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N',' f'Disirihdiion @4-,' M';i Dec; 12:...'=itD, Dih ~I a a6 D ECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.caFROM THE EDITORtheir clients and edi-. . . : : : : , , ;'g'@.'-':. . : :' ' -, ' ..- and occasional lettersA virtual season's greetings exchange. But I guess email has become noIt started as an email d iscussion about less or more personal than the stuff weChristmas cards. For the past few years The send and receive daily by regular post.Computer Paper has designed holiday greeting What I get in the mail probably isn't muchcards which the different than what yousalespeople send to I (I -' ' ; : . ' , ; ' - . ; . . ; ' get: bills, lots of flyers,tors send to writers ~ - . ; . . ' ' ' .' ' ': ~ ~ ' -' - ' : ,' ,; . : :.; : ':: : - : - '::' '~''-',~: and cards from friendsand others involved : ;-;~;.--:::-:::;.. e ' ' : - .::;~~~-;,:,':.',',-',::::,::;:.j,':: . -:-'.~ and family. Some of it isin t h e ed i t o r ia l . >'-:-,':-- ' . : ' ..'. g$~'..'.:+':-:''=.::;:-,'.:,j'-,::,:' ;, ;: :: ::-.' p e r t inent o r p ersonalp rocess. As ideas ( '.':::,''-:'::,'::.;:'):- he ' : - :: but most ends up in thewere bounced back recycling bin.and forth, w i th inand between TCP's people oow have heareyoffices, s o meone conversations and devel-declared tha t he op important relation-would be sending ships t h rough e m ai lout virtual Christmas cards by email this year. exchanges. We' ve heard of friendships andMy initial reaction was that email greet- romances that have blossomed from Interneting cards seemed like an impersonal way to email exchanges. And it's no longer newswor-send what is usually considered a personal thy that new parents email baby pictures andeother personal stuff to grandparents and fam-ily members, This kind of email is no differentthan the pen pal relationships or personal let-ters sent through the post office. Only themedium is different.In the business world, email is becomingvilsl. For example, I deal regularly with writersand industry representatives across Canadaand the U.S. I' ve met a handful of these peo-ple more than once during the past severalyears, at trade shows, for example. However, Ihave yet to meet the majority of them face-to-face. Still, we maintain a productive businessrelationship almost exclusively by email.However, I'm not sure if email will becomea part of my personal life. I' ve got 10-year-oldletters and greeting cards stuffed in somedrawer at home. I can't say that about anyemail not yet anyway.2S years in the telesphereEmail is our current pre-occupation, but it' soften observed that Canadians have long beenfixated on communication. And, as a country,we are early adopters of new communicationstechnologies. Whether it's Internet access,cashless Interac cards or cable TV, we seem tojust lap this stuff up.It's not surprising, then, that we were firstin the world w ith a d o mestic satellite.November marked the 25th anniversary ofTelesat Canada's launch of A Al , w h i chwas the world's f i rst synchronous-orbitdomestic communications satellite. Anik 1and its successors have become a central partof our lives, whether we realize it or not. Themajor TV networks like CSC, CTV and Globaluse it to beam their programs across the coun-try, as do specialty channels. Telesat will belaunching a d irect broadcast satellite inNovember 1998, which will carry the direct-to-home TV services we' ll be hearing moreabout in the coming months, as companiesstart pitching us about the virtues of a 500-channel universe.Telesat's broadcast services have the mostobservable impact on most people's lives, butthe company also has a business services divi-sion, where it offers satellite-based wide-areanetworking services under the VSAT banner. Ifyou buy your gasoline at a Chevron station,ucts, services and issues that are relevant tocheck out the top of the kiosk next time youfill up. If there's a small satellite dish there,there's a good chance that location's transac-tion processing is handled by VSAT.Telesat recently introduced a new satellitedata comm service called IP-Advantage. Theservice promises better speeds than ISDN oreven some frame relay systems. IP-Advantagegrafts the company's consumer DirectPCInternet access service with the VSAT businessservice, and Telesat claims performance of upto 24 megabits per second. If you considerthat the fastest consumer modems today arerated at 56.6 kilobits per second, you' ll get aninkling of how fast that is. Telesat claims thatit is equivalent to about 15 TI l ines. Thatought to be just enough to handle the surge ofanimated, talking, seasons-greetings cardswe' ll be sending and receiving via email thistime next year.A new focus on small businessBeginning this month, you' ll find a new sec-tion in The Computer Paper, focusing on prod-computer users in small business, which we' vedefined as companies or branch offices withup to 50 employees. This is not a radicalchange in editorial direction, but a formaliz-ing of some small course corrections we' vemade during the past few years.Our readership surveys have been tellingus that the interests and desires of TCP readersare evolving, as much as the computer indus-try itself is evolving. Many of our readers workas professionals in companies, or are smallbusiness entrepreneurs, who want the straightgoods on how computer technologies aregoing to help them survive and prosper. If thisis you, then you now have a section to turn toeach month.Whether you use your computer as a busi-ness tool, as a means of personal productivityor as part of the family recreation centre, weintend to keep Tfre Computer Paper relevant toyour interests;Enjoy the issueDavid TanakaEditor4ePhoto 1280.ahe hot eaap woeaaeePaPha ewaweaahaaa peeleea hw aaew joh aeahaaoaaaahaveah ha ewivd aeeeo lavaaaaaeaeN' oaeooa ahaaao for aawaaoew ah op haeaaaoa 2 ihheaoahapaaaa coven he herE vwwiap aop aahaaa oaeaea aamphee who aapea ahveaeh hw peaa pawaawaod aelaoiw ahwwaeaa ~ Oa.aahaaeeoaaa ae aeaoaaapaaa raahahda eseaoaaooa ewhfvaap aoamore. Iaha pboaaaaeoh aaehae~ aoaewwe aae aeape~ waa~ael1ealp oa ep ao 12 ~ aeeah(QIa a apo raaoheaooh Aoa aapta haheaahe Qe 'aaalaaa which aeh poo dray wea &op phaww ahweaaaeo waco ~ awl aaaaacSneaahaedhw aeewahae mewaeaeaea aowea aaa ao ao phoaoa aaaoaehaaaa eahae aae pc aw eaa alhohaaaoahwl aaaCthaa t4k hw aVhaoaaaea awa weha aoap.David Ritter, Publisher and President ofCanada Computer Paper Inc., is pleased toannounce the appointments of DavidTanaka to the position of Editor andGraeme Bennett to the position of SeniorEditor of The Computer Paper.Mr. Tanaka will assume overall responsi-bility for the editorial direction of The' Computer Paper. He has been The ComputerPaper 's News Editor for the past three years,and a technology writer and columnist since1989. Mr. Tanaka has a Bachelor of Arts inpsychology and attended the Masters pro-gram in journalism at Carleton University.Mr. Bennett will be responsible for thecompany's pursuit of strategic new mediaopportunities, including radio, TV and theWeb and continues to be involved withmaintaining the company's leadership rolein providing in-depth analysis andreportage of the latest technological trends.These appointments are effective Sept. 1,i e mora 4www eaaeheme.eomeephotoEditorial appointments at The Computer PaperC anada Computer Paper I nc . i sCanada's largest publisher of computermagazines with a combined circulation ofover 640,000 each month. The ComputerPaper, founded in 1988, is Canada's nation-al computer newsmagazine, freely distrib-uted in 1 0 m e t ropolitan areas fromVancouver to Halifax. The company alsopublishes Toronto Computes!, ComputerPlayer! in Vancouver, Quebec Micro! inMontreal and Ottawa Computes! The com-pany's specialized publications includeCanadian Computer W holesaler andCovernment Coruputer. All publications areavailable by subscription.Contacts:Oavid Ritter, Canada Computer Paper Inc.,Tel: 416-588-15SO.David Tanaka, The Computer Paper,Tel: 604- 688-2120.Graeme Bennett, The Computer Paper,Tel: 604-688-2120.1997.* Buy all three Matrox productsat once and get $50 off!(mail-in rebate)Offer valid from Oct.l to Dec. 31, 1997Matrox Rainbow Runner StudioVideo upgrade module tor Matrox Mystique 220Ideal for video and rmaqe editing. videoconferencing, PC to TV video, hardware fAPEG1Matrox Rainbow Runner TVISA TV tuner upgrade for MatroxPainbow Runner Studioideal for viewing TY on the PC and monitorinqTY programs on your PCIncludes 'PC-VCR Remote' softvrareMatrox Mystique 226 Homeri Me SGRAfvt graphics acceieialorideal for 2O Wmdovrs, video. and 3D applicahonsIncludes Disney's Toy Story. Electronic Arts'Moio Racer ', Kai's Power Goo, and morel8/I Lff 'ad 8/UJ@gtffI, . rrr;,:V.MAQl!Irtr'.p'vacAVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING PARTICIPATING RETAILERS:http: //vvvvvv.matrox.corn/rrtga C>! ~ ~ ~ , ~i ~!r i l>ZI nrsneunenynt !1mur.ef'Ore '-'S'- dptrrrrru'I1 -800-362-93898 D ECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.caLETTERSStrangers in theNetwork NeighborhoodI'd like to draw attention to a poorly docu-mented and unwelcome feature of RogersWave. Prior to getting the Wave installed Ihad only two nodes on my network: my wife' ssystem and my own. After the install, whileclicking on the 'Entire Network' icon inWin95, I found a whole big list of new groups.Suddenly I can see a whole bunch of serversthat are not on my network. These serverscannot be accessed due to password protec-tion but thanks to the Wave, and the fact thatI have not set up any passwords, they canprobably access me.A call to Rogers tech line revealed thatthis is not some freakish occurrence but a sit-uation common to many users of the Wave.In fairness to Rogers I find there is a dis-claimer in their agreement that mentionsthe fact that other users may have access toyour computer under certain conditions.But, if you are like me, your eyes tend toglaze over when confronted by a large greyarea of fine print, especially with the addeddistraction of a new h igh-speed link tocyberspace. So be warned: when you buy theWave, you need to pay some attention tosystem security.Alan H s I e-mail, expense tracking the pocket-sized PaimPilatconnected organizer makes it easy tostay on tap of things. It lets yau enteraccess, and update the information you need,whenever you need it You only have ta enter data once-HotSync technology lets yau synchronize data with your PC withjust the touch of a button. And when you' re on the road. useNetwork HotSync software to synchronize with your PCaver the company network. Call 1-800-881-7256, orvisit aur web site at www.paimpilotcam for therebhger nealoht yau. Naw that's a numberyou' ll want to keep on handWhatever'9 important ta yau appointments, contacts,* pzsoCE sales lackluster? Well no wonder!I noticed in a recent issue of The CfunpfftrPaper the comment that Windows CE hasfailed to 'take off.' I think I know why.I live and work in Kitchener, Ont., proud-ly promoted as C anada's 'TechnologyTriangle' and having two local universities,one community college and many wellknown high-tech companies.I have recently decided that a WindowsCE machine might be more suitable for myneeds than the laptop I am currently using, asI don't need a lot of computing power just afast and easy way to keep my customers andcontact information at hand.I decided a Windows CE machine, printerand ACT contact manager (that's what I useon my desktop) would be ideal. Well, it tookmuch looking to find anyone with a demon-strator model. Most places just had them sit-ting in a box beside the electronic addressbooks and knew absolutely nothing aboutthem. I finally found a running HP 320LX atBatteries Plus of all places. I found out theonly way to print is via the IrDA port. Alsothat outlet didn't carry printers or software.After four more stops I found a portableprinter (Canon BJC-80) with an IrDA port, butno open (demo) units. CE drivers? They haveno idea. Ask Canon! (This dealer did have aCE machine: a Cassiopeia, in a box. No demounit. No software. After several phone calls Ifound a dealer who will order ACT for CE if Icome in and put down a deposit. Software isof course not returnable if you open the shrinkwrap.So why hasn't CE taken off? At the retaillevel at least, it's apparent that no one knowswhat it is. Any product that is not made acces-sible to the consumer will certainly fail. So farI have spent over eight hours driving, phon-ing, Web browsing and emailing to try andfind information and product, and I still don' thave all the answers or any product.Kent Hunter-Duvar, via emailContinued on page 10s * ' sTCP expands businesscomputing coveragecIdyThe connected organizerPahnPilm Pemonal - 9349 Instantly syncs uolh your PC Stmes thoummds of mmies eadrht display user uppradeahle toefessioml ErrnionPalmyihn ~ l - n i l 9ilndudes Pmsenal features pfut I Eunail comueivity Irnmnet ready lycp/Ip support)' rwum dm nunruuyaphonal Imks fsold separately)avaiile for. Ide Schedulotlaudook el inlus afhamnn Ascend ey symantec ACn mtd marry lltmnCompadhte witt rudara 3.9.1 or higher cc:Mail hdS Mai~ MS aodook 97 altd many moreIt's often said small business has beenresponsible for fuelling the growth in theCanadian economy, and is the source ofmost of the new jobs that are being creat-ed 342,000 new jobs in the last yearaccording to Statistics Canada. In otherwords, small business is a big deal.For employees and entrepreneurs whowant to maintain a technology edge in thecompetitive world o f bu s iness, TheComputer Paper introduces a new sectionthis m o nth ca l led Sm a ll Bus inessComputing. We' ve defined small business asorganizations that have up to SO employ-ees. On these pages, we' ll try to bring youthe kind of information you need to mapout the changing technology landscape.ln the '80s, a PC on every desk andenhanced personal productivity were majorgoals. In the early '90s connected comput-ing and collaboration had become a centralpre-occupation. Today, we hear talk aboutthe cost of ownership or distributed com-puting over the Interne. Tomorrow? Whoknows, but whatever appears on the busi-ness horizon, you' ll be able to read about itin The Computer Paper. 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My kids are dri-ving me crazy, because they cannot downloadgames from the Internet.Tony HutsonSH reptia: Regardless of what your decision is,took at it this way: when you do decide to buy anew system, you can always use the hmd driveyou buy today. If you were to buy u 2.1 GB harddrive, it could be used in yorrr new system a yearfmm now and can be used us the main hard drive,or a secandary one for additional storage.The decision to buy a rrew hard drive shauldbe bused on whether or not your inunediate stor-age needs justify the expense. The new drive,won't do much to improve? our current system'sperformance, although you will notice faster dataamss because of the higher spindle rates andlower access times. 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Tiu. low initial cost ofinkjet printers is offset by their higtrer cost perpageatten as much as $1 per page when print-ing 'best quality on deluxe paper.Recent color laser products: In /uly '97, XeroxCanada introduced the DocuPrint C55, a600x600 dpi color taser printer which had a sug-gated retail pnce af $5,995 and an attmatedstmt pnce of $4,900.In May, Iuxmark Canada introduced theOptru 5C 1275, u 600x600 ~ color laser withhalt-in Level 2 PostScript for an eqected streetprrce of $5,700With the tmnendarrs succas of color inkjetprrnters, we also have to wonder how muclr incen-tive there is in the short term for printercompaniato cut into their awn markets by introducing con-sumerwriented catar lasers.glen't we wiahlI was wondering what happens to the com-puters you test after the Lab lhsts. 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In fact, McAfee pur-chased a non-exclusive licence fromNorthwestern University for the sourcecode to Disiafectant They used parts ofthis souKe code to develop the virus detec-tion and repair engine in their newMadntosh anti - v iral produ ct.N orthwestern U n iversity s t i l l ow n sDisinfectant an d it s cop y r ight.Disinfectant author John Norstad saysNorthwestern continues io maintain andsupport it, aad will continue to distributeit for free to anyone who vrmts a copy.r rectlonaIn our November Test Lab featuringPentium II machines, we inconectly statedthe warranty period for the Ultinet systexnwe tested. The company's standard wanan-ty period is two years.P hx aad more.E ';'.?Model1Dot Pitch.,+L ResetntIiaii.5,'152 x 870g~:1,024 x 768 I 87Hz0.27mmQO ~+$8OggltriS h Recommentied ResolutionIntroducin the ViewSonic6771 mo itor.After winning just about every award in the17' (various viewable) category, our engineershave come up with another bright idea: TheViewSonic G771 17' (16.0' viewable) monitor.Ils fine 0.27mm dot pitch creates brilliantscr6.n images making it ideal for graphics,spreadsheets and word processing-as well asthe Internet. And, ils flicker-free 1,024 x 768resolution at a refresh rate of 87Hz virtuallyeliminates eye strain and operator fatigue.A hard worker aroundt e office or home.The G771 offers the most powerful combinationof featLues available in ils price range. It's bothPC and Mac' compatible and featuressling at sky+ technology that providesseamless auto-installation with Windows'95.And, like all ViewSonic' monitors, the G771is backed by our limited three year warranty*-the best in the monitor business.To bring a touch of brilliance to your system,start by looking into the ViewSonic G771,another advancement from the leader in the17' (various viewable) market.d'or tbe dealer nearest you, cullVieurSonlc at (800j 888-8583, or(416) 491-7088, or vtslt our seebstteut: union.vlesvscmic.corn.+e. ~Cry g+QWVie wSonic'(416) 491-7088 Fax: (416) 491-6314 Internet www viewsonic corn ~ Specilicalions subject to change wi the noiice Copyright 1997 ViewSonic Corporaton All rights reserved.) 2 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITIONwww.tcp.caCreative labs ships second-g eneratlon PC-OVD k i t Creative Labs has introduced its PC-DVD Encore Dxr2, a digital videodisc kit designed to enable a PC toplay the latest in DVD audio andvideo titles. The Encore Dxr2 con-sists of a DVD drive (which will alsoplay most formats of CD-ROM andCD-Audio discs, including CD-Rand CD-RW), and a decoderboard, which can decodeMPEG 2 video and otherdata streams.kit suffered from sometimestricky installation, and thelack of NTSC or SVHS videooutput, so DVD moviescould only be displayed on aPC monitor, rather than a home TV set. As well,the number of movie titles available on DVD for-mat was very small until quite recently. Accordingto Creative Labs representatives, the Encore Dxr2kit 'features picture enhancement technologythat gives PC-DVD Encore smoother, crisper,high-definition video playback when comparedwith today's DVD solutions.'The new kit's feature set includes ability tooutput video simultaneously to a PC monitor, aTV set, and an SVHS recorder. The DVD drive runsat 20x speed (3MB/sec), twice the speed of earlierDVD drives, with 100 ms access time, and usesdynamic interpolation to give an apparent visualresolution of up to 1,280x1,024, and interfaceswith Dolby Digital audio receivers. The PC-DVDEncore kit also comes with a DVD 'cinematic'version of Electronic Arts' Wing Commander lv,and Claw, from Monolith Productions.Creative predicts that use of the DVD formatwill grow rapidly in 1998 and 1999, and sales ofDVD drives will exceed those of CD-ROM drivesby the year 2000. The Canadian street price forthe PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 is approximately$540. JEContact: Creative Labs, Tel: 408-428-2329.Web site: http: //www.soundblaster.corn orSeagate delivers new high-speed high-capacity bard drives Seagate Technology has .Creative Labs' first DVDTo a discerning eye, they deliver all theperformance you'd expect fram higher-pricedprinters, but at a much lower cost.Starting with the Lexmark 1000. Perfect forhome or school projects, it offers superb 600 dpiSome would argue that it's best to fallin line. Of course. when you stay onthe beaten path, you risk losing sightof an exceptional value. Like thecolor inkjet printers from Lexmark.vea rP'..'o ou) e (2C an ou ee sabine oiee eoer a .quality at an unbeatable $199. For the highestresolution ever available from a desktop inlget,consider the world's first 1200 x 1200 dpi printer,the Lexmark 7000. It's value priced at just S499.So the choice is yours. YoLI can fall in lineand look at the same thing day alter day. Or youcan run with Lexmark and come to your ownbrilliant conclusion.the world.unveiled its fastest high-capacity hard disk drivesever. The Cheetah disk drive family includes 4.5GB, 9.1 GB, and 18.2 GB models of drives. Thenew drives have average access times of between5.2 and 5.7 ms (milliseconds), which makes themamong the fastest general purpose disk drives inThe Cheetah drives can transfer formatteddata at rates of between 14.5 and 21.3 MB/sec.The drives are made in UltraZ SCSI and FibreChannel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) versions, andare intended for the professional server, worksta-tion and high-end PC market.Seagate's executive director of anarketing andplanning, Rudy Thibodeau, told TCP that the newdrives are aimed at high-performance applica-tions such as digital video, graphics, medicalimaging, data warehousing, data mining, andtransaction processing. Thibodeau says theimprovements in the Cheetah drives include 25percent lower power consumption, making theproduct more suitable for mass storage applica-tions ('up to 384 drives in one storage array, butmore commonly six to eight Cheetahs in adepartmental server,' Thibodeau says).One surprise Thibodeau has encounteredwith early customers is the tendency of someusers to put these drives into high-end PCs or'personal workstations,' particularly in designand video production environments.The Cheetah is a premium drive with listprices set for the 9.1 GB Cheetah 9LP and the 18.2GB Cheetah 18 initially set at US$1,090 andUS$1,755 respectively. Thibodeau expects thenew Cheetahs will begin to ship to over 200 reg-istered OEM customers in November. Full scaleproduction and availability will likely be achievedin the first quarter of 1998.F' or more information, visit our web site atwww.lexmarkcom/canada or call 1-800-980-8913.Lexmerk 1000600 x 600 dpi$199.Lexmark 70001200 x 1200 dpi$499.14Continued on page $4- * - .g- 'INN-lie )Nii '.K~ ' !4.=-NRIIl5fg@I~I ';-: ::II454':f4 'Lexmark 2030 Lexmark 7200. :7200V600x 300 dpi $649. . :$669.$249. 1200Xf 200 dpiphoto cartridgevideo capture (V model/Lexmark ana print tarrmark are trademarks cf LrNrnark Intemabonal. Inc. O 1997 Lerrmark lntematkrnal. Street prices are ~ ret a il pncaa metr vanj. ,'m-r' trtrdei:;jakri'V,:krr'ty a a'.< S:Oi=,u I i ' ' ' i . Ig +4~78tniirus ounces c ee n or on.:.:-,':.', u a1!ue .'uwgujr' INOCOLAN/AntiYiesriu-,&4NortonAntiYiwsNetshieldlYirus8can '-1+y~.r 'r .;',lrr~rAverageScore ' : 'u '.,;uoo!Source: LAN Times July Pl, l997. -Score based ort a 1-5 scale.4 u' , -.' 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A basic, replacement Windowsmouse can be had for as little as $25,but will likely be of fairly low quali-ty at that price.The difference between trying towork with a worn out mouse, and agood quality new one is profound.For a little more money ($45 toabout $100), you can get a premiumquality mouse, including one of thenew 'scrolling and zooming' mice,which take advantage of features inthe Windows 95 operating system.Logitech was one of the f irstmanufacturers on the market tooffer mice that support vertical~ 'pPhili s' S hs pecial z o o m ' ;:,:, hit letters, and color- concise and inexpensive than the b uy the chips, however.. or 'roaming' interaction with the upgrading: lack of user knowledge, gest that if you buy an upgrade for yo u can get a 1 G B c apacity 'mouse buttons being used to con- p roblems. So, our first recommen- i nclude proper installation as part of name m a nufacturer such a s Itrol menus and icons, while the d a t ion is either of two excellent t h e g i ft.them to easily use a regular 1998Editionistheultimateguideto RAM for about $90, and in manymouse or keyboard. A b u y ing and upgrading a computer cases this will boost the PC's overalluated between the . number of manufactur- fo r the non-expert computer user performance by as much as 30 per-two regular . ~ ers offer special kids'. who wants basic, understandable, cent. Check the PC's specs for com-ouse buttons, ,', .'g keyboards, which use accurate information presented in a pat ible RAM chips, and check howor one f inger simplified keyboard c lear and simple way. The Canadian mu ch extra RAM expansion capaci-zooming using a : 4':....,' ,. layo u ts, big, easy to Co mputer Handbook is much more t y is available on the PC before youbutton. Scrolling ' + *:..';.' ful symbols to allow a PC Upgrade and Repair Bible, but it I f you' re not an expert, arrangeand zo oming child to interact with s t i l l touches on many of the same for a qualified service technician tothe computer. major issues. The book uses some do the installation. If you haveh ave proven to b e RF-Link's 'My First s imple comparative charts to help m o derate handiness with comput-much easier to use for Keyboard' is a colorful, 55-key, the reader in making decisions and ers, installing a SIMM module (thescrollingdownlargeWebpagesand peanut butter-proof keyboard for p u rchases. This spiral-bound, 174- mostcommonformatRAMcurrent-word-processed files. children aged 1.5 to 5 years of age. page book is designed to help read- ly comes in) should be within ouri ips peec Mike handheld I t ' s designed to improve hand-eye ers make intelligent decisions, not c apability, however. Adding special-microphone and trackball is a corn- coordination, begin number, shape, to become an expert computer tech- i zed cache memory and Video RAMbination trackball and microphone l e tter and color recognition, and n i c ian, and it succeeds well in this o n t h e g raphics card can. alsocomes with software that allows a regard. It is written by David Rosen enhance performance, but both ofFirst Keyboard for simultaneous Access Publishing I nc . ( I SBN m o re expensive than general system'.'.;:~-; SP~g.h, . : : . '.-' adult input. For more information, 1 0894108-00-0), and s e l ls f o r R A M chips. Check the retail ads in 'new one, if only because even if o f a PC at a relatively modest cost. cheap. Any older computer is likelyyou could afford the new comput- Keep in mind that whatever you t o have a hard drive with 200 toer, it would quickly become obso- buy has to be compatible with the 800 MB capacity, and it's probably Ilete as welL Care should be taken computer you are intending to pr e t ty much filled up and slow in 'intended to allow a range of sitting against the common hazards of i n s tall it on. Politeness would sug- performance. For a little over $200,Icomputer, with the trackball and and compatibility and installation y ou r c omputerist, you s hould e n hanced IDE drive, by a brand-Imicrophone allows voice input for b ooks on buying and upgrading a More RA M : RA M ( r andom o f d r ives the target PC is compati-Id ictaphone or speech to text input. P C : access memory) chips are what your b le with, and unless you are handy;hildren's keyboards: Littl e Refe rences: The PC Upgrade and PC uses to run software programs, wi th c omputers, make arrange- Ichildren may enjoy learningto use Repair Bible is a huge book that con- and the more RAM a PC has, the m e nts to have a technician do the:;a computer even at an early age, t a ins virtually all the imaginable better i t can handle demanding i n stallation.especially if a grownup sits with i n formationthatanyPCusercould software like business applications Car t r idge drive: One of the;them and keeps them company, but ever want or need to know about su i tes, games, and graphics. RAM m ost popular upgrades is a datavery young children's motor skills how to fix, upgrade and operate his chips have become so cheap in the s torage device that uses cartridgesare often not fine enough to enable or her computer. If you actually read last 18 months that they are by far t o make backups of files from thet he whole thing carefully and prac- the cheapest, easiest and most effec- computer's h ard dr i ve . T h e,.4' s ticed the activities it describes; you t ive add-onb for boosting computer I o mega Zip drive is probably the 'would become a fairly expert corn- performance. most popular, though the LS 120puter technician. The book's draw- Vir tu a l ly every operation on f lo p py drive is gaining in popular-b acks are its price, and the fact that y ou r c omputer, f rom I n ternet it y .you probably won't read more than b rowsing to printing documents, Fast e r CD-ROM drive: Mosta few percent of it. The 970-page benefitsfromadditionalRAM.Costs m u l t imedia PCs that are moresoftcover book (ISBN 0-7645-3023- per megabyte currently range from t han two years old probably have a2) is by Barry Press, published by $ 6 to $8. With most existing PCs 2x o r 4x CD-ROM drive, whichIDG Books, and sells for $69.99. havi n g between 8 and 16 MB of c a n read information at a rate ofCanadian Computer Handbook, RAM, you can add another 16 MB of 300 to 600 KB per second, which isP . :H'll Ip$ ' standard keyboard to plug into My an d Caryn Mtaden, from Media t h ese kinds oi memory are much0 '$' i':;-,;,:, s short-term policy than buying a th a t wil l increase the performance megabytes) have become incredibly ~caII RF-Link, 310-787-2328. $12 95. this issue of TCP to determine cur- 'System upgrades Simplest computer upgrades Bigge r capacity hard drive: In 'Bumping up the performance of an (Cheap, too!) the last 18 months, drives withcjj olde r computer is often a better H erearesomegoodstockingstuffers over one Gigabyte (over 1,000 -'rent prices.i'mveso bth'A'van wgtaskegkw' c ' ' ; v 'I'I'::-- -jg ':,i&i 'I: ' ' : .' ' ' . . ' ' kggfttty'.,tsgepTHE COMPUTER PAPER SC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 23Q CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEASonly a fraction of the speed of a hard drive.For between $80 and $200, you can buy amuch faster CD-ROM drive, between Sx and20x (1.2 to 3 MB per second data transferrate). This will allow you to load softwareprograms, large graphics and video filesmuch faster, and multimedia games andeducational software, particularly thosewith long sequences of animation andvideo, will be able to run.Senrlces assd suppliesTo get the most out of a computer, there areongoing expenses that need to be met: printersupplies, tech support, training, telecom ser-vices and the like. Gifts that take some of thesting out of the computerist's overhead costsmight include:High-speed internet service: The RogersWAVE cable modem service offers up to 500kilobits upload and download speed, usinge 'Oa l a 0 0 e a e o an Ethernet card installed in the subscriber'sPC, connected to a cable modem that inturn connects to the household cable TVline. Rogers' WAVE is somewhat moreexpensive than a POTS (Plain Old TelephoneService) Internet hookup, but the addedspeed plus unlimited online time make foran attractive service for anyone who spendsa fair amount of t ime surfing the Web.lnstaliation of the WAVE costs about $100,and the monthly rate is about $60.Other h igh-speed In ternet o p t ionsinclude ISDN, which is available through thelocal phone service, and Internet servicesthat offer the 56 KBPS X2 or competingdownload capability. The big drawback ofISDN is the cost of the ISDN modems: thoughprices are going down, they still cost over$350.printer supplies ansi paperPrinters, particularly color inkjet models, haveplummeted in price: in fact, for under $200 aLexmark color printer would make a very niceholiday gift. However, the shocking truth ofthe Great Printer Scam is that printer manu-facturers make most of their profits nowadaysfrom selling supplies mainly ink cartridgesfor inkjets, and toner cartridges for laser print-ers. A handful of brand name, new ink car-tridges for your computerist's insatiable inkjetwould be a welcome gift, perhaps in conjunc-tion with some high-quality specialty paperfor making iron-on T-shirt transfers, or photo-quality prints.Be somewhat wary of buying non-namebrand supplies. A Toronto company calledImage Control does a good, conscientiousjob of refilling and reselling laser toner car-tridges and black ink cartridges for faxmachines, and there may be other reputablecompanies in your area. But keep in mindthat the formulation of color inks for high-resolution inkjet printers is a tricky business:stick to the name brand ink cartridges unlessyou see good inkjet output that has beenmade using the reloaded or alternative inkcartridges.Sometblne really affordable...For those who have extremely small budgets,or are just stingy, here are some under-$20suggestions.A new mouse pad: Is your computerist aStar Trek or Garfield fan with a tatty oldmousepad? Give him or her something that isboth visually comforting and useful: a new0 0 0 0 0 I 0 0 0e 0 0 0 0 e e 0I ' I s ' I ' I I I s 'I ' I ' I I l 0 0 0 1 OO O O 0 0 Look no further than to TKP Electronic's experienced sales and support staff for profes-sional service and sensible solutions. TKP can provide custom-built, expandable systemscapable of meeting all your requirements from home entertainment, personal financesand edutainment to fully loaded, professional turnkey business, multrmedia, engineeringand networking systems.Systems utilizing the latest CPUs from Intel and AMD are combined with an extensiveproduct line consisting of quality name-brand and OEM components designed to meet thevarious budgetary and performance requirements.Let our reputation, large purchasing power and many years of experience in the comput-er industry work for you. Make TKP your one-stop solutions provider. For furtherinfor-mation, please contact your TKP sales representative at (604j 279-0320.e 0 0 0 t 0 0 0 0 mouse pad with a good surface for easy mousecontrol (the 3M mouse pad surface is excel-lent).A scanned family picture for use as ascreen saver. Take a favorite family photo (ofthe kids, the dog, the sports car that got soldwhen the kids came along, a favorite old girl-friendlboyfriend), scan it and save the result-ing graphics file, and install it as the back-ground pattern under Windows or the MacOS, as required.A photo CD stock photo disc: Checkthrough the vast photo library offerings fromCorel, Image Club or other suppliers and buyone or two CD-ROMs on your computerist'sfavorite topic: antique airplanes, cats, swim-suit contests, etc.YKP Electronic (Canacia) I.tel.Iji118-13982 Cambie Road Richmond B.C. 