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Bell Symiaatlco High Speed EditionInternet access serviceKit prices: $49.95 (Ior desktop PC) to $199.95(for portables, includes installation)AII kits include Ethernet card and cabling.HSE subscription: $39.95 per month1 Mbps modem rental: $14.95 per monthDiamond Rlnltimedia Homefreewireless network iritEstimated price: $300-$350 (Ior two wirelessnetwork cards and software), US$99 (each extraPCI or ISA card), US$129.95 (each extra PC Card)

ur home computing experience hastaken a turn for the better since weinstalled Bell's Sympatico High Speed

Internet service and Diamond Multimedia'sHomeFree wireless LAN. When our maincomputer, located in a third-floor spare bed-room, is occupied — which is almost always-I can take my portable and wander to anyroom in the house and still have access tothe network and the Internet. All this isaccomplished without being tethered to anynetwork cabling, or having to plug a modeminto the phone line.

There are two systems that make thishappen: a high-speed Internet service and awireless network. Although we are talkingabout specific products in this article, youshould be able to achieve the same end withsimilar products and services from othercompanies.

Bell's Sympatico High Speed Edition(HSE) was in t roduced i n Tor o nto,Ottawa/Hull, Montreal and Quebec City inDecember 1998. It is an ADSL (asymmetricaldigital subscriber line) technology, using thephone wire already present in homes as aconduit for high speed data communication.Because ADSL uses a different frequencyband, a person can access the Internet withthe ADSL modem and have a conversationon a regular telephone handset at the sametime, using a single phone line.

The Sympatico HSE was met with somecriticism when it was launched, mainlybecause of Bell's decision to use "one-meg"DSL modems, which cap the downloadbandwidth at 1 Mbps. Although this is theo-

retically more than 15 times faster than a56Kbps modem, it is far short of the multi-megabit per second data rates ADSL is capa-ble of — again theoretically. For example, lastfall, TCPs senior editor Graeme Bennett test-ed BCTel's Multimedia Gateway ADSL ser-vice, which offers download speeds of up to4 Mbps. Theoretically, ADSL offers speeds ofup to 6 Mbps downloading (the Internet toyou) and 640 Kbps uploading (you to theInternet).

Despite the fact that Bell's Sympatico HSEfalls far short of 6 Mbps, in actual use, we' refinding the HSE service to be fast enough forwhat we want to do on the Internet. Forexample, we' ve downloaded files of around 2MB on several occasions in less than aminute. And although we' ve not made anyattempt to quantify this, the speed seemsavailable most of the time. With the cablemodem service we'd previously subscribedto, but could no longer get when we movedto a different neighborhood, Internet accesswould sometimes slow to a crawl.

That's not to say the Sympatico HSE hasbeen troublefree. There seem to be timeswhen browser performance slows as it tries tofind the Sympatico Bellglobal server. Andduring the first three weeks with HSE, weexperienced one day in mid-March wherethe service seemed to shut down altogether.A call to the Sympatico help desk confirmedour suspicions that the service was experi-encing "technical difficulties."

On the whole, however, once you' veexperienced a high-speed Internet service, it' sdifficult to go back to dial-up. With both DSLand cable modems, you do not have to dialup each time you want to access the Internet.You are online each time you launch a brows-er or email software. That convenience ishard to beat. With speed, there is a definiteissue with actual performance versus adver-tised performance, but when the bandwidthis there, it is a pleasure to use.

less network makes my list of top 10 niftyproducts of 1999, but with an importantcaveat. In a nutshell, HomeFree creates awireless LAN, connecting the computers youhave in your home without the need to dropspecial Ethernet cabling. It also allows you toset up one of the computers as an Internetserver, thereby giving all the other comput-ers on the LAN access to the Internet. When

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coupled with ahigh-speedInternet service, itprovides instant Interneta ccess from anywhere in t h ehome. (The caveat is that if you have aportable that you use on a network at work,you may have problems setting the portableup on the HomeFree network.)

After setting up HomeFree and theSympatico HSE service, I was able to wanderfreely about our three-level townhouse witha portable computer and access the Internet,print remotely, transfer files between com-puters, and install software across the wire-less LAN using the CD-ROM drive on anoth-er computer.

There have been other small conve-niences as well. When we came across amovie on TV that we didn't know anythingabout, we simply picked up the notebookPC, ran an Internet search on the movie titleand found a synopsis, the cast list and sever-al reviews. As I was listening to some musicby a '70s folk singer, a search on the Internetrevealed a complete discography, the singer'sbiography and a list of other artists who havecovered his songs. And I didn't even have toget off the couch. This is home computing asit should be.

Both t he Dia m ond Mul t imediaHomeFree system and the Sympatico highspeed Internet access service were moderate-ly easy to instalL If you can install a modem,network card or sound card, these productss hould not stump you. I se t u p t h eSympatico service first, and then about aweek later, the HomeFree LAN.

Setting up Syrnpatico HSESympatico offers four starter kits: Two do-it-yourself kits (for desktop or portable com-puters), and the same hardware options thata Bell technician will install for you for $50

Sympatico sent me a do-it-yourself desk-top kit, which retails for $49.95. It includesan ISA network card, a 1 Mbps DSL modem(with a separate power supply, which is alsoincluded), a telephone l ine f i l ter andEthernet and telephone cable. Setting upinvolved installing the network card and thedrivers, and routing the cables to the correctports. The 1 Mbps modem has an Ethernetjack and a phone jack. Phone wire goes from

the telephonewall jack to the

modem, andEthernet cable goes from

the modem to the network card inthe PC. Once you' ve plugged in the ACadapter and powered up the modem, thephysical preparation is done.

The supplied Ethernet card comes withdrivers on a diskette. Windows 98 recognizedthe card and installed the driver afterprompting us to insert the driver floppy.Sympatico comes with a software installationkit, which installs Netscape Navigator andmakes the proper settings to allow access tothe Internet through the 1 Mbps modem.

However, since we were using Windows98, we chose not to use the installation kit.Instead, following the instructions providedby Sympatico, we made just one change tothe Internet Explorer settings (over-ridingthe automatic server configuration setting byproviding a specific URL for the HSE server),and we were online.

When we tried to make a phone callwhile surfing the Net, we detected a moder-ate level of line noise. But this was eliminat-ed by plugging in the line filter included inHSE kit.

Setting lap HomeFreeOnce we had the Sympatico HSE working, weturned to the Diamond Multimedia product.We were quite interested in this because theadvertising literature said HomeFree alsoincluded software that allowed Internetaccess for multiple computers using just asingle connection to the Interne.

Diamond Multimedia offers a couple ofvariations of the HomeFree kit: one includesan ISA and a PCI network card for use in twodesktop computers, while another includesan ISA network card and a PC Card (PCM-

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The cards themselves look like networkcards, except for the small protruding stub inplace of a cable port. The cards use a 2.4 GHzradio frequency signal and spread-spectrumfrequency hopping I'or security. The deviceswill work at separations of up to 45 m (150 ft.),will communicate through walls and floors,

and have a datacomm speed of 1 Mbps.The installation procedure is straightfor-

ward but quite specific. If you want othercomputers on the wireless network to shareInternet access, you must choose which com-puter will act as the Internet server andinstall the HomeFree software on it first. Theinstallation program installs the wireless carddriver and asks you which network card youwant to use to access the internet (we rnere-ly selected the one connected to the DSL

modem). You then install the wireless carddrivers and HomeFree software on the rest ofthe machines that comprise the LAN.

An old 486 ThinkPad Butterfly subnote-book we have seemed to be an ideal client forthis network. It is a little underpowered, hasno CD-ROM drive and a broken floppy driveso adding new software is problematic.However, it is light, compact, has a decentscreen and otherwise works fine. Usinganother portable with a CD-ROM drive, we

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In order for the network software to rec-ognize and give unique identifiers to eachcomputer on the network, all of the comput-ers have to be on and in a "polling" statewhen a new computer is added, so that it toowill be uniquely identified. Diamond saysyou can have as many as 16 computers on aHomeFree LAN.

Once the installation was complete, Itook the Butterfly to the second level, thento the first level, of our house, and was quiteimpressed to see that both the LAN andInternet were stil l accessible from theportable. I took the opportunity to addMicrosoft Works 4.5 to the floppy-less, CD-less portable by accessing the desktop PC'sCD drive over the wireless LAN, Yes, it wasslow, but it worked.

Once Iuc4y, twice cursedOne might think HomeFree could be a goodsolution for a telecommuter, who carts anotebook computer to and from work, andwould benefit from high-speed Internet ser-vices from home. To test the practicality ofthis, I also installed HomeFree on the note-book I use every day — one that already hasnetwork settings for the company LAN.

This proved to be much more complicat-ed. I did eventually get it to work, and whilethe wireless LAN portion seems stable,Internet access from this machine is spo-radic. A Diamond Multimedia spokespersonsaid HomeFree is aimed specifically at thehome coinputing market, and was designedwith the assumption that home computersare not on an existing network. When wefiled this story, we were still trying to isolatethe reason why Internet access was an inter-mittent service over the wireless LAN.

Is It worth It?Wireless access to the Internet and to othercomputers on a LAN has proven to be theheight of convenience. I personally feel it isworth the premium price. The SympaticoHSE service costs about $SS per month:$39.95 for the service and $14.95 for themodem rental, although the company iswaiving the modem rental fee for anothermonth (untfl the end of May). The cablecompanies have reduced their rates to under$40 in most parts of the county where cablemodem service is available.

However, the Sympatico HSE has notbeen rolled out consistently across the coun-try. The one we tested is being offered by BellCanada in Ontario and Quebec. Although allthe regional telcos offer the Sympaticobrand, not all offer a residential high-speedInternet service.

The HomeFree system is also somewhatmore expensive — and at 1 Mbps, slower-than an Ethernet LAN. As a comparison„3Com has a home networking kit called theOfficeConnect Networking Kit, which sellsfor under $200. It consists of two networkcards and Ethernet cabling.

Anyone concerned about the effects ofradio frequency electromagnetic fields onhumans might worry about using thesedevices in the home. This issue has beenstudied for a number of years, and at thispoint, organizations like the Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers (IREE)have set standards and say that equipmentbuilt within these Mndards are safe. 0• • •

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That's changing and fast. Parents withteens, young guys or gals sharing a house orapaitment, muples with a home offi~are finding themsehm with two or morecomputers in the home. Once you havemore than one computer it only makes senseto network them. '%e benefits are many:sharing a printer or removable storagedevice, moving files back and forth, multi-player games, even surfing the Internet fromtwo mmputas using one modem and oneInternet service provider (5P) account.

Paths to the monntalntopThere are many ways to reach the top of amountain. Similarly there are a number oftechnologies you can use to network yourhome. Recent work by the HomeRF WorkingGroup and the Home Phoneline NetworkingAlliance (HomePNA) have resulted in homenetworking based on radio frequency (RF)technology and using existing telephonewiling.

The HomePNA indudes IBM, Lucent,Intel, and Rockwell, among othas, and hasset up standardized protocols and expecta-tions for HomePNA catified products.

The HomeRF Worhng Group has morethan 60 members, including IBM, Intel,Microsoft, Epson, Diamond and many othercomputer product manufacturers whosenames would be familiar to readers of TheComputer Paper. HomeRF has been worhngon a standard called SWAP (shared wirelessaccess protocol), which would heilp ensure allPC and mnsumer electronics devices wouldbe able to communicate with each other.

There has also been ongoing develop-ment of products that use the householdelectrical wiring as a data conduit.

And, of course, you can always pull regu-lar network cables through your waledsome people do. It is a good plan, if you cando it, or if you are building your own home.Running conduits is better still, as you willinevitably want to use different wires thanthe 10Base-T, FireWire, or other cables thatyou originally installed.

For most of us, the real solution is likelyto be one that doesn't involve adding morewiring to our homes by drilling holes andcrawling though the dark recesses. After all,the crawl space or attic is supposed to be forthings that crawl.

RF systems work by having a small trans-mitter/receiver on the n etwork cardsattached to your computers. The signals canpass through walls and floors and have arange of about 50 m (165 ft.). Home net-working systems that use the electricalwiring in your home plug into a regular elec-

any other point between you and the trans-former that likely sits on a telephone pole onyour block Phone line systems use a stan-dard phone line jack to connect a modifiedEthernet card to your phone line. Thismeans you can connect to other mmputerswherever you have a phone plug installed.

Two phor»-line baseelhome networklnl productsBoth Home PC Link Kit, from Best Data, andHomeFree Phoneline, from D iamondMultimedia, are products that use your stan-dard telephone lines to connect up to 25PCs. The pmducts are both based on theHomePNA network standard, although onlythe Best Data product carries the HomePNA-compatible logo.

HomePNA products, like the t woreviewed below, currently enable a 1 MbpsLAN (local area network) of up to 25 devicesthat can run concurrently with telephonevoice or fax calls with no noticeable effect.The HomePNA daims the technology willwork in 99 percent of North Americanhomes. Computers on the LAN may not be

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more than 150 m (500 ft.) apart. The systemsuse software, an Ethernet-like PCI card foreach computer, and telephone wires to con-nect the card to the wall.

llaw I testerlI tested these products in my home office. Ihave a new Pentium 111-based PC and an old200 MHz Pentium system (both engravedand tethered, and the house alarmed-which I advise everyone to do!). My tele-phone line is not the best — I know, because Iinstalled much of it.

When I moved into this old starter housethere was only one phone line jack I spent anafternoon that first summer in the dark, spi-der-filled recesses of my crawlspace, staplingtelephone wire to the beams and then snahngit up tllough hastily ddlled holes. The wirewas in I'act meant for use in a home alarm sys-tem but it was free so I used it. I picked upthree little outlet mnnectors, or whatever theyare called, but needed a fourth so I used an oldrusty one I found. And yet both systemsworld perfectly with this wiring.

As a further challenge I tried running mymini-LANs through two 7.5 m (25 ft.) tele-phone wire extension cords. That way Icould test different phone plugs withouthaving to physically move either computerLastly, I also tried the systems by simply mn-ning the telephone wire from one machineto the other without going through thephone lines. In the end I found no degrada-tion of transfer speed in any configuration.

I also transferred files from machine tomachine while mahng a phone call andfound there to be no loss of transfer speed.Of course, a 1 Mbps transfer speed is not veryfast, but it is suffident for the needs of mosthome PC users. I listened for any sounds dur-ing the call and could hear none. I alsoplayed various multiplayer games withoutany problems. Finally, I ran the browsers onboth machines at the same time using onemodem and found surf speeds to be normal.I didn't do simultaneous file downloads butI suspect the results would be the same as

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The HomeFree Phoneline Desktop Pac fromDiamond Multimedia Systems consists oftwo identical PCI cards, software and a cou-ple of telephone cords. Diamond also sells aSingle Pac with ]ust one card for connectingadditional computers. The minimumrequirements for a HomeFree LAN are486/33-based systems running Windows 95or 98, with 8 MB RAM, 10 MB free hard drivespace, a free PCI card slot in each machineand a CD-ROM drive, of course.

Before you install the cards you mustdedde which machine is going to be yourInternet Sharing machine. This means thatyou cannot access the Internet from the sec-ond machine unless the designated InternetSharing machine is on (or you wouldn't beable to access the modem). Once you havemade this decision, you install the softvrareon the Internet Sharing machine first.

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l. I won't bore you with the details, but Icouldn't get to the startup screen (it wasnot a short between the ears on the partof this user, I can assure you of that).

2. My second machine would only recog-nize the card as "a non-Plug and Playm ultimedia card" rather than t h eEthernet card it really is. Trying the cardin another slot solved this glitch. Itcould be that whoever installed it thefirst time (OK it was me) might not haveset it all the way in.

Once over these hurdles, the setup waseasy, and within a couple of minutes I couldsuddenly pull files from one machine to theother. The experience was a real pleasure. Nothis wasn't a 10 or 100 Mbps LAN, but withno fuss and little hassle I retrieve things frommy old machine without using floppies, Zipor Jaz disks. And not having to setup anoth-er modem or printer — that is cool.

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and various other devices as shared but theincluded program makes it plain simple.

I was afraid that the Internet connectionwas going to be difficult but I was wrong.The included WinGate software makes it assimple as telling the second machine youalready have an ISP. After that, when youlaunch your browser, a dialogue box pops upon the other computer, and if you haveConnect Automatically checked off, yourbrowser dials up. If you go onto the InternetSharing PC and launch its browser every-thing proceeds completely normally.

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One useful solution comes in the form of anetwork based on the existing wiring in yourhome — for both the telephone line as well asyour household electrical wiring. Using theelectrical system, in particular, means you caninstantly create a network in almost anyhome. Although this idea is not new, it doeslook like it has finally come of age, both interms of performance and ease of use.

VensIors step op to the socketA number of competing players have movedinto this market, including U.S.-based Enikia,Adaptive Networks and Intelogis. Enikia isprobably the most ambitious of the threeand was one of the first to promise fuH net-working speeds of 10 Mbps over the ACwiring in the home.

Enikia is a member of the HomeApplication Programming Interface (HomeAPI) Working Group. Home API is made upof computer and electronics coinpanies thatare working together to develop a commonprogramming interface for computer controlof home devices.

Home API claims to ease the developmentof home-automation software and facihtatesthe accessibility of home devices by multi-vendor applications. The group says its goal isto accelerate the development and deploy-ment of computer-controfied home devicesincluding consumer electronics, security,lighting and temperature control systems.

"We envision wired and wireless networkscoexisting in a house and &is allows peopleto use dedicated wiring, phone line, wireless,or Enikia's power-line solution, based on thecapabilities they want in their network,"enthuses Enikia co-founder Bob DiHon. "It' sexdting to have very different devices appearas if they are seamlessly connected."

Well, Enikia sounds great — but the com-pany has yet to ship its products and HomeAPI is still little inore than a goal and a set ofspecifications.

The same cannot be said of AdaptiveNetworks, although it currently offers a more

modest range of powerline-based networkingproducts than Enikia is promising. The prod-ucts, including chip sets, modules and stand-alone units, incorporate spread spectrumtechnology that it claims will enable reliabledata communications over aH types of powerlines. Speed, however, is only 115Kbps-about twice what you get from a standard56Kbps modem and about 100 times slowerthan a network connection.

If you want to be able to go out and buya network based on your existing in-homeelectrical systems, you' ll need to look at thethird supplier we mentioned, Intelogis Inc.,which produces something called thePassPort Plug-In Network,

It is a system for rreating a network forexisting in-home electrical wiring that is onsale now (at a price of US$149.99 after aU5$50 rebate) and claims speeds of up to 10Mbps. It comes with adapters to connect twocomputers and one printer. (The companysells additional PassPort PC and PassPortPrinter Plug-In adapters for US$79.99 andUS$59.99 respectively.) .

To install the PassPort Plug-In Network,you just plug some adapters into your elec-trical outlets, then connect those to either aprinter or a computer via the paraffel port.You then install Intelogis' network softwareon any PCs that are connected to the net-work and you should be ready to print, sharefiles or any other resources.

While we were not able to get hold ofthese units in time for this review of electri-cal outlet network options, it is fair to saythat the configuration of the solution seemsto offer a lot to many home users. To startwith, it doesn't require the use of a networkcard (thus eliminating the nasty business ofopening up your computer, finding a freeslot and getting Windows 95 or 98 to recog-nize the card) or any network hubs. AH thosetasks are handled by the electronics in thePassPort Plug-In Network boxes and the bun-dled software. The bundled software alsoincludes utilities that allow you to share asingle Internet connection (particularly use-ful in a house where you have a dedicatedInternet connection from a cable modem).

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Want a network Tsy the AC socitetContinued from page 34pioneers. Since the mid-1980s, networkingcompanies have been looking for ways toturn the existing electrical network in yourhome into a network that can carry comput-er data. It makes a lot of sense, particularly asyou can rely on every home that has a desk-top computer also having electrical power.No power, no computer, it's that simple.

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ActionTec eases home neturorhlngContinued from page 42with an Internet service provider gSP), thenit is possible to install additional software toenable the sharing of the modem, phoneline, and account. I decided to defer thatuntil I tested the basic network connectivity.

Up and runningThe very first detail I checked was "phonejack sharing." I wanted to be sure that a com-puter could share a jack with a phone, at thesame time. This approach to networkingwould lose a lot of appeal for me if twophone jacks were required in a given room,one for the computer and one for the phone.

In fact, that is not the case. The NIC con-nects to the jack directly, and the phone con-nects to the NIC. A modem, internal orexternal, can be added to the mix. I made aphone call while copying some files betweenthe two computers, and didn't have a prob-lem with either task.

The second area I checked was speed, Thecards are rated at 1 Mbps, exactly 10 percentof the 10 Mbps Ethernet standard, and onepercent of the newer Fast Ethernet standard.One Mbps, or one million bits per secondshould correspond to rates of just over 100kilobytes per second (100 Kbps), and that' sthe level of performance I experienced.

When I copied single large files, I gotrates of about 104Kbps. When I copied fold-ers with a large number of files in them, theaverage rate slowed down somewhat. It's thesame with Ethernet or fast Etherne. A single10 MB file will transfer faster than 50 filestotalling 10 MB.

The obvious question is whether this isfast enough. In the home setting, I think100Kbps is fine for all but a small percentageof users. Typical word processing and spread-sheet files will take a second or two to trans-fer. Even files of several megabytes in size willtransfer in under a minute. Files of any sizewill transfer, if you have the patience. I cap-tured a TV program to disk using my ATI All-In-Wonder card, which generated a 251 MBAVI file. I copied it to the other computer onmy two-node ActionLink LAN, just to provethat it could be done.

