MAIL, WITH ITS BREAKTHROUGH

junk-mail filtering tools, didn’t convince you to
dump your current email program and switch to
Mail, perhaps Panther will succeed.

First off. Panther’s Mail offers spefed Increases.
HTML email renders much fastersince it piggyb^^^
on Safari’s HTML rendering engine. A full page
with graphics takes only a second or two to render
in Panther, compared to 10 seconds in Mall 1.2.5
(Jaguar) and 6 seconds in Entourage (in Jaguar).

But the real Impetus to switch to Mail is its ability
to follow email threads.

Panther’s Mail lets you group all
emails in a thread so that you
can follow them more efficiently.

Simply choose View > Organize
By Thread, and all follow-up
messages will appear nested
under the original. An arrow next
to the first message lets you
reveal or hide all of the replies.

And when you click the first
message in any thread, you get
a summary that tells you who
started the thread and lists all
messages in the thread. Double-
click any message to read it.

Addressing and composing
messages is easier now as well.

You can drag addresses or notes
from the Address Book to any
part of an email. You can also
drag addresses between the
To, Cc, and Bcc fields, instead
of having to copy-paste them.

Another bonus: You can click any name listed in From
or To fields to either add that person to your Address
Book or, if the person’s already there, open the listing.
Entourage users have enjoyed these features for some
time— kudos to Apple for catching up.

Finally, ZIP compression and encoding is built Into
Mail, so attachments are automatically zipped.

Click a name in Mail to call up someone’s
Address Book record.

All lead messages provide summaries of
the thread. Click a summary line to jump
to that message.

Font Book

IN PRE-PANTHER VERSIONS OF MAC OS X, it practically takes a Rhodes
scholar to figure out where to install your fonts, in Panther, font installation
finally makes sense.

Font Book is a welcome addition that makes it easy to install fonts, preview
and search for them, and gather them into groups that you can activate or
deactivate whenever you want. To install a font, double-click the font file. This
opens a preview window, which displays the font. If you like the font, click
Install Font, You can install multiple fonts by selecting several, then double-
clicking and using the pop-up to preview each one. If you want to make fonts
you install available to all your Mac*s users, drag them onto the Computer icon
(under All Fonts) in the Collection column.

Panther lets you disable fonts too. Just launch Font Book (from the
Applications folder), select a font, and then click the Disable button. A font
won’t appear in any app you launch while it’s disabled.

You can also create collections using the plus button (+), and turn an
entire collection on or off. To add fonts to a collection, drag them onto the
collection name in the Collection list. You can place the same font in multiple
collections, but be aware that when you turn off a collection, that font will
turn off in all other collections as well (although you can re-enable the font
manually from within any collection).

While many of you will use Font Book, professional designers will still want
to stick with apps like Suitcase ($99.95, www.extensis.com) or FontAgent
Pro ($89.95, www.insidersoftware.com) for features like professional text
samples, automatic font activation, and independent set management.

TIME SAVINGS

In jaguar, it took about 35 seconds to locate the Fonts folder and drag fonts
Into it. Panther cuts this to 5 seconds. Install 20 fonts a year, and you save
10 minutes a year. You also gain about 5 seconds scrolling down shorter font
lists in your documents, so if you create one document a day and choose three
fonts per document, you can save 91 minutes a year. Not that we’re counting.

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Easier Printing

HALLELUJAH! DESKTOP PRINTERS ARE BACK, and we couldn’t be happier.

A Desktop Printer is a small application dedicated to the print jobs for one
particular printer. Launching a Desktop Printer in Panther provides direct
access to that printer’s job info. To create one, simply add a printer in the
newly renamed Printer Setup Utility, select it in the Printer List,
and choose Printers > Create Desktop Printer. This will create
the application In Library > Printers and create an alias on your
desktop.

We like to keep Desktop Printers docked so that we can keep an
eye on what’s happening with each one and get more details with
just a click. Also, if you keep a Desktop Printer’s icon docked, you
can trash the alias and keep your desktop cleaner. But the best
part? Drag documents right onto a Desktop Printer to print!

Desktop
Printers make
printing a cinch.

TIME SAVINGS

Dragging a document to a Desktop Printer can save you 15 seconds or more
each time you print. If you kill as many trees as we do,
then you’ll save a minute or more a day.

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Font Book gives you the power to disable fonts—

use it with care.

Panther now features an improved Font panel that
lets you add various underlines or strike-throughs,
change the color of text, and even add a drop
shadow and set Its angle and spread.

Start Saving

Ideas for Scrounging Up $129 ^

Save gas money by walking to the mailbox
instead of driving (especially if you live in LA).

Drop all magazine subscriptions (except your
one to MacAddIct, of course).

Look into getting a cheaper cable TV package
or drop one prime channel.

Buy generic in the supermarket and
pharmacy.

§ Cut out one cup of Starbucks coffee per
week. Heck, you could buy a car at the end
of the year with the money you save.

Hand wash a few garments instead of dry
cleaning them.

Crash a couple of parties at Macworld
Expo for a free meal.

42 Mac/lddlct January 2004

Faster Compression

EVERY VETERAN MAC user uses Aladdin’s Stuffit application to compress
files. But those who transfer a lot of files will appreciate that PC-standard
compression and encoding (.zip) are just a click away in Panther. To create a
compressed archive, just Control-click (or right-click) any file or folder, and
choose Create Archive from the contextual menu that appears (or select the
file and go to File > Create Archive). Just like that, your archive appears in the
same folder as your originals.

TIME SAVINGS

Panther’s Create Archive saves
you from having to locate
the Stuffit folder, select your
files, and drag them onto the
DropStuff or DropZip icon to
compress a file— that’s about
10 seconds. Do that once a day
and, well, you can do the math.

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Create an archive by Control-clicking an item
and choosing the Create Archive option.

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FINDER DOCK ICON In Jaguar, clicking the
Dock’s Finder icon brings up a plain-old Finder
window, in Panther, it brings up a Finder
window, complete with the new Sidebar,
already navigated to a folder of your choosing.
Customize that setting under Finder >
Preferences > General using the New Finder
Window Opens pop-up menu.

APR SWITCHING You’ve always been able to
press Command-Tab to switch between open
apps. But now a strip containing large icons
appears across your screen displaying all
active programs, so you can see which app
you’re activating.

CONTEXTUAL MENUS Forthose ofyou
still using Apple’s one-button mouse, the
Finder window’s Action button equates to
a Control-click.

Faster Searching

IN JAGUAR, USING THE FINDER’S SEARCH function involves typing text, then
pressing Return to start the search. In Panther, the results list appears in the
same window— and it’s live. Just start typing key words, and files that fit your
request start appearing. Keep typing to narrow your search.

You also have control over which folder or volume Panther searches. As
with Mail or iTunes, click the magnifying-glass icon to reveal a list of places to
search. If you choose Selection, Panther pats down only the volume or folder
selected in the Sidebar.

Whenever you run a search, a tiny button appears at the bottom-right
of the Finder window. Clicking it refreshes the find.

TIME SAVINGS

In Panther, searching a 30-gig hard drive saves about 100 seconds.

Do two searches a day, and you save about 3.3 minutes.

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SOFTWARE UPDATE

SYSTEM PREFERENCES

Here we’ve told Panther to search just the
Pictures folder.

SECURITY

No more going to System Preferences,
selecting Software Update, then
clicking Check Now. Now choose Apple
menu > Software Update and
the checking begins!

You can also check for
updates by clicking
Software Update from
the About This Mac box.

System Preferences are tidier. My
Account and Accounts are combined,
plus it’s easier to set up users, assign
software-access permissions, and
choose login items (now called Startup
Items). Desktop and j, ,

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FileVault provides on-the-fly,
transparent file encryption and
decryption for everything in your
Home (aka User) folder. Be careful—
forget your password, and
you’ll never see your data
again. Enable FileVault in
System Preference’s new
Security pane.

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Warp-Speed Preview

APPLE CALLS PREVIEW THE WORLD’S FASTEST PDF VIEWER-and it ain t lying.
!n Jaguar's Preview or Adobe Acrobat, it took a full 30 minutes to render all
page previews of a 622-page PDF (that’s on a 500MHz PowerBookGA). In
Panther’s Preview, it took closer to 20 seconds. No, you don’t need glasses—
we said 20 seconds. Here are some other examples: A 4-page store flier and a
48-page book chapter both rendered in 5 seconds in Panther (down from 30
and 70 seconds, respectively).

Even with faster rendering, who has time to read an entire PDF these days?
Luckily, Preview’s new live searching makes finding info a snap. Begin typing
what you’re looking for into the Search box, and a list of results appears in
the drawer below. Keep typing to narrow your search. When you find what you
want, click the item— the document jumps to that text and highlights it.

One more improvement: Preview can now convert and render EPS and
PostScript files. No need to launch a graphics program that takes forever to
boot up (ahem, Photoshop) just to see what a file looks like.

TIME SAVINGS

Between faster rendering and the ability to search. Preview can save average
users about 5 minutes a week (much
more if you’re a PDF junkie).

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Left: A large document renders
quickly and beautifully. Above:
Searching large files takes seconds.
Click any search result to jump to it
in the document.

Faster User Switching

IF YOU SHARE YOUR MAC WITH FAMILY MEMBERS, you’ll love this feature.

I Say you’re in the middle of an email when your daughter needs to print out
her report on wallabies right now. Simply select her user name from the
user menu in the menubar and— with the flourish of the Keynote box-turning
effect— her user desktop appears. To get back to your email, select your name
from the user menu and reenteryour password. One user can even process
files or print while another user is signed in and working.

To turn on Fast User Switching, navigate to the newly revamped Accounts
System Preferences. Click Login Options, located at the bottom of the left-

hand pane that lists all of your accounts.
Then check Enable Fast User Switching.

TIME SAVINGS

With Fast User Switching enabled, a family
of three can save about 7.5 minutes a day in
log-in and log-out time-plus, no more "just
a minute! just a minute!” arguments.

To switch users, just choose a
name from the user menu.

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Expose

EVER HAVE DOCUMENTS, FINDER WINDOWS,

and palettes open all overyour desktop— then
have to move, hide, or minimize about 20 open
windows just to find one friggin’ file? No, we’re
not bitter.

Well, we really aren*t bitter now that we’ve
got Panther. Expose lets you do one of three
things: Sweep all open windows out of the way
to clear your entire desktop, display miniatures
of all open windows, or display only windows
from your front-most application. To start using
this feature, head over to the Expose System
Preferences to program your choice of keyboard
commands, mouse buttons, or hot corners

Applications

Enhancements

DISK UTILITY Disk Copy is now part of
Disk Utility, and It’s easier to use. It’s also
multithreaded, so you can now make a .dmg
from a CD while running First Aid functions.

ADDRESS BOOK You can now
customize address templates
(Preferences > Template), and there
are more fields to choose from, such

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With Expose, if
windows are too
small to recognize
when minimized,
mouse over them to
see their names. To
bring a particular
window forward,
click it and it’ll
spring forward as
all other windows
return to their
original positions.

(where you move your mouse to a corner of
the screen) to activate these functions. Once
you program these commands, use them to
minimize or clearyour windows, and then bring
them back to their original arrangement.

TIME SAVINGS

How often do you have to find a file on your
desktop hiding underneath a swarm of open
windows? Too many. Expose saves about 20
seconds each time you use it, which is at least
20 times a day— that’s 6.7 minutes a day.

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as Spouse and Children. You can choose how to
format phone numbers (Preferences > Phone),
merge duplicate contacts, and print labels,

iCHAT AV Plug in a Webcam,
videocamera, or microphone
for audio and video chats. Tip:
in iChat AV, you can mouse over
your buddy picture and click to
reveal a sheet of up to 16 recent pictures, then
click the image you want to display. Don’t have
a pic to pop in? Hook up your iSight (or other
camera), click the generic picture, and choose
Edit Picture. Then click Take Video Snapshot.

WE’D BE THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON THE PUNET if we never received or sent
another fax again. Unfortunately, many people don’t have a choice. Luckily,
Apple has made faxing easier on everyone.

Sending is a no-brainer. Just plug a live phone line into your modem port,
select Print froij any document, then click Fax to bring up the fax dialog. If
the recipient’s fax numberis m your Address Book, click the Address Book
button next to the To field and double-click the fax number in the address
list that appears. To enter a recipient straight into the fax dialog, type the
name, followed by a space and the number between these marks; < > (see
screenshot). If you want, check
the Cover Page box and type a
note in the field (there aren’t
any cover page templates).