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The Sony Playstation rounds out theBig Three of the video games console con-tenders, offering a custom chipset that pro-duces 3D graphics that rival those of the N64.DVD or not DVD?In spite of the endless marketing barrageabout digital video disc in 1996 and 1997, thistechnology, which offers a compact disc for-mat with between 4.7 GB and over 14 Glj ofstorage capacity, has failed to make a quickimpact on the computer market. However,hope springs eternal, and 1998 may be 'theyear of DVD.'As far as buying a DVD upgrade kit, a new,improved version has just been launched byCreative Labs, but at this still-early stage, DVDis mainly of interest only to the true audio-visual enthusiast.for the notebook PC userNotebook PCs, because of their tiny size andvarious user needs (for example, sometimesyou need your floppy drive, sometimes youcan get by without it), seem to lend them-selves to a proliferation of neat gadgets. Thereare credit card modems and network interfacecards, tiny portable printers, carrying cases,spare batteries, and anti-theft devices. Here aresome of the more useful or appealing gift ideasfor the notebook user on your list.A desktop monitor and full-size key-board: Current mid- to highland notebooksreally can be 'desktop replacements,' but thatmeans having to live with a fairly small screenand keyboard 100 percent of the time, not justwhile traveling. Many people who find them-selves relying totally on a notebook find a full-sized monitor or keyboard on the desk athome or in the office a good investment. At))least a 15-inch monitor (preferably 17 inches)and a good ergonomic keyboard are ideal, andcan reduce health risks and fatigue, andincrease productivity.A spare battery: Few notebook computerbatteries last for more than three hours ofintensive use before needing a recharge. Inmany cases, especially with notebooks thathave a large I I- or 13-inch color screen, hatterylife is much less. A spare battery will douhle the)),THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 31effective mobility of the mobile computerist.An unobtrusive notebook bag: Targus,the largest maker of notebook computer carry-ing bags, has taken to making a wider varietyof bag designs that don't shout ni've got anotebook computer in here!' to potentialthieves. Some of their models are built as back-packs, briefcases or schoolbook bags, offeringsome degree of protection by camouflagingthe presence of the notebook computer.Hit the road, Jack,with a mobile computing deviceQuite often, someone who is' comfortablewith their desktop PC may need some kind ofmobile computing capability, but not a full-fledged notebook computer. This brings us tothe possibility of buying a handheld device forour Christmas computerist.It used to be that the landscape downmar-ket from a notebook PC was populated by anHEWLETT'PACKAROunruly mob of rather feeble electronic orga-nizers. No more. Now, if a PC user wants ahigh degree of real functionality in a hand-held computer, there are a host of new devicesthat have lots of built-in capabilities, alongwith the ability to communicate via theInternet, and directly with PCs and printers.Philips Velo CE palmtop computer. TheWindows CE platform, which was intendedby Microsoft to take over the handheld com-puting space, has not succeeded as well ashoped, largely due to the limited file compat-ibility between the CE versions of. popularWindows business applications and their PCequivalents. Nevertheless, the Philips VeloWindows CE device, which offers integratedvoice mail and super fast processing speed, isthe most impressive CE device we' ve seen, andMicrosoft is expected to introduce a muchimproved CE platform in 1998.3Com Palm Pilot: In the meantime,though, definitely the coolest and most popu-lar hand held computing device is the 3ComPalm Pilot. Originally introduced by USRobotics before that company was taken overby 3Com, the Palm Pilot has single handedlygenerated most of 'the excitement in thehandheld computing market in 1997.The basic unit is an inexpensive electronicorganizer with the ability to send and receivedata from a computer, but with add-ons from3Com and over 2,000 third-party developers,the Palm Pilot can be used as a wireless cellu-lar email system, and much more.According to some retailers specializing inthe handheld computing market, such as theToronto based Palm Top Shop, the Palm Pilotis outselling all the other handheld computersor personal digital assistants by a factor of sev-Apple Newton Message Pad 2000 andApple e-Mate 300: Apple has gone hot anderal to one.i g ~ g4 ~ m e~NOW tJOu Can print phOte-quality imageS, On antJ paper. The HP DeskJet 720 series use special printing technologycalled PhotoREt II. Sharp detail and natural colours make for surprisingly lifelike realism, No matter what paper you use. Just$499. Visit www.hp.corn/go/DJ722mouse or a store near you. And see what extraordinary things you can do with ordinary paper.cold on the Newton since its invention, seeingthe potential of Newton technology, butunable to begin to realize that potential untilrecently. The first Newton was difficult to usedue to weak handwriting recognition soft-ware, and had a high sticker price for a gadgetthat needed a lot of extra hardware and soft-ware to be added before it became particularlyuseful.The current model of Message Pad is amuch more satisfactory product, and the e-Mate 300, which is based on Newton technol-ogy, but packaged as a kind of light weightminiature notebook, has proven to be quite aeducationalmarket. TheMessage Pad2000 sells fora street priceof ar o und$1,400, andthe e -Matedoesn't havea street price,since Apple isselling i tdirectly to the education market at a list priceof about $1,200. Also, although we don't havemany details, Apple has announced the com-ing release of the Message Pad 2100, whichinclude 3 MB DRAM and an enhancedhit i n theintimated Canadian retail price.32 DE CEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAScommunications software suite. Message Pad2000 owners will be able to upgrade theirmachines to the 2100 spec.These boots are made for waihin'. theultimate mobiie dream machineYou don't have to settle for a modest littlehandheld computer to supplement and com-municate with your desktop PC. If you havethe money, you can dispense with your big PCaltogether, and buy an industrial strength,'desktop replacement' notebook computer.We ran across two notebooks recently thatqualified as dream machines, and admirablereplacements for a PC.The Toshiba Tecra .759 CDT: This is the'highest drool factor' notebook of the fall1997 season. Based on a 233 MHz Pentiumprocessor, the 750 CDT comes standard withvideoconferencing capability (including a dig-ital camera, video capture hardware, and highspeed modem), a powerful 3D chipset (idealfor playing Duke Nukem and other businessapplications), an optional 4.7 GB DVD-ROMdrive, 5.1 GB hard drive, and full Plug andPlay and power management utilities.The 750 CDT's graphics subsystem is par-ticularly impressive, based on a S3 Virge videocontroller with 4 MB of video ram that sup-ports 1,024x768, 24-bit display on the 13.3-$69I I CA NADA ' ' THE GLOBE AND MAIL'Dynacom offers some of the bestfunctions you can find on the market,and all that, at acompetitive price.'NATIONAL BANK OF CAIIIADA'Dynacom a smart accounting tooL'DYNACOM TECHNOLOGIES,1996 Provincial Small BusinessBronze Award Winner.'The experts. ..is the integrated accounting software,which includes the following fivemodules: General Ledger, AccountsReceivable, Accounts Payable,Invoicing and Inventory.Also includes: budgeting and fore-casting, bank reconciliation, cus-tom form design and much more.The best qual i ty /p r ice rat io .LN l l l l lINFO. TECH MAGAZNE j y U W: (~'llwi' '~ em'~ l l Ql '6'8. :23e.a F REE! Tes t d r i v e a t h t t p : / I w w w . d y n a co m . c a~'=~C,COU~~~=~ ' ~~OUSTING yy ~is the most popular all-in-oneintegrated accounting softwareincluding more than eight modules.It includes the Dynacom AccountingPRO version. In additiorI, you getJob Costing, NEW! Purchase Orderand Payroll modules, together witha power fu l r e p or t g e n e r a t o r .Complete, full-featured software.Available in all good computer stores A Plus Software Adventure Electronics Bustness Depot Compucentre CompuSmart Computer City Crazy Irving Future ShopCompletely In tegrated Account ing Sof tw a refor Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs1d ~ ga NESSu IBM ONce Centera London Drugsa MicroAge Office Depot Price Costco Staples and many more...a k '.p i'a4)IaI~ ~ ~ 't~ ' ' 'I 'iEi~ *' :act'kya+i...~ilaw~:+~ ,~ aj .' ~ h j j tcai ~ i t' , ;8:.w~ I ~ w ' ~ 'sic'j1yi'For'-;Vfi'it 'wa:,::3;3,:,:95.iud .tA;:4 Ep%g'-'/+pe,'-p.+Fr'i':at~if 'kL' . '. . r s e ra,'4 in':fng'Itih,oj''%re'noh' v'ar's'I orat:> ii/I0fb~pariy'(up t'e99compan+in';.uniiuIit&-'epftorte,support4~ SO,'~ ~ dig : 6Q' ~:.'u'I'OrIc~ ' 5 ~ QMW~ AI at4r'.' :DVif&4M*' s's'eftwari aii,',offet'ggrgKAI'li 'IicI' O'i+itra~,:I$159inch TFT screen. The Tecra 759 CDT alsocomes with two universal serial bus (USB)ports, a 20x CD-ROM drive, and 3D soundand Wavetable Synthesis, and full duplexaudio. All this, for only $10,869. For more 'information, call 905-470-3478, or check outhttp: //www.toshIba.ca.The Kurocom 7200 Notebook: ThisCanadian-made desktop replacement note-book also comes with a 233 MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 20x CD-ROM drive and 13.3-inchTFT screen, but it lacks the videoconferencingcapability and NTSC TV output, as well assome other features of the 750 CDT. However,for mainstream business tasks, it is one of thefastest notebooks we' ve seen, and at a suggest-ed retail price of $4,775, it is much moreaffordabfe. For more information, point yourbrowser to http: //www.entoom.ca.Cool peripherals:scanners and printers and moreA computer can be made a lot more flexibleand fun with the addition of devices thatallow information to be brought into thecomputer or exported from the computer, andshared with other people. Here are some neatoptions:Agfa and Storm Scanners: Storm andAgfa have both come to market with incredi-bly inexpensive flatbed scanners, for under$300, just in time for the 1997 holiday season.The Agfa Snapscan 300, at $299, and theStorm EasyPhoto Image Wave, for $229 (less a$50 U.S. rebate), bring amazingly high qualityscanning to the PC at a trivial price.Be aware, though, that these are not high-volume, professional graphic arts scanners:they have limited resolution, speed and dura-bility. Still, in terms of price and performance,both devices are quite amazing achievements.A digital camera: Some computer retailersreport digital camera sales have surpassedscanner sales in the last 18 months. Currently,there are lots of easy to use 640x480 resolu-tion cameras on the market for $500 or less;Epson, Casio, Sony and Kodak all have excel-lent offerings in this category.The current excitement in the digital cam-era market, however, is in the new wave ofhigh-resolution 'megapixel' cameras, includ-ing the Kodak LC120, Epson, Olympus andVivitar models. These new high-resolutioncameras create images with 1280x960 or1,024x768 pixel resolution, and currently costabout $1,100 to $1,200. All digital camerashave the ability to transfer pictures to a PCsimply and quickly, and most decent digital- cameras also now coine with a tiny color LCDscreen to view pictures before saving themonto a computer.Santa in a Big Blue suit:IBM for ChristmasIBM's PC company is offering a wide range ofsoftware, peripherals and consumer and smalloffice PCsystems for the holiday season, rang-ing in price from $39.95 to $4,399.At tke stocking stuffer level is the IBMBrings You the Crayola Kids Adventures Colora Story in 3D program, a multimedia kids'edutaimnent' title that lets users create 3Dimages based on themes suggested byGutli ver's Travels, 20,000 Leagues Vnder the Sen,and The iliad (the tale of the Trojan Horse).The appeating graphics of this Windows titleare enhanced by music and voice storytellingelements. Also, IBM Brings You Crayoia MagicContinued on page 34For more information: 1 800 S55-2266U LTINET C O M P A R E ?H THE BEST WITH LOWEST PRICEIntel CPU 0 QnaInt. 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Toll free sales & technical support across Canada.2 First in Canada to recognize importance of and ship large quantityof TRITON-based fast Pentium systems and now shipping Pll-U(We use high quality lntellivlew Proffesional monitors with low defect rate.3 Our own 40.000 square foot sales, support and manufacturing plant,with central convenient location at Hwy 401/Dufferin Street near Yorkdale4 Easy lease to own plans available for 1-3 years at $37/1000.5 AH systems configurable to your exact needs, with our price guarantee.6 Comparel Our volume buying power saves you at leasl 9-15%without compromising quality, speciTica1ions or sewice.7 24 hour regular and automated sales and technical support,8 An extension to on-site service for the first year is available within aradius of 50kms, for corporate and personal users, for $100 to 5% ofsystem price, whichever is higher.9 Special internet offer with every computer purchase, 4 months unlimitedaccess for $60 (only $15 per month!), there afler $18.95/mth or$15.83/mth based on yearly subscription.'COMPARE, IVE LEAVE THE COMPET/7/ON /N THE DUST.'R'/sf)f RC//f Zk met7 p v , ' /, I: 1OARDS FOR MM X , AND PII-300MHZLXENTRY LEVEL PACKAGE32 mb ram, fast 84bit access, 1.6 GB EIDE HDD, Intel-Triton chipset,screen MPEG, mouse, multimedia speakers and mouseP-200MMX Pentium8processor '~~ .-tSERVICE & SUPPORTSysmafx Senchnm>h~, - .ic~x i , a , : v ( r i c u l c : i'20. 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Both the programs arein dual Mac/Windows format. Each of thesepackages has a suggessted list price of $39.95.For safer computing, the IBM AntiVirusprogram offers up-to-date protec-tion against common v i ruses,induding the MS Word macroviruses, and other viruses that canbe transmitted via the Internet. It ispriced at $69.95.For those who would l ike toemulate Bill Gates' new 'smart'electronic house on a slightly moremodest level, the I B M H o meW: u uittiil Ift.t (c)FexBRIASg1.80046S-2185fdOVEMBEPI1 19 7 9;00 AM,01 COMMUNIQUE I.ABORATORY INC.nice 8.Red)el' uic ':Gu!etFaxvll'>ISend Fax cn. e,A' tDirector offers the ability tocontrol heating, lighting andelectrical appliances automat-ically, or from your homecomputer, or from a remotelocation. It seils for $139.I BM i s e n t er ing t h escrolling, zooming mousemarket w i t h i ts newScrollPoint Mouse, a devicethat exploits the added mouse support con-tained within Windows 95. The ScrollPoint isdesigned to allow users to easily surf theInternet, and quickly navigate through longdocuments and spreadsheets, eliminatingmost use of scroll bars. It has a suggested retailprice of $92.For those seeking a name brand computerat a dynamite price point, IBM's AmbraIspirati line offers 686 class PCs beginning at$999 (monitor not included), and ranging inconfigurations with up to 200 MHz proces-sors, 32 MB RAM, and a S6Kbps modem.For the serious multimedia computer user,IBM's Aptiva E, L, and S series offer entry-level,and leading edge models, respectively. The F,systems, which have 166, 200 and 233 MHzprocessors, and come bundled with LotusSmartSuite, an Internet signup package, andthe World Book Encyclopedia on CD-ROM.The Aptiva L models indude the latest in pre-mium audio components by Bose, imagingtechnology from Kodak, and DVD (digitalvideo disc} drives. 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In that respect, N2 offeredseveral optional driving aids and even a purearcade mode! Upgraded visuals (particularlyfor those with a Rendition-driven 3D card),streamlined men uing, knockout soundeffects, and an intelligent, talking crewchief/spotter only added to its magnitude.Fortunately, none of the above came at theexpense of the program's strength, an accuratedepiction of a muscular stock car beingpushed to the limit. If there's another racinggame that comes this close to real life, I' ve yetNHL 98From: EA SportsStreet price: $50If you' ve got a hockey fan on your gift-givinglist (and who in Canada doesn' t?), you would-n't want to settle for anything less than thebest, would you? And the best over the lastseveral years has been EA Sports' NHL Hockeyseries, one that has been smartly upgradedwith its latest installment, NHL 98.to see it.downswing. Thepower of yourshot is determined by the forward thrust,draws and hooks by how far you deviate froma straight path, and punches by the amount ofbackswing. What a concept!Sierra's first golfing game isn't perfect. It' smissing some of the impressive extras of EA'sPGA Tour and is hampered with a few visualannoyances, such as temporarily disappearinggolf balls. But none of this has a profoundimpact on what is otherwise a wonderfullyinnovative gameplay design that real golferscan't help but love.Jack Nickiaus 4Street price: $50From: Accolades t:'ses.:;,-':.'!'@ .- '::,::,-::+g. , forward for yourexperienceCIt may be a vet-~ ' I eran series but inJack Nicklaus 4,Accolade hasgrand new ele-ments that takeit to the pinna-cle of PC golf.Foremost ofthese wo u ldhave to be theJN4 'course architect,' a revolutionary com-ponent through which players can designtheir own 18-hole golf course, including ele-vation, type of hole and overall course layout.If patience isn't your strong suit you'd bestgo play Quake, but if you' ve got the time andthe desire, get set to add doglegs, greens,bunkers, hills, trees, boulders, and rocks towhatever layout you' ve concocted. Or, selectfrom any of the five real life courses (MuirfieldVillage, Colleton River Plantation, CountryClub of the South, Winding Springs and thehazard-filled Cabo del Sol) that ship with thepackage.Otherwise, Nicklaus plays like a good golfgame should, with realistic feel and ballaction, custom shot selections, exceptionalaudio, and tons of scoring options. Solid com-petition to the LINKS juggernaut.NA$CAR Racing 2From: Sierra On-LineStreet price: $504 . '~'-::::::::.' =.'g,:: =:I added somePresenting the Panasonic' ZipDrive easy-to-use removabledata storage unit. With 100MBcapacity on each cartridge,Panasonic gives you the abilityto effortlessly transport andback-up large files or your harddrive. A data transfer rate ofjust 1.4MB/sec. makes itsimple and quick to transfer filesor download from the internet.Affordable. Reliable. ThePanasonic Zip Drive makesdata storage a zap.For more informatlori call:905-23J-m6PanasonieWith a tr a ckrecord thatincludes bench-marks such asIndianapol is500: TheS imula t i o n ,IndyCar Racingand NA SCARRacing, it's hardto ima ginePapyrus DesignGroup is capable of building anything lessthan a winning race simulation. And witha g ~ n ~~'~~'~ eiae~i maa:-(900) 94948 D ECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEASYou want showy? You want spectacular?Like its predecessors, NHL 98 delivers a graph-ic bonanza that's second to none. As a matterof fact, you' ll have to remind yourself everynow and then that you' re playing a computergame and not watching a television broad-cast that's how real this thing looks. Add reallife Vancouver Canucks announcer JimHughson and his mostly accurate play-by-playand this is hockey, baby.More importantly, true students of thegame will appreciate EA's attention to artificialintelligence this time around. Yes, the oddglaring AI quirk remains, but for the most partNHL 98 plays much smarter than before and isabsolutely brilliant in head-to-head mode.Of course, EA Sports doesn't have amonopoly on PC hockey. By the time youread this, Virgin will have released yet anoth-er Vancouver-designed title, NHL PowerPlay97, and if previous efforts (NHL PowerPlay 96)and early word are any indication, it' ll givethe EA Sports game its first serious competi-tion. Consider yourself prepared.Not even in the discount binDeadly Tide, from Microsoft: Released back inlate '96, Deadly Tide deserves mentionbecause, one, it was preceded by an heretoforeunparalleled marketing campaign, and two,it's been spotted still kickin' around on storeshelves and YOU MUST BE WARNED!This weak ef fort was i n d icative ofMicrosoft's first ugly forays into computergaming. Yes, the cut scenes were beautiful, hutthe circa 1985 Space Invaders gameplay wasastoundingly repetitive and most astutegarners could work from beginning to end inless than half a day. Thank your lucky starsI'm here to save you.NBA Jam Extreme, from Acclaim: Truly stu-pid artificial intelligence, childish animations,generic and often mistaken commentary bythe one and only Marv Albert, and downrigittstrange gameplay. Sound good to you? I didn' tthink so.Pray For Death, from Virgin: Adding to therecent glut of fighting games, Virgin saw fit tospew forth this monstrosity at the beginningof the year. It' ll take any fight fan less than anhour to kick and punch their way from begin-ning to end, and even that hour is thorough-ly ho-hum. Pray For Death: buy it and youmight.Dial-up AccountE-mail Multiple MailboxesDedicated ISDNLeased Lines 'Planeteer Internet Creations(Web Design / Hosting)Planeteer Tech Supportw ! ! ! ! !Call: (604) 606-7620E-mail to FaxingE-mail to PagingDial-up Services Available in:Vancouver, Abbotsford,Toronto, N e wmarket,Oshawa dk Barrie.Connect NowScorcher, fromGT Interactive:D ecept>ve l ybilled as 'thef astest, mos tt echn i c a l l yadvanced racingaction eve r , 'Scorcher wasn' t.This muddled lit-t le beas t i escorched its wayto racing oblivion with confusing instruc-tions, boring design, and a horrid drivingmodel that was almost uncontrollable with ajoystick. Rate this one 'NRCW' for NoRedeeming Characteristics Whatsoever.HarilwareMINKSI sl se el o+www.planeteer.cornPaci5c ImageCommunication210 - 11180 Voyageur WayRichmond, B.C. V6X 3N8Phone: (604) 606-7620Fax: (604) 606-7615COS SOOOFrom: Extreme Competition ControlsSuggested retail price: US$1595Some might say that for $1,595 (that's US dol-lars folks), you'd dam well better get a wholerace car. And you know, they' re right. But forthose of you to whom money is no object,Extreme Competition Controls has your com-puter driving rig.Painted fiery red, the CDS 5000 is a spec-tacular work of mechanical art that beautiful-ly replicates the smooth, precise control of areal race car. It's a two-piece unit fabricatedalmost completely of metal and consisting ofdesktop steering wheel assembly and pedalsfor the floor. Everything is fully adjustable toyour preferences, including travel and resis-tance adjustments for both the wheel and thepedals.At this price, it's not surprising to find ECChas included a genuine Momo Indy-specwheel, an articulated throttle and an air com-pression brake. Available only from the manu-facturer, the CDS 5000 is best appreciatedwhen the covers are removed and you canlook inside to see what makes this baby tick.Force FXFrom; CH ProductsStreet price: $150As 1997 dawned, garners were hit from allContinued on page $0 - - -5.')nExyeeaa IScee IIIntel 288/300 MHz Pentlumm II Processor M~64MB 168pin SDRAMQuantum 6AGB Ultra DINA hanl driveAGP Cinus Logic 4MB video canlMiclostar AlX w/Intel 440LX PC(set512KB dedicated L2 cachePanasonic 1 AMB floppyPanasonic 24X speed CD-Rom drweSound Blaster Awe64 sound cardUSR 56K Internal DataNoice Fax/modemMicrosaff W indows 95, MS PlusSubwoofer stereo w/2 satellite speakersExproaa Nierem PreIntel 233 INHz Pentlumie Processor INM~32MB EDO RamFu)itsu 4.37GB Ultra DMA hard driveMatrox Mystique 220 4MB video cardMicrostar ATX w/lntei 430TX chipset512KB dedicated L2 cachePanasonic 1.44MB floppyAOpen 24X speed CD-Rom driveSound Blaster 16 PnPModem Blaster 56K Flex Data/Voice Fax/modemMicrosoft Nndows 95, MS PIus160W PMPO Multimedia speakerRayema Wceel' Hah~ aIntel 166 INHz Pengume Processor INMX32MB EDO RamFu)Hsu 1.75GB Ultra DMA hanl driveCirrus Logic 2MB video cardMicrostar ATX w/Intel 430TX chipset512KB dedicated k2 cachePanasonic 1.44MB floppyAOpen 24X speed CD-Rom drive16-bit sound card w/PnPAOpen 33.6 DataNolce Fax/modemMicrosoft Windows 95, MS Plus60W PMPO stereo amplified speakerNsf 1888 Mar. 1$$ F eL 1SWSSQlllc cREQTIYK $6N4 QEQsl5E@Resal a a ~~Other features:EIDE/SIO/USB/IrDA ports are standardProfessional AT/ATX Mid-Tower caseEntire system CSA certIedMicrosoft mouse, 104-key keyboardExpress SuperCD pack: (1Q+CD)1997 Grolier EncyclopediaHome OfAce Suite 97Printmaster GoldWorld AtlasU.S, AtlasChessmaster 4000Mavis Beacon Teaches 7yp}ngEmpire clip 6000CyberspeedThe Family DoctorUltimate Game PackJack Nicholas Golf, etc...l4re aallgeelhes cm 4 asteshek Ie erat or4r.BAXIMUIIDUALEdllerS' ChBICea,',iv lv '- ; r ; .iii~+ (ere Nov. 1997PerformancePentium II300 MHz class,' .k6' 300MRz.ctass, the perfonnance award for the fastest machine goes to'Express Mien;;:Wig an overall score of 288 and a slew of nothing but the best components,this is o&'~~ :g o@'d want to take home with you.s 'l ' Mi(. ,. vn+fiQ@.~ ~embarks without so much as a hiccup, but it would alsox r~ Micro name have a reputation for utilizing high-quality components andm.a'msultc The 30p MHz screamer sent to us this month wss no exception,yhic ' ' e Y ; ~ ' ~ , ' '' - ' =' !, Computer Paper November 1997 @..dm, .'i ef*v:lk prmkucts icsre -a~i lcable eat s tbreu9h mite.': Autharixecl Dealer ' (N4} 878.1889 Syncnmet Sp~ (604) 6Q.8901 .fj'.; hbwehaw Foml Paint !A~y (3Q6] 692-'2699PCCona tQ (4 03) 462 3118 }}Fev Hmse I SPIC , (604l 291.1558 Decbion Ch ~i' ; (N 4} 6 2 380 5~~'I:hjitm j}tt}EN Ill Comlnntu ~ I n 4o' ', (306) 569 1520 4Dejjge One I (4 8) 468 SAN=, Sures lake New Generation CamPutw Cue (250} 692 3834 Victoria D aciwn One' (250) 953-6401 W':,::i~~ Wes ldrn I4si~ hkghinm 1 uu }Xb) ~-AN . o,jfj , '~'1:. 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III htti ml polaai sio trsl tears sal/u Iiitstsl tislsesrti al tlsir rajstttn kalthn Itsulttatnn aia ist}nt ta ttaato aetmt mtim i50 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITIONwww.tcp.caCHRISTMAS CIFT IDEASGaming gift giver's guideContinued from page 48sides with rumors of force-feedbacktechnology for joysticks, yet onlytwo companies managed to bringtheir products to market Microsoftwith its Sidewinder Force FeedbackPro and CH Products with the ForceFX. Neither has spawned huge salesfigures to this point and the truth isthat not many games support forcefeedback code, but the Force FX isgenerally regarded as the better ofthe two and is really.-quite nifty.Now, don't go expecting theForce FX to provide the quality ofshake, rattle and roll you' ll finddown at the local arcade, but it doespump out tactile, active feedbackspurred by the action in the game,adding one more dimension of real-ism for the gamer. Fight a fish andfeel it, crash a car and sense it eachin a slightly different manner. TheForce FX features a big, really bigbase, but ail that space is filled withthe motors and periphery it takes torun the thing.Cautious consumers may wantto wait until this whole force-feed-back question settles defwn a hit, butif ynu can't wait, this stick'll fightyou tn the finish. And as we went tnpress CH reduced the price nf thisstick from $250 to $150.GamePad Pro .From: Advanced GravisStreet price: $40@, t, n n C.liacceleration.WinFast' mrna.Distributed by PasiechTeL (604) 279-9686Pate (604) 279-9787EmaiL fmtech@compucon.cornwith SDiabsPermedia2AGP or PCI SMB SGRAM, AGP or PQ Interface available Entry level professional graphics performancewith balanced architecture for OpenGL,HEIDI and Direct 3D based npplicnlions. Robust 3D/2D and MPEG-2 video playbackhttp: //www.leadtek.comll2300.htmLeadtek Research, Inc.46723 Fremont Blvd.Frelnont, CA 94538510-490-8076wtptp.leadtek cornIendteklendtekcornAt Lendtek, SPEED is an nrt It is the primary goal of eighty dedicated engineers and the result of our major investments In research.Run 3D Studio Max, Softimnge, LIghtwave 3D, Lightscape, AVS, Pro/ENGINEER and Direct 3D applications like they never ran before. SMB VRAM + SMB EDO DRAM, 32-bit Z buffer Affordable workstation-class 3D Graphicsaccelerator for High-end OpenGL Applications Bilinear hardware texture mappinghttpr//www.leadtek.comll2500.htmith SDlabsGLINT 5001X+Deltam i ea,L) ')f.WinFastroith 5DlabsGLIN1 MX+Delta SMB VRAM + 16MB EDO DRAM, 32-bit Z bufferm Unparalleled workstalfoa-chss performancefor complex texturing and rendering Trilinear hardware texture mappinghttpr//www.leadtek.comll2520.htmever made.Taking the l ead f ro m Sony'sPlaystation gamepad, AdvancedGravis has used virtually the samedesign for their Gamepad Pro, a ver-satile and feature-packed PC periph-eral that's great for just about any-thing other than flight sims and dri-ving games.Using the same technology asthe Gravis GrlP (Gravis interfaceProtocol) system, the GPP works inthree separate modes for differenttypes of gaming. For GrlP suppnrt-ing titles, it acts as a GrIP controllerwith all its bells and whistles func-t ioning. And with the fl ip o f aswitch, it becomes a traditionalfour-button gamepad for one playeror a two-button pad for two players.The unit is loaded with tenaction buttons including a pair nftriggers for each index finger, and adirectional pad with optional mini-joystick and convenient 'handles'at either end. If you need more but-tons than this, there's somethingvery wrong with you.Grand Prix 1From: ThrustmasterStreet price: $90Designed for computer drivers whowant the performance advantage ofanalog throttle and brakes but don' thave th e ro o m for pe d als,Thrustmaster's Grand Prix I is prob-ably the best nbudgtstn alternativeThe secret? Two analog paddiestucked just behind the wheel,Formula 1 style. Configure them asup and downshift if you like, butthey make great progressive velocitycontrols. A pair of buttons sit on thefront of the wheel for alternate shift-ing, and two more are perched onthe uni t 's m in i-dashboard forreverse or anything else your pro-gram supports. The wheel offerssmooth action with no centre notchand is wrapped in rubber for a nice,comfortable grip over the long haul.Sidewinder Force FeedipacidProFrom: MicrosoftStreet price; $200Working on the s a m e b asicContimied on page $3Gs)ptetdbt i997imnbeb Resemcb, iac. wbtpestsn Q900,%npest% l2900 end vttd)sm 3D l2510mc ~ oflcndteb Rtesesrcb /ac.)tll ~ end lor prodam names memioaedberein me sdmasrbs satb)or ~ twh nsrh of tbetr nespecttm compsaies.'L 4> v4 0 0 0 tvroIC.E 5hAILAUDIC?c'xPANE RP D IXIESrsrra ra xr V Fwr g4 rtfbBhu Cdbtoggr04O~For 56k FLEX support contactone of grese praviders:e Internete Direct Setter.nete Echo Online iDigitel Inc. 