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According to Hoffmann, over the past year, fear that the Internetwas going to takc over as the mechanism for CD-ROM delivery hit theCD-ROM industry quile hard.Now, however, people have witnessedthe Internet atplosion. and the financial community has been burntby it.“We have seen the Internet and ISP euphoria happening, but wehave also realized (hatwhat's there on the Internet does not companewith the delivery and immediacy and fastness of What exists on hard-dislcs or on CD-ROMs,“ says Hoffmann. “[On the Net} We still don'thave full-fledged interactivity as we would have on a CD-ROM.”There is now speculation that Wider Internet bandwidth might stillbe a few year's off, {hat it may be localized within networks and notavailablc to everybody, or that it might devclop into a televisionmodcl with channels.lnstant gratification“I think people are suddenly.Seeing that CD-ROMs can deliver some-

thing that the Internet will not for a while. l think that the indmztry isgoing to again pay attention to the CD-ROM industry,“ she says.Hoffmann believes that multimedial companies with technology

behind them will have an advantage in the futurefThose multimediaplayers that have bcen in the past successful in producing games forCD-ROM and for the lnterent are quite clearly in a key position to beable to take advantage of the new media and the new delivery sys-tems."

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For some people, the issue of delivery andcontent. including the distinctions and contrailictions betweenthe two, is a daily concermTake lsabel Hoffma n, presidcnt andCEO of Hoffmann + Associates. the Toronto rm that marketsthe highly successful Nikolai Learning Advent re series of CD-ROMs, and which recently purchased Corel orp's entertain-ment and educational CD-ROM business in a dcal worth aboutS22 million.“This is a step for us to gain critical mass to be ;ble to be a major

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mixationSince Screen is interesled in the DVD medi-

urn,they‘|l want to check out thc world’s firsthands-on DigitalVersatile Disc training coursenow running at Vancouvcr Film Scho0l‘sMultimedia Production Pmgramfhc instruc-tor, UBC's Dr. Panos Nasiopoulos,who is saidto be Canaders top DVD expcrt, is joiningJapanese owned Daikin US Comtec as chiefscientist. The DVD software-developmentcompany will bc assisting in the funding of aDVD research lab at UBC.Contact:httpJ/wwwmultimediaedu/

VR Didatch has released “AdventuiecomUSA", an lntcrnet-cnablcd multimedia applica-tion, and is prcparing to release CanadianTmasures, a CD-ROM pnoduced in coopemtionwith the National Archives of Canadzi. Suitablefor giadc 5 to adult. (‚Izmudian Treasums is anexäting learningexperiencc fcaturing archivcdCamdian memorabilia.

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Cinax Designs I.nc. has relcased il-‘ilmEtlit, aMPEG videocditing pmduct desigxied for thclowendMPEG encoderboardsand the Internetmarketplace. According t0 thc Web silc.iFilmEclit is a “simple, easy t0 use MPEG videoeditor mcant to be used with real-time MPEGencoder (IBP) neferencc dcsigns and deriwrativeMPEG encode platfom1s."Contact:httpz/lcinaxcom/

Vertigo 5DDizzybringsSGIcapabilities to thcMac platformWäth Dizzy.you canwork with 5D modcls in industry-standard applicationssuch as Adobe’s Pbotoshop. Premiere, AfterEfiects,und PbotoDeIuneaVenigdsSOfEWTIIC hasbeen used in thc production of Escape Io L4.Ace Ventura,andMortalConzbal.Contact:hüpI//WWVV.VClTigO3d.C()lTl/

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continued from page2Otors meant studcnts Werc cxposcd t0 contentdcveloped by a numbcr of spccialists.Insu-uctors observcd that studcnts were moti-vatcd t0 d0 more man just study forgjinalCXfllTl

Tree huggers?On medownside, many studcnts fclt the

interfacc was too lineanTheywould have pre-fcrrcd a more bmnched appmach to content

prescntation, Which Would allow for moredetail in arcas such as cngineering, if necdcdby certain studcnts.Mont: emphasis on simula-tions and. the ability t0 “play” or manipulateequations would have also improvcd intcrac-tion and ultimately retention.Onc big advamage of multimedia is that

instructjonal stylc can be matchedWith Iearn-ing stylc.A Student who leams best thmughdiagmms and visual reinforcement should bccxposcd to plenty of graphics and onscnccn.