Then click Fax.

To view a fax’s status,
double-click the modem icon
(fax machine) in the Dock,
and then double-click the job
listing. Before sending, you
can click Preview to see how
it’ll look— save the preview
document to keep a record
of the fax that includes the
time it was sent (stamped
automatically at the top of
each fax page).

To receive faxes, choose
Print & Fax in System
Preferences, then click the
Fax tab and check the Receive
Faxes option. Adjust the
number of rings, and check
whether you want to file the
fax in a designated folder,
email it, and/or print it.

If you need features

like bulk faxing, cover-page templates, logging, or automation, you’ll
have to step up to a commercial fax app such as FaxSTF ($89.95,
www.smithmicro.com) or Page Sender ($29.95, www.smilesoftware.com).

Top: Faxing is as easy as printing. This dialog
comes up after clicking Fax in the Print dialog.
Above: Wanna receive a fax on your Mac? Turn
on that capability in System Preferences.

TIME SAVINGS

No more walking down the hall to the fax machine. At one fax a week, that
saves us about 20 minutes a month—
and ensures we get even less exercise.

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So Is Panther Worth $129?

ROUNDING OFF, Panther can save you more than 256 hours a year. If you earn
$30 an hour, that’s $7,680 in savings. If you earn $10 an hour, that’s $2,560
In savings. Even if you earn just $1 an hour (like if you’re a career juror or a
really bad stripper), you still save $256. Bottom line: At any wage, you’ll save
more than $129— the cost of Panther— in efficiency and time.

yWocyAdd/ct contributing writer Deborah Shadovitz talks so much about Panther and
Jaguar that people think she’s becoming an animal-rights activist.

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When you choose to
develop a Form-based
application. Flash
stashes the Timeline
behind the Timeline
arrow and presents a
logical series of panels.

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Studio MX 2004

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Dreamweaver, Fireworks,
and Flash MX 2004 trials,
and FreeHand MX trial

C ombining two top Web-development tools, Dreamweaver and Flash, with
Fireworks for graphics and FreeHand for illustration, Macromedia’s Studio MX
2004 is a Web monster; huge and massively powerful— but none too spry. Dreamweaver
adds improved CSS and FTP, plus other acronymical support. Flash Professional has
advanced video features, refortified ActionScript, and dead-easy Timeline Effects.
Fireworks sports improved vector tools and text antialiasing options. This Studio
MX update brings all four apps to new levels of integration, with more shared tools
and resources than before. Thanks to a thoroughly unified interface built around
Macromedia’s groupable docking Panels and context-sensitive Property Inspector,
it’s easy to maintain consistent and efficient work habits— this partially redeems the
sluggish performance that plagues all four of Studio MX 2004’s applications.

FLASH MX 2004 PROFESSIONAL

Flash, the most-changed app in the
Studio 2004 lineup, is now available
in two versions: Flash and Flash
Professional— the latter includes
advanced features for working with
video apps; easy publishing for cell
phones and PDAs; and true visual
programming using Screens (also
called Forms) that assist you in creating
presentations and interactive, data-
driven Web applications using a series
of screens instead of the usual Timeline.
Prebound data components, such as
text-entry fields and check boxes, let

you tap into your database with no
coding. Alternately, you can bust out
Flash’s ActionScript editor and hack
custom interactions.

The new Timeline Effects feature
makes simple animation child’s play:
just lay down a symbol, select its frame
in the Timeline, and pick Timeline
Effects from the Insert menu. The
Transition effect let you set fades and
wipes; Transform moves, scales, rotates,
or colorizes the symbol. Blur, Drop
Shadow, Expand, and Explode effects
are self-explanatory. All Timeline Effects
let you specify basic parameters such

as the number of frames the effect will
span, the speed at which it will play, the
level of its alpha-channel transparency,
and other effect-specific settings.
Unfortunately, some effects preview and
apply slowly— and occasionally choke,
rendering an obscure JavaScript error
message in lieu of the desired effect.

While Flash’s new Timeline Effects
and Screens feature saves time and
tedium, ActionScript 2.0 will impede
Flash ActionScript developers— now a
bona fide object-oriented programming
language, ActionScript 2.0 is completely
different than its predecessors. Deep
geeks will appreciate that ActionScript
2.0 Is fully ECMA-262 Edition 4
compliant— if you’re fluent in languages
like C++ or java, you’ll be right at home.

The rest of us can still point-and-
clickto assign Symbol and Timeline
Behaviors that control embedded
video, audio, and Flash movie clips,
and respond to users’ mouse clicks,
rollovers, and other triggers. As you
apply behaviors, you can watch the
Actions panel to see your commands in

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can work in the Actions panel to
freely tweak behaviors in ways not
possible with the Behaviors panel.

Flash is huge and convoluted,
but its output is excellent. Most
users may never touch Flash’s
advanced scripting features,
but its visual programming
tools helped us create amazing
animations and interactive
applications without overseeing
orthinking about its geeky
underpinnings.

For our dough, Flash
Professional is the star
ofStudioMX2004.

Whether you’re making
simple animated eye
candy, advanced audio
and video presentations,
or complex, data-driven
Web applications, Flash’s
customizable, project-
specific interface makes it easy to focus
on the task. Also, for many tasks Flash
has tools for both visual- and code-
based development. Casual Flashers
probably haven’t outgrown the previous
version, but serious Flash developers
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The backbone of Studio MX 2004,
Dreamweaver, provides more— and
more-thorough—integration than its
peers. Say you need to tweak a graphic
after placing it in a Dreamweaver Web
page, in previous versions, the Property
Inspector’s Edit button would launch
that graphic file in an external image
editor— Fireworks by default. MX
2004 brings some new editing icons:
optimize (in FireWorks), crop, resample,
brightness and contrast, and sharpness.
The latter four work seamlessly within
Dreamweaver. Optimize takes you
directly to FireWorks’ Optimize dialog
and bounces you back to Dreamweaver
when you’re done.

When we downloaded a large site
into Dreamweaver’s Files window for
testing, the import-progress window
kept popping up in front of the other
apps— and displayed an ominous
server-not-responding message while
the files streamed in. This oddball
behavior happened over an SSH-secure
FTP connection but not over standard

We used Timeline
Effects to transform FTP-while not ideal, if

this star with a few this is the trade-off for
mouse clicks; the Dreamweaver’s new tighter-

same project would security SFTP support, we’ll

have been fairly tolerate it. File transfer over

tedious using last traditional FTP was smoother

year’s Flash. than in previous versions— in

fact, Macromedia’s claims
of improved FTP support
passed our muster, sustaining
prolonged, multiple-file uploads
and downloads to a number of
different servers. Note that we said
Dreamweaver’s FTP support— Flash and
FireWorks share Dreamweaver’s FTP
service but not its SFTP support.

Once we finished importing a
few thousand pages, Dreamweaver
unexpectedly quit— though, to be fair,

those pages contained plenty
of skanky code, dead links, and
orphaned files.

Dreamweaver’s core function-
building Web pages— is stronger
than ever. For example. Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) is now the
default for text formatting. It’s
dreamy Indeed, creating clean
tag- and class-style definitions
for document-wide and in-line
formatting, respectively. You can
fine-tune Dreamweaver’s CSS
handling via the Property inspector
and the Tag panel, or ditch it
entirely by unchecking Use CSS Instead
Of HTML Tags In Preferences.

For layout positioning, you can use
CSS Layers or good ol’ reliable tables—
both are present in the Insert panel’s
Common collection. Dreamweaver’s
all-too-familiar table-width kludgery
has improved, thanks in part to the
new Table Width guide, which labels
onscreen tables according to their row
and overall widths (the values change
dynamically as you resize). You also get
mini action menus for resetting widths,
adding columns or rows, and merging
and splitting cells.

Setting up a dynamic page using the
app’s PHPand MySQL support was an
exercise in frustration. Dreamweaver’s

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Web Application panel makes it easy
to create database connections and
queries, but installing and configuring
the MySQL database and PHP engine is
no picnic. Even after we set everything
up and verified via a Web browser
that it worked, Dreamweaver couldn’t
negotiate the absolute and relative
paths to our testing server. We suspect
the problem is related to Dreamweaver’s
local addressing: We experienced
inconsistent unable-to-connect errors
whether we specified localhost or
127.0.0.1 as Dreamweaver’s host
machine, though 127.0.0.1 proved the
more reliable of the two.

Dreamweaver has reigned king of
Web design for several years, but the
monarch is showing its age. MX 2004
isn’t a huge leap from last year’s MX

FIREWORKS MX 2004 &

FREEHAND MX

Fireworks MX 2004 adds a smattering
of new bitmap tools— mainly red-eye
removal, updated Live Effects, and
powerful new antialiasing options
for better text graphics— and new
Auto Shape vector-drawing tools that
help you draw basic shapes or easily
manipulate the included Auto Shape
Objects (such as a clock, 3D cube, cog,
and cartoon-style word bubble).

Live Effects are awesome for custom
text treatments. Just type the text, then
adjust it every which way: font face,
color, size, alignment, kerning, and
leading. You can even add motion blur,
bevel, glow, and other effects. Custom
antialiasing settings let you fine-tune

the level of oversampling, sharpness,
and strength. The catch is that you have
to rasterize text or convert it to paths
before adding effects. You can, however,
change styles and effects at any time,
and save your own Styles for future use.

Despite Macromedia’s claims of
improved performance, FireWorks takes
forever to accomplish some tasks— most
notably applying the various new
blurring and sharpening Live Effects.
Even after the epic progress bar shows
it’s finished, the app stalls and doesn’t
respond to mouse or keyboard input for
several additional seconds.

Fireworks smokes Photoshop at Web
graphics. JPEG photos, GIF bitmaps,
and text-based graphics generated with
FireWorks’ new text-graphic generator
look fantastic and boast smaller file
sizes than comparable
Photoshop-optimized files.
But if we had to choose,
we’d pick Photoshop for its
superior photo processing
and solid Web graphics.

Finally, there’s Freehand
MX— but since it hasn’t
been updated to the 2004
designation, we’ll politely
refer you to our Freehand
MX review (see june/03,
p49). For the record, the
2004 versions of FireWorks
and Flash pack enough
type-savvy and vector tools
to make Freehand that much
more irrelevant, especially to the suite’s
intended audience of Web heads.

All four apps share some handy new
features, such as massive contextual
menus, completely customizable
keyboard shortcuts, and smarter-than-
undo history panels.

Some things about Studio MX 2004
are annoying, such as its unfortunate
product-activation scheme, which
enables the apps on one Mac and only
one Mac— though you can deactivate
and reactivate on another Mac as often
as you like. Most annoying is the entire
suite’s erratic performance— we watched
entirely too many spinning beach balls
during regular operations and when
launching and switching between apps.
Plus, we experienced random errors and
occasional app crashes.

If you work the Web for a living, you’ll
find workarounds for Studio’s quirks

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in terms of features
or stability, but it’s
still an outstanding
product for Web
heads— developers,
designers, and dewy-eared
newbies included.

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FireWorks makes short work
of creating pie charts, but it
can*t build one for you from
spreadsheet data as some
illustration programs can.

and buy this upgrade for its increased
integration and the smattering of new
features in FireWorks and Dreamweaver.
The new Flash Professional makes
Studio MX 2004 worth its upgrade
price.— A///CO Coucouvanis

Dreamweaver MX 2004

GOOD NEWS: CSS! Better table handling.
Basic image- and Flash-editing tools onboard
BAD NEWS: Can't save custom panel
arrangements. Still
has window- redra\w,
performance, and
stability issues.

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GOOD NEWS: Unmatched GIF and JPEG
compression. Awesome antialiasing options.
BAD NEWS: Painfully slow for photo editing,
Uncooperative
version control
and FTP.

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GOOD NEWS: Smart, useful PostScript
drawing tools. Well integrated with Flash and
FireWorks.

BAD NEWS: Clunky,
chunky performance.

Uncooperative Objects
panel and no Inspector.

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CONTACT: 800-457-1774 Or 415-252-2000,

www.macromedia.com

PRICE; $999 (Flash Pro Edition), $899 (Flash

Standard Edition), $299 and up (upgrades)

REQUIREMENTS: 500MHz G3 orfaster, Mac OS

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programming. Action panel for pure-code
programming. Finally imports Illustrator files.
BAD NEWS: Uncooperative version control

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Soundtrack

MUSIC-COMPOSITION SOFTWARE

M aking good music is a difficult
endeavor, even for those with
talent. Apple’s fantastic Soundtrack
software can help. This tool for creating
royalty-free musical accompaniment
for video work was originally bundled
with Final Cut Pro 4. Now Soundtrack is
a standalone app that’s a blast to use
and capable of generating truly useable
music for real-world applications.