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PaivcVentures. ... . . .1596 Maqvinna Avenue ... 250.339.{829Comox ... . . . . Viking Computer ..., 216 Port Augusta Street .. 250.339.7866Caqwsam......Elitech Syslems ... .. . 201 - 403 North Road .... .604.931.5809Elecbonics ....765 Natre Dame .... . . . . 250.851.99LqMisskrn........Bargain Bytes .... . . . . 23052A 1st Avenue .... . .604.826.8298gORNENS VP GENRES TX OSN5%4 lX OtNENS LX 166MHz NMK Pentium Processor AsusSP97VNaiubomd 16NDEDDNemory,512k(oche I ?GDFujihuIDEHmd Drivem Pmiosoeic 24x CD-RDN CmathTHE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 53CHRISTMAS CIFT IDEASEA aporia, Tel: 800-245-4525.Web site: http: //www.easpolts.cornEidoe Interactive, Tel: 415-616-2022.Web site: http: //www.eidosinteractive.cornEmpire Interactive, Tel: 800-216-9706.Web site: http: //www.empire-us.cornInterplay Productions, Tel: 800-INTERPLAY.Web site: http: //www. Interplay.corn/games/atomic. htmlMicroproee, Tel: 800-695-4263.Web site: http: //www.microprose.cornNovaLogic, Tel: 800-858-1322.Web site: http: //www,novaiogic.cornSierra On-line, Tel: 800-757-7707.Web site: http: //www.sief/a.cornVirgin Interactive, Tel: 800-874-4607.Web site: http: //www.vie.cornVR Sporle, Tel: 800-INTERPLAY.Web site: http: //www.vrsports.cornHardware contactsAdvanced Brevis, Tel: 800-257-0061.Web site: http: //www.gravis.cornCH Products, Tel: 800-624-5804.Web site: http: //www.chproducts.cornExlreme Competition Controls, Tel: 612-824-6733.Web site: http: //oufworid.compusefve.corn/home-pages/extremeLogitech, Tel: 800-231-7717.Web site: http: //www.log)tech.cornMicrosos, Tel: 800-231-7717.Web site: http: //www.microsoft.cornThrustMasler, Tel: 503-615-3200.Web site: hitpi/www.thrustmaster.cornComing gift giver's gnldeContinued from page $0principles as the Force FX (reviewed above) isMicrosoft's Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro, socheck out that synopsis then come back here.Done? Good, now consider the facts.The Sidewinder FF Pro was less expensivethan the CH product when Microsoft Canadalaunched it earlier this fall. However, CH cutthe price of its stick by $100 just before wewent to press, and so we'd guess Microsoft willdo the same to remain competitive.Like the other Sidewinder models, this onehas a lot of buttons and a handle that pivotsfor great strafing and/or rudder control. Butthe Force Feedback effect seems a bit dimin-ished in comparison and, due to its ratherhefty cooling fan, the unit is quite a bit noisi-er. It bears repeating Force Feedback is in itsinfancy and should be humming along awhole lot smoother this time next year.Wingman Extreme DigitalFrom: LogitechStreet price: $79Est. 1988x I Io Cyrlx Sx88 P200MX Muz Processer32 MB SDRAMo 512K Pipeiined Cachen 1.44MB3.5' FDo 3.5 GB HD (10m/s)n 24xCD4tOMo Acsr FX4D 18 bit PNP Sound Cardo ATI 3DXprssslan w/4MB EDO RAMn US Roboucs 33.6 Fax/ModemNaice0 104 Win 05 Keyboardn Logitech 3 Button Mouse0 Vundowsg5& Pius CD SR2o Wbrks for Windows 950 15' Hyundal DeiuxScen 15G Color Monitor0 60 Waits Speakers0 Mini Tower Casen Warranty 2 Years Parts 8 Labour'$1,849ComputersIAHelping people & computers work togetheruseeeeeeeeeIC:3Atv|Dgl AINO Ke 233MHz MINX unhanced Processor512K Pipelined Cache1.44MB 3.8' FO3.5 GB HD (10m/s)34xCO4tOMAcer FX4D 10 bit PNP Sound CardAll 3D Xpnmslon w/4MB SDO RAMUS Roboucs 33.6 Fax/Modem/Voice104 Wtn 55 KeybasdLognech 3 Button ManseVundaws MI & Plus CD SR2Works for Vundows Se15' Hyundal DeiuxScen 15G Coiar Manitor60 Watts SpeakersMini Tower CaseWarranty 2 Yeas Parle & LabourBusinessPartnerr I I - Color Print Price reductions up to 19% on selected uggg PC modelsby Tektronp.- .Ptiaser 350 theAdobe Postscript level 200.00 Cost per page~ $ 4, 2 95uph 36-~ c M ~ ~The Wingman line has been with us for sever-al years now, yet each new model holds trueto the exterior design of the first. And there' sgood reason not only do they look sleek, butthey simply feel great in the hand,T he Wingman Extreme D ig ital i sLogitech's latest and perhaps its best. It differsfrom the analog Wingman in that i t canaccept digital input to emulate the keyboardwithout a keyboard port connection, and thatmakes it a snap to program virtually any on-board control to any keyboard function. Withfour buttons and a four-way hat switch on theshaft, a throttle and two more buttons on thebase, the Wingman Digital would seem tohave it all, at a reasonable price. 0Software contactsAccolade, Tel: 800-245-7744.Web site: http: //www.accolade.cornAciivieion, Tel: 310-255-2000.Web site: http: //www.act(vision.cornBlue Byte Software, Tel: 847-995-9951.Web site'. http: //www.biuebyte.cornCreative Web traffic ideasNB Traffic Pian is a mailing list in whichsubscribers chat about hot topics in Web:::'promotions and innovative techniques.being tried to.increase the number of Web:visitors. 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According toBill Krause,' president and chief execu-tive oNcer of Storm, 'We developedEasy Photo Image Wave in response toour customers who are interested in aflatbed Iscanner) design that delivershigh-quality photo scanning results.'Despite its low cost, the Easy PhotoImage Wave has some sophisticatedimagewnhancement technology built.in. The Storm ClearScan II technologyautomatically corrects color inaccura-cies and individual variations in scannerhardware to give the best scanningThe Easy Photo Image, Wave canscan over one billion colors from anoriginal images up to 8.5x11.7 in., at600x300 dpi (dots per inch) true opticalresolution, and up to 5,000 dpienhanced resolution. The scanner con-nects to a PC via a parallel cable, andhas an upgrade option for use with auniversal serial bus cable and port. Thescanner comes with a full suite of soft-ware, including Adobe PhotoDeluxe2.0, an extremely easy to use but pow-erful image editing program; XeroxTextBridge optical character recogni-tion (OCR) software for convertingscanned text into word processed files;and DocuMagix PaperMaster software,for easy organization and retrieval oflarge numbers of files. The mail-inrebate is in effect until Jan. 31. JEContact: Storm Technology, Tel: SSS-438-3279.Web site: http: //www.stormtech.corn3Com Canada cuts price ofPalmpllot BURLINGTON (NB)-3Com Canada Inc. has cut the suggest-ed retail prices for its PalmPilot line ofelectronic organizers. The PalmPilotProfessional Edition has been markeddown from an estimated street price of$549 to $519, and the PalmPilotPersonal Edition from $429 to $379.Lotus SmartSulte 97 features IBINVia Voice speech dictation LotusDevelopment Canada has announcedplans to add IBM ViaVoice speech dic-tation program to SmartSuite 97, anintegrated business software suite,which is a direct competitor withMicrosoft Office 97. ViaVoice develop-ers say the software can convert con-tinuous speech to text at up to 140words per minute, with up to 95 per-cent accuracy.According to Jeff Papows, presidentof Lotus Development Corp., 'Untilc:'.014ul tie t f I :7'Ip oicetoday, practical use of computer speechrecognition has remained a futuristicdream. However, as a result of IBM'sadvances in voice technology and itsaccuracy, coupled with the processingpower of today's computers, speechrecognition is now a viable tool forhome and oNce.'In fact, Via Voice is designed to alsobe compatible with Microsoft Word,but the cost of buying Via Voice to useat least a Pentium 166 MHz processor,and 32 MB of RAM. To get best perfor-mance running in tandem with LotusWord Pro or MS Word, users would bewell advised to have as much RAM aspossible (48 MB or more) as well as afast Pentium with MMX or Pentium IIprocessor. /EContact: Lotus Development Canada, Tel:800-57-LOTUS. Web site: http: //www.lotus.corn/canadaLernout 8s Hauspie technologytalks to radios BURLINGTON,Mass. (NB) Sometime in 1999, car dri-vers will be talking to car radios, whichanswer in return. Speech technologyspecialist Lernout St Hauspie andAlpine Electronics Inc. will develop anAlpine car radio with voice-driven nav-igation.'Give your radio a destination andit will do the rest,' said LSrH spokesper-son, Audrey Pobre. 'It. will tell youwhere to turn right, which lane youneed to be in, when to get off and onthe freeway, and how to reroute your-self when you missed the last turn.'LStH claims adding voice to'today'snavigation software and having itavailable in a standard radio is the nextevolution of car navigation systems.Today, rental car companies such asHertz offer satellite-delivered car navi-gation, but the system requires a send-ing and receiving display with com-mand buttons to select destinationsfrom various menus. Directions are dis-played as maps with limited voicedirections for upcoming turns andlane-changes.'Having the entire process voice-driven will eliminate distractions fromthe road,' added Pobre. Alpine plans toincorporate into the new 'navigationsystem/car radio' an NEC V831 proces-sor that will handle speech datathrough LRH's ASR 1600 (automaticspeech recognition) engine. The endproduct will learn to recognize a user'svoice commands, a process calledspeech-to-text. The system will selectthe proper information for routing andturn text back into speech using LEr H'smultilingual text-to-speech technology.According to Alpine, a 'far-talk' micro-phone integrated into the device wil!eliminate the need for a headset.Contact: Lernout and Hauspie,Web site: http: //www.lhs.cornAST focuses on security featuresof Ascentla notebooks ASTCanada announced its new Ascentia Mseries of notebook computers. Asidefrom the usual leading-edge hardware(up to 13.3-inch, 1,024x768 activematrix color screens, 4 GB hard drives,20x CD-ROM drives, USB port, and512KB of Level-2 cache), AST has con-centrated on addressing the securityissues of mobile computing.National marketing manager, BruceYott, says 'Beyond top performanceand intelligent system design, the valueContinueri on page SSwith the Microsoft product is about$150. The version of ViaVoice usedwith Lotus Smart Suite 97 is a cus-tomized version designed to workspecifically with Lotus Word Pro 97.Papows' reference to 'the process-ing power of today's computers' is anadmission that ViaVoice requires thefull power of a current PC to workeffectively: the regular version ofViaVoice has a system requirement ofKodak Digital ScienceDC720 Digital Zoom Sdlafa/tlHamCamera-'Irba9$soatr imAtspdigital science'fsttltle isa/rIoirtssdshxlese,3:I z(os, andakNilclhh. (dar(SINeio/n3pichres.5sjtcrdddciISts infzciles. 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We doall service in store, usually inspecting itright away with you present. We realiseyou need itnnow', not in 3 weeks.What is support? You hear this wordused a lot. It means that if you run intoa problem there is someone you cancall who knows what to do. We designour systems and know everythingabout them. That is exactly what youwon't get from the guy on 'the floor' ofa chain, that is, unless you want to buyan 'extended' service contract..Other stores will buy too much productin advance. Then, when they find out itnot the best product and people aren' tbuying it, they will discount it. Greatdeal? We keep less stock so we canalways get you the best, mostcurrent system. We will never sell yousomething because it is collecting dust.72 pin72 pin BM:=-:,',.-'- : . : ' ': ; : :;. : : ::; .- ' ', ' : ; . : :, ' ; ; ' : :199919MIGRM8DGNil-...,.,;::.$99I 'a. ':;::::::'-'':*' ':::'''::---' >': '+ 4-.QBtsgsn8e,' ~j',f~ r89ErIIrDnvq::,21!.. 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When the notebook is con-nected to the Internet or a network,Computrace silently connects to a monitor-ing station, and if it has been listed as stolen, itprovides information allowing local police to findand retrieve the computer.Also, a program called Connected Datasafeallows users of Ascentia M notebooks to back upfiles over the Internet. McAfee VirusCheck andCybermedia's OilChange software complete thenew Ascentia M's array of security programs. /EContact: AST Canada. Tel: 905-507-0496.Web site: http: //www.astcanada.cornINonster )ob board comes to Canada Ifyou' ve been pounding the digital pavement forthat dream job or if you' re an employer lookingfor that dream candidate you' ve probablyencountered many employment sites, includingthe Monster Board. In October, a Canadian arm ofthe service was up and running under the nameMonster Board Canada.The site is being billed 'the only nationalbilingual Internet career resource covering allI I I I I ' I I ' I ' I lI I ' I I I I I I IPresentingI II I ' l l ' I II l l l s I ' I ' ' 1I I I ' I I I ' I I Ivvx v .dvspI I I I I i I I I I ' I I II I I IA FRESH PERSPECTIVE Q~I I I I' I I ' l l ' I II I I I I I II I I I II I I ' I I I I I I I ' II I I II I I I I ' I I ' ' I I I I I' I I ' I I II I I I' I I I i I II I I I I ITEXASNotebook670ExtensaTravelM ateINSTRUMENTS ' ~igg (4Available at:WWIKlaa SON.CSIA frrrh prriprrt ixx.1-888-885-1858email: Ilfe@loiin.coio OR OUP70004goap laa.iCanadian provinces.' Employers post their needsfor a fee ($150 for a 60-day posting), while johseekers can access the listings for tree. The jobs areorganized into 200 categories. If you' re looking forwork, you can create your own job profile indicat-ing the industry in which you want to work, andany job-specific keywords. A software agent thenscans the Monster Board Canada database foropportunities to match your profile.In addition, you can post your resume onlineor email it to prospective employers. A CareerCentre offers tips on developing a strong resume,preparing for an interview and negotiatingsalaries. Employers can buy The Monster BoardCanada's Resume City, which lists more than8,000 Canadian resumes, according to the compa-ny. Based in Montreal, The Monster Board Cahadais a product of the Interactive Division of TMPWorldwide, a large yellow pages and recruitmentadvertising agencies.Contact: Monster Board Canada,Web site: http J/www.monster.caOnline camera targets the Kremlin TOKYO(NB) JamesBond wouldlove it . TwoRussian com-panies havecome togetherto send almost-live images ofthe Kremlin in Moscow onto the World WideWeb. A new camera, just across the Moscow River,sends new images, updated once a minute, ontothe Internet for everyone to enjoy.The images are available 24 hours a day, andeven provide something to see at night because ofthe good lighting in the area. 'We' re very proud tosponsor KremlinKam,n said Nikolai Simichev,chairman of Multi-Page and a representative ofMosenergo, the two companies responsible for theservice, 'From our headquarters complex, locatedjust across the Moscow River from the Kremlin,we' ve long enjoyed a view of our beautiful andhistoric structures, like the Spasskaya Tower andClock, that attract tourists from all over.'So how's it all done? The group purchased anActive Imaging My-NET camera, enclosed in aprotective case, and connected it to a server intheir offices that sends the images online.'The whole project cost us less thanUS$15,000,' said Charles Boensch, Multi-Pagegeneral director. al think Mosenergo has made anice contribution to the Internet's education-,travel-, weather- and general interest-mindedsurferswhile promoting Moscow's rich history.'Contact: Kremlin Kam',Web site: htlp://www.kremliiikam.corn' gpedscasorw schism to change whhout noses. Actual bauery tse msy vary depending on usage.' Acer is iaiknsmd Iradsmark ot Aosr Inc. The Texas I sbumenls Logo is e lmdemmk ot Texas insbuments Incorparatsti Extensa. TravslMals and DackMale ere produms and regetered Irsdemsrks oi Acsr America ~.' aerosol, windows gs and windows NT me registerad Iradwwks at Ncrcsah corpambon. The Intel Inside logo. Pensum and MMx ere trademarlm al Intel rpaassan.AS other bnmds and induct rmmss are isleted ~ al tlm i r ' vandom.8'ws,'seve.-.,w.-'.'>*%~v~ '-' a~ v' weil'.~ ~it- - egg9 pe fCgP t c thes>6,g~a~o ~gaStttoda TOSHIBAHITACHIEVER EXASTIPCana a' s ource or ote 00 s; i i i ~We are located 104 Dundas Street EastOne block east of the Eaton CentreToronto, Ontarioe-mail sales@aotebookdroker.corn www.aotebookbroker.corn62 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www,tcp.caI x ' II v x ,' TCP TEST LABS'4 0 p g% O oacroI .I BY STEVE HALINDAA ND T I M B I N G H A M - W A L L I S15' 0.28 69KHyJI ecnrpf, j-',NEpv~+ 17' Diamondt0.25 86KHz 'Web: http: //www.daytek.caE-mail: infogdaytek.ca I I I '1998! Our engineers have developed anIntroducing Daytek's DT series - new forinnovative vision of the future, presenting valuepricing in a highly reffable series of monitors.For maximum performance and features,choose the upscale VISTA series. Every model isfully loaded, featuring superior specificationsand picture controLalsb offers a range of LCD panel monitors, settinga new milestone in the display market.Your satisfaction is assured with fullsupport and a 3-year warranty, offered throughthe Daytek nation-wide service network.+DAYTEKAs a leader in display technology, DaytekI I I . II I I I II a IVKHzAtechnology has to offer.Inside the new toysIt's that time of theyear again, when thepersonal computerbecomes one of themost sought afteritems to buy foryour loved ones.ProcessorsIn the past few months, we' ve been witness toa number of exciting developments in theworld of personal computers. Processor speedshave once again reached new heights, toppingout at 233 MHz for Intel's Pentium line. Cyrixand AMD have similar offerings, with the6X86MX and K6-233 processors, respectively.StorageWe' ve also seen a slew of new hard drives hit-ting the streets. Nearly every drive manufac-turer has something new to offer, somethingsure to meet everyone's storage needs and theongoing quest for speed, speed and morespeed. The latest thing in the world of harddrives is the new Ultra DMA standard. Drivesthat take advantage of this new standard offerinternal transfer rates double those of tradi-tional Mode 4 RIDE drives, going from 16.6MB/sec to 33.3 MB/sec.AlthoughSystems testesi' '.:;,':-' ,this will by noQornpaq Pirlo 4528 ' ' means translateCompucoo: , : , '- : .' into a doublingDarius :, ; - . .:;;: .':> y; '-' of performanceHits Y',::,' , :. . .' ,' on hard drives,CompuPartnar ' ' ' .' ' ,',-.~ it will offer aIBM .',.:,~:.'-:,-..'.,';,; :':-: ',:':,','. n o t i c e a b I eNECReady9753,',+':-@~'~< Although theP aokafd 9BIIQ~ ' 8 8 @ ' internal dataIIIgoat ~'::,::-'.:::::~;:.'-;-~,',;:~ transfer rateshave doubled,nd for those fortunate enough toreceive a computer this holiday season,they will get to enjoy the very latestthe physical drive characteristics haven' tchanged that much. The access times are stillhovering around the 10 millisecond (ms)mark, and for IDE drives, the fastest spindlerates are still at 5,400 RPM.The one thing we'd like to emphasize isthat doubling the internal data transfer ratewill not double the overall speed of the harddrive. Despite what some poor unsuspectingcustomers are being told by salespeople (whomost likely don't know better), these driveswill not speed up your applications by 100percent, they will not give you an additional20 frames per second in Quake, nor will theycut your Windows 95 load time by half. Thebottom line is, sure they' re faster, but don' texpect miracles.CD-ROM drives have also seen increases inspeed, as well as considerable price drops. Youcan now go out and pickup a 24x drive for aslittle as $120. With prices this low, there's nosense in settling for anything less. And con-sidering that nearly every piece of softwarethese days wants to occupy 150 MB of yourhard drive, getting a fast CD-ROM drive is agreat way of keeping those install times downto a minimum. Games and applications thatleave a large amount of information on theCD-ROM will also benefit thanks to the high-er drive speeds.ModemsThe latest craze in the world of digital com-munications are the new 56Kbps modems.Even though the official standards have notyet been established, sales of both USR's x2series and the KFlex models have been quitehigh.Whether or not you' ll benefit from one ofthese new high-speed modems depends on anumber of things. First and foremost is thequality of your phone lines. The good news isyou don't need to be a phone technician todetermine whether or not these new modemswill benefit you. There is a utility availablefrom USR's Web page that will give you a goodindication as to whether or not the x2 speedsare possible on your existing phone lines, andyou can perform that test without a 56Kbpsmodem.Another issue you' ll want to address iswhether or not your ISP (Internet serviceprovider) supports the new breed of modems,and if so, which technology? Do they haveUSR x2 modems, or the KFlex series? Do theycharge you extra for dialing up at thosespeeds, and if so, how much?And finally, you should also realize thatthese modems offer 56Kbps speeds on down-loads only. Any information that you arerequired to upload will be transmitted at33.6Kbps. The price difference between56Kbps and 33.6Kbps modems is pretty slim,so you may as well go ahead and take theplunge. Both USR and other manufacturersare offering cash rebates on current models,plus a free upgrade once the ITU standardshave been established. This alone was enoughto make the'decision a no-brainer for many.3D graphicsDepending on who will be using the comput-er, it may be worth your while to consider thepurchase of a 3D accelerator. Now we' re nottalking about one of those all-in-one 2D, 3Dvideo cards either. We' re talking about a dedi-cated card whose one goal in life is to provideincredible 3D acceleration and make you gladyou spent your hard-earned money on HexenII or NHL 98.Although there are cards that claim to beboth 2D and 3D accelerators, they' re nomatch for a dedicated pass-through card suchas Diamond's Monster 3D. These cards areused in conjunction with your current videocard, and are not designed to replace them. Infact, they' re no good without one, which iswhy they' re known as pass-through cards.They have to be hooked directly to your videocard before you can see anything on thescreen. So, are they worth it? Absolutely,without a doubt, yes!It should be noted that these cards aredesigned strictly to enhance games, and won' tbe of any use to your applications. But ifyou' re playing a game that supports 3DFX,the difference is like night and day. Alwayslook for the 3DFX logo on the box of anygame you buy to make sure it supports your3D accelerator. Also, check the 3DFX Web siteat http: //www.3dfx.corn for 3DFX updates andpatches to existing games.As mentioned previously, two of the morerecent titles at the time of this writing includeHexen II and NHL 98. Both games will workwith or without a 3DFX card, but once you' veplayed the 3DFX version, there's no goingback. Although these cards are a bit pricey, ifyou' re an avid gamer, it's an absolute require-ment. 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MEMORYIS CASE (not W/P 11)ATX 19 CASE (W/P U ONLY)-104 Win95 KEYBOARDtA4 MB 3.5' FLOPPY DIUVEPlan$449$525$795$405$449$5(r9$70a>$1149$1319B /S/S of))Option+To 32MB (2eibMB)O To 64MB (2*32MB)+ To Mini-Tower 13mO To Midi-Tower 19'+To Full-Tower 25'$CaUBCan$CBU$(9$68seri(lees:SOFTWARE CONSULTATIONPrices sub/ect to change without noire:Subject to omnufacturec warranty;FOR Detailed pricg Change + nore len ' Chec 'TEL:{tiQ4j)327-2{103 Email worklwd(ipublic3.btaneLcnFAX: tio4 32740$1 newtecb@inte t e .bc.caWEBSITE: ht tpM//www.intergate.bc.ca/business/worldwidhtt : //www.inte t e .bcxalbusinegs/newtechSYSTEM CONSULTATIONON-SITE SERYICEHAROWARE REPAIRTROUBLE SHOOTINGSOFTWARE INSTALLATIONHARDWARE INSTALLATIONMAINTENANCE CONTRACTUPOATESLimited Quayltltlest7+>ears in Business;surcharge for credit cardvtErceffent Ptrccs, Quality Scnv'ccGuaranteed Nea Products(NO trade-ins,NO Leasingl*&*Call to be fared a daily pticlist***PRICE IN RED: For Knowledgeable Buyer PRICK IN ILUK: For Common BuyerRC'Imi@.|I'jII,ini i%XIII >PARTS: Handling fee:2nd to 24th month, $20 Per serviceSYSTSM& I r monra rutr erureee(or PARTS warranty applied)1st 10 days:FreeAfter 10 days: HardDrivee Monitore MotherBoard,Printer:$10IIIIII Warrant P I ISYSTSMS: T y e mu & L a ouPARTS' NO Ha ndling feePERIOD: M anufacture WarrantyCustomers may save handling fee if manufacture havedhect service and customer deals with their servicecenter directly (see WehSite)Net/I'ork SystemM S Win95 $105 NetWork Card $30' Cable Extrarli'cc)BI050th Ave.~WORLDWIDEAll other types $5~PRIOD: Manufacture WarrantyGeseDesktop.Tower 13..........................Tower I 5...............,......,...Tower 19...........,............,.ATX 19.Full Tower 25...................CO 88N( approx.)$57 $62..$43 $48..$44 $49..$57 $62.,$82 $87$107 $112(approx. I$100 $105$107 $112$103 $108I a ppyox.)$128 $133$237 $242$295 $300Iappmx.).$132 $137.$177 $182.$248 $253.$5(0 $ 5 15$92 $97. $192 $197$134 $139$188 $193.$177 $182.$295 $3(O.$430 $43$.$614 $619.$770 $775$1093 $I098BTC I 6X ...,.....................Acer 24X .........................Panasonic 24X ................Con~llel GrafAdaptec 2910B.................Adaptec 2940U............,.Adaptec 2940U%.............CPUAMD K5-166...................AMD K6-166............o......AMD K6-200...................AMD K6-233...................Cyrix 6x86 200+...............Cyrix 6x86 MX 200+.......Intel PISO........................Intel P166........................Intel P166 MMX..............Intel P200 MMX.............,Intel P233 MMX..............Intel PII 233...................,Intel Pll 266....................Intel PII 300.................../Ant AAeW.D. 2.IGB EIDE..................... $245 $2$0W.D. 3.IGB EIDE..................... $269 $274W.D. 4.0GB EIDE..................... $361 $366W.D. 4.3GB ultra ............,.......,. $335 $340Quantum 2.IGB ST.....................$243 $248Quantum 3.2GB ST....................,$272 $277Quantum 4.3GB ST.....................$339 $344Quantum 6.4GB ST.....................$442 $447Quantum 4.3GB Fireball SCS1....$462 $467Iv)uantum 4.5GB UW SCSI......,...$787 $792tligltgdlryeErgonomic........Fujitsu 4725.....Fujitsu 8725.....WIN 95 104.....I rrppiolL )4M 72Pin................................$21 $244M 72Pin EDO................,......$21 $248M 72Pin................................$37 $408M 72Pin EDO.......................$27 $3016M 72Pin.............................$56 $6016M 72Pin EDO.....................$49 $5332M 72Pin............................. $100 $10432M 72Pin EDO..................$101 $10532M SD Ram....,.................... $116 $12064M SD Ram..........................$296 $302Acer 56K Int. Fax/Voice.......... $101 $107Nfeideli Iuppiox.)Supra 33.6K Int. Fax/Voice........$78 $82Supra 33.6K Ext.(Retail).......... $(2( $125Supra 56K Int. FaxlVoice..........$145 $1$0USR 33.6K lnt. Fax/Voice........$118 $122USR 56K Int Fax/Voice....,.......$1/7 $182USR 56K Ext. (Retail).......,....$227 $232USR 56 Ext. Fax/Voice (Retail)$2/I $276Nonkel'Acer 15 56c.............................$328 $333Acer' 17 76e.................,...........$560 $$70ADI 15 E40........,..................,.$325 $330ADI 17 5P..... )...................,...$620 $630Daytek 15 1536D....................$260 $26$Daytek 17 1731 D.....,.....,.,....$504 $514Panasonic IS S15...,.................$342 $347Panasonic 17 S70...................., $634 $644Royal 14..................................$191 $196Sceptre IS P511........,..............$299 $304Sceptre 17 P73.........................$56S $$7$NEC 15 E500......,....................$501 $$11NEC 17 E700....................,......$891 $901Iupptox. )....$135 $140....$(84 $189....$203 $2(N(approx.). ....$56 $59.....$53' $56. ....$22 $25. ....$14 $17Asus PZL97 Pll....... $750 $755GIGA 586 ATV VX...............$118 $123GIGA 586 HX.......................$148 $153GIGA 686 LX Pll.................$265 $270NINNg(eLogiiech PS/2 2B...,..........,.....$14 $ 16Logitech PS/2 3B....................$21 $23Logitech Serial 2B..................$14 $ 16Logitech Serial 3B..................$16 $18MS.l Mouse V.2 Serial..............$27 $29Zoltrix Serial 2B.......................$7 $7Genius 2+ I B Ne(Mouse,...........$15 $17NnterCanon BJC-80 Portable.........$368 $373Canon BJC-250..................,...$212 $217Canon BJC-4300......,...........,.$277 $282Epson Stylus 400....................$268 $273Epson Stylus 600....................$348 $353Epson Stylus 800....................$495 $5(X)HP DJ 692C...........................$361 $366HP DJ 890CXI.......................$598 $608HP LJ 6L.....,...,.........,...........$524 $539HP LI 6P...................,.........$960 $975Scanner ,~ )HP Scan)et 55.........................$261 $266HP Scan)et 5P.....................,..$373 $378UMAX Astra 600S.................$245 $250UMAX Astra 1200S...............$423 $428Snead GmfA cer FX-3D.....,.....................$22 $ 2 5Acer AW35 Pro.....................$28 $41S ound Blaster 16 PnP..............$55 $ 5 8Sound Blaster AWE64...........$107 $112Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold..$242 $247NNen CuntATI All-In-Wonder 4M.......,$279 $284ATI Pro Turbo PC2TV 4M..$174 $179ATI Xpert Cap(ay 4M............$253 $25(lATI Xpert Ca)WOrk 4M..........$221 $226ATI 3D Xpression 4M...........$106 $111ATI 3D Xpression PC2TV4M$133 $138(approx.)(approx.i(approx.)(approx.)I approx.)C irrus Logic 5446 PCI I M.......$27 $30Diamond Stealth 3D 2200 2M.$70 $73Matrox Millenium II 4M.......$222 $227Matrox Mystique 220 4M...,...$150 $155Rainbow Runner Studio,..........,$232 $237S 3 3D Virge 2M.......................$45 $ 4 8S 3 Trio 64+ PCI IM................$31 $ 3 4ONsng586 Cooling Fan.............$SALE $SALEPll Cooling Fan...............$SALE $SALEISA Network Card............$SALE $SALEPCI Network Card............$SALE $SALEMic with stand..................$SALE $SALEHeadset W/MickUol Ctrl.$SALE $SALEFull Surge Power Bar.........$SALE $SALEZip Disk...........................$SALE $SALEBlank CD.......................,..SSALE $SALEPlain Mouse Pad...,..........$SALE $SALE1.44M Floppy Drive....,....$SALE $SALEMORE SEE WFBSlTESUPRA 33.6 EXT.. $CallUSR 28.8 INT V34.. .....,.. ...... $CallUSR 33.6 INT OEM.. ,.........SCallUSR EXT 56K. $CBII3C 509B NETWORK..................................SCallMATROX MYSTIQUE 2MB RETAIL..........SCallMATROX MILLENIUM 11 4MB RETAIL....$CallMATROX MYSTIQUE 2MB Upgrade Mod. $CallATI 3D EXPRESSION 2M...........................$CallATI 3D 2M EXPRESS1ONSG RAM..............SCallCL 5429.. $CallS3 TRIO64+(200).. ..........................$CallJAZZ DRIVE EXT SCSI.................,..............