Prus and cuns ufmultimedial IearningPro50 Greater user control produces morepositive attitudes towards leaming

0 Computers have strongmotivationalimpact onstudent Iearning

o Multimedia learners enioy a sense ofempowerment; they can control thepace, sequence‚ and format of con-tent

0 Use of audio and video clips, dia-grams‚ and animations addresses avariety of Iearning styles and elabo-rates on complex concepts

v Web-based content delivery reachesa broad base of remotely locatedstudents

0 Collaborative course developmentmakes use of content experts andexpands limited human resources

0 Programs designed with small, inde-pendent modules encourage nun-sequential navigation

Cons0 Poorly designed courseware lacksfocus and users can easlly miss rele-vant content

o Heavy use of text-based content isphyslcally restrictive and offers littleadvantage over printed material

0 Immature technologies may focusontechnical issues and inhlblt produc-tive interaction ‘

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studcnrs work coopcmtivcly. Programstlüt prcscnt a choicc in how to completeaötivities and whcre uscr mtcrfacc is casy tofollow are most successfixl.‘Professor Gary Boyd, of ConcordiaUhiversityzs EducationalTcchnology Graduatel.

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from its introduction in the December issueofCPI, was designed a5 a testbed “self-poweredplatform with remote access capabilities.”Geek jargon aside, that means (hatI'll be send-ing and neceiving e-tnail and digital imageswhilc on a tluee week, 2,000 km cycling tripthtough Omario,Quebec,andNewYork State.Using a palmtop Computer,a cellular phone,

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Lastmonth,weran a head-to-head comparisonof operating systems—l.lnux, Macintosh, 05/2,Wmdows NTand Vlfindows 95. Togive you anidea ofhow and why these 05s were born, ourwriters have outlined their histories.

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Back in the early 1990s, Linus Torvalds startedworking on a clone ofMinux, a small UNIX sys-tem. He wanted to write a small‚ academicUNIX system for Minux users.Starting out in assembly code‚Torvalds quicklychanged to C as his operating system becamemore developed. Taking adyantage of the pro-tected mode of Intel's 80386 CPU, he planneda stable‚ multiuser‚ multitasking netvvorkedoperating system that would be free for all.Version 0.01 conslsted of a basic kemel and afile system, but it was made available on theInternet inAugust 1991.

. Wrth the popularity ofthe Internet(especially forUNIX gurus), Torvalds was soon assisted by aloosely—knit team of hackers around the world.This UNIX clone‚ named Linux, aims towards .

POSIX compliance and as such, includes SystemS and BSD extensions.Originally made available asbeta (test)Softwarefor years, Version 1.0 was finally released inMarch 1994.Nowat release version 2.0.27 (withbeta versions above 2.1) lt is one of the mostpopular variations ofUNIX.Featuringsupport for32-bit Intel CPUs aswell as the PowerPC‚ DECAlpha, and Motorola 680005, itoffers the powerofUNIX free for anyone.Linux isreleased under the GNUGeneral PublicLicence, whlch means that it is free to modifyand distribute‚ but you must include (or makeavailable) all of the source code.

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2.0 for OS/2. We've seennumcrousWindows rcleases and havcpaticntly bccn waiting fora slew ofnative 32-bit OS/2 applications. Weil,that wait is (kind of) over. Ycs,SmartSuite 96 for 05/2 has beenrclcased, but...By lookjng at the Smartsuite box‚

first imprcssions are that it comainsOrganizer, Freelance Grapbics, I-2-3,Word Pro, and Approacb. Reading thcfine print, you will soon discover {hatthc box only contains two nativc OS/2programs: Word Pro 96 and FreelanceGrapbics 96. The catch is, Lotus hasalso includcd SmartSuite 4.0 forWindows 3.x for 05/2 uscrs to rununderWin-OS/Z.Installation of the SmartSuite 96

package is in three parts.You must firstupgradcwhatever Version of OS/2Warpyou arc running (OS/2 3.0 rcquiresFixPak 26 or latcr-includcdon thc CD-ROM)—and OS/2 4.0 rcquircs FixPak 1or latcr, which you must downloadfrom thc Internet), install thc twonative OS/2 programs, and thcn installSmartsuite 4.0 for Win-OS/Z. I"knowbeta versions of Organizer, Approacb,and 1-2-3 for OS/2 all exist, and I 'mquitc disappointcd that Lotus did notfinish them bcforc rclcasing this prod-uct. Loms claims that they will be partof SmartSuite 97 for OS/Z, duc out laterthis year, but I thjnk (hatOS/2 uscrs aregetting tired of waiting.Shut the WlndowsI’m going to ignore thc sct of

Windows programs, a5 Smartsuite 4.0is old news, and focus on the nativcOS/2 programs. Lotus claims (hatSmartsuite 96 i5‘TheDesktop SolutionFor You And Your Team,” and a5 suchincludesTeam Computing fcaturcs sucha5 TcamMail (lctting you mail a filedirectly from an application),TcamRevicw (lctting you controlrcvicws of documcnts and prescnta-tions), TcamConsolidatc (a mcthod ofcombining thc rcvicws into onc filC),and Tcamsecurity (allowing the authorto control who has acccss to a WordPro documcnt).Smartsuite 96 has full Internet and

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tions in HTML formats. Using thcscproducts has been made easicr 2ndmore producüve With the addition ofLotus Smarthtlasters, Assismnts, andthe InfoBox help (und information)tools that Smartsuite 96 forWindows 95 users have used for ovcra year.