At the core of Soundtrack are
4,000 loops of prerecorded music,
representing everything from
straightforward rock drum patterns
to more esoteric, worldly offerings
such as tabla and djembe drums,
standard jazz piano meanderings,
Hammond B-3 organ passages, and
even searing hard-rock guitar licks.

If searching through 4,000 chunks of
sound seems Intimidating, fear not:
Soundtrack’s Media Manager window
sorts loops by Instrument, genre,
tempo, and a variety of other factors,
so you can quickly track down that
elusive Beatlesque guitar jangle. All
of the loops are available at 24-bit/

You won’t be embarrassed to
use it for professional work.

96kHz, and— of critical concern—
they’re good, meaning you won’t be
embarrassed to use them for paying,
professional work.

Once you find your riff, simply drag
it into the main timeline, where you
can stretch it to fill as much time as
you want. As you drag other clips into
the timeline (up to 126 tracks), they
automatically synchronize to each
other— this works even when you
audition loops by previewing them
from the media manager. You can
pitch-shift individual tracks, though
trying to shift one more than a few
tuning steps up or down causes some
artifacting (noise). Also, while you
can dramatically shift the tempo
of the entire composition, you can’t

Soundtrack’s
Media Manager
(left) organizes the
app’s 4,000 clips
by instrument and
genre, and displays
the tempo, key,
and length in beats
of each loop. Note
the Volume and
, Pan envelopes for
the synthesizer
track in the main
window (right).

change the tempo of individual
instrumental tracks.

It’s easy to build up a happenin’ bit
of musical mayhem quickly, and that’s
when the fun really starts. In addition
to envelope-style controls for volume
and panning (placement of the sound
in the stereo field), there are quite a few
included effects modules for spicing
up individual tracks. The standard
array of equalization and reverbs
are included, as well as a variety of
offerings which have been repurposed
from the popular Logic sequencing
and recording software (also owned by
Apple). Modulation Delay takes echoes
and makes them swim in swirly waters;
Sub-Bass boosts lower frequencies for
that hip-hop bass badness that pushes
subwoofers to their limits. Some of the
included effects may overwhelm audio
newbies, but hey, it’s never too late to
learn a new way to mangle sounds!

One capability that takes Soundtrack
to the major leagues is automation: You
can record virtually any modification to
any parameter, slider, or control, which
allows you to create complex mixing
effects, dynamic sound effects and
much more. Changing the delay time
and wet-dry signal mix, or moving a
guitar solo around the stereo field while
it’s playing are the bread and butter of
studio engineers, and these types of
automation effects are all implemented

Audio purists will adore the capable
graphic and parametric equalizers and
Noise Gate filters, while hackers will
wreak havoc with delays and distortion.

at the core of Soundtrack.

Keeping Soundtrack fresh and
relevant is its compatibility with audio
files in the venerable Acid format, which
includes slice and looping information—
the key to Soundtrack’s tempo-shifting
voodoo. A separate, included Loop
utility allows you to perform sample-
slicing to your own imported audio
files, but we found it wasn’t as powerful
as other dedicated loop-editing
programs, such as Acid or ReCycle, when
automatically performing this task.

If you need sweet-sounding music for
your multimedia work and don’t happen
to know any talented musicians, say
hello to a virtual band even your mother
could love— one that won’t clean out the
fridge after rehearsals.— Oawd Biedny

COMPANY: Apple
CONTACT: 800-795-1000 or
408-996-1010, www.apple.com
PRICE: $299

REQUIREMENTS: 500MHz
G4, Mac OS 10.2.5, 384MB
RAM, 5GB disk space

GOOD NEWS: Excelient-quality loops. Extremely easy to use.
Real-time feedback of all controls. Extensive automation options.
BAD NEWS: Hefty system requirements. Mediocre pitch shifting
at many settings.

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Canvas 9 Professional Edition

GRAPHICS SUITE

no SVG (scalable
vector graphics) import
option, despite an option to export SVG.

Canvas’s new SprIteEffects
technology lets you apply filters
and effects to vector objects while
preserving the objects’ editability— this
is common with bitmap graphics, but it’s
a huge addition for vector artists, who
can now see their effect in place and
tweak it (the effect and/or the original
object) without rasterizing or exporting
the image. Rudimentary 3D tools are
available too: You can extrude paths and
text, and rotate paths to create solids,
though you can’t work directly with any
standard 3D formats like 3DF or DFX.

that some of the plug-ins might not
work, but things seemed to be OK. You
can open layered Photoshop documents,
and have the option to import them with
layers intact, or as flattened objects.
Exporting to GIF or PNG involves a
certain amount of guesswork, as there’s
no preview of how your chosen color
palette looks on your image until you
open it up after saving. Strangely, when
you select the curiously named Save As
Web Images - GIFJPG option, you get a
preview. Huh.

Vector art is still Canvas’s strong
suit. The drawing operations have a
decidedly mathematical feel, and offer
more in terms of measurement and
precision than other vector-art apps. For
example. Canvas boasts a
maximum document size of
2,000 miles by 2,000 miles
(yes, miles); 2 billion control
points on a polygon or Bezier
curve; 2 billion objects per
document; zooming in or out
to an insane 114,000 percent;
and decimal precision to the
millionth place, which is the
stuff technical illustrators
and scientific plotters

A jack-of-all-graphics
software, Canvas
packs bitmap-image
editing, vector drawing,
page layout, Web
composition, and
a number of other
capabilities into one
mildly priced solution
suitable for most mortal
designers. Version 9
features a slew of new
additions, including
improved import
options, integration
with ACDSee
media-management
software, advanced
math functions, and
improved scripting.

Usually when an
application tries to be all things to
all people, the result is mediocre
at best. Not so with Canvas. It was
among the first image editors running
natively under Mac OS X, and this
release is generally a pleasure to
use, if a bit overwhelming. The app’s
requirements are moderate, and it
felt relatively snappy even on our
three-year-old 450MHz PowerMac G4.

The bitmap-image editing tools will
be familiar to anyone who’s manipulated
raster art, and Canvas even sniffs out
your default Photoshop Plug-Ins folder
if you have one. Our
plug-ins folder caused
Canvas to throw an
alert pop-up claiming

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Canvas 9 demo

How deep is Canvas?
This Intricate design
Is a mathematical
representation of the
366 days in a leap
year divided by the
16,777,216 shades
of RGB color— Canvas
transposed the
information to show HSV
values graphically.

dream of— to get more
precision, you’d have
to step up to dedicated
CAD or scientific
number-crunching
software. One odd
omission is that there’s

Canvas isn’t going to replace Maya any
time soon, but it’s easy to use and great
for quick 3D effects. If you’re attempting
to import illustrator documents, be sure
to save them without PDF compatibility,
as it befuddles Canvas.

The Math Expression 2-D Plot is
geek-art nirvana: It converts equations
into vector graphics (polar or Cartesian),
which is perfect if you need an exact
logarithmic spiral or happen to know
the math for whatever effect you need
(it’s also a fun way to experiment
with art and math). The measurement
palette includes a number of tools
for calculating distances and angles,
Canvas supports insane levels and the values automatically update
of scale and precision only a to match as you manipulate objects

technical illustrator could love. onscreen. This feature works well in

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conjunction with the rewritten Smart
Mouse, which allows you to customize
how and where your cursor snaps—
including horizontal and vertical grids;
object points and paths; angular,
tangential, and parallel constraints;
and more.

The Publication Editor is where
Canvas falls short; it’s fine for a basic
newsletter or Web page, but if you're
planning anything more ambitious, you
need a dedicated page-layout program
like InDesign. Canvas should include
import and export filters for InDesign,
Pagemaker, or Quark files, but it
doesn't. Advanced features like hanging
punctuation and multiple master pages
are also lacking, and the few included
templates are truly hideous. On the
plus side, the Publication Editor's text-
handling capabilities are good, and
allow for fine tuning of tracking, kerning,
and the like (though the process is a bit
clunky). Exporting to Web documents
gives you a choice of HTML or XHTML,
and inline tags or CSS. You can export
SWF (Flash) documents, but don’t
expect a whole lot of options or any
animation. Strangely, the Save to Web
wizard said we had the option to save
our files directly to a server, but this
wasn't the case— its Save dialog had
no Save button.

The presentation module is

unimpressive, but fairly straightforward;
at first, it choked on a PowerPoint
presentation we tried to import,
but when we tried again with the
same presentation, it worked. There
is, however, no PowerPoint export
option— you're stuck with QuickTime
export, which exports your slide show as
a MOV file. The included templates are
predictably cheesy— if you make more
than two presentations per year or have

Canvas comes with a DVD full of extras,
including access to online images such as
the Aquaesqe Apple button above (which
is no doubt a lawsuit waiting to happen).

Thanks to its mad math skills and
logarithmic savvy. Canvas can
translate cryptic equations into
visual designs, and vice versa.

to collaborate on a presentation, try
Apple's Keynote instead.

You can automate your work in
Canvas with Sequences (like
Photoshop's Actions), or with custom
AppleScripts. A number of prefab
Sequences come preinstalled, and
you can record your own— either
way, you can edit them at any time.
AppleScripting is much more powerful,
but Canvas isn’t AppleScript recordable,
so it's also much more difficult. If you
intend to share your scripts with your
Canvas-using pals who run Windows,
you can use Sequences, which work
cross-platform.

Canvas 9 also supports scientific
and GIS mapping data, but the required
add-ons cost an extra 200 bucks
apiece— unless you work with DICOM
files and/or GeoSpace coordinates, you
won't miss these features. The Scientific
and Mapping editions are also sold as
complete packages instead of add-ons.
The boxed version comes with a DVD of
extras, including a boatload of fonts and
clip art. There's even an online search
function built in, but the palette is
missing a menu icon (one that's clearly
visible in the Windows version), and
the copyright and usability of its online
Images Isn't Immediately apparent, as
Canvas seems to pluck Images randomly
from the ether. Otherwise, the Included
art is predictably tres gauche, though
we imagine the generic electrical
symbols and technical icons will get
more use, given the intended audience.
Included typefaces (provided by URW)
are dismal as well, with a few exceptions
(Gudrun Zapf-Von Hesse's Alcuin,
for example).

Canvas is a great value fora single-
person shop, a student seeking a bit
of everything in one box, or someone
with highly specialized geographical
or scientific imaging needs. Casual
users can find cheaper alternatives
piecemeal.— P gl// Vbon

COMPANY: ACD Systems

CONTACT: 800-733-6322, www.deneba.com

PRICE: $99.95 to $399.95 (depending on version)

REQUIREMENTS: G3,

Mac OS 10.2, 128MB RAM,
100MB disk space

GOOD NEWS: Humane academic pricing.
Multipurpose. Easy 3D.

BAD NEWS: No import or export for page layout.

No SVG import. Ugly templates.

Mac/lddict RATED

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CHOICER

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Fighting animated
armor (left), the
undead. and
skeleton warriors—
not to mention
the evil priests
(above)— makes for
some long nights in
Neverwinter land.

Neverwinter Nights

ROLE-PLAYING GAME

W e planned to start this review with
the bad news, but there isn’t any.
Neverwinter Nights Is one of the best
and biggest RPG titles ever.

An engaging story sprawls over four
chapters, from the plague-ridden city of
Neverwinter to nearby Luskan; then into
a monster-strewn area called the Spine
of the World where you battle goblins,
wolves, zombies, golems, and dragons;
and finally into a raging battle between
armies of good and evil. Along the way,
you meet hundreds of characters, carry
out numerous quests, and gathertons
of treasure.

Gameplay follows Third Edition
Dungeons & Dragons rules, which will
please purists and veterans. If you
don’t understand Third Edition D&D
subtleties, however, don’t despair. Your
Mac does all the die-tossing and number
work silently, so even role-playing
newcomers can fight like pros.

You can create your own hero or
heroine, or choose an existing character.
From there, you’re pretty much on your
own. Instead of going with an expedition
party, you set off adventuring and
treasure hunting
with a single hired
henchman, racking up
experience points by

completing missions and slicing hordes
of bad guys to pieces.

Treasure is scattered everywhere—
potions, gold coins, books, weapons,
precious stones, rings, and armor. Use
what you can and sell the rest. If you run
out of space In your inventory, put your
excess goodies In magic bags (these
bags not only take up less space, but
also reduce the weight of some objects}.