$CBIIIMB 30PIN. .......... . . . ...............$Call256K CACHE MEMORY..........,...................SCBIIBTC 16X CD ROM .. . . . . : .......SCBIIQUANTUM 1.7GB. $Call(approx.)Asus VX 97.......Asus T2 P4.......Asus TX 97E.....DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp ca, TCP TEST LABSA computer for ChristmasCnntinuerf f'raw page 64of machines ever, not to mention some verynifty case designs. Cases ranging in color fromoff-white to charcoal gray, from sub-compactto roomy mid-sized towers, even the tradi-tional desktop design. No matter what you' relooking for, this month's roundup of systemshas something for everyone. Whether you' relooking for something very value-oriented, ora machine that leaves little to be desired, thenext few pages tell it all.Our testsWe asked vendors to send us systemsequipped with 200 or 233 MHz processors,and 32 MB of RAM, and to try to keep the sys-tem at around $2,000 not including the mon-itor. All the machines were tested with theBAPCo benchmark suite, and were configuredat a resolution of 800x600 with 65, S36 colors.Although there were two processor classesin this month's tests, the 200 MHz machineswere not compared directly to the 233 MHzmodels for overall performance. Taking theprice difference between the two processorsinto consideration, the machines were ludgedon their price/performance ratio and overallvalue. All machines were configured with 32MB of RAM except for the Ultinet system,which used 64 MB. We would like to note thatthis did not give the Ultinet machine anThe coateedersCompaq Presario 4$28Leave it to Compaqto come up withsome of the mostaesthetically pleas-ing comp uters~~..'j ' .' you' ll ever have theprivilege of seeing.This par t i cularmodel, the Presario4528, is not only easy on the eyes, but offerssome innovative features not found on othersystems, To start, the CD-ROM drive does nothave a tray that holds the discs. Instead, youinsert your CD-ROM about 1-2 cm into thedrive slot, at which point the drive senses thedisc and pulls it in the rest of the way. Whenthe discs get ejected, they are pushed out justenough for you to grab them. Also, just abovethe CD-ROM drive are controls that allow youto adjust the system volume, as well as call upyour browser at the press of a button,All nifty features aside, this machine ispowered by a 233 MHz Pentium MMX proces-sor, ZS6KB of pipelined cache, 32 MB ofSDRAM, a 3,2 GB hard drive, 24x CD-ROMdrive, an S3 video card with I MB onboard, a56Kbps voice/faxmodem and a JBL 3D VirtualTheater sound system. The overall perfor-mance on this system wasn't what it shouldhave been, due mostly in part to the videocard used in the machine. The Presario 4528has a suggested retail price of $2,492 andcomes with a one-year limited warranty, withthe first 90 days on-site.Compuconunfair advantage because the benchmark suiteruns one application at a time, neither ofwhich requires more than 32 MB of RAM. TheSTD machine, which was equipped with 32.MB, came in very close to the Ultinet system.DariusCe 0 0 I 0e e e eSpecial Limited Time Pricing. You can't beat our prices on IBM!380 15 QMMX 16MB 2 .1GB 12.1TFT-SVGA CD $3699380E 150MMX 16MB 2 .1GB 12.1FRSTN CD $2 8 99380ED 166MMX 16MB 3 .0GB 12.1TFT-SVGA CD $4399760XL 166MMX 16MB 2 .1GB 12.1TFT-SVGA opt $4399760XD 166MMX 32MB 3.0GB 12.1TFT-XGA CD $5449765D 166MMX 32MB 3 .0GB 13.3TFT-XGA CD $6399770 200 MMX 3 2MB 3 .2GB 13.3TFT-XGA CD $5999770 233 MMX 3 2MB 5 .1GB 14.1TFT-XGA CD $8599MPro P2-266 64MB 4.3GB SCSI CD 1008aseT $4499MPro P2-266 128MB 4.3GB SCSI CD 1008aseT $7499M Pro P 2=300 128MB 4.3GB SCSI CD 1008aseT$11399LSeries 233MMX 32MB 4.3GB SCSI CD 15' Monitor $3199LSeries P2-233 32MB 6.4GB SCSI DVD17' Monitor $3999SSeries P2-266 32MB 6.4GB SCSI CD 17' Monitor $4199SSeries P2-266 32MB 6.468 SCSI DVD17' Monitor $4699non-commlssloned saleslfeohnloal sfaff. Our Qtt year In bus/ness.e - e~ I> IUnbeatable Prices0 0 e- - I - I I 0Call us for upcfates to prlclng. Buy In a pleasonf atmosphere fromprices reflect 3% aeh dealt a ere su ' i o ehs w i lhout notice. 12l$7 0 0 0 0cache and 32 MBo f SDRAM t h i ssystem managed to place among the top fewmachines as far as performance goes.The system consists of a 2.1 GB Ultra DMAhard drive, a very fast Leadtek WinFast 3DThe Compuconsystem this monthwas unique in thati t used the newA MD K6-2 3 3p rocessor. W i t h512KB of pipelinedThe Danus systemfalls into the 200MHz Pen t iumM MX c lass o fmachines, whichmake up a fair por-tion of th ismonth's roundup.Using the latest430TX chipset and S12KB of pipelined I.evel-2 cache and 32 MB of SDRAM, this systemoffers good overall performance while main-taining a fairly modest price tag.The makeup of this system includes a 3.5GB hard drive from Fujitsu, an 53 ViRGE videocard with 2 MB of EDO RAM onboard, aPanasonic 24x CD-ROM, a Creative LabsSound Blaster AWE64, and a 33.6Kbps modemfrom USRobotics with voice and speaker-phone. On the benchmarks, this machinecame in at a score of 202 overall. This systemis priced at $2,030 and comes with a three-year parts and labor warranty.L2300 video card with 8 MB of SGRAMonboard, a 56Kbps voice/faxmodem, and anLS-120 floppy drive. Multimedia compnnentsinclude a Sound Blaster AWE64 Value soundcard, a 24x CD-ROM, and a pair of Rock-ExcelSOW speakers. Priced at $2,490, this systemcarries a two-year parts and labor warranty.A lways able t nstrike a good hal-ance between priceand performanceare svstems hearingthe Hits name, andthis month was noexception. Poweredby the latest IntelPentium 233 MHz Pentium MMX processor,512KB of pipelined cache and 32 MB ofSDRAM, this machine managed to achieve adecent overall score on our benchmarks.All the latest technology went into build-ing this machine, everything from the newATI Xpert(~'Play with 4 MB of SGRAM to thePanasonic LS-120 drive. Multimedia acces-sories include a 24x CD-ROM, also fromPanasonic, a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound cardand a pair of multimedia speakers. Storageneeds are met with a Quantum Fireball 3.2 GBdrive with Ultra DMA support for maximumperformance. On the software side of things isCnntinuerf nn page 68 '2575 '3175 '3495 '4395 '4895 EtlROCON 820OT212. 1 SVIA 8MzsOOAclfve I i tEUROCON 720D73 FUROCON 72ffOT413.3' Xaa SlrMxlSS Actfvs 14. 0' XeA 10Z4xlII Active150 hlHz Intel Per@urrP pneessar 2 NN vhfeo RIN, $12 RB Cache 150 MHz Intel penlium pnesssar 4 N B v/leo RAN, $12 KB Cach+fee~sa e ~ ass are ~ 3 Typ e II pC Cerd slots, TV oiit filpyreteeNe ap to zaa NHz wAleeg 2 Type II pc cenf slots, rv-our16M8RAAfrwa zan> stone swnd, speakers 16MBMMfupa usiiei> ao steve saund, speakers1.4 GB MOD(apl' 2.1 isa) NIMH 8Ntterr IU.lon evaNable) 1.4 88HOofuptoeOGBJ NiMH Battery (Urn evallsbls)'20r CGROM and 1A4 M8 FQD Cany&rg Case, N?ndoes'95 20r CD-ROM and 1.44 MB FDD Ca nyiriy Case. Windows'95*Upyrarle to: 1S6 NNX$120; 2M NNX $320; 233 NNf $500; 332 NB $2N; 64 NB RAM $600; 128 MB RAN $14M; 2.1 6$ $220; 3.0 GB $500All price are Eslimalsd Sbeet Price.Desktop Replacement Notebooks Hssan safesWsft trr heal reseger toda and have Oem contact Im Techno lee. Or call us diect Amf checfr oat eww.eurocom.eaRN@.18N IRar: WX9201)lmyao Tectrnafogy fee, comet Canyuter Carrier new - ro trer ~itoir te4iusrai triissi ms apiuli oisanpefr ~ .~ p A 0Iok1 9 272 foetsfde I/faxee~ N4.25LNSP r t ( Ii ii ii l 0 6 r4GIGABYTE.v>P 'sPentium SeriesII ' l l , I ' I IIDual or Unl intel Pentium' Processor 75-200Mbz (Acta defect & setup Intel P55C Processor) AMD K86 Processor supportCyrbr 6x86 Processor support' Dual zIF Socket 7 tar Intel Pengum'Dverorlve' Processor Intel 82430HX Pclset Adaptec 7880 SCSI chip. 4 x72-pin SIMM Sockets support BMB to256MB DRAM sizePS/2 Keyboard & Mouse support I x Ultra-wide/ I x 8-bit SCSI port 4 x PCI 32-bit/4 x ISA 16-bit expansion slotse sGA-686lXv intel Pentium II ProcessorPest(em'II fatal LX Notbeyboayd (GA-666LX) intel 440LX AGP Chipset~ AGP Slot Support1x 8 2x mode~ CPU Thermal & Fan Failure Detect (A.C.O.PS.} intel LDCM SupportSupport EDO/SDRAM from BMB to 1GBUltra DMA/33 support LST20/ZIP/CD-ROM Boot features support AGP Slot lor 66/133Mhz AGP VGA adapterprovide System Information Viewer (SIV) for healthymonitoring ATX Form Factorrxra ~icyz I,4yz ..7/j - '.; r//,'. . /I/ ' , Built-in automaticCPU overheat aiaym Intel Penuum' Processer 75-200 Mbz (Auto detect 8 setup Intel P55C Processor,Support MMX Technology) AMDK66 Processor support Cyrix ax86 Processor support ZIF Sacket 7 for Intel Pentium,overnnve'Pracessor Intel 82430HX Pclset 4 x72-pin SIMM SOckets support SMB Io256MB DRAM size (ECC/Parity DRAM support) PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse suppart 4 x PCI 32-bit /4 x ISA 16-bit expansion slots''a Intel Penaum' Processrx 75-200 Mhz (Auto detect 8 setup Intel P55C Pmcessor,support MMX Technology) AMD K86 Processor support Cyrix 6x86 Processor support' ZIF Socket 7 for Intel Pentium' DverOdve'Processor Intel 82430HX PClset 6 x72-pin SIMM Sockets support BMB to256MB DRAM sizeAT Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse support 4 x PCI 32-bit /4 x ISA I 6-bit expansion slots 3/4 Baby AT, 4 layers PCBAGP transfer rate= PCI port x 4I I ' I ' l l 'Make sure you have this powerful GIGABYTE motherboardwith the world's latest Intel >!I a nd : ; , inside your computer.YOURI FIntel pentium processor 90-200 Mhz .','Zb (Aura defect 8 setup Intel P55C Processor,support MMX Technology) AMD K86 Processor support Cyrix Bx86 Processor support ZIF Socket / Ior Intel Penhum OverDrive'Processor Intel 82430VX PClset8MB to 128MB DRAM size (Support 4 x/2-pin 32/36 bit accesscapability' Support? x I 68-pm 64/72 bit DIMMmodule)AT Keyboard & PS/2 Mouse support 4 x PCI 32-bn / 3 x ISA 16-bit expansion slots. 3/4 Baby AT, 4 layers PCB7For top performance from your computer, if has to have this state-of-the-art motherboard GA-666LX installed in it.Manufactured by one of the world's leading motherboard manufacturers GIGABVTE, GA-666LX, the latest developmentin motherboard technology, is powered by the hottest Intel Pentium li processor (233-333MHz) and embraces the latestintel 440LX Chipset which incorporates the most innovative AGP support. This guarantees superior performance andmanageability on your computer. Get the first hand on the latest developmentIn motherboard technology, ask forGIGABYTE when you buy your computer.I s ' 8 IList of AwardsPublicationPC Mag. (Taiwan)Windows Source AustraliaPC DirketPC Pro (U.K.)DDS/VPC Ma . U.S.A.DateDecember 1996March 1997April 1997May 1997June 1997June 1997MotherboardGA-686NXGA-586HXGA-586UXGA-586UXGA-686KXGA-686KXAwards'Best Performance'Best Performance'Eddor's Choice'PC Pro Value'The Testers Choice'Best Performance' Intel Pentium Processor 90-200 Mnz (Auto detect & setup Intel Pentium '/MMXProcessor) AMD K5/K6 Processor support Cynx ax86/6x86I/M2 Processor support ZIF Seeker 7 Ior Penbum' Overndve'Processor N'%. 4 x/2-pin SIMM Sockets support BMB ta128MB DRAM size AT Keyboard 8 PS/2 Mouse support4 x PCI 324it /3 x ISA 16-bit expansion slots. 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'g Prices arc subject to change.68 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITIONwww.tcp.ca,'TCP TEST LABSMaybe you'd rather have a Mac for ChristmasPower Mac 6500/300 mixes business with pleasureBY PETER IVI I L B U R NPower Macintosh 6SOO/300From: Apple ComputerCPU: 300 MHz PowerPC 603e RISC, with 512KBLevel-2 cache (expandabie to 1 MB)Memory: 64 MB RAM (expandable to 128 MB)Storage: 6 GB IDE hard drive, 24x CD-ROM drive, 100,MB removable Zip drive. 1.44 MB Mac/PC SuperDriveVideo: ATI Rage II 2D/3D graphics accelerator, with 2MB SGRAM, supports 24-bit (millions) color on 17-inchmonitor up to 800x600 pixels and 16-bit (thousands)color on 21-inch monitor up to 1,1 52x870 pixels.Expansion: Two 7-inch PCI slots, Apple Video Systemcard, Apple TV/FM Tuner card, SCSI. ADB, serial withAppieTalk network, 16-bit CD-quality audio outputPros: Screaming performance, built-in 64-bit 20/3Dvideo acceleration, 3D surround sound and subwoofer,incredible software bundleCons: CPU not upgradeable, accelerated video SGRAMnot upgradeabieSuggested retail price: $4,299ust a few years ago, who would have everdreamed that a m id-range computerwould clock in at 300 MHz? Well, that' sprecisely what Apple is currently offeringThe PowerMac 6500/300 the flagshipmodel of the 6500 series is certainly themost impressive bundle for the home usermarket to come from Apple since the launchof PowerPC-based Macs in 1994. Its hardwarefeatures read like a power user's wish list: aPowerPC 603e microprocessor running at 300MHz with a 512KB Level-2 cache, 64 MB ofRAM, a 6 GB IDE hard drive, 24x CD-ROMdrive and an internal 100 MB Zip drive. Addto that an onboard ATI Rage Il 2D/3D 64-bitgraphics accelerator, a 5 6 KB i n ternaldata/voice/faxmodem and an integrated dual-function subwoofer with 16-bit 3D surroundsound, and you begin to get the impressionthat this machine is loaded with everythingthe average user is likely to ever need for atleast a few years, anyway.The 6500 hardware components arehoused in a rugged, kidproof minitower case.Unpacking it and plugging in all the clearlymarked cables takes less than five minutes.When it's all done you .simply press thepower-on key on the keyboard and you' reready to rock 'n' roll.Upgrade and expansion are a breeze. Toaccess any of the drive bays you simply slideupwards the front bezel on the CPU case, Toaccess the motherboard for RAM, PCI, Videoor TV/Radio tuner expansion slots, youremove two screws from the back plate, popout a metal handle and slide the board out ofthe case. To put the board back, you line itsedges up with two guide rails and slide it backin totally painless and convenient.Software cornucopiaBy itself, the hardware configuration isimpressive enough. But what gives the 6500tremendous value is the productivity, learningand entertainment software that comes bun-dled with the unit. All of the pre-installed soft-ware is on CD-ROMs that are neatly packagedin a plastic-sleeved booklet. These titles arenot the watered-down offerings you'd expectto find in a clearance bin at your local com-puter supoestore. Some of the 15 titles includeClarisWorks, N ow Touc hbase Pro,MegaPhone, Grolier Encyclopedia, 3D Atlas,KidPix Studio, Descent I I , V R Soccer,Mechwarrior II, Virtual Pool and others.ImpressionsThe 6500 offers just about all of the communi-cation tools a small business owner could use.The built-in 56K modem is capable of trans-mitting and receiving data, fax, voice andemail. And of course, it can also be used tobrowse the Internet. Of particular interest tothis reviewer was the bundled MegaPhone soft-ware. It turns your Power Mac into a digitaltelephone manager and answering machine.. One of the neat features especially if youhave a family is the ability to set up multipletelephone answering mailboxes. MegaPhonecan integrate itself with any of the contactorganizers you use, and is an indispensabletool if you spend a lot of your time on thetelephone.One of the more interesting upgradeoptions is the Apple Video System and AppleTV/FM Tuner cards. If you'd like to be able tocapture and ed'it video, listen to the radio orwatch TV on the 6500, then you can purchasethis expansion kit separately. If you are seri-ously interested in these options then I wouldsuggest you purchase the next model down inthe chain the Power Macintosh 6500/275Creative Studio. You get 25 MHz slower clockspeed, no Zip drive and 32 MB less RAM, butthis tradeoff is more than made up by the costof purchasing the video and tuner cards sepa-rately.The 6500/300 will run any standard pro-ductivity applications as fast as anybodywould possibly want to run them, This com-puter really demonstrates its prowess when itflexes its muscle on multimedia. The combi-nation of a fast microprocessor and on-board64-bit accelerated graphics make this onemean gaming machine.Any one of the bundled gaming titlesamply showcases this machines awesomegraphics capabilities. An excellent test of CPUand video perforniance is Descent II. Gameplay was incredibly smooth and fluid in thehigh-res mode. Even when I engaged a dozenor more enemy ships at one time. the 65OOnever flinched in i t 's responsiveness. Andwhen you couple the built-in 3D suhwooferwith a pair of external speakers you get awe-some, bone-jarring sound capabilities.SummaryTwo words best describe the Power Macintosh6500/300: performance and value. The onlyreservations I have about this system is thenon-upgradeable CPU and video RAM. If youare an avid gamer it's probably best that youwait for the next-generation Gossamer Macsthat have video RAM expansion built-in.However, if you feel you can live with a max-imum of 300 MHz and 2 MB video RAM thenthe 6500/300 comes close to the ideal homeand small business computer. just rememberall work and no play, makes]ack a dull boy.Contact:Apple Computer, Web site: http: //www.apple.cornPeter Milburn is a consultant with Elite SystemsSupport located in Calgary, Alta. He can be reached onthe Internet at elite@cadvision.corn .the home and small business user.A computer for ChristmasContirrned from page 66the ATI games bundle, which ships with theXpert@Play card, and the Windows 95 CD-ROM. Priced very competitively at $1,949,this system aims to please both the power-hungry and those on a budget.CompuPartnerWithout a doubt,one of th e bestbuys this month isthis fully loadedCompuPartner sys-tem from STD. Thissystem strikes anexcellent balancebetween perfor-mance and pricing, being the second fastestsystem in the entire survey as well as the low-est-priced.The machine is driven by a 233 MHzPentium MMX processor, 512KB of pipelinedcache on a QDI motherboard, and 32 MB ofEDO RAM. QDI motherboards have a featurecalled SpeedEasy, which allows you td config-ure the CPU speed from inside the CMOS.This is a superb idea, allowing even the mostnovice users to insert a CPU onto the mother-board and set it up without having to worryabout jumper settings. Video on this machineis achieved through a Matrox Mystique videocard with 4 MB of SGRAM onboard, whichhelped this system achieve the second fastestoverall score, as well as in the desktop graph-ics portion of the benchmarks. A 3.2 GBQuantum hard drive with Ultra DMA supportis the primary storage device, offering ade-quate storage and good performance.Multimedia applications will make use ofthe OPTI 931M-3DS sound card andPanasonic 24x CD-ROM drive as well as a pairof speakers. Rounding out the system is aLinkskey 56Kbps voice/faxmodem based onthe Rockwell chipset, Priced at $1,699 with athree-year warranty on parts and labor, this isone machine you won't want to pass up.2S6KB of pipelined cache, and 32 MB ofSDRAM. A 3.2 GB hard drive is also found inthe system, along with an ATI 3D Rage II+video card with 2 MB of SGRAM onboard. A16-bit 3D sound system will enhance the mul-timedia experience, and the 24x CD-ROMkeeps video and audio clips flowing smoothly.A 56Kbps.Kflex modem is also included as partof this package to get you online right away.On the software side of things, we haveLotus SmartSuite 97, Netscape Navigator, PCDoctor, Crystal AudioStation and IBM'sAntivirus. The Aptiva E25 is priced at $2,699,which includes a 15-inch monitor, and a one-year express service warranty.MycompIBMThis month, fromthe popular Aptivathe model E25.The mach i neoffers an excellentbalance of hard-ware, software andvery competitivepricing on a first tier machine. This unit con-sists of a 200 MHz Pentium MMX processor,series we reviewFrom MynixTechnology, comesthis Mycomp sys-tem. Falling intot he 20 0 MHzPentium MMXclass, this systemachieved somegood numbers onthe benchmarks,some problems withe tests. Other thane this machine offersgood performance, thanks to the componentsfound mside the case.Those components include 32 MB ofSDRAM, a Quantum ST 3.2 GB Ultra DMAhard drive, a Matrox Millennium II video cardwith 4 MB of WRAM, a BTC 24x CD-ROMdrive, a USR Sportster 33.6Kbps faxmodemand a BTC 1853L sound card.NEC Ready 97S3The Ready 9753was the only sys-t em that had acharcoal gray caseamong a l l ;hemachines t hism onth. A ver ysleek looking unit,i t o f fers p rettymuch everything you would need in a familycomputer.To start, there is the latest 233 MHzPentium MMX processor, 256KB of pipelinedcache, 32 MB of SDRAM, a 4.3 GB hard drive,24x CD-ROM, 16-bit sound system withwavetable surround sound and a USRoboticsx2 56Kbps faxmodem. The ATI 3D Rage II+video card with 2 MB of SGRAM will helpspeed up games and the system as a whole.Continued on page 72although it encounteredthe database portion of ththat, all numbers indicat' AVA'.uolumv I runaaatant BtsBRIAN W ICERNICHANDBNNS M. 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400C/820C/890C.........$230/335/560HP 6L / 6P /6MP.............$515/945/1190HP 5 /5N /5M..............$1380/1490/2390HP Color 5 / Color 5M.........$5480/8990HP 4V /5Si ..........................$2370/3490Accessary for HP .................... in stockBrother HL730DX+/760DX+..$410/510Brother HL1260/1660..........$1050/1350SCSI 1520 /1522 ........................$90/96PCI SCSI 2902/2910...............$140/180PCI SCSI 2940 /2940UW........$210/260PCI 3985 2-chanel scsi...................$800Scsi cable/ Wide scsi cable.........$10/10Rock mounting IDE/SCSI...........$30/35Mater cables.6ft /10II...................$5/I 0Modem cables .................................$10Laplink cables..................................$20Mouse/Logitech 2B.......................$8/15Logitech MouseMan3B /MS V2.1A..$32MS lntelliMouse w/wheel ...............$50AT13/15/19/23 'case........$40/45/65/115ATX 17'/23'.............................$95/I 20104KB/Fujitsu8725/4725......$18/26/60MS Natural /TouchPad KB........$70/65t' 0 TItII.'5 (w/CD-ROMonly)All specifications / prices/quantities aresubject to change without notice.IOmega /USR /Monitors /Printers /Notebooks arefollowed by Canadian authorized service centres.EpsonStylus 400 (720dpi)........................$250Stylus 600/800 (1440dpi)........$360/495PhotoStylus 700.......................$645Lex markCheck our www.atic.ca to get theDaily prices!!!!!Encarta'98 home bundle............$90Essensial bundale...................$130Corel WP Suit 8 .....................$95DVD disk w/ fashion songs;........$810 CD with loest games .............$1072 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITIONwww.tcp.ca' '- CHRIST'MAS' COMt PUTER r'SURVEY -'gO gOProcessor(MHz)Cache (pipeline)ChipselRAM (ag SDRAM)Video cardVideo memoryMonitorSound cardHard drive typeHard drive sizeCD-ROM driveModemSystem BIOSOperating systemExtrasPentium233 MMX256KB430TX32 MS631 MB EDONoneJSL 30 16-bitAMDK6-233512KB430TX32 MBLeadTekL23008 IN SGRAMNoneSB AWE64QuantumFireball ST2.1 GB UDMACreative 24x56KbpsAwardWindows 95Rock-Excelspeakers.LS-120 drivePentium233 MMX512KB430TX32 MBMatroxMystique4 MB SGRAMNoneOPTI 3D 16-bitQuantumFireball ST3.2 GB UOMAPanasonic 24xLinkskey 56KbpsAwardWindows 95SpeakersPentium200 MMX512KB430TX32 MBS3 ViRGE2MBEDONoneSB AWE64Fuiitsu3.5 GB UDMAPanasonic 24xUSR 33.6Kb psAwardWindows 95SpeakersPentium233 MMX512KB430Tx32 MSATIXperlsbPlay4 MB SGRAMNoneSB AWE64QuantumFireball ST3.2 GB UDMAPanasonic 24xNoneAwardWindows 95SpeakersLS-120 drivePentium200 MMX256KB430TX32 MBATI 30Rage II+2 IIIIS SGRAM15-inch16-bit 3DQuantumFireball ST3.2 GB UDMA24x58KbpsISMWindows 95Pentium200 MMX51 2KB430TX32 MBMatroxMillennium II4 MB WRAMNoneBTC 1853L 16-bitQuantumFireball ST3.2 GS UDMABTC 24xUSR 33.6KbpsAwardWindows 95SpeakersPentium233 MMX256KB430TX32 MBATI 3DRage H+2 MB SGRAMNone16-bit wavetableQuantumFireball ST4.3 GB UDMA24xUSR x2 56KbpsNECWindows 95Pentium233 MMX256KB430TX32 MSATI 3DRage II+2 MS SGRAMNone68-16 compatibleMaxtor5.1 GB EIDE24xUSR x2 56KbpsPhoenixWindows 95Pentium233 MMX512KB430TX64 MBMalroxMillennium li4 IIIIB WRAMNoneSB AWE64QuanlumFireball ST4.3 GB UDMAPanasonic 24xUSR x2 56KbpsAwardWindows 95Speakers3.2 GB EIDE24x56KbpsCompaqWindows 95Windows BenchmarksDeskto ra hics 279Oeskto resentation 176Word rocessin 154Database395230208193207 186D eskto ublis bin 1 4 4 200 197 186 184 170 183 ' 162 214377 319 330 303 333 317 372237 202 208 N/A 206 169 2286 readsheet 186 220 235 212 220 205 222 190 249202 185 181 177 N/A 145 219S smark 32 169 221 227 202 206 NIA NIA 173 231191 187 160 208139800-567-1616www.colilpaq.ca$2,492 SRP1L 1P604-279-9886www.comp u con.corn$?,4902L 2PContactInternet contartSystem priceWarranty(years labor, parle)Notes: Ag prices are street prices or estimated street prices unless otherwise indicated. 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Direct 3D 64 bit graphics MPEG video playback PremierSound, ported UltraBass speakers One button internet access JBL VMax 3D theater surround sound e Windows 95 MS Works MS Moneye MS Bookshelf MS Encarta 97 Creative Writer II and many more 300 x 600 dpi SCSI card (PC only) 1 year warranty' 8.:--=I-I-olStotitBank0CO I, IHaStingS St. g a 'jChristmi8 Spieigl -'Ltmitod T!meLaserCanon BJC 240/4300...............$189/289Lcxmark 1000/7000.................$189/499Epson 400/600 l440dpi...........$279/369Epson Stylus Photo........................$629HP DeskJet 670C/820C...,......$285/359HP DeskJet 692C/722C............$359/459HP DeskJet 870C/890C............$529/599HP OfficeJet 300/350..............$579/619HP OfficeJet-Pro 1150C................,$l329Brother HL720................................$339Brother HL730DX+ w/ Interne.....$43*Brother HL760DX.........................$519*HP 6L 600dpi,6ppm.........................$529HP LaserJet 6P!6MP...............$989/1269o Mitsumi 6X/ Liteon 12X...;......................$69/85BTC 20X CDROM......................................,...$99Panasonic/Toshiba 24X CDROM......SIIS/125Pioneer l2X/24X Int. SCSI ..................$129/169Plextor 20X Int/Ext SCSI,.....................$289/399Mitsumi 6x2 IDE CDWriter Kit...HP 7100i Rewritabl CD IDE........Sony 928 8x2 IDE CDWritcr........Yamaha 400i 6x4 CDWriter..........Yamaha 4001 IDE Rewritable CDMemorex/TDK CDR Disk........16bit 3D PnP Sound Card...............................$23Accr 3DFX/AW35-Pro Wavctabl.........,.,$27/49Sound Blastcr 16/32 PnP......................$59/99Sound Blaster AWE64/Gold 4M.....$109/24980/320W Multimedia Speaker.................$20/$49YAMAHA MI5/M20/Subwofr........$89/129/115Altec Lansing ACS45 w/Subwoof.............$129Altec Lansing ACS48 PowerCube...........:..$199...$519...$579...$449..$659..$899$4/$5Zoltrix 33.6/56K Voice/Fax.........$65/119Acer 33.6/56K Voice/Fax............$79/1 19Motorola 56K Fax! Voice...........$129/139Supra 33.6/56K Voice/Fax........$$9/169USR 33.6/56K Voice/Fax..........$129/179Motorola 56K Ext Fax/Voice....$159/169USR 56K Ext. Fax (Box)................$259Cardinal Int. ISDN Modem...........$269Xircom 33.6 PCMCIA PC Card.......$229 a Only ~PENTIUM TRITON III-VX MB w/ MMX512K PIPELINE CACHE64MB EDO RAM4.3GB EIDE HARD DRIVE1.44 FLOPPY DRIVEATI 3D EXPRESSION RAGE IIBUILT-IN DVD SUPPORT24X SPEED CDROM2 AMPLIFIED SPEAKERS104 KEY WIN95 KEYBOARDSOUND BLASTER16 SOUND CARDWIN 95 KEYBOARD & MOUSE33.6 VOICE FAX MODEM15' NI,LR SVGA MONITORCANON BJC-250 COLOR PRINTERPentium 233MNX Pentium II266PENTIUM-II LX CHIPSET MB w/AGP512K PIPELINE CACHE32MB SDRAM3.2GB EIDE HARD DRIVE1.44 FLOPPY DRIVEATI 3D EXPRESSION RAGE IIBUILT-IN DVD SUPPORT24X SPEED CDROM2 AMPLIFIED SPEAKERS104 KEY WIN95 KEYBOARDSOUND BLASTER16 SOUND CARDWIN 95 KEYBOARD & MOUSE33.6 VOICE FAX MODEM15' NI,LR SVGA MONITORg a5%ekntiesAccr 300F /610+ 1200dpi....,.$239/339Microtek E3/E6......................$l99/399UMAX 600P/600S................$249/269HP ScanJet 5P/6100..............$379/969Maxtor 1.3/1.7G.....................$169/189Quantum 2.1/3.2G ST.............$239/289Quantum 4.3/6.4G ST.............$359/479WD 3.1/4.3/5.1G..............$289/369/479Maxtor 2.5/3.2/4.3G........$249/269/349Maxtor 5.2/7.1/8.6G........$419/499/589QT 3.2/4.3/6.4G ST.........$429/479/659IBM UltraStar ES2 2.16G UW..... .$479QT Altasll 2.2/4.5G UW...,....$479/799Barracuda 4.5/9.IG UW........$879/1269Cheetah 4.5/9.1G UW..........$969/1539(10036 rpm -7.5ms AV Drive)Panasonic 1.44 Floppy.....................$28IOmega Zipl00 IDE......................$139OR Tech LS120 SuperDisk...........$169Ditto 2.0/3.2G TapeDrive........$189/269SCANNERSCSI64 bit SVGA IM w/MPEG................................$29S3 3D Virge 4M EDO.............,.......................$69ATI Mach64 w/ MPEG.......................................$75ATI 3D Xpression 2M .......................................$69ATI 3D Plus/TV 4M SGRAM...................$1 19/139ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV 4/8M............$189/239ATI All-In-Wonder 2/4M.......................$279/329Diamond Stealth 3D PC2TV 4M.....................$139Diamond Viper 4M/FireGL Pro 8M........$249/339Hercules Stingray 128 3D 6M........................$279Matrox Mystique II 4M..................................$149 .Matrox Millcnium Il 4/8M......................$219/$339Monster 3Dfx Woodoo 4M............................$223ATI XperWork/(Play 4M.................$209/229ATI XperWork/QaPlay4M AGP....,...$249/269ASUS 3D-Exploer 30004M AGP...................$199TekRam How-R-V Video Confer................$269Daytek 1436/15' 1531.28 Digital.............$219/289KTX/Proview l4' /15'.28 Digital............$209/289Sceptre 15' P531 ..............................................$349NEC 15' A500.28/E500.25.....................$479/529SONY 15' 100SX/SF:25..........................$519/549Accr 17' 76e/76c/78ic.26 1600.........$579/649/689Goldstar l7' 7D/78D.25 1600,.................$659/799NEC A700/E700,25 Multisync................$779/919Panasonic17' S70/P70/PF70...........$749/899/1 199Samsung 17' GLi/700S/700P.26......$6$9/719/909Sceptre17' P73A/P75A.26 1600.............$639/699SONY 17' 200SX/SF.25........................$879/1039Viewsonic Optiquest 17' V773/775.26....$699/779Viewsonic 17' G773.26/P775..........,......$739/889Viewsonic l7' PT775/19' V95......,......$999/1299Adaptec 1505 SCSI Ctlr..........Diamond Fireport 40UW........ASUS SC875 UW SCS PCI...Adaptec 2940U Ultra SCSI.....Adaptec 2940 UW (Kit)........Ovislink Ethernet ISA ComboOvislink Ethernet PCI Combo8/18 Port 10Bast-T Hub..........APC UPS 280/400 VA....MGE UPS 250/450 VA...Windows 95OSR2 Full Ver..........Lotus SmartSuit 97 Full Ver.......,.Corel WordPerfect Suit 8...............MS-Home 97 CD Packs................(Encarta,Works, Money, Golf,Exp.)M S-Office Pro97...................,....NT4.0 Wkstation Full.................Prides are cash discountedsubject to change w/o notice of their repeetiwe owners.......$89....$239....$169....$259.....$329.......$29.......$35$89/179.....$145/209...,.$139/199$129..$69..$99.$79$359$2691 : :.-,'.::;:,:.-':ACCT j-' ..,Mitsumi 104 Keyboard............................$20Fujitsu 8725/4725 KB.......................$29/59Liteon Natural KB TouchPad.................$79M icrosoft Natural Keyboard....................$85Mitsumi PS/2 Mouse,...............................$15Logitech 2B/3B MouseMan................$19/35Genius Net Mouse/Track Ball..........$19/39Microsoft Intelli Mouse.........................$59T.N.T 13'/15' Case w/230W............$39/49T.N.T 19'/25' Case w/230W...........$69/109T.N.T ATX 19'/25' w/230W..........$99/129Super IDE I/O Card....................,..........$30Removable Hard Disk Rack.....................$22...'5-:4:.tlii Biitm'Hei'.:4i~6ij ';,.KxjiesSe~ l p eth A'mdrka'~;'::You've,mme'Chy.ie+~ %%ien.:':. NOmtr'a dirge' ' 'knms 4 S atmtn 'i'n ' ypSdt~wades ' ' ' m~m ,.Skt': rn!;, w Pt,trp z . ACCO '94''U P t N C .tions to serve ou.T ER G R O~ 2 1ocaFree Gifts with System Purchase 32MSDRAM-10ns 'l19-:-:;Util,'S':SIIrtt/IOII':.6x86200+ '1299 ': 6x86/)IX>66'1739 . 