From the standpoint o f W i ndows,ActionLink works like an Ethernet LAN.Participating computers show up in NetworkNeighborhood, directories and printers areshared in the usual way, and so on.

Share a modem tooIn the mid to late '80s, the number one rea-son for businesses to install a LAN was toshare an expensive laser printer. In the late'90s, the number one reason for installing aLAN in the home is to share a phone line,modem, and Internet account. TheActionLink Kit makes that easy.

The starting point is an ISP dial-up con-nection on one of your computers. TheDynaNAT software used by ActionTec per-forms some magic, but it won't make up forthe lack of an Internet account. It installsnicely, and will even work with an AOLaccount, as long you are using AOL 4.0 soft-

DynaNAT installs on each of your com-puters. On computers with an ISP dial-upnetworking icon, it will offer to use that con-nection. If you agree, the connection will bevalidated and your computer will be desig-nated a Server Capable member on the LAN.If you select No Connection, your computeris designated as a Client Only member. There

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A computer running Windows NT mustbe designated as Server Capable. This cancause problems if the computer doesn't havea modem. I discovered this issue the hardway, but it will be explained more clearly inthe next version of the documentation.

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by many phone companies across Canada.These services offer from 15 to more than 50times the download speed of a traditional tele-phone modem connection — the exact capad-ty varies from one phone system to another.

The cable companies, which had seizedthe high bandwidth high ground with theircable modem Internet services, are being chal-lenged to shew why consumers should con-tinue to go with cable Internet services whena complete high-speed Internet package isnow being offered as part of regular phoneservice, Shaw Cablesystems, with over700,000 subscriher households across Canada,has risen to the challenge with a wide range ofnew or enhanced services, induding digitalcable TV (DCT), the ShawTV communityinformation channel, and u pgradedShaw@Home cable modem services.

Inside the tilass houseAt a special press briefing at the ShawCabiesystems main offices in Richmond Hill,just north of Toronto, TCP was shown alarge, modern network data centre devotedto high-speed transmission of a wide spec-trum of information services. The RichmondHill facility is the heart of Shaw's Canadianoperation, which currently irIeludes about100,000 Internet customers, and about40,000 DCT customers, with thousands ofnew subscribers being added every month.

Using a huge concentration of high-speed servers, satellite lirIks„and high band-width fibre optic lines, Shaw is determined toStay On the leading e4ge Of the infOrmationwave. It even hopes to challenge the phonecompanies on their home turf of voice tele-phony with a competitive IP telephony ser-vice to be launched sometime in the future.

Cable Internet services share some fea-tures with telecom company services such asSympatice, or general online services such asAmerIca Online (AOL), but they have theirown peculiar and unique characteristics. Forexample, cable companies can only offertheir services in the districts where they havebeen granted a cable licence — in effect, theyare local cable TV monopolies.

As well, the cable modem services aretotally "home-based" — if you are a travelingprofessional who wishes to dial in for emailfrom a hotel or office far from home, youwould have to subscribe to a second onlineservice to handle your "roaming" connectiv-ity needs (Shaw represerItatives claim thatthey will institute a North America-wideroaming connectivity option later this yearj.

This then, is the tradeoff offered by cableInternet providers: the richest mix of high

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bandwidth media, including up to 200 chan-nels of analog television, digital video andmusic, Internet service, and local onlinecommunity channels, delivered to both thehome PC and home TV, but limited to afixed location.

Think globally, act locallyShaw has invested more than $200 million inthe last five years to upgrade and enhance itstechnical facilities, with the result, it claims,that it is the leading provider of a complete"wired home" service in Canada. Shaw repre-sentatives claim the company has done a bet-ter job of going "the last mile" to the indi-vidual home subscriber than any other high-speed Internet service provider in Canada.

As part of its announcements in mid-March, Shaw invited the Mayor of the townef Vaughan, Lorna Jackson, to preside overthe launch of ShawTV, a 24-hour commurIi-ty online service in the greater Torontoregion. ShawTV is leveraging the subscriberloyalty that has been cultivated throughyears of community programming producedby its local cable stations with an interactive,online version.

Shaw has allocated resources to allow sub-scribers to contact the ShawTV service viaemail or phone, and put local communityannouncements on the Shaw Web page, Theresult is a degree of true community interac-tivity, arId an up-to-the-minute communityinformation channel for Shaw subscribers.

PIUltal teleVhlen and beyondIn the majority of Shaw subscriber areas, for$10.95 per month, or by purchasing a $299digital cable terminal, home subscribers canadd digital television (DTV) capability totheir cable service. DTV offers higher videoresolution and better digital audio qualitythan conventional television or radio, andalso allows for p remium pay-per-viewmovies on demand, and other special inter-

As the first Canadian cable service to pro-vide DTV, Shaw is offering a range and qual-ity of services that neither the telephonecompanies nor the direct to home (DTH)satellite TV services can match. Shaw repre-sentatives told TCP that, in contradiction tothe common public perception of cable TVcompanies as uncaring monopolies, Shawrealizes it is in a tough three-way race withthe telcos and satellite operators. It is spend-ing substantial amounts of money not justfor shiny new gadgetry, but for better tech-nical and customer support, and for com-munity-based information services, in thebelief that it will gain and keep its increasingnumber of subscribers by offering the mostcomplete, pleasant and economical servicesto the wired homes of Canada. 9

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i nt e w o r SS omeLucent, Epigram ready to "turbocharge' phone line network standard

Iy Craig Rlenefee

A LLENTOWN, Pe n n . (NB) — LucentTechnologies Microelectronics Group andhome network chip developer Epigram Inc.have become the latest alliance formed topush technology into the next-generationHome Phoneline Networking A l l iance(HomePNA) standard. Version 2.0 of thestandard aims to increase home networkspeeds by a full order of magnitude.

The current HomePNA specification cov-ers data speeds up to 1 Mbps using whatamounts to a stripped down version of theIEEE 802.11 Ethernet standard. Version 2.0will turbocharge the data rate to 10 Mbps, amuch more useful speed.

The higher speed is needed to handlebroadband signals like CD-quality audio andvideo signals. Also, 10 Mbps is a standardEthernet network speed. It will feel familiarto telecommuters, software developers, andothers who work in the connected comput-ing space.

To market watchers, the announcementmay bring a sense of deja vu, because Lucentis not Epigram's first partner in the explod-ing home network market. Epigram made analliance last November with 3Com to devel-op 10Mbps home phone line netvmrks, adeal in which 3Com took an equity positionin Epigram.

Then, earlier this month, 3Com andMicrosoft allied to ce4evelop and co-brandhome networking products. Microsoft alsohas an equity position with Tut Systems, oneof the earliest home phone line networkfirms.

The various alliances involved in pushingHomePNA systems into the home may seema tangled web of relationships, but AdamStein, Epigram's director of corporate com-munications, says it all makes perfectly good

"Lucent, through Bell Labs, almostinvented the entire telephone system," Steinsaid. "They have a huge heritage in homephone systems. We already have a chipsetthat handles 10T speeds over in-place phonelines. It only made sense for us to get togeth-er with Lucent."

The Lucent deal involves broad cross-licensing of intellectual property for in-homenetworking and related communicationstechnologies, the firms said. It promises tomove Lucent's DSP (digital signal processing)modem and local area network (LAN) com-munications expertise into the home andwithin multiple devices.

Stein added, "If you blend the two [firms'technologies], you get robustness and scala-bility, We' ll build from that. We have 10Mbps today, but we will demonstrate 100Mbps over home phone lines and otherimpaired channels soon."

Stein won't talk further about Epigram'splans for non-phone line networks but bothradio frequency wireless systems and powerline systems that send data over existingelectrical wires could be considered badlyimpaired in terms of data transmission.

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10 Mbps HomePNA in the worksContinued from page $3guage skills needed to connect PCs together."

Epigram has earned some credibility inthe field. It demonstrated 10T phone lineconnections last fall, at the Las VegasComdex computer show. It also supplies thechipsets used by many system-level vendors.In addition to 3Com, its investors indudeTexas Instruments, the NetGear division ofNortel, and Panasonic.

Also, Cisco Systems, working on a refer-ence design that some analysts think willbecome a standard for bringing outsidebroadband connections into homes, usedEpigram chipsets a t the Co n sumerElectronics Show (CES) for a consumer net-work rollout, Stein says.

HomePNA has put a high priority on the10 Mbps upgrade. Cyrus Namazi, who headsthe HomePNA from his day job at AMD, saidthe rapid growth of the organization — mem-bership companies rose to over 60 earlier thisyear — indicates the industry's high interestin the technology.

"Actually, we' re right on target with whatwe set out to do when we launched thealliance back in June, last year," said Namazi.

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ActionTec eases home networkingContinued from page 49I started with a two-node LAN, using twoIntel EtherExpress cards and thin coaxcable that were part o f a Mi c rosoftWindows for Workgroups Starter Kit. I' veadded additional computers and an eight-port 10Base-T hub with a BNC connectorover the years. I have computers on myLAN connecting with 10Base-T or thincoax, as appropriate. I can add any of anumber of industry standard devices toexpand my LAN, such as additional hubsand switches, if I want to add computers orbandwidth. However, adding computers tothe network in distant rooms presents acabling challenge.

The ActionLink Kits for two PCs can bepurchased for low as US$72. I would expectCanadian prices to be in the $120 range.

Let's compare that with the cost of atwo-node Ethernet LAN: a fo u r -portEthernet hub is about $75; Category 5cabling is in the vicinity of $1 per foot;brand-name 10/100 Ethernet cards start at'around $40 each; and Internet access shar-ing software is an additional purchase sinceit is not part of the Windows OS (the nextWindows 98 upgrade betas have includedthis feature, however), so let's say $60. Thetotal is over $200.

It's clear that an Ethernet LAN, of the 10or 100 Mbps variety, is faster than anActionLink LAN. It is also more expensive,particularly with long cable runs, and moredifficult to setup, particularly with Internetaccess sharing. Then there's the question ofunsightly cabling. It will cost you hundredsof dollars if you hire a cabling professionalto make it disappear.

The trade-off is clear. If you must have 10or 100 Mbps performance, and you want toshare your cable or DSL modem, the tradi-tional choice makes a lot of sense. If you cana ccept the 1 M bps bandwidth of anActionLink LAN, and you want to shareyour 56Kbps connection to the Internet,you gain an integrated, and easy-to-installsolution for home networking that's pricedto sell. 0

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o w' at, you may ask, does all the buzzabout e-commerce have' to do with you?Quite a lot, actually, but it partly

depends on whether you are asking the ques-tion as a consumer, or as a businesspersonwith something to sell. (As a business-to-business process, eaommerce is achievinghigh levels of integration with a corpora-tion's other accounting and procurementsystems, and we will not deal with that sub-ject in this article.)

As a consumer, you may find that youincreasingly treat portions of the Web as acombination shopping mall and mail-ordercatalogue. Last year, Evans Research Corp., aToronto technology market research firm,released results of its residential Internet userstudy. It found that 56 percent of respon-dents in its study said they had purchasedgoods or services on the Internet. Of thosewho did buy over the Internet, 39 percentsaid they made purchases monthly, andthree percent said they bought goods weekly.

The items most frequently purchasedonline were computer software, computersand peripherals, and books. Other popular

to consumer purchasing over the Web.

Just biii meOne of the latest wrinkles to make onlinebuying easier for you was announced byBCT.Telus (the merged B.C. and Albertatelco) and eCharge Corp., which is based inVancouver and Seattle, Wash. The two com-panies have launched a service that allowsInternet shoppers to bill their online pur-chases to their telephone account. Accordingto the company, if you choose to buy a prod-uct or service on an eCharge-supported site,you are diverted by eCharge software to a 1-900 number, where a transaction takes place.You are then reconnected to the Web site,and the charge for the product shows up onyour next phone bill.

BCTTelus says the eCharge service wasrolled out in Canada at the World Ski andSnowboard Festival held in Wh i stler/Blackcomb in B.C. on April 9-18. By going tohttp: //www.wssf.corn, customers could orderticket packages for the event.

eCharge spokesman Geoff Davenporttold TCP that although there is no technicallimit to the size of the transaction, there is apsychological zone of comfort: "No one

items were music, financialproducts, travel, tickets forevents and clothing.

said he hadn't analyzedthe most current data,but you just have tolook around to see theunmistakable signs ofgrowth. From the recent

stock frenzy surroundingthe online auction site

bid.corn, to the visibility ofsites such as amazon.corn,

there's a lot of attention being paid

An Evans spokesperson

wants to see $1,000 charges on their phonebill." He said for the snowboard festival, atwo-ticket package sold for as much as $120,and this was probably at the upper end ofwhat people are willing to see appear ontheir phone bill. Although the service isbeing launched by BCT.Telus, reciprocalbilling arrangements among the regional tel-cos make eCharge available across Canada.

Another eCharge spokesman, Erica Beyer,says the B.C. chapter of The Canadian CancerSociety has also signed on to the eCharge ser-vice. Surfers can make donations to the soci-ety online, and have the amount show up ontheir phone bill. She says in the U.S., groupslike the American Red Cross and other healthorganizations are eyeing the service as a wayto reduce the high cost of processing smalldonations, such as $5 personal cheques. Shesays another type of service they see fittingwell with eCharge is magazine subscriptions.

Presently the eCharge works withInternet services that use a telephone dial-upconnection. The company states that sup-port for cable modems, ADSL and ISDN con-nections is scheduled for later this year.

Service collectlvesFor retailers trying to set up a virtual store-front or catalogue outlet, there seems to bean often-confusing array of services available.One trend-is the rise of service collectives-

' groups of companies with diverse skills com-ing together under an umbrella company tooffer an end-to-end e-commerce package tothe retailer. The retailer has a single point ofcontact, reducing the need to becomeinvolved in all of the steps in the e-commercechain, from designing a Web site and onlinecatalogue to obtaining a merchant credit cardaccount. A couple of Canadian service collec-tives that have come on the scene are the,eMerge Alliance, and nGage.

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efore diving too far into the ocean ofnew electronic commerce (e-com-merce) developments, it is worth tak-

ing a step back and looking at how we gothere. The truth is that each industry sectorarrived at e-commerce from an entirely dif-ferent direction, and yet they have all con-verged at a single point in time: right now.

Banks started on the road to ewommercein the late 1970s with research into whatwas then known as the EITS (electronicfunds transfer system). The arrival of auto-mated teller machines (ATMs) was the firststep down this road — a road that eventuallyled to the creation of Interac in Canada andsimilar "debit card" services worldwide.

By 1994, most banks were offering someform of telephone banking service, andeventually began offering "PC banking" viadedicated phones shortly thereafter. Withthe explosive growth of the Internet and theWorld Wide Web, however, banks quicklycame to realize they would have to do betterthan that to survive in a rapidly changingworld. This represented a big challenge as'banks were not renowned for being particu-larly good at changing quickly.

In just three years, however, we haveseen all major Canadian banks make enthu-siastic jumps to the Web. They now offe billpayment, transfer between accounts andeven some limited form of investment insecurities online.

Retail outlets, led by upstart companiesthat didn't exist a few years ago, have alsomade a fast transition, although not alwaysa smooth one. For many, it has meant notonly hanging out a shingle in cyberspacebut also redesigning their entire businessprocess to handle online business efficiently.

Manufacturing companies, distributionfirms and others that are typically one stepremoved from the retail business have alsoembraced ewommerce in the form of "busi-ness-to-business" electronic transactionsthat have become a natural outgrowth of

E-commerce enci youContinued from page $6

Launched in February at Internet WorldCanada in Toronto, the eMerge Alliance mem-bers are Inex Corp., Lasso Communications,Valu-Net Corp. and Citibank Canada. Inexoffers Web storefront creation and manage-ment tools, lasso specializes in marketing andbranding, Valu-Net has credit card paymentsoftware, and Citibank offers the credit cardtransactions infrastructure.

Winnipeg-based n Gage E l ectronicCommerce's service was rolled out just over ayear ago by MIS Advanced, a division of

Electronic commerce has outgrown a single definition. It is now sofar-reaching in scope, capability and purpose that it is part of everysector of the commercial world — from manufacturing to banking to

distribution to retail operations. It is the future — and it is arriving fast.the traditional electronic data interchange(EDI) applications of the past.

Once you get customeFs online,how do you Iet them to come hack?Customer loyalty in the world of ecom-merce is something of an oxymoron. Afterall, when you only have a virtual store toimpress and entertain your customers, howdo you keep them loyal?

You can't offer free coffee, doughnuts orhave a sidewalk sale in the traditional sense.And you' re probably already working onpretty thin margins to stay competitive, soit's going to be hard to keep customers loyaljust by cutting prices.

It's easy to say you' ll use the Web to trackyour customers' preferences and respond tothem, but your customers may object tothat — and your competition will be doing itanyway. So how do you make a difference?

A lot of companies are beginning to lookfor answers to these questions as the "secondwave" of exommerce gets under way. Thefirst wave has been dominated by pioneerssuch as Amazon.corn, CDnow, e-Bay, e*tradeand others who respectively opened up themarket for online retail sales of books, musicCDs, auction items and securities.

These companies won customer loyaltybecause customers didn't have a lot of otherchoices. They also won the confidence ofthe general public by reliably and srcurelyallowing consumers to use credit cards tomake online purchases. In other words, theyonly had to do their jobs to keep customers.

In this second wave, however, it is toolate to merely be first in the market. Andeven if you were first in the market, younow have competition — and a lot of it.

So a number of companies are now look-ing at the idea of "developing a relation-ship" with their online customers as a wayto achieve loyalty during the second wave.And they are turning to customer relation-ship management (CRM) software as oneway of helping establish that relationship.

"Using the Internet for interactive mar-

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc, Like theeMerge Alliance„nGage Is a service collective ofcompanies specializing in transaction process-ing, accounting, and secure credit card pro-cessing as well as Web site design and hosting.

Last summer, n GageannouncedCommerce Express, browser-based cata-logue-building software that allows a busi-ness to create and manage an online cata-logue with as many as 10,000 items.

nGage has also developed some interest-ing partner programs, For example, theCertified Agent Program offers a way forWeb site designers to offer a full ewommerce

and customer self-service."

keting, selling and self-service is the buzz inthe CRM industry today," says Tim Bajarin,president of C a l i fornia-based CreativeStrategies Inc.

He suggests that products such as therecently announced Pivotal eRelationshipsoftware from North Vancouver-basedPivotal Software can help develop and trackelectronic customer relationships. "It is avery promising application, because of theway it seamlessly integrates the Web withthe existing CRM model, and especiallybecause of the way it brings selling partnersonline to interactively collaborate in theCRM process," he adds,

Pivotal says its eRelationship software isa "next-generation" electronic CRM applica-tion suite that consists of two integratedWeb applications. Pivotal says this allowscompanies to build "Internet relationshiphubs" for conducting online marketing,sales and customer service with enterpriseWeb customers, sales and service partners,and prospects.

The first of these applications is knownas Pivotal eRelationship PartnerHub, whichPivotal boasts will provide a company's salesand service partners with personalizedaccess to selling, marketing, and customerinformation that allows them to collaborateover the Internet.

Meanwhile, Pivotal claims that the sec-ond application — Pivotal eRelationshipCustomerHub — will allow companies toextend Web sites with interactive capabili-ties for what it calls "one-to-one marketing

According to Pivotal Software presidentand chief executive Norm Francis, this kindof software can heip business partners andtheir customers conduct "personalized busi-ness" online. "[It is] where a myriad of frontoffice activities are unified to result in one-to-one marketing, sefiing and customer ser-vice," he says. "Put simply, the first compa-nies that exploit the potential of I nternetrelationship hubs will have an unparalieledcompetitive advantage." 0

solution to their customers without havingto become experts in financial transactionprocessing, secure credit card payments, etc.

In February, Vancouver-based MultiactiveTechnologies and nGage announced an agree-ment under which Multiactive will build thenGage transaction system into its ecBuilderPro. ecBuilder Pro is Web site and cataloguecreation software developed by Multiactive. 0

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major U.S, newspapers — TIM's director ofmarketing, Ed Manning, says the compa-ny's "online profit solutions" can be bene-ficial to smaller enterprises.':":;.:' ~ : - . . .

Manmng says TIM is "the first fullyintegrated Internet suite designed to help

.„bring, buyers and seIlers togethec" The'I suite of seiichable' dassif led ads, directo-

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'; photography, maps, and session-tracking,: information. Following are some of the* suite's elements: - i.„"„.,;.„:.,':"~V'CIassi8ed IQ: Clients using this service,. send in.ad text, which Classified ICI.parses

and make's:searchable. TIM says the resultingads support email, hotlinks, photos, videoand archiving, and can be searched usingClassified IQ's multi-level search engine,

,:,.',:.Encore Site Builder: The only thingrequired to create sites with this product isa Web browser„according to TIM, Through

.' it, a client..chooses a template, uploads,. photos.'-'music, graphics and sets back-' ground:colors, fonts and patterns.Itsdevelopers, say this can all be done in asfew as 15 minutes,, and the resulting inter-

In a matter of days, TIM says it can alsocreate osstomized branded templates forclients to give each site in an online direc-tory or community a common look.Encore sites support maps, links„email,photos,.video and 360-degree immersivephotography. They incorporate multiplelevels of security, and generate reports.