GOT MODS?

You need a PC to create mods for
Neverwinter Nights, but mods
created on PCs work on your Mac.
Check the following Web sites for free
downloads to extend your game.
www.bioware.com
www.stratics.com
www.planetneverwinter.com
www.sorcerers.net
www.ladiesofneverwinter.com

Place the .mod file in the Modules
folder of your Neverwinter Nights
package. If there is also a .hakfile
(which introduces new weapons,
armor, creatures, and so on), put it
in the folder named Hak. Then, when
starting a new game, select Other
Modules, and load your favorite.

You can switch
weapons quickly
using Quickslots,
which allows you
to swap your two-
handed broadsword
fora crossbow or an
axe and shield with a
single keystroke. This
kind of speed sets up
some super battles:
Zoom in your view to
checkout the killer
combat animations.
Adversaries dodge,
parry, and strike at
each other realistically. They die well
too, with all the appropriate gurgles
and groans.

If your henchman dies, don’t fret.

Just use an Item called the Recall
Stone, which transports you to a home
temple where you’ll find the henchman
resurrected. There you can also heal
your own wounds and buy or sell
equipment. When you die, you can
respawn here in the temple at a loss of
some gold and experience points, oryou
can load your last save and try again.
Save often.

But don’t just reload and plunge in.
Stop for a breather and think it over.
Some enemies need fresh strategy.

And if you win a battle but are severely
wounded, use the rest key Instead of
expensive healing potions. A quick rest
will restore all your health and hit points.

All that’s missing is the Aurora
Toolset, a PC-only editing set you can
use to create mods to customize your
adventures. But as we reported a few
months ago (“The Next Level,” May/03,
p34), data files and mods created by PC
players work just fine on the Mac. And
there are hundreds, maybe thousands,
of them available by now— see “Got
Mods?” left, for sources.

When you finish a computer-based
game, the appeal for single-play usually
diminishes. Not with this game. With
unlimited adventures waiting foryou to
download them, Neverwinter Nights is
a game you can play for months or even
years— John Lee

ON THE

^DISC

Neverwinter Nights
demo

COMPANY: MacSoft

REQUIREMENTS: 450MHz G4

GOOD NEWS: Huge, sprawling RPG. Gripping story.

Mac>4ddlct RATED

CONTACT: 763-231-8100,

orfaster, Mac OS 10.2.6 or later,

Tons of quests. Lots of action. Excellent animations.

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256MB RAM, 32MB video card.

^ textures, and voice acting.

PRICE: $49.99

2.1GB disk space

BAD NEWS: No Aurora Tooiset in the Mac version.

AWESOME

54 MacAidlct January 2003

Pyro DV Drive

DV-CAPTURING HARD DRIVE

T ransferring video footage from a
digital camcorder to your Mac’s hard
drive is a tedious task-which is why
videographers dream of a straight-to-
hard-dlsk DV recording solution. ADS
Technologies has the wake-up call: a
hard drive that can ride along on your
belt, capturing footage from your video
camera and converting it on the fly Into
editable DV.

A fantastic addition to any DV
photographer’s ditty bag.

The Pyro DV Drive houses a 30GB
2.5-inch IDE drive hooked up to an
Oxford 911 chipset and a Lithium Ion
battery that you can recharge via either
your Mac’s FireWire port or the included
power supply. Out in the field, just turn
it on, run a FireWire cable from your
camera to the drive, and then marvel as
the Pyro DV obeys your camera’s record
and stop commands and saves shots
as sequentially numbered files. Back
in your editing studio (or your home).

The compact Pyro is one
of few drives capable of
sucking video out of a
camera In QuickTime
MOV, Canopus AVI, or
raw DV format.

the drive connects to
your Mac like any other
FireWire drive, with your
captured video files neatly
stowed inside the Media
folder. Bonus: the Pyro
DV Drive comes with
everything you need:
4-pin-to-6-pin and 6-pin-
to-6-pin FireWire cables,
a battery-chargingAC
power supply, and a suave
leather carrying case that
you can wear on your belt.

The drive can capture
video in raw DV format,
but you can configure
it to capture in MOV or AVI formats as
well. Our Sony, Canon, and Panasonic
DV camcorders got along fine with the
Pyro, and the raw DV quality was as
good as each camera could produce. The
battery delivered more than four hours
of recording time, which outlived the
drive’s 30GB capacity. And if you forget
to erase the Pyro DV before taking it out
on another shoot, just shove a paperclip
into the quick-erase button hole to
wipe out everything in the Media folder
but spare anything else you may have
stashed on the drive.

The only drawback is that it’s easy
to accidentally press the drive’s Power
button while recording— the belt-
mounting carry case helps you avoid
this, but a hold switch would be smart.

The Pyro DV Drive works exactly as
advertised and is a fantastic addition
to any DV photographer’s ditty bag. If
you work on tight schedules, the time
you save on video conversion makes the
Pyro worth its relatively hefty price.
—Rick Sanchez

9l

COMPANY: ADS Technologies REQUIREMENTS: RreWire-equipped Mac and

CONTACT: 800-888-5244, www.adstech.com digital video cam, Mac OS 9 or later
PRICE: $650 (street)

MacAidlct RATED

ooooo

AWESOME

GOOD NEWS: Long battery life. Works exactly as advertised.
Huge time saver.

BAD NEWS: High price for storage size. No button-lock feature.

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Elura 50

DIGITAL VIDEO CAMCORDER

oday*s MiniDV camcorders are living
up to their mini moniker—and the
Elura 50 is one of the smallest weVe
seen so far. This puny lightweight is
about the size of a cereal snack pack,
allowing you to tuck It into your jacket
pocket and take It along everywhere.
Unfortunately, due to its lackluster video
performance, the only place you’ll want
to take this camera will be back to the
store where you bought it.

The Elura 50’s feature set has a lot
going for it. It can capture still images
at 1,024 by 768 to a MultiMedia Card,
Secure Digital card (an 8MB SD card
included), or DV tape. It also features a
lOx optical zoom, but we recommend
that you avoid its ludicrously pixilated
400x digital zoom like you would a
Windows zealot. More welcome are
image stabilization, 16-bit/48kHz
sound, auto and manual controls,
exposure compensation. Direct Print
support, nine digital effects (fun,
but only Black & White and Sepia are
practical), nine wipe/fader effects,
two special effects, slide show, and
other nifty capabilities. You also get

In a classic case of form over
function, this svelte little
camcorder looks great, but the
video it captures doesn’t.

a rechargeable battery, but its
lifespan is limited— we averaged
about 30 minutes per charge. A
battery charger is included, as
are a USB cable (to snag still
pics), a power adapter, a wireless
remote, and video cables— but
there’s no FireWire cable to
connect the camera to your Mac.

Shooting was simple; the
controls were easy to use with
standard menu navigation, but
gripping the tiny lil’ thing took
some getting used to because
of its vertical design. The sound
quality was excellent when
shooting in quiet rooms. The mic
picked up audio well— maybe a little
too well. It allowed us to eavesdrop
on a conversation from across a quiet
room, but on other occasions it picked
up air conditioning and wind noise— and
although there is a wind-filtering audio
setting, sound quality suffers when
using it.

Under sunny skies, the Elura exposed
scenes well with realistic color, even
when shooting scenes with harsh
reflections. The image quality, however,
was mushy even in still images, and
linear artifacts bordered contrasting
edges. Nothing looked sharp, and
panning the camera only exacerbated
the creamed -corn effect. We did get
slightly better video when we stood
the camcorder on a ledge, but let’s
be honest: No one’s going to seek out
ledges or carry a tripod everywhere just
to get good footage. And no, we weren’t
overly caffeinated— and yes, we had the
image stabilizer turned on.

Indoors, things got worse. In a
sunlit room, the camcorder balanced
exposures well, but soft noise prevailed.
Under room lights, the noisy video

resembled curdled cream. In low light,
we had hardly any noise— but hardly any
picture either, just black. No prob— the
camcorder features the almighty Super
Night mode. Sounds great, but in
practice, it exposed some objects at the
expense of others, and the increased
noise level obliterated all clarity.

If Canon could somehow transplant
the stellar image quality of its digital still
cameras into the Elura 50, it might have
one heckuva camcorder. Until then, we’ll
keep looking.— /Cr/s Fong

QUALITY?

Contrast When capturing objects
with contrasting edges, the Elura
produced linear artifacts that re-
sulted in a coloring book-like effect.

Sunshine Though the still images
we captured
had resolution
enough for 3
by 5 prints,
serene scenes
were blasted
with excessive
noise.

Indoors While
appreciate the
Elura’s soft
video-image
quality, we
didn’t.

Cybil Sheppard might

■ 1 -

5C-

COMPANY: Canon

REQUIREMENTS: FireWire-

GOOD NEWS: Ubercompact. Realistic color in well lit

Mac4ddlCt RATED

CONTACT: 800-652-2666,

equipped Mac, Mac OS 9 or later

scenes. Nice crop o’ features,

ooooo

www.canondv.com

BAD NEWS; Wimpy video performance in low light Soft,

PRICE: $799

noisy images with linear artifacts. Super Night mode is a joke.

so-so

56 MacAddfct January 2004

photography BY KRIS FONG

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Rio Cali

FLASH-BASED MP3 PLAYER
or people who listen to music
primarily while doing some sort of
rigorous sport, the iPod is not the ideal
music player. Tods are slightly bulky
(especially in a fanny pack), and even the
best hard disk-based players can crash
when jarred. Plus, runners don’t browse
through albums mid-sprint. Active
types who want a small, basic portable
music player should consider the flash
memory-based 256MB Rio Cali.

The 256MB Cali is lightweight (1.8
ounces) and rugged (we dropped ours
often), with a stylish shape and khaki-
green color. It transfers music through
slow-but-reliable USB 1.1, and you can
supplement its internal memory with
your own MMC or SD cards. The onboard
menu provides quick access to features

The Rio Cali is stylish, compact, and a good
workout companion, but it doesn’t support
iTunes Playlists or AAC- encoded music.

such as an FM tuner, stopwatch, five-
band EQ, repeat and shuffle, power
manager, and a Bookmarks capability,

which lets you set a point in a song
that you can jump to later. The best
part: Sennheiserclip-behind-the-ear
earphones come with the player.

Here’s what we don’t love: First, the
set-up instructions are wrong. They say
you need to reinstall iTunes, but you
don’t. All you have to do is fish around
on the bundled iTunes CD and drag the
Rio plug-in (called RioCali Plugin. bundle)
to your iTunes Library {username >
Library > iTunes > iTunes Plug-ins).
Second, the Cali won’t play iTunes Music
Store AAC files.

Still, the 256MB Cali is tiny, rugged,
and $100 cheaper than a 10GB iPod—
though without the ’Pod’s browsable
Playlists, auto syncing, calendar, and
dozens of other features— and it works
well. If you’re more athlete than feature-
obsessed audiophile, it might be all you
need—Narasu Rebbapragada

COMPANY: Rio REQUIREMENTS; USB-

CONTACT: 800-468-5846 or 408-565-7000, equipped Mac, Mac OS X or iater,

www.rioaudio.com 35MB disk space

PRICE: $169.99 (128MB), $199.99 (256MB)

GOOD NEWS: Stylish. Compact. Works solidly.
BAD NEWS: Won’t play AAC files. Doesn’t support
iTunes Playlists,

MacAddIct RATED

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Kl

Wireless IntelliMouse
Explorer

WIRELESS MOUSE

M icrosoft’s IntelliMouse Explorer
has always been one of our favorite
mice. It just/ee/s right— and the newest
wireless version is no different.

What /s different, though, is that you
can now scroll vertically and horizontally,
using a scroll wheel that tilts from left to
right. Horizontal scrolling is especially
useful when navigating wide, unwieldy
Excel spreadsheets and fat Finder windows
in column view. Unfortunately, many apps
don’t yet support horizontal scrolling— get to
work, developers!

The new IntelliMouse is wireless, has five programmable buttons,
and comes in four colors, including the one we tested— black leather.
Fashion deficiency aside, this is one fine rodent.— Cot/?/ /.u

COMPANY: Microsoft PRICE: $64,95 (black leather), $54.95 (metallic-gray,

CONTACT: 800-426-9400, platinum, or metallic-blue plastic)
www.microsoft.com/hardware REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.1 to 10.2.x, 15MB disk space

GOOD NEWS: Horizontal scrolling is very useful,
Mouse feels great.