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fimctionality betwccn thc Windows2nd OS/2 versions of their products.Freelance Graphit:2nd WordPro forOS/2 are just like their Wmdows 95

' 4- counterparrs, acept that they offerdragand-drop support, REXX pro-grammability within Lotusscript rou-tines, 2nd support for OS/2 4.0'sspeech navigation 2nddictation. Let'shope that the Samewill be said aboutOrganizer, Approacb, 2nd Lotus I-2—

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3 When native OS/2 versions ship inSmartsuite 97.Bug free, but still a bit trou-blesome

Fortumtelyfor OS/2 users,there donot appear to be any major problemsor bugs with these two programs.Somc of tbe annoyances appcar to bea resultofEBM's Fixpaks (somctimesWord Pro will give an error when

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usetsshould take the RAM requiremcntsto cm:32MB is a good lower minimumfo this packagefhe Commcnt Notes (orsti pads) arc a great idea and extreme-

eful.c thlng t0 watch out for is that Wordmuses LWP 2s the filename extension

forfits documents-the samc 2s the IBMW las Word processor (which is includ-ed in every copy of OS/2 Wal-p). If you

switching from IBM Werks to Word

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. e Smartsuire 96 package includesLhrpe min manuals: a Getting Started

guiFle, a guide t0 Word Pro 96, und ato Freelance Grapbics 96. Lotus

in ‚uded extensive online documenta-tio__ 2nd the l6-bitWindows Version ofAdobe Acrobat Reader, since the docu-m " tation is in PDF format. l’m not surewliy Lotus did not includc thc nativeOSNZ Acrobat Render, but users cando nload it from httpJ/www.adqtbecom/Nohespect?

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increasingly networked enviroriment, NCswill get their functionality from the network(any network) and therefore (hexewill be noneedfor any local opemting System.Oorel,the

thqplient-side beta Version of its Qfiice suiteforJava (server side to follow), completewithWoMPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations,CortlCbam and an e-mail Client (hatrunsany-

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and high StandingWith Zeus on this assign-menLThings are changing so mpidly in theComputer industry that any pnediction pastthe next 6 months can be as accurate as try-ing to foretell the winning lottcry numbcrs.Since the dawn of theComputer e111, the three

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Microsoft, attempts to keep or expand itsmar-ket influence and dominance by incorporat-ing new “netwotkcapable” feattnes, promis-ing the kind of crossplatform independencewhere Lhere is no competition. Microsoft'sprimary goal seems to make Wndows NTdominant in the networkedWorld (a5 Weil),with machines nmning on Intel processors,mostly PentiumP10,whether full-sizedPCsorNCs (network Computers).The next release of V1195, Code named

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WYSIWYG Web-page editing. Followingthe desktop publishing approach,PageMilI hides the dctails of HTML tags.for the most part,with drag and drop posi-tioning of Web-pagc elements. PageMillprovides powcrful and easy-to-use editingof tables and frames.Symanteds Visual Page picks up on this

theme and adds more extensive editing ofproperties, and frame templates are han-dled more gracefully. NetObjects Fusiontakes the template theme to its logicalconclusion, allowing image, colour, andfont themes or stylcs to be applied t0 anindividual page or group of pages.Even ona Mac, however, these visual-page editorsmay be easy for the pros, but they imposepretty substantial learning eurves for mostusers.

Webmeister ToolsIt's a sign of the times-the best Web-

authoring tools are on the PC. Adobe’sPageMill 2, Corel's Web Designer ].2,andMacromedia Back Stage Internet Studio2 offer strong WYSIWYG page editors.Corel and Macromedia throw in a bushelof clip art, animations, sounds, and othergoodies. The best Web-authoring tools,however, arc currcntly Microsoft FrontPage 97 andNetObjects Fusion 2.Look at the list of common features:

I. top notch WYSIWYG page editorsable to handle frames, tables, andforms, a5 weil as images and text withdrag and drop ease of placement andrevision;

2. site view with the ability to add, edit,and delete pages, verify links, andpublish selectively;

3. ability to import a page or a site withall or someof its asscts (images,soundfiles, and so on);

4. modiflablc pagc templates for the pre-liminary layout of a new page with acommon,consistent imagc and style;

5. simple database connectivity with theability to make forms and pages inter-active through built-in or user devel-oped Scripts ot Java applcts.