:">,". Directory Express: This service createsonline directories, catalogues and otherlistings, which can then be linked to auto-matically created Web sites. For example, aclient can create a wedding directory usingthis service, and sitevisitors could searchfor services thI.y need, such as. musicians,After typing in their criteria, a list of per-formers matching it is generated, From the

, list, the directory visitor can then click on' the name of a band, link to its site, andexplore its photos, audio and video clips.They can also book the band through the

:; Web site,. Sy assigning-a password.to the' band (or err'any busiriess in such a directo-ry), It cari'modify, rebuild or enhance thesite itself. bsting entries and site modifica-

, tion are done online in'.real time. Becausesites are buIlt."automaticalIy," maintaininga directory or listing service is simplified.

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So it started very subtly, with "bannerads" used as a way of helping defray the costof creating Web sites. The possibilities repre-sented by the electronic ads at the top or bot-tom of Web pages, however, soon attractedcommerciai newspaper publishers.

Within two years, major newspaperssuch as The Daily Telegraph, The ¹tv YorkTimes and The Wall Street fottrnal started theirown online publishing ventures with thegoal of seeing them largely funded by adver-tisers (although some have experimentedwith online paid subscriptions).

For advertisers, it was something of a leapof faith. It wasn't at all clear at the beginninghow advertisers thought the Web should beused — and whether that bore any relation-ship to what would actually work commer-cially.

After several years of experimentation,many Web advertisers seem willing to betheavily on Web-based marketing. However,it seems their future success will l ikelydepend a great deal on the nature of themedia in which ihe ads are appearing. AndWeb-based content is still evolving quickly,making it hard to decide how to advertise.

You only have to look at the evolution ofother advertising-supported media to seehow this might play out. When televisionnews first appeared, it largely consisted of anewsreader being shown speaking the samescript used in a radio broadcast. This madesense as radio was the dominant medium ofthe day — and the expectations of most earlytelevision viewers would have been mea-sured against the benchmark of radio.

It was only as the medium matured thattelevision news realized what it could dobest, with live, highly graphical events suchas the moon landing, conflicts and wars anddecades of televised political debate chang-ing the way we look at our world.

When you look at the Web, it is current-ly trying to emulate every existing media for-mat — from newspapers to magazines to tele-vision to radio — and is succeeding to varyingdegrees in each, We are now beginning tosee, however, a format that can exist solelyon the Web, one that is very rich in content,includes text, pictures, video and audio aswell as links to other places all over the Web.

The real power of advertising on the Webseems to be that you can go from an ad tothe advertiser's "virtual" retail outlet with asingle click of the mouse. You don't have topick up a telephone, dial the toll-free num-ber, and wait for someone to answer, nor doyou have to put on a coat and head out inthe rain. You just click and you' re there. Thatseems to be the most powerful draw any Website can offer an advertiser.

Web ads are very attractive for advertiserswho can sell their products digitally. A lot ofsoftware companies, for example, can nowsell and collect money for their productsentirely over the Internet. They do not needto use courier companies to ship physicalproducts as the entire product can be down-loaded into a computer.

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In the peer-to-peer networking model, atleast one computer acts as both dient andserver. Each of the other computers in thenetwork can be a client — and thus access theresources shared on another computer — aswell as a server. A peer network can be anappropriate solution for offices with a smallnumber of computers, but even then, a ded-icated server leads to better results.

Why write about peer networks at all'P Thereason is simple, and practical. There are a lotof them around, and they won't go away. So Imay as well try to offer some useful advice.

In a situation where computers are inshort supply, and dedicating one to the serv-er function is not fkasibie, there's no alterna-tive. This often happens in the home, wherethere are two or three computers, but fewerprinters and modem/phone line combina-tions for accessing the Internet. There aresome attractive new products for home net-working, as the main feature steries in thisissue of TCP point out.

In a business setting, it is harder to acceptthe compremises of a peer network In thepast year, I' ve encountered only one scenariowhere a network without a dedicated servermade sense. Accounting firms send out ateam of professionals to conduct externalaudits. Very small businesses might be visit-ed by a single individual, but usually severalaccountants arrive with their portable com-puters, and set up shop for days or weeks.

A Toronto-area firm of chartered accoun-tants I'm familiar with has found it useful toequip its audit teams with all the hardwarerequired to set up a temporary peer networkat the dient"s site, All of the notebook com-puters have Ethernet cards. A small hub,10Base-T cables, and a little configuration,and the local area network ~ is up andrunning within minutes. Each of the com-puters is a chent. One of the computersshares its printer (also brought by the team),and one of the computers (possibly the sameone) shares a data folder.

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Microsoft's NetBEUI protocol is a goodchoice for a small netwerk, peer or dedicatedsenrer. It's a fast protocol, with no configura-tion settings. TCP/IP, on the other hand, ishighly configurable. In a small network,that's not a good thing. There are other pos-sibilities, but none worth discussing for thepurposes of this article.

As for security options, there's only onethat can be implemented on a Windows 9xpeer LAN: share-level security. This meanseach shared resources can be protected witha password. Unfortunately, th» password isthe same for all users, so only one user needsto disclose his or her password for the wholenetwork to be breached.

Perhaps the biggest problem with a peernetwork is unpredictability, and there is nostraightforward way to address it, If you wantto access Ales in a shared directory onComputer A, it had better be turned on. If itisn' t, you can turn it on yourself, but you' llneed that computer's password. Without thepassword, you"il have to access the files in thatdirectory while sitting at that cemputer. Youcan then take them back to your computer ona diskette, but I wouldn't call that networking.

Unpredictability raises its head again inother ways. A user may forget that his or hercomputer is performing server functions andshut it down. Data loss is one potential resultof doing this, but frustration and loss of timeare certainties. Something as trivial as thelocal user dicking on the Floppy A icon

but they are not available immediately.On the other hand, it is easy to track how

many people go to a Web site through a sim-ple "visit counter." This gives advertisers avery real sense of how many people theyreach in a particular week, day or hour. Theycan also track how many of those visitsresulted in users "clicking through" to theadvertiser's Web site,

Through the use of simple identifyingtechnology, such as "cookies" (which store asmall, digital ID on your hard disk when youvisit a site and pass that ID back to the sitewhen you revisit it), it is pessible to trackreturn visits and the identity of those visitors.

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several places rather than one, the taskbecomes mere difficul. Depending on usersto backup their local drives doesn't work.You may use a carrot, a stick, or both, but inthe final analysis, you won't have a solid pro-cedure in p lace. It's interesting thatMicrosoft's Knowledge Base contains the fol-lowing advice:

"To make sure data on the network isbacked up automatically, use a server-basedlletwerk

It is worth making an attempt to config-ure a computer for optimal performance,based on what |ebs it is performing on theLAN. On each computer that is used as a fileor print server, go to the System icon inControl Panel, and choose Performance, FileSystem. Select Network Server as the TypicalRole of This Machine. This will help opti-mize the perfonnance of the file system forsupporting network server activities, but maylead to complaints by the computer's userabout responsiveness.

A better approach would be to installWindows NT 4.0 Workstation on the comput-er that will host most of the shared resources.You will still have a peer network, but the per-formance will improve because Windows NTis a better server than Windows 9x. On a pow-erful computer, it's also a better client. 0

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way that is simply not matched in any othermedium. For successful Web sites, thisshould make advertising sales a lot easier.Web site publishers can show that their sitesgenerated a specific amount of traffic to acustomer's Web site.

This may, in turn, lead to an even merevaluable proposition being required ef Webpublishers by advertisers. In addition totracking how many customers click throughto their site directly from an online publica.tion, advertisers may also want to figure oixhow much they spend when they get there

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In many cases, such companies also sell a"shrink-wrapped" product through tradi-tional retail channels, but the cost of deliver-ing the allAigital product via the Web site isfar lower. So it makes a great deal of sense forpromoters of such products to make as manydirect-delivery sales via the Web as they can.And gethng "dick-through" traffic from pop-ular online magazine sites is a good way ofachieving that.

For companies selling a non4igital prod-uct, who use their Web sites for "catalogue-style" shopping, the attraction of online adswill increasingly be to get the attention — alsotermed "mind share"~f the demographi-

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icroso t unvei s ass ort siteMicrosoft wants to go shopping with you. The world's largest software company

announced plans in March to offer a service it claims should eliminate manyof the current inconveniences of shopping on the World Wide Web.

Microsoft Passport is known as "single-click" shopping. After signing in at a "portal"site, such as the MSN (Microsoft Network)Web site, you can then shop at affiliated Websites that support the technology.

Passport holders who begin shopping atthe MSN site will also have the help of a vir-tual "personal shopper," via a Web siteknown as Compare.net, which was pur-chased by Microsoft in March. AtCompare.net, shoppers key in the productthey want to buy and the site searches theWeb for that item. The result of the search isa list of where the item can be found and atwhat price.

The announcements of Microsoft'sPassport and Compare.net services are onlya small part of a much larger effort byMicrosoft to become the key player in elec-tronic commerce (e-commerce). The centralelement of this strategy is an commerceframework Microsoft is calling "BizTalk,"which allows companies to conduct transac-tions with one another, integrate applica-tions and exchange transaction informa-

"The Internet has forever changed theway business is conducted," Gates said at theannouncement. "With these tools, our hopeis that the electronic commerce opportunityis opened up for everyone. You don't have tobe a big corporation with a well-known

brand or a company with lots of availabledollars to throw at e~ommerce solutions.With low~st, high-volume tools like these,we can accelerate the market and within ayear get a million new businesses online."

And Microsoft is hoping this idea willhave as much appeal in Canada as anywhereelse. According to Ken Nickerson, generalmanager of MSN Canada, the company islooking to offer the Microsoft Passport ser-vice to Canadian customers at the same time

By Ceef Wheelwright

SAN FRANC5CO — At the moment, everytime you enter an online shop and decide tobuy something, you have to provide a longlaundry list of personal details to completethe purchase. For each of the purchases youmake at each site, you need to key in thedetails of how you will be paying for yourpurchase (i.e., your credit card information),as well as your address, telephone number,postal code and information on your pre-ferred method of delivery.

Microsoft has come up with a technologythat it says will allow consumers to shopwithout having to repeatedly key in all thatinformation. It's essentially an "electronicwallet" in cyberspace.

This is not a new idea for Microsoft, as co-founder and chief executive Bill Gates has pro-moted such a concept for much of the pastdecade. But this particular implementation ofthe electronic wallet idea could be quite useful.

Through a new service known asMicrosoft Passport, you' ll be able to have thiselectronic wallet~long with all your creditcard information and delivery preferences-travel with you from site to site as you shop.

You' ll feel a little like the Queen, whoreputedly never carries cash with her, allow-ing members of her staff to deal with suchvulgar transactions on her behalf.

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as American consumers — probably in latesummer or early fall.

Nickerson says reaction from Canadianretailers so far has been strongly positive. "Itis fairly new and so far we have only beenworking with a few-select folks, but there isthis desire by all the Canadian retailers wetalk to [to get involved]," he says. "Certainlythere is a recognition that e~mmerce inCanada is catching on and we are catchingup to the U.S." 0

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equals nice earnings for storage firmsFRAMINGHAM, Mass. (NB) — The increase inInternet downloading is c reating agroundswell of sales in the storage industry,according to a r eport just out f romInternational Data Corp. (IDC).

In its report entitled DovrnloadinII andStoring Files fromthe Internet: An IDC End-UserSurvey, the research company notes that 56percent of commercial survey respondentsand 49 percent of consumer survey respon-dents download data from the Internet atleast a few times a week.

Wolfgang Schlichting, IDC's researchmanager, says some respondents said theyare downloading multiple times each day."Downloading data from the Internet pro-vides a new opportunity for storage prod-ucts," he said, adding that the firm foundthat hard drives are reaping the most benefitfrom this opportunity.

Approximately 91 percent of commercialsurvey respondents and 81 percent of con-sumer survey respondiints said they use harddrives for primary storage. The survey foundthat the size of the typical downloaded file issmaller than 2 MB.

"Looking at only the typical file size, theopportunity doesn't appear to be very large.

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However, the high frequency and the longduration that files stay on the primary stor-age medium make this storage opportunitysignificant," he said.

IDC found that the type of file that isdownloaded varies by site type. Email andapplication software are most commonly

sumer sites, however, graphics files, still pic-tures or images, and clip art are most fre-quently downloaded.

IDC also found that for secondary storagemedia, the accumulation of data contributesthe most to the storage opportunity.However, the opportunity also varies accord-ing to site type. Commercial respondentsprefer Zip, IAN, and floppy as their mediachoice, while consumer respondents citedfloppy and HDD as their secondary storagepreference.

"Even though vendors have increasedHDD capacity and the installed base of PCs isyoung, end users will fill the capacity overtime, and secondary storage media will playan increasingly important role," saidSchlichting. 0 0 ' • i I I • '

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I want my documentsand I want them now!

It doesn't seem like

don't do this very often, but I am warningyou, I am going to do it now. I am goingto saddle you with a new acronym — one I

created myself purely for the purposes ofexplaining a key principle of mobile com-puting.

The acronym is ESR (effective speed ofresumption) and i t s imply refers to theamount of time that passes from when youflip open the lid of your moible computer towhen you can actually start working on agiven file.

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The same is true with the average note-book computer that runs Microsoft Windows98. You switch it on and you wait — and waitand wait. It's about as much fun, and is asproductive, as watching paint dry.

I am fed up with notebook computersthat have an ESR of five minutes or more. Iwant my documents and I want them now!It doesn't seem like a lot to ask, In fact, youcan already enjoy instant access to your filesif you use a notebook computer with a"stand-by" or "resume" mode (althoughthese never seem to work quite as reliably asyou would expect).

There are two ways to achieve this mode.The first is simply to put the computer'sscreen, hard disk and other components intoa "sleep" mode and just trickle enoughpower through the computer to keep thememory intact so you can instantly resumeworking on documents. If you have a note-book computer with long battery life (such as

native.

the Compaq Armada, which improves thiseven further by giving you a second batteryin a carrying handle), this is not a bad alter-

The second option to achieve a "near-zero" ESR is a "suspend-to-disk" mode. Thissimply saves (on your hard disk) a snapshotof everything you were working on at themoment you suspended the notebook.When you restart the machine, it reads thatsnapshot information and puts you backwhere you were before you suspended thecomputer.

The advantage of this latter approach isthat it allows the computer to be completelyswitched off and draws no battery powerwhile in suspend mode. On the other hand,the computer takes longer to resume opera-tion (thereby giving you a higher ESR).

An alternative to the two stand-byoptions is to use a handheld computer suchas the Psion Series 5, a Palm Pilot or one ofthe many systems based on Microsoft'sWindows CE operating system. All of thesemachines have an ESR of almost zero, yetthey are under-powered compared to thetypical Windows 98-based notebook com-puter.

That is why I end up carrying at leasttwo computers when I travel. I always takethe Psion Series 5 because it offers long bat-

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tery life and allows me to get to work theinstant I switch it on. I also, however, typi-cally carry a notebook computer to use asmy "main system," which I keep in myhotel room for doing any heavy-duty com-puting work (such as downloading photosfrom my digital camera). The notebookcomputer stays plugged into the wall so it isinstantly ready to use when I return from ameeting and want to transfer notes from myPsion or upload photos from the digital

Now, if I were willing to merely plunkdown a whole bunch of money for one ofthe more expensive notebook computerswith long battery life and reliable suspendmode, perhaps I could abandon this rathercontorted approach to high-tech travel. But Idoubt it. I have been caught out too manytimes in situations where the single machineI have brought with me fails for some reasonor another, and I am left scrambling to findanother way to send my data.

So while it is nice to have a system with alow ESR, it is not the only factor that goesinto judging a mobile solution. Reliabilityand robustness also have to play a role, par-ticularly when you are hauling a computerall over the world. Inevitably it, or the bag itis packed in, will get dropped at some pointor another. But that's another story 0

In some ways, this issue reminds me ofthe days of black and white television, I amold enough to remember a time before every-one had an "instant on" color TV in theirhome, If you wanted to watch a show on oneof these old monochrome TVs, you had to"warm up the set" before you could actuallysee anything.

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Internet Explorer $.0From: Microsoft, http:I/www.microsoftcomPros: Faster. Improved Search Assistant helps findemail addresses, Web pages and other types of data.History list can now be sorted (automatically disre-gards the "www" prefix). Auiocomplete feature typesin Web addresses and fills in forms. Allows multipleconnection configurations, maldng it easier for userswith multiple Internet service provideis to conneci.0piional Web view of FTP pages.Cons: Conflicts with some video drivers. No 128-bitversion currently available However, the standard40-bit version does include Server GatedCiyptography (SGC) technology, which allows inter-national customers to conduct 128-bit transactionswith banks and financial institutions around thewoifd. Netscape Navigator 4.51 browser is slightlyfaster at loading pages with mixed text and graphics.

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now, and so far it seems quite stable andspeedy (86 percent faster than NetscapeNavigator 4.5 at accessing cached pages), butthe large size of the required files makes it achallenging download for users with slowInternet connections. A minimum installa-tion can take as little as 7.5 MB of disk space,however, the full feature-set requires over100 MB. On one of our Windows 95 systems,the installer told us it needed 9,1376 KB freeon drive C to continue a "typical" installa-tion. Obtaining the CD-ROM from Microsoftis a better plan for modem users.

Synchronizing with IE$When testing this browser, one of the firstthings we tried was opening another user'sdesktop (some 3,200 km away, via TCP/IP) asan Active Desktop window, using IES. In ourtest, we opened the Desktop folder of aMacintosh computer on our PC and browsedtext, Adobe Photoshop and JPEG files.

By rightwlicking on a file (or even a fold-er) on the remote computer, we were able toplace an Active Desktop object onto our

contents of the remote machine's window.Windows Active Desktop, containing the

Interestingly, even though the files were notnamed in standard PC conventions (as Macusers seldom do), IES correctly recognizedthem. Double-clicking an Adobe Illustratorfile yielded the Save or Open dialogue. Byselecting Open, we were delighted to see thatI ES opened the I l l ustrator f i l e w i t hCorelDraw 8 (our system is set up to openIllustrator files with this software) embeddedright inside the IES window! We could thenview, save, print and edit the graphics fiies atwill from "inside" the Web browser.

In another test, we dropped a MacSimpleText file onto our Windows desktopwith formatting and fonts intact. Using IES'sFont controls, we could then increase ordecrease the font size. And, because the filewas synchronized with the off-the-premisesMac, our Active copy would be automatical-ly updated if the remote user edited the file!IE 5.0's new synchronizing feature allowsyou to update an offline site and downloadonly the new elements. As well, downloadedpages automaticaIIy download the requiredgraphics in IES. Very cool.

Big Improvements to FfPThere are other dramatic changes as well.When accessing a remote FIl ' s ite, forexample, the files now look exactly likelocal files, with the same folders and win-dow layout you would see if they were onyour own PC. You can simply drag a folderon to your own desktop (or anywhere else)to download it.

Right-clicking a file yields a Download Tooption. The status bar shows what name youare logged onto the remote FTP site with.And, if you select Web Page View while con-necting to an FfP site, you see further evi-dence of how much IES improves upon theIamew FTP functionality of previous InternetExplorer releases. In this new version, acheckbox for logging in anonymouslyappears, along with a place to type an emailaddress, and options to download files intext, binary or auto-detect modes.

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The FTP functions of IES have been great-ly improved over those of IE4 or earlierreleases. For example, where IE4 would com-plain that "the server returned extendedinformation" in cases where a password wasrequired, IES provides a dialogue to enter thepassword. As well, when the URI. of, say, apassword-protected directory was copied toan IE4 user's desktop as an Active Desktopitem, the operation would fail with a "notsupported" error. IE5 can handle this, andmore. Its Web Page View mode even allowsyou to upload or download folders and filesby simply dragging them.

Another new feature of IES is a dramati-cally revamped Media Player, with enhancedvideo, audio and NetShow multimedia capa-

At the m id-March launch o f I ES,Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates made asurprise announcement of Windows 98 SE, asecond edition of the company's Windows98 operating system due this faII that willinclude the new browser and a host of otherbug-fixes and feature updates, many ofwhich were expected to show up this spring

questioned whether this was little more thana ploy to divert attention away from thecompany's slipping schedules for its next-generation Windows 2000 release.

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Out of space again? It's really not much of amystery why this happens. As technologyimproves and manufacturers are able to

make larger storage solutions, the hardware andsoftware that uses the storage also becomes moredemanding. Driver files get bigger, more utilities arerequired to keep everything running properly, andnew software expands as features are added andimproved.

Although games tend to be the greediest users ofstorage space, everyone seems to be getting into theact now. Windows 98 can take up to 355 MB of harddisk space for a full installation!

When you finally do run out of space on yourcomputer, there are a few different ways to deal withthe situation. The first is the most brutal: manualdeletion of files. Every one of us probably has a tonof files sitting on the hard drive that have beenabandoned for a long period. Cleaning up files thisway can be satisfying in much the same way ascleaning an apartment with a mop and a bucket ofsoapy water: it feels good for a short period, but youknow things are going to go back to the way theywere, again. It is a short-term solution, at best.

A hard decision?A more long-term solution is to install a new harddrive. Computer systems that are a few years oldhave hard drives that seem laughably small whencompared to drives currently on the market. Afterall, a I GB drive was pretty big news just a few yearsback, but what could you fit on it now?

If you' re upgrading to Windows 98, the operat-ing system will take a big chunk of that right off thebat. Then there are word processing programs, someother utilities, the swap file and by that point you' vealmost topped it up.