233/01a76 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca,'TCP TEST LABSA computer for ChristmasContinued from page 68An interesting feature on this machine isthe detachable media unit that contains theCD-ROM drive, floppy drive and a digitalpanel that shows the current date and time, aswell as the number of fax and voice messagesyou have waiting. Priced at $2,499, this sys-tem comes with a one-year limited warranty,with the first six months being on-site service.Packard Bell Multimedia $61SPackard Bell's latesto ffering i s t hi sS615, a machineloaded with greatcomponents andready for work orplay. Powered by aPentium 233 MMXprocessor, 256KB ofe st~ a ' ofhealtha perfect CRFIStl118.SIf you use a computer you could be at Risk.pipelined cache and 32 MB of SDRAM, thissystem offers good performance and pricingfor a system in its class. The hard drive in thissystem is a large 5.1 GB Maxtor, which deliv-ers plenty of performance, not to mentionmore than enough storage space. The videosystem consists of an ATI 3D Rage II+ videocard with 2 MB of S GRAM onhoard.Multimedia accessories include a SoundBlaster 16 compatible sbund card, and a 24xCD-ROM drive. To get you online right out ofthe box, this system also includes a USR x256Kbps modem. 'Priced at $2,399, this system is hacked hy aone-year limited warranty for hardwaredefects, and 90 days of on-site service isincluded for those who register their PackardBell computer.UltinetThe fastest system this month was this Ultinetmachine equipped with an excellent mix ofcomponents eager to please the most demand-ing users. Powered by an Intel 233 MHzPentium MMX processor, 512KB cache and 64MB of. high-speed SDRAM, this machine man-aged to achieve an overall score of 231 on ourbenchmarks, propelling it to the top of thebunch when it comes to raw performance.Taking a look at the machine's internalworkings, it's easy to see why. With compo-nents like the Matrox Millennium II videocard with 4 MB of WRAM, and a QuantumFireball ST 4.3 GB drive, this system wasalready well on its way to achieving first place.To add the finishing teuches to this system,we have a Sound Blaster AWE64 sound card, aPanasonic 24x CD-ROM drive and aUSRobotics Sportster 56Kbps faxmodem. Ifyou' re looking for the fastest Pentium systemwe have ever tested, this is the machine to get.d hd;.:.'-' .' - 'afterimage. ' ' ' '--':::::-':-:-.- i~Intel Pcntium P-133 CPU 3ZMB EDO RAMPentium II Mother BoardS3 3D Yirgc Video Card2.6GB Ultra-IDE Hard Drive1.44MB Floppy Drive17' ATX CaseIntel Pentium ll 233 CPU, 512k Cache16MB EDO RAMPCI/ISA Mother BoardBuilt-in EIDE Ctrl, 512k Pipeline CachePCI 64bit Video Card1.08GB Hard Drive1.44MB Floppy Drive15' Mid-(owcr Case, 230W PS104 Win'95 Keyboard. MouseOnc month (rcc internet24xCD ROM104 Win'95 Keyboard. MouseOne month free internet14' SVGA Monitor15' SVGA Monitor 15' SVGA Monitor16Bit Sound Card 16B(t Sound CardOne month free internet ' ;,~ - One mo nth free intcrnct6OW Speakers Itl.o .;; 60W SpeakersPCI 64bit Video Card S3 3D Virge Video Cardintel Pentium P-133 CPU Intel Pentium P-200 MMX CPU16MB EDO RAM 32MB SDRAMPCI/ISA Mother Board. 512k Pipeline Asus TX97 Mother BoardBurst Cache, Built-in EIDE Ctrl 512k Pipeline Burst Cache Buih-in EIDE Ctrl2.6GB Ultra IDE Hard Drive 2.1G Quantum ST Ultra IDE Hard Drive1.44MB Floppy Drive 1.44M Floppy DriveI S' Mid-tower Case, 23OW PS 15' Mid-towcr Case, 23OW PS104 Win'95 Keyboard. Mouse 104 Win'95 Keyboard. Mouse24x CD ROM. 33.6 fax/modem ,. 24x CD ROM. 33.6 fax/modem$ j 528 P-266 $78 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca', HARDWARESoftware not up to hardware on Visioneer flatbedsBY EMRU TO W N S EN DVisioneer PaperPort 6000(Model 3000 also available)Manufacturer: VisioneerSystem requirements: IBM PC or compatible,Windows 95Estimated street price: $420 (Model 3000 is $250)Mention the names Visioneer orresolution of 300x600 dpi (dots per inch), andthe 6000 goes up to 600x1,200 dpi (both caninterpolate up to 2,400 dpi). Both boast 30-bitcolor, as well as their trademark ease of use andintuitive document management software. Afterusing the .PaperPort 6000, I'm convincedVisioneer has got what it takes to be a contender.Physically, the PaperPort is unassuming-one might even say petite. About the onlyremarkable feature is that the lid opens on thelonger side of the scanner, something I' ve neverseen before. The lid also lifts about 2 cm (.75 in.)off the hinge, neatly accommodating books. Ispent a little time searching in vain for the powerswitch, only to discover it doesn't have one; theunit powers down after prolonged inactivity.Installation was a snap. I connected thePaperPort to the parallel port (sorry, Mac own-ers) of my computer, and put my existing par-allel cable into the scanner's pass-throughconnector. After installing the TWAIN driverand the PaperPort S.l document managementsoftware from the CD-ROM (a few mouseclicks and a short wait), I was ready for action.My first test involved scanning a letter-sized document at 600 dpi in monochrome(line art) mode. As expected, the PaperPort'sparallel connection made the scan noticeablyslower than a similar test on a SCSI scanner,the Microtek ScanMaker E3. (Oddly enough,the scan preview took three times longer onthe PaperPort, but the actual scan took only58 seconds compared to the ScanMaker E3's46 seconds.) Unexpectedly, the PaperPort tookslightly longer than some other parallel scan-ners, which was somewhat disappointing,Everything changed, however, when Itried a SxS cm (2x2-in.) color scan at 300 dpi.The speed was a grudgingly acceptable 3I sec-onds compared to the ScanMaker's 22 but thelost nine seconds were worth it. The resultingimage was sharper than that of any scannerI' ve ever tried in this price range. So muchsharper, in fact, that I double-checked the set-tings to make sure I hadn't accidentallyscanned the image at a higher resolution.Perhaps my only real complaint asidefrom the speed is with the PaperPort scanningsoftware. While I appreciate some of theusability features, such as one-click scan areasettings for a variety of paper sizes, on thewhole the program seems a little sparse. Thereis no option for zooming in on part of theimage during a preview. There is no provisionfor creating more than one set of custom scansettings, unless you' re willing to erase one of-the five existing presets. Unless you have aphotographic memory, there's no way to getthe original settings back without clicking onthe 'Restore Defaults' button which, inciden-tally, also erases all of the customized settings.Oh, did I mention that the customized set-tings can't be saved to disk?This is doubly irritating since the defaultbrightness and contrast settings produce anoverly bright image. This can be adjusted witha little fiddling, but make sure you don't hitthat 'Restore Defaults' button before writingyour preferences down.Along with the remarkably intuitivePaperPort S.I document management appii-cation, the software bundle includes theVisioneer Web Publishing K i t , X e roxTextBridge OCR, Quicken ExpensAble SE,Corex Ca rdScan S E , Pict u reWorksPhotoEnhancer, and Connectix QuickCardsSE pretty much everything the beginningscanmeister could ever need.The slow scanning speed and the rough-around-the-edges scanning software can befrustrating, but these aren't insurmountableobstacles, especially if Visioneer gets crackingon an upgrade. The real measure of a,scanneris the quality of the image, and the PaperPort6000's crisp scans are more than enough tobalance these annoyances, especially at such areasonable price. Visioneer has made quite anentrance with the PaperPort 6000; one canonly wonder what they' ll do for an encore. 0Contact: Vfsioneer, Tab 510-608-0300.Email: info@visioneeccomWeb site: http:f/www,visioneer.cornEmru Townsend (emrucam.org) thmks scanning isan art, and should therefore gel a large CanadaCouncil grant,PaperPort and many computerenthusiasts think of Visioneer's suc-cessful line of PaperPort page scanners, fromthe earlier monochrome models to the morerecent, funkier-looking Strobe. While theseunits were impressively compact and easy touse, they were designed specifically for scan-ning single-sheet paper products -'books andmagazines need not apply, When the timecame to use flatbed scanners, people had tolook elsewhere... until now.Visioneer has recently released its newentries into the low-cost flatbed scanner market,the PaperPort 3000 and 6000. 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After months of talkabout getting an NC with anIntel p rocessor t o ma rket,Oracle's Network Computer Inc.(NCI) subsidiary was finally ableto announce this fall that justsuch a thing was about to hap-NCI and Taiwan-based UmaxData Systems Inc. have unveileda software licensing agreementthey say will bring network com-. puters r unning X8 6 -basedmicroprocessors to the corporateand home office markets. Umaxsays it wil l manufacture andmarket network computers run-ning NCI's NC Desktop clientsoftware and sell them throughits channels and system integra-tors into corporate markets glob-ally.The first systems from thisnew Intel-based NC product linewill use 200 MHz Intel Pentiumprocessors typical of Windows-based desktop PCs. Umax hopesits NC-based systems will sell forless than US$700. The companyalso promises its new NC prod-ucts will support standard net-work interfaces including built-in Ethernet and graphic/soundcards, smart card readers as wellas a standard keyboard andmouse. Umax expects to ship theNCs as early as next month ini-t ially in Europe, with NorthAmerica t o fol low . GeogWheelwrightSeachange securesWould you like to be able toaccess the Internet, your officenetwork and the contents ofyour home or office PC froma nywhere i n the wor l d ?Mississauga's SeaChange Corp.aims to make secure globalInternet access available to busi-nesses and individuals in 1998.In October, SeaChange wasappointed a Canadian MasterSolution Partner by iPass, a sys-tem that allows mobile comput-er users to log onto any of 1,300Inte;net providers' points ofpresence, in 150 countries, andmake secure encrypted connec-tions'via the Internet, to corpo-rate networks, and individualcomputers. The iPass system,according to SeaChange's BillSimpson eliminates the need forContinued on page $t6tkB Y jOAN H O R N A LBY CEOF WHEELWRICHTMicrosoft E xcel, C o relQuattro Pro or Lotus 1-2-3,spare a thought for Dan Bricklin,inventor of the spreadsheet.indows software has become thenorm. There are still many moreD OS payrol l us ers th a nWindows payroll users, however, the DOSproducts are not evolving, they are simplybeing maintained, I have chosen to reviewonly Windows software this year as orga-nizations looking for a new payroll pro-gram will, in all likelihood, be looking fora Windows- or Macintosh-based system.All programs surveyed support multi-ple pay period types and all provinces andterritories of Canada. The software featurescontinue to improve; user interfaces aremore consistent with the Microsoft stan-dard and most of the products havebecome more flexible. I found all of theprograms to be ready for the year 2000.More and more systems are includinghuman resources information (or offeringadd-on modules for human resourcesAnnual surveyof Canadianpayroll softwareCanadian payroll software continues to becomemore feature packed and easier to use each yeartures.definable fields.Bricklin was the inventor andco-creator of the original 'killerapplication' for personal comput-ers: something called VisiCalc forthe Apple II. So, along with pro-grammer friend Bob Frankston (whoa ctually wrote t h e c od e f o rVisiCalc), Bricklin unleashed theworld's first spreadsheet in Octoberof 1979. It sold for $100 and quick-ly became a good reason for users tobuy Apple II microcomputers.Word-processors, presentationgraphics software, integrated pack-ages, desktop publishing applica-tions and Web browsers followedfrom other manufacturers, but fewsingle pieces of software had as bigan impact on the development ofthe industry as VisiCalc.Yet for all its brilliance and sim-plicity, the spreadsheet wasn't anidea that Bricklin attempted toown. In fact, he made far lessmoney from the spreadsheet indus-try than any of those who success-management purposes) along with user-Paymate and Easypay offer the bestvalue for your dollar in the under-$500category with their high-end features, easeof use and user friendliness. In the inte-grated category I liked the flexibility andcosting features in Quickbooks Pro.There was no obvious winner in theover $500 category. All of these productsare outstanding. Accpac for Windows andCanadian Payroll fo r W i ndows andMacintosh are easier to use than Avantiand Grandmaster Il bu t Avanti andGrandmaster have more high-end fea-All of the programs reviewed in thissurvey, except Checkmark, were installedand tested using Windows 95 on aPentium 100 MHz system with 16 MBCo@tinued on page 86Spreadsheet inventor turns to the WebNe xt time you l oad u pfully built on what Bricklin hadpioneered.Meeting Da n Br i cki in inSeptember of 1997, you would notsee a man who seemed bitter or dis-appointed about the way thingstumed out. In fact, Bricklin was fullof enthusiasm and 'big ideas' whenhe turned u p at Mic rosoft'sProfessional Developer's Conferencein San Diego to share a stage withMicrosoft co-founder and old rivalBill Gates (Microsoft's Multiplan wasone of the first spreadsheets to com-pete with VisiCalc).Bricklin was promoting what hecalled 'the first, innovative main-stream application in a long time onWindows.'It is called Trellix and aims toproduce the world's f i rst t ooldesigned purely for creating docu-ments that wil l be v iewed on-screen. He argues that all previousattempts to do this have been basedon the idea that viewing the docu-..OUNTINGment on-screen is a secondary func-tion to eventually printing the doc-ument out on paper or as an over-head transparency,Trellix does, however, supportexport to the HTML (hypertextmarkup language) standard used tocreate Web pages, and Bricklin sug-gests Trellix will thus be an idealway for creating online documentsthat can be viewed on the Web orover a corporate intranet.'When Bob Frankston and I cre-ated VisiCalc, we realized howimportant it was to let users buildcalculations which suited theirneeds. That meant allowing the userto lay out numbers, create labels,etc., without adhering to some pre-determined outline we had arbitrar-ily imposed,' he recalls. 'This madeworking with numbers accessible toall kinds of people, not just pro-grammers and financial managers.As we began developing Trellix, weContinued on page 89Dan Bricklin82 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.caSmall Business Compuf ingNetAngel, online help desk supportThe convenience andefficiency of an automatedPersonnel Management Systemis now available on your personalcomputer. Eight user-friendlymodules all drawing on acommon database make up theGrandMaster Suite.PayrollBY ROBERT EARLEYInternet.costs.Human ResourcesControl employee vacation andsick leave, enter appraisals, controltools and equipment, recordaccidents and WCB claims, humanrights and union grievances,employee bene6t claims.SchedulmgSetlip slllft Iotatlofis, automaticshift generations. leave schedules,select replacement employees byseniority, shift swappi'ng,Time KeepingManage payrolls small. largesimple or complex with the payrollmodule. 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You wiiiObligariun! nor lose aay of theWhy are we oiferiiig you this trial packagefreei0 0 0 0 8 0 8 0 0 0 S 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 Q aPosta/ CakI I ltimes. We wanted to be treated well. We want-ed to be treated efficiently.'Jones observes that everyone is connectedto the Net, paying real money 'to have thingshappen instantaneously.' Yet when it comesto getting computer help from customer sup-port, 'we have to pick up the old analog tele-phone device and yell down one end of thetin can and wait for somebody to pay atten-tion to us, and then hope they have theknowledge to fix the problem.'He says that 'with NetAngel we can cutout a lot of the gaps in that service level.'Most computer users don't know the tech-nical details of what's inside their computer,but that's what a technician needs to knowwhen they field a call coming in on the soft-0 5.25'33.5'screen.ware/hardware company's toll-tree help desk.What NetAngel promises to do is to give thehelp desk technician all the information heneeds when the customer logs into a supportdesk that uses NetAngel.Client, INanager and service DeskThe NetAngel system is made up of threecomponents: the client, which would beinstalled on a customer's machine, and theManager and Service Desk. which wouldreside with the company providing help-desksupport.As a client, you would dial into the ser-vice. If you dial manually, you'd put in the II'address, the password and port that the sup-porf company provides. NetAngel client couldalso be automated with a built-in addressbook, or access to the service could be provid-ed via a hot button on a Web page. What itdoes is transfer a file to your machine thatthen initiates a NetAngel session.Manager and Service Desk are the compo-nents of the NetAngelsystemthat acompanybuys for its customer support operations.When a customer connects over the Internetto the company's help desk, the Manager isthe first contact. It queries the caller on thenature of the problem, determines the cus-tomer's name, etc. It then sends a message tothe client component, inforining the cus-tomer that he or she is on hold, and a tech iscoming.During the subsequent exchange, theclient and service desk can communicate backand forth to each other at this point or thetechnician at the service desk could simplytype in 'Hi, John Doe' in other words, func-tionality here is similar to that of a chatAt this point NetAngel starts to becomedifferent from what currently exists, saysJones. If the service desk wants to check outthe customer's rnachine by getting a profile,the client gets a message requesting permis-sion to extract the information, The client canauthorize a single transaction, can reject thetransaction, or can authorize all future send-ing requests during this connection.NetAngel creates the profile in about 20seconds. The information comes right out ofthe Windows registry. Jones says the amountof information there is phenomenal. 'You cancheck out the display, memory, your drives,your current processes, your environment, thedevices. This is information that most techswould kill for and they don't normally get it.It's next to impossible to get, unless your talk-ing to a propeller head.'Jones doesn't plan to get into remote con-trol saying, 'remote contro1, we believe, willmake a lot of our clients very nervous. Alawyer would be very leery about turning overhis computer to a tech with a remote controlpackage. He'd have control of all the lawyer'sbilling and client records. That's why we buildin all the authorization and we don't get intothe active remote control.'The information in the sysfem is encrypt-ed, even the audio, wifh Seraph's own 12II-bitalgorithms. Jones says that is sufficien formost financial institutions. 'We recognizethat there's going to be some financial institu-tions that say no, we want more security. AndI g g 0 /THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 83.1Srnal J IBusiness Computingmake a mistake.NetAngelCnrrtinued from page S2we' ve actually got the softwar'e built so theycan add in their own dll's and put in theirown encryption, recognizing that if you startbumping it beyond what we' ve currently got,you' ll see real performance degradation.'Record keepingWhat if the client either isn't happy with theresult or claims the tech blew up his comput-er'? First there's a basic log at the service desk.The log tracks all the activity. The only thingit doesn't track is the voice interaction.The client also has a copy of the activity.And that means the client can always send intheir record to the manager of the system andpoint out where they think the technicianBut Jones adds, 'We cannot guarantee thata technician will not blow up your machine. Iwould suggest that the chances are probablyless than if the tech said now press any key.'PlatformsNetAngel Manager and Service Desk aredesigned for Windows 95 and NT. The Clientis for Windows 95 but the company is devel-oping one for Windows 3.1. Jones says aMacintosh client is a possibility, but a versionfor Unix is not planned. However, if they getthey get enough interest, they may portManager and Service Desk over to that envi-The most basic system will not have theSmall personal small workgroupWeb functionality and will not have voice.Jones says it's geared for a small town com-puter consultant, like himself. 'If a client callswith a problem and just has one line, I can' ttalk them through a fix. So what I' ll do is have-them dial in with their modem. I go onlineand communicate via chat. For that kind oflevel for a computer consultant we' re lookingaround the $300 range.The next level is for small companies, suchas computer suppliers. They may want thecapability to put the customer on hold, tohave one or two technicians, and a coupleclients being served.The final level is unlimited service deskseats with bAlt-in supervisory capabilitiesneeded in a big shop. (Supervisor desk soft-ware is 90 percent complete.)withTekkronixPhaser 350 up to 600 x 300 dpi 6 pages per minute, 4 colour Adobe PostScript level 2 $0.09 Cost per pagePhaser 660 e6 39gronment.Contact'.Seraph Canada Ltd., http:I/www.seraph.corn.Robert Earley is a freelance writer in Alberta.He can be reached at rearleyOcable-lynx.net.The current plan Jones says is to give awaythe Client software. It's easily downloadable,easy to install and configure. 3e4,496Dan BricklinCrmtimred from page Sfwanted to create a product environmentwhich would let users edit an entire hyper-text document in a single, integrated pack-age. It had to be more than just editing indi-vidual, linear pages and then linking themtogether.'He says this is where Trellix broke newground, giving users automation and directmanipulators through an on-screen docu-ment map. 'It's the way we integrate hyper-linking and working with all the pages atonce which sets Trellix apart from the tradi-tional office applications like Microsoft Officeor Lotus SmartSuite,' suggest Bricklin. 'As wedeveloped the product we incorporated rec-ommendations from a variety of experts-including neuropsychologists on the waypeople process information. We conductedformal usability testing, videotaping dozensand dozens of people of all ages and back-grounds using successive versions of theproduct.'But Bricklin still enjoys looking back onhis VisiCalc days, knowing that they markeda watershed in the computer industry.'It lcreating new types of applications] iswhat I do, it is how I am wired,' Bricklin says.'I am successful sometimes, but you havealways to keep trying. And when I turned 40,I didn't have to say 'what am I going to dowith my life' and that really makes me feelgood. If you are a child of the 1960s, youwant to change the world.'And anyone who can remember what itwas like to work with grids of numbers beforethe spreadsheet would have not troubleadmitting that this child of the 1960s didindeed change the world. 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This is a crowded field, with manynew and excellent products heing released.While we don't have the space to cover them aff,here is a short selection of some of our favorites.asTofilller-Sralle IRsher Price Ready for School ToddlerAge suitability: 18 mo. to 3 yearsPlatforms: Windows 31/95, MacintoshPrice: $42.99How young canyou start kidson computers?|. and Davidsonbelieve it is 18months. Theyo'.' have created aprogram basedon Fisher-Price' Little People characters.Ready for School Toddler just requires littlefingers to move the mouse around and clickon the keyboard. But parents will probablywant to play along to begin with. There areFisher-Pr iceFrom: Microsoft Carradar 'g$ ' 4>I!)IIf you go to a software store and browse theeducatioriai shelves, you will probably beoverwhelmed by the choice in curriculum-based software. Jumpstart, Reader Rabbit,Fager to learn and Ready for School are afew and all are excellent. Each teaches grade-or age-appropriate skills that would be taughttwo levels of play so the program will growwith your toddler. Ten different activities,colorful screens and lively activities offer ahands-on extension to preschool learning.Also included is a parenting guide on CD-ROM. A preschool version of Ready forSchool, for ages two to four, is available sep-arately.My Personal TutorAge suitability: 3-7 yearsPlatforlns: Windows 95/NTPrice: $89.95f..4tTteachers.in school at that level, offer repetitive but funexercises, and do truly improve or reinforcereading, math, spatial, etc. skills. They usuaiiyalso provide progress reports for parents andMicrosoft has just added its name to thelist of curriculum-based software with a newfour-CD program called My Personal Tutor.The four discs are: Preschool Skills, Alphabet,Reading and Math. Like the other curricufum-based software, this program progresses withkids, offers encouragement and gently pointsout errors and provides the repetitive practicein a fun format that kids at the early learningstages thrive on,But what sets this program apart isProfessor Presto, who pops up when a childmakes a mistake and explains in a multime-dia demonstralion what the problem type isand how to solve it. The activities are notexceptionally original (kids shoot downmath problems in outer space, one of theoldest formats around) but are sound, enter-taining and do target skills necessary todevelop reading, math, spatial, and earlylearning activities.Amazing AnimalsAge suitability: 5-9Platforms: Windows, MacintoshPrice: $36.994From OK Multimediafit the bill. AmazingA nimals com eswith 54 bug stick-e rs, tw o bo o ks( lurrerlible C r ea/Hrolters and brcrerhbfe Little Monsters), and abird mobile in addition to the disc. Looks likea great Christmas present to me. Henry theAlligator leads children through the puzzles,games and activities on the CD-ROM. Animalsfacts are read to the children Qr this featurecan be turned off to force the children to dothe reading. However, the audio functionmakes it a great research-teaching tool foryounger readers.The Jelly Post QfflceAge suitability: 4-8Platforms: Windows, MacintoshPrice: $31.99The Joily Post Office, also from DK Multimedia,is based on Tire Iooy posbnan books. 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A solid, sensible selec-tion combined with best quality for acompetitive price.w 0e x p e r i e n c eA wide variety of hardware, memory,storage, cd roms, printers, video cardsand other computer peripherals areavailable from Startek Computers Inc.For more information about the Voxonmonitors p lease v isi t y o u r lo ca Ireseller. To become a reseller of ourp roducts please contact one of ou rsales representatives at:voxon II(604) 207-3300STARTEK coMPUTER INc. Attention Resell ers!Call for Info on superb value] Q4 DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca= CHRISTMAS DISCSThe gift of learning on CD-ROMContinued f'yoyn page 102humorous adventure, in which players helpout in a rural post office with a decidedlyBritish flavor (although the geography lessonsare based only on the continental U.S.).The poor postmaster has a few brokenparcels that need to be put back together. Kidscan also design and print their own stationery or::::FVt'.tF. INIXEDPf)STI)FFN:I%H$ St'au 4~~ l~ 5AF 8& ~ubusiness cards; weighparcels and figure thecorrect postage; or sortletters so the offMutypostman can have acup of tea! This hasstrong educational con-tent, but with creativeactivities thrown in.franklin the TurtleFrom Sanctuary WoodsAge suitability: 4-6Platforms: Windows, MacintoshPrice: $45Last but not least for this age group isToronto's own Franklin the Turtle series fromSanctuary Woods/Theatrix. The lastest andgreatest is Franklin's Activity Centre, which isfull of fun for your four to six year old. Kidscan make birthday cards or dress Franklin inhundreds of outfits, which can then be print-ed out. They can also solve puzzles and helpFranklin make a few matches on three diffi-culty levels.Srtllet 1-5ClarisWorks for KIdsFrom Clarls Corp.Platforms: Macintosh (Windows 95 version coming)Price: $79u e:i'f~iie':''' '~.;::'Gf',.QPlf'Qclkiiu'au+ tusuh m m 4pl l l u , K djlp amura aa all au .;,:- :+c;.'lacaas ai Rolatdl Iau umsIBM Compatible Computer SystemsCustom built to your ownSPECII'ICNIONS ~I I - I ' I ' - . 160MHz NNX 200 MHz MMX 2338lHz NMX 160MHz MMX 200MHz NNX 233MHz MMXI ' e 0 - ? aI ' - . I u ClarisWorks for Kids is a rather clever programthat covers word processing, painting, graphs,lists and other activities. You can set the pageand fonts to look like the double-lined paperyounger kids use in school. Forits designedespecially for kids are also available. There iseven a child-friendly filing system and dia-logue boxes and menus are spoken out to helpyounger children navigate.just like the templates in adult word proces-sors, the ones here help kids write letters, cre-ate newsletters or illustrate book reports withthe hundreds of pieces of clip art included inthis profram. There is also a spell checker witha 110,000-word dictionary. Or kids can practicemath with electronic flash cards or keep trackof their baseball and hockey cards in the 15ct 17 M$208 $289 $549SVGAMONITORSBusiness Hoursrsoa, Tuas, Wad.............9.00am - 5.30pmThm; FrL............... .......9.00am - 6.30pmSaruntay....... .................. 9.00am - 5.50pmSunday.... . . . . ...CLOSED.....From: Creative Wonders- From DK MultimediaPlatforms: Windows 95Price: $39.95Eyewitness Children's Encyclopedia also getsthe nod in our best encyclopedias roundup. Myson in grade three is studying medieval historyand he is obsessed with castles and knights, so Idid a search for things medievaL Searching'castle' returned a written discussion, whichcan be heard by clicking on the text. The search .also returned 'more about' links and a labeled,color drawing of a castle that could be rotated.Madeline Claesroon CompanionPlatforms: Windows 3.1/95, MacintoshPdce: $49Madeline Classroom Companion, for Grades Iand 2, is a charming and original way to sup-plement classroom curriculum. Students entershops in Paris for each activity, which includesFrench or Spanish lessons. Madeline is morethan the three R's. It includes geography,telling time, safety, counting money and mak-ing change, science and cultural awareness.This program comes across as moreCanadian than American in its content andgentle style, even though it is an Americanproduct. Kids love it and teachers gush over it.An extra perk is the printable stickers andpostcards with samples from Avery Kids.Continued on page 106 I 'e e e I AcerOP EN System tI ~%% P45'-'-'~I ':,.'.;:~ ,;, I 30 XpressIon+ SGRAM 2MB/4MB,;::;...;':= $90/1'15.' >I 06 DE CEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca=tLM CHRISTMAS DISCSThe gift of learning on CD-ROMCpntinner/ frufn Page 104Major league ReadingFrom: Sancturary WoodsPlatforms: Windows 3.1/95. MacintoshPrice: $29.95Getting boys to read can be a problem.Sanctuary Woods (now merged with Theatrix)has a great program called Major LeagueReading that should encourage both boys andgirls to read. Kids choose a team and read pas-sages to i mprovereading comprehension,spelling and vocabulary skills at four levels.You can even add your own spelling or vocab-ulary lists.Castle ExplorerFrom: DK MultimediaPlatforms: Windows 3.1/95, MacintoshPrice: $35.99Castle Explorer from DK Multimedia is anadventure for kids into the realm of a 14th-century castle. They explore under the guiseof a treacherous spy or an honest page. As apage, the characters explain more about cas-tle life and medieval times. But the spy mustfirst adopt a disguise and then go on theII 2607 Kingsway Vancouver B.C. 