BAD NEWS: Horizontal scrolling not supported in
all apps.

MacAddict RATED

ooooo

GREAT

Ignore the gross
leather, and this mouse
is an fine specimen.

VS4121

SPEAKER SET

A key difference
between good
speakers and loud
speakers is balance—
not left-right balance,
but tonal balance

between the bass,
midrange, and high- These speakers sound as refined as
frequency sounds. they look.

Altec Lansing’s

VS4121 set makes the grade, providing more midrange
than most speaker sets designed for computer use. Each
of the shielded satellites incorporates a downward-firing
midrange cone and Altec’s proven Micro Drivers for highs.
The 6.5-inch, wood-encased sub easily keeps up and can
thump the floor if you crank up the base via the controls
mounted on the left-side satellite.

These speakers are a great companion to a desktop Mac,
but no substitute fora home stereo— Niko Coucouvonis

COMPANY: Altec Lansing PRICE: $129.95

CONTACT: 800-258-3288, REQUIREMENTS: 1/8-inch minijack or RCA
www.altecmm.com audio source

Mac4ddict RATED

OOOOO

GREAT

GOOD NEWS: Great audio balance.
BAD NEWS: Pricey. Could be louder.

January 2004 MacAddlct 57

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK MADEO

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Media Reader for iPod

PORTABLE MEDIA-CARD READER

C onvenience usually involves a
compromise of portability and
capability. Case in point: Belkin’s new
Media Reader for iPod. It’s the perfect
conduit between your digital camera
and the acres of storage space in your
iPod— but it’s about twice as big as our
vision of a digital-lifestyle gadget.

Four included AAA batteries make the
reader about half-again bigger than an
iPod. If you’re shooting all day, rocking
out on your iPod at the same time, the
batteries are an obvious plus for the
strain they spare the iPod’s battery.

Given a choice, however, we’d prefer to
travel light with a ’Pod-powered reader
and recharge the iPod’s battery more
frequently rather than lug this big-ass
reader around.

The reader supports CompactFlash

Maybe we’re spoiled, but couldn’t this thing be about
half as big and twice as fast?

Types 1 and 2, SmartMedia,

Secure Digital, MultIMediaCard,
and Memory Stick— if you use the
wee XD Extreme Digital cards,
you’re out of luck. You’re also
out of luck if you want to manage
individual photos on your iPod—
you import them as rolls instead
of individual images, which is how
they stay until you export them to
your Mac or delete a roll.

Image transfer from media
cards to the iPod is slower than you’d
expect, given the FireWire connection;
we shuttled an almost-full 64MB SD
Card (seven 9MB TIFFs) into the iPod in
2 minutes 40 seconds. The same seven
TIFFs flew into our Power Mac G5 in 1:45
via USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 took 2:10).

But moving images from the iPod into

the Mac is pure joy, with FireWire’s
speed and iPhoto’s smarts: just dock
or plug In the iPod, and press iPhoto’s
Import button. This reader is solid, if
oversized. But for some digital-camera
toters, the $100 it demands would be
better spent on an extra media card.
—Niko Coucouvanis

COMPANY: Belkin
CONTACT: 310-898-1100.
www.belkin.com

PRICE; $t09.99 (SRP), $99 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: Docking iPod,
supported media card (CompactFlash Type
1 and 2, SmartMedia, Secure Digital (SD),
Memory Stick, or MultiMediaCard (MMC)

GOOD NEWS: Loads a gig of images onto your Mac
in minutes. Slot cover keeps slots clean.

BAD NEWS; Big. Slow media cards equal slow

Maa4ddlctFlATED

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transfer to iPod.

SOLID

[Trip

FM TRANSMITTER FOR IPOD

O n paper, the iTrip is perfect: an FM transmitter with no
batteries to replace or recharge, and access to the full
spectrum of radio frequencies instead of the usual four stations.
Problem is, the urban radio dial Is a busy, noisy place. Add
interference from power lines, airports, and solar flares (no
kidding), and it can take forever to get a clear signal— forever
meaning you may never get one.

When driving through an area
with tons of radio stations, iTrip
is pure frustration— and in busy
commute-time traffic, tuning and
retuning the device via your iPod
requires a dangerous amount
of attention. The iTrip doesn’t
always work, but we love it when
it does— Niko Coucouvanis

A.

Not perfect, but still best of breed.

Voice

Recorder

MICROPHONE FOR IPOD

I n a perfect world, we’d plug a
microphone into our iPod and capture
the sound of our surroundings in pristine,

CD-quality stereo. In the real world,

Belkin’s Voice Recorder does just what its
name implies: It records your impromptu Better for
brainstorms, interviews, blackmail blackmail than

fodder, and so on, saving the evidence as bootlegging a
a date-and-tlme annotated monophonic conceit.

WAV file on your iPod. You control the
device via the iPod: record, save, or delete recorded notes,
or play them through the recorder’s wee 16mm speaker. The
Voice Recorder lacks line-level input for high-fidelity audio,
but It’s great for low-fi sound capture.— A///co Coucouvanis

COMPANY: Griffin Technologies PRICE: $35

CONTACT: 615-399-7000. REQUIREMENTS: Any iPod

www.grlffintechnology.com

GOOD NEWS; Still the coolest FM transmitter

MacAddlct RATED

for iPods.

BAD NEWS: Still emasculated by crowded airwaves.

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COMPANY: Belkin PRICE; $59.99 (SRP). $49.95 (street)

CONTACT: 310-898-1100. REQUIREMENTS: iPod with dock connector, iPod
wvifw.belkin.com software 2.1 or later

GOOD NEWS: Smart and small. Records a

MacAddict RATED

minute per megabyte.
BAD NEWS: Way iow-fi.

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58 MacAddict January 2004

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK MADEO

This barcode scaimer
would be greatrif
not for Its tame
companion software.

Chronoscan

BOOK-CATALOGING SYSTEM

G ot books? The Chronoscan

handheld scanner streamlines the
process of cataloging your library. Just
scan in your books’ bar codes, and the
companion Library software translates
the ISBN numbers, then searches
Amazon. corn’s database for any relevant
information to add to your records.

That’s the theory. In reality. Library can’t
always find what it needs, and when it
does. It won’t print details beyond basic
title and author info.

Library exports (and imports) book
data in tab-delimited text. It can also
produce the list in HTML, complete with
your Amazon Associate ID, so if you
happen to be peddling Amazon’s wares
on your Web site, just paste the HTML
into your Web page and wait for your

Amazon-affiliate commission
nickels to start rolling in.

Unfortunately, Library
isn’t exactly “of Congress’’
quality. The Amazon database
is free and extensive, but
not exhaustive— though, if
necessary, you can enter data
by hand. Though Library adds both
books and filters by ISBN, it cannot
show or print the ISBN number in list
view. Library also won’t print details
for each book, only title, author, and
cover-art thumbnails. These limitations
basically render Library useless for
serious inventory, even fora personal
library. Unfortunately, the software
is required (and sold separately at
www.chronopath.com); it’s barely

worth the ten bucks.

The scanner itself has no apparent
flaws and will read any barcode and
spit out a string of numbers into any
application that accepts text. Perhaps
some enterprising developer will come
to the rescue with capable software.
With better software, the Chronoscan
would be a formidable solution for
any bibliophile who needs a library
inventory.— yWoryE. Tyler

COMPANY: Chronopath
CONTACT: wwwxhronopath.com
PRICE: $199.95. plus $10 for
required Library software

REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped
Mac. Mac OS 10.1 or later

GOOD NEWS: Scanner rocks.

MacAddict RATED

BAD NEWS: Software blows.

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Three handy afternatives to touchpads for professionats on the go

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FINANCIAL-MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Quicken 2004’s new News Alerts gives you the latest on your
stocks, but the info it chooses to show Is sometimes irrelevant.

S till the leader in personal-finance
software, Quicken provides
powerful tools for analyzing your cash
flow— all you need to do is feed it the
appropriate financial statements.

There are six main new features to
consider: iCal support, customizable
views of investment accounts,
downloadable financial news and
indicator information, better support
for Bill Pay, the Emergency Records
Organizer, and a new Aqua look. Our
favorite of these is iCal support: With
a click of a button, you can create a
Quicken calendar in iCal to remind you
of scheduled transactions— if they’re
payouts, Bill Pay now lets you choose
which of your accounts (up to ten) from

which to deduct the
amount. In the realm
of investment, you can
now view your assets
by Asset Class and
Industry sector, and if a
newspaper icon appears
next to an asset, you
can click it to get the
latest headlines. This
news feature could use
some refining, though:

When we clicked the icon next to our
test holdings of Apple Computer, Intel,
and Cisco stocks, for example, we got
stories in which these companies were
mentioned but not the focus.

Users of Quicken 2002 and earlier

should appreciate the Aquafied
2004 upgrade. If you already use
Quicken 2003 and aren’t wowed
by the new features, skip a year
and check back in 2005.
—Narasu Rebbapragada

COMPANY: Intuit REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC, Mac OS

CONTACT: 800-446-8848 or 9.2.2 or 10.1.5 {10.2.6 for ICal support),

650-944-6000, www.qulcken2004.com 128MB RAM, 75MB disk space,
PRICE: $59.95 Internet access for online features

GOOD NEWS: Total Aqua makeover. iCal support.
Downloadable financial indicators.

BAD NEWS: Reiated news isn’t. Emergency
Records Organizer is morbid.

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Wireless Optical Desktop

KEYBOARD AND MOUSE

I f you’re itching for a wireless
mouse-keyboard combo but
Apple’s new Bluetooth one-button
mouse and matching keyboard are too
minimalist for your tastes, Kensington’s
Wireless Optical Desktop has
frills aplenty— some of which we
appreciate, like Sleep and Eject
buttons, and some of which
we’ll politely ignore, like the
Web-browser navigation that
works in Internet Explorer but
not In our preferred Safari.

One welcome feature is
an ingenious power system:

Kensington provides six
rechargeable AA batteries— two
each powerthe mouse and
keyboard, and two more sit inside
the wireless transmitter, which
doubles as a battery charger.

Plus, the batteries arrived charged, and
survived almost a month of mousing
before they needed recharging.

The mouse has a smooth and simple
design, with two buttons and a clickable

scroll wheel. The keyboard works
great, and its keys are stiff enough
to give feedback while you type but
don’t require a heavy typing hand or
make excessive click- clatter when
In use. The software, Kensington’s
mighty MouseWorks for OS X (a System
Preferences pane), is as superb as ever
for programming the mouse’s
buttons, tracking, and so on. The
companion keyboard software,
a separate System Preferences
pane, allows you to program only
three of the board’s action buttons
to launch any app or load a Web
site in your browser— any browser.
Problem is, the keyboard’s other
browser-navigation buttons work
only in Internet Explorer.

If you can use the extraneous
keyboard buttons, this combo’s
quality mouse and integrated
battery charger make it a solid
choice —Niko Coucouvanis

This dynamic input duo works well, but the keyboard prefers
Internet Explorer to Safari .

COMPANY: Kensington
CONTACT: 800-235-6708,
www.kensington.com
PRICE: $134.95 (SRP), $77.28 (street)

REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped
Mac, Mac OS 10.1 or later

GOOD NEWS: Smartly integrated battery charger.
Solid hardware.

BAD NEWS: Most keyboard action buttons aren’t

customizable. No caps lock light.

Mac/tddict RATED

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REVIEWS

Store ’n’ Go

USB 2.0 FLASH DRIVE

V erbatim's Store 'n* Go is a
credit to its flash-memory
breed. On top of its zippy USB 2.0
performance (roughly a zillion
times faster than old-style USB
1.1), which ourG5 PowerMac
supports, Store *n' Go has just
about everything we'd ask for in
a flash drive: a tightly fitting cap,
slick design, capacities up to 1GB,
and even a trio of little raised dots
on one side so you know which way is up when you plug it in.
A Mac keyboard's USB 1.1 ports don't provide enough juice to
power the little fella, and the drive is slow and inconvenient
on older Macs. But Store 'n' Go is ideal for use with your G5's
front-mounted USB 2.0 port— Niko Coucouvanis

Finally, a fast flash drive.

Memory Mini Mouse

INPUT DEVICE/USB DRIVE

I ogear put 32MB of flash memory into a tiny mouse that's
perfect for travel and laptop work. This optical mouse features
two buttons and a subtly glowing scroll wheel; it's too small to
handle the way you would a normal mouse (middle finger on
scroll wheel), but its height makes it fairly maneuverable.