Never mind trying to play one of the newergames, as the minimum install on some of themruns into tens of megabytes, and full install can eas-ily take up .5 GB. If you have an older drive and aninterest in some of the new games, a new hard drivewould certainly be the way to go.

The variety of hard drives available now can be abit mind boggling. Drives are available with a num-ber of different interfaces, and a number of differentspeed ratings. What should you look for'?

Although some people prefer drives with a SCSI .interface because of the increase in transfer speed,the IDE format is, by far, more popular. This isbecause of IDE's ease of use — there's no need toinstall a controller card, as the IDE interfaces arebuilt into all motherboards. IDE drives also tend tobe much cheaper than their SCSI counterparts ofsimilar capacity. Lastly, although SCSI drives werepreviously available in much larger capacities thanIDE, IDE has closed the gap so there's little differ-ence between them in terms of size at the top end.

The most common speeds of drives at themoment are 5,400 rpm and 7,200 rpm. For generaiconsumer use, 5,400 rpm is still most common, butsome users are starting to crave the extra perfor-mance boost from the 7,200 rpm drives. If you areplanning to run a lot of hard-disk intensive applica-

, tions you may well benefit from a 7,200 rpm drive,but you should take care about the ventilation ofyour system. These faster drives generate quite a lotof heat, and if they' re placed into a system withinadequate ventilation, the extra heat could shortenthe life of the hard drive and other componentsinside the computer. Users opting for a 7,200 rpmdrive may want to consider investing in an addi-tional cooling fan, just to be on the safe side.

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While you can certainly get a smaller drive 'for a fairly good price, the di fferencebetween the smallest drives currently avail-able and a larger one is not that huge. Goingfor a new drive that is "just enough" extraspace may be a bad long-term solution, asyou may find yourself in exactly the' sameposition within a year.

At the lowered, the difference betweena 4 GB drive and a 6 GB drive may be onlyS20 to S30,A 10 GB drive may be less thantwice the price of an entry-level 3 GB drive.That extra investment may seem excessive atfirst, but it ran certainly pay off down theroad.

Can you handle it7One thing to keep in mind when picking outa hard drive is whether your computer canhandle a big drive snag-free. Two problemscan surface with the new larger hard drives:operating system and BIOS limitations.

Operating systems using an older file sys-tem (which would include DOS, Windows3.x, early versions of Windows 95 and someinstallatioris of Windows NT1 limit partitionsizes to 2 GB. For a 10 GB drive, this wouldmean dividing the drive into five smaller sec-tions, which is a bit inconvenient. Neweroperating systems like Windows 98, later ver-sions of Windows 95 and NT (when usingthe NTFS file system) are able to use today' slarger hard drives as one single partition.

Older BIOSes had caps on the maximumsize of hard drive they would recognize, andeven some recent BIOSes can't recognize dri-ves larger than 8 GB. Many new hard drivesship with software that can help update theBIOS, but for some machines, it may be nec-essary to upgrade the BIOS at the hardwarelevel.

With all those factors taken into account,a new hard drive may be a great upgrade foryour system, and one that will last for a fewyears.

'Removing' the problemAnother solution to the out-of-space prob-lem is removable storage. By now, everyoneknows about the trusty old floppy disk, butmany of us might want to look at higher-capacity removable storage for a few reasons.Unlike a hard drive, removable solutions canbe virtually boundless. With a 10 GB harddrive, you' ll eventually run out of space ifyou keep adding files. With a removablesolution, though, all you need is more of theremovable media (provided the file sizesaren't larger than the size of the media) tokeep saving files.

Overall, a removable solution is moreexpensive than a new hard drive with thesame capacity. Consider that a 10 GB harddrive may cost $300. An external Jaz 2 drivewith 10 GB of storage space, on the otherhand, could be over $1,500. With thosenumbers, why would you want to botherwith a removable solution?

There are a couple of reasons, actually.Many users who are running out of space aredoing so because of saved data files, Take thecase of a user whti doesn't see the need forinstalling a lot of additional software butcould use space to save digital camera pic-tures, for example. This person may not real-ly find it worthwhile to buy a huge harddrive and go though the hassle of installingand configuring a drive, especially whenthey have to transfer all of their old files overto the new drive.

Purchasing a removable drive and a few

units of blank media may be enough toremove all of the files taking up space on thehard drive. Further down the road whenmore ilies start to clog up the drive, it's assimple as buying another removable diskRepeat as necessary.

Another important benefit of removablestorage is the ability to take large amounts ofinformation with you and access it onanother computer equipped with the sametype of drive. If you' ve ever tried to move 10MB of files from one place to the other usingnothing but floppies, you know how frus-trating it can be. With a higher-capacitysolution, huge numbers of f i les can bemoved in one shot.

Zlp, %taper and all that )axOne of the problems you will face whenadding a removable storage solution to a sys-tem is deciding the form it will take. Manyremovable storage drives come in both inter-nal and external versions, and those versionsmay require you t o c h oose betweenIDE/SCSI, or SCSI/parallel/USB. What's thebest choice?

Each has its pros and cons. IDE devicesrequire the user to open up the case and dosome configuration with cables and jumpers,but at that point the computer generally rec-ognizes the new drive and it can be usedimmediately.

SCSI, on the other hand, requires the userto either have a functional SCSI chain on thecomputer or be prepared to install a new cardand do some troubleshooting. On the otherhand, SCSI allows drive chaining beyond thelimit IDE imposes, and the controller cardsoften support both internal and external dri-ves simultaneously.

On the external side, SCSI has had theadvantage for a while now, in terms of chain-ing devices together, ease of use and speed,but that position is being challenged by USB{universal serial bus) devices. USB has a hightransfer rate, and theoretically allows 127devices to be attached. The ability to plugand unplug the devices while the computeris running is also an advantage. As'USB isstill relatively new, though, not all operatingsystems support it. Windows 98 is fully com-patible with USB, provided it is on a com-puter that has the connectors on the moth-erboard, but Windows 3.x, NT and some ver-sions of Windows 95 do not support USBdevices.

For universal usability, many prefer theparallel port devices: pretty much all PCshave a parallel port on the back, whetherthey' re desktops or notebooks. The deviceplugs into the parallel port, and then anyprinter would plug into the back of the newdrive. While this sounds simple, there are afew potential problems. Parallel devices havea nasty habit of locking up systems forunknown reasons, often rendering printersunusable, and can sometunes require exten-sive troubleshooting to get the system func-tioning normally again.

While Windows 98 has made paralleldevices a lot easier to install and use, earlieroperating systems (most notably NT) canmake parallel devices far more trouble thanthey' re worth for some users. (See "ParallelUniverse" in the April '99 issue of TCP for adetailed discussion of parallel port devices. Itcan be read online at http: //www.tcp.ca.)

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Store this!Continued from page 19two parts. The first addresses fixed disks, forthose users looking for an upgrade of theirexisting disk to something larger. Thoughthere are hard drives available in lowercapacities, we asked for drives between 10and 13 GB, for a reasonable balance betweensize and overall cost.

Drives were tested on a 300 MHz PentiumII-based system, with 128 MB of RAM and an8 MB ATI Xpert 98 video card (set to a screenresolution of 800x600, with 16-bit color

depth), Each drive was formatted with theFAT32 file system as one large partition, andthen had Windows 98 installed.

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.sentations or warranties as to their results.WinBench is a registered trademark of Ziff DavisInc. in the U.S. and other countries. It can bedownloaded for individual u s e athttpJ/www.zdbop.com.) The Disk Inspectionsection of the program tests transfer speeds

over a period of time, and gives transfer ratesnear the beginning and end of the test peri-od. The test also checks the average time toaccess the disk, and a separate test deter-mines how much of the system's CPU poweris being used up in writing to the hard drive.

The second part of the tests was set up forthe removable storage side. We asked ven-dors to supply us with removable storagesolutions aimed at the consumer market.Testing was done on the above-mentionedPentium II system. We checked write speedswith a 72 MB single file and a 72 MB direc-

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can expect drives with a 7,200 rpm spindlespeed to have higher performance and togenerate more heat. The drives we' ve had achance to look at, however, are still good per-formers, and the slower spindle speed meansthey' re also easier on the pocketbook, Here' swhat we looked at:

Fulltsu Plceblrd 13 INPD3108ATSuggested retail price: $300

the great Fujitsu name, most users should bepretty happy with one of these drivesonboard.

Highlights• 10.8 GB capacity offers plenty of space for appli-

cations and files.• Transfer speed was reasonably fast on our test

platform: 6,670Kbps at the beginning, and 7,230Kbps at the end.

• Disk access time under Windows 98 was 16.3

• Drive uses Self-Monitoring Analysis andReporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) to detectproblems before they destroy data,

• Warranty period for the drive is three years.

INaxter DlamendlNax 4320series 91303D6Suggested retail price: $329

Well-known for a wide range of technologiesspanning from storage to notebooks, Fujitsuhas introduced a number of new models inits Picobird 13 hard drive series, which nowgoes up to 17.3 GB. This one comes in at 10.8GB.

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The 13 GB model in the DiamondMax4320 line is a nice choice for a user lookingto upgrade, as it has lots of space, is quitespeedy, and gnomes in at a fairly reasonableprice overall. While it doesn't have the bestoverall transfer rate of the drives tested thismonth, the price may make this one moreattractive to a number of users.

Highlights• At just over 13 GB, the drive has lots of space for

applicatians and files.• Data transfer was speedy: starting at 8.180Kbps

and finishing at 8,1 70Kbps.• Disk access time under Windows 98 was 16 ms.

The drive uses S.M.A.R.T. technology far maxi-mum data protection,The warranty period for the drive is three years.

Quantum Fireball Cit 13.0Suggested retail price: $399

The CR series is a new addition to Quantum'sFireball line. At 12,7 GB, this model is thehighest capacity drive in the CR line.

This drive offered speedy transfer timesand quick seek times under Windows 98.With nearly 13 GB of capacity, it's a greatchoice for users who need a lot of storagespace, too. If you are looking for extra speedwhile sticking with a 5,400 rpm drive, theextra cost may be well worth it.tf tghlights• The 12.7 GB offeis a lot af space for applications

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• Transfer speed was consistently high: starting at8,640Kbps and finishing up at 8,670Kbps.

• Disk access time under Windows 98 was 15.3

• The drive makes use of S.M.A.R.T. technology towarn user of potential drive failure.

• The warranty period is three years.

(Thanks to Samtack Computer far providing us with adrive for evaluation. Samtack can be contacted at Tel:905-940-1880, or httpi/wwwsamtack.corn)

Samsung Splnpelnt SV'l296ASuggested retail price: $319

Samsung recently refreshed its entire hard driveline, with a new nanung structure, and newtechnology. This model is one of the newerhigh capacity drives in the Spinpoint V series.

This drive has a lot of capacity and goodperformance, all at a reasonable price. A lot

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Western Digital has introduced a number ofnew members in the Caviar line. This partic-ular drive is compatible with the new U-ATA/66 standard, which facilitates faster per-formance. Time restrictions prevented us

• Users should expect increased performancewhen using a computer system that is fully U-ATA/66 compliant.

• The drive uses S.M.A.R.T. technology for maxi-mum data protection.

• The warranty period for the drive is three years.

Store thlsl but many users may find the pricing andContinued from page 77 larger size of the drive very appealing. It isof people are bound to find it a very attrac- definitely worth a look.tive option.

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Hlehffghlo• 12.9 GB capacity means a lat of storage space

for both applications and files.• Transfer speed was very good, starting aut at

7,850Kbps and finishing up at 7,840Kbps.• Disk access time under Windows 98 was 15.8

• The drive uses S.M.A.R.T. technology ta warnusers of potential hard drive problems.

• Warranty period for the drive Is three years.

Seagate Medalist 13il40Suggested retail price: $335 (canverted from US$)

The Medalist line now goes up to 17.2 GB,but we took a look at a 13.6 GB drive (whichis a bit higher than our 13 GB target).

The Medalist 13640 was a bit slower dur-ing testing than the other drives this month,

ms.

Highffghto• 13.6 GB Is a good size, offering lots of space for

applications and files.• Transfer speed started a bit slower, at

5,340Kbps, but worked ils way up ta a speedier7,080Kbps.

• Disk access time under Windows 98 was 17.3

• The drive has both S.M.kR.T. technology andSeagate's awn SeaShleld, for maximum pratec-tlan of data.

• Warranty period for the drive is three years.

Western Digital Caviar 313000Estimated street pdce: $300 (converted from US$)

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from testing the drive in a U-ATA/66 envi-ronment, but the drive also performed wellon an older system. Users with a fully com-pliant U-ATA/66 system should expectincreased performance.

Even on a system using the U-ATA/33standard, the Caviar 313000 performs quitewell. Although it's not the fastest drive underolder systems, it's still quick, and users whohave full U-ATA/66 support will find thisdrive's compatibility a great selling point.

HlghHUhlo• At just aver 13 GB, there's a tan of space for files

and applications.• Data transfer was fast starting at 8,010Kbps,

and ending at 8,230Kbps.• Disk access time under Windows 98 was 18.1

Unlike hard drives, which are variationsaround a common design, removable storagedevices are all over the map in terms of medi- '

um and method of storage, capacity, andspeed. Thus it is difficult to come up with abasis for comparison. Although we do givean editor's choice in this category, youshould keep in mind that any one of thedevices reviewed below could be the idealsolution for you, depending on what yourneeds and budget are.

At The Computer Paper, we' ve gone througha wide array of removable storage devices,from tape drives that were slow, unreliable andheld barely 40 MB, through magnetowpticaldrives of various capacities, to our current mixof CD writers and Zip drives.

Fssjltsn DynaMO il40 SESuggested retail price: $650Estimated cost af media: $60

Magneto-optical technology is often thoughtof as a very high-end technology. This drivefrom Fujitsu brings it down into a price rangethat is attractive to a wider variety of users.

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Store thlsfContinued from page SOcase, too. The speed of the drive, the lowerprice, and the reliability that is the hallmarkof magneto-optical technology make this agreat pick.

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It's easy to see why Li-120 has become 8popular removable storage option. It replacesthe floppy, and is bootable. It's easy to installand use. Plus, it's relatively inexpensive andhas higheapadty disks. Overall, a great choice.

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lomega has made quite a name for itself inthe removable storage business, partly owingto the success of the l GB Jaz drive. Now, theJaz drive returns in a 2 GB version.

Although the media may be a little toopricey for the Jaz 2GB to really catch on withhome users, people involved in content cre-ation will continue to find the Jaz to be 8very useful tool. The larger size and backwardcompatibility make it a worthwhile invest-ment for Jaz users looking to store slightlylarger files.

Highlights• Ultra SCSI connection means the computer

should recognize the drive immediately uponbootup, when attached to an existing SCSI chain.

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• Large file: 2:20 (Win98), 1:35 (NT)• Large directory: 2:40 (Win98), 2:35 (NT)

lomega Zip 1QQ USNEstimated street price: $239Estimated cost of media: $20 (or less)

While the Jaz has certainly contributed toIomega's success, it's the Zip drive that hasbeen the company's bread and butter. At 100MB, the Zip has offered reasonably largeremovable storage, at a reasonable cost.Previous versions of the Zip have been inter-nal, and external via SCSI and parallel con-nections. Now, the 100 MB Zip drive is beingintroduced in a USB flavor, with coloring tomatch the first generation of Apple's IMac.

For users of the previous models of theZip drive, this version isn't a radical depar-ture, although lt is a great offering for thosewho have recently bought an iMac and wantan external storage solution. The speed isslightly better than the older SCSI model,and much faster than the parallel version, soeven Windows users may find a lot to likeabout this new incarnatio.

Highlights• The drive attaches easiiy to both the iMac and to

Win95/98 machines that have USB enabled.• Installation of the drive is quick and easy, and

after initial installation of drivers, the drive canbe attached and removed from a system withoutthe need to reboot.

• The 100 MB disks are identical to previousversions of the Zip 100, making it completelycompatible.

• At present, Windows NT doesn't support USB

version.

Traasfer rates(it is expected in Windows 2000).

• Large file: 2:40 (Win98)• Large directory: 2:50 (Win98)

lamella Zip 2$Q ParallelEstimated street price: $319Estimated cost of media: $30 (subject to change)

A bit more of a departure, this new version ofthe Zip takes the same form factor, but upsthe removable disk capacity to 250 MB.Presently, the Zip 250 is available in paralleland SCSI versions; we looked at the parallel

For users of the Zip 100, this is the nextworthwhile step up. While it wil l take awhile for 250 MB disks to become widelyused (meaning, in the short term, it won"t beas easy to swap disks), the drive will also han-dle the 100 MB disks, too. This is a worthysuccessor to the Zip 100.

Highlights• Parallel connection means it can be attached to

most computers without requiring extra cards.• Larger disk size comes in handy for today's high-

er-capacity multimedia needs.• Parallel port versions Bnay cause conflicts with

other parallel devices, especially under WindowsNT — users may need to troubleshoot.

• New 250 MB disks should not damage old 100MB drives; 250 MB disks eject instantly wheninserted into Zip 100 drives.

• The parallel version of the drive reported slowertransfer times. Where speed is a concern, usersshould opt for the SCSI version.

Transfer rates• Large file: 7:05 (Win98), 6:50 (NT)• Large directory: 7:20 (both Win98 and NT)

Panasonic SuperDislr l$-120 2xSuggested retail price: $175Estimated cost of media: $25, $150 (10-pack)

RAM.

As one of the companies responsible for LS-120's creation, Panasonic does the actualmanufacturing of the 120 MB drives. Thus,the Panasonic version is identical to theImation drive reviewed above, includingspecs and transfer rates.

Users looking for a high-capacity remov-able solution that can replace the floppydrive would also be well served by the LS-120drive coming out under the Panasonic name.

Panasonlc if-D1Q1 DVD4lAMSuggested retail price: $1,149Estimated cost of media: $M (5.2 GB), $39 (2.6 GB)

ural that a rewritable DVD solution would

Since its introduction, CD-RW (rewrltable)has become reasonably popular. It's only nat-

follow. While not yet capable of the full 17GB that a DVD-ROM can contain, DVD-RAMis working its way up, with drives capable ofwriting 2.6 GB on each side of a blank DVD-

The LF-D101 is certainly an impressivebit of technology, offering storage sizes com-parable to some of the higher-end magneto-optical solutions, but at a fraction of the cost.The ability of the drive to read discs of somany other formats is a plus too. The majorsticking point with the technology at thispoint is that .there is the potential for ashakeup In the DVD-rewritable field, as notall the standards have been agreed upon yet.Although users are likely to be satisfied withthe performance of this drive by itself, futureincompatibility may be an issue.

Highlights• The drive connects via internal SCSI.• Media currentiy ships inside cartridges: 5.2 GB

media is fixed inside the cartridges, but the2.6 GB discs can be removed and used in otherplayers that are compatible with the format.The loading mechanism will accept either

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cartridges or loose discs.• At present, the dnve will read CD, CD-R, CD-RW,

DVD-ROM, DVO video and PO discs.• At present, the 2.6 GB output is only compatible

with a small number of other DVD players.• At the time of testing, NT drivers were not avail-

able, but were planned for imminent release.Mac drivers were available from a third-party

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Overall, this option may be a bit tooexpensive for most people. Still, some usersmay find this to be the perfect solution; theability to boot from these large hard drivesmakes it possible to share a single computerbetween several users in an office environ-ment, without compromising security. It' salso a big plus to be able to use larger car-tridges when they become available, withouthaving to upgrade the station.

Highlights• The station connects internally to the IOE chain,

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s a tech journalist, I' vebeen subjected to hun-dreds of traveling "dog

and pony shows," demonstra-tions presented by computer

some new product or service.Typically, the v i s i tors

arrive at our office carrying alaptop computer, from whichthey run a PowerPoint slidepresentation, or on whichthey run the software for theproduct being demonstrated.Most oft en , eve r yoneinvolved has to cluster closeto the laptop screen, strainingto catch the fine details of thecomputer display. The presen-ter has to somehow see what' sgoing on without blockingthe view of his or her audience. At times, theprocess resembles a comedy routine, withpeople craning their necks, squinting, andbobbing their heads up and down tryinghard to get a dear view and make sense ofwhat's going on.

Anyone who has been in this situationhas probably thought there must be a betterway. In fact there are several: if the presentercarries a second, larger monitor along, oruses one at the presentee's office, then thepresenter can view the laptop screen com-fortably, while the audience looks at themonitor. However, the size probleln per-sists — unless a very large monitor screen isavailable, it's still hard for an audience ofmore than a couple of people to see what"sgoing on. Wouldn't it be nice if one couldcarry a second, giant coinputer screen, thatweighed no more than a notebook PC'?

the hetter mousetrapAs it happens, a nearly perfect solution to themobile presentation challenge has evolvedover the last few years. Multimedia note-books have become lighter, cheaper, anddesigned to offer better graphics displaycapability, either on a large, bright, wide-angle active matrix screen, or via RGB outputto a large display device. At the same time,LCD projectors have radically dropped inweight, and increased in brightness and abil-ity to display very high resolution graphics,as well as full motion video. As a result, boththe long-suffering presenter and his or heraudiences can now enjoy audio-video pre-sentations that rival a full-blown home the-atre setup in quality, but from a system thatweighs only about 9 kg (20 lb.) and can betaken anywhere.

This was powerfully conveyed whenEpson representatives came to show off somenew products at the TCP offices a couple ofmonths back They brought one of the latest,lightweight LCD projectors, and a slim, light-weight multimedia notebook.