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There is also a notebook forentering research notes and copy/paste func-tions. And for mum or dad, Compton's hasadded The Complete Interactive CookbookCD-ROM as a bonus.Earth QuestFrom: DK MultimediaPlatforms: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, MacintoshPrice: $35.99Wow! Super 3D graphics and terrific activitiesbesides solid information sections characterizethis disc. Students can create six types of volca-.noes and watch them erupt, activate earthContinued on page 1 1 l~' ~ ~x C ompton's CompleteIo o e o o o a a o o a o o o o o o o o o e a a o o o o a o 9 o a a o o o o o o a a a a o o o o o o a o o a o o o o a o e o o a o o o a o o o a o o o e o o o o o a a o ar IOUniserve SystemsInc.2O12 Wall StreetVancouver, CanadaVSL IBITel: (604) 215-3652Fax: (604) 215-%16yg)emmepeq)Iqm IbfC5thel'Goateed!n! Mhk k Q4~'-' '4THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 ) 09- CHRISTMAS DISCSA Mac user's CD-ROM favoritesBY PETER MILBURN ing the c omplete Hubble Guide StarCatalogue. In addition to this, you can accessthe wealth of celestial information (includingthe Digitized Sky SurveyT) on the Web via theprogram's LiveSkyT interface. A sophisticatedHands-on Orbit Editor allows you to addnewly discovered comets, asteroids and otherorbiting objects. For those of you with motor-driven telescopes, Starry Night has its owncontroller plug-in support. An LX-200 tele-scope controller comes bundled with the pro-gram.Starry Night comes with many other fea-tures too numerous to be described in thisarticle. If you have more than a casu-From: Sienna Softwarekay, so we' ve all heard the endless rav-ings on the latest this or the latest thatfor Wintel boxes; But lest we forget, alot of pioneering effort on multimedia andCD-ROM development happened on the Mac.Following are some of the titles that have wona central place on my Mac. Oh yeah some ofthem run on Wintel too!Starry Night Deluxe 2.0Function: Photo-realistic sky simulator for stargazingPlatform: Mac OS, Windows 95/NTPros: Elegant user interface, blazing fast performanceon PowerMac, breathtaking photoreaiism, accuratesimulations, catalogue of 19 million celestial objects,plug-in architecture for newly discovered objects,LiveSky Internet interface, Quicktlme movie recording' and playback of events.Cons: NoneRetail price: $118g r I ris;,.~;,:'It made use.,:mfa good assortment .:-~,-] ] Q DECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca= CHRISTMAS DISCSal interest in astronomy, you will find the pro-gram to be one of the most engaging, entertain-ing diversions you' re likely to find anywhere. Ifyou' re an educator, amateur/professionalastronomer, or have a casual interest in the nightsky, then Starry Night Deluxe is a must buy.links LSFrom: Access Software Inc.Function: Photo-realistic golf simulation gamePlatform: Mac OS, Windows 95Retail price: $65Access Software keeps pushing the envelopeon this great golf simulation. New featuresinclude photorealistic terrain rendering and amore accurate ball flight model. You can playup to 1,600x1,200 resolution in millions ofcolors if you have enough video RAM. Add todu Vy '.;.':fm~ ' - r,-;y . : .='-.:::.- thiS neW game,.: play, best IfallI :p and skin s .-'.,; Position-depen-ft dent 16-hit 3lt- :,:,~ coupled w i thformats t h a tinclude matchhas to be seen to be believed.Civilization iiFrom: GT Interactive/MacSoftFunction: Strategy/simulation gamePlatform: Mac OS, Windows 95Retail price: $65g glg T h i s is thesequel to whatis consideredgreatest com-puter games ofall time.Improvementshave beenm ade to t h euser interface,graphics andartificial intelligence. You first start out as theruler of a'n infant civilization. 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From: GT Interactive/MacSoftChess MatesFrom: GT Interactive/MacSoftFunction: Chess TutorPlatform: Mac OS, Windows 95Retail price: $55Mario TeachesTyping 2 turnst he bonn g ,repetitive taskof learning totype into a fung ame. H a v eMario, Luigi orthe P r i ncessescort youthrough thebeginning, intermediate and advanced worldsof keyboarding skills, and before long you willbecome a touch-typing expert. 0Contact:Access Software Inc,Web site: http:I/www.accesssoftware.cornGT Interactive, Web site: http:I/www.gtinteractive.cornMacSoft, Web site: http: //www.macsoft.cornSienna Software, Tel: 800-252-541 7.Web site: http: //www.siennasoft.cornPeter Milburn is a consultant with Elite SystemsSupport located in Calgary, Alberta. He can be reachedon the Internet at elitecadvision.cornIf you' re new tochess or wouldsimply like tolearn to playb etter, the nBrainstorm'sChess Mates ismedia teachingtee. ar me ueeae eaemeew o carer 'r'r tool for hot llc hildren a n dadults. Engage in any of the three gamemodes: you can leam the game from scratch,attempt to solve chess puzzles or test youracquired skills against Wigby the Wizard in afull-fledged game of chess.Mario Teaches Typing 2Function: Typing TutorPlatform: Mac OS, Windows 95Retail price: $55modem/network play makes this a game that' j-: ' ~~' a great multi-'AIuadaatadm cad tavaterad eadtmarha ma ttm taayay al ttmti I ayaatiea ttatdamDECEIvISER 1997THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EOITION www.tcp,ca=~~~ CHRISTMAS DISCS ISCOYERY MULTI-MEDIA,-:y Dr u s eThe sglft of lemmingon CD-ROMCofier/ from page 106s Ws quakes and see theeffect. Over 200 sam-pies of rocks and* ge ms are showcased.The CD-ROM coverse volution of t h eEarth and plate tec-tonics. Whether ornot your child is abudding geologist orgeophysicist, th isprogram is a treasure. Get bonus points for yourchild by showing it to the school librarian. Apocket book, Rocks 6r Miernls, is included as 6bonus.4 oosebssmpsFrom: Droamworks InteractivePlatform: Windows 95Price: $56.99Goosebumps, is worthy of mention becauseit is based on one of the most popular seriesof books for pre-teens. If playing the game 'encourages kids to pick up books and readmore, then thumbs up. Goosebumps:Attack of t h e Mu t ant c omes f romDreamworks, an offspring of Microsoft. The30 graphics are great (Dreamworks isknown for innoyative graphics) and thegame play can be quick and tricky. There issome violence and scary subject matter inthe game, but on the same level as thebooks. You are pulled into the game to helpthe 'good guys' thwart the Masked Mutantthrough 15 scary but exciting levels ofgame play. Should keep them busy for mostof the Christmas holidays.SD Body Adventure3 D DinosaurAdventme of PlnocchloAfrica Trail 'Atter the Bean StalkAmazon TraBAnimals, San Diego ZooArthur's Birthday*Arthur'sTeacherTroubla 'AArageous(Amazing Art)Aslmov Science AdventureBabeBeginning ReadingBerensteln Bear 'Bfmy-Explore FarmCardshop PlusCarman Sandlego Jr.Children DictionaryCemptom'0 Zeo ExplorerCfyola Art StudioCryola Art Studiio 2Dinosaur EncyclopediaDiscover EnglishDr. Brain, lost MindOr Brain, the Time WarpEven More Incre. 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Thecompany's new release is DA Pursuit ofJustice. Both have interesting graphics withfull-motion videos that pop up from time totime. The game play is challenging but edu-cational.ln D.A., players assume the role of a dis-trict attorney and must use their legalknowledge, which they gain by playing thegame, to convict criminals in increasinglydifficult cases. You must review the evi-dence, analyze finger prints, check autopsyreports, interrogate witnesses and challengethe clever defense attorney before a judgeand jury.At your side is a legal database, crime iab,coroner's office and access Io police records.Playing the game is like moving into an L.A.Linv courtroom and interacting with script,set and actors, just as Emergency Room putyou in the hot seat as a young resident hop-ing to aspire to chief of the E,R.L ast C hristmas Ireviewed EmergencyRoom from a start-upcompany cal l edLegacy Software. 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The other aspects of the showare the keynotes speeches, conference andtutorial sessions, where professionals paybig money (around USSI,500) to sit in onpanel discussions or tutorial sessions onNot interestedDon't be so sure.The Computer Paperwas in San FranciscoSept. 29-Oct. 3, at theSeybold publishingconference, to trackdown the latest graphicsand publishing softwareand hardware systems.e conference, which is hosted bySoftbank, the same organization respon-sible for Comdex expel, showed ampleproof that it is becoming a major launchpadfor markets other than professional print pub-lishing. It was the site of the officialannouncement of Microsoft's InternetExplorer 4.0 and the kickoff of Apple's new uhammad All graces a billboard in Apple's 'Think~ijrj~' '..how to solve mission-critical problems, or tolearn about the latest technologies in digitalad delivery, color management, Web pub-lishing, and so on,Thus, the Seybold show has gained a broad-er focus since the days when publishing was apaperwnly production, On day one of the con-ference, Netscape demonstrated its latest Webdevelopment effort, code-named Aurora.Netscape showed how Aurora's Web-site layoutlanguage tedmology used a meta data frame-work, called Resource Description Framework{RDF), to organize, describe, and display infor-mation from the Interne, intranets, LANs,legacy databases, and PC hard drives into oneuniversally recognizable format.Microsoft had some Web-related announce-ments of its own that day.That evemng, at a dubMoscone hall, Microsoftchief executive officer BillGates and the InternetExplorer developmentteam offtdally launched IE4.0.Back at the Seyboldconference, Adobe's chiefexecutive officer JohriWamock presented a lookat some interesting newtools his company hadcalled Mason's near thedeveloped to aid in 'cross-media' develop-ment, Warnock sees emerging opportunitiesfor merging and creating content once andusing it for print, CD-ROMs, and the Web-while separating form and content to easethat re-purposing, Warnock foresees asset anddocumentmanagement also becoming moreimportantto companies as content is growingat a faster rate. Adobe says it will release freeupdates to PageMaker 6.5 that will providesupport for improveddocument portability byDecember. And thus ended the first day.Day 2: There we were at the expansiveMoscone Center, just across the street from n n eOifferent'campaignGROAHIHG, SQUMIHG, WIIINIHG, (LIINKIHG, JAHHIHG,SLIPPIHG, DIRTY, HO PRINT QIIALITY, HOT PBFORHIHG~T?I I P I $ I) LOQTIOI5N(IIITlNLight W G Oean starting at only $99'(inTHE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997the city's spectacular Museum of Modem Art,waiting in line to attend featured keynotes byboth Gates and Apple 'interim chief exectu-t ive officer,' Steve Jobs on Oct. I and 2,respectively,The main foyer provided the first evidencethat this wasn't the same sort of Seybold showwe'd attended a few years earlier (check outthe Seybold report from our Dec. '93 issue inour online archives at http: //www.tcp.ca). Inbygone days, the registration system was han-dled on Macintosh systems, and the Mac wasclearly the dominant platform with the pony-' tailed and brightly vested attendees. This year,attendees looked more corporate (the $1,500conference session fees might have had some-thing to do with that), and they lined up at PCportables to complete their registrations,while a huge Microsoft banner hanging overthe escalator pronounced 'Windows: thePlatform for Publishing.'On a nearby wall, a monstrous Intergraphbanner touted the speed of Windows NT pub-lishing workstations that company officialsclaimed were up to 36 times as fast as Apple'sPowerMac 9500. Indeed, things had changedin Apple's stronghold.Of course, Apple was there at the show,and under the guiding hand of Jobs, was mak-ing a few splashes of its own. The night beforethe conference opened, during the televisionpremiere of the computer-animated movieToy Story on the Wonderfiil Worlrl of Disney,Apple had rolled out its controversial new'Think Different' ad campaign. (This was notcoincidental, Toy Stvry was produced by Pixar,a company whose chief exectutive is noneother than Jobs.)The new Apple ad that ran on the Disneyshow focused on great historical figuresinstead of MIPS, windows and megahertz. Asimilarly therned full-page ad ran in Monday'sUSA Today newspaper, delivered to t hedoorsteps of all the hotel rooms in the vicini ty of the conference. In short, Apple made itclear that it's not out of the race yet. And yes,we' re of the opinion that the campaign slogan'Think Different' is grammatically incorrect.The gospel accerdln9 te Gatesas a Web-connected entertainment centerwhere, instead of being used, as today's PCmonitors are, by a user sitting a mere arm' slength away, the 'smart TV' will be in the farn-ily room, with the users sitting ten feet away.Gates is apparently convinced that a TVwith a hard drive inside to cache your favoritecontent will bring this Web lifestyle to themass market, and several of his commentsintrodudng the CD&4600 low cost Ci? duplicator, capable of producing up to 6CDs simultaneously without the need of a PC. The CD&4600 is loaded with sixquad speed CD writers and one 20X CD-ROM reader. The CD&4600 controllerperforms a direct CD to CD-R copy of afl industry standard formats, without theneed to buffer thmugh a hard drive.The heart of the CDS-4600 is it's smart controller, which can identify and copy up totwenty-four 650MB/74-minute CD-Rs in 15-18 minutes. No time is wasted storingthe image to s hard drive prior to copying, although the system is equipped with anA/V hard drive, for use with networking, autoloadcr connections, or working withDAT tapes.BIBB LB OF B RATIO asThe CDS-4600 is a self contained unit that csn be configured to meet your productionrequirements. No host PC is required, and with its simple 'ONE BUTTON'operation, you can easily copy right from the master, with no 'read in' required.The system's time saving Auto Format Detection indentifiss the master CD's format.The Ci?S-4600 can also be hooked directly to a PC and operate as a burner, for tim eswhen you need to create that initial master from a non~ source.4 0 ICI I C O I B SWith no time wasted on reading the master image to s hard drive, the CDS4600gets right to making copies. Outfitted with six 4x writers, the CDS-4600 duphcates6 full 74 minute CD in 15-18 minutes. The CDS-4600 affows you to change the copyspeed of your 4x writer from 1x, 2x or 4x, fmm the keypad. The CDS4600's 20xmaster read-in drive enables the system to perform a high speed compare, providinga fast and efficient quality control process. IA C t I C A L A II O I O I t ATIIR BAudio producers can take advantage of CDS-4600's unique Digital Audio TrackExtraction feature, where tracks from various discs csn bc mixed snd recorded forcustomized applications. For the audio professional requiring strict control overthe recording process, the CDS4600supports studio quality CD-DA and DAT import.Red Bookcomplianceinc)udes sub indexes, ISRC and UPC codes.E ASILY EX F A II O A I L The CDS-4&00 csn be nehvorked to Qves additional units, providing the cspsdty torecord st 96X speed throughput that's 24 CD-ROMs recorded simu) tsneously inmore near and dear to the hearts of the audi-reflected this belief. He talked of the benefits ofhaving color management in the Web browser(and used online shopping for sweaters as hisexample) and claimed that Microsoft is assum-ing that natural (continuous) speech input wi)Ibe the way most of us communicate with ourcomputers in a few years.Of course, Gates soon shifted to topicsprofessiwwl CB ifOM unrl Q-R~hhrt'mrs Systee...the ' )Sst24XSpeer/,~ le,f t e l iubie nwdErrey to I/se,GDS-4IO 2@ KTAND-AlONE CD DIINCATION IIVSTEINI l Y I I ~ I I ~ I I ' l . 1ence before him. As is seemingly inevitable atsuch events, Gates resorted to the popular'dog and pony show' technique of paradingout a stream of leading solution providers. Forhis one-two punch, Gates chose Adobe chiefJohn Wamock and Macromedia boss BudColligan.Gates and Warnock announced collabora-t ive effor ts to add T ype 1Of'LE4$ENRB4%%!Neath'ANmmhg Wutuat~l4,005At any rate, I eventually got into the huge con-ference hall where' Gates was to give hiskeynote address. As might be expected, Gates'ideas reflected many of Microsoft's directionsand products, such as WebTV, InternetExplorer and the forthcoming version 5.0 ofWindows NT. However, rather than merelyhyping current Microsoft products (such asInternet Explorer 4.0), Gates focused on abroader vision of the future a world wherethe 'Web lifestyle' is ubiquitous; where use ofthe Internet is so common it is simply taken forgranted. In his speech, Gates expounded onthis idea with an emphasis on 'new mediapublishing,' by pushing his vision of the TV ofthe future. 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Quark, Gatessaid, was announcing its intent to port all ofits apps to Windows. (Elsewhere on the showfloor, the company was showing QuarkXPress4.0 running very, very quickly on InterGraph'su nder-US$2,000 300 MH z P entium l lmachines running NT 5.0).Gates also touted the i nc lusion ofColorSync-compatible color management anddemonstrated advanced Plug and Play func-tionality in its upcoming OSes by plugging aLogitech VSB scanner into a machine runninga prerelease version of Windows NT 5.0 with-out turning the power off. 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Jobs scarcelymentioned thefuture and avoidedt he topic o f t h ecompany's unre-leased RhapsodyOS enti re l y .Instead, Jobs' focus was on allaying fearsabout the events in the weeks before theshow Jobs attempted to explain why Applehad put the largest Mac cloner (PowerComputing) out of the Mac market entirelyand why, only a few weeks later, Motorolaand IBM (the suppliers of the PowerPC chipsat the heart of every PowerMac!) had losttheir MacOS licenses as welt.Jobs explained, in a passionate speech fre-quently marked by profanity, how the dealsApple had made with Power Computing,Motorola and IBM were not good businessdeals and how their exiting the Mac clonemarket would be a Good Thing. It was atough sell, but, as at Gates' talk the daybefore, a number of the company's bestknown developers came up on stage to vowtheir commitment and support for thethe drivers, and was ready to scan in seconds.It was a compelling demo of just how easy,USB makes PC hardware configuration,although I could have sworn I saw a look ofrelief on Gates' face.Note that USB support is already avail-able in recent releases of Windows 95-specifically, the OSR2.1 release added USBdrivers. USB support will be a standard fea-ture in both Windows 98 and NT 5.0.Although most new motherboards comewith USB built in, you can add USB ports toan existing system, using add-on cards avail-able from several manufacturers.Gates also described NT 5.0's new 'Find aPrinter' feature that allows you to search forprinters on a network based on the printers'capabilities (color, paper size, etc.). Gatesclaims that, once found, Windows will, witha simple right-click, install the necessary dri-ver and install the appropriate color man-agement device profile automatically. Healso noted NT c u r rently has b u i l t - inAppleTalk network connectivity.Such demonstrations, plus state-of-the-artsoftware support f rom Q u ark, Adobe,MetaCreations and others, showed all tooclearly the speed at which NT is catching up asa publishing platform.After his keynote, Seybold conferencefounder Jonathon Seybold came out of hispost-Softbank retirement to ask Gates severalquestions. One of the most interesting waswhy Gates neglected to even mention Javaduring his talk, Gates replied, 'I didn't thinkthe audience wanted to hear about program-ming. I didn't talk about Cobol, either.'Gates added, 'Hey, I'm a programmer, I lovetalking about languages.' Thus, Gates neatlysidestepped the issue.In general, Gates seemed to throw a fewbones to the print publishing crowd every nowand then, and then return to his main theme;the Internet is the future of publishing.jobs takes the stage5 8 moves. Adobe's Warnock noted that MacTHE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 115NEWSsales of Adobe software titles were still strong(over 50 pecent), and said he believed inwhat Jobs was doing. Quark's Gill got allchoked up as he uttered his words of sup-port. And then Jobs played twice the newApple 'Think Different' ad and describedhow things were indeed going to be differentat the new Apple.How do you get to talk to Jobs (otherthan emailing him at Pixar!)? Careful plan-ning worked for your faithful reporter, whomanaged to speak personally to Apple's chiefat the Seybold conference. Getting up early,standing in line for the Jobs keynote on Oct.2 (the only people in front of me were a pairof editors from MacAddict appropriate,don't you think?), and racing down to sit inan aisle seat next to the microphone waseasy. Now, the tricky part what would I sayif I got the chance? Considering the crowd' spenchant for publishing, I elected to askSteve about Apple's plans for OpenType,PostScript Level 3, OS-level PDF support andso on. When the QRA session began follow-ing his one-hour pep talk on why some ofthe recent tough decisions had to be made; Ijumped up and asked point blank whyAdobe Type 1 font support wasn't built intothe OS (what professional publisher on theMac uses TrueType?), and (to loud applause)whether TIFF/IT and PDF might be more use-ful than PICT as OS-level graphics formatson a platform where almost nobody usesPICTs for publishing. Jobs replied with aquestion; 'What if PostScript was built rightinto the MacOS?' and elaborated by sayingthe OS team are currently examining thepossibility of adding PostScript to the OS.Perhaps Mac OS (and qot just Rhapsody)will gain some of the Display PostScript fea-tures from Nextstep? Apple needs to act deci-sively and quickly in this regard to reclaim itslead in the publishing arena the enemy is atthe gates, if you' ll pardon the pun.Trade show highlightsI spent the rest of day two perusing the manybooths in the North and South halls. I wasstruck by how many vendors were showingproducts running on the Windows NT plat-form. I was also amazed to see how many com-panies were in the large-format printer market.Such printers, w'hich typically print metre-wide or larger pages in full color on glossystock, were seemingly everywhere. I particu-larly liked the offerings from ColorSpan, thecompany formerly known as LaserMaster.Hewlett-Packard's giant inkjet units were pro-ducing spectacular output, too.At its huge booth, Quark was busy hand-ing out demo versions of QuarkXpress 4.0 andcrowing about its plans to move its entiresuite of publishing apps, including the high-end (and p reviously Mac-only) QuarkPublishing System, to the Windows platform.Quark reps were also boasting about theirdirect import of Adobe PDF files in an upcom-ing version of XPress but, when quizzed onthe subject, they conceded that the importfunction will only import a single page at atime weak! This feature is not expected tomake it into the still-unreleased version 4.0.Looking back on our Seybold report fromThe Computer Paper's Dec. 1993 issue, it isamazing to consider how much has changedin the interim. Back then, the Internet wasn' teven mentioned in our report. Apple hadn' teven released the first PowerPC computers,been released.extreme ease means that it has more limitedand Microsoft's very first application to sup-port Object Linking and Embedding had justNow, of course, there is scarcely a com-pany on the show floor that doesn't have anInternet tie-in in some form, except Quarkwhich, perhaps not coincidentally, is at thiswriting still selling as its current productversion 3.3x of QuarkXPress. Discounting afew bug-fixes, this is the same version thecompany was selling at the 1993 show, andthe s t i l l -unreleased version 4 . 0 ofQuarkXPress does not include Web-author-ing support, either, although several third-party products I saw on the show flooradded Web-page output features to Xpress,Extensis' Cybe rPress, Astr obyte'sBeyondPress 2.0, Terry Morse Software'sMyrmidon 2.0, and HexMac's HexWeb XTall deliver HTML output from Xpress. Of thebunch, I wa s m o s t im p ressed wi thBeyondPress 2.0, a l though Myrmidon,which is designed as a Mac-only printer dri-ver, is perhaps the easiest to use and mostwidely compatible.BeyondPress handles tables, fonts, stylesheets, TrueDoc and more quite elegantly(although not always accurately) and, best ofall, it can output HTML documents of anylength automatically from XPress pages-including graphics.For more info on these and other Webpublishing products, see the report on WebA uthoring Tools a t our Web sit e :http: //www.tcp.ca/gsb/net,Of all the vendors at Seybold, the onethat had changed the most since the 1993show was undoubtedly a company that in1993 had been known as HSC and had, inthe interim, bought up several other compa-nies including Specular In ternational,Fractal Design, and Real Time Geometry. Itthen fused its product lines with its ownMetatools o fferings, yieldi n gMetaCreations. At this show, Metatoolstitles like Painter 5.0, Ray Dream Designer5.0, Kai's Photo Soap and KPT Bryce 3D werewowing crowds not only with their elegantfeature sets, but also with their low prices.Soap, for example, is only US$49.Without a doubt, MetaCreations' offer-ings are some of the most 'artistic' graphicstools on the market. A good example is KPTBryce 3D, a 3D landscape modeling and ren-dering program that, for the first time, sup-ports animation. (Check out the demo ver-sions of Bryce for Windows .or Mac athttp: //www.metacreations.corn.)Elsewhere on the show floor, author SusanKitchens, known as 'Brycequeen' to her fans,was autographing copies of her new book onBryce 2. Like the first edition, Kitchens' RealWorld Bryce 2 offers deep technical info in anentertaining and easy to understand way.Details that are glossed over in the officialBryce manual, such as the 'deep texture edi-tor,' get plenty of pages in Real World Bryce 2.It's from Peachpit Press.For those who don't consider themselvesartists or publishers per se, the most promisingpackage on the floor was undoubtedly Ipublish2.0 from Design Intelligence. This package, forWindows 95/NT, makes it extremely easy to setup stylish looking printed and/or Web-baseddocuments. Ipublish is the easiest to use pub-lishing tool I' ve ever used. Of course, itsContinued on page 1$0WE Fix:~ 8Xdlsd cUSlollWfRH t/.//////IServiceDepartmentCHl&pjj Monitors Printers Laptops Computers8 Moreneeare ouse@of .of reallyneatstuN'Imjust huppy to know uPkce like this exists!VGA Color Monitors ............'1593.5' FIOPPy DiSkS . ............14!( ea.Sj)areware (thousands! j ......'j A9 ea.Software (tho(!sandsj .......from 99!ISAVEall parts for all computers.-;..'.CIiii'itB,iifliilII-,-'.-'.:;,corn putei,'.'J,t I l I l I I117THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997From: McCletland 8 SlewartThe 199$ Canadianand World EneydopediaPlatforms: Hybrid Windows/Mac discEstimated street price: $79.99B Y ROSS MAC D O N A L DThe C a nadianEncydopedia hasachieved on lymarginal successin the general ref-erence market,though i t hasproved m u chmore po p u laramong the nar-rower range ofCanuck-o-philesin both its print and CD-ROM incarnations.Of course, the great advantage to the latter isthe ability to annually update the disc, andthe built-in Internet links for even more fre-quent revision.The book version of Th e CanadianEncyclopedia has also proven somewhatanorexic among its peers, comprising onlythree books in the face of the 20, 30 and even40-pius volumes of other reference sets-albeit they' re mandated to address the wholeworld.Which is likely why McCle)land Er Stewarthas elected to include a )ot more than just TheCanadian Encyclopedia on what has growninto a two-disc CD-ROM set this year. tn addi-tion to the 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia, thefirst disc contains a complete version of TheColumbia Encyclopedia (Sth edition), theGage Canadian Dictionary, the EnhancedRoget's Electronic Thesaurus, a French-English(and back again) dictionary, McLean's maga-zine's Year in Review, acanadian quiz game, aworld timeline and those hitherto mentionedInternet links for further (and updated) infor-Disc Two which is installed and operatedseparately contains The Lives Sr Times of thePrime Ministers, an independent multimediapackage with 1,000 pictures, 30 minutes ofvideo, 3.S hours of audio and tots of text,illustrations, commentary and news clips, attaddressing the titular subject with far moreebullience than most Canadians ever showthe real thing.Paradoxically, there's enough non-tradi-tionat material in The Lives Er Times of thePrime Ministers to engage even the mostindifferent browser through the liberal (ahem)employment (ahem, ahem) of satirical car-toons, heated essays and even video sketchesfrom the venerable Double Exposure and theinterminable Royal Canadian Air Farce.But the meat of this set lies in Disc One,with its veritable bookshelf of references. Aftersetting up, which allows you the choicebetween a default 15 MB quick, or an 88 MBfull installationyou are presented with apleasant and highly intuitive user interfacethat immediately allows anyone but the most= CHRISTMAS DISCSThe best CD-ROMencyclopediasraw CD-ROM recruit to begin explorationright away,Toggies tet you specify which source orcombination of sources (Canadian, Columbia,McLean's, etc,) you wish your search toinclude, white a simitar set of media filtersguide you toward articles that only inc)udespecified multimedia features (e.g., articleswith pictures and/or video and/or mapsand/or sound, etc.). As welt, two increasinglymore necessary options you' ll find are SmartSearch and Boolean Search. 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reasonably popularamong consumers, largely because theycost the same or less than a cellulose ver-sion while often offering additional contentand multimedia. And it's those additionalfeatures that make defining which CD-ROMs can be called coffee table books large-ly subjective.I applied no hard-and-fast rule for thehandful of Christmas suggestions listed here,applying a rather more intuitive approach bymentally extrapolating how a paperboundversiern of particular CD-ROMs might appear.lf I could see it as a large format, heavily illus-trated book, it got considered for this assign-Strangely enough, though many manydiscs might qualify as coffee table books usingthe above oblique criteria, the vast majority ofwhat ended up as most suitable came fromThe Voyager Company. Its lengthy cataloguecontains perhaps more coffee table style CD-ROivls than any other, and on a wide range ofinteresting topics, too.Sacred and Secular: The Aerialphotography of Marilyn BridgesFrom: The Voyager CompanyPlatforms: dual format {PC and Mac)Estimated price: $54.95.. . The first t ime I' heard about thenow famous terracotta horde wasover the airwavesin 1984 while liv-ing in a VW vanoutside Fort St. I Ien I I I I a n NeztyPe Internet StatiOn 5NEP 50 /M&N 16Mb2.18blR.1'DSTN....