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Wcb creator to dcvelop a complctc 50-pagc smtic sitc in one t0 two wccks—twodays, if presscd. To modify that site andmake it interactive,however, the two toolssoon part company.MicrosoftFrontPage 97 takcs a wizards

approach-cverything from Initial SiteSetup Wizard to WebBot Wizard for crcat-ing form-bascd pagcs. Thc intexaction isweil thought out between the wizards andFrontPage's two main viewers:Web pageeditor andWeh Explorer (a site view thatcan launch other editors and/or wizards:see Figure 1).For example,aWeb to-do listwas created automatically by the InitialSite Setup wizard.This is a robustWeb-development envi-

ronffhe drawbacks are a substantial leam-ing curve (about midway betwecn a word-processing and a DTP prognun) plus theawkward table- and frame-editing func-tions. Finally, Front Page takes advantagcof Windows-only fcaturcs such a5 Activex,Vßscript, and active server pages, soWcbmastcrs should be careful if crossplat-form portability is of eoncem.NetObjects Fusion 2 takcs a templates

and hide-thc-HTMI. approach. Fusion hasno HTML tag editor, unlike most of theother tools. Users develop a site from thetop down. First they select from over 70templates one with the buttons, fonts‚ andlayout they want to use throughout theirsite. If there is no template, Fusiorrs styleeditor helps set up one. Then, users addpages in tree-view fashion: each new pagefollowing the templates layout. Move apage and Fusion takes care of updating allthe links.This is what I like-helpful yetWeh and image smart.At any time, one can switch to the page

editor for adding tables, images, para-gxaphs, and so on. PublishView allows forlink checks, site-wide spcll checking, andother site testing, as well as publishingfunctionsAssets View helps to manage allthe images, audio, Video, and scripts.Fusion was a bit easier to set up and

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fropted with the problem of legacy doeu-mepts: setting manuals onto the Net, for;alldwing customers to see a catalogue of

designs (whichmay be comprised ofelektronic and/or paper images, fonns,drqwings, tables, or other things); ot trans-

ferfing brochures developcd in Wordct or Pagemaker onto aWeb site.wc havc already seen,application pro-

grains like Word processors and spread-shqälcts do not reproduce documents inHTML forma: with WYSIWYG fidelity.Special translator programs like OfiiceAcfjess HTML Transit 2.0 do only nlargin-Lbctter (these programs do offen" the

adyantage of large-scale batch translationsanthe ability to map DTP/word formatc s to HTML).Spif you arc a SOHO or office user andyoii nced to get a lot of documents up t0

the;Net withWYSIWYG fidelity, you havelhrjte choices: import the files into aWeb-pagÜe editor but be resolved t0 a lot of addi-tioipal cditing; import and usc Java-cnablcd

pages; or import and use specialviewer-based print files.qprePs Batista technology,which is illus-

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a fcw years from now:betüngwhetherany two people watched the same TVprogram at eight o’clock last night.Right now, with only about 50 choicesin even the best-servicedTV markets,you need just nine people to have abetter than even Chance that two ofthem watched the same show (assum—ing all choices are equally popular).But soon we’ll have a. thousand

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designed t0 capture cvcryonc, from occasionaluserswho simplywant to checke-maiLto thosehard-core surferswho seem to spend much oflheir waking Iives connected t0 the Net. InaImost cvery case. each ISP provided manymore pricing schemes and options than thethree or so we couid Iist.Generally speaking,the first three pricing packages an ISP has areIisted in the survcy-ifpossible, they are Iistcd

I n t e rne tat a yearly price to pro/vide betxer comparisonof rates,although it can be mfely assumed thatmonthly rates an also bc had.Most ISPs now include some form of set-up

Charge.On average, the typical set-up fec aver-ages somewhere between S2025.Note, how-ever, that those ISPs listed with “Yes” in thcsct-up Charge cotumn do not necessarilyCharge set-up fecs in all cases-if set—upclmrges applied to the majority of pricingpackages listed,a “Yes”was added to the col-umnffhis does not take into account any pric-ing specials,which an: numerous.Connection spceds are fastcr than ever

before, reflecüng the rapid advance of moderntechnology.Most ISPs offcr their customers 33.6Kbps diaI-Ixp speeds, and a numbcr of ISPsbegan 1o inuoduce 56.6 Kbps diaI-up Serviceover the course of this survey. If you are inter-

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