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PowerPoint presentation on his notebook,the audience, ranged around a large board-room table, was able to comfortably view a1.8 m (6 ft.) wide projection of the presenta-tion at the end of the room. Everyoneinvolved was able to concentrate on commu-nication, rather than struggle with the medi-um being used.

To test the viability of this method, TCPasked for and received test units of light-weight, slim notebook PCs from NEC,Toshiba and Fujitsu, and ultralight LCD pro-jectors from NEC and Epson. We tested thenotebook/projector combinations over atwo-month period, taking them with uswherever we went, and testing their effec-tiveness. Here were the results:

PertabllltyThe lightweight multimedia notebooks wetested were the new, metal-lid, slim models,with removable drives, or in the case of theFujitsu, a removable "slice" that contained afloppy drive or CD-ROM drive. The strippedpresentation weight of these notebooks,including battery, ranged from 2.2S to 2.7 kg(5-6 lb.). The LCD projectors weighedbetween 3.6 and 5 kg (8 and 11 lb.).

Including padded carrying bags, or a littlewheeled airline trolley for the NEC projector,the total weight of the digital traveling ciicuswas between 8.1 and 10.8 kg (18 and 24 lb.).This is a significant load, but using the trol-ley to reduce back strain„ it was eminentlyportable.

Display qualityBoth the LCD projectors provided verybright, crisp projected SVGA or better dis-plays (resolutions of at least 1,024x768). Themodels we used were current tof f - the-lineunits with ferociously hot and bright lightsources that threw images of up to 1.8 m (6ft.), which were very viewable in moderateinterior light conditions.

These projectors handled regular PCg raphics software programs such a s

Microsoft PowerPoint andExcel, as well as InternetExplorer and N etscapeNavigator Web browsers,video from a DVD drive on aEurocom 8500 d e sktopreplacement notebook, andregular video from a VHSvideo cassette player. Audiofrom the included speakerson the LCD projectors wasadequate for small 'meetingroom purposes, though for alarger venue, or for a presen-tation where good qualityaudio is important, it wouldbe worthwhile to bring a setof external, powered stereospeakers.

DurabilityWe had no problems withbreakdowns, light bulb fail-

ures, or any other defects or weaknesseswith the LCD projectors. The latest LCDprojectors seem to be quite robust, welldeveloped products, and have benefitedfrom the several generations of LCD pro-jector designs that preceded them. We didhave an occasional problem with a stripalong the bottom of the image area beingcut off by the NEC projector, but easilyfixed it by resizing the window on the PC.Admittedly, we were careful in handlingthese units. They always traveled in paddedcontainers, and for reasons of avoidingeither breakage or theft, we seldom lettheln out of our sight.

Bonus featureAn LCD projector is the equivalent of a trulygiant monitor. it can create a good qualityprojected image with a viewable diagonaldimension in excess of 2.25 m (90 in.).

This is truly "home theatre" size andquality, but in a unit so light and portable,that it can easily be moved around the office,home, or clients' offices.

There is only one, non-trivial barrier toTCP recommending an ultra-portable LCDprojector to every computer user.

Mcber shockWhile a highly portable, multimedia-presen-tation~pable notebook PC carries a slightpremium in its pricetag, it is still only around$3,S00 to $4,000. Lightweight, high intensi-ty LCD projectors, on the other hand, rangein price from $8,500 to $13,000, with thereally lightweight models clustered at thehigh end of the price scale. This cost is highenough to ensure only those with a real busi-ness case for ultra-portable presentations willlikely be able to justify the cost of a mobile

However, if you have a real need, and abudget to match, for $12,000 to $17,000 onewell-equipped presenter can take one heck ofa show on the road without breaking his orher back 0

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connected to. This could cause problems, orforce the user to substantially reconfigure theirsystem.

• Because the read/write heads are in the remov-able media instead of in the station, it meansthere is no size cap on the media. As larger harddrives are introduced, larger MobileDrive diskswill be available.

• The MobileDrive can be set up as the boot disk,allowing the same computer to be booted upinto different operating systems, depending onwhich drive is inserted at startup.

• Because they' re self-contained hard drives, thesecartridges are far more expensive than otherremovable solutions.

• The biggest advantage is speed; performance issimilar to fixed drives inside the machine; userscan run applications from the MobileDrive with-out bottlenecking, including games!

• Large file: 0:20 (Win98), 0:45 (NT)• Large directory: 0:32 (Win98), 1:00 (NT)

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Hard drives:Quantum Fireball CR 13.0Although all of the drives are worth consid-eration, the performance of the Fireball CRstood out. Transfer speeds were high, andaccess time and CPU utilization were bothlow. For power users, this one is an excellentchoice.

Removable storage:Fulitsu DynalNO 640 SEIn a strong pack of contestants, the Fulitsugets the nod for a few reasons. Magneto-optical technology is often very expensive,and the Fulitsu drive brings it to users for amuch nicer price. In addition, the speed isgood, and magneto-optical media is held upas one of the most reliable around. Usersuncomfortable with SCSI may want to take apass, but friends of SCSI will likely find thisa very powerful addition to their system. 0

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There are some potential problems withSmartMedia cards. There is a series of metalconnection points on one side of the card,and when inserted into a device, they aresubject to abrasion. Some users have report-ed that the lifespan of a SmartMedia card isa bit limited because of this.

However, more pressing is the size limi-tation. Although the theoretical limit ismuch higher, the highest capacity card cur-rently available is 32 MB.

For the digital cameras currently on themarket, even the 16 MB card (available forabout $180) should offer a lot of space forphotographs, even at the highest resolu-tion. As resolution on the cameras gets bet-ter, this could be problematic, but for now,a camera user w i t h a h ig h -capacitySmartMedia card and a floppy adapter(roughly $139) is well set up for digital pho-tography.

Compactf lashAs far as capacity goes, CompactFlash tech-nology seems to have the l ead overSmartMedia. Developed b y Sa n DiskCorporation, CompactFlash cards are nowavailable in sizes up to 96 MB. However, thisis at the expense of physical size. At 3 mmthick, the cards aren't huge, but comparedto the SmartMedia cards they can add a bitof bulk to a device that uses them.

Connection to th e device is madethrough a series of pins that are insertedinto the media. Although they' re too big tobe used in a floppy adapter, there are a fewother ways to~ansfer data from the card toa computer. A $20 PC Card adapter, forexample, accepts the CompactFlash cardand plugs into the larger PC Card slot on anotebook computer. SanDisk also offers adocking station called the lmageMate, avail-able in both parallel (US$70) and USB(US$90) versions.

We had a chance to test the USB versionof the device, and after a quick and easyinstallation, the lmageMate showed up onthe computer like any other removabledrive, and facilitated fast and easy transferof data to and from the CompactFlash cards.

Although the CompactFlash solutionhas been widely adopted by camera manu-facturers, the makers of handheld PCs havealso jumped onboard. Many Windows CE-based devices have a s lo t f o r e x t raCompactFlash memory, This makes it easyto load up a handheld device with informa-tion from a notebook or desktop PC: justcopy th e in f ormation o n t o theCompactFlash card, then insert into thehandheld. 0

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a step further by labeling each step youperform and displaying it as a sequence. Tomove backwards and forward through yourwork history you simply ciick on its labeland the image instantly appears in thestate it was at that point in your workf low.You can finally kiss goodbye those timeswhen you feared making changes to animage without making a progressive seriesof revision backups.

In shops where heavy Photoshop pro-duction takes place, this feature alone isprobably worth the upgrade price. But, toavoid surprises, there are a few limitationsof this feature you should be aware of.

First, history operations are onlyrecorded between the time you open andclose an image during a session, Second,there will be a limitation to the nurftber ofhistory operations that can be recorded.This is dependent on how much RAM youhave and the size of the image you areworking with. Photoshop tracks theseresources automatically and will start drop-ping the oldest actions while adding newones as is required. If you must preserve animage in a specific state to ensure that itwon't be deleted in the queue, you can usethe SnapShot feature.

A feature I'd like to see implemented isa permanent history of operations taggedio each image file. Date and time informa-tion associated with this in a searchabledatabase would be an asset when it comes

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Proa: new color management architecture with betterColorsync and ICC support, history palette, dynamiclayer and text effects, spot color support, expandedsupport for enhancing 48 and 64-bit images, mag-netic pan and lasso, multiple color samplersCons: Image file history is only retained during onework session

Photoshop's dominance is not by acci-dent, Since the late 1980s, Adobe has pur-sued an aggressive upgrade schedule that

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MaJor feature enhancementsThe jump from Version 4 to S representsperhaps the most significant advancementof any Photoshop upgrade. One of themost requested features from Photoshopusers has been the ability to perform rnulti-ple "undos" and "redos." The new History

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Other advanced contro l f e aturesinclude a new color channel mixer thatgives you greater control over color cor-recting l ess-than-ideal images, Arevamped Curves dialogue box nowallows numeric value entries with theability to automatically place controlpoints on the curve by sampling color inan image with an eyedropper tool. Thisgives you much greater control overadjusting specific color ranges in animage. Color samplers now allow you toanalyze RGB values in up to four locationsin an image for simultaneous analysis.Another time-saving feature is the abilityto have a live preview of duotone andindexed color images.

When Actions — a native Photoshopscripting language — was introduced inVersion 4, it was limited because it onlysupported a portion of the command set.Almost all of Photoshop's commands aresupported in Version 5.

Besides Actions, Adobe has now intro-duced a new type of plug-in architecturethat enables the automation of complexand repetitive tasks. Automation plug-insare subtly different from Actions in thatthey can perform operations that are out-side of Photoshop's command set, A con-tact sheet generator is one of a few plug-ins bundled with the upgrade as a tech-nology demonstration and tool for cus-tomers and developers.

In addition to the new features I' vediscussed there are at least a dozen otherenhancements.

New color management paradigmPhotoshop 5 users will have to spendsome time wrapping their heads aroundthe complete revamping of the program'scolor architecture. Although it may be apainful transition for some, the benefitsof much tighter control over color consis-tency will likely far outweigh any short-term discomfort from having to alter yourway of thinking.

In previous versions of Photoshop, itsbuilt-in color engine transformed cap-tured RGB values (from a scanner or digi-tal camera, for example) and mappedthem to your monitor's RGB color space.This device-dependent model meant youwere confining your editing to the colorsyour monitor was capable of displaying.This baseline worked fine as long as youcould calibrate your own monitor, andlimit your workflow to your own comput-er and output devices.

However, this method failed miserablyif you planned (like most of us) to shareyour manipulated images with co-workersand other production facilities. Why? Asanyone who has seen a wall of TVs in anelectronics store knows, the color charac-teristics of monitors from various manu-

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By using this new method, you actual-ly do all of your RGB editing in a colorspace that is independent of your moni-tor's color gamut. When you save animage file, it is tagged with your chosenspace. When you open legacy images, orimages from a different device-indepen-dent color space, you get a "profile mis-match" warning dialogue asking if you' dlike Photoshop to perform a color conver-sion. This may give you a fearful pause,but bite the bullet and do i t anyway.Adobe assures us that this transformationis almost lossless.

When Photoshop 5 images are viewedon any monitor, the idealized RGB colorvalues are mapped to the monitor's RGBcolor space. This is done as accurately aspossible by using your monitor's ICC(International Color Consortium) colorprofile. However, you must make sure youhave enabled - the D isplay M o n i torCompensation check box in t h e RGBSetup dialogue box to get proper results.

ColorSync, Apple's system-level colormanagement software, is robustly sup-ported in Photoshop 5 and extensivelysupports industry-standard ICC profiles.Those who don't have the benefit of sys-tem-level color calibration can attempt toget reasonable color-matching by generat-ing a homemade ICC profile for theirmonitor using Adobe's gamma controlpanel.

If you need to get quickly up to speedon what the new color architecture meansto you and your workflow, you shouldrefer to t h e Photoshop manual andAdobe's Web site..There are also someexcellent third-party Web sites and refer-ence books on this topic.

The bottom linePhotoshop has earned its leadership posi-tion by introducing many technical anduser interface advancements over theyears. Version 5 continues its tradition asthe premier image manipulation tool forphotographers and graphic artists.

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omebody must have been listening.Though largely positive in my com-ments about previous releases in the

Microsoft Graphics Studio line of imagemanipulation software, my one consistentcriticism has been the lack of sophisticationthat results in end products that consistently

My lament has been the dearth of imag-ing software to occupy the very wide chasmbetween the wealth of "consumer level"packages from a number of publishers andthe highly professional packages from thelikes of Corel and Adobe. Here, however,Microsoft has helped bridge that gap with arefined product that i s an ad junct toMicrosoft Office. In combination with thatparent suite of applications, PhotoDraw 2000facilitates slick and professional looking

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outset and requires some dedication beforethe impressive results it is capable of areforthcoming. Once along that road, however,home and desktop publishers will be amazedat the difference between the graphics han-dled in PhotoDraw 2000 and those manipu-lated in other consumer-level packages.

PhotoDraw 2000 can import photos andgraphics from any digital source (scanner,digital camera, video input, and clip art), andin a number of alternative file formats,including AutoCad 2D, CorelDraw, GIF,JPEG, and even Macintosh PICT. Onceyou' ve acquired the image, you have consid-erable control over it before using it in justabout any form you want. A bonus is thatPhotoDraw 2000 allows you to work on textwith the same tools and at the same time asyou manipulate your photos and graphics.

As you might expect from a Microsoftproduct, there are plenty of templates andwizards to make handling graphics easier andfaster. Among the dozens of included tem-plates are Web Graphics (including buttonsand banners), Business Graphics (bulletins,flyers, labels, logos, and business cards),Cards (the greeting and email varieties), andDesigner Edges (a catalogue of borders andoutlines in various shapes and configura-tions). While many might never stray from

the confines of these primary tools, it is morethan tempting to start creating entirely onyour own once you are familiar withPhotoDraw 2000.

A key to getting the most out of thispackage lies in its ties to Microsoft Office.You don't need to have Office installed on,your machine to use this program, but if;you do, PhotoDraw 2000 will be added tothe main directory as a a user-changeabledefault. This allows you to easily and "intel-ligently" import (including simply dragging.and dropping) PhotoDraw 2000 graphicsinto any Office application. I f desired,images will automatically be resized andreformatted to suit the space in the speci-fied document. You can also use PhotoDraw2000 to create a consistent look (colors,fonts, layout, etc.) for Office documentsand files.

Though still a consumer-level package,PhotoDraw 2000 will appeal to the largenumber of computer users who want pol-ished and professional looking output with-out having to spend the time and moneyprofessional packages command. Among thewide array of desktop graphics programs Inow have in my library, PhotoDraw 2000 isdestined to be the most often used. Kudos,for a change; to Microsoft. CI

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computer product the day after I havereviewed it and sent it back Usually I dis-

cover that I don't really need the product orthat there are better ones out t here.Sometimes I'd like to buy the product, and itmay have been the best one I'd ever seen, butwhen it comes right down to it, I just can' tpart with the cash.

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like most of you have, all these years. Ihaven' t. {In fact, until recently I used anold stereo amp and two large speakers.) Butthe thing is, you see, the Microsoft systemrocked my world.

Microsoft Digital Sound System 80comprises a rather large subwoofer for thefloor, and two nicely sculpted desktopspeakers. The connections are simplicityitself, a power cord from the wall to thesubwoofer (the AC converter is hiddeninside the car battery sized subwoofer). AUSB plug also runs from the back of thecomputer to this 18.5x22.6x32.5 cm(7.3x8.9x12.8 in.) speaker, which like mostsubwoofers lies unseen on the floor. A cableruns to each of the two desk-mountedspeakers and that's it. Almost.

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An analogue sound cable also needs torun to the back of your sound card. This isbecause not aII sound can be sent digitallyover the USB bus to your sound system. If itcould, and one day soon it will, you would-n't even need the sound card. As it is, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM drives cannot directlyoutput digital information to your operatingsystem. That's the reason why your CD andDVD-ROM drives always have an analoguecable that connects to your sound card. Theproblem is, even on the Digital SoundSystem 80, analogue sound doesn't comparewell to digital sound.

The digital sound demo that comeswith this system contains three musicalclips and three sound dips. The music isrock, classical, and jazz. The quality isamazing.Because the information is digitalit can, and does, run through a small pro-gram that acts as an equalizer. This meansyou can choose any one of 10 frequencybands and raise or lower its level. Thismeans you can shape the sound to your lik-ing. It is similar to what big sound studiosdo with a hundred levels, but on a smallerscale. The sound effects samples are a heli-copter and other examples that showcasethe speakers' ability to make sound come

from behind to the front and/or left toright. It is all quite impressive.

However, if you play a game that sendsdata straight through to the sound card-rather than to the operating system intomemory and processed as digital sound — itis played as an analogue signal, so youcan't use the 10-band equalizer, and itdoesn't sound as good. The only goodthing in this situation is that the installa-'tion program tests both the digital and;non-digital nature of your CD or DVDdrive. If you don't hear sound when youtest the digital ability of the player yousimply connect the analogue cable.

Microsoft expects this to change as morecompanies indude the ability to output digi •tal sound data from CD and DVD drives. Thecompany won't say how long this will takeand it is far from dear on how all the pieceswill come together. Needless to say,Microsoft's game titles all sounded great withtliese speakers.

The Microsoft Digital Sound System 80does not have the most speakers. It isn't per-fect, but for elegant simpflcity, an unclut-tered desk, and kick-ass bass, it's the one. Atan estimated price of $239, I will be pickingone up today. CI

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However, I have just boxed up theDigital Sound System 80, which is a three-speaker USB product f rom M i c rosoftCanada, and sent it back Tomorrow I'mgoing out to get one of my ownl Don' tthink I am new to computer sound — I justreviewed a six speaker, digital Dolby systemlast month. And don't think I' ve beenusing those tinny little computer speakers,

ec out t e noise.TCP reviews powered speakers for high-quality computer audio

By Craesne gannett containing a 12.5 cm (5 in.) subwoofer withbuilt-in volume, bass and bass boost con-trols. It also includes a wired remote vol-ume and mute control — a nice touch.Unlike the Henry Kloss speakers, the vol-ume control affects both A and B audioinputs. No microphone input or head-phone output is provided.

Overall, we preferred the audio from theMonsoon speakers, although they did nothandle excessive volume well. A sharp, digi-tal clipping noise and an excessive degree ofdistortion was dearly audible when thespeakers were pushed too hard, Nevertheless,we recommend them, as most people areunlikely to use these htghguality units, orindeed any PC speakers, at such extreme vol-

o rnatter how great your sound cardis, it's only going to sound as goodas your speakers. As we wrote in our

1997 feature on speakers for multimedia,many users find that a simple "aux. in"connection to their home stereo provides amore than adequate sound system.However, for those craving more, there area plethora of multimedia PC sound systems

For this update on powered speakers,we tested big-box powered speaker systemsfrom Sonigistix, Cambridge SoundWorks,and Labtec. We tested all these speakerswith FutureMark's 3DMark 99 MAX, i tsdemo mode as much a thrasher of audiosystems as it is a benchmark for graphicssubsystems.

Monsoon MM-1OOOFrom: Sonigistix Corp.htIPJheww.monsoonpower.cornPdce: US$209Of these three "big subwoofer" systems, theMonsoon delivered by far the biggest bass.Its two "planar magnetic" satellite speakerswere also the most unusual {at least tothose unfamiliar with thecompany's back-ground in automotive audio systems),being more or less flat. Each of the two20x10 cm {gx4 in.) speakers stands at aslight angle on a b u i l t - in base. TheMonsoon system is entirely black andincludes a roughly 25 cm {10 in.) square

eardrum-friendly levels, they sounded a littleless crisp than the Monsoon units, but werestill excellent.

A bass control on the back of the sub-woofer controls the relative volume of thebig cabinet's output. Our main complaintwith these units is the fact that the wiredremote volume control only affects one ofthe two audio inputs. No microphone inputor headphone output is provided.

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MlcroWorks by Henry NessFrom: Cambridge SoundWorksPrice: U8$249The second-best sounding speakers testedwere the MicroWorks speakers by HenryKloss (from Cambridge SoundWorks). Thesesmall 7.5 cm {3 in.) cube satellite speakersand accompanying 20x20x35.5 cm {8x8x14in.) subwoofer come in PC beige, Theysounded almost as good as the Monsoonunits at moderate levels, and sounded betterat high volumes. Amplifier noise was a littlemore audible at extreme volumes. However,the amp/speakers did not exhibit dippingwhen pushed, but merely degenerated theaudio signal with a more typical type of"dirty" analogue distortion. At more

LCS-2632From: Lahtechttp:Itwww.labtec.corn/products/LC8-2032.htmlPrice: US$99Labtec's LCS-2632 is currently the top-sellingcomputer speaker system in the U.S. It is partof the company's sowalled Audio F/X seriesand includes 3D "spatialization" drcuitry toenhance a stereo sound signal.

As might be expected, the output of theUS$99 LCS-2632 was nowhere near asimpressive as that of the pr icier unitsreviewed here, but its highly functionaldesign is likely to win over some consumers.

The Labtec system not only has an audioinput jack on the back of the 20x10x35.5 cm{8x4x14 in.) subwoofer {all the units testedhere use standard mini-jacks), but it indudesmicrophone and headphone inputs on thefront and a microphone signal output jackon the back.