$3529ment.horses too!,; tJHere we have avery nice collectionof aerial imagesthat photographer. Marilyn Bridges hascreated of p lacesshe obviously con-, Whomever it was, talking on th esome considerable' ' t ime over a literalarmy horses and all of life-sized terra cottastatues found buried near Xian in China. Thething I remember that impressed him most-and now me too is that every single figurewas cast as an individual... di(ferent faces,postures, dress, etc., and that goes for theAt the time I had the impression this wasonly just discovered in 1984. But, thanks toThe First Emperor of China CD-ROM, I nowknow that the site was accidentally discoveredin 1974 by some peasants digging a well.Of course, an army of archaeologists soondescended on the site to unearth the rest ofthese thousands of figures and eventually,identify the phenomenon as the tomb ofChina's first emperor, Quin Shi Huang Di,who reigned briefly from 221 to 206 BC. Thefigures have since been relocated to the spe-cially inaugurated Qin Museum of WarriorsAs you might have already anticipated,this disc contains lots of photos, scholarlyessays and background information regard-ing this incredible find along with a videotour of the museum and film footage of theoriginal excavation. But, as CD-ROMs canaccommodate plenty of material, you' ll alsofind several extras here like bibliographictext, maps, a timeline of contemporary his-tory and even a glossary of Chinese termswith the appropriate characters and audiopronunciation.Further to that latter item but function-ing more a curiosity than a practical tool 1' llwager in the majority of cases The FirstEmperor of China comes with a bilingualEnglish/Chinese soundtrack. As well, you geta compact aerial tour of The Great Wall ofChina.Like most coffee table books, the speci-ficity of The First Emperor of China is notgoing to attract a wide general audience.However, the terra cotta army itself is sounique and impressive, l don't think any-one would balk at finding this fascinatingmylar document inside their Christmasstocking.Comic Book ConfidentialFrom: The Voyager CompanyPlatforms: dual format {PC and Mac)Estimated price: $54.95This one might seem like a bit of stretch as acoffee table book but i' ve seen so many bookson this interminable art form,. IJt 'ij';i John . B.C.IIIJ.'.til tn:, i )I~~;,.:120 D ECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www.tcp.ca- CHRISTMAS DISCSlant Iknrismo 150 CPU512k Pfpdinc,Sspport SDIISNlehe 72pk BAN ap.nehIBSeek te lISB+ itfppr.Intel I'ncti NRRB'1 SOMHZin all kinds of formats, so 1 figured this discjust has to qualify here.The contents of Comic Book Confidentialkick off with Ron Mann's titular 90-minutedocumentary movie of the same name. Thefilm chronologically traces the history of thecomic book from the very first Funnies onParade in 1933 right up to the '80s revival.Produced with panache, the movie portion9 32 Sound Wavetabiek 'i PhgkPhI,RI$Bket(RRSBBekhimhhklanIP.I66NNX SIIKP(pdke Bent Cade32lle EDO Rane yes psjins L44 Rkppy Dri nQnstsm 32GB sha IDE lratd DttmPCI adssmtIDE n(165Bk2 g. 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No Kidding!) and, ofcourse, we've'more recently had to choke onTipper Gore's Stalinist campaign against theinsidious evils of rock and roll.'Twas ever thus in America.Comic Book Confidential is a definitemust for fans of the genre, but may very wellbe equally welcome in the CD-ROM collec-tions of your most eclectic giftees.ESnHe de Antonio's Painters PaintingFrom: The Voyager CompanyPlaffofms: dual format (PC and Mac)Estimated price: $54.95- . This last CD-ROM' suggestion fro mVoyager is, stranglyenough, also con-'wn~k ' ' structed around amovie and, strangerlye nou h, is also u tg Pt ogether by R o nMann (of ComicBook C o nf identialabove).This time out the' fi lm is renowneddocumentary makerEmile de Antonio's two-hour 1970 fi lm,Painters Pninting, presented in its entirety.Despite de Antonio's personable style, thefilm makes for a rather stark look at paintersof the post-war era a time when the focusof modern art activity shifted from Paris toWhat brings them all together, and theimpetus for the film, is an exhibition at TheMetropolitan Museum of Art in 1970. Themany artists addressed by the film and exhi-bition range from the familiar like JacksonP ollack, Andy Warhol and W i l lem deKooning to less familiar yet still iconoclasticfigures like Helen Frankenthaler, RobertMotherwell and Josef Albers.Appended to the movie are plenty ofexamples of each artist's work, as well as com-plete transcripts of their interviews. There' sbition, which ingenuously shows the works ashung at the Metropolitan, free of narration,analysis or commentary (but with an annoy-ing contemporary soundtrack by John Cage). 'Despite that, Painters Painting is likely tobe viewed over and over again; the compre-hensive approach to this ostensibly fascinat-ing period of artistic development in combi-nation with all the archival features will seethis disc likely loaded at least as often as anyContinued ofr page leC omp u te rTHE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION www,tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 3 2 t= CHRISTMAS DISCSThe best CD-RORII encyclopediasContimred from page 1Mbooks, the Internet and even other CD-ROMs,then organized and arranged to construct out-lines or reports, including the proper sourcecitations. Writd-o-phobes wil l especiallyappreciate the tutorials, which help towardlearning effective research and report writingskills.Estimated Street Price: $59.95 (standard), $89.95(deluxe)Marketed hand-in-hand wi thE ncarta is t h eEncarta VirtualGlobe 98 chris-tened E ncartaWorld Atlas inprevious years.This time aroundwe have a very4 I nice 3D vi r t ualg lobe that letsyou p i npointmore than 1.2 million (I) place names aroundthe world and zoom in on many to see notonly maps, but encyclopedic information andarticles, photos, videos and sound. Of course,there are Web links too.This I did have an opportunity to see andplay with a very nice enhancement toEncarta or any other encyclopedia with anequally attractive street price of only $69.95.1998 Grolier Rllultirnedia Encyclopediaand Encyclopedia DeluxeFrom: Grolier Interactive inc.Platforms: Windows and MacintoshGro(ier's entry into the CD-ROM encyclopediarace has always been somewhat of a darkhorse in Canada in terms of both market pres-ence and sales. Yet this encyclopedia compris-es an excellent alternative to several other'consumer-level' reference discs, largelythanks to the consistent quality of Grolier'sproduction values.It should be noted, however, that Grolier'sEncyclopedia, which is, naturally, the basis forthe CD-ROM version, is acknowledged evenby the publishers as among the 'less scholar-ly' reference works. But they' ve got aroundthis by including direct Internet links toonline versions of more erudite Grolier pro-Knowledge and the Encyclopedia Americana,along with hnks to Internet updates and, ofcourse, the rest of the Web.Again we have two versions of the Grolierto choose from: a single-disc standard and atwo-disc 'deluxe' edition, the latter of whichwas submitted for viewing and, like Encarta,differs only from the former in offering a lot< GROUN 'ttttt'FtttEDttt Ettrvssol%rtAmore material and a few ddihonal features.The interface for Grolier's is definitely oneof the more attractive due to the colors andgraphics employed in the comfortably naviga-ble interface. Though not quite as intuitive assome of the other encyclopediae, it doesn' ttake long to find your way around the mostlywell labeled buttons and optionsThe Deluxe edition has a new feature thisyear that Grolier calls the 'Online KnowledgeExplorer,' but which constitutes little morethan the aforementioned Internet links toother Grolier sources. It also includes, howev-er, links to the Grolier Internet Index, whichoffers more than 21,000 links to Grolier select-ed Web sites and to future article updates thatGrolier expects will number more than 500 amonth.If keeping the family phone line clear is aconsideration, however, Grolier has also creat-ed some guided tours 31 multimedia toursthrough the discs' contents addressing a widevariety of topics from The American Novelthrough The World of Islam. Choosing any ofthese presents a listing of related material,which you simply click to see in a pop-up win-dow. Each screen is peppered with hot-spotsfor more detailed information on anythingpresented or discussed.Finally, the deluxe edition comes with a56-page Activities and Study Guide that willprovide lots of challenging activity for kidsand their attendant adults. Each page startswith a specific topic: i.e., 'There is a tremen-dous variety of different peoples and culturesall over the world. Why not meet some ofY our uhitt ~ t t i r eit:trt> lli't't'...Now here's one for the kiddies that's likely, intypical DK fashion, to keep the adults occu-pied as weli, Specified for ages seven to 10, theEyewitness Children's Encyclopedia evenstarts out as fun with a log-on screen that asksfor your name, age and birthdate and givesyou a selection of pictures to choose from torepresent you on your digital explorations.As with so many DK discs, there are justtoo many engaging features tothem, using GME to make the introductions?'What follows are some suggestions on whereto go within the encyclopedia and a short quizon the topic for after you' re done. It's a simplething, but one that will help keep the dust offthis family oriented CD-ROM long afterChristmas.Eyewitness Children's KncydopedlaFrom: Dort tng KindersleyPlatforms: Windows 3.1. 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The interface is quite lit-erally overflowing with large colorful buttonsand sounds, which lead to games and videoand lights and notes and maps and picturesand narration and all manner of sensual stim-ulation. Th'ere's even a big eyeball that tracksany movement of the pointer as you exploreall the options on the main screen.But, of course, the function of an encyclope-dia is to convey information, ergo all that activi-ty has to lead to some sort of infantile edlflca-tion. The Eyewitness encyclopedia approachesthis goal in a number of ways, but all are centredaround two dominant techniques.The first, not unexpectedly, is a facile ver-sion of what just about every other encyclo-pedia employs the main menu screen withall those buttons and filters and hot spots andsearch engines, etc., to let you move directlytoward any pre-determined topic of interest ina manner that any seven to 12 year old will beeasily able to master.Less conventional is DK's inclusion of whatthey' ve called environments a series of virtualillustrations of various surroundings withinwhich you can pan and scan to find all sorts ofobjects, hot spots and information. In TheGarden, for example, placing your pointer overthe slide leads to a prompt: 'What is it that letsyou slide down a slide?' You then click on 'findout' to be shown and told about force, frictionand gravity, etc. using photos, video, text andnarration composed to a most suitable level. Asexpected, there are lots of hot spots within thisnew screen to find out more about the topic ormove off in other related directions (like a biog-raphy of Sir Isaac Newton). Elsewhere withinThe Garden is a sundial, greenhouse, cat, pond,sunflowers, laundry, etc., all of which take youto other places on the disc.Other environments include a fairground,a city, a rainforest, the ocean and mountains,all of which are similarly full of sightssoundsand interesting information. There are 20 ofthese in all.One of the more oblique items I encoun-tered arose within The City environmentwhen I clicked on the police car. The questionpresented was, 'How many types of police arethere?' Though the answer was somewhatindirect, I did get to see some interesting pic-tures and find out a little bit about ScotlandYard, Interpol and the FBI.Among all of the amazing features theEyewitness Children's Encyclopedia has tooffer, one of the most amazing is the text-to-speech option. Where applicable (and that' salmost everywhere), any text can be read aloudby an electronically friendly speech synthesiz-er that comes across not unlike the computeron the original starship Enterprise. You' reprompted to this ieature whenever the pointerturns into a little trumpet. This is elegant, sim-ple and extremely practical in this context.Other content specifications indude 5,000screens and pop-ups, 10,000-word integrateddictionary, 100 maps, 500 biographies, 50And as if all that weren't enough, DK hasthrown a beautiful little 512-page print ency-clopedia into the box which makes for excel-lent bathroom reading for aII age levels overand above any other practical application.Strangely enough, though I have about eightCD-ROM encyclopedias and two print sets atmy disposal, the Eyewitness Children' sEncyclopedia CD-ROM stands firmly amongmy favorites and will undoubtedly earn a sim-Plafform; Windowsance a c h ievedbetween accessi-bility and sophis-tication places it+.= ';. among the moremany encyclopedias available to the home user.And, fortunately, when transferred to CD-ROM, the same principles seem to apply.Though specifically targeted toward studentsaged 10 years and up, the slickness of the pre-sentation and breadth of resources employedin the World Book point toward general use asa resource for all age groups. The only quibbleI have is with IBM's apparent attempt to sim-plify the interface by reducing the visiblearray of controllers and fi lters, somewhatreducing the e ncyclopedia's immediatefriendliness. Of course, all the tools necessaryto search and browse are present, but WorldBook departs from the competition by hidingaccess to many hot-spots and prompts.Conversely it doesn't take very long to getfamiliar with the desktop (though IBM musthave realized something was up as they' re theonly publishers to throw a good old fashioneduser's guide into the box).As with several other CD-ROM encyclope-diae, we again have standard and deluxe edi-tions to choose from. And like others, both edi-tions contain the same encyclopedic informa-tion but differ chiefly in terms of number offeatures and the amount of multimedia, Thedeluxe World Book contains 18,000 articles,more than 100 virtual reality tours of famousplaces, bubble views (World Book's version ofpan and scan 360-degree photos), full-lengthvideo and animation sets and a nifty thoughbasic set of 11 virtual experiments called sim-ulations in which scientific principals aredemonstrated and explained by means ofinteractive multimedia. Of course, the rnanda-tory Internet links are in there too but severalspecialized destinations beyond the expectedonline updates are included The Month inBrief encapsulates major news events, OurCentury puts you into World Book's 80 years ofarchives and World Book's Selected Web sitespoints you to sites relating to specific articlesyou may be viewing on CD-ROM.New for the 1998 deluxe edition is theHomework Wizard, a u t i l i ty specificallydesigned to help students prepare schoolreports, In World Book's incarnation the com-puter walks you through the entire processfrom selecting a topic and developing the the-sis to drafting an outline and preparing thefinal report. Augmenting this feature are thesimilar Chart Wizard and Timeline Wizard,plus a virtual highlighter and a sticky-notegenerator function as less formal research aids.ilar position in your household too. This is asuperior product and definite must-have foranyone with even a trace of childlike whimsyleft in their skeptical adult brain. Oh yeah, it' sgreat for kids too!W orld Book 199$IVlttltltnedia EncyclopediaFrom: IBM CorporationEstimated street price: $59.95, $99.95 (deluxe)World Bookstands among itspeers as a respect-ed and very popu-: , lar refere nce1 p source. The bal-desirable of theDigital products available at or through all locations. Phone inquiries welcomeTHE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION esses.tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 323 CFIRISTMAS DISCSVrost decidedly a fatnily product (withall that that Implies) the World Book's 1998Multimedia Encyclopedia will cost a httlemore than sckne of the others but has plen-ty of extra appeal to justify the extra cost. C}Cea0acCs: les}}al Ih&sNey, in Canada from GeneralP~ , 30 Lesmiii ItL, Don l4klls, QN, M38 2TB.Tel: 41&445-3333.Kaeyeae}seIh ~aha I@est, P.O. Sox 22393,Denveh CO, N222. 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Weil, apparently plenty.Where art books, biographies, exhibitions,interviews, plays, movies, and documentarieshive already Picassoized the world quitebeyond credible proportions, just about aIIthose devices have been brought togetherhere on a single CD-ROM that might verywell make much that preceded it obsolete.And the most refreshing aspect to newlyaddressing Picasso on CD-ROM is that thisdisc is the resuIt of a collaboration betweenGrolier and the Picassofamily itself, With itsaccumulation of 600pictures of Picasso sworks, 120 photos ofthe artist himself, andvideo footage fromfamily archives all~ enhanced by music,commentary, and m-depth analysis, It's not surprising that QaudeRuiz Picasso, the painter's eklest son, heartilyeclorses the end mutt: 'Through both its ambi-tious approach and rich content, this CD-ROMoffers a completely new and htghly ortgtnaI viewof my father's work I am conMent that thishighly informative Knd educational multimediapresentation of his work wRI become the bench-mark reference to my father's life and wosk'And all for only 60 bucks.Q 'g>~~ 5 i t} pre viously unseenParadoxically, economy does not seefn tohave been applied to the production valuesemployed in making this disc, which comprtsesa quite literally beautiiul and highly sophisti-cated presentation. Various petnttngs and theirconcomitant sketches, for example, are exhibit-ed with dynamic muittrttedia that encompassesnot only the work in question, but related text,narration, animation and music.Not a particular Picasso fan i}ryself, thesheer quality of this disc and its breadth ofcontent had me watching and mousing farlonger than I'd ever have expected. Highlyrecommended for that alone. C}Ceeelaeta:Tl}e %payer ae}af}eey, 299 Queen St, IN., Toronto,ON, MSV 2ZS. Tel: 416-S91-7400. INeb site:Intp://seww,citytu,cornQNsr &~ias, 90 Sherman Turnpere, QenbunJ,CT, 88816. 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To win thegame and find the objects, kids also read andlearn about the history of Christmas traditionsin Quebec and Europe, cultural traditions andfavorite Christmas stories such as A Christmas Iservices toroducts on-e anclWe offer a selectortfolio, aactory trainedsupport staffand a host ofhardware,installation,maintenancesupportpackages 8zkeep allinternetworkingoperating atpeakperformance.Contact our s ecialists at...PhOne: 1-888-844-8694 httP: / / /WWW.SOlunet.COmg ChaeCom, Inc; OOcles in the basement.Partners for Integrated Solutions:Carol. So if your kids are begging for something.to open early, buy this CD-ROM, fill the housewith heavenly music and keep them occupiedwhile you cook the turkey and assemble bicy-SscurityDynamics.Cabot's world and ours. The user in the role ofCabot can conduct a video interview with anhistorical anthropologist about Cabot, talk toa sailor, a merchant or King Henry to gain sup-port for the voyage. Also included is materialfrom museum and archival collections inEurope and North America. 'For teachers there is an on-disc guide withlesson plans for each grade level.Canadian TreasuresFrom: VR OidatechPlatforms: Windows 95.Price: $79.95Canadian Treasures from Bumaby, B.C.'s VRDidatech is a nostalgic treat of multimediaCanadian stories. The program is filled withrare photos, maps, manuscripts, paintings,and audio and video clips from the NationalArchives, all richly presented and indexed.Cahot,The Discovery of the New WorldFrom: Media Touch TechnologiesPlatforms: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, MacintoshPrice: $39.95 (school edition $59.99 with curriculumguide)Cabot, The Discovery of the New World, fromNewfoundland's Media Touch Technologies, isa multimedia lesson for students in Grade 5 to10 who are studying new world explorers andthe 500th anniversary of John Cabot's arrivalon the Matthew in Newfoundland (thoughthe landing site is still in dispute, this disc isobviously from the camp that believes it wason Canada's easternmost island).Students take on the role of Cabot in thegame play, hunting for evidence of the newworld for the English king and talking to his-torical characters. The role playing alsoinvolves exploring the landscape and battlingthe fierce North Atlantic Ocean. Users can alsogo directly to the information section.Other activities include interactive mapmaking, Internet projects, creation and use ofnavigational instruments and a comparison ofIn Canada: P.O. Box 62516 Cedar Hills, Surrey, BC V3V 7V6account of the.' '~u.i'. . , : : H a l i fax harb o rexplosion or delveinto the myths sur-.'.' rounding the; Northwest passage.It's what makes his-tory a myriad of;-,-:;.,: ~;-:- .;@j personal adventuresFrom: Folkus Altantlcopposed to learning names and dates of con-quests and politicians.Time Travel to the 18th CenturyPlatforms: Windows, MacintoshPrice: $49.95Time Travel to the 18th Century from FolkusAltantic is a narrated tour with illustrations,excellent quality photos and videos of the lifeand institutions of the inhabitants of the eastcoast of North America in the 1700s. 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D a Vin c i 'sMachines: Civi lMachines will be adelight to those pre-teens or early teenswho have a mechani-cal bent. There are 16 machines depicted. Thebest feature is that each can be assembled ordisassembled, and operated. There are alsohistorical descriptions, machine specificationsfor each part and historical information.Toronto's Microforumhas just released thef irst CD-ROM in aseries of 3Dexploratory programslocations. This pro-'gram covers five starsites (Newgrange,The Forbidden City,Copan, JantarMantar, and Giza-it resists the tempa-Stonehenge), placeswhere ancient civi-l izations s t u d iedastronomy and tiedit to agriculture, religion and mysteries thatthe producers want you to hypothesize about.This disc is a great place for teenagers to thinkand ponder the possibilities beyond home-work and the keys to the cat.Corel Print'House MagicCorel gallery Magic~ i' i'tion t o addFrom: CorelPlatforms: WindowsPrice: $59 (Print House), $24.95-$69.95 (GalleryMagic)tst~+! o~ Phals vnesr vrehdte fur tnwe ddtuhtdintsnneries.Inlredudne Superghh end the IS-IZO drive.vnih tktndnrd U dnhs.So you only need ae drive.llnmte Iho Iip drive, Ihe IS.IZe drive 8 tontpulilee,'.'jyf I 800 jg 7) P;:'.Star SitesFrom: DNA MultimediaPlafforms: Windows 3.1/95, Macintosh.Price: $51.99Star Sites is another in a group of wonderfulhistorical CD-ROMs from Vancouver's DNAMultimedia. The titles from this companyblend culture, science, art and past civiliza-tions into an interactive treat on CD-ROM. Sowhy it is any better than a book? Because youcan link via hypertext to similar topics, morein-depth discussion or comparisons to otherOne of my favoriteproducts for stu-dent and family isCorel's Print andP hoto Hous e ,w hich ha s ju s tbeen upgraded toCorel Print HouseMagic and nowi ncludes Cor e lP rint H o use 3 ,Corel Photo Housefr':utee ter,st tta-ynetd isa'Cce; Rldnni'5iid,::ln.o; Cdiiida'VSY 2GS' , ', ,.eh46W)276-2ey~,r6:(69$g71-.$Z11.tel f ~: >qepm7-7+7,I IPower Group dk, Associates s s ' sCristributor of cpU & M e mory- ) Sxuvxlwri rtrlchE0 V t e . 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Gallery Magic 65,000 lists for $24.95while Gallery Magic 200,000 will cost $69.95.Both run on Windows 3.1/Win 95.Corel's extra Christmas present is thatuntil the end of February, you can mail in arebate of $10 on Print House Magic or $30when purchasing both Print House Magic andGallery Magic 200,000 together. Sounds like adeal.Photo RecallFrom: G8A ImagingPlatforms: WindowsPrice: $79.95If you use photos for reports, advertising org enealogy projects, you w i l l f i n d G R A o O O Conserve onr envimnmant and Save SSSS at the same timeAlouette Laser Products helpsyou Reduce, Reuse and Recycle byP,.;~~-.,g Re-,~..~ ct~~~ ~ d ..pples Brother, Canon, HewlettRecharged Toner Cartridges and P a ckard, IBM, NEC, QMS gr MoreDrums for Most Laser Printers,Copiers and Fax Machines.i Canon Personal CopiersA Canadian productcalled Net Nannyhelps parents keeped Internet sites.While not t o tallyfoolproof, it shouldgree parents somepeace of mind. 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Orderingdirectly from the company may be necessary.Corel, Tel: 613-728-8200. Web site:http: //www.corel.cornFolkus Atlantic, Tel: 800-780-8266.Web site http//www.folkus.cornGSA Imaging, Tel: 819-772-7600.Web site: http: //www.ga-imaging.cornMcClelland 8 Stewarl, Tel: 416-598-1114.Web site: http: //www.tceplus.cornMedia Touch Technologies, Tel: 709-753-8252.Publishing 97- Seybold reportCoiitinued from page l lSf unctionalfty than a p r o-level tool l i kePageMaker or CluarkXPress. In other words, thisis a publishing tool for those who don't consid-er themselves artistically inclined. A trial ver-sion is downloadable at http: //www.design-intelIigence.corn.For its part, Microsoft was showing offFrontPage 98 for Windows 95/NT. Also avail-able as a downloadable trial version(http: //www.microsofl.corn/frontpage/), the latestincarnation of Microsoft's Web authoring toolis very full-featured, with site managementtools, the ability to import an existing Website, and its own Web-server. 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Details at http: //www.livepicture.corn.Macromedia also boasted of its forthcom-ing FreeHand Animation PowerPack, a US$39add-on that allows FreeHand to be used forcreating efficient and compact Flash anima-tions. Details are available online athttp: //www.macromedia.corn.Continued on page lSSCATALOGUECALL FOR ePII: {604} 270-8602 1-000-663-0273 op>~!;-~~~',u0+~0 1 gCCMroACrAcer 339 Int Modem w/Voice'..'.',.';.; .'=',:-,.-k%C'-.~60W Speaker .':;;-...'g',~j@-':.';::::,:.::;,';:.:::::-::-':-':.--':.','. =;~k' 'OfttQ tl04rd'01 i'i:':.'.,:.-'. ','~i~jj~g@.:; 13' tower Case w/power supply,'.,g~.;::-'.;t.'iy.':':,:.::5-:A':.'y@!:;;~g'AMO Xep O a Pjtnnnntjl,::,',enentjiji!THE coMPUTER PAPER Bc EDITIQN www.tcp.ca DEcEMBER 1997 131 ONLINE>X t r a2Otddptatry Q EOguCtz. X Xdrep IZOptal ~ e r 2 dCC.ak OC-50Building a Web site:Part IVThe uncategorials$695.00B Y LINDA R I C H A R D Sver the last three issues of TCP, we' velooked at all the stuff you need (as inhnve lo have) to make a Web site. Welooked at HTML editors, image editors and weeven peeked at Web management software.Like I said, those are the things you musthave especially the first two because youjust can't begin to build a Web page withoutThere is, however, a fourth category that isjust as important even while it's not as neces-sary, at least on the surface. That category isessentially made up of stuff that doesn't fitinto the other three. There are a whole lot ofnon-essential th in gs y ou canbuy/find/make/or otherwise procure that willmake your entire Web-ly experience moreenjoyable and fulfilling.These are the add-on things that cut a longprocess short, help take the manual labor outof an icky task or do some new thing that hasnever been required before. 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This can be accomplished by inserting anentity that represents the lesser-than () symbols, So if you wanted todisplay the previous line of sample code on aWeb page, you could do it with character enti-ties in this way:6tlt;B6tgt; This is bold6tlt;/BBtgt;Or you could do it with numerical entitiesthis way:6t60; 88r62; This is bold 6t 60; 86t 62;The future of special characters.As the World Wide Web becomes a truly glob-al phenomenon, it is restricted more andmore by its adherence to the alphabets usedin the western hemisphere, There are plans inthe works to include the full ISO 10646-1specification, better known as Unicode. Thisspecification is more robust, and it is possibleto specify many, many more characters over30,000 in totaL This number makes it capableof representing most (though incredibly, notall) of the characters of all living languages.+r'-~'.spsgphtIca'%or.-;~:4~:~~~%::,:::::,~-.gUnicode is an evolving standard however,and in the meantime the World Wide WebConsortium the HTML standards body ispioposing a new use for the generally under-used tag that would tell the browserwhich character set it should use to display thecharacters the Web page contains. It wouldwork by'specifying the type of character encod-ing being used in the Web page by specifyingits name for example the Cyrillic alphabet iscontained within the ISO-8859-5.standard, twodifferent Japanese character sets are specifiedby the SHIFT@IS and EUC-JP standards and thecurrent Unicode standard goes under the nameUTF-16. Under this scheme, to specify a Webpage that used Cyrillic characters, you woulduse the following code:There are also plans in the works to add aricher variety of mathematical symbols into afuture HTML specification.Expect this particular area of the HTMLstandard to expand greatly in the short term, asthe demand for support of non-European char-acter sets on the World Wide Web grows. 0Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes any comments,suggestions or HTML tips and tricks you may have.You can email Kelth at: kschengiOinterlog.corn. 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Once grabbed, the information is con-ve'rted into hexadecimal colors so you canthen, in turn, code the precise color you wantinto your HTML. Too wow, right?Better still, ColorFinder is freeware, notshareware. So you can give it a try and see ifyou like it. It's also blessedly small. The appli-cation itself is 44KB, the documentation ascreen. Like I said, it's a challenge. And to doit at all right, you need all the help you canget. So, enter Color ManagementDithereox: DitherBox is an a l m ostunbearably cool plug-in for Photoshop thatlets you extend the 216wolor Web palette byactually blending the available colors into aWeb safe pattern that looks like the color youwanted in the first place.DitherBox works pretty much as adver-tised: it's easy, painless and effective. Andsince it's a plug-in, it works right through'Photoshop so you don't have to waste a lot oftime opening and closing programs.Of course, that advantage is quickly loston anyone who doesn't use Photoshop. Atpresent, DitherBox works through Photoshopor not at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if thecompany worked out a plug-in for otherimage-editing packages at some future date.The good news is that DitherBox is avail-able in both PC and Mac versions, so design-ers on either platform can use the product.You can download a tr ial version ofDitherBox at http: //www.dilherbox.corn. On theWeb site, you' ll also find information regard-ing purchasing the full version of the plug-inonline. It's available for US$29.95.ColorFinder ColorFinder is one of thosesimple hacks I was talking about earlier. Andbefore you read any further, it's important toknow that ColorFinder is Mac only, and no PCMac users will enjoy ColorFinder, though.It allows you to use an eyedropper tool to sam-ple any color on the desktop, in an open pro-gram o'r one gathered from anywhere on theS: eESOe6: 2u4: EASEt han with avery skinny 22KB.You can download ColorFinder from thedeveloper, ACME Software, at htlp J/www.acme-tech. corn/freeware.html.Inst for funr QnicitCarnPlatforms: Macintosh, Windows 3.x/95/NTMac requirements: Mac '040 or Power Macintosh, MacOS 7.0 or higher. 8 MB of memory. at least 1 MB diskspace for application, 750KB'for a 24-bit color picture(compressed).Windows requirements: Pentium-class PC or higherwith parallel and keyboard port, recommended 12 MBof RAM under Windows 3.1, 16 MB under 95/NT, 3MB disk space for application. 150KB for a 24-bitcolor picture (compressed j.Web site: http: //wwwconnectix.cornOkay, so strictly speaking, the ConnectixQuickCam isn't software at all. In fact, thisdesktop digital camera is hardware in justabout every way you look at it,However, the teeny price tag puts it nearlyinto the software category. And the thing is soeasy to use and so much fun to have around,it's become one of my own personal favoriteuncategorials.The Connectix QuickCam is so inexpen-sive because all of the costly brains and thingsthat other digital cameras have to ding you foraren't present in the QuickCam. Instead, theQuickCam borrows brain and electrical powerfrom your computer. The down side is the factthat the QuickCam must always be connectedto your system, so unless you work on a lap-top the QuickCam can't get veryfar from your desk. To beprecise, it l ooks verymuch l ike an o ver-weight golf ball with acord running out theback. But you c anhave way more funwith a QuickCam ' =,:,.;g;golf ball.For grabbing quick snaps of office personneland products to stick up on your Web site, theQuickCam rocks. 