Plug it into your Mac, and the flash-memory volume mounts
on the desktop. USB 1.1 flash memory is torturously slow, but
it's a convenient way to
transfer small files when
there's no other option.

Add a retractable
cable, USB extender
cord, and cute little
travel pouch, and
what's not to love?

—Cathy Lu

COMPANY: Verbatim
CONTACT; 704-547-6500
or 800-242-7503,
www.verbatim.com

PRICE: $21 to $350 (street; depending on
capacity— 32MB to 1GB)
REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped Mac,
Mac OS 8.6 or later

GOOD NEWS: Solidly built. Fast USB 2.0 capability.
BAD NEWS: Won’t work on a USB-equipped
Mac keyboard.

MacAldict RATED

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COMPANY: logear
CONTACT: 866-946-4327,
www.iogear.com
PRICE: $49.95

REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped Mac,
Mac OS X (works only as a one-button
mouse in Mac OS 9 and earlier)

GOOD NEWS: Lightweight. Retractable cord.
Two USB devices in one.

BAD NEWS: USB 1.1 is Slow. Doesn’tfeel
superdurable.

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XHE BEST OF THE BEST FROM RECENT REVIEWS

IK Multimedia AmpliTube Live

$129.00

Nov/03, p46

Don't think software can replace monster guitar amps? It can.

MOTU Digital Performer 3

$795.00

Feb/02, p58

This pro-audio app has a great array of features.

Propellerhead Software Reason 2.5

$449.00

Sep/03, p55

It’s earned its rep as the top software sound studio.

I Aspyr Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

$49,95

Feb/03, p37

Fantastic gameplay with both weapons and The Force.

I Aspyr NASCAR Racing 2002 Season

$39.99

May/03, p57

Realistic NASCAR racing on a Mac? Believe it.

I Aspyr The Sims Unleashed

$29.95

May/03, p58

Pixel-pets abound in the best Sims expansion pack yet.

I MacSoft Unreal Tournament 2003

$49.99

Oct/03, p44

Blood and gore. Violence. More blood, gore, and violence.

GRAPHICS & LAYOUT

Nikon
Coolpix 5400

“Beautiful, sharp..,exposures.” “Great
color.” The “most detailed images.” No
wonderyWac/Adcf/cf Senior Editor Kris
Fong proclaimed the 5.1-megapixel
Nikon Coolpix 5400 the best new
prosumer digital camera.

Olympus

D-560Zoom°

Forthe more budget-minded camera
lover, Kris recommends the Olympus
D-560 for its “sharp images with
well-balanced exposures.”

WeibeTech
FireSOO o

Adobe Acrobat Professional 6

$699.00

Nov/03, p50

If you’re in pro publishing, this is one must-have app.

Adobe InDesign 2.0

$609.00

May/02, p50

Look out. Quark— Adobe’s rival layout tool kicks butt.

Adobe Photoshop 7

$609.00

Jul/02, p46

Picture-perfect pixel pusher moves to Mac OSX.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2

$99.00

Dec/02, p40

This app has most of Photoshop’s power for $500 less.

FontLab 4.5,2

$549.00

May/03, p53

The font editor all we type geeks have been waiting for.

Hemera Photo-Objects

$99.00

Nov/03, p56

50,000 quality images for under a hundred bucks.

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

$399.00

Sep/02, p44

Our favorite Web -design tool gets a strong upgrade.

Macromedia Flash MX

$499.00

Jul/02, p51

It started in animation; now it can do anything.

Macromedia FreeHand MX

$399.00

Jun/03, p49

In the race with Adobe Illustrator, FreeHand pulls ahead.

1 PRODUCTIVITY & UTILITIES

1 Apple Keynote

$99.00

Apr/03, p48

This presentation app was built for Mac OS X— and it shows.

1 Bare Bones Software BBEdit 7,0.1

$179.00

Mar/03, p52

By far the most powerful text editor money can buy.

1 Microsoft Office v. X

$499.00

Feb/02, p42

The 800-pound gorilla of productivity applications.

1 Prolific Publishing Marine Aquarium 2

$19.95

Aug/03, p54

OK, it’s just a screensaver— but it’s the coolest one ever.

1 VIDEO & ANIMATION

1 Adobe After Effects 5.5

$649.00

May/02, p49

This motion-graphics stud improves Its 3D powers.

1 Apple DVD Studio Pro 1.5

$499.00

Oct/02, p55

Apple’s essential DVD-burning app gets even better.

1 Apple Final Cut Pro 4

$999.00

Sep/03, p44

This kick-ass video-editor now includes four new apps.

ACCESSORIES

Dr. Bott’s extendAIR Direct

$149.95

May/03, p51

Make AirPort Extreme’s range noticeably more extreme.

Formac Studio TVR

$299.00

Oct/03, p48

Watch TV, record TV, digitize tapes— what’s not to like?

Kensington Expert Mouse

$127.95

Oct/03, p60

Optical trackball plus scroll wheel equals killer controller.

MacWireless Power Over Ethernet

$29.98

Jun/03. p61

Mount an AirPort Base Station 250 feet from AC power.

Palm Zire 71

$299.00

Aug/03, p44

A PDA, digital camera, and MP3 player all rolled into one.

Can a big, fat hard
drive find love? It
can from MacAddict
Reviews Editor Niko
Coucouvanis, who
called the WeibeTech
FireSOO “a king among
hard drives.”

Apple 20GB iPod

$399.00

Jul/03, p44

The world’s greatest MP3 player gets smaller and cooler. |

Digidesign Mbox

$495.00

May/02, p59

This audio interface is a traveling musician's delight. {

Griffin Technology ITrip

$35.00

Aug/03, p52

This IPod FM transmitter uses the entire frequency range. |

DIGITAL CAMERAS \

Canon PowerShot S230 Digital Elph

$399.00

Mar/03, p48

A great 3.2-megapixel camera in a tiny, low-cost package.

Leica D-Lux

$900.00

Oct/03, p46

Exceptional style married with exceptional image quality.

Nikon Coolpix 5400

; $799.95

Dec/03, p22

This prosumer camera handles well and shoots even better.

Olympus C-4000 Zoom

$449.00

Jan/03, p52

Great image quality, 4 megapixels, and vematile controls.

Olympus D-560 Zoom

$249.95

Dec/03, p22

This affordable polnt-and-shoot produces great images.

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Brother HL-1870N

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Aug/02, p45 Need a sturdy laser printer? This one’s a workhorse.

Epson Stylus Photo 2200

$699.00

Oct/02, p42 The most stunning photo printer we’ve ever tested.

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Jun/03, p47

FireWire 800 speed meets solid-as-a-rock construction.

1 owe Mercury Elite Pro |

$309.99

Jul/03, p53

This 180GB FireWire 800 drive outpaces the competition.

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Dec/03, p53

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GOT A QUESTION?
NEED ADVICE?!

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HELP

MOVE YOUR HOME
DIRECTORY

How can I move my Home directory
to an external drive?

Just fire up Netinfo Manager
(Applications > Utilities), select Enable
Root User from the Security menu, select
the slash symbol (/) in the left column of
the top pane, find your user name in the
middle column, and highlight it In the
Property pane below, scroll down to the
Home property, select it (click the lock
icon to enable changes). In the menubar,
go to Directory > Delete Value to erase
the path to your old Home directory, then
choose Directory > New Value and type
the path to your desired Home directory

Use the Netinfo Manager to move your
Home directory to an external drive.

(j.e., /Volumes/externalHD/new user).
Note: While you can take your new
externally located home directory and
access the files on another Mac, that
Mac won’t see you as a distinct user.

MISSING CD-ROM ICON

Since I upgraded to Mac OS X, CDs don’t
show up on my desktop. What gives?

In Mac OS 9, icons for functioning
drives, media, and servers always show
up on the Desktop. In Mac OSX, you
have the option of hiding these icons.

To make sure CDs show up when you
insert them into your Mac’s drive, go to
Finder > Preferences and make sure the
Removable Media box is checked. If it is
checked but CDs still don’t mount, try
trashing the com.apple.finder.plist file
(username > Library > Preferences)— your
Mac will automatically recreate it when
you restart.

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these Items on the Desktop:

3 Hard disks

3 Removable media (such as CDs)

S Connected servers

Check these boxes to make sure your hard
drive, removable media, and server icons
always appear on the Desktop.

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The EXIF protocol saves a wealth of
information about digital photographs.

settings, shutter speed, file size, and
camera model. A variety of applications,
such as the free Simple EXIF Viewer for
Mac OSX (http://homepage.mac.com
/aozer/EV), can display this data. In
iPhoto, you can highlight a picture and
select Show Photo Info from the File
menu to view EXIF data.

CAMERA INFO

What is EXIF data?

Supported in just about all digital
cameras, the EXIF (exchangeable image
file format) protocol adds metadata
tags to JPEG files. These tags contain
information such as
aperture size, lens
focal length, flash
information, exposure

APPLEWORKS SLOWDOWN

Why is running AppleWorks in
Mac OSX so slow?

The problem resides in AppleWorks’
Recent Items folder (user name >
Documents > AppleWorks User Data >
Starting Points > Recent Items). For
every file you create In AppleWorks,
AppleWorks creates an alias so you can
easily access files from the Starting

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Hanswers

TO QUICK QUESTIONS

BRUSH SIZES

What is the keyboard command for
increasing brush size In Photoshop?

Press the left-bracket key ([)to make
the brush smaller, and the right-
bracket key (]) to make it bigger.

TABBED BROWSING

What is Tabbed Browsing?

Tabbed Browsing lets you open multiple
Web pages in the same window by
assigning each Web page a tab within
that window. Clicking a tab brings Its
Web page to the
front. You can
enable Tabbed
Browsing In Safari
by opening the

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clicking the Tab browsing in Safari.

button, and checking the Enable Tabbed
Browsing check box.

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FUNCTION KEYS

How can I get my
PowerBook’s function
keys to act as function
keys instead of volume
and brightness controls?

Hold down the fn key in the lower-left
corner of your PowerBook’s keyboard
while pressing the appropriate F-key to
use an F-key as an F-key.

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can do it.

C^UOlTli I questions or
heipful tips directly via email
(askus@macaddict.com) or c/o
MacAddfct, 150 North Hill Dr.,
Brisbane, CA 94005.

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DIFFICULTY

RATINGS

This stuffs
TOUCH for the pros.

HOW TO 57

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itJ for Apple, Power Computing, and a
Texas school district have given BuzZoUer
Mac superpowers.

MICRO MAIL PRINT

When I print from Apple’s Mail
program in Mac OS X» the
print is microscopic.

How can I make my
prints readable?

Resize your email
window. If you make
the email window
larger, the type will
print larger. If you
make the email window smaller, the type
will print smaller.

DISK UTILITY OPTIONS

Norton Disk Doctor can’t fix the
problems on my drive.

What else can I do?

While no disk utility
can guarantee a fix,
before you reformat
(i.e., erase) your hard
drive, try’Alsoft’s Diskwarrior ($79.95,
www.alsoft.com) or Micromafs Drive
10 ($69.95, www.micromatcom), both
of which can fix some problems that
Norton can’t.

68 Build Your
Own Music Maker

Your Mac has a hidden stash of
instrument sounds—we show you
how to build a keyboard that’ll let you
play them all.

72 Play Hidden
Unix Games and
Other Oddities

The Terminal isn’tjust
a geek hangout—it’s
a secret hideout filled
with classic games.
Wanna play? We show
you the way.

74 Make Widgets
with Konfabulator

If you can think it, you can make
an app to do it for
you— with some
realistic caveats,
of course. Take
our Introductory
course to the art of
Widget-making.

No whining—
anyone
can do this!

UNIX UNIVERSITY

COPY THAT

How do you duplicate a file in Unix?

To duplicate a file via the command-
line, use the cp (copy) command. For
example, to duplicate a file named
myfile.doc and call it myfile.doc.bkp
within the same directory, type this:
cp myfile.doc myfile.doc.bkp

To create a duplicate of everything in a
directory (except directories) use the
* wildcard:

cp /folderold/* /foldernew
To duplicate every file in the

/Documents folder into a folder called
BackedupFiles:
cp /Documents/* (space)
/BackedupFiles

To copy directories, use the «r flag:
cp -p /Documents/* (space)
BackedupFiles

To copy the myfile.doc from the
Documents folder to your working
directory, end your command with a
period, like so:

cp /Documents/myfile.doc .

i Recent Items

P Starting Points

Empty this folder to speed up AppleWorks.