The Labtec system was also the only onetested here that featured 3D spatializationcircuitry, designed to provide extra "depth,"p articularly to CD audio and high~ lit y

game soundscapes. It fared less well in our3DMark99 "subwoofer thrasher" tests, frap-ping out at relatively low volumes with a"phhhhttttt" sort of attempt at the ultra-lownotes that usher in the demo sequence.

Other drawbacks for some people may bethat this system has only one line-level audioinput, and lacks remote volume control.

However, we liked the included ClearDesk mounting brackets that allow you tohang the satellite speakers from the sides of amonitor.

Multi-speaker supportA growing number of audio cards, such asthe Diamond MonsterSound MX300, SoundBlaster Live! and Terratec RWS 64XL supportmore than two speakers. As well, a number ofDVD upgrade kits support multi-speaker con-figurations. Thus, a multi-speaker setup isideal for the best audio experience on thesesystems. Q

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memory.It is obvious that Compaq wants to sell

this model primarily as a multimedia com-puter. Aside from the usual buttons you

find on a Presario, there are extra buttons tooperate the DVD drive. Yes, you can use theonscreen software controls, but you also

have the easier option of pressing play,stop, fast forward, rewind, eject, or volumebuttons. This is a nice touch.

The Presario's keyboard is also good-neither too shallow nor too soft.

Presario 1$10with 300 INHx Pentium ii processorFrom: Compaq Canada45 Vogell Rd., Richmond Hill, ON L48 3P6Tel: 800-263-5868, http:ltwww.compaq.caEstimated retail price: $4,199

User experienceLike the other Presarios, the 1810 is a goodlooking, sculpted machine with built inJBL speakers and touch pad. The 1810sports a 300 MHz Intel Pentium II proces-sor and a 13.3-inch TFT active matrix XGAdisplay.

The quality screen is a good feature asyou are likely to want take advantage of itssecond-generation DVD-ROM drive towatch movies. I watched Mask, Fifth

e Presario line of notebook com-puters from Compaq Canada triesto hit a variety of price points with

a varying range of features. At $4,199,the Presario 1810 is on the higher end ofthis line and includes a big screen, fastprocessor and an i n ternal DVD-ROMdrive. (We reviewed the en try l evelPresario 1230 in the January issue of TheComputer Paper).

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P resario, a l o n gwith the usual collec-t ion of Compaq's

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Original Configuration disk that will com-pletely rewrite the hard drive and return thelaptop to the original condition it was in,when you first got it. I really like this feature.It means you can muck around and if you gotoo far, you can use the disk and reinstallyour applications.

PerformanceI tested the Presario 1810 using Bapco'sSYSmark 98 benchmark software. For variousreasons I was unable to complete all parts ofthe benchmark and therefore cannot give an

official rating. However, from the testing thatwas successful I was able to give the 1810 anunofficial rating of 105. That is not greatcompared with a new desktop machine (my450 MHz Pentium III-based system scored187) but is good for a laptop. Informal testson a 233 MHz-based IBM ThinkPad note-book produced a result of 75, while theFujitsu notebook we tested last month, pow-ered by a 266 MHz Pentium 11 processor,scored 107.

SummaryAfter using the Presario 1810 over a six-week period in a number of different envi-ronments, I found it very friendly. I like thePresario line of notebooks. They are notcheap but nei ther are they CEO-onlymachines. Attention has been paid todetails that are important to the averageconsumer. Support, from the starting tutor-ial to the tech help and warranty, are allgood.

When you buy a machine like this youpay a bit more for the assurance that thecompany will be in existence and willing tosupport its products should you need help, IfI weren't afraid of owning something thatsomeone could easily walk off with, I wouldbuy one today. If you can afford it, and espe-cially if you want to watch, or show, DVDson the road, the Presario 1810 is a pretty hotportable. Cl

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Encarta Afrlcana:Comprehensive Encyclopediaof Black History and CultureFrom: Microsoft Canada Ltd.320 Matheson Blvd. W., Mlsslssauga, ON L5R 3R1Tet 905-568-0434, http: //www.microsoft.cornEstimated street price: $109

ith its move away from broadentertainment and the demise ofits Home line of CD-ROMs, it' s

unusual to see a new release from Microsoftthat is outside of the productivity, utility orgaming categories. But here, as an adjunct tothe company's extremely popular Encartaencyclopedia, we have Africans: AComprehensive Encyclopedia of B lackHistory and Culture.

Among the more standard features — likea media gallery, interactive maps, historicsites and virtual tours of the dark conti-nent — Microsoft has mixed in interestingmenu items like Africans on Camera andTopic Treks, and has even included a listingof academic credits of the 261 contributorsand 36 scholars that constitute the Africanaadvisory board.

The Africans on Camera section likelyhad the highest potential appeal, but it islargely unrealized. This assembly of all tooshort (two- and three-minute) "statements"by prominent black Americans addressingdifferent aspects of Africans's contentsincludes poet Maya Angelou speaking aboutthe forced spread of Africans throughout theworld, while United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan summarizes Africa's pastand future. Also, curiously, included in thissmall gallery of prominent individuals areWhoopi Goldberg and Quincy Jones, whoare at least more at ease in front of the cam-era than the other, arguably more credible,but decidedly more stiff, commentators.

In Topic Treks theie are guided toursthrough groups of related articles and multi-media clips oriented toward a variety of cen-tral themes like music and musicians or peo-ple and places. One trek certain to garner agreat deal of attention is Masters of theGame, an exploration of black participationin sports that includes historical accountsand the experiences of individual stars.

Overall, however, it is quickly obvious toanyone with a critical eye that Africans is asanitized document, tainted by its clear agen-da in favor of its topic. If Africans is to bebelieved, blacks and black history have beenessentially positive throughout the ages.

ment issues.

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin islisted, for example, but the article outlin-ing his biography and deeds is long on his-torical fact but short on profound interpre-tation: "Rumored to have engaged in can-nibalism as well as traditional Kakwa bloodrituals, Amin came to be viewed by manyas both sadistic and irrational." This is akinto suggesting Hitler had anger manage-

Entries into the search engine for "tribalwars," "internal strife" or even "BlackPanthers" all came up with a similar prompt:"Black Panthers does not match any articlesor titles that meet the filter criteria you haveset."

This may not all fall at the feet of theteam who created Africans, however. It isroundly acknowledged that i n ternallyMicrosoft reference products are generallysanitized and simplistic in their approach,perhaps in an attempt to increase mar-ketability while mitigating any public out-rage. After all, who has ever launched a highprofile boycott of Bookshelf or Encarta onthe basis of content?

Notwithstanding these generic shortcom-ings, Africans makes for a compact source ofmuch general information that will at leastenhance the libraries of those with anythingmore than marginal interest. 0

Although an Encarta title, that larger ency-clopedia software package is not required touse this two4isc set. Sharing Encarta's inter-face, however, Africana makes it easy for bothEncarta veterans and newcomers to movearound and discover the contents of this"comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia ofAfricans and people of African descent."

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ince the "$500 computer" was firstconceived of by Oracle Corp. chiefexecutive Larry Ellison several years

ago, there has been a battle for the heartsand minds of computer users. On one sideare boosters of the traditional Wintei orMac personal computer, or PC, and on theother, fans of the network computer, orNC.

A "true" PC o f ferschoice and flexibility to its

drives so the user can loadand delete whatever soft-ware he or she wants, and itthe system functions with-out being connected to amainfraine computer, serv-er, or the Internet. A PC ismore expensive than anNC, because of the harddrive, the cost of managingsoftware, the C D -ROMdrive, and other multime-dia and expandibility fea-.tures. A PC can abo be par-ticularly tricky and expen-sive for a non-techie to maintain, comparedto an NC "appliance."

The "true" NC, on the other hand, is tar-geted at saving organizations or individualsthe costs of buying and maintaining full-fea-tured PCs, The NC is supposed to be cheaperbecause it relies on a network connection toa server or mainframe system for access tosoftware, saving and loading files, and com-municating via the Interne. Only an NC,according to its supporters, could be createdcheaply enough to enable most of mankindto have access to the wired world of thefuture.

NC boosters claim that in order for manymiddle and lower income Canadian house-holds to become "wired," the costs of a homePC would have to decline to absurdly lowlevels. Only the NC would allow computingto become truly pervasive, they said.

The EnternetPCSo we at TCP were understandably intrigueden hearing about the release, March 25, of a$499 multimedia, Internet-ready PC fromIPC, one of Canada's larger PC makers. Thespecs for the product, caUed the EntemetPC,include a 333 MHz Intel Celeron chip, 32 MBRAM, a 56Kbps v.90 medem, 3 GB harddrive, stereo sound card and speakers (moni-tor not included). We found it hard tobelieve that the raw components could bepurchased for that amount, much less assem-bled into a functioning PC and supportedwith a warranty.

Nevertheless, we contacted Basat Khalifa,national marketing manager for the IPC Rne.

ISP bundle full-featured PC with Internet accessKhalifa explained that the continuingdecline in PC component prices not onlyallowed IPC to sell a very capable PC for$499, but added, "you know what, they[prices] are going to continue to drop."

Details ef the dealIPC's EntemetPC is being offered in associa-tion with Internet Direct, a large indepen-dent Canadian Internet service provider

and they will connect automatically to theInternet. The full costs for the EnternetPCbundle are:• $499 for the PC hardware;• approximately $175 to $300 for a moni-

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File forms over the phoneMALVERN, U.K. (NB) — Speech Machines hastaken the wraps off its CyberTranscriberTalkForms service, which it says is the world' sfirst speech-to-text service for f i l l ing outforms over the phone.

Amends Taylor, a spokesperson for thecompany, said the CyberTranscriber serviceruns on a Windows NT-driven set of serverslocated at the firm's U.K. headquarters.

Because of t h e n a ture o f theCyberTranscriber feature, Taylor said it doesnot matter where in the world the clientcompany is located. Smaller client compa-nies would have their calls routed from theirown call centre to Speech Machines' server.For larger companies — or if a client compa-ny's call centre is outside of the U.K.— voicedata can be captured and sent on to SpeechMachines as a voice file, Taylor said.

According to S p eech Machines,CyberTranscriber is unique in combiningdata entered by speaking "free form" textwith data entered by keypad, and then send-ing it over the Internet for automatic uploadinto a customer's database. The client service

In briefis targeted at a range of form<entric tasksthat traditionally require manual data entry,such as capturing names and addresses forcustomer orders and insurance claims forms.Speech Machines, htipi/www.speechmachines.corn

HP lntros business greeting cardsPALO ALTO, Calif. (NB) — Hewlett-PackardCo. has added two new sets to its PrintableExpressions line of greeting cards. TheBoardroom Business Collection and theWatercooler Business Collection target theworkplace and are designed to encouragepersonal communication between co-work-ers. HP sells each collection for aboutUS$23.99 and a Gre eting C ardReplenishment Pack of 20 blank cards andenvelopes for about US$14.99.

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Color lioblleScan battery-poweredIRVINE, Calif. (NB) — I/OMagic Corp. hasannounced the release of a battery-poweredMobileScan portable color scanner.

Targeted at mobile professionals and con-sumers with limited desk space, the 24-bit,full-page, sheet-fed device has a maximuminterpolated scanning resolution of up to9,600x9,600 dots per inch (dpi). It has anoptical resolution of 300x600 dpi.

The device measures 4.3x5.6x28.5 cm(1.7x2.2x11.2 in.) and weighs 540 g (1.2 lb.)

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including battery, and ships with an ACadapter and a nickel metal hydride recharge-able battery that I/OMagic says can scan"about 60 pages on a charge." The softwarebundled with the scanner indudes MGI'sPhotosuite and Xerox's TextBridge ClassicOCR software.

The parallel port scanner has an estimat-ed retail price of US$200. I/OMagis says it isalso planning versions with USB and infraredconnectivity, as well as a Mac version.

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Novell prevlews 'dlgitalme'SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (NB) — Novell, Inc.has announced a digital identity system itsays will fill the need for better control anduse of personal information on the Internet.

Dubbed "digitalme," the system buildson the firm's Novell Directory Services (NDS)as a tool to manage a user's digital identity,induding personal information and authen-tication of users. Authentication and privacysometimes come into conflict as methodsevolve for doing business on the Internet,but both are becoming ever more importantfor consumers and businesses alike, Novell

Novell, whose NDS system has been cred-ited with turning the firm around finandallyduring the past six months or so, alsoannounced support for its digitalme system

channels and interfaces.

from some financial heavyweights. Citigroupand FirstUSA will test new services, collabo-rate with Novell to refine digitalme featuresand functionality, and work with Novell tocreate open standards for Internet identity,the firm said.

Digitalme uses a flexible software archi-tecture and "card" metaphor to manageidentity. The virtual "meCards" includetools to let consumers create, personalizeand manage their digital identities. Sincethe user controls what information theyshare, they know when and by whom theiridentity information is being used, saysNovell.

To make information management easier,the software can auto-regilster a user by fillingin registration forms to establish access priv-ileges on many World Wide Web sites. A per-sonal proxy system intercepts the forms, fillsthem in for the user and provides a complet-ed form for review. When a user next access-es the Web site, digitalme handles the sign-inautomatically.

Ultimately, says the firm, it hopes digi-talme will balance the interests of consumerswho want control over their personal infor-mation, with those of firms that want toincrease customer confidence and their ownbrand identities by providing personalized

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wcharge-coupled device (CCD) chip — muchlike that found in "real" digital cameras-surrounded by a hard plastic housing with asimple on/off switch and a shutter button. Ithas enough memory to take a grand total ofsix pictures at a relatively meager 160x120pixel resolution with a color depth of 16 mil-lion colors (this is about one tenth of thepixel resolution typical of current "megapix-el" digital cameras).

The camera makes a series of distinctivebeeps to indicate if you have enough light for adecent shot, when you' ve taken a picture andto remind you that the camera is still on if youhaven't taken a picture for a few minutes. Allthe prospective digital photographer has to dois point, click and hope for a successful "beep."The camera is made of a durable plastic, and isunlikely to break in the normal course of wearand tear a kid is likely to give it.

The software is about as easy to use as thecamera. The camera comes with a diskettecontaining the TWAIN driver necessary todownload the pictures from the camera, anda copy of Microsoft Picturelt! 99, a very easy-to-use graphic manipulation package — per-fect for kids who know their way around amouse and keyboard. Transferring the filesfrom the camera to the computer is a snapusing the software and a serial cable (note,however, that the computer must be runningeither Windows 95 or 98 — parents who runWindows NT on their home PC will have dis-appointed kids).

One interesting feature is that the TWAINdriver allows the camera to take a pictureevery second or so, making the JamC®m apotential WebCam, though full software sup-port for this use is not provided.

The pictures themselves are small andgrainy — you can't expect too much from apicture that would be considered a thumb-nail image in most applications — but thesoftware makes up for t h is. MicrosoftPicturelt! 99 comes with many simple butpowerful tools that allow anyone to manipu-late a digital image in a myriad of ways: putyour face on the body of some superstar, cre-ate holiday-theme cards that include yourphoto, and much more.

At roughly $140 (based on a suggestedretail price of US$89}, the JamC@m is a bitpricey, making it much more expensive inreal terms than my toy camera from yearsago. A kid would have to save her or hisallowance for a long time to afford this.Having said that however, the price is likelyto go down over time.

Similarly, one could hope for a better pic-ture resolution. The 160x120 pixel depth justdoesn't provide enough detail for satisfyingpictures, but this too is likely to changegiven time.

The toy camera is still a good idea in thedigital age, and while this camera is under-powered, future versions will make this aworthwhile purchase that will keep your kidsoccupied for hours.

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The new JamCCem from KidBoard is thedigital equivalent of the toy camera I hadmany years ago. While its pictures arenowhere near the resolution seen in today' sbetter digital cameras aimed at the generalconsumer, this camera and the tools it comeswith may give the budding young photogra-pher a taste of digital photography.

The JamC®m is about as "no-frills" as adigital camera can possibly get. There's noLCD preview screen, no flash and not even aproper lens. It's essentially a light-sensitive

I ended saving up my allowance to buy acheap, plastic "toy" camera that enabled bud-ding young photographers like myself to takereal pictures. The camera didn't have any ofthe bells and whistles of my father's Pentax,and the resulting pictures certainly weren't asgood, but it kept up my interest in photogra-phy until I could afford a "real" camera.

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The California chip-maker rolled out the t hat can be installed without opening the PCnew system, which uses chassis, Intel says.

g home telephone A~xrppi~t ig the fij gt The yam apachesaccess to the Interne, h 1 • ~ ~ home PCs and Intel saysprinters, files and games. P I b the software is opti-

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The AnyPoint software automatically available in three packages.informs users when a new device has been added The Parallel Port Model for two PCs has ato the home network, and provides up to 1 s uggested price of US$189, includes twoMbpsofnetworkbandwidthwithin thehome. external units, cabling to connect two PCs

The network products are based on the and their printers, and Intel's Internet shar-HomePNA 1.0 industry specification and are ing software.Year 2000 compliant. Data signals are trans- The Parallel Port Model for one PC is alsomitted on a higher frequency than voice sig- available at about US$99 and includes onenaia so there is no interference with phone external unit, the cabling to connect one PCconversations. The system is also compatible and its printer and Internet sharing software.with emerging, high-bandwidth Internet A PCI adapter to be installed inside a PCaccess specifications, such as digital sub- i s available at around US$79. 0scriber line (DSL) and cable modems. Intel, http: //www.intel.ccsm/anypoint

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Unlike the V i r tual Game Station,which gives users of nelver G3 PowerM acintosh c o mputers a ccess t oPlayStation games, the Bleem emulatoroffers the same ability to the widespreadaudience of PC users. Bleem claims itsproduct will work with any 166 MHz orfaster Pentium-based system.

Bleem officials say on the company'sWeb site that they fear a lawsuit fromSony, but feel within their rights in mar-keting their emulator.

One defense Bleem is using is that thePlayStation is at the end of its product run,and therefore its product won't steal anypotential sales from Sony.

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Bleem is offering a beta demonstrationof its emulator at i ts Web site, and isencouraging interested parties to let Sonyknow that they want emulators. on themarket. Bleem is also hoping to'build adefense for its technology by encouragingvisitors to its site to let independent gamemakers know that emulators may drivefuture sales of older titles.

The main appeal of emulators is theirrelatively low cost. While a new SonyPlayStation markets for about US$12(), aBleem emulator Nlill only set you back byUS$39.9S. The company was expected tobegin shipping its product by April 10.

Connectix began shipping its US$49Game Station in mid-January through itsWeb site, and the product is also availableat some Macintosh software and peripher-als retaiiers. The gaming system allowsMac users to play about one-third of the300 titles available for PlayStation.

Sony's console is one of the most wide-spread game systems in the world. Thecompany estimates some 30 million of themachines have been sold to date.

Connectix officials, meantime, contin-ue to defend their company's right to com-pete with Sony for the huge market of peo-ple who buy video games made by inde-pendent developers.

Connectix spokesmen report t h a tdemand for the Game Station has beenstrong, with the company fighting to keepup with a backlog of orders. The systemw as introduced to th e p ub lic a t t h eMacworld Expo in San Francisco duringJanuary and Connectix claims to have soldmore than 3,000 units of the product overthe course of the week-long conference.The Game Station works with Apple's G3Macintosh computers, including desktops,PowerBooks and iMacs. Ci

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T e o e n a e o overcoc 'n'Good' versions of the 300 MHz Celeron A are getting harder to find

Intel says the maximum operating temper-ature of a Celeron processor is BS degrees C.We think that BIOS-reported ambient temper-atures over 45 degrees C are cause for concern.

Our PC100 brand fan and heat sink combocost us only $19, yet cooled a Slot I Celeronsufficiently so that our Abit BX6 motherboardin a well-ventilated case reported ambienttemperatures consistently below 30 degrees Cwhen running at 450 MHz. (For more detaileddescriptions of these Slot and Socket types andother terms, see our Computer Glossary onTCPs Web site at http J/www.tcp.ca.)

The most elaborate cooling systems arecalled Peltier coolers and they work like littlerefrigerators. Peltiers are more expensive thanheat sink/fan combos, but they can decreaseyour CPU temperature by about 20 degrees C.

Good news and bad newsIf you are just thinking of getting a newprocessor and you are considering one ofthese "overclocking-friendly" chips, there issome good news and some bad news. Thegood news is: Intel has retracted a message itposted on its Web site in mid-February thatit was discontinuing the 300A. A couple ofdays later, Intel changed the message. It nowsays it wil l continue manufacturing the300A, although company spokespersons saythey expect a "rapid conversion" to thePPGA version of the processor.

More good news: we' ve purchased bothSEPP (Slot 1) and PPGA (Socket 370) Celeronchips in the last few weeks that overclock to450 MHz without problems. The bad newsis: we' ve also been offered a number of chipsthat dealers are quick to caution cannot bereliably overclocked. Here's how to tell a"good" Celeron.

Our experience has been that the Socket370 or Slot chips manufactured in Ma!aysiaare more suitable for overciocking than theirSlot 1 cousins from Costa Rica. Slot I Celeronsfrom Malaysia are getting hard to find, but theSocket 370 versions (which typically comewith a Slot 1 adapter card) are still readily

How can you tell where a Ceieron proces-sor is manufactured? Each Celeron has a stick-

tBy Graeme Bennett

Celeron 300 at 450 MHz? Maybef you were one of the people who bought aCeleron 300 or 300A processor a fewmonths ago — lucky you! There is a very

good chance your processor can be over-clocked to speeds greater than originallyintended by Intel. (Please read our disclaimer.)