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FREEDMANered a novel form of misleading adver-tising on the Internet, which uses invis-ible codes to manipulate Internet searchengines and mislead users, These cases illus-trate the application of conventional legalprinciples to control abuse of this novel fea-ture of Internet technology. Canadian courtswould likely take a similar approach.NTMLHypertext markup language (HTML) is thebasic platform-independent computer lan-guage used to create World Wide Web pagesand the ubiquitous hyperlinks that give theWeb its easy-to-use, point-and-click interface,HTML is comprised of instruction codes,known as tags, which provide instructions toInternet browser software regarding a Webpage's structure, format and hyperlinks.HTML tags are ordinarily not visible to thecomputer user. However, the tags may beviewed by using an Internet browser's 'sourceview,' which displays Web page source code.The HTML tags are found within the < >brackets.Web search engines and robotsWeb search engines, such as Altavista,search criteria.Lycos, and HotBot, attempt to assist users toaccess specific information on the WorldWide Web by creating vast searchable cata-logues of the entire contents of the Web.Users seeking Web sites regarding specificsubjects can submit queries to a searchengine, which uses its catalogue to provide alist of hyperlinks to Web pages that meet theSearch engines compile informationregarding Web pages by using programs,known as robots or spiders, that automati-cally roam the Web, gathering data fromWeb sites. 1he collected data is indexed andorganized into a searchable catalogue.Robots gather information about Web sitesin different ways. Robots can index Webpage titles, or the first few paragraphs of aWeb page, or the entire page contents.Robots read Web page source code, includ-ing the HTML tags that are ordinarily invis-ible to the user.META tagsMETA tags are HTML tags used by Web pageauthors to provide narrative or key worddescriptions of their Web pages. META taginformation is used by some search enginesand their robots to identify, index, and cata-logue Web pages. Some search engines alsouse META tag information in determiningThe lair of cyberspace META tag misuseAmerican courts have recently consid-how to prioritize Web sites in search resultlists. Like the other HTML tags, META tags andthe information they contain are normallynot seen by users.META tag misuseMETA tags can be used to incorrectly describeWeb page content and thereby manipulatesearch engine results in order to lure users tothe Web page. For example, an unscrupulousWeb page owner could put famous names,popular words, or competitors' names into hisor her Web page META tags, even though theyhave no legitimate connection with the Webpage contents. Search engine robots would usethose misleading META tags to describe andindex the Web page.When users search for those names or keywords, the search engine results might directthem to the incorrectly described Web page.The same result can be achieved by placingfalse key words in colored type under solidbands of the same color. This renders the keywords illegible to the user, but they remainreadable by search engine robots. Both typesof trickery have been the subject of recentAmerican lawsuits.Playboy Enterprises inc.v. Calvin Designer LabelIn Playboy Enterprises lnc. v. Calvin Designertion.Label, a case brought in before the courts inCalifornia, Playboy claimed the defendantsunlawfully used Playboy's well-known 'trademarks by incorporating them into thedefendants' Web site domain names-www.playboyxxx.corn and www.playmate-live.corn and by using them in META tagsand other hidden codes on the defendants'adult-oriented Web pages. Playboy claimedthe defendants were attempting to lure totheir own Web sites those users searchingfor authorized Playboy Web sites. Playboyclaimed this constituted unfair competi-tion and trademark infringement and dilu-On Sept. II, 1997 the United States FederalDistrict Court in San Francisco granted a tem-porary restraining order prohibiting thedefendants' use of Playboy's trademarks in thedefendant's Web site domain n'ames, its METAtags, and in other hidden codes. The court rea- 'soned that Playboy was iikely to succeed in its,claims.Insituform Technologiesv. National Envlro Tech GroupIn lnsitufnrrn Teclrnologies inc. v. 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Advanced Cuncepts, acase brought in Colorado, the plaintiff lawfirm (specializing in intellectual propertylaw) claimed that the defendants (providersof Internet-related services) unlawfully usedthe firm's trademarked name in META tagson the defendants' Web pages. The law firmalleged that the defendants intended todeceive the public into believing that thedefendants' Web pages were connectedwith, or sponsored or authorized .by, thelaw firm. The law firm claimed the defen-dants' conduct constituted unfair competi-tion and trademark infringement and dilu-tion. The defendants removed the chal-lenged META tags.Building a Web sfte: Part IVContinued frow page 140T he software that sh ips w i t h t h eQuickCam makes it very easy to save yourphotos in a format that can be read by justabout any image editing package: this makesit easy to import the 'just okay' photos theQuickCam takes and manipulate them intosomething better.The QuickCam comes in two basic flavors:color and black and white, with the color ver-sion retailing for about twice the price of theblack and white version. And it's dead easy touse. On the Mac, the QuickCam connects viaeither the modem or printer port, while theWindows version is ingenious. It connects via.your keyboard port between your keyboardand your CPU: i.e. you still get to use yourkeyboard and you don't have to disconnectthe QuickCam to do anything else. CiCommentaryMETA tag misuse is a high-tech form of old-fashioned misleading advertising, In manyways it is a cyberspace version of the well-known 'bait and switch' selling technique.Unscrupulous sellers using that techniqueadvertise desirable products as bait to get cus-tomers in the door, and then attempt to fast-talk those customers into switching to otherproducts instead. One unique aspect of METAtag misuse is the fact that the codes are usual-ly invisible to the misled search engine users.Nevertheless, this fact should not legitimize orexcuse the deliberately misleading objectiveof META tag misuse.There is no reported Canadian courtdecision regarding META tag misuse. Thereare good arguments, however, that mislead-ing META tags would constitute violationsof Canadian laws regarding trade-marks,misleading advertising, and unfair competi-tion. ClBradley J, Freedman is a trial lawyer with theVancouver law firm Ladner Downs. His preferred areasof practice include intellectual property Iaw and com-mercial litigation. He can be reached by email atbfreedman@ladner.corn. This article is of a generalnature, and cannot be regarded as legal advice.Linda Richards' latest book, Web Graphics ForDummies, is published by IDG Books, She is presentlyat work on The Visual Qulckstart Guide to DeBabeiizerfor Peachpit Press. Richards is also the author ofTeach Yourself Photoshop 4.0 (MIS:Press) and TheCanadian Business Guide to Using the Internet. 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No matter what your personal interests orbusiness needs, PilotZone has you covered:communication, connectivity, development,games, graphics, Internet, terminal programs,business productivity, travel, utility, and inter-national software and updates have been col-lected, reviewed and archived by the TUCOWSteam. All you have to do is pick them up.This issue, we' ll give you an overview ofthe different kinds of software available forthe Pilot, We think once you see what isalready available, the Pilot will go to the top ofyour 'hint' list. It literally fits in the palm ofyour hand, but weighs only a few ounces, andwith optional modem and software, it makesthe dream of a 'wearable co mpute' a reality.We recommend the professional version forthe best connectivity options.There are some limitations, as much of thesoftware is in the beta {development) stage,and there are some bugs. To avoid possibleloss of data, back up your Pilot beforeinstalling any new shareware or freewareappl'ications.Email on the Pilot (professional version) isa snap to set up and offers a variety of choic-es, including SMTP/POP to AOL packages, oryou can use your home computer to do mostof the work. The terminal software we triedreally needs a magnifying glass to be legible,and the interface with common terminalemulation is, well, clumsy at this point. Butconsidering that a large number of PilotZoneprograms are freeware, and the fact that it' sstill very early in the development cycle, webelieve there will be enhancements that makethis feature truly functional in the near future.There is a wide variety of graphics pro-grams available for the Pilot. Using a programcalled TealPaint, you have a handful of draw-ing tools, erasers and even textures to workwith. You can export the final image to yourPC, convert it to BMP format, and import itinto documents or graphic manipulation soft-ware. The result is a very sketchy image, butit's enough to keep the ideas fresh until youget to your PC.Of course life on the road is not all work...you gotta play! There are a number of gamesavailable for PalmPilot. Okay, so it's notGameboy (yet!), but that's no reason to be aspoil-sport. Tum your Pilot into a Tricordercomplete with StarDate Calculator and sound-Plen o f shareware for PalmPilot 'teffects. Classic games like Life, Yahtzee, andOthello are available. There are two crosswordpuzzle games one even lets you downloadpuzzles from newspapers such as USA Today,Tire New York Times, and the London Times. Ifyou can't make it to Las Vegas for your wintervacation, you can play blackjack, solitaire,poker and other card games on the Pilot.Our new columnist Brandi Jasmine is themystic of the group, and consults her bio-rhythms, and magic 8-Ball when she's not writ-ing the next issue of Grazing Grounds on herPilot. She mainly uses Pilot's built-in memo-pad, but likes the Spell Checker, Thesaurus andWord Checker programs, and is trying out Doc,a large document reader for reading books orlarge reports, such as The Prophet, Plato'sRepublic, and Tire Bhagavad Gita.Of course not all of us are into reading AlsoSprach Zarathustra, Tlie Papynrs of Ani, or TheNew Testament on the bus to work, so there isalso Breakout, Pong, Asteroids, Tetris andSpace-Invaders, and other classic arcadeknock-offs to pass the time. Brandi wasn' teager to try her hand at raising Tamagotchi...she said she prefers her real cat to a virtualpet. She suggested we give a copy of GolfScorecard to our executives at TUCOWS,though...she figures our weekend duffers maynot impress anyone with their scores, but wecan distract everyone with our high-techI I IThere are still more toys for you to add-tune your guitar with Fretboard or composemusic with a Pilot Synthesizer. You can alsoparticipate in a large number of text-based,role-playing adventure games and one dicegenerator with up to 30-sided dice.After all that you may need someone totalk to about your Pilot addiction. If noone's around, click on Eliza, the virtual com-panion, and she' ll listen to your woes. Ofcourse, we think you' ll enjoy your Pilotaddiction. Let us know if there is anythingwe' re missing! 0Scott Swedorski can be reached attucows@tucows.corn.scorecards now!Infomatch Internet.Affordable Internet accessfor everyone.Infomatch Internet has the solution for your Internetneeds whether you are looking for service for homeuse, or an industrial strength Web site for your busi-ness.And it is affordable, with rates starting from $1 3.91 for60 hours of monthly service with PPP, Email address,Unix shell and.your own WWW pages. Pages that cancontain commercial information; unlike with the otherguys. As well our access has no setup fees, dailylimits, or prime time restrictions. 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Or you can learn from one by the experts.0 C:.' -Wo'K4, 146 D ECEMBER 1997 THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITIONwww.tcp.ca BOOKS , NS-As.:if there. weren' t.:enough~qikne'bm'4t~ - ~o :new mijor sftis have'just beym,.';' -on'the'::YjfeJs, each with a laige dat-base, Black+'s Oitline Ikiokshop in the'U.K, noe-'j':offers 1.5, mfllton titles on the&eb,.plus Iqts of extras like fuII bibliographic information; Jl: online ordering and eider trickle and a book9-,.'. ~>,)jj':@ -~>,'=-~i ~ p< w~A gift on paperj jobsite: htfpJ/bookshop.bbi@eill.co.uk ~=:;-',~- =;:- ,' 1 ',g,-'9 ..Web site: hitpitwww.vu.ory/bookstore/ ~~,~ ' , f, '-;. -:-.::;;:&>,bBY KEITH SCHENCILI-ROBERTSver a year this reviewer gets severaldozen computer-related books toreview. It begins to fill up the book-shelves in my house, and by the end of everyyear I have to decide which ones I intend tokeep, and those I won' t. Those I don't want Igive to friends, colleagues or the local library,and while the books are often very good, forone reason or another they have a way of sim-ply 'taking up space' on my bookshelves.The books I tend to keep have a way ofmoving from my shelves to my desk and backagain, and earn their keep, Here, in no partic-ular order, is a list of ten real 'keepers' I havecome across in the past year.Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition:A Desktop Quick Referencefor Java ProgrammersAuthor: David FlanaganPublisher; O'Reilly & AssociatesISBN: 1-56592-262-XPrice: $28.95it's ,.:-'%@i'.-'w4. j; (.=-SLIYLSELL CLASSIFIEDS$ ) newsstand, you can comeA B C. household name' knockout method of sellingyour 'stuff' - there's nocharge for selling personalvisit, and use, us on the web!T-birds, from dining tablesto dude ranches.And now, in addition topicking up a copy everyThursday at your localIf you' ve been fol-lowing the break-neck pace of Javap rogramm i n gover the past year,you wdl have seenmany changes inthe industry. Thetyprcal loke >n theindustry is thatJava ages in dog-years, so by th>spoint most of theJava p r ogram-ming books that came out under the initialflurry of interest in Java are way out of date.One of the few exceptions is the /ava in aN//bi/ell book from O'Reilly and Associates,Top 10 technology books of 1997O book,which detailed everything programmers need-ed to know in a simple, easy to understandThere's a lot of new material here also,including a section on what is new in the JavaDevelopment Kit IJDK) 1.1, and practicalexamples of how the new event model c' an beused in programs. There's also an extensivesection onJava Beans: what theya~, howyoucan create them, and how they can be usedwhen developing new Java programs. There' salso a fair amount of information that hasbeen held over from the previous release,including an updated section on how Java dif-fers from C programming language (handy forthose who already have some programmingknow)edge), and how classes and objects workin Java.One of the problems of this book that itwas not made using a stay-flat binding, likethe first edition, reducing its usefulness as acomputer-side reference has been overcome.O'Reilly essentially got itself a new press andthe latest print runs of this book now featurestay-flat binding. 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Neil RandallA gift on paperContimieri from page I48great foundation for l earningCSS. Unlikeother such books on HTML and Web-relatedsubjects, it is bound to stay on a Webmaster'sbookshelf for a while.The Soul of the Internet:Net Cods, Netlzensand The Wlrlng of The WorldPublisher: Thompson Computer PresstSBN: 1-85032-191-4Softcover 416 pages 1997Price: $27.95The book is an interesting collection of inter-views and anecdotes as told by the peoplewho designed, built and eventually createdthe entity we know today as the Internet.Toronto author Neil Randall (a professor ofEnglish at the University of Waterloo) cullsthis story of the creation of the Internet frominterviews with the key people who helped tomake the Internet and the World Wide Web.This book brings to light the people and theprocesses behind the beginnings of the Net.The author knows his stuff. The book con-tains his extensive interviews with many oft he leaders in the development of t h eInternet, such as Vinton Cerf (the father ofthe Internet'), Tiin Berners-Lee (creator of theWorld Wide Web), James-Gosling (inventor ofthe Java programminglanguage), and many,many others.The book is not simply a collection ofinterviews; the author draws upon his ownextensive knowledge and provides therequired background information necessary toset up the story between the interviews andfili in the gaps in-between. If you are lookingfor a first-person account of the creation ofthe Internet, this is it.AppleDeslgn: The Worhof the Apple Industrial Design CroupPublisher. GraphisISBN: 1-888001-25-9Softcover 288 pages 1997Price: US$44,95Apple was the first computer manufacturer toAuthoc Randag E. Stroseuse industrial designers to fashion their prod-ucts. They introduced many key features. intothe personal computer marketplace: they werethe first to introduce a plastic case for mass-market computers, popuiarize the graphicaluser interface and adopt a consistent industri-al design style in their products. This lavishlyillustrated book looks at over 20 years of Appledesign.This coffee-table sized book comes withover 400 full-color photographs froin pho-tographer Rick English, taking a look at everysignificant Apple product including sometantalizing glimpses at some sleek lookingdesigns for devices that never made it tomarket. The book depicts the evolving styleof Apple hardware from the Apple I to theNewton, backed up by author Paul Kunkel'swell-written and h ighly revealing textexplaining the ideas and decisions that madeMac design. While ostensibly aimed atindustrial designers and graphic artists, thishook will also appeal to the Mac nut whowants to know everything about theirfavorite computer.The INkrosoft Way: The Real Storyof IIow the Company OutsmartsIts CornpetltlonPublisher. Addison-WesleyISBN: 0-2f)1-4094941Price: $34The Microsoft Way is a book that purports to bethe real'story about the success of Microsoft. Acoolly methodical business book, authorRandall Stross is the first business historian tohave access to the company's archives, andhad unrestricted access to them for over threeyears. What emerges is an interesting portraitof a company that has inarguably become thedominant force in the computer industry.Any book about Microsoft invites contro-versy. Its programs are often ridiculed, its suc-cess put down to brute-force marketing, andchairman Bill Gates is regularly demonized.Instead, Stross makes a compelling argumentthat Microsoft's success does not lie in preda-tory ormonopolisticmarketing practices, butin its eagerness for finding and retaining intel-ligent employees, acting quickly on brightIAuthor: Robin Williams and John TollettCo-author RobinWilliams (no,not that RobinW illiams) is awonderful writerwho has writtenover a doz encomputer books,some of t h emdassics, like Thel,ittle Mac Bookand Tire Mac isNot a Typewriter.This book, one ofthe bestWeb develop-ment books this reviewer has seen, is destmedto become another classic,Williams writes in a truly charmingwayabout computers not an easy thing to do-and somehow manages to explain some ofthe most complicated things about comput-ers and in this case the Web; in a disarming-ly simple and straightforward way, Whilethis may seem like a beginner's book at firstglance, it in fact contains a lot of advancedinformation about such things as file for-mats, dpi, content, functionality, layout andideas, and listening to feedback from the mar-ketplace. MS-DOS and the release of such suc-cessful programs as Word and Excel camedthe firm until the early 1990s,But if the success of the firm prior to 1990could be attributable at least partially to luck,Stross leaves no doubt that the success of thefirm after that date is due to anything butluck. His survey of the processes, develop-ments and vision that eventually led to therelease of Encarta, the CD-ROM that helped toestabVish the industry based on this technolo-gy, is well worth the price of the book. Whilethis is not likely to be the final word on theMicrosoft story, it is a revealing look at howthe world's largest software firm came to bethat way.The Non-Designer's Web IoohPublisher. Peachpit PressISBN: 0-201-68859-XPrice: $41.95Author. Jim CarltonOlstributor: Random House of CanadaISBN: f)-8129-2851-2Price: $38.50follow.Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue,Eyornanla, and Iusiness SlundersBack in the early'80s, it seemed likeApple could nowrong, I t p retty-much single-hand-edly started the PCrevolution, and itscomputers domi-nated the marketfor years. By theend of the decade it. 'p4k$.'.e4RLTObn ~s was obvious thatthings had startedto go very wrong, and Apple began to hernor-rhage money and market share What wentwrong7 This book looks at the tactical blun-ders, over-inflated egos, and the vicious poli-tics that overcame Apple management.The book is written by the West Coasttechnology reporter for The Wail Street Jorrmal,and is the result of over 160 interviews con-ducted with both current and former Appleexecutives and employees. 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Many times at the A antique Mac Plus present-my brothers stop chewing Everything was in per-a breath of air, I'd ask, 'Are bar on t h e k eyboard,pork chop'? Hate to see it first this appeared to be aSeveral years ago, it, reflection it occurred tocomputer. Forgetting all feature intended to savedays, I scoffed at basic ters and reports. I went tofor total computing luxu- and without comment,ry. I paid $4,986 including the newly intro pa i d his asking price in full: 1 {one) can ofduced GST to buy my Macintosh Ilsi, the corn- Coke (cold).puter to end all computers, the only one I'd The P l us found a caring home in myneed for the rest of my life. We were living in d aughter's room upstairs and was soon cov-up north at the time, and having more money ered with little pictures of cats.than patience then, I also paid $140 to have it I the n ran phone lines to each of the bed-air freighted into town. rooms to use the networking capabilities of.Within the year, a smaller, faster and t h ese machines. A co-worker revealed to mecheaper model had come out to tempt me. t hat there is a 'secret' topology for AppleTalkHowever, I was reminded that the total family c a l led 'passive star.' The technical descriptioncomputer budget for the 20th century already goes like this: take all the red wires and twisthad been spent. After awhile, I stopped caring them together, then do the same with all theabout smaller, faster and cheaper. And I didn't g reen wires. It just works. So now I have threedare mention buying another computer. computers, ranging in cost from about $5,000A little while ago, thee was a notice on the to the price of a can of soda.bulletin board at work: the company was dis- My fi r s t purchase, the venerable Mac Ilsi,posing of a number of ancient desktop remains in the den as the network 'mother'machines, all of them compatible with the one and print server, and the compact Macs arewe had at home. Wouldn't it be great if we had perfect satellite units for kids to do their wordanother computer in the house to reduce all p rocessing for school. The only problem isthose line ups and arguments? Sadly, it was soli that we have got two more kids who also wantthe 20th century, and there would be no funds computers. So, next spring, I think I' ll buy aavailable for this kind of purchase. Then my fru case of pop (on sale, of course) and start scout-gal gene reactivated with an idea: I made a vef)r ing the garage sales looking for more tradeslow offer on the oldest computer on the list and f rom thirsty computer owners! 0got a fine little Mac SE for only $75 (GQ;extra),along with some other bits and pieces, It now J R. (Bob) Nichol is the principal research engineersits in my son's bedroom downstairs. with the Centre for Engineering Research in Edmontonmodel they talked about, age rooms the machinethe options were put on. again, Then I put in a disk,B Y j.R. N I C H O L Recently, I discovered an abandoned com- 'puter carcass in one of the office cubicles.never knew the meaning of 'frugal' until A f ter making some discreet inquiries, I foundthe summer of 1969, when our family got i t s owner who said that it didn't work and hethe new car, There wasn't a suitable model really didn't care since it was old and was usedin the showroom, so Dad had one specially fo r spare parts for other machines. I couldordered from the factory. It was a plain h ave it for a small consideration if I couldChevrolet Biscayne with just enough chrome resuscitate it. Once again, my native frugalityto satisfy minimum legal requirements and a emerged. With the assistance of a computerblank panel on the dash indicating where manual from the company library and a bor-everyone else had a radio. rowed toolkit and a thor-This was the base - ThlS ~aS fhe ough search of office stor-the car they made before mOment of truth was Put back togetherIt stayed safely on the A pleaSant vrb~ ~ tt took a d eep breath andspartan end of the spec- g fl ip ped the power switchtrum that ranged from Was heard from at the back. This was thetotal motoring luxury. We W lgllI l t h e d l SBy gg pl d ~lee St~l'te~ to d k d o l t t oklearned to practice econo- ~ 1 ~ e c11' minute, a fully operationalsuppe table, seeing one of en I ~ t 01 ' too> ed its friendly screen.just long enough to take in 0+ ~ bIU1Sh g>0~ feet order except the spaceyou going to finish that lthln a minute, a w hich didn't work. Atget cold and go to waste.' fully OperatiOnal minor nuisance, but uponwas time to buy a home aQtlqu e M a C P lu S me that this was a specialthelessonsofmyyounger PleSell ted 1t S pape r when printing let-word processing and went friendly SCreeIl the owner immediatelyMac Station Burnaby4207A - 3430 Brighton Avenue420-5224Mac Station Naple Ridge22353 Lougheed Highway466-0 I 90 or 800-563-6227 AuthOriZed DealerTHE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDITION . www tcp.ca DECEMBER 1997 )534 MAC ARENAApple delivers developer Rhapsody NOS on timeprograms from software developers whowere seeded with an earlier version ofRhapsody. Samples include desktop andserver-based 'solutions' covering generalproductivity, Internet, publishing, anddatabase management.Any developer registered in Apple'sDeveloper Program can receive RhapsodyDR. Early developers include, AAA+Software, Anderson Financial Systems,Omni Development, PBL Systems, YmdIncorporated and Metrowerks inc. 2Coislaet Apple, Web site:htlp J/ssessa~ppie,corntem.tems.nected workstation environments.B Y PATRICK M C K E N N ACUPERTINO, Calif. (NBI Apple Computerofficials say it is shipping the developer ver-sion of the company's network operatingsystem I NOS}, rode-named Rhapsody. Morethan 10,000 developers will receive the newO5 in order to create new highlanddesktopand server applications.According to Apple, a 'Premier Release'will follow sometime early in 1998. Thedeveloper release and the premier releasewill not have complete integration with aUof Apple's Macintosh elements, but, 'thepremier release will be a customer-readyproduct, says Apple spokesperson, RussellBrady.Apple's Mac OS will continue to operateas Apple's general consumer desktop OS formany years. Avie Tevanian, senior vice-pres-ident, software engineering for Apple, says,lt could be four or five years, maybe longerbefore Rhapsody and the Mac OS are com- -pletelv integrated.'He says the Rhapsody strategy is parallelto Microsoft's Windows 95 and WindowsNT strategy. For the long term, both compa-nies plan an eventual unified OS across cor-porate networks and standalone desktops,At this time, Mac OS will remain as thegeneral OS for individual users, whileRhapsody is developed for server and con-Apple has not announced a RhapsodyServer and a separate Rhapldy Client OSproduct. Sometime in 1998, observer~expect to see Apple's Rhapsody strategy fur-ther clarified with a server and client sys-The developer-released or 'DR' shippedOct. 13 contains mostly Openstep tech-nology from Next Software, which Appleacquired seven months ago for US$425 mil-lion. 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(Netscape wasthere, too, but I couldn't pindown a VR-savvy staffer.) Likemany show events, this onehad all the free T-shirts andlogo'ed baseball caps a com-puter geek could want.Later that night, with capsand shirts in hand, I ran intoformer Apple chief executiveJohn Scuttey in a fashionableSan Francisco restaurant calledLulu's. Sculley, now chairman ofLive Picture, was singing thepraises of h is company'sRashpix technology to an asso-Live Picture's RealSpaceImageserver, he explained,delivers high-resolution imagedetail extremely quickly by.transmitting only the imagedetail necessary for viewing-not the entire image file. Thecompany has enjoyed consid-erable success in convincingother industry leaders to sup-p'ort this Flashpix format it isp art o f P i c ture I t ! fr o mMicrosoft, and is supported byKodak and Hewlett-Packard aswell.Editor's picksThere were many more hotproducts on display at Seyboldthan we have room to men-t ion. Here is a l ist o f ou rEditors' Picks:Most promising technolo-gy: Adobe PDF as a meansof facilitating digital addelivery. Best .DTP up g rade:QuarkXPress 4.0. Best n e w hardw a re:Intergraph TD225, a 300MHz Pentium II system forunder US$2000. 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Ifyou' ve done your homework properly youm ay make a few bucks in the long term andhave fun following the evolution of the tech-nology you' ve invested in and the antics ofthe company whose stock you now'own.But you have to choose well don't getsucked into the hype surrounding a new tech-nology. Here are a few guidelines for investingin high-technology stocks, but as with allinvestment advice, follow these suggestions atyour own risk.Avoiding the mainstreamStay away from anything that gets majormainstream media coverage that includesanything to do with the Internet or Java. TheWeb is overrated and Java investors could bein for a'fall lf you want to take a big gamblethen go ahead, but I would look towards saferinvestments.One example of technology that isunquestionably on the rise is related to theneed for bandwidth. Multimedia- and video-related applications and online transfers aregoing to ensure that increased bandwidth isrequired within in-house corporate networksandexternally,both business-to-business andbusiness-to-public.Gigabit Ethernet is going to be a factor. Butdon't bail on asynchronous transfer mode(ATM) yet. Other high-speed technologiesmay also have investment futures. GigabitEthernet is untested in the real world and mayremain so for a year or two then the installedbase of alternative high-speed technologiesare not going away overnight, and many com-panies may not even migrate to it if there is noconcrete benefit to the company from such alarge anancial investment.But if I was investing in technology stocks,I would be looking towards Gigabit Ethemet-related technology companies and those thatare involved in hardware and software, partic-ularly those that will be able provide a con-~e ntify and:centralize,;-access to tire morst@I'-.,'-'Wluakie.'mi&NIcr resrcsirce's'::onliiie.'3h'ere:IjjII,:.-'ere cuiient1y links to.$0000' sites'or@-te,':::.:-;:+lied into I20 dfsciplmes, Theie's: iso an.qi;:-.,+In,t!M news' section'vrhlch'hnkj,:to' sd-3j':.'iiice::r'few' j4om inaio'r':.inlbte'rie~~'p r'i'rigI;-.'snd:rieyj: j'puiceS. ~ + '...'.',' .',',',-, ...','+'>;triaft:Silly'. 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