Points window. If there are too many
aliases in this folder, AppleWorks
will screech to a halt (and we mean
halt). Emptying this folder will bring
AppleWorks back to full speed.

CALENDAR SHARING

Employees of my small business, which
runs on Macs, need to share projects,
schedules, and calendars. What
software would you recommend?

AEC Software’s FastTrack Schedule 8
($22,475 for 25 licenses or $299 for
single user, www.aecsoft.com) works
through a network server, allowing users

to share project-tracking information-
including schedules, people, equipment,
and materials. Now Software’s Now
Up-to-Date & Contact ($129.95 per
user, www.nowsoftware.com) lets
cross-platform users share contact and
calendar information. Another option
is Microsoft’s Exchange Server system,
which works best with Mac OS 9-only
Macintosh Outlook
or Mac OSX-only
Entourage through
a plug-in.

ON THE

DISC

FastTrack Schedule
8 demo

Use FastTrack Schedule 8 to track
business projects across a network.

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HOWTO

build your own music maker

Build Your Own Music Maker

by Erick Tejkowski

WHAT YOU NEED

• Mac OS X ($129, www.apple.com)

• QuickTime 5 or later

• REALbasic 5 or later ($149.95, www.realsoftware.com)

• Music Project tutorial files (on the Disc)

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be frivolous expenditures if you just want poke around
but don't want to invest the time needed to learn
them. Lucky for you, your Mac has a closet full of musical

instruments stashed inside— you just need
to coax them out to play. Wouldn't it be
great to have an application that could put
all of those instruments at your fingertips,
playable from your own desktop keyboard?

You can— and we show you how to build that
app yourself.

The key Ingredient here is REALbasic. We show you how
to use it to build a desktop piano-style keyboard that will let
you control volume and instrument selection, and then use
REALbasic's NotePlayer control to play a tune, using one of
128 different instruments and sound effects from Apple's
QuickTime Music Synthesizer (see “What's That Sound?”,
p70, for a complete list of instruments).

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REALbasic 5.2.1 demo
and Music Project
tutorial files

Gain Some Control Launch REALbasic
to start a new project. In the properties window for
Windowl, type a name for your application’s interface
in the Title field. From the controls palette, drag a
NotePlayer, a Canvas, a horizontal ScrollBar, a LittleArrows,
and two Slider controls into the window editor (the empty
Untitled window that will become your keyboard interface).

Click the Canvasl control in the window editor. Change Width
to 596 and Height to 99 in the properties window, and then
resize the window to fit. ScrollBarl will scroll the keyboard
so you can play different keyboard octaves— click its control
in the window editor, and set Width to 596 in the properties
window. Sliderl will adjust volume and Slider2 will change the
instrument— click each control and set Maximum to 127 in the After changing the Canvasl control's width and height, resize

properties window. the window so It displays all controls fully.

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HOW TO 59

Build the Interface Drag three StatlcText
controls from the controls palette into the window
editor. Click StaticTextl, and in the properties window,

I type instLabel in the Name field and check the Visible
box; this control will display the current instrument number used
by the NotePlayer (the default is 1, a piano sound). Drag this to
the right of the LittleArrows control, which will allow you to change
instrument numbers incrementally. The remaining two StaticText
controls will label the sliders. Click StaticText2 and in the properties
window, type Volume: in the Text field and check the Visible box. Click
StaticText3, type Instrument: in the Text field, and check the Visible
box. Then position all controls in your project so they look like those
in our screenshot (right), and save your project in its own folder as a
REALbasic Standard Project.

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REALbasic is that you can use practically any class (a
template that describes how an object behaves) from
another project with your current one— we created a custom
keyboard class for you, so you don’t have sweat it out on your own
unless you want to. Grab KeyboardCanvas from the Disc, and drag
it into the project window (the one that holds project components
such as Windowl and App) to add it.

The KeyboardCanvas class is already
programmed to trigger note values. By

using it, you gain the benefits
of the class without the hassle
of recreating it. To tie it to
your interface, click the Canvasl control
in the window editor, and then select
KeyboardCanvas from the Super drop-
down menu in the properties window.

Now Canvasl has the functionality of a
keyboard; it just doesn’t look like one yet.

You can reuse our homemade
KeyboardCanvas class in your own
keyboard project to play music.

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keyboard. One image displays all 128 keys on
the keyboard. Another displays a single keyboard octave.
The remaining twelve show a keyboard octave with a
particular key pressed. We included all 14 images on
the Disc to save you a /of of time. Feel free to customize
the images in your favorite graphics application. To add
these graphics to your project, copy the Art folder from
the Disc (in the Music Project folder) to the same folder
that holds your project. Then drag the Art folder from
your project folder to the project window to add them.

Once you drag our
keyboard images into
your project window,
the KeyboardCanvas
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window editor, double-click the Canvasl control to open
the Code Editor window. Under the Canvasl set of events, click the
Open event and add the following code between the Sub Open and
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where to set the volume slider when the app is launched.

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6 Add Control to the Controls Because the entire piano keyboard
display is very large (128 keys total), the ScrollBar control will enable you to
horizontally scroll through the lowest to the highest octaves on the keyboard
display. Click the ScrollBarl control in the window editor, and then check the
LiveScroll box at the bottom of the properties window. Double-click the ScrollBarl
control to bring up the Code Editor, click the ValueChanged event to select it, and add
the following code between the Sub lines:

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To program Sliderl to control volume, click the Sliderl triangle in the Code Editor window
to display its events, click ValueChanged, and type Canvasl-theVolume = me. value
between the Sub lines. To enable Slider2 to access the 128 instrument sounds, display
Slider2*s events, click ValueChanged, and enter this code between the Sub lines:
Canvasl.thePlayer.Instrument = me. value
instLabel.text = strCme.value)

To enable the LittleArrows control to increase the instrument number by one, display its
events in the Code Editor, click the Up event, and type the following code between the
Sub lines.

if slider2.value

slid er2. value = slider2.value+l

else

slid er2.value=slider2. minimum
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Then click its Down event and type the following code to enable it to decrease the
instrument number by one.
if slider2.value>slider2. minimum then
slider2.value = slider2.value-l
else

si ider2. value = slider2. maximum
end if

Now close the Code Editor window and save
your project.

This bit of code enables you to select
one of 128 built-in instruments using
the second (Instrument) slider.

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Debug menu, select Run. REALbasic compiles your app and then launches it.
Test it out by tickling the ivories (and ebonies), moving the Volume slider, and
changing instruments. If everything looks, works, and sounds good, quit the
test application, switch back to your REALbasic project, and select Build Settings from
the File menu. In the resulting dialog, you can choose
any platform on which to build your app (Classic Mac
OS, Mac OS X, Windows, or any mix of these). Since
our project was designed for OS X, check o.nly the Mac
OS X (Carbon) box. From the pop-up menu, select
Macintosh Settings, and then give your masterpiece a
name in the Mac OS X Name field. Click OK to build the
settings. Then select Build Application from the File
menu to bring your app to life and play.

REALbasic gives you the choice of building for Mac
OS X, Classic Mac, and even Windows (if you dare go
there). For this project, choose Mac OS X.

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When you fire up your new keyboard
app and start tinkering away, the
default instrument you hear is
QuickTime’s Acoustic Grand Piano
(instrument 1). But you’ve got
another 127 diverse noisemakers at
your fingertips. Here’s the complete
list of all instruments in QuickTime’s
synthesizer and their numbers for
you to dial up in your spiffy new app.

[ Piano

Chromatic Percussion

1— Acoustic Grand Piano

9— Celesta

2— Bright Acoustic Piano

1 0— Glockenspiel

3— Electric Grand Piano

1 1— Music Box

A — Honky-Tonk Piano

1 2— Vibraphone

5— Electric Piano 1

13— Marimba

6— Electric Piano 2

14— Xylophone

7— Harpsichord

15— Tubular Bells

&— Clavinet

1 6 — Dulcimer

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Guitar

1 7— Drawbar Organ

25— Nylon Siring Guitar

18— Percussive Organ

26— Steel String Guitar

19— Rock Organ

27— Electric Jazz Guitar

20— Church Organ

28— Electric Clean Guitar

21— Reed Organ

29— Electric Guitar Muled

22— Accordian

30— Overdriven Guitar

23— Harmonica

3 1— Distortion Guitar

24 — Tango Accordian

32— Guitar Harmonics

Bass

Strinys

33— Acoustic Bass

41— Violin

34— Electric Bass (fingered)

42-Viola

35— Electric Bass (picked)

43— Cello

36— Fretless Bass

44 — Contrabass

37— Slap Bass 1

45— Tremolo Strings

38 — Slap Bass 2

46— Pizzicato Strings

39— Synth Bass 1

47— Orchestral Strings

40— Synth Bass 2

48— Timpani

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Brass

49— String Ensemble 1

57— Trumpet

50— String Ensemble 2

58— Trombone

51— Synth Strings 1

59 — ^Tuba

52— Synth Strings 2

60— Muted Trumpet

53— Choir Aahs

61— French Horn

54— Choir Oohs

62— Brass Section

55— Synth Vox

63— Synth Brass 1

56— Orchestra Hit

64— Synth Brass 2

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65— Soprano Sax

73— Piccolo

66— Alto Sax

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67— Tenor Sax

75— Recorder

68— Baritone Sax

76— Pan Flute

69— Oboe

77— Bottle Blow

70— English Horn

78— Skakuhachi

71— Bassoon

79— Whistle

72— Clarinet

80— Ocarina

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81— Square Wave

89— Fantasy

82— Sawtooth Wave

90 — Warm

83— Calliope

91— Polysynth

84— Chiffer

92— Choir

85— Charang

93— Bowed

86— Solo Vox

94— Metallic

87— Fifths Saw Wave

95— Halo

88— Bass & Lead

96— Sweep

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97— Rain

105— Sitar

98— Soundtrack

106— Banjo

99 — Crystal

107— Shamisen

100— Atmosphere

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101— Brightness

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102— Goblins

11 10— Bagpipe

103— Echoes

1 1 1— Fiddle

1 04 — Space

1 12— Shanai

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1 13— Tinkle Bell

121— Guitar Fret Noise

1 1 4— Agogo

122— Breath Noise

1 15— Steel Drums

123— Seashore

1 16— Woodblock

124— Bird Tweet

1 17— Taiko Drum

125— Telephone Ring

1 18— Melodic Tom

1 26— Helicopter

1 19— Synth Drum

1 27— Applause

120— Reverse Cymbal

1 28— Gunshot

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by Ian Harris

WHAT YOU NEED

• Mac OS X ($129, www.apple.com)

Y ou Darwin dwellers and fans of classic
games are in for some Terminal
treatment. Ever since we showed
you two Unix gems buried deep inside Mac
OS X (see “Terminal Laughter,” Mar/03,
p63), you’ve been asking us for more, so
here you go.

Everyone knows Mac OS X is rooted in
Mork-and-Mindy-era Unix, but you don’t need
to be a Unix geek to join in the fun. just head
straight to the Terminal and enjoy the ride. If
you’re running Panther, some of these games
have now gone GUI— if not, ASCII is the look
of the day. (We also changed our Terminal
windows colors in the Window Settings to
make things look more palatable.)

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The Terminal isn’t all about ^te manipulation and commands— there’s fun to be had
(playing this “connect-ffye” game, Gomoku, for example) If you know where to look.

I Take a Look at Your Options To get a list of all the fun

oddities that await you, launch the Terminal. At the prompt, type
Is /usr/share/Bmacs/21.1/lisp/piay, and press Return— Panther
users should substitute 21,2 for 21,1, A list of all installed game scripts will
appear. Now get ready to play. Select New Shell from the File menu— this will open
a new Terminal window so you don’t lose your list. In the new window, type emacs,
and press Return to launch Emacs, a Unix-based text editor. Press Esc (escape), and
then press X to move to the menubar command-line at the bottom of the window.

If you don’t often troll through the Terminal, you probably
never knew these games were already on your Mac.

2 Slither and Snack in Snake To play a game, type its name at
the Emac window’s command-line prompt, minus the .el or .elc extension.

For example, type snake and press Return, then try out the fantastic text-
based version of the classic Snake game. Don’t know how to play? Just use
your keyboard’s arrow keys to guide the snake (if you’re running a pre-Panther OS, it’s
really a line of Os) around an arena where it can gobble up all the apples (represented
by asterisks) by running into them. If your snake hits a wall or bumps into its own tail,
it’s curtains for old slippy. Be prepared— your snake travels faster and gets longer
with each apple it eats. Type q to quit this or any game.