Since the Celeron 300A is "niultiplierlocked" at a value of 4.5, you can, with amotherboard that supports custom busspeeds, clock it to 4.5x66 (the 300 MHzdefault), 4.5x75 (about 338 MHz), 4.5x83(about 374 MHz) or, i f you are lucky,4.Sx100 — a blazing 4SO MHz!

Some people have even pushed theirCelerons beyond this speed — a process wereally don't recommend, due to the increasedlikelihood of "electromigration."

Electromigration is a gradual deteriorationof your CPU's core that occurs when chips runtoo hot. And just how hot do they get?

The typical temperature inside an enclo-sure is usually about 40 degrees C, depending,of course, on the room temperature and howeffective your system's cooling fans are. If yourcomputer's BIOS supports temperature read-outs, you can expect to see motherboard tem-peratures of about 40-43 degrees C with astandard cooling fan (our Socket 370 Celeroncame with a Jam!con chip-on fan), or about 10degrees C cooler using a better fan and a thinlayer of thermal paste, which helps transferheat from the chip's core to the heat sink area.

Our "maxed out" gaming system with twoSLled (scan line interleaved) Voodoo2 cards, aTNT video card, Monster Sound MX300 andnetwork card produces an ambient tempera-ture of 44 degrees C, yet our Celeron 300A at450Mhz still runs perfectly at its default 2.0v'oltage.

Note, however, that such readouts arebased on a temperature sensor mounted onthe motherboard, not the CPU, so don't con-sider a number your BIOS gives you to be anaccurate representation of the chip's tempera-ture, which could be up to 25 degrees C high-er (you'd need an on-chip heat probe to deter-mine this exactly).

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A Celeron manufactured in Costa Rica willclearly state this. In the case of boxed (retail)Celerons, the packaging will state this on theside. PPGA Celerons list the place of manufac-ture on the underside of the chip. Thus, if it ismounted in a socket, you' ll have to remove itand (carefully) turn it over to see the label.

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THE COMPUTER PAPER BC EDiTION www.tc .ca MAY 1999 + HARDWARE mMalaysian Celerons, however, seem to bemore reliable — the Socket 370 chip webought on Feb. 27/99 overciocked to 450 atthe default voltage (2 volts). By contrast, aCosta Rica Slot 1 Celeron bought a few weeksearlier required 2.2 volts to run stably at 450MHz. In both cases, the chips were cooledwith fans (with built-in heat sinks) and test-ed on an Abit BH6 motherboard — consid-ered by many the best motherboard for over-clocking.

We used a thin, evenly distributed layerof thermal paste to ensure the best possiblecontact between the processor and thefan/heat sink combo. The dealer we boughtthe Celeron from gave us a small vial of thisthermal paste when we bought the chip andfan combo. (You may have to specificallyrequest this extra item.)

You may also find that a utility, such asWaterfall Pro from httpi%pu.sknplenet.corn/lead-ing wintech/ can reduce temperatures. On oneof our test systems, it reduced case tempera-ture from 46 degrees C to 38 degrees C with noappreciable drop in performance, and only a100KB memory footprint.

What if your Celeron doesn't overclockto 450 at its default voltagey If you are usingan Abit BX6, BH6, BX6-2 or ZM6, you canmanually adjust the voltage. Increase it anotch at a time (few chips need to be pushedhigher than 2.3 volts), until the chip runsstably. This little voltage trick is the reasonavid overclockers love their Abit boards.

One more issue may rear its ugly head. Ifyou get a Celeron, drop it into your mother-board's Pentium Il~mpatible slot and subse-quently see a startup message that announces

your processor is an "MMX-98 MHz processor"you have a problem that cannot be fixed with-out borrowing a (non-Celeron) Pentium II,inserting it and updating the BIOS of the com-puter in question.

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AltaVista may filter multimediasearches for copyright violators

PALO ALTO, Ca l i f . (NB) — CompaqComputer Corp.'s AltaVista search engineand Internet portal subsidiary is entering therace to garner the interest of Internet usersseeking multimedia files. In expanding itssite to include new areas designed to findaudio a nd vide o cl ips onl i n e ,Compaq/AltaVista could draw fire fromcopyright-protection groups.

AltaVista's new search service, dubbedAV Photo R Media Finder, was built withtechnology from Compaq's CambridgeResearch Laboratory. The tool provides userswith the ability to search for photos, videoand audio clips.

According to AltaVista estimates, thesearch already features links to over 17 mil-lion distinct multimedia files.

Among the formats the search enginewill specifically seek out are MP3, RealAudio,WAV, AU for audio, RealVideo, QuickTime,ASF, MPEG, and AVI. The new function hasgrown out o f A l ta Vista's existing AVPhotoFinder index of links to online photoimages.

While AltaVista officials expect to attracta significant number of new users throughthe expanded search capabilities, the compa-ny could be opening a can of worms byadvertising itself as a link to platforms suchas MP3, which has drawn criticism from therecording industry.

Recently, the Recording IndustryAssociation of America (RIAA) threatened totake legal action against search providerLycos, an AltaVista competitor, for offeringusers links to MP3 clips that the RIAA saysinfringe on the record companies' copy-rights.

However, AltaVista officials said they aretaking notice of emerging and existingonline copyright standards.

"The focus of the AV search is to providea useful tool," said Tracy Roberts, groupproduct manager for search and communica-tions at AltaVista. "Users can look for MP3files, but that is only a small part of the over-all plan. We' re also making sure that we take

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Some experts believe RIAA will askLycos to begin sorting out any questionablelinks.

The 2nd Annual "TecbnicallyExcellent Canadians Award"

Once again, Canadian Computer Wholesaler is seekingto honor Canadians who have played a key role inadvancing technological innovation in this country.To qualify: Nominees must be Canadian citizens,who are directly responsible far significant technological innovation. More specifically, they musthave accomplished identifiable advances in infor-mation technology, either individually or by guidinge team towards achieving a particular vision. Thatcould be in the areas of hardware, software ornetworking, and could include development of arevolutionary product or an innovative integration orepplicetian of current technology.

Winners will be officially recognized with an awardplaque, during Comdex/Canada in Toronto in July.They will also be profiled in subsequent articles, inCanadian Computer Wholesaler and The ComputerPaper.

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e release of the Intel Pentium IIIprocessor has renewed the seeminglyeternal dilemma of the new computer

buyer. Should I spend more money and buythe latest and greatest "power user" PC,should I settle for a cheaper, slower, morequickly obsolete model, or, if I already havean older computer, should I invest moneyin upgrading it? We at The Computer Papermust confess a certain bias concerning thisproblem — much of our continued existenceand prosperity as a publication depends- onproviding useful and honest help to ourreaders in making computer buying orupgrading decisions. Nevertheless, whilewe'd suggest that readers continue to lookto The Computer Paper for help in thisprocess, we'd also like to recommend threenew books that are entirely devoted to thethorny problem of making the best possiblecomputer buying decision.

Canadian Computer HandbookAuthors: David Rosen end Caryn MledenPublisher: Media Access Publishing Inc.Softcover 252 pages 1999ISBN: 10894108-04-3Price: $19.95First on the list is the Canadian ComputerHandbook, by David Rosen and CarynMladen. We should state up front that this,the second edition of CCH, is sponsored by

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system being purchased. Almost three quar-ters of the book is devoted to explainingcomputer basics, including what you needin order to do tasks ranging from word pro-cessing, running a small business, playinggames, or using the Internet. The final sec-tion contains a nuts and bolts discussion ofgetting the best value for your money,including financing, health and safety, andtroubleshooting p r o b lems. Ca n adianComputer Handbook makes the sometimesintimidating task of getting into computingan enjoyable new adventure rather than anintimidating chore.

How to Buy a ComputerSecond EditionAuthor. Myles WhitePublisher: McLellend and Stewart Inc.Softcover 296 pages 1998ISBN: 0-7710-8831-0Price: $19.95Myles White's How to Buy a Computer coverssome of the same ground as the CCH: it is awell-written plain-language discussion ofhow to figure out what kind of computer youneed, and getting the best balance of priceand performance. (White has also publishedHow Not ro Buy a Computer, an excellentguide to upgrading an old computer to addyears of productivity before it needs to bereplaced.)

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i ence su r a erou es ootinBy Keith Schenglli4toberts

re you having problems with yourPC, but feel daunted at the prospectof lifting its lid to tinker with it? If

so, you' re in good company: most PCs areserviced by technicians, if they are everserviced at all. But it needn't be that way.The innards of your computer are compre-hensible, and with a bit of guidance youtoo can perform simple upgrades andrepairs.

While a lot has changed since the firstedition of Troubleshooting Your PC, this bookcovers everything from ancient 286 systemsrunning DOS to current Pentium-based PCsrunning Windows 98 and NT.

I have found that, generally, any com-puter book that has made it beyond a singleedition must have something worthwhile tosay or it wouldn't be profltable for the pub-lisher. And the information contained in pre-vious editions of Troubleshooting Your PC has

information content: "'

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The authors do seem to have been restingon their laurels. However, if you have anolder PC this book could be your salvation,guiding you through upgrades and fixes thathelp keep your older system productive.

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The Visual Quickstart Guide series has hiton a winning format, much like the insanelypopular Dummies series of books. The basicformula makes extensive use of picturesaccompanied by relatively concise descrip-

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It begins with a few pages on the basicbuilding blocks of Perl, such as numbers,strings, variables, arrays and functions. Itthen goes on to explain how to create a verysimple Perl script. It looks at how to uploadthat script to a Web server and test it. Withthis basic knowledge outlined, the bookdives into creating basic Web forms usingPerl, and looks more closely at arrays, creat-ing conditional statements and writing sub-routines to perform specific functions. It alsolooks at how to effectively analyze the result-ing data, how to use cookies and how totrack and debug errors in your code.

This book covers a surprising amount ofground in just under 300 pages — and it does iteffectively. The show-and-tell approach doeshave its drawbacks: what you get in breadthyou won't get in depth. But it provides a goodoverview of using Perl for the Web.

If you want to leam Perl and CGI, thisbook is a pretty good start, and its detailedappendices will be a valuable resource evenafter your fluency in Perl takes you beyond

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The book reads like a long consumermagazine column on family computing,with the authors interspersing personal sto-ries with comments from other parents. Thelayout borrows somewhat from IDG'sDummies series, employing numerous illus-trations and screen images to help conveyinformation.

There is a strong belief expressed by theauthors in the educational value of homePCs. In fact, there is a very middle class,upward-striving ethos behind this book.Parents in the PC Dads universe are really,really devoted to doing the right thing fortheir kids — which is not a bad thing at all.

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e continue our in4epth look atCascading Style Sheet (CSS) tags-and the differences in how they

are displayed in both Netscape Navigatorand Internet Explorer — with a look at theCLEAR, COLOR and DISPLAY elements.

The CLEAR elementCLEAR belongs to the family of CSS box andmargin elements designed to tell thebrowser where textual elements shouldappear onscreen. The CLEAR element isused to set how the specified element willallow other elements to "float" along itssides, determining where the text appear-ing after the element should appear. In thisway it is not very different from the CLEARattribute, which is used with the «BR>HTML tag, and it works in exactly the same

When text follows an image, it generallyAows immediately after it in the same verti-cal space occupied by the hnage. Using theCLEAR CSS element you can control wheretext should appear in relation to the image.This can be handy when you have multipleimages appearing on a Web page, and youwant to be sure your text is associated withthe right image, and that the hnages don' t

appear in a jumble on the page. For example,try entering and then viewing the followingcode in your browser.

<IMG SRC= tmage.jpg' ALIGN= LER >This text should appear beside the previous image.<IMG SRC='Image.jpg' ALIGN='LEFT >

What you will get is the Arst imageappearing to the left, some text appearing toits right, and the next image appearingunderneath the text and to the right of theArst image. Not pretty. To solve this problemyou could use <BR CLEAR='ALL'> after the textto force the second image to appear belowthe Arst, eliminating the jumble onscreen.You can now use the CLEAR element toaccomplish the same thing.

The CLEAR element uses the followingmodifiers: LEFT, RIGHT, BOTH and NONE. LEFTtells the browser to display the text below theimage when the image is set to ALIGN='LEFT .RIGHT tells the browser to display the textbelow the image when the image is set toALIGN='RIGHT'. BOTH should be used whenyou have two images aligned left and right,and you want text to appear beneath both.Finally, NONE places the text between twoimages aligned left and right. The followingcode demonstrates all of these elements put

<P><IMG SRC="image.jpg" ALIGN='LEFT"><8 STYLE='CLEAR: LEFI'>This paragraph should appear below the image thatis left aligned.</8><P»<BR CLEAR='ALL'><IMG SRC='image.jpg' ALIGN='RIGHl ><8 STYLEm'CLEAR: RIGHT)This paragraph should appear below the image thatis right aligned.</8><P><BR CLEAR="ALL'><IMG SRC='image.jpg' ALIGN='LEFl ><IMG SRC="image.jpg' ALIGN='RIGHT'>«8 STYLE='CLEAR: BOTH" >This line of text appears «l»below</I> the two images.«/8><P><BR CLEAR='ALL"><IMG SRC='image.jpg' ALIGN='LEFT'><IMG SRC="image.jpg'ALIGN='RIGHT ><8 STYLE='CLEAR: NONE' >This line of text appears <l>between</I> the twoimages.</8»

Admittedly, much the same thing can beaccomplished with less fuss using a table lay-

out to arrange the text and image, but theCLEAR element provides an alternate way ofdoing things.

The CLEAR element is supported equallyweII in the latest versions of both NetscapeNavigator and Internet Explorer. It is consid-ered a "safe" CSS element to use.

The COLOR elementThe COLOR CSS element is much easier tounderstand than CLEAR — it simply sets thecolor to be displayed for the HTML tag it isassociated with. It can take either a colorname (such as RED, AQUA or TEAL) or a hexa-decimal color value. It works in the same wayas the COLOR attribute does with the <FONT>tag or with a number of other HTML tags.The following code displays HTML and CSScode that produce the same results:

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The COLOR element is supported in thelatest versions of both Netscape Navigatorand Internet Explorer, and is considered"safe" to use.

The DISPLAY elementDISPLAY belongs to the classification group ofCSS elements. This is a powerful group ofelements designed to fundamentally changethe way an HTML tag is displayed. For exam-ple, you can make a bulleted item appear asif it were a regular block of text, or make ablue hyperlink appear as regular text.

The DISPLAY element has four values:BLOCK, INLINE, LIST-ITEM and NONE. BLOCK setsthe specified element to appear like a block-type tag like <P>, <H1>, or <BLOCKQUOTE>,which are always on a line by themselves.Contrast this to the INLINE setting, which

includes tags like <I>, <B> or <EM> that do notbegin and end a line. The LIST-ITEM makesthe associated tag appear offset as if it werelike a bulleted item in a list. Finally, the NONEsetting takes away the typical formattingnormally associated with a given HTML tag.

You might be looking at this and bethinking to yourself "big deal," and for themost part you are probably right. But givinga tag the appearance normally associatedwith another can create some interestingeffects. For example, list elements are alwaysindented from the left margin, and youcould use that to your benefit, as the follow-ing lines of code show:

<I STYLE='DISPLAY: LIST-ITEM">This italicized textis indented in the same way a list-item would be.<il><P><I>Compare this line to the one above to see theeffect.<il>

You can also force a header to appearwithin a line of regular text, as the followinglines of code demonstrate:

<H1 STYLE="DISPLAY: INLINE'>This header<iH1>will appear within the sentence.

<H1 >This header<iH1> will appear on a separate linethan the rest of the sentence.

You can also force inline elements toappear on a separate line like a block elementwould do, as the following line of code shows:

accomplish much of the same effects withother CSS elements that would give youmore precise control. For example, CSSprovides better ways of setting marginsfor text than that used in the first exam-ple. But this quick peek does give you anidea of what is possible with the DISPLAYelement.

There is partial support for this elementin Netscape Navigator 4.5 (it does not fullysupport the INLINE value), and it is nowfully supported in Internet Explorer 5.0. 0

Next time: The FLOAT and FONT CSS ele-ments.

Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes any comments,suggestions or HTML tips you may have. You canemail Keith at: robertsk©wave. home.corn. Look forhis recent book on HTML, The Advanced HTMLCompanion, 2nd Edition, co-authored by Kim Silk-Copeland (ISBN: 0-12-623542-2), nnw available inbookstores. Previous articles in the series can befound at The Computer Paper Web site at:http:iiwww.tcp.cai.

The <B STYLE='DISPLAY: BLOCK">bold text<iB> inthis sentence will appear on a line by itself.

Finally, the NONE value makes the ele-ment it is associated with disappear com-pletely, as the following code, when viewed,demonstrates:

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Motorola has introduced the L7089 tri-band phone, the world's first to support GSM900, 1800 and 1900 wavebands, making it a

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HANNOVER, Germany (NB) — The world' sbiggest annual computer and technologyshow opened for business again in March.Spanning seven days and dozens of hallslarger than a football stadium — even thepress operations centre was larger than manyexhibitions — CeBIT was big. Poring over thepress statistics revealed that,in terms of exhibitors and.show goers, this year's showwas about 50 percent largerthan Comdex Fall in LasVega s.

Some 7,341 companiesand organizations (com-pared with last year's 7,239)from 60 different countriesshowed this year's revolu-tionary advances and prod-uct updates to over 650,000visitors from around theworld.

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Web access for new Motorola phonesMotorola has promised Web access on all itsnew cellular phones by the start of 2000.

end of the year, and across our entire digitalphone range in 2000," he said.

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D espite its capacity, the T ype I ICallunacard is just .5 cm (.2 in.) thick.According to David Ruxton, Calluna's direc-tor of product marketing, the card extendsthe range of applications for miniature diskdrives into mobile and handheld products,where the existing Type III drives are simplytoo thick. The Type II card is based on thetechnology at the heart of the 1 GB Type IIIcard, since it uses the same recording headand the same disk as the Type m. Callunasays a new mechanical and electronic designhas enabled 260 MB of data to be stored on as ingle-sided disk, allowing the f irm t osqueeze everything into the smaller case.

The card is expected to retail for aboutUS$299 when its ships this spring.

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One of the most interesting featuresabout the package is that it is not speciflc tothe printer at the local or distant end of thelink, since it uses what Nadio calls a univer-sal print driver that is built around graphicdevice independent (GDI) language.

To pr event task inte rception,InternetPrint incorporates a data encryptionsystem to protect users' privacy. In addition,to prevent Internet "spammers" from usingInternetPrint to send out unwanted material,the software has a security option.

InternetPrint requires at least a 486 66MHz processor-based PC running underWindows 95/98 with a minimum of 16 MBof memory. The software ships next monthpriced at US$79.

Nadio, http: //www.nadio.corn

Tekneme box controls appliancesTeknema has taken the wraps off an Internetset-top box (STB) that interacts with a homenetwork to allow users to control homeappliances from their TV sets.

This may sound like a couch potato'sdream, but the STB has the computer powerto control many appliances within a homeand, bearing in mind that there are PC pro-grams around already that perform this func-tion, the inclusion of the facility inside anInternet STB is not as crazy as it first sounds.

For the unit, Teknema has partnered withBPI; the Italian electronic switch maker, todevelop a system for the STB to interfacewith the electrical wiring in a typical home.

The STB communicates with devices alsoconnected to the network using Echelon'sL ONworks technology. According t oTeknema, this allows the Internet STB to con-trol various systems around the home, such asthe heating system, the lights, the security sys-tem, and the power management of a house.

Internally, the Teknema Internet TV STBincludes an 32-bit RISC multimedia chipsetdesigned by ARM and manufactured byCirrus Logic. The STB also has an integralnetwork interface, flicker-free TV interface, aprinter port, smartcard reader, and a wirelessremote control plus keyboard.

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Airlines.

Check in by mobile phoneA Nokia developer has revealed that themobile phone infrastructure and handsetfirm is developing a new service in conjunc-tion with IBM and Sabre, the online airlinereservations system operated by American

The system will be one of the first micro-browser-enabled services developed for theGSM/PCS mobile phone environment andwill effectively extend the Sabre reservationsystem to a user's mobile phone.

As well as the more obvious bookingfacility for flights, hotels, and rental cars, forexample, the mobile Sabre service will alsofeature pro-active information, according tothe Nokia representative. For example, if aflight booked through the service is delayed,the user can be alerted by SMS (short mes-sage system) text messaging.

Initially, Nokia plans to offer the micro-browser-enabled version of the Sabre systemfor its own range of microbrowser-enabledsmartphones, setting up its server interfaceto work across microbrowser and SMS textmessaging links.

The idea is that airlines can supply or rec-ommend their frequent flyers to buy or renta mobile phone and have access to the Sabrereservations system while on the move.

According to Nokia, plans call for trialsamong frequent business fliers to take placeduring the summer. Although aimed atmicrobrowser-enabled mobile phone users,the plan is for the system to also be accessi-ble using standard SMS-enabled GSM/PCShandsets, allowing users to receive updateson their travel plans from the Sabre systemon a regular basis.

Nokia, http J/www.nokia.cornSabre, httpJ/www.sabre.corn

One of the most recent enhancements toNext-generation vocoder unveiled

digital mobile phones, the developmentof enhanced full rate (EFR) codec technol-ogy, is about to be leapfrogged by thearrival of a th i rd-g enerationcodec/vocoder system known as adaptivemulti rate (AMR).

EFR is a network4ependent feature that,where available, allows users to have accessto near landline voice quality on their

call.

Mobile banking demonstratedA group of four companies jointly demon-strated real banking transactions in a mobileenvironment at CeBIT '99.

The companies involved in the demowere 1822.direkt, the direct banking service;Schlumberger, the smart card firm; Brokat,which developed the software; and ViagInterkom, which drew all the other compa-nies together and used its E2 cellular networkto carry the transactional data.

According to Viag officials, the transac-tional data is routed across GSM/PCS shortmessage system text messages, encryptingdata flowing across the link to ensure integri-ty and secrecy. The final security mechanismused in the Viag facility is the use of transac-tion numbers and PINs for each transaction.

Viag said that by employing transactionnumbers, users can retain control of and

. access to their account across remote con-nections.

Company officials said using a simplemenu-driven handset display, users can initi-ate account transfers and request details suchas an account balance or stock prices.

The scope of Viag's pilot program will beexpanded in the future to support additionalapplications. The firm said, it envisages inte-grated services such as a mobile brokerage forbuying and selling securities, replenishing

VLSI, http: //www.vlsi.corn

mobiles, in exchange for a slightly greateruse of available bandwidths.

AMR builds on EFR by dynamically allo-cating bandwidth to the call, dependent onwhether either party is speaking. Instead ofeach digital mobile call being allocated afixed bandwidth, calls are allocated band-width based on their actual needs, and so,when a person is speaking, the call qualitycan actually exceed that of a landline phone

VLSI Corp. demonstrated what it says isthe industry's first AMR vocoder for use onGSM/PCS Phase 2+ mobile phones.

According to VLSI, the use of an AMRvocoder will really come into its own as thenext-generation mobile networks start toarrive over the next few years. VLSI says itsAMR vocoder is now being offered to cellularhandset vendors.

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electronic purses, and building other infor-mation services around banking transactions.

Viag said electronic banking is enjoyinggrowing popularity in Germany. 1822direkt, asavings bank subsidiary, says it already carriesout over 70 percent of its transfers online.

For the CeBIT demo, Schlumberger sup-plied a Java-based SIM (subscriber identifica-tion module) card, the Cyberflex Simera, toguarantee the security of mobile bankingtransactions. The company also provided aserver platform (Aremis) that ensures localindependent administration and a reliablecontinuous data flow over the Viag Interkomnetwork.

If all goes well, the four firms plan to starttrials of the mobile banking service to select-ed 1822.direkt subscribers later this year.

Viag Interkom, httpi/www.viaginterkom.de

Segem shows mobile microbrowaerSagem has taken the wraps off the cellularindustry's first dual-band microbrowser-enabled mobile phone. The phone, theSagem Dual, u ses U n wired P lanet'sUP.Browser technology.

The microbrowser technology allows amobile phone to access data on the Web, aswell as allowing a cellular carrier to migrateusers away from help and information sys-tems that use up valuable voice channelcapacity, and over to an interactive menu-style system that uses data exchange instead.

In a demonstration at CeBIT '99, Sagemofficials showed how the dual GSM mobileinteracts with a server accessible across a cel-lular network to view and reply to email, aswell as gain access to personal organizer-style

According to Sagem, by combining themicrobrowser technology with its existinguser interface software, the flrm gives cellularnetwork operators a new way to reach sub-scribers and add innovative services, withseamless integration of all voice and data fea-

According to Malcolm Bird, UnwiredPlanet's European managing director, thef irm's microbrowser technology is nowInvolved in more than 10 active trials acrossthe world.

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The WorkCentre XD155df, XD 105f and XD 103f are all copier/printercombos. The XD 155df will make 15 copies per minute and has a maximumprint speed of 8 ppm. It will sell for around $1,200. The 105f and 103f comewith a 30-page document feeder. They will both have an 8 ppm maximumprint speed, and can generate up to 10 copies per minute. Both are priced ataround $1,300.— DT

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Physical Genius Home Trainer's mintmum systerrn requirements are a 100 MHz PentiumPC running Windows 95 (it also supports Nf), with 32 MS RAM, a 1.2 GB hard drive, SVGAdisplay, a CD-ROM drive and mouse.

In addition to the PC software and DTA, the Home Trainer package includes a cradle andserial cable for transfering data and a power adapter. It has a suggested retail price ofUS$249.— MJ

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You see, I'm an old-school gamer. While Ilove space combat simulators, I'm not muchfor the twitch games that seem so popularthese days, nor do I have the time for over-wrought strategy and adventuregames. I want to get in, blowsomething up or solve a puzzle,and get out.

There aren't many explo-sions in After Dark Games, butfor the most part the 11 gamescontained on the CD-ROM keepthe mental gears turning.

Four of the games (Hula Girl,Mowin' Maniac, Rodger Dodger, '4

ter Darlike games that can easily cut your comput-ing p roductivity d ow n to nothing.Generating more plaintive promises of "justone more game" than the other 10 gamescombined, Roof Rats has the same addictivearrange-the-blocks theme as Tetris, but inreverse. Here you remove similarly coloredrooms from a building, in order to get thepeople and animals stranded on the roof

Berkeley Systems'new package, AfterDark Games, is the latest culprit in screen

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Foggy Boxes, After Dark Solitaire, andMooShu Tiles are repackaged oldies. FoggyBoxes is a digital version of an old pencil-and-paper standard: you and your opponent(the computer, playing the enigmatic "foggy

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Fish Shtick, Bad Dog 911, and Zapper areall pretty straightforward. The first two arepuzzles that involve unscrambling words,and the latter is a trivia game. All have timelimits that keep your neurons hopping.Zapper adds another wrinkle, giving playersbonus points (and extra time) for correctlyanswering several consecutive questions.

But, without a doubt, the star attractionof the After Dark Games collection is RoofRats. It is the latest in the long line of Tetris-

with relatively low system requirements (35MB hard disk space, any old CD-ROM drive,and a minimum 486SX or PowerMac CPU)and the low cost, I'd say Berkeley has anoth-er winner on its hands. 0

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SAN FRANCISCO (NB) — According toGartner Group unit Dataquest home net-working in the U.S. is in for a boom thatwill see the industry grow to US$2 billionin 2002. Driving the market will be fastconnections to the Internet, say Dataquestofficials.

John Armstrong, vice-president of thenetworking w o r ldwide p r ogram inDataquest's telecommunications group,said the forecast focused on the home por-tion of the U.S. small office/home office(SOHO) market.

"Out of the approximately 100 millionhouseholds in the U.S. today, our forecast isthat in the year 2002 there will be 6.2 millionhouseholds actually networked," Armstrongpredicted. "The value of that market in theyear 2002 will be in excess of $2 billion. That' s

He added, "That's out of a total of 33million multi-PC households. So you cansee there's a lot of headroom there, anoth-er 27 million households that could be net-worked, so we expect the number of net-worked households will continue to growthrough the next decade."

Armstrong said networks will begin toarrive in what amounts to "productivityclusters" centered around PCs as peoplebegin to connect an assortment of externaldevices to their computers. He cited print-ers and scanners as examples.

Over the next several years, saidArmstrong, phone line networking wil lbecome the dominant connection technol-ogy, followed by w i reless, traditionalEthernet and finally power line technology.

The drive toward home networking willpick up steam — in fact, be driven by — theaccelerating arrival of fast connections tothe Internet, including the different flavorsof digital subscriber line (DSL) phone con-nections and cable modem connections, asvoice-over Internet Protocol (VOIP), enter-tainment and interactive data streams con-verge in the home.

Armstrong also predicted that the dom-inant home network operating system willbe Sun's Jini, the Java-based network sys-tem announced last July, fol lowed byMicrosoft's Universal Plug and Play tech-nology. He said Jini will be favored becauseit is platform independent, but Microsoftwill be a strong player "because of its sheerpresence."

A th ird o p erating system, C iscoNetwork's IOS core, is likely to dominate inthe Internet gateway area, where homesinterconnect with the new h igh-speedInternet connections now being rolled out,said Armstrong.

In terms of vendors, Armstrong predict-ed 3Com will dominate by leveraging itscurrent local area network (LAN) and widearea network (WAN) strengths coupledwith its strong retail and channel presenceand high brand recognition.

Intel also will be a major player, headded, simply because of its size, core com-

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Diamond Multimedia also has a chanceat success in this arena, primarily becauseof the high brand recognition it shares

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We computer garners certainly loveour automobile racing, as evi-denced by the wave of racing

games being released over the last year or so.While two of the most hyped new titlescome from the same publisher, ElectronicArts (EA), they' re worlds apart in terms ofquality and long-term playability.

The astounding Superbike WorldChampionship, a motorcycle racing simula-tion, is my personal early pick for racinggame of the year. However, the second game,NASCAR Revolution is a curious arcade-sim-ulation mix that doesn't really work oneither level. As you' ll see, with publishersnow often acting merely as the marketingdepartment for whatever developers they' vesigned, having a prominent and respectedname such as EA on a game certainly isn't aguarantee that it will be good.

realistic and compelling fashion. With 12real world Superbike courses and an over-flowing roster of real riders, bikes and spon-sors, it sports a tmly authentic environment.With hauntingly photorealistic graphics thatsurpass those of Ubi Soft's superb Fl RacingSimulation, it is a visual masterstroke. Andwith a demanding and complex physicsmodel, it challenges like no other bike racinggame.

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ri of 3D effects found in most hlghwnd rac-ing games, though features such as lightsourcing, shadowing and tire smoke are gen-erously strewn throughout. No, Superbike isquite possibly the best looking thing on anynumber of wheels because it is renderedunlike anything I' ve ever seen.

How can I describe it? I' ll just say that it' sthe dosest thing to TV-quahty visuals yetmanufactured. Granted, you have to exceedthe recommended system requirements toexperience the full glory of the visuals whilemaintaining a workable frame rate, but it's aknockout show if you do. Heck, it looks goodeven with the detail turned down — a realplus for those running the game on an olderor budget system.

Sadly, Superbike has this annoying traitof completely unloading/reloading eachtrack between sessions and even duringmomentary garage visits, but that's one of itsfew flaws. Otherwise the game simply out-classes all mototcyde and most car racinggames too. It is truly state~f-the-art.

mechanical adjustment. Or, how about thefact that human drivers can't compete undertheir own name. Then there's that annoyingauto-pilot feature that assumes total controlduring all pace laps, pit stops, and cautionperiods. I mean, the idea is to actually drivethe thing, isn't it?

Yet the above complaints seem to be nit-picking in comparison to the game's inordi-nate graphical demands. In short, even if youmeet the recominended system require-ments, the frame rate will slow to a series ofchugging and completely still pictures in themidst of any moderate action. Worse still,NASCAR's real-time gameplay suffers just asmuch. I found that rounding the relativelyshort 1.6 km (1 mile) Phoenix oval with a fullfield of cars took nearly as long as driving thehuge 4 km (2.5 mile) Talladega circuit withno cats! Now that is one heck of a seriousblow to the rules of virtual racing.

Your artificially intelligent opponents,meanwhile, though usually semi-believableand certainly capable of waging their ownimpressive battles with one another, areprone to major errors in judgement and maywell be caught plowing right through youlike you weren't there. A cool pit stop proce-dure with little crew members who scurry

. about servicing your car and the very impres-sive sensation of bouncing suspensions serve

to undo some ofthe damage, butthey can't savewhat seems to bea game released

If not h ingelse, NA SCARRevolution doesshow just howwell Pa pyrusDesign Group hadthis whole stock

car racing thing down years ago with theoriginal NASCAR Racing. Into its third itera-tion as NASCAR Raang 1999, and now underthe Sierra Sports banner, it remains the gameof choice for a realistic and involving stockcar experience. 0

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With last year's Superbike World Champions,publisher Intense Entertainment and devel-oper Interactive Entertainment were able todo what no one else had, namely create atitle that explored the simulation (read: real-istic) side of motoxycle racing. Flawed in

bikes, tracks and atruly realistic ride,Supe rbike WorldChampions never-t heless took u sswiftly from thestereotypical whips,chains and bizarrephysics of othermore "arcade"games and garneredits fair share of criti-cal praise.

It also unwittingly set the stage for whatmust surely be considered the finest bike rac-ing game, and quite possibly one of thefinest racing games of any kind ever to bereleased. That game is the similarly titledSuperbike World Championship, and it is anabsolute must-have for any fan of high-speed

Developed by the obviously adeptMilestone design house in Milan, Italy,Superbike explores the upper echelon ofmotorbike radng, and does so in the most

For motorcycle simulation buffs,Superbike is the only way to go. How com-plex and engrossing is the ride? Let me put itthis way: I spent my flrst two hours playingthis game just trying to carve the perfect lapat Italy's Monza, enjoying every subtlemoment and reminisdng fondly back to myearliest experiences with Micropros' GrandPrix H.

I soon found that I was indeed astride atenuous, nervous motorcycle, with eachexperience differing as I moved from Hondato Ducati to Yamaha. If I accelerated tooquickly, there was a good chance I'd pop awheelie and flip, if I braked too suddenly on

a downhill slope I'd bringthe rear wheel up andpotentially take a dive overthe handlebars. But moreimportantly, the subtletywas there.

Sup erbike forces anultra-smooth, unwaveringapproach and smart radng

lines at all times, with the added bonus ofthe believable crash avoidance -techniquesand uncanny behavior of the artifidallyintelligent competition. And, as a rookieincentive, the game features not only a mul-titude of realism and difficulty options but aseparate arcade mode that serves as an excel-lent starting ground.

But wait — the best is yet to come.Superbike's fabulous technical aspects arefurther heightened by what must be consid-ered the juiciest graphics this side of a tealtrack And I don't mean the typical potpour-

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On the other hand, we have NASCARRevolution, a game EA had originally pro-fessed would be a cutting<dge simulation.As it turns out, Revolution is anything but.

Sure, this quirkystudy of America' sNASCAR Racing seriesis fllled with some verypretty cars, lots offlashy 3D-acceleratedeffects and a wholebunch of the glossywrapping that hasbecome an EA Sportstrademark Sure, the dhuits are satisfactorydepictions of actual NASCAR tracks, with allthe appropriate corporate logos, colors, andeven individual track textures. And yes, thedriving model is pretty fair — for a somewhatless-than-realistic arcade game, that is.

Its real problems stem from the roughedges that surround just about every facet ofthe product. There's the enormous yetmandatory 370 MB install and the monoto-nous track loading and unloading procedurethat occurs should you venture evenmomentarily to the garage for a quick

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By Jean Allen-Ihesen

Picky Eatera flavorful treatfor youngsters

Most young children are alreadyfamiliar with Arthur, D.W.'s olderbrother from the popular line of

hooks or the animated TV series. If they havea computer in their home, they may also befamiliar with t hese characters fromBroderbundsILiving Books other Arthur CD-ROMs: Arthur's Teacher's Troubles andArthur's Computer Adventure. In this latestrelease, however, it is D.W. who takes centrestage with a story and activities that sur-round her picky eating habits.

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As kids' appetites slow around age threeor four, the range of foods they' ll eat alsooften declines, much to the chagrin of par-ents. This disc addresses the problem withhumor and a lesson on the consequences ofbeing picky. Besides its lively storybook, thisdisc includes five activities that encouragelogic, hand~ coordhtation, knowledge offood groups and nutrition, reading and writ-ing stories, and word recognition.

The story writing feature is perfect forfive- and six-year olds. They are given thestart of a sentence and offered several end-ings. When they choose an ending, they canmatch it to an appropriate illustration to cre-ate a page. Several such pages complete astory that can then be printed out. This agegroup will also enjoy replacing words withpicture stickers in the main storybook Thisactivity includes 30 words/stickers andencourages word recognition. The stickersean also be printed.

An activity that will appeal to three- andfour-year olds is catching gophers with thecomputer mouse so D.W. can chase themDut of her garden with the hose, Anotheractivity that will appeal to younger childrenis helping D.W decorate and furnish herhouse. The idea is to put the sink in thejsathroom, the sofa in the living room, etc.,o encourage logical thinking, This activityas two levels of difficulty so even theoungest child will not become frustrated. 0

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a enoteHow to highlight and add comments to text and spreadsheets

By Helen Bradley sheet. We' ll also discuss how to draw atten-tion to in formation using the computerequivalent of a highlighter pen and stickynotes. And Anally we' ll look at how somecomments can be hidden and how to make

others stand out so their message won't bemissed.

Take ont the hlghBghterWord 97 has a number of options to draw

attention to text. To highlight text as youwould on paper with a highlighting pen, youneed to display the Formatting toolbar anduse the Highlight option. Select the text,then click the Highlight button to highlightit. To use a different color, simply click thearrow to the right of the button and select analternate color from the drop-down list.Using a variety of colors you can differentiateselections. For example, text that needs to bedouble checked can be hghlighted in blue,and text that requires authorization orapproval can be highlighted in yellow

is month we' ll look at a number ofways to add comments and notes totext in a document or data in a work-

then Comment,

A comment on commentsSometimes you' ll want to add a comment toa piece of text without it appearing in thetext. For example, you may want to ask a co-worker a question about something men-tioned in the text or remind yourself of thesource of a quote in the text. You can do thisusing the Comment option. Select the textyou want to comment on, choose Insert,

You' ll be taken to the Comment areawhere your initials will appear with a com-ment number in brackets (e.g. [HBI]). Youcan then add your text to the right of thismarker. Select Close to dose the commentarea and return to your document. The textthe comment is attached to should be high-lighted. If it isn' t, select Tools, Options, View,then choose the Screen Tips checkbox andclick OK.

To view the comment, hold the mousepointer over the highlighted text and a smallbox will appear with your name and thecomment text. If your initials or name areincorrect, alter them by selecting Tools,Options, User Information.

If you are reviewing a document thatcontains a number of comments, you canmove from one to the next using buttons onthe Reviewing toolbar. To display this, selectView, Toolbars, Reviewing, then use thePrevious Comment and Next Comment but-tons on the toolbar to move from one com-ment to the next through the document.

Use the Delete Comment button todelete a comment leaving the text i t ' sattached to intact. Right-clicking on a com-ment and selecting Delete Comment fromthe shortcut menu does the same thing,Selecting Edit Comment from the toolbaror the shortcut menu allows you to alter a

To print the comments in a document,select Tools, Options, select the Print tab andselect the Comments checkbox.

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When you print the document theauthor's initials and the comment numberprint in brackets immediately after thehighlighted text and, on a separate page,the page and comment number are printedwith the comment text. Comments are par-ticularly useful when you' re working on adocument with another person. They allowyou to effectively carry on a "conversa-tion" about the contents of a document'behind the scenes.

listen to this!If you have a microphone and sound cardyou can record an audio comment in placeof writing it. Just be aware that sound filesare very large so comments need to beshort and to the point. To record a voicecomment select Insert, Comment and typea note such as "There is an audio messagehere" as this will appear in the commentbox to alert you or another reader thatthere's a sound message attached to the

Now click the icon that resembles anaudio tape on the bar dividing the com-ment from your document. When thesound object dialogue appears, click theRecord button (it has a red dot on it) andrecord your message. To stop recordingselect the Stop button (it has a blacksquare on it). Click the close button onthe top right of the dialogue box to shut itdown, then click Close to return to your

When you hold your mouse pointerover the comment you will see the noteindicating that there is a sound file embed-ded. Right-click and select Edit Commentfrom the shortcut menu and double-clickon the sound file to replay the message.

Hiding textUsing Hidden text is an alternative toadding comments. You might use this toinclude speaker notes when preparing doc-uments for a presentation. In this case, thetext you want to be hidden would be for-matted by choosing Format, Font, and theFont tab, then selecting the Hidden check-box. The text will be hidden unless you askfor it to be visible by selecting Tools,Options, the View tab, then choosing theHidden Text checkbox.

Print a copy of the document withoutthe hidden text as you would any otherdocument and print the speaker versionwith the hidden text by first selecting Tools,Options, then picking the Print tab andchoosing the Hidden Text checkbox. The"hidden text will be underlined with dash-es when printed out.

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Excel displays a small red triangle in thetop right corner of the cell to indicate itcontains a comment. Hold your mousepointer over it to display thecomment text. Right-click thecell to display the shortcutmenu and you can select EditComment to alter the text inthe comment. Select DeleteComment to remove the com-ment from the cell. The optionShow Comment sets the com-ment so it is permanently visi-ble over the worksheet. Whenthe comment is visible likethis, you can hide it by right-dicking on it and selectingH ide Comment f rom t h eshortcut menu.

When you' re typing text ina comment box, pressing theTab key selects the commentbox (instead of moving thecursor to the next tab stop). Ifyou want a tab character pressControl + Tab. You can use theusual options (bold, italic, font

your name appears inconectly Stamp button to addin a comment, select Tools, your name and the dateOptions, pick the General tab and alter or rows by selecting format, Row, and t o the comment, then close the dialogue toUser Name as retluired. Hide. return to the worksheet. A small red dot in

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To print th e c omments,select File, Page Setup, thenpick the Sheet tab and from theComments drop-down l i st,choose At End of Sheet to printthe comments at the bottom ofthe worksheet, or As Displayedon Sheet to print any commentsas they are displayed (hiddencomments won't print).

Selecting Vie w , thenC omments d isplays th eReviewing toolbar (similar toWord's Reviewing toolbar),from which you can select theNext Comment and PreviousComment buttons to m ovethrou t h e comments in theworksheet. Us e the Edi tComment and Delete Comment cm ht+' Ilsoptions, or the Show/Hide AllComments button to toggle between dis-playing and hiding the comments.

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