Snake ain’t just for cell phones— just type snake, and you’ll be
met with a ravenous bar— or a line of Os in pre-Panther OSs.

72 MacAkflct January 2004

3 Tumble Through Tetris YouVe seen the clones, knockoffs, and

inspired versions of this classic game— now you can play the Unix version. First,
press Control-X to clear the Emacs screen and get a one-window view. Then
press 1. To play Tetris, press the Esc key, press X, type tetris, and press Return.
For the uninitiated (what rock have you been hiding under?), the object of the game is to
keep falling blocks from stacking up and filling up your game field. You prevent this by
strategically positioning the falling blocks to form a solid horizontal line, which eradicates
that level. Use your keyboard's left and right arrow keys to shift the blocks left or right,
press the up and down arrows to rotate the piece, and press the spacebar to make the
block drop down instantly. Unix’s Tetris might not have the funky disco music of other
versions (or color in pre-Panther OSs), but it’s still a good way to spend a lunch hour.

This Unix version of Tetris may not be as pretty as the hundred-
some clones out there, but gameplay is the same (and we still suck).

4 Ping and Pong If you’re looking to preserve brain cells for more important
matters, why not play the first-ever arcade game. Pong? Clear the Emacs screen,
press Escape, and then press X to call up the menubar command-line. To start
playing, type pong and press Return. You know the drill: Move the paddle to keep
the ball In play. Miss it, and you’re a loser. In the Unix version, two people can play. One
uses the up and down arrows to move the left paddle, and the other uses the left and right
arrow keys to control the right paddle. Playing this way obviously means you have to get
close to your opponent, so it’s best to only challenge people who have showered recently.

Believe it or not, this is the game that started the video-game evolution.

5 See a Shrink Games aren’t the only thing hidden in Mac OS X. If you’re
feeling a little off, free psychotherapy sessions are yours for the taking. Clear the
Emacs screen, navigate to the command-line, type doctor* and press Return to
pay a visit to your personal Mac shrink. “I am the psychotherapist,” the doctor
states. "Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type Return
twice.” Say you’re tired, and the doc asks you why you say you’re tired. Complain about a
nosebleed, and you’ll get, “Perhaps your life has something to do with this.” If you threaten
to kill yourself, the doctor gets very serious and gives you a couple of email contacts and a
Web site address to get some real help.

We’re not sure who’s more delusional— us or our Mac shrink.

1 am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your prdsletis.
Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.

Doc, I swear that I 'n going nuts.

Is It because you ore going nuts that you caee to me?

Ateo lately.

Con you elaborate on that?

Absolutely, I come to see you because 1 '» going mrts.

Does it bother you that you ore going nuts?

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enjoying »y sorry stote i«»enseiy.

When did you first know that you thlrtt that the squirrels
are enjoying your sorry state tomensely?

6 Get A Life Now that the shrink has fried your fragile mind, perhaps a bit of
serene peacefulness is in order. If all you want to do is sit and stare, you can call
up Life, one of the first screen savers. Clear the Emacs screen, move down to the
command-line, and type life. You'll get a text-based representation of dividing
cells. A single cell (represented by an @ sign) appears in the middle of the screen. After
a couple of seconds, one splits into two, two become four, and so on. To see a different
pattern, quit (type q), and start it over again. Life doesn’t live forever— our cell patterns
died after about 80 generations or moved off the screen completely— but it’s been around
since the 80s, so we’ll give it a break.

When Ian Harris isn't editing Mac stories on the other side of
the pond, you’ll find him trying to best his Tetris score.

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Make Widgets with Konfabuiator

by Johnathon WiHiams

WHAT YOU NEED

• Mac OS 10.2.3 or later
($129, www.apple.com)

• Konfabulator 1.5 or later
($25, www.konfabulator.com)

• Image editor that supports
transparency and PNG format,
such as Adobe Photoshop
($609, www.adobe.com)

or GraphicConverter
($35, www.lemkesoft.com)

• Text editor, such as BBEdit
($179, www.barebones.com)
or TextEdit (part of OS X)

• iCal with scheduled calendar
of events (part of OS 10.2)

Welcome to the Widget factory. Get comfortable. You*re going to want to stay awhile.

M ac addicts have a powerful new ally in their

continuing war against unused leisure time. It's
called Konfabulator, and it’s the best thing out there
if you’re looking to create simple, great-looking, mini desktop
applications, called Widgets, With a little practice, even

programming novices can use Konfabulator to
create apps that do just about anything (short
of snagging a date with a supermodel, cleaning
the cat box, and other far- fetched ideas).

Strictly speaking, Konfabulator is billed as a “Java
runtime engine” (urn, no, we don’t know exactly what that
means either). Simply speaking, it’s shareware that runs
in the background, combining graphics and scripts to
create Widgets for your desktop. Here, we show you how
to build a simple Widget— one that displays tomorrow’s
first appointment from the schedule at the top of your iCal
calendar list. Keep in mind that this is an introduction— take
what you learn and run with it.

ON THE

DISC

Konfabulator 1.5.2

1 Launch Time On first launch,

Konfabulator displays a series
of dialogs that walk you through
the initial set-up, which includes
installing a bunch of premade Widgets in
your Documents folder, launching a few
Widgets and displaying directions on howto
access and manipulate them, showing how to
access the gear menu, and telling you where
to find more Widgets on the Web. Once you
finish the walkthrough, the app opens the
Widgets folder (the one it created in your
Documents folder).

2 Make Your GUI Gorgeous Most Widgets perform

a simple function, but that doesn’t mean you should skimp on its
appearance. To create your calendar faceplate (this Widget requires
only a space to display appointment info, but feel free to add other
design accoutrements— we added a logo and the iCal icon to spruce up ours),
launch your graphics app (we used Photoshop). First, create a new, relatively
small document, keeping in mind that it will be soaking up desktop space; we
set ours to 475 by 250 pixels. Next, create a new layer, turn off the Background
layer’s visibility, and start designing your Widget. Be sure to design at least
one element that can hold two lines of text and display black text legibly. From
there, layer stuff, add shadows, create bevels, play with opacity— go crazy.
When finished, create a new folder called images, and save your work as a PNG
file inside of it.

Once you complete the Initial setup,
Konfabulator displays the Widgets It installed.

You don’t need to be a skilled artist to create good-looking Widgets—
Photoshop filters and a bit of copy-and- paste make for a good recipe.

74 MacAddict January 2004

HOWTO 75

3 Mark the Markup

Language To construct a Widget,
you need to feed Konfabulator display
instructions via an XML file— XML
(extensible markup language) is similar to HTML
In that it structures information by placing it
between bracketed tags. To code, start with an
opening tag (for example, ), follow it with
specific information for that tag (typing 400 would
set the width to 400 pixels in this scenario),
and then end the instruction with a closing tag
(for example, ). To create our calendar
Widget, launch your favorite text editor (If using
TextEdit, use plain-text formatting), type version="1.0" Bncoding=”UTF-B"?>, and
press Return. This tells XML parsers that the file
adheres to XML 1.0 specifications and is encoded
in Unicode UTF-8. Then type , the
opening tag for your Widget instruction. Press
Return twice to skip a line and then press Tab to
indent. Next, type on< /debug), press
Return twice, and then press Tab— this turns on
the debug menu, which helps you find problems
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dealing with.

4 Build the Skeleton with XML Just copy our XML
instructions (shown here) into your text doc, but substitute the
following variables with your own: for window title, supply an
app name; for width and height, enter your image's dimensions
accordingly; for image src, keep the path but substitute icaladdictpng with
your image's name. Copy the rest of the code as shown for now— you’ll tweak
the text offsets ( and ) later since your graphic
will vary In size from ours. To keep things simple, we used only one image
In our Widget, but Konfabulator can support multiple images— put each image
in its own XML tag section and include offset and alignment tags
for placement. You can also set opacity tags. When finished, save your
file as iCalAddict (or the like) in plain text, but omit a file extension— you’ll
add one later.

The painless way to code a Widget? Plagiarize. Well, with our code anyway.
Just copy our text line for line, but fill in your own variables.

A WORD ABOUT WIDGETS

Before you start building, you should know a few things
about Konfabulator and Widgets in general. Because
Konfabulator runs as a background app, you won't find its
icon in the Dock, instead, it presents itself as a menubar
item— its icon looks like a pair of gears and is located
toward the menubar’s right side when it’s running. To
quit Konfabulator and all running Widgets, select Quit
Konfabulator from this gear menu. To quit an individual
Widget, Control-click the Widget interface and select Close
Widget from the contextual menu.

The calendar Widget in this tutorial barely scratches the
surface of what you can do with Konfabulator. Anything
JavaScript and AppleScript can do, a Widget can do, so the
possibilities are practically endless. One of the easiest ways
to improve your Widget-making skills is to look at how others

script their Widgets. You can examine the XML and scripting
of any Widget by Control-clicking a Widget's Icon, selecting
Show Package Contents from the contextual menu, and
opening the .kon file in any text editor.

To expand your Widget-making abilities, we highly
recommend downloading the Widget XML & JavaScript
Reference file from www.konfabulator.com/workshop (if
you get stuck, the site's Forums page is also a good place to
seek help). This PDF contains a wealth of information about
XML tags and several JavaScript extensions supported by
Konfabulator. Although AppleScript knowledge is handy,
to get to the meat of Konfabulator's abilities, get to know
JavaScript. David Flanagan’s /ovaScr/pf, TheDepnitive Guide
is an excellent reference book, published by O'Reilly (this one
has a Rhino on the cover).

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5 Script the Brain Congratulations. You now have
a perfectly valid XML skeleton for a Widget. Konfabulator
could load and display this file as a Widget with no
problem. However, unless you create a script that tells
the Widget what to do, your GUI goodie will just sit there on your
desktop, looking vacant. Though Konfabulator prefers JavaScript,
it also allows you to execute AppleScript instructions from within a
JavaScript. This script uses AppleScript to tap into your first calendar
in iCal and copy the info for your next scheduled appointment.

It starts with tomorrow’s schedule and displays the info in your
calendar Widget— make sure you have something scheduled before
you begin. Copy the entire script shown here into the line above the
closing tag in your XML file. Because AppleScripts must
pass through JavaScript without line breaks, we added the new
line indicator— \n— to keep commands from getting garbled. In our
example, the text is wrapped for easy reading, but remember not to
use the Return key when typing this script. When finished, save the
file again.

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tell \n‘ );

text2.data « appleScript ('tell application "iCal" \n

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after (current date)) \n end tell \n‘ );

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Faster than any secretary, this JavaScript-wrapped AppleScript taps into
iCal and pulls data for your first appointment tomorrow.

6 Package it and Play Konfabulator

stores Widgets inside of packages, or folders
that the operating system treats as a single
entity. To create a package for your Widget,
first create a folder named iCalAddict (or whatever you
want to name your Widget). Inside of this folder, create
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that holds your PNG file into the Contents folder. Next,
drag your XML text file into the Contents folder, and
then add the extension ,kon to your XML file. A dialog
appears, asking if you really want to do this; click Use
.kon. Now add the extension .widgetto the ICalAddict
(or equivalent) folder. Again, a dialog appears, asking
if you want to make the change. Click Add, and the
folder icon magically transforms into the standard
Konfabulator Widget icon. To open the package,
Control-click the Widget icon and select Show Package
Contents from the contextual menu; a new window
opens with your Contents folder inside. Close up the
package by closing its window, double-click the Widget
icon, and watch the fireworks.

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7 Debug da Bugs But yikes! what

you see is likely not what you had in mind.
Relax. This Is normal. Remember what
we said In step 4 about the and
tags— the numbers for these probably
need some adjusting so thatyourtwo appointment
texts align with your graphic. Along with your
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you’ll see red error messages— typos are the most
likely cause of errors. To fix everything, open up
your Widget’s package, open your iCalAddict.kon
file in your text editor, readjust the offset values,
and double-check yourtyping. When finished, save
your changes and click the Reload button at the
bottom of the debug window. Repeat this process
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and looking good, go back into your iCalAddict.kon
file and change the value from on to off
to get rid of the debug window. The next time you
activate your Widget, Konfabulator will display it in
all its shiny, solitary glory.

Even the best programmers get bugs— time to go Orkin on them.

johnathon Williams is working on a Widget that will deliver a high-voltage shock
to his body when he stops working and starts doing something superfluous— like
